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Editoria: Healthy police and community relationship critical to fight crime

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In recent times, the Ghana Police Service has come under heavy criticism following some mysterious deaths that have occurred at some police stations.

It is on record that two police officers who were arrested as alleged prime suspects in recent bullion van robberies and were in their custody died.

The police explained that the suspects, Constable Reindolph Gyimah Ansah and Corporal Stephen Kwaku Nyame, were sent to a location at Borteyman in Ashaiman to assist in arresting other suspects believed to be part of a syndicate that targeted bullion van but died out of an exchange of gunshots.

This explanation by the police was greeted with wild reaction as some said the story told by the police was too sweet to be true while others suspected a foul play and possible cover up.

Similarly, in April last year, a 28-year-old trader, Albert Akwasi Donkor, was allegedly killed by the police in Nkoranza under the pretext that he was an armed robber, when he was previously picked up as a mere suspect.

The killing of Albert also raised the anger of some irate youth of the town where he comes from. The youth attacked the police station to retaliate the murder of their colleague.

We, at The Chronicle, find the above sequence of events and others which we have not captured here to be not just unfortunate and highly disturbing, but also as a threat to the security of the state as far as policing is concerned.

Our worry stems from the fact that, per our constitutional arrangements, the police are the custodians of internal security, and who have been mandated to maintain law and order.

Additionally, the Police Service, as a peace and law enforcing institution, has it as a constitutional mandate to protect lives and property to enhance internal security in the country.

In our views, such events, as stated above, have the highest tendencies to affect the image of the Service and bring it into public ridicule, which would definitely cause the public to lose confidence in it.

We, therefore, call on the police to up their game to protect their image as a noble institution in the eyes of right thinking members of society.

This is because we cannot afford to have a police institution with a tainted image and scandalous identity, as such would adversely affect the general security of the country.

In our sincerest opinion, the times have changed and that policing in general has become a shared responsibility, where there must be greater cohesion between the police and the people.

As a matter of fact, just as the people need the police to protect them, the police also need the people as major partners in the performance of their duty to protect the citizens.

This, therefore, calls for the building of a symbiotic relationship that would be mutually beneficial to both the police and the people they the police are supposed to protect.

As a result, conscious efforts must be made to ensure that the police would be more diligent and professional in the discharge of their duties but not the show of power to intimidate.

The police hierarchy must urgently ensure that any perception that would portray the police as an irresponsible institution that is interested in killing suspects is properly curtailed.

Available literature has thought us that hostile relationship between the people and the police are always dress rehearsals for insecurity and instability.

Ghanaians, as a people, simply cannot afford to sacrifice our hard-won democracy on the altar of hostile relationship between the police and the same people they are supposed to protect.

The police must wake up and stem the tide.

Police arrest policeman over gruesome murder of a lady in K’si

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Insp. Ahmed Twumasi after his arrest by the police

The police have arrested an officer, Inspector Ahmed Twumasi, who alleged shot and killed a lady rumoured to be his girlfriend, the official Twitter handle of the Ghana Police Service has announced.

Victoria Dapaah, 27

The shooting incident, according to the tweet, occurred in Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region, on Thursday, 20th April 2023. According to the police, Twumasi had been on the run since the incident, and that he was arrested at Sekyere, near Effiduase in the Ashanti Region, as a result of a special operation.

The suspect, who is currently in custody, would be put before court to face justice.

On Thursday, 20th April 2023, Twumasi allegedly opened fire multiple times at Victoria Dapaah, 27, and bolted. The suspect, who is believed to be a police officer attached to Manhyia Palace, is said to have fired five shots at his girlfriend.

Sack TOR MD for missing US$2.5m of condensate -Napo dared

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Bernard Owusu, GTPCWU National Chairman

Bernard Owusu, the National Chairman of the General Transport Petroleum and Chemical Workers Union (GTPCWU), has challenged Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, aka Napo, to get the Managing Director of Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Jerry Kofi Hinson, dismissed for his claims of some US$2.5 million worth of condensate missing from the refinery.

