Lagos Man Makes Shocking Claim As His Wife Brings Strange Lovers Home To Have Sex On Their Matrimonial Bed

A man has made a startling claim, insisting that his wife brings a strange lover to their matrimonial home.

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For allegedly bringing another lover to desecrate their matrimonial bed, a 45-year-old businessman, Chike Aroh, asked an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Tuesday to dissolve his marriage to Chioma Aroh, Punch Metro reports.

Chike told the court that Chioma, with whom he had three children in their 17-year-old union, had been unfaithful.

“My children tell me that their mother used to bring a man home and both of them usually entered our bedroom and locked the door.

“When I confronted her, she could not give me any reasonable answer.

“She had been denying me sex for over 12 months, but gives it freely to her lover,” the petitioner told the court.

The estranged husband said that his wife was a street fighter.

“My wife used to embarrass me in public, she fights with everybody in the street over slight provocations,” Chike said.

He said that Chioma sometime in the past left their matrimonial home to an unknown destination for months without his knowledge and permission.

The petitioner said that his wife was an irresponsible wife and mother.

“She is very lazy, does not wash nor cook. I do the washing and cooking,” he said.

Chike said his wife was an unrepentant drunk; that she was fond of drinking to stupor and would, afterward, misbehave.

Aroh said that his wife, who had failed to appear in court after being summoned, was in the habit of always threatening his life with bottles, knives among other weapons.

He pleaded with the court to end the loveless marriage, adding that he was no longer interested.

“Separate us before she kills me,” he pleaded with the court.

The president of the court, Mr Adeniyi Koledoye, in his judgment said that it was obvious from available testimony and the respondent’s refusal to appear in court that the marriage had hit the rocks.

“Throughout the duration of this case, the respondent refused to honour court processes. Therefore, the court has no other choice than to dissolve the marriage.

“The court pronounced the marriage between Mr Chike Aroh and Mrs Chioma Aroh dissolved today.

“ Both parties, henceforth, ceased to be husband and wife.

“Both parties are no longer husband and wife, they are free to marry any partner of their choice, without any hindrances and molestation,” Koledoye said.

The judge, however, ordered Chike to pay a severance of N150,000 to Chioma for her to start a new life.

THE TOP TEN ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE MANAGERS OF THE DECADE

Alex Ferguson

The English Premier League overtime has attracted managers from all over the world, with their varying tactics and styles.

Here is a top ten list for the best premier league managers in the last decade:

10) Eddie Howe
It may change come May, but Eddie Howe can claim something almost all of his closest contenders for this spot cannot: he has, in a Premier League since, never failed.

The decade began with Howe and Bournemouth scrapping for promotion in England’s fourth tier and will end with a battle against relegation from the top flight. Neither manager nor club have been without their faults.

But he is currently the longest-serving Premier League boss, second in the Football League, and a regular refrain when the name of a young English coach needs to be tossed at an elite club. It does him no disservice to say he has never performed below expectations since promotion in 2015, whereas others experienced higher highs but considerably lower lows.

9) Roy Hodgson
Two men will have started and ended the decade as Premier League managers. Steve Bruce has a Sunderland sacking and Hull relegation to his name. While Liverpool ensured Roy Hodgson can relate to the former, he is yet to have experienced the latter in England.

He probably never will; one of the favourites to fall this season is level on points with Arsenal and has Jordan Ayew as their top scorer. Such is the power of Hodgson, it somehow seems less surprising each week.

Crystal Palace, who it should always be remembered had lost their first four games without scoring when he was appointed before finishing 11th, does not even constitute his best work. Nor too West Brom, who he took to 11th and 10th after being appointed with them in 16th. The less said about Liverpool the better. But even they were impressed with a phenomenal Fulham journey that narrowly bled into this decade. The 2010 LMA Manager of the Year took the Cottagers within four extra-time minutes and a Diego Forlan of a potential major European trophy. That is not normal.

8) Arsene Wenger
With at least 151 more Premier League points than any other manager this decade, it is difficult to ignore Arsene Wenger. It is similarly tough to quantify his achievements in the weakest of his three decades in England.

