Former Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has accused President Bola Tinubu of using the judiciary and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to intimidate and harass state governors to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) so as to secure his second term.
Tambuwal who made the allegations on Sunday on the occasion of his birthday, said the presidency has been actively manipulating judicial processes to pressure governors into aligning with the centre, a move he said was aimed at protecting Tinubu from scrutiny and securing his second term.
The former governor emphasized that there is an existence of a “Political I.O.U.” between Tinubu and governors who were returned to office despite unresolved legal disputes.
‘This clearly means that the Supreme Court is compromised. Even where there were clear cases of injustice, it was clearly negotiated, and the intervention of the presidential movement led them to continue,” he said.
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Continuing, the Senator said:
“That is not democracy. That is not politics but pure intimidation and harassment and such acts undermines Nigeria’s democratic principles.”
Speaking on his own defection, Tambuwal noted that while he defected as a governor, he did not join the ruling party under President Muhammadu Buhari due to his disagreement with the administration’s policies.
Instead, he said he joined the opposition to strengthen democratic governance and resist attempts to manipulate political outcomes for personal gain.
He however, warned that current governors defecting purely to align with the centre should not expect election results to be predetermined.
“Nobody is going to write any result this time around. Nobody. We are ready and prepared to go through an electoral process that must be free and fair, and any attempt to manipulate it will be resisted lawfully and constitutionally,” Tambuwal insisted..
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