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The North East Zone of the APC has threatened legal action against Alhaji Umar Damagum, Deputy Chairman, North, PDP, over alleged discriminatory remarks on People Living With Disabilities (PLWDs).
Mr Muhammad Isa, the APC North-East zonal leader, PLWDs, stated this at a news conference on Saturday, in Damaturu.
Isa said his attention was drawn to a statement allegedly credited to Damagum on Nov.
8, at the party’s presidential campaign in Maiduguri, Borno.“Damagum expressly stated in Hausa language, to the effect that if one is given a choice to elect between disabled persons and none disabled persons, who will the people choose?
“Indeed we are all offended by the statement, we all view it as an insult, disrespect and discriminatory against PLWDs,” he said.
According to him, this contradicts Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities Prohibition Act, 2018 and Section 52 of the Electoral Act and United Convention for the right of Persons with Disabilities.
Isa, therefore, issued a seven days ultimatum to the PDP deputy national chairman, North to withdraw his utterances and apologize.
“Therefore, you are given seven days from this date to retract your statement and tender apologies to all PLWDs.
Responding in a statement, Damagum said his statement was not targeted at the PLWDs.
“I want to state categorically here that my statement was just a simple Hausa expression that represents ‘strong and healthy with capacity.’
“Alluding to our Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, my statement was not targeted at millions of people living with disabilities in Nigeria or anywhere on this planet.
“Neither did I mean to be insensitive to these special group of people, whom our party and I as a person, hold in high esteem,” he explained. (NAN)
Following are the results of Match Day 1 fixtures in the 2024/2025 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), played on Sunday and dates of the remaining fixtures:
Akwa United FC 1-1 Abia Warriors FC
Bayelsa United FC 1-1 Kano Pillars FC
Katsina United FC 1-1 Bendel Insurance FC
Niger Tornadoes FC 0-0 Nasarawa United FC
Shooting Stars FC 1-1 Plateau United FC
El Kanemi Warriors Vs Kwara United FC (postponed )
The following Match Day two fixtures
Would be played on Sept.
25:Ikorodu City FC Vs Enugu Rangers international FC
Enyimba international FC Vs Lobi stars FC .
(NAN)
Following are the results of remaining Match Day one fixtures played on Sunday in the 2024/2025 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL)Heartland FC 1-3 Enyimba international FCKwara United FC 1-2 Niger Tornadoes FCBendel Insurance FC 0-0 Rivers United FCPlateau United FC 1-0 Katsina United FCKano Pillars FC 3-0 Ikorodu City FCSunshine Stars FC 3-0 Bayelsa United FCAbia Warriors FC 0-2 Remo Stars FCNasarawa United FC 1-1 Shooting Stars FC.
(NAN)
The interim coach of the Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen, said his team can beat any team with the quality of players in the team.
Eguavoen stated this after his team spanked the Cheetahs of Benin Republic 4-0 in the 2025 African Cup Of Nations (AFCON) at the Godswill Akpabio stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom on Saturday.
“We have quality players to beat any team but we respect team anyway.
Any coach can come in and do the same job with the Super Eagles.“It is a mindset, we have the potential and how you perceived your opponent, given the information about them and then go out and do the job,“he said.
Equavoen attributed the victory to the formation adopted by the technical crew, adding that any formation could be used to ensure that the team was successful.
“We can decide to use any system. It is something we discussed and I slept over it. I know with the caliber of players that we have, we can decide to play any formation.
“Football is about you win, lose and draw, I don’t believe we have a poor result,” he said.
He, however, said that the former Super Eagles coach didn’t do a good job but it has to do with believe, what is at stake and what you want to achieve.
“Psychologically as a group, we are agreed, where we are and where we are going to be. We will definitely achieve it,” Equavoen said.
He commended the performance of the defence , describing it as superb, adding that the team had been training together for one week.
The coach said that asking six players to warm up for the second half was to buy time, adding that there was no need to rush to change.
He said the Cheetahs of Benin Republic were a good team, adding that they came with a good game plan.
Report says that Eguavoen was appointed interim coach after the deal between the Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) and coach Bruno Labbadia failed.
NFF explained in a statement that it failed due to the stringent regulations of German tax authorities.(NAN)
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