jmaine:

Fine, the the next available hand should be picked . . . .His choice was obviously for his merited input and for transparency in the whole process . . . This is definitely not the time to play politics with a bill of such importance . . .

+100

Maybe the ACN are against the PIB BILL

Shuaibu was definitely wrong here!

What a "Nigerian" ought have done is accept with fanfare to garner attention then insist publicly that the original bill goes through with none of the usual obfuscation and "dulling" of its expected transformational edges!

As it is, he has achieved naught and forever has no stand from which he can "assess" whatever ends up coming through!

@Gbawe, why did you gladly post this story? could you please educate me if there's anything I could learn from it

I like to know what good lessons I can take home from this post to have warranted being in the front page.
Moderator pls. take this to the joke section.

What happened to all the [b]'it's not just removal of subsidy rhetorics but fight against corruption' if the very people we look up to as alternative would be playing politics with the very novel ideas they were advocating during the strike. HYPOCRISY I assume?

This lends credence to GEJ's ascertion that the protest in SW was truly hijacked for reasons order than human rights and good governance.
I weep for this country.

The ACN playing cheap politics.

How long would they maintain their false declaration of being progressives

I also think he should accept- and should any evil befall him, me and the other "patriots" on this thread, will go to his children, and just like Uncle Wole, beg them and Ogun for forgiveness.

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has described as blasphemous President Olusegun Obasanjo’s statement that Bola Ige was killed by a drug baron. Addressing journalists this morning in Victoria Island, Lagos, Soyinka also called on civil society leaders to agree on a date to protest the last fraudulent national elections. He said he was
deeply offended by Obasanjo’ s statement that Ige did not know his right from his left when he was the minister of power. “For him to accuse Ige of not knowing his right from his left is a lie. He should be ashamed of himself. I stand
here as a witness on the day to day activities of Bola Ige when he was Minister of Power and Steel,”, he state.
The Nobel Laureate argued that for Obasanjo to try to erase the memory of Ige from the people’s mind is
uncalled for, adding that it was Obasanjo that sabotaged Ige’s reform for the power sector.
He said when Obasanjo chose Ige as Minister of Power and Steel, Ige came to him and asked him what to do, adding that he urged Ige to accept the job so that he could reform the power industry.

www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-54986.0.html

Gbawe:

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/acn-scribe-rejects-jonathans-pib-appointment

Kudos kudos to Lawal Shuaibu. The last thing you want to do is be an accessory to and facilitator of corrupt proceedings with crooked and corrupt entities.

karl max:

Maybe the ACN are against the PIB BILL

Why would it take GEJ this long to even touch the subject of PIB. If his only reason is to deflect criticism, you know the bill is going to meet a horrible end, along with the reputations of whoever allows themselves to be used. PIB does not need a task force (er, bribe). It is pretty clear cut.

Shuaibu is a hero!  Setting good example for principled decisions and acts.

you think anything good can come from associatimg with the notorious ms madueke

we all know how the pdp roll. you cannot do anything with the gej govt and have any integrirty left

look at how SLS , NOI and abati have been rubbished serving this administration

Its pathetic that people are playing politics with the future of this country.

One thing I love about the attempt at deregulation is the way it has begun to expose the true enemies of Nigeria's progress.

Some sections of the country have been blocking the passage of the bill. One section(the "Born-to-Rule" fellas) was blocking it in the open for obvious reasons.
Another section(the Rascals) has been pretending like they are in support, but behind closed doors they've been working against the bill.
Its amazing!!
That same section keeps harping on true federalism.They keep harping on devolution of powers from centre to bottom.
They harp in the open to the hearing of their population but behind closed doors they work against these things.
The only reason they probably screamed true federalism was because of what Abacha and IBB did to steal Abiola's mandate.

Whether they like it or not, The PIB bill will be passed, by fire or by force!!

