Daybreak, Politics, Entertainment, Sport

Tag: Atedo Peterside

  • Atedo Peterside Criticizes Senate President Akpabio for Insensitive Comments at Wigwe’s Burial

    Atedo Peterside Criticizes Senate President Akpabio for Insensitive Comments at Wigwe’s Burial

    By Daniel Edu

    Atedo Peterside, the president and founder of Anap Foundation, has strongly criticized the President of the Nigerian Senate, Godswill Akpabio, for his remarks during the final burial ceremony of the late CEO of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe.

    Akpabio faced backlash for his actions at the burial ceremony of the bank’s chief executive. On Saturday, he engaged in a confrontation with Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State over comments made at the funeral service of Herbert Wigwe, his wife, and son.

    During Fubara’s speech, the Rivers governor called on politicians present to reflect on the purpose of their power struggles. Reacting to Fubara’s comments while delivering his own speech and tribute, Akpabio suggested that if there is no meaningful purpose in the political struggle, the governor should resign.

    Akpabio also shared a personal story about his ambition to become the deputy governor of Akwa Ibom and urged the governor to step aside from what he referred to as a futile struggle.

    Expressing his displeasure on his official X account on Monday, Peterside characterized Akpabio’s actions as self-centered and insensitive. He criticized the Senate President for making political jibes and jokes at a solemn combined funeral, deeming it inappropriate and lacking sensitivity.

  • 2023 Poll: I’m Disappointed with INEC’s Performance – Atedo Peterside

    2023 Poll: I’m Disappointed with INEC’s Performance – Atedo Peterside

    The founder of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Atedo Peterside has said that he is completely disappointed with the Independent National Electoral Commission’s performance, which produced Ahmed Bola Tinubu as the president-elect, saying that the result uploaded by the commission during the presidential election is an insult to anyone’s intelligence.

    Peterside made this disclosure in an interview on Tuesday on Arise TV, commending the steps taken by Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar of the Labour Party and Peoples Democratic Party, respectively, to challenge the result in court, saying that whatever is agreed upon in court, Nigerians would accept, especially after the judiciary would have done the right thing and be seen to be fair.

    “If they go through this process and the judges convince us that everything was done correctly and we adopt the numbers, whoever is the winner, we will congratulate the person,” he said. “But for now it is premature; when I can see with my own eyes what INEC has uploaded, it is an insult to everybody’s intelligence; it is premature; people who are rushing to congratulate him have not taken the trouble to even look at the available information or the evidence. INEC is each to its own.”

    Speaking on what to expect for Saturday’s governorship and state house of assembly elections, Peterside said that the electoral commission can’t afford to make the same mistake that questioned its credibility, competence, and impartiality in the presidential election again.

    He said that the commission must ensure that once results are collated at the polling units, wards, and local government areas, they must be immediately uploaded, not giving room for any kind of manipulation.

    “It is a chance for the INEC chairman and others to redeem themselves; he should insist that everybody upload the results after voting. We cannot have one or two states hold back the result after voting and start thump printing endlessly and claiming that they could not transmit the result. INEC cannot fail twice. They cannot repeat that same mistake.”