08/01/18

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The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has criticised the Senate President’s defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party.

The minister said that the ruling party has gained nothing from the office of the Senate President.

“APC gained nothing from his office as the Senate President under the ruling party and will lose nothing through his defection”, said the minister.

His comment comes after the Senate President disclosed that his reason for leaving the party was due to lack of peace, dialogue and cooperation with the party.

The Senate President said that the APC has done everything to ensure that the basic rules of party administration, which should promote harmonious relations within the party were disregarded.

The information minister, however, rejected Saraki’s criticism of the party and the Federal Government rather blamed him (Saraki) for the delays in budget and appointments.

“This present administration would have done better under a Senate president under an opposition but instead has suffered more, through delays in budgets and appointments masterminded by the Senate President”, the minister noted.

He promised to ensure that the ruling party remains stronger with genuine members on board as he alleged that the entire leadership of the PDP in Kwara have moved over to the APC.

He further described all other defections as a storm in a ‘teacup’ and insisted that the President has no hand in the Benue saga.
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A Sokoto legislator has made a stunning claim of bribery against Gov.Aminu Tambuwal, who left the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday.
The member of the state House of Assembly, who declined to follow the governor to the PDP, said he was offered N13 million by the governor as an inducement to dump the APC.
He said he rejected the money and appeared to insinuate that the 18 other members who followed Tambuwal to the PDP accepted the bribed. The claim has not been verified.
The legislator, who belongs to the camp of former Governor Aliyu Wammako, said he and 11 other members of the house rejected Tambuwal’s bribe.
“We were offered N13 million each to move to the PDP. I, along with 11 other members of the house declined the offer and remain in the party with which we were elected.
” We remain loyal to APC, our leader Sen. Aliyu Wamakko and President Mohammadu Buhari. We cannot join PDP because we cannot return to darkness which the opposition party represents, having experienced the light in APC”.
“No amount of intimidation, political harassment as well as monetary inducement will make us change our political stand.
“We are happy with the recent political development in our state and we will continue to work towards promoting the lofty ideals of our party,” he said.
He said he and 11 other colleagues rejected the bribed to join the PDP because “they have their names to protect”.
“We have since embarked on house to house sensitization to our teeming supporters on why we remain in our party and why we want them to remain politically committed  ”
“We want everybody to remain loyal to our party leaders ,shun political thuggery and violence because as progressive we must be seen to be promoting peaceful coexistence  for the overall political growth of our party “he said.
He called on APC teeming supporters to participate in the ongoing continuous voters registration exercise.
“Any body that offers you money, collect it because it is your money that is supposed to be used in providing democracy dividends but diverted  for selfish interests,” he said.
Tambuwal, 52, defected to the PDP in a huge ceremony in Sokoto today. His deputy, Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto, remains in APC.
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Protests in Zimbabwe’s historic elections turned bloody on Wednesday as a man was shot dead during demonstrations over alleged vote fraud and President Emmerson Mnangagwa appealed for calm.
The man died after soldiers fired live ammunition during opposition protests in downtown Harare, AFP reporters said.
The polls — the first since autocratic president Robert Mugabe was forced out by a brief military takeover in November — had offered Zimbabwe the chance of turning the page on a brutal chapter of its past.
But the mood quickly descended into anger and chaos as supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) opposition declared they had been cheated.
“You said you were better than Mugabe — you are the picture of Mugabe,” shouted one young male protester wearing a white T-shirt. “We need security for the people.”
Official results showed that the ruling ZANU-PF party had easily won the most seats in the parliamentary ballot — strengthening Mnangagwa’s prospects of holding onto power in the key presidential vote.
MDC supporters burnt tyres and pulled down street signs as protests spread from the party headquarters in Harare.
US Senator Jeff Flake and President Emmerson Mnangagwa

