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PDP REPOSITIONING MOVEMENT: APPEAL COURT JUDGEMENT : SENATOR DURO FASEYI, A DOGGED FIGHTER

PDP REPOSITIONING MOVEMENT:

APPEAL COURT JUDGEMENT : SENATOR DURO FASEYI, A DOGGED FIGHTER

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ado Ekiti recently delivered judgement in the case filed by our own, Senator Duro Faseyi, in which he contested the eligibility of Senator Adetumbi of APC.

The judgement has come and we have put it behind us.

Within split seconds of the delivery of the judgement, Senator Duro Faseyi rose, in Spirited vigour, wrote to appreciate the goodness of God. As courageous as a lion, he appreciated members of his Party and supporters for standing by him.He admonished them to put the judgement behind them and braced up for the challenges ahead.

This is the anchor of our message to Senator Duro Faseyi. We identify with his Spartan courage, resilience and doggedness all through the sitting of the Courts. We appreciate in particular, his contributions through his Lawyers to Jurisprudence, a critical aspect in our legal evolution particularly in respects of our Electoral Laws.

We are persuaded indeed in your beliefs that democracy must be allowed to thrive, within the ambit of the judicial interpretations of the various Electoral laws of our land. And the need for the Legislature to re-work obvious lacuna. This you have done and commendably too.

As one of the pillars of the Repositioning Movement, you have also added your voice, diligently and doggedly with determination against ALL anti- democracy elements and slave drivers.

You preach what you believe, without apology that democratic structures must be allowed to stand. And in particular that Power must in kind and indeed, return to the people. You are indeed against dictatorship exploitation and greediness of those leaders without conscience.

The Repositioning Movement and the Stakeholders therefore thank you for your immense contributions to our struggle for a new political dawn in PDP, in Ekiti.

We also share our emotions too with Hon Pastor Kehinde Agboola and Arch Omotoso who invested much in the litigations.
We welcome all of you back home from the courts. God will replenish all you spent and grant you long life.

Signed
Hon.Kehinde Odebunmi-Chairman

Hon Ebenezer Oladipo -Secretary

Sanya Adesua- Perrow
Head, Media Team

For & on behalf of the PDP Repositioning Movement,
Ekiti State

Tribute To A Legend!

Tribute To A

Legend!

On this day of Oct. 29th 2018 you (HON. Otunba Adedeji Michael Adeniyi) gave up the ghost. It was never a good incident and sweet memory, it's only God that can console us.

The callous ones shows their cruelty and it lingers in our hearts.

What a wicked world? 😭😭😭

They never thought of it that you're a loving husband, father, brother, friend and leader to many.

Your death leaves a heartache no one can heal.
Your loving and caring attitudes leaves a memory no one can steal...

We love you!

Operation Keep Ekiti Clean: Omolase, Olatunji and Ayokunle Leads Monthly Sanitation Exercise.

The executive chairman of Ekiti South West Local Government, Hon. Omolase Olanrewaju leads the environmental sanitation exercise in accompanied by The Honourable representing Ekiti South West 1 at the State House of Assembly, Hon Yemisi Ayokunle and her counter part, Honourable Joseph Olatunji (Ekiti South West II) today observed and monitored the monthly environmental sanitation in their local government area, Ekiti South West.

The monthly sanitation which is carried out every last Saturday of month is a drive to ensure communities dedicate one day to keeping their environment clean and free from obvious physical and health harms.

As a way to interact with the people and foster communal relations, the legislators joined their constituents in cleaning their streets and monitoring the activities across the two constituencies in the local government area.

The Chairperson, EKHA House Committee on Media, Hon. Yemisi Ayokunle said it was pertinent to join the community members as it would not only enrich their relationship but would also give them another opportunity to get feedback from their constituents.

While engaging with community members, Hon Lanre Omolase, Executive Chairman of Ekiti South West Local Government, also joined the train as the lawmakers and their council boss brought the government to the door step of their kith and kins.

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There's No Need For An Airport In Ado-Ekiti... Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bolaji Asiwaju Tinubu has said that there is no need for an airport in Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State.

Tinubu stated this at the seventh convocation ceremony of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUA).

