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19/06/2024

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06/06/2024

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31/05/2024

Be responsive to our need Mr. President, Nigerians are suffering.

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28/05/2024

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02/05/2024

SUBMIT YOURSELF FOR TRIAL
ALHAJI YAYAHA EDOSA BELLO.
New Face of Nigeria

New face of Nigeria urge Alhaji Yahaya Bello to make himself available to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to answer all the corruption charges against him, No One is above the Law. No matter how long Alhaji Yahaya Bello may remain in hiding, the long arm of the law will surely catch up with him. Whoever that must come with equity must come with clean hands. Avoiding EFCC is to suggest that Alhaji Yahaya Bello is truly corrupt and wonder how he must have RULED rather than GOVERN Kogi State in the last 8 years.

Several Ex Governors has been invited by the anti-graft Agency in the past and they have gladly honour the invitation of efcc. We wonders why Alhaji Yahaya Bello would allowed himself to be shielded from arrest by his successor, His Excellency, Alhaji Ododo Ahmed Usman as that singular act by Governor Ododo amounts to gross misconduct and violation of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which he sworn to protect.

We called on the immediate-past Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to follow the path of decency and submit himself for probe, as no court can stop the efcc from performing its statutory function. the EFCC has statutory powers to invite any person of interest to interact with them in the course of their investigation into any matter regardless of status. The least that we can all do when invited, is not to put any obstruction in the way of EFCC but to honorably answer their invitation.

A situation where public officials who are themselves subject of protection by law enforcement agents will set up an obstruction to the civil and commendable efforts of the EFCC to perform its statutory duty is to say the least, is disquieting. We therefore encourage anyone who has been invited by the EFCC or any other agency to immediately toe the path of decency and civility by honoring such invitation instead of embarking on a temporizing self-help and escapism that can only put our country in bad light before the rest of the world.

No court of law can prevent the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from prosecuting the former governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello, over alleged theft of N80bn from the coffers of the state.

For: New Face of Nigeria
Omokehinde Agbedina
Convener

13/02/2024

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08/03/2023

Breaking News:

INEC Shifts Gubernatorial election by one week.

07/03/2023

03/03/2023

Seven states under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Taraba, and Sokoto – which filed a suit against the Federal Government at the Supreme Court challenging the declaration of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president-elect, have discontinued the suit.

The Notice of Discontinuance which was signed by their lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, says “Take notice that the plaintiffs doth hereby wholly discontinue this suit against the defendant herein”.

In the earlier suit which had the Attorneys-General of the states as plaintiffs and the Attorney General of the Federation as a defendant, the seven states had asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the just concluded general elections as they claimed that the declaration of Tinubu did not follow the Electoral Act and INEC’s own laid down guidelines, particularly the uploading of results to the iREV through the Bimodal Accreditation System (BVAS).

They also expressed fear of a probable breakdown of public order and civil disobedience.

03/03/2023

BREAKING NOTE
Supreme court Naira rededign pronoucement

Old 200, 500 and 1,000 Naira notes to continue to be legal tender till December 2023
Supreme Court

CBN is an agent of the President. No need to join the CBN as a party ….Justice Agim

This suit falls within the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court under section 232 of the Constitution
Justice Agim

States have a right to be consulted by President before the directive to the CBN, as constituents of the Federation- Justice Agim

The position of the president as Agent of the federation imposed a duty of consultation on him. Not to do so makes him a dictator.

—-Justice Agim

The directive given by the President, through a press release by the CBN is invalid .

—-Justice Agim

In other countries, decisions to change currencies follow due process and in accordance with democratic dictates, not after a side talk with their central bank chiefs .
….Justice Agim

I hold that no reasonable notice was given by the CBN under section 20 of the CBN Act. The directive is invalid and I hereby declare it so.

—-Justice Agim

I am not aware of any law which empowers a bank to withhold a customer’s money and refused to give him/her. The directive on withdrawal limit is an infringement of people’s rights.

Justice Agim

Our rule of law becomes illusory if a President refuses to obey the court
Justice Agim

03/03/2023

BREAKING

APC National Leadership writes to president Muhammadu Buhari to Demands The Immediate Resignation Of AGF Abubakar Malami And CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele Over Failed Cashless Policy

03/03/2023

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03/03/2023

BREAKING
Old 200, 500 and 1,000 Naira notes to continue to be legal tender till December 2023
Supreme Court

03/03/2023

“I have told people that those who fight for change, who fight for revolution may not be directed beneficiaries of that fight but today, history has it that all of us now are aware that when power finishes from the south, it will go to the north; when it finishes from the north, it will come to the south

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governor said the issue of rotational presidency has been settled for good with the emergence of a President-Elect, Bola Tinubu, who is from the southern region of the country.

