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  • Why Senate President should be a Christian from South-South – Lagos Senator-Elect

    Why Senate President should be a Christian from South-South – Lagos Senator-Elect

    The Senator-Elect, Lagos Central, Mr. Wasiu Eshinlokun-Sanni, has advised the APC leadership to balance the Muslim/Muslim ticket of the executive arm of the incoming administration with a Christian Senate President from the South-South.

    Eshinlokun-Sanni, currently the Deputy Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, made the call during an award presentation ceremony held in his office at the assembly complex, Lagos.

    Eshinlokun-Sanni said the APC leadership should also consider the three Senate Presidential aspirants based on their contributions to the electoral success of the party in the last election.

    He said: “For the 10th Assembly, I believe the party should play a prominent role. There are so many factors that must be considered.

    “He or she must come from the South and must be a Christian, so that the noise about Muslim/Muslim ticket must be nipped in the bud.

    “As we speak, there are three senators that are qualified for the Senate President seat. Senators Godswill Akpabio, Orji Uzor Kalu and Osita Izunazo.

    “So we have to consider the aspirants based on the contributions of each region to the electoral success of the party in the last election,” he said.

    The Senator-Elect said the North Central had a right to complain, however, they should not forget that there were other positions that they could take.

    He said the government and the party would have to find some positions to give them since it was not a rocket science.

     

  • Taraba APC dismisses Jimkuta’s suspension, passes vote of confidence in Senator-elect

    Taraba APC dismisses Jimkuta’s suspension, passes vote of confidence in Senator-elect

    The Takum Local Government chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has passed a vote of confidence the Senator-elect, Taraba South Senatorial District of Taraba, Emmanuel Jimkuta.

    Chairman of the party in the local government, Alhaji Mijinyawa Salihu, passed the resolution on Monday in Jalingo.

    Salihu said that the party did not have factional executives in the local government.

    He accused those who had earlier announced the suspension of the senator-elect as non-APC members “who were hired for such a dirty assignment.

    “We just want to respond to the purported expulsion of our senator-elect, Hon. David Jimkuta, by a group of people parading themselves as the executives of the party in Takum local government area.

    “We members of the executives of APC in Takum local government area wish to state that there is no factional executive of the party in our local government and we remain the only executives.

    “We equally want to put it on record that the group that signed the purported expulsion of our senator-elect are not members of APC in Takum local government,” he said.

    Salihu described the masterminds of the purported expulsion as the “mercenaries recruited from an opposition party” by some aggrieved members who lost out at the primaries.

    “I wish to state, in a very clear and loud voice, that we, the executives of APC in Takum local government, have passed a vote of confidence in our senator-elect, Hon. David Jimkuta.

    “We also want to put it on record that Jimkuta had worked relentlessly to ensure victory for our party in the just-concluded governorship election.

    “His efforts could not, however, yield results because our governorship candidate was not saleable, but was only imposed on the electorate,” he said.

    The APC chairman described as laughable allegations of anti-party activities levelled against the senator-elect by the group he referred to as mischief makers.

    He said: “What further exposed the group as non-members of APC is their ignorance of the fact that the APC constitution only gave the ward party executives the right to suspend or expel members.

    “We urge the general public and party loyalists in the south senatorial zone to disregard the purported expulsion of our senator-elect.

    “It is the handiwork of some mischief makers who are bent on destabilising the party on selfish grounds.”

    He further said that the senator-elect was already making frantic efforts to reconcile all aggreived party members in the senatorial district.

    “We wish to appeal to members of APC across the zone, especially supporters of the senator-elect to remain calm, as things are being sorted out in our interest,” he stated.

    A factional executive council of the party in the council area had earlier announced Jimkuta’s expulsion over alleged anti-party activities.

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  • Regina Daniels husband, Ned Nwoko receives certificate of return as Senator-Elect of Delta North

    Regina Daniels husband, Ned Nwoko receives certificate of return as Senator-Elect of Delta North

    Billionaire Businessman and politician, Ned Nwoko and his actress wife, Regina Daniels, have stormed Abuja for his certificate of return.

