DEFECTION: Where Ayade leads, there I go ― Ita Giwa
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By Emma Una, Calabar
Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, former Senator and Special Assistant to erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo says where Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade goes there she goes.
Ita-Giwa told Vanguard in Calabar on Thursday shortly after the governor defected to APC that the governor is the political leader in the state and she will always go where she leads.
“We have a leader in the state and wherever he moves to my loyalty is with him”.
Ita-Giwa who was a founding member of All Nigeria People’ Party, ANPP has moved between PDP and APC four times since 1999
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The House of Representatives’ Committee on Local Content on Tuesday began the investigation of alleged abuse of bidding, contracting and operating processes by Exxon Mobil against Nigerian-owned companies.
The probe is being carried out by the House Committee on Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring led by Legor Idagbo.
At the maiden investigative hearing of the committee, the Chairman, Legor Idagbo, stated that the exercise was not to witch-hunt the International Oil Company.
Idagbo said, “This investigative hearing is not a witch-hunt in any way.
“We are all Nigerians and what is to the best interest of our country and our citizens should be paramount in our minds.
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NNPC Chief Operating Officer, Gas and Power, Yusuf Usman, said, the contract was awarded to the Brentex/CPP Consortium which brought in Bablink Resource Ltd.
Usman, who represented NNPC Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari, said all the terms of the contract complied with the Local Content Act as required.
Executive Vice Chairman, Brentex Nigeria Ltd, Sani Abubakar, said over 10,000 skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers were engaged for the project which had a 40 percent Chinese content as agreed.
He said there were only five Chinese engineers currently working with a plan to bring the number to 50 who would work in a team headed by a Nigerian.