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Post Date : August 9, 2020

100 level UNICAL student commits suicide

A 100 level student of the University of Calabar, Veronica Bako has taken her own life after she was scammed in an online ponzi scheme. Veronica Bako hails from Benue state.Crimefacts gathered that Veronica who was of the Department of History and International Relations in University of Calabar committed suicide days ago . According to close sources, she invested her school fees of N100,000 to the get N200,000 from an undisclosed online investment in early March . After months she (Veronica was blocked by the said online scammers on Facebook. As she couldn’t bear the loss, she took a chemical substance, suspected to be ‘Sniper’, drank it and died. When contracted for confirmation, the Police Spokesperson in Crossriver state was unavailable to respond .

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Post Date : August 8, 2020

There’s plan to eliminate doctors, others –Njemanze

There was unease among the doctors in Imo State as operatives from local government offices allegedly invaded their medical practices, asking them to fill certain forms. In this interview, Prof. Philip Njemanze, former Imo State Chairman of the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria (AGPMPN), offered insight on the issues in contention. On the face value at least, the form appears harmless. So, what exactly is the issue?  We do not think that the personal and biometric data such as passport photos, thumb print, phone numbers, relatives and home addresses are indices for any useful public interest research. These are data that evoke privacy concerns everywhere. The government knows that this data collection violates the right to privacy under Section 37 of the 1999 constitution. This constitutional breach is a very serious one and would be challenged in the courts under the Fundamental Human Rights violations if not abrogated immediately by government or any NGOs or development partners. We know that they are already in full breach of the constitution. They have a target to collect data on at least 30,000 Nigerian doctors but have until now about 8000. As it stands now, we are gathering data from those doctors who submitted their data, when they were deceptively threatened to be cited for non-compliance, and not fully aware of the disastrous implications. They hope to file a class action suit for several millions of US Dollars against the so-called development partners for the violations. Why would anyone seek to eliminate Nigerian medical personnel as alleged? Is the health sector so profitable to attract big international investors?   Talking about profit, it depends on who you ask. Nigeria holds the key to a 30 trillion US Dollar human organ cloning market when fully explored. I will explain some of the issues now. Since India and most countries in Asia closed their doors to poaching of human organs, the western countries have shifted to Africa and particularly Nigeria, because of the large population and high level of government corruption, to establish the new human organ trafficking market. As a bridge to maintain some cheap supply of human organs, the West, particularly Spain, allowed migration through the Libyan desert to reach Europe. It is not a surprise that Spain, who received the African migrants leads the world in human organ transplantation. The steady flow of African migrants provided a cheap source of organs for transplantation from supposedly people that died in capsized boats in the Mediterranean Sea, or made to capsize by the coastguards after their organs were poached. However, this is only but a trickle of the organs needed annually by western hospitals to satisfy the high demand. In the United States, about 113,000 people are awaiting transplantation each year. In Europe, about 86,000 are awaiting kidney transplantation. Just to meet the organ transplantation needs of western countries more than 200,000 otherwise healthy Nigerians may die yearly. In the United States, the economic cost just for heart failure patient was $38 billion in 2008, which could be saved annually for the lifetime after a heart transplant. Western governments and western billionaire investors have been in the search for new sources of human organs for transplantation. Furthermore, the prospect for human organ cloning using embryonic stem cell research has raised hopes for the future. The challenge is where and how to obtain at least 100 million ovarian eggs needed for human organ cloning annually. The destination is Nigeria, where they think that the people are uninformed and the government is too corrupt. The 100 million ovarian eggs will come from 10 million Nigerian women, who may die of complications of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), including liver failure, kidney failure, cancers and infertility, among others. Poaching ovarian eggs from any woman in the western countries is totally banned by law. The entire market on human organ cloning is valued at over 30 trillion USD, one-third of the world economy. This large economic benefit cut the attention of the world leading billionaires and the top western economies, as the new western renaissance. The foreign operators of the programme would need full control of the health system of Nigeria, there must not be any Nigerian eyewitness to any organ poaching incident in any of their 260 hospitals already commenced.  The Nigerians must be wiped out of the health sector both public and private, but could be left in some 10,000 primary health facilities to treat malaria and typhoid in local dwellers and refer the rest to the big hospitals ran by foreigners. Poaching of human organs is illegal in Nigeria? How can they operate legally?  You are not correct to say that poaching of organs is illegal in Nigeria. On the other hand, it is legal. The National Health Act (NHAct 2014 section 51) allows doctors to poach organs from Nigerians without consent as far as they declare that it was an emergency operation overriding the consent clause in Section 48. Doctors under the same law could collect the eggs of women without consent, since in Section 20 of NHAct the gametes are exempt as tissue and organs. The NHAct 2014 (Sections 43 and 45) also ensured that the government could completely replace all the Nigerian medical personnel at any public hospital with foreign experts. Nigeria is the only country in the world that has the provisions of law that allow the killing of her citizens, for the first time in the history of humanity. This atrocity is a crime against humanity by the 7th NASS. Not even in Nazi Germany was this practice legal, that a parliament passed a law that could legally kill the citizens of Germany, even when done, it was illegal. AGPMPN objected to these sections and pointed out all the pitfalls in a memorandum to the lawmakers at the public hearings and in petitions to President Goodluck Jonathan. However, under pressure from the Americans it was passed into law in Nigeria. According to Jonathan, he was under pressure directly

