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Popular human and democratic rights
activist-turned politician, Comrade Shehu
Sani, represents Kaduna Central
Senatorial District at the National
Assembly, on the platform of the All
Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking at an interactive session with
members of the Correspondents’ Chapel
of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in
Kaduna, Sani notes that if the intra-
party crisis currently rocking the APC
persists, it will impact negatively on
programmes of the President Muhammadu
Buhari administration, among other
issues.
On salaries and allowances for
lawmakers
I understand the outcry over our
allowances, wages and salaries. I identify
with all Nigerians on the belief or
suggestion that all holders of public
office should make sacrifices so that we
can restore the economy on a good
footing. We have been elected by the
people on the promise of change and we
will, by the grace of the Lord, live up to
their expectations.
We are very much conscious of the high
level of expectation on the side of our
people as far as their needs and
aspirations are concerned and we will do
everything possible to address these
expectations. I wish to use this
opportunity to identify the need for all in
positions of power to make sacrifices
towards reviving the economy.
So, I am fully in support of these
sacrifices that need to be made by
legislators at the National Assembly and
governors and state legislators. But I
should also make it very clear that
impoverishing the legislators or reducing
their wages will not, in any way, be the
magic wand that will restore the economy
on a sound footing.
The people must in all respects monitor
budgets and be vigilant and all Nigerians
must be an agent for the fight against
corruption and that is the only way we
can improve on the economy. Our
economy is in a very bad shape and it is
not possible for the people in power not
to set an example but cutting salaries is
not enough to address our challenges.
People should be vigilant over how
budgets are implemented.
That is the most important thing. There
is also the need for people to understand
that an impoverished Legislature will not
improve the economy as we have various
ways through which we can bring back
our economy in track. Number one is a
cut in salaries, conserve our foreign
reserves, and formulate new ways
government can generate revenue other
than depending on oil. Then checking oil
theft and oil bunkering in the Niger
Delta. All these things need to be put in
proper perspective
Senate leadership crisis and APC
blunder
Let me also use this opportunity to make
comments about our party with particular
reference to elected legislators at the
National Assembly. It is true that our
party is facing a serious post-election
crisis in terms of the challenge in uniting
all APC Senators. Mistakes were made
but naturally, all revolutions are always
faced with post-revolution crisis. We are
now facing our post-revolution crisis and
by the grace of the Lord we are going to
overcome it.
Those from the PDP who thought that the
divisions that exist within the ranks of
the APC Senators is an opportunity for
them to cash in and re-establish
themselves in power are making a very
big mistake.
Yes, we have problems within ourselves
but they are being addressed and I
commend the efforts of former President
Olusegun Obasanjo in trying to reconcile
both the Unity Forum led by Senator
Lawal and the Like Minds led by the
Senate President, Bukola Saraki. Such
reconciliation is needed for the party to
make progress.
The division within the Senators if not
properly addressed poses a serious
threat to the government of President
Muhammadu
Buhari and his capacity to deliver.
President Buhari needs the APC Senators
to be united and act with one voice for
the success of the Buhari administration.
The reality on the ground now is that
Senator Bukola Saraki is the President of
the Senate and the position of all
Senators should be the position of
President Muhammadu Buhari and the
APC.
Shehu-Sani
There were flaws in the election process
and unfortunately we had to share some
positions with the PDP in the Senate.
That was not supposed to be and I was
not part of it but we must move on.
When you are faced with challenges,
what you do is either to run away from
such challenges or you confront them.
We will walk through the landmines for
the realisation of the goals and
manifestoes of our party.
The reconciliation process
For now, reconciliation process is going
on between the Unity camp and the Like
Minds towards seeing how the camp of
Senator Lawal can be accommodated
within the new arrangement. But the first
step is accepting the fact that we got
ourselves in a corner and how we live in
that corner is what is of interest to all of
now.
So, the party has no intention of
impeaching any Senator of the PDP
holding any principal position. It is now
how we can live with the situation in
which we have found ourselves. There is
always a first time in everything. We
have never had this kind of situation but
it is going to be a test of our wisdom and
leadership and a test of our political skill
in terms of being able to wriggle out of
the turbulent situation we have found
ourselves.
We did not envisage that it was going to
happen but the divided house of the APC
gave room for the PDP to exploit the
situation. Even with Saraki as Senate
President it could have been worse. The
PDP had the power on the floor to pick
the position of the Deputy Senate
President because of the division within
the APC but there was also an
intervention by Saraki himself to ensure
that we did not lose everything.
But to be candid with you, we are pained
by the situation because our people voted
for change and they wanted an APC
leadership but there was a problem of
lack of reconciliation within the APC
which opened a crack for the PDP to take
an advantage of the situation.
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/nigerias-media-helped-to-bring-down-jonathan-sani/

