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From my own observation, being a housewife, I think security wise, we have relatively achieved more than 100 per cent. Being someone that comes from the North East, I knew when almost nobody sleeps in his or her house. But now, people sleep with their two eyes closed. The hardship that people are going through now was anticipated, knowing what we inherited

Nigeria LNG Limited is a national asset, in terms of business it is probably Nigeria’s number one business asset. It flies the country’s flag in international business, pays the highest tax on the continent of Africa and its contribution alone in 2014/2015 was about 14 per cent of the entire budget. This is a company that has provided Nigeria revenues of upwards of $33billion over the years from an investment of $2.5billion

You know the Bible says that the devil moves to and fro, looking for whom to devour. Suddenly the opposition who had been in the cold for over a year ago to lick their bloody wounds of defeat after being thrown out of power had to find something doing. You don’t blame them, many of them are jobless individuals who have been surviving on the crumbs from PDP politicians, so now for lack of something doing, as they say, an idle mind is the devil’s workshop, they go about looking for such opportunities to deceive the people by rubbishing the good policies of government by making noise to send wrong signals to the citizens of the state

‘The senators have shown a lot of maturity, patriotism and support. Nobody would even know that there is a slim majority. Without that support, that unity, majority of the issues we want to discuss especially those that border on reforms of this country cannot take place. They think of Nigeria first. I am happy and honoured by the support they have given me’

Those who say Buhari is tough, I don’t know what they actually mean. But in my own opinion, Buhari should be tougher. We heard one individual returned about N3 billion. I think that person should be dealt with severely. So Buhari has been too kind for allowing those kind of people to be roaming the streets. It shouldn’t happen at all. We should pray for this man, for God to give him tougher mind, not softer one

Well if you put it another way, I started very early in life and from my part of the world, I was probably the first to graduate at 21 or before 21, to be a lawyer at 22, by 23, I was done with it all and it is God’s grace because in spite of the civil war which we experienced, I never lost one day of schooling and because I had the unique privilege from my part of the world perhaps amongst the first if not the first who had an educated father and educated mother who was a teacher at the time, I was exposed to school environment early because I started following my mother to school even before I was eligible

Ten working days (two weeks). So if you start counting from Monday, you should know when I’ll be back. The meeting on Wednesday bothered on such important national issues. Chairman or no chairman position has nothing to do with such serious national issues of national importance, which a very serious and select group like that was put together to address. So nothing as mundane as whether the future of the chairman is in doubt or not

As you are aware, the re-run election was scheduled for 20th February and the election was held as scheduled. The elections started at 8am. By every standard, I was a candidate of this election. The major things that transpired during the election were access or no access to the voting area. Somebody has said it’s normal during elections like this to see people visiting elections points, be it right or wrong

‘If I select people whom I know quite well in my political party, whom we came all the way right from the APP, CPC and APC, and have remained together in good or bad situation, the people I have confidence in and I can trust them with any post, will that amount to anything wrong?’