Asari Dokubo, Al-Mustapha, Uwazurike, Fasehun Issues Joint Threat…See What They Are Up To

Leaders of the different militia groups and some other persons cutting across all the geopolitical zones in the country have come together under one organization with the resolve to expose anyone whose aim is to create unrest and ugly scenarios in the country, no matter how highly place.
The organizations representing by former security adviser (CSO) to late Head of State, Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, leader of Volunteer Force (NDVF) Dokobo Asari, MASSOB leader Ralph Uwazuruike and founder of Odua People’s Congress, Dr. Fredrick Fashaun and many others made the threats after rising from their meeting where certain issues concerning the future of the country were deliberated.

They resolved to henceforth take drastic stand against anybody irrespective of how influential and wealthy he may be.
The communiqué issued yesterday in Owerri and jointly endorsed by Al-Mustapha, Asari, Uwazuruike, Fashaun and other 23 leaders insisted that they would not allow themselves to be used by anybody to cause disaffection or mayhem amongst innocent citizens in the country.
They maintained that the interest of the nation should at all times supersede any primordial sentiment be it ethnic, religious and regional.

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‘New PDP’ Secretariat: How Amaechi Beat Jonathan

It took everyone including the Presidency by surprise when the news filtered into the airwaves that the Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi had opened a separate secretariat for the breakaway Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday, which he is seen as an arrowhead.The plan to open the secretariat was a well concealed arrangement known only to trusted members of the governor's water-tight kitchen cabinet and they kept it in wraps from the prying eyes of the federal security network and even the news-hounds until the D-day.
While Amaechi was busy at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa receiving President Goodluck Jonathan who was on the way for a one day official assignment to his home state of Bayelsa, the governor's foot soldiers had put the home front in readiness to take the country by storm. And they did.
It was gathered that no sooner had the President's chopper touched down at the Government House helipad in Yenagoa, than the Chief of Staff to Amaechi, Chief Tony Okocha declared the government's willingness to "declare the secretariat for the New PDP open," in keeping to a directive from the "national leadership" of the party.
Right under the nose of the Old GRA Police Station directly opposite the secretariat, police were also beaten to the game and it could only take the intervention of the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID), to race down to the venue and intercept the flag hoisting of an event that did not take quite 30 minutes.
"This is illegality. We cannot allow anybody to carry out an act of illegality by hoisting flags anywhere in this state," Sam Okaula, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in charge of the SCID hollered.
But, a credible source told Sunday independent that while the event lasted, the State Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph Mbu was away to United States for an undisclosed visit. Another senior police officer in the state said the action was the height of mischief on the part of Amaechi. "What was going on in his mind when he receiving Mr. President at the airport? With one hand the governor was receiving the President and with the other he was plotting against him," the officer told Sunday Independent.
Also in the President's home state of Bayelsa, loyalists to the immediate past governor, Chief Timipre Silva, led by his former Security Adviser, Chief Richard Kpodor, dared any security consequence to open a parallel office of the Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led breakaway PDP. Sylva will ever live to "hate" Jonathan for "disgracing" him out of office and brought a man (Seriake Dickson) whom he indicted of misappropriating N150 million Law library books project, as governor.
Meanwhile, a Niger Delta activist, Ann-Kio Briggs said the present crisis rocking the ruling PDP which led to the formation of a parallel executive of the party is a calculated step to hinder President Jonathan from seeking re-election in 2015.
"The gang up in PDP is not against  President Jonathan, it is about South South and other geo-political zones in Nigeria that mandated Jonathan to become President . If we recall what happened when Jonathan became acting President to the time (Umaru Musa) Yar'Adua died, we see the desire by those that want to control the resources of the South and those that are now branding a purported second term agreement are all packaged to distract and make Jonathan look as if he is not ready to govern Nigeria.
"The implosion in PDP is targeted at distracting Jonathan from carrying out his transformational agenda which has impacted positively on Nigerians. They have succeeded in distracting Jonathan temporarily. Nigeria does not need these distractions."
She called on those opposed to President Jonathan to come out with a better alternative on how to move Nigeria forward other than engaging in activities that are capable of breaking up the country.
Briggs spoke on a day the Rivers' Peoples Forum (RPF), the leading socio-political organisation of all Rivers people both at home and in Diaspora said the Presidency is responsible for the many political travails of Amaechi and that the Presidency will be held responsible if any harm befalls the governor.
In a statement signed by its President, Charles Bekwele, the Forum also described as shameful and a big insult to the sensibilities of Nigerians, the comments of the Bamanga Tukur-led faction of the party on the incident.
"This current attack on the office and person of the governor of Rivers State is one attack too many.  They have grounded the official plane of the Rivers State Government. They have withdrawn some of Amaechi security aides, thereby exposing the Governor to harm and danger. And all these are being orchestrated by certain interests within the Presidency.  The Presidency has been consistent in its harassment, intimidation and attack of Governor Amaechi. They are doing this because of 2015. They believe Amaechi won't support President Jonathan 2015 election."

