₦airaland Forum

bruno419:
the traders pay tax to the government

Because they pay tax, they shouldn't clean their sewage themselves....?

ziky2010:
D

Please what are you doing up here..?

If Buhari had won with majority of the votes cast on March 28, am sure that same majority are ready to be patient with him.
It's time for the GEJ apologist to go sit somewhere and wait till 2019. Campaign is over, time for the winner to act!

Aegon:
Truth but he is still a presiding officer in the current administration. The decepticon conveniently ommited that. Was Adeola not informed by partisan sentiments too for failing to accept that Ekweremadu is STILL a presiding officer?

I still wonder what's reasonable in this comment that warrants any sensible person hitting the like button.

People can just fall hand sha... Please what's so special in these ones that would make me want to even be their pupil?
Mtchewwww... Oshisco

It is only a matter of time for the Chicken to come home to roost...

A new Sheriff is sure in town....

Mogidi:
Dogara wins speakership of HOR.

This is huge blow to APC/Buhari but most expecially Tinubu.

Dogara:182
Gbaja:174





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The poster is sure a SaTANoids

APC WINSSSSSSSSSS

barcanista:
Why can't they declare their assets publicly even before inauguration? They had all the time back then. Well, Buhari made a public pledge to declare his asset....Nigerians are waiting

The President has done as the Code of Conduct Bureau required, as enshrined in the Constitution... He never said he would declare "publicly ", he only said, every member of his cabinet would be made to declare their assets. You can prove me wrong with a text of where he said he would "publicly " declare his assets.
Yar'adua only did his at his own prerogative.

If you're interested in what they have declared; the FOI bill has given you the power to do so.

Mr Kashamu, all you need do to stop all this nonsense is to just buy a ticket, fly to JFK airport, dance and snap pictures around the airport then come back to Naija. Lobatan!

senorova:
This is seriously mind blowing.
Blue and black for where?
Someone even said purple!!!

It's white and gold I'm seeing ooo

I want to believe people are just calling different colors aside the "Gold and White" I see because they want to follow the crowd.

christinauju:
OP as long as the feelings stays....I'v got a nigga who's bn hanging on for me for the past 4yrs now and I'm still not convinced about him buh he's still crushing despite the distance....so its up to you.



....If you feel she's worth the time and stressstill stand strong,buh if she's not worth it just check elsewhere jare.

Four years and you're not still convinced ... You wicked o, Na medicine the guy dey read for your life ni? . I pray his feelings for you doesn't become weak when you finally submit your heart to him.

7 billion Naira at work...

emmabowin:
The Ekiti election was clearly won by the PDP and Fayose nor the Pdp need not rig the election. It was clear as daylight that the people of Ekiti wanted Fayose.this of course, is an APC gimmick

Most times what we see as a good movie doesn't just become good... There would have been serious editing to make them look good.

This was what was played out in Ekiti.

I just lost my respect for this so called men of God.

They couldn't even act wisely; even tortoise would have acted much more wiser.

Redeem just lost a member.

8: AJASIN WAS ACQUITTED TWICE BUT STILL DETAINED.

I don’t know how true the assertion is that Ajasin was tried twice and acquitted both times.

9: TAI SOLARIN DETAINED WITHOUT ACCESS TO HIS DRUGS DESPITE COURT RULING IN HIS FAVOUR.

“The late educationist and social critic, Dr. Tai Solarin, was an enigma. He was highly critical of the military authorities. As a result, he was detained in various prisons across the country for his human rights activism right from his first major detention on October 12, 1974 by Yakubu Gowon’s regime to the last one on March 12, 1984 under the draconian Buhari/Idiagbon administration where he spent about 17 months behind the bars”.

