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The emergence of Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and his predecessor, Senator David Mark, in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential primaries contest has reshaped the permutations on the ticket as their separate bids cause divisions in their strongholds in the National Assembly and North-Central geopolitical zone. The campaign of the third aspirant from the North-Central, Senator Jonah Jang, who is also a serving senator, has, however, failed to pick momentum. Senator Rabiu Kwankwanso from Kano State is the fourth member of the National Assembly involved in the PDP presidential contest, but he is from the North West geopolitical zone.…
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Identical twins who grew up in a tough south London neighbourhood became multi-millionaires by designing one of the world’s leading cryptocurrencies in their mother’s kitchen. Steve and Sam Williams, 39, whose parents emigrated from Nigeria in the early Seventies, spent four years working on the software behind their Populous PPT currency in the family home in Brockley. It helps small and medium-sized businesses with cash flow. Within the first five days of launching in June last year, demand was so strong that the initial batch of tokens was worth more than £8 million. Populous is now rated as the 51st…
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In a bid to ensure a free, fair and successful election in the forthcoming Osun state gubernatorial election, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Monday warned electorate not to come with any electronic device that is capable of recording sounds and images inside the polling booths. Disclosing this in Osogbo at the stakeholders’ forum, Yakubu opined that the new development would help to reduce vote-buying and selling which politicians have adopted. Recall that during the Ekiti state election in July, Yakubu promised Nigerians that the commission would not allow vote-buying and selling to take place. Details…
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The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has attributed lack of experience by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal executive council (FEC) to the crisis rocking the Nigerian Senate. Saraki made this known on Thursday at the Banquet Hall of Ebonyi State Government House in Abakaliki where he was received by the state governor, Engr. David Umahi and stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He said the division under President Buhari-led government has never been witnessed in the country since independence. He appealed to the state PDP’s delegates to vote for him to enable him fly the party’s presidential flag in…
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Senate President Bukola Saraki has pledged to protect all Nigerians and be fair to all sections of the country if elected as the next president of Nigeria. Saraki also said it is North Central zone’s turn to produce the next president of Nigeria. Saraki made the pledge at the secretariat of the Plateau state Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during a consultative tour to seek the support of the state’s delegates for the forthcoming party’s presidential primary. He said, “This is our chance in the north central to produce president. We need somebody that is courageous and can stand…
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Political campaigns precede elections. The Lexicon Webster Dictionary (1981:143) defines a political campaign as “any course of aggressive action… intended to influence voters in an election”. It is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group. In democracies, political campaigns often refer to electoral campaigns, by which representatives are chosen or referendums are decided. Generally, campaigns begin many months or even years before the election. To launch and operate a successful campaign, candidates first organize a network of committed campaign workers, both volunteer and professional. They also establish a fund-raising apparatus to finance…
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•Former military ruler, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, says there can be no better candidate for president than Bukola Saraki •He urges the Senate president to stick to his objective for the good of the country. •Bukola Saraki says he is not afraid of impeachment threats. Former military ruler, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, has backed the presidential ambition of Senate president, Bukola Saraki. Babangida on Sunday, September 16, said that Saraki was well prepared to be the president of Nigeria, the Nation reports. The former military ruler made the statement at his residence in Minna, Niger state, when Saraki paid him a courtesy…
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Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has boasted that he can never be impeached as the Senate President hinging his stand on the fact that the All Progressives Congress, (APC) championing the cause are minorities at upper chambers and therefore don’t have the powers to carry out the impeachment threat. Besides that, Saraki also made it clear that he can never step down as Senate President as being demanded by the APC pointing out that succumbing to such calls will only amount to sacrificing the national interest of the country for personal interest. The Senate President who made these clarifications while…
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Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has reiterated that his government has not committed the State to any debt and challenged the Debt Management Office (DMO), any financial institution or any other relevant agency with contrary fact to publish same. Governor Fayose, who spoke in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, denied that his government had borrowed N117billion, insisting that his government was not owing either by taking a bond or borrowing from any financial institution since he assumed office for a second term on October 16, 2014. He said he challenged those accusing him of borrowing the amount, the All Progressive…
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The leading Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirant in Imo State, Senator Samuel Anyanwu has congratulated the party’s ad-hoc delegates that emerged across the State in the delegates elections. He also frowned at the attack by some thugs on the Okigwe road secretariat of the party. Senator Anyanwu said the emergence of the delegates in the keenly contested election has proved that they have the confidence of the party members in their various wards and therefore can be trusted to make popular decisions in the forthcoming primaries of the party. In a statement signed by his media aide, Kelechi Eke, the…
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First it was the Econonist of London that wrote off Buhari and the Buharimaniacs said they were bribed Then came the Financial Times of London that said Buhari was a disaster and the Buharimaniacs said they were being influenced Then the Biggest bank in Europe and perhaps top 5 in the WORLD HSBC took out an opinion on Buhari and his Government and they warned their investors that a second term of Buhari would be a calamity for Nigeria. In other words putting their investors on notice to pull out of Nigerua should Buhari win a second term Then came…
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Nigerian President Muhummadu Buhari writes of building an economic bridge to Nigeria’s future (“The Three Changes Nigeria Needs,” op-ed, June 14). It’s hard to see how his administration’s inflexibility, lack of vision and reactive approach will achieve this. Mr. Buhari notes that building trust is a priority for Nigeria. But an anticorruption drive that is selective and focused on senior members of the opposition party creates deep political divisions. Meanwhile, members of Mr. Buhari’s own cabinet, accused of large-scale corruption, walk free. Seventy percent of the national treasury is spent on the salaries and benefits of government officials, who make…
