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  • 2019: Tinubu, Oshiomhole, others charge Kwarans to collapse Saraki’s empire, enslavement

    The National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has told Kwarans to work towards breaking the hold of Senate President Bukola Saraki, who he accused of holding them captive for years.

    He said the state will be rescued from Saraki, who he described as a traitor and serial betrayer.

    Tinubu spoke on Monday during the presidential rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    He said: “This is celebration of Kwara state’s freedom. It’s been long they have been swindling your collective patrimony. And Bukola Saraki is being that.

    “We are not here for conspiracy. We are not here to quarrel with the Saraki dynasty as Gbemisola Saraki is with us.

    “She is a scion of the Sarakis. We are here to reject overlordship. We are here to say no to Bukola’s enslavement. He is a betrayal. We are chastising Bukola Saraki. This is the celebration of the fall of Berlin Wall.

    “This is the celebration of the end to oligarchy; the Emperor that has been existing for years.”

    National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiohmole told the crowd of supporters that the end of Saraki dynasty had come.

    “For Bukola it is finished. I cannot wait till Saturday for Kwara people to celebrate their new found freedom. Also it will be a day for Kwara people and for Nigerian politicians that the evil that their political son has done to their political father has befallen him.

    “Suffice to say that for 16 years Bukola has underdeveloped Kwara and has controlled governor more than the master controls his cook.

    “He has reduced Kwarans to mere beggars in their own political and economic life.

    “The confession of Bukola Saraki after his defection from APC exposes him as a selfish politician. To him politics is about juicy jobs.

    “That is why I am happy to be here to see the actual translation of enough is enough.

    “Everything that has a beginning must have an end. It is the day the people that have been at the receiving make up their mind to confront the oppressors that the oppression is over.

    “That is the case of Kwara and the case of Bukola. I join you the people of Kwara to celebrate your new found freedom.”

    Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed said: “on

    November 17th by-election I said our party has broken the Berlin wall of Kwara politics.

    “I said then that we will repeat the same thing during the 2019 elections.

    “The elections are now here. It is time to retire those who have held the state down and make our people and our state very poor.

    “They have been deceiving the people. They have been blaming the Federal Government for their failure.

    “When they can’t pay workers’ salaries they blame the Federal

    Government, when they cannot provide road they blame the Federal Government. Voting them is giving them license to continue to loot.

    “They say the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has not done anything in Kwara state. Tell them it is a big lie.”

    He reeled out the major infrastructural achievements of the government in the state.

    State chairman of APC Bashir Bolarinwa said the state under the Saraki oligarchy had been underdeveloped, saying “as a first generation state our infrastructure and institutions do not depict our status.

    “We unfortunately are too behind other states created much later. It is a pity. We prayed, we hoped and made a decision that we are indeed tired of this group of reincarnate of the biblical Pharaoh.

    “But Kwarans have decided that our own Pharaoh must let Kwara go.

    “Today’s rally is a culmination of our collective resolve of people to declare and let it resonate clearly that ‘enough is enough’ indeed.”

  • Oshiomhole attacks Obasanjo for ceding Bakassi to Cameroon

    The national Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole on Wednesday lashed out at former President Olusegun Obasanjo for ceding Bakassi to Cameroon.

    He spoke at the UJ Esuene Stadium, Calabar, the Cross River State capital, after handing over the governorship flag to Senator John Owan-Enoh.

    According to the party chair, the country will never forgive the past president for handing over Bakassi because he allegedly wanted a Nobel Peace Prize.

    According to him, such prize was not for traitors or opportunists, but for those who have worked hard for the development of humanity.

    “The only thing I want to remind the people of Cross River is that never ever can you afford to forget a Nigerian leader, in the person of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who ceded part of Cross River State to Cameroon, because he was pursuing a Nobel Peace Prize.

    “He (Obasanjo) handed over Nigerian territory to a foreign country and induced Nigerians to become refugees. Obasanjo has ceded our community to Cameroon. We can never forgive him. Nigeria will never forgive him.

