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KOGI: APC THUGS DISRUPT TEACHERS’ PROTEST AGAINST UNPAID SALARIES

BY AMUDA DAN SULAIMAN FAB

Gangs of thugs, believed to be All Progressives Congress, APC members, loyal to the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello today, violently disrupted protests by Lokoja branch of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, who poured into streets to register their anger against the state government's failure to pay their five months salaries.

The thugs armed with dangerous weapons including machete and horsewhips swooped on the protesting teachers at the front of Lokoja LG secretariat, within the vicinity of the State APC secretariat, and inflicted serious injuries on some of them.

The hoodlums, according to their leaders, had described the action of the teachers as rebellion against Bello’s government.

The teachers, who were led by officials of Lokoja local government branch of the NUT had earlier in the morning gathered at the Lokoja LGA secretariat, where they commenced the protest that was designed to take them through major roads including Maigari palace, Kabawa Road and Township Stadium Road, to terminate at the gates of Government House.

[quote author=excellentmomma post=46753105]Taa if he loves u so much like that, why marry two of you. Abeg leave the eye service.

He has three wives sef

Which of the three wives is this? 41 year old with three wives who is on his way to marrying number 4. I hear he is eyeing that famous buhari daughter. Smh for kogi. It is bad enough bello condemn us to hunger. He is forcing us to watch this kind of jamboree in the name of birthdau

What ever happened to the forgery case that was instituted against George uboh for exposing malami over the recovered loot. Saraki should thank his stars that malami is using police against him not dss like George uboh

amtaken:
Honestly I don't understand them. From my nursery school level up to Law School I have never been discriminated against based on my gender, rather I even get favours!

When I was pregnant a lot of people - both males and females- pampered me and wouldn't let me que in the bank, easily offered me seats anywhere I went etc.


In my place of work my Director is so nice to everyone both males and females but he's extremely nice to pregnant women and nursing mothers and we are paid according to our levels and never gender-based.


My dad sent my sisters and I to the same schools as my brothers up to any level we wanted.

I am able to get into any office in Nigeria, for example, when the FRSC towed my car for wrongful parking in Yaba I was able to meet their DG (hope that's how they are addressed) and he waived the penalty fees for me because he said I reminded him of his young daughter and he didn't like seeing women cry.

I have benefited a lot as a woman. I have never lost. The other day I bashed someone's car and I was supposed to fix it for him but he later said I should go because of my baby that he also has a wife and kids at home.

Look at the Nigerian Movie Industry, how many cinema movies have the male actors been able to produce except few of them like Kunle Afolaayan but look at all the ladies like Omoni Oboli, Caroline Danjuma, Uche Jumbo etc producing their movies like it ain't nothing.


I honestly don't know what these people are advocating for. Maybe it is a regional thing because where I come from and where I grew up at there's nothing like gender discrimination.

That is you. And the only reason is because your parents do not believe in gender discrimination. Millions of women around the country still face discrimination. This bill is for them not for the lucky few like you. In any case olori was just using stoop to conquer tactics. Woman that conquered two strong men before ooni. Equal ke? She is superior to men joor! Can you next time see how she has already gotten the men to eat out of her palms with that one statement. Women like her fit Nigerian men . Cunny man die Cunny man Bury am.

Men tend to approach gender issues from the husband perspective hence the stiff opposition to gender equality or equity. Men need to start thinking as fathers. How would you feel in your grave if you knew that your daughter was suffering in poverty because her brother inherited all your wealth and was using it to take care of another man's daughters ( wife and girlfriends). As for the olori, she does not deserve all this publicity. All that speech was showmanship for ooni. She is just using meekness and submissiveness as a strategy to dominate him. This woman dominated, used and dumped two strong men before the ooni. So submissiveness can definitely not be her trait. All na 419. She is getting at something.

Googleus:
To be fair...
The governor is owning 5 months then paid full 4 months salary last week... We all bear witness to that.. Let truth b told..
i was shocked to get 4 month salary too.

If u didn't get alert, then u not up to 2 years in active service.. Those who are employed based mostly on tribalism... Cos that's was wen tribalism was at its peak on kogi state..

Even the Kogi state University Assu chapter is requesting for the remaining one month salary b4 it's members resume wc I don't see feasible for now.,though they received 4 months last week...

