Governor Zulum says he believes power should shift to other part of the country, but interested party must be ready to negotiate for it. Amid the agitation for Igbo presidency in 2023, Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has advised South-Eastern politicians to negotiate for power rather than expect others to leave it for them. Zulum said this while speaking in Lagos on Friday, January 15, 2021, at the 17th Chief Gani Fawehinmi annual lecture, themed ‘The constitutional history of Nigeria’s dysfunction: Any pathway to indivisibility and common progress?’ The event was organised by the Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja Branch,…
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that terrorists no longer control any part of Nigeria’s territory. The party advised Nigerians to stop politicising security issues. John Akpan Udo-Edehe, Secretary, APC Caretaker Committee, made the call in a statement on Friday. The scribe noted that apart from attacks on soft targets, Boko Haram and its affiliates had been degraded. Udo-Edehe said efforts of security services, particularly the Armed Forces, to keep the country safe, should be appreciated. “We should rather support their efforts to further degrade the capacity of terrorists and other criminal elements. “We invite Nigerians to rededicate themselves…
President Donald Trump will leave Washington DC on Wednesday morning before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in, according to Washington Post. The newspaper quoted a senior administration official to have revealed the outgoing President’s plan. Trump had previously announced he would not be at the inauguration of his successor at the U.S. Capitol. Trump not being at Biden’s swearing-in shatters a long lasting tradition in the US. Biden had described the Trump administration as a “dismal failure” while seeking to keep a focus on combating the coronavirus. Biden, who won the November 3 presidential election with over 300 electoral votes…
The developing truth is that the election management manual of the Peoples Democratic Party of (South-West) Nigeria is broken, and, however, must be entirely reproduced with a reviewed philosophy, attitude and grit! As time goes on, we’ve deliberated more on why it seems the party cannot again, earn the trust of the electorate, notwithstanding the embarrassingly poor performance of the ruling All Progressives Congress. Observing from the 2019 elections, to the stand-alone elections, there have been pointers to the fact that the PDP cannot come out victorious on Election Day what excessive gyrations on social media ignorantly make them believe.…
The second Republic lawmaker, Dr Muhammad Junaid, says the administration under President Muhammadu Buhari has failed woefully. According to him, “As regards the statement made by the President concerning security in the country generally and northeast, I think President Muhammadu Buhari is been economical with the truth. “First, I believe within this week, there are three or four attacks. And any leader who can give himself pass mark not to talk of half when the situation on ground is the reverse is not sincere or honest with people of this country. “Nobody likes conflicts, lack of security but it is…
The presidency says every citizen has the right to reside in any part of the country. Following the ultimatum issued to the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev Matthew Hassan Kukah by a Muslim group in Sokoto State, the presidency has urged the group to leave the cleric to practise his faith and politics. The “Muslim Solidarity Forum” had earlier accused Kukah of making “malicious comments” against Islam. The group also asked the cleric to apologise for the allegation or leave Sokoto State. But in a statement signed by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to then President on Media…
Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, has mocked President Muhammadu Buhari over an incident with pigeons during the Armed Forces Remembrance Day ceremony on Friday. As a sign of peace, the president usually releases some white pigeons from a cage and immediately they fly away. But, this year, the birds refused flying on Friday with most of them sticking to the cage. The incident was greeted with mixed reactions with many Nigerians, attributing the birds’ behaviour to bad luck and the absence of peace and unity in the country. Reacting to the incident, Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party,…
Deaconess Emerald Udeakaji, the Special Adviser to Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State has resigned to save her marriage. The SA in a letter to the Governor dated December 30, stated that 100% loyalty to the government is tearing her family apart, and, therefore, resolved to resign to save her family. Udeakaji noted that she had gone back to study her bible which states that “Woman be submissive to your husband.” The letter reads: “I sincerely want to thank His Excellency and her Excellency and the entire Umahi family for the opportunity they gave to me to serve in this…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to change Nigeria’s Service Chiefs. Wike said it was high time new strategies were deployed to tackle internal insecurity threats. The governor spoke on Friday at the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Port Harcourt. He said the military chiefs had done their best and should go. Wike noted that terrorists, bandits, and killer herdsmen were still causing havoc. “The inability to defeat the Boko Haram insurgency despite years of full military engagement shows that all is not well with our approaches and commitments to the battle against the internal…
