The emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as the flag-bearer of the All Progressive Congress, APC, is a fatal error, the Nigerian presidency has said.
Speaking in an interview with Channels Television on Monday morning, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, said the opposition party made a grave mistake at a time Nigerians were clamouring for development and a dissociation from anything or anyone that has anything to do with the country’s past.
“When Major Buhari emerged as the APC flag bearer, I knew that was a fatal error,” he said. “It’s a fatal error because number one, Nigerians are looking for future development, you know, a disengagement from everything that has got to do with our past. You are looking at Major General Buhari, Babangida, Abdulsalam, Obasanjo. These are very respectable elders and leaders who have done their best but they are a phase of our leadership that is passing off.”
Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, on Monday presented the appropriation bill for the 2015 fiscal year to seven lawmakers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) inside the hallowed chamber of the state’s House of Assembly.
Fayose, who made the presentation to the PDP caucus led by factional Speaker Dele Olugbemi also declared that “nobody can remove Olugbemi from office.”
The governor also vowed that any attempt to overrun the state will be resisted.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) legislators were absent from the budget presentation ceremony which was witnessed by senior government officials and a handful of traditional rulers.
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday struck out the contempt charge filed against a former House of Representatives Speaker, Dimeji Bankole and former Ogun State governor, Gbenga Daniel.
It followed the withdrawal of the applications for their committal to prison by the plaintiffs’ counsel, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede.
The plaintiffs, led by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman in Ogun State, Adebayo Dayo, are alleging that the respondents had been attempting to remove them from office, thereby following g a judgment by the Federal High Court affirming the legality of their positions.
Former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Seyi Makinde, has dumped the party to join Social Democratic Party.
He has also been given the go-ahead to contest as the party’s Oyo State governorship candidate in the forthcoming 2015 election.
With the development, Makinde will face the incumbent Governor Abiola Ajimobi of the All Progressives Congress; former governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Labour Party; another former governor in the state, Rashidi Ladoja of Accord Party, and former Senate Leader, Teslim Folarin, who emerged as the PDP candidate in a primary that has been a subject of controversy.
The Benue Grace Group has said the emergence of Maj. Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (retd) as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress marks the end of money politics in Nigeria.
Members of the group said this during a solidarity visit to the party’s national headquarters in Abuja, on Monday.
Chairman of the group, Emmanuel Abah who led the match also presented a letter congratulating the party for holding a transparent primary which led to the emergence of Buhari as the presidential flag bearer and Dr.Samuel Ortom as governorship candidate for Benue State.
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