The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that members and staff of the Assembly scampered for safety when armed operatives of the DSS invaded the Assembly complex last week Friday
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He said nobody in the National Working Committee led by him would be allowed to manipulate the process in any state in the forthcoming congresses
In a statement by the state Secretary of the party, Paul Omotoso, to the Commissioner of Police, Etop James, and state Director of the DSS, entitled: “Complaint On Governor Ayodele Fayose’s Planned Mass Violence In Ekiti State,” the party said it was aware of clandestine plots by the governor to cause massive violent protest against DSS and APC members that could lead to unprecedented breach of peace in the entire Ekiti State
The Assembly members, who vowed not to collaborate with anyone to truncate the government of Governor Fayose, added that they were prepared to spend the rest of their tenure in DSS cell, instead of joining people that they roundly defeated in five straight elections to cause another political instability in Ekiti State
The Governor stated this in a state broadcast to the people of the state on the creation of additional 31 Local Council development Areas, three Area Councils and two Administrative Offices
It could be recalled that since the inception of the present administration in the state, only N20 million was released to each of the 25 local government councils in the state apart from the payment of salaries of the local government staff
While expressing shock and dismay over his purported suspension from the APC on Tuesday, Lado stated that as a founding member of the party, it will be unfair to only hear about his purported suspension from the media instead of the party’s usual channel of communication
The FCT Area Council, with a total of 1,020,799 registered voters in six Area Councils will be manned by: 6,624 Assistant Presiding Officers (APOs I, II, III); 9,375 Presiding Officers; 62 Supervising Presiding Officers (SPOs); 62 Collation Officers (CO); and six Returning Officers (RO), with 428 Reserves
Ajimobi said the newly appointed transition committee chairmen have only four months to stay in office before the council election would be conducted
ddressing journalists at the state’s party secretariat in Minna, the Niger State capital, Liman said out of the 13 legislators in both chambers of the National Assembly produced by the party, only six have paid their dues till date
NEC after exhaustive deliberations approved the extension of the tenure of office of all organs of the party at all levels until the conduct of Congresses and National Convention. This is however with the exception of Edo and Ondo States
Speaking on Wave FM 91.7 news and current affairs programme, “Crux of the Matter,” Abe said the criticism against the presence of Nigerian Army in the District and other parts of Rivers State by the governor and the Peoples Democratic Party was to ensure that the Army withdraw for his private army to take over and give cover to the manipulation of the March 19 re-run election
The House of Representatives members also admonished the DSS to stick to its constitutional roles of protecting Nigeria against domestic threats by assisting other security agencies with enough intelligence, adding that the DSS under President Muhammadu Buhari has taken over the duties of the police, military, civil defence, immigration and other security agencies
Addressing a press conference in Umuahia on Monday, Ukoro said: “We wish to state categorically that our great party, PPA, affirms its position on the rejection of the result of the Saturday rerun poll in Abia North, noting that the returning officer of INEC, Dr. Ojike Nwankwo, had at the Ohafia INEC collation centre on Sunday, March 6, 2016, at 7am announced in the presence of party agents and other INEC officials that due to irregularities in some wards in Arochukwu and Ohafia local governments, where election was marred by widespread rigging and violence, the election was inconclusive
The empowerment programme witnessed by Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Dr. Kolapo Olusola, was applauded by the beneficiaries as they promised to utilize the materials to enhance their works
The Returning Officer of INEC, Dr. Ojike Nwankwo, said Ohuabunwa polled 26,009 votes to defeat the candidates of Progressive Peoples Alliance and the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Orji Kalu and Chief Bourdex Onuoha, who polled 25,814 votes and 13,633 votes respectively
The House of Assembly had screened and cleared the last batch of the chairmen nominees on Friday, February 26, thus paving the way for today’s inauguration
They stated that they decided to issue the statement after consulting their colleagues who said they have been bombarded with calls from their constituents demanding to know the veracity of the claims contained in the news story
But reacting to the Speaker’s allegation, Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said in a statement that the accusation against the President was not strange to the observers of Fayose’s politics
Obi’s media aide, Valentine Obienyem, said in a statement in Awka on Saturday that Umeh had accused his boss of being behind his travails.
Obienyem said: “I read the news credited to Mr Stan Okeke, Umeh’s media aide, that Mr Peter Obi was behind the arrest of Chief Victor Umeh