VIDEO: Patient Jonathan supporters at Federal High Court In Lagos: Our 'mama' never wrote EFCC for plea bargain.@officialEFCC @GEJonathan pic.twitter.com/slO6a1DEVZ— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) February 20, 2018
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Tuesday 20 February 2018
VIDEO: Patient Jonathan supporters at Federal High Court In Lagos: Our 'mama' never wrote EFCC for plea bargain
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Buhari's Aide,Femi Adesina Pleads With Nigerians
“Facts are stubborn things.” —@FemAdesina— Presidency Nigeria (@NGRPresident) February 20, 2018
- FX reserves up to $42bn—86% increase in last 17 months
- Inflation down 12 consecutive months
- Sovereign Wealth Fund has seen additional inflows (new savings) of $500m in last 2 years, versus NOTHING between 2012 & 2015#AsoVillaToday pic.twitter.com/rW7pWuMq1X
Dana Aircraft Overshoots Runway In Port harcourt
A Dana aircraft with registration number 5N-SRI performing a flight from Lagos to Port Harcourt has overshot the runway and ended up in the bush in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Passengers on board the Dana aircraft are currently being evacuated from a nearby bush in Omagwa neighborhood where the Port Harcourt International airport is located in Rivers state. Emergency officials state that no one was injured as at the time of filing this report.
FAAN Suspends Akure Airport Manager Over Cows Invasion
FAAN Suspends Akure Airport Manager Over Cows Invasion. https://t.co/swuN9o6tvO pic.twitter.com/V9wyCjvEOs— Channels Television (@channelstv) February 20, 2018
Femi Fani-Kayode Says Emphatically Again That Buhari Will Go
First Mugabe went.— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) February 14, 2018
Now Zuma is going.
Next Buhari will go.
After that Biya and Museveni will go.
All these dinosaurs from the distant past fell in love with power and have refused to step down with dignity.
What is it about African leaders and power?
First Suleiman warned u.— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) February 13, 2018
Then Oyedepo.
Then OBJ.
Then IBB.
Now Soyinka.
U are not just in a "trance" but in a spiritual voodoo cage.
The broom spell has been broken, the sacrifices have failed, the sorcerers' enchantment has come to an end: it is time for u to GO.
Wednesday 14 February 2018
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma finally resigns.
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma finally resigns.
President Jacob Zuma, 75 years old South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has heeded the call by the ANC’s
top decision-making structure, the NEC, by publicly announcing this
evening at the Union Buildings in Pretoria that he will resign as the
state leader.
“I do take seriously and am grateful to the ANC for ensuring a better life for all. I was also elected in terms of section 86 of constitution and from that moment pledged my commitment to the constitution. It has been a great learning experiencing, the performance of which can never be done without learning," he said.
“None of us can claim the building of a new society and marshaling of former liberation movement…that it all happens in a straight line. It has detours and human errors and boulders strewn along the path.”“I understand full that wile I serve at the pleasure of my party the ANC…the door through which I officially came is through thr national assembly, without which no political party can impose its electorate on the state. As we fight our own battles in the corridors of political power, serving our very interests and serving our oppressors of yesterday who joyfully celebrate as we lynch one another, we forget the citizens for which we create a better life.”"I am not above reproach," Zuma said, adding that in his political responsibilities he was not the epitome of perfection and that he respected the prefix of the constitution. Zuma also said that he did not take up the role of president to enjoy the benefits of the office or the perks.“Make no mistake no leader should seek an easy way out, simply because they could not see life without the perks that come with the the office,” he added.
Zuma’s announcement follows that which was made by the
party’s secretary general, Ace Magashule, yesterday at the
organisation’s headquarters, Luthuli House in Johannesburg, at a press
briefing, that the NEC took the decision to recall Zuma.
Magashule said the resolution taken by the NEC was in
accordance with the ANC’s “rule 12.2.21.2 of the party’s constitution,
which accords the NEC the authority to recall any public
representative.”
The secretary-general stated that the party was resolute
that recently elected ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa will take over from
Zuma and be the one to deliver the state of the nation address (Sona).
The Sona was postponed from February 8 – Speaker of
Parliament, Baleka Mbete, said at the time the decision to push back the
Sona was based on fears of disruptions. However, the postponement was
in no doubt influenced by ANC internal power struggles, with the NEC
calling for Zuma to step down as the country’s president.
