The Police Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi has arrested oil magnet, Mr Ifeanyi Uba, the Managing Director of Capital Oil & Gas Industries Ltd over the involvement of his companies in the fuel subsidy scam.
Uba was taken into custody at exactly 2.20pm this afternoon with his team of lawyers and is being currently interrogated.
His company was indicted by Mr Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede’s led 15-man Presidential Panel constituted by President Goodluck Jonathan to re-investigate the findings of the report of an earlier investigation panel set up by the Ministry of Finance on Fuel Subsidy payments valued at over N2 trillion.
The petition of Maj.-Gen Charles Airhiavbere, the PDP candidate in the July 14 gubernatorial election in Edo State suffered another setback yesterday as the State Election Petitions Tribunal yesterday struck out his application to bring in additional witnesses in his bid to reverse the re-election of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as Governor of the state.
General Arhiavbere had challenged the July 2012 election on two major grounds: the academic qualification of Governor Oshiomhole and alleged irregularities in the election in contravention of the Electoral Act.
The tribunal had on September 27 struck out parts of the petitioner’s application on the alleged non-qualification of Comrade Oshiomhole based on his educational qualification, citing lack of jurisdiction in compliance with the provision of the constitution. The tribunal maintained that the issue of education qualification is a pre-election matter which ought to have been taken before a Federal High Court prior to the election
At the petition’s sitting on Monday, Maj-Gen Arhiavbere (petitioner) had requested leave of the court to bring in additional witnesses to testify on his behalf to which Counsel to Governor Oshiomhole (1stRespondent) and ACN (2nd respondent) filed a counter-application asking the court to dismiss the petitioner’s application, on the ground that it had been overtaken by events.
The 3rd respondent, INEC, aligned itself with the position of the 1st and 2nd respondents seeking leave of the court to strike out the petitioner’s application.
The tribunal which also concluded its pre-trial conference yesterday decided that the live issue for determination before it at the main trial is the issue “whether the petitioner’s allegation that the gubernatorial election of 14th July is invalid by reason of corrupt practices and non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended ought to be sustained having regard to the evidence adduced and the remaining paragraphs of the petition.”
Counsel to Comrade Oshiomhole, Chief Adeniyi Akintola, SAN, told reporters yesterday that the Governor’s team is prepared for the remaining part of the case if the petitioner is ready.
The State Deputy Governor, Dr Pius Odubu told reporters that the case had been unnecessary from inception and that live issues before the tribunal are inconsequential to the determination of the winner of the July 14, 2012 election.
The tribunal adjourned further sitting to the October 23, 2012.
….seeks Assembly approval on N1.5billion for displaced persons, relief materials
The Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has ordered the immediate and indefinite closure of Private and Public schools in the State following the rising water level and the reported threat to the residents of the state capital and its environs.
The order was also followed with a request sent to the state House of Assembly for its approval to allow his administration spend the sum of N1.5billion from the N27billion Compulsory Savings Account of the state to tackle the rising cases of emergency relocation of displaced persons and provision of relief materials to the affected communities.
Bayelsa residents are now living in fear as everybody is weary over the increasing flood situation in the state capital, just as the few safe houses are occupied by relations and friends who are equally faced with hardship as the cost of food stuffs are increasing geometrically.
Governor Seriake Dickson,in a statement issued yesterday in Yenagoa by the Chief Press Secetary (CPS),Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said the order for the closure of schools became necessary due to the reported and alarming rise in water levels across the State and the danger it poses to the Citizenry, “The Governor has ordered the immediate and indefinite closure of all schools in the state. The decision was taken to safeguard the lives of children and to keep them away from possible dangers that could arise from the flood”.
“Government is by this appealing to parents and guardians to accept the decision as it was taken in the interest of all Bayelsans. We want to assure you that, normal academic activities will resume as soon as the situation is brought under control. His Excellency the Governor of Bayelsa State wishes to reassure the people of the state of government’s commitment to the welfare and well-being of Bayelsans of all ages, especially at these trying times”.
Meanwhile, the members of the State House of Assembly yesterday announced the receipt of a letter from the State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson, asking for the permission of the House to withdraw the sum of N1.5billion from the State Consolidated Accounts initiated by its administration for emergency cases such as the ravaging flood in the state.
