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By; AUSTIN OWOICHO, Abuja

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has confirmed that it is concluding discussions with more state governors and members of the National Assembly elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of their decampment to the PDP.

In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, made available on Wednesday, the party said it has already concluded discussions with six APC governors and 27 APC members in the National Assembly, who have also drawn their consultations and secured the mandates of their constituents to move to the PDP ahead of the 2019 general election.

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*says Presidency, APC out to embarrass, frustrate presidential ambition

By AUSTIN OWOICHO, Abuja

Barely few days after the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, declared his intention to contest for President in the 2019 General Elections, the presidency has ordered the police and a foremost anti-graft agency to arraign him in court this week over spurious charges, it was learnt on Sunday.

Former Deputy National Publicity of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, who dropped this hint in Abuja, said the planned arraignment of Saraki on cooked-up charges is part of a renewed onslaught by the presidency and the leadership of the APC against Saraki.

Frank in a statement in Abuja said the aim of ASO ROCK and the Adams Oshiomhole-led APC is to embarrass Saraki and frustrate his chances of being nominated by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to run against Buhari during the party’s upcoming presidential primary election.

Frank said: “Events of the last three years has shown that the raison d'être for President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration ferocious attacks against Saraki is based on their phobia that the President of the Senate may contest for President and defeat Buhari in 2019.

“Now that their worst fears have been confirmed by the formal declaration of Saraki to contest the 2019 presidential election last week, they are once again frantically foraging for criminal charges to hang on his neck.

“I have it on good authority that the fresh plot to arraign Saraki this week is the first out of the series of strategies being perfected by Buhari and his cronies at their ongoing ‘business trip’ in China.’

“Recall that in a statement on Friday, I had alerted the nation and the international community that Buhari’s APC Governors, Senators and heads of security agencies studded entourage is not in China to boost trade between both countries but to plot the removal of Saraki and how to rig the 2019 elections in favour of the APC.

“Come to think of it, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, U.K. Prime Minister, Theresa May and German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, all came to Nigeria with a retinue of captains of industries and highly reputed Chief Executive Officers (CEO) of thriving business organizations to prospect for trade and investment opportunities in Nigeria, but Buhari is in China with his wife, an armada of APC politicians and heads of security agencies to plot judicial and extra-judicial measures against the leaders of opposition political parties in the country and how to compromise the 2019 general elections,” Frank declared.

He added: “Recall that I have continued to cry out against the unmitigated intimidation, harassment, persecution, intolerance, vilification, arrests and kangaroo trial being unleashed against those opposed to Buhari’s re-election bid - to the exclusion of his key allies with corruption allegations against them," he said.

The former APC chieftain however called on Nigerians and members of the international community not to be deceived by the fresh charges being concocted by the Presidency against Saraki.

He insisted that the bogus charges being drafted by the assigned security agencies are simply to frustrate Saraki’s presidential ambition the same way they have tried unsuccessfully in the last three years to emasculate his leadership of the Senate and to remove him from office as President of the Senate.

“It is a proven axiom that no democracy can survive without a vibrant and virile opposition, therefore any attempt to gag opposition political parties in the country and decimate their presidential aspirants for the 2019 elections amounts to another coup against democracy and I call on Nigerians and friends of Nigeria to remain vigilant and continue to speak-up to safeguard the nation’s hard earned democracy.

“Above all, I don’t want Nigerians to forget that Adams Oshiomhole has vowed to get Saraki out of office by hook or crook. He also threatened to end Saraki’s dominance of Kwara politics in 2019.

“Now that Saraki has thrown his hat into the ring for the presidential election, the party in connivance with the presidency is out to sully his name and stop him from participating in the up coming election.

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*challenges Buhari to National Stadium with other aspirants

By; AUSTIN OWOICHO, Abuja

Immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has urged the presidency to stop using propaganda on Nigerians concerning the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari, adding that the President's 800 metres walk is not an achievement to the country.

Comrade Frank said since the seat of power has decided to play politics with mere 800 metres walks, it will be better for President Buhari and other presidential aspirants to take up a walking contest at the National Stadium in Abuja where all Nigerians will see them and not only in Daura.

