The PDP said Mr. Odumakin was right about his corruption allegations against the ACN.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, of falsehood by distancing itself and its leader, Muhammadu Buhari, from the statement of Yinka Odumakin.

The ruling party in a statement by its spokesperson, Tony Okeke, said attempts by the CPC to distance itself and Mr. Buhari from“a heavily indicting statement by Buhari’s spokesman,Mr. Yinka Odumakin that the leadership and governors of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN a key partner in the opposition merger are corrupt is another clear example that the opposition in the country is a “whitewashed tomb.’”.

“This damning verdict did not come from our great party neither did it emanate from one of the fractions, ever disagreeing opposition outside the merger camp. It came from the heart of the merger itself.

Yinka Odumakin, General Buhari’s spokesman only bowed to the humanity in him, underwent purgation while succumbing to a self righting catharsis. It is a pity that the top rank of his party, threatened by this heavy revelation, is making futile efforts to discredit the truth in its sacredness,” the statement said.

The ruling party said it wonders why the CPC did not “join hands with its cohorts in the ACN to tackle and disprove the allegation of corruption hauled at its face by one of its own.”

The statement argued that the PDP is not surprised that the CPC would attempt to denyand distance itself from the spokesman of its leader.

“The ACN, CPC, their major and minor allies in the APC have again shown that they are whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but in the inside are full of the unclean,” it said.

According to the statement, “where is the falsehood in Yinka comparing the N1billion per kilometer of road by the ACN governors under the express directive of Bola Tinubu and the N50 million per the same kilometer ofroad under former Governor Alao Akala in Oyo State for which Yinka dragged the former Oyo Governor to the EFCC?

“Where again is the lie in the fact that the ACN practices clique tyranny with the wife of its leader a Senator; son-in-law, a member of the House of Representatives; daughter-in-law in the Lagos State House of Assembly and daughter, the President-General of the Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men imposed by her father?” the party asked.

“The bottom line,” the PDP argued, “is that the opposition is the bastion of corruption and a brood of dictators even though in the manifesto of their merger, the APC ranks anti-corruption as cardinal.

“The summary once more is that the much vaunted opposition merger is only a union of the deceitful, the corrupt and the dictatorial. No political platform built on this tripod of vice can stand. It is therefore an early warning to all Nigerians that the constituents of the APC having failed in their respective states to tame corruption nor its leadership willing to check festering impunity has nothing to offer to the nation”, the PDP said.

The party called on Nigerians to note that those “who jam the airwaves with moral platitudes are indeed ravenous wolves well disguised as sheep”.

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/141237-pdp-blasts-cpc-for-distancing-self-from-odumakins-statements.html

Well said. @moderators, front page pls. Let the battle and debate begin

Pot calling the kettle black. Politicians from both parties share common afflictions. They have a ravenous hunger for stealing and are neutered by greed, fraud and corruption. PDP as the ruling party should be ashamed of itself. It controls the anti-graft agencies but because the party is an ever-swelling gang of looters, it has become difficult to check the excesses of the opposition. PDP is too morally challenged to accuse another party of moral bankruptcy.

From this press release, PDP is telling Nigerians that they(PDP and APC) are all guilty of corruption. Instead of this diatribe and shadow boxing, why not drag the ACN leaders to the EFCC? Nigeria is in serious trouble!

The CPC can distant itself,but the truth still remains that ACN and CPC are just trying to fulfill there personal interest.
Amechi should know that they are just supporting him because they want to use him to get the support of the south south.If Amechi wants to know if they are for real,let him declare that he will be coming out for president instead of the rumored vice president and see how they will quickly distance from him.
If Amechi is truely fighting for his right let him continue and not because of the support he gains from CPC and ACN.
Because believe it or not these two parties can never be trusted.

Interesting news. Over to you 40 laptops

The party called on Nigerians to note that those “who jam the airwaves with moral platitudes are indeed ravenous wolves well disguised as sheep”.

Tinubu comes to mind here, that sly fox is corruption personified, and he's the poster child of everything that is wrong with the current war against corruption in the country ...

For real PDP is membered by accursed people latching unto mere propaganda to score a cheap political point!

