- - Ohanaeze to attend Tinubu’s inauguration
The
newly appointed 39 members of the Election Petition Tribunal will be
inaugurated today.
The inauguration will be performed by Chief
Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, during their swearing-in at
the Main Hall of Supreme Court of Nigeria, Abuja complex.
A statement issued by Supreme Court’s Director
of Information and Press, Dr. Festus Akande, indicated that the ceremony will
start by 11 am.
It will be recalled that the new members are
to join others appointed earlier to adjudicate over petitions emanating from
the conduct of the 2023 general elections conducted by Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC).
Meanwhile, there are indications that Ohanaeze
Ndigbo is mulling on plans to honour the invitation to attend May 29
inauguration of President-elect, Bola Tinubu.
The hint was provided in a statement issued yesterday
by Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro.
According to him, Govs. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi
State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, and Nyesom Wike of Rivers State are
strongly backing the move.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide is mobilising
massively to attend the inauguration of President-Elect, Senator Bola Ahmed
Tinubu, on Monday, 29th May, 2023, at Eagle Square, Abuja. Ohanaeze Ndigbo came
to the pragmatic conclusion that boycotting Tinubu’s inauguration was of no
strategic benefit to Ndigbo.
Rather, it would lead to undue isolation of
Ndigbo while giving the impression that Ndigbo was at war with him (Tinubu). For
the avoidance of doubt, Ohanaeze wishes the presidential candidate of the
Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, well in his pursuit to exercise his legal and
constitutional rights over the 2023 presidential election results declared by
the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
However, Ohanaeze Ndigbo urges Ndigbo to
remain law-abiding and avoid engaging the Tinubu-led Federal Government in
confrontation. Ndigbo is mindful of the future and will never play bad politics
of bitterness and malice against President-Elect Tinubu. Indeed, the era of
“nzogbu nzogbu” politics is over, and Ndigbo should learn to approach political
issues in Nigeria from a holistic perspective, not disjointed sentiments.
It will be unwise for Ndigbo to boycott the
inauguration of the incoming administration of the Federal Government of
Nigeria under Tinubu since it will amount to cutting off our noses to spite our
faces. World leaders, including former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and US Secretary
of State Anthony Blinken, have already congratulated Tinubu, and their
countries are billed to attend his inauguration,” Isiguzoro said.
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