Drama: Enugu Speaker Impecjed, Serve Sullivan Chime Impechment Notice

A 15-member faction of the Enugu State House of Assembly led by the Speaker, Mr Eugene Odo, has commenced the impeachment process against Gov. Sullivan Chime, alleging financial misconduct.
The members, who sat in the early hours of Monday in the legislative chambers amidst tight security, alleged that the governor manipulated the 2014 Appropriation Bill, among other impeachable offenses
They directed the Clerk, Mr Christopher Chukwurah, to communicate their resolution to the governor.
The faction entered the premises through the small gate as they parked their vehicles by the roadside.
Meanwhile, the eight-man faction which elected a new speaker, Mr Chinedu Nwamba (PDP-Nsukka East) and a new leader, Mr Donatus Uzogbado (PDP-Oji-River), suspended Odo and seven others.
Those suspended include Chief John Anichukwu (PP-Nkanu East); the Chief Whip, Mrs Theresa Egbo (PDP-Enugu South Rural); the Leader, Mr Sunday Ude-Okoye (PDP-Awgu North); and Mr Okey Nwoke (PDP-Igboetiti West).

ATIKU DEMANDS SENATE PRESIDENCY FOR NORTH EAST

Indications emerged Sunday that the former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is leading the demand for the post of Senate Presidency for the North East.
A source close to the former Vice President told the New Telegraph that it was one of the reasons that, he (Atiku) visited the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari at the Defence House in Abuja last week
But the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Vice Chairman, North East, Engr. David Lawal said the demand is being made by everybody from the zone.
According to Lawal, the demand of the Senate Presidency to the North East is the wish of every member of the party.
Atiku, who last week visited the President-elect at the Defence House had told journalists after a closed door meeting with Buhari that the meeting was personal.
But the source, who preferred anonymity posited that every visit to the President-elect comes with a demand and Atiku’s demand among others was that the Senate Presidency should be zoned to the North East.

2015 ELECTIONS, ONE OF THE MOST RIGGED IN NIGERIA – OBSERVER

A Legal Practitioner and observer during the 2015 elections, Ikechukwu Ikeji, says the just concluded election was one of the most rigged elections he had ever witnessed in Nigeria, despite being considered free and fair.
Speaking on a breakfast show, Sunrise Daily on Channels Television on Monday, Mr Ikeji accused INEC officials of being compromised, stressing further that the politicians themselves were out to rig and those who won simply outwitted those who lost.
“Just about every politicians I came across was in the game of rigging. Nothing can be farther from the truth than that these elections were fair and free.
“In fact I have to be honest, this is one of the most rigged elections I have witnessed. I was in the field and I can tell you that electoral offences were rampant,” Mr Ikeji said.
On card readers, the election observer expressed dissatisfaction. He said that the card readers did not work in many areas he went to.

Jonathan Should Explain How He Expended Nigerian resources in the last 6 years--------- Metu

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said that President Goodluck Jonathan must account for how he spent Nigeria’s resources for the past 6 years he ruled Nigeria.
This is coming as an online news platform SaharaReporters portered that some Goodluck Jonathan’s associates have released up documentary evidence that members of the National Working Committee of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stole funds belonging to the party’s treasury shortly after President Jonathan lost the presidential election on March 28, 2015.
Two close associates of the president spoke to SaharaReporters on what one of them described as “shameless stealing of party funds by officials entrusted with running the affairs of the party.”
The two sources disclosed that President Jonathan felt betrayed by the “greedy actions” of the NWC members. The Presidency sources gave SaharaReporters internal vouchers showing that the party’s NWC members shelled out over a quarter of billion naira in unexplained fees to themselves on April 8, 2015.

NORTHERN VOTES: WE WON FAIR AND SQUARE, SAYS APC





The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said there is no dispute whatsoever regarding its electoral victory in most parts of the northern states during the March 28 presidential poll.
The party’s Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Lawan Shuaib, said the introduction of the card reader device which was effectively deployed during the election in every part of the North did a lot to strengthen the credibility of the polls.
Shuaib, who spoke in an interview with THISDAY in Abuja yesterday, in reaction to the comment made by President Goodluck Jonathan regarding the credibility of the presidential poll result in the North, said the voting process was transparent, insisting that Muhammadu Buhari’s victory cannot be faulted.
“Elections in most parts of the North were free and fair because there was hardly any area where the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) card reader machine was not used. We can challenge anybody to go to court and let’s clear and verify every vote cast in the northern part of the country during the last elections.

