Thursday, 18 February 2016
CCT: Tinubu meets Danladi, orders Osinbajo to get Saraki out of office
CCT: Tinubu meets Danladi, orders Osinbajo to get Saraki out of office
The CCT recently fixed March 10th for the resumption of the trail of the Senate President.A source privy to the details of the agreement, claimed Justice Danladi agreed to Tinubu’s demands on speedy trial of the Senate President and invocation of all sub-sections under Section 23 of the Conduct Bureau and the Tribunal Act to convict the Senate President.The agreement was allegedly initiated through the office of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, at the instance of his Chief of Staff, Mr Adeola Ipaye.Ipaye, a former Lagos state Attorney General and Justice commissioner, is a loyal aide of Asiwaju Tinubu. Tinubu appointed him as Special Assistant on Legal Affairs in 2011. He was later promoted in 2003 as Senior Special Assistant on
Legal Matters to former Governor Tinubu.
It was reliably gathered that Tinubu and CCT Chairman, Umar Danladi have a long standing relationship. The close relationship between the duo made their deal on Saraki smooth, a source who spoke on condition of anonymity claimed. When Tinubu was dragged before the Justice Danladi Umar-led Tribunal by Code of Conduct Bureau for false assets declaration in 2011, Danladi was poised to hand him soft-landing before he got express order from ex-President Goodluck Jonathan to free Tinubu. Tinubu was later discharged and acquitted.
The Code of Conduct Tribunal, empowered by the Code of
Conduct Bureau and the Tribunal Act can legally prescribe any of the punishments contained in Section 23 of the Act on an
offender.
Section 23 of the Act provides; “(1) Where the tribunal finds a
public officer guilty of contravening any of the provisions of this
act, it shall impose upon that officer any of the punishments
specified under subsection (2) of this section.”
Section 23(2), however, states: “The punishment which the
tribunal shall impose shall include any of the following: (a)
vacation of office or any elective or nominated office as the case
may be; (b) disqualification from holding any public office
(whether elective or not) for a period not exceeding 10 years; (c)
seizure and forfeiture to the state of any property acquired in
abuse or corruption of office.”A source close to Mr Tinubu, who confided in our correspondent, said the former governor of Lagos State has given the Vice President the mandate to remove the Senate President, Bukola Saraki from office at all costs.
The source quoted Tinubu to have said, “It is a done deal. I have told Yemi what to do. I don’t need any contract from him. He should get that boy out of office”.
Tinubu is widely believed to have single-handedly nominated Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as Vice Presidential Candidate to the then Presidential Candidate of All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. The present Vice President serves as commissioner for two terms when Asiwaju Tinubu governed Lagos State between 1999 and 2007.
On the trial of the Senate President, the camp of former governor Bola Tinubu is reportedly strategising and has foreclosed any room for chances.
He secretly offered the 8 witnesses, billed to testify against the Senate President, $35,000 each with promise of security protection. Tinubu also promised the witnesses other supports that a close source declined to comment about.
The witnesses are: Yahaya Bello, Michael Wetkas, Mustapha Abubakar Musa and Nura Ali Bako. Others are: Adamu Garba, Samuel Madojemu, Abdulrahaman Bayo Dauda and Nwachukwu Amazu.
However, the trial of the Senate President has assumed a new political dimension.
A Villa source confided in our reporter, that close aides of President Muhammadu Buhari have reportedly told the President that the trial of the Senate President, initiated from the office of Vice President, is actually designed to get at the President in the long run.
Presidential aides discovered that some politicians in the South West region are scheming to nominate Senator Ahmed Lawan as possible Vice Presidential Candidate to run with the present Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as presidential candidate of the APC. According to the political calculation, even if President Buhari decides to seek re-election in 2019, the APC caucus in the South West will present the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo to contest against him in the primaries.
The renewed plot to kick Saraki out of office, according to the source, is to make Senator Ahmed Lawan the Senate President and position him to run with Prof Yemi Osinbajo on the same presidential ticket. Tinubu has reportedly anointed the Vice President to take over the mantle of leadership from the President, Muhammadu Buhari, by 2019.
It is yet to be known how President Muhammadu Buhari will react to the new political scheme.
A Public Affair Analyst, Mr John Ogboru said, “with recent
revelations in respect to Saraki’s case, the President should not be
fooled, they are plotting against him. Isn’t it clear that it is rather
about politics than the anti-corruption crusade? What I see here is
Tinubu fighting Saraki using the Vice President, Danladi & co,
because he sees him as a potential threat”.
“This is warning, Biafra is a spirit” – Nigerians react to Ngige collapse in NASS
“This is warning, Biafra is a spirit” – Nigerians react to Ngige collapse in NASS
Nigerians express mixed feelings after Chris Ngige collapsed in the National Assembly – The minister of Labour and Productivity is presently receiving treatments – Pro-Biafra agitators believes his collapse is a warning from God The reported collapse of Nigeria’s minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige today, February 18, has got social media buzzing.
OUR REPORTER had earlier reported that the minister collapsed while defending his ministry’s budget before the House of Representatives’ Committee on labour. He was immediately rushed to a hospital for treatment as his condition is yet to be known as at the time of preparing this report.
