Today's Headlines: God rewarded me with Tinubu’s victory – Oyetola, Osinbajo congratulates Tinubu, Shettima
God rewarded me with Tinubu’s victory – Oyetola
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Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has said the All Progressives Congress in Osun State is purging itself of unwanted members through expulsion.
The APC in Osun had recently expelled a former factional chairman, Rasaq Salinsile, and 83 others belonging to the Omoluabi Caucus led by a former governor, Rauf Aregbesola, while it also suspended a former secretary to the state government, Moshood Adeoti, and 25 others for alleged involvement in anti-party activities.
Oyetola, who spoke in Osogbo on Thursday at a mini reception organised in his honour by the party’s leadership in Osun, explained why he endorsed expulsion and suspension of the erring APC members and urged the committed ones to work harder and build the party.
“Ours is thanksgiving for all that God has done for us. We thank God that our victory was affirmed by the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal yesterday (Wednesday). It affirmed the victory of our President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Osinbajo congratulates Tinubu, Shettima
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Former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has congratulated President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima on their victory at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, which affirmed the All Progressives Congress winner as the Presidential Election of February 25, 2023.
The PEPC had on Wednesday delivered a 12-hour judgment on the appeals arising from the presidential election, upholding the election of President Bola Tinubu.
Atiku and Obi had rejected the court’s judgment, vowing to approach the Supreme Court.
In a statement on Saturday his verified Facebook account, Osinbajo stated that the PEPC ruling was a great victory for Nigeria’s constitutional democracy and the rule of law.
The statement reads, “Congratulations to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Vice President Senator Kashim Shettima, and our great party, the All Progressives Congress, on the judicial affirmation of the victory at the presidential election of February 25, 2023.
15 drown as boat capsizes in Adamawa
About 15 people, including children, drowned in a boat conveying passengers in a lake after a boat capsized in Adamawa State on Friday evening.
The incident occurred in Njuwa Lake near Dandu village in Yola South Local Government Area when the canoe carrying 23 passengers, including farmers, traders and children, from Rugange village to Yola town capsized.
A Red Cross volunteer explained that four corpses were recovered from the scene, saying that humanitarian workers and local divers had intensified the search for the missing persons.
He further explained that a heavy windstorm sent water into the boat, which suddenly overturned with the passengers.
He pleaded with the authorities to provide engine boats for the Rugange community, which suffered from the annual overflooding of River Benue, as a means to curtail the capsizing of boats with passengers.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Dies At 95
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Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the once-feared Zulu nationalist and historic leader of Inkatha Freedom Party which presided over South Africa’s deadliest violence ahead of the first all-race elections, died Saturday aged 95, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced.
“I am deeply saddened to announce the passing of Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Traditional Prime Minister to the Zulu Monarch and Nation, and the Founder and President Emeritus of the Inkatha Freedom Party,” Ramaphosa said in a statement.
“Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi has been an outstanding leader in the political and cultural life of our nation, including the ebbs and flows of our liberation struggle, the transition which secured our freedom in 1994 and our democratic dispensation,” Ramaphosa said.
“He quietly and painlessly stepped into eternity in the early hours of the morning” Buthelezi’s family said in a statement.
Buthelezi, last week was discharged from hospital after a prolonged stay. Funeral arrangements have not yet been confirmed.
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