Senate President: Buhari's Criteria May Rule Saraki Out

Senate President: Buhari's Criteria May Rule Saraki Out


Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper has an interesting report which suggest that Buhari is against anyone with issues with the EFCC or any other case on corruption emerging as senate president.

Bukola-Saraki

From the Vanguard
However, this was even as facts have emerged that the President- elect, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, rtd, is not willing to support any Senator or member of the House of Representatives who has had or still has any corruption case or matter with the anti-corruption agencies or police for the leadership position in the National Assembly.

Also the Tinubu bloc in the APC is also pushing for the emergence of former governor of Benue State, Senator George Akume.

But let us not rule Saraki out yet, without the defections from the PDP which he was instrumental in, the APC might have lost the elections. Also Former Gov of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, also has a case with the EFCC and is now very visible in the sweeping change programme.

Click the image to read the full report from the Vanguard Newspaper

APC May Produce Nigeria's First Elected Female Governor Today

APC May Produce Nigeria's First Elected Female Governor Today


If Senator Aisha Jumai Alhassan Taraba State governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) wins today she will become Nigeria's first elected female governor.

The Independent National Electoral Commission will today conduct elections in nine local councils in Taraba. The March 28 election conducted in the state was declared inconclusive by INEC because the number of cancelled votes was above the gap between Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who got the highest vote and Alhassan, who came second.

Ishaku polled 317,198 votes, while Alhassan got 262,386.

I Won’t Die Because Jonathan Lost Election –Clark

I Won’t Die Because Jonathan Lost Election –Clark


A former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has said it is very wrong for anyone to think that he would die because President Goodluck Jonathan lost the March 28 presidential election.
I Won’t Die Because Jonathan Lost Election –Clark

Punch reports that Clark, who was one of the strong supporters of Jonathan, said this while addressing journalists yesterday in Abuja. The former federal commissioner said that when the results of the presidential election came out, there were rumors that he fainted due to the defeat experienced by Jonathan at the polls.

Clark, who said he was travelling to London on Friday night, said he decided to speak with journalists before the rumour mongers would go to the market again and say that he had been flown abroad in air ambulance.

He however wondered why some people could be thinking he would die or collapse when he was not the one that contested election. He said even the President that stood for the election had conceded defeat and congratulated Buhari.

He said, “I am here today to tell you that I am not dead. Or am I dead? In every election, there would be winners and losers. The same thing happened during the last presidential election.
“I am alive. Today, I won’t talk about what happened before, during and after the election. That will come another day.

“I am talking to you now because I am travelling tomorrow and some people will go into the streets and say I was carried into air ambulance.

“President Jonathan that contested election had congratulated the winner and the whole world acclaimed him for conceding defeat. Jonathan was the one who contested election, I didn’t. So, why should I die”.

Ezekwesili Set To Head BPP

Ezekwesili Set To Head BPP


President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) promise to fight corruption in government might start with his appointment of former World Bank Vice-President, Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili to head the procurement entity of the nation, the Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP).

The Union gathered that the move is aimed at ensuring that the incoming administration plugs all loopholes through which top civil servants siphon funds from government coffers.
Buhari is also reportedly considering merging almost all the anti-graft agencies in the country. The decision to merge the agencies is said to be in line with the President-elect’s resolve to run a lean government, reduce costs and save money for other government commitments.

It was gathered that ICPC may be scrapped while its functions will be shared between the Police and Code of Conduct Bureau, even as the EFCC will be strengthened to handle very strong cases of high profile economic crimes.

Buhari is said to want to use Ezekwesili at the headship of the BPP to derive maximum economic benefit from every transaction. The only challenge the incoming government is having at the moment is how to convince Ezekwesili to accept the offer, having earlier moved from there to full ministerial position.

It will be recalled that Ezekwesili moved to become the Minister of Education under the regime of former President Olusegun Obasanjo before proceeding to the World Bank, where she became Vice-President.

Meanwhile, Ezekwesili who is one of the founders of the Bring Back Our Girls Initiative, has asked President Barack Obama to put in more effort in searching for the Chibok girls abducted by Islamist group Boko Haram.

6 INEC commissioners deployed to oversee fresh polls

6 INEC commissioners deployed to oversee fresh polls


The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has deployed three national commissioners and three resident electoral commissioners to oversee the Abia state governorship and state assembly re-run elections which holds on Saturday, April 25, 2015.


The elections will take place in nine local government areas of the state.


INEC Head of Voter Education and Publicity Department, Edwin Enabor, told the NAN on Friday, April 24, that the commission is set for the re-run.


Enabor said that the materials for the polls have been distributed to the INEC offices in the affected local government areas. He expressed optimism that the exercise would be peaceful and hitch-free.


INEC had declared the governorship election in the state inconclusive, following the cancellation of results from some polling units in nine local government areas of the state.


The  Returning Officer, Prof. Benjamin Ozumba, said that no winner was declared because “the margin of lead was not in excess of the total number of registered voters in polling units where elections were cancelled or not held

They're threatening to kill me' - INEC Commissioner cries out

They're threatening to kill me' - INEC Commissioner cries out



The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Abia state, Professor Selina Oko, decried that she has been receiving death threats since the April 11 gubernatorial election held in the state, which was ruled inconclusive.


Speaking to Punch in an interview, Oko said she has reported the threats to the security agencies in the state.


"Yes, I have been getting calls threatening my life. I have been getting text messages about how they will shoot me through the window of my car,” the commissioner told the newspaper.


Oko had been alleged to be working in favour of Alex Otti, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate in the state, and the allegation also includes that she an aunt to the aspirant.


Reacting to the allegations, the Professor dismissed the claims, noting she didn’t know Otti until she got to Abia.


“I did not know Otti until I came to Abia. I think Otti is from Abia. I am from Afikpo in Ebonyi State. He should go to Afikpo and trace my linage and see whether there is any link at all between me and Otti. I have never known Otti until this time. They are cooking up stories just to whip up sentiments. Besides if I am Otti’s aunt why should I then collect N300 million from him? One of such people whose allegation I read in black and white is the so-called National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Olisa Metuh. He said I am related to Otti. How can somebody at his level get information and not bother to verify it? All he did was to rush to the media and put it in black and white. There is something wrong with him. He is not fit to be a leader" Oko said.


However, the Independent Electoral Commission has deployed six commissioners to the state to oversee the governorship election re-run scheduled for Saturday, April 25, 2015.

Nigerian woman remanded for killing husband in the US

Nigerian woman remanded for killing husband in the US



Temitope Adebamiro, 35, has been arrested by the Police for the stabbing to death of her husband inside a New Castle County, Delaware home early Thursday morning.

She was charged with murder in the first degree and other related charges following the death of Adeyinka Adebamiro, 37.

The incident occurred just after 12:30 a.m. on the 1300 block of Healy Court.


Police say the couple were arguing when it became physical.

Adebamiro was found unconscious in a bedroom on the second floor with a chest wound.

Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

The victim's wife was arraigned and committed to the Delores J. Baylor Women's Correctional Institution where she is being held without bail.
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