The Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions has lauded the Central Bank of Nigeria and its Governor, Godwin Emefiele, for contributing immensely to the stability of the Nigerian economy in spite of the recession the country witnessed in 2016.
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The Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions has reiterated its commitment towards ensuring that international passports are locally produced in Nigeria.
Senator Rafiu Ibrahim and 18 others were on Thursday arraigned in an Ilorin Chief Magistrates’ Court over the February 19 pre-election violence in Ojoku, Kwara, where one person was killed.
Lola Ashiru, the All Progressives Congress candidate for the Kwara South Senatorial District seat in Saturday’s election, has emerged victorious.
The Kwara State Police Command has given reasons for the arrest of the representative of Kwara South Senatorial District and Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the same position in Saturday’s general elections, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim.
The Kwara Police Command has warned residents of the state against carrying weapons during Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections.
The arrest of the candidate was contained in a statement made available to The Eagle Online by the PDP in the wee hours of Friday
The Kwara Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has demanded the arrest of Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, representing Kwara South at the Senate for masterminding an attack on his opponent, Arc. Lola Ashiru in Saturday’s elections.
The Peoples Democratic Party had written the INEC substituting Ahmed’s name with those of the incumbent, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim
This followed the release of the final list of candidates for the February 16, 2019 national elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday
There had been speculations that the leader of his party and President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, had ordered the forfeiture of the ticket by Ahmed following the loss of the bye election into the Ekiti/Isin/Irepodun/Oke-Ero Federal Constituency, from where he hails.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had confirmed Raheem Olawuyi, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, as winner of the vacant House of Representatives seat for Ekiti/Irepodun/Isin/Oke-Ero Federal Constituency of Kwara State
The senator stated this in an interview on Friday
It also confirmed the appointment of Folashodun Shonubi as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
In a personally signed statement issued in Ilorin, on Thursday, Governor Ahmed thanked the PDP National Leader and Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, for his strong leadership.
Ibrahim, who was elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, made this known on his Twitter handle in the early hours of Tuesday
Staff who went in before the total blockage of the National Assembly by the DSS operatives, have equally been sent out
The operatives, The Eagle Online was told, had been stationed there from about 2am
The Senators in a statement in reaction to an interview granted by the Katsina State Senator to The Cable, an online newspaper, stated that Ibrahim and his colleagues will meet their match if they tried anything illegal even with all the deployment of security forces which they might have been assured of by the executive arm of government.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, has described the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, as a “loose cannon and a liar” who is one of the people that got the All Progressives Congress into the mess it has found itself.