The Senate has passed the 2021-2023 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP).
The upper chamber in the approved MTEF/ and FSP pegged oil benchmark at $40 and exchange rate at N379 per dollar.
The passage of the document on Thursday was sequel to the consideration of a harmonised conference report of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The Chairman of the Committee on Finance, Senator Solomon Adeola, in his presentation, said the conference report of the two chambers was their harmonised position upon examination of the differences contained in the 2021-2023 MTEF/FSP document.
The lawmaker said the joint committee of the two chambers, after due deliberations, put the Gross Domestic Growth rate at three percent; inflation growth rate at 11.95 percent; and FGN-retained revenue at N7.99tn.
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He added that the total Federal Government proposed expenditure was pegged at N13.58tn; and Fiscal deficit at N5.60tn.
Adeola said new borrowing was N4.28tn (foreign and domestic); statutory transfers, N484.4bn; and debt servicing is N3.12tn.
He put sinking fund at N220bn; Pension, Gratuities and Retirees Benefits N520.6bn; total FGN expenditure N13.58 trn; while total recurrent (non-debt) at N5.66tn.
Personnel costs for Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government (MDAs) were put at N3.05 trillion; capital expenditure (exclusive of transfers) at N3.58 trillion; special intervention (recurrent) N350 billion and special intervention (capital) N20 billion.
The manner of Tottenham’s late defeat at Liverpool on Wednesday was painful for Jose Mourinho.
However, while losing – and losing the leadership of the Premier League – was an undoubted blow, in another sense the whole match was a triumph for the Portuguese.
First versus second, everything on the line, a chance to execute a gameplan which came so close to working perfectly, and the opportunity to dominate the pre and post-match debate. It was what Mourinho meant when he talked about the dugout being his natural habitat when he took the Tottenham job in November last year.
And it was everything that seemed to be missing when he was sacked by Manchester United exactly two years ago.
For, when United issued the brief 65-word statement that signalled the end of Mourinho’s tenure as manager at 09:44 GMT on Tuesday, 18 December 2019, it seemed to be the death knell for the Premier League career of one of the most charismatic figures in the game.
Sacked by Chelsea and then United, Mourinho had been rejected as yesterday’s man, a busted flush, wedded to outdated tactics, who had not kept pace with the times.
Those assessments, evidently, were wrong.
Why the change in demeanour?
Jose Mourinho has had plenty to celebrate recently with Spurs
Speaking to someone who knows Mourinho well about the major difference between the misery of the end of his time at United and the joy at what is happening at Spurs now, the explanation came back “Pogba”.
The image of Paul Pogba, sitting on the United bench, unused, hood up, protecting himself from the rain as his team-mates lost 3-1 at Liverpool in what turned out to be Mourinho’s last match in charge, encapsulated the miserable position the Portuguese found himself in.
He had been fighting at United all season; for the players he wanted to sign, the ones he wanted to sell and, in his view, some recognition from the board. Both sides had grown weary of the battle.
In the end, the Old Trafford hierarchy had to choose between Mourinho and Pogba. Mourinho lost.
At Tottenham, there is no Pogba circus to deal with.
In addition, rather than work to a boss who largely operates 200 miles away in another city as United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward did, he works to a chairman who spends half his time at the training ground, where he has an adjoining office.
Mourinho gets on well with Daniel Levy and enjoys the personal relationship they are developing.
Jose Mourinho won trophies, including the Europa League, at Manchester United but the relationship between manager and club never quite worked
In the Amazon documentary that gave such a fascinating insight into Mourinho’s arrival, Levy called getting rid of Mauricio Pochettino “the most emotional decision I ever had to make”, but then, discussing the Argentine’s likely replacement: “There are two top coaches in the world. One is at another Premier League club and the other is Jose.”
Levy’s statement may have been accurate in 2016, when Mourinho was joining Pep Guardiola in the cauldron that is top-flight football in Manchester. But in November 2019, he had been out of work for 11 months, having left United sixth in the Premier League, 19 points adrift of then leaders Liverpool after only 17 games.
Why Levy never had any doubts
Numerous sources have said the idea Mourinho had lost his mojo is plain wrong.
From their very first conversation, Levy had no doubts. The energy the incoming manager had and his enthusiasm for the players he was set to inherit – better as a collective than the ones he had at Old Trafford he feels – convinced the Tottenham hierarchy they were getting a coach who still had the drive and desire to achieve success.