“Specifically, due to his criticisms of the successive military administrations, he incurred the wrath of the Buhari/ Idiagbon regime and became a victim of its much-dreaded State Security Detention of Persons Decree No 2 of 1984. He was arrested at his Ikenne country home and incarcerated at Abeokuta Prisons, Ogun State, on March 12, 1984. Like other detainees languishing in custody at the time, his ordeal in the hands of the military junta was validated by a detention order. It was an era when the then Chief of Staff, Brig. Idiagbon, had the power to detain anyone for acts prejudicial to state security. The detention order purportedly signed by Idiagbon for Solarin’s detention, later turned out to be a subject of inquiry at the Lagos High Court.”

10: BISI ONABANJO A KIND OF SAINT WHO DID MANY GOOD PROJECTS, YET BUHARI SENTENCED HIM AND HE SPENT 20 MONTHS IN PRISON. INNOCENT JIM NWOBODO, ETC JAILED FOR 100 TO 600 YEARS.

“LAGOS, Nigeria – A military tribunal issued the first sentence imposed as part of Nigeria’s crack-down on corruption yesterday, ordering a former state governor imprisoned for 22 years for taking a $3.7million kickback. Bisi Onabanjo, former governor of Ogun, was convicted by a military tribunal of taking the kickback for his political faction, the now-defunct Unity Party of Nigeria. The money came from a $37.2million contract with the Bouygues Construction Company of France to build a 19-storey office for the Great Nigeria Insurance Company owned by Ogun, Oyo and Ondo States. Former Govs Bola Ige of Oyo and Adekunle Ajasin of Ondo, were acquitted” – Pittsburg Post Gazette of Jun 1, 1984 –

“London – A special military tribunal has sentenced the former governor of Nigeria’s Anambra state to 21 years in prison for corruption, Lagos radio reports. The radio report monitored last week in London, said Jim Nwobodo was convicted on 12 charges of corruption. Prosecutors said Nwobodo paid $5.1m into what the radio called “ghost accounts”. The radio did not elaborate on the charges. The sentence was issued in Lagos, capital of the West African nation. Nwobodo was the fourth former civilian governor sentenced to prison for corruption under the military regime of Maj Gen Muhammadu Buhari. The military toppled the elected government of President Shehu Shagari in a Dec 31 coup.” – Lakeland Ledger – Aug 3, 1984 –

11: AMBROSE ALLI DID NOT HAVE ANY HOUSE AND WAS POOR YET BUHARI SENT HIM TO JAIL AND HE CAME OUT BLIND AND BDSG HAD TO BUILD A BEFITTING HOUSE FOR HIM FOR HIS BURIAL.

“Even the tribunal could not find him guilty of corruptly enriching himself or any other individual. Rather, he was found guilty of ‘corruptly enriching his political party’ – and, unlike what some think, he didn’t give state funds to the UPN. Rather, a campaign contribution was given to the UPN treasurer in Bendel State by a contractor to the Bendel State Government. Dad accepted that as UPN chairman in the state and the chief executive of the state he was responsible, even though he himself did not personally accept or disburse the money. Dad described the tribunal as a ‘Kangaroo Court,’ which is what it was.” – Daily Independent October 2013

12: OFFICIAL PASSPORT OF AWOLOWO WAS SEIZED AND ONLY RETURNED WITH APOLOGY BY IBB.

The context of the above was that this was done by a military regime in the early eighties before the collapse of the Soviet Union, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and before Malone v United Kingdom (1984), where even in many developed countries, civil liberties were not as developed as they are today.

13: EKWUEME CAME OUT WHITE AS SNOW THOUGH HE WAS IN PRISON FOR 20 MONTHS WITHOUT BEING CHARGED EVEN THOUGH HE WAS ACCUSED OF PETROLEUM AND ABUJA PROJECTS WHILE SHAGARI WAS KEPT IN PRESIDENTIAL VILLA.

