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Buhari has been paying Oil States Derivation Fund owed since 1999 ~ Wike

  Akwa Ibom has received approximately 1,932,000,000,000 (1.9Trillion) in Federal allocation in 7 years Governor of Rivers state of Nigeria , Barr. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike had said that Buhari has been paying oil states their derivation funds owed since 1999. He made the statement during the commissioning of the River state law school campus in Port Harcourt on November 18 th , 2022 in an event attended by legal bigwigs and political obomonkunku in the country led by the Attorney general of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Mallam Ababakar Malami . Governor Wike while making his speech thanked President Buhari for paying oil states their derivation outstanding of 23 years ago. He stated that he has been able to build massive infrastructures in Rivers State like the 9 th flyover bridge that was recently commissioned by Mr. Peter Obi , the law school campus, the Peter Odili ’s courthouse, many road infrastructures, state of the art health facilities and others ...

Akan Udofia: Court Judgment, Next steps

Akan Udofia: Court Judgment, Next steps The judgment that annulled the Akwa Ibom APC 2023 Governorship primaries and disqualified the party's flag bearer, Obong Akan Udofia, from contesting in a rerun ordered within 14days, shocked everyone and left stakeholders confused as to how it came about. Now, here is the alleged locus of the judgment. According to one of the party’s candidate for federal House of Representatives (name withheld), the judgment was delivered on the premise that Obong Akan Udofia was not a member of the APC . In establishing this fact, the plaintiff explained that as at late April, 2022, Obong Akan Udofia was a PDP member and attended a PDP stakeholders meeting where he signed attendance register at the meeting, and on May 1 st , he tendered his resignation from the PDP and joined the APC . He picked APC nomination form for the governorship primaries that was slated for May 26 th , 2022 which he eventually emerged the winner. The plaintiff argued that acc...