Mourinho’s reputation goes before him but it is a measure of his true personality that plenty of his former colleagues at Manchester United contacted him to offer good luck when he got the Tottenham job. Those who have seen him at close quarters at Spurs describe him as “chilled, relaxed, approachable”, which are not words you tend to associate with the 57-year-old.
The in-house cricket games shown on social media, it has been stressed, are an example of the positive spirit that exists among the players as they go about their work. The atmosphere in the dressing room, it is said, is better than anything that existed in the past few years of Pochettino’s time in charge, apart from the three week build-up to the Champions League final in 2019.
For a club such as Tottenham, there is another attraction. Mourinho is a magnet for attention. He is impossible to ignore. It used to be said Sir Alex Ferguson created a story every time he opened his mouth. The same is true of Mourinho.
“I have never seen so much coverage before, it’s everywhere,” whispered Harry Winks in the canteen as news of Mourinho’s appointment began to sink in.
“Get strapped in. This is big time now,” said another staff member.
However Mourinho’s time at Tottenham works out – the club’s profile will be far bigger than it was when he arrived.
Right place, right time for Mourinho?
In January 2019, when Mourinho was out of work and filling time, he did some work as a pundit for Qatar-based TV channel Bein Sports.
During a long chat, he gave a fascinating insight into what he was likely to be looking for when he decided it was time to work again.
“The time when the manager was the highest point of the club and all-powerful is over,” he said. “Now you need a structure.
“The first thing I want to speak about with a club is not the players I want to buy or the budget, it is what you have to give me in terms of structure. Then we can move.”
After leaving United, Mourinho turned down a significant number of opportunities because they were not the right fit.
He still believed the Premier League would be the place he felt most at home. Tottenham ticked all the boxes, with its fantastic new stadium, a state-of-the-art training ground, a strong chairman in Levy, a well-respected technical performance director in Steve Hitchen, a squad that reached the Champions League final less than six months earlier and a supporter base desperate for the club to start winning silverware.
Not only that, there would be no need to spend the majority of his life in a hotel, which became such a major talking point in Manchester.
He does have an apartment close to the Tottenham training ground in Enfield but home is only 17 miles away in central London.
Yet this is not the same Mourinho from Chelsea or United. This is a different one. His backroom staff has changed for a start. Only head of first-team performance Carlos Lalin and technological analyst Giovanni Cerra survive from his time at Stamford Bridge and Old Trafford. His assistant, Joao Sacramento, was still at school when Mourinho went on his famous touchline charge as Porto knocked United out of the Champions League on their way to winning the trophy in 2004.
This evolution, it is felt, exposes Mourinho to new ideas, new challenges and new motivations.
Looking back, he views his time at United as a positive experience. He was more aware of the changing dynamic of a dressing room, where old-school mentalities are disappearing. And, three times including the Community Shield, he won trophies.
New club, same old Jose?
As recently as Tuesday, Mourinho provided evidence his brilliant pettiness had not disappeared, that ability to come out with a soundbite or one-liner that has been evident since his first Chelsea press conference when he declared himself a “special one”.
Jurgen Klopp had been in charge of Liverpool for 1,894 days – or thereabouts – whereas he had had only 390 to work with his Tottenham squad. Which other manager would have gone in to that media room armed with that information, having either counted the days himself or asked someone to do it for him?
His recent manager of the month award will have been particularly satisfying as it was a source of irritation that he was nominated for it on a number of occasions at United – but never won it.
This microscopic attention to detail is a huge part of his success. If something is wrong at training, it is not missed. If the opposition has a weakness, he can spot it.
However, beyond anything, Mourinho retains the same ceaseless drive he had when he first came to England in 2004.
The difficulties England duo Dele Alli and Harry Winks are experiencing at the moment prove Mourinho can still be the “ruthless guy”, as he says he is perceived in the Amazon documentary.
“Without filter” is how he describes his preferred method of feedback.
“I push people to their limits,” he adds.
At Tottenham, he is pushing and pushing. Despite Wednesday’s defeat, they are genuine title contenders. They remain in all four competitions and hopeful of a first trophy since 2008.
With Mourinho at the helm, you would not bet against it.
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ibrahim has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission and the National Identity Management Commission to remove the N20 USSD fee imposed on subscribers for National Identification Number retrieval requests.
