Senate reconstitutes Minimum Wage committee | Nairalaw

The Senate on Tuesday appointed Senate Deputy Majority Whip,
Sen. Francis Alimikhena, as Acting Chairman of the Adhoc Committee
on Minimum Wage.

The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, who made the
announcement at plenary on Tuesday, said Alimikhena would work in
acting capacity while the Chairman, Sen. Olusola Adeyeye, was away
on health grounds.

Saraki charged the committee to expedite action on the matter to
enable the senate to be able to catch up with the House of
Representatives which had already passed the bill through third
reading.

The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, had on Jan. 24,
appointed the Chief Whip of the Senate, Olusola Adeyeye, as
Chairman of an eight-member ad-hoc committee mandated to work on
the minimum wage bill.

The members of the adhoc committee are: Sen. Abu
Ibrahim(APC-Katsina State); Sen. Shehu Sani(PRP-Kaduna State) and
Sen. Sam Egwu(PDP-Ebonyi).

Others are: Sen. Suleiman Adokwe(PDP-Nasarawa State); Sen.
Francis Alimikhena(APC-Edo); Sen. Solomon Adeola(APC-Lagos State)
and Binta Garba(APC-Adamawa).

The House of Representatives had on Jan. 29 approved N30,000 as
minimum wage for workers in the public and private sectors.

The lower chamber increased the threshold for public and private
sectors workers in states and local governments from N27,000 as
proposed in the National Minimum Wage Act Amendment Bill to
N30,000.

Kano PDP Candidate Urges Voter to Prepare for Re-Run
Election

Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf of People’s Democratic Party has assured
his teaming supporters of emerging victorious in the forthcoming
Gubernatorial bye election in Kano declared by the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The election was declared inconclusive due massive rigging
ochestrated by the ruling All Progressive Congress that resulted in
over voting and eventual cancellation of many polling units.

Kano people has seen glaringly, how the enemies of democracy who
are high ranking officials of the state Government including
serving deputy Governor, Nasiru Gawuna, Commissioner Murtala Garo
and Nassaraw Local Government Chairman Lamin Sani Kawaji vandalized
an election collation centre with a sole aim of truncating the
declaration process to deny PDP’s victory.

We have been reliably gathered that over five hundred ballot
papers were printed by Kano State Printing Press and syndicated to
various polling units across the state, part of which over ten
cartons of them were confiscated by the police.

It is our prayer that all election offenders would be charged to
courts at the earliest best time to serve as a deterrence for all
anti democracy.

We call on all supporters to remain calm, we are known to be
peace lovers and so we shall remain, as we are very sure of victory
during the rerun.

Our supporters should not forget that PDP is already leading in
the last count of the election and interestingly, the bye election
would take place in the strongest areas of our party.

We urge everyone to keep hope alive on our guest to rescue Kano
from the hands of corrupt leaders and agents of distraction.

People in the affected areas should come out en mass to cast
their votes in favour of PDP, We will Insha Allah emerge victorious
after the rerun to restore the lost glory of Kano.

Signed
Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa the Spokesperson to PDP Gubernatorial
Candidate for Kano State 2019 Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf