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Brent crude hits $102 a barrel — first time since September 2014 amid Russia-Ukraine crisis

  Oil price, on Thursday, rose to $102 a barrel, for the first time since September 2014, with escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine. The global oil benchmark, Brent crude, rose over 5 percent to trade at $102.27 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate witnessed a corresponding increase of over 5 percent at $97.06 a barrel. The development is coming after Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, ordered a special military operation in Ukraine’s Donbas region. Explosions were reported in Kjiv, Ukraine’s capital, on Thursday morning. According to ABC News, Putin announced on television that Russia would not tolerate the threats from Ukraine. Ukraine’s interior ministry said Russia started attacks on the country. The US and its European allies had tried for weeks to repel the attack through diplomatic talks. President Joe Biden had said that he would meet with world leaders to impose “severe sanctions” following the Russian attack.

Five Things To Know About Ukraine-Russia Crisis

  After heated exchanges, the tension between Russia and Ukraine seems to have snowballed into a full-blown crisis. On Tuesday, President Valdimir Putin of Russia ordered his troops into Ukraine after he declared support for two breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Two days after, loud explosion shook Ukraine and in retaliatory move, Russian fighter jets were brought down. Here are five things you should know about this crisis that is a threat to global peace. Why is there a conflict? Ukraine, which was part of the Russian empire for centuries before becoming a Soviet republic, won independence as the USSR broke up in 1991. It moved to shed its Russian imperial legacy and forge increasingly close ties with the West. A decision by Kremlin-leaning Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to reject an association agreement with the European Union in favour of closer ties with Moscow led to mass protests that saw him removed as leader in 2014. Russia responded by annexing Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and throwing its weight behind a separatist rebellion that broke out in Ukraine’s east. NATO sendt reinforcements to Eastern Europe amid Russia tensions Ukraine and the West accused Russia of sending its troops and weapons to back the rebels. Moscow denied that, saying the Russians who joined the separatists were volunteers. According to Kyiv, more than 14,000 people have died in the fighting that devastated Donbas, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland. For its part, Moscow has strongly criticised the US and its NATO allies for providing Ukraine with weapons and holding joint drills, saying that such moves encourage Ukrainian hawks to try to regain the rebel-held areas by force. Furthermore, Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said Ukraine’s aspirations to join NATO are a red line, and expressed concern about plans by some NATO members to set up military training centres in Ukraine. This, he has said, would give them a military foothold in the region even without Ukraine joining NATO. What does Russia want? It is more about what Russia doesn’t want. Russia does not want Ukraine in NATO – and has said as much in its list of security demands which were sent to the US last December. The demands included a halt to any NATO drills near Russia’s border. Many of these ultimatums have been slammed as non-starters by the West. It also wants NATO to withdraw from Eastern Europe. In December, Putin said Russia was seeking guarantees “that would exclude any further NATO moves eastward and the deployment of weapons systems that threaten us in close vicinity to Russian territory”. Putin offered the West an opportunity to engage in substantive talks on the issue, adding that Moscow would need not just verbal assurances, but “legal guarantees”. Ukraine’s admission to the alliance would require the unanimous approval of the 30 states that make up the body. The US and NATO have now responded to the calls. While neither Moscow nor the Western powers have gone public with the details of those responses, it has been made clear that Russia’s main demands – Ukraine essentially banned from being a NATO member and a promise that the alliance won’t expand further east – have been turned down. Will Ukraine join NATO? Ukraine is not a NATO member, but it wants to be. It is considered a partner of the alliance. Before being considered for membership, NATO says, Kyiv needs to root out scourges such as corruption. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in December rejected Russian demands to rescind a 2008 commitment to Ukraine that the country would one day become a member. Stoltenberg maintains that when the time comes to consider the issue, Russia will not be able to veto Ukraine’s accession. Analysts however say that NATO allies, the United States chief among them, are reluctant to expand their military footprint in the region and further jeopardise their relationship with Moscow. While US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has voiced support for Ukraine’s membership in NATO, President Joe Biden has been more ambiguous on the question. Likely Implication of Russia’s invasion Western nations have thrown their support behind Ukraine, but some responses have been tougher than others. The US and UK have supplied weapons, while Germany plans to send a field medical facility next month but will not transfer military equipment. There has also been much talk of sanctions aimed at punishing Moscow. Publicly, the US and European allies have promised to hit Russia financially like never before if Putin does roll his military into Ukraine. Leaders have given few details, arguing it is best to keep Putin guessing, but Washington and London have spoken of personal measures targeting the Russian president. Cutting Russia out of the SWIFT financial system, which moves money from bank to bank around the globe, would be one of the toughest financial steps they could take, damaging Russia’s economy immediately and in the long term. The move could cut Russia off from most international financial transactions, including international profits from oil and gas production, which accounts for more than 40 percent of the country’s revenue. The US also holds one of the most powerful financial weapons against Putin if he invades Ukraine – blocking Russia from access to the US dollar. Dollars still dominate in financial transactions around the world, with trillions of dollars in play daily. Culled from Aljazeera

