Four days to the swearing in of the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu, as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Vice Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed has reiterated that, the swearing would amount to Anti-Democracy.
Datti spoke to the gathering of Labour Party (LP) eight Senators-elect, 36 Federal House of Representatives members elect and other elected officials of the Labour Party in Abuja.
Speaking to the audience through a Zoom telecast, Datti said that the Nigeria owe themselves the situation to continue with the alleged impunity of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to Scot free of its alleged wrong declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC), candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the February election and have him sworn in, by May 29, 2023.
He maintained that swearing in the President-elect, Tinubu would amount to the death of democracy in Nigeria.
According to him, Nigerians are the International Community of the country, whatever they stood with settles the support that would come to the nation over the February 25 election.
In his Zoom speech, which was interrupted by applause variously Datti said; “What is about to happen on the 29th of May is outright unconstitutionality, I repeat, outright unconstitutionality. To any effect and for want of time.
“I refer you to an earlier comment I made on the same subject, nothing has rattled the Tinubu group and the APC like the submission of a simple fact, what is that simple fact?
“Swearing in an unconstitutionally qualified, unconstitutional President elect, to serve as the President and commander in chief of Nigeria is ending democracy, I repeat, is ending democracy.
“It is within the right of all Nigerian people to engage with constitutional, legal and peaceful act, that will protect the Nigerian Constitution. Nigeria is a nation because we have a constitution.”
According to him, “We are due in the Courts. The courts, the Presidential Candidate, myself. The courts, the candidate, that is Peter Obi and I and our final cause for the common man. The judiciary is not the last call.
“The common man, is the last hope of the common man. So severe was their desperation, that for the first time you all came along with a constitutional breach.