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Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo | credits: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com

The vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has threatened a legal action against the spokesman for the President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, for what he termed defamation of his person.

Fani-Kayode had, in a recent press statement made available to various media houses, alleged that Osinbajo had taken a secret oath with a national leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu, to relinquish power as the vice president to Tinubu after six months in office, in the event that the APC won the presidential election.

Fani-kayode had, in the statement titled, APC is selling a dummy to the whole world; Tinubu is the real candidate, reportedly described Osinbajo as a stooge in the hands of Tinubu.

But Osinbajo, in a pre-litigation letter to Fani-Kayode on Tuesday, asked him to, within seven days, retract the said defamatory statement or be prepared for litigation.

In the letter written on his behalf by his lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), the senior advocate also asked Fani-Kayode to tender a public apology to him which should be aired on four television stations and published in four national dailies in addition to a payment of N2bn for the damages already done against his person.

Falana said Fani-Kayodes statement was not only false but was specifically targeted at impugning Osinbajos character and lower him in the estimation of right thinking members of the public.

He described Fani-Kayodes statement as vicious, wicked and reckless, adding that the claims were inconsistent with Osinbajos faith, role and ethics as a pastor, a professor of Law and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.

Falana, while saying that Fani-Kayodes statement suggested that Osinbajo was complicit in a fraud against the Nigerian people, maintained that such statement negated Osinbajos publicly acclaimed and validated record of competence, honesty and integrity.

He therefore asked Fani-Kayode to retract the statement with a public apology or we shall proceed with our clients instruction to seek appropriate legal remedies for your publication and dissemination of defamatory statements.

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The All Progressives Congress has said the real causes of thedebilitating fuel scarcity across the country are the looting of the$12 billion domestic gas fund under President Goodluck Jonathans watch, as well as the Administrations failure to pay fuel subsidy andthe cost of interests on bank loans to oil marketers, thus making it impossible for them to begin another round of importation of refinedpetroleum products.

In a statement issued in Dubai on Tuesday by its National PublicitySecretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the PDP and the Jonathan Administration decided to divert attention from thoseproblems by accusing the opposition of being responsible for the scarcity a most laughable and irresponsible statement by a sittinggovernment that is always so eager to blame everyone but itself for the nations woes.

It recalled that the Coordinating Minister of the Economyand Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had, in February, promised topay all subsidies owed to the marketers then in the sum of N264billion, along with the accrued interest.

APC said, however, that the failure to meet this obligation has madeit impossible for the oil marketers, who are being owed heavily, to finance another round of products importation.

The truth is that this profligate government has run Nigeria aground, and the oil sector, whether upstream or downstream, has particularly suffered hugely. The quantity of petroleum products that was imported has almost been fully consumed, without fresh products being brought in to augment supplies that have now fallen well below re-order level.

The implication is that in addition to worsening power supply, crumbling prices of oil at the international market, weakening Naira and unprecedented corruption, Nigerians who routinely provide their own electricity to power their homes and business, now have to face another round of government-imposed hardship with the ongoing fuel scarcity, the party said.

It said the fuel crisis would not have reached the stage it is in now had the $12 billion domestic gas project fund not been looted under President Jonathans watch. This is because, with the project being executed, many vehicles, cooking stoves and generators would have been converted to use gas to reduce the importation of PMS, diesel and kerosene, and gas would have been available to fire the gas turbines at power stations while more power would have been delivered to the national grid.

APC accused President Jonathan of sabotaging the domestic gas project started by the late President Umaru Musa YarAdua, with the $12 billion cash call provisions for gas development for domestic power generation looted under his (President Jonathan) watch.

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Femi Fani-Kayode | credits: Photo file

The All Progressives Congress on Monday threatened to slam a lawsuit on Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, spokesman for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan, and the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation following their claim of an oath-taking pact between Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

The APC said it would commence legal proceedings unless the PDP presidential campaign body and its spokesperson produced evidence to support their claim.

Fani-Kayode had reportedly claimed that Osinbajo, the APC vice-presidential candidate, and Tinubu had sworn to an oath that the former would resign for the latter to take over as vice president if the APC candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) wins the presidential election.

The threat to sue was contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Malam Garba Shehu.

