Category: Politics

Governor Kayode Fayemi has said his administration’s plan to focus on agriculture and rural development is to reposition Ekiti State as a food basket for the country. The governor, who said that farming remained the number one pre-occupation of Ekiti people, said his government would partner with the farmers and some private organisations to boost food production through agric business. Minister commends ongoing facilities upgrading at FMC Ebute Metta According to him, Ekiti has the capacity to become the food basket not only for the region for the country at…

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Peter Obi, the Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, on Saturday urged Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, to stop making inflammatory statements capable of inciting hate among Nigerians. Obi was reacting to a statement credited to El-Rufai in his (El Rufai’s) twitter handle, where he called Obi ‘a tribal bigot.’ The governor tweeted that Obi stopped him from moving around Anambra State during the governorship election in the state in 2010. But Obi while speaking with journalists on the matter at a youth programme in Nnewi, Anambra State, on…

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Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has denied any knowledge of the alleged grilling of the All Progressives Congress, APC, National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole by the Department of State Security, DSS, in Abuja. It was reported that the nation’s police undercover had quizzed the National APC Chairman on Sunday over allegation of corruption when he was governor of Edo State as well as allegedly collecting graft during the party’s primaries to favour some aspirants. Governor Amosun and his colleague from Imo State, Rochas Okorocha were mentioned as the “behind…

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Mr Jimi Agbagbe, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, has picked as his running mate a legal practitioner, Mrs Haleemat Busari. The 54-year-old Mrs Busari is the wife of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Olatunde Busari. The Director of Media and Publicity of the Jimi Agbaje Campaign Organisation, Felix Oboagwina, said in a statement on Thursday that Agbaje settled for Busari after comprehensive consultations within and outside the PDP, adding that the lawyer came highly recommended and widely endorsed as Agbaje’s running mate. According…

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Co-convener of the BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, advocacy group, Aisha Yesufu, has reacted to a statement by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, that President Muhammadu Buhari will return power to the South West in 2023. Fashola had while speaking at a special Town Hall Meeting on infrastructure organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture and the National Orientation Agency held in Ibadan, Oyo State on Thursday called on the people of the South West to support Buhari’s second term bid in order to regain power in 2019.…

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President Muhammadu Buhari has been challenged by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to show proof of his integrity by presenting his academic credentials, “if he has any,” to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and put to an end the controversy trailing his school certificate. The party also tasked the Commander-in-Chief to fulfil his obligation like other Presidential candidates, instead of bugging the commission with affidavits. The PDP in a statement issued by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan yesterday said while its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has submitted his educational and…

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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday said he would lead a strong campaign to ensure victory for President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate in the State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu in the 2019 general elections. Sanwo-Olu and Ambode Governor Ambode, who spoke to journalists at the Presidential Wing of the Muritala Mohammed International Airport shortly after he accompanied President Buhari to perform the official commissioning of the new Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Border Posts at Seme-Krake joint border post in Badagry,…

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Mr. Mudashiru Obasa, speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, said whether or not Governor Akinwunmi Ambode will be impeached depends on his (Ambode) actions. The Speaker also debunked speculations that it was plotting to impeach Governor Amobode. Speaking on the floor of the Assembly, Speaker, Mr. Mudashiru Obasa, said there was no truth in the rumour. Obasa said he received telephone calls and enquiries from prominent people over the rumoured impeachment moves against Ambode. According to him, the Solidarity Group of Nigeria and a faction of All Progressives Congress,…

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