Attahiru Jega, erstwhile Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, has lamented the state of insecurity in Nigeria.
Jega warned that the 2023 general elections may not hold if the current insecurity is not tackled immediately.
He issued the warning at an event in honour of the late former governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi in Ibadan on Thursday.
The former INEC boss said insecurity poses a serious threat to the conduct of the 2023 general elections.
He maintained that adequate security was key to an acceptable election outcome.
Senator Ademola Adeleke has described the new leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winning team that will return the party to power in the forthcoming elections in the country.
Senator Adeleke who is one of the PDP gubernatorial aspirants in the 2022 Osun Gubernatorial Election made this known on Thursday while submitting his nomination and expression of interest form at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja.
During a closed-door meeting with leaders of the party which included the National Deputy Chairman South, Ambassador Taofeeq Arapaja, Adeleke disclosed that his aspiration to contest the gubernatorial election again in 2022 is to conclude the struggle he began in 2018 and to ensure victory in the rescue mission agenda.
The Ede-born senator who acknowledged that Osun was in bad shape revealed that he has a four point agenda to resuscitate the state and place it on the path of real growth, adding that the government was operating without the drive to shape the state and achieve innovation.
Former Governor of Abia State and Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu has called for rescheduling of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) national convention slated for February, 2022.
He allayed fears of a collapse and an unmitigated injury the party could sustain if the National Chairman of Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the APC, Governor Mai Mala Buni, goes ahead with the convention in February.
In a letter he wrote on Thursday in Abuja which he addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National leadership of the APC, Kalu identified three challenges that must be urgently addressed before the convention, which are: “Election of National Working Committee (NWC); Party crisis at State levels; and the 2023 presidential zoning.
To this, he suggested that the 2023 presidential primary of APC and election of National Working Committee (NWC) should hold the same time with the presidential primary election.
A major air mishap was averted on Wednesday as a Max Air jet, which landed on runway 18L of the Lagos airport, almost rammed into a malfunctioning car that was being tested on the runway.
Investigations by The PUNCH revealed that a Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria’s Civil Department van had developed a fault, and officials were forced to invite an auto technician from outside the airport to fix it.
Unconfirmed sources told the newspaper that the FAAN workers resorted to fetching a technician from the city because the agency’s department meant to cater to such a situation probably lacked the applicable personnel.
Findings revealed that after fixing the vehicle, the auto technician decided to carry out a test drive on the runway.
But the FAAN officials who were meant to stay with him while he was fixing the car were said to be nowhere to be found.
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