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Declare state of emergency on Electricity and Agriculture -Hon Ikwechegh tells Tinubu 

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A member representing Aba North and South, in the 10th House of Representative on the platform of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Hon Alexander Mascot  Ikwechegh, has called on the Federal government to declare state of emergency on Electricity and Agriculture.
In this interview with IGNATIUS OKOROCHA, Hon Ikwechegh who  boldly speaks his mind on issues of national discourse on the floor of the House, advised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to fix the nation’s power and agricultural sectors to provide means of livelihood to the Nigerians.
He speaks on other issues of national importance.
Excepts:
Well, before we go into the main issues that brought us here, what is your background?
Well, I was born many many years ago by chief and Lolo Mascots, Ikwechegh And they passed away when I was 11 and then, of course, I became, from being a boy, to a man, started taking care of myself. I had six other siblings, we were seven in number. And I attended Constitutional Christian Primary School and  finished my primary education from there.
The whole portal training institution after I had done three years in a school called Secret Heart College, Izuqu in Aba, or popularly known as Sahaco. I gain admission into University of Calabar, studied Business Administration, graduated from University of Calabar and went fully into business. In 2005, I became Deputy Chairman of one of the local government Area councils that made up my constituency called Aba North local government Area of Abia state.
After two years I ran for election to served as chairman, local government Council. I became Executive chairman  of Aba North Local Government Council. Served in that capacity until  it expired on the 10th of January, 2010. And then I served as a special advisor to the governor, the then governor of Abia state, Senator Theodore Orji  for about four months, and then resigned from politics and went into the private sector.
In the private sector I stayed, got into full business, have a conglomerate of companies called Gross Group of companies comprising the following: Grossfield Construction, Grossfield Energy, Grossfield Marine and then Grossfield Merchants.
So, we’ve been doing very well in business but what impaled me to want to get back into politics is the 2010-20 event of EndSARS that I witnessed when young men that came to protest were ambushed by the Nigerian military and that sort of hurt me.
And then I began to appeal to young Nigerians that revolution, as it is well known, or called, or referred to, is not the most effective way of removing a government from power. There’s a saying that “the power of the people is far greater than the people in power.”
I began to advocate that young men and women should go and register with political parties. Register with political parties or choose a political party that their ideology is congruent with yours.
 Register and then exercise your franchise by voting the candidate of your choice and of course for one to advocate for such I had to quickly or expressly register with a political party that I felt that its ideology was in congruity.
 I began to intensely or vigorously pursue the office of National Assembly member because I felt that, you know, the laws that will help to define how we live here,
starts from here and for one to really be of use or bring value to the society, you need to start from the areas where the laws are made.
So, that was how I ran and  won and today, I m here under the platform of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA). It’s a political party that at certain time,
I felt its ideologies aligned with mine. Then again, the Labour Party back then had not ossified itself. We had joined the Labour Party when this was ongoing. This was in 2020 that I joined the All Progressive Grand Alliance in 2021. That was  when I joined the All Progressive Grand Alliance. So, the Labour Party became quite strong in 2022, just a few days after.
Nigerians have embarked on  a nation-wide protest. What is your take on this?
 The truth is this there’s so much hunger in the land. I don’t think Nigeria’s had it this bad except for maybe just a couple of years the citizens were pushed  into  a civil war period.
During the period, people could barely buy food to eat. It may be slightly difficult for the political class, especially people that have been successful for a long time, to truly understand the plight of the people as of today.
There are certain things that go on and when the poor, the poorest of the poor get to hear them, it breaks their hearts and that is why people are very proud interested about this protest. You can be telling people to tighten their belt when
governors, presidents, ministers are still busy driving bulletproof vehicles, Lexus 600 SUVs. You see one governor riding on 30 cars. You see one minister riding on 15 cars. You see the President riding on 50 cars and then you expect them to tighten their belt. Just like I said earlier, that if government is truly interested in having people’s belts tightened, government should live by example.
 They should set that example. And the President can say, okay, I’m moving around with four cars, five cars. Bule puver, cause he’s the president. I mean, it’s something that he deserves to do. But moving around with 50 cars?
