TOKE MAKINWA’S HUBBY MAKES FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE AFTER MARRIAGE CRISIS

Since reports went viral some days ago about a rumoured crisis in the marriage of Toke Makinwa and her husband, Maje Ayida, the man in the eye of the storm has not been spotted at a social or public function.

But Maje, who rarely attends public event, seems to have made his first since the news of his alleged troubled marriage broke.

He was seen at an event held on Saturday, July 4, 2015 in Victoria Island, Lagos. Maje was spotted alone without Toke.

The fitness coach was at an event tagged ‘Project Smile 3.0’, an award and fund-raising ceremony designed to host selected influential individuals to support the dental makeover treatment of candidates who made it through the final of the clinical screening and evaluation exercise from among the hundreds of entries recorded in the Project Smile 3.0 Smile Makeover Contest.

The event was hosted by IK Osakioduwa and had in attendance wife of Nigeria’s Vice President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, who was the keynote speaker

Buhari approves N400bn for workers’ salaries

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a comprehensive relief package valued at over N400bn to put an end to the lingering crisis of unpaid workers’ salaries in the country.

Vanguard gathered that a three-pronged relief package that will end the workers plight include:

*The sharing of about $2.1b (N413.7bn) in fresh allocation between the states and the federal government. The money is sourced from recent LNG proceeds to the federation account, and its release okayed by the president;

*A Central Bank-packaged special intervention fund that will offer financing to the states, ranging from between N250bn to N300bn. This would be a soft loan available to states to access for the purposes of paying backlog of salaries;

* And a debt relief program proposed by the Debt Management Office, DMO, which will help states restructure their commercial loans currently put at over N660bn, and extend the life span of such loans while reducing their debt-servicing expenditures.

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Lagos dep gov hosts Ruth Uche, urges runaway husband to return

Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Idiat Oluranti Adebule, Monday, played host to Mrs. Ruth Uche and her set of twins, who were abandoned by her husband, Mr. Benjamin Uche.

Dr Adebule, at the meeting advised the run-away husband to come forward and take up the responsibility of caring for his family, admonishing him to be appreciative of the divine blessings that have come his way through the children.

Mrs. Uche’s visit to the deputy governor’s office is a follow-up to the directive of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode who directed that the woman and her children be rehabilitated and assisted by all relevant government agencies to ensure they are in good condition.
Speaking while hosting the woman the deputy governor sympathized with her over the traumatic experience of trying to raise the six children following the disappearance of her husband, assuring that the government will ensure the well-being of her children.

“As a woman and a mother, I can only imagine what you have gone through managing six children, it must have been energy sapping and depressing, but I salute your courage and I want to assure you that this government will not abandon you, we will stand by you and ensure that you are assisted to get back to a normal life,” Adebule.

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Meditating Portuguese actor mistaken for terrorist on Paris plane

A Portuguese actor humming a prayer as he meditated to a sacred Tibetan text on board a plane awaiting takeoff from Paris, was mistaken for a terrorist by alarmed passengers and taken off the flight by police.

Heitor Lourenco said on Monday in Lisbon that police said had been denounced as a terrorism suspect aboard the plane because he was reciting the Koran aloud.

Lourenco, 47, said his text, which he was reading on a tablet device, contained Tibetan characters.

The suspect said the device also had the timer on, to tell him how long he had meditated, which probably caused associations with a bomb.

He said he was released after six hours of questioning, during which police watched videos of him on the Internet showing that he was a theater and television actor.

Lourenco said they also checked his profile on Wikipedia, which states that he was a Buddhist.

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OPD to defend suspected killer of Lagos lawyer

A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has urged Seun Oladapo, the suspected killer of the slain human rights lawyer, Kunle Fadipe, to approach the Lagos Office of Public Defender for legal representation.

The trial judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye, gave the directive on Monday when the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions brought the suspect before her for arraignment.

But Ipaye, noting that Oladapo had no legal representation, said the suspect could not be arraigned in the absence of his lawyer because of the weight of the charges against him.

The judge, therefore advised the suspect to approach the OPD if he could not afford the services of a lawyer, emphasising that the court would not wait till eternity.

Oladapo was apprehended by men of the Oodua Peoples Congress at Harmony Estate, Ifako Ijaye, Lagos on the night of July 3, 2014 after he allegedly stabbed Fadipe to death.

