Today's Headlines: It’s time to forgive, move on – Adeleke tells Osun PDP members, El-Rufai, Wike meet Tinubu over ministerial confirmation
It’s time to forgive, move on – Adeleke tells Osun PDP members
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Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has urged party members in the state to forgive those who worked against the party and concentrate on delivering good governance.
This is as he said he will work as much as he dances, saying his dancing is his way of praising God for the grace of his life.
Speaking after a closed-door meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stakeholders to nominate a replacement for the late Zonal Vice Chairman of the party, Soji Adagunodo, the Governor said the party must embrace those returning to the fold and build the party for future victory.
He added that even as a governor, he believes in party supremacy and would ensure party discipline in all activities, including the appointment of caretaker committee members into the local government administration in the state.
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El-Rufai, Wike meet Tinubu over ministerial confirmation
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Immediate-past governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, and former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, met President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja ostensibly to discuss the refusal of the Senate to confirm El-Rufai’s ministerial nomination by the President.
El-Rufai and Wike were among the 48 ministerial nominees sent to the Senate for screening and confirmation.
The Senate, however, confirmed 45 out of the 48 ministerial nominees, citing security checks as the reason for the refusal to confirm the remaining three. Among the unconfirmed three was El-Rufai.
His visit to the President on Wednesday was two days after the Senate failed to confirm him as a minister-designate.
Don’t Blame Edo Infrastructure Decay on Tinubu, APC Tells Obaseki
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The South-South Zonal Organizing Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Dr. Blessing Agbomhere, has cautioned Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, against blaming the federal government for what he termed the glaring infrastructure decay in the state.
A statement recently signed by the Special Adviser on Media Projects to the Governor, Crusoe Osagie, had accused the federal government of being responsible for the deplorable state of federal roads in the state.
It had also blamed the current massive suffering faced by the people as a result of the removal of petrol subsidy which led to the skyrocketing of the price of the essential commodity on President Bola Tinubu’s policies.
However, Agbomhere in a statement he personally signed yesterday, accused the governor of finding a convenient way of putting the blame of his alleged failure on the less than three months old Tinubu’s administration.
Amotekun Arrests 7,000, Prosecutes 1,500 Criminals in Ondo
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The Ondo State Commander of Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN), codenamed Amotekun, Mr Adetunji Adeleye, has disclosed that it has arrested no fewer than 7,000 criminals across the state within the last three and half years of its creation.
The corps commander said out of the 7,000 arrested, about 1,500 of them have been charged to court and it has secured judgement of many of them while the crisis of farmers/herders clashes has reduced by over 95 percent in the last two years.
Adeleye, who doubles as the Special Adviser (Security Matters) to the state governor, disclosed this during an interactive session organized by the state Correspondent Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
The Chairman of the Council of Amotekun Commanders in South-West recalled that the corps, which was founded on January 9, 2020 in Ibadan, Oyo State, as the first regional security outfit, initiated by the governors of the geopolitical zone has recorded tremendous success in checkmating criminal activities in the region.
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