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A press release from the Ekiti state government has addressed the outbursts of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the possible removal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega

Press statement from Ekiti state …

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Jonathan Can Sack Jega If He Wants - Ayo Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Mr AyodeleFayose has described outbursts of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the possible removal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof AttahiruJega as “mere comedy,” saying; “President Goodluck Jonathan can sack Jega if he wishes and if he does, heavens will not fall.”
The governor, who said the APC should stop acting as if Nigeria belongs to the party, added that; “by turning themselves to advocates and defenders of the INEC chairman, the APC and its agents have shown that they have a deal with Jega to manipulate the elections and that the deal will be frustrated if he is asked to leave office.”

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Governor Fayose said in a release issued on Wednesday, and signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, that “removal of Jega and any other appointees of the Federal Government is a prerogative of the president, which no one can question, provided laid down rules are followed.”

He said the position expressed by the House of Representatives was that of the APC members in the House, urging that “the APC lawmakers should rather pay attention to the ill-health of their party’s presidential candidate, Major General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd), whose whereabouts is now a mystery.”

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The governor described Jega as partisan, saying; “By his actions and utterances, Jega had already demonstrated his bias in support of the APC. For instance, how can Jega explain the 80 percent distribution of Permanent Voters Card (PVC) in Boko Haram ravaged Borno and Yobe States while less than 40 percent distributed in Lagos as at February 7 that the election was postponed?”

He said; “It is on record that Prof Maurice Iwu was asked to proceed on terminal leave two months to the end of his tenure? Is Jega not a beneficiary of Iwu’s removal? So if Iwu was asked to go on terminal leave before the expiration of his tenure for Jega to assume office, what difference does it make if Jega too is asked to proceed on terminal leave before the expiration of his tenure?”

READ ALSO: Fani-Kayode Left APC Because…. –Tinubu Reveals Why FFK Left APC For The PDP

Speaking further, Governor Fayose said; “it is the president that can determine whether or not Jega will go on the mandatory three months terminal leave which should commence on March 8, and if the president decides that the INEC chairman should go on terminal leave, what can the APC loudmouths do?

“They boasted before the postponement of the elections that they would go on street protests, but did they do anything? They made noise when Justice Isa Ayo Salami was removed from office as president of the Court of Appeal, what did their noise amount to?

“Therefore, let me say it categorically that the noise being made by the APC and their agents will amount to nothing because if the president removes Jega today, heavens will not fall.”

Governor Ayo Fayose had recently put up ads in national dailies saying that Muhammadu Buhari might not live long if elected into the presidential position.

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This election is about your stomach not your brother- Gov Amaechi tells Rivers state residents

While campaigning for APC at the Degema Obonoma and Abonnema communities in Degema and Akuku-Toru Local government area of Rivers state yesterday March 3rd, Gov Rotimi Amaechi was quoted as saying to the people to vote for their stomach and not because their brother, President Jonathan was in the race to be re-elected as President.

"This election is not about brother, it is about your stomach. If dollar likes, it can get to N300 or N400 to a dollar, the President can afford it but you can’t afford it. Now they tried everything possible to stop the dollar from losing control. They couldn’t because the economy will determine whether the dollar will lose control or not and the economy has done that already. Another one is fuel. They have done everything possible to pay for fuel. They can’t pay. The money is not there. Now, there is fuel crisis.
If they win, they will abandon you completely because they have no solution to the problems. The first solution to the problems is a new government. Are we going to win? The answer is yes. We have not started campaign. We will start campaign by the end of this week. We will see the crowd again that will frighten the president. Nigerians want change. Things have got to change. See your road. Two years ago, I sat with the president and Kalabari chiefs and I said, ‘Allow me take this road. The president said no’. You can see the road. Next rainy season, you cannot drive into this place unless you change the President and if you change the President, then the new President can fix the road.” he was quoted by Vanguard as saying

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I look up to Bracket – Tiwa Savage

Pregnant Mavin Records first lady, Tiwa Savage, has revealed that she is proud of Nigerian music duo, Bracket, because they are Nigerian singers she looks up to.

Tiwa, who was featured in one of the group’s latest singles entitled ‘Alive,’ alongside Tanzanian music star, Diamond Platnumz, stated that the song was one of the best she has featured in recently, noting that she is honoured to be part of it.

“One of the features I’ve done that I was so honoured to be part of. The message in the song really touches my heart and the artists I worked with are all people I look up to,” she said.

According to Bracket, who became very popular after the release of ‘Yori Yori’ few years ago, ‘Alive’ is a song written to thank God for the successful cancer surgery underwent by Vast, one half of the music group in 2013 at Platinum Medical Centre, Wellington, London.

“It’s an idea we conceived shortly after Vast survived cancer. We want to help people with cancer, at least pay their bills, even if they don’t survive it, we want to help them stay alive,” Smash stated.

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Jonathan Declares: We Won’t Give Opposition Chance To Rule

President Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday that his government would not give the opposition the opportunity to rule Nigeria.

Jonathan made the assertion while launching the Peoples Democratic Party Wards’ Volunteer Scheme at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. targeting the grass-roots using about one million volunteers.
He accused some people of bitterly criticising his government because of their 'frustration and guilt'.
“At the state level and at the national level; well, at the national level, we cannot compare our standards with theirs because they have not had the experience, and we will not give them the opportunity. Because I know they will not do well.”


The president continued: “And I always say that when you see people talking and you see the bitterness in their hearts, you see the frustration, the anger, and you see them as people who are already feeling guilty, if you don’t have a forgiving heart, if you don’t have a clean heart, you cannot rule Nigeria because you cannot give out what you don’t have.”
Jonathan said the PDP had set standards in governance which the opposition could not match because they never had governance experience at the federal level.

He also asserted that the PDP was the only party with members at every voting unit, but lamented that leaders and members of the party had not been marketing its achievements.
“If you go to agricultural sector, transportation sector, education sector, petroleum sector, we’ve opened up the sector such that it has created a lot of room for the big boys in the Nigerian oil sector.
“There is no other party whether two, three, four, five parties coming together. They cannot reach that level. PDP has members in every voting unit in this country,” he said.

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Fani Kayode ran from APC because we refused to protect him from EFCC-Tinubu

Former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,has slammed former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode,accusing him of leaving the All Progressives Congress because the party refused to influence the EFCC to drop alleged money laundering charges against him.

Reacting to Kayode's claims that Tinubu would take over from Osibanjo as vice president ,if they win,the former governor said in a statement...

“Bola Tinubu helped build the great platform for change; he wholeheartedly supports the APC ticket because he believes it is the last best hope to rescue Nigeria from the disaster Fani-Kayode and his ilk will want to continue.
“I pray Nigerians will not allow them to misgovern us a day past May 29. If Fani-Kayode pretends not to know of Tinubu’s efforts to build and support the APC, it comes as no surprise. Fani-Kayode tried before to be part of the party but left when he found out there was no room for his games. Because the APC could not help to free him from the EFCC and the aviation fraud, he ran away to the party that blocked the EFCC on his behalf.”

