The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Suleiman Abba, has once again commended Police personnel and other law enforcement agencies that participated in the policing of the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections for their unparalleled professionalism displayed during the exercise.
The IGP said he believes that these virtues of selflessness and dedication to duty contributed in no small measure to the overall success of the widely acclaimed free and fair election.
The IGP in a statement on Tuesday noted that he is particularly pleased with the very high level of comportment, discipline, orderliness, patience and understanding exhibited by the citizens throughout the period of the elections.
Now that Muhammad Buhari has been elected as the President of Nigeria, the General Superintendent, Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi wants him to fulfill all the promises he made to Nigerians during the campaign period.
While speaking at the National Easter Retreat of the church last weekend, Kumuyi said the church would back the new president with prayers to be able to deliver on his promise to fight corruption and insurgency.
The national leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party has said Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State will reply to the impeachment notice allegedly served him by members of the State House of Assembly.
But the party said the notice must be properly served on the embattled governor.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, stated this while answering questions from journalists at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday.
The Peoples Democratic Party has accused the All Progressives Congress of planning to stifle opposition in Nigeria.
The PDP presidential candidate, Goodluck Jonathan, lost to APC’s Muhammadu Buhari in the election held on March 28.
The spokesperson of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, who addressed a press conference at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday said the APC “rather than concentrate on how to manage the mandate they now hold, they have resorted to seeking ways to stifle opposition and impose a one-party system and complete totalitarian rule in our country”.
NATIONAL Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said, Tuesday that it was not going to court to challenge the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC and winner of March 28 Presidential election, General Muhammadu Buhari,retd, just as it stressed that as a party, it would not distract the President- elect, but support him for the unity, development and to salvage the nation’s democracy.
Addressing Journalists in Abuja on the topic “Nigeria on the brinks of dictatorship,” PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh who claimed that PDP will return to power in the next four years, however raised alarm that the APC was plotting to impose one-party system in the country.
The same old story. The table has turned around and PDP is now accusing APC of the same allegation APC used to accuse them of.
As for Fayose, he can only run, he can’t hide