DELTA APC REJECTS ORUBEBE, SAYS HE'S TOO OUTRAGEOUS 

Fayose's invitation by Ekiti Assembly, Is To Cover APC's Absurdity And Non Performance~~~PDP 

The Ekiti State chapter of PeoplesDemocratic  Party has  described as disgusting the antics of the All Progressive Congress  government led by Dr kayode fayemi to fool and distract the people of Ekiti State with the invitation of former Governor Ayo Fayose by the Ekiti State House of Assembly over phantom allegations.

 The chairman of  PDP,  Barr. Gboyega Oguntuwase declares this today while speaking with journalists in reaction to the invitation of the former Governor and the ALGON chairman, Hon Dapo Olagunju by the State House of assembly.

 Oguntuwase stated that the invitation is a witch hunting  strategy and a distraction meant to blind fold the ekiti people from seeing the near zero per cent report sheet of Fayemi  in his one year in office,  saying that the   governor should instead concentrate on positive governance rather than furthering his hatred agenda against Dr Fayose.

He posited that It is equally a height of foolery for Fayemi   who refused to honour an invitation by the house of assembly to explain massive financial   misappropriation during his first tenure to now wanting to use same platform  to harass and intimitimidate

a former governor with innumerable achievements to cover up history of absurdity and non performance.

Ekiti Assembly Invites Fayose Over Alleged Misappropriation Of Local Government Fund

Ekiti State House of Assembly has summoned the former Governor of Ekiti state Chief Ayodele Fayose to appear before the House committee on Public Account over alleged misappropriation of local government fund while in office.

Joined in the summon are the former Chairman of the Association of Local Government chairmen ALGON, Mr. Dapo Olagunju, the former Commissioner for local government affairs Mr. Kola Kolade and all the former 16 local government chairmen.

The decision of the house followed the adoption of the recommendations of the public Account Committee saddled by the house to investigate the allegation of misappropriation of local government fund by the past Chairmen.

The committee had earlier recommended the suspension of all the sixteen local government chairmen but later reinstated eight of them.

Presenting his report, the Chairman of the Public Account Committee Hon. Adegoke Olajide said the remaining eight chairmen on suspension made a plea to the house for the review of their indictment and possibly reinstate them.

He said the concerned chairmen during an appearance before the committee confessed to have diverted funds of the council on monthly basis to an account but said the action was in compliance with the directive of the immediate past governor.

He said the chairmen who provided documents to back up their allegations, claimed that the instruction to withdraw the council fund was often passed to them through the former ALGON chairman Mr. Dapo Olagunju and the commissioner for local government.

BREAKING: NIGERIA-BENIN BORDER PARTIALLY CLOSED DUE TO SMUGGLING ACTIVITIES, SAYS PRESIDENT BUHARI

President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the partial closure of Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic to the massive smuggling activities, especially of rice, taking place on that corridor.

The Nigerian leader gave the reason during an audience granted his Beninois counterpart, Patrice Talon, on the margins of the Seventh Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD7), in Yokohama, Japan on Wednesday.

President Buhari, who expressed great concern over the smuggling of rice, said it threatened the self-sufficiency already attained due to his administration’s agricultural policies.

According to him, “Now that our people in the rural areas are going back to their farms, and the country has saved huge sums of money which would otherwise have been expended on importing rice using our scarce foreign reserves, we cannot allow smuggling of the product at such alarming proportions to continue.”

The Nigerian President said the limited closure of the country’s western border was to allow Nigeria’s security forces develop a strategy on how to stem the dangerous trend and its wider ramifications.

Responding to the concerns raised by President Talon on the magnitude of suffering caused by the closure, President Buhari said he had taken note and would reconsider reopening in the not too distant future.

He, however, disclosed that a meeting with his counterparts from Benin and Niger Republics would soon be called to determine strict and comprehensive measures to curtail the level of smuggling across their borders.

Earlier, President Talon had said he called on the Nigerian President as a result of the severe impact the closure of the Nigerian border was having on his people.

President Buhari also received in audience, President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa during which issues of common bilateral relations especially, the killings of Nigerians in South Africa, were discussed. The matter will be further examined during the Nigerian leader’s official visit to Pretoria in October 2019.

Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
August 28, 2019

EKITI LG ELECTION: EKSIEC ORDERED ASPIRANTS, POLITICAL PARTIES TO REMOVE CAMPAIGN MATERIALS DISPLAYED. 

The Ekiti State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC) observed the disturbing trend whereby the state is dotted with various campaign banners and posters of intending aspirants and supporters towards Local Government/Council elections in the state.

The commission wishes to advise all Political Parties and their aspiring candidates, supporters etc to remove all such campaign materials displayed at all locations in observance of the Electoral Acts.

