Minister of State for Labour and Employment and a spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Marketing campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, has petitioned the Division of State Providers (DSS), calling on the key police to arrest and prosecute the presidential candidate of the Labour Celebration (LP), Peter Obi and his working mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, for allegedly making incendiary feedback able to inflaming the nation.
Datti had, on Wednesday, whereas showing on a political programme on Come up TV, insisted that the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who was declared winner of the February 25 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), can’t be sworn in as president of the nation as doing so could be tantamount to the nation swearing in a navy regime.
In line with Datti, “there was a constitutional breach in the course of the presidential ballot that produced Tinubu as President-elect.”
He additionally claimed that the certificates of return issued to the previous Lagos State governor by INEC was of no consequence because it had no worth.
“We can’t have a president-elect when there was a constitutional breach. There’s a transparent interpretation of Part 134 and INEC’s interpretation of Part 134.
“Asiwaju Tinubu isn’t any President-elect, what he holds is a dud certificates that has no worth.
“The way in which they’re going disregarding the decision of the folks, violating the structure, even when they swear in Tinubu and Shettima, they’re swearing in an unconstitutional authorities.
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“Swearing in Tinubu is an assault on the structure, swearing in Tinubu is pretty much as good as swearing in a navy regime,” the LP vice presidential candidate mentioned.
Nevertheless, within the petition dated March 23, Keyamo urged the DSS to maneuver on and arrest each Datti and Obi over the feedback which to him, had been a name to anarchy.
Keyamo who posted a duplicate of the petition on his Twitter deal with, wrote:
“Earlier immediately, I submitted a petition to the Dept. of State Providers (DSS) towards Mr. Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed to rein them in for his or her conducts and utterances which hassle on incitement & treasonable felony. A name for peace & nationwide therapeutic doesn’t quantity to weak spot.”
Earlier immediately, I submitted a petition to the Dept. of State Providers (DSS) towards Mr. Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed to rein them in for his or her conducts and utterances which hassle on incitement & treasonable felony. A name for peace & nationwide therapeutic doesn’t quantity to weak spot pic.twitter.com/BFpnxZDrkj
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) March 23, 2023
See copies of the petition under.
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