Save me from recall, Dino Melaye begs senators

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Save me from recall, Dino Melaye begs senators

The Kogi State senator, Dino Melaye, at the Senate plenary on Tuesday rallied his colleagues to save him from being recalled by his constituents.

The appeal comes as the Independent National Electoral Commission unveiled a timetable and modalities for the exercise at his Kogi West Senatorial District.

The senator restated his claim that his recall was masterminded by his state governor, Yahaya Bello

Mr. Melaye cited Order 14 of the Senate Rule and pleaded with his colleagues to act.

The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, assured Mr. Melaye of the upper chamber’s support, proclaiming the recall process “dead on arrival.”

Mr. Ekweremadu said the Constitution made recall a cumbersome process, and, as such, would be difficult for Mr. Melaye’s opponents to succeed.

“The Senate would also verify the legitimacy of the votes before a conclusion is made,” Mr. Ekweremadu said; although the deputy senate president’s claim is not stated in the constitutional requirement for recall.

Signatures for Mr. Melaye’s recall were collected at his constituency in an exercise that began on June 10.

Campaigners said 188,588 signatures were submitted to INEC, which is more than 52 per cent of about 260,000 voters in the constituency.

On June 22, INEC notified Mr. Melaye of the recall process. His lawyers responded with a lawsuit the next day, asking the electoral body to stay all actions relating to the exercise.

INEC, however, said it would proceed with the recall process since there was no court injunction stopping it.

(Premium Times)

Osinbajo must obey confirmation resolutions – Senate

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Osinbajo must obey confirmation resolutions – Senate

The Senate on Tuesday resolved to suspend all confirmation requests from the executive until decisions of the legislature are respected by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.

In a four-prayer motion unanimously adopted by the lawmakers, the Senate frowned at a statement credited to the Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo that the Senate had no power to confirm the chairman of the EFCC.

Osinbajo was quoted as saying that the Senate only had the power to confirm Ministerial and Ambassadorial nominees.

The decision of the Senate arose from a motion raised by Senator Ahmed Sani following a letter requesting the confirmation of Mr Lanre Gbajabiamiller as Director General of the National lottery Commission.

With particular reference to the rejection of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, the Senate insisted that the Executive must respect the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria or go to court to seek a redress.

The upper legislative chamber stressed that it was an illegality for Magu to still be parading himself of the chairman of the Commission after being rejected by the body constitutionally empowered to approve or reject his appointment.

The Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo was credited as saying that the Senate does not have power to reject the appointment of Magu as Chairman of EFCC.

The Senate therefore frowned at the comment credited to the acting president and approved the following prayers:

“That the Senate suspends all issues relating to confirmation of nominees from the executive until all issues of confirmation as contained in the constitution and laws of the Federation are adhered to.

“The Acting President must respect the constitution and laws as it relates to confirmation of appointments.

“The Acting President should immediately respect rejection of nominees by the senate yes.

“The Acting President should withdraw the statement credited to him that the Senate does not have the power to confirm certain nominees,” the Senate approved.

This is the second time the senate is taking a resolution against the executive for its refusal to adhere to the rejection of Magu and the Chairman of the EFCC.

In March, the Senate suspended the confirmation of INEC Resident Electoral Commissioners in protest of the refusal of the executive to implement the legislature’s rejection of Magu as EFCC boss.

The President of the Senate Bukola Saraki who commended Sen. Sani for the motion stressed that the Senate could not continue to make laws and resolutions that would be fragrantly disobeyed.

He urged the Acting President to take appropriate actions on all resolutions and laws of the Senate.

“Distinguished colleagues, let me thank Senator Yerima for coming under Privileges. I think this matter is a very important matter but I think we need to address it once and for all and put it behind us.

“As a society, we can’t pass laws and see these laws are not being obeyed. It is very clear these resolutions as passed must be acted upon by the Acting President and ensure that we continue to respect our democracy, our laws and constitution.

“It is not for us to chose which laws we obey and which laws we don’t obey. That is not the way any civilised, modern society work.

“We hope that the Acting President will take appropriate action in line with these resolutions,” he said.

