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With NEC, govs, BoT’s vote of confidence, Secondus continues PDP rebuilding process
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By Dirisu Yakubu
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has pledged to keep his right foot on the throttle, to power the party’s vehicle headlong in its preparation for the 2023 general elections. Having superintended over the affairs of the main opposition party since December 2017, Secondus has recorded a handful of strides, with electoral victories in states hitherto in the control of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
No one will forget in a hurry, Secondus in-roads into the camp of the APC a few years ago which culminated in the return to the PDP fold of eminent politicians like
Views: Visits 24 Uche Secondus By Dirisu Yakubu National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has pledged to keep his right foot on the throttle, to power the party’s vehicle headlong in its preparation for the 2023 general elections. Having superintended over the affairs of the main opposition party since December 2017, Secondus has recorded a handful of strides, with electoral victories in states hitherto in the control of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. No one will forget in a hurry, Secondus in-roads into the camp of the APC a few years ago which culminated in the return to the PDP fold of eminent politicians like Atiku Abubakar, Bukola Saraki, Aminu Tambuwal, Samuel Ortom and Abdulfatai Ahmed. That singular decimation of the ruling party’s camp would go on to sow seed of discords between the APC former national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and notable figures of the party. That discord eventually con
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The Federal Government, on Tuesday, stated that it had directed the salaries committee to review payroll and also review the number of its agencies.
Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this in Abuja at the ongoing National Policy Dialogue on Corruption and Cost of Governance in Nigeria, organised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
She said the government had also approved a N13.88trillion budget with a deficit of over N5.6trillion, noting that it had also projected revenue of N7.98trillion to fund part of the 2021 budget.
According to her: “We still see government expenditure increase to a terrain twice higher than our revenue. We need to work together, all agencies of the government to cut down our cost. We need to cut down unnecessary expenditures. Expenditures that we can do without.
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Published 4 May 2021
The Federal Government has proposed salary cuts for workers as a way of reducing the high cost of governance in the country.
The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, said the FG was working to reduce the high cost of governance by doing away with unnecessary expenditures.
Disclosing this at the policy dialogue on corruption and cost of governance in Nigeria organised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission in Abuja on Tuesday, she said the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has directed the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission to review the salaries of civil servants as well as the number of federal agencies.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the creation of state police, better equipment for the military, and the creation of a border protection squad.
This according to the political party is in order to urgently bring the security problem in the nation under control.
National Chairman of the party, Uche Secondus, made the call at a briefing in Abuja, on Monday.
The party chairman expressed disappointment that President Muhammadu Buhari has not deemed it fit to address Nigerians over the deteriorating security situation.
The party recommends the creation of state police, upscaling of the personnel strength of the arm forces, and the creation of a National border protection force different from the existing immigration and customs to check the influx of armed criminal gangs.