Wike spoke today when he joined his Oyo State counterpart, Seyi Makinde to commission the Oyo State 5,000,000-litre Aviation Fuel Dispensing Depot at the Ibadan Airport in the Alakia area of the state.

“So, it does not need to be written in the constitution at all before it is implemented. And I thank Nigerians for standing firm to see that this issue materialise.”

03/03/2023

BREAKING:
Rumuekpe community
Rivers State.

Many persons have been reported dead after a pipeline tapping point exploded in Rumuekpe community, Emohua Local Government Area, Rivers State.

Vanguard learned that the explosion happened at a crude oil tapping point in the Rivers State community, in the early hours of Friday.

It was gathered that the explosion occurred when the driver of one of the buses loaded with crude oil ‘packaged in bags’ to transport to a refining site, started his engine.

03/03/2023

03/03/2023

BREAKING OBI GO TO COURT

President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has expressed his readiness to defend his mandate in court, saying he accepts the decision of the Labour Party LP candidate, Mr Peter Obi to challenge the outcome of the election.

Tinubu’s position was made known in a statement issued Thursday in Abuja and signed by the Director, Media and Publicity at the APC Presidential Campaign Council PCC, Mr Bayo Onanuga.

Part of the statement reads; “We watched with dismay today’s press conference addressed by the Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi where he made very weird and wild claims about the outcome of the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections, an election in which he emerged a second runner up, according to the result declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

“We welcome the decision of Mr Obi to seek redress in court as an aggrieved party if he is convinced of the evidence of electoral frauds he will present before the tribunal as alleged.

“Going to court is part of the electoral process and it is the most decent, statesmanlike and civilised course of action to take. We salute the decision. It is surely better than calling supporters to the streets and instigating social unrest”.

Tinubu added that before Mr Obi goes to court, he (Tinubu) considers it necessary to challenge some specific claims in his press address.

He said contrary to Obi’s statement, it is not true that the election held on 25th February was not free and fair.

According to Tinubu, the 2023 election is one of the most transparent and peaceful elections in the history of Nigeria.

He said it is because the process was credible that made it possible for Mr Obi’s Labour Party to record the over six million votes it got contrary to the pre-election forecast.

“That Labour Party and Mr Obi surprised bookmakers by winning in Lagos State, Nasarawa, Plateau, Delta and Edo where there are sitting governors of either the All Progressives Congress or the Peoples Democratic Party. Those governors have entrenched political machinery. That Obi won attests to the credibility of the election process. In those states, most of the sitting governors contested election to go to the Senate and lost to little-known candidates of the Labour Party.

“The Labour Party also swept the entire five South East states under the control of either APGA, PDP or APC.

“We believe that the Labour Party Presidential Candidate contradicted himself and exposed himself to public ridicule by suggesting that the election was only credible in states and places his party won.

“We need us to forewarn Mr Obi, that when he gets to court he should be prepared to tell the world how his party won over 90% of votes in his region of South East while other parties got almost nothing. We have evidence of voter suppression, intimidation and harassment in the South East especially of those who came out to vote for our party.

“Also when Mr Obi gets to court, he will have to convince the court with his allegation of rigging in over 40,000 polling units across the country, especially in North West and North East where his party had no party agents and did not sign results sheets as required by law. It is our assumption that the Labour Party will enlist PDP agents to prove its fraud claims since it is an affiliate of PDP.

“We want to state again for the umpteenth time that Mr Obi didn’t win the presidential election and could not have won under any circumstances. This is because he had no path to winning a national election in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society like Nigeria where a candidate running in a national election must appeal to the cross-section of our pluralistic society.

“Mr. Obi anchored his presidential campaign on the failed strategy of ethnicity and religion, the divisive and dangerous politics that has hobbled the progress of our country for decades.

“Nigerians simply rejected an ethnic and religious bigot through their ballots.

“Mr. Obi all through his campaign presented himself as the candidate of the Christians and the Church, who wanted to help ‘take back their country” from the Nigerian Muslims.

