Tinubu Seeks Senate Nod for $516m Foreign Loan to Fast-track Sokoto–Badagry Super Highway Aliero, Akpabio back plan, say project will halve travel time, boost trade, national integration Sunday Aborisade in Abuja President Bola Tinubu on Thursday
asked Senate to approve a $516.33 million foreign loan to finance key sections of the proposed
Sokoto–Badagry Superhighway, a flagship infrastructure project under his administration’s Renewed
Hope Agenda. In a communication read on the floor of the senate, Tinubu sought a
resolution of the National Assembly, in accordance with Sections 16 and 21 of the Debt Management Office
(Establishment) Act, 2011, to secure a Continued on page 9
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Tinubu to Govs: Our Primaries Must Be Hitch-free to Preserve APC Unity, Cohesion Party issues revised timetable, fixes presidential primary for May 25, guber 23
Deji Elumoye and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
President Bola Tinubu, yesterday evening, directed all the 31 governors of the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC) to ensure free, fair, and rancour-free primaries across the states, in strict compliance with
the Electoral Act. Tinubu said this was necessary to preserve the party’s unity and cohesion.
Addressing newsmen in Abuja after a closed-door meeting with the president at State House, Kwara
State Governor, AbdulRahman Continued on page 9
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OGUN EAST APC ADOPTS GOVERNOR DAPO ABIODUN...
L–R: Kola Ogunjobi; former Senator Lekan Mustapha; Secretary to the Ogun State Government, Adeleke Adedoyin; Tokunbo Talabi; Gbenga Kaka; and Pegba Otemolu, during the Ogun East Senatorial District Caucus meeting at Adeola Odutola Hall, Ijebu-Ode, where leaders adopted Governor Dapo Abiodun as consensus candidate for the 2027 senatorial election.