The National Chairman dared the Energy Minister a few days after the latter’s radio interview revelation that condensate worth US$2.5 million had gone missing at the refinery in the last couple of weeks.

“I gave TOR a new business opportunity in the premix fuel market – that all the condensate from Ghana Gas should be used for blending premix fuel. The last time I heard, over 2.5 million dollars worth of condensate had gone missing from TOR. If we all want TOR to work, and we don’t want another ECG in TOR, [we should do the right thing, else] it will break the back of the government,” Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh stated on Accra-based Citi FM a day after some workers of the refinery had demonstrated against years of redundancy of the facility.

Sharply reacting to the Minister’s comment, Bernard Owusu, on an Accra-based FM station, Kessben, challenged Dr. Opoku Prempeh to back his claim with evidence, stating that the GTPCWU was prepared to support him to deal with any worker who was found to be involved in the missing product.

“If the Minister says that about $2.5 million worth of condensate can’t be accounted for, I’m using your medium to tell the Honourable Minister that if that is what has happened, then, the head of the institution, that is, the MD, should be fired. He should be investigated, and any worker involved should be dealt with. The Union is prepared to support the Minister in that direction.

“We can’t sit down and allow people to do the wrong thing to affect the good people,” he charged.

Gov’t non-performance no excuse for tax evasion -GRA

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Rev. Dr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, GRA boss

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has cautioned the public against the notion that they would not pay their taxes if the government of the day is not performing.

According to the GRA, the non-performance of the government of the day was not an excuse, but an attitude that would cost the state in terms of revenue generation.

The statement was made by Maxwell O. Boadi, Head of Prosecution Unit at the GRA, at a two-day media workshop, organised for court reporters by the Authority, in conjunction with the Judicial Training Institute, in Accra last week.

Answering questions asked by the participants, he said the citizens, in an attempt to shed their tax obligations to the state, often hide behind a certain development they had not received or seen from the government to justify the non-payment of their taxes.

He contended that the non-performance of a government cannot be an excuse for tax avoidance, explaining that while the citizens had an option to change a nonperforming government that failed to efficiently and effectively use revenues to their benefits the same could not be said about paying taxes.

Mr. Boadi stated emphatically that if the citizens were not happy with their government’s performance, they could change it, but they could not choose not to pay their taxes.

He said, despite the Authority moving towards voluntary tax compliance, it had, since 2021, been using its prosecution powers drawn from laws such as Executive Instrument five (E.I.5), Revenue Administration Act 2016 (Act 915), Income Tax Act 15 ( Act 896), and Customs Act, 2015 (Act 891).

The others are Value Added Tax Act 2013 (Act 870), Communication Service Act 2008 (Act 754), Excise Tax Stamp Act 2013 (Act 873), and Excise Duty Act, 2014 (Act 878).

The prosecution powers of the GRA may be initiated as civil or criminal actions to recover taxes due, as well as slapping penalties on defaulting entities. Mr. Boadi said some of the punishments prescribed under the law, included garnisheeing of the bank account, attaching the person’s property and others to defray the outstanding taxes owed.

He mentioned taxes collected by the GRA as corporate income tax (business, trade, profession and vocation), employment (salaries, allowances, benefits, overtime, gratuities and per diems), investment (rent, dividends, interest, royalties, natural resources payments and lottery), capital gains and gift tax.

He said taxes may even be slapped on persons indulging in illegal operations to derive revenue, but the criminal side of that business would be handled by the police and other institutions concerned.

The Head of Prosecution Unit added that the GRA could give amnesty to distressing companies, as well as tax reliefs on marital, the aged, disability, child education, dependency and mortgage.

Similarly, entities could appeal to a desk at the Ministry of Finance if they disagreed with the GRA on the amount of tax they owed, or after prosecution could proceed to the Court of Appeal on the matter.

The workshop

The workshop was facilitated by justices of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu and Kweku Tawiah Akaah-Boafo respectively.

The various topics treated include the Legal System of Ghana, Jurisdiction of the Courts, Court Terminologies, Designation of the Judges, Hierarchy and Officers of the Courts, Parties, Processes and Procedures in Civil Matters and Criminal Case, and Court Etiquette and Protocols.

