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Runaway:
To me, he is still missing until he address us live....

God bless you.
The video can be any from past events between last two weeks.
Why are they releasing pictures and videos? I can only believe them if Buhari address us live. What is difficult there to do?
My inner man is telling me something is amiss

pwansunriseteam:
Who have information about a loan company that can give up to 2m without any collateral. O want to go and confirm something in Canada

GTB if your salary account is eligible to get up to 2m

Very interesting topic to debate.
having read through all the contributions by learnered Professors on this forum *PaChukwudi44*, *Garfield1*, *Philipu1* Engineerboat* and many others.

My opinion as a layman is also in line with *Backubuck* concern why Supreme Court did not declare the winner directly but rather still hinged it on *IF* the runners up fulfilled *the electroal law*. The question as asked by op of the topic is *Did PDP meet the constitution requirements*? I think we need to put our parties affiliate aside as ponder on this question or concern by *Backubuck*. Why didn't Supreme court declare PDP or the runners up the winner.?

*PaChukwudi44* made reference to margin of wins in Sokoto and Osun elections, but what he fails to realise was that Tambuwal and Oyetola met the Constitution requirements of 25% of 2/3. Therefore invalid votes cannot invalidate their wins. But in this case having removed APC votes, does PDP met constitution requirements. The answer is *NO*

Supreme Court ruled and used conditional word *IF*, the court did not say or order INEC to declare runner's up a winner. I will conclude to say not likely to declare PDP winner by INEC but more likely to order a rerun in order to fulfil constitutional requirements and in order not to defranchise more than 500k people who voted for APC.

OTOGE *Update* from kwara

*OTOGE SITUATION ROOM LIVE Updates, 1904 HRS*

Submitted PUs - 1353 - 72.28%
Awaiting - 519 - 27.72%

PDP - 78,752 - 25.03%
APC - 235,798 - 74.93%

Getting to an edge shortly.

(Ward and polling unit results should not call for celebration...

Leave them, let them continue to live in denial

UGWENNA:
DSS go plenty pass members inside that church

Far from it. All the time he has been coming to Church as VP he's not the type. You can agree with me with the way he interacts with people in the market places.

Currently holding interactive section as I type.

“Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, For they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, For the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Isaiah 3:10‭-‬11 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/isa.3.10-11.NKJV

FACT CHECK: Verifying Osinbajo, Obi at TV debate (Second Update)


To keep politicians accountable at the vice-presidential and presidential debate, news medium, TheCable was live-checking the supposed facts and figures being bandied by those seeking the highest offices in the land.

The participating parties are; Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Young Progressives Party (YPP).

Peter Obi of the PDP, and APC’s Yemi Osinbajo are debating alongside Ganiyu Galadima of ACPN, Khadijah Abdullahi-Iya of ANN and Umma Abdullahi-Getso of YPP.
OBI: There are about two million vehicles in Nigeria.
CHECKED: False. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria has a total vehicle population of about 11,547,236 as at the third quarter of 2017.

OSINBAJO: Lagos-Ibadan expressway was “practically” abandoned for 16 years under PDP.
CHECKED: False. The Goodluck Jonathan administration made many interventions on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, awarding a multi-billion naira contract to Julius Berger and RCC. The administration fixed the Ibadan to Ogere section of the road.

OSINBAJO: A bag of fertiliser now sells for N6,000 to N7,000.
CHECKED: Largely correct. Price of fertiliser has experienced a drastic drop following the Nigeria-Morocco fertiliser deal. Current prices are between N5,500 and N6,500. As at 2016, a bag of fertiliser sold above N10,000.

OBI: Nigeria has fallen on the global competitive index from 124 to 127.
CHECKED: False. According to the latest (2018) World Economic Forum report, Nigeria rose on the index by 10 places. Obi’s claim was true in 2016.

OBI: Total loans from the banks in Nigeria is N19trn and only 0.5% goes to SMEs
CHECKED: Yet to be verified.

OSINBAJO: There is a tax threshold for SMEs, SMEs get to a level before they pay taxes.
CHECKED: True. There is a lower tax rate of 20% applicable to small companies in manufacturing, agriculture and mining within their first five years of business. The problem with the law is that the turnover threshold to qualify is only N1 million which is not in tune with current realities.

