Category: Politics

Godwin Obaseki, the Governor of Edo State, has faulted his disqualification from the All Progressives Congress’ primary election in Edo State. He made this known via his Twitter handle after the APC Screening Committee announced that he is ineligible to contest. The governor tweeted, “We call on all party members and our teeming supporters to remain calm and await further directives, in the light of the announcement of my unjust disqualification to participate in @OfficialAPCNg primary election in Edo State by the screening committee.” The All Progressives Congress had declared Obaseki,…

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The deputy speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Mukhtar Isa Hazo, representing Milgoma constituency was on Thursday impeached and in his place, Isaac Auta, from Kauru was elected. Hazo was until his election, the House Committee Chairman on Local Government and Chieftain Affairs before his election as Deputy Speaker in February, 2020. The 24-member Assembly passed a vote of no confidence in Hazo. There was, however, a mild drama during the inauguration of the new deputy speaker when a member attempted to snatch the maze, the symbol of…

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it had returned about N2.7 bn out of the N7.9 bn recovered from different bank accounts linked to Okorocha, to the state for payment of workers’ salaries and pensions. The EFCC Port Harcourt Zonal Head, Mr Imam Usman, said this on Thursday during a mid-year briefing on the activities of the commission. He added, “Also, properties worth billions of naira recovered in the course of the investigation have been forfeited to the Federal Government. “Out of the N2.7bn already returned to Imo State,…

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Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has granted amnesty to 28 inmates of the Nigeria Correctional Custodial Centres in the state. Olusegun Ajiboye, Chief Press Secretary to the governor, in a statement in Akure on Thursday, said the gesture was in commemoration of the 2020 Democracy Day celebrated on June 12. Mr Ajiboye said this was in exercise of the powers conferred on the governor by Paragraph (d) of sub-section (1) of Section 212 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended. “Governor Akeredolu ordered that…

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Ambrose Nwaogwugwu, who was arrested by the Department of State Services following posts shared on his Facebook page on Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State , has sued the security agency and demanded a N50m compensation. Nwaogwugwu in a suit filed at the Federal High Court, Owerri Division, by his team of lawyers led by Chief Mike Ahamba (SAN), is also seeking among other prayers a declaration that his continued detention from May 28, 2020 till date is unlawful, wrongful, unconstitutional and a flagrant breach of his fundamental rights as…

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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has reacted to the confirmation by the University of Ibadan that he graduated from the institution. The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday, had expressed doubt over the authenticity of the first-degree certificate presented by the governor. While inaugurating the APC’s screening and appeal committees for its members contesting the governorship primary in Edo, Oshiomhole said, “Someone should approach the UI and end this matter once and for all. If the certificate Obaseki parades is that of the UI, find…

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Two weeks after the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, reorganised the Mandate Group without the endorsement of the National Leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, Lagos chapter, has dissolved all sub-groups within the party. The Mandate Group and Justice Forum, regarded as the powerful sub-groups in the party, were outlawed by the APC. The relationship between the two is said to be getting frosty, which may have contributed to the dissolution of all sub-groups within the Lagos APC. A communiqué on Monday titled, ‘Engendering Party Discipline…

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Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, and the Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday criticised each other over the first degree certificate presented by the governor from the University of Ibadan. Oshiomhole, in Abuja at the inauguration of the APC’s screening and appeal committees for its members contesting governorship  primary in Edo State, expressed  doubt over the authenticity of Obaseki’s UI certificate. The governor, through his spokesman, Crusoe Osagie, challenged  Oshiomhole to go and confirm the authenticity of his certificate at the UI. He also said the…

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‌ Mr Paul Ohonbamu, Edo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, has resigned his appointment from the cabinet of Governor Godwin Obaseki. This was contained in a letter of resignation addressed to Obaseki on Thursday in Benin. “I hereby tender my letter of resignation as a commissioner in Edo to His Excellency, Mr Godwin Obaseki this June 4, 2020. “Without setting a precedent, I have decided to step aside as cabinet member and operate outside for the general good of Edo and pursuit of happiness for the citizens,” he said.…

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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, affirmed his loyalty to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in light of his quest to seek re-election as governor of the state. While addressing members of the Obaseki Mandate Group FCT, in Abuja, he said his supporters had offered to pay for his expression of interest and nomination forms “on any platform he chooses” but that his choice remains the APC platform which brough him to political limelight. “I have chosen the party that brought me in the first place–the APC. No matter the challenges,…

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