The comments on Nairaland alone provides a good insight into why Nigeria is where it is today! There is obviously no sincerity on the part of the president and Mr Lawal Shuaibu knows this so he decided to reject the appointment. Jonathan is playing to the gallery, for something this important to him he should have sent an emissary or reached out to the man in anyway possible before announcing it to the media, who are his advisers Another issue is the lack of understanding of the people's plight by the president, his over bloated government was a talking issue during the protest, but what does he do, sets up another committee to do something that some people are already paid to do talk about duplication of efforts! Jonathan attitude is now no different to the born to rule mentality of the core North.

birdman:
Quote from: karl max on Yesterday at 08:24:45 PM

Maybe the ACN are against the PIB BILL


Why would it take GEJ this long to even touch the subject of PIB. If his only reason is to deflect criticism, you know the bill is going to meet a horrible end, along with the reputations of whoever allows themselves to be used. PIB does not need a task force (er, bribe). It is pretty clear cut.



The bill GEJ sent to the house since last year so GEJ is now the house of assembly too may be ACN house members are the people who received bribe to make sure the bill don't Ơ̴̴͡.̮Ơ̴̴̴͡ the light of day since one year plus

@karlmax
The overwhelming majority in both houses is PDP (60% Senate 55% Rep), as is the senate president and house speaker. Stop with the maybes

Are some of you frigging kidding me ? Do you people know the history of the PIB to now be playing fake patriots? Were you on Mars when Ekweremadu (deputy senate President) called protestors "charlatans" because they wanted a quick passage of the bill? All your eyes were elsewhere when Allison-Madueke plus David Mark et al ,before the elections, assured many times that the PIB will be passed before the last republic ended. You must all also be ignorant of the money that has been embezzled by committees set up to "plan" the passage of the PIB.  If we do see a PIB it is likely to be one extremmely watered down and impotent. This man stays away because he knows this is another Boko Haram i.e PDP fighting itself !!! The cause of the problem pretending to be the solution.

I can only call some of you ignorant jokers for how you want to insult the ACN and this man because he does not want to be part of the fraud GEJ is now known for. A President can only be reactionary and act only when compelled yet his fans insult others for not jumping when called upon? Please go and study the history of the PIB and stop exposing your ignorance and fake patriotism here. Everyone knows the score except the fans of our insincere President always pretending to be the victim. I don't know how some of you want history to remember this man if he makes himself part of an exercis in futility to decieve Nigerians. Below are excerpt from an NL thread from March last year involving the same chap your enemy-of-progress Deputy senate President called a "charlatan". Nothing has changed and this goes all the way up yo David Mark if you guys are really aware of your history and not just vociferously vacuous backers of everything GEJ does post subsidy removal protest. I never saw many of you now shouting on the thread below from March 2011 , and many like it, when some of us consistently discussed the passage of a very important bill. Now you are all suddenly patriots even as you failed to join in previously when many lent their voices to the charade involving the non-passage of the PIB.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-617677.0.html

Group seeks probe of Petroleum Ministry over N481m spent on PIB Bill .

Wednesday, 02 March 2011 00:50 Chris Ejim    .Share 0
AN advocacy group known as the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) yesterday faulted the alleged spending of over N481 million on the proposed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, saying the probe initiated by the House of Representatives over the fund is commendable.

It said such “frivolous spending” is an indictment on the transparency effort of the current administration.

ANEEJ Executive Director, Rev. David Ugolor, said though the group recently commended President Goodluck Jonathan for halting the renewal of oil lease pending when the PIB will be passed, the action of the Petroleum Resources Ministry further demonstrates lack of transparency in the country’s oil and gas industry.
Ugolor said: “The ministry’s action underscores the necessity for the quick passage of the bill. The National Assembly should investigate how the N481 million was spent; and if it is discovered that the money was misappropriated and wrongly spent, those behind the frivolous and extravagant expenditure should be brought to book and made to return such monies to the coffers of the ministry.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/08/how-intrigues-delayed-passage-of-pib-by-maeba/

How intrigues delayed passage of PIB, by Maeba
On August 26, 2011 · In News

BY Clara  Nwachukwu
LAGOS — Political intrigues and wranglings within the Senate and the executive have been identified as major factors for the non-passage of the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, which has had a chequered history at the National Assembly.