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Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has reportedly resigned from the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Details later…
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A few weeks ago, the out-going Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha while speaking to Journalists said that Imo people will miss him a lot when he hands-over power to his successor in May next year. He added that to reduce the level of nostalgic feeling about him among the Imo populace, he would love to leave behind his son-in-law, Chief Uche Nwosu to fill the void and reduce the tears of Imo people who would be weeping profusely every day for the absence of Okorocha, who has changed the lives of the citizens like no other Governor in…
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I have always been defined by my instinctive integrity, my methodical altruism, my consistent loyalty and my steadfastness in protecting and defending the PDP and the truth. It is in all these characterizations that I have personally lived my life. It is in all these summative portraits that I have pursued my personal and political engagements, strengthened in the resolve that truth, sincerity of purpose, fearlessness, equity, ethical balance are the basic ingredients of purposeful service. I have gone through many travails in my life. I have climbed the highest hills. and I have been through the lowest valleys. But…
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There are indications that recently sacked Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr Lawal Daura may be recalled to his duty post following new developments within the presidency. A top security source close to the presidency and conversant with the new development told PRNigeria that plans are afoot to reverse the various reorganisations embarked upon by the new Acting DSS boss, Mathew Seiyefa. The sources said: “The presidency is not happy with some recent deployment by the acting Director General of DSS, Mathew Seiyefa especially the redeployment of Director of DSS in Kano, Alhassan Muhammad to the…
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The attention of the Southern and middle Belt Leaders Forum has been drawn to a clandestine plot to remove the Acting Director General of the Department of State Security(DSS), Mr Matthew Seiyefa from office by a cabal in the Buhari presidency. We ordinarily would have ignored this report but for the clannishness,sectional proclivity and exclusive handling of the security architecture of the country by President Buhari in the last three years. He had defied all protestations from all well-meaning Nigerians in making appointments into all key and sensitive security positions in sectional and kith and kin affairs in a very…
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Fellow Nigerians, these are interesting times in our dear beloved country. High-wired politics is here again and there are many gladiators already queueing up for the biggest prize of all, the Presidency. The latest political figure to throw his hat into the ring is the President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, who declared his interest in dramatic fashion, two days ago, whilst addressing a gathering of some selected Nigerian youths. As always, I have continued to follow developments on this latest declaration on social media. While many were jolted by Saraki’s decision, I was not surprised at…
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I don’t mind being called illiterate in jest. Nothing wrong with njakiri. They call me Gwongwolo because I am a big jester myself and I don’t believe that people should take themselves too seriously. But iko onu ka nwanyi is a different thing altogether. It speaks in strong ways to pathologic defects in certain brain circuits such as the amygdala and frontal lobe and when combined with difficulties segregating fact from fiction, it builds a certain psychiatric profile. As my fellow Anambrarians would say, onwelo kwanu ploblem. After thunderclaps and pouring rain comes sunshine. The times may be hard for…
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Warning! Warning! Warning! This is what will happen if Buhari returns in 2019. He will ensure that his stooges emerge as Senate President and the Speaker of The House of Representatives. President Buhari and the cabal will rather see National Assembly go up in flames and ashes than watch Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara return as Senate President and Speaker, respectively. If National Assembly is “conquered”, the process of erasing whatever that will be left of Nigeria’s democratic principles, as captured by the rule of law will begin in earnest. Then, the battle shifts to the Judiciary. You…
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Senate President Bukola Saraki has declared his intention to run for presidency in the 2019 general elections. He made the declaration on Thursday while delivering a keynote address at a dialogue for youths and young aspirants in Abuja. The Senate President listed several challenges which he believes have clogged the wheels of progress in the nation. He highlighted extreme poverty, hunger, lack of education and mass unemployment as some of the things that have paved way for more crime and insecurity in the nation, adding that it is now time for Nigerians to rebuild the nation with new leadership. Also,…
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Adolf Hitler was a sick man. He was not just physically, sick; a circumstance, which underwrote his addiction to cocaine and opiates. He was also a raving lunatic, who was elected to the German chancellorship through the ballot box. But ended up ripping German democracy asunder; and morphing into a full-blown dictator, that he was all along. He was a tyrannical virus, that afflicted a bubonic plague-grade pestilence on German democracy. He shook the foundations of Western civilization, plunged the world into a conflagration that incinerated 50 Million lives, and convoked an abomination that was the Holocaust. That is exactly…
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For the first three years of the APC administration at the center, former president Goodluck Jonathan was blamed for all the ills, failures and blunders of President Buhari’s government. Jonathan was “responsible” for Buhari’s seemingly confusion and protracted delay in choosing his cabinet members—ministerial appointees. It took President Buhari six consecutive months to make up his mind on who would be part of Federal Executive Council (FEC), headed by him. This is the same man who had contested for the president for 12 years before luck smiled on him in 2015. Yet Jonathan was blamed for lack of Buhari’s preparedness…
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The Federal Government has refuted a recent statement credited to the governors of south-eastern states, that the region has been shortchanged in the implementation of infrastructural projects by the President Muhammadi Buhari government. Contrary to their claim, the Federal government said there were 69 ongoing projects in the region alone. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, issued the rebuttal in Ilorin on Thursday, at a lecture by Mr. Festus Keyamo, spokesman for the President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organization. ”While this claim may have made headlines, it is totally untrue. His Excellencies were either misquoted or they were quoted…
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The Nigeria Police Force has invited a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, for alleged conspiracy, criminal and inciting publication. In a letter dated August 20, 2018 with Ref. No CR/3000/IGP.SEC/MU/T.G/ABJ Vol.54/226, the police asked the former minister to appear before SP Usman Garba latest by August 28, 2018. In the letter titled, ‘Conspiracy, criminal defamation, inciting publication, injurious falsehood and conduct likely to cause breach of peace’, the police noted that the invitation was based purely on a fact-finding mission. The letter, which was signed by Commissioner of Police in charge of the IG Monitoring Unit, Force Headquarters,…
