Rumbles In Turkish Parliament Leave 5 MPs Injured

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7kFjsytpbcdyItFyd2U9qbwo-Lq4LUZeqRLA-Obx73-Kt5y0EwF1unikkOYardE-EgsM7nozQWn950DTf8oNV2W_QEEz4naxUIGyBp_naifoVXE-068s6tqBIIgBd8V-DwNk3Gr2Y3xjU/s1600/Turkish+MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7kFjsytpbcdyItFyd2U9qbwo-Lq4LUZeqRLA-Obx73-Kt5y0EwF1unikkOYardE-EgsM7nozQWn950DTf8oNV2W_QEEz4naxUIGyBp_naifoVXE-068s6tqBIIgBd8V-DwNk3Gr2Y3xjU/s1600/Turkish+MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>At least five Turkish lawmakers have been injured in a brawl that erupted in the parliament ahead of a debate on a controversial security bill.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The fighting took place early on Wednesday during a closed-door session as opposition political parties proposed various motions to delay the beginning of the debate, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Of those injured, two were taken to hospital for treatment and the other three were treated at the parliament’s infirmary.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Lawmaker Mahmut Tanal, who was among those hit, described the fighting as unprecedented.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to lawmaker Ertugrul Kurkcu, the fighting legislators threw chairs and used the assembly’s gavel and bell to hit others.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The brawl comes amid high tensions between the opposition and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) over the security bill that the government is pushing for an approval.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Under the bill, which was presented to the parliament last month, the prime minister of the country and other cabinet ministers would be able to shut down websites for reasons including “national security” without a court order.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The legislation would also expand certain powers of the police, which would allow officers to conduct searches during protests and to detain people for up to 48 hours without a prosecutor’s authorization. In addition, the police would be permitted to use firearms to prevent an attack in public against people using Molotov cocktails or other similar weapons, <b><a href="http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/02/18/398119/Five-injured-in-Turkish-parliament-brawl">PRESS TV</a></b> reports.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The proposed bill has sparked anger among some lawyers and opposition parties. On February 16, some 3,000 attorneys marched to the parliament in protest against the legislation.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Levent Gok, of the main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), has said if the legislation is approved, it would lead to an increase in police violence. Gok instead called on Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to cancel the bill, which he described as an “atomic bomb.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The controversial bill was introduced following violent protests in Istanbul and southeastern Turkey last October, which left dozens of people dead.</div>

Rumbles In Turkish Parliament Leave 5 MPs Injured

At least five Turkish lawmakers have been injured in a brawl that erupted in the parliament ahead of a debate on a controversial security bill. The fighting took place early on Wednesday during a clo…

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DHQ Attacks On Obasanjo, Rude - Ex-Generals

