Ondo State Governor, OLUSEGUN MIMIKO has announced his decision to contest the 2019 presidency on the platform of the Labour Party.
MIMIKO made the declaration at an event which held at the National Secretariat of the Alhaji ABDULKADIR ABDULSALAM-led LP, in Abuja, today.
Speaking at the event he said there comes a time in the life of a nation where all patriots must stand up to be counted.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has rejected the plan by former National chairman of the Labour Party, ABDULKADIR ABDULSALAM to adopt OLUSEGUN MIMIKO as the party’s Presidential flagbearer for the 2019 general elections.
NLC President, AYUBA WABBA, and Mrs EBERE IFENDU, the National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, stated this at a joint news conference on Thursday in Abuja.
The statement reads and I quote, “It is not possible for MIMIKO to run under the Labour Party and we want to say no to that. As MIMIKO has no business as a member of Labour Party.
“Bringing money to buy the party or the structure will not work, we do not share in the same ideology with him. It is a party with a difference,” end of quote.
President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has accepted the resignation of the Finance Minister, KEMI ADEOSUN.
This was revealed in a statement yesterday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, FEMI ADESINA.
ADEOSUN had been enmeshed in the controversy over her NYSC exemption certificate after a publication by an online medium concerning the authenticity of the document.
In her resignation letter, the former minister noted that she was shocked by the outcome of the investigation done on the allegation suggesting that her NYSC certificate, was not genuine.
She said that in 2011, she tendered it before the Ogun State House of Assembly for screening as a commissioner and also to the National Assembly in 2015 for ministerial screening and was cleared on both occasions.
ADEOSUN said that she never knew the certificate was not genuine until the scandal broke out.
The minister said she was born and brought up in the United Kingdom and that until she was 34, she had only been visiting Nigeria with her UK passport on holidays.
The president has however asked the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Mrs. ZAINAB AHMED, to oversee the finance ministry as from Friday.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has written to the Nigeria Customs Service to place the outgoing Ekiti State Governor, AYO FAYOSE, on its watch list and prevent him from leaving the country through any land, air or sea borders.
We learnt the NCS has granted the request and circulated the EFCC directive to its area and zonal commands.
The EFCC Acting Chairman, IBRAHIM MAGU, in a letter dated September 12 to the Customs’ Comptroller General’s office, said that FAYOSE was under investigation and there was a suspicion that he might leave the country to evade the commission’s investigations.
FAYOSE, whose tenure will end on Monday, October 15, had last Monday written to the EFCC chairman, agreeing to report at the EFCC office on October 16 “to clarify issues or answer questions on issues within my knowledge.”
The EFCC had replied FAYOSE in a report on Saturday that he could report at the commission’s headquarters on September 20 for questioning, instead of waiting till his immunity lapsed on October 16.