While contributing to the motion, Deputy President of the Senate Ike Ekweremadu said that the constitutional provision upon which Osinbajo made his comment only applied to personal staffs of the President.

Ekweremadu therefore stressed that the Senate is adequately empowered by law to confirm or reject any appointment by the President.

Sen. George Thomson Sekibo said that it appeared like there was a calculated action to quieten the National Assembly.

He however stressed that there was a clear constitutional provision that empowered the Senate to confirm all appointees of the President.

“If the Acting President says we do not have power to return any nomination i wonder if he is in touch with the EFCC Act: The EFCC Act states that the President shall nominate and Senate will confirm.

“If you reject one law, you have will reject the constitution. The Constitution did not give room for acting appointment after a nominee has been rejected by the Senate.

If the Acting President says we do not have the power to confirm and then turns around to send us a nomination, which one do we now take?

I think Senate should put a suspension on this nomination until this issue is resolved so that we know if we have the power to confirm or not,” he said.

For Sen. Isah Hamman Misau he said that sending a candidate to the senate for confirmation amounted to double standards by the Acting President Osinbajo.

He said that the senate must stand and face the challenges against the Institution.

“If the executive was not ready for democracy then they should tell us and propose another system of government,” he said.

Senator Sam Anyanwu in his view said that the Senate should not even be accepting nomination letters from the executive let alone considering then on the floor of the Senate.

He said that the comment of the Acting President had given impetus for more comments adding that a report this morning was calling for the senate to be scrapped.

“We must try to stand our ground, if the leadership doesn’t do anything about this matter within 48 hours we would move against this leadership,” he said.

Senator Dino Melaye who is currently facing threat of recall also added that the senate must not accept the comment of Prof. Osinbajo.

Melaye said that the National Assembly which is a mark of democracy must not be allowed to be destroyed.

“It is time for the Senate to tell the executive arm of govt that they must stop approbating and reprobating.

“Magu came for a job interview and failed and he was rejected, as we speak Magu is still parading himself as the chairman of EFCC.

“The integrity of the Senate is as take. This senate cannot be disregarded and insulted: our authority to confirm cannot be eroded.

“I am moving a motion that it becomes abominable to read any other confirmation report in this chamber until they act on our position.

“Those who have failed should go back, Magu is not the last Nigerian Angel. He can serve this country in another capacity,” Melaye said.

Senator Olusola Adeyeye the Chief Whip of the Senate reminded the executive that the difference between Military rule and Democracy was the existence of the legislature.

“Whether you serve in the executive, legislature or judiciary, everyone is called to obey the laws of the republic.

“If there is any law passed by NASS, signed by the President and gazzeted, no one has the permission to dance around that law.

“Whoever has a problem with any law should go to court, until a court declares it null and void it remains the law of the land. Anyone who does not respect it is breaking the law of the land.

“I want to say here that I voted yes for Magu, but this is not about my view, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria voted no and I stand with the Senate.

Why John Terry joined Aston Villa

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Why John Terry joined Aston Villa

Former Chelsea captain John Terry has embarked on a final challenge by signing a one-year contract with Championship side, Aston Villa, at the age of 36.

In the age of huge-money moves to football’s new world, Terry’s career choice represents a throwback to a time when players dropped down a division to draw a final paycheck.

But where most went in search of an easier life, Terry said his decision did not indicate a softening in his footballing ambitions.

The winner of five English Premier League titles said it was more about ensuring he avoided playing against the club for whom he appeared more than 700 times.

“The mental side of playing against Chelsea was too much to kind of get over for me,” Terry said at his unveiling at Villa Park.

“It was 22 years and I am very proud of that, I wish Chelsea well next season. But now my thoughts are 100 per cent here (at Aston Villa). I am delighted to be here as a player.

“It is obviously a huge club. I had a few conversations with (manager) Steve (Bruce) over the summer. I am very hungry to still play at the top with a club and a manager who still has the same ambition as me.

“The ambition for me to continue playing (is something) some people will understand and some people will not. I am in good physical condition.

