Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has faulted the removal of Senator Ali Ndume as the Chief Whip of the Nigerian…
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“It is unfortunate that much of the pushback that had been achieved against the Boko Haram terror sect are being cancelled, owing mainly to the government’s lacklustre posture to hold firmly on the frontline. It is a sad development that the ugly incidents of terrorism are resurfacing and, indeed, metastasising in the Northeast.
Atiku observes that “When the structure of ascension of traditional rulers is unstable, it will become equally difficult to maintain peace and orderliness in communities.”
“Tinubu has brought the shady nature of running Lagos to the federal level. He claims subsidy is gone but his Special Adviser on Energy, Olu Verheijen, says they are intervening from time to time while his Finance Minister, Wale Edun, described subsidy removal as an ‘ongoing process’.
The action of the Federal Government in deploying soldiers in Kano in the tussle over the throne of the ancient city is an upset to the peace and security of the state, and also in breach of the 1999 Constitution as Amended.
“It is another attempt to perpetrate illegality by the Federal Government. The government must be cautioned to act strictly within the provisions of the Pension Reform Act of 2014 (PRA 2014), along with the revised Regulation on Investment of Pension Assets issued by the National Pension Commission (PenCom).”
“Atiku and Wike fell apart in the build-up to the 2023 general elections after Atiku beat Wike to the PDP presidential ticket and also did not pick him as a running mate for the election,” the newspaper said.
Tension is growing in the PDP over the perception that Wike, a serving Minister in the Bola Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress (APC) government, is rumoured to remain in the PDP, allegedly to have control of its National Working Committee (NWC), while he works against it during the 2027 presidential election.
ASHENEWS reports that former Vice president Atiku Abubakar has told President Bola Tinubu that his wrong policies had caused untold hardship to Nigerians.
“It is an arbitrary order capable of undermining the operational independence of the NNPCL. By this order, Mr. President has wrested control of the finances of the NNPCL and donated the same to the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria. This is an unprecedented act, without any legal or ethical basis. It is also a violation of the principle of due process in public administration”