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Atiku, Tambuwal, Lamido reject Saraki, Mohammed as Northern PDP�s Consensus Presidential Candidates

April 25, 2022April 25, 2022 Aminu Imam

�PDP summons NEC meeting Wednesday Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar; Sokoto State Governor, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal; former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido; and Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, have rejected the emergence of a former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed as the consensus presidential candidates for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the North. Atiku, Tambuwal, Lamido, and Hayatu-Deen, who are all PDP presidential aspirants, have also denounced the report of Prof. Ango Abdullahi, which endorsed Saraki and Mohammed as the North�s consensus presidential candidates…

PDP Presidential Ticket: Crisis hits Northern aspirants as IBB�s brokered consensus candidacy collapses

April 24, 2022April 24, 2022 Aminu Imam

�”We were not part of it” – Atiku, Tambuwal Former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, and Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, have denied being part of the process leading to the selection of any Northern consensus candidate. In separate statements issued by their media teams in Abuja, the two leading aspirants for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2023 Presidential ticket, stated that they were never a party to the Northern consensus arrangement. The ‘Technical Committee for the actualisation of Atiku Abubakar�s Presidency in 2023‘, in the statement, stated that the former vice-president…

Tambuwal dares EFCC on alleged diversion of N189bn

April 4, 2022April 4, 2022 Aminu Imam

The Sokoto State government yesterday denied an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s interim report that N189 billion was allegedly diverted from the state�s coffers. Special Adviser Media and Publicity to Governor Aminu Tambuwal, of Sokoto State, Muhammad Bello, who described the media reports as false, said the government was ready �with all relevant documents to challenge any report from the EFCC or any other anti-corruption body on the public finances of Sokoto State.� Bello, in a statement issued in Abuja, said; �Our attention has been drawn to reckless and…

2023 Presidency: “Forget zoning, give ticket to who can win” – Tambuwal tells PDP

March 24, 2022March 24, 2022 Aminu Imam

Sokoto State governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has advocated that the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), should give its presidential ticket to a candidate that can win an election, not minding what part of the country the candidate comes from. According to Tambuwal, �I�m appealing to my party that we should be talking about how to win the election; not just not zoning of where the President is coming from�. He added that �The President can come from wherever, provided he has the capacity and competence to fix Nigeria of the moment.…

2023: Saraki, Sokoto, Bauchi Govs. mull consensus PDP presidential candidate

March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 Aminu Imam

�To consult Atiku Bauchi State governor, Bala Muhammad, yesterday, hosted his Sokoto State counterpart, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, and a former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to a consensus-building initiative among 2023 presidential aspirants of northern extraction, under the aegis of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP). The trio, all seeking the nomination of the PDP to run for the seat of Nigeria�s President, met for about two and a half hours at the Government House, Bauchi. At the end of the meeting, they posited that it was their considered resolution that…

Tambuwal meets Buhari, seeks declaration of State of Emergency in enclaves

December 15, 2021December 15, 2021 Aminu Imam

�’Bandits will be smoked out’ – Buhari assures President Buhari has assured Governor Aminu Tambuwal that terrorists in Sokoto and other states will be smoked out. The president also assured Tambuwal that lives lost during the recent attack on travellers in Sokoto won�t be in vain Buhari gave Tambuwal his words after they both met at the presidential villa on Monday night. At the meeting, Tambuwal briefed the president on the security situation in the State. He told the President to declare a full-scale emergency in terrorists� enclaves in the…

Insecurity: “We�re not returning to Nigeria”, say 50,000 Sokoto residents taking refuge in Niger Republic

September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 Aminu Imam

More than 50,000 residents of 17 communities in Sabon-Birni local government area of Sokoto State who relocated to Niger Republic two weeks ago following incessant bandits� attacks have refused all entreaties for them to return home. The villagers, who are currently taking refuge at Tudun-Sunnah village, Gidan Runji LGA in Maradi State of Niger Republic, insisted that their former villages were not safe as there was still insecurity there. The State’s Commissioner for careers and security architecture, Col. Garba Moyi (rtd), said the State government had been making efforts to…

2023: Nigeria needs a nationalist, not tribalist, parochial, provincial politicians � Tambuwal

August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 Aminu Imam

Ahead of the 2023 general election, the Chairman of the People�s Democratic Party (PDP) Governors� Forum and Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has said that the nation requires a leadership that is nationalistic and not tribalistic, a leadership that promotes national unity, not disunity. Tambuwal added that the nation needs a broad worldview and not a parochial and provincial politician. Speaking yesterday at Richard Akinnola�s birthday lecture in Lagos, Tambuwal equally said that the nation needs an incorruptible leader who understands that the best way to fight corruption is by…

Gov. Tambuwal doles out Ford Explorer SUVs to 20 judges

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 Aminu Imam

Sokoto State governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has doled out eye-catching Ford Explorer Sport Utility Vehicles, (SUVs), to 20 judges in Sokoto. The gesture was to boost senior judicial officers� morale, just as the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has urged the judiciary not to be partial in delivering judgments. Malami stated this on Monday, while speaking at the inauguration of the reconstructed Sokoto High Court complex. He noted that as the last hope of the masses, the judiciary should remain impartial at all times.…

Sokoto: Made-in-Nigeria electric car presented to Tambuwal

March 28, 2021March 28, 2021 Aminu Imam

�Gov. urges FG to exploit potentials of State Sokoto State governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, was on Friday presented with a Made-in-Nigeria electric car by an indigene of the State, Jelani Aliyu. According to the governor,with the inauguration of the maiden Nigeria electric car birthed by Sokoto-born Jelani Aliyu, who is the Director-General, (D-G), National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), a cultural revolution is in the offing that would generally affect the lifestyles and life chances of Nigerians. The Governor made this observation on Friday when received the first electric…