The FCT Police Command has arrested Charles Ornguga and Festus Bekee, for stealing over $17,000 from the hotel room of a guest where they work as house keepers.
The duo who work in one of the hotels in Asokoro, Abuja,
reportedly changed the money into Naira and used it to purchase
household appliances.
The Nation reports that some appliances they
bough include; flat screen television, refrigerator, CD home theatre,
air conditioning, four burner gas cooker, microwave oven and stabilizer.
I personally cried watching the embedded video below how this man of
God, Prophet Jeremiah of Christ Mercyland Ministries changed the lives
of these 11 ladies returnees from Libya. It is a story of divine
intervention which shows that God is interested in the lives of the
ladies led by one of then. They all had a dream seeing a man of God
coming to rescue them even though they never knew or met the servant of
God. As God will have it, on their return and having nowhere to go, one
of them just said ‘make we go that church’. A decision that proved to be
a turning point in their lives.
The amazing rescue of 11 Libya deportees by this man of God will make you cry
While
at the service, the man of God led by the spirit made reference to 11
or 12 Libyan prostitute that have gone through terrible experience and
have been in prison with a request that if any of them is here, they
should come out for the day of their deliverance is now.
The 11 came out
and the man of God said there is another person who I can’t see now. It
took a lot of probing for the girls to realise that he was referring to
a baby carried by one of them that could not make it. The mother of the
baby broke down in tears in affirmation. After series of authentication
of various prophecies like telling them that someone had a dream which
was confirmed to be a dream of a man coming to save them and wipe their
tears away, the man of God provided them with N200,000 to go to the
‘mountain’ which is an euphemism for spiritual cleansing and
re-orientation to be deeply tutored on the tenets of the Christian Faith
until his return from a trip to Europe.
On
his return from Europe and after the orientation to Christian lives,
the man of God shocked them to rolling on floor in wailing and tears of
joy as he announced the sum of N3.3M to restart their lives with various
trades of their choice. Some of them were Hair Stylists, others
beautician. A nurse was even among them too.
If
you are not strong hearted and don’t want to cry, do not listen to the
emotional tears filled appreciation from the leader of the 11 rescued
ladies as she prayed and thank God for rescuing them and using the man
of God to have a second chance.
I believe if men of God can tow the example of Prophet Jeremiah of Christ Mercyland, the world will be a better place.
Governor Joy Ezechikamnayo will today take over the reins of power in
Abia State for 24 hours. The SS3 student and senior prefect of
Intellectual Giants Christian Academy, Umuahia will be joined by members
of her executive council drawn from all the LGAs of Abia State.
Born 18th March 2003, Joy Ezechikamnayo, is the first One Day
Governor of Abia State and will be sworn in by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu
today.
Governor Joy emerged as top performer after a rigorous essay
competition that lasted over a week and she is currently attending a
leadership retreat with members of her cabinet.
The 20 top performers in the essay competition were designated as follows:
1st position-Governor
2nd position – Deputy Governor
3rd position – SSG
17 others are Commissioners
It will be recalled that Abia State maintained top position in West
Africa School Certificate Examinations for a consecutive 3 years leading
to the emergence of the state as the number one state in Education in
Nigeria.
Biafra: Kanu’s family demands that the military returns what they took from their home.
Family
of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has demanded that the Nigerian Army returns the
property its men took from their home at Afaraukwu, Umuahia, Abia State. Naija News recalls
that troops of the South East operation code-named Python Dance 11
(Egwueke11), in partnership with policemen from Abia State command, on
September 14 and October 8, invaded the home of the pro-Biafra leader
and the family and, allegedly, made away with household belongings.
The
family claimed that the items comprised two boxes filled with wrapper,
television sets and generating sets owned to the royal family, among
other property.
Reacting
to the carting away of items, the spokespersons of the military and
police had dismissed the allegations insisting that “We were there to
search for weapons, no household items were removed from Kanu’s home.”
However,
the royal family has insisted, yet again, that the soldiers and police
officers took away their personal property, while demanding that the
said belongings be returned.
Nnamdi Kanu’s younger brother, who is
the family’s spokesperson, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, disclosed to Daily Sun
that the major issue which disturbs the family is the boxes of wrapper
belonging to their mother, which allegedly the military officers took.
