APC suspends Adams Oshiomhole, Nigerians reacts; As Fani-Kayode makes claim on VP’s ‘replacement’

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) suspension has been trailed by diverse reactions from Nigerians.

The Edo State APC was reported to have suspended Oshiomhole on Tuesday.

Anselm Ojezua, the State chairman, who made this known in a statement on Tuesday night said Oshiomhole‘s suspension followed the vote of no confidence passed on him by the chairmen of the APC in the 18 local government areas (LGAs) of the state.

Recall that of the Deputy State Chairman of the APC in Edo State, Kenneth Asekomhe was earlier on Tuesday quoted as saying, “After the meeting of the State Executive Committee, in pursuant of Article 17, Section 5 of APC constitution of 2014........READ MORE>>>

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode

Fani-Kayode makes claim on VP’s ‘replacement’

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Nigeria former Minister of Aviation, has claimed that some names have been penciled down as alternatives to replace the embattled Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

This was contained in an article he released Wednesday morning titled ‘ The humiliation of the villa fiend’.

The former presidential spokesman said Nigerians should not pity Osinbajo, noting that the Law Professor knew what he was getting into before he became President Muhammadu Buhari’s deputy.

He wrote: “Over the last two months, despite all pretentions to the contrary, things have gone downhill for him and he appears to be a drowning man.......READ MORE>>>

Stranded Ghanaian trucks. PHOTO: Ghana Web

Border closure: ECOWAS countries reject Nigerian goods

Notwithstanding the revenue increase the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, said it has achieved with the on-going partial border closure, exporters are counting their losses as countries within the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, sub-region have started rejecting Nigerian cargoes, apparently, as a form of retaliation against the land border closure.

This latest development, according to the exporters, is gradually crippling their businesses....READ MORE>>>

Prof. Wole Soyinka

Stop this display of naked power, release Sowore, Soyinka tells Nigerian govt

The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has called on the Federal Government to release the co-convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore and save the country from further embarrassment in the international community.

“Enough of this charade, nothing more than a display of crude, naked power,” he said in his reaction to the Department of State Security (DSS) refusal to honour the court order on Sowore’s release and the attack on protesters demanding for his release on Tuesday.

Soyinka’s reaction on the Sowore’s matter was contained in a statement released on Tuesday by Wole Soyinka (WS) Foundation for the Humanities and titled: “Sowore, human rights and the rule of law.”.......READ MORE>>>

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