OBI: Nigeria’s foreign direct investment for 2015 was $21bn, while it fell to $12bn in 2017.
CHECKED: False. According to NBS capital importation reports, Nigeria’s total imported capital stood at $9.6 billion in 2015, and $12.3 billion in 2017. Perhaps Obi meant 2014, when Nigeria’s total capital imported stood at $20.7 billion.

OBI: African trade today is less than 9 percent.
CHECKED: False. According to Afriexim Bank, Intra-Africa trade is around 15 percent. In 2016, intra-African exports made up 18 percent of total exports according to Brookings Institution.

OSINBAJO: Nigeria went down by 64 places under PDP, but has risen by 24 places under APC
CHECKED: Partly False. Nigeria went down from 120 to 170 between 2008 and 2015, under PDP rule. Under the APC, ease of doing business has risen from 170 in 2015 to 146 in 2018, according to the World Bank Ease of Doing Business report.

OBI: Oil gives you 80% of foreign exchange earnings.
CHECKED: Point valid, figures near accurate. As at 2017 NBS figures showed that Nigeria’s foreign exchange earnings from oil the oil sector stood above 90%.

OBI: To bring out goods from Apapa cost more than it takes to bring goods from Europe
CHECKED: Unverified

GALADIMA: We have four refineries in Nigeria, and none is working.
CHECKED: The refineries according to NNPC reports are working at sub-optimal levels. Not totally dysfunctional.

UMMA GESTO: Nigerian Airways was one of the largest in the world.
CHECKED: Unverified.

OBI: The federal government spends only N5 on the health of each Nigerian citizen per day.
CHECKED: True. Based on budgetary and population calculations done, the federal government allocates N4.7 to every Nigerian’s health per day.

OBI: Apple Inc’s market cap is bigger than the economies of Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt.
CHECKED: Apple’s market cap today is $788.57 billion. The economies of these three countries are bigger than Apple. When Apple was $1 trillion a few months ago, it was bigger in dollar terms.

OSINBAJO: Nigeria producing 90% of the rice we consume.
CHECKED: Dicey. According to the Central Bank of Nigeria, the country’s rice import has dropped drastically with a surge in local production. The CBN estimates that Nigeria has legally imported less than 25,000 tonnes of rice in 2018 — validating Osinbajo’s claims.

Africa Rice Centre says Nigeria produces 75% of its rice consumption, adding that rice smuggling is a big problem in Nigeria. Nobody tracks the amount of rice smuggled into the country.

According to the Thailand Rice Exporters Association, the rice exported to Nigeria between January and October 2018 was 6,121 tonnes, representing a drastic drop when compared to 2016 when all-year import stood at 58,260 metric tonnes.

But the rice exported to Benin Republic, where most of Nigeria’s smuggled rice comes from, has increased from 805,765 metric tonnes in 2015 to 1,214,568 metric tonnes as at October 2018.

However, the United States Department of Agriculture says Nigeria’s imports rose in 2018 and Nigeria is projected to produce 4.79 million metric tonnes in 2019 and import as much as 2.4 million metric tonnes in 2019.

OBI: To bring out goods from Apapa cost more than it takes to bring goods from Europe
CHECKED: Unverified

GALADIMA: We have four refineries in Nigeria, and none is working.
CHECKED: The refineries according to NNPC reports are working at sub-optimal levels. Not totally dysfunctional.

UMMA GESTO: Nigerian Airways was one of the largest in the world.
CHECKED: Unverified.

OBI: The federal government spends only N5 on the health of each Nigerian citizen per day.
CHECKED: True. Based on budgetary and population calculations, the federal government allocates N4.7 to every Nigerian’s health per day.

OBI: Apple Inc’s market cap is bigger than the economies of Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt.
CHECKED: Apple’s market cap today is $788.57 billion. The economies of these three countries are bigger than Apple. When Apple was $1 trillion a few months ago, it was bigger in dollar terms.

Source: TheCable

FACT CHECK: Verifying Osinbajo, Obi at TV debate (Second Update)


To keep politicians accountable at the vice-presidential and presidential debate, news medium, TheCable was live-checking the supposed facts and figures being bandied by those seeking the highest offices in the land.

The participating parties are; Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Young Progressives Party (YPP).