Deliberations on the PIB, according to a former lawmaker, had been concluded and ready to be passed as at December 2010.

Senator Lee Maeba, former chairman, Senate Committee Upstream, who spoke for the first time regarding the intrigues at a conference organised by Energy Correspondents in Lagos, yesterday, said in the end, selfish interest overrode national ones, thus preventing the bill from being passed.

Maeba, who spoke on “Implication of Delay in the Passage of the PIB,” said continued delay portended grave consequences for Nigeria and the economy, as already the industry had lost in excess of $28 billion in investments.

Most of these investments have found their way into neighbouring countries including Angola, Ghana and Burkina Faso, which have more stable policies.

Besides, he expressed fears that the original PIB, as drafted by the Oil and Gas Industry Committee, OGIC, and brought to the National Assembly, might not be the one that would eventually be passed as many of the clauses in the original bill had either been watered down or thrown out completely.

The Senator, who revealed that he had earlier in the day been warned “to be careful what you say,” noted that the initial bill was predicated on a tripod that would make the oil and gas sector more vibrant for the benefit of all Nigerians.

He said: “We wanted a law that will protect the interest of foreign investors, enhance the welfare of the people of the host communities by allocating 10 per cent equity of oil and gas projects, while also increasing the participation of indigenous companies in the industry that has remained the enclave of multinationals such that in the nearest future at least 30 per cent of crude oil export will be done by Nigerian companies.”



Specifically touching on some of the intrigues, the former legislator identified Clause One, in which he said, “So much power was conferred on the minister, such that the minister had the power to revoke and reallocate oil blocks to who he/she deemed fit based on being a good company.

Furthermore, he said that the legislators strived to remove the industry regulator from the grips of the ministry, as is the current situation, to make it truly independent, effective and efficient with the creation of the National Petroleum Directorate, to replace the Department of Petroleum Resource, DPR.

There were also the issues of the scrapping of the Petroleum Products Price Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, and the Petroleum Equalisation Fund, PEF, as their roles would no longer be needed under a deregulated downstream system, to ensure equitable and sustainable distribution and supply of petroleum products.

However, he regretted that selfish interests in government overrode these national interests and these clauses were watered down, so much that the PIB, which should have given additional strength to the Nigerian Content Act, is now one of its greatest weaknesses.

According to Maeba, “Most of the industry projects are based in the upstream, and the PIB would have guided legislations that would increase indigenous participation especially the marginal field operators, who were given special tax exemptions to encourage their growth.”

In view of the provisions of the constitution that all proceeds from the industry must be paid into the Federation Account, the lawmaker recalled that late president Umaru Yar’Adua after negotiating with state governors, approved that the value of the 10 percent equity should be paid into a fund on behalf of the host communities, but this was not to be.

The consequences of these and a host of many other factors is that apart from capital and investment flight, the industry is also at the risk of the resurgence of restiveness, as the equity participation is one of the ways that was used to broker peace in the Niger Delta

ACN and Shuaibu should not be sentimental in this. At least, appreciate a government that embrace the oppoisition parties. Work together for the betterment of the common man.
He wants to do things right and transparently, that is why he is inviting the 'critics' to be part of it so that best decision can be made.
How are we sure that Nigeria will better if ACN assumes power, considering the kind of selection that we had in Lagos State during the Local Government poll.

birdman:

@karlmax
The overwhelming majority in both houses is PDP (60% Senate 55% Rep), as is the senate president and house speaker. Stop with the maybes

Thank you Sir !!! All these fake patriot now lambasting everyone. How idiotic is it to point at the ACN in all of this? Some people are just showing a distasteful lack of knowledge as per how democracy remains the will of the majority. Sheer vindictiveness against any opposition of GEJ now leads them to speak ignorantly, unintellignetly and in a feudalistic manner.