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Obama Says Russian-US Plan On Syria Is Chance For Diplomacy

US President, Barack Obama, has welcomed the deal reached on Saturday to strip Syria of chemical weapons, but said much remains to be done.
In a statement, Obama warned Damascus to comply with the accord and said that if the regime of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad does not live up to the deal Washington reached with Syria’s ally Russia, “the United States remains prepared to act”.
Obama said the accord was made possible “in part” by what he called his credible threat to use force against Syria as punishment for its alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians last month that according to American estimates killed about 1,400 people.
“We now have the opportunity to achieve our objectives through diplomacy” he said.
Syrian government has denied using chemical weapons on civilians, and instead accused rebels for the deadly attack.
Syria has a week to declare its chemical weapons and must allow international inspections, the US Secretary of State John Kerry said after talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.
The demands are part of a six-point plan aimed at eliminating Syria’s stockpiles by mid-2014, which was agreed by the US and Russia after three days of negotiations in Geneva.
Speaking at a news conference with Lavrov, Kerry said that weapons inspectors should be on the ground in Syria by November with the goal of eliminating President al-Assad’s stockpiles by mid-2014.

The agreement did not mention any threat of force if Syria failed to comply, instead stating that the regime would become the subject of an as-yet unwritten UN Security Council resolution.
Efforts earlier this week to draft a resolution were complicated by Russia and the West’s differences on the threat of force.
The agreement was however criticised by General Salim Idris of the Free Syrian Army, the main armed opposition group.
“We cannot accept any part of this initiative,” he said. “The FSA will work towards toppling Assad and does not care about US-Russia deals. I and my brothers in arms will continue to fight until the regime falls.”
He added that the FSA was “frustrated, and feels betrayed by the international community. It has no faith the UN will ever support it”.
The US accuses the Assad regime of killing 1,429 people in a chemical assault in Damascus suburbs on August 21. Assad denies involvement in the attack. The US at first pushed for military action against Assad, but later agreed to try to find a diplomatic solution after the intervention of Assad’s ally, Russia.
The US-Russia deal could also pave the way for the resumption of peace talks to end the civil war, now in its third year. More than 100,000 people have been killed, and millions have fled either to other countries or to safer areas within Syria

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‘With this crisis, PDP will be injured but not decapitated’

 by Abbas Jimoh

Alhaji Birmah: It would be naive to underrate governors

Alhaji Dauda Birmah is a former Minister of Education from Adamawa State. In this interview, the three times presidential aspirant of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) speaks on the current crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the face-off between Governor Murtala Nyako and the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. Excerpts:

