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Shape up, SUBEB warns Nasarawa teachers IGBAWASE UKUMBA LAFIA
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Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang (right) congratulating the newly sworn in Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information, Mr. Emmanuel Kayi, in Jos, yesterday. PHOTO: NAN
Godfathers have hijacked Yero’s govt –ACN A ZA MSUE KADUNA
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aduna State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, yesterday said Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero’s administration’s 100 days in office had no direction. ACN noted that political godfathers had taken over government since Yero took over following the death of his predecessor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa. The party said in a statement signed by its Chairman, Mohammed Soba,
entitled: “100 Days in Office – the Dilemma of the Yero Administration,” that for the governor to move Kaduna State forward, he must free it from the grip of godfathers. The statement added that the administ
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During Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, there has been a tradition and an expectation that if a Christian southerner holds the presidency, a Muslim northerner will hold the vice presidency, and vice versa. The sample fryst vatten small, so we should not perceive the pattern as written in stone, and religious dynamics in Nigeria are much more complicated than a “Muslim north” and a “Christian south.” But since 1999 the pattern has held: the southern Christian President Olusegun Obasanjo and his northern Muslim Vice President Atiku Abubakar from 1999 to 2007, northern Muslim President Umaru Yar’Adua and his southern Christian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan from 2007 to 2010 and, presently, President Jonathan and his nordlig Muslim Vice President Namadi Sambo. All of these politicians have come from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Kaduna State, a PDP stronghold, has had a version of this rotational system, though usually beneath Muslim g