“LAGOS, Sunday – Nigeria military ruler Mohammed Buhari was quoted as saying that former Vice President Alex Ekwueme was corruptly involved in government contracts. Major General Buhari who took power on December 31 after overthrowing President Shehu Shagari, has pledged to crack down on corruption and bad economic management. Ekwueme, one of more than 80 former politicians held at a maximum security jail in Lagos, was “consistently involved in contract deals on the new projected capital of Abuja, Petroleum and certain sectors of the economy,” General Buhari said in an interview with the Sunday Concord. General Buhari also said former Transport Minister Umaru Dikko and Adisa Akinloye, chairman of Shagari’s political party, consistently appeared along with Ekwueme in major government contract deals, But he said nothing has been found against Shagari himself. In disclosing the corruption charges, Brigadier Tunde Idiagbon, Chief of Staff in Buhari’s government, implicated the national chairman of Nigeria’s former leading political party in a scheme intended to “siphon away” GBP14m through a secret bank account. In London, the Observer reported that British Aerospace has agreed topay a GBP22m commission on a contract for the sale of 18 Jaguar fighter aircraft to Nigeria, agreed prior to the recent coup.” – The Glasgow Herald – Feb 13, 1984 –

14: AWWAL IBRAHIM WAS ARRESTED WITH GBP14M IN LONDON BUT WAS SHIELDED BY BUHARI.

Awwal Ibrahim was not jailed because he was Buhari’s friend. The truth is that Awwal Ibrahim was convicted of abuse of office and corruption like most of the northern state governors, it was Babangida’s government that commuted his sentence to a ban from holding political office as was done to some of the other political prisoners of the time!

1: PTF WAS AN ALTERNATIVE GOVERNMENT UNDER ABACHA!

The Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund (PTF) was formed In October 1994 by General Sani Abacha after hiking the pump price of petrol from N3.25 to N11.00 per litre, in furtherance of his promise to set up a fund to distribute the gains from the increase in the pump price of fuel on social and infrastructural projects. The board of the fund, led by former Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, was inaugurated in 1995. The fund had an all- encompassing mandate which covered multi-sectoral interventions such as the rehabilitation of roads and waterways, rehabilitation of educational and health institutions, provision of textbooks and stationary items, essential drugs and vaccines, provision of water supply systems, revival of the agricultural sectors, rural electrification projects, telecommunications and food supply sectoral interventions, with an initial capital of N60bn in 1996.

How can an agency with an initial capital of N60bn and spent less than N200bn in itsthree-year life, be an alternative government? Can we say that the SURE-P with a bigger budget is also an ‘alternative government’?

For those already saying that PTF intervention was lopsided in favour of the north, Waziri Adio has presented us with these statistics “It is true that out of the 13,090km roads rehabilitated, 32% in the south and 68% in the north. But that’s half the story. In terms of km, 7.3% of d rehabilitated roads were in SE; 8.5% in SW;16.25 in SS; 21.1% in NW; 23.4% in NE; and 23.5% in NC. But it is also true that the landmass varies among zones and same with degree of difficulty and cost. A look at the cost of roads in different zones and the overall allocation to zones in all PTF projects show a different picture. N77. 2b was committed to roads out of the total of N187b allocated to PTF till May 99.”

“Of the N77.2b to roads, SW got N 9.7 b; SE, N14.5b; SS, N 30. 5b. This means SW got 12.6% of road budget; SE, 18.8%; SS, 39.5%. Of d N77.2b committed to roads, NE got N7.1b; NC, N7. 4b; NW, N7.9b, meaning NE got 9.2%, NC got 9.6% and NW 10.3%. This shows that in terms of cost, the variation btw north and south reversed in favour of d south. Under roads, the south got 70% in terms of amount allocated and the north got 30%. It may sound counter intuitive, but it is also an established fact that road construction costs more in the south than in the north.”

2: BUHARI GOVERNMENT WAS THE FIRST TO SENTENCE A WOMAN TO DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD, THREE WOMEN WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING INCLUDING A DISABLED WOMAN.

