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Former Senate President, Ahmed Lawan Told to Bury 2027 Yobe Gubernatorial Ambition

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Former Senate President, Ahmed Lawan Told to Bury 2027 Yobe Gubernatorial Ambition

By: Michael Mike

The immediate past Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan has been told to bury any ambition of becoming the governor of Yobe State in 2027.

A group of youth under the auspices of Vanguard for Better Governance in Yobe State 2027 said it is not the turn of Lawan’s senatorial district to present the next governor of the state.

The group in the statement said: “Against the backdrop of the call by phantom groups such as ‘The Coalition of Yobe East Progressive Youths’ led by one Dr Yarma Goni, begging the Senator of Yobe East Senatorial District and immediate past Senate President, published in many news platforms locally and internationally for Senator (Dr) Ahmed Lawan to heed the call of duty and offer himself as a candidate for Yobe Governor in 2027.

“We, the Yobe in the youth of Yobe State see this as a mischievous attempt of the Dr Yarima Goni’s political jobbers to sell a kite that would never fly in our dear state, Yobe.”

They added that: “While one may not be too sure of the news report, it believed to be a clandestine and surreptitious move at the instance of the distinguished Senator Lawan; but the senator does not need a soothsayer nor an Imam to enlighten him that the Governorship of Yobe in 2027 is a Yobe South affair.

“Yobe Zone B, having lost the only governor from the zone in 2009, the late distinguished Senator Mamman Ali, could not complete Governor Mamman Ali’s first term owing to his untimely death. Two governors from other zones have ruled Yobe State, leaving Zone B in a somewhat perpetual waiting game!

“The very mention of Yobe East person as the Governor of Yobe State in 2027 smacks brazen injustice, and lopsidedness as evidenced in the various federal employment slots allegedly coveted with the use of fake degrees, diplomas and certificates from degree mills traced to Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana and other fictitious places to fix Yobe East people at top places and positions at the federal level.

“The same goes for federal projects “cornered from above” to the zone via the instrumentality of top politicians from the zone in Abuja. A case in point is the painful approval of a Federal University of Medical Sciences for the Gashua zone or Yobe East and a federal conventional university already operating in the area.

“The jaundiced socio-political distribution of federal and state projects in Yobe State has seen the trio of state university in Damaturu, two federal universities at Gashua Area, Airport in Damaturu and other key projects, yet nothing for Yobe Zone B reputed for having a large enlightened population and historical relevance.

“Politicians who have served the federal legislature for more than two decades are hardly rewarded with the governorship of their states; as a few of them have done daylight robbery of political mandates of their kith and kin even when they never contested party primaries for a failed quest for white elephant national pole office of Mr President of Nigeria with an evidential failure.

“The planned strangulation of the Governorship of Yobe in 2027 from Yobe Zone B would sow deep seeds of state discord if allowed. For God’s sake, Yobe East’s top politicians should look elsewhere and allow Yobe Zone B to breathe. Yobe East should rather hibernate from the self-inflicted wounds of rivalling President Bola Tinubu when northern governors had endorsed a southern candidate for the 2023 presidential elections.”

The group further said: “The quest for Yobe East Governorship of Yobe State would be akin to the same strategy of their kith and kith who sought to succeed former President Muhammadu Buhari after a northern presidency of eight years with another strange eight years of northern presidency meant for southern Nigeria. If it had happened; Nigeria would have been torn into shreds of Banana Republics.

“The coalition of Yobe East politicians appears as recent students of Nigerian history. Posterity has recorded in its annals that some of their kith and kin at key federal tiers of government misled the immediate past President Buhari into a regime of uncommon loan burden, ill-fated currency change regime prosecuted in grand corruption; in addition to the sleaze of the century in the oil and gas industry at the behest and heavy cooperation resulting in the current travails of Nigerians and the current government.

“We are forced, therefore, to assume the affliction of dementia or hallucination on the part of the ‘Coalition of Yobe East Progressive Youths’ to dream Yobe Governorship in 2027 for their zone and clan’s man as this amounts to standing common sense on its very head which shall not stand!”

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Troops of Operation FANSAN YANMA rescue 17 kidnapped girls in Sokoto, two farmers killed

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Troops of Operation FANSAN YANMA rescue 17 kidnapped girls in Sokoto, two farmers killed

By: Zagazola Makama

Troops of Operation FANSAN YANMA, in collaboration with police and local vigilantes, have rescued 17 kidnapped girls in Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State.

Sources told Zagazola Makama that the rescue followed a coordinated response to an attack by armed bandits on Aug. 31.

The source said the bandits, in large numbers, invaded Bargaja village and abducted girls who had gone to fetch firewood in the forest.

“In the process, the criminals shot and killed two farmers who were working on their farms before security forces mobilised to the scene.

“Troops of Operation FANSAN YANMA, supported by police tactical teams and vigilantes, engaged the bandits in a heavy gun battle which lasted for hours.

“The joint forces successfully rescued the 17 kidnapped girls, while the bandits retreated towards the Niger Republic border,” the source said.

According to the sources , the rescued girls were handed over to Isa Local Government authorities, while aggressive patrols have been intensified in the area to forestall further attacks.

Troops of Operation FANSAN YANMA rescue 17 kidnapped girls in Sokoto, two farmers killed

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Finland jails Simon Ekpa six years for terrorism, tax fraud

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Finland jails Simon Ekpa six years for terrorism, tax fraud

By: Zagazola Makama

A Finnish court has sentenced Simon Ekpa, a self-acclaimed Prime Minister of Biafra, to six years imprisonment for terrorism offences and tax fraud.

The Päijät-Häme District Court found Ekpa guilty of inciting a public crime committed with terrorist intent, participating in the activities of a terrorist group, aggravated tax fraud, and violating the Attorneys Act.

According to the court, Ekpa sought to promote the independence of the Biafra region in southeastern Nigeria by illegal means between August 2021 and November 2024.

The court said he used social media to build a politically influential position while supporting groups designated as terrorist organisations.

It said the movement under Ekpa established armed groups, supplied with weapons, explosives, and ammunition through his network of contacts.

“Ekpa urged and enticed his followers on his X account to commit crimes in Nigeria,” the court said.

The conviction marks the most high-profile ruling in Finland involving terrorism-related offences linked to Nigeria.

Finland jails Simon Ekpa six years for terrorism, tax fraud

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Police repel bandit attack on DPO’s residence in Katsina

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Police repel bandit attack on DPO’s residence in Katsina

By: Zagazola Makama

The Police Command in Katsina has repelled an attempted bandit attack on the residence of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Kankara Local Government Area of the state.

Sources said the attack occurred at about 6:00 p.m. on Aug. 30, when suspected armed bandits sneaked into the Local Education Authority (LEA) Quarters in Kankara, where the DPO resides.

According to sources, policemen on guard duty engaged the hoodlums in a gunfight and successfully repelled the attack, forcing them to retreat into the bush.

The sources added that no casualty was recorded, while efforts were ongoing to apprehend the fleeing suspects.

Police repel bandit attack on DPO’s residence in Katsina

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