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2023: Don’t Vote Cultist As Your gov – Cleric Appeals To Akwa Ibom People

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3 years ago

October 19, 2022

A senior priest of the African Church, Akwa Ibom State, Reverend Richard Peters, has urged the people to prayerfully scrutinize whoever they want to vote as a governor in the 2023 elections ensuring that the person is not suspected to be a cultist.

It could be recalled that the body of venerable clergies in the state popularly called ‘Fathers of Faith’ had, at different fora, said Akwa Ibom would never be governed by a cultist even though they did not mention any name.

Re-echoing the stance of the fathers of faith in an interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, Peters, who is also the Special Assistant to Governor Udom Emmanuel on Media, said Akwa Ibomites should never vote out of sentiment or pity but on conviction of the candidates’ competence and track record.

The cleric lamented that some youths in the villages had been cajoled into joining cultism for election purposes with juicy promises saying that the people should not allow such by supporting a candidate that would trash the governor’s efforts, Mr Emmanuel, in proscribing cultism in the state.

His words, “I believe that consultations, primaries have been concluded and candidates have set up their campaign committees to carry out the electioneering processes to see how to win the minds of the people, it is time for the people to take a critical look of these people they want to elect.

“They should not allow a cultist to take over power because of the implications and the negative impact it will create within the state. The impact may not be minimal, it will even affect generations unborn. Cultism will be institutionalized in the state, and for someone to benefit from the government, especially the youth, he must join the cabal.

“It is very alarming when you go to the villages; they are now queuing up to be initiated, which is very wrong, some are being threatened, and they will be afraid to speak up; that is why as religious leaders, we speak up and raise the alarm because of the impending danger; therefore, we should not allow such to be.

“Do you know what it really took the governor to return this state truly to God? it took the governor a level of commitment to raise fathers of faith to return the state to God, through prayers to rescue the state from vices and satanic tendencies and nobody should be allowed to return the state to powers alien to us, 99 percent of people here are Christians so we should ensure we allow God to rule in our affairs, as a state. Akwa Ibom people should take these avoidable steps in order not to regret in the future.”

Speaking on micro zoning of the governorship slot, Peters urged the people to look beyond the rhetorics of micro zoning since power has come back to Uyo Senatorial district and any local government in the district is eligible to produce a governor even as he noted that the three governorship candidates from the three major political parties are all from the district.

He added, “Akwa Ibom people should focus on a candidate who has a free heart, developmentally conscious, people centric leader, someone that will develop in the already mapped out development of our past leaders, Akwa Ibom state is blessed with good leaders, each leader improves upon it’s successor another governor is coming to improve on the achievement of the present administration, we don’t want a mediocre who would not allow government to be for the people but for a particular group or cult.”

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Tinubu Sends Ex-INEC Chair, Former Oyo First Lady, 30 Additional Ambassadorial Nominees To Senate

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1 day ago

November 29, 2025

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President Bola Tinubu has forwarded 32 additional ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation, just days after submitting an initial batch of three names.

In two separate letters to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, the President urged the upper chamber to consider and swiftly confirm 15 career diplomats and 17 non-career nominees.

The list includes four women among the career nominees and six women among the non-career nominees.

Prominent names on the non-career list include Barrister Ogbonnaya Kalu from Abia State; former presidential aide, Reno Omokri (Delta); former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmud Yakubu; former Ekiti First Lady, Erelu Angela Adebayo; and former Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.

Others are former Speaker of the Katsina State House of Assembly, Tasiu Musa Maigari; former Plateau State Commissioner, Yakubu N. Gambo; and former Deputy Executive Secretary of UBEC, Yakubu K. Musa.

Also nominated are former Plateau senator, Prof. Nora Ladi Daduut; former Lagos Deputy Governor, Otunba Femi Pedro; former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode; and Barrister Nkechi Linda Ufochukwu from Anambra State.

Additional nominees include former Oyo First Lady, Fatima Florence Ajimobi; former Lagos Commissioner, Lola Akande; former Adamawa senator, Grace Bent; former Abia governor, Victor Okezie Ikpeazu; Senator Jimoh Ibrahim of Ondo State; and former envoy to the Holy See, Ambassador Paul Oga Adikwu (Benue).

The career ambassadorial nominees are Enebechi Monica Okwuchukwu (Abia), Yakubu Nyaku Danladi (Taraba), Miamuna Ibrahim Besto (Adamawa), Musa Musa Abubakar (Kebbi), Syndoph Paebi Endoni (Bayelsa), Chima Geoffrey Lioma David (Ebonyi), and Mopelola Adeola-Ibrahim (Ogun).

Others include Abimbola Samuel Reuben (Ondo), Yvonne Ehinosen Odumah (Edo), Hamza Mohammed Salau (Niger), Ambassador Shehu Barde (Katsina), Ambassador Ahmed Mohammed Monguno (Borno), Ambassador Muhammad Saidu Dahiru (Kaduna), Ambassador Olatunji Ahmed Sulu Gambari (Kwara), and Ambassador Wahab Adekola Akande (Osun).

The new nominees are expected to be deployed to countries with which Nigeria maintains strong and strategic diplomatic relations, including China, India, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, South Africa, and Kenya, as well as to Permanent Missions such as the United Nations, UNESCO, and the African Union.

Their specific postings will be determined after Senate confirmation.

Recall that President Tinubu, last week, forwarded three ambassadorial nominees, Ambassador Ayodele Oke (Oyo), Ambassador Amin Mohammed Dalhatu (Jigawa), and retired Colonel Lateef Kayode Are (Ogun), who are being considered for postings to the UK, USA, or France.

President Tinubu said additional ambassadorial nominations will be announced in due course.

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Soludo Visits Tinubu, Goes Into Closed Door Session With President

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3 days ago

November 28, 2025

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Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo, on Thursday, paid a courtesy visit to the President, Bola Tinubu, GCFR at the State House.

Report by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Soludo, Mr Chris Aburime stated that President Tinubu received the Anambra State Governor with excitement, describing him as his long standing friend of over 22 years.

Aburime said, “The President used the occasion to further congratulate Governor Soludo on his landslide victory in the just concluded Anambra gubernatorial election.

“Recall that President Tinubu had earlier issued a congratulatory message to Governor Soludo immediately the governorship election was concluded.”

Governor Soludo was declared winner with 73% of the votes cast by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Other details of the meeting were, however, not disclosed as the press Secretary told DAILY POST that both men went into a closed door meeting after the reception.

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2027: I Will Resign If Tinubu Loses In Edo – Governor Okpebholo

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3 days ago

November 28, 2025

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Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholor has vowed that President Bola Tinubu will win the 2027 presidential election in Edo State.

Okpebholor in an interview captured in a viral video vowed to resign if the outcome of the 2027 election does not favour the president in Edo State.

According to him, the entire people in Edo State are ready to vote for the president, citing projects that his (Okpebholor) administration executed since the All Progressives Congress, APC took over the state.

He claimed that there is no opposition in the state, stressing that everyone is supporting the ruling party ahead of the 2027 elections.

He said, “There is no opposition here in Edo everybody is for Asiwaju in this state.

“Tinubu is more popular than me in Edo state. If he doesn’t win the presidential election in Edo in 2027, I will resign.”