‘I am going to fulfill my campaign promises ‘ – President-Elect Tinubu

Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, promised on Thursday that when he takes office as president on May 29, he will keep every campaign promise he made.

In Port Harcourt, Rivers State, at the opening of the Magistrates’ Court Complex named for a former chief judge of the state, Justice Iche Ndu (ret. ), Tinubu, whose campaign platform was dubbed “Renewed Hope,” made the pledge.

“The reform is on the way; I am here with the hope that you will collaborate with me; I promise you my commitment to fulfil all political promises I made,” the President-elect declared.

He added that, “I promise Nigerians the unity of this country is not negotiable. That is what Nyesom Wike and I are promoting jointly. I promise I will be fair to all.

“We will fight poverty; and we must fight it rigorously. Poverty of thinking, poverty, poverty of standard; poverty of reasoning.”

Tinubu praised Wike for erecting the courthouse, which he called beautiful, and said that caring for judges and ensuring their comfort was the best approach to fight judicial corruption.

Tinubu said, “I take a different angle to what Wike has done here today. It is fighting corruption, and you have been contributing very well to this.

“You don’t expect your judges to live in squalor, to operate in squalor, to dispense justice in squalor. This is part of the changes that are necessary in our policy think tank.

“We must fight corruption and we definitely must look at the other side of the coin. If you don’t want your judges to be corrupt, you got to pay attention to their welfare. If you want fair dispensation of justice, you don’t want them to operate in hazardous conditions. Let’s think value for value. If I don’t have consumer credit and you want me to pay for the car I needed at once, N5m, N6m, driving temptation to corruption.

“But if you have consumer credit, then that will reduce the propensity to corruption. We don’t want our judges to play foul, to compromise justice. Not just the books, but do something. And I promise you, we are going to review all of these in our policy think tank.”

Tinubu said with what Wike had done, it was left for the magistrates to do justice.

“May God give you the will and the commitment to dispense justice to our society,” he said.

“May God give you the will and the commitment to dispense justice to our society,” he said.

He lashed out at what he described as  “the diversion they gave my story yesterday (Wednesday),” on Wike’s demand for commitment that the Federal Government should refund the money spent by the state on federal projects.

Tinubu said, “I don’t want to quarrel with anybody or with people before I even assume office. But I speak my mind always. We are on the same platform. We must tolerate one another, live together.”