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Ekiti Central Senator and chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, has urged the

Vice President, Kashim Shettima has appealed to Senators elect to shun financial inducement from certain aspirants ahead of Tuesday's inauguration of the

"It was easy. I was there with you in the field, and after our defeat, my constituents thought they needed me again. They asked me to come back, and it was a tortious journey because we had to go through the courts..."

President Bola Tinubu is scheduled to meet with all senators-elect today, Thursday, at the presidential villa, Abuja, as aggrieved senators of the ruling APC who are opposed to the choice of Godswill Akpabio, former Akwa Ibom State governor, as senate president, move to anoint one consensus candidates.

The sense of alienation set in among South-Easterners whose youth embraced separatist movements like the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, more so as Buhari belligerently deployed the armed forces, police and security agencies in their region, thus turning the once peaceful zone into a hotbed of violence and insecurity.

The candidates of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, (Imo East) Action Alliance, AA, Major General Lincoln Ogunewe, Rtd. (Imo East) Labour Party, LP, Senator Athan Achonu, (Imo North).

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With the inauguration of President Bola Tinubu on Monday, May 29, as the 16th president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, all eyes are now fixed on the

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Mr Lawan met with President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima in Abuja.