BLAMING OPPOSITION FOR HUNGER IS ‘DELUSION’, ATIKU TELLS TINUBU. (PHOTO).

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Blaming opposition for hunger is ‘delusion’, Atiku tells Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of blaming the opposition for the country’s economic hardship. He said the President was trying to evade responsibility for his administration’s policies. Tinubu had earlier on Saturday blamed his political opponents for hunger and poverty in the country while speaking at the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna. “I hear my opponent talking about hunger, poverty. Who created it? They did! They created the hunger, they created the poverty. We are trying to eradicate it,” the President said. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said Nigerians were entitled to demand answers from the APC-led government over rising living costs, poverty, insecurity and questions surrounding public expenditure. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Ca...

FEDERAL APPOINTEE ESCAPES ASSASSINATION OVER OSUN LGA'S TAKEOVER. (PHOTO).


 Federal appointee escapes assassination over Osun LGA’s takeover


…driver, police orderly shot


The Executive Director of Project Implementation at the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), Remi Omowaiye on Monday escaped assassination by a whisker along Osogbo/Ilesa road.

The Nation gathered that the incident occurred around 2:05 PM on Monday in front of Ilesa West local government area when the ex-Commissioner for Works was en route to Osogbo.

According to sources, Omowaiye had mobilized members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Ilesa to Police Command Area Command to seek their protection so as for the reinstated local government executives to resume councils.

Meanwhile, they left the police headquarters in Ilesa for APC secretariats where they were dispatched to their homes.

While the ED was returning to Osogbo in a white Toyota Hummer bumper, he ran into an ambush in front of Ilesa West local government as the bus was riddled with bullets.

Speaking with The Nation shortly after the attack, Omowaiye narrated his close encounter with death disclosing that his driver and a policeman sustained gunshot injuries.

According to him, “I was returning to Osogbo from Ilesha when we ran into an ambush in front of Ilesa West Local government. They shot at where I was sitting on the bus, bullet shattered the side windscreen.

“My driver and police orderly sustained serious gunshot wounds. They have been taken to hospital for treatment.”

He also disclosed that the reinstated chairman of Ilesa East car was also attacked on the spot where he was ambushed.

Omowaiye demanded that those involved must be brought to justice.

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