The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has condemned the last minute cancellation of the approval granted to Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to utilize the Eagle Square for his 2019 presidential declaration.
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Kwankwaso was stopped from using Eagle Square for his declaration by the Management, which is supervised by the Federal Capital Territory.
The Chairman, South East Governors Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. David Umahi, has strenghtened the resolve of the entire South East to support only the presidential aspirant who would guarantee equity, fairnes and justice for the zone, come 2019.
The statement, signed by a member of the committee Taiwo Adekanla, was released in Abuja on Monday.
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday disclosed that he has created more jobs than other presidential aspirants in the country.
Six ‘Kwankwassiyya’ members of the Kano State House of Assembly have defected from the All Progressives Congress to People’s Democratic Party.
Abubakar announced the decision while addressing a news conference in Kano on Tuesday.
The Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday formally welcomed home Senate President, Bukola Saraki; Governor of Sokoto, Aminu Tambuwal; Samuel Ortom of Benue, former Kano state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso; Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to South Africa, Ahmed Ibeto and Senator Dino Melaye as they attended the party’s National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja.
The Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, says the defection of Senator Rabi’u Kwankwaso and other lawmakers to the People’s Democratic Party would not affect the chances of the ruling All Progressives Congress in 2019.
The adjournment was preceded by the announcement of the defection of 15 senators elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party
The announcement of the defection was made by the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, during plenary on Tuesday
The meeting is coming amid moves by the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress to stop members of the party from leaving for opposition parties, especially the Peoples Democratic Party.
The reaction was issued on Sunday
The members of the nPDP in a statement by its National Chairman, Kawu Baraje, and National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, had earlier in the week written to the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, demanding for a meeting with Buhari within seven days
The governor, accompanied by two serving senators and two members of the House of Representatives from the state, met with the Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari, at the Presidential Villa.
The State Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Yusuf, gave the advice while briefing newsmen in Kano, on Friday.
Abubakar confirmed this in a statement he personally signed on Friday
The emergence of the new leadership came after the Kano APC delegates conducted a consensus Congress into 15 vacant positions of the party at the Indoor Hall of the Sani Abacha Stadium on Saturday
This was contained in a statement by Mallam Usman Bello, the Director Press in the Office of the Deputy Governor.
The Emirate Council said this on Monday while reacting to the plan by the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, headed by Muhyi Magaji, to probe complaints of “questionable expenditures and financial misappropriations” in the emirate