Showing posts with label Nigerian Political Parties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nigerian Political Parties. Show all posts

Thursday, 16 May 2019

Fani-Kayode reacts to alleged plot by Atiku to ‘overthrow’ Buhari govt


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Fani-Kayode reacts to alleged plot by Atiku to ‘overthrow’ Buhari govt
  Fani-Kayode reacts to alleged plot by Atiku to ‘overthrow’ Buhari govt
Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation has reacted to the recent claims by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration and the military that certain persons were planning to overthrow the government.

Minister of Information, Lai Mohamed, had said that Atiku and his party, were doing everything to overheat the polity. 

Mohammed further described their alleged actions as an act of treason.

However, in response to the claims, Atiku Abubakar in a statement by his media aide, Mazi Paul Ibe, described the allegations as all lies.



Fani-Kayode reacting to the claims on his Twitter page said only soldiers can overthrow the government, not politicians.

The former minister wrote: “Atiku and PDP is plotting to overthrow the Government in a military coup”- Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information.

“The Bible says, “the wicked run even when no-one is pursuing them.

“As far as I am aware, politicians don’t plan and execute coups: soldiers do.”



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Monday, 13 May 2019

Nigeria Insecurity: APC chieftain, Iheme blames PDP over insurgency, killings in Nigeria

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Nigeria Insecurity: APC chieftain, Iheme blames PDP over insurgency, killings in Nigeria
  Nigeria Insecurity: APC chieftain, Iheme blames PDP over insurgency, killings in Nigeria


The Abia North Senatorial candidate of the Accord Party (AP) in the just-concluded February 23 National Assembly election and now, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Chief Onyekachi Iheme, has slammed the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the insecurity threatening the unity and corporate existence of Nigeria.

Iheme insisted that the upsurge in insurgency, banditry and kidnapping in most parts of the country were as a result of the sixteen years failed leadership of PDP.

According to DAILY POST, the APC chieftain, who spoke in a telephone interview on Sunday night, also insisted that the former ruling party failed to tackle the insurgencies headlong when it started under its watch.

He opined that the APC-led federal government commitment in fighting and ridding Nigeria of corruption deteriorated the insecurity in the land.



His words, “It is the product of the failed PDP leadership. What you are seeing now is the result of the failure of the PDP leadership to give the country a direction. So, people were doing what they liked, benefitting what they did not work for. You will agree with me that this issue of insurgency, terrorism banditry and kidnapping did not just start from the present President Muhammadu Buhari-led government. You will also agree with me that the insecurity got worsened during the Presidency of Goodluck Jonathan.

“Today, we are witnessing direct assault on insurgency, because, the federal government is committed to fighting insecurity. The government is making every effort to ensure that the insurgency does not last longer. Normally, it had to get this high to come low. This is not a time to play to the gallery. The federal government is not paying lip services to the insecurity ravaging the country. You should also understand that terrorism is now a global phenomenon. Terrorism is not only peculiar to Nigeria. Some parts of the world are experiencing insurgencies.

“When the economy is in recession, when things are not working, when corruption is thriving, you have no other option than to indulge in crimes. A lot of people were benefitting from corruption. So, the anti-corruption fight of this government is what spring up this insecurity. Because of this government had decided to fight corruption, what do you expect? Crime and criminality will have to find away out.”




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Friday, 6 April 2018

Senator Lekan, Hon. Remi, Others Dump PDP For APC In Ogun

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Senator Lekan, Hon. Remi, Others Dump PDP For APC In Ogun
 
A former Senator for Ogun East Senatorial District, Lekan Mustapha has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Similarly, a former Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon. Remi Hassan, left the opposition PDP for the ruling APC
The politicians, on Thursday in Abeokuta, also led thousands of PDP members from the Ogun East Senatorial District of the state into APC.
The stalwarts said they were motivated by the developmental strides of the Governor Ibikunle Amosun led government, which they added, will definitely speak for him in the 2019 polls.
According to Hassan, “politics is about choice of who you relate with, stating that despite being seen as an antagonist of Amosun, he has never questioned his performance.”
He enjoined the governor not to relent till his last days in office, assuring the APC of his support.
On his part Mustapha said “when you have gold, you don’t go about looking for silver. We have gold in the person of Amosun, so there is no need messing around with silver.”
Receiving the decampees, Amosun said there will be no discrimination among old and new members.
“All members, are now one big family, with the mission to work for the good of the common people,” he said.

