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...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on tuesday December 6,2016 arraigned one Obohor John Damilola {a.k.a Frank Mcghee Clinton} before Justice D.U Okorowoo of the Ekiti State High Court,Ado Ekiti,on a 24 count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence,possession of fraudulent documents,concealment and retention of proceed of crime.Obohor however pleaded not guilty.One of the charges reads: ''That you Obonor John Damilola {a.k.a Frank Mcghee Clinto} on or about the 21st of June,2016 a Ado-Ekiti within the jurisdiction of his Honourable Court with intent to defraud,obtained the sum of $3200 USD {Three Thousand Two Hundred United State of America Dollars} from Lusmar Duprey Marte,a United State of American Citizen when you falsely represented that you are one Frank Mcghee Clinton of the United States of American Army,which representation you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1{1}{a} and punishable under Sectioon 1{3} of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Related punishable under Section 1 {3} of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Related Offences Act 2006''.In view of his plea,the prosecution counsel Sanusi M. Galadanchi asked for a trial date.But counsel to the defendant,Olu Jaiyeoba informed the court that he has filed bail application and sought the court permission to move it.Justice Okorowo,however adjourned the matter to the 9th of December,2016 for the hearing of bail application and ordered that the defendant be remanded at the Federal Prison,Ado-Ekiti.Obonor,a student of Ekiti State University who poses on the internet as an American Army Officer by the name Sergeant Frank Mcghee serving in Nigeria,allegedly engages unsuspecting ladies on the internet in a dating and romance scam through which he fleeced them of their money to tun of N8million.
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