Wenger finished anywhere between second and fourth from 2010 to 2016, a streak that was snapped by his final two seasons in charge. Any evaluation of his work has to be qualified by the fact he came fifth and sixth thereafter as his powers waned. But there is much to be said for longevity in such an unforgiving and scrutinised position: his successor lasted barely 18 months.

His greatest achievements undoubtedly came in the 1990s and 2000s, while his heaviest defeats were almost exclusively suffered in his final years. It speaks volumes of his brilliance – and perhaps the Premier League’s transience – that he still ranks among the best of the period.

7) Claudio Ranieri
Let’s address the elephant in the room before it starts breaking everything and the RSPCA are alerted: he contributed heavily to Fulham’s relegation last season. And the calf is here to remind us that he managed in the Premier League for 22 months of a possible 120 this decade. But he could have taken a club down to League Two, appointed Andrea Bocelli as its chief scout and renamed their the stadium the Dilly Dong Den and his Leicester miracle might still have outweighed that adventure.

Imagine Bournemouth sacked Howe in the summer after an unsavoury situation involving his son at the end of a season in which he referred to a journalist as a flamingo and almost strangled Robert Snodgrass. Now imagine they appointed Attilio Lombardo and helped Steve Cook lift the damn league title.

Leicester had just finished 14th in May 2015, having escaped almost certain relegation, before parting ways with Nigel Pearson. Claudio Ranieri was given next to no chance of survival either in the job or the league itself as his successor. He fed them pizza, rang a bell and called Jamie Vardy a w*nker as he took a provincial – and historically second-division – club to unfathomable championship glory.

He should really have retired there and then, as straightforward a notion as that is in hindsight. But what followed was barely a tremor in comparison to the initial earth-shattering achievement. It can – and should – never be downplayed.

6) Brendan Rodgers
The small fish in a big pond at Swansea became the big fish in a big pond at Liverpool, a huge fish in a tiny pond at Celtic and now a medium-sized fish fighting off piranhas at Leicester. There comes a stage where you just accept that Brendan Rodgers and management go together swimmingly.

Ask Sunderland how sensational his Swansea side were in 2012; the 47 points he garnered in their first Premier League season would be bettered just once in six more campaigns in south Wales. And as crushingly disappointing as his Liverpool reign ended – they lost 6-1 to Stoke four and a half years ago! – it really was quite spellbinding at one point.

Rodgers even managed his top-flight break and eventual return impeccably, allowing the dust to settle at Anfield and walking into a job and a situation most coaches would envy, just as absence had finally started to make the heart grow fonder. Leicester was the completion of his perfect hat-trick.

5) Sam Allardyce
There remains one foolproof safeguard against Premier League relegation. Mark Hughes will protest, but QPR and Stoke were covered in his fingerprints as they fell back down to the Championship. Tony Pulis and Alan Pardew similarly smudged their records at West Brom. Sunderland put paid to the David Moyes guarantee – although he did guide Manchester United clear of the drop.

Sam Allardyce is therefore alone, striding gloriously from the burning ruins of a panicking top-flight club with a pint of wine in one hand, an exorbitant compensation package in the other and a talkSPORT microphone thrust in his general direction.

At Blackburn he finished 10th and was sacked in December 2010 with the club in 13th; they would finish 15th and be relegated the following season. He was parachuted into Championship West Ham, earning promotion in his first season and placings of 10th, 13th and 12th in the Premier League.

Then came something of a paradigm shift: Allardyce as the mid-season saviour. He guided Sunderland to 17th from 19th upon his October 2015 appointment, took Crystal Palace to 14th from 17th upon his December 2016 arrival, and carried Everton to 8th from 13th when the Toffees found themselves in a sticky situation in November 2017.

It is a shame that such unerring managerial consistency is undermined by equally dependable small-mindedness – “The best way to get a Premier League job if you are British is to change your name to a foreign name,” says former England head coach and only man to be appointed by seven different top-flight clubs – but his credentials are undeniable.

