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The All Progressives Congress has accused the Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, of holding nocturnal political meetings with former Niger Delta militant leader, Solomon Ndigbara, in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The APC said the minister held such a meeting at a time the world was calling for the release of over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in Chibok, Borno State, by the Boko Haram sect.
A statement by the State Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Chris Finebone, specified that rather than embark on political meetings with ex-warlords, the minster was expect to have joined the global efforts towards the release of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls.
The state APC disclosed that its members were able to infiltrate the gathering where Wike met with Ndigbara, aka Osama bin Laden, and his boys.
Explaining that it was currently in custody of the decisions reached at the ministers meeting with Ndigbara, the APC described Wikes action as insensitive, adding that the Chibok schoolgirls were abducted under Wikes watch as the Minister of Education.
The partys statement read, It has come to the attention of the All Progressives Congress, Rivers State Chapter, that whereas Nigerians and the good people of every continent of the world are crying and calling for the release of over 200 young Nigerian girls, abducted by the terrorist group, Boko Haram, the Supervising Minister for Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike, is busy holding nocturnal political campaign meetings in Rivers State.
As the global call for the release of the abducted girls heightened this week, last Thursday night, APC members, who infiltrated their gathering, confirmed that Nyesom Wike held a political meeting with notorious warlord, Solomon Ndigbara, and his boys at Yeghe, Gokana Local Government Area, where certain decisions [now in our custody] were reached.
The state APC called on Wikes masters and friends to plead with him to concentrate on the international effort targetted at ensuring that the kidnapped schoolgirls were released.
A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, says the Peoples Democratic Party can only win the Ekiti governorship election by rigging.
He however warned that any one that attempts to rig the election in the state will be roasted.
He added that the PDP was aware that it could only win the state by manipulating the election because the party had not presented an alternative manifesto to challenge the ruling APC government in the state.
The former Lagos State Governor said this in Lagos at a fundraising dinner hosted by Friends of JKF, a statement said on Sunday.
He said, Those in Abuja have sent their agent down again for a repeat performance; they are not ashamed. Defend your votes, it is your right. No matter how much they complain, you will not see them do the campaign because they want to alter the mathematics.
If they cannot do subtraction and addition successfully during the governors forum, they will not be able to do it during this election. I say it again, if you want to arrest me, come on, arrest me. If you rig this election, well roast you.
While describing Fayemi as a dependable candidate, the APC national leader said Fayemi would deliver the dividends of democracy to Ekiti people.
Also speaking at the event, Fayemi and his Osun State counterpart, Rauf Aregbesola, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to rescind its decision not to use Voters Card Reader machines in the forthcoming Ekiti and Osun states governorship elections.
Fayemi, while throwing his weight behind the use of VCR machine in Ekiti and Osun elections slated for June 21 and August 9, respectively, stated that Ekiti people would leave no stone unturned to ensure that their votes count, counted and announced in Ekiti State and not elsewhere.
He added that INEC would not only be encouraged but also be pressured to use the VCR machine to state its commitment to free, fair and credible polls in the two states.
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The In Anemas gas plant, Algeria, seen from the air. It was attacked by Islamists in January 2013.
A beheading in Woolwich, a suicide bomb in Beijing, a blown-up marathon in Boston, a shooting in the head of a young Pakistani girl seeking education, a destroyed shopping mall in Nairobi and so it continues, in the name of Islam, from south London to Timbuktu. It is time to take stock, especially on the left, since these things are part of the worlds daily round.
Leave aside the parrot-cry of Islamophobia for a moment. I will return to it. Leave aside, too, the pretences that it is all beyond comprehension. Progressives might ask instead: what do Kabul, Karachi, Kashmir, Kunming and a Kansas airport have in common? Is it that they all begin with K? Yes. But all of them have been sites of recent Islamist or, in the case of Kansas, of wannabe-Islamist, attacks; at Wichita Airport planned by a Muslim convert ready to blow himself up, and others, in support of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. We cannot stop lone wolves, a British counterterrorism expert told us after Woolwich. Are they lone? Of course not.
A gas facility in southern Algeria, a hospital in Yemen, an Egyptian police convoy in the Sinai its complex all right a New Years party in the southern Philippines, a railway station in the Caucasus, a bus terminal in Nigerias capital, and on and on, have all been hit by jihadis, with hostages taken, suicide belts detonated, cars and trucks exploded, and bodies blown to bits. And Flight MH370? Perhaps. In other places in Red Square and Times Square, in Jakarta and New Delhi, in Amman and who-knows-where in Britain attacks have been thwarted. But in 2013 some 18 countries gotit in the neck (so to speak) from Islams holy warriors.
There are battlefields and battlefields in this conflict. Some are theatres of actual orpotential civil war, most often when Sunnis and Shias are at each others throats on behalf, respectively, of Saudi Arabia andIran. Other battlefields are in failed or failing Muslim states, others again where the infidel has unwisely intruded upon and assaulted Muslim lands. At the same time, weapons and warriors are in constant movement in Islams cause across dissolving national boundaries, many of themof western colonialisms creation. And in India, with its 175 million Muslims, their mujahedin will be in action soonenough if Hindu nationalists come to power this month.
Jihadist groups, from Pakistan to the Philippines, also fight each other. But for the most part they are consolidating and expanding often as affiliates of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, in the Maghreb, in Somalia and Kenya, in Iraq and Syria, in Gaza, in Bangladesh and in south-east Asia. There are separatist or secessionist Islamic insurgencies, too, from Russias Caucasus to north-west China, in southern Thailand, in Burma, in northern Nigeria and in divided Kashmir.
Warriors for Islam, believing that they areunder infidel threat, today range an increasingly frontier-less world. Thats globalisation too. A car-bombing in New York which failed was planned by a Pakistani-American trained in a tribal area ofnorthern Waziristan. Many would-be warriors from western countries learned their skills from Taliban instructors, going on to fight in Iraq as they now fight inSyria. There, ubiquitous Bearers of the Sword and Defenders of the Faith from Britain and France, Saudi Arabia and Morocco, Indonesia and Kazakhstan, and evenUighurs from Chinese Xinjiang, are to befound armed to the teeth in the battle against Assad while being trained for future combat in their countries of origin.
In the Islamist merry-go-round, jihadis from Libya after the countrys collapse went on to Syria, Tunisian holy warriors crossed into Mali, Egyptian and Canadian Muslim fighters were among the attackers on the refinery in Algeria, and Somalis from Minnesota have returned home to join al-Shabab, the al-Qaeda affiliate that carried out the Kenyan mall attack. Ugandan Islamists are in eastern Congo, and a Malaysian army captain was linked to two of the 9/11 hijackers. Beat this? No.
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