Tinubu: I Have No Preferred Candidates for 10th National Assembly Leadership APC charges lawmakers-elect to ensure victory in Saturday’s elections We hope to win minimum of 30 states, says Senator Musa Deji Elumoye in Abuja President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
stepped into the simmering issue of the prospective leadership of the 10th National Assembly, saying he
has no preferred candidates for the leadership of the federal legislature to be inaugurated in June. Tinubu made
this known at the Old Banquet Hall of the State House, while addressing new members-elect to the National
Assembly at a meeting organised by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
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Presidency: Feb 25 Presidential Poll Better Than Past Elections in Nigeria Says only losers disputing outcome of exercise Declares outcome strengthens Electoral Act’s integrity Deji Elumoye in Abuja The Presidency, yesterday, rated the February 25 presidential election, which produced the candidate of
the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, as presidentelect, as the best the country had seen in recent times despite all the controversies that have trailed the
exercise. Many foreign and local observers have reported that the conduct of the election failed to meet the expectations of Nigeria and that
INEC failed to follow the Electoral Act and even its own guidelines in the conduct of the poll. However, Presidential spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu, in
a release, declared that the APC victory in the presidential election, underscored by the nationwide wave of support in the National Assembly results, was a clear mandate
for the party to retain power for another term of four years. "This election is an improvement Continued on page 10
CBN Directs Commercial Banks to Accept, Pay Out Old N500, N1,000 Notes Apex bank needs no presidential directive to comply with Supreme Court order, says president Insists president has never done anything to obstruct course of justice NLC gives FG 7-day ultimatum to end currency scarcity, threatens strike Emefiele debunks fake news, denies alleged plot against Tinubu Deji Elumoye, Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja, Segun James and Dike Onwuamaeze in Lagos The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), yesterday, directed commercial banks and other financial institutions in the country to continue to accept and pay out the old N200, N500,
and N1,000 notes till December 31, 2023, in line with a recent Supreme Court ruling. In a statement signed by CBN’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications, Dr. Isa Abdulmumin, the central bank disclosed that it had Continued on page 10
TEMS AT THE OSCARS... Temilade Openiyi, known as Tems, who was nominated this year in the best original song category, at the 95th Annual Academy Awards in the United States…Sunday