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlyXBkUPTsb7SmSFs_p06PJw29kOsHesiansFxWg7Di2bhwA0CYz3zXXPSMVThjRDdqg6C3c1iANfpTwDbVfzeECRWyVVdU1b9CZK_Vfe1HNDbdLhpaSGW5HIn3o46BW7Yo6DmWYySGhEM/s1600/OBJ.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlyXBkUPTsb7SmSFs_p06PJw29kOsHesiansFxWg7Di2bhwA0CYz3zXXPSMVThjRDdqg6C3c1iANfpTwDbVfzeECRWyVVdU1b9CZK_Vfe1HNDbdLhpaSGW5HIn3o46BW7Yo6DmWYySGhEM/s1600/OBJ.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Some retired senior military officers have lashed out at the Defence Headquarters for describing former President Olusegun Obasanjo as an embarrassment to the military institution.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Defence Headquarters in a remark on its Facebook page on Monday had accused the former President of politicising serious national security and military issues.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The military authorities were reacting   to a statement credited to the former President that the general elections were postponed to enable President Goodluck Jonathan to use the Service Chiefs for tenure extension in an electronic mail on Monday.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But a former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Alani Akinrinade (retd.), in a telephone interview with our correspondent, condemned the military authorities over the comments.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Akinrinade said Obasanjo was exercising his political rights, adding that it was absurd for a junior officer to say anything against his superiors.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The ex-general said, “Obasanjo has exercised his political rights. I think his joining politics is what is causing this nonsense. What is the business of the Defence Headquarters in politics anyway? How did they get to the point where they are reading political statement by politicians. They are now reacting to it. Obasanjo didn’t abuse the armed forces. He must have his reasons for what he said. It is a very bad idea for a junior officer to come out in the public and chastise an ex-commander-in-chief.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Also, a former Director of Army Legal Services, Col. Akin Kejawa (retd.), described the comments against Obasanjo as being the product of “the indiscipline that the military has degenerated into.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Kejawa, cautioned the military authorities, saying the reaction betrayed the tenets of respect and discipline that the army was noted for.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to him, the comments made mockery of the army.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said, “It is unethical. They should know how to respect elders. I have read the report this morning and don’t think that is good. It is very disrespectful. He was a former head of state and he should be accorded due respect, no matter what he has said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “This is what we are calling indiscipline in the military. A commander is doing something; you cannot come out and start condemning him. In the military, we don’t do things like that. That is my own personal view and as a lawyer with experience in military law, that is not proper. Can somebody call his father a stupid person? No matter what mistake he has made, you can’t dishonour him.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> When contacted, the first Military Administrator of Osun State, Maj. Gen. Leo Ajiborisa (retd.), declined to comment on the matter because it was against military etiquette to speak about his superiors, <b><a href="http://www.punchng.com/news/dhq-attacks-on-obasanjo-rude-ex-generals/">THE PUNCH</a></b> reports.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said, “I don’t discuss political issue. It is insubordination for anybody to write about his senior. Military etiquette does not teach us that way, so I am not interested in pronouncing anything. I am not a politician; they can go and sort their matter.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> When contacted for his comment, retired Maj. Gen. Zamani Lekwot, said he should be given time to mourn his younger brother’s wife, who he said, just died on Tuesday morning.</div>

DHQ Attacks On Obasanjo, Rude - Ex-Generals

Some retired senior military officers have lashed out at the Defence Headquarters for describing former President Olusegun Obasanjo as an embarrassment to the military institution. The Defence Headqu…

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I Can't Guarantee Elections Will Hold As Rescheduled - Jega

