Tinubu, world leaders, UN, AU, EU reject Gabon junta

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Wednesday’s coup in Central African country Gabon drew anger from world leaders and international organisations.

They asked the junta to return to their barracks and restore democratic order in the thinly-populated oil-rich country.

The coup, the sixth on the African continent in six years, came after the one in Niger Republic, Nigeria’s Northern neighbour.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is still battling to get the soldiers to respect constitutional authority and quit power.

In Libreville, mutinous soldiers announced the take-over of political power.

They put President Ali Bongo Ondimba under house arrest, hours after being declared winner in an election held on Saturday that would have extended his family’s 55-year reign.

Kwankwaso still in NNPP — Legal adviser

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The National Legal Adviser of the New Nigeria Peoples, Robert Hon, on Wednesday restated that the party’s Board of Trustees lacks the constitutional mandate to suspend the Presidential candidate of the party, Rabiu Kwankwaso.

He explained that the only competent body to suspend Kwankwaso is the National Executive Committee, which must comply, with due process.

To this extent, he described the purported suspension of Kwankwaso, as a figment of the imagination, of a non-existent BoT, who have since been dissolved.

“Kwankwaso has been and is still a Bona fide card-carrying member of the New Nigeria Peoples Party. Any faction, claiming to have suspended him is illegal, as BoT is simply an advisory organ and lacks the constitutional power to suspend or expel any member of the party,” Hon said.

Hon disclosed that the party held an emergency meeting in Abuja, at the end of which all the party’s stakeholders from the 37 states, including Abuja passed a vote of confidence on Kwankwaso.

“Board of Trustees, are mere Advisers and lack any power suspend or sack any member, as only the NEC is vested with the power to suspend sack,” he said.

Arewa Forum Alleges Ethnic Bias In Tinubu’s Key Appointments

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A group for the emancipation of norther economy, Arewa Economic Forum has accused President Bola Tinubu of ethnic bias in the selection of appointees into crucial economic sectors. The forum said the appointments so far have shown that the President has special consideration for people from his south-west region, especially those with links to Lagos State.

“We are afraid to state that a situation whereby the appointees in crucial economic sectors are not only from the southwest but also connected to the Lagos axis suggests a deliberate ‘Yorubanisation’ and ‘Lagoslisation’ of the polity,” chairman of the forum Ibrahim Shehu Yahaya said at a press conference yesterday in Abuja.

He however said it was not too late for President Tinubu to turn the corner and do the needful in upcoming appointments and crucial decisions.

We’ll fight crime in Rivers to a standstill- Fubara

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Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara has said he’s passionate about fighting crime to a standstill in the state.

Fubara stated this during the Rivers Zero Crime Campaign Flag-off Ceremony organized by Nigeria Police, Rivers State Command on Wednesday.

The governor who was represented by his deputy, Prof. Ngozi Nma Odu, appreciated the synergy that had been expressed by stakeholders, noting that if Rivers State was not peaceful and free of crime, development would not be sustained and people would not sleep with their two eyes closed.

He said the state government had always partnered the police and other security agencies to fight crime, adding that under the watch of the immediate past Governor Nyesom Wike, surveillance and tactical centres were set up where surveillance and tactical operations were carried out across the state.

According to him, “We are synergising with the police to ensure that Rivers State is peaceful, loving and calm to everyone who comes here to do business.

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