7000 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue State have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a bid to show their support for Senator David Mark who will be contesting the February 20 Senatorial rerun elections in the state, reports say.
The mass defection is said to have occurred on Thursday, February 4, 2016, in Otukpa in the Ogbadibo Local Government Area of the state, according to Daily Post.
The defectors were reportedly led to abandon the APC ship by PDP chieftain in the area, Matthew Ochigbo.
“What over 7,000 of you have done today in Otukpa clearly shows that those who recently left the PDP after riding on the crest of the party and the goodwill of Senator David Mark are standing alone even in their own localities,” the Director General of the David Mark re-election campaign organisation, Abba Moro said while receiving the defectors.
“The coming rerun election will be an opportunity for all Idoma sons and daughters to move against the wicked plot of some external forces to demean our people.
“It will also be a better platform for us to publicly demonstrate our unalloyed support to a course that holds a better prospect for our people in general,” he added.
The rerun polls were ordered after Mark’s March 28, 2015 election victory was nullified by the Court of Appeal sitting in Makurdi.
He will be contesting alongside APC senatorial candidate for Benue South, Donald Onjeh.
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African Independent Television (AIT) has apologized to the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu over a documentary which it aired against him titled, ‘Lion of Bourdillon.’
Tinubu had filed a N150bn libel suit against the station in March 2015 over the documentary which he found to be injurious to his reputation and character.
The APC leader has also withdrawn the suit after the relevant parties settled the matter out of court, Punch reports.
The development was confirmed by AIT’s lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome today, February 5, 2016.
“We are before My Lord this morning to do what the court has always encouraged litigants to do. We have come here today that every war that is fought is finally resolved at the round table,” he said.
“Parties have decided to settle amicably to enable both parties to continue with the good relationship that they have always had before the devil struck,” he added.
The organization’s apology letter to Tinubu reads in part:
“DAAR Communications Plc acknowledges that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is an outstanding political leader of unblemished character and integrity, as well as a leading public figure and opinion-moulder, who has made and continuous make immense contributions to the progress and development of the nation in general and Lagos State in particular.”
“DAAR Communications Plc admits that in airing the said documentary, it had no intention, whatsoever, to embarrass or diminish the high reputation of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu which it respects and attests to.”
AIT had earlier filed a counter suit against Tinubu after he dragged the station to court.
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The Wife Of Edo State Governor Mrs. Lara Fortes Oshimhole Filed For Divorce, Says Her Husband Is Fetish And Diabolic.
The beautiful wife of Edo state governor Mrs Lara Fortes Oshiomhole has accused her husband Gov. Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole of being too fetish and diabolic, the Cape Verdean model who filed for divorce against her hubby went ahead to accuse her husband of been responsible to the death of his former wife Mrs Clara Oshiomhle who died on December 7, 2010, at the Abuja Clinic, Maitama, after a protracted battle with breast cancer.
Until her death, the former Edo State First lady, Clara Oshiomhole was a solid pillar behind her husband, the Governor, through his days as a front-line labour activist. She was the initiator of the Health Foundation for Maternal and Child Care, a pet project which is aimed at providing quality healthcare for pregnant women and the girl-child.
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has denied calling for the probe of Supreme Court justices.
Punch reports that Oyegun said he merely expressed shock at the court’s ruling, not that he said justices should be probed.
This is coming on the heels of his comments over the court’s ruling upholding the election of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike.
Oyegun who expressed shock at the judgement said “I still find the judgment on the Rivers State governorship election totally astonishing. There is something fundamentally wrong in the Judiciary.
“We have lost very important resource-rich states to the PDP. No matter how crude oil prices have fallen, it is still the most important revenue earner for the country.
“There is obviously something fundamentally wrong in Rivers state which needs to be investigated and addressed.”
Following his Oyegun’s comments, the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has also called on Nigerians to pray for the APC chairman.
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A member of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Imo State branch , participating in a peaceful demonstration against the concessioning of public health institutions by Governor Rochas Okorocha was on Thursday shut in the head.
The victim, Dr Bede Azudialor, a Consultant Physician with the Federal Medical Centre , Owerri, was allegedly shot in the head by anti-riot policemen drafted to monitor the demonstration by the doctors.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the victim was first rushed to the emergency unit of Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri, from where he was moved to the intensive care unit (ICU) and thereafter relocated to an undisclosed hospital.
The State Chairman of the Nigerian Guild of Medical Doctors, Dr. Darlington Akukwu, who briefed newsmen on the incident in Owerri, announced the commencement of a three-day warning strike by doctors in the state following the incident.
” Following the shooting of our member, doctors in Imo State will from today commence a three-day warning strike during which the Nigerian Police Force must name the policeman that shut our member.
“The warning strike beginning from Feb. 4, will last for three days and if after the expiration of three days, the person who shut at our colleague fails to come out, doctors will start an indefinite strike action,” Akukwu said.
He urged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Solomon Arase to compel the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Taiwo Lakanu , to produce the culprit who perpetrated the act.
Akukwu further urged President Muhammadu Buhari to thoroughly investigate the matter.
NAN learnt that the march was organised by the NMA in Imo, to protest what they described as the “anti-life’’ policies of Gov. Rochas Okorocha.
The march was said to have started from the NMA office on Port Harcourt Road, Owerri at about 12 noon.
It was gathered that when the doctors got to Orlu Road junction, Owerri, anti-riot police in about 10 Hilux vans started throwing tear gas canisters on the group during which a gun was suspected to have been fired, which injured the doctor.
“It was in the process of tear gassing of the group that Dr Bede Azudiaro fell down and raised alarm that he had been shut in the head, with blood gushing from his head.
Earlier, the state chairman of NMA, Dr Hyacinth Emele, had told journalists that the association was protesting against the concessioning of public health institutions by the state government.
