A landlord in Uzea Community in Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo state has evicted five tenants in his house for supporting the All Progressives Congress, APC, against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the forthcoming Edo governorship election.

The tenants evicted were,Mr Sylvester Chukwuemeka, Okosun Christiana and Ogbeide Elizabeth.

The tenants narrated their ordeals and how the landlord wants every one of them to vote for the PDP which he happens to be a member. But they all refused.

Speaking about the ordeal in Esan dialect was one of the tenants identified , Okosun Christiana, she said,

“We don’t have any problem, just party differences, he told us he wanted everyone in the house to support PDP, because he is a member of the party, but I refused.

“I told him that I have been in APC for a very long time that even if the PDP is buying me a car, I prefer to remain in the APC, and he said since that is my stand; I should consider myself evicted from his house,” She explained.

Also speaking, another of the evicted tenants,

Sylvester Chukwuemeka, a victim of the eviction disclosed that although his rent was due but the action of the Landlord contradicts the principle of fair play and justice just because they refused to support the PDP.

“I don’t understand why the landlord will just decide to drive us out of his house because we are not supporting PDP. I pay my rent regularly and this is not fair to me.

“The state government should come to our aid because I don’t know when it became a crime to support a party.”

It was gathered that the Acting Executive Chairman of Edo State Internal Revenue Service, Barr. Emmanuel Usoh, has made provision for the tenants by giving them tenants some bags of cement and money to build their own houses.

Worried by his wife’s adulterous acts, Mr Azeez Adeshina, on Wednesday approached the Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos State to annul his 22-year-old marriage.

Adeshina, a 40-year-old, who resides at Ipinyewi, off Aroro Adamo Road in Ikorodu, told the court that his wife, Oluwatoyin, was an “unrepentant adulterer’’.

He asked the court to dissolve the union since the woman was no longer staying with him since 2007.

He said,

“I caught her red-handed committing adultery.

“She incited some people to beat me almost to the point of death and the people confirmed this to me after carrying out her orders.

“I cannot imagine being associated with a person that is not under my roof and still bears my name.

“My estranged wife does not care about her image as a wife; she takes pleasure in living outside my home so that she can continue with her adulterous acts.

“I need to move on in life and regain my sanity and that is why I want to divorce her,’’ he told the court.

The petitioner, a bricklayer, also said he wanted to be separated from Oluwatoyin because she had been endangering the lives of their four children.

Adeshina added:

“I have always told her that I do not want her to cross highways with my children where there is a pedestrian bridge but she refused.

“I do not love her again and I do not want her to bear my name any longer.’’

Meanwhile, the respondent, Oluwatoyin who is also 40 years old, accused the petitioner of failing to pay her dowry.

She said,

“Azeez is not a caring person and he finds it difficult to care for me and the children.

“He abandoned me after an accident I had and asked my father to care for me instead.

“Any claim of his that I kidnapped two of our children and harassed him is false.”

She said she moved out of his house because the husband was making life unbearable for her.

In his ruling, the court’s President, Mrs Abiola Omolara, ordered the couple to maintain peace pending when the case would be disposed off.

She said,

“I want the two of you to continue to ensure that the children remain in school because you should not allow your misunderstanding to affect their education.

“I will further urge the two of you to discuss the way forward to resolve this crisis and let the court know your resolutions.”

The case has been adjourned to Sept. 18 for continuation of trial.

~ NAN

A Sexagenarian, identified as Femi Faweya, was Tuesday paraded by the Oyo State Police Command for allegedly printing fake Nigerian currency.

The 68-year-old man alongside his 42-year-old accomplice, Segun Fayose, confessed to the crime, saying they obtained a currency printing machine with which they had duped many people.

Speaking before newsmen at the state Police Command Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, Faweya, who claimed to be a former Grade 2 teacher, said he ventured into printing fake currency because he lost N200, 000 to fraudsters.

“I also needed money to take care of my three children who are in the university.

“I have been printing N500 and N1, 000 notes with the machine in order to recoup the money I lost to fraudster.

“I live at Ijokodo in Ibadan here. I used to photocopy the materials with a photocopy machine.

“I was introduced into the business three years ago by Bayo but he is late now. He duped me of N200, 000 without doing anything for me.

“About two months ago, someone gave me a printer for the business,” Faweye added.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Sam Adegbuyi, who paraded the suspects said there would be no resting place for criminals in the state.

President Buhari yesterday September 6th, while speaking at the APC governorship campaign rally in Edo state assured Nigerians that his government will soon bring the country out of the present economic recession being experienced.

He Said:

“I assure you that we are going to get out of our economic problems. We are almost out of our security problem and we are going to make Nigeria greater again. We are going to be very proud of our country once again, our size, our resources will not be for nothing. We will continue to grow.”‎he saidria will be out of economic recession soon – Pres Buhari said.

A herbalist, Tunde Banjo, and an alfa, Nurudeen Adeniyi, have been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing a 16-year-old-girl, identified only as Olayinka.

They were reportedly arrested in Ijebu Igbo, Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state.

A Punch correspondent gathered that the police also arrested 19-year-old Tobi Ogunkoya, who was suspected to have lured Olayinka into the hands of Banjo and Adeniyi.

The trio were said to have been arrested by policemen from the Ago Iwoye and Ijebu Igbo divisions on Tuesday.

A source said Olayinka’s breasts were severed by her killers.

The state acting Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident, said at about 2.30pm, one Serifat Adebanjo reported Olayinka’s abduction to the police in Ago Iwoye station, alleging that Ogunkoya was a suspect in the abduction.

Oyeyemi added that acting on the information, the police stormed a house in Imosan community and apprehended Ogunkoya, who confessed that Olayinka was in the custody of Banjo in Ijebu Igbo.

Oyeyemi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, added that upon his arrest, Tobi took policemen to the home of Banjo in Ijebu Igbo, where they met him with the Alfa, and they were arrested.

He said two fresh human hearts and a live tortoise were allegedly found in their possession.

Oyeyemi said Banjo confessed to the police that the girl had been killed, her breasts and other vital organs severed, while her remains were thrown into the Ogbere River, in the Ijebu East Local Government area of the state.

He said, “The Police have arrested Banjo, a herbalist, and Adeniyi, an alfa in Ijebu Igbo. Banjo said they have killed the girl and body dumped inside the Ogbere River. The police are working to retrieve the corpse. Two human hearts and one live tortoise were a recovered from the suspects.”

Oyeyemi said the suspects would be soon be transferred to the homicide section of the command’s headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.

– Punch

A Twitter User has revealed the alleged treatment a man received at the hands of soldiers in Edo State.

The User, Ken Henshaw, shared images of a man beaten so badly that he had bruises and cuts on his head and torso.

The victim was allegedly flogged by soldiers in Benin City yesterday, September 6, for not removing his car from the road President Buhari, who was slated to visit the state, was to use hours later.