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atbu1983:
Click here for Buhari/Osibanjo Manifesto

http://buhariforchange.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Securing-Nigerias-Future-rv.pdf

you are a good servant. I can see you all over the thread posting Buhari's manifesto. You deserve an award. Keep it up!

LogicPower:
Don't forget that this man is an academic and a pastor, two professions that have the capacity to produce TRUE champion of the ordinary people, a grassroots politician!

All over the world, GOOD leaders who care for the welfare of the ORDINARY people often find some time off their tight schedules to GO and MEET some POOR and ORDINARY folks at the GRASSROOTS. They would eat and drink with them, listen to their problems, hopes, expectations, and explain to them their parties' programmes in a simple, ordinary language they would understand.

Thus, FAR from showing his lack of optimism at the poll, as you wrongly interpreted it, what the highly respected and erudite APC VP did clearly shows his PROFOUND COMPASSION for the ORDINARY NIGERIANS and his GENUINE CONCERN for the welfare ALL CITIZENS, rich and POOR.

This is unlike the self-centred clueless you support, who always seems to be at his HAPPIEST while in the company of the notoriously corrupt elements of our country!

is Osinbanjo visiting the so called '' ordinary people'' just because he loves them? Or is it because he needs their votes? Has he ever visited them before now? As a pastor, has ever engaged in ward to ward evangelism before?

austinvsb1:
You will be suprised by the number of votes the prof's move has garnered. You think he is as senseless as ur paymaster right? Everybody loves the professor, Everybody wants the general.

Our minds are made up.. GMB/Osinbanjo 2015

CHANGE

which number of votes are you talking about? We have been brainwashed by the APC propaganda machine that lagos is 99% for APC. We have been told that the 6 million lagos votes are already in APC bag. Do u wonder why Osinbanjo is busy campaigning from ward to ward in lagos which APC said they have conquered? Why wasting his time campaigning in his own conquered territory? Why not visiting other southwestern states like Ondo and ekiti? Why not going to campaign in PDP strongholds like enugu?

Women for Change and Development Initiative (W4CDI) have condemn the statement of the former Head of State and the All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential flag bearer over scrapping the office of the first lady if elected in 2015.
Daily Times recalls General Buhari in an interview with Weekly Trust said if elected as president in next year’s presidential election will abolish the office of the First Lady.
In a press conference by the national coordinator, Princess Dr. Rabi Ibrahim on Monday in Abuja yesterday, Princess Rabi said that Gen. Mohammadu Buhari has really disappointed Nigerian women ahead of 2015 general election.
“We condemn this statement in strong term. This shows that Buhari has nothing to offer Nigerian women and we are highly disappointed in him. He should come out to tell Nigerians what he has to offer not coming to say he will scrap office of the first lady”
She said all women appointees all over Africa and around the world see the office of the first lady as an important arm of every sitting government and through the office also contribute to nation building.
The office, according to Princess Rabi though not constitutionally recognized, but has been maintained by past and present administrations and is even seen as being key in policy decisions.
She said an example of the importance of the office of the first Lady is the empowerment programme initiated by the first Lady herself called Women for Change and Development Initiative despite the fact that the office has no budget.
“Office of the first lady is a rallying point for all women in politics in Nigeria. Dame Patience Jonathan through Women for Change and Development Initiative is committed to the creation of a movement that will engender the mass awareness of women at all levels to their human rights and obligations as citizens of Nigeria. We get support from well-wishers and help the less-privileged and orphans, especially the widows”.
Princess Rabi stressed that Nigerian women had never had it better than this administration: “It is on record that this is the administration that recognize women participation in politics and that is why Nigerian women believe in President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda”
“Buhari has not been voted for and he is saying this, which means if he was the president all educated women would be housewives and relegated to the background. For his information, we are saying no and he has started loosing already”

http://m.dailytimes.com.ng/article/w4cdi-slams-buhari-says-he-has-nothing-offer-nigerian-women?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+com%252FKCRj+%2528NEWS%2521NEWS%2521%2521NEWS%2521%2521%2521%2529

