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  • Bandits invade Katsina community, kill APC chairman

    Bandits invade Katsina community, kill APC chairman

    Alhaji Abdulhamid Sani, APC Chairman in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina have been killed by bandits.

    The 55 year-old Sani was killed Sunday by bandits in a shooting rampage.

    Katsina Police Spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, confirmed Sani’s death in a statement on Sunday.

    “Today, 31/05/2020, at about 1:35 p.m., bandits in their numbers, attacked Sabon-garin Dumburawa in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State.

    “The bandits began shooting sporadically with sophisticated weapons.

    “They killed a 55-year-old APC Chairman in Batsari local Government Area, Abdulhamid Sani, when he resisted to be kidnapped by the hoodlums,” he said.

    Isah said that Operation Puff Adder and Sharan Daji have responded.

    The operatives are now searching the forest to arrest the hoodlums.

  • Suspension: Appeal Court fails to hear Oshiomhole’s suit

    The Court of Appeal in Abuja failed on Friday to hear the appeal filed by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole.

    Oshiomhole’s appeal is against the March 4, 2020 interlocutory ruling by Justice Danlami Senchi of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Jabi, suspending him (Oshiomhole) from office.

    On March 10 this year, the Court of Appeal in Abuja, heard an ex-parte motion argued for Oshiomhole by Wole Olanipekun (SAN), and ordered a stay of the execution of the ruling by Justice Senchi, pending the determination of the appeal by the APC Chairman.

    The appellate court then adjourned further hearing till March 20, 2020.
    When parties got to court on Friday, one of its officials told lawyers in the case that the court will no longer hear the appeal as earlier scheduled.

    The official said a fresh hearing date will be communicated to parties.

    Details shortly…

  • BREAKING: Another court reinstates Oshiomhole as APC Chairman

    A ruling of the FCT High Court suspending the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has been set aside by a Federal High Court sitting in Kano on Thursday.

    Justice Lewis Allagoa who set aside the ruling also ordered the Nigerian Police Force and Department of State Service (DSS) to provide security for Oshiomhole to resume in his office, Channels TV reported.

    Details shortly.

  • BREAKING: Court suspends Oshiomhole as APC chairman

    BREAKING: Court suspends Oshiomhole as APC chairman

    A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Jabi on Wednesday ordered the suspension of the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, pending the determination of a substantive suit.

    The judge, Danlami Senchi, gave the order following an application of interlocutory injunction asking the court to suspend Mr Oshiomhole, having been suspended as a member of the APC by the party in Edo State.

    The application was filed by an applicant, Oluwale Afolabi.

    While Mr Oshiomhole is the first respondent, the APC is the second respondent.

    Mr Afolabi in his application dated and filed on January 16 had contended that Mr Oshiomhole is currently suspended by the party and has not challenged the suspension.

    According to Mr Afolabi, Mr Oshiomhole’s rights as an APC member is currently abated and he cannot continue to act as chairman of the party.

    He argued that Mr Oshiomhole cannot continue to enjoy benefits from the APC, despite his suspension as a member of the party.

    A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Damian Dodo, is the lawyer representing Mr Oshiomhole and the APC.

    In his ruling on Wednesday, Justice Senchi held that the first and second respondents wrongfully kept Mr Oshiomhole as the national chairman of the party.

    The court also ordered that Mr Oshiomole should stop parading himself as the chairman of the APC.

    He urged the APC to desist from acknowledging him as the chairman of the party

    The court has also given the APC orders not to grant Mr Oshiomhole access to the party secretariat.

  • JUST IN: Thugs attack APC Chairman, other excos during ‘thank you’ tour

    JUST IN: Thugs attack APC Chairman, other excos during ‘thank you’ tour

    Suspected thugs have attacked Kwara state chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Hon Bashir Bolarinwa and other members of the executive council.

    The attack on Tuesday evening this week confirmed the lingering crisis within the Kwara APC.

    According to a report by The Nation, members of the party’s excos were attacked in Shao town, Moro local government area of the state during a thank-you tour of the council for the massive support for APC at the last general elections.

    During the attack, the party bus that conveyed the party chiefs were was said to have been damaged by the suspected party thugs.

    It was also gathered that windscreen of the bus was shattered by the attackers who were said to have also threatened to inflict bodily harm to the party chairman and his team.

    In the ensuing melee party members, loyalists and supporters at the venue had to run for dear lives, it was gathered.

    During the attack, some members of a group said to be loyal to the under aegis of AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq Support group, alongside some youths, invaded the venue of the meeting and prevented the party chairman and members of his team from holding the planned meeting.

    Confirming the development, the state vice chairman of the party, Sunday Oyebiyi, described the attack as unfortunate, saying it could lead to disintegration of the party in the state.

    He said that police permit was sought and got on the planned tour of the 16 local government areas of the state, particularly when some members of the party loyal to the governor stood against it.

    Oyebiyi, who is also zonal chairman, (Kwara North) of the party, was also among entourage of the party chairman to Shao, saying that members of the party are eagerly waiting for outcome of intervention being done by elders of the party into the crisis.

    He called on members of the party to remain calm and embrace peace and love in their dealings.

    Governor Abdulrazeek Abdulrazaq condemned the attack, calling on the police command to fish out all the perpetrators and prosecute them.

    The governor in a statement by his media aide Rafiu Ajakaye described the attack as disturbing.

    “We condemn in strongest terms possible the alleged attack on the state chairman of the APC Hon. Bashiru Omolaja Bolarinwa allegedly by some hoodlums in Moro local government. This is very disturbing.

    ”The Governor is very proud of the peaceful atmosphere in the state and
    seriously frowns at any action that might heat up the polity under whatever guise.

    “He calls on the security agencies to not just fish out those behind the attack but to also make sure they face the full weight of the law.

    “For the record, the state faces many developmental issues and the Governor has no time for anything that does not add value to the lives of the people he’s been elected to govern.”

  • JUST IN: Cross River APC chairman, others die in auto crash

    Chairman of the Cross River State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Mathew Achigbe, is dead.

    Achigbe died in an auto crash along Afikpo Road in Ebonyi State in the early hours of Saturday while on his way back from a church programme in Enugu State.

    He was said to have died alongside other yet-to-be-identified occupants in his Toyota Sports Utility Vehicle.

    The state Publicity Secretary, Mr. Bassey Ita, did not pick up calls to his phone when contacted.

    However, the state party Vice Chairman, Mr. John Ochala, said the news came as a rude shock to party members.

    He said, “He went for a Catholic Church programme and was on his way to Obubra when this incident happened.

    “He was to meet with the party leaders in Obubra Local Government Area and the leaders were already gathered and waiting in his house when the news filtered in that he had died in a fatal road accident. Everybody is in a state of shock, we cannot make any comment for now.”

    Also, the National Vice Chairman of APC, South-South, Chief Hilliard Eta, confirmed the sad development.

    “It is true, we have lost our state chairman. We are very saddened by the loss of our chairman to a car accident on his way back from a Catholic Knight programme in which he was a leader. We are so saddened that we cannot have an official reaction for now.

    “Some other people also died in the accident but we do not have the identities of those who died yet. I do not think anybody survived that accident. It is an unfortunate development,” he added.