PDP President, Vice President, Senate President, Deputy Senate President and Speaker house of rep and clear PDP majority in upper and lower house for the past few years yet the PIB remains unpassed after so much money has being spent. Now some jokers want to implicate the ACN in this while barking at anyone well withing their rights, because of all that has gone on, to refuse joining what is likely to be another charade till the heat dies down. Jokers. I wonder where all these new patriots and Mr. Nigeria were when some of us did the PIB threads to death for over a year on this forum.

The ACN is a farce and would continue to be one, why am i not surprised

If GEJ is serious about moving Nigeria forward, he should start with his government first.

1. Declare his assets
2. Sort out his bloated cabinet, with hoards of Ministers, Minister of state, Advisers, and all sorts of busy-bodies collecting fat salaries

3. Aggressively pursue corruption, not just pay lip-service to it.
Although deregulation of petroleum sales is good in principle, its not beneficial to the people under a corrupt regime like GEJ's government. They said we are spending N1.3 trillion, when the true figure is probably N300 billion - N1 trillion lost to corruption! Any serious president will take this serious. He shouldn't expect Nigerians to keep quiet about such monumental fraud, especially educated Nigerians.


4. GEJ should seek help from all Nigerians, rather than attacking some group of Nigerians(eg Lagosians). This group of Nigerians ignored their party to vote him to power. You can't just appoint the scribe of a party like ACN without talking to him first - not everyone is devoid of principle!

5. He should realise that the protest is more massive in Lagos because people in Lagos are very smart, and understand what is going on in the country more than the rest of the country. Lagosians are not just Yorubas only(before anyone read tribal associations to this statement), they are Ibos, Ijaws, Hausas, Fulanis, Yorubas - Nigerians of all tribes are fully represented in Lagos. To survive in Lagos, you have to have your thinking cap on - hence Lagosians tend to be more aware of how things really are, rather than what they are being told.

fm7070:

ACN and Shuaibu should not be sentimental in this. At least, appreciate a government that embrace the oppoisition parties. Work together for the betterment of the common man.
He wants to do things right and transparently, that is why he is inviting the 'critics' to be part of it so that best decision can be made.
How are we sure that Nigeria will better if ACN assumes power, considering the kind of selection that we had in Lagos State during the Local Government poll.

Are you not the one being sentimental about this? If you have followed the sad history of the PIB , and are not a post-protest "Mr. Nigeria", you will understand why this guy does not want to be part of what is obviously a charade including the biggest political positions in the land!!!

With the top four positions in the Country, including two in the legislative arm, belonging to the PDP , and with the Party also enjoying a clear majority in the Senate, what on earth do you think is preventing the passage of the PIB if not the fact that many in the PDP are the ones impeding the bill?

This is an open secret and I really don't know why folks can't allow this man his skepticism given all we have seen. I think the problem is that most Nairalander did not follow events. They now just talk as commentators who only pitched their tent firmly behind the Government after the recent protests. Some of us can even use Nairaland search functions to gain an education and note those who spoke consistently and analytically on the PIB.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/oil-industry-crippled-as-political-intrigues-wrangling-mar-pib-passage/104347/


Oil Industry Crippled as Political Intrigues, Wrangling Mar PIB Passage

06 Dec 2011



The present legal regime of oil and gas industry is outdated and not in alignment with international best practices.  The present system is characterised by corruption and wastefulness and lacks good governance practices. It is the desire to correct these anomalies in the sector, the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy that prompted the drafting of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), a piece of legislation that will overhaul the petroleum industry and re-write Nigeria’s over five decades relationship with International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in the country. Chika Amanze-Nwachuku writes that political intrigues and wrangling within the National Assembly and executive have continued to stall the passage of the bill, reducing oil and gas industry activities to lowest ebb


Exactly two years ago, precisely in December 2009, the Joint Senate Committee on the PIB headed by Senator Lee Maeba announced that the PIB would be passed in December that year.