Several meetings have been held by the ANC’s NEC and NWC
for over a week to discuss Zuma’s resignation following his repeated
refusal to do so on request from these party structures.
On Monday, the NEC convened a special meeting at the Saint Goerge Hotel in Pretoria to discuss Zuma’s future.
ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule said the decision to
recall Zuma was taken “only after exhaustive discussion on the impact
such a recall would have on the country, the ANC and the functioning of
government.”
He further said the resolution had not been taken because
Zuma had done any wrong but because the organisation is of the view that
state and party leadership should be aligned.
On Monday, opposition parties called on Mbete to reschedule the motion of no confidence in Zuma a week ahead from the initially planned February 22.
However, yesterday Magashule said some of the issues the
NEC had to consider during its meeting regarding Zuma’s resignation were
“the opportunistic manoeuvers by the opposition in parliament including
motions of no confidence in the President, calls for dissolution for
parliament and other desperate acts.”
He said the decision about who would deputise Ramaphosa now that Zuma has resigned rests with the party’s president and its NEC.
Wednesday 7 February 2018
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Tuesday 6 February 2018
Monday 5 February 2018
Femi Fani Kayode Attacks Buhari Again
Thousands are slaughtered by Fulani terrorists yet Buhari has refused to arrest even one of the killers.7 Fulani are killed in Benue and not only are dozens of Tiv youth arrested the next day but the Tiv DPO is summoned to Abuja and accused of helping his people to kill Fulanis!— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) February 2, 2018
73 innocent and precious souls are slaughtered in Benue by Fulani herdsmen and Buhari refuses to visit the state to commiserate with its people. 40 cows are butchered in Nassarawa and Buhari insists on going there to express his condolences to Fulani herdsmen and Miyetti Allah!— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) February 5, 2018
Kudos to IBB for telling Buhari to go. That, together with OBJ's timely warning, has made Buhari history. We wait to hear from Gen. TY Danjuma. Once he slams Buhari too it is all over. It is either he goes quietly in 2019 or the dogs and the baboons will both be soaked in blood.— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) February 4, 2018
Fulani terrorists with their AK 47's about to launch an attack and taking orders from their leaders on their cell phones. This is frightful. This is what Buhari has brought to our country: death and destruction! God have mercy on Nigeria! pic.twitter.com/6APu8Des8J— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) February 5, 2018
2018: Buhari pampers the Janjaweed Fulani terrorists,says they"must be accomodated",calls them his "brothers", remains Life Patron of Miyetti Allah and enters into negotiations with them.— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) February 2, 2018
CONCLUSION-Nigeria is OWNED by barbaric ethnic supremacists and genocidal Jihadi warlords.
Thursday 1 February 2018
Video: Femi Fani Kayode Celebrates His Son
Happy birthday son! pic.twitter.com/xCTwU2E1u3— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) February 1, 2018
Tuesday 30 January 2018
POLICE IG,IBRAHIM IDRIS GIVES HIMSELF A PASS MARK IN POLICING NIGERIA
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has given himself a pass mark, saying he has done well as Nigeria’s police chief.
Mr. Idris, who delivered a keynote address on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, during the 9th General Assembly of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria, said his “successes” in the police was because of a code of conduct for police officers, which he said he successfully “institutionalized”.
The code is otherwise called ‘Our Creed’, Mr. Idris said.
“This code of conduct for police officers has succeeded in eliminating all forms of illegal and unlawful conducts that are not in conformity with the principles of democratic policing, such as unlawful arrest, prolonged detentions, torture, commercialisation of bail process, incivility to members of the public, extra-judicial killings and victimisation,” Mr. Idris told the traditional rulers, which included the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Abubakar.
He said such conducts had in the past contributed to the negative perception of the police.
He appealed to the traditional rulers to help sensitise Nigerians that they do not have to pay money to secure their release on bail at any police station.
“Encourage your subjects to report any police officer who demands money for bail to the Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU) which is domiciled in my office through the online media and phone calls,” the IGP said.
The IGP acknowledged the recent nationwide campaign for the abrogation of the dreaded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS for its impunity.
He said the abrogation would be counter-productive to the nation’s fight against crimes.
“The Unit is now to concentrate only on heinous crimes such as armed robbery and kidnapping. They are not to be involved in land cases and other minor offences. The Commissioners of Police in the states are also to have a close supervision on the activities of FSARS in their states.
“The traditional rulers have the role and responsibilities to observe the activities of FSARS and you can attest that they have been a tremendous improvement in their conducts and actions,” the IGP said.
