Masari reacts to Obasanjo's letter to presidency after meeting with Buhari

Governor Aminu Masari on Sunday said Katsina State Elders’ Forum will soon reply former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter asking President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019.

Masari spoke to newsmen after he led the elders on a condolence visit to President Buhari in Daura. “The elders forum will consider the possibility of replying the recent letter by President Olusegun Obasanjo to Buhari.

“We intend to place an advertorial in the national dailies to respond to the issues he raised”, he stated.

Masari, who did not state the views of the elders on the issues raised by Obasanjo, confirmed that the forum had studied the letter and would respond to its contents. “The response will not be long in coming; it will be very soon,” he said.

Masari said that the elders were in Daura to condole Buhari over the death of his two sisters – Hajiya Aisha Mamman and Hajiya Halima Dauda – and described their demise as “very saddening”.

“We came to formally commiserate with the President and also pray for the repose of the souls of the deceased.

“We also told the President to accept the development as destined by the Almighty,” he said.

Others in his entourage were Justice Mamman Nasir (rtd), Brig-Gen Ahmed Daku (rtd), Justice Sadiq Mahuta and Alhaji Dahiru Mangal.

Others included the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Farouk Umar, traditional title holders, among others.

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Falana frowns at FG and states inability to prosecute suspects of killings in Nigeria 

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has ​condemned the delay in prosecuting over 100 suspects arrested in connection with the killings in Benue State, fearing that the suspects might eventually escape justice.

Falana has also asked the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) “to investigate the refusal of state attorneys-general to prosecute murder suspects due to political pressure or sheer negligence of duty.”

​In a​ letter he addressed to the NBA President, Mr. Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN),​ ​Falana​ ​feared that the suspects might be released from custody, noting that they “have not been charged with culpable homicide in the appropriate courts by the state government.”

​The activist regretted that the NBA had failed “to monitor the prosecution of the scores of murder suspects arrested by the police or indicted by the judicial and administrative panels of inquiry set up by federal and state governments to probe violent civil disturbances in the country.”

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He said: “Between 1999 and 2007, an official squad was fingered in the unlawful elimination of not less than 70 people in Gombe State. The murder charges filed against the suspects by the police were struck out by the courts at the instance of the state government.

“The late Alhaji Umar Hassan who demanded for the prosecution of the culprits was charged with giving false information to the police by the State government!”

“The members of an official squad, which killed some politicians and students in Ekiti State from 2003-2006 were arrested and charged with murder at the High Court, sitting at Ado Ekiti. A retired army captain and his police orderly who killed the students were convicted and jailed.

“But both convicts were, however, granted pardon by the state governor in 2009. As if that was not enough, the murder charges pending against the other murder suspects were struck out by the trial court in 2014 for want of diligent prosecution on the part of the state government.

“The Ahmed Lemu Presidential Panel, which investigated the post-election violence in 12 northern states and Akwa Ibom State in April 2011 found that 856 people were killed. In the White Paper issued on the report the Federal Government directed that the culprits be prosecuted but the directive was not carried out by the states where the killings occurred.

“The National Human Rights Commission under the leadership of Prof. Chidi Odinkalu found that 55 people were killed in the pre-election violence, which occurred in Rivers State in 2015. The culprits were never prosecuted by the state government. Since then over 100 other citizens have been killed by armed gangs.

“The Justice Garba Commission of Inquiry, which investigated the violent attack on the Shiites by the Nigerian Army in December 12-14, 2015 found that 347 people were killed and secretly buried in a shallow grave by the murderers.

“In the white paper issued on the report of the commission, the state government directed that the suspects be prosecuted.​ ​But the Attorney-General of Kaduna state has refused to prosecute the murder suspects​.”

Falana noted that ​in December 2016, ​the National Management Emergency Agency (NEMA) confirmed the killing of 204 people in Southern Kaduna, lamenting that the murder suspects had not been prosecuted till date.

He argued that since culpable homicide or murder “is a state offence you will agree with us that the attorneys-general of all the states in the country have failed to discharge their duties under section 205 of the Constitution.

“In fact, some of the Attorneys-General have a penchant for terminating murder charges by filing nolle prosequi. In the process, the Chief Law Officers of the states have breached their oaths of office and subverted the rule of law.”

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Our constituents waiting to attack us in Bauchi over sequence of elections – Senator Wakili

Senator representing Bauchi South Senatorial district, Ali Wakili has said that the three Senators from Bauchi State risk being attacked by their constituents over sequence of elections believed to have been targeted at getting President Muhammadu Buhari out of office in 2019.
In an exclusive interview with DAILY POST in Abuja, the lawmaker who was among those that opposed the controversial sequence of elections, explained that news was making round in Bauchi that they were part of conspiracy to get Buhari out of office in 2019.

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Breaking News: South Africa's President Jacob Zuma Resigns As President Of The N...

The Embattled South Africa's President Jacob Zuma Steps Down

The Embattled South Africa's President Jacob Zuma Steps Down

Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa, heeding orders by the governing African National Congress (ANC) to bring an end to his nine scandal-plagued years in power. Jacob Zuma resigned as President of South Africa on Wednesday, heeding orders by the governing African National Congress (ANC) to bring an end to his nine scandal-plagued years in power.

In a 30-minute farewell address to the nation, 75-year-old Zuma nonetheless said he disagreed with the way the ANC had shoved him towards an early exit after the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as party president in December.

Zuma, besieged by sleaze and graft scandals throughout his nine tumultuous years in power, said it was "unfair" the African National Congress had told him to resign, mainly because his comrades had not followed proper party procedure.

To South Africans who have suffered economic stagnation and national embarrassment under Zuma, it was yet more evidence of a leader unable to look beyond the byzantine inner workings of Africa's oldest liberation movement to consider the greater good of Nelson Mandela's 'Rainbow
Nation'.

Zuma, a 75-year-old anti-apartheid veteran and Zulu polygamist, has been South Africa's most controversial leader since the end of white minority rule in 1994. It was Zuma's mastery of the ANC's internal dynamics that enabled him to survive for so long, but his political influence had been on the wane since Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa replaced him as ruling party leader in December.

As recently as August, after loyal lawmakers helped him defeat a no-confidence vote brought by the opposition, he cracked jokes and broke into song with a cheering crowd outside the South African parliament.

Six months later, he was forced to resign after the ANC's parliamentary caucus told him it would help the opposition sack him on Thursday via yet another no-confidence vote. "It's us who got South Africa into this mess by electing Zuma to be president," Jackson Mthembu, ANC chief whip has said. "We should have looked closely into the man. With hindsight we made a terrible error of judgment."

Zuma was acquitted of raping a family friend in 2006 and is still fighting nearly 800 counts of corruption over a government arms deal from the late 1990s when he was deputy president. He was found to have violated the constitution for failing to repay public money used to renovate his homestead but has so far escaped with giving a half-apology. He eventually paid back more than $500,000.

Zuma has come under fire over his ties to the Gupta family, whose members include three businessmen accused of using their friendship with him to amass wealth and influence government policy. The Guptas and Zuma deny any wrongdoing. In 2012, Zuma also angered many for scolding "clever blacks" in a speech.

The recent events of two of African power craze leaders bowing out of office has lead us to think that their counterpart will most likely follow suit especially the embattled Nigeria Mohammadu Buhari who has been facing a lot of call to resign owing to the increased hardship in his country since he took over power in 2015.

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