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Next three months before the general election will determine the direction Nigeria will go in the next four years—possibly eight years. The decisions, indecisions, actions and inactions of us, will shape the future of Nigeria. Coming presidential election, is not just a contest between the PDP (Atiku Abubakar) and the APC (Mohammadu Buhari) but a referendum on the type of nation we desire to have in the next four years. This article is not for Buharideens or Atikulators—those who have taken sides already, but for those still sitting on the fence; playing ostrich. This write-up is a wake up call…
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ON OCTOBER 6, 2018, I SOUGHT AND OBTAINED THE MANDATE OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY, TO FLY THEIR FLAG AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. TODAY, I AM FORMALLY PRESENTING MYSELF TO YOU AS THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF NOT JUST THE PDP, BUT OF THE HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS OF ALL NIGERIANS. THE SAD FACT TODAY, AS YOU KNOW, IS THAT TOO MANY OF OUR PEOPLEARE NOT WORKING AND ARE LIVING IN POVERTY AND INSECURITY. THE VERY FABRIC OF OUR SOCIETY IS BREAKING DOWN. WE HAVE NEVER BEEN SO DIVIDED AS A NATION.…
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I am a terminal optimist; ‘a believer’ in Nigeria’s future greatness, that is why three years ago, I would not have believed a bag of rice could be sold for the national minimum wage. With 87million extremely poor people and 13million children out of school in 2018, the mighty has indeed fallen and change has come. Now I know ‘all things’ are possible in a country ruled by incompetent ‘saints’. We have mass starvation in the North East, yet a clan of ‘Grass cutters’ are making their billions and smiling to the bank with the blood of hungry, homeless children,…
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This is copied from “FRIENDS IKOYI CLUB 1938” Forum, posted by Chief Olurotimi Williams, a Lawyer. This is a most Logical Summation of facts and and a most brilliant deployment of Logic on the subject of Fulani guile, and what the rest us, particularly in the South and Middle Belt should do, in *Self-Redemption*. First is to reckon that the Caliphate-Imposed *”1999 Constitution”* to which the winner of any Election in 2019 will *Swear Allegiance* and by which he/she *Will Govern,* is the very instrument by which the Caliphate *Legitimize the Enslavement of the rest of Nigeria.* Many here would…
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China has an electric car manufacturing company, BYD. BYD is a major rival to America’s Tesla and actually produce and sale their electric cars at 50% the price of Tesla. As part of the policy program put in place by the Chinese government to ensure the production and sale of 2m electric cars in China by 2020, the Chinese government now subisdises buyers of these electric cars. Here in Nigeria we do not manufacture cars. The only indigenous company, that has invested so much to do a semblance of car assembly and production plant, Innoson Motors does not enjoy maximum…
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Polaris, Fidelity, UBA Uyo Branch Managers quizzed. The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has begun a discreet probe into suspicious N865billion cash deposits allegedly made by former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio in three banks in Uyo. The monies are allegedly secretly kept in Polaris, Fidelity and UBA banks with each of the bank managers in the State serving as “unofficial” account officers of the money. “More shocking to the apex bank is the discovery that the monies were not paid into any known account but kept as ‘unrecorded’ cash deposits by the former Senate Minority Leader”,…
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For some personal reasons, I have refrained from commenting on the programmes of the current administration in Kaduna State. However, after careful observation of the ploy to ‘rename’ or ‘change’ the nomenclature’ of traditional institutions in Kaduna State by fiat, I cannot turn a blind eye to the matter given the imminent disaster such a move could bring, now or in the future. Even though I am NOT a historian by training, providence had afforded me access to a wide range of literature, about the area which is now ‘Nigeria,’ and can emphatically say much about the history of the…
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One thing as certain as tomorrow is that the incumbent Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha will from May 29, 2019 cease to be the Chief Executive of the State. However, what the Governor is not too sure of presently is who would be his successor. Before now, Okorocha had wished to produce his own hand-picked successor, which naturally is the dream of every Leader. Therefore, it is not a selfish act for Okorocha to work to leave a successor behind. Even tenants packing out from an old house to a new one, ordinarily try to bring the new…
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One of the most celebrated Emperors in Nigeria is fast losing his empire. He is working very hard to cling to it. But the empire is slipping. The once beloved Emperor is on a long lonely road. For him, sunset beckons. And dreams seem to be dying fast. And hard. The Emperor’s admirers are bewildered. They want to be woken up from what they think is a nightmare. But not a few people are laughing at him. And the chorus is: Serves him right. If anybody ever doubted the Law of karma, the recent happenings in Imo state proves them…
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar will kick-start his campaign for president in the 2019 election through an address to the Nigerian people on Facebook at 12 noon on Monday where he will launch his policy document. In his address the PDP presidential candidate will present his vision for Nigeria and his action plan to achieve it as encapsulated in his policy document. The document will promptly be uploaded on his website (www.atiku.org) for all Nigerians to access. The decision of Atiku Abubakar to kick-start his presidential campaign with…
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In all honesty according to snippets from the grapevine, the crowd that greeted Senator Hope Uzodinma was said to be unprecedented. If it was a popularity contest, the governorship of Imo State would have been won and lost that day. The crowd that met Hope Uzodinma’ was definitely not a rented crowd. Who could have paid all those big men who brought more than 1,000 vehicles to welcome home their true liberator ? Wednesday, November 14, 2018 was a day of all days. The APC candidate in Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma returned to the State from Abuja and the…
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I am constrained to write you this open letter for posterity! As you are aware I am a political activist, whistleblower and PDP stalwart with wide networks. I guide the privacy of my contacts and networks religiously and only use it to fight injustice for public interest. I have championed the campaign and struggle for owerri zone to produce the next governor since 2015 at the risk of my personal and long standing relationship with the Okorocha family and uche nwosu. You could imagine the material things I have lost for not supporting the present Imo first family and influential…
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Mbutu, Aboh Mbaise born former lawmaker and Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon Nkemakolam Chukwuemeka Ihedioha was a guest of the Sunrise Daily, a program of the Channels Television between the hours of 8am to 8:45am. His discussion was centered on Imo politics, governance and development amongst other sundry issues. Ihedioha who represented Aboh Mbaise /Ngor Okpala federal constituency in the green chamber’s of the National Assembly for a period of 12 years displayed high sense of maturity, diplomacy and thoughtfulness in answering many critical questions thrown at him by the presenters. Most controversial questions which could…