This was reaffirmed on December 10, 2009, by the then Chairman of the Senate Committee on Gas Resources, Senator Osita Izunaso who was categorical that the bill would be passed before the National Assembly proceeded on Christmas break in December 2009. But the lawmakers failed to fulfill that promise citing inability to resolve contentious issues raised by stakeholders.

Again, in February 2010, Maeba had assured that the report of the Joint Senate Committee on the PIB was ready for submission to the plenary, rekindling the hope that the bill would soon become law. “Our committee report on the PIB is ready. In the next two weeks, it will be submitted to the plenary”, Maeba had told his audience at a 2010 budget defence session organised by the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream). This was also not to be. After more than two years of what could be simply put as ‘promise and fail’ ,Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke also announced to the admiration of oil and gas industry stakeholders that the controversial bill would be passed by the National Assembly and accented by President Goodluck  Jonathan before his swearing in on May 29, 2011.  She sounded very optimistic that those contentious issues had been sorted out to pave way for the passage of the bill.

“Those amendments are with both sides of the National Assembly, even though the original bill had already been placed before the Senate and they also have the amendments. They are looking at everything side by side. The bill is critical for us as Ministry, just as it is critical for the country as well”, she said, rekindling the hope that bill would become law in May this year. Again, this was not to be, as controversies have continued to trail its passage.

Political intrigues hindered passage
An indication that the bill might not be passed this year emerged in June when the Petroleum Minister revealed in an exclusive interview with THISDAY that there were still very fundamental issues in the sector that had not been addressed in the PIB, suggesting that more work still needed to be done before its eventual passage.  For example, she said the fiscal regime, especially for gas had not been touched at all. Secondly, she said the issue of commercialisation of NNPC was not fully addressed especially how funds would be raised and revenue disbursed.

More shocking were revelations by Maeba at an oil and gas conference in Lagos in August that what has been hindering the PIB passage was political intrigues and wrangling within the Senate and the executive. He disclosed that deliberations on the PIB had been concluded and that the bill was actually ready for passage as at December 2010. The former chairman, Senate Committee Upstream specifically stated that  selfish interest overrode national ones, thus preventing the bill from being passed. He noted that Clause One of the PIB, conferred so much power on the Petroleum Minister, such that the minister had the power to revoke and reallocate oil blocks to who he/she deemed fit based on being a good company.

"Starting from clause 1, we discovered that there was imminent danger when so much power was allocated to a minister of petroleum. Some of the powers was the power to revoke oil blocks and re-award it to any company, if in the opinion of the minister, is a good company. We do not know what the minister will see as a good company. We said something should be done to address this situation. We agreed that the PIB must create stronger institutions that are stronger than anybody running them".

According to him, the legislators also wanted to remove the industry regulator from the grips of the ministry, as is the current situation, to make it truly independent, effective and efficient with the creation of the National Petroleum Directorate, to replace the Department of Petroleum Resource, (DPR).

He also stated that the scrapping of the Petroleum Products Price Regulatory Agency, (PPPRA) and the Petroleum Equalisation Fund, (PEF) were among the issues that the Senate had to contend with.

It had been argued that their roles would no longer be needed under a deregulated downstream system. Maeba disclosed that selfish interests in government overrode these national interests adding that these clauses were watered down, so much that the PIB, which should have given additional strength to the Nigerian Content Act, is now one of its greatest weaknesses. Maeba noted that most of the industry projects are based in the upstream, and the PIB would have guided legislations that would increase indigenous participation especially the marginal field operators, who were given special tax exemptions to encourage their growth.

Multiple versions worsened delay
Another major reason why the PIB could not be passed by the sixth national assembly was multiplicity of the PIB versions before the Senate. Investigations revealed that there were three versions of the oil reforms bill before the National Assembly- the original bill submitted by the Petroleum Ministry in 2008, the version submitted by the Joint Committee of the National Assembly on the PIB and the one adjusted by the Petroleum Minister.

