APC crisis: NWC member enforces court order, locks Onilu’s office
Lagos speaker denies contract manipulation allegation
The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena yesterday enforced a court order stopping the spokesman of the party from parading himself as a member of the National Working Committee (NWC).
The National Vice Chairman (North West) of the party, Inuwa Abdulkadir, had on
March 13, 2020, obtained an order of a Sokoto High Court restraining the party from appointing or electing “Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu or any member” into its top positions except through a national convention.
Nabena locked up the office of Lanre IssaOnilu, the national publicity secretary at the party’s headquarters in Abuja.
On arrival at the party’s office, Nabena went straight to the office
The Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has denied allegations of awarding contracts to himself in the assembly as reported by an online news platform.
A news platform (name withheld) had in a report published at the weekend accused the speaker of awarding contracts to himself through a company registered in his son’s of Issa-Onilu, located on the first floor of the building and locked it up.
It could be recalled that Nabena had on Sunday issued a statement declaring himself as the spokesman of the party following a court order against Issa-Onilu.
When Daily Trust tried to approach him, after he had locked the office and was returning to his car, he said he will return to address the press on the issue later. name.
Reacting to the report, Obasa during plenary yesterday described the media outfit as ‘Sahara liars’ and challenged it to provide proof of their assertion to the public to unveil the truth.
“What was published by ‘Sahara liars’ has nothing to do with me. I said it two weeks ago when the publication was out about De Kingrun, and I made my position known on that. The fact remains that De Kingrun has no relationship with the Lagos State House of Assembly and I am challenging ‘Sahara liars’ to publish it if there is any; the name of such contracts, the amount, the location, the date and the contractual agreement,” he said.
The Clerk of the House, Mr Azeez Sanni, who brought the matter to the House had said earlier that the House did not award any contract to the companies mentioned in the report published by the media outfit.