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target=_blank>BREAKING: Over 1million Votes Not Enough For PDP As Ganduje Wins Controversial Kano Gov Election
Abdullahi Ganduje, incumbent Governor of Kano State, has secured a second term in office as winner of the governorship election.
Ganduje, who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), won with a margin of more than 9,000 votes after the collation of figures for the supplementary elections held on March 23, 2019.
Two local government areas had delayed the final collation till now: Kibiya and Nasarawa LGAs. However, the results for the LGAs in supplementary elections were declared on Sunday evening, the results for both LGAs were announced. For Kibiya LGA, Abba Yusuf, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 228 votes, while the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 371 votes. For Nasarawa LGA, APC secured a whopping 10,536 votes against 3,409 votes secured by the PDP.
There was mild drama during the announcement as the INEC Returning Officer told the Collation Officer for Nasarawa LGA to check his figures as they did not tally, and showed evidence of over-voting. After checks by the returning officer, valid votes stood at 14,048; rejected votes were 376, while total votes cast were 14,424.
So, at the end of the supplementary elections held in 28 LGAs on March 23, PDP polled a total of 10,239 votes against 45,876 votes secured by APC.
Before the elections were declared inconclusive after the March 9 governorship election, PDP was leading with 1,014,474 votes, while APC had secured 987,819 votes.
However, after the March 23 governorship election, the total figures for APC stood at 1,033,695 votes against 1,024,713 votes secured by PDP, meaning Ganduje won with a margin of 8,982 votes.
Four polling units were cancelled in Gama Ward in Nasarawa LGA due to incidents of over voting and violence. A total of 2,639 votes were cancelled.
The Kano governorship election is arguably one of the most controversial governorship elections, and unarguably the most controversial of the supplementary elections, as it was marred by incidents of violence and voter intimidation.
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target=_blank>President Bouteflika, Dehors! By SOC Okenwa
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Like Nigeria Algeria is rich in both human and natural resources (especially the black gold). Its population is estimated at more than 42 million souls. An Arab country in the northern edge of Africa it is reputed as the richest in the Maghrebian countries that comprise Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. A close society with a semblance od democracy run by a ruthless gang led by the indisposed 82-year old President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The country is rich but Blacks are detested and treated like animals whereever and whenever they are found within her territory. Though President Bouteflika was born in Morocco his presidency’s diplomatic relationship with the equally rich Kingdom of Morocco is far from cordial.
From the capital city of Algiers to Constantine, Blida to Oran down to other major cities and towns the anti-Blacks sentiment is national and total. Many black Africans (especially from West Africa) that have had cause to visit the country on transit en route to Europe by sea or in search of elusive greener pastures had had harrowing experiences to narrate about how the Algerian security forces maltreated them. In a dehumanizing manner some of these adventurers had been killed or gone missing while others are still languishing in prisons! And worse of it all, the overzealous law-enforcement agents are doing all these abuses with glaring impunity.
President Bouteflika came to power in 1999. After the Algerian independence in 1962 Bouteflika was appointed Minister for Youth, Sports, and Tourism. And a year later he was made the Foreign Minister. A shrewd politician whose domineering methods and tactics are shrouded in mystery he remains till today, even on a wheel-chair, a strongman who laboured hard to bring stability and economic prosperity to his country and people.
During the Arab Spring uprising some years ago some entrenched dictators in neighbouring countries were swept away but Bouteflika survived it as Algeria was spared the revolutionary trend. In Tunisia, Egypt and later Libya ferocious tyrants bit the dust and some fled to exile, others cooled their executive heels in prison and others were simply killed like rats on the streets. Ben Ali, Hosni Mubarak, the late Muammar Ghadaffi — do you still remember them and their rise and fall from power?
Like the Nigerian ‘re-elected’ President Muhammadu Buhari President Bouteflika is battling with presidential infirmity. He had suffered a devastating stroke way back in 2013 and since then he has been confined to a wheel-chair unable to stand on his feet or even communicate easily. Yet he rules! Like Buhari he often undergoes medical tourism abroad with little or no explanation as to his real health status. The latest of such medical sojourns overseas had seen him recently in Geneva, Switzerland, where he spent weeks taking good care of his fragile health.