Those women were sentenced to death for drug trafficking which at that time in Nigeria carried a capital punishment like it still does in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore! Is this the kind of story we want from Nigeria? Are we satisfied with our people being notorious in various parts of the world as ‘drug mules’?

“The number of Nigerian women on drugs charges in UK jails has risen almost six-fold in three years, figures supplied to the BBC News website show. On 30 June this year, 85 of the 151 Nigerian women in custody in the UK were being held for drugs offences. In 2002 there were just 15 out of 29” – BBC

3: WOLE SOYINKA DESCRIBED BUHARI AS AN “ETHNIC BIGOT” AND WONDERING WHY NIGERIANS CAN STILL CONSIDER BUHARI AKIN TO A “MASTER-SLAVE” RELATIONSHIP.

Is there any Nigerian government that Soyinka has not had problems with? He was sent to Prison by Gowon, he had issues with military Obasanjo, he had issues with Buhari, he also had issues with IBB over June 12, he had issues also with Abacha and had to escape through the NADECO route, he had issues with civilian Obasanjo, he had issues with Yar Adua’s cabal and he recently compared Jonathan to King Nebuchadnezzar.

4: BUHARI WAS TIGHT-LIPPED DURING ABACHA.

Buhari comes from a military background and was working in PTF under Abacha who was also military. And in the military, loyalty is 100%! Buhari I suppose had the choice of either leaving PTF and criticize Abacha later or continue at PTF to do the good work he was doing to improve the lot of the ordinary man! He chose the latter!

5: BUHARI OVERTHREW A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT

The coup was done by Bako, Babangida and Abacha. Buhari was installed as the head of the state as he was the most respected officer at the time.

6: BUHARI’S SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL FULL OF NORTHERNERS, 11 WERE FROM THE NORTH WHILE 5 WERE FROM THE SOUTH. BUHARI’S CABINET WERE FULL OF MUSLIMS

The composition of the Supreme Military Council (SMC) was the way it was because the military was not preoccupied with the inanities we have imposed on ourselves today. We had 19 states at the time, the SMC had 3 officers from Niger State, 2 Officers from Bendel, 2 from Kwara and 2 Kaduna (Buhari included). It is clear that the military at that time did not promote its officers using any quota system (I hope it is still so up till now).

Buhari’s Federal Executive Council had one from each of the 19 states of Nigeria (Nigeria had 19 states at the time) except Bendel and perhaps one other state. Bendel State was compensated by G Longe being appointed as the Head of Service! The powerful portfolios of Finance and Petroleum were held by Dr Soleye and Dr. (or was he a Prof at the time?) Tam David West respectively!

Ta ló mó eleyi ri... E go do am like film trick.

I had a very verbal phone conversation with Niger Delta militant terror leader, Asari Dokubo today.

In the heated conversation that lasted over 20 minutes, the pro-Jonathan militant was non repentant and aggressively supported his campaign for the continued reign of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

I told him that at a time I had respected him (Dokubo) but now he has lost all my respect; asking how much money would make him support a killer leadership. I asked how insensitive he was witnessing how Jonathan’s corruption had undermined the army and how the president’s failures (not complying with the Paris summit agreement to station 700 troops to defend the border) directly led for instance to the death of over 2500 defenseless Nigerians at Baga.

He mentioned Fulani.

I asked what the poor Kanuri fishermen and farmers of Baga had to do with a so-called Fulani thing.

He responded that the killings were in the north and he had no business or care about that. He further cited wars in other places and the example of Libya and the sack of Moammar Gaddafi.

I told him that in those cases there was not an inebriated and cluelessly corrupt government that caused the preventable wars and asked him why then does he support Jonathan who disgraced Africa being the first African leader to support the NATO destruction of Gaddafi and Libya in effect, while great leaders like Jacob Zuma stood behind Libya.

He said something about having trained in Libya and accused General Buhari, chief opposition candidate of receiving funds for his presidential campaign in 2011 from Gaddafi.

