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“Your stolen funds now worthless”– Presidential aide replies Govs el-Rufai, Ganduje

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President Buhari aide, Bashir Ahmad, has hit back at Kaduna State Governors Nasir el-Rufai and his Kano State counterpart, Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, for opposing the currency reissue policy of the Federal Government.

Ahmad, the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Digital Communications, alleged that the two Northwest governors were angry about the policy because the public funds they allegedly stole and stashed away in cash in their individual states were no longer useful to them following the withdrawal of old notes by the central bank.

Governors el-Rufai and Ganduje had each told residents in their states to defy the CBN deadline for return of old N200, N500 and N1000 notes to commercial banks, insisting that the notes remained legal tender in Kaduna and Kano.

Ganduje was specifically reported to have threatened banks refusing to accept old notes after the expiration of the extended February 10 deadline with certificate of occupancy revocation.

Both governors also threatened sanctions on individuals and businesses refusing to accept old notes.

That was after the President insisted in his broadcast that the notes were no longer in use.

Specifically, Governor el-Rufai had followed President Buhari’s speech with another state broadcast in Kaduna, in which he countered the president’s and, among other things, alleged that forces within the presidency were indeed planing to dismantle Nigeria’s democracy.

el-Rufai had also led two other northern governors – Kogi and Zamfara – to procure a Supreme Court interim order against the CBN deadline.

President Muhammadu Buhari in his national broadcast early Thursday morning, extended the use of N200 notes to April 10, a 60-day grace, but insisted on his support for CBN’s policy of withdrawing N500 and N1000 notes from circulation.

But Ahmad, in a series of tweets, on Thursday, said the angry outbursts by el-Rufai and Ganduje emanated from the fact that they had stolen and stashed away pubic funds which were now useless.

“This is because the Federal Government decided to move on with the policy on old notes despite the Supreme Court ruling temporarily stopping the naira policy.

“They have stashed away money, and now they’re useless,” Mr Ahmad tweeted on Thursday.

“That’s the reason for all the fuming. Ganduje and co don’t care about the masses. If the money Ganduje and friends are shouting about is legit, why don’t they deposit it to CBN? The EFCC and NFIU will wait for them to verify.”

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Court restrained Dr. Ayu from parading himself as PDP National Chairman

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A Benue State High Court sitting in Makurdi has restrained the National Chairman of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Dr. Iyorchia Ayu from office.

Justice W.I. Kpochi also restrained Dr Ayu from parading himself as the National Chairman of PDP pending the determination of a Motion on Notice filed by Engr. Engr Conrad Terhide Utaan against Dr. Ayu and the PDP following Ayu’s suspension from the party by
his ward executive, the Igyorov Council Ward ,Benue State on Saturday.

The judge issued an order of interim injunction after hearing from Mr. M.T.Assoh the lawyer who moved and argued an ex-parte application brought by Engr. Utaan .

Engr. Utaan had filed a suit marked MHC/85/2023 against Dr. Iyorchia Ayu and the People Democratic Party but later brought the ex-parte applications which the court granted as prayed.

The order issued by the judge read as follows:

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“By this ex-parte application the Plaintiff’s/Applicant principally seek the order couched thus:

“An order of interim injunction restraining the 1st defendant Dr.Senator Iyorchia Ayu from parading himself as the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party , PDP, having lost membership of the party, pending the hearing and determination of Motion on Notice already filed.

‘”The application is supported by a fifteen (15) paragraphs affidavit to which is annexed three exhibits as Exhibits: A1, A2, and B, which are the Applicant’s membership card of the 2nd defendant, receipts for payment of dues and a vote of no confidence passed on the 1st Defendant/Respondent by the Igyorov Council Ward of the 2nd Defendant in Gboko.Local Government , Benue State.

‘”Upon hearing Mr. M.T.Assoh learned Counsel ably move the application and upon dispassionate considerations of facts placed before me in the pool of affidavit evidences, and again,upon the considerations of issues distilled in the written address by Mr. M.T.Assoh learned Counsel ,it is my candid view that this is a proper case to grant interim injunction as craved.

