Saturday, 27 August 2016
Princess Stella Odua In Sad Mood...
Stella Oduah's 28 year old son dies in Abuja HospitalFormer Minister of Aviation and now senator, Stella Oduah, yesterday lost her son. According tofamily sources, the 28 year old man died after a brief illness. He has been on admission at a private hospital in Abuja for an undisclosed ailment. May his soul rest in peace Amen.
Friday, 17 July 2015
PDP accuses APC for plotting to prompt state of emergerncy in Rivers State
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives
Congress (APC) of plotting to instigate a major political crisis for the
declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State due to the sack of
its 22 council chairmen to by a court.
The Rivers State Commissioner for Justice/Attorney General, Emma
Aguma, has accused the APC and the 22-sacked chairmen of maligning the
judge of National Industrial Court by alleging that the court issued an
order reinstating them to office.
Rivers State PDP Deputy Publicity Secretary, Samuel Nwanosike, said
that the conduct of the party since last Thursday’s Federal High Court
verdict that nullified the May 23, 2015, council polls that brought in
sacked chairmen into office, had been designed to create political
crisis that would make the state ungovernable and for the federal
government to intervene by way of a declaration of state of emergency.
He advised the party to adhere to the rule of law and ventilate their
grievance through legal means.
Similarly, the Chairman, Felix Obuah, has urged the APC and the
sacked chairmen to seek redress at the Appellate Court, which is the
Court of Appeal and not an Industrial Court which has cordons team
jurisdiction with the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt.
“The PDP is again concerned about the palpable tension such
misinterpretation of a purported Industrial Court ruling has generated
in the state, which the party believes was avoidable and uncalled for,
as the state was beginning to properly stabilise, having some of those
contentious issues laid to rest by the court and other institutions of
law.
The PDP also warned the opposition to desist from making false
statements; taking actions and making inflammatory comments that are
capable of plunging the state into crisis.
The Rivers State Commissioner for Justice/Attorney General, Emma,
observed that by peddling false rumour, the APC and the sacked council
chairmen had portrayed the judge as sitting on appeal on the judgment of
a court of coordinate jurisdiction, which he did not have power to do.
He insisted that the Rivers State governor and the House of Assembly
did not dissolve the council officers; instead, a competent court sacked
them.
“The issue that he set aside the judgment of the federal high court
is a lie. The issue that he ordered the reinstatement of local
government that were removed by reason of that judgment by the court and
not by Rivers State House of Assembly or by the governor of Rivers
state.
There is what they call punitive jurisdiction. When you do something
that is not tandem with a case that is pending before a particular
court, the court has the punitive jurisdiction to restore the status quo
and the situation before you did it. The Federal High Court in Port
Harcourt exercised its punitive jurisdiction and nullified an election.
It is not governor Wike,” he said.
He explained that the only reference to the Federal High Court
judgment that sacked the council chairmen, when the industrial court sat
on Monday, was a reference that says in view of the Federal High Court
judgment that the chairmen have no business being in court any more, and
the court d reduce that application into a motion, put it in writing so
that it will be formally before the court. He affirmed that the rumour
that the sacked chairmen had been reinstated was a lie.
PDP says it will not accept results of any elections conducted by new INEC acting chairman
Chief Oliseh Metuh
PDP National Publicity secretary, Oliseh Metuh, says that the people democratic party(PDP) will reject results of any elections by INEC's acting Chairman, Amina Zakari whom they claim is foster "daughter" to President Buhari. Mr Metuh said this while talking amid a visit visit he made to the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute in Abuja yesterday July 16th.
"We have INEC and the thought is that individuals heading it ought to be above board, yet the ruling party (APC) has designated the "daughter" of the President to head the position. There is no where on the planet where such has happened, a man who has an association with the President. I am drawing the consideration of the IRI that Buhari has designated his "girl" as INEC Chairman, we believe that won't be reasonableness. It will be extremely hard to acknowledge result any election led by Amina Zakari. It will be hard PDP to accept result of election if we lose under Zakari." he said
Mr Metuh likewise guaranteed that since he accepted office President Buhari has shaped the propensity for taking just Governors from his party for his foreign engagements. Mr Metuh said this was never the case amid the season of previous President Jonathan who guaranteed that he took Governors from the opposition alongside him amid any of his outside excursions.
