Today’s Headlines: Tinubu Fires Back At PDP; Police Uncover Baby Factory In Ogun, Arrest 2 Women

I talk less, do more – Tinubu fires back at PDP

The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has disclosed why he flies higher.

Tinubu explained that he does not engage in talks but works more.

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In a tweet, the APC presidential candidate likened himself to an eagle that flies higher than a parrot.

He tweeted: “I talk less, think more and do more. I am more of an eagle than a parrot. That is why I fly higher.”

Tinubu’s tweet is coming when the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said Tinubu was intimidated by the achievements of its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

PDP described the former Lagos State governor as a confused paper candidate.

Police uncover baby factory in Ogun, arrest 2 women

The Nigerian Police Command in Ogun has arrested two women, Christiana -D’ivoire Iyama and Margaret Ogwu, for allegedly operating a baby factory in the Agbado area of the state.

The Police spokesperson in the state, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, while speaking in Ota on Monday confirmed that the two suspects were arrested on Aug. 27.

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Oyeyemi explained that the suspects were arrested following information received at Agbado Divisional Headquarters that Iyama, of No.4, Ibrahim Famiyiwa St., Agbado, was operating a baby factory where she harbored young girls and hired men to impregnate them.

He explained further that she would collect the baby on delivery and sell it to waiting buyers.

“Upon receipt of the information, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Agbado Division, SP Awoniyi Adekunle, mobilized his detectives to the area where the said Iyama and Ogwu were arrested.

2023: Fani-Kayode lobbied Atiku for campaign team recruitment – Dino Melaye claims

Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, has claimed that ex- Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani -Kayode lobbied the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar to recruit him into his campaign team.

A statement by Melaye alleged that Fani -Kayode approached a PDP chieftain, Timi Frank, to help him facilitate his recruitment into Atiku’s campaign team.

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The spokesman of the Atiku campaign team described the All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain as a serial hustler.

Melaye insisted that Fani -Kayode was seeking attention by delving into the PDP crisis.

He described the former Minister’s time with PDP as a misadventure.

The statement reads partly: “The roller – coaster FFK is merely seeking to receive attention, having employed all forms of ingratiation to be recruited by the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, but failed.

Peter Obi’s Diaspora funding runs into serious obstacle

Peter Obi, Labour Party’s presidential candidate’s decision to inaugurate the Diaspora Committee to raise $150 million from Nigerians in the diaspora and N100 billion from his supporters resident in Nigeria may not survive the test of constitutional interpretation.

This was revealed under Sections 224-225 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Sections 85-88 of the Electoral Act, 2022, which stipulates how much a political party can spend on presidential campaigns and where it can source.

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While Section 225(4) of the constitution requires that any funds or other assets be remitted or sent to a political

party from outside Nigeria shall be paid over or transferred to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) within 21 days, Section 88(2) of the Electoral Act limits spending by a presidential candidate to N5 billion.

Ahead of the 2023 general election, the National Chairman of Labour Party, Mr. Julius Abure had constituted an 11-man Diaspora Committee at the national headquarters of the party in Abuja to organise fund – raising activities, among others, for the party’s presidential campaign.

The left – wing party had mandated the committee to raise a whopping sum of $150 million from Obi’s teeming supporters in the diaspora as well as N100 billion from those residing in the country through Crowd funding.

Crowd funding is an online financing method that raises money by soliciting small individual investments or contributions from a large number of people. Political crowd funding is widely considered an acceptable medium for raising funding from grassroots supporters.

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