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Jonathan Plans To Impeach Three More Governors- El-Rufai

PRESIDENCY PLOTTING REMOVAL OF THREE MORE GOVS –EL-RUFAI
A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and member of the All Progressives Congress, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has accused the Presidency of orchestrating the impeachment of the Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako.
Fuming few minutes after the news of Nyako’s removal by the Adamawa State House of Assembly filtered in, El-Rufai stated that the development was capable of “endangering the nation.”
Writing on his Facebook page on Tuesday, the former minister, however, alleged that the scheming by the Presidency to deal with the APC was not over.
According to him, he and other leaders of the party have uncovered plots by the Presidency to perfect the impeachment of three more governors from the opposition party.
He listed the governors as Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State; Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State.
“Jonathan’s impunity is endangering the nation. Adamawa APC governor Murtala Nyako was impeached to pave the way for a PDP man to become governor.
“Nasarawa is next. Then, Rivers and Edo. And President Jonathan thinks that all will be well while he violates the constitution and the law. We will see how it all ends. We have been there before!” he wrote in a post on his Facebook page.
While no social media accounts could be traced to Nyako, socio-political commentators have gone online to bare their minds on his impeachment.
A message on the official Twitter page of a former Kwara State Governor, Bukola Saraki, stated that with the impeachment of Nyako, it seemed as if Nigeria was “heading towards a one-party state.”
Also, Rukaiya, a native of Adamawa State and daughter of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, blamed Nyako for his travails.
She described Nyako as being “the worst of them all”, adding that it was unfortunate that he could not “handle” the members of the state legislature
“Nyako could not handle the legislators in his own state, he was never a politician in the first instance. Good riddance to bad rubbish! Nyako has really been the worst of them all!” Rukaiya, who shuttles between Yola, London and Dubai, wrote on her Twitter page.
An online commentator, Chukwu Debelu, stated that the APC’s underestimation of the Peoples Democratic Party contributed to the successful impeachment of Nyako.
An impeachment plot, Debelu argued, takes several weeks of “methodical planning” before being successful.
According to him, while APC was busy grabbing local and international headlines, the PDP worked underground to impeach Nyako.
“I remember Awolowo referring to Shagari as a ‘glorified Grade II teacher’. You don’t underestimate your opponent. Never!
“Now, Nyako has been impeached. I remember the triumphalism from APC earlier this year. PDP should never be underestimated.
“While APC was seizing local and international headlines, the PDP was working silently and methodically to remove Nyako who was put under the radar.
“You don’t impeach a sitting governor in a day. It takes weeks and months of methodical planning.”
Political blogger, Japheth Omojuwa, described the political climate in Adamawa as a “thriller.”
He is of the opinion that Nyako paid dearly for being on the offensive against the President. He, however, blamed the ex-governor for going on the attack “without cover at home.”
Describing the removal of Nyako as a “Machiavellian scheming” from the Presidency, he stated that he should have emulated Amaechi who, he argued, made sure he had his state house of assembly on his side before “going on the attack.”
“Nyako bites the dust. We are the world’s biggest joke and our democracy is at best a joke. However, if he was a performing governor, there’d have been an argument for him,” Omojuwa added on Twitter.
Another respondent, Ogunyemi Bukola, linked Nyako’s travails to the 8-page memo he wrote to Jonathan in which he accused the Federal Government of genocide against northern Nigeria.
Wondering why the APC national leadership could not save Nyako from impeachment, Bukola accused the President of stifling out opposition.
“Sanusi wrote Goodluck Jonathan and he was removed from office as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Murtala Nyako also wrote the President and he was impeached as Adamawa Governor. I think it is safe to say there would be no more letters of criticisms addressed to Jonathan,” Bukola tweeted.
Source: Punch

A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and member of the All Progressives Congress, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has accused the Presidency of orchestrating the impeachment of the Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako.

