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Why We Withdrew Suit Challenging Tinubu’s Election – Six PDP States

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1 year ago

March 4, 2023

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By Eric Elezuo

Facts have emerged as regards the reason the seven governors of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) controlled states, withdrew a suit challenging the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as president-elect.

In separate statements made available to The Boss, the media aide to the PDP presidential candidate, Mr. Paul Ibe, and the legal representative of the seven states, Chief Mike Ozekhome, explained that events have overtaken the suit as it was filed on February 28, 2023 before the announcement of final results and declaration of Tinubu as president-elect.

The states are Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Edo and Sokoto.

“The Supreme Court suit between the six states and AG Federation which was filed during the flawed manual collation of results contrary to the clear provisions of the Electoral Act, the INEC Guidelines and Regulations and the manual for INEC officials, has been discontinued due to the fact that the flawed results have already been announced and a President-elect declared, albeit illegally and unconstitutionally. Having been overtaken by events, it will now be a Tribunal matter,”
Chief Ozekhome said.

On his part, Paul Ibe, hinted that consequent upon the flawed results being announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the state governors, as chief security officers of their respective states, moved to avoid actions that may cause breakdown of law and order through protests and riots, and therefore decided to sue to stop the announcement of results and possible declaration of Tinubu as winner.

He wrote:

“Please find attached the signed covering page and processes of the states of Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo and Sokoto dragging the FG to the Supreme Court over the 2023 presidential and NASS election.

“The Attorneys-General of the listed six states have brought this case against the FGN in the Supreme Court, invoking the Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court that it is seised with under Section 232 (1) of the Constitution.

“In essence, the AG’s are basing their claims on a potential break down of public order/civil disobedience/rioting scenario that may/will be brought about as a result of adverse reactions to the declaration by INEC of Tinubu as president, without following the Electoral Act and INEC’s own laid down guidelines, particularly in relation to the uploading of results unto the IREV through the BVAS.

“The thrust of their claim is that there will be public disorder/civil disobedience/rioting in the event that INEC is allowed to sustain its claims that Tinubu won the election, without first complying with its own (INEC’s) operating guidelines. The Governors of the applicant states, as the Chief Law Officers of their respective states, have the statutory obligation to take all steps to ensure that there is no breakdown of law and order in their states hence, they are bringing this action in the Supreme Court.

“Please note that this action was filed on the 28th of February – before INEC announced its final results. Note, also, that the 6 states had applied for an injunction restraining INEC from continuing with announcing results.”

It is on record that both the PDP and the Labour Party (LP) have taken the APC, Tinubu and INEC to Court over the flawed conduct of the February 25 elections.

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Breaking: Wike Plans to Attend Thursday’s PDP NEC Meeting

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6 hours ago

April 17, 2024

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By Eric Elezuo

The immediate past Governor of Rivers State, and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, may have concluded plans to attend the much advertised National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), billed to hold on Thursday, in Abuja.

Impeccable source, who is in the know, told The Boss that the minister, whose membership of the PDP is yet to be revoked even as he frolicks with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and serving in the President Bola Tinubu government as a minister.

The Source told The Boss that Wike’s impending presence at the NECeeting on Thursday is not unconnected with plans, already hatched with some governors, to weaken the opposition PDP.

“Yes, we have on good authority that FCT minister, Wike is planning to attend the NEC meeting tomorrow all in a bid to weaken the fabrics of the PDP, and pave the way for the continuation of the Tinubu administration come 2027, and by extension, relapse Nigeria to a full blown one party state.

“From every indication, Wike and his co-travellers, are bent on unleashing the same crisis ravaging the third force, Labour Party, and Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso’s Nigerian National People’s Party (NNPP) on the PDP for the APC to remain the only political party in the country, and ensure that Tinubu has no challenger, come 2027,” the Source said.

It would be recalled that Wike has boasted over and again that there’s no opposition against Tinubu’s re-emergence in 2027, and that they have made sure of that. He has been compensated with the Ministerial job after he withdrew support for his party, and supported the APC and Tinubu to emerge as national government.

The Source further revealed that in the attempt to actualize the intended one party state, a lot of funding is ongoing to ensure that concerned stakeholders are ‘settled’ handsomely.

Wike, prior, during and after the 2023 general elections, has been floating in between the two major political parties; the APC and the PDP. While he claim to still be a member of the PDP, he is functioning as a minister in an APC government, mocking the inability of his party to discipline him.

Political stakeholders have concluded that the outcome of Thursday’s PDP NEC meeting will determine the path Nigeria’s political trajectory will take, and that it may portend the end of multi-party system and political democracy if Wike succeeds in his plan.

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Bribery, Corruption: APC Suspends National Chairman, Ganduje

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3 days ago

April 15, 2024

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The All Progressives Congress ward in Ganduje, Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area, has suspended the party’s National Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje.

The party ward legal adviser, Halliru Gwanzo, announced the suspension while addressing newsmen in Kano State on Monday.

Gwanzo cited allegations of bribery against Ganduje levelled by the Kano State Government as the reason for the suspension.

“We decided to suspend Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje from the party due to the seriousness of the allegations against him,” Gwanzo said.

Meanwhile, efforts to contact the Chief Press Secretary to the APC National Chairman, Mr Edwin Olufo, failed as his mobile phone was unreachable.

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Akpabio Commits to Collaboration with Tinubu, Governor Umo Eno

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6 days ago

April 12, 2024

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The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has stated his commitment to working closely with Nigeria’s President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Governor Umo Eno to ensure the delivery of democratic benefits to the people of Akwa Ibom State.

Akpabio stated this in his country home, Ukana, Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, while briefing his constituents on the journey so far as their representative in the red chamber.

He assured the people of Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District of his commitment to their welfare in appreciation of their total support for him, President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in last year’s election.

The Highpoint of the constituency briefing was the distribution of over 10,000 bags of rice and other essentials for his constituents from the wards, to the local governments.

A statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Jackson Udom, quoted Akpabio as saying, “I am here once again, to thank you for standing by me, our President and the party, before, during and even after last year’s elections. I have come to say thank you and also bring Renewed Hope to you all.

“As the President is doing his own, the Senate President is also doing his bit and being complemented by the state governor, Akwa Ibom would be the better for it. We have finished elections and politics, we are now into governance. The governor of the state must touch you, because he is the governor of all the people in the state irrespective of political affiliation.

” As I am touching you now from the political angle, I will also touch the state without any political party affiliation. Most of the projects we are putting in place would be used by people resident in the state. Relax, things are getting better.”

The former Governor of the state, assured his constituents that his current position as the Senate President would be used for the development of the state in collaboration with the President and the Akwa Ibom State Governor.

Hear him: This Senate President is not the one that would be fighting the state government. I will collaborate with , I will collaborate with , to make the state better for us all. We cannot be out of government for a long time. You have to go to a government that carries you along”

Akpabio promised to work for his constituents and Nigeria with all his strength, noting that, “as the President of the Senate, I am for the Southern region and the entire country. I may not come here regularly to tell you what I have been doing for you, but you will be feeling the impact on way or the other. Our unemployed youths would be gainfully employed. I will construct a mini stadium in all the local governments in the district, for our youths to develop their sporting potentials. ”