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A Lagos State Special Offences (Mobile) Court sitting at Oshodi has sentenced a socialite, Chidinma Ogbulu, to two years in prison for distributing petrol as a souvenir during a party.

Chief Magistrate Kehinde Ogundare convicted and sentenced the socialite following her guilty plea on Thursday and evidence by prosecution.

The judge held that prosecution proved its case against the socialite beyond any reasonable doubt, according to a statement from Lagos State Ministry of Justice on Friday.

The socialite was first arraigned on March 14 for distributing petrol as souvenir during her installation party on March 5 at Havillah Event Centre in Lagos State.

She pleaded not guilty then, but changed her plea to guilty on Thursday when the case came up for hearing.

Ogundare sentenced the socialite to three months’ imprisonment or fine N15, 000 fine on count one of the three-count charge, and one year imprisonment or N500,000 fine on the second count.

The chief magistrate sentenced the socialite to one year imprisonment or N500,000 fine on the third count.

According to Lagos State Government, the socialite violated Section 251(1), 168 (1), 244 of the Criminal Law of the state, 2015, and Section 195 (2)(b) of the Environmental Management Protection Law of the state, 2017.

The socialite is believed to have paid the fine and been set free.

A mother of five, Aisha Tijani, has been arrested by the operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly setting her daughter ablaze.

The suspect was arrested following a report lodged at Mowe divisional headquarters by one Moroof Ayinde.

The complainant told the Police that he lives in the same apartment with the suspect who allegedly set ablaze her 10-year-old daughter.

According to him, the woman was upset because the daughter took a phone she (the woman) had seized from one of her children from where she kept it and gave it back to the child, from whom the phone was seized.

The police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi told newsmen in Abeokuta that following the report, the DPO Mowe division, CSP Folashade Tanaruno, quickly moved to the scene with the detectives and got the suspect arrested.

Oyeyemi said the victim was badly burnt and rushed to a nearest hospital from where she was referred to the Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital for proper medical attention.

“On interrogation, the suspect, who claimed to have been separated from the father of the children, explained to the police that she didn’t know what came over her when she was carrying out the wicked act,” he said.

Oyeyemi said the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation.

The newly inaugurated factional chairman of the Oyo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Abu Gbadamosi has said that he has not committed any crime by taking the oath of office as Oyo APC chairman.

While addressing newsmen after administering oath on the 33 local government chairmen, he explained that the position was zoned to his local government, Kajola, adding that the former Commissioner for Lands, Housing and Survey in the state, Isaac Omodewu, is occupying the position illegally.

Earlier, ODUDUWA NEWS reported how Gbadamosi was inaugurated as the parallel chairman of the party at the swearing-in ceremony held at wonderland plc, Amusement Park Ibadan.

The oath was administered by Barr. Kehinde Owoade of MFN chambers.

Gbadamosi categorically said: “What Omodewu is doing is not allowed because we agreed on consensus.

“That is the arrangement our national leaders actually introduced and Omodewu was actually not appointed for anything, he took over from the top.

“The post was not zoned to his local government, it was zoned to Kajola Local Government, not Itesiwaju. In consensus, when you are not able to agree, you introduce an election. The election was conducted, Omodewu’s local government (Itesiwaju) scored two, the other local government scored three while Kajola scored 16. You cannot actually build something on nothing. The process that led to his emergence was illegal.

Gbadamosi, however, expressed optimism that the incoming national executives of the party “will come and do the needful.”

After taking his oath, Gbadamosi also administered the oath of office on the party’s chairmen in all the 33 local government areas of the state.

Also speaking, one of the APC leaders in the state, Senator Ayo Adeseun, said the party belongs to the “vast majority members.”

Adeseun said the inauguration of the “authentic chairman” of the party in the state, as well as that of the 33 local government chairmen, will return the party to the people.

“A small clique cannot hijack and take control and think they have succeeded at anything. We have tried to return the party to the people.

“You know what happened in the party some time ago, that some people did Kangaroo convention and went and stole the structures of the party. We have made a presentation to the national and national has given us assurances that what they did was a non-event,” he said.

Adeseun, who said he doesn’t have any issue with Omodewu, maintained that a clique can’t hijack the structure of a party in a democracy.

“Omodewu has been speaking with us, and let me say this, Omodewu has proven to be a gentleman. I don’t have any qualms at all about his personal characteristics, but that is not the issue, the issue is democracy. In a democracy, a clique can’t go and hijack the structures of the party and say ‘we’ll beg you, we’ll plead with you.’ That’s not the issue, let’s go back to the drawing board, let’s do the needful first and then we can collectively be friends and brothers. But to say you have stolen a mandate and you want to plead and beg afterwards is a non-event.

“He has been reaching out and I really commend him as a person but that seat doesn’t belong to him. The state chairman of this party is Alhaji Abu Gbadamosi Adejare that we just swore in a few minutes ago. That’s the bottom line, once we settle that issue and we restructure the exco, then no problem, we are part of the same family. We will work together amicably and we will get results by the grace of God. We need each other, there are no questions about that. However, where there is no justice, there can be no peace, where there is no peace, there can be no progress,” Adeseun added.

The senator expressed confidence that the party will come out of its national convention, scheduled for Saturday, March 26, strong and unified.

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has ordered students to commence street protests against the continued strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The directive was issued on Friday by NANS president, Comrade Sunday Asefon,telling students to carry their cooking pots, mattresses, and other items and occupy the streets of Abuja, the nation’s capital city.

The directive was contained in a letter titled, ‘Urgent Notice Of Immediate Commencement Of Mobilisation,’ dated March 25, 2022, and addressed to the zonal coordinators of the union.

It will be recalled that ASUU under the leadership of Professor Emmanuel Osodeke had declared a one-month warning strike on February 14, 2022, over what it termed the failure of the federal government to address its demands and agreements.

The strike was further extended by two months on March 14 when the initial warning strike was supposed to end.