“That Fani-Kayode is the best a ruling party can present as a spokesman speaks volumes about the PDP. They are bereft of talent and character. They are filled with lies and chicanery. Fani-Kayode is simply the worst and most outspoken of a bad lot. However, we welcome his interventions. They are of such low quality and base character. His utterances frighten people but not in the way Fani-Kayode intended.

“Instead of scaring people away from the APC, his work scares people that someone so unfit is so close to the seat of power, someone so unhinged is given free rein to spit bile and call that public discourse. One must wonder who is unbalanced, the misfit or he who hires him. Keep at it Fani-Kayode. Continue!”

“Fani-Kayode is not as smart as he thinks. If you read between the lines of his hysteria, you see another extreme sentiment: that of surging desperation. His statement indicates that even he now realises that his paymaster has lost to Buhari/Osinbajo.

“The game is over. The whistle has blown. What the fantasy man seeks to do is change the game. He seeks to run against Tinubu in hopes the outcome will be better. Fani-Kayode now grasps at straws in the night wind.”

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No Party Can Beat PDP Jonathan Boasts

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday boasted that despite the intimidation being mounted against members of the ruling party by opposition parties, no political party can beat the Peoples Democratic Party in the coming election.

He said those who had not done anything had been intimidating the ruling party because the party had not been marketing itself.

The President spoke just as the Director-General of his campaign organisation, Senator Ahmadu Ali, said some foreign countries were opposed to Jonathan’s re-election bid because he signed the Anti Same-Sex Bill into law.

They both spoke during the unveiling of the PDP Ward Volunteer Scheme held inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

“I am convinced that up to this time, there is no party that can beat the PDP. All we need is unity. There is no party that is formidable like the PDP,” the President told the gathering that consisted of all the PDP candidates from the state Houses of Assembly to the National Assembly.

Jonathan said the PDP was not just the largest party in the country but also the only party that had members in all voting units across the country.

He said even if 10 political parties come together, they could not reach the PDP’s level.

While saying that the PDP had done well over time, Jonathan challenged the opposition to match the party on performances of their governors state-by-state.

For instance, Jonathan said only state governments under the leadership of the PDP had been able to provide functional airports in their state capitals.

He also said the number of state universities established by the PDP states were more than those of the opposition.

He however regretted that despite the performance of the PDP, the opposition also intimidated the PDP members even in their (PDP) states.

Jonathan said the party would not allow the opposition to win at the national level.

He said, “They (the opposition) intimidate us to the extent that they intimidate us even in states where we have PDP governors.

“We will not allow those who are not up to us in terms of performance to continue to intimidate us.

“At the national level, we cannot compare our standards with theirs, because they have not had the experience and we will not give them the opportunity because I know they will not do well.”

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PDP Chairman says Opposition Leaders behind Fuel Scarcity

Peoples Democratic Party national chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, on Monday accused some opposition leaders in the country of being behind the current petrol scarcity being experienced in most states.

Mu’azu, in a series of tweets on his official Twitter page, alleged that the opposition leaders and some vested interests were hoarding petrol.

The PDP chairman said, “Concerned Nigerians have drawn our attention to the fact that some opposition leaders and vested interests are behind hoarding of fuel.

“Concerned Nigerians also drew our attention to plans by those who control the South-West disco to sabotage electricity in the zone.

“We assure Nigerians, they will fail. All their plans to tarnish the image of the government will fail like all other previous attempts.We want to assure concerned Nigerians, especially all of you here on social media that we will reverse this trend soonest.”

He, however, did not mention the names of the opposition leaders but claimed that the scarcity was engineered to damage the image of President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the March 28 elections.

Mu’azu, however, said in later tweets that he never blamed the APC for the fuel scarcity but was sharing the concern of many Nigerians who had raised the alarm.

He said his ICT team who tweeted were only talking about the allegations raised by Nigerians.

He flayed the responses of APC supporters to the earlier tweets, saying, “Your party’s presidential candidate has been away for about 14 days now you are not asking questions but you can ask me questions.”

The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Lai Mohammed, described the allegation as laughable.

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Hip hop world magazine, recently brought you news about Chidinma stating clearly that she isn’t in a relationship with Flavour.
Well, the Emini Baller crooner in a recent interview with HipTV dished on the subject matter.
When we asked if there is a man in her life, she simply answered, “yes there is ”
When we further quizzed her to reveal his identity, she refused stating “ I don’t think you have to know that”
Probing her further, we asked, if she will YES if Flavour proposed to her, she answered no, with a straight face.
So now that Flavour isn’t the man, who then is the lucky man?
Hip Hop world magazine will sure keep you posted.

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Nigeria's top entertainer D'Banj is still in Dubai and living it up! Pictured above is him hanging out with serial entrepreneur Ashish J. Thakkar, who at 33 years old, is the Founder and Managing Director of Mara Group, a diversified conglomerate with approximately USD $1 billion in revenues.

These are things that happen when you are a big fish like D'Banj.

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There won’t be amnesty for Boko Haram – Buhari

While delivering his speech to the world at the Chatham House, Buhari said he would not grant amnesty to the Boko Haram terrorist if elected President on March 28.

The arm and damage Boko Haram has done to the lives and property of Nigerians are enormous. They have killed over 13, 000 people since 2009.

He said, “I think I will not go to that office with that promise. I have said in my address how, at least 13,000 Nigerians have been killed by Boko Haram, how millions of them have been displaced and are now kept in different camps called Internally Displaced Persons camps.

“Schools have been burnt, there is so much disruption to normal life; people cannot farm and where they are able to farm, they cannot harvest. So, granting amnesty to Boko Haram will be unfair to the system.”

Buhari, who described himself as “a former military ruler and a converted democrat,” however stated that any insurgent caught would “be given the chance in civil courts to be properly prosecuted.”

He added, “We will secure Nigeria. At no other time in our history has Nigeria been this insecure. Boko Haram has sadly put Nigeria on the terrorism map, killing more than 13,000 of our nationals, displacing millions internally and externally, and at a time holding on to portions of our territory the size of Belgium. What has been consistently lacking is the required leadership in our battle against insurgency.”

He accused the current administration of allowing Boko Haram to operate with ease by failing to provide what he described as “a multi-dimensional response” to its activities.

“In the matter of this insurgency, our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem,” the former Head of State said.

Asked how he planned to tackle the violent sect if elected President, Buhari said his government would “pay special attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and out of service, give the military adequate modern arms and ammunition and improve intelligence gathering to choke its financial and equipment channels.”

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Move on Nigeria, a civic action and pressure group promoting democracy, good governance and transformation agenda, has described the lecture delivered by General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) at Chatham House, yesterday, as windy and full of lies.

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In a statement in Abuja by the group’s National Coordinator, Mr. Clem Aguiyi, it argued that the lecture by the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate “would have passed for a well-crafted speech if he was a first timer and we are ignorant of his antecedent and reputation.

“But because this will be his second tenure as president assuming he succeeds, having served first as a military dictator, we are fully aware of his reputation no matter how he tries to run away from the past.”