Jeff Flake and Nelson Chamisa

“Now is the time for responsibility and above all, peace,” wrote Mnangagwa on his verified Twitter account.
“At this crucial time, I call on everyone to desist from provocative declarations and statements.”
European Union observers had earlier said they found an “improved political climate” in the elections but an “un-level playing field and lack of trust in the process.”
It called for transparency in the release of results.
EU chief observer Elmar Brok said there were “efforts to undermine the free expression of the will of the electors through inducements, soft intimidation, pressure and coercion… to try to ensure a vote in favour of the ruling party.”
“On many occasions, preparation, financing, media and hopefully not in the counting — it was advantageous for the ruling party,” he told AFP.
Mnangagwa, 75, had promised a free and fair vote after the military ushered him to power in November when Mugabe was forced to resign.
Under Mugabe’s 37-year reign, elections were often marred by fraud and deadly violence, with the EU observers banned since 2002.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said Wednesday that of 210 parliamentary seats, 153 had been counted with ZANU-PF winning 110 and the MDC Alliance 41.
“The results are biased, trying to give the impression that ZANU has won,” said Lawrence Maguranyi, 21, an MDC supporter and university student protesting at the party headquarters.
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, 40, said the presidential results were fraudulent.
“ZEC seeks to… reverse the people’s presidential election victory. The strategy is meant to prepare Zim mentally to accept fake presidential results,” he tweeted. “We won the popular vote and will defend it!”
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Twenty-three members of the 24-member Kwara House of Assembly, including all principal officers on Wednesday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The defection, according to Speaker of the assembly, Dr Ali Ahmad, during plenary was conveyed in a letter written to the House by the Majority Leader, Mr Hassan Oyeleke, on behalf of concerned members.
All the defected members were in the APC and the only member remaining in the party is Saheed Popoola, representing Ojomu-Balogun Constituency in Offa Local Government Area.
Each of the 23 members, including the speaker, signed the letter of the defection.
In his remarks, Ahmad said that the movement to the PDP by the 23 lawmakers became imperative “since the APC has failed to meet the aspirations of Nigerians”.
He alleged that the APC-led Federal Government was harassing and intimidating top government functionaries instead of tackling the problem confronting the nation.
“In 2014, l was terribly sad leaving PDP reluctantly with 36 members of the then House of the Representatives. Today, l am the happiest man leaving APC for good.
“l wish l was never a member of that party,’’ the speaker said.
He directed all the defectors to urgently consult the electorate in their various constituencies of the development.
The speaker announced the removal of Popoola, the only APC member in the House as Chairman, House Committee on information, Youth and Sports.
The members replace Popoola with Abdulrahman Abdulrafiu, representing llorin North West constituency. LR News
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Gov. Aminu Tambuwal

Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has formally defected from All Progressives Congress(APC) to Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), an action long expected.
Tambuwal made the announcement while addressing supporters at Government House, Sokoto on Wednesday.
He tweeted: I have consulted widely especially with the people of Sokoto and they have confidently assured me of my next political move. I hereby defect officially to the @OfficialPDPNig.”
Tambuwal, a lawyer and former speaker of the House of Representatives, is the third governor to defect to PDP, following the footsteps of Samuel Ortom of Benue and Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara.
By defecting, Tambuwal has now crossed the red line, in his relationship with his godfather, Senator Aliyu Wammako, who played a lot of role to instal him as governor in 2015. Wammako remains a pillar of APC and has reportedly warned Tambuwal about the political gamble.
But the former speaker, who has a presidential ambition and was also a former member of the Peoples Democratic Party, up till 2014, when he joined the APC, was adamant.
NAN learnt that he does not have the support of all members of the state legislature and his former cabinet, leading to the dissolution of the cabinet, several weeks ago.
Tambuwal, 52, was born 10 January 1966. He attended Usmanu Danfodiyo University, where he obtained his law degree.
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An Osun High Court sitting in Osogbo on Wednesday adjourned until Aug. 6 proceedings in the certificate suit involving Sen. Ademola Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the Sept. 22 governorship election in the state.
The Presiding Judge, Justice David Oladimeji, gave the order to enable the parties to have access to the relevant documents for use during the hearing.
Two members of the PDP in the state had approached the court for an interlocutory order setting aside the election of Adeleke as the PDP governorship flag bearer over alleged non-submission of his Secondary School leaving certificate.
Adeleke was declared the winner in the PDP primary held on July 21 after garnering 1,569 votes to beat his closest rival, Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, who polled 1,562.
But the plaintiffs, Rasheed Olabayo and Oluwaseun Idowu, in the suit filed on July 24 sought an interlocutory order setting aside the election of Adeleke, arguing that he did not satisfy the constitutional requirements to contest the governorship election.
Oladimeji, however, urged the counsel to take the interest of the people into considerations in whatever resolutions they reached in order to forestall any erroneous information that may heat up the polity.
The counsel to the plaintiffs, Mr Olufemi Ayandokun, had earlier told the court that his clients were willing to explore amicable avenues of settlement due to the love for the party.
Ayandokun also said that all parties in the suit, especially INEC that was the principal party, had not been served the necessary documents.
The Defence Counsel , Mr Edmund Boriomoni, said the matter before the court was the hearing of a motion on notice concerning an interlocutory injunction.
Boriomoni said that a counter affidavit had been filed to the application against his client with a notice of preliminary objection challenging the jurisdiction of the court.
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Drones are being used to detect traffic violations in the City of Jinan, Capital of East China’s Shandong Province, according to Beijing Youth Daily on Wednesday.
The four drones started on Tuesday and are assisting traffic police.
Equipped with high definition cameras, they discovered a total of five traffic violations within half an hour of starting.
They can monitor the illegal behaviour of drivers, such as using mobile phones and devices when driving, and take clear video footage.
The drones cover areas that fixed monitors cannot reach, helping collect evidence of traffic misconduct.
The drones started a test run in April, with total safe flying time amounting to over 200 hours, Jinan traffic police official Wei Jiliang said.
The drones are affected by weather and not used in the rain.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: company getting near record one trillion dollar market value

