Peter Obi Hits Tinubu Hard Over Nnamdi Kanu, Four National Budgets
News Source: Vanguard Newspapers
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, yesterday, warned President Bola Tinubu against plans to implement four national budgets at the same time, saying it is a recipe for chaos and frivolity.
Obi’s advice came on a day he also called on the President to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, from detention.
Addressing newsmen in Onitsha, Anambra State, the former governor said there was no justification for the continued detention of Kanu, especially when the court had granted him bail.
According to Obi, government must obey the law because it is a valuable asset that must be respected.
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Anambra 2025: APC Says No To Zoning Formula
News Source: Vanguard Newspapers
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State has rejected the zoning formula for the 2025 governorship election.
The party’s Publicity Secretary, Dr. Valentine Iyke-Oliobi, announced in a statement, on Saturday.
According to Iyke-Oliobi, the APC has never been part of any zoning arrangement with any political party in the state.
He emphasized that the party gives every member equal opportunity to vie for its ticket, regardless of their zone.
“The APC in Anambra State has no zoning formula and has never been part of any zoning arrangement with any political party in the state.
FG committed to security, welfare of citizens – Shettima
News Source: Punch Newspapers
Vice President Kashim Shettima has reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to the advancement, security and welfare of the citizens.
Shettima gave the assurance on Saturday when he led a Federal Government delegation to offer condolences to the Minister of State for Police Affairs, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, in Keffi, the Nasarawa State capital.
The minister lost her mother, Mrs Aisha Sulaiman-Danladi, on Thursday at the age of 66.
Shettima, who represented President Bola Tinubu, was accompanied by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje; Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari; and the Deputy Governor of Nasarawa, Dr Emmanuel Akabe.
Presidential Fleet: Nigeria’s President has 10 planes; leaders of Britain, Singapore have none
News Source: Vanguard Newspapers
This piece was first published in Vanguard on April 28, 2015, by Eric Teniola who is a former Director in The Presidency and lives in Lagos UNTIL 1999, the Presidential Air Fleet (PAF) was under the control and supervision of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).
Before then, senior Air Force officers, in their grey-upon-blue well-ironed uniforms, were seen on the eleventh floor of the Federal Secretariat which was then the office of the SGF, hanging around.
The argument was that since the Chief of Staff was the head of the staff attached to the President and since he was aware of the hourly movement of the President, he was in a better position to control the fleet adequately.
I understand the fleet is now under the National Security Adviser.