According to Move on Nigeria, “for the first time in three decades, Buhari accepted responsibility for the ills of his military regime, which include jailing of Pa Ajasin, even after the military tribunal had discharged him of all corruption charges.

“He held Dr. Alex Ekwueme in captivity throughout the period of his 20-month regime, even when no crime is traceable to him and he detained the late Igbo leader, Emeka Ojukwu, who held no political office.

“It is not for Buhari to determine when Nigerians will forgive his sins. He was offered the opportunity during the Oputa Panel, which he missed.


“It is regrettable that Buhari wasted the opportunity provided him by the Chatham House to, at least, address issues bordering on restructuring and the Boko Haram insurgents, whom he clearly refused to identify as Islamic extremists.”

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Jonathan’s Visit To Lagos, One Too Many- Fashola, Ambode

The Governor of Lagos State, Gov. Raji Fashola and APC’s Lagos State Governorship aspirant, Akinwunmi Ambode have urged Lagosians to ignore president Jonathan’s visits to Lagos, terming it, one too many. While speaking at a rally in the Ifako/Ijaye Local Government area, Fashola urged Lagosians not to give the president a listen ear, because he was never there when they needed him. Hear him;

“They have said the President is coming to Lagos. He is welcome to come; Lagos is part of his constituency but we will not vote for him because when we needed him, he did not come to help us. When the international airport road was damaged and he promised to fix it, did you see him?



“When Ebola hit Lagos, did he come? When Kuramo Beach was overflowing and it was going to wipe out the entire Goshen Beach Estate, did you see the President? When I took him to Ibeju-Lekki, where people were losing their lands, we flew in a helicopter to the place but after that, the President never returned. I wrote letters and appealed but no response.

“We have been using your taxes to protect those communities. So, you have been on your own, with your own party and government. So, he can come 200 times but will you vote for him? The only time the President works is a few weeks to elections. When there was security problem in Lagos, who was buying guns and patrol vehicles for the police? Was it not us?”

While Ambode asked his supporters to collect any money offered, but distance themselves from voting for him or PDP.

“When they offer you dollars, collect it, it is our money. But vote for us,” he said.



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FG approves 9 new private universities

The Federal Executive Council chaired by Vice President Namadi Sambo today approved the establishment of nine new private Universities in Nigeria.

The new Universities are; The Augustine University, Ilara, Lagos State; Chrisland University, Owode, Ogun State; Christopher University, Mowe, Ogun State; Hallmark University, Ijebu Itele, Ogun State; Kings University, Ode Omu, Osun State; Michael and Cecilia Ibru University, Orode, Delta State; Mountain Top University, Ogun State, Ritman University, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State and Summit University, Offa, Kwara State.

When the licenses are issued, it will bring to 60 the total number of private Universities in Nigeria.

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Jonathan Is The Only Option- First Lady

The First Lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan yesterday encouraged women in Ikom, Cross River State while in continuation of the PDP nationwide women rally to solicit votes for her husband, said the best option for the women of Cross Rivers State and Nigeria as a whole was for them to vote for her husband. She described the president as a man who has the interest of women at heart and should be re-elected. Mrs Jonathan made these statements shortly after inaugurating the 6,000-capacity Ikom Township Stadium.

“I came to thank you for keeping to your promise in 2011 to vote for my husband. And I want to use this opportunity to appeal to you to you to repeat the same thing in the March 28 presidential election.

“My husband, during his first tenure, has performed tremendously and has impacted positively on the people especially women.

“My husband promised to give women 35 per cent appointment in line with the Affirmative Action and he did. Now we are in 2015, and he will do more for the nation and women in particular.”

“You have two options, either President Jonathan or nothing. I am confident that the women, youths and all eligible voters in Cross River will vote for Jonathan and all PDP candidates on March 28 and April 11 elections.

“Those promising you change did not recognise nor regard women when they were in office and it is better you follow a man who has promised to do more for the nation and sworn to keep it, she said.

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Yes, CAN Received N7bn Bribe from Presidency – Pastor

Borno State-based pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa, who accused the Christians Association of Nigeria of collecting N7bn bribe from President Goodluck Jonathan to campaign against the APC and Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that the CAN collected the said amount.

Pastor Musa-Dikwa on Monday in Kaduna insisted that the Jonathan government gave CAN N7bn to campaign against the APC candidate, Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

The cleric insisted that CAN collected N7bn from Jonathan.

Amaechi had alleged that unnamed leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party paid N6bn to Christian clerics to campaign against the APC. The allegation has caused uproar among the Christian community, with the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria and the Northern State Christian Elders Forum asking Amaechi to name the church leaders who collected the N6bn.

Reacting to the Northern States Christian Elders Forum, Dikwa, who is the Executive Director of the Voice of Northern Christian Movement, had told journalists in Kaduna last Thursday that the said money was channeled through CAN.

He said the Christians body got N7bn on January 26, 2015 and disbursed N3m each to state chairmen of the CAN across the country.

Dikwa also added that CAN had started threatening Christians in Borno that they must re-elect President Jonathan in the rescheduled election.

He said that he fell out with the national body of CAN when sometimes in 2013 some clerics from the United States (Christians Association of Nigeria-Americans) visited Nigeria and donated the sum of $50,000 to the victims of the Boko Haram violence in Borno State.

He explained that rather than disbursing the money to serve the purpose for which it was meant, CAN merely gave the victims a paltry N100,000.

The cleric added that when he asked the leadership of the body about the $50,000 for the victims, they became furious. “This was the beginning of our disagreement with the national body of CAN,” he said.

On the alleged N7bn bribe money, Pastor Musa-Dikwa played a recorded audio of someone confirming that CAN had collected the money before members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Kaduna Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Kaduna on Tuesday. He said when Amaechi first accused the clerics of collecting bribe to campaign against the Buhari candidacy, “I [sent a] text to the leadership of the CAN to repent or be exposed.”

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I Betrayed Amaechi, Kwankwaso, Others – Lamido Confesses

in politics, there are no permanent friends or enemies, just permanent interest to serve. Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has finally owned up to the accusation that he betrayed his fellow governors with whom he formed the group of seven governors (G7) under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Lamido stated this at the national headquarters of the PDP after he emerged from a meeting with the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.

When confronted with accusation of Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano, Lamido, said:

“I am a betrayer, confirmed. I betrayed them. I did, yes. I am aligning myself to what he said. I am aligning my answer to what he said. Go and find out from him.”


Governor Kwankwaso had accused Lamido of betraying five other governors who defected to the APC in 2013 following irreconcilable differences with President Goodluck Jonathan and the party leadership under former national chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.

Kwankwaso who identified Lamido as the leader of the G7 governors said Lamido and Niger State governor, Babangida Aliyu, were part and parcel of the move to leave PDP but failed to do so with others.

Out of the seven governors, Governors Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Abdulfatai Ahmed (Kwara) and former governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako moved to the APC.

Governors Babangida Aliyu and Sule Lamido however refused to join the APC.

On the exit of President Olusegun Obasanjo from the PDP, Lamido said “You have a father and a son, you do not come between a father and a son. You do not go out in the open to insult your father, it is our business, so leave it. You are not his own son, he is our own father, so leave us a lone please.”

