Mr Gidado informed Governor Muhammed Abubakar of his decision in a letter dated May 16. In the letter, Mr Gidado explained that his decision was based on his commitment to serve for only a single term as deputy governor of the state. “Ordinarily, I should have remained up to the end of the tenure, but, with the currently dampened spirit and waning zeal as it relates to my official engagements, my continued stay will not be fair and truthful to you as my brother and leader,” he wrote.

Senator representing Delta Central, Ovie Omo-Agege, has appeared before a joint ad hoc committee of the National Assembly over the alleged theft of senate mace. The senator appeared before the committee to answer questions about the recent invasion of the National Assembly by alleged hoodlums.

The House of Representatives has said that a clean copy of the 2018 budget will be on the table of President Muhammadu Buhari within one week from the date of passage. The National Assembly passed the N9.12tn budget on Wednesday last week after the Appropriation Bill had spent more than six months at the legislature.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said those who mismanaged Nigeria’s economy in the past, through fraudulent electricity projects and misuse of revenue earnings from oil, had no love for the country. Receiving members of the Buhari Support Organisations (BSO) led by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Colonel Hameed Ali, at the Presidential Villa, the President urged Nigerians to remain vigilant and ensure that only people of conscience are in-charge of governance at all levels, as the nation prepares for general elections in 2019.

The Senate delegation will meet with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday (today) over an allegation by Senator Bukola Saraki against the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris. According to the Punch, Senate President, Saraki, had on Wednesday alleged that Idris planned to implicate him in the trial of some suspected cult members arrested in Kwara State.

Senator Iyiola Omisore

The former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, on Saturday announced his exit from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and formally declared for Social Democratic Party (SDP). Omisore, in a press statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen in Osogbo, gave a vivid historical allusion to his political career since 1999, saying his new political move would remain irrevocable and irreversible.