National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Monday gave an insight into the 9th
National Assembly, saying the party is not ready to share power
with the opposition in the National Assembly.
Oshiomhole said the party will not allow what happened in 2015
to reoccur in 2019 as the party will need a collaborative
legislature to provide good governance to the people, adding that
the leadership of the Assembly give all committee members critical
positions as committee chairmen.
He said the party leadership will carry out extensive
consultation with the President and leadership of the party at all
level to arrive at a zoning formula that will be acceptable to all
members and the party.
Details shortly…
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Daughter of NGE’s Deputy President Escapes from
kidnappers’ Den
Mrs. Habiba Abdulsalam, the daughter of the Deputy President of
Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Mallam Uba Gaya, who was abducted
recently in Kano, has regained her freedom and reunited with her
family members.
Speaking on the terrifying incident, Uba-Gaya told PRNigeria
that his daughter miraculously escaped from her kidnappers’ den on
Saturday night.
Gaya, who disclosed that the abduction of his daughter happened
between 5 and 6 pm on Friday evening, described the incident as
most ‘horrific and traumatic’ for him and the extended family.
He said they could not sleep properly, just as many of them were
tramatized and lost appetite for foods.
He added that they got to know of Habiba’s kidnap when his
younger brother called some few minutes past 5pm to inform him that
his daughter’s phone number was not reachable, after she had spoken
to a close family member at about 4:49 pm.
“On the fateful Friday, Habiba went to plait her hair in the
house of one of her friends. And after making her hair, she then
proceeded to my late father’s house in Kano metropolis. But the
ugly fate that would later befall my daughter started when she
boarded a tricycle, and the Keke rider thereafter took two other
women at various locations in Kano town, immediately he carried
her.
“According to my daughter, the Keke rider then took a road
leading to the popular Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital. Immediately, a
bus came and overtook them. It quickly stopped, and three hefty men
emerge and whisked them into the vehicle and zoomed towards
Zaria.
“When the kidnappers arrived at an area in Kaduna that Friday
evening, they took my daughter and the two other women to an
unknown house. They were blindfolded and taken to a thick forest in
Niger State,” Mal. Gaya narrated.
However, Mal. Gaya explained that his daughter’s escape was
miraculous in nature, owing to the intensive supplications offered
by family members and teeming well-wishers since the news of her
abduction broke on Friday.
Uba-Gaya further told PRNigeria that Habiba’s freedom was
secured without paying any ransom to the kidnappers even when some
members of the family had started negotiating the sale of assets in
case.
Narrating he escape, Uba-Gaya said: “What happened was that on
Saturday night, my daughter told her abductors that she wanted to
relieve herself. So, one of them followed her to an isolated area,
some metres from the place they were held hostage. But
unexpectedly, the man who accompanied her to urinate told Habiba
that she had been disturbing them and told her to leave them
alone.
“So, my daughter took the opportunity and took her heels that
night. By Sunday morning she arrived at a certain settlement In
Niger State, where she met some people and narrated with tears her
ordeal. They took her to Dikko Junction, along Kaduna-Abuja highway
and gave her a phone to call her family about her escape.
“We are glad that Habiba was not hurt by her kidnappers. Right
now, she is back in Kano after boarding an Air flight from Abuja
yesterday. Her abduction and subsequent reunion with us was without
paying a dime as ransom.”
The Deputy President of NGE expressed gratitude to the Police,
and other security agencies, especially the Army for its robust
intelligence gathering on the circumstances surrounding his
daughter’s abduction and timely release by the kidnappers.
By PRNigeria