Giftimoni: “We sat on the 4th of September 2024 in Umuahia, where we unanimously elected a 29-man caretaker committee. Shortly after that exercise, our brothers, on the other side, went to court and got a judgment that pronounced them the leaders of the party.
“If we are not law-abiding, we would have started dragging the office. But we all said, since there was a court judgment, let us follow the process which ended last Friday.
“We expected that everybody who wants the survival of democracy and the progress of this country would have accepted that judgment. So you may not like the judgment, but you must obey it.”
In attendance were the LP presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi; the lawmaker representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, Senator Victor Umeh; the Nigeria Labour Congress Political Commission, Prof Theophilus Ndubuaku; and the National Secretary of the Caretaker Committee, Senator Darlington Nwokocha.
Others include former LP chieftain Kenneth Okonkwo, members of the National Assembly, Abia State Assembly and chieftains of the Obidient Movement Worldwide, among others.
As Otti read out the excerpts of the document, the audience went into a rapturous applause.
He said, “The same issue submitted for determination is hereby jointly in favour of the appellants. And the appellants are Distinguished Senator Esther Nenadi Usman and Senator Darlington Nwokocha. In summary, both the trial courts and the one below have no jurisdiction to entertain the first respondent, Julius Abure.
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“Consequent upon the foregoing, the decisions of both trial courts and the one below in recognising Julius Abure as the national chairman of the party is hereby set aside and struck out for want of jurisdiction. In the vein, the first respondent’s cross-appeal, being an offshoot of the same judgment of the courts below, is hereby dismissed.”
When he finished reading the CTC, the governor recalled how he tried to pacify Abure to step down and accept the role of the chairman of the LP Board of Trustees.
But Abure allegedly turned down the prospect, saying he wanted nothing.
“But I gave Abure some piece of advice, saying if I were you, I wouldn’t want to lead people who don’t want me as a leader. So we are still extending the olive branch to him and his former National Working Committee. The leadership of every party should be humble enough to leave at the expiration of their tenure.
“Before I am done, may I appeal to political parties and their members to endeavour to always allow their constitutions, regulations and rules to guide them in choosing their officers and candidates.
“That way, the incessant internal wrangling which always finds its way to court will be reduced. The leadership of every party should be humble enough to leave at the expiration of their tenure,” he said.
On his part, Obi applauded his supporters and Nigerians for being patient and standing solidly behind them.
The former Anambra governor announced that they would move straight to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission to update them about the presence of the CTC and have them replace Abure’s NWC.
He said, “As leaders and elected members of this great party, we are going to leave from here to INEC to submit this document (CTC) so that we can start the process.
“We will go there now and say, here are the documents from the court. This is our resolution. So can we now start the process of rebuilding with your cooperation.”
“We sat on the 4th of September 2024 in Umuahia, where we unanimously elected a 29-man caretaker committee. Shortly after that exercise, our brothers, on the other side, went to court and got a judgment that pronounced them the leaders of the party.
“If we are not law-abiding, we would have started dragging the office. But we all said, since there was a court judgment, let us follow the process which ended last Friday.
“We expected that everybody who wants the survival of democracy and the progress of this country would have accepted that judgment. So you may not like the judgment, but you must obey it.”
In attendance were the LP presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi; the lawmaker representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, Senator Victor Umeh; the Nigeria Labour Congress Political Commission, Prof Theophilus Ndubuaku; and the National Secretary of the Caretaker Committee, Senator Darlington Nwokocha.
Others include former LP chieftain Kenneth Okonkwo, members of the National Assembly, Abia State Assembly and chieftains of the Obidient Movement Worldwide, among others.
As Otti read out the excerpts of the document, the audience went into a rapturous applause.
He said, “The same issue submitted for determination is hereby jointly in favour of the appellants. And the appellants are Distinguished Senator Esther Nenadi Usman and Senator Darlington Nwokocha. In summary, both the trial courts and the one below have no jurisdiction to entertain the first respondent, Julius Abure.