Why is it taking too long to resolve the Adamawa State PDP crisis despite the fact that the party’s National Chairman Alhaji Bamanga Tukur comes from the state?
The crisis started after the efforts to re-elect Murtala Nyako when the issue of a substantive national chairman of the PDP arose. It was decided by the powers that-be that the post be zoned to the North-East. Alhaji Bamaga Tukur happened to be among those that showed interest. He comes from Adamawa. I come from Adamawa too. He is Tafida of Adamawa and I am the Sarkin Gabas of Adamawa. So, we belong to the emirate system, the same council.
In 1983, Bamanga Tukur became the governor of old Gongola. I was at that time one of his coordinators. So, my relationship with him dated back 30 years. Now if somebody I supported to become governor wanted to become national chairman, I think it is incumbent on me to support him, having known him to be competent, older and more mature and, therefore, capable of leading the PDP. I look at Bamanga and I know he is not somebody that will fail in his responsibility.
I noticed then that Admiral Murtala Nyako was hostile to Bamanga and wondered why anybody from Adamawa would not like somebody from Adamawa at that level to be the national chairman. But that hostility was due to a number of factors.
Nyako has been nursing the ambition of becoming the president of the federation after his second term as governor. He thought as we were told that if Bamanga becomes the national chairman, that would eclipse his chances. He thought there was no way the Chairman of the party would come from Adamawa and a prospective presidential candidate would come from Adamawa. This made him to become hostile to the idea.
I am sorry to say that military men in politics do not behave as democrats. They are absolutists, because they transfer the command mentality in the barracks to the political terrain. The military do not have opponents. They only have enemies. If you are an enemy, they must crush you. This mentality brought from the military to the political phase is dangerous.
Bamanga Tukur went on to campaign and at the end of the day, he became the national chairman. Then another issue arose.  Most second term governors in the North who want to become President at the end of their second term and whose chance will be lost after they have left their seats thought that Tukur was going to side with President Goodluck Jonathan because Jonathan was sympathetic to Bamanga’s aspiration. He makes sure that Bamanga emerges. So, they think that in 2015, Bamanga will support Jonathan.
This is the reason why Nyako organised some of the governors who now behave like trade unions. They are all gunning for Bamanga’s head. This is the genesis of the problem. Now that the problem has started, actions bring reactions. This is what has brought us to where we are today. If there is a disagreement at that top, one is a governor, the other is the national chairman of a party, the generality of the people will gravitate to the two camps. This will now bring quarrel among their supporters and not that of the principals. They poison the atmosphere. This is the situation we find ourselves in Adamawa.
From day one when Bamanga indicated interest to become the PDP national chairman, I identify with him till today. I believe I will swim and sink with him because I believe he is on the moral high ground.

Now that some National Assembly members have identified with the splinter PDP, what will be the fortune of the PDP?
Let me not be disrespectful to the members of the National Assembly because of their role and contribution to the nation. But you know that governors today own the parties in their respective states. They control the treasury. They control the cabinet. Therefore, almost everybody holds their positions to the influence of the governors, including Speakers of the Houses of Assembly who would not be speakers without the support of the governors.
Two of the three Senators will probably not be Senators without the support of the governors. Therefore, if you take the functionality of the party in the state, if the governors say tomorrow, we are not going to face the east but the south for prayer, they would all pray along with him facing the south because the governors initiated and actualised their emergence in the National Assembly and the respective state Houses of Assembly.

Don’t you see this open rebellion, especially the convention walk-out by the governors as a failure on President Jonathan and Alhaji Bamanga on party management?
No, this is not the case. Let us look at this; we expect Nigeria to develop and have a strong institution. We continue to say we do not want strong persons but strong institutions. President Jonathan has brought to fore the institution of the Presidency and not his own strong man status. He is allowing people to find their own level. Bamanga has heterogeneous people to deal with. Let us not forget that Nigeria is a federation and cannot be run as a Unitary Government. Today, the federating units are finding their voices and exerting themselves. So, we have to make Nigeria stronger and not to have a dictator at the centre. I do not believe we need dictators. So, Bamanga cannot be a dictator. Jonathan cannot be a dictator. Anyway, dissent is part of humanity and Nigeria is an ongoing project. Everybody, despite the differences, must sit together to find a common front.
 
What is your view on the threat by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur to sanction the dissenting governors and their supporters instead of resolving the crisis?
This is politics. If you are confronted with some situations, you bring up ways of matching the situation. When people take extreme positions, you have to find a way of matching up and coming to a roundtable to resolve it. All this ‘katakata’ will soon be resolved. No war is resolved at the battle field but at the roundtable. This will be resolved. But I have my fears just before that convention. The Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) was registered by the Atiku Abubakar’s people. And strangely enough, Atiku suddenly comes out as the head of this rebellion. I believe it is because they have seen in the PDM the prospect of a platform that will accommodate them should what they are doing now lead to a break-up. I have a feeling they are not going to set up a new party other than to be accommodated in an existing party.
They will not go to the All Progressives Congress (APC) because Tinubu , Buhari, Shekarau and others whom they cannot dislodge are there. They want a ‘virgin’ territory which can be used. Now, there is PDM if Atiku will allow them to emerge as the presidential candidate of the party. Therefore, the situation may not be as rosy as they think. By 2014, all of this will metamorphose into something concrete that we can all see before 2015.  Therefore it is a battle of wit and the first person to blink will lose the way. I do not believe President Jonathan and Bamanga are likely to blink.

