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  • After his charge, Ben Murray-Bruce welcomes estranged Senator

    Embattled Senator Dino Melaye estranged in his All Progressives Congress (APC) party on Wednesday made moves to joining his former party and his colleague in the Senate, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, has okayed the development.

    TheNewsGuru reports Melaye defected to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday when he resumed plenary after battling allegations he was involved in certain crimes.

    He moved from the APC wing in the Senate to the PDP and was seen seated close to former Senate President David Mark, who is a staunch member of the PDP.

    “Great to have Dino Melaye at the Senate today and hearty welcome to our great party, PDP,” Murray-Bruce tweeted on his official Twitter handle.

    Senator Melaye, who was wooed on Monday by the PDP’s Bayelsa East Senator to resume plenary today, appeared in the red chambers donning a cervical collar, and using a walking stick.

    “We will treat you good – no trauma or intimidation whatsoever,” the Bayelsa Senator told his Kogi counterpart.

    Senator Murray-Bruce charged the former APC Senator to resume plenary in whatever condition he is, stressing that the National Assembly has not felt the same since he has been away.

    “I want Dino Melaye to come to the Senate on Wednesday even if he is on crutches. The Nigerian Senate is not the same without Dino. We miss him. I know he is on crutches but I want him to come on Wednesday and I will stand with him,” Murray-Bruce tweeted on Monday.

    Senator Melaye is yet to release official statement on his deflection to the PDP.

     

  • Rivers: Congresses that produced our Exco not before any court – Ojukaye

    The newly-elected Rivers State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ojukaye Flag-Amachree has stated that the APC Ward, Local Government and State Congresses that took place May 19, 20 and 21 respectively which saw to his emergence as the State Chairman were not a subject of any court action.

    Flag-Amachree was reacting to a Port Harcourt High Court ruling Wednesday that annulled congresses held in the State by the APC.

    “The reported annulment must be connected to the matter relating to the disputed May 5 and 12 Ward and Local Government APC Congresses of which our lawyers have actively been pursuing.

    “As far as we are concerned, we were not served any fresh cause of action against the May 19, 20 and 21 congresses. It is unthinkable and unimaginable because no such linkage exists,” he said.

    Explaining further, Flag-Amachree stated that it was absurd for anyone to talk about the new set of congresses even when the party counsels had filed a notice of preliminary objection against the jurisdiction of the court and the notice of appeal to that effect brought to the notice of the court over the May 5 and 12 congresses that the national leadership of APC eventually cancelled.

    “We believe that the court knows that it is its duty to determine the matter of preliminary objections and other motions filed by APC counsels before it can question subsequent congresses or actions of the party. At this moment, there is no court action and/or order on the State Exco or all those that emerged at different levels of the party on May 19, 20 and 21 congresses,” he said.

    The State APC Chairman assured party faithful and the general public that there was no cause for alarm, stressing that the party will not waste time in taking any unfavourable court outcome to the highest possible level of appeal.

     

  • 2019: Lawmaker dumps APC, decamps to PDP

    A member of the House of Representatives who represents Kachia/Kagarko federal constituency, Adams Jagaba, has formally defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

    The Kaduna lawmaker in a letter read on the floor of the House by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, cited injustice and continued suspension from the APC as his reason for defecting to the PDP.

     

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  • Breaking: Dino Melaye abandons APC, defects to PDP

    Outspoken and presently embattled Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the Senate has abandoned his political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    TheNewsGuru reports Melaye defected to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday when he resumed plenary after battling allegations he was involved in certain crimes.

    He moved from the APC wing in the Senate to the PDP and was seen seated close to former Senate President David Mark, who is a staunch member of the PDP.

    Senator Melaye, who was wooed on Monday by PDP’s Bayelsa East Senator Ben Murray-Bruce to resume plenary today, appeared in the red chambers donning a cervical collar, and using a walking stick.

    Senator Murray-Bruce charged the former APC Senator to resume plenary in whatever condition he is, stressing that the National Assembly has not felt the same since he has been away.

    “I want Dino Melaye to come to the Senate on Wednesday even if he is on crutches. The Nigerian Senate is not the same without Dino. We miss him. I know he is on crutches but I want him to come on Wednesday and I will stand with him,” Murray-Bruce tweeted on Monday.

    Senator Melaye is yet to release an official statement to this development.

    Details to follow shortly…

     

  • Stop comparing our three years administration with PDP’s 16 years – Osinbajo

    Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said comparing the three-year-old administration of the incumbent All Progressives Congress (AP) to the sixteen years administration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was unfair.