Obiagelli:
Buhari , while
speaking in Lagos on Wednesday at the presentation of
his party manifesto, said when he got into power , the
relatively stable economy , which was handed over to
the government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari, had been badly
plundered and corruption was rife in every sector . He
added that the rail line project was meant to cost
N100m , which was a large sum of money then , and the
Federal Government was asked to guarantee the loan
meant for the project .
He said , “ Then, we didn’ t know how much debt was on
us as a nation and we felt that we should not add
another N 100m to it. I had to set up two committees to
a****s how much we owed and we promised not to take
more loans or to devalue the naira but to develop the
economy . ”
Buhari argued that tagging him an enemy of Lagos State
because he cancelled that project was mischievous and
unfair , stating that the first one billion naira he spent
when he was heading Petroleum Trust Fund was on
Victoria Island and Ikoyi waterworks in Lagos. ( Abimbola
Adelakun , Thursday , 7 Apr 2011) .

community.vanguardngr.com/m/discussion?id=4565467%3ATopic%3A143303

www.nigerianbestforum.com/index.php?topic=115036.0

this excuse is too shallow.
The head of state set up two committees to ascertain the level of indebtedness, but did he wait for the outcome of the committees before canceling the deal?
What was the outcome of the committees?
Instead of all these excuses, I think Buhari should be man enough and apologize to lagosians. Afterall no one is above mistake.

loifez:
All na bobo....once GMB enters, the voice tone will change and all cabals will have to vomit their stolen wealth....only a dummy cabal will believe this trap

what about the cabals that are funding his electioneering campaign now? Will he jail them when he gets to power too?

Op where is the source? Or is this an assumption?

Ok

babyhrt:
hypocrite...if this prophecy has favoured the APC. we ll definitely nt see this kind of statement.




must this yorubakwe guy respond to everything.

yes! If his predictions had favored APC, they would have called him a progressive.

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has lambasted Primate Theophilus Olabayo of the Evangelical Church of Yahweh, Maryland, Lagos, for predicting that the party would lose Lagos State governorship election in 2015.

The party warned Lagosians in particular and Nigerians in general to be wary of attention-seeking prophets and their patronising prophecies of doom, as the 2015 general elections draw nearer.

Reacting to Olabayo’s prediction, the state Publicity Secretary of APC, Mr. Joe Igbokwe said the clergy was only aiming at regaining public relevance.

He said that Olabayo’s prediction never came to the party as a surprise, following his antecedents of failed predictions in the past.



According to Igbokwe, Olabayo was only trying to use APC to bounce back to relevance, having suffered both physical, financial and spiritual setback years ago.

“Is it not the same man who predicted years back that George W. Bush would defeat Bill Clinton at the American polls only to publicly apologise that he saw Clinton and not Bush, after Clinton became the president?

“In 1991, the ‘man of God’ predicted the imminent death of a very prominent Nigerian who threatened to sue him for the fake prophecies. The man is still alive till date and still kicking at over 80 years of age. Are these not enough to make the self-acclaimed Nostradamus to cover his face in shame?” Igbokwe queried.

The APC publicist advised Olabayo to heed the word of the Bible which says “Healer, heal thyself,” adding that just as his past predictions had gone into the garbage bin, so would this one which the party rejected in God’s mighty name.

Igbokwe likened the prediction of the Kogi State-born primate to that of the late Professor Godspower Oyewole who desecrated the Holy Bible where he claimed that he saw the name of a former president, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, adding that Olabayo had gone back to his old ways of seeking relevance through controversial predictions which usually caused confusion.