On whether he is still consulting for subsequent defection, Lamido said, “You see, sometimes you people have to listen to mischief. Ameachi and I are very good friends and colleagues, PDP or no PDP as Nigerians. So if Amaechi comes to me, we have to look at issues pertaining to this country.”

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80% of people who advise me have nothing to say – Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan has declared that more than 80 percent of his advisers have nothing to say. He stated this in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, at a special funeral service for eight female politicians and their driver who died in a road accident on February 14.


Jonathan stated this in reaction to Governor Seriake Dickson’s disclosure that he was advised against organising a state burial for the deceased.
Jonathan said, “I was surprised when the governor said some people asked why state burial. I told the governor that more than 80% of people who come to advise you have nothing to say, but just listen to them.

“From my experience as a deputy governor till today, more than 80 per cent (of advisers) have nothing to say, but you listen to everybody and do what is right for our people”.

Describing the day of the accident as a black day which coloured the landscape of Bayelsa with the worst colour, the president said, “We are here today because of the sad event of February 14. Of course, we lost eight of our best.

“To me, it is not just that people have died, not just that Bayelsans have died. But these are people I know too well. These nine caskets contain the remains of people who were dear to me, people that touched me in one way or the other.

“Whenever I remember February 14, which was supposed to be a Valentine’s Day, but a black day that coloured the landscape of Bayelsa State with the worst colour we could ever imagine. My ADC gave me the information and my PA showed me the flaming bus on a handset. I asked myself ‘how could these people be in this flame?’ And I asked God why?”

Jonathan continued: “When I saw that flame and imagined that these women were being burnt and roasted, I just couldn’t imagine. Till today, it gives me migraine. I lack words to console the direct family members.

“The world is a stage where we have all come to play our part and go. I believe they have played their own part. I plead we reason they died in this circumstance probably so that we learn to be a little more careful”.

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PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation To Sue APC Over Buhari’s Health

The Ogun state chapter of the Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organisation has said they will be taking APC to court over the state of mind and physical health of their Presidential candidate. The organisation maintained that Buhari is sick, and urge the All Progressives Party not to drag the country back into the Yar’adua days. Here’s part of what the statement signed by its director of media and publicity, Steve Oliyide says;

“In light of these and in conformity with section 137 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), we hereby wish to make public of our resolve to challenge the state of mind and physical health of General Buhari in a competent court of law and demand that a thorough medical examination be carried out on him to ascertain if he is capable of holding the highest office in the land in line with the provisions of the constitution. Continue...



“It is even more worrisome that in spite of the embarrassment the nation recently suffered with the Yar’Adua saga, the APC that is busy hallucinating about taking over power at the center has not found it expedient to come straight on this germane matter.

“We wonder why the opposition party is spending so much time and resources to conceal the true state of health of the former dictator. Moreso, we find it rather ridiculous and a grand insult to Nigerians, that the opposition party has continued to pl.comay “hide and seek” whenever the issue of General Buhari’s health comes up.”



“But history as taught us that the presidential position comes with lots of physical challenge and huge mental demands and as such a proposed occupant of such position must be at least 90 per cent healthy and of a very sound mind.”


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Nigeria’s actress Genevieve Nnaji has purchased a new mansion in Accra, Ghana. The new edifice valued at $4 Million dollars by property experts is around the Achimota area of Ghana. She prefers the area to East Legon for reasons best known to her.

The property, which is being guarded by a security company, is her private property which she will occupy anytime she is in Ghana. She joins the likes of many Nigerian big boys and top government officials who are buying property aggressively in Ghana.

It must be recalled that Genevieve isn’t new to Ghana and its people as she used to live there during her ‘ban days’. It was during that time that she released couple of singles.



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Bimbo Akintola is one of the actresses we are blessed to have in the movie industry. Though she has been keeping it on the low lately, Bimbo is one very good actress we have missed on the scene. In an interview with Ademola Olonilua, Bimbo explains her fashion weakness is the love she has for shoes. She says she has a whole room dedicated to them. Hear her;



My fashion weakness is shoes. I don’t know how many pairs of shoes I have but I have a room filled with shoes. The room is dedicated to my shoes alone.

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Obasanjo: Nigeria’s Democracy Must Be Protected At All Cost

n this interview with Weekly Trust 48 hours before he dumped the PDP, Olusegun Obasanjo spoke about the shift in dates for the elections, politicization of military and his quest for a better Nigeria.

Some believe Jonathan is not ready to leave office. Do you think he is afraid of life after office?
Obasanjo: I believe the president’s concern or fear is not life out of office per se, because he and I have occasions to talk about this both seriously and jovially. I believe he would want an opportunity to disengage peacefully and have a nice, decent and glorious exit. I believe the president’s fear is, particularly, motivated by who he sees as his likely successor, that is General Muhammadu Buhari.

What’s your reaction to the postponement of the elections?
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo: For me, that was a bad precedent for democracy in Nigeria. It meant that it doesn’t matter what preparation or lack of preparation any electoral body could make in Nigeria, the final decision whether election will take place on the day scheduled for it, lies in the domain of the security chiefs. It is a sad day for democracy in Nigeria.

And I will say this...
We must all feel concern before democracy is killed. What would appear to be happening is that the president has a grand plan to ensure that by hook or by crook, he wins the election or if it all fails, he scuttles it and create chaos and confusion in the whole country. Because it is the duty and function and responsibility of the security officers to provide security, the President is the Chief Security Officer of the country and he is the Commander-in-Chief and if security is required anywhere, anytime, it is his duty to provide it. Failure is dereliction of duty, pure and simple.

Either the President is following his own grand plan or his aides and associates are working a script which must have got his endorsement, if not initiated by him.
What again it looks to me is that the President is trying to play Gbagbo; Gbagbo was the former President of Cote d’Ivoire who made sure he postponed the election in his country until he was sure he would win and then allowed the election to take place. He got an inconclusive election in the first ballot and I believe this is the sort of thing Nigeria may fall into. If I am right in what I observed as the grand plan and then in the run-off, Gbagbo lost with 8% behind Ouattara and then refused to hand over. All reasonable persuasion and pleading was rebuffed by him and he unleashed horror in that country until nemesis caught up with him.
WT: As a security expert, what is your own view on the roles played by the security chiefs in the postponement?
Obasanjo: That’s why I said it was strange to me. It wasn’t the duty and responsibility of security chiefs and service chiefs to tell INEC, ‘we will not provide or we are not in the position to provide security for you’ because it is their job. If they said they cannot do that, they have failed. I want to believe that this was forced on them, but whether it was or it was their initiative, it was very bad.
It was even made worse when the president in his media chat claimed not to have knowledge or not to have authorized it. I get very worried that if the president of Nigeria is not in charge of security, maintenance of law and order and such a decision can be taken behind him.
WT: We understand that the decision of the service chiefs was hinged on the fact that they needed to tackle some security challenges in the North East. Would you say this is genuine?
Obasanjo: For me, you can give any excuse, rationalise anything. Look, Boko Haram has been with us since 2009 and now you said what we have not been able to achieve since 2009, we will achieve in six weeks. A country like Syria had elections while they had full-scale war. Iraq had elections while they had full-scale war. Afghanistan had elections where the incumbent had its tenure and moved out. So to say that what we have not been able to achieve in five years, we will now achieve in six weeks, let us wait and see.
But in any case, the argument also said that there would now be a multinational task force made up of five countries, Nigeria, Cameroun, Niger, Chad and Benin Republic. I happened to be at the last AU meeting in Addis-Ababa when this issue was being discussed and Benin Republic did not speak. The four countries concerned were talking about a force of 7,500 and one of the presidents, not from the Lake-Chad Basin Commission, actually from Southern Africa, said look ‘What are we here for? If it is to endorse these countries to have a multi-national joint task force, that’s the easiest thing to do and let’s say yes, go ahead, but do they really need to come here, if their sovereignty is being threatened, to ask us for endorsement before they fight to save their sovereignty? And if they are serious, would they be asking the UN to come and pay for the operation of Multi-National Joint Task Force?’
That President came to me after the meeting and said look, is it really true that Nigeria cannot fund a force of 7,500 troops if that is all that is needed to beat Boko Haram?
Of course, if for solidarity, I believe that a task force of that size might be okay but if you really want to get the job done, the job will be got done by Nigerian troops properly trained, motivated, equipped, with high morale and properly led.

