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Salary Donation: Why We Haven’t Fulfilled Pledge To Donate Half of our Salaries – Reps

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12 months ago

August 8, 2024

Spokesperson of the House, Rotimi Akin called for patience, assuring that the House would adhere to its promise and sustained efforts to earn the trust and confidence of all Nigerians.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday explained why it is yet to donate half of its members’ salaries as promised.

According to the spokesperson of the House, Rotimi Akin, the lower chamber remains committed to the 50 per cent deduction in lawmakers’ salaries.

“We acknowledge and regret that this resolution was not implemented by the bureaucracy as intended for the month of July,” he said in a statement.

“Resolutions of the House are ratified when the votes and proceedings of plenary are adopted on the next legislative day. Consequently, the bureaucracy was only formally instructed on July 23,” the spokesperson said.

The lawmakers in July agreed to cut their salaries by 50 per cent for six months in solidarity with Nigerians over economic hardship and hunger experienced by the citizens.

This followed the adoption of an amendment to a motion’s prayer moved by the Deputy Speaker of the House, Benjamin Okezie Kalu, on the need for lawmakers to sacrifice 50% of their N600,000 monthly salaries to support Nigerians given the hardship.

Days after, the Reps spokesman attributed the delay in the implementation to necessary administrative procedures and coordination with financial institutions.

To Akin, instructions for adjusting salaries had since been issued and would be enforced moving forward to ensure its pledge is fully realised.

He called for patience, assuring that the House would adhere to its promise and sustained efforts to earn the trust and confidence of all Nigerians.

The spokesman also clarified that each member of the House takes N600,000 as monthly salary against N900,000, which is being speculated.

“There is nothing to investigate, as some media houses reported, as the House’s position on this matter had been provided to some journalists who had reached out for clarification.”

“The House of Representatives has been inundated by some media outlets reporting claims of discrepancies in the salaries of members, suggesting that we received 100 per cent of our July salaries. The report claimed that our salary amounted to N936,979.

“We wish to clarify that the actual monthly salary for members is N600,000, after deductions for advances such as housing, which are paid at the commencement of the tenure,” he said.

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BREAKING: Anambra PDP governorship candidate, Ezenwafor escapes assassination

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4 hours ago

July 19, 2025

Ekwutos Blog

The Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the forthcoming Anambra State election, Jude Ezenwafor, has escaped assassination attempt on his life after he was shot by hoodlums.
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‎Ezenwafor, who is currently in a private hospital in Abuja where he is due for a surgery session, told journalists early Saturday morning that he suffered a near death situation when gunmen accosted him around Wuse 2 on Friday night.
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‎Still nursing injuries amidst excruciating pains, Ezenwafor confirmed that he was on his way home after an appointment when the incident happened.

“I’m currently in the hospital. The doctors are making efforts to operate me so that they can pull out bullets from my body,”
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‎The PDP Governorship candidate was shot alongside two persons who were with him.

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LP Reps Caucus warns against any harm on Obi, urges Tinubu to caution Okpebholo

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9 hours ago

July 19, 2025

Ekwutos Blog

The Labour Party Caucus in the House of Representatives has condemned the recent open threat to the life and security of Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the party, by the Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo.

The caucus, led by Hon. Afam Victor Ogene, described the threats to Obi by Okpebholo as outrageous, shocking, uncouth, and disappointing.

The LP lawmakers, in a statement by their leader, Hon. Afam Victor Ogene, issued in Awka, strongly rebuked Governor Okpebholo, describing his remarks as “uncivil, unconstitutional, undemocratic, and unbecoming of a public servant in such a high office.”

The caucus said: “Mr. Peter Obi’s philanthropic efforts nationwide embody his humanity and empathy for the people, transcending political affiliations, ethnicity, and other divides.

“Rather than being vilified or incited against, he should be commended for supporting human capital development in the nation.

“As a champion of democracy, nation-building, and sustainable development, Peter Obi deserves protection and support from all who share these values.

“What manner of example do we set for the younger generation, especially as regards public conduct, civility, respect for human rights and the rule of law, as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria?

“How do we fight violence in the land, if as leaders we openly encourage intolerance, bigotry, and anti-democratic tendencies, like the Edo State governor has publicly exhibited?