Now that Yinka Odumakin have seemingly given you a clue as to who is corrupt,will you please do the needful and prosecute Tinubu and his allegedly corrupt allies instead of using the same tactics of saying people are corrupt but yet lacking d balls to use d law of d land to jail them

PDP is sure an accursed party...only content with tainting people's image yet falling shy of doing what is right about so called evil people

If it comes to Buhari since they can't pin d corruption tag on him,they would say he is a Boko Haram supporter yet refusing to take d man 2d cleaners.

Maniacs!!!

Maxymilliano:

Tinubu comes to mind here, that sly fox is corruption personified, and he's the poster child of everything that is wrong with the current war against corruption in the country ...

Meanwhile, 6 years after he left office none of the anti-graft agencies(EFCC, ICPC and the Anti-fraud unit of the Police) have been able to prosecute him. Who should be blamed for that? It is because the ruling party(PDP) is a cesspool of Corruption, a safe haven for failed leaders and treasury looters. PDP is Corruption in its most unadulterated form.

You know what? This is like a gorilla telling a baboon "you are hairy,while I'm not". The truth is,we don't have any reliable party that can be seen as a strong opposition to challenge the power that be at the centre. They are just charlatans and clowns.

Yet they claim they are democratic. They are practising democracy.
Their leaders are just egoistical men,who have one selfish ambition or the other,and would do anything,no matter how illegal,to make sure they achieve their selfish aim.

REHOZIBAH: For real PDP is membered by accursed people latching unto mere propaganda to score a cheap political point!

Now that Yinka Odumakin have seemingly given you a clue as to who is corrupt,will you please do the needful and prosecute Tinubu and his allegedly corrupt allies instead of using the same tactics of saying people are corrupt but yet lacking d balls to use d law of d land to jail them

PDP is sure an accursed party...only content with tainting people's image yet falling shy of doing what is right about so called evil people

If it comes to Buhari since they can't pin d corruption tag on him,they would say he is a Boko Haram supporter yet refusing to take d man 2d cleaners.

Maniacs!!!

so that u guys will start shouting victimization?chill, the revelation will be put to best use in 2015

All hypocrites! Bunch of self-serving power drunks!

In igbo CPC's denial is expressed this way..
"Soro okwu onu m,esola omume m"....

This every one must agree is an upper cut blow to the merger plans.

What Nigerians need is good people and not about party.whether its PDP,APC,LP,APGA, they will give the same result if a criminal is to lead Nigeria under any of these platforms.Therefore,we should all note that none of the parties is the saviour of Nigeria. We should endeavour to support any candidate who has the interest of Nigeria at heart. Nigerians should support President Goodluck Jonathan because as it stands now,we are yet to see a better leader than him.

APC

All you PDP/GEJ fans are just disgraceful, clannish and small-minded illiterates to be honest. You are seriously dumbing down this forum with how you support inane and logic defying statements merely because such is uttered against others you hate clannishly. You mumus should look at the desperate and self-incriminating statement the m0r0nic PDP made below in their haste to play politics of enmity:

According to the statement, “where is the falsehood in Yinka comparing the N1billion per kilometer of road by the ACN governors under the express directive of Bola Tinubu and the N50 million per the same kilometer ofroad under former Governor Alao Akala in Oyo State for which Yinka dragged the former Oyo Governor to the EFCC?

If the PDP, with the above statement, want to indicate Odumakin has a point, then perhaps they should immediately initiate the arrest of their own Governors who have commission roads built at a cost greater than N1 billion per kilometre such as the examples given below. As I will always say, let us host our affiliations and biases but commit to doing so with facts.

You PDP scallywags and cretins, with market gossip, have turned Nairaland to Jankara market where forum member surely appear as unthinking illiterates to our fellow Africans and the rest of the world. How can so many of you be uniformly 'dense' and so easy to divide-and-conquer plus 'ALUU-nize'? Why can you guys never ever work with facts and reality to make arguments and debates issue-driven and genuinely informative?

Why are you all lovers of tall tales and avid fans of 'mamy water' stories? While the PDP is engaged with making a fool of itself, why does the Party not even move beyond Nigeria to begin pointing ignorant, illiterate and mischief-making fingers at other African Countries where no one has witnessed the N50 million per kilometre rate Odumakin talks of and where N1 billion or more is actually standard rate for high quality major roads across Africa? Perhaps Ghana too has its roads built by Tinubu.


http://www.pointblanknews.com/News/os5253.html

Date Published: 07/18/11

Akpabio signs N28 Billion Naira Road Contract





Akwa Ibom State Government on Monday signed a contract of N28 Billion naira for the construction of the Third Ring Road that will traverse the state Capital .