BREAKING: Russia’s Putin announces ‘military operation’ in Ukraine

  Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday a military operation in Ukraine to defend separatists in the east of the country. “I have made the decision of a military operation,” he said in a surprise statement on television shortly before 6 am (0300 GMT). United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made a personal appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop his troops from entering Ukraine at an emergency Security Council meeting Wednesday night. “President Putin, stop your troops from attacking Ukraine, give peace a chance, too many people have already died.” Details later…

How School Principal Operated 3 Higher Institutions, Collected N3.88 Million From Admission Seekers

  A secondary school principal in Gombe State, Mr. Bello Muhammed Abubakar, has been arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over alleged fraudulent activities and other ancillary offences. The commission, in a two-count charge brought before Justice Halima S. Muhammed of Gombe State High Court 2, told the court that the accused person defrauded admission seekers to the tune of N3.884 million. The court was told how he illegally operated three institutions: “Mukhtar Polytechnic, Goni Mukhtar College of Education and Goni Mukhtar Linguistic Centre,” all in one block of three classrooms in Gombe State between 2009 and 2015. The charge reads in part: “That you Bello Muhammed Abubakar, between the period of 2009 to 2014 or thereabout at Gombe within the jurisdiction of this cCourt did obtain by false pretense the sum of N3.884 million from unsuspecting admission seekers under the guise of offering them admission into Mukhtar Polytechnic Gombe and Goni Mukhtar College of Education Gombe State. “You thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) and punishable under Section 1(3) of the Advanced Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, 2006.” Adipolo     Adipolo ICPC, in a Charge No: GM/128C/2021 averred that Mr. Abubakar obtained by false pretense the above sum when he illegally operated the following institutions: “Mukhtar Polytechnic, Goni Mukhtar College of Education, and Goni Mukhtar Linguistic Centre,” all in one block of three classrooms in Gombe State between 2009 and 2015. Counsel to ICPC, Mashkur Salisu, informed the court how the school principal was perpetrating the said offences before he was nabbed by operatives of the commission during an intelligence-led operation. The commission has since shut down the said illegal institutions in which the accused person was operating. The defendant’s actions are contrary to Section 13 and punishable under Section 68 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, and Section 1(i) of the Advanced Fee Fraud Act, 2006. When the accused person was admitted to take his plea, he pleaded not guilty to all the charges when they were read to him. Counsel to the accused, Mr. A.B. Ebrany, moved a bail application in favour of his client which was not opposed by the prosecution counsel. The trial judge, therefore, granted the accused person bail in the sum of N2 million and two sureties in like sum who must be residents within the jurisdiction of the court and must depose to an affidavit of means. The case has been adjourned March 29 and 30 for hearing.