Prince
said: “We have said this before and we will keep talking about it, of
all that the soldiers and policemen took away when they invaded our
home, the ones we are worried about most are the two boxes of wrapper
belonging to our mother.
“What are they going to do with the old
woman’s boxes of wrapper? If they do not return them together with other
items they made away with, they must surely face God’s wrath.”
Kanu
said apart from their mother’s belongings, the soldiers also desecrated
their father’s palace by ransacking and taking every available thing
that represents Igbo culture.
“What the army did is barbaric and
despicable; taking our old parents’ belongings was the height of
callousness, and we call on them to return those items without further
delay or they will face the wrath of Chukwuokike Abiama.”
Evang Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko, the Deputy Secretary of Igbo Leaders of
Thought, ILT, has said no amount of oppression can stop the agitation
for Biafra.
Ugochukwu-Uko maintained that the agitation will continue despite
Nigeria’s government declaring South-East youths as terrorists and other
ensuing propaganda.
This declaration was contained in a statement signed by
Ugochukwu-Uko, who is also the secretary of Eastern Consultative
Assembly (ECA).
The statement read: “The ongoing narrative that the south east has
been forcefully and violently pacified, is patently false. The
celebrations in the villa, that certain elders has helped them quench
the restructuring gale blowing through the land up till a few months ago
is fiction.
“Yes, a military invasion was carried out in second week of September
at Afaraukwu, a huge propaganda onslaught was unleashed to force down a
particular narrative. Yes agitators were declared terrorists. Yes
agitators were also proscribed. Yes people in certain quarters clinked
champagne glasses and congratulated themselves and mocked the angry
youths, that their agents amongst our people has helped them, as usual,
put down the agitations.
“But nothing could be further from the truth. No matter the
conspiracies in high quarters, no matter the complicity of the so called
leaders to paralyzed the demand for restructuring, and by extension,
ensure the sustenance of the unjust status quo, truth is, resources
deployed to save the status quo by attempting to crush the agitation to
restructure Nigeria, is a wasted effort.
“Branding oppressed frustrated youths terrorists and proscribing them
without addressing the real cause of their anger, which is the wicked
structure of unitary Nigeria and the evil 1999 military constitution, is
treating the symptoms of a disease without addressing the virus
responsible for the disease. 99% of the youths of eastern region are
angry with Nigeria. Proscribing them or branding them terrorist will
never solve the problem. Voting tons of money to block them and drive
government narrative in the media is unhelpful.
“Fake measures can only offer temporary relief and help officials who
packaged the proposal to crush the boys, smile to the bank. All through
history, all over the world, such fake measures has never truly
restored peace. It can only drive the angry agitators underground.
“We are hereby giving notice, that the agitation is not dead, the
agitators have not been raptured to heaven, they are bitter, angry, and
their next move unpredictable. Those deliberately delaying the
restructuring of Nigeria are merely sowing the wind. We all will reap
the whirlwind sooner or later.
“This message is to the Presidency. The continued delay to
restructure Nigeria will throw up consequences. The impression that the
agitation secession has been crushed is false. Only an early engagement
of the angry youths in a dialogue and the restructuring of Nigeria can
guarantee peace.”
President Muhammadu Buhari will leave the country
tomorrow to join 50 other world leaders in the One Planet Summit in
Paris, France.
The summit, is jointly organised by the United
Nations, the World Bank Group, and the French Government in partnership
with non-governmental organisations concerned about reversing the
negative effects of climate change.
The summit holds at the eco-friendly La Seine Musicale, situated on the picturesque Seguin Island in western Paris.
This
was disclosed in a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the
President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina on Sunday.
He explained that the main focus of the summit, was “Climate Change Financing.”
The
statement further stated that while recognising that all countries are
affected by the effects of climate change under “One Planet,” some more
vulnerable, the summit seeks for tangible collective action to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.
Before heading for the Summit
venue, President Buhari will attend a lunch hosted by President Emmanuel
Macron of France for Heads of State and Governments at the Elysee
Palace.
“President Buhari and other world leaders and
participants will make presentations under four sub-themes namely:
Scaling-up Finance for Climate Action; Greening Finance for Sustainable
Business; Accelerating Local and Regional Climate Action; and
Strengthening Policies for Ecological and Inclusive Transition,” Adesina
explained.
