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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was at the head of a powerful team that went to Ekiti State yesterday to open the campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, telling the people to pick up their permanent voters card (PVC) to vote out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. In the vice president’s entourage were national officers of the party, including the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun; Secretary to the Federal Government, Mr. Boss Mustapha; 12 governors and other top leaders of the party. "The PDP has done enough. Go forward. On July 14, you must show with your votes that you cannot take it any longer," Osinbajo told his audience shortly before Fayemi was handed the party’s flag, symbolising the authority of the APC to lead the charge at the July 14, 2018 duel against PDP’s Prof. Kolapo Eleka and others contestants. The mega rally, which was held at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium, was witnessed by a large crowd of party faithful and characterised by musical entertainment from leading artistes, including Bonsue Fuji exponent, Adewale Ayuba and Small Doctor. Some of the governors and community leaders in the state, made solidarity speeches in support of Fayemi. The Fayemi campaign is being executed on the broad theme of ‘Collective Rescue Mission 2: Reclaiming Our Land Restoring Our Values'. APC party leaders lamented that socio-economic infrastructure of the
NEWS 2019 is a Referendum on Restructuring, Says Dickson Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, yesterday said the 2019 general election would be a referendum on restructuring, adding that only aspirants who believe in restructuring would get the support of the Ijaw nation. Page 11
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taking proactive measures and had activated close-circuit television (CCTV) at the airside and terminals of major airports in the country. Yakubu said, “We now ensure that those who are travelling must have their travelling documents and are allowed to be at the airports, and airport personnel are expected to have their on duty card (ODC) on them. Anyone that does not have such documents is thrown out of the airports. “We have reinforced our security at the international airports both on passengers and on luggage. We have CCTV at the airside that is working 24 hours and we also have at the terminals. They are all working 24 hours. We also have joint military patrol team, the joint military task force that accompanies aircraft while taxiing to take off and on arrival. We ensure that we monitor every movement.� However, a source from the agency expressed doubt that FAAN carries
out regular profiling of its security personnel in order to avert insider threat. “In the past, during orientation and retraining, FAAN profiles all the aviation security (AVSEC) personnel but these days you will just be in the office and someone will just bring a letter of employment as security staff. So I am not sure it still carries out profiling, which is very important,� the FAAN source said. To avert breach of security, an aviation security expert and member of Aviation Round Table (ART), Group Captain John Ojikutu (rtd), yesterday canvassed for integrated security system at the airport to reinforce security. Ojikutu told THISDAY that apart from CCTV and physical surveillance, there should be continuous passenger education to ensure a tight airport environment, adding that many of the airports have porous access, which makes it difficult to ensure water tight security.
state had collapsed since the coming of the Ayo Fayose administration. According to them, Ekiti, which was once acclaimed as the 'land of nobles' has become the butt of coarse jokes. All the governors from the South-west states, including Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Rauf Aregbesola (Osun) and Olurotimi Akeredolu (Ondo) stressed the importance of having an APC in Ekiti Government House to demonstrate that the South-west was charting the same political course. Others speakers like the APC National Leader, Senator Bola Tinubu, former Ekiti State governors, Otunba Niyi Adebayo and Chief Segun Oni, spoke in the same vein. Recalling how he was prevented from attending a Fayemi governorship campaign four years ago, former governor of Edo State and APC national championship aspirant, Mr. Adam Oshiomhole charged the people against a repeat of what happened in 2014. “We can't afford to lose Ekiti. This is a crucial election that we must win,� he said. Tinubu described the domineering APC presence in the South-west and other parts of the country as "the broom revolution,� saying, “Ekiti is the only place in the South-west that a change is necessary. " The APC National Campaign Council for Ekiti State Chairman and Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Bagudu, said the large turn-out was a pointer that Ekiti people were ready to address the perceived injustice meted to them in 2014. The chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum and Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, echoed the same
sentiments of the APC National Chairman, Odigie -Oyegun, that an APC government was imminent in Ekiti as he could smell and feel the air of victory. A major highlight of the campaign was the official welcome accorded a former stalwart of the PDP, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye, and his group who were formally received into the APC by Odigie-Oyegun. Pledging his loyalty to the APC, Adeyeye observed that the APC was becoming increasingly popular in all the 16 local government areas of the state. The two-hour rally, which kicked off at 2.10pm with the arrival of the vice president was witnessed by an array of dignitaries including a former governor of the defunct Ondo State, Mr. Bamidele Olumilua; a former national chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande; governors Yahaya Bello (Kogi State); Shettima Mustapha (Borno State); Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara State); and Gaius Obaseki (Edo State). Also there was the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Bolaji Abdullahi. Thanking the party leaders and government officials for standing by him, Fayemi in a veiled reference to the incumbent governor said the days of madness in Government House, Ado Ekiti were numbered. According to him, "Ekiti people and I have a date with history on July 14. One day is for the thief, July 14 is for the owner. We will be here to celebrate victory. I am humbled by the show of solidarity by our leaders," he said, promising to restore welfare schemes to students and the elderly among other incentives to show that the good essence of democracy had returned to the land.