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Post Date : August 7, 2020

60 dead persons receiving salaries in Imo Secondary Education Management Board – Report

An audit report carried out by the authorities of the Imo State Secondary Education Management Board (IMSUBEB) has revealed that no fewer than 60 dead persons in the agency are still receiving salaries till date The report also shows that several persons who are 60 years and above the age of retirement are still drawing salary while more than 40 Staff of the agency who absconded from service are still payrolled. The shocking revelation was made at the weekend when the committee set up by the Imo State Government to look into its activities submitted its report to Governor Hope Uzodimma. Receiving the report, Governor Uzodimma lauded the agency for the courage to carry out the audit and encouraged other ministries and agencies of government to do likewise for the purpose of sanitizing the payroll system of the State. “No amount of distraction will deter government from completing the automation exercise. It is unfortunate that agents of opposition party keep trying to blackmail the government. Unfortunately, I will not allow them to have their way,” the Governor said. The Governor said his administration is committed to the payment of salary and emoluments of civil servants and pensioners and urged those yet to receive their pay to approach the relevant offices with the appropriate data so that they can be payrolled in line with the automation process. The governor however repeated the lie sold to the public by the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Mbadiwe Emelumba, which has been sufficiently discredited and discarded that leaders of the protesting pensioners like Collins Ohaneje has received his pension pay up till date.  The governor however did not refer to the protesting pensioners as “ghost pensioners” as was the case but rather pleaded with the pensioners who are yet to receive their pay to exercise patience as the government does not intend to leave any of them out who deserve to be paid.

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Post Date : August 7, 2020

I’m seeking justice for girl raped, impregnated by police sergeant in Ogun – Lawyer

An Ogun state-based lawyer, Abiodun Aboaba, has called on the police authorities to ensure that justice is done for a 17-year-old girl, (Names Withheld) who was allegedly raped and impregnated by a Police Sergeant, Innocent Yakubu. Aboaba, called for the dismissal and trial if the Police officer in a petition written and addressed to the Lagos State Police Commissioner. Yakubu, a police guard attached to a quarry company in Awa-Ijebu town in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State, had allegedly raped the said girl who was working as a maid to the Chief Executive Officer of the company, inJanuary 2020. The Police Seargent, who was reported to have threatened the victim with an AK47 rifle in order to have sex with her by force, was also alleged to have threatened to kill the victim if she tells anybody about the dastardly act. The rape victim who was said to be a virgin until the ugly incident, however, narrated her ordeal to her guardian, Alice Hugbo, when she discovered she was pregnant in June. The petition reads in part: “Around January 10, 2020, precisely 10.a.m, Sergeant Innocent Yakubu, entered the room of Blessing Asu and threatened her with AK 47 rifle, demanding to have sex with her by force. “The victim, fearing for her life, stopped screaming and Sergeant Innocent Yakubu violently raped her. After having unlawful carnal knowledge of her, Yakubu threatened to kill her if she ever reveals to anybody that he violently raped her. “The poor girl was introduced to sex in the most inhumane way ever by the suspect and started having nightmares immediately after the experience but however refused to disclose her ordeal to anyone. “It was until recently that her guardian, one Alice Hugbo, discovered that she was pregnant after noticing the changes in her body. It was when she was pressed for explanations that she summoned the courage to narrate her ordeal in the hands of Sergeant Innocent Yakubu. The medical report confirming she was raped and impregnated by Sergeant Innocent Yakubu was also enclosed in the petition to the Lagos state Police Commissioner. The lawyer noted that child rape in Nigeria has assumed an alarming dimension. Just like the Inspector General of Police, has been reported as saying that the Police has recorded about 717 rape incidents across the country between January and May, 2020. “We do not want this case to be part of the ugly statistic of unresolved and unprosecuted rape cases. We humbly urge your good office to investigate this matter and swiftly charge the accused to court”, the lawyer prayed. The lawyer, however, commended the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, in charge of Zone 2, Ahmed Iliyasu and Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, for their professionalism in speedily fishing out the suspect.

