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2023 Power Must Not Remain The North, Akeredolu Insists

2023: Power Must Not Remain The North, Akeredolu Insists

August 11, 2022 5:28 am

The Chairman of the southern Governors forum and the Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu has declared that the next President of Nigeria must be someone from the South in 2023, stressing that this in order not to thwart the power rotation arrangement in the country.

Akeredolu made these assertions while speaking yesterday at the first anniversary of late Prof Bankole Oke of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ibadan, while delivering a lecture entitled, ‘Nigeria: The politics of religion in a transitional society.’

He advised Nigerians to make sure that power does not remain in the …

Buhari Never Committed To Zoning Presidency To South – Adamu

Buhari Never Committed To Zoning Presidency – APC Chairman

June 6, 2022 5:34 am

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, has denied the speculation that President Muhammadu Buhari preferred the zoning of the party’s 2023 presidential ticket to the South ahead of today’s primaries.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that some reports claimed that the President had directed the selection of a standard-bearer of Southern origin during the meeting with aspirants at the State House, Abuja on Saturday.

Reacting to the report, Adamu’s spokesperson, Muhammad Nata’ala Keffi in a statement said the gathering didn’t discuss zoning.

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2023 Zoning Akeredolu Sends Strong Message To APC

2023 Zoning Akeredolu Sends Strong Message To APC

May 4, 2022 12:58 am

Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, has sent a strong-worded message to the recently inaugurated leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), calling on the party to declare its position on zoning its 2023 presidential candidate ahead of its primaries later this month.

According to Akeredolu, the next president must come from the southern part of the country.

This, the governor maintained, was the reason why the party zoned its national chairmanship position to the north.

He condemned the refusal of the leadership of the APC to announce to aspirants that the presidential slot would be for the south …

South Sudan: Assembly Changes Law To Establish 10 States

February 20, 2020 4:08 pm

 

South Sudan’s transitional legislative assembly has passed key amendments to the Constitution, allowing the country to return to 10 states.

The assembly, which is supposed to act as Parliament for the next 30 months, made changes to the supreme law.

This also allows the administration of the three additional areas carved out of the states to be run by appointed officers, but in a hierarchical format where local state governors will have a say.

The move was the necessary legal framework the country needed to make changes to its existing regional administrative units, and to accommodate the demands of

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Shagari’s Grandson Speaks On North, South Break-Up

January 24, 2020 9:14 am
The grandson of the Second Republic President Shehu Shagari, Bello Shagari, has warned Nigerians calling for the breakup of the country.

Bello on Friday said anyone calling for Nigeria’s breakup is unfair to the people who lost their lives during the civil war that lasted from July 6th, 1967 to January 15th, 1970.

He described the call for a break up as a selfish call, adding that Nigeria is not the way it is because of the union between the North and South.

Shagari on his verified Twitter page wrote: “Anyone who is calling for break up in Nigeria is

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FG, South-West Governors Agree To Formalise Amotekun

January 23, 2020 3:28 pm

The Federal Government and Governors of states in the South-west have reached the agreement to draw up a legal framework for the Western Security Network code-named: Amotekun.

Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo state, disclosed this to state house correspondents at the end of a meeting Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo had with the six governors from the region on Thursday.

Read Also: Uzodinma: Amechi Rejects Supreme Court Judgement In Imo

Akeredolu said the legal framework will help resolve all “burning issues” surrounding the security network.

Asked if the governors failed to draw up the legal framework for the outfit before the launch …

Breaking: FG, South West Govs Take Decision On Amotekun

January 23, 2020 3:19 pm
The federal government and the Southwest state governors on Thursday, agreed to set up a legal framework to legalise the establishment of a regional security outfit, operation Amotekun.

Amotekun, an initiative of Southwest Governors, was first declared illegal last Tuesday by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.

The agreement was reached after a closed-door meeting presided over by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, TVC reports.

Read Also: Uzodinma: Amechi Rejects Supreme Court Judgement In Imo

THISDAY earlier reported that Osinbajo met with the southwest Governors immediately after the expanded National Economic Council meeting.

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South West Govs Have Duty To Protect Their Citizens’

January 22, 2020 12:24 pm
The gubernatorial candidate of Alliance for Democracy (AD) in the March 9th, 2019 governorship election in Oyo State, Engineer Hakeem Alao, on Wednesday declared that Governors in the South West region have a duty to protect their citizens when the federal government of Nigeria failed to do do.

Alao, who maintained that, though the issue of security is exclusively a statutory function of the federal government, insisted that the Governors; Seyi Makinde (Oyo) Gboyega Oyetola (Osun) Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos) Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti) Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) and Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo) have a duty as Chief security officers of their respective

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A’Ibom South Rerun: APC Can’t Be Declared Winner – Akpabio

January 21, 2020 4:45 am

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has declared that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mike Igini, would not be fair to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the senatorial rerun.

The Minister said that with Igini as the umpire in the election, APC cannot be victorious, because, according to him, the INEC chief hates the party.

Akpabio also maintained that having taken higher national responsibilities as a Minister, he cannot be a candidate in Akwa Ibom South West Senatorial rerun.

The Appeal Court in Calabar, the State capital, had ordered a rerun election to

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2023: Give Us Presidency, Igbos Want Biafra –S’South Elders

January 20, 2020 6:56 am
The South-South Elders’ Forum has declared that the 2023 presidency should be ceded to the zone to avert crisis.

The Elders said giving 2023 presidency to the north will tear Nigeria apart, as the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure completes North’s two tenures.

Sara Igbe, the National Publicity Secretary of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, said South South has used just one tenure, adding that it is only fair to allow the zone to produce the next president for another four years to complete the zone’s second tenure.

Speaking to NAN, he claimed that South-East was agitating for Biafra

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South-South Elders Issue Threat Over 2023 Presidency

January 19, 2020 2:39 pm
The South-South Elders on Sunday declared that there will be a crisis that could consume Nigeria if the North should insist on retaining power.

The two-term tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari expires in 2023.

The South-South elders noted that it was logical to allow their zone to produce the President for another four years so as to “complete its second tenure”.

Read Also: Can Igbos and Yorubas Form An Alliance Against The North

Buhari’s victory in 2015 stopped former President, Goodluck Jonathan from clinching a second term.

National Coordinator of South-South Elders Forum, HRH Anabs Sara Igbe, told Vanguard, that

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South-West Destined To Rule Nigeria – APC Chieftain

January 18, 2020 10:38 am
Immediate past Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State, Chief Jide Awe, has said the Southwest region will produce the party’s candidate that will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.

Awe, who replied to the grandstanding of the Miyetti Allah that the zone might lose presidency in 2023 if it insists on formation of operation Amotekun, said the southwest region was destined for the next presidency, going by the silent principle of rotation.

A herders’ group, Miyetti Allah Kaote Hore, had last week threatened that the southwest may not be considered for presidency in 2023 taking

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