The President was reported to have walked 800 metres from the praying ground back to his residence in Daura during Sallah prayer on Tuesday.

But reacting in a statement made available to AUTHENTIC News Daily on Wednesday to what Frank considers a propaganda, he asked whether there were Surveyors measuring the distance covered during the presidential walking?

According to the Bayelsa born politician, for presidency to make 800 metres walk an issue in an election year, there is something Nigerians doesn't know about President Buhari's true health condition.

Frank recalled that former President Olusegun Obasanjo and others in President Buhari's age have covered more than 1.2 metres and never made noise about it, also asked whether the president's trek has solved the infrastructure deficiency, troubled economy, security threats against Nigerians and other issues confronting the nation under the APC government?

"I strongly believe that propaganda will not walk on Nigerians in 2019 elections but the reality on ground. How does ordinary walk around become an issue? It is shameful in this time and age for the presidency to expect us to roll out drums because our president walked 800 unverified metres.

Frank, however, urged the presidency to fair God and research well before playing politics with doing and undoing of the president.

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By KATO P. LADAN, Kaduna

Unhappy about the low key celebration that would be witnessed today (Tuesday August 21) as Muslim faithful mark the annual Eid-el-Kabir in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) @ Your Door Campaign has assured that by next celebration, things would have turned out for better.

This was expressed in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Okpani Jacob Onjewu Dickson, made available on Tuesday to AUTHENTIC News Daily.

"Even as we rejoice with billions of Muslims the world over as the observe the religious sacrifice of Eid-el-Kabir, we are saddened that most faithful in Nigeria are not getting the best out of the celebration.

"The economic policies of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government which is bereft of ideas has made Nigerians poorer in its three years of governance, resulting in weaker economy and less purchasing power, in spite of a geometrically progressing inflation," it stated.

The group said that they were optimistic that by May 29, 2019 when a government controlled by the PDP and its coalition comes into power, dehumanizing poverty and deprivation currently being witnessed in all regions of the country would become a thing of the past.

"We have confidence that any of the aspirants vying for the office of the president would do better than the present crop of those at helm of affairs of the country. We are amused that the ruling party is intimidated by the profile of most of the candidates and has resulted to sponsored mud slinging, a trick Nigerians are now aware of and just sigh when they come across," it added.

PDP @ Your Door Campaign said that its National Coordinator, Comrade Ibrahim Dahiru Danfulani personally extends his goodwill message to all patriotic Nigerians, while calling on Muslim faithful to cry out to Allah as they make their sacrifices.

"The National Coordinator also urged well to do Muslims to share even more of what they have in these times of despair to the needy," it concluded.

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By KATO P. LADAN, Kaduna

Unhappy about the low key celebration that would be witnessed today (Tuesday August 21) as Muslim faithful mark the annual Eid-el-Kabir in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) @ Your Door Campaign has assured that by next celebration, things would have turned out for better.

This was expressed in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Okpani Jacob Onjewu Dickson, made available on Tuesday to AUTHENTIC News Daily.

"Even as we rejoice with billions of Muslims the world over as the observe the religious sacrifice of Eid-el-Kabir, we are saddened that most faithful in Nigeria are not getting the best out of the celebration.

"The economic policies of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government which is bereft of ideas has made Nigerians poorer in its three years of governance, resulting in weaker economy and less purchasing power, in spite of a geometrically progressing inflation," it stated.

The group said that they were optimistic that by May 29, 2019 when a government controlled by the PDP and its coalition comes into power, dehumanizing poverty and deprivation currently being witnessed in all regions of the country would become a thing of the past.

"We have confidence that any of the aspirants vying for the office of the president would do better than the present crop of those at helm of affairs of the country. We are amused that the ruling party is intimidated by the profile of most of the candidates and has resulted to sponsored mud slinging, a trick Nigerians are now aware of and just sigh when they come across," it added.

PDP @ Your Door Campaign said that its National Coordinator, Comrade Ibrahim Dahiru Danfulani personally extends his goodwill message to all patriotic Nigerians, while calling on Muslim faithful to cry out to Allah as they make their sacrifices.

"The National Coordinator also urged well to do Muslims to share even more of what they have in these times of despair to the needy," it concluded.

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