There’s No “London assembly with CJN”

Bola Tinubu’s marketing campaign’s crew have denied a report of an alleged assembly between the president-elect and Olukayode Ariwoola, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) in the UK.

One of many marketing campaign’s spokespersons, Bayo Onanuga, issued a press release saying that  opposite to the declare within the report, Mr Tinubu remains to be in Paris, France and has not moved to London.

A number of on-line media had reported that the CJN left the nation for the UK to have a gathering with the president-elect to debate the presidential election case.

Recall that two main opposition events, the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) and the Labour Occasion (LP) have each filed separate petitions, which challenged the outcomes of the presidential election.

Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared as winner by INEC after securing a plurality of votes and 25 p.c of votes forged in 29 states. He defeated Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, Peter Obi of the Labour Occasion and 15 different candidates.

Onanuga stated the CJN left the nation on 11 March for the UK, whereas Mr Tinubu left on 21 March for Paris, France, whereas debunking the information. Mr Tinubu has plans to go to the UK, however he’s nonetheless resting in Paris, he added.

In response to Onanuga, the reviews of the alleged assembly between the president-elect and the CJN is a purely fabricated information, groundless in truth and authenticity.

“We will affirm that the president-elect, who left Nigeria Tuesday, has not been in London. He’s proper now in France to have a deserved relaxation, after a busy marketing campaign that started in January 2022,” he stated.