The Nation November 05, 2014

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News Four die in Kwara tanker fire P57 Sports Keshi seeks sack of Garba Lawal P24 Business Govt to review airport charges P53

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•INSIDE: GOVT CONFIRMS ABBA IG P5 COURT DECLINES TO STOP SYNAGOGUE INQUEST P7

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PDP crises: Senators revolt against Jonathan WHEN WILL THE CHIBOK GIRLS KIDNAPPED ON APRIL 15 BE FREED?

Lawmakers angry as governors hijack congresses

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ROM the wards and party offices, the crises sparked by last Saturday’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ward congresses have spread to the Senate. Scores of PDP senators revolted yesterday against President Goodluck Jonathan and the party’s leadership, alleging that they were being schemed out of the 2015 elections. The senators took exception to what they described as a deliberate plan by the Presidency and the party to leave their fate in the hands of governors.

The PDP is already gone. We are not doing the job of governors but the governors want to do our job. So we have decided to shut down the government From Onyedi Ojiabor and Sanni Onogu, Abuja

The lawmakers particularly kicked against their inability to secure delegates that would guarantee their re-election tickets. Senate plenary was abruptly adjourned. The aggrieved senators converged at the office of the Senate President, David Mark, for what one of them described as a “last ditch meeting to take our destiny in

our hands”. The closed door meeting did not last long when it was learnt that the lawmakers had decided to frustrate all legislative businesses as to express their anger over the outcome of the congresses. The senators were angry that the congresses were allegedly skewed in favour of governors. The governors were, however, said to be adamant in

their resolve to “deal with the senators for alleged non performance”. The governors are said to have lined up their loyalists to take over the seats of the incumbent legislators. At the Senate yesterday, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, who presided, had hardly announced that the PDP Senate Caucus would meet after the sitting, when a Continued on page 4

•Mr. Nda-Isaiah...yesterday

PDP has failed, says APC aspirant Nda-Isaiah From Jide Orintunsin, Minna

A •A BLOODY DAY: An injured Shiite member sits on the ground after a suicide blast in Potiskum, Yobe State...on Monday. PHOTO: AFP

Boko Haram kills cleric, 10 others

ORIES ON •STORIES Sect seizes cement firm, renames Mubi •ST PAGES 2-4

NEWSPAPER man joined the presidential race yesterday. Leadership publisher Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, who is seeking the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC), made his intention known in Minna, Niger State. He plans to address the colossal failure which the ruling Peoples Democratic Party has plunged Nigeria into since 1999. Addressing a large crowd of APC supporters and other citizens, the aspirant said: “The misfortune of this country obviously accelerated from the time the PDP came to power in 1999.” Party leaders, presidential aspirants and governors were among the crowd at the rally. Nda-Isaiah said the PDP government had failed and the country is gradually decaying into one in which people are now afraid to carry on their lives as ordinary citiContinued on page 4

•POLITICS P15 •SPORTS P24 •MONEY P26 •INVESTORS P28 •LIFE P43 •FOREIGN P59


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