‘Forgery’: Fani-Kayode Has No Medical Record At Our Hospital, Witness Tells Court

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on February 23, 2022 presented its first witness against Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, who is standing trial before Justice O.O. Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos for offences bordering on use of false documents, use of fabricated evidence, procuring execution of documents by false pretence, and fabricating evidence.   Fani-Kayode who is also being prosecuted by the EFCC for an alleged N4.9billion fraud before Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, is facing 12 counts before Justice Abike-Fadipe, brought against him by the EFCC, following his alleged use of forged medical report(s), which he tendered at the Federal High Court to justify his absence in Court. One of the counts reads: “That you, Femi Fani-Kayode, on or about the 11th day of October, 2021 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, by fraudulently used a false document titled: MEDICAL REPORT ON OLUFEMI FANI-KAYODE 60 YEARS/MALE/HOSP. NO. 00345 DATED 11/10/2021 before the Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division in charge No. FHC/L/251C/2016 which document you purported to have been issued by Kubwa General Hospital.” Another count reads: “That you, Femi Fani-Kayode, on or about the 23rd day of March, 2021 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, fraudulently used a false document titled: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN RE: FEMI FANI-KAYODE MALE/60 YEARS HOSPITAL. NO. 32145 DATED 23rd MARCH 2021 before the Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division in charge No. FHC/L/251C/2016 which document you purported to have been issued by Kubwa General Hospital.” He pleaded “not guilty” to the charges when he was first arraigned on December 17, 2021. Earlier in the course of proceedings, counsel for Femi Fani-Kayode, Norrison Quakers, SAN moved an application urging the Court to decline jurisdiction to hear the case. He argued that the case before the Court had nothing to do with economic and financial crimes. Citing the Supreme Court judgement on the case of Joseph Nwobike vs FRN, he urged the Court to “abort, terminate the proceedings before your lordship”. Responding, the prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, who informed the Court that four prosecution witnesses were in fact in Court, countered the arguments, stressing that the Nwobike case “is entirely different in facts and circumstances”. “We urge your lordship that the Court has unlimited jurisdiction,” he said. Justice Abike-Fadipe after listening to both parties held that: “My decision is that I’ll still go on with the trial then I will determine jurisdiction later.” Thereafter, the witness was called into the box to testify. Led in evidence by Oyedepo, the first witness, Bassey Ama, Head, Medical Records, Kubwa General Hospital, Abuja, gave evidence as to whether the said medical report(s) on Olufemi Fani-Kayode emanated from the Hospital. Informing the Court that he joined the Hospital on July 7, 2011, the witness said that by virtue of his position, he was in charge of medical reports and that he was the custodian of medical reports in the Hospital. He further gave insights on the hospital’s record-keeping process, which he said starts from when the patient visits the Hospital and the vitals are taken as well as the details of the patient, after which a doctor is assigned to attend to the patient. He said, “On October 12, 2021, the Kubwa General Hospital received a letter from the EFCC to investigate the authenticity of the medical report on Olufemi Fani-Kayode. “The Hospital MD minuted the letter to my office to authenticate. “After my thorough investigation, I reported back to the MD that Mr. Olufemi Fani-Kayode does not have a medical record in Kubwa General Hospital, and as well, the medical report did not emanate from our hospital [Kubwa General Hospital].” He further testified that the doctor that issued the said report was never a staff of Kubwa General Hospital. He said, “So we replied the EFCC that the medical report is not authentic.” The witness, thereafter, identified the response of the Hospital to the letter of inquiry from the EFCC. Subsequently, the prosecution sought to tender the letter to the EFCC from Kubwa General Hospital dated October 13, 2021 as as well as its annexures being respone to the letter of inquiry from the EFCC. However, Quakers raised objections to the admissibility of the document arguing that the witness in the box, was not the maker, and that there was nothing on the surface of the document linking it to the witness. He said, “The witness has owned the document not being the maker. “Therefore, we urge your lordship to reject and discountenance it and mark it as rejected.” Responding, Oyedepo, re-emphasized that the document sought to be tendered emanated from Kubwa General Hospital. He said, “The witness in the box has given your lordship evidence on oath on how the Hospital received letter from the EFCC, how it was minuted to him, and how his unit handled the investigation. “So the witness on oath has given his role in the making of the document. “Therefore, I submit that by virtue of the role he played in the making of the document, he can also be described as the maker of the document. “Also the document we seek to tender is an original document, it’s relevant to the facts. “Even a certified true copy being a public document can be tendered from the bar.” He therefore, urged the Court to admit the document as exhibit against Fani-Kayode. After listening to the arguments, Justice Abike-Fadipe held that: “The witness led evidence to state that he is a staff of the Hospital and Head of the Medical Record Unit, the letter was issued by the Medical Director. “The Hospital itself cannot come to the Court to give evidence and can only do so by one of its human personnel of which the witness is one. “I am satisfied that the witness in the box, is competent to tender the letter and give evidence thereon.