Peter Obi of the PDP, and APC’s Yemi Osinbajo are debating alongside Ganiyu Galadima of ACPN, Khadijah Abdullahi-Iya of ANN and Umma Abdullahi-Getso of YPP.
OBI: There are about two million vehicles in Nigeria.
CHECKED: False. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria has a total vehicle population of about 11,547,236 as at the third quarter of 2017.

OSINBAJO: Lagos-Ibadan expressway was “practically” abandoned for 16 years under PDP.
CHECKED: False. The Goodluck Jonathan administration made many interventions on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, awarding a multi-billion naira contract to Julius Berger and RCC. The administration fixed the Ibadan to Ogere section of the road.

OSINBAJO: A bag of fertiliser now sells for N6,000 to N7,000.
CHECKED: Largely correct. Price of fertiliser has experienced a drastic drop following the Nigeria-Morocco fertiliser deal. Current prices are between N5,500 and N6,500. As at 2016, a bag of fertiliser sold above N10,000.

OBI: Nigeria has fallen on the global competitive index from 124 to 127.
CHECKED: False. According to the latest (2018) World Economic Forum report, Nigeria rose on the index by 10 places. Obi’s claim was true in 2016.

OBI: Total loans from the banks in Nigeria is N19trn and only 0.5% goes to SMEs
CHECKED: Yet to be verified.

OSINBAJO: There is a tax threshold for SMEs, SMEs get to a level before they pay taxes.
CHECKED: True. There is a lower tax rate of 20% applicable to small companies in manufacturing, agriculture and mining within their first five years of business. The problem with the law is that the turnover threshold to qualify is only N1 million which is not in tune with current realities.

OBI: Nigeria’s foreign direct investment for 2015 was $21bn, while it fell to $12bn in 2017.
CHECKED: False. According to NBS capital importation reports, Nigeria’s total imported capital stood at $9.6 billion in 2015, and $12.3 billion in 2017. Perhaps Obi meant 2014, when Nigeria’s total capital imported stood at $20.7 billion.

OBI: African trade today is less than 9 percent.
CHECKED: False. According to Afriexim Bank, Intra-Africa trade is around 15 percent. In 2016, intra-African exports made up 18 percent of total exports according to Brookings Institution.

OSINBAJO: Nigeria went down by 64 places under PDP, but has risen by 24 places under APC
CHECKED: Partly False. Nigeria went down from 120 to 170 between 2008 and 2015, under PDP rule. Under the APC, ease of doing business has risen from 170 in 2015 to 146 in 2018, according to the World Bank Ease of Doing Business report.

OBI: Oil gives you 80% of foreign exchange earnings.
CHECKED: Point valid, figures near accurate. As at 2017 NBS figures showed that Nigeria’s foreign exchange earnings from oil the oil sector stood above 90%.

OBI: To bring out goods from Apapa cost more than it takes to bring goods from Europe
CHECKED: Unverified

GALADIMA: We have four refineries in Nigeria, and none is working.
CHECKED: The refineries according to NNPC reports are working at sub-optimal levels. Not totally dysfunctional.

UMMA GESTO: Nigerian Airways was one of the largest in the world.
CHECKED: Unverified.

OBI: The federal government spends only N5 on the health of each Nigerian citizen per day.
CHECKED: True. Based on budgetary and population calculations done, the federal government allocates N4.7 to every Nigerian’s health per day.

OBI: Apple Inc’s market cap is bigger than the economies of Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt.
CHECKED: Apple’s market cap today is $788.57 billion. The economies of these three countries are bigger than Apple. When Apple was $1 trillion a few months ago, it was bigger in dollar terms.

OSINBAJO: Nigeria producing 90% of the rice we consume.
CHECKED: Dicey. According to the Central Bank of Nigeria, the country’s rice import has dropped drastically with a surge in local production. The CBN estimates that Nigeria has legally imported less than 25,000 tonnes of rice in 2018 — validating Osinbajo’s claims.

Africa Rice Centre says Nigeria produces 75% of its rice consumption, adding that rice smuggling is a big problem in Nigeria. Nobody tracks the amount of rice smuggled into the country.

According to the Thailand Rice Exporters Association, the rice exported to Nigeria between January and October 2018 was 6,121 tonnes, representing a drastic drop when compared to 2016 when all-year import stood at 58,260 metric tonnes.

But the rice exported to Benin Republic, where most of Nigeria’s smuggled rice comes from, has increased from 805,765 metric tonnes in 2015 to 1,214,568 metric tonnes as at October 2018.