The others were Media Independence, Freedom, Responsibility, Privacy, Libel, Defamation, Contempt of Court and Effective Reporting on Tax Issues.

Chief commissions 2-storey classroom block for Domeabra Methodist School

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Domeabrahene Nana Kusi being assisted by Otumfuo's Hiahene and the Methodist Bishop of Kumasi to cut the tape to commission the block

Nana Kusi Oboadum I, Chief of Domeabra in the Ejisu Municipality, has singlehandedly built  and commissioned a two-storey, eight unit classroom for the local Methodist Primary School.

The new 8-unit two storey classroom building at the Methodist primary

Nana Obuadum explained at the commissioning that the gesture was in line with Otumfuo Osei II, the Asantehene’s vision of promoting education, and urged chiefs to prioritise education to enhance the developmental agenda of their peoples.

He explained that he was touched when he was informed that the Methodist Primary School faced inadequate classrooms, resulting in congestion of the pupils, hence, the initiative to ensure that all children of school-going age in the town had access to a convenient place for learning.

Nana Obuadum reminded the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) and the Member of Parliament (MP), who is also the Deputy Minister for Finance, that over 90% of the total population of the community voted for  the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), and that the people should not be neglected.

He said the people deserved a share of the national cake, which had eluded them for over nine years.

Dr. Williams Amankrah Appiah, Ashanti Regional Director of Education, expressed gratitude to Nana Obuadum for the vision to complement Otumfuo Osei Tutu II’s vision, and called on chiefs to make education and the developmental agenda of their people a priority.

He also pleaded with other stakeholders to continue bringing development to the people, and urged the teachers to go the extra mile above classroom work and come to the level of the students for a total transformation.

Mr. John Kumah, the Ejisu lawmaker, commended Nana Obuadum for prioritising the interests and welfare of his people, and promised to improve the road networks in the jurisdiction, as well as provide a Community Center for the residents.

FoE to petition ECOWAS, others over environmental violations

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Mr Franklin Leonard Masika, FoE member from Tanzania making his submission

Friends of the Earth-Africa (FoE Africa), a non-governmental environmental organisation has hinted on petitioning the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as well as other international bodies, about the violations and abuse of the environment.

According to the group, issues of pollution, degradation, land grabbing, illegal mining, and logging are practices which affect the environment negatively and deprive people off their use of these resources positively, hence the petition.

Some members of FoE

The group made this known at a worship programme, organised in Accra. Present at the workshop were a number of the organisations from different Africa countries, including Tanzania, Cameron, Liberia and the host country, Ghana.

Sharing experiences of the violations in their various countries, and the steps being taken to mitigate the situation, Franklin Leonard Masika from Tanzania said he believed his country had the biggest resources in the East Africa sub-region, but that had not translated into wealth.

He said there were a lot of degradation, land grabbing, and pollution activities being carried out by some multinational organisations.

He said activities of land grabbing, for instance, had robbed many families off pieces of land they depended on for survival.

He noted that these companies, after taking hold of the land for their parochial interests, either pay less or sometimes no compensations at all to the respective families.

He said his outfit, which worked directly with these impoverished families, had tried, and in some cases, succeeded in getting compensations for these families, but that was not enough, hence, his support for ECOWAS to be petitioned.

Flora Lamero Zok from Cameroon, who also narrated a similar experience, said FoE Cameroon was working to ensure that the land laws were reformed.

She said, to ensure that the laws reflected the interests of the minority group, FoE Cameroon was working with the groups to ensure that their views were captured in the land law reformation.

She noted that more attention would be given to the issues when escalated to the international level, hence, her conviction in joining her colleagues to petition the international bodies.

In Ghana, Mr. Nehemia Tettey Odjer-Bio, Programs Coordinator, Forests and Biodiversity, FoE Ghana, noted that his outfit had also put in place some initiatives that would help salvage the situation of illegal logging and mining.

He said, FoE Ghana was embarking on the Green Livelihood Project, which sought to re-plant trees that had already been felled.

