Abuja - There are strong indications that the reported imminent change in the executive cabinet of Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua will see the controversial Attorney General and Minister of (In)Justice, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa (SAN) saying goodbye to his job. The cabinet shake-up may also not come until the national convention of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) slated for March 8, provided it is not temporarily halted by an Abuja High Court which is looking into a suit seeking to stop it.

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Ota - FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo and Peoples Democratic party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT) chairman on Saturday in Ota publicly declared that “inasmuch as Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu’s kind of politics brings results, I will continue to be his political disciple.”

Chief Obasanjo made the declaration shortly after a closed door meeting he had with the Ibadan-born politician, Oyo Sate deputy governor, Alhaji Taofeek Arapaja, Senator Gbenga Babalola, Senator Teslim Folarin, Gen. Raji Rasaki, Azeem Gbolarunmi and the Lagos State executive committee of the party led by the former deputy national chairman of the party, Chief Olabode George.

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Markudi - Benue State legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi has nullified the election of the former Benue State Governor, and Senator representing Benue North West Senatorial District in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Senator George Akume. It also cancelled the election of Senator Joseph Akaagerger representing Benue North East, citing  massive malpractices and negligence on the part of INEC.

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Enugu - The election of Enugu’s Governor, Sullivan Chime of the Peoples Democratic Party, has been annulled by the election petition tribunal sitting in Enugu.

The tribunal chairman, Justice Samuel Ottah, delivered the judgment separately in the election petitions brought by the governorship candidates of the Democratic Peoples Party, Rev. Oscar Egwuonwu; Labour Party, Chief Okey Ezea; and Action Congress, Chief Dubem Onyia challenging the declaration of Chime as the winner of the April 14 and 28, 2007 governorship election in Enugu State by INEC.

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London - The current Chairman of the “Independent” National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu, recently during a presentation of the April 2007 Election report to Nigerian residents and the World Press, said he knew that both former Vice President, Atiku Abubarkar and former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, could not have won the presidential election, even before the election took place.

This is a very unfortunate comment by the INEC chairman, as this further cast a bad shadow on the credibility of the election result. Its like a judge saying an accused is guilty before charged, in the legal world!

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