Today's Headlines: Presidential election: Don’t cancel our victory over 25 percent in FCT – Tinubu, Shettima begs tribunal; Adamu resigns as APC Chair

Presidential election: Don’t cancel our victory over 25 percent in FCT – Tinubu, Shettima begs tribunal

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President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima, have urged the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal not to nullify the February 25 presidential poll.

Tinubu and Shettima said the tribunal should not cancel the presidential election over the controversy surrounding the 25 percent in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

This was as they urged the tribunal to dismiss the petition of the Labour Party, LP, and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Their appeal was contained in a final address by their lead counsel, Wole Olanipekun.

In the address, Olanipekun described the arguments and testimonies of witnesses presented by the challengers as “frivolous, bogus and based on hearsay.”

He urged the court to dismiss the petition because it totally lacked merit and substance.

He stressed that the “remote” contention of the petitioners that Tinubu and Shettima’s election should be cancelled for not scoring 25 percent or one-quarter of the votes recorded in the FCT was not backed by any fact known to the law as the use of “and” in the constitution is conjunctive and not disjunctive.

“The appellant woefully failed to realise that judges do not act like the oracles of life, which is often engaged in crystal gazing and thereafter would proclaim a new Oba in succession to a deceased Oba.

“Judges cannot perform miracles in the handling of civil claims, and at least of all manufacture evidence for the purpose of assisting a plaintiff win his case,” he said.

Adamu Resigns As APC Chair

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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, tendered his resignation last night, Daily Trust reliably gathered.

Credible sources confirmed to this paper that Adamu, who emerged as the national chairman at the party’s national convention held in March 2022, has sent his resignation letter to the Presidential Villa, Abuja ahead of the return of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from the African Union (AU) meeting in Kenya.

One of the sources said Adamu, a former governor of Nasarawa State, sent the resignation letter to the Chief of Staff of the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, around 4pm on Sunday.

Kind of ministers I expect from Tinubu –Gbenga Daniel

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Senator Gbenga Daniel believes that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will appoint only competent people to his cabinet. The former governor of Ogun State in this interview said Tinubu that he knows will not sacrifice merit for political patronage. He spoke on various issues.

Considering the manner in which the current leadership of the Red chamber emerged, do you agree with those who think that the 10th Senate may be just a rubber stamp to the executive arm of government?

I have a different view about rubberstamping and things like that. I think people who come with this view are coming from the angle that the objective of the executive is different from that of the legislature. My own understanding is that both this executive and the legislature are coming from the same party. Ordinarily, if they interrogate their manifesto and do what they have to do, to a large extent, they should be on the same page. I also come with the view that when the executive and the legislature are on the same page, the society is better for it. I have looked at the 9th National assembly; I was not part of it; I have looked at the number of bills that they have been able to have successfully passed, it seems that they have been much better than the previous ones. I mean the 8th assembly where you would say that we did not have a rubber stamp leadership. Ordinarily, if we are all on the same page, believing that we are all out there to serve the interest of the masses, that is the common denominator, there should not be any reason why there should be a difference. There could be differences in ways and means of the methodology but in terms of the fundamentals, in my opinion, it should be the same.

FG Targets 2-pronged Relief For Workers

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The Federal Government is leaning towards tackling the hardship caused by the removal of fuel subsidy with a twin agenda.

This, according to Vanguard and Empowered wire sources, includes the provision of palliatives to cushion the effects of the removal of subsidy and N200,000 minimum wage put forward by labour.

Vanguard learned that this might set labour and organised private sector on a collision course with the Federal Government, as their processes at arriving at minimum wage, which the government is not following at the moment.

It was also learned that the absence of a Labour Minister to drive the negotiation process might further compound the issue.

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