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  The president-elect, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu, has admonished the All Progressives Congress governors to work with the party to avoid precipitating a leadership crisis in the National Assembly. Tinubu asked the governors Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Hope Uzodimma (Imo) and others to work with the party leadership and lawmakers on the election of principal officers of the National Assembly. The ex-Lagos State governor spoke on Thursday during a meeting with the Progressives Governors Forum members who visited him at the Defence House in Abuja, according to a statement by his media aide, Tunde Rahman. Reports learnt that the President-elect agreed with the suggestion of the governors that consensus candidates should not be picked. Rather the positions should be zoned. It was gathered that the meeting was part of Tinubu’s consultations with the APC stakeholders for the planned zoning of the positions. He had earlier met with the party’s National Working Committee members and some aspirants. The

Following the success of the regional security outfit codenamed Amotekun and other regional initiatives, Southwest States have agreed to launch regional railway and electricity projects. The decision came on the heels of the Electricity and Railway Acts 2023 signed by President Muhammadu Buhari. The new laws decentralised the operation of power and rail among others. The items were on the Exclusive List for decades, factor experts have consistently described as a cog in the wheel of progress in the two sectors. At the end of a two-day conference on the subjects in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Thursday, the six States agreed to pursue regional power and rail projects to deliver economic and social benefits to the region. Organised by the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission in collaboration with Odu’a Investments Company Ltd., the conference, which was hosted by the Ondo State Investments Promotion Agency (ODSIPA) highlighted the need for each state to build proj