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Igbo Leaders Pass Vote of No Confidence On Serving Commissioners of Police In The Zone

BOKO HARAM: IGBO LEADERS DEMAND TRANSFER OF CPS IN SOUTH-EAST
Prof. Ben Nwabueze-led Igbo Leaders of Thought yesterday in Enugu demanded the immediate change of the Commissioners of Police in the five states of the South-East. In a statement issued in Enugu and signed by the Deputy Secretary of the body, Evangelist Elliot Uko, the leaders expressed concern that all the Police Commissioners posted to the South-East are Hausa/Fulani.
“Are there no Police Commissioners from the Middle Belt, South-South or South-West that could be posted to the South-East?
“With the shielding of the six Boko Haram bombers arrested at the Owerri church by the Imo State Commissioner of Police, we hereby reject the continual occupation of the South-East by Hausa/ Fulani Muslim Police Commissioners.
“We hereby demand that Police Commissioners Abubakar Adamu Mohamed of Enugu, Usuman Gwari of Anambra, Maigari Dikko of Ebonyi, Abdulmajid Ali of Imo and Adamu Ibrahim of Abia should be immediately juggled and redeployed as we feel uncomfortable with the officers in charge of the South-East as Boko Haram boasts of plans to attack the South.
“We plead with the residents of the South-East and South-South to remain alert and vigilant as the news of the infiltration of the region by Boko Haram seems real. Suspicious individuals and packages must be reported promptly to the relevant security agencies,” the statement said.
The group said its security committee had articulated a security awareness programme, which the South-East Governors’ Forum would work with to secure Igbo land from Boko Haram insurgents.
The statement added that the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe and the Secretary of the group, Prof. Elo Amucheazi, would soon liaise with the South-East governors to fine-tune the South-East security programme.
Source: Sun

Prof. Ben Nwabueze-led Igbo Leaders of Thought yesterday in Enugu demanded the immediate change of the Commissioners of Police in the five states of the South-East. In a statement issued in Enugu and signed by the Deputy Secretary of the body, Evangelist Elliot Uko, the leaders expressed concern that all the Police Commissioners posted to the South-East are Hausa/Fulani.
“Are there no Police Commissioners from the... Middle Belt, South-South or South-West that could be posted to the South-East?

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OSUN 2014 Update: APC Ask Court To Stop Jonathan From Deploying Troops

OSUN: APC ASKS COURT TO STOP JONATHAN FROM DEPLOYING TROOPS
THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to stop President Goodluck Jonathan from deploying troop for the purpose of security during the August 9 governorship election in Osun State.
In a suit no FJC/L/CS/1108/1, the plaintiff is asking the court for “a declaration that by the provisions of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as ammended), it is ultra vires for the president to deploy members of the armed forces to Osun State for the purpose of the conduct of the governorship election scheduled to hold on August 9.”
Consequently, the plaintiff was requesting for an order restraining the president from deploying soldiers to Osun during the election.
President Goodluck Jonathan and the Attorney General of the Federation are the defendants.
Besides, the party is asking the court to grant its reliefs, including costs of filing the suit should the two defendants fail to enter an appearance within the next 30 days.
According to the originating summons in the suit taken on behalf of the plaintiff by M.A Banire & Associates, the chambers of the national legal adviser of APC, Dr Muiz Banire, the suit was brought pursuant to order 3, rules 1, 6 and 9 of the FHC (civil procedure) rules 2009; sections 217 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.
No hearing date has been fixed for the hearing.
Source: Tribune

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to stop President Goodluck Jonathan from deploying troop for the purpose of security during the August 9 governorship election in Osun State.

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Adamawa Speaker, Umaru Fintiri, sworn in as Acting Governor

The Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, Umaru Fintiri, has been sworn into office as the new Acting Governor following the impeachment of Governor Murtala Nyako and the resignation of his deputy.
Mr. Fintiri was sworn in by the President of the Customary Court in the State at the council chambers of Government House, Yola.

