It Doesn’t Make Sense To Swear In Tinubu, Others Whose Victories Are Being Challenged In Court Yet –Cardinal Onaiyekan
Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress became once declared the winner of the presidential election executed on February 25, 2023.
Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Emeritus Archbishop of the Catholic Diocese of Abuja, on Thursday, said that other people who rigged the February 25, 2023, presidential and governorship elections in Nigeria know what they did and God knows them.
Onaiyekan who said this while featuring on a Channels TV programme, grand that though the courts and tribunals sitting on varied election petitions forward of them can even now not know people who rigged the elections, he insisted that God knows them and they (election riggers) know themselves.
The cleric moreover said winners of elections which can presumably be being contested in court must always restful now not be sworn in till the conclusion of the matter.
“The election is now not but over. There are cases in court which discover now not been disposed of. That’s the reason we are in an anomalous inform of affairs; we discover a declared President-elect whose result is being challenged, and the court is handling it.
“I am entitled to rob the space that I am restful anticipating the court to resolve who won the election.
“I am regarded as one of those which discover been asserting that it does now not create grand sense to roar in people once they are restful in court.
“We discover got to be taught regarding the election direction of to create certain we discover a winner who shall be sworn in and each person would rally around.
“I’m in a position to’t realize; I am now not a appropriate variety man or resolve; it’s a pity that it’s taking too prolonged for the Court docket to create up their ideas on this matter,” he said.
Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress became once declared the winner of the presidential election executed on February 25, 2023.
His victory is being challenged in court by a pair of of his challengers in the election alongside side Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the Labour Party.
Onaiyekan said there are worldwide locations that don’t have to name and hear the title of God but they are doing the lawful say and organising the affairs of their nations effectively. He, nonetheless, regretted that Nigerians who name on the title of God discover refused to observe God’s precept to carry out the lawful say.
“You realize must you might perhaps even very effectively be doing the lawful say and must you might perhaps even very effectively be doing the disagreeable say. Other folks who rigged the election know they rigged the election. Other folks who did now not allow the people’s will to prevail, they know it.
“Other folks who discover heated up the polity, they know it in their heart of heart. The very good say is that God himself know them, we can even now not know, even the court can even now not know but God knows them and they know themselves.
“So, the more we level out God, the more we must always be on guard to now not be realized the utilize of the title of God in vain. There are worldwide locations who don’t have to level out God but they are running their affairs effectively. Nonetheless if we resolve to possess pointing out God, we have to speed our affairs in step with God’s will in any other case we cease up giving God a disagreeable title. God forbid.
“I am now talking as a Cardinal; I have to construct a query to my fellow countrymen; we must always restful now not apologise for the truth that we assist God persistently in our prayers and in our nationwide life. We can not throw God away. Which implies we have to speed our affairs and dwell our lives in step with God’s will and we can not pretend we don’t know what God needs from all of us.”
