Day: June 12, 2019

Olusegun Obasanjo, former Nigeria President, has said the country is moving towards disaster under President Muhammadu Buhari. Obasanjo, who spoke in an interview, said the economy was unstable, adding that the current administration had destroyed the war against corruption, which he said  started during his administration The former Head of State  backed the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, ahead of the  February 23 presidential election. He based his decision on the situation in the country, saying Buhari, who he accused of nepotism, was also too old to run…

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Rochas Okorocha, the mmediate past Governor of Imo State, has finally gotten his certificate of return as the senator-elect for Imo west from the Independent National Electoral Commission. Okorocha, in a statement by his media aide, Sam Onwuemedo, in Owerri, said that he was happy that the issuance of certificate of return received national and international attention. He commended the INEC Retuning Officer, Prof Innocent Ibeabuchi who said that he declared him(Okorocha) senator-elect under duress. Okorocha said that without the don, his case wouldn’t have received public sympathy. The statement…

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The adopted candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Ahmad Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, yesterday, emerged leaders of the Ninth National Assembly. The party successfully averted a repeat of what happened in 2015 when its adopted candidates lost to former Senate President, Bukola Saraki; former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and immediate past House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara. This time, immediate past Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, APC, Yobe North, who was also the party’s adopted candidate in 2015 emerged victorious. Yesterday, he polled 79 votes to defeat…

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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has blamed the irregularities that characterised the 2019 general elections on President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to assent the amended Electoral Act passed by the Eighth National Assembly. Wike who said this yesterday while addressing a delegation of the British High Commission at the Government House, Port Harcourt, also advocated that the appointment of the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should not completely be in the hands of the Federal Government as suggested by the Uwais report. Wike regretted that despite the amended…

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