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  • Peter Obi’s mandate is divine and can never be truncated – IPOB

    Peter Obi’s mandate is divine and can never be truncated – IPOB

    The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has warned those linking the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, to the recent attack at the US convoy in Anambra State to desist from the allegation.

    Spokesperson of the group Emma Powerful, in a statement described it as mere demonization by those that does not want Obi to succeed.

    According to the statement, Obi’s mandate is divine and can never be truncated by anyone.

    Speaking on the report that his members were part of the attack as alleged by the Nigeria security, Powerful said “It is important to note that those accusing IPOB of being behind the attack on the US Embassy convoy are the real masterminders.

    He alleged that those behind it were also responsible for killing most of its innocent members in the South East.

    “Their quest to blackmail IPOB globally has led them into assassinating innocent people in Biafra Land. For instance, these government agents assassinated Gulak in Owerri, and they assassinated an army couple in an undisclosed location in Biafra.

    “They assassinated Dr. Akunyili in Anambra (late Dora Akunyili’s husband). In all these and many more of the state-sponsored murder cases, IPOB was accused, and to date, police never investigated any of them.”

    Powerful also argued that its intelligence unit saved ex-British High Commissioner Catriona Laing in 2022 from being killed when she proposed visiting the country.

    “If not for the Intel from IPOB M-Branch on the plans to assassinate ex-British High Commissioner, Catriona Laing, in 2022 and the warning from IPOB leadership for her not to visit South East, they would have assassinated her too.

    “This recent attack on the US Embassy convoy is likely another state-sponsored attack to discredit the peaceful IPOB movement and to make South East more unsafe for investors to continue coming to Biafra to invest. Again, they are late because our call for investors has already started yielding fruit.

    And warning those linking Obi to the US envoy attack, Powerful said: “Those linking Peter Obi to these attacks on US Embassy Convoy are the ones that fingers are pointing to regarding the crisis happening in the south East region.

    “There is no way they can link innocent Peter Obi to it because he is from Anambra State. Does that mean that all the attacks happening in Adamawa State and Katsina State were caused by Atiku Abubakar and the Buhari in Aso Rock, respectively?

    “No matter how ESN security work is, it can never be deemed good or right by the Nigerian government and its security agents. What is the justification to link Peter Obi to the criminalities going on in the Southeast?

    “Can it also be said that all the banditry and terrorism happening in Northern Nigeria is masterminded by their criminal politicians whose evidence shows that they aid and abet terrorists?

    “We are aware that several terrorist and bandit groups in the North are sponsored by the unscrupulous elements around them there. We should be asking, why are they mentioning Peter Obi?

    “Is it because he summoned up the courage to contest their selection process called an election and won by a landslide? They are now robbing him of the mandate given to him by the people of Nigeria because he is an Igbo man.”

     

  • Senate urges training, research institutions to use budgetary allocations for execution of core mandates

    Senate urges training, research institutions to use budgetary allocations for execution of core mandates

    The Senate has urged training and research institutions in the agricultural sector to use their budgetary appropriations for execution of their core mandates.

    The Chairman of Senate Committee on Agriculture, Sen. Abdulahi Yahaya, said this when he spoke with newsmen in Lagos.

    Abdullahi, who led an oversight meeting of the committee with training and research institutions in agricultural sector, said government has done much to provide fund for the institutions in the sector.

    He, however, said the major area of concern was the way the approved funds were been deployed by the agencies.

    “Now the major area of concern is the way in which these funds are deployed, we say the deployment should be more in the areas of the cognate responsibilities of these institutions so that they should be able to work and raise revenue.

    “Because once they can work and raise revenue, raise local employment, they should be given a kind of leeway in some relative operational independence.

    “So that in the areas where they can raise revenue, the government investments should be in those areas where these institutions can do their technical and operational capacity to be able to make investments in the real sector of the economy which can add value,” he said.

    He said that the National Assembly would look at the budgets to see how it could assist the agencies to deploy resources to those areas where they can add value to their work.

    Yahaya said from the information from the oversight meeting, so far a lot of the personal and capital budgets of the organisations have been implemented almost 100 per cent, saying that areas like the expenditure account was hovering around 60 to 70 per cent performance.

    The former senate leader said that the committee embarked on the oversight to have a knowledge of the implementation and utilisation of funds and appropriations  made in 2020 and 2021budget by the agencies.

    He also said that the oversight was designed to have a knowledge of the challenges being faced by the agencies to evolve ways of solving them.

  • Nigerians gave us their mandate for free; we can’t afford to disappoint them – SGF, Boss Mustapha

    The newly appointed Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Gida Mustapha, has said the mandates Nigerians freely gave to the incumbent administration must not be taken for granted.

    The SGF noted that Nigerians expected change which the incumbent administration vigorously campaigned for and it would be disappointing to give them (Nigerians) anything less.

    Mustapha, who was appointed on Monday as a replacement for Mr. Babachir Lawal, said these in an interview with State House correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

    In his words, “We went round and campaigned and sought for their (Nigerians’) mandate; freely they gave us and it behoves on us charged with responsibilities to ensure that we do not disappoint them.

    “The expectations are great out there. You live with families and you know the expectations of families. You live in communities, you know the expectations of those communities. You live in geographical jurisdictions and you know the expectations of those people.

    “But we have come at a time when the resources are very very lean, in some cases not available but I believe with prudent management as being put in place by Mr. President, we will be able to navigate this very difficult terrain and at the end of the day, every Nigerian will have a smile on his face.”

    Mustapha said although the present administration was not promising Nigerians heaven on earth, it could move them from “the current state of squalour in which they were, to a state where there would be hope and expectations.”

    He said if there was hope that things would be better, Nigerians as understanding people would continue to give the government the kind of support that was required to push the nation ahead.

    The new SGF said he would wait to take his oath of office before disclosing what Nigerians should expect from him.