Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Thursday alerted the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and other security agencies of a plot by the Bauchi State government to implicate him in criminal conspiracy. Dogara also wrote a letter dated Thursday, March 21, addressed to the Inspector-General of Police and, copied to the Director-General, Department of State Services, SSS.
2. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, has, arraigned one Olamide Salvador and Richard Olusegun Olatunji, before Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offence Court sitting in Ikeja, on a five-count charge bordering on stealing, forgery and conspiracy to the tune of N24, 183, 120. The first defendant, Salvador, allegedly conspired with the second defendant, Olatunji, a manager in Stanbic IBTC, and some others now at large to defraud one Foster Ene of the said sum of money.
3. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday raised the alarm over an alleged clandestine security meeting between the President Muhammadu Buhari-led presidency with certain top officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and security agencies, where they allegedly hatched an “obnoxious plot to hijack the March 23 governorship supplementary elections in some states.” PDP claimed that INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, was directed not to declare the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike winner of the March 9 election. This was contained in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan.
4. Ahead of the supplementary elections in some parts of the country, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammad Abubakar Adamu, has deployed five Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, DIGs, three Assistant Inspectors General of Police, AIGs, to ensure that adequate security mechanisms are in place for the conduct of the election. He also deployed additional fifteen Commissioners of Police, CPs, to provide supervision, direction and support to the existing security structure already in place in those states. The Force PRO, Frank MBA said in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja.
5. The supplementary election scheduled for Saturday, March 23, in Adamawa State has been postponed indefinitely. This is as a result of a suit filed against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by Mustafa Shaba, the governorship candidate of the Movement For Restoration and Defence for Democracy (MRDD). Shaba had sued INEC over the omission of his party’s logo from the electoral materials used for the March 9 election.
6. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has finally released the much-awaited timeline for the completion of the electoral process in Rivers State. INEC Commissioner in charge of Voter Education and Information, Festus Okoye, at a media briefing in Abuja, said collation and announcement of results in the Rivers governorship election will take place between 2nd and 5th of April, 2019, at a venue to be decided by stakeholders. Okoye also disclosed that supplementary elections will take place on the 13th of April in local government areas where elections could not hold.
7. Senator Smart Adeyemi, Miss Natasha Akpoti and Sen. Ahmed Ogembe have filed petitions against the conduct and outcome of the National Assembly election held in Kogi State on Feb.23. The Secretary of the Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal, Mrs Aisha Mana, confirmed this on Thursday in Lokoja.
8. The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar was ‘hallucinating’. Obaseki said this on Thursday in reaction to the claim by the PDP that Atiku Abubakar defeated Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, by about 1.6 million votes and won the 2019 election from what the INEC server showed.
9. The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Thursday approved the prayer of the Defence counsel, Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, to the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Walter Onnoghen to address the tribunal on a no-case submission. It also directed the tribunal registrar to make available a record of proceedings to Awomolo to enable him prepare his written address. Awomolo, according to the directive of the chairman of the tribunal, Danladi Umar would receive the recorded proceedings next Monday.
10. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has said that the recent report release by the United State on Nigeria’s anti-corruption war was false and misleading. The EFCC, while dismissing the report, said it had done so well in the fight against corruption that other nations of the world were highly appreciative of its effort in curtailing corruption.
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