SisterAnn: EFCC must conduct a thorough investigation and produce water tight evidence of terror financing and other alledged crimes.
Not when they get to court, their cases would be thrown out of the window due to lack of convincing evidence against these evil men.
With Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Crooks, APC progreThieves, the court does NOT even have to throw out the cae, it is the executive branch of the government that will WITHDRAW the case.
What happened to Okowa's case? What of Goje's case?
Did Buhari's APC make Omisore their National Secretary despite confessing to stealing Dasuki money?
Has Buhari and Tinubu not been more corrupt than PDP presidents who borrowed less money while giving us cheap petrol and better life without saving $84 billion from subsidy removal like APC's Tinubu and N1.4 trillion during Buhari/Osinbajo administration's removal of the same subsidy in 2016?
chisomkachy: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has withdrawn the alleged money laundering suit it filed at the Federal High Court against Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa.
Naija News understands that the anti-graft did not give any particular reason for its application for withdrawal.
Following the application to withdraw, Justice Nicholas Oweibo discharged the ‘lien/Post No Debit’ placed on Obasa’s three accounts in Standard Chartered Bank.
The accounts are (US Dollars) 0001852063; (Current) 0001852056 and (Saving) 5002309624.
The judge also set aside the ex-parte orders he made on September 15, 2020, which led to the freezing of the accounts.
Recall that the court on September 15, 2020, granted an interim order freezing Obasa’s accounts following the EFCC’s application in a suit marked FHC/LCS/1064/2020.
The agency had said it was investigating the Speaker for the alleged offences of conspiracy, diversion of funds, abuse of office and money laundering.
But Justice Oweibo, on August 16, 2023, heard the application to unfreeze the accounts in his chamber.
During the hearing, the EFCC was represented by Mr. Sulaiman I. Sulaiman, while Obasa was represented by Mr. Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN).
The EFCC lawyer told the court that the application to unfreeze the accounts was pursuant to Section 44(2)(K) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Sections 26, 29 and 34 (1) of the EFCC (Establishment) Act, 2004, and under the court’s inherent jurisdiction.
Section 44 of the Constitution concerns constitutional rights to property.
Justice Oweibo held: “It is hereby ordered that an order is hereby granted to the respondent/applicant setting aside the ex-parte orders of this court made on the 15th day of September 2020 upon the ex-parte motion of the Applicant/ Respondent in relation the funds of the Respondent/Applicant domiciled in the accounts stated in the following schedule:
“ACCOUNT NAME, FINANCIAL ACCOUNT INSTITUTIONS, TYPE OF ACCOUNT, 1. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered, (US Dollars) 0001852063 2. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Current) 0001852056 3. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Saving) 5002309624.
“Issued at Lagos, under the seal of this Honourable Court and by the hands of the Presiding Judge this 16th day of August 2023.”
A PREMIUM TIMES review of official documents and court records paints a disturbing picture of how money meant for the development of Bauchi State ended in private pockets.
Are Bourdillon bullion vans the private pockets where Lagos TAX money ends, such that the state is a shithole, smelly waterless mess after 27 years of Tinubu's progreThief lootocracy master plan
anonimi: The eyesore on Bourdillon Road 2nd January 2025
Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.
If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.
That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.
The lack of state-owned pipe-borne water in the homes of Lagos residents has continued to be a source of concern, a non-profit group, Corporate Accountability and Public Advocacy Africa (CAPPA) has said.
At a press event to mark this year’s World Water Day, the group said its monitoring team’s visit to state-owned waterworks showed that most of them are not operational.
The group said the waterworks it visited include the ones at Maryland, Mushin, Ikorodu, Obalende, Agbowa, Onikan, Ikoyi, and Amuwo Odofin.
Only the one in Ikoyi is producing water, according to CAPPA.
A 45-year-old resident and father of three, Mr.Fatai Lamide told PUNCH HealthWise that no building in the community has toilet facilities.
The Oyo State-born mechanic said, “We don’t have toilet in this area, including our compound. This canal that you see serves as toilet to all of us living in this area. We defecate inside nylon and throw it inside the canal.
“For people that don’t want to use nylon, they have a special bucket that they use after which they pour it inside the canal too.
