Nigerians will beg Bola Tinubu for the second term – APC’s women leader, Betta Edu
The national women leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Betta Edu said Nigerians will beg the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to run for a second term in office. Edu stated this while speaking in an interview with Channels Television Thursday.
According to her, Tinubu is fully prepared to “hit the ground running” immediately after assuming office. The APC national women leader said Tinubu will work on the “low points” of the outgoing administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Edu said, “I bet on anything, Nigerians would plead with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, four years down the line, for a second term. The first point we must understand is that Nigeria is a work in progress. If you listen to the speech of President Muhammadu Buhari today at the state banquet hall, he stated very clearly that he has fought a good fight. “He said he is handing over Nigeria to someone who he believes will continue from where he stops and do better.”
Tinubu’s disqualification suit: I’m not ready to walk away – Atiku
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate during the just concluded February 25 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to the recent Supreme Court judgment dismissing the disqualification suit against President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima.
Atiku claimed that the Court’s dismissal of the case was not a setback to his quest for justice, insisting that the President-elect was not qualified to contest the poll. The former Vice President maintained that the 2023 election was fraudulent and did not comply with the constitutional requirements and the electoral guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
In a post via his verified Twitter handle on Friday after the Supreme Court judgment, Atiku said his legal team will robustly prove that the recently conducted election was fraudulent and did not comply with the constitutional requirements and the electoral guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. DAILY POST reported earlier that the Apex Court dismissed the suit filed by the PDP, seeking Tinubu’s and Shettima’s disqualification from the 2023 presidential election.
PDP made a grave mistake – Inibehe Effiong
A legal practitioner and social critic, Inibehe Effiong, has reacted to the Supreme Court judgment dismissing the disqualification of President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima.
Effiong claimed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should have persuaded one of the aspirants who took part in the All Progressives Congress, APC, primary to challenge Shettima’s double nomination. He said that the PDP made a serious mistake in its decision to challenge Shettima’s double nomination by itself.
DAILY POST reports that the Apex Court on Friday dismissed the suit filed by the PDP, seeking Tinubu and Shettima’s disqualification from the 2023 presidential election. The Court held that the PDP’s suit was grossly lacking in merit. In a post via his verified Twitter handle on Friday, the legal expert said that the outcome of the litigation was predictable.
Rate of killings worrisome —Southern, M-Belt Leaders
LEADERS of thoughts, elder statesmen from four of the six geo-political zones of the country, under the aegis of Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum, SMBLF led by South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark have expressed fears that the increasing level of killings across the country is worrisome.
Rising from a meeting in Abuja, the Leaders have warned that the nonreadiness of the nation’s security agencies to bring to book and prosecute the masterminds of these acts was exposing the country to what they described as a seeming state of war. They added that it was shameful that non-state actors are allowed to openly move with dangerous weapons about and rampage the country unhindered, just as they took a swipe at the outgoing Governors for their inability to nip in the bud, the security challenges in the country.
The leaders decried the indebtedness of the country and asked the federal government to rescind the recent request for an $800 million World Bank loan. In a Communique at the end of the meeting, the leaders have however cautioned the judicial arm, at all levels, to be mindful of the fact that the present process of looking at the outcome of the 2023 general elections would be a true test of the nation’s effort at building a country based on rule of law and respect for the constitution.