A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has expressed discomfort at the continued lamentations of the Peoples Democratic Party over the recent movement of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC. In a statement made available to DAILY POST on Friday, Eze restated that it remains within the exclusive reserve of every member of a political party to pitch tent with another political association where his genuine grievances, especially those…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday, opened up on the chances of Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, emerging as its presidential candidate in 2023. Ex-Deputy National Publicity Secretary of APC, Yekini Nabena, said Tinubu’s chances are dependent on his alliances with party stakeholders from other zones in the country. Speaking with DAILY POST, Nabena said: “I don’t know or tell how strong Tinubu’s chances are because politics is all about alliance. “It depends on who he is aligning with and his alibi. A tree cannot make a forest, you can be strong in a…
Joe Biden, the President-elect of the United States of America, has appointed Nigerian-born Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo into his cabinet. The President-elect made announcement when he named additional 20 members of the office of the White House counsel. Badejo is a lawyer and an alumna of Berkeley Law College in the US, and served as ethics counsel in the same office toward the end of the President Barrack Obama administration. She, alongside other lawyers of the Office of White House Counsel will be advising the President, the executive office of the president, and the White House staff on legal issues pertaining…
The Court of Appeal, Abuja has dismissed the appeal brought before it by Michael Elokun and two others challenging the election of Yahaya Bello as the Governor of Kogi State. In a unanimous judgment by a three-member panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal, presided over by Justice Steven Adah, on Thursday, the appellate court agreed with the judgment the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho. Justice Adah held in the judgment that the Kogi State governorship election been challenged by the appellants was held in 2015 and the plaintiffs, at the lower court filed…
The Senator representing Ondo South Senatorial District in the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Nicholas Tofowomo, has attributed the rift between Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose as mere individual interest that will soon be over. Tofowomo on Thursday emphasized that what is currently being perceived as a political feud between the two leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was just a clash of interests ahead of the convention of the party in February. Tofowomo further stated that by virtue of being a sitting governor, Makinde is the leader of…
Barely two years to the next general elections, the Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Prince Mathew Kolawole is wooing legislators across the country to support Governor Yahaya Bello’s ambition to be Nigeria’s President come 2023. The Speaker also said they as lawmakers in the state have found Governor Bello to be suitable “as he has performed creditably well”. Kolawole, accompanied by his Deputy and other Kogi lawmakers were in Jos on Thursday, to solicit the support of Plateau Speaker, Abok Ayuba and his colleagues. According to him, “Our mission to Plateau is to congratulate the Speaker, Plateau House of…
The former secretary to the government of the federation Senator Anyim Pius Anyim on Thursday denied being the mastermind of the 2023 presidential campaign poster bearing his picture and currently in wide circulation in the social media. Anyim, who was a former President of the Senate, disassociated himself from the campaign poster, stressing that such campaign poster is capable of distracting President Mohammadu Buhari who had just spent only one year and seven months in his second tenure. Anyim made the assertions in a press statement signed and forwarded to newsmen in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State. He said…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said his government was doing its best on insecurity in Nigeria. Buhari called on citizens to be fair in their criticism of his administration. He spoke on Thursday in Abuja when he received Reverend Yakubu Pam, Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC). On killings, abductions and other challenges, especially in the Northeast, the President reminded Nigerians of the previous state. “What was the situation when we came? Try and ask people from Borno or from Adamawa for that matter and Yobe.” Buhari admitted there are still “occasional Boko Haram problems”. He, however, stressed…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday disclosed how its zoning formula, ahead of the 2023 presidential election will be decided. Yekini Nabena, former National Publicity Secretary of APC said the party would decide on its zoning formula for 2023 elections after critical stakeholders meet. Nabena, in an exclusive chat with DAILY POST, said: “Definitely there is going to be zoning, but the critical stakeholders will meet in every zone before the final decision will be taken. Mind you some people are just heating up the polity because of what they stand to benefit. “I know that before anything will…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ebonyi State chapter on Thursday petitioned the new commissioner of police, Department of State Security, DSS, and other security outfits in the State to investigate the threats and attack meted on its chairman, Elder Fred Udeogu by thugs purportedly loyal to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The party, in six paragraph petition signed by Fred Udeogu and forwarded to the state police command, DSS office, and other security outfits in the state, and obtained by DAILY POST, in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state, tasked the police to immediately arrest and prosecutes the said thugs…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to save the Party’s state chapter from destruction. The Party was reacting to the removal of the state’s Chairman, Bashir Omoloja Bolarinwa. Bolarinwa was said to have been removed, following a complaint from the state Governor, Abdulrahaman Abdulrazaka who alleged he can’t work with him. However, a faction of APC said the Party was on the pathway of destruction. The party stated this in a statement signed by Sunday Oyebiyi, Oyoola Oyedepo and others. The statement reads in part: “We have resolved to reject the verdict of…