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Friday, 23 November 2018
Okowa Thanks Deltans For Continual Loyalty To PDP
… Receives More Defectors To The PDP
DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa yesterday (23/11/18) received more defectors from other political parties to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta South Senatorial District.
Receiving the returnees at a well-attended meeting in Warri, Governor Okowa observed that since 1999, Deltans have continued to keep faith with the PDP and the strength of the party has increased ahead of the 2019 general elections.
Former Governorship candidate of the MPPP, Chief Afro Biukeme, former member of the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon Misan Ukubeyinje, former Delta South Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Senior Apostle Yemi Omaghomi, Chief Efe Happy, Col Ideh Rtd, Chief Omolubi Omowunmi, Comrade Nathaniel Ovedhe, Ikede Onome Joseph, Femi Uwhawha, among other leaders of different political parties, led their followers to join the PDP at the meeting.
Elated Governor Okowa who spoke through his Deputy, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro said, "I thank you all for the painstaking efforts you have made over time, contributing to the victories we have always had in the PDP since inception.”
The governor called on all members of the PDP to increase the tempo of the door-to-door sensitization of registered voters within their various units to ensure that everybody collects their Permanent Voters Cards {PVCs.}
He urged Deltans to vote for all the candidates of the PDP in the forthcoming general elections, noting that the PDP will always have the interest of the people at heart.
Chairman of the PDP in the state, Olorogun Kingsley Esiso who joined Governor Okowa to receive the decampees, thanked party leaders from the district for making it possible for those who are remaining in opposition political parties to return to the PDP
He urged party faithful to remain resolute as PDP in the state led by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa will win in all the offices in the 2019 general elections.
"Let me thank our party leaders for making this occasion possible, and let me also assure you all that in PDP we all have equal rights irrespective of when you joined the party,” Chief Esiso said.
Earlier in a welcome address, the Chairman of the PDP, Delta South Senatorial District, Chief Emman Amgbaduba urged party faithful to be united and committed to the party to enable them re-elect Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and other candidates of the party in the 2019 general elections.
He noted that PDP is a party for all Deltans and urged the returnees and the new entrants to work assiduously for the victory of the party in the coming elections.
“Governor Okowa is from Delta North Senatorial district and this is their turn to produce the governor for another term; beyond coming from Delta North, he has performed creditably well in all parts of the state even as we ask for more roads and schools in our Senatorial District,” he said.
Other leaders who spoke at the event include former Secretary to the Delta State Government, Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay, Dr Joseph Otumara, Chief Emmanuel Okumagba among others.
They resolved to work for the re-election of Governor Okowa.
The immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of sealing off houses belonging to innocent people in the state under the guise that they are linked to him.
In a statement made available to PREMIUM TIMES and signed by his media aide, Lere Olayinka, Mr Fayose said he was informing the public “ahead of the EFCC’s usual blackmail and media trial.”
According to Mr Fayose, “Just been informed that operatives of the EFCC in collaboration with the APC government in Ekiti are going about sealing houses of innocent people in the state, under the guise that the houses are linked to me.
“This is another wild goose chase and the usual media campaign against my person.
“It is only in our country that an anti-corruption agency will first go about sealing houses before determining the ownership, which can be done so easily by visiting relevant agencies. “I am therefore informing the public ahead of their usual blackmail and media trial.
“None of the properties in question is owned by me and the records are there for anyone that is interested to see.
“The EFCC is advised to stop going about looking for ways to malign my person just because of their hatred as a result of my uncompromising stands on national issues.
“Even if the commission is being pressured from ‘above’ to persecute Fayose at all cost, it should at least, do its job diligently to save itself from persistent embarrassment.”
The EFCC refused to react to Mr Fayose’s accusation, saying the matter is already in court.
“The case is already in court, so we can not join issues with anybody. I don’t know why anybody would want to cry more than the bereaved,” EFCC spokesperson, Tony Orilade, stated in a text message after PREMIUM TIMES reached out for the agency’s reaction.
“Let anybody who feels his fundamental human rights of owning a property in any part of Nigeria has been encroached send us presentation and we would listen.”
Mr Fayose and his company, Spotless Limited, are facing an 11-count charge of conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of ₦2.2 billion.