Meanwhile the Commission remains committed to conducting free and fair Local Government/Council elections and will ensure level playing grounds for all parties in the state.

Hon. Chief Soji Oloketuyi
Commissioner
Media & Publicity

 Kogi Governor Stole N4 Billion In Two Days – Kogi  Deputy governor Reveals

Mr. Simon Achuba, the Kogi state Deputy
Governor has disclosed that Mr. Yahaya Bello, the Kogi state Governor stole N4 billion in two days.

Narrating how the governor carried out the hatched plan, Achuba said, Bello used Cikamol company to carry out the theft.

Achuba said, Bello engaged Cikamol consulting company to  design a system for revenue collection.

He disclosed that the company applied for N4 billion loan  in Access Bank.

The loan was granted to Cikamol, the company withdrew the fund, transferred the sum of N3.8 billion to state revenue board, who transferred the money to the 21 Local Government Areas accounts.

The LGAs, withdrew the total sum of N3.8 billion from their respective accounts and took the money to Bello.

Appearing on Africa Independent Television (AIT) programme, “politics today”, the Deputy Governor described what goes on among Bello and his team as internal madness.

Achuba say the oath he took as a deputy governor was to expose corruption in the state, and has vowed to continue in exposing graft that take place under his boss administration.

He described the State Assembly impeachment move against him as illegal move that will not see the light of the day.

He has since asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to give ticket to Bello to avoid disgrace in the state governorship election that will be taking place November 16.

Ekiti People Called For Help As Flood Destroys Property Worth Millions Of Naira In Ekiti State

It was very unpleasant and unpalatable for the residents of Ikere-Ekiti has they were sacked from their homes by the raging flood.

The flood was as a result of a heavy downpour experienced yesterday evening.

Property worth millions of naira, including houses, cars and household items also been destroyed by the flood.

The areas affected are; Igbalaye, Cele 2, Odoyindi, Owalemisoro and Anaye streets in Ikere.

One of the victims, Mr. Joseph Adekunle called for the assistance of the local, state and federal governments in constructing drainages and channels to tackle the flood.

Police Paraded Tenant Who Allegedly Raped Landlady To Death In Ekiti 

PRESS BRIEFING/PARADE OF SUSPECTS
Gentlemen & Ladies of the Press, 

I welcome you all to today’s press briefing aimed at informing the general public that the tenant who allegedly raped landlady to death in Ekiti have been arrested by the operatives of the Command.
1. CASE OF MURDER:- You will recall that on the 22nd of this month at about 1530hrs one Olanrewaju Bukola ‘f’ age 38yrs old (victim) was murdered by Tunmise Abraham ‘m’ age 39yrs old who was a tenant to the deceased.
The suspect after committing the act relocated to Ondo State where the operatives of the Command through Intelligence led operations arrested him. The arrested suspect confessed that a few number of time, the deceased resorted to calling him all sorts of names like stamerer, mad person which angered him.
 This generated into a fight and the suspect over powered the deceased by collecting the stick she was holding forcefully from the deceased and used the stick to beat the deceased on the head which resulted to serious head injury.
He did not stop at that, he further found a rope which he used to tire up the hands of the woman. The summary of it all is that she was found dead in her pool of blood as a result of the head injury the deseased sustained.
 According to the suspect, he said after noticing that he had killed the deseased, out of fear, he went to his room to pack his clothes and ran to Akure, Ondo State where he was arrested. I present to you the arrested suspect Tunmise Abraham.
2. CASE OF RAPE:- On the 21st of August, 2019 at about 1900hrs a case of rape was reported at Omuo Divisional Headquarters that the victim was invited to a room by her boy friend one Emmanuel Ayodeji, while inside the room together with her boy friend, one Babalola Olaniyi, Olupina Dotun and two others at large forcefully entered into the room and chased out Emmanuel Ayodeji outside the room and the started having unlawful canal knowledge with the victim one after the other.
 The four (4) of them had sexual intercourse with her without her consent, two (2) of the suspects have been apprehended while the other two are still at large.
The victim was taken to the hospital for medical examination where it was revealed that there was recent penetration.
 Finally, the Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State Command CP. AMBA ASUQUO Psc wish to assure the good p
eople of Ekiti State of the Police firm commitment to sustain the war against criminality and other social vises in the State.
Thank you for coming and God bless you.

DSP CALEB IKECHUKWU, POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER.(PPRO)
FOR:COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, EKITI STATE COMMAND.

I GOVERNED ABIA WITH MY OWN MONEY, MONTHLY ALLOCATION WAS #168M. 

The former governor of Abia Sen Orji Kalu, says the state never had the alleged N7.6bn he was accused of laundering when he was governor between 1999 and 2007.

In his testimony at a federal high court in Lagos on Tuesday, the former governor said he governed the state with his own money in the first six months of his assumption.