However, the United States Department of Agriculture says Nigeria’s imports rose in 2018 and Nigeria is projected to produce 4.79 million metric tonnes in 2019 and import as much as 2.4 million metric tonnes in 2019.

OBI: To bring out goods from Apapa cost more than it takes to bring goods from Europe
CHECKED: Unverified

GALADIMA: We have four refineries in Nigeria, and none is working.
CHECKED: The refineries according to NNPC reports are working at sub-optimal levels. Not totally dysfunctional.

UMMA GESTO: Nigerian Airways was one of the largest in the world.
CHECKED: Unverified.

OBI: The federal government spends only N5 on the health of each Nigerian citizen per day.
CHECKED: True. Based on budgetary and population calculations, the federal government allocates N4.7 to every Nigerian’s health per day.

OBI: Apple Inc’s market cap is bigger than the economies of Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt.
CHECKED: Apple’s market cap today is $788.57 billion. The economies of these three countries are bigger than Apple. When Apple was $1 trillion a few months ago, it was bigger in dollar terms.

Source: TheCable

FACT CHECK: Verifying Osinbajo, Obi at TV debate (Second Update)


To keep politicians accountable at the vice-presidential and presidential debate, news medium, TheCable was live-checking the supposed facts and figures being bandied by those seeking the highest offices in the land.

The participating parties are; Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Young Progressives Party (YPP).

Peter Obi of the PDP, and APC’s Yemi Osinbajo are debating alongside Ganiyu Galadima of ACPN, Khadijah Abdullahi-Iya of ANN and Umma Abdullahi-Getso of YPP.
OBI: There are about two million vehicles in Nigeria.
CHECKED: False. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria has a total vehicle population of about 11,547,236 as at the third quarter of 2017.

OSINBAJO: Lagos-Ibadan expressway was “practically” abandoned for 16 years under PDP.
CHECKED: False. The Goodluck Jonathan administration made many interventions on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, awarding a multi-billion naira contract to Julius Berger and RCC. The administration fixed the Ibadan to Ogere section of the road.

OSINBAJO: A bag of fertiliser now sells for N6,000 to N7,000.
CHECKED: Largely correct. Price of fertiliser has experienced a drastic drop following the Nigeria-Morocco fertiliser deal. Current prices are between N5,500 and N6,500. As at 2016, a bag of fertiliser sold above N10,000.

OBI: Nigeria has fallen on the global competitive index from 124 to 127.
CHECKED: False. According to the latest (2018) World Economic Forum report, Nigeria rose on the index by 10 places. Obi’s claim was true in 2016.

OBI: Total loans from the banks in Nigeria is N19trn and only 0.5% goes to SMEs
CHECKED: Yet to be verified.

OSINBAJO: There is a tax threshold for SMEs, SMEs get to a level before they pay taxes.
CHECKED: True. There is a lower tax rate of 20% applicable to small companies in manufacturing, agriculture and mining within their first five years of business. The problem with the law is that the turnover threshold to qualify is only N1 million which is not in tune with current realities.

OBI: Nigeria’s foreign direct investment for 2015 was $21bn, while it fell to $12bn in 2017.
CHECKED: False. According to NBS capital importation reports, Nigeria’s total imported capital stood at $9.6 billion in 2015, and $12.3 billion in 2017. Perhaps Obi meant 2014, when Nigeria’s total capital imported stood at $20.7 billion.

OBI: African trade today is less than 9 percent.
CHECKED: False. According to Afriexim Bank, Intra-Africa trade is around 15 percent. In 2016, intra-African exports made up 18 percent of total exports according to Brookings Institution.

OSINBAJO: Nigeria went down by 64 places under PDP, but has risen by 24 places under APC
CHECKED: Partly False. Nigeria went down from 120 to 170 between 2008 and 2015, under PDP rule. Under the APC, ease of doing business has risen from 170 in 2015 to 146 in 2018, according to the World Bank Ease of Doing Business report.

OBI: Oil gives you 80% of foreign exchange earnings.
CHECKED: Point valid, figures near accurate. As at 2017 NBS figures showed that Nigeria’s foreign exchange earnings from oil the oil sector stood above 90%.

