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Adeleke Inaugurates 5-Man Committee On State Security Trust Fund—-Gov. Ademola Adeleke of osun has inaugurated a five-man committee to work out modalities for the establishment of Security Trust Fund in the state.

Adeleke said this in a statement in Osogbo on Monday by his Spokesperson, Malam Olawale Rasheed.

The governor stated that the security trust fund was part of efforts to secure lives and property of residents of the state.

He said that the establishment of the security trust fund was in  response to logistic and operational needs of the various security services in the state.

According to him, the Fund will be operated on a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model in close collaboration with corporate organisations, business communities, industrialists and critical stakeholders.

“The Fund will be deployed for the provision of material and logistic support for security operatives in the state.

“To instill confidence and achieve set goals, the committee will include members of the security services with a view to proffering solutions to security challenges facing the state.

“Members of the organised private sector will also be included to serve as a vehicle to institutionalise an enduring public private partnership approach to the resource problems of security institutions’’, he said.

The governor, who commended security operatives for their efforts in safeguarding lives and property in the state, said that he recently discussed close partnership with the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, in Abuja.

“We must ramp up protection of lives and property. We cannot achieve this goal without properly equipping and strengthening our security services.

“Our administration is committed to achieving a fully secured state to complement ongoing reconstruction and recovery process in the state.

“But the operational and logistics needs of our security agencies are enormous. So, our best approach is a PPP arrangement through a State Security Trust Fund.

“We seek the buy in of the private sector. The implementation committee will soon roll out modalities for the actualisation of this policy”, he said.

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2027 Realignment: New Move Spells Out Role For Atiku, Obi, El-Rufai, Kwankwaso

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New Move Spells Out Role For Atiku

The 2027 general elections are about two years away and the realignment of forces to dislodge the All Progressives Congress (APC) from power, especially at the federal level appears to be on the upswing.

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In an interview published by Sunday Vanguard, last week, a former presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Adewole Adebayo, spoke about the inroads his party was making into the North in search of new political allies, hinting that the SDP leadership had met top politicians from that part of the country, including former Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, for talks.

In another development, a former top member of the APC, Alhaji Salihu Lukman, speaks of similar efforts gathering steam. Lukman, a former Deputy National Chairman of the APC (North), in an interview monitored on Arise News, elaborates on his scheme, saying key opposition figures in the country have a role to play as they have to jettison their presidential aspirations ahead of the 2027 and provide leadership for a new political party to confront the APC.

He urges former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who flew the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential flag in the 2023 elections, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the elections, Mr Peter Obi, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, standard bearer, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, to prioritize party building over personal ambitions.

Lukman, who has since quit the APC, also extends the advice to former party members and opposition figures, including Mr Rotimi Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers State but later served as Transportation Minister under the Buhari administration; El-Rufai; Dr. Kayode Fayemi, a former governor of Ekiti State, and Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, a former governor of Sokoto State.

According to Lukman, who was also one-time Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum, if these leaders set aside personal ambitions, it will prevent the imposition of candidates in 2027 and foster a stronger political alternative. Excerpts:

You have been a key member of the APC, now you are saying Nigeria needs better leaders. What are your grievances? What do you think is wrong with the APC that you are asking all the critics and opponents of the administration to come together and push the same party out of power?

What is wrong with the APC is what is wrong with Nigeria in my view, and I think the view of most Nigerians is that our democracy should give something much better than what we have today. I am not making any new proposals.

If you have been following the debate during the merger negotiations that produced the APC, all these arguments have been raised about the kind of leadership a political party should have and what is required for a party to really position itself to direct elected representatives to meet the expectations of citizens. If we argue that APC has failed, the failure of APC is largely due to its inability to meet a number of some of those criteria.

Yes, I was a member of the NWC of the APC, I was part and parcel of the APC from formation to possibly the present day but that does not disqualify some of us from highlighting some of the limitations of the APC and I think in terms of the problem of democracy, what was first the problem of Nigeria with PDP that led to the defeat of PDP in 2015? The major issue is that there was no competition within the party.

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Trump Revokes Security Clearances of Top Political Figures—-President Donald Trump has revoked security clearances for Antony Blinken, the former secretary of state, and Jake Sullivan, the former national security adviser, White House officials said on Saturday.
The move came a day after Trump said he had revoked the security clearance for his predecessor Joe Biden, stopping his access to daily intelligence briefings.
Trump also revoked security clearances for Biden’s Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, who helped coordinate the Department of Justice’s response to the January 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol, the officials said.
He also removed the clearances of the New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg who led cases against Trump, the officials said.

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