Traditional ruler in Oyo state has threatened to file a lawsuit against senator Dino Melaye

A traditional ruler in Oyo state, the Atapa of Itapa Ijesa, Dr. Olapade Agoro, has threatened to file a lawsuit against Senator Dino Melaye over his verbal attack on Senator Remi Tinubu during the senate plenary early this month. Speaking to the Nation at his palace yesterday, Agoro who is a politician and religious leader said

    “No wonder, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, without mincing words, told the whole world that the National Assembly is full of corrupt legislators. That was a weighty statement. When you say corruption, you are not limiting it to taking bribe.It could be immoral. By what he did on the floor of the Senate, I will say Melaye has committed immorality. For this young man to have lost morality and commonsense on the floor of the hallowed chamber, to have threatened to beat up a woman, that was too much. You don’t say you want to beat up another man’s wife on the hallowed chamber; forget who the husband is. That issue is beyond political scene. It raises the question of morality. When a man says he will beat up another man’s wife and even impregnate her, it means the man has admitted to be a rapist. By now, the police should have stepped in. It’s a reckless and senseless vituperation that should be taken beyond the floor of the Senate. The young man has been so reckless ever since he became a senator. It shows how corrupt he is. I don’t know why that type of character should be allowed to continue staying in the Senate. The APC should have by now sanctioned him to protect the name of the party, not demanding an apology from him. I could have taken him court, if not for anything, because we don’t expect characters like him in the Senate. He should be made to face the music”

Remi Tinubu released 75million to sponsor protest against Senator Dino Melaye

Senator Dino Melaye has alleged that Senator Remi Tinubu has released N75 million to sponsor a protest against him. He made the allegation in a post on his Facebook wall this evening. He wrote;

    A civil rights movement, Committee for the Defence of Women’s Rights, has uncovered a plan by the wife of a former governor of Lagos State and chairman, Senate Committee on Women Affairs, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu to sponsor a protest against Senator Dino Melaye this coming Wednesday in Abuja.
The organisation said she has released N75 million to Lagos State APC Woman Leader, Mrs. Kemi Nelson through one of her sisters simply identified as Funlola. The National President of CDWR, Prof. Taibat Majekodunmi, made the revelation in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja. Already, the protesters have stormed Abuja and have booked for 300 rooms in many Hotels in hotels in Abuja. She said,
 “We have it on good authority that N75 million has been released by Senator Okuremi Tinubu to Mrs. Kemi Nelson through Mrs. Tinubu’s sister called Funlola.
The money is to organise a protest in Abuja on Wednesday against the chairman, Denate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dino Melaye, with 1,000 protesters from Lagos. “The protesters have booked for 300 rooms in some hotels in Abuja. Why did she not organise a protest against the hardship of Nigerian women and widows.

Governor Ayodele Fayose threatened former President Goodluck Jonathan before the 2014 governorship election in the state.

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) former secretary in Ekiti State, Tope Aluko, has alleged that Governor Ayodele Fayose threatened former President Goodluck Jonathan before the 2014 governorship election in the state.
Aluko, who previously revealed the shocking rigging details of the election on national TV, Fayose demanded the support of Jonathan for his governorship bid if ex-president wanted to win the south-west in the 2015 election. according to The Nation,Aluko  disclosed this in an interview programme on ADABA 88.9 FM, Akure, Ondo State capital.

He said Jonathan released huge funds for the controversial June 21, 2014, governorship election, the money which, according to him, led to a clash between Fayose and Musiliu Obanikoro.
“Fayose was threatening former President Goodluck Jonathan that he (Fayose) must deliver so that Jonathan will win in south-west. All the PDP elders were kept out of picture on the transactions and cash and some of the cash deployed did not get to their destinations,” he said.
“The presidency gave us security and money, the money was sent from a Diamond Bank branch through an account run by Sylvan MacNamara, a company owned by Obanikoro.
“My boss said he wanted to get his own in cash and that was why arrangement was made to get his own in cash and that was why such a huge amount (N2.1 billion) was ferried by plane. Obanikoro cannot claim not to have brought the money.
“He (Fayose) chose his man, Abiodun Agbele, to keep the money in a Zenith Bank account and the money was lodged at Zenith Bank, Alagbaka Branch in Akure. The transaction was not recorded and it got to a stage when it was discovered that the money was short by N80 million.
“This caused a crisis between Fayose and Obanikoro who brought money thrice from Abuja. He (Obanikoro) brought other things apart from money which I won’t disclose now and it was from it that N1 billion was released to INEC officials to manipulate Ekiti and Osun polls,” Aluko revealed.
He further stated that prior to the the governorship election in 2014, Fayose did not have up to N10 million in his personal account, adding that the Governor's primary election was sponsored by Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) and the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Aluko alleged that after Fayose had won the primary, his election campaign was funded by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), which was headed by Sambo Dasuki.
According to him, oil contractors also co-funded the election campaign.
He said Zenith Bank and other corporate organizations came with business proposals after Fayose had won the election, insisting that the governor’s claim that his campaign was sponsored by Zenith Bank was a “blatant lie”.
“The cash carried on the plane was not entered into the plane manifest, the N2.1 billion was delivered to a bank at 4:30am in Ekiti. The N2.3 billion remaining from the total cash received for the election was used to buy house in Abuja and the house belongs to Fayose," he alleged.

