Gbemi registers as PDP member

Senator Rukayyat Gbemisola Saraki

Senator Rukayyat Gbemisola Saraki yesterday formalized her membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  as she took part in the party’s ongoing registration exercise in the state.

She said the PDP in Kwara is solidly on ground and that the party is not a wounded lion as some are saying.
Gbemi registered as a PDP member at her Ajikobi Central ward with registration number 860453 in the presence of her supporters who trooped out to receive her.
She urged supporters of the party to be peaceful and shun rancour and acrimony stressing that the party is making progress in the state.
 “A wounded lion is an angry lion and we are not wounded, we know where we are”, Saraki stated while registering.
She also said that the ongoing national conference was not a waste of time as some people believe, advocating that the confab should be held constantly for Nigerians to “think, talk and debate” on how to move the nation forward.
Gbemisola who was the 2011 governorship candidate of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN)

As Reps avoid debating court ruling on defection

Representatives

Fears that the court opinion on the defected lawmakers would lead to a rowdy session was laid to rest as members chose not to broach the issue on the floor of the House. Our correspondent reports.

In the wake of the court pronouncement against 37 defected members of the House of Representatives by an Abuja High Court on Monday, most Nigerians had expected that the issue would dominate proceedings and other legislative businesses in the chamber of the House. On Tuesday and yesterday.
The ruling, which was delivered by Justice Adeniyi Ademola, said the defected lawmakers should not have any business doing in the National Assembly after they had left the party that sponsored them into the legislature.
Justice Ademola therefore said they should honourably resign from their positions having left the PDP under whose platform they won elections in 2011.
Ademola said “the defendants are, therefore, not competent to vote or contribute to any proceedings in the House of Representatives.”
There were indications that the ruling would lead to a rowdy session and a lot of drama on the floor of the House the following day with some of the PDP and APC lawmakers planning to bring the matter

Kaduna APC members protest consensus decision

Some aspirants and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State yesterday protested what they called lack of consultation before choosing the party’s consensus candidates in the forthcoming party congresses.

Leaders of the party had resolved at the end of a ‘consultation meeting’ in preparation for the ward, local government and state congresses taking place between April 5 and 23, 2014 in Kaduna

‘Muazu will bring defectors back to PDP’

The Mua’zu Support Group for Greater PDP (MSGGPDP) has said that with the leadership quality of Alhaji Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu as PDP national chairman, party members who defected to other parties, especially the All Progressive Congress (APC) would soon return.

Coordinator of the group, Alhaji Aminu Bello, said yesterday in Abuja that what has been happening barely three months after he was appointed to lead PDP, including correcting much of the mistakes

Tukur calls on African leaders to work together

Former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has called on African countries to come together in order to form a more dynamic political and economic power.

Alhaji Tukur said that the time has come for African countries to ensure that they have a united forum to discuss and handle all issues bothering on the interest of Africans.
He made this statement in Abuja when he played host to the chairman of the Universal Peace Foundation, UPF from South Korea Dr. Charles S. Yang and the former South African President Thabo Mbeki both of whom paid him a visit in his residence in Abuja.
In the different fora, Dr. Tukur told his guests that he was now more than ever determined

We remain in APC - Marwa associates

Stakeholders of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC) in Adamawa State said they did not defect with Buba Marwa to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Speaking at a meeting of stakeholders from the 21 local government areas of the state yesterday in Yola, former chairman of the party, Alhaji Ibrahim Waziri, refuted claims that they joined Marwa

FG accuses Sanusi of financing terrorism

These are indeed not good times for suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the Federal Government and the State Security Service are now accusing him of financial terrorism in the country.
This allegation was levelled against the embattled apex bank boss in counter-affidavits deposed before a Federal High Court by the respondents in the suit filed by Sanusi.
Sanusi is seeking a perpetual injunction to restrain the SSS and the police from arresting him.

Sanusi’s lawyer, Kola Awodein, while making reference to the allegation on Monday, told the court it was an afterthought which government came up with after seizing Sanusi’s passport.
Awodein said, “The seizure of the applicant’s international passport by the third respondent, is a violation of his freedom of movement.
“The first to third respondents give conflicting reasons as to the complaint