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Newspaper Headlines: Anointed candidates lobby APC governors over n’assembly leadership tussle

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May 14, 2023
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The controversy over the zoning of the leadership positions of the 10th national assembly by the All Progressives Congress (APC) dominated the cover pages of Nigerian newspapers.

The Punch reports that seven newly-elected governors will face angry workers who are owed several months of unpaid salaries by their predecessors. The newspaper says lawmakers-elect nominated by the APC for leadership positions in the 10th national assembly are mounting pressure on governors to beg aggrieved aspirants.


The Guardian reports that high-level corruption, weak regulation, and the inability of the national assembly to criminalise arbitrary billing of electricity consumers may continue to widen the metering gap in Nigeria. The newspaper says the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has denied reports of planning to introduce Sharia law in the enforcement of traffic rules.


THISDAY reports that the APC may kick off the process of reviewing the zoning arrangement for the leadership positions of the 10th national assembly this week. The newspaper says loyalists of Bola Tinubu, president-elect, visited Bode George, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as part of reconciliation moves.


The Nation reports that there are conflicts between some outgoing governors and their successors over the May 29 handover. The newspaper says Usman Baba, inspector-general of police, has ordered the police to arrest Seun Kuti, an Afrobeat singer, for assaulting a policeman.


Vanguard reports that there are concerns in the APC that the party could lose control of the national assembly owing to the protest over the zoning of leadership positions in the 10th parliament. The newspaper says terrorists have kidnapped the village head of Fugge community in Niger and 49 others.

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