    He said the fact that the opposition PDP had started assessing the present government even shortly after spending two years in office showed that “we have performed well.”

    Osinbajo said this in his short remarks at a gala night/dinner organised to round off activities marking the 2018 Democracy Day.

    The Vice-President stood in for President Muhammadu Buhari at the event held at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    Osinbajo said it was important for the current government officials to thank God for having been in office for three years.

    He said he would not have believed the prophesy if anybody had told him five years ago that he would become the nation’s Vice-President.

    Osinbajo said the administration had recorded great success.

    He said for those who had been in government for 16 years comparing themselves to an administration that was just three years, showed that the administration had done very well.

    Earlier, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha, described the evening as auspicious in the sense that it was the third year of Buhari’s administration and 19 years of democracy.

    “As we go into the fourth lap of this administration, good things are about to happen,” he said.

    According to the SGF, the democracy lecture delivered by a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, on Monday, was one that would be discussed for a long time.

    Mustapha said, “Jega spoke truth to power across all divides and that the time has come for Nigerians to begin to tell themselves the truth if the country must experience the desired change.

    “He spoke to all divides, executive, judiciary and legislature. I believe it is high time we told ourselves the truth if we must experience the desired change.”

    Osinbajo, during the event, formally received members of Team Nigeria that participated in the 21st Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast 2018, Australia.

    The Minister of Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalung, said the athletes made Nigeria proud at the games both as athletes and ambassadors in discipline and conduct.

     

  • Ekiti Guber: Adeyeye’s defection to APC won’t affect PDP’s chances – Fayose

    Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti says the defection of former Minister of State for Works, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye from the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not affect the party’s fortune in the forthcoming governorship elections scheduled to hold on July 14, 2018.

    The governor made the disclosure in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media, Mr Lere Olayinka in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday.

    Fayose said that Adeyeye’s defection to the APC had merely confirmed his earlier position that he was never a loyal and committed member of the PDP.

    According to him, I am not bothered by the action taken by the former aspirant in the just concluded PDP governorship primary election in the state.

    “His move to APC will not in any way affect us. This is because majority of those he thought were behind him did not defect with him.

    “In fact, one of his two party agents for the last primary is still with us in PDP and you know what that means.

    “If somebody is your party agent and could not go with you to another party it tells a lot and even as he is moving from PDP, many others from APC are coming to us, so we have nothing to lose with his defection,” he said.

    The governor said that he held no grudge against him because he had the right to move from one political party to the other adding that he wished him well in his new party.

    “While he was the PDP national spokesman, he had spoken terrible things against the APC and he has now gone to join the same party,” Fayose said.

  • Democracy Day: PDP ‘sympathises’ with Nigerians, urges mass action against APC in 2019

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised Nigerians to take decide their destinies by collecting and using their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in 2019 elections to save Nigeria and its democracy.

    National Chairman of the party, Mr Uche Secondus, gave the advice in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Ike Abonyi, on Tuesday in Abuja.

    Secondus said that democracy, which PDP nurtured for 16 years had been “grossly undermined’’ by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration, in the last three years.

    He said that Nigerians were anxiously looking forward to the opportunity to dispense with the ruling party.

    Secondus said he sympathised with Nigerians “for finding themselves in horrible situation on a day they should be celebrating freedom and good governance, but were burying their innocent ones and groaning in avoidable hardship”.

    “If democracy must survive in our country we must do away with APC, and Nigerians are ready and willing to do just that because they cherish democracy as the best form of government.

    “Going by their poor record of performance in the last 36 months, and the determination of Nigerians to put the country in the right footing, this is the last Democracy Day this President will mark.’’

    The chairman said that the agenda of the APC government now was to intimidate, harass and scare opponents to create a Police state with the aim of turning the country into one party.

    He added that 2018 democracy day would be the last for the ruling party at the federal level going by the non-performance of the party.

    According to him, next Democracy Day, which Nigerians and indeed, all lovers of democracy are anxiously looking forward to, will be the transition to real democracy which PDP is returning to give Nigeria.

    Secondus called on the international community to show more than passing interest in the events leading to Nigeria’s general elections in 2019.

    He alleged that APC’s rigging strategy had started through intimidation and harassment of political opponents.

  • BREAKING: Ex-PDP spokesperson, Adeyeye, supporters defect to APC

    A former Spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has defected to the All Progressives Congress.

    The former Minister of State for ‎Works said he was joining forces with the APC and its candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to rescue Ekiti.

