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  Former Abia State House of Assembly Speaker and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Stanley Ohajiriuka, has warned former governor, Chief Theodore Amaefula Orji against joining the ruling party. He called on the former governor, who is the senator representing Abia North Central District, against defecting to the APC. Speaking with newsmen after Abia State APC caucus meeting in Umuahia, Ohajiriuka stated that Senator Orji’s governance style while serving as Abia State governor was largely due to his leverage on the former president, Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience and any that attempt to join the ruling party would amount to betrayal. According to him, “It will be heartbreaking to the former President and his wife to see Orji abandon a party that stood in for him when he was unleashing terror on Abians and owing salaries of civil servants. “While more politicians from this state are expected in no distant time to formally join the APC, we are...

Senator Ali Ndume, who was suspended, has provided more insight into his suspension, saying he will not apologise to Senate President Bukola Saraki in order to get reinstated. Ndume spoke on Saturday as a crowd of supporters turned out on to receive him when he visited his constituency, Borno South, for the first time since his suspension from the Senate. He was placed on a 181-day suspension by his colleagues for demanding that the upper legislative house investigate publications that accused Saraki and Dino Melaye, of improper activities. Saraki was accused of using fake Customs papers to import an official vehicle while Mr. Melaye was accused of lying that he graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University. Following Mr. Ndume’s request, the Senate conducted an investigation that cleared the lawmakers, while Mr. Ndume was subsequently punished for raising a false alarm. On Saturday, Ndume embarked on a visiting tour of some parts of his constituency where he was w...