Following the release of the list of ministerial nominees of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu last week, there is brewing tension between the immediate former governor of Rivers State His Excellency Nyesom Wike and the President, IgbereTV has learned. According to TheWill, Wike is deeply saddened at the moment. Rather than rejoice that his wish of finally being nominated as a minister by the government of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has been granted, he is disgruntled that he and members of the G5 governors have been shortchanged by President Bola Tinubu. The G5 governors, self-styled as the Integrity…
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It is a fact that president Bola Ahmed Tinubu reserves the right to appoint people he deems fit to serve in various capacity in his government. Such rights are however fettered by circumstances if indeed the president chose not to be autocratic. Issues like due consultations, equity and fairness are enough to force the hands of a president who chose be Democratic in his choice of appointments. The nomination of Bayo Adelabu for the appointment of Minister by president Bola Ahmed Tinubu was done “malafide”, (in bad faith), with due respect to the president. The gentleman, Mr. Bayo Adelabu is…
Following the list of ministerial nominees which was unveiled today whereby the immediate past Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, Nasir El-Rufai and other individuals made the list. A few moments ago, Shehu Sani shared a new post cautioning Tinubu that appeasing a snake in a palace doesn’t spare the king. Speaking further, Shehu Sani added that Tinubu appointed some individuals with a known history of treachery According to his statement recently, he said this, “The Ministerial list; The President embraced some Serpents with a known history of treachery and rewarded some vultures for playing the Judas. Appeasing a snake in…
The National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress for North-West, Mallam Salihu Lukman, has officially resigned from his position. His resignation letter was submitted on Wednesday to the Acting National Chairman of the party, Senator Abubakar Kyari. The development is coming one week after the former National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and the National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore, tendered their resignations. In the copy of the letter made available to our correspondent, the Kaduna politician hinged his resignation on the alleged illegal acts and interference in the affairs of the party, which he claimed, was at…
Obviously, president Bola Ahmed Tinubu have tough decisions to make with the choice of a Minister who will represent Oyo state in his Cabinet. Ordinarily, appointing a Minister from Oyo state ought not to pose much problems for the president but there are serious complications arising from the unresolved intra party disputes that bedeviled the All Progressives Congress, Oyo state chapter before, during and after the last general election. The issues within the party was made messier by intervening circumstances that eventually led to the unnecessary and avoidable loss of the gubernatorial election. I must say with due respect but…
Travellers are expressing their disappointment and frustrations as airfares continue to skyrocket, making it increasingly difficult for individuals to embark on their desired trips. The rising costs, coupled with economic uncertainties, have left many passengers in a state of dismay. About two weeks after President Bola Tinubu promised to unify the nation’s multiple exchange rates, the apex bank decided to float the naira at the Investor’s and Exporters’ Window of the foreign exchange market. Since then, the naira had fallen from N471/dollar to N867/$. With this development, Nigerians, particularly, intending international students hoping to resume school in September, had been…
Forty-eight hours to the public presentation of the composition of the various standing committees of the National Assembly, there is discontent at the way the exercise has been handled in the two chambers of the federal legislature. LEADERSHIP gathered that lawmakers in both chambers trembled with anger, especially at the weekend. A majority of the lawmakers are nursing the hurt of being unfairly treated by the handlers of the exercise in the Presidency. The names of the federal lawmakers allocated to the various committees in the Senate and House of Representatives are expected to be made public during plenary on…
Given today’s state of the nation, it is likely that both Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi are thanking their stars that they were not the ones declared as our elected president on March 1, 2023. If they were, each of them would have done what Bola Tinubu did with petrol subsidy with consequences beyond their capacity. They would have done it – they all promised to do it. But, if it was Obi in particular who withdrew fuel subsidy, the North and the West would have exploded in flames of protests. His ethnic base would have defended him…
Initial applauses from Bretton Woods and some local economists that greeted the economic reforms of the Bola Tinubu presidency were deafening. The reforms were termed bold and courageous. The most surgically painful of them, which drilled deep down into the marrows of Nigerians, was the removal of fuel subsidy. In a country that is almost totally dependent on PMS, the unbearable pains of the people reached ear-shattering decibel. Cars disappeared from the roads. Costs of transportation are tearing the roof, with rife social dislocations. Rates of crime have since been on the increase, with rising matrimonial disorder figures. Local political…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) describes the extortionate N617 per liter price of fuel endorsed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) maladministration as a provocative exhibition of extreme insensitivity and callousness towards Nigerians. The Party cautions that the increase is worsening the already suffocating economic situation under the APC and has the capability of triggering very serious crisis in the country if not abated. It is appalling that instead of seeking ways to stabilize and grow the economy, the APC administration has abandoned the welfare of Nigerians which is the primary purpose of Government under Section 14 (2)(b) of the…