Today's Headline: Subsidy Removal: No Instant Solution To Nigeria's Problems – Tinubu; Edo 2024: APC, Oshiomhole Adams Won’t Impose Flag-Bearer – Guber Aspirant

Subsidy removal: No instant solution to Nigeria’s problems – Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu has said that the solution to Nigeria’s problem cannot be like instant coffee, noting that what the country is going through is like the pain of birth but after it will come merriment.

Speaking at the public presentation of “Brutally Frank,” the autobiography of elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, in Abuja on Thursday, he affirmed that the country is going through a difficult stage, but assured that the problems will be surmounted.

Tinubu pointed out that the federal government has started to provide palliatives such as the distribution of grains and provision of mass transit buses.

Tinubu, who was represented by the Secretary of the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, said that even though Nigeria is structurally complex and structurally difficult, it is not difficult to manage.

He added: “Your Excellency, this country’s structurally complex and structurally difficult but can never be difficult to manage. And that is why the President said I should tell you our polarities, our diverse cultures, languages; our religions constitute a source of strength.

“And since he came in, he has demonstrated enough for the management of this diversity through appointment of person, citizens to key strategic positions for the past many years, no south east indigenes have been appointed to the position of Minister of works. That is part of management of this diversity.

Edo 2024: APC, Adams Oshiomhole won’t Urge flag-bearer — Guber aspirant

Gubernatorial aspirant for the 2024 election in Edo, Gideon Obhakhan has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not impose any candidate in the State.

Obhakhan said besides, the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Edo state, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, believes in democracy and democratic fairness.

He said the party’s interest in winning the election and providing developmental leadership in the state along popular lines can only be achieved by allowing the people decide their leader.

According to him, this has made the party aligned with the democratic reality and considerations which takes cognizance of age, capacity and regional diversity in the political development of the state viz-a-viz political fairness.

He maintained that developing Edo state remains paramount to the All Progressives Congress and only concession to Electoral processes for the emergence of candidates would be followed according to the dictates of the electoral law.

Recall that section 84 of the Electoral Act 2022 as amended states that “A political party seeking to nominate candidates for elections under this Act shall hold primaries for aspirants to all elective positions which shall be monitored by the Commission.

Ministerial list: Deji Hail Tinubu Over Wike Portfolios

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A socio-political activist, Deji Adeyanju, has hailed President Bola Tinubu on the appointment of former governor Nyesom Wike as the minister of the federal capital territory, FCT, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN as the Attorney General of the Federation and minister of justice, Wale Edun as the Minister of Finance, as well as Muhammed Ali Pate as the coordinating Minister of Health.

According to a statement he personally signed on Thursday, Adeyanju noted that the new ministers, with their track record in private and public sphere, will bring their wealth of experience to bear in turning our country’s fortunes around, for the better.

The statement reads, “I will like to extend my warmest congratulation to your excellency, President Bola Tinubu, on emerging victorious in a most keenly contested presidential election. While the outcome of the election is being challenged at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, you must, in the interim, face the serious issues of governance bedeviling our nation.

Nigeria too big to be led by a neophyte, says APC Chairman, Ganduje

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The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, says Nigeria is too big to be administered by a neophyte.

Speaking when members of the South West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA) paid him a congratulatory visit at the national secretariat in Abuja, he maintained that the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has the wherewithal to administer the country.

Ganduje who did not mention the names of inexperienced presidential candidates of opposition political parties that jostled for the exalted seat of the presidency in the recently held general elections, referred to Tinubu’s antecedents as Lagos state governor to buttress his assertions.

The term governor of Kano State assured that the President Tinubu led administration would live up to the expectations of supporters of the APC in repositioning the country to achieve greatness.

Ganduje, who applauded SWAGA over the role they played in drumming up support for Tinubu, remarked that he did not regret his support for Tinubu long before the runoff to the APC presidential election in 2022.

“Just like SWAGA, some of us started it in the heart. I believed that our principal is the right man we have been yearning for to mount the leadership of the country. He has succeeded in doing that before now.

“You have to assess people from where they are coming from, you have to look at their C.V, their disposition towards leadership, and not just support people from the blues.

“Nigeria is too big for that. Asiwaju is a man of institutions, and a man known for developing institutions. That is why we have sustainability in Lagos State. Lagos State is sustainable not because he was governor for 20 years but because he laid the foundation for sustainability.

“Lagos today is one of the greatest states in Nigeria and Africa. We supported him because we want a mirror image of that kind of sustainability for Nigeria. Asiwaju is equal to the task.

“He will reform the system, the economy, the institutions and address all the social economic issues to take Nigeria to the next level. We believe he would make a big mark of change in Nigeria.”

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