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Basirat Fawehinmi-Biobaku, the daughter of the late Human Right Activist, Gani Fawehinmi, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to ensure he renders good service to the nation.
Fawehinmi-Biobaku made the appeal in her remark at the 14th memorial programme for her late father, which was held at the Bar Centre of Ikeja branch of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
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She recounted that Tinubu was once an activist, who believed in her late father’s policies and legacies.
She said: “I want to use this medium to appeal to Tinubu to carry on my late father’s policies, because the President was once an activist.
“We are blessed with mineral resources, and I urge Tinubu’s government to ensure the eradication of poverty, free education, good road networks and the likes.
“I want to speak to the president personally, because he came to speak to my late father in 2009 at his residence in Ikeja GRA and I was at that meeting. He spoke and assured him that he will always have the interest of the masses at heart.
“Let it not be in your time that there is the highest record of death due to poverty and violations of human rights. Empower the right institution.”
The lead speaker at the programme, Tayo Oyetibo, who spoke on the sub-theme: ‘The Increase in Military Incursions Into Democratic Governance In West African Sub Region, What Lessons,’ condemned the overthrow of the governments in Niger and Gabon through military coups. He noted that tenure elongation always brings civil disobedience.
According to him, there was no legal justification for coups, and that the nation could not depend on the military for solutions, as they could only set the country backwards.
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