By Laide Akinboade, Abuja

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has raised the alarm over the rate at which Public infrastructure in the Federal Capital City (FCC) are being vandalised.This observation was made by The Director, Monitoring and Inspection Department: Obinna Nkwocha during a routine Monitoring exercise of the FCC.

Speaker House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas has appointed Hon. Terseer Ugbor as Chairman Ad-hoc Committee on Single-Use Plastic Ban in Nigeria.The committee is mandated to access the preparedness, coordination, and roles of relevant federal agencies in implementing the planned ban on single-use plastics in Nigeria, with a view to ensuring effective enforcement, public awareness, and environmental sustainability.

By Johnson Eyiangho, Abuja

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on its founding members and others, who have left the party for reason or the other, to return, assuring it is willing to welcome them back to the fold.

Acting National Chairman of the PDP, Amb.

Damagum said, “Let it be said and known that our doors remain open to those who wish to return, and it is my earnest prayers that in their return, they may rediscover themselves. After all, we are still the party that gave many their first political home.

“But we must also confront the hard truth, much of the injury the PDP has suffered has been self-inflicted. From the Obasanjo era to this moment, we have too often jettisoned ideology in favour of personal ambition.

“This has cost us dearly. Yet, there is still a beauty that exists only in the PDP; our founding vision, our commitment to internal democracy, our enduring mechanisms for dialogue and reconciliation, and our true national outlook. These are not ordinary attributes. They are the very pillars that made and have sustained the PDP as the bedrock of Nigeria’s democratic journey, and they remain our guiding strength today.”

However, former Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, countered the PDP Acting National Chairman, describing the party members who had defected as nomadic politicians, who cannot remain in the fold.

Aliyu said, “I heard both the (acting) chairman and the chairman of Governors Forum have been very diplomatic and saying, come back, come back. No, you don’t invite nomadic politicians back to your place. These were people with a history of nomadism.

“In nomadic life, your own selfish interest becomes more important than the interest of the people. So we need to understand that the lack of discipline has created this problem.

“We cannot continue like this, knowing that the black sheep in the family keep on destroying whatever we are building. And then you say, come back. In fact, the most shocking time, the most shocking period was 2019.

“Our constitution is specific. You leave the party; you join the queue. The party is not just to win elections. The party is also to ensure the culture of selling real, principled politics. So even if we don’t win elections, but we are one united, principled party, we will be recognized. Please, let us pay attention to what we should be doing, rather than looking at those people who will never, never, ever think of you, but only think of themselves.”