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Tinubu

Tinubu meets with National Assembly leaders over successors

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu met with Senate President, Ahmad Lawan and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila on Thursday in Abuja over the choice of the leadership for the 10th National Assembly.

Lawan told newsmen after the meeting that the president emphasised the need for the right choice of leadership for the National Assembly.

He said Tinubu maintained that the emergence of the leadership should be in national interest; in the interest of the National Assembly and of the legislature.

“We are getting somewhere and our prayer is that we are able to resolve all the outstanding issues. Mr President is positively disposed to everything being done smoothly.

“We believe that Mr President having been a senator himself and his vice-president also having been a senator, will always wish and pray for the right leadership for the National Assembly,’’ he said.

He said having been the chairman of the 9th National Assembly, it was necessary for him to work with all major stakeholders, especially with the leadership of the country.

Lawan explained that Tinubu gave necessary advice on how the new leadership of the National Assembly should emerge and what needed to be done to ensure its stability and productivity.

He said the new leadership must ensure peaceful working relationship between the Legislature and the Executive arms of government.

“I have never indicated interest to run for the Office of the President of the Senate in the 10th National Assembly.

“We have worked together with distinguished senators of the 9th National Assembly and members of the House of Representatives to create a very conducive environment for us to work.

“We have been productive; much more productive than any National Assembly.

“We worked very closely with the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and that helped the administration a lot,’’ Lawan said.

“Those of us who have been there longer, owe everybody that responsibility to at least help to mentor those who are new if we are not going to be presiding officers or principal positions,’’ he added

Tinubu and the security chiefs

Safeguard Nigerians: Tinubu gives marching order to security chiefs

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President Bola Tinubu has directed the Armed Forces and other security agencies to provide adequate security measures to safeguard lives and properties of all citizens across the country.

The President gave the directive on Thursday when he met with security chiefs at the presidential Villa, Abuja.

Addressing State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, Chief of defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, pledged to carry out the president’s directive to the letter.

He added that the security chiefs briefed the president on the security situation across the country and beyond.

“The meeting went very well. What we did was to give the President and Commander-in-Chief the security situation across the country and even beyond our borders.

”We told him what the current situation is and we also got a mandate from him as to how he wants the security disposition across the country to be.

On whether they intend to change their strategies, General Irabor answered in the affirmative.

“Change is constant, so all strategies that we have applied hitherto, we will realign and reinvent them to be able to meet the expectations of the moment and that is precisely what we will be doing,”he said.

Also addressing the correspondents, the National Security Adviser, retired Maj.- Gen. Babagana Monguno stated that the president appreciated the sacrifices of the Armed Forces and other security agencies, toward securing the nation.

He said: “First and foremost, he appreciated the Armed Forces and intelligence agencies and the wider paramilitary agencies for the work they have been doing in the past couple of years – their sacrifice, their loyalty.

”He also paid tribute to those who died in defending this country, from the great big menace of terrorism, insurgency, banditry, oil theft, sea robbery and piracy.

“The President has made it very clear that he’s determined to build on whatever gains have been made and to reverse misfortunes and turn the tide in our favour.

”As far as he’s concerned, this country should not be on its knees struggling, while other countries are walking and achieving greater heights.

”The President has revealed that in moving this country forward, he needs the security agencies to redouble their efforts.

”He also pointed out that his own philosophy is one of contemporary security measures dealing with the requirements of the time.

”He has made it very clear that he will not accept a situation in which our fortunes keep declining.”

The NSA also quoted the president as advising all security agencies to work towards achieving one single purpose.

”Working at cross purposes and colliding with each other is not something that he will condone.

”He has made it very, very clear that all the security agencies must comply with the demands of coordination, with the demands of frequent consultations and also timely reports which must be acted on.

”He is going to embark on a lot of reforms in terms of our security architecture, he is going to take a closer look at our misfortunes in the maritime domain, focusing particularly on the issues of oil theft that is not going to tolerate,” he added

Judges at the PEPC( Presidential Election Tribunal

Tribunal scolds Obi’s legal team for shoddiness, adjourns case

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The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), on Thursday in Abuja, scolded the legal team of the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, for failing to properly organise its schedule of documents for seamless tendering as exhibits.

Obi and his party filed a petition challenging the outcome of the Feb. 25 presidential election.

At the resumed hearing of the petition, the court frowned at the team’s inability to present its schedule of documents in a manner that would be easy for the court to comprehend.

This led to the court abruptly stepping down hearing in the petition for some minutes to enable the lawyers, led by Prof. Awa Kalu, SAN, to put its house in order.

After resuming from the short break, the presentation of documents being handled by Mr Emeka Okpoko, SAN, still seemed not be have been done in the direction that had been agreed upon during the pre-hearing stage.

This led to the judges asking Obi’s team to take an adjournment and put their house in order before returning to tender the documents.