Ebonyi lawmaker says she has been denied salary for refusing to defect to APC

  A lawmaker in Ebonyi State, Nigeria’s South-east, said she has been prevented from getting her salary and other entitlements because of her refusal to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressive Congress (APC). The lawmaker, Ngọzi Eziulo, who represents Afikpo North East State Constituency in the Ebonyi House of Assembly, disclosed this to reporters on Tuesday in Abakaliki. She is one of the two lawmakers whom the Speaker of the House, Francis Nwifuru, claimed they had written a letter to the house indicating that they had resigned from the PDP. She denied writing the resignation letter that was read at plenary by the speaker, adding that she has no reason to leave the party “which has been so good” to her. Both Mrs Eziulo and the other lawmakers, Oliver Osi (Ivo Constituency) were absent at the plenary when the letters were read. She challenged the House leadership to produce a copy of such a letter bearing her signature to prove that she wrote it. “I never wrote the letter and can never write such a letter. “I am still wondering how they came about such a letter. That letter is a forgery. If they said I have resigned, let them bring such a letter and let me see it with my signature. “I am considering legal action because that letter is forged and you know forgery is a criminal offence,” she said. ⓘ Mrs Eziulo said she has not been paid her salary and entitlements since Governor David Umahi defected from the PDP to the APC because of her refusal to join the APC. “Ever since the governor defected, I have not been paid my entitlement including salary. “When I asked, they said their reason is that I have not joined them in APC, that once I join, they will start paying. “I told them if that is the condition I will never join, and they are still holding on to it,” she said. She said the House has refused to pay her, despite a series of letters and reminders by her lawyers. She said instead her life was being threatened by “those who are hell bent” on forcing her to join the APC. “In fact, they have threatened to take (away) my official car. They have also been threatening my life, by saying they will send their thugs after me all because I refused to join them,” she said. Mrs Eziulo said despite not being paid her entitlements, she has been attending sittings and other functions of the House. She vowed to remain with the PDP. “I don’t see any reason why I should leave my party PDP. This is a party that brought me to the House. I am somebody that will ever remain grateful to people that do me good. PDP did me well so I can’t leave the party,” she said. The speaker, Mr Nwifuru did not respond to calls and a text message seeking comment from him. His media aide, Leo Oketa, did not also respond to calls.

