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Daily Rendezvous - Northern Group Says It Regrets Supporting Buhari in 2015 - Says it's Ready For Violent Confrontation with Protesters - The North Will Not Support North West Candidacy The Northern Youth Leaders Forum, has showered praises on the Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed, for averting the EndSARS protests that swept the country recently, saying he was one of the few governors who meticulously distributed palliatives in his state by piloting the distribution as the adhoc committee head. The National chairman of the Forum, Comrade Afiyo Eliot, said, Bala Mohammed, distinguishes himself as an examplery leader faithfully getting palliatives to communities in his state, thus, curbing activities of youths who went to various warehouses but could not hidden palliatives. Eliot said, this is the kind of leadership the north needs to tackle the social and security challenges of the region and the forum would gladly support these kind of visionary leaders for higher p...

Adamawa 2019: APC Will Deliver Adamawa For Buhari With  or Without Ribadu By Billy Graham Abel Yola The Adamawa state Pubilcity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammed Abdullahi, has aimed a dig at the newly appointed Director of field operations of the Buhari campaign council, Nuhu Ribadu, saying the APC machinery in the state had delivered Adamawa for Buhari in 2015 when Ribadu was in PDP and that the party has the capacity to mobilise more votes in 2019 without the contributions of Ribadu. Abdullahi stressed that there is an obvious error in Ribadu's approach in the take off of his task as the director of field operations of the Buhari campaign council without first liasing with the state chapter of the party and the governor who has been appointed as the coordinator of all APC campaigns in the state. Abdullahi made the remarks, while announcing the official flagging off of campaigns of the APC in Adamawa state. Abdullahi "We are aware that one of us...

My Ambition is Not Worth Anyone's Blood-Fintiri By Billy Graham Abel Yola PDP candidate in the 2019 elections, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, has said in no uncertain terms that his candidacy is not worth the blood of any son of Adamawa. Fintiri made the remarks, Thursday, at the  signing of Peace Accord of all Governorship candidates in Adamawa, banning violence, intimidation, hate speech among other behavior that could undermine the credibility of the 2019 elections. The PDP Candidate said the pact would have been unnecessary if INEC had provided a level ground and were the extant electoral Laws of the Country respected. He expressed reservations over president Muhammadu Buhari's refusal to assent to the 2018 Electoral Act saying the APC led government cannot claim to be committed to a free and fair elections without assenting to the Electoral Act. The outspoken governorship candidate also questioned the synergy between INEC and  Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers saying ...

2019: Reconcilation Committee Welcomed But  Belated-Duhu By Billy Graham Abel Yola The pioneer National Vice Chairnan, North East of the APC, Umar Duhu, described the Constitution of a reconciliatory committee by the APC as a welcomed development but a belated one move. Duhu Said, APC left many of its members in the dark heading into the congresses and primaries about what it intends to do in many states and how they intend to attain candidacy at so many levels, leaving on it's trails that alot of bad blood and ill feeling among members of the party. Duhu made the remarks Saturday, while addressing newsmen in Yola, Adamawa State. Duhu Said, "A situation where members of the party were allowed to purchase forms and only to be told in some instances that others were consensus candidates was unsettling and a serious problem that the APC must address." Duhu however maintained that he has confidence in the Almakura led reconcilation committee of the APC an...

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