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“Consequent upon the foregoing, the decisions of both trial courts and the one below in recognising Julius Abure as the national chairman of the party is hereby set aside and struck out for want of jurisdiction. In the vein, the first respondent’s cross-appeal, being an offshoot of the same judgment of the courts below, is hereby dismissed.”
When he finished reading the CTC, the governor recalled how he tried to pacify Abure to step down and accept the role of the chairman of the LP Board of Trustees.
But Abure allegedly turned down the prospect, saying he wanted nothing.
“But I gave Abure some piece of advice, saying if I were you, I wouldn’t want to lead people who don’t want me as a leader. So we are still extending the olive branch to him and his former National Working Committee. The leadership of every party should be humble enough to leave at the expiration of their tenure.
“Before I am done, may I appeal to political parties and their members to endeavour to always allow their constitutions, regulations and rules to guide them in choosing their officers and candidates.
“That way, the incessant internal wrangling which always finds its way to court will be reduced. The leadership of every party should be humble enough to leave at the expiration of their tenure,” he said.
On his part, Obi applauded his supporters and Nigerians for being patient and standing solidly behind them.
The former Anambra governor announced that they would move straight to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission to update them about the presence of the CTC and have them replace Abure’s NWC.
He said, “As leaders and elected members of this great party, we are going to leave from here to INEC to submit this document (CTC) so that we can start the process.
“We will go there now and say, here are the documents from the court. This is our resolution. So can we now start the process of rebuilding with your cooperation.”
Heaven won’t attend to people simply on account of their hood or cassock. God looks for men and women of incontestable integrity, humility and credibility who wouldn’t deceive the world by an exhibitionist and pietistic profession of salvation. Of such was the man whose “sincerity and intensity of purpose” God honoured to rescue Rome.
Of such also, by the reckoning of many here in Africa and beyond, is Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi, General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) and convener of the international gospel brand, Global Crusade with Kumuyi (GCK). He has stood on the unpopular ground that one’s Christianity (salvation) would remain inchoate, incomplete and insular, until its only identity feature blazes holiness through and through. The pastor takes God’s demands on holiness at face value. You can’t try to run circles around God on this condition. You’re not to resort to a ‘white lie’ to save your life or to escape an embarrassing twist of events. You must not also aim at replaying Uzzah’s fatal heroics in the Bible by breaking God’s laws in order to ‘help’ His work.
For Kumuyi, the strength of a man and his society lies in their God-inspired integrity. Mankind needs it more than his physical food. Take it away, and all you have remaining is a hollow vessel, vain, vulnerable and valueless. He once spoke of holiness in terms of being gifted a car without its engine. He said, “If you say you love me and you give me a car, but you take away its engine, the gift is useless. So is Christianity without holiness.”
Giftimoni: The Presidency also clarified that “President Tinubu’s appointments are—and will continue to be—based on merit, geographical spread, and a demonstrable capacity to serve the Nigerian people, not Ndume’s cherry-picked tribal arithmetic”. NDUME'S CRITICS IS ‘HYPOCRITICAL AND SELECTIVE’ — PRESIDENCY
The Presidency has refuted the claims of Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume of Borno South on ethnic bias in the President's appointments.
Bayo Onanuga, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, on Tuesday evening, described Ndume’s criticism as “hypocritical” and “selective,” inculpating Ndume's of neglecting the facts for political grandstanding.
“Senator Ndume’s latest outbursts on TV about so-called ‘lopsided appointments’ by President Tinubu reeks of hypocrisy and selective perception,” Tinubu's spokesman, said.
Continuing “While he grandstands as a moral authority on equity, he failed to mention that two of his kinsmen were recently appointed to top roles in NNPC Limited. The Chairman, appointed by President Tinubu, hails from Ndume’s senatorial district.”
Tinubu's media aide lambasted Ndume’s statement as a recurring pattern of “headline-chasing” and “rabble-rousing,” suggesting that the Senator frequently makes unsubstantiated claims that are later proven false.
Onanuga, however, urged “elevate public discourse” and refrain from what it characterized as “misinformation and baseless criticism.”