OBI: To bring out goods from Apapa cost more than it takes to bring goods from Europe
CHECKED: Unverified

GALADIMA: We have four refineries in Nigeria, and none is working.
CHECKED: The refineries according to NNPC reports are working at sub-optimal levels. Not totally dysfunctional.

UMMA GESTO: Nigerian Airways was one of the largest in the world.
CHECKED: Unverified.

OBI: The federal government spends only N5 on the health of each Nigerian citizen per day.
CHECKED: True. Based on budgetary and population calculations done, the federal government allocates N4.7 to every Nigerian’s health per day.

OBI: Apple Inc’s market cap is bigger than the economies of Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt.
CHECKED: Apple’s market cap today is $788.57 billion. The economies of these three countries are bigger than Apple. When Apple was $1 trillion a few months ago, it was bigger in dollar terms.

OSINBAJO: Nigeria producing 90% of the rice we consume.
CHECKED: Dicey. According to the Central Bank of Nigeria, the country’s rice import has dropped drastically with a surge in local production. The CBN estimates that Nigeria has legally imported less than 25,000 tonnes of rice in 2018 — validating Osinbajo’s claims.

Africa Rice Centre says Nigeria produces 75% of its rice consumption, adding that rice smuggling is a big problem in Nigeria. Nobody tracks the amount of rice smuggled into the country.

According to the Thailand Rice Exporters Association, the rice exported to Nigeria between January and October 2018 was 6,121 tonnes, representing a drastic drop when compared to 2016 when all-year import stood at 58,260 metric tonnes.

But the rice exported to Benin Republic, where most of Nigeria’s smuggled rice comes from, has increased from 805,765 metric tonnes in 2015 to 1,214,568 metric tonnes as at October 2018.

However, the United States Department of Agriculture says Nigeria’s imports rose in 2018 and Nigeria is projected to produce 4.79 million metric tonnes in 2019 and import as much as 2.4 million metric tonnes in 2019.

OBI: To bring out goods from Apapa cost more than it takes to bring goods from Europe
CHECKED: Unverified

GALADIMA: We have four refineries in Nigeria, and none is working.
CHECKED: The refineries according to NNPC reports are working at sub-optimal levels. Not totally dysfunctional.

UMMA GESTO: Nigerian Airways was one of the largest in the world.
CHECKED: Unverified.

OBI: The federal government spends only N5 on the health of each Nigerian citizen per day.
CHECKED: True. Based on budgetary and population calculations, the federal government allocates N4.7 to every Nigerian’s health per day.

OBI: Apple Inc’s market cap is bigger than the economies of Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt.
CHECKED: Apple’s market cap today is $788.57 billion. The economies of these three countries are bigger than Apple. When Apple was $1 trillion a few months ago, it was bigger in dollar terms.

Source: TheCable

The reason Been Bruce and Olujimi gave to override Buhari assent was because usage of card reader. Meanwhile it was because of not inclusive of card reader Buhari refused his assent last time. Is it not Mr. President who asked them to include card reader.

The truth of the matter is that both presidency and NASS has interior motives beyond the reasons both of them gave

Fellow Nigerians, when I saw this post I knew something is wrong with the data because I can remembered that the difference between the outcome of the results was around 2m votes, I tried to recalled that the winner got a total of either 13m+ or 14+ votes, just to be sure I have to Google it to confirm before commenting. I also remembered that Akwa-Ibom results came last and it was close to 1m votes. See the attached pictures of little i can find. I'll advise fellow Nairalanders to always Google to substantiate fact before raining abusive words or commenting it will do us good.

I think the interest of our dear Nation should come first. I decided to Google the name of the lady in question and found out about Nigeria government response to her rants.
Also to note that the case she sighted contract was reneged by previous admnistration NOT the present administration.
We may see response below

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/11/presidency-says-former-intl-devt-scribe-goofed-on-buharis-anti-corruption-fight/

God, please visit me and let me experience 24hours miracle in Jesus name.
PMB arrived Nigeria after 24hours visitation by Pastor Adeboye.

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Kockane:
Not like I'm a Gtb spokesperson or anything o, but from what I was made to understand, these amounts were blocked on the affected individuals accounts from the points when the airtime purchases were made but never debited. And this dates to as far back as over a year ago.

What this means is, even though the customer cannot have access to the funds, it's been in their account all this while and only now did the debit take place even though they already got value for their money at the point of transaction.

