₦airaland Forum

TonyeBarcanista:
The travails of Senator Bukola Saraki and his faction in APC is a pointer that all is not well with the political structure of APC. There are two power blocs in the APC fighting for the soul of the party. On one side is President Buhari and Bola Tinubu backed, on the other side is the Senator Saraki led Likeminds rebels. Irrespective of where the pendulum swing, the GREATEST beneficiary will be the PDP if it get its act right.

The APC Crises and Travails of Saraki
The emergence of Saraki as the Senate President and Ekweremadu as the Deputy created a crack and bad blood within the ruling the party. Saraki's insistence on 'appointing' his preferred candidates for the Senate's Principal offices instead of the party candidates was a move that set a brick-wall against ANY reconciliation. Then came Saraki's ongoing travails with the Code of Conduct Bureau that is likely to sweep him(which is his business).

APC's Loss
It is no doubt that Bukola Saraki controls the APC political structure of Kwara state. He has the unalloyed loyalty of Governor Fatah Ahmed and other state officials. He also has the loyalty of NASS contingents from Kwara state. Outside Kwara state he enjoys support of his co-APC rebels majorly in the North Central. This advently means that a faction of APC Chieftains loyal to Saraki will be at loggerhead with leadership of the party over the 'treatment' of their comrade. The crack in the APC means a shrink in the party structure. Recall that APC could only win through marginal advantage of less than 3million votes. This crack literally mean that APC structures has weaned especially in Kwara state and other little areas where the rebellious APC legislators and chieftains have influence. I am very optimistic that there's going to be more fall-out among party faithfuls. APC Chieftains may succeed in cutting short Saraki and his co-rebels ambitions but they also have helped in decimating portions of their structure.

PDP Must Be Prepared And Be Careful:
PDP need to manage themselves and must put machinery in place to manage the forthcoming convention of the party. It must not afford to mismanage every pre and post convention events. More importantly the PDP must take advantage of absorbing young people and redefine itself with the knowledge that they will be going into 2019 against a divided ruling APC (hopefully, there will be more cracks in the coming months/years).

APC Internal Problem Isn't Unexpected:
On April 02 (about 24 hours after Buhari was declared winner of the March 28 Presidential election), I did an article Titled Arise O' PDP, The Future Is Bright. In the said article, I anticipated this crack within the APC though I never knew that it will come 'too soon'. I shall conclude this piece with excerpt from that article.





May God Bless PDP
Power To The People!

Mogidi:
[size=15pt]Saraki doing what Tinubu did in 2011 when Prof Osibanjo was his lawyer.[/size]

Someone is trying to remove Saraki before sending the list of "noise makers" to the senate.

The tribunal chairman lauded Tinubu for making himself available throughout the trial, as he said it was not mandatory for the accused challenging jurisdiction of the court to appear before it.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/conduct-tribunal-quashes-charges-against-tinubu/104033/

ndcide:
Oga, I'm not a lawyer my post is based on your rational emotive political perspective and you know it.

I put it to you that you have already convicted saraki and it's based on what you think. Or have the court pronounced saraki guilty? Whatever rational you think places buhari, tinubu, fashola, amaechi, aisha buhari etc in right standing, will also apply to saraki except based on your emotional political leaning. That's my point. Had saraki not gone against the tide, will this issues arise?

Did you make this position when fashola had his travails? Or you ignored it because of what you think is corruption and those you think defines corruption?

I don't give a damn about saraki but same with tinubu. You are obviously waiting for him to be convicted before you agree that he perpetrated and perpetuated corruption for all it's worth? Now saraki would never have gone through this route had he not taken his political destiny in his hands.

I believe you got the point now. Don't also forget that anyone who attempts to prob the power sector gets silenced.

warrior01:
Stop being clever by half as we know who controls the security forces. Amaechi and Fashola happens to be in the rulers good books for now; just wait till they go outta line.

doncaster:
I have read many threads here on nairaland and I can conclude that " The people shouting witch hunt as regards to Saraki case are the people shouting that Wike should probe Amaechi and the people shouting witch hunt in Amaechi's case are the people calling for the arrest of Saraki". It smacks of the highest point of hypocrisy when you stand on two sides on two cases that are similar.

warrior01:
Pa Eziachi, good day sir. In as much as I would concur with you on some points made, I think you're being a hypocrite. If my memory serves me right, what was your reaction on this same forum when Buhari was being accused of certificate forgery? You all said he was being hounded but today you're feeling different. Please stop pointing fingers and let Nigerians which you called accursed, express themselves in their hypocritical ways.

The tribunal chairman lauded Tinubu for making himself available throughout the trial, as he said it was not mandatory for the accused challenging jurisdiction of the court to appear before it.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/conduct-tribunal-quashes-charges-against-tinubu/104033/

gboss4sure:
This people de think say we be idiots.