"We have INEC and the thought is that individuals heading it ought to be above board, yet the ruling party (APC) has designated the "daughter" of the President to head the position. There is no where on the planet where such has happened, a man who has an association with the President. I am drawing the consideration of the IRI that Buhari has designated his "girl" as INEC Chairman, we believe that won't be reasonableness. It will be extremely hard to acknowledge result any election led by Amina Zakari. It will be hard PDP to accept result of election if we lose under Zakari." he said
Mr Metuh likewise guaranteed that since he accepted office President Buhari has shaped the propensity for taking just Governors from his party for his foreign engagements. Mr Metuh said this was never the case amid the season of previous President Jonathan who guaranteed that he took Governors from the opposition alongside him amid any of his outside excursions.
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Rivers State Government Inaugurates N3bn Road Project
Hello PCN readers,
Rivers Status Government on Wednesday initiated the rehabilitation and reconstruction of six kilometer stretch of the East-West road venture worth N3 billion.
According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) the road prompts Port Harcourt refinery and Onne Sea Port.
Gov. Nyesom Wike said amid the activity in Aleto-Eleme, Rivers State, that the road was mostly supported by both state government, private and open organizations.
Wike said that the road had been in regrettable condition for a considerable length of time and required earnest intercession.
He said that the state government couldn't sit tight for the Federal Government to repair the road because of the significance the road played on both state and country's economy.
As per him, we can't hold up until the Federal Government mediates; consequently we chose to take the bull by the horn and accomplice with the financial specialists.
"Because of the blocked state of the road; for all intents and purposes all organizations working in the territory are debilitating to haul out. It is basically barbaric and incredible that individuals will be burning through three hours driving from Port Harcourt to Eleme on a road that most assets of the nation originate from."
"All the more imperatively, restoration of this roadt will put to an end perpetual instance of abducting, burglary, blackmail and killings which happen frequently," he said.
Wike said that the road rehabilitation awarded to Reynolds Construction Company would be finished in two years.
The governor uncovered that N1.5 billion would be paid for the first stage, while the remaining would be paid to the contractor when the task came to 80% finished.
NAN learnt the Rivers Government together with Indorama, Intel, West Africa Container Terminal, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigeria Ports Authority and Onne and Gas Free Zone Authority are subsidizing the undertaking.
Rivers Status Government on Wednesday initiated the rehabilitation and reconstruction of six kilometer stretch of the East-West road venture worth N3 billion.
According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) the road prompts Port Harcourt refinery and Onne Sea Port.
Gov. Nyesom Wike said amid the activity in Aleto-Eleme, Rivers State, that the road was mostly supported by both state government, private and open organizations.
Wike said that the road had been in regrettable condition for a considerable length of time and required earnest intercession.
He said that the state government couldn't sit tight for the Federal Government to repair the road because of the significance the road played on both state and country's economy.
As per him, we can't hold up until the Federal Government mediates; consequently we chose to take the bull by the horn and accomplice with the financial specialists.
"Because of the blocked state of the road; for all intents and purposes all organizations working in the territory are debilitating to haul out. It is basically barbaric and incredible that individuals will be burning through three hours driving from Port Harcourt to Eleme on a road that most assets of the nation originate from."
"All the more imperatively, restoration of this roadt will put to an end perpetual instance of abducting, burglary, blackmail and killings which happen frequently," he said.
Wike said that the road rehabilitation awarded to Reynolds Construction Company would be finished in two years.
The governor uncovered that N1.5 billion would be paid for the first stage, while the remaining would be paid to the contractor when the task came to 80% finished.
NAN learnt the Rivers Government together with Indorama, Intel, West Africa Container Terminal, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigeria Ports Authority and Onne and Gas Free Zone Authority are subsidizing the undertaking.