WT: Speaking of General Buhari, what is your view on his anti-corruption stance?
Obasanjo: Corruption must not remain part of our national life. Whoever comes in at any time in future, will fight corruption and we must even encourage it. Judging by his track record, I believe he will try to fight corruption. I believe he will give firm leadership, which is what is good for a country like this.
I believe he knows the military well enough and understands the damage that has been done to the institution, as it’s been rendered almost impotent by a number of things that have happened. I believe he will do something about it.

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We Must Use Card Readers To Stop Rigging, Jega insists

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega on Wednesday insisted that the commission will not revert its decision to use Card Readers for the accreditation of voters in the rescheduled 2015 general elections.

Jega, who appeared before the 109-senate members for hours told them that card readers will help check electoral fraud perpetrated by politicians in connivance with INEC staff at polling booths.

The INEC boss, who quoted relevant sections of the 1999 constitution and the Electoral Act 2010, argued that INEC did not go outside of the law with the introduction of card readers for the purpose of voter accreditation.


He said section 52 (2) of the electoral law only deals with voting and prohibits the use of electronic voting machines.

He explained that large percentage of voters from Adamawa, Yobe and Borno state got their PVCs in time because Adamawa and Yobe states were among the pilot states to which the commission began to distribute cards across the country.

On reports of Permanent Voter Cards being snatched, stolen or bought over by politicians, Jega said “anybody who buys or steals PVCs cannot use it for election and it is therefore useless to do so.”

He said 3000 PVCs were recently snatched from INEC staff in Ebonyi state.

On the possibilities of further postponement of the elections, Jega said doing so will be unconstitutional as the time limit provided by law will elapse in April.

Jega maintained that no patriotic Nigerian should ever contemplate any further delay in the elections adding that Card Readers don’t violate Electoral law.

The INEC chairman however, admitted that between 800,000 to 1 million PVCs were yet to be produced but assured that they are in the process of production and will soon be distributed to voters.

When pressed further by senators that if by the expiration of the six weeks the service chiefs demand for further delaying of the polls, what he and the commission will do, Jega said he could not speak for the service chiefs as such matters of security are not within the purview of INEC.as an electoral body.

Jega was summoned by the senate on Tuesday after a motion on the matter was moved by senate leader Victor Ndoma-Egba who alleged that the use of card readers violate the electoral law.

Director General of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign organisation Ahmadu Ali had requested that the card reader be dumped in the election.

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Jonathan is Handing Over the Presidency to Buhari

by Alfred Obiora Uzokwe
These days, President Jonathan seems to have come to terms with the fact that presidential campaigns are not for the soft-at-heart or the fainthearted. It is also good to see that he is no longer timid but has been delivering his own attacks aimed at Buhari, even if on the defensive. When the campaigns first started, he seemed excessively deferential to Buhari.
The problem, though, is that the statements that Jonathan makes on the campaign trail tend to deepen the belief by some that he is somewhat clueless about what really matters. It is one thing to respond to a campaign attack or to make an attack of your own but it is important to ensure that the things you say make sense, are effective and are capable of creating doubt about your opponent. Nigerians are looking for Jonathan to specifically tell them why, after 6 years in power, they still have to re-elect him.


They want to hear the specifics of what he did to move the nation forward and what he plans to do if re-elected. They want to hear tangible reasons why he feels he is better than his challenger and why his challenger is bad for the country. Nigerians want to know why he should be given 4 more years to fight corruption when he has had 6 full years without tangible results.
Unfortunately, so far, he has not been to make the case. He says things that are rather peripheral or even tangential to the issues at hand and does not display enough grasp of the issues Nigerians are grappling with and care deeply about.
For example, most Nigerians believe that the bane of the nation has been endemic corruption and so want that cankerworm excised. That was why Nigerians jubilated when the EFCC was first born under Obasanjo. They relished watching on TV as Obasanjo paraded some of the corrupt officials although he later turned that into a witch-hunt. But one would not know how badly Nigerians want corruption rooted out of the system by listening to President Jonathan. Jonathan was once quoted as saying that “stealing is not corruption”.


Then he said he is averse to building prisons to house never-do-wells. He is also skewering Buhari for jailing people who defrauded the nation and was quoted as saying that Governor Jim Nwobodo was jailed for stealing funds akin to what you use to buy a car. The impression this writer and many have developed, based on the utterances of Jonathan, is that he has no appetite to fight corruption. By continually castigating a former head of state for daring to fight corruption, he seems to be signalling that he will not pursue that and EFCC will remain docile under his watch. If I were him, I would actually be saying that Buhari and I agree that corruption should be fought and that I will keep fighting it. Unfortunately, he has lost credibility on that issue.
Most Nigerians still remember that General Babangida was and is still despised for what he did when he was in office. It was under his watch that Dele Giwa was killed and many media houses silenced in one way or the other. Corruption basically became institutionalised under Babangida and inflation ran amok. He annulled the freest and fairest election in Nigeria that was won by Moshood Abiola in 1993. IBB has tried to come back a few times as a president but Nigerians roundly rejected him. One would think that with this type of resume, any politician would keep far away from Babangida. No, that is not Jonathan. He has, by his statements, started portraying Babangida as a saint to the chagrin of many Nigerians, including this writer.


