How APC Senators Were Welcomed To PDP After Defecting (Photo)

Yesterday Some APC Senators defected to PDP at the National Assembly. Thirty-two APC senators had defected to the opposition PDP on Tuesday, with another four to the ADC..

Photo Of Ike Ekweremadu's House Blocked By Armed Police In Abuja

Security agencies are reportedly laying siege on the homes of Senate President Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu in Abuja. A political activist, Prince Henry Nwazuruahu Shield, did a live video as he was prevented from entering the street of the deputy senate president.

According to media reports, the move is said to be an apparent ploy to prevent them from making it to the National Assembly today because of an alleged plan by many lawmakers to decamp en masse from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mr Saraki was summoned to appear at police department for further investigation into alleged killings in Kwara State at 8:00 a.m. today. It remained unclear why the police blocked his residence at dawn.

Mr Ekweremadu had no prior police invitation.

The planned cross carpeting, if allowed to take place, would render the APC a minority party before the end of Tuesday, a fact attested to by the Peoples Democratic Party leader in the House of Representatives on Monday.

APC Senators May Unseat Saraki Today - The Guardian

There are indications that the reign of Senator Bukola Saraki as the president of the Nigerian Senate may come to an end today if plans by a group of senators materialise.

Saraki is rumoured to have concluded his defection plans from the ruling All Progressives Congress sometime this week, a move that would leave the leadership of the Senate in the hands of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.

“There is plan for rival Senate group to sit and elect new principal officers today,” a source told The Guardian.

Saraki’s nPDP caucus of the APC last month accused the APC of failing to honour its campaign promises, tagging the party as deceitful. The group has since cut ties with the APC.

Saraki on his part has been having a running battle with a power bloc in the party. This culminated in him being invited by the Nigerian police in June after it claimed that members of a robbery gang that attacked six banks and killed 33 persons in Offa, Kwara, confessed to have a “direct link” to the senate president.

Saraki denied any wrongdoing.

He was again invited late Monday night to appear at Guzape Police Station on Tuesday morning.

His residence, as well as that of his deputy, PDP’s Ike Ekweremadu, was initially besieged by police officers who thought he was going to abscond. He was, however, allowed to leave his home to honour the police invitation.

In his absence, The Guardian, a group of senators, plan to install a new Senate President.

More details later.

Ekiti election: Agbakoba, Tafawa Balewa, NIM to announce preferred candidate

The Nigeria Intervention Movement (NIM) has announced its intention to declare support for one of the candidates in the Ekiti governorship election.

NIM leadership made up of the co-chairmen, Dr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, Dr Tafawa Balewa and the NIM DG Comrade Olawale Okuniyi among other members of the national steering committee will be in Ado Ekiti on Thursday to make the declaration.

On Wednesday, the movement in a Town Hall Meeting in Ado Ekiti Chaired by Prof Anthony Kila, a member of the National Steering Committee and the State Coordinator Mr Moses Jolayemi revealed that it was going to give its members in Ekiti an indication of vote
The State Coordinator announced that the committee headed by Prof Anthony Kila had presented its findings and recommendations and the movement now had a clear idea of who to endorse.

Prof Kila confirmed that the movement had engaged candidates from various parties with the cardinal points of NIM and the candidate that the movement will announce is the one that the committee found to be the most aligned with the cardinal points of NIM.

The state coordinator Moses Jolayemi noted that the over 100,000 NIM members and supporters in the 16 Local Government areas of Ekiti were waiting to know which candidate’s programmes and philosophies best encapsulate the desires and aspirations of the people of the state.

Ekiti election: NYSC DG warns corps members ahead of Saturday’s poll

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. General Suleiman Kazaure, on Wednesday, warned corps members participating in Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Ekiti State not to indulge in electoral malpractice.

Kazaure, ‎who was represented by the corps’ Director of Planning, Research and Statistics, Mrs Victoria Okakwu, gave the warning in Ado-Ekiti while addressing the 4,967 corps members who would participate in Saturday’s election.

She told the corps members to discharge their duties effectively and efficiently in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Kazaure urged them to report any discrepancy and plot to rig election immediately to INEC officials to avoid hitches at the polling centres.

I wish to state clearly that on no account should any corps member participating in the July 14 governorship election indulge in electoral malpractice.

” Every corps member should not tolerate rigging or any form of campaign at the polling units and whenever you have such incident, quickly report to the security officers around you.

Also, in a situation whereby there is crisis, fighting and commotion in your polling unit, please secure your life first because we do not want to record deaths of corps members in the forthcoming election.

” I want to assure all of you that all your allowances will be paid in due time; so I want all corps members to be rest assured that you will be properly taken care of.

