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Like I said before and I'm saying it again, if the insurgents stop the military heads would not make money any more hence.....

The crisis rocking the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress took a dramatic twist on Monday as the Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, the state capital, sacked the Jones Erue-led state executive of the party.

The two-hour judgement delivered by the presiding judge, Justice Toyin Adegoke, also affected the ward and local government executives of the party under the Erue-led state executive.



The court declared the plaintiff, Cyril Ogodo, as the authentic chairman of the APC in the state.

In a suit number FA/ASA/CS/76/2018, the plaintiffs had sought 13 reliefs including the declaration of the Ogodo-led executive committee as the authentic state executive of the APC.

They also prayed the court to declare as null, void and of no effect any and every action purportedly taken, initiated or carried out by the first defendant, Jones Erue as chairman of the APC and the second defendant, the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, in Delta State.

The plaintiffs further prayed the court to declare the candidates that emerged from the primaries conducted by the Ogodo-led executive as the authentic APC candidates for the 2019 general elections.

The court, in the judgement, granted all the reliefs sought by the plaintiffs.

But counsel for the defendants, Dr Okubor Nwachukwu, who said the judgement would be challenged at the Court of Appeal, expressed confidence that it would be upturned at the appellate court.

But the counsel for the plaintiffs, Roland Ekpe, said the judgement did not fall short of his expectations, noting that by implication, the nomination of candidates who flew the flag of the party in the 2019 general elections had been voided having emerged from the primaries conducted by the Erue-led executive.

However, a brother to the APC governorship candidate, Mr Turner Ogboru, who was in the court, urged Ogodo and his group not to rejoice yet because the judgement could not stand legal scrutiny at the Court of Appeal.



Ogboru argued that the court was wrong to have nullified the primaries conducted by the APC National Working Committee.

Source:https://punchng.com/court-sacks-omo-agege-faction-of-delta-apc/

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Samuel Ogundeji


Ademola Babalola, Ibadan

Two years after being allegedly tortured by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad personnel in Saki, Oyo State, an 18-year-old hotel attendant, Samuel Ogundeji, has lost his sight.

Ogundeji, told PUNCH Metro that all efforts made by his parents for him to regain his sight had proved abortive, adding that three different hospitals in Saki; Ilorin, Kwara State; and a border town in Benin Republic, had confirmed that his eyes had become defective and that he would need to be operated upon abroad in order to regain his sight.



Recounting his ordeal, he said, “On January 10, 2017, I applied for the job of a bar attendant at the Neagle Club and Resort, Saki, and was offered the job on a salary of N10,000 monthly. I was in the bar till February when a girl, Oyin, who was working in the hotel, resigned; so, I was transferred to the hotel section.

“Another guy, Sola, and I began working in the hotel and we changed duties on a regular basis. But on May 1, 2017, a customer, who works at the Zenith Bank, Saki West branch, lodged at one of the rooms. And the following morning, around 6.45am, the driver came and took him to his office. That day, I was on night duty and closed around 8am and went home without any inkling that I would be dealt with for a crime I knew nothing of.

“Normally, I resumed by 8pm, but on my way home, the manager called me and said that the man (banker), who lodged at the hotel the previous night, reported that he lost his wallet in the room and I said I didn’t know of any missing item or a wallet containing some cash.

“The Chief Executive Officer, Omotoso Abdulahi Niyi, was also around and he came in and said we should look for the wallet at all cost, otherwise, we would be dealt with. And the PA to the CEO and the manager came in with SARS personnel and arrested me and Sola.

“Mr Agbo of the SARS handed us over to their colleagues, Victor and Gbenga, who took us to an uncompleted building and started beating us. While the beating lasted, blood covered my eyes, yet they didn’t stop until later in the day, when Mr Oyesikun Oyerinde Samson (manager) and the PA, Abiodun Ajibade, drove into the station and were told about my condition.

“They bailed us and a doctor was contacted. He confirmed that my condition was critical and said he couldn’t handle it. I was thereafter taken to the hotel. All these while, my parents were not contacted, but a neighbour to the hotel, who saw that there was a problem in the hotel, contacted my parents.

“Around 8pm, my mum came and she was surprised that I had been beaten to the point of losing both eyes. She was calmed and told to take it easy, that I would be fine.

“I must say that the SARS personnel didn’t ask for my statement but merely handed me over to junior officers, who beat me till I lost my two eyes.



“Later, on May 6, 2017, the manager told me that the guest didn’t even bring the said wallet to the hotel and that they acted in error.

“Curiously, however, all of them abandoned me till date; all the hospitals we have visited said only a foreign hospital could handle my case. The three hospitals in Saki, Ilorin and the border area of Benin Republic said blood stains had blocked my eyes and that only a comprehensive operation could restore them.”

