Politics
Oshiomhole: Keep Off From APC National Secretariat – IG Warns APC Members
The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Friday warned the feuding groups in the All Progressives Congress (APC) to keep off the party’s national secretariat in Abuja for now.
Operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) yesterday joined armed policemen on the premises of the secretariat to keep the peace and ensure that no one gained access.
The building has since been put under lock and key.
Adamu met with the two sides on Friday during which he told them to refrain from taking the law into their hands.
A group opposed to the APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, had on Wednesday obtained an interim court order restraining him from parading himself as chairman.
Soon after the order was granted, the police deployed a detachment of their men to secure the APC secretariat.
Human movement within the premises was restricted with only secretariat staff and journalists allowed in.
Party members and visitors were barred.
The following day, a Federal High Court in Kano issued an interim order that the status quo be maintained in the APC.
The development did not sit well with the anti-Oshiomhole group who vowed to resist his planned return to the secretariat yesterday.
Each of the two sides, armed with a court order, went to the Force Headquarters, Abuja yesterday, seeking police protection.
The IG could only ask them to give peace a chance and keep off the party’s national secretariat for now.
It was gathered that Oshiomhole led a faction of the National Working Committee (NWC) to the meeting with the IG while the National Vice Chairman, North East, Comrade Salihu Mustapha, led the other group.
With neither of them willing to yield ground at the meeting, the IG directed that the two groups should stay away from the party secretariat.
Consequently, a team from the DSS was sent to reinforce the police detachment already at the secretariat.
Party staff who reported for work were not allowed into the building.
Some party members and reporters who went to the Secretariat were also turned back from the gate by the security personnel.
No fewer than 15 Police Hilux trucks were seen around the premises.
A Rapid Response Squad (RRS) Peugeot car and a hot water sprinkler truck were also strategically parked on the deserted street.
At 4:24 pm on Friday, five armed security men arrived at the premises on motorbikes to join those on ground.
Oshiomhole had told reporters on Thursday that those plotting his ouster as APC chairman were doing so because of the struggle for the 2023 presidential race.
Emerging from a meeting at the State House in Abuja with President Muhammadu Buhari,the APC chairman said: “I’m proud to say that I have done my best not only when I was a governor, I have done my best as chairman of this party.
“I have worked not only along members of the party and with support of the good people of Nigeria for the president to be re-elected, for us to have majority in the two chambers of the National Assembly, I also worked hard to deliver my unit, my ward.
“I worked hard to deliver my local government. I worked hard to deliver my federal constituency, three of them in my senatorial zone. I also worked hard to deliver my senatorial district.
“Those fighting me just feel that if they cannot give me orders, then they must do everything to embarrass my person, but I believe that he who God stands with, no man born of a woman can bring him down. I can’t say more than that.
“Those who are parading themselves, holding meetings at night, my prayer to my God is that let them meet at night, what they do at night will be destroyed in the day time. I don’t go for night business; I do day business. They know themselves, they know me and I know them.
“Unfortunately, very few of our elites want to weaken institutions so that they can control, and if you refuse to oblige them the misuse of your institution, then they go for your jugular. That is the only thing. Otherwise I ask you, remember the confusion we had at the last NEC meeting?
“That meeting took place exactly a week or about 10 days after we had won Kogi election, Bayelsa election before the court took it and donated it to somebody else. Yet in the face of this victory, people said Oshiomhole must be removed, precisely because we won more seats.
“But you see, whatever you do, those who want to fight you will fight you. But I know that my tenure will be defined by God, not by man.
“I worry more about what I will be remembered for when I was chairman rather than how long I was chairman. And I am convinced that I have done my very best.
“Mistakes would have been made, and I want to see the one person who will say he has never made mistakes.”
Source: Nation
In a statement on Tuesday, Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the FCT Minister, said Kingibe was already blinded by the looming prospect of her electoral defeat and therefore unable to recognize the positive transformation taking place in Abuja and the FCT’s satellite towns.
In response to comments made by Senator Kingibe on a television program on Monday, where she described President Bola Tinubu’s appointment of Wike as FCT Minister as his “biggest mistake,” Olayinka said, “it is funny that someone who is impersonating by using the name of Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe, who is no longer her husband, believes that jumping from one television station to the other to disparage the FCT Minister will revive her dead political career.”
He also highlighted the recent infrastructural progress under Wike’s leadership, challenging the Senator to visit communities such as Saburi, Dei Dei, Kabusa, Ketti, Yangoji, Pai, Gomani, Gishiri, Kwaita, Yebu, Sukuku, Ebo, Ushafa, and others that now boast of new roads, and tell residents there that Tinubu made a mistake in appointing Wike.