While signing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
at the sidelines of the 71st Session of the United Nations General
Assembly in New York on September 22, 2016, the Nigerian leader had said
it, “demonstrated Nigeria’s commitment to global efforts to reverse the
effects of the negative trend.”
He added that the participation
of Nigeria’s delegation at the “One Planet Summit” will reinforce the
country’s commitment to realising the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
Buhari
will depart for Paris on Monday in company of the governors of Adamawa,
Kano and Ondo States, and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and
Environment.
There was confusion and panic earlier today in
Jalingo, the capital city of Taraba after an aspiring politician
planning to contest in the forthcoming election in the House of
Representatives - allegedly threw a new born baby in an abandoned well.
According to information which was shared in Hausa language by multiple
online prints, the man threw the baby in the well along with some
diabolic and fetish material in order for him to win the election.
According
to reports, the suspect has been arrested after residents stormed the
well and removed the dead baby along with other fetish items.
- Former Vice President Abubakar Atiku has revealed how he was frozen out of the Obasanjo's administration during the second tenure om his refusal to support the ex-president's intention to elongate the presidential tenure - He added that his fight against the bill to elongate the presidential tenure has given Nigerian youths a chance at leadership Former Vice President Abubakar Atiku has shed light into the disagreement between him and ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo during the second tenure of their administration. Atiku revealed that he was frozen out of the administration after he kicked against Obasanjo's wish to elongate the presidential tenure during his second term in office. Atiku made this revelation while replying to an open letter written to him by comedian, Francis Agoda, popularly known as I Go Dye. Atiku in his reply to the comedian, listed his achievement and effort during the Obasanjo tenure. He however said he couldn't do much because the former president froze him out of the administration during the second term. He said: "I know many of these have been forgotten because it was a long time ago, and successive administrations did not follow up on the progress we made. But that is also not to say we were blameless. "I was largely frozen out in the second term of our tenure, and I regret that we had that disagreement with my boss. Some say I was disloyal, but I looked at the events in Zimbabwe recently, and it gives me confidence that I did the right thing fighting the attempts to elongate the presidential tenure beyond eight years. If I did not win that fight, do you think we would be having a discussion on young people getting into leadership today?" This was in response to President Buhari’s remark that his popularity was waxing stronger. The president made this statement when he went on a two-day trip to Kano.
Just after he was given a heroic welcome ahead of his show in Uganda, Nigerian superstar singer Wizkid was also honored with a chieftaincy title in the country.
It was gathered that he was given the chieftaincy title after he visited Buganda Kingdom Shrine, ahead of his long awaited concert at Lugogo Cricket Oval in Kampala last night.
Over six weeks after he was attacked by armed boys in his room at Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos, Grafton Entertainment act, Mr. 2Kay has finally opened up on the unforgettable experience.
Fellow singer, Burna Boy has since been identified by the Lagos State Police Command as mastermind of the attack and has been declared wanted.
But Burna Boy‘s team has revealed in an interview with Sources that he’s not on the run from the police, but is busy recording in the country.
The singer had few weeks ago been invited by the police over the robbery of singer Mr 2Kay at the “Buckwyld N Breathless” concert.
Speaking for the first time since the armed robbery attack that left him badly bruised and some of his personal effects stolen, Mr. 2Kay said when he was first threatened by Burna Boy on social media, he quickly reached out to Timaya.
According to him, the “Egberi Papa” called Burna Boy a few weeks before the attack to make peace; apparently, Timaya’s peace effort did not yield the desired result.
Mr. 2Kay who spoke with Sources from his hotel room at Oriental Hotels, Lagos also claimed that since the police caught the suspects that carried out the attack and named their sponsor, Burna Boy has been calling him to apologise but he wants the truth to be told.
He, however, expressed the likelihood of resolving the case out of court.
A man recently ended his life by hanging himself to death over an alleged controversy between his wife, mother-in-law and their Pastor, in Okoko, Lagos.
The man, only identified as Papa Ugochukwu was found clutched to the ceiling fan, in his sitting room by neighbours at their compound.
Before taking his life, the man who seems to be troubled, destroyed his ATM cards and left a suicide note on the table, where he wrote that his wife and mother-in-law were his problems. He also apologised to his own mother for committing suicide.
In the video shared by Biafra IPOB Infos, one of the shocked neighbors also revealed the man was a working class, who was earning over N200k monthly.