According to the EFCC, Mr Fayose received ₦1.2 billion to fund his 2014 gubernatorial campaign in 2014, a sum the agency said he ought to have known formed part of proceeds of an unlawful act.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it cannot immediately yield to calls to move against Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State who is accused of receiving millions of dollars in bribe, saying Mr Abdullahi enjoys constitutional immunity from criminal proceedings.
“The governor is still serving and constitutionally is covered by immunity. Being that as it may, the matter is in the instance sub judice,” the EFCC posted from its Twitter handle Thursday, during a tweet meet organised by Tap Nitiative for Citizens Development, a public accountability think-tank.
Mr Ganduje has been dogged by public scorn since videos appearing to show him engaging in brazen contract racketeering started appearing online in October. At least six of such videos have been published since the first clip was released on October 11.
Daily Nigerian, an online-based publication, said it has up to 15 of such videos of Mr Ganduje. The governor could be seen receiving wads of United States dollars from persons believed to be public works contractors.
When Tap Nitiative demanded further explanation because the EFCC moved against Ayo Fayose while he was the governor of Ekiti State, the anti-graft office said it does not usually “give out information on investigations.”
“Investigation of anyone for an alleged fraud remains a covert process,” the EFCC added.
The videos were recorded in 2017 in what Daily Nigerian described as a sting operation aimed at beaming the spotlight on the governor’s alleged penchant for contract racketeering.
The governor has dismissed the videos as “cloned” and filed a lawsuitagainst the publisher of the online newspaper, Jaafar Jaafar.
But PREMIUM TIMES’ graphics experts who examined some of the videos corroborated the position of Daily Nigerian, which earlier said its internal and independent graphics analysts authenticated the clips.
The Kano House of Assembly which initially initiated a probe into the allegations and invited Daily Nigerian suspended the process on Monday in deference to a court ruling over a suit to stop the probe.
Today’s comments from the EFCC marked the third time the agency would wave Mr Ganduje’s scandal, in defiance of demands from Nigerians that the matter be urgently probed to show the EFCC is independent and unbiased.
When PREMIUM TIMES first asked the agency whether it had launched inquiry into Mr Ganduje’s videos, its spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren said he knew little of the issue and therefore could not speak on it.
At a press briefing last week, the acting head of the anti-graft agency, Ibrahim Magu, repeatedly declined to answer questions about the corruption allegations against Mr Ganduje, who is a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress.
Daily Nigerian reported last month President Muhammadu Buhari ordered security agencies to probe the videos when they were brought to his attention, but the outcome remained unclear. The president, however, praised Mr Ganduje as a highly responsible governor during a visit to Paris earlier this month.
Sunday, 11 November 2018
It is no longer news that the embattled National chairman of APC Adams Aliu Oshiomole is at logger heads with majority of the Governors under the APC.
It is alleged that the Governors petitioned the DSS over bribe collected by the APC chairman in the last inconclusive primaries of the party held across the Nation.
Oshiomole sources said has fled to America to evade a clampdown by the EFCC and the DSS.
Our reporter who tried to get across to the APC chairman to hear his own part of the story was yelled at over the phone.
The source who is a personal aide to Adams Oshiomle screamed at our reporter and said Oshiomole was only acting smart and we should stop disturbing his peace over frivolous petitions.
He was quoted to have said Oshiomole was not ruffled with the petitions flying everywhere,insisting that Oshiomole was extorted when he was seeking the chairmanship of APC and only did the needful by demanding for his money back.
He alleged Oshiomole told his aides that it is a case of cunny man die cunny man bury am.
He quoted Oshiomole as saying “When i was giving out hundreds of millions to APC governors to make me their chairman there was no petition to DSS now i decided to collect my money back as APC chairman they have petitioned me to DSS.
Touch me and i would cripple APC
A case of cunny man die cunny man bury am’
The game seems more interesting as the countdown to the general elections begin
Wednesday, 7 November 2018
There are strong indications that Buhari campaign groups and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are in disorder over moves to secure an American visa for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
The Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke, said this in a statement jointly signed in Abuja on Tuesday, describing the effort as another chapter in PDP’s “book of corruption”.
