Kano state Governor, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has once more given reasons why the Kano Emirate council and the state government chose Muhammadu Sanusi II (formerly known as Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) as the Emir of Kano.
Speaking today at the formal coronation of the Emir, governor Kwankwaso said his decision to appoint Sanusi out of the names presented to him was born out of the conviction that he was equal to the task, saying his vast experience was enough to propel Kano to greater heights.
The governor said the selection process that led to the appointment was rigorous and painstaking, stressing that the kingmakers had gone the extra mile in executing their job with circumspection.
He said Emir Sanusi was an embodiment of excellent scholarship and a seasoned technocrat who could remarkably turn the fortune of Kano around, expressing confidence that the people of the emirate stand to regret nothing.
Kwankwaso stated that Sunusi’s stewardship as the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria was a good omen to the people of Kano as a result of the effort he made in the establishment of micro-finance banks within the nooks and crannies of the state.
The governor emphasized that the appointment of Sanusi ll as the Emir of Kano was a collective judgment of the people and that he was appointed to ascend the exalted throne on merit.
He paid glowing tribute to the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, saying that the late emir stood against all forms of injustice and persecution.
Present at the coronation were mainly the leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) among them included the presidential candidate of the party, General Muhammadu Buhari, Chief Bola Tinubu, Governor Rotimi Ameachi, Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwa, Governor Ibrahim Geidam of Yobe state.
The Chief Imam of Kano, Professor Sani Zaharadeen administered the oath of office by presenting him with the Holy Quran to the new emir who was accompanied by the kingmakers. [myad]
Glo Premier League champions, Kano Pillars, finished their pre-season tour of Ghana with a 1-0 win over that country’s Under-23 national team in Accra today.
Only on Thursday, Kano Pillars were forced to a 2-2 draw by Hearts of Oak in a thrilling game which saw Christian Obiozor and Gambo Muhammed give the Nigerians a two-goal lead before the Accra club clawed back to even the score.
But today, Kano Pillars claimed a win to round off their tour of Ghana.
Kano Pillars coach named a strong squad that included captain and goalkeeper Theophilus Afelokhai, Reuben Ogbonnaya, Isaac Loute, Rabiu Ali as well as Gambo and Obiozor.
For Rabiu Ali, it was the second time in three months he would come face-to-face with Ghana’s Olympic team coached by a former Kano Pillars trainer, Malik Jabir. The first was when the Super Eagles featuring mostly players from the Glo Premier League defeated the Ghana Under-23 team 1-0 during the official opening of the Akwa Ibom Stadium, Uyo.
It was, however, Rabiu Ali, who scored the winning goal for Kano Pillars in the 63rd minute after Kwasi Quansah handled the ball in his area.
The Ghanaian defender was sent off for his offence and Rabiu Ali comfortably made the spot kick count by scoring to give Kano Pillars the lead.
The Kano-based club could not capitalise on their numerical advantage to score a second goal as the match ended 1-0.
Kano Pillars, who finished third at the Super-4 Invitational Tournament in Abuja recently, used the tour of Ghana to fine-tune their preparation for their first leg, preliminary round game against Al-Malakia FC of South Sudan. The match will hold in Juba on the weekend of February 13, 14 and 15 while the second leg will be on March 1.
Kano Pillars line-up: Theophilus Afelokhai; Samuel Tswanya, Isaac Loute, Reuben Ogbonnaya, Murtala Adamu; Eneji Otekpa, Tony Edjomariegwe, Ezekiel Mbah, Rabiu Ali; Christian Obiozor, Gambo Muhammed. [myad]
Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has opened up to the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room (Situation Room), saying that he received a letter from the military requesting for the reschedule of the nation’s general elections by at least six weeks in the first instance.
Professor Jega said that the letter from the military advised that he postpones the general elections on the grounds that the security agencies were engaged in a renewed battle against insurgency in the North-East that would require their full concentration.
