Its No BIG Deal To Lose Senate Presidency To PDP, But A Mere Sacrifice For CHANGE - Oyegun

The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has said that it's probably a sacrifice needed to be paid for the party's change agenda should the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC forfeits the Senate Presidency to the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  if the current trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki consume his office.

Odigie-Oyegun said the party is “also planning” to checkmate plans by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,.

Speaking in an interview with Premium Times, Oyegun said: “We don’t take anything for granted. As they (PDP) are planning, we are also planning. The situation is under control. The whole situation is unfortunate but it is real.”

“Well, I don’t think we will loPremium position. But sometimes, for change to take place, there is price you have to pay. So losing the position may be sacrifice for change.”

While ruling out the use of loPremium solution to address Saraki’s prosecution over false assets declaration charges, he asked, “What political situation in a legal matter? Are the judges politicians?” adding that “The President is certainly not the type who will interfere in a judicial matter. I think we know him well. Everybody must know him. Things must be done normally. And that is part of the change mantra that we must play by the rule so that we don’t truncate processes.”

The APC boss continued: “People don’t seem to internalize what change is. If the President says “court, free that man”, the same president can say ‘court, imprison that man.’

Is that the Nigeria you want? No! Change means allowing the law to take the proper course. I can tell you the President won’t interfere. The President is straight definite, straight and firm in all facets.”

Army SACKS Ex-Spokesman Who Championed Buhari's Missing Certificate Saga

Former spokesman of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier-General Olajide Laleye, has been sacked from service for the role he played in the controversy surrounding the school leaving certificate of President Muhammadu Buhari in the events leading up to the 2015 general election.

Recall that Laleye held a press conference then where he disclosed that the Army could not find Buhari’s West African School Certificate Examination result. This was after the then ruling People’s Democratic Party accused Buhari, a retired Major General, of not having the basic academic qualification for candidates vying to be President – a secondary school leaving certificate. Buhari was then the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC).

A source in the army said Laleye was a marked man the moment President Buhari assumed leadership of Nigeria.

“The Buhari camp and elements within the army sympathetic to him were incensed by Laleye’s press conference. It was clear he was not going to be let off easy if the APC won the election. The present decision is not at all surprising, ” the source said.

Spokesperson of the Army, Colonel Sani Usman who revealed the development to a leading Nigerian newspaper also added that among other senior officers retired is Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh who was accused of complicity in an alleged rigging of the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State.

Momoh’s career was terminated after a report of a military panel that investigated the alleged unprofessional conduct of officers and soldiers during the elections in Ekiti and Osun State indicted him alongside other soldiers.

Chaired by Major General Adeniyi Oyebade, the panel recommended the compulsory retirement of two officers from the army and the placing of 15 officers on watch list while nine others were to be handed over to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission for further investigations.

Source: Nigerian Times