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On Tuesday, November 20, 2018, the Face of Democracy in Africa, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, will be 61 years old. On that same day, he will be presenting his brilliant book, My Transition Hours, to the public. Finally, through that book, the world will get to see the man behind close doors and will, I hope, found out that no Nigerian leader has shown the level of self sacrifice, self control and restraint that former President Jonathan showed during and after his five year tenure as President. However, because of a long succession of brutal military dictators beginning from 1966 and…
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1) CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW ABUJA – KADUNA RAIL TRACK: President Jonathan’s administration has constructed the new world class infrastructural project; the Abuja-Kaduna Rail is ready. [WATCH VIDEO ON YOUTUBE) 2) OPERATION AQUILA: Operation Aquila under President Jonathan has helped reduce up to 20 million litters a day in PMS subsidy fraud by using technology to track the movement of petroleum around Nigeria. 3) DRY SEASON FADAMA FARMING: Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the release of N26 billion for the 2015 dry season farming in the country, the scheme was launched in 2012 and has provided thousands of jobs.…
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Former Chief of staff to Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, Mr. Uche Nwosu, yesterday said the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomole, cannot stop his 2019 governorship candidature for APC, in the state. Nwosu spoke to newsmen in Owerri, following report that Senator Hope Uzodimma, name has been submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as authentic candidate for Imo APC guber. He said he was shocked that Oshiomole, had disregarded court orders stopping APC and INEC, from accepting or submitting any other name other him( Nwosu) adding that at last he would defeat Oshiomole,…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenges President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to speak out on revelations of how N378 billion proceed from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas dividends was allegedly siphoned by the Buhari Presidency cabal, under sleazy oil subsidy deals. The party said Nigerians were startled by revelations of how the funds from the NLNG, an agency under President Buhari’s direct supervision as Minister of petroleum, was secretly lifted and spent without the appropriation of the National Assembly. Available intelligence shows that the Presidency cabal cornered the money under the guise of subsidy payments but…
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The federal government illegally diverted $1.05 billion (N378 billion at N360 to a dollar) sourced from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) dividend funds to secretly fund subsidy payment on petroleum products, PREMIUM TIMES can report today. The diversion details are coming amidst revelations from accusations the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has a $3.5 billion subsidy fund it is spending without appropriation by the National Assembly. In October, a motion by Biodun Olujimi, (Ekiti-PDP) had triggered debates in the National Assembly on the purported $3.5 billion fund alleged to be managed by the state oil company. But the NNPC…
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To call Nigeria a nation is an aberration. It has never been a nation at anytime. Maybe the thoughts were for it to be, but it simply couldn’t take off. To for a nation out of so many nation states, with varied and often conflicting cultural, social, hierarchical and historical antecedents, some basic agreements must be in place. None exists amongst us, none is allowed to evolve. And no patchment of nationhis created by fiat. On the way to making Nigeria a country, Britain destroyed the nation states from within and plunged a historical process down the drain of obsolescence.…
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The Chairman Of All Progressives Governors’ Forum and Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has threatened to dump the ruling party, the APC if his preferred Governorship candidate and son-in-law, Uche Nwosu is denied ticket. Governor Okorocha made this disclosure during the swearing in of new Commissioners in the state at Nicks Banquet Hall, Government House, Owerri. The two time Governor also vowed to dump President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election should any attempt was made to drop his son-in-law in the 2019 governorship election. According to him, President Buhari cannot win any election in the South East geo-political zone in particular…
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• …Ezeife, Ozekhome, others blast Fashola • …It’s an eye opener to Ndigbo in APC – Umahi Ohanaeze, Afenifere reply Fashola on 2023 Presidency • …ACF Sec hints at Northern participation in 2023 Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Afenifere, the apex socio cultural bodies of the Igbo and the Yoruba were yesterday united in chiding politicians from their ethnic zones advocating a second term for President Muhammadu Buhari as the fastest route for the presidency to come to their zones. The two groups in separate assertions said that they were more preoccupied with the restructuring of the country than the allotment of…
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•El rufai, Bello, reject being co-opted into anti-Oshiomhole camp •Okorocha schedules another meeting for Tuesday * •Sen Uzodinma APC candidate in Imo President Muhammadu Buhari was infuriated by the refusal of Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha; Ogun State governor, Sen Ibikunle Amosun; and Zamfara State governor, Alhaji Abudulaziz Yari to accept his solution to the crises over their choice of governorship candidates in their respective states. Governors Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, The trio, who had visited the President in Abuja to seek his support in their quest to oust the National Chairman…
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(Egbe-onu kwurukwugide Egbe-uche na Egbe-aka). 1. Lessons from the Bolshevik Revolution The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia popularly known as The Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917, came in the wake of the First World War (WW1) in 1917. The Leader of the Revolution, Vladimir Illych Lenin, was in exile in Finland as those two momentous events were going on simultaneously. The Russian Ruling Class, popularly referred to as the Bourgeois Class, were facing two life-and-death fronts, namely, • the German Military machine that was ravaging Europe and pushing ferociously into the Russian territory, and • the Working class revolutionary push…
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Questions and Answers on Igbo I was going through the archives of the evergreen Nigeria Village Square and I saw an interesting post that tried as much as possible to clear some false misconception about the Igbos. Tighten your seat belt and read through. In this piece, I intend to focus on the Igbo as a people. The Igbo, their culture, civilization, and their contributions to world greatness, are, perhaps, among the most little understood, taught, publicized and recognized of all human knowledge. What is sometimes upsetting is the little the Igbo themselves, including their educated sons and daughters know…
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Let us understand the argument first! There is no doubt that on the basis of the provisions of sections131 and 138 of the Constitution, President Buhari is eminently qualified to contest the 2019 Presidential election. Even if he has only the Primary School Leaving Certificate, he would still be qualified to contest, having served in the Army for more than ten years, rising to the rank of Major General. That is the purport of section 138 of the Constitution interpreting what is meant by the equivalent of “at least a school certificate”, as used in section 131 of the Constitution.…
