Tag: Ndudi Elumelu

Elumelu advocates stiffer sanction for electoral offence

Aminu Imam

The minority leader of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has advocated for a stiffer sanction against any politician or party involved in electoral fraud. Elumelu made the call in a lecture at the 5th Biennial Convention of Class of 84 of St. Pius Grammar School, Onitcha-Ugbo, which held on Saturday in Umunede, Delta State. In the lecture, titled,’ The Role of Enhanced Electoral Awareness in Improving the Quality of Leadership in Nigeria’, Elumelu noted that drastic measures are needed to sanitize the electoral system. The Reps minority…

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774,000 Jobs: Reps reject 30 slots per lawmaker

Ishaku Yohanna

The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has rejected the 30 job slots allotted to each Member of the House for the respective local government areas within their constituencies, in the Federal Government’s 774,000 public jobs scheme. The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu, in a statement on Tuesday, described the allotment of 30 out of the 1,000 slots per local government as grossly unfair and unacceptable by Nigerians and the lawmakers, who are the true representatives of the people. The Caucus demanded more transparency and…

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