Stop character assassination, Lagos PDP tells Lai Mohammed

Opeyemi Adesina

The Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the unsolicited cry of the National Publicity Secretary of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Alhaji Lai Muhammed over purported SURE-P money causing disaffection within PDP as another show of his "busy body and reflection of an idle hand that remains a devil's workshop"

The party indeed expects Alhaji Mohammed to tell Lagosians how SURE-P monies meant for States and LGs have been utilised.

The party states that the ACN is at this point confused about how to confront the PDP in the 2015 elections seeing that our leaders, ever than before are now working together and already miles ahead in planning whilst the ACN is still battling with another Label to contest future elections having destroyed its current name.

The party is not worried at all as it has actually prepared for worse character assassination "we know the modus operandi of the ACN is to cause disaffection within PDP. This time they will fail because all the fifth Columnist erstwhile within PDP are now with them. They cannot find any 'material' again.

Notwithstanding we are saying loudly that the ACN may continue the character assassination of our Leaders, BUT we will not condone any assassination of any of our Leaders, not again"

The party wonders why alhaji Mohammed has refused to react to the PDP allegation that his Company, Westminster Dredging Ltd collected money from LASG but failed to execute the dredging of canals in the State which led to Flooding and many deaths.

Islamist group, Ansaru, kill 7 foreign hostages

Nigeria-based Islamist group Ansaru said on Saturday it had killed seven foreign hostages it seized on Feb. 7 from a construction company in Nigeria, SITE Monitoring Service said.

The group issued a statement in Arabic and English on an affiliate of the Sinam al-Islam network accompanied by screen shots of a video purporting to show the dead hostages, SITE said. One screenshot showed a man with gun standing above several prone figures lying on the ground.

Ansaru, which has kidnapped other foreigners in the past, had blasted into the compound using explosives and abducted a Briton, an Italian, a Greek and four Lebanese workers, the largest number of foreigners kidnapped in the mostly Muslim north since an insurgency by Islamist militants intensified two years ago.

The group’s full name is Jama’atu Ansarul Musilimina Fi Biladis Sudan, which roughly translates as “vanguards for the protection of Muslims in Black Africa”.



In its statement, the group said it had decided to kill the hostages, taken from the compound of a Lebanese construction company in the northern state of Bauchi, because of attempts by Britain and Nigeria to rescue them.

“(We) announced the capture of seven Christians foreigners and warned that should there be any attempt by force to rescue them will render their lives in danger,” the statement said.

“The Nigeria and British government operation lead to the death of all the seven Christians foreigners,” it said.

Ansaru was suspected of being behind the killing of a British and Italian hostage a year ago in northwest Nigeria and Britain’s parliament has labelled it a terrorist organisation.



(REUTERS)