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Ahead of the governorship election petition tribunal judgement in Nasarawa State, no fewer than 1,000 women from several religious organization across the 13 Local Government Areas of the state on Saturday held a prayer rally for peace, God fearing judgement in the state.
A fierce argument between locals and herders had led to the death of a herder and the severe injury of a reverend in charge of Baptist Church, in Nasarawa State.
Sources in the Osun State government have revealed that a copper wire was found inside the engine of the private jet that was meant to carry the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, leading to the cancellation of the trip. Tragedy was averted about two weeks ago when a private jet owned by Nigerian billionaire businessman, Chief Adedeji Adeleke, made a cracking noise while it was about to take off at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos, leading to an abrupt cancellation of the trip.
What is indisputable is that the Nigerian electoral system is irretrievably broken. We are worse than we were when President Umaru Yar’Adua took office in 2007 and asked a panel led by Justice Muhammadu Uwais, a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, “to examine the entire electoral process with a view to ensuring that we raise the quality and standard of our general elections and thereby deepen our democracy.”
General Zamani Lekwot (Rtd) is not given to much media appearances. He has spent all his life in the military, from military school to becoming a general. Along the way, he was Military Governor of Rivers State (1975-78), Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna (1979-82) and General Officer Commander (GOC) of 82 Division,…