“I am ready to play and give it everything this year. I am here, I am ready to fight for the Villa shirt and for this football club.’’

The British media had reported Terry’s 12-month contract to be worth 60,000 pounds ($78,000) per week.

It is a deal Bruce predicted would be “worth every penny” if it kickstarts a promotion challenge for the club who were relegated in 2016 and finished a disappointing 13th last season.

“He is worth every penny because we know what he brings,” Bruce said. “It is not often that you get a natural leader of men these days.

“I have watched him from afar for a long, long time, and to get him here is a great coup for all of us.”

Birmingham City, Villa’s cross-city rivals, also offered him a deal, their manager Harry Redknapp said on Monday.

“We made him a good offer. I would be a hypocrite if I said he was not a top player. Aston Villa have signed a top player,” he said.

Terry will wear the No. 26 shirt, the same as he did at Chelsea, and is tipped to become the club’s captain.

He is expected to fly to the club’s pre-season camp in the Algarve ahead of their season opener against Hull City, Bruce’s former club, on Aug. 5.

By a strange symmetry, he would have spent his entire career at clubs who have won the European Cup.

He had also appeared on loan in 2000 for Nottingham Forest, the holders in 1979 and 1980.

Aston Villa won the Cup in 1982, while Chelsea claimed the trophy, recast as the Champions League, in 2012.

(Reuters/NAN)

Kano bribery allegation embarrassing, says Dangote

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Kano bribery allegation embarrassing, says Dangote

Mr. Tony Chiejina said the allegation has no foundation

Africa's leading industrialist, Aliko Dangote — **Alhaji Aliko Dangote**

Africa’s leading industrialist, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has an advice for the committee set up by the Kano State House of Assembly to probe a bribery allegation against its former speaker: ‘Don’t waste your time, it’s all falsehood’.

Dangote Group spokesman, Mr. Tony Chiejina said the allegation has no foundation whatsoever and is an ‘outright falsehood”.

On 17 June, an online portal, DailyNigerian.com, ostensibly fishing for traffic first published the unsubstantiated allegation that Dangote gave the former Kano Assembly Speaker, Alhaji Kabiru Rurum N100 million to kill a probe of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi.

The portal, with no address or names of its masterminds, provided no evidence of the bribe. And it came after Governor Abdullahi Ganduje had said the Assembly was prevailed upon by well meaning Nigerians, led by the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to drop the investigation of the respected Emir over allegations of financial misdeed.

Rurum responding to the allegation in an interview on 20 June, described the story as false, designed to tarnish his image and bring the whole Assembly into disrepute.

He gave DailyNigeria.com one week within which to retract the report and apologise to the State Assembly or face legal action.

According to him, the report is also targeted at creating tension and chaos among the lawmakers and ridicule the personality of Dangote.

`The story was just a fabrication, a tissue of lies and unjustifiable, because there was never a time I met with Dangote to discuss such issue, not to talk of him offering bribe to us.”

He said that the intervention of Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Northern Governors and other notable Nigerians to stop the probe was channeled through the state governor and not the assembly.

“It is a tradition that when such things happened, the Governor gets in touch with us as one of the three arms of government.

“Therefore, the governor forwarded his request letter appealing for the suspension of the investigation on behalf of all the concerned citizens.”

But it appeared fellow legislators believed the unsubstantiated story by DailyNigerian.com, such that two weeks after, they went for Rurum’s head, forcing him to resign on Monday 3 July.

Chiejina told NAN on Monday night that the allegation has been ’embarrassing’, to Dangote.

“Aliko Dangote does not even know the embattled speaker, Hon. Kabiru Alhassan Rurum, let alone being his friend as alleged by the report”, Chiejina said.

The Kano Assembly meanwhile has asked a five-man committee to investigate the allegations against Rurum.

The new Speaker, Alhaji Abdullahi Atta, proposed the investigation at the plenary. It was unanimously accepted by the house.

Atta gave the committee, which has as the chairman, the Deputy Chief Whip of the Assembly, Alhaji Muhammad Butu-Butu, a member representing Rimin Gado/Tofa Constituency, three months to submit its report.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the former speaker had in his resignation letter said he resigned in order to protect his image and that of his constituency over the corruption allegations.