But don’t you think that this break-up in PDP has exposed your party to possible defeat in the hands of opposition?
Some damages may be done. You cannot ignore what the governors are doing. For anybody to ignore what the governors are doing is naivety. I am not that naïve as I know that what they are doing will affect the PDP. However, the PDM is just registered and has not found its root. 2015 is not an auspicious time to assemble and get people to leave PDP to their fold. If seven governors are moving out of the PDP, I assure you that there are 10 people who are queuing up to replace them. PDP has 18 governors whose tenure is expiring. So all things being equal, PDP will have 18 new governors in 2015. Therefore, in every State there are 10, 20 or 30 people who will want to succeed those governors.
Don’t forget that it is not political parties that are the only platforms that elect candidates, it is the people that go and vote and exercise their civic responsibility. The voting public are 10 times more than the card carrying members of the parties. Therefore, if you focus too much attention on the parties, you are going to miss the point.
Some people are even celebrating because this crisis seems to brighten their chances of realizing their own political aspirations. However, there is ongoing consultation aimed at resolving the crisis. At the end of the day, those who wanted to go will go and those who wanted to stay will stay. We will put our house in order. PDP will be injured but will not be decapitated.

 

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Why Lagos Appealed Judgment On Al-Mustapha, Shofolahan – Fashola

FROM LEFT: FORMER LAGOS GOVERNOR, CHIEF LATEEF JAKANDE; ASOJU OBA OF LAGOS, CHIEF MOLADE OKOYA-THOMAS; ACN CHAIRMAN, LAGOS, CHIEF HENRY AJOMALE AND GOV. BABATUNDE FASHOLA OF LAGOS, AT THE EVENT MARKING 2,300 DAYS OF GOV. FASHOLA IN LAGOS ON SATURDAY (NAN)

The Lagos State Government is appealing the acquittal of Major Hamza Al Mustapha at the Supreme Court because it places the highest premium on human lives, Governor Babatunde Fashola has said.

The governor, who made the remark at the commemoration of his 2300 days in office held at the Blue Roof of Lagos Television, LTV Ikeja, said his administration acted based on the popular agitation of the people.
“The first report is in respect of the verdict of acquittal of Major Al Mustapha for charges of conspiracy and murder by the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal, which has generated some mixed reactions,” he said.
“Because our Constitution permits a further appeal to the Supreme Court, and because we place the highest premium on every human life and because the families of the victims deserve every right to agitate the matter to the final court, just as the accused would have been entitled, your government has appealed on behalf of the people to the Supreme Court.”

Gov. Fashola also disclosed that the government filed 20 different petitions at the Census Tribunal to challenge the figures in the 20 local governments, adding that the petitions were successful in 14 of them where the tribunal made various findings that included orders for recounts.
He added, “From these findings, it seems fair to conclude that the census returns were manipulated against Lagosians in an act of grave injustice to say the least.
“No nation that wants to prosper and solve human challenges should ever be tardy or play politics with data collection projects such as population census. You cannot manage what you cannot measure,” he said.
Information Nigeria reports that the event was attended by Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu; a former military administrator of Lagos State, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu; second republic governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande; Asoju Oba of Lagos, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas; former deputy governor of the state, Mrs. Sarah Sosan among other dignitaries.

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Nasarawa crisis latestSoldiers Can’t Stop Ombatse, Alago militia

by Hir Joseph, Lafia

An overloaded mini bus conveying children from Obi, to Lafia

. 30,000 displaced, death toll mounts as PDP Chairman’s house, towns and villages are razed down

Though no fewer than 14 trucks of armed soldiers from the 177 Brigade of Guards Battalion, otherwise known as Shitu Alao Barracks in Keffi, were deployed to  areas hit in the Ombatse/Alago violence in Nasarawa State yesterday,  eyewitnesses said the security operatives only looked on, as assailants set fire on towns and villages.  

