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FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, HAPPY 20th ANNIVERSARY TO LEADERSHIP  @LeadershipNGA  Former President Muhammadu Buhari has lauded the 20 years of the Leadership newspapers and remarked that the publication is a phenomenal platform for contributing to national progress and well-being, positivity and collective goodness. In a message addressed to the chairperson, management and staff of the newspapers to mark the occasion, the former President equally congratulated them on their success in keeping in line with the hope and aspirations of the founding chairman, late Sam NDA-Isaiah, whom he said was a friend who made immeasurable contributions to his political odysseys. “Leadership continues as a personification of the ideals that the late Sam had for a platform celebrating positivity. I have always cherished the Leadership newspapers over the years as a platform celebrating positivity and collective goodness. “Let me use this opportunity to make an open acknowledgement of the treme...

THREE All Progressives Congress (APC) governors on Monday presented a position paper on the party crisis to President Muhammadu Buhari. Governor Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Simon Lalong (Plateau) and Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa), who met with the President at the Villa, are among those championing the removal from office of party Chairman Adams Oshiomhole. Buhari They were among governors canvassing automatic ticket or right of first refusal for Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, before he left APC for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after he was disqualified from participating in the primary. Bagudu, the chairman, attempted to present what he termed the collective position of the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF) on the state of the party during the attempt last year to remove Oshiomhole. But PGF members, led by Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum, challenged him. The governors’ visit followed Sunday’s visit to the President by Dr. Ahmad Lawan, the Presi...