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2019 election: I may run against El-Rufai – Senator Shehu Sani

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The Senator representing Kaduna Central, on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Shehu Sani, has declared that he may run for the Kaduna State governorship election in 2019 against Governor Nasir El-Rufai.<br />
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The Senator noted that the 2019 general elections is not going to like that of 2015, that saw many elected due to their allegiance to President Muhammadu Buhari.<br />
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He maintained that this time, people will stand solely on their own.<br />
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Sani who was speaking in an interview with the Sun, said, “Well, as for 2019, it is still far away. What is on the ground now is for us to deliver on the promises and pledges we have made as elected officials.<br />
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“So I have heard such a call, and I will answer that call at the right time. I may decide to seek to return to the Senate, I may decide to vie for the governorship of Kaduna State, and I may decide not to vie for any of the positions again, it all depends on the feeling from my people of what they think I should be able to overcome.<br />
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“The 2019 election is not going to be like 2015 election; under 2015 election, many people won election by virtue of their allegiance to Buhari, but by 2019, everyone will answer his own father’s name.<br />
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“We are advocating for people to go and vote for their conscience, and not to vote for anybody because of Buhari.<br />
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“Even if Buhari is going to contest election, vote for Buhari alone, and each and every one of us who wants to contest, we have to put him on the scale whether that person is capable, whether that person has performed, whether that person will truly serve after voting him into power.<br />
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“So 2019 is going to be a year in which everyone is going to stand in the dock to be tried by the voters. So 2019 is not an election time, it is a trial time, and truly it is a judgment time for our conduct while in office.”

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Senator Abaribe speaks on signing bail bond for IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu

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The Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has spoken on singing the bond, that helped secure the bail of the leader of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.<br />
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Abaribe was seen at the FCT High Court in Abuja to sign as surety for Kanu, in fulfilment of one of the several bail conditions demanded by Justice Binta Nyarko on Wednesday, April 26, 2017.<br />
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“I came here to sign the bail bond for Nnamdi Kanu. You recall that one of the conditions for his bail is that a Senator will have to sign for him and that is why I am here. I just signed the bail bond,” he said.<br />
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On whether there was any hope that the IPOB leader would be released, Abaribe stated: “obviously, all the conditions that have been put forward for his bail are largely being fulfilled because at the point in which I was also signing, the head of his Judaism Church was also there to sign.<br />
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“And also, another prominent Nigerian who has landed property as required is also there. It is my belief that he will be released now that we have fulfilled all the bail conditions,” Abaribe said.<br />
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Kanu left Kuje prison Friday evening in company of former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka.

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Mercy Aigbe's Husband, Lanre Gentry responds to battery allegations

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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Nollywood actress Mercy Aigbe</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;"> 7-year marriage to Lagos based hotelier, </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lanre Gentry</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;"> has reportedly crashed over alleged battering.</span></span><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to report the actress has being enduring domestic violence for a long time in marriage but things got worse lately when the couple has a fight.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Well i know my wife did not have hand in this because have never beat my wife and i will never beat her because i love her so much’</em>.</span></div>
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Court sacks Code of Conduct chairman

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An Abuja Federal High Court has informed the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Sam Saba alongside nine others, that their tenure has expired.<br />
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This was made known to them on Friday.<br />
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Presiding judge, Justice Binta Nyako, in her judgment in the suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/411/2016, held that the five-year tenure of the chairman and nine others had expired since April 2015.<br />
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Binta held that by virtue of section 155 (1) (c) and Paragraph 1, Part 1, Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), Saba and others, all of whom were appointed in 2010, were only entitled to stay in office for five years.<br />
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The case was filed by Kingdom Human rights Foundation International, through its director and lawyer, Okere Nnamdi.<br />
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President Muhammadu Buhari, the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), and the CCB were the three respondents to the suit.<br />
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Justice Nyako, however, refused to grant prayers seeking an order compelling the President to remove and replace Saba as well as the nine other members, but instead, directed the AGF to advise the President on the tenure of members of the CCB board.<br />
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She specifically granted the prayer for “A declaration of the honourable court that the tenure of office of the Chairman and nine other members of the Code of Conduct Bureau has elapsed since April 2015; in view of section 155 (1) (c) and Paragraph 1, Part 1, Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).”<br />
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But she only partially granted the two other main reliefs in which the plaintiff sought a declaration that the AGF had failed in his responsibility by not advising the President on the expiration of the tenure of the Chairman and members of the CCB.<br />
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In partially granting the two reliefs, the judge only directed the AGF to give the President the needed advice on the issue.<br />
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She also refused to grant the consequential reliefs sought by the plaintiff, seeking orders of mandamus compelling the President to remove and make replacement for Saba and others.<br />
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The judge held that such reliefs seeking an order of mandamus could only be brought under an application for judicial review not under an originating summons as filed in the case.

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Why I didn’t respect agreement to serve one term in office – Goodluck Jonathan

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has provided reasons why he backed out of an initial agreement to rule Nigeria for only one term.<br />
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This revelation followed details that have emerged recently on why the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lost the 2015 presidential election.<br />
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The fresh details is courtesy of a book “Against the Run of play: How an incumbent President was defeated in Nigeria,” written by Segun Adeniyi, Chairman, ThisDay Board of Editors.<br />
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Jonathan admitted that there was indeed a gentleman’s agreement that he was going to do just one term and leave office but had to change his mind because “… You can make a political promise and change your mind, so long as it is within the law.”<br />
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The book was formally presented to the public, in Lagos on Friday 28 April 2017.<br />
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The ex-President added, “I had made a proposition for a single term of seven years.<br />
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“That was the context in which I spoke in Addis Ababa that if the idea was accepted, I would not run again.<br />
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“It was not in the context of a second term of four years.<br />
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“Of course, at that period, the issue of one term was brought several times at different meetings and some people took it upon themselves to pledge on my behalf but I never said I was going to spend only one term… the question was always usually randomly asked and I never made any such commitment to anybody.”

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Osinbajo initially refused to be Buhari’s running mate – Tinubu

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A National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu has revealed that Yemi Osinbajo was a bit hesitant when he was chosen to be President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate for the 2015 Presidential election.<br />
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The former Governor of Lagos State, who made the revelation in the ‘Against the Run of Play’ authored by Chairman of the ThisDay Editorial Board, Olusegun Adeniyi, said Osinbajo had told him to first inform the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the decision.<br />
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According to Tinubu, “He was a bit hesitant as he asked me to go and tell Pastor Adeboye. I replied by telling him that he needed to inform Pastor Adeboye himself, after all, there had been times when if we needed to see Pastor Adeboye, he was the one who facilitated it.<br />
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“I reminded him that since the final choice was not for me to make, I should not go to Pastor Adeboye until after the announcement of his name.‎”

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Couple Shocked As PSquare, Yemi Alade, Phyno Crash Their Wedding

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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the GloMegaMusicTour stop in Owerri a newlywed couple were pleasantly shocked when some A List Music stars made an unplanned appearance at their post wedding photo shoot.</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The couple, Mr and Mrs Umelo could not contain their joy as the celebrities who were checking into their hotel joined their photo shoot. The groom was ecstatic thanking the stars on social media for making their day special.</span></span></div>
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