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I will create Industrial Hub in the Southeast, 2 Sea Ports in Port Harcourt, If you elect me as President – Tinubu

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The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has promised to create industrial and manufacturing hubs in the Southeast region of elected as President.

Tinubu also said that he would create two seaports in Port Harcourt, Which according to him, would be with the intention of developing the region and creating thousands of jobs for the youths and the entire populace.

Speaking on Wednesday during the APC presidential campaign rally at the Michael Okpara Square, Enugu, Tinubu also promised to develop the incredible mineral resources such as coal in the region to propel the economic recovery of the Southeast. He said,

“If you elect me as your president, we will work together. We will create industrial hub in Enugu, Imo, Ebonyi, Abia and Anambra States. “We will also create two seaports in Port Harcourt and establish fabricating engines, making.

Tinubu’s Campaign in Enugu State

“Enugu will become an industrial hub and greater than before, creating jobs for the youths and all of you. You have incredible mineral resources to propel the economic recovery of the Southeast. You have an agricultural power that can produce many cash crops.”Also, assembling plants can be created with flourishing businesses. All you need to do is to partner with the federal government.

“My people of Enugu State, nothing is impossible unless you don’t put your mind into it. Together, nothing can stop us if we are determined.”We will make Enugu, Imo, Ebonyi, Abia and Anambra States and the entire Southeast a regional business hub, the manufacturing centre of Nigeria.

It is very possible”Don’t wait for the white man to do this job for us. We’re brilliant enough, we’re great thinkers, we can fabricate, we can develop and we can mould; we can build engines and we can turn our coal to industry.”In Britain and America, they are still using their coal to fire turbine and generating electricity for their industries. We have the right to do so. “Be bold Nigeria. Wake up Africa. Let’s use what we have to develop our country. Let’s turn our coal to money. Let’s turn our gas to money.”Now they say the price of crude oil is falling. Whatever it is. I am a realist, pragmatic, authentic, a blessed and brilliant man, a thinker. So, let’s use what we have to develop our country.

“We can have agro processing centres. We have over 200 million people to feed. We are not going to starve to death.”I lived abroad for about 17 years. I’ve managed their businesses. Let us take care of our home. We can do it. Nigeria is highly blessed by God. For us to achieve Nigeria of our dream, you have to be ready to make sacrifices and with strong determination, we can achieve greater things”.

Those where his promises during his campaign in Enugu State.

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“Support Tinubu’s Government, Things Will Gets Better” – Former Presidential Aide, Adesina Tells Nigerians

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The former presidential aide, Femi Adesina at an event in Lagos, assured of a better Nigeria but noted that the citizens must play their part.

Adesina called for support for Tinubu’s government, asking citizens to pray and have goodwill towards the government.

Adesina made this remark in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday, March 25.

He said: “My message to Nigeria at this time is just to hold the fort, this place is going to get better.

“It is our country, we don’t have another one. So we must ensure that it works because no matter where we go, we will not be first class citizens. Nigeria will get it right, we will get there.

“So, let us support the government, let us pray for the government and have good will towards the government and everything is good, to get better and right,” Adesina added.

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“I Received N266Million From 2024 Budget” — Senator Abaribe Says Amid Claims Certain Senators Were Given N500Million

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The lawmaker representing the Abia South Senatorial District, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has said that contrary to the claim that some ranking senators received N500 million from the 2024 budget, he only received N266 million.

Recall that the senator representing Cross River North, Agom Jarigbe on Tuesday, March 12, revealed that senior ranking senators had received N500 million each from the 2024 budget while he got nothing.

Lawmakers who have spent at least four years in the Senate are regarded as ranking senators.

Jarigbe made the revelation on the floor of the Senate while speaking on allegations of budget padding raised by the lawmaker representing Bauchi Central, Senator Abdul Ningi.

Ningi had earlier alleged that the Senate of padding the 2024 budget, saying the National Assembly added an extra N3.7 trillion to the initial budget.

Reacting to the allegation on Arise Television on Wednesday, March 13, Abaribe said Ningi knew it was a mistake to make a claim he could not prove.

Abaribe then denied receiving N500 million as alleged by Jarigbe. He added that despite being a senior senator, he only received N266 million.

Abaribe said: “Senator Ningi knew it was going to be a mistake. He knew. He’s a member of the Senate. He can’t say he didn’t know. He’s an old Senator. He has been in the Senate before. He knew that this wasn’t correct.

“I never got 500 million. I think Jarigbe tried to clarify his statement. He came back subsequently to say, ‘No, Ningi told me I was given’, because he didn’t get. He’s also a ranking Senator.

“So, I think that at the end of the day, what you see really is that…well, I’m an APGA Senator–the only APGA Senator in the Senate. Maybe being a minority of the minority, they didn’t consider me worthy of being given. Nobody told me about that money.

“I wanted to say that, without equivocation, that both Jarigbe and the Senate leader tried to clarify this issue. Number one: nobody was given 500 million. Even a few of my colleagues called me to say, ‘Ahh you get 500 million and we dey beg.

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Senator Ningi Resigns Position Hours After Suspension By Senate

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Hours after the Nigerian Senate, on Tuesday, suspended Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP – Bauchi Central) for a period of three months, he has resigned his position as the chairman of the Northern Senators Forum.

His suspension by the Senate was a move likely to raise eyebrows across the political landscape.

Senate Ningi was suspended because of the allegation he raised that the 2024 national budget was padded to the tune of a staggering N3.7 trillion which wasn’t traced to any project.

In an interview, Senator Ningi said the Federal Government is operating two versions of the 2024 budget, And that the N28.7 trillion passed and signed by the President Tinubu was skewed against the north.

On Tuesday, during plenary, Senator Olamilekan Adeola (APC, Ogun West) had raised a motion that there was urgent need to address the allegations raised by Ningi, even if the lawmakers said they were false.

The resignation of the senator representing Bauchi Central, was contained in a letter.Senator Ningi said his decision was based on unfolding events in the National Assembly, the north and Nigeria at large.

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