Bluntemperor: Stop 🛑 this your LAMBA- lies and deception as an obedient in ADC, For you can't Write History on What yo don't know anything about! You always come on this Social Media with gaulible audiences - to tell Fake Stories - as you don't See Anything good in The Govt-since inception 2023!
What we know you for is just Rambling,with Stale -News but is in your DNA. Mr Man,Rest,I take God beg you. Don't tell us about Dangote Refinery In Lagos, For we know the history better!
Can you please point out what part of what you read that is not true.
wirinet: Imagine how much dollars would have been required to import 50 million litres of petrol everyday, that's apart from the corruption and other associated costs. By now we would have been buying petrol at N1200 per litre and dollar at N2000.
Dangote is indeed a national treasure.
The two NNPC refineries that have been producing fuel since 2015 and PH refinery that started exporting in December are what then
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has announced that the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries have been successfully re-streamed after a nine-month rehabilitation exercise conducted by its in-house engineers and technicians.
The corporation, in a statement, noted that both plants commenced preliminary production of petroleum products after successful test-runs, adding that while PHRC was ramping up its operation to about 60 per cent of its 210,000 barrels per day capacity, WRPC production was projected to hit 80 per cent of its installed 125,000bpd capacity.
The NNPC said the Port Harcourt refinery was projected to boost the nation’s local refining capacity with a product yield of five million litres of petrol per day, while Warri refinery would contribute 3.5 million litres of petrol.
Providing insight into the rehabilitation exercise, the NNPC noted that it had to adopt the phased rehabilitation strategy after the Original Refinery Builders, who were initially contacted for the project came up with unfavorable terms.
It said, “Though a decision was taken in 2011 to rehabilitate all the refineries using the ORB of each of the refineries, we were impelled to switch strategy after the ORBs declined participation and nominated some partners in their stead who came up with outrageously unfavorable terms.”
The NNPC stated that the nominated partners, as sole-bidders, came up with humongous price offers after two years of thorough and exhaustive scope of work definition and price negotiations.
It added that the proxies were also unwilling to provide post rehabilitation performance guarantees.
The corporation said, “The phased rehabilitation strategy which entailed phased and simultaneous rehabilitation of all the refineries using in-house and locally available resources in line with the spirit and letter of the Nigerian Content Law, also involved the use of Original Equipment Manufacturer representatives to effect major equipment overhaul and rehabilitation.”
The national oil firm said the phased rehabilitation programme, which started in October 2014 after the required funding stream was established, created a 70 per cent reduction in costs which helped largely in mitigating the financing challenges of refinery rehabilitation.
It observed that with the successful re-streaming of the PHRC and WRPC, attention has now moved to the 110,000 barrels per day Kaduna Refining and Petrochemicals Company which was billed to come on stream soon.
saintopus: Dec 06, 2024 The PH Refinery ships its first export of petroleum products to Dubai. The company is expected to load the cargo in the coming days onboard the Wonder Star MR1 ship, signalling the commencement of operations at the plant and the exportation of petroleum products.
The ship will load 15,000 metric tons of the product, which translates to about 13.6 million litres.
Although the volume coming from the NNPC into the global market is still small, the development has the potential to impact the Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) benchmarks in the future while changing the market realities for Atlantic Basin exporters into Nigeria and other regions.
The sulfur content of the export by NNPC stands at 0.26 per cent per wt and a 0.918 g/ml density at 15°C, according to Kpler, a data and analysis company.
The cargo was reportedly sold at an $8.50/t discount to the NWE 0.5 per cent benchmark on a Free on Board (FOB) basis.
Kpler reported that the development would help displace imports from traditional suppliers in Africa and Europe, as Nigeria’s falling clean product (CPP) imports are already decreasing, dragging imports into the wider West Africa region lower as well.
