The Nation October 22, 2014

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Cash crunch ‘threatens 31 states‘

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HIRTY-ONE of the 36 states may be unable to meet their obligations to workers and citizens, Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu warned yesterday. States have been finding it difficult to pay their wages and meet other expenses due to the shortfall in the allocation being shared from the Federation Account. Only five states, Aliyu said, are viable.

From Kolade Adeyemi, Kano

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ANO State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso yesterday explained why the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win next year’s presidential election. According to the APC presidential aspirant, the fact that the APC is set to organise a transparent primary to pick its candidate will swing the votes in its favour. Kwankwaso, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and one time Defence Minister, is roundContinued on page 4

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TR UTH IN DEFENCE OF FREEDOM TRUTH

Why APC ’ll defeat PDP, by Kwankwaso

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•Kwankwaso

•Nigeria not broke, says minister From Nduka Chiejina, Abuja and Jide Orintunsin, Minna

A meeting last week of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) was aborted because there was no cash to share. Aliyu, speaking in Minna, the state capital, through Act-

ing Commissioner for Finance Hassan Abdulahi, was afraid that the development will affect the payment of this month’s salary. Aliyu, who spoke at the opening of the fourth National Congress and Workshop of Cooperative Federation of Nigeria (CFN), alerted civil servants of possible delay in the payment of salContinued on page 4

•INSIDE: APC WRITES JONATHAN, IG ON ASARI-DOKUBO’S THREAT AGAINST MOHAMMED P5

•A MAR CH AGAINT IMPUNITY MARCH IMPUNITY:: Members of the Citizens Arise Movement of Nigeria (CAMN) , an NGO, during a ptotest in Abuja...yesterday. STORY ON PAGE 9

PHOTO: ABAYOMI FAYESE

Uncertainty over Chibok girls as focus shifts to Chad •SEE ALSO PAGE 6

Officials keep vigil Govt lied, says elder

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LL eyes were on Chad yesterday as the anxiety over the fate of the schoolgirls kidnapped over six months ago grew. A Federal Government team was believed to have left for N’djamena, the Chadian capital, to continue talks with Boko Haram leaders to free the Chibok

From Yusuf Alli, Abuja

girls and end the insurgency in the Northeast. The meeting in Chad, is a follow-up to last weekend’s talks between the government and the sect’s representatives in Saudi Arabia. After that meeting, Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh announced a ceasefire. He ordered all field

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SOME QUESTIONS •Who are the negotiators for the Federal Government? •Who is Danladi Ahmadu in the Boko Haram leadership to negotiate on their behalf? •Why is the government of Borno State kept in the dark? •Why the negotiation now when President Jonathan is anxious to announce he is running in 2015? •Is Boko Haram no longer a faceless group? •When excatly will the girls return home?

commanders to respect it. But there was no word from the leaders of the sect and then, last weekend there were at-

tacks on some villages in Borno State. Many people were killed, leading to questions over the alleged cease-

fire.. A purported Boko Haram leader Danladi Ahmadu, told VOA's Hausa service yester-

day that he was heading for Chad to await word on when the talks would start. Hassan Tukur, a top aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, told VOA that there was never a meeting planned for yesterday, despite a report to the contrary from another presidential aide, Dr. Doyin Okupe. But Tukur said the negotiations with Boko Haram are "ongoing and legitimate". The government blamed some of the attacks after the ceasefire deal on "fringe" Continued on page 4

•LIFE P15 •SPORTS P23 •MONEY P26 •INVESTORS P28 •POLITICS P43 •FOREIGN P58


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