BREAKING: Tinubu Told To Strip Atiku Of GCON Title (DETAILS)

BREAKING: Tinubu Told To Strip Atiku Of GCON Title (DETAILS)

A coalition comprising Civil Society Organizations and Political Parties for Good Governance has called on President Bola Tinubu to revoke the national honour, the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON), conferred on former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

They contend that Atiku’s actions, aimed at undermining the presidency for political gains, do not befit the honour.

The coalition asserted that Atiku’s recent allegations questioning the authenticity of President Tinubu’s Chicago State University (CSU) certificate lack credibility and honor.

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Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja, Dr. Ene Lilian Ogbole, the Convener of the CSOs, also urged Nigerians to dismiss the actions of Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), as they are tarnishing Nigeria’s reputation.

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Dr. Ogbole further criticized Mr. Obi for his attempts to cast doubt on President Tinubu’s identity, deeming it immature, disgraceful, and farcical. This call for restraint and rationality seeks to uphold the dignity of the Presidential office in Nigeria.

She said; “It keeps getting clearer that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is on a collision course with national interests and has never subscribed to true democracy nor respected the rule of law.

“These assertions were made even clearer when he revealed to the world during his over hyped, baselessand error ridden world press conference, how he singlehandedly relinquished Lagos state to Asiwaju while they fraudulently took over other Southwestern states by hook and crook during the 2003 general election.

“This, no doubt, is a mockery of our collective sensibilities as a people committed to the ideals of constitutional democracy.

“It truly beats our imagination how a man with a long history of electoral manipulation, habitual disrespect for constituted authorities and serial election manipulator who would stop at nothing, whether moral or immoral, and shamelessly come to the public domain to accuse a true and decent democrat of attributes that are alien to him.

“It is common knowledge that most of the dirty characteristics that Atiku has falsely accused President Tinubu of are synonymous with his own name and character as confirmed by his former boss, Olusegun Obasanjo who lacked words of expression to qualify Atiku’s lack of patriotism and decency.

“As stakeholders in the business of nation building, we wish to use this medium to call on President Tinubu to utilize the authority conferred on him by the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, as amended, to protect the image and interests of the country by stripping ‘Atiku Abubakar Sadiq’ of the national honours of GCON.

“You would agree with us that a man with Atiku’s character does not deserve to keep the award that is meant for honourable men and women,” the coalition pleaded.

She added that; “stripping Atiku would also serve as a deterrent to others so that Nigerians can begin to henceforth attach some regards to the office of the president.”

On Obi, the coalition noted that; “if Atiku’s press conference is aptly described as a face-saving gimmick to capture power from the backdoor by whipping up casual sentiments via fabricating and speculating lies that have been globally verified and completely buried forever, then Mr Obi’s belated press conference over the same issue, is at best, childish, shameful and laughable.

“It is rather inexplicable and hard to comprehend what manner of desperation we are dealing with, particularly Peter Obi’s desperate attempts to create all manner of doubts around the documents and personal information that Mr President submitted to INEC without a single proof of evidence to substantiate his claims.

“Rather than providing evidence to contradict President Tinubu’s submissions to INEC, Obi laughably requested the President to help him with evidence that would invalidate the certificates and information submitted to INEC,” Ogbole noted.

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