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Post Date : August 7, 2020

Nwachukwu joins Imo North Senate race

Mr. Bright Nwachukwu has declared his intention to contest the now coveted Imo North Senate Seat in the upcoming by-election to fill the vacant senatorial seat.Nwachukwu made the declaration yesterday atthe All Progressives Congress (APC) party secretariat, at Okigwe Road, in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Consulting party leaders and appointees of the State Government, at the Commissioners’ Quarters on Wednesday, August 5, he promised to work with Governor Hope Uzodimma if he emerged a senator. “I’m a policy maker and by the grace of God, with the help of Governor Hope Uzodimma, we’ll expand on his 3Rs –Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Recovery initiative.” Addressing the state party leaders led by Barr.Marcellnus Nlemigbo, on Thursday, August 6,2020, Nwachukwu assured the people of Imo-North Senatorial District of quality representation at the Red Chamber. The former Director General of the late senator Benjamin Uwajumogu disclosed that already he had developed a blueprint for the Zone with which he will bring the much desired and much required change in the Zone. As an oil and gas magnate who has toured over twenty-five countries of the world interacting with first-class policy experts and successful business leaders he promised to bring his vast experiences of twenty-one years garnered in the sector and even politics since 1998 to engender development, and most importantly bring enduring peace among the people. “I prefer to be at the background, do the work and let the action speak for itself,” he stated. At this juncture he pleaded with Nlemigbo to allow for a minute silence in honour of the late Benjamin Uwajumogu whom he had cherished while he was alive and now wanted to replace at the Senate.” Earlier in his address to the political leaders, stakeholders and appointees of Governor Uzodimma, Nwachukwu noted, “Today, I’ve come here to discus with you on the issue of going to the Senate. It did not accidental that I should run for the Senate because I’ve already attempted National Assembly primaries twice. Unfortunately, the death of Senator Ben Uwajumogu has created a vacuum and somebody has to occupy it. And I feel I have all it takes. I’m here for my first outing to see you leaders. And I’m here to see you leaders because that blueprint which I sold to Senator Uwajumogu then is still with me -Okigwe Zone needs vibrancy, Okigwe Zone needs experience, Okigwe Zone needs somebody of a humble background, Okigwe Zone needs somebody with a global understanding of how things work and I think I have them. And I want to tell us that looking at Imo State today and looking at our prosperity Governor of the state, we need somebody who is a stabilizer, we need somebody who is a manager of repute, especially when it has to do with crisis, I’m such a person. “If I’m sent to Abuja tomorrow, Okigwe Zone will be stable. Our Governor will go home and sleep with his two eyes closed. “Let me tell all of us, as I’m standing here I don’t have any godfather who has promised to front me. The only godfather I have is God. And with God I look forward to seeing the Governor to adopt me, because my loyalty to the Governor will be more than 100%.” In his remarks, Nlemigbo described Nwachukwu as eminently qualified and competent to be a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, adding that as a brilliant young man with brilliant ideas, the country needed people like him. “You are competent and qualified to be a senator. The country needs a young man like you. We need upcoming brilliant young men.” The party chairman, wished there would be a debate for the aspirants, after listening to Nwachukwu. “Talk to us. Let’s see what you can do. In fact, I’ll encourage the Governor about you so that people with solutions to our political and social problems will come up to proffer them to the country’s myriad of problems.” He encouraged Nwachukwu not to relent even if he did not get the seat, that people like him should come out. “People like you with sharp intellectual and brilliant ideas should be exposed to Government, should be advisers to Government if for nothing else. We’ll take your message to the Governor as an experienced and a well exposed man. So I’m happy for you. Keep it up”. “When you’re good you’re not afraid of competition. Yes, when you’re good the sky is your limit. People with your intellectual capacity should be part of the new foundation Uzodimma is building for Ndi Imo,” adding that history will vindicate the Governor. He assured the people of Okigwe Zone that the Governor did not wish to impose any senator on them. Nlemigbo commended Uzodimma for breaking the planned dynasty that was foisted on the state by the Rochas Okorocha administration, saying that Uzodimma had given Imo people a sense of belonging again. He noted that it’s even enough sacrifice so far for the state. Introducing him before the Okigwe Zone political appointees and party leaders, APC apex leaders in Obollo Ward, Chief Ama Iwueze, described Nwachukwu as a thoroughly educated and disciplined young man who has been a manager of men and materials for many years as well as a good party man. Another clan leader and retired Auditor General in the state, Chief John Onyenze, at the stakeholders’ meeting, had also described Nwachukwu as a charismatic person who will not let the Zone down if he is given the senatorial mandate of the people. Onyenze urged them to help in marketing the aspirant to the people. In a vote-of-thanks, Hon. Austine Nwachukwu, on behalf of the people of the Zone thanked and described him as a true family man. “On behalf of Okigwe Zone Special Advisers , respected commissioners, and Senior Special Assistants to the Governor, we say you’re welcome. Keep your good work up. If God says you’re the one to represent us at the Senate may it be so in Jesus

