Floods: Build Dams, Desilt Major Rivers, Okowa Urges FG Diri seeks FG’s support, directs workers to go on one-week break Niger Delta Affairs Minister promises medical, infrastructural relief to Bayelsa, Rivers, others Olusegun Samuel in Yenagoa and Peter Uzoho in Lagos Worried by the devastation caused
by floods in many states in the country, Delta State governor and vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday called on the federal government to build new dams and desilt major rivers to check flooding, especially when
neighbouring countries opened their dams. Okowa also urged the federal government to make efforts at
desilting River Niger and River Benue to deepen the depths of the rivers to accommodate high volume of floodwater.
In response to the widespread flood disaster in the Niger Delta, Continued on page 10
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INEC Chair Expresses Concern over Attack on PDP Rally in Kaduna Says it has reduced essence of Peace Accord House minority, Situation Room worried, demand probe Chuks Okocha, Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Udora Orizu inAbuja Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has expressed worry over Monday’s attacks on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), during a rally in Kaduna State. Yakubu said
the development, and the rising mudslinging that was almost becoming the order of the day since campaigns kicked off on September 28, had diminished the essence of
the peace accord recently signed by the political parties. He spoke in Abuja during the Training of Master Trainers on Election Technology for the 2023 general election.
Similarly, the Minority Caucus thugs allegedly mobilised by certain in the House of Representatives interests in the All Progressives condemned the attack on the Congress (APC). The caucus PDP presidential campaign rally in Kaduna State on Monday by Continued on page 10
You Can’t Abandon Work for Election Campaign, Buhari Warns Says penalty awaits violators of order Directs SGF, ministers to prepare transition documents Signs Executive Order 12 to institutionalise accountability, transparency Deji Elumoye in Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, issued a stern warning to all ministers, permanent secretaries, and other top government officials not to involve themselves in electioneering activities ahead of the general election scheduled for the first quarter of 2023. Buhari gave the directive at the end of the two-day 2022 Ministerial Performance Review Retreat, held at the Conference Hall of the State House, Abuja. He warned ministers, permanent secretaries, and heads of government agencies not to abandon the business of governance for electioneering, saying, “Any infraction will be viewed seriously.” The president’s directive was preceded by his signing of Executive Order 012 on Improving Performance Management, Coordination, and Implementation of Presidential Priorities. He directed the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, to continue with the quarterly review process and Continued on page 10
FOR CONTINUITY... L-R: FCT Minister, Mohammed Bello; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha and APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, during the third Ministerial Performance Review Retreat at the Presidential Villa, State House, Abuja...yesterday