I did not understand his point, because I supported Gaddafi and Libya against the colonialist sponsored invasion and have no grouse with Gaddafi.

I insisted; that why will he support a Jonathan who aided the hegemonists destroy North Africa by sacking Gaddafi, now leading to the proliferation of arms and instability in the entire region.

I went on to ask him how much he had been paid and what this money was worth, that it made him sell his soul for a hopeless candidate.

He continued a tirade against the North, the “Gambari’s” and the Yorubas, saying all were traitors and that why am I interested in the Fulani ruling me.

I told him that this conversation had nothing to do with Buhari; that if he wanted he should not support anyone, or should have brought out a responsible candidate from his family, but how does his conscience feel supporting someone who was killing innocent people across the country.

He responded again accusing Yorubas, the group to which I belong, of being traitors and bragging of all the bombs his terror group had detonated across Yoruba land.

I told him that his desperation for a penny had made him betray the true struggle of the Ijaw people; I pointed out that Bayelsa was the most polluted piece of land on the planet with terrible suffering.

He challenged my stats and asked me what I knew about Bayelsa.

I responded that I lived there for a year and that the sky there is still red with burning of natural gas. I told him how oil spillage has destroyed their ecosystem under Jonathan.

He asked how long Jonathan had been there.

I retorted that 6 years was long enough to effect transformation.

He said I lied and that I had never lived in Bayelsa.

I went ahead to describe Bayelsa to him.

He was very angry and continued to curse Yoruba people as traitors who betrayed in the past and threatened that the Yorubas will feel the wrath of the Ijaw.

I told him he was a coward, that if he was not he would have liberated his father’s house and kept the oil under its soil for himself.

He laughed and responded that we (Nigerians) are their slave; that they will support Jonathan to rule till 2019 after which they will then take “their” oil and go.

He said they were just punishing us for now.

I asked him if Jonathan was supervising the Boko Haram pogrom of the north as some sort of “revenge” for Nigeria’s past errors.

I asked him why Goodluck Jonathan had not restructured the country so he can preside over Otueke and leave other people alone and not continue to finance and supervise our suffering and deaths. Telling him about the failure of the national conference when only the Yorubas in attendance and Northerners like the Lamido of Adamawa had asked for their own sovereignty, but his people had failed to make such push and Jonathan had failed to use the avenue of the conference to bring about change.

He asked me why I was not invited to attend it.

I asked where his conscience was and how he felt about the deaths of thousands of innocent people because of the little change he got from the corrupt Jonathan government.

I told him that the money does not pass the fourth generation and that the little money he gets that has made him betray the Kalabari kingdom and great King Amachree and the people of Ijaw land will be finished before he knows it and shame will remain to his name.

He went on a tirade about some stuff I could not really understand. It had to do with killing and bombings and stuff.

I told him he was a coward.

He was very upset throughout the interview. I really wish he pays attention to his blood pressure.

Interestingly, he has a Chief Security Officer, CSO; his CSO named Commander George believes in Nigeria.

Dr. Peregrino Brimah; http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something] Email: drbrimah@ends.ng Twitter: @EveryNigerian

Justbright:
if dis news it true den "papa" should be careful ooooo he

shuldnt meddle in politics or he WL lose his credibility

He should be careful or sensible people should stop worshipping God in his church, if he actually said that.

So, one òdé siddon write all this.

Chai, Nigeria need a urgent repair.

#28,000 to kill....
May God help us!

Who ever liked this stupid analysis of the above stated certificate is as dull as the analyzer.

Accusing GMB of passing Igbo already fault the analysis, If the analyzer was unable to realise the mark were not A1, but special character.

And what concern the date of "issuance " with the date graduation?

How does a recent pics nullify a rè-issuance?

Its a pity how some take there time to confuse Nigerians.

Please my dear youth, get a life and find something better doing.

