Islamist terrorists shot at FG panel members in Borno –Akinyemi

A member of the Presidential Committee on the abducted Chibok schoolgirls, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, on Tuesday narrated how members of the committee were attacked by Boko Haram members in Bama, Borno State.

Akinyemi, who is also the deputy chairman of the National Conference, disclosed this while advising delegates to be cautious in their reactions to the explosion that rocked Kano School of Hygiene on Monday.

“We were attacked in Bama by Boko Haram and it took over 30 minutes of heavy fighting between the sect and the armed forces before we were rescued and taken away,” he said.

Odumakin: We’re Heading for Major Showdown at National Conference

The National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-cultural group, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, at the weekend said the southern delegates might eventually head for a major showdown at the on-
going National Conference if the northern delegates fail “to accept that Nigeria is a country of equals.”

Odumakin, who is also a delegate at the conference, gravely lamented the growing influence of what he described as the invisible government in Nigeria, which he said operated in parallel to the
visible government currently headed by President Goodluck Jonathan.


He expressed the views in an interview with journalists in Abuja, where he explained that the pull and push factors, which he said might subvert the purpose for the conference was convoked and eventually culminate in a major showdown between the delegates from the North and South.

Rowdy Session As Confab Delegates Reject Honour For Abiola …say no to immunity clause

Echoes of the June 12, 1993 presidential election reverberated at the National Conference on Thursday when a motion seeking national recognition for the presumed winner of the poll, the late Chief Moshood Abiola, was moved at the confab.

The motion, which was moved by Orok Duke, saw the delegates divided along regional lines as those from the southern Nigeria favoured the motion while those from the North rejected it.

Those who were opposed to the motion, led by a representative of the civil society, Mallam Nasir Kura, were shouting “no!, no!”