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I have a wish. I wish some of our corporate guys in the South, who are well-travelled, still defending Buhari could have an opportunity to sit down with their man to discuss development and strategic policy issues with him. I mean something like a brainstorming session where facts and figures are put on the table with special focus on Countries Peer Review Mechanism. God, I pray You make this happen one way or the other and let these supporters: * Ask him about plans for five-year rolling plan. * Take him on on Africa Millennium Goals launched in 1999 and…
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The siege, penultimate Tuesday, to the National Assembly, which eventually cost a former Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura his job, has been told from different angles with different accounts often in bits and pieces. There has not been a sequential details of what truly transpired. However, THISDAY was able to break through some senators, who offered detailed information on what happened the night preceding the siege and the Tuesday turmoil. They also provided insight on the planned impeachment of the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, explaining why…
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As promised, part two of this topic will dwell on three other prominent aspirants who cannot be easily written off from the ticket race of PDP after a preview of the chances of the two forerunners; Chukwuemeka Nkem Ihedioha and Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu, ( SamDaddy) was done in last week’s edition. If previous stories of how governors who ruled Imo State in the past are to be considered, it would be risky dismissing the aspirations of Jude Njoku, a renowned Professor and former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, as well as that of a seasoned…
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Our Organization-Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law is calling on the central Government of Nigeria and the Government of Imo State, as a matter of uttermost immediacy and importance, to discontinue, withdraw and discharge all the 10-count spurious charges of “treasonable felony”, “conspiracy to commit treasonable felony”, “terrorism”, etc, slammed on the incarcerated Mothers of the Igbo Nation, numbering 114; with their ages between 22 and 64 as well as others likely to be in their 70s. We also demand for their immediate and unconditional release from the Owerri Prison custody and discontinuation of further harassment…
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Senator Samuel Anyanwu has expressed deep concerns over the spate of infrastructure especially bad roads in Owerri the State capital, while promising a sustainable solution when he is inauguration as the governor of Imo State in 2019. Senator Anyanwu who represents Owerri Senatorial Zone in the Senate made his feelings known while addressing some PDP delegates who paid him a solidarity visit in his Owerri residence. He regretted the sufferings the people of the State are going through as a result of bad roads in Owerri. Senator Anyanwu who is also a leading PDP governorship aspirant in the State told…
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 Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isah Hamma Misau and his counterpart in the Committee on Banking, Finance and other Financial Insitutions, Senator Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim have advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its leaders to desist from looking for scapegoats for the failure to fulfill their promises to the electorate by constantly blaming Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Misau and Rafiu, in a statement on Sunday, stated that APC leaders have continued to whine about what Saraki did or did not do to ensure the Buhari government failed without caring whether it was reasonable to believe that…
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The battle to displace President Muhammadu Buhari in next year’s election has intensified in the last few weeks given the gale of defections in both the ruling and opposition parties, which has ratcheted up the political temperature in the country. Although there is the belief that the increasing jostle for the nation’s plum job may have been stoked by the perceived ineptitude of the Buhari administration, the president’s men have latched on to the integrity narrative, which remains one of the defining indices in the 2019 presidential election. Apart from selling Buhari from the point of view of integrity, which…
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Let’s go down Memory Lane on what really happened A lie told repeatedly will start sounding like a truth to the ear of people. Ordinarily we should have waved this issue aside but when you continuously lie against someone who did nothing to you other than show you love then it becomes something to worry about, what really happened in the 2015 general elections should have been in the past but you cannot talk about the future without treating the past. Now to the trending issue at hand, we read with dismay yesterday an online publication made by our own…
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It is sad, shameful and pathetic, that distinguished APC Senators of the federal republic of Nigeria elected by us the people, have allowed themselves to be used by the presidency and their party leadership to rubbish our exalted hallowed senate institution. There’s all sorts of talk bandied around internationally on the internet about senators collecting or have collected money to break the rules of the senate and attempt to unlawfully and forcefully remove the no 3 man in the country, the senate president. In the bid to rubbish the senate president, senators allowed the executive using the police to falsely…
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In about two months from now, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) will be going into the primaries to elect their Presidential, Governorship, National Assembly and State Assembly candidates ahead next years general elections. Move around the length and breadth of the state, from Ideator North to Ngor-Okpalla, Onuimo to Ohaji-Egbema, Owerri Municipal to Obowo and Orsu to Ikeduru, and you will see the desire and enthusiasm of the people to have PDP back in power in the State and everywhere. This desire is not without base, as the people have suffered untold hardship in the hands of the outgoing government…
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The Arabian Peninsula has a very rich history dating 6000BC. The peninsula was occupied by Bedouins…the modern day Arabs. The peninsula is mostly sandy desert, hard rocky mountains, and wetlands around the coastal areas. To say this is one of the most uninhabitable places on earth is an understatement! Summer temperatures are so high that you’d be convinced your brains were being melted within your cranium; winter temperatures are so low you’d pray for global warming day and night! The desert is filled with sand boas, cobras, scorpions, goats and camels! It is a most uninhabitable peninsula! The area was…
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Fellow Nigerians, the die is cast! President Muhammadu Buhari has declared his intention to seek re-election in 2019 against the well-considered advice of many well-meaning Nigerians that doing so would not be in the best interest of our country. I had hoped against hope that the greater love of country would persuade him to retire after his very poor performance in his first term. Apparently, other sentimental and selfish considerations weighed heavily in his decision to run again which unfortunately he claimed was a response to the “clamour by Nigerians for him to re-contest in 2019”. Contrary to what the…
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My article published a fortnight ago titled: ‘Oshiomhole as Buhari’s Enforcer’, provided the background to the current political troubles. In the said article, I had stated inter alia: “The truth well-spoken by him (Oshiomhole) is that ministers, heads of parastatals and security chiefs owe their allegiance to these competing power cells. You see, Buhari runs a centrifugal government with no strong centripetal authority; he hardly knows what is going on in his government but appears to always be content when told certain actions have been taken in furtherance of his ethno-religious and re-election interests.” I must state here that I…
