Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was on Thursday presented with his Permanent Voter Card at his presidential Hilltop residence in Abeokuta by the Ogun State Residential Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mr. Sam Olumekun.
The former president, who promised to guard his own PVC carefully, advised Nigerians to also do same.
While commending the INEC for their efforts on the exercise, he said, “It is a great job you have been doing. If somebody loses his card, what does he do? I won’t lose mine but for others.”
There are indications that 23 out of the 25 members of the Adamawa State House of Assembly may dump the Peoples Democratic Party due to the recent dissolution of the state executive of the party and the failure of the party to fulfill the promises made to the lawmakers to impeach former Governor Murtala Nyako.
A source, close to the House, told our correspondent that the members had been considering the decision to defect following the recent dissolution of the state executive of the party by the National Working Committee of PDP and the manipulation of the list 0f ad hoc delegates in favour of a preferred candidate.
The lawmakers are said to be irked that they had been used to ensure the impeachment of Nyako and grassroots mobilisation of electorate in favour of the party only for them to be snubbed in taking major decisions.
Mr Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), on Thursday called on Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker, House of Representatives, to resign for peace to reign in the legislature.
Ozekhome, a constitutional lawyer, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) while reacting to the lawmakers’ fracas which culminated in Thursday’s shut down of the national Assembly.
NAN reports that Senate President David Mark on Thursday announced the suspension of National Assembly plenaries until Tuesday, following the reconvening of House of Representatives.
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party has urged the All Progressive Congress and others to leave President Goodluck Jonathan out of the problems rocking the House of Representatives, stating that as elected representatives of the people, the President cannot be blamed for the APC woes.
APC had accused President Goodluck Jonathan of sabotaging his own Administration’s war against Boko Haram on the altar of personal vindictiveness and political desperation, an action that is unbecoming of a self-respecting national leader.
The party was reacting to a statement by the APC where it laid the blames of the crisis in the House of Representatives as desperation on the side of the President.
The Minority Leader, Mr. Samuel Ajibola, had told journalists on Wednesday that Omirin remained the speaker and that there was no plan to impeach him.
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