Today's Headlines: Hold Governors Accountable For Palliatives -Tinubu; APC Leaders Step Into Sanwo-Olu, Assembly Row
Hold Governors Accountable For Palliatives_ Tinubu
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that governors and Local Government chairmen should be held responsible if the distribution of subsidy removal palliatives is poorly managed.
“Nigerians must hold them accountable,” he said while responding to a request by Muslim clerics (Ulama) to be allowed to monitor the distributions nationwide.
Responding to the Islamic scholars’ request to be allowed to monitor the distribution of subsidy removal palliatives to states, the President promised that more palliatives were coming for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).
He said: ” Even if I set up a panel, I will have to go through the governors and the local governments. We will continue to talk to the governors. Nigerians must hold them accountable.
“It’s unheard of that in a constitutional democracy, a president will sit here and give orders to states. I can only appeal to them to implement.
“The people reside in the states, and if a governor is not doing well, the people should vote them out.”
APC Leaders Step Into Sanwo-Olu, Assembly Row
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All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders in Lagos State have waded into the row between Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the House of Assembly over the delayed confirmation of 19 of 39 commissioner-nominees.
The leaders urged calm, saying that the situation is under control.
Among the nominees whose confirmation were put on hold are Prof. Akin Abayomj, former Commissioner for Health and Deputy Incident Commander, and his Information and Strategy counterpart, Gbenga Omotoso, an eminent journalist.
Others are Mrs Folashade Adefisayo, Mr Yomi Oluyomi, Mrs Folashade Ambrose, Ms Barakat Bakare, Olalere Odusote, Dr Rotimi Fashola, Mrs Bolaji Dada, Mr Sam Egube, Mr Olalekan Fatodu, Mrs Solape Hammond, Mr Mosopefolu George, Engr. Aramide Adeyoye, Mr Seun Osiyemi, Mr Rotimi Ogunwuyi, and Dr Olumide Oluyinka.
However, 22 were cleared, according to Speaker Mudashiru Obasanjo, who reeled out the names of confirmed nominees at plenary on Wednesday.
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Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Claims Rigging
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Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has accused the ruling ZANU-PF government of plunging the country into crisis by “rigging” in a tense election marred by long delays and reports of voter intimidation.
“This is a clear case of voter suppression, a classic case of Stone Age, antiquated, analog rigging,”, 45-year-old Chamisa, the head of the leading opposition party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), told reporters in Harare, the capital city.
Less than a quarter of polling stations in the capital opened on time on Wednesday, according to electoral authorities, which blamed the problem on delays in the printing of ballot papers.
Voting at one polling station in Harare’s Warren Park suburb, only opened 12 hours late — the same hour the polls were scheduled to close, an AFP report said.
Chamisa blamed ZANU-PF, which has ruled the country since independence in 1980, for the delays, saying it said was “desperate” to cling to power.
President Graduated In 1979, Chicago varsity Replies Atiku
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Chicago State University (CSU) has again confirmed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu graduated from the institution in 1979.
It stated this in response to an application by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the February 25 election, Atiku Abubakar.
The United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, on August 9, ordered the university to respond to the application.
The case, numbered 1:23-cv-05099, is before Judge Maldonado Gilbert.
The university, in the response sighted by our reporter yesterday, stated that it would “defer” to the “intervenor” Tinubu concerning objections to privacy and relevancy issues he raised on the application.
It added: “Bola Tinubu, the President of Nigeria, graduated from the University in 1979.
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