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When last February President Muhammadu Buhari saddled the former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, with the task of reconciling all aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) across the country, I scoffed at the idea and stated then that it was a futile exercise. The reasons were not far-fetched: Buhari by his actions had no genuine desire at reconciling the party members; with Tinubu as the chief aggrieved member, leading such efforts was a misnomer because he needed to be reconciled with some of the party members. I predicted that by the end of his brief, the party would…
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Last week, Adams Oshiomhole told us loud and clear what we all knew but which many people were either reluctant to admit, or say publicly. If it was a Freudian slip from the new garrison commander and chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), then it was an important one that confirmed our worst fears about the capacity and competence of President Muhammadu Buhari to govern the country. Things were happening at such a dizzying speed that one could hardly keep pace. Clouded by the mad hysteria of defections that had hit the ruling party and was largely overlooked by…
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•Decreased desire •Reduced enjoyment •Unhappiness •Loss of appetite for food Reality star Kim Kardashian was once cautioned by her doctors to stop having too much sex following revelations about the star’s daily multiple sex routine in effort to get pregnant. Kim, who was 34 at that time, had revealed in the Season 10 of their family reality show “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” that she and husband, Kanye West, were having “the best sex of their lives” and were going at it about 15 times a day in the effort to give their daughter North West a brother or sister.…
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I find that some unenlightened APC Supporters have been trying to portray Senator Bukola Saraki’s retirement of his father from the Leadership of Kwara Politics as irresponsible and a betrayal. What I want them to know is that that singular act of Saraki is the most responsible thing a son that has come of age can do. It is most unfortunate that a child that has, even through the grace of his father, become the leader of a state as governor, would after eight years in office queue behind his father in charting the course of the State. A child…
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Four years after 2015 election, there are strong indications that the Governorship ticket of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for Imo State, will no longer be an all comers affairs if the number of aspirants wishing to grab it for 2019 election is considered This time four years ago, the political firmament in Imo State was on fire largely ignited by the avalanche of persons who wanted the party’s ticket for the 2015 election. Despite the whopping N10m price tag placed for the governorship form and other attendant expenses that pushed the amount to about #15m, not less than 10…
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PDP Delegates of the 33 wards of Owerri federal constituency, we the “Hazie Owerri Campaign organization”, hereby introduce to you our Brother, friend, uncle and acquaintance, Duruebube Chimazuru “Oblong” Nnadi who has put himself forward to join hands with other like minded progressives to reorder the pace of social, infrastructural and economic development of Owerri federal constituency, Imo state and Nigeria in general at the Green Chambers of the National Assembly via the HAZIE OWERRI 2019 campaign organization. Duruebube Chimazuru “Oblong” Nnadi is from the prominent Nnadi-Oforgu family of Umuadamoche, Umuelem, Ihiagwa in Owerri west LGA of IMO state. His…
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Senator Godswill Akpabio’s deputy while he was Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr. Patrick Ekpotu has said the defection of his former boss from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is a bad omen for the ruling party. Ekpotu, who also served alongside Akpabio as commissioners under former governor Victor Attah’s administration, said the Senator’s defection signals destruction for the ruling party. He added that the defection showed that the senator was incapable of operating as an opposition outside the state power apparatus. In a strong worded statement issued yesterday, the former deputy governor said Akpabio’s move…
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Junaid Mohammed, Second Republic lawmaker, on Tuesday, lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari over the tensed political atmosphere in the country. Mohammed, in a chat with DAILY POST, described Buhari as a political and an economic illiterate, who lacks the capacity to manage the affairs of the country. While claiming that Buhari was sick, incompetent and dishonest, he warned that the country was on the verge of implosion. The staunch critic of the APC-led Federal Government also warned that Nigeria was in a “dire situation.” According to him, “The situation Nigeria finds itself now is critical, we are in a very dire…
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Electricity generation in Nigeria on Monday dropped to 2,684 megawatts, as there was decline in output from the hydropower plants and some gas-fired stations, including Egbin in Lagos. According to reports from the Ministry of Power, Words and Housing, the total generation capacity of 4,463.3MW was unavailable as of 6am on Monday, compared to 3,631.4MW on Friday. Gas constraints and frequency management occasioned by electricity distribution companies’ load demand left 2,365.5MW and 2,087MW, respectively idle. Total electricity generation, which stood at 3,462MW as of 6am on Sunday, fell to 2,684.20MW on Monday. The nation generates most of its electricity from…
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 Maverick entertainer and activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charlyboy, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has destroyed Nigeria beyond imagination in just three years. Charlyboy, who is the leader of the ‘OurMumuDonDo’ movement stated this while reacting to the recent complaint by soldiers about their welfare. Some aggrieved soldiers had posted a video online complaining about the conditions they were being subjected to in the North-East. Reacting to the video, CharlyBoy, using his verified Twitter handle, tweeted: “President Buhari has destroyed this nation beyond imagination in just 3yrs, close to 300 soldiers have been killed in about 5weeks.…
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We have now had three-and-a-half years of APC rule. We have now seen what APC’s ‘change’ actually entails. We are no longer under any illusions. Even though the APC has spent the last few years re-litigating what was wrong with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), it should now be clear that the PDP is far better than the APC; at least ten times better. I have said time and again that I am not a member of the PDP. I am saying it again. I have never been and will never be a member of any political party in Nigeria.…
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A few months ago, the popular American preacher TD Jakes came to the church I attend in London. Preaching on leadership and wealth, he said prayer is not leadership and won’t make anyone rich. “If prayers were enough”, he said, “Nigeria would be one of the richest countries in the world”. Most people in the congregation clapped in agreement. Several weeks later, The Times of London wrote an editorial on the relationship between religion and wealth, in which it said: “A period of increasing religiosity in Nigeria heralded a period of falling wealth”. So, Nigeria has become a global case…
