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Edo election: Wike declares he won’t support Obaseki after media reports indicted him of funding APC ahead of guber poll
Top Stories Tamfitronics The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister and member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nyesom Wike, yesterday, hurriedly announced that he won’t support his party at the forthcoming governorship election in Edo state.Wike’s declaration follows media reports that he donated huges sums of money to the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign council in the state.To distract Nigerians from the report, the minister quickly announced that he was not supporting his party because Governor Godwin Obaseki was an ”ingrate.”The news that Wike donated to the APC governorship campaign in Edo state had gone viral on social media earlier in the day.The controversial move comes despite Wike’s membership in the PDP, signaling deepening fractures within the party ahead of the upcoming Edo State election on September 21, 2024.Wike has long been...
JUST IN: INEC pronounces federal lawmaker’s seat vacant 5 days after his demise
Politics tamfitronics Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Fair Nationwide Electoral Commission (INEC), on Wednesday, Can also 15, declared vacant the Garki/Babura Federal Constituency of Jigawa yell vacated by Hon Isa Dogonyaro who died on Friday in Abuja after a instant sickness.He moreover launched present vacancies in three yell constituencies across the country occasioned by the demise or resignation of the participants.The yell constituencies are the Khana 2 Snarl Constituency of Riversyellthe Bagwai/Shanono Snarl Constituency of Kano Snarl, and the Zaria Kewaye Snarl Constituency of Kaduna Snarl.Talking at a quarterly consultative meeting with the media executive, Prof. Yakubu stated as soon as preparations are concluded, the fee will yell the dates for bye-elections within the affected constituencies.He disclosed that the February 3 rerun elections in Enugu and Kano states were disrupted by violence and...
BREAKING: FG announces two-day public vacation
Politics tamfitronics The federal authorities has declared Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9 and 10, 2024, as public holidays to designate the Eid-el-Fitr event.The Minister of Internal, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made this identified in an announcement on Sunday by the ministry’s permanent secretary, Aishetu Ndayako.The minister congratulated all Muslims for the winning completion of the fasting within the holy month of Ramadan.He suggested them to imbibe and practise the virtues that entail kindness, like, tolerance, peace, moral neighbourliness, and compassion, as exemplified by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him).“The Federal Authorities of Nigeria has declared Tuesday, ninth and Wednesday, tenth April, 2024 as public holidays to designate Eid-el-Fitr event,” the statement stated.“The Minister of Internal, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, congratulates all Muslim Ummah for the winning completion of the fasting within the holy month of Ramadan.“Tunji-Ojo...
