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Femi Falana (SAN), a Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, has advised the Federal Government to put on hold its plan to obtain $2bn loan from China.

Falana opined that instead of “plunging the nation into more indebtedness” the Federal Government should double up its efforts to recover some funds amounting to about $200bn which were either not remitted to the Federation Account or stolen from the nation’s treasury.

Falana gave these charges in a letter dated April 8, 2016, addressed to the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun.

He said, “In the light of the foregoing, we are compelled to call on the Federal Government to muster the political will and courage to recover the aforesaid withheld or stolen wealth of not less than $200bn belonging to the Nigerian people.

“However, if you refuse to accede to our request we shall have no alternative than to initiate legal proceedings at the Federal High Court with a view to restraining the Federal Government from further plunging the nation into external indebtedness.”

In the letter entitled, ‘Request for the collection of outstanding revenue of $200bn withheld from the Federation Account or stolen by looters’, Falana threatened to sue the Federal Government if his request was taken for granted.

He said, “In particular, we requested the Federal Government to embark on the recovery of the revenue of $42bn withheld from the Federation Account from 1999 to 2012 by some transnational oil companies, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and other agencies of the Federal Government.
“In your reply dated March 17, 2016 you assured us that the issues raised in our letter were receiving the attention of the Federal Government.

“We were therefore surprised to learn that the Administration had applied to the Chinese Government for another loan of $2bn.

“In urging the Federal Government to desist from taking the loan of $2bn from China or any other country we are compelled to advise the Federal Government to intensify efforts to recover the nation’s wealth which has been criminally diverted by a handful of local and foreign looters.”

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The chairmanship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Musa Dikko, has been declared the winner of the Bwari Area Council in Saturday’s council elections in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory according to TheNews.

Mr Abubakar Abba, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer for the election in the council area, who announced the result in Bwari on Sunday, said Dikko polled 18,066 votes to win the election.

According to him, Dikko defeated his closest opponent of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Andrew Gwani, who scored 13,279 votes.

Other contestants in the election in which 32,662 voters participated, Abba announced, included Mr Wada Abdu of Action Alliance and Kenneth Olabaniji of Citizens Popular Party (CPP), who garnered 93 votes and 72 votes, respectively.

He said that the area council had a total of 162,786 registered voters, but that only 33,162 voters were accredited for the election.

Collation of the results started at 12.15 a.m. and ended at 8.36 a.m. on Sunday.

Results are being expected in five other councils in the Federal Capital Territory.

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the chairmanship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Abdulrahman Ajiya, as winner of the election in Abaji Area Council.

The INEC returning officer in the area, Mr. Bayo Emmanuel, who declared the results at the commission’s office at about 9:12 am on Sunday amidst tight security, said the APC candidate polled 12, 793 votes against his opponent, the incumbent chairman of the council, Alhaji Yahaya Garba Gawu of the PDP, who got 10, 076 votes.

He said “the APC candidate having satisfied the requirements of the electoral law and scored the highest votes is hereby declared the winner of the April 9, 2016 Council election in Abaji.”

In another development, the INEC has declared the councillorship election for Nuku/Sabon Gari ward in the area inconclusive, following violence at Kekeshi polling unit.

The INEC Electoral Officer in the area said a date will be set to conduct a re-run election in the area.

Meanwhile, there was jubilation after the APC candidate was declared winner of the election. Supporters and members of the party poured to the street to celebrate the victory.

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A former secretary to the Federal Government and former presidential candidate, Chief Olu Falae, has declared that he would depend solely on God for protection following repeated attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen on his farm in Akure, Ondo State.

Falae, who is chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and a Yoruba monarch, spoke with Punch on telephone on Saturday, April 9, 2016 saying that he doesn’t know the reasons he is a target of terrorist Fulani herdsmen.

On Friday, a gang of ten Fulani terrorists invaded the farm of the elder statesman and killed a security guard. The guard, identified in Vanguard’s report as a member of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), was contracted to work as a security personnel on the following the September 2015 kidnapping of Chief Falae.

“I do not know what is happening. It’s worrisome. May God deliver us,“ the chief told Punch. “I am not going to say anything. I will just rely on God (for protection).”

Falae was released by his terrorist Fulani herdsmen after the Ondo State government paid a ransom of N5 million for his release. The gang of kidnappers were later apprehended by the police and another gang arrested by the country’s secret police.

Falae had identified his kidnappers in police custody and they have been charged to court. Their trials are still on-going.

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