Buhari vs Atiku: Nigerians react as ex-VP reveals father is from Sokoto

Nigerians have reacted to recent revelation by Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on his true nationality.

Atiku had on Sunday in his response to the All Progressives Congress, APC, petition before the Presidential election tribunal said he was born in Jada in 1946, in present day Adamawa state, but then part of Northern Cameroon by Nigerian parents and therefore “a citizen of Nigeria by birth.”

father, Garba Atiku Abdulkadir was a Nigerian by birth who hailed from Wurmo in present day Sokoto State.

He further revealed that his mother, Aisha Kande was also a Nigerian who hailed from Dutse in present day Jigawa State.

This has since stirred reactions on social media.

Some Nigerians are of the opinion that Atiku would have to present birth certificates of his parents as proof at the Tribunal.

https://dailypost.ng/2019/04/22/buhari-vs-atiku-nigerians-react-ex-vp-reveals-father-sokoto/

35 Senators Backed Ndume for Senate President

Abuja – There are strong indications that no fewer than 35 senators from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), are backing former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, to clinch the seat of the President of the Senate in the 9th National Assembly. It was gathered that the lawmakers are angry with the leadership of the party over its decision to impose Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan without recourse to them. The lawmakers, who pleaded anonymity expressed disappointment at Lawan over an alleged statement credited to him that all the APC State governors have donated their Senators to him to ensure his victory. The Senators-elect said: “We are not happy over claims by Lawan that APC governors have donated their Senators-elect to him in order to realise his Senate Presidency. “Even they have gone ahead to share the juicy committees to Senators-elect that are favourable to the imposition.” The lawmakers said they disliked attempts to intimidate and harass some of them by using the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), adding that they have uncovered plans by the party to plant spies in the gallery of the chamber to monitor the elections. The lawmakers rooting for Ndume are mostly drawn from the incoming senators and a few former governors who feel slighted by the bullying tendencies of the party National Chairman, Adam Oshiomhole. A few of the lawmakers who spoke to our correspondent on the sideline of their induction exercise holding at the Transcorps Hilton in Abuja asked the party to retrace its steps to avoid the pitfall of 2015 when it lost the seat of Deputy Senate Presidency to the main opposition. This was as some lawmakers in opposition PDP like the former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, who already perceive Lawan as a symbol of the ruling APC and a willing tool for the executive give hint that APC might be in for another shocker. https://www.independent.ng/senate-presidency-35-apc-senators-back-ndume/

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OGUN STATE ELECTIONS UPDATE ; INEC REJECTS APPLICATION FOR VOTES RECOUNTS

Do you know that!!!

Justice Elvis Ngene-led three-man National Assembly Election Petition Tribunals sitting in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital has rejected an application seeking to recount the ballot papers used in the Ijebu Ode/Odogbolu/Ijebu North East federal comstituency in Ogun State.

Justice Ngene, while reading the ruling on an ex parte motion brought before it by the petitioners; Taiwo Shote and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said the prayer was not captured by section 151 of the Electoral Act.

According to him, the Electoral Act was clear on the ex parte order which the tribunal can be grated which, he said, does not go beyond inspection of electoral materials and and obtainance of Certified True Copies of the materials.

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Rate Your Attitude !!!

The pattern at which we live our lives differs, and that is the reason we must take time to learn from people close and near.

The capacity to see through other people in knowledge, give room for us to move forward in life because knowledge is key.

I want to ask you..  From 1 to 10 kindly rate your attitude to knowledge and life.

To be continued..... #Lokko