During one of Jonathan’s campaign rallies, he took time to recite the reasons that IBB adduced for overthrowing Buhari and said it was for the same reasons that Nigerians should reject Buhari. So Jonathan is now using a former corrupt dictator’s reasons for staging a coup to back himself up. If he says that Buhari was draconian in his time and used IBB’s utterances to justify that, he seems to be implying that he is in bed with IBB and his actions that include corruption, annulment of the election, the killing of Dele Giwa and heavy-handedness. Jonathan is trying to legitimise IBB. This does not make sense.
During a speech recently, Jonathan said Buhari cannot even remember his phone number and yet wants to rule Nigeria. If he makes that statement in the United States, senior citizens would come after him because it smirks of age discrimination. As if that was enough, Jonathan made a statement that was so hyperbolic that even a kid would wonder what he was thinking. He said that part of the reason why the army was failing in the anti-terrorism fight was that Buhari did not buy a single rifle for them when he was in power 30 years ago. It not only sounds unbelievable but childish especially when he says that it is the reason why he, Jonathan, cannot fight insecurity.


First of all, by that, he is admitting that his administration has failed in the fight against terrorism. Also, laying the blame on the doors of a head of state that ruled 30 years ago for just 20 months before being booted out of office, is a wild stretch. What Jonathan does not realise is that by saying that, he actually indicts his own party, PDP, which has, since Buhari’s ouster, had the presidency for 15 years. He is inadvertently making the case of why PDP should not be re-elected, including him as part of them. He could simply have made a case that he has been doing his best to fight insurgency, cite examples of some of the successes that the army has made and say he has been equipping them and the battle will continue to be ramped up until insurgency is rooted out. Frankly, the president and PDP seem to have the foot-in-mouth disease.
These days, attention has been shifted to Buhari’s school certificate and Jonathan’s camp are expending a lot of energy talking about school certificate for a man that has been the head of state for 20 months and has had training in army War College and other places. This issue will eventually amount to nothing. Let’s face it, the poor Nigerian does not care about his certificate and so expending time that Jonathan should be using to frontally attack this guy’s deficiencies on inanities makes him look silly.

The other week, PDP again expended a lot of energy and political capital asking for Buhari to show his wife, something this writer thought was trivial and had no bearing with governing Nigeria. For some reason, PDP thought they would get political mileage out of it and spent the time they should spend on hammering Buhari on economic issues on it. Eventually, Buhari brought out his wife. Someone sent me a cartoon that showed a picture of Buhari’s wife side by side with Jonathan’s wife. Jonathan’s wife seemed to be looking at Buhari’s wife in awe and the writing was, “chei, there is God o”. In other words, Jonathan’s wife was awe-stricken at the beauty of Buhari’s wife. I recall that the person that tweeted the Buhari wife picture to me simply said, “this woman is beautiful-o; this Buhari get taste–o”. So that ended a silliness that raged for weeks, a time PDP could have used to hammer Buhari on important issues.

On the converse, Buhari seems to be landing very effective blows. He simply talks about the economy that has gotten worse under Jonathan and says he will fix it. He has not truly said how he will fix it but says he will. He says he has fought corruption before and will fight it again. He says there is insecurity in the nation and he will fight it. He has not said how but says he will in simple sentences. He says the roads are bad and he will fix them. He says the office of first lady will be abolished because it is costing too much to Nigerians. These are populist statements that resonate with Nigerians and that is why this guy is making inroads. No complexity in his statements, In fact, one could argue that he over-simplifies things but that is the language the generality of masses speak and understand.

With the way Jonathan and PDP are going, if he loses the election, and it seems he is poised to, it will not be because Buhari is a superior candidate; it will be because of poor messaging by Jonathan. It will also be because of an incumbency that has little to show for the six years he was in the saddle. After all, Buhari has no clue how to fix the economy. Buhari’s utterances show that he does not seem to fully understand the mechanics of macro and micro economics. For example, Buhari was quoted as saying that he “will stabilise oil price”. How would he stabilise oil prices that market forces are dictating? This is the type of issue that Jonathan and his handlers should be nailing Buhari on but they are not doing it. Instead, they want to see Buhari’s wife and his certificates. What a shame. They are poised to hand the presidency to Buhari on a platter.

If I were Jonathan, I will go back to the drawing board, re-craft my message so that while responding forcefully to APC and Buhari on all counts, he will tell Nigerians specifically why they should re-elect him in spite of the poor state of the economy and why specifically Buhari is bad for Nigeria.


HERE I STAND!



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Military airstrike kills 37 civilians accidentally in Niger Republic

A military airstrike targeted at Boko Haram members in Abadam Faransa village in Niger republic on Tuesday February 17th accidentally killed 37 villagers who were gathered for the funeral of a local chief. 20 others were injured from the airstrike.

Although no nation has claimed responsibility for the airstrikes, some Niger Republic military officers believe the airstrike was launched from a Nigerian jet, a charge the Nigerian Defence Headquarters spokesperson, Gen Chris Olukolade has denied

"It’s not to my knowledge and there has not been any report from our people of such an incident,” Gen Olukolade told BBC in an interview

Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria have in recent weeks stepped up coordinated offensive operation against Boko Haram. Chad and Nigeria have used fighter jets as part of a regional alliance to defeat the Islamist group that has recently escalated its deadly attacks on Nigeria and its neighbors.

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Olusegun Obasanjo Speaks On Why He Tore His PDP Membership Card At Last

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo in a phone interview with Premium Times has explained why he ‘tore’ his PDP membership card. I wanted to summarize it before, but then you might miss some certain interesting part, luckily for you, it’s not a long report. I kinda like this man, don’t know why. Lol. Find the interview after the cut.



As criticisms and commendations continue to trail his dramatic exit from the Peoples Democratic Party, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has explained how he arrived at the decision to dump the party to which he belonged for 16 years.

The former president had Monday announced his resignation as a member of the party on whose platform he ruled the country between 1999 and 2007.

Mr. Obasanjo renounced his membership of the PDP when some leaders of the party led by Surajudeen Oladunjoye, the chairman of the ward around his former residence in Ita Eko, visited him at his Presidential Hilltop mansion in Abeokuta home.

The former president directed Mr. Oladunjoye to tear his membership card at a press conference organised during the visit.

About two hours later, the PDP leadership in Ogun State announced the expulsion of the former president from the party.

However, in a telephone interview with PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday, Mr. Obasanjo explained that the PDP members visited him to express their genuine concern about his refusal to be active in the party.

“They were concerned that I had only one leg in the party, and worried that since I’m their leader in the ward, they need to hear from me,” the former President said.

According to him, when the party members arrived his residence, they were singing a song in Yoruba language – “Nigeria yi ti gbobgo wa ni, Ko ma gbodo ba je. Eje ka sowopo kajo gbega (Meaning – Nigeria belongs to all of us, we must not allow it to be destroyed and we must join hands to make it great).

Mr. Obasanjo said when they settled down he sought to know why they came and that it was at that point that Mr. Oladunjoye told him that since he (Obasanjo) as their leader became angry with the PDP and remained inactive in the party, they had not only lost sense of direction but also worried about their political future.

He also said the party members informed him that the leadership in the state was planning to expel him and that they wondered what would happen to them if he was expelled because they would become rudderless.

“You are our leader and it is you we are following. You have remained a card-carrying member of the the party. But since you became angry with the party we have lost sense of direction and now we are hearing that they want to expel you. If they expel you, where do we go? What do we do?” Mr. Obasanjo quoted the ward chairman as saying.

The former president explained that it was at that point that he gave them his PDP membership card and told them that they could do whatever they want with it.