His fourth mandate, ordinarily, would be elapsing next month of April. But even while on a hospital bed obviously oblivious of happenings around the world Bouteflika had, through one of his cronies, deposited his candidacy for a fifth consecutive term! However, this time, majority of the hitherto silent and docile Algerians have had enough. And they have been demonstrating, week after week, in their millions, on the streets, for a system change in the country. They are united in their vociferous ‘No’ to a fifth inordinate term for an old, sick and tired man on a wheel-chair.
As the unprecedented spontaneous pressure mounted on the streets in many towns and cities (including the hitherto impregnable Algiers) Bouteflika came back home from Geneva recently and announced that he would no longer be going for a fifth term annulling the presidential election scheduled for next month and decreeing that a National consultative Conference, one charged with the onerous task of writing a new constitution and proposing a new way forward for the country, would be inaugurated in due course.
Meanwhile as these proposed events are taking place the status quo would be maintained! That is, in other words, saying no to a fifth mandate but prolonging the current fourth indefinitely. The opposition on the streets had summarily rejected the presidential offer as a ruse and piled up the pressure last Friday with a monstrous show of force on the streets. Of course the embattled presidency had tried to buy time and suffocate the mass movement that could well metamorphose into a revolution.
For the past two decades Bouteflika has ruled Algeria like a glorified monarch with little or no opposition. Though the country is never a kingdom like Morocco the man had deftly used a network of mafians, crooks, goons and family to maintain a strong hold on the country. A veteran venerated politician with a sordid past Bouteflika was seen as a patriot by a majority of his compatriots before now. He brooked no internal or external interference in his country’s affairs even as his country, like China, is not interested in the national affairs of other countries.
A Francophone country that speaks more Arab than French Algerians are very proud of their national heritage. They hardly travel out. An acquaintance from Togo who spent about three years in the country once told me that of all the years he spent there he never one day witnessed rain falling! Algeria is indeed a ‘special’ nation in some ways including drought year in year out!
The people-power echoes on the streets of Algiers and other cities indicated that ‘King’ Bouteflika’s days in power are numbered. Ex-dictators Ben Ali, Mubarak and the late Ghaddafi tried to quell the nascent revolution on the streets of Tunis, Cairo and Benghazi respectively but the people’s power triumphed over entrenched dictatorships. Today it is no longer a question of if President Bouteflika would survive the ‘assault’ by the masses out to effect a popular revolutionary civil ‘coup’ against the establishment but when his army of gerontocrats, killers and corrupt coterie of businessmen would surrender power on the masses’ terms.
From the look of things Algeria has changed for good. The years, months and days of state terror and/or terrorism have devolved. Today even the military tanks and the secret police in a police state that served as intimidatory state ruling tools could no longer be relied upon to contain the explosive situation. We hope that the news from Algiers would serve as a lesson to the despots in sub-Saharan Africa — the Paul Biyas, Idris Derby Itnos, Sassou Nguessos and Obiang Mbasogos. Democracy in its unadulterated form must prevail in Algiers, Yaounde, N’djamena, Brazzaville and Malabo.
A video image of the mass protests online revealed an organized pattern, pacific processions spanning kilometres with almost every Algerian involved! Men, women, boys, girls, the old and young, all united by one objective: toppling peacefully the current old order and installing a new one in its stead. We express our social solidarity with the Algerians and urge all men of goodwill around the world to help see through the change being popularly demanded on the streets.
The Algerian people are fed up with Bouteflika and his gang. And all they wanted for now is a regime change. The cabal running the Algerian national affair on behalf of the indisposed near-senile Bouteflika must be made to beat a hasty retreat for peace to continue reigning. Otherwise a bloody revolution is inevitable sooner than later.
As the mass protests hit back the streets last weekend the people of all ages were overheard chanting in unison: Bouteflika, dehors! (Bouteflika, Out!) We join them in announcing the imminent arrival of a new dawn in Algiers and elsewhere in Algeria.
