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Vanguard, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2022 — 33<br />

OGBEIFUN<br />

I, formerly known, call and<br />

addressed as. OGBEIFUN<br />

ITOHAN JENNIFER but,now<br />

wish to be known,call and address<br />

as.OKORAWHE ITOHAN<br />

JENNIFER. All documents<br />

bearing former names remain valid.<br />

General public, please take note.<br />

DAVID<br />

I, formerly known and<br />

addressed as Miss David<br />

Mellisa Orerimena, now wish<br />

to be known and addressed as<br />

Mrs. Raji Mellisa Orerimena.<br />

All former documents remain<br />

valid. General public please<br />

take note.<br />

AWOSIGHO<br />

I, formerly known and addressed<br />

as Miss Awosigho Onome<br />

Precious, now wish to be known<br />

and addressed as Mrs. Iyamabhor<br />

Onome Precious. All former<br />

documents remain valid. General<br />

public please take note.<br />

OKUOMOSE<br />

I, formerly known and addressed<br />

as Miss Okuomose Evelyn, now<br />

wish to be known and addressed<br />

as Mrs. Igbinosa-Edosa Evelyn.<br />

All former documents remain<br />

valid. General public please take<br />

note.<br />

AMADI<br />

My correct name is AmadiAdaeze<br />

Juliet, but my name was wrongly<br />

captured in my BVN as<br />

AmadiEzinne Juliet instead of<br />

AmadiAdaeze Juliet. All former<br />

documents remain valid. General<br />

public please take note.<br />

SUNSHINE<br />

My full name is<br />

N W A B U N W A N N E<br />

CHINENYE SUNSHINE as it is<br />

in my NIN. My name appear in<br />

my BVN as NWABUNWANNE<br />

CHINENYE. I now wish to add<br />

SUNSHINE to my BVN details.<br />

All documents bearing any of the<br />

names remain valid. General<br />

public take note.<br />

OMORAGBON<br />

I, formerly known as<br />

OMORAGBON OSAMEDE<br />

LESLEY, now wish to be<br />

known as OKUNGBOWA<br />

OSAMEDE LESLEY. All<br />

former documents remain<br />

valid. General public take<br />

notice.<br />

IDOGHO<br />

I, formerly known as Idogho,<br />

Emmanuel Ogheneyerowvo,<br />

now wish to be known as<br />

IDOGHO, EMMANUEL<br />

NERO. All former documents<br />

remain valid. General public,<br />

please, note.<br />

TUGBA<br />

I, formerly known as MISS<br />

MARIA ADJAYEN, now<br />

wish to be known as MRS<br />

MARIA TUGBA. All<br />

former documents remain<br />

valid. General public, please,<br />

note.<br />

OBASEKI<br />

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AS MISS.<br />

UWUBANMWEN EMWANTA<br />

ABIGAIL NOW WISH TO BE<br />

ADDRESS AS MRS. OBASEKI<br />

EMWANTA ABIGAIL. ALL<br />

FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN<br />

VALID.<br />

CONCERN<br />

AUTHORITIES AND GENERAL<br />

PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.<br />

OKIKA<br />

My Name was wrongly captured and<br />

arranged as CHARLES<br />