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Governor AL-MAKURA Solicits Jonathan's Assitance Of Being Impeached

NASARAWA IMPEACHMENT: AL-MAKURA RUSHES TO ABUJA TO MEET JONATHAN
Following the impeachment notice served on the Nasarawa State governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura by the state Assembly, the embattled state chief executive hurriedly left Lafia, the state capital yesterday for Abuja in an effort to prevail on President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene in the matter.
LEADERSHIP reports that, Al-Makura before leaving the state capital at about 4p.m. had held series of meetings with his aides and party officials intent upon seeing how the impeachment impasse can be surmounted.
Addressing the press at Shendam Road Assembly complex however, the clerk of the Assembly, Mr. Ego Maikeffi, disclosed that after several attempts to serve the impeachment notice on the governor, he was denied access into the Government House.
Ego stated further that in line with the directive of the Speaker, he is set to serve the notice through the media today.
The House Committee chairman on information and security, Hon. Mohammed Baba Ibaku, confirmed the development saying other options of serving the notice would be explored.
In a swift reaction however, the Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Public Affairs, Hon. Abdulhamid Kwarra, denied the report insisting that the Assembly was yet to serve the notice as a 6pm yesterday.
Speaking on the unfolding scenario, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mr. Mark Neto said the state Assembly would be doing a disservice to the state if they had a catalogue of such gross misconduct and refused to take action.
Mr. Neto who noted that the PDP hierarchy in the state would have preferred the party to slug it out with Al-Makura at the poll but regretted however that “posterity would not be fair to the members if they gloss over such grievous misconduct”. He denied that the PDP embarked upon impeachment because it was afraid to face Al-Makura at the polls.
The immediate past state chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Stanley Buba, on his part called on Governor Al-Makura to address the allegations levelled against him promptly, saying that the Assembly was only discharging its constitutional duty.
LEADERSHIP reports that before Al-Makura left for Abuja, notable traditional rulers in the state had converged at the guest house of the Emir of Lafia, Alhaji Isa Mustapha Agwai l, with a view to seeking their intervention on the matter.
Informed sources also disclosed that a high-powered delegation of traditional rulers and other respected stakeholders in the state were expected to join Al-Makura in Abuja today so as to solicit President Jonathan’s intervention.
Source: Leadership

Following the impeachment notice served on the Nasarawa State governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura by the state Assembly, the embattled state chief executive hurriedly left Lafia, the state capital yesterday for Abuja in an effort to prevail on President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene in the matter.
LEADERSHIP reports that, Al-Makura before leaving the state capital at about 4p.m. had held series of meetings with his aides and party officials intent upon seeing how the impeachment impasse can be surmounted.

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Saturday

Breaking News: ASUP Suspends 10 month old strike

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, has suspended its 10-month old strike on Saturday 12 July.
The decision to suspend the strike, which began in October 2013, was reached after a National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the union held in Abuja.

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YOU’VE NO POWER TO SACK ELECTED LG OFFICIALS, S’COURT TELLS GOVERNORS

The Supreme Court yesterday held that no state governor in Nigeria has the right to remove democratically elected local government officials.
The judgement received swift accolades from eminent lawyers including former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide; the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Okey Wali, SAN; Constitutional lawyer, Itse Sagay and Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo.

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LAGOS PASTOR ‘IMPLICATED’ IN RITUAL SAGA OPENS UP

The news broke, just like a thunderbolt. Mrs. Rosemary Chukwu, a mother of four, residing at 33, Omolegede street, a suburb of Ikorodu area in Lagos State, abducted a seven-year-old primary School pupil, Emmanuel Emeka, and was about taking him to a den when it was foiled .
Shockingly, the suspect revealed to the bewildered crowd that gathered after she was caught that her pastor asked her to bring the boy. She mentioned the General Overseer of Holy Family Ministry a.k.a House of Mercy in the same Ikorodu, as her pastor.

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Governor Fashola Urges Nigerian To Vote Out PDP And Get Steady Electricity Supply

VOTE OUT PDP, GET ELECTRICITY -FASHOLA
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Friday said uninterrupted power supply could be achieved in the country.
He explained that the only way to achieve the feat was for Nigerians to vote out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party from power in the 2015 general elections.

