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Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Thursday, 10 March, 2022

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10 March 2022

7:32 AM

Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review

Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Thursday, March, 10th 2022.

The PUNCH reports that the Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Wednesday said the governors of the All Progressives Congress discovered a grand conspiracy between the lawyers of the ousted Chairman of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni; and some fifth columnists to postpone the national convention of the party through a court injunction.

Contrary to expectations that the Senate would succumb to the request by President Muhammadu Buhari to further amend Electoral Act 2022 by deleting section 84(12), lawmakers yesterday, roundly rejected the request, fueling commendations from various quarters, The Guardian reports.

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, ratified the zoning arrangement endorsed by President Muhammadu Buhari and officially zoned the national chairmanship seat of the party to the North-Central geopolitical zone, Vanguard reports.

According to The Nation, Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai last night explained why the All Progressives Congress (APC) caretaker chairman had to be pushed aside. According to him, certain actions and inactions of Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni put the ruling party at risk because they were a hindrance to the plan to hold the convention on March 26.

At least four ministers among them Rotimi Amaechi, Raji Fashola, Abubakar Malami and Chris Ngige are in a tight corner following the senate’s rejection of President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to amend the Electoral Act, 2022, according to Daily Trust.