He also spoke about the monitoring of environmental illegalities and engagements with the local communities, and that the wildlife sector had not been left out. He noted that his outfit was working hard to ensure that Parliament passes a Wild Life Resources Management Bill, which would offer protection for the wildlife sector.

He,  just like his colleagues, believed that petitioning international bodies would help salvage the environment from further violations, and enable people whose livelihoods depended solely on it to get the most out of it.

About FoE

Friends of the Earth – Africa (FoE – Africa) is a non-governmental environmental organisation, which operates in 72 countries around the world and 11 countries in Africa, (of which the West Africa sub-region is one) to check abuse and other human rights violations by these multinational companies operating on the Continent.

AfDB, Bretton Woods and Africa’s financial problems

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Some millennia ago, Africa was a world super power. There were a number of empires which exhibited great civilization and were giants in production and industry; commerce and trading; academics and schooling, and in military warfare.

The Kingdom of Kush, a Nubian empire (2000 BC) located south of Egypt, was known for economic power, minerals and military power; Land of Punt (2500 BC) also called the Land of the Gods and located in East Africa was rich in minerals, ebony; Carthage (900 BC), located in Tunisia, was a powerful military empire which rivalled Rome; Aksum (300 AD), located in Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia was a trading juggernaut; Ghana (750-1240 AD), located in Senegal, Mauritania and Mali, was known as the Land of God; Mali (1200 AD), located in West Africa, was very rich in gold. The richest man who ever walked this earth, is the Malian king, Mansa Musa who is worth $400 billion in today’s terms.

There was Songhai, (1500 AD) located in West Africa. It established the first university in the world with students coming from Spain, Europe to study. The modern governance and judiciary system evolved from Songhai’s sophisticated bureaucratic system and then the Great Zimbabwe (1300 to 1500 AD) was once a powerful kingdom located in Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Later empires included the Asante Empire, 1701 – 1902/1957, which was a well administered kingdom with such a great military force and sophisticated war tactics, some of which were adopted by the British. Asante. It was rich in gold and had running battles with the British, winning some and losing some.

Once upon an era, we Black Africans were from powerful nations with great civilization, economic power and military strength, unmatched anywhere in the world.

But today, Africa has been classified as the poorest in the world. And even though we export rich natural and mineral resources to the developed countries, we get paid peanuts, for in the cocoa industry, worth over $100 billion annually, the two top producers, La Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana which account for 65% of world producers, get only $2 billion. This means world producers of cocoa get $3.07 billion, less than 3%.

Today, we cry over the economic challenges we face and yet what we do not realize is that these are partly due to the super powers and our lack of political will. Unless we come out with practical solutions, we shall forever remain poorer.

African countries belong to the Bretton Woods Institutions, which can be called a union or association, where member nations pay annual capital subscription or dues. The benefit here is that member countries can then borrow from the institutions, when they fall into financial difficulties. It is just like belonging to a union and getting assistance through its welfare scheme.

Whenever an African nation member of the Bretton Woods Institution needs financial assistance to balance its economy, it approaches the Intuitions. After some time, we noticed the raw deal being played by the IMF and World Bank. If an African nation, needs say $10 billion for proper economic recovery, it would be given $1 billion and tough conditionalities that would further wreck its economy within a short time, making that nation poorer than before. This is never the case with first and second world nations.

Africa then decided to establish a bank, the African Development Bank (AfDB) in September 1964. Among others, the Bank was to be like the IMF and World Bank and it was to give adequate funding to member countries who need to enhance their economy.

Twelve years on and after two presidents, the AfDB could not realise the dreams of member countries facing economic challenges, until Kantinka Dr. Kwame Donkor Fordwor of Ghana became President. The Ghanaian saw that the problem was finances and so recommended some transformations which could always raise enough money to assist countries in dire economic situations. Among these was to offer shares to very rich non-African countries.

This was his downfall. During his third year in office, he was kicked out. And yet, later the AfDB offered shares to some non-African nations. Sadly the AfDB is still not in the position to assist African nations with adequate funds to shore up their economies, without any conditionality that would rather worsen their situation.