He said, “In my response, I said when you people came you were singing a song and I agreed that Nigeria is our own. If the issue is the party, I will not choose the party at the detriment of Nigeria and I will fight for Nigeria even at the detriment of the party. I will rather surrender my membership of the party so you people can move on politically,” Mr. Obasanjo explained to Premium Times.

“If you people’s worry is that I’m a card-carrying member of the party and I’m not showing you people direction and you are worried that I’m neither here nor there, this is the card; you can keep it, you can burn it or you can tear it, do whatever you want to do with it.”

The former president said he then handed over his membership card to Mr. Oladunjoye, who immediately decided on his own to shred it.

Mr. Obasanjo said he had no regrets for his action despite the criticisms that have greeted it.

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Find the EFCC press statement below...

A legal practitioner, Barrister Babatunde Ojo, was on Monday, February 16, 2015 arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, on a 48-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, forgery and issuance of dud cheques. Ojo allegedly used his company, Amberville Communications Limited, to obtain the sum of N117, 350, 000.00 (One Hundred and Seventeen Million, Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) from Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Awodiya of First Hebron Homes and Investment Limited in the guise of allocating 50 shops at HFP Eastline Shopping Complex, Ajah, Lagos, to them.

The victim was allegedly linked to Ojo by one of the directors of the Shopping Complex. He was told that, the amount per shop was N4, 000,000 (Four Million Naira only) , with Fifty (50) shops, costing N200, 000,000 (Two Hundred Million Naira only). The victim negotiated for 50 shops but paid a deposit of N117, 350, 000.00 (One Hundred and Seventeen Million, Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira). However, the director that linked the victim with Ojo later denied knowledge of any transaction for sale of shops with the suspect, and invariably debunked claims of having received payment from the suspect.

All efforts to get a refund of the money paid for the shops proved abortive. One of the charges read: “Babatunde Ojo and Amberville Communications Limited, on or about the 13th day of April, 2010 at Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of N15, 000,000 (Fifteen Million Naira) from Awodiya Olusegun Mathew under the false pretence that the money was part payment for purchase of fifty (50) shops from HFP Engineering Limited at HFP Eastline Shopping Complex, KM 26, Epe Expressway, Ajah, which representation you knew to be false”. When the charges were read to the accused person, he pleaded not guilty.

Prosecuting counsel, Vera Agboje prayed the court for a trial date and that the defendant be remanded in prison custody. However, defence counsel, R. U. Nnamani urged the court to allow her present application for bail at the next adjourned date and applied that the suspect be remanded in EFCC custody. Justice Ipaye, however, ordered that the defendant be remanded in Kirikiri Maximum prison and adjourned the matter till March, 18 and 19, 2015 for trial.

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Explosions, gunfire rock Rivers APC rally

APC governorship candidate, Dakuku Peterside


Thousands of All Progressives Congress supporters scampered to safety on Tuesday when explosions and gunshots boomed at the Okrika National Secondary School Field in Rivers State.

APC governorship candidate, Dakuku Peterside, who was to address the crowd as part of his electioneering, had to be whisked away from the scene by security operatives and his body guards.

About 50 of the APC supporters, four policemen and a Channels Tv correspondent, Charles Eruka, were injured in the attack believed to have been unleashed by unknown political thugs.

Another policeman was however not as lucky as he was shot and killed. His body was deposited at the Braithwaite Memorial Hospital in Port Harcourt.

Eruka, who was stabbed was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was as of 7pm receiving treatment.

The thugs, according to eyewitnesses, first set off three Improvised Explosive Devices within the campaign arena, thereby causing a stampede at field.

One of them said, “They were determined to ensure that we did not hold the rally. When the explosions happened, Dr. Peterside had not arrived. But when he came, they started firing gunshots for about 45 minutes. Many of us had to lie flat on the ground to avoid being hit by bullets.

“But the security agents at the field and some private body guards were able to whisk away our candidate (Peterside) to a safe place.”

Peterside, who later emerged from his hideout, said his supporters would not be intimidated by the incident.

He said, “We were not expecting that there would have been a series of explosions as we heard this (Tuesday) morning. But we were very determined and it shows the Okrika spirit of resilience.

“We were very determined to hold the rally in honour of the Okrika spirit of resilience. We were determined to hold the rally in honour of the determination of Okrika people to choose a government that will fight insecurity; rescue people from poverty and create jobs for the youths.”

He later spoke with journalists in Port Harcourt where he described Tuesday as one of his saddest days as a politician.

He claimed that some people had seen a lawmaker in the state leading a group of 50 youths and directing the shooting in Okrika.

The APC candidate said, “Several eyewitnesses saw a member of the Rivers State House of Assembly, accompanied by men in police uniform and several other non-uniformed armed men numbering in excess of 50 around the venue. He was seen personally directing the shooting.

“Today is one of my saddest days as a politician. The day had started on a pleasant note when as part of my campaign rally in Okrika, I visited the Okrika Grammar School, my Alma Mater, where I met with the principal and interacted with the students.

“From there, I proceeded to pay a courtesy call on the Amanyanabo of Ogoloma. While I was at the palace, reports reached me and my team that three explosives had been detonated at the venue of the rally, National School Field, Okrika.

“Two of the explosives ripped off parts of the roof of the school building. The APC members and leadership at the venue immediately called in the security personnel and the anti-bomb squad who combed the area. It is important to note that several other explosives were found by the team but all normalcy was restored.

“We proceeded from the Amanyanabo to see the Bishop of Okrika Diocese, Anglican Communion Rt. Rev. T. Abere, who prayed with the team at about 1:30 pm. From the Bishop’s Court, we headed for the venue and the rally began in earnest with prayers and praise and worship.

“A few persons gave solidarity speeches and while one of our leaders in Okrika LGA, D.D. Alabere, was speaking, we started hearing sporadic gunshots from the back of National School and from the Okrika cemetery.

“Five police officers were shot but one of them is dead. The four injured policemen are in critical conditions in the hospital. One policeman is yet to be accounted for.

“Some other APC supporters are still missing while equipment at the venue was set ablaze. Several cars, including three belonging to the police, were destroyed.

The governorship candidate, who also visited the injured at the BMH, commended the Police for their efforts in spite of being outnumbered by the hoodlums.

Peterside later called off his proposed rally in Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area billed for today (Wednesday) due to the incident in Okrika, a community a few kilometres from Oba-Ama, the hometown of the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience.

Governor . Rotimi Amaechi accused Patience Jonathan of having a hand in Okrika attack.

“As usual, the wife of the President won’t allow the APC hold rally in that place (Okrika). The wife of the President and the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers again organised thugs to disrupt APC rally,’ told told journalists after an enlarged APC leaders meeting in Abuja.

Unlike Peterside, the governor accused the police of failing to protect APC followers in the state.

He said, “As usual, the police couldn’t protect us . I asked the commissioner of police and he said they had over 200 policemen there. Yet, three explosions and then they opened fire on members of the APC.

“We had meetings with DSS (Directorate of State Security) and police and they confirmed we could go ahead. There were 200 policemen and there were over 20 to 30 DSS men who came there and they did nothing.”

