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I can never return to your party, Obasanjo tells PDP leaders

January 22, 2022Posted in National Issue, PoliticsLeave a comment

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, 84, made this known when a PDP delegation led by the National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, four former governors, and members of the party’s National Working Committee visited him at his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

In the team include the PDP Vice-Presidential candidate in the 2019 election, Peter Obi; former Governors, Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo), Liyel Imoke (Cross River) and Donald Duke (Cross River).

Addressing the PDP delegation, Obasanjo said, “I’m no longer in partisan politics and there is nothing that can bring back. Anybody who wants my advice, I will always be there in the best interest of Nigeria.

“Whatever I do in my own life…because I became president on the platform of PDP, PDP will continue to be part of my life. Since the day I tore my PDP card, that was the day I ceased to be a member of PDP. That day I vowed not to be a member of any political party.

“I will continue to be a statesman.”

Punch

JUST IN: Putin signs law extending tenure by two terms

April 5, 2021April 5, 2021Posted in PoliticsLeave a comment

Russian President Vladimir Putin has gave final approval to legislation allowing him to hold office for two additional six-year terms, opening the possibility for him to stay in power until 2036.

The 68-year-old Russian leader, who has already been in power for more than two decades, signed off on the bill , according to a copy posted on the government’s legal information portal.

Putin proposed the change last year as part of constitutional reforms that Russians overwhelmingly backed in a vote in July. Lawmakers approved the bill last month.

The legislation will reset presidential term limits, allowing Putin to run in elections again after his current and second consecutive term expires in 2024.

Putin was first elected president in 2000 and served two consecutive four-year terms. His ally Dmitry Medvedev took his place in 2008, which critics saw as a way around Russia’s limit of two consecutive terms for presidents.

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BREAKING: Senate passes N13.5trn 2021 budget

December 21, 2020Posted in PoliticsLeave a comment

The Senate at a special plenary has passed the 2021 budget totalling N 13 . 5 trn .

The fiscal document is predicated on oil benchmark $ 40 per barrel , N3 . 324 trn for debt servicing , N4 . 1 trn for capital expenditure , N5 . 6 trillion for recurrent , N496 bn for statutory transfer .

It has an increment of N505 bn.

The President , Major General Muhammadu Buhari ( retd . ), presented N13 . 082 trn to National Assembly on October 8 .

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