Ondo guber: Jimoh Ibrahim remains PDP candidate

The Justice Ibrahim Salauwa-led panel constituted to hear all appeals from the Ondo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, indefinitely adjourned judgment in the appeal filed by Eyitayo Jegede challenging the verdict of the panel, granting leave to Jegede to appeal against the nomination of Jimoh Ibrahim as the substantive candidate for the November 26 election in Ondo State.
The three-member panel was forced to adjourn the proceedings following an appeal filed by the Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff faction of the PDP before the Supreme Court challenging, among others, the jurisdiction of the panel.
In the motion filed by the Sheriff faction of the party in Ondo State through its counsel Rapheal Oluyede, the three-member panel of the Appeal Court was joined as 5th to 7th respondents. The applicants in the motion led by Prince Biyi Poroye, accused the panel of bias and prayed the apex court to restrain the Justices from further proceedings in the appeals.
The motion served on the panel at about 7:30pm on Thursday night alleged that the three Justices had betrayed their office with the way the appeals have been handled and that they have refused to be bound by

NAGAFF hails Senate’s passage of Maritime University Bill

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders on Friday said the Senate’s passage of the Bill establishing the Maritime University was good for the development of the maritime sector.
The association’s National Publicity Secretary, Stanley Ezenga, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the lawmakers should also push for actual establishment of the university.
Ezenga said: “The passage of the bill is good for the maritime industry.
“What the Senate has done, really shows they are true representatives of the people and that they really mean well for the country.

President Buhari signs eight Bills into Law

President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to eight Bills passed and transmitted to him by the National Assembly.
By this development, the Bills, which border on different sectors, including the economy, automatically become laws.
The new laws are the Prevention of Crime Amendment Act‎ 2016; National Crop Varieties and Livestock Breeds (Registration) Amendment Act‎ 2016; Telecommunications and Postal Offences Amendment Act‎ 2016; and National Agricultural Land Development Authority Amendment Act‎ 2016;
Others are the Produce Enforcement of Export Standards Amendment Act‎ 2016; Agricultural and Rural

Ondo PDP crisis: Why A’Court adjourned indefinitely

The Special Panel of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, established to determine all appeals arising from the ongoing Peoples Democratic Party leadership disputes on Friday adjourned its proceedings indefinitely.
The Chairman of the panel, Justice Ibrahim Salauwa, at the resumption of the day’s proceeding broke the information to the parties.
The Judge said the panel took the decision following a notice of motion for stay from the Supreme Court served on it by the Ali Modu Sheriff faction of the PDP.
Salauwa said: “Only yesterday, at about 7pm, we were served a motion from the apex court ordering the panel to discontinue further actions.
“The motion was filed by all the respondent parties in the pending appeals.
“This include the Ali Modu Sheriff, Biyi Poroye, the Executive members of the Ondo State PDP and the Executive members of the South West Zone of the party.
“These parties had approached the apex court to order us from further actions pending the determination of interlocutory appeals they had filed at the apex court.”
The group had approached the Supreme Court following the decision of the Court of Appeal that granted

Akeredolu praises military over arrest of suspected Oke’s armed thugs

The Aketi Media Group of the Akeredolu Campaign Platform has commended the military for its professionalism and vigilance in the arrest of gunmen on the campaign trail of the candidate of the Alliance for Democracy for the governorship election in Ondo State, Olusola Oke.
The men were accosted by military men at a checkpoint in Okitipupa.
They were found with pump action guns, machetes and a digital camera.
The men first claimed to be journalists, but they had no means of identification.
They merely used the camera to disguise as journalists before the military men discovered the guns inside their vehicle.
The suspected thugs were arrested immediately and detained at Okitipupa Military Barracks where they were interrogated.
Reacting to the development, the Director of Communications of the Akeredolu Campaign Platform, Soji Alakuro, berated Oke for allegedly harbouring armed thugs to terrorise innocent citizens in order to precipitate violence before, during and after the election.