Today's Headlines:Akeredolu Will Resume Duties Soon–Iyiola;Kukah, Now A Partisan Politician–Gololo
Akeredolu Will Resume Duties Soon – Omisore
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National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has assured that Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state would soon resume duties.
Omisore gave this assurance when he paid a “solidarity visit” met with the Acting Governor, Hon. Lucky Ayedatiwa in Akure on Friday.
Omisore said the twist in the wish and prayer of the National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, was regrettable.
He reiterated that the National Chairman never said the governor was incapacitated.
According to Omisore, the visit was meant to dispel the misapprehension of Adamu’s statement.
He said, “Mr. Chairman only urged people to pray for the quick recovery of your governor; not on account of being incapacitated.
“Our visit, therefore, is to reinforce the position of the national secretariat that we only prayed for the quick recovery of Arakunrin Akeredolu SAN, and not otherwise”, he said.
Bishop Kukah, Now A Partisan Politician– APC Chieftain
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The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, has abandoned his vocation and has become a full time politician, says All Progressives Congress, APC, Chieftain Dr. Garus Gololo, with an indication that the acclaimed clergy man has drifted away from shepharding his flock to join politics as a profession.
The retired Army General said this in a chat with journalists in Abuja, expressing displeasure over Kukah’s dispositions on political issues and day to day governance in Nigeria.
Recall that the duo of former President Abdulsami Abubakar and the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Hassan Kukah, each election year champions the signing of peace accord among political parties, targeted at having peaceful pre-election, during and after elections.
According to the former member of APC Board of Director, Bishop Kukah, has failed to adopt and maintain this peaceful atmosphere they preach in Nigeria by the alleged act of meddlesomeness recorded on the daily bases.
Dr Gololo, alleged that “Bishop Kukah has abandoned his calling of keeping the flocks to being a full time politician. I am convinced that he is already making arrangements to pick forms to contest for one political positions come 2027. If not, why should a clergy man seen to be a peace maker get deeply involved in day to day governance with divisive utterances in the country”.
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Court Dismisses EFCC’s Case Against Okorocha
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The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has dismissed the case against the former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Delivering judgment, Justice Yusuf Halilu, described the EFCC’s charges of fraud and abuse of office against Okorocha as an abuse of judicial process on the grounds that the anti-graft agency had filed a similar charge against the defendant at the Federal high court.
Tinubu To Attend AU Meeting In Kenya On Saturday
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President Bola Tinubu is expected to travel to Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday July 15, to participate in the Fifth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting (5thMYCM) of the African Union (AU), the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the Regional Mechanisms (RMs), and the African Union Member States
As the Chairperson of ECOWAS, the Nigerian leader will join Heads of State and Government, Foreign Ministers of the AU Member-States, and high-level dignitaries at the mid-year meeting which will take place on Sunday, July 16.
A statement issued by Dele Alake, Special Adviser to the President on
Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, explained that the President will present a report on the status of regional integration in ECOWAS, highlighting actions carried out during the period under review by ECOWAS institutions, member-states, the private sector, and other stakeholders to deepen integration through trade, free movement of persons, investment promotion, infrastructure development, peace, security and stability.
According to the statement, the 5th MYCM, which is convening under the AU’s theme for 2023 christened “Acceleration of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Implementation,” will bring together the Bureau of the AU Assembly, comprising the Heads of State and Government from Comoros, Botswana, Burundi, and
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