'Presidency Should Be Zoned to the South in 2023'
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The credible print and online newspaper ThisNigeriaVol.1.Vol.1. No No 32 16 N200 N200 N2001 Monday April 26, – May 2, 2021 Monday April 26, – May 2, 2021 Editorial Kaduna: End the insanity now For some time now, Kaduna State has been in the news for the wrong reasons. There have been widespread cases of issues of insecurity, including killings, kidnappings, abductions and all sorts of banditry. Monday, January 4 – January 10, 2021 In the last five years, a report noted, more PG 3 EX-APC CHAIR, JOHN ODIGIE-OYEGUN EXCLUSIVE ‘Presidency should be zoned to the South in 2023’ •APC plotting how to win South-South states •They’re daydreaming –Orbih, PDP chieftain PGs 4 &12 The furore over Minister PG 10 •PantamiNigerians express outrage over his clearance as alleged terrorism sympathiser by the Presidency •House of Reps set to open probe •‘He’s been targeted’ Nigeria is on a precipice – OCJ Okocha, former President, Nigeria Bar Association PG 14 2 ThisNigeria Newsinpictures Monday April 26, – May 2, 2021 Dignitaries who received the Niger Republic president at the Presidential Villa. President Muhammadu Buhari welcoming his Nigerien counterpart, Mohamed Bazoum at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Malam Mele Kyari (R) and Chairman of Energy and Exploration President Muhammadu Buhari (R) with some presidential aides during the Ramadan lecture Production Limited (SEEPCO), Tony Chukwueke, signing a Gas Development at State House Mosque in Abuja. Agreement (GDA), as partners in the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 143, at the NNPC Towers in Abuja Members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja branch, protesting Special guest of honour and former President Goodluck Jonathan (4th, L); Gov. Douye Diri of for full implementation of Financial Autonomy of the judiciary in Lagos. Bayelsa State(4th, R); his wife, Dr Gloria Diri (3rd, R); Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, and other dignitaries during the Bayelsa Health Summit in Yenagoa. From left: Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General, Oyo State, Prof. Oyelowo Oyewo; Chairman, Section on Public Interest and Development Law (SPIDEL) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Prof. Paul Ananaba; Cross-section of newly-elected chairmen from 23 local government areas during their visit and Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, during SPIDEL delegation’s visit to the to Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, in Port Harcourt. governor in Ibadan. ThisNigeria 3 Monday April 26, – May 2, 2021 Kaduna: The insanity must end now than 1,000 lives have been wasted The modus operandi the circumstances, surrender our OUR VISION in the state, especially in Southern kidnappers leave so much to be country to bandits, terrorists and To be Nigeria and Africa’s Kaduna, fuelled by intermittent desired. They are said to use marauding killers. foremost print and raids by bandits and reprisals. hacksaws, hammers and other digital newspaper brand, harmful tools for their operations, Government must find a way, projecting our country and Instances of these kinds of uprisings with no less than 20 to 50 any way, to deal with this ugly continent in their authentic that have reduced the profile of the motorcycles and buses to carry situation. colours to the world state that used to be the epicentre their ‘preys’. of power in the North, from the It must live up to its constitutional time of Sir Ahmadu Bello as the What is happening in Kaduna is and primary responsibility of OUR MISSION prime minister. indeed the worst form of ‘evil protecting lives and property To deliver high-quality killings’, as Governor Nasir el- of the citizens. That’s why it is In September 29, 2020, an article Rufai noted after the killing of called government, to govern the journalism through our in a newspaper sounded the alarm students by bandits at Kaduna people in peace and prosperity. print and digital platforms that the spate of kidnapping in State’s first private university, in objective, unbiased Kaduna was beating the Zamfara Greenfield, on Tuesday. With worsening economic and credible manner, that record. In fact, it was stated that atmosphere, the people of guarantees justice, equity Kaduna was fast becoming the The abductors had raided the Kaduna, indeed all Nigerians, and fairness to all kidnap centre in the country. university, kidnapped and cannot afford to live in perpetual eventually killed three students state of fear occasioned by the The history is long. There are -Dorathy Tirnom Yohanna, terrible and terrifying state of THISNIGERIA frightening examples of abductions Precious Nwakacha and Sadiq insecurity pervading our country. MEDIA COMPANY and killings, and other forms of Muazu, an issue that has insecurity in the state that should drawn national outrage and We in ThisNigeria believe Eric Osagie make all of us worry. condemnation by President that the issue of violence that Publisher/CEO Muhammadu Buhari. leaves people dead should not For instance, on January 24, 2020, be reduced to items of statistics. 