He said Fayose purchased five houses in choice locations in Abuja, Banana Island and Victoria Island, Lagos, with the N2.3 billion.
Aluko added that the Governor's N3 billion Dubai property was purchased by a man identified as Bisi better known as 'Femi Abroad.'

The Niger Delta Avengers vowed to cripple Nigeria’s economy

The Niger Delta Avengers has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of plotting the removal of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and replace him with Uche Ogah. Vanguard reports that the militants claimed Ogah is loyal to the AP even though he is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The group which has claimed responsibility for series of bombing of oil and gas pipeline in the region vow to continue its havoc until the economy collapses.
The twitter account of the militant group was suspended on Monday, July 4 but a new twitter page was opened on Tuesday, July 5. The group said it was not ready to dialogue with the federal government.

“We don’t need money from anybody for dialouge.” “The only way peace will reign in Nigeria is by referendum to determine the fate of Nigeria,”
they also accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government of bribing twitter to shut down its account and vowed to continue its mission. It threatened that the federal government would regret the action and hinted that more destructive actions would be taken.

Court grants Femi Fani Kayode bail

Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos has granted the former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode bail in the sum of N250m
Fani-Kayode is standing trial over allegations of N4.9b fraud levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Justice Hassan also asked the former minister to keep his passport with the court, and also provide two sureties in like sum who must be owners of landed properties with the jurisdiction of the court.
The court also requested that the sureties should provide evidence of tax payment.The Minister of State for Finance, Nemandi Usman was also granted bail with the same conditions.
The EFCC prosecutor, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, revealed that Fani-Kayode committed an offence under Section 18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act, 2012, punishable  under Section 15(3)( 4) of the same Act, when he allegedly diverted the sum of N1.5b.Justice Sule Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos, ordered the imprisonment of Femi Fani-Kayode on June 28, 2016.

Federal high court has refused to review the order made against the governor of Abia state

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court has said that the court cannot review, its earlier order made against the governor of Abia state, Okezie Ikpeazu.
Abang made this known in his ruling on monday when Wole Olanipekun counsel to the embattled Abia state, prayed the court to set aside its ruling which sacked the governor last Monday. However, Abang said there would be a ruling on the application for stay of execution and an order asking the electoral body, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue a certificate of return to Uche Ogah on Thursday, July 7. The embattled governor of Abia state, Ikpeazu had in an application urged the court for a stay of execution on Abang’s ruling on Monday, June 27, which mandated him to vacate the governorship seat for Ogah. Also, Ogah’s counsel, Alex Iziyon accused Ikpeazu of employing self help tactics by approaching another High in Abia state to get an exparte order restraining the chief justice of the state from swearing in the new governor elect. “The question that arises now bothers on sanctity and sanity of this court order, now asking for a date to respond when they have in their pocket an order which has chained the plaintiff from presenting himself for swearing in, contrary to the order of this court,” Iziyon said.
Iziyon said: “If the court will grant an adjournment on the remedy that has been gotten, our application is that your lordship undue the act because it was made when this particular application was pending.”

, Ikpeazu’s lawyer argued that the application was a harmless one. He said a counter affidavit filed by Ogah has not been served on him. The counsel also said that there is no formal application before to show proof of the order gotten from the Federal High Court in Abia state. Making his submission, counsel to INEC, Alhassan Umar confirmed that the certificate of return issued to Ogah speaks for itself. Umar said the issuance of the certificate of return is in line with order of the court. Meanwhile, the Abia state Internal Revenue Service has revealed that the tax clearance it issued to Okezie Ikpeazu was not a fake one. Ikpeazu was removed by Justice Okon Abang who also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately issue Certificate of Return to Dr Uche Ogah, who came second in the December 8, 2014 primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Vanguard reports that Udochukwu Ogbonna who is the executive chairman of the internal revenue service clarified that it issued an original tax clearance to Ikpeazu and that neither the court nor the plaintiff Dr Ogah invited the revenue board as witness to state the authenticity or otherwise of the tax papers.