    Recall that Adeyeye while acting as the spokesperson of PDP, spoke against the tenets of the party as well as vigorously condemned the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

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  • Why Obasanjo’s criticism of Buhari should be ignored – APC UK

    Mr Ade Omole, a leader of the United Kingdom chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says former President Olusegun Obasanjo´s criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari should not be taken seriously.

    He spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja while reacting to Obasanjo’s accusation of the president and the ruling APC government as “ underperforming.’’

    Omole said Obasanjo´s criticism of Buhari was full of contradictions when critically examined, adding that the former president’s campaign was all about power struggle.

    According to Omole, Obasanjo´s attacks are personally motivated and an unalloyed attempt to manipulate the masses and the electorate ahead of the 2019 general elections.

    “The timing is quite key and it is his personal push to unseat President Buhari; it is easy to criticise any government, Trump and the current British Government are severely criticised every day,” he said.

    He called on Nigerians to continue to support the Federal Government, saying it was doing everything possible to improve the well-being of the people.

    Omole added that the support of Nigerians was critical to enable the president get a second term in office and consolidate on his developmental initiatives.

    “He deserves a second term and we are delighted that he has decided to go for re-election, and we shall fully support his bid.

    “I strongly believe that President Buhari has done more than expected by most Nigerians considering the situation in the country before he assumed office in 2015”.

    “This APC-led government is making steady progress, especially in the areas of economy, tackling insecurity and corruption as well as power and transportation,” Omole said.

    Omole said Buhari’s approach to the country´s economic and security problems was sustainable and long-lasting, adding that he had also earned the support of the international community.

    He also said the president had worked ceaselessly to restore the morale of the Nigerian military by re-organising and equipping the armed forces.

    Omole also said the president had ensured continued peace in the Niger Delta through consistent funding of the amnesty programme for former militants.

    Buhari, he added, had also ensured the implementation of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan to boost the country’s economic recovery.

    “He has expended tremendously on capital infrastructure projects nationwide and has ensured effective implementation of the Treasury Single Account and increased government revenue by over N3 trillion in the last three years.

    “He has also entrenched transparency and accountability in the system and has ensured the implementation of the Bank Verification Number (BVN) system”, he said.

    This, according to Omole, ensured the tackling corruption by plugging loopholes for siphoning public funds and tracking of illicit funds through multiple accounts.

    NAN

  • Tinubu invites Falana, Ajibade to APC

    National Leader of the APC, Chief Bola Tinubu, has called on Mr Femi Falana (SAN) and veteran journalist, Mr Kunle Ajibade, to join hands with the party to move Nigeria forward.

    In a birthday message to the duo, Tinubu described Falana and Ajibade as icons in their chosen fields, whose contributions would continue to mean much to the country.

    “The month of May which in 1999 heralded the rebirth of democracy in Nigeria after almost 16 years of unbroken military interregnum, is also significant in one other respect.

    “It is the month of birth of many prominent Nigerians.

    “As both were united in their month of birth, there is also an unmistakable meeting point in their life trajectories.

    “Both fought against successive military regimes to facilitate the emergence of democracy in the country,” Tinubu noted.

    He said that Falana and Ajibade fought to ensure that Nigeria would be a citadel of social justice, rule of law and a better place for generations.

    “There is no doubt that both Falana and Ajibade had impacted on Nigeria and Nigerians in the most profound ways.

    “We thank them for their struggles and we thank them for their sacrifices but we are not yet in the Promised Land.

    “We enjoin the duo not to rest on their oars but join hands with us in the All Progressives Congress, led by President Muhammadu Buhari, to make Nigeria a better place,’’ Tinubu said.

    According to him, Falana and Ajibade have continued to contribute to the enthronement of democracy, good governance and rule of law in the country.

    “I say happy birthday to them and wish them long life, continued good health and renewed energy to continue to make invaluable contributions to our country.”

    “He described the duo as close friends with whom he had interacted in the continuous struggle for enthronement of true democracy, good governance and rule of law.

    “Mr Falana is a lawyer, pro-democracy and human rights activist, who continues to employ the instrumentality of the law to correct the ills of the society.

    “His contributions to constitutionalism and jurisprudence know no bounds.

    “He takes briefs from the rich to empower him to fight injustice against the poor pro bono.

    “Ajibade is that astute journalist and celebrated author, who through his pen, fought against the military junta and was particularly a thorn in the flesh of the regime of the late Abacha.

    “He authored two popular books – ‘Jailed for Life’ – his experience in prison for which he was clamped by the Abacha junta, and ‘What a Country’ – which speaks about the ills in the country,’’ Tinubu said.