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Mr. Obanikoro’s name was Tuesday sent to the
Senate for confirmation as minister, by President
Goodluck Jonathan. The APC asked the Senate
not to confirm Mr. Obanikoro.
APC also asked Nigeria’s armed forces to
immediately begin investigating Aliyu Momoh, a
Major General for his role in the alleged rigging of
the election in Ekiti and repeating same in Osun
and ensure that immediate and necessary
disciplinary action are taken against all
individuals that were involved in what it said was
subversion of democracy.
A video recording recently emerged of an
intelligence officer in the Nigerian Army, Captain
Sagir Koli, giving details of how General Momoh
was used by Mr. Obanikoro, Ayo Fayose and
others to rig the election.
Also now in the public domain is a recording of a
secret meeting convened by top Peoples
Democratic Party’s politicians to strategise on
how to rig the Ekiti election.
Rising from its first joint leadership meeting at
the Shehu Yar’Adua Centre Abuja, the APC also
asked the Federal government to immediately
relieve the Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili
Adesiyan of his appointment.
The oppsosition party also asked the Nigerian
government to ensure that the armed forces are
kept out of partisan politics in line with a recent
judgment by a court in Sokoto and its affirmation
by the Court of Appeal on Monday.
Part of the outcome of the joint leadership
meeting was that the rescheduled election dates
of the March 28 and April 11 must remain
sacrosanct. The party said it would not tolerate
any further shift.
The party added that “the use of the card reader
for the 28th of March and 11th of April is non-
negotiable, as contrary to the misinformation
being disseminated the use of card reader is not
synonymous with electronic voting”.
Speaking earlier, the party’s presidential
candidate and former Head of State, Muhammadu
Buhari, urged members of the party not to “relax”
after the completion of its campaign rallies
nationwide.
Mr. Buhari said APC should not lose focus due to
the extension. “Our patience and resilience will be
tested in the days ahead. We must pass this test.
In a time like this, which in football analogy can
be referred to as extra time, we must avoid
making costly mistakes,” Mr. Buhari said. The
APC presidential candidate said the party must
use the next six weeks “to re-charge and re-focus
on our goal”.
He said the goal of the APC remains to win the
elections now slated for March 28 and April 11
with a convincing majority.
“We should aim to achieve a victory that will be
beyond dispute and proceed to form the next
government and start work on the task of
rebuilding our beloved country.
“Our eyes must be on the objective to build a
great society that works for all of us. A country
where every child has an equal opportunity to get
an education, where every young Nigerian who
needs a job can find one. Where the sick are
looked after and senior citizens are provided for.
A country which gives value to human life, where
the welfare and security of all is a national
priority and corruption is defeated,” he said.
Speaking on the Ekiti rigging debacle, Mr. Buhari
expressed surprise at the silence from the
government over the matter.
“Up till now, there has been no official denial of
this most unfortunate event. It makes me wonder,
in the circumstances that led to shifting of the
date of the Federal Elections, whether the security
services are even now being prepared to play
similar roles in the March 28th and April 11th
elections.
Mr. Buhari said security services have serious
constitutional responsibilities to the people of the
nation adding that their importance to the health
of the country cannot be underestimated.
He urged the leadership of the security services to
keep the institutions out of partisan politics.
“I personally and, am sure, all Nigerians, have
tremendous respect for our security services. I
therefore urge strongly that they stick to, and
concentrate on, their constitutional duties,
otherwise they stand the risk of becoming part of
our already complicated national situation,” he
said.
He also thanked members of the party who took
time to participate in his campaign rallies across
the country.
He particularly thanked those “who have been
made mind boggling offers by our opponents in a
bid to break our ranks and curtail our momentum
in the march to change Nigeria for good, yet you
have chosen to be on the side of a cause that is
just”. He appealed to the party leaders and
faithful not to rest thinking that all is won. “Six
weeks is a long time and we do not know the
plans of the other side but with our strong
resolve, we will prevail.
“Therefore let us keep our eyes on the ball. Let us
work as we have never done before, and let us
watch and help each other. The days and weeks
ahead will be tough.
“Our resolve will be tested and all kinds of evil
tricks will be on display. But do not despair. The
goal is in sight. Change is coming. The people of
Nigeria will prevail. God has destined Nigeria to
be a great country. We shall overcome and
Change shall be achieved,” Mr. Buhari said.


http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/17/ekiti-gate-apc-wants-obanikoro-banned-public-office-adesiyan-sacked-minister