However, while Ngige’s collapse has been greeted with joy in some section of Nigeria populace who believes his collapse is not unconnected to his recent remarks on the protests by the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) for a sovereign state. Others have taken to social media to wish the minister quick recovery. Nigerians react to news that Chris Ngige slumped in National Assembly Ngige had stated that the Pro-Biafran protesters are to the east, what Boko Haram is to the northern part of the country and the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) in the southwestern part of the country.
2016 Budget: Sacking DGs Not Enough, Withdraw Budget, Fayose Tells Buhari
2016 Budget: Sacking DGs Not Enough, Withdraw Budget, Fayose Tells Buhari
Fayose also queried the request by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, for a “special funding arrangement for public media organizations to enable them to scale up their sensitization campaign against insurgency in the North-East.”
According to him, Mohammed had to explain further to Nigerians his request since he said Boko Haram has already been defeated.
“What they told us was that they have technically defeated Boko Haram. What then do they need special fund for? Even last year, there was no such special fund.
“To my mind, there could be more to this clamour for special fund for media on ‘already defeated’ Boko Haram than meet the eyes.”
Fayose said what the controversial 2016 budget required was a holistic approach, not just making one person scapegoat, adding that; “the President must take total responsibility for the budget scam and apologise to Nigerians for the government’s embarrassment caused by the display of gross incompetence.”
Fayose maintained that padding of the budget with strange figures, now being denied by Ministers was a clear intention to steal in advance, adding that; “Though it is good that the President listened to my call for the punishment of those responsible for the national embarrassment, mere sacking of officers at the Budget Office will not remove the stain splashed on Nigeria by the shameful budget.”
He likened blaming an imaginary “budget mafia” for the padding of the budget to a driver blaming someone else for not applying the brake when it should have been applied, saying; “the bulk stops on the President’s table, he can’t blame anyone apart from himself for this national shame.”
“Sacking one or two persons on this budget scam is just like using some people as cover-up for the national embarrassment caused by the President himself. Even the President himself signed a letter wrongly as October 22, 2016 and one is tempted to ask who the President will sack for these avoidable errors.
“In my own opinion, it is necessary that those handling the President should bring it to his consciousness that he is not God that cannot make mistakes and this budget scam must be seen as part of the mistakes that President Buhari is capable of making.
“By doing this, the President will be provided with another opportunity to represent the Budget because I wonder how Nigeria can operate on a budget already disowned by notable ministers, including the government’s spokesperson.
“Or what remedy can anyone do to a budget in which 2015 budgetary allocations of an agency was reproduced verbatim? Even N180 million was discovered to have been allocated to NIMET twice.”
‘God will bring Biafra by himself,’ Traditional ruler assures IPOB leader
‘God will bring Biafra by himself,’ Traditional ruler assures IPOB leader
Chief Okoye also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to leave Kanu alone to go and look after his family.
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Nnamdi Kanu, director of the banned Radio Biafra, was detained by secret police on 17 October and accused of terrorism.
The traditional Prime Minister of Igboland (Onowu Igbo), ChiefMichael Ozua Okoye has assured the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu that God himself will bring Biafra to actualization.
Chief Okoye also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to leave Kanu alone to go and look after his family, according to Vanguard.
The traditional ruler is said to have made the
comments on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, while speaking to journalists
in Onitsha.
“God will bring Biafra by Himself, So, Kanu should endure what we and Ojukwu endured before, during and after the civil war,”Okoye said.
He also described Kanu as a true son of Ndigbo who acted based on what he read about self-determination.
Kanu has been charged with treason and is currently being held at the Kuje Prison in Abuja.
67 Years Old Lebanese Slaughtered In Kano State
67 Years Old Lebanese Slaughtered In Kano State
The Police boss said that 4 suspects have already been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of the Lebanese, adding that “they have so offered useful information”.
Details of the incident, Mr. Katsina said would be made public in due course. A similar incident occurred last week where unknown assailants slaughtered one Kabir Umar Gumel in his Yakasai home in the municipality barely 4 days he was declared missing by the family.
Read What Obasanjo Said About Buhari in Uganda as He Monitors Election (Photos)
Read What Obasanjo Said About Buhari in Uganda as He Monitors Election (Photos)
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is serving as the Chair of the Commonwealth Observer Group at the Ugandan Presidential election currently holding today, 18th of February.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, while speaking from Uganda on the Hausa Service of the BBC monitored in Jos defined President Muhammadu Buhari as a man of his words.
Obasanjo also disclosed that he does not visit Buhari at will, “No, I am the one looking for him but he did not give me the permission to see him.”
Former president added that the current fight against corruption
embarked upon by Buhari was on the right course, saying he is in support
of the fight.
“I support the fight against corruption of the incumbent administration. Buhari had prior to 2015 election vowed to fight corruption and he is doing it. We are seeing how he is collecting the stolen money from corrupt officials,”Obasanjo said.
“I support the fight against corruption of the incumbent administration. Buhari had prior to 2015 election vowed to fight corruption and he is doing it. We are seeing how he is collecting the stolen money from corrupt officials,”Obasanjo said.
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