However, the Situation Room conveyed to INEC its disappointment with the letter from the security agencies, pointing out that this amounted to the military’s abdication of its constitutional duties to provide security to citizens and to the Commission to enable it conduct elections and appeared contrived to truncate the democratic process in Nigeria.
“Situation Room is further worried that the military’s position also aims to blackmail and arm-twist the election management body away from its constitutionally guaranteed function of conducting elections. Situation Room also condemns this advisory by security agents that they cannot guarantee the security of citizens, election officials and materials during the election.
“The Situation Room calls for the resignation of military chiefs and security heads, including the Police, on account of their inability to exercise their constitutional responsibility to secure lives and property at all times, including during the elections.
“Situation Room also calls on Nigerians to be vigilant and be ready to protect this hard won democracy,” the civil society organisations said.
Meanwhile, at the meeting INEC held with all the registered political parties today, some parties favoured the re-scheduling of the elections while others kicked against it.
Those in favour are: 1. Action Alliance (AA ) 2. Action Congress of Democrats ACD 3. Alliance for Democracy AD 4. African Democratic Congress, ADC 5. Citizens popular Party, (CPP) 6. Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) 7. Labour Party (LP) 8. Mega Peoples Party MPP 9. New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP 10. United Democratic Party UDP. 11. Peoples popular Movement PPM 12. Progressives People Alliance (PPA). 13.Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). And 14.Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN).
Parties against the re-scheduling of the elections are: 1.Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) 2. All Progressives Congress (APC) 3.United Peoples Party (UPP) 4. ACPN 5. Social Democratic Party (SDP). 6. KOWA 7. Indepednet Democrats (ID) 8. Hope Democratic Party 9 Africans Democratic Alliance (APA) 10. Accord Party.
On its part, All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) abstained and National Conscience Party (NCP) was indifferent. [myad]
APC Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari and his running mate, Yemi Osibajo,
Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari and Vice Presidential running-mate Professor Yemi Osinbajo are set to launch a personal, interactive message to young voters using the latest in digital technology known as Augmented Reality. The new technology, according to a statement issued today by the Director of media and publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Garba Shehu is an election campaign method that will allow the candidates to speak directly to young voters on their smartphones. Garba Shehu said that Augmented Reality is a cutting edge technology that brings “magic” to android smartphones and tabs. According to him, the “Next for Nigeria” app is the first time this technology will be used in an election in Africa. He explained that the candidates will record a special message to young voters after being processed into Augmented Reality, using graphics and animation. He said that it can be shared through a downloadable app. “The technology provides a channel of expression for the young people of Nigeria, through which they can also voice their aspirations and hopes. “The young peoples’ expression and voice regarding their decision for Nigeria’s future will be shared through these apps and distributed through popular social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others.” Garba Shehu said that the candidates had asked the campaign to find a way for them to speak directly to youth in a personal setting that also allowed feedback. “They felt that speaking through rallies and TV, while standard campaign practice, does not show their seriousness in reaching out to the youth of Nigeria. This new technology was the perfect answer. We hope that young people will find this new technology an exciting and enjoyable experience.” The “Next for Nigeria” app can be downloaded for smartphones athttps:play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nigeria.nextnigeria The message is then activated by focusing the smartphone on a party logo, which will then trigger the technology. [myad]
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation and the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Organisation are engaged in a war over President Goodluck Jonathan’s achievements in Nigeria’s railway sector of the Nigeria economy. While the spokesman of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Garba Shehu described the claim achievements as hoax, his PDP counterpart, Femi Fani-Kayode described the APC assessment as laughable. Fani-Kayode, in his response to Garba Shehu said that for APC to resort to attacking a verifiable achievement that is on the ground and being enjoyed by millions of Nigerians is not only laughable, but also a clear indication that President Jonathan has completely overwhelmed the APC with the sheer quantum and quality of his achievements in rail and other sectors of the economy. Fani-Kayode added: “the charge of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation is mind-boggling considering the contradictions therein. In the same statement where they alleged that the railway sector achievements are a hoax, they themselves on their own readily admit, and I quote, ‘only about 2,000km have so far been rehabilitated.’ “Where then is the hoax, if by the APC’s own admission ‘only about 2,000km have so far been rehabilitated?'” The PDP Presidential campaign organisation spokesman asked: “is it not a verifiable fact that the railways were completely comatose since the 1980s? Is it also not a fact that it is President Jonathan’s administration that has resuscitated the railways? “Even the APC informed Nigerians in their statement that tickets for the Lagos-Kano service costs N1,930 per passenger, which is far cheaper than travelling by road or by air. And concerning the dubious allegation that ‘it costs about N10, 000 per passenger to produce that Lagos-Kano service,’ the APC may wish to engage the services of more experienced railway experts who will surely explain that the initial outlay cost of a rail system always repays itself several times over due to the exceedingly long period of usage. “Talking of purported derailments, that is a grievous insult on the intelligence of Nigerians and, indeed, an evil wish on the part of the APC as derailments often result in loss of lives. In this day and age, the derailment of even a cargo coach on a train line anywhere in the world attracts instant international attention. So the APC can quit spreading devious lies all in the name of politics. “The fact that the railway achievements of President Jonathan has drawn such a bitter and untruthful attack from the APC, when millions of Nigerians have enjoyed and are still enjoying the railway service, shows that the APC is very afraid that this is another area where Mr President has touched the lives of the people to which the APC has no answer. And how can they have an answer when the rail projects embarked upon by both Lagos and Rivers states under APC governors are yet to carry a single passenger even after billions of naira have been sunk into both projects? “Rather than attempt to diminish the verifiable achievements of President Jonathan in the rail sector with untruthful, outlandish claims and devious wishes, the APC needs to tell Nigerians how come the billions of naira sunk into both the Lagos and Rivers states rail projects have yet to result in a single passenger travelling from point A to B. “Indeed, the only railway hoax in present-day Nigeria was perpetrated by Rotimi Amaechi, the governor of Rivers State who unveiled a purportedly finished monorail project that was soon after discredited to be a photographic scam. That is the railway hoax the APC should be talking about if its imagination has been fired to talk about railway hoaxes; or the multi-million dollars-Lagos Metroline project, which General Buhari cancelled when he took over government by the barrel of the gun in 1983.” [myad]
Twenty one Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have rejected a proposal to postpone Nigeria’s general elections billed for February 14 and 28.
In a vote conducted today by the INEC chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, after he met with political parties and the civil society, 21 RECs said the elections should continue as planned while 16 others voted in support of a reschedule. Nigeria has 37 RECs, each for a state and the Federal Capital, Abuja.
The outcome of the vote came as Nigerians await INEC’s decision on whether the elections are moved or not.
This was after 17 political parties had earlier voted for a postponement as against 11 that argued for INEC to remain faithful to its time table, the mood across the land suggested that INEC will capitulate to a demand by military and security chiefs asking for a six weeks postponement on the presumed grounds that they have a special operations to we against the six year insurgency which appears to be spreading on a daily basis.
Civil society leaders, organized in support of credible and transparent elections in Nigeria, otherwise called the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, reacted sharply blasting the security chiefs accusing them of fomenting a surreptitious coup against democracy.
In their own consultative meeting with the INEC top brass, the Situation Room called for the resignation of military chiefs and security heads including the Police “on account of their inability to exercise their constitutional responsibility to secure lives and property at all times including during the elections.”
Speaking for the group in its statement, Agianpe Ashang, a senior programme officer at the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, PLAC, said the action of the security chiefs “amounted to blackmail [to] arm-twist the Election Management Body away from its constitutional guaranteed function of conducting elections.” The group them asked Nigerians to defend their hard won struggle to entrench democracy in the country.
Jibrin Ibrahim, a senior fellow at the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), in Abuja, who was at the meeting, said Mr. Jega told the meeting that security operatives informed INEC that they were commencing a six weeks special operations against Boko Haram insurgents in the north eastern corridors of the country and would rather not be distracted by the elections.