P resident Goodluck Jonathan has retooled his
social media team, sidelining his increasingly
controversial point man, Reno Omokri by
appointing Obi Asika as the new senior special
assistant on social media. Mr. Jonathan move is
seen as an apparent maneuver to re-energize his
social media image following a growing slide in
his electoral fortunes as well as a series of
scandals involving Mr. Omokri, who until now
shaped and ran the incumbent president’s
campaign on social media.
Reno Omokri
A source at the Presidency told SaharaReporters
that Mr. Omokri, who returned from California to
boost President Jonathan’s political campaigns in
2011, had become a huge liability and source of
distraction. Mr. Omokri, who also doubles as a
pastor, came to be known as “Wendell Simlin"
after tech-savvy Nigerian social media activists
caught him red-handed as he circulated reports
on the Internet that claimed to have found a link
between former Central Bank Governor, Sanusi
Lamido Sanusi, and Islamist terror group Boko
Haram. Enterprising social media sleuths
discovered that the so-called reports implicating
Mr. Sanusi as a sponsor of Boko Haram were first
created on and disseminated from Mr. Omokri's
personal computer in Abuja.
A few weeks ago, a California-based woman,
Deborah Campbell, who was once married to a
relative of Mr. Omokri’s, told SaharaReporters
that the presidential aide had stolen her son's
identity to engage in the circulation of fraudulent
news that smeared Mr. Sanusi, who is now the
Emir of Kano. Mr. Reno never denied the
woman’s allegations.
Last week, Mr. Omokri was accused of leading
policemen to burglarize a house in Warri, Delta
State that belonged to his late mother. The
occupants of the house, including Alex Oyoro, a
well known PDP political figure in Delta State,
alleged that Mr. Omokri had led a group of thugs
and mobile police officers who broke into the
property and stole N25 million in cash. The
money, according to Mr. Oyoro, was meant for
Mr. Jonathan’s re-election campaign.
Mr. Omokri denied being physically present at the
scene of the burglary, claiming he was at his desk
in Abuja and also doing some pastoral work at
the time of the reported burglary.
A source at the Presidency told SaharaReporters
that, in an attempt to present a more humane
outlook as his electoral fortunes slip and his
popularity plummets at home and abroad, Mr.
Jonathan decided to push Mr. Omokri aside. Mr.
Obi Asika, who has been elevated to serve as the
new presidential strategist on social media, was
described as one of the co-organizers of “Social
Media Week” in Lagos. “Obi Asika is a serious
personality who is also refined and self-
controlled,” a source at the Presidency said.
Apart from his dubious activities and
cantankerous personality, Mr. Omokri has
committed a series of blunders in recent months
that cast Mr. Jonathan’s campaign in bad light.
He organized two online polls that eventually
showed that President Jonathan would lose the
2015 elections to the opposition APC presidential
candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, by a wide margin.
Several sources at the Presidency said Mr.
Omokri’s cup became full after he engineered a
poll on Twitter where informal posts showed that
Mr. Jonathan’s electoral prospects had become
wretched. “That ill-advised Twitter poll backfired
and caused embarrassment to Mr. President,”
said a source close to the Jonathan campaign.
In a short email obtained by SaharaReporters
earlier today, presidential spokesman Reuben
Abati confirmed Mr. Asika's appointment to take
charge of the president’s social media coverage.
A source in the Presidency disclosed that Mr.
Omokri was now in a subordinate position to Mr.
Asika in the hierarchy of aides working on the
president’s social media image.
“If Reno decides to remain here, he will have to
be reporting to Obi Asika,” a source at the
Presidency revealed.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/17/jonathan-sidelines-omokri-appoints-asika-new-social-media-strategist

ha ha ha pdp in disarray. marchn on peoples general. no more pospontment

Stop sharing pix from
Maiduguri APC rally. Similar pix in the past
made PDP fear Feb 14. We don't want
another shift. Na beg I dey beg.
Lolx

Boko Haram attacked askira uba town in Borno state of north eastern Nigeria.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/hausa/news/2015/02/150217_boko_haram_askira?ocid=socialflow_facebook

