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Daily Rendezvous The Director General media to Governor Fintiri of Adamawa state, Solomon Kumangar on Monday, slammed the secretary to the Government Federation Government, SGF, Boss Mustapha and the Gubernatorial candidate of the APC, Aishatu Binani for what he called “delusional day dreaming” over recent comments credited to Mr. Mustapha and Binani that the Governor should prepare his handover notes.   The Director general media to the Governor, Solomon Kumangar,  insisted that the SGF should not mistake Adamawa electorate for APC delegates that were severally induced with hard currency to sell their conscience to nominate the current APC candidate in Adamawa. The statement was titled “Adamawa APC and the highest bidder takes all primary.” It read in part, “We are aware of the latest statements from the so-called ‘APC leaders in Adamawa.’ “We wish to reassure the APC candidate and the SGF, that no matter their shenanigans no APC candidate  can avert the...

Daily Rendezvous  COVID-19 and financial puacity facing Nigeria and Adamawa state has not deterred Governor Ahmadu Fintiri from airlifting more a thousand pilgrims of both religions from Adamawa state to the holy lands to perform this year's  Hajj and Christian Pilgrimage to Rome to perform the yearly rituals of visiting the holylands. A period most Governors are grappling with salary payments, Fintiri took the bull by the horn to sponsor thousands to the holy lands. He pioneered  the airlifting of pilgrims to the holy land  since the advent of COVID-19 in Nigeria.  He sponsored 119 Christians to Rome for the sole purpose of pilgrimage the only Governor to do so throughout the country. The contingent cut across different denominations. Including the Pentecostal  and orthodox. The contingent headed by the Catholic Bishop of yola Diocese Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza, includes the President of EYN Rev Joel Billi the vice Chairman Lutheran Church of Ch...

Daily Rendezvous The Adamawa Judicial Service Commission in its 117th meeting held on the 25th of May, 2022, has fired 11 staff for using forged certificates to gain employment into the commission. The commission also demoted a Magistrate to the rank of a Registrar and demoted 20 others over alleged use of fake certificates to gain promotions.. The Adamawa Judicial Service Commission made this known in a press statement issued to Newsmen by the commissions Secretary, Hindatu Lamorde, over the weekend, in Yola, Adamawa State. Lamorde said the Magistrate was demoted to the position of Registrar for participating in corrupt practices. Lamorde said that 20 other judicial staff were demoted for using fake certificates to obtain promotion in the commission. The statement reads in part, “The commission approved the demotion of a magistrate to registrar for involving in corruption. “It also approved demotion for 20 staff for using fake certificates to obtain promotions, and sacks 1...

Daily Rendezvous The Federal Constituency of Guyuk/Shelleng Federal Constituency All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket was clinched by Haruna T. Daniel. Haruna who is popularly called D20 has emerged as the APC standard flag bearer for Guyuk/Shelleng Federal House of Representatives and polled a total score of 53 votes to beat his close rival, Ayuba Bamaiyi who scored 15 votes. The Electoral Officer Alh. Idris Bello while declaring D20 as the winner of the contest said the process was transparent and the freest, fairest. "After a hitch free primary election that took place at the APC party secretariat in Guyuk, I hereby declared Mr. Haruna T Daniel as the winner of this contest and is hereby returned elected," Bello said 75 votes were accredited. Hon. Ayuba Bamaiyi (15), Hon. Monday Simon (7 ) and Hajiya Aisha Grema scored 0 Mr Daniel in his acceptance thanked the delegates and electoral officers and promised to fly well the party's flag to victory. He vowed ...

Daily Rendezvous Binani was not on my mind and probably not on any political analyst mind, as a possible and formidable candidate to clinch the APC governorship ticket of the usually rancarous and chaotic APC. She made the least noise, the fewest of public movements but made the biggest of impacts on the D-Day, the primary. The Senator representing Adamawa Central, Engr. Aishatu Dahiru Binani surprised everyone when by the morning, she was announced to have emerged as APC candidate for the 2023 general elections beating Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and the immediate past Governor of Adamawa state, Mohammed Umaru Jibrillah Bindow. The Adamawa Central political power house emerged as the first female governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Nigeria. When I went to sleep last night, I was pretty much sure that the "demons" that shadowed and pleagued APC in 2019 general elections have returned and are fully at work and that party primary would implode o...

