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Arase Moves To Remove Lamorde As EFCC Chair- Report

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The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has written to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission indicating his plan to recall all police officers who have so far served in the commission for five years, authoritative sources at the police headquarters in Abuja say.

In a letter, with reference number CB/33/80/IGP.SEC/Abj/Vol.52/60, and dated July 14, 2015, Mr. Arase directed the EFCC to compile a list of all officers in the category, and forward to his office without delay.

Sources said the directive, if implemented, would affect key leaders and investigators at the anti-graft agency – including the EFCC chairman – who has also spent more than five years at the commission.

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Saraki Challenges Suit Seeking To Unseat Him

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A Federal High Court Judge, Justice Gabriel Ko­lawole, yesterday trans­ferred a suit filed by a group of five senators of All Progressives Congress (APC), including Abu Ibra­him, Kabiru Marafa, Ajayi Boroffice, Gbenga Ashafa, and Suleiman Othman Hu­nyuki against the election of Senate President, Bu­kola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, to anoth­er judge for determination.

The judge took the deci­sion because he would not have sufficient time to hear the matter as his tenure as a vacation judge would ex­pire on Friday this week.

Accordingly, he directed counsel to the plaintiffs to serve fresh hearing notices on all respondents and ad­journed the case to August 13 to be heard by Justice Adeniyi Ademola of court six.

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Mu’azu In Trouble As Plot To Unseat Him Thickens

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Aggrieved stakeholders in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have intensified the plot to unseat the party’s National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu and members of the National Working Committee (NWC). Spurces said that the game plan was to ensure that Mu’azu and other party leaders who were being blamed for PDP’s routing in the just-concluded general elections were sacked before May 29.

Mu’azu is expected to call for the meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party between now and May 15 and the NWC members will be asked to resign, a source told our corespondent. The source said if Mu’azu failed to call for the NEC meeting, he would be forced to do so as soon as possible.

In fact, multiple sources in the party confided in our correspondent that President Goodluck Jonathan and some influential members of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) had agreed on the need to sack the Mu’azuled NWC. “There is no way the current NWC members will continue to pilot the affairs of the party, given their failure at the last general elections.

“We can only allow them to continue if only we want to kill the PDP. I can assure you that the Mu’azu-led executives will be dissolved in May,” a member of the PDP BoT said on Monday.

It was further learnt that some PDP governors and BoT members were pushing for the exit of the NWC before May 29, insisting that “Mu’azu and other NWC members have to go before May 29 when the Jonathan administration ends. If we allow Mu’azu to stay beyond May 29, it will be difficult to push him out as national chairman.

“So, we will definitely meet and ask them to resign. They have failed the party,” a party leader said.

A former Minister of Transport and member of BoT, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, also agreed that PDP needs to be rebuilt. “We have to reorganise the PDP for future elections. Now, we won’t create anarchy in the party by dissolving the NWC abruptly. But eventually, the Mu’azu-led executives have to go. We need young and experienced hands to reorganise our party,” Babatope said.

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We Will Unseat Buhari In 2019- PDP

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has waved its defeat at the just concluded general elections behind, saying it would bounce back in 2019.

This position was contained in a joint statement issued at the end of the meeting by the Vice-Chairman of the party in the North-West, Ibrahim Kazaure, and the Benue State Chairman, Emmanuel Agbo.

The statement read in part, “The meeting resolves to give all necessary support to the national leadership of the party under the chairmanship of Adamu Mu’azu to enable them to re-engineer and rebrand the party for the task of regaining power by 2019.

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Court Refuses to Unseat Tambuwal as Speaker

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Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, refused to grant a fresh ex-parte application seeking to restrain Mr. Aminu Tambuwal from further acting as the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

The application was filed before the court by a member of the House House of Representatives, Mr. Abiodun Akinlade.

The applicant, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, representing Yewa South/Ipokia Federal Constituency of Ogun State in the House, had in his application, prayed the court to stop Tambuwal from parading himself as the Speaker, pending the determination of the suit challenging his continued stay in office.

Aside the ex-parte application that was declined by the court yesterday, Akinlade is in his substantive suit, seeking a “judicial interpretation” of an earlier judgment delivered by Justice Evoh Chukwu of the same Federal High Court in Abuja, where the court held that there was no division in the PDP.

He insisted that in view of the earlier decision of the court, Tambuwal’s defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, on October 28, amounted to a violation of Section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

Cited as defendants in the suit were Tambuwal, the House of Representatives and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Meantime, while rejecting the ex-parte application, yesterday, Justice Mohammed directed the plaintiff to put Tambuwal and all the other defendants on notice.

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