The NCC had recently asked telecommunication service providers to block SIM cards not registered with NIN after two weeks.
The government also listed 173 centres and 30 state government institutions approved for NIN enrolment across Nigeria.
Subscribers who had enrolled for NIN in the past but don’t remember their identification numbers are required to pay a fee for the retrieval.
But in a statement on Friday by the spokesperson for the minister, Uwa Suleiman, the government ordered telcos to stop the deduction for NIN retrieval.
The statement titled, ‘Pantami Orders Cancellation Of NIN Retrieval Charge Across All Networks’, partly read, “The Minister’s directive which takes immediate effect, is an intervention aimed at making the process easier and affordable.
“In a letter conveying the implementation of the directive, the Executive Vice Chairman NCC and the Director-General of NIMC informed Dr Pantami that the relevant authorities had met with, and negotiated a waiver with the Mobile Network Operators in that regard.
“By this waiver, all Nigerians, subscribers and applicants can access the service using the *346# code for their NIN retrieval at no charge for the duration of the NIN/SIM Card integration exercise.”
The debts owed by energy firms to Nigerian banks rose by N200bn to N5.85tn in the third quarter of this year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
The N5.85tn represents 29.44 per cent of the N19.87tn loans advanced to the private sector as of the end of September.
Oil and gas firms, which received the biggest share of the credit from the banks, increased their debt by N180bn to N5.12tn in Q3 from N4.94tn in Q2.
The total debt owed by power and energy firms to the banks rose to N732.68bn in Q3 from N712.93bn in the previous quarter, the NBS data showed.
The amount of non-performing loans in the oil and gas sector declined by N30.53bn to N238.26bn in Q3 from N268.79bn in Q2.
The bad loans recorded by banks in the power sector rose by 6.17 per cent to N32.71bn from N30.81bn.
A global credit rating agency, Fitch Ratings noted in a December 8 report that Nigerian bank asset quality had historically fallen with oil prices, with the oil sector representing 28 per cent of loans at the end of the first half of 2020.
It said the upstream and midstream segments (nearly seven per cent of gross loans) had been particularly affected by low oil prices and production cuts.
“However, the sector has performed better than expected since the start of the crisis, limiting the rise in credit losses this year due to a combination of debt relief afforded to customers, a stabilisation in oil prices, the hedging of financial exposures and the widespread restructuring of loans to the sector following the 2015 crisis,” it said.
The rating agency predicted that Nigerian bank asset quality would weaken over the next 12 to 18 months.
It said debt relief measures had prevented a material rise in impaired loans in 2020.
Fitch, however, forecasted that the average impaired loan ratio would range between 10 per cent and 12 per cent by the end of 2021 as these measures come to an end.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, in its latest quarterly report, said the financial viability and commercial performance of the Nigerian electricity supply industry continued to be a major challenge.
Paris Saint-Germain are hoping to have Neymar back in time for their top-of-the-table clash at Lille on Sunday, as the Brazil superstar looks to have recovered quicker than expected from what looked like a bad ankle injury.
Coach Thomas Tuchel said “for Neymar we will do everything” after Wednesday’s 2-0 win over struggling Lorient, which put the champions second and keeps them just a point behind Ligue 1 leaders Lille.
Neymar had already revealed the injury, which came after a rough Thiago Mendes tackle during last weekend’s 1-0 home loss to Lyon, was not as bad as initially thought.
However, such a speedy return still seemed unlikely until Tuchel revealed he could yet feature at the Stade Pierre Mauroy.
“I can’t say ‘No, he’s not playing against Lille’. It is possible. We can try, we will try everything,” Tuchel said.
His return would be a huge boost to PSG’s morale after a strife-ridden opening few months of the season which has led to speculation over Tuchel’s future.
A win on Sunday would put the capital city side back on top of the pile after they moved above Lyon in the midweek round of fixtures, with a five-match winning-streak for Rudi Garcia’s side coming to an end with a dramatic 2-2 draw with Brest.
PSG’s other major title rivals Marseille host Reims on Saturday as they lurk five points back but with a game in hand.
Fourth-placed Marseille go into the weekend having lost ground in the title race following a 2-1 defeat at Rennes, who have won two on the bounce after a miserable run in which they lost seven of their previous eight in all competitions.
There appears to be some tension in the Marseille camp after coach Andre Villas-Boas launched an attack on a journalist at French newspaper La Provence.