The Chief Executive Officer, Neagle Club and Resort, Challenge area, Saki, Mr Niyi Abdulahi, confirmed the development to PUNCH Metro, but said the victim had a history of eye defects.

Abdulahi said, “Just 20 minutes ago, a lawyer, Mr Kareem, whose chamber is at Apinnite, Saki, called me and I just returned from a meeting with him. A human rights group has also intervened in the matter. I don’t know much about the matter but my manager knew all that happened.

“However, his eyes had been defective before the incident. It was only unfortunate that it happened the way it did. I gave his family over N100,000 for the treatment of the eyes last year. And they promised to come back this year, only for me to be told that another lawyer had been contacted, different from the former one they brought to us in 2018. We will resolve it; the matter is still under control.”

When contacted, the police spokesman for the state, Mr Lawrence Fadeyi, asked for time to enable him find out what transpired and the alleged roles played by the SARS officers mentioned.

Source:https://punchng.com/teenager-loses-sight-in-oyo-after-alleged-sars-torture/

The police in Ondo State on Monday said they had arrested one Segun Oni for allegedly killing his brother-in-law, Sunday Oluwadare.

According to the police, the suspect allegedly hit the deceased with a big stick on the head following a heated argument at Adebowale area of Akure.



Spokesman for the force in the state, Mr Femi Joseph, confirmed that the suspect had been arrested.

Joseph said, “He is with us and we have commenced investigations into the matter.”

A source told our correspondent that both men exchanged words after the deceased allegedly refused to pay back the N30,000 owed Oni.

The source said, “The disagreement led to a fight between them. As the fight went on, Sunday overpowered Oni. So he (suspect) managed to leave the scene a and returned with a big stick to hit Sunday on the head.

“Sunday was rushed to the Ondo State Specialist Hospital, Akure, but gave up the ghost on the way to the hospital.”

Source:https://punchng.com/man-kills-brother-in-law-over-n30000-debt-in-ondo/

Educative info

Such is Life.

Enemies.....

The country is so insecure

This girl Don go far. If you know you know.

Hope he doesn't loot

Even in the days Jesus there were buggers and there will always be.

All the girl can do is sing and eat without attempt to reduce her weight

I'm not sure the Principal and Wife have kids. They might be barren

He should win the supplementary

That's how the Nigerian system is. We need police and military reforms.

As pressure mounts on electoral umpire Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, urged Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to save its time and resources by declaring Aminu Tambuwal winner of the election held on March 9.

The party, which stated this while reacting to claim by the umpire that it was under pressure to declare the governor winner of the polls, said given the margin of victory recorded on the first ballot, there was no reason not to declare Tambuwal duly elected. Spokesman of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, said: “Our position has not changed and we insist that His Excellency, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal should be declared winner of the governorship election in Sokoto State.

Governor Aminu Tambuwal “If we go by the figure of votes collated so far, the governor has satisfied the provisions of the law because he won clearly in almost all the local governments of the states. “What are they waiting for to declare him duly elected? We are a party that has respect for the laws of the land. So, we advise our members and supporters to remain calm because at the end of the day, victory is ours.”

Pressure on INEC Meanwhile, barely a week to the March 23 date for the supplementary governorship election in some states, pressure continues to mount on INEC to declare Governor Aminu Tambuwal the winner of the March 9 guber poll in Sokoto State.

There were indications over the weekend that the tension in the seat of the Caliphate may worsen if the incumbent governor who was enjoying a clear lead in the poll is denied victory.

A top politician from Sokoto who spoke on condition of anonymity, said tension was building up in the state over fears of plans to undemocratically stop Tambuwal for another term in office. Our source alleged that though the governor appears to be the popular choice of his people as shown in the collated result of the guber poll, the power brokers of All Progressives Congress, APC, were bent on taking the state which they consider strategic to the party’s future political plans. Our source said: “The powers that be should declare Tambuwal as the authentic winner of the March 9 governorship election in Sokoto State.

The collated result showed that he won the election by the simple majority, which is what the constitution provides. They should not set the seat of the Caliphate on fire. “Remember that even President Muhammadu Buhari won his election by the same simple majority. He was declared winner, even when elections were yet to be conducted in areas where the exercise could not hold because of one reason or the other. “A common man on the street of Sokoto knows that Tambuwal won the election. There were so many hurdles the APC which controls the centre put before him ahead of the election but he surmounted them all.

So, what they could not get democratically, they want by all means through the back door in collaboration with INEC.” Over the weekend, this newspaper gathered that there were fears in the PDP, of a plan by the ruling party and INEC to repeat what happened in the Osun governorship election where the PDP lost to the APC under controversial circumstances. A video recording between the INEC Admin Secretary in Sokoto and a collation officer which trended over the weekend further escalated fears of interference in the coming supplementary election.

