The Nation December 16, 2014

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Court declines to stop Tambuwal

Fayose presents budget to seven PDP lawmakers

NEWS Page 5

NEWS

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•Judge: no to speaker’s removal

•19 APC Assemblymen protest ‘illegality’

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Our case against Mark, others, by angry senators Lawmakers return today amidst uncertainty We’re united, says Abaribe

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HEAD of plenary today, some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators who lost their primary elections met yesterday in Abuja to strengthen their resolve for leadership change. One of the aggrieved senators, who was part of

From Onyedi Ojiabor and Sanni Onogu, Abuja

the meeting, told our correspondent that it was “a continuation of a series of strategic meetings we have been holding before and after our primary elections”. The senators are angry for the following reasons:

•the primaries “in most instances were hugely flawed”; •“the fact that our interest was not protected even after we were made to believe that there was automatic ticket for most of us”; and •“Senate leadership failed to do the needful at the Presidency and the PDP headquarters to create a level

playing field for us.” But Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs Chairman Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe dismissed the speculation of a plot to remove Senate President David Mark as unfounded and misleading. The meeting was held in a hotel in Apo, Federal Capital

Territory (FCT), Abuja. The source noted that the meeting became necessary “for us to articulate and formulate some critical issues bothering on the primary elections”. “We cannot pretend that all is well. We cannot also pretend that we are happy the way and manner most of us

have been left in the cold to fend for ourselves,” the source said. Vowing that “we will not just leave things the way they are going”, he said: “We needed to meet to talk to ourselves ahead of our resumption.” Asked whether the alContinued on page 4

How Chadian mercenaries run Nigerian villages •New equipment for troops From Yusuf Alli, Abuja and Duku Joel, Maiduguri

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OME Nigerians fleeing the insurgency in the Northeast have relived their experiences in the town and villages occupied by the Boko Haram insurgents. The insurgents taken over many communities in Borno and Yobe states. Among them are Chadian mercenaries who now run some border towns. Villagers who escaped from Gajigana, one of the villages recently attacked by the insurgents are crying to the Borno State Government and the Federal Government to save them from the hands of the Chadians who, according to them, have now become judges trying and punishing villagers. One of them, Ali Modu Kawu, who escaped to Maiduguri, the beleaguered Borno State capital, said: “The Chadian rebels from Mangal now preside over meetings in most of the villages. They sit in courts and hear disputes and pass judgement for the locals who are in dispute with one another. “Just before they attacked Gajigana last Continued on page 4

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WILL THE CHIBOK GIRLS KIDNAPPED ON APRIL 15 EVER RETURN?

•LET’S SING: Children performing at the Naval Officers Wives Association (NOWA) Christmas Carols in Lagos…yesterday.

PHOTO: NAN

Queues surface in cities as oil workers shut fuel depots

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Govt summons meeting Shortage in Abuja, Kwara, Kaduna

•POLITICS P9 •TRANSPORTATION P14 •PROPERTY P17 •SPORTS P24 •FOREIGN P61


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