List Of Politicians That Dumped PDP For APC After Buhari’s Victory

Ex-Edo state Governor, Osarhemen
Osunbor, dumps PDP for APC, also
PDP governorship candidate Maj-Gen.
Charles Arhiavbere (rtd) also dump
the PDP
In Kwara Gbemi Saraki, younger sister
to Senator Bukola Saraki and the PDP
youth leader in the state defected to
APC.
Dr. Olusola Oke, the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) governorship
candidate in the 2012 governorship
election in Ondo state has concluded
plans to defect officially to the All
Progressives Congress (APC)
The current Jigawa State deputy
governor, Ahmad Mahmud also
jumped the ship from the PDP to APC
Brigadier Gen Chris Onja (rtd) and
former AGF Michael
Aondoakaa dumped the PDP in benue
state
In Oyo state Mrs. Ayoka Lawani, a
prominent member of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) also crossed
to APC
The Majority Leader in the Gombe
State House of Assembly Hon.
Mamman Alkalio , was among the
hundreds of politicians from the
ruling Peoples Democratic
party (PDP), who defected to the
APC.
In Abia state, mother of the former
State Governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu
Elder ( Mrs.) Eunice Uzor Kalu, leader
of the Reality Organisation in the
South-East and and her members
joined the APC. Also, former member
of the House of Representatives and
brother to the ex-governor, Hon
Nnanna Uzor Kalu and ex-Chief of
Staff to Governor Theodore Orji, Mr.
Mascot Uzor Kalu, joined the APC.

Court orders DStv to suspend increase in subscription fees

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has
restrained Multi Choice Nigeria Limited,
operators of the Digital Satellite Television,
popularly known as DStv, from implementing
its new rates and increase in tariffs payable
by its subscribers across board.
The restraining order was given by Justice
C.J. Aneke sequel to a suit filed by two Lagos-
based legal practitioners, Osasuyi Adebayo
and Oluyinka Oyeniji.
In the class action suit, with number FHC/L/
CS/404/2015, Justice Aneke granted the
interim orders till the hearing of the motion
on notice for injunction on April 16, 2015.
He also ordered for the suit and the Interim
injunction to be published in national
newspapers.
Messrs. Adebayo and Adeniji are challenging
the arbitrary increase in tariffs.
The legal practitioners urged the court to
order the second defendant, the National
Broadcasting Commission, to also implement
Pay Per View where subscribers choose the
programmes they want and pay as they
watch, which is being implemented in some
other parts of the world.
In the order given on Thursday, Mr. Aneke
ruled: “That an order of interim injunction is
hereby granted to the parties to maintain the
status quo restraining the 1st defendant
(Multichoice/DSTV) from giving effect or
enforcing its planned increase in cost of the
different classes of viewing or programmes
bouquet, pending the hearing and
determination of the motion on notice.
“That an order is hereby granted certifying
the plaintiffs’ claim as a class action for
themselves as individual subscribers, other
corporate subscribers, distributors and
retailers of the 1st defendants’ services.
“That an order is hereby granted restraining
any other person whether individual or
corporate from instituting any other action
as may be related to the action against the
defendant to prevent multiplicity of lawsuits
pursuant to the appointment of the plaintiffs
in the class action but may instead opt in or
out of this action.”
In March, MultiChoice, owners of DStv and
GOtv, announced a 20 per cent price increase
for all its satellite pay TV bouquets in Nigeria
to take effect from April 1, 2015.
Thus, the subscription fee of DStv’s
Premium, Compact plus, compact, access,
Family and extra view bouquets were all set
to increase, as is the price for GOtv Plus and
GOtv bouquet.
MultiChoice explained that the price increase
was necessary for it to continue offering the
best in local and international entertainment
to its subscribers.

