Dr Obinna Duruji, the Imo State Commissioner for Information and Strategy in an online interview reviews the first year of the Rochas Okorocha administration and responds to contentious issues that have recently stirred the political ambience in the state. Excerpts:
AHEAD of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, gubernatorial primaries in Ondo State, a governorship aspirant under the party’s platform, Akinola Awodeyi-Akinsheyinwa, in this interview, disclosed that intra-party crisis would not trail the eventual outcome of the exercise. He also noted that the wave of decamping from the ruling Labour Party,LP, is an indication that the incumbent administration has failed. Akinsheyinwa also spoke on other issues. Excerpts:
Is the quest by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Edo State to oust Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as governor of Edo State a matter of life and death? No, claims the PDP. But the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN which is the ruling party in the state disagrees as it alleges the complicity of the opposition PDP in the recent spate of death to have befallen associates of Governor Oshiomhole or those travelling with him.
Senator Uba Ahmed was a two time member of the Nigerian Senate who came to national renown as Secretary General of the defunct National Party of Nigeria, NPN the ruling party at the federal level in the second republic.
The Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, joins the debate on whether or not President Goodluck Jonathan should seek re-election in 2015, saying the issue is for Nigerians to decide. The minister also speaks on the mandate of his ministry, Boko Haram and the politics of his home state, Delta.
The alarming rate of the perversion of justice in Nigeria and the angst of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, and Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Justice Lawal Gunmi, is presented in this report. Their positions are corroborated by the observations of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA.
Lawyer and lawmaker, Senator Ike Ekweremadu was in characteristically amiable mood penultimate Wednesday when the team of Sunday Vanguard reporters arrived his Apo residence that morning. As Deputy President of the Senate and concurrently Speaker of the ECOWAS parliament, it was not surprising that a visitors from within and outside the country including lawmakers were all about the residence.
…Says disunity in the North threatens Nigeria
Captain Mohammed Joji, a former Managing Director of the defunct Nigeria Airways and Secretary-General, Airline Operators in Nigeria (AON), is the newly appointed Arewa Consultative Forum’s (ACF) Strategy Committee Chairman. He spoke with Sunday Vanguard at his Kaduna office on why no religious group should be blamed for the security challenges currently faced by the country but recommended that the two major religious groups in the North should unite and provide solution. Excerpts:
After becoming almost a stillborn, the issue of constitution review has once again come to the front burner at the National Assembly. In fact, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, penultimate week promised that all things being equal, an amendment to the 1999 Constitution will be ready in July, 2013.
All through history, there has been the endless contention as to whether great men and leaders are born or made.
Alhaji Munir Ja’afar, mni, OFR, is the Crown Prince of Zauzzau Emirate (Yariman Zauzzau) and District Head of Anwa in Zaria, Kaduna State. He had earlier been commissioner at various ministries in Kaduna State; Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety (NIMASA); Chairman, Governing Board of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZ) and he’s chairman and director, boards of many companies.
