The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Monday night announced former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, chairman of its new six-man committee on National Reconciliation.Other members of the committee are former President of the Senate and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Pius Ayim; former Governors Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe), and Ibrahim Shema (Katsina); as well as former House Minority Leader, Mulikat Akande.
This was contained in a tweet on the official Twitter handle of the PDP by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.
The last person that served as chairman of that committee was the immediate paat governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson.
The main responsibilities of the committee include initiating peace moves among warring factions in the party especially in the States.
The PDP had earlier on Monday stressed the need for unity among its members across the country.
Inaugurating the Ebonyi State Caretaker committee, PDP’s Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Suleiman Nazif, said:
“I like to say at this time that we must be able to reconcile and understand the difference between fantasy and reality. We must work very hard to ensure the fortunes of PDP particularly in the South East”
Controversial investigative journalist, Kemi Olunloyo has accused the Cable News Network (CNN) of stealing her work on the Lekki tollgate shooting.
CNN had released a documentary on the Lekki Massacre that reveal how the soldier opened fire on #Endsars protesters.
In a lengthy write up via Twitter, Dr. Kemi Olunloyo challenged the broadcasting company of plagiarising her work without giving credits to whom it is due.
See her post below:-
It is a shame that Nigerians do not value my work just because I’m an independent Journalist with no funding. @CNNAfrica stole footage from many Nigerians, didn’t credit anyone, pieced them together and turned it to their own story. #ijlekkimassacre is my Investigation #EndSARS
I will address @CNNAfrica today and how they plagiarized my investigation #ijlekkimassacre brainwashing Nigerians using their power of International fame and money to defame local Journalists at @PremiumTimesng @ARISEtv @GazetteNGR @KemiOlunloyo
Everything @CNNAfrica ‘s video was already investigated by local Journalists and @AmnestyNigeria but Nigerians flock to the international sensational ones. I started screaming that the bodies of #endsars protesters the army left with were being hidden all over. #ijlekkimassacre
I accused Reddington hospital of hiding bodies from people looking to identify corpses. An anonymous employee told me they were working with the army. @SaharaReporters did a bulk of the Investigation tracking bodies to Bonny Camp and when the panel got there, they moved them.
Where was @CNNAfrica when I started crying out for the bodies? @AmnestyNigeria said 12, @SaharaReporters said 20, @PremiumTimesng found several in the water @GazetteNGR @ARISEtv also posted investigations. Now Lagos State is RELEASING BODIESEyesFace with rolling eyes #LekkiMassacre #ijlekkimassacre
I was the 1st Journalist to Investigate how they moved & hid bodies before any DAMN
@CNNAfrica See time on my tweet. Nigerians were focusing on the army’s #Fakenews posts. CNN stole uncredited footage and ideas. BODIES NOW AVAILABLEAngry face I tracked them.
The day before 20/10/20
@CNNAfrica was silent. CNN kept quiet on the plight of the protesters but wanted the spotlight when their lives were ruined.
It is believed that Some relief may come the way of Nigerians with commissioning of the 5000 barrels per day modular refinery formally by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday this week, at Ibigwe, Ohaji/Egbema local government area of Imo State.
With the commissioning of the Walter Smith’s refinery, Nigeria inches towards local refining capacity as this is bound to reduce the country level of dependence on imported Premium Motor Spirit.
The president decided to personally inaugurate the refinery in view of the fact that the project is cardinal to his administration’s initiative to boost local refining of petroleum products to end importation and also make Nigeria the refining hub of Africa.
The minister of state for Petroleum Resources, Timpre Sylva and Imo State governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, among other top government officials, oil industry regulators and stakeholders will be there to support PMB at the event . The president will also perform the groundbreaking ceremony for the 45,000 barrels per day refinery also initiated by Waltersmith.
As reported by Leadership newspaper, the event will also feature goodwill messages from top industry players, partners and community leaders. At a recent pre-commissioning visit to the refinery, Yusuf Usman, Chief Operating Officer, Gas & Power, said, “It is a landmark achievement and it shows that we can actually refine our crude oil in-country.”