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“When they asked me to name what I want for me to stop I told them to open Calabar seaport, Port Harcourt seaport, and Warri seaport and allow direct flight from SE, what did they do ? they refused…..”. ‘Nnamdi Kanu, Oct 27th For the benefit of those, who do not understand what Restructuring is or who have deliberately refused to appreciate what fuels the Nnamdi Kanu phenomenon and why this struggle will not stop until justice is done here in Nigeria, kindly read a recapture of what Ndi Igbo, Afanifere, PANDEF, Middle Belt Forum and other Progressive Nigerians desire…
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A section of the All Progressives Congress (APC) faction popularly called Ndi Agburu and led by the governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha took to the streets of Owerri Monday to protest the automatic ticket which APC national leadership granted its national legislators. By that exercise some members of Owelle’s kitchen cabinet has been affected from realizing their political dreams having been displaced by those with automatic ticket. For instance, Prof. Nnamdi Obiareri and Kingsley Uju lost out to Senator Ben Uwajumuogu and Goodluck Opiah respectively. Uwajumogu and Opiah are died hard Coalition members. It is surprising that not until his ‘children’…
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Two former top executives of energy firm, Afren, were on Wednesday convicted after they were found guilty of money laundering offences in the United Kingdom. Osman Shahenshah and Shahid Ullah were found guilty of fraud and money laundering offences from which prosecutors said they personally received more than $17 million in a case involving Oriental Energy, founded by Nigerian billionaire oil magnate Muhammadu Indimi. Prosecutors said Mr Shahenshah, 55, the former chief executive of Afren and Mr Ullah, 58, the oil company’s Texas-based former chief operating officer, laundered $45 million by deceiving the Afren Board into agreeing a $300 million…
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• …DIRECTOR OF LEGAL INEC, MRS. TOYIN BABALOLA FINGERED Following the indefinite adjournment of a case to determine who flies the flag of APC in the 2019 Governorship election in Imo State over a petition against the presiding Judge, Justice Orthman Musa, Governor Rochas Okorocha has offered N40 million Naira cash and another $50, 000 Dollars respectively totalling over hundred million to the Director of Legal, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mrs. Toyin Babalola to influence the removal of an in-house INEC lawyer handling the matter and replace him with a new lawyer that will do their bidding. According to…
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Ensure Comprehensive Reforms In The UN and Permanent Resolution Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
—Intersociety Urges UN & 20 Foreign Missions In Nigeria (Chima Ubani Center, Onitsha Nigeria: 23rd October 2018)-The gateway to world peace and security remains comprehensive reforms in the United Nations and facilitation of permanent peace in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The alternative to these is disbandment of the United Nations and its immediate replacement with a new world body founded on a new world order devoid of deepened signs and conducts of divided society including nuclear and small arms holocaust or threats of same, Intersociety said today in Onitsha, Nigeria in a statement summing up its special letters to the…
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Just 17 years ago, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they were bankrupt. This will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 years – and most people in those industries don’t see it coming. It will happen with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs. Software disrupting 90% of traditional industries within 5-10 years. It is amazing to think that Uber is just a software tool, they don’t own any cars, and are now the…
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“We must suspend all discussions about building-up Nigeria, it’s Democracy, Economy etc, to first engage the more fundamental Question of : WHAT IS NIGERIA?. If we don’t, and we continue to build on that Nigeria defined by the rogue 1999 Constitution, we will wake up under the rubble of our folly” -LNC, October 23, 2018. Responding to the LNC prescription as encapsulated above, Tonye Fiberesima had posted on his Facebook Wall, suggestions to the effect that all the Groups from Southern Nigeria and the Middle Belt, canvassing Restructuring, Self-Determination or some other Reformist Proposal for the distressed Federation of Nigeria,…
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Chief John Odigie Oyegun, former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) must be having a good laugh wherever he is. If he is just finishing a meal, he can afford to pick his teeth and belch from the deepest part of his biological system, and even turn up his nose as he asks for a glass of water. He can also look around and thank Karma for being kind to him, as he gulps down the water and reflects on the circumstances of the APC since he was shunted aside and Adams Oshiomhole, former Governor of Edo State…
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……ERA May Back Atiku/Obi If…… Given the tensed and heated political atmosphere saturated in Nigeria at the moment owing to the incoming 2019 general election where Nigerians decide their fate, the Eastern Region Assembly (ERA) have taken it upon themselves, to call Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for a national discourse in London soonest since it is yet unclear to them what he means by restructuring, a relative term that could be seen from different lenses. This was made known to the press by the National President, Eastern Region Assembly (ERA), Ejike Ikezuagu after their highly powered meeting held last Monday in…
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Indications have emerged that the National leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu may have shifted allegiance from his party’s Presidential candidate, Mohammadu Buhari to that of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar towards the 2019 Presidential election. The Southwest strong politician is said to be weighing his options as he may not be able to bear the humiliation that may follow, should antagonists succeed in pushing out the APC chairman, Adams Oshiomole, following growing call for his removal by Governors in the party. Jagaban, a close source said, is restrategising ahead of the…
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Many funny things have happened since the 2019 Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party; Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar, made public his conviction that a former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, is his choice as running mate. This announcement was welcomed with excitement and appreciation by the peoples of South-east geo-political zone, both at home and in the diaspora. The joy Atiku’s announcement elicited was not limited to the peoples of the South-east. It even cut across the country. Mr Peter Obi’s choice by Atiku is, in every sense, unique. Apart from the fact that he is one of the…
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The Supreme Court, on Monday, set-aside an interim order of the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt, which gave the All Progressives Congress, APC, the nod to conduct its Ward, Local Government and State Congresses in Rivers State. The apex court, in a judgment that was delivered by Justice Centus Nweze, faulted the appellate court for issuing an order for the stay of execution of a Rivers State High Court order that barred the APC from going ahead with its planned congress, pending the determination of a suit before it. It noted that the high court had on the basis…
