APC Intrigues Persist as Okorocha Urges Buhari to Caution Oshiomhole Imo speaker, 18 other lawmakers defect to Action Alliance Amby Uneze in Owerri The intrigues in the All Progressives Congress (APC) persisted yesterday with Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State calling on President
Muhammadu Buhari to rein in the party’s National Chairman, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, who he said had become a loose cannon, attacking everyone within his range. The Imo State governor
said the party’s national chairman’s verbal attacks on many prominent Nigerians in recent times were unguarded and could put the APC in bad light. Oshiomhole had on
Wednesday tongue lashed Okorocha and his Ogun State counterpart, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, telling a group of women who visited him in Abuja that the party would win their states in spite of
the belligerence of the duo. The APC boss also lashed former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, saying God would punish him for supporting the presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Okorocha in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, said, Continued on page 10
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Atiku Promises to Kick-start Restructuring within Six Months Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja Speaking to a thrilled huge crowd at the party’s Southwest rally, held in Ibadan yesterday, the presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, promised to start the process of restructuring the country within six months of his
administration, if voted into power. Atiku told the crowd of party faithful and supporters, “In the next two months you will be required to make
history in this country. Since the return of democracy in 1999; the best prosperity we have enjoyed in this country was under the PDP. The best peace we have enjoyed in
this country was under the PDP; the best educational advancement all parts of this country enjoyed was under the PDP.’’ The presidential candidate
said the progressive trend was aborted in 2015 when, as he put it, the All Progressives Congress (APC) lied its way Continued on page 8
Army Reinvigorates Fight against Terror, Appoints New Commanders Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja In a renewed bid to regain lost grounds, the Nigerian Army yesterday effected a massive reorganisation of its operational commands just as troops of 117 Battalion, 28 Task Force Brigade, Operation Lafiya Dole engaged and pushed back suspected Boko Haram terrorists in a hideout, along Yachida, Korongelen, Bombula and Forfor axis of Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State. Those affected by the new posting and appointments, according to the Director of Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Sani Usman, include some staff officers and commanders at various levels. Specifically, the newly promoted Major General OT Akinjobi, Head of the Operations Monitoring Team
at the Office of the Chief of Army Staff, has been appointed Commander, Sector 3 Operation Lafiya Dole while Major General MG Ali, Commander 9 Brigade has been appointed Commander of the newly created Nigerian Army Special Forces Command; Brigadier General BR Sinjen, Commander, Integrated Fire Support and Brigadier General FO Omoigui, have been moved from 2 Division Nigerian Army to Army Headquarters Department of Training and Operations and appointed Director of Operations. Brigadier General TA Lagbaja is to take over as Commander 9 Brigade, Nigerian Army; Brigadier General OR Aiyenigba, Director Land Warfare at the Armed Forces Command Continued on page 8
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BETTER HEALTH CARE BECKONS… British Deputy High Commissioner, Ms. Laure Beaufils (left), and CEO of Reddington Hospital, Dr. Adeyemi Onabowale, during the inauguration of Davidson Specialist Surgery & Critical Care Centre at the Reddington Hospital, Lagos… yesterday Abiodun Ajala