Haliru Heads Jonathan’s 2015 Declaration Committee …Leaves For Pilgrimage To Israel, Today

Stakeholders of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday announced the appointment of Dr Bello Haliru, a former Minister of Defence, as Chairman of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Presidential Declaration Committee.
Former Senate President. Ken Nnamani is the Deputy Chairman and Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim will serve as Secretary of the committee.
The appointments were made at a meeting of the stakeholders, held at House 7, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice-President Namadi Sambo, PDP state governors and party officials participated in the meeting.
Other members of the committee are Prof. Rufa’i Ahmed Alkali, Jude Imagwe (Senior Special Assistant – Youth) and Dr Baraka Sani (Senior Special Assistant –NSAP).
Governors representing zones on the committee include Liyel Imoke of Cross River (South South) and Theodore Orji of Abia (South-East) and Gov. Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State (South-West).
Others are Gov.. Mua’zu Babangida Aliyu of Niger (North Central), Gov. Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State (North-West) and Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State (North-East).
National Assembly members of the committee are Sen. Hosea Agbola , (Oyo), Sen.. Ahmed Makarfi (Kaduna State), Rep. Bitrus Kaze (Plateau) and Rep. Salmas Badru (Ogun).
Federal Executive Council representatives are Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Dieziani Allison-Madueke ý(Bayelsa) and Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Abduljelili Adesiyan (Osun)
Others are the Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Zainab Maina (Adamawa) and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Alhaji Bala Mohammed (Bauchi State).
The PDP Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondusý (Rivers), Benue State Chapter Chairman, Chief Emmanuel Egbo, National Women Leader, Dr Kema Chikwe (Imo) and North-West Zonal Chairman, Amb. Ibrahim Kazaure (Jigawa) are the party officials on the committee.
Party members representatives are Sen. Stella Omu (Delta), Sen. Walid Jibirn (BOT Secretary) – Nasarawa, Ibrahim Bunu (Borno), Rev. Jolly Nyame (Taraba) and Sen. Aneta Okon (Akwa Ibom),
Others are Peter Obi (Anambra), Mrs. Remi Adiuku Bakare (Lagos State) and Gen.. A. B. Mamman (PDP National Youth Leader) – FCT.
Also appointed at Presidential discretion are Mrs Halima Alfa (Kogi), Nigeria’s Ambassador to The Netherlands, Mrs Nimota Nihinlola Akanbi (Kwara), FCT ALGON Chairman, Hon. Micah Yohanna Jiba ý(FCT) and Mr Sam Ikon (Akwa Ibom).
Meanwhile, President Goodluck Jonathan will on Friday depart Lagos on a brief pilgrimage to Israel, his office said in a statement yesterday.
The statement issued in Abuja by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, said that Jonathan would visit Christian Holy sites during the pilgrimage.
According to the statement, he will join other Nigerian pilgrims in a prayer session for the well-being and progress of the country at an Inter-Denominational Service in Jerusalem on Sunday.
The president, who will be accompanied by the Chaplain of the Presidential Villa, Venerable Obioma Onwuzurumba and his principal aides, is expected back in Abuja on Monday.
Before leaving for Israel, Jonathan will participate in the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the Seme-Krake Joint Border Control Post on Friday morning, the statement said.
“He will be joined at the event by President Boni Yayi of Benin Republic and officials of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
“The Seme-Krake Joint Border Control Post is being constructed under the ECOWAS Transport Facilitation Programme which has the objective of boosting trade and economic relations among member countries,” it said.