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February 2, 2025February 2, 2025Leave a CommentPolitics

I don’t pretend; being a Nollywood actor in politics isn’t for me – El-Rufai

Former Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has said he does not pretend in politics and will not be like those who become “Nollywood actors” once in government. El-Rufai made the remark on Saturday in response to a social media post praising his straightforward approach to governance. “Truly, I don’t know how to pretend. Being a …

February 2, 2025February 2, 2025Leave a CommentPolitics

Crack in PDP widens as governors move to assert control

Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are trying to assert their dominance as the party’s main power brokers. This followed their first most daring move to whittle down the influence of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, in PDP affairs. The Governor Bala Mohammed-led 12-member PDP Governors Forum (PDP-GF) rose …

February 1, 2025February 1, 2025Leave a CommentPolitics

FAAN: Appointment of Ganduje, well deserved- Former Rep member, Babatunde

A former member of the House of Representatives, Hon Kolawole Babatunde, has described the appointment of the National Chairman of our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as the Chairman of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) as well deserved. Babatunde, who was a two term cabinet member in …

February 1, 2025February 1, 2025Leave a CommentPolitics

Gunshots as Fubara, Wike supporters clash at PDP Secretariat

PORT HARCOURT: Supporters of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, believed to be loyalists of the Governor of Rivers State, Sir Siminialayi Fubara, and the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, yesterday clashed at the Secretariat of the party in Port Harcourt. The development resulted in shootings around the PDP Secretariat on Port Harcourt -Aba …

February 1, 2025February 1, 2025Leave a CommentPolitics

Tenure extension of Egbetokun may erode public trust, Lawyer warns

Human rights lawyer Hamza Nuhu Dantani has raised the alarm over the National Assembly’s recent passage of the Police Act, which allows for the tenure extension of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun. Dantani argues that this move, influenced by President Bola Tinubu’s request for Egbetokun to remain in office until the end of …

February 1, 2025February 1, 2025Leave a CommentPolitics

United Nigeria Airlines boss, Obiora Okonkwo, joins Anambra gov race

Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines, has declared his intention to contest the Nov. 8 governorship election in Anambra. Okonkwo declared his intention on Friday at a brief ceremony in his country home in Ire village in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area. The business mogul, who said he would contest on the …

Blame PDP elders like Bode George for non-payment of ground rent for 28 years, not Wike – Lere Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Public Communication and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, that it was funny that Chief Bode George, who was in the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) that failed to conclude purchase of the Wadata Plaza National Secretariat of the PDP, could come to national television to say “Wike has crossed the red line by revoking the PDP’s national secretariat in Abuja.” Bode George, had said during an interview on a television station on Friday, that Wike’s action was an open declaration of war against the PDP. Responding, Olayinka said it was painful that elders like Chief Bode George, could chose to play the ostrich on a matter so glaring as the revocation of 4,794 land titles for not paying Ground Rent for as much as 43 years. He asked; “Why didn’t the PDP pay Ground Rent for 20 years on its Plot No. 243 national secretariat (under construction), which is the only property belonging to the party among the 4,794 revoked titles? How’s government’s enforcement of the consequences of land title owners’ refusal to pay Ground Rent declaration of war? Should the FCTA under Wike have treated PDP differently from the 4,794 owners of land titles that were revoked over failure to pay Ground Rent?” While clarifying that the Wadata Plaza property being used as Secretariat by the PDP was not owned by the party, Olayinka said the property belonged to Senator Samaila Mamman Kurfi, who bought it from Wadata Enterprises Nigeria Limited. “The PDP offered to buy the Wadata Plaza property in 2005, and when the Minister’s Consent was sought, the party was asked to pay N26.9 million. The money was never paid. “The party wrote a letter to Malam Nasir El-Rufai, the FCT Minister then, to waive the payment, claiming that it lacked the financial capacity to pay, but he (El-Rufai) insisted the party must pay. “El-Rufai, who insisted PDP must do the right thing by paying the necessary fees to the government was a member of the party then, and Chief Bode George, who was in the PDP NWC, did not go to national television to accuse him (El-Rufai) of declaring war against the party. And if the owner of did not pay ordinary N2.8 million as 28 years Ground Rent, who is to blame? “On the PDP national secretariat at Central Area, is it the fault of Wike that a mere N7.6 million, was owed as 20 years Ground Rent despite that over N21 billion was raised in 2014 for the completion of the building?” While counseling Chief Bode George, to start functioning like an objective elder that he should be, the FCT Minister’s Spokesperson said “what should have been done was to seek information, rather than going on television to advertise hatred against a Minister who is simply doing his jobs without looking at people’s faces. “If Chief Bode George had sought necessary information and refrained himself from acting out of hatred for Wike, it would have been known to him that also affected by the revocation were government owned institutions like Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), Borno State Government, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), National Universities Commission (NUC), Kaduna State Government, Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Federal Ministry of Environment, Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company, University of Calabar and Nigerian Postal Service and Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). “And like I asked earlier, if Chief Bode George were to be the FCT Minister, would he have treated PDP differently from the other 4,793 land title owners?”

January 31, 2025January 31, 2025Leave a CommentPolitics

Invasion of BoT meeting: Don’t turn PDP into an ‘agbero’ party, Bode George warns

Former Deputy National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George, on Friday, described the invasion of its party national secretariat by thugs as is despicable, horrific, inhuman, wicked and unheard of just as he warned that the PDP should not be turned into an ‘Agbero’ party. Speaking while addressing newsmen in Lagos, Chief George …

January 31, 2025January 31, 2025Leave a CommentPolitics

Edo Poll: Oshiomhole keeps mum on PDP’s petition hearing at tribunal

Sen. Adams Oshiomhole, on Friday, refrained from making comments on the ongoing hearing of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s petition at the Edo Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja. Oshiomhole, who represents the Edo North Senatorial District, refused to comment on his observation of the proceedings while fielding questions from newsmen. “You know you don’t …

January 31, 2025January 31, 2025Leave a CommentPolitics

PDP Governors endorse Udeh-Okoye as National Secretary

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors Forum rose from its first 2025 monthly meeting held in Asaba, Delta State capital, on Friday, with a resolution backing the judgment of the Court of Appeal, which pronounced the former National Youth Leader of the party, Hon. S.K.E Udeh-Okoye, as the authentic National Secretary of the PDP and …

January 31, 2025January 31, 2025Leave a CommentPolitics

Rejig your macro-economic policies, PDP Govs tell FG

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors Forum, Friday, called on the Federal Government to revisit or rejig its macro-economic policies to ameliorate the hardship/pains that they have inflicted on Nigerians. It stated that no meaningful or impactful achievements in the states would be achieved until the harsh policies are addressed. It also reaffirmed its support …