The national leadership of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, have been advised to immediately refund all monies collected from political office aspirants for the botched primaries and honourably resign thereafter.
Mrs. Bianca Odimegwu Ojukwu, who made the demand Monday in Owerri, during the seventh Memorial Day celebration, also described the outcome of the APGA primaries as “a rape of all known for democratic principles”.
“APGA national leadership caused havoc in Imo State.
They collected huge monies from aspirants, for the party’s gubernatorial primary. The aspirants looked forward to a transparent primary that never held”, Mrs. Ojukwu recalled.
According to the lady, “APGA national leaders fleeced Imo citizens and ended up handing over the party ticket to a strange fellow, and there is no way every right thinking fellow will not condemn the illicit act”.
She maintained that “the principle of accountability is incumbent on the APGA national leadership to immediately return all monies they collected from innocent aspirants and resign forthwith”.
While saying that the Victor Oye-led APGA “has impoverished aspirants, Mrs. Ojukwu equally expressed regret that those who climbed to power, using his late husband’s name, have not found it expedient to organize her husband’s memorial.
“If APGA must get better, Victor Oye must resign.He cannot insult and denigrate the man who created the platform he is enjoying today and think that everything is well with the rest of us. We shall survive the locust of our time”, Mrs. Ojukwu said.
Speaking also, the protagonist of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, said that whoever insults Ojukwu, even in his death, has insulted the entire Igbo race.
“From their action, APGA has roundly insulted Ojukwu and nobody should vote for the party in the forthcoming general elections.
APGA is dead in Igboland. Go and tell those who are not here that APGA no longer have our support”, Uwazuruike said.
Welcoming the people earlier, the Chairman of the event, Mr. Yul Edochie, urged Ndigbo to remain united, so as to get to their desired goal.
A couple of local companies in Nigeria export cement and also sell it in local market. The companies generate billions of dollars from limestone (cement) business annually and the generated revenue goes to federal government instead of the states that have the solid mineral. Federal government gives the states peanuts from the revenue generated from limestone business. This explains why states like Kogi cannot pay salary of their workers. The above fraud by federal government of Nigeria is one out of many.
Similar shortchange is happening in all government businesses and in almost all states in Nigeria. The federal government takes our collective wealth and gives states about 10% of generated revenue. This makes it impossible for most states to maintain their old infrastructure, build new ones and social amenities or take care of their recurrent expenditure. “Monkey dey work and baboon dey chop.” The cabals that control Nigeria’s unitary government take over 70% of our common wealth and share among themselves. This must be stopped.
Regional autonomy will end this open looting by the cabals of unitary government. In autonomous regions, states will takeover control of their resources. They will create jobs, generate revenue, take over 50% of the generated revenue, while the remaining will be shared by central government and regional government.
Who will ask for our freedom again? Who shall be in senate and consistently move motions for autonomous regions for ethnic nationalities in Nigeria? We need a Pa Enahoro of our time in senate. A man has been crying like John De Baptist cried in the wilderness. Have you heard his voice?
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A 24-year-old man, Godwin Banchir, who beat his 65-years-old mother to death for not responding to his greetings, was, yesterday sentenced to death by hanging by Plateau High Court, sitting in Jos.
Justice Daniel Longji, handed down the sentence as he found Banchir guilty of killing his biological mother. Delivering the judgment, Longji said: “Going by the findings of this court, you Godwin Banchir, mercilessly took the life of your mother, Mrs Saratu Banchir, in cold blood. “This sentence is mandatory, as the law states that any person convicted of murder shall be punished with death by hanging.