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Wednesday, 4 April 2018

2019: Rivers State PDP Commences Registration Of New Members As They welcomes APC Defected Members

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2019: Rivers State PDP Commences Registration Of New Members As They welcomes APC Defected Members
Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has commenced re-registration of old and new members into the party across the 23 Local Government Areas of the state in preparation for the June 16th, 2018 council polls..
Addressing council Chairmen and Secretaries of the party at the PDP Secretariat in Port Harcourt, yesterday, state Chairman of the party, Mr Felix Obuah, charged them to take the message to their respective LGAs and ensure that the exercise was given the seriousness it deserves.
He urged the party executives to go into all the Wards across the state and ensure that all the decampees from the All Progressives Congress, APC, and other political parties are registered.
“Even those of them who will be decamping today and wish to join our party must be registered. Do not restrict anyone from becoming a member of our great party. We need them and we don’t want anyone to stop them from registering due to personal interests.”
While handing over the party registers to the Chairmen, Obuah charged them to immediately reach out to the Ward Chairmen and Secretaries and ensure that the exercise kick-starts in earnest.
He warned that on no condition should the membership cards be hoarded, adding that even though most of the cards had expired, arrangements were being made to give out the new cards before the end of the day.
Obuah said the party will charge a token for the cards to ensure that members make financial commitment to the party.
He warned against adoption of candidates for the various elective positions in the forthcoming local government elections.
He said it will be out of place for him as state party Chairman to supervise such undemocratic practice, adding that the PDP was committed to upholding its constitution and give every aspirant a level playing ground.
“So it will be bad of you as a leader who is supposed to be an unbiased umpire to adopt one person and follow him or her to campaign. It is unfair and does not encourage,” he said, warning that the party will not hesitate to use its hammer on any chairman who indulges in such act.

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Tuesday, 3 April 2018

2019: PDP Experiences A Mass Exodus As About 7,000 Of Its Members Defect To APC In Yobe State

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2019: PDP Experiences A Mass Exodus As About 7,000 Of Its Members Defect To APC In Yobe State
About seven thousand members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Yobe State have dumped the party for the All Progressive Congress, APC.
The defection happened on Monday in Potiskum Local Government Area of the state.
The defectors said the resolution to join the APC was due to months of intractable divisions, crisis and lack of direction bedevilling the PDP.
Their leader, Alhaji Saleh Jauro, told reporters that the PDP was divided against itself with irreconcilable differences as the two factions in the PDP chapter of the Local Government had threatened to field parallel candidates to contest 2019 general election.
Alhaji Ibrahim Bomai, a chieftain of the APC, who facilitated their defection, said the ruling party was willing to accommodate more people that would work for its success in zone B and Yobe state at large.
“APC is very happy that you have now realized the truth and renounced your membership of the PDP by transferring your loyalty to the APC. I assure you that your coming is an indication and testimony to the good things Governor Gaidam has been doing to the people of Yobe State,” he said.
Receiving the defectors, the state chairman of All Progressive Congress, Alhaji Adamu Chilariye, said, “APC has been waxing stronger and has become more united. More people will soon join the party and we will collectively work to ensure its success at all levels during the forthcoming general election.”

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Monday, 2 April 2018

PDP Reacts To The Release Of Names Of It's Members As Looters By FG, Accuse Buhari Of Intimidation

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PDP Reacts To The Release Of Names Of It's Members As Looters By FG, Accuse Buhari Of Intimidation
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari administration of plotting to intimidate, harass and arrest its members ahead of the 2019 elections.
The party said this in reaction to list of alleged looters released by the federal government over the weekend.
PDP in a series of tweets on Sunday said the APC government was plotting to turn Nigeria into a one-party state.
It read: “The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party has been drawn to clandestine plots by certain agents of the federal government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to clamp down on key members of the opposition parties ahead of the 2019 general election.
“Part of this heinous plot is also to arrest members of the civil society, opinion leaders, the media and professional groups who refused to buy into the fabrications, lies, deceptions and propaganda of the @APCNigeria and Federal Government. @MBuhari
“The first leg of this scheme is to commence a vicio intimidation and harassment of @OfficialPDPNig members, who have refused to succumb to pressure to join the @APCNigeria in their undemocratic quest to create for a one party state in Nigeria.”

