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Today’s Headlines: Osinbajo Seeks Pay Rise For Ex-Presidents, VPs; Alleged Double Nominations: Onoh Jabs Atiku Over 1999 Supreme Court’s Decision

Osinbajo Seeks Pay Rise For Ex-President, VPs

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday, advocated an increase in the monthly retirement benefits of former presidents and vice presidents.

He made the call during his remarks at the valedictory session of the Federal Executive Council at the State House, Abuja, on Wednesday.

Osinbajo, who spoke last after ministers took two-minute turns to talk, said to the President, “Your personal integrity is one that is known all over Nigeria and indeed all over the world. And I do not think anyone, including even your worst enemies, will not admit that you are an incredibly honest person.

“Part of the problem with that is that sometimes, you and I end up getting the very short end of the stick. If you look at the laws today, our retirement benefits, yours (Buhari) will be N350,000 a month by law and mine will be N250,000 per month. Those, of course, as you can imagine are very tiny amounts of money.

“And I think that one of the things that we must do is to, perhaps, see how we can amend that law so that I will not come to you in Daura and ask for some of your bulls to sell in order to survive.”

Onoh jabs Atiku over 1999 Supreme Court’s decision

President-elect’s spokesman in the southeast, Dr Josef Onoh has criticized former Vice President and the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for misleading his party into seeking the disqualification of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu and his Vice, Kashim Shettima, over an alleged double nomination of Shettima for Borno Central Senatorial seat as well as Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during this year’s general elections.

Onoh said he was surprised that Atiku failed to advise his party, the PDP, but rather induced the opposition party into gullibility, even when the former Vice President was aware that he was a benefit of such supreme court judgment which enabled him to become the Vice President of Nigeria in 1999, after he also contested for the governorship of Adamawa state, in the same PDP.

The Supreme Court in its judgment of Friday, dismissed the PDP application, stating that the case of Uche Nwosu of Imo state which the PDP relied on underpins the 2023 APC presidential candidate and the vice, was not the same matter. The supreme court held that whereas Nwosu was a candidate of two political parties in the 2019 government election, Shettima was only given nomination by one party, adding that it was even incongruous for the PDP to have sought such a plea when its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar benefited from its judgment of wisdom in his similar case in 1999, that made him become vice President.

I’m leaving Nigeria better than I met it in 2015 – Buhari (FULL TEXT)

President Muhammadu Buhari, in his farewell broadcast to Nigeria ahead of Monday’s inauguration, said he is leaving Nigeria better than in 2015.

During the live broadcast at 7 am on Sunday, Buhari stressed that he felt fulfilled that he had placed Nigeria on the path of transformation and development.

He appreciated Nigerians’ support for him in the past eight years.

Buhari specially thanked Nigerians for their prayers when he was ill during his first term in office.

My fellow Nigerian brothers, sisters, and friends of Nigeria.

2. I address you today, in my last assignment as a democratically elected President of our great and well-endowed nation, with a deep sense of gratitude to God, a great deal of appreciation to the Nigerian people, and a modest sense of fulfilment.

Mixed Feelings As Power Shifts To Tinubu

All is set for President Muhammadu Buhari to hand over the mantle of leadership to the 16th democratically elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, tomorrow, Monday.

Tinubu, in a keenly contested poll, defeated his opponents, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi to emerge winner of the February 25 election.

Although the outcome of the poll was vehemently rejected by the opposition parties, the former Lagos Governor is set to be sworn-in as the President of the country.