President Bola Tinubu has been charged to do his best to prioritise the masses’ interest as contained in the promises made to late lawyer and rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN).
The first daughter of the late social critic, Mrs Basirat Fawehinmi-Biobaku, made the appeal on Tuesday while speaking on behalf of the Gani Fawehinmi Family at the 14th memorial programme for the late legal icon.
The event, which was organised by the Gani Fawehinmi Memorial Organization (GAFAMORG) held at the secretariat of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Ikeja Branch, with the theme: “State Of The Nation, 14 Years After Gani.”
Fawehinmi-Biobaku disclosed that President Tinubu believed in Gani’s principles, policies and legacies.
”I use this medium to appeal to President Bola Tinubu to please carry on with my late father’s legacies because the president was once an activist.
“We are blessed with mineral resources, and I urge Tinubu’s government to bring about eradication of poverty, free education, good road networks.
“I want to speak to the president personally because he came to speak with my late father in 2009 at his residence in GRA, and I was at that meeting. He spoke and assured my father that he would always have the interest of the masses at heart,” Mrs. Fawehinmi-Biobaku said.
She reminded that the time has come for the president to bring those promises to fulfillment as someone who was once on the street and knows where the shoe pinches.
She further urged technocrats to join hands with the president to build the Nigeria of the masses’ dream saying the late Gani and his son, Mohammed would not sit down and fold their arms if they were alive today.
“On behalf of my mother and the 14 children of Gani Fawehinmi, we urge Tinubu not to forget the masses,” Fawehinmi-Biobaku said.
The Lead speaker at the programme, Mr Tayo Oyetibo, (SAN), who spoke on “The Increase in Military Incursions into Democratic Governance in West African Sub Region: What Lessons?,” expressed dissatisfaction at the overthrow of democratic governments in Niger and Gabon by the military.
Oyetibo who frowned at the military coups noted that there is no legal justification for coup.
“The worst civilian government is better than than the best military government. I, therefore, urge our leaders to be accountable and be of good service to the nation,” Oyetibo said.
The Chairman of GAFAMORG, Dr Yunusa Tanko, in his keynote address, praised the late Gani for his exemplary and courageous life.
Tanko said that the15th edition of the programme would hold in Kaduna State to show that Gani does not belong to Lagosians alone, but Nigerians at large.
