Iyanyan May Day Blast: Jonathan, Sambo to Storm Osun for PDP Governorship Campaign

The Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and the Vice President Namadi Sambo are scheduled to storm Osogbo, the Osun state capital for PDP rally and campaign to reclaim the state in the August 9 Governorship election

Osun State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyiola Omisore confirmed this while expressing his readiness and determination to to wrest power from the incumbent Governor of the state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. He added that the national secretariat of the party in Abuja had already constituted national campaign council for Osun election, aimed at ensuring landslide victory for the PDP at the governorship poll slated for August 9 this year.

The President and the Vice President as well as the top PDP stalwarts are expected to  to storm the state even amidst the everyday bombing, killing and kidnapping of the Nigerian. The another Iyanyan May Day blast also claims many lives while scores of others were severely injured.

Nigerian Vice President In Mourning as Captain Sambo dies In A Motor Accident In Abuja

The Nigerian Vice President, Namadi Sambo today lost his younger brother Captain Sambo in a ghastly car crash along Abuja airport road.

Sambo The Rambo By Fola Ojo

In 1982 was an action powerhouse movie called RAMBO which starred Sylvester Stallone as a Vietnam veteran who used his advanced military techniques, machine guns and bare hands to fight off the entire police force of a few towns. RAMBO turned these towns into warfronts with his armaments. In Nigeria, there is now our own RAMBO in Vice-President, Namadi Sambo who has promised that Osun and Ekiti states will be warfronts in the coming gubernatorial elections. This time, he seems to be promising us; it will not be a movie!

What is making this threat more unsettling is the optics of several incidents we now see in the aftermath of the statement. A couple of days after the utterance, we saw Ayo Fayose, the Ekiti ambassador in the state Governorship election cladded in a bullet-proof vest during a campaign event. That confirms that some kind of war is looming in that state. Musiliu Obanikoro, Minister of State of Defense mobilized men in army uniform to the site of the Ondo bye-election that was just concluded. The location was filled with pandemonium and violence and INEC indicted him.

PDP South-East Rally: Armed thugs attack Enugu party chairman’s residence

As the Nigerian President, Dr.  Goodluck Jonathan is scheduled to attend the South East zonal rally of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, holding in Enugu today, suspected heavily armed thugs have invaded the Enugu residence of chairman of the party for Udi Local Government Area, Mr. Uche Ogbodo.

The report has that the armed men forcefully removing his private car and a PDP bus in his custody. Ogbodo said, armed men numbering about 12 entered his compound in the GRA area of Enugu and attempted to force their way into his house, saying  that he was inside when they were making all their forceful attempts, but noted that when they could not gain entry because of the iron doors in the house, the invaders took the keys of his private car, a KIA-RIO with Reg. No. AGW 35 AAA, drove it away and used a towing van to tow the PDP bus from his compound.

Buhari Exposes Olisa Metuh, Provides Evidence Of PDP Sponsoring Boko Haram

General Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to statements credited to the Spokeman of Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Chief Olisah Metuh over those allegedly behind Boko Haram insurgency.

Buhari who spoke through Engr Rotimi Fashakin accused Metuh of “despicable fabrications with a view to gaining political advantage through iniquitous revisionism.”

Buhari reminded Metuh that “The former NSA, Late Gen Andrew Azazi, was unequivocal in his assertion that the power play in the PDP was the raison d’etre of the Boko Haram insurgency.