According to witnesses the Portuguese boss targeted the reporter with threats of “I’ll get you” and criticised their work during the post-match press conference.
The row, apparently over an article which slammed Villas-Boas’ career record in the Champions League following their dismal effort in this year’s competition, then carried on outside Rennes’ Roazhon Park as the reporter and coach faced each other down.
Lille, meanwhile, seem confident they can maintain their slight hold on the summit and make this a true title race in a league now used to PSG dominance.
The northern outfit seem to be unworried by a potential change in ownership, with president Gerard Lopez saying he would “completely withdraw” from the club if a bid from a Luxembourg investment fund is accepted.
“Both teams are tired, Paris might have more quality but in one game everything is there to play for,” said coach Christophe Galtier.
Player to watch: Yusuf Yazici
Turkey’s Yazici continued his impressive recent form on Wednesday when he scored the opening goal in Lille’s 2-0 win at Dijon.
The 23-year-old showed the composure that has seen him score five times in just three Ligue 1 starts, and six in as many Europa League appearances, when he slotted home Zeki Celik’s cutback in the 19th minute.
Yazici signed for Lille in the summer of 2019 but this has become the attacker’s breakout season, his two hat-tricks at Sparta Prague and AC Milan helping his side reach the Europa League last 32, where they will face four-time European champions Ajax.
Key stats
5 – goals that Yusuf Yazici has scored this Ligue 1 season
12 – the number of games Lyon have played since last losing
4 – PSG have already lost to Lens, Marseille, Monaco and Lyon so far this season
Fixtures (all times GMT)
Saturday
Metz v Lens (1600), Marseille v Reims (1800), Nice v Lyon (2000)
Sunday
Brest v Montpellier (1200), Dijon v Monaco, Strasbourg v Bordeaux, Nantes v Angers, Saint-Etienne v Nimes (all 1400), Lorient v Rennes (1600), Lille v Paris Saint-Germain (2000)
Twenty-four hours after the Federal Executive Council, declared four of the nation’s land border open, activities are yet to resume at the Illela border, linking Sokoto State in Nigeria to Konni, Niger Republic.
Also, Nigeria’s land border with Benin Republic at Seme, near Badagry, Lagos State, remained closed, more than 24 hours after the Federal Government announced its reopening on Wednesday.
At a chance meeting on his way out of the Illela Customs headquarters, the Comptroller General, Sokoto/Zamfara command, Ma’aji A. A, explained that no directive has been given officially.
“Yes, the government has declared some of the land borders open, but in administration, you know how things work. Here at Sokoto Nigeria Customs Command, we are yet to receive the signal.
“I am here to see the level of preparation for the reopening of the border. I am sure the traders are eager to return to their legitimate businesses.
“As soon as the reopening directive is communicated to us, we shall comply immediately,” he stated.
Also, human and vehicular movements across the border were restricted as the frontier remained under lock when visited on Thursday evening.
NAN reports that intending travelers were denied exit at Seme by officials of Nigeria Immigration Service who claimed that they were yet to get a formal directive to reopen the border.
An official of Nigeria Customs Service, who pleaded anonymity, told NAN that security agencies were still expecting official directives to reopen the border.
“We heard about the reopening of the four land borders from the news on Wednesday, but we are still waiting for directives from the head office in Abuja.
“We can not just open the border like that. As you can see, when the border was closed they introduced the Joint Border Patrol which comprises of Army, Immigration, Police, and Customs.
“Anytime they ask us to open the border, we will open it,” he said.
NAN also reports that movement restrictions and checking of goods and vehicles remained in place at more than 20 checkpoints were mounted by Customs, Immigration, and Police along Badagry Expressway.
Also, commercial activities were yet to pick up at the Seme market due to the continued closure of the border.
A trader at the popular Seme market, Mrs Funke Senapon, appealed to the Federal Government to order the officials to reopen the border.
The Board of Trustees of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund has approved an increase of the national research fund from N7.5 billion to the tune of N8.5 billion in 2021.
The organisation also announced a total of N5 billion in special intervention to the University of Lagos to be captured in the 2021 budget.
The Chairman, TETFund Board of Trustees, Alhaji Kashim Imam, said these in Abuja on Thursday during a two-day capacity-building workshop for heads of beneficiary institutions and staff of TETFund centres of excellence.