Sarah Nicole Henderson, 29, was arrested after her husband, Jacob Henderson, called 911 to report the shootings at their home near Mabank, near Dallas.
Little KayLee, seven, and her five-year-old sister, Kenlie, died at the scene. The woman was charged with one count of capital murder, but Henderson County Sheriff Botie Hillhouse said another capital murder charge is pending and other charges are possible.
Her bond was set Friday at $2 million (£1.5 million), and she was being held at the Henderson County Jail on suicide watch, Hillhouse said.
Hillhouse said Henderson confessed when talking to investigators and said she had been planning to kill the girls and her husband for several weeks. She also told investigators she planned to kill herself, he said.
He said: ‘She did try to shoot her husband. The gun malfunctioned. He took the pistol then realised the daughters had been shot. ‘We don’t have a motive at all. We’re still digging, trying to figure out what was going on at that house at the time.’
Jacob Henderson had initially called 911 at around 11.30 pm on Wednesday to ask for medical help for his wife. According to a recording of the call provided by the sheriff’s office, he tells operators that ‘she won’t listen to him’ and that she is, ‘freaking out like someone is out to get her.’
He calls back to cancel the call a few minutes later saying that Sarah told him she’s fine now and is acting normally. Deputies responded to the house at 11.45pm, when the couple told deputies they were OK and didn’t need help.
Jacob Henderson called 911 again at around 2.24am to report that his wife had shot the girls. He can be heard sobbing and asking why she had done it in the recording released by the sheriff’s office. He said: ‘She was asleep when I went to sleep last night. I woke up and she came in and said: “Babe, I just shot the kids”.
‘And I didn’t want to believe it. I went in there and they were dead’. He said the girls were asleep in the living room, and that they had both been shot in the head. Sarah Henderson can be heard in the background asking her husband to kill her or shoot her, saying people are after her and that they’re coming.
In his frantic efforts to extricate himself from the consequences of the disappearance of Nnamdi Kanu, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to visit the Abia State home of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Abaribe, one of the three sureties of the missing IPOB leader, has been ordered by the court to ensure he produces Kanu, who is facing trial on treasonable offence with others, or face the consequences. The matter was on Tuesday adjourned by the trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako till February 20, 2018. However, Senator Abaribe, who still has his motion seeking the court’s order to compel the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, to produce Kanu, still pending in court, on December 4, 2017, filed a fresh motion on the matter.
In his latest motion, the lawmaker is praying the court to visit Kanu’s home allegedly invaded by soldiers in Abia State in September. Counsel to the senator, Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume (SAN), who filed the motion, called on the court to visit and make physical inspection of Nnamdi Kanu’s residence, at Isiama, Afaraukwu Ibeku Umuahia Abia State. Adding that he was subsequently arrested and “taken away” by the “Nigerian Army.” Abaribe argued as part of the grounds for the motion that Kanu was at his residence before and all through the period of September 11 to 14, 2017 at his Abia home when the house was allegedly invaded by soldiers. “Applicant’s agent has been severally prevented by agents of the Nigerian Army (6th respondent) as well as other security agents from accessing the residence of Kanu at (Isiama Afaraukwu Ibeku ) as to show the court the characters of the invasion and occupation of Kanu and the eventual arrest and taking away of Kanu by the staff and agents of the Army. “The applicant is desirous of the court seeing and examining Kanu’s residence which has been stated as an evidence before the court. The application will help the court and indeed the applicant in the determination of his application before this court,” Ume said.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday finally recognized the city of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Trump called for calm and tolerance after the decision.
“I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” Trump said from the White House. “It’s the right thing to do.” The declaration calls into question seven decades of deliberate diplomatic ambiguity about the final status of a holy city vociferously claimed by both Israelis and Palestinians.
Trump also kicked off the process of moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, making good on a campaign promise dear to evangelical Christian and right-wing Jewish voters — as well as donors.
He said his decision marked the start of a “new approach” to solving the thorny conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
Trump’s predecessors — from Bill Clinton to George Bush — made similar promises on the campaign trail but quickly reneged upon taking office, and the burden of war and peace. “Many presidents have said they want to do something and they didn’t do it,” Trump said in the hours leading up to his historic address. “Whether it’s courage or they changed their mind, I can’t tell you,” he said. “I think it’s long overdue,” he added.
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed three bills, earlier passed by the National Assembly, into law. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Wednesday.
