At least five people have been killed and hundreds
forced to flee their homes in one of South Africa’s
worst outbreaks of xenophobic violence in years,
authorities said on Tuesday.
Most of the recent unrest occurred in and around
the coastal city of Durban, where police said two
foreigners and three South Africans were killed.
The dead included a 14-year-old boy who was
allegedly shot during looting on Monday night and
died at a hospital, police colonel Jay Naicker said.
In this disturbing pic, a South African police officer
is seen smiling at the camera while the body of a
suspected foreigner, is gruesomely charred to d
€arth in the xenophobic attack
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Aregbesola Gives Osun Residents One Week Ultimatum To Submit Illegal Ammunitions
Osun
State Governor Ogbeni Raufu Aregbesola has given those in possession
of illegal arms and ammunitions in the
state a seven- day ultimatum to
either surrender the weapons or be
ready to face the full wrath of the
law.
According to a statement issued by
the governor’s media aide, Semiu
Okanlawon in Osogbo on Tuesday,
Aregbesola gave the ultimatum
while receiving the report of the
Judicial Commission of Inquiry he
set up to look into the crisis
between Ipetumodu and Ashipa
communities.
It would be recalled that the two
communities had earlier in the year
engaged in skirmishes, which led to
the burning down of some houses.
Some persons were also reported to
have sustained varying degree of
injuries during the clashes.
The governor said, “People with
illegal weapons should voluntarily
submit them to relevant authorities
in not more than one week from
now before government begins to
fish them out.
“People should live to the dictate of
the law, our government will after
the one week ultimatum embarks on
house-to-house search for illegal
weapons so that the state can have
peace.
“Whoever is caught after the one
week deadline will face the full
wrath of the law because we are not
in a stone age. The state will care for
the weak.
We are admonishing the strong to
be mindful of those that are not
strong”.
Aregbesola also called on politicians
and persons with those he called
“Private Army” and guards in the
state to immediately disband them.
He warned that the state was
entering into an era where it would
be strict on the maintenance of the
rule of law, peace and order.
Earlier, Chairman of the Judicial
Commission of Inquiry into the
Ipetumodu-Ashipa communal crisis,
Justice Olajide Falola, said the panel
discovered that the axis was flooded
with light and small arms.
He said, “We have virtually resolved
the dispute between the two
communities, especially the market
day issue and boundary. We have
also recommended that some
persons be investigated for possible
prosecution.
“There is a proliferation of arms and
ammunition in the axis of the two
communities.
Those in possession of guns are
reportedly being protected by elites
in the society. We have
recommended that police should
take steps to clean up the area of
these dangerous weapons”.
Two Dead As Fulani and Yorubas Clash in Kwara
At least, two persons have been reportedly killed
and several property worth millions of naira
destroyed after a clash erupted between Fulani
traders and Yoruba natives of Oro-Ago in Ifelodun
Local Government Area of Kwara State.
It was gathered that some enraged youths
allegedly set over five vehicles and 10 motorcycles
ablaze during the melee.
A resident told newsmen in Ilorin, the Kwara State
capital, that the violence was allegedly fueld by
Fulani-Bororo settlers, who reportedly violated a
rule in the area that the settlers should never bring
arms, ammunition and fighting sticks from their
settlements to market on Oro Ago market days.
He stated that some armed Fulani traders came to
the market on Monday.
The source said the leader of the Fulani people in
the area, popularly called Sarkin Fulani,
surprisingly stormed the place where the
ammunition were kept with his people, carted
away the weapons seized by the vigilance team
and handed them back to the Fulani traders.
According to him, violent clash erupted between
the two camps, leading to breakdown of law and
order as weapons were allegedly used freely by
the warring parties.
Police Public Relations Officer, Kwara State Police
Command, Mr. Ajayi Okasanmi, confirmed the
incident but denied the claim that seven persons
lost their lives during the clash.
He claimed that two people were killed, adding that
his men have been drafted to the area to curb the
situation.
– dailypost
Tinubu and Ameachi Clash Over Senate President's Position
The All Progressives
Congress (APC) are now having issues as they try
to figure out which gladiators will take valuable
positions in the nation. According to This Day
sources deep in the APC, the party which won the
March 28, presidential election and secured
majority seats in both the Senate and House of
Representatives has three political blocs within.
