2023 elections: EU’s report can’t delegitimize Tinubu’s govt – Keyamo
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Former Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo said the European Union Observer Mission (EUOM) 2023 general elections report can not delegitimize the government of President Bola Tinubu.
Keyamo stated this in a statement his verified Twitter handle on Monday.
Recall that the EUOM, in its report less than a week ago, pointed out some flaws in the general election and made recommendations to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
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But, the EU’s report has been greeted with reactions and backlash from some Nigerians, including Keyamo.
Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, stated that there is no election worldwide without irregularities.
He explained that the issue is whether the supposed irregularities affected the election outcome.
According to him, the EU’s report is not a document that tells who won or lost an election.
Keyamo, a spokesperson for the defunct Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, noted that only the Judiciary can legitimize or delegitimize President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government.
He stated, “It is only a forensic examination of the entire process by the judiciary that can determine the extent to which the supposed ‘irregularities’ affected the outcome of the elections. And there are legal rules already laid down to achieve
First Minister of FCT, Ajose Adeogun dies
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Chief Mololaji Ajose Adeogun, the first minister of the Federal Capital Territory, is dead.
A family, Oluremi Ajose-Adeogun, disclosed this in a statement on Monday.
According to the family, the late businessman died on Saturday, July 1, 2023, at age 96.
The family of Chief Mobolaji Ajose-Adeogun has announced the passing away to the eternal glory of their patriarch, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, Chief Mobolaji Ajose-Adeogun, FCIS, CON, JP”, the statement reads in part.
Ajose-Adeogun was appointed Minister by General Muritala Mohammed’s military government, which lasted from July 1975 to February 1976.
Court nullifies Nnamani’s expulsion from PDP
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The former Senator representing Enugu East, Chimaroke Nnamani, has expressed delight over the verdict of a Federal High Court in Abuja, which nullified his expulsion from the Peoples Democratic Party .
In a statement he signed and issued in Abuja, on Monday, Nnamani explained that the court nullified his expulsion describing PDP‘s action as “null and void.”
According to the Senator, Justice J. K . Omotosho in his ruling following a suit he filed after the erstwhile National Chairman of the PDP Dr Iyorchia Ayu-led National Working Committee (NWC ) expelled him for alleged anti party activities, held that the party lacks the power it exercised.
Nnamani said, “The court held that the plaintiff was not given fair hearing besides the fact that only the National Executive Committee (NEC) and not the NWC has has the power to discipline a member of the National Assembly.
“It also held that the NWC cannot validly conduct a disciplinary hearing without according the plaintiff fair hearing adding that ‘the NWC cannot validly conduct a hearing and reaching a valid decision of suspending or expelling the plaintiff from membership of the PDP”.
The statement further read, “The court however noted that the NEC has the power after having given the plaintiff opportunity to be heard insisting “ the decision suspending the plaintiff is null and void . The decision expelling the plaintiff is nullified and set aside
“The court therefore gave an order restraining the PDP from acting upon the said invalid suspension and expulsion of the plaintiff.”
Senegal’s Macky Sall rules out controversial third term
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Senegal’s President Macky Sall on Monday ended months of tense uncertainty by saying he would not seek a third term next year, clearing the way for open elections in the West African nation, long considered a bastion of democracy in a troubled region.
Sall had until now remained coy about his ambitions, stoking tensions over whether he would use a constitutional revision to argue he could extend the country’s traditional two-term maximum.
“My dear fellow citizens, my decision after long consideration is to not be a candidate in the election on February 25, 2024,” Sall said in a televised address.
Senegal is more than me, and is full of capable leaders for the country’s development,” he said.
Sall said he had sought to prioritise his country’s progress, “in particular at a time of social-economic difficulties and uncertainties.”
On the eve of Sall’s nationwide address, his fiercest critic, Ousmane Sonko, had urged the public to “come out en masse” and oppose him.
Deadly clashes erupted last month between Sonko supporters and the security forces, claiming at least 16 lives.
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