Femi Falana has asked President Buhari and Vice president, Yemi Osinbajo to publicly declare their current assets.

 

This was contained a statement signed by FALANA and circulated by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project.

 

It will be recalled that SERAP had demanded that Buhari, Osinbajo, and 36 state governors and their deputies publicly declare any updates on their asset declarations submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau.

 

Falana, in the statement today, faulted the President’s claim for not declaring his assets, saying it contradicted the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended), the Freedom of Information Act and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

 

But the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said President BUHARI is not under compulsion by any law, to declare his asset since his re-election in February 2019.

 

However, Constitutional Lawyer, Malachy Ugwummadu disagrees with the Presidential Spokesman.

 

The National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has said it’s too early to talk about which section of the country will get the presidential slot for 2023.

 

Tinubu also said that any talks about succession plans, for now, should be discarded.

 

The APC leader spoke with State House Correspondents today after he visited the President, Muhammadu Buhari, for a brief meeting.

 

TINUBU explained that the APC’s government just got a second term, adding that the attention should be focused on good governance.

The former governor of Lagos State is one of the names regularly mentioned as a possible APC presidential candidate in 2023 when power is expected to be zoned to the South.

 

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) not to hike electricity tariffs as announced by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission pending the determination of a motion challenging it.

 

It was learnt on Tuesday that the Senate might summon the DisCos, Minister of Power Saleh Mamman; NERC Chairman James Momoh and other relevant stakeholders in the sector over the planned tariff hike.

 

The NERC on December 31 directed the DisCos to raise their rates by over 70 per cent to enable them have enough capital to pay for electricity distributed by them.

 

But following public outcry, NERC back-pedaled, promising that consultations with consumers and other stakeholders would be carried out to determine if or not the new rate would stand.

 

At the hearing of a suit by the Incorporated Trustees of Human Rights Foundation against 15 respondents in the electricity industry, Justice Muslim Hassan ordered the parties to maintain the status quo.

 

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission and the police not to allow rigging of any election, but ensure free, fair and credible electoral process.

 

He said those declared as winners must be the candidates that the people have chosen.

 

The President gave this charge yesterday when he received the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu and the IG of Police, Mohammed Adamu at the State House in Abuja.

 

President Buhari renewed his determination to give Nigeria an electoral system that meets best practices anywhere in the world.

 

INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu was in the Villa to brief the President ahead of the conduct of 28 outstanding elections spread across 11 states of the Federation.

 

He spoke to newsmen after meeting with President Buhari.

On his part, the IG of Police, Mohammed Adamu told reporters that the police were poised to stop ballot box-snatching and other electoral malpractices during the exercise.