FG sets February 28 to resolve issues with ASUU

  Ngige cautions against signing un-implementable agreements as female students threaten mass action The Federal Government, yesterday, hinted of its plans to resolve the contending issues relating to the ongoing warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday, February 28, 2022. Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, who stated this after a meeting with ASUU in Abuja, berated the union for embarking on the industrial action without credible information and urged the workers to suspend the warning strike. He said: “By Monday, we would have dealt with some of the issues and returned to them for further dialogue. We will meet with ASUU and the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) again and we take it from there.” Ngige, who said the strike is illegal, insisted that the issues in contention were already being addressed with the Federal Government. He described the ongoing strike as a clear breach of the law, adding that the union did not go through the normal process before embarking on the industrial action, adding that ASUU did not give the Federal Government the 14-day ultimatum for the strike as prescribed by law. He said: “I saw their letter in my office on February 18, which is last Friday and as you know, they started the action on Monday, February 14. So, it is a clear breach of labour laws, because there are violations. “If you must notify us of an intending strike, you give us a minimum of 14 days notice. I pointed out to them that we are a country guided by laws and nobody is above the law. They should obey the law.” Ngige, who maintained that the Trade Disputes Act permits him to apprehend the strike and having done so, the industrial action should seize, disclosed at the last the parties discussed all the five-point demands of the union and sorted out four of them with definite timelines for action. He further explained that the demands were not entirely new, but the Federal Government was already addressing the issues, adding: “That is why I said we are shocked that they declared the strike. “The issues were discussed in November and December last year up to the time we paid N22.172 billion for the Earned Academic Allowances (EAA), which they have received. “The second area is the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, which focuses on conditions of service, with particular emphasis on salaries and allowances. I made it clear to them that there is a government process and that the Ministry of Education alone cannot increase their salaries.” MEANWHILE, the National Female Student Association of Nigeria (NFSAN) has issued a three-day ultimatum to the Federal Government and ASUU to resolve all issue and allow students return to school by Monday, February 28, 2022. NFSAN third Executive President, Modupe Mary Adetiba, who gave the notice, yesterday, in Abuja at a world media briefing, said failure to heed to the demands of NFSAN would result in a nationwide demonstration in a most unpleasant manner. “In the furtherance of the above, we will collaborate with the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and mobilise females students to join the proposed mass action against the strike on Monday,” she said.

How Apostle Suleman’s Aide Forced Me To Make False Confession, Recant Sexual Allegations — Stephanie Otobo

  Canada-based Nigerian woman, Stephanie Otobo, who had some years ago allegedly had an amorous relationship with Apostle Johnson Suleman, the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries, has again levelled some allegations against the clergyman in a recent video.   Otobo, who was recently interviewed by a blogger, Maureen Badejo, explained that she made the confession in Suleman’s church under duress as she was already tired of the court processes, particularly with the transfer of the case from an incorruptible judge to another. According to her, the suit in Nigeria had a strain on her finances as she had to move to and fro the country and Canada incurring expenses over flight tickets, accommodation among others. She alleged that Phrank Shuaibu, a media aide to Suleman, approached her and asked that the case be settled if only she could make an open confession in church stating that her initial confession was false which she agreed to. She said, “People are nailing me for going to the church to apologise, I want you to know that I’m in my 20s, something just happened. I was lost, I was going to court for more than 2 years and I couldn’t stay in Nigeria because I was going to Canada, I flew back from Canada to Nigeria 16 times, people are just seeing that part and they weren’t seeing what I was going through. “Everything happened suddenly, first of all, I’m the destitute, I had no money but he had the money to pay off everyone including my friend that I was living with to call immigration on me and she did it. I was desperate to get out of the situation, people paid me money but I didn’t take the money before I went to the church. “It all started in 2017 when a friend told me about him that I should just place a call across and he will tell me the name of my husband. So, I texted the name of two different men because at that point, I just wanted to get married, settle down but Apostle Suleman called me himself and asked me why I didn’t come to meet him personally while he was in Canada for a program. “I said I was not interested in seeing him that someone told me to just call and he will tell me the name of my husband. That was how he started telling me he was tired of his wife but because of the Pastor thing, he cannot leave her but I was like, I don’t have the time. ”He told me God sent him to me and because I grew up in Nigeria, in a Christian home, so I believed him. That was how the manipulation started. I’ve had bad experiences with him (Suleiman), he gave me something to drink at the hotel that almost killed me.” She further alleged that the relationship started but the clergyman had told her to stop her career and she would have none of it. This, she said, brought about a misunderstanding between them. Afterwards, Otobo and a young man had flown in to Nigeria from Canada to meet with Timaya in relation to her music career. She said Suleiman kept calling and threatening, which made thr young man with her query the pastor if he wanted to have her killed. Meanwhile, Suleman had allegedly sent the police after the duo but after two weeks of futile search, Otobo’s account got frozen which made her pay a visit to the bank where she was arrested alongside the young man and taken to the police station where bail was denied them for three days. She said the case was in court for two years after a media adviser to Apostle Johnson Suleman, the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries, Phrank Shaibu influenced the transfer of the case to another court. “They succeeded in getting the case transferred from the initial court under this female Judge who refused to collect bribe from them. They wanted the judge to jail us but the woman refused, but later when I noticed they had transferred the case to another court, I knew that was it. Phrank approached me and said we should settle the matter and I gave in. “I was tired of coming to Nigeria because of this issue. The Canadian government was also after me like why am I traveling so frequently. When Phrank approached me, I was like okay, so he took us to Abuja and lodged us at this popular hotel. It was at the hotel Phrank told me what to say. I even have the recording of where he was talking. ”Then they took me to Auchi with an entourage to the church where I made the confession. I wanted to say the truth in the church but I was scared so they would not kill me. “I was wondering why the wife was supporting that kind of thing because she was right there. I even came in through the back of the altar, I wanted the spirit of God to see that they were bringing me in to the house of God to lie. I was invited to lie. I went to speak to the Pastor upstairs first, that’s why I came in through the back of the altar.”