“His campaign also ran on the engine of ethnicity, inflaming strong Igbo sentiments. He also sought to cash in on the supposed youth discontent in Nigeria, as fuelled by the ENDSARS protest in 2020.

“While Labour Party positioned its candidate as the harvester of the youth votes, its planners forgot that Nigeria does not have a homogeneous and monolithic youth population that can deliver bloc vote to any candidate.

“All the major parties that contested the election also have strong youth appeal and supporters.

03/03/2023

APC PCC PRESS CONFERENCE
3RD MARCH 2023 TEXT

Mr. Dele Alake, Special adviser on media and communication of the APC PCC at a Press Conference in Abuja on 3 March 2023


Gentlemen of the press.

It has become necessary to address you again today to respond to both the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, following their separate press conferences which held yesterday.

We must thank the two of them for finally opting for the rule of law as against the initial belligerent posture as they continue their baseless journey of chasing after a mirage. Those who lay claim to democratic credentials are expected to be conscious of those inimitable minimum requirements of law and order even in the face of a perceived injustice. The initial knee-jerk and hothead call for anarchy by their proxies was ill-advised and would in no way serve any noble cause. It is good to know that reason has prevailed.

Let us say, unequivocally, that we welcome the decision of both the PDP and LP and also the NNPP candidates to test their claims, as ridiculous as they are, in the court of law as provided for by our constitution. This is without prejudice to the conciliatory efforts of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He has reiterated in his post declaration speeches the need for all Nigerians, irrespective of whom we all voted for, to rally quickly together for the good of our country.

We must say, however, that listening to both Atiku and Obi yesterday left us in the APC family confounded. We understand that there has been an orchestrated campaign by the acolytes of PDP and LP in the media to discredit the Presidential election. What we did not expect is that the two presidential candidates and, indeed, their political parties, would shamefully re-echo the puerile and unimaginative arguments that are being canvassed by political illiterates and mischief-makers who are crying wolf on the social media.

As we all can see, these two otherwise experienced politicians are pinpointing lack of adherence to the guidelines as basis for discrediting the votes lawfully cast by Nigerians. We shall examine the so-called process that was purportedly breached by the electoral body and how it, in their wild imagination, undermined the credibility of the election.

The claim that INEC did not use the BVAS is false. Those who voted across Nigeria, including Atiku and Obi, were accredited by BVAS. Save for bad losers that these two people have proven to be, we should rather be celebrating the tremendous improvement the use of BVAS has brought to our electoral process.

The complaint over the electronic transmission of the result is not supported by law.

Section 38 of the Electoral Acct 2022 referred to by the PDP and LP has nothing to do with transmission of election results. Section 60, subsection 2 of the Act deals with transmission of results and it is at the discretion of INEC. The Act does not contain any mandatory provision regarding the transmission of results.

In any case, the process of transmitting results from polling units, whether real-time, two days later or at any time, cannot in anyway change the results that have been announced right after the counting in the presence of the parties’ agents and to the hearing of the voters. It is, therefore, nonsensical to insinuate that time variation in uploading results would cause a change in the figures.

The 2023 Presidential election is a watershed as it produced unprecedented outcomes and defied conventions. The deployment and use of BVAS is the only reason the elections produced these strange outcomes and upsets in many cases. The loss of Katsina and Lagos to PDP and LP respectively were contrary to expectations. BVAS brought the intended credibility to voters’ accreditation such that many governors and well-established politicians lost elections in what should be safe bet areas. The era of ghost-voting and stuffing of ballot boxes is gone. As the experience in the last governorship election in Osun State has shown, over-voting would automatically lead to outright cancellation of the results of the polling units based on the provision of the new Electoral Act. The same PDP that is trying to pull the wool across the face of Nigerians was the culprit in the Osun State governorship election. Did they try to do it this time and it failed? Or did they do it in the areas they unexpectedly won? Did they have a grand plan to hack the INEC server if results were uploaded in real time? Nigerians will soon find out.

Contrary to the false claims of Atiku and Obi, the reasons for losing the elections were foretold. Besides the delusional expectations created during the campaigns to hoodwink the public, most PDP leaders knew their party had been decimated by Mr. Peter Obi. The South East and South South that were traditional strongholds of PDP constituted the core support base for the Labour Party. PDP went into this election without its limbs and lied to itself that it could win the race. It is worthy of note that Atiku also accepted this fact during his press conference yesterday, when he lamented that his party’s votes in the South East and South South regions were carted away by the LP.