Tinubu, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, the Obi of Onitsha, His Royal Majesty, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe and Professor Anthony Olusegun Adegbulugbe, were conferred with honorary degrees at the event.

Tinubu told the event host, Chief Afe Babalola, Ekiti State governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi and other dignitaries that the State does not need an airport.

There have been ongoing plan to build an airport in Ado-Ekiti a plan that the state has been working on for years leading to the inauguration of an eight-man committee to oversee its construction.

The past administration failed to bring the project to fruition and Governor Fayemi has sought to continue the push.

Chief Afe Babalola is said to be the one pushing for the project as he allegedly feels a need for the airport because of his university.

But speaking at the convocation ceremony, Tinubu told the audience that there is clearly no need for an airport in Ado-Ekiti.

The former Lagos Governor added that building one in the city would amount to a waste of the state’s scarce resources.

Tinubu pointed out that the functional airport in Akure, the capital of Ondo State will fulfill the air transport needs of residents of Ekiti state, as well as visitors to the state.

According to Tinubu, what the Ekiti State should do is to push for the fixing of the Akure-Ado-Ekiti Road because an airport in Akure will effectively serve both states.

Bishop Oyedepo Approves N650 Million To Repair Roads

The recent road repairs currently being undertaken will cost the Living Faith Church a whooping sum of N650 million naira (about $2 million).
The roads which cover the old toll gate bordering Lagos and Ogun States as well as stretches of the Idi-Iroko expressway from Oju Ore to Iyana Iyesi as well as Sango itself began to undergo repairs as executed by the Church recently. Traveling along the road to the border as well as Agbara and other towns had become a harrowing experience for both worshippers at the Church and non-worshippers alike every day of the week. This led the Church to intervene in order to give the people a respite.

This is not the first of such interventions, however it is the biggest single intervention till date and has helped in no small measure per time to relieve road users. Speaking yesterday, Bishop Oyedepo announced that the sum of N650 million was approved and released for the repairs, adding that Canaanland where the Church is situated is the birthplace of giants where many have gotten their spiritual and physical needs met for the past 20 years.

Miss Aarinola Olaiya From Ekiti Broke a 28 Years Jinx In OAU

Records Broken again but this time it's was a clean clearance as Miss Aarinola Olaiya from Usin Ekiti,Ikole Local Government of Ekiti State broke a 28 years jinx in Oau.

She has 12 Distinctions.
17 Awards awaiting her on Convocation Day.

Obafemi Awolowo University released her Final MBChB result and this wonderful,cheeeful and Hot Brain lady broke a 28th year old Record in the Presence of Distinguished Professors in Surgery Department like Almighty: Professor Adejuyigbe,Professor Lawal,Professor Akinola,Professor Adesunkanmi and Professor Agbakwuru and other Distinguished Professor's.

She not only took Distinction in Surgery but her sister Course Medicine too.

This is the Breakdown of Her Records.

Part Three First MBChB Examination.
Distinction in Medical Biochemistry
Medical Physiological Sciences.

Part Four Second MBChB Examination
Distinction in Pathology
Distinction in Pharmacology
Distinction in CLI

Part five Third MBChB Examination.
Distinction in Dermatology and Venerology
Distinction in Mental Health
Distinction in Obestrics and Gynecology

Part Six Final MBChB Examination Result
Distinction in Surgery
Distinction in Medicine
Distinction in Community Health.

Let's keep sending this record till it's gets to Nigerian Government and CNN. Whoever that knows what these records will definitely know this young beautiful lady must have read her eyes out. It takes diligence and more than hard work to achieve this Great Success in Great ife!!!!!!!

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FG disburses $103.64m Abacha loot to the poor

The Special Adviser to the President on Social Investments, Mrs Maryam Uwais, has said that the Federal Government has been channelling the recovered Abacha loot and the International Development Association /World Bank credit towards programmes and policies designed to address the plight of poor and vulnerable Nigerians.

Delivering an address on Monday at the training on illicit funds, the Presidential aide said from the August 2018 to the October payment cycle, the total amount disbursed from the Abacha loot was $76,538,530 and $27,099,028 from the IDA credit.