“Consequently, this application is hereby granted in the terms of the reliefs, captured in the motion paper as herein before reproduced.

“It is so ordered.”

The matter has been adjourned to 17/4/2023 for hearing.

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Suspension: Ayu mocks Exco members, derides them as illiterate persons who lack power to suspend him

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Embattled suspended National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu has described his suspension as exercise in futility and u n institutional.

He is fighting back with all the venom, the bile and causticity in him as he unleashed verbal attack on the exco members in hus state who suspended him fir alleged anti-party activities.

Deriding them, he declared that the members of the PDP Executive Committee in Igyorov Ward, Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State, who suspended him for alleged anti-party activities, were “illiterate” persons.

Ayu said the PDP committee lacked the power to suspend him, noting that the members of the committee were ignorant of the party’s Constitution.

The committee had on Sunday suspended Ayu for alleged anti-party activities, adding that his anti-party activities, alongside his allies, contributed to the party’s loss in his ward and local government in the March 18 governorship election in the state.

They also accused Ayu of not paying his annual dues as enshrined by the party’s constitution, noting that most of his closest allies worked for the All Progressive Congress (APC) which resulted in the abysmal performance of the PDP in Igyorov Ward.

However, the PDP chairman, in a statement issued on Monday by his media aide, Simon Imobo-Tswam, described his suspension as “an exercise in futility as it derives its strength majorly from gross illiteracy, ignorance, gambling, and desperation”.

He stressed that only the PDP National Executive Committee (NEC) had the power to suspend him, saying the suspension letter was written by an illiterate person and given to the coerced members of the committee to sign in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.

The statement read: “We wish to state categorically and with all emphasis at our disposal thus:

“For starters, Article 57(7) of the PDP Constitution as Amended in 2017 expressly prohibits any organ of the party or executive committee of the party at the Ward or State Level from taking any disciplinary measure against any member of the party’s National Executive Committee.

“The purported suspension is, therefore, an exercise in futility as it derives its strength majorly from gross illiteracy, ignorance, gambling, and desperation. It has only mischief, drama, and propaganda value.

“But more than this, the so-called suspension letter was written by an illiterate (sic) before hand and only given to the coerced members to sign somewhere in Makurdi.

“This is why the original date is tipexed and 24 March imposed on it. And this is also why it states that the presidential/NASS and Governorship/State Assembly elections were held on 25th and 18th March 2023, respectively.

“From what we know, the document itself is fraudulent as the signatures of the Ward Executives were forged or obtained under duress.

“The (Ward) chairman, his deputy, and legal adviser didn’t sign. The 14th person on the list didn’t sign, too. She was at NKST Ambighir for the Holy Communion.

“In fact, the same applies to Nos. 5, 8, and 16. At the time they were supposed to be in Makurdi with the other coerced, intimidated, and induced members of the Exco, they were actually in their villages, going about their normal businesses”.

“Up till now, about nine members of the Ward Exco are still being held hostage in a location in Makurdi for obvious reasons. And expectedly, their mobile numbers have been switched off. It is instructive.

“The general public is hereby advised to ignore rumours to this heinous effect. Those behind the plot are only investing in expensive illusions.”

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I Prefer Kissing, S3x Scenes With Seasoned Actors – Nancy Isime

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Popular actress and media personality, Nancy Isime has revealed how she feels acting s3x and scene kissing roles. She spoke during an interview with media personality, Dadaboy. According to her, she doesn’t enjoy acting such roles. She further explained that even if it looks good on screen, she prefers such scenes with seasoned actors who understand professionalism. She said, “Well, it’s a script, and Yes, I do kiss in movies. But Why will I enjoy it? 5,000 people around you. Enjoy what? I never enjoy doing nothing. There’s cameras around, it’s a scene. I prefer to actually have kissing scenes with seasoned actors who understand the professionalism of a kissing scene or a s3x scene. “S3x scene of course because everybody is all dressed up but there is movement. So there’s literally people who understand the job and are focused and are literally just running through a script.”

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