Buba Marwa, who addressed the crowd at the campaign in Hausa was said to have cast aspersion on Governor of Adamawa State, Mohammed Bindow, thus bringing about the anger of the youths.

It took the efforts of security operatives attached to the president to save him.

The president who appealed to the youths to remain calm was said to have ordered that Marwa should be taken away from the campaign venue – Ribadu Square, Yola.

Marwa and the governor, it would be recalled belong to two different factions of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.

Marwa belongs to the Mahmood Halilu faction of the party while Bindow is in another.

The Halilu faction lost the contest for the governorship ticket to Bindow’s.

The rivalry between the two factions has been uneceasing.

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This is going by the register presented ahead of the 2019 general election by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC , Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Monday.

However on regional basis, North-West has the highest number  with over 20.2 million while South-West follows with 16.3 million.

North- Central has 13.4 million, South-South has 12.9 million; North-East has 11.3 million and  South-East has a little over 10 million voters.

INEC said it cleared 84,004,084 voters for the forthcoming elections.

That was after carrying out Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) on those who registered during the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).

The current total figure of 84,004,084  is 15 million more than the 68 million presented in 2015.

Below are the figures of voters in the different states of the federation:

Abia 1,932,892

Adamawa 1,973,083

Akwa Ibom 2,119,727

Anambra 2,447,996

Bauchi 2,462,843

Bayelsa 923,182

Benue 2,480,131

Borno 2,315,956

Cross River 1,527,289

Delta 2,845,274

Ebonyi 1,459,933

Edo 2,210,534

Ekiti 909,967

Enugu 1,944,016

FCT 1,344,856

Gombe 1,394,393

Imo 2,272,293

Jigawa 2,111,106

Kaduna 3,932,492

Kano 5,457,747

Katsina 3,230,230

Kebbi 1,806,231

Kogi 1,646,350

Kwara 1,406,457

Lagos 6.570,291

Nasarawa 1,617,786

Niger 2,390,035

Ogun-2,375,003

Ondo-1,822,346

Osun 1,680,498

Oyo 2,934,107

Plateau 2,480,455

Rivers 3,215,273

Sokoto 1,903,166

Taraba 1,777,105

Yobe 1,365,913

Zamfara 1,717,128

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Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, made this known on Friday.

In a statement he issued, Ibrahim said on Tuesday, the Senate had already passed the N242, 245, 050,100 virement request with the stipulation that it should be funded from the Service Wide Vote, but had to rescind, reconsider and revise its position following pressure on members of the Appropriations Committee by the Executive.

His words:  “The insinuations being peddled that the Senate single-handedly and unilaterally cut the budgets of critical MDAs is false. Such actions are uncharacteristic of this 8th Senate.

“The facts remain that on Tuesday, October 16th, the Senate approved a Report that stipulated that the supplementary funding for INEC and security agencies to conduct the 2019 election should be sourced from the Service Wide Vote of the Executive through virement. This information is out everywhere.

“However, the Executive came up with a counter-proposal that asked that the election be funded through both the Service Wide Vote and the budgets of 30 MDAs —on a pro rata basis. This is why, the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Danjuma Goje, had to come up with a Motion to rescind, reconsider and revise the source of funding contained in the original approval granted by the Senate.

“So, if you take a close look at the Senate’s Order paper of Wednesday, November 7, 2018, you will see that N121,122,525,050, which represents half of the entire supplementary budget, was sourced from 30 MDAs chosen by the Executive, while the other N121,122,525,050 was taken from the Service Wide Vote.

“As always, all Senators remain committed to ensuring that Nigeria has free, fair and credible general elections next year, and they will continue to collaborate with the Executive, members of the public and all other stakeholders to ensure that this happens

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