Family member say they will carry out an autopsy on Stephen Keshi, says he did not die of heart attack

Family member say they will carry out an autopsy on Stephen Keshi, says he did not die of heart attack

Rickey Aburime, a member of Stephen Keshi family, say they will carry out an autopsy on the remains of the former Super Eagles Coach who died today June 8th.   Rickey debunked media reports of Keshi dying from an heart attack. He stated that Keshi was meeting some friends and family members at his Benin City resident when he suddenly fell sick. it took less than 15 minutes to rush him to the hospital after the crisis started but that he died just before he got to the hospital.

“All of a sudden, they that noticed his countenance changed and he was not okay. The person with him called Ebuka and they rushed him to the hospital. He was dead by the time they got to the hospital. A nurse that checked him said there was no pulse.

Doctors later confirmed him dead. After the confirmation, as he was not a patient of the hospital, they could not write any report or present any death certificate. They said we must bring the police report and the police came to inspect the body. I am about to take the corpse to Stella Obasanjo hospital pending the autopsy which the family want to do. Dr. Wilson Akhiwu will conduct the autopsy. There is no official statement as to the cause of death. There will be no embalming. It was sudden and we don’t want anybody to speculate. There was no sign of ill health and Keshi has not complained of anything recently.”

Hold El-Rufai responsible if I’m dead

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna Central), said yesterday that his life was in danger and that Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai is to be held responsible should anything happen to him.
In a statement by his Special Adviser on Politics and Ideology, Suleiman Ahmed, Sen Sani alleged that El-Rufai had during a town hall meeting in Giwa Local Government of Kaduna State, threatened to “crush him”.
“We could have easily dismissed or ignored this statement as tantrums of an accidental…, but we decided not to take things for granted, in view of the governor’s mean and vicious history, and his allergy to criticism.
“We view his unguarded and provocative utterances as nothing but a hate speech, and a direct threat to the life of Sen Sani and others, whom the governor perceived as his “enemies.”
Responding, the acting state publicity secretary of the APC in Kaduna State, Salisu Tanko Wusono, said, “Crying wolf and insinuating that anyone wants to attack them further exposes them as lightweights.
“These are people clinging on straws, and trying to create mischief, conscious of their political weakness as a coalition of the defeated, the deluded and the selfish discontented.
“Their leaders lost bids to become state chairman and governorship candidate. They were trounced by democratic means, and they know it. The same democratic instruments and the rules of the party are what they seek to undermine.
“They have been engaged in these irresponsible antics since 2014. The APC and its leaders have every right to warn them to desist from puerile politics. No one will be allowed to thwart the APC from deepening its success. The APC will not waste time pandering to the insecurities of politicians, who interpreted past efforts to embrace them as a kind of weakness,” he stated

BUHARI SUSPENDS MOVE OVER AVENGERS THREAT..
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On Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari canceled his trip to Ogoni in Rivers state. The president was scheduled to travel to the state to inaugurate the process of cleaning up the area.
The cancelation, which has generated uproar particularly on social media, followed the threat of Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), a militant group, on the life of the president.
The group had asked Buhari to sign his “death warrant” before coming to the region.
In November 2014, former President Goodluck Jonathan cancelled his trip to Ogidigben, a community in Warri south-west local government, under a similar circumstance.
Jonathan was supposed to launch the $16 billion Export Processing Zone (EPZ), in the area, but the Ijaws who felt cheated protested because the site of the project was named after an Itsekiri community, without “giving credence to the contributions of the Ijaws whose land also hosted the EPZ”.
Government Ekpomukpolo, popularly known as Tompolo, a former commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), asked the former president to stay off from the ceremony until their demands were met.
The security men placed on alert for the planned visit of the president were withdrawn and the protesters celebrated the cancellation

Buhari scored 2 of 5 in first year as president – Atiku

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday urged Nigerians to give President Muhammadu Buhari a “pass mark’’ for his efforts in the first year of his administration.
He made the call in Abuja at the launch of a book titled “We Are All Biafrans’’ written by Chido Onumah.
According to Atiku, who was chairman at the occasion, of the five areas the Buhari administration pledged to face, he has accomplished two and should be encouraged.
“He promised to look into issues like power, insurgency, unemployment, corruption and diversification and if you are to take two out of five, you can give him a pass mark.
“He has dealt with corruption and with Boko Haram. For power, give him time,’’ he said.
Atiku said that power supply issue was complex, adding that unless the Niger Delta issue was resolved Nigeria may not get electricity soon.
“I think the Niger Delta should be handled with a stick and carrot approach. In 2007, before I ran for president, I met with various stakeholders on the Niger Delta issue and they came up with a policy.
“Part of the recommendations was that the ministry be moved to the Niger Delta and not Abuja. We have had administrations that did not do their homework on the Niger Delta.

“If I had won, I would have sold 10 per cent shares in the NNPC; that will give me 20 billion dollars which would build infrastructure for the Niger Delta but we will always end up with accidental leadership.
“Bring peace and development to the Niger Delta then they will stop blowing up pipelines. Then, we will get gas and then power can be stable but until then, we will not get it.’’
Other recommendations he gave for a better Nigeria were “a smaller, leaner Federal Government with reduced responsibilities. This means devolution of powers and resources to states and local governments.
“State and local governments should control education, health, agriculture, roads and other infrastructure.
“A true federal system will allow the federating states to keep their resources while the Federal Government retains the power of taxation and regulatory authority over standards.
“The result will be a political and governmental system that empowers local authorities and gives them greater autonomy to address peculiar local issues, while enhancing accountability and contributing to the general good of the country.
“Such a robust federal system will reduce the tensions that are built into our current over-centralized system,’’ he said.
The former president also preached autonomy for states, a tax-centred revenue base, enhanced, diversified economic activities and productivity in order to enlarge their tax bases.
He also proposed an end to the indigene-settler dichotomy, the creation of a state police to complement the federal police and help in the fight against crime.
He called for a restructuring of the country, saying “Nigeria is not working as well as it should and part of the reason is the way we have structured our country and governance, especially since the late 1960s.
“The Federal Government is too big and too powerful relative to the federating states. That situation needs to change and calling for that change is patriotic.