14— Vanguard , FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013
Nsukka elders angry over Ekweremadu's guber posters BY CHINENYE OZOR
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SUKKA —THE Nsukka Elders in Enugu State, yesterday, frowned at the sudden emergence of the Deputy Senate President, DSP, Chief Ike Ekweremadu’s posters for the 2015 governorship race, saying, it was the turn of Nsukka to produce the next governor of the state. The leaders said they were surprised that, Ekweremwdu would be nursing an ambition to govern the state even when his zone would have ruled for 16 years by 2015, when the incumbent Governor Sullivan Chime would hand over power after two terms of four years each. According to them, it was a mindless calculation ‘’for political jobbers in their warped imagination to craft the possibility of the governorship seat still remaining in the same old Enugu zone beyond 2015.
Suspects of ABSU celebrated rape unravelled by Police in Rivers BY ANAYO OKOLI
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MUAHIA — THE Po lice in Rivers State said, yesterday, that they had unravelled the celebrated gang rape case which allegedly took place at Abia State University, ABSU, Uturu, noting that the incident actually took place at Obite town in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State. The victim was also found to be a married person and that the suspects who subjected her to such dehumanising agony were her husband’s cousins. The incident, where four men in turns, raped a woman, was posted on social media and it was alleged to have taken place at ABSU. According to the Police, three of the suspects have been charged to Magistrate Court 9, Port Harcourt. The
information was contained in the Nigeria Police newspaper The Dawn of March 1124, 2013 edition. According to the report, detectives from Rivers State Criminal Investigation Department working on intelligence report on September 7, 2012, traced the husband of the victim whose name was given as Mr. S. from Obite town in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State. The report said Mr. S. confirmed that the victim was his wife and that the perpetrators of the act were from his community. The report said “after painstakingly tracing the identity of the suspects, it led to their arrest and they are Uchenna Ukulor, Chizoba Nwosu and Nwazuo Nmezi, while the fourth
person is on the run.” The police was quoted as saying the suspects and husband of the victim were invited and the video clip was played for them which clearly established that three of them with another at large committed the crime. The suspects, the report said, were cousins to the husband of the victim. Abia State government, which put up spirited denial of the incident when it was
NGF: Presidency weighs options to woo more govs against Amaechi BY SONI DANIEL, Regional Editor, North
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BUJA — Still unsure of booting out the current chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, Chubuike Rotimi Amaechi, in a transparent secret ballot election, the Presidency is weighing many options aimed at giving it victory when the anguish en route election of the forum is Abuja from Lagos, eventually held in May. Vanguard gathered stated that, time had that the come when yesterday Presidency was worried speculative politics must be put aside to that despite a deliberate secure the supremacy effort to demonise Amaechi of the nation's and reduce his support corporate indivisible base, he was actually becoming more popular by entity. He said the nation the day, wining more that could not stem this support from fellow variant of extremism in governors in the process. It was gathered that the peace time, was a growing popularity of nation that had surrendered to Amaechi stemmed from anarchy without a what other governors see as his effective handling of fight. The Senator insisted the Nigerian Governors’ that "when routine Forum, thereby giving killings of innocent them a voice in the affairs citizens of our country of Nigeria. The Presidency is said to by Boko Haram is tolerated this far, the have been rattled on abiding faith of the realising that its meddling people is severely into the NGF with the weakened and their creation of a rival PDP resolve as one entity Governors’ Forum and the vilification of Amaechi had fatally eroded."
Igbo socio-political group decries Kano bombing LAGOS — IGBO socio-political group, the C21, has described the latest senseless slaughter of innocent Nigerians (mainly Igbo) at the Kano luxury park as a premeditated multiple murder by an extremist sect, whose conscience was depraved and whose intent was increasingly grave to our national cohesion and unity. Making this statement in a release their media spokesperson, Collins Steve Ugwu, called on all Nigerians to rise in unison to confront the challenge of this reckless bloodletting by Boko Haram. Ugwu issued the statement on behalf of Senator Sen. Annie Okonkwo. He asked: "If western education is sin as Boko Haram wants to force down our throats, does mass murder of dissenting Nigerians edify their brand of Islamic bigotry?" Sen. Okonkwo who addressed reporters in
linked to its university, reacted happily to the report, saying it had been vindicated. Chief Press Secretary to Governor Theodore Orji, Mr. Ugochukwu Emezue, said detractors of the state were behind the castigation of the state after watching the rape case on the social media, and commended the police for doing a good job to unravel where the incident actually took place.
virtually failed to deplete his support base barely two months to the NGF poll. As a way out, Presidency's strategists, were said to have counselled that efforts be doubled to woo more undecided governors into its fold to be able to defeat Amaechi at the scheduled poll in May. One of the governors leading the campaign for Amaechi’s downfall repeatedly warned some of his colleagues to support the cause and by extension work for Jonathan’s 2015 reelection or risk losing certain benefits. The governor warned that the Presidency might not share the Excess Crude oil revenue until it was sure of majority support for against Amaechi in May. The Presidency is also said to be considering withdrawing police commissioners and security operatives considered friendly to the anti-Jonathan governors under the guise of routine redeployment of officers.