President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived his hometown, Daura ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ward congress on May 5.
The president arrived Daura at about 5:30 pm on Friday.
He is expected to participate in the ward congress at Sarkin Yara A ward in Daura.
The APC ward chairman, Malam Ali Mani said all arrangements have been completed for a smooth congress and urged party members to be law abiding.
The Sarkin Yara A consists of 15 polling stations and 26 party executives.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday returned to Abuja after a 3-day private visit to his country home Daura in Katsina state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the presidential aircraft carrying the president and some of his aides took off from the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport, Katsina, at about 10.45a.m.
The aircraft landed at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at 11.28a.m.
The Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Muhammed Bello, some security heads and other presidential aides welcomed the President at the airport.
It would be recalled that Buhari on Friday joined the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouq and other community members to observe the third day prayers for late Sen. Mustapha Bukar (APC-Katsina North).
The President, who arrived Daura on Friday afternoon, made straight for the residence of the late senator where he was received by the Emir, members of the Daura Emirate Council and members of the family of the deceased.
Buhari also on Saturday received some serving Senators who paid a condolence visit at his country home Daura over the death of Bukar.
He thanked the senate members for their support and show of solidarity with the people of Katsina North senatorial district in particular and Katsina state in general.
The Senators who paid the condolence visit to the President included Ovie Omo-Agege, Ali Ndume, Babajide Omoworare, Adamu Abubakar, Yusuf Yusuf, Hassan Adamu, Abu Ibrahim and Umaru Kurfi.
Forty-six associations, under the aegis of the Daura Emirate Coalition of Progressive Youths, on Tuesday visited President Muhammadu Buhari in his Daura residence and pledged to fully support his fight against corruption.
The youth groups also expressed their unconditional support for the President’s efforts to transform Nigeria into a nation its nationals would be proud to serve, promote and protect.
Alhaji Ali Rabe, their chairman, who spoke at the visit, told Buhari that the coalition was already sensitizing Nigerians on the impact of his administration’s efforts and the need to support them.
“The policies of your administration have transformed the lives of many Nigerians, especially the rural dwellers. We are sensitising them to take advantage of the opportunities in the agriculture sector to improve their economic fortunes,” he said.
Rabe urged Buhari to seek a fresh mandate in 2019 so as to consolidate on the gains so far recorded.
The group blamed the rising cases of insurgencies and crimes in some parts of the country on people bent on distracting the President from fighting crime and insecurity, and advised him to remain focused.
“When you fight corruption, corruption will fight back; when you fight insecurity, it will also fight back. But we want the Federal Government to remain focused and be assured that all Nigerians of good will are behind them,” he said.
The coalition also commended Buhari’s efforts toward infrastructural development, especially roads, electricity, agriculture and the railways, and urged him to sustain the tempo.
It said that the N-power programme had created job opportunities for many young Nigerians and reduced redundancy and idleness.
Responding, Buhari vowed to intensify the fight against corruption, describing it as “a cancer that kills the spirit of a nation and retards its progress”.
“I have always said and would say it again. Corruption is responsible for the myriad of problems Nigeria is facing today. We have to either kill it, or it will kill us,” he said.
The President advised members of the group to remain honest, transparent and God-fearing in their activities.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday departed Katsina State, for Yola after a five-day private visit to his home in Daura.
The president was in Daura to commiserate with members of his extended family, who were bereaved recently.
The presidential aircraft took off from Umaru Musa Yar’adua International Airport, Katsina, about 10.30a.m. and headed for Yola where he is expected to declare open an anti-corruption conference.
The conference theme is “Performance Based Governance: Transparency, Accountability and Social Value’’.
While in Daura, Buhari received hundreds of sympathisers at his private residence to console the president over the deaths of two extended family members, Hajiya Halima Dauda and Hajiya Ai’sha Alhaji Mamman.
They also sympathised with him over the auto-crash involving his son, Yusuf.
Among the early callers were state governors from All Progressives Congress (APC), including the Chairman of Nigerian Governors’ Forum and Zamfara Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari.
Others were Rochas Okorocha (Imo); Aminu Masari (Katsina State); Abubakar Muhammed (Bauchi State); Kashim Shettima (Borno); Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo State) and Malam Nasir El-Rufa’I of Kaduna State.
Also Gov. Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa, Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano State); Godwin Obaseki (Edo); Yahaya Bello (Kogi); Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi); Abubakar Sani-Bello (Niger) and Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State.
The governors of Benue, Osun and Ogun were represented by their deputies at the meeting.
The governors of Yobe and Plateau were also represented at the meeting.
Okorocha, who spoke to newsmen after the visit, said their mission to Daura was to condole with the president over the loss of two members of his extended family.
He said the governors also used the opportunity to commend the president for appointing Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as APC Chief Mediator in the party’s conflicts.
The governor, however, dismissed the assertion that their meeting with Buhari which was held behind closed doors, was politically motivated and aimed at convincing the president to seek re-election in the 2019 presidential election.
He said: “We are yet to discuss that. That would be in next the meeting where we will discuss whether we want to support him to run or not.
“But for now we came on the issue of the death of his two relatives and to commend him for action taken on Tinubu as a conciliator.’’
Similarly, the Emir of Maradun in Zamfara, Alhaji Garba Tambari, on Sunday paid a condolence visit to the president.
Tambari, shortly after the visit, pledged the unflinching support of the traditional institution to Federal Government policies and programmes geared toward improving the welfare of Nigerians.
The emir said that some traditional rulers across the country had resolved to ensure the re-election of Buhari in 2019.
“Anybody who wishes this country good, who wishes this country well, will want Mr President to continue after 2019. So, we wish he will continue by the grace of God,’’ he added.