The road contract was signed between the state Governor Chief Godswill Akpabio and Engineer Woltgang Goetsh the Managing Director of Julius Berger Company.

The first phase of the 12kms road of four lanes begins from the Olusegun Obasanjo way, Uyo and terminates at Oron road with a fly over for the first Phase.constructing

http://www.gbcghana.com/index.php?id=1.783904

President Mills Commissions Tetteh Quarshie-Mallam Road
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H.E. John Evans Atta Mills with former President John Agyekum Kufuor commissioning the project
President John Evans Atta Mills Wednesday afternoon commissioned the Tetteh Quarshie-Mallam Junction extension of the Motorway at Mallam junction in Accra.

The 14 kilometer stretch was constructed at a cost of 173 million dollars out of the 547 million dollars from the Millennium Challenge Corporation of US.

The three lane dual carriageway has been completed in 30 months.

The design of the project included the construction of Two Grade Separation Interchanges, at the Dimples and Mallam Junctions, six Footbridges, 23 Minor Junctions, Bicycle Lanes and two Transport Terminals at Kokroko, near Mallam and Abeka Lapaz.

AS A NEW COMER TO NL THERE IS A VERY INTERESTING PATTERN I HAVE OBSERVED. ANY ONE CAN MAKE AN ALLEGATION: NO MATTER HOW WILD AND ILL-MOTIVE.DEVOID OF FACTS, UNSUBSTANTIATED. INASMUCH AS IT IS AGAINST THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MAIN DIVIDES IN THE FORUM, THE OTHER SIDE GOES TO TOWN WITH IT.
WHAT BOTHERS ME IS THE QUALITY OF THE CONTRIBUTION THAT FOLLOWS. MOST TIMES YOU CAN ALMOST PREDICT WHAT IS GOING TO BE WRITTEN.

Gbawes: This every one must agree is an upper cut blow to the merger plans.

ODUMAKIN IS PART OF THE SAVE NIGERIA GROUP . HE BECAME GEN BUHARI SPOKESMAN AS A RESULT OF THE UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN SAVE NIGERIA GROUP AND CPC WHICH RESULTED IN THE EMERGENCE OF THE PASTOR BAKARE AS BINARI'S VP CANDIDATE. HE IS NOW ALIGNED WITH THE PRO JONATHAN FACTION OF AFENIFERE.
ODUMAKIN HAS NO THING TO DO WITH THE APC MERGER PLAN AND HAS BEEN DISOWNED BY CPC. ALL THIS FACTS MAKES YOUR CONCLUSION A COMPLETE FALSEHOOD.

Saint Yoruba Tinubu is a Thief

software man: AS A NEW COMER TO NL THERE IS A VERY INTERESTING PATTERN I HAVE OBSERVED. ANY ONE CAN MAKE AN ALLEGATION: NO MATTER HOW WILD AND ILL-MOTIVE.DEVOID OF FACTS, UNSUBSTANTIATED. INASMUCH AS IT IS AGAINST THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MAIN DIVIDES IN THE FORUM, THE OTHER SIDE GOES TO TOWN WITH IT.
WHAT BOTHERS ME IS THE QUALITY OF THE CONTRIBUTION THAT FOLLOWS. MOST TIMES YOU CAN ALMOST PREDICT WHAT IS GOING TO BE WRITTEN.

Thank you !!! I have asked these cretins to subscribe to the ethos we must do facts always and defer to such. Yet they will never acquiesce to such a sensible request that will help us and others behind us evolve adequately so that we get closer to being a nation of politically sophisticated citizens. Instead these cretins, usually fans of GEJ/PDP, prefer running around disgracing Nigeria on the web with illiterate and unthinkingly clannish behaviour.

We do not have to like each other or support the same Party/leaders but what I see non-Nigerians accommodating and working with, unlike what is the reality here, are the established facts that prove informative and definitive to the delivery of clarity.