4) Jurgen Klopp
It is worth reexamining the media reaction to Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool appointment. ‘The charismatic Indie Jesus’ had landed, evoking ‘memories of Clough’ and ‘laying down the law’ as ‘Sheriff Jurgen’.

The football lexicon is a strange one.

But the fawning was even more peculiar. Here was a German who had never played for or managed at a club outside of his native country, an exuberant eccentric with a self-styled philosophy, who had flirted with unmitigated disaster in his most recent season. Yet the questions and critics were not forthcoming. Far more important was to work out which ‘One’ he was.

The disparagers did eventually emerge; it is not long ago that Klopp was a bottler of finals and believer in terrible goalkeepers, a coach on a par with David Moyes. Times change.

There are trophies to match the talent, club-record runs to complement the character and a cult following to rival any world religion. That is what going from Connor Randall and Jerome Sinclair on the bench to European champions and runaway Premier League leaders in the space of four years will do for you.

3) Pep Guardiola
Right, so Santiago Munez can overcome a difficult upbringing, his father’s pragmatism, that Hughie McGowan, predatory reporting from The Sun and asthma, and you’re telling me Pep Guardiola hasn’t had an influence on English football?

He showed us that boundaries can be broken in an arena where they were previously considered indestructible. He challenged perceptions and misconceptions. He made the impossible probable. He taught us the insignificance of coaching tackling – and, latterly, its importance. He dropped 14 points in a league season with Fabian Delph as his first-choice left-back, then 16 the next with Oleksandr Zinchenko in the role.

Guardiola has his detractors, his time in England has done little to dispel disappointment on the European stage, and his first and current campaigns have shown vulnerability and fallibility. But for two seasons, he bent an uncooperative, dismissive and snobbish Premier League to his will.

2) Mauricio Pochettino
‘Southampton’s sacking of Nigel Adkins is Blackburn-style folly,’ said The Guardian. ‘Nigel Adkins stabbed in the back by Southampton as Argentina Mauricio Pochettino steps in as manager,’ was England Henry Winter’s take in the Daily Telegraph. “Nothing’s surprising and it’s a bit of a laughing stock,” Matt Le Tissier added. “With due respect to Pochettino, what does he know about our game? What does he know about the Premier League? What does he know about the dressing room, does he speak English?” Lawrie McMenemy, an apparent child on a long-distance car journey, asked.

Those are extreme examples, but it is not as if they were alone. “There’s only one Nigel Adkins” was the chant that echoed around St Mary’s at Pochettino’s first game, a 0-0 home draw with Everton. He was made to wait two more matches for his opening win as a Premier League manager: beating reigning champions Manchester City 3-1 lit a fire that would burn almost constantly for the rest of the decade.

Pochettino finished eighth in his only full season on the south coast, representing what was then Southampton’s best Premier League finish. Tottenham were just two places higher but the Argentine saw the potential for a beautiful union.

He slipped into Tim Sherwood’s proper football shoes, transformed the culture and redefined expectations over five years in north London. If finishing fifth, third, second, third and fourth while reaching the Champions League final represents failure, supporters learned to accept that option.

Twice Pochettino was charged with revitalising what had gone stale by offering continental instead of full English. He left both in considerably better states than he found them in. What does he know about our game indeed.

1) Sir Alex Ferguson
It can be viewed through the prism of either Manchester United’s success with him or their struggles without. The journey might differ but the destination is the same: the best Premier League manager of the 1990s and perhaps even the 2000s has somehow carried that crown in the 2010s.

Sir Alex Ferguson won two of the four Premier League titles available to him this decade, losing the other two by a single point and then on goal difference. Guardiola is the only other manager to win multiple championships since the beginning of 2010; he did not do so with John O’Shea or Danny Welbeck in his ranks.

“I don’t know if the players are good enough,” said Gary Neville last year. “I haven’t got a clue.” It became a routine line of argument in partial defence of Jose Mourinho and, more recently, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: a suggestion that the squad was simply so weak that a manager, a coach, could not possibly be expected to succeed. No such excuse was made for Ferguson when it came to Anders Lindegaard or Phil Jones because it was not required. The Scot routinely extracted performances from more limited players through the power of personality and underrated coaching acumen.

