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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed to regain power in Nigeria in 2019.
The party made the commitment on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, after a meeting in Abuja.
To achieve this aim, members of the PDP National Working Committee and state chairmen of the party promised to work together in one accord.
The PDP’s decision was contained in a joint statement issued at the end of the meeting by the Vice-Chairman of the party in the North-West, Ibrahim Kazaure, and the Benue State Chairman, Emmanuel Agbo.
The statement reads:
“The meeting resolves to give all necessary support to the national leadership of the party under the chairmanship of Adamu Mu’azu to enable them to re-engineer and re-brand the party for the task of regaining power by 2019.”
“The meeting notes the outcome of the 2015 general elections and accordingly resolves not to allow the temporary setback affect the party’s contributions to the democratic development of the country.”
“The meeting notes and appreciates the patriotic stand taken by President Goodluck Jonathan after the elections as another milestone in the party’s contributions to peace, stability and progress of the nation.”
The PDP’s lost its 16-year position as Nigeria’s ruling party after incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan was defeated by Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 28, 2015 elections.
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The Federal Government has dragged the National Assembly to the Supreme Court over the recent constitution amendment saga.
The FG filed the case on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, and is seeking for an order nullifying all the proposed amendments to the 1999 constitution.
The government, through an originating summons prayed the court to declare the amendments unconstitutional.
The FG claims that the supposed Fourth Alteration Act 2015 was not passed with the mandatory requirement of four-fifths majority of members of the National Assembly as required by the constitution.
“That the said purported Fourth Alteration Act 2015 contains many proposed amendments inconsistent with the spirit of federalism, separation of powers and checks and balances, all of which constitute the hallmark of the Constitution and democracy,” an affidavit sworn to aid the government’s case read.
President Goodluck Jonathan had earlier refused to approve the amendments citing non-compliance with Section 9 of the 1999 constitution.
The National Assembly then demanded that Jonathan return the bill along with its original signature page after it was rumoured that the President had changed his mind about the bill after already signing it.
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It was gathered that the gang of 12 robbers were raiding an apartment in the area when a member of the gang attempted to rape a woman but was resisted by her husband.
He ran out of luck when neighbours raised the alarm which attracted the attention of others who came to the rescue of the couple while the gang fled leaving behind the randy member.
A resident of the area who spoke on the condition of anonymity told said that while the suspect tried to escape, other members of the community seized and tied him up and later set him ablaze at the 7UP junction.
The source added the gang had been terrorizing residents of the area, raping women, dispossessing them of cash, mobile phones and other valuables.
The Abia State Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO) Ezekiel Onyeke who confirmed the incident said that before policemen from the nearby Ohuru Isimiri Division could get to the scene, the villagers had already set the suspect robber ablaze.
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President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential (PDP) Campaign Organization to begin the removal of campaign materials which were used to promote his re-election bid.
Jonathan’s order also extends to other groups who erected and posters, billboards, banners and signs to campaign for him nationwide.
The President gave the directive on Thursday, April 23, 2015, via a statement released by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati.
It reads:
“With the 2015 presidential elections now concluded and the country preparing for the inauguration of a new administration on May 29, President Goodluck Jonathan believes that it is appropriate that steps be taken to restore the environment in Nigerian cities, towns and villages to their pre-elections campaign state.”
“Accordingly, President Jonathan directs that the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation and the various associations that coalesced into the Jonathan/Sambo Support Group immediately begin the process of removing the posters, billboards, banners, signs and other campaign materials in support of his re-election bid which still adorn the landscape in major cities across the country.”
“The President thanks all individuals and organisations who made sincere contributions and worked with immense dedication for the Jonathan/ Sambo Campaign.”
“He applauds his supporters and other Nigerians for the disciplined, patriotic and democratic manner in which they comported themselves before, during and after the elections.”
“Now that the elections are over except for re-runs in a few states, President Jonathan urges Nigerians to put the recent political campaigns behind them and join hands with the incoming administration in working for a more united, peaceful, stable and progressive nation.”
Jonathan is set to hand over to President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, 2015 after losing his re-election bid.
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Officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on Thursday, April 23, 2015, stopped Arik Air from flying at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded for hours.
It was gathered that the brawl, which occurred at the domestic wing of the airport, stemmed from Arik’s refusal to pay owed dues to the airport authority.
But the airline dismissed the claims by FAAN that it is indebt.
According to eyewitnesses, the airport authority grounded Arik’s operations till about 5pm on Thursday.
“Many passengers were left stranded at the terminal and they were passengers of Arik Air. Other airlines were allowed to fly but Arik was stopped. They only started operating from around 4.30pm,” an airport official told Punch.
However, Arik Air reacted to the issue in a statement, saying the airport authority’s allegation of debt against the organization is ‘fictitious and malicious’
“The latest action may not be unconnected with allegation of debt FAAN claimed Arik Air owed. The airline has described the debt figure by the agency as fictitious and malicious,” the statement read.
Report says FAAN has a long standing issue with Arik over indebtedness.
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Nigeria's 2015 gubernatorial elections saw different range of types of campaign strategies, from mind-blowing, intelligent methods, to outright stupid methods.
A very out-of-the-box and into-the-coffin strategy has been launched by some supporters of the governorship candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu.
Hardline supporters of Ikpeazu in Aba brandished machetes covered in red, a traditional symbol warning of impending doom on their opponents. These actions were said to have created panic among the non-indigenes of the commercial capital of the state. Dr. Ikpeazu, in a statement by his media aide, Enyinnaya Appolos, described the matter as barbaric and retrogressive, accusing his opponents of sponsoring the counter-productive actions to discredit him.
