PDP Still Has Questions to Answer – PMB Oil Sector to Attract $25Bn
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08.03.19 FOR GOD AND COUNTRY No. 325 N250 www.leadership.ng NIGERIA'S FIRST FRIDAY NEWSPAPER Leadership Newspapers @leadershipNGA ‘VOTE BUYING ONLINE TRANSPORT CBN, EFCC TO TACKLE ATTRACTS 12 YEARS PLATFORM, TAXIFY, ECONOMIC CRIMES CHANGES NAME TO BOLT ➔ PAGE 20 JAIL TERM’ ➔ PAGE 5 ➔ PAGE 8 APC, PDP In Fight For Their Lives In Adamawa, Benue, Plateau, Kwara, Lagos, Oyo Police Deploy 15,544 Officers In Rivers 4 PDP Still Has Questions To Answer – PMB BY JONATHAN NDA-ISAIAH, The president, in a Abuja statement issued by his special adviser on media, Mr President Muhammadu Femi Adesina, said that the Buhari has declared that the current administration met Peoples Democratic Party a country with dilapidated (PDP) still owes Nigerians infrastructure in 2015, explanation on how it which called to serious expended the humongous question as to what the party resources that accrued to that was in power for 16 the country from oil sales years did with the country’s between 1999 and 2014. huge earnings from oil. Buhari stated this Buhari said: “The PDP yesterday at the State House, has not successfully Abuja, when he received the explained to the country leaders of organised labour what it did with the money. who came to felicitate with There were no roads, no rail, him on his recent electoral President Muhammadu Buhari (middle); Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai (right) ; chief of protocol to the president, Amb Lawal Kazaure (left) victory, ➔ CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 and others during the i nauguration of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Command Centre in Kaduna, yesterday. PHOTO BY STATE HOUSE. Oil Sector To Attract $25bn Investments In 2 Years 19 2 NEWS Group News Editor: Ekele Peter Agbo March 8, 2019 L-R: Representative of the National Security Adviser, Sanusi Galadima; chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu and Acting Inspector General Of Police, Mohammed Adamu, during the INEC Meeting with Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES), at the INEC Headquarters in Abuja, yesterday. PHOTO BY REMI AKUNLEYAN. Libel: BCO Asks Court To Quash Atiku’s Claims Against PMB BY ERNEST NZOR, Abuja suit it filed urging the former vice president against the 1st plaintiff (Buhari) based or on 11 other lawyers, Atiku is also claiming a to- to provide proof of evidence before a Federal the question of the 1st plaintiff’s capacity and tal of N200 billion for killings in the country by The Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO) has Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in or performance in the office as Executive Pres- insurgents, high tension and democratic instabil- prayed an Abuja High Court to strike out a mo- Abuja that President Buhari and members of ident of the Federal Republic of Nigeria can ity in the country, in addition to lopsided appoint- tion filed by the presidential candidate of the his family own substantial shares in 9mobile only be sustained in a separate suit or proceed- ment in the country. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abuba- and Keystone Bank. ing filed by the defendant against the 1st plain- The BCO had on January 22, 2019 sued Atiku, kar, seeking to compel President Muhamma- The court has adjourned till April 8, 2019 tiff,” BCO’s counsel said. accusing him of defaming President Buhari and du Buhari to pay him damages in the sum of for hearing in the suit filed by the BCO against In his 18-paragraph statement of defence, his family. N200 billion. Atiku for defaming President Buhari and his Atiku had complained of the suit filed by BCO In the suit filed before FCT High Court, the Atiku’s demands are contained in his coun- family. not properly constituted, insisting that what plaintiff wants the court to order Atiku and his par- ter-claim in response to a N40million libel Counsel to BCO, Barr Abdulrazaq Ahmed, he said was in no way defamatory against Bu- ty to pay N40million damages for alleged libelous suit the Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO) said rather than leaving the substance to tack- hari since it was a matter of public interest. claims that Buhari and members of his family own slammed against him over an allegation that le the trash with a motion seeking to address Counsel to the PDP presidential candi- substantial shares in 9mobile and Keystone Bank. he defamed Buhari and his family. an entirely different matter from the substan- date said, “The defendants (Atiku and Phrank In its witness statement on oath made by its The president’s support group told the court tive suit, Atiku must provide documentary ev- Shaibu) aver that the defamatory statements Director of Communication and Strategic headed by Justice Binta Mohammed that Ati- idence and proof of evidence to substantiate are impartial observations, opinions and crit- Planning, Mallam Gidado Ibrahim, the BCO ku’s counter-claim in which he challenged Pres- claims that President Buhari and