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owolabifunke14: are u not d punk that called me a kid today when i said that Labour party will soon take over south west? Is happening now in ur life time. God bless labour party.

President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Patience Jonathan, has decried the failure of Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State to pay her a condolence visit since her mother died in an automobile accident several weeks ago. In a statement released today in Abuja, Mrs. Jonathan all but declared Mr. Amaechi and his wife guilty of bad manners for refusing to express their sympathy over her mother’s death.

The First Lady’s statement was a reaction to reports that she had failed to recognize the presence of Rivers State Deputy Governor, Tele Ikuru, who was at the Port Harcourt International Airport to receive her when she visited the state on Sunday.

In a statement signed by the First Lady’s Director of Information, Ms. Ayo Adesugba, Mrs. Jonathan stated that, despite the refusal of the governor and his wife to pay her a condolence visit, she bore them no grudge.

Mrs. Jonathan’s press release noted that numerous personalities, including former presidents, traditional rulers and diplomats, had consoled her over the death of her mother, Mrs. Charity Oba. “However, [Governor Amaechi] and the wife from the State which the First Lady hails have not paid such a visit,” the statement added.
Mrs. Jonathan, who is originally from Rivers State, has been identified as the principal sponsor of a political group that has precipitated a political crisis in the state. In recent months, the state has come close several times to being ungovernable. The crisis culminated in a physical brawl between five members of the state assembly loyal to Mrs. Jonathan and the majority who back the governor. The brawl was captured on tape and went viral after different versions of it were posted on youtube.

Speaking recently with a group of pastors who paid her a visit, Mrs. Jonathan stated that Governor Amaechi was stubborn, but added that he was a son to her. She denied wishing the governor political or physical harm, adding that prayers were needed to resolve the crisis in the state.



OFFICE OF THE FIRST LADY, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

PRESS RELEASE

Leave Me Out of Rivers State Politics - First Lady
The attention of the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has been drawn to reports carried in some sections of the media alleging that top officials of the Rivers government, including the Deputy Governor Tele Ikuru who came to receive the First Lady, were shielded from Dame Jonathan on her arrival at Port Harcourt International Airport yesterday, (18/08/2013). Some of the media reports went to the extent of alleging that Dame Jonathan “snubbed” the Deputy Governor.

It is important to set the record straight in order to prevent the public from being misled. The First Lady arrived in Rivers State yesterday for a private visit, to make arrangements for the burial of her late mother with members of her extended family.

Customarily, the wife of the State Governor receives the First Lady whenever she visits any state. That is why the wife of Bayelsa State Governor traveled from Yenagoa to receive the First Lady. Ordinarily, one would have expected the same complement from the wife of the Rivers State Governor.

It is instructive to note that since the death of Mrs. Charity Oba, the mother of the First Lady, several groups and individuals from across the country have come to condole the First Family at the State House, Abuja. They include Executive State Governors and their wives from all the political divides; Nigeria’s former Presidents and Heads of State and their wives, captains of industry, female Ambassadors and High Commissioners of Nigeria, other members of the diplomatic corps, royal fathers and traditional leaders - the list is too numerous to call. However, the Governor and the wife from the State which the First Lady hails have not paid such a visit.

It should be clear to all that for quite some time now, the First Lady has refrained from commenting on issues relating to the politics of Rivers State. Dame Patience does not want her name to be used to heat up the polity. We therefore urge that the name of the First Lady be left out of the politics in Rivers State.

The First Lady, like any Nigerian, is free to visit the state of her birth. Dame Jonathan bears no grudge towards anyone as she is an individual who continues to tirelessly advocate for peace and harmony in Nigeria. We therefore reiterate that the First Lady’s name be left out of the politics in the State.

Ayo Adesugba (Mrs.)
Director (Information)
19 August, 2013

Em-my:
This Antigen Presenting Cells {APC} is just another PDP. I like its emergence cuz it will encurage political competition leading to delivery of democratic dividends.....

