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Deputy Secretary Gen. Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs Cautions Tinubu Against Picking Dogara As Running Mate

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YAkubu Dogara

 

 

The Deputy secretary general Of the supreme Council of Islamic affairs and a native of Tafawa Balewa in Bauchi state has warned the presidential candidate if the APC Asiwajy Bola Tinubu Against Picking YAkubu Dogara as running mate for the 2023 Presidential election.

Professor Salisu Shehu made the statement on his verified Facebook page.

Read the full statement below

 

Professor Salisu Shehu

Professor Salisu Shehu

“WARNING THE APC AND ASIWAJU ON PICKING DOGARA AS A VICE PRESIDENT

As a person that hails from Dogara’s Federal Constituency (Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro) I have a direct stake in Dogara’s bid for Vice Presidency. I learned that he is desperately lobbying to be picked as the running mate to ASIWAJU. It is for this reason that I felt obliged to warn the APC as a party and ASIWAJU as its presidential flagbearer against picking DOGARA.

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APC and ASIWAJU should know that DOGARA will surely be a very big liability to them as a running mate for the following reasons:

1. His Constituency is the most crisis – ridden area in Bauchi State. To the best of our knowledge DOGARA never for a single day convened any sort of peace – making or reconciliatory meeting between Muslims and Christians. This was not only because he was indifferent but that he shares the primordial bigotry of his Christian tribesmen.

2. Tafawa Balewa Town, being the hometown of the First Prime Minister of Nigeria, is the most important town in Dogara’s Constituency. Since 11 years ago Dogara’s Christian brethren and tribesmen perpetrated monumental carnage and chased away the Muslims from the town. No single Muslim family lives in Tafawa Balewa all this long and there is no single Mosque standing in Tafawa Balewa Town for these 11 years.
The crux of the matter is that, as at the time of writing this piece, to the best of our knowledge, DOGARA :

(I). Never made any single effort at resettling the displaced Musim Community in Tafawa Balewa even when he was the no. 4 citizen of the country.
(II). Never made a submission to the Northeast Development Commission for the same purpose of resettling the Muslim Community.
(III). Never visited the displaced people to assuage their pains, not to talk of sending any sort of relief materials or palliatives to them.

4. As a proof of real and deep-seated bigotry, even when DOGARA embarked on a project of renovating religious edifices (churches and mosques) in the Constituency, he never offered to rebuild any of the several dozens of the destroyed mosques in Tafawa Balewa Town.

If DOGARA argues that he made no attempt at rebuilding our mosques because there were no Muslims in the town, we will then put it back to him that, what efforts then have you been making at resettling the Muslims in the town?

The list of our grievances against DOGARA can be longer.

EVEN WITH THE LIST OF DOGARA’S FAILURES PRESENTED ABOVE, IT IS CLEAR THAT HE WOULD BE A BAD PRODUCT TO PRESENT TO NIGERIANS AS VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
HE WILL CERTAINLY BE A LIABILITY TO APC AND ASIWAJU BUT NOT AN ASSET.

‘To be forewarned is to be forearmed”.”

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Insecurity: US lawmaker accuses Matawalle of bribe attempt to silence recommendation calling for his sack

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April 21, 2026

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Governor Matawalle

 

Kimberly Daniels, a United States Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives for District 14, has alleged that Nigeria’s minister of state for defense, Bello Matawalle, attempted to bribe a US official to deflect the narrative of the United World Congress of Diplomats, UN-WCD, report.

The lawmaker made the claim in a viral video released on her official Facebook account on Monday.

She said Matawalle’s alleged move was to cover up the UN-WCD report on Christian genocide in Nigeria, which indicted him.

Daniels insisted that no amount of pressure can silence her stand against the killings of Christians in Nigeria.

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“A US elected official was offered money by Nigeria’s minister of state defense, Bello Matawalle, to change the narrative of the UN-WCD Christian genocide in Nigeria report,” she said in the viral video.

Recall that Daniels, who doubled as the chairperson of UN-WCD, had called for President Bola Tinubu to remove Matawalle over alleged complicity in the killings in Plateau, Benue, Kaduna, and other parts of Nigeria.

Matawalle is yet to officially reply the US lawmaker.

Daniels alleged that following her recent press statement on what she described as targeted killings of Christians in Nigeria, she came under pressure from individuals she linked to the minister, including what she characterised as attempts to discredit her report and “buy support” from US-based elected officials.

According to her, an unnamed American lawmaker allegedly received an offer of financial inducement to publicly counter her position and defend the Nigerian defence leadership.

She claimed to have received evidence of a communication, including a prepared statement and promotional material, purportedly linked to the minister.

She also claimed that the bribery attempt is meant to divide America elected officials not knowing that they are united.

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Just In:President Tinubu Sacks Minister Of Finance

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April 21, 2026

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved a minor cabinet reshuffle in the membership of the Federal Executive Council.

According to a memo signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, two cabinet members, Mr. Wale Edun and Arc. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa are to leave the cabinet while their replacements have been named.

Edun, until the latest development, was the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy. He has been directed to hand over to Mr. Taiwo Oyedele who is now to take over as Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy. Oyedele was formerly a Minister of State in the ministry.

Also Mr. Muttaqha Rabe Darma (PhD .) has been named as the ministerial nominee and minister designate for the Housing and Urban Development Ministry.

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The memo also directed Dangiwa to hand over to the Minister of State in the ministry.

The memo stated that “all handing over and taking over processes should be completed on or before close of business on Thursday 23rd April, 2026.”

Explaining the President’s decision, Akume said: “These changes are aimed at strengthening cohesion, synergy in governance as well as achieving more impactful delivery on the economy to Nigerians, through the Renewed Hope Agenda.”

He said the President, in approving the cabinet reshuffle, has fully exercised his powers as conferred on him by Sections 147 and 148 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999, as amended).

The President thanked the outgoing ministers for their services to the nation while wishing them the best in all their future endeavours.

The President, Akume noted, equally assured all cabinet members that “the process of reinvigoration shall be continuous.”

Signed:

Yomi Odunuga,
Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation

21-04-2026

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JUST IN: FG Files 13 Count Charges Against Alleged Coup Plotters

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April 21, 2026

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By Yusuf Danjuma Yunusa

The Federal Government has filed a 13-count charge before the Federal High Court in Abuja against individuals accused of plotting to overthrow President Bola Tinubu. Among those named in the suit are a retired major general, a retired naval captain, a serving police inspector, and three other suspects.

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According to security sources, the coup was scheduled to be executed on Nigeria’s Independence Day. However, the plot was uncovered after preparations and plans were leaked, leading to its successful disruption.

The development prompted the Federal Government to cancel the Independence Day programme—a move described as highly unusual by political observers.

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