APC National Chairmanship Seat: Court Fixes Sept 18 To Decide Ganduje’s Fate
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ABUJA— The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, slated September 18 to deliver its judgement on a suit that is seeking to remove the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, from office. The court, presided by Justice Inyang Ekwo, fixed the date after all the parties adopted their final briefs of argument.
The suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/599/2024, was brought before the court by aggrieved members of the party under the platform of North Central APC Forum. The plaintiffs, led by one Saleh Zazzaga, are querying the propriety of Ganduje’s appointment as the Chairman of the APC.
They, among other things, want the court to restrain Ganduje from further parading himself as the chairman of the party.
More so, they prayed the court to issue an order, directing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to accord recognition to all actions taken by the APC, including congresses, primaries and nominations, since Ganduje became APC Chairman on August 3, 2023.
The plaintiffs told the court that Ganduje is occupying the office of the APC chairman illegally, not being from a state in the North Central geo-political zone.
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427 Ghost Workers Uncovered In Anambra
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The Anambra State Local Government Service Commission said it has discovered over 427 ghost workers earning salaries from the state government without being staff members.
The Chairman of the Commission, Vin Ezeaka, disclosed this to journalists in Awka, the Anambra state capital, on Friday.
Ezeaka said the commission also discovered that six senior employees at the various local government areas forged their certificates, claiming they were issued by the Imo State University.
He said 59 among the ghost workers were employees of the commission who died a long time ago, 40 had retired but were still on the state payroll, while 11 others were living abroad.
He said, “The discovery was made during a staff personnel audit launched to sanitise the local government system in the state. In the process, over 427 workers were discovered to have been on the local government payroll without being staffed.
“Out of the 427 ‘ghost workers’ uncovered, 59 were staff of the Commission who had died a long time ago, 40 others had retired and are still on the payroll of the commission, while about 11 others were staff living abroad whose names were still on the payroll of the government.
Insecurity: Nigerians Must Unite Against Common threads–Tinubu
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President Bola Tinubu has called on Nigerians to come together in solidarity against the common threats that undermine the nation’s collective well being, saying that, Nigeria has endured too much.
The President made the call on Friday, while performing the groundbreaking for the Resettlement Scheme for Persons Impacted by Conflicts at Tudun Biri community, a Kaduna village accidentally bombed by the military in December last year.
Represented by the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, the President noted with dismay that, for so long, Nigerians have been held hostage by the fear of themselves and allowed preventable incidents to escalate into transgenerational disputes. “Today, we gather to say, “Enough is enough.”
He said his administration is committed to bolstering Nigeria’s security infrastructure and advancing peace, adding that the resettlement scheme, which is targeted at the communities affected by conflicts in Kaduna, Katsina, Benue, Niger, Zamfara, Sokoto and Kebbi, was a testament to the courage of the survivors and signals an end to their pessimism.
According to the President, the resettlement Scheme is a collective will of Nigerians to heal as a nation that has endured too much.
Pa Edwin Clark:Keeping Nnamdi Kanu In Detention Unfair
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Elder statesman and leader of the Southern and Middle-Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF), Pa Edwin Clark says the group was formed to fight for the interests of Southerners, people from the Middle Belt and minorities from across the country.
In this interview with JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, the former Federal Commissioner for Information spoke on a number of other issues, including continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, marginalisation of Igbo, minimum wage, state police, allegations of nepotism against President Tinubu, and others.
What are the objectives of the Southern and Middle-Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) and how do you intend to achieve such objectives?
The Southern and Middle-Belt Leaders Forum is an organisation set up by the leaders and the people of these areas. Southern means South-West, South-South and South-East, together with 17 governors. In the Middle Belt, we’re talking about Plateau, Benue, Kwara, Niger, Nassarawa, and Kogi. But it expands beyond geographical extension. For instance, Southern Kaduna is part of us, and then Major General Lekwot is the leader of Southern Kaduna, with Dr. Bitrus Pogu as the President of the Middle Belt Forum. Now as I said, it extends to Kaduna, it extends to Kebbi and Zamfara in the North-West, it extends to Niger, it extends to Kwara because the Yorubas there claim to belong to this organisation. Like the former military governor of Kwara State, Adebayo.
So, whereas in southern Nigeria, you know them as mentioned to you. Now, there was a time in the beginning during the time we had the president of Nigeria, ill in Saudi Arabia – President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. And so we had many groups, the Yoruba groups, the South-South, the South-East group, everybody saying that Jonathan should be made to act.