Today’s Daily Brief: Ekiti workers suspend strike for Fayose, Amaechi says PDP lacks credible candidates, Kwankwaso is glad to be out of the party, and more

We deliver your news brief for Thursday, October 16, 2014.

The governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Thursday said he was happy he left the Peoples Democracy Party, PDP.

He was addressing lawmakers of his new party, All Progressives Congress, at the House of Representatives in Abuja, Thursday, after visiting its Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal.

Mr. Kwankwaso said he was happy that he was in a party which had the power to defeat the PDP.

“Since we now have quite a number of aspirants, all of us are working very hard especially those of us (who moved) from PDP; we have a huge advantage,” he said. “There are so many people who are tired of the status quo. Status quo is not good for the country therefore we have to work together.”

Premium Times

 

Newly-inaugurated Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, says he is so determined to put food on the tables of Ekiti State people that he intends to appoint a Special Adviser on Stomach Infrastructure.

Delivering his inaugural address on Thursday after he was sworn in by EKiti State Chief Judge, Ayodeji Daramola, Fayose said he would work hard to put food on the table, regardless of public opinion that such measures are called “stomach infrastructure”.

Fayose also criticized the All Progressives Congress (APC) for accusing him of luring people to vote for him with stomach infrastructure schemes, while indirectly describing ex-governor Kayode Fayemi as someone who saw himself to be too clean to mix with the people.

Sahara Reporters

 

Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday said neither he nor any governor in the country can claim the credit for winning the war against Ebola.

Rivers and Lagos are the two Nigerian states hit by the Ebola outbreak.

The federal government said the two states are now free of the deadly virus.

According to Mr. Jonathan, the government could not have succeeded in ridding the country of Ebola virus without the cooperation of the Nigerian masses.

The President said these at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, during the launch of Elumelu Nigeria Empowerment Fund, ENEF, to support victims of terrorism in the country’s North-east zone.

Premium Times

 

The Rivers State Governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, said on Thursday that the Peoples Democratic Party had no credible candidate, but corrupt politicians.

Amaechi, who made this remark during the inspection of the Adokiye Amiesimaka Sports Complex in preparation for the October 25th All Progressives Congress mega rally in Port Harcourt, added that the state PDP had nothing to offer the people in the 2015 general election.

The governor also condemned the call for another Ikwerre governorship candidate as his successor after his eight years in office, describing those behind the call as prophets of doom.

Punch

 

Workers in Ekiti State on Thursday suspended the two weeks industrial strike declared to press home the payment of their outstanding two months salaries and allowances.

The State Joint Negotiating Council Chairman, Comrade Oladipupo Johnson, broke the news to our correspondent in Ado-Ekiti.

He said the workers agreed to suspend the strike in order to honour the new Governor, Ayodele Fayose, after a meeting with the Head of Service, Mr. Bunmi Famosaya.

Punch

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