PDP Reveals What Will Happen if Buhari Declares Friday Public Holiday Ahead of Supreme Court’s Judgement
- The Peoples Democratic Party has urged the federal government to address the plot on its purported move to declare Friday, May 26, a public holiday ahead of the Supreme Court verdict
- Speaking on the allegation, the PDP national publicity secretary, Debo Ologunagba said if Friday is declared a public holiday, there would be a crisis in the land
- The Supreme Court has fixed May 26 to deliver its judgment in the disqualification case filed by the PDP against Senator Kashim Shettima for alleged double nomination as the APC senatorial and vice-presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has sent a strong message to the President of Nigeria.
The PDP cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari that declaring Friday, May 26, 2023, a public holiday as a ploy to stop the Supreme Court from sitting to deliver judgment on the disqualification case against the All Progressives Congress (APC) vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, over double nomination, might lead to chaos in the country.
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PDP speaks on Friday's Supreme Court verdict, task Buhari
Meanwhile, the apex court has already scheduled the judgement for that date.
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A statement issued on Wednesday, May 24, by the national publicity secretary of the main opposition party, Debo Ologunagba, called on the president and his administration to speak out on the alarming reports in the public space about the moves to declare the holiday, The Nigerian Tribune reported.
The PDP also called on the federal government to come clean on a further allegation, which it said is also in the public domain that the APC is mounting pressure on the Department of State Services (DSS) to advice President Buhari to declare the public holiday, New Telegraph report added.
Buhari’s cabinet members who are switching allegiance to Tinubu, says Garba Shehu
The senior special assistant, media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has revealed that some staff of the present administration has started to switch allegiance to the incoming government, a move he described as ‘human nature.’
According to him, it is very normal for people to switch allegiance but noted that the way with which people are switching their allegiance to the incoming administration is different from what ex-president, Goodluck Jonathan, experienced.
This according to Shehu was because Jonathan was patriotic.
"Lawan and Akpabio nko?" Shehu Sani lambasts critics for attacking Shettima's double nomination
Senator Shehu Sani of the 8th National Assembly has defended the vice president-elect, Kashim Shettima, over his double nomination saga.
As reported by Punch, Senator Sani said the vice president-elect does not deserve to be critiqued for obtaining a senate nomination form and that of the vice presidency.
He cited the case of Senate President Ahmad Lawan, who obtained the presidential nomination form and a senate nomination form.
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