PDP GOVERNORS' FORUM

Delta Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Tuesday, presented the Appropriation Bill of N378.48 billion for 2021 to the state’s House of Assembly for consideration. Christened ``Budget of Recovery’’, the governor told the lawmakers that the Bill was made up of N207.52 billion for Capital Expenditure and N171.32 billion for Recurrent Expenditure. He said that capital expenditure constituted 54.76 per cent of the Budget while 45.24 per cent represented recurrent expenditure, and explained that the allocations were consistent with his administration’s agenda of spending more on projects and programmes that would impact directly on socio-economic wellbeing of Deltans. The 2021 budget is N96.2 billion or 34.05 per cent higher than the N282 billion revised approved budget of 2020. The governor said that the 2021 budget proposals reinforced the state government’s commitment to road infrastructure, education, health and job and wealth creation programmes as the principal-drivers of the Str...

Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, says the state will require N5 billion to repair the Calabar International Conference Centre (CICC) vandalised by hoodlums. Governor Ayade made this known on Monday, while reaffirming the curfew imposed on Calabar and its environs. The hoodlums had on Friday and Saturday taken advantage of the #ENDSARS protests and looted items in the centre after they vandalised it. “It will take the state government N5 billion to bring back the Calabar International Conference Centre, the beauty of Cross River State. “This is not the Cross River that I was born into; it is unlike us,’’ the governor said. Ayade said that the action would have negative impact on the progress of the state’s industrialisation efforts aimed at jobs creation. Reports say that police and other security agencies deployed to the town had started raiding the suspected criminal hideouts with a view to recover the looted items.

...as IGP deploys police team to ascertain situation in Abia  Governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has once again called on parents, guardians and relevant stakeholders in the state and nation to appeal to rampaging youths and protesters to stop further destruction of lives and properties, saying that the #EndSARS protest even though it has achieved its aims, had been hijacked by hoodlums. Dr. lkpeazu who made the call when he received the DIG in charge of ICT, Police Headquarters, Abuja and Supervising DIG South East Zone, Mr. Celestine Okoye, and his team who were in the state to ascertain the level of damage in the aftermath of the #EndSARS protest, noted that the destruction of monuments and edifices of historic significance as well as governmemt and private properties, by some protesters in the state was a self inflicted injury that will take government time and resources to repair and restore. The governor who was represented by his deputy, Sir Ude Oko Chukwu, lamented...

Hundreds of Abia State youths Tuesday turned out in masse to clean up major streets in Umuahia, the capital city, after the #EndSARS protest which was eventually hijacked and resulted in the destruction of government infrastructure and private properties. The clean up exercise which started from School Road, took the youths through major streets in Umuahia including Aba Road, Azikiwe Road, Isi Gate and its environs. Addressing the youths during the exercise, Chief of Staff to the Governor, Dr. Anthony Agbazuere, said the exercise was necessitated by the need to clean up the streets following the unfortunate hijack of the protests by hoodlums who turned violent, littered parts of the state and destroyed properties. He commended the youths for coming out to participate in the exercise and assured them that government has heard their demands and was working to address them. Some of the youths interviewed after the exercise including the Chairman, National Youth Council of Nigeria, Ikwuano...

In the spirit of the figures that calibrated his re-election into office for the second time in 2019, Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state  has disclosed that his administration will construct 342 housing scheme at the proposed New Sokoto city. Gov. Tambuwal had won the gubernatorial election in all but one local government area of the state with 3,413 votes before the initial poll was declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The voided votes tally March 11, 2019, showed that Gov. Tambuwal was ahead of his arch-challenger. But, the returning officer, Professor Fatima Mukhtar called for a re-run "due to cancellation in 22 local government areas across 136 polling units with a total number of 75,403 cancelled votes." More than one year after, the governor who received a report from a committee for the delivery of affordable houses to people of the state on Tuesday, said the commemorative project to be named: '342 Housing Scheme...

Governor Bello Muhammed Matawallen has appealed to the Federal Government to release the N10 billion special intervention fund it promised earlier as support for victims of armed banditry and flood disasters in the state. Governor Bello Matawalle made the appeal on Monday during a special Town Hall meeting on the 'State of the Nation' organised by the Federal Government in Gusau, the state capital. The governor who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Bala Bello Maru, said Zamfara state is one of the frontline states in the Northern part of the country with cases of armed banditry, kidnappings, cattle rustling and flood disasters where many people were rendered homeless, hence the need for the Federal Government to release the N10 billion special intervention funds for immediate resettlement and assistance to the victims in order to cushion their hardships. The governor also called on the Federal Government to construct the Dansadau/ Birnin-Gwari/Min...

The PDP Governors' Forum under the leadership of Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has congratulated Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru  Fintiri, the Governor of Adamawa State, on the occasion of his 53rd birthday anniversary. A press statement dated October 27, 2020 and signed by Hon. C.I.D. Maduabum, the  Director-General of the Forum heartily conveyed the PDP Governors' warmest wishes to him. Below is the unedited version of the statement: October 27, 2020 PRESS STATEMENT PDP GOVERNORS' FORUM CONGRATULATES GOV. AHMADU UMARU FINTIRI @53 The Peoples Democratic Party Governors' Forum (PDP-GF) under the chairmanship of Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, CFR, heartily conveys its warmest wishes to His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, Governor of Adamawa State, on this occasion of his 53rd birthday anniversary. 2. We humbly join him and his family to appreciate the Almighty Allah for His love and care, good health and protection through the years.  3. Being entrusted with the respo...