On Monday, when the case was called in court, the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions, Mrs. Idowu Alakija, informed the judge of the charges filed by the state against Oladapo and sought the permission of the court to take the plea of the suspect.

But Ipaye, who noted that Oladapo had no lawyer, asked him for the whereabouts of his counsel.

The suspect however replied, “I will call my family; I don’t know that they will bring me to court today.”

Consequent upon this development, the judge indicated that the case would have to be adjourned but charged the suspect to, as a matter of urgency, secure the services of a lawyer, saying the court could not wait for him till eternity.

“Because of the nature of the charge against you, the court cannot wait till eternity.

“You should make arrangement for a lawyer, but if you cannot afford, you can get one from the Office of the Public Defender.

“In order to give him sufficient time to get a lawyer, take the covering letter to the Office of Public Defender,” Ipaye said.

She subsequently adjourned till July 22, 2015 to take the suspect’s plea.

Meanwhile, lawyers, community members, leaders, friends and family of the slain Fadipe gathered last week Saturday to relive his memories one year after he passed on.

In attendance at the occasion, where a non-governmental organisation, Kunle Fadipe Initiative, was inaugurated, was a mixed crowd ranging from a sitting judge of the Lagos State High Court, Justice Ganiu Safari, to members of the commercial motorcycle riders’ association in the area.

Justice Safari, in his tribute to the deceased, described him as “frank and friendly.”

Safari added, “When I learnt of his death and the circumstances surrounding his death, I could not believe it until I saw his obituary on the premises of the Lagos State High Court; I still somehow doubted it until I came for the wake keep and saw his body in the coffin.

“One thing I told the people who were speculating was that Alex Fadipe could not have got himself involved in anything that would warrant anybody sending an assassin after him.”

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JULIUS AGWU NARRATES NEAR-DEATH ORDEAL

Not many knew that popular comedian, Julius Agwu, had a close shave with death few months ago. For a while, his sudden weight loss had become an issue of concern as some unpleasant stories circulated as to the cause of the illness.

In a recent interview with YES Magazine, the father of two narrated how he almost lost his life to brain lumps.

On the genesis of his ill health, he said he can’t specifically state when and how it all started. But all he could recollect was that at some point, he started losing weight drastically, which got many people wondering.

He said some concerned ones started proffering solutions, both medically and spiritually, while others resorted to murmuring and gossiping.

"It went on and on until sometimes in May when I had a seizure at home while with my wife, Ibiere. She battled to halt that, after I ran out of breath. With the likely consequences starring her in the face, Ibiere got the maid and the security man to assist her in getting me into one of the cars.

“And from there, they practically sprinted to the hospital in Lekki. Thank God the doctor was on call. He battled for hours with his team to bring me back to life," Julius narrated.

After they succeeded in stabilising him, Julius and his wife immediately left for the United States of America, Houston to be precise, where arrangement had been made at the Park Plaza Hospital.

"After a series of tests, two lumps were discovered in my brain! The lumps had been messing up my health and causing the incessant weight loss.

“Immediately, the Caucasian surgeons went to work, operating on me for about 4 hours on Tuesday, May 12, 2015, at the Park Plaza Hospital in Houston Texas, United States of America," he recalled.

It was indeed a huge success and upon being discharged, Julius rested in the US for sometimes before returning home recently.

He is currently putting things together for the 10th anniversary of his annual Crack Ya Ribs in London.

UNITY BANK SUSPENDS MD, HENRY SEMENITARI FOR ALLEGED N100M FRAUD AND UNETHICAL PRACTICES

While the wife of Unity Bank Managing Director’s wife, Ibim Semenitari, the former Rivers State Commissioner for Information, is having a running battle with the new governor, Nyesom Wike, his banker’s husband, Henry J. Semenitari, is definitely not having a good time as his bank, Unity Bank, has ignominiously suspended him as its Managing Director.

According to News of the People, the technical suspension was subtly described as compulsory leave, which is obviously the beginning of the exit of the banker from Unity Bank. The board of directors has resolved that he should proceed on compulsory leave after members of staff of the bank revolted with damaging allegations and evidences.

