The Head of the National Advocacy Centre of Social Action and Director of Programmes, Vivian Bellonwu-Okafor, made this assertion while reacting to the rejection of the bill by President Buhari.
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Tambuwal said that the Governor of Bayelsa State, the Henry Seriake Dickson, approached him in the heat of the tension that followed the incapacitation and death of former President Umaru Yar’Adua, in 2010, to work out the process that culminated in the emergence of Jonathan as Acting President.
Umaru gave the advice on Monday at the UK Bello Arts Theatre, Minna, while declaring intention to run for a second term as senator representing Niger East Senatorial Zone in the National Assembly.
The senator restated this on Monday in Akpabuyo, Calabar South Local Government Area, while addressing supporters on the sidelines of his Local Government tour and consultations in view of his governorship aspiration.
Gumel (APC-Jigawa) told the News Agency of Nigeria in an interview in Abuja that the delay was a deliberate attempt to frustrate the effort of the present government towards free and fair elections.
The Peoples Democratic Party has asked the National Assembly to immediately open an investigation into alleged siphoning of over N10 trillion by the cabal in the Buhari Presidency, concealed under the tenure of erstwhile Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun.
This was just as the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has called on all the aspirants gunning for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party to accept the outcome of the party primary election slated for October 6, 2018 and work for the success of the party.
The PDP official told the authoritative newspaper that Dogara has purchased the PDP Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms to return to the National Assembly as the representative of Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa-Balewa Federal Constituency of Bauchi State.
Amaechi said this at a news conference on the achievement of the ministry on Wednesday in Abuja.
The Presidency has reassured workers of the commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to an increase in the minimum wage.
Amosun was the holder of the Ogun Central Senatorial District seat between 2003 and 2007, but this time around, he will be displacing the incumbent, Lanre Tejuoso.
The People’s Democratic Party has announced new dates for the sales of its nomination forms and primaries for State Houses of Assembly, National Assembly and Governorship elections in 2019.
Enang, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), made this known when at the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja.
Ajadi, who was in the red chamber from 1999 to 2003 on the platform of defunct ANPP, expressed his optimism while fielding questions from the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.
Enang, who is the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), stated this when he featured on News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja on Tuesday.
The Presidency on Monday said the Card Reader was not included in the latest Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2018, which President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent to.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the governor will seek to upstage Sen. Ahmad Sani-Yarima who is serving his third term as Senator representing Zamfara West.
The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, who stated this in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said the president’s decision to decline assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2018, had nothing to do with the use of card readers.
This was announced in a statement on Friday by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Yekini Nabena
In a statement bu its National Publicity Secretary, the PDP said the would-be defectors were only waiting for some loose ends to be tightened before announcing their defection