Adesina said the President signed the three bills on Tuesday. The statement reads ” President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 assented to the following Bills: 1. Federal College of Dental Technology and Therapy (Establishment) Bill, 2017. The college to be sited in Enugu, is to provide courses of instruction leading to the award of degrees, diplomas and certificates in dental technology, dental therapy and related courses.
2. Air Force Institute of Technology of Nigeria (Establishment) Bill, 2017. The Institute to be situated in Kaduna, is to give technical training to the personnel of the Nigerian Air Force and other services of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Nigerians and citizens of other African countries. 3. National Intelligence Agency Pensions (Establishment) Bill, 2017, is to administer the pensions scheme for personnel of the Agency, sequel to the exit of the Agency from the application of the Contributory Pension’s Scheme under the Pension’s Reform Act, 2004.
A coalition of Niger Delta Youth has advised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to suspend his presidential ambition. The group asked him to rather sit back and play leadership role in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The group also cautioned Senator Ben-Murray Bruce for flaunting Atiku, reminding him that Atiku was the reason that former President Goodluck Jonathan lost his reelection in 2015.
The coalition in a statement signed by its Chairman, Harry Lawson and Secretary, Preye Wilson, on Wednesday, welcomed the Turaki of Adamawa into the party but urged forget his presidential ambition. The statement read: “We, the Niger Delta Coalition wish to welcome former Vice President Atiku Abubakar back to the umbrella, a party he formed with other eminent Nigerians in 1998. “We wish to remind the former Vice President that he destroyed, battered and abandoned the PDP on the October 31st 2013 for a greener pasture in another political party when he was needed most.
“However, we welcome Atiku Abubakar back to the PDP, the party which he called his home. We are happy he has realised his wrong decisions and is back to make amends.
“Nevertheless, we wish to tell him that if PDP is truly his home as he has claimed, then we expect that he plays nothing less than a leadership role in the party. He should channel all his efforts towards the reconstruction, strengthening and building a strong political base for the party. He should truly be a leader and help the party develop winning strategies. He should help in reconciling and bringing back aggrieved members. “We from the Niger Delta are still nursing the wounds over the role he played that frustrated the re-election of former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. We are also aware that Atiku is wielding so much financial lobby in the Niger Delta to gather support for his Presidential ambition” they said. “We expect that the former Vice President should for now bury his Presidential ambition as a display of uncommon leadership and as part of his atonement. He should rather work towards assisting the party to produce an impeccable and credible candidate that will help PDP wrestle the Presidency from the ruling All Progressives Congress, come 2019.”
The coalition also cautioned Senator Bruce for his recent romance with the former vice President at the expense of the region. “We call on all the leaders from the region especially Senator Ben-Murray Bruce not to fall for his inducements but courageously advice him to be an exemplary leader and allow those who have been dedicated their energy and time to the party to take the shot,” the statement said.
The Northern Senators’ Forum and the 19 Northern governors would on Monday converge on Katsina for a three-day retreat to deliberate on the agitations for restructuring of the country. Chairman of the forum, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja that the retreat would also focus on how to improve the security situation in the country.
It would be recalled that for the same reason of agitations for restructuring and other challenges facing the country, Southern Senators met recently in Calabar. Adamu said that the Forum had written letters of invitation to the 19 governors, leading traditional rulers, top politicians and ex-senators from the region to make presentations at the retreat. He said that the gathering would enable the senators, as the peoples’ representatives, to take a common position on restructuring.
“It is expected that very important stakeholders will be attending. Northern governors will be attending in solidarity and very eminent traditional rulers, including the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, will attend. “Essentially, we will be discussing the impact of budget in the north, the issue of restructuring which is now the main issue in politics.
“The issue of restructuring that the Senate can develop a position on. It is part of preparing ourselves to face that challenge. “The issue of security will also be discussed,” Adamu said. He pointed out that as representatives of the people, it would be expected that with the retreat, they would be better educated, better placed to consider issues related to the subject-matter. “We will be better prepared to face the matter and legislate and make laws over them for the good governance of Nigeria.
