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- 2019 Presidency: Group Backs Atiku, Promises To Deliver 10m Votes
- POLITICAL TSUNAMI: APC Cross River, Suffers Heavy Loss As Florence Ita-Giwa, Soni Abang, Tony Odey, Others Dump Party
- Buhari Reacts To Reports Alleging Him Of Saying ‘40m Nigerians Are Mad’
- 2019 PRESIDENCY: We Won’t Use Government Money For Buhari's 2019 Campaign –Lai Mohammed
- Peter Obi Wanted Savings, Amaechi, Oshiomhole, Fashola, Akpabio Rejected The Idea - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
| 2019 Presidency: Group Backs Atiku, Promises To Deliver 10m Votes Posted: 17 Nov 2018 12:01 AM PST
Alh. Atiku Abubakar, presidential ambition received a boost yesterday as a group, Atiku/Obi Presidential Movement, for the actualization of the Presidential ambition, has promised to deliver 10 million votes for the former Vice President.The Leader of the group, who is the Director General of the movement, Amb. Niyi Omoyele, disclosed this when he led National and State executives on a courtesy visit to the wife of the Presidential candidate of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).The group which also vowed to resist all forms of rigging in the Presidential election, said that the movement had structures at the grassroots and across the 774 local government of Nigeria, the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN reports.Omoyele said that the movement has been in existence since the return of democracy in 1999 and had campaigned for Obasanjo-Atiku, Yar,adua-Goodluck, Goodluck-Sambo and was now going to campaign for Atiku-Obi.The Ambassador, said that any attempt to rig the 2019 election would be resisted by members of the group as the electoral law now provides for the instant announcement and transmission of the result from the polling unit and wards level in the presence of all stakeholders."Members of the Atiku/Obi Presidential movement are optimistic that 2019 election is the divine time for Atiku's Presidency because of the overwhelming acceptance of his candidacy across the country. "Nigerians are desirous of change, the type of change that only Atiku Abubakar can provide," he said. He reiterated that the group is targeting to mobilise at least 10 million voters in synergy with other like minds toward the successful outing of Atiku/Obi at the poll. A member of the national executive of the group Prince Joshua Idowu described Atiku as a good product that was easy to sell to the electorate. The National women leader of the group Mrs Amaka Ofor also said that their women across the 774 local government in Nigeria have concluded arrangement to stage a one million solidarity walk for Atiku in Abuja. Responding to the group, Atiku's wife, Hajia Titi Abubakar thanked them for the visit and appreciated them for their continued support and solidarity to her husband. She assured them that Atiku Abubakar was a man of integrity and that he would keep his promises to Nigerians and would never forget them when he emerged. Other members of the group who also featured at the visit include: Gomez Okpala, Director for National Mobilisation and Mrs. Jumai Gowon, Director for Special Duties. NAN Related Topics: #AtikuObiPresidentialMovement #PDP #2019Presidency Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||
| Posted: 16 Nov 2018 05:19 PM PST
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Thursday, at the Municipal Council grounds in Calabar, suffered a serious political tsunami as a former senator and two-time Special Adviser to two Nigeria presidents, Princess Florence Ita- Giwa, returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). |
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| PDP Members |
She added that the governor, Prof Ben Ayade, has performed so much magic which all must collectively return him back to sustain his vision aimed at repositioning Cross River and making it the envy of others.
"I cannot fight Ayade because he made the hitherto abandoned Bakassi Local Government Area to be celebrated among the existing local government areas in the state and indeed Nigeria. I am back to sustain democracy, to join hands with Ayade to win elections, for the sustenance of carnival which is dear to me and for the governor's industrialization drive," Ita- Giwa intimated.
On his part, Ambassador Soni Abang expressed happiness that he finally took the decision to return to the PDP.
According to him, "PDP is a great family and there is no way Uche Secondus will be a national chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku contesting as President and Prof Ben Ayade coming as governor or Senator Imoke urging me to come back to the fold and I will say no," the former envoy noted.
On his experiences during his stint with the APC, Abang disclosed that "while there, we couldn't agree even on the party exco, we couldn't conduct our primaries, the party does not respect court orders and today the same party is trying to cripple our judiciary," adding that, "the national chairman of PDP today has redefined and remodeled the party as evidenced in the last national convention adjudged as the most transparent in the country."