Uwais, who said the funds, which were specifically being disbursed to beneficiaries of the National Cash Transfer Programme, a component of the National Social Investment Programme, noted that the gesture was positively changing the fortune of many Nigerians.

She said the decision to distribute the Abacha loot and the IDA funds to poor and vulnerable Nigerians, who were mined from a National Social Register, collated by the National Social Safety Net Coordinating Office, was reached by the Swiss government, the World Bank and the Federal Government.

This, she said, would help to ensure that the funds were well utilised and not diverted to private pockets, as was the case in the past.

“In December 2014, a Swiss judge gave a forfeiture order to the effect that the money ($322.5m) recovered from the family of late General Abacha would be returned to Nigeria, one of the conditions being that the World Bank would be involved in monitoring disbursements there from.

“Presumably, this was as a consequence to the opaqueness that surrounded the application of recovered funds,” Uwais said.

She said efforts to tackle poverty in Nigeria must also take into consideration the basic and peculiar needs of the people.

The Presidential aide expressed regret that there were millions of Nigerian citizens who had never felt the presence of government in their lives, adding many of them had continued to struggle to eat one meal a day.”

Uwais listed key achievements of the Cash Transfer Programme funded with the Abacha loot and IDA loan facility to include enrolment and payment of 620,947 beneficiaries across 29 states.

GOVERNANCE COLLAPSE: SSG, CHIEF OF STAFF, 10 SSA & 2 COMMISSIONERS RESIGNS IN BAYELSA STATE

It is ineed a challenging times for Gov Siriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, as gale of resignations and defection hits his government a month to the governorship election in the State.

It will be recalled that Gov.Dickson fully exercised his powers of incumbent and imposed Senator Douye Diri as the PDP governorship candidate without recourse to the feelings and mood of the majority of the party members in the State including Dr.Goodluck Jonathan who opted for Chief Timi Alaibe.

Unconfirmed reports had it that,the deputy governor, chief of Staff, SSG and the immediate past speaker of the State Assembly who was compelled to give way for another person two weeks ago are all not happy with the way Gov.Dickinson imposed Douye Diri after giving them the nod to purchase the governorship nomination form and are working for the APC candidate behind the scene.

You could recall that the former Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State and a two-time speaker of the State House of Assembly 

His excellency Rt.Hon. Ebebi Peremobowei had earlier on the 11th of October, 2019 resigned and withdraw from the membership of peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state giving his reasons that he can’t endure experiencing an excruciating period of a largely fraudulent internal democracy in the state chapter of the party who disregard and disrespect for the due process as entrenched in the partys constitution and electoral guidelines, high-handesness and desperation of the party’s leadership.

Barely few days after his resignation, over ten (10) persons has tendered their resignation letters to the governor, Governor Dickson seriake.

BARR. BENJAMIN S. OGBARA, director, Ethics and compliance, Due process Bureau.

OMBU NAPOLEON ESQ. Senior special assistant on community development to Deputy Governor.

HON. BERRY NEGERESE, A serving Commissioner

HON. STEPHEN DIVER, senior special advice to the Governor on political matters

CHIEF TIMIPA TIWEI ORUNIMIGHE. Senior special advicer to the governor on conflicts resolution in oil and gas producing communities

HON. ALANENE WILLIAMS, former Commissioner and the special advicer to the governor, Governors office

HIGHT CHIEF EVARADA DON ABEDNEGO, Special advicer to the Governor on urban security

MARKSON FEFEGHA, Honourable Commissioner for mineral Resources

CHIEF NATUS ZEBAKAME, Special advicer to the Governor on culture

SIR (HON.) GODSPOWER AKE, Special advicer to the Governor on Agriculture

CLEVER LAWRENCE EBEDE, Special advicer to the Governor on ICT Development.

FG considers new tax on Coke, Pepsi, other soft drinks

By Prince George Uche

Abuja, Nigeria

The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, has hinted that the federal government is considering introducing excise duty on carbonated drinks.

The minister made this known while addressing journalists on the sidelines of the ongoing annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group.

Excise duty is a levy placed on the manufacture and sale of locally produced goods.