Primate Olabayo had in a recent interview with a national newspaper, predicted that the ruling APC would lose Lagos State to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in next year’s governorship poll.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/12/29/apc-slams-olabayo-over-prediction/

@ op, what do u understand by '' born-again Christian''?

simpleseyi:
Ok, Jonathan has only been campaigning from the pulpit. Going from one church to another every Sunday campaigning while Buhari/Osinbajo have been going from markets to houses, from motor garages to club houses, from keke NAPEP operators to okada riders.

pls give us the name of one church where Jonathan went for campaign

dejik2m:
Politicians’ desperate appeal to religion as a resort of last line of hope when confronted with firm failure is at once ubiquitous in nature and repetitive historically. Ordinarily, politicians ought not to be thugs and rogues; they ought to be leaders chosen by the larger society to administer the land on behalf of all members of the given society. The constitution and other extant laws of the land make that otherwise difficult administrative job a very easy one. Unfortunately, as events have revealed over the years, particularly in our nation Nigeria, politicians, because of their materialism and acquisitiveness, are more of problem-creators than problem-solvers.

Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor and others pray for President Goodluck Jonathan during a pilgrimage to Isreal in 2013
State House Photo
They fail again and again where they should have succeeded; they steal where they should not have stolen; they lie where simple truth should have been told; and they deceive where acting in a straightforward manner would have sufficed. This is the tragic situation of our shameless and dishonourable politicians in Nigeria. Then, when it becomes certain that the failed leader is about to be thrown out of office, having incurred the justifiable anger of the electorates, he suddenly begins to appeal to religion. He claims that he is a Christian or Muslim; he openly identifies with some religious leaders of his proclaimed faith, and in turn, expects all adherents of the faith he bogusly lays claim to, to support him. And this just for political benefit.

This is President Goodluck Jonathan’s situation at the moment as he faces a more than cloudy presidential election in 2015. It is clear that Nigeria, a not so fortunate country with regard to qualitative leadership, is terribly divided along politically created religious fracture lines. The fact remains that no President, in the history of this nation, has succeeded, through complicit actions and inactions, in polarising the nation as much as President Goodluck Jonathan. This fact is already in the public domain. My concern however, is to expose the underbelly motivation of Mr. President’s handlers’ religious hoodwinking of Christians in Nigeria. Christians need to know that they need not rush to give support to just any leader who mouths Christianity, without carrying out diagnostic examination of such a leader. The Bible enjoins us to “prove all things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21).

To begin with, there’s nothing wrong with Christians in Nigeria giving wholehearted support to another Christian who aspires to any political office in the land, provided that the said Christian is a Christian indeed, and that he possesses leadership qualities to move the nation in the right direction. As a matter of fact, in our pluralistic nation, just anyone who, irrespective of religious affiliation and inclination, has character, wit, insight, generous spirit, self-control, resolve, honesty and a clear picture of where the nation ought to be, as well as the understanding of how to get there, can aspire to be anything in the country and get the support of the electorates.

In President Jonathan’s case, the undeclared reason for his appeal to religion is simply to take advantage of the numerical strength of Christians among the Nigerian electorates. This is sad. The rush and push currently going on in certain quarters within Christian circles in Nigeria today is totally political and shameful; and all is being done to give undue support to a non-performing president because he is supposedly a Christian. This is not the Bible. The God of the Bible, in actual sense, hounours only responsible people. He demands that leaders be accountable and faithful (1Cor.4:2).  Therefore, Christian leaders ought to help Mr. President become more accountable, and rescue him from terribly political pettiness being displayed at the moment.

Let’s consider this important question: should we even consider President Jonathan a President with Christian character? I think not! But wait a minute; am I in a position to determine whether or not an individual is a Christian? Scripturally speaking, the simple answer is yes. In Matthew 7:21, the Lord Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven”. The implication of this passage is that open declaration of one’s religious standing, church membership, hobnobbing with credible and influential Christian leaders, as well as financial donations to churches does not confer Christianity on anyone. In fact, the above is totally useless without the heart and attributes of Christianity. To know who a Christian is, the Bible recommends that you look at what he does, and how he does it; check his character.

And then, the Holy Scripture also tells us that we know people – genuine Christians, fake Christians, genuine leaders, not-so-genuine leaders, totally corrupt leaders etc. – by their fruits. The Lord Jesus said, “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them” (Matthew 7:18 & 20). The Lord Jesus simply said, just look critically at people, see what they do, how they do it, check the fruits they produce, and you will easily understand where they belong. They may claim they are God’s, but when you check the fruits of their lives, you will understand to whom they belong.

