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LP, APC clash in Abia as opposition accuses Gov Otti of underpaying workers
The All Progressive Congress, APC, has written to Governor Alex Otti of Abia State, requesting him to improve the living conditions of workers and pensioners in the State.
In the said letter, the APC claimed that some civil servants in the State were receiving far below the approved N70,000 national minimum wage benchmark, as monthly salaries.
The letter, which was signed by Uche Aguoru, the Publicity Secretary of the APC, Abia State chapter, also urged the Governor to address the unpaid gratuity of pensioners, even as it criticised the delay in the implementation of allowance increase promised the members of the National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, who are serving in the State.
The party said:
“Also very disappointing was the widely published announcement made by your administration over a year ago, promising to increase the monthly allowance of NYSC members serving in the State to N50,000.”
But responding to the APC letter, the leadership of the Labour Party, LP, in Abia State, accused the broom party of spreading desperate and blatant lies against Governor Otti’s administration concerning the welfare of civil servants and pensioners.
The LP, which spoke through its Publicity Secretary in the State, Iroegbu Emenike, said the days when pensioners died in queues for their pensions were over in the State.
The LP alleged that members of the present APC in the State were part of the people that allegedly set the State back for almost 30 years before Governor Alex Otti took over, adding that the APC lacked the face to write such an open letter to Governor Otti.
LP maintained that workers and retirees are receiving their salaries and monthly pensions, respectively.
On the delay in implementing the NYSC members’s monthly allowance promises, LP berated the APC, saying that the broom party failed to “understand that that pronouncements by a Governor are followed by administrative procedures and policies before full implementation.”
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Former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has attributed the defeat of president Bola Tinubu in Lagos State in the 2023 general elections to the weaponization of Muslim-Muslim ticket against him.
Obanikoro said this in an interview on the ‘Mic On podcast’ hosted by a Channels Television journalist, Seun Okinbaloye.
According to him, it was not Peter Obi that defeated President Tinubu in Lagos, it was how the Muslim-Muslim ticket.
“Let me tell you, what defeated us in Lagos was the Muslim-Muslim ticket, not Peter Obi. People were afraid because they didn’t know what Tinubu’s presidency will look like.
“People thought it was a situation where the Christian in Nigeria would be relegated, and that has been defeated because Tinubu is a Muslim, but he is not a religious bigot that will carry one religion over another.
“His wife is a pastor. His son, Seyi is a Christian. He was born a Muslim. He became a Christian. Most of the people in his cabinet are Christians,” he said.
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Isaac Fayose, younger brother to former Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state says the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, will win the 2027 presidential polls in a free and fair election.
Fayose made this remark in a post on his Facebook page on Sunday.
He was reacting to Lere Olayinka, media aide to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, Nyesom Wike, who said he does not have electoral values in Ekiti state.
“If you think I don’t have electoral value in Ekiti state, why are you guys rigging? Why are you people buying votes as much as N50,000?
“Why are you people arresting my boys a week before Ekiti governorship election? Electoral value is not on rigging or on judicial pronouncement.
“If they call election today, NDC will win before 12 noon if the elections were free and fair. The only power you people have over us is rigging and the people are quiet,” he said.
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, has held a closed door meeting with the Deputy President of the Senate, Barau I. Jibrin, and Senator Rufai Hanga in Kano State.
Yilwatda made this known in a statement on Sunday, saying the meeting was marked by frank, constructive and cordial discussions centred on the unity and continued progress of Kano State.
He said “I had the pleasure of meeting with the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau I. Jibrin, alongside Senator Rufai Hanga, one of the foremost leaders of the NDC in Kano State.
“Our engagement was marked by frank, constructive, and cordial discussions centred on the unity and continued progress of Kano State.
“As leaders, we have a collective responsibility to foster dialogue, build consensus where possible, and strengthen the foundations of our democracy. Nigeria’s future will be brighter when we continue to place the interests of our citizens above partisan divides and work together for the common good.”
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