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Ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, the usual bearer of the All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday visited the countrywide secretariat of his birthday birthday celebration along his walking mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, and slammed the Labour Party LP Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi for falsifying financial records to woo gullible Nigerians.

He said; “We aren’t threatened. We are devoted and we’re very happy with ourselves, we’re of an orderly manner, we’re devoted to democratic standards and values; we aren’t bickering in any manner and you realize that. Can you assert that of the alternative parties? We aren’t spewing faux facts and incorrect figures. Can you are saying that of different parties? Well, we’re what we’re, a innovative birthday birthday celebration.

“It is a brand new horizon and we guarantee them that each Nigerian will advantage I am very positive that there can be a clean alternate and we are able to keep improvement in a fast manner.

“Let the election be over. That is one step. We need to follow INEC and rules concerning the elections, while we end that, we are able to unveil to you the ones matters that we’ve for the united states and our objectives, our creed, our dedication ought to be improvement and our dedication to transformation, and our willpower to carry assist to the teeming Nigerians.

“To all of the individuals in attendance that day (of a number one election), we need to mention thank you. We have come collectively as a political celebration and we’ve taken progressivism as our doctrine. We need to be modern in our thinking, our deeds and our goal to serve the united states.

“Yes, I admit that democracy is a challenging, very difficult and tough gadget to manage. We have visible demanding situations left and proper out of doors the global sphere of politics, however we’re decided to make sure that we democratise Nigeria absolutely and stay a beacon of democracy as the biggest kingdom of the black race withinside the world.”

Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, the daughter of Nigerian nationalist and statesman, Obafemi Awolowo has alleged of plot to do away with Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, if he wins the 2023 election.

She alleged that there has been a plot to remove Tinubu and set up his strolling mate, Kashim Shettima as President.

Awolowo-Dosunmu claimed that the plot can be perfected at once after the 2023 swearing-in.

She stated the ones at the back of the plot might take benefit of Tinubu’s clinical condition.

Awolowo-Dosunmu appealed to Yorubas to prevent being sentimental and tribalist approximately the 3 most important applicants contesting for the workplace of the presidency.

“They are plotting in opposition to Tinubu; Yorubas need to awaken. They are privy to Tinubu’s clinical condition.

“All they’re making plans is, straight away after turning in and swearing-in, they’re going to put off Tinubu and Shettima may be your subsequent president in case you aren’t careful.

“Yorubas must awaken and now no longer permit feelings to guide us,” she instructed newsmen in Lagos.

Truss, 47, will be the third UK female Prime Minister following Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.

Liz Truss was on Monday voted as the new Prime Minister of UK.

She emerged as the new UK Prime Minister/leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party after defeating her rival, Rishi Sunak, in a Tory vote where she polled 81,326 votes to beat Sunak who polled 60,399 votes.

As the leader of the ruling Conservative Party, Truss is now British Prime Minister, replacing Boris Johnson who resigned early July after a scandal-hit government.

Before her emergence as Tory leader and British PM, Truss was UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021 and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2019.

Here are some things to know about the third female British Prime Minister:

1 – Liz Truss (Mary Elizabeth Truss) was born on July 26, 1975  in Oxford, England, to John Kenneth and Priscilla Mary Truss.

2 – Truss attended West Primary School in Paisley, Scotland. She then attended Roundhay School, in the Roundhay area of Leeds.

3 – She read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, Oxford, graduating in 1996.

4 – Truss was active in the Liberal Democrats. She was president of Oxford University Liberal Democrats and a member of the national executive committee of Liberal Democrat Youth and Students. During her time as a Liberal Democrat, Truss supported the legalisation of cannabis and the abolition of the monarchy.

5 – She joined the Conservative Party in 1996.

6 – Truss worked for Shell from 1996 t0 2000, during which time she qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in 1999.

7 – She was employed by Cable & Wireless in 2000 and rose to economic director before leaving in 2005.

8 – Truss served as the chair of the Lewisham Deptford Conservative Association from 1998 to 2000.

9 – She unsuccessfully contested the Greenwich London Borough Council elections in 1998 (for Vanbrugh ward) and 2002 (in Blackheath Westcombe).

10 – She was elected as a councillor for Eltham South in the Greenwich London Borough Council election on May 4, 2026.

11 – Under David Cameron as Conservative leader, Truss was added to the party’s ‘A List’.

12 – On September 4, 2012, Truss was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Education, with responsibility for childcare and early learning, assessment, qualifications and curriculum reform, behaviour and attendance, and school food review.

13 – In a July 15, 2014 cabinet reshuffle, Truss was appointed Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, replacing Owen Paterson.

14 – On July 14, 2016, Truss was appointed as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor in Theresa May’s first ministry. She became the first woman to hold either position and the first female Lord Chancellor in the thousand-year history of the office.

15 – On June 11, 2017, following the general election, she was moved to the position of Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

16 – She was promoted by Boris Johnson to the position of Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade. Following the resignation of Amber Rudd, Truss was additionally appointed Minister for Women and Equalities.

17 – On September 15, 2021, during a cabinet reshuffle, Johnson promoted Truss from International Trade Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, thus becoming the second woman to hold the position after Margaret Beckett.

18 – On July 10, 2022, Truss announced her intention to run in the Conservative Party leadership election to replace Boris Johnson after the latter’s resignation.

19 – On September 5, 2022, Truss won the Conservative Party’s election as party leader, beating her rival, Sunak.

20 – On September 6, 2022, Liz Truss officially made the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, becoming the third female to occupy that position.