The organisation said that the PDP had itself claimed it would be paying Brian Ballard, who is believed to be close to U.S. President Donald Trump, the equivalent of N400 million over a one year period to ostensibly lobby Washington on behalf of its candidate ahead of the 2019 Presidential election.
The group added that even if Trump’s friend convinced the U.S. authorities to clear the path for Atiku to finally enter the U.S., it would not clear the allegation of corruption scandals that over the years stuck to it.
According to the group, Nigerians were not prepared to easily forget how the PDP Presidential candidate’s name featured in high-profile sleaze probe, ranging from that of the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF) to Siemens during his 8-year tenure as Vice President.
“Not even a close ally of Trump can wipe clean a slate of corruption that took years of intense begging for his former principal to reluctantly accept his apology but which he still wants him to seek the forgiveness of Nigerians”.
The group, however, stated that it was not surprised that a party with credibility problem should think the solution to its problem was in throwing money around.
“These are people that have been conditioned to see dollar rain as solutions to local credibility problems. “Coming soon after they had shared wads of dollars among party delegates; they did not feel bad spending more to boost the economy of Dubai where they have been holding strategy sessions. “The same people have signed a deal of 90,000 dollars a month to secure an American visa for a morally challenged presidential candidate.
“They are busy boosting businesses in other countries, yet they are running a presidential campaign with the theme of ‘making Nigeria great again. How ironic!” BMO added. “We want Nigerians to see the difference between President Muhammadu Buhari whose party does not need to spend money in any currency to whitewash his image and that of a candidate that needs to pay the equivalent of N400 million to clean its image in just one country.”
Friday, 19 May 2017


Acting President Yemi Osinbajo


Tuesday, 25 April 2017


“There are some people who are still there attending meeting to reconcile; you see what they are doing now, Modu Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi, and recently Jonathan and Seriake (Dickson); it is not likely that an agreement will be reached very soon.


Monday, 16 May 2016
Plans are in the works to see to the invitation of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan for questioning by the
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The EFCC recently revealed that it will soon invite the former president when it is through with its
investigation, an information that has stirred debates all over social media, as Nigerians have voiced out
regarding the development.
Nigerians call for all past leaders of Nigeria to be questioned by the EFCC.
Nigerians have gone ahead to demand that Jonathan will not be the only ex-leader of Africa’s largest
nation to answer for his time in office.
One Facebook user named Achuson Offor said: “Why not invite Amaechi and Baba Tinubu? Who even the
international community had pronounced as most corrupt politicians!”
Wilberforce Captain was unhappy with the development, he said: “We the Niger Delta people do not like
any disgrace giving to our Niger Delta son called Jonathan of Africa. For peace to reign or add to the
already brewing wahala that is ongoing in the Niger Delta to get worse for Buhari’s govt.
“When will EFCC invite Gov Amaechi and others whose corrupt cases are very visible? When the anti
corruption fight is lopsided, the trust is eroded?” asked Gladys Arisa.
Taking it a step further, Andrew Lucky said: “EFCC should invite olusegun obasanjo, abdulsalami
abubakar, Abrahim babangida, and others. Not only Jonathan.”
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Anyanwu Lilian insinuated that the EFCC,keeps following the directives of PMB in witch-hunting others in
this country.
David Ugbe said “After Goodluck who next ? OBJ said Buhari will deal with Goodluck when he assumes
office and that is d script he is busy playing. Yet people are dying in hundreds everyday due to hunger
and hardship. But we have a president who has traveled almost round d world in one year, flexing wit our
money. When shall his EFCC invite his son who was secretly smuggled into CBN pay roll?”
Meanwhile, the Concerned Ijaw Transformation Ambassadors (CITA) has called on Bola Tinubu, Wole
Soyinka, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Patrick Obahiagbon, John Oyegun and the Save Nigeria Group to
apologize to former president Goodluck Jonathan.
Vanguard reports that the group demanded the apology over the sinister role these prominent Nigerians
played when the ex-president announced the removal of fuel subsidy in January 2012.
According to a statement signed by Arerebo Salaco Yerinmene Peters, the president of the CITA, and Obiri
Wenebokefe Jonathan, the spokesman of the group, these professed patriots incited and led Nigerians to
protest against the removal of subsidy on fuel.