The word of God then explains how a Christian – and this, all the more, applies to a leader – should conduct himself. The first of these points to be considered here is that a Christian is expected to keep his word. His word should be his bound. He should keep his promises and not be given to frivolities. This is how the Bible puts it: “So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty” (James 2:12). This is God’s standard. Do what you say or promise with your own mouth. Now does Mr. President keep his word? I’m sure he does not! I’ll give some examples shortly. But before the examples, please understand that he can still be supported by those who still wish to support him; however, that support should not be based on the fact that he says he is a Christian. Not at all! This is so because he’s not a man who keeps his word, and Christians, real Christians, do keep their words.

In 2011, while going around begging for votes, these were the words of Mr. President: "I do not make empty promises in my campaign because whatever I promise to do, I had already carried out adequate study to make sure I can accomplish it in the next four years." This was on the 27th of February in Onitsha, Anambra State. But the truth, as available to us all, is that he did promise, but then he failed to fulfill his promises.

On the 12th of March, 2011 in Abeokuta, he promised to revive ailing oil refineries and build new ones. The available fact, as at today, is that Mr. President merely deceived people into voting for him with that empty promise, because as we all know, no ailing oil refinery has been revived, not to talk of building new ones. I know his supporters can come up with a million and one reasons why he didn’t fulfill that promise; but the fact still remains that he did not fulfill his promise. Then on the 31st of March, the same year in Abuja, he promised to expand and develop the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry to provide about one million jobs. Today, we are still waiting for these jobs in the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry.

Earlier, in Awka on February 26, he said he would construct all the major roads which link Anambra with its neighbors; complete the ongoing aero-dynamic survey of gas in the Anambra River basin; complete the second Niger Bridge; and complete the Onitsha Inland Port. Nigerians would not be talking about generators by the time his four years in office would have ended, he guaranteed. It is about four years since these promises were made; however, if a Nigerian today does not have his own generator, it is because he is financially incapable to procure one. The promises were largely unfulfilled. Did Mr. President lack anything he needed in fulfilling these promises? Did he lack money, hands, time or occasion? None that I know. He just won’t do what he said he would do.

The above are few of the many unfulfilled promises, pledges and vows of Mr. President. I want to say that no Christian in Nigeria should be deceived into voting for Mr. President in 2015 because he lays claim to Christianity; he should simply be judged by his performance in office. He should be seen as a person – the current President of the country, who made several promises in 2011 while campaigning, and who failed to fulfill those promises – and be treated as such. This is the foundation upon which his re-election or rejection in 2015 should be based, not some useless religious mawkishness.

But then, there are other two important points we need to consider in this discourse: integrity and skillfulness. As far as God is concerned, these two qualities are central to leadership, and without them, no one in any leadership position, in the eyes of the Almighty God, could be considered successful. Hear the Bible: “He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: from following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands” (Psalm 78:70-72).

That’s the Bible talking about David. In this passage, David’s background as well as his emergence to leadership was examined. God took David from following animals and made him a King. He named him His servant and empowered him for just a reason: to feed His (God’s) people, the Israelites. Now this is one important purpose of leadership: feeding, supporting, sustaining, nourishing, nurturing, encouraging, maintaining, strengthening and bolstering the led. Can we say this is what is currently obtainable in the nation under President Goodluck Jonathan?  I think not. With the very basic requirement for meaningful living in the 21st century – electricity – almost totally missing in most homes, it is clear that the major focus of this administration is not to feed the poor, but to feed on the poor.

King David, having understood his assignment, settled down to lead his people, employing two important qualities in the process. First, he led his country with the integrity of his heart. He was a man in possession of very firm principles; wholly dedicated to his business, and displayed uncommon veracity in his dealings with his followers. Integrity requires that a leader be open and truthful. Integrity drives a worthy leader to eschew corruption and fight it. It equally demands that the leader be true to the laws of the land and not try to circumvent any aspect of it. A leader with integrity has nothing to hide from his followers, and he constantly fights and punishes, according the laws of the land, those engaged in sleaze. Can we say this is the situation in our nation under President Jonathan? Again, I think not.

