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10m judges can’t unseat Tinubu – Primate Ayodele

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The two leading opposition candidates at the last Presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) have been admonished to reconsider their plan to seek redress at the Supreme Court following last week’s judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal which affirmed the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Primate Elijah Ayodele of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Lagos, gave the advice while restating his earlier prediction over the contested outcome of the February Presidential Election.

The popular man of God had in July prophesied that only God could remove Tinubu when he said the spiritual implication of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s election mantra, Emi l’okan, covered the election petitions against him and declared that ‘only God can stop Tinubu from completing his tenure as President.”

Primate Ayodele said the spirit behind Tinubu’s Emi lokan’s mantra was far too powerful beyond what could be imagined by anyone, insisting that, “only God can remove Tinubu because of the power behind ‘Emilokan’. Ten million judges cannot remove him. Obi and Atiku should go and rest.

“Atiku and Obi missed it right from the time before the election. The right way to go is to seek God’s face first before stepping into any political race. “Emilokan has gone far. Is going to the Supreme Court an answer? Definitely no. They cannot get anything from the apex court. Who is going to interpret the law when the power behind Emilokan has arrested everyone that has anything to do with the election?”

Tinubu legal team defends header

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Tinubu Presidential Legal Team (TPLT) yesterday reacted angrily to what it described as mischievous insinuations in certain quarters over its watermark on the copies of the consolidated judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC).

TPLT Coordinator, Babatunde Ogala, SAN, in a statement he issued on Saturday claimed that it was the copies of its Certified True Copy (CTC) of the said judgment obtained after paying the prescribed fee that was water-marked.

The legal team maintained that the Certified True Copies issued to it and other parties in the petitions by the Registry do not contain the said inscription, stressing that any insinuation to the contrary is untrue.

They insisted that Counsel to the petitioners that have the same certified copies of the judgment can attest to the fact that the insinuations circulated in some quarters are untrue, unkind, unfair, and unfortunate.

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Borno lost $6.8bn to B’Haram insurgency _Shettima

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Vice President Kashim Shettima on Saturday said the post-insurgency assessment in the North-East showed that attacks by Boko Haram cost the region $9bn, out of which Borno State, the epicentre of the insurgency, lost $6.8bn.

Speaking in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, when he flagged off palliative distribution for states in the region by the North East Development Commission Shettima, a former governor of the state, lamented how several emirs were displaced without any emirate to govern.

The initiative by the NEDC was part of its efforts to cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal on people in the region.

Shettima, who also declared the eighth North-East Governors’ Forum meeting open at the Borno State Government House, Maiduguri, said the NEDC was fulfilling its mandate of rehabilitating and resettling victims of the insurgency.

Edo LG Election Was A Sham–Imuse

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The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Col David Imuse (retd.), tells ADEYINKA ADEDIPE the party’s grievances about the local government election held in the state last week.

How would you describe the conduct of the LG election?

What was purported to be an election or selection process turned out to be nothing more than a sham, leaving Edo State citizens severely disillusioned and questioning the integrity of the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission. EDSIEC officials refused to perform their duties and were conspicuously absent at majority of the polling units. And in those places where they made an appearance, ballot papers were inadequate, like 100 ballot papers per unit irrespective of the number of registered voters in those units, and there were no result sheets.

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