The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has commended the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and government of the United States of America (U.S.) for warning those who might be thinking or planning to disrupt the inauguration of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on May 29, 2023.
In a press statement issued by the organisation’s National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi, Afenifere noted that the journey to the present democratic dispensation has been hectic and nothing should be done to truncate it.
According to the organisation, since the conclusion of the presidential election on February 25, 2023 and the announcement of Asiwaju Tinubu as winner, reports are rife of efforts being made to prevent the inauguration of the President-elect on May 29, stressing that some people advocated for an Interim Government, which has been largely condemned.
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The statement reads, “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 Organisation, 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. To him, all cases in the court in respect of the election must be settled before the inauguration.
Afenifere recalled that the Department of State Security (DSS) and the Military in April confirmed the move to scuttle the scheduled inauguration and warned those who may be contemplating such.
“Four residents of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) led by one Ayanegbunam Ubala Okoye, are presently in court to use the legal process to stop the inauguration. 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 Headquarters 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 issued separately by the IGP, Usman Alkali Baba and Antony J. Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, on Monday this week.”