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Nigeria did not go into recession because our foreign reserve was $29bn when Buhari took over Power in May 29, 2015 .(after all Nigeria’s foreign reserve was less than $5bn, with $3.2bn of this already encumbered, when Obasanjo took over in 1999 yet we never entered recession under Obj). Nigeria did not get into recession because crude oil prices fell to average of $42 per barrel within those periods with output at 2,356,000 barrel per day then. (After all the output when Obasanjo took over in 1999 was 1.67m barrels a day and crude prices was $17.39 per barrel yet…
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For the the first time since the advent of this republic, Restructuring is going to be the key issue on the ballot, especially, in Ala Igbo. No longer, will anyone come to us to tell us poppycock and lies of how he will make $1 to be equivalent to N1 or make Pms to sell for N45 a liter. If Buhari likes , let him wear ishi Agu Clothe on boxers, he will not get any vote in Ala Igbo under a free and fair election. Whatever or however, anyone may feel about MNK, he has brought something more forceful…
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I have gone through so many write-ups from some less informed and social media jobbers who have been commissioned to work on the dwindling image of Hon. Emeka Ihedioha after the conduct of the fraudulent October 1st Imo P.D.P. governorship primaries. He that goes to equity must go with clean hands, the reason for my choice of the caption of this write-up. If Imo P.D.P. delegates saw Ihedioha as the man fit for the job of liberating and governing Imo, there would have been no need for manipulating the process by smuggling in unaccredited people to cast their votes for…
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1. Nigeria today is the poverty capital of the world; 2. Nigerians are dying of both hunger and suicide of out depression 3. Unemployment rate worsening by the day; 4. Exchange rate still two times what they met; 5. Fuel price almost two times what they met; 6. Kerosene not affordable to the masses at N250 to N300/litre UP FROM N50/LITRE IN 2015, ABOUT 600% INCREASE!!! DID YOU HEAR THAT? 7. Ordinary bread has increased from N150 (in 2015) to N350 today; the last movement from N300 to N350 was in Septembers 2018; 8. Groundnut (even though it is without…
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Justice Othman Musa of Bwari High Court, FCT Abuja has adjourned indefinitely the case seeking to stop Senator Hope Uzodinma as the Governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress for Imo State in the 2019 elections. This development was sequel to the resumed hearing of the consolidated suits over the Governorship candidacy of APC in Imo State at High Court 13 Bwari FCT. An eyewitness disclosed that Justice Othman Musa gave a bench ruling adjourning the matter indefinetly on strength of a petition against him by one Bisike Chinaka claiming to be State Deputy Chairman of the ruling APC in Imo…
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Hearing continues today 23rd October, 2018 in the case filled by Senator Hope Uzodinma restraining APC from announcing another person other than him as the flag bearer. While the Counsel to Mr. Uche Nwosu prayed the court to join him as APC candidate in the suit with regards to the second congress conducted which was granted. An Abuja High Court had earlier recognized Senator Hope Uzodinma as the candidate of the party for the 2019 Imo governorship election. The court, which was presided over by Justice O.A Musa said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must also recognize only…
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The Clear and Present Danger of power going back to the North because they simply believe they own Nigeria, and particularly the Greater Danger of power in the hands of Muhammadu Buhari a man of low intellect, limited education and fixed tribal and ethnic considerations, were all that I Harped upon from 2013 to 2015. Particularly the issue of a Buhari who never rose beyond a tiny aperture of world view that centered on Islam and Fulani irredentism.. I wrote in 2014, inter alia and many people would recollect on all of the antecedents of a Buhari, the mentally lazy…
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There is a predictable and foreseeable Tsunami that shall soon hit the Imo State political landscape , especially , the All Progressives Congress , APC Agburu camp of the governor , His Excellency Owelle Rochas Okorocha ; aftermath his Friday’s visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Villa , Abuja , for the sole aim of beckoning on the Presidency to lend credence to the governorship aspiration of his son-inlaw , Ugwumba Uche Nwosu . 4thEstateReporters.com ‘ authoritatively ‘ gathered from a source close to the governor that while governor Okorocha had spent over 10 days in Abuja in…
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1. My administration would consider concessioning to private sector segments of the national grid under some form of PPP over a period of time. 2. We shall increase power generation by ensuring full participation of private sector. We shall issue licences to enable the private sector invest in mini-grid capabilities to service local communities or local govts, states, regions or target industrial clusters. 3. Our electricity generation plan shall be diversified to include clean energy – hydro, solar and nuclear – in addition to natural gas. As you may be aware, the transmission infrastructure of the power sector is ageing…
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The consumer price index, which measures inflation, stood at 11.28% in September from 11.28% recorded in August on a year-on-year basis, data from the National Bureau of Statistics have shown. Going by the inflation report released by the bureau on Tuesday, this is the second consecutive month of inflation rise after 18 consecutive months of decline. “On a month-on-month basis, the Headline index increased by 0.84 percent in September 2018, down by 0.21 percent points from the rate recorded in August 2018 (1.05) percent,” the report read. “The urban inflation rate increased by 11.70 percent (year-on-year) in September 2018 from…
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Nigeria has a comprehensively developed Integrated Infrastructure Development Master Plan that require consistent investment/capital projects injection of over $3trillion/N915trillion over the next 20-30 years to bring her even to the level of the second world countries. A master plan that was abandoned by the Buhari government for a cronysm laden mediocre governance that foists poverty and misery on the populace. As currently structured, Nigeria cannot muster the critical funding requirements to execute her huge huge infrastructure deficit through the fiscal revenue mobilization sources available to the three tiers of government. Her inability to mobilize the needed non-fiscal capital is directly…
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“…..History never dies and the truth is always constant.” For the avoidance of doubt the following are the legacies of retired General Mohamadu Buhari as the maximum ruler of Nigeria between 1983 and 1985 and as the Executive President of Nigeria since 2015. All of these atrocities are in public domain, but it is important that once again, they are recorded for history. 1. Buhari’s overthrowing of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in 1983 was to checkmate the possible angst against the ruling oligarchy who are of his ethnic stock and keep the rest of Nigeria in bondage 2.…
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I’m frankly not excited about an Atiku Abubakar presidency. In a previous widely shared Facebook status update, which I developed into a full-length article titled “There Must be an Alternative to Buhari and Atiku” for my December 16, 2017 column, I dismissed Atiku as a cancerous old stager who is indistinguishable from Buhari. I also advocated a third force that is neither Atiku nor Buhari, which former president Olusegun Obasanjo quoted in his famous public letter to President Buhari. Nevertheless, if I have to choose between Atiku and Buhari, I’d choose Atiku with a lot of hesitation. There is no…