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target=_blank>Prof Adesegun Banjo: A Nigerian Academic In The US Who Tried To Overthrow General Abacha Is Dead
He died with a bundle of untold history
The reporter begins the story on a painful, personal note. I knew Prof Adesegun Banjo. I met him around 1996. He was in exile in Ghana. My first meeting with him was dramatic. The late Sanni Abacha’s government had placed a bounty on his head. He was wanted dead or alive. His offence was treason. Prof Adebanjo had truly planted to overthrow the government of Sani Abacha following the ancient axiom that disobedience to an illegitimate order is just. I can only remember a handful of Nigerians that made the sacrifices this Professor of Human Anatomy made to the campaign against totalitarian rule in Nigeria.
The crusade started in the United States, (US) where he had worked as a surgeon. He had saved some 4million dollars through dint of hard work, Spartan discipline, self-denial of the good things of life and support from his charming wife. He then went into the open market. He purchased 3000 rifles, several sub-machine guns, thousands of medical equipment and kits. He even bought machines that could make several bullets. He bought medical equipment for the soldiers he planned to recruit in case they sustained injuries. How successfully beat the security operatives in Europe and America where he may have sourced the weapons.
His calculation followed three years of planning and several reconnaissance home visits. He took his time to study the barracks and the locations of the sentry. At Dodan Barracks, Ikeja and Ojo Cantonments, he took special interests with the hope of seizing them and converting them to his command posts.
He had a near perfect plan. He would bring in the weapons through the sea and land, launch a blitzkrieg of military assaults on important military installations. He would then launch a grand attack beginning from a rural community. From his calculation, he needed few men to start to be tripled after taking over the radio stations and making announcements for more to join the rebellion.
He kept his masterplan to his chest. With his calculation, he would take Lagos in days, followed by Ibadan and then he would move to Abuja. He already had field men in the Niger-Delta and in the Middle Belt and in some parts of the North. The effort was to be coordinated by him. Prof Banjo felt the military had to be overthrown by all means. He raised personal funds, recruited American soldiers including a Vietnamese Major who first trained him in Guerilla warfare. He wanted to build a small, swift and mobile army that would, within the shortest time storm Nigeria and destabilize the military high command.
He was a man of martial intrigues. In the days of his campaign, he suspected everything human; flying objects and creeping things. He was a man driven by suspicion and he had the habit of looking at his quest from one corner of his eyes as if suspecting you were holding a gun or that he had a pistol hidden under his trademark French suit. In Ghana, I had an extensive interview with him. A stocky and strongly built man by all standards, he wore the fierce mien of a revolutionary and the daring eyeballs of a prowling lion.
On that day I met him in Ghana at the Teachers House, through another radical journalist, Bunmi Aborisade, I had waited for about two hours before he stormed into the room, sweating. I thought he was coming from Kumasi, some hundreds of miles away. After the meeting, he left bile on my lips. Nothing can be as devastating as a journalist holding on to an exclusive story but with the instruction never to publish.
I was in The Guardian Newspaper. His fears were genuine. The newspaper had just been closed down and then reopened. He didn’t want the newspaper to be closed again, he explained, adding that more importantly, he was not in a safe place in Ghana. Later, I saw a tainted old Renault pulled up. The driver, a short man with a chest the size of a little bulldozer opened the door for him. He jumped inside. I watched the red, tail light disappeared into the corner of Accra street, far away from the balcony where I stood in awe. It took about 10 years later for me to know that he actually came to meet me from the room next to where I had met him.
Prof Banjo endured an extraordinary punishment for his rebellion against injustice. The weapons he procured were, by accident, sighted by Beninoise Gendarmes. Initially, the security operatives praised him, promising that since the weapons were meant to fight Abacha, they would assist him. At Benin Republic, he bribed the officials to the tune of 1.5million. He was almost entering Nigeria when he got a call from Copenhagen asking him to pay some 5000 dollars. He left to raise the money but felt he should offload the goods first. It was in the process than one of the Benin Gendarmes noticed the protruding butt of a gun in the container. He raised the alarm. Banjo was picked up. At first, the officials said they would allow him to go. But information had reached Abacha.
