2019 ELECTION: WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE BINANI

Hon. Aisha Dahiru Ahmed Popularly known as (Binani) is an entrepreneur and a democrat she was a member of the 7th National Assembly where she represented Yola North, Yola South and Girei Federal Constituency of Adamawa State, from 2011 to 2015.  She was formerly with the PDP but later contested for the Senate of Adamawa Central zone under People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) in the 2015 general elections.

 Hon. Aisha was born on the 11th of August 1971, she is a holder  of Higher National Diploma in electrical electronics Engineering and Computer certificate from the University of Southampton UK. She was chairman of the House committee on Constituency Outreach, member committee on Appropriations, Land Transports, Millennium Development Goals and Petroleum resources (Downstream) Public Service Matter.         

Her legislative interest was on Appropriations Matters, Federal Capital Territory.

Her target achievements included quality representations, sponsoring effective Bills to improve standards of living of Nigerians and promoting full-fledged dividends of democracy.

In her contribution towards the upliftment of the people of her Constituency, she dwelled in the provision of health care services, educational development for the masses, agricultural assistance for farmers. Employment generation for the youths and Infrastructural development.

Her concern for workable health care delivery has resulted to the regular free medical services to the people of her constituency. She had carried out medical mission which involved the carrying out of 450 free cataract surgeries. The donation of over 1,100 free reading glasses. Free screening for Hepatitis B and free vaccination for those in need. She also sponsored mass HIV/Aids counselling and testing. Ultra sound scan. And the provision of 100 Gynecological surgeries. Free outpatient consultations and free polio vaccines.

One of her tremendous achievement in the health sector was the construction of 17 beds maternity hospital, popularly known as Binani Maternity and child care hospital and fully equipped with modern facilities at Luru Tambo in Girie local government area.

She made a donation of 20 incubators, 15 to the prestigious Federal Medical centre Yola and 5 to the specialist hospital in order to check the high rate of deaths among premature and to provide suitable conditions for new born babies by enhancing their chances of survival. She also paid routine visits to general hospitals, medical centres across her constituency to upset medical bills of the patents.

 As part of her efforts to provide quality and affordable education for her constituents, she has pledged to assist schools with modern information communication technology (ICT) facilities to achieve enabling environment through the provision of e-Library at Jimeta Yola.

She had also provided free text books and exercise books in various primary schools. She also provided 75, 000 school bags to all the students attending public schools in her constituency.

Hon. Aisha’s concern for quality education made her to construct a 3 block classroom at Yalwa kabawa Boromji primary school. More interesting is the granting of scholarships to both undergraduates and post graduates students in the pursuance of their academic career both within and outside the country.

In empowering the people of her constituency, through poverty alleviation, Hon Aisha had distributed over 800 sewing machines to the women of her constituency. She also distributed Over 400 tricycle popularly known as keke Napep to both men and women of her constituency in order to reduce poverty among them.

She also provided 10 open cargo tricycle and 10 enclose tricycle respectively.

Youths empowerments were not left as she organized Youths football league among the 32 wards that made up her constituency, where the best players were selected and taken to Abuja where they played a grade A friendlies with other teams that led to selection of some boys who have chosen the game as a career.

In checking the plight of the riverine community of her constituency, Hon. Aisha she donated 10 canoes to the Ruggage people in order to reduced their suffering and also promotes their social and economic activities.

In the agricultural sector she has assisted farmers with water pumping machines and fertilizers to combat food scarcity and alleviate poverty.  Herdsmen were not left out as they were assisted in the area of problems they normally encountered most especially in the search for pastures for their animals.

In her effort towards the provision of drinking water to her constituents, she has constructed thirty two motorized solar power borehole in all the 32 wards that made up her constituency and some them are as follows: Luggere, Limawa, Doubeli, Gwadabawa, Namtari Kwanar waya, Namtari wauru Jabbe, Toungo ward, Yolde Koli, Yoldi pate, Makama A, MakamaB, Mbamba, Nasarawo, Ajiya,Alkalawa Daware etc.

As part of her effort to take dividends of democracy to the grassroots, Hon. Aisha Dahiru, has set up a new mode for  political representation via special attention she devotes to her constituency projects and other issues which is in most cases top the list in her agenda.

Hon. Aisha Dahiru Ahmed (Binani) has contributed tremendously to the development of her people, by delivering dividends of democracy via constituency project and other special interventionist programmes. That is why with all the experience she had gathered in the lower chamber, it will be a good development to the people of Adamawa Central Senatorial District 

She is now contesting for the same seat under APC
If given the mandate, Binani will sure deliver

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BREAKING: SAMBO DASUKI RELEASE ON BAIL

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the release of former National Security Adviser Sambo  Dasuki on bail.

Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu today granted Dasuki bail in the sum of N200m bail bonds and two sureties each in like sum.

Justice Ojukwu ruled that the sureties, must be public servants of no less than Grade Level 16, and must deposit evidence of last promotion to the court registrar.

