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YOU CAN’T GAG NIGERIANS: CUPP CAUTIONS TINUBU AGAINST SOCIAL MEDIA RESTRICTIONS

*SAYS HIS GOVERNMENT TENDING TOWARDS DICTATORSHIP

THE Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has vehemently opposed any plans by the Federal Government to restrict the freedom of speech of Nigerians by the Bola Tinubu administration.

Reacting to a recent statement by the President’s Chief of Staff, Rt. Honorable Femi Gbajabiamila, CUPP, in a Press Release issued by its Spokesperson, Comrade Mark Adebayo, cautioned the government against what it called “plans to stifle the free speech freely given by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by the 1999 Constitution as amended”.

The statement reads, “It has come to our attention the ignoble plans by the current administration to stifle or curtail or restrict or steal the right to free speech constitutionally guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended by its poorly veiled attempts to eventually deny Nigerians access to communication through the social media”.

“By whatever name it is called, any plans to take away the rights of Nigerians to free speech will be stoutly resisted by Nigerians and the opposition will be a major force in resisting such an evil agenda. We cannot sit and watch a government that has taken food from the tables of Nigerians by its very bad policies, taken security away from them, taken peace from them, taken jobs from them, taken education from them due to mass poverty, taken health from them and now planning to take a fundamental right to freely interact via social media from them. That is not going to happen! Nigeria is not a banana republic and we won’t allow the APC to turn it into one”.

“We equally condemn the recent arrests of Nigerians exercising their right to peaceful protest by security agents. Nigerians are currently experiencing unprecedented hardships and have constitutionally guaranteed rights to peaceful protests and demand for good governance that has eluded them since the advent of the APC in 2015 till date. We will not allow any government, whether at the federal or state level to take away the rights of Nigerians to freely exercise their fundamental and democratic rights. It will be resisted to the fullest with all the instruments allowed by law. Any and all secret plans to restrict the freedom of speech of Nigerians by this administration must be stopped immediately. The government should rather find solutions to the myriads of socioeconomic challenges it brought on the country” the statement concluded.

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BREAKING: Mudashiru Obasa Sues New Speaker Meranda And Lagos Assembly To Court

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Mudashiru Obasa Sues New Speaker Meranda

BREAKING: Mudashiru Obasa Sues New Speaker Meranda And Lagos Assembly To Court—-Impeached speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has filed a lawsuit at the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, seeking an immediate order for his reinstatement as Speaker.

Court documents obtained by Lagos Reporters reveal that Obasa is challenging his removal on January 13, 2025, arguing that it was wrongful and unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed on February 14, 2025, lists the current Speaker, Lasbat Mojisola Meranda, and the Lagos State House of Assembly as defendants.

The legal move comes after failed attempts to resolve the leadership dispute through political negotiations. Sources confirm that multiple high-level meetings, involving political figures from Lagos and Abuja, were held to mediate the crisis but ended in deadlock.

Some lawmakers reportedly fear that Obasa’s possible reinstatement could trigger political reprisals against those who backed his ouster.

With the case now in court, the battle for Lagos Assembly leadership shifts to the judiciary, as stakeholders await the ruling and its implications for the state’s legislative stability.

 

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2027 Realignment: New Move Spells Out Role For Atiku, Obi, El-Rufai, Kwankwaso

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New Move Spells Out Role For Atiku

The 2027 general elections are about two years away and the realignment of forces to dislodge the All Progressives Congress (APC) from power, especially at the federal level appears to be on the upswing.

‘We aren’t just a band of blind musicians; we have journalists, teachers and computer…
In an interview published by Sunday Vanguard, last week, a former presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Adewole Adebayo, spoke about the inroads his party was making into the North in search of new political allies, hinting that the SDP leadership had met top politicians from that part of the country, including former Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, for talks.

In another development, a former top member of the APC, Alhaji Salihu Lukman, speaks of similar efforts gathering steam. Lukman, a former Deputy National Chairman of the APC (North), in an interview monitored on Arise News, elaborates on his scheme, saying key opposition figures in the country have a role to play as they have to jettison their presidential aspirations ahead of the 2027 and provide leadership for a new political party to confront the APC.

He urges former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who flew the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential flag in the 2023 elections, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the elections, Mr Peter Obi, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, standard bearer, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, to prioritize party building over personal ambitions.

Lukman, who has since quit the APC, also extends the advice to former party members and opposition figures, including Mr Rotimi Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers State but later served as Transportation Minister under the Buhari administration; El-Rufai; Dr. Kayode Fayemi, a former governor of Ekiti State, and Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, a former governor of Sokoto State.

According to Lukman, who was also one-time Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum, if these leaders set aside personal ambitions, it will prevent the imposition of candidates in 2027 and foster a stronger political alternative. Excerpts:

You have been a key member of the APC, now you are saying Nigeria needs better leaders. What are your grievances? What do you think is wrong with the APC that you are asking all the critics and opponents of the administration to come together and push the same party out of power?

What is wrong with the APC is what is wrong with Nigeria in my view, and I think the view of most Nigerians is that our democracy should give something much better than what we have today. I am not making any new proposals.

If you have been following the debate during the merger negotiations that produced the APC, all these arguments have been raised about the kind of leadership a political party should have and what is required for a party to really position itself to direct elected representatives to meet the expectations of citizens. If we argue that APC has failed, the failure of APC is largely due to its inability to meet a number of some of those criteria.

Yes, I was a member of the NWC of the APC, I was part and parcel of the APC from formation to possibly the present day but that does not disqualify some of us from highlighting some of the limitations of the APC and I think in terms of the problem of democracy, what was first the problem of Nigeria with PDP that led to the defeat of PDP in 2015? The major issue is that there was no competition within the party.

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