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A former assistant to the sacked director general of State Security Service, Lawal Daura, has accused his former principal of extensive corruption, and has portrayed him as a man who serially betrayed his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari, for money. The assistant, Abdulwahab Abdulrahman, a retired senior SSS official, said he left the agency because of the scale of corruption and abuse there. “I didn’t want my children to see news of my eventual arrest on TV,” he told PREMIUM TIMES. Mr Daura, who led Nigeria’s domestic spy agency since 2015, was abruptly fired on Tuesday by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo…
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August 11, 2018 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenges the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to end its silence and speak out on their evident complicity in the corrupt amassing of the N21bn, guns and thousands of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) allegedly found in the residence of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ally, the sacked Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawan Daura. The party said the discovery has not only exposed the shameless hypocrisy of the Buhari Presidency, but also stripped it of all integrity and brought its deceptive saintly posturing to a disgraceful end.…
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The Federalism of the First Republic, of the 1963 Constitution, is being demanded by some as the solution to Nigeria’s problems. The proponents of this view seem to think that once Nigeria returns to that constitution, with possibly some slight modifications, they and their interests will be protected, and their cherished “One Nigeria” can go on. But they are mistaken, I think. They haven’t considered why that constitution failed them. If it failed them before, can’t it fail them again? Like the 1963 constitution, the 1960 Constitution limited the powers of the Federal Government to Defence, Foreign Affairs, and a…
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We have read with dismay the claim by governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State that two governors of the South East extraction elected on the platform of People’s Democratic Party would join APC before the 2019 elections. Raising from zonal emergency meeting of zonal working committee of PDP in South East held in Enugu,Enugu state on Friday, we react as follows (1) The latest claim by the mouthy governor of Imo state that two PDP governors from the south East zone will join the disillusioned APC who has inflicted pains and agony on the people of Nigeria is a statement…
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Chances for the survival and advancement of democracy and rule of law in Nigeria are steadily fading, threatened and endangered by the country’s anti democratic forces or the authors of tyranny and totalitarianism. As a matter of fact, Nigeria’s democratic process has known no peace, stability and advancement especially since mid 2015 when Retired Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari became the sixth civilian president of Nigeria. Nigeria, unarguably, is unstoppably being matched back to its inglorious epoch of tyranny, dictatorship, authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Democratic conventions or principles have almost given way for rule by dictation and might in the country. Tyranny…
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Ahead of the September governorship primary election of the People’s Democratic Party in Imo State, a staunch member of the party, Chief Okey Udeagu, has urged the PDP delegates in Okigwe local government to cast their votes for Sen. Samuel Anyanwu (Samdaddy), to become the party’s governorship flag bearer in the state for the 2019 polls. Speaking last Saturday during the Senator’s consultation of members of the party in the LGA, including statutory delegates, Chief Udeagu, who hails from Ihube Autonomous Community of the local government, said that with Sen. Anyanwu as Imo PDP’s governorship flag bearer, the party in…
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Light Amuntions 200,000 PVCs #21Bn Cash A Threat To Our Democracy Amidst Fight Against Corruption Perhaps the most ignored of the three items purported to have been found in Daura’s home are the PVCs. The cash and the arms may be explained by stretches of imagination and guided narratives. The PVCs on the other hand cannot be for himself or for DSS qua DSS. The PVCs are for the benefit of APC, PMB and his govt. A forensic investigation of the PVCs if not the Cash will drag in INEC, perharps CBN and the banks. PVCs either from INEC or…
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‘…Kindly permit me to be as brutally frank as possible. As a stakeholder who made his modest contribution to your emergence as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, I owe you nothing but the truth. I was not a member of your party when I volunteered to support your mission and ambition in 2015. I was elated when Nigerians succeeded in chasing away the profligate and reckless government of the PDP, led by President Goodluck Jonathan. I was one of those who unleashed terror on that government and I subsequently presented you with a compilation of my articles in…
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Global body in charge of security, United Nations Security Council, says it is worried over what it described as continued tensions linked to disputed electoral processes, social and economic difficulties, and conflicts between farmers and herders in the Lake Chad Basin. Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad are members of the Lake Chad Basin on which the UN body also said it remained concerned at their security and humanitarian situation caused by Boko Haram and other armed groups. The body spoke in a Presidential Statement released, yesterday, on the heels of last Tuesday’s siege on the National Assembly by Nigeria’s secret police,…
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who has officially declared his intention to contest the presidency in 2019 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in this exclusive interview lays out his plan to reposition the country to realise its full potential. Atiku speaks on a wide variety of issues, including youth unemployment, the troubled education system, insecurity, and restructuring. Furthermore, for the first time, he committed himself to doing just one term of four years. Excerpts: You officially joined the race for the PDP ticket ahead of the 2019 presidential election two weeks ago. What exactly is your…
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Bode Thomas, yes, the same Bode Thomas, whom the Surulere street was named after, died on Nov 23, 1953 in a most mysterious manner. Bode Thomas was born to a wealthy trader, John thomas in 1918. Himself, FRA Williams and Remi Fani-Kayode (Father of Femi Fani-Kayode) attended Law School in London, and they established the first law firm in Nigeria, called “Thomas, Williams and Kayode”. The law firm was established in Jankara, Lagos. Bode Thomas was an excellent lawyer, but he was also very arrogant. Because of his education, he was made chairman of the Oyo Divisional Council at one…
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Those were the days when peace of mind could be bought with hypocritical acts of philanthropy. But that just won’t do any more. It is karma time. Many years ago, as a member of the Nigerian delegation to the Nonaligned Conference, I engaged a Nigerian vice-president in discussion on Nigerian politics. I cannot recall now the exact subject-matter, but I remember saying at some juncture: “Nigerians won’t stand for that, Sir.” The vice-president became visibly irritated: “What are they going to do?” he asked pointedly. “What can they do about it?” Powerless Nigerians What indeed can Nigerians do about the…
