cA former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Timi Frank, on Thursday said the conduct of the 2019 general elections puts a question mark on President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s integrity.<\/p>\n
He said the huge number of petitions being filed before election petitions tribunals nationwide was an evidence of \u201ca sham and badly conducted election in the history of Nigeria under the APC government.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frank said this in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cThis election puts President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s integrity into question, except he chooses the path of late President Musa Yar\u2019Adua, who acknowledged that the election that brought him into office was characterised by fraud and apologised to Nigerians.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I raised the alarm over plans to militarise the just concluded elections, some people didn\u2019t take it seriously, but Nigerians could see how a government expected to protect them unleashed its institutions on them as video evidence of ballot box snatching, intimidation of voters and massive manipulation of their votes were seen during the elections.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile I wholeheartedly congratulate the opposition PDP candidates across the country who could not be rigged, especially in Rivers, Bauchi, Adamawa, Oyo, Imo and others, I strongly believe that the judiciary will do the needful in Kano, Nasarawa, Katsina among other states where the will of the people were obviously manipulated.<\/p>\n
\u201cI urge all the victorious PDP candidates to strongly determine to better the lot of their people who have reposed confidence in them by massively embarking on projects and policies which will have direct positive bearing on the lives of Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n
While The Sokoto State House of Assembly, on Thursday, passed a bill to establish a College of Nursing Science in Tambuwal Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the passage followed a motion moved by the Assembly majority leader, Alhaji Garba Bello (PDP- Yabo) and the adoption of the House Committee on Education report to that effect.<\/p>\n
Alhaji Aminu Bala, (PDP- Bodinga South), the chairman of the committee, who presented the recommendations of the committee, said the bill sought to establish a new college of nursing science in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason is not far from the fact that there is the need to bridge the gap that exists as a result of the shortage of the required manpower in the state hospitals, especially in nursing-related fields.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is pertinent to note that the College of Nursing Science, Sokoto, cannot provide the needed manpower required in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was largely due to the limited number of students allocated to every college in a year by the regulatory council,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Bala further said that the committee discussed extensively on the content of the bill at a stakeholders\u2019 meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is to recommend that the title of the bill be amended to reflect \u2018College of Nursing Science\u2019, instead of \u2018Midwifery Science\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is to enable broader concept that covers all Nursing Science, including Midwifery rather than limiting it to the provision of training and research in Midwifery.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat the minimum qualification of the Provost, should be a Master\u2019s Degree in Nursing Science instead of Degree in Nursing; as provided in the bill.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was also the new standard adopted by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) in order not to just upgrade the standard, but equally encourage people to go for higher degrees,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The Deputy Speaker, Alhaji Abubakar Magaji, who presided over the sitting said, \u201cthe bill is accordingly read for the third term and passed,\u201d as the members unanimously accepted it in a voice vote.<\/p>\n
alling on the PDP supporters to remain calm, Frank assured them that the PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, will reclaim the mandate freely given during the presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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