Nigerians have not forgotten the recent stinking revelation of how the current Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, squandered 10 billion naira while junketing around. In the revelation, which the House of Representatives later passed a resolution to probe, it was alleged that the minister spent the amount to charter and maintain a jet for her personal use. As shocking as the embarrassing news was, the President has not found any reason to reprimand the minister for spending 130 million naira per month to maintain the aircraft in just two years. Were we blessed with a President who understands integrity and deals with us in the integrity of his heart, this reckless act would have been thoroughly dealt with. There won’t be any reason to bother you with other well-known corruption issues and cases around this government. But what is plain and obvious to all is that this is one administration that lacks integrity.

Now if President Jonathan willingly and consciously flouts important scriptural requirements and recommendations; if he chooses to scoff at the divine principle of integrity, should I then blindly follow him, simply because he claims he is a Christian just like me? This is my point. No Christian anywhere in the nation should allow himself to be sold a dummy. We should not be herded into wrongdoing simply because we have a “professing”, but in actual sense, a scripture-breaking Christian as our president. However, if an individual Christian, given his own conviction of the president’s performance and integrity, decides to vote for him next year, fine. The issue being that the Christian is voting, not because he is glad that the aspiring leader is a “Christian” and not a Muslim, but because the would-be leader is worthy and owns integrity.

The second virtue employed by David in his leadership adventure was skillfulness. Political and administrative skillfulness is possessing competence, adeptness, dexterity and proficiency in handling issues and situations in a way that avoids sloppiness, clumsiness and wastage. It is the hallmark of very capable leaders. It is a virtue that a nation like Nigeria needs in her leaders because of the inherent ability of this singular virtue to clean up built-up political muddle and clutter. Where unfortunately this quality is lacking in a leadership endeavour, as is currently the case with President Jonathan, disorder, disarray and chaos ensue. It is lack of skillfulness that causes a president to confer unconstitutional powers on ex-militants, freeing them to move around in convoys with security men, while reputable men are being hounded for saying their mind.

Imagine the one big ball of mess the nation has suddenly become, all because political and administrative skillfulness in missing. The way political issues and other sundry happenings in Nigeria have been handle by this administration really puts mud on the faces of Nigerians. It is the case of continual falling into one scandal after another, with the most recent one usually being more potent than the previous. Consider the latest in the series of misadventures of an administration void of political dexterity and steeped in error – the invasion of the National Assembly by security men.

While this act has been roundly condemned by people of wit and imagination in the country, the President is yet to see anything wrong with that assault and insult. And why would he? The unfortunate blitz obviously serves hisF purpose. It makes one to wonder whether the President have people who advise him at all. After all, even when a president is not particularly skillful, he still can tap into the skillfulness of brilliant and able souls within the country. With the way things stand at the moment, it is clear that the nation is being ruled by someone with shortage of political and administrative skillfulness, and Christians need to be reminded that God demands skillfulness in leaders that must deliver.

As a function of the above, the important question all Christians, indeed all Nigerians, need to ask before being goaded into voting based on religious or political sentiment is whether we are ready to withstand and stomach another four years of unproductive, completely messy political space dominated by shoddiness, corruption, unresponsiveness and a sense of despair never known to Nigerians since the end of the civil war. The crucial question is whether we are willing to endure President Goodluck Jonathan till 2019!

That idea, that thought alone, for me, is frightening! A president who doesn’t keep his own words, fights dirty, institutes and promotes ethnic racketeering, unable to manage rather commonplace and uncomplicated situations is, undoubtedly, not the person Nigerians need for the next four years of our national life.

