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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors’ Forum said it had resolved to adopt political, rather than legal approach, to seek lasting solution to the party’s leadership crisis.

The Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, disclosed this while briefing journalists on the outcome of the forum’s meeting with former President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, late Tuesday night.

Mr. Fayose said that the meeting was at the instance of Mr. Jonathan and that all interests in the party would be represented in the search for the needed solution to the impasse.

“He, Jonathan, is genuinely concerned about what is going on in the party, and he thought that an interactive session with the governors will go a long way to dousing tension.

“We know that there are so many matters before the court but we believe that a political solution will go a long way to solve this matter.

“If we believe in this party, we will all be willing and ready to pursue a political solution, which at the end of the day every interest will be well represented. That is the position of this meeting,” he said.

According to him, irrespective of the matters before the court, political solution is the best.

Mr. Fayose assured all PDP supporters that the governors believed in the party as well in its success, and urged members and the supporters to refrain from making comments that could compound the party’s crisis.

“We want to appeal to everybody to be wary of making statements that could further worsen the situation; we should make complimentary statements that can enhance the party the more.”

He explained that engaging the National Chairman of the party, Ali Sheriff, was part of the political approaches to be adopted in resolving the problems.

In attendance of the meeting were governors of Ekiti, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Taraba, Cross River, Abia, Ebonyi, Gombe and Bayelsa. Rivers was represented by the deputy governor.

The Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt had on February 17 affirmed Mr. Sheriff as the national chairman of the party against a resolution of May, 2016 national convention that sacked the party’s National Working Committee (NWC).

In place of the NWC and National Executive Committee of the party, the convention constituted a National Caretaker Committee headed by Ahmed Makarfi to manage the party and organise an elective national convention.
But, Mr. Sheriff challenged the development in court and got judgment, affirming him as chairman.

The national caretaker committee, the PDP Governors’ Forum and elders, including the Board of Trustees, flayed the judgment of the court and have appealed to Supreme Court.

At least six officers of the Nigerian Peace Corps were seriously injured, with three lying unconscious at the National Hospital, Abuja, after the men of the Nigeria Police and the Department of State Services (DSS) raided the National Headquarters of the Peace Corps.

The National Commandant of the Corps, Amb. (Dr.) Dickson Akoh and 45 other National Officers were also taken into the custody of the DSS.

Also, the National Office of the Corps, which was open yesterday, has been cordoned off by stern looking security officers.

No reason has been given by the DSS and the police, for the raid.

Officers and men of the Peace Corps had barely rounded off the celebration for the official opening of their new National Headquarters, Jabi, Abuja, when the security personnel invaded the arena, around 11.30pm on Tuesday.

The epoch making event, which was broadcasted live on National Television stations, also witnessed the presence of Minister of Sports and Youths Development, Solomon Dalung, members of National Assembly, the Nigerian Police, Customs and other agencies, as well as traditional and religious leaders across the country.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

DavidEsq:
No be crase dey do u so

jahsharon:
And he is among ......

OR

And he's among ........

Before you raise one nyash for APC, raise both nyash for your grammar.

Ngokafor:

The Federal Govern­ment on Monday took serious steps to curb the menace of armed herdsmen who strike at will in various parts of the country, leaving behind trails of pain, anguish and blood.

It warned the marauders who parade themselves as Fu­lani herdsmen that they would no longer be allowed to move about freely with AK-47s and harass law-abiding Nigerians.

In the words of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Devel­opment, Chief Audu Ogbeh, “it is totally wrong for herdsmen to bear arms in Nigeria when their counterparts elsewhere do not carry any arms.”

Ogbeh, who spoke at a town hall meeting organised by the Federal Government in Umua­hia, Abia State, denied that the rampaging herdsmen were sponsored or protected by the Federal Government.

The minister however apol­ogised to victims of herdsmen’s attacks in different parts of the country, declaring that “there is no justification for their barbaric activities which has brought un­told hardships on innocent Ni­gerians.”

