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  • To give 2023 presidential ticket to Atiku Abubakar will cause total disintegration of Nigeria- Ohanaeze warns PDP

    To give 2023 presidential ticket to Atiku Abubakar will cause total disintegration of Nigeria- Ohanaeze warns PDP

    The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has warned that if the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, hands the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, its 2023 presidential ticket, it would cause a total disintegration of Nigeria.

    The group advised Abubakar to drop his presidential ambition to uphold the unity of the Nigerian nation.

    Speaking to newsmen in Owerri, Imo State capital, the National President of Ohanaeze Youth Council, Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, said the council frowns at what he described as “the undue desperation of Atiku Abubakar to pick the presidential ticket of People’s Democratic Party, PDP.”

    The Igbo youth group said, “If PDP denies a southeasterner Presidential ticket, the only thing over 50 million Igbo youths must ensure is to keep Nigeria one by massively voting APC presidential candidate from the southeast, and no PDP office/flag from ward level to state level will stand erect in the southeast. We’ll fight PDP like Yakubu Gowon did to keep Nigeria one.

    According to the council, “Atiku Abubakar should go to the history line of PDP formation from G34 led by Dr Alex Ekwueme before it became a political party, to ascertain that the southeast has paid the ultimate sacrifice in PDP more than any other zone in Nigeria.”

    Speaking further, the group reiterated that southeastern people had contributed to the formation, building, as well as sustaining PDP as the biggest party in Africa.

    “Atiku Abubakar’s call to contest in PDP is a call to interrupt the Unity and Peace in Nigeria and such move will lead to National political disaster, anarchy and tribal crises that will sink Nigeria.

    “If PDP denies a southeasterner Presidential ticket, the only thing over 50 million Igbo youths must ensure is to keep Nigeria one by massively voting APC Presidential candidate from Southeast, and no PDP office/flag from ward level to state level will stand erect in Southeast. We’ll fight PDP like Yakubu Gowon did to keep Nigeria one.

    “PDP must avoid using Atiku Abubakar, Aminu Tambuwal and other selfish presidential Aspirants that are not from Southeast to disintegrate or cause Nigeria her national unity,” Igboayaka maintained.

    “It’s derogatory that Atiku Abubakar boasted how he used Ben Obi and Peter Obi as running mates. Atiku Abubakar should know that if any Nigerian desires to see Nigeria as the ‘Giant of Africa’ as proposed by Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zik of Africa), then it’s high time he dropped his presidential ambition and support a credible and competent presidential aspirant from Southeast to build the Nigeria of Zik vision,” he stated.

    “Atiku Abubakar must awaken his human consciousness and realize that among the Six geo-political Zone in Nigeria, Southeast gave him the overwhelming highest vote, which led the present administration of President Mohammadu Buhari to nick-name Southeastern people 5%.

     

    Therefore, it is historical that Atiku Abubakar and PDP family is owing the southeastern people reciprocation gratitude in the 2023 presidential election.”

  • Ebonyi: Umahi’s cold causes chronic flu for PDP defectors

    Ebonyi: Umahi’s cold causes chronic flu for PDP defectors

    … from all indications more elected political officers may backpedal to PDP

    …also, Senator Oduah and others maybe heading back to PDP

    By Emman Ovuakporie

    The Abuja Federal High Court judgment that sent Governor Dave Umahi packing has sent most Peoples Democratic Party, PDP defectors into panic mode as Umahi’s cold has given such decampees acute flu.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) in this brief analysis will take a look at how this development has placed some of these decampees into a panic mode.

    From all indications, all Federal lawmakers that defected from 2019 till date may have a case to answer because the watertight judgement is laced around the fact that no individual has the right to transfer the votes of his original party to another.

    Call it an iron fist judgment but the crux of the matter is that the valid votes of one party cannot be transferred into another party.
    The court, in a judgement that was delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo, held that the total number of 393, 042 votes governor Umahi secured during the March 9, 2019 governorship election in Ebonyi state, belonged to the PDP and same could not be legally transferred to the APC.

    According to the court, having defected to the APC, both Umahi and his deputy, not only jettisoned the PDP, but also the votes that belonged to it.

    It held that going by the outcome of the governorship election, the office of the governor and deputy governor in Ebonyi state, “belong to the Plaintiff and no other political party”.

    This development also affected 16 Ebonyi State legislators, if the appellate courts support this judgment, the fate of other PDP defectors including governors will rest squarely on the balance.

