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...

BENIN CONFIRMS ROMUALD WADAGNI'S PRESIDENTIAL VOTE WIN. (PHOTO).


 Benin confirms Romuald Wadagni's presidential vote win


Benin's Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni was officially confirmed to have won the West African country's presidential election, according to final results.


The Constitutional Court confirmed the provisional tally announced last week, which gave outgoing President Patrice Talon's successor a landslide win.


Many observers believe that the outcome of the April 12 vote was a foregone conclusion.


Teacher and former Minister Paul Hounkpe was the only opposition candidate, while the main opposition party, The Democrats, was unable to take part due to an insufficient number of sponsorships.


Wadagni to take oath of office on May 24


"The court hereby definitively declares Mr. Kossi Mbueke Romuald Wadagni elected president of the Republic, and Ms. Mariam Chabi Talata vice president," the president of the Constitutional Court, Cossi Dorothe Sossa, announced at the institution's headquarters.


Wadagni will take office on Sunday, May 24, Sossa added.

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