Buhari’s Appointment: You ‘re suffering from political depression, Sani tells Fayose

Lawmakers representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Sen. Shehu Sani has condemned Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, over his Monday’s criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointments so far.

Governor Fayose had a statement issued on Monday, by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, accused Buhari’s style of governance since his emergence on May 29, 2015, as one that portrays him as a president of the Northern Nigeria only.

Fayose who said it was wrong for President Buhari to have made 31 major appointments and only seven will come from the South while 24 were from the North, explained that his appointments made so far negate the principle of federal character, adding that it appears the unity in diversity of Nigeria is being taken for granted by the President.

However, responding to Fayose’s outburst, Sani in a statement on Tuesday, said although everyone has a right to freedom of expression, but that Fayose’s recent utterances are nothing but “divisive, inciting, provocative, and mischievous tantrums against President Muhammadu Buhari.”

The activist lawmaker described Fayose as a man suffering from political depression in the aftermath of the defeat of his patriarch, former President Goodluck Jonathan, in the last Presidential election on March 28, 2015.

The statement reads thus:

1-I recognize the fundamental rights of Ekiti State Governor to freedom of expression.

2-I unreservedly condemn his divisive, inciting, provocative and mischievous tantrums and invectives against President Muhammadu Buhari.

3-Ekiti Governor is a relic of the old order, he represents the old Nigeria of waste, of hollow ritual of noise and nuisance.
4-Fayose is a man suffering from political depression in the aftermath of the defeat of his patriarch Goodluck Jonathan. He is a hallucinating Man of the ancient, yet to come to terms with the realities of a new dawn and new Nigeria.
5-The Ekiti governor is a man on the loose ready to use stones, sticks and any object to inflict harm and to be noticed.
6-Fayose failed to stop the election of President Muhammadu Buhari by the use of false, misleading and subversive propaganda laced with lies and deceit and now resort to firing arrows of hate, smear and distortions.
7-Fayose is a glorified tout, deficient in morals, character and courteousness.
8-Fayose’s imprudent utterances are nothing but an attempt to incite Nigerians from the South against those from the North.
9-Ekiti Governor’s utterances are unbecoming of a state Governor who should symbolize, exemplify and personify national unity and peace.
10-Fayose’s utterances are farts from a rotten road side Beans meal.
11-The constitution of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria guarantees all Nigerians the right to freely express their opinion and criticize the operations of Government. The Ekiti Governor is simply on a toxic smear campaign against PMB.
12-President Muhammadu Buhari is not a ‘northern president’:He is a Nigerian president out to correct the wrong of the erstwhile sectional president whom the Fayoses of Nigeria supported and collaborated with.
13-Fayose is a weeping and whipping boy of the dead PDP.

14-I call on the APC Governors to appropriately respond to their peer, Fayose and return him to the cesspit pit, where he rightly belongs.

Senator Shehu Sani
Kaduna Central.

Why electricity has remained stable – FG

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows Igali, on Monday said electricity has been stable in the country lately because there has not been any case of gas pipeline vandalism.

Igali spoke with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He recalled that vandalism was the bane of electricity supply during the last administration.

He said things improved with the decision of the current administration to double efforts at engaging communities where the pipelines passed through.

This, he said, led to increased gas supplies and improved power supply nationwide currently at 4,600MW.

He said, “The gas is now passing to the gas pipelines and I think that the government has been engaging the communities and the places where these gas infrastructures pass through.

“We hope it will be sustained because, like I said, there is a conscious engagement and it’s redouble.

“Redouble means that there was effort and when there was effort and you put additional effort and additional effort, then, it means that you have redoubled your work and that is what is going on.

“We saw tremendous vandalism especially before the handover. It has never been so bad.

“But for the past three months, not a single day has had that kind of vandalism. It is our prayer that this will continue.”

Igali explained that ‎apart from President Muhammadu Buhari building on efforts of past government and tasking stakeholders to double efforts, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had been holding almost daily meetings with power distribution companies on ways of improving power supply to consumers.

He dismissed the insinuation that power supply improved because of increased rains.

Igali explained that the hydro power stations in Kainji and Shiroro contribute just about 20 per cent of the entire electricity and no substantial additions come from there.

OAU Departmental Cut-Off Marks 2015/2016 (Updated)

The departmental admission cut-off marks of Obafemi Awolowo University has been released.

Below are the faculties and the various departmental cut-off marks;