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- My Reasons For Giving APC N5m – Ekweremadu
- BREAKING: Presidency Reacts To Rumours Of Ambode Decamping To PDP From APC
- See How President Buhari Was Recieved By Nigerians In China
- Fresh Plot To Take Saraki To Court By FG Uncovered
- Saraki, Ortom, Tambuwal And Others To Oversee Osun Election.
- State Governors In Nigeria Salaries And Their Deputies, Commissioners
| My Reasons For Giving APC N5m – Ekweremadu Posted: 02 Sep 2018 04:57 PM PDT  Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the Deputy President of the Senate, on Sunday disclosed that he gave the sum of N5million to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2014.According to the Daily Post, Ekweremadu made the disclosure at his Enugu residence where his constituents had converged begging him to return to the Senate in 2019.Some constituency members including the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, stated that currently, there was no alternative to Ekweremadu at the moment, who they said had so much impacted on their lives.Ekweremadu was presented with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, expression of interest and nomination form worth N3.m. The form according to the report was purchased by the constituents.The Senator, while responding to the plea, said the beauty of democracy was allowing the opposition to thrive. The Deputy Senate president stated that as an apostle of true democracy, he gave the APC N5m at its formative stage in 2014 when it has financial challenges in Enugu State. Ekweremadu disclosed that the party (APC) had issue of funds for its membership registration and that "when they approached me, I gave them N5m. Chris Ngige can bear me witness." Related Topics: #Ekweremadu, #APC, #NigeriaDecides2019, #Politics Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||
| BREAKING: Presidency Reacts To Rumours Of Ambode Decamping To PDP From APC Posted: 02 Sep 2018 03:58 PM PDT
The Presidency through the presidential media aide has debunked the speculation that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, has decamped from the All Progressives Congress, APC to the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.It could be recalled that last week, rumours of the Lagos State Governor having a closed-door meeting with his political aides and executive council members to take a crucial decision as to whether to remain in the APC or forge ahead with another party, as the primaries draw nearer. The media reports also have it that Ambode may want to leave the party because Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the party's national leader and a former governor of Lagos State may have withdrawn his support for Ambode's re-election bid.The reports claimed that Ambode might move to the People's Democratic Party(PDP) or Action Democratic Congress(ADC), both of which are part of the Coalition of Political Parties(CUPP).Subsequent upon this, President Buhari's aide on new media, Bashir Ahmad has said the Lagos State governor has debunked such claims. According to Ahmad, when he told Ambode that rumours of his defection were rift on social media, the governor said "'I'm here in Beijing in president Buhari's entourage."  Related Topics: #Ambode, #LagosState, #Tinubu, #NigeriaDecides2018, #Politics Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||
| See How President Buhari Was Recieved By Nigerians In China Posted: 02 Sep 2018 02:59 PM PDT
The Nigerian Community in China came out in their numbers to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari who is on official visit to the country along with his entourage, made up of Ministers, Senators, and Governors on the 1st of September.
The President and his team were welcomed with cheers and praises. Those in the president's team includes; 4 governors, 4 Senators, 9 Ministers, but no business executives.It could be recalled that Theresa May came to Nigeria with 29 business executives from companies made up of CEOs, including FTSE 100.  Related Topics: #Buhari, #China, #NigeriaDecides2019, #Politics Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||
| Fresh Plot To Take Saraki To Court By FG Uncovered Posted: 02 Sep 2018 10:27 AM PDT
According to media reports, just few days after, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, the Senate President, made his intention to contest for President in the 2019 General Elections, the presidency has ordered the police authorities and a foremost anti-graft agency to arraign him in court this week over spurious charges, it was learned on Sunday.Comrade Timi Frank, the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who dropped this information in Abuja, said the planned arraignment of Saraki on cooked-up charges is part of a renewed onslaught by the presidency and the leadership of the APC against Saraki.Comrade Frank in a statement in Abuja said the aim of ASO ROCK and the Adams Oshiomhole-led APC is to embarrass Saraki and frustrate his chances of being nominated by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to run against Buhari during the party's upcoming presidential primary election, POLITICSNGR reports.He said: "Events of the last three years has shown that the raison d'̻tre for President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration ferocious attacks against Saraki is based on their phobia that the President of the Senate may contest for President and defeat Buhari in 2019."Now that their worst fears have been confirmed by the formal declaration of Saraki to contest the 2019 presidential election last week, they are once again frantically foraging for criminal charges to hang on his neck. "I have it on good authority that the fresh plot to arraign Saraki this week is the first out of the series of strategies being perfected by Buhari and his cronies at their ongoing 'business trip' in China.' "Recall that in a statement on Friday, I had alerted the nation and the international community that Buhari's APC Governors, Senators and heads of security agencies studded entourage is not in China to boost trade between both countries but to plot the removal of Saraki and how to rig the 2019 elections in favour of the APC. "Come to think of it, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, U.K. Prime Minister, Theresa May and German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, all came to Nigeria with a retinue of captains of industries and highly reputed Chief Executive Officers (CEO) of thriving business organizations to prospect