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ocelot2006:
TOTAL HORSE CRAP!! Who's this so-called security source?! The VP by right is a member of the National Security Council, hence the need for him to be in all these sittings. So shat happens when the president is incapacitated or unavailable? If this is how security issues are going to be run under GMB's watch, then we have a major issues.

Remember this was the same position Jonathan found himself under Yaradua. The main actor in that drama is currently leading Buhari's National security team.

babadem2much:
THE VP DOSN'T ATTEND SECURITY MEETINGS UNLESS IF THE C IN C ASK HIM TO DO SO IN HIS ABSENCE.

HAVE YOU SEEN VP SAMBO OR VP ATIKU EX HOLDING SECURITY MEETINGS?
THE ANSWER IS NO
MY OBSERVATIONS:

Atiku I don't know, but Sambo was front and center in Jonathan's meetings. Even when the president was not around he led the meetings.

I feel truly sorry for some in this country. They refuse to learn.

Never knew these APC almajiris were so thinned skinned. Please enjoy the news cycle, its just the beginning.

A good friend is working on a major cartoon production, you people will kill yourselves after you have a chance to watch it monthly.

doctokwus:
You are a tout.Let him try it and see if he would be there to witness his removal by the tribunal.
For your information, 2000 rivers indigenes are presently massed at d assembly resisting any planned move.
If Wike doesn't want his few months in office to elapse peacefully, he should try any rubbish and see if he wouldn't leave that office when it becomes too hot for him,tout!!
Don't disturb my mentions next time if u don't have anything meaningful to same,I beg u.

You are a bloody batarddd, keep your lecture for your father the alamjiri duara dullard.

otokx:
Its good he has sacked them, now FG can do the needful by withholding the funds for the local government until such a time as the yet to be started court case is finished.

Dumbass you will wait in vain.

Protest In Degema till you turn yellow, nothing will stop the termination of your local council non-election.

Nice story from the OP, but like most things in Nigeria another tales by moonlight. You will never buy petrol for N40 in Nigeria again. Add N100 to that, with refineries working in Nigeria or not.

Is this the same man he visited last week? Operation photo up will not the save the alamjiri

Lhanre:
If this is true, I think the first opportunity under this new political era to legally test the rights of governors to hire and fire LGA chairmen at their whim has just presented itself. If the election of these council officials is actually in accordance to the law, then APC should do the needful by challenging the governor's action in court.

You remember the Constitution now? Ask your ediot Ameachi if the Constitution mattered during his 3 years of terror. Wike will lecture fake democrats like you and your gang, about the processes of a democratic state.

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doctokwus:
While waiting for sauce,its quite safe to say Wike's foolishness must have reached madness proportions if he actually did this.
Till this is confirmed before further comment on this is reserved. Then I would know if there is indeed a president in this country or the country is run by touts and hooligans.

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The state house of assembly will call for their removal and the needful will be done. People like you are sickening, you never had the balls to call your mad man Amaechi a tout.

The election of Bukola Saraki as Nigeria’s Senate President is a sign that it’s going to be a tough year for President Muhammadu Buhari as the former ruling party still intends to exert influence.

Saraki, an All Progressives Congress senator from the western state of Kwara, drew on support from the now opposition Peoples Democratic Party to win the leadership on Tuesday of the upper chamber, riding over the APC’s preferred choice, according to party spokesman Lai Mohammed. Saraki is a former PDP lawmaker in a party formed by the merger of three groups then joined by renegades from the PDP.
“It’s going to be a turbulent legislative year,” Olusegun Sotola, a research fellow at the Lagos-based Initiative for Public Policy Analysis, said by phone. The APC are “still operating as blocks.”
While Buhari won the March elections after promising to radically reshape Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy is reeling from a slump in the price of oil, on which it depends for more than two-thirds of government spending. Last month, an acute fuel shortage during a dispute between oil-product marketers and the outgoing government left service stations closed, aircraft grounded, and businesses unable to operate.
Internal Discipline

Economic growth slowed to 4 percent in the first quarter compared with 5.9 percent a quarter earlier, the national statistics agency said last month. The naira has declined 7.8 percent against the dollar this year.
If Buhari’s party is to guide through the bicameral National Assembly the laws that will revive Nigeria’s economy, it will need to maintain firm

internal discipline.

The APC holds 64 seats in Senate to the PDP’s 45 and won 214 of 360 seats in the House of Representatives. As well as Saraki’s selection as Senate President, Yakubu Dogara was voted on Tuesday as Speaker of the lower house.
“The APC is an amalgamation of different political parties, and they are yet to be closely united as a party,” said Sotola. “The APC has a majority but it’s not so great, and it’s problematic that the PDP still has a substantial number of seats.”
Saraki and Dogara weren’t the “clear” candidates chosen by an APC “straw poll” when the party met, Mohammed said in a statement on Tuesday, without naming the party’s preferred candidates.