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FG Releases Another List Of PDP Members Who Looted The Nation's Treasury, Says The First Was A Teaser

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FG Releases Another List Of PDP Members Who Looted The Nation's Treasury, Says The First Was A Teaser
The Federal Government has released more names of people who had allegedly looted the nation’s treasury.
The second list was released by Mohammed, who stated that those complaining that the first list was too short did not understand that it was strategically released as a teaser.
He said, “At the press conference where the list was released, I did say it was a tip of the iceberg. Apparently, this does not mean anything to people whose style is to comment on issues they barely understand, or just to shoot down anything coming from the government.
“The Federal Government has a large number of alleged looters on its list. What was the PDP expecting when it challenged the FG to name the looters of the public treasury under the party’s watch? Did the PDP actually believe that the massive looting under its watch was a joke?,” he queried.
The second list of alleged looters includes the following…
Former NSA Sambo Dasuki: Based on EFCC investigations and findings alone (this is beside the ongoing $2.1 billion military equipment scandal), a total of N126 billion, over $1.5 billion and 5.5 million British Pounds was allegedly embezzled through his office.
Former Petroleum Resources Minister Dieziani Alison-Madukwe: In just one of the cases the EFCC is investigating involving her, about N23 billion is alleged to have been embezzled. She is also involved in the Strategic Alliance Contracts of the NNPC, where the firms of Jide Omokore and Jide Aluko got oil blocks but never paid government taxes and royalty. About $3 billion was involved. The Federal Government is charging Omokore and Aluko and will use all legal instruments local and international to ensure justice.
Rtd. Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah: N13.9 billion. N4.8 billion recovered by EFCC in cash and property.
Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika: N4.5 billion. N29m recovered by the EFCC so far.
Alex Barde, former Chief of Defence Staff: N8 billion, and EFCC recovered almost N4 billion in cash and property already.
Inde Dikko: former CG Customs: N40 billion, and N1.1 billion in cash recovered in cash and choice properties.
Air Marshal Adesola Amosun: N21.4 billion. N2.8 billion recovered in cash. 28 properties and 3 vehicles also recovered.
Senator Bala Abdulkadir, former FCT Minister: N5 billion. Interim forfeiture order on some property secured.
Senator Stella Oduah: N9.8 billion. Interim forfeiture order on some property secured.
Former Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu: N1.6 billion – from NSA.
Senator Jonah Jang, former Plateau State Governor: N12.5 billion.
Bashir Yuguda, former Minister of State for Finance: N1.5 billion. $829,800 recovered.
Senator Peter Nwaboshi: N1.5 billion
Aliyu Usman: Former NSA Dasuki’s aide: N512 million
Ahmad Idris: Former NSA Dasuki’s PA: N1.5 billion
Rasheed Ladoja: Former Oyo Governor: N500 million
Tom Ikimi: N300 million
Femi Fani-Kayode: N866 million
Hassan Tukur, former PPS to President Goodluck: $1.7 million
Nenadi Usman: N1.5 billion
Benedicta Iroha: N1.7 billion
Aliyu Usman Jawaz: Close ally of former NSA Dasuki: N882 million
Godknows Igali: Over N7 billion

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FG Releases List Of Names Of PDP Members Who Allegedly Looted The Nation's Treasury