for trade and investment opportunities in Nigeria, but Buhari is in China with his wife, an armada of APC politicians and heads of security agencies to plot judicial and extra-judicial measures against the leaders of opposition political parties in the country and how to compromise the 2019 general elections," Frank declared. Frank added: "Recall that I have continued to cry out against the unmitigated intimidation, harassment, persecution, intolerance, vilification, arrests and kangaroo trial being unleashed against those opposed to Buhari's re-election bid Рto the exclusion of his key allies with corruption allegations against them," he said. The former APC, Deputy National Publicity Secretary, however called on Nigerians and members of the international community not to be deceived by the fresh charges being concocted by the Presidency against Saraki. The APC Chieftain, insisted that the bogus charges being drafted by the assigned security agencies are simply to frustrate Saraki's presidential ambition the same way they have tried unsuccessfully in the last three years to emasculate his leadership of the Senate and to remove him from office as President of the Senate. "It is a proven axiom that no democracy can survive without a vibrant and virile opposition, therefore any attempt to gag opposition political parties in the country and decimate their presidential aspirants for the 2019 elections amounts to another coup against democracy and I call on Nigerians and friends of Nigeria to remain vigilant and continue to speak-up to safeguard the nation's hard earned democracy. "Above all, I don't want Nigerians to forget that Adams Oshiomhole has vowed to get Saraki out of office by hook or crook. He also threatened to end Saraki's dominance of Kwara politics in 2019. "Now that Saraki has thrown his hat into the ring for the presidential election, the party in connivance with the presidency is out to sully his name and stop him from participating in the upcoming election. Related Topics: #Saraki, #APC, #Politics Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||
| Saraki, Ortom, Tambuwal And Others To Oversee Osun Election. Posted: 02 Sep 2018 09:27 AM PDT
The Sokoto State Governor and his Benue state counterpart, Aminu Tambuwal and Samuel Ortom respectively have gotten their first tasks from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki was appointed by the PDP to chair its National Campaign Council for the governorship election in Osun State while Tambuwal and Ortom are members of the council.According to the PoliticsNGR, the National Organising Secretary of the PDP, Colonel Autin Akobundu (rtd), revealed this in a statement on Saturday.The council, which also has other PDP governors and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu as members, will be inaugurated by the party's leadership on Monday in Abuja."The National Working Committee (NWC) of our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has approved the composition of the National Campaign Council for the September 22, 2018, Osun State Governorship Election. "The Campaign Council will be inaugurated on Monday, September 3, 2018, by 2pm at the Legacy House, Abuja," the party said in a statement. Governor Ortom and Senator Saraki defected from the APC to the PDP in July while Governor Tambuwal joined the opposition party in early August. The party has also appionted Dr Eddy Olafeso as the secretary of the Council. Other members of the Council are former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and former President of the Senate, Senator David Mark. Also included are former PDP Caretaker Committee Chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi and a chieftain of the party, Olabode Gorge, among others. PDP's Senator Ademola Adeleke and Mr Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will contend with the candidates of other political parties in the coming election for Governor Rauf Aregbesola's successor. Related Topics: #Saraki, #Ortom, #Tambuwal, #PDP, #Politics Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||
| State Governors In Nigeria Salaries And Their Deputies, Commissioners Posted: 02 Sep 2018 06:31 AM PDT
Below is the salary structure of Nigeria State Governors, their deputies and commissioners, as published by PoliticsNGR:Nigerian State Governors are one of the highest earning political office holders not just in Nigeria but globally. Not withstanding the latest downwards review of salaries of political office holders by the revenue mobilisation and fiscal commission, salaries of state Governors in Nigeria still ranks among the highest in the country and most of them are rated as the richest politicians in Nigeria.Nigerian Governors are one of the most influential political office holders in Politics in Nigeria. In Nigerian politics, they are in control of the state's funds and other administrative duties within the state. In addition to these, they are the Leaders of their party and they are also in control of the party structure in their respective States.In this post, we shall highlight the monthly Salary of State Governors in Nigeria, the deputy state Governors and salaries of the commissioners. The figures are based on the data released by RMAFC.The monthly basic salary of state Governors in Nigeria is about 2.2 million Naira. The monthly basic salary is in addition to other allowances and entitlements which can rise up to 5 million naira. The allowances and entitlements varies from state to state but the basic salary is the same across all the states in the federation. One cannot really ascertain the amount carted home monthly by each of the State Governors since their allowances are based on their respective States. Though it is purported that Governors of the Oil-rich States and states with high internally generated income earn more allowances. Monthly basic salary of deputy Governors in Nigeria is N2.11 million naira while the state commissioners earn N1.33 million as basic salary monthly. Currently, salary of State Governors in Nigeria has been reduced compared to what their predecessors earned. This is because of the financial management policies adopted by the current administration of the country. The policy is not applicable to state Governors in Nigeria only, but other top political office holders. How do you feel about this reduction? Are you in support or against? Have your say via the comment box below. Related Topics: #Politics Sharing is caring. Share this story  |
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