National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Ralph Nwosu has advised President Muhammadu Buhari and security agencies in the country to be careful on their determination to subdue the opposition ahead of the 2019 general elections.

Mr Nwosu said since he spoke to the press on June 8 concerning alleged plans by the administration to frame up ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, he had received death threats.

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He insisted that he would stand firm to speak the truth to power because the present federal government was transient.

The ADC has recently named the new platform for members of the Obasanjo-led political coalition.

In a statement on Tuesday, Mr Nwosu noted that the government had failed to actualise its campaign promises to the people but was instead harassing Nigerians who elected it.

Parts of the statement read: “Luckily, Mr President has just made June 12 Democracy Day. June 12 represents a watershed in our democratic struggle.

“This, therefore, should embolden all Nigerians the more to speak truth to power and take action against undemocratic and draconian tendencies of elected officials, including the number one citizen.

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The Code of Conduct Tribunal CCT has clarified that Justice Danladi Umar remains its chairman in the prosecution of public officers who contravene asset declaration laws in the country as mandated by the federal government and the country’s constitution.

The Head of Press and Public Relations of the tribunal, Ibraheem Alhassan made the clarification following rumours of his (Mr Umar) suspension.

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Speaking with PRNigeria in Abuja, the spokesman said Mr Umar had vowed to commence trial of public officers in Bauchi and Kwara states who violated various provisions of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act.

According to him, the chairman has fixed June 20 and 21 for the trial.

The spokesman pointed out that the defaulters to be arraigned for prosecution by Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) are mostly political appointees and civil servants.

He urged the general public to disregard the insinuations concerning the status of Justice Umar in the Tribunal adding that contrary to the social media report, the position of Chairman and members of CCT are guaranteed by the Constitution.

Meanwhile, an Abuja based lawyer, Yunus Abdulsalam, offered some clarifications bordering the alleged suspension of the CCT chairman.

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The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, on Monday accused the administration of Governor Ayo Fayose of inflicting untold hardship on the people in the last four years.

Mr Fayemi, who made the claim in an interview with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, said the state administration has inflicted hardship on workers, students, parents, business owners and traditional rulers.

He noted that apart from owing workers’ salaries of five to nine months, the state government had also failed to pay the allowances of traditional rulers.

The APC candidate also slammed the governor for failing to disclose the Internally Generated Revenue of the state since coming to power in 2014.

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“IGR rose to N600m monthly before I left office as we declared what came in monthly, but no one has heard of Ekiti IGR since I left.”

According to him, the government has no excuse owing workers as there has been steady inflow of funds from the federation account, IGR, and bail-out released by the Federal Government.

The candidate pledged to effect positive transformation in the state, if elected.

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The alleged accomplices that alleged Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West), in the alleged offences of criminal conspiracy, illegal possession of firearms and arms dealing, on Monday, at the commencement of the case, declared the charges as false.

Kabiru Seidu aka Osama, 31, aka and Nuhu Salihu aka Small, 25, aka who along with the federal lawmaker appeared before the Kogi State Senior Magistrate Court, Lokoja, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The alleged offences according the lead prosecution counsel, Alex Izinyon (SAN), are contrary to section 97(1) and the Penal Code and section 27(1)(a) (1) of the Firearms Act CAP P28, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2004.

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It would be recalled that the Kogi State High Court presided over by the Chief Judge, Justice Nasir Ajanah had earlier granted Melaye bail, chiefly on medical grounds.

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An Osun State High Court in Ede has ordered that Alfred Aderibigbe, the nurse who administered the drugs that late Isiaka Adeleke overdosed on, be remanded in prison custody.

Mr Adeleke, a Senator representing Osun West senatorial, died last year after a heart attack. However, Dr. Taiwo Olufemi Solaja, who led a team of pathologists that carried out Adeleke’s autopsy, disclosed that the senator died on drug overdose.

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Being the one who administered the drug, Aderibigbe was later arraigned and remanded in Ilesa prison till June 29 when the case would come up for hearing.

According to a statement by the Press Officer of Osun State Ministry of Justice, Opeyemi Bello, the prosecution counsel for the Ministry of Justice, Dapo Adeniji, opposed Aderibigbe’s bail application, after he pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against him.

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Ahmad Gumi, Kaduna-based radical Islamic cleric, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over alleged killings under his administration.

During his commentaries in this year’s Ramadan tafsir, the Islamic leader has on several occasions criticised Mr Buhari and drew comparisons with Mr Jonathan’s administration.

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Recalling how he asked Jonathan to resign in the heat of Boko Haram killings because he had “too much blood in his hand”, Mr Gumi on Friday presented a front page story of New Nigerian newspaper where he criticised Mr Jonathan to buttress his point.