“We believe we are there to educate ourselves to be better informed, to exchange ideas on the subject matter, because we make laws, we don’t make laws out of ignorance. “We have to be better informed on anything we are talking about,” Adamu said. He explained that meeting in Katsina was not necessarily because of the economic impact it would have on the city and state or how it would energise Nigeria’s politics, “but for some sort of our presence will make’’. “There hasn’t been this retreat over time. We are trying to bring back the culture. Source : NAN
- President wants measures to be taking against extremist preaching by religious clerics in the West Africa sub region
- Presidential spokesman Adesina said Buhari also promised Nigeria's commitment to leading the anti-terrorism campaign the region
- President Buhari said all these at a meeting with other leaders at the counter-terrorism summit in Aqaba, Jordan
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria is ready to lead the battle against terrorism in the West Africa region.
The president said this during a meeting with other leaders at the counter-terrorism summit in Aqaba, Jordan.
According to a statement by presidential media adviser Femi Adesina, President Buhari assured the other leaders of Nigeria's commitment to ending reign of terror in West Africa.
The statement read: "President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated the commitment of Nigeria to playing a leading role in bringing together countries of the West African sub-region in a collective security arrangement.
Speaking in Jordan at a security meeting hosted by King Abdullah II, President Buhari said that with what Nigeria had gone through, it was ready to share the experiences with a view to fashioning out comprehensive action plans in tackling the scourge of violent extremism in the region.
"While calling for a stronger and well-coordinated collaboration, President Buhari said that the joint regional collaboration under the auspices of the Multinational Joint Task Force, combined with the efforts of the Nigerian Armed Forces, had gone a long way to decimate the activities of extremists in the West African region."
President Buhari is also not pleased with the extremist teachings of religious clerics. This, he said, has formed a basis for the joining of terrorist groups by people.
"The Nigerian President lamented that insurgents were able to attract members in their fold because of the insidious preaching of extremist clerics and called for an action plan to halt the trend.
"President Buhari also urged leaders, especially from the Muslim world to speak up against the hateful violence committed by deranged people in the name of Islam."
He added that “All nations, irrespective of religion should partner effectively in implementing national, regional and global action plans to counter violent extremism.”
Adesina reports that at the end of the meeting, participants resolved to come up with concrete action plans that would change the narrative of violent extremism in the West African sub-region at a follow-up meeting to be hosted by Nigeria.
NAIJ.com had earlier reported that President Buhari told King Abdullah II of Jordan that regional cooperation is urgently needed to combat the world-wide threat of violent extremism.
Adesina, Buhari's spokesperson, said the president spoke at a bilateral meeting with the king and stressed that inter-regional cooperation and information sharing had become very vital to fight terrorism.
- Leader ofSource rewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) faults comments by chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, Paul Unongo, over the purported endorsement of President Buhari for 2019 presidency
- AYCF leader, Alhaji Shettima Yerima, maintains that the presidency remains in the northern region till 2023 and it is up to it to present one of its own to fill the slot
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has dismissed statement from chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, Paul Unongo, suggesting that the northern region had endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari as sole candidate for the 2019 presidency.
Alhaji Shettima Yerima, leader of the (AYCF), in a statement sent to NAIJ.com on Sunday, December 3, said Paul Unongo was speaking for himself as usual and neither for the Northern Elders Forum, nor for the whole north.
The AYCF leader said Unongo lacks the requisite authority to speak for the North on any matter as his antecedents are full of inconsistency and lack decorum.
"It is quite unthinkable that a person with such little grasp of diplomacy should think himself as a worthy successor to the respectable chairmanship of the NEF vacated by the late Danmasanin Kano.
"We all know that Danmasani was the convener of the NEF and a noble leader that never steered the group in the path of partisanship.
The leadership of the NEF in the time of the Danmasani has never been so biased and considered every northerners as its own and treated them equally," Shettima stated.
The AYCF leader however maintained that the presidency remains in the northern region till 2023 and it is up to it to present one of its own to fill the slot.
"Unongo therefore must have said the things he said out of turn," he said.
Meanwhile, the announcement of a return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by the former vice president Atiku Abubakar after many years of sojourn in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been received by Nigerians with mixed feelings.
While the PDP and its supporters are delighted at the announcement, a number of Nigerians are trying to understand what the move means for Nigeria and the 2019 presidential elections. On its part, the PDP tweeted in excitement after the announcement:
Ben Murray-Bruce, a PDP senator representing Bayelsa central, already believes that Atiku will be Nigeria's next leader come 2019.
However, some people mocked Atiku, noting that his actions were nothing new to Nigeria's political terrain.
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