KOSICHUKWU OKIKA in my<br />

BVN instead of OKIKA KOSISO<br />

CHARLES. now wish to be Known,<br />

as OKIKA KOSISO CHARLES.<br />

All former documents remain valid.<br />

Authorities concerned. Banks and<br />

general public please take note.<br />

PRAISE<br />

I, formerly known,call and<br />

addressed as.OKORAWHE<br />

ENDURANCE JATOR..but,now<br />

wish to be known,call and address<br />

as.OKORAWHE PRAISE<br />

JATOR. .All documents bearing<br />

former names remain valid.<br />

General public, please take note.<br />

IYADI<br />

I, formerly known and addressed<br />

as Miss Iyadi Chika Beauty,<br />

now wish to be known and<br />

addressed as Mrs. Obi-Iyadi<br />

Chika Beauty. All former<br />

documents remain valid. General<br />

public please take note.<br />

EDAH<br />

I, formerly known and addressed<br />

as Miss Edah Claudia Edidjana,<br />

now wish to be known and<br />

addressed as Mrs. Otuata Claudia<br />

Edidjana. All former documents<br />

remain valid. General public please<br />

take note.<br />

OGBONNA<br />

I, formerly known and addressed<br />

as Ogbonna Justice Victor, now<br />

wish to be known and addressed<br />

as Ogbonna Justice Chidubem. All<br />

former documents remain valid.<br />

General public please take note.<br />

IGWE<br />

I, formerly known as IGWE<br />

ISHIOMA JUDITH. Now wish<br />

to be known and addressed as<br />

MRS. OKOLOGO ISHIOMA<br />

JUDITH. All documents bearing<br />

my former name remain valid.<br />

General public take note.<br />

ADEDEJI<br />

I, formerly known as MAKAYLA<br />

OLUWANIFEMI COKER. Now<br />

wish to be Known, called and<br />

addressed as MAKAYLA<br />

OLUWANIFEMI COKER-<br />

ADEDEJI. All former documents<br />

remain valid. Concerned<br />

Authorities, Banks, NIN and<br />

General public should please take<br />

note<br />

OKEH<br />

I , Formerly known, addressed and<br />

called as MISS OKEH<br />

E R H O V W O S E R E<br />

CATHERINE, now wish to be<br />

known, addressed and called as<br />

MRS ORHENOMARE<br />

E R H O V W O S E R E<br />

CATHERINE. All former<br />

documents remain valid. General<br />

public, please, note.<br />

IDEHEN<br />

I, formerly known and<br />

addressed as Idehen Osayamen<br />

Precious, Now wish to be<br />

known and addressed as<br />

Precious Osayamen Ekhator.<br />

All former documents remain<br />

valid. General public, please,<br />

note.<br />

OBASI OT<br />

I, formerly known as Obasi<br />

Juliet Chioma, now wish to<br />

be known as Happy Juliet<br />

Chioma. All former<br />

documents remain valid.<br />

General public, please, note.<br />

OTUWE<br />

I, formerly known as MISS.<br />

OTUWE PATIENCE INIKPI.<br />

Now wish to be Known, called<br />

and addressed as MRS.<br />

AGHAULOR PATIENCE INIKPI.<br />

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valid. Concerned Authorities,<br />