The PDP also found itself in No.3 in Kano, with a former member, Kwankwaso running away with over 900,000 votes.

How far could the PDP have gone with what was left of it? Not so far as the results of the elections have shown. The members of G5 were key leaders of the party who had substantial political influence. They also went away with their own pound of flesh, leaving a crippled PDP to scavenge for crumps of votes.

For Obi, he would go down as Nigeria’s most dangerous and divisive politician. He elevated his well-known clannish mentality to a most unfortunate height by openly anchoring his campaign on religion and ethnicity. He presented himself as a poster boy for and a champion of our country’s fault lines. He took advantage of our youths whose expectations are fast paced, who are uninterested in excuses, and who were in search of a hero. He pumped up their sentiments and rode on their emotions while grandstanding as a saviour. It was a false pretence. Obi’s credentials are eternally stained as a former governor with no remarkable legacy.

Not a few of our youths thought Peter Obi looked like the leader they wanted and many of them could not tolerate any form of scrutiny of their newfound hero. They chose wilfully to canonise him while insisting no one should ask questions. The combination of the disgruntled youths, the ethnic champions, and commercial clerics were the reason Obi thought he could win a presidential election in Nigeria. Such illogic is not strange to the Labour Party.

If Labour Party could not fill up its quota for polling booth agents with a shortfall of over 40, 000, how did it intend to compete with political parties like APC and PDP? It would be interesting to see what evidence of rigging Labour Party will present before the court when the party could not appoint agents to monitor nearly a quarter of the venues of election.

As we look forward to an encounter with both the PDP and LP at the court, we want to enjoin the two of them to pursue their grievances with decorum. They should encourage their members, supporters, and ethnic and religious consultants to follow the path of the rule of law.

We note that both Atiku and Obi are claiming victory, wouldn’t it make sense for them to agree who the actual winner is before challenging APC in court?

Meanwhile, the APC train has left the station as we continue our effort to make Nigeria better for all Nigerians.

Thank you all for listening.

24/02/2023

TEXT OF WORLD PRESS CONFERENCE BY NATIONAL CARETAKER COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL CONSCIENCE PARTY ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 24th, 2023. LAGOS NIGERIA.

PROTOCOL.

INTRODUCTION

National Conscience Party was formed and launched in October 1, 1994, in defiance of military Decree banning formation of Parties.

National Conscience Party is a Party of Struggle to emancipate the Nigeria masses from socio economic and political enslavement.

It is the only political Party that was not formed for the sole reason of being registered by INEC for ELECTION . It is all embracing of all legal means ,modes and media of emancipating the downtrodden.

National Conscience Party is a Party of the Poor people with pro people policies.

It is the Political Party with 10 Care Programme based on access of the People to social services as their fundamental Rights where their lost hope will be restored.

The NCP has, as its cardinal programme, that :
1. Work is a Right not a privilege,
2.food for the hungry -regardless of employment status,
3. cost free healthcare for the entire family, whether or not the breadwinners are employed,
4. houses for all as a fundamental right.
5.Education is also a Right not a privilege
6.provision of water as basic Necessity and right of every citizen, 7.effective supply of electricity by public concern ,
8. overhauling of chaotic public transportation among other need as a Right.

STATE OF THE PARTY .

We are compelled by the current status of National Conscience Party to have this WORLD PRESS CONFERENCE/ STATE MENT to intimate the World with the facts that as of today, the only genuine, recognised and statutorily constituted and empowered body in the National Conscience Party is the National Caretaker Committee.

The seven man Caretaker Committee was constituted by the defunct NCC /NEC of the Party as the only authority to administer, revive and rebuild the Party in accordance with ideal, principles and vision of our foremost leader and founder Chief GANI FAWEHINMI SAM, SAN of the blessed memory.

The Committee was further saddled with the responsibility for the reregistration of National Conscience Party and organise a convention for a new leadership after our assured Victory legally and Politically geared towards reregistration of NCP .

We can't now, because of the state of things with reference to the deregistration of NCP, accept and succumb to the politics of self -perpetuation in power of the ruinous ruling Political Parties of the Rich who united with the Legislative arm of Government to exclude us from the electoral process by enacting an undemocratic and unconstitutional amendments and colluding with INEC to deregister National Conscience Party.

