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Today's Headlines: We Won’t Fail Tinubu at NDDC- Ogbuku, PEPT Judgment: Atiku, Obi head to Supreme Court

We Won’t Fail Tinubu at NDDC

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The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Samuel Ogbuku, has assured President Bola Tinubu, that his leadership would not disappoint him in achieving the mandate of the commission.

Ogbuku made the pledge yesterday, during an interactive session with management and staff of NDDC at the Commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt.Thanked Tinubu for reappointing him, he stated, “The President has high expectations of us, especially to change the narrative of the NDDC and the Niger Delta region. I assure him that we will not fail. This reappointment gives me a renewed vigour to revamp the NDDC and develop the Niger Delta region.

“I might have the ideas but I also need the input of directors and staff and to bring these ideas to fruition. We would work together to make Mr. President proud.”The NDDC boss said he was ready to take on new challenges, stating: “We need to record more successes in this new dispensation. I believe that working together, we can get better results

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PEPT Judgment: Atiku, Obi head to Supreme Court.

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The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party, LP, counterpart, Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday, vowed to go to the Supreme Court to challenge the dismissal of their petitions against President Bola Tinubu’s election by the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC.

While Atiku said he was heading to the apex court because he had lost a battle and would confront the war ahead and not “validate mandate banditry” Obi said he would not relent in his quest for electoral justice because the PEPC ruling “is not coterminous with justice.”

Atiku and Obi spoke as mixed views welcomed the PEPC’s Wednesday judgment that affirmed Tinubu’s election and struck out the petitions of the PDP, LP, and Allied Peoples Movement, APM.

Kogi: Ex-Deputy Gov Awoniyi dumps PDP.

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The former Deputy Governor of Kogi, Abayomi Awoniyi, on Thursday, officially announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that his defection is contained in a letter, entitled, “Letter of resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party”, made available to newsmen in Lokoja.

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Awoniyi served as deputy to former Gov Idris Wada.

He conveyed his resignation in a letter dated August 31 and addressed to the PDP Chairman of Mopamuro Local Government Area of Kogi.

The letter partly read: “I hereby write to tender my letter of resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party after 25 unbroken years of loyal and dedicated membership and service.”

“With this resignation letter, I cease to be a member of the PDP.

“Kindly convey my sincere gratitude to the party faithful in Mopamuro LGA, Kogi West Senatorial District, and indeed the entire state, through your fellow LGAs party chairmen, for their support and camaraderie, over the years.

“I look forward to our continued friendship, despite the fact that I am no longer a member of your party,” he stated.

FG Launches Five-year Plan to Boost Potato Production

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The federal government has launched a five-year national strategic plan to boost potato production in Nigeria.Speaking in Jos, Plateau State, yesterday, the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, said the government’s goal was to stimulate economic growth through various agricultural value chain activities.

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The minister, represented by the Permanent Secretary, Dr. Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe, added that the agricultural value chain activities would create employment opportunities and improved livelihoods for the teeming youths and women.Kyari, stated that implementing the National Potato Strategy from 2023 to 2028, would follow in the footsteps of the Rice policy to usher in an era of productive competitiveness in the Nigerian potato industry.

The minister, who observed that potato could be commercially grown in 12 states of the federation which hold well for the activities of many stakeholders, added that, “the essence of this strategy is to ensure sustainable food and nutrition security with a view to catalysing the rapid transformation of the Nigerian potato sector into a commercially ble sub-sector of the agricultural value chains as a major export product.”

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