    “There is no statesman in the modern world that would voluntarily cede part of his territory to a foreign country. That crime committed by Olusegun Oabsanjo, if we are too weak to punish him, history will punish him because no leader gives away his household and sell them to slavery. If it is something that can be revised, the president has enough courage to do everything that your predecessor said was not possible.

    “Those who preside over the award of Nobel Peace Prize, they do not give it to traitors. They give it to people who have worked hard to add to various spheres of human endeavor. It is not for traitors, opportunists and certainly not for those who bastardize their fatherland. This is the only message I have on today’s occasion.”

    Acting State Chairman of the APC in the state, Sir John Ochala, said the state was fed up with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration in the state, which he alleged has destroyed the development of state.

    Expressing confidence that the APC will win the state in the next elections, the party chairman called on the President to call the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Usani, also laying claim to the governorship ticket of the party, to order.

    Ochala said the number of the teeming supporters at the rally showed the acceptance of the APC in the state, outstanding development of infrastructure in the state by the Federal Government cannot go unnoticed.

    “Unfortunately we cannot say this of Cross River State because it is not well led. There is a near lack of governance in the state. Cross River State has degenerated.

    “Once acclaimed as the cleanest in the state it is no longer so. Investors have been chased out because of irrational and multiple tax regime of the government. Pensioners are hungry and dying due to non-payment of their pension arrears and gratuity.

    “The bail out given to the state by your government has been bailed to unknown quarters. Local government system is near collapse due to failure to conduct local government election and failure to pay salary arrears.

    “These, among others, are the reasons there is a growing sense of disenchantment by the people, who are clamouring for a change. The Super Highway project commissioned by you is one of the phantom projects of this administration.

    “There are other phony projects. Governance in Cross River has been reduced to a joke. We have a corrupt and clueless government. Indeed Cross River is in a state of political and economic emergency. The good news is that APC has come out with the very best in the person of John Owan-Enoh. Better days are ahead with John Owan-Enoh.

    “Mr President, I would like to draw your attention to a major distraction to an otherwise easy victory for us at the polls. This distraction is caused by your cabinet member. We call on you to use your good office to call him to order.”

    National Vice Chairman, Southsouth of the APC, Ntufam Hilliard Eta, said the people of the state were grateful to the President for being gracious towards them and would express their appreciation at the polls.

    Senator Owan-Enoh thanked the President for the visit.

    “We thank president for the rally and let me say that Cross River people and APC would not forget this day. On February 16, the president would win in Cross River. On the second of March, we would elect an APC administration for Cross River. The broom revolution that started in 2015 is berthing in Cross River in 2019.”

     

  • Tinubu, Oshiomhole blast Obasanjo over letter to Buhari, tag him ‘expired leader’

    The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has described ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo as one of the “expired leaders” that should have retired to his Ota Farm and remain quiet.

    He boasted that if the association of persons he described as “angry old men” refuses to vote Buhari, he’ll still get 95% of votes.

    Speaking at Ramat Square Complex, Maiduguri, Borno State on Monday during President Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential campaign, Tinubu said, “It is unfortunate that expired leaders like Olusegun Obasanjo is ranting and lying. Don’t trust him.

    “We are sweeping all the cobwebs of corruption away with broom out of Nigeria. Ota Farm should be enough a retirement place for Obasanjo.”

    Delving into the 16-year administration of the Peoples Democratic Party, Tinubu said, “Who among Nigerians will recall how the PDP government under Obasanjo had been notorious for rigging elections.

    “No government has upheld the tenets of democracy like the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

    “We asked for the recognition of June 12 from Obasanjo, he refused; but President Muhammadu Buhari, as an honest man with integrity, heard our cry and recognised June 12.

    “Even if the Forum of Association of Angry Old Men refuses to vote for Buhari, we will give him 95 percent votes.”

    In his speech at the campaign, APC chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, said Obasanjo’s “attack” was done “out of frustration” when he said that the South-South which used to be the stronghold of PDP had “caught the Buhari fever.”

