Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s appearance in a Channels Television programme, Politics Today, sparked concerns about the health of the much talked about merger or collaborative arrangement between his party, the New Nigeria Peoples Party and Labour Party , which has former Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi, as its presidential standard bearer.
“The major issue, as it stands today, is the issue of who becomes the president and who becomes the vice president and I believe this is the time really to advise, especially those who are positively behind the candidate of the Labour Party; that for me, I have seen an opportunity for the Southeast to be relevant in the next dispensation. In PDP, they are completely out, and also in the APC. The only opportunity now is the NNPP,” he disclosed.
“It is the reason why we have over 55% of Nigerians on the under or unemployment ladder. It is the reason why Nigeria is unsecured, because rather than vote for competence; we choose to vote for incompetence based on a primitive consideration of ethnicity and religion. “How many of them can you account for? How many personnel did you have on duty? How many of them were armed? Were there guards on the watchtower? What did they do? Does the CCTV work?”
The highpoint of the jailbreak was the escape of high profile terrorists numbering 63, who were profiled as Boko Haram insurgents, whose presence in the facility was said to have prompted the attack. As 400 inmates and the 63 Boko Haram commanders ran away after a section of the security fence was bombed-out, the the Controller disclosed that the records office was set on fire.
But, in a statement, Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, contended that the government couldn’t stop working because of such an attack. He stated: “The Presidency wishes to use this opportunity to react to mounting criticism of the trip to Dakar, Senegal by the President, and to stress that Governments don’t stop working because nations face terrorist threats.
The fresh ministers, who were earlier screened and cleared by the Senate included, Ikechukwu Ikoh, ; Umana Umana, ; Udi Odum, ; Ademola Adegoroye, ; Umar Ibrahim El-Yakub, ; Goodluck Opiah, and Nkama Ekumankama, Minister of State, Health. He explained that the reassignment of portfolios is aimed at reinvigorating certain sectors, where the government desires to accomplish improved results noting, as “this administration is now on the home-stretch of its second term, more work still needs to be done in diverse areas of the economy and national life.”
There was never a marriage in the first place.
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