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A head of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, noted that the Southeast must continue to liaise with other parts of the country to improve the region’s chances of winning the presidential seat.
The former minister said this on the Politics Today channel on Thursday, amid allegations that the region had been marginalized by the PDP, ahead of the 2023 elections.
He said that collaboration with other regions will be essential to have a president from the Southeast.
“What I think the Southeast will do is recalibrate our presence in the PDP and continue our strong pressure for a president from the Southeast.
Diocese of Enugu beats Mbaka
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The Catholic Diocese of Enugu condemned the comments made by Rev. Foot. Ejike Mbaka on Peter Obi’s presidential ambition.
Mbaka, director of Chaplaincy at the Enugu Ministry of Catholic Worship, on Wednesday described Labor Party presidential candidate Obi as a ‘stingy man’, declaring that unless God ceases to exist, Obi would never smell the president’s seat.
According to him, it was better to have an old man as president than a ‘stingy young man’.
The diocese, however, described Father Mbaka’s vituperation against Obi as inappropriate and divisive.
Nigerians lose interest in whistleblowing despite rewards – EFCC
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) lamented the loss of interest in the federal government’s whistleblower policy, despite the huge financial reward associated with it.
The commission’s executive chairman, Abdullahi Bawa, revealed this Friday during a one-day town hall meeting on stakeholder capacity building on whistleblower policy held in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara state.
The program, themed “The role of community-based organizations in rooting whistleblowing at the grassroots”, was in partnership with the African Center for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) and supported by the MacArthur Foundation.
He said: “Two of the historic recoveries of whistleblower information were the $9.8 million recovered from a former managing director of the National Petroleum Corporation of Nigeria, Andrew Yakubu, and the $11 million recovered from an apartment in Osborne. Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos.
We will deal with the perpetrators of violence – CDS
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The Nigerian military on Thursday warned politicians against incitement to violence before, during and after the 2023 general election, stressing that any political bandits caught during the elections would be seriously dealt with.
Defense Chief of Staff Gen Lucky Irabor disclosed this during the military’s operational briefing in Abuja.
Irabor stated that the desire for peaceful general elections by Nigerians must be realised.
He said: “We are going into a season that everyone wanted, which is to have elections and peaceful elections.
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