The existence of different versions of the bill in the National Assembly had elicited reactions from Nigerians who expressed concern that the original PIB, as drafted by the Oil and Gas Industry Committee(OGIC) and brought to the National Assembly, might not be the one that would eventually be passed as many of clauses in the original bill had either been watered down or thrown out completely.

Confirming the multiplicity of the PIB versions, Senate President David Mark, who spoke during the inauguration of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream),  said the existence of different versions of the controversial oil industry reforms bill, had been the major stumbling block to its passage by the two arms of the National Assembly.

The bill, which had generated a lot of interests among Nigerians, did not go beyond the first stage of clause-by-clause consideration in the two chambers before the Sixth Assembly wound up in June this year.

The Senate President said: "The problem with the PIB was that when it showed up, there were so many versions", adding that "as many as three or four versions were in the hands of senators and members of the House of Representatives."

Mark, who described the PIB as "the Bible for the petroleum industry", said it was "necessary to get it off the ground if we are to build the sector and that is why it is necessary for cooperation between the legislature and executive".

He pointed out that since the entire economy of the country depended on the petroleum industry, the much-talked about Vision 2020 would be a mirage "if we don't get it right in the sector".

Seventh Assembly’s Stance on the Bill
Stakeholders’ expectation that the bill will be passed within the first quarter of next year, following calls by investment community was further dashed last week, as the Senate declared that the bill was introduced in the sixth assembly and lapsed with the sixth assembly.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang  had noted that the Senate was inaugurated for a period of four years and at the end of the four years, it stood dissolved and every bill that was pending became dead unless reintroduced.

Enang said:  “A session is a period between June 6, 2011 and June 5, 2012. That is one legislative session. It does not refer to a term. You just adjourn and go on break. You go on break after the end of a session, then you come and resume. Session means one legislative year. It does appear that those who drafted it thought that a session covers the term. Therefore, if the president wants the PIB, he has to send a letter reintroducing it”.

Reactions Trail Request for ‘Secret Meeting’
At a forum in Lagos last week, the Petroleum Minister said a new bill would be sent to the Senate to ensure that the right version gets to the lawmakers. She also asked for a ‘secret meeting’ with members of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) on the controversial oil industry reform bill during a meeting with the Committee in Abuja.

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe had sought to know why the minister did not mention the PIB in her submission to the committee on what the petroleum ministry planned for the next fiscal year.

The lawmaker wanted to know whether the minister planned to forward a fresh PIB to the Senate given that the bill before the sixth assembly lapsed with that session. But the Minister who described the PIB as "highly topical and very sensitive", stated that issues connected with bill were issues  that should be discussed in a closed door session.

Reactions have however continued to trail the minister’s request for a closed door meeting on the PIB.  Some of the stakeholders spoken to at the weekend held similar views on the issue, insisting that to ask for a secret meeting at this point would erode transparency in the whole exercise.

They urged that every discussion on the controversial proposed legislation must be done publicly and in a transparent manner.  Also reacting to the said request, a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO),  Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a Benin-based Civil Society Organisation, said asking for a secret meeting with the senators showcases the unending opacity, lack of transparency and accountability that has become the sign post of the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry in spite of its being the first country to sign-on to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).

"We are appalled by the request of the Minister of Petroleum Resources to brief members of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) over a simple demand by Senator Abaribe who merely requested her to tell the committee what the government wanted the Senate to do with the Bill that lapsed with the Sixth Senate.

“Asking for a secret meeting with the senators showcases the unending opacity, lack of transparency and accountability that has become the sign post of the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry in spite of its being the first country to sign-on to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)," said the Executive Director of ANEEJ, Rev. David Ugolor.