He further appealed to Aba residents to ignore the development and go about their lawful business without any fear of molestation.
The Police PRO, Abia State Command, Mr. Ezekiel Onyeke, confirmed the incident but said that the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joshak Habila, had directed all Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers to arrest anybody caught parading coffins for whatever reason.
The governorship elections were declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission and a re-run is scheduled for Saturday.
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The Director of Defence Information, Chris Olukolade, has said that members of the Boko Haram sect in Nigeria have run out of arms and ammunition.
Major General Olukolade stated further that the terrorists’ numbers had dwindled due to the army’s recent attacks on them.
The defence spokesperson made the comments on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, while speaking to journalists in Abuja.
“The Boko Haram terrorists have run out of arms and ammunitions as the military have intensified attacks on Sambisa Forest,”Olukolade said.
“You can find more than 500 of the insurgents with only few of them having rifles and even when one or two of them have rifles, they have no ammunitions. It is just like somebody holding a stick…, as they have run out of ammunitions, because the usual supplies they get are not forthcoming,” he added.
“I am optimistic that the military will succeed by killing many of these sect members who have been terrorising residents in the past three years from the forest,” Olukolade said.
National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki had earlier stated that the military would succeed in clearing out Sambisa Forest, a Boko Haram stronghold, before May 29, 2015, when a new government would be sworn in.
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Senator Bukola Saraki has officially expressed his desire to be nominated Nigeria’s Senate President.
Saraki, a former Kwara State Governor, revealed his interest in the position on Thursday, April 23, 2015.
“I'm hopeful at the possibility of being nominated as Senate President of 8th Assembly. I appreciate your prayers & tweets of encouragement,” he said via Twitter. The contest for leadership of the Senate is said to be between Saraki, former governor of Benue State and Senate Minority Leader, George Akume, and Barnabas Gemade, a former National Chairman of the PDP.
However, Saraki is being pegged as the strongest candidate due to the fact that both Akume and Gemade are from Benue State, which has occupied the position through current President, David Mark for the past eight years.
Mark is expected to vacate the position due to the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) loss of majority in the upper house following the recently held general elections.
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the new Acting Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, to be professional in his job and not attempt to curry favour from the ruling party of incoming President, Muhammadu Buhari.
The APC also urged Arase to shun crass partisanship in the discharge of his duties.
The party’s comments were made via a statement released on Thursday, April 23, 2015, by by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed.
The statement reads:
“We do not know the reason for the sack of the immediate past IGP, but we have read, just like other Nigerians, that it might not be unconnected with the role he either played or did not play in the last general elections.”
“What we do know is that the police force under the former IG was a major actor in the massive rigging and violence that characterized the elections in some parts of the country, especially in Rivers ,Akwa Ibom Sokoto and Gombe states just to mention a few.”
“Now, Mr. Arase faces perhaps the biggest test in his new capacity with the supplementary elections coming up in Abia, Imo and Taraba. We do hope he will not allow the police under him to be used to thwart the will of the people in those states or to give cover to those who will engage in violence”
“Any IG worth his salt does not need to pander to the President or the ruling party in carrying out his duties. All he has to do is to make sure the police carries out its statutory duties in accordance with the law and without fear or favour.”
“When Mr. Arase’s predecessor issued an illegal order directing Nigerians to vote and immediately vacate polling units during the last elections, he knew he was acting against what the law stipulates, but he chose to do so anyway to please his masters. However, armed with the position of the law, Nigerians simply ignored the illegal order, voted and stayed behind to defend their votes.”
“When that unlawful order is placed side-by-side with other acts that ran contrary to the maintenance of law and order under the immediate past IG – including the cover given to the OPC to wreak havoc in Lagos, the illegal withdrawal of the security details of House of Representatives’ Speaker Aminu Tambuwal, whom he (former IG) refused to recognize as Speaker in a clear usurpation of the role of the judiciary, and the shameful role of the police in the Osun Governorship election last year, during which hundreds of APC members were arrested and detained without cause – one will realize to what extent the police was dragged into partisan politics under him.”
“But in the end, those for whom the IG desecrated the police had no qualms about humiliating him out of office. We hope Mr. Arase will learn a lesson from this, toe a different path and not run the police like his private company and a tool in the hands of unscrupulous politicians.”
Arase was appointed on Tuesday, April 21, after the sack of former IG, Suleiman Abba.
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The South African government has been given 48 hours to stop xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals and their shops or else their companies abroad will be shut down.
An official with the newly elected All Progressive Congress (APC), Tolu Adesanya, confirmed to eNCA that they handed down a memorandum to the South African embassy in Lagos on Wednesday.
In the memorandum, the APC party officials and members of civil society groups have demanded that South Africa take swift action against attacks on foreign nationals.
Adesanya said that Nigeria will shut down South African businesses if their demands are not met by South Africa.
“We actually handed a letter to the South African embassy yesterday, making them aware that we are not happy with what is going on in South Africa. Should there be any more attacks, we are going to shut down South African businesses in Nigeria. That is MTN, Multi Choice, Shoprite etc,” said APC official Tolu Adesanya.
APC officials and civil rights groups planned to march to a South African embassy on Thursday.
Thursday’s march has been supported by African Diaspora Forum.
ADF’s Vice Chairman Jean-Pierre Lukamba told eNCA that “actually they (Nigerians) don’t have a choice”.
South African companies in other African countries include cellphone company MTN, retail giant Shoprite, and satellite TV provider Multi Choice among others.
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