    He said Obasanjo was “unsettled” when he saw what happened in Delta State during the APC campaign there, and “hurriedly went to the toilet for five times due to running stomach.”

    Oshiomhole asaid: “The people writing epistle now watched how money meant for security was appropriated by not only the PDP but Generals.

    “Under their watch, over 20 local government areas of Borno State was taken over by the Boko Haram terrorists before the coming of President Muhammadu Buhari.

    “Today, no matter what they want to say, there is no local government where Boko Haram is hoisting their flag. All the 27 local government areas of Borno have been liberated by APC government.”

    When the turn of the Director General of Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Organisation and the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, came, he said that under the PDP government, his security details were withdrawn as a result of “impunity.”

    He added that due to the PDP’s “rigging formula,” votes did not count in South South during election, and that election results were based on party’s wishes.

    In his remarks, the Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, assured President Muhammadu Buhari of over two million votes from Borno State.

    “We in Borno don’t know any other party than the APC. Allah brought President Muhammadu Buhari to deliver people of Borno from the hands of our oppressors.

    “By the grace of Allah, come February 16th, 2019, if we are not the first highest voters for you, we will be the second.”

    President Muhammadu Buhari who addressed the crowd in Hausa thanked them for their support and restated the commitment of his administration to the fight against corruption, insecurity, and improvement of the economy if re-elected.

     

  • Retired Generals, former Heads of States ganging up against Buhari’s reelection – Oshiomhole

    Retired Generals, former Heads of States ganging up against Buhari’s reelection – Oshiomhole

    The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomole on Saturday alleged that the retired Generals and former Heads of States are against the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari.

    Oshiomhole however insisted that the future of Nigeria is not in the hands of retired Generals but in the hands of the general masses.

    The APC National Chairman stated this on Saturday in Minna during the APC Presidential Campaign held at the Trade Fair complex.

    Oshomole said that there is a plan to replay what occurred when Buhari Was The military Head of State and was removed due to his strict anti-corruption strategies.

    “Many of the retired Generals are ganging up against President Buhari, that he will not do eight years while they did more than eight years.

    “I remember they did it before it the past but this time, the plan will not work. The future of Nigeria is not in the hands of retired generals or former heads of state. It is in the hands of the general people.”

    The APC Chieftain then alleged that Atiku is working with Obasanjo to rig the elections as they did before, “everywhere PDP goes, they are saying the elections will be rigged. We need to play those videos of where Obasanjo and Atiku said that election must be won do or die by PDP. ”

    He further said that APC do not need to rig any election as they remain a firm believer of one man, one vote, “we remain a firm believer of one man, one vote, one woman, one vote and one former head of state, one vote.”

    President Buhari in his address urged the people of Niger state to vote for him and APC all the way promising to complete all the road networks across the state.

    In his address, the Niger state APC Chairman, Engineer Jibril Imam promised the President that the state will give him 101 per cent of its vote.

     

  • 2019: Oshiomhole, Tinubu absent as Buhari inaugurates Aisha’s campaign team

    2019: Oshiomhole, Tinubu absent as Buhari inaugurates Aisha’s campaign team

    The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole and its national leader Bola Tinubu were conspicuously absent on Thursday afternoon as President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated a campaign team formed and led by his wife, Aisha.

    Recall that there have been reports of how the president’s wife, Buhari, in an unprecedented move, announced the campaign teamwhich will work alongside the official Presidential Campaign Council.

    The campaign team is described as women and youth campaign team for the 2019 election.

    The inauguration, which is holding at the Banquet Hall of the State House Presidential Villa, Abuja, began some few minutes after 3 p.m.

    The team to be inaugurated is chaired by the president’s wife, Aisha, and co-chaired by the wife of the vice president, Dolapo Osinbajo.

    Recall that President Buhari chairs the official APC Presidential Campaign Council. The council is co-chaired by Tinubu and they are assisted by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Oshiomhole.

