Chaos In Oshodi As Suspected PDP Thugs Go On Rampage via @iam_bobokanbai

There is pandemonium and chaos in Oshodi, Lagos state, as suspected thugs allegedly working for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are currently on rampage.

Reports from the scenes of the incidents indicates that the alleged PDP thugs came to the streets early this morning, Thursday, 26th March, 2015 with dangerous weapons destroying all billboards and posters belonging to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

“Anybody wearing t-shirts or caps belonging to APC are being attacked and many have been injured,” eyewitnesses told this medium.

According to reports, tension has been building in Oshodi in anticipation of Thursday, 26th March, 2015, which is the day earmarked for road shows and house-to-house campaigns by political parties.

It was learnt that in order to avoid violence, the APC held its own street rally on Wednesday, 25th March, 2015.

Thursday’s violence was allegedly carried out by Fire Two boys whose members work for PDP.

Ironically, the base of the Fire Two boys is directly adjacent to Akinpelu police station and the police did not do anything on the matter. Not a single arrest was made.

The whole of Igbehin Adun, Akinpelu, Balogun and other adjoining streets were turned into theatre of war this morning.

Latest report indicated that soldiers have taken over the streets of Oshodi to stop the violence.

Ahead of the forthcoming polls many cases of political violence have been recorded by police.

Recently violence broke out in Saminaka town, Lere local government area in Kaduna, after the destruction of politicians’ campaign billboards.

Read More

APC says PDP is Planning Trouble In 6 States via @iam_bobokanbai

The Nation reports that the statement was issued by Mallam Garba Shehu, the director of media and publicity, on March 25. It said the PDP-led government was plotting to cause trouble in the states aiming to sabotage the presidential election.

The statement reads:

“Credible information available to the campaign from deep inside the Federal Government have starkly put it to us that the PDP administration has hatched a plan by which the states of Lagos, Imo, Bayelsa, Rivers, Kano and Sokoto will be racked by trouble of a serious magnitude to sabotage the presidential election and democracy in the country in a sinister, wicked and selfish objective.

”It is clearly intended to generate a crisis of serious proportions that would lead to either the postponement or the outright cancellation of the election to exclude the states from the first round of voting.

“By this plan, the INEC will be forced to cancel the elections and have these states to conduct rescheduled elections a week later.

“The whole idea, according to these credible sources, is that the government wants to buy time yet again, gain energy and pump resources into a renewed crackdown on popular will in those states. They deploy the entire muscle and resources of the Federal Government to steal the election in the six states.”

Continuing the statement, Shehu said that 100 trained saboteurs had been deployed to each of the states to carry out these cruel acts. Therefore, he advised the citizens “to do all that is lawful to resist the attempts by the outgoing Jonathan administration to bring down our democracy at the point of their exit”.

Muhammadu Buhari, the APC presidential candidate, has recently made another allegation. He said that the PDP has trained thugs to whom they will distribute fake police uniforms to wear on election day to intimidate the electorate.

Meanwhile, the PDP has raised the alarm that the APC is bent on getting the PDP and its candidates in the state disqualified in the March 28 polls by the INEC.

Read More

APC Accuses FG Of Planning Election Violence via @iam_bobokanbai

According to the Daily Trust, the Muhammudu Buhari campaign organisation said the ruling party is deliberately planning to engineer trouble in six states on Saturday in order to avert the imminent defeat at the poll.

A statement by the APC campaign spokesperson Malam Garba Shehu said “credible information available to the campaign from deep inside the federal government have starkly put it to us that the PDP administration has hatched a plan by which the States of Lagos, Imo, Bayelsa, Rivers, Kano and Sokoto will be racked by trouble of a serious magnitude in order to sabotage the presidential election and democracy in the country in a sinister, wicked and selfish objective.”

He said the crises to be formented in these states “is clearly intended generate a crisis of serious proportions that would lead to either the postponement or the outright cancellation of the election in order to exclude the states from the first round of voting. 

