CITIZENS COMPASS – A group of elders in Kano State, on weekend, said no amount of court cases can stop the much anticipated May 29, 2023 swearing-in of the president- elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
This came barely 24 hours after some residents of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), filed a suit demanding an order to discontinue the swearing-in of Tinubu was filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja on Friday.
The elders under the aegis of the Patriotic Elders Forum of Nigeria, said the president-elect can be swon-in while he attends to court cases thereafter.
Addressing journalists in Kano, National President of the Forum, Bature AbdulAziz, said the law permitted him and any governor-elect to proceed with the ceremony.
He called on those clamouring for the sisoendion of the swearing-in to shelve such plans and Join the moving train.
He said, “Why are you calling for the suspension of swearing-in? What you are asking for, has it any position in the law or in the Nigeria ‘s history? So, why are some people killing themselves in the name of trying to stop the swearing-in, this is baseless, they are speaking out of ignorance.”
Recall that presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, had approached the court to challenge the outcome of the February 25 presidential elections.
Instituted by five residents of the Federal Capital Territory, the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/578/2023, urged the court to stop the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, any other musicial officer and/or any other authority or person from swearing in any candidate in the February 25 presidential election as President or Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
It added that this should remain until it is judicially determined with finality or in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution that such candidate has fulfilled the requirement of Section 134(2) (b) of the Constitution.
The five applicants, Anyaegbunam Okoye, David Adzer, Jeffery Ucheh, Osang Paul and Chibuike Nwachukwu identified themselves as registered voters of the FCT.