Daily Rendezvous The Senator representing Southern Adamawa zone, Rev. Binos Dauda Yaroe, has clinched the PDP's ticket to run for a second term as the senator representing southern Adamawa state. Binos who polled 232 votes to beat his closest challenger, Peter Fwa, who polled 55 votes at the primary. Sen. Binos said his victory has made him the second person in the southern senatorial zone to win successive nominations for a senatorial race in the history of southern Adamawa. Binos made the remarks while delivering his acceptance speech shortly after the conclusion of the elections in Numan, Adamawa state. Binos said, "I will like to take this opportunity to express my most sincere gratitude to Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, the Fresh Air Governor, the Project Master, for giving us an environment that enabled us excel in following his example and serving the people at the grassroots. "This has made our work in winning the General Election in 2023 super easy. PDP s...

Daily Rendezvous Former Anambra state governor, Peter Obi has resigned from the PDP and formally withdraws from the presidential. Although no reason was advanced for his resignation.

Daily Rendezvous BY IBRAHIM .M. HAMMAN    As Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressive Congress, APC gets ready for its Gubernatorial Primaries in less than 72 hours, the focus and of course attention will be on Adamawa.  The Gubernatorial Primaries would avail both pretenders and contenders the latitude to avail themselves before respected delegates and critical stakeholders vested with the responsibility of choice.  Under globalization and multi-culturalism in the politics of choice and change, the name that keeps resonating within the political circles in Adamawa is that of Otunba Umar Mustapha Madawaki, a man with dazzling brilliance and intellectual capacity to be the state’s next Governor. Otunba as fondly called, flaunts enviable credentials as an enthusiastic politician with passion for grassroot mobilization and development.  As a committed, resourceful and dynamic Nigerian, the leading aspirant with full potentials of a candidate is a com...

Daily Rendezvous The Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has scored a lamskide victory polling 663 votes to win the governorship primary of the PDP in Adamawa state. Gov. Fintiri's victory makes him the candidate to hoist the PDP's flag for a second term in office come 2023. Gov Fintiri while delivering his acceptance speech said, it is the collective resolve and anger of the people of Adamawa at the way they were poorly governed by the APC that led to his nomination and subsequent victory in 2019. Gov. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri said the overwhelming votes he scored to emerge PDP's flagbearer is because of the massive confidence delegates have on him as one of their own, who will lead the charge against the APC from the front and reverse the negative trend of years of APC maladministration. The governor said his three years in office is a massive testament of the outstanding vision and giant strides of PDP-led government as PDP has changed the na...

Daily Rendezvous Nigeria Needs Leaders with Empathy– Nigerian Students in Australia Ahead of 2023, Nigerian students in Australia have said that what Nigeria needs now are leaders who are men and women of great empathy. Defining empathy as the ability to understand and relate to the emotions of another, as well as the ability to demonstrate that you know what the other person feels and is going through, the students said it was the most revered trait leaders could demonstrate at this material time in Nigeria when the nation is experiencing daunting challenges. In a statement released by the President of Nigerian Students in Australia, Tochukwu Onah and made available to some media houses in Nigeria, the students urged leaders and intending leaders in the country to emulate the Nigerian Ambassador to Australia, Anderson Madubike who they described as “an embodiment of empathy and a diplomat worthy of celebration.” Onah noted that since Madubike’s appointment as Nigeria Ambas...

Daily Rendezvous A concerned citizen in Adamawa has raised the alarm over the sloppy and mischievous conduct of PDP party primaries in the state. The concerned citizen who pleaded for anonymity says, he does not know why people always fail to learn from the past and improve on their behaviour going forward because it seems as if the ruling party in the state has not looked back and learn from it because the party primaries held in the state was a system that was completely rigged and corrupted to produce a prescribed outcome of distorted representation.and trust me, we all know the truth, we cannot deceive ourselves, we all know by now that no good would come from this kind of process. He said, "The PDP in Adamawa state has just concluded another round of party primaries to select its best candidates to fly the party's flag at the forthcoming general elections in 2023. Any smart politician would want to put it's best foot forward. So, the PDP has successfully e...