I mean this is just a few of course. And then we cut down on a lot of different things. Do we actually need the number of people that are being paid in government? Let me explain this. From a technocratic or entrepreneurial standpoint, when an entity, a business entity begins to fail, what it does is it cuts on costs. What is the federal government doing to cut costs?of governance. There is a perverseness of prodigality, total avoidance of frugality in the day-to-day running of government. What is the government doing to cut governance, cost of governance? That has to be done. While preparing the budget, do you bring consultants to take time to scrutinise the content of the…
what is inserted in the budget. When it gets to us here, you give us one month to scrutinize this budget. How do we scrutinize the budget within one month? And then everybody’s rushing. By right, in September, as soon as we are resuming the session, the budget should be on our table.
Okay, the president should present the 2025 budget so that we can take between September and December to scrutinize the budget and then approve it. If there are things that we feel that shouldn’t be there in the budget, then we quickly do it. The legislative arm of government should remain independent.
 The judicial arm of government should remain independent. The executive arm of government should remain independent.
Analysts have narrowed the major issues raised by protesters at the nationwide protest on hunger high cost of food items in the market. What is your advice to the Federal government on how to get out of these teething problems?
When our people are starving, when there is insecurity, when people in the north cannot go to their farms and farm their agricultural produce, when people, there’s no electricity. In a country of almost 300 million people, there is no electricity. How do we manufacture? We should declare a state of emergency on electricity and agriculture.
That is what I believe we should be doing. Declare a state of emergency on these things. Bring in all kinds of consultants from different parts of the world. Let them come here and the president will say, I’m mandating you within six months to give Nigeria light.
I’m mandating you within 6 to 9 months to recruit and make agriculture attractive again. Let everybody move back to the farms. Who are the people coming in to kill farmers? Thus scaring people from getting into their farms to do their farming business. Where are they? Let us find who these people are and get rid of them. So that people can farm. Nigeria has fertile grounds. Our soil is fertile. We can produce in industrial scale.
All the raw materials that are used in making different things we can produce okay so when we produce these things we can use these things to um when we produce these things we can we can if we have a constant electricity we can power our small small factories small small industries every room in Nigeria
We are known for our dexterity, artisanry, work of our hands. That is what we are known for. Nigeria has a city in Aba that can be considered or compared to China. I remember in the 80s, late 70s, when I was quite young, when my parents are taking me to school, people will be calling, I will always hear that Aba is the Japan of Africa. This was even before China became a thing. They used to compare our products from Aba to that of Taiwan. So, what are we talking about? Today if you go to Aba because of the bad government, you see a lot of people riding Okada, KK, Napepe, wheelbarrow pusher. These are young graduates who are supposed to be producing different things. So my dear brother.
It is imperative that government sits up. My people say when a situation gets to its extreme, extreme measures are taken to address such situations. The reason why the people are clamoring for change and also considering hitting the streets is because they feel that they haven’t seen on the part of the government that body language that expresses concern.
These are little, little things that we ought to do for the country to move forward. A popular senator once said, if you tell the truth, you die. If you tell a lie, you die. It’s better I tell the truth and die so that I know that I spoke the truth. Now…
Nigeria cannot possibly be poor. Nigeria is a powerful country. I don’t know if there are elements from outside Nigeria that is selling this very nefarious, malevolent and ominous narrative. Because Nigeria is a rich country, it’s not a poor country. But who are the people that man our waters? Who are the ones that are allowing those vessels to sell into our shores and lift our oil and move back to wherever it is that they came from unaccounted for. Who are the people that are managing our mining industry? The gold in Zamfara as I hear can literally empower this country. Why are we not harnessing what we have? Oil theft, a platitude that people you throw around all the time. Why should this be so? If we harness our oil, harness our natural resources, the other day we went to Enugu and you know the governor of Enugu state is a bright young man. We are so blessed to have a governor who is from Enugu just like Abia, Alex Ote in Abia who is a very very intelligent  man.
I didn’t know the government of Enugu was so bright. And I asked him, I said, your Excellency, are you aware that before the invention of oil, in 1950, was it 58, when oil was founded in Nigeria? I said, do you remember that it was coal that you exported from here that empowered the South East, not even Enugu alone, but the South East and the nation?
And he said yes, that currently they are working on, that a lot of approvals were given to people to mine coal, or today, that they’ve reviewed all those approvals, and now that they have investors that are ready to throw in $200 billion, that he expects in a couple of years to be generating trillions of dollars. This is one state.