Pastor Gabriel Olalekan Popoola, a former University of Port Harcourt Students’ Union Leader, worships with Living Faith Church and can be reached at gabrolap@gmail.com

Hmmmm... Weldone mr pastor. Partisan politics is gradually creeping into the church. Very soon the pulpit would be turned to a campaign podium for political parties.

minister2015:
Jonathan has only onething to campaign with, that he is a christian n therefore xtians should vote him, but people r getting wiser. Insecurity, poverty n social vices affect people irrespective of their religion.

but I have not seen nor heard Jonathan asking Christians to vote for him just because he is a Christian. But if u think otherwise, please give us a link to that effect.

olami234lekan:
If Jonathan can visit IBB for 2nd term endorsement and cannot visit Buhari for advice on how to crush Boko Haram I think their is something wrong with him (Jonathan).
Also have been noticing Jonathan's action since he became president he only cares about himself perhaps the reason being the kind of creation he his and he can't help if or how can you describe his rise to power in which one way or the other somebody gets hurt whenever he's got lucky and I believe there is evil power behind it all. All what Nigerians need now is prayer that God's will for this nation be done. If none of the current sets of politician is not God's will for us He should destroy them Himself and establish His desired government.

Jonathan should visit Buhari for advice? Are u kidding? Are u aware that Buhari is Jonathan's direct political opponent?

Buhari defeated maitasine, Buhari defeated al-qaeda, Buhari defeated taliban, blablablabla.... These are stories for the gods. The nigerian state made Buhari whom he is today and he is duty-bound to contribute his own quota to ensuring the peace and stability of the country that made him. Somebody should please help me ask Buhari these two questions:

(1) as an elder statesman, how many times has Buhari used his skills and experience as a retired army general to advise GEJ on how to tackle Boko haram?

(2) as an elder statesman and a northern leader, what role has Buhari played in trying to bring an end to the Boko haram menace?

Is there any sense in this post?

Amaechi is a liability to Buhari's presidential ambition. The statement was made by Amaechi in his capacity as the DG of Buhari campaign organization and the statement would be taken as the official stand of Buhari and APC on the military and the fight against insurgency. There is nowhere in the world where mutiny is entertained in the military.

Three among the four aspirants for the gubernatorial
primaries under All Progressive Congress APC in
Taraba state have boycott from the venue of the
primaries accusing the party for lack of transparency
in the election process.
Dr. Muhammad Julde, Alhaji M T Tumba and Barr.
Yusufu Akirikwen Thursday boycott the election
complaining that there were irregularities in respect
of the gubernatorial primaries.
Earlier Dr. Muhammed Julde, Alhaji M T Tumba,
Yususfu Akirikwen,and Sen. Aisha Arhasan were
cleared by the party to aspire for the primary election
in the state.
In their formal complaint to the APC Primaries
Committee Taraba state, of which the resident
commissioner of Independent National Electoral
Commission INEC, the state commissioner of police,
the state director SSS the national and zonal
chairmen of the party were copied, the three aspirant
accused the primaries committee of taken side to
one aspirant in the quest to conduct of the primaries.
“It is known to you that we have been cleared and
certified to contest in the APC gubernatorial
primaries scheduled to hold on Thursday the 4th
December 2014 based on this approval by the party”
“we committed ourselves in various ways to see that
we participate as democrats in the primaries. We
further in pursuit of this purpose applied for all the
information necessary for our successful
participation in the process of the primaries”
“It is true that we asked for the list of delegates
accredited by the party for the exercise of electing a
sole candidate from all the aspirants but this request
has not been honored by you the primaries
committee”
“Up to this moment even though you are eager to go
ahead with the process of the primaries regardless of
the fact that our request has been denied”
“Take note that we are ready and also prefer to opt
out of the primaries as our request as
aforementioned has not been met by your
committee”
Akirikwen stated on behave of the other two
aspirants.
The state chairman of the party Hasan Jika Ardo
denied knowledge of the three aspirants boycott
from the primaries.
He said non out of the three aspirants has written to
him that he is not sertisfied
With the with the process.
He said all the aspirants were in his office on the eve
of the primaries including the primaries committee
but non of them complaint of anything “therefore as
far as am concern there is no problem with the
primaries process” the party chairman stated.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/three-gubernatorial-aspirants-boycott-apc-primaries-taraba-state/