It is most likely that the developed world made sure Dr. Donkor Fordwor could not achieve his dreams. If he did, the West can no longer control the economies of African nations and this will harm their own economies. For example, Francophone African nations, repatriate $500 billion annually to France as Colonial Tax, which is illegal. And when these countries need financial assistance, their own money is given to them as loan at high commercial interest.

West Africa decided to have a united currency called the Eco and went ahead with the date to introduce the currency. I stated in the Ghanaian Chronicles, that with the Francophone countries dominating West Africa, this can never be realized. And lo and behold, it came to pass. France decided to replace the CFA with Eco and it was game over.

So, long as African countries, do not look from within to find solutions, financial et all, to our mirage of problems, but choose to listen to the developed countries, we shall forever be going to the IMF throughout eternity.

Hon. Daniel Dugan

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect The Chronicle’s stance.

Group asks Tinubu to compensate North-west with senate pesidency

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A support group within the North-west chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to allow the zone to produce the next senate president.

It said this will ensure the consolidation of the strength of the party in the region.

The Support Group for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the North-west made the call during a press conference in Kano on Sunday.

The youth leader for the APC North-west, Abdulalmid Umar, who spoke on behalf of the group, said the zone produced the highest number of votes for the APC during the 25 February presidential polls.

Mr Umar said zoning the position to the North-west will encourage the party to vote for the ruling party in future elections.

“The President-elect should be consolidating on the high votes he recorded in our zone so as to override attempts that both PDP and NNPP will make to muzzle APC.

“The pressure will be too much on our party and membership if we do not have a formidable force to withstand pressures from opposing parties who already have Kano governorship and four out of the six governors from the zone.

“To retain our relevance in the zone, push ahead to gain more grounds, as well as consolidate on our electoral performance, the zone, more than any other should have the senate president,” the group said.

The group’s position is against the proposal of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) that the president of the 10th Senate should be a Christian.

The APC governors, in a recent memo sent to Mr Tinubu, said the party should consider the South-south and South-east as preferred zones for the senate presidency, while the speaker should be left for North-west and North-central.

The APC governors equally asked the party to consider the contribution of each of the six zones during the presidential election in zoning the National Assembly offices.

Out of the 6.6 million total votes in the North-west, Mr Tinubu got 2.65 million. In the South-east, he polled 127,605 votes and 799,957 votes in the South-south.

Police officers on patrol must wear approved uniform – Official

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Police

The Nigerian police have said their officers on patrol must be fully kitted in the approved uniform.

The Force spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a series of tweets on Sunday said officers on patrol are not allowed to wear any clothes other than the approved uniform.

Mr Adejobu was reacting to a tweet by one Ayo-Bankole Akintujoye.

Mr Akintujoye had tweeted about seeing some officers dressed like the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) on the Lekki-Epe expressway in Lagos.

“Is SARS back on Lagos roads? Or why are skinny jeans, armed robber looking, gun blazing unmarked men standing on the highway along Lekki-Epe express?,” he had tweeted.

Responding, Mr Adejobi asked the state command spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, to look into the matter.

“Ben, should take this up.. We don’t allow or encourage our men on patrol to dress like this. This is not allowed,” he wrote.

“Any policeman on patrol and stop and search should be in complete uniform. That is the authority to flag down and/or park any vehicle.”

He bemoaned the attitude of some officers who detest wearing the uniform, adding that they “will need to intensify our efforts in standardising the police.”

“I don’t know why many of them don’t like putting on uniforms? I can wear my uniform to any gathering or a party if permitted to know how much I value the uniform,” he said.

“No tactical team is actually permitted to mount a point and be doing stop and search but to work on intelligence and burst any criminal’s den.”

Source: premiumtimesng.com

Anxiety as Nigerians begin long wait for Tribunals

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Professor Mahmood Yakubu

The 2023 general elections are now over with the completion of the April 15 supplementary elections in 2,660 polling units (PUs) across Nigeria.

A rerun of governorship, State Assembly, senatorial and House of Representatives elections took place in 185 Local Government Areas in over 20 states following violence, cancelled votes, late arrival of materials, etc.