Maiduguri – A mammoth crowd of supporters on
Monday in Maiduguri overwhelmed the All
Progressives Congress (APC) presidential
candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, making him
to abandon several efforts to address them.
It took the convoy of the candidate more than an
hour from the Maiduguri International Airport to
arrive the Ramat Square, venue of the rally.
The APC candidate, who was accompanied by his
running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and other party
leaders, had to abort all efforts at addressing the
crowd which kept shouting “Sai Buhari”.
Thousands of party supporters, mostly youths,
had lined up along major roads in Maiduguri as
early as 7a.m. to catch a glimpse of the APC
presidential candidate.
Vehicles were forced to move at snails speed
after Buhari arrived the state capital, as
supporters occupied the roads in celebration.
NAN further reports that the APC presidential
candidate also had to cancel the inauguration of
some projects executed by the state government
due to the mammoth crowd which inhibited
movement.(NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/supporters-overwhelms-buhari-borno-apc-rally/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

sai Buhari until otueke man understand stealing is corruption

PDP with their lies. march on our next president

#March4Buhari

A Fourteen year-old boy, Alaji, from kerenua,
who was forced to serve the terrorist Boko Haram
group, has narrated his experience after being
abducted by the group in an early morning
invasion, where security forces were attacked and
homes burnt.
Alaji explained in an interactive session that he
was adopted at gun point by two men on a
motorcycle and taken to a town where he saw
hundreds of fighters of the terrorist group.
“I was abducted at gun point by two men on a
motorcycle and taken to a town occupied by the
group. After a day, we moved to another town,
then another, that was how we kept on.
“There were lots of us, I saw hundreds of fighters,
there were also many captives, but all of us
including the captives, were set on groups but not
in one place within the camps,” he said.
Talking about the activities in the camp, Alaji said
that the females in the camp were morally and
sexually abused while the males were being sent
on errands.
“There were lots of women in the camps, they
raped and abused them.
“For boys like me, we run errands but everyone
knows the repercussion for disobedience, they
enforce discipline.
“they don’t let captives to mix freely,” he stated,
adding that this goes to show that the jihad they
claim to be waging was not true.
On part of their recruitment strategies, he stressed
that they were selected based on their strengths.
“we were selected based on our strengths. they
put us in trucks and armoured personal carriers.
“They gave the weaker ones gallons of petrol to
burn houses and buildings, and the stronger ones
bullets and guns. Our responsibility to deliver this,
is to fight on the battle fields during attacks,” the
fourteen year old stated.
Alaji, who was forcefully drafted by Boko Haram,
stressed on the biggest loss and the most
frightening battle he experienced with the group.
“The biggest loss I witnessed with Boko Haram
was in Gamboru in the hands of the military. The
Leader was so furious that he shot and killed two
commanders right before us.
“The most frightening battle was the attack on
Baga. when the town was attacked, initially it
was difficult to break through,” Alaji said.
He also went on that the residents came after
them and they were left with no choice than to
retreat.
Alaji also said the residents were later supported
by the Multinational Joint Task Force where they
seized equipment and ammunition from the
terrorist group.
He said the group comprises of fighters from
Nigeria and other countries adding that some of
the foreign fighters insisted that the campaign
they waged in Nigeria be extended to their
countries.
Alaji later revealed that some unidentified people
do come at night to meet with the leaders of the
terrorist group.
“At night, we see a convoy of cars that include
armoured tanks, and then a green helicopter will
arrive. Those inside will then meet the top
commanders.
“Whenever we see the aircraft arrive then go, then
we know that the next day, a major attack would
be launched. But people like us are not allowed to
go near the leaders.
He further explained that he was able to escape
in the course of an attacked to be launched in
Mongolo.
“I was ordered to carry two fighters on
motorcycle to Mongolo where we arrived at
dawn. The first attack was on the military
barracks there.
“When residents of Mongolo were leaving, I seized
the opportunity and rode off with the motorcycle
and head to Maiduguri where I was taken to my
parents whom I lost contact with since the day I
was taken.
“Everybody thought I was dead or I had formally
joined the group,” Alaji said