These blocs are said to be: the Buhari/Northern
bloc which is made up of the president-elect and
his supporters who have been with him for 12
years and collapsed their structures into the APC
during the merger process; the Tinubu/South-west
bloc led by the former Lagos state governor,
Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu; and the former
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors who
decamped to APC in 2013, led by the Rivers state
governor, Chibuike Amaechi, and Senator Bukola
Saraki.
The battle for political positions is now being
championed by these three blocs.
The Tinubu bloc is said be behind the Senate
minority leader, Senator George Akume, for the
office of the Senate president, while the Amaechi
bloc is pushing hard for the emergence of
Saraki.One source deep in the camp revealed that
Akume has the backing of Tinubu and his group,
which is believed to be the strongest bloc in the
party, but may not have the numbers in the Senate
to push through their goal.
The bloc has three reasons why they want Akume
in the position.
First, the source said that Akume has been with
Tinubu’s group since its days in the ACN,
culminating in his emergence as the Senate
minority leader.
Second, he said Akume is senior to Saraki in the
Senate, having been in the Senate since 2007
while Saraki became a senator in 2011.
Third, the source said Tinubu and his men
understand Akume far better than Saraki who he
said is not close to the bigwigs in the group as is
Akume.
“The Tinubu group is backing Akume because
Saraki seems to be more or less an outsider (to
the group). Besides, Akume has long been in ACN
and he is a senior to Saraki. He is also better
understood by Asiwaju than Saraki,” the source
said.
We also learnt that one other factor not in Saraki’s
favour is his tribe as a Yoruba man, though
geographically located in Kwara in North-central
Nigeria.
However, the APC thinks they would have a tough
time selling a Yoruba Senate president to the
nation due to the vice-president-elect, Prof Yemi
Osinbajo, is also being a Yoruba man from Ogun
state in the south-west.
A source added that it would be a hard sell for two
Yoruba men to become number two and three
citizens respectively, even though they are from
different geopolitical zones.
Despite this, Amaechi’s group wants Saraki in the
position, while the agitation of north-east senators
to produce the Senate president is said to have
had the backing of the former vice-president Atiku
Abubakar.
The senators had demanded the APC zone the
position to their region, saying they are the most
marginalised zone in the country.
This position is being supported by the former
Gombe state governor, Danjuma Goje, who
represents Gombe Central in the Senate, and by
his counterparts in Yobe East and Yobe North,
Bukka Abba Ibrahim and Ahmed Lawan
respectively.
A senator from the south-west, Professor Olusola
Adeyeye (Osun Central), has also indicated interest
in the race.
We also learnt that given different contenders’
interest in the office, it may be difficult for the
power brokers in the APC to reach a consensus
with the contenders on who will become the next
Senate president.
Hence, the source said if a stalemate prevails there
may be a repeat of the episode in the House of
Representatives in 2011 when members of the
House opted to elect their speaker and deputy in
violation of the ruling PDP zoning agenda which
had zoned the two offices to the south-west and
the north-east respectively.
It was against this background that Aminu
Tambuwal from the north-west and Emeka
Ihedioha from the south-east emerged the Speaker
and Deputy Speaker, respectively.
Given the emerging scenario, a source told us that
the Senate might be forced to decide who leads
them through an election that is based on the
coalition built by each of the contenders for the
post of Senate president among their colleagues.
The Senate president position had been held by
David Mark but as the APC are now the majority,
they have to find one of their own.
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INEC Fixes Imo Supplementary Election For April 25
There was mild drama Wednesday as
the Resident Electoral Commissioner
for Imo State, Dr. Gabriel Ada failed to
give the accurate number of registered
voters and the number of Permanent
Voter Cards (PVC) collected in the areas
where the Commission will conduct
supplementary governorship fixed for
April 25.
INEC had while declaring the
governorship election inconclusive,
given the figure of registered voters
in the affected areas as 144715,
which was higher than the margin
with which the All Progressives
Congress (APC) governorship
candidate, Governor Rochas
Okorocha was leading his closest
rival, Emeka Ihedioha.
But Ada who briefed journalists
Wednesday, could not confirm the
figure or disclose the number of
PVC distributed in the areas.