‘Enormous Task’

Buhari “would have preferred the new leaders to have emerged through the process established by the party,” his office said in a statement. He said lawmakers now had to “focus on the enormous task of bringing enduring positive change to the lives of Nigerians.”
Buhari, who was inaugurated on May 29, has yet to name his cabinet ministers.
“There have been no policy statements and no key appointments,” Sotola said. “If this is a sign of things to come, it’s a bad omen.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-10/nigerian-parliament-s-votes-signal-tough-year-ahead-for-buhari

Chief Olisa Metuh has finally woken up to his responsibilities. APC should be left alone, they will self destruct.

What is a cashier's calculator doing on his table or my eyes are seeing double

Boss13:
Saraki is a PDP sympathizer and should be expelled. Keeping him around the corner is like dancing with fire. Expelling Saraki will send a strong message and ensure APC members do not double-cross the party. The party's agreement should be sacrosanct, if any member does not like the decision, such member is free to leave and join the other multiple political parties in the country.

APC would gladly expel saraki if they could, unfortunately they are in worse situation than PDP with Tambuwal. They don't have the votes and the fractionation of APC is guaranteed. They will end up with nothing, including the presidency at the end of the day.

ALTERNATEID:
It was divided in your presence right?

Try a better line.

ALTERNATEID:
No need to expel him. APC should just ensure that the 51 senators that attended the ICC meeting yesterday remain united and loyal to the party. The party should then bid their time, dangle some irresistible carrots before some PDP senators who may not be favoured in the standing committee that saraki will soon constitute and then move in to impeach him.

DOA, committee assignments were all divided before the vote. The only people going to protest the incoming chairmen and ranking members will be APC.

iamodenigbo1:
photo speaks

Photo speaks and bullshit walks

APC, APC, APC why do almajiris find it so hard to sallow their own medicine. You forgot the drunkard, clueless, fisherman from the creek . Some of you must commit suicide before 2019 or stay off the news cycle.

take a chill pill, unless you want to damage your party beyond repair.

Volksfuhrer:
Op, who told you Saraki and co defeated Buhari's coalition in the house? You actually believe Saraki and Dogara would work against Buhari! Yesterday's plot was against Tinubu, not Buhari.

Your questions should be sent to the Associated press writer

Also the financial times has an even more damaging story on this election.

Deeply embedded bigotry always has a way to act itself out. This country is doomed, the earlier we move ahead on our own paths the better.

Change you can believe in.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Candidates for Nigeria's main opposition party were elected Tuesday to head both houses of the legislature in votes highlighting the cracks in the coalition that brought President Muhammadu Buhari to power just last month.



Despite his coalition holding more seats in both houses, candidates with backing from the opposition People's Democratic Party of recently defeated President Goodluck Jonathan managed to get elected.

Having opponents in powerful positions in the legislature will not make newly elected President Muhammadu Buhari's job any easier, especially since his own coalition is made up of politicians from many different political persuasions, including defectors from the PDP.

The biggest blow came with the election of former governor and two-term Sen. Bukola Saraki as head of Nigeria's Senate — the third most powerful figure in the country.

Saraki ostensibly belongs to Buhari's coalition but he was not its choice for Senate president and instead engineered his own election with the backing of the opposition when the president's supporters were absent.

Party officials say Buhari was meeting with his party's senators, when Saraki pushed for a vote in the Senate with the help of the clerk who said the 57 senators present (out of 108) constituted a quorum.

While Saraki had defected to Buhari's side last year, it was his old colleagues in the PDP that voted him in.

Later that day, another PDP candidate Yakubu Dogara was elected head of the House of Representatives, narrowly defeating the candidate of Buhari's coalition once again.

The two victories for the PDP could be a sign that it is rebuilding its power base following its electoral defeat and could pose a threat to Buhari just days after his May 29 inauguration.

Saraki, 52, was a two-term governor of Kwara state best known abroad for importing white Zimbabwean farmers to develop commercial agriculture in his state, a move that he said has transformed Kwara from a food importer to an exporter


http://news.yahoo.com/senate-leadership-race-shows-cracks-nigerian-government-114324967.html

APC always sore losers Never able to drink their own medicine.

These kind of threads are too late, let every region and man play the hands they are dealt. The level of distrust in the south is not reversible. 2015 changed things forever.

Like everything about APC in Rivers state, this case is dead on arrival. Even INEC is calling for its dismissal. I thought APC alamjiris said Buhari will instruct INEC and the Judiciary to send Wike packing. Bunch of dumbass, with no clue how a democracy functions.