Banks, NIN and General public<br />

should please take note.<br />

OBODOECHINA<br />

I, formerly known as JENNIFER<br />

CHIOMA OBODOECHINA.<br />

Now wish to be Known, called<br />

and addressed as JENNIFER<br />

CHIOMA PAUL. All former<br />

documents remain valid.<br />

Concerned Authorities, Banks,<br />

NIN and General public should<br />

please take note.<br />

2023: A referendum on<br />

continuity of Nigeria as<br />

a nation —Adoji<br />

•It’s time for senators to stop functioning as LGA chairmen<br />

•Why I am running for Kogi East senate seat<br />

By Clifford Ndujihe<br />

Dr Victor Alewo Adoji, 51, ran<br />

for the Kogi East Senatorial seat<br />

on the platform of the African<br />

Democratic Congress, ADC, in<br />

2019 and came third.<br />

Educated in Nigeria and<br />

abroad on various fields, the<br />

former banker, who left the<br />

Zenith Bank as head of<br />

corporate communication<br />

after two decades in the sector,<br />

in this interview, spoke on the<br />

state of the nation, the politics<br />

of Kogi, and why he is running<br />

for Kogi East senatorial seat on<br />

the platform of the Peoples<br />

Democratic Party, PDP, among<br />

others.<br />

On why he did not<br />

win in 2019<br />

IN 2019, I didn't get the<br />

ticket on the platform of<br />

the PDP, which is actually my<br />

preferred party. I had to go to<br />

another party, the ADC. It was<br />

a very successful outing but the<br />

typical Nigerian politics<br />

happened to me. I know that<br />

if I ran on the platform of the<br />

PDP at that time, it would have<br />

been a landslide victory<br />

because the PDP is a very<br />

entrenched party in Kogi East.<br />

It is actually a traditional<br />

party in Kogi East. I was not<br />

lucky to get the PDP ticket at<br />

that time but this time, I am<br />

running on the platform of the<br />

PDP, we are very hopeful of a<br />

successful outing.<br />

In 2019, the All Progressives<br />

Congress, APC, came first,<br />

PDP came second, and I came<br />

third, within three months of<br />

bringing a new party to the<br />

platform.<br />

If elected, what difference<br />

will you make?<br />

What I will do differently is to<br />

ensure Kogi East produce a<br />

senator for the first time<br />

because all you have there are<br />

actually not senators. You have<br />

a senator, whose achievement<br />

is classrooms, renovating<br />

culverts, trying to seemingly<br />

to revive moribund industries<br />

and all sorts. Those are<br />

typically the duties of local<br />

government chairman. You<br />

have senators, especially from<br />

my own side of the world, who<br />

function more in terms of<br />

constituency projects. The<br />

work of a Senator is to propose<br />

bills and make laws, move<br />

motions and then oversight and<br />

override the government and its<br />

agencies. For the first time in a<br />

very long time, I will be a senator,<br />

not a local government<br />

chairman under the garb of a<br />

senator.<br />

Constituency projects form<br />

part of dividends of<br />

democracy…<br />

I have not said that I will not<br />

give cognizance to constituency<br />

projects, all I said is I will not<br />

upend the basic fundamental<br />

work of a senator for the work of<br />

a local government chairman.<br />

Come to think of it, the only<br />

reason there is so much focus on<br />

constituency project is because<br />

either by omission or<br />

•Adoji<br />

commission, people have<br />

usurped the work of the local<br />

government chairman. So, if we<br />

give genuine autonomy to the<br />

local governments, senators will<br />

focus on their primary<br />

responsibility. The work of a<br />

chairman is not the work of a<br />

senator and we must have a clear<br />

delineation between these two.<br />

Why he is going to the Senate<br />

When you elect<br />

someone into a<br />

particular office<br />

there are<br />

expectations from<br />

that office. What is<br />

happening to the<br />

state of deficit in<br />

my state: housing<br />

deficit, number of<br />

out-of-school<br />

children?<br />

So, my going to the Senate is<br />

because I have a good<br />

understanding of the workings<br />

of government and the<br />

knowledge that would fix our<br />

policies, our laws, and our<br />

systems. The parliament has an<br />

oversight, and override function<br />

over the executive so our<br />

burgeoning loans today people<br />

will leave the blame with the<br />

Buhari administration what<br />

about those who approved it?<br />

If elected don’t you think being<br />

a fresh senator will affect your<br />

impact because of senior and<br />

ranking senators?<br />

When we talk about ranking, we<br />

actually talk about personalities<br />

and the number of times you<br />

have been in the National<br />

Assembly. We should talk about<br />

ranking in terms of ideas. So, I<br />

will rank anybody higher than<br />

me whose ideas are superior to<br />

mine. The work of the Senate is<br />

to bring ideas that will basically<br />

move the country forward. If<br />

your idea is better than mine, then<br />

you have a better ranking not<br />

because you've been there for<br />

four, five, six, seven years.<br />

Secondly, I am more than<br />

confident that my party, PDP, will<br />

be at the centre in 2023 because<br />

on a scale of 1-10, the APC has<br />

performed below 3, Nigerians<br />

are tired, Nigerians are sick,<br />