Daily Rendezvous The PDP has rolled the dice and deploy its army on the chase board for the battle to sweep the Adamawa a house of Assembly seats come 2023. The party has conducted its primaries to select it candidates to slug it out with key opposition party, the APC and other parties in the state. Fourteen seating members of Adamawa state House of Assembly and eleven other candidates have successfully secured tickets to fly the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party for forthcoming state Assembly elections in 2023. The members secured their tickets today at the party's primary elections held in all the 21 local government areas of Adamawa state. Those who secured the tickets are led the deputy speaker and 24 others on the flag of the PDP. Among those that would not be returning to the house are the Speaker, Aminu Iya Abbas, the majority leader Hammatukur Yetsuri, the duo are vying for a place at the National Assembly. While the members representing Song constituncy did ...

Daily Rendezvous - I Will Trickle Down Prosperity to All Adamawa People-Wafari Promises One of the leading gubernatorial contenders of the All Progressives Congress in Adamawa, Wafarninyi Theman, has promised to set up a system of government that will ensure prosperity for the people of Adamawa and create opportunities for every talent to flourish in the state. Wafari said, Nigerians and the people of Adamawa have doubts about democracy due to years of sustained bad leadership but his government will bring into reality the essence of government of the people by prioritizing programmes in poverty alleviation, youth empowerment, economic development, infrastructural transformation and sports and entertainment designed to benefit all indigenes of Adamawa. Wafari made the remarks at the official flagging-off of his governorship campaign in Yola, Adamawa state Speaking on his vision for Adamawa state Wafari Theman said he will work to create a "Common humanityand build brid...

Daily Rendezvous BY His Excellency Ambassador Anderson N  Madubike I arrived in Canberra, Australia on 19th May 2022 to commence my tour of duty as the High Commissioner of Nigeria to the commonwealth of Australia, with concurrent accreditation to New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. During this period, the world was of course experiencing its largest disruption since World War Il in every facet of human endeavour, the Covid-19 pandemic.  The pandemic has therefore caused damaging effects on economies and public life. While many countries in the world are facing severe dilemma and difficulties on revitalizing their national economies, developing economies most of whom are not particularly benefiting from the global economy are completely overwhelmed. With this background on my mind, I set out to plan on how best to broaden the bilateral relations between Nigeria and Australia and the other nations in the Pacific Region. The fact is that trade relations ...

Daily Rendezvous Adamawa 2023: Court summons PDP, INEC over disqualification of governorship aspirant The judge said it was in the interest of justice for all the parties connected to the PDP governorship race in Adamawa State to appear and respond to the issues in the matter. The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, summoned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to appear over the purported disqualification of Abubakar Waziri from the Adamawa governorship primary. Mr Waziri, through his lawyer, Louis Alozie, sued the PDP and INEC over his disqualification by the screening committee of the party in preparation for the Adamawa State governorship race in 2023. Mr Alozie, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), informed the court that the purported disqualification of Mr Waziri was done in breach of the Electoral Act 2022 and the PDP guidelines. He argued that both the Yola South Local Government Area and the Steering Com...

Daily Rendezvous Delegates in Demsa have unanimously flipped over and endorsed the candidacy of Martins Yanatham Dickson as the choiced candidate to run for the State House of Assembly. Martins who was at the APC secretariate in Demsa, to declare to run for the state house of Assembly for the 2023 general elections says he is ready to redefine the concept of representation when given the chance to represent his people at the Adamawa state house of Assembly in 2023. Speaking at the flag-off ceremony of his campaign for the Adamawa state house of assembly, Martins said, "This is the age of technology and Nigeria from the federal to the local government levels need people of great ideas and that is what I represent for the people of Demsa. "My ideas are concrete, real, achievable and a direct reflection of what my people need. I am very conscious of the mandate I represent and I am not going to the house to represent myself.  "Our people need solutions for deepl...

