• Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II

“Nigeria is being ruled by individuals “who have no values, no name behind them, and no desire to leave a name after them.”

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, said during an appearance on Channels TV.

“These are people who define themselves by how many houses they own, how many private jets they have, how much money they have in the bank,” Sanusi said. “

And they think that is something. It doesn’t matter to them that people see them as thieves; values do not matter to them.”

The royal father said that the decay in public office stems from a society that rewards corruption, noting that individuals known to have looted public funds are often appointed to even higher positions.

“We don’t have a sense of disgust for people who hold public office and amass wealth.

We reward them with appointments, with more public offices, and more opportunities to steal. This is what Nigeria has become,” he said.

According to Sanusi, many in government were not properly brought up, and this poor upbringing is a contributing factor to their greed and disregard for public service ethics.

“You don’t go into government to make money, but many people today go into government for that purpose,” he said.

Reflecting on the late General Murtala Muhammed’s legacy, Sanusi said Nigeria needs a complete regeneration of values, insisting that national transformation cannot rest on the shoulders of just one president or governor.

He also blamed politicians for weakening the civil service and eroding institutional discipline, arguing that strengthening public institutions is necessary for long-term reform.

“A society in which material wealth, no matter how it is acquired, is respected, will continue to reproduce corruption,” he warned

Nigeria’s former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, will be one of the leading candidates to confront incumbent President Bola Tinubu, in the 2027 presidential poll.

The Vanguard reported that Jonathan’s ally in the People Democratic Party, PDP, confirmed that the plan to draft the former President to contest on PDP’s platform had gone far, and that he had accepted, adding that the former president was going into the race to find ways of addressing Nigeria’s rising poverty, hardship and the general suffering that had gripped the citizenry in recent years.

The project to bring back Jonathan to reposition Nigeria was being driven by key Nigerian leaders and elders, who believed the former president had stabilised the country and its economy within the six years of his administration.

The source said it was in a bid to rescue the country and restore the dwindling economy and Nigeria to its pride of place that key PDP leaders and elders started ‘pleading with him’ to consider running against Tinubu in 2027.

Some believe that allowing him to run for a single term of four years remained the clearest pathway for power to return to the north in 2031 and remain there for eight years without a serious struggle by the south.

Going by the fact that Jonathan had already served out a term of four years, he cannot run for more than another four years in office if he wins the election in 2027, just like Tinubu if he gets re-elected.

(Vanguard)

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has handed new conditions for the proposed national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and ultimately for the overall peace of the party

Wike, in a media chat insisted that he had not left the PDP, and that for the crises tearing the party into shreds to end, the resolutions at the south-south zonal congress that was held in Calabar must be upheld before the PDP convention scheduled for November.

“If they want another round of crisis, so be it. That congress moved that Chief Dan Orbih emerged as the National Vice Chairman South-south of the party.

The court allowed it for then congress to hold and the congress was held. The so called acting National Chairman of the Party went and wrote a letter to INEC.

“The congress was held on Saturday on the 15th and he went and wrote a letter on the 8th, for example, that the Congress had been postponed.

Chief Dan Orbih is the National Vice Chairman of PDP, South-south. If they don’t agree, that is another round of crisis. Two, the south-east congress which produced Chief Ali Odefa as the National Vice Chairman cannot stand because the court had affirmed that Odefa is no longer a member of the party.

“That is what I told the people that I cannot allow impunity and will fight it until they correct it.

There is time for them to resolve before we talk of convention. If it is not resolved that is invitation to crisis.”