    Recall also that Aisha Buhari had publicly criticised the APC and Oshiomhole over the handling of the parties primaries which led to massive defections to rival political parties across the country.

    Details later…

  • 2019: We’ll stop Amosun, Okorocha from using Buhari’s portrait to campaign for their candidates – Oshiomhole

    2019: We’ll stop Amosun, Okorocha from using Buhari’s portrait to campaign for their candidates – Oshiomhole

    The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, says the APC will take action against the parties using President Muhammadu Buhari’s photographs for their campaigns.

    Oshiomhole said this on ‘The Platform’, a programme on TVC on Saturday while reacting to the crisis in the party’s chapters in Ogun and Imo states.

    He said the APC would write a letter of complaint to the Independent National Electoral Commission on the matter.

    The governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun and his Imo State counterpart, Rochas Okorocha, had said they would continue to support Buhari but would work against the governorship candidates of the APC in their states.

    Both governors were prevented from fielding their preferred candidates in the 2019 governorship elections in their states.

    Although Amosun has remained in the APC, his candidate, Adekunle Akinlade, is contesting on the platform of the Allied People’s Movement while Okorocha’s candidate and son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, is contesting on the platform of Action Alliance.

    Oshiomhole said, “If there is a person, including a governor, who wants to sell a distorted message, the party will stop him. That is the truth. We have also seen some situations which we are trying to draw the attention of INEC to as the regulator of political parties. You cannot have anyone putting the portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari as President and his own portrait as the governorship candidate on the platform of a political party that is not known to the people.”

    The APC chairman also expressed his disgust over the refusal of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, to step down despite defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party.

    He maintained that the APC remained the dominant party in the parliament, but not in control.

    Oshiomhole, however, said removing Saraki and Dogara was no longer the priority of the ruling party.

    Meanwhile, the newly constituted APC caretaker committee in Ogun State has said it will not take issue with Amosun.

    The APC National Working Committee had set up the caretaker committee headed by Chief Yemi Sanusi with Mr Ayobami Olubori the secretary and Mr Tunde Oladunjoye named its publicity secretary.

    The committee will report directly to the NWC led by Oshiomhole.

    The NWC had sacked the party executives in both Imo and Ogun states for alleged anti-party activities.

    Later on Friday, Amosun rejected the caretaker committee and insisted that the executive members of the party in the state would complete their four-year tenure.

    Oladunjoye in a statement, said both the electoral law and the party constitution recognised only one APC.

    According to him, the committee will breathe a new life into the party, promote peace and give its members.

    The statement said, “We are all members of the same house under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, we will renew, realign, and rebuild our party for total victory at the 2019 polls, by God’s grace”.

    Meanwhile, Okorocha has said he does not take the national chairman of the APC seriously again.

    Okorocha, who was reacting to the statements made against him by Oshiomhole during a rally in Owerri on Friday, said he would not be distracted by Oshiomhole from ensuring victory for Buhari in 2019.

    The governor, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, insisted that the governorship candidate of the APC in the state, Senator Hope Uzodinma, did not have the capacity to garner the kind of support that would make him win the governorship election next year.

  • Dissolution: Amosun dares Oshiomhole, says ‘We fear only God, Buhari, no one else’

    Dissolution: Amosun dares Oshiomhole, says ‘We fear only God, Buhari, no one else’

    Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State on Friday dismissed the announcement of the dissolution of the state executive committee by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The governor who has had a long running battle with the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole over the choice of a governorship flag bearer insisted that he only feared God, President Muhammadu Buhari and no one else.

    Meanwhile, the governor also on Friday received a letter from the Allied People’s Movement (APM) endorsing President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as its presidential candidate for the February 2019 presidential polls.

    Amosun who took delivery of the endorsement letter from the governorship candidate of APM, Hon. Abdulkabir Adekunle Akinlade, at the APC Secretariat on Abiola Way, Abeokuta, the state capital, for onward transfer to Buhari, declared that the elected executive of the APC led by Chief Derin Adebiyi would serve its four-year term fully.

