Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has vowed to continue to support what it described as ‘the victory of Peter Obi of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election and all his endeavours in its realisation.
Afenifere reiterated that the emergence of a president from the South East would guarantee equity, fairness, and peaceful co-existence among Nigerians.
At the April edition of its general meeting held in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State, the group called on the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to ensure speedy resolution of all the petitions before it.
Africa Today News, New York reports that Obi and the Labour Party are presently in court to challenge the outcome of the presidential election, which Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won.
But, in a communique signed after the meeting by the leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, and the group Secretary General Sola Ebiseni (retd), Afenifere strongly called on the judiciary to ensure all petitions in respect of the presidential election are ‘timeously and justly resolved before the end of the tenure of the Buhari administration.’
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Afenifere went to describe this as the only way through which the judiciary can restore the confidence of Nigerians in its intervention may be earned.
The group recalled that similar precedents in this regard have been laid, even by less endowed countries in Africa.
In the communique which was obtained by Africa Today News, New York, Afenifere also asked the Federal Government not to be wasteful by committing about N100 billion to the coming population census.
Afenifere maintained that there is no compelling reason why the census must be held by ‘the expiring’ President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
The group, therefore, called for ‘all steps and preparations in that regard [to] be stopped forthwith.’