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JUST IN: APC Senator Fires Back at PDP Governor Over Banditry Allegation
Politics tamfitronics Senator Shehu Umar Buba (APC-Bauchi South) has rejected allegations of supporting banditry, labeling them as “fabricated and malicious.” POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the accusations were made by Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed (PDP) in a petition to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.Governor Mohammed claimed that Senator Buba facilitated the registration of a suspected bandit, Abubakar Idris, and another individual, Zainab Aliyu Gado, for the Hajj pilgrimage through a legislative aide named Yahaya Ibrahim. However, Senator Buba denied having any aide by that name.In a press statement issued by his Legislative Assistant, Hassan Gajin Duguri, Senator Buba accused Governor Mohammed of setting up a war against those who question his leadership style. “The Governor’s sinister intentions cannot halt the winds of change gathering strength in Bauchi; his days of unethical actions are numbered.”This development is...
Jacq Jacq Jacqui: Who will Senator Lambie parachute into politics next?
Politics tamfitronics Jacqui Lambie of the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN) is not the first Australian politician to name a party after themselvesrunning candidates off their own personal brand.But she may be the first to have been elected to another such party, Clive Palmer’s Palmer United Party (PUP), only to split and successfully form her own, building a reputation as a fierce advocate for veterans and Tasmanians.There is some irony in the fact that Lambie recently lost her first successful appointee, fellow Senator Tammy Tyrrell, who in March left the party to sit as an independent, echoing Lambie’s own 2014 decampment (Tyrrell sat as a JLN senator for under two years; Lambie was a PUP senator for less than five months). Fortunately for Lambie, she’d just overseen the election of three new JLN candidates to the...
Wike: senator behind protests in FCT
Top Stories Tamfitronics · ‘Lawmaker will face security probe’ Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike yesterday alleged that a senator was sponsoring protest against the government. The minister did not name theThe post Wike: senator behind protests in FCT appeared first on The Nation Newspaper...
Former US Senator Inhofe, defense hawk and climate change skeptic, dies at 89
Politics tamfitronics OKLAHOMA CITY, oklahoma —Former Senator Jim Inhofe, a conservative known for his strong support of defense spending and his denial that human activity is responsible for the bulk of climate change, has died. He was 89. Inhofe, a powerful fixture in Oklahoma politics for more than six decades, died Tuesday morning after suffering a stroke during the July Fourth holiday, his family said in a statement. Inhofe, a Republican who underwent quadruple bypass heart surgery in 2013 before being elected to a fourth term, was elected to a fifth Senate term in 2020, before stepping down in early 2023. 'The greatest hoax'Inhofe frequently criticized the mainstream science that human activity contributed to changes in the Earth's climate, once calling it "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." In February 2015, with...