    Akinlade was accompanied to the APC secretariat by the Director-General of APM Campaign Committee.

    The governor added that he and his loyalists “only fear God and Buhari,” warning those he said were seeking a state to destroy the duo should count Ogun out of it, adding: “We are ready for them.”

    The National Working Committee (NWC) led by Adams Oshiomhole had last Wednesday dissolved the APC executives in Ogun and Imo states, but Adebiyi has since dismissed the dissolution as an exercise in “futility.”

    Amosun assured that the state belongs to President Buhari and that the people would vote massively for him come February 2019.

    He also hinted that he would soon flag off his senatorial campaign for the Ogun Central senatorial seat.

    Amosun said: “You know me by now. For me, I fear God and I respect people. So, it won’t be because we are afraid or we don’t want to talk.

    “Where we are now, what we should concentrate in doing is to let them know that here in Ogun State, this is the home of President Buhari and we must vote massively for him.

    “This is the home of APC. We must let them know that come February 16, 2019, by the benevolence of the Almighty Lord…

    “We are human. We are no God, and that is why we are telling them that in this coming election, in this Ogun State, it is whoever all of you (people) decide to back that will win the election.

    “So, the best way to answer them is through our action. And what is the action? We will use our votes to let them know who owns this Ogun State.

    “So, if they are looking for states to destroy them, they should not think of Ogun State. We are ready for them.

    “We don’t fear them. All of them put together, we don’t fear anybody. We fear God and we fear President Muhammadu Buhari.

    “We have decided to let them be for the sake of President Buhari. If not for the President, we know what to do.

    “Just ignore them. Don’t engage them for anything. Let us be focussed and redouble our efforts so that in the coming election, we are going to answer them with our votes.

    “I want to assure you that this executive that God has used you to put together, the executive will be there for the next four years. They will serve their term.”

    Meanwhile, the national body of APC has appointed a three-man caretaker committee for the party in Ogun State. They include Yemi Sanusi (Chairman), Ayo Olubori (Secretary) and Tunde Oladunjoye (Publicity Secretary).

  • Don’t tamper with 2019 budget – Oshiomhole warns lawmakers

    National Chairman, All Progressive Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday expressed hopes that the National Assembly won’t ‘distort the 2019 budget’ as presented.

    He also described President Muhammadu Buhari’s presentation of the 2019 Budget as “a successful outing.”

    Oshiomhole spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria shortly after Buhari presented the budget at the National Assembly in Abuja.

    “I think it was done very well and analytically well presented. It covers all the issues.

    “It gives account of the previous budget, how it was implemented and why we will have to consolidate, going forward. I think it was a successful outing.

    “I’m impressed, I’m excited and I pray that the National Assembly will not distort it in a way that will distort the tenet, well-thought out outcome,” he said.

    Reacting to the rowdiness amidst the budget presentation, Oshiomhole said: “I think the lawmakers generally agreed that the budget was good.

    “All the requirements of the law have been met, namely, to lay the budget. How the senators behaved thereafter is their privilege.”

    On his part, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, simply described the budget presentation as “excellent.”

  • 2019: Smaller parties soliciting money to endorse popular presidential candidates – Oshiomhole

    2019: Smaller parties soliciting money to endorse popular presidential candidates – Oshiomhole

    The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Wednesday knocked smaller parties for soliciting money to endorse presidential candidates of their bigger counterparts.

    He accused them of bastardising the Supreme Court judgement which states the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should register as many political parties as possible.

    Oshiomhole stated many of the existing political parties have been busy making brisk business from the so- called bigger parties, demanding money to endorse presidential candidates instead of producing their own.

    Speaking when a delegation of the National Democratic Institute and the International Republic Institute visited the APC headquarters in Abuja, Oshiomhole also lashed out at civil society groups.

    He alleged many of them are being sponsored by political parties as election observers.

    He recalled as Edo governor, some of the civil society groups solicited for money from him to write favorable reports.

    He said many political parties, which he described as democratic merchants, have approached him demanding for money to endorse the candidacy of President Muhammadu Buhari.