Have your biases and affiliation but still be able to defer to and be guided by established facts !!! As simple as that!!!! That so many on this forum continue to be emotional, unrepentantly sentimental and openly prejudiced is enough evidence of why we can see the evil of ALUU lynching, that disgraced Nigeria as a jungle hosting blood-thirsty barbarians, in 2013. Same way that lynch mob believed lies against those poor boys and summarily sentenced them to death is how so-called adults come here daily to play out their own ALUU drama via unthinkingly backing ignorant and ludicrous submissions merely because such is uttered against others they dislike.

This is why most leaders use Nigerians rather than respect or fear them. If you are a leader, would you feel threatened into doing the right things by the posters here or would you think you can use plus divide-and-conquer them, whenever you want, to achieve your cynical political agenda? When people act like Monkeys how will perverse and self-serving leaders refrain from throwing them Bananas?

take dat: Pot calling the kettle black. Politicians from both parties share common afflictions. They have a ravenous hunger for stealing and are neutered by greed, fraud and corruption. PDP as the ruling party should be ashamed of itself. It controls the anti-graft agencies but because the party is an ever-swelling gang of looters, it has become difficult to check the excesses of the opposition. PDP is too morally challenged to accuse another party of moral bankruptcy.

From this press release, PDP is telling Nigerians that they(PDP and APC) are all guilty of corruption. Instead of this diatribe and shadow boxing, why not drag the ACN leaders to the EFCC? Nigeria is in serious trouble!

THE REAL PROBLEM IS THAT LIKE EVERYTHING NIGERIAN WE HAVE BASTARDISED THE ALLEGATION OF CORRUPTION. ALL YOU NEED TO ALLEGE CORRUPTION IS JUST TO MAKE IT. YOU DONT NEED TO SUBSTANTIATE IT. JUST MAKE IT AND IT BECOMES GOSPEL AND A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION.
THAT IS WHY WE CAN CALL A MAN A THIEF WHEN HE HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED OR CONVICTED BY ANY COURT OR TRIBUNAL THEN IT MEANS ANYONE AND EVERY ONE IS A POTENENTIAL THIEF. SOMETIMES OUR PRIMITIVE STANDARDS IS ONE MAJOR PROBLEM WE HAVE.

kasiem: so that u guys will start shouting victimization?chill, the revelation will be put to best use in 2015

You diaper wearing tiny-tot...since when has Tinubu left government n stopped enjoying immunity hence have given d PDP govt ample chance to prosecute him if ever there is any shred of evidence against him?

Who will shout victimization if a corrupt person is legally and validly prosecuted? Or you think u are talking to an ethnically jaundiced n religiously bigotted fellow like some people who would always equate harmless criticism of som1 as a war against their tribe,race n region? Infact after all d rigmarole,it was only d Code of Conduct Bureau that tried him 4 having foreign accounts but what came out of it? Discharged n acquited!

2015 is not any magic year so why wait till then to let out any Revelation or Genesis as u put it

APC Yorubas are all potential Thieves because they like to defend and hid the Thieves among them.

TO THE SPECIFICS OF ODUMAKIN'S ALLEGATION ON ROADS AS AN ENGINEERS THE ASSERTION IS SO IDIOTIC I DO NOT NOT WHERE TO START FROM.
THE COST OF A KILOMETER OF ROAD DEPEND ON THE SPECIFICATIONS WHICH DETERMINES WHAT THE BILL OF QUANTITY IS. YOU CAN BUILD A A KILOMETER OF ROAD FOR 2 BILLION AND ALSO FOR FAR LESS. JUST LIKE YOU CAN COOK A POT OF SOUP FOR TWO THOUSAND NAIRA OR TWENTY THOUSAND NAIRA.
ODUMAKIN ARGUMENT THAT ONE ROAD COST 45M AND ANOTHER COST ONE BILLION MEANS INFLATION IS ARRANT NONSENSE. FINALLY IF ODUMAKIN IS SURE OF HIS FACTS WHY CANT HE JUST NAME ROADS AND MAKE COMPARISON WITH ROADS OF SAME SPECIFICATION AND BILL OF QUANTITY.

software man:
THE REAL PROBLEM IS THAT LIKE EVERYTHING NIGERIAN WE HAVE BASTARDISED THE ALLEGATION OF CORRUPTION. ALL YOU NEED TO ALLEGE CORRUPTION IS JUST TO MAKE IT. YOU DONT NEED TO SUBSTANTIATE IT. JUST MAKE IT AND IT BECOMES GOSPEL AND A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION.
THAT IS WHY WE CAN CALL A MAN A THIEF WHEN HE HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED OR CONVICTED BY ANY COURT OR TRIBUNAL THEN IT MEANS ANYONE AND EVERY ONE IS A POTENENTIAL THIEF. SOMETIMES OUR PRIMITIVE STANDARDS IS ONE MAJOR PROBLEM WE HAVE.

