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Obi to INEC: You must produce the server used for elections

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6 years ago

June 18, 2019

Peter Obi, vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must produce the server used during the general election.

The commission has denied using server for the elections, explaining that it was used during Anambra and Osun governorship elections in 2018.

At a programme in Osun state on Monday, Solomon Soyebi, an INEC national commissioner, said the commission jettisoned the idea of using a server for this year’s general election because of some factors, including the late release of its budget.

He made the explanation amid the ongoing debate on whether the commission has a server through which it transmits results electronically.

One of the arguments of the PDP at the ongoing hearing of the presidential election petition tribunal is that the results from the server showed Atiku Abubakar, its candidate, got the highest votes in the presidential election.

While speaking during a thanksgiving service in Atani, Anambra state, Obi insisted that INEC used a server.

The service was organised in honour of Stella Odua, senator representing Anambra-north and other winners in the state house of assembly.

“INEC must provide the server they used for the election because they know they used the server for the election and must provide it,” Obi said.

He also asked those who were celebrating their victory in the election to attribute it to God.

The former governor of Anambra urged the newly elected lawmakers to place the interest of the masses first and use public money for good.

“The election has come and gone and now is the reality. We have to thank God Almighty for, without Him, we would not have succeeded in the election,” he said.

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“Whenever we have the opportunity we should show gratitude to God. Thanksgiving is important and we are here to show our appreciation to God for what he did for us.

“We also show our appreciation to all the people who helped made it possible for us to succeed, we must do something that they will appreciate… you are nearer to the people. There is no road in Ogbaru and so many areas need to be revived again. There is a lot of work to be done in the constituency. So many people are hungry, so many things are happening to Nigeria. Let those who are in power today please use public money for public good.

“Our children are not working because there is no job while some are working and suffering.”

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President Tinubu To Open APC Think Tank Conference on Skills Acquisition

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1 week ago

December 13, 2024

The Gleamer

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will on Tuesday declare open a Three Day National Conference that would address poverty, unemployment and skills’ gap in Nigeria.

The conference is designed by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC Think Tank and intellectual resource center, The Progressive Institute, TPI.

Themed: Vocational Skills Acquisition, Entrepreneurship and Challenges of Development in Nigeria, the conference is scheduled to hold from Tuesday, 17th to Thursday 19th December, 2024 at The Banquet Hall of The Presidential Villa in Abuja.

The Chief host of the conference and APC National Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje said the conference is an intervention by the APC Leadership to contribute to the efforts of the Federal Government towards addressing the challenges of youths unemployment as well as the current gaps between many University degrees and work place requirements.

“TPI will assemble a team of Experts and practitioners to undertake empirical and clinical appraisals of the current challenges and proffer creative and imaginative solutions which will be forwarded to the Federal Government for consideration and implementation”.

Dr. Lanre Adebayo, Director General, DG of TPI noted that the event is a policy- driven Conference with the aim of addressing advanced skills sector such as Advanced Construction Technologies, Digital Technologies, Technical skills in Mining, Maritime, Advanced Welding Certifications, Skills in Sustainable development and Climate Change Agriculture (including value chain processing, agro-preneurship) etc.

The DG said the Conference will undertake a comparative and historical analyses of the experiences of countries such as Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia which built their economies on related advanced vocational skills.

“Foreign and Nigerian based groups have been invited to deliver position papers on these areas. And some of them from Britain and China have offered to raise funds for a proposed Zonal Skills Acquisition Centers”

Dr. Adebayo added that there are middle level as well as low level vocational skills which will also feature at the programme. He said the essence is to shortlist these skills especially in the context of their relevance to each of the Country’s six geo-political areas.

He added that conference seeks a review of the extant Nigerian educational curriculum with a view to examining how to restore and strengthen the vocational content.

“It will also examine how to further utilize the cooperative model in organizing small and medium scale enterprises into powerful economic units especially to create wealth on sustainable basis”

It promises to be expository as Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEDAN), Nigerian Chamber of Commerce, Bank of Industry, Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, Federal Ministry of Youth Development, Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and other government and non-governmentmental organizations, NGO have been invited to contribute to the conference.

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