According to him, the intervention for UNILAG which was on the orders of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was also carried out in the University of Abuja in 2020.
He stressed the importance of research as a prerequisite for national development, adding that no nation can develop without research.
Speaking on the academic development programme of the fund, Imam warned that if the country funded infrastructure without research and scholarships, the institutions would only be half-fulfilled.
He announced that TETFund would add another 12 centres of excellence next year and allocate N1billion to each.
“Six state Universities and six polytechnics will be added to the centres of excellence next year, and 70 per cent of the funds will be for research funding,” he said.
Also speaking, the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, said, “Within the five-year gestation period of the TCOE Project, we await success stories and manifest achievements that will stretch the limits of our expectations.
“The R&D and innovation flame has been ignited in Nigeria, thanks to our modest efforts, but the future of this initiative and the possibility of the R&D flame developing into a raging inferno that transforms the research landscape in Nigeria rests squarely on your shoulders”, he stated.
The 2020 FIFA Best Men’s and Women’s Players of the Year were announced during a virtual ceremony broadcast from Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday.
Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski beat off competition from Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi of Barcelona to take the Men’s award. The FIFA Awards became a stand-alone event in 2016 and Cristiano Ronaldo took home the first two trophies. Last year the winner was Lionel Messi and in 2018 it was Real Madrid and Croatia midfielder Luka Modric.
Lewandowski was named the UEFA Men’s Player of the Year in October and World Soccer’s top player earlier this month. He scored 57 goals in 47 club games in the 2019-20 season.
Manchester City’s Lucy Bronze became the first defender to be named the Best Women’s Player of the Year. A year ago, Bronze made the final three but lost to Megan Rapinoe in FIFA polling.
Chelsea forward, Pernille Harder, and Lyon captain Wendie Renard completed the shortlist this season – it was the same final three for the UEFA Awards.
Coach Awards
The two coaching awards went to Jurgen Klopp of Liverpool, for the second straight year, and to Sarina Wiegman, head coach of the Dutch women’s national team.
Emma Hayes of Chelsea and Jean-Luc Vasseur of Olympique Lyon finished behind Wiegman who will take over the England squad in 2021. Hans Dieter-Flick of Bayern Munich lost on a tie-breaker to Klopp and Leeds United’s Marcelo Bielsa was the other contender.
Three other individual winners were announced along with a Fair Play Award and the FIFA FIFPro Men’s and Women’s Best 11 was also announced.
Three other individual winners were announced along with a Fair Play Award and the FIFA FIFPro Men’s and Women’s Best 11 was also announced.
Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper
Bayern Munich’s Manuel Neuer added the FIFA Best to his selection as the UEFA Goalkeeper of the Year. Last year’s winner, Alisson Bekker of Liverpool, and perennial contender Jan Oblak of Atletico Madrid were also shortlisted.
Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper
Sarah Bouhaddi of France and Olympique Lyon won the award for the Best Women’s goalkeeper although oddly, she did not make the Best 11. Bouhaddi has won 10 French titles and 7 UEFA Women’s Champions League winner’s medals with Olympique Lyon.
Christine Endler of Chile and Paris St. Germain) was named to the Best 11 and Alyssa Naeher (of the Chicago Red Stars completed the final three.
Dutch captain Sari van Veenendaal won the award in 2019. She was the first ever recipient of the Women’s award.
FIFA Ferenc Puskás Award
The FIFA Ferenc Puskás Award for the Best goal scored in the world over the last year went to Son Heung-min. He scored an outrageous goal for Spurs against Burnley in a Premier League match in December. What’s more, VAR didn’t come in to it!
Giorgian De Arrascaeta and Luis Suarez made the shortlist of three.
The FIFA FIFPro Best 11 were selected from shortlists of 55 players announced earlier and the voting was from fellow professionals using a 4-3-3 formation.
Midfield – Kevin de Bruyne, Thiago Alcantara, Joshua Kimmich
Forwards –Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski, Cristiano Ronaldo
Players in bold were also selected in 2019. Messi and Ronaldo have been named to every world 11 since 2007 and this was the 14th time Messi and Ronaldo have made the 11.
A worldwide poll limited to fans, voted on the FIFA Fan Award. The nominations were James Anderson, Colombian Fans, and Marivaldo Francisco da Silva.