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It is tempting for APC and it’s Chairman (of the Senate blockade fame) to get very excited about AKPABIO’s defection. The matter is much more than gathering crowd across the south-south geo political zone at Ikot Ekpene. Let’s give you a few tips; Many think that Akpabio only defected in other to protect himself from prosecution by EFCC for embezzling over 200 Billion Naira of public funds. That is only one of the reasons for defection. Even that is forlorn hope. As soon as the 2019 elections are over, the appropriate pressure would be brought to bear on EFCC to…
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(1) Tinubu had schemed to make Oshiomhole the APC Chairman. They happily kicked Oyegun out and put him there. (2) Oshiomhole took to the job aggressively with the aim of establishing party supremacy over everybody in government except the President. It was clear that he was going to attempt to use his position as party Chairman to grab governmental power. He began fighting everyone in sight while pictured repeatedly with Buhari to indicate he has a blank cheque from Aso Rock. (3) He started by attacking Dr Chris Ngige and Hadi Sirika over some boards’ appointments in their ministries, declaring…
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“YOU know I am not very happy with Nigeria. I have made that very clear on many occasions. Yes, Nigeria stood by us more than any nation, but you let yourselves down, and Africa and the black race very badly. Your leaders have no respect for their people. They believe that their personal interests are the interests of the people. They take people’s resources and turn it into personal wealth. There is a level of poverty in Nigeria that should be unacceptable. I cannot understand why Nigerians are not more angry than they are. “What do young Nigerians think about…
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The Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi on Tuesday, spoke what appeared a shocking statement suggesting he does not expect the President, to rule beyond 2019. Sanusi made the statement at a one-day dialogue forum organised by the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy & Development (SCDDD) at Abuja. Sanusi while cautioning the President on his proposed bid to borrow a whooping $30b loan, said with only few months remaining in office, there’s no way the Buhari administration can pay back that huge debt. Apparently concerned by the President’s move, Sanusi said “Let me make this issue clear, I will be…
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The sack yesterday, 7th August 2018 of Retired Director Lawal Musa Daura as the Director General of Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, not only marks the Fall of Humanity Crimes’ Suspect Number Two in the present central Government of Nigeria headed by Retired Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari and Law Professor Yemi Osinbajo, but also marks him out as latest entrant into the world list of personae non gratae or international pariah personalities. For purpose of clarity, in global diplomacy or diplomatic circles, a persona non grata or pariah personality is a foreign person whose entering…
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I write today to put an end to this protracted, avoidable debate about the meaning of “Niger Delta Region”. First, it is an indisputable fact that the ascription has a political undertone; however, it refers to a region within the Eastern Region that actually exists. This assertion may not be in line with popular cum misguided opinion about the ascription. This piece seeks to exculpate my ardent readers from the cesspit of ignorance and implicit divisive postulations. Niger Delta is a region within another wider region where you find littoral towns – places surrounded by water. We cannot define this…
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For watchers of the power configuration in the Buhari administration, the sack of Lawal Daura, former Director-General of State Security Services, yesterday was the end of a chapter in a complex power play at the presidential villa. Recalled from retirement on July 2, 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari to head the secret service, Lawal, a close associate of the president from his Daura homestead, was destined to be a major pillar of the power structure of the Buhari presidency. And in the bipolar struggle for power at the presidency, Lawal understandably aligned with Mamman Daura, an erstwhile journalist and powerful…
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No matter the decibel of the rhetoric, bragadacio and empty noise in Nothingness, Nigeria will never join the league of progressive countries of the world, until we restructure this country to a true federal state , just like we had it during our progressively productive years between 1957 to 1964. This current quasi-unitary structure is not working. It has only created a tiny population of roguish political elite and a mass of deprived, dehumanised, unproductive and beggarly population. Restructuring Nigeria will help to unleash the buried potentials in our people and this country as a whole. The current warped/unwieldly structure…
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“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it” – Frantz Fanon Beyond any doubt, the battle ahead is summed: progressivism versus fascism. Like the Irish lawyer and politician John Philpot Curran, said: “The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.” All patriotic elements have to be alive to their individual and corporate responsibilities to Nigeria and Nigerians at this trying moments. Where are the members of Save Democracy Group? Where are the Progressives? Fact is: the nation is dangerously adrift and the patriotic elements are not rising to…
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The attention of former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has been drawn to an illegal and undemocratic attempt by fascist forces to break into the National Assembly for the purpose of furthering the agenda to force a change in the Nigerian Senate’s leadership. Atiku Abubakar completely condemns this atrocity and calls on all those involved to put Nigeria first and abandon this madness. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended, guarantees both the independence of the Legislature and Separation of Powers. Nigeria is a democracy not a military dictatorship and we the people will never return…
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“Until the animals learn to tell their stories, the history of the hunt will always, favour the hunter, not the hunted” The importance of the media in any cause can never be over-emphasized. More often than not, the media, when fully exploited by an evil genius, can make a victim of oppression seem like the perpetrator while the real perpetrator is left looking as though he is the real victim. Even in war, propaganda which is spread through the media, has the capacity to make a weaker side seem like an invincible army thereby bringing down the morale of the…
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The gentleman sitting to the right of Lord Frederick Lugard in this picture (see above) is Obed-Edom Chukwuemeka Azikiwe. He’s the father of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, the last Governor-General and first President of Nigeria. Obed-Edom Azikiwe was a very influential member of Lugard’s administration. You can see from the photo how highly Lugard regarded him. More About Zik’s Father Obed Edom Azikiwe was Lord Lugard’s private secretary. Sadly, he passed on in 1958, two years before Nigeria’s independence, at the age of 78. Undoubtedly, he would have loved to see his son Zik sworn in as Nigeria’s first Head of…
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It troubles and saddens our heart that democracy and good governance built on mandatory fulfillment of social contract obligations by elected and appointed public office holders are not only threatened and endangered but also witnessing funeral ceremonies through maddening and reckless defections in Nigeria. Defection is the oddest side of parliamentary cross-carpeting and greatest threat to party politics founded on ideology. It is also the extreme exercise of right to freedom of association and deemed extra constitutional. Political ideology is a core foundation of democratic partism peopled by political purists or people of noble political class. We have watched with…