Gunmen attack voters, journalists during LG poll in Enugu

  Gunmen, on Wednesday, attacked journalists and voters during an invasion of ward where the local government election in Enugu state was taking place. The Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ESIEC) scheduled Wednesday for elections for the 17 chairperson and 260 councillorship positions in the state. Although the elections went on peacefully in parts of the state, gunmen disrupted the election at ward 3 in Obeagu, Enugu south LGA, where they shot sporadically to scare away voters. Four reporters in a bus belonging to the Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS) also ran into the gunmen at Obeagu. The gunmen were said to have attacked the bus conveying the journalists, and while some of those on board scampered for safety, Chigozie Alex-Nwafor, a reporter, and Ebuka Ogbozor, the bus driver, were said to have been held back. They were, however, reportedly released after receiving machete cuts, while vehicles in the community were razed. Confirming the development in a statement, Sam Udekwe, chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Enugu, condemned the attack. “I find it inexplicable that journalists have suddenly become endangered species even while discharging their constitutional duties,” he said. “This type of act against innocent citizens must not be allowed to take root in the society.” Also speaking on the incident, Mike Ajogwu, chairman of ESIEC, said the commission had been informed of the attack. “I have sent some top commissioners and staff of the commission to go and find out what really happened and get back to me,” he said. “On whether the elections in that ward will be declared inconclusive or otherwise, it will largely depend on the feedback from those I have mandated to visit the ward already.” According to NAN, aside from voters, election officials, and other residents in the neighbourhood who sustained injuries while trying to escape, an unidentified politician was injured on the head by a bullet. When contacted by TheCable, Daniel Ndukwe, Enugu police spokesperson, promised to respond to a message but had not done so at the time of this report. In recent months, the south-east part of the country, including Enugu, has been experiencing a spate of violent attacks perpetrated by gunmen. On February 10, three police officers were killed following an attack on a checkpoint in Enugu south LGA. Two days later, four police officers were killed by gunmen along Amaechi-Ekeotu-Agbani road in Enugu south LGA.

Pressure On Buhari To Sign Electoral Bill Is Unnecessary, Says Uzodimma

  Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma has described the pressure mounted on President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the amended electoral bill as unnecessary. The National Assembly had in January transmitted the reworked Electoral Bill to Buhari for assent. However, the president is yet to sign the document, forcing some civil society organisations to converge at the Unity Fountain in Abuja on Tuesday to condemn the delay. The development has also triggered debates in the political space. But Governor Uzodimma, who briefed reporters in Owerri the state capital on Wednesday, said the 1999 constitution as amended has defined the process of signing a bill into law. “I don’t understand the anxiety and propaganda of trying to force and blackmail the president into signing the electoral act without following the constitutional dictates by ensuring that he will study the electoral act,” Uzodimma said. “He has the mandate of all of us, over 200 million Nigerians. He will study the act and if there are things in his opinion he considers not in the best interest of the people, he has to address it. All these social clubs and anxieties here and there is not the best thing. “I think we should allow the president to do his job. We have seen people making utterances here and there that the president must sign. The Constitution has expressly defined the process of making laws and none of those processes has been violated.”