Happy morning! The summary from Nigerian Newspapers for today is as follows:
1. Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate for the 2023 elections, claims Nyesom Wike and his team are now in charge of resolving the ongoing party dispute. Atiku made this statement during a town hall that Channels Television hosted on Sunday evening in Abuja.
2. Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal promised to cooperate with all aggrieved parties to ensure the Peoples Democratic Party’s triumph in 2023, including his five other governors under the leadership of Nyesom Wike. He remarked during a meeting in Makurdi with Governor Samuel Ortom of the Benue State.
3. Bodo locals in the Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State were allegedly attacked by the military, according to Amnesty International Nigeria. The organisation said that the alleged attack was a blatant breach of Nigeria’s obligations under international human rights law and agreements to which it has acceded in a statement released on Sunday.
4. The Everybody Progressives Congress’s Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has said that if elected president, his administration will diversify the economy and restore the manufacturing sector for the good of all. This was said by Tinubu in Ibadan, Oyo State, at a town hall gathering with South Western Muslim leaders.
5. Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, criticised the decline in Ibadan city’s standing and pledged to restore its grandeur if elected president the next year. His campaign council said in a statement on Sunday that Obi made the remarks on Saturday when paying the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Olalekan Balogun, a courtesy call.
6. A fire at the Ogbo Osisi wood market in Onitsha, Anambra State, burned several of the businesses, destroying goods worth millions of Naira. It was learned that the event took place late on a Saturday, and that there were 28 significant stores present.
7. According to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), its agents at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, discovered packages of cocaine hid in various locations of a travel bag brought into Nigeria by Nwadinobi Charles Uchemadu, a passenger returning from Sao Paulo, Brazil, via Doha, on a Qatar Airways flight.
8. According to the Kogi Command of the Federal Route Safety Corps (FRSC), a crash on Saturday on the Okene-Ogori road resulted in six fatalities and 25 injuries. Yesterday in Lokoja, Mr. Stephen Dawulung, the Sector Commander, said that the lone accident involved an articulated vehicle with 45 people and animals.
9. Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, has urged people who believe Nigeria is not ready for a Muslim-Muslim ticket to reject the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) attempts to win back the North’s president. He addressed yesterday at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Port Harcourt during a special dedication ceremony for the Rivers State PDP’s 2023 General Election Campaign Rallies.
10. Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, claimed he did not comprehend the Boko Haram phenomenon and bemoaned the fact that the conflict had persisted despite the efforts of the Nigerian Army.
During the People’s Town Hall 2023 series, which was shown on television yesterday, Atiku said this on Sunday.