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In what appears to be a direct response to the feeble opposition of the Ebonyi State governor, Chief Dave Umahi, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo has asked Ndigbo to accept the choice of Mr. Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, as running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in order not to upset the political arrangements ahead of the 2019 general elections. President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, the apex Igbo body, Chief John Nwodo, made the appeal in a telephone interview with Sunday Vanguard, yesterday. He spoke against the backdrop of…
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We the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) find it beneath contempt that a failed governor and a stooge of the northern cabal in the person of Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu will callously seek to endear himself to the traumatised Afaraukwu community by mouthing what amounts to gibberish before a rented crowd of hungry individuals as part of his efforts to get re-elected in 2019. Not only is Okezie Ikpeazu a congenital liar and coward, he is criminal in receipt of stolen goods from the palace of Eze Israel Okwu Kanu. IPOB Intelligence Unit is in receipt of incontrovertible photo and video…
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South East leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have nothing against the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, as Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s running mate in the 2019 presidential election, this paper has reliably gathered. They are said to be peeved, instead, by the role of the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, in Obi’s emergence. The Governor was alleged to have insulted the South East and threatened to deal with the party leaders in the region for allegedly betraying an understanding he allegedly reached with them to vote for the Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal,…
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Shortly after former Vice President Atiku Abubakar became the flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on October 6, party members and other stakeholders began to recommend running mates for him and a short list began to feature on the front pages of Nigerian newspapers. Some of the names that were mentioned included former Governor Peter Obi, former CEO/Managing Director, Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) – Mustapha Chike-Obi, former Minister of Agriculture and AfDB President – Akin Adesina, former Minister of Finance and Supervising Minister of the Economy – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former CBN Governor -Charles Soludo, and Deputy Senate…
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that he will wholeheartedly support PDP Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to electoral victory in 2019. Speaking at the Government House Port Harcourt on Sunday during a Special Thanksgiving Service for the successful hosting of 2018 PDP National Convention, Governor Wike declared that at the convention he promoted the candidature of Sokoto State Governor, Rt Hon Aminu Tambuwal , but accepts the choice of the party as the way forward. He said: “I supported the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal fully. I have no regrets for my support for Tambuwal. “But the…
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Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, is rallying south-east leaders to back the choice of Peter Obi as the vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), TheCable understands. Both men were top favourites considered by Atiku Abubakar as running mate in the 2019 presidential election, with Obi getting the nod. However, south-east political leaders, comprising the zone’s PDP governors, national assembly caucus, board of trustee members and other party leaders, rose from a meeting on Saturday complaining that they were not consulted over the choice of Obi, a former governor of Anambra state. An insider at the meeting said Ekweremadu…
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When I encountered the immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, in Abuja about three weeks ago at his hotel room, he was discussing with an estate agent who was trying to secure for him accommodation to rent at his personal expense. Coming at a period in which many of his colleagues have bastardised section 124 (subsection 5) of the 1999 Constitution which deals with the remunerations (including gratuity) of governors and deputy governors, Obi has proved to be refreshingly different. And on a day such as this, he provides a ready example of the kind of moderation…
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An Abuja High Court has restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting the name of any other person except Senator Hope Uzodimma as winner of the Imo State Governorship Primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) which held on October 1, 2018. Justice O. A. Musa who gave the restraining order on Tuesday, also restrained INEC (2nd Respondent) in the case from processing or publishing the “name of any other person other than Senator Hope Uzodimma from the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the gubernatorial candidate for Imo State Governorship election for 2019” pending the determination of the…
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•Why presidency took action – top source •PDP, ex-Minister Fani-Kayode kick, fault ban A former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), 13 former governors and seven ex- ministers have been barred from travelling out of the country under Executive Order 6 (EO6) issued yesterday by President Muhammadu Buhari. The restriction followed the judicial affirmation of the constitutionality and legality of the Executive Order 6 (EO6). The watch-list and restriction were put in place pending the conclusion of the cases against those affected. Also on the watch list seen last night by The Nation are: ex-governors Saminu Turaki (Jigawa), Murtala…
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Anthony NZ. Sani is the Secretary General of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF). In this interview with NOAH EBIJE in Kaduna, Sani said it was not surprising that Northern elders are not in support of the return of President Muhammadu Buhari to power in 2019, pointing out that Northerners have never spoken with one voice on partisan politics since in the first republic. The ACF scribe also spoke on other national issues. 2019 politics is heating up the polity as more presidential aspirants are embarking on nationwide consultations with stakeholders. What do you have to tell the aspirants as a concerned…
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It is no longer news that the 1st October PDP IMO state gubernatorial primary election that produced Rt hon. Emeka Ihedioha as winner, is now subject to litigation. I am of the firm opinion that, often, the problem is not necessarily from the leaders, but as a result of the sycophantic, eye service and ego tripping traits of the followers and media tigers. This is why we are where we are today. Inasmuch as it is incumbent on Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha as the declared winner to be magnanimous in victory and carry everybody along, Atiku’s victory and leadership style…
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Delivering judgement against the APC, Justice Chinwendu Nwogu declared that the ward congresses of Rivers State APC were illegal. A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt, yesterday, nullified the nomination of Tonye Cole as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state on the ground that his nomination was a function of illegality and unconstitutional acts. The court also quashed the state APC senatorial, House of Representatives and House of Assembly primary elections on the premise of the illegal ward congresses. It further nullified the elections of Rivers APC ward executives, local government executives and…