Goddex: It's not about attacking some governors. It's about dispelling lies and cheap propaganda.
Ogun State government/ACN propaganda machine wants us to believe that Amosun attracted 35 companies to Ogun including:

1) WEMPCO STEEL MILLS (which President Jonathan commissioned recently while Gov Amosun was in Lagos attending an ACN convention started during former Gov Gbenga Daniels)

2) DANGOTE CEMENT (completed during Gbenga Daniels tenure)

3) MAY & BAKER (also started and almost completed during Gbenga Daniels tenure)

4) GOLDEN PASTA (a Flour Mills Plc subsidiary started and completed during Gbenga Daniels tenure)

5) GOODWILL CERAMICS

6) ADE DISTRIBUTION AND INVESTMENT LIMITED AND AFRICAN FOUNDRIES LIMITED.

If anyone has to take the glory, it should be former governor Gbenga Daniels. Amosun has got nothing yet to show for except one flyover.

Sincere 9gerian: The violence in the north is not state sponsored. This deportation of Nigerians in Nigeria is state sponsored. It is evil, wicked, inhumane and cruel. Fashola is evil

Dr. Doyin Okupe, The "Attack Lion" Gets A BMW Car Gift From President Goodluck Jonathan

By SaharaReporters, New York

For all his 'attacking' against perceived opponents of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, also known as " Attack Lion " received a brand-new bimmer (BMW car) from president Goodluck Jonathan.

The new ride is already working wonders and Mr. okupe who recently went into recess on the account of low patronage
from the presidency has resumed his full attacking role.

Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of the western Nigerian state of Osun has inaugurated the construction of 18 km Osogbo east bypass dual carriageway, worth N14.5 billion.

Aregbesola said at the inauguration on Saturday in Osogbo that the new road network would boost economic activities on completion.

According to him, the road will complement the Gbongan-Akoda dual carriageway to
reduce traffic congestion as well as beautify the ancient city.

The road, which the governor named after the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Adesoji Aderemi, will be financed by Sterling Bank with an agreement on reimbursement.

He said that a bridge to be constructed on the road would be called “November 27”, in remembrance of the Governor’s inauguration on Nov. 27, 2010.

The governor also said that the road network which would link neighbouring towns would boost trade within and outside the state.

The new road starts from the Iwo-Osogbo roundabout and terminates at the roundabout along Osogbo-Ikirun road.

The west side of the road was constructed in 1994 under a World Bank-assisted Multi-State Roads Project.

Top government functionaries, members of the state House of Assembly and the National Assembly as well as various interest groups attended the occasion.

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar will not vote in the Peoples Democratic Party forthcoming national convention as his name is not on the list of delegates submitted to the party from his home state, Adamawa.

 The party has tentatively slated August 20 for the special mini convention.

Sources, however, said the date "is not sacrosanct."

The list signed by the party's factional chairman in the state, Mr. Joel Madaki, an ally of the National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, was sighted by our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday.

Though Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State does not belong to the Madaki faction, his name appears on the list.

Former Information Minister and Chairman PDP Convention Planning Committee, Prof. Jerry Gana, had said only those that voted at the 2012 convention, where the members of the party's National Working Committee were elected, would vote at the mini convention.

The report of the Independent National Electoral Commission on the convention, which faulted the emergence some of the party officials at the convention, compelled 20 of them to resign recently.

The party's National Executive Committee accepted their resignation at its June meeting.

The list of the March 20, 2012 delegates' list was signed by Kaugama Mijijinwa as the Adamawa State chairman.

However, the fresh list by Madaki did not contain the name of Mijijinwa as a delegate.

Efforts to speak with Gana on the matter were not successful, as he did not pick his calls.

Meanwhile, Gana may have tactically moved the meetings of the convention committee to a private office at Wuse 2, off Parakou Crescent instead of the party's national secretariat or its Presidential Campaign office, popularly called Legacy House, Maitama, Abuja.

 Our correspondent, who observed the committee meeting at the new place (Mithbath Street) on Saturday, did not see the Secretary of the convention committee, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, among others at the gathering.

Meanwhile, INEC said the party had contacted the commission on the suspended convention, initially slated for July 20.

The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr. Kayode Idowu, who confirmed the shift, however did not give a new date for the exercise.

He said, "Yes, we are aware of the shift but I cannot tell you the exact date for now, except I find out. But I am aware that it is after the Ramadan."

By the 2010 Electoral Act (as amended), all political parties, are expected to give the commission 21 days notice of its conventions or conferences. This is to enable INEC to monitor the convention.