Tension appears to be brewing in some towns in
Osun State as aspirants on the platform of the All
Progressives Congress have accused Governor Rauf
Aregbesola of upturning some of the results of the
party’s primaries.
A source close to the party told our correspondent
on Thursday that the governor had allegedly rejected
the results of some areas where his favourites did
not win.
The source said some popular aspirants, who
enjoyed the support of the governor, won but some
of them, who had been accused of lacking grassroots
support, were defeated at the modified primaries
conducted to elect APC candidates.
Another prominent leader of the party, who pleaded
not to be named, told our correspondent on
Thursday that while incumbent Senator, representing
Osun Central Senatorial District at the Senate, Prof.
Sola Adeyeye, won the ticket to go back to the Senate
for the second term.
He said a former state Governor, Isiaka Adeleke, won
in Osun West Senatorial District by defeating Senator
Husain Mustapha while Alhaji Sola Lawal, who is the
Publicity Secretary of the APC in Ogun State, defeated
Senator Jide Omoworare in Ife/Ijesa Senatorial
District.
Lawal was said to have polled 17 votes against three
votes by Omoworare but his victory was said to have
been rejected by the governor, who was said to have
preferred the serving Senator.
The modified primaries which produced Adeleke,
Adeyeye and Lawal, held at the Government House,
Osogbo.
Lawal’s supporters were said to be mobilising to
resist the alleged planned imposition immediately
they heard that the governor met with some party
leaders at the end of the primaries.
The alleged plan to deny Lawal of victory was said to
be causing temper to rise in Ile Ife, which is the base
of the two APC leaders.
Efforts to speak to Omoworare were unsuccessful as
calls put across to his telephone were not answered.
Also, the text sent to him had yet to be responded to
as of the time of filing this report.
The Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy of
the party, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, told our correspondent
on the telephone that the allegation of upturning the
result of the primaries was not correct.
He said, “All this remain in the realm of speculation.
Some people went to town with some names
claiming that they had emerged winners of the
primaries. There is no official result yet; I am not
aware of any result of any senatorial districts and I
am in the position to tell you.
“As I am talking to you, the leaders of the part are
meeting, they are meeting now; so, don’t let some
people use you to cause confusion. We will let the
public know who emerges where when the time
comes.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/osun-senatorial-apc-aspirants-accuse-aregbesola-of-imposition/

And typical of El-Rufai, he would nt bother to confirm the report before rushing to twitter.

The Senator representing Rivers South-East has
expressed anger at the statement made by the
Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Chris Finebone that
the party selected Dakuku Peterside as its
consensus candidate based on Peterside’s integrity.
Senator Abe expressed his anger at the Rivers
South-East Senatorial APC Stakeholders’ meeting
held at Eleme in the state.
Abe said Finebone should be made to apologise to
him and Rivers people, stressing that the APC did
not resolve to choose anybody based on integrity.
While insisting not to leave the party, the Senator
promised to maintain a good relationship with
Dakuku Peterside and assured continued support
and loyalty to Governor Rotimi Amaechi.
He, however, urged his supporters not to leave the
APC but to ensure that the party won massively in
2015.
In the meantime, Senator Magnus Abe looks set to
return to the Upper Chamber of the National
Assembly as his friends and associates purchased
the APC interest and nomination form for him to
contest the 2015 election.
It could be recalled that the APC in Rivers State last
week, endorsed Dakuku Peterside as its consensus
candidate.
http://dailypost.ng/2014/12/02/rivers-2015-senator-abe-seeks-apology-apc/?wt=4

