Six-Year Single Term: Jonathan misunderstood – Senator Osunbor Vanguard
21.08.11
Unknown to some Nigerians, there are so many things going on in line with the transformation agenda of the present government. I was watching a television programme few days ago, in which I saw some people installing new power transmission lines linking somewhere in Benue State with parts of the South-East. Even if you travel on the Abuja/Lokoja highway you can see some of the new transmission lines that have been installed recently.
The new Minister of Works has been going round the country and right now the roads that have been bad in Lagos have begun to receive some attention. Who says that while constitutional amendment is going on that good governance and these other priority issues cannot be handled? They are not mutually exclusive and I am happy that the President is pursuing this with determination; with full understanding and without distraction to ensure that he fulfils his electoral promises.
Penultimate week, the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, Central Bank of Nigeria and the Assets Management Corporation took over some banks in the country and nationalised them. This has led to huge outcry from some sections of the public. What is your view on the takeover of these banks?
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NM poised to belect/b first female governor « Artesia News
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is making history in the general election as voters are poised to elect the state’s first female governor.
Republican Susana Martinez and Democrat Diane Denish waged a bare-knuckled campaign in which they pummeled one other with attack ads for months.
Martinez, district attorney in Dona Ana County since 1997, became the nation’s first Hispanic woman nominated for governor when she won a five-way primary in June.
Denish has served as lieutenant governor since 2003, and was the first woman in New Mexico to hold the elective post.
Kenneth Gomez of Bloomfield is an official write-in candidate but is not listed on the ballot.
There’s no incumbent in the race. Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson was barred from seeking re-election because he served two consecutive terms.
However, Richardson remained a central figure in the campaign. Martinez ran as if the election was a referendum on the governor, whose popularity sank amid high unemployment and federal investigations into pay-to-play allegations.
Martinez called it the “Richardson-Denish administration” and ads showed a photo of Denish alongside a smiling Richardson. “We can’t afford four more years of the same,” the announcer said in one ad aired late in the campaign.
The race for governor was Martinez’s first bid for statewide elective office. She vowed to roll back many of Richardson’s policies, including laws allowing illegal immigrants to get driver’s licenses and the children of illegal immigrants to receive lottery-backed college scholarships if they graduate from a New Mexico high school. She advocated reinstating the death penalty, which was repealed in 2009.
Martinez, 51, once was a Democrat but became a Republican before successfully running in 1996 for Dona Ana County district attorney against her former boss.
She was born in El Paso, Texas, and worked as a security guard for her family’s business when she was in high school. She received her law degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1986 and went to work in New Mexico as an assistant district attorney.