However, what the state government should look at is the increasing rise in the cost of food stuffs which is caused due to the blocked access to and fro Bayelsa and neighboring Delta where most of the food items comes to the state, as a rubber of garri which hitherto costs N300 is now sold for N1, 500 while bags of rice are gradually disappearing from shops. There is panick buying in the state as nobody knows when the ravaging flood would cease.
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Mrs Veronica Eigbole (class teacher) and Okoli Great (pupil) during the Governor’s unscheduled visit to schools to check the punctuality and attendance of teachers in the state
TWENTY teachers of three schools who were absent from their duty posts when the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole paid an unscheduled visit to the schools, yesterday, have been dismissed.
Comrade Oshiomhole who disclosed this during an unscheduled visit to Asoro Primary School, Emokpae Model Primary School, Western Boys High School, George Idah Model School and Esonere Primary School in Benin City also ordered deductions from the salaries of some teachers who got to their schools after the 8:00am resumption time.
The Governor who frowned at the lackadaisical attitude of some teachers to work said “the state government has provided suitable environment in the schools, the teachers are paid good wages and inducement allowances. These beautiful classrooms are useless if teachers don’t teach the students.”
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Sir Joseph Emabino and Mrs. Betty Ehimen, headmistress, Asoro Primary School during the Governor’s unscheduled visit to schools to check the punctuality and attendance of teachers in the state
The governor who was at the Asoro Primary School by 7:45am went through the teachers’ attendance register and discovered that names of teachers who were not present in school were signed in. He then directed that adequate punishment be meted out to those who filled in the names of the absent teachers.
“Any time a teacher does not show up in school, the students will be wasting their time. The head mistress will also be queried because she has the responsibility to explain to me why people are allowed to sign fraudulently on the register when they are not present,” he noted.
Comrade Oshiomhole queried the long stay of some teachers in a particular school before being posted out to other schools, directing the State Universal Basic Education Board to ensure fairness and transparency in the transfer of teachers.
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Sir Joseph Emabino Mrs. Betty Ehimen, headmistress, Asoro Primary School and the Vice headmistress during the Governor’s unscheduled visit to schools to check the punctuality and attendance of teachers in the state.
At the Western Boys High School, the governor condemned the dress code of some teachers, noting “teachers should be role models in their dressing by being properly dressed. I am here to look at this school to see what we can do to make it more comfortable.
“I am not happy with some teachers who are not punctual and are in the habit of not coming to work. The government will take disciplinary action against them,” he added.
According to the governor, Edo State Government has the responsibility to protect the future of the children with quality education and improvement of the environment and he urged the teachers to complement that effort.
In his words, “those teachers who are absent from school will be dismissed because we cannot continue to pay them. We will employ those ready to work to earn their wages, while those who are late will forfeit part of their pay.
The Governor was also at the Emokpae Model Primary School, George Idah model primary School and Esonere Primary School where he commended the teachers for been punctual and assured that the state government will restore integrity to public schools to make them compete with the private schools.
Seven Senior Secondary School teachers were absent at Western Boys High School when the governor visited while five Junior Secondary School teachers of the same school were not on their duty posts.
At Asoro Primary School, seven teachers were absent from work while one teacher was absent from work at Emokpae Model Primary School.
However, all the teachers at George Idah Model Primary School and Esonere Model Primary School were on their duty post and were also punctual according to the times signed in on the teachers’ register.
Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, Sir Joseph Emabino and other members of the board were in the Governor’s entourage for the inspection.
The Governor of Ondo State, Mr. Mimiko along with the management staff of the United Bank of Africa [UBA] has been petitioned to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] over illegal withdrawal of N700million from an account domiciled at the UBA Lagos. The Governor was also charged with forgery – in the attempts forge the name of a preexisting company in order to continue to make withdrawals from the said accounts.
See the complete petition below –
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23 August 2012
The Chairman
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
15A, Awolowo Road,
Ikoyi, Lagos.