He added: "This is not an era of secrecy in government. Secrecy gives room for conspiracy against citizens. The controversy that has trailed the PIB is enough for all issues concerning it to be put in the public domain and let's debate them. We expected the Minister to give a straight answer to the question posed by Senator Abaribe and not to request a secret meeting to provide what ought to be an innocuous answer.”

“The Bill is not about the heritage of one individual or a group of friends. It is about the commonwealth of Nigerians. A bill or law is a public, not a secret document so the process of formulation of such a document must be open and transparent in line with democratic norms. It is for these reasons that we want to urge the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream) to make the meeting with the Minister public because all previous secret meetings around the Bill have not yielded any result. We fear that if policy issues as vital as the PIB are discussed in secret places, then our quest to achieving vision 20:2020 economic blue print will be a mere wishful thinking,” he also stated.

ANEEJ insisted that discussing such an issue in secrete rooms “smacks of unseriousness, unpreparedness and weak disposition to face the monster in the oil and gas industry".  The group insisted that for reforms to be meaningful to all stakeholders and for the reformist to be taken seriously, the process must be open and transparent

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What F*cking PIB Bill? That Bill as it is now can never be passed by the Retardeen's govt. Its easier for the retardeen to secure his tenure elongation than the bill to be passed.

Lawal Shaibu was in order rejecting his appointment for the following reason.
1: Any number of "well-informed" individuals with vast knowledge of the industry could have been carefully selected "picked". The Purpose and "content" of the Bill is in public domain, even a university student can make pointed contributions  
2: It is deeply apparent that there is no love lost between PDP and ACN.   given his position in ACN, the value of Ethics and Principles should come into play in Lawal's decision

Also you cannot rule out the possibility of "Politics" and the Oracle of Bourdillion's influence on the matter - be that as it may, the decision has been taken - Move on and get down to work already.

I am mostly cynical of a PDP-led Administration especially when it comes to reforms but who knows - let us see how this goes down.

Shuaibu is a hero! Setting good example for principled decisions and acts.

i laugh in Madagascar, all these yoruba clowns Una no go kill me, with all this Una agero-fuji comments.


Don't worry we understand his problem,he is protesting the deployment of troops to Lagos by FG.Obviously the next man is available to take the appointment,so he can go and commit suicide like AWOLOWO if he like.we will bury him and not miss him.Shior

Why cant we separate issues of national importance from ethnic differences on NL.

Please address the issue and stop all these retrogressive tribal insults. It does not help us.

When Abati a well known government critic accepted to serve the FG, he was accused of selling out when he switched camp. Oshiomole who always fought the FG when he was NLC President too was accused of joining the said government he fought when he became Governor. Given Shuaibu's place in the ACN. Accepting an offer from a PDP led Government will make him appear has a coward and someone who has no principles so He hasnt done any wrong by rejecting the offer made by the FG.

ACN members are still shining examples in Nigeria of today, while d pdp and its affliate political parties such as anpp, labour party apga etc always rush for positions in pdp govt acn has always distinguised it self even when it was being begged desperately by the pdp govt to come and be a part of them they refused blatantlt. PDP has no reputation for any GOOD and u guys supporting them now know it. I Challenge all those from SE, and SS defending pdp now to tell me if they would ve if it was atiku that won the primaries. i guess you guys are just ETHNIC PERVERTS. whereas the world has moved on and every human now is judged at the level of what he has to offer you guys are still held down with premordial ethnic sentiment. Now tell me what exactly is wrong with a member of a diff political party refusing the appiontment given to it by another, he even went ahead to give SOUND reasons yet all u guys could see is acn , pdp that. In any case if the pdp led govt wanted to pass this bill they would ve done so since 2008 that the bill has been sent to a pdp dominated national assembly by a pdp presidernt. Guys pleeees grow up , i know its your opinion but pls spear the public ur perversion aswell. ACN is the reason why every thing is wrong with the pdp govt.  Infact ACN is the reason for your low sperm count. IRRITANTS.

manchy7531:


i laugh in Madagascar, all these yoruba clowns Una no go kill me, with all this Una agero-fuji comments.


