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3rd Term Agenda: Buhari can’t use the burning of INEC offices as alibi – Lawyer

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4 years ago
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3rd Term Agenda: Buhari can’t use the burning of INEC offices as alibi – Lawyer
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Lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa has warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to contemplate a third term agenda, using the ongoing arsons on INEC offices in the Southeast as an alibi.

The Lagos based Lawyer who added that the 1999 constitution as amended never made provision for tenure elongation, wondered why INEC offices are being targeted by arsonists.

“The burning of INEC offices seems to be calculated at incapacitating INEC to conduct next general elections. Can this possibly spell an extension of the President’s tenure if INEC is not able to successfully conduct election?” he asked.

Below is the concluding part of Adegboruwa’s post shared on his Facebook profile on Sunday, May 30, 2021:

We are a nation governed by law and the most important one is the constitution. The tenure of the current President cannot be extended by one second; whether Nigeria burns or rain or brimstones fall from heaven. As long as we are still operating this constitution, the tenure of this president is predictable, it’s determined, it’s statutory; nobody has any power to extend it. Even if election does not hold, that will not lead to the extension of the tenure of the current President. The constitution is clear about what happens if election does not hold.

Having said that, there is no reason why election should not hold in Nigeria. The situation we have in the South-East now is not as bad as what we had in the North-East in 2015 and elections held successfully then. So, it is possible to isolate particular zones and areas where there may be violence for election to hold in other areas where there is peace and when there is a return of peace, we can always go back to conduct elections in those places.

The time lag for transition is so elongated in the constitution that nobody can use that (South-East situation) to birth a third-term agenda for the current President. It will not work. Let INEC not sell that dummy to anybody. Whether there are fifth columnists within this regime that are being paid to go and orchestrate violence in the South-East by burning INEC offices and whether even INEC headquarters in Abuja is burnt down, this current regime will expire in 2023! No Jupiter can extend that tenure! So, if anybody is doing that for the purpose of getting any illegal extension, they should better have a rethink because Nigerians will not accept it. We will not accept an extension of the tenure of this regime, we will not accept a military rule; we will not accept anything that will elongate this wickedness, suffering and violence! And it is not a new thing for us to demand that the tenure of this regime should end; if the President will not reward us with good governance, at least he can reward us with integrity by sticking to the oath that he took on the 29th of May 2019 when he was sworn in for second term. There is no provision for being sworn in for third term, either by extension or failure to conduct election. So, for me, Nigerians are ready; we are not blind people and we are not daft. Whatever is going on in the South-East, in terms of INEC offices, all these press conferences that the INEC Chairman is holding and sending warnings, he is only warning himself; it doesn’t concern us as Nigerians. Whatever happens, this particular Muhammadu Buhari regime will come to an end in 2023. That idea (tenure extension) cannot hold water, nobody should sell it, nobody should dream about it, we will not accept it as a nation.

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