Scottish philanthropist James Anderson donated around $4 million in 2019 to help clubs struggling to make ends meet during the pandemic. Colombian soccer fans’ response to Covid-19 was to collect and distribute food to the countries most vulnerable citizens.
The winner was Sport Club do Recife supporter Marivaldo Francisco da Silva who does not miss a home game despite having to walk over 60 kilometers each time.
FIFA Fair Play Award
The FIFA Fair Play Award went to teenager Mattia Agnese who administered first-aid to an opposition player after a collision. The player lost consciousness but was saved by Agnese’s effort.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has given telecommunications operators in the country two weeks to block all SIM cards that are not registered with the National Identity Numbers (NIN).
Failure to do so will lead to your line being blocked or disconnected by the 31st of December 2020.
However, to avoid going into a new year with a blocked sim, please read through this article carefully.
What is NIN?
NIN is a set of eleven digits assigned to an individual, by The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), upon successful enrolment.
Enrolment consists of the recording of an individual’s demographic data and capture of the ten (10) fingerprints, head-to-shoulder facial picture, and digital signature.
The information is used to cross-check existing data in the National Identity Database to confirm that there is no previous entry of the same data.
How to Get your NIN?
If you have registered for your NIN, you should have your slip with you.
However, if you have misplaced it, you have to pay N500 through REMITA at any bank nearest to you; provide your Remita Teller to any NIMC Enrolment Centre (ERC) near you and request for a NIN slip print.
Alternatively, you can use the NIMC USSD service to retrieve it by following these steps:
How To Get Your NIN
Dial *346#; from the options displayed, select “NIN Retrieval”, by typing in ‘1’, if you are using the same phone number you enrolled with for your number.
Follow the steps displayed on your screen and provide the required inputs
Note: Using this service attracts N20 (twenty naira) fee-only (deducted from your phone credit balance).
However, Glo users might encounter some difficulties, a message from the service provider at about 10: 53 am today stated that their subscribers would not be able to retrieve NIN for now:
The message reads: “The code to verify your NIN is *346 on the registered mobile number. This service cost N20. However, you would be unable to retrieve your NIN on Glo for now. Sorry for this inconvenience.”
How to Link Your Phone Number With Your NIN
Linking your phone number to your number is very easy.
For MTN users, simply dial *785# and get it done in few seconds.
For other lines, simply visit the nearest office of your service provider (be it Glo, 9mobile, and Airtel) to register/link your NIN.
Just go along with NIN and your SIM pack. If you do not have your SIM pack, you probably should be prepared to swear an affidavit.
To be on the safer side, you can call your service provider’s customer care.
-The 2023 presidency battle has started already for Atiku Abubakar
– The former vice president has rolled out his campaign support group throughout the country
– As one of its major focus, the group aims to improve the welfare of Nigerian youths
In an earlier preparation for the 2023 presidential election, former vice president Atiku Abubakar has kick-started his support groups in all states of Nigeria.
The campaign body named Atiku Support Group was inaugurated in Abuja on Thursday, December 17, under the chairmanship of its director-general, Atiku Aminu Mohammed,
According to the North-Central coordinator of the group, Anngu Orngu, the campaign organisation has as its major interest the welfare of Nigerians, especially the youths, an objective enshrined in the former vice president’s national development agenda.
Atiku has inaugurated his campaign support groups with chapters in all states ahead of 2023 elections (Photo: @atiku)
Source: Twitter
Speaking on this aspect of the body’s vision, Orngu said: “Improving the livelihood of Nigerians is of utmost priority to Atiku Abubakar. He has demonstrated this in numerous capacities which is why we the Nigerian youth want him to be president come 2023.
“We will not rest till he is elected the president of Nigeria. If he is elected as the president of Nigeria, he will be pro-active in addressing the insecurity challenges facing the country, attract foreign investments and give support to millions of small and medium scale enterprises in addition to 40% youth inclusiveness in government.”
Meanwhile, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had denied allegations that it had abandoned Abubakr for anot.”her candidate ahead of 2023 general election.
The PDP chairman, Uche Secondus, issued the denial after meeting with some of the opposition governors in Bauchi. Secondus noted that the party is being democratic and would ensure that everybody that is eligible to contest for the party’s candidacy will do so.
He said: “This party is very democratic. There is no room for discrimination. Everyone who is qualified, both young, old, governors and non-governors, is qualified and will have the opportunity to contest and we have the space for everyone. If you win you become our candidate
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