“By this plan, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC will be forced to cancel the elections and have these states conduct rescheduled elections a week later.‎”

The opposition campaign said “the whole idea, according to these credible sources is that the government wants to buy time yet again, gain energy and pump resources into a renewed crackdown on popular will in those states. The party said the government will deploy the entire muscle and resources of the federal government to steal the election in the six states.

Shehu added that “100 trained saboteurs” had been deployed to each of the states to carry out these felonious acts.”

The APC campaign  advised Nigerians in the interest of the well-being of “our hard-won democracy and the overall interest of the nation to wake up to the reality of the threats and to do all that is lawful to resist the attempts by the outgoing Jonathan administration to bring down our democracy at the point of their exit.”

The APC claims are up for believe but it will be gather more beleivers after there was pandemonium and chaos in Oshodi, Lagos state, as suspected thugs allegedly working for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ran currently on rampage and attacked APC supporters.

Read More

Boko Haram kills 75 In Borno... via @iam_bobokanbai

According to a woman who said she escaped from the area, no fewer than 75 men were slaughtered by the heartless terrorists group.

The escapee who spoke with Sunnews in Maiduguri, Borno capital on Thursday on condition of anonymity, said she and other women who have been held captive by the Boko Haram members managed to escape after a bomb explosion pulled down the house where she was held.

She said she escaped from Gwoza to a neighbouring community that was recently liberated by the Nigerian military in Adamawa State.

“A bomb blast occurred in a house where many women were held captive by Boko Haram and there was confusion everywhere. Two people died and many injured. The confusion provided opportunity for me and others to flee the town,” she said.

The escapee said the ordeal of thousands of other people still held hostage by Boko Haram in Gwoza town, which is about 187 kilometres from Maiduguri were deplorable.

She said several women were kept in selected houses by the terrorists who often denied them of food for days, adding that life in Gwoza town is very terrible because residents live according to the dictate of their captors who uses Islamic tenets to rule.

Gwoza, a commu­nity southeast of Borno State is still under Boko Haram control. It was seized by the terrorists group in August last year, after a fierce gun fight with security operatives. The Isamic militants hoisted its flag and declared it an Islamic Caliphate as well as the headquarters of the sect.

No fewer that 12,000 people have been displaced in Gwoza where repeated attempts by the Nigerian troops to reclaim the town in the past has proved abortive because of the  hilly environment, which provide several hiding places for the sect’s members to operate.

Read More

Photos: Meet Ali Baba's sons - they are already taller than him.. via @iam_bobokanbai

Meet comedian Alibaba's sons, Ejay and Tjah, who stand at 6'2 and 6'1 while Alibaba is 6ft. He shared the photos and wrote "Blood of God. My sons are looking like my brothers! Just imagine��.." Then he added "Before somebody curse me, let me curse myself!! I am 6ft on the dot. They are 6'2 and 6'1 respectfully... Not respectively! Because if them like they can be 7'8... If I stand on my money, I tall pass them respectively!! period!

Read More

Photo: Dencia acquires 2015 G Wagon, shows it getting worked on via@iam_bobokanbai

Pink G Wagon. That would be a sight to see!

Read More

PDP Will Claim Back Five Lost States – Mu’azu via @iam_bobokanbai

In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Tony Amadin, on Friday, March 2015, the chairman, said “the PDP is determined to claim back the states lost to carpet crossing and win all those states that have the potential for economic growth”.

According to Mu’azu, the defected governors have abandoned their direct duties concerning the governance of their states, instead they are concentrated on campaigning for the APC. As a result, it has led to the stoppage of most ongoing projects, particularly in the five states.

“Unfortunately for their new party and their desperation to become the ruling party, they have made little or no progress, thus leaving their states impoverished as they concentrate on spending their state’s meagre resources to support their party’s presidential election bid instead of providing dividends of democracy to the people.

“In Sokoto state no new project has been started or completed since Governor Maigatakarda Wammako switched to the APC. His Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mukhtar Shagari who remained in the PDP has complained severally to the National Chairman that the people of Sokoto are being shortchanged because of lack of active governance in the state.

Read More