AREWA,BUHARI NOW AFRAID OF LOSING POWER IN 2019

AREWA,BUHARI NOW AFRAID OF LOSING POWER IN 2019

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKUPROFESSOR ANGO ABDULLAHI,AN ELDER STATESMAN FROM THE NORTH LED THE WAY FOR THE VERBAL FIRE RECENTLY OVER SECESSION IN THE POLITY

A clear indication that President Muhammadu Buhari was now afraid of losing power emerged recently during the clamp down on The Sun Newspapers in Lagos,Nigeria by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [E.F.C.C.]

It was previously thought at some point at The News office Desk of Paedia Express in Lagos ,Nigeria that Chief Orji Uzor Kalu ,a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress [A.P.C]had been told to back-off on any negative news from his boys at The Sun and The New Telegraph Newspapers in Lagos,Nigeria if he wanted to be politically relevant and even starve-off the likelihood of marking out sometime in  jail.

However ,when his boys at The Sun Newspapers in Lagos,Nigeria saw an ambitious copy on Paedia Express Multimedia in which it was said via a world exclusive that the general elections may not hold in 2019 due to the success of the sit-at-home order by The Republic of Biafran agitators ,they found this piece of news very interesting and then they decided to do a follow up on a report affecting their major sales and marketing catchment area.

This it would appear did not go down well with the present regime in the light of hot exchanges that took place over the report as Arewa Youths acting under the platform of several Northern related N.G.Os asked Igbos to leave their domain as soon as possible with tempers and emotions running very high and wild on both sides of the River Niger even as at press time.

Investigations by The News office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia Group via  a copy of the Sun Newspapers published on the 13th of June,2017 ,which is now in its library ,showed that the E.F.C.C. really had no justification to have closed it at all.

According to The Sun Newspapers ,about 10 years ago,the E.F.C.C. had obtained an interim forfeiture order in respect to some of the assets of The Sun  Newspapers,attached to a suit against its publisher ,Chief Orji Uzor Kalu for which an appeal had been filed and was now pending in court.

The brand also recalled that the Acting Chairman of the E.F.C.C,Mr Ibrahim Magu in a letter to them and which he personally signed and dated 23rd of May,2017 and received on the 7th of June,2017 had asked The Sun Newspapers management to report to the commission on 5th of June,2017 detailing its operations in the last 10 years on account of an interim order of forfeiture under appeal.

The Sun:"as a law abiding corporate citizen ,our lawyer,Chief Chris Uche,SAN,wrote the commission to intimate the agency of the fact   that the issue was pending before the court of appeal and the receipt of our correspondence was duly acknowledged "

"we were therefore shocked that our premises would be invaded by the commission under whatever guise and this is condemnable and reprehensible "

Officials of the E.F.C.C. during its hour long raid on The Sun Newspapers premises were  said to have accused the brand of publishing Pro-Biafran reports ,Boko Haram and Niger Delta Militant reports .

Though the brand wrote a negative report against the wife of the E.F.C.C. boss recently in which ,Mr Magu had threatened to go to court over a report about a property traced to his wife but as at press time the media firm disclosed that they were yet to get a court summon .

In a related issue,a source who is of Igbo extraction said that he was sure that the government will get its loyalists to encourage people to vote and that during the 2019 polls he was sure that a state of emergency will be declared in the South Eastern parts such that a lot of soldiers will be around to instill law and order and then voting will take place with results being then declared by the Independent National Electoral  Commission