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Vice-President, Osinbajo, Ex-Speaker Dogara Kicked Out Of Ruling APC Tinubu/Shettima’s Campaign Team
Vice-President, Osinbajo and Ex-Speaker Dogara were kicked out of the Ruling APC Tinubu/Shettima’s campaign team.
News ToGo learned that Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, have failed to be included in the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign council of Bola Tinubu/Kashim Shettima, whose members were revealed on Friday.
While Osinbajo was Tinubu’s fellow presidential aspirant in June, Dogara has been critical of Tinubu’s Muslim-Muslim ticket, saying northern Christians have been marginalised in the scheme of things in the party.
The camp of Osinbajo had distanced itself from the former Lagos governor after his emergence as winner of the APC presidential ticket, while Dogara had remained a perennial thorn in Tinubu’s flesh for selecting ex-Borno Governor Senator Kashim Shettima, a fellow Muslim, as running mate, SaharaReporters reports.
Dogara had predicted on Tuesday that the adoption of a Muslim-Muslim ticket was a fruitless political effort that was “doomed to end in spectacular failure.”
The ex-speaker made the statement while delivering his keynote address at a summit tagged ‘Meet The Church,’ organised by the Nigeria National Christian Coalition.
It was earlier reported that Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and former Transportation Minister, Amaechi, were not appointed into key roles in their regions and only made the council as senior adviser and member respectively.
A statement on Friday by the secretary to the council, James Faleke, had read, “We are pleased to announce the nominees of the leadership of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, as per enclosed. All nominees are kindly advised to pick their appointment letters from the undersigned on Monday, 26th September, 2022 at 12noon.
“The venue is Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council on Plot 781, Herbert Macaulay Way, Central Area Abuja. All other members will be contacted by the leaders of their respective directorates.”
The 422-man list has names of political heavyweights including APC governors, ministers, lawmakers, ambassadors as well as serving and past public office holders.
In the latest list released by the Presidential Campaign Council Secretary, James Faleke, in Abuja on Friday night, Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, retained his position as Director-General just as Deputy Director-General (Operations), Adams Oshiomhole, and Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga.
President Bola Tinubu has appointed three new persons.
He wrote a letter to the Nigerian Senate to confirm the appointees as required by the constitution.
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The new ministerial appointees by Tinubu are:
1. DR Jamila Bio
2. Balarebe Abbas and
3. Olawale Olawande.
The President had appoint over 40 Ministers before now making him the first Nigerian President with the highest number of Ministers. With the appointment of the three persons, the number of his Ministers would be around 50- a number no past President had matched.
CSU has finally released Tinubu’s records.
News ToGo learned that Chicago State University (CSU) has complied with a court order to release the academic records of President Bola Tinubu, as requested by Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the recent elections.
Following a directive from the US district court for the northern district of Illinois over the weekend, CSU provided the requested academic records.
TheCable reports that the university confirmed that the format of the certificate in question matched Tinubu’s replacement dated June 27, 1997. However, the gender raises doubt. This is because Tinubu filled ”Male” and the university in the new document addressed him as ”Mr”, but some transcripts reportedly show ”F” which suggests ”Female”. This raises doubt in the issue.
However, Atiku and his legal team are following up on the issue after alleging serious discrepancies in Tinubu’s academic records. They also claim that those inconsistencies will help them prove that he was not fit to contest for President of Nigeria.
Recall that Tinubu made serious effort to block the release of his records but the US courts ruled in Atiku’s favour. Atiku and his legal team will now go ahead to prove their case concerning the inconsistencies they discovered.
Tribunal has sacked an APC Governor and declared PDP winner.
News ToGo learned that the Nasarawa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, on Monday, nullified the victory of Governor Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The panel led by Justice Ezekiel Ajayi, while delivering the judgment via zoom, said Emmanuel Ombudagu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is the winner.
Out of three members of the panel, two of the justices agreed that the election was won by the PDP while one judge disagreed. Ezekiel maintained that the petitioner was able to prove his case beyond reasonable doubt.
Meanwhile, former Governors Abdullahi Adamu and Tanko Al-makura were among other political dignitaries present at the court.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Abdullahi Sule the winner of the governorship election in Nasarawa State in March.
Prof Ishaya Tanko, the INEC returning officer said that the APC candidate polled a total of 347,209 votes to defeat his closest opponent, David Ombugadu, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who got 283, 016 votes.
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