Ogbeh responded to ques­tions by participants at the fo­rum who expressed anger over the docility of the government on the atrocities of Fulani herds­men in the country. They ac­cused the government of using the herdsmen to achieve a hid­den agenda.

The town hall meeting was attended by the Minister of In­formation, Lai Mohammed; his Trade and Investment counter­part, Okechukwu Enelama; the Minister for Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige and the Minister of State for Mines and Steel, Abubakar Bawa Bwari.

Ogbeh expressed concern over the threat posed by herds­men to agrarian communities in the country, stressing that the situation portends grave danger to Nigeria’s quest for food secu­rity.

The minister said that the government had set up a com­mittee headed by one Gen. Nze to monitor the movement of herdsmen and stop them from wreaking further havoc on their host communities, especially farmers.

According to him, the “Fed­eral Government is training 3,000 agro rangers’’ to protect farms against destruction by cows. “Herdsmen should not be allowed to carry AK-47 ri­fles in Nigeria because in oth­er countries they bear no arms. The Federal Government is training 3,000 agro rangers to help secure our farms.”

“We need rice to feed the people, not cows. We won’t al­low herdsmen to attack farmers again. I am a farmer, and I have been a victim, and I know how it pains,’’ he said.

The minister, who said that diversification of the economy remained the only viable option out of the current economic re­cession in the country, hinted that government had conclud­ed plans to establish modern co­coa plantations in Abia, Ondo, and Cross River States.

He said that 20 million tonnes of cocoa is targeted from the plantations per an­num, adding that improved co­coa seedlings that yield in two years would be used in the plan­tations.

Ogbeh noted with delight that Nigeria had been recog­nised as the seventh highest pro­ducer of rice in the world and called on the citizens to embrace agriculture instead of looking for white collar jobs.

He said the current admin­istration will set up 100 mills across the country to help in the processing local rice.

Similarly, Ogbe said that 200 palm oil mills would be a set up in oil-producing zones in the next two years to help in oil palm processing.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

farouk0403:
FTC guy calm down this post will not reach Front page, if it does, I will quit nairaland.

iceberryose:
they used your life too?

Funlordmaniac:
Maybe your own face is like renos own be that? Abeg some people smile both men and women....live and learn!

Funlordmaniac:
This reno is one eternally pained otondo! I'm sure even when he _ejaculates when making love to his wife he does it with a frown on his face!

Abeg make govt. Or Ameachi give am small loot to chop!

A former assistant to ex-president, Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri, has described the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi as a “decorated monkey.”

Omokri made the remark in response to attack on his person from the camp of the former Governor of Rivers State.

The ex-Presidential spokesman had claimed that the Minister lied on the figures of $49.8bn he, Amaechi, claimed was pilfered from the national treasury by Jonathan.

Against this backdrop, a media aide to the Minister, David Iyofor, had called Omokri a lunatic.

Reacting to the attack, Omokri in an article sent to DAILY POST said, ”It has been brought to my attention the attack on my person by the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, after I exposed his lies with regards to the figure of $49.8 billion which he claimed former President Goodluck Jonathan pilfered from the national treasury.

“In my response to that false allegation, I stated with facts, figures and dates that not only did Mr. Amaechi lie, but that he is directly to blame for some of the economic challenges facing the nation. Unable to dispute my facts, Amaechi has resorted to insults and abuse on my person. My response is as follows:

“I will never, ever exchange insults with a lowlife. A lowlife with a ministerial position is still a lowlife just as a decorated monkey is still a monkey. Other than holding one government position or the other, Amaechi has never been associated with any private success so he is very insecure when people challenge his unenviable record in government with facts.

“To borrow a line from a hit song, I Reno Omokri, know who God says I am, where he says I am at and what he says I will be. I do not need a government position to maintain my relevance. I was somebody before I went into government, I am somebody after leaving government and by the grace of God, I will forever remain somebody without a government position, so nothing a pot bellied man can say or do to me can ever alter what God has said about me.

