GROUP DEMANDS DECLARATION OF ABA NORTH ASSEMBLY SEAT VACANT, THREATENS PROTEST. (PHOTO).

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 Group demands declaration of Aba North Assembly seat vacant, threatens protest A group known as the Coalition of Aba North Ethnic Youth Groups has mandated the Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Emmanuel Emereuwa to declare the Aba North seat vacant in seven days. The Aba North seat has been a subject of controversy since November 27, 2023, when the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos sacked Destiny Nwagwu of LP and declared Aaron Uzodike of the PDP, the duly elected member to represent Aba North. However, the seat has remained unoccupied since November 2023, as Uzodike of PDP has not been inaugurated by the Speaker, despite his several appeals. A fresh controversy erupted Friday, as the Coalition of Aba North Ethnic Youths Groups, asked the Speaker to declare the seat vacant within seven days or expect a city-wide protest in Aba. A protest letter signed by the leader of the group, Uka Matthew and some other members in Aba, said they have been without a representative in the Abia S

REV. SAMUEL JOHNSON,24TH JUNE 1846-29TH APRIL 1901.

                                                  He was an Anglican priest and historian of the Yoruba.He was born a re-captive creole in Freetown,Sierra leone.Johnson was an Omoba of the Oyo clan as a descendant of the Alaafin Abiodun of Oyo.He completed his education at the church missionary Society {cms} Training institute and sub-sequently faught during what became known as the Yoruba civil war.Johnson and Charles Philips,also of the CMS,arranged a ceasefire in 1886 and then a treaty that guaranteed the independence of the Ekiti towns.Ilorin refused to cease fighting and the war dragged on.In 1880,he became a deacon and in 1888 a priest .He was based in Oyo from 1881 onward and completed a work on Yoruba history in 1887.This event is said to have caused by him fearing that his people were losing their history,and  that they were beginning to know European history better.Ironically,this work was misplaced by his British publisher.After his death,his brother Dr Obadiah John recomplied and remote the book using the reverends notes as a guide.In 1921,he released it as a history of the yorubas from the earliest times to the beginning of the British protectorate.The book has since been likened to the rise and decline of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.

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