    To this end, a concerned indigene of Anambra has gone to court challenging, Rep Chris Azubuogu who defected from PDP to APGA to declare his seat vacant.

    Hear his grounds: Concerned indigene of Nnewi, Stanley Okpala dragged Hon. Chris Emeka Azubogu of the House of Representatives to Court, seeking that his seat be declared vacant.

    The Plaintiff in his originating Summons with suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/324/2022 filed by his lawyers Johnmary C. Jideobi and Ndubuisi Oko Ukpai, Esq. is also asking the court to cancel (Hon. Chris Emeka Azubogu), the 1st defendant’s certificate of return.

    Mr. Okpala’s sole issue was whether upon an intimate reading and complete understanding of section 68(1) (g) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, and especially in view of the decision of the Nigerian Supreme Court in Abegundu v. Ondo State House of Assembly, (2015) 8 NWLR. Part 1461 Page 314, the 1st Defendant who defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance [APGA] from the People’s Democratic Party [on which platform he was elected Member of the Federal House of Representatives and where there was no faction as at time of his defection] ought not to have his seat in the House of Representatives declared vacant by this Honourable Court?

    Other defendants in the suit are the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Peoples Democratic Party, sued as 2nd and 3rd defendants respectively.

    According to Mr. Okpala, He is entitled to the following reliefs from the Honourable Court against the Defendant.

    A DECLARATION of the Court that upon an intimate reading and complete understanding of section 68(1) (g) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, and especially in view of the decision of the Nigerian Supreme Court in Abegundu v. Ondo State House of Assembly, (2015) 8 NWLR. Part 1461 Page 314, the 1st Defendant who defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance [APGA] from the People’s Democratic Party [on which platform he was elected Member of the Federal House of Representatives and where there was no faction as at time of his defection] ought to have his seat in the House of Representatives declared vacant by the Court.

    AN ORDER of Court declaring vacant the seat of CHRIS EMEKA AZUBOGU and cancelling his Certificate of Return issued to him by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

    More of these challenges will soon mount the centre stage as the 2023 general elections approaches.

    Also, there are speculations that Senator Stella Oduah and some Federal lawmakers that defected from PDP may backpedal soon.

    Although unconfirmed sources claim that anytime from now Oduah maybe heading back to her original party the PDP.

    TNG recalls that since 2019, it was almost on a daily basis that lawmakers were defecting particularlly at the Federal legislature in a bid to grab juicy committees or out of sheer greed.

    This judgment may just change the narrative if it flies through the appellate courts.

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  • PDP, Ize-Iyamu dispute over electioneering fund

    PDP, Ize-Iyamu dispute over electioneering fund

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Edo State chapter and the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, are bickering over funding ahead of the September 19 election.

     

    PDP, on Thursday in Benin through its Publicity Secretary, Chris Nehikhare, accused APC and its candidate of desperation to win the poll at all costs and “raiding” a national institution, the NEXIM Bank, thereby bleeding it to the outrageous tune of $500million, to be converted to a loan and the burden of repayment would be placed on Edo people.

     

    Ize-Iyamu, through his campaign organisation’s Director of Communication and Media, Prince John Mayaki, described himself as an unblemished candidate.

     

     

    PDP said: “It is indeed ironic that while the ruling APC’s administration prides itself as an anti-corruption government, its Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who was caught in a video collecting gratification, has been saddled with the responsibility of delivering another governor. A lizard cannot give birth to a crocodile, no matter the size.

     

    “Let us be clear on one thing, APC has only one goal, and that goal is not fighting corruption, it is advancing its cause. This is another reason Edo people must reject the party and not allow it near the treasury.

     

    “APC’s National Campaign Council, in collaboration with a director at NEXIM Bank, has perfected plans to deplete our common patrimony by drawing down $500million to prosecute the governorship election. This unholy arrangement is absurd, illegal, criminal and must be condemned.”

     

     

  • Senate opens chapter for National Conference, demands report

    The Senate on Thursday requested for the submission of the 2014 National Conference report for consideration by the Federal Government.

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    Senate opens chapter for National Conference, demands for Conference report

    The Senate’s decision was sequel to a motion sponsored by the Leader of Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, on the need for National Unity and Peaceful Co-existence in Nigeria, Today reports.

    The National Conference was set up by the regime of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

    Jonathan had promised to implement the recommendations if he was re-elected.

    However, his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was defeated by the All Progressives Congress (APC), which had Muhammadu Buhari as presidential candidate.