So, the second day, the country was flooded with Nigerian top military echelon including Col Frank Omenka of the Directorate of Military Intelligence, (DMI). Local authorities told him Abacha had passed on 100 million dollars to some Beninese officials. That was how he was detained at the Port Prison. He spent 10 days amidst diplomatic manoeuvres by Nigeria to repatriate their most priced fugitive. He planned to escape with a small knife with 26-hydra heads, cutting the protective fence.
But somehow, a spy was in the midst who hinted Abuja. Within the shortest time, top security officials later told Banjo that the sum of 100million dollars was dispatched to the Benin Republic to oil the hands of officials who had sold him. But it was not going to be easy for Abacha as foreign countries were already alerted many of who did not want him killed. Banjo was bundled into a toilet, his wife separated from him. He spent 10 days in the septic tank relying on the keyhole to sniff some fresh air. He made an attempt to escape, through a jackknife he had kept in his kitty. An alarm was raised, he retreated. Thus began his ordeal. He was taken to court in the Benin Republic. He relied on the ECOWAS treaty that goods in transit must not be questioned. The judge being a Yoruba was moved by his story, especially the courage displayed by his Igbo wife who refused Amnesty offered by President Nicephore Soglo, so that she could go, leaving her husband. The Judge set them free. This was after more than one year in very harsh and dehumanizing cells. But as he walked away from the Court, a call came in from the Beninese President believed to have acted on Abacha’s prompting that he should be detained again. He and his wife were locked in a primitive toilet with constant heaps of faeces. His wife developed pterygoid plexus, an infection of the base of the brain. They spent 14 months in detention before a compassionate female judge freed them again. The two escaped to Ghana through the assistance of a Nigerian journalist, Mr Moshood Fayemiwo who paid dearly for this. Abacha’s agents later kidnapped Fayemiwo who was brought to Nigeria and detained at the office of Directorate of Military Intelligence, (DMI).
When he died peacefully penultimate Wednesday, after protracted struggle with cancer, a bundle of history untold, died with him. The family is yet to make official announcements. Many of his friends and colleagues are yet to be informed. He lay in the mortuary as at press time, but family sources say he will be buried in May this year.
“I had 120 young men stationed at the Nigerian Ports Authority. They were waiting for my weapons. My plan was that if the customs found the weapons by chance, the battle would start right at the seaport”, he had told me in Ghana before he left the country after Abacha had sent a chartered aircraft to plead with him, pick him up and pay him off. When that effort failed, the government of Abacha sent two Nigerian journalists accompanied by one of Abacha’s own son. The assignment was to poison him. They feigned media practitioners who had come to interview him. Prof Banjo awed them when he stormed the venue of the interview with some 15 armed men in Accra. “I was hinted of their plans. So, I prepared for them. Throughout the interview, they were shaking like a lily,” he had told me. He said after his escape from Ghana, the Nigerian military had rounded up many of his local supporters-but some were innocent-and dumped them in the high sea, stones on their necks, no fewer than 100 of them.
One of the emissaries sent by Abacha died in mysterious circumstances in Lagos a few years after Abacha himself had kicked the bucket. History may find it difficult to record another Nigerian academic who stood so fiercely for justice through armed struggle against the military like Banjo. After consistent attempts to kill him in Ghana he had escaped to Uganda. Luckily he knew President Yoweri Museveni. They had met at Makerere University years back. But he could not help him. This forced him to run to Zimbabwe. Abacha had also secured the services of mercenaries, mostly from Saudi Arabia charged to kill or kidnap and bring him to Nigeria. His network in the international intelligence community, mostly of Yoruba stock hinted him in advance.
Unfortunately, when he returned to Nigeria in 2001, life and people became unkind to him, except the love and affection of his immediate family. He tried, but never got a good job. The government and politicians ignored him and treated him like a leper. His efforts to sustain his cancer treatment through medications did not succeed because of funds. He needed only 5 million naira to treat his kind of blood cancer which had a cure, but he could not raise a penny. But one thing is certain, Banjo, who was the immediate junior brother of the late Col Victor Banjo of the Biafra fame, is now totally free from the affliction of a society he tried so much to salvage but that never gave him recognition, not even a wreath after his last breath. His efforts, though aborted, also remain the most striking high-level radical collaborative political efforts between two arch rivals, Yoruba and the Igbo nation.