Specifically, Justice Misitura Bolaji-Yusuf said that the whole exercise of the petitioners was a waste of the court’s time.

“What we have done today is a waste of time. The poor way you have arranged the documents will cause confusion for both of you and the court.

“At this stage, it is better for you to go back and rearrange those documents in a sequence so as to help yourselves and the court.”

Prof. Kalu, however, prayed the court to allow his team tender the documents they had rather than take an adjournment since they had already lost one day.

The court allowed the petitioners to proceed following the appeal after which the petitioners said they would challenge the election results in 18 out of the 36 states.

The petitioners proceeded to tender certified true copies of electoral documents obtained from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in six out of the 18 states whose results they are challenging.

The documents are mainly Forms EC8A, which are election results from polling units.

The documents were admitted as exhibits and marked appropriately by the Chairman of the Court, Justice Haruna Tsammani.

INEC, which issued the documents to the petitioners, objected to all the documents being admitted in evidence.

INEC was represented by Mr Kemi Pinhero, SAN.

Similarly, counsel to President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima who are the second and third respondents and represented by Mr Adebayo Adelodun, SAN, and Mr Afolabi Fashanu respectively, also opposed the admissibility of the electoral documents.

They, however, said that they would give their reasons for objecting to the admissibility of the documents in their final addresses.

A list of the tendered and admitted documents include Forms EC8A from 15 local government areas of Rivers, 23 local government areas of Benue, 18 in Cross River, 23 in Niger, 20 in Osun and 16 in Ekiti.

Justice Tsammani, thereafter, adjourned further hearing in the petition to Friday at the instance of the petitioners.

Obi and his party are challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima on the grounds of electoral malpractices during the Feb. 25 presidential election.

Tinubu at Eagle Square

Tinubu congratulates Abdulrazaq, Uzodimma

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STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

GOVERNORS FORUMS’ LEADERSHIP: PRESIDENT TINUBU CONGRATULATES ABDULRAZAQ, UZODINMA, OTHERS

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated governors who recently emerged as leaders of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and Progressive Governors Forum (PGF).

The President’s felicitation was contained in a statement from the State House on Thursday.

“I congratulate the Governor of Kwara State, His Excellency Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, on his emergence as the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), and the Governor of Imo State, His Excellency Hope Uzodinma, on his election as the Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF).

“In the same vein, I also congratulate His Excellency Seyi Makinde, the Governor of Oyo State, and his Kaduna State counterpart, His Excellency Senator Uba Sani, on their elections as deputy chairmen for the two respective forums,” he said.

“Being called upon by their peers to lead them is a testament to the trust and confidence reposed in them by the governors,” President Tinubu added.

The President tasked the new leaders to use their tenures to advance the peace, unity and socioeconomic development of the country and join hands with his administration to engender the Renewed Hope agenda.

“As chief executives of states, governors are critical to the overall success of our administration and the desire for a Nigeria that works for all.

“As an important fulcrum in our journey to a more prosperous and safe country, what states do or do not do matter a lot. I am therefore obliged to ask the new leaders to use their good offices to bring about a convergence of vision between the Federal Government, under my leadership, and governments at the state level.

“It is my prayer that you acquit yourselves diligently in discharging the responsibilities bestowed on you through this election,” President Tinubu added.

Abdulaziz Abdulaziz

June 1, 2023.

Bola Tinubu and Peter Obi

Obi’s petition stepped down over poor scheduling of documents

The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) for the third time this week, was forced to step down hearing in the petition filed by Mr Peter Obi and the Labour Party due to poor scheduling of documents.

Obi and his party are before the election petition court challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu and the Vice-President, Senator Kashim Shettima.

Chairman of the court, Justice Haruna Tsammani, at the resumed hearing on Thursday, had to step down the petition, on account of poor scheduling of documents the petitioners sought to tender to prove their allegation of electoral malpractice during the Feb. 25 presidential election.

At Thursday’s proceedings, the court observed that the documents were not properly scheduled as it had ordered counsel to do.

There was some confusion as a lot of discrepancies were noticed as Mr Emeka Okpoko, SAN from the Obi legal team attempted to tender documents from the 23 local government areas of Benue.

All efforts to reconcile the discrepancies and reschedule the documents were futile forcing the judges to rise for about 15 minutes to allow the petitioners rectify the confusion.

The court asked Okpoko to rather file a different schedule of documents he had prepared which the court said was easier to understand than the earlier filed schedule.

The five Justices then retired to their chambers to await the time the legal team would put its house in order.

The confusion happened right in the presence of Obi, his running mate, Mr Datti Baba-Ahmed, the suspended Chairman of the party, Mr Julius Abure and other Labour Party members.

About

Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a man of many traditional honours across the country, from north to south, west to east. The array of titles he has garnered was only comparable to that of Chief Moshood Abiola, winner of the 1993 Presidential election.

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