Reports said no fewer than 30 persons were feared dead on the first day of the mayhem, which hit Adabu Alago settlement of Obi Local Government Area, but the unconfirmed death toll was thought to have increased because the crisis spread to Obi town, the headquarters of the local government area, as well as Assakio, an outskirt town in Lafia Local Government Area, by yesterday. In Obi, the residence of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) North Central Zonal Chairman, Yusuf Ayitogo, was razed, just like that of a former Commissioner for Agriculture in the state, Salihu Iyimoga.
The properties were reportedly touched by members of the Ombatse militia group. Two cars belonging to the PDP chieftain were also vandalized.
Obi is located along Lafia-Obi-Awe-Taraba borders Road, while Assakio is located along Lafia-Shendam Road; all in the southern parts of the state.
Authorities, including the state government and security agencies are yet to confirm the death toll, just as they have not confirmed reports that much of the three areas hit by the violence, were burned down between Friday and yesterday. But they did not also deny reports that no fewer than 30 persons were killed on Friday alone in Adabu Alago, the first to be attacked.
Youths suspected to be members of the Eggon group called Ombatse, as well as those of Alago ethnic group, were involved in the crisis, but the spread of the violence and burning, as well as killing, was blamed on Eggon youths.
The Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State, Dameshi Barau Luka, went on a statewide broadcast, fingering the Eggon group of Ombatse in the arson that hit Adabu Alago, Obi town and Assakio.
“This unprovoked attack by some Eggon youths suspected to be members of the outlawed Ombatse cult on the innocent people of Adabu and other parts of Obi and Assakio towns is to say the least, barbaric, condemnable and an affront on the security lives  and properties of innocent citizens”, the live broadcast said in part.
The broadcast was the outcome of the State Security Council (SCC) meeting which started on Friday, and continued yesterday. Those in attendance included the Deputy Governor, traditional rulers, and heads of security agencies in the state, namely the police, Department of State Service (DSS), the 177 Brigade of Guards Battalion, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC), the Nigerian Prisons as well as the Nigerian Immigration Service.         
But the leader of Eggon people, Chris Mamman, told Sunday Trust on phone that the violence “is unfortunate”, expressing displeasure with both the cause and the intolerance those involved in it.
“It is quite unfortunate that it happened, especially that we thought it had died down after a visit by the deputy governor, to Adabu. We went with the deputy governor and the commissioner of police, to the troubled area. We are surprised the crisis still spread,” was all he could say before the network connection went bad.
The police did not say anything beyond the Friday confirmation of the burning in Adabu, when the commissioner, Shehu Umar spoke briefly with newsmen, but eyewitnesses and displaced persons who ran ito Lafia, the state capital, alleged that truckloads of armed soldiers only looked on as the youths set the communities on fire.
“We saw soldiers enter Obi town in 14 good trucks. But they did not do anything. They drove to Agwatashi and returned only after Obi was burned down. Then, they stopped for like an hour, and headed off for Assakio”, said an eyewitness, who fled to Lafia, with his family.
Another displaced person added that the soldiers told them they were in Obi to back up the police. “But there were no policemen on ground. No police. So the soldiers said it was not their duty; they only came to back up the police”, the displaced person said.
But the state police commissioner, Umar, denied that the police did not have men on the ground to quell the arson. He said there was a team of 200 armed officers and men on ground in Obi alone, but did not react to allegations that the military only watched on as arson continued.
He said:  “That is their problem with Ombatse. As far as I am concerned I have a DPO (Divisional Police Officer) there. There over 200 men and a DPO there. Policemen are there. Who opened the road yesterday when they blocked it; was it not the police?” he was silent on all other allegations.
Trouble started on the night of Thursday, as a build-up of a long standing animosity between Eggon and Alago people, who have co-existed in much of the southern parts of Nasarawa for decades.
Sources said two Eggon militiamen were arrested after the police intercepted five vehicles travelling to the neighbouring Awe, following a tip off from Alago youths in Adabu Alago. Eggon youths in the five vehicles were said to have escaped into the bush. But the police were resisted with a roadblock after they attempted to convey the two suspects to Lafia, after Eggon youths in Tudun Adabu, a nearby village stormed in on the police along Obi-Lafia Road.
The violent roadblock, reports said, also led to the abduction of two Alago youths by the irate Eggon youths of Tudun Adabu, to trade for the release and return of the two kinsmen and the five vehicles.
Also, an Eggon man was attacked and severely injured by youths of a rival ethnic group in Adabu, by Alago youths, reports said.
The paramount ruler of Obi chiefdom, HRH Dangiwa Ogiri, an Alago, was said to have intervened, and made pledges to repay the burnt vehicles for peace to rein, but his plea fell on deaf ears.
The two incidents were reported to have provoked Eggon youths in Tudun Adabu, to initiate attacks on Adabu Alago on Friday.
Reports gave varying death toll, just as several houses were said to have been burnt within and around the settlement, sending hundreds of persons including women and children into refuge in far off areas.
“We had to run. I had to leave work and rush home to pick my family, after I heard gunshots and saw many families fleeing that yesterday (Friday),” Kugba Lawrence, a school teacher in Ipaa, a Tiv community near Adabu Alago said.
That same Friday, Sunday Trust gathered that no fewer than 65 youth corps members from various areas rushed into Obi town and took refuge at the police station. But their place of refuge turned out to be a veritable danger because Obi town was, by yesterday attacked as the arson spread.
Youth corps members trapped there had to make frantic phone calls as they went on social media to alert authorities about their plight.
“This led to the police moving in quickly to evacuate us to Keana town in the neighbouring Keana Local Government Area because we were not safe in Obi. The police station there was not safe”, said one of them who spoke on phone with us, yesterday.
No arrests, so far, have been made by either the police, or soldiers, Sunday Trust learnt, in what many believed must have emboldened the arsonists.
The attack made it the second since July, 2012, when Assakio was hit by a similar arson, sending many Alago and Eggon people into refuge.
Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura was away on a medical trip abroad, but Sunday Trust gathered that he had to cut short his trip, and was on his way back at press time. More than half of the cabinet members travelled to Lagos to watch Amazon Football Club, the state female soccer team at an ongoing tournament.
The state deputy governor who made a statewide broadcast, said: “We want to assure members of the general public that the state government has taken necessary measures to bring the matter under control.”
According to him, security operatives have been deployed to the affected areas to maintain law and order, stressing that “The law enforcement agents will deal decisively with any individual or group caught fermenting trouble or causing mischief.
 “Members of the public are advised to be calm and go about their lawful businesses without fear of molestation. We all must shun rumour mongering and spreading of false information that are capable of exacerbating this condemnable incident.”