Apple is coasting near the history-making one trillion market value after announcing on Tuesday a 30 per cent increase in its profit for the second quarter.
It reported a profit of $11.5 billion, besting market expectations despite selling fewer iPhones than analysts projected.
The news boosted shares in the tech giant in after-hours trading, putting it ever closer to a history-making, trillion-dollar market value, even as China’s Huawei knocked Apple off second spot in a tightening global smartphone market.
Apple’s revenue in the fiscal third quarter soared 17 percent to $53.3 billion from the same period a year earlier on the back of sales of pricier iPhones, online services and wearable devices.
“We’re thrilled to report Apple’s best June quarter ever, and our fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth,” chief executive Tim Cook said in the earnings release.
Apple sold 41.3 million iPhones in the quarter that ended June 30, just shy of the 42 million figure anticipated by analysts.
Shares in the Silicon Valley-based technology titan rose 4.03 percent to $197.95 in after-hours trade that followed release of the earnings figures.
To hit the trillion-dollar market value, Apple shares would have to climb about five percent more.
“Apple gave the Street and tech investors finally some good news” beating earnings forecasts and predicting the current quarter will be strong, GBH insights head of technology research Daniel Ives said in a note to investors.
The company is expected to unveil new iPhone models in the fall, sticking with its practice of releasing upgraded models ahead of the year-end holiday shopping season.
Sales of iPhones in the fiscal third quarter have typically been tame as many fans have historically either bought handsets in prior months or end up waiting for new models in the months to come.
That said, the average selling price of iPhones jumped in the quarter as buyers opted for top-of-the-line X and 8 models, according to Apple.
“If you look at the top of our line together, they are growing very nicely” Cook said.
“IPhone X shows that when you deliver a great innovative product there are enough people out there that would like that and it can be a very good business.”
But the good news was slightly tempered after latest figures showed China-based Huawei took the second-place spot from Apple in a tightening global smartphone market during the second quarter of this year.
South Korean consumer electronics titan Samsung remained the top smartphone maker, shipping 71.5 million handsets, but Huawei moved into second position with shipments of 54.2 million, according to IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.
The 41.3 million iPhones shipped by Apple gave the company 12.1 percent of the global market compared to 20.9 percent for Samsung and 15.8 percent for Huawei.
It was the first time since early 2010 that Apple wasn’t in one of the top two spots in the smartphone market, according to IDC.
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Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will win the 2019 presidential election without the Senate President Dr Bukola Saraki.
Okorocha said this while speaking with newsmen at the party’s national secretariat on Tuesday in Abuja following Saraki’s decision to leave the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He explained that the development would not in any way affect the party electoral victory in 2019 general elections.
Okorocha, who is also the Chairman of the All Progressives Governor’s Forum, spoke after a closed-door meeting with Mr Adams Oshiomhole the party’s National Chairman.
“I don’t know when they joined the party and I don’t have to know when they are leaving the party.
“People are entitled to their opinions about how they see issues, political party is just like a vehicle with which you get to your point of destination.
“And if they find out that they can no longer get what they want in APC and they want to go to other parties, it is good luck.
“But the question you should ask me, is how that will affect the APC, I don’t see any way it can affect the party negatively,” Okorocha said.
He maintained that President Muhammadu Buhari would win the 2019 presidential election even without the Senate President in the party.
Okorocha said this was especially so because Buhari was much stronger on ground now and would do better than he did before in terms of electoral victory come 2019.
He stressed that the decision of the Senate President to leave the APC was allowed, adding that as he leaves, many more people were finding their way into the party in their thousands.
“It’s neither here nor there, so we shouldn’t make a big issue out of it.
“Saraki is entitled to his political opinion and if he wants to leave, good luck to him and if the governor of Kwara, my colleague wants to leave, good luck.
“They are all responsible men and you cannot tie them down to where they don’t want to be,” Okorocha said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Saraki made his decision to leave the APC known via his Facebook account on Tuesday evening.
The President of the Senate wrote: “I wish to inform Nigerians that, after extensive consultations, I have decided to take my leave of the All Progressives Congress (APC).”
In a statement later on Tuesday, Saraki named the PDP as his next political destination.
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