If nothing happen between those two, why try hard to deny it by releasing this pic.

omenka:
Ur head dey absolutely correct brother!!

A close friend of mine who's very close to the family of the GMD NNPC, Kachikwu, told me in confidence the man's parents are actually Northerners, that his grand father was an Islamic Scholar from Daura and that informed his appointment.

Buhari thinks Nigerians are fools.

Rubbish!

The Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency (LASAA) has a new Managing Director.

He is Mobolaji Sanusi, a columnist with The Nation newspaper.

Sanusi, who resumed work on Wednesday, succeeds George Noah.

DAILY POST gathered on Wednesday that Sanusi was recommended for the job by Tunji Bello, a former Commissioner for Environment, a former LASAA MD and current Secretary to the Lagos State Government.

Sanusi is a die-hard fan of ex-Lagos Governor, Bola Tinubu.

He is known to have defended the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on several occasions.

On June 5, 2015, Sanusi lambasted immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, in a article he titled ‘Fashola’s signal of ingratitude’.

In the piece, he castigated the Senior Advocate of Nigeria for working against Tinubu, who according to him, “kick-started his (Fashola’s) great leap to political prominence”.

LASAA, a brain-child of Tinubu, was established by the Lagos State Structures for Signage and Advertisement Agency Law, 2006.

The agency is responsible for regulating and controlling outdoor advertising and signage displays in Lagos State.

PDPwayoo:
And ordinary commissioner is more power than all igbos because he is your 2nd in command.

WHY IGBOS ALWAYS SUPPORT BAD AND NEGATIVE THINGS?. .................. even if you hate Buhari, is it good to allow Bukola saraki to break the rules of the country (not APC rules) and go away with it?

porka:
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But you didn't see anything wrong with the due process in this Code of Conduct Bureau's 'frivolous' charges despite the fact that Nigeria currently doesn't have an ATTORNEY GENERAL of Federation whose responsibility it is to prosecute. [/size]

The 13-count charge against Saraki, Tribune Online gathered, was filed before the tribunal by the Code of Conduct Bureau[b] through the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation[/b]

chukwudi44:
I suppose Buhari does not want to have his ministerial nominees to be confirmed!!! Saraki will fight back and its gonna be dirty

aguiyi:
my question still stands unanswered.

how does this project in particular not all the state govt projects impact the people at a time like this.

you are incapable of reasoning because common sense is lacking in you

aguiyi:
that was your miserable self in the past, idiota

aguiyi:
as usual, conjectures and bullshits .

how does all the items you have listed resemble the one been talked about.
how does building a project like this at a time of dwindling revenue and terrorist attack equate common sense

$22.5m gone to building rubbish

the worst is that the project is not going to have a direct impact og the indegenes of the state

BraniacX:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/2861812_wailingforabettertommorow_jpeg_jpegd26a773a99cf2b0f93fe685761f614da

aguiyi:
this is the part of you i dont like.

how can a state under insurgent attack think of such and expect people not the think the whole terror thing has a political undertone. the worst is that the project is not going to have a direct impact og the indegenes of the state. 4.5b is not childs play my guy. that $22.5m

Happiness87:
name one state house that is 7storey and was built for 4.5bn from a state that is in abject poverty

Happiness87:
smh, get a job, what you are doing is not one, because you stink, ignoring you will save me lots, shame on you, dull brain cells

Dejohnbull:
Rubish if fg cant fix less than 90km uyo-odukpani in sixteen years, how will dullard of daura fix 240km of less economy road?

aguiyi:
this is how they lavish the oil money from biafra land

OrlandoOwoh:

A man does not stop drinking water because his child drowned in a river. Is not rather unfortunate you gave no reason for the building apart from the state having security challenges? For goodness' sake, the building is in Abuja, not Maiduguri.

MadCow1:
Brilliant.. Clap for yourself.. You are amazingly daft..

Happiness87:
you are so dump, silly stupid, gosh, why am i even replying you shame on you,
you are a bigot, all of a sudden, am from biafra,

Idiot tell us how that building is better than investing in agriculture even with a lesser amount
Tell us how a common man in chibok will appreciate that building.

Tell us how rivers, lagos, A/ibom, Kano, Kaduna are investing such amount of money in a building in Abj to attract investors to their states.

[s]Mention one state in the North East you can compare in any way with the worst state in SS/SE

Gosh you are so silly, better spend more time praying for Tinubu to allow Fashola's name make the final ministerial list

Get a life, NL is not a home, you definitely dont have a life outside NL

young man get a life, you are constituting a nuisance here, [/s]

basilo101:
Hmm, as long as ur slavery deformed mind can comprehend, the locals cnt be investors abi?

Dcanio:
That money will be enough to assist the idp camps instead of building an edifice that will add nothing to the state and the citizens