Amidst the impeachment uproar generated in the Niger State House of Assembly, the embattled governor, BabangidaAliyu, has decided to shell out N17 million to each of the lawmakers plotting his removal.
Confirming the gift money, none of the lawmakers is ready to reveal what the handout is meant for, though many observers believe it’s some kind of hush money.
“It was not as if the governor bribed us, it is our legal entitlements and we have a right to ask for it before the expiration of our tenure,’ IsahKawu, speaker of the House, told the PUNCH. “We have been paid and calm has returned to the assembly complex.”


Besides the N17 million, other demands of the lawmakers have got favourable nod of Aliyu. The Assembly will get more basketfuls of boons before the tenure expires. In the meantime, the law makers have suspended the impeachment proceedings against the governor.
Council of Elders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State have disagreed on the alleged removal of the chairman of the party in the state, Chief Idowu Faleye , by some members of the state executive council of the party, and criticised the emergence of Mr Olatunde Olatunde as a faction's Chaiman.

The elders of the party under the aegis of Ekiti State PDP Elders' Forum,who rebbuffed the development in a statement at the weekend, disagreed with the purported removal of Faleye, describing it as "null and void"

They said in the statement signed by a member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of PDP , Chief Clement Awoyelu, that it was "absolutely wrong and unexpected" of Olatunde to have declared himself chairman after a meeting held with the aggrieved members, where it was resolved that the matter would be resolved amicably.

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This ekiti issue is getting out of hand

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