Today's Headlines: I'll Deliver FCT Metro Line In 8 Months -Wike; APC Calls For Soludo’s Resignation Over Anambra LG Polls
I’ll Deliver FCT Metro Line In Eight Months_ Wike
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Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike has pledged to deliver a metro line for the nation’s capital in eight months.
Wike, who expressed the political will to deliver the project on schedule, spoke last night on Channels Television’s evening programme: “Politics Today”.
The minister, renowned for boldness in speaking his mind, also dared his political family, main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to expel him.
Last Monday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had sworn in Wike and other ministers.
The former Rivers State governor, who was assigned the portfolio of the FCT minister, is a leader in the leading opposition party.
Few hours after take his oath of office, Wike had told reporters that he would deliver on his mandate.
The FCT minister promised to clear the capital city of all encumbrances without sentiment or prejudice to anybody.
APC Calls For Soludo’s Resignation Over Anambra LG Polls .
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The All Progressives Congress in Anambra State has asked Governor Chukwuma Soludo to resign following his inability to conduct elections in the 21 local government areas of the state since he assumed office over one year ago.
The party also added that the Federal Government should appoint a “caretaker governor” to run the affairs of the state, according to a statement signed by the state Publicity Secretary, Okelo Madukaife, on Wednesday.
Both the APC and the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance in Anambra have been tackling each other over the non-conduct of LG elections in the state since 2014.
Madukaife pointed out that since 1999 when democracy returned to the country, Anambra State had only organised two local government elections, and that was during the early days of Late Dr Chinwoke Mbadinuju’s administration and towards the end of Peter Obi’s administration in 2014.
But in the statement, Madukaife asked the Anambra people and the general public to critically engage the APGA party on the issues concerning the Anambra State local governments.
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We’ll Fight Crime In Rivers To A Standstill- Fubara
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Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara has said he’s passionate about fighting crime to a standstill in the state.
Fubara stated this during the Rivers Zero Crime Campaign Flag-off Ceremony organized by Nigeria Police, Rivers State Command on Wednesday.
The governor who was represented by his deputy, Prof. Ngozi Nma Odu, appreciated the synergy that had been expressed by stakeholders, noting that if Rivers State was not peaceful and free of crime, development would not be sustained and people would not sleep with their two eyes closed.
He said the state government had always partnered the police and other security agencies to fight crime, adding that under the watch of the immediate past Governor Nyesom Wike, surveillance and tactical centres were set up where surveillance and tactical operations were carried out across the state.
According to him, “We are synergising with the police to ensure that Rivers State is peaceful, loving and calm to everyone who comes here to do business.
Tinubu, World Leaders, UN, AU, EU Reject Gabon Junta
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Yesterday’s coup in Central African country Gabon drew anger from world leaders and international organisations.
They asked the junta to return to their barracks and restore democratic order in the thinly-populated oil-rich country.
The coup, the sixth on the African continent in six years, came after the one in Niger Republic, Nigeria’s Northern neighbour.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is still battling to get the soldiers to respect constitutional authority and quit power.
In Libreville, mutinous soldiers announced the take-over of political power.
They put President Ali Bongo Ondimba under house arrest, hours after being declared winner in an election held on Saturday that would have extended his family’s 55-year reign.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu began rallying world leaders has news of the coup filtered in. He spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and some ECOWAS leaders in his capacity as the chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government.
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