The States include Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Niger, Ogun, Oyo, Rivers, Taraba, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara.

Earlier, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducted presidential and National Assembly elections on February 25, while state elections were held on March 18, one week after the original date.

INEC remains in the eye of the storm as a cross-section of Nigerians maintain it contributed to the controversial outcome of the presidential election and that of governorship in some states.

They contend that the malfunction of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the failure to timely update the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) was a breach.

Professor Mahmood Yakubu had promised the results would be uploaded in real-time as it was during the July 16 gubernatorial election in Osun.

At a media briefing in November 2022, the INEC chairman dismissed reports that the commission was planning to jettison transmission from PUs.

“The commission will upload polling unit level results and citizens will have access to those results in real-time. This innovation was introduced by the commission, the commission cannot undermine itself,” he noted.

But that did not happen in its entirety, especially during the presidential contest, where results were uploaded even after Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared winner on March 1.

On February 27, a report by the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) joint observation mission declared that INEC lacked transparency.

Days later, FixPolitics, a movement led by a former Minister, Oby Ezekwesili, said the disputed results have made the populace to resent INEC, question the integrity of the ballot and the process.

In a chat with DAILY POST, a citizen close to the commission revealed the efforts by the IT department to keep the IReV portal up while the presidential election was going on.

“The results were uploaded without problems until late afternoon when continuous glitches were observed. INEC technicians, who were also at the national collation centre in Abuja, commenced work on the site.

“That took about two hours but by then, Nigerians, officers on the field and agents were understandably in a panic mode. If you remember, the site came up again and more results were uploaded.

“I agree that INEC should have handled communication better. I also believe they wanted to deliver the best election but you cannot rule out human errors, questionable staff, politicians and security personnel,” he said.

The source also spoke on BVAS and the transfer of ex-INEC Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Director, Chidi Nwafor to Enugu as the Administrative Secretary before the election.

“Those linking Chidi and BVAS are not informed; it was not a one-man invention. He and the ICT team developed the system, so other engineers know everything about it.

“The good thing is that the contents of BVAS are safe and secure, meaning a number of aggrieved candidates will be able to successfully prove their cases in court.”

In his contribution, a legal practitioner, Festus Ogun told DAILY POST that the general elections “leave quite a lot to be desired”.

“As an election lawyer and a citizen, the level of inefficiencies in the conduct is unprecedented. INEC under-delivered and didn’t meet the expectations of Nigerians.

“Clearly, as a result of the failure on the part of INEC to conduct a free, fair, transparent and credible election, the duty has shifted to our tribunals,” the rights activist added.

But Nigerians keeping track are concerned about the seeming delay at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) and the State Election Petition Tribunals who can remove elected candidates even after inauguration.

According to the Electoral Act, 2022, Section 132 (7) & (8), petitions must be filed within 21 days after declaration of results; the tribunals are to deliver judgments within six months from the petition date.

At the Court of Appeal in Abuja, the PEPT secretariat, five standard bearers and their parties have filed separate petitions against Tinubu and the APC.

They are Nnadi Osita, Action Peoples Party (APP); Solomon Okangbuan, Action Alliance (AA); Chichi Ojei, Allied Peoples Movement (APM); Peter Obi, Labour Party (LP), and Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The issues raised border on alleged exclusion of Okanigbuan’s name on the ballot, Tinubu’s education background, alleged age falsification and drug trafficking indictment in the United States of America.

Others are Section 134 of the 1999 Constitution (25 percent of votes in the FCT); a candidate standing for presidential election but also earlier a senatorial candidate (VP-elect Kashim Shettima). Shettima replaced the placeholder, Kabiru Masari.

The President-elect, the ruling party, and INEC have responded to all arguments, while the nation and the international community await the tribunal to start day-to-day hearing.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Yakubu Maikyau (SAN), legal luminary, Femi Falana (SAN), parties and stakeholders have called for a live broadcast of the proceedings.

In his opinion, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) stated that the presidential tribunal could conclude hearings within seven days if the court systems are proactive.

  Source: dailypost.ng

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