Samuel Ajayi, a US-based nuclear physicist, has predicted that organic protests won’t be held across Nigeria if the presidential election tribunal removes President Bola Tinubu from office.
Ajayi, a PhD candidate at Florida State University, said the president’s supporters would be too ashamed to come out for such processions.
According to him, if there were any protests, they would have been sponsored by the president or his associates.
He made the prediction based on the recent expectations concerning the presidential election tribunal, especially by supporters of opposition parties.
He wrote on Twitter:
”I assure you, if Tinubu is disqualified today, there will be no single organic protest. They’ll be too ashamed to come out. And honestly, those grounds for disqualification are just too shameful.
”That anarchy Wole Olanipekun and co-wrote about on behalf of Tinubu is a figment of their own imagination. If you find any, they most likely sponsored it.”
Olanipekun, the legal representative of Tinubu at the presidential election tribunal, had suggested that any short of confirming the president’s electoral victory might trigger anarchy in the country.
Opposition party supporters had berated the Senior Advocate of Nigeria for making such suggestions.
The Peoples Democratic Party also condemned the utterance of the senior lawyer, saying it was a pre-emptive move to intimidate the judiciary.
”The threats, either through counsel or officials of the All Progressives Congress, is calculated to intimidate and harass the judiciary and indeed Nigerians,” the country’s main opposition party said in a statement signed by its spokesman, Hon. Debo Ologunagba