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Post Date : August 7, 2020

Enugu NMA election turns bloody

Enugu State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association election turn bloody in Thursday. It was reported that faction of the state NMA had two weeks ago announced the suspension of theincumbent chairman, Dr . Ike Okwesili, foralleged gross misconduct and abuse of office. They subsequently appointed one of the Deputy Vice – Chairman Enugu East , Dr Kingsley Ugwuonye , as acting chairman . Some members of the association , who gathered at the Michael Okpara square for the Annual General Meeting and the election of new executive of the association for the next two years, were seriously injured by thugs who forcibly gained entrance to the venue. They upturned the ballot boxes and pounced on members of the electoral committee leading to the doctors scampering to safety for fear of losing their lives. While some sustained injuries trying to escape from the thugs , others , including the NMA chairman in the state , Dr Ike Okwesili , were thoroughly beaten and wounded . One of the doctors, Dr . Ejike Odo said “ We hope he is fine wherever he maybe because hewas really brutalized.” The doctor narrated that policemen who were drafted to the venue of the election had hectic time preventing major casualties . “ In the process to control the crowd and send people away from the venue, they also dealt serious blows on the members ,” he added .

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Post Date : August 6, 2020

Again, youths protest over insecurity in Kastina

Youths in Katsina state who have taken to the streets again protested again over the spreading insecurity in the state. The demonstration which happened along Dutsinma – Kankara highway , was in protest of the ravaging banditry and overall insecurity in communities in Katsina state. Eyewitnesses said the youths had earlier in the morning blocked the highway with trees , stones and worn out tyres. One of the youths who pleaded anonymity said, “We are tired of the activities of the bandits in our communities. We blocked the highway to show our displeasure over the rate of insecurity here . We want the authorities to be aware of our plight and come to our rescue “. At the time of filing this report ,it could not be confirmed if the security agencies which later cleared the road for motorist made any arrest. The Spokesman for the Katsina State Police Command , SP Gambo Isah was not available as at the time of filing this report.

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Post Date : August 6, 2020

I will protect Edo state Assembly with all my powers – Obasseki

Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki on Tuesday said he will do everything within his legal and constitutional powers to protect Edo state House of Assembly. Briefing journalists at the Edo state House of Assembly in Benin ,he said he will protect the sovereignty of the House and the state. The governor’s statement was not unconnected with media reports credited to the Speaker of the house, Francis Okiye . Okiye had accused Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo state and the impeached Deputy Speaker of the house, Yekini Idiaye, of planning to import a fake mace to violently take over the State Assembly.Obaseki said ,“Nigeria is governed by the constitution and President Muhammadu Buhari has always said we must follow the rules of law and do things according to the law. “For us as the executive, we will use the instrument available to us constitutionally to protect the House and the state,” Obaseki said. He urged the Edo lawmakers to go about their legislative duties without any fear . He also called on the president to intervene in the alleged plot to destabilize the state assembly. It was also gathered that the entrance and exit gates of the assembly complex have been barricaded with heaps of sand and gravel, while some people have been sighted removing the roof of the building. The Speaker said the house was currently under renovation and the presence of security operatives at the entrance of the complex scared the contractor and workers away. “We are going to keep vigil here to forestall the alleged illegal invasion of the house by anybody,” Okiye said.

