Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the statement dismissed the rumored presidential ambition in 2023

Ahmed Tinubu says he has not decided on 2023 presidential race. (Punch)

Tinubu says he’s currently more worried about the spread of corona-virus in Nigeria and its economic fallout.









Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) says he has not made any decision to run for president in the 2023 presidential election.

Tinubu disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, June 27, 2020, two days after his party’s National Executive Committee dissolved Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC).

In the opinions of many Nigerians, the dissolution of the party’s NWC dealt a blow to the perceived presidential ambition of the party leader because of his closeness to Oshiomhole, the former chairman of the party.

But the former Governor of Lagos State in the statement dismissed the rumored presidential ambition, saying at this moment, he’s more worried for Nigeria about the spread of corona-virus and its economic fallout. Below is Tinubu’s full statement.

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, APC National Leader, (TheNation)

BECOMING THE PARTY WE WERE INTENDED TO BE

I wish to begin my remarks by commending members of the National Working Committee. Under their collective stewardship, the party earned great and important victories, not least the vital second mandate handed to President Buhari. President Buhari’s victory, and the overall electoral success of APC speak highly of them.

Our task as a party is to build upon the progress thus made so that both nation and party may advance to their better future.

Yet, we must acknowledge that something important has gone off track. For some months we have experienced growing disagreement within the leadership of the party. This unfortunate competition had grown so intense as to impair the performance of the NWC, thus undermining the internal cohesion and discipline vital to success.

Some people have gone so far as to predict the total disintegration of our party. Most such dire predictions were from critics whose forecasts said more about their ill will than they revealed about our party’s objective condition. Predictions of the APC’s imminent demise are premature and mostly mean-spirited. However, an honest person must admit the party had entered a space where it had no good reason to be.

The trouble is not that we would forfeit our collective existence but whether we were in danger of losing our collective purpose. In some ways, this possibility is of greater concern. A political party that has lost sight of the reason for its existence becomes but the vehicle of blind and clashing ambitions. This is not what drove the APC’s creation.

Those who believe Nigeria can be forged into a better nation and deserves good governance must harken back to the establishment of our party. Those who were there and contributed the most to the party’s genesis embraced a common vision. Not only did we believe the venal, purblind PDP was leading the nation into a pit, we sincerely held a common vision of progressive good governance. This was the overriding reason for the APC.

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Those most intimately involved in founding the party remain faithful to this benign, timely assignment. Sadly, many members have lost their balance. Their personal ambition apparently came to greatly outweigh the obvious national imperatives.

Even in the best of times, Nigeria is beset by myriad challenges. Poverty and economic inequality, insecurity, lack of infrastructure are longstanding obstacles that have blocked our access to national greatness for too long.

Through no fault of our own, we now live in a moment of heightened difficulty. We did not ask for COVID-19 but it has found us. We must deal with it and navigate its rude economic consequences. At the same time we must grapple with the violent insecurity caused by increasingly desperate terrorists and criminals. People need concrete help from us. We must focus on building roads and creating jobs. For the average man, watching politicians wrestle for position is a poor substitute to seeing politicians working for the benefit of all.

Yet, such intramural fighting has come to occupy the attention of many high ranking party officials and members.

The National Working Committee, itself, became riven by unnecessary conflict. Those who disagreed with one another stopped trying to find common ground. Attempts were made to use the power of executive authority to bury each other. I must be blunt here. This is the behaviour of a fight club not the culture of a progressive political party.

Some members went against their chairman in a bid to forcefully oust him. In hindsight, his fence-mending attempts were perhaps too little too late. I believed and continue to believe that Comrade Oshiomhole tried his best. Mistakes were made and he must own them. Yet, we must remember also that he was an able and enthusiastic campaigner during the 2019 election. He is a man of considerable ability as are the rest of you who constituted the NWC.






















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Interview : Apostle Jeremiah Adeyeye Revelation about Obasanjo , Tinubu others ..Read what he says

What God told me about Obasanjo, Tinubu, others

In the interview

Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan

Apostle Jeremiah Adeyeye, is general overseer, Clear Revelation Ministry (CRM), Ibadan, Oyo State.

He revealed what God Speaks to him concerning the role of former President Olusegun Obasanjo for Nigeria to maintain its corporate existence, otherwise the country would break into three smaller nations.