The Judge directed that where the sureties are private persons, the court are to pay same amounts, adding that a deposit of the sum of N100m will be made to the bank account of the court.

The judge said the sureties must be owners of landed properties in the FCT and must deposit original copies of the land title to the court registrar.

She said Dasuki's international passport should remain with the court.

The judge ruled that Dasuki's detention without trial is a violation of his fundamental rights as provided by the constition.

Dasuki is facing charges over the diversion of the sum of $2.1 billion arms funds in different courts of the FCT. He is also being charged for unlawful possession of firearms at a Federal High Court in Abuja.

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ATIKU PROMISED 40 PER CENT SLOT FOR THE YOUTHS

Former vice president and PDP presidential hopeful, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has enjoined the PDP South West delegates to make a better choice by supporting his candidature in the forthcoming PDP primary elections.

Speaking at the inauguration of the South West Zone Leadership of the Atiku Democratic Movement at Ibadan, chairman, All Atiku Support Groups (AASG) Mr Oladimeji Fabiyi, said Atiku remains the candidate with a clear vision and adequate strength of character to return PDP and the nation back to glory.

He described Atiku as a bridge builder par excellence, a unifier, a successful businessman and a complete democrat; adding that Atiku has remained a loyal friend and a good in-law to the South West people of Nigeria.

He further said as a demonstration of his love for the South West, Atiku recently appointed a worthy son of the zone in the person of Otunba Gbenga Daniel as the Director General of his Presidential campaign organization and equally himself who occupies a strategic position in the same Atiku campaign organization.

He therefore appealed for total support for Atiku considering his enormous loyalty and genuine friendship he has shown to the good people of South West Nigeria.

Fabiyi added that more than ever before the Nigerian youths are equally taking the center stage in the journey towards 2019; adding it is quite commendable and encouraging as everybody is now determined to effect a change come 2019.

He emphasized that his principal, the Waziri of Adamawa has already promised 40 per cent slot for the youths in his government if he is voted into power in 2019.

He advised the youths not to take the opportunity for granted as no other presidential aspirants or candidates have been bold enough to openly commit he or herself to the youths as Atiku has proudly done.

Fabiyi concluded that with Atiku, Nigeria will be safe and secured and more jobs will be created for our teeming youths with abundant open doors of opportunity for every Nigerian to excel and collectively build the country.

He then appealed to the youths and women to remember that they have a role to play in the rescue of our nation. He declared that 2019 is a defining moment for Nigerians as a nation.

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LOPEZ OBRADOR ELECTED MEXICO’S NEW PRESIDENT

Left-wing populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been elected president of Mexico with at least 53 per cent of the vote, the electoral authority says.

A projection based on a vote count in 7,800 representative polling stations confirms the victory of Lopez Obrador, National Electoral Institute President Lorenzo Cordova said. 

Lopez Obrador took between 53 and 53.8 per cent of the vote. Conservative-centrist Ricardo Anaya received up to 22.8 per cent, while Jose Antonio Meade from outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had up to 16.3 per cent.

The results make Obrador Mexico’s first presidential candidate to receive more than 50 per cent of the vote since the PRI lost its dominant position in the last century.

Voter turnout was estimated at 63 per cent of the 89 million eligible voters in the country’s biggest ever elections.

Voters were seen as having punished the PRI for a string of corruption scandals, sluggish economic growth of only about 2 per cent and the party’s perceived inefficiency in combating the country’s soaring crime rate.

Pena Nieto, whose approval ratings stood at only about 20 per cent, was limited by the constitution to a single term. Former Mexico City mayor Obrador, who had already run for the presidency twice before, cast himself as an anti-establishment candidate prepared to crack down on corruption and to help the poor.

He has also pledged a less militarized, more social approach to fighting crime, including an amnesty to lower-level gang members.

Mexico recorded about 29,000 killings last year, the highest annual number since modern records started being kept two decades ago.

The electoral campaign was also overshadowed by violence, with about 120 politicians assassinated over 10 months, according to risk consultant Etellekt. 

Criminal gangs committing such killings are believed to seek influence on politics especially on the local level. A political killing was reported even on election day.

An activist of the Labour Party was shot dead on leaving her home in Contepec in western Michoacan state, the party was quoted as saying. Lopez Obrador’s victory was expected by many to further worsen Mexico’s already frosty relations with the U.S., whose president, Donald Trump, has slammed the country over illegal migration and pressured it to pay for a border wall.

Obrador has sought to placate fears that his victory would turn Mexico into another Venezuela, which is suffering a severe economic crisis under socialist rule.

In spite of lambasting the entrepreneurial elite as “a rapacious minority,” he has excluded the possibility of expropriations and pledged guarantees to investors.

Obrador’s popularity is attributed less to his political programme than to a general desire to end the rule of the corruption-tarnished PRI, which has governed the country intermittently since 1929.

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