Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Saturday morning
1. Kenneth Udeze, the National Chairman of the Action Alliance, AA, was on Friday, kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Abuja. Udeze was kidnapped outside a Zenith Bank branch in Dutsen Alhaji. Genevieve Udeze, his wife, said her husband woke up Friday morning and found several text messages indicating heavy withdrawals from his accounts that were not authorized and went to the bank to find out why. She explained that the kidnappers took her husband away in a black SUV.
3. The National and State Houses of Assembly Petition Tribunal sitting in Lafia, on Friday, struck out the petition filed by the PDP, and Senator Suleiman Adokwe, challenging the election of Sen. Tanko Al-Almakura of the APC as the winner of the Nassarawa South Senatorial seat. Adokwe challenged the election on account of alleged unlawful declaration of Al-Makura as winner of the poll and claimed that the polls did not comply with provisions of the Electoral Act 2010, among other claims.
5. An Ilorin, Kwara State lawyer Olarewaju Aluko and his client, Taiye Na’Allah, have sued the Economic and Financial Commission at a Kwara State High Court for alleged defamation of character. They are seeking redress and asking for N20 million damages from the commission. The Ilorin Zonal office of the commission had accused the lawyer of defrauding Pastor Adetunji Adedoyin of his property valued at N20 million.
7. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday disclosed that there might not be a theoretical transmission of election results electronically. It said Nigerian law does not support the theoretical transmission of election results. INEC insisted that the electronic transmission of results was not immune to manipulation as it can also be manipulated by those whose aim is to undermine results.
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