June 12 declaration, Tinubu won’t save Buhari in 2019 – Oyebode

A renowned professor of International Law and jurisprudence, Akin Oyebode, yesterday took a swipe at the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and the continued killings in the country, and concluded that his administration had forfeited its primary purpose of existence which was meant to guarantee the safety of life and property of the people.

Oyebode also said that the recent declaration of June 12 as Democracy Day and recognition of the late business mogul, Chief Moshood Kasimawo Olawale Abiola as winner of the 1993 presidential election, would not be enough to guarantee a safe ride for the president in the 2019 elections if the genocide continued with his refusal to ruthlessly deal with the self-confessed perpetrators.

He added that not even the All Progressives Congress (APC), National Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, would deliver the South-West for him.

Speaking with New Telegraph, Oyebode lamented that it was disheartening that Nigerian leaders and governments had declared themselves self-righteous when in actual fact the people who they govern or lead were deprived of the power to adjudicate on their government’s performance saying; “Salt doesn’t declare itself palatable until people taste it.”

New Telegraph, June 28, 2018

 

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