And for those who are experiencing a negative balance after the debit, calm down folks, and check your account balances after a few hrs, the block on the funds on your account will have been removed and account balance back to what it should be.

And folks, should you need further clarifications after this, you might want to request for your account statement, you would realize what I just explained. No way a bank as responsible as GTB would mindlessly debit you for a transaction you never initiated. All the best.

#TeamWeLoveGTB.

Thanks Kockane, I just check my account bal online now, exactly what you said. I was debited 100, 200, yst but for a while I noticed that my available balance is 300 short from the book balance but as at now both are the same.

Supreme court halts the trial at CCT PENDING on the determination/outcome of court of appeal decision..

BEING A SUMMARY OF POINTS OF DISCUSSION WITH PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ON JULY 1, 2015 BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 174 APC MEMBERS IN THE 8TH HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


1. On the 9th of June, 2015, 174 APC members in the House faithfully and loyally followed the directives of the party to vote for Hon Femi Gbajabiamila and Hon Mongunu as Speaker and Deputy Speaker while 39 other APC members colluded with the opposition party, the PDP, to elect the current Speaker and Deputy Speaker with only eight votes superiority. The party directive was based on the mock primaries conducted for all aspirants to the two positions.

2. Whereas the candidates of the majority (Gbajabiamila and Mongunu) openly congratulated the winners and continued to cooperate with them in the House, the opposition and the 39 APC members continued to hold the APC leadership in contempt.

3. Whereas we the 174 Party faithfuls and loyalists had been obedient to the Party, what shall be the reward of our loyalty to the Party?

4. The Party has chosen not to punish the 39 APC members including the elected Speaker and Deputy Speaker, but chose to direct, as it is customary and conventional, on how the other four (4) Principal Officers should be distributed. Alas! The opposition and the 39 members continue to hold the ruling Party in contempt by disobeying the party.

5. Whereas, the beneficiaries of the disobedience are citing Federal Character Principle as the main reason for their disobedience, His Excellency should note that:

(a) During the 6th Assembly (2007-2011), the following officers were elected from the NORTH-WEST
(I) The President and Commander in Chief
(ii) Ismaila Kawu
(III)Hon Mutawalle. The two occupied 2 out of the 4 principal officers positions of the Minority Party
(iv) Hon Aminu Tambuwal was elected Deputy Chief Whip.

(B) Also during the 7th Assembly, the following officers in Government were elected from the NORTH-WEST

(I) The Vice President
(II) The Speaker, Rt. Hon Aminu Tambuwal
(III) Hon. Ismaila Kawu, Deputy Minority Leader
(IV) Hon. Garba Datti, Deputy Minority Whip

There was never an issue of Federal Character in these instances.

6. It should be noted that the Federal Character principle as embedded in chapter of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) IS NOT JUSTICIABLE AND OF NO LEGAL CONSEQUENCE. Its provision in S.14 of the Constitution is only applicable to appointments in Federal Ministries and Agencies. The House of Representatives is not an agency of the Federal Government and the principal officers positions are elective and not by appointment. If the Federal Character is applicable to the National Assembly, then both the Senate President and the Speaker cannot come from the North, one of them should be advised to step down.

7. It is noteworthy that Mr. President and the Governors had strongly put their weight behind the party and had severally admonished the House to abide by the party’s position. The 39 APC members in the House continue to collude with the PDP to flagrantly disobey Mr. President, the governors and the party with a view to bringing the Party and Government to ridicule before Nigerians.

8. The conduct of the 39 APC members colluding with the PDP is tantamount to affront, ultimately targeted at polarising our Party so as to give room for many of them to decamp to the PDP.

9. It is therefore imperative for Mr. President to take a stand and save the integrity of the Party, by cautioning, the 39 members, which include the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker, to respect, honour and obey our Party Leaders and their directives.

10. In conclusion, Mr. President, we as loyal Party members shall continue to abide by the Party constitution, respect and honour our party leaders and their directives. We strongly appeal to you to direct the Speaker to return to our fold and be truly elected Speaker on APC platform. He should be directed to announce the other four Party Principal officers positions as directed by the party as it has always been the convention.

11. We sincerely appreciate Mr. President for the audience trusting in his ability to successfully mediate so as to save our great party, the APC, from further embarrassment.

nawa ooo

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How many used this baby doll