The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission has met with the management of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to discuss the possibility of a sufficient supply of petroleum products across the country on election day, particularly for the vehicles INEC will deploy to convey voting materials and personnel.
The INEC chairman appealed to the NNPC to approve his proposal to use NNPC land and floating mega stations nationwide to service election duty vehicles and boats.
He says INEC will bear the cost of the products, and By doing so, there will be a guaranteed supply for elections.
He also asked for permission to make a special arrangement with other marketers in locations where the NNPC may not have dedicated stations, and Consider other options to support the electoral body’s seamless operations on Election Day.
The Chairman of INEC Professor Mahmood Yakubu told officials at Nigeria’s Oil Company that the commission is mobilizing one hundred thousand vehicles and four thousand boats for the deployment of personnel and materials to one hundred and seventy-six thousand, eight hundred and forty-six polling units spread across eight thousand, eight hundred and nine registration areas.
APC RAISES THE ALARM OVER ALLEGED PLANS TO SCUTTLE PRESIDENTIAL RALLY IN OSOGBO
The All Progressives Congress in Osun state has alleged the people’s democratic party of planning to scuttle Tinubu/Shettima presidential rally slated for Thursday in Osogbo, the state Capital.
Addressing journalists in Osogbo, State Chairman of the Party, Tajudeen Lawal said they got wind of the sinister plans through reliable intelligence.
According to him, part of ways planned by the PDP to carry out their nefarious acts include: use of branded APC camouflage and fake security uniforms, as well as staging of protest with the intent to cause commotion during the presidential campaign
He alleged that the PDP members have also planned to station rented urchins and thugs to hurl stones on Tinubu’s convoy.
Spokesperson of Tinubu’s presidential campaign council, Remi Omowaye equally lamented that series of violence have been unleashed on the APC members since the tribunal declared Adegboyega Oyetola winner of July 16 Governorship election.
He called on the inspector general of police, Usman Baba Alkali and other sister security agencies to intervene towards foiling the sinister moves and ensuring peaceful atmosphere for the APC presidential campaign.
TINUBU PROMISES TO MAKE ANAMBRA INDUSTRIAL HUB, TACKLE GULLY EROSION
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) *Senator Bola Tinubu* has promised to turn Anambra State to an industrial hub of South East, if elected president.
He made the promise while addressing mammoth crowd of APC supporters during his Anambra State Presidential rally at *Dr. Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka.*
Tinubu acknowledge the industrial prowess of people of the South East, urged them to collect their PVCs and vote for him.
Governor of Imo State and other speakers admonished people of Anambra State to ensure they vote all APC candidates in the coming elections.
ATIKU BEMOANS DOWNGRADE OF NIGERIA’S CREDIT RATING, PROMISES IMPROVEMENT
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has expressed disapproval of the recent downgrade of Nigeria’s credit rating by Moody’s Investors Service.
With the global credit agency downgrading the country’s foreign debt for the second time in just over three months, the credit rating which was released on Friday marks the lowest Nigeria has received since 2006.
Atiku, in a series of tweets on Monday, said Moody’s took account of the government’s inability to curtail its addiction to deficit financing and its appetite for more funds from the Central Bank’s Ways and Means.
“Late last week, Moody’s Investors Service (The Moody’s) sadly, but not unexpectedly, downgraded the Nigerian Government’s Credit Rating from B3 to Caa1. This is a very significant downgrade,” he wrote.
“Moody’s notes the FGN’s deteriorating fiscal and debt position and its lack of capacity to respond to same; it notes the ‘exacerbating policy trading-off’ between debt servicing and the financing of critical sectors, including education, health, and other social programmes.”
The former Vice President described the observations as a direct indictment of the country’s political leadership for what he said is its failures in the management of our fiscal resources.
According to him, the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government lacks the critical competencies to initiate and implement innovative solutions to our problems and deliver on their mandate with the desired impact.