http://www.channelstv.com/2015/02/16/boko-harams-jihad-is-false-escapee/

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over a strange directive ordering the withdrawal of Customs, Immigration and other security personnel from the country’s border posts in Kebbi and Katsina States, wondering what purpose such a directive was meant to serve.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the verbal directive led to the total withdrawal of the stated personnel from the border posts in the two states, leaving the posts unmanned.
It wondered who gave the order and for what purpose, and asked the Federal Government to immediately tell Nigerians what happened.
”It will not be enough for the government to tell Nigerians that it is not aware of such a development, because that will be more egregious than what happened in the first instance, and will amount to the government not being able to secure the country’s borders.
”It is also necessary to tell Nigerians how many states were affected by such orders. We were only made aware of two, but there is the possibility that the directive could have been more widespread,” APC said.
The party said with no one left to man the borders in the affected areas for as long as the directive lasted, which is yet to be determined, anything could have happened.
”Who gave the verbal order? Was the order given verbally so that there will be no evidence of it? Were the Customs, Immigration and other security personnel ordered away to allow the free entry of contraband goods, election materials, weapons, terrorists or what?
”Even with our borders manned, Boko Haram terrorists have been marauding freely along the border areas. Will this illegal order not worsen the security situation, at a time the government is giving Nigerians the assurance that it will deal Boko Haram a mortal blow within six weeks?” it queried.
APC said the development, coming a day after leaflets were distributed in Gombe asking people to stay away from polling booths on election days, raises more fears over the ongoing scheming by the Jonathan Administration and the PDP to ensure the rescheduled elections do not hold.
”In pursuit of this objective, these band of desperate people will do anything, including threatening the very existence of the country. Nigerians must not allow them,” the party said.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/apc-raises-alarm-withdrawal-customs-immigration-personnel-border-posts/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

i was there

By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North
With the storm over the shift of polls yet to settle,
the Presidency has run into a fix over what to do
with four of its governors said to be secretly
working for the success of the opposition in the
rescheduled elections.
Saturday Vanguard learnt yesterday that the
Presidency became convinced that the four
governors were not sincerely working for the
success of the ruling party after reviewing their
activities in relations to the presidential
campaigns in their respective states.
It was gathered that an appraisal carried out by
security agents and placed at the disposal of the
ruling party clearly indicated that PDP would lose
election in the affected states because of the
activities of the governors.
A competent source told Saturday Vanguard in
Abuja that both Jonathan and his party were
upset that the governors were hiding under the
party to work for the APC, thereby making it
difficult for them to be promptly dealt with in line
with the constitution of the party.
The source said that although the action of the
four governors drawn from the North West and
North East of the country had been discussed
extensively by the Presidency and the PDP, the
party and the president were in a fix on what to
do with ‘traitors’ because of the impending
elections.
The President is said to be particularly irked by
the action of one of the PDP governors from the
North East, who did not only give the sum of N25
million in support of the opposition candidate
campaign but also directed his officials to give
maximum logistics support to the Buhari
Campaign team during their campaign in the
state on February 3 this year.
The same governor, it was learnt, however
showed what a presidency source described as a
‘lukewarm disposition’ to the Jonathan’s
Campaign team by not mobilising enough support
for the presidential rally in his state and arriving
late to the venue of the campaign.
The governor is said to have unwittingly exposed
disloyalty and disdain to the President and his
party by coming to the venue of the rally six
minutes before the arrival of the presidential
team, thereby leaving several things undone and
ending up embarrassing the first family and his
party when they went to campaign in the state on
January 31.
The governor is reported to have delayed the
inauguration of the Presidential Campaign Team
in the state until the eve of the presidential visit
thereby making the team headed by a former
Senator from the state, to hit the rocks in his
effort to ensure a successful rally in the
agricultural state. As a result of the sympathy of
a North East governor for the APC, he is said to
have displayed a lackadaisical attitude towards
the visit of Jonathan to his state last month.
During the visit, the president was said to have
been miffed by the near empty stadium that he
noticed upon his arrival for the campaign in the
state that is close to a desert.
The Presidency, Saturday Vanguard also learnt,
was also hurt that none of the governors had
shown remorse over their ‘betrayal’ by not
speaking out against some of the wrongs openly
committed by their agents against the
presidential campaign teams in their respective
states.
It was gathered that the Presidency was seriously
disappointed that none of the affected governors
had openly condemned the stoning of its
presidential campaign train in their states while
some of them turned round to blame some senior
officers of the Presidency for the attacks.
The APC, which is fully aware of the tacit support
of the four governors, almost went to make a
formal announcement that they were set to defect
but they were said to have persuaded the party
not to do so, promising instead to quietly work
and deliver their states to the opposition because
of Buhari’s factor.
Asked what the Presidency would be doing to
sanction the four governors, the source hinted
that the Presidency was confused on what to do
to them given the need to put its house in order
and pursue the elections as a united party.
The source said that it would be
counterproductive for the Presidency and the PDP
to take any disciplinary action against the
governors at this stage since the elections were
already around the corner.
The development came as it emerged last night
that the move to ‘discipline’ Prof Jega for alleged
sympathy for the APC would be dropped if he
jettisons the use of the card readers and
permanent voter cards, PVCs for the elections.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/presidency-dilemma-four-govss-secret-alliance-apc/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