Information provided on the Nigeria Customs Service website shows that excise is currently placed on non-alcoholic beverages, fruit juices, beer, stout and alcoholic beverages.

According to Ahmed, the government is working on maximising existing revenue streams while trying to identify new revenue streams.

“Our objective is to be able to harness the existing revenue streams that we have by ensuring that enforcement is effective to expand the tax base and also to identify new revenue streams that we can add to expand the revenue base,” she said.

“So in expanding the revenue base, we have proposed the increase of VAT but there are also other revenue streams that we are looking at and some of them include the introduction of excise duties on carbonated drinks but there is a process to doing these things.

“Any tax that you are introducing will involve a lot of consultations and also amendments of some laws or introduction of new regulations.

“There are several cost-cutting measures also in the Strategic Revenue Growth Initiative (SRGI) and also a number of cost-cutting initiatives such as innovation and automation as well as capacity building of our people.”

The minister described it as an anomaly that Nigeria’s previous budgets have been funded largely with oil revenue.

“The budget of countries is supposed to be based on taxes that the country is able to generate. It is an anomaly for us in Nigeria that our budgets have not been focusing on revenue,” she said.

“We can only develop in a manner that is sustainable when we are using tax revenues to fund our national and sub-national budgets. It is an anomaly that we are depending largely on oil and gas revenue, which is a resource that is finite. It is going to go out of existence before you know it. So we have to develop the domestic tax base. The main focus will be on expanding the tax base ensuring enforcement of the existing laws and then blocking leakages.

Kogi Guber: Edward Onoja Resigned As Bello Chief Of Staff.

KOGI : Edward Onoja Resigned as Bello Chief of staff

Pharm Jamiu Abdulkareem Asuku Takes Over as Chief of Staff to the Governor while Dr Gabriel Ottah is appointed DG Protocol.

Consequent upon the resignation of former Chief of Staff to Kogi State Governor, Chief Edward David Onoja, His Excellency, Yahaya Bello has approved the appointment of Pharmacist Jamiu Abdulkareem Asuku as Chief of Staff.

In a letter signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Dr (Mrs) Folashade Arike Ayoade, PhD, the Governor also approved the appointment of Dr Gabriel Ottah as Director General (Protocol).

Dr Ayoade said these appointments take effect from 14 October 2019.

Chief Edward Onoja is the Deputy Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the November 16 Governorship election in Kogi State.

Until their appointments, Pharm Jamiu Abdulkareem Asuku was the Director-General, Protocol while Dr Gabriel Ottah was the Head of Department, Mass Communication, Kogi State University, Anyigba.

Onpgwu Muhammed

Chief Press Secretary to the Governor

BREAKING: Fayemi Signed Transition Bill To Ensure Sportsmanship In Ekiti Governance.

Governor Kayode Fayemi has signed the Ekiti State Transition Bill into Law, to prevent succeeding governments from abandoning projects initiated by past administrations.

The Ekiti State Transition Law, which is the first in the country, will check wanton abandonment of projects simply because they were not initiated by the incumbent.

Details shortly...

What Buhari Told Dino Melaye After Budget Presentation...

Since the picture emerged of President Muhammadu Buhari pointing his index finger at Senator Dino Melaye after he presented the 2020 budget at the National Assembly on Tuesday with Dino responding by hailing him with a salutary fist, there have been speculations as to what the President was telling the senator.

Observers who have followed the confrontational stance of Melaye with the Buhari government and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) closely were quick to guess that Buhari was issuing a threat to the cantankerous senator. But a source who was at the scene of the interaction has told Sentry that what Buhari said to Melaye was nothing of a threat but a question that is pregnant with meanings.

According to the source, Buhari simply asked Melaye: “You mean you are still in this chamber?”

Of course, the question is open to different interpretations considering the issues around Melaye. Since his days as a member of the House of Representatives, the senator who until he was sacked by the Court of Appeal some days ago

represented Kogi West has come across as a querulous fellow whose presence is known to provoke crisis in the legislative chambers.

But he has been unusually quiet in the 9th Senate; a development that many has attributed to the failure of the former Senate president, Dr Bukola Saraki, to return to the upper chamber following his defeat by the APC candidate in Kwara Central during the last National Assembly elections.