The modular refinery has a crude oil storage capacity of 60,000 barrels and is projected to deliver over 271 million liters per annum of refined petroleum products, including Kerosene, Diesel, Naphtha and Heavy Fuel Oils, to the domestic market. The bulk of crude oil supply for this phase will come from Walter Smith’s upstream business, with backup from the OML 53 (Ohaji South) Seplat/NNPC JV third party crude currently processed at Waltersmith Ibigwe Flowstation and additionally from the 2020 Marginal Fields Bid Round for a nearby asset. Chairman, Waltersmith Group, Abdulrazaq Isa, disclosed,
“The first module to be commissioned tomorrow is 5,000 bpd refining capacity. We are looking at 50,000 bpd refining capacity that will come with the planned additional two modules; 25,000 bpd and 20,000bpd refining capacity respectively which will then add PMS, Aviation fuel and LPG to the product slates.” Waltersmith obtained the ‘License to Establish’ the modular refinery from DPR in June 2015 and got the ‘Authority to Construct’ in March 2017.
The company then partnered with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) to raise the required financing. NCDMB are 30 per cent equity partners while AFC committed senior secured credit facility towards the project.
“From the very day we keyed into this project in line with the President’s aspiration to grow the country’s oil refining capacity, we felt very happy that we are associated with Waltersmith, a serious minded company”, said executive secretary, NCDMB, Simbi Wabote.
Labour leaders, on Sunday, walked out of a meeting with the federal government over the recent hike in the pump price of premium motor spirit (PMS), otherwise known as fuel.
The Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) had, in a memo dated November 11, 2020, increased the ex-depot price of petrol to N155.15 per litre from N147.67 — the increase took effect on November 13.
Following the increase, the product now sells between N165 and N170 per litre.
The meeting, which took place in Abuja, was a follow-up discussion on the resolutions reached at previous meetings on the increase in the price of fuel and electricity tariff.
The meeting, which began around 8pm, ended less than 15 minutes later as the labour leaders accused the government of not being sincere with the people.
Among those present at the meeting were Najeem Yasin, deputy president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and Quadri Olaleye, president of the Trade Union Congress (TUC).
Olaleye, who spoke on the recent increase in the pump price of fuel, expressed sadness that discussions were ongoing from the previous meeting before the fresh hike.
“Government is showing a high level of insincerity in discussions with us and is also putting us at risk with the people we are leading — with the masses. We find it difficult to move freely, but the people in government are moving freely,” he said.
Also present at the meeting were Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment; Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labour; Timipre Sylva, minister of state for petroleum, and Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation.
Meanehile, the NLC had, in a statement on November 16, expressed concern about the increase and insisted that it is “against the spirit and content of what organised labour agreed with government at the last negotiations over the last fuel price increase”.
Some policemen reported to be on an escort assignment, on Saturday, shot two persons in a hotel in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.
PUNCH Metro gathered that one of the victims, who was hit by a bullet in the stomach, was pronounced dead in a hospital.
The second victim, who was hit in the leg, was said to have been admitted for treatment.
While a source said the incident happened when the policemen, numbering about five, attempted to give a retired senior officer compliment, another said the cops were in a joyous mood, chanting and shooting in the air when the two victims were hit by bullets.
A source said, “The policemen came into the hotel with one retired senior police officer. They were up to five in number. As they were gyrating inside the hotel, they shot in the air. Two persons were hit by bullets in the process. Two of the policemen took the victims from the hotel in their Hilux van to hospital.”
On realising that one of the victims had died, the policemen were alleged to have, on arrival at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, bolted, leaving the corpse, the injured man and the van.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the incident, said the policeman, who fired the shots, had been arrested and was being detained at the command headquarters in Ado Ekiti.
Abutu, however, said the cops were not from the state police command.
He said, “We have established that there was a shooting incident on Saturday night at one hotel in Ado Ekiti. Two persons were hit and one is died, while the second man is receiving treatment. The corpse of the deceased has been deposited in a morgue.
