Today’s Daily Brief: TAN accused of using rented crowd, Thugs invade Edo Assembly quarters, APC gets another presidential aspirant, and more

We deliver your news brief for Tuesday, October 11, 2014.

 

The Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, TAN, a group passionately campaigning for a second term for Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, has been hit by allegation of fraud, with some members of the group accusing it of staging a crowd in support of the president and refusing to pay them as agreed.

TAN has conducted regional rallies in support of Mr. Jonathan since August, with the last of its six conventions held in Kano, for the northwest, which comprises Kano, Jigawa, Katsina, Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, and Kaduna States.

The Kano event held Saturday, September 27. As with the previous five regional rallies, the event was attended by senior officials of the federal government, and thousands of supporters.

Premium Times

 

Edo state lawmakers residing at the Legislative quarter located along Ihama road in the government reservation area Saturday morning woke up to the sound of heavy gun shots as armed suspected thugs allegedly sacked all the lawmakers and their family members.

The invasion may not be unconnected with the Monday violent attack on a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP lawmaker, Abdulrazak Momoh who is being treated at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.

The Speaker Uyi Igbe, Majority leader, Hon Phillip Shaibu and other principal officer’s security were said to have been overpowered by firing power of the invading thugs.

Scores of cars belonging to the Majority leader, Phillip Shaibu, Sunday Aghedo, Folly Ogedengbe and Bright Osayande were riddled with bullets in an attack which lasted for about 30 minutes.

Nation

 

The kidnapped mother of Remmy Hassan, an Ogun state lawmaker, has been released.

Mr. Hassan’s mother was kidnapped ‎on Wednesday, October 1at about 9pm from her Omu-Ijebu home.

Confirming her release to PREMIUM TIMES, Mr. Hassan, a former deputy speaker of the Ogun state House of Assembly and a current member of the assembly, said ‎”I thank God she has been released unhurt and healthy,” he said.

‎A source told PREMIUM TIMES that the kidnappers demanded a N50 million ransom.

Mr. Hassan refused to comment on whether there was a demand for ransom or if any was paid to the abductors.

Premium Times

 

A former Governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, on Friday said the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, will win the 2015 gubernatorial elections in the state.

Mr. Daniel, who stated this at a unification meeting held at his Asoludero Court residence in Sagamu, said the coming together of some parties into the PDP made the PDP the most formidable in the state.

“With the array of major stakeholders of Ogun politics in this hall, it is glaring that the ingredients for winning elections are at hand and ready to go for power in 2015”, Mr. Daniel said.

Premium Times

 

A professor of business education at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Mr Mahmood Aliyu, has declared his intention to contest the 2015 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC).

The presidential aspirant made the declaration at a press conference on Saturday in Minna.

Aliyu said his decision to vie for the presidency was informed by the agitation for the emergence of new crop of leaders “to fight the malaise in the country.

Leadership

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