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2023: Bello declares for presidency, promises security, make 20m Nigerians millionaires by 2030

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Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Saturday declared his intention to contest the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.

While making the declaration, Bello advised Nigerians to make informed decisions on who becomes the next president, as he warned against repeating past mistakes.

The governor, who expressed his interest at an event at the Eagles Square in Abuja, named Hafsat Abiola-Costello, daughter of the winner of the annulled June 1993 presidential election, late Chief Moshood Abiola, as the Director-General of his presidential campaign organisation.

He also named former Senate Deputy Leader, Jonathan Zwingina, as the national coordinator of his campaign organisation.

Bello promised to create 20 million millionaires by the year 2030 using the South-East model of apprenticeship and that he would end the farmer-herder clashes.

He said his youthfulness would enhance his performance, noting that he was physically and mentally fit to lead Nigeria to prosperity.

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He said he would apply a lot of empathy in governance in recruitment and distribution of resources if elected.

He added, “The 2023 presidential election is actually a battle for the survival of Nigeria and I am passionate enough about my country to fight for the privilege. I gave Kogi state a better treatment.”

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NLC kicks against Abure’s re-election as LP chairman, says ‘it’s an illegality’

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The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), on Wedenesday, said Julius Abure’s re-election as chairman of the Labour Party (LP) is “an illegality”.

Abure was re-elected LP chairman on Wednesday at the party’s national convention which was held in Nnewi, Anambra state.

Ikechukwu Emetu, deputy governor of Abia state and chairman of the convention, declared Abure as the winner.

 

The convention was attended by party chairmen from the 36 states of the federation and the federal capital territory (FCT), members of states and national assemblies as well as representatives from LGAs.

 

The re-election of Abure came a week after members of the NLC picketed the LP secretariat in Abuja.

 

The protesting NLC members demanded the postponement of the party’s national convention.

 

The labour body accused Abure of “financial rascality and contempt for the leadership of NLC”, and of “unilaterally trying to hold a national convention in contravention of the constitution of the party”.

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Reacting to Abure’s re-election, Benson Upah, spokesperson of the NLC, said “the whole exercise was a charade”.

 

“It is an illegality, a nullity. The whole exercise was a charade! Nothing can legitimise such brazen impunity,” The Punch quoted Upah as saying.

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LP re-elects Abure as national chairman amid NLC opposition

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Julius Abure has been re-elected as the national chairman of the Labour Party (LP).

 

Abure was re-elected on Wednesday at the party’s national convention held in Nnewi, Anambra state.

 

Ikechukwu Emetu, deputy governor of Abia state and chairman of the convention, declared Abure as the winner.

 

The convention was attended by party chairmen from the 36 states of the federation and the federal capital territory (FCT), members of states and national assemblies as well as representatives from LGAs.

 

The re-election of Abure came a week after members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) pocketed the LP secretariat in Abuja.

 

The protesting NLC members demanded the postponement of the party’s national convention.

 

The labour body accused Abure of “financial rascality and contempt for the leadership of NLC”, and of “unilaterally trying to hold a national convention in contravention of the constitution of the party”.

 

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The election of a new chairman to elect a new chairman was part of the convention’s agenda.

 

Others are the amendment of the party’s constitution and the dissolution of the national working committee (NWC).

 

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APC constitutes nine-man committee for Ondo governorship primary

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The National Working Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress has set up a nine-man committee to oversee the primary election for Ondo governorship aspirants.

 

This was disclosed in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka.

 

The development comes barely a day after 15 members of the Ondo State House of Assembly, including the Speaker, Olamide Oladiji, endorsed the governor of the state, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, to clinch the party ticket and win the November 2024 governorship election.

 

The APC statement partly read, “By a resolution adopted at its 144th meeting held on March 6, 2024, the National Working Committee of our great party constituted a governorship primary election committee of its members for the smooth running of election processes in Ondo State.”

 

However, the primary election committee members comprised only the APC NWC members.

 

They include Emma Eneukwu (Chairman), Festus Fuanter, Victor Giadom, Prof. Abdulkarim Kana, Sulaiman M. Argungu, Dr. Mary Alile Idele, Aare Durotolu Bankole, Nze Chidi Duru and Morka.

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