“The policeman who was responsible has been arrested and is now in our custody. We are not going to hide anything. Though those involved are not from our command, the incident is within our jurisdiction and we promise that whoever is found culpable will be prosecuted accordingly.
“The state Commissioner of Police, Tunde Mobayo, has ordered a thorough investigation into the incident and that we have commenced.”
The increasing rate of infertility among young Nigerians is a major concern to health experts, who revealed that thousands of Nigerian couples are childless.
Experts have predicted that psychological fallout of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) could cause birth rates to drop, people to stay single for longer and women to sexualise themselves more.
U.S. researchers reviewed 90 studies to help them predict how the pandemic could shift social behaviours and gender norms — even among those not infected.
They expect planned pregnancies to decrease in response to the global health crisis as people defer marriage and kids, leading some nations’ populations to shrink.
Drops in birth rates will have cascading impacts on society and economics, affecting such things as job opportunities and support for elderly populations.
The unequal division of the extra household labour brought by lockdown could see gender inequality rise and foster more social conservatism.
In many ways, the researchers noted, “the pandemic has become a worldwide social experiment” — the results of which have yet to finish playing out.
The researchers applied their varied expertise in predicting the future — which included backgrounds in behavioural science, economics, evolutionary biology, medicine and neuroscience.
The full findings of the study were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Couples are deemed infertile when they fail to get pregnant after frequent unprotected sex for at least a year. Doctors, in separate interviews with The Guardian advised such couples to seek medical intervention.
It is estimated that one in every four Nigerian couples (25 per cent) will experience a problem making a baby and may require Assisted Reproductive Technique (ART) such as In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF).
“More people are diagnosed to be infertile as a result of increased consultation emanating from better information and education. More awareness leads to people seeking help earlier than before, “ said Emeritus Prof. Osato Giwa-Osagie of the IVF Centre at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Idi-Araba. Giwa-Osagie, who currently chairs the Advanced Fertility Centre Onikan, Lagos, said more educated women are getting married at later age than before, and that later marriages mean more time for the women to be exposed to infections, unplanned pregnancy and self-induced abortion and complications.
“Unsafe abortion leads to more likelihood of damaged tubes, while sexually transmitted infections can damage the man as well as the woman’s ability to reproduce.”
Giwa-Osagie said the implications of more people getting infertile would be that more resources could be needed for investigation and treatment of infertility.
“More investigations mean more cases requiring IVF will be diagnosed. So, more IVF treatment will be required.”
On recommendations on how to reverse the situation, the fertility expert said: “The solution is more awareness and focuses on prevention of infertility by preventing sexually transmitted infections and treating infections correctly. Preventing unplanned pregnancies by using contraceptives or abstaining from unprotected sexual intercourse. Ensuring abortions, if necessary, are performed by trained doctors or midwives, in a hygienic environment.
“Ensuring that enduring births are supervised by doctors or trained nurses in hygienic places to prevent genius pelvic infections during labour or after delivery.”
Another fertility expert, Prof. Oladapo Ashiru, corroborated Giwa-Osagie’s position. Ashiru, a director at the Lagos-based Medical Art Centre, said there was a number of “reasons more people are getting infertile. In the order of priority, the first has to do with increased social interaction, unprotected intercourse and the resultant sexually transmitted diseases or infections (STDs or STIs).
“Several studies confirmed that STD or STI constitute between 70 to 80 percent of infertility in Africa. The commonest of these infections are Chlamydia that is usually a silent infection. Unfortunately, if it is not treated on time it can cause damage to the fallopian tube in the female, and the tube carrying the sperm in the male. The next infection is gonorrhoea. It causes permanent tubal damage.”
Ashiru said the second reason for increased infertility would be increased technological development. “There are substances released into the environment called Endocrine Disruptor Chemicals (EDCs). The toxins in the environment and in diet produce the EDCs. They include products of the petrochemical industries, cosmetics, pesticides, insecticides, fumigation chemicals, the heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic, and lead in large fish, and in water,” he said.