Rurum told newsmen after the plenary session,that he has urged his colleagues to be fair and just while conducting their investigation.

Breaking News ! Former Abacha spokesperson, Attah, is dead

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Breaking News ! Former Abacha spokesperson, Attah, is dead

He died early on Tuesday, June 4, 2017 at a private hospital in Jos, Plateau state.

The dirge of life resonates again, this time in the household of David Attah. Death, the dreaded dialogue between the spirit and the dust has finally manifested like a dark pall, shielding his mortal soul from the beams of life.

A former chief press secretary to late military head of state, Sani Abacha, David Attah, is dead. Mr. Attah, who also served as spokesperson to Mr. Abacha’s successor, former military ruler, Abdulsalami Abubakar, died early Tuesday, his son, Emmanuel Attah, said. He died at a private hospital in Jos, Plateau State, where he was receiving medical treatment.

BREAKING: Kano Assembly Speaker resigns over Emir Sanusi probe

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Kano Assembly Speaker resigns over Emir Sanusi probe

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The speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Kabiru Rurum, has resigned amidst allegation of collecting money to scuttle the investigation of the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II.

The House had moved to investigate the Emir for alleged corruption, but later backed down.

Kano’s anti-corruption agency also suspended its investigation of the monarch after prominent Nigerians, including Acting President Osinbajo, intervened.

The speaker, Mr. Rurum, faced allegation of being bribed to discontinue the probe, an allegation he denied.

Mr. Rurum resigned on Monday in a letter read at plenary by the Deputy Speaker, Ibrahim Chidariof, who presided over the sitting on Monday.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the former speaker was alleged to have collected N100 million from business mogul Aliko Dangote but failed to share the money to the members.

He had earlier at a news briefing before the assembly went on Sallah recess, denied the allegation and threatened to sue an online media organisation that first published the report.

The deputy speaker, who read the letter, said Mr. Rurum resigned to protect his image due to allegations bordering on corruption leveled against him by some of the members.

NAN reports that shortly after the letter was read and accepted, the lawmakers elected the Majority Leader of the Assembly, Abdullahi Atta, as the new Speaker.

Mr. Atta, who represents Fagge constituency, was nominated for the position by Babangida Yakudima and Zubairu Mamuda and the nomination was unanimously accepted by the members including Mr. Rurum who was at the sitting. (NAN)

Low’s youthful Germany overcome Chile to win Confederations Cup

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Low’s youthful Germany overcome Chile to win Confederations Cup

Germany wins FIFA Confederations Cup

If Germany retain the World Cup next year, then perhaps this was the night that laid the groundwork. Chile will ask themselves how they lost this Confederations Cup final after they missed a number of chances and let Lars Stindl score the winning goal after a defensive slip. But it was a triumphant night for Germany manager Joachim Low and a group of players he opted to give a test run this summer ahead of the bigger World Cup challenge in 2018; he now has 11 months to sift through a more battle-hardened set of options than any other international coach has at his disposal.

Chile started at a ferocious tempo and carved Germany open within five minutes. Excellent work from Arturo Vidal freed Charles Aranguiz, but as the midfielder poised to pull the trigger, Antonio Rudiger executed a perfect tackle. The ball stayed alive, and Vidal’s low drive was kept out by the legs of Germany keeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen.

Chile’s early onslaught continued, with Vidal and Eduardo Vargas both trying their luck. It was near-incessant pressure, and in the 19th minute Alexis Sanchez missed a glorious chance. He seemed certain to convert after Ter Stegen parried from Vidal, but Sanchez perhaps took his eye off the ball and failed to make a clean contact.

Within seconds, Sanchez was made to pay. Germany had barely laid a glove on Chile but took the lead with a gift of a goal. Germany’s Timo Werner robbed Marcelo Diaz of possession just outside his own box and squared to Stindl for the simplest of tap-ins; nobody could say this turn of events had seemed remotely likely.