The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected any plan to postpone the election saying such calls are sponsored by President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling party to stave their imminent defeat at the polls.
The reasoning among civil society members align with popular enthusiasm for the election even in the north eastern regions where the insurgency is active.
According to a political survey recently conducted by the NOI polls, analysis by geo-political zones revealed that the North-West (89%) and South-East (87%) regions accounted for the largest proportions of Nigerians who expressed optimism for voting in the 2015 general elections when compared to other regions, although a majority of residents in all the geo-political zones expressed optimism in voting in the 2015 general elections, with a minimum 76% (North Central). Also, respondents aged 46-60 and 18-21 years showed more optimism for voting in the 2015 elections than other age-groups. [myad]
From all available indications the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and its chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega may cave in and postpone the scheduled elections of 14th February. Going by my prediction, we should expect this announcement after their marathon meetings of today. Once this is done, Jega and his team should forget about ever conducting any elections in Nigeria again, because the chaotic situation and uncertainty in the country maybe worst than what it is now. Next, like the former Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido, Professor Jega will be ordered to proceed on early retirement. That would give them breathing space to shop for a more “amendable” umpire to orchestrate their rigging. If INEC has common sense, it should NOT postpone the elections. But it seems too late! They have taken a decision because they are scared to the marrows! This is a battle of facing two monsters: one is the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari and the other is the electorates. The ruling class is in disarray and is facing a clear uncertainty. What happen to them after the elections is what they hate to think about because of fear of the unknown. But what will happen to the country after shifting the elections is something they think can be handled by their partisan security agencies. They are talking of security issues and less collections of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs). No where in the world has 100 percent of registered voters ever voted even in the best and safest democracy known to man, and in Nigeria,we have never recorded a turn out of more than 40 million voters in any previous elections to the best of my knowledge. Therefore, with over 50 million permanent voters cards in the hands of Nigerian voters, it is just crass expectation that all the over 50 million will vote much less the near 70million registered voters. Professor Jega and his INEC should do the right thing and allow Nigerians to vote come 14th February so that we get this over our heads once and for all. Enough of all these threats, chest beating and high-tension as well as the air of “Nigeria to-be or not-to-be gimmicks and nonsense!!! Postponing the elections may create more insecurity than the present insecurity situation as it may engulf the whole country not only a section of it. Only if this is what the government wants to create. No matter what, we say NO to elections postponement and Nigeria must remain one. The interest of few individuals must not be allowed to override the interest of the entire nation.
Comrade Kassim A. Gamawa (Concerned Citizen & Sardaunan Gamji) wrote from Gamawa Local Government Areas of Bauchi State. [myad]
A group, going by the name, Southern Nigeria Professionals in Defense of Democracy has disowned the call by the Southern Nigeria Peoples’ Assembly for the sacking of the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega.
The Southern Professionals, in a statement signed by Engineer Rotimi Fashakin, Barrister Okoi Obono Obla and Chief Osita Okechukwu, described the outing of the Southern Nigeria Peoples’ Congress as shameless, adding that it had no mandate of the Southern Nigeria People.
Full text of the statement goes thus:
We belong to the Southern Nigeria Professionals in Defense of Democracy. This is an amalgam of Youth groups, socio-political contacts groups in the three geo-political zones in Southern Nigeria
You are all witnesses to the Press statement on 5th February, 2015 by a group called the Southern Nigeria Peoples’ Assembly. In the said statement, the group alleged, among other things, bias of the INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, towards the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, in the forthcoming Presidential election. The group further asserted that Professor Jega has concluded arrangements to declare this Party’s candidate as the winner of the election irrespective of the electoral performance of their favoured candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. In conclusion, the group lambasted the INEC chairman as an ethnic bigot and demanded his resignation, while also calling for a shift of the elections by eight weeks, precisely to April 2015.
The shameful outing by this group, which cannot be said to have the mandate of Southern Nigeria people, however, failed to answer certain salient questions:
Was Professor Attahiru Jega also an Ethnic Bigot when the INEC under his leadership conducted the 16th April, 2011 Presidential election and returned Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as validly elected, an election in which General Muhammadu Buhari was also a candidate?
