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Published 28 April 2021
Opposition Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday, took a swipe at Senator Oluremi Tinubu for criticising Senator Smart Adeyemi who expressed passionate concerns over the worsening security situation in the country at the floor of the upper chamber on Tuesday.
In a statement titled, ‘Killings: Buhari Presidency, APC Insensitive… Accuses APC Of Gagging Members’, the PDP lambasted the All Progressives Congress and Tinubu for trying to silence men of conscience from speaking the truth regardless of their political parties.
Adeyemi, who represents Kogi West Senatorial District, while making his contribution on Tuesday, had shed tears but the wife of APC chieftain, Bola Tinubu, was not moved by Adeyemi’s tears. Rather she described him as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
She said such would promote continuity, accountability, and streamlining of development initiatives.
She noted that the current scenario where every First Lady comes up with her programme, which often disappears at the expiration of the husband’s tenure was a major setback to national development.
Dr. Al-Makura, who was also a former First Lady of Nasarawa State, made the call at the national summit on “Emerging Trends in the Role of First Ladies in National Development” held at the Conference Hall of the Aso Presidential Villa on Thursday.
She said: “Over time, the Office of the First Lady in Nigeria and indeed Africa has been a subject of debate and even controversy as to their essence and roles, given that Africa is a largely patriarchal society and that the Office of the First Lady is neither elected nor stated in the constitution, but only established by conventions emulated from more advanced democracies.
Uche Anichukwu, Media Adviser to Senator Ike Ekweremadu draws attention to his principal’s suggestion to get the constitutional backing for creation of state police
The suggestion by former Deputy President of the Senate and former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review in the 6th, 7th, and 8th Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, that the surest and handiest approach to restraining the demons of insecurity prowling the length and breadth of the country remains state and that the constitution cold actually be amended in 10 days or less to achieve it, has expectedly set tongues wagging. While overwhelming majority are excited at the prospects and wished the leaders of the country and stakeholders could listen even want it as a matter of today, many have equally wondered why the lawmaker believes that the nation could achieve in 10 days what he should have done in the 12 years that he piloted constitution amendment at the federal parliament.