The Sowore Presidential Campaign Organisation has called for a thorough investigation into the legal and moral fitness of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to hold public office now.
The Organisation said that it strongly believe that the Nigerian people have suffered enormously at the hands of integrity-challenged individuals who have managed to manipulate their way to political power by evading proper public and institutional scrutiny.
This was as it noted with concern the indifference so far displayed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the nation’s security agencies over the disturbing allegations of drug dealing, forgery, and perjury levelled against Tinubu.
It specifically said; “In the last two decades, these characters have gone on to capture the Nigerian state and consequently impose their rotten moral rubric on the rest of society.
“We cannot allow that to continue. The Nigerian people deserve to be led by only the finest amongst us, and we are determined to make sure that happens in 2023 and beyond”.
The Sowore campaign organization said that it is fully aware of the numerous petitions received by INEC and security agencies on the matter thus, joined millions of concerned Nigerians to task the electoral umpire and relevant security agencies, particularly the Nigerian Police, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), to as a matter of national interest, exercise their statutory mandate to investigate and ascertain the credibility or otherwise of the allegations against Tinubu.
It described as ‘dangerous’ the seeming reluctance of the government agencies to consider the allegations with a view to taking the needed steps to interrogate their veracity and, by implication, Tinubu’s legal and moral fitness for public office.
These were contained in a statement on Sunday by the Spokesperson of the African Action Congress Presidential Campaign, Onyinye-Gandhi Chukwunyere, in which he warned that such a nonchalant attitude on the part of law enforcement agencies could potentially see the country fall into the hands of agents of organised cartels disguising as politicians.
Chukwunyere in the statement titled; “Investigate Tinubu’s Legal and Moral Fitness for Public Office Now”, said; “Nigerians would recall that our presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore was the first investigative journalist to uncover the dirty dealings of Mr. Tinubu in Chicago in the early years of the latter’s reign as the governor of Lagos State.
“In fact, citizen Sowore’s meticulous investigation and detailed reporting at the time led to the infamous Tinubu-Chicago certificate scandal which almost resulted in Mr. Tinubu’s removal from office,” he said.
The campaign spokesman stressed that the journey to a free and fair election starts with presenting fair choices to the Nigerian electorate; pointing out that shielding a presidential candidate with weighty drug allegations is the beginning of rigging.
In the words of Chukwunyere; “We recognize the fact that Mr. Tinubu, like many others in the corrupt Nigerian political class, has become so powerful as to inspire fear and hesitation within our weak public institutions. “However, we cannot build a just, fair, and equitable society if certain elements are deemed beyond the latitude of state institutions to enforce accountability.
“Therefore, we call on INEC and the relevant security agencies to immediately shed the toga of timidity and deliberate nonchalance and properly review Mr. Tinubu’s legal and moral fitness to run for the country’s presidency, or any other public office for that matter in light of the weighty allegations against him.
“We warn that failure to do so would render these agencies complicit should the security and welfare of the Nigerian people become thereby compromised,” it stressed.