The Presidency also clarified that “President Tinubu’s appointments are—and will continue to be—based on merit, geographical spread, and a demonstrable capacity to serve the Nigerian people, not Ndume’s cherry-picked tribal arithmetic”. NDUME'S CRITICS IS ‘HYPOCRITICAL AND SELECTIVE’ — PRESIDENCY
The Presidency has refuted the claims of Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume of Borno South on ethnic bias in the President's appointments.
Bayo Onanuga, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, on Tuesday evening, described Ndume’s criticism as “hypocritical” and “selective,” inculpating Ndume's of neglecting the facts for political grandstanding.
“Senator Ndume’s latest outbursts on TV about so-called ‘lopsided appointments’ by President Tinubu reeks of hypocrisy and selective perception,” Tinubu's spokesman, said.
Continuing “While he grandstands as a moral authority on equity, he failed to mention that two of his kinsmen were recently appointed to top roles in NNPC Limited. The Chairman, appointed by President Tinubu, hails from Ndume’s senatorial district.”
Tinubu's media aide lambasted Ndume’s statement as a recurring pattern of “headline-chasing” and “rabble-rousing,” suggesting that the Senator frequently makes unsubstantiated claims that are later proven false.
Onanuga, however, urged “elevate public discourse” and refrain from what it characterized as “misinformation and baseless criticism.”
Mountain of Fire and Ministries Choir in this video sang a song known to be composed by Oluwabamidele Adeeko, aka Sensational Bamidele, a gospel musician, and popular with the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike.
Giftimoni: It is a matter of public record that she has previously made assassination allegations against Yaya Bello and others in 2019 and 2023, along with multiple unsubstantiated claims of sexual harassment against other dignitaries. Her recurring persecution narrative and evident lying complex should not be weaponised to malign individuals or destroy hard-earned reputations.”
The Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Friday, debunked a claim by the suspended Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, that he engaged former Governor Yahaya Bello to kill her as ‘false and malicious.’
The clarification was made in a statement issued in Abuja by Akpabio’s media aide, Eseme Eyiboh.
Akpoti-Uduaghan made the allegation while addressing her supporters on Wednesday in Kogi.
The embattled senator alleged that the Senate President sought the help of Bello to ‘assassinate her in Kogi State rather than in Abuja,’ a claim the state government has since debunked.
Reacting on Friday, Akpabio said there was no iota of truth in her allegation, which he described as a deliberate smear campaign to make him look like a bad leader in the eye of the public.
He said, “This outrageous accusation is not only false but a complete fabrication and deeply irresponsible and dangerous attempt to provoke public unrest, attract media attention, and discredit the person and office of the President of the Senate for ulterior motives.
“It is important to remind the public that this same individual had previously made an unsubstantiated accusation of sexual harassment against me —a claim she seems to have abandoned without explanation. Having failed to gain traction with that narrative, she has now escalated her campaign of misinformation to a defamatory dimension.
Meanwhile, how Natasha dared Senate President, Godwin Akpabio to sue her.
It is a matter of public record that she has previously made assassination allegations against Yaya Bello and others in 2019 and 2023, along with multiple unsubstantiated claims of sexual harassment against other dignitaries. Her recurring persecution narrative and evident lying complex should not be weaponised to malign individuals or destroy hard-earned reputations.”
The Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Friday, debunked a claim by the suspended Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, that he engaged former Governor Yahaya Bello to kill her as ‘false and malicious.’
The clarification was made in a statement issued in Abuja by Akpabio’s media aide, Eseme Eyiboh.
Akpoti-Uduaghan made the allegation while addressing her supporters on Wednesday in Kogi.
The embattled senator alleged that the Senate President sought the help of Bello to ‘assassinate her in Kogi State rather than in Abuja,’ a claim the state government has since debunked.
Reacting on Friday, Akpabio said there was no iota of truth in her allegation, which he described as a deliberate smear campaign to make him look like a bad leader in the eye of the public.
He said, “This outrageous accusation is not only false but a complete fabrication and deeply irresponsible and dangerous attempt to provoke public unrest, attract media attention, and discredit the person and office of the President of the Senate for ulterior motives.
