INEC Not Ready To Defend Its Case—LP’s Lawyer
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Lawyer to the Labour Party, LP, Levi Uzoukwu, alleged yesterday that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was not prepared to defend its case at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
Uzoukwu made the allegation shortly after the court adjourned its resumed sitting, following the absence of INEC’s first defence witness.
Speaking to newsmen outside the court, the LP lawyer said his camp had a strong case and was ready to move on with its case, unlike INEC, he said, had continued to show inconsistencies.
He said: “Given the contradictions and inconsistencies and what INEC has done, I’m sure they are not ready to defend this case.
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7 Buhari Mistakes Tinubu Must Avoid
Photo CreditThe Cable
I started writing this piece on May 17, 2023 — two weeks before President Bola Tinubu was sworn into office. At the time, the title of the piece was “7 Buhari mistakes that Tinubu must avoid”, but other events overtook the writing. At the time, I had listed four mistakes former president Muhammadu Buhari made, that Tinubu must avoid. I have contemplated changing the title to “7 Buhari mistakes Tinubu may already be making,” but it is too early to make those conclusions. So here is my advisory:
Not Remove fuel subsidy: The first mistake Buhari made as a president in my books was not removing fuel subsidies months after he took office. At the time, many Nigerians with a clear understanding of economics and corruption asked the president to let the subsidies go. The president refused; he kicked against the advice of his petroleum minister Ibe Kachikwu and held on to the bill haemorrhaging Nigeria’s public purse.
Buhari supervised the explosion of the annual subsidy bill from N971 billion in 2014 to N4.5 trillion in 2023. This meant Nigeria could not embark on many other cash-consuming projects, and had to borrow from all over the world to fund its consumption. Thankfully, Tinubu departed from Buhari’s path and removed subsidy on the very first day he took office.
Katsina gov directs MDAs to adopt TSA
Source: Punch paper
Governor Dikko Radda has directed all ministries, departments and agencies of the Katsina State Government to forthwith adopt the Treasury Single Account for all their transactions.
The governor gave the order in a circular dated July 3, 2023 and titled: “Treasury Single Account Direction Notice 2023,” which he personally signed.
He further directed the state’s Accountant General to prescribe the framework within which ministries, departments and agencies shall conduct their bank/cash transactions under the TSA.
Tinubu Government’s Continued Detention Of Suspended EFCC Chair, Bawa Without Charges Is Politically Motivated – Lawyer
A legal practitioner, Pelumi Olajengbesi Esq has scolded the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government over its continuous detention of the ousted Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, against the extant laws of the land.
Olajengbesi, a Managing Partner at Law Corridor, Abuja, described the manifest and deliberate subversion of Nigerian laws to achieve particular political objective as in the instance of Bawa as a threat to the anti-corruption fight and institutions in the country.
Titled: “Continuous Detention of the Ousted EFCC Chairman Without a Formal Charge: Mixed Anti-Corruption Signals to the Watching World,” the legal practitioner said that continued detention of Bawa for more than three weeks without trial has raised suspicion that his incarceration was politically motivated.
He said, “When Mr. President ordered the arrest and detention of Mr. Bawa over allegations of corruption some three weeks ago, he was rightfully applauded for sending a clear message that there would be no sacred cows in the anti-graft fight.
“However, it has been three weeks of unlawful detention and unclear action on Bawa’s detention by none other than the DSS, sending a ripple of suspicion that his incarceration is now more politically motivated than not.
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