The IGP said his “successes” in crime-fighting across the nation was because of the support from the various traditional rulers.
He, however, advised the traditional rulers to desist from conferring chieftaincy titles on persons with a questionable source of livelihood.
“If children and youth in our communities are aware early in life, that crime is evil and does not pay, it will reduce criminal tendencies in them,” he said.
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What Is Ayodele Fayose Up To?
Federal High Court, Ado Ekiti has ruled that EFCC lacked power to investigate finances of a State.— Peter Ayodele Fayose (@GovAyoFayose) January 30, 2018
The court said, in federalism, the FG is not an overseer or supervisor regarding finances of a State.
That only the State House of Assembly can investigate finances of a State.
Thursday 25 January 2018
EFCC Detains Ex-SGF Lawal
After an eight-hour grilling, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Babachir David Lawal was detained yesterday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Lawal’s interrogation by a team of detectives is expected to continue today.
He is being investigated over a N200million contract awarded to a company, Global Vision Limited, which is linked to him.
The contract was awarded by the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) for clearing of “invasive plant species” (weeds) in Yobe State.
A presidential panel headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo found Lawal guilty of infractions in the award of the contract.
The panel recommended further probe of some of the activities of PINE.
The ex-SGF was removed from office in connection with the matter.
Lawal arrived at the EFCC headquarters at about 11am following an invitation. He wore a Safari suit with a pair of black sandals.
After the interrogation, the EFCC opted to detain him so as to continue with the interrogation today.
A source, who spoke in confidence said: “Following the receipt of the report of the committee headed by the Vice President, it was important to interact with the ex-SGF.
Upon arrival, he met with a panel of investigators who had done preliminary work on the report.
Lawal was asked to make a statement and explain his role in the activities of PINE.
“In view of the volume of issues he needs to clarify, it was more expedient to detain him till he is able to complete the first phase of the ongoing interrogation.”
The source added: “We are looking into the accounts of the company implicated in the contract and Lawal’s.
“Some other officers of PINE are already under probe and some assets have been seized from them.
The Acting Head of Media and Publicity of EFCC, Mr. Sammin Ammadin confirmed the detention of the ex-SGF at about 7.45pm yesterday.
“He is with us to respond to a few issues,” he said.
source-the nation
Buhari’s Minister Dares Obasanjo
Barely 24 hours after former President Olusegun Obasanjo advised Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019. Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu, on Wednesday attended the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting with a bag full of President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election campaign caps.
The caps were packed inside a big bag popularly known as “Ghana-must-go.”
Shortly before the commencement of the meeting presided over by the President at Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the minister handed over the bag to the council’s secretariat staff members.
The workers are the ones saddled with the responsibility of distributing council documents and other items to members.
They were meant to distribute the caps to ministers and other council members in attendance.
Shittu, decked in a pair of suit, adorned himself with a blue cap.
The cap has the logo of ruling All Progressives Congress and the inscription “Continuity ‘19: Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo” on it.
Shittu had on Saturday inaugurated South-West Zonal Office of Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Organisation in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The caps he distributed at the council meeting were believed to be souvenirs he produced for the Ibadan event.
Shittu later told journalists that he decided to share the caps at the council’s meeting so that they could serve as samples for those who are interested in working for Buhari’s re-election.
He said, “The cap is for politics. It is not for FEC deliberations. The caps have been distributed to all members of FEC so that they will be samples for other persons who are interested in doing what we have done.
“I know that everybody will be involved, everybody will be guided and people will take decisions largely to support the President in the 2019 elections.
“A lot of people across the country have started calling us that they want to be part of our programme. They are glad that we have started this early and I am sure that we will be able to neutralise the nay sayers.”
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Wednesday 24 January 2018
Atiku Visits Fayose
Today, Jan 24th,2018,Former Vice President Of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar visited Gov.Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State.Could the Turaki of Adamawa's historic visit be in view of the upcoming 2019 presidential election in which the both the host(fayose) and the visitor(atiku) are eyeing?
Could this visit be linked to Ex President Olusegun Obasanjo's Outburst to President Muhammadu Buhari?
