Politics
WE WILL SUE TINUBU IF HE FAILS TO CONTEST FOR 2023 PRESIDENCY – TSO
Like an agonizing call for a savior, a group known as Tinubu Support Organisation, TSO has threatened to drag All Progressives Congress, APC chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, popularly known as Jagaban to court, if he fails to yield to their demand, asking him to contest in the next presidential election in order to help save and take Nigeria to the next level.
According to the Director-General of the group, Aminu Suleiman who was speaking at a press conference in Lagos, their request was motivated by Asiwaju’s years of positive impact on the Nigerian political scene, tremendous mentorship of several political actors who are actively championing various offices and wealth of experience in governance and policies.
Aminu told newsmen point blank that “if he refuses to contest, we’ll take him to court”, stating that Nigeria cannot have a leader who is capable of helping the nation and then continue to languish in epileptic development.
Aminu who noted that the organization, founded two years ago, is dedicated to rallying support for Tinubu across the country ahead of 2023 presidential said the group is already creating a national awareness to ensure Tinubu is electorally enthroned.
TSO believes that a man whose CV is embodied in the current Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, former governors of Lagos, Babatunde Raji Fashola, Ambode, the current Minister of Information, Arts and Culture, Lai Muhammed, Speaker, House of Representatives will himself have greater packages of Democracy to offer the entire nation if supported into power.
The women arm of TSO, through its women leader, Fatima Bello, made it clear that although their gesture is not to campaign for Tinubu, but to express their belief in the former Lagos state governor in taking Nigeria to the promised land, starting from 2023.
The deputy women-leader, Raliat Abdulsalam also revealed that the reason the women faction of the organization decided to throw their full weight behind the initiative is Tinubu’s exemplary and inclusive leadership style and sympathy towards the women cause over the years.
“When he was governor, he picked people from different states to hold [political] positions [in Lagos]. Which state in Nigeria today [would] bring anybody from outside their states to become a commissioner, Tinubu did that”, she stated.
While expressing that Asiwaju is not greedy for power, she said, “he has supported people from the north to be president, he has supported people from the south…he was governor and [after his tenures] he didn’t run for the senate seat, like most governors do when they leave governorship, instead, he built people that are still in power today”.
Raliat who revealed that some of them do not even have any personal relationship with the APC chieftain or his family said they only see in him a vision, someone that can lead the nation out of her present predicament.
No doubt, Tinubu has dominated the political scenes, especially from the country’s commercial capital, for over two decades and many have anticipated his bid to run for Nigeria’s highest political seat, although he has never officially made known such intentions.
While many had thought that the ructions and dissolution of the National Executive Committee, NEC, at a time in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC would have bloated his chances to the presidential seat, Tinubu in his usually sagacious manner responded by saying it was too early to “assign colorful epitaphs to the 2023 death of an ambition that is not yet even born”.
Tinubu who was a two-termed governor of Lagos is widely credited with the State’s social and economic progress over the past two decades and he has ensured that his proteges rule since he left the post.
The Rivers State House of Assembly, led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule, has initiated impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Deputy Ngozi Odu, issuing them a seven-day notice to respond to allegations of gross misconduct.
The Assembly cited eight specific allegations of gross misconduct as the basis for the move.
This is the third time Fubara and Odu would be facing impeachment proceedings from the Assembly since coming to office in 2023.
Attempts to impeach them in 2023 and 2025, amid political feuds between the Governor and his predecessor and erstwhile political god-father, now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, had been halted by presidential intervention.
Here are the allegations below:
1. Reckless and unconstitutional expenditure of public funds
2. Unconstitutional misappropriation of public funds
3. Hindering the Rivers Assembly from performing its constitutional duties
4. Illegal appointments of persons without screening by the House of Assembly as provided by the Constitution
5. Seizure of salaries and funds meant for Assembly members
6. Seizure of salaries of the clerk of the Rivers House of Assembly, Emeka Amadi
7. Refusal to implement provisions of the Constitution on financial autonomy of the legislature and the judiciary
8. Withholding of funds meant for the running of the Rivers House of Assembly Service Commission and hindering its activities
Lilian Adebayo, the wife of the 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, has said that the party will unseat the ruling All Progressive Party at the 2027 election if Nigerians are true to themselves.
Mrs Adebayo made this assertion known on Wednesday during an interview with journalists after an event in Abuja.
According to her, the opposition party has overcome its crisis after the expulsion of its former chairman, Shehu Gabam and others.
She said Nigerians should vote the APC out in the 2027 general election due to the hardship the party has plunged citizens into.
“There is always a crisis in the party; the SPD has been able to handle its own. The problems in the party have been resolved.
“He has a great chance of winning the election if Nigerians are honest with themselves. If Nigerians think that the ones they consistently vote for would move the country forward, they live in denial,” she concerning the husband.
Recall that SDP recently expelled Gabam and other party executives.
The party’s state chairmen on Wednesday urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the police to investigate Gabam over alleged misappropriation.
In a significant political move, Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
Mbah announced his decision during a televised broadcast in Enugu after weeks of speculation.
He said, “Today, after a long reflection, we have made the decision to leave the Peoples Democratic Party and join the All Progressives Congress.”
Mbah explained that his decision to join the PDP was informed by the need to reshape Enugu and reorganise the politics of the state.
“Today, I stand before you to announce a break from the past and to share a decision that will shape the road ahead. This concerns our values, how we organize ourselves politically and how we secure the future of our project and our people.
“Leadership sometimes demands painful decisions in the service of higher principles and goals. And there comes a time, when everyone must make a bold choice to determine their destiny.”
Ahead of the governor’s defection, all members of his cabinet had on joined the ruling party.
Governor Mbah’s Senior Media Aide, Dan Nwomeh, confirmed the mass defection in a video posted on his social media handles on Monday. In the video, several government officials were seen openly declaring their allegiance to the APC, chanting praises for President Bola Tinubu and affirming their commitment to the new party.
“Enugu State Cabinet Members join the APC with full chest along with Governor PN Mbah,” Nwomeh stated.
The officials, including commissioners and top aides, could be heard in the video declaring, “We are now in APC; tomorrow is here; it is APC all the way; it is Jagaban all the way; from top to bottom.”
The collective defection marks a significant political shift in Enugu State, which has been a PDP stronghold since 1999.
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