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FG Releases List Of Names Of PDP Members Who Allegedly Looted The Nation's Treasury
The Federal Government has released a list of some of those who allegedly looted the nation’s treasury.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, released the list at a press conference in Lagos on Friday.
Mohammed said the individuals include officials in the past government.
The names in the list, revealed by the Federal Government, also include PDP chieftains who are currently being tried for corruption and financial crimes.
“The PDP has challenged us to name the looters under their watch. They said they did not loot the treasury. Well, I am sure they know that the treasury was looted dry under their watch. Yet they decided to grandstand. This shows the hollowness of their apology,” Mohammed said as he released the names.
Names in the list include:
PDP Chairman Uche Secondus
Allegation: On the 19th of Feb 2015, he took N200 million only from the office of the NSA.
Former PDP Financial Secretary
Allegation: On the 24th of Oct 2014, he took N600 million only from the office of former NSA.
Former National Publicity Secretary Olisah Metuh
On trial for allegedly collecting N1.4bn from the office of former NSA.
Dr Raymond Dokpesi, Chairman of DAAR Communications
On trial for allegedly taking N2.1 billion from the office of the former NSA.
Former SSA to President Goodluck Jonathan, Dudafa Waripamo-Owei
On trial, over N830 million allegedly kept in accounts of four different companies.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Cousin Robert Azibaola
On Thursday, a Federal High Court ruled that he has a case to answer for allegedly collecting $40 million from the office of former NSA.
The decision by the APC-led government to reveal the names of the alleged looters and the funds allegedly stolen is in response to the opposition party, PDP’s, challenge to the government to name those alleged to have looted the country and destroyed the economy.
Mohammed said this list is just a tip of the iceberg, and the APC did not make these cases up as some of them currently have cases in court.
“They are in court and the records are available. Some of the people on this list are seeking to plea bargain, and that is a fact.
“We insist that Nigeria was looted blind under the watch of the PDP and that the starting point in tendering an apology is for them to return the loot,” he said.
Mohammed said further that the APC will not stop talking about the alleged looting by the PDP.
“We will not stop talking about the massive looting by the PDP. They brought Nigeria to this sorry pass. We are now looking around for loans to build infrastructure, and they ask us not to talk about it. We will talk about it,” he said.

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Saturday, 31 March 2018

Fani-Kayode Drops Bombshell, Disagree With PDP Apology, Expose APC, Buhari, Others

