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2023: U’re no match for Atiku, PDP mocks Tinubu

by Deji Akintola

June 9, 2022

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*Claims he is desperate for keys to the nation’s treasury

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has pooh-poohed Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for clinching the Presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

PDP claims that the ticked was secured “at very great price”, and is for “the moribund, decrepit and crippled party, which has since served out its purpose as a fraudulent contraption that brought in the failed, corrupt and rudderless administration of President Muhammadu Buhari”.

According to Hon. Debo Ologunagba, PDP National Publicity Secretary, “our Party also sympathizes with Asiwaju for embarking on a journey to nowhere as he is no match for PDP’s more popular, more competent and more prepared Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the unifier and the people’s choice, who defeated President Buhari fair and square in the 2019 Presidential election.

“Asiwaju will soon realize that Nigeria is not one of his acquired estates or fiefdoms and that the Nigerian people are not his political string-puppets and retinue of lackies, from whom he bought the APC Presidential ticket.

“Asiwaju will also soon realize that Nigerians hold him responsible for his self-confessed role in installing the failed Buhari-led administration that subjugated the people, brought excruciating economic hardship, acute poverty, bloodletting, terrorism, mass killings, promoted disunity, tribalism and nepotism, lawlessness, massive treasury looting and unpardonable life-discounting experiences to our country.

“It is indeed reprehensible that Asiwaju, after being handed an APC flag that refused to unfold in recognition of the gloomy times of the APC, did not demonstrate any form of remorse for the injuries he engineered and caused our nation in the last seven years.

“His failure to express empathy for the victims of violence, kidnapping, mass killings and acts of terrorism, especially the recent gruesome attack in a sacred place of worship, St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo in Ondo State serves as a foretaste of the big cover up and harrowing experience that Nigerians will face, God forbid, should Asiwaju emerge as President in 2023.

“His acceptance speech further exposed his manifest lack of capacity, presence of mind, resourcefulness and selflessness to manage the affairs of a nation as complex as Nigeria.

“From Asiwaju’s egotistic outbursts before and after the APC manipulative National Convention, it is crystal clear that his life-long dream of clinching the APC Presidential ticket is not for the wellbeing of Nigerians but out of desperation to lay hands on the keys to the nation’s treasury.

“Asiwaju has insulted the sensibilities of Nigerians enough and this APC National Convention will be his final political outing.

“This is because Nigerians have had enough and are now, more than ever before, ready and out on the platform of the PDP to defend our nation and reject Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu in the 2023 Presidential election.

“The Nigerian politics is far more complex and beyond the Lagos politics where Asiwaju operates with brawl and deployment of violence rather than brain.

“What Nigerians needs now is a unifier in the face of the pain and discomfort inflicted on them by Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his live band of APC looters and mean human beings. He needs to know that Nigeria is not Lagos!

“The PDP therefore charges Nigerians to continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with our Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, their choice President in this mission to Rescue, Redirect and Rebuild our nation from the misrule of Asiwaju and his APC”.

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Minister Unveils Zamfara Power Policy, Unlocking Solar for 147,000 Homes, Businesses

by Gloria Akudoro

November 5, 2026

By Gloria Akudoro The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, has launched the Zamfara State Electricity Policy alongside two commissioned solar plants of 2.5MW capacity to boost electricity supply. Tegbe also broke foundation for 36 solar minigrids across nine local government areas, projects expected to power nearly 147,000 homes and businesses upon completion. Speaking in Gusau alongside Governor Dauda Lawal, the Managing Director of Rural Electrification Agency, Abba Aliyu, Development Partners, and Traditional and Community Leaders, the Minister credited the initiatives to the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu. "The initiatives put the Renewed Hope Agenda into practice by “turning reform and investment into better public services, cleaner transport and more dependable electricity for homes and businesses,” he said. The commissioned plants are a 1MW mini grid / 2.4MW BESS at the Ahmed Sani Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, which will help doctors operate with greater confidence and preserve essential medicines, and a 1.5MW / 3.6MW BESS for the Government House and its auxiliary facilities which will eliminate dependence on diesel based power generation. Of the mini grids, the interconnected projects in Gusau and Kaura Namoda will improve supply on the existing distribution network, while the other 34 will serve communities beyond the grid’s present reach. Zamtaxi, also unveiled, opens opportunities for drivers, technicians and young entrepreneurs in cleaner transport. According to the statement on Wednesday by the Federal Ministry of Power, Tegbe credited President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose assent to the Electricity Act 2023 created greater room for states and investors to participate in the sector. He pledged the Ministry’s support “to translate this policy into effective institutions and improved service.” The Minister, while congratulating Zamfara on 30 years of statehood, urged host communities to protect the assets as their own and to report vandalism and theft promptly. He also commended the Executive Governor for driving and sponsoring the two (2) commissioned minigrid projects amongst other solar powered projects in the state, including solar power for 15 general hospitals 800 schools and 70 Primary Health Care facilities. The Zamfara 36 minigrid projects form part of President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda drive to bring electricity to all Nigerians. Alongside strengthening the national grid, the Federal Government is expanding solar power and other viable sources, bringing supply closer to demand and reaching communities previously without access. For Zamfara, that means a more resilient, more diverse electricity system, and dependable power for the homes, hospitals, farms and markets that depend on it.