Tuesday, 12 April 2016
Senate Ask Amaechi To Resign
The Nigerian Senate has asked the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, to resign his appointment as Minister or apologize to the Senate and Nigerians over the Lagos-Calabar rail project that has generated a lot controversies in the last 48 hours.
Members of the National Assembly and the presidency have been at loggerheads after media reports alleged that the National Assembly members had removed
the Lagos-Calabar rail project from the budget presented to it by President Buhari.
The reports alleged that the National Assembly members diverted the money meant for the said project to the Lagos- Kano project, favoring the Northern region. Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara and Chairman House Committee on Appropriation Abdulmumin Jibrin, via their twitter handles refuted the claims while the Chairman Senate Committee on Transport, Gbenga Ashafa, in a statement he released, said although the project was not included in the original budget forwarded to the National
Assembly by Buhari, Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi approached his committee to include the said project. Read the senate's position on the matter below...
The Senate today (Monday, April 11) advised the Presidency to come clean with Nigerians on the 2016 Budget and stop engaging in surreptitious campaigns of calumny against the Senate in order to cover up its serial errors. Reacting to claims in the media credited to the Executive arm of government on the 2016 budget, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, in a statement in Abuja, said the National Assembly had bent backwards to wring a coherent document out of the excessively flawed and chaotic versions of the budget proposal submitted to the National Assembly. He said : "while the executive is mandated to prepare and lay before the National Assembly a proposed budget detailing projects to be executed, it should be made clear that the responsibility and power of appropriation lies with the National Assembly. If the presidency expects us to return the budget proposal to them without any adjustments, then some people must be living in a different era and probably have not come to terms with democracy." "We make bold to say however, that the said Lagos-Calabar rail project was not included in the budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari and we challenge anyone who has any evidence to the contrary to present such to Nigerians." Since the beginning of the 2016 budget process, it is clear that the National Assembly has suffered all manners of
falsehood, deliberate distortion of facts, and outright blackmail, deliberately aimed at poisoning the minds of the people against the institution of the National Assembly. We have endured this with equanimity in the overall interest of Nigerians. Even when the original submission was surreptitiously swapped and we ended up having two
versions of the budget, which was almost incomprehensible and heavily padded in a manner that betrays lack of coordination and gross incompetence, we refused to play to the gallery and instead helped the Executive to manage the hugely embarrassing situation it has brought upon itself; but enough is enough."
"This latest antics of this particular minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, is reckless, uncalled for and dangerously divisive. Apart from setting the people of the southern part of the country against their northern compatriots, it potentially sets the people against their lawmakers from the concerned constituencies and sets the
lawmakers against themselves. This manner of reprehensible Mischief has no place in a democracy. We hereby demand from Mr. Amaechi a publicly tendered
apology if he is not able to show evidence that the Lagos-Calabar road project was included in the budget. Otherwise, he should resign forthwith.
"Finally, by the provision of Section 81 (4) (a) and (b) of the constitution, the President is allowed to sign the budget and kick-start the implementation of the other areas that constitute over 90 percent of the budget where there is agreement between both arms, even as we engage ourselves to resolve the contentious areas, if there were any. We therefore maintain that even this contrived discrepancies are not sufficient excuse not to sign the budget into law."
"We therefore urge President Buhari to sign the 2016 budget without any further delay. For every additional day that the president withholds his assent from the bill, the hardship in the land, which is already becoming intolerable for the masses of our people gets even more complicated. Certainly,
as primary representatives of the people we shall not vacate
our responsibility and watch the people continue to suffer unduly."
Signed
Sen. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi
Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs
Thursday, 7 April 2016
BUHARI bows to SUBSIDY.
GEJ laughs.He remembered BUHARI calling him a fraud.
He remembered the Occupy Nigeria group.
He remembered Wole Soyinka's speech.
He remembered Tam David-West's venom.
He remembered Ojota Lagos State.
They said he was clueless, But better than helpless.
They said he was weak, But better than stupid.
They said he was corrupt, But better than insincere.
He is a human not a Dog!Humans don't eat their vomit.
Dog eats their vomit.
Today, again I celebrate My President of the noble 5% President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
You are not a fraud you are not weak you are not clueless you are not corrupt Nigeria and Nigerians are beginning to regret as BUHARI fails in virtually all his promises so far...... Which way my people???
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