Lets be constructive in our criticism

LIE LIER LIEST! God forgive you.

luvbeloved:
you workers are not shouting enough cos Nigerians are not aware of what is going on in Kogi state...the issue of him opening account in zenith for workers in kogi is very suspicious...since when does govt go to the bank to open acct for its workers without the worker's knowledge biko?...I say a lot of fraud is going on there but like I said kogi people are not yet fed up...cos if u Peepz are fed up u Peepz will cry out to the world. A lot is happening in kogi that doesn't get to the naija public domain. U people should go to Channels, Ait, Stv and online media to cry out so the world can hear!

We are living in an atmosphere of fear. He is locking people up with terrorists in the sss underground cell for flimsy reasons. People dare not criticise him or his Red berets will come and attack you at night. Only God's intervention can help us now. I miss wada got because no matter what we say, the man's government had a human face. He was even borrowing to pay salaries. The emphasis on salaries slowed down his projects but he prefer to pay salary first. I used to follow people to curse wada, now I know better. During wada there was peace, now kidnapping, unlawful arrest, thuggery have taken over. Imagine bello screened out the nlc chairman because he opposed him. He used staff names to access bailout and after the money came he sacked more than half saying they are ghost workers. As for the bank account issue, he has boasted that he will make sure some banks close their branch in lokoja because they refuse to give him loan. Zenith and access are the only people that gave him loan which are illegal because he does not have a legal assembly or exco. If he could drive the assembly members away using soldiers. What can a common civil servant do? Only God can save us because I hear aisha buhari is his chief supporter.

I prefer HP products. very easy to maintain, i hope it made the first 5, lemme rush check the list

Awesome, i see The HTC Desire 820G+ dual sim on the lists of smartphone.... wow big 5.5″ HD screen to see the bigger picture makes me go gaga.... i have been looking out for smartphone to buy.... thank God i have gotten a good specification to look into

THE IMPUNITY OF BELLO CONTINUES.

DRAMA AS KOGI ASSEMBLY GATE LOCKED AGAINST G15 MEMBERS

AMUDA DAN SULAIMAN FAB

It was mild drama at the Main Gate of Kogi State House of Assembly complex, when the G15 members including the Speaker, Alhaji Momoh Jimoh Lawal resumed at the Assembly after protracted crisis which rocked the House in the last few months and prevented from entering the gate.

The G15 members had arrived the Assembly Complex at about 10.00 am to commence the plenary session of the House, but found the gate under lock and key.

After much altercations between the security agents at the gate, the main gate and Chamber door were forced open to enable them to have their sitting today.

The security agents also attempted to prevent the Assembly members when they shouted" kill us now! kill us now !! kill us now !!! and moved towards the hallow chamber where they sat and conducted legislative duty.

It was gathered that the Assembly staff who had earlier reported work were instructed to leave and closed their offices when the information filtered in that the G15 members of the Assembly were on the way to resume.

Source hinted that the Chief of Staff to Alfa Imman, the sacked speaker had instructed the workers to close down the complex and go into hiding.

At the plenary session, the Deputy Majority leader, Mr Sunday Shigaba moved a motion lifting the purported suspension of 10 members by the G5 and also called for the extension of hand of fellowship to the remaining members at other side of divide and seconded by Honourable Omofaye representing Ijumu constituency.

The speaker was embattled for quite some time now and was reinstated by the Federal High Court in Abuja last week.

At the resumption of the plenary, Lawal commended the gallantry and selfless sacrifice of every member who in the face of all challenges stood against injustices and anti democratic tendencies that was at play.

"Our struggle for the entrenchment of democracy in Kogi state has paid off with the judicial pronouncement made on Thursday 19th May, 2016 . Permit me to commend the Judiciary for standing for the truth", he stated.

The motion for adjournment till next Tuesday 30th May, 2016 was moved by the Majority leader, Mathew Kolawole and seconded by Honourable Linus Eneche.

While the plenary session was in progress, the detachment of Police which was led by the State Police Commissioner, CP Yakubu Usman arrived the Assembly complex.

Upon arrival of the State Commissioner of Police, another round of argument ensued between him and legislators who claimed to be doing their legitimate duty as members of the Kogi State House of Assembly.

Usman while fielding questions from Journalists at the Assembly complex, stated that he was informed that some thugs have taken over the Assembly complex, hence he has reinforced the detachment of police to arrest the situation.