“Politics ought not be a game of life or death. And no one deserves to be harmed on account of his or her political beliefs or association. Politics of bitterness, pettiness, and violence should never be encouraged in a democracy, or by people that claim to be democrats.

“If Governor Okpebholo could make such inflammatory remarks in a public setting, one wonders what kind of inciteful rhetoric he might be using behind closed doors against opposition party members or perceived enemies of his party.

“It is instructive that Governor Okpebholo uttered his infamous and satanic verses against Peter Obi at the defection ceremony of Hon. Marcus Onobun, a House of Representatives member who he had only days before threatened with the demolition of his house for allegedly harbouring cultists.

“It would be interesting to ask Governor Okpebholo if he would still go ahead to pull down Hon. Onobun’s country home — which he had marked for demolition — now that he has forcefully coerced him into his political party?

“In fact, it is only in these climes that a governor would glibly boast about insecurity in his state, as well as lie about the death of citizens, without providing any shred of evidence.

“We, therefore, urge President Bola Tinubu to call the Edo State governor to order. And hasten to warn that no harm should come to our leader, Peter Obi, anywhere in Nigeria or beyond.

“The other day, it was Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State; today it is Okpebholo of Edo. If the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) thinks it can use scaremongering to halt the ever-growing popularity of Mr. Peter Obi, they better think again.”

The statement was in reply to Okpebholo’s remarks at the weekend in Edo, where he insisted that Peter Obi’s safety in Edo cannot be guaranteed if he ever stepped into the state without taking permission from him.

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Communique of the South East Expanded Zonal Working Committee (ZWC) Meeting held on Thursday 17th July, 2025 at Enugu

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1 day ago

July 18, 2025

Ekwutos Blog

PRESS RELEASE

Communique of the South East Expanded Zonal Working Committee (ZWC) Meeting held on Thursday 17th July, 2025 at Enugu

The meeting was massively attended by all the delegates and Party Chieftains from the five States of South East Zone. The meeting exhaustively discussed various issues bordering on plans and strategies to rebuild, rebrand and reposition ADC in South East in order to win all the Elective Positions in the 2027 General Elections in Nigeria.

Noting the recent unfoldings in the political landscape of Nigeria with regards to the selection of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as the political platform for the coalition to defeat the reactionary and bankrupt All Progressive Congress (APC) led Federal Government in the forthcoming 2027 General Elections in Nigeria and thus, restore Nigeria back to the path of glory.

The meeting deliberated on the strategies to strengthen the structures of ADC in South East Zone from the polling units to the State levels.

The meeting unanimously resolved that in 2027, ADC will not contest elections for the sake of contesting elections but with intention to win elections. The Party will feature candidates that will win Elections in all the Elective Positions in South East in 2027.

The meeting called on the South East political Elites to think futuristically by joining the coalition and adopt the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as the only political Party with the manifesto that Focuses on Liberation of South East from the shackles of bad governance and political mediocrity.

The meeting used the opportunity to inform the public that Membership Registration into the African Democratic Congress (ADC) is ongoing in all the Electoral Wards in South East, and therefore call on the people of South East to immediately troop out enmass to register and collect their Membership Cards in the registration centers.

ADC South East is committed to Mobilize over ten million members into ADC in South East before the end of 2025.

In order to achieve the aforementioned, the ADC South East Zonal Working Committee (ZWC) constituted five high powered Committees as follows:
1. Contact and Mobilization Committee

2. Media and Publicity Committee

3. Conflict Resolution and Management Committee

4. Planning and Strategy Committee

5. Resource Mobilization Committee

The meeting vowed that ADC will win the forthcoming Anambra Governorship Election and therefore call on the people of Anambra State to come out enmass to register with ADC. In addition, the leadership of ADC in South East assured the meeting that by the end of December 2025, ADC will emerge as the dominant Political Party in South East.

Finally, the meeting Condemned in it’s totality the worsting security situation in South East, and therefore pledge to holistically combat and stop the insecurity in South East Nigeria once elected into Power.

Signed

Chilos Godsent
National Vice Chairman South East

ThankGod Ofoelue
Zonal Publicity Secretary