Day: May 19, 2022

Secessionists Call: You have no power to ask any group to vacate North’ – Presidency to Northern Elders

Aminu Imam

…”We didn’t ask Igbo to leave region’ – Northern elders replies The Presidency has told the Northern Elders Forum, (NEF), that it has no right to ask any group to leave the northern region, just as it slammed the group for instigating a section of the country to leave. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, who condemned the utterances in a statement on Tuesday, in Abuja, said that such attitude and comments from the opinionated tin-gods in the Forum can only be inspired by “delusional…

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2023: APC fixes new dates for presidential, other primaries

Aminu Imam

The ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), has fixed a new date for its presidential and all other primary elections. According to an issued statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the new dates were approved by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) at its meeting yesterday. Morka said the presidential primary would now hold on May 29, 2022. Recall that the primary was scheduled to hold between May 30 and June 1, 2022. The party spokesperson also revealed that the mode of primary to elect the presidential candidate…

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2023 Presidency: Ganduje refuses to endorse Amaechi

Aminu Imam

…Says Kano is a ‘swing’ State Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has refused to endorse former Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, for the 2023 Presidency. Amaechi, who pulled out of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet to pursue his presidential ambition, visited Kano yesterday as part of his consultations ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s presidential primary. At the meeting, with other APC stakeholders present, Ganduje said Kano as a ‘swing State, will continue to swing’. He added that Amaechi would know where the State eventually swung to at the right…

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2023: ‘Why APC is treading the path to doom with northern agenda’

Aminu Imam

Stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress, (APC), have warned that the party appears intent on snatching a sure defeat from the jaws of a likely victory with its baffling ‘all-Northern’ strategy. According to an opinion article published yesterday by the ‘President of Arewa Political Forum of Nigeria’, Abdulsalam Muhammed Kazaure, “Following the nudge of certain Northern figures who are blinded by self-interest and an inflated sense of their political prowess, the party looks to be plotting the emergence of a Northerner as its presidential aspirant, an audacious betrayal of its…

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Alleged N80bn Fraud: Accountant-General suspended indefinitely

Aminu Imam

The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has been suspended indefinitely. Idris was suspended by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, yesterday. His suspension followed his indictment for fraud worth N80 billion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC). EFCC’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, had confirmed Idris’s arrest on Monday. He was arrested after he failed to honour invitations by the EFCC. The anti-graft agency stated that Idris allegedly diverted funds and laundered N80 billion. In another development, the EFCC also arrested former speaker of…

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2023: INEC cautions political parties against non-transparent primaries

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday cautioned political parties against non-transparent primaries in order to sustain Nigeria’s democracy. The FCT INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, (REC), Yahaya Bello, made the call at the ‘Stakeholders Interactive Session in Respect of the Forthcoming Political Party Congresses and Primaries’, in Abuja. According to Bello, the call became imperative because a good and credible election begins with a transparent and credible part primaries crowned with internal democracy. He recalled that during the just concluded FCT Area Council Election, the results of some primaries…

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Pay Roll Racket: Nigerian Army clarifies alleged corruption against top officers

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Army, on Tuesday, dismissed allegations of corruption against some of its top officers. According to an issued statement by the Director, Army Public Relations, Onyema Nwachukwu, in Abuja, some aggrieved personnel wrote an open letter to the president, accusing top army officers of corruption. An online report had emerged on Monday that some aggrieved personnel had, in an impersonal letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, accused top army officers of corruption. Nwachukwu said more worrisome was the insinuation that soldiers had threatened to embark on strike, saying such an…

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2023 Political Thuggery: US to impose visa restriction on promoters of violence

Aminu Imam

The United States (US) has said it will impose visa restrictions on anyone who promotes violence as Nigeria holds its general election in 2023. The Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Michael Gonzales, handed out the warning at an international conference, with the theme: ‘United States Policy and Nigeria’s National Decisions in the 2023 Elections’, which was held at Johns Hopkins University, United States. The conference, held virtually at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) ,in Washington DC, brought together Nigerian and American policy communities to discuss the…

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