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Fani-Kayode Drops Bombshell, Disagree With PDP Apology, Expose APC, Buhari, Others 
"Apology for what?" FFK disagrees with PDP chairman Uche Secondus 
The former Minister of Aviation doesn't agree that PDP National chairman, Uche Secondus should apologize to Nigerians. According to FFK, the apology was ill-conceived and unnecessary as the giant strides of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, cannot be matched by the APC government. Read his new article below
I received the news of the apology offered to the Nigerian people by my friend and brother Prince Uche Secondus, the National Chairman of the PDP, with mixed feelings.
For goodness sake what is the apology for? Is it the great achievements of President Olusegun Obasanjo or the commendable strides of President Goodluck Jonathan?
In my view Secondus' apology was ill-conceived and unnecessary.
And if PDP must apologise for its 16 years in power then on its own part the Buhari administration and each and every one of the APC leaders must be compelled to pull out a loaded gun, point it at their own temples and blow out their own brains.
It is either that or they must be compelled to take some lethal poison and die a slow and terrible death for the corruption, hardship, penury, bloodshed and evil that they have foisted and inflicted on the Nigerian people over the last three years.
I proudly served in President Obasanjo's government, which was a PDP government, for four years and his achievements were legion.
He inspired and encouraged our people and made them proud to be Nigerians again and he paid off our foreign debt, stabilised the country and pulled us back from the brink of war.
He treated every Nigerian fairly regardless of faith or tribe and he left a total of $64 billion USD in our foreign reserves.
He strengthed the economy and ensured that Nigeria was readmitted into the comity of civilised nations.
He boosted agricultural growth, fought an effective and non-selective war against corruption and ushered massive foreign and local investment into the country.
He built up local industries and assisted the manufacturing sector to prosper and thrive and caused the Stock Exchange to flourish.
He strengthened our Armed Forces, reformed the education sector, improved the health sector, encouraged freedom of speech and ensured that not one journalist, dissident or opposition figure was locked up for expressing his or her views.
He also managed the sharia crisis well and avoided a civil war, pulled us back from the brink of war with the Cameroons, brokered a successful peace deal in Liberia, quelled a military coup d'etat in Sao Tome and Principe and so much more. Is that what we are apologising for?
Anyone may say whatever they like about Obasanjo, and I do not for one minute suggest that he is an angel or that he is infallible, but one thing you can never take away from him is the fact that he remains probably the most patriotic, dedicated and effective leader that Nigeria has ever had and one of the greatest that the African continent has ever been blessed with.
Frankly we need to be careful what we say as a party and we should stop accepting and feeding into the deceitful and mendacious narrative that is being encouraged and fuelled by the Buhari administration and our collective enemies which asserts that we were all hopelessly corrupt and that we never achieved anything at all!
When we say that we are apologising it simply means that we have accepted that false narrative and that is not only a grave error but it is also unacceptable simply because such a narrative has no basis in reality, rationality, reason or truth.
It also does a great disservice to all the former PDP Governments and Presidents over the 16 years that we were in power.
We may have made a few mistakes here and there and we may not have scored 100 per cent on all fronts but to suggest that we are guilty of some heinous crime for which we are now constrained to apologise is not only misplaced, inappropriate and ill-advised but it is also unwise.
Worst still in the coming months we may be forced to pay a heavy price for it as we become the subject of ridicule and opprobrium.
The only thing PDP needs to apologise for is allowing a bunch of incompetent fools, unlettered rogues and uncivilised sociopaths and sadists like the APC to take power in 2015.
That is what we must ask God and the Nigerian people to forgive us for and nothing else.
My friend and brother Donald Duke, the former Governor of Cross Rivers state, and others have suggested that we must reach out to other political parties and form a broad-based coalition to confront and defeat the APC in next years presidential election.
That is a duty that is incumbent on each and everyone one of us and if we fail in discharging it God will judge us and deal with us ever so severely. Worst still, if we fail and Buhari returns to power next year, as Obasanjo has said, Nigeria will collapse.
If anyone needs to be reminded about just how inept and degenerate Buhari's government is I urge them to kindly consider the events of the last few days and weeks which prove beyond any reasonable doubt that they are nothing but a government of unconscionable liars, professional propagandists, disinformation merchants and first class scammers.
First came the Dapchi scam. Then came the Martin Luther King award scam. Then came the Lagos bus terminal scam in which Lagos, the largest city in Africa, was put under lockdown and all its roads were blocked simply because Buhari was coming to open a glorified bus stop and attend a colloquim for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu's 66th birthday.
For the last few days it has been one merry little photo-shoot and disingenuous scam after the other but two events which struck me more than any of the others were the following.
At the colloquim Vice President Yemi Osinbajo reiterated his view that the PDP were corrupt and a party of looters and that the looting under President Goodluck Jonathan's government and in the 5 years before Buhari came to power had destroyed the Nigerian economy.
This is a lie from the pit of hell. Osinbajo is not only a disgrace to his country but also a traitor to his Christian faith and Yoruba race.
He is hopelessly corrupt and he is a pernicious liar. All he ever does, apart from being the resident slave and proverbial Uncle Tom in the Presidential Villa, is accuse the PDP and other members of the opposition of looting and corruption yet the government that he heads with Buhari has indulged in MORE corruption in 3 years than the PDP did in 16.
Worst still they delight in wasting their enemies, shedding innocent blood, locking up their adversaries and encouraging and supporting their friends and associates to indulge in mass murder, genocide and ethnic cleansing.
The second event was the release of the list of names of those who have been described as "looters" by the Federal Government even though not one person has been convicted by a court of law of looting amongst all those whose names were listed.
