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Nigeria Must Consolidate Works Of Successful Leaders, Says SDP Presidential Candidate, Adebayo

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3 years ago

August 28, 2022

Prince Adewole Adebayo, Presidential Candidate Of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, says Nigerians particularly her leaders must learn how to consolidate works of successful leaders in order to move the country forward.

This is as he advised that, as a nation, Nigeria must raise leaders who will not be divisive, but unite the country and people whether young or old.

The presidential candidate made these assertions in Abuja at the 2022 Annual Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida Legacy Dialogue with the theme: Issues In Africa’s Democratic Journey,’ and was instituted by the Ibrahim and Mariam Babangida Presidential Library and Museum.

The event which held in celebration of the 81st birthday of the former president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, had panel of discussants as Prince Adewole Adebayo; Minister of FCT, Alhaji Musa Bello, Former Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Namadi Sambo, Presidential Candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) Alhaji Hamza Al-Mustapha, and Former Minister of Youth and sports, Hon. Solomon Dalung.

Prince Adebayo, while Referring to the celebrant, Babangida, as a man who accept praises and criticism the same way, pointed out that whatever errors or achievements IBB made was “not an excuse for Nigeria to have a government today that is worse than the one he ran. Adebayo stated that when interrogating any regime in Nigeria, there should be no excuse.”

He continued: “Nigerians must consolidate where their leaders got it right, and learn lessons from areas where they got it wrong; “This is one lesson I have learnt as a leader, and I will not make the same mistake made by earlier leaders to spoil anything that others have got right.

“IBB left a legacy. Legacy takes time because things takes time to mature, things takes time to make sense and things make sense to different generations in different ways.

“IBB was a youth when he took over power and these wonderful things he has done, was done when he was a youth. So it breaks the myth that, you have to be very old and tired before you can make sense in politics,” He remarked.

“He remains one of the most significant political figures in the country and is responsible for the creation of the Social Democratic Party of Nigeria (SDP). As part of a democracy project meant to form two detribalized political parties, IBB presented the SDP alongside the National Republican Convention as a moderate party attractive to young radical intellectuals and socialists.

“For our generation and the Social Democratic Party, we are not worried and we are not in despair. We have hope that these problems, when you give us the opportunity, would be solved,” Prince Adebayo said while speaking about the upcoming general elections and the concerns of the masses.

The presidential candidate noted that, whatever the crises in Nigeria today, there are no national issues of any dimension that one cannot resolve through Gen. IBB.

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

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2 days 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.”