The fertility expert added emissions from paint industries, the paint, diesel and aviation fuels, alcohol and cigarette also compound fertility issues; the same for excess consumption of sugar and fructose-containing products like watermelon, apples and other sweet fruits. “Another issue is the use of artificial food products and Genetically Modified Organisms/foods (GMO). All these and more constitute what we now know as the EDC. The EDC damages all the reproductive hormones and organs making conception very difficult, if not impossible.”
Ashiru also attributed infertility to late marriage, noting that fertility decreases from age 35 and approaches eight per cent at age 45.
A study published in the journal Scientific Reports suggests that taking folic acid during pregnancy may help protect baby boys against testicular damage from environmental pollutants.
MEANWHILE, researchers have revealed why heat stress damages sperm. The project using roundworms uncovered a mechanism that leads to male infertility caused by high temperatures.
University of Oregon biologists have used the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans to identify molecular mechanisms that produce Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)/genetic material damage in sperm and contribute to male infertility following exposure to heat.
In humans, the optimal temperature for sperm production is just below body temperature, in a range of about 90-95 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2- 35 degree Celsius). Human studies have found that exposure to temperatures as little as 1 degree C (1.8 F) above this normal range adversely affects male fertility, said Diana Libuda, a professor in the Department of Biology and Institute of Molecular Biology.
The phenomenon of heat-induced male infertility is well known, and the effects of modern exposures to heat such as hot tubs, tight clothing and excessive drive times have been extensively studied. The underlying mechanisms that damage sperm and impair fertilization are not completely understood.
“In both humans and C. elegans, relatively small increases in temperature are sufficient to reduce male fertility,” said Libuda.
An increase of 2 C (3.6 F) above normal in C. elegans, a type of roundworm, led to a 25-fold increase in DNA damage in developing sperm compared to unexposed sperm. Eggs fertilised by these damaged sperm failed to produce offspring.
This basic research discovery is detailed in a paper published online October 15 in the journal Current Biology by researchers in Libuda’s UO lab. Postdoctoral researcher Nicole A. Kurhanewicz is the study’s lead author.
Until now, men trying for fatherhood receive a wealth of lifestyle advice on how best to boost their fertility — wear loose-fitting underpants, avoid hot baths, get a good night’s sleep and steer clear of junk food.
HOWEVER, scientists are now uncovering a far more worrying truth. It seems that, for most men suffering infertility from low sperm count, the damage was done decades earlier — while they were still in the womb.
Evidence increasingly shows that the delicate processes involved in forming their reproductive organs can be disrupted in the early months of pregnancy, inflicting damage that can harm their chances of fatherhood. Moreover, new studies suggest that this not only sends their sperm counts plummeting, it also significantly raises men’s risk of serious illnesses such as cardiovascular disease and cancer in later life.
Male fertility is clearly in crisis. A comprehensive review of evidence in 2017, based on 7,500 studies, shows that sperm counts among Western men have more than halved over the past 40 years. The review authors, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the journal Human Reproduction Update, warned that the decline shows “no evidence of abating.”
In the United Kingdom (U.K.), around one in 10 men of all ages suffers from infertility (defined as unsuccessfully attempting pregnancy for a year or longer), according to research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine published in the journal Human Reproduction in 2016.
Other studies indicate that as many as one in five men under 35 have low sperm count.
British infertility experts are now beginning to explore the root causes of this 21st-century plague. Already much of the evidence points to chemical pollutants in the air, water and ground around us as the prime culprit.
There is also evidence that parents’ pre-conception lifestyles may affect their children’s health, and even their fertility, and that the problems may be passed on through the parents’ sperm or eggs by changes in DNA, known as epigenetic changes.
The 2023 election permutations may consume the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Some governors, ex-governors and influential leaders have started the search for a successor to National Chairman Uche Secondus.
It was learnt that some PDP governors and leaders, who are under pressure from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to defect, are bidding time over the expected leadership change before making up their minds on what steps to take.
But Secondus has told the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party tbat his team improved the electoral fortunes of the PDP in the last three years, especially in the 2019 elections.
Apart from serving as an acting National Chairman between 2015 and 2016, Secondus assumed office on December 10, 2017.
His four-year tenure ends in December next year.