“It is important to remind the public that this same individual had previously made an unsubstantiated accusation of sexual harassment against me —a claim she seems to have abandoned without explanation. Having failed to gain traction with that narrative, she has now escalated her campaign of misinformation to a defamatory dimension.
Meanwhile, how Natasha dared Senate President, Godwin Akpabio to sue her.
TempleHouse: Let Natasha open yansh of these nest of killers in APC !! Besides, Natasha stories had helped to ignore the hardship economic policies of Clueless Tinubu government.
Recall that the Founder of Living Faith Church, also known as Winners’ Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, dismissed speculations that his aircraft was purchased using church members’ offerings.
Oyedepo clarified that the acquisition of the aircraft was purely an act of divine provision, and not the result of financial planning, fundraising, or personal ambition.
According to him, the purchase came as a fulfillment of God’s plan, and no pressure was placed on church members to contribute towards it.
Oyedepo said, “He bought the first aircraft without any prayer, without any idea that the aircraft was coming. He said it, he delivered it, nobody had any pressure on his life. There was no reminder on the offering.
“The offering didn’t buy it oo! God bought it. There was no person contacted under heaven. No! God said it and I believe it and that settles it.”
Despite the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited saying negotiation is ongoing for a new naira-for-crude deal with Dangote Petroleum Refinery, an energy sector economist has exposed NNPC's Lies on the Naira For Crude Oil Deal with Dangote refinery.
That the government-owned oil company had reportedly suspended the naira-for-crude deal until 2030, as it has forward-sold all its crude oil.
The discontinuation will force refiners to rely on international suppliers for crude oil, gulping huge costs in dollars and triggering an uptick in the pump price of petrol.
Giftimoni: PRESIDENT TINUBU CONGRATULATES FORMER PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN ON WINNING SUNHAK PEACE PRIZE
President Bola Tinubu congratulates former President Goodluck Jonathan on winning the 2025 Sunhak Peace Founders' Award.
President Tinubu applauds the former President for his consistent advocacy for peace, harmony, and communality, a patriotic endeavour that has earned him global recognition.
The President states that Dr Jonathan's winning the Sunhak Peace Award affirms his bold efforts in peacebuilding and promoting democracy in Africa and beyond.
The President recalls the former President’s historic acceptance of the results of the 2015 presidential election and his peaceful handover of power to an opposition party, which bolstered the nation’s democratic profile.
President Tinubu celebrates this landmark achievement with former President Jonathan and thanks the Sunhak Peace Prize Committee for recognising the efforts of those working hard to improve the world.
Goodluck Jonathan Condemns Tinubu’s Action in Rivers State, Calls It Abuse of Power
PRESIDENT TINUBU CONGRATULATES FORMER PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN ON WINNING SUNHAK PEACE PRIZE
President Bola Tinubu congratulates former President Goodluck Jonathan on winning the 2025 Sunhak Peace Founders' Award.
President Tinubu applauds the former President for his consistent advocacy for peace, harmony, and communality, a patriotic endeavour that has earned him global recognition.
The President states that Dr Jonathan's winning the Sunhak Peace Award affirms his bold efforts in peacebuilding and promoting democracy in Africa and beyond.
The President recalls the former President’s historic acceptance of the results of the 2015 presidential election and his peaceful handover of power to an opposition party, which bolstered the nation’s democratic profile.
President Tinubu celebrates this landmark achievement with former President Jonathan and thanks the Sunhak Peace Prize Committee for recognising the efforts of those working hard to improve the world.
Goodluck Jonathan Condemns Tinubu’s Action in Rivers State, Calls It Abuse of Power
Jayhome24: They must submit all financial record or go to jail.
Fubara selected them and obbidient bastards claimed they are saints so if truly they are saint all financial deeds must be submitted ASAP or go to jail.
JAMO84: Those that are against the action taken by the president know what they are doing. They want Fubara to continue bombing pipelines, so that our oil production will plunge and the economy will tank.
It's all inspired by Tinubu's hatred. If it were Peter Obi that took the decision, they would have hailed him to high heaven.