Still, other watchers of events would interpret Buhari’s question as an indication that Buhari had already got wind of the direction of the Court of Appeal judgment that sacked Melaye on Friday and was simply expressing surprise that the deposed senator was still in the chamber.

Revealed: President Buhari Seeking For N10bn Approval To Kogi State.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday sent a letter to the Senate, seeking its approval for the payment of N10bn to Kogi State.

The president, in the letter, addressed to Senate President Ahmad Lawan, said the money would be used by the state government to settle local debts it incurred as a result of the projects executed on behalf of the Federal Government.

President Buhari said his request was based on the resolution passed by the eighth Senate.

Details later…

Gov. Seyi Makinde Paid Salaries Of Sacked LG Chairmen, OYSIEC, JSC And Others...

EXCLUSIVE:

Governor Seyi Makinde has paid the remaining salaries of sacked chairmen and members of three statutory

Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission, OYSIEC; Judicial Service Commission, JSC and Civil Service Commission.

This came few weeks after Makinde sent names of nominees to replace the sacked members to the Oyo State House of Assembly for screening and confirmation.
Members of the three commissions received their alerts last Wednesday.
While the chairman and members of the OYSIEC were paid two-year advance, their counterparts in the JSC and CSC got three and a year year salary advance. Chairmen and members of the commissions spend 5 years in office. Those in OYSIEC had spent three years while those in JSC and CSC had barely spent one and half years before they were shown the exit doors.
Makinde, this newspaper recalls, had dissolved the boards few days after his inauguration as governor, noting that “the state is aware that the tenure of members of the board has not yet expired and that the state government is prepared to offset salary and allowances payable to them till the expiration of their tenure.”
Chairman and members of OYSIEC had been sacked on July 1, 2019, sparking reactions and counter reactions between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.
Though OYOINSIGHT couldn’t confirm the actual amount chairmen and members of the commissions got, a government source who confirmed the development could not however confirm whether or not members of the OYSIEC will continue their case in court.

Ekiti Assembly Reversed The Suspension Of Remaining Eight LG Chairmen.

The Ekiti State House of Assembly on Monday reinstated remaining eight local government chairmen who had earlier been suspended.

The chairmen were elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The affected local government chairmen are; Oye, Ise/Orun, Ekiti East, Ikere, Efon, Ido/Osi, Emure and Ilejemeje.

The suspension was as a result of alleged financial misappropriation.

EKITI LG ELECTION: PDP Will Participate In The Election, Ekiti LG party Chairmen insists.

COMMUNIQUÉ ISSUED ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2019, IN ADO EKITI BY THE FORUM OF THE PDP LOCAL GOVERNMENT PARTY CHAIRMEN ON THE AFFIRMATION OF PARTICIPATION IN EKITI STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ELECTIONS SLATED FOR DECEMBER 7, 2019.

Sequel to the State Executive Committee comprising the State Working Committee and the Local Government Party Chairmen of the PDP at their meeting on Wednesday September 25, 2019 hereby resolved as follows:

1. That the PDP in the Sixteen (16) Local Government Areas shall participate in the December 7,2019 Local Government Elections in Ekiti State. And the party in effect, shall take part in all activities towards the successful conducts of the Elections on the said date.

2. That the purported announcements of non-participation by the Acting party Chairmen of Ado Ekiti Local Government, Mr Kala Olomofe was unauthorized and of no consequence to the participation of PDP in the Elections. Further more, only the State Working Committee in collaboration with the Local Government Party Chairmen can make such announcement.

3. That the State Executive Committee and the Local Government Party Chairmen of PDP in Ekiti state consequently and hereby declares that all announcement by individuals and Group Purporting non participation of PDP in Ekiti State Local Government Elections is declared illegal and of no effect.

Therefore, all candidates of the PDP in all the Sixteen Local Government Areas of Ekiti State, are by this announcement mandated to continue their campaigns and all other due process as outlined by Ekiti State Independent Electoral Commission.