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It is no longer news that Senator Godswill Akpabio is decamping to the APC; all is set for the move any moment now. Many have received this with great shock. Nothing about his decision seems to make sense especially at a time when the main opposition party, the PDP has put its house in order and is set to welcome even more decampees from the disintegrating APC. It didn’t take long for the facts to leak, the politician who is looking to tighten the grasp he is losing in Akwa Ibom State has over the past three years been hounded…
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On Monday, 30 July, 2007, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) ran a documentary titled: ‘The Gift of Democracy?’ The 27-and-a-half minute documentary tells how Nigeria was rigged at the very beginning. It explains how the British shut out a section of Nigeria and wilfully handed Nigeria over to mediocrity. The revelation is an apt explanation for the failure of Nigeria and the events of the last few weeks which have further confused hopeful Nigerians. Defections, altercations, vacations, elections. Nigeria is a rigged country. We don’t choose idiots as family heads; we don’t hand over our companies to imbeciles but we…
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I have admired Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, the Minister of Finance, from a distance. She speaks English the way the Queen of England speaks even though she seems to add a bit of cockney accent to it. She is good with figures which I am not good at which is one reason I chose the writing craft as my life-long engagement. She shows competence, diligence, substantial eloquence and some level of transparency in her work. So I was thrilled to meet her on May 5, 2016 at the Chinese Restaurant, OPIC Plaza, next door to the Sheraton Hotel in Ikeja. She…
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Recently Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State was quoted to have told State House Correspondents in Abuja that whoever will take over from him as governor may be stoned by the people if his performance falls below the standard he has set. His words: “I am in this job not for the profit of it, but for the honour and glory of the job. So I want to leave a legacy. I want Imo people to miss me and they will definitely miss me. Believe you me, they have not seen such developmental work before now and they will miss…
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Last week, I was trapped for hours on the Isolo-Apapa Expressway in an unprecedented traffic gridlock. Many lanes of the so-called expressway were seized by articulated vehicles especially trailers carrying containers and fuel tankers, forcing other vehicles to drive against the traffic, in an effort to move forward since most of the articulated vehicles seemed stationary. Nigerian road users were sweating and cursing. A friend of mine who was riding with me in exasperation asked, “When will this war end?” I turned to look at him wondering what war he was talking about and what the situation we were in…
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has said that restructuring is the way forward for Nigeria to develop and realise its true potentials. Dogara disclosed this when he received a delegation from Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum comprising leaders of Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndi-Igbo, Pan Niger Delta Forum and Middle Belt Forum, led by Chief Ayo Adebanjo, last Wednesday. He, however, noted that disagreements might emerge during the deliberation process but insisted that, that is how progress can be made. Speaking on why he supports restructuring, the Speaker said it would make Nigeria more productive but…
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Igbo Leaders of Thought, ILT, an umbrella of Igbo statesmen intelligentsia lead by Professor Ben Nwabueze, has told whoever is planning Presidency for Ndigbo in 2023 that Igbo Presidency is no longer on the cards of the nationality. They rather said that what would be more beneficial to Ndigbo and indeed the entire Nigerians is a restructured country, where Presidency would become less attractive and no longer an instrument for ethnic jingoism. The group also warned that the country is close to being equated with a failed state given the level of insecurity with attendant killings across states. It also…
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Six governors of South-South and Niger Delta leaders under the aegis of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) just came out of an emergency meeting held in Asaba, Delta State over the *plan to site a $2 billion refinery in Katsina, an idea they described as highly provocative and cheating to the Niger Delta region.* In a communique read by the governor of Akwa Ibom state, Emmanuel Udom, governors and leaders of Niger Delta accused president Muhammadu Buhari of implementing northern agenda to the detriment of other parts of the country, especially Niger Delta. They said Buhari quickly pushed for the…
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Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, have described as “a desecration of the legislative sanctity”, the on-going situation in Benue State in which eight out of the 30 members of the State House of Assembly have commenced impeachment process against the Governor and with the support of the police, the 22 other members who constitute more than two-third majority are kept away from the Assembly Complex. In a statement jointly signed by their aides in charge of media, Saraki and Dogara also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the police…
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Immediate past President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has described the purported impeachment of the governor of Benue State Dr. Samuel Ortom as null and void. Reacting to the development in Benue state today, Senator Mark said the alleged impeachment of governor Ortom by eight out of the 30 members House of Assembly is at best an exercise in futility. According to Mark: “it is unconstitutional and devoid of any known legislative practices and procedures. “I will advice members of the Benue state House of Assembly to be guided by the constitution and legislative rules and procedures. They should…
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In very short and simple language, let me inform the federal government that democracy cannot be mixed up with tyranny. Any government that lacks tact and democratic diplomacy cannot be able to survive for too long especially where the opponents of the government are endowed with requisite political war chests. Power is one thing but effective use of power is another thing. Using military feat to undertake or tackle a democratic political processes or crisis will always be counterproductive. Anymore attempt to wrestle Saraki down and change the leadership of the Senate may bounce back against the government. The power…
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Fellow Nigerians, as we count down to the next general elections in 2019, we should begin to take stock of what has gone wrong with the current government in the past three years. We must do this in the hope that a few issues can still be addressed, and that the lessons learnt can be put to good use after 2019, regardless of who wins the next Presidential election. It is certainly my prayer that a repeat of this monumental mess in which we have found ourselves would be avoided come the next government, whether it be President Buhari, or…
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Since the advent of the current democratic experience, political mortals feigning ignorance of the dangers of playing God, are beginning to receive their punishments in a very alarming proportion. Government after government in Imo state since 1999 had always come into life by sheer maneuvering of ruthless actors in the field of play. No single government in Imo had come into fruition by the collective mandate of people’s power, rather it has always been thru a fragile swindling conspiracy of concentric circle playing round the political landscape. Even the current administration in Imo today was a product of late night…
