The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has inaugurated a national reconciliation committee and campaign councils for Kogi and Bayelsa governorship elections, scheduled for Nov. 16.

The reconciliation committee is headed by a former Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki.

Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State is the chairman of the party’s campaign council for Kogi, while Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi will chair the campaign council for Bayelsa.

The PDP National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus, while inaugurating the committee and the councils, urged the reconciliation committee to work assiduously to reconcile all aggrieved members in the two states and bring them back to the party.

He said that the party should not go into in both Kogi and Bayelsa governorship elections as a divided house.

Secondus, who expressed confidence in the members of the campaign councils, advised them to work for the victory of the party in the two states.

He said that the campaign councils have the task of ensuring that the electoral desires of the people of the two states were realised.

“I charge you to make sure that you bring the best of our programme for the two states during your campaign.

“Preach one man, one vote; obey all the rules and the laws of the land, because we are a party that believe in the rule of law.

“Make sure that we win in Bayelsa and Kogi states,” Secondus said, adding that the party had credible and best candidates for the two states.

He said that given the achievements of Gov. Seriake Dickson in the last eight years in Bayelsa and the current situation in Kogi, the elections in the two states would be smooth contest for PDP.

The PDP chairman, however, said that the information available to the party showed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was planning to rig the elections.

Secondus advised INEC to be neutral in the conduct of the elections to ensure that they were free, fair and credible.

He called on the international community and all lovers of democracy to show more than passing interest in the forthcoming elections in the two states.

Secondus also advised President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC to enforce peace and the rule of law in the country.

In his response, Saraki said that his committee would do its best to reconcile all aggrieved members in the two states.

“The work of winning Kogi and Bayelsa starts with reconciliation and end with reconciliation, because the two states belong to PDP,” he said.

Saraki said that the driving message was that a government headed by PDP was better than that headed by another party.

Also speaking, Gov. Mohammed said that the issue of reconciliation in Bayelsa was half done, as former President Goodluck Jonathan had directed him to accept the responsibility.

“I am taking this responsibility with the seriousness and energy that it deserves. Politics is not a joke.

“If the other side is planning evil, we will plan excellence. If they are planning violence, we will plan peace. If they are planning a loss, we will plan victory,” he said.

On his part, Makinde promised that his committee would run issue-based campaigns in the Kogi State and do the party proud.

He said that the elections in the two states were an opportunity for the electorate “to press the reset button” that will end in the ultimate victory for the party in 2023

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The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, on Thursday revealed that government’s involvement of the EFCC in tackling the scourge of ghost workers in the civil service had led to a redemption of over N4.5 billion naira monthly.

Magu, who made the disclosure while delivering a lecture on “Corruption and Anti-corruption Strategies in Nigeria: Way Forward,” as a guest lecturer at the Course 28 Study Programme on National Defence and Security, themed: “Economic Diversification and National Development,” at the National Defence College, Abuja, singled out the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) of salary payment by the federal government for praise.

He said the IPPIS was responsible for saving the government of the sum of N4.5billion, monthly, that would have been wrongfully expended on ghost workers.

“The EFCC has been engaged in eradicating ghost workers from the federal government payroll which has resulted in saving as much as N4.5 billion naira monthly,” Magu stated, adding that “the Bank Verification Number (BVN) has been an effective tool in carrying out investigations effectively, as it has curtailed the opening of fake bank accounts by fraudulent individuals.”

Magu who regretted the effects of corruption in the country, noted that “every paralysis we have suffered in our economy and polity was caused by corruption, the volatilities and vulnerabilties in our security architecture are results of corrupt practices of several decades.”

According to him, “Since independence in 1960, Nigeria has lost unimaginable number of lives to road accidents, diseases, hunger; communal conflicts, kidnappings, armed robberies, terrorism and a number of other evils that owe direct or indirect percentage to corruption.

The EFCC boss reiterated that the only gateway to development was through fighting corruption. “If Nigeria breaks away from corrupt practices in government businesses and in the private sector, we would transform into a model state overnight,” adding that corruption was like rainfall, “everybody gets affected.”

In further praise of the Buhari government’s efforts at ridding the country of corruption, Magu noted that “The current government came into power on the backbone of a promise to fight corruption,” noting that “there have been deliberate efforts to translate electoral promises to reality through the implementation of policies and programmes, designed to block leakages in government and enthrone a culture of transparency and accountability in the conduct of public office.”

The Commandant, National Defence College, Rear Admiral M.M Kadiri in his vote of thanks noted that “what will keep all of us at peace beyond all of these is if we key into the corruption fight.”

He observed the need for proper utilisation of funds saying, “we all have a role to play to ensure that monies meant to be used for public good will be applied according to what and how they were meant to be utilized.”

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