Daily Rendezvous The Three leading gubernatorial apsirants of the All progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa state have threatened to reject in its entirety any ongoing underhand ploy to scuttle the party primaries by some aspirants who are reported to be working with some party officials to undermine the general agreement reached by the majority of the members of the party in its last congress." The APC aspirants maintained that there is a plan to surreptitious substitute legitimate delegates for some persons who would be used to circumvent the party's fast approsching primary. This was made known at a joint press conference by the three aspirants, Abdulrazak Namdas, Wafari Theman, and Umar Mustapha, held in Yola, Adamawa State. They said, reports filtering in from delegates across the state suggest that so many members of the party from the 226 wards of the state have been calling in to report that they have been unceremoniously evicted from the delegates list an...

Daily Rendezvous The Gospel Advancement, Leadership Initiative(GALI) condemn in strong terms the gruesome murder of Deborah Yakubu, a 200 level student of Economics at the Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto on account of religious intolerance.  We view this act of callousness and barbarism as unbecoming of students of a higher institution in Nigeria. Freedom of religion is a right enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999. Arising from the foregoing, no state is allowed to create a state religion. Citizens of this country are free to reside in any part of this Country and practice their religion without fear. Regrettably, the unchallenged gruesome murder of Deborah Yakubu goes to show that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a mere official window dressing document. To state that security operatives of the Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto were overpowered by the mob is purile, infantile and incapable of bein...

Daily Rendezvous The presidential hopeful of the PDP and Governor of Bauchi state, Sen. Bala Mohammed, has tasked Nigerians to cue into his Nigeria first project saying Nigerians have to learn put their differences aside and fight for country of their dreams. Sen. Bala said, if Nigeria must develop as a country, everyone must put hands on the deck and throw off religious, ethnic, geographical and political differences to put the interest of the country first above everything else. Bala Mohammed made the remarks at a consultative forum with delegates in Kogi and Nassarawa states. After the meeting, Bala Mohammed shared on his Twitter that, "My interaction with delegates of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi and Nassarawa states was fruitful.  "I am excited that all present saw the importance and keyed into my message of #NigeriaFirst." Bala Mohammed is one of the leading presidential contenders under the flag of the PDP and he has sjnce set himsel...

Daily Rendezvous The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) has declared a two weeks nationwide warning strike directing its members to down tools in order to persuade the Buhari led government to implement the Memorandum of Understanding it reached with the union. The Union in a statement signed by the natiknal chairman, Anderson Ezeibe, the Federal government is yet to fulfil its side of the promise after the union after it gave the FG One Month notice to fulfil its promise. The Union had ealier said that the FG has failed to release N15 billion revitalization funds it promised the union or it will be faced with strike action by the union. Ezeibe said, its staff are also owed minimum wages backlog dating back to 31st December, 2019. While condemning the actions of the federal government, the union said, it is not in the character of the union to embark on frivolous strike action but it will not hesitate to embark on a strike and stay as long as it takes until the fede...

Daily Rendezvous The Chairman of Gov. Fintiri transition committee and former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defense, Ismaila Aliyu, has called on Nigerians and citizens of Adamawa State, to take the new year as moment to reposition themselves to serve their country and state and to a time to join hnds with government to build a great Adamawa State. Ismaila made this known in a personal press statement tagged "To New Beginnings" made available to The ChroniclesNaija, over the weekend. Ismaila Aliyu said, "To New Beginnings "2021 has come and gone and it has been a year of mixed reactions and diverse expectations. "Many of us planned and proposed hundreds of things of what we wanted for the year and how we wanted to do things but looking back on how the year ended, we know that sometimes we can only do our best but only God can tell what the future holds. "So, as the new year just began, let us see it as a new opportunity to be thankful with f...

Daily Rendezvous The Director-General media to Governor Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa state, Mr Solomon Kumangar, has described the self-acclaimed Tumba of Ekiti as persona non grata and a deluded fellow that is blind to real development brought to Adamawa State by Governor Fintiri as his plan to contest governorship primaries in the APC is a joke taken too far. Kumangar said that he was constrained to react to the unacceptable and regrettable outburst of Mustapha alias Tumba, a signboard enthusiast who has erected more than a thousand signboards despite his waning popularity on a  daily basis. According to him, Mustapha, the author of the offensive news release or communique, is a trouble brewer sponsored by fifth columnists in what can only be described as a joke taken too far. “It’s unacceptable, null and void for a person who can not win councillorship in Adamawa state to purchase governorship form to rub shoulders with honest politicians from Adamawa state. “Consequentl...