Was Professor Attahiru Jega also responsible for ensuring that General Muhammadu Buhari won the Presidential Primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on 10th December, 2015.
Must the Powers given to INEC to conduct elections and fix election timetable be subjected to the whim and caprice of an ethnocentric group of unpatriotic zealots?
How did the election timetable fixed by INEC more than six months ago become a subject of much hoopla, just a few days to the conduct of the election?
Much as we appreciate the desperation of these ethnic champions, in their bid to rebuild their Stomach Infrastructure that is fast falling apart, we are appalled that any group, peopled mainly by Ancients, can so bizarrely make calls that threaten the entrenchment of true democratic values in our Nation. We are equally ashamed that these latter-day ethnic jingoists have once occupied enviable positions in this country from which they preached national cohesion; they have now preferred to heed the calls of the Stomach more than the calls of true Patriotic service to the Fatherland. As people belonging to the Younger generation from Southern Nigeria, we wholeheartedly reject the calls by these people. We refuse to allow them to destroy our future by their shallow perception of the electoral process. We affirm that, before President Goodluck Jonathan, there had been democratically Presidents and after him, there shall be other democratically elected Presidents. Nigeria’s unity and sovereignty must remain sacrosanct. Furthermore, these zealots, in their blinkered view of nationhood, have unwittingly boxed Dr. Goodluck Jonathan into the conundrum of a sectional President. This becomes disappointing in view of the overwhelming support that VP Goodluck Jonathan enjoyed from a broad spectrum of the Nigerian citizenry, for him to be made Acting President during the debility of the late President Umaru Musa-Yar’adua in 2010!
The issues before the Nigerian voters are beyond INEC as an electoral Umpire. Nigerians are miffed by four years of broken promises by the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. The less than 4, 400 Mega Watts currently generated in the country is a far cry from the promised harnessing of alternative sources of energy such as coal, wind and solar to generate an initial 13,000mw. There is palpable insecurity in the land which has consigned portions of our fatherland under the suzerainty of Insurgents while the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces appears incompetent to deal with the threat responsively. As we speak, over two hundred teenage girls have remained in the captivity of Insurgents while the President appears more preoccupied with his reelection bid. Just a few days ago, Chadian Forces moved into Nigerian territory to assist in killing off some of these Insurgents. But we know that there was a time in the history of this land that our Military was strong enough to repel, very forcefully, the expansionist adventure of the Chadian Army. But, quite unfortunately, under President Jonathan, Nigeria has become a laughing stock in the weakening of its Military to valiantly defend her territorial integrity. Corruption is rife because Nigeria’s President does not give a damn in leading this fight against institutional corruption from the front. Quite recently, the Price Water House (PWc) forensic audit report of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has come out with a damning indictment of the Oil Conglomerate. The corporation has been told to remit a minimum of $1.48Billion into the federation account. In 2010/2011 financial year, N240Billion was set aside for oil subsidy but ended up spending more $16Billion (according to the statement of the former Central Bank Governor, Mallam Sanus Lamido Sanusi).
These are the issues that have remained intractable under the Presidency of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. The attempt by the Southern Nigeria People’s Assembly to change the narrative from these serious issues to the mundaneness of ethno-religious bigotry must be resisted by all Nigerians that love the Nation State. As they have always failed in their devious schemes to continue to elongate the Presidency of Dr. Jonathan beyond 29th May, 2015, they shall continue to fail.