“Why I blame Jonathan with blood in his hand because Boko Haram were putting bombs everywhere and government was not doing enough.

“Anybody killed under your regime, you are responsible for that blood. If you have done your best, I can say yes, Allah can forgive you. But if you are relaxed, no; Allah will not forgive you. So it is the same thing now.

“The bloodshed now is more than, combined together, the bloodshed during Jonathan’s regime.

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday, said he has uncovered grand plans by President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to hang phantom crimes on him.

According to him, the Federal Government has embarked on desperate efforts to frustrate, intimidate and blackmail him.

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Mr Obasanjo, who made the disclosure in a statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi in Abeokuta, Ogun State, said he got information through impeccable security sources that his name was on their Watch List and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed.

He said his travail began when he released his ‘State-of-the-Nation Special Statement’ on January 23, 2018.

He noted that the plot which has continued unabated and even taken a bizarre dimension recently, is aimed at making him abandon what he termed “divine mandate to protect the rights of the people to better life and living”.

He explained that the informants, many of who are in the top echelon of the nation’s security management and close to the corridors of power, further hinted him that security operatives are daily perfecting how to curtail the personal liberties of the former president and hang a crime on him.

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A Federal lawmaker, Adams Jagaba, has said an overwhelming majority of Nigerian lawmakers are ever ready to evoke their constitutional rights of impeachment against President Muhammadu Buhari should he fail to address the 12-point resolutions passed against him.

Recall that the lawmakers at a joint session comprising members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, on Tuesday came up with 12 key resolutions mandating the president to address in earnest.



Mr Jagaba, who stated this while fielding questions from the BBC Hausa radio serve on Wednesday, said the lawmakers had to take this bold step in order to salvage the already sinking democracy in the country.

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“We will willingly do so in the interest of democracy and the country as a whole. We will also meet with the United Nations, European Union and African Parliament in order to help us restore democracy which is currently suffering a setback in the country.

“Therefore, we will not hesitate to impeach him because he is not God,” he said.

Mr Jagaba who recently officially decamped from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said Mr Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade, which has made the president famous in the international community, is full of talks without action.

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The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos, Tunde Balogun on Tuesday night denied any directive from the National Chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun stopping state party chairmen from inaugurating their executive members.

DAILY NIGERIAN reports that the inauguration of Mr Balogun was in contrast to an earlier decision of the National Working Committee, NWC, a development that made Mr Oyegun to direct new chairmen in crisis states like Lagos, Rivers and others not to inaugurate executive members.

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However, Mr Balogun told newsmen in Ikeja that news reports that Mr Oyegun gave the directive at the inauguration of 33 state party chairmen in Abuja on Monday were misleading.

He said Oyegun never questioned his position as the Chairman of the party in the state and that of chairmen of Rivers and Oyo, adding the report was a distortion of fact.

“It is not true that Chief Oyegun asked us in Lagos not to swear in our executives. There was nothing like that.

“And it was not true that he also directed the chairmen of Oyo and Rivers not to do so. He never said that at the inauguration.

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The Nasarawa State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed that three policemen have been killed by suspected herdsmen at Maraban-Udege village in the Nasarawa Local Government Area of the state.

The Public Relations Officer of the command, Samaila Usman, told newsmen in Lafia that the three policemen were ambushed and killed on June 3 on their way to quell a crisis between Agatu farmers and Fulani herdsmen.


Mr Usman said, however, that the command had mobilised a reinforcement team, led by an assistant commissioner of police to fish out the killers of the policemen.

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He said that the corpses of the policemen, an inspector, a sergeant and a corporal had been recovered and deposited at a morgue.

The spokesman did not disclose the names of the dead policemen.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Nasarawa State and the neighbouring Benue, described as the food basket of the nation have witnessed recurring deadly attacks by herdsmen.

The development has raised concerns that Nigerians may contend with hunger in the near future because of the inability of farmers to cultivate their farms, due to incessant attacks by herdsmen.



Meanwhile, Governor Umaru Al-Makura had commiserated with the police over the latest killings.

He stressed the need for residents in the state to bury their differences and work for peace and harmonious co-existence.

Mr Al-Makura also tasked leaders of Egbura and Bassa ethnic groups to end the crisis between the two groups in the Toto Local Government Area of the state, which according to him, has left scores of people dead and many communities destroyed.

He blamed leaders in the area for not doing enough to resolve their differences to nip the skirmishes in the bud.

“I must say I blame the elites of both tribes for what is happening in these communities and they must take responsibility for this carnage.

“This is because, if we have elites who are patriotic, who want peace and stability and elites, who have the feeling and interest of the people at heart, they would have come together to find solution to the crisis.

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