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  • Niger APC legislators back Gbajabiamila

    All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives members from Niger State have resolved to back Femi Gbajabiamila for the Speaker.

    Although the federal legislator representing Chachanga Constituency, Niger State, Mohammed Bago,  is in the race, they said their decision was based on party supremacy.

    At a meeing held in Government House, Minna, the state capital, at the instance of Governor  Abubakar Sani Bello,  the senators from the state also resolved to back Dr. Ahmed Lawan for Senate President.

    Niger State APC chairman Jibril Imam said the party is supreme, urging members to remain united.

    He said: “Going by what happened during the tenure of the 8th National Assembly, the party at all levels decided to reach a middle ground to enable us present a formidable front on the matter.”

    Imam said the meeting was a follow up to an earlier one by  APC chairmen and governors from the North Central states in Abuja, adding that the Minna meeting was attended by serving and elected members, who unanimously adopted the two candidates.

    He said the endorsement was to avert the reoccurrence of the experience in the 8th Assembly, which was unpalatable and slowed down the progress of the nation in the last four years.

    Imam added: “We are loyal party members and have resolved  to toe the position of the party by endorsing Senator Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan as the Senate President of the 9th Assembly and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila as the Speaker of the 9th Assembly.

    “Our experience in the 8th Assembly is not palatable and it has  slowed down our progress in the last four years and we don’t want a repeat of that”.

    Speaking on behalf of the legislators Abdullahi Mahmud representing Agaie/Lapai Constituency, said the adoption of Lawan and Gbajabiamila was an affirmation of party supremacy.

  • Niger APC suspends Women Affairs Commissioner

    THE Niger State All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development Amina Musa Gua’ar for alleged anti-party activities.

    The party’s Local Working Committee in Paikoro Local Government accused the commissioner of engaging in anti-party activities during the general elections in the council.

    It accused her of engaging in some anti-party activities by supporting the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

    The party also accused her of referring  to its executive as “bunch of thieves”.

  • Niger APC suspends Women Affairs Commissioner

    The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Niger state has suspended the state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Barrister Amina Musa Gua’ar for alleged anti-party activities.

    The Paikoro local government APC local working committee accused the Commissioner of engaging in anti party activities during the general elections in the council and flaunting the orders of the party.

    The Party accused her of engaging in some anti party activities of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr Ishaya Azalolo who claimed to have acted based on Barrister Amina Gua’ar opinion, directive and support.

    The Party also accused her of mudslinging the party as she was said to have referred to the executive organ of the party as “bunch of thieves”.

    The local working committee stated that it invited the Commissioner for interaction but she refused to appear before the committee which resulted in her suspension.

    The suspended letter dated Friday 22nd March, 2019 and signed by the local government APC chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Kwanaread, “In reference to a letter dated 18th March, 2019, the local government executive working committee of the APC in Paikoro has resolved to utilize Article 21, Section A, Subsection 111 of the Constitution as amended “disobedience or negligence in carrying out lawful directive of the party.

    “Continuing, this is due to your refusal/disobedient to abide by the party’s directive within the stipulated time frame. Sequel to this, I hereby notify you of your suspension from the party until further notice”

    However, the State APC claimed it had not received any correspondence regarding the suspension.

    The letter was however copied to the APC stakeholders, Zonal chairman, APC State Secretary and Chairman as well as the Political Adviser to the Governor and Secretary to the State Government.

  • Niger APC, PDP, others react

    THE Niger State All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections as unfortunate and sad.

    The State Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Aminu Liman, said in Minna that the development has brought to question the much acclaimed integrity of the chairman and members of the Commission.

    The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) also described the development as an embarrassment to the international community as the nation had been ridiculed.

    The state Chairman of PDP, Barrister Tanko Beji, in a statement alleged that the elections was postponed because PDP had prepared for and was set to win it.

    “The whole saga is sad and very regrettable. This is an unacceptable decision by the INEC which came  few hours to the conduct of the election which we, as a party, had prepared for and was set to win,’ he said.

    The Campaign for Democracy (CD) called for a detailed investigation into the whole matter.

    The Niger State Coordinator of the campaign for Democracy, Alhaji Abdullahi Jabi, regretted the action of INEC saying INEC should put its house in order to forestall a future occurrence

  • Niger APC to members: You must win your Polling Units

    The Niger state Chairman of the All Progressives Congress ( APC ), Engineer Jibril Imam has declared that there will be no political position for any member of the party that cannot deliver his/her polling unit.

    He said it has been the policy of the party that political positions are given only to those who had secured victory for the party in their various polling units.

    Imam who stated this in an interaction with newsmen on Thursday said the time of taking from what one did not give is over.

    “This is not the time to stay in Minna and canvass for votes. Everybody must go back home, all stakeholders have been directed to go back and win their polling units as operation deliver your polling unit is still on course.

