Tag: Abdulazeez Yari

Northern leaders meet in Kaduna for region’s unity, economy

Aminu Imam
Northern leaders meet

Leaders from the 19 Northern states and Abuja, at the weekend, converged on Kaduna to chart a new course for the region’s unity, institutional strength, and economic revitalisation. Speaking at the Unity and Development Summit held at Arewa House, Kaduna, former Zamfara State governor and Senator, AbdulAziz Yari, urged leaders, elders, and youths across the region to close ranks and pursue a shared vision anchored on unity, strengthened traditional institutions, inclusive education, and economic resilience. Yari, who chaired the summit, said the region’s longstanding challenges, ranging from insecurity to youth…

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“Greedy Matawalle’s demand for 70% of Zamfara APC may destroy party” ? Ex-Gov. Yari warns

Aminu Imam

The immediate-past governor of Zamfara State, AbdulAzeez Yari, has revealed some cracks in the State’s chapter of the All Progressive Congress, (APC) since the entrance of the incumbent governor, Bello Matawalle. According to Yari, the Party was at a crossroad over the sharing formula of the party structure, between Gov. Matawalle, a new entrant to the party, and the party members he had met. He said the latest demand of 70% of the party structure by the governor was ‘greedy, unacceptable and poses a possible failure for the party in…

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N107bn stolen under Yari, says Matawalle

Ishaku Yohanna

Zamfara state governor, Bello Matawalle has endorsed a 5-man commission of inquiry to probe alleged misappropriation of over N107 billion leveled against the immediate past administration of former Governor Abdulazeez Yari Abubakar. A statement issued by Governor Matawalle’s spokesperson, Zailani Bappah, said the figure is “total sum of money discovered to have been misappropriated between 2011 and 2019.” The decision to set up the commission was reached on Wednesday at a state executive council meeting and made public by the state’s deputy governor, Mahdi Aliyu Gusau. “This is partly fallout…

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