The lawyer called for the sanctioning of the magistrate court and lawyer who signed the DSS arrest approval.

“it was a mistake not to have taken action previously, but now that we are together on this, we should take action to make sure that it does not continue,” said Senegalese President Sall.

“There is a law of leadership that says if you are leading and no one is following, you are simply taking a walk.”

He also said following the provisions of the law, he is confident he will get justice and be declared winner of the Lagos guber election.

Taiwo Oyedele lamented that those who evade taxes get away with no consequences, and said this needs to change.

He said his tenure in government successfully made Nigeria the number one destination for investments in Africa.

“This is not just about ministerial appointments. It’s the wider issue of marginalisation.”

The PDP chieftain said the French government’s refusal to fully decolonise the West African nation has led to the crisis.

“I did not absolve president Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR. My framework of statement or message is that he should not be blamed too much as regards the south-east.”

“We don’t want any war because we have a lot of refugees because of insecurity in Nigeria, that are presently in Niger Republic. We considered them.”

“He has not even addressed Nigerians and justified what he’s going to do, he has gone to the senate to ask for approval. That’s no way to declare war.”

The Senator stated that the party’s main focus is on “Project Nigeria”.

He also said that he will plug the leakages to increase the state’s revenue.

“The constitution is very explicit that you arrest and charge somebody to court within 24 hours or at maximum, 48 hours.”

He bemoaned the fact there’s no minister to be held responsible for negotiations.

“A lot of them cannot afford the requirements that financial institutions typically put forward,” he said.

He said there will be major problems with Nigerian borders regardless of intervention in the Niger crisis or not.

He said the Niger junta can exploit the 15-day hiatus given by the AU to disobey the one-week ultimatum ECOWAS.

The senator stated that there needs to be clarification on the 60-day deadline for submission of ministers.

The professor described the process as an “elephant birthing a rat”.