Taraba APC in fresh crisis – suspends gov candidate days to election

With the suspension of the APC’s candidate for governor, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, due to suspected anti-party conduct approximately a week before the election, the problem in the Taraba State chapter has gotten worse.

As a result, the party warned Bwacha that he would “face severe repercussions” if he didn’t “stop the related illegal activities (campaign) and come before the fact-finding committee on March 13, 2023 to answer the allegations filed against him in a petition.”

Yet when asked for comment on the situation, Bwacha responded, “False news. The signatories are not APC ward representatives. Please confirm with the party once more. It was created by primaries losers who were desperate.

The Middle Belt Times on Sunday was able to receive the letter that contained his suspension, which was dated March 8 and signed by all of the APC’s Mararaba, Donga Local Government ward executives.

The choice was made shortly after a contentious ruling by the Federal High Court ordering the independent National Electoral Commission to recognize Bwacha as the APC’s candidate for governor of Taraba State.

Why we want polls that prodcued Tinubu cancelled –Kogi women

Women in Kogi State’s three senatorial districts have demanded that the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, which resulted in Asiwaju Bola Tinubu being elected president, be called off.

The women based their justification for the appeal on the “chaos, brigandage, widespread violence, bloodlets, and even deaths that marred the election” at a press conference in Lokoja.

“As you are all aware, a major milestone in the history of Nigeria recently passed, a date that has become a watershed in the democratic story of Nigeria,” said Esther Opaluwa, who addressed on behalf of the organization. All Nigerians, both at home and abroad, were anxiously awaiting February 25, 2023 because it would mark the start of a new democratic era in our nation. Everyone, including our youth and women, avidly participated in all the events that led up to that day.

“But, the day came to a tumultuous end, with brigandage, widespread violence, blood, and even fatalities. Our traumatized sensibilities were further harmed by what we were seeing on the television screens, which was completely the opposite of what the Federal Government, our President, Mohammadu Buhari, the NASS, the security chiefs, and even the umpire of the electoral processes had assured us will happen, as we lamented and mourned over what had transpired during the day at almost all of the polling stations.

The women demanded that the perpetrators of violence in and around Kogi State be brought to justice and encouraged Governor Yahaya Bello to assume his role as the state’s top security official.

Peter Obi urges security personnel to act in response to the Kaduna killings

Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s nominee for president in the election of February 25, 2023, has decried the reported massacre of inhabitants at the Ungwan Wakili community in Kaduna State’s Zango Kataf Local Government Area.

In a statement released on Sunday, Obi claimed that the attack had resulted in several casualties.

The former governor of Anambra stated that one of the guiding principles of his agreement with Nigerians is to preserve and combat insecurity as little as possible.

Obi stated that any news of violence or terrorist strikes in Nigeria makes him saddened.

“The reports of a terrorist attack on the Ungwan Wakili community in Kaduna State’s Zango Kataf Local Government Area with significant deaths astound me. I completely condemn the act,” he declared.

Any serious government in power, according to the LP candidate, must place a high premium on ensuring Nigeria’s and Nigerians’ security.

Obi tasked security personnel with carrying out their responsibilities in order to create a new Nigeria where Nigerians can live in safety and freedom.

Invoking God to offer the victims of the attacks eternal repose and comfort their grieving families, he pleaded with security personnel to bring the attackers to justice.

Death toll rises to 17 in Southern Kaduna attack

The number of fatalities from last night’s attack on the Ungwan Wakili community in Kaduna State’s Zango Kataf Local Government Area has increased to 17.

Reports counted 14 corpses recovered this morning, aside from the one person killed yesterday and the two people that died in the hospital.

Addressing to reporters, Mr. Francis Sani Zimbo, the council chairman of Zango Kataf Local Government, denounced the brutal assault and reaffirmed that investigations are ongoing to identify the offenders and hold them accountable.

He expressed remorse over the decision to remove all Mobile Police checkpoints from the impacted villages before to last night’s attack.

While protesting, the locals questioned how an attack could endure for almost 40 minutes without a single attacker being shot by security personnel despite the presence of a forward operating base in the communities