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President Buhari Following president Buhari’s nomination by the APC, his special assistant on new media, Bashir Ahmad shared this picture of the president dressed in traditional Igbo attire. Buhari Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has been approved as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2019 election. This was done at the party’s national convention on Saturday night. Writing on Twitter after the nomination, Buhari said: “It is with a deep sense of humility that I accept the nomination of our great party, the All Progressives Congress, to be its candidate and flagbearer in the 2019 Presidential election. I thank you all for your support and guidance, and for staying committed to the Change Agenda. “Let us all join hands to ensure the continuation of the good work of the APC Government, to 2023 — and beyond! Change has come to stay in Nigeria. Long live APC, long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria!” DISCLAIMER : jomotv.com do not claim owners

The Federal Government has disbursed N210 million to 10, 490 poorest and most vulnerable persons in Kaduna State under its Conditional Cash Transfer Programme. Alhaji Mahmoud Zailani, Permanent Secretary in the state Ministry of Rural and Community Development made this known in a statement made available to journalists in Kaduna on Thursday. Zailani explained that the beneficiaries from nine local government areas of the state received N5,000 monthly in February, March, April and May. He listed the local government areas to include Ikara, Kubau, Lere, Birnin Gwari, Chikun, Kajuru, Kachia, Kauru and Sanga. According to him, the Kaduna State Cash Transfer Unit in the ministry started the payment of N5,000 cash to the beneficiaries in February. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme is run by the Buhari Administration under the National Social Investment Programme introduced in 2016 to tackle unemployment, poverty and hunger in the country.(NAN) DISCLAIMER : jomotv.

A socio-political organization, Ndigbo Unity Assembly, NUA, has called on Igbos to reject President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 for his alleged plans to handover to a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bolaji Ahmed Tinubu in 2023. The organization made the call yesterday after their expanded emergency meeting in Onitsha, Anambra State. This was in reaction to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki’s claim that Buhari struck agreement with Tinubu to hand over power to him (Tinubu) in 2023. NUA said it had become glaringly clear that the party and its leadership don’t have the interest of the Igbo people at heart. President General of the organization, Dede Uzor, pointed out that Saraki’s revelation which had not been denied by either President Buhari or Tinubu had confirmed the fears of majority of Ndigbo that APC and its leadership had no good agenda for Ndigbo right from its inception. The meeting was attended by the state chairmen from the five South East states, includi

 Editor's note: The convener of Akwa Ibom Politburo For Good Governance, Bassey Amba Offong, writes on the rumours that Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom state, might be on his way to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Indeed Godswill Akpabio is an empty shell who has been unceremoniously rejected and abandoned by at least 97 per cent of his erstwhile political allies. Indeed the political demystification of Godswill Akpabio has run full circle. It is against Akpabio’s current status of a political leper that his desperation to stop Governor Udom Emmanuel should be understood. Akpabio sponsored a false publication claiming that Chief Don Etiebet and other APC leaders were opposed to Governor Udom Emmanuel joining the APC. It is instructive that Chief Don Etiebet has denied issuing any such vexatious and childish statement. Governor Udom Emmanuel has the right to join the APC like every other Nigerian. If Godswill Akpabio whose defection has been of inconsequential value to the

The presidency has issued a statement urging its supporters to be calm and exercise patience during the election campaigns so the game can be played according to rules. In a statement signed by Femi Adesina, 'It has been observed that some fervent supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari have begun what may be interpreted as political campaigns in their advocacies and advertisements in the mass media'. He continued to say, 'we appreciate their enthusiasm, borne out of desire to garner support for an administration that is actuated by nothing else, other than service for motherland, but we hereby appeal for patience, so that the game can be played according to the rules. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has a timetable for political campaigns, and we urge committed supporters round the country (and beyond) to be mindful of such. There will be ample time ahead to trumpet the good works of the Buhari administration, and solicit re-election, all for the good

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor, Henry Umoru & Dirisu Yakubu A BUJA— Senators are headed for a stormy session today, outraged, over the anticipatory approval and payment of $496 million to the United States Government by President Muhammadu Buhari for the purchase of 12 A29 Super Tucano aircraft. The approval for the payment was made without appropriation by the National Assembly, and in direct conflict with the provisions of the constitution, National Assembly members fumed, yesterday. Today’s stormy session is expected to be further aggravated by plans to use the newly amended Legislative Houses and Privileges Act to clamp an indefinite suspension on Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, APC, Delta Central over his alleged role in the invasion of the chambers by thugs, last Wednesday. The amended act signed into law by President Buhari last January, among others, gives the Senate the powers to ban until the end of the session. Meanwhile, the Senate leadership, last night, met on how to di

ABUJA – The Igbo community in Abuja has begun a campaign for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari, urging a former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu to desist from speaking in a manner that suggests that the president is not interested in the 2019 project. VISIT: From left, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State; Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State; Mr. Okechukwu Enelamah, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment; President Muhammadu Buhari; Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology, and Dr. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, during the President’s visit to Ebonyi State. Speaking on Sunday at the inauguration of the Abuja chapter of the pro-Buhari group, Ndigbo for Buhari 2019, leader of the group, and an All Progressives Congress APC chieftain, Prince Paul Ikonne advised the Igbo to work with the mindset that the president is standing for a re-election and must be supported. “As a leader of APC