Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, has denied reports that he is no longer a member of the seven aggrieved governors within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Otherwise called G7 governors, the group also include; Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Abdulfatai Ahmed (Kwara), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), and Rabiu Kwankwanso (Kano). They had joined other PDP chieftains to form a splinter group now known as New PDP, after walking out of the Special National Congress held at the Eagles Square, Abuja The faction led by Abubakar Kawu Baraje has former vice president Atiku Abubakar and former governors of Kwara and Osun, Senator Bukola Saraki and Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Sam Jaja, among others as members. Reacting to speculations that he recently dumped the faction, Aliyu maintained that those jittery by the moves of the G7 were trying to mislead the public. Speaking when members of the civil service uni...
You saw the tweets yesterday from people who said they witnessed the fight at the club early Monday morning...now Davido's camp have released pictures of his injured bodyguard, TJ, who was allegedly stabbed twice, in the neck and the hand, by the DJ of the club. They also released a press statement explaining what happened that day. Find the statement below and more photos of TJ after the cut... The facts: DJ Jaydee of Grotto stabbed Davido's bodyguards, evades police F alsified accounts of a recent incident at the Grotto club on Sunday have made the rounds. Davido’s Management hereby wishes to clear the air on them with the statement below. A fter a successful outing at a recent concert on Sunday November 3 at Eko Hotels, popular musician Davido headed to the Grotto Nightclub on Victoria Island. After a brief stay at the club, Davido and his crew proceeded to his vehicle outside to head home. Upon entering the vehicle, he realized that his ATM card...
Respected elder statesman and Chairman of The Patriots, Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, has stated that the proposed national conference by President Gooduck Jonathan would not be like the National Political Reforms Conference, NPRC, organised by former President, Olusegun Obasanjo in 2005. Nwabueze in a 10-page article entitled, Nature and Character of the Proposed National Conference: Its Primal Purpose and Modus Operandi, said that Jonathan’s proposed conference was different from Obasanjo’s abortive NPRC. While disclosing this to his Committee of 15 lawyers and political scientists preparing a draft constitution that will begin sitting next Tuesday in Lagos, he said, “In February 2005, President Obasanjo suddenly convened what he called the National Political Reform Conference, comprising a motley of persons handpicked by himself and the state governors as well as some members of certain ethnic groups and other associations —a completely undemocratic body with no mandate from t...
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