Fashola, who said this at an event to mark his administration’s 2,600 in office in Ikeja, said power crisis in the country was caused by lack of ideas and insincerity of purpose on the part of the Federal Government.

He said,” Yes, it is possible to generate electricity and to make sure that everybody in this country has electricity , I agree with you it is simple what we have done in Lagos within the areas where we are constrained showed that it can be done . But you know what the only way that you and I will have electricity in this country will be to vote out the PDP.”

“In 16 years hundreds of billions of naira, trillions of naira have been spent and we cannot switch on electricity and in seven years we have created four plants , it showed that something is missing. So unless you vote for All Progressive Congress, an inefficient government, it is going to be difficult to have electricity.

“They started from vision 2020-20 and I told you then that they were having nightmare that there was no vision.
They moved to seven point agenda and now they are transforming.

” Let me also say that in the last seven years, ask how many new power plants the Federal Government has commissioned because sometimes the power that is coming to Lagos at most is 1000 mega watts.”

Fashola said his administration in the last 100 days gave priority attention to provision of homes for Lagosians through the Lagos Home ownership Mortgage Scheme.

He explained that the state government in a bid to reduce the housing deficit in the state has continued to give out 200 housing units every month to subscribers to the scheme, adding that the state government intensified efforts to ensure that those in the informal sector benefit from the scheme.

In the area of infrastructural development , he said the state government completed so many road projects across the state within the period , noting that 205 roads projects were at various stages of construction in the state.
Source: Punch

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Friday said uninterrupted power supply could be achieved in the country.
He explained that the only way to achieve the feat was for Nigerians to vote out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party from power in the 2015 general elections.

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Ochendo and inspirational legacy projects-- Dele Sobowale

Ochendo and inspirational legacy projects
BY Dele Sobowale

“We have six dialysis machines in the Diagnostic Centre. Two are reserved for people with HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis separately, while the remaining four are used for other patients to avoid infecting other patients with those diseases.” Prof. A.U. Mbanaso, CMD, Abia State Untra-modern Diagnostic Centre, Umuahia, Abia State, June 13, 2014.

Politics has reached fever pitch in Nigeria; even when the 2015 elections are still seven to eight months away. Not wanting to be left on the starting block, politicians have embarked on doing what they do best – peddling half truths or blatant falsehood against their opponents and in their own favour. The last thing the public should expect is absolute truth from professional politicians. When Louis Howe, 1871-1936, wrote that, “You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain [totally] honest”, (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 192), he left us with an axiom which will stand the test of time.

And, of all politicians on earth, the Nigerian breed is in a class of its own. It is the only specie of politicians known globally to practice “Politics without principle” (Gandhi in BOOK OF QUOTES, p 245) and he is not ashamed of it. A Nigerian politician would spend years raining maledictions on the opposition party and then call a press conference one day to announce that he had joined the “devils” he was denouncing just a few weeks ago.

Unfortunately, when Nigerian politicians operate at their worst, my fellow media practitioners forget the strong advice by Malvin Kalb in 1997. Said Kalb, “A journalist [or media practitioner] should be pursuing a fair rendition of truth without regard to popular moods, the journalist should not be swayed by public opinion..” (BOOK p 109). Unfortunately, Nigerian “mediaticians” working for several newspapers have become so partisan they have lost their objectivity. Whatever Jonathan does will be viewed and presented through the prism of biased lenses. For some, the action can never be faulted; for others, it can never be right.

Yet, that is precisely the sort of “journalism” we don’t need – if Nigeria is ever to have a chance of making solid progress. And, it is for that reason that I have refrained from being a card-carrying member of any political party. If, as we all proclaim, we want free and fair elections, we must start with impartial “referees and linesmen/women” in the Fourth Estate of the Realm. Being impartial does not mean not blowing the whistle for a foul committed; or even awarding a penalty, if it is deserved. It means not prejudging every measure taken by an elected or selected public official in advance.