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE3N6j6V00pxU68sNj8dXh0Wt3ThmfomWYGRg8j-HRr5-p4bkz4PB6cNmDy0GoF5xxrAvM6UonkLP9bHZqOJkqaEN_FLlOt3nG3I0Xydvxo1AKxYzTokFKBYgE8hwjn2TaR5JrWx3PnC0u/s1600/Jega1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE3N6j6V00pxU68sNj8dXh0Wt3ThmfomWYGRg8j-HRr5-p4bkz4PB6cNmDy0GoF5xxrAvM6UonkLP9bHZqOJkqaEN_FLlOt3nG3I0Xydvxo1AKxYzTokFKBYgE8hwjn2TaR5JrWx3PnC0u/s1600/Jega1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Attahiru Jega, has told Nigerian federal lawmakers he could not guarantee the 2015 general elections will hold on rescheduled dates in March and April.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> At a meeting with Senators Wednesday, Mr. Jega said he could not commit himself to the "sanctity" of March 28 and April 11 - dates for the rescheduled Nigeria’s general elections.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said the electoral commission could not guarantee aspects of the poll that are beyond its control.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Mr. Jega met with the lawmakers to review the decision to postpone the polls from February.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Under the Nigerian law, a further six-week extension of the elections is possible, a prospect opposed by many Nigerians, the main opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, and the international community.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> INEC had said the postponement were necessary for security reasons, as military chiefs had warned against going on with the vote to allow it focus on fighting the terror group, Boko Haram.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But the APC said the delay was instigated by President Goodluck Jonathan, to save him and ruling party from losing the elections to the APC candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Since announcing the new dates nearly two weeks ago, the commission has declined to clearly confirm that there will be no further delay beyond March 28 and April 11, for presidential, National Assembly, governorship and state assembly polls.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Responding to a question by George Akume, Senate Minority Leader, on the sanctity of the new dates, on Wednesday, Mr. Jega said it was difficult for him to respond, saying he could only give assurances over aspects within the control of INEC.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "That’s a very difficult question to answer. I have said not everything that has to do with the conduct of successful election is within the control of INEC", Mr. Jega said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Mr. Jega also said the commission will go forward with its plan to deploy card readers for the elections.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> There have been some concerns, mainly from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, about the plan as Nigerian law prohibits electronic voting.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> On Wednesday, while PDP Senators opposed the plan, their APC counterparts welcomed it.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Heineken Lokpobri, a PDP Senator from Bayelsa State and Odion Ugbesa, from Edo State, argued against the use of card readers for the elections, saying it would be illegal.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In his response, Mr. Jega said card readers would only be used for accreditation not actual voting.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said there was no law forbidding the use of electronic devices for accreditation.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Card reader is used for accreditation not voting. Voting his defined as dropping of ballot paper into ballot box. Accreditation is essential for integrity of the election", he said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Nothing in the constitution says we should not use electronic device in the process of accreditation. Anybody that is not satisfied can go to court. We have solid ground on that", he said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He added that the card readers would curb electoral malpractices, as cloned cards would be detected.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Mr. Jega said INEC will perform a mock test on the card readers.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said some tests had already been taken in the United States, and will now be tested in the six geopolitical zones.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "The card reader has passed in all the 13 test categories conducted in terms of its durability and versatility", he said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Mr. Jega said the postponement of the general elections will enable INEC to have a flawless, near-perfect elections.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> INEC National Commissioners are to visit state offices to conduct evaluation and comprehensively determine the level of preparation in the election.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said after the visit, the commission will meet with the heads of departments and directorates of units to conduct a comprehensive assessment, to figure out additional things to be done before March 28.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Mr Jega said a meeting with the inter-agency committee on security will hold a meeting to discuss security on the Election Day, <b><a href="http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/177093-jega-tells-senators-he-cant-guarantee-elections-will-hold-march-28.html">PREMIUM TIMES</a></b> reports.</div>

I Can't Guarantee Elections Will Hold As Rescheduled - Jega

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Attahiru Jega, has told Nigerian federal lawmakers he could not guarantee the 2015 general elections will hold on rescheduled date…

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CIA, Israeli MOSSAD Behind ISIS, Boko Haram - Al-Bashir