May his gentle soul Rest in Jannaatul Firdaus

FEBRUARY 12, 2015 BY FRIDAY OLOKOR
88 Comments
Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd)
The Presidential candidate of All Progressives
Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), on
Thursday in Abuja willingly accepted a Bible from
a group of Northern Christians who declared their
support for him.
The Christians under the aegis of Northern
Christian Leaders Eagle-Eye Forum were led by
Pastor Habu Aminchi.
Details Later…

http://www.punchng.com/news/buhari-meets-northern-christians-accepts-bible-donation/

chubysoft1:
How can i vote for someone who has no sense of kindness. Someone who arrested fela kuti for 10 years, arrested ransome kuti, arrested alex ekwueme, strategised and created insurgency (boko haram), etc in fact, buhari is my worst nightmare in politics. GEJ all the way!

You are fooling yourself. what of your drunkard otueke fisher man who let the killing of childrens in their school, abduction of chibok girls 1st october bombing and other bombings across Nigeria. you are a certified fool.

shortgun:
All the people above me didn't read the article.
There is no where he said that.

thrash talk. go and read it from the link of the news paper if you didnt believed.

Lets see those that are old users of mobile phone. pls be sincere, which of these phones is your first mobile phone.

Match untill march

#GeneralMarch4Buhari GMB

#GeneralMarch4Buhari GMB

SaharaReporters has received unimpeachable
documents and audio recordings providing
substantial evidence that major Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) leaders planned and
successfully rigged the gubernatorial elections in
Ekiti State, and plotted a similar scenario in Osun
in 2014.
The audio recordings and affidavit were provided
by Sagir Koli, a Captain in the 32nd Artillery
Brigade stationed in Ekiti State, who has since
fled the country for fear of retaliation. Capt. Koli
recorded the conversation on 20th June 2014
when he was asked to accompany his
Commanding Officer, Brigadier General Aliyu
Momoh, to the meeting. The venue was held at
Spotless Hotel in Ado-Ekiti.
The audio recordings depict the meeting as being
attended by the eventual “winner” of the election,
Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti; Senator Iyiola
Omisore; a man identified as Honorable
Abdulkareem; the Minister for Police Affairs Caleb
Olubolade; and Senator Musiliu Obanikoro who
was at the time the Minister of State for Defence.
Mr. Chris Uba came to Ekiti with huge stash cash
and soldiers from the East to carry out the
assignment.
The 37-minute recording details the conversation
between these men as they bribed Brigadier
General Momoh with a promotion for his
assistance in carrying out election fraud in Ekiti.
In it, Obanikoro is clearly heard informing the
group of men, “[I] am not here for a tea party, am
on special assignment by the President.”
SaharaReporters further received credible
intelligence that President Goodluck Jonathan had
instructed the Chief of Defense Staff, Alex Badeh,
to use the army in arresting and intimidating
opposition politicians before and during the
election. The audio recording provides exact
details of the plot, with the collaborators almost
degenerating into physical combat.
Authentication of Audio Recordings and Proof of
Election Fraud
The audio recordings were analyzed and
authenticated by Guardian Consulting, an
independent US-based security consulting
company. According to a report authored by
Guardian Consulting, also in the possession of
SaharaReporters, the independent company used
Forensic Voice Frequency Comparison technology
to identify all voices on the recording with audio
available in the public domain.
The then Deputy Defense Minister, Obanikoro
clearly states to General Momoh that he was not
only sent to the meeting by President Jonathan,
but “you can’t get a promotion without me sitting
on top of your military council. If I am happy
tomorrow night, the sky is your limit.”
Governor Fayose revealed that he had already
bribed an official of the Independent National
Election Commission (INEC), the non-political
commission charged with organizing elections in
Nigeria, to bring copies of voter ballots with the
INEC logo to him that day. Fayose, upset that his
INEC contact was caught in traffic, narrated his
day’s frustrations: “Where are we supposed to be
collating the thing INEC gave to us? Soft copies
we now printed? Why is my [INEC] contact not
with [the ballots]…my contact man [was] sitting in
the check point…it took me more than two hours
to get this man.”
As the plotters began to argue, Omisore, who was
running for Governor of Osun State on the PDP
ticket, tried to calm the room: “I would just say
that we don’t have to argue so much, we have
seen some lapses [today] yes. It’s just this
evening, there is nothing happening now that we
cannot contain before tomorrow morning.”