Dear Sir,
FRAUDULENT CONVERSION OF ASSETS OF OWENA OIL AND GAS LIMITED, FRAUD BY MR. GOKE ADENIYI & OTHERS AND OWENA ENERGY LIMITED
We hereby bring to your information and for necessary action the criminal activities of some persons incorporated as Owena Energy Limited acting under the cover of the Ondo State Government to perpetrate fraud against our Company.
BRIEF BACKGROUND
Owena Oil & Gas Limited is a private company duly incorporated in Nigeria in 2001 and jointly owned by the Ondo State Government (OSG) and Integrated Mineral Development Company Limited (IMDC). Sometime in year 2001, IMDC a firm of Mineral Development consultants and Investors approached the Ondo State Government under the governance of late Governor Adebayo Adefarati for the purpose of providing the Ondo State Government with Consultancy, Technical assistance and finance for the development of Oil and gas businesses that will include but not limited to establishment of a petroleum refinery, acquisition of oil assets, construction of an oil terminal, deep offshore supply base, etc on Public-Private-Partnership(PPP) model.
In line with this vision, Owena Oil and Gas limited a private company registered by the Ondo State Government with its nominees as shareholder was agreed to be the Joint Venture Company in the following ratio
30% equity participation – Ondo State Government
30% – Private Local Sector participants -IMDC
40% – Foreign Investors and Technical Partners (to be held by IMDC).
The referenced agreements were to serve as a pre operation/incorporation contract between the government of Ondo State and private sector participants led by IMDC. In pursuance of the agreement and MOU a validly convened board meeting of Owena Oil and Gas Limited was held to ratify the objects of the agreement and the necessary documents were filed at the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja in November 2001. IMDC nominated directors were appointed to the Board of Owena Oil and Gas Limited and shareholding equal to 30% of the Company’s authorized share capital was allotted to these IMDC directors to reflect the Agreement (Attached as ‘A’ are copies of the MOU, and forms filed at CAC in 2001). A successful bid was made for the acquisition of 45% interest in OML 95 ‘Ororo Field’ with the 55% going to Guaranty Petroleum Limited.
In 2007, Ondo State, as the Joint Venture partner of IMDC also assisted Owena Oil and Gas Limited to participate in the mini-bid round during which it bidded unsuccessfully for OPL-241, an exercise that saw Oilworld Limited emerge as the winner. Owena Oil and Gas Limited later acquired 80% farm-in-interest in OPL-241 leaving Oilworld with 20% interest in the block vide referenced Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) between parties, an activity supported financially with a ‘soft loan’ to the Company by the then Dr. Agagu led administration.
EFFORTS TO FRAUDULENTLY CONVERT THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY AND TRANSFER SAME TO OWENA ENERGY LTD UNDER GOVERNOR MIMIKO LED
In 2009 one Mr Goke Adeniyi of Lake, Seas & Creeks 15B, Josep Street, Lagos Island, at the unilateral instance of the Ondo State Government led by Dr. Olusegun Mimiko illegally and without recourse to the Board and other shareholders took over the assets of the Company.
It is now emerging that since Mr. Goke Adeniyi was forced on the Company a total sum of about N700,000,000.00 million Naira held in 2 deposit accounts of the Company with United Bank for Africa Plc, Idowu Taylor Street, Victoria Island, Lagos has been withdrawn in obvious collusion with officers of the Bank and without authorisation of the Board and members of the Company .
It is also emerging that spirited attempts are also being made to illegally transfer the oil assets of Owena Oil and Gas Limited to a newly formed entity Owena Energy Ltd a private limited liability company in which they have personal interests as shareholders.
In further perfection of the above evil agenda, the promoters of Owena Energy Limited has been parading the company as if its a subsidiary of Owena Oil and Gas Ltd or a sister company where no such interest exist. Please find attached as ‘B’ the current CAC 2 and CAC 7 of both Owena Energy Limited and Owena Oil and Gas Ltd.
In view of the foregoing, we strongly believe that those behind Owena Energy Limited in the persons of Mr. Goke Adeniyi et al will not relent in their fraudulent pursuit of our Company’s assets for their personal parochial gain except they are forced to confront the law.