The entire scenario according to an insider is centered around alleged fraud and unethical practices. The managing director’s dilemma was said to have began few months back when some staff sent a strong petition to an influential major shareholder in the bank who is also a former Nigeria leader who instructed the Chairman of the bank, Thomas Etuh, to appoint a forensic auditor to investigate the allegations.

It was also alleged that all the allegations were later found to be true, according to the report of the auditors. At the beginning of the forensic investigations, Henry was advised to proceed on leave but he refused until when the investigation was concluded when he then volunteered to go on leave. At this stage the chairman was said to have told him it was too late, that the board directed he proceeds on suspension described in his letter as compulsory leave.

It was gathered that one of the major allegations was squandering of almost N100 million on bulletproof vehicles for his use. Another reckless spending cited in the petition is payment of productivity bonus allowances to some selected few and indiscriminate sack of staffers without recourse to the board of directors.

Sensing a looming crisis, a source informed that it was the recklessness of the banker that made the former chairman of the bank to resign with a decoy that he was pursuing a political career which he lost in his homestead of Katsina. Semenitari has been the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Unity Bank Plc since January 2014.

GBENRO AJIBADE REASSURES WIFE OF UNDYING LOVE

The wedding of the latest celebrity couple, Gbenro Ajibade and Osas was the talk of the town over the weekend as the two lovebirds gathered different stars from all genres of entertainment industry in the country under one umbrella when they exchanged marital vows.

Reassuring his wife of the promises he made to her at the altar; before God and man, the excited husband, took to Instagram to pen down more promising and lovely words to his Mrs.

"Osahrenmen Martha Ajibade, I promise to love and care for you, and I will try in every way to be worthy of your love.

“I will always be honest with you, kind, patient and forgiving. I promise to try to be on time. I promise to grow into the man that you deserve. I promise to be a good father to our children. But most of all, I promise to be a true and loyal friend to you from now till the end of my days. I love you,” he wrote.

PASTOR DISGRACED AFTER WOMEN STORM HIS WEDDING CLAIMING TO BE MARRIED TO HIM

Drama ensued at the NPC Church in Valley Road in Kenya recently after some women stormed the church while the wedding ceremony of a pastor in the church, Pastor John Waituha, was ongoing.

According to report, the women claimed they were legally married to the Pastor and even showed children which they said they had for the pastor. Pastor John broke down in tears while the women were shouting in the church. The police was called in to bring the situation under control.

The wedding however went on after the women left the church saying their mission to expose the pastor was accomplished. See photos below...

I DID NOT BEAT MY WIFE IN LONDON - GABRIEL SUSWAM

Immediate past former governor of Benue State, Dr. Gabriel Suswam, has denied reports that he battered his wife in London, and was briefly arrested and detained by the police. The former governor also denied that his wife, Yemisi, looted the state treasury while he was governor of the state.

Suswam, in a statement personally signed by him, described the reports, which went viral weekend, as the handiwork of elements bent on tarnishing his image for political reasons.

According to an online medium, the former governor was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Domestic Violence Officers, for battering his wife. He was allegedly booked into the London
detention centre for several hours before a judge set a £5,000 bail bond, which he met, before he was released.

However, describing the report as fictitious, Suswam denied ever going to London with his wife, saying he had been in Germany on vacation with her. He also challenged authors of the said report to name the street and address of his said house in London.
He said:

“This fictitious report about the incident involving me in London is full of red herring because the allegations are false, unless the authors still have plans to later inform the public that it was a home video.

Since I and my beloved wife left the shores of Nigeria, we have never been to London. Unknown to the author of mischief, I was in Germany on a private trip with my wife at the material time. So where did the author of the said report and his fairy tale sources get their information from that I was arrested in London, when I was actually in Germany with my wife on vacation?

I also wish to ask the masterminds of this outlandish incident to disclose the street and the number of my London house, where the alleged assault took place as every house in London has identity.”

On the claim that Yemisi’s trauma was as a result of the overbearing influence of her mistress, one Shidoo, Suswam said the imaginary mistress “exists only in the figment of the authors’ imagination.”

The former governor also refuted another reports alleging that his wife and her associates drove in two large trucks to Benue State Liaison Office in Abuja, with the intent to cart away expensive furnishings.

Dead Man Withdraws N4.3m From His Bank Account

A young medical doctor who died in a motor accident on the way to his wedding on October 10, 2013 withdrew about N4.3m from his own account in Union Bank in Kaduna few weeks after his death? Information from the bank indicated that the dead man used the ATM card to make the withdrawals.