“Despite NMA repeated advice, government went ahead to concession virtually all the state public health institutions from primary to tertiary (health centre, general hospitals and Imo State Specialist Hospitals, and Imo State University Teaching Hospital) and their management.
“The state will stand to lose completely from the assistance of donor agencies and partners like the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank, Global Fund among others that sponsor immunization, malaria, tuberculosis, family planning and HIV/AIDS services to these institutions.’’
The NMA chairman equally condemned t and the appointment of a non-doctor as Commissioner of Health and the merging of Ministry of Health and Women Affairs by Okorocha.
Emele also decried the use of armed thugs to attack workers at their duty posts.
“The use of task force to regulate medical practice in Imo is against Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
The NMA chairman raised alarm over the illicit harvesting and trafficking of human organs currently on going in the state. “Lives of residents of Imo State are at great risk over this evil practice.’’
When contacted, the PPRO in the state (DSP) Andrew Enwerem said that the police only used tear gas to disperse the protesting doctors when they became riotous.
“Police did not shoot anybody and nobody who is shot on the head will ever remain alife.
“Let them produce a doctor’s report to confirm that it was a real case of shooting on the head. Anybody can pick any blood stained material from anywhere and claim that he was shot,” Enwerewhe said.(NAN)
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A mad has left residents utterly shocked after he slashed and cooked a teenage girl in what is perhaps the most heinous crime ever.
A fourteen-year-old girl, Docia Aina Adufa – a Primary six pupil of Akyem Asafo Presby Primary School in the East Akyem municipality of the Eastern Region , Ghana – met her untimely death when Yaw Akoto, a 35-year-old mentally deranged man, allegedly butchered her last Tuesday.
The madman, after allegedly killing the school girl, was said to have taken the body to the bush, cut it into pieces and cooked it and ate it with kenkey and banku.
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A 60-year-old landlord, Olasina Giwa, on Monday appeared before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos charged with fraud and theft of N700, 000.
The accused, who resides at No. 10, Abraham Akinola St., Onipetesi Estate, Ikeja, is facing a three-count charge of obtaining money under false pretences, breach of peace and stealing.
The prosecutor, Sgt. Kehinde Olatunde told the court that the accused committed the offences on Jan. 12 at his Ikeja residence.
He said Giwa had approached Mr Ayoola Seriki, a property developer, and both reached an agreement on the development of a property owned by Seriki.
The prosecutor explained that the agreement also provided that Seriki would collect the rent on the property for some years.
“When it was time for Seriki to start collecting the rent, the accused went behind him to collect the rent and refused to remit it into the complainant’s account.’’
The prosecutor noted that the offences contravened Sections 166 (d), 285 and 313 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
Giwa, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Ruling on the bail application of the accused, the Magistrate, Mrs B. Folarin-Williams, granted the landlord bail in the sum of N100, 000 with two sureties in like sum, one of who must be a blood relation.
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The Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo has revealed that President Buhari is being pressured by prominent Nigerians to stop the war on corruption.
Osinbajo who assured Nigerians that the President will not let them suffer, said those mounting the pressure, are asking Buhari not to jail the looters.
He said they want Mr. President to ask the looters to refund the money they stole.
Punch reports that Osinbajo through his his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, said “We get regular messages from some Nigerian elite saying ‘cool down.
“It is a very strange morality that some of those people have, (which is) very complicated, and cutting across all tribes and religious differences.”
Osinbajo said the position of those putting pressure on the government was that “it (corruption) is not a big deal.”
Adding that “The man on the street is very clear; so whatever some of these elite say, we shall keep our focus on the masses who voted for us.”
“Mr. President and I are extremely focussed on what we need to do. We will focus on critical things, infrastructure and social investments,” he said.
The Vice-President also assured Nigerians that the government will not relax its fight against corruption, no matter the pressure it receives.
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The wife of the President Hajiya Aisha Buhari, on Thursday flagged-off the Maternal and New- Born Child Health(MNCH) week in Jega Local Government Area in Kebbi state.
She also inaugurated a new 80-Bed capacity general hospital named after her.
Speaking at the occasion Buhari, commended the state government for giving priority to maternal and child health.
She also pledged to ensure that maternal and child health centres were provided in communities across the country.
She also expressed her commitment to promote and support maternal and child health care especially the reduction in maternal mortality.
Hajiya Buhari, called on other wives of political leaders to emulate the timely efforts by the Kebbi government in tackling maternal and child health care.
The President’s wife also donated assorted foodstuff, textile materials and blankets to Internally Displaced Persons.
Speaking at the ceremony the wife of the state governor, Hajiya Zainab, said activities for the week would involve promotion of health and well being of mothers and children.
She commended donor agencies for supporting the health care sector of the state and pledged to expand the scope of impact
especially in rural areas.
In his speech the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, said the Federal Government would boost healthcare delivery in the country.
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Maurice White, singer and founder of soul group, Earth, Wind & Fire has died at the age of 74.
He died from his sleep after a prolonged battle with Parkinson’s Disease which got worse in recent months since he contracted it in 1992.
White worked with big shot artists such as Barbra Streisand, The Emotions, and Neil Diamond.
His band, Earth, Wind & Fire sold more than 90 million albums with hits like September, Shining Star and Boogie Wonderland.
His brother, Verdine White announced his unfortunate passing.
He said, “My brother, hero and best friend Maurice White passed away peacefully last night in his sleep,” Verdine White, also a member of the band, told The Associated Press on Thursday. “While the world has lost another great musician and legend, our family asks that our privacy is respected as we start what will be a very difficult and life changing transition in our lives. Thank you for your prayers and well wishes.”
Various entertainment personalities who are apparently saddened by his death took to social media to express their sympathy.
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