Tinubu govt does not exist, it is illegitimate – Afenifere leader, Adebanjo
The leader of the Yoruba socio-political organization, Ayo Adebanjo, has said President Bola Tinubu’s administration does not exist.
Source: Daily Post Nigeria
Adebanjo remarked while describing Tinubu’s administration as illegitimate. He explained that the election which brought Tinubu was flawed, hence he can’t be recognized as president. Speaking on Arise Television, Adebanjo said the presidential election was inconclusive with the ongoing presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
According to Adebanjo: “Afenifere’s stance, for now, is not to comment on Tinubu’s administration because we believe that the elections are not completed yet; it’s still in progress, that is why we are in court, so commenting on someone who is there and who we don’t believe should be there until the final decision of the court will be probative and reprobative.
Presidential Tribunal: INEC closes defense in Obi’s petition
The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Tuesday, opened and closed its defense in Peter Obi’s petition challenging the result of the February 25 presidential election.
Source: Punch papers
Recall that Bola Tinubu was declared the winner of the election and was sworn in as the president on May 29. Obi of the Labour Party is urging the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja to set aside Tinubu’s victory because the Independent National Electoral Commission failed to comply with the electoral laws.
At the resumed proceedings on Tuesday, counsel for INEC, A.B Mahmoud, SAN, proceeded to close its defense in the petition after calling the first witness, Lawrence Bayode, an assistant director in charge of its ICT department. Bayode had also testified yesterday in aid of the commission’s defense against the petition filed by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Putin reassures Asian allies of Russia’s stability after the mutiny
President Vladimir Putin reassured Asian leaders of Russia’s stability and unity on Tuesday in his first appearance at an international forum since the country was rocked by a brief armed mutiny last month.
Source: A
“The Russian people are consolidated as never before,” Putin told a virtual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a group that also includes China and India. “Russian political circles and the whole of society demonstrated their unity and an elevated sense of responsibility for the fate of the Fatherland when they responded as a united front against an attempted armed mutiny.”
Putin’s emphasis on Russia’s unity at a meeting with key allies appeared to show how keen he is to remove any doubts about his authority on the world stage after the short-lived mutiny led by Wagner mercenary founder Yevgeny Prigozhin late last month. Wagner fighters took control of a southern city and advanced towards Moscow on June 24, confronting Putin with the gravest challenge to his hold on power since taking over as Russia’s paramount leader on the last day of 1999.
Release Bawa or charge him to court, Olajengbesi tells DSS
An Abuja-based lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi has tackled the Department of State Services (DSS) over the continued detention of the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdul Rasheed Bawa.
Source: Guardian Nigeria
In a statement on Tuesday, Olajengbesi, a lawyer and Managing Partner at Abuja-based firm, Law Corridor, said the prolonged detention of Bawa by the secret police is illegal and an embarrassment to the nation’s justice system. Olajengbesi said the DSS should charge Bawa to court for alleged offenses leveled against his office as EFCC boss or immediately release him to rejoin his family members.
President Bola Tinubu in mid-June suspended Bawa as the anti-graft czar over alleged abuse of office and “to allow for a proper investigation into his conduct while in office”. Bawa was subsequently quizzed at the DSS headquarters the same day and nothing has been heard of the matter for three weeks now.
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