Bluntemperor: God Bless You Alh.Dangote. •Just Imagine, - what the Federal Government Own Institutions like the NNPC and its Subsidiaries Could Not do for NIGERIANS, -What DISCOS/ NEPA that was Sold by GEJ govtCould Not do for NIGERIANS and today More Darkness, despite the Adelabu so called Band - Rubbish Cannot guarantee 24/7 Hours, Imagine the Number of Light 🚨 🕯️ ,Dangote Refinery Will be Consuming? Here is One Man MOPOL- doing it! Fed Govt- And the STATES- Should Declare Emergency On Light 🚨 - Power Sectors,
Disband The NNPC - si that We( Nigerians) have Peace What A Country - with So Many Dead Depts and Agencies - but are just Stealing the Annual Budgets - Producing Nothing!😡. Very Shameful Situation Indeed.
May God bless PDP deregulation and privatisation politicians who gave us 16 years of prosperity, and licensed Dangote refinery.
Have you been a consistent supporter of PDP politicians who sold NNPC refineries during Obasanjo/Atiku administration, before Yar'Adua reversed it?
Thankfully, he did not reverse the privatisation of NNPC's petrochemicals division to Indorama.
anonimi: How Indorama sustains manufacturers, boosts Nigeria’s FX earnings
Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Limited (IEPL) has emerged as a major value creator in the Nigerian economy. It is responsible for the survival, growth and sustenance of many manufacturing companies in Nigeria today. A large number of plastic and allied firms depend on the Eleme-based company for petrochemical resins (or polymer resins) which serve as their raw materials.
The petrochemical company is just one of the several subsidiaries of Indorama-Nigeria Group, which also comprises Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals Limited (IEFCL), Indorama PET Nigeria Limited, and Indorama Port Operations.
Since Indorama Corporation of Indonesia became core investor in the old Eleme Petrochemicals Company Limited (EPCL) in 2006 through privatisation programme of the Federal Government, the group has become a game changer in the Nigerian economy.
The petrochemical company has solved the major challenge facing a number of manufacturers— poor access to raw materials. Rather than scramble for foreign exchange to import inputs, the company ensures that manufacturers have access to their critical raw materials, enabling them to save costs and improve margins.
The major resins used by plastic and allied companies are polyethylene and polypropylene. Indorama produces about 45 grades of these products for various industries. About 600 of such companies in Nigeria depend on IEPL for their survival. They are estimated to have over 90,000 workers.
meobizy: …and people wonder why cancer is rampant in the modern day. Imagine all the escape of petroleum by-products into the atmosphere during refining and implementation.
Every Nigerian sees buying a car as the first mark of success. Many people have multiple cars. Why won’t burning these products daily give non-smokers lung cancer?
What do you suggest as solution to this cancer alarm
FreeStuffsNG: “Despite ramping up some units in the second half of 2025, it consistently supplied over 50 million litres of finished fuel daily, sometimes exceeding 52 million litres”.
This is a huge feat!
Extracting, refining and moving 1000 trucks daily across Nigeria is by all standards no mean feat!
This is what you get with the power to dream big and fuel it with patriotic vigor.
Ignore the naysayers who have never built anything in their life or those negative unpatriotic elements who come from unpatriotic backgrounds where they and/or their forebears don’t build anything in their lives or contribute anything to the progress of Nigeria.
May God continue to bless Nigeria. Congratulations to Alhaji Aliko Dangote and his team. I am so proud of you and always proud to be a Nigerian.
All the enemies of Nigeria will lose las las. They always lose.
The greatest enemies of our country are found among A-looter Propaganda Congress, APC leaders looters who played politics with PDP deregulation of the petroleum downstream sector in 2012 using expired Buhari's 2011 running mate to lead Ojota protests.
Thankfully PDP's Jonathan licensed Dangote refinery as part of that process and Buhari did not cancel the license as he did to the Lagos metro project in 1984, after his only successful coup against democracy.
Why did Tinubu's NMDPRA try to sabotage Dangote refinery with their fake allegations about quality and licence if they are not the worst enemies of Nigeria?
Yankiss: Good. But this is not our major problem now.
The Traditional rulers should be give solid constitutional roles
I thought that school na scam uneducated/badly educated lazy youths are APC’s major problem, and that employing well paid professional teachers is the solution?
Adequate number of teachers to make education free and compulsory for nine years to all children, with the help of federal matching funds through UBEC, established in 1999 by PDP’s Obasanjo and Atiku administration.
Do you know if Delta State has a better ratio of public schools to private schools than Lagos state? Or it is a worse ratio in the progreThief state
anonimi: Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner September 4, 2022
The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.