A new twist emerged when the dead man applied for an ATM card from his bank and used it to clear his account.

A family source said, “When Chidiebere died, we discovered that his mobile telephone num­ber had been blocked. We were surprised because no member of our family told the GSM service provider that Chidiebere had died. So, we took up the matter and it took some time before the line was reactivated.

“We got the shock of our lives after re­activating the line. As soon as we switched on the phone, we began to receive alerts of withdrawals from his account. All the withdrawals were made after he had died and had been buried. During his life time, he did not use ATM cards but in death, he applied for ATM card from the bank in Kaduna and started withdrawing all the money in his account.

Worse still, Chidie­bere was not the owner of all the money in the account. One of his brothers who went abroad in search of greener pastures was sending money to Chidiebere to keep for him. Now, the brother is back and Chidie­bere’s corpse had withdrawn all the money as the bank wants us to believe.”

It was learnt that the family has con­tacted the bank on the strange withdrawals but it has been prevaricating over the issue.

Saturday Sun had, on November 16, 2013, published the pathetic story of Dr Chidiebere Emmanuel Nwanja, who died on the way to Okposi in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State to con­tract marriage with his sweet heart, Miss Celina Uzor.

According to the report, “Their tradi­tional marriage rite otherwise called Ig­bankwu was fixed for Monday, October 14, 2013 while the white wedding was billed for Tuesday, October 15 at the Pres­byterian Church, Okposi Okwu.

“On October 10, Chidiebere left Kadu­na where he was practising for his home­town for the marriage ceremony. He was in company with his younger brother, Kel­echi Nwanja and Mr Ifeanyi, an indigene of Onicha Igboeze, who was supposed to play the role of best man. While they jour­neyed, the bride and groom kept in touch via telephone. In fact, Celina and about seven of her friends, theasebi girls, were already in town putting finishing touches to the arrangement.

“The journey was smooth until they got to Udi in Enugu. There, the unexpected happened. They had a fatal accident in which the groom and his best man died on the spot. Only Kelechi survived but he sus­tained serious injuries.

“Narrating the tragedy that befell the family, Chidiebere’s elder brother, Mr Ndubuisi Nwanja, in an emotion laden voice, said:

‘When I got the information that my brother was involved in an acci­dent, I rushed to the place but before I got there, the police had already been there. They took Kelechi to Annunciation Hos­pital, a Catholic hospital, in Emene, Enugu and deposited the corpses of Chidiebere and Ifeanyi at a mortuary in Udi because the accident happened in Udi, at the bypass before Four – Corner. The following day we went to the hospital to see the corpses.’

“He added that the family committed the resources already earmarked for the marriage to the burial of the young medi­cal doctor.

‘The family met and decided to bury him immediately; we did not want to keep the corpse in the mortuary. So, we went to the mortuary, took the corpse and buried. The wake keep held on October 14 while the burial took place on October 15. His traditional marriage was supposed to hold on October 14 while the church wed­ding would take place on October 15, the day he was eventually buried. We decided to use the things he bought for the tradi­tional marriage and Church wedding for his burial. He had already bought drinks and hired chairs, tables, canopies and mu­sical groups and we decided to use these things he had paid for to bury him.’

The report disclosed that the tale as­sumed a new dimension on October 18 when the family went to the accident site to retrieve the car or what was left of it and personal effects.

A family source said in the report, ‘We tried to bring the car out of the place it fell into but we could not. So, we decided to axe the car into pieces there. While we were at it, a commercial bus driver from Udi who operates between Enugu and Port Harcourt saw us and parked his ve­hicle. He asked us if we were the relation of the doctor and we told him everything. He said that he was the person that helped the police to bring the doctor out of the car but, unfortunately, he was already dead.

He said that he was the one that removed his clothes and while removing the clothes he saw a huge sum of money that he was coming back with and he handed every­thing over to the police. But the police did not even make mention of the money, let alone release it to us. They only gave us the luggage he was coming back with. They didn’t tell us that there was any mon­ey involved.’

The report added that the family had gone to the police station at Udi with a view to recovering the money to no avail, as policemen there claimed to be unaware of the money.