http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/05/how-obanikoro-fayose-chris-uba-and-brig-general-momoh-rigged-ekiti-governorship-election

The chair of the electoral commission however
expressed concern that the Nigerian armed forces,
despite openly claiming to be fully prepared for
the elections, had refused to meet with INEC to
discuss specific roles that each of would play in
order to help safeguard electoral materials and
distribute them across the nation.
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK
FEB 05, 2015
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Prof. Mahmud Jega
Attahiru Jega, chairman of Nigeria’s Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC), has told
his aides that he plans to inform tomorrow’s
meeting of the Council of State that his
commission is fully prepared for the February 14,
2015 elections. According to INEC sources who
spoke to SaharaReporters, Mr. Jega indicated
that he also intended to brief the council on a few
outstanding minor logistical issues which he said
INEC would be able to take care of in the next
week.
The chair of the electoral commission however
expressed concern that the Nigerian armed forces,
despite openly claiming to be fully prepared for
the elections, had refused to meet with INEC to
discuss specific roles that each of would play in
order to help safeguard electoral materials and
distribute them across the nation.
One source said that some INEC officials believe
that the military’s uncooperative attitude arose
from a scheme by President Goodluck Jonathan
and his supporters to frustrate the elections. As
far back as October 2014, SaharaReporters had
disclosed that Mr. Jonathan was less interested in
the elections than in the elongation of his tenure.
Mr. Jonathan called a meeting of the Council of
State to hold in Abuja tomorrow, February 5. Our
sources said the president’s major agenda was to
persuade former Nigerian leaders, some state
governors and opposition figures to agree to the
idea of postponing the elections for at least two
months. The president’s main argument,
according to those familiar with the scheme, is
that INEC was ill-prepared to hold elections on
February 14.
One source told our correspondent that Mr.
Jonathan had secured the full support of former
military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, for the
postponement of the elections. Mr. Babangida’s
political legacy included annulling the June 12,
1993 presidential polls, an action that precipitated
a major political crisis in Nigeria for several years.
The election had been described by local and
foreign observers as freest and fairest.
A source told SaharaReporters that former
President Olusegun Obasanjo plans to boycott
tomorrow’s meeting of the Council of States. As
at press time, our correspondence was unable to
find out if Muhammed Buhari, the presidential
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
plans to attend the council meeting. An aide of
Mr. Buhari’s said the presidential candidate
would lead opposition governors to the council in
order to fight against the extension.
Should Mr. Jonathan succeed in postponing the
election by two months, Mr. Jega would be
approximately one month away from the end of
his tenure. , the President will send him on a
terminal leave and bring in his replacement to
conduct the election, but Saharareporters has
learnt that the President doesn’t have any interest
in conducting elections instead he is interested in
pushing for a two-year Interim Government of
National Unity to be headed by him. His aides are
supposed to meet with the National Leader of the
APC, Bola Tinubu to offer his a position as the VP
slot on the IGNU.

Election must hold come Febuhari

The Governor of Kaduna state, Ramalan Yero, has
threatened to call out his supporters to inflict
damage on the opposition All Progressives
Congress [APC] if his team is ever attacked while
campaigning.
Speaking in Hausa language to his supporters at
the opening of his campaign on Monday, Mr. Yero
vowed swift “revenge” if ever attacked by any one
“born of woman”.
“If you are born of a woman, please pelt us with
stones, when we go out for campaigns. We dare
you to destroy or burn our vehicles. Burn our
House,” the governor said. “I swear by Allah,
anyone who does any of these things, we will
revenge.”
The remarks came as an escalation of an already
tense electioneering ahead of February polls, seen
in Kaduna State as a contest mainly between the
governor and a former Minister, Nasir El Rufai, of
the APC.
In the last two weeks, there have been incidents
of political violence in Rivers, Plateau and Gombe
States, where supporters of different political
parties launched gun attacks on opponents,
bombed party offices and torched campaign
vehicles.
Mr. Yero spoke days after all presidential
candidates for the February elections committed
to non-violence before, during and after the polls.
Addressing his supporters, a furious Mr. Yero
threatened to stop Mr. El-Rufai from entering
Kaduna State henceforth.
PREMIUM TIMES obtained an audio recording of
the governor apparently addressing his supporters
and threatening violence against Mr. El-Rufai.
He said as governor, he has the power to stop
the former minister from even leaving his house.
“If I say you should not come to Kaduna, I swear
you cannot come. If I say you should not leave
your house, I swear you cannot leave,” Mr. Yero
said.
Despite being the home state of Vice President
Namadi Sambo, Kaduna, the former capital of the
northern part of Nigeria, also has a strong APC
base, giving Mr. El Rufai wide support too.
As Minister of the FCT, Mr. El-Rufai’s
administration demolished several homes and
other structures the government said were illegal
or built in contravention of Abuja’s master plan.
In his address, Mr. Yero said he also has the
power to demolish the former Minister’s house if
he wishes to.
“If I say they should demolish your House, I swear
by Allah, they would demolish it immediately,” he
said. “If you think we cannot do it, try us and see,
continue with what you are doing, by God’s grace
we will show you,” Mr. Yero said.
Mr. Yero also threatened to deal with APC
supporters if they dare attack the campaign trail
of the PDP.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/175135-kaduna-governor-yero-caught-on-tape-threatening-violence-against-apc-el-rufai.html