Letter to Jimi Agbaje from a concerned Lagosian, by Uchenna Ogorji

Dear Jimi Agbaje,

I wish to use this channel to make this
unambiguously clear: As an Igboman who
has spent a good number of years in Lagos, I
am very uncomfortable with all your
gimmicks in this electoral season. It is
important you take full cognizance that the
contest between you and Mr. Akinwunmi
Ambode of the All Progressives Congress is
for the post of the Executive Governor of
Lagos State and not for any other state
located elsewhere. Therefore I frown at your
divisive campaign strategy of pitching law-
abiding non-indigenous residents in the state
against the rest of the good people of Lagos.
If anything, the outcome of the just
concluded presidential election that saw the
kicking out of a sitting President who hinged
his campaign on such divisive antics should
serve as a lesson for you. But most
especially, I frown at your latest plot of
making your support-base primarily an Igbo
Agenda.
It will interest you to know that I have no
problem with any individual voting for you,
but you colluding with Ifeanyi Uba, the
Oodua Peoples Congress and the
Transformation Agenda of Nigeria to exploit
and undermine the peaceful co-existence
between Ndigbo and their host community
for your personal agenda is totally
unacceptable. This good relationship you see
today took generations to build. Therefore
we cannot keep silent and watch you tear it
down.
Keep your campaign open to all and desist
from sowing the seed of division. And we
have not forgotten how you promised to
collude with militants in the Niger Delta to
sabotage the economy if President Goodluck
Jonathan loses. At least now if there is any
crisis in the creek, we know who to bring in
for details about the plan to sabotage the
economy of Nigeria.
I wish you well and also look forward to hear
you call Ambode once the votes are counted
this weekend just like President Jonathan
did.
Please be wise!
Ugorji wrote the open letter to the Peoples
Democratic Party candidate in Lagos State for
this weekend’s governorship election, Jimi
Agbaje.

#BuhariVictory: Asari Dokubo Bleeds Like… Is He Attempting Suicide?

A patron of the National Council of Muslim Youth
Organisations and chairman of the Oyo State Muslim
Community, Alhaji Ishaq Kunle Sanni, has issued a
warning to Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari.
Sanni warned Asari, the leader of Niger Delta Peoples
Salvation Front/Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force,
not to stir up trouble following President Goodluck
Jonathan’s loss in the presidential elections, Daily
Trust reports.
Asari Dokubo, a former Niger Delta militant, had
earlier promised to unleash violence on the country if
the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan failed in
the election.
Reacting to this threat in an open letter to Asari, Sanni
warned him against waging war over an election in
which Jonathan had already conceded defeat and
Muhammadu Buhari, the president-elect has extended
a hand of fellowship to him.
He wondered why the former militant is crying more
than the bereaved.
The letter reads: “Our friends think that I am one of
the closest persons to you. An affirmation of that
truism is that my house is seen by your family as their
second home. You would be wondering why I am going
public since it was never in my character to criticise or
even admonish you in public. But I want to be on
record, especially because of many brothers begging
me to talk to you not to commit harakiri (suicide).
They would know I have done my own.
“They said the news is viral on the social media,
electronic and print media that you intend to fulfill
your earlier threat made with your colleagues in the
Ijaw Nation struggle to go back to the creeks and take
arms against the federal government. The question is
when would I see you so that we can talk? What if you
carry out your threat tomorrow? Allah may record it
for me as being nonchalantly unpatriotic. What of if
you die while trying to put your unfathomable Ijaw
irredentism into high gear and people accuse me of
nonchalance?”
Just after Buhari was declared winner of the election
Asari Dokubo issued a new threat, promising to return
to the creeks. He also blamed the Yoruba and Hausa for
cooperating to frustrate Jonathan, who hails from the
Niger Delta region.
Following this threat, the Warri ex-agitator, General
Augustine Ogedegbe, pleaded with Asari to key into the
peace drive of President Jonathan and also accept the
reality that General Muhammadu Buhari is now the
president-elect of Nigeria just as President Goodluck
Jonathan and others have accepted it.

Impeachment: Chaos in Ekiti as Fayose blocks all entry points into state

No vehicle can move out of or into the state
There is chaos in Ekiti State and its boundary
with other states. This followed the blocking,
early on Tuesday morning, of all the entrances into the state by the state Governor, Ayo Fayose. Drivers of several vehicles, including luxury buses, parked at the entrances and left, leaving motorists and passengers stranded. Reports reaching The Eagle Online said areas affected included Ijan, Ikere, Iworoko, Oye and Ilawe. No vehicle can move out of or into the state. Travellers from other parts of the country who use the state for passage are struggling to find other routes. Thugs are also said to abound around the state, especially
the state capital, Ado Ekiti, with bon fire set up in some places. The bone of contention is the move by the 19 All Progressives Congress members of the state House of Assembly to impeach Fayose.
The purportedly ousted Speaker of the Assembly, Dr.
Adewale Omirin, had said the lawmakers were set to remove
Fayose from office, beginning with the impeachment
process.
Lere Olayinka, the Special Assistant to Fayose on
Communications New Media, confirmed the development in a
post on Facebook.
Olayinka said: “They called for war, and they are getting it.
“Let Omirin and his APC jesters come to Ekiti and carry out
their evil plot.”
However, a report just reaching The Eagle Online said
soldiers and policemen have been drafted to tow the
vehicles off the road.