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  • 2023 : Nasarawa Speaker Gets Another Vote of Confidence, Endorsement From All the 17 District Heads in His constituency

    2023 : Nasarawa Speaker Gets Another Vote of Confidence, Endorsement From All the 17 District Heads in His constituency


    “… as youths in Toto LG gives him a rousing reception, declare support for him…”

    From Leo Nzwanke, Lafia

    Forum of District Heads in Umaisha /Ugya Constituency of the Speaker Nasarawa State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi today passed a Vote of Confidence on him as well as endorsed him for another term in office over his quality representation.

    The Forum which comprised of all the 17 District Heads in the area led by their Chairman Mallam Ibrahim Abdullah today visited the Speaker Rt. Hon. Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi in his residence in Umaisha, Toto LG to expressed their satisfaction with the quality leadership he is providing for his people and urged him to sustain the spirit.

    They have also commended his efforts in attracting development to the area and assured the Speaker of the peoples support to succeed beyond 2023.

    “We are here all of us the District Heads across Umaisha and Ugya community to come and pray for you, to appreciate you for your efforts in attracting government presence to us and to also expressed our satisfaction with your purposeful representation.

    ” Democracy is all about dividends, and we the people of Umaisha /Ugya are satisfied with your leadership and we have come as custodian of our people to tell you personally that we are with you, we are in support of your administration and to tell you that you remain our Mandate, I repeat, you remain our sole Mandate.

    “please continue with the good work, we are with you, your people are with you and God Almighty is with you” Mal. Ibrahim said.

    Responding, the Speaker of the State Assembly Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi appreciated them for the visit and reassured them of government commitment to continue to provide them the much needed dividends of democracy urging them to sustain their support for government and sustain the existing peace in the area.

    In a related development, Youths in Toto LG have trooped out in their numbers and stopped the Speaker in Toto as they gave him a rousing reception and declared their support for him just as the Speaker Balarabe Abdullahi tasked them to remain peace advocates, support their leaders and government for development to thrive in the area.

    It will be recalled that the endorsement of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly Speaker, Balarabe Abdullahi by all the District Heads in his constituency for another term in office was coming just Two weeks after Youths, women and other political and social groups in his constituency endorsed him for another term in office.

  • Ambode thanks Lagosians for endorsement, asks youths to get PVCs

    Ambode thanks Lagosians for endorsement, asks youths to get PVCs

    The immediate past governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, has appreciated Lagosians for endorsing his contributions to the development of the state.

    The 58-year-old All Progressives Congress chieftain also urged youths to get their Permanent Voters Cards ahead of the 2023 general elections.

    In a Facebook post on Tuesday, he wrote, “After all we have been through, God has been faithful. Thank you for the overwhelming endorsement of our modest contributions to the growth of Lagos. It can only get better for Lagos, and indeed Nigeria. The youths are coming. The power is in their hands. Go and get your Permanent Voters Card (PVC) ready. Your future is NOW!”

    Ambode was Lagos governor from 2015 to 2019 and had lost his reelection to Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the APC primary due to intra-party squabbles.

    Ambode, the first Lagos governor to stay in office for four years since the return to democracy in 1999, was said to have been kicked out after APC leader and strong man of Lagos politics, Bola Tinubu, anointed Sanwo-Olu.

    Like 56-year-old Sanwo-Olu who assumed office in May 2019, and would be completing his first term in office by May 2023, Ambode is constitutionally permitted to be in office for one more term of four years if the electorate so decide.

    Before Ambode, the current Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, was Lagos governor between 2007 and 2015 while Tinubu was governor from 1999 to 2007.

    Since he left office in 2019, Ambode has been extremely politically reserved. He also has not been seen at functions with any of his predecessors or his successor.

    Though political permutations have earnestly begun ahead of the 2023 elections, Ambode has not declared his intention to run for second term in office but there are indications that Sanwo-Olu wants to return for another four years.

    “I think we are doing a very good job, I dare say so. I think the citizens know what it is they will be missing if they don’t let us continue to wrap up all the things we are doing,” Sanwo-Olu said in a recent interview when asked if he has any plan to throw his hat into the ring in the next election.

  • My endorsement of Obaseki personal – PDP BOT member

    My endorsement of Obaseki personal – PDP BOT member

    Sen. Daisy Danjuma, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Board of Trustees (BOT), has said that her endorsement of Edo governor Godwin Obaseki’s second term aspiration was “personal..

    “I owe nobody apology for endorsing the second term aspiration of Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo,” Daisy, wife of former defence minister Theophilus Danjuma told newsmen in Benin.

    Danjuma had, in Lagos on Sunday, endorsed Obaseki during a town hall meeting organised for Obaseki in Lagos.

    The endorsement has drawn the ire of the state chapter of the party who felt that the former senator’s stance was not proper.

    “I have the right to support whoever I choose to. I am a member of the PDP. I have never left the PDP or decamped to any party like others.

    “It is my right to free comment and I have exercised that,” she said.

    The Edo PDP, in a statement, disassociated itself from Danjuma’s decision to support Obaseki for second term, and asked her to resign her position.

    lt said that the comments, discussions and purported endorsements credited to Danjuma were her private thoughts and do not reflect the thoughts of Edo PDP.

    The Edo PDP said it was “abnormal and not politically savvy for party leaders to endorse aspirants of another party other than the candidate of their party”.

    In a statement signed by the Publicity Secretary, Mr Chris Nehikhare, the PDP stated that being a member of the BOT conferred some rights and privileges that should not be abused.

    The statement said that it was an abuse of such rights and privileges to openly and publicly endorse a candidate of another party.

    According to Nehikhare, the statement of endorsement is a “morale-damper” to the hard working, committed and loyal men, women and youths of Edo PDP.

    “At the appropriate time and in accordance with our party’s constitution, a credible PDP candidate will be nominated to contest the Edo 2020 governorship election to liberate the state from political arrogance, poverty, insecurity and unemployment.

    “To all Edo people, members and supporters of PDP, you will have a choice to make between the umbrella of comfort and the broom of hardship.

    “A PDP government will liberate our state from the APC government that is insensitive to the plight of our people,” he said. (NAN)