5. We hereby charge the Ekiti State Independent Electoral Commission (EKSIEC) to be alive to its responsibility by ensuring due process and transparence in the conduct of the Elections

6. We also state further by the reason of the joint meeting of the PDP Local Government Party Chairmen, the decision of the party to go ahead with the Ekiti State Local Government in December 7,2019 is sacrosanct and authorized.

7. Finally, we wish to state categorically that there is harmonious relationship between the state working committee headed by Bar. Gboyega Oguntuase and the Forum of Local Government for the smooth running of the Party, PDP in Ekiti State.

Signed:

Hon. Idowu Akinbode, Forum Chairman ( EKSW)

Hon. Israel Ogundele, Forum Sec. (MOBA LG)

Mr. Ojo Sunday ( OYE LG)

Hon. Akomolafe O Z. ( IKERE LG)

Hon. Bayo Ogundele (IJERO LG)

Elder J S Sekiteri ( EFFON).

Hon. Peter Akinwunmi (IREPODUN/IFELODUN)

Hon. Babatunde Omoyajowo (GBONYIN)

Hon. Ogunjemilua M F ( ISE/ORUN LG)

Alhaji Gbenga Ayeni ( EMURE LG).

Alhaji Idris Agbabiaka (EKITI WEST LG).

Pastor Rotimi Dare ( ILEJEMEJE LG)

Hon. Adedayo Dada ( IDO/OSI LG)

Chief Ojerinde Adeniyi ( EKITI EAST LG)

Let your hearts not be troubled, Court judgement is human judgment, I believe in God's judgment... Sen. Dino Melaye console constituents.

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Let your hearts not be troubled, believe in God believe also His prophets. Court judgement is human judgment, I believe in divine I mean God's judgment.

It is absolutely well. No worries, no tension, no pains. I celebrate God for he is always a good God. At the end His name

will be glorified. He is not a man that He will lie. I'm a winner every time. There is a final verdict and it is the verdict of God. Peace peace peace.

Today, I speak over my life and my household that the peace of God that surpasses understanding will garrison across our hearts. I am not shaken nor moved. I trust in God completely. I lean not on my own understanding; I acknowledge Him in all my ways, and I am directed of the Lord and led by the Spirit. I see my way through; I walk a path devoid of pitfalls. I look to the Lord my God, and I will not see shame. I am delivered from destruction and dereliction. I am saved to serve and strengthened for life. God is merciful to me, and I have received grace of the Lord my God. I have favor. Nothing is against me. Men are favorably disposed to me in every situation. I am accepted and not rejected. Nothing blocks my path to success; I am not a failure, and greatness is attracted to me. I activate the will of the Father and insist that today is the day of His power. I am willing; God is at work, in me, to will and to do all His good pleasure. I win always. My prayers are answered, and my requests are granted. “My eye is single, and my body is full of light”. Sorrows and tears are far from me. I have peace; my struggles cease; my frustrations, fears, and frailties give way; and I am strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. My tomorrow is greater and better than my yesterday. I shine like the star that I am. I am blessed with every blessing heavenly, in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. I am blessed with the blessing of the sand and stars. I increase on all sides. In Jesus’s name, I believe and say amen.

Senator Dino Melaye

Kogi West.

Breaking: Court of Appeal Sacks Dino Melaye, Orders Fresh Election

October 11, 2019 0 Comments Dino Melaye

I just lost my election at the Appeal Court and Fresh election ordered. In all things I give God the Praise. He who started a good thing will definitely complete it. I ask my supporters to be law abiding as we shall always overcome. To God be the Glory.
— Senator Dino Melaye. (SDM) (@dino_melaye) October 11, 2019

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PDP appoints Seyi Makinde chairman Kogi Guber campaign council after Melaye, Ibrahim Idris snubbed.

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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has named Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State as chairman Kogi State governorship campaign council after Senator Dino Melaye and Ibrahim Idris rejected its offers.

The PDP made this known in a statement signed by its National Organizing Secretary, Col. Austin Akobundu (rtd) which also contained a long list of other members appointed into the committee.

The party also listed Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State as the deputy chairman of the campaign council.

The PDP had previously contacted the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district, Melaye who was also an aspirant in the September 4th Guber primary to chair the campaign council.