That was his strength. Ferguson still relied on individual brilliance in a team environment at times – Robin van Persie, anyone? – but the lines throughout his squad were blurred. Anderson started almost as many Premier League games (14) as Paul Scholes (16) in 2010/11, while Tom Cleverley was their second most-used central midfielder in 2012/13.

Ferguson never finished lower than second this decade; United have finished as high as second just once in the six seasons and four managers since he left. His is enduring excellence that looked impressive then, and even greater in hindsight. It’s just a real shame he didn’t get to work with Ed Woodward.

Faces Of 10 Yahoo Boys And Their Girlfriends Arrested In Port Harcourt (Photo)

Some suspected yahoo-boys and their girlfriends have been apprehended by men of the EFCC.

The suspected internet fraudsters

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt’s Zonal Office, have arrested fifteen suspected internet fraudsters in a late- evening raid on Blue Chip Hotels, Rumuigbo, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

A statement from the agency says the suspects, who are between the ages of 18 and 30, were nabbed while relaxing in their hotel hide out. Their arrest followed surveillance and intelligence reports on their activities and a response to the resolve of the Acting Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu to rid the nation of internet fraudsters.

Among the suspects are five young ladies and ten young men. They are: Tamunotonye Tolofari; Isaac Michael; Kingdom Ekekwu; Daniel Uwalaka; Godswill Agwu; Innocent Daniel; Prince Amaya; Tiemo Ipite; Nduah Gentle; Stella Gbarakoro; Christiana Cletus; Anita Jane; Best Noble, Nduah Precious and Emeka Chibuike Emeka.

Items recovered from them are laptops and phones. The suspects have made useful statements to the Commission and would soon be charged to court.

EFCC Scorecard: 315 Convictions Secured, 350 Properties Seized In One Year

The prominent anti-graft agency in Nigeria has been very active in the last one year as it continues to combat corruption.

 

Ibrahim Magu, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), who presented the agency’s scorecard yesterday, revealed that they have secured 315 convictions and also seized 350 properties seized in one year. 

Magu who spoke in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, during the ongoing Ninth Commonwealth Regional Conference for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa, further revealed that huge cash of different denominations were seized from politicians and their associates during the just-concluded general elections.

The EFCC boss who shared the agency's scorecard in the past one year at the conference in a presentation titled “Creative initiatives in the fight against corruption in Nigeria", said the commission recovered N1,590,039,312.54; N1,760,000,000.00 and N1,030,246,938.51 for AMCON, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, and FIRS respectively, from January to April, 2019.

Greatest Comebacks In UEFA Champions League

Liverpool pulled off one of the most stunning fightbacks in Champions League history on Tuesday as Divock Origi and Georginio Wijnaldum both scored twice in a 4-0 victory over Barcelona.

Liverpool celebrating their victory over Barcelona

 

If there is one word that can describe this season of the UEFA Champions League, it is the word Drama. Right from the beginning of the season, there has been a lot of last-minute goals and great incidents

The latest was what transpired between Liverpool and FC Barcelona. The Catalans had given the Reds a sound 3-0 victory at the Nou Camp, Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi getting on the score-sheet.

Jurgen Klopp’s men had also gone into the second leg at Anfield, without two of their talisman, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino and all hope seems lost for the Anfield giants.

But Divock Origi and Georginio Wijnaldum had other plans, scoring a brace each, send the Reds to the final. Their heroics place Liverpool’s 4-0 win among the greatest Champions League salvage operations of all time.

Below is a list of some memorable comebacks in Europe’s elite competition

Barcelona 6-1 Paris Saint-Germain (6-5 agg), 2017

Barcelona remains the most remarkable of all Champions League comebacks. Trailing 4-0 from the first leg of their last-16 tie with PSG, Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi scored either side of a Layvin Kurzawa own goal, only for Edinson Cavani to grab what was expected to be the decisive strike for the visitors.

