BY Ayodele Oluwafemi
Reports on the controversy trailing the composition of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council dominated the cover pages of Nigerian newspapers.
The Punch reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the insecurity in the north-west and south-east may hamper the conduct of elections in the zones. The newspaper says the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is set to hold its national executive council (NEC) meeting.
The Nation reports that Bola Tinubu, APC presidential candidate has presented a draft of his manifesto to the party leadership and governors. The newspaper says Atiku Abubakar, flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, has pleaded former senate president David Mark, James Ibori, former Delta governor, and Peter Odili, former Rivers governor to beg Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, on the ongoing crisis in the PDP.
THISDAY reports that the meeting between Tinubu, APC governors and some members of the party national executive over the composition of the campaign council ended in deadlock. Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, disclosed that the federal government is in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to restructure the country’s debts.
Daily Trust reports that there is an alleged plot by top political actors to remove Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, over the planned deployment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS). The newspaper says senators have faulted rising recurrent expenditure in the country’s budget.
Daily Sun says flood has killed six members of a family in Nzam community, Anambra west LGA, Anambra state. The newspaper reports that the federal government has lined up 32 witnesses for the prosecution of Stella Oduah and eight others accused of money laundering to the tune of N5 billion.
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