    “No delivery of polling unit, no political position. That is the position of the party because you cannot take on what you did not give and as everyone is a product if a polling unit, we expect everyone to go back to their polling unit and struggle to make sure the party wins the elections.”

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    The Chairman further called on all APC members to embark on door to door campaigns and convince and mobilize the people in favor of APC.

    He urged the people to vote in favor of APC in order to ensure continuity in government adding that, “continuity is the key, it is the sweetest thing. If you bring in a new government, it will take another two years before the government can acclimatize and start work.

    “Please consider APC for the next election because of our antecedent and what the government at both the Federal and state had done.”

    Imam added that APC has the capacity to turn the state around and will do more when re-elected.

  • Niger APC crisis deepens

    Niger APC crisis deepens

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State has threatened to suspend the member representing Bida/Gbako/Katcha Federal Constituency, Hon. Bala Farouk, over allegations of failing to obey party rules and regulations.
    It’s Chairman, Alhaji Saliu Ndagi, said the lawmaker was trying to foment trouble within the fold.
    He said: “I am giving Hon. Farouk my word; he should come down from his high horse or he will be suspended. He should see reason and obey the party rules and regulations; failure to do so may compel the party to take necessary disciplinary action on him and this may lead to his suspension.”
    Ndagi made this threat while speaking to our reporter in Bida after an event where Hon. Farouk chastised the chairman of the occasion, for recognising him as the Chairman of APC. He said Ndagi has been suspended by the state executive council.
    The chairman however countered the claim, saying that he was never suspended and that he has a letter showing he remains the Chairman of the Bida chapter of the APC.
    He added: “I was never suspended as the chairman. The truth is that an allegation was made against me. But a committee was set up, which exonerated me of any wrongdoing. The state executive committee also sat and deliberated on the recommendation and they gave me a letter to continue as chairman of the chapter.
    “Hon. Bala Farouk have factionalised the the party in Bida. He is leading one faction, while I am leading the legitimate fraction duly recognised by the state executive, which is the only authority to decide what is legitimate and what is not.”
    Ndagi, who accused the lawmaker of disloyalty, saying he has tried to be above the party rules and regulations. He said Farouk wants to use the crisis to justify his intention to leave the party.
    He added: “Creating crisis have been the trademark of Farouk. It is clear that after he lost political relevance, he wants to leave the party and is trying to create crisis in order to justify his intention. If one studies his political background, it will be noticed that he created crisis in all the political parties he has been before joining the APC. That is exactly what he is doing again.”
    Responding to the accusation, Farouk insists that Ndagi has been suspended for the past 12 months by the local government executives and that he is only parading himself as the chairman.
    He said Ndagi does not have the power to suspend him or anybody in the party, adding that he does not have the power to convene a meeting.
    His words: “He cannot convene a meeting for senators, members of the House of Representatives and those of the House of Assembly. If he says he is the chairman, let him prove it by calling a meeting.”
    Farouk said the acting Chairman is Mohammed Jalaba, who is from the same ward with Ndagi
    The lawmaker accused the state executives of being biased by backing ‘Ndagi to continue parading himself as the chairman of Bida Chapter of the APC’.
    He said: “The state executives are biased, they are in support of him; they want to impose him.”
    Efforts to get the stand of the state executives on the issue proved abortive, as none of them executives were ready to make any comment.

  • Niger APC fingers PDP consulting firm for ‘illegal salary deduction’

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State yesterday accused a consulting firm engaged by the last administration of being responsible for the illegal deduction from the June salary of civil servants.

    It alleged that the firm was the mastermind of a trap set by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to put the workforce on a collision course with the government.

    Party spokesman Jonathan Vasta said in a statement in Minna that the illegal deduction of between N10,000 and N20,000 from the June salaries of civil servants was orchestrated by the adversaries of the APC in the state.

    Vatsa alleged that the consulting firm engaged by the Aliyu Babangida administration for a staff audit should be queried for the illegal deduction from the workers’ salaries – an act designed to portray the APC government in bad light.

    The statement said: “We are aware of the Maravier Group engaged by the previous administration to detect ghost workers. The firm was engaged for only six months, but it has served for years. Now they want to frustrate the APC government in connivance with unscrupulous elements.”

    The APC spokesman said the excuse of technical error for the illegal deduction was too convenient and a shallow explanation that exposed the ulterior motives behind the act.

    He urged the government not to waive the incident aside, to avoid serving as an impetus for the adversaries of the present administration to orchestrate their plan of frustrating the implementation of the good programmes designed for the people.

    The statement added: “Realising that those dubious people who do not want Niger State to work are still around, we in the APC will mobilise support for the government and encourage it to investigate the incident and prosecute the culprits.

    “We enjoin the government to disengage the firm.”