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Nigerian Governors reject calls to scrap security votes

Nigerian Governors reject calls to scrap security votes

September 12, 2019 12:38 am

The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) Wednesday kicked against calls for the removal of security votes, insisting that doing so would be inimical to development.

NGF Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, said in Abuja that the abolition of security votes as being advocated by many in the country would breed chaos in the polity instead of curbing corruption as is being widely believed.

He said there was no development without security.

The position of the governors came just as Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, advocated parameters …

We will protect South-East governors from IPOB - Ohanaeze

We will protect South-East governors from IPOB – Ohanaeze

August 23, 2019 12:10 am
Following the attack on former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and threat to attack South-East governors by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Ohanaeze-Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide (OYC) yesterday said it would do everything possible to shield the South-East governors from external aggression.

In a statement in Abakaliki by its National President, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the OYC said the attack on Ekweremadu and threat to attack South-East governors was being sponsored by politicians outside Igboland who want to smack the images of Igbo presidential hopeful ahead of 2023.He called for immediate ceasefire between South-East governors and IPOB, noting that the

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South-East Governors threaten Nnamdi Kanu

South-East Governors threaten Nnamdi Kanu

August 21, 2019 9:21 am
South-East Governors Forum has warned the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against any other attack on South-East leaders when they travel abroad.In a statement signed by the chairman of the forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, the governors threatened to ensure his repatriation to Nigeria.

“We wish to warn that should any Southeast person be attacked anywhere in the world, we shall, by all means, bring back Kanu to Nigeria to face the wrath of our people,” the governors said.

Nigerian Senator Ike Ekweremadu Saturday was assaulted in Nuremberg, Germany where he was

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APC governors say party worse off under Adams Oshiomhole

August 9, 2019 1:36 am

The Progressive Governors Forum has criticised the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, for the party’s ‘diminishing fortunes’.

It’s Director-General, Salihu Lukman, in a letter entitled, “APC: Appeal for Reconciliation”, dated August 6, 2019, and addressed to the former labour leader, said things had allegedly gotten worse in the ruling party.

He said: “As a loyal party member, I have difficulty reconciling the absence of meetings of superior organs given all the challenges the party is going through, warranting the suspension of three serving governors (two of them now senators) and two members of …

Northern Governors begin plans to end insecurity

Northern Governors begin plans to end insecurity

May 17, 2019 8:42 pm

Worried by the spate of killings and kidnapping in the region, the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) rose from a meeting in Kaduna yesterday with a resolve to develop a regional action plan to end the multiple security challenges.

This was as the Forum announced Plateau State Governor, Rt. Hon. Simon Bako Lalong, as its new chairman with effect from May 29.

The meeting chaired by Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State lamented what it called the deteriorating security challenges in the region.

It set up a committee headed by Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State to develop an …

El-Rufai, Fayemi contesting for Governors Forum Chairman

May 1, 2019 8:40 pm

Governors Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna) and Dr. Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti) are contesting for Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) chairman.

But there are indications that a Southwest candidate may get the job since the outgoing chairman, Zamfara State Governor Abdul-Aziz Yari, is from the North.

El-Rufai is, however, said to have insisted on getting the slot and he is yet to agree to step down for any of his colleagues.

The NGF has had six chairmen in the last 20 years when the nation returned to democracy.

The past chairmen are Alh. Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa, 1999 – 2004), Arc. (Obong) Victor Attah, (Akwa …

APC suspends Governors Amosun and Okorocha

March 1, 2019 11:32 am

The national working committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended governor of Ogun state Ibikunle Amosu and governor of Imo state Rochas Okorocha over anti-party activities.

The NWC also recommended the expulsion of the governors from the party to the national executive committee (NEC) of APC, after a meeting on Friday in Abuja.

Amosun and Okorocha have openly backed gubernatorial candidates different from APC’s candidate in their respective states. The preferred candidates of both governors lost the APC primaries in their states.

Governor Amosun, who contested a senatorial seat in the just-concluded National Assembly election on the …

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