“The sentence of this court upon you is that you, Godwin Banchir, will be hanged until you are dead, may God have mercy on your soul,’’ he said. It was gathered that the convict was first arraigned on June 6, 2016, charged with culpable homicide, contrary to Section 221 of the Penal Code punishable with death upon conviction. The convict was said to have committed the crime on Jan. 21, 2016, when he used a stick to beat his mother to death. Banchir in his confessional statement said that he returned from the farm on the said date and found his mother sitting in the compound and when he greeted her, she ignored him. He said that infuriated him and he picked a stick and hit her. In his words:
“I got angry when she did not respond to my greetings, so I picked the stick of an axe and hit her around her ribs. “She fell down and started shouting, which attracted our neighbours who came to beat me up and later took me to the police station.
“I have been having misunderstandings with my mother each time I return from the farm, she doesn’t cook for me on time, and she always quarrels with me whenever I want to bathe with the water she fetched from the stream. “Her actions always annoyed me, I did not know that she was going to die from the beating she received from me.”
The nationwide solemnity arising from the killing of more than 100 Nigerian soldiers by Boko Haram in Melete, Borno State, was yesterday breached by the exchange of salvos by the two leading presidential candidates, Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar.
Both presidential candidates exchanged blames, even as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, also, yesterday, charged the National Assembly to launch an inquiry into the issue. The All Progressives Congress, APC, had on Sunday through its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena accused Atiku of leading a gang of selfish and mercantile politicians desperate to take power from the ruling APC.
Atiku in response to the claim, which he said cast aspersions on his person on his birthday and his turbaning as Waziri Adamawa, observed that the Melete incident happened on the same day Buhari launched his presidential campaign, an occasion he claimed the nation’s service chiefs withdrew from at the last moment. Meanwhile, the Presidency has described the Metele killing as an isolated case, insisting that Boko Haram has been technically defeated.
While noting that the APC has yet to make a statement on the issue, Atiku challenged Buhari and the APC to donate 10% of the reported N100 million spent by the party on advertorials to the families of the deceased soldiers. “As a matter of fact, we now know through Premium Times report, that these real Nigerian heroes were killed on November 18, 2018, which was the exact time the candidate of the APC, Muhammadu Buhari, invited the service chiefs to attend the launch of the plagiarised #NextLevel launch at the banquet hall of the Presidential Villa. “The nation can only wonder if the Metele massacre could have been avoided if the APC and President Buhari had allowed the service chiefs to focus on their core duties, rather than on his ill-fated re-election campaign. “We at the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation commend the service chiefs for beating a hasty retreat from the event as soon as they discovered that President Buhari was trying to hoodwink them. “It took Waziri Atiku Abubakar only a few hours to respond to the incident and express support, while it took the APC’s President Buhari a whole week to express ‘shock.’ We, therefore, wonder who is truly ‘selfish.’ “It is left to Nigerians to compare and contrast who is a leader and who is a follower, based on the conduct of these two parties. Buhari, Atiku tango over killing of soldiers in Borno “In any case, we would like to inform the APC of Waziri Atiku Abubakar’s call for financial support from well-meaning individuals and institutions for the survivors of the Metele massacre, and, indeed, all who paid the supreme sacrifice in the front lines for us to be safe. “Seeing as the APC spent N100 million to buy frontpage advertorials in all the papers on that fateful day of November 18, 2018, we appeal to them to consider donating even 10 per cent of that amount to the endowment for the families of our heroes as proposed by Atiku Abubakar. “Incidentally, the APC’s statement accused former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of ‘selfishness’ and ‘mercantilism’ which is very curious as the Waziri dedicated his birthday, not to himself, but to celebrating the 100 or so heroes of the 157 Task force Battalion of the Nigerian Army who lost their lives to Boko Haram at Metele in Borno State. “That the Waziri Adamawa asked for anyone who wished to give him birthday gifts to instead endow such on the families of the slain heroes is the opposite of selfishness. “Ironically, the All Progressives Congress that is now accusing Atiku Abubakar has not deemed it fit to pay tribute to these gallant men who gave their lives in order to secure the lives of others. “As a party, they have not issued even one statement condoling with the slain or their families, neither have they offered any tangible support to the families of these fallen heroes. Yet, they are accusing the Waziri, who has shown commitment to honouring these heroes, of selfishness.”
