The faceless group, in a statement in Abuja on Monday, stated that it is taking the stand as a multiparty platform of Nigerian lawmakers committed to good governance and national stability
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The statement added: “Because we abhor anarchy, which is the very antithesis of democracy, we hereby call, for the umpteenth time, on President Jonathan to act today to stop the looming anarchy in Rivers unless of course he is bent on throwing the country he was elected to govern into chaos
The meeting, which was held behind closed doors, was attended by the wives of four state governors elected on the platform of the APC
The Minority Leader in the House, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, had threatened that his party will call for leadership change on resumption
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party wondered if the PSC understands the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as far as the role of a police commissioner is concerned
Dr Ikanya was the erstwhile Rivers State Chairman of the PPA and the Rivers State Steering Committee Chairman of the PDM before his appointment as the Interim Rivers State Chairman of the APC
According to information available as at press time, the hoodlums who disrupted the programme had a free rein as policemen at the venue allegedly did nothing to stop them
Moreso, Eze, according to the statement by the PDP, said he would not have ordinarily believed such report if he did not personally verify the gruesome murder as well as the attempted murder on two prominent Rivers State citizens by the police, which he noted was commandeered by the state Police Commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu
The party, in a statement issued on Wednesday by Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the Senior Special Aide on Media and Publicity to the APC, said: “The Senate did not only strongly condemn the shameful incident during its Monday sitting but also advised the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, to investigate the incident
“Apart from the fact that the sole plaintiff in the case, the PDP, is incompetent and an interloper, the action itself is an abuse of court process, since there is a pending and subsisting order of the same Federal High Court in Abuja between the two parties,” the party said in a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
The APC said it is bare faced lie that Mbu told when he told the press the party had in the past obtained permission for its rallies but failed to do so for the Save Rivers Movement rally where Abe and Okocha were reportedly shot
But barely 24 hours after this, a former Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, also named his faction’s SEC
Its spokesman, Ahmad Muhammad, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, that the police did not dispense any bullet while dispersing a rally by Save Rivers Movement on Sunday
Reacting to the conduct of the election in Awka on Saturday, the Interim Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Chukwuma Agufugo, said there was no election in the state in the real sense of the word
Amosun explained that the scheduled event at the secretariat had been postponed, but that the information was not communicated to all the members
It warned that any move to suspend Sanusi and use security forces to prevent him from entering his office, as reported by the media, will even be worse, because it will mean that the President is willing to circumvent the provision of the law that the Governor of the CBN can only be removed by two-thirds of the Senate membership
The thugs made use of guns, machete and other dangerous weapons in the bid to have their masters have their ways in the ongoing harmonisation exercise
The statement was a reaction to a report in one of the dailies headlined: “APC: Governors Okorocha, Amaechi in vice presidential race
The PDP said in a statement that the plot of the APC was exposed by an Islamic cleric, Ambassador Yusuf Garba, and the Religious Equity Promotion Council
Okonta made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja amid ongoing defection of members of the ruling PDP to the principal opposition party, the All Progressives Party