Today's Headlines: Ganduje Inaugurates New NWC Members Amid Protests, Zulum Visits Borno Nysc Camp, Gifts Each Corps Member N30k palliative.
Ganduje Inaugurates New NWC Members Amid Protests
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Senator Abdullahi Umar Ganduje the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC)late evening on Friday inaugurated the newly nominated members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, amid defiant opposing protesters.
Women groups from Cross River, Edo as well as protesters from Kogi and Abia APC Stakeholders had mounted protests against the inauguration for various reasons.
The late evening event was held in the Conference Hall of the party and witnessed by scores of party faithful who were on hand to support their new leaders.
Recall that the inauguration was earlier scheduled for Thursday but was stalled by the combined protests by aggrieved stakeholders including the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello as well as those from Cross River and Abia states. Addressing the gathering, Ganduje acknowledged the discontentment expressed by stakeholders in some states, assuring that the matter is not foreclosed.
“We will look into it he assured”.He also urged the new members to take their task dutifully adding that there is a lot of work to be done to reposition the party.
The National Chairman however revealed that the various discussions with the relevant stakeholders, all the people earlier presented by their states for NWC membership but later dropped would be carried along in the APC administration.
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Zulum visits Borno Nysc camp, gifts each corps member N30k palliative.
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Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Saturday visited the National Youth Service Corps orientation camp in Maiduguri.
During his visit, as the camp reopened after 13 years, he announced the donation of N36.4 million as palliatives to the 1,215 youth corps members deployed to the state for their national service.
Zulum also allocated 100 bags of rice, 10 cows, 10 bags of 100 kg of beans, and 10 gallons of cooking oil for special meal to be prepared for the corps members during their ongoing three weeks orientation camping. We want to extend palliatives to members of the National Youth Service Corps. Each one of you will receive the sum of N30,000, that amount will be credited to your accounts as soon as your bank details are provided to me”, Zulum said.
He added: “In addition to that, we have provided you with 100 bags of rice, 10 bags of 100kg beans, 10 gallons of cooking oil and 10 bulls.”
The governor charged the corp members to adhere to camp rules by living peacefully among themselves and engaging in acts that will foster peace in the country.
“I want you to be dedicated and loyal to constituted authorities. Make friends in this part of the country so that together we can build a prosperous Nigeria with sustainable economic growth and development”, Governor Zulum urged.
The governor expressed gratitude to the Federal Government for improving the security situation in Borno State which enabled the return of NYSC orientation camp in Maiduguri.
CUPP urges Gov Nwifuru not to use empowerment scheme for political patronage
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The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, Ebonyi State chapter has called on Governor Francis Nwifuru to shun the attempt of using empowerment schemes as a political patronage.
The chairman of CUPP, Chinedum Elekwachi made this known in a statement signed and issued to newsmen on Saturday.
He called on the governor to properly utilize the funds allocated to him by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration to allete poverty of Ebonyians rather than using the funds as political patronage.
The coalition of political parties commends His Excellency Rt Hon Ogbonna Nwifuru for his thoughtfulness and his policy direction of taking Ebonyians out from the dungeons of poverty and street hawking.
“This particular policy direction will drastically reduce poverty and encourage craftiness which in return will yield the productivity rate of the state. The empowerment scheme should not become an avenue for political patronage” they stated.
President Tinubu Has Two Chicago University Certificates Signed By Different Persons – Atiku Abubakar’s Lawyers
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that the errors in President Bola Tinubu’s Chicago State University (CSU) certificate have validated why he (Atiku) raised his petition.
Atiku, who is seeking nullification of Tinubu’s election on the grounds of alleged electoral fraud, narcotics dealing and election irregularities at the presidential election petition tribunal, had petitioned the US District Court to subpoena CSU into releasing President Tinubu’s academic records to aid his argument.
A few days ago, Tinubu through his lawyers said that his academic records printed by the CSU were fraught with errors and inconsistency with the ones he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before the 2023 general elections.
Tinubu’s lawyers on Wednesday in response to Atiku’s petition at the US federal court in Chicago, Illinois, said that there were errors in the President’s academic certificate and blamed an unnamed clerk of the university for the errors.
Meanwhile, Atiku through his lawyers, said a closer scrutiny of the documents by his legal team showed that the president had two copies of the certificate which also presented even more damning revelations.
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