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Nigeria Breaking News Today Thursday, August 23 2018
This is a roundup of some of the breaking news in Nigeria for Thursday, August 23 2018
Buhari Only Deserves Second Term When He Can Work And Not Just Walk 800 Meters
Reno Omokri, a former aide to Ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted to the news making round, that the Presidency declared President Muhammadu Buhari fit for a second term due to the 800m trekking he took in Daura, Katsina State.
Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, had on Tuesday said that the 800 metres walk taken by Buhari from the Eid ground to his private residence in Daura, Katsina State is a sign that he was fit to seek re-election in 2019.
Buhari Administration Focuses On What’s Good For The Common Man – Osinbajo
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo during a townhall meeting on Tuesday in Bariga/Somolu LCDA in Lagos State said the President Muhammadu Buhari administration will continue to focus on the common man.
While Osinbajo celebrated Sallah with Lagosians, he said the administration is taking Nigerians out of poverty through social investment programmes.
APC Has Made Saraki the Current Issue in Nigerian Politics, Say Senators
Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isah Hamma Misau and his counterpart in the Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, Senator Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim have stated that the manner in which the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) left all issues which should get serious attention from the ruling party and focused on attacking Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has made the Senate President the issue in Nigerian politics.
APC Chieftain, Ogbonnia, Attacks Tinubu For Endorsing Automatic Ticket For Buhari
SKC Ogbonnia, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, has attacked the national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, for endorsing automatic ticket for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 election.
In a letter on Wednesday entitled ‘Asiwaju Tinubu, What Has Buhari Promised You This Time?’, he recalled that the former Lagos governor once admonished the governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha for once saying “there is no other alternative to President Buhari.”
Saraki: Arrest Miyetti Allah Leader Now – PDP Tells Buhari
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged President Muhammadu Buharito order the arrest of the National Coordinator of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in Benue State, Alhaji Garus Gololo.
The call for the arrest of the Miyetti Allah’s leader was instigated by his call for the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki to resign his position or be forced to do so, in a National newspaper interview he granted.
2019: Reject Saraki And PDP, Vote For APC – Oyedepo Calls On Voters
Iyiola Oyedepo, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, in Kwara State, has called on the people of the state to vote for the party in the 2019 general elections.
He urged the people of the state not to forget the hardship they had been subjected to under the leadership of Bukola Saraki, since 2003, the current administration and the Peoples Democratic Party.
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