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Oyinbo mother, who abandoned baby girl on side of Maryland road, arrested

The mother of a baby girl found apparently abandoned on the side of a Maryland road was arrested yesterday evening, accused of taking the infant out of her car and leaving her there.

Sandra Clara McClary was charged with child neglect and reckless endangerment, Anne Arundel County police said in a statement this evening.

The woman had called police after they had posted the baby's photo on social media, Lt. T.J. Smith of the Anne Arundel County Police said at a news conference earlier yesterday.

The woman, who was verified as the baby's mother, initially told investigators the little girl's father was supposed to have her, but neither of them knew where the child was, police said.

Investigators later determined that the mother had allegedly had the girl with her in a vehicle in Pasadena, but removed the child from the vehicle and left her on the side of the road, police said.

The incident began just before midnight Saturday, when officers responded to a report of an abandoned child on the side of a road, the police department said on its Facebook page Sunday morning.
Officers found a baby girl in a car seat carrier. Police said the baby was 2 or 3 months old.

"Scuff marks on the carrier and other debris indicate that the carrier may have fell off of a moving vehicle," the police wrote in the post.

The child was taken to a hospital to be treated for dehydration, police said.

The baby was in good condition Sunday, Smith said at the news conference, adding that the baby was in the custody of the Department of Social Services.

The investigation is ongoing, police said this afternoon. The police department is working with the Anne Arundel County State's Attorney's Office.

Woman asks boyfriend to castrate himself for fear of vomiting during pregnancy

The partner of a woman who is so terrified of vomiting that she has given up the chance of parenthood at 27 has had a vasectomy so he can continue to be with her.

Vicky Nash's fear of vomiting is so debilitating that she hasn't had a proper meal in 15 years and weighs less than seven stone, despite being 5'6 inches tall. Before she was prescribed dietary supplements by her doctor, she weighed 31kg.

Her fear, known as emetophobia, means that she obsessively cleans her home to rid it of germs that could make her sick and washes her hands thirty times a day.

But perhaps the most significant impact is that she has already given up on the chance to ever become a mother because she is so terrified of morning sickness.

She met her current partner Dave Robinson, 40, through her former husband Danny Howard, when they split with in 2013, partly due to the fact he wanted children.

And Dave soon realised the impact it would have on their lives after a condom split, which sent Vicky into a total panic as she despaired over the idea of morning sickness or even taking the morning after pill.

As she was lying on the floor trying to build up the courage to swallow the pill which she feared may trigger a gag reflex, Dave pledged to have a vasectomy.

Vicky said: 'At first I tried to talk him out of it, then I tried to push him away but he was determined and I gave in. We both knew it was sensible if we wanted to be together.'

Dave, who is the last male Robinson in his family, said: 'I realise I've given up the chance to have children if Vicky and I split but I don't think that's ever going to happen. 'I don't want to be without her.'

Vicky also suffers from fibromyalgia - a condition that puts the sufferer in constant pain but doctors can't explain why.

On top of that, she finds it difficult to leave the house because of her agoraphobia, a fear of going outside which meant she couldn't even go and see her father in the days before he died.

Dave has now given up his job as a security guard to become her full-time carer, yet another sacrifice he has had to make for love.

He must also learn to live in a super-hygenic house, wiping down every surface and only bringing meat inside if it is stored in the freezer.

Vicky was just 11 when she was diagnosed with the disease after nearly choking on her own vomit. It came at a difficult time after being sexually abused by a family friend and as her parents got divorced.

The condition was so serious that she was allowed to leave school at 14 and she has made numerous attempts to overcome it, trying hypnotherapy, acupuncture and even paying £1,000 for over-the-phone counselling from specialists in America.

However, she fears she will never conquer the disease as she watches friends move on with their lives and start families.

Vicky even said she would not be a good mother in her current condition, admitting she would worry too much about them falling ill and being sick.

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Police to investigate Deputy Senate President, Ekweremadu over alleged forged Senate rules

The Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase,on  Sunday summoned the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, over alleged forgery of the Senate Rules on election of its principal officers,the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said.

The PDP said Ekweremadu is expected to appear before a team of investigators at the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Monday (today).

It said the letter inviting the deputy senate president was dated July 1, 2015 and was signed by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of criminal investigation at the FHQ.

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said this at a press briefing in Abuja on Sunday.

