Today's Headlines: I’m working for Tinubu, not APC — Wike, Kwankwaso still in NNPP — Legal adviser
Wike: I’m working for Tinubu — NOT APC
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Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), says he is working with President Bola Tinubu to achieve the promise of “renewed hope” for Nigerians.
Speaking during an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, Wike said he is not a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and is not working for the party.
Wike’s appointment as minister in a cabinet formed by Tinubu, the APC candidate who won the February presidential election, has elicited mixed reactions.
Asked during the interview about his PDP membership status, the former Rivers governor said he remains a member of the party.
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Kwankwaso Still In NNPP — Legal Adviser
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The National Legal Adviser of the New Nigeria Peoples, Robert Hon, on Wednesday restated that the party’s Board of Trustees lacks the constitutional mandate to suspend the Presidential candidate of the party, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
He explained that the only competent body to suspend Kwankwaso is the National Executive Committee, which must comply, with due process.
To this extent, he described the purported suspension of Kwankwaso, as a figment of the imagination, of a non-existent BoT, who have since been dissolved.
“Kwankwaso has been and is still a Bona fide card-carrying member of the New Nigeria Peoples Party. Any faction, claiming to have suspended him is illegal, as BoT is simply an advisory organ and lacks the constitutional power to suspend or expel any member of the party,” Hon said.
Hon disclosed that the party held an emergency meeting in Abuja, at the end of which all the party’s stakeholders from the 37 states, including Abuja passed a vote of confidence on Kwankwaso.
“Board of Trustees, are mere Advisers and lack any power suspend or sack any member, as only the NEC is vested with the power to suspend sack,” he said.
FG mourns as national flag designer dies
The Federal Government of Nigeria has mourned the death of the designer of the Nigerian national flag, Pa Taiwo Akinkunmi who died at the age of 84, at his family home in Ibadan, after a brief illness.
According to a statement issued by the Minister of Information and National Orientation Alhaji Mohammed Idris on Wednesday, the late Pa Akinkunmi was a national icon.
The statement read, “I am particularly saddened over the news of the demise of Pa Taiwo Akinkunmi, a national icon, whose contribution to national unity will remain indelible.
“The death of Pa Akinkunmi came at the time Nigeria was reinventing itself for peace, development and enduring national reconciliation; the country would miss the contributions of the deceased, especially at this time that the Federal Government under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is banking on the Renewed Hope Agenda to build on the national fervour that characterised Nigeria’s journey to independence.
Internet fraud: EFCC returns $26,000 to Briton
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has facilitated the return of $26,000 to Christine Brown, a British national and a victim of internet fraud.
The EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said this in a statement in Abuja, adding that the Benin Zonal Command handed over the money to the victim on Monday.
According to him, Brown expressed gratitude to the Commission for its efforts, which she said had brought some succour to her after losing her life savings to the fraudsters.
He said that the 70-year-old had petitioned the Commission after being defrauded by an internet fraudster through a romance scam.
“Narrating her ordeal, Brown said she became a victim after she met a purported John Barrowman, an entertainer and citizen of America online.
“Unknown to her, he was a fraudster. Brown said they became romantically involved, and the fraudster began to demand money which she sent to him through wire transfers, Bitcoin and gift cards,” Uwujaren said.
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