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Post Date : August 6, 2020

1,421 Christians killed in Nigeria in 7 months – Intersociety

Human rights group, Intersociety, Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria: Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law has unveiled the untamed massacre of Christians in Nigeria and the lackadaisical attitude and strongly suspected complicity of the present Federal Government and its security forces.. In a statement made available to our Correspondent on Wednesday August 5 2020, signed by it’s authorities led by Emeka Umeagbalasi, the group accused the present administration led by president Muhammad Buhari of keeping mum while Christians were being slaughtered. The statement reads,” It is specifically shocking that in the past seven months of 2020 or 1stJan to 31st July 2020, no fewer than 1,421 Christians have been hacked to death, out of which Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen accounted for 1,027 deaths, Jihadist Boko Haram and ISWAP over 310 deaths and Jihadist Ansaru and Jihadist “Bandits” over 60″. ” The total Christian deaths of 1,421 included “24 dark figures”the group said. “The above was also the summary of three letters we wrote differently and electronically submitted to the Secretary General of UN, Antonio Guterres, Commonwealth Secretary General, Rt. Hon Patricia Scotland (QC) and Chief Prosecutor of ICC, Ms Fatou Bensouda on one part; and US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, His Holiness Pope Francis and the High Commissioners/Ambassadors of Australia, Canada, Israel, Norway, United Kingdom, Switzerland and Ireland on the other”. “The third letter was also jointly and separately sent to the European Union Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS and Ambassadors of the following EU Member-States: Netherlands, Finland, Poland, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Austria and Sweden”. “In our letter to the UN Secretary General, the Commonwealth Secretary General and the Chief Prosecutor of ICC, they were reminded that it will be gravely calamitous to sit and watch by and allow Nigeria, a country of multi-ethnicity and multi-religions with explosive population of over 200m people; to explode into ‘complex humanitarian emergencies’; incapable of being managed if allowed to explode”. “We are calling for their immediate intervention to save Nigerian Christians and exert pressure on Nigerian authorities to respect and enforce rights to life and religious freedoms; the ICC Prosecutor was specifically called upon to break the Int’l Criminal Court’s long years of silence and inaction regarding the ongoing butcheries in Nigeria including its long delays to do the needful in since 2010 when it claimed to have “opened investigations on Nigeria”the group lamented. “The Secretary General of Commonwealth, Rt. Hon Patricia Scotland was reminded about the Harare Commonwealth Declaration(1991) which affirmed that human rights are among the fundamental political values of the Commonwealth and that the Commonwealth Charter, agreed to by the Commonwealth’s Heads of Government in 2012 also underscores the commitment of Member States to Commonwealth principles and values inclusive of human rights”. “For US Secretary of State and His Holiness Pope Francis and High Commissioners/Ambassadors of EU, Canada, Australia, UK, Brazil, Israel and others, our letter called on them to intervene including launching their own investigations into the anti Christian butcheries in Nigeria or any part thereof and ascertaining roles played and still being played in the butcheries by the present Government of Nigeria; all for purposes of incorporating their findings into their general and specific relationships with Government of Nigeria particularly in the areas of development and humanitarian assistance, military aids and supplies, economic and diplomatic relationships or actions”. The Detailed Summary Of Anti Christian Butcheries In Jan-July 2020 as follows. A Total 1,421 Christian Deaths In Seven Months: It is most likely correct to say that no fewer than 1,421 defenseless Christians were hacked to death by Nigeria’s Jihadists in the past seven months of 2020 or 1st January to 31st July 2020 and out of this number, Jihadist Herdsmen accounted for 1,027 Christian deaths, jihadists including Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa Province 310 Christian deaths and Jihadist Ansaru and Jihadist “Bandits” over 60 Christian deaths in addition to 24 others (‘dark figures’); totaling 1,421 Christian deaths,the group said. According to them,1,027 Christians Killed In Seven Months Of 2020 By Jihadist Herdsmen Alone:. “The total Christian casualties from Jihadist Herdsmen killings alone across Nigeria especially in Southern Kaduna, Benue and Plateau States and Igbo Land in the past seven months or Jan-July 2020 had risen to 1,027 deaths. Out of this number, the Adara Kingdom and environs in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State were visited with 164 killings or Christian deaths and the rest of the Southern Kaduna 199 deaths, totaling 363 Christian lives lost. The rest of the country excluding Southern Kaduna was also in the past seven months of 2020 or 1st Jan to 31stJuly 2020 visited with 664 Jihadist Herdsmen killings or Christian deaths. In July 2020, Southern Kaduna, alone, lost no fewer than 175 Christians, out of total anti Christian killings of 211 in July. Benue State had in the same month recorded eleven Christian deaths, Kogi 14, Nasarawa 9 and Taraba two”. “State-by-State Breakdown Of The Jihadist Herdsmen Killings In Jan-July 2020: Our detailed statistics showed that in the past seven months of 2020 or 1st January to 31stJuly 2020, Southern Kaduna recorded the highest number of Christian deaths in the hands of Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen with 363 Christian lives, followed by Plateau State with 158 deaths, Benue 152 deaths, Kogi 54, Adamawa 40, Nasarawa 40, Taraba 32, Niger State 30, Igbo Land including Igbo-Delta and Igbo-Benue 30 deaths, non Igbo-Delta 20 deaths, Edo 10 and Southwest particularly Ondo and Oyo 20 Christians deaths and others 11; totaling 1,027 Christian deaths in seven months or Jan-July 2020”. “394 Christians Killed By BH, ISWAP & Other Jihadists In Jan-July 2020: No fewer than 394 defenseless Christians were killed in Northeast, Northwest and North-central Nigeria from Jan-July 2020 by Boko Haram and ISWAP jihad terrorists as well Ansaru terror group and Jihadist “Bandits”. By our report of 12th July 2020, not less than 350 Christians were hacked to death by the named Jihadist groups from 1stJan to 10th

