Abuja — President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, assured that despite security challenges facing the country, the 2015 general elections will be held.
Speaking at the 2014 Democracy Day Interdenominational Church Service in Abuja, President Jonathan said the next Democracy Day celebration would be held when a new government would have been ushered in.
“After today, the next Democracy Day will witness a new government. I remember when I was in my village this morning to collect my permanent voter’s card, and a pressman asked me whether there will be elections in Nigeria, I told him there would be elections in this country.
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Sunday, 25 May 2014
Chibok abduction: PDP President denounces State Government approach
The National President of the PDP, Adamu Sailesh, believes that the Borno State Governor as the Chief Security Officer of his State needs to do more in the search for the more than 200 Chibok college girls.
In an exclusive interview with channels television and his first major interview since becoming the President of the PDP, feels Mr Sailesh Chibok situation that has been used as a political instrument.
The PDP Chairman talked to our correspondent, Betty Dibia in South Africa.
He has mentioned the warnings preceding the incident that should have prevented Chibok-the State Governor of the opening the school to host exams, but that he refused.
Sailesh cited warnings by the Ministry of education and the West African examination Council, WAEC, expressing their fear and the view that the school was not fit, but that the State Government met with guarantees of sufficient certainty, only for the attack can be successfully carried out by the insurgents.
He, therefore, condemned the idea of the Governor traveling abroad and foreign media organizations to speak and reveal what he saw as issues of Nigeria's governance.
In an exclusive interview with channels television and his first major interview since becoming the President of the PDP, feels Mr Sailesh Chibok situation that has been used as a political instrument.
The PDP Chairman talked to our correspondent, Betty Dibia in South Africa.
He has mentioned the warnings preceding the incident that should have prevented Chibok-the State Governor of the opening the school to host exams, but that he refused.
Sailesh cited warnings by the Ministry of education and the West African examination Council, WAEC, expressing their fear and the view that the school was not fit, but that the State Government met with guarantees of sufficient certainty, only for the attack can be successfully carried out by the insurgents.
He, therefore, condemned the idea of the Governor traveling abroad and foreign media organizations to speak and reveal what he saw as issues of Nigeria's governance.
Our cautious Northern Governors
LAST week Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, was engaged in an interesting exchange with the Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, the self-styled Chief Servant of Niger State. Maku accused the Arewa governors of “not doing enough” in the effort to bring the Islamic insurgency being championed by Boko Haram to an end.
In a sharp repartee, Muazu said Maku was being “uncharitable”, adding that no governor would like his domain to be turned into a theatre of attacks, mass killings, abductions and destruction of schools, an experience that Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kassim Shettima in particular, is going through on a daily basis.
Yes, you could say Maku was engaging in the blame-shifting tactics that the Federal Government and the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have resorted to as the Boko Haram atrocities expand both in intensity and scope of devilry.
In a sharp repartee, Muazu said Maku was being “uncharitable”, adding that no governor would like his domain to be turned into a theatre of attacks, mass killings, abductions and destruction of schools, an experience that Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kassim Shettima in particular, is going through on a daily basis.
Yes, you could say Maku was engaging in the blame-shifting tactics that the Federal Government and the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have resorted to as the Boko Haram atrocities expand both in intensity and scope of devilry.