    Last week that the Delta State indigene triumphed in his election as the Senator-Elect for his constituency.

    Following his victorious win, Ned Nwoko and his wife visited Abuja for his certificate of return as the Senator-Elect of Delta North.

    Sharing photos from the event, Prince Ned wrote: “Today I received my certificate of return from INEC at the International Conference Center, Abuja”

    Congratulations had been poured for Regina Daniels as she becomes the latest ‘senator’s wife’.

    Regina Daniels husband, Ned Nwoko receives certificate of return as Senator-Elect of Delta North

    Regina Daniels took to her Instagram story to share captions of the congratulations sent to her on social media, one of which claimed she is the latest senator’s wife.

    She also uploaded a video on her story. The clip captured her rejoicing in her husband, Ned Nwoko’s victory as a senator in Delta state.

    The mother of two hinted that they would be throwing a party, which would be a carnival. “It’s about to be a carnival’.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Prince Ned was a member of the House of Representatives between 1999 and 2003 representing Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, Delta State.

    In January 2020, he undertook a symbolic expedition to Antarctica to flag off a Malaria Eradication Project. That made him the first black African to visit the South Pole (Antarctica).

    Recall that Prince Ned was instrumental in the initiation of the London and Paris Club Loans refund into Nigeria.

    He authored the reports that led to Nigerian government’s discontinuation of monthly deductions from states’ allocations and commencement of refunds to States.

    Through his Law firm, Ned Nwoko Solicitors and his Company Linas International, he investigated the multinational creditors and discovered discrepancies in loan repayments, and this resulted in the refund of the first tranches of loan beginning from the Obasanjo administration.

    He also charged the Federal government to court on behalf of 774 Local governments for the refund of illegal deductions and obtained judgment of $3.2billion for the local governments.

  • VIDEO: Georgia Senator-Elect, Jon Ossoff thanks Nigerians for pushing him to victory

    VIDEO: Georgia Senator-Elect, Jon Ossoff thanks Nigerians for pushing him to victory

    Newly elected Democrat Senator, Jon Ossoff has thanked Nigerian-Americans for pushing him to victory in the just concluded elections.

    Ossoff, a 33-year-old documentary film executive faced incumbent Republican senator David Perdue, whose Senate term ended on Sunday.

    In November, Perdue fell just short of the majority he would have needed to avoid a runoff, winning 49.7 percent of the vote, while Mr. Ossoff had 47.9 percent — a difference of about 88,000 votes.

    Ossoff, 33, will be the youngest Democrat to serve in the U.S. Senate since President-elect Joe Biden, who assumed office in 1973 at the age of 30.

    The youngest currently serving Senator is 41-year-old Republican Josh Hawley of Missouri.

    In a special video, Ossoff appreciated some American based Nigerians and other Africans who contributed in no small measure to push him to victory against Perdue.

     

  • Delta South: Uduaghan rejects re-run judgement, seeks outright declaration as senator-elect

    Delta South: Uduaghan rejects re-run judgement, seeks outright declaration as senator-elect

    …Heads to Appeal Court

    Former Delta State governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 23rd, 2019 National Assembly election in Delta South, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has reacted to the Saturday’s ruling by the Election Petitions Tribunal which nullified the election victory of Senator James Manager of the Peoples Democratic Party and ordered for a re-run.

    Uduaghan, reacting to the judgement, said the tribunal ought to have declared him as the outright winner of the Delta South election, and vowed to challenge the judgement at the Court of Appeal to be declared as senator-elect.

    In a statement signed by his media assistant, Mr Monoyo Edoh, the former governor, however, thanked the tribunal for affirming that the election that produces Manager as senator was marred by massive rigging and othet electoral malpractices.

