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Published 16 June 2021
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says it is unconstitutional for the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to shift his constitutional responsibility of securing lives and property of Nigerians to state governors.
The governor, in a statement by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, said the President is the Commander- In-Chief of the Armed Forces and cannot declare that governors are in charge of security in their respective states.
Wike, who spoke at the inauguration of the 21-kilometre Odufor-Akpoku-Umuoye Road in the Etche Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday, said such a position suggested that the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government lacked strategies on how to tackle insecurity in the country.
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The minority caucus in the House of Representatives, on Friday, said it had taken stock of the performance of the administration of the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government, describing it as a failure.
$65m fraud: Presidency says ex-FMBN boss no longer Buhari’s in-law, PDP demands probe
John Alechenu and Adelani Adepegba
Published 15 May 2021
John Alechenu and Adelani Adepegba
Published 15 May 2021
The Presidency has said that a former Managing Director, Federal Mortgage Bank, Gimba Yau Kumo, declared wanted for $65 million fraud is no longer a son-in-law to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
This is as the Peoples Democratic Party is demanding the probe of Kumo, who got married to Buhari’s daughter in October 2016 in Daura, Katsina State.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission had declared the fugitive wanted alongside Tarry Rufus and Bola Ogunsola over alleged misappropriation and dispersion of national housing fund.
Stop cursing your candidate’s opponents, ex-PDP chair tells Fayose
Published 10 May 2021
A former chairman of the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bola Olu-Ojo, has warned ex-Governor Ayodele Fayose, against raining curses on opponents of his preferred governorship candidate.
The former PDP chairman spoke after he was unveiled by one of the party’s governorship aspirants, Wale Aribisala, as Director General of the Wale Aribisala Campaign Organisation, in Ado Ekiti on Sunday.
He spoke against the backdrop of a viral video in which Fayose was seen raining curses on opponents of his preferred governorship candidate, Bisi Kolawole.