He is standing trial alongside Ude Udeogu, an ex-commissioner for finance in Abia and Slok Nigeria Limited, his company, bordering on money laundering to the tune of N7.6 billion.

Kalu, who is the chief whip of the senate, allegedly committed the offence between August 2001 and October 2005 while in office as governor.

Responding to a question from Awa Kalu, his lawyer, during cross-examination, the former governor said there was no way he could have stolen “what was not in existence”.

He said it was difficult for him to run the state with the allocations from the federal government, adding that he spent his own money to run Abia for the first six months.

“Abia state didn’t have such amount. Even the day I was leaving, we borrowed money to pay salaries. Abia state didn’t have even a billion naira in any account at the time I was governor,” Kalu said.

“The monthly allocation of Abia state when I took over in June 1999 was N168 million. It was averaging between N168 million and N172 million monthly. The first month that I came in, there was even no money to buy diesel. I spent my own money to run the state for six months.

“In the year 2000, monthly allocation was between N170 million and N189 million. In 2001, it came to about N302 million to about N380 million. I can recollect in 2002, it was almost the same and in 2003 when the revenue allocation was changed, we were having about N400 million.

“The highest money I got as governor came from 2004 when we had about N1 billion and from that time up till May 2007 before I left, what we had was N1.6 billion.

“Throughout my stay in office, I never owed salary and pension. When I took over as governor and before I left, we moved it up to N500 million. It was from this that we were able to do a lot of things.”

I fear no one except God, independent justice is certain under my watch___CJN TANKO 

State of Missouri forgot to put a convicted armed Robber in prison, Authorities only noticed 13 years later. 

 #Historyville

KOGI GUBER RACE: APC DISQUALIFIED LATE AUDU'S SON AND 11 OTHERS 

Ahead of the governorship primary electionof the APC, the screening committee of the ruling party, on Monday, disqualified 12 of the 16 aspirants vying for the seat of the governor of Kogi State on its platform.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced plans for the upcoming Bayelsa and Kogi governorship elections. The elections will hold simultaneously in the two states on November 16.

The disqualified aspirants include Mohammed and Mustapha Audu, sons of the late Governor Abubakar Audu.

Others are Usman Jubril (retired navy admiral); Seidu Ogah (a professor); Yakubu Mohammed (journalist), Hadiza Ibrahim, BashirGegu, Sani Lulu, Tunde Irukera, Mohammed Onaili, and Usman Jibrin.

The seven-member screening committee led by Hope Uzodinma, however, cleared the sitting governor, Yahaya Bello, and three others. The others are Hassan Abdullahi, Ekete Blessing, and Abubakar Bashir.

The party’s reasons for disqualifying the aspirants ranged from some of them being non-financial members, invalid nomination forms, invalid age declaration, and invalid membership cards.

For instance, one of the reasons the committee gave for not clearing all of the disqualified aspirants was that they were not financial members of the party. this means that they have not been paying dues to the party.

For an individual to contest for an office according to the APC constitution, he or she must be a financial member of the party for at least a year. A new member who must contest must be granted a waiver by the national secretariat.

Another reason for the disqualification given by the committee was that some of the aspirants had discrepancies in their age.

They accused Mohammed Onaili of having two different dates of birth.

“Aspirant admitted to it and has no reasonable explanation to give,” the committee said in its report.

Another aspirant who was also disqualified based on age was Usman Jibrin whom the committee said had two different dates of birth.

“Discrepancy in the date of birth. On16/09/1959 and on his passport16/09/1960. The aspirant admitederror and apologized,” the report read.

Others disqualified on issues that bother on age declaration were Mustapha Audu, Yahaya Audu, and Babatunde Irukera.

Another common reason for the disqualifications was incomplete/invalid nomination by party members. This means that the aspirant did not get the required number of party members to nominate him or her.

Mustapha Audu Reacts

Reacting to the development, Mustapha Audu said his disqualification was a “fraud” by the party authority in connivance with some members.

He said he had been sending money to the party and has bank transfer evidence to show even though the party does not issue a receipt.

“Every time the party called that they need money, I have always been giving them even though the party has never issued a receipt,” he said.

Ogun lawmaker has called for an immediate arrest of okuneye Idris (Bobrisky), says he's a national disgrace. 

Hon. Deji Sowemimo, the outstanding, oratory and prolific lawmaker on his social media page called on the national law enforcement for an immediate arrest of the Male Cross-dresser, Okuneye Idris Olarenwaju, otherwise known as Bobrisky.

Bobrisky is a national disgrace and a trail of bad influence to the younger ones in the country. If Bobrisky is doing well with his immoral lifestyle, how do you convince NIGERIAN YOUTHS to do the right thing? He has now grown boobs, bums and lips. Bobrisky may have the right to his own life on immoral behaviour, but not within the Nigerian environment. NIGERIA is a wellness place to live endowed with a noble culture.



