Nothing Wrong Using Legal Means To Stop Tinubu’s Inauguration, Says HURIWA

 Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA), on Thursday, said there is nothing wrong in applying legal means to stop the inauguration of the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu on May 29, 2023 because the February 25, 2023 election that produced him is still being actively challenged in court by leading candidates in the poll.

HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwu­biko, said the so-called alarm raised by the Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday that some pol­iticians are plotting an in­terim government should not be used as an obstacle to stop the petitions filed by Atiku Abubakar of the Peo­ples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP).

The DSS warning fol­lowed a petition by the Min­ister of State for Labour and Productivity, Festus Keyamo that the DSS invited Obi and his running mate, Datti Ba­ba-Ahmed, over their rejec­tion of Tinubu as the Presi­dent-Elect.

Similarly, Atiku had ear­lier in March led a protest to the Abuja office of the Inde­pendent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reject the result of the February 25 poll declared by the electoral umpire.

Both Atiku and Obi al­leged electoral malpractices in the poll and are in court to challenge the declaration of Tinubu as President-Elect by INEC.

HURIWA’s Onwubiko said, “The Department of State Services should not rope in powerful opposi­tion forces such as Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar with a view to finding some frivolous charges to hang on their necks to frustrate their formidable petitions against the outcome of the February 25 presidential poll.