APC Says PDP Allegation Over Party's Interference with Election Tribunals is False
Hello PCN readers,
All Progressives Congress (APC) hosts charged Peoples Democratic Gathering (PDP) of lying by claiming impedance by the security organizations with cases before election appeal tribunals.
In an announcement in Abuja on Thursday, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, called the charge a useless endeavor by PDP to force fleece over the eyes of Nigerians.
It charged that the gathering was attempting to cover the genuine circumstance concerning the case before the Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal, which encouraged the PDP allegation in the first case.
It said the welcome of authorities from the Rivers office of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was provoked by an appeal to the Inspector-General and Director-General, Department of State Services by the APC.
In an announcement in Abuja on Thursday, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, called the charge a useless endeavor by PDP to force fleece over the eyes of Nigerians.
It charged that the gathering was attempting to cover the genuine circumstance concerning the case before the Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal, which encouraged the PDP allegation in the first case.
It said the welcome of authorities from the Rivers office of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was provoked by an appeal to the Inspector-General and Director-General, Department of State Services by the APC.
It claimed that the authorities were intriguing with PDP to deny APC access to key records utilized for the last Governorship and State House of Assembly decisions.
It named those in the APC appeal to the security offices as the Rivers REC, Mrs Gesila Khan; Administrative Secretary, Mr Obijuru Royson; Head of Operations Department, Bocco Ekong and Legal Officer, Fumi Gaffar.
"Consequently, the PDP wolf crying more than an intrigue it organized with the Rivers INEC to deny the APC access to records utilized for the said elections adds up to lies and bending actualities.
"This relentless refusal to discharge the reports is going on regardless of a legitimate request from the Tribunal and in an unmistakable infringement of Section 77 (1) and (2) and different procurements of the Electoral Act.
It named those in the APC appeal to the security offices as the Rivers REC, Mrs Gesila Khan; Administrative Secretary, Mr Obijuru Royson; Head of Operations Department, Bocco Ekong and Legal Officer, Fumi Gaffar.
"Consequently, the PDP wolf crying more than an intrigue it organized with the Rivers INEC to deny the APC access to records utilized for the said elections adds up to lies and bending actualities.
"This relentless refusal to discharge the reports is going on regardless of a legitimate request from the Tribunal and in an unmistakable infringement of Section 77 (1) and (2) and different procurements of the Electoral Act.
"Furthermore, there is likewise a purposeful exertion by the plotters (Rivers INEC and the PDP) to crush the records so as not to permit the APC to have admittance to them, and afterward report their misfortune to the police.
"One of such cases was recorded on June 29 at Akinima Police Station in the Ahoada West Council Area,'' the announcement charged further.
"One of such cases was recorded on June 29 at Akinima Police Station in the Ahoada West Council Area,'' the announcement charged further.
Rivers State Government accuses Dakuku Peterside for modest untruths
Hello PCN Reader!
Rivers State Government has let go back at the governorship hopeful of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the April surveys, Dr Dakuku Peterside, saying his affirmed endeavor to deceive the state on the projects of the administration was modest and person on foot. Media assistant to the Governor, Mr Opunabo Nko-Tariah, said Peterside had demonstrated again that his course of action if Rivers State individuals had voted in favor of him was to settle in the projects of the previous government that close down the courts and guaranteed that the administrative arm of government was an augmentation of the official arm of government as it worked under the supervision of the previous representative in Government House, Port Harcourt.
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Rivers State Government has let go back at the governorship hopeful of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the April surveys, Dr Dakuku Peterside, saying his affirmed endeavor to deceive the state on the projects of the administration was modest and person on foot. Media assistant to the Governor, Mr Opunabo Nko-Tariah, said Peterside had demonstrated again that his course of action if Rivers State individuals had voted in favor of him was to settle in the projects of the previous government that close down the courts and guaranteed that the administrative arm of government was an augmentation of the official arm of government as it worked under the supervision of the previous representative in Government House, Port Harcourt.
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