Former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and member representing Edo North at the National Assembly, Adams Oshiomhole, has said President Tinubu is doing his best to address insecurity in Nigeria.
Oshiomhole said that the security situation had improved when compared with what it was before the APC gained power in 2015.
In a chat with Channels TV last night November 24, Oshiomole said
“Nobody is pretending that it’s all over, but let no one deny that progress has been made because I was in this country where we were forced to postpone national elections because Boko Haram had taken over and installed foreign flags in about 81 local government areas in the northeast.
And I mentioned some of the things that have happened here. So, I have watched the number of people who have been convicted.
Nobody is pretending that it’s all over, but let no one deny that progress has been made because I was in this country where we were forced to postpone national elections because Boko Haram had taken over and installed foreign flags in about 81 local government areas in the northeast.
And I mentioned some of the things that have happened here. So, I have watched the number of people who have been convicted” he said
He faulted members of the Nigerian judiciary who sentence terrorists to 20 years imprisonment instead of de@th penalty as stipulated by the law.
‘’The only worry I have as far as those convictions are concerned is that I do not know the power of the judges where the law says it shall be sentenced to de@th if found guilty of terrorist and the judge sentenced to 20 years. I am unable to understand that. Different judges rewriting the law passed by a parliament because the business of the judge is to interprete….so those kind of cases, I am sure the President must be looking at those that if you have k!lled so many people and in the end you are apprehended, why should any judge grant you any clemency that is he is not empowered in the law to do? Only the President can exercise the power of clemency” he said
