Basiru also dismissed speculation that the All Progressives Congress is gearing up for a rerun election
By Kehinde Okeowo
Senator Ajibola Basiru, the National Secretary of the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) has predicted that the petitions challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the February 25th presidential election will not fly.
TheNiche had reported that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi, are challenging Tinubu’s victory in the election tribunal.
Speaking on the development on Sunday while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Basiru dismissed the chances of the two candidates to secure victory at the tribunal, claiming their petitions are “terribly hopeless”.
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He further asserted that all those who filed petitions against his party’s candidate at the court are only wasting their time.
Bashiru said: “From my knowledge of electoral law in Nigeria and having read the petitions and also being part of the proceedings, I would say that all the petitions against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s election are hopeless and nobody needs to even waste time in dismissing same.
“They are hopeless petitions, terribly hopeless,”
He went on to also dismiss speculation that the APC and its presidential candidate, Tinubu are gearing up for a rerun election.
Basiru on the same show, also knocked the Serving Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, saying he is not competent to speak on President Tinubu’s reforms.
He said, “I must quickly comment on what Pastor Bakare said. Although I don’t see him as a politician and with respect to him, I don’t see him as being competent to say what he has said.
“The fact that we are talking of palliatives does not mean we are not talking about the dysfunctions, imbalances in the economy and addressing the fundamental problems. We are not limiting our problems. We are not limiting our problems to the issue of palliatives.”