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XerXers:
All Tinubu knows is taxation, borrowing and sharing

The campaign team of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has called for the dismissal and probe of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.

POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the team, led by Director-General Otumba Akin Osuntokun, made the demand at a media briefing in Abuja on Thursday.

Osuntokun said that Yakubu had “done sufficient damage to the nation’s electoral process” and should be made to answer for his actions. He cited the arrest and ongoing prosecution of the Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for his actions during the last elections as a precedent for Yakubu’s prosecution.

Osuntokun also said that reports from all election observer groups at home and abroad were unanimous in their reports that the election was greatly flawed and the outcome of the Presidential election, as declared by INEC, fell short of international standards.

He called on the present federal government to sack Yakubu and order an independent investigation into the conduct of the elections.

001Lagos:
Some of you people from Osun state coven of demons are so quick to throw insults

Tinubu APC government borrowed billions of dollars with nothing to show for it , and you expect me to clap for them for paying little part of the billions of dollars that they borrowed?

Get a new brain man.

emmanuelpopson:
The Govt should clamp down on these scandalous and fraudulent people using Religion and one yeye grant to scam people. imagine PASTOR DOCTOR, APOSTLE, AMBASSADOR THIS AND THAT trying to swindle people off their own monies.. this is pure crowd funding where these people use little donations from the people to cash out...EXTORTION AND EXPLOITATION.

bluefilm:
I still dey wait make theobarth begin pay.

E be like say I go wait for eternity.

Our people too dey like scam things.

FavouredBiano:
How is it scam when he was not asked to pay any dime?

Kobicove:
This one is a scam!

Where will they get N5 million to give each of 75 million people in Nigeria?

deekseen:
This thing don reach nairaland?

OloYeOfEgbE:
I mean virtually all corrupt organisations...the thing na wa oo

OloYeOfEgbE:
Every wretched organisations has a igbo spokespersons..

That nonsense will soon stop

The Special Assistant on Public Communication to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Phrank Shuaibu, has warned supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Bola Tinubu, from disrupting proceedings at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja.

Atiku’s aide said in a statement that the warning had become imperative following the sponsored protest that Tinubu’s supporters staged at the European Union head office in Abuja after the release of the EU Observer Mission report which revealed how the election failed the credibility test.

The EU report had scored the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) low over the handling of the election. However, Tinubu’s surrogates, including his spokesman, Dele Alake; former activist Festus Keyamo; and Femi Fani-Kayode, who had also been implicated in the report, rejected the findings.

A group of APC supporters subsequently stormed the EU headquarters and were given full police protection to carry out the demonstration.

Reacting, however, Shaibu stated, “We seize this opportunity to send a warning to the Tinubu government and its minions against disrupting the proceedings of the election tribunal as they have shown a clear disdain for the truth by picketing the EU office.

“Recall that in 1999, when the late legendary lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, sued Tinubu for school certificate forgery, thugs were sponsored to cause protests outside the court house.

Similarly, when Tinubu was facing charges before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, thugs were similarly sponsored to protest at the trial, all in a bid to intimidate the judiciary.

“We find it curious that the same security agencies which have been issuing statements barring protests were curiously available to provide cover for sponsored pro-government protesters to picket the EU office. We sound a note of warning to the security agencies to be on the alert as the tribunal proceedings wind down. The world is watching.”

Shaibu lamented that in just 40 days of Tinubu’s administration, poverty had deepened, and inflation had skyrocketed.

He added that poverty had made innocent Nigerians susceptible to manipulation, and this was being exploited by the APC.

Shaibu stated, “Today, food has become a luxury. The purchasing power of the people has dropped no thanks to an unplanned petrol subsidy removal, which was not accompanied by any form of palliatives. With just N1,000, any riffraff on the street could be handed a t-shirt and placard to engage in protests they know nothing about.

“This is how low Nigeria has sunk low since Tinubu took over the reins of government.”

Shaibu added that Tinubu was running a government of hypocrisy by attributing the APC’s failures to select scapegoats while failing to point fingers at former President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Tinubu blamed Godwin Emefiele for the country’s economic woes and ordered his detention while he continues to shower praises on the man who not only appointed Emefiele but gave him a national award. This is the height of hypocrisy,” Atiku’s aide said.

He said that rather than acknowledge that the election was flawed, Tinubu continued to grandstand, thereby infuriating Nigerians.