Rather he will further consolidate and concentrate federal government projects in Lagos to make his local TAX empire bigger, to the detriment of other states in Nigeria.
Oluwatobiloba07: When I say Tinubu is the best president we ever have, some fools argued. I kept quiet.
See the effect of it's governance
God bless Nigeria God bless Tinubu God bless APC
The best president we ever have in fulfilling his promise to crash petrol price? Abi tribalistic fools don’t care about expensive petrol and hyperinflation as long as they have a new army depot in their hometown
How can building a new army depot be more about governance than the fulfilment of a promise to crash petrol price?
Deltafirstson: Although the pump price of fuel was N197 when President Bola Tinubu took over on May 29, 2023, the product now sells for N617 per litre – less than two months after.
In his inaugural address, Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, fulfilling a promise that all leading presidential candidates made during the campaign.
Nigerians have been lamenting the hardship occasioned by fuel price hike. Amid the lamentation, a video where Tinubu campaigned to slash the price of fuel went into circulation.
Checks by Daily Trust affirmed the authenticity of the video uploaded on the YouTube page of Channels Television.
At his campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, Tinubu spoke on a number of issues, but those of fuel scarcity and naira redesign made the headlines.
However, Tinubu who spoke in Yoruba language, also assured the crowd that though people were saying petrol price would hit N200, it would be reviewed downward under him.
“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax, we will bring it down,” he had said in the 7th minute of the video.
Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC
January 19, 2015
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.
On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.
But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.
It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.
FORMER Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Prof. Tamunoemi David-West, said that Nigerians should expect sharp drop in petrol price from the current N87 to about N40 per litre, saying, “the president-elect, Gen. Mohammed Buhari, will reduce the fuel pump price to N40 per litre.”
1972xy: The military barracks in Ohafia should have been converted to serve as the Military Training Deport. ...very massisive barracks meant for the Artillery wasting away.
If Tinubu follows your excellent advice, how will he get a cover up story for his looting of the $84 billion subsidy savings and the $3.3 billion SPV future oil revenue Afreximbank loan that should have helped him get to N300/$1 in the short term, before he reaches N200/$1 by May next year
abc115: NA Depot, Zaria, Kaduna State- 1924 NA Depot, Oshogbo, Osun State - 2025 NA Depot ,Amasiri-Edda. Ebonyi State- 2026
God Bless President Bola Tinubu God Bless Federal Republic of Nigeria
The best President in the history of Nigeria
The worst president in the history of Nigeria for choking 200 million misplaced priorities Stockholm Syndrome mumus, with greater tax burden to brag about hitting higher revenue targets in August and stopping borrowing.
I guess all that matters not to tribesmen who use zoning and rotation to share the national cake at local, state and federal levels.
Gadaffi9ja: They can all join, the masses will wait for them all
What is the party of the masses that is waiting for them, based on the works you have done, and continue to do at your local, state and federal levels
anonimi: “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.
He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.
The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
― Bertolt Brecht
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Racoon: The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria is the second country in the world with the lowest voter turnout, worse than war-ravaged Afghanistan and Libya, a new ranking by Picodi has shown.
The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria also ranked worst in Africa. Nigeria’s low voter turnout
PREMIUM TIMES had reported how Nigeria recorded a new low in voter turnout during the last general elections. With a national turnout of 29 per cent, a Premium Times analysis showed that the last election had the lowest participation rate in the country’s six decades of independence.
It further revealed that of the 93.4 million registered voters this year, 87.2 million people collected their Permanent Voters Card and the total number of actual voters on election day was only 24.9 million..The winner of the election, Bola Tinubu, had less than nine million votes, roughly 10 per cent of the total eligible voters.
Another analysis by this newspaper revealed that all the 18 candidates in Nigeria’s February elections received only 27.55 per cent of the total eligible votes.
hegelian: federal civil service is different...you cant witheld the promotion of people like its done in the state...its a statutory function under the strict guidance of head of service
So why should this be news if other ministers are doing it and have done it in the past
Cherrybae: Wike is greater than Atiku. A more respected and acceptable politician than Atiku.
Wike has never lost an election before. Wike has never defected to another party before.