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I was in a seminar in May this year where Atiku was present. He was asked to tell Nigerians how he planned restructuring Nigeria in the first one year in practical ways not just rhetorics. I was marvelled how Atiku responded. Atiku said that restructuring Nigeria is not rocket science. He made it categorically clear that the first major step at restructuring the country is to DECONGEST THE EXCLUSIVE LIST—handing over some of federal government responsibilities to states through constitutional amendment. He went further by saying that through the same constitutional amendment, some of the states responsibilities will be given…
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When you hear any of the closet BMC apostles lament…. “Ohhh they are now all Atikulating , just like Nigerians got carried away by Saint Buhari lies in 2015”.. Please don’t mind them. Don’t ever listen to such manipulations. No good student of History, who was an adult and experienced the havoc Buhari wrecked on Nigeria between December 1983 to August 1985 as Head of State, would have spared a thought of electing the Daura disaster to Preside over a 21st Century Nigeria in 2015. I was a young boy, leaving primary school and heading to secondary school when the…
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There has been this beautiful argument on why ndigbo should allow the southwest have a double header as VP for both the APC and the PDP. It is the sort of argument that many would dismiss as a beautiful nonsense. Yet, it is gaining traction and should not be denied access to publicity anymore. One must confess, the argument is fairly compelling. But it certainly falls short of some critical benchmarks. After the 2015 Presidential Election, which the PDP lost, the Party (PDP) set up a postmortem and reorganising committee headed by the Deputy Senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. That…
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Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Godfather of Lagos State politics, has every reason to give Buhari “an Ambode treatment.” The Atiku Challenge is real and bankable. The only option available to the incumbent is rigging! There has been some clarity about Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential election, with the end of the October 7 deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the conduct of party primaries at all levels. On Saturday, the ruling All Progressives Congress at its convention held in Abuja, ratified the choice of incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari as its flagbearer, with a curious vote tally of 14.8 million.…
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..NASARAWA LAWMAKER, KASIMU, GTC SAMUEL, JEFF NWOHA TO MOBILIZE “YAN” MEMBERS ACROSS IMO, NORTH CENTRAL IN ABUJA. There is a strong indication that Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has mobilized hired youths from Imo and north central to protest in Abuja against the removal of his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu as Governorship candidate of APC for Imo State. An insider source who disclosed this said that a lawmaker in the Nasarawa state House of Assembly and member of Uche Nwosu’s “Youth Ambassadors of Nigeria (YAN)”, Hon Kasimu Muhummed Kasimu is leading youths from the North Central while one GTC Samuel…
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An Abuja High Court has restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting the name of any other person except Senator Hope Uzodimma as winner of the Imo State Governorship Primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) which held on October 1, 2018. Justice O. A. Musa who gave the restraining order on Tuesday, also restrained INEC (2nd Respondent) in the case from processing or publishing the “name of any other person other than Senator Hope Uzodimma from the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the gubernatorial candidate for Imo State Governorship election for 2019” pending the determination of the…
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JUSTICE Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday ordered that the former governor of Edo state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole be served with an application brought before the court by an anti-corruption crusader, Bishop Osadolor Ochei seeking an order of mandamus compelling the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest and commence criminal proceedings against Oshiomhole over allegations of financial fraud. The Judge, who also ordered that the anti-graft agency be also served with the court process, stressed that the service be done within five days from October 9, 2018, when the order was made. Bishop Ochei’s…
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I have not lost the steam, I am currently dissecting issues thru surgical means to eliminate polluted areas. It is not over until it is truly over. Whenever a man lives in absolute denial, he tends to overlook the warnings of the gods. The spirit that mingles amongst the living, is either a victim of accident or household enemy. I have said this times without number, that Imo state must be rescued. But that can only be achieved thru concerted and popular efforts. The political situation in Imo today, portends great danger and a direct threat to our collective existence.…
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Welcome to a new Legislative Day in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria! Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, led the Principal Officers into the chambers; took the official prayers; and began the day’s proceedings at 11:05am. *EXECUTIVE SESSION* Senate moved into an Executive Session at 11:09am and resumed at 11:25am. Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki reported that at the Executive Session the Senate deliberated on the workings of the Nigerian Senate in particular and the National Assembly in general. Senator Babajide Omoworare moved for the approval of votes and proceedings II of Tuesday, 24th July, 2018.…
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Photo: Ahmad Lawan, leader of the APC caucus in the senate, with Saraki during a meeting at the senate president’s office on Tuesday Although the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has directed its members in the senate to oust Senate President Bukola Saraki, OblongMedia understands that the senators are more interested in restoring peace to the upper legislative chamber than doing the party’s bidding. Saraki has been under pressure to step down since he defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the APC. Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the APC, had asked senators of the ruling…
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There has been some clarity about Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential election, with the end of the October 7 deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of party primaries at all levels. On Saturday, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at its convention held in Abuja, ratified the choice of incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari as its flagbearer, with a curious vote tally of 14. 8 million. President Buhari and his supporters have continuously left no one in doubt that they intend to have a second shot at power and office. The number of party members across Nigeria…
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This is the 26th year since Atiku Abubakar first tried to be President. In those all those years, he has already tried four times. Only once, in 2007, did he ever get his party’s ticket. In February 2019, he will be a party’s presidential candidate for only the second time ever. By election date, Atiku would have clocked 72. Were he to contest and lose again, he would be 76 by the peak of the next election cycle. No Nigerian that old can ever be freshly elected into the country’s highest ever office. So, this is his last chance. This…
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APGA , Anambra Progressive Grand Alliance? Some fast talking Swift acting guy men from Anambra State came into Owerri and ripped off the purses of our own. Billions of naira left Owerri for Awka. Each male from Awka got a fair share. 19 aspirants bought nomination forms at 22million naira each. Do the calculation. You will get over 400mn More than 120 contested for the 27 slots in HOA. They coughed out a million naira each. Just add this up. You have 120mn 66 forms were sold for the available 10 seats of HOR. Each form was sold at 5million…