Obasanjo's Letter Should be Backed With A letter of Apology To Nigerians-Enny Idris
I am of the opinion that, President Obasanjo's open letter to President Buhari is quite revealing,but I must mention that the former who recently bagged a Ph.D in Theology was instrumental to the victory of the latter in 2015 against Jonathan . However, I opine that the octogenarian should write an open letter of Apology to Nigerians for aiding Buhari election in 2015
The End Has Come For Buhari, The Oppressor And Suppressor Of Nigeria-Fayose
The end has come for Buhari, the oppressor and suppressor of Nigeria and its people.— Peter Ayodele Fayose (@GovAyoFayose) January 24, 2018
Power to change this fraudulent change belongs to Nigerians and in 2019, they will exercise that right appropriately. Today, the only alternative to the oppressive govt of Buhari is a PDP govt
Fayose To Buhari:" Im Peter,The Rock,Avoid Hitting Your Head On The Rock"
My name is Peter, The Rock, the wise people in APC should tell Buhari to avoid hitting his head on the rock.— Peter Ayodele Fayose (@GovAyoFayose) January 24, 2018
Tuesday 23 January 2018
Femi Fani Kayode To Pres.Buhari "Your End Is Near"
When ur wife Aisha condemns u, when ur pol. associates like Bola Tinubu, Tunde Bakare, Wole Soyinka, Bisi Akande, Father Mbaka, Dele Momodu and others criticise u and when OBJ endorses restructuring and calls for equity for all the tribes under ur watch know that ur end is near.— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) January 21, 2018
Obasanjo And Buhari Are Both Expired People-Ayodele Fayose
Obasanjo (the accuser) and Buhari (the accused) are both expired people that Nigerians are desirous of getting rid of. They both don't know when they were born and have outlived their usefulness in the political life of Nigeria.— Peter Ayodele Fayose (@GovAyoFayose) January 23, 2018
Oby Ezekwesili Arrested
We were arrested and brought to the station. We asked what are the charges against us. There was silence. We decided to go since no charges, we were detained.— Aisha Yesufu (@AishaYesufu) January 23, 2018
I cry for my Nation
WHAT ARE WE DEMANDING? #BringBackOurGirls NOW and ALIVE
No amount of harassment would stop us pic.twitter.com/VhDR8gbvJO
Pres.Buhari Is Weak In The Knowledge And Understanding Of The Economy
Mr. Obasanjo, in a special press statement entitled, “The Way Out: A Clarion Call for Coalition for Nigeria Movement” said Mr Buhari has performed far below expectation and should honourably “dismount from the horse” to join the league of the country’s former leaders whose “experience, influence, wisdom and outreach can be deployed on the side line for the good of the country.”
Mr Obasanjo, a two-term president on the platform of People Democratic Party (PDP), said he felt disappointed by Mr Buhari, whom he supported during the 2015 election over then incumbent and candidate of his former party, Goodluck Jonathan.
Mr Obasanjo had written a condemnatory open letter in December 2013 titled “Before it is Too Late” where he highlighted the numerous failings of the Jonathan administration.
Mr Obasanjo argued that his decision to go against Mr Jonathan at the time was the right one, as events in the last three years have since proved, was for the good of the nation and nothing personal.
“Even the horse rider then, with whom I maintain very cordial, happy and social relationship today has come to realise his mistakes and regretted it publicly and I admire his courage and forthrightness in this regard,” Mr. Obasanjo said.
“He has a role to play on the side line for the good of Nigeria, Africa and humanity and I will see him as a partner in playing such a role nationally and internationally, but not as a horse rider in Nigeria again.”
Likening the state of the nation to lice-invested clothes, he said the country’s fingernails is stained with blood as it tries to kill the lice by pressing them in-between two fingernails. According to him, in other to make sure that our fingernails remains blood-free we must do what it takes rid our clothes of lice.
“The lice of poor performance in government – poverty, insecurity, poor economic management, nepotism, gross dereliction of duty, condonation of misdeed – if not outright encouragement of it, lack of progress and hope for the future, lack of national cohesion and poor management of internal political dynamics and widening inequality – are very much with us today,” he wrote.
While thanking Mr Buhari for the effort of his administration in rolling back the Boko Haram insurgency and his fight against corruption, Mr Obasanjo said Mr Buhari has ultimately failed in other areas where he had thought he would be efficient.
The octogenarian, who bagged a PhD over the weekend, admitted he knew Mr Buhari was weak in handling the economy. He said he however went ahead and voted for him because at the time “it was a matter of ‘any option but Jonathan’” and because he thought Mr Buhari would appoint qualified Nigerians to help out in that area.