his family ac- icism on a matter of public interest. The de- stated that Atiku and his media aide alleg- ident Buhari’s capacity and performance in quired substantial shares in 9mobile and Key- fendants aver that a matter of public inter- edly engaged in smear campaign of calum- office as president can only be sustained in a stone Bank with total assets of $1.916 billion est on which everyone is entitled to make ny against Buhari by willfully allowing and separate suit. (equivalent to N307.5 billion) as well as pur- a fair comment on cannot be said to be de- sponsoring the said purported defamatory In its defence to Atiku’s counter claim, the chasing about ₦3 billion worth of shares in the famatory”. and image-damaging statements to be pub- BCO said the PDP presidential candidate’s new Pakistani Islamic Bank. In the 53 paragraph counter-claim signed lished by some newspapers to members of counter-claim cannot be taken along with the “The defendant/counter-claimers claims by Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume (SAN) and the public. Alleged Forgery: Court Orders Kwara APC Guber Candidate To Defend Certificate BY OLADIPO MAGAJI, Ilorin this writ on you inclusive of the day of such ser- mally abbreviate names on the school certificates sued with the purported West African Exami- vice, you do cause an appearance to be entered in issued by it. nation Council (WAEC) School Certificate No. A Kwara State High Court has given the governor- an action at the suit of Adekunle Oluwafemi Abra- “ That the way and manner the defendant’s SC180683 dated June, 1967 submitted to Inde- ship candidate of the All Progressives Congress ham and take notice that in default of you doing name appears on his purported West African Ex- pendent National Electoral Commission (INEC) (APC) in the state, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, 30 so, the claimant may proceed therein and judge- amination Council ( WAEC) school certificate No. by the defendant. “ days to defend the authenticity of his West Af- ment may be given in your absence.” SC180683 dated June, 1976 raised my suspicion The claimant in his statement of claim rican Examination Council (WAEC) certificate. The claimant in his statement on oath said that that the said West African Examination Council( contended that “the West African Examina- The court issued the ultimatum following a suit “ while examining the personal particulars of the WAEC) No. SC180683 dated June, 1976 could tion Council (WAEC) School Certificate No. instituted against the APC gubernatorial candi- defendant, he was curious about the purport- not have been issued by West African Exami- SC180683 allegedly issued to the defendant by date by one Adekunle Oluwafemi Abraham. ed West African Examination Council (WAEC) nation Council (WAEC) and I reported my sus- West African Examination Council (WAEC) in The case with suit number KWS/73/2019 has school certificate No. SC180683 purportedly dat- picion to my political party, Peoples Democrat- June 1976 and submitted to Independent Na- been assigned to the court of Justice Adenike ed June, 1976 of the defendant particularly, the ic Party( PDP) which promised to look into my tional Electoral Commission (INEC) is a false Akinpelu. way the defendant’s name is written as” RASAQ A suspicion. document. The claimant shall apply to this Hon- In the court’s writ dated March 7, 2019, the R” which from my personal experience, the West “ That I also know as a fact that the defendant ourable court to issue subpoena on West Afri- court ordered the defendant (Abdurahman Ab- African Examination Council( WAEC) as a stan- did not sit for West African Examination Coun- can Examination Council (WAEC) to produce the dulrazaq) to “ within 30 days after the service of dard examination body in West Africa do not nor- cil School Certificate and was therefore not is- original of the said certificate.” www.leadership.ng Leadership Newspapers @leadershipNGA March 8, 2019 3 our stand As Nigerians, Again, March To The Polls s Nigerians go to the The fact remains that without communication approach, the within the ambit of the law and polls tomorrow to the military’s involvement, this army has opened up proactive rules of engagement. It insisted elect state governors, year’s election would not have channels of army-media interface that soldiers deployed on election Houses of Assembly been free and fair, as attested that has removed grey areas that duty were professional and members and Area to by local and international often generate critical information proactive in their conduct. ACouncil members in the Federal gaps. observers. For the first time in This clarification was in reaction Capital Territory (FCT) elections, the nation’s political history, In the prevailing circumstance, to allegations of partisanship, it is pertinent to call on all ballot box snatching and other the Nigerian Army had deemed it coercion and shooting of voters actors in the process to abide by irregularities were reduced to the appropriate to clarify its activities in some areas across the country democratic tenets.