The video which was in Hausa but translated to English, showed an exchange between the INEC Admin Secretary in Sokoto and the collation officer. The exchange between them ran thus: Admin Sec to Collation officer….This is the number of votes scored by one candidate, this is the total secured by the other candidate and this is the difference in votes between them… Collation officer: Collation officer: Yes Admin officer: You must refer to the total number of registered voters in the cancellation areas and compare that with the margin of votes between the leading candidate and the one next to him, do you understand? Collation officer: Yes I do Admin officer: Then you will just announce the votes secured by every candidate but you should not declare the winner, do you understand? Collation officer: Yes Admin officer: You will say the election is inconclusive, and you are leaving it to INEC to decide, do you get it? Collation officer: Yes, I do Admin officer: You will not declare a winner, do you understand Collation officer: …Yes Recall that the INEC declared the March 9 governorship election in Sokoto inconclusive and claimed that the decision was because 75, 403 votes were cancelled, which were higher than 3, 413 margin difference between the PDP candidate and his rival in APC.

The returning officer, Fatima Mukhtar, said the margin of win was lower than the number of rejected votes, hence, the election was declared inconclusive. In the results declared by INEC, Mr Tambuwal was leading his closest rival, Ahmed Aliyu of the APC, with a margin of 3,413 votes. Speaking on the development at a press conference, the governor had observed there was no cause for the election to be declared inconclusive. Though the governor said the INEC was yet to communicate to him the reasons for cancellation of votes in the 136 polling units, he said it was necessary to draw the attention of the electoral umpire to its guidelines for the exercise.

He stated that the issue of margin difference was technical and alien to the Nigerian constitution which stipulates a simple majority and 25 percent of votes cast in two-thirds majority of states of the federation, as basis for determining a winner. “This technical reason of margin differences has not been applied in Osun and Ekiti elections,” Tambuwal said, arguing that since he secured the higher number of votes at the concluded election, he ought to have been declared the winner. He said: “Going by Section 179(2) of the Constitution as amended, there was no clause

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/03/pdp-asks-inec-to-declare-tambuwal-sokoto-gov-elect/

A team of police detectives has apprehended two suspected members of an armed robbery gang said to be terrorising residents of the Lekki area of Lagos State.

The suspects, Adebayo Ayomide and Isaac David, were arrested after they had allegedly robbed two residents of the area at gunpoint.


The team, which was led by the Divisional Police Officer, Maroko Police Station, CSP Isah Abdulmajid, was said to have embarked on a crime prevention patrol along the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge around 9pm on Saturday.

The team was said to have come in contact with two young women, Gbemi and Hannah, who were visibly disturbed as they alleged that they had just been robbed by the suspects.


The Police Public Relations Officer for Lagos State, Bala Elkana, said in a statement on Sunday that upon questioning, the women told the police personnel that they had just been dispossessed of their smartphones by the suspects at gunpoint.

Elkana added that the women pointed in the direction in which the bandits had escaped on a motorcycle and the police gave them a hot chase.


He said, “The team tracked down the suspects and upon searching them, their operational single-barrelled gun, a cutlass and the phones were found on them. The items were recovered and the criminals taken into custody.

“In their confessional statements, they owned up to belonging to a syndicate terrorising Lekki and its environs.”

According to him, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Zubairu Mu’azu, commended the team for the swift response to the crime and the eventual arrest of the perpetrators.


The PPRO added that the CP had directed that the case be transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the command for further investigation.

Elkana said the CP assured residents of the state of the command’s commitment to securing lives and property in every nook and cranny of Lagos.

Mu’azu was also quoted to have warned criminally-minded persons in the state to either change their ways or face the full weight of the law.

Source https://punchng.com/police-nab-two-armed-robbery-suspects-in-lekki/

Unknown gunmen have reportedly abducted a traditional ruler, the Enogie of Ukhiri, in the Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, Godwin Aigbe.

Our correspondent gathered that the heavily armed men, numbering about five, stormed the palace of the monarch in the early hours of Saturday.

They were said to have shot in the air before taking the Enogie to an unknown destination.


Sources in the community said the hoodlums set ablaze their ​unregistered car before forcing the traditional ruler into his own Nissan Sunny car and zoomed off.

It was further gathered that the abductors drove to Delta State through the Abraka Road.

The Enogie, a retired Chief Superintendent of Police, succeeded his late father some years ago.


The state police spokesman, Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed the abduction to PUNCH Metro on the telephone, said the police were on top of the situation.

“Yes, it is true. The police are on top of the situation to ensure that the traditional ruler is rescued unhurt,” he said.

Source https://punchng.com/unknown-gunmen-abduct-edo-traditional-ruler/

Rivers is the home if cultism. When Amaechi was Governor these killings reduced drastically.