The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, has said the
Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, will never produce
a governor in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital.
The state of over nine million people has
consistently been ruled by the opposition since
the return of democracy to the country in 1999.
The PDP has however intensify its plan to win
over the state from the the All Progressives
Congress in the forthcoming elections.
But speaking as the chief launcher of the
autobiography of the former President of the
Court of Appeal, Mustapha Akanbi, at the
Sheraton Hotel in Abuja on Wednesday, Mr.
Akiolu said Lagos would continue to be under the
ruling All Progressive Congress, APC.
“Recently, I told Bode George, (Musiliu) Koro and
(Adeseye) Ogunlewe that “Look at me o! You will
never win Lagos. God will give us another APC
governor”.
The monarch, who elicited a lot of excitement
from the audience, also stated that he became the
Oba of Lagos through divine intervention and
that he did not spend a dime.
” After I was retired, some justices of the Supreme
court, including Belgore, Uwais and Akanbi came
to me and told me that they intend to go and see
the president, but I told them with due respect
that, that is where God wants me to be.
“One of them, Wali held my hand, and prayed,
saying that within one year, you will see what
God will do in your life, and exactly a year later,
my father, the late Oba, joined his ancestors.
” Governor Tinubu came and said don’t give
anyone any money to be Oba, if it is yours, it will
surely come and that is how I became the Oba,
even though President (Olusegun) Obasanjo was
against me,” the Oba said.
Mr. Obasanjo, who was also seated at the high
table with the monarch, simply laughed.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/171907-pdp-will-never-rule-lagos-rilwan-akiolu-oba-lagos.html

Four members of Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s
cabinet today resigned their appointment with Ogun
state government. The four members acted based
on the directive that any member contesting next
year’s election should quit their office.
Those that announced their resignation today during
the state executive council meeting were two
commissioners, a special adviser and the deputy
Chief of Staff to the governor.
The Commissioners are that of Youths and Sports,
Prince Dr. Lanre Tejuoso, who is contesting for the
Ogun Central Senatorial seat and his Urban and
Physical Planning counterpart, Mr Olugbenga
Otenuga, who is eyeing the Ijebu Central Federal
Constituency seat.
Mr Tunde Sanusi, the special adviser on
Environment, who is contesting for the State House
of Assembly from Obafemi Owode State
Constituency and deputy Chief of Staff to the
governor Alhaji Shuaib Salisu, who is also contesting
for the Ogun Central Senatorial seat.
Governor Amosun thanked the four members for
their loyalty, commitment and support since the
inception of his administration, praying that God
guides them all in their future endeavours.
Among those that have resigned before today is the
Special Adviser to the Governor on Tax, Mr. Abiodun
Akinlade, who is contesting for the
Yewa South/Ipokia Federal Constituency; the Senior
Special Assistant to the governor on Water
Resources, Engr. Waidi Otun, who is vying for the
lower chamber seat to represent the good people of
Ijebu Central Constituency. http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/11/24/2015-election-four-members-of-amosun-cabinet-resign/

Interesting!!!

DIVFAVOR:
This Okupe of a person is just a mad man, Amaechi Said if the election is rigged, so why crying out now, unless you have already finalized all plans to RIG the so called election.

I just they laff in Kenya language............

what is APC's definition of rigging?
We all know that whenever APC loose an election, they will scream the election is rigged. You may go and check their reactions to the governorship elections held in Ondo, anambra and ekiti states. What about the senatorial re-run elections in delta and niger states. They have a history of rejecting election results.

thegreatman4ww:
Thanks you. Call for civil disobedience is not and can never be a treasonable act, because the act in itself is civillian going against or rebel against government and government institutions who by their activities are anti-civilian. It the last opinion in fighting for a state or nation human right. If the government and her agencies are protecting the civilian rights there can never be civil disobedience.
Maybe the presidency needs to check what civil disobedience mean.

forming a parallel government is a treason.

ayukdaboss:
Read their manifesto, its on their website.

. How many nigerians have access to their website? Rather than threatening war, they should embark on house to house campaign and inform nigerians what they have in stock to better their lives if voted in. They may be desperate to win the presidential election but threatening nigerians with war is not the best way to go about it.

Politics is indeed a very dirty game.

I saw the footage of some men jumping the fence of the national assembly complex today. Are they the thugs that invaded the national assembly?

NgeneUkwenu:
If PDP/SSS try anything.funny! This democracy will be buried today!

u will bury the democracy on nairaland?