The APC campaign warned the PDP and Fani-Kayode to either show evidence of the oath-taking or retract the libellous claim within 72 hours or be ready to be charged to a court of law.

The statement partly read, For the PDP, through Fani-Kayode, to state publicly that an erudite Professor of Law, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a reputable Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, swore an oath to vacate his seat as the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, should the party win the forthcoming election is an attack on the hard-won integrity and the reputations of these great Nigerians and APC stalwarts.

We view this as both slanderous and libellous and therefore will not leave the matter to chance. To this effect, we hereby give Femi Fani-Kayode and the PDP 72 hours to produce evidence or in the alternative issue public apology to Pastor Yemi Osinbajo, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and our party the APC or be prepared to be charged to the court of law.

In another development, the APC Campaign Organisation said President Goodluck Jonathan had himself to blame for the poor quality of aides and advice that he had benefited from since his days as Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State.

It said that the recent statement credited to the President, that most of the advice that he received from his aides had been worthless 80 per cent of the time, was a clear demonstration that the President lacked sound judgment.

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The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has told the National Human Rights Commission to ignore the defence of Governor Ayodele Fayose to the allegation of human rights violation leveled against him.

In a February 16 petition by the State Secretary of the APC, Omotosho Ayodele, the party had urged the Commission to investigate Fayose over alleged state sponsored pre-election violence in Ekiti State.

It also called on the Commission to declare the Governor a person of interest in its investigation of election violence in Nigeria.

But the state Attorney General, Owoseni Ajayi, in a letter to the NHRC, stated that the allegations were misrepresentations of facts, deliberately orchestrated by the APC on a smear campaign for political gains.

However, the APC in a statement by its state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, on Monday stated that Ajayi was not known in law as the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice of the state and should stop parading himself as such because his appointment did not follow due process.

The party said doing so amounted to impersonation and flagrant impunity to trample on the sanctity of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Dismissing Fayoses defence of his alleged right abuse as an after thought, Olatunbosun said the Governor would have made his complaints at NHRC against Fayemi if he was convinced that abuses were committed by his administration.

At best, Owoseni is a busy-body and overzealous supporter of Governor Fayose who, as a legal practitioner, allows himself to be part of reckless politicians that are gang-raping the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to deny Ekiti people their legimitate rights to have a Speaker elected by the legitimate number of their representatives in the House of Assembly.

He is therefore an impostor and part of the illegitimate products of human rights violations in Ekiti State, Olatubosun added.

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The All Progressives Congress on Monday threatened legal action against Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, and the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign following their claim of an oath-taking pact between its vice presidential candidate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, and APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

APC said it would commence legal proceedings unless the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation and its Director of Mediaproduce evidence on the purported oath-taking agreement between and the planned resignation of Osinbajo for Tinubu, in the event of a Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buharis victory in theMarch 28 presidential election.

This was contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Malam Garba Shehu.

The APC campaigners warned the PDP and Fani-Kayode to either show evidence of the oath-taking or retract the libelous claims within 72 hours or be ready to defend its claims in a court of law.

The statement partly read, For the PDP, through Fani-Kayode, to state publicly that an erudite Professor of Law, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a reputable Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, swore to an oath to vacate his seat as the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, should the party win the forthcoming election, is an attack on the hard-won integrity and the reputation of these great Nigerians and APC stalwarts.

We view this as both slanderous and libelous, and therefore, will not leave the matter to chance. To this effect, we hereby give Femi Fani-Kayode and the PDP 72 hours to produce evidence or in the alternative issue public apology to Pastor Yemi Osinbajo, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and our party, the APC, or be prepared to be charged to the court of law.

In another development, the APC campaign said President Goodluck Jonathan has himself to blame for the poor quality of aides and advice that he has benefited from them since his days as the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State.

The APC Campaign Organisation added that the recent statement credited to the President that most of the advice from his aides had been worthless 80 per cent of the time, was a clear demonstration that the President lacked sound judgment, saying a leader was only as good as those who were around him.

Shehu said, We, in the APC, consider it an act of God especially a few weeks to the March 28, 2015 Presidential poll that President Jonathan, who insists on his re-election, should make this revelation, which to a large extent, gives a deep insight into his person and character.

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