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Naijacentral NaijacentralOn October 11, President Tinubu left the UK for Paris in France for “an important engagement,” his Senior Special Assistant on Political and Other Matters, Ibrahim Masari, disclosed in a tweet.
Naijacentral NaijacentralIn the suit dated Sept. 5 but filed Sept. 6, the APC sought nine reliefs.
These include “an order of perpetual injunction restraining the 2nd defendant (ENSIEC) from conducting any election in Nigeria including the Local Government Election in Enugu State, without the plaintiffs participation through its duly elected principal officer of the State Executive Committee (SEC) registered with the 1st defendant (INEC).”
Naijacentral NaijacentralThe court also ruled that the defendants and the sureties must deposit their international passports and three recent passport photographs with the court registrar.
Until they perfect their respective bail conditions, Justice Nwite ordered that the defendants be returned to prison.
He also ordered the defendants to refrain from participating in any public rally or protests throughout their trial and fixed September 27 for the commencement of trial.
The defendants are; Michael Adaramoye also known as Lenin, Adeyemi Abayomi, Suleiman Yakubu, Comrade Opaluwa Simon, Angel Innocent, Buhari Lawal, Mosiu Sadiq, Bashir Bello, Nurudeen Khamis and Abduldalam Zubair.
They are facing a six-count bordering on alleged treason, intent to destabilize Nigeria, conspiracy to commit a felony, and inciting to mutiny which is said to be an offence punishable under section 97 of the penal code.
Naijacentral NaijacentralThe Act, which took retrospective effect in 1963, guides the criteria for bestowing the prestigious awards.y
Naijacentral NaijacentralThe statement quoted the minister as saying, “I will suggest in our next constitution review exercise that we expunge those found guilty of corruption from benefiting from powers of ‘Prerogative of Mercy’ to serve as a deterrent to others.
“The cooperation of all stakeholders, especially the AGs, is crucial in the fight against corruption.”
He further advised the state Attorneys General to eschew nepotism, political witch-hunting, rivalry, and bigotry in the fight against corruption just because they want to please their governors.
Naijacentral NaijacentralThe civil society group described the arrest as a needless show of force “ and an attempt to cause national anarchy.
Naijacentral NaijacentralThe NLC president was billed to attend the Trade Union Congress conference in London, which begins today.
Naijacentral NaijacentralHe said he had submitted a memo to the office of the Chief of Staff to the President.
In a statement on Saturday night, the presidency acknowledged that Tinubu had received the memo and he thanked Ngelale for his service to the nation.
Naijacentral NaijacentralAll the polling units, over 4,500 of them will be used. So, there is no polling unit that will not have voters..
“However, if election does not take place because of one reason or the other, of course, the presiding officer has the duty to report that,” Oyekanmi told newsmen.
Naijacentral NaijacentralThe statement read, “On Friday, I submitted a memo to the Chief of Staff to the President informing my office that I am proceeding on an indefinite leave of absence to frontally deal with medical matters presently affecting my immediate nuclear family.
“While I fully appreciate that the ship of state waits for no man, this agonizing decision — entailing a pause of my functions as the Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity and Official Spokesperson of the President, Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Action, and Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee on Project Evergreen — was taken after significant consultations with my family over the past several days as a vexatious medical situation has worsened at home.
“I look forward to returning to full-time national service when time, healing, and fate permit. I respectfully ask for some privacy for my family and me during this time.”