Now tell us about your Atiku
Atiku is in a different league from Wike. No need to shout about respect and acceptance for the ologogoro, land grabber of Abuja.
anonimi: Wike lobbied PDP committee to be Atiku’s running mate – Ex-gov’ship aspirant
Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:33:04 WAT
Muazu Magaji, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State, has alleged that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lobbied members of the party’s committee constituted to advise the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the choice of his running mate.
Magaji disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, on Thursday.
The Kano politician also argued that there was no proof that Atiku promised Wike the vice president position as claimed.
The PDP committee had recommended the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa; Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and Wike.
The committee, however, scored Wike above the other two contenders but Atiku decided to settle for Okowa. A decision that has since unsettled Wike’s camp.
Magaji, however, claimed that Wike lobbied to be scored ahead of others, adding that the Rivers State governor should not be trusted with important positions in the country.
2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury
Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.
One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.
Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.
ddippset: Says a man who hijacked the party and singlehandedly produced the last 4 National Chairmen of the party for his own selfishness.
Says a man who accepted nomination to be running mate to Fulani Atiku. He knew it was injustice to give Atiku the ticket yet he lobbied to be the VP.
He knew the party had to go South for the 2023 election, yet he still put Secondus as National Chaiman just to hijack the party.. Only to push Secondus out because he wanted the ticket 2023.
This man remains the biggest problem of PDP.
He can only deceive and fool his minions, not reasonable people.
Putindbutt: Wike keep pressing the necks of haters.
How can you press the neck of your haters by grabbing land upandan instead of paying teachers to make sure every child is in school
Abi you are part of school na scam Agbero Poverty Congress, APC ?
anonimi: FCT Teacher’s Strike: The unfolding crisis that has kept Abuja’s children out of school for months
The industrial action is the third in a series since late 2024.
ByQosim SuleimanandZainab Adewale July 2, 2025 Reading Time: 4 mins read For over three months, public primary school pupils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have been out of the classroom due to a teachers’ strike.
The industrial action has seen multiple suspensions and resumptions and is the third since late 2024.
StaffofOrayan: Northern politicians are the luckiest people in the whole wide world
How are they luckier than Yoruba politicians like the Lagos TAX monster planner? The one who steals trillions annual budget instead of employing workers to make water available to households.
Do you think that he doesn’t care to be the landlord of a shitty smelly place, as long as he squeezes trillions from his tax BURDEN on the masses
Is ikpeazu and his kerosene distribution in the north?
What of Tinubu and his daily bread distribution in the absence of promised jobs to earn a living in dignity? Okay, maybe the ayédèrú Lagos TAX monster planner is truly a northerner since no one knows where he is from, with a surname that is different from the one of his “mother”!
A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
bixton: Please mention the names of the politicians Wike has used and dumped ?
Do you know about Modu Sheriff?
What of Secondus?
And all the PDP politicians who raised him from LGA chairman to minister and governor
anonimi: Wike lobbied PDP committee to be Atiku’s running mate – Ex-gov’ship aspirant
Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:33:04 WAT
Muazu Magaji, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State, has alleged that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lobbied members of the party’s committee constituted to advise the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the choice of his running mate.
Magaji disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, on Thursday.
The Kano politician also argued that there was no proof that Atiku promised Wike the vice president position as claimed.
The PDP committee had recommended the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa; Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and Wike.
The committee, however, scored Wike above the other two contenders but Atiku decided to settle for Okowa. A decision that has since unsettled Wike’s camp.
Magaji, however, claimed that Wike lobbied to be scored ahead of others, adding that the Rivers State governor should not be trusted with important positions in the country.
2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury
Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.
One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.
Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.
ddippset: Says a man who hijacked the party and singlehandedly produced the last 4 National Chairmen of the party for his own selfishness.
Says a man who accepted nomination to be running mate to Fulani Atiku. He knew it was injustice to give Atiku the ticket yet he lobbied to be the VP.
He knew the party had to go South for the 2023 election, yet he still put Secondus as National Chaiman just to hijack the party.. Only to push Secondus out because he wanted the ticket 2023.
This man remains the biggest problem of PDP.
He can only deceive and fool his minions, not reasonable people.
