Presidential Election Petition: Resolve Cases Before May 29 – Afenifere Tells Tribunal

Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba sociocultural organization, declared that it will continue to support what it referred to as “the victory of Peter Obi” of the Labour Party in the presidential election on February 25 and all of his efforts to make it a reality.

The election of a president from the South East, according to Afenifere, will ensure equity, fairness, and peaceful coexistence among Nigerians.

The organisation urged the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to expeditiously adjudicate all of the petitions before it at the April edition of its general meeting, which was held in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State.

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Bola Tinubu won the presidential election, which Obi and the Labour Party are contesting in court.

But, in a communique signed after the meeting by the leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, and the group Secretary General Sola Ebiseni (retd), Afenifere strongly called on the judiciary to ensure all petitions in respect of the presidential election are “timeously and justly resolved before the end of the tenure of the Buhari administration.”

According to Afenifere, this is the only way to merit the trust Nigerians have in its involvement.

The panel recalled that less developed African nations had also established precedents in this area.

Afenifere requested that the Federal Government not waste the approximately N100 billion it will spend on the upcoming population census.

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According to Afenifere, there is no compelling reason why “the expiring” President Muhammadu Buhari administration to conduct the census.

The group, therefore, called for “all steps and preparations in that regard [to] be stopped forthwith.”

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