In what appears a fallout of the controversy
triggered by the secondary school result of the
presidential candidate of the opposition All
progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, a
Freedom of Information (FOI) request has been
sent to the University of Port Harcourt to provide
relevant details of the doctorate qualifications of
President Goodluck Jonathan.
Mr Buhari’s secondary school has since provided
a copy of the his statement of result and other
eminent Nigerians who were his classmates have
come out to say that they sat for the examination
with him.
A civil society organisation, the Institute of
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, on behalf
of one Omano Edigheji, simply described as a
Nigerian citizen, is asking that UNIPORT provides
the following documents related to the
president’s doctorate qualification as stipulated
by section 2 and 4 of the Freedom of Information
Act 2011:
1. The title of the president’s doctorate
dissertation
2. Year of registration as a doctorate candidate
3. Name of his doctorate supervisor(s)
4. Name of his external examiner(s)
5. Comments/ reports of the external examiners
on the dissertation/thesis
6. Photocopy of the dissertation/thesis
7. Date of graduation from the university
The organisation said it is willing to bear any
cost the university might incur in making
photocopies of the requested documents and for
posting them.
The organisation gave the university seven days
to provide the documents.
Following dispute over the secondary school
qualification of Mr. Buhari, raised by the
president’s party, the Peoples Democratic Party
[PDP] and his supporters, some Nigerians have
been calling on Mr. Jonathan to make public
details of his doctorate dissertation and other
research work he did before he was awarded the
degree.
President Jonathan has a Bachelor’s degree in
Zoology, a Master’s in Hydrobiology and Fisheries
Biology and a doctorate in Zoology. All degrees
were from the University of Port Harcourt.
The president will remain qualified to run even if
it is found that he did not complete his doctorate
as the minimum qualification to contest for the
office is secondary school certificate, and that has
not been called to question.
However, he might be disqualified on the ground
of perjury if found that he indeed did not finish
his doctorate but yet included it as part of his
academic qualifications in the forms he submitted
to the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC).
http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/04/group-makes-foi-request-details-jonathan’s-doctorate-degree