Read below the interview with the prophet via Sunnews online ..

How would you assess the situation in Nigeria; has God shown you anything concerning the country?

For a long time, I have stopped talking about this nation. What I do now is to earnestly pray for the country. Many things have gone wrong.

During former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s tenure, I wrote many letters to him and I did many advertorials and many press conferences.

I told him in 2007 through an open letter that the elections should not be held. I said if the elections should hold Nigeria, would witness bitterness. But many thought I was being sponsored.

What really nailed him was the third term agenda. What Obasanjo needed then was tenure elongation. If he had hearkened to what I told him, Nigeria would have been better for it.

I told him that war would emerge within Nigeria and that it would not be from outside the country.

The media houses that carried the story are still in existence. In 2011, I went to Lagos to address a press conference on Obasanjo.

Two years later, I addressed another press conference in Ibadan, Oyo State. Before then, in 2007, I had addressed the press at the Press Centre, Iyaganku, Ibadan, on the same Obasanjo.

Obasanjo should have been the best President so far, if he had listened to me not to conduct the election that brought in the late Alhaji Umar Musa Yar’Adua.

After that election, God spoke to me that Yar’Adua would not finish his tenure.

It was published in a newspaper on March 4, 2009. Obasanjo is still alive today, he can remember or may pretend not to remember. But some people who were in his government would bear me witness.

The emergence of Yar’Adua as President of Nigeria was associated with the problem that is facing Nigeria at this moment.

I warned former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, not to contest election in 2007 and he obeyed.

Babangida is still alive today. I did not go to Minna to see him.

I wrote an open letter to Obasanjo in 2015 when he was backing President Muhammadu Buhari. I warned him about the outcome. What is happening today? Is all well with Nigeria? Obasanjo needs to go and do extra job to save Nigeria at this time.

It is God that is sending me to Obasanjo. It is the same God that has been keeping him.

Obasanjo has the capability, if he wants to do it. He is one of the powers that be in Nigeria.

If not because of Obasanjo, Buhari would not have come on board. He knew how he went outside the country to curry favour of the international community for him. But, the emergence of Buhari in 2015 as President was not the handiwork of Obasanjo alone.

I will tell you two things, which I have been saying since 2006. Many things will happen before 2023. Nigeria will witness many things.

There are many secrets being covered by our leaders. All of them will come into the open, as the Bible says, whatever you do under the roof will come out on top of the roof. So, they should go back and put heads together and reshape what they have made to become dilapidated.

According to Isaiah 45:9, what is happening in Nigeria is like somebody waking up to fight his Creator. How can the person prosper? It will be a journey of no return. Every secret that is going on in Nigeria and in Africa is known to Obasanjo. He cannot deny it.

Obasanjo knows every corner of this country. I know what I am talking about. He should make the move. Obasanjo is a great man, forget about criticisms against him. When it comes to government, you cannot argue with him.

Tinubu has forgotten history of this country. They used Chief Obafemi Awolowo and dumped him. They used Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola and dumped him. He should be careful so that his case too will not be like the case of ‘use and dump.’ I am not praying for his downfall. Something will happen before 2023 that will shake Africa. Tinubu should pray to God to have time to enjoy what he has. The northerners are deceiving him, and maybe he does not know it.

Concerning Nigeria’s existence, what is God speaking to you in this direction?

Nigeria will soon break into three parts. But I am not saying it will break up in 2023.

I have been begging God since I saw the vision in 2010. But the killings here and here by Boko Haram insurgents, herdsmen and others that are connected with politics will break the country.

Government belongs to God. But some people believe that government belongs to them. If they fail to repent, they will see hell very soon.

What is your position on the political developments in your home state, Ekiti?

When Ayodele Fayose was in office for the first time, before his impeachment, I warned him through a newspaper publication that he would be impeached and that Rashidi Ladoja in Oyo State would also be impeached.

I went to Ekiti to see him, they just wasted my time. I left Ekiti without meeting him.

When the impeachment came, Ladoja called me, and I told him the frank truth that it was too late for him not to be impeached at the time he called.

But the Lord spoke to me that Ladoja would come back.

This was published in many newspapers. Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, former governor of Oyo State, called me a prophet of doom by then, and that they were not afraid of my prophecy.

But Ladoja came back and Fayose did not come back then.