Atiku’s aide stated, “No one needs to be told that the 2023 presidential election was one of the worst ever conducted in Nigeria’s history. The 2007 election was similarly bad, but at least, the key recipient, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, admitted the poll was flawed and immediately kicked off electoral reforms. However, Tinubu, by rejecting the EU report, has ruled out the possibility of electoral reform.

“Tinubu is the opposite of a statesman. He claims the 2023 election is the best Nigeria has had since 1999 and continues to draw parallels between it and the epochal June 12, 1993 election by constantly mentioning the name of MKO Abiola and Hope 93.

“This is the height of deception. MKO’s victory was spick and span. MKO Abiola represented the hope of a generation while Tinubu stole the hope of a generation. Tinubu’s renewed hope is nothing but renewed hopelessness, a continuation of Buhari’s eight years of monumental failure. It is simply, as the youths say, ‘renewed shege’. We ask Nigerians to tarry a while as we wait for the judiciary to correct the evil that INEC imposed on over 200 million people.”

helinues:
Did you see anything wrong about it in 2015?

igwebuike01:
Area boy mentality is in all of them no matter how highly placed

aswani:
He'll rule our great country for the next 4 years at least.

We just have to hope and pray that we have a strong opposition to keep him on his toes.

Jegede told him that of all the four major candidates in the presidential election (Tinubu, Atiku, Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso) , Tinubu was the only one that did not win his home state, Lagos.

Raising his voice, Opeyemi said what a candidate needs to win an election is the majority of lawful votes cast across the federation or at least 25 percent of votes in 2/3 of the country.

LegendHero:
Only if they will send Obi of Onitsha together with him.

IVORY2009:
I said it before the elections, Mr Tinubu can not win a free and fair elections in Nigeria, he is over rated.

Brendaniel:
Just look at all the comments above, you will know why the country is where it is today....

Anyway, Petition will favour me and my family....

The All Progressives Congress (APC) informed the Presidential Election Petition Court on Wednesday that it would not partake in the exercise of flogging dead horses.

POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the party has declined to present a defence in the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku, challenging the conduct and outcome of the February 25 presidential election.

Prince Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi SAN, the lead counsel for APC, stated that there was nothing to defend in the separate petitions of the Labour Party and the PDP.

This newspaper learnt that the decision to abstain from opening a defence in Atiku’s petition came after extensive cross-examination of the Senate Majority Leader, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, who was the key witness for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Fagbemi questioned Senator Bamidele, who is also a legal practitioner. During the examination, the witness admitted that Tinubu’s election could not be overturned based on his forfeiture of $460,000 to the United States of America (USA) through a court order.

The witness clarified that Tinubu had never been arraigned, indicted, or convicted of any criminal charges by an American court, emphasising that civil forfeiture cannot replace a criminal trial and conviction.

Senator Bamidele stated, “As far as criminal indictment is concerned, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has a clean bill of health because he was never indicted and convicted by any American court.”

Regarding President Tinubu’s eligibility in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the witness, responding to questioning by Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, counsel to Atiku and PDP, stated that Tinubu did not need to score 25 percent of the votes cast in the FCT to be declared the winner of the election. He further emphasised that the FCT holds no special status other than being the federal capital.

When confronted with the fact that Tinubu was the first president to be declared without scoring 25 percent of the votes in the FCT and without winning his home state, the witness disregarded its significance.

Additionally, the witness clarified that the judgment of the US court on the forfeiture of $460,000 was related to civil proceedings and not criminal charges against Tinubu.

Following the conclusion of the testimony, Fagbemi announced the closure of President Tinubu’s defence, while Lateef Fagbemi announced the closure of defence on behalf of the APC.

The Court has granted a period of 10 days for the respondents to file their final written addresses, with the petitioner given 7 days to respond and 5 days to reply on points of law. Presiding Justice Haruna Tsammani stated that the parties would be notified of the date to adopt the final written addresses.

shortgun:
It is finished for the convicted drug baron

Ikaeniyan0:
Did the man really say this?

I'm shock a serving senator is saying this

Livy Uzoukwu, a senior lawyer handling Mr Obi’s case, asked whether or not Mr Bamidele know that the forfeiture was connected to narcotics dealing, to which he responded yes. He also responded that he understood there was money laundering involved in Mr Tinubu’s matter prior to the final forfeiture.