Politics
ABAT Diaspora Merges With ICC.
The foremost campaign group for the actualisation of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s presidency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (Diaspora) has merged with Independent Campaign Council for a better and stronger synergies with other likeminded groups for the national assignment of electing Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the best hand for the presidency of Nigeria.
In a press release issued and signed by the spokesman of the group, Dr George Olufemi Ogunjimi and the movement’s Coordinator General, Akogun Banji Ojo who affirmed that the over seventy countries membership of the movement were fully in support and committed to enhancing, strengthening, synerging and promoting the values of good governance as espoused by their principal, the presidential candidate of All Progressive Congress, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The statement thanked Dr Tayo Ayinde, the Chief of Staff to the Lagos State Governor and Cardinal James Odunmbaku who found time out of their busy schedules to welcome the representatives and contingents with their material donations from the Diaspora and for identifying with the movement.
It further called every citizen from all the nooks and crannies of the country to cast their vote for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the coming presidential election next month in order for Asiwaju to replicate his Lagos master plan to the whole country.
“We are glad that all eyes are seeing what Asiwaju planted many years ago as a governor and they are germinating very well producing good crops, some of them are what we all witnessed on Monday and Tuesday this week with President Buhari’s commissioning of a new deep sea port, a rice mill and the intra city rail line all in Lagos”. The statement added.
Furthermore, the statement enjoined Lagos residents to give Governor Sanwoolu and his team a pat on the back by returning them to the government in the coming governorship and assembly elections for their hardwork and people oriented projects they are progressively planting everywhere in the state.
The movement had earlier on paid courtesy visits to the APC secretariat in Abuja and some states in the country where they presented materials and other donations to the party and the people.
Amongst the contingents were Akogun Banji Ojo from The Netherlands, who is the Coordinator General, Barr (Dr) George Olufemi Ogunjimi, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe Coordinator, Alhaji Razak Bodunrin, the Canadian Coordinator, Prof Kayode Familoni, the United States of America’s Coordinator, Dr Olufemi Soluade, the Director General of the movement and the Ugandan Coordinator.
The Rivers State House of Assembly, led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule, has initiated impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Deputy Ngozi Odu, issuing them a seven-day notice to respond to allegations of gross misconduct.
The Assembly cited eight specific allegations of gross misconduct as the basis for the move.
This is the third time Fubara and Odu would be facing impeachment proceedings from the Assembly since coming to office in 2023.
Attempts to impeach them in 2023 and 2025, amid political feuds between the Governor and his predecessor and erstwhile political god-father, now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, had been halted by presidential intervention.
Here are the allegations below:
1. Reckless and unconstitutional expenditure of public funds
2. Unconstitutional misappropriation of public funds
3. Hindering the Rivers Assembly from performing its constitutional duties
4. Illegal appointments of persons without screening by the House of Assembly as provided by the Constitution
5. Seizure of salaries and funds meant for Assembly members
6. Seizure of salaries of the clerk of the Rivers House of Assembly, Emeka Amadi
7. Refusal to implement provisions of the Constitution on financial autonomy of the legislature and the judiciary
8. Withholding of funds meant for the running of the Rivers House of Assembly Service Commission and hindering its activities
Lilian Adebayo, the wife of the 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, has said that the party will unseat the ruling All Progressive Party at the 2027 election if Nigerians are true to themselves.
Mrs Adebayo made this assertion known on Wednesday during an interview with journalists after an event in Abuja.
According to her, the opposition party has overcome its crisis after the expulsion of its former chairman, Shehu Gabam and others.
She said Nigerians should vote the APC out in the 2027 general election due to the hardship the party has plunged citizens into.
“There is always a crisis in the party; the SPD has been able to handle its own. The problems in the party have been resolved.
“He has a great chance of winning the election if Nigerians are honest with themselves. If Nigerians think that the ones they consistently vote for would move the country forward, they live in denial,” she concerning the husband.
Recall that SDP recently expelled Gabam and other party executives.
The party’s state chairmen on Wednesday urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the police to investigate Gabam over alleged misappropriation.
In a significant political move, Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
Mbah announced his decision during a televised broadcast in Enugu after weeks of speculation.
He said, “Today, after a long reflection, we have made the decision to leave the Peoples Democratic Party and join the All Progressives Congress.”
Mbah explained that his decision to join the PDP was informed by the need to reshape Enugu and reorganise the politics of the state.
“Today, I stand before you to announce a break from the past and to share a decision that will shape the road ahead. This concerns our values, how we organize ourselves politically and how we secure the future of our project and our people.
“Leadership sometimes demands painful decisions in the service of higher principles and goals. And there comes a time, when everyone must make a bold choice to determine their destiny.”
Ahead of the governor’s defection, all members of his cabinet had on joined the ruling party.
Governor Mbah’s Senior Media Aide, Dan Nwomeh, confirmed the mass defection in a video posted on his social media handles on Monday. In the video, several government officials were seen openly declaring their allegiance to the APC, chanting praises for President Bola Tinubu and affirming their commitment to the new party.
“Enugu State Cabinet Members join the APC with full chest along with Governor PN Mbah,” Nwomeh stated.
The officials, including commissioners and top aides, could be heard in the video declaring, “We are now in APC; tomorrow is here; it is APC all the way; it is Jagaban all the way; from top to bottom.”
The collective defection marks a significant political shift in Enugu State, which has been a PDP stronghold since 1999.
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