Please tell. In civilised climes, Odumakin would not even attempt to deceive citizens with his ludicrous and shamefully ignorant N50 million per KM claim because such is just patent 1d1ocy.

Yet , because he is dealing with Nigerians, Odumakin is very comfortable pulling an unthinkingly nonsensical figure out of thin air to substantiate his attack against others knowing fully well that unsophisticated and clannish Nigerians will just accept his word as "gospel" exactly as you indicated.

Tragic really. A disgrace to our education system and to our morals. What goes on here daily is also indicative of how many have been swallowed by a level of prejudice and clannishness that has totally affected their ability to reason maturely, effectively, logically and critically.

software man: TO THE SPECIFICS OF ODUMAKIN'S ALLEGATION ON ROADS AS AN ENGINEERS THE ASSERTION IS SO IDIOTIC I DO NOT NOT WHERE TO START FROM.
THE COST OF A KILOMETER OF ROAD DEPEND ON THE SPECIFICATIONS WHICH DETERMINES WHAT THE BILL OF QUANTITY IS. YOU CAN BUILD A A KILOMETER OF ROAD FOR 2 BILLION AND ALSO FOR FAR LESS. JUST LIKE YOU CAN COOK A POT OF SOUP FOR TWO THOUSAND NAIRA OR TWENTY THOUSAND NAIRA.
ODUMAKIN ARGUMENT THAT ONE ROAD COST 45M AND ANOTHER COST ONE BILLION MEANS INFLATION IS ARRANT NONSENSE. FINALLY IF ODUMAKIN IS SURE OF HIS FACTS WHY CANT HE JUST NAME ROADS AND MAKE COMPARISON WITH ROADS OF SAME SPECIFICATION AND BILL OF QUANTITY.

Thank you. With posts like yours, at least we know that we still have some educated critical thinkers as members of this forum even if it does not seem like that most of the time. To be honest, Odumakin just comes across as another ALUU "conductor", like the town chief reputed to have led those savages in the tragic lynching, with this silly utterance. I am sure clever guys like you know what is behind all these inane outbursts from these new "messiahs" out to "save the SW" coincidentally after it is now revealed GEJ plans to use prominent SW voices to crudely divide-and-conquer the region and mire it in the disunity, lack of cohesion, leadership enmity and rancour troubling virtually all regions of Nigeria.

If it is not Odumakin lying, it is Fasehun talking inanities or Adebanjo, only the other day, saying senselessly that the ACN did wrong not supporting a Yoruba to be speaker of the lower house. We must ask what motivated such a ridiculous 'throwback' statement given that the ACN and the SW has actually gone on to prove what all Nigeria needs to understand i.e no region needs to obstinately tie progress to the attainment of federal positions.

Ironically, the SW is doing very well in a time it is supposedly "marginalised" !!! What could represent a greater proof of the argument in favour of true/fiscal federalism than this i.e devolving powers away from the centre and putting it in the hands of those who control the life, health and education of Nigerians? States and regions.

The truth statistically and factually, and I am ready to argue such with anyone based on facts, is that the ACN , even with it's fault, has initiated a model that is delivering progress for the region. Substantially increased IGR is the case for every SW State and we are seeing a scale of infrastructural delivery never witnessed in 8 years under the PDP. Solid plans to interconnect the SW transport-wise are afoot to boost integration, trade and socio-economic development. Real delivered achievements, no sensible person can dispute, and solidly well-though out plans typifies the SW these day in stark contrast to what obtained under the chaotic reign of the PDP.

Why so-called "neutral" Yoruba leaders have now become the 'spokesmen' of the PDP (the plunderers of the SW) and the antagonist of those who, even if not perfect, are factually righting the wrongs of the "nest of killers" will be all too obvious to astute observers.