BLAMING OPPOSITION FOR HUNGER IS ‘DELUSION’, ATIKU TELLS TINUBU. (PHOTO).
Blaming opposition for hunger is ‘delusion’, Atiku tells Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of blaming the opposition for the country’s economic hardship. He said the President was trying to evade responsibility for his administration’s policies. Tinubu had earlier on Saturday blamed his political opponents for hunger and poverty in the country while speaking at the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna. “I hear my opponent talking about hunger, poverty. Who created it? They did! They created the hunger, they created the poverty. We are trying to eradicate it,” the President said. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said Nigerians were entitled to demand answers from the APC-led government over rising living costs, poverty, insecurity and questions surrounding public expenditure. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Ca...
According to sources,Justice Olabisi Ogungbesan of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on friday halted the ongoing coronation ceremony to fill the vacant stool of Ayangburen,the traditional ruler of Ikorodu Kingdom,in Lagos state Nigeria.The Ayangburen stool became vacant on August 1,2014 after the passage of Oba S.A.A Oyefusi.The ceremony to crown the new Ayangburen,which had been scheduled for saturday,August 15,2015 was halted by Justice Ogungbesan in the interest of Justice.Ogungbesan said she was satisfied from the evidence placed before the court that unquantifiable damage would be done if the coronation ceremony was allowed to go on as scheduled.She therefore restrained the Lagos state Governor,Mr Akinwunmi Ambode,or anyone acting under his authority,from going ahead on Saturday to crown the current Odofin of Ikorodu,Chief Kabiru shotebi,as the new Ayangburen of Ikorodu Kingdom.The judge also stopped Shotebi from either presenting himself for coronation or parading himself as the Ayangburen of Ikorodu,or actualising any recognition thereon as such,or exercising any of the Ayangburen royal function,pending the determination of a suit filed by Odupitan Eniola,from the Lambo branch of the Lasunwon chieftaincy family of Ikorodu Kingdom.The applicant claimed that it was the turn of the Lambo branch of the Lasunwon chieftaining family,from which he came,to present the next Ayangburen,adding that he had been nominated by the family to be crowned as the new Ayangburen at meetings held on September 7 and 21,2014.Eniola claimed that the Adegorushe family had already benefited after Shotebi became the Odofin of Ikorodu Kindom,following a court judgment on April 1,2009 in a suit marked IKD/57/2007.
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