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Wike Mocks Atiku over Obasanjo’s Endorsement of Obi You’re a mole in our party, PDP PCC tells Rivers governor Asks him, did Amaechi support you, ‘good product’? Atiku's campaign: Your unholy union with Tinubu based on treachery, you’re both treacherous Onyebuchi Ezigbo, Emameh Gabriel in Abuja, Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt and Gideon Arinze in Enugu

Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, has said Sunday’s endorsement of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, by former

President Olusegun Obasanjo speaks volumes about the character of his former vice and current presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic

Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Wike called Atiku a bad product. The governor spoke yesterday at the flag-off of the Akpabu- Odido

Road project in the Emohua Local Government Area of the state. But reacting swiftly, PDP Presidential Campaign Council (PCC)

returned Wike’s diatribe, asking sarcastically if his own former boss, Continued on page 9

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Presidency: Obasanjo Destabilising Internal Democracy Says ex-president deceived south-east by failing to deliver Second Niger bridge after turning the sod Deji Elumoye in Abuja The Presidency, yesterday, reacted to an open letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on

New Year day, in which he said Nigeria had performed poorly under President Muhammadu Buhari in the last seven and a half years, saying the ex-president had no moral right

to push such uncommon position. The president’s spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu, in reaction to Obasanjo, accused the former president of untoward practises as

president from 1999 to 2007, citing several instances of his destabilising internal democracy by removing five governors illegally via the State Houses of Assembly.

The presidency also recalled that under Obasanjo’s watch, the local government allocation of Lagos State government was withheld despite Supreme Court’s pronouncement

judgment that the allocations should be released to the state. The statement stated inter alia: Continued on page 9

Muslim Leaders to Nigerians: Vote for Candidate Who'll Lead with Fairness, Justice Urges people to collect their PVCs, elect leaders of their choice Cautions 'accidental Imams’ and ‘emergency Sheikhs’ preaching hatred, disunity Says Muslim women should feel free to wear hijab, not to be discriminated against Wants security agencies to do more to protect lives, bring killers to justice Ahead of the general election, which commences next month, the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has advised Nigerians to freely choose the best candidates and vote those who would lead with justice, fairness and uprightness. NSCIA stated this in a communique released yesterday, at the end of its special extraordinary meeting of the expanded General Purpose Committee (EGPC) meeting held on Wednesday, December 28, 2022. The council warned those it referred to as “accidental Imams” and “emergency Sheikhs”, who promoted hatred, disunity and dissension in their mosques and on the social media to desist from such negative activities. It also expressed concern over the worsening insecurity in the country and called on the security agencies to protect Muslims, especially in the south-eastern part of the country. The council had convened a Continued on page 9

REQUIEM SERVICE/TRIBUTES FOR IFUEKO OMOIGUI OKAURU'S FATHER... L-R: Eghosa Omoigui, Dr. Sota Omogui, Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru and Nosa Omogui, at the requiem/tributes of their late father and Nigeria's first Surveyor General, PHOTO: AYO AJAYI Daniel Aiyanyo Omoigui, held at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Abuja….yesterday.


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