Today's Headlines: Ganduje Appoints Ex-Aide, Muhammed Garba As CoS; PDP Will Reclaim Kogi – Dino Melaye
Ganduje Appoints Ex-aide, Muhammed Garba, As CoS
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National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, has appointed his former commissioner for Information and Home Affairs, Muhammed Garba, as his chief of staff.
Garba was a member of Ganduje’s cabinet in Kano throughout his eight-year tenure as governor of Kano.
The appointment of Garba was announced in a statement by one of Ganduje’s media aides, Abubakar Ibrahim.
A former national president of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ), Garba also served as the press secretary to the office of the deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Journalists and civil organisations in Kano commended firmer governor Ganduje for the appointment, describing Garba as an experienced technocrat who has served humanity.
“His (Mr Garba) appointment is certainly the height of putting a round peg in a round hole. More like doing the right thing, at the most appropriate time,” the chairman, of the coalition of northern Nigeria civil society groups, Abdullahi Muhammad, said in a statement.
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PDP Will Reclaim Kogi – Melaye
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The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State, Senator Dino Melaye, has expressed confidence that the party will win the November 11 election in the state.
He further charged voters in the state not to be intimidated by the threats of the All Progressives Congress (APC), asking them not to be deterred from exercising their democratic rights.
Speaking after a meeting of Kogi PDP stakeholders from the three Senatorial zone of the state, with the members of the NWC at the party headquarters in Abuja, Melaye said the party will win because the state has never had it so bad in its history as during the almost eight years of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration in the state.
He said, “PDP is going to win the election in Kogi State, because we have never had it so bad in the history of Kogi State. Our people were impoverished, salaries have not been paid, pensions have not been paid, gratuity has not been paid, the health sector is non-existent, in fact all the General Hospitals in the state are mere consulting clinics.
“Education has gone moribund, this is what the PDP is coming to ameliorate and palate. I want to assure you that by the grace of God. With the resolutions of this meeting, with the strategy adopted in this meeting, PDP is good to go in Kogi State.
Guber Election: APC Set To Take Over Bayelsa – Sylva
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Former minister of state for Petroleum and All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the upcoming November Bayelsa gubernatorial election, Timipreye Sylva, has expressed unwavering confidence in his party’s prospects to assume control of the state.
Speaking to State House correspondents on Tuesday, Sylva revealed that he had discussed the matter with President Bola Tinubu during a meeting at the Presidential Villa.
Sylva emphasized the strong presence of the APC within the state, signaling his optimism for a successful electoral outcome
He said “we are set to take over Bayelsa and I had to inform Mr. President what we’re doing and also take advice from Mr. President.
“Well, you know, I have been a governor, and I’ve been part of the politics of Bayelsa from inception. So I know Bayelsa and Bayelsa knows me.
“Now, you know also in 2019 we won the election. The governor that is there today is a governor that won only two local governments in that election.
Adeleke Rolls Out Free Medical Palliative For Osun Residents
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Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has embarked on free medical outreach in the state as palliative to cushion the effect of high cost of living.
The state Commissioner for Health, Mr Jola Akintola said the Imole free medical outreach is part of a welfare package for residents given the skyrocketed prices of commodities including drugs after the removal of fuel subsidy.
He said the Imole free medical outreach would take place in Ilesa, Ile-Ife, Ede, Iwo, Ila and Osogbo.
Akintola disclosed that medical experts including doctors, nurses and pharmacists will be drawn from the Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo and other health institutions across the state.
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