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Northern group demands
APGA national chairmanship
By Innocent Anaba
K
A D U N A —
NATIONAL
Convention, a group of
Northern stakeholders
within the All Progressives
Grand Alliance, APGA,
has demanded that the
position of the National
Chairman of the party be
zoned to the North.
The group further asked
for equity in the distribution
of other offices of the party
in line with the federal
character principle.
In a communique at the
end of its meeting in
Kaduna,Northern
Stakeholders of APGA
which had in attendance a
former National Secretary/
Secretary of the party’s
Board of Trustees and
governorship candidate of
the party in Zamfara State,
Sani Shinkafi, Polycarp
Gankon, state Chairmen
and Secretaries from the
Northern states of the
federation and all other
constitutionally recognised
members of the National
Executive Committee, NEC, of
the party resolved that the
party’s constitution provided for
the zoning of national offices.
The communique reads, “After
exhaustive deliberations on
various important issues as it
affects the party especially an
assessment of the present state
of the party and the forthcoming
wards, states congresses and the
National Convention of the party
the meeting resolved as follows;
“That a vote of confidence be
passed in the governor of
Anambra State, Willie Obiano,
the National Leader of the party
and the Chairman Board of
Trustees of APGA for his
spectacular performance in office
in all facets of governance, the
economy and other socio-cultural
activities despite the very trying
times that the nation found itself
as it concerns the worst recession
in the modern history of Nigeria.
“The Northern stakeholders
also congratulates our
representatives in the National
Assembly and states Assembly,
who won their elections in the
recently concluded 2019 general
election and charged all our
candidates that are in the
electoral tribunals to diligently
pursue their petitions up to its
logical conclusion."
African Voices at 10: CNN
hosts Glo, viewers
CNN —
INTERNATIONAL’S
celebration of the 10th
anniversary of African
Voices reaches a climax
today with a cocktail party
in honour of Globacom, the
programme sponsors for
the past nine years.
According to a statement
issued by the telecom
operator, the party will be
held at 6.30 p.m. at the
Sky Lounge, Eko Hotel,
Victoria Island, Lagos. It
will be attended by the
cream of society including
business executives,
media entrepreneurs and
style icons who have been
invited for the event.
“We are proud of the
partnership with CNN to
spotlight Africa’s finest change
makers in business, arts, travel,
entertainment, sports and
technology. It is noteworthy that
we share the same values of
innovation, creativity and
excellence in service delivery”,
Globacom stated.
The grandmasters of data said
it was delighted that African
Voices had over the years
fulfilled its objective of positively
projecting to the world the
continent’s talented
personalities who were making
a difference in several fields of
endeavour. It added that the
programme had also projected
Globacom to CNN’s business and
consumer audiences across
Europe, the Middle East and
Africa, thereby helping the
company reach millions of
online users through cnn.com.
African Voices has in the
past decade contributed greatly
in changing the African story by
offering a platform for Africa and
its people to tell their own story
to the world without
misrepresentation.
Gombe killings: NSCDC to
conduct psychological screening
on personnel
By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA—IN
the
aftermath of the Easter
Day killing of 10 members
of the Boys Brigade in
Gombe state by a personnel
of the Nigerian Security
and Civil Defence Corps
NSCDC, Commandant
General of the Corps,
Abdullahi Gana
Muhammadu has directed
the immediate profiling of
all civil defence personnel
with a view to conducting
a psychological evaluation
on them.
The Corps in a statement
yesterday in Abuja, by its
spokesman, DCC
Emmanuel Okeh, among
others said, "he has also
directed the Forensic
Psychology unit of the
Corps to work out the
timetable for the security
profiling and psychological
test of all personnel of the
Corps against future
occurrences.
"Apart from the testing to
re-examine the
psychological and physical
stability of personnel, he
noted that the Corps will
embark in massive training
and retraining programs for
all personnel irrespective of
the Cadre in line with
global best practice."
ASSESSMENT: From left—Ogun Deputy Governor-elect, Engr Noimot Salako-Oyedele, Governor-elect, Prince
Dapo Abiodun, Olu of Ifo, Oba Samuel Atanda , Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bashir Dabup Makama
and Director State Security Service,Mr. Tuska David, when the Governor-elect visited Ifo for on-the-spot assessment
of the mayhem which occurred in the town.
Cattle ranches'll resolve herders/farmers
clashes — NCNE boss
By Abdulmumin
Murtala
KSecretary ANO—EXECUTIVE
of the
National Commission for
Nomadic Education,
NCNE, Professor Bashir
Usman yesterday in Kano
state advocated for the
establishment of ranches
across the country as a way
of solving the persistent
problem between farmers
and herders which has
claimed several lives
among others.
Prof. Usman who spoke
during the opening
ceremony of a 3-day
workshop on the Advocacy
and Sensitization
workshop on the remodeling
of grazing
reserves into ranches in
Kano said the workshop
became imperative
because the commission
now focused on advocacy,
mobilization, and
sensitization initiative to
motivate the herders to
move into grazing reserves
expected to be re-modeled
into ranches.