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Post Date : August 5, 2020

Edo Guber: Uzodimma plotting to unleash violence in Edo – Okiye

The Edo state House of Assembly Speaker, Francis Okiye has accused Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma of plotting to unleash violence in Edo state. He said this  while briefing newsmen in Benin, the Edo state capital. After the impeachment of his deputy speaker, Rt.Hon.Yekini Idaiye, told journalists that there were plots by the Vice-Chairman of the APC Campaign Council, Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State to cause a crisis in the state by installing a parallel House of Assembly and make the impeached Deputy Speaker, Francis Okiye said that Idiaye with the sixteen lawmakers which included the members who have not been inaugurated and those who have been inaugurated but have refused to decamp with Governor Godwin Obaseki and publicly endorsed Ize-Iyamu. He called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the governor and other APC stakeholders to order on the alleged plot which he said was capable of creating a crisis in the state. He said; “The state’s polity is already heated by the high political tension from the electioneering campaigns. Their planned action is akin to lightening a match in an already tensed political environment, which conflagration is capable of causing a crisis in the state, and of a scale beyond our imagination. “We urge lovers of democracy across the world, institutions that uphold democratic tenets and values, pro-democracy groups, to denounce this planned illegality that seeks to distract a duly constituted authority. “We recognize the constitutional right of the three members of the House of Assembly to support the candidate of their choice, but that should not distract them from coming to work to carry out the job they were elected for.” Reacting to the allegations by the Edo state speaker ,Commissioner for Special Projects of Imo State, Comrade Simon Ebegbulem denied the allegation against his boss saying the house was in the first place illegally inaugurated just as he said all his principal is interested in is to reclaim Edo state back to APC. He said: “The illegal Speaker and his governor are not making sense to me with this baseless allegation. I don’t even know what they are talking about because there is no House of Assembly in Edo state. I think that is why the so-called Speaker is running away from his shadow like a criminal that will always run once he sees a law enforcement agent. “However, I don’t know why he should draw the leg of His Excellency, Governor Hope Uzodinma into his political problems. My Governor is interested in working with other APC governors and stakeholders to reclaim Edo State which has been an APC state before Governor Obaseki donated it to the PDP. “The illegal Speaker and his principal are already jittery because of the imminent defeat in the coming September election. You can see that his aides are resigning everyday including his Deputy Speaker. Now he is left with five lawmakers and does that show that he is in charge?”

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