The “stress” in the party, which is fueled by 2023 aspirations, might lead to a change earlier than the exit date of the NWC.
It was learnt that those pushing for a change in PDP leadership felt the party has been weakened by the 2019 elections – the second in a row, that they were losing.
They also alleged that few governors and party leaders are dictating the pace in the party.
The same influential governors were alleged to have held PDP by the jugular such that Secondus and others are trying to create a level-playing structure in vain.
They also claimed that the party ought to start its reforms early, as the APC is doing.
They were allegedly worried that APC has been trying to make inroads into their party with more PDP leaders negotiating clandestinely with the ruling party.
A leader, who spoke in confidence, said: “It is true that APC is reaching out to more PDP leaders to defect. The return of ex-House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara to the APC has emboldened the ruling party.
“ I think they are trying to woo ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and a former President of the Senate. Some PDP leaders, who are discussing with the APC, are also waiting for the choice of the new chairman of the ruling party before their defection.
“The ex-Senate President may dump the PDP if ex-Governor Abdulaziz Yari energes the new APC national chairman.
The source added:” The PDP is muzzled at present by a few governors and leaders. Most PDP members are not happy by the state of things. These governors behave as if they own the party.
“The reality is that some governors and PDP leaders are secretly shopping for a successor to Secondus.
“They are saying if there is no leadership change, the APC may reduce the PDP to a carcass in the next one year.
A member of the PDP NEC said: “Secondus is not a sitting lame duck, he is as well forward-looking. He raised a committee headed by Governor Bala Mohammed to review the 2019 polls and what the party should do differently to win the presidency in 2023.
“Some grouses about some of our leaders are also that we have not been able to resolve crises in some states and strengthen the party in the Southwest, Northwest and in the Northeast.
“They are angry that Secondus leadership has not designed a counter-strategy to check APC incursions into PDP. It is obvious that APC, which is trying to recover from internal rumpus, is desperate to split PDP. “
Notwistanding, Secondus told NEC members last Thursday that his team had done well in three years.
He said: “When the current National Working Committee (NWC), under my watch came into office nearly three years ago, we based our programmes on 3Rs, to reposition, rebuild and to regain.
“I can confidently report to NEC that the programme is on course. We were able to reform the party ahead of the 2019 general election enough to take us to victory if the APC regime had allowed the will of the people to prevail.”
“The number of PDP governors increased from 11 to 16 and would have been more if not for APC’s electoral abracadabra in Osun, Kano, Kogi states and climaxed in Imo state with the shocking Supreme Court ruling.
At the National Assembly, as an opposition, we were able to attract into our fold the Senate President and 16 senators, the Speaker and more than 34 House of Representatives members ahead of the 2019 elections in addition to three sitting governors, Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state, Dr Sam Ortom of Benue and Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara state.
“All these were as a result of our repositioning of the party that made it a huge brand. We restored integrity to our primaries.
“On the off season elections, we won the governorship in Bayelsa and Edo. The party also prevailed in several by-elections in Sokoto, Cross River, Taraba and Rivers states.”
Secondus also confirmed that the party was reviewing the 2019 polls to become stronger in preparation for the 2023 poll.
He added:” In our last NEC meeting in February, some far-reaching decisions were taken, including the rationalisation of the party workforce to bring it to a realistic level as an opposition party. I wish to report that this was successfully carried out by the committee headed by Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state who did a good job and deserves commendation.
“In our last NEC meeting also, a special committee to review and appraise the 2019 general election was set up. The committee which is also headed by Governor Mohammed is already operational despite the delay caused by the COVID-19 lockdown.
“It is also necessary to bring to the attention of NEC that despite the disruptions from the COVID-19 lockdown, we have been able to conduct congresses in most of the outstanding states and frantic efforts are also on ground to resolve some disputes arising from them in few states.”
The Nigerian Army has again contradicted another of its claims on the October 20 Lekki Toll Gate incident in Lagos by stating that its soldiers did not go to enforce curfew but were on another mission when they were attacked by some hoodlums, who joined the EndSARS protest.
