Atiku, Obi, Secondus, Saraki, Dogara listed for arrest — PDP •Says families and associates also targeted; Tinubu, Akpabio co-ordinating plot

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, on Monday alleged that the Federal Government and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have listed critical players in opposition including himself, the PDP Presidential Candidate Atiku Abubakar, his Vice Peter Obi, the Senate President Bukola Saraki, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, other top party leaders and their associates for arrest on frame up crimes.

The PDP National Chairman came hard on the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, saying that he has made himself a willing tool to carry out the APC script on how to cage and crush PDP.

“The country is in a keg of a gunpowder at the moment as a result of your hatchet job for the ruling government and I warn you to get away from this illegitimate job of using instruments of state to harass and intimidate opponents,” Prince Secondus said in a statement through his Media Office signed by his Media Adviser Ike Abonyi.

He said that available intelligence shows that former Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio are presiding over clandestine meetings and developing strategies for the APC which is aimed at freezing critical leaders of the opposition.

He said that aside arrest and detention of opposition leaders, their family members and business associates have been lined up for intimidation and harassment including freezing their business interests and their bank accounts.

Secondus described as an afterthought fabrication, the EFCC denial that the son of the PDP Presidential Candidate was not the target in the raid of an apartment housing him in Abuja insisting that the game plan privy to the party was clear on who was the ultimate target.

Prince Secondus reminded Nigerians  that these acts of impunity is in continuation of the embarrassment they caused our Presidential candidate and former Vice President of this country on Novemeber 11, 2019 when he was thoroughly searched at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport by operatives of the state on his return from overseas on November 11, 2018.

“After that embarrassment and harassment which was aimed at intimidating the candidate and nothing incriminating was found on him, no apology was extended to him as a former number two citizen.

“They followed it up with the freezing of the Bank account of our Vice Presidential Candidate as well as that of his friends and family members as part of a large scheme to keep the party distracted from its focus of regaining power in 2019.”

According to the script, “PDP will be brought to their knees so that by January they would be finally grounded with their leaders framed up and put behind bars,” Secondus said.

He said that in the script, APC and the Federal Government believe that the party can only bark and not bite as observed in the case of Osun and Ekiti states while indeed they are set and determined for the worse rather than lose the election.

Prince Secondus warned that “while PDP believes and cherishes all ingredients of democracy including the rule of law, it cannot guarantee any situation that aims at cowing the opposition and thwart the will of the Nigeria people.”

He chided “Magu and other characters of his type who are willing to assist the APC in undermining democracy, to look back at history and know that the consequences are always not palatable.”

The PDP National Chairman called on “all lovers of democracy and rule of law especially international community to rein in President Buhari, Magu and the APC to observe the tenets of democracy that respects the sanctity of the opposition and human rights.”

Osun State Permanent Secretary, Kolawole,

Mrs. Olufunke Oluwakemi Kolawole, Osun state's Permanent Secretary, Bureau of General Services, has been reportedly murdered around Okene, in Kogi State, on her way to Abuja on Thursday.
Kolawole, according to DailyPost had left Osogbo in the early hours of Thursday for Abuja, to felicitate with her friend, who is the Solicitor General in the state on her confirmation as a judge before he was accosted and shot by unknown assailants along Okene-Abuja road around noon.
She was said to have been rushed to a hospital at Lokoja, the state capital but later gave up the ghost.
The younger brother to the deceased, Mr Femi Ajibade, who spoke to DAILY POST on Friday expressed shock over the incident, he described the death of his sister as devastating and sadden....

According to him, the family members became so anxious when her number was no more going through on Thursday evening.
“I spoke with her last on Wednesday, and one of my sisters called me on Thursday evening that her number could not be reached, I rushed down to her house at Ofatedo where I gathered that she was in a critical condition after being attacked and shot by ” armed robbers’ in Kogi State, on her way to Abuja for an event.
“We later arranged among the family members to travel to Kogi and ascertain her condition, but we were prevailed upon not to go again, as some of her associates confirmed to us that she was dead”, he said.
Reports say Kolawole was one of the one of the most powerful Permanent Secretaries in the state hailed from Modakeke, in Ife East Local Government of Osun.

What I Planned to do if Sheriff Had Won in Supreme Court - Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has revealed what he would have done if Senator Ali Modu Sheriff Sheriff had won at the Supreme Court on Wednesday...

He said he would have burnt his Peoples Democratic Party’s membership card and flag if Sheriff was declared winner.

Fayose, who is also the Chairman, PDP Governors’ Forum, said he went to court with the intention of destroying his PDP card and flag if the judgment of the court did not favour Senator Ahmed Makarfi as the chairman of the party’s caretaker committee.

Speaking in Ado-Ekiti on Friday, the governor, who said Sheriff and members of his faction had been forgiven, added that they must show remorse for causing the party members so much trouble.

He said, “I never imagined myself being in the same party with impostors.

“I went to court with a bottle of perfume, which I wanted to use to spray my card and party flag and set them ablaze, even on the court premises if Sheriff had won. That was why I went to court.

“Though, I believe that we remain the same PDP family but no one can cause our party such trouble and embarrassment and expect that he would go without being asked to account for his actions.

“Even the reactions of Sheriff’s people show that we are together. But the ‘no victor, no vanquished’ statement we made was a mere political slogan. Whoever participated in the matter must show some reasonable level of remorse for their actions.”

Saraki Tells Adeleke to Defect to APC

Nigeria's Senate President Bukola Saraki has urged Osun West's senator Ademola Adeleke to consider rejoining the All Progressive Congress, APC.
Adeleke had earlier defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to contest for the Osun West senatorial by-election.
“I was filled with emotions today as I swore in the brother of Late Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke as Senator representing Osun South", Saraki said.
"I’m sure that my late friend, his family, good people of Ede and Osun West Senatorial District are delighted that the legacy of Government can continue. I am sure my departed colleague will, in his grave, be happy and filled with joy today and always.
“My only sadness is that Senator Ademola Adeleke is not coming in as an APC member. This is the result of mishandling of the pre-election matters by our party. I hope Senator Ademola Adeleke will very soon return to his natural fold, the APC, where he rightly belongs.

Osinbajo Consults With House Of Reps Leadership Over Critical National Issues

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo last night met the leadership of the House of Representatives over the state of the nation.
The meeting was held at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja, where a highly placed Presidency sources told DailyTrust that the meeting was at the instance of the acting president.
Sources described the meeting as a “consultation” with the leadership of the House over critical national issues.
Another source hinted that Osinbajo would seize the opportunity to brief the House leadership on his Tuesday's meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in London.

Meanwhile, sources in the presidency had also listed the delay in the inauguration of the two new ministers-designate as an agenda for the meeting.
The House had on Tuesday, asked Osinbajo to swear in Stephen Ocheni (Kogi) and Suleiman Hassan (Gombe) within one week.
Dailytrust reported that it was not clear whether the acting president only met Speaker Yakubu Dogara, as some of the principal officers of the lower chamber, including Deputy Speaker Yussuf Suleimon Lasun; House Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila; Chief Whip, Alhassan Ado Doguwa and Deputy Chief Whip, Pally Iriase, were in Lagos yesterday ahead of a joint National Assembly retreat on the ongoing constitution amendment.