Before he died, he told me one of his regrets was that the remains of his late brother, Col Banjo lay in an unknown shallow grave, yet to be honoured, even though his covert investigations had revealed the spot is somewhere in Enugu, known only to the late Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu and his few lieutenants.
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target=_blank>All Our Officials Are Insured Against Mishap, Says INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says all its workers are insured against “mishap”.
This was contained in a message by the commission in response to the incident involving Professor (Mrs.) C.D. Tulen, the collation officer for Gboko Local Government Area (LGA), who was shot on Saturday.
Tulen is currently receiving treatment at the hospital.
According to the commission, ad hoc staff as well as permanent staff of the commission have been insured against such incidents, just as all medical expenses would be covered by INEC.
A tweet on INEC’s official handle on Sunday, read: “Breaking News: 1. @inecnigeria can confirm that its Governorship election collation officer for Gboko LGA Benue State, Prof. (Mrs.) C.D TULUEN was shot at and injured on her way to Makurdi with the LGA collated result sheet. She is presently receiving treatment in hospital.
“2. While wishing her a speedy recovery, @inecnigeria wishes to point out that all its ad-hoc and permanent staff are insured against such mishaps and the Commission is responsible for all hospital bills and medical expenses of all such injured staff.
“3. The incident has been reported to the law enforcement officers and we will closely monitor the investigation.” Breaking News: 1. @inecnigeria can confirm that its Governorship election collation officer for Gboko LGA Benue State, Prof. (Mrs.) C.D TULUEN was shot at and injured on her way to Makurdi with the LGA collated result sheet. She is presently receiving treatment in hospital.— INEC Nigeria (@inecnigeria) March 24, 2019
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target=_blank>BREAKING: Double Defeat For APC As Former Member Ortom Wins Benue Gov For PDP
Samuel Ortom, incumbent Governor of Benue State, has secured a second term as Governor of the state.
He was declared winner of the election on Sunday, after the results of the rerun were announced in Benue by Professor Sebastain Maimako, the Returning Officer of the state.
Before the supplementary elections that held on March 23, 2019, Ortom’s Peoples Democratic Party had polled 410,576 votes against 329,022 votes secured by Emmanuel jime, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The margin of lead at the time was 81,554 votes.
However, the elections were earlier declared inconclusive as elections did not take place in areas that had a combined voting strength of 121,019 votes.
After the supplementary elections, at final count, Ortom, who was an APC member until 2018, polled 434,473 votes to defeat Jime and the APC who secured 345,155 votes.
PDP won by a margin of 89,318 votes.
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target=_blank>EFCC Declares Ex-NIA Boss, Ayodele Oke, Wife Wanted
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared Ambassador Ayodele Oke, a former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), and his wife, Folasade, wanted after they failed to answer for fraud charges filed against them.
Tony Orilade, acting Head, Media and Publicity of the EFCC, disclosed the decision of the anti-graft commission in a statement issued on Sunday.
Justice Chukwujeku Aneke of a Federal High Court Lagos, had on February 7, 2019, issued an arrest warrant against the duo, consequent upon an oral application by Rotimi Oyedepo, the EFCC counsel.
Oke and his wife are wanted in connection with the $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 cash recovered by the EFCC from an apartment at Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, in April 2017.
They are facing a four-count charge bordering on money laundering offence to the tune of N13billion.
One of the counts reads: “That you, Amb. Ayodele Oke and Mrs. Folasade Ayodele Oke between 25th day of August 2015 and 2nd day of September 2015 in Lagos, with in the jurisdiction of this court directly converted $160,777,136.85 property of the Federal Government of Nigeria to your own use which sum you reasonably ought to have known formed part of proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: criminal breach of trust and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act.”