PRESIDENCY MOVES TO REPLACE MU'AZU WITH S'SOUTH GOVERNOR

Despite threats of sanctions by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the leadership crisis in the party continues to deepen, as aides of President Goodluck Jonathan have moved to replace the embattled national chairman of the party, Adamu Mu’azu, with an outgoing governor from the South-south.
This is coming as the former governor of Ebonyi State, Dr. Sam Egwu, has warned against any leadership change that would remove Mu’azu or members of the NWC, cautioning that the problem of the PDP stems from lack of discipline and internal democracy, which the incumbent NWC was not allowed to enforce at both the national and state levels.
THISDAY gathered that the move by the presidential aides and associates of the president is aimed at altering the zoning of offices in the PDP, which would see the national chairman of the party coming from the South-south, while the presidential candidacy will be zoned to the North, preparatory to the 2019 election.

BUHARI WILL SHOCK NIGERIANS –APC CHIEF

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and the party’s senatorial candidate for the Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial district, Chief Inibehe Okori, has said that the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, will shock critics with his pronouncements on May 29.
Speaking in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, on Sunday, Okori stated that Buhari would prove to Nigerians and the international community that corruption would be checked as soon as the president-elect settled down to work.
He added that Buhari’s proclamation, dedication and discipline will go a long way in restoring hope, faith and confidence of the citizens in the country.
He said, “Unlike other presidents who were not prepared for leadership but foisted on the country by individuals and interest groups, the President-elect has consistently presented himself to the electorate to lead the country on four occasions and had his visions well enunciated.

TROOPS ARREST INSURGENTS’ FUEL, FOOD SUPPLIER

A man who specialises in supplying fuel and food to terrorists was yesterday morning nabbed in Daban Shata in the suburbs of Baga, Borno state.
The military intelligence has been trailing him till he was eventually trapped in the early hours of yesterday. He is presently undergoing interrogation.
In another development, troops on patrol yesterday located 260 women and children in the outskirts of Chalawa village in Adamawa state where they had been held up while trying to escape from terrorists. They have now been conveyed back to their various communities in Madagali after undergoing the normal security profiling.

BUHARI TO PROBE SERVICE CHIEFS, DEFENCE BUDGET

A comprehensive probe of the prosecution of the war against Boko Haram and the spending of defence budget is the offing, New Telegraph has learnt. A top military source said at the weekend that the incoming administration of Major General Muhammadu Buhari, was planning to institute the probe during which some service chiefs, past and present, would be summon to defend their tenure, especially how defence budget was spent under their watch. The source said the incoming administration was considering setting up a truth and reconciliation committee on the six-year old terror war.
The Boko Haram insurgency, which started in 2009 in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has claimed about 15, 000 lives, destroyed property and turned thousands of people to refugees. It was also gathered that some former service chiefs and military commanders that held strategic operational and command positions, might appear or be asked to appear before the panel, whenever it is constituted, to give account of what they did and knew about the fight against insurgency.

Boko Haram Fuel And Food Supplier Nabbed; 260 Women And Children Fleeing From Terrorists Recovered In Adamawa





A man who specialises in supplying fuel and food to terrorists was this morning nabbed in Daban Shata in the suburbs of Baga Borno State. The military intelligence had been trailing him till he was eventually trapped in the early hours of Sunday. He is presently undergoing interrogation.
In another development, troops on patrol yesterday located 260 women and children in the outskirts of Chalawa village in Adamawa state where they had been held up while trying to escape from terrorists. They have now been conveyed back to their various communities in Madagali after undergoing the normal security profiling.
Some of them disclosed that they had to abandon their homes to escape from the terrorists when Madagali came under their attack, while others were actually abducted and taken there. The terrorists were however sacked from the Madagali recently.