It is simply ridiculous when a government of murderous slanderers, heartless disinformation agents and vicious scammers says and does things like this.
Simply put it is a clear case of the pot calling the kettle black. Yet before I go into that permit me to touch on an aside.
During the festivities they wheeled out an undoubtedly beautiful black British super-model called Naomi Cambell to pose in pictures with Buhari during his visit to Eko Atlantic whilst he was in Lagos.
Quite what the point of this exercise was I have not been able to grasp or fathom but it is interesting to note that the last African Head of State that this "pretty babe" took a picture with ended up being convicted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court at the Hague.
His name was Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia. I wonder whether history will repeat itself and Buhari will end up in the same place ? I guess that remains to be seen.
It was the day after the pose with Naomi that the Buhari government came up with their list of so-called "looters" which did not have the name of Rotimi "Oloriburuku" Amaechi or any other APC leader or government official on it.
Yet the truth is that no list of looters is complete without the names of Muhammadu Buhari, Yemi Osinbajo, Rotimi Amaechi, Babachir Lawal, Babatunde Raji Fashola, Abdulrasheed Maina, Maikanti Baru, Abdulrahman Dambazzau, Abdullahi Adamu, Mohammed Burutai and all the other APC leaders and Federal Government officials on it.
They are not only thieves but they literally invented the art of corruption and they are experts in it. They are corrupt in body, spirit and soul. They have stolen and misappropriated vast sums of money from the Nigerian state, diverted billions of naira from state government funds for their 2015 presidential campaign and they have snuffed out and destroyed more innocent lives than any other government in the history of Nigeria outside of the civil war.
When, God-willing, we get them out of power and take over we will open the books, expose them for what they are and each and everyone of them will suffer the consequences of their unprecedented graft and monstrous larceny.
One day Nigerians will discover that Buhari is not an angel but a devil and that his entire government and team is infested with demons and incorrigible rogues.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote the following in one of my essays:
"President Buhari forgets that our system of government is meant to be a modern-day democracy where the rule of law prevails, where dissent and a plurality of views and opinion is tolerated and where freedom of expression, freedom of association, the right to life and the right to a fair hearing is held sacrosanct and is guaranteed.
Worst still he believes in demonising and crushing all his enemies and holding on to power at all costs and through any means both fair and foul. If you doubt any of these things please ask Sambo Dasuki, Sheik El Zak Zaky, Nnamdi Kanu or countless others.
He leads a corrupt government which operates double standards and which turns a blind eye to the theft and graft that is being perpetrated by its officials and their friends whilst at the same time persecuting his perceived enemies and labelling them as being corrupt even though there is no real and tangible evidence of that so-called corruption.
And if anyone doubts that Buhari and his government are hopelessly corrupt then they should please read the latest Transparancy International report in which they said that corruption in Nigeria is "getting worse under Buhari".
Buhari is a tyrant and a genocidal maniac who believes in conquest and oppression and who has turned a blind eye whilst his subjects are butchered in their thousands by Fulani terrorists who call themselves herdsmen.
He has brought nothing but carnage, division, destruction, death, poverty and evil to our nation.
On several occasions he has watched silently and done nothing after his security agencies and Armed Forces killed thousands of his own citizens, whether they be Igbo youths that are members of IPOB or Shiite Muslims, after which they are buried in mass graves.
These are crimes against humanity for which he should be charged at the International Criminal Court at the Hague.
Those that are not killed are thrown into prisons or horrific detention cells all over the country where they are tortured and left to rot without any form of due process and against court orders to release them.
If anyone has any doubts about that they should please read the latest report by Amnesty International.
To add to all these horrors poverty and hunger has ravaged the land. If anybody doubts that they should please read the latest IMF report where the International Monetary Fund claim that Nigerians are "hungrier today" than they have ever been and that more of our people are living below the poverty line than ever before.
The truth is that apart from being monumentally incompetent Buhari is also shallow, sectional, divisive and vindictive and he has proved that he is wholly unfit and undeserving to be the President of a complicated, multi-cultural, multi-relgious and multi-ethnic mega-nation like Nigeria which needs to be led and handled with sensitivity, caution and care".
I stand by every word that I wrote in that essay and frankly, as each day passes, things are getting worse for the Nigerian people under his watch.
Permit me to conclude this contribution with the following:
Like President Obasanjo's devastating letter, President Goodluck Jonathan's consistent criticism, President Ibrahim Babangida's public admonition and Vice President Atiku Abubuakar's pungent opposition, General T.Y. Danjuma's bombshell, which was unleashed just few days ago against the Buhari government, was not only timely and courageous but also absolutely necessary.
He rightly alleged that our government, through its Armed Forces, are involved in ethnic cleansing and genocide and he boldly encouraged the people to defend themselves, defend their territory and defend Nigeria.
He has confirmed what yours truly and a handful of others have been saying for the last two years that the Buhari administration and their security forces collude with the Fulani herdsmen to slaughter and commit mass murder against our people.
This is unacceptable, it will never be forgotten and it will not go unavenged. It is only a matter of time before ALL those involved will suffer the consequences of their barbaric actions and be brought to justice.
Danjuma's concerns, coupled with the admonitions of Bill Gates, the worlds richest man, who has criticised the Buhari government viciously both whilst he was in Nigeria and after he returned home to America, prove beyond any reasonable doubt that Nigeria is in danger and that the Buhari government has messed things up very badly. Like Nero, they are playing the fiddle whilst Rome is burning.
If anyone needs to apologise to the Nigerian people it is Buhari, Osinbanjo and their APC and certainly not the PDP or indeed any of the other political parties.