Brigadier-General Ibrahim Taiwo, Commander of 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, who spoke before the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Saturday, said the soldiers were going for an operation along the Epe axis and had no alternative route that was why they took the Lekki Toll Gate area that had been taken over by protesters at the time.
He said that immediately the soldiers got to the toll gate, they were “pelted and stoned by hoodlums”, adding that soldiers responded by firing into the air in order to clear the way for them to continue their operations.
“The place was cleared at about 8:45pm and they said they were going back to their respective units.
“Later in the day, they went out again at about 11:00pm,” Taiwo added.
Taiwo, however, insisted that soldiers fired only blank bullets while admitting that some soldiers were with live bullets.
He also stated that given the same circumstance, the army would act in a similar way to that of October 20, 2020.
Recall that the he had said that the army was called to end the violence going on as a result of the #EndSARS protest and were at the Lekki Toll Gate.
He added that the army was not informed by the state government that the curfew had been shifted to 9:00pm on that day.
Also, in a statement credited to the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, the Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Sagir Musa, the Nigerian Army said its officers were simply ensuring compliance with the curfew put in place by the Lagos State Government.
The army revealed that they were invited by Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-olu, as it expressed its disappointment at the governor for publicly denying his involvement in the matter.
Recall that due to the involvement of the military, about a dozen protesters were killed at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20 with many others left with gunshot injuries.
The killing of the protesters sparked an outrage in the state leading to wanton destruction of properties by hoodlums.
Fresh facts have emerged on how the Nasarawa State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Philip Schekwo, was kidnapped and killed by gunmen at the weekend.
Sources said the killers arrived Schekwo’s home on Kurikyo Road, Bukan Sidi, in Lafia around 11p.m and started shooting sporadically.
Schekwo was said to have perceived danger and made several calls to security agencies without success.
One of the sources, Joseph Gudu said the gunmen used diggers to break a door in the house before whisking Schekwo away.
Gudu said: “His wife, children and the chairman himself made several calls to security agencies in the state but nobody responded.
“The operation lasted about 49 minutes before the gunmen entered the bedroom of the chairman after disarming his security guard. They took him away and killed him just a metre away from his house. They hung his car key close to his lifeless body.”
Governor Abdullahi Sule, Senator Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, the national APC, House of Assembly Speaker Abdullahi Ibrahim, and other top government officials condemned the killing and called for the arrest of the perpetrators.
Others who condemned the killing were the Ondo and Ogun state chapters of the ruling party.
Police Commissioner Emmanuel Longe said Shekwo’s body was found with gunshot wounds.
The police chief said the circumstance of the APC chairman’s death showed that it was not all about kidnapping but assassination.
He said: “From what we have seen since yesterday and the intensity of bullet marked on the wall of the house and the forceful gaining of entrance into the house proved that it was much more than kidnapping.
“And where we found his body, near his house, normally when kidnapping is carried out, it is for profit-making. But this has shown that within a twinkle of an eye, the man was killed, no demand was made whatsoever.
“I believed it was an assassination. But that, notwithstanding, we are going to carry out an exhaustive investigation that will give us a clue to what actually happened. But for now, I believed it was an assassination.”
Governor Sule said he received the news of the death of the chairman with great shock and bewilderment.
A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Ibrahim Addra, reads: “I am personally traumatised by this gruesome and inhuman act that has left me, Mr. Shekwo’s family members, the APC family and indeed all well-meaning people shattered.
“My prayers and thoughts go to the family of the late Shekwo. He was a great husband, a statesman, peaceful gentleman and loyal party man.”
APC, in a statement by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, challenged security agencies to arrest the killers.
It condoled with Governor Sule, the Shekwo family, the state APC and the people of the state over the loss.
The party said: “APC condoles with the late Shekwo’s immediate family, the Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, the State Working Committee and our supporters and members over this shocking killing. We pray the Almighty God grants all that grieves the strength to bear this loss and grant the late Shekwo eternal rest.
“We urge a thorough investigation by the police and another relevant security service to quickly fish out the sponsors and perpetrators of this evil, heinous and barbaric crime and be made to face the full weight of the law.”