I have deliberately withheld comment on the Pension Bill passed by the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly because it would amount to the highest form of hypocrisy for me to denounce it when it is only the latest in a series of pension bills passed by governors in APC and PDP – mostly without any protest from those who now denounce Akpabio. On account of this, I made up my mind to investigate and comment on as many cases of controversy concerning the performance of governors in various states – without prejudice to anybody regardless of political affiliation. Selecting a starting point was easy, Abia comes first in alphabetical order and there is a storm of controversy about what had been or not achieved by its Governor, fondly called Ochendo, by the people. So, to Abia, I went.
Just before my departure, there was a news report about Governor T.A.Orji, being crowned as the AGRIC GOVERNOR OF THE YEAR 2014, at the AGRIKEXPO organized by NAFDAC among other sponsors. Remarkably, this is governor being portrayed by his political opponents as a non-achiever. If out of 36 governors a fellow comes first, on food security, I don’t care which political party he belongs to, he has earned my deepest respect. My scale of preferences for elected officials is as follows: food first, health second, education third, infrastructure next. Contrary to what most people believe, governments cannot create enough jobs to employ all the people; they can only create the enabling environment for businesses to thrive and create the jobs. Let President, Jonathan or a Governor provide sufficient food for Nigerians to banish malnutrition and I will worship whoever it is – irrespective of party. But, before the deification starts, I will go out and find out things by myself – using official resources and branching out to conduct independent survey.

Rest assured I am sufficiently familiar with just about every part of Nigeria not to be fooled by official proclamations. Since AGRIKEXPO had done my “dirty” work for me on Ochendo’s achievements on agriculture, I focused next on health. Here, I not only received a rare education on the uses, and especially abuses, of DIALYSIS machines from the Abia State Ultra-Modern Diagnostic Centre, more on that later on, that I could hardly wait till this day to pass the knowledge across to Nigerians. And, I urge everyone of the readers of this article to help pass the message.

Dialysis machines have indisputably served to prolong the lives of people suffering from chronic or total kidney impairment. But, unknown to most of us, they can also result in cross infection if the same machines are used for all the patients. HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis have been identified as possible risks patients dialysed on machines which serve all comers. To the best of my knowledge, only Abia State’s Diagnostic Centre has made this life-saving distinction. Years ago, a book titled IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE was a global best seller. I learnt only one great lesson from that book. If you are searching for excellence in any field of endeavour in any country, get out, travel wide and see things for yourself. Abia State’s Diagnostic Centre can only be described in one word EXCELLENT….
Don’t believe me. Go and see it for yourself.

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“We have six dialysis machines in the Diagnostic Centre. Two are reserved for people with HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis separately, while the remaining four are used for other patients to avoid infecting other patients with those diseases.” Prof. A.U. Mbanaso, CMD, Abia State Untra-modern Diagnostic Centre, Umuahia, Abia State, June 13, 2014.

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ASHIWAJU FACE OF THE WEEK

Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected as the 14th president of the ANC. Ramaphosa became deputy president after his election to the position in the ANC in 2012. At the time he was wooed by President Jacob Zuma’s camp to give the slate “credibility” when then ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe contested Zuma for the top post. Before that he was the chair of the national planning commission that produced the National Development Plan, the country’s blue print for growth towards 2030.

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Wednesday

Jonathan Plans To Impeach Three More Governors- El-Rufai

Igbo Leaders Pass Vote of No Confidence On Serving Commissioners of Police In The Zone

OSUN 2014 Update: APC Ask Court To Stop Jonathan From Deploying Troops

Adamawa Speaker, Umaru Fintiri, sworn in as Acting Governor

Governor AL-MAKURA Solicits Jonathan's Assitance Of Being Impeached

Saturday

Breaking News: ASUP Suspends 10 month old strike

YOU’VE NO POWER TO SACK ELECTED LG OFFICIALS, S’COURT TELLS GOVERNORS

LAGOS PASTOR ‘IMPLICATED’ IN RITUAL SAGA OPENS UP

Governor Fashola Urges Nigerian To Vote Out PDP And Get Steady Electricity Supply

Ochendo and inspirational legacy projects-- Dele Sobowale

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