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Lagos Guber Tribunal: Hope Rises for PDP’s Jandor

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the March 18 2023 Governorship election in Lagos State, Mr. Olajide Adediran, also known as Jandor, may have a reason to smile as documents capable of disqualifying the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and the Labour Party (LP) candidate, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, were cited in court’s records of proceedings at the tribunal.

According to reports from the Lagos State Governorship tribunal, documents tendered by PDP’s Jandor reportedly shows discrepancies in Governor Sanwoolu’s credentials submitted to INEC.

The names on the statement of WAEC result he presented to INEC are just two, while the ones on the Master list WAEC tendered in court has three names with a different first name, but same surname, same exam number and same exam year.

These names are also different from names on his first and second degree certificates.

There are several Supreme Court authorities against discrepancies of names on certificates. The latest judgment on discrepancies of names on certificates was delivered on Thursday 10th of August, 2023 by a National Assembly tribunal sitting in kano which nullified the election of Hon. Umar Mukhtar Yerima for having two names in his primary school certificate and three names in his other credentials with no deed polls that clarified the discrepancies just as that of Governor Sanwoolu.

Also, evidence before the tribunal shows that Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour was never, and still not a member of Labour Party.

His name is conspicuously absent in the Certified True Copy of Membership register of Labour Party which was last updated and submitted to INEC on the 20th April, 2023. Exactly one month after he contested under Labour Party.

The position of the Law is that you can not contest for election, except you are a Member of a political party who must sponsor you.

These evidences were tendered in court by Jandor of PDP who seeks disqualification of both APC and Labour Party candidates.

The tribunal has reserved Judgement till a date the will be communicated to all parties.

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Police Confirm Abduction of Bayelsa High Court Judge in Yenagoa

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The police in Bayelsa State, on Sunday, confirmed the abduction of Justice E.J. Umokoro in Yenagoa, the capital.

Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the command, DSP Musa Mohammed, confirmed the alleged kidnap of the Judge on Sunday in Yenagoa.

“Umokoro, a judge at Bayelsa State High Court was on Saturday evening abducted from his car at a fast food outlet at Ekeki area of Yenagoa.

“The command has deployed tactical teams and drones to trail and arrest the hoodlums,” he said.

Reports said that the gunmen fired sporadically at the car park of the eatery before forcing the judge out of his vehicle and whisking him away in a waiting Toyota Hilux.

The judge was waiting for his daughter, who had gone into the outlet to make some purchases.

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Otti Plans Recruitment of 4000 Extra Teachers for Abia Schools

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Abia State governor, Alex Otti, has revealed has revealed plans to recruit additional 4,000 teachers to raise the teaching workforce to 9,394.in the State’s primary and secondary schools.

The governor disclosed this during the June edition of his media chat, dubbed Governor Alex Otti speaks to Abians”, held on Thursday night at the Government House, Umuahia.

He said that the 5,394 first set of teachers already recruited would be deployed after their ongoing orientation in Aba and Umuahia.

According to him, the next set of recruitment will happen immediately after this orientation.

“We expect that the portal will be opened and applications will be received,” he said.

Otti said that the idea was to prepare the schools for the next academic session, given the massive enrollment witnessed since the introduction of free and compulsory education.

The government, in January, introduced free and compulsory education from primary one to junior secondary school.

The policy is to ensure that every child in Abia, regardless of their state of origin, had access to education up to the junior secondary school.

Otti emphasised the need to prepare and ensure quality teachers for primary and secondary schools across the State.

He reiterated his administration’s commitment to continue with the renovation of schools, including the tertiary institutions.

“In addition to the renovation, we are converting 20 schools into smart schools and work is already ongoing,” he said.

The governor also spoke on the government’s activities in the health sector.

He gave assurance that the ongoing renovation of 200 primary healthcare centres across the 17 local government areas of the State would soon be completed and that most of them were ready for use.

“The type of equipment you are expecting to see in the developed countries are already in Abia and we are not opening them without equipping them properly,” he said.

Otti, who highlighted some of his administration’s achievements in other sectors, including security, road infrastructure, sanitation and others, urged the residents to join hands with the administration in building a new Abia.

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Court Grants Natasha N50m Bail in Defamation Case

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The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja on Thursday granted the Senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, bail in the sum of N50 million and one surety who must be a person of reasonable integrity resident in FCT Abuja and owns a landed property within the Abuja Municipal Area Council.

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