Lauding the programs and policies of Governor Ben Ayade which has endeared him and his team to return to the political family, Irek who was a 1992 House of Representatives member representing old Obubra Federal constituency said: "Your programs are programs of tomorrow, nobody will allow any senatorial district to cheat the other, we are back to our home and the time for business is now and we are going to deliver."
Former governor, Senator Liyel Imoke said he feels like a "contented old man to see the family gathered today as one. It takes the collectives to get results, as such, these key leaders who have returned to the fold are very fundamental in our struggle for 2019."
Imoke who applauded Ayade for accommodating the returnees, pointed out that for this to happen, it is a great effort aimed at uniting the political family.
Receiving the returnees in the presence of the governor, Prof Ben Ayade, his deputy, Prof Ivara Esu, former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, some members of the national leadership of the party, the PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, assured them that, "the party is for all, for the entire people, you are all co-owners in this party and everyone is a leader."
He applauded Ayade for his industrialization drive in the state, maintaining that the vision to decouple Cross River from its dependence on federal allocation while creating jobs for the teeming unemployed youths must have endeared the returnees to come back.
While extending hand shakes with the political bigwigs who returned to the PDP, Secondus said: "On behalf of the national leadership of our party, we welcome you back to your home and I can assure you that all your rights and privileges are this day restored unto you.
Source: Daily Post
Related Topics: #FlorenceItaGiwa #BenAyade #UcheSecondus #PDP
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Buhari Reacts To Reports Alleging Him Of Saying ‘40m Nigerians Are Mad’
Posted: 16 Nov 2018 03:21 AM PST
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| President Muhammadu Buhari |
President Muhammadu Buhari has denied statement credited to him making the rounds that many Nigerians are suffering from mental illness.
The report had it that president Muhammadu Buhari in his address in the Paris Peace Forum, said 40 million Nigerians were mad.
But, reacting, Femi Adesina the President's Special Adviser on Media and Publicity denied the statement saying 'evil minds' created the fake news.
He urged Nigerians to beware of those spreading fake news, adding that they would go to any length to gain political advantage even if it's with the mental health of Nigerians.
Adesina on his verified Twitter page wrote: "Evil minds claim President Buhari says 40 million Nigerians are mad. Fake news."They now play with the mental health of people to gain political advantage. Beware of them."
Related Topics: #Buhari #FemiAdesina
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2019 PRESIDENCY: We Won’t Use Government Money For Buhari's 2019 Campaign –Lai Mohammed
Posted: 16 Nov 2018 01:19 AM PST
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| Alhaji Lai Mohammed |
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in this interview with TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI debunks the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that he is diverting funds meant for his Ministry into President Muhammadu Buhari' campaign for 2019. Excerpts:
The PDP, through its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan has accused you of diverting funds budgeted for your Ministry into President Buhari's reelection. How true is this claim?
I usually don't respond to the PDP because they really don't have anything tangible to say. I think the PDP is just waking up to the realisation that they can't win this election if the campaigns are based on issues. Our Social Investment Programme didn't start last year. It didn't even start in 2016. It started right from day one when we came to office.
This Social Investment Programme is the most apolitical programme of any government you can ever find. As a matter of fact, the truth of the matter is that APC politicians and appointees are very unhappy with the scheme because it does not follow the normal line of political patronage. People involved in this programme are completely apolitical. You apply online and if you are successful, you are chosen. There is no way it can be manipulated. At a point in time, some political appointees complained that you don't do this. But the Vice- President and his team insisted that it is a social investment programme and it must be apolitical.
The PDP is now suddenly frightened by the success of this programme. That is the honest truth. When this programme started in 2015, PDP thought it was impossible to achieve. Today, this programme comprises of four major components.There is the School feeding programme. Today, this programme feeds nine million, three hundred thousand pupils, one meal per day. It covers 26 states, about 60, 000 primary schools and in the process, it has employed over 97,000 cooks".
So, the PDP is definitely frightened by the success. A government that feeds nine million, three hundred thousand pupils in every schoolday and in the process, employs over 97,000 cooks is a government that has left an indelible mark in the sands of time.The fall-out of this is that every week, 594,000 cows are slaughtered to feed these children. Every week, these children consume 6.8 million eggs. So, through this programme, jobs are being provided for farmers. This is the major reason why PDP is frightened and yet that is just one aspect of the social investment programme.
How is this progamme funded?
