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It is still no sacrifice as Five students die in scramble for governor akpabios largesse pdp related "deaths" contune

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on March 4, 2011 at 8:45pm

Five students were killed and several others reportedly injured during a riot by students who wanted a share of the ₦15 million distributed by the Akwa Ibom State governor Godswill Akpabio. The tragedy occurred yesterday at the Government House Uyo and the Ibom Hall where undergraduate students and unemployed graduates gathered at the instance of the state governor.

The inability of some unemployed graduates, students of the University of Uyo, Uyo City Polytechnic and Akwa Ibom State College of Education to get a share of the money led to a stampede.

Mr. Akpabio had announced a ₦10 million largesse for undergraduate students who were supposed to get their money at the Government House. His running mate in the gubernatorial election, Nsima Ekere, was billed to distribute the rest ₦5 million to unemployed graduates who converged at the Ibom Hall.

Trouble started with the rumour that organisers of the event have taken away ₦4 million out of the ₦10 million given to the students. After waiting for more than four hours for the remaining ₦6 million to be shared, the students started a protest.

The protest turned into a stampede as security agencies tried to remove them from the premises. In the ensuing scramble, gunshots were fired by the police and the protesting students responded by hurling stones at the police officers.

At Ibom Hall, a few fortunate unemployed graduates got ₦1,000 each but the rest had to run away when they heard the gunshots. Matters worsened when the protesting students were joined by others in the adjourning streets of Oron and Wellington Bassey road leading to sporadic shooting which extended into the night...jpeg&STREAMOID=YLRZZLAjEzj6x6Ti4mH5EC6SYeqqxXXqBcOgKOfTXxR1k6zURj6_$r2suXEqEVOSnW_PgxgftuECOcfJwS6Jtlp$r8Fy$6AAZ9zyPuHJ25T7a9GKDSxsGxtpmxP0VAUyHL6IDcZHtmM2t7xO$FHdJG95dFi6y2Uma3vSsvPpVyo-

During a telephone interview, Essien Udoma, the Student Union President of the University of Uyo, confirmed that they were invited by the state governor to collect ₦10 million but people under the aegis of Concerned Students for Gosdwill Akpabio, the organisers, made away with ₦4 million.

He said seven students comprising three each from the Akwa Ibom State College of Education and Uyo City Polytechnic, and one from the University of Uyo have been hospitalised in an undisclosed hospital. He refused to say how many were killed in the riots.

In what amounts to a reaction, the state government has banned all groups from gathering at the Government House for any reason. The commissioner for Information and Social Re-orientation, Aniekan Umanah, said any such rally should be taken to the PDP secretariat.

 

 

Is it still no sacrifice ? 

No sacrifice no sacrifice at all .....

 

its the heart of pdp letting people die  ....

"elton john"

 

 

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Police seal off Ogun State governor’s office, Assembly

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on September 7, 2010 at 9:51pm
The Ogun State Police Command yesterday sealed off the state secretariat which houses both the Governor’s Office, and the House of Assembly at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. Police said it was necessary to prevent factions embroiled in a tussle over the leadership of the assembly from gaining entrance into the premises.

However, civil servants who saw fully armed policemen cordoning off the area, fled their offices to avoid becoming victims of the fracas.

The Police spokesperson in the state, Muyiwa Adejobi, said the command took the action after receiving information that hoodlums were planning to burn down the complex. Asked if the command got its directive from Abuja, he said he was not aware of any such orders. “I am not aware of any directive from Abuja to close the gates, if there is such, it has to be from the Inspector General of Police to the Commissioner, we only move to ensure peace following information that some hoodlums were planning to burn the place and some other areas in the state”.

As early as 7am, policemen led by the Commissioner of Police, Musa Daura, arrived the premises of the secretariat, and the two gates leading into the premises were soon manned by armed officers.

Living in fear

Most workers who fled their offices said they were afraid of being attacked by supporters of the factions who may mistake them for opponents.

Speaking via the telephone, the impeached Speaker, Tunji Egbetokun, said his group of G-15 remains intact, but will not be employing any violence. He also said members will soon find a place to convene a meeting.

“We are still much in control, no cause for alarm. The mace, which is the assembly authority is still with us, and we are going to get a conducive place to do our sittings.”