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At about 1 am. on Sunday morning, as voting by delegates at the PDP primaries was about to start, Retired General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau arrived at the stadium. Immediately many people saw him, they knew something was going to shift in one of the candidates favour. Lt General Gusau (retired) is not one of the Five Generals but he’s regarded as the core Man Friday of those Generals and one of the most important and feared power brokers in Nigeria. Perhaps, you won’t be wrong in calling him the sixth General. He was Chief of Army Staff during General Abacha’s…
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One of the biggest mistakes this country ever made was to allow APC to come into power in Nigeria. It must be sent packing in 2019. The PDP dodged a bullet; a bomb even with the conduct of its presidential primaries a few days ago. This was conducted in a calm, serene and collected manner. There were no riots. No bombs went off to mark the process as “do or die.” Nobody got killed, maimed or injured. The party did not find it necessary to insult the intelligence of Nigerians by boasting that it now has millions upon millions of…
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IF THE BIBLE WERE TO BE WRITTEN IN OUR TIME, THE STORY OF ATIKU COULD HAVE BEEN THUS 1. In the seventh year that king Obasanjo reigned over the kingdom, a great trouble broke out in the land. For when his time was come nigh that he may descend from the throne that he called unto himself noble men in the land. 2. And he declared unto them saying: “Now that my days on the throne are few, allow me therefore to rule over thee for another four years”. 3. And he gathered together of them that maketh laws in…
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I have to come to the point like a woman who had lost it all. A woman who lost her husband and all her kids in a gruesome fire, decided to end it all by choosing a better poison. She had the choice to choose the one that kills faster or the one that kills slow, or to just commit suicide; by either jumping to her death or by hanging . Like this woman , we Nigerians are faced with the option to choose our poison between Buhari and Atiku . This poison is not of death but of a…
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A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has asserted that Nigeria needs people like former vice president, Atiku Abubakar to make life more meaningful for Nigerians. In a letter to felicitate with the former vice president on his 70th birthday, Tinubu described the Turakin Adamawa as a man of faith, saying faith has kept him going and waxing strong. In the letter he personally signed, the former Lagos governor urged Atiku to accept that “there is a tide in the affairs of men”. b]Tinubu wrote: “I write to felicitate with you on the attainment of…
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Outgoing Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has regretted the failure of Sokoto Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, to emerge as the PDP presidential candidate at the party’s national convention held in Port Harcourt on Saturday. He also threatened to leave the party. Mr Fayose, in a statement on Monday in Ado Ekiti, said he supported his Rivers counterpart, Nyesom Wike, to ensure the emergence of Mr Tambuwal. Former Vice President Abubakar Atiku picked the PDP ticket for the presidential race after scoring 1,532 votes to floor Mr Tambuwal who got 693 votes. Mr Fayose, while reacting to the outcome of the primary…
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…says he ‘ll restructure Nigeria first year in office South East Coordinator Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organization, Hon Greg Egu says he wouldn’t have stayed put with the PDP presidential candidate for twenty years if he is an ethnic or religious extremist, impervious to other people’s sensibilities, feelings, aspirations and interests. On the contrary, Alhaji Atiku he said is a humane, kind hearted, sensitive responsive and detribalized leader filled with milk of human kindness who sees Nigerians as one people and treats everyone equally irrespective of religion or ethnicity. Hon Egu who spoke during a media parley in his…
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Senator Hope Uzodinma has been reaffirmed by the APC national as the authentic Imo State flag-bearer for the 2019 general election for the All progressives Congress (APC). Senator Uzodinma was winner of the Oct 1st Ahmed Gulak chaired primary election in Owerri where he scored the maximum 423, 895 votes to defeat his closest rival, Prince Eze Madumere who scored 128,325 votes. Governor Rochas Okorocha’s annointed successor and son-in-law, Hon. Uche Nwosu came a distant with 10,329 votes out of the nine contestants. Governor Okorocha went ahead to conduct his own kangaroo primaries in which he declared his son in inlaw…
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The Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere, has taken exception to the result of the purported governorship primary election rerun, where the unknown persons parading themselves as committee apportioned votes to him, describing same as monumental fraud. He described the action of Governor Rochas Okorocha led election committee as not only mischievous but morally unacceptable. Prince Madumere reminded the purported committee of the resolution of Imo All Progressives Congress Stakeholders (Coalition) not to go into any repeat of primary elections owing to the fact that the leadership, aspirants and members of the our great party were never consulted…
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The Convener of Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Sunday congratulated Atiku Abubakar on his emergence as the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate. According to Bakare, Atiku’s victory would make the 2019 election keen and interesting. Bakare, Senior Pastor, Latter Rain Assembly, spoke to newsmen in Ikeja after making a speech on Nigeria’s 58th Independence anniversary in his church. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Atiku, a former vice-president, was declared winner at his party’s convention in Port-Harcourt early Sunday. He polled 1,532 votes to defeat his closest rival, Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State (693 votes) and…
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WIFE of the president, Dr. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, has lamented over what she described as impunity of the highest order in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the conduct of the parties primaries. Mrs Aisha Buhari, Wife of the President delivering her vote of thanks after being conferred with Doctor of Philosophy at Sun Moon University, South Korea. Mrs Buhari has specifically accused the National Chairman of the APC Comrade Adams Oshiomhole of allegedly being behind the impunity in the party and called on Nigerians to resist it. The First Lady who has expressed her anger on the way…
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara expressed confidence former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar to provide the right leadership that would revive Nigeria and stimulate growth. Recall that Atiku on Sunday emerged the Presidential flag bearer of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for the 2019 general election. In a congratulation message, the Speaker charged the Presidential hopeful to ensure that unite other aspirants towards the success of the party. Dogara in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Mr Turaki Hassan said that with proper strategies and consensus, the PDP will win…