“I would rather advise Rotimi Amaechi to respond to the issues I raised, namely that there was no missing ‘$49.8 billion’ and that on September 21, 2012, he called on the Federal Government to share the funds in the Excess Crude Account, and that it was he, Rotimi Amaechi, as Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, that led some state governors to take the Federal Government to court to compel it to share the proceeds from the Excess Crude Account because then President Jonathan insisted on saving the money, a case that they won and therefore it is hypocritical of him to accuse former President Jonathan of not saving for the rainy day.

“I challenge Rotimi Amaechi to separate himself from his government positions and see if he can maintain his relevance. He borrows his relevance from government. He does not add relevance to government. In two years as a minister, the only ‘achievement’ he can boast of is the Abuja-Kaduna railway that was built and completed by the very same Goodluck Jonathan he likes to castigate.

“President Jonathan has been out of office for two years. I am no longer his aide, neither am I on salary, yet I continue to be loyal to him. Can Amaechi say the same of himself? Is he capable of being loyal to anybody or institution without having something to gain? Is that not why his stomach is protruding and potbellied? Because he is only loyal to his stomach! No wonder he admitted spending $500,000 to host Professor Wole Soyinka to a one day dinner. Amaechi epitomizes stomach infrastructure!

“It is this loyalty to stomach only that has placed Amaechi in the awkward position where ALL the living ex-Governors of Rivers state are against him along with the incumbent Governor, Nyesom Wike. A man who cannot command loyalty at home and can’t walk the streets of Port Harcourt without armed guards.

“What Amaechi does not understand is that there is life after government. Whenever President Muhammadu Buhari retires from politics, he will be received with joy by Katsina people. Whenever Bola Tinubu retires, he will be received with arms wide open by Lagos people. But who will receive Amaechi when he retires? Certainly not Rivers people who view him as a serial betrayer of their interests and the interests of his zone. A man who can sell his own mother for a useless government position cannot expect to retire in the motherland. Maybe Amaechi will retire to Daura with Buhari as his domestic servant and in house sycophant for life!

“Has he forgotten so soon how he was publicly disgraced by his colleague, the minister of Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, when he was trying to sabotage the Maritime University at Okerenkoko? While others are attracting development to their zones, Amaechi is subtracting progress from his zone. Thank God for Kachikwu who told him that “We are not going to throw away the baby with bathwater. We deal with the issues but the university will be developed. If he (Amaechi) does not want it in Maritime, I will take it in petroleum”?

“Even if Rotimi Amaechi spends all day insulting me directly or through proxies, it takes absolutely nothing from me. If insults could kill, Donald Trump would be dead, but he is in the White House instead.

“A lizard with an overinflated ego is still a lizard, not an alligator. Rotimi Amaechi may have left his village but his village never left him! That is why he continues to display his inferiority complex by dressing in ill fitting designer clothes bought at huge expense! Alas, he is trying to suppress the memory of when he wore the same clothes for three days. But the man makes the clothes, the clothes don’t make the man. Poverty mentality is his undoing!

“He calls himself lion of Ubima. A lion with a pot belly and that can’t win elections? If he wants to see a real lion he should go to Bourdillon!

“Finally, rather than insult me, Rotimi Amaechi should seek medical attention for his protruding pot belly. Doctors warn that a protruding belly, like his, is a symptom of too much food and too little exercise.

“Obviously, Rotimi Amaechi should focus more on exercising his body and his brain. Unfortunately, he seems to only exercise his mouth by eating too much and talking too much which is why he is prone to frequent verbal and anal diarrhea.

“Reno Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno Omokri.”

Amarabae:
Is that the job he will use to get married and build a family?
A full grown 30+ guy and his job is being an APC social media E-agent.. Nawa o

Amarabae:
the guy must be one of these APC Paid E-agents.
Do you blame him? Thats his source of survival both for feeding and other things.

acenazt:
Would Have Made Sense Only If They Were Less Cowardly

anibi9674:
good one from my prodigal brother from the west.

Amarabae:
if PDP is beyond redemption, why are they making you restless and giving you nightmares?

sarrki:
We thank God baba

Preparing for another farming season

sarrki:
High chief wailer morning