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdDVYoKePrM4ot02pu-GjA5OKR2Sc3kFSHTglO1NbM2L0M5mvY_rokGN4E8XJgcT1515Vn266v3b0YBn2PNicMOvJQM1fpkXm4M64gLx7wm6Ks0lQRa5ynbl8nDWhr0qNmS-ZtRUHI951/s1600/Al-Bashir-Sudan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdDVYoKePrM4ot02pu-GjA5OKR2Sc3kFSHTglO1NbM2L0M5mvY_rokGN4E8XJgcT1515Vn266v3b0YBn2PNicMOvJQM1fpkXm4M64gLx7wm6Ks0lQRa5ynbl8nDWhr0qNmS-ZtRUHI951/s1600/Al-Bashir-Sudan.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Sudan’s President has claimed the CIA, America’s intelligence agency, and Israel’s Mossad are behind the Islamist militant groups Boko Haram and ISIS. </b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Omar al-Bashir used an interview with <b><a href="http://www.euronews.com/2015/02/16/cia-and-mossad-are-behind-boko-haram-and-isil-says-sudan-president/">Euronews</a></b> to claim there was a connection between the American and Israeli intelligence organisations and both extremist groups.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He spoke after ISIS released a video purporting to show the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya, an act that prompted Egypt to respond with air strikes avenging the massacre. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Al-Bashir told the broadcaster: "I said CIA and the Mossad stand behind these organisations; there is no Muslim who would carry out such acts."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Boko Haram abducted 300 girls from a school in Nigeria last year and recently claimed responsibility for the massacre in the north-east Nigerian town of Baga, warning in the video that the killings were "just the tip of the iceberg".</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> ISIS militants have killed thousands during their bloody insurgency across Syria and Iraq.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He also cautioned against taking violent measures to fight militants, claiming it could lead to an even more severe extremist response. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Our policy has been largely successful, after we arrest these young people we bring a group of young scholars to engage in dialogue with them about their thoughts, and we succeed to bring a lot of them back from their radical ideas", he added.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> His remarks come after the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group also claimed the CIA and Israel's Mossad are behind the extremist group, according to the <i>Associated Press</i>.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In January, Melih Gokcek, the Mayor of the Turkish city Ankara, claimed Mossad was involved in the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, committed by Islamist militants.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Explaining his conspiracy theory, he suggested Israel was behind the mass shooting because it wanted to "boost enmity towards Islam", the Financial Times reports.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The wide-ranging discussion also saw the President challenge a report by Human Rights Watch claiming more than 200 women and girls were raped by Sudanese troops in an assault on the north Darfur town of Tabit, which the group said happened on 30 October.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He dismissed the report as "a radio news item from Radio Dabanga which is hostile to us", and "opposition-run and Israeli funded", Euronews reports.</div>

CIA, Israeli MOSSAD Behind ISIS, Boko Haram - Al-Bashir

Sudan’s President has claimed the CIA, America’s intelligence agency, and Israel’s Mossad are behind the Islamist militant groups Boko Haram and ISIS.  Omar al-Bashir used an interview with Euronews …

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Jonathan, PDP Should Beg Obasanjo - Lamido

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgof9oAa5EXjLoZODMOzhKS3EFX2uh6QH8z-oueyZHaLS1iCIPFe83c-VGSyzXE7QgCil5viSSaVWNlHzFLPM19FqV7vQJo0WipooVjgEvZ3ifH0N2HwK0ZEANKGvpS1jQn3QZqOz3747t5/s1600/Sule-Lamido.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgof9oAa5EXjLoZODMOzhKS3EFX2uh6QH8z-oueyZHaLS1iCIPFe83c-VGSyzXE7QgCil5viSSaVWNlHzFLPM19FqV7vQJo0WipooVjgEvZ3ifH0N2HwK0ZEANKGvpS1jQn3QZqOz3747t5/s1600/Sule-Lamido.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido on Tuesday urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) family to apologise to former President Olusegun Obasanjo irrespective of his perceived shortcomings.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to him, Obasanjo is still a father to the current generation of politicians in the country because he made all of them, including President Goodluck Jonathan, adding that the former president’s DNA runs in all their blood, including that of the president.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Fielding questions from State House correspondents after a meeting with President Jonathan at the residential villa, Abuja, Governor Lamido insisted on the need to apologise to Obasanjo as his children, if they (the PDP family) fell short of his expectations.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The governor’s position makes him the only PDP member who has pleaded Obasanjo’s cause, amidst the outpouring of criticisms that trailed his open show of dumping of the PDP and tearing of his membership card.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Lamido said, “Baba is more than a party man. He is an icon, a national symbol and a leader and an inventor, a creator of all the institutions today in Nigeria. From the presidency to the governors who are his own sons, are all his creations. And so, when a father is angry with his own children, we will only say we are sorry to him. But then we cannot be renounced for whatever it is.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “If you do any political DNA of our blood, you will find his blood in us. No matter what we are, we may not be able to live up to his expectations. We might have made some mistakes, but abandoning us is not the solution because the country is first before anything else.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “So, he is our baba even up to the president. Baba is our baba no matter what. He is angry with us, but then, what do we do? He gave us the life at a time when Nigerians were fighting us, he stood for us. Since 2011, in 2007, he stood firm for us. He is our father. And so, if we made some mistakes, we are only human because we are heading human institutions.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “And I think by the time he reflects, how could he abandon his own children like that. Wherever we are, we are right in his heart. He feels for us, he cares for us”.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Asked whether with his advise, PDP leaders would go back to the Obasanjo to beg him for reconciliation, Governor Lamido observed that such things are not done or announced in the media, adding that the former president might be feeling some pains over the issue..</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said, “When there is some kind of misunderstanding between a father and a child, you don’t go to NTA or any other media to say you are going to do this. I mean the bond between us is so strong.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “I know he is equally pained. I know what he is going through because he is our father, but I will not tell you the strategy because when he was producing us, you were not there, when he was making us, were you there?”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> On the claim by some party leaders that they would not miss Obasajo in the party, the Jigawa Governor said as far as that assertion did not come from the president, it was inconsequential.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “But then, the first child is the president, did he say so?” Lamido querried.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> When reminded that Obasanjo had consistently criticized Jonathan, the governor said, “What I am saying is that all of us are parents. When we were born, they pepped us, gave us their love, gave us everything.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “By the time they get old, naturally, there is what they call role reversal: we become the parents and they become the children. So, what is wrong if our parents begin to manifest those signs of old age?”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Lamido berated the opposition and their claims of massive support, accusing them of being the manifestations of the evils for which they were accusing the PDP of.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said the country was too big to be ruled by an “aggregate of pained, angered and frustrated” lots. What is this opposition In Nigeria? You must know Nigerian history. Nigeria cannot be governed by an aggregate of pained, anger and frustration.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “And I have been saying those called opposition who are now abusing us, whatever might have been our crime, it was that crime that made them. We created that for them to become either governors, in the legislature , we created room for the, to emerge. So whatever they think is our evil, they are the manifestations of the evil. Believe me, you don’t know Nigeria”, he added.</div>

