Today's Headlines: Why PDP lost 2023 presidential poll, Peter Obi condemns disruption of activities
Why PDP lost 2023 presidential poll –TeeJay Yusuf
The lawmaker representing Kabba/Bunu Ijumu Federal constituency, in the ninth assembly, Hon. Tajudeen Yusuf, and the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) senatorial candidate for Kogi State in the 2023 elections, in this interview speaks on his 12 years as a lawmaker among other issues.
What’s your assessment of the 2023 general elections especially as regards your election in Kogi State?
The 2023 election was a bag of mixed porridge. You have positives and negatives. The first thing is that election is not just what happens on election day. It is a process. So the Electoral Act that was not signed in 2019 came to life for the 2023 election. So that sort of gave hope. I was a member of the House Committee on electoral matters and I was part of the whole effort. There were a lot of challenges; people deliberately didn’t want us to move away from where we are.
I remember I was telling one of the committee members that Senegal conducted an election without declaring a public holiday. People went to work, schools were opened because it was electronically conducted. Are we saying that the literacy level in Senegal is higher than that of Nigeria? Because the argument is that our people are illiterate, how do we go about it? But I see it as politicians who deliberately want to keep us down so as to use the system for their own nefarious activities.
So the Electoral Act came to be though not 100 percent what we wanted but we got a step in that direction and so that gave hope and INEC gave a lot of hope. But unfortunately, INEC failed in one of its fundamental responsibilities or promises it made to transmit results real time for people to access. So that gave a lot of doubt. You know perception is reality, and so some people perceived that this was not being done correctly.
Peter Obi Condemns Disruption Of Activities Over Sit-At-Home In Southeast
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The candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, has described the sit-at-home in Southeast Nigeria and the attendant disruption of business and social activities as worrisome.
Obi had been silent on the crisis in the southeast, his region and he had been heavily criticised for it by some people on social media.
However, in a series of tweets on Thursday, Obi condemned the situation, describing it as criminal.
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Police parade 53 suspects in Imo
The Imo State Police Command on Wednesday paraded 53 suspects on various crimes in Imo state, at the command’s headquarters in Owerri.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Henry Okoye, stated this to newsmen in Owerri, while parading the suspects.
The police said the suspects were arrested because of the operational strategies the command introduced.
According to the police, “Imo State Police Command has continued to roll out workable administrative and operational strategies aimed at discharging the Constitutional mandate of the Force and providing a security atmosphere for socio-economic activities to thrive in the State.
“These strategies have proven to be effective as I parade before you today a total of 53 suspects, largely males with just 2 females. These are suspects that were, evidentially linked with various Criminal cases ranging from Conspiracy, Armed Robbery, Murder, Defilement, Kidnapping, Child Trafficking, IPOB/ESN terrorism activities, Unlawful possession of prohibited firearms, Receiving of Stolen Properties, and Car Snatching and Vandalization of NEPA cables.”
Ladoja sues Makinde over Ibadan Obas
Source: Punch paper
The Otun Olubadan of Ibadan, Chief Rashidi Ladoja, has dragged the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde and the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun to court over the recent elevation of 10 Ibadan High Chiefs to beaded crown-wearing Obas.
In the suit filed before the Oyo State High Court in Ibadan, Ladoja also joined the newly-elevated Obas as defendants.
The PUNCH had exclusively reported, on June 22, that Makinde approved the elevation of the Ibadan High Chiefs to Obas following Olubadan’s recommendation.
It will also be recalled that the governor last Friday presented Staff of Office to the new Obas.
The new Obas are Owolabi Olakulehin; Tajudeen Ajibola; Eddy Oyewole; Lateef Adebimpe; Biodun Kola-Daisi; Kola Adegbola; Hamidu Ajibade; Olubunmi Isioye; Bayo Akande and Abiodun Azeez.
Ladoja, who is also an Ibadan high chief, had earlier rejected the elevation and was absent from the crowning ceremony.
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