I said, if you’re generating this type of money, what do you need the local allocation that comes to you? Maybe 10 million, 9 million every month. What do you need it for? He said he doesn’t need it. So the governor is very interested in doing everything within his power to ensure that Enugu state grows. And the governor of Abia state is doing the same, harnessing whatever revenue that we have to generate enough resources to be able to grow the…can’t grow the economy of the nation. You see, we have to tell ourselves the truth. Nigeria is a great nation, but we just need that political will to truly serve. I believe the president means well, but I don’t know. I think, I don’t know what it is, but I just think he needs to pay a little more attention. I understand he has spoken very valiantly and very vividly and very volumely about delegating responsibilities to subordinates. He said it in Chatham House. But let him also look inward to make sure that those delegations are being done very efficiently. Because let me cite an example the issue of the woman in humanitarian affairs and the plenty, plenty billions that was alleged to have been stolen by this said minister. The president meant well. He brought up funds that is supposed to be allocated to Nigerians, destitute, people that are struggling. And one woman, for some reasons, whose vision is totally invariant with that of the President.
Because if a man understands that his people are suffering, his people are dying, people are dying because of one thousand naira, and then he says, this so-and-so amount of money, distribute it to Nigerians, and one woman is using the money to go and buy gold and buy houses in London, that means there is a problem with the subordinates of his Excellency. And which I believe was what Senator Ndume was alluding to. Okay?
See, the Ndume said very clearly that there are elements in the government and he was suspended.
Do you understand where I’m coming, from? Are we not saying that there shouldn’t be, people shouldn’t speak? There shouldn’t be freedom of speech? Then again, that’s a party internal struggle. So, I would like to say, and I want to be quoted very clearly, that Nigeria is a great nation, but we can’t be doing the same thing.
I expect a different result. Then again, it’s easy to sit by the corner and accuse the government, repudiate the government, repudiate the president, impugn their credibility than actually doing their job. So, I do not want to be amongst those that will repudiate the President’s policies or repudiate the president’s administration.
I would not want to be the one that will impugn the credibility of those that are working with His Excellency. But I would like to be the one that will speak the truth, so that the president possibly, maybe some of the people within his circle might not be telling him the truth. So, I want you to quote me very clearly and make sure that every single word that I have said here appears on your newspaper, so that it will be said that somebody spoke the truth and said that it’s possible for this country to be powerful. But we have to handle oil theft. We have to harness properly our mining sector. We have to harness human capital. And then the source that tends to select people that hold positions of government, it has to be looked into both appointments and election. You don’t elect or appoint somebody because the person is your brother or your friend. You appoint somebody who’s brilliant, okay? You can’t be appointing somebody to come and man, let’s say Ministry of Education, and you go and get a captain. It has to be somebody who has been in the field of education and has done well in the field of education, has excelled in the field of education. An academician, right? Is that the way they would say it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. An academic. Somebody who has excelled in that field of profession. Somebody who can be very effective, assert his assets as someone who has done well in that field.
So, I as someone who truly wants this country to grow, I want us to always understand that we have all come here for the people. I have been brought in here to speak for my people and that is why during the time that they presented the Samoa agreement, I was emotional. I said why are we here talking about LGBT human rights? something that I know that Nigeria clearly does not violate. Nigeria respects human rights. Nigeria does not violate human rights. Yes, we have our problems here and there, you know, in a few remote villages, but our police try to be polite. Our military tries to be polite, walk with the citizens. I mean, nobody here is violating any human rights. So when you’re talking about human rights, you’re talking about LGBT and all the rest of them. Why are we here talking about LGBT when our people are hungry?
Maybe it’s happening, but it’s not so obvious because I know that the president has set up some programs to have people paid some money every month. It’s a good arrangement to sort of quell the hunger in the land. But let me give you an example of what I am doing. When I noticed that this is happening, I immediately decided to unlock my own private vault. And what do I intend to do as I have unlocked my private vault? Thank God that some of us are doing other businesses apart from this business of politics. As I locked my vote, what I said is I announced in my constituency that every person that is unemployed should come and register in my office.
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Rivers Assembly Speaker, 16 others dump PDP for APC

