*Says allow legal process take due course
*Lauds IGP,, Nigerian Army, US Govt,
*Frowns against fresh $800m loan from World Bank
By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
Pan Yoruba socio political organization yesterday cautioned that nothing should be done to truncate the May 29, inauguration of the President elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
The Pan Yoruba socio political organization in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary Comrade Jare Ajayi advised, “all those who are aggrieved should be patient and allow the legal process they have already initiated to take its normal course”
According to Afenifere, the journey to the present democratic dispensation has been hectic and therefore, “nothing should be done to truncate it”.
Afenifere specifically lauded the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and government of the United States of America (USA) for warning all those who might be thinking of or planning to disrupt the planned inauguration of the President-elect, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, on May 29, 2023.”
” Since the conclusion of the presidential election on February 25, 2023 and the announcement of Asiwaju Tinubu as winner of the election, reports are rife of various efforts being made to prevent the inauguration of the president-elect on May 29th”, it said.
Afenifere added, ” Some even advocated for an Interim Government which has been largely condemned. Apart from the statement made by the Vice Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Dr Datti Ahmed who spoke along that line, one Dr Simon Okeke, Chairman of a non-governmental organization, while addressing the media at Chelsea Hotel, Abuja penultimate weekend, also asserted that inauguration of the president-elect on May 29 ‘might be an open invitation for anarchy’.
” Four residents of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) led by one Mr. Ayanegbunam Ubala Okoye, are presently in court to use the legal process to stop the inauguration”.
Afenifere maintained, ” it could be that there were other clandestine efforts along the same line hence the warning issued on May 4 this year by the Defence Headquartes of the Nigerian Army to those it described as ‘unscrupulous politicians’ who were bent on disrupting the May 29 inauguration.”
It stressed further that “it appears that those making the move are still hell-bent in their unpatriotic contemplation hence the strong warnings that were again issued separately by the IGP, Mr. Usman Alkali Baba and Mr. Antony J. Blinken, US Secretary of State, on Monday this week. Secretary of State is a very high ranking officer in any country particularly in the US as it is in Nigeria.
” It could be that there were other clandestine efforts along the same line hence the warning issued on May 4 this year by the Defence Headquartes of the Nigerian Army to those it described as ‘unscrupulous politicians’ who were bent on disrupting the May 29 inauguration.
” It appears that those making the move are still hell-bent in their unpatriotic contemplation hence the strong warnings that were again issued separately by the IGP, Mr. Usman Alkali Baba and Mr. Antony J. Blinken, US Secretary of State, on Monday this week. Secretary of State is a very high ranking officer in any country particularly in the US as it is in Nigeria.”
Afenifere however, cautioned the outgoing government of President Muhammadu Buhari to have a rethink ovsr the $800 million facility it is securing from the World Bank for the provision of palliatives, saying, “ it would be adding more to the already huge debt burden presently put at over N77 trillion according to the government-owned Debt Management Office (DMO).”
