Politics
Court halts PDP’s plans to suspend Wike, Fubara, others
Court halts PDP’s plans to suspend Wike, Fubara, others
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, halted plans by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to suspend Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his loyalists in the state, following their alleged involvement in anti-party activities.
Among those that the court restrained the national leadership of the party from suspending include Rivers State governor-elect, Siminlalayi Fubara and his deputy, Dr Ngozi Odu.
The court, in its judgment by Justice Inyang Ekwo, held that there was merit in the suit brought to safeguard their membership of the party.
The court held that PDP, being an organisation that operates within the confines of a constitution, must at all times follow the due process of law.
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The court held that arbitrarily suspending the applicants without recourse to the rule of law, would amount to a flagrant breach of their constitutional rights to freedom of association.
Justice Ekwo stressed that the court was empowered to intervene in the affairs of a political party, whenever there is a breach or the likelihood of a violation of its own laid-down rules and regulations.
He held that the court has the power to grant redress to persons, who have established that there are planned actions that could lead to the infringement of their rights.
The court, hence, restrained the national leadership of the PDP from suspending Wike, Fubara, his deputy and other chieftains of the party in Rivers State.
It will be recalled that the court had prior to the presidential election, barred the PDP and its leadership from taking steps to either suspend or expel Wike, who had openly campaigned against the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar.
The court issued the interim restraining order on February 2, while the presidential election held on February 25.
Court halts PDP’s plans to suspend Wike, Fubara, others
Politics
Updated: Rivers crisis worsens as attorney-general, finance commissioner resign
Updated: Rivers crisis worsens as attorney-general, finance commissioner resign
The power tussle in Rivers State took a new turn on Wednesday as Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General, Zacchaeus Adangor, resigned his appointment and as a member of the state executive council.
This is after the commissioner had rejected his redeployment by Governor Siminalayi Fubara as Commissioner for Special Duties.
Similarly, Isaac Kamalu has resigned as Commissioner of Finance after he was redeployed to the Employment Generation and Economic Empowerment Ministry by the governor.
Zacchaeus on 14 December first resigned his position as the Attorney-General of the state following the face-off between Governor Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.
Zacchaeus and other commissioners who resigned due to the political crisis in the state, however, returned to the government after being reconfirmed by the state House of Assembly.
Fubara, earlier in the week, reshuffled his cabinet and redeployed Zacchaeus as the commissioner for Special Duties (Governor’s Office).
In a letter addressed to the Secretary to the Rivers State government, Zacchaeus rejected his new office.
In his resignation letter, he accused Governor Fubara of interfering with the performance of his duties as the state’s attorney general.
For Kamalu, who served as commissioner for Budget and Economics under former Governor Wike, he forwarded his resignation letter to Governor Fubura and the Secretary to the Government, Tammy Danagogo.
He accused Fubara of lying about the internally generated revenue of Rivers State.
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Just in: Ex-Imo Gov Ihedioha heads for LP, dumps PDP
Just in: Ex-Imo Gov Ihedioha heads for LP, dumps PDP
Former governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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Aregbesola, Oyetola’s camps disagree over Osun shares
Aregbesola, Oyetola’s camps disagree over Osun shares
Fresh uproar has hit the camp of the former Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola and Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, over the selling of the shares of Osun State at Omoluabi Bank, to private investors.
A leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ijesaland, Adebayo Adedeji, yesterday insisted that Aregbesola sold the shares before leaving office.
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Adedeji said in a statement: “In 2013, the government of Aregbesola went to the Nigerian Stock Exchange in order to increase the company’s share capital by N1.65billion so as to be above the N2.5billion minimum capital requirement set by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for mortgage banks in the country.
“Wale Bolorunduro, who was recently nominated as chairman of the bank by Governor Adeleke, was the Commissioner of Finance in the state under Aregbesola. He has knowledge of it.”
Aregbesola, reacting to the claims through his media aide, Sola Fasure, in a terse message said: “It’s between Oyetola and the PDP administration in Osun. We don’t want to be dragged into it. But you may seek clarification from Dr. Wale Bolorunduro. He’s the new chairman of the bank.”
Aregbesola, Oyetola’s camps disagree over Osun shares
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