By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA –

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, dubbed Rivers State as Nigeria’s most deadly state, even as he offered profuse apologies for the ill-tempered elections conducted under his watch in Kogi, Bayelsa and Rivers states. Speaking at the first National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja this year, the president said the administration had so far raked N3 trillion into the Treasury Single Account, TSA.

President Muhammadu Buhari, APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, Speaker Rt Hon Yakubu Dogara and APC Deputy National Chairman North, Senator Lawal shuiabu during APC NEC meeting at the Headquarters in Abuja. PHOTO: STATE HOUSE. The president, who spoke amid a tight security cordon mounted at the APC national secretariat, urged party supporters to stay the course, saying that progress was being made on all fronts, from the economy to the security situation in the country.

Buhari nevertheless charged Nigerians to rise to the situation as he particularly charged militants in the Niger Delta that continuous sabotage of oil facilities was doing the people more harm than good. The president, who appealed for understanding from party members also dismissed allegations from critics that he had turned a globetrotter.

Earlier in his welcome address, the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun said challenges facing the administration were inherited from the preceding administration and the collapse of the price of oil in the international market.

He charged party faithful to stand boldly with the administration in facing the challenges. Odigie-Oyegun also disclosed that a committee had been constituted to reorganise the membership of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of the party, a sign that inevitably indicated that the scheduled inauguration next week would be put on hold.

The tight security around the meeting venue was also not unconnected to alleged plans by some members of the NEC to disrupt the meeting upon claims of marginalisation of some members of the NEC. Giving notice of the progress made in security, the president commended the party for recommending the removal of the military hierarchy inherited from the preceding administration, saying the decision helped to raise the morale of the military.

Noting that the decision helped to ensure complete control of all 774 local government areas in the country, he admitted that though the insurgents do not hold any local government, they still have the ability to strike at soft targets. Niger Delta On conflicting signals from Niger Delta militants, the president said: “Some have said they are ready to drop their arms and join the rest of the nation to build it. But part of them are still sabotaging installations which is making investments in that lucrative area of Nigeria difficult because nobody will submit his riches to financial institutions, get money only to suffer huge loss. “So, the environment for investment is being sabotaged by ourselves, Nigerians.

We are doing our best with the military by trying to persuade them to join the rest of the country because in unity lies our strength. Charging Nigerians to sustain the democratic enterprise through maintaining their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, the president offered profuse apologies for the ill-tempered elections held in Kogi, Bayelsa and Rivers states.

“I am afraid I did not succeed in the election in Kogi, Bayelsa, Rivers. I think that more Nigerians are killed or killed themselves in Rivers than in any particular state. At this stage of our political development, to remain brutal is shameful and as a government, I promise we will do something by the next general election.

PRESIDENT BUHARI ATTENDS APC NEC MEETING Noting the crash in oil prices and how it led to the failure of 27 of the nation’s 36 states to pay salaries, he faulted the failure of the preceding administration to make adequate arrangements for the rainy day even as he gave the readiness of the administration to make amendments through diversification and other cost saving measures. One of the measures he said that has reaped huge benefit was the decision to fully implement the TSA.

He said: “The Central Bank Governor, will tell you that in the TSA, we have more than N3 trillion. Where would this money have been if TSA was not in vogue? I was made to understand that vouchers would have quickly been raised towards the end of the financial year and cheques made. Whether they are going into projects or private pockets, nobody can prove it to you. But that money is there, it is identified, it is quantified and when the budget comes back eventually, the Ministry of Finance will see how to allocate it to the rest of the country.”

He said that at the advent of the present administration, there was no proper account of the amount of crude exports, even as he said the administration was now putting facts together to push the prosecution of those who benefited from illegal exports. Recovered loot The president said efforts were being made to articulate a comprehensive list of recoveries of ill-gotten loot which he said would be published in due course. “We have to get credible evidence to carry out successful prosecution and get judgement from the Judiciary. But effort is being made to give a list of recoveries in whatever currencies so far so that Nigerians will know that it is not all about long stories.