It was a shock to Chile; they began to huff and puff, and Leon Goretzka might twice have extended Germany’s lead before half-time. First, the in-form Schalke player fired across goal from Sebastian Rudy’s smart pass, and then was denied well by Chile keeper Claudio Bravo after Julian Draxler had capitalised on another lapse.

Draxler threatened 10 minutes into the second half, surging through before a lunging Gonzalo Jara deflected Draxler’s shot wide, and Germany looked more than capable of picking off their older opponents on the counterattack. Chile were becoming fractious and Jara received a let-off when, after appearing to elbow Werner, a lengthy video assistant referee (VAR) review led to nothing more than a yellow card.

Tempers raised even further when, 15 minutes from time, Sanchez went down in the box after colliding with Rudy. Vidal shot over from the loose ball, but Chile’s players furiously claimed a penalty and urged referee Milorad Mazic to review using the VAR. To their disgust, he failed to oblige, although more conventional replays suggested Sanchez did not have a case.

Chile rallied for one last push as Ter Stegen tipped wide from Aranguiz, and then they missed their final big chance. Substitute Angelo Sagal had a gaping net to fire into when fellow replacement Edson Puch squared past a committed Ter Stegen, but Sagal blazed his shot over the crossbar — and with that wayward finish went his side’s hopes.

Senator Solomon Adeola’s Governorship Campaign Dented on Social Media over Unfulfilled Campaign Promises

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Senator Solomon Adeola’s Governorship Campaign Dented on Social Media over Unfulfilled Campaign Promises

Lagos West Senator, Solomon Olamilekan Adeola popularly known as ‘yayi’ has his Ogun governorship campaign dented over unfulfilled campaign promises.

Information made available revealed business people of the Lagos popularly computer village are not happy with the Senator of the Federal Republic.

It was gathered that Solomon Adeola had promised the business community of the Ikeja based Computer village under the auspices of Computer & Allied products Dealers Association of Nigeria (CAPDAN) access to ‘Free Internet WiFi’ within the Lagos popular ICT market immediately he gets to the Senate.

“But it is over two years now that he made the promise and we are yet to get any free Wifi facilities as he promised” a source from computer village told our reporter.

Senator Adeola was alleged to have ignored what he promised the Lagos ICT community but “would rather concentrate on his ambition of becoming the next governor of Ogun State.”

The message making the round on social media also stated “the people of Ogun State won’t be deceived if you can’t fulfil your promise to the people of Lagos…..”

The texts being circulated on social media read thus;

“Where is the free WiFi?

“Instead of providing the free WiFi, this man is claiming he hails from Ogun State.

“The people of Ogun State won’t be deceived, if you can’t fulfill your promise (which would have helped budding entrepreneurs) to the people of Lagos, why should believe your ancestral claims and empty pipe dreams you are telling your people?

“Yayi, fulfil your electoral promise in Lagos, stop lying about what you are not.”

The post would not however fly around freely without opposition.

Some perceived loyalists of yayi described the post as “sponsored campaign of calumny from uncomfortable oppositions from Ogun State.”

Senator Adeola Solomon is one of the many candidates jostling to take over from the present Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun in the coming 2019 general election. The Ogun West, Ilaro born politician is presently representing Lagos West at the upper chamber of the National Assembly.

CRISIS LOOMS IN RULING PARTY APC OVER WHO REPLACES SUSPENDED SGF BABACHIR LAWAL

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CRISIS LOOMS IN RULING PARTY APC OVER WHO REPLACES SUSPENDED SGF BABACHIR LAWAL

suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal — **Suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal**

Trouble is brewing in the National Working Committee the All Progressives Congress following disagreements over who should replace the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.

Lawal, until his appointment and subsequent suspension as SGF, was a member of the NWC as the APC National Vice-Chairman in the North-East.

The PUNCH gathered in Abuja on Wednesday that most of the party’s stakeholders from the zone were favourably disposed to having a congress to elect a replacement for the suspended SGF.

It was learnt that some party leaders were allegedly working behind the scene to impose a replacement on them.

Some aggrieved aspirants have however written a petition to stop the alleged move.