Late yesterday, sources say President Goodluck Jonathan will be meeting with Mr. Egebtokun’s group in Abuja. This may be an indication that members have the ears of the president especially since Gbenga Daniel did not attend the meeting Mr Jonathan held with all the Peoples Democratic Party governors last night.

Claims and counter claims

The new Speaker, Soyemi Coker, said he is unable to say on which specific date his team will start sitting in the assembly, but denied that the mace used for the impeachment belonged to the Abeokuta South local government..

He told journalists shortly after visiting the secretariat of the PDP in Abeokuta with four members of his ‘G-9’ team that the ‘G-15’ lawmakers cannot hold the state to ransom. “I cannot be specific when we are going to start sitting in the house, can you yourself as journalists be specific when you are going to get back to your home? Also it is not correct that we used the mace of the local government, a mace is a mace” he said.

Mr. Coker said the new leadership is grateful to Mr. Daniel who they visited shortly after the impeachment of the former leadership, to inform him of the change of guards.

The Abeokuta South Local Government also denied that its mace was used during the impeachment. The Leader of the councillors, Fatai Adeleke, said, “I want to ask Mr. Egbetokun if Abeokuta South Local Government was inscribed on the mace he claimed belonged to it. Let me also say that the Chairman does not in any way interfere with the affairs of the legislative council, not to talk of having access to the legislative mace.” He said the allegation was a figment of Mr. Egbetokun’s imagination, demanding that he apologises within 12 hours or be sued.

A two time governorship candidate of the National Conscience Party in state, Lanre Banjo, said the manner in which the nine lawmakers impeached the Speaker, using what he called “armed robbery tactics,” should be condemned.

He said, “The first business of the day after entering the premises of the Assembly, like Shina Rambo, was to reinstate the suspended members of the house to swell the numbers of pro-executive members of the house to eleven (11) and to strengthen their quorum for the resolutions they were about to pass. Except that impeachment requires a minimum of 16 members.”

Mr. Banjo appealed to all those he called elders in the state to intervene in the crisis.
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Ekiti governor’s tenure ends next year

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on July 16, 2010 at 10:06pm
A Federal High Court sitting in Jos, Plateau State has ruled that the tenure of Segun Oni, the Ekiti State governor, ends in 2011, in the controversy over whether a fresh four year tenure started when he won the April 2009 re-run elections in the state.

The judgment in the suit filed by Adunmo Rufus and three others against the Attorney General of the Federation, delivered on Friday by Ambrose Alagoa.

Mr. Alagoa said the re-run election was not a fresh election but a supplementary one which held in some parts of the state, where no elections were held. He also said the oath Mr. Oni took in 2007 is the one recognised by the Constitution while the second oath he took in 2009 was only complimentary.

An Appeal Court’s ruling in Ilorin had on 17 February, 2009 nullified the election of Mr. Oni, and ordered a fresh poll in 63 wards of 10 local governments, out of the 16 local governments in the state, while the results of the remaining six were still considered for the new result...

No precedence

However, Wale Ojo-Lanre, the chief press secretary to Mr. Oni, said in a press statement that the judgment that cannot stand the test of judicial precedence.

“Section 180 (subsection 2a) of the 1999 Constitution is clear on when the tenure of office of governors and presidents ends and this has been settled by the Supreme Court,” Mr. Ojo-Lanre said.

He described the judgment as curious, strange and a pyrrhic victory for those who are desirous of getting power through the backdoor, noting that constitutional matters like the one on tenure of elected public officers can only be settled by the Supreme Court and added that his principal will appeal the judgment.

But in support of the judgement, Rotimi Akeredolu, the Nigeria Bar Association president, described the ruling as a vindication of his position and that of the Bar.

“That is the position of the law,” Mr. Akeredolu said. “The Bar said so, I have said so everywhere. He is fooling himself. I told him openly, I told the deputy governor when we met, and for them to think that the term will start running they are fooling themselves.

“The Constitution is very clear; from the day you are sworn in and he was sworn in 2007. So the election in 10 local governments and in local government like Ido-Osi and the likes will not give him a new tenure,” Mr. Akeredolu said.
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