Edo state in hot soup with Ali Modu Sheriff see why

The Edo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ignore Ali Modu Sheriff’s candidate for the upcoming governorship elections.
 PDP also added that Osagie Ize-Iyamu remains the only recognised candidate who will stand in the elections.
The National Publicity Secretary of the Ahmed Makarfi faction, Prince Dayo Adeyeye said "In Edo, the Sheriff faction is saying INEC must recognise the candidate submitted by it (Sheriff faction). How would INEC take something from a man that is only a busybody to the party?

“If a court had ruled that Sheriff is not the chairman of the PDP, how then would a court say that INEC should recognise a candidate recognised by Sheriff.”

Adding that “Sheriff is saying that he is the national chairman of the PDP by a court order even when the governors and other members of the party have rejected him. Some people are trying to use the judiciary to destroy Nigeria’s democracy.

“An example is what is playing out in Abia State. But we are not going to allow our nation’s democracy to be destroyed. Nigeria has become a laughing stock and we must sensitise people to this because it (indiscriminate court injunctions) is a new development.

“People are trying to manipulate the judiciary for their own gains and this is dangerous for democracy. The PDP National Convention is supreme and Sheriff has no legal basis to parade himself as the PDP national chairman.”

Muhammadu Buhari the President of Nigeria has been accused of witch hunting

President Muhammadu Buhari has been accused of using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as a tool to oppress the opposition

The PDP berated the president over the arrest of Senator Iyiola Omisore on Sunday, July 3.
Its spokesman, Prince Diran Odeyemi said the development was a “witch-hunt”, wondering why the federal government was “shielding” members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from prosecution. Odeyemi said Buhari was keen on silencing the opposition, adding that his anti-corruption fight “would continue to be a ruse, in-as-much-as many corrupt people within the ruling party, APC are not exposed and prosecuted”.

“The ruling All Progressives Congress, at present, has in its fold, some of the most corrupt individuals that other parties, including PDP found rather too dirty to be accommodated, and yet they are being covered with the party’s duvet. “Today, Buhari is keeping Femi Fani-Kayode, Esther Nenadi Usman in prison, Olisa Metu almost lost his life in detention and now it’s the turn of Omisore while Fayose and Akpabio are being trailed. “We implore Mr President to re-examine his anti-corruption fight and make it total instead of the targeted attacks on PDP members to permanently silence opposing voices in the country,”
Odeyemi said.

The Abia chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that it will resist any attempt to inaugurate, Sampson Ogah, as the new governor of the state

The Abia chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that it will resist any attempt to inaugurate, Sampson Ogah, as the new governor of the state.

“We are ready for them, we are ready to die,” the party said, adding, “If they do it, then they are inviting anarchy and confusion in the state."
The party made the resolution and declaration at the end of its emergency meeting in Umuahia on Thursday, June 30.
The state Chairman of the party, Johnson Onuigbo, accompanied by members of the executive committee, said the party got wind of a plan to flood the state with military personnel
Mr. Onuigbo said such an invasion would trigger off anarchy, adding that the party was poised for showdown over the planned inauguration.
He described the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which ordered that Mr. Ogah be sworn in as “a rape of democracy.”
The court, presided over by Justice Okon Abang, on Tuesday ordered Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to vacate office as governor over the case of tax evasion.
Justice Abang also ordered that Mr. Ogah, who came second in the PDP primaries, should be sworn in as the governor.
Mr. Ogah was also issued the Certificate of Return by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja on Thursday.
The PDP chairman, however, said the judgment and issuance of Certificate of Return to Mr. Ogah had undermined the peace and tranquillity enjoyed in the state.
“Abia is not safe. I didn’t want to believe the rumour that the state will soon be invaded by the army because this is not a war zone.
“We want to inform the world that there is tension in Abia because democracy is about to be raped.
“As a party, we will resist any move by anybody to undermine the peace in the state,” Mr. Onuigbo said.
He said that as a law-abiding state, the government had obtained an exparte injunction “restraining the state Chief Judge or any other judges from swearing in Mr. Ogah as governor”.

“We are ready for them, we are ready to die,” he said, adding, “If they do it, then they are inviting anarchy and confusion in the state.“
We are in a democracy so we want the world to hear and know that we are being shortchanged in Abia,” he said.
Mr. Onuigbo said the party had sent emissaries to Mr. Ogah to persuade him “to sheath his sword and allow peace to reign in Abia” to no avail.
He said that at the end of the current crisis, the party would met out sanction to Mr. Ogah for disregarding entreaties from the chieftains of the party.