This programme is funded by budgetary provisions. Every year, we went to the National Assembly to get provision for this programme. The second tranche of this social investment programme is the N-power, which as I speak today has employed about 500,000 unemployed graduates. Again, none of these programmes started yesterday. They all started in 2015, 2016. The third component of the social investment programme is the Conditional Cash Transfer which today services about 297,000 most vulnerable and poorest households in some states of the federation, because it is a pilot programmed that we are running. With this programme, the sum of N5,000 is given every month to about 297,000 most vulnerable and poorest families in Nigeria. The fourth component is the Government Enterprises Empowerment Programmed (GEEP). This is made of three tranches. There is the market money, trader money and farmers money. Between them, they have benefited 1.1 million as cooperatives and individuals. These are programmes that are well advertised and Nigerians know about. So, how can some people now turn around to say that we are using government money for politics as PDP have claimed? When we started this programme, they never gave us a chance.
Between TradersMoni, FarmersMoni and MarketMoni, we have touched the lives of about 1.1 million Nigerians. How can PDP now start complaining that we are using government money for politics? These are visible programmes that are well advertised. The Vice-President has been on the roads in the last three years inaugurating these things. We advertised our school feeding programmes, those benefiting from it are both PDP and APC states. We don't make any distinction between the children. All the children are Nigerians, our children. So, how can anybody wake up in the night and say it is being funded with Ministry's funds? The PDP know they debate us on issues. We have touched the lives of so many people. A government that feeds a minimum of nine million, three hundred and sixty four children everyday is not a government that you can toy with. So, that is why the PDP is afraid. They are jittery. The average students doesn't care who is providing the meals for him in school.
Looking at the polity right now, would you say your party has fulfilled its electoral promises to the people?
We were very categorical that we were going to address three areas of governance; we are going to fight corruption; we are going to fight insecurity and we are going to revamp the economy. I can say, with all sense of modesty, that we can beat our chest that we have delivered in all those areas.
In the area of power, we inherited 2,900 MWs of power; today we are generating more than 7,000 MW of power. Of course we are unable to transmit all the power because of the state of the transmission line, and don't forget that even that power had been largely privatised even before we came in and we had been able to give support. We guaranteed N702 billion revolving loan that if you produce, we pay and that is why you have seen this exponential increase in power supply. So, I do not see any area where we cannot say we have not made progress
You see we have delivered all promises we made. We came in and we promised we were going to fight insecurity. At that time, the major threat to the corporate existence of Nigeria was the Boko Haram insurgency and despite what anybody says, we have decimated Boko Haram. We brought Boko Haram under complete control because when we came in on May 29, 2015, 24 local governments in the North East, an area three times the size of Lebanon, were under the effective control of Boko Haram and what this means is that they were running the administration. As a matter of fact, once we got to Maiduguri, that was the end of Borno State. If you move outside, either to Kaure, Konduga or Bama, they were under the control of Boko Haram. By 2014, 2015, nobody in Abuja could sleep with his two eyes closed. They came and attacked ThisDay headquarters with casualties, they attacked the UN Headquarters, they attacked the IGP office, Nyanya park was bombed twice, they were active in Suleja, Kaduna, Sokoto, Plateau, Nasarrawa, Kogi. As a matter of fact, there was hardly any state in the North that Boko Haram was not operating. It was nipped in the bud in Kwara.
But today there is relative peace. We have been able to recover all territories and today no single inch of Nigerian territory is under the Boko Haram control. Yes, there have been suicide bombings, that is what terrorism is all about. Few months ago in US, we saw terrorist attack. About three months ago, we saw what happened in Texas. Terrorists killed many children. This is not a sign of renewed threat rather it is a sign of desperation and weakness. Look at the regularity it used to occur and now. It is all about intelligence gathering.
Source: Independent Newspaper
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Posted: 16 Nov 2018 04:31 PM PST
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| Dr. Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala |
The former Minister of Finance under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in her book disclosed what went wrong in the issue of Nigeria not saving during the oil boom.
She made it clear that it was Governors Rotimi Amaechi, Adams Oshiomole, Babatunde Fashola, Godswill Akpabio that said 'Let's share the money'
While the likes of Gov. PETER OBI argued that they should save but wasn't supported, as his voice was drowned out.
See picture below from the book:
Related Topics: #OkonjoIweala #PeterObi #RotimiAmeachi #BabatundeFashola #Oshiomhole
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