FCTA flags off 2018 immunization
The FCT Administration has said its commitment to eradicating polio was succeeding as there was no recorded case in the territory since May 2015.
This came at the flag off ceremony of the 2018 June/July national immunization plus days at the Primary Health Care Center, Area 2, Abuja. The Executive Secretary, FCTPHCDB, Dr. Rilwanu Mohammed, said they were targeting 816,978 children under five years in the current third round of the exercise Worried about the internal crisis in the only APC governed state in the South East geo- political zone, the new leadership of the APC is planning to summon the member representing Oguta state constituency in the House of Assembly over his involvement in the crisis.
A source at the party’s headquarters said the new executives had expressed concern over the crisis and would soon invite the lawmaker over the endorsement of the chief of staff and son in law to the governor, Hon. Uche Nwosu, which led to factionalization of the party. The new exco, according to the source, aims to resolve the warring factions ahead of the 2019 aimed at serving as a booster dose for children already vaccinated and an opportunity to reach missed children during the routine exercise. He said in the exercise slated for June 30 to July 3, two drops of oral polio vaccine would be administered to children by about 1,500 team vaccinators at designated posts. Dr. Rilwanu said, the vaccination, which is free, would also be administered by special teams moving on the streets, market places, churches, mosques and other places where eligible children may be found.
APC to intervene in assembly crisis
elections and the lawmaker is expected to explain to the party hierarchy what made him and his colleagues to believe that Nwosu is an acceptable candidate that would help the APC retain the state in 2019.
Crisis began in Imo APC when Hon. Uzoma Ezediaro representing Oguta state constituency in the state Assembly and his colleagues endorsed Uche Nwosu as the party’s preferred gubernatorial candidate for next year’s election which was opposed by the stakeholders led by the deputy governor, Prince Madumere. Delegates at the just concluded party’s national convention in Abuja had engaged in a fight over which faction controls the party structure in the state.