Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:

1. Kenneth Udeze, the National Chairman of the Action Alliance, AA, was on Friday, kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Abuja. Udeze was kidnapped outside a Zenith Bank branch in Dutsen Alhaji.

Genevieve Udeze, his wife, said her husband woke up Friday morning and found several text messages indicating heavy withdrawals from his accounts that were not authorized and went to the bank to find out why. She explained that the kidnappers took her husband away in a black SUV.

2. Thugs suspected to belong to a political party attacked the convoy of governor Bello Muhammed Matawalle of Zamfara state on Thursday, killing two armed policemen, leaving many with various degrees of injuries.

The armed bandits attacked the governor’s convoy very close to Funtua in Katsina State, a border town with Zamfara state. The sitting governor is currently in a running battle with the immediate past administration. Consequently, the governor has set up a committee headed by the immediate past deputy governor, Mallam Ibrahim Wakalla to investigate the immediate past administration led by Mr. Yari.

3. The National and State Houses of Assembly Petition Tribunal sitting in Lafia, on Friday, struck out the petition filed by the PDP, and Senator Suleiman Adokwe, challenging the election of Sen. Tanko Al-Almakura of the APC as the winner of the Nassarawa South Senatorial seat.

Adokwe challenged the election on account of alleged unlawful declaration of Al-Makura as winner of the poll and claimed that the polls did not comply with provisions of the Electoral Act 2010, among other claims. But in a unanimous judgment, the tribunal held that the petitioner failed to prove that the respondent had not scored the highest lawful votes at the election.

4. The PDP, on Friday, declared that it has evidence that the victory of its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 election was stolen. The PDP said the general expectation pervading the nation across the board was that the judiciary will be dauntless in addressing the substance of the petition by Atiku in the collective quest to retrieve a stolen mandate through the legal process. It however, urged Nigerians not to lose faith in the country and its democracy.

5. An Ilorin, Kwara State lawyer Olarewaju Aluko and his client, Taiye Na’Allah, have sued the...read 6 more