According to him, “the
Fulanis are not completely
abandoned. But there is a
certain degree of
abandonment particularly
the people that we were
asked to educate. The
attitude is also a factor. It is
a two-way thing; they
themselves are very
difficult to work with. I have
also said that the incessant
fighting that we are
witnessing also has
political undertones."
“This is not to say that
there are no criminal
elements among the
Fulanis. Not to say also that
some of these criminal
elements don’t want to
repent, they want to
repent. So everybody
should be given chance
and that is why we are here
for the workshop. We need
to bring them together for
dialogue, there is need for
dialogue.”
On how much is needed
to rehabilitate the Fulanis,
he noted that, “until and
unless we know the volume
of people we are dealing
with, we cannot start saying
this is the amount of money
we need to rehabilitate
them. We are committed to
educating farmers and
herders on the need to
maintain peace. The crisis
that has characterized the
current herding practice has
adverse effect on the nomadic
education programme as some of
the schools across the country
have either been abandoned or
destroyed. Many lives and
properties loss, while pupils,
teachers and members of
communities displaced and are
considered as internally displaced
persons (IDPs).”
“All hands must be on
deck to transform the
livestock sub-sector from
extensive to intensive
production system to complement
government’s effort at boosting
livestock production in the
country. The responsibilities are
vested on various stakeholders
including the National
Commission for Nomadic
Education to drive the policy to
the grassroots with a view to
increasing educational access
and equity.”
Crisis: Plateau PDP suspends Damishi
Sango, deputy
It is illegal, unconstitutional — Sango
By Marie Nanlong
JDemocratic OS—PEOPLES
Party, PDP
in Plateau State yesterday
suspended its Chairman,
Hon. Damishi Sango and
his Deputy, Amos Goyol,
over alleged financial
misconduct even as Chris
Hassan, the erstwhile Vice
Chairman, Northern Zone
of the party has been
named acting chairman.
But in a swift reaction,
Sango in a joint statement
with State Secretary,
Emmanuel Tuang said the
purported suspension was
illegal as those who
claimed to have suspended
them did not follow the
party’s constitutional
requirements.
According to the text
among others, “be that as
it may, and for the
avoidance of doubts, here
are our responses to the
issues they raised:
Suspension of Party
Chairman and his Deputy.
This is illegal as the 16 did
not follow the constitutional
requirements. Resources
sent to the state for the
presidential elections.
We state that this matter was
appropriately reported to
the State Campaign
Council. The template was
also discussed and
approved by the Campaign
Council. It was not to be
reported to the party since
it was the party that
constituted the council.
“In addition, the funds
were not signed for and
collected by the party
Chairman and/or his
Deputy as alleged. Rather,
the funds were rightly
signed for and collected for
by a team led by the
gubernatorial candidate,
and this was disclosed in
full to the State Campaign
Council. Money for the
Internally Displaced
Persons (IDPs); It is true
that the Deputy Chairman
was chairman of committee
handling the IDP funds.
“Other members were
Vice Chairman, Northern
Senatorial Zone Hon. Chris
Hassan, State Organising
Secretary Yabuku Chocho,
Chairmanship Candidate
of Jos North LGA Hon
Aminu Zang, Vice
Chairman Central Zone,
Hon. Benedict Shignuhul,
and Assistant State
Secretary of the party Hon
Felix Penswang who was
also the Secretary of the
committee.
However, the state party’s
Publicity Secretary, John Akans
earlier in a text said, “We the
members of the State Executive
of the Peoples Democratic Party,
Plateau State Chapter in a
meeting held on the 24th day of
April 2019 at the State Party
Office due to imminent issues
arising from elections & party
affairs; a vote of no confidence is
passed against the Party
Chairman, Hon. Dimishi Sango
and his Deputy Hon. Amos
Goyol.
“In the bid to save the Party
the following resolutions have
been reached: That the Party
Chairman Hon. Dimishi Sango
and his Deputy Hon. Amos
Goyol are hereby suspended and
stand suspended based on the
following reasons: That the
resources sent to the State for
the Presidential elections were
not accounted for by the
Chairman aided by the Deputy
Chairman concealed the amount
sent by the Presidential
Campaign Committee and
created a fraudulent unseen
template used as “a sharing
formula” unknown to the State
Party Structure and up till date
no disclosure has been made by
the Chairman and/or the Deputy
Chairman.
“The moneys raised and saved
by the Party to help Internally
Displaced Persons (IDPs) relieve
their pains were also not
accounted for up till this moment.
No mention has been made of
the stated funds. It is worthy to
note that the Deputy Chairman
is the Chairman Committee on
IDPs for the party. The money
meant for P. D. P Plateau state
retreat was equally not
accounted for by the Chairman
and/or the Deputy Chairman."