Also two quickfire Neymar goals – the second a highly controversial penalty after an apparent Suarez dive – levelled the tie at 5-5.

Then, in the fifth minute of stoppage time, Sergi Roberto struck to create a slice of Champions League history – no side had ever turned around a four-goal first-leg deficit before.

AS Roma 3-0 Barcelona (4-4 agg, Roma won on away goals), 2018

Barcelona were dethroned in the Italian capital last year as Roma completed one of the most unlikely turnarounds in quarter-final history.

The Italian side under Eusebio Di Francesco came back from a 4-1 first-leg deficit to progress to the quarter final on away goals after a 3-0 at Rome.

Edin Dzeko, Daniele De Rossi and Kostas Manolas secured the 4-4 aggregate draw and sent the Giallorossi further, as the Laliga giant fell off.

Liverpool 4 Barcelona 0 (4-3 agg) 2019

Fresh from netting a late winner at Newcastle United the weekend before, Origi allowed the Liverpool faithful to dream by poaching his maiden Champions League goal in the seventh minute.

Andy Robertson’s injury forced James Milner to left-back and Georginio Wijnaldum into the fray at half-time. By the hour, the Dutch midfielder had Liverpool level thanks to two goals in 122 delirious seconds.

Origi had the final word thanks to Trent Alexander-Arnold’s quick thinking from a 79th-minute corner, leaving Barcelona and Messi crestfallen once more.

Real Madrid 1-4 Ajax (5-3 agg) 2019

Despite their impressive display in their 2-1 first-leg defeat, nobody really seemed to think Ajax could turn things around at the Santiago Bernabeu. Sergio Ramos certainly did not – he earned a booking so as to avoid the risk of a quarter-final ban, earning an extra-game suspension from UEFA in the process.

In the absence of their captain, Madrid completely capitulated amid a fearless and thrilling Ajax – the type of which Liverpool might yet be faced with in the final.

Hakim Ziyech and David Neres put the visitors 2-0 up after only 18 minutes and it was 3-0 just after the hour mark thanks to the inspired Dusan Tadic.

Marco Asensio got a goal back, but Lasse Schone’s free-kick beat Thibaut Courtois and sent Madrid crashing out. It was the first time they had ever been knocked out after winning the first leg of a Champions League tie.

Real Madrid 4-2 AS Monaco (5-5 agg) 2004

The Galacticos won the first-leg of their quarterfinals against AS Monaco at the Santiago Bernabeu with Zidane and Ronaldo both chipping in with goals. However, it still was not enough for Real Madrid.

The story was markedly different in the second leg as Real Madrid lead by Carlos Queiroz faced defeat, the agony of which was compounded by the fact that a player loaned by Real Madrid to AS Monaco, Fernando Morientes, ended up on the scoresheet.

The aggregate turned out to be an even 5-5. However, AS Monaco were a step ahead as they had an away goal more than Real Madrid.

AC Milan 4-5 Deportivo La Coruna ( 4-5 agg) 2004

The star-studded line-up of AC Milan which included the likes of Kaka, Andrea Pirlo, Andriy Shevchenko, Dida, Cafu, Paolo Maldini, Rui Costa, Clarence Seedorf thumped Deportivo La Coruna comprehensively in the first leg at the San Siro with Kaka scoring a brace.

However, things took a turn for the worst when Milan squandered a 3 goal lead in the second leg at the Estadio Riazor. Deportivo La Coruna lead by former Athletico Madrid legend Irureta put up an inspired performance humbling the mighty AC Milan 4-0.

This meant that Deportivo moved slightly ahead of AC Milan on aggregate thus knocking out the defending champions.

Deportivo moved on to the semi-finals 5-4 on aggregate

Liverpool 3-3 AC Milan (AET, 3-2 on pens) 2005

That famous night in Istanbul, Liverpool found themselves on the end of a hiding at half-time in the 2005 Champions League final, as Paolo Maldini and a Hernan Crespo brace had the Serie A side 3-0 up.

But the second half proved to be one of the most iconic 45 minutes in Liverpool’s history, with goals from Steven Gerrard, Vladimir Smicer and Xabi Alonso levelling the match up by the hour mark.