He also pointed to longstanding projects finally seeing progress, including the relocation of traders at Apo Mechanic Village to a permanent site after over 15 years, as well as the construction along Apo-Wasa road.
“In Abaji, Federal Capital Territory University, Abaji (FCTU), a university established close to 15 years ago, but was abandoned, is now witnessing a massive infrastructural development.
“Also, general renovation of 22 schools has been done in the last 12 months while renovation of more than 40 others is ongoing.
Describing Kingibe as “someone already blinded by the spirit of a coming defeat,” Olayinka alleged that she is aware she will not be able to retain her Senate seat in 2027.
The reason is, she knows that in 2027, she won’t be able to retain the Senate seat she accidentally got in 2023. She knows that the factor that got her to the Senate is no longer available and she is desperate to use attacks on Wike to gain political leverage.
“Unfortunately, Wike is not in the comity of frustrated politicians like Ireti ‘Kingibe’ who is treating her aides like slaves, refusing to pay their wages and entitlements for months,” Olayinka said.
He advised the Senator to “get real” and stop what he termed impersonation.
“At 71, a woman should have a clear identity, use her legitimate names, and stop using the name of a man she is no longer married to.”
The electoral commission, however, stated that 1,757,205 PVCs had been collected as 2,053,061 voters had already registered with the commission.
The. Resident Electoral Officer in the state, Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola, stated this in a chat with journalists on Tuesday at the headquarters of the commission in Akure, the state capital, on the preparation for the forthcoming continuous voter registration exercise.
According to her, voter registration was a critical aspect of any democratic process as it serves as the gateway to electoral participation and the primary means through which eligible citizens are enfranchised.
She said, “The commission has approved the resumption of the Continuous Voter Registration exercise nationwide.
“Online pre-registration will start on the 18th August 2025, while the In-person registration will follow on the 25th August 2025.
“The primary objective of the forthcoming CVR exercise is to provide opportunities for the following categories of citizens.
“Citizens who have just attained the age of 18 and others who are eligible to register.
“Those who were unable to register during previous exercises.
“Citizens who intend to transfer their registration from one location to another.
Voters who had issues during accreditation at the previous election.
Registered voters who require an update to their data. Citizens with defaced, damaged or lost PVC.
“Data of registered voters in the state include total registered voters, 2,053,061, the PVCs collected 1,757,205, while a total of 295,856 is uncollected.”
The REC noted that the CVR exercise would continue until August 2026; however, it will be temporarily stopped in December 2025 to facilitate the harvesting and processing of data collected from August to December 2025.
The INEC boss expressed the commission’s unwavering commitment to transparency, professionalism, and inclusivity throughout the registration process.
” We remain dedicated to strengthening our partnership with the media.
“We will continue to provide you with timely access to information as we improve our communication channels with you for the success of the CVR,” Babalola stated
NNPP claimed that the questions of Kwankwaso joining ADC or any other party is just a miscalculation by politicians who are afraid of the leader of Kwankwasiyya Movements.
Dungurawa, who was speaking to Newsmen in Kano, Monday, hinted that Kwankwaso is not one of those pushover politicians who take decisions without appraising and deeply thinking about their consequences.
“Don’t forget, Kwankwaso today is the Political Leader of Northern Nigeria, and every Politician specifically in this region is looking up to him, so it will be malicious to say he is decamping out for now”.
The Chairman, asked, “why are Nigerian politicians panicking about Kwankwaso’s movements? let them calm down, the times of decision is yet to come, we are people who are too calculative. we don’t just take actions with due consideration”.
While answering questions of the fact that Kwankwaso was seen in places talking to other camps, Suleiman Dungurawa, said, “as a politician who has a PhD in the field, do you expect him to hide himself or dessert people, no way he can talk to anybody but that does not mean anything, is a normal things”.
He said, “those so called followers and supporters of Kwankwaso who are jittery about where he is going, they are pretending followers, but the genuine ones know that Kwankwaso doesn’t take any decisions without talking to them and seeking advice from as low as a ward supporter”.
Talking about the performances of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf in the last two years, the NNPP Chairman, said opposition are today overwhelmed by the works of the Governor to the extent that you don’t hear their voices.
“Governor Yusuf’s heavy infrastructural development overwhelmed the opposition they can’t even show their presence anywhere in Kano, that is why we are proud of what he is doing”.
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