Abuja - Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, failed to appear before the House of Representatives’ Committee probing the power sector with Chief Obasanjo in his usual self, sparingly showing his disgust with the committee chairman for sending an invitation to a probe panel that was signed on the latter’s behalf.

The invitation letter had been signed by “one Sahmed” (in Obasanjo’s words), instead of the Speaker or the Clerk of the National Assembly, as protocol demands. The former president also objected to the “disregard” for his age and position, and wondered why a letter dated May 3, 2008 only got to him six days later.

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Abuja - The Nigerian Supreme Court will on Tuesday April 29, begin hearing of the appeals against the election of President Musa Yar’Adua of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), filed by the presidential candidate of the Action Congress (AC) and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and former Military Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).

Atiku and Buhari are seeking to upturn the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, which turned down their request to void the election that returned Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as winner of the 2007 presidential election.

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his estranged former deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, at their first face to face meeting in more than one year, taunted one another, yesterday, at the 10th year remembrance of their mutual political associate, Maj.-Gen. Shehu Musa Yar‘Adua.

The remembrance ceremony which was graced by President Umaru Musa Yar‘Adua had kicked off with an opening prayer by Chief Tony Anenih who prayed God to give President Yar‘Adua the courage to clear the rot he inherited from Obasanjo.

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Abuja - Following the probe of the release of funds to the power sector between 1999 and 2007, the House of Representatives may issue a warrant of arrest on the former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, if she fails to honor the invitation to testify before the committee probing the release of funds.

Okonjo-Iweala, who is now a Managing Director of World Bank, had been invited by the House Committee on Power and Steel, but she is yet to honour the invitation.

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Abuja - In a nationally televised ruling, the presidential election tribunal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the opposition petitions asking that President Umaru Yar’Adua’s and Jonathan Goodluck’s election last year April, be annulled.

But Judge Abdulkadir Abubakar Jega said both former presidential candidates of the AD and ANPP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Gen Muhammodu Buhari respectively, had failed to prove that violations of the electoral law were substantial enough to invalidate the election result.

The opposition candidates have immediately signified their intention of appealing at the Supreme Court, where the final decision is likely to be decided.

Security has been tight in the capital, Abuja, in the run-up to the ruling.

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