Milan then failed to hold their nerve in the penalty shootout, as Jerzy Dudek’s leggy antics in the Liverpool goal helped the Pole outsmart both Andrea Pirlo and Andriy Shevchenko after Serginho blazed the first kick over, resulting in the Premier League side lifting their fifth European title.

Barcelona 5-1 Chelsea (AET, 6-4 agg) 2000

A 3-1 first-leg loss at Stamford Bridge – having trailed 3-0 – had Barca in danger of being on the wrong end of a major 1999-00 Champions League upset prior to the Roman Abramovich era, but in the return match the Catalans showed their true class.

Tore Andre Flo’s 60th-minute goal was sending Chelsea through despite Rivaldo and Luis Figo scoring before the break, but Dani Garcia scored seven minutes from the end of regulation to force extra time.

Rivaldo then converted a penalty after Celestine Babayaro was sent off and Patrick Kluivert wrapped things up, crushing Chelsea’s dreams.

The Evil I Feared In PDP Has Befallen Me 10 Times In APC - Okorocha

The embattled governor however said he would remain in the ruling party despite alleged moves to frustrate him out of the APC.

 

Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha,

The outgoing Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, on Tuesday lamented that he had been afflicted with more evils in the ruling All Progressives Congress than he would have suffered if he had been a member of the Peoples Democratic Party.

He regretted that the APC had inflicted what he called the greatest devilish political machinations against his person 10 times more than what he would have been inflicted with if he were to be a member of the PDP.

Okorocha spoke with journalists in Abuja.

The embattled governor however said he would remain in the ruling party despite alleged moves to frustrate him out of the APC.

He accused the National Chairman of the APC, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, and other unnamed leaders of the party of working with the Independent National Electoral Commission to kill his senatorial ambition.

This, he said, was being done by ensuring that he did not get his certificate of return as the duly elected senator for Imo West Senatorial District.

He said there were moves to damage his political career by his enemies.

Okorocha, who was elected governor in his first tenure as a member of the All Progressive Grand Alliance before he joined others to form the APC, said it was regrettable the evil that made him to dump the PDP for the ruling party had become more fiery.

He said, “The evil I feared in the PDP has befallen me 10 times in the APC. Last week, I wrote a letter to INEC for the first time informing them of their wrongdoings and illegal actions to withhold my certificate on mere allegation of duress which was never founded, neither was there any committee set up to investigate the matter.

“So, INEC on its own believed the reports of the Returning Officer without investigating the authenticity of the accusation. So, there was no issue of fair hearing at all.

“What is important here is that INEC does not have the power to withhold the certificate of return, having declared the result.

“I believe the INEC chairman is up to a game with the chairman of the APC, who is being used to frustrate my coming to the Senate, and this is politically motivated. I’ve given INEC enough time to correct itself and do the needful and issue me my certificate of return but to no avail.

“Many things have happened so far and these should be of concern to everyone. INEC that made the submission to the tribunal has gone back, requesting to withdraw it because the submission was defending its declaration. But because the submission seems to be in my favour, they have said they want to withdraw the affidavit which is out of time.

“The withdrawal was made by one of their members of staff who said that Festus Okoye, a commissioner in INEC, had threatened to sack him if he did not withdraw it. So, there is a huge threat going on in INEC.

“Festus Okoye is presently being used as the hatchet man; he has gone to the tribunal in Imo asking for the withdrawal of the affidavit that has been filed defending the APC.”

Okorocha wondered what the electoral body would do with the certificate of return.

He added that the image of the commission had been “bastardised.”

He said, “I wonder what they want to do with the certificate, if they don’t give it to me, who will they give it to?

“Maybe they will give it to Festus Okoye because he is from my senatorial district but what they are doing is presenting INEC as a lying organisation and that is dangerous for our democracy because, as it stands right now, the image of INEC is bastardised.

“What it means is that tomorrow somebody can withhold the certificate of return of anybody because you don’t like his face, because you feel that he wants to politically challenge you in future.”