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Speaker of the House, Martin Amaehwule, 16 others defect to APC

By Our Correspondent
Seventeen members of the 10th Rivers State House of Assembly, on Friday, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressive Congress (APC).

The lawmakers announced their defection during plenary on Friday, December 5, 2025 at the Auditorium of the Assembly quarters currently used as the hallowed chambers.

The defected lawmakers, led by Speaker of the House, Martin Amaehwule, cited the division in the PDP at the national level as the reason for their defection, noting that the situation has made the future of the party “hazy and nebulous”.

Among the lawmakers who defected to the All Progressive Congress were; the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, Deputy Speaker, Dumle Maol, Majority Leader, Major Jack, Deputy Majority Leader, Linda Somiari- Stewart, Chief Whip, Hon. Frankline Nwabuchi, and the Deputy Whip, Hon. Ofiks Kabang.

Others are; Hon. Peter Abbey, Smart Adoki, Igwe Aforji, Arnold Davids, Enemi George, Tekenari Granville, Christian Nwankwo, Gerald Oforji, Azeru Opara, Lolo Opuende, and Hon. Solomon Wami.

Recall that the Speaker, Martin Amaehwule had in December 2023, in the heat of the over two years political crisis in the state, led all 27 members of the Assembly loyal to the FCT Minister to the APC but later denied their defection, and returned to the PDP.

Meanwhile, the PDP which is now the minority party in the House with 9 members, has constituted their officers with Hon. Sylvanus Nwankwo emerging the Minority Leader, Hon. Barile Nwakoh was elected Deputy Minority Leader, Hon. John Dominic Iderima, Minority Whip, and Hon. Justina Emeji, Deputy Minority Whip.

The Assembly has also renewed its earlier call on the State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara to forward his list of Commissioner-nominees to the House for screening and confirmation in line with the 1999 Constitution; regretting that “the State is yet to have the complement of a full cabinet.”

The Assembly also reaffirmed its earlier resolution made on the 14th of December, 2023, and adopted the auditorium at the State House of Assembly quarters as its legitimate and lawful Chamber for the conduct of legislative businesses for the life of the Tenth Assembly of the State.

Speaker of the Assembly, Martin Amaehwule in his speech lauded President Bola Tinubu for his purposeful and exceptional leadership and pledged their support to the APC and the President.

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Sulu – Gambari , Ita Enang , Dambazzau , Ibas Ibok -Ete, 61 others make Tinubu’s Ambassadorial list

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December 4, 2025

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Senate in session in the chamber

By George Mgbeleke

The Senate Thursday received requests for confirmation of nominations of 65 Ambassadorial nominees from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The nominees as read from two different lists by the President of the Senate , Godswill Akpabio during plenary, fell into two categories of 34 Career Ambassadors and High Commissioners and 31 Non – Career Ambassadors and High Commissioners designate .

Notable names among the 34 Carrer Ambassadors and High Commissioners are Ambassador Sulu – Gambari Olatunji Ahmed from Kwara State , Ambassador Ahmed Mohammed Monguno from Borno State , Ambassador
Maimuna Ibrahim from Adamawa State etc .

Notable in the list of Non Career Ambassadors and High Commissioners are Senator Solomon Ita Enang from Akwa Ibom State , Vice Admiral Ibas Ibok – Ete from Cross River State , Ex Chief of Army Staff, Abdulrahaman Dambazzau from Kano etc .