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target=_blank>BREAKING: DSS, Police Begin Fresh Screening At INEC Collation Centre In Kano
The Department of State Services (DSS) and the Police have begun fresh screening of journalists, election observers, party agents and other stakeholders at the collation centre of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kano, Kano State.
Journalists were orderly and already seated at the collation hall patiently waiting for continuation of the suspended event when security personnel suddenly announced that everyone should move out for a fresh screening, regardless of the tags previously given to journalists by INEC.
As of the time of filing in this report, the people had been returned into the hall.
INEC officials are currently meeting as they try to sort out “some anomalies” in results for Nasarawa and Kibiya local government areas, which are the only two pending local governments.
Before INEc declared the election inconclusive, Abdullahi Ganduje, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had polled 987,819 votes, while Abba Yusuf, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was leading with 1,014,474 votes.
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target=_blank>Akeredolu Asks Akure Indigenes to Apologise For Failing To Return Alasoadura To Senate
Rotimi Akeredolu, Governor of Ondo State, has asked the people of Akure to tender an apology to Olutayo Alasoadura, the senator representing Ondo Central district, for his loss to secure a second term.
Akeredolu said he was surprised that the indigenes of the town did not vote for Alasoadura in the just concluded National Assembly election.
Alasoadura got the automatic return ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest in the election, but lost to Ayo Akinyelure of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Akinyelure had polled 67,994 votes to defeat the sitting Senator, who polled 58,092 votes.
The Governor, who spoke at a ‘Thank You’ visit to Akure North Local Council Area of Ondo State, said Alasoadura should have been returned to the Senate for a second term because he “performed well for his people”.
Akeredolu also expressed sadness that his party has not always done well in Akure in terms of voting strength.
“We participated in two elections or did I lie? The first election we did, I will say it the way I noticed it. Akure people, you did not do well to our party (APC) in the first election. You might have your reasons but I want to tell us in Akure that either we like it or not, we must apologise to Senator Tayo Alasoadura as we did not do well to him.
“He was a good representation of Akure and he did so well. I have begged him not to be angry with his people, because I also believe everything is always working for good. And it is only God that knows what he has for Senator Alasoadura, and whatever he wants for him, you all should benefit from it.
“I can say it that he (Alasoadura) has represented Akure people very well, and at the time he needed all of us, we abandoned him. Let us tell ourselves the truth. We all owe him an apology, but we will have to move on from there and he has promised to forget everything and also move on.”
It was gathered that the tour of Akeredolu to the 18 local council areas of the state is “an underground work” in preparation for the formal announcement of his second term governorship ambition.
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target=_blank>Kano At Standstill As INEC Sorts Out ‘Some Anomalies’ In Pending Two LGAs
Collation of results in Kano State is currently at a standstill as compilation for two Local Government Areas (LGAs) is still pending.
Results for Nasarawa and Kibiya LGAs have not been announced at the time of this report.
According to the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), votes cast in the two LGAs were still being compiled as of Sunday afternoon.
It was gathered that some anomalies were found in the two LGAs.
There were incidents of violence in parts of Kano as political hoodlums attacked voters, with many sustaining injuries.
However, at the INEC collation centre in Kano, people are anxiously awaiting the results.
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BREAKING: Channels TV Reporter Friday Okeregbe Kidnapped… Abductors Demand N50m Ransom
Friday Okeregbe, a Channels TV reporter who covers the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, has been kidnapped.
SaharaReporters learnt that Okeregbe was kidnapped along Games Village in Abuja while on his way from his mechanic’s workshop.
Those who saw him at work on Friday said he was wearing the same clothes as in the photo insert below.
Sources close to Okeregbe’s family confirmed to SaharaReporters that the kidnappers have demanded a ransom of N50m, saying they’re aware he works for Channels TV.
The Police, Channels Television and the family are all yet to issue a statement or discuss the incident with the media.
SaharaReporters understands that Okeregbe’s wife first suspected something was amiss when she hadn’t seen or heard from her husband as of 8pm on Friday, something very unusual.
SaharaReporters was told the family has been in pains since the ransom demand was made, as it has no means of raising the required N50million.
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