We’ve Only 1 Witness Against Tinubu, APM Tells Court
The Allied Peoples Movement, APM, on Monday, said it would produce only one witness to establish its claim that the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, was not the valid winner of the 2023 presidential election.
The APM, which is challenging the outcome of the election, through its lawyer, Mr S. Abubakar, told the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja that it would, however, adduce enough documentary evidence to prove its petition against the President-elect.
Mr Abubakar told the court that some of the parties in the petition met last Saturday and agreed on some of the modalities that would be adopted during the hearing of its case, including the time to be allocated for the examination-in-chief of witnesses.
Tinubu Must Seek Debt Forgiveness For Nigeria – Afe Babalola
Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) has urged the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to seek debt forgiveness for the country when he assumes office.
The founder of the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), stated this during the weekend while fielding questions from journalists after a lecture titled: “Smart Infrastructure: Catalyst for Sustainable Development held at the Alfa Belgore Hall of the university by Prof Bamidele Adebisi of the University of Manchester.
Babalola advised Tinubu to take a page from the textbook of former president, Olusegun Obasanjo who spent two-three years of his administration begging for debt forgiveness for the nation.
Oyedola Hails Dangote As Buhari Commissions Refinery In Lagos
Nigerian billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, on Sunday, hailed Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote ahead of the commissioning of the Dangote Refinery in Lagos.
Mr Otedola said history would be made in the Nigerian energy sector with the unveiling of the refinery, located in Lagos. President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday commission the Dangote Refinery in Lagos amid expectations that the facility, considered Africa’s largest oil refinery, would impact positively the nation’s oil sector and the larger economy. In a tweet on Sunday, Mr Otedola shared photos of his visit to the facility in the company of Mr Dangote.
“Countdown to the commissioning of the world’s biggest refinery tomorrow. History is made,” he tweeted.
Onaiyekan Tasks Election Tribunal On Live Broadcast Of Proceedings
The archbishop of the Archdiocese of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has called on the judicial arm of government to allow a live broadcast of the proceedings of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to enable Nigerians to follow its activities.
Onaiyekan, who made the call yesterday during an interaction with journalists at the World Communications Day celebration, with the theme: “Speaking the Truth with Love from Your Heart”, at St. Gabriel Chapel in Abuja, said that Nigerians wanted to see what is happening with the cases before the tribunal, for them to know what to expect.
The eminent cleric advised journalists to listen to every side and relay to the public what is happening, because Nigerians wanted to see what is happening, adding that, that is why the petitions before the tribunal needed to be available to Nigerians so that all Nigerians will be able to follow what is happening.