Nigerians are weary. To a large<br />

extent when they hear the name<br />

APC it gives them goose pimples<br />

and fever.<br />

His advice to INEC, security<br />

agencies on 2023 polls<br />

The 2023 elections stand on<br />

three legs. One it is a referendum<br />

on whether we need to continue<br />

as a country. Second, it is a<br />

referendum on whether<br />

Nigerians can be independent<br />

in terms of the agencies – the<br />

INEC, the security and others.<br />

Third, we must take a decision<br />

that we must make progress.<br />

INEC has no choice but to do<br />

the right thing. For the first time<br />

they should know that Nigerians<br />

own them. Professor Mahmood<br />

Yakubu has said his<br />

responsibility is to Nigeria and<br />

to Nigerians. I hope he means it.<br />

Just like he is watching the<br />

process, Nigerians are watching<br />

him. To the security agencies,<br />

their allegiance, like they say<br />

most times is to the commanderin-chief<br />

so if they ask you to go<br />

and do something wrong, you<br />

will go ahead and do something<br />

wrong, but they should know that<br />

even the commander-in-chief,<br />

was actually put in place by<br />

some people. After all Buhari has<br />

said go out there and vote the<br />

party you want and any person<br />

you want that he wants to stand<br />

as neutral. I hope he stands true<br />

to it.<br />

On his assessment of<br />

governance in Nigeria and in<br />

Kogi State<br />

The best way to assess<br />

governance, particularly in my<br />

state, is to move from outcome<br />

to ownership. When you elect<br />

someone into a particular office<br />

there are expectations from that<br />

office. Are my people better<br />

today? Have they been better in<br />

both relative and absolute terms?<br />

What is happening to the state<br />

of infrastructure? What is<br />

happening to the state of deficit<br />

in my state: housing deficit,<br />

number of out-of-school<br />

children? All these have move<br />

southwards in Kogi State. So, I<br />

can say verifiably that<br />

governance has been below suboptimal<br />

in Kogi State.<br />

I read a report in Vanguard that<br />

we have about 133 million<br />

people living below the poverty<br />

line today in Nigeria. Now,<br />

when you look at the<br />

burgeoning debt, rate of<br />

inflation, rate of foreign<br />

currency exchange, what<br />

further assessment do you<br />

need? Forget about those highsounding<br />

GDP figures, it is<br />

about how it directly impacts<br />

the common man, and if you<br />

look at that, this government<br />

has performed abysmally.<br />

It is actually for them to<br />

understand the challenges in<br />

the first place. This is a<br />

government that seems to think<br />

our problems are revenue<br />

problems. Nigeria’s problem<br />

isn't a revenue problem. $700<br />

million dollars was returned<br />

from Abacha loot, what they<br />

said to us is that they have<br />

applied this money to those<br />

who are poor on the lower rung<br />

of the ladder, yet you have more<br />

people in poverty. It means that<br />

our problem isn't a revenue<br />

problem.<br />

Ours is an enterprise or<br />

innovation problem.<br />

Encourage people to be<br />

industrious, so that it is their<br />

industry that will now involve<br />

the capital that will possibly<br />

impact the economy.<br />

It is about wrong interpretation<br />

of the nuances in the economy.<br />

So they need to understand<br />

what the problems are.<br />

Two, it should not matter<br />

whether you are Igbo, Igala,<br />

Hausa, Idoma or Yoruba, it<br />

should be more about your<br />

competence, I have never seen<br />

such level of nepotism in the<br />

history of this country. It is not<br />

about who your brother or<br />

sister is. It is about can this<br />

person truly do the job?<br />

So long as we continue to<br />

encourage foreign goods and<br />

services, money will never be<br />

retained here in the country. So<br />

when people talk about foreign<br />

direct investors coming to help<br />

us in the country, I will just give<br />

you a statistics that it is all<br />

bunkers. Of the 70 trillion<br />

dollars in management<br />

globally, only about 2 trillion<br />

dollar is involved in foreign<br />

direct investment, so most<br />

capital stays back home. Of the<br />

two trillion dollars we are<br />

talking about, out of the 196+<br />

countries that we have, only 36<br />

countries account for at least<br />

73% of investment and most<br />

of them are OECD countries.<br />

So, Africa particularly is not<br />

even considered when it comes<br />

to some of these investments.<br />

So, we need to revive our local<br />

economy, we need to look at<br />

our and our BoT, balance of<br />

payment, BoP and balance of<br />

trade, oT. What are you<br />

exporting? What are you giving<br />

to the country? We need to<br />

come back and think inwards.<br />

We must, first and foremost,<br />

change our psychological,<br />

mental and sociological<br />

attitude because most of our<br />

economic problems are<br />

actually sociological and<br />

psychological problems.<br />

Through the instrumentality of<br />

the Ministry of Orientation, it's<br />

time to let Nigerians know<br />

what the situation is; change in<br />

attitude will more than give us a<br />

necessary impact.

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