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Saraki has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will not disintegrate following former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s emergence as the Presidential flag bearer of the party, at the just concluded national convention of the party held in Port Harcourt. Saraki in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Yusuph Olaniyonu, and made availabe to DAILY POST on Monday morning, said that those hoping that the opposition party will be rocked by crisis had already miscalculated, vowing to do all within his power to ensure PDP’s victory in 2019. The lawmaker also commended the delegates to…
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Ibrahim Babangida, former military ruler, has stated why he is now supporting the candidature of Atiku Abubakar, the 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP). Mr Babangida, fondly called IBB, declared his support for Mr Abubakar after the latter emerged victorious at the elective presidential primary of the PDP in Port Harcourt on Sunday. Abubakar, popularly known as Atiku, defeated 11 aspirants of the party to clinch the ticket. He will then have to slug it out with incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari who is seeking a second term in office in the 2019 general elections. Babangida who had…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is set to give return tickets to three of the losers from Sunday’s presidential primary. They are: Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, Senate President Bukola Saraki and Senator Rabiu Kwankwanso. Vanguard reports the three men have been gifted tickets for the Sokoto governorship, Kwara Central and Kano Central Senatorial positions respectively. The tickets were given to them, after the names previously listed for the above positions were dropped. Atiku Abubakar emerged winner of the primary conducted in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital. The former vice-president won by a landslide, garnering 1,532 votes. Saraki…
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Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) was not fair to aspirants who partook in its primaries across the country. President Buhari emerged unopposed in a direct primary election, but the exercise in some states was marred by controversies. Commenting via Twitter on Sunday, the president’s wife expressed her disappointment over the way APC, led by Adams Oshiomhole, conducted the primaries. “It is disheartening to note that some aspirants used their hard earned money to purchase nomination forms, got screened, cleared and campaigned vigorously yet found their names omitted on Election Day, these forms…
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A nightmare for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has emerged the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 general elections. •1st – He emerged after the National Convention ended in Port Harcourt on Sunday October 7, 2018, polling 1,532 votes. •2nd – Governor of Sokoto State and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal gave a good fight, but polled 693 votes to finish second. •3rd – Third position went to Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki -with 317 votes. •4th – Former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso finished…
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It was a Super Saturday and Sunday…The Peoples Democratic Party has just concluded the Presidential Primaries for the 2019 elections….The Victor has emerged, the Wazirin Adamawa has just won a very tight three horse race…. This is the First for the former Vice President to be given the PDP presidential ticket and as one of its founding members, save the many defections he became notorious for, he now has a very formidable structure through which he can pursue his Presidential Ambition….. Now we have a perspective, it would be a straight battle between the Incumbent, President Buhari and a former…
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I’m frankly not excited about an Atiku presidency. In a previous widely shared Facebook status update, which I developed into a full-length column (see link in comment section), I dismissed Atiku as a cancerous old stager. I also advocated for a third force that is neither Atiku nor Buhari, which Obasanjo quoted in his last public letter to Buhari. Nevertheless, if I have to choose between Atiku and Buhari, I’d choose Atiku with a lot of hesitation. There is no question that Buhari is the absolute worst president Nigeria has ever had the misfortune to be burdened with. He is…
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This report explains why the crisis in the All Progressives Congress, APC, may not be about to abate, especially as leaders of the party accuse the national headquarters of meddlesomeness. As of yesterday, the party was battling to resolve the crisis it created. It was perhaps reflective of the critical pressure facing the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, that the party leadership recently directed its administrative staff not to acknowledge letters or petitions sent to the national secretariat by protesting aspirants in the party. Strange? Wait for more. A PROGRESSING CRISIS “We understand that they were told…
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The Red Dragons, Tigers and Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF) – these are just some of the armed groups which have sprung up to fight for independence in English-speaking parts of Cameroon, posing a major security threat to Sunday’s elections, in which President Paul Biya, 85, is seeking to extend his 36-year rule. In the absence of reliable opinion polls, it is impossible to gauge the level of their support but the authorities’ brutal crackdown has only pushed more of the local population into the arms of the separatists, analysts say. The militias, formed in the past 12 months, have made…
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For Twelve years, PDP has not been able to win governorship election in Imo State, and this has been because of interference from certain quarters. Ihedioha as the Former deputy speaker who worked behind with Tambuwal (APC) against Goodluck Jonthan was given the ticket in 2014 and he wasted it even with all the paraphernalia of office. With all the federal might as No 6 man in Nigeria, he could only win 4 LGAs out of 27. Imo people have continued to reject his arrogance and repulsive personality, even within the Mbaise Nation. PDP is about to lose its favour…
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…When in 2014, he was asked about his successor, Fashola said he was not worried yet at the same time expressed concern. “I hope, firstly, that the next person is a lot better than me. I hope that he can do in four years what we did in eight years, and that can only be beneficial to all of us. We want somebody who can do these things in a shorter time and make all of the things we have done child’s play. That is why I said I don’t want to be the best governor of Lagos State. The…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the bastion of hope for Nigerians to achieve economic growth; the only party with national clout and capacity to defeat the All Progressive Congress (APC) and President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election. The odds are in favour of the PDP which has been tipped to win the 2019 presidential election, however its choice of presidential flag bearer is crucial. The Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU), the consulting arm of The Economist magazine (which endorsed President Buhari in 2015) and a global bank HSBC released reports which categorically stated that that Mr Buhari would…
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 Ahead of the Presidential primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) coming up in Port-Harcourt the capital of Rivers State this Saturday, the aspiration of the Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki is rated to be far above those of the 12 other contestants in the race . The rating of Saraki’s chances in the race above others as explained in a book titled : ” Saraki… man wey sabi the way” , hinge on his hybridity as a person with biological links to the two divides of the country i. e , the North and South and…
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