Insecurity: Nigeria at war, Reps tell Buhari -VANGUARD
Fri, 13 Jul 2018

ABUJA—Moved by what they generally lamented as the breakdown of security in the country, members of the House of Representatives, yesterday, called on Speaker Yakubu Dogara to impress on President Muhammadu Buhari to know that Nigeria is in a state of war where injunctions of patience do not hold water.

This came as the Senate, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to mandate the Air Force and Police Helicopter Division to carry out aerial surveillance of Sokoto, Zamfara and Kebbi states to identify locations and hideouts of bandits. Speaking on a motion on the state of insecurity in the land, following the massacre of more than 30 persons in Sokoto last Monday, members across party and ethnic lines lamented what they described as the laid-back posture of the administration and its security services in the wake of the killings.

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Ekiti gov election: PDP protests alleged attack on Fayose - PUNCH
Fri, 13 Jul 2018
The Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday in Abuja, Imo, Anambra, Nasarawa and other states across the country protested against the alleged assault on the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, by the police on Wednesday.

In Abuja, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, led the National Working Committee of the party to the National Assembly to protest against the alleged assault on Fayose.

Also at the protest, which was held at the main gate to the National Assembly Complex, were a former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara; a former Minister of Health, Prof. ABC Nwosu; former National Woman Leaders, Josephine Anenih and Kema Chikwe; and a former Majority Leader, House of Representatives, Mulikat Akande-Adeola.

The protesters, who were received by Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, in company with the Deputy Majority Leader, Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, decried the invasion of the state by security forces. Secondus presented a petition by the party to Ekweremadu.

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APC, PDP locked in verbal attacks over Ekiti election - THE NATION
Fri, 13 Jul 2018

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday threw jabs at each other over tomorrow’s governorship election in Ekiti State.

The PDP claimed that the state had been militarised to prepare the ground for rigging of the election for the APC candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. The PDP’s candidate is Prof. Kolapo Olusola.

The APC said the PDP was making wild allegations because it knew that its candidate will lose. The party has been rejected, APC said.


PDP organised protests in Abuja and some state capitals to express its misgivings over the claim by Governor Ayodele Fayose that the police shot at him and fired into the Government House teargas, which injured him.

An unconfirmed source said last night that the police summoned the governor’s security detail and asked them if he was attacked. They were said to have denied any assault on the governor, who reportedly sent some emissaries to the police. Attempts to seek confirmation of the report from Deputy Inspector General (Operations) Joshak Habila, who is in charge of security for the poll, failed. His aides declined comment.

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PDP marches against police - DAILY SUN
Fri, 13 Jul 2018

Fred Itua, Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja, Billy Graham Abel, Yola, George Onyejiuwa, Owerri, Agaju Madugba, Katsina, Judex Okoro, Calabar, Raphael Ede, Enugu, Noah Ebije, Kaduna and Linus Oota, Lafia

Twenty-four hours after Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State was allegedly brutalised by security agents, angry members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, marched against the police nationwide.

The action followed a directive by the national leadership of the party to state chapters to embark on solidarity protests in support of members of the party and Governor Fayose who were manhandled and teargassed.

National Chairman of the party, Mr. Uche Second, who led a protest march to the National Assembly said the Ekiti “attack” posed a grave danger to the 2019 general elections.

He described the incident as a civilian coup, warning that if Ekiti gubernatorial election was rigged, elections would not hold in 2019.

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Ekiti: Police Say Teargassing of Crowd, a Mistake, Assure it Won’t Happen Again - THISDAY
Fri, 13 Jul 2018

Apparently responding to the growing condemnation of its forceful dispersal of supporters of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that gathered in front of Government House, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State for an address by the state Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, on Wednesday, the police Thursday said the action was a mistake that would not be allowed to happen again.

“I want to assure the good people of Ekiti State that such mistake will never repeat itself,” Habilal Joshak, a Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), said on the state-owned Ekiti State Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service in Ado-Ekiti.

A crowd of PDP supporters awaiting the address of Fayose, prelude to a victory rally slated for the campaign headquarters of the PDP governorship candidate, Prof. Olusola Eleka, around Fajuyi area of the capital city, was dispersed by the police, using teargas.

The state governor had eventually shown up at the rally in neck brace, weeping, claiming that he had been teargassed and rough-handled by policemen who slapped and hit him with their guns.

He said he had been to the hospital for treatment and that in spite of that, was in pains, warning that if anything happened to him, the Inspector-General of Police (IG) Ibrahim Idris should be held responsible.

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PDP marches against police
Fri, 13 Jul 2018

Fred Itua, Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja, Billy Graham Abel, Yola, George Onyejiuwa, Owerri, Agaju Madugba, Katsina, Judex Okoro, Calabar, Raphael Ede, Enugu, Noah Ebije, Kaduna and Linus Oota, Lafia

Twenty-four hours after Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State was allegedly brutalised by security agents, angry members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, marched against the police nationwide.

The action followed a directive by the national leadership of the party to state chapters to embark on solidarity protests in support of members of the party and Governor Fayose who were manhandled and teargassed.

National Chairman of the party, Mr. Uche Second, who led a protest march to the National Assembly said the Ekiti “attack” posed a grave danger to the 2019 general elections.

He described the incident as a civilian coup, warning that if Ekiti gubernatorial election was rigged, elections would not hold in 2019.

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How 3,000 were killed in Zamfara in two years - DAILY TRUST
Fri, 13 Jul 2018

About 3,000 persons were killed in Zamfara State by bandits in the last two years, with over N1.2 billion paid as ransom to secure the release of residents abducted during the period.
This was disclosed by a former Senator Sa’idu Dansadau during a press conference in Abuja yesterday. He said the killings took place between June 2016 and June 2018.

He said 682 villages and towns were sacked by the bandits causing residents to flee to neighbouring states of Katsina and Kebbi. The former lawmaker said 2,706 farms were also destroyed, just as 13,838 cattle, and 11,088 sheep and goats were looted.
Reeling out the statistics of the banditry, Dansadau said of the 682 villages and towns destroyed and deserted, residents were only able to return to 374 of them because of the intensity of the crimes. He said the bandits during the period under review stole motorcycles totalling 2,244.


Dansadau, who urged President Muhammadu Buhari to come to the aid of the residents of the state, said he arrived at these figures by multiplying the figures obtained from Dansadau state constituency by 22 other constituencies affected by banditry.
He said of the 25 state constituencies in Zamfara, only three had not suffered from similar or worse losses occasioned by the activities of the bandits.

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