We therefore petition and urge that you use your good office to kindly have this matter investigated and verify the authority by which the fund was moved from the account and the use to which it was put by Mr. Goke Adeniyi without the knowledge and consent of the Board of the Company. Furthermore, we seek that you investigate and verify the part played by officers of United Bank for Africa in effecting this illegality. Also to ensure that the promoters of Owena Energy Limited and any other person(s) linked thereby in the fraudulent coversion of our Company’s assets are brought to book for their unlawful acts.
We thank you for your kind and prompt attendance to this matter of grave financial concern to, and continuing survival of Owena Oil and Gas Limited.
Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu with Mrs Bianca Ojukwu
The upper chamber of the National Assembly in their seating today [October 9, 2012] tabled the issue of the brutal murder of the four students of the University of Port Harcourt, River State – Ugonna, Lloyd, Tekana and Chidiaka by the vigilante operatives of Aluu community.
The Senate plenary which began at about 12:30pm saw the Senators rise to speak in denunciation of the brutal killings. Among the Senator who spoke against the killings included Senator Akume, Senator Egba, Senator Bello, Senate President David Mark, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and others.
One of the Senators who spoke passionately and personally on the killings was Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu who told the Chamber that he knew one of the boys personally. “The mother is from one of the local government areas which I represent here in the Senate” said the deputy president who also noted that “the boy travels to the United States of America [USA] frequently” and so has no need to steal phones and laptops. “The mother of the boy works for a top bank in Nigeria and the father is a top shot in NNPC”. The Senator stated that he spoke with the parents of Chidiaka recently.
The Deputy Senate president added that preliminary investigation suggests that the brutal killings may have been the result of misunderstanding between students. But the Senator stopped short of elaborating on the details of the misunderstanding – citing that the matter remains under investigation.
Adding a strong voice to the condemnation of the killings was Senator Akume of Benue State who seized to opportunity to rally for the creation of State police. The Senator indicated that the creation of State police will help halt the type of needless killings currently taking place around the tertiary institutions of Nigeria. He made it clear also that anyone for kills should be killed.
The Senate President seconded the call for creation of State police – adding that the increased killings of innocent souls in the various part of Nigeria caused him to change his original stand on the issue.
A one minute silence was observed by the Senate in honor of the murdered boys.
At least 35 people were killed on Monday when Nigerian soldiers opened fire after a bomb blast struck their convoy in Maiduguri, Borno State, nurses at the hospital that received the bodies said.
The nurses in the Umaru Shehu hospital said 30 of the dead were in civilian clothes, while another five wore military uniforms. Militants of the Boko Haram Islamist sect, headquartered in Maiduguri, sometimes wear civilian clothes.
“They brought in so many dead bodies. They were more than 30 civilians, in civilian dress. We counted five dead soldiers as well,” a nurse, who declined to be named, said. Most had died of gunshot wounds, she added.
Boko Haram is waging an insurgency against President Goodluck Jonathan’s government with the avowed aim of reviving an ancient Islamic kingdom in majority Muslim northern Nigeria.
Styled on the Afghan Taliban, the sect’s purported leader Abubakar Shekau has said he wants to impose sharia, Islamic law, on the country of 160 million people, around half of whom are Christians and the other half Muslim. His movement has become the number one security threat to Africa’s top energy producer.
Borno state security spokesman Sagir Musa said he could not confirm or deny the casualty toll, but he admitted troops had opened fire after a bomb they suspected to be remotely detonated wounded two of them in a patrol.
He said the military would give a statement on Wednesday morning (Reuters).
More succors have continued to pour in for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Isoko South and North as well as Ndokwa East and West local government areas of Delta state following the ravaging flood that has rendered them homeless in the past weeks.
Presenting the relief materials separately yesterday to the victims at AGGS Ozoro, headquarters of Isoko North and St. Michaels’college and Odoro primary school, Oleh, headquarters of Isoko South, the member representing Isoko Federal constituency in the national Assembly, Hon. Leo Ogor Okuweh and founder of Umeh Need Road facebook forum (UNR), Barrister Duncan Akpovienehe Afahokor sympathized with all the victims of the flood.