He slammed Mr Buhari for turning a blind eye to corruption within his government saying it amounted to condonation and cover-up saying whoever is “going to justice must be with clean hands.”
He also berated Mr Buhari for allowing the clashes between herdsmen and farmers to go “sour” and messy saying the endorsement of the President by some governors to seek re-election barely 24 hours after 73 people who were killed by herdsmen in Benue State were given mass burial was “a sad symptom of insensitivity and callousness.”
But Mr Obasanjo reserved his harshest words for what he described as Mr Buhari’s clannishness, lack of understanding of the dynamics of politics, and his tendencies to pass the buck of his government’s inadequacies to the immediate past administration.
“But there are three other areas where President Buhari has come out more glaringly than most of us thought we knew about him.
One is nepotic deployment bordering on clannishness and inability to bring discipline to bear on errant members of his nepotic court.
This has grave consequences on performance of his government to the detriment of the nation. It would appear that national interest was being sacrificed on the altar of nepotic interest. What does one make of a case like that of Maina: collusion, condonation, ineptitude, incompetence, dereliction of responsibility or kinship and friendship on the part of those who should have taken visible and deterrent disciplinary action?
How many similar cases are buried, ignored or covered up and not yet in the glare of the media and the public?
“The second is his poor understanding of the dynamics of internal politics.
This has led to wittingly or unwittingly making the nation more divided and inequality has widened and become more pronounced. It also has effect on general national security.
“The third is passing the buck. For instance, blaming the Governor of the Central Bank for devaluation of the naira by 70% or so and blaming past governments for it, is to say the least, not accepting one’s own responsibility.
Let nobody deceive us, economy feeds on politics and because our politics is depressing, our economy is even more depressing today.
If things were good, President Buhari would not need to come in. He was voted to fix things that were bad and not engage in the blame game.”
Buhari and the APC do not have the answer
He suggested that Mr Buhari was not healthy enough to withstand the rigour associated with running a country like Nigeria neither does his party capable of providing the answer needed to sail the country through its difficulties.
Mr Obasanjo said Buhari should step down at the end of his first term with honour and dignity and attend to his health and should not listen to his “self-serving so-called adviserswho would claim that they love him more than God loves him and that without him, there would be no Nigeria say.”
“President Buhari needs a dignified and honourable dismount from the horse.
He needs to have time to reflect, refurbish physically and recoup and after appropriate rest, once again, join the stock of Nigerian leaders whose experience, influence, wisdom and outreach can be deployed on the side line for the good of the country.
His place in history is already assured. Without impaired health and strain of age, running the affairs of Nigeria is a 25/7 affair, not 24/7.
“I only appeal to brother Buhari to consider a deserved rest at this point in time and at this age. I continue to wish him robust health to enjoy his retirement from active public service.
President Buhari does not necessarily need to heed my advice. But whether or not he heeds it, Nigeria needs to move on and move forward,” he said.
“I have had occasion in the past to say that the two main political parties – APC and PDP – were wobbling.
I must reiterate that nothing has happened to convince me otherwise. If anything, I am reinforced in my conviction.
The recent show of PDP must give grave and great concern to lovers of Nigeria.
“To claim, as has been credited to the chief kingmaker of PDP, that for procuring the Supreme Court judgement for his faction of the Party, he must dictate the tune all the way and this is indeed fraught with danger.
“If neither APC nor PDP is a worthy horse to ride to lead Nigeria at this crucial and critical time, what then do we do?
Remember Farooq Kperogi, an Associate Professor at the Kennesaw State University, Georgia, United States, calls it “a cruel Hobson’s choice; it’s like a choice between six and half a dozen, between evil and evil. Any selection or deflection would be a distinction without a difference.
” We cannot just sit down lamenting and wringing our hands desperately and hopelessly.
Coalition for Nigerians
Having ruled out the PDP and the ruling APC of possessing the panacea to the malaise that ails the country, Mr Obasanjo therefore called for a movement he termed Coalition of Nigeria, which he offered to be a part of, to wrest power from the present ruling class and lead the country into the path of rebirth.
“We can collectively save ourselves from the position we find ourselves.
It will not come through self-pity, fruitless complaint or protest but through constructive and positive engagement and collective action for the good of our nation and ourselves and our children and their children.
We need moral re-armament and engaging togetherness of people of like-mind and goodwill to come solidly together to lift Nigeria up.
This is no time for trading blames or embarking on futile argument and neither should we accept untenable excuses for non-performance.
