BREAKING NEWS: Court stops AIT from airing anti-Tinubu documentary

It has been gathered that Justice Akinkugbe of a Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja, has granted an interim order restraining management of AIT from airing a documentary on a former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The documentary was tittled ‘Lion of Bourdillon’.
Details coming later..

two PDP chieftains shot dead in Rivers

Unknown gunmen on Saturday night shot and killed two chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Ibima Olunta and Mr. Goodfellow Bobmanuel, in Abonnema, headquarters of Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.
It was gathered that Olunta, who is the chairman of PDP Ward 2, Abonnema, and Bobmanuel, who is a PDP councillorship aspirant for Ward 2, Abonnema, were sitting in front of their houses in the community, when the gunmen struck.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Ahmad Kadiya Muhammad, could not confirm the development, as he said he was out of the state, and had not been briefed about such attack.

BREAKING: APC topshot shot by gunmen in osun

An ardent supporter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Agunbiade Bukola, was shot by gun men at the weekend during its campaign rally at Ilase in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State. The victim, we gathered, is currently on danger list at the Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa.
Daily Sun also gathered that the attack was reportedly carried out by members of the opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), when APC organized a campaign rally in Ilase and Ibokun towns to be attended by Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
An eye witness account also revealed that Aregbesola and his entourage had gone to pay homage to the Ilase monarch when the crisis started, adding that several APC members were also injured, while posters of contestants, APC flags and the podium on which the governor was to address the gathering were also damaged.

SHOCKING: witches back Jonathan to win election

 

At the mention of witch, many would take to their heels even though it is difficult to pin point who really is a witch. While others are hiding, Dr Okhue Iboi is a bold witch and an herbalist born with strange features. He doesn’t hide his identity. As the National Coordinator and Spokesman of Witches and Wizards Association of Nigeria (WITZAN), he has made headlines of several national dailies with his spiritual revelations. In this interview with News Editor, Ajibola Abayomi, he was down-to-earth about the group and spoke about activities of witches and their intentions.

Who are witches?
Witches are normal people like every other human being. Some are nice while some are wicked. Witches are everywhere; they are found in the church, mosque, government agencies and other human endeavours. Spiritually, some of them have five or six eyeballs.

Tinubu lied, I didn't offer him VP slot - Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said there was no truth in the claim by a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that he offered the former Lagos State governor the opportunity to serve as Vice President in a proposed Interim National Government.
Jonathan, who spoke with State House correspondents in Abuja through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, described Tinubu’s claim as absurd and ridiculous. 
Tinubu had, in a statement by his media office on Thursday, claimed that the recent attacks on his person were because he rejected the offer by Jonathan to serve as the Vice President in an ING.
He claimed that having refused the offer, the President was looking for ways to take him out either by killing him or getting him arrested based on trumped up charges.

But Abati insisted that the position of Jonathan had remained that the idea of an ING is treasonable. 

He said the President had made it clear that he had neither proposed the idea at any forum nor discussed it with anybody.

Fire gutted Mile 12 market, kills two

No fewer than two people have been confirmed dead and property worth millions of naira lost in a serious fire outbreak that gutted the Mile 12 Diesel Black Market this morning.
 Although the cause of the fire had yet to be ascertained as of press time, it was learnt that no fewer than 20 shops were consumed by the inferno.

The General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, however, told our correspondent that preliminary investigation revealed that petrol and diesel were stored in the shops.

Four vehicles, five motorcycles and two trucks were reported to have been destroyed in the outbreak.
 He said, “Fire outbreak occurred around 4:45am at Mile 12 Market . About 20 shops were completely burnt down, five motorbikes, one car, three buses and two trucks were also burnt.

“We recovered two dead male bodies from the shops.”

The LASEMA boss said the fire was put out at 8.40am, while recovery operation was ongoing.
 Our correspondent was told that policemen and officials of the Lagos State Fire Service and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps were also at the scene of the incident.

 
 
 
Photos from Linda Ikeji blog

I rejected the offer to be Jonathan's Vice President - Tinubu

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National leader of the All Progressives Congress [APC], Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says the recent attacks on his person were because he rejected the offer by President Goodluck Jonathan to serve as the Vice President in an Interim National Government.

Tinubu said in a statement by his media office on Thursday.

He said Jonathan blamed him for the successful merger of the APC and the momentum the APC presidential candidate, Maj.  Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) was gaining.

The statement read, “With the election less than three weeks away and the outcome possibly against them, the Goodluck Jonathan Presidency and the hardliners in the PDP have embarked on a new strategy to put a brake on the momentum Buhari seems to be gathering.

“This strategy is novel and seems to be the outcome of a desperate calculation in that the PDP has shifted its attention from the APC in order to attack on multiple fronts the former governor of Lagos State and APC national leader, Bola Tinubu.

“From what can be gathered through informed sources, the PDP and Jonathan Presidency had recently tried to fracture the APC by offering Tinubu the position of Vice President in an interim government if he would agree to part company with the popular Buhari.

“Once Tinubu rebuffed the offer to participate in the interim scheme, the presidency decided to change tactics. It would no longer try to entice Tinubu with sugar but would now move to silence, and if necessary, neutralise him. 

“The APC National leader has caused President Jonathan’s team countless headaches this campaign season, his declining the interim government offer is just the latest.

“The Jonathan government sees Tinubu as the linchpin of the APC and its successful electoral strategy. They also consider him one of the government’s most prolific and able critics due to his long standing and often strident critiques of Jonathan government policies, from economic development to national security.

“More to the point, they blame him as the man who is most responsible for placing them in their current electoral quandary. 

They believe without Tinubu’s efforts, the successful merger of the political parties into the APC would not have occurred and they would not be facing possible defeat at the hands of this new party.”

The former governor said the recent televised hate documentaries were part of the desperate attempt by Jonathan to discredit him.

The statement added, “The agenda to tackle Bola Tinubu and weaken his political influence nationwide and to undermine his leadership in South Western politics can be said to have gone into the overdrive.

“The first part of the strategy is to dredge previously discredited claims of illicit wealth in hopes of silencing Tinubu or lessening his public image. However, they fear this public relations attack may be too soft as Tinubu has been taken before the ICPC and the case against him dismissed.

“If this attack does not deter his party activities, the presidency and PDP are prepared to take more drastic action if they believe it is necessary to win the election by throwing the APC into disarray.”

But the Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has described all these allegations as baseless and false

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