Tinubu is preparing for a rerun presidential election — report 

Tinubu is preparing for a rerun presidential election — report

 

 

Bola Tinubu is preparing for a rerun presidential election, according to a Nigerian investigative journalist, Jackson Ude.

 

Ude, in a tweet on Tuesday, alleged that Bola Tinubu is preparing for a rerun and he (Tinubu) doesn’t believe he is going to be disqualified. He believes he has a deal already with the judges for a soft landing with a rerun.

 

 

He has therefore asked all State Governors regardless of political party affiliation to submit 10 names for Federal Board appointments. He told the governors not to make it public. Tinubu hopes that the nominees would work for him to mobilize votes in the event of a rerun.

 

 

NEWS WEEK NIGERIA had earlier reported that President Bola Tinubu has appealed to justices of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PREPEC) in Abuja to exclude the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, and his party in the event of any rerun presidential election, claiming that only him and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, are constitutionally qualified to recontest.

 

 

Meanwhile, in another news, the Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele said he foresees a rerun of the 2023 presidential election.

 

The cleric stated this via a statement released on Tuesday by his media aide Osho Oluwatosin.

 

Primate Ayodele noted that he foresees a rerun but forces behind the election results will stand firmly against it.

 

 

The cleric alleged that there are leakages in the judiciary which are not well packaged and will later expose the ruling party.

 

He further alleged that the ruling party has realized that there are no two ways to the election tribunal and is seriously monitoring the proceedings to ensue nothing goes wrong in favour of the opposition.

 

 

“As Nigerians await the tribunal judgment, there is no way to it, there are leakages in the Tribunal as revealed by the Lord. The leakages are not well packaged and will expose the ruling party. The ruling party has also realize there is no two ways to it. There are cabals monitoring this tribunal and they are very desperate,’’ Primate Ayodele stated.

 

 

He also stated that if the election tribunal wants to be fair, the best is to call for a rerun but forces behind the case will do anything to ensure the election remains the as it is.

 

Primate Ayodele asserted that the judiciary is supposed to raise the hope of Nigerians with a fair judgment but forces will seriously fight against the right judgment.

 

 

He however mentioned that an unfair judgment will make the judiciary and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to be irrelevant.

 

 

“If the tribunal wants to be fair, the best is to call for a rerun but forces behind the case will want the election result to remain as it is. The point is the direction of what I see is rerun of the election but the forces behind the election will want it to remain the same.’’

 

“This will knock the judiciary and make them to be irrelevant. It will make INEC not to be a body Nigeria can rely on. Of course, Judiciary will pay for it if it doesn’t go for it and INEC will pay for it in the future.’’

 

“What I see is a rerun but the power behind it will try to make it remain as it is. The tribunal is supposed to raise the hope of Nigeria and correct all the misconduct of the judiciary but the forces behind it will fight against the right thing.”