The Force Headquarters has however said that he did not single out Ekweremadu for investigation.
The Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Abayomi Shogunle, explained that the investigation was not about an individual, rather, the police are investigating a petition by a senator alleging forgery of the Senate rules and standing orders.

Shogunle said the case was being handled by the Force Criminal Investigation Department.

He said, “In line with the resolve of the police leadership to gather evidence, the FCID sent a letter to the Senate clerk requesting a meeting with principal officers. The police didn’t send a letter to the deputy senate president, but to the clerk.

“What we did was to write to the clerk to facilitate a meeting with some of the senators to verify the allegations that were made, the police have respect for democratic values; but the clerk is yet to respond to the letter.

“No invitation was sent to the deputy senate president. It’s not about an individual, but about those that should be in the know of the senate rules and standing orders. The investigation is being led by the DIG, FCID.”

The 'forged rule' was said to have been used for the election of the leadership of the 8th Senate, in which Bukola Saraki emerged as the Senate President and Ekweremadu the deputy.

Saraki is a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, while Ekweremadu is of the minority PDP.
Metuh however alleged that the invitation to Ekweremadu was a ploy to arrest and detain him by the APC-led Federal Government.

He insisted at the Sunday briefing that Ekweremadu would be detained at the FHQ when he showed up on Monday (today).

The PDP spokesman said the national leadership of the APC had not been happy with the election of Ekweremadu as the deputy senate president and that all the attempts allegedly made to let him resign by the ruling party had failed, hence the alleged plan to use the police to intimidate him.

Metuh said, “We are aware that some APC senators opposed to the emergence of Senators Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu as senate president and deputy senate president respectively met last week and concocted a petition, accusing the deputy senate president of altering the Senate Rules on the process of election of the presiding officers, upon which the police via a letter dated July 1, 2015 and signed by the Deputy Inspector General in charge of criminal investigation at the Force Headquarters has invited him to appear tomorrow (today), Monday, July 6, 2015 where he will be detained and put under pressure.”
He said neither Ekweremadu nor any other senator-elect, prior to the inauguration of the Senate and the election of presiding officers, could have been involved in the process of producing the 2015 Standing Rules of the Senate.

The Senate Standing Rules is strictly done by the bureaucracy under the Clerk to the National Assembly.

He said, “Senator Ekweremadu was not in any way involved in the process other than being nominated for the position of the deputy senate president and could not have been privy to the secret ballot procedure adopted by the National Assembly bureaucracy, which has been widely adjudged as transparent and credible,” Metuh explained.

“Apparently to ensure that the agenda is given an official stamp, the Inspector General of Police, acting on instructions, has invited the deputy senate president with a view to arresting him over phantom charges as a build up to incarcerate him, create a vacuum in the Senate and pave way for the imposition of an APC preferred senator to take over his position.”

Metuh said that the petition by the aggrieved senators to the police lacked merit.

Metuh also said the PDP had information that instructions had been passed to certain officials at the Independent National Electoral Commission to alter some electoral documents and records in order to create the impression that Ekweremadu did not file proper documents for the general elections in order to eventually pave way for his removal.

“In line with the above plot, the APC has been having secret meetings with some judges and lawyers to procure injunctions to prevent Ekweremadu from playing his role as the deputy senate president,” he further alleged.

The PDP spokesman said that part of the plot was a conspiracy to tarnish Ekweremadu’s image and open him to public ridicule.

He alleged that on Monday last week, some APC leaders met in Abuja to perfect a plot to blackmail the deputy senate president by planting bizarre publications against him in the media.

Metuh stated that “the government and APC leaders should be held responsible should any harm come upon the deputy senate president or any of our party leaders for that matter.”

He said, “We state this because information available to us indicates that there are also plans to compromise security around the deputy senate president to make him vulnerable and open for sponsored violent attacks.

“We do hope that the era of political assassination is not about to return to Nigeria and that our nation will not descend into a draconian regime where a strike force is created to hunt key opposition figures.”

He said the PDP would
“not consider it a mere coincidence if our key leaders suddenly become victims of terror attacks or are suddenly killed by armed robbers.”

“This is especially as we are aware that the APC has even gone to the ridiculous extent of trailing key PDP leaders and bugging their telephone lines,” he said.

The National Publicity Secretary of the  the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement on Sunday, that it had nothing to do with the decision of the police to invite Ekweremadu.

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