Alghassim Khamis, the Chief Prosecutor
of the Central African Nation, on Monday
said security forces in Chad, had
arrested 60 suspected militants and
dismantled a cell responsible for two
suicide bomb attacks in N’djamena on
June 15. He said the two coordinated
bomb at the police offices in N’Djamena,
killed 34 people, including four suspected
Boko Haram militants, and injured
dozens.
“Communications equipment has been
seized and thanks to new technology,
witness testimony and an examination of
the victims, it is clear the attack was
well planned ,with explosive vests made
from a specially-constructed black tissue.
“An active cell of a terrorist network has
been identified and dismantled, and that
those arrested came from Chad,
Cameroon, Mali and Nigeria,” He
revealed.
Khamis said it was the largest attack of
its kind in Chad. He identified one
attacker as Issa Oumar, alias Issa
Tchoulou, but did not give his nationality.
Khamis said bomb fragments collected at
the sites, had been turned over for
analysis to the U.S. Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/chad-arrests-60-suspected-militants-after-suicide-bomb-attack/

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A graduate from Bayelsa who was
part of the volunteers who helped
raised money for Jonathan
nomination form has calved a
statue in his honour.
Sunday Nnamdi said he plans to
use the statue to honour Jonathan’s
Democratic spirit
gej statue
President Jonathan is expected to
head back to Otuoke, Bayelsa after
Buhari’s inauguration ceremony.
www.nigeriacamera.net/graduate-calved-gej-goodluck-jonathan-statue-in-otuoke-bayelsa/

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A Federal High Court in the Federal
Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja,
presided over by Justice Abdul
Kafarati Thursday adjourned till May
23 the hearing of the suit against the
election of Godswill Akpabio as
governor of Akwa Ibom state.
Prior to the April 18 adjournment, Mr.
Kafarati had fixed May 3 as date for
the presentation of briefs and
adoption of final addresses by
parties in the case. The date had to
be moved to an earlier date following
the failure of the People Democratic
Party (PDP) and the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC)
to file their response papers on the
substantive suit on time.
The substantive suit was filed by
Frank Okon against Mr. Akpabio, the
PDP and INEC to protest against his
alleged wrongful exclusion from the
rescheduled January 15, 2011
primaries in which the governor was
selected as the party’s flag bearer.
But, in the resumed sitting on
Thursday, counsel to Mr. Akpabio,
Paul Usoro, a senior advocate of
Nigeria (SAN), and lead legal
representative to the PDP, Olusola
Oke, SAN, drew the attention of the
court to applications of preliminary
objection they both filed on May 2
and April 25 respectively to contest
the jurisdiction of the court to
continue hearing in the case.
In the applications, which Mr. Usoro
told the court was served to all the
parties on Wednesday, the
defendants asked the court to
discontinue the hearing of the case.
He cited the April 20 judgment of the
Supreme Court dismissing the case
brought by the embattled former
Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre
Sylva, challenging the refusal of the
PDP to accept his nomination as
candidate in the recent gubernatorial
election in the State.
Counsel to Frank Okon, Lasun
Sanusi, SAN, urged the court to grant
a one-week leave to enable his legal
team study the application and afford
the prosecution the opportunity to
come up with an adequate response.
He also requested the judge to
consider consolidating the review of
the application with the hearing on
the substantive suit when the court
reconvenes, to forestall unnecessary
waste of time in handling the two
separately.
In granting Mr. Sanusi’s request, the
judge adjourned the sitting to
Wednesday, May 23. He pointed out
that the success or failure of the
application would determine the fate
of the substantive case, adding that
hearing on the case would proceed
as scheduled on the failure of the
application, or terminated of the case
if it succeeds.
The adoption of written final
addresses by the parties was
expected to be the final phase of the
legal tussle, to pave the way for the
court to fix the date for judgment.
On the other hand, a member of the
prosecution team, Andem Ndem,
dismissed the application as mere
ploy by the defendants “to buy time
and cause undue confusion and
unnecessary delays to the final
judgment.”
“Akpabio’s legal team and PDP’s are
trying to draw a parallel between Timi
Sylva’s case and Frank Okon’s, and
to say that the Supreme Court
judgment on the former gives them
the authority to question the
jurisdiction of the court to hear the
latter. But, they know that the case in
Bayelsa was fundamentally different
from that of Akwa Ibom, as the court
cannot grant a request in cases that
are not similar in any material
particular, shape or substance. It is a
cheap delay tactics to buy time and
postpone the evil day that is certain
to come.
Mr. Ndem said the defendant had
sufficient time “to file the application
and serve all the parties long before
the sitting, but they deliberately
delayed so that the case would not
be move forward as earlier
scheduled”.
The prosecuting team held that Mr.
Sylva’s case bordered on his
preclusion from contesting the
primaries of his party, but Frank
Okon case borders on fraud and
forgery.
“Frank Okon is also contesting the
outcome of the primaries he was
cleared by the party to participate as
one of the candidates, but was
deliberately excluded in the
rescheduled exercise. So, he is
demanding for his right that was
denied in an exercise that he was
supposed to have been a participant.
Sylva’s case was about the PDP
denying him the right to contest the
primaries.” www.premiumtimesng.com/politics/4936-court_adjourns_hearing_on_case_against_governor_akpabio_election.html

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