    The former Labour leader lamented the entire political process is being turned into a platform for trading.

    He said: “I can tell you how many requests I have from these so called political parties that if you pay me this we will announce that we are supporting your presidential candidate.

    “So people have formed political parties as platform for trading. We must be careful so that in the name of freedom, we do not create democratic merchants, creating more confusion, generating more heat.”

    The APC helmsman added: “I was President of NLC for eight years and we were not foreign funded but were and still remain membership driven, membership based and membership controlled.

    “So, I am at home with using the tools that are legitimate in a democratic process namely persuasion, convincing people and putting your message across and communicating vertically and horizontally so that the people can decide why they should choose this person rather than that person.

    “That is the gift that I have and as chairman of this party. That is what we are trying to do.”

     

  • Oshiomhole backs labour, insists FG, governors can afford N30,000 minimum wage

    The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has backed the organised labour’s agitation that N30,000 should be the national minimum wage for Nigerian workers.

    He also stressed that as a member of the Nigeria Governors Forum when he was the governor of Edo State, he had told his colleagues publicly that “when it comes to the issue of minimum wage, I am not with them.”

    The APC chairman spoke in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Monday night during a reception held for Ayuba Wabba and Safiyanu Mohammed, who were recently elected as the President of International Trade Union Confederation (Global) and African Regional Secretary of International Transport Federation, respectively.

    Oshiomhole said that his position on the national minimum wage had not changed despite being the chairman of the ruling APC.

    He said, “I do not think it is about the (APC) party here, it is about Nigeria. Do not try to ask a partisan question. I think you should ask a question that has to do with governance in Nigeria because this is an issue in which it appears all governors on the party platform are united, that is the truth. So, it is incorrect to ask that question from a partisan point of view.

    “When I was a member of the (governors) forum, I did publicly advise my colleagues that when it comes to the issue of minimum wage, I am not with them, not only secretly, but publicly, that I am going to dissociate myself. I believe we need a national minimum wage, I believe Nigeria is capable of paying minimum wage. I believe the primary purpose of government is the welfare of the people and payment of wages is a function of prosperity.

    “So, I am clear, whether I am chairman of the ruling party, or other parties, my views are not corrupted by the position that I occupy. What is constant in my life is my background, which is labour , and I do not deny it or hide it. And I am clear that the Nigeria Labour Congress has a right working with the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria to promote a reasonable living wage.

    “And when I was governor, I made the point because they say action speaks louder than words. I increased the minimum wage from N18, 000 to N25,000 three years ago. If I did it and my successor is paying it then, I think I have spoken!”

    According to him, the national minimum wage would be necessary because the prices of labour, goods and services have not been static.

    “The price of labour cannot be static if all other prices are changing and I said this creates a vicious circle. When you lack purchasing power in an economy, how do you stimulate the economy to provide more goods and services and create jobs?

    “So we create a vicious circle of poor people, too poor to buy and consume anything and therefore those who provide goods and services cannot sell, and because they cannot sell, they are closing shops and more people are being sent out of work.

    “Now, we should be more bold and courageous. I also argued and it is a fact that those who are more patriotic and inward looking in their consumption pattern are the working class people. They are the ones that buy garri, yam, ordinary tomatoes and fish. They do not import fish; they do not buy Toyota jeeps and aircraft.

    “Their pattern of spending is such that the money circulates. They are the ones who live in a local room and parlour house, pay rent to a local man whose only pension is the fact that he built a room and parlour house when he was in active service. When you don’t pay them living wages, you trigger a process of vicious circle of poverty.”

    At the event, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said Wabba and Mohammed’s election came to President Muhammadu Buhari “as a pleasant delight that despite what we think our country is, the entire world has come to acknowledge and recognise the excellence with which we lead as a nation.”

    In their remarks, Wabba and Mohammed promised that although the task ahead would be very challenging, they would not disappoint the nation, adding that they would strive to put Nigeria on the positive map of the world.