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Trial of our members won’t stop your defeat – PDP tells Buhari, APC

 

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned what it described as unrelenting media trial and persecution of opposition members and perceived opponents of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government through anti-graft agencies.

It said the trial of its members won’t stop the party from defeating the APC in 2019.

National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja said members of the opposition were being persecuted under the guise of fighting corruption.

Ologbondiyan said that whereas the PDP was in no way opposed to the fight against corruption, it was completely against government’s resort to media trial and constant harassment of opposition.

Man stabs couple’s only child to death over N200

A couple in Awada, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, have lost their only child and breadwinner to a brutal attack by a thug in the community.

The suspect, Ifeanyi Ali, reportedly stabbed the deceased, 24-year-old Chigozie Alo, a tricycle rider, to death for refusing to give him N200.

Saturday PUNCH learnt that the suspect had hitched a ride with Alo and on getting to his destination, demanded the sum from the rider to buy a local gin at a drinking joint in the area.

The Izza, Ebonyi State, indigene was said to have explained to Ali that he did not have money on him as he had just started work for the day.

From Buhari’s ally to critic - Obasanjo

President Buhari and Chief Obasanjo, ahead of the Council of State Meeting today at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

It is widely believed that former President Olusegun Obasanjo was instrumental to the success of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election. But barely a year after this event, Obasanjo has become an ardent vilifier of the incumbent president.

If there is any former president that has remained relevant in Nigeria’s political landscape, it is Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

After becoming the country’s first democratic president in the Fourth Republic in 1999, he spent two consecutive terms and bowed out in 2007 following a reportedly failed Third Term Agenda.

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Ekweremadu : Not Too Young To Run: Why we didn’t reduce age for senate, governorship 

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has explained why the 35 years age requirement for the Senate and governorship position was not reduced when the Not Too Young To Run bill was passed by the National Assembly.

In a statement signed on Friday by his Special Adviser on Media, Uche Anichukwu, Ekweremadu said it was to correct the initial disparity in the 1999 Constitution between the age requirement for the Senate and the Presidency.

Insurance officer : My ex-boyfriend raped me two weeks after I gave birth 

• Woman, husband kidnapped me, says businessman

A married 32-year-old official at an insurance firm in Lagos, Chioma (pseudonym) is at daggers drawn with a businessman in the state, identified as Orazu, over controversies surrounding alleged cases of rape and kidnapping.

Chioma said Orazu was her ex-lover and allegedly raped her during a visit to her residence – a three bedroomed flat in the Alakuko end of Ogun State – two weeks after she was delivered of a baby boy.

But Orazu denied there was any relationship between him and Chioma, claiming that the mother of three, her nephew, Kester, and her husband, Sanni, kidnapped him during a visit and demanded a ransom of N10m from his family.

22-yr-old to hang for armed robbery in Ekiti

High Court

A state High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on Friday sentenced one Segun Afolayan to death by hanging for armed robbery.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 22-year- old bagged the sentence for the offence which he committed on Nov.10, 2014 at Ado central area of Ado Ekiti.

The convict had robbed one Ibrahim Samodun of a Bajaj motorcycle with registration number ADK 792 QC, cash of N60,500, a Bold 5 blackberry phone valued at N35,000 and a Nokia 2700 valued at N15,000.

Fayemi escapes death as gunman shoots Bamidele in Ekiti

A governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele and one other person have been shot.

The victims were shot at the All Progressives Congress secretariat in Ajilosun, Ado-Ekiti, during a reception organised for the governorship candidate of the party, Dr Kayode Fayemi.