Several members of the House of Representatives and senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party were at the news conference
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The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday in Abuja called on Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to immediately order the EFCC to unfreeze the accounts
Saraki had at a World Press Conference on Wednesday said this in reaction to the blockade of the National Assembly by operatives of the Department of State Services
The President General of the Ohanaeze, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, said the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, was right in describing the act as a breach of national security, but said all the characters who participated in the act either directly or indirectly should face the law to act as a deterrent to overzealous security operatives
National Chairman of the party, Chief Peter Ameh, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said this at Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom, during the official defection of former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio from Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.
Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara, the Chairman of NGF, spoke with State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday in Abuja.
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved N348.5 billion for the expansion of the Akwanga-Jos-Bauchi-Gombe road into dual-carriage way that would link Nassarawa, Plateau, Bauchi, and Gombe states.
The Federal Executive Council has approved the acquisition of 150 million-dollar World Bank credit facility to support polio eradication in Nigeria.
But he warned the plotters to drop their sinister move because it is not “possible for a lizard to wrestle an antelope”.
Dr Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council presided over by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday in Abuja.
Kola Ajayi, IPAC Chairman in Lagos, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
The National Association of Nigerian Students has condemned Tuesday’s invasion of the National Assembly complex by operatives of the Department State Services.
Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, refuted the reports when he fielded questions from State House correspondents at the end of the meeting of the Federal Executive Council which was presided over by acting President, Osinbajo, at Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The chapter, in a statement by its spokesman, Jacob Ogunseye, on Wednesday in Abuja, said that Osinbajo’s decision to remove Daura was a right step aimed at strengthening the nation’s democratic tenets.
Saraki made the demand during a World Press Conference he addressed in the foyer of the National Assembly on Wednesday.
The World Press Conference is coming on the heels of the invasion and blockade of the National Assembly by operatives of the Department of State Services on Tuesday.
Oladele described the shutting down of the National Assembly as a failed coup against democracy and a major constitutional infraction.
Idris, who was summoned alongside Daura by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, before the sack of the DSS boss, said the police had nothing to do with the blockade despite the arrival of a fully loaded police van while the action was on
Operatives of the DSS had mounted a blockade at the entrance of the National Assembly, preventing staff and lawmakers from going into the complex on Tuesday morning.