A copy of the petition, entitled ‘Complaint on the brazen abuse of due process and injustice in the nomination for the replacement of the National Vice-Chairman, North East’, was submitted to the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Wednesday.

The petition, which was signed by Dr. Umar Duhu, Mr. Usman Iya-Abbas and Umar Sanda-Sani, alleged among other things that the party’s National Secretary, Mai Mala Buni, was complicit in an alleged attempt to impose a candidate on the zone.

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In the document addressed to the party’s National Chairman and the Deputy National Chairman (North) Senator Lawal Shuaibu, the petitioners said, “We write to express our sadness and total dissatisfaction with the way the National Secretary of our great party (Mai Mala Buni) handled the process for the replacement of the vacant position of the National Vice-Chairman (North-East), which was zoned to
Adamawa State at the APC National Convention in 2014 and was declared vacant at the last NEC meeting.

“We, the undersigned, have been individually consulting party leaders and making efforts to secure support to emerge as successful candidates through due process as provided for in the APC Constitution (October 2014 as Amended).

“We, the aspirants, expressed our interest in writing to the National Chairman. In fact, one of us, Umar

Duhu, has secured the full nomination of all the four APC governors in the North-East, distinguished senators, honourable members of the House of Representatives, Speakers of the State Houses of Assembly and notable leaders of the party in the zone.”

They, however, noted that since there was no consensus, it was agreed that the party’s national secretariat should convene a zonal congress to elect the most acceptable candidate for the position.

The petitioners further alleged, “While we were busy with consultations and waiting for a date the national secretariat will convene the North-East congress, we received the shock of our lives through the social media that the NWC met on June 19, 2017, and approved the nomination of one Mustapha Salihu as the National Vice-Chairman North-East.”

They noted that the action if true, was completely at variance with Articles 20 (a) and 25 (c)(ii) of the party’s constitution as well as democratic tenets, social justice, rule of law and the change mantra which the APC was predicated upon.

The petitioners demanded, among other things, the cancellation and withdrawal of the said letter dated July 19, 2017, issued to Salihu and a declaration of same as null and void and of no effect.
They also called on the party to direct the immediate convening of the North-East Congress, to democratically conclude the process for choosing a replacement into all vacant party positions in the North-East as stipulated in the APC constitution.

The petitioners gave the party a seven-day ultimatum within which to act or be prepared to face legal action.

Attempts to get the reaction from the party’s National Secretary, Buni, who was accused of trying to impose a candidate on the zone, were futile.
Calls to his telephone on Wednesday indicated that it was switched off while a response to a text message to him on the subject was still being awaited as of the time of filing this report.
Also, calls to the mobile of the Deputy National-Chairman (North) Senator Lawal Shuaibu, were not returned.

A response to a text message sent to him on the subject was still being awaited as of the time of filing this report on Wednesday.
The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said he was yet to see a copy of the petition.

“I have not seen the petition or the letter being referenced. If by tomorrow (today) I see it, then, I can comment.”

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Ronaldo shows off his twin baby boys

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Ronaldo shows off his twin baby boys

Ronaldo Shows off His Twins Baby Boys — **Ronaldo and his twins**

Cristiano Ronaldo will be missing in action on Sunday in Portugal’s third-place match at the 2017 Confederations Cup.

Instead, he will be in the United States west coast, playing nanny, changing the nappies and singing lullabies for his twin baby sons delivered by a surrogate mum a month ago.

Ronaldo, 32, was released from Portugal’s squad late Wednesday after their defeat on penalty kicks to Chile in the Confed Cup semifinals in Russia.

It is not clear whether Ronaldo travelled to the US Wednesday night.

But pointers that he may have arrived in the US showed when he published his photograph with the twins.

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“So happy to be able to hold the two new loves of my life” , Ronaldo said on his Instagram page, where 105million people are following him. The post generated over 5 million likes in six hours.

In another post, Ronaldo said:

“The President of the Portuguese Football Federation and the national picker have today had an attitude that has touched me and I will not forget. I’m very happy to finally be with my children for the first time.”