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  • Feb, Tue, 2020
Sport

Edo 2020: Tambuwal reiterates commitment to sports development

Sports
By Habibu Harisu
Sokoto, Feb. 25, 2020 (NAN) Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state on Tuesday reiterated his administration’s commitment to encouraging youths participation in sports activities and overall sports development in the state.

Tambuwal stated this in Sokoto when he received the torch of unity for the upcoming National Sports Festival (NSF) scheduled for Benin from March 22.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a delegation from the Federal Ministry of Youths and Sports Development, led by its North-West Zonal Coordinator, Olusola Luke, accompanied the torch.

Luke presented the torch of unity to the state Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Aminu Bala-Bodinga, who handed it over to Gov. Tambuwal at the Government House in Sokoto.

Receiving the torch, Gov. Tambuwal reaffirmed his government’s commitment to ensuring the development of sports in the state.

He pointed out that the sports sector provides an avenue for youths development, assuring that “the youths who form a critical mass of the population will continue to be engaged in sports activities’’.

Tambuwal assured that Sokoto state would participate fully in the NSF.

Earlier, Luke had said the essence of moving round with the NSF torch of unity was to unite Nigerians and enthrone peace and development through sports.

“The National Sports Festival is intended to keep the youths alert so that they can not only defend themselves but also create a fortune for themselves,’’ he said.(NAN)
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(Edited by Olawale Alabi)

Politics

(Audio) Gov. Badaru dismisses reports on alleged plans by Tambuwal, Saraki to defect to PDP

Senate President Bukola Saraki (r) and Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State 

Defection

By Ismaila Chafe

Abuja, April 23, 2018 (NAN) Gov. Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa has described as untrue media reports that Senate President Bukola Saraki and Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State are negotiating to defect to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Badaru, who is the Chairman, 2018 Congresses and Convention Committee of All Progressives Congress (APC), debunked the reports when he fielded questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Monday.

Gov. Badaru of Jigawa

He alleged that a similar fake story was circulated on Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue in the social media that the governor had concluded arrangements to quit the APC for PDP.

Cue in audio (Badaru)

“It is not true (Tambuwal and Saraki are negotiating with the PDP), we have not heard of that. Some few weeks back there was rumour about the governor of Benue and he made it clear at our last NEC that he is not moving anywhere.

“Those are rumours flying around but they don’t have consequence.

“We are united, governor Tambuwal is with us and the Distinguished senator Bukola Saraki, the Senate President is also with APC and we have not had any reason to think that they are negotiating elsewhere, no.’’

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Some conventional and social media outfits had on Monday reported that Saraki and Tambuwal were being pressurized to return to the PDP.

They quoted a top member of PDP National Executive Committee (NEC), as saying that the pair was being “begged to return to their roots as part of a larger reconciliation policy in PDP’’.

The report said: “The PDP is said to have also initiated talks with three APC governors in the Northwest, which is the political base of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is said to have called on Saraki and Tambuwal, his predecessor, Senator Aliyu Wammako, former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, and former Gombe State Governor, Danjuma Goje to return to its fold in order to wrest power from the All Progressives Congress (APC) next year.’’
On the forthcoming APC convention, Badaru expressed the hope that the exercise would go a long way toward uniting members of the party.

“I am sure the convention will bring everybody together and in democracy if you are open and straight forward, things get done well, I don’t think there should be any problem,’’ he added.

The governor also dismissed the report that there was a case of political unrest in the state at the weekend, saying that what was witnessed at the Gumel rally was a normal political shunting between two contending groups at the rally. (NAN)
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Edited by Nyisom Dore/Emmanuel Yashim