Due to this unpleasant immoral, he also urged the Director-General of the National Council for Arts and Culture to intensify a positive action in order to curb the trails of Bobrisky as early as possible, before it will form a team that will spread beyond comprehension.

Breaking: Tribunal is set to deliver judgement not later than 13th of September. 

Ambode warned that “enough is enough” threatening that further attacks would provoke him

to open the can of worms on the running of Lagos State Government from 1999

23 Nigerians to be executed in Saudi Arabia: See full list

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On Tribunal judgements, Sen. Dino Melaye reacted. 

No cause for alarm at all. Even if it went my way they will still go to the Appeal Court.

Our mandate can not be taken. We will get judgment at the Appeal Court.

There will be fresh election in Kogi West because I will be Governor.

For my Senate mandate no shaking. I can not be distracted. Focus is my name.

All Kogites should remain calm and peaceful as their mandate is very secured.

Senator Dino Melaye
Senator, Kogi West
National Assembly
23/08/2019

BREAKING NEWS:

Olujimi Asks Court To Sack Adeyeye, Declare Her Winner of The 2019 Ekiti South Senatorial Election.

Senator Biodun Olujimi and Peoples Democratic Party have asked the election petition tribunal suiting in Ado Ekiti to declare her winner of the 2019 Ekiti South Senatorial District election held on February 23rd 2019.

Chief Mrs Biodun Olujimi, Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and her party made the demand in a 35-page Final Written Address filed through their counsel, and argued by Prof. Wahab Egbewole SAN before the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, in Ado Ekiti, on Wednesday, August 21.

The petitioners (Mrs Olujimi and PDP) claimed they have proved their case based on balanced of probability and weight of evidence adduced during hearing of the Petition arguing that the said election was marred with irregularities as contrary to the dictates of electoral laws.
Their argument was based on:

"i) Widespread/ Improper or outright lack of accreditation, ii) Contradictions between accredited figures on the voters register and the number of votes recorded in Form EC8A (1) as accredited voters, iii) Over voting as a result of votes captured in the voters register being less than the total number of votes recorded in Form EC8 A(1), iv) Fictitious and fabricated scores unlawfully allotted the 2nd respondent, v) Irreconcilable entries in Form EC8A(1)s and EC8B (1)s, vi)Mutilations of Forms EC8A(1) regarding the  number of accredited voters and, vii) Discrepancies in the number of ballot papers issued and number of ballot papers used in the polling stations" among others.


According to them, two major issues for determination by the three-member tribunal, led by Hon. Justice D.D ADECK , include;

1) Whether the election and return of the 2nd respondent as the winner of the election held on the 23rd of February 2019 into Ekiti South Senatorial District is not invalid by reasons of substantial non-compliance with the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended), the Regulation and Guidelines for the conduct of elections and Manual for election officials 2019 which substantially affected the return of the 2nd Respondent election having NOT scored the majority of the lawful votes cast at the said election.

2) Whether after reconciliation and deduction of total votes affected by the substantial non-compliance of the 1st Petitioner not to be declared as  duly elected and should be returned as the candidate who scored the highest number of lawful votes cast at the Ekiti South Senatorial District Election of 23rd February 2019 having satisfied the requirement of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended and the Electoral Act, 2010 as amended.

The case has now been adjourned for judgment to a date to be commutated to the parties through the Registry of the Tribunal.

#RevolutionNow; activists storm NHRC in Abuja
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Despite the heavy rainfall in Abuja, #RevolutionNow activists on Monday stormed the National Human Rights Commission, Maitama, to protest against the poor security situation and other social issues in the country.

The protesters had planned to hold the rally at the Unity Fountain, but our correspondent gathered that they were forced to change the venue following the lockdown of the park by armed policemen.

The protesters delivered a letter to the NHRC in which they expressed their displeasure over what they called the continued silence of the Commission over the undemocratic incidences in the country.

Coordinator of the protest, Dare-Atoye Ariyo said, “The ever-growing proclivity of the President Buhari-led regime for human rights abuses are indicative of a complete departure from all democratic tenets, norms and practices.”

He pointed to the arrest of the #RevolutionNow protest convener, Omoyele Sowore, by the Department of State Services, describing it as undemocratic and disgraceful.

Atoye stated, “We believe that these events are not only undemocratic but they are also disgraceful for a country like Nigeria that practices constitutional democracy.

“However, we are completely dissatisfied by the eerie silence of the National Human Rights Commission in the face of these undemocratic developments.

“Our dissatisfaction is further aggravated by the fact that the role of the NHRC in defending the constitutionally guaranteed rights of Nigerians is well-revered and dearly treasured by Nigerians.”

Credit: Adelani Adepegba