According to the duo, they should all have their trust in God and not to lose hope lamenting that the situation was a pathetic one and all hands should be on desk so as to assist the people in every little way they can.
While stressing the need for everyone to think on what could be done after the flooding crisis to rehabilitate the victims, the administrator of (UNR), Afahokor called on all and sundry to as a matter of importance come out enmass to give a helping hand to the victims.
Afahokor however expressed worries over the way the flooding has continued to increase daily as well as rendering people homeless and loss of valuables.
The presentation which attracted members of the facebook forum and lasted few minutes saw the affected victims jubilating and thanking the donors and called on other spirited individuals to come to their aid.
Items presented by the lawmaker and the group include, materials, yams, bags of rice and beans, mattresses, foams, toiletries, provisions among others. The ravaging flood has sacked over fifty communities of Isoko origin.
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks in the rain during a rally in Newport News, Virginia, on October 8, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Jim WATSONJIM WATSON/AFP/GettyImages
Mitt Romney has effectively erased Barack Obama’s lead in the polls after last week’s one-sided presidential debate, according to Pew Research.
Romney now leads Obama by 4% among likely voters, according to the newly release poll. That’s a 12-point turnaround from last month.
Among registered voters, Romney and Obama are now tied at 46%. Just a month earlier, Obama held a 9% lead over his Republican rival.
“Fully 66% of registered voters say Romney did the better job in last Wednesday’s debate, compared with just 20% who say Obama did better,” Pew said in a release Monday. “…More generally, the poll finds Romney’s supporters far more engaged in the campaign than they were in September. Fully 82% say they have given a lot of thought to the election, up from 73% in September.”
The poll was conducted between October 4 and 7 and included 1,511 U.S. adults — 1,201 of whom were registered voters and 1,112 who were likely voters.
Romney also achieved gains over the past month among women, white non-Hispanics and those younger than 50, Pew said. It noted that likely women voters are now evenly divided at 47% each for Obama and Romney, when last month, Obama led Romney by 18 points among women likely to vote.
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImagesBarack Obama arrives at San Francisco International Airport on Monday. Obama is on a three-day trip during which he will campaign in California and Ohio as well as attend the establishment of the Cesar Chavez National Monument.
This week, the focus of the campaign shifts to the debate on Thursday between Vice President Joe Biden and the Republican nominee to replace him, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan.
With polls tightening, Obama’s campaign is banking on a massive get-out-the-vote operation and state-by-state shades of economic improvement to maintain its apparent polling edge in battlegrounds from Ohio to Virginia.
Meanwhile, a re-energized Romney is flashing new confidence on the campaign trail and pressing toward the political center on both foreign and domestic issues. But aides have outlined no clear path to winning the 270 Electoral College votes required to gain the White House.
Ultimately this is a tight race, and it’s going to remain a tight race until the end
“Things are going pretty good,” the usually cautious Romney said Monday with a smile.
Among Democrats, the swagger of the previous few weeks has all but vanished since the debate.
“Ultimately this is a tight race, and it’s going to remain a tight race until the end,” said Bill Burton, who runs Priorities USA Action, a pro-Obama super political action committee.
Indeed, one month from Election Day, polls show a close race. And with millions of Americans already voting and the potential for game-changing moments diminishing, the candidates have little room for error as they seek to sway a narrow swath of undecided voters.
Obama aides acknowledge Romney’s strong turn on the debate stage helped him shift gears from a rocky September. But they also argue that Romney’s momentum was arrested somewhat by a Friday jobs report showing the unemployment rate declined to 7.8%, the lowest level of Obama’s presidency.
They say the president was thrown during the debate by what they call Romney’s willingness to abandon his previous positions, including his US$5-trillion tax cut proposal. In the next debate — and in television advertisements before then — the Democrat and his aides are expected to accuse Romney of lying about his own plans.
Romney’s team, meanwhile, is tempering expectations that tightening national polls will translate into success on the ground in the key states most likely to decide the race. Things may be moving in the right direction, they say, but significant work remains.
Still, they’re seeking to paint Obama’s campaign as desperate.