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Describing Atiku a reality in Bayelsa State 2019 when as one of the most consistent Governor, he voted in as Dickson, yesterday Seriake voices the country’s is for efficiency if elected for the quest political president. next president. said 2019 general The former election wouldthe Nigeria, Dickson for a new vice president, to invite you to The president a referendum promised ial aspirant who also met with members work together join me as we if Nigeria on restructuri be that  Bayelsa would boasted of the PDP adding that only was truly ng, remain courage that he has that we can towards 2019 so state in the state, aspirants who a PDP state that would the accompani do as enunciate a federal to readjust the believe in restructuri the party’s ed by a former was “The governorit together. d in the fly governan current document. flag Ogun get the support ng would He said: “In at all times. country, ce structure in the State Governor, Gbenga Daniels, the same page as and I are on While taking of the Ijaw furtheranc far as the issue who is also the just like he nation. a swipe at the sacred Director General of restructuring is concerned. the ruling mandate of e of to military dictatorsh stood up of his campaign The governor have been consistent We Congress All Progressives our past, insisting ips in the said he would people, several leaders organisati (APC) for allegedly intensify consultati about it. personalities, and run away the Nigeria cannot an ex-Minister of Niger on; For us to get the ons on even across unity, progress destroying Nigeria’s Delta Affairs, restructuring, from the rising political the economy, true he vowed for restructur calls Senator Mr. Godsday Orubebe; and development we are divide are united federalism and devolutio ing. looking democrat to confront antiBen Murray-Br for, we cannot the need on He, thereafter, uce and restructur a large retinue escape ic forces with the view n of powers country to restructure this presented in the of document to and return it ing,� he said. from country, which consensus for to reaching a federalism “I have been aides. Dickson which a to fiscal said are bent on In his following taking a restructur he . Few weeks encapsulated the country with ‘Restructu message titled: Nigeria. ed I had many steps his views on keen interest your (Dickson’s a rare interactio ago, the subject, ring as a pathway backward. position on restructurin maintaining Dickson spoke ) to n with would the president that he “I have been when a g. If you in unity and developm high-powered in the vanguard conveyed the where I clearly on the hit the ground running know, I have been an ent Nigeria’, of returning delegation advocate the former message for issue of re-tuning of led by former democracy to vice country. need for a restructure the Nigeria Mr. restructuring since 2004. president noted this Some and Peoples Vice President that d Nigeria. Governor,  “I I would like issues that currently many lives, some shotof us lost their Party (PDP) Democratic days want to say that in the bedevil among others, the country and months  presidential could be solved aspirant, ahead, I, Cont’d on my brothers  Pg..51 and Abubakar, paidAlhaji Atiku see here, and sisters you call at Governmhim a courtesy have our leaders resolved to ent House in Yenagoa. carry this message to every nook The governor cranny and no going back said there was to let of our country. And the people restructuring, on his call for a restructur know and pledged ed Nigeria that take his consultati to ons to all everyone’s interest, and is in parts of the if you want a stable, Nigeria achievescountry until egalitarian prosperous, a true federal and sustainab structure. Nigeria that le can He said the people of the the next 200, 300 survive Ijaw from Ondo, years in peace and in prosperity Rivers to Akwa Edo, Delta, then , we must re-examin Ibom States had been e the fully mobilised foundation of our and conscient make necessary country and importance of ious on the “No nation adjustments. is perfect, let’s election and the 2019 general not deceive ourselves what it portends for restructur that our country is perfect. ing. Every nation Dickson also called on is a work in progress. well-meaning Other countries older Nigerians than Nigeria protect democrac to have adjusted. y and reject a one-party is a call for Restructuring adjustments, according to system because consultati dictatorship. him, it breeds building.�ons and consensus He enjoined  In his remarks, members the PDP to work closely of promised to ensure Atiku make the party to that the more cohesive Niger Delta’s yearning for restructured Nigeria becomesa
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No case has brought home the illegal use to which many of our policemen are now deployed than the recent shooting at a political rally in Ekiti State by a policeman "attached to 20 PMF, Ikeja, Lagos State, where he was posted on guard duties." H Page 15
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POLITICS For Isaac Alfa, It’s a Long Walk to the
Senate The drama over the rightful of the senatorial seat for Kogi East which has been going for sometime now reached a climax as a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the immediate sack of a Senator Atai Aidoko, representing Kogi East. T Page 18
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Quick Takes Equatorial Guinea
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