Peter Obi hits Tinubu hard over Nnamdi Kanu, four national budget
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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.
Obi said: “Government must obey the law as the rule of law is an intrinsic asset that we must cherish and live with. And I have always said that I am going to discuss with every agitator. I plead with the government to ensure that all those who are in a similar condition are released and discussed with. We are a democratic nation and we should not be doing things that are arbitrary and not within the law.”
Calling on the country’s leaders to double their efforts in securing the country, he said: “The primary work of government is the security of lives and property. As I always say, the primary duty of any government is the security of life and property.
Anambra 2025: APC says no to zoning formula
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ABUJA – 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.
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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.
“We have always given every member of the party contesting for any position the opportunity to vie for the party’s ticket, regardless of where he/she comes from,” the party said.
The statement also disowned a certain Mr. Pope Amaefuna, who claimed to be a chieftain of the APC in Anambra State.
FG receives 103 Nigerians deported from Turkey
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The Federal Government has received no fewer than 103 Nigerians deported from Turkey over migration-related issues such as expired visas and irregular migration, among others.
Alhaji Tijani Ahmed, the Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), stated this on Friday evening during the deportees’ profiling in Abuja.
Represented by Amb. Catherine Udida, the Director Migration Affairs in the commission, Ahmed said that the commission expected 110 deportees but received 103, all males.
“Some of them have been in the deportation camp for some months, and now that they are here, we are hoping to follow up on all the allegations gathered in their profiling.
“We will go through the profiling forms, because some of them have said that their passports were seized.
We are going to follow up with the Turkish authority because the passports are still the property of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” he assured
LG autonomy: FG erred dragging states to court – Okupe
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Former Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council , Dr Doyin Okupe, has faulted Federal Government’s on its court case against states over local government autonomy.
Okupe, a former Presidential spokesperson ,expressed the position in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Sunday.
The former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), described the Federal Government’s legal battle against the states for autonomy as needless and unfortunate.
According to him, in a true federal system, there are only two component units- the federal and the states.
“We should run a true federal system in which there are two bodies coming together for a union: the Federal Government and sub-nationalities.
“The local governments are principally and completely issues of the state, it absolutely has nothing to do with the federal government and it (the idea of LG as a third tier)should be expunged from the constitution.