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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.

A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan would attempt to split the country, if he does not win the 2015 general elections.

The former minister said the President has divided the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF).

He said the interference of the Presidency in the internal affairs and the subsequent division of the NGF were part of a game plan and a “clear indication that should President Goodluck Jonathan lose next election, he will plot for the division of the country”.

Fani-Kayode, who addressed reporters yesterday in Minna, the Niger State capital, wondered why a loser of an election would declare himself the winner because he enjoyed the backing of the Presidency, thereby splitting the NGF.

Fani-Kayide expressed optimism that opposition parties would terminate the continued reign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the next general elections.

The former minister, however, said the nation should prepare for a possible attempt to split the country when the PDP government fails at the poll.

He said: “It is only in Nigeria that a loser with the backing of the Presidency can declare himself the winner, leading to the splitting of NGF. This is a prerequisite for 2015. When the President is defeated, he will declare himself winner, the same way it happened in the NGF. He will try to split the country the same way he did to the NGF.”

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, said 70 new roads had been approved and awarded for construction and rehabilitation in the state, even as the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, deplored the poor state of the Federal High Court in Lagos Island, saying “it is in its old self.”

Fashola who spoke during a courtesy call on him by the NBA, Lagos Branch and Ikeja, led by Mr. Monday Ubani and Mr. Taiwo Taiwo, said the contract had increased the number of awarded road contracts since the commencement of the second term of his administration to 230.

According to him: “We set ourselves the target in the second term to complete about 450 roads. Last year, we awarded about 160 roads. This year, we have awarded about 70 roads. This signifies our intention this year that we are more concerned about road construction.

“We have already completed about half of the roads we set out to achieve. But again, we can only award that much if we were able to complete much. That was why this year’s project was based on completing the roads in the state. The decision making for which road to deal with first, is based on the road that carries the most traffic.

“The need continuously outstrips the source and so also they outstrip the capacity. And what we have done this year was to identify the roads that needed urgent repair. And these are continuous engagement and undertaking from the state government. They will never finish in the tenure or life of any government.

Sec5: what of assasination attempts on perceived oppositions

Peoples Democratic Party and Accord Party lawmakers in the Oyo State House of Assembly on Thursday declared that Governor Abiola Ajimobi had piloted the affairs of the state well in the past two years.

They passed the vote of confidence after listening to an address presented to the Assembly by the governor as part of activities marking the second anniversary of his administration.

The Deputy Speaker, Babatunde Olaniyan, who is of the Accord Party, said the governor was not only industrious but also accountable.

He attributed the peace and development in the state to harmonious working relationship between the executive and legislature.

He said, "You have, in the last two years, demonstrated that you want us all to work together to move Oyo State forward."

The Minority Leader, Rafiu Adekunle, said, "You are performing and we want you to perform more. We are very grateful and happy to work with you. Those of us in other political parties cannot see something good and say it is bad."

The Deputy Majority Leader, Kehinde Subair, moved a motion for passing the vote of confidence in the governor while the Chief Whip, Abiodun Ahmed, seconded the motion.

The governor, who attributed the administration's performance to tenacity of purpose, noted particularly that he was happy with his accomplishments in infrastructural development.

He said, "The acceptance and encouragement you gave me during that first state of the state address became the fillip with which we moulded the achievements that we have recorded."

He noted that the three political parties in the state-Action Congress of Nigeria, PDP and AP- worked together to support his administration.

He said, "Our preoccupation was to rewrite our un-enviable position in the annals of history and trumpet to the world that we are a people conscious of our pacesetting heritage".

pistol: This circus is becoming boring.
The Apc was already dead on arrival as it is marriage of strange bedfellows with conflicting interest and nobody willing to compromise.
Ordinary registration see wahala.
Their registration committee has three chairman,three secretaries etc.
Bunch of funny and unserious clowns.








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