An ongoing investigation by SaharaReporters has
revealed that former Education Minister Nyesom
Wike and Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan,
collaborated in a number of schemes that enabled
them to loot the resources of the Niger Delta
Development Commission (NDDC). The
commission, which was established to spearhead
economic development in Nigeria’s oil-producing
delta, has been left financially insolvent, unable
for the first time ever to pay salaries to its staff
or to meet its obligations to contractors.
Patience Jonathan
Over a two-week investigation, insiders within the
commission told SaharaReporters that Mrs.
Jonathan and Mr. Wike, current governorship
candidate of the People Democratic Party in
Rivers State, caused a large part of the
commission’s current woes.
A source at the commission alleged that its
management gave Mrs. Jonathan N3 billion
immediately after the National Assembly approved
the commission’s budget. “They said the First
Lady had facilitated the passage of the NDDC’s
budget without delay by the National Assembly.
That’s why they gave her such a huge sum. The
payment was recorded as a consultancy
undertaking,” the source said.
In addition, money drained from the agency is
reportedly bankrolling Mr. Wike’s governorship
bid. “Barrister Wike is using billions of naira from
the NDDC to run his campaign. It is one of the
major reasons that the commission has not been
able to honor its obligations or pay salaries,”
another source at the commission stated.
Numerous sources said Mr. Wike had handpicked
Itotenaan Henry Ogiri as the agency’s executive
director (in charge of finance and administration).
The understanding was that Mr. Ogiri, a close
associate of the Ikwerre-born governorship
aspirant, would dip into the funds of the
commission to help finance Mr. Wike’s campaign.
Bassey Dan Abia, a lawyer from Akwa Ibom State,
heads the commission’s management, which is in
its second year. Several disaffected staffers
accused the management of financing other
political projects across the Niger Delta, contrary
to its mandate.
Mr. Wike’s campaign is said to enjoy a huge war
chest from the commission’s funds. The former
Education Minister, who is being backed by Mrs.
Jonathan, showers tons of dollars, his preferred
currency, on his supporters and underlings,
including some ex-militants he has retained to
intimidate supporters of his political opponents.
For the first time since then President Olusegun
Obasanjo rebranded the commission in 2000, the
NDDC missed the timetable to pay workers’
salary in January. In addition, senior staff of the
commission said they were distressed that their
housing, furniture and other allowances have not
been paid for the first time since the
establishment of the agency.
A long time staff of the commission said this was
the first time in his experience that the agency
had failed to pay salaries in more than a decade.
“I was employed here immediately after I
graduated from the University and the NDDC
started the graduate-training scheme. We have
never been owed salary ever. We used to receive
our salaries no later than the 22nd of every
month. But right now we don’t even know when it
is coming,” he said.
Another staff said the board of the commission
was filled with politicians who are bankrolling the
political aspirations of their puppet masters.
“We got over 400 billion naira for our budget last
year. But look at the situation we are in now. It’s
so embarrassing,” the staff said. He said the
board members were mere proxies who take
orders on how to run the agency from outsiders
who are only interested in what they can get from
the commission.
“They are running this place like a fiefdom, and
they receive orders from the politicians that put
them here. They have given all the money to their
political bosses and now we are in trouble here.”
Occupants of the commission’s top management
posts, including its chairman (from Cross River
State), its executive director for projects (from
Delta State), and its managing director (from
Akwa Ibom) were accused of funneling funds to
partisan political candidates. The governors of
their state of origin nominated members of the
management board, except in the case of Rivers
State, where Mr. Wike chose. President Jonathan
and Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers
have been in a long running political feud.
The NDDC was set up to fund projects designed
to ameliorate the environmental degradation in
the Niger Delta caused by oil exploration. The
area produces more than 80% of Nigeria’s wealth.
A staff source said that, while their salaries have
not been paid, the management of the
commission was promising them a significant
bump in salaries and allowances if Mr. Jonathan
wins re-election on February 14.
“They keep telling us to expect a lot of goodies
when the present president is returned as the
country’s ruler, but does it mean we have to die
of hunger because they’re doing election?” the
source said.
http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/01/wike-patience-jonathan-loot-paralyze-nddc-agency-can’t-pay-salaries

Baddestguyp:
how does this prove that op is lying

because he is not the only southerner living in north. what of those in kawo market, Mando garage, kaduna central market, Zaria and many i cant mentioned

koife:
Hey I am an akwamibomite, I came here for my MSC in NDA, I didn't tell you my story for your pity nor to be lashed. why would I cook up this story tell me. Oak do you know kawo garage? It happen there this afternoon near the police and Airforce check point. Not really an avlanche of choas tho but it scared the hell out of me!

pls you have to be sincere to yourself and your future generation stop spreading lies. are you the only southerner living in the north? i dont know why people always try to engage tribal or religion in to this 2015 politics, it yielded nothing back in 2011. Nigerians be wise. beware of these paid machinaries from pdp. pls fear God.

I can tell you this guy a confirmed lier. why you people always come online and spreading chaos among Nigerians. am really disappointed with the OP. am an indigen of kd precisely near kawo. this is blatant lie. to tell you more nw in our room in hostel we have a yoruba christian squating in our room and we are the one feeding him.

advance their own interests in their endorsement
campaign without his permission.
Bala Shagari said his father has not endorsed
anybody for the February 2015 presidential
election, and that he remains politically neutral.
He explained that as a father figure, his father's
role is to pray for peace, unity and stability of
Nigeria.
The District Head of Shagari said any
endorsement of candidate or candidates of any
party might compromise the neutrality and
integrity of his father. He advised politicians to
avoid politics of bitterness, division, intolerance
and violence, which, he warned, pose a threat to
Nigeria's democracy.
http://saharareporters.com/2015/01/30/shagari-family-pdp-stop-dragging-our-father-your-politics