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Kwara: I am Firmly In Support Of Atunwa”- Gov. Abdulfatah

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Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed says a newspaper report quoting him as asking Kwarans to vote for candidates of their choice was a misrepresentation of his views.
In a statement issued in response to a newspaper publication on Friday, Governor Ahmed said while he as Chief Security Officer of the state encouraged Kwarans to come out en masse to vote in Saturday’s election without fear for their safety, he was exercising his duty to facilitate and assure the people of their security.
The governor, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communication, Dr Muideen Akorede, dismissed the newspaper’s account as an inaccurate representation of his views expressed during the last State Security Committee meeting.
Alhaji Ahmed said that, on the contrary, his strong support for the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP), Rt. Hon Abdulrazak Atunwa as the most competent to succeed him as Governor is clear, having travelled across the state to campaign with and for the candidate.
While reaffirming his support for Rt. Hon. Atunwa, who he described as the only candidate with the right combination of competence, capacity and public sector experience to effectively govern Kwara State, Governor Ahmed urged all Kwarans to elect the former speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly as the next governor of Kwara State.
Governor Ahmed also described reports of a conflict between him and Rt Hon Atunwa in the run-up to the election as fake news that has been hatched and circulated by the opposition, knowing that Atunwa is the preferred candidate in the election.
Alhaji Ahmed, therefore, called on Kwarans to vote based on capacity and competence as demonstrated by Rt. Hon Atunwa rather than negative propaganda and fake news.

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Akpabio Relieves Natasha of Committee Chairmanship Position, Appoints Akwa Ibom Senator As Replacement

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Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has replaced suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Diaspora/Non-Governmental Organisations.

In her place, Akpabio named Senator Bassey Aniekun Etim (Akwa Ibom -East).

The Senate President, who made the announcement on the floor in Abuja on Thursday, did not give any reasons.

The committee position had remained vacant since March when the Senate suspended the Kogi-Central Senatorial District lawmaker for six months for flouting the Senate’s rule on the seating arrangement and seat allocation.

The suspended lawmaker, at a point, chaired the Senate Committee on Local Content before Akpabio reassigned her to the Committee on Diaspora/NGO, shortly before she ran into trouble with the Senate over her conduct on seat allocation.

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Supreme Court Upholds Election of Monday Okpebholo As Edo Governor

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The Supreme Court has affirmed the 2024 governorship election victory of Governor Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC), dismissing the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Asuerinme Ighodalo.

In a unanimous decision by a five-member panel led by Justice Mohammed Garba, the apex court ruled that the appeal lacked merit. It upheld the earlier judgments of the Court of Appeal and the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which had both declared Okpebholo the validly elected governor.

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‘Overthrow’ Comment: Tinubu’ll Be Removed by Votes, Not Bullets, ADC Replies Presidency

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The African Democratic Congress (ADC), on Wednesday, said President Bola Tinubu will be removed through the ballot and not bullets.It dismissed insinuations that the coalition is interested in truncating democracy in Nigeria.

ADC’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, accused Tinubu of laying the foundation for a clampdown on opposition leaders.

He made the remark in response to a tweet by Tinubu’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, who alleged that the opposition was planning to overthrow the President.

Onanuga had said the coalition had ganged up to overthrow Tinubu’s administration.Rubbishing Onanuga’s comment, Abdullahi described his remark as reckless and unsubstantiated.

In a statement he signed, Abdullahi said Onanuga’s comment shows that Tinubu’s administration is out to intimidate and repress opposition political leaders in Nigeria.

He noted that ADC would explore Democratic means to ensure Tinubu’s removal from office and not by overthrowing him.

The statement read partly: “ADC condemned the tweet made by an aide of President Bola Tinubu, Onanuga, which alleges that the opposition is planning to overthrow the Tinubu government before 2027.

“If anything, it potentially lays the grounds for systematic clampdown on opposition leaders.

“The ADC is not interested in truncating democracy, we are solely committed to saving the nation from the irredeemable incompetence of this government. We are not soldiers, we are politicians.

“We don’t have bullets; we only have the ballots. When the time comes, we will only present our solutions and an alternative vision of the future to the Nigerian people and leave them to make their choice.”

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