When pressed further, the REC, who
had come under fire for the alleged
compromised role of the
Commission during the Presidential
and governorship elections in the
state, said that “the number is
approximately between 145,000 to
150,000 registered voters”.
He also stated that the number of
PVC collected will not form a
threshold for the number of voters
that will participate in the
supplementary election, adding that
“those that did not collect their PVC
before the election still have the
opportunity to do so because only
those with their PVC that will
participate in the election”.
The REC who was not also emphatic
on the number of Polling Units
where the scheduled election will
hold, said that “the election will
hold in over 200 Polling Units in 23
Local Government Areas of the
state”.
He announced further that the APC
won 16 seats in the House of
Assembly elections, while the
election was inconclusive in six
constituencies and has been
rescheduled to hold on the same
date with the supplementary
election.
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
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Ambode Wins Lagos Gubernatorial Seat
No of REGISTERED
81,455
Accredited voters 2, 7634
No of political parties contested
16
Poll
APC 14,696
PDP, 11, 292
PDP agent accused INEC of giving accreditation to 10, 000 voters manually therefore, urged the returning officer to look into it.
No such reports of manual acctreditation
REC: Akin Orebiyi: To submit to the commission and complaint be looked into
Gbemisola Onilere Rec officer
Dr Martha Amadi returning/ collation LGA
No of REGISTERED
178,322
No of accredited voters
53,502
16 political parties contested.
APC 34,232
APGA 25
PDP, 16,111
Total valid votes, 50.952 votes
Rejected votes 1.111
Total votes cast- 52,083
Badagry LGA
David Kupolati returning officer
No of REGISTERED
167, 245
No of Accr voters
55.346
No of vote cast
APC –27, 086
PDP—22,664
Total valid votes, 50,590
Rejected votes 1729
Total votes cast
52,319
Two incidences in ward, unit 20, there are 2, 602 registered votes, 262baccredited voters. Over voting
Ward 10, unit 14, 18, 19 Ajara, there were no PVCs, no voting.
Adeleke Oluwole, electoral officer
Total no of reg voters
346,037
Total of accr voters
105,480
Vote received by parties
APC—42,954
PDP—52.596
97,516
Rejected votes
3293
Total votes cast
100,809
No of reg voters
297.596
No of accr voters
57, 767
Vote received by parties
APC— 28,082
PDP—24,486
Total valid votes
53,157
Rejected votes 1672,
Total votes cast
54, 829
PDP manual accreditation
Barr Kabiru Olawale
Monday Bassey Ubana
No of Reg voters
217,833
No of accr voters
65,101
Vote received by parties
APC—31,886
PDP—26,889
59,708
Total vote rejected
2,036
Toyal votes cast
61,744.
Registered voters———293,490
Accredited voters———-64,237
Vote received by parties
APC—–33,178
PDP—–26,4i9
Total Votes cast——60,353
Rejected no of votes—-1,452
Total Votes Cast ——-61,805
Registered Voters——27,981
Accredited voters——76,974
Vote received by parties
APC———26,349
PDP———35,168
Rejected Votes——–1750
Total votes cast——–64,031
Accredited voters——-101,656
Vote received by parties
APC——-42,835
PDP——–43,904
Total valid votes—87,499
Rejected votes—–1,909
Total votes cast—-89,408
Accredited voters—79,648
Vote received by parties
PDP—-26,898
Total valid votes—–74,503
Rejected votes—— 1,535
Total votes cast—— 76,038
Registered voters—–129,395
Accredited voters—–48123
Vote received by parties
APC—–31,498
PDP—–13,425
Total Valid votes —–45,642
Rejected votes———-950
Total votes cast——–46,638
Accredited voters—-95,711
Vote received by parties
APC——–52,061
PDP——–35,259
Total valid votes—-88,648
Rejected votes—2466
Total Votes cast—-91,114
Registered voters—–170,266
Accredited voters——45,847
Vote received by parties
APC—-22.169
PDP—–19,486
Total Valid Votes—42,314
Rejected votes—-1229
Total votes cast—-43,543
Registered voters—-35,8661
Accredited Voters—-115.516
Vote poll by parties
PDP——54,202
Total valid votes —-106.,922
Rejected votes—–2,682
Total Votes cast—-109,604
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