Daily News Roundup

At least 28 people were killed in some communities in Ado Local Government Area of Benue State, bordering Ebonyi State after a communal crisis first broke out in Ebonyi, and spiraled into the adjourning rural villages of Ado in Benue communities.

-. Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State, has said he and four other governors dubbed as G5 are the bedrock of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The governor, however, said he and his camp are willing to reconcile with the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Wike stated this in Bauchi on Wednesday.

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-. The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC Ltd), Mr Mele Kyari, has said that he is receiving death threats as a result of the ongoing reformation in the NNPC. Kyari made this known on Wednesday in Abuja at the Legislative Transparency and Accountability summit organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption.

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-The House of Representatives has queried the National Population Commission (NPC) over N1.9 billion expended on stakeholders summits across the country ahead of the 2023 population and housing census. Its Committee on Population issued the query when the chairman of NPC, Nasir Isa Kwarra, appeared before it to defend the agency’s 2023 budget proposal.

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-. Spokesperson of Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, has dismissed allegations that the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was indicted in the trending US case. Keyamo made this assertion during an interview with Channels TV’s Politics Today, on Wednesday.

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-. Men of the Ogun State Police Command on Tuesday battled suspected kidnappers during an attack on commuters travelling on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. It was gathered that the gunmen, who were dressed in military camouflage, attempted to abduct passengers in an 18-seater bus.

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-. The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has said that he is highly connected to the aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party governors. Mohammed, who said this on Wednesday when the aggrieved governors paid him a solidarity visit in Bauchi, said he shared his fears and worries with the governors during the visit.

 

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-The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential campaign team has been linked to the documents alleging that the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, was involved in drug trafficking and money laundering.

Festus Keyamo, the spokesman of the APC presidential campaign council, alleged that the recent trip of the PDP’s presidential campaign team to the United States, US, was behind the controversial court document reportedly indicting Tinubu.

Appearing on Channels Television, Politics Today on Wednesday, Keyamo insisted that the US government never indicted or convicted Tinubu.

Recall that PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, led some of his campaign team to the US recently.

During the meeting, the team had said Atiku had a high-profile engagement with the US government.

However, Keyamo stressed that Atiku’s trip to the US was responsible for the court documents.

He lamented that such issues are rehashed whenever Tinubu decides to run for political office.

Keyamo said: “Tinubu’s detractors keep bringing up these issues over and over when his political profile is rising, when he wants to run for office or any political turn in his life, they will bring up these issues.

“This is what our detractors, the PDP, perhaps that is what they went to the US for when they pretended that they went for high-level engagement. This is part of the high-level engagement they went for.”

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