Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know Sunday morning
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. President Bola Tinubu on Saturday named former vice president Atiku Abubakar as one of those who created the mess Nigeria finds itself today. He said his administration has been busy clearing the mess and setting the stage for Nigeria’s leap into prosperity. The President spoke at the All Progressives Congress presidential rally in Port Harcourt organised by the Nyesom Wike-led Rainbow Coalition.
2. Rivers State governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has lauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his role in restoring peace in the state, saying the president acted as a true statesman during the political crisis. Speaking during the flag-off of the South-South campaigns of the All Progressives Congress for the re-election of President Tinubu in Port Harcourt on Saturday, Fubara stated that Tinubu’s intervention helped to sustain his government.
3. The Independent National Electoral Commission says it will not take a position on the leadership crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress until it obtains the certified true copy of the Federal High Court judgment which invalidated the David Mark-led leadership of the African Democratic Congress. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Haruna, said on Saturday that the matter would be considered at the commission’s meeting next week.
4. A woman, Mariya Abdullahi, has allegedly poisoned her co-wife’s two children in Takuti community, Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State, following her inability to have children of her own. It was gathered that the children, aged four and nine, drank a substance suspected to be poison from a cup allegedly given to them by Abdullahi.
5. Three persons have been killed, and seven others injured in two separate road crashes along Sagamu-Ikorodu Expressway and the Ota–Idiroko Road in Ogun State. The accidents occurred on Saturday at the Kam Steel axis of the Sagamu–Ikorodu Expressway and the Agarawu, Winners axis of the Ota–Idiroko Road.
6. Members and supporters of the Accord party in Osun State have accused party leaders of shortchanging them over the N50m mobilisation fund allegedly released for the recent PBAT Door-to-Door Movement programme in the state. It was gathered that the fund, earmarked for mobilising various support groups within the party, was allegedly not disbursed to many who participated in the programme.
7. The factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Tanimu Turaki, SAN, has vowed that the party will not succumb to what he described as the machinations of undemocratic forces seeking to undermine its survival. Turaki spoke on Saturday in Abuja when the forum of the party’s 2027 governorship candidates, loyal to the Interim National Working Committee, paid him a solidarity visit following the recent court judgment.
8. Vice presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has warned that the Federal High Court judgment against the leadership of his party could trigger unrest. He accused Nafiu Bala of being bribed, insisting that there is documented evidence of the former ADC leadership handing over to the David Mark-led committee.
9. The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, has said its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, is coming to stop what it described as the erosion of Nigeria’s commonwealth if elected president. The party said Obi and his running mate, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, were determined to address the growing contradiction between the expected gains from fuel subsidy removal, the Tinubu administration’s frequent borrowing and the persistent underfunding of national budgets.
10. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. says its gas transportation network remains fully available to power stations nationwide. The company said its subsidiary, NNPC Gas Infrastructure Company Ltd., had recorded no transportation-related constraints within its network. Mr Andy Odeh, NNPC Ltd.’s Chief Corporate Communications Officer, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday.
Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know Sunday morning