Don't worry we understand his problem,he is protesting the deployment of troops to Lagos by FG.Obviously the next man is available to take the appointment,so he can go and commit suicide like , if he like.we will bury him and not miss him.Shior

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naja2:

ACN members are still shining examples in Nigeria of today, while d pdp and its affliate political parties such as anpp, labour party apga etc always rush for positions in pdp govt acn has always distinguised it self even when it was being begged desperately by the pdp govt to come and be a part of them they refused blatantlt. PDP has no reputation for any GOOD and u guys supporting them now know it. I Challenge all those from SE, and SS defending pdp now to tell me if they would ve if it was atiku that won the primaries. i guess you guys are just ETHNIC PERVERTS. whereas the world has moved on and every human now is judged at the level of what he has to offer you guys are still held down with premordial ethnic sentiment. Now tell me what exactly is wrong with a member of a diff political party refusing the appiontment given to it by another, he even went ahead to give SOUND reasons yet all u guys could see is acn , pdp that. In any case if the pdp led govt wanted to pass this bill they would ve done so since 2008 that the bill has been sent to a pdp dominated national assembly by a pdp presidernt. Guys pleeees grow up , i know its your opinion but pls spear the public your perversion aswell. ACN is the reason why every thing is wrong with the pdp govt.  Infact ACN is the reason for your low Fluid count. IRRITANTS.

Gbam!!! thats what i call being objective

Anyone with a discerning brain should reap that "report" reproduced by Gbawe on comment 22 above and you will clearly see the "enemies of Nigerians" who dont want the Bill passed!

From Senate President, David Mark who keeps telling us that "there are 4 to 5versions in circulation"? Cant david Mark, at his age, come to the "childish conclusion" that if a "Committee" is given a job to draft a Bill, "the AUTHENTIC VERSION IS THAT ONE THAT IS SUBMITTED BY THE SAME COMMITTEE"? But he rather chose to be playing games to stall the passage!

Again, lookt at House Rules Senator, Ita Giwa (Enang), (the same Pros.ti.tute that Dele Giwa married who, instead of giving him children, collected money from her millitary boyfriends, to plant bomb on her estranged husband), telling us that because the bill was presented in the Sixth Session and the 4yrs of that house has lapsed, the Every Pending Bill is DEAD! That LovePeddler must be smoking ganja as well! What about continuity in govt?

So if i took those dofus in govt 4yrs to do a job that should not take more than six months, Madam Bakassi says we must start all over again, and who says the same thing will not repeat itself?

And the "third leg" of these trio of saboteurs ia the Minister for Petroleum, Yes, the same Allison Madueke!
Hear her: 'a new bill would be sent to the Senate to ensure that the right version gets to the lawmakers. She also asked for a ‘secret meeting’ with members of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) on the controversial oil industry reform bill during a meeting with the Committee in Abuja"!.

You see, she wants to retain that part that gives her the absolute right to award and withdraw Oil Blocks to and from whomever she wishes (be it her brother, her children or her boyfriends) and that is why she keeps throwing spanners into the works of the committee.
Everything about that woman is criminal. Only Criminals prefer to run the nation in secrecy!

So, between David Mark, Ita Giwa-Enang and Allisson Madueke (Petroleum Minister, with the urging of her boyfriend is Aso Rock!), we have three saboteurs that are holding the country to ransom.

[size=14pt]Until NIGERIANS LEARN HOW TO DEAL "CRITICALLY AND FATALLY" WITH THESE TYPE OF CRIMINALS, OUR NATION WILL CONTINUE TO BE A LAUGHING STOCK INTERNATIONALLY!
If you cant lay your hands on them, at least you know where their "vital interests" are? (Children, family members, properties, e.t.c).
Hit them where it hurts, like they are doing to us.[/size]

Obviously angry!

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