The State Director, State Security Service, SSS who was also at the Assembly Complex, stated that he was there to asses situation in the complex.

Meanwhile the State Police Command has disclosed that it has arrested four suspects at the Assembly complex.

While parading the suspect at Command headquarters in Lokoja, the state commissioner of Police, Yakubu Usman stated that he had a distress call that thugs have invaded the House of Assembly.

Speaking on behalf of the suspected thugs, Abdullahi Yakubu Musa Bako disclosed that he is the Personal Assistant to Honourable Idris Ndakwo who is representing Lokoja II, saying that they were picked at Crusher Village where his principal parked his car.

It would be recalled that Federal High Court has ordered the G15 to return to the house and maintained status quo

AMEN

uloewa:
By Ochereome Nnanna

GOVERNOR Yahaya Bello of Kogi State is the most insecure of the 36 state governors right now. The Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal will, any moment from now, pronounce its verdict on the winner of the governorship rerun election that took place on February 28th, 2016.

Or more appropriately, the verdict will pronounce the person who will be governor between Bello, former Governor Idris Wada of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the running mate to Alhaji Abubakar Audu, the late flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the original governorship poll which took place on November 22, 2016, Hon. James Faleke.

All three are tenaciously laying claim to the coveted seat, and there is no clear indicator as to where the “cat” is going to jump until the Tribunal makes its voice heard.

The Kogi governorship poll under contest was one of the most complicated in the seventeen years of our renascent democracy. Kogi is one of the states that fell outside the general electoral calendar as a result of earlier complications. Here is a recap of the story.

The governorship election took place on Saturday, November 22nd 2015. Audu woke up on Election Day and started complaining of stomach pains. He managed to vote and went back to his home for treatment. He remained there while the vote counting went on, and by the end of that Saturday, it was obvious he was in the lead. But by 9.00am the following morning, he died, and the drama of the Kogi polls took on a complicated plot.

Eventually, it turned out he won the majority of votes, according to Prof. Emmanuel Kucha, the Returning Officer of the Kogi governorship poll, with 240,876 compared to Governor Wada’s 199,514.

However, the election was declared inconclusive because, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the 41,353-vote difference between Audu and Wada was less than the 49,953 registered voters who did not vote. At this point there was confusion everywhere.

Many commentators opined that INEC should still have announced the winner since the elections had been concluded before Audu died, meaning that his running mate, Hon. James Faleke, should have been pronounced governor-elect. This is Faleke’s main ground for going to the Tribunal and stubbornly refusing to act as Bello’s Deputy Governor in defiance of his party’s entreaties. But Wada’s camp and independent observers note that Audu’s death before the formal announcement of the results presented a big constitutional lacuna.

It only provides that if the flag bearer dies before an election, his deputy will not automatically step in as flag bearer since he did not participate in the primaries of his political party. Rather, the party will be allowed to produce a new flag bearer. And if the death occurs after the results are announced, the deputy automatically assumes the mandate of the people, having participated in the campaigns.

This difficult situation was further worsened when the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, advised the APC to shop for a replacement for Audu to contest the rescheduled election to give the 49,953 voters on the register the opportunity to play the tie-breaker between APC and PDP candidates. APC found itself in a quandary and went back to the candidate who had come second during its primaries which Audu had won: Yahaya Bello. They ignored Faleke (who argued that Audu’s votes also belonged to him as both of them had worked for them) and asked Bello to stand in the place of Audu.

At the end of the rescheduled election of December 5th 2015, Bello, riding on APC’s victory crest, polled 6,885, while PDP’s Wada got 5,363. The problem here is that Bello was sworn-in as governor based on the “transferred” votes the Kogi electorate gave to the late Audu and Faleke.

The constitution and the electoral law have no provision for the “transfer” of votes from a dead candidate to a living one. Secondly, Bello is carrying the additional burden of going into the rescheduled election without a running mate, as Faleke declined his invitation to join the ticket. The constitution and the electoral law insist that for a governorship ticket to be valid there must be a flag bearer and a running mate.

When you look at this with the eyes of a layman, it seems that Bello might well be on “an excursion” in the Lugard House, as some of his own disgruntled party men have put it. It will be very interesting to see how the Tribunal will deal with this issue. Faleke, on the other hand, will not have it as easy as his camp may wish. He is haunted by the unfortunate albatross of his principal dying before the result was announced.