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The raging battle between the presidency and powerful interests in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, is far from over as more senators are planning to dump the ruling party, Sunday Tribune can report. A senior legislative source has given an insight into the “discussion” President Muhammadu Buhari had with the senators that are left standing with the APC last Wednesday. The meeting at the Presidential Villa was called after 13 senators elected on the platform of the party dumped it for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the day before. At the meeting,…
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Leadership is not about profit and loss calculation. Neither is it about being doctors and engineers, but rather about the sacrifice that we make in our lives every day for our society to bring about positive social change. This, captures the mind of a frontline PDP governorship aspirant for 2019 and the current Senator representing Imo East Senatorial District (Owerri Zone) at the Nigerian Senate, Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu (Samdaddy), who has vowed to introduce policies and programmes that will promote positive development when elected as the governor of Imo State. This mandate is as contained in his governorship declaration…
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According to the report in one of the national papers, “The Auditor-General for the Federation, AuGF, Mr Anthony Ayine, has said that a total of 65 agencies of [Buhari’s] government never submitted their financial statements for audit purposes in line with the provisions of Financial Regulations 321.” For those who might not understand the meaning of what that report means, let me put it in plain language even before more of the report is brought into this article. Federal public servants have been behaving with impunity. Massive corruption has shifted under Buhari to the MDAs while the President and his…
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There is one interesting fact about the ArewaNortherners: They always protect and defend the interest of the ArewaNorth regardless of their political affiliations. Whether PDP, APC, APGA, the ArewaNortherner is always after the interest of the ArewaNorth. For them, it’s not really about personal ambition. It’s always, always, about taking power back to the ArewaNorth and making sure it remains there. This is why in 2015, a whole chairman of the self acclaimed largest political party in Africa (PDP), Adamu Muazu, played “Brutus” to a southern President, Good luck Jonathan and worked for Buhari, a fellow Northern but unlike the…
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The 2019 governorship race in Imo State is gathering momentum, and the option before Imo people is to choose from allowing APC to continue perpetuating governance at its lowest ebbs as witnessed over the last seven years, or look the way of PDP and possibly other political parties to resurrect the State. Ruminating on the above, the failure of the PDP in three attempts In 2007, 2011 and 2015 to win Imo State governorship election struck my mind. Once bitten, they say, is twice shy, but here is Imo PDP that has been beaten thrice. It was the following questions…
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The frontline PDP Imo Governorship Aspirant, Distinguished Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu has demonstrated his poise to meet the desires and prayers of Imo people and abate their affliction. He is convinced that his aspiration is clearly a Divine mandate from God just as Samuel was called by God. This explains the unbeatable support and acceptance from Imo People so far. The Ikeduru born Senator who is loved by Imolites because of his open door – open arm policy has pledged his commitment to assuage the sufferings of Imo people and run a government that will focus on developing the economy…
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Nigeria seems to be going through a mid-life crisis these days. The collapse of democracy, the relapse to authoritarianism and the sluggish economy seems to be the order of the day for this government. In addition to this, President Buhari’s often remote and surreptitious style of leadership, has created a lot of uncertainty about his government and Nigeria’s future. Obviously, the cumulative effect of these national issues, has made people uneasy and full of questions. Lately ‘restructuring’ seems to be the word dominating the debate. Whatever it means, we can at least agree that no restructuring of Nigeria can be…
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The Senator representing Owerri zone at the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, has said he is interested in the governorship of Imo state because the governance experiment in the hands of the incumbent has failed the expectation of the people, making the need to rescue the state imperative. Speaking in a press statement he issued in Abuja, Tuesday, ahead of his formal declaration for the 2019 governorship election in Imo state tomorrow, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart said the state has, rather than grown exponentially in accordance with its potentials, suffered untold bastardization in…
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Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu (Samdaddy) has facilitated the employment of over 75 graduates of Owerri Zone into Federal Ministries, Department and Agencies, facilitated the admission of over 120 students into Tertiary Institutions in the country and bought NPower forms for over 400 graduates from the zone. In the area of youth and women empowerment, Senator Anyanwu has excelled greatly. The 105 beneficiaries of his Aluminium Doors and Windows fabrication program have concluded their three months intensive training at nine locations in the Zone, while 200 out of 420 shortlisted beneficiaries for the 2nd phase skill acquisition program in CCTv and…
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When he defeated all comers to clinch the PDP Senatorial ticket to represent Owerri Zone in 2015, many doubted his capacities to win the general election, as well as impress at the Senate that ofcourse was expected to be largely dominated by former governors, retired military generals and returning Senators. The doubts were further reinforced by the caliber of people that ran both the Party Primaries and the general elections with him. These doubts were not because Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu lacked the potentials, but because they saw it as a herculean task coming as an ordinary member of the…
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) kicked up a storm about transparency and accountability during the electioneering and immediately President Muhammadu Buhari was inaugurated. Indeed, the government tagged nearly everyone who had held office in the last administration corrupt. It was the selling narrative and I must confess, it was appealing and convenient to the charge. With a believing public (or should I say a gullible public), it was easily a home run. It’s been three years since this government took over the reins of power, yet corruption has become even more pervasive despite all the noise of purportedly fighting the…
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Fellow Nigerians, the die is cast! President Muhammadu Buhari has declared his intention to seek re-election in 2019 against the well-considered advice of many well-meaning Nigerians that doing so would not be in the best interest of our country. I had hoped against hope that the greater love of country would persuade him to retire after his very poor performance in his first term. Apparently, other sentimental and selfish considerations weighed heavily in his decision to run again which unfortunately he claimed was a response to the “clamour by Nigerians for him to re-contest in 2019”. Contrary to what the…
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