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Friday, 30 March 2018

PDP Challenges Osinbajo To Name The Party's Corrupt Members

BREAKING NEWS
PDP Challenges Osinbajo To Name The Party's Corrupt Members
The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan, has challenged Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to name corrupt members of the party and provide proof of his allegations against them.
He spoke in reaction to the claim by Vice President that the PDP-led government at the federal level destroyed Nigeria’s economy. 
Professor Osinbajo made the claim while delivering a speech during a colloquium in honour of a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Bola Tinubu, in Lagos, earlier in the day.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, who was a guest on yesterday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today, however, faulted the Vice President’s allegations.
He argued that as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Professor Osinbajo, ought to have substantiated his allegation by providing names.
Mr Ologbondiyan said the Buhari administration, which the VP is a part of, should have used the evidence it had, if it actually had any, to arrest and try the members of the PDP it said were corrupt.
“We challenge him to stop branding figures. He should mention names of those whom he claims corrupted themselves,” the PDP spokesperson said.
“If he cannot mention their names, and he cannot cause their arrest and he cannot even list these people, he should keep quiet,” he said.
Ologbondiyan further advised the Vice President to stop blaming the party for corruption over the years.
He said, “Our advice to the Vice President, as a professor of law, he knows the pathway to follow when you accuse somebody of corruption.
“It is not enough to come to the public arena, more so as a man of God, and begin to make an allegation about corruption always.”
Mr Ologbondiyan also reacted to the Vice President’s claim that the Goodluck Jonathan administration allocated just N99bn to three critical ministries – power, works and housing (they were separate ministries then) in 2014 when oil price range from between $100 and $114 per barrel.
According to him, the money in question was not released for the PDP’s use.
Mr Ologbondiyan added that rather than continue trying to drag the PDP’s name and those of its members in the mud, the APC-led Federal Government should tell Nigerians its achievements in the three years it has been in power.

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Thursday, 29 March 2018

APC Crises: Buhari Lacks The Power To Determine The Tenures Of APC Officers - APC Tells Court

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APC Crises: Buhari Lacks The Power To Determine The Tenures Of APC Officers - APC Tells Court
 
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the power to determine tenure of its officers.
The party said this while opposing the hearing of the suit by aggrieved members of the party over the tenure elongation for the National Working Committee, NWC, led by John Odigie Oyegun before a Federal High Court in Abuja.
The aggrieved members, led by Ademorin Kuye and Are Mutiu (Lagos); Sani Mayanchi (Zamfara); and Machu Tokwat (Kaduna) had earlier sought an ex parte order directing the NWC members to show cause why the court should not stop them from continuing as national officers of the party effective June 30.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the APC, the party’s national chairman, Oyegun and the National Organising Secretary, Senator Osita Izunaso were joined as respondents in the suit.
At the resumed hearing on Wednesday, counsel to the agitating members, Jibrin Okutepa, SAN, demanded that the case be heard since Buhari had at the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party on Tuesday, admitted that the tenure elongation was illegal.
However, defence lawyers, Akin Olujimi, SAN, Joseph Daudu, SAN, James Onoja SAN, and Idris Yakubu, asked the court to adjourn the matter to enable them respond to the originating processes just served on them.
Daudu, standing as the counsel to the APC, argued that Order 7 Rule 1 provided for 30 days from the date of filing the suit for a reply.
He therefore asked the court to discountenance Okutepa’s submission.
Responding to the president’s comment on Oyegun and others’ tenure elongation, Daudu said whatever view thereof was Buhari’s personal opinion and carried no weight until the party met and deliberated on the matter.
He told the court, “As far as President Buhari’s view is concerned, it carries no weight until the party meet and decide and deliberated on it. As far as the party is concerned he is an ordinary member like others.”
Having listened to the argument of counsel, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba assured that the court would give fair hearing to all parties in the matter.
He also ordered the filing and service of processes before the court and adjourned till April 16 for hearing.

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