A two-term Lagos lawmaker of Igbo extraction, Jude Idimogu, has described as unfortunate the televised comment by the Labour Party’s vice presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, that Nigeria didn’t have a president-elect yet and that it would be unconstitutional to swear in Bola Tinubu.
On Saturday, Mr Idimogu, representing Oshodi-Isolo Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, told journalists that the aggrieved politicians should avoid actions capable of truncating democracy.
Mr Idimogu said any politician who finds it difficult to accept defeat is not fit to lead the country because such an attitude reveals their other side if they win.
“Nothing will happen; Tinubu will be sworn in as the president come May 29. Nigeria does not belong to an individual or a cabal,” he said.
The lawmaker, also the deputy apex leader of Ndigbo in Lagos State APC, was reacting to politicians kicking against the planned inauguration of the president-elect on May 29 and warned them…