Typical of Nigerian situation, the small talks a few days ago about the shifting of the dates for elections in the Nigeria’s march again to the next level of democratic practice have developed into a big national headache, threatening to tear the country apart. National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki set the tone of the fire in far-away London at a think-tank a couple of weeks ago, the fire that is spreading fast and threatening to consume all of us. And, the curious thing in the unnecessary storm that has been raging on which actually drew the attention of the nation’s present and past leaders at a National Council of State meeting yesterday, is the fact that those who insist on the original dates of February 14 and 28 are coming purely from the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) and its sympathizers while those agitating for shift in the dates are coming from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Presidency with their sympathizers in tow. From the way the dates for election are being canvassed and opposed, it appears that there are more to it than the two sides, especially, the PDP is ready to tell Nigerians. The call for shift in the dates for elections has been unmindful of the fact that the original dates for the elections were fixed several months ago, with the inputs from, and acceptance of, all the stakeholders, including all the political parties without exception. It is on the basis of the dates that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been working. Indeed, it is on record that INEC had had about four years preparing for these elections, climaxing in the fixing of the dates. It beats one imagination why, just as the nation is bubbling in high spirit for the elections, some group of people, led by the party that appears to have been in the forefront as regard the practice of democracy for the past 16 years, would suddenly wake up to want to twist the hand of INEC to shift such dates. Coming to what looks now almost a dead-end; the politicians have placed this country at the precipice, not minding the Independency of the electoral body. If the Presidency and PDP which have just indicated that they would not be comfortable with the original dates of February 14 and 28 succeed in their stand, what would make them to think that APC and its sympathizers would concede to other dates to which the elections might be shifted? More importantly and dangerous is the idea that if INEC is accused of not been able to put its act together in the last 48 months, there is practically no magic which it would perform to correct such anomalies even in the next 12 months. A new dimension was brought into the agitation for shift in the dates for elections when, today, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), led by Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor just came up to say that the Christians in the country would not accept any election (conducted on February 14 and 28) that excluded about 20 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the various bomb blasts and other security problems across the country. What the CAN implied was that about 20 million people that have been displaced are all Christians and that they are not likely to have the opportunity of casting their votes. And who counted them to arrive at 20 million? And that they are all Christians? The CAN’s lie, just so that it can make a case for election postponement is that there can be no way Nigeria would be having now as much as about 20 million IDPs out of the nation’s total population of about 170 million, in deed, it looks very frightening and self-defeatist to even say that the Goodluck Jonathan government has gone so low as to create a sordid condition that make way for such mouth-watering number of IDPs, which is a big chunk of the nation’s population. In any case, whoever told CAN that the 20 million IDPs, assuming they are all Christians would all have voted for only one candidate to the exclusion of others? Is CAN saying that all Christians in the country will end up voting for only one candidate to the exclusion of others? This is one dangerous dimension: of religion and telling blatant lies by a religious body, that is being frantically brought into the present quarrel over dates for elections. CAN, in a situation Nigeria has found itself now, is supposed to regulate the thinking process of its members for a better, peaceful and united society. But, it is obvious that it has become more political than the registered political parties! And, the idea of calling INEC, especially its chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega all sort of names by those who imagined that they are losing the grips of power amounts to setting a very dangerous precedent. Those people are simply implying that if they think they cannot have their way, it is better the country is thrown up in disarray. Of course, Pastor Oritsejafor remembered however to remind the politicians who would rather throw the country into crisis because they are losing out in the power game. of the fact that they do not mean well for this country. The position which Nigeria is in now, with the two political giants at diametrically oppose position on the dates for the elections, we may be headed for confusion that could result in what APC has been crying about loud: Interim Government! Why not, if one remembers that the governor of Akwa Ibo state, Godswill Akpabio vowed, in one of the Presidential campaign platforms a couple of weeks ago that “PDP will never hand over power to APC” and added: “God forbid!” Our politicians should know that history is gradually recording each move they make. What they do today may look either insignificant or self-satisfying and or group-satisfying, but when the chips are down, they would be held accountable, if not at all times but at some auspicious times, and if not by men, but by God. [myad]
Confederation of African Football (CAF) has kicked out Morocco from the 2017 and 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) and fined it $1m for refusing to host this year’s event due to fears over Ebola.
The continental game’s ruling body also ordered the Royal Moroccan Football Federation to pay eight million euros in compensation.
Equatorial Guinea took over the 2015 tournament which ends on Sunday. [myad]
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