The British government has said it was neither backing the presidential candidates of the All Progressive Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari or that of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar.
Speaking at a one-day dialogue programme tagged: ‘Enhancing electoral participation of PWDs in 2019 general elections’, Political Adviser to the country’s Deputy British High Commissioner, Mr Wale Adebajo, said the British government had no vested interest in either Buhari, Abubakar or any of the other candidates in the February 16 poll.
This was just as international agencies in collaboration with local civil society organisations urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure the full inclusion of Peoples Living with Disabilities(PWDs) to easily participate in the electoral system in 2019.
The agencies, which included the British High Commission and Australian High Commission in Nigeria, British Department for International Development (DFID) and Foundation for Justice and Social Development (FOJSOD) said excluding people living with disabilities from the electoral system was not in consonance with global best practices.
The DFID Regional Programme Officer, Mrs. Margaret Fagboyo, said the agency had always believed that PWDs should be beneficiary of the sustainable development in Nigeria, which unfettered access to participate in elections was part of.
“In 2019, INEC must ensure that ballot boxes are placed where they can access easily, the police shouldn’t harass them, they should be accorded respect. They should be seen as critical stakeholders in any election.
“We commend INEC for noticing where there are lapses and trying to improve on them. We can’t leave these people behind while taking critical decisions just because they are having one form of disability. If this happens, definitely, there will be problem.”
Adebajo said the National Disability bill that is awaiting presidential assent will help in resolving some of the issues bedeviling the group in the country.
Adebajo praised the INEC for including PWDs in its strategic plan for 2017-2021 elections, saying the British government and United States Department forInternational Development (USAID) were favourably disposed to the action.
Resident Electoral Commissioner, Ekiti State, Prof. Abdulganiyu Raji, said INEC has identified those critical areas where PWDs were having problems in the electoral system.
“The overall goal of this programme is to consolidate inclusive electoral process that would be in consonance with the international best practices devoid of any rancour or acrimony but free, fair, transparent and acceptable elections,” Raji said.
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Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, yesterday directed that two AK-47 rifles and a Beretta pistol allegedly snatched from a slain police officer and others by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Nnewi, during a protest, last week, be recovered, forthwith.
Force Police Public Relations Officer, ACP Jimoh Moshood, announced the IGP’s directive at the Anambra State Police Command headquarters when 33 suspected IPOB members were arrested in Nnewi, by the state command.
According to Moshood, the IGP directed that a thorough search be carried out to recover the missing weapons and the arrest and prosecution of fleeing members of the group.
Addressing newsmen, Moshood said: “On November 23, there was intelligence report that members of IPOB, an unlawful terrorist organisation, were sighted gathering in their hundreds with dangerous weapons, near Teaching Hospital, Owerri Road, Nnewi, about to cause disturbance of public peace and public safety in Nnewi and its environs.
“Consequently, police patrol teams, led by the Area Commander, Nnewi, ACP Nnanna Oji Ama, mobilised to the scene, to prevent them from causing breakdown of law and order and destruction of life and property.
“The police team, while proceeding to the scene, came under ambush from the IPOB members, and, in the process, a police inspector was killed, two other police officers were seriously injured and one police patrol vehicle was set ablaze.
“The proscribed IPOB members snatched and carted away two AK-47 rifles and one Beretta pistol; with ammunition,” he said
However, as Moshood read his address to newsmen and mentioned that the suspects killed a police inspector and snatched arms, the suspect raised their voices in protest.
Evangelist Sunday Ilonze, one of the suspects told newsmen that he was arrested with his servant in his shop, while they were closing their shop for the day.
Meanwhile, the police spokesman has assured that a thorough investigation would be carried out and those found guilty would be charged for terrorism.
Nigerian troops have Cried Out After Boko Haram Killed Over 70 Soldiers.
They cannot continue to die in silence.
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