What I’ll do if Tinubu invites me for talks – LP’s Apapa
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The factional chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Lamidi Apapa, has revealed what he will do should the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu invite him for reconciliation talks.
Apapa made the revelation while speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Thursday.
He said, “Before I honour him, I will consult the executive of the party, so if they ask me to go ahead, I will do. executive says go ahead it becomes our position. “It’s not going to be my position. If they say go and see him or we are going to see him, it becomes the position of the party not the position of Alhaji Bashiru Lamidi Apapa.
“All of us will collectively go and see him. That is if we have the mandate of the house that we are going to see him.”
Recall that Apapa and his faction have been at loggerheads with the faction of the suspended National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure over the leadership of the party.
Some factions of the party clashed at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, venue of the Presidential Election Petition Court on Wednesday.
Biden plans new Pacific islands summit after PNG no-show
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U.S. President Joe Biden will arrange another summit of Pacific island leaders this year after the disappointment caused by his cancellation of a visit to Papua New Guinea due to the domestic debt ceiling crisis, his national security adviser said on Wednesday.
Political analysts said Biden’s cancellation of the short visit to Port Moresby planned for next Monday after a G7 summit in Japan had dealt a blow to U.S. credibility in the Pacific island region, where Washington is competing with China for influence.
Asked en route with Biden to Japan whether the decision to cancel gave Beijing an advantage, Jake Sullivan, the president’s senior security adviser, said the U.S. saw the “demand signal for the United States only growing for the Pacific islands.”
“Within this calendar year, you will see the president convening the leaders of the Pacific islands for a major summit, which will be the second time in 12 months he has done that,” Sullivan told reporters aboard Air Force One.
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Failure To Honour Invitation: Court Issues Bench Warrant Against Amaechi, Tonye Cole
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A bench warrant has been issued by a High Court in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital, against former Governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi, who is also the immediate past Minister of Transport,i and Tonye Cole, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the state, in the just concluded general elections, for their failure to honour its invitation.
The report has it that Justice Chinwendu Nwogu also issued a bench warrant against Sahara Energy Resources Limited, Chamberlain Peterside, NG powers HPS Limited, and Cenpropsaroten Management Limited following a lawsuit filed by the Rivers State government for alleged misappropriation of public funds against Amaechi during his tenure as governor of the state from 2007 to 2015.
Recall that Criminal charges were filed after Governor Nyesom Wike constituted a seven-man panel in 2022 to probe Amaechi over an alleged withdrawal of N96 billion from the treasury during his tenure as governor. They investigated the sale of valuable assets such as Omoku Gas Turbine, Afam Gas Turbine, Trans Amadi Gas Turbine, Eleme Gas Turbine, Olympia Hotel, and the contract award for the execution of the monorail project.
Leave 10th NASS Members To Choose Their Leaders, Middle Belt Group Tells Shettima
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Ahead of the inauguration and election of the leadership of the 10th National Assembly, the Coalition of Middle Belt Youth Leaders has urged the Vice President-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima, to stop whipping religious sentiments and allow members of the National Assembly to choose their leaders.
The Middle Belt Youth Leaders were responding to Shettima’s comment that the issue of Islamization will be at the front burner if a Muslim emerged as the Senate President of the 10th Assembly.
According to the youth leaders, if Shettima is sensitive to the plight of Christians in the country, he should step down for a Christian to emerge as the Vice President for the religious balancing that he is now advocating for.
Speaking at a world press conference in Abuja on Thursday, the leader of the coalition, Nasiru Jagaba, said a competent person should be elected as the next Senate President irrespective of religion or tribe.
They urged Shettima to desist from making unhealthy statements and allow elected lawmakers to choose the Presiding Officers of their choice.
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