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There Is No Amount Of Social Media Cry That Can Change My Decision, Now-Tinubu

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  President-elect, Bola Tinubu has dared his critics on social media to continue saying whatever they like on various online platforms, saying it is a free-speech society. Tinubu insisted that he told the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, that he would not refund the cost of the flyovers he constructed in Rivers because he could only commit once he was sworn in as the President. Tinubu, during a banquet in his honour on Wednesday night, revisited what he called the banter with Wike, noting that it has generated a lot of reactions on social media.  But, the former Lagos State Governor said there is no name he has not been called on social media, stating that he does not respond to social media criticisms. He said, “I exchanged banter with Gov Wike if you take me seriously (it’s left to you). The truth is, I’m a President-elect. I have no signature for expenditure until sworn in. How can I make a commitment? I cannot sign a dime of Nigerian money or spend it now. There can only be o

Die Is Cast, As Ohanaeze Criticises Tinubu For Not Including Igbos In Transition Committee

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  The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has criticised Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, for not including Igbo people in his transition committee. Mr Tinubu recently nominated 14 people to the committee to assist him in achieving a smooth transition from President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to his own on 29 May. In the list of nominees seen by PREMIUM TIMES, no Igbo person was on the committee. Reacting, the Vice-President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Damian Okeke-Ogene, accused the president-elect of being a “tribalist”, according to a  report by Vanguard newspaper. “Igbophobia is in his (Tinubu) veins, and by not including Igbo people in the handover committee, he is only trying to reopen old wounds. He inherited the hatred (Muhammadu) Buhari has against Igbo, especially when the President-elect has said he will continue from where the incumbent president stopped,” Mr Okeke-Ogene was quoted as saying. “He said he will continue with Buhari’s policies, and ou