President Tinubu in the requests hinged on section 171 sub section 1, 2 and 4 of the 1999 Constitution , sought for expeditious consideration of the nominees .

Accordingly, the President of the Senate, forwarded the requests to the committee on Foreign affairs for screening and report back within one week .

Recall that President Tinubu had earlier forwarded to the Senate , three ambassadorial nominees last week for appointment confirmation .

The three earlier nominees , namely
Kayode Are ( Ogun State), Aminu Dalhatu ( Jigawa) and Ayodele Oke ( Oyo State ), were screened on Wednesday by Senator Abubakar Sani Bello ( Niger North ) led committee .

Full list of the Ambassadorial nominees per state reads : ” Ambassador Ezenwa Chukwuemeka ( Abia ) Maimuna Ibrahim ( Adamawa ), Monica Ogochukwu ( Anambra) ,
Ambassador Mohammed Mahmoud Lele ( Bauchi) ,
Endoni Sindo ( Bayelsa) and Ambassador Ahmed Mohammed Minguno ( Borno ) .

Others are Jane Adams Okon Michael ( Cross River ), Clark Omeruo Alexandra ( Delta ), Chimma Geofrey Davies ( Ebonyi) ,
Oduma Yvonne Ehinose ( Edo State ), Wasa Segun Ige ( Edo State )
Ambassador Adeyemi Adebayo Emmanuel ( Ekiti ), Ambassador Onaga Ogechukwu Kingsley ( Enugu ) and

Magaji Umar ( Jigawa) .

Other nominees in the category of Career Ambassadors are
Mohammed Saidu Dahiru ( Kaduna ) ,
AbdulSalam Abus Zayat ( kano) ,
Shehu Barde ( Katsina ) , Aminu Nasiu ( Katsina ),
Abubakar Musa Musa ( Kebbi) ,Mohammed Idris ( Kebbi) ,
Bako Adamu Umar ( Kogi ) ,

Sulu Gambari Olatunji Ahmed ( Kwara ),
Ramata Mohammed ( Lagos ), Shaga John Shama ( Nasarawa )
Salau Hamza Mohammed ( Niger ) and Ibrahim Danlami ( Niger ) .

Others are
Adeola Ibrahim Mopelola ( Ogun) ,
Ruben Abimbola Samuel ( Ondo),
Akande Wahab Adekola ( Osun) ,
Adedokun Esther ( Oyo) ,

Gedagi Joseph John ( Plateau ) ,

Luther Obomode Ayokalata ( Rivers ),

Danladi Yakubu Yaku ( Taraba ) and

Bello Dogondaji ( ( Zamfara ) .

Names on the list of the 31 Non – career ambassadorial nominees are
Senator Grace Bent ( Adamawa ) , Senator Eta Enang ( Akwa – Ibom),
Nkechi Linda Okocha ( Anambra ),
Mahmud Yakubu ( Bauchi )
Philip K. Ikurusi ( Bayelsa ) ,

Paul Oga Adikwu ( Benue ),
Vice Admiral Ibok-Ette Ibas rtd ( Cross River ),
Hon. Abasi Braimah ( Edo ) and

Erelu Angela Adebayo Ekiti )

Others are Barrister Olumilua Oluwayimika Ayotunwa ( Ekiti ),
Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi ( Enugu State ) ,
Barr. Mrs. Chioma Ohakim ( Imo State ),

Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (rtd.) ( Kano State ),
Hon. Tasiu Musa Maigari ( Katsina ) ,
Alhaji Abubakar Sanusi Aliyu ( Kogi) and
Olufemi Pedro ( Lagos State ) .

Others are
Barr. Mohammed Ubandoma Aliyu ( Nasarawa ),
Senator Jimoh Ibrahim ( Ondo), Ambassador Joseph Sola Iji ( Ondo ),

Fani-Kayode ( Osun ) , Professor O. Adewole ( Osun) , Florence Ajimobi ( Oyo ), Lola Akande ( Oyo), Professor Nora Ladi Daduut ( Plateau) , Yakubu N. Gambo ( Plateau ) , Chukwujinka Okocha ( Rivers ) , Haruna Abubakar ( Sokoto ) , Rt Hon Jerry Samuel Manwe ( Taraba ) and Adamu Garba Talba Nangree ( Yobe State ) .