Recognising the challenge of this exclusion and it's limitations to operate fully as Political Party, the setback at the Court of First instance (Federal High Court) and the fact that the tenuere of all the Party officials from the NATIONAL COORDINATING COUNCIL (NCC) and NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (NEC) have terminated and became so on Monday, 22nd of July 2019 .
And Up till date no Congress/ Convention of the Party has hold.

On the heels of the above mentioned positions and State of the Party, the defunct Leadership under the able Chairman of the Party, Dr Yunusa Salisu Tanko held 2ND EMERGENCY MEETING on 21ST and 22ND January 2023, at Barcelona Hotels Abuja therein made the functional unanimous DECISIONS which chiefly are:

(A)NCP NCC/ NEC EXPELLED PETER OMORAGBON from the Party for gross misconduct .

(B) NCP NCC APPOINTED 7 MAN CARETAKER COMMITTEE consisting of COMRADE AGUNBIADE TUNDE,( as the Chairman),DR VC ODEMEJEMBA, BAR INNOCENT , MR HENRY AKYA. MALLAM ABDULMUMINI SHEHU SANI, MS OWOIDIGBE UBOH, YUSUF S. BARKA.

(C) NATIONAL CONSCIENCE PARTY NATIONAL COORDINATING COUNCIL (NCC) AND NATIONAL CONSCIENCE PARTY NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WERE DISSOLVED

Dear men and women of the third estate of the realm with this far reaching decisions and in accordance with National Conscience Party Constitution, it is undisputable that the only political authority and responsibility for management and leadership of National Conscience Party rest squarely on the shoulder of the National Conscience Party Caretaker Committee.
And henceforth no person's or group nor assemblages of any such, under any name, coinage and umbrella should present and or parade himself , herself or itself as an official of National Conscience Party or leader(s( at any level of the Party.

I am sure you will all agree with me that any person claiming or purporting to be an official, leader of the Party at zonal, overseas Chapter State Chapters, Local Governments should be seen as fraudulent, unscrupulous and cheats and not a member of National Conscience Party.

In the furtherance of confidence and trust reposed on this Caretaker Committee we pledge to reignite NCP traditional political movement imbued with a new Political vision to emancipate the Nigeria masses from the rot of past and present and lift them up to the standards of existence befitting all human beings in the modern age.

Furthermore , we assert as free born/ citizens , the inalienability of man's fundamental human right of free association based on shared opinion as recognised and guaranteed in the universal Declaration of Human Rights, the African Charter of Human Rights and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) ,as amended , and affirming National Conscience Party as our choice of Political vehicle .

We shall fight Politicaly and legally to the highest level of Judiciary until we take back our Party !

" Nigeria is overipe for change !

We of the NCP believe that we represent the Change the Nigerians have been waiting for "

DEREGISTERED NATIONAL CONSCIENCE PARTY AND OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES OF POOR PEOPLE NOW CONSTITUTE THE SOLUTION CRAVE FOR BY THE MASSES !

We, therefore ,conclude this WORLD PRESS CONFERENCE/Statement with one of our mentor and revolutionary leader's quotes:
" We do have a stake in our fatherland. We have paid the price, made untold sacrifices and suffered massive violation of our Rights. There is no going back now, there cannot be any retreat or surrender until our dreams are realised. Our patriotic commitment compels us to say that any door shut against us shall be smashed and all obstacles and roadblocks removed. For us , the suffering of the Nigerian people has reached its peak. Enough is certainly enough !

INEC and its masters have option of allowing peaceful change to come about, otherwise they would have, whether they know it or not, made violent change inevitable, the end product of which is that they would all be consigned to the Dustbin of history .

As the struggle continues, we assure our people of unflinching loyalty and unwavering commitment to the ideals upon which the NCP was founded in 1994.

We call on all our members and supporters nationwide and internationally to remain steadfast and even more resolute.

" Chief Gani Fawehinmi SAM, SAN (REFUSAL OF GOVT. TO REGISTER NCP; POOR PEOPLE MUST REVOLT TO HAVE A VOICE.

Today, National Conscience Party was deregistered by the same GOVERNMENT that was forced to register NCP and we have a rich historical antecedent and practices, the Caretaker Committee enjoined you all in this another challenge.

The struggle continues ! Victory is assured .

Signed AGUNBIADE TUNDE
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BAR. INNOCENT .M

FOR THE CARETAKER COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL CONSCIENCE PARTY