” The president also appealed for understanding from party members, saying where mistakes were made in governance like in the sacking of university governing councils that he had no qualms apologising. “So, please, try to bear with us as we reflect on where we found ourselves,” he said. Concluding, the president rebuffed assertions that he had turned to a globetrotter saying: “Sometimes, you need to present your case on personal basis to your economic colleagues and neighbours.

Nothing is better than personal touch and I believe that we are learning a lot and eventually, the nation will realize so. I don’t envy you on the harassment you are going through from your constituencies. Take it with a lot of determination and we will be all right, God willing.” In his remarks following the NEC meeting, Odigie-Oyegun said the party has resolved to frame a budget for the party, and to organise congresses to fill vacant positions including that of the National Publicity Secretary. Fuming at developments in Rivers, the national chairman said: “It is a disgrace. That is the only thing one can say.

Some of the things that happened and some of the killings that happened would never have been able to happen in this country. But the assurance we can give you and the assurance Mr President has given us is that these issues will be vigorously addressed. People must not get away with that level of dastardly act and killings of the most bestial act and in no circumstance must this be allowed to spread to the rest of the country because unless you address it, you are in fact inviting other states to set up their own military wings.”

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You are yet to tell us one single campaign promise tht u've achieved coz TSA is doing the economy more harm than gud

Amaechi your minister and benefactor, is making sure it remains so. If you genuinely want to end it caution and prosecute him and peterside.

Hungerbad spends 24hours on Nairaland which invariably means he is jobless and needs 5k

Achuwa1:
You are yet to tell us one single campaign promise tht u've achieved coz TSA is doing the economy more harm than gud

Campaign promise ke, they have all faded away. Till 2019

APC and PDP caused it because they want power. God punish everyone that supported the violence in Rivers

kogi nko?

Muguhari.

Benhe nko?

Only violence commands fear and humblness from Mr Buhari. Buhari and burantai only goes macho on weak targets as Shiites and IPod freedom and peace lovers.

Fedayeen:
Hungerbad spends 24hours on Nairaland which invariably means he is jobless and needs 5k

do you think that he chose the moniker by mistake, as hungry destroy the guy destiny nobody tell am to embrace that moniker. What surprise me most is that aisha Buhari has refuse to cook for them recently.




so rivers don hot pass northeast and places that fulanis are terrorizing abi? Buhari and apc make una continue una agenda of trying to declare state of emergency in rivers state, afterall the last play you guys wrote with bokoharam just to attain power has really played well. moona kantinu dey write rivers state play.



Buhari is the greatest dullard.

Confession of a witch.

this man is a dullard

i think there is an effort to de-market rivers state, how can rivers state be the most deadly when bornu is still part of Nigeria

Hear Chief Zombie talking and turning deaf ears to the problems and killings his minister unleashed to the people of River State.
You are looking for a reason to declare state of emergency in Rivers, OLD FOOL. You can't do it. You are fighting corruption, prosecute Amaechi and his Gang for killing a corper, arrest Azubuike for bribing INEC with N12m, Arrest APC River State Chairman for shielding Ekwy as one one their own when she was arrested for electoral fraud.

And Borno is a paradise to live.



Zombie president.

Buhari is a dullard from Daura,Amaechi is a lizard of Ubima,Osinbande is a Midget from Ogun state.
The Zombies are free to quote me.

Fedayeen:
Hungerbad spends 24hours on Nairaland which invariably means he is jobless and needs 5k

Buhari is a dullard from Daura,Amaechi is a lizard of Ubima,Osinbande is a Midget from Ogun state.
The Zombies are free to quote me.

So Rivers is more deadly than Borno according to Buhari.

chukwukadibia10:
And Borno is a paradise to live.




Zombie president.

....and Bornu + Plateau + Benue are all abodes of peace.

Sai baba.

Haters can do the needful.

Rivers the most deadly state for hausa/fulani muslim APC.

Now I think bubu is mentally unstable. My own rivers state is de deadly state. Tufiakwa no be my state. Na e own state be de deadly. It seem dat man don't knw wat to say again