“Let us accept that the present administration has done what it can do to the limit of its ability, aptitude and understanding.
Let the administration and its political party platform agree with the rest of us that what they have done and what they are capable of doing is not good enough for us.
They have given as best as they have and as best as they can give.
Nigeria deserves and urgently needs better than what they have given or what we know they are capable of giving.
To ask them to give more will be unrealistic and will only sentence Nigeria to a prison term of four years if not destroy it beyond the possibility of an early recovery and substantial growth.
“The development and modernization of our country and society must be anchored and sustained on dynamic Nigerian culture, enduring values and an enchanting Nigerian dream.
We must have abiding faith in our country and its role and place within the comity of nations. Today, Nigeria needs all hands on deck.
All hands of men and women of goodwill must be on deck. We need all hands to move our country forward.
That Movement must be a coalition for democracy, good governance, social and economic well-being and progress.
Coalition to salvage and redeem our country.
You can count me with such a Movement.
Last time, we asked, prayed and worked for change and God granted our request.
This time, we must ask, pray and work for change with unity, security and progress. And God will again grant us.
Of course, nothing should stop such a Movement from satisfying conditions for fielding candidates for elections.
But if at any stage the Movement wishes to metamorphose into candidate-sponsoring Movement for elections, I will bow out of the Movement because I will continue to maintain my non-partisan position.
Coalition for Nigeria must have its headquarters in Abuja.
“This Coalition for Nigeria will be a Movement that will drive Nigeria up and forward.
It must have a pride of place for all Nigerians, particularly for our youth and our women.
It is a coalition of hope for all Nigerians for speedy, quality and equal development, security, unity, prosperity and progress.
It is a coalition to banish poverty, insecurity and despair. Our country must not be oblivious to concomitant danger around, outside and ahead.
Coalition for Nigeria must be a Movement to break new ground in building a united country, a socially-cohesive and moderately prosperous society with equity, equality of opportunity, justice and a dynamic and progressive economy that is self-reliant and takes active part in global division of labour and international decision-making.
“The Movement must work out the path of development and the trajectory of development in speed, quality and equality in the short- medium- and long-term for Nigeria on the basis of sustainability, stability, predictability, credibility, security, cooperation and prosperity with diminishing inequality.
What is called for is love, commitment and interest in our country, not in self, friends and kinship alone but particularly love, compassion and interest in the poor, underprivileged and downtrodden.
It is our human duty and responsibility so to do. Failure to do this will amount to a sin against God and a crime against humanity.”
Monday 22 January 2018
Real Reasons Why APC chieftain, Ghali Na’Abba, vows not to support Buhari’s second term
A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Na’Abba,
has vowed not to support President Muhammadu Buhari in his bid to be
reelected in 2019. Mr. Na’Abba made this vow during an interview with a TV presenter, Osasu Igbinedion, where he also revealed that Mr. Buhari had in November 2017 disclosed to the members of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives Party (APC) that he would seek reelection.
The former speaker, who is a member of the board, explained that he left the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling APC in order to support Mr. Buhari, but said he is now disappointed with the outcome as the president “has not added even an inch of value to democracy.”
“From his utterances, I believed he wanted to improve democracy. This is three years into his administration, he doesn’t work with the party, he regards party members as evil, he doesn’t consult anybody in the party.
“I had the occasion to sit down with the president and tell him this is what is wrong. And all he told me was that things were wrong before but now, with hiselection, everything is right. And I was very, very disappointed. “He promised to reconstitute the boards. Before, he refused to do that because he thought politicians are responsible for all the evils in this country. He also promised to increase the number of ministers. In a nutshell, the president has not added value to democracy by an inch. It is only when there is democracy and competence that every Nigerian, regardless of who they are, will be able to make it on life. There is no way I can support him”, he said.
When asked if the APC would produce another presidential candidate other than Mr. Buhari, Mr. Na’Abba said some party members have ”hijacked and pocketed the party.”
He distanced himself from those endorsing the president for a second term.
“Nigerians have chosen democracy as the system within which they produce their leaders, and that any president who comes must ensure that the democratic architecture is improved substantially because it has been weak, it is still weak and will continue to be weak.
“They said they have endorsed him to contest. I am sure they did not ask the opinion of anybody since they have put the party in their pocket,” he said.
He added that, ”there is no democracy in the country and no democracy in the party as well,” and that, ”Nigerians are in serious trouble.”
source-premium times
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