Jonathan, PDP Should Beg Obasanjo - Lamido

Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido on Tuesday urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) family to apologise to former President Olusegun Obasanjo irrespective of his perceived shortcomings. According t…

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PDP Chieftain Found With 500 PVCs In Benin

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlhfx5EKKEUm8jIkWmCqMUaAgLPsdouWXHTNWjMDR3Ape8U18Qmkh52_NenwNUlstMCtj7JgnkI-c_OxdUWpT62rtLolSR_DU5MwTs8XjmYiP_Tg9CFrlozNxlXjnVEsRTX4uEYN10qrqE/s1600/PVCs1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlhfx5EKKEUm8jIkWmCqMUaAgLPsdouWXHTNWjMDR3Ape8U18Qmkh52_NenwNUlstMCtj7JgnkI-c_OxdUWpT62rtLolSR_DU5MwTs8XjmYiP_Tg9CFrlozNxlXjnVEsRTX4uEYN10qrqE/s1600/PVCs1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>There was a bloody clash between members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State on Tuesday, following the discovery of 500 permanent voter cards (PVCs) at the residence of a chieftain of the PDP.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><a href="http://leadership.ng/news/412424/pdp-chieftain-found-with-500-pvcs-in-benin">LEADERSHIP</a></b> reports that trouble started when the PDP stalwart was caught trying to use someone’s ATM card to make withdrawal at one of the new generation banks and was arrested by security operatives who later handed him over to the police.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The police took him to his house to search the place and when they got there, 500 PVCs were found in his room.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He reportedly confessed the PVCs belonged to a House of Representatives candidate from Edo Central.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> While the APC in the state demanded that the suspect be transferred immediately to the state Police Command in Benin City, some PDP members insisted that the suspect be left off the hook.</div>

PDP Chieftain Found With 500 PVCs In Benin

There was a bloody clash between members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State on Tuesday, following the discovery of 500 permanent voter cards (P…

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