Many analysts believed the offer was meant to pacify the Senator for the defeat he suffered at the primaries.

Dino Melaye however, refused to accede to the request, saying he wished the party well.

The party then approached a former governor of the state, Ibrahim Idris whose son also participated in the exercise.

But like Melaye, Idris turned down the offer forcing the party to look outside the state for a capable hand to chair the campaign council.

The statement further requested members of the committee to make themselves available at the party’s Wadata Plaza headquarters for official inauguration on Friday, 11th October 2019 at 10am.

The party in a similar development, also named the governor of Bauchi state, Bala Mohammed, as the Chairman of the Bayelsa state governorship campaign council.

Buhari Abandoned Aisha Set To Marry Another Wife As First Lady.

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari may likely marry another wife on Friday since Aisha, the wife of the President has been out of the country for about two months now.

Multiple sources indicated that President Buhari will tie the knot with Hajia Sadia Umar Farouq, the current Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management in the coming days, which has aroused suspicions over the continued absence of current first lady Aisha Buhari

According to the Pointblanknews.com “following pressures from President Mohammadu Buhari to take Hajia Sadia Umar Farouq, the current Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, as the second wife, a source within the first family.”

According to the source who does not want to be named, Ms. Farouq has been a very close friend of Buhari and the cabal for a very long time. She was responsible for cooking all the meals Buhari and the Cabal ate during political meetings and campaigns during the All Peoples Party, APP and Congress For Progressive Change, CPC.

The source told Pointblanknews.com that Sadia is not just a good cook but also a good masseuse who regularly gives Buhari a good massage.

He loves massage and the lady has been massaging him for years now and she cooks well too, a family source told pointblanknews.com.

Aisha Buhari runs a Cosmetic and Beautician Business but did not add masseuse until recently, according to an insider.

According to the source, Aisha Buhari had come to find out about Ms. Farouq’s activities around her husband and had raised alarm, she allegedly confronted the President and demanded a stop in the relationship. Her demand fell flat as the Cabal, led by Mamma Daura, Buhari’s uncle insisted on Sadia.

In 2015 when Buhari first won the Presidential election, the cabal mounted pressure on President Buhari to take a second wife. The head of the Cabal, Mamman Daura, was said to have insisted that Buhari get a second wife. The idea was later dropped.

Sadia was then tipped for Ministerial position. She was again dropped from the Ministerial list because she was said not to have any relevant experience at the time. She was then appointed Head of the Refugee Commission.

After the 2019 Presidential elections, the cabal tipped Saida again for a Ministerial appointment. Upon seeing the list, the First lady raised alarm again. She was said to have confronted Buhari in Mecca during the Hajj. The confrontation yielded no result and she left angrily to London, according to a source familiar with the happenings.

“She has not been happy with the way she has been treated after all these years with the President. She has been fighting off the attempt by the cabal to have Baba marry Sadia but doesn’t seem to be succeeding. She left to stay in London after her last attempt to have the lady’s name removed as Minister failed,” the source said.

Pointblanknews.com gathered that the cabal never liked the first lady as they have always regarded her as an Adamawa woman who is not from the core Muslim states of the North West. Sadia is from Zamfara state.

When Pointblanknews.com reached out to the Director of Media Affairs to the First lady, Sulaiman Haruna, he did not reply to questions about Aisha Buhari’s whereabout.

But he was quoted in another medium to have said that the first lady has rights to travel wherever she likes.

Daily Trust Newspapers had quoted multiple sources at the presidential villa saying the president’s wife left the country in protest against “certain

developments” at the presidency.

It reported that the first lady, who left the country early August to Saudi Arabia to perform hajj (Muslim pilgrimage), had not returned to the country.

Muslims who participated in the hajj exercise have since returned home, but credible sources at the Villa said the president’s wife has since left Saudi Arabia for London.

“Mama (first lady) is in London. It was from Saudi Arabia that she

went to London,” a source told Daily Trust.

Asked when she would return, the source said, “I don’t know. All I know is that she is in London.”

In early July, the first lady supported her husband to host the Ambassador Extraordinary for Nigeria-Niger Cooperation, together with his wife, Fatima at the State House.