 

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I can have sex for 24 hours – Ken Okonkwo boasts

Unknown to many, Nollywood actor-cum-lawyer, Keneth Okonkwo is a trained and an ordained evangelist with over a decade experience in God’s vineyard.
Ken has no doubt proven himself as a force to reckon with in the highly competitive movie industry, globally known as Nollywood with over 100 flicks to his credit.
Aside his passion for acting and evangelism, Ken is also a ladies man who started enjoying their companies at a very tender age, “I started kissing at a very tender age because it was part of the things they were doing to me,” he told Entertainment Express during an interview in Asaba, Delta State.
In fact, the hunk said he could even ‘go in’ with a lady for 24 hours non-stop, an action he said has been attracting to ladies him.
Hear him, “I am strong sexually for 24 hours, my wife knows that. If I come back and my face is not bright, she will come and play with me. I never knew God was working out something for me, each I time I have an affair with any lady, she goes out to tell her friend, that her friend will end up developing interest for me.
So when I married my wife, I told her if she knows what is best for her she should not tell any of her pals.

“I loved kissing, maybe that is why my lips are red like this. They taught me how to be with women, I just love what I was feeling at that time. They would give me their body to play with, when they place my hand anywhere I will just feel it, so I grew up having a very touching and funny upbringing. I became very passionate relating with them very passionately, till today, when I am sleeping with a lady, she has to come before me. I enjoy sex more when they have enjoyed theirs; I was free living with them,” he said.
When asked of his alleged romance with Nollywood thespian and mother of one, Mercy Johnson-Okojie, Okonkwo said, “It is so funny to hear this, and do you know why? Before Mercy was born or should I say when she was still in the kindergarten level in school, I had already started kissing ladies in movies and I have been acting natural with ladies. So she met me still doing it. Why would her own be different? Okay, let me tell you why her own is different; it is simply because she is exceptionally different and talented as an actress, so when she matches her good skills with my own natural skills, people would have no choice than to enjoy it. They would end up saying we are so natural together, are you sure they don’t have anything in common?
Mercy is like a younger sister to me. We are so very close. I am so close to her and her husband. He is like a very good brother of mine. Like I told you, it is my nature to be so confidential with any lady I have something with on earth, so it makes me laugh each time anybody talks about Mercy and myself in any way, except that we are professional colleagues,” he added.

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