Even dead knew 2023 election was rigged to favour Tinubu – Atiku’s aide backs EU report
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Frank Shaibu, the Special Assistant on Public Communication to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has backed the report by the European Union, EU, Election Monitoring Group that the 2023 presidential election was rigged to favour President Bola Tinubu.
He affirmed the reports that the last general election in Nigeria was marred by electoral irregularities and failed to meet the minimum standard of credibility.
In a statement he signed, Shaibu said, “even the dead knew that the last election lacked credibility, and even the Independent National Electoral Commission had been unable to explain why nearly five months after the election, it had refused to upload the full result on its result viewing portal.
“Even primary school children who did not vote know that INEC failed woefully and that Tinubu rigged the last election.”
He wondered why the Nigerian government would receive billions of dollars from the EU as an election fund but rejected the body’s comment on the polls.
This was as Shaibu criticized Tinubu and his spokesman, Dele Alake, for trying to discredit the report.
He charged Alake to remain quiet rather than defend irregularities.
“The EU not only provided training for INEC staff but also donated equipment only for INEC to conduct a shambolic poll. So why would Alake claim that the EU has no right to speak when it was the largest single donor to INEC? Mr Alake should rather be quiet rather than try to defend the indefensible,” he added.
However, the Nigerian government rejected the report saying it was flawed and was not a reflection of what transpired during the election.
Speaker Abbas disowns aide over over criticisms of Buhari
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The Speaker of House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas has emphatically has disowned his media aide, Godfrey Gaiya, over his criticism of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Gaiya had in the interview accused Buhari of failure to fight corruption in his eight years in office, contrary to his promise before his election.
He also accused the former President of deceiving Nigerians to believe that he is righteous, while many became billionaire under his watch with corrupt practices.
Gaiya spoke while responding to questions of what he will tell the former President if he meets him face to face.
“I will bluntly tell him that he failed. I will tell him: ‘Buhari, you have failed.’ He deceived Nigerians into believing that he is all righteous, but behind his so-called righteousness was hellish corruption.
“We have seen and we will still see the number of people that became multi-billionaires under Buhari. If you don’t fight corruption or turn the other side when you see evils, allowing the evils to continue, when you are supposed to be in charge and call them to order, you have failed.
“So, Buhari failed Nigeria in many areas. We are the highest indebted nation in Africa under eight years of Buhari’s administration.”
INEC’s Witnesses To Defend Obi/LP Petition Unavailable
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The Presidential Election Petition Court was forced into an abrupt adjournment on Monday following the inability of the Independent National Electoral Commission to produce its witnesses before the court to defend the petition filed by Peter Obi and the Labour Party.
INEC was scheduled to begin its defence of the conduct of the 2023 presidential poll and the declaration of APC’s Bola Tinubu as President and Kashim Shettima as Vice President-elect on Monday.
But on the first day fixed for its defence, INEC’s lead counsel, Abubakar Mahmoud, told the court that the three witnesses scheduled to be called had domestic issues which prevented their appearance in court.
He therefore sought for an adjournment till Tuesday 4th July, which was granted by the court.
The court will reconvene by 2pm for INEC to open its defence in the petition of the PDP and Atiku Abubakar.
Revealed: Tinubu’s move against Terrorism
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PERHAPS, nothing best captures President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s inheritance of the toxic space called
Nigeria from former President Muhammadu Buhari, then the mess in the security and economic spheres
With a naira swap policy that left much poorer and an energy insufficiency on the one hand, Boko Haram terrorists in the North East, the bandits of the North West and Niger State, the herders/farmers clashes of Benue and Plateau and criminality in Kogi and Nasarawa states in North Central, the IPoB separatist of the South East, the crude oil thieves of the South-South and the ritual killings-for-fame-and-money in the South West on the other hand, Nigeria appears to be a country in the throes of economic and security doom.
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