Also on Sunday, Buhari received Katsina Senior Citizens led by Masari where he called on all citizens, particularly the elite, to be prepared to make sacrifices as a foundation for national growth and development.
Masari, after the meeting, said they were in Daura to condole with the president over the death of his two relatives.
He said the forum would soon issue an advertorial on the letter written to Buhari by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
On Monday, Buhari met with members of Daura Emirate coalition who also condoled with him over the demise of two relatives.
The president, at the meeting, disclosed that all unclaimed looted assets, including landed property recovered by the Federal Government, would be sold and the proceeds deposited into government treasury.
The president said he would not allow a repeat of what happened in the 1980s when buildings and other ill-gotten property seized by his military administration were returned to corrupt officials following his ouster as Head of State.
The president told the groups that the APC-led government would consolidate on the gains and monumental achievements in the development of infrastructure across the country.
“For most ordinary Nigerians, if you give them good roads, railway and stable electric power they will be happy to carry on with their lives.
‘‘We are doing so much for our country and we will continue to do more out of the fear of God,” the president said.
The president promised that the Federal Government would sustain the provision of funds, improved seedlings and fertiliser to farmers to ensure that the sector remained the largest employer of labour to Nigerians.
He said records of achievements on security, war against corruption and the revival of the economy had remained very impressive.
The president is expected to return to Abuja later in the day.
A final year student was killed by a mysterious fire that razed down a students’ hostel at the Federal Government College, Daura in Katsina State on Friday.
According to Malam Isyaku Manir, the Daura Zonal Fire Officer, the fire, which started at 10.15am, raged on for three hours and reduced the entire structure to ashes.
“The corpse of the victim – Haruna Rilwan – was discovered in the ashes of the destroyed building,” Manir told the News Agency of Nigeria, adding that he had been buried in Daura.
He said that the cause of the fire had not been ascertained, but disclosed that Rilwan was burnt beyond recognition.
He said: “It was his colleagues that identified him.”
The fire officer said that he had met with the school management to consider measures to be taken to avoid a recurrence.
Manir said: “I have advised the school to mount fire extinguishers across strategic areas.
“I have also advised the school to ask its workers to ensure that electrical appliances are always disconnected while hostel workers should be more vigilant to stem the smuggling of gas cookers and cooking stove into the school.”
Alhaji Abdurrazak Gold, the school principal, who described the incident as “unfortunate”, declined further comments, saying that he was a civil servant barred from granting press interviews.
Also reacting, Alhaji Masaud Danjuma, Chairman of the school’s chapter of the Parents Teachers Association, described the incident as “unfortunate and saddening”.
He said that the association had held an emergency meeting with the school management to determine the cause of the fire and how to avoid a recurrence.
Governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have arrived President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown of Daura, Katsina State.
According to speculations making the rounds in the media, Buhari is likely to inform the governors of his intention to seek reelection or not in 2019.
Buhari had arrived Daura yesterday after inaugurating a project in Kaduna state.
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday evening, arrived his hometown, Daura, Katsina State, on a private visit which sources say may last till Sunday.
The visit is believed to be in connection with last week’s death of two of his close relatives.
President Buhari arrived Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Airport, Katsina, about 4.22p.m where Governor Aminu Masari, the Emir of Katsina, Dr. Kabir Usman and other personalities welcomed him.
The President, who was in all white flowing gown, was later flown to Daura in Nigerian Air Force helicopter, NAF-540 at 4.40p.m.
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The Director General of the State Security Services, Lawal Daura, said on Thursday that he advised the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to meet with Abdulrasheed Maina abroad
Mr. Maina is wanted for alleged pension fraud and is currently on the run from the anti-graft agency, EFCC.
Mr. Daura, while giving his submission on Thursday to the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating Mr. Maina’s controversial reinstatement and promotion in the civil service, however said he advised him to do so in presence of a third party.
“The attorney general of the federation sometime in 2016 or 2015 (can’t remember the exact day) because it was not through a formal document, placed a call to me when he was outside the country and requested me on a request he got through a source that Maina wanted to meet him.”
“He wanted me to advise him whether to agree to see Maina or not in that foreign country.”
“I responded to the attorney general that he should accept to see Maina but he should not see him alone”
“He should see him with a third party,” Mr. Daura said.
The security chief said the attorney general complied and met Mr. Maina in the presence of a third party.
On the accusation of the SSS shielding Mr. Maina, Mr. Daura said Mr. Maina had approached the service with a letter alleging threat to his life and therefore requested for protection.
President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Daura for Abuja after spending his Eid el-Kabir break.
The presidential helicopter with registration no.NAF-540 left the Daura helipad for Abuja at 10.24 a.m.
The president was in the company of immediate members of his family, Media Aide Garba Shehu and the Chief Security Officer, Bashir Bindawa and members of the protocol unit of the villa.
The highly-elated Buhari commended the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouk, for the wonderful reception accorded to his Niger counterpart, President Muhammadou Yusouffou, who visited the Daura palace on Tuesday after visiting President Buhari.
Buhari was accompanied to the departure point by the emir, politicians, well wishers and security personnel deployed to cover the visit.
(NAN)
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday arrived his home town, Daura, Katsina State, for the Eid-El-Kabir celebrations.
Governor Aminu Masari led top government officials, including the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Mustapha Inuwa, to receive him at the Umar Musa Yar’Adua International Airport, on his way to Daura.
The Emir of Katsina, Dr.Kabir Abdulmumin, was also at the airport to welcome the President.
The presidential jet that brought Buhari to Katsina touched down at the tarmac of the airport at 4:06 pm.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that after the airport ceremonies, Buhari boarded an helicopter to his home town, Daura, where he is expected to spend the Eid-El-Kabir holiday.
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