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Ransom payment fuelling terrorism, says Presidency

July 13, 2022July 13, 2022 Aminu Imam

The Presidency has faulted the payment of ransom to secure the release of persons kidnapped by bandits and terrorists, saying such payments worsen the insecurity in the country. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the Buhari-led administration had fulfilled his campaign promises, especially on the economy, security and anti-corruption. Shehu stated this while featuring on a television programme on Monday. When asked if the President had been able to solve the problems he promised his government would solve after getting to power,…

2023 Flag: ‘Buhari didn�t say APC presidential ticket should go to South’ � Presidency

June 6, 2022June 6, 2022 Aminu Imam

The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari (Media and Publicity), Garba Shehu, has said his principal did not demand zoning the presidential ticket of the ruling APC to Southern Nigeria. Reports had emerged to effect that Buhari during a meeting with presidential aspirants on Saturday, asked that the party�s presidential ticket should go to the South. However, Shehu who spoke to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), said Buhari never said so. �This issue has not arisen. All he has to do is negotiate and get one person out of…

Presidency counters Northern Elders Forum, condemns call for expulsion of section from Nigeria

May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Presidency has condemned the reported call by Northern Elders Forum asking a section of the country to be excluded from Nigeria. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, made the condemnation in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. According to him, it is a delusional arrogance that will lead such a group to publicly state terms and conditions for the existence of Nigeria. The statement read in part: �We are aware of the latest statement from the so-called �Northern Elders Forum.� He…

2023: MKO Abiola�s daughter explains why she stands with Yahaya Bello, not S�West aspirants

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Ms Hasfat Abiola -Costello, daughter of late MKO Abiola who is the Director-General,� Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation, says� she stands with� Governor� Yahaya Bello (GYB)� of Kogi State� in the race for�APC presidential ticket� and not South West aspirants. Abiola-Costello said her backing Bello was because she had seen in him, qualities of the kind of leader Nigeria needed at this point in time. She said this on Monday while addressing newsmen in Lagos ahead of the APC presidential primaries slated for May 30 and 31, in Abuja. Abiola-Costello, daughter…

2023 Presidency: Sylva withdraws bid, back to office

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum, has withdrawn from the presidential race in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and has returned to work.A correspondent who monitored the development at the ministry in Abuja on Monday reports that Sylva withdrew having considered the enormous work at hand at the ministry.The Northern Solidarity Group had on May 9, presented the APC�s Expression of Interest and Nomination form to the minister to enable him to contest the party�s 2023 presidential primaries.An official at the ministry who chose to remain anonymous said…

“My criticism of Buhari not personal; even his wife confirms it” – Kukah replies Presidency

April 20, 2022April 20, 2022 Aminu Imam

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, says his criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari�s administration is not a personal attack on the country�s leader. Kukah, who made this known in an interview on a television programme yesterday, while echoing his points, said that he had nothing personal against the President but his policies which according to him, even the President’s wife, A’isha Buhari, also disagrees with. Recall that the cleric has been in the news over his Easter sermon, in which he said the Buhari administration is in hibernation…

How PDP politicians raided NNPC, carted away $20bn � Presidency

April 4, 2022April 4, 2022 Aminu Imam

�Says under PDP, we had army of phantom soldiers whose pay went to politicians� pockets The Presidency yesterday slammed the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), alleging that its politicians robbed the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC), and stole $20 billion during their last year in power. The Presidency was reacting to the PDP governors� criticism of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration yesterday, in which the party branded the administration as a failure. Recall that the PDP governors had met in Abia State on March 24, after which they declared that…

2023 General Elections: PDP alleges Presidency, APC�s pressuring INEC to alter election dates

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), yesterday, alleged that there was a plot by the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to pressure the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), to alter the newly passed Electoral Act 2022 to introduce clauses that would compromise the 2023 general elections. The main opposition party alerted that there was a clandestine attempt to get INEC to push forward the already set elections dates because the APC was allegedly not yet ready. In an issued statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon.…

Alleged Corruption: ‘Adamu others have repented’ – Garba Shehu replies PDP

March 29, 2022March 29, 2022 Aminu Imam

The Presidency has slammed the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for its latest statement on the emergence of former Nasarawa State governor, Abdullahi Adamu as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC). Adamu was later charged to court in 2010 by the EFCC, alongside 19 other Nasarawa State officials, with 149 counts of corruption. He was accused of embezzling N15 billion public funds. While his corruption case with the EFCC was still on, Adamu and ten other PDP senators dumped the PDP and joined the APC on January…

Electoral Bill: “You�re ignorant”, Presidency replies those accusing Buhari of delaying assent

February 23, 2022February 23, 2022 Aminu Imam

The President Muhammadu Buhari administration has accused some groups of cashing-in on what they considered its delay in the signing of the Electoral Act (amendment) Bill to cause civil unrest, while maintaining that there is no cause for alarm. The Presidency, which made the allegation in a statement on Monday amidst speculations in some media outlets that Buhari was likely to sign the Bill into law yesterday, called those arguing that the President had delayed signing the Bill as ignorant. According to the statement, Buhari has until March 1st to…