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Kano Guberpoll: Former LG chairmen adopt Sen Barau as APC’s sole candidate for 2027

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Deputy President of Senate, Barau Jibrin

By George Mgbeleke

Former local government chairmen in Kano State have adopted the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau I. Jibrin, as the sole candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2027 governorship race in the state.

The former LG chairmen who served between 2019 and 2022, during the era of Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as Governor of the state, adopted Senator Barau during a courtesy call to the National Assembly in Abuja on Wednesday.

A motion for the adoption of Senator Barau was moved by the former chairman of Rimin Gado Local Government Area, Barrister Dahiru Mannir Maigari, and seconded by the former chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) in the state, Hon. Baffa Mohammed Takai.

When the former chairman of Madobi LGA, Alhaji Mohammed Yahaya, put the vote, all the former chairmen unanimously approved it through a voice vote.

Two members of the Kano State House of Assembly, Hon Zubairu Hamza Masu (Sumaila) and Hon Garba Yau Gwarmai (Tsanyawa/Ghari), witnessed the event.

A statement by the Special Adviser to the Deputy President of the Senate on Media and Publicity, Malam Ismail Mudashir, said that after the voice vote, the local government chairmen appealed to Senator Barau to declare for the governorship race as soon as possible.

Former chairman of Gwale LGA. Alhaji Khalid Ishak Diso informed the Deputy President of the Senate that the people of Kano, especially at the grassroots level, are eagerly awaiting his declaration for the race.

” Kano people are waiting for you to declare for the governorship race. We recently organised an event, where we asked you to declare. You are yet to. The people of Kano are anxiously awaiting your declaration. When are you declaring? Please answer the call to serve our people,” he said.

Also, the former Chairman of ALGON, Baffa Mohammed Takai, who led his colleagues on the courtesy call, said they adopted Senator Barau in view of his outstanding performance in parliament, adding that his contributions to Kano’s development are immense.

” We are here to throw our weight behind you. We are 100 per cent with you. Insha’Allah, you will be the next governor of Kano State, come May 29, 2027. You have the capacity to address the challenges facing our state,” he said.

Responding, the Deputy President of the Senate thanked the former local government chairmen for their support, describing them as grassroots politicians.

“It’s indeed true that Kano was second to Lagos before, in terms of development, in terms of commerce and so on. Unfortunately, Kano is now trailing behind due to a lack of good leadership. Let us not live in denial. This is a fact that we must all work together to address in the interest of our people and state.

“I wish to assure you that by the grace of God, we will take bold steps to bring Kano back to its glorious days. We will succeed by the grace of God. We will always stand by the truth and for our people,” he said.

* Tsanyawa, Ghari stakeholders endorse Barau

Meanwhile, stakeholders from Tsanyawa and Ghari LGAs of Kano State have also thrown their weight behind Senator Barau’s candidature during their visit to him on Wednesday.

A member of the Kano State House of Assembly, Hon. Garba Yau Gwarmai, representing Tsanyawa/Ghari, moved the motion, which Hon. Aminu Yakanawa seconded. A thunderous ovation from over 100 stakeholders in attendance followed the announcement of the endorsement.

Yakanawa told the Deputy President of the Senate that the people of the two local government areas are solidly behind him.

” By the grace of Allah SWT, you are the next governor of Kano State. Our people are solidly behind you, and we are committed to supporting you,” he said

Responding, Senator Barau thanked them for the support, saying the massive support from all the people of the state is a signal of what will happen in 2027.

On the security challenges facing some parts of Tsanyawa and Shanono LGAs, he said, ” We are not leaving any stone unturned in tackling this challenge. We are working underground to bring an end to it. We have taken all the necessary steps. It is not something that we go to radio stations to announce.”

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