Contest For President Or We Sue You, Group Tells Tinubu

A group, the Disciples of Jagaban, DOJ, has threatened to drag the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Bola Tinubu, to court if he refuses to contest for the President of Nigeria in 2023.

According to the National Coordinator of DOJ, Mr Abdulhakeem Adegoke, in an interview with journalists, only Tinubu can rescue Nigeria as the country is deep in suffering and only a strategic thinker like Tinubu can rescue the country.

He said, “We know his capacity to change the scenario, his capacity to change things from negative to positive.

“He has done it in Lagos state which supposed to be the headquarters of criminals and bandits, but he turned them into good persons.”

In their bid to persuadeTinubu, who has said he will make known his intention to contest in January, many politicians across the North converged on Kaduna on Saturday, under the aegis of DOJ, to flag off sensitization of the electorate to the continuous voter registration CVR.

Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State has enjoyed unprecedented support from many groups across Nigeria as the election draws closer with Adegoke saying that their aim was to boost the support base of Tinubu.

Going down memory lane, he said in 2019, the group had resolved that if Tinubu refused to come out for the Presidential race in 2023,they would take him to court.

He said the DOJ was in support of good governance and would continue to encourage Nigerians to support Tinubu.

“Presently, the DOJ remains the first and the most widely accepted political institution for Tinubu’s 2023 Presidential ambition.

“We however, appreciate all other groups that came after us because we cannot do it alone, especially with the deluge of resistance and opposition towards our principal, “he said.

Speaking further, he said,
“EndSars and the Yoruba nation agitators, those who focused on our principal but hidden under something different entirely, some of us relocated back to the South West, to make sure where ever they move to we were there to preach unity, love and harmony to all other tribes living in the Yoruba land, Today we give all glory to Almighty God all the fake and fabricated journey has come to an end.

“As at then, some Nigerians believed it was too early; but we went ahead all the same. With the support of many trained intelligentsia and many men of God in both Faiths in our midst, we prepared for all the attacks that happened before the criminally-minded perpetrators carried them out.”

He said, “Just a month before the botched EndSARS protests of October 2020, DOJ called for a national prayer for our principal; but, some were looking at the request as if we did not know what we were doing at that time.

“When the attacks began, we stood by our principal, defending him against the hijackers of the protests that many innocent Nigerians ignorantly got involved in, without knowing the real devilish mission of some of their sponsors. We thank the Almighty God for His mercies on our principal despite the evil-minded attacks.”

He further explained that when the agitation for Yoruba nation was brewing, DOJ realized that this was going to be a completely Yoruba affair; so, they moved down to Yoruba land under the umbrella of Yoruba Welfare Group, YWG, to take effective steps to counter the attackers in Yoruba land.

He added that some innocent Yorubas were also involved because it started under the umbrella of fighting against kidnapping and banditry across Yoruba land.

“We followed them gently and ended up preventing them from mixing the bitter truth with their fabrication of lies. We were already aware that all these would be coming,” he pointed out.

Speaking directly to Tinubu’s supporters, he said, “We are now calling on all Tinubu supporters to get prepared because. some more are still coming.”

He called on all Tinubu support groups to ” be focused and stop manipulating ourselves.”

Various groups and associations were represented on the occasion.

Distinguished personalities at the occasion also include Senator Mohammed Sani Saleh, Engineer Muhammad Namadi, Alhaji Dangulguli, Alhaji Lawal Meyere, among others.

Speaking in an interview with journalists on the sidelines of the voter registration sensitization exercise, Comrade Abdulhakeem Adegoke said, “From our findings, we found that millions of youths have refused to come out for the voter registration. With that, we are not safe. We need to let these young Nigerians realize that when you need a good governance, and you did not participate in the registration of those who will chose a good leader, this is totally zero.

“If there must be positive changes that we are talking about, its already identifying the good among the bad among us, in person of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”

“We are not adopting Tinubu because he is a Muslim or Christian or Yoruba. We adopted him because he is a leader, based on his past experience, his past achievements and past involvement…..we adopted him based on that and there is nothing.

“Many people come out to say why Tinubu? But they’ve not come out to say this is a candidate better than him.”