“It seems pretty clear that their new strategy is basically just call us liars, to descend down into a mud pit and hopefully, with enough mudslinging back and forth and distortion, people will get demoralized and they can win by default,” said Romney’s running mate Paul Ryan.
Both Democrats and Republicans say internal campaign surveys following last week’s debate show Romney has cut into the lead Obama had built up in many key battleground states. But they say Obama still has an advantage in most of the nine or so critical states, including Ohio and Virginia. A lack of independent polling makes it difficult to know whether that’s true.
In a foreign policy speech at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., on Monday, Romney cast himself as a statesman who would be part of a long, bipartisan tradition of American leadership in the world. He said the U.S. should use its power “wisely, with solemnity and without false pride, but also firmly and actively.”
At the same time, he is moving away from some of the more conservative positions he pressed during the GOP primary. The shift is aimed at appealing to the independents and disaffected members of both parties who could swing the race. He is to deliver at least two more policy speeches in the coming weeks focused on job growth and debt and spending.
As Obama’s aides worked to poke holes in Romney’s foreign policy address, Obama declared a national monument at the Keene, Calif., home of Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez, the United Farmworkers Union founder who died in 1993.
Sure to appeal to some Hispanic voters in swing states, Obama’s move came at the start of a day in which he also was raising political cash at events in San Francisco, as his campaign closed in on US$1-billion in donations. Democrats said the US$181-million they raised in September would allow Obama to keep advertising heavily on television in all battleground states and fully fund major registration and early voting efforts in the campaign’s crucial final weeks.
The president has more get-out-the-vote offices than Romney in every competitive state; some offices never closed after the 2008 campaign. Democrats say that network helped them register more than 130,000 new voters — most in battleground states in the week before the debate. There are more registered Democrats than Republicans in nearly every competitive state with party registration, including Florida and Nevada.
Romney’s team is working hard to chip away at that margin.
Democrats have an edge in Iowa, where 62% of the 111,000 voters who have cast absentee ballots so far were registered Democrats. Twenty-percent were Republicans and 18% were unaffiliated, according to the Iowa secretary of state’s office.
In Ohio, a perennial battleground state, Democrats have an edge over Republicans among people who have requested absentee ballots, though relatively few completed ballots have been submitted. Among the 691,000 people who have requested absentee ballots in 49 of the state’s 88 counties, 30 percent are Democrats and 24% are Republicans. Forty-six percent are unaffiliated voters, according to data collected by the AP.
But Romney’s early voting efforts are showing signs of paying off in North Carolina and Florida, two competitive states that the Republican nominee can ill afford to lose.
Despite a strong debate performance, Romney’s path to the presidency remains narrower than Obama.
Particularly worrisome for Republicans is Ohio, a state that every Republican presidential candidate has needed to win the White House.
If Obama wins Ohio’s 18 electoral votes, Romney would need to win Florida and in all likelihood secure several up-for-grabs states such as Virginia, Iowa, Colorado, New Hampshire and Nevada to take the White House.
Romney, following his selection of Wisconsin Rep. Ryan as his running mate, has tried to put Wisconsin into the toss-up category, but public polling has shown Obama ahead, giving the president more breathing room.
In the season of debates, next up is the only match-up between Vice President Joe Biden and Ryan.
Believe you me, I understand this man is extremely experienced, he’s a gifted speaker, he’s a proven debater
A strong performance by Biden, a former senator who essentially made a career out of debating colleagues, could quell nervousness among some Democrats, though neither party expects undecided voters to be swayed by the face-off between the running mates. Ryan’s challenge is to overcome his lack foreign policy expertise or national debate experience against Biden, who has extensive experience on both fronts.
“Believe you me, I understand this man is extremely experienced, he’s a gifted speaker, he’s a proven debater,” Ryan said on The Frank Beckman Show on Detroit radio station WJR. “So we definitely have our work cut out for us. But the problem the vice president has that he just can’t get around is he has to try and defend Barack Obama’s record, and it’s not a very good record to defend.”
Biden was preparing for the face-off in his hometown of Wilmington, Del., where he has held two mock debates with Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., who is playing the role of Ryan.
Obama and Romney will face off again on Oct. 16 in Hempstead, N.Y. in a town hall debate.