30 gunmen stormed the compound However, it should go beyond Widows, widowers and orphans of one Philip Ataga, a medical condemnations and threats to put are sadly being churned out official, shot a local guard, and a halt to the mindless killings. every now and then. Many have carted the wife and children away. lost uncles, aunties, children, The wife was killed a week later Things can’t continue this way. brothers and sisters. Editorial when the ransom of N150 million This madness has to stop. The Charles Abah demanded by the captors for the killings have gone on for far too One Nigerian life lost in gruesome Kassim Omomia wife was not forthcoming. Last long. Enough should be enough! and barbaric circumstances Emma Obe year, two police officers were is enough to provoke outrage. Mudiaga Affe kidnapped in what was termed We cannot, under any When hundreds and thousands Online ‘distinct operations’ in the state. are lost, it should diminish us all, Adekunle Aliyu because of our shared humanity. Technical In April and December 2019, It is in the light of the above Vincent Chukwuka no fewer than 35 persons were that we call on the relevant Graphics reportedly killed in Kaduna by authorities, especially Governor Jonathan Agboola bandits. The same year, some 30 el-Rufai to sit up to confront the Accounts/Admin persons were kidnapped in Rigasa Kaduna is now said security challenge facing the Blessing Nwosu part of the state capital by bandits to be running neck- state. Sales & Distribution and taken to a nearby forest. John Okpaire and-neck We believe, as governor of the Advert / Marketing Meanwhile, it is not yet confirmed with Zamfara as a state, he can’t be happy or The Media Post whether the 29 of the 39 kidnapped major kidnapping comfortable with the state of students of the School of Forestry affairs today. He could also have Contributing Editors/ Mechanisation, Afaka, in Igabi local hotspot. been doing his best to curtail Special Columnists government area (also in southern In the first quarter of the situation. However, with the Kaduna) since March 11, have general insecurity in Kaduna, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, PhD been freed by their abductors. 2020, it was reported it is clear his best has not been Issa Aremu, mni that there were more good enough. He must find a way, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN As a matter of fact, Kaduna is now in collaboration with the Federal Sam Kargbo said to be running neck-and-neck abductions in Government, to break the cycle Tony Iyare with Zamfara as a major kidnapping of insecurity in his state. Lindsay Barret hotspot. In the first quarter of Kaduna, 2020, it was reported that there compared to It is the primary duty of were more abductions in Kaduna, government to secure the land compared to documented cases in documented and defend its people. Enough of 2019. cases in 2019 the insanity in Kaduna. 4 ThisNigeria NewsNigeria Monday April 26, – May 2, 2021 APC ’ll win South-South in 2023-Oyegun •He’s daydreaming-PDP certainly “day dreaming.” is the currently the South-South APC Elders Council chair- By Ben Ogbemudia man said, “At the end of the selections for the primaries of Oyegun, who spoke in an exclusive interview with our corre- the party in the South-South, the bitterness was so much on ormer National Chairman of All Progressives Congress spondents, noted that the APC was strategically working hard ground in virtually all the states. The bitterness was so much, (APC) and ex-governor of Edo State, Chief John Odigie- to win the states in the forthcoming polls. He also spoke on that it affected the party from being a political force. There FOyegun, has declared that the party will win the South- his relationship with his successor and former governor of Edo were too many factions in each and every state. South states in the 2023 general elections. State, Adams Oshiomhole, the crisis that rocked the party in This came as the Peoples Democratic Party said the APC is the state in 2020 as well as other national issues. Oyegun, who “We are trying to bring all these people together and let them see reasons. So that they can now reason that they have one objective, and that everybody must be committed to it, irre- spective of differences. Everybody must struggle to win and return to the party to the government houses in the South- South. “Basically, we are equally going to approach all the different parties in Edo State, including the governor, where we will tell them, please hold on, the past is gone. We have to think of bringing everybody back, including the governor, whose origi- nality is APC.