http://dailypost.ng/2016/04/04/i-never-paid-a-dime-to-be-appointed-as-minister-under-buhari-lokpobiri/

Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has asserted that no amount of blackmail would distract him from performing his duties in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The minister said all the allegations against him by a faction of the state Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by the party’s state Chairman, Chief Tiwe Oruminighe were laughable and baseless and could not move him.

Oruminighe and his group had accused Lokpobiri of purchasing his ministerial slot from the state leader of the party and former Governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva.

But Lokpobiri in a statement signed by his Media Assistant, Mr. Donald Ojogo, said his appointment as a minister was based on merrit.

He vowed to take anybody who was bent in damaging his hard-earned reputation to court for libel.

The statement reads: “In the last few days, the Bayelsa state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has contended with some unsavoury moments.

“Undoubtedly, these are orchestrated by an insignificant few within the party and oiled by some external forces who feel threatened about their political future, especially as the APC challenges the outcome of the last governorship election at the Election Petition Tribunal.

“‎From the outset, the attitude of the Honourable Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri has been to ignore and avoid responding to all such untoward moves and circumstances around the APC. To him, such do not represent the much required cohesion, sincerity of purpose and political maturity.

“Nonetheless, in the view of the deliberate fabrication of lies and misrepresentation of facts on the part of those who have allowed themselves to be used in this blackmail venture, it has become very compelling to state the following:

“The Hon Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri never got his appointment on the platter of financial negotiations as expressly insinuated by the suspended State chairman of the APC in Bayelsa State, Chief Tiwei Oruminigha and his cohorts.

“Like other appointees of Mr President, Senator Lokpobiri was duly considered worthy to be so appointed in his position.

“It is a clear case of misrepresentation of facts to insinuate that former governor of Bayelsa who is the leader of the APC in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva collected money from the Hon minister before his appointment as minister. This is an outright fabrication”.

The statement added: “The reference by Tiwei Orunimigha to statements purportedly made by Hon minister in the build up to the 2015 elections ‎that he (Lokpobiri) never believed in the ability of the APC and its then presidential candidate (now president), Muhammadu Buhari to win election is nothing but an exhibition of either some form of delusion or incurable amnesia.

“For the records, the Hon Minister’s political affinity with President Muhammadu Buhari dates back to 2003 when he was the senatorial candidate of the defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party ( ANPP) fro Bayelsa West Senatorial District.

“He had vigorously campaigned for him to be president then. The assertion by Orunimigha can only be a fictionalised sermon heightened by defeated expectations. It is therefore a blackmail that cannot stand the test of time. It is neither capable of distracting the Hon minister.

“Lastly, as a law abiding citizen, the Hon Minister wishes to state that while an unsuspecting section of the media has the liberty to publish unsubstantiated stories, he reserves the right to seek redress in the ‎law courts”.

There's no smoke without fire, noise maker who ask you?

Lol, I didn't bother myself reading this lies, as long as it's from the lying party. **sips Limca**

greatness22:
Lol, I didn't bother myself reading this lies, as long as it's from the lying party. **sips Limca**

Sipping Limca @ this time of the night, you be winch?

illmatic101:

Sipping Limca @ this time of the night, you be winch?

Leave am ooo person wey don shout oshodi onipanu ontop danfo tire

Na Who We Go Ask

APC and lie be like mfed mi itud

Story for the gods

99•9 apc members and supporter are very funny lainus

APC Is Scam

You did not pay a dime but you gave out enough bottles of 'Heineken'.

Congratulations

Let it be well investigated and the culprits punished.

Talk talk politicians. Show us what you have done, since you were appointed.

Who asked you?
These politicians can't just stop sounding stupid in their public utterances.
Is he insinuating that past ministers had to pay for the position? What happened to the competence and integrity stories gullible Nigerians are fed with?
Only in this part of the world.

Ok

Good for you

Okaay

We all know this is not the clueless corrupt former regime! !!

Shoroniyen? Abeggy Gba Gbe Oshi Jor..

Waiting to hear more frm de oda camp......nou camp....

Lokpobiri sef follow be minister? We have soo many ghost ministers in this cabinet

Sorry to ask, are u a minister? What use have u been since your appointment?

story that touch the heart.

stexsy:
APC and lie be like mfed mi itud

baba u r too carnally minded. ur example of how apc as a party can lie was uncall for

Lolz. Expected such response to d allegations. Coz we know our politicians never agree to be corrupt even if caught in d act.

Buhari's ministers are noise makers,they constitute 95% of noise pollution.Real hazard to 5%.Lokpobiri abeg shift,ur talk d bring heat and u know say no light,no fuel.Abeg,i hear say Buhari don visit 9ja,na true?

Loko wateva u call yourself, nobody gives a damn.

Heineken? Was that the only bottle around when he was named? Must say, good taste, though.

Swear Mr lager beer