But my advice for all you is to be law-abiding, uphold your integrity and be neutral before and during the election on Saturday,” she said.

Similarly, the Ekiti State Coordinator of the N‎YSC, Mrs Elizabeth Okpongete, appealed to all corps members to abide strictly by all the instructions that they had learnt during their training for the poll.

Okpongete, however, warned that ‎any corps member caught indulging in electoral malpractice would face the wrath of the law.

Ekiti election: Drama as Fayose cries, speaks on being attacked by police

Recall that security operatives had on Wednesday blocked the entrance to the state’s Government House in Ado Ekiti, the state capital

The operatives had shut teargas canisters which allegedly affected Fayose.

The governor’s media aide, Lere Olayinka had disclosed that his principal was rushed to the hospital, following the incident.

But addressing reporters on the incident, Fayose said if anything happens to him, the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris should be held responsible.

according to Fayose, “They are not picking our calls because they have made up their minds to do this evil. I’m in pain. I can’t turn this neck. I can’t take this anymore.

“If anything happens to me, the Inspector General of Police should be held accountable.”

Ekiti guber: Drivers withdraw services over alleged threat to life by APC

Ahead of this Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti state, drivers’ unions in the state have withdrawn from the roads, citing alleged victimisation by the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The state Chairman of National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Clement Adekola, told journalists on Monday night that their members would not work on Tuesday to avoid bloodshed.

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected in Ado-Ekiti Tuesday (today) to attend the mega rally of the APC governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

We initially thought of parking our vehicles in our houses but we are not safe. So, we decided to run to Government House for protection.”

Adekola said the Commissioner of Police, Bello Ahmed, and the state Director of Department of State Services, DSS, Mrs Promise Iheanacho, did not respond to their petitions, hence they ran to the governor.

The chairman of Pickup and lorry drivers’ Association of Nigeria, Atowoju Adekunle, said no intimidation or harassment would change their minds from voting for the PDP candidate.

“We may have to withdraw our services until our security is guaranteed. APC should not boil this state,” he said.

Charlyboy attacks pentecostal churches, pastors over miracles

Maverick Entertainer, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charlyboy has attacked Pentecostal churches over some of their doctrines.

Charlyboy, also known as Area Fada, on his Instagram page stated that Pentecostalism had promoted miracles over hard work, and materialism over spirituality, hence reason Nigerians can’t even stand up against injustice.

He added that Pentecostal pastors were ‘only legally and politically accepted movement completely based upon systematic fraud, deception and cheating.’

Sharing a video of a Pastor praying for his congregation, Charly Boy wrote; “I Decree now that my people are dying to believe in something, especially if it’s magical, because we have the messiah complex. Somebody out there, will come sooner than later, to make all our problems disappear. Na so. That is why we are paralysed and corrupted by fear, we can’t even stand up to injustice. We are waiting for God to come rescue us.

“Pentecostalism has promoted miracles over hard work, materialism over spirituality. Even if one goes into pastoring on a pure and innocent level, you can’t help but be corrupted by easy money when you sell hope and create enemies all over.

“It is a cool way to make a living and make decisions that bring in the cash.
Pentecostalism na modern-day commercial enterprise garnished in the cloak of religion with deception and exploitation as its foundation.

“Their goal na the complete monetisation of people’s ignorance. It remains the only legally and politically accepted movement completely based upon systematic fraud, deception and cheating.”

Police rescue Mikel Obi’s father from kidnappers

Pa Michael Obi, father of Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi, who was kidnapped last week, has been rescued,

The Enugu State Police Command said its operatives in the 9th Mile Division rescued Pa Obi and his driver, simply identified as Ishaya John at about 2:30pm on Monday in Egede Udi forest, along old Egede Affa road in the state.

It was gathered that Pa Obi and his driver were abducted along  Makurdi- Enugu road last week on his way from Jos in his grey-colored Toyota Prado SUV with the registration number, MUS 604CG and whisked away to unknown destination.
However, the command said the kidnapped victims were rescued unhurt, hale and hearty.

The Command’s Spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, in a statement issued on Monday and obtained by DAILY POST, said Pa Obi and the driver had since reunited with their respective families.

He said, “The abductors started calling to demand a ransom of 10 million naira before the operatives acting on intelligence information swooped on them where a gun duel ensued, which forced the hoodlums to abandon their victims inside the forest and they were promptly rescued.

The state police command is appealing to members of the public particularly hospital owners and operators to watch out for any one with injury or wound believed to be that of bullet for prompt necessary action just as a full scale investigations have commenced into the incident.”