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Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, has announced the appointment of Abiodun Oyebanji, as the Secretary to the State Government (SSG).

Fayemi, in a statement, also confirmed Biodun Omoleye as Chief of Staff to the Governor and Yinka Oyebode as Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor.

Oyebanji, a former university lecturer, had previously served as Chief of Staff during the administration of Otunba Niyi Adebayo and was Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning during Fayemi’s first term.

Omoleye is a former university administrator and former chairman of Ijero Local Government and had also served as Special Adviser in the Governor’s Office.

Oyebode, a seasoned journalist served as Chief Press Secretary to the Governor during Fayemi’s first term. He later served as Special Adviser on Media to him when he was Minister of Mines and Steel Development.
The statement said the appointments are with immediate effect.

Source: Dailypost
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INEC Chairman, Mahmoud Yakubu

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmoud Yakubu, has insisted, that the All Progressives Congress, APC, will not field candidates for the 2019 general elections in Zamfara state.
Yakubu stated this on the sideline of the opening of a two-day validation workshop entitled “Study on the cost of elections in ECOWAS Region.” which held in Abuja yesterday October 15th.

“We have issued a statement on Zamfara and nothing has changed. We stand by the statement that we issued,” he said.

The electoral commission in a letter to APC, said the party was barred from fielding candidates for governorship, National Assembly and state assembly elections because it failed to comply with Sections 87 and 31 of the Electoral Act of 2010.

Parties, according to the act, were expected to comply with the timetable and schedule of INEC, which says the conduct of primaries must be held between August 18 and October  7. INEC said it received reports from its Zamfara office, indicating that no primaries were conducted in the state “notwithstanding that our officials were fully mobilised and deployed.”

APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, in reacting to the claim, said there was no truth to INEC's statement.

Oshiomole insisted that the party organised primaries in Zamfara within the stipulated time, candidates emerged and they would be fielded in the 2019 election. Oshiomole added that the claim by INEC that no primaries were conducted could only be referring to its officials’ observation that actual voting did not take place. The APC chairman said that conduct of primaries was not the only mode prescribed for producing candidates in the electoral act, 2010 (as amended). 

"The contents of your said letter seem to conclude that no primaries were conducted by the APC in Zamfara State. We wish to state emphatically that nothing can be farther from the actual situation in Zamfara State. Kindly find a comprehensive report from the Zamfara Electoral Committee of the All Progressives Congress and signed by all the members on the conduct of primary elections for the Zamfara State held between 6th & 7th October, 2018. The summary of the report, as you will find, is that following the high level of friction, disagreements and threatened violence by various political camps before the primaries, all the aspirants met at City King Hotel, Gusau, to find a truce.

“After hours of intense horse-trading, a consensus was reached within the spirit and context of the Electoral Act and the constitution of our party on the basis of which a list was produced which was confirmed/affirmed by all delegates present. This was done in strict compliance with section 87 (6) of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as Amended).

“Therefore, the claim in your letter under reference that ‘no primaries were conducted by your party in the state, notwithstanding that our officials were fully mobilized and deployed’ could only be referring to their observation that actual voting did not take place, which is not the only mode prescribed for producing candidates in the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended). We, therefore, affirm that indeed primaries took place in Zamfara State.” Oshiomole's letter to the commission read.

Source: Tori
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The Yoruba Restoration Group (YRG) has described the constitution of the Presidential CampaignCouncil of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as an indication of the disdain the Party has for the Southwest.
The council has Senate President, Bukola Saraki as Director General and is saddled with the responsibility of ensuring victory for the party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the 2019 election.

In a statement made available to DAILY POST on Tuesday and signed by its Convener, Comrade Daud Jokotola, the group chided the party for always “thinking low” of the region despite its huge voting population.
YRG lamented that ever since former President Olusegun Obasanjo announced his exit from the PDP, the party had continued to treat Southwesterners as outcast.

It said: “It is on record that we only became the Speaker of the House of Representatives by chance during the Yar’Adua administration and ever since then, the PDP in what looks like a sort of coup have taken every leadership position meant for us to other regions.
“In 2017, when the Chairmanship of the party was zoned to the region by a committee setup by the party itself, they took that position from us and gave it to the South South.

“In the newly constituted Campaign Council of the party for the 2019 presidential election, the same party thought so low of us to drag us to merely regional Coordinator.”

“While we have no issues with the South East being the Vice Presidential candidate and have taken the decision in good faith as a contribution to national unity, we will not stand back and allow this open desecration of our honour continue.

“We wish to make it clear to the leadership of the party that in spite of the misrule of the APC administration, the party is not treating us as an outsider and no matter how bad it is our son is the Vice President there,” the statement read.

Source: Dailypost
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The Senate on Tuesday approved the security budget of N53.2 billion for the 2019 general elections.

The approval of the budget followed a presentation of the report of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Appropriation at plenary.

The Senate further approved that the money be vired from both the recurrent and capital components of the Special Intervention Programme captured in the Service Wide Vote of the 2018 Appropriation Act.

Presenting the report, the Chairman of the committee, Sen. Danjuma Goje, said that the committee members met and agreed to approve the budget of security agencies as part of the budget for the 2019 elections.
“The committee, having considered the report of its sub-committees on INEC Security and intelligence, interior and police affairs in respect of the provisions for INEC, NSA, DSS, NSCDC, NIS and NPF, approved request by President Muhammadu Buhari for passage,” Goje said.

