Today's Headlines: Tribunal: Nigeria Shall Be Free, Dele Momodu Says, Tribunal verdict: I Won’t Relent In Quest For Justice, Vows Peter Obi
Tribunal: Nigeria Shall Be Free, Dele Momodu Says
Source: Punch paper
The Director of Strategic Communications for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Momodu, has expressed dismay at the turn-out of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, which upheld the victory of President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.
The tribunal, which was led by the chairman of the panel, Justice Haruna Tsammani, ruled that the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, and their parties, had no merit in their petitions before the five-man judicial panel.
Momodu, in a post shared his handle, @DeleMomodu, on X (formerly Twitter) late Wednesday night, expressed surprise at the manner in which the constitution “was deliberately turned upside down.”
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Tribunal verdict: I Won’t Relent In Quest For Justice, Vows Peter Obi
Source: Vanguard paper
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has vowed not to back down in seeking justice as he said he would appeal the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal delivered on Wednesday.
Obi said this on Thursday at a press conference in Onitsha, Anambra state, while reacting to the five-man panel judgment led by Justice Haruna Tsammani which upheld the victory of President Bola Tinubu.
Obi said, “Yesterday, 6 September 2023, the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) finally delivered its long-awaited judgments on the Petitions challenging the outcome of the presidential election held on 25 February 2023. This judgment was delivered within the statutory time frame under the extant statutes. We acknowledge the Court’s contributions to due process and the seeming attempt to strengthen our democracy.
“As petitioners in this case, we respect the views and rulings of the Court, but we disagree with the Court’s reasoning and conclusions in the judgment it delivered. It is my intention as a presidential candidate and the intention of the Labour Party to challenge this judgment by way of appeal immediately, as allowed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Peter Obi siphoned our party’s $15m, N12bn campaign fund – Apapa LP faction alleges
Source: Daily Post
The Lamidi Apapa faction of the Labour Party, LP, has accused the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi of siphoning $15 million and N12 billion meant for his campaign.
The faction alleged that Obi used the money to help an embattled Chairman of the party, Julius Abure and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
This was disclosed in a statement by the spokesman of Apapa’s faction, Abayomi Arabambi.
The statement reads partly: “Our previous position, has now been confirmed that Peter Obi was just all out to defraud our party, of donations made towards 2023 general election, which was in a scary sum of $15 million and N12 billion, that Peter Obi deliberately used for the cure of Abure’s poverty lineage, and help other Julius Abure IPOB irresponsible ethnic irredeemable irredentist supporters to have a lifeline.
Medical vacation: Akeredolu returns to Nigeria, resumes soon
Source: Vanguard paper
Ondo state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has returned to the country from his three months medical vacation.
Akeredolu traveled to Germany for medical attention after falling sick.
Reliable government source told vanguard that he arrived his lbadan, Oyo state, residence yesterday ( Thursday).
Vanguard gathered, that members of the state Executive Council and top party Chieftains have been directed to meet with him in his lbadan residence today – Friday.
Akeredolu is expected to receive briefing from members of his cabinet led by the acting governor, Hon Lucky Ayedatiwa.
Sources said that the governor would stay in lbadan for some weeks before resuming fully for work.
Afenifere Congratulates Tinubu On Tribunal Verdict
Source: Channels TV
The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and political organization, Afenifere, has congratulated President Bola Tinubu on his victory at the Presidential Electoral Court (PEPC).
A press statement signed by the organisation’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, quoted the leader of Afenifere Worldwide, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, as expressing delight at the victory of President Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima at the judgement given on Wednesday in Abuja.
In congratulating Tinubu and Shettima, Afenifere stated that the judgement which further validated the electoral victory of February 25th should be seen not only as an indication of growing democracy in the country, but also a challenge on the present administration to actualize various promises contained in the Renewed Hope manifesto presented to Nigerians in 2022 and 2023.
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