The newspaper review for Monday, January 7, focuses on Yemi Osinbajo's campaign for Buhari and the call by opposition parties for police boss, Ibrahim Idris, to proceed on retirement among other stories.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged Nigerians to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the February elections to enable the president consolidate on his achievements and reposition the country for excellence.
The Nation reports that Osinbajo made the statement during his visits to Igbeti, Igboho, Kisi and Saki, areas of Ogun state, where he was received by huge crowds of party members and supporters.
The Nation newspaper for Monday, January 7, credits: snapshot from Legit.ng
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He said: "All the social investment programmes of the Buhari administration was to empower the common man and the poor.”
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“The TraderMoni is to empower the small, small traders, it is not for big business. Those in big businesses have their own, which is called the MarketMoni. We want to reach every village so that the people here will also benefit from this government; all of us will be going up, up, up.”
In another report, opposition political parties in the country have threatened to embark on nationwide protests from January 15 to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to name a new Inspector-General of Police (IGP).
The Punch reports that parties, on the platform of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), on Sunday, January 6, said having reached the mandatory retirement age of 35 years of active service on January 3, 2019, the current IGP, Ibrahim Idris, ceased to be a policeman.
The Punch newspaper for Monday, January 7, credits: snapshot from Legit.ng
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The coalition’s spokesperson, Imo Ugochinyere, said their scheduled protest was to object to the continued stay of Ibrahim Idris in office as police boss.
Ugochinyere said “This means that with the reaching of the mandatory retirement age of 35 years of active service on January 3, 2019 and the mandatory retirement age of 60 years while in service by the IG (which comes up on January 15, 2019), the IG is constitutionally barred from being retained or reappointed as the IG as he is no longer a serving police officer.
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"His continued stay in office is illegal and an act of impersonation as there is no legal or documentary evidence to back up his stay as the IG.
“We call on President Buhari to be courageous to announce the replacement and not bow to the pressure to cement illegality in the core of the nation’s security architecture due to his desperation to rig himself back to power knowing he has been rejected by the Nigerian people."
Meanwhile, a source at the Police Service Commission (PSC) has said the commission was waiting to to get directive from federal government regarding the retirement of IGP Ibrahim Idris who turns 60 years of age on January 15, 2019.
The Vanguard newspaper for Monday, January 7, credits: snapshot from Legit.ng
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Vanguard reports that according to civil service statutes, the occupant of the office of the Inspector General of Police is to resign after spending the mandatory 35 years in service or attaining 60 years of age, whichever came first.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has said he would continue to stand with the country’s masses because they constitute the bulk of his supporters.
Buhari made the statement an exclusive interview with This Day’s board of editors in Abuja, where he accused elite of contributing to the country’s problems.
This Day newspaper for Monday, January 7, credits: snapshot from Legit.ng
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“I told you my grudge against the Nigerian elite. I challenge you to check the records from Europe, Asia, America, this country was getting 2.1 million barrels per day at over $100 per barrel.
“It went to $143 per barrel but when we came, it collapsed and I told you that I went to the Central Bank and said, ‘Oya, this is what is happening. Why?’ I refused to remove him (CBN governor) because he has to give account of what had been happening.
“About 2.1 million bpd times 100 times 16 years, yet, there was no provision of infrastructure. The rail was killed.
“But look at what we did from May 29, 2015 till now with what is available. I asked you where were the elite?
“Educate the people and see their reaction…Where were the elite when these people were taking this money? The Nigerian elite are supposed to know how much the country is earning, where it is. Why did they accommodate the irresponsible expenditure of the 16 years of PDP?”
To news in the Niger Delta, a group of suspected militants have claimed responsibility for an attack on an oil pipeline at Koluama community in the Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa state.
The Guardian reports that the explosion which reportedly occurred on Friday, January 4, was said to have damaged the pipeline belonging to Conoil.
The Guardian newspaper for Monday, January 7, credits: snapshot from Legit.ng
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The group, Koluama Seven Brothers, in statement by one Angel Michael, described the attack as a warning, saying it will launch another strike to shut down Conoil if the company fails address the issues behind the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), scholarships, job creation for peace and love of the Koluama clan.
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