    The Justice C.O Onyeaba-led Delta South Senatorial Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Asaba had on Saturday nullified the election victory of Senator Manager in the February 23, 2019 National Assembly Election in the area.

    Uduaghan, while hailing the judgement, insisted that he won the Delta South Senatorial election with valid votes recorded during the election.

    The tribunal panel consisting of Justice C.O Onyeaba, (Abia), Justice D. A. Oyegbemi (Nasarawa) and Justice S.N.J Usman (Kogi) established that there was substantial non-compliance with INEC electoral guidelines in some parts of Delta South Senatorial District and connivance among security agencies, staff of INEC and agents of the People’s Democratic Party to massively cause over voting in favour of the PDP candidate.

    According to him, “While we are happy with the tribunal’s judgement which affirmed my party’s position that the election was rigged and characterized with electoral over voting, we are not entirely satisfied with the judgement as the tribunal ought to have deducted the excess illegal votes and declared me and my party rightful winner of the election.

    “In view of this, we shall be challenging the tribunal’s judgement at the Appeal Court to declare us as the outight winner of the February 23rd, 2019 National Assembly Election for Delta South Senatorial District.”

    The former governor in the statement thanked the people of Delta South and supporters, whom he said had been waiting for the outcome of the judgement.

    Uduaghan, however, dedicated the victory to the people of Delta South assuring of victory at the Court of Appeal.

  • Omo-Agege was at no time senator-elect for Delta Central – Emerhor

    Omo-Agege was at no time senator-elect for Delta Central – Emerhor

    Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, has come hard on supporters of the senator representing Delta Central senatorial district, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege stating that, “Omo-Agege was at no time the candidate of the party nor was he at any time the Senator-elect.”

    Emerhor’s reaction is coming on the heels of the ruling by the Federal High Court, Asaba, which upheld the legitimacy of the Chief Cyril Ogodo led executive as the authentic APC executive in the state.

    In a statement yesterday, Emerhor explained that the mainstream of the APC in Delta State which he led produced the Ogodo led executive and accommodates over 70 percent of leaders and members of the party alongside over five governorship aspirants in the state.

    Based on the ruling, Emerhor who emerged as candidate for Delta central under the Ogodo led executive, said: “The Ogodo-Exco produce by the mainstream has always been the authentic executive. We only had a period when an illegal Exco was foisted on the party. What the court did on its Monday ruling was just to restore the legal Exco into its proper position.

    “I emerged as the Delta Central senatorial candidate against Senator Ovie Omo-Agege who emerged from the Prophet Jones Erue Exco which the court has now declared illegal. Legally and physically, you can’t build anything on nothing! Omo-Agege built his candidature on nothing and it has given way and has collapsed. But this is beyond just me and Omo-Agege. We the mainstream also had a governorship candidate, Prof Pat Utomi, 3 senatorial candidates, 10 house of Rep and 29 house of Assembly candidates! This Court ruling is for all of them! If for anything, it will be on record that they were the authentic candidates not anyone else.

    “This case is testing the rule of law and party due process. APC won a number of positions during the general elections. Recall that the Asaba high Court on October 17th 2018, restrained the APC national not to submit any candidates list to INEC and INEC not to accept any candidates list from the APC before the determination of the case. Any list APC went ahead to submit and INEC accepted respectively was in contempt of court order.

    “So, legally and in reality, Omo-Agege was at no time the candidate nor was he at any time the Senator-elect. Same for the other positions were APC won in Delta State. Not until the court ruling on Monday when the court authenticated me and others from the Ogodo Exco primaries can anyone legally claim to be the Senator-elect or any other position in Delta APC.”

    Omo-Agege as a lawyer cannot boast that the ruling has no consequences. The so-called consent judgment they keep building their hope on only dealt with the congress election of wards and LGA Excos and not the primaries of candidates and in any case, was dealt a death blow at their own appeal to the appeal court in Benin and at the Asaba federal high court. Omo-Agege knows I’m now the Senator-elect!