The report showed the amount Buhari had requested for each of the agencies as follows: Office of National Security Adviser (NSA) (N4.3 billion) and Immigration (N2.6 billion).

Others are Department of State Security (DSS) (N12.2 billion), Nigeria Police Force (NPF) (N30.5 billion), National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) (N3.6 billion).

However, the Senate approved N9.5 billion for NSA, N2.6 billion for Immigration, N10.2 billion for DSS, N27.3 billion for NPF and NSCDC, N3.6 billion.

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FILE PHOTO] Buhari, President of Nigeria

He met first with Masari and Senator Abu Ibrahim who represents Katsina South in the National Assembly.

The governor, who arrived the Villa at about 2:00p.m. yesterday, proceeded straight to the president’s office for the event.

Although, no official reasons were given for the meetings, it was gathered that they may not be unconnected with the crisis generated by the just concluded All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries.

Source: Guandian
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                                                   Adams Oshiomhole        Yakubu Mahmood
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has disagreed with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the conduct of primaries in Zamfara State.

INEC says primaries were not held in the state within the stipulated time-frame, but the APC insists that it duly held the exercise.

In a letter addressed to INEC Chairman, Professor Yakubu Mahmood, on Wednesday, APC Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, insisted that the party would field its candidates in the 2019 general elections.

Oshiomhole explained that the party’s decision was in line with the provisions of Section 87 (6) of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended).
“Be informed, that in the spirit of due compliance with the law, we affirm that we shall indeed be presenting candidates for Governorship, National Assembly and State Assembly Elections in Zamfara State for the 2019 general elections,” he said.

This, he wrote, was to fulfill the party’s obligations “before the deadline for the submission of such names which has been fixed by your Commission on the 18th of October 2018 and in line with Section 87 (6) of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended)”.

Oshiomhole’s reaction comes barely 24 hours after the electoral body wrote to the APC National Chairman informing him that the party did not conduct primaries in Zamfara State within the stipulated time-frame.
In a letter signed by the commission’s acting Secretary, Okechukwu Ndeche, on Tuesday, and addressed to the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, INEC stated that the APC failed to conduct primaries for elective offices in Zamfara.

“You would note from the timetable that the conduct of the party primaries is scheduled to take place between 18th August and 7th October 2018,” the commission wrote in the letter titled “Failure to conduct party primaries in Zamfara State within the stipulated time frame”.
The commission said, consequently, the party would not field candidates for the governorship and legislative elections.

But Oshiomhole faulted INEC’s declaration, claiming that the electoral management body acted in error by basing its decision to bar the APC from presenting candidates on a false premise.

He said, “The contents of your said letter seem to conclude that no primaries were conducted by the APC in Zamfara State. We wish to state emphatically that nothing can be farther from the actual situation in Zamfara State.

“It is our contention, in the circumstance, that your letter is not only preemptive, but your position seems to negate the spirit of any fair hearing and is devoid of legal basis.”

Source: ChanelsTv
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Federal Government says it has disbursed about N2 billion to more than 14, 000 poor people in Kwara since 2016 under its National Cash Transfer (CCT) programme.

Hajia Aminah Yahaya, the Unit Head of the programme in Kwara, Said this on Wednesday in Ilorin at a stakeholders’ meeting on Co-Responsibility Selection.


Yahaya explained that the scheme, which started in Kwara two years ago, had beneficiaries across the 16 local government councils of the state.

According to her, the beneficiaries from Offa were able to save N15 million out of what people would describe as meagre, which had been disbursed for the businesses.


She said that Kwara was among the first eight pilot states of the cash transfer programme.

On the Co-Responsibility Programme, she explained it was a top up programme to the existing cash transfer to be assisted by the World Bank.

She said that beneficiaries of the top up cash transfer would receive N5, 000 monthly, but linked it to the participation in activities focused on human capital development.

In her presentation, Mrs Temitope Sinkaiye, the National Coordinator of the National Conditional Cash Transfer, said that programme was to address challenges and deficiencies of the conditional cash transfer.


“Conditional Cash Transfer supports the poor and vulnerable to improve consumption and develop savings skills.
“The overall objectives is aimed at reducing poverty, preventing the vulnerable households from falling further down the poverty line and building their resilience to withstand shocks.

“Top-up Cash transfer incorporates benefits linked to the participation of selected households in activities focused on human capital development and sustainable environment through adherence to specified conditionality known as co-responsibility”, she said.

She said that Kwara was expected to pick one of the co-responsibility areas which were Health, Education, Nutrition and Environment.
According to her, beneficiaries of the top-up will be required to fulfill certain co-responsibility as part of efforts to address the identified challenges.

“The co-responsibility shall be state specific, tailored to the deficiencies and capacities in each state.

“Each state shall depend on their conditions and priorities, choose their co-responsibility area,” she explained.

She added that the programme would ensure increase in children school enrolment and attendance, improve child nutrition, address environmental hazards to improve productive assets and improve utilization of health facilities for ante and post-natal care with child immunization.

She said that the beneficiaries would be trained to build their capacities for enhanced quality of life and also ensure that they made use of services and facilities available to bring about change in behaviour in the area of concern.

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Source: Vanguard
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