If Audu had died after the poll was declared inconclusive, Faleke would have taken up the flag for APC in the rescheduled election without stress. We would then not be talking about “inherited” or “transferred” votes. If “transferred” votes are validated, it could open a new, bloody chapter in Nigerian politics where popular candidates will become endangered species and targeted for murder by every conceivable means just before they are officially pronounced winners.

Wada, on the other hand, might well surprise most pundits by finding himself favoured by the complex odds that have bedevilled the APC. It will, however, be surprising if the Tribunal will award victory to a candidate and party that did not win a majority of the Kogi electorate’s mandate.

However, Wada’s camp appears not to be banking heavily on benefiting from the calamities of the APC. They seem convinced that the forensic examination of ballots which showed that Audu benefited from a lot of electoral irregularities could swing back the majority of valid votes to their candidate, Captain Idris Wada.

Indeed, the next few days to the verdict of the Tribunal will be a period of great tension and expectations among the three contending camps in the Kogi governorship poll. We wait to see how it ends.

From the positions juxtaposed between the three camps , Wada deserves declaratory judgment.

REASONS
The certificate of returns issued Bello transferred Audu's vote to Bello. That's action is in nulity.

That he entered the race without a defined deputy, he also acted in nulity.

That Yahaya Bello or Bello Yahaya is not a registered voter in Kogi State makes his decoration as governor most bizzarre

Faleke my man.
A dodged fighter,
a man of principle
and loyal deputy Governor to Audu, your case ended with the demise of Audu but you are material for the future.

As for Capt. Idris Ichalla WADA, victory is in the air.
The people are waiting, The expectations to your coming back with the loyal Deputy Awoniyi is palpable /thick in the air that it can be held both hands physically.
BECAUSE
If the faltered faulty footsteps of APC in the whole political lacuna vice-a-vise
the illegal substitution or nomination of Bello;

encouragement of Bello to enter the race without a defined deputy;

Allowing Bello to contest without ascertaining his voters card status;
Does not give the needed victory.
Then you will nail them through judicial precedence of forensic evidence. Oshimole, Mimiko, Aregbesola are serving governors by virtue of this legal window of prudence.

God shall manifest that from a true heart cos there is power in my tongue.

Bello pls go. What are his achievement so far? Impeachment of speaker by 5 out of 15. Demolition of all roundabouts in search of amulets. ethnic cleansing of civil service , diversion of bailout funds. Unprecedented borrowing, indiscriminate arrests by sss, baba God please pick our call in kogi. We are sorry. Either faleke or wada but not bello

cc: lalasticlala, have a look at this

The mismanagement in kogi in just a few months since Wada's exit is legendary. Now when allocation comes, we are not sure of salary. During Wada's time as allocation is hitting account, he is adding overdraft from bank to pay workers yet we complained and cursed. Now can we complain? NO! What you see is what you get. And nobody dare ask question if not Bello will order arrest. I never knew things could get this bad in koui

In summary, Audu rigged Wada out and God rigged Audu out!

It seems that there is no end in sight for the impunity in kogi as the speaker of the house of assembly Rt Hon Jimoh Lawal has been removed by 5 out of 25 members of the state assembly. He has been replaced by Hon Abubakar Imam of lokoja 1 constituency. This latest move was instigated by Governor Yahaya Bello in a move to have the minority party APC produce a speaker. By giving the speakership to kogi West district - he has effectively marginalised the okuns whom he accuses of supporting James faleke the running mate to late Abubakar Audu.

The Election tribunal sitting in Lokoja has been moved to Abuja this morning. Security reasons were cited for the move.

The election petitions Tribunal, set us to entertain complaints arising from the Kogi state governorship poll, has been relocated to Abuja for further sittings on the order of the President of Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkashua.

Prior to its relocation, the tribunal made up of Justice Halima Mohammed (Chairperson), Justice Patricia Ajoku and Justice Ogbogo Ejembi, commenced sitting in Lokoja on January 11.

The relocation was announced by the Secretary to the Tribunal, Mr. Akanji Akinlabi in Lokoja.

The deputy governor-elect, James Faleke and immediate past governor, Idris Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are challenging the declaration of Yahaya Bello of All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the poll.

The African Democratic Congress, All Progressives Grand Alliance, Labour Party, Progressive Peoples’ Alliance are the other petitioners.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/kogi-election-petitions-tribunal-relocated-to-abuja/