Governor Kayode Fayemi needs serious prayers after leaving office for bad things not to end his life.

In other hands, Fayemi has good mind.

But some people surrounding him are the problem.

Via: Sunnewsonline

Federal Government has commended the Nigerian media for their support in the ongoing fight against the corona-virus disease (COVID-19).

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed

FG hails media for COVID-19 fight, seeks more support in the ongoing fight against the corona-virus disease (COVID-19).

Making the call yesterday at a virtual meeting with the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, appealed for more media support for the Federal Government’s efforts to tackle the pandemic.

“The government is very grateful to the media. You have done a lot to bring our message (on the pandemic) to Nigerians,” he said, quoting a poll showing that 99 per cent of Nigerians were aware of the pandemic while 95 per cent said they had received information on how to protect themselves.





The Federal Government has commended the Nigerian media for their support in the ongoing fight against the corona-virus disease (COVID-19).
Making the call yesterday at a virtual meeting with the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, appealed for more media support for the Federal Government’s efforts to tackle the pandemic.

“The government is very grateful to the media. You have done a lot to bring our message (on the pandemic) to Nigerians,” he said, quoting a poll showing that 99 per cent of Nigerians were aware of the pandemic while 95 per cent said they had received information on how to protect themselves.


In the absence of any known drug or vaccine against the virus, the only option is Non-Pharmaceutical Intervention (NPI), which includes social distancing, wearing of face mask, avoiding mass gathering and ensuring personal hygiene, Mohammed noted.

According to him, NPI is hinged on getting the necessary information to members of the public, and this could only be done with the support of the media.

“Yes, we are going to spend more on research and ventilators; but we will spend less money on ventilators and isolation centres if we invest just a fraction of what we are spending on ventilators in the media,” the minister said.Chairman of NPAN, Chief Nduka Obaigbena, said the media had continued to sensitise Nigerians on COVID-19 on all platforms, even in the face of a drastic reduction in revenue.

He called on the minister to enact a policy that would ensure that some online platforms pay for the original content they generate from the various media outlets in Nigeria.

“In Australia, the government has intervened in ensuring that Facebook, Google and Twitter pay for original content by journalists and media practitioners as a matter of policy,” he said, urging the minister to do the same for the Nigerian media.

NPAN’s request for mitigating the effect of the pandemic on the media include soft loan, tax relief and other fiscal incentives as well as increased patronage by the government.

Credit : The guardian News

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New electricity tariffs to take effect in July- Minister of Power, Sale Mamma

The Minister of Power, Sale Mamma, has said that the proposed electricity tariff increase by the Federal government will kick off in July.



In January, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had announced an upward review of electricity tariff across the country from April 1. It later suspended the proposed tariff increase in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.



However, while speaking at the investigative public hearing on the power sector recovery plan and the impact on COVID-19 pandemic at the Senate on Tuesday, June 16, the Minister said the subsidy incurred in order to maintain the current tariff level is unsustainable.

“The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has also affected our laid-out plan for the repositioning of the electricity market towards financial sustainability under the power sector recovery programme (PSRP).

Initially, the regulator, following the completion of public consultation on tariff review, planned on conducting a tariff review in April 2020. However, due to COVID-19 and customer apathy, the proposed tariff review was delayed by three months.

The impact of this means the subsidy being incurred in maintaining the current tariff level had to be maintained until July 2020 when the proposed tariff review will be implemented. The current situation in the Nigerian power sector is that a lot of capital investment is being made, most of which is dependent on donor funding, loans and budgetary allocation.

For projects that we have already secured their funding, we do not expect any adverse effect.” Sale said



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Worship centers in Lagos remain closed till further notice – Sanwo-Olu Babajide

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Lagos state governor has suspended reopening of worship centers in the state till further notice.








This is coming few days before reopening slated for June 19th.


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Sanwo-Olu suspends reopening of worship centers in Lagos



On June 4th, Sanwo-Olu approved the reopening of religious enters in Lagos for June 19th.

He said mosques are to reopen from June 19 while churches are to begin services from June 21, with crowd not more 40% of their original capacity.

However, the permission has now been revoked due to rising cases of corona-virus in Lagos state.

As at Monday, Lagos recorded 7,319 confirmed cases, with 1,137 recoveries and 82 casualties.




















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