Bishop Ezeokafor Congratulates Newly Consecrated Auxiliary Bishop Of Onitsha Mourns Anambra NUJ Sec

BY ABUCHI IFESINACHI, AWKA
The Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, His Lordship Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor has congratulated the newly consecrated auxiliary bishop of archdiocese of Onitsha ecclesiastical province, Most Rev. Denis Isizoh who was consecrated by Francis Cardinal Arinze as auxiliary bishop of Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha on Friday, May 1, 2015.
Bishop Ezeokafor who gave his congratulatory message at the Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity, Onitsha shortly after the consecration expressed gratitude to God for the gift of Bishop Isizoh noting that with Bishop Isizoh's wealth of experience and laudable achievements in pastoral works the Archdiocese can only get better.

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Read reasons why Mua'zu and PDP leaders Should Be Sacked

The reasons for the lingering crisis between President Goodluck Jonathan and his aides against the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, is gradually beginning to unravel.

Lately, some PDP governors and chieftains have repeatedly called for the resignation of party Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu and other members of the NWC over the party’s poor election performance.

However, the acrimony is said to be beyond that, with sources of Vanguard newspapers, revealing that it is mostly about the control of the party ahead of the 2019 presidential election.

APC Governor Meet GMD On Ministerial Nominies

Governors of the All Progressives Congress are meeting with the President-elect Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Tuesday.

The meeting, it was gathered, would be the first to be attended by the governors jointly since the conduct of the March 28 presidential election which Buhari won.
One of the governors, who spoke on the condition of anonymity with our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday, said the meeting would also be attended by all the APC governors-elect.
He said, “The APC governors, serving and incoming, are to meet GMB (Buhari) on Tuesday morning in Abuja to pay a courtesy call on him, formally congratulate him on his electoral victory and make input into the policy direction of the administration ahead of the May 29 inauguration of the new government.

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.