Modu's curse is finally unravelling on the ologogoro land grabber of FCT.
When will the thunder finally finish him off
anonimi: "Wike and Fayose have brought shame to PDP" -Ali Modu Sheriff
According to him, he will restructure the PDP in such a way that Wike and Fayose cannot contain because they have brought “shame” to the party. Read what he said below
“I will engineer a restructuring of the PDP such that characters like Wike and Fayose cannot find a way through to attain any position of prominence in our party in the future. They have brought shame and agony through the application of their crude and godless politics which is at variance with the principles upon which our founding fathers built our great party.
We must find a way to sieve things so that only men of character and integrity can come through for positions of responsibility at all levels of our political engagement in the country. We must urgently steer the ship of PDP clear of the path of infamy which Wike and Fayose have brought our party, making Nigerians to mistake PDP as a training ground for thugs.
That is the urgent task we have. We cannot continue to advertise thug brand and expect Nigerians to take us seriously”.
ReekyMass: Just three days back, Fulani kidnappers shot at a Young guy and whisked away with his wife and less than year old baby in otukpo, Benue State.
Luckily, the guy didn't die from the gunshot. He's at the hospital . But nobody has heard from the captors yet
How can you accuse Tinubu's Fulani brothers when you did not see any cow at the crime scene
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
laivwire: When it's just as easy as picking up a cooperative victim and spend a few days in the bush in return for millions of naira, why do you think kidnapping would not be rampant?
The only way to stop this thing is by crushing any kidnapping ring with unalivement. Right now, the returns are more than the risks with public donations for a fees day's work.
Unfortunately those who should spearhead the collective resolve to reverse this evil trend are busy with propaganda and rounding up protesters.
Don't we have a CinC who prefers to negotiate for the release of a few hostages while the rest remain in captivity?
Why fight for and grab power, then run away with it when you have no clue how to keep people safe and properties secure
Wickedtruths: The police in Edo prefer to arrest protesters The protesters prefer to steal goats and noodles
Their Governor lacks the capacity to govern.
Like Edo governor, like Nigerian president....................abi that APC mannequin in Aso Rock has the capacity to govern ni?
He only has the capacity to raise tax burden on the people so he can brag about hitting his target in August and tell lies that he is not borrowing money.
How did we end up with these clueless and incompetent A-looter Propaganda Conmen, APC
Maxymilliano: The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him. According to the former Lagos Governor, he adopted the delegation method “to show team-ship”.
Tinubu spoke at the Chatham House lecture titled: ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: In conversation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’, monitored by The Nation.
At the lecture, Tinubu after his opening remarks, assigned Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak on how his (Tinubu-led) government would address insecurity and asked the Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Aleke, to respond to the question on oil theft.
Konquest: That's a powerful testimonial right there. The introduction of Western education and the gravitation towards the so-called white collar jobs especially from the 1950s in the Old Western region led to the younger folks leaving their hometowns where they have family agricultural lands. Cash crop-based tree such as palm trees, cashew nut trees, avocados, mangos, bananas and plantains, etc, MUST NEVER be abandoned.
The corrupt military dictatorship years experienced in Nigeria made things far WORSE with the old boom when the corrupt military guys we experienced abandoned sustainable agriculture. Fortunately improved varieties of palm trees exist today that start fruiting in two years unlike 7 years in the past, so, those who know about the supply and demand side are taking advantage of the opportunities.
While the oil boom was mismanaged with corruption by everyone, into our own version of the Dutch Disease, agriculture is not the way to make a country rich and developed.
How much taxes can farmers pay to provide cutting edge government services and public utilities like quality water supply with adequate pressure to everyone, as well as world class healthcare that makes it unnecessary for our president to disappear in France while using AI picture of lunch with Kagame to prove he is alive. Meanwhile Kagame was enjoying new year in his own country.
Mariangeles: Let us go back to when Nigeria was rich. Fruit is the future.
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What is the % contribution to GDP from agric/fruits, and what % of employment is for fruit farmers in G20 rich countries
High yielding, high end manufacturing and services from a diversely educated and healthy workforce in private companies and firms is the present and the future, since we can't go back to the past.
anonimi: Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?
In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;
or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority? @ @ The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.
Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.
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