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The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Friday, opened up on events that led to the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the Peoples Democratic Presidential candidate during the PDP primaries.

The PUNCH reports that Wike, who lost the presidential ticket to Atiku in the May primaries, has so far refused to be swayed by entreaties to work with Ayu.

He said if not for the love he and others in his camp had for the main opposition party, they could have prevented the PDP convention from holding.

Wike, who revealed this in an ongoing media parley, alleged that the PDP’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, played a vital role that was detrimental to other aspirants in the emergence of Atiku as PDP flagbearer.




The governor alleged that Ayu called several presidential aspirants to step down for the former vice president during the convention.


“He was calling aspirants to withdraw for Atiku. I was there, Saraki and others were there.

“He manipulated the delegates. There was nothing Ayu did not do to ensure Wike didn’t emerge,” Wike said.

The governor added, “Meetings upon meetings were going. Pressures were being mounted on people to step down.

“Even on the night of the convention meetings were going on. That is why we started our convention late.

“Some of the retired generals were involved. Some of the meetings were held in their houses. There is nothing they didn’t do for me to step down.


“Those who know me, know that I would have stopped the convention, even if heaven falls.”

The PUNCH reports Wike camp announced their plan not to participate in the campaign council which was scheduled for inauguration next Wednesday after a meeting at Wike’s private residence in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Wednesday morning.

Reacting to the withdrawal from his campaign council on Wednesday, Atiku in a statement he personally signed reiterated his decision not to interfere in the demands for Ayu’s removal.

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The Unification Church in Japan pledged Thursday to prevent followers from making “excessive” donations, after criticism of its practices following the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe.

Abe’s alleged assassin is believed to have resented the sect over massive donations his mother made to the church, leaving his family bankrupt.

He reportedly targeted Abe believing he was linked to the church, whose followers are sometimes known colloquially as “Moonies”.

The group has denied any wrongdoing and disavowed Abe’s murder, but church executive Hideyuki Teshigawara said it would now “take into consideration the financial situation of followers and ensure that donations are not excessive”.




The church will “respect the independence and free will of followers” on donations, Teshigawara, who heads the group’s new reform committee, told reporters.


The group says it took measures to regulate donations in 2009, but will now bolster them.

The announcement comes after a wave of accusations about the church’s practices, including from former members who say they were pressured into making enormous donations under the guise of “spiritual sales”.

The mother of the man accused of killing Abe donated around 100 million yen (then around $1 million) to the church, according to a relative.

Japan’s National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales says it has filed suits seeking 123.7 billion yen ($850 million) in damages for former followers since 1987.

The church, however, says just four civil lawsuits were filed since 2009 and they have all been settled, for a total of 38 million yen.


Experts say Japan serves as a financial hub for the church, which is known officially as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification and was founded by Sun Myung Moon in Korea in 1954.

Japanese believers are taught that they need to atone for their country’s wartime occupation of Korea, in part through hefty donations, according to former members and experts.

Teshigawara said the church would review the use of money raised in Japan for missionary work overseas and would look to use the funds to support domestic efforts instead.

Anyone found violating the church’s policies would be “strictly punished”, he added.

The reforms are unlikely to dissipate the widening controversy over the church, particularly after the revelation that it had links with around half the ruling party’s lawmakers.


Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who has seen his government’s approval ratings slip over the issue, has pledged his party will cut ties with the church.

He faces additional controversy over a planned state funeral for Abe on September 27, with polls showing more than half of Japanese people oppose the event.

AFP

https://punchng.com/donations-japans-unification-church-promises-reform-after-criticism/

oyin44:
you ... keep fooling urself

Ala!

Constitution is supreme!

highchief1:
no problem sir he will force u back to Cameroon

Are you sure!

mbaboy:
Wike cannot remove Secondus and also remove Ayu

Wicked Wike!

Following the decision of Governor Nyesom Wike’s camp to pull out of the campaign council of the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President has said that he cannot force Dr Iyorchia Ayu to resign as the party National Chairman.

Daily Independent had earlier reported that the group loyal to Rivers State Governor after a marathon meeting held in Wike’s residence in Port-Harcourt resolved to pull out of Atiku’s campaign if Ayu do not resign as the party chair.

Reacting to the development, Atiku in a statement titled, “On the calls for the resignation or removal from office of our national chairman” said that Senator Ayu can resign from office on a personal ground, not by anyone’s decision..

He said, “On the calls for the resignation or removal from office of our national chairman, however, I must reiterate what I have said severally in public and in private; the decision for Dr Iyorchia Ayu to resign from office is personal to Dr Ayu and, neither I nor anyone else can make that decision for him.”


https://independent.ng/i-cant-force-ayu-to-resign-atiku-replies-wikes-camp/

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Before and after photos of entertainment journalist, Habeeb Babatunde, now Noni Salma, a transgender after moving to the US.

Why are people from Muslim faith doing this in Nigeria!

I come in peace!