Although he is said to be close to President Muhammadu Buhari, Okorocha however said he did not want to bother the President with such an issue especially as it concerns INEC.

“If you know the President well, you will know that he will never intervene as he will only keep mute. But whether President Buhari speaks or not, INEC should do the right thing by giving me my certificate of return,” he added.

Return to a democratic party, PDP tells Imo gov

Meanwhile, the PDP has urged Okorocha to return to its fold, saying the views of its members will not be discarded.

It also said that unlike the APC, there was no one or group that could lay claim to the ownership of the PDP.

The National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, who spoke with one of Punch correspondents, said the PDP “will always treat its members with respect and allow for robust debate on issues affecting the party and our members.”

He added, “Unlike the APC that is owned and controlled by different cabals, the PDP is owned by the people and they are the ones that determine its present and its future. So, I will expect all those that are suffering and smiling, all those who have been beaten by rain and chased out of the party they formed and the house they built without a solid foundation to return to their natural abode where there is peace and tranquility.”

Efforts to reach the APC National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, were unsuccessful.

He neither returned phone calls nor replied to a text message sent to him by one of Punch correspondents as of the time (8:30 pm) of filing this report.

CJ rejects Okorocha’s petition, refuses to re-assign CoR suit

Meanwhile, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Adamu Kafarati, has rejected Okorocha’s petition in respect of his suit challenging INEC’s refusal to issue him a certificate of return as a senator-elect.

Okorocha had petitioned Justice Kafarati requesting that the case be withdrawn from Justice Okon Abang of the Abuja Division of the court and be reassigned to another judge of the same division.

The governor had anchored his petition on a claim that the opponents to his suit were confident before hearing could commence that Justice Abang would rule in their favour.

On April 18, the date fixed for the hearing, Justice Abang announced his decision to withdraw from the suit after seeing the petition.

The development came barely a week after the first judge, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, also of the Federal High Court in Abuja, withdrew from the case.

Justice Taiwo had withdrawn from the case after being accused of likelihood of bias by two parties to the suit.

He withdrew from the case on April 10, following which it was reassigned to Justice Abang.

But indication has emerged that Justice Kafarati had rejected Okorocha’s petition seeking the re-assignment of the case to the third judge as the matter came up before Justice Abang on Wednesday.

It was learnt that the Chief Judge returned the case file to Justice Abang on being satisfied with his response to Okorocha’s petition.

At the Wednesday’s proceedings Okorocha, who is of the APC opposed the PDP’s motion seeking to be joined in his suit.

Okorocha, through his counsel, Mr Kehinde Ogunwumiju (SAN), objected the PDP’s application on the grounds that the application was brought in bad faith.

But PDP’s lawyer, Mr Stanley Imo, held that the objection to his client’s application for joinder by Okorocha was not well-founded.

Justice Abang agreed that the matter was time sensitive but assured all the parties of fair hearing.

He adjourned the matter until May 9 (Thursday) to rule on whether or not to join the PDP as a party in the suit.

INEC had refused to issue Okorocha the certificate of return on the basis that the Returning Officer for the February 23 election, Prof Francis Ibeawuchi, said he had announced the outgoing governor as winner of the senatorial election under duress.

Okorocha had subsequently filed his suit challenging INEC’s decision to withhold the certificate of return due to him as the winner of the election.

Relationship Tips: Reasons Why Should Get Married

THESE ARE FOR SINGLES PLANNING TO GET MARRIED;

So many persons have their various definitions and opinions about marriage. But below are some advice/tips on why we should get married;

*Don't marry for sex

*Don't marry because you're getting old

*Don't marry because you're lonely

*Don't marry you mistakenly impregnated her

*Don't marry because you don't want to lose the person

*Don't marry because of pressures from people

*Don't marry because you like the idea of marriage and admire every wedding you see

*Don't marry because all your friends are get

*Get married because you want to fulfill destiny

*Get married because you to be a helpmate to an imperfect person who loves and accept you for who you are; and not who you pretend to be

*Get married because you want to fulfill your promises.