After Amaechi and Peterside spoke, a member of his campaign group, told our correspondent that an APC supporter was also killed by the hoodlums.

The state Police Command Public Relations Officer, Ahmad Mohammad, confirmed that a policeman lost his life. He however said that three other policemen sustained gunshot injuries.

Mohammad added, “The Rivers State Police Command wishes to confirm that on 17/02/2015, a governorship rally by the APC was disrupted with sporadic shootings from a far distance to the arena by unknown and unpatriotic elements.”

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PATIENCE JONATHAN, WIKE BEHIND BLASTS, GUNSHOTS AT APC RALLY – ROTIMI AMAECHI

The DG of the APC Presidential campaign organization and Governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi, has accused the first lady, Patience Jonathan and the state PDP Governorship candidate, Nyesom Wike of organizing the disruption witnessed at the APC Governorship rally in Okrika, the village of the first lady earlier today. Gov Amaechi made the allegation while speaking with newsmen after the APC leaders meeting at the Shehu Yar’Adua center earlier today

“Clearly, the wife of the president does not want APC to campaign in Okrika, her local government area. The wife of the president and the governorship candidate of the PDP in Rivers again organised thugs to disrupt APC rally.




As usual, the police couldn’t protect us, over 200 police men. I asked the commissioner of police and he said they had over 200 policemen there. Yet, three explosions and then they opened fire on members of APC. The Channels TV reporter I hear, is injured, stabbed, and members of APC injured. We had meetings with DSS (Directorate of State Security) and police and they confirmed we could go ahead.There were 200 policemen and there were over 20 to 30 DSS men who came there and they did nothing”he said.

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Annie Idibia shares beautiful photo with her daughters

She shared the pic on instagram and below it she wrote "Sometimes we often wonder why some doors aren't open for us,while others with equal or less ability have seemingly unlimited opportunities and success in every area of their lives.. This doesn't seem fair at all...I know this.. I have Felt it too.. TIMING!! Has everything to do with it! GOD has a time 4 evrythn n he works in us wat needs 2 b done 2 prepare us 4 wat is ahead.. Having a sense of God's timing brings d peace 2 wait on d lord for it... But Still... Drown out d voice of uncertainty with d sound of ur own heartbeat, burn away ur self - doubt with the fire that's beneath u. "I CAN DO IT"! Remember what u r fighting for.. Remember whose child your are ... You are the child of the almighty GOD! Tots Of Annie "

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eports just reaching us inform that members of the radical Islamist sect, Boko Haram has captured Askira Uba town in Borno State.

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TheCable reports that the capturing was done over the night which is less than a day after the Nigerian military regained Monguno, from the extremist group.

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It was gathered from a source who spoke on condition of anonymity that the jihadist militants attacked the town in the night and burnt down the emir’s palace.

“They attacked the town in the night and burnt down the emir’s palace. Most of the villagers ran away into the bush, so there was really no casualty,” the source said.

Meanwhile, the Boko Haram sect has carried out series of deadly attacks on innocent and vulnerable citizens in the northeastern part, especially in Maiduguri, Borno state capital.

READ ALSO: Explosion Rocks The Largest Southern Borno Town, Kills Many

The Nigerian military repelled the terrorist in a fierce battle on Sunday and finally regained control of Monguno, the only town previously under the sect’s control, therefore passing a message across to Nigerians that no part of the state was under the sect’s grip.

Recall that Monguno town which was captured by the Boko Haram on January 25, 2015 after a massive attack from different directions, but the Nigerian military reportedly regained Monguno, Marte and other communities in the North of Borno state from the Islamist sect.

Meanwhile, with the terrorists still claiming towns, it will then be imperative to call to mind the pledge recently made by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) expressing confidence that a 6-week period was enough to crush Boko Haram.

However, the Nigerian army had earlier on February 2, 2015, announced that it recaptured five towns, including Gamboru, from the extremists.

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From today on I’m no more a politician – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday finally dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party by asking that his membership card be torn.

But almost two hours after he did that, the Ogun State PDP executive council, headed by Chief Adebayo Dayo, announced his expulsion from the party over what it termed his “series of unabated anti-party activities.”

Even before he then he knew what was going on and the party’s intention of expelling him. He said, “They said they want to expel me from the PDP, although I have not been told that; I have my ears to the ground.

READ: Jonathan behind election shift just to frustrate Buhari – New York Times

“We have been trying to run away from a mad man but he pleads we wait for him at the other side of the river.

“I have told you before that I became President on the platform of the PDP and once I leave the party, I will not join any other party.

“I will only be a Nigerian, I am ready to work with anybody regardless of political affiliation. Why would some people say they want to send me away.

READ ALSO: I will go on exil if APC wins the election – Bode George

“They don’t need to bother themselves, here’s your membership card, take it (at this point, he gave the card to Oladunjoye to tear. Usman Oladujoye is the Abeokuta North chairman of the PDP in Ogun State)

As Oladunjoye stood up and tore the card, with Obasanjo watching him closely, the visitors rose from their seats, raised their hands and danced in support of his action.

After the pieces of the card were handed to some of the visitors, Obasanjo said, “From today on, in the presence of all of us and with your support, I am not going to be in any political party in Nigeria.

“I am no more a politician but a statesman, both internally and externally.

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Obasanjo’s Exit: We Remain Focused – PDP releases statement

Press statement from the PDP regarding Obasanjo’s exit today. Read below…

The leadership Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has received the news of the decision of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to withdraw his membership of our great party. We have also carefully examined the circumstances and the reasons adduced for this unfortunate decision.

While we concede to the inalienable rights of every citizen to hold opinion and to decide who to associate with, we are however deeply saddened that Chief Obasanjo, a revered leader of our party, our first Presidential flagbearer whom the PDP offered the platform to rule our nation for 8 years, could decide to abandon this party at this critical point in time.

This is especially as Chief Obasanjo, who was also the Chairman of the highest advisory organ of the PDP, the Board of Trustees (BoT) discountenanced all pleas by elders and leaders of our great party with regard to his reservations on certain issues within our fold.

Many Nigerians are still bewildered as to what manner of provocation could have led a former President to lose his composure and go to the extent of tearing the membership card of the party that he once led.

Indeed, the PDP is hugely at loss as to how the decision and action of the former President who had enjoyed the benefits of being elected to the highest position of leadership will assist in deepening our democracy and stabilizing the polity.

It is our considered opinion that no matter the provocation, a statesmanly disposition from a person of Chief Obasanjo’s status could have encouraged our citizens and help in stabilizing system.

We believe however, that what this country needs now is patriotic actions that engender national unity, tolerance and peaceful coexistence of our people irrespective of political, ethnic and religious persuasions. The overall interest of our nation and wellbeing of our citizens must remain paramount and above all personal and group interests.

Finally, we direct all our members across the country to remain focused on our campaigns and not to be distracted on this issue. With an array of credible candidates led by our Presidential flagbearer, President Goodluck Jonathan, we are sure that we will emerge victorious come March 28 and April 11, 2015 general elections.

Signed:


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