Tinubu’s Inauguration: Remain Peaceful, Law Abiding, We Must Change Politics Of Criminality – Peter Obi

Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has urged his supporters and all Nigerians to remain peaceful and law abiding even as the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is sworn-in as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Obi’s comment comes on the heels of reports that some of his supporters and aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were looking to stage  protests ahead of the inauguration as to register their displeasure with the election that produced Tinubu as president.

X-raying the situation in the country and looking at the fact that the matters from the polls are still before the courts, Mr Obi said in a post on Monday that for all Nigerians, this is a time for deep reflection.

According to him, it is also a time to re-examine all assumptions, even as he and his party reaffirm their hopes and that of Nigerians.

The statement partly reads:

Let us calmly review our aspirations, in order to recalibrate our expectations and pin down the causes of our missed opportunities and disappointments.

We stand at that critical moment in time when, as a people, we must collectively come to grips with the reality of our injured destiny as well as the reasons for that injury. It is for us to reassess our plight as a young democracy and identify clear pathways to a better and greater future for us all.

As we await the verdict of the election tribunal, I urge all Nigerians to use this opportunity to renew their commitment to the Nigerian ideal. That ideal remains noble and worth every sacrifice we can make.

Nigeria remains our only patrimony and it is a patrimony we must protect, rather than violate. We have no other nation but this, so let us remain committed to rescuing and rebuilding it.

The judiciary is part of the democratic enterprise and a critical governance tool for determining the propriety of the decisions and actions of every citizen and every institution of state. To that extent, and for that reason, I urge everyone to treat it with the respect and dignity it deserves.

We expect that the Nigerian judiciary will use the election cases now before it to reaffirm its independence and integrity. It has to do so, for all our sakes and for itself.

Nigerians must, therefore, remain peaceful and law abiding. No matter the depth of anyone’s reservations about what is going on in the polity today, no matter the real and imagined provocations, and no matter the disagreement out there,
we should remember that this will not last forever.

I remain committed, and untiring, in my determination to work with like-minded fellow Nigerians to end the curse of missed opportunities and squandered hope that has become our lot here.