FrankC3:
Buhari himself filled out WAEC as his qualification on the form submitted with INEC, the law requires that he provide proof of such. The Nigerian Army has done well by releasing all his records in their possession. It is now left for Buhari to go ahead to support his claim of having WASC with a documentary evidence. WAEC has such records dating before 1961.

Naa you and your uncle help am filled am

denko:
And buhari Vehicle is in Waffi freely. we shud be carefuloooo

They are supporters of a PDP faction in the state. Protesting the imposition of the governorship candidate.

onyengbu:
The same multiple registration database that they will cite when they loose election as proof that they were rigged off.
I commend DSS on this one nipping a disaster in the bud, I must say.

APC get ready to form your parallel government but find some other reason to do it not with your bloated members list.


*** and also get ready to get your a-rses ventilated with military AK-47s while you are protesting ***

Òdé le leyi ni... Abeg wetin concern DSS with APC database, are we voting with APC database or with that of INEC.

Only dumb people will applaud their dumbness.

This PDP propaganda can't work.

They should tell us something new/ better, please.

By SaharaReporters

An inaugural meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Southwest was held in Akure on Saturday with the objective of outlining a strategy for winning the 2015 elections in the area, with Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose reiterating the party’s old mantra that the presidential contest is a “do or die” affair. Ayodele Fayose

The returnee-governor said the party must be prepared to use its control of the army and the police, which it currently controls, to ensure victory for President Goodluck Jonathan at next month’s polls.

The meeting was organized by the PDP South-West co-ordinator, Gov. Olusegun Mimiko, who shared the high table with Senitor Iyiola Omisore, Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi, Senator Musilu Obanikoro, Governor Ayo Fayose and various leaders from the zone.

Governor Fayose underlined that the presidential election was critical, advising that the party should forget about governorship elections and concentrate on the presidential contest.  According to him, once President Jonathan was re-elected, everything else would fall into place and the party could declare the governorship candidates of PDP in various States as it likes.

Minutes of the meeting obtained by SaharaReporters shows that some delegates advocated de-emphasizing rallies as campaign strategy, preferring that the PDP should focus on propaganda aimed at tarnishing the image of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari.   Some of the delegates wanted to use the media to dent the image of General Buhari.

In that connection, Senator Omisore expressed support for the extensive use of propaganda against Buhari, joining Governor Fayose in stressing that the all efforts should be mobilized to win the Presidency because the PDP would be nothing without the presidency.

Mr. Fayose disagreed with the propaganda strategy, describing it as a waste of time.  Stressing that attack is the best form of defence, he said that the PDP in general and the South-west PDP should be valiant to face the Tinubus anywhere they are.

He underlined that the PDP cannot afford to lose its control of the police and the army, which it will without Jonathan being the president.

On Fayose’s description of the presidential election as a “do or die” affair, Gov. Mimiko, obviously aware that the outburst could be used against the PDP, countered that it should not be a “do or die” but rather a “do-and-win” affair.

One of the decisions taken by the meeting was to set up a number of committees, including Security, Contacts, Traditional, and INEC.

The committee on Security is saddled with the responsibility of working with the police and the army.  The party leaders also further tasked the students at both the national and regional levels to monitor various institutions and polling booths to make sure that the election goes in favour of President Jonathan.  It was also stated that a national student body had submitted a proposal for a youth conference that will hold in FUTA this month where the South-west students would adopt Jonathan as their presidential candidate.

 

TEXT OF THE MINUTES OF THE INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH WEST
PDP, HELD ON 27TH DECEMBER 2014

The inaugural meeting of the southwest PDP was held in Akure, at the Government House of the State (Ondo State).

The meeting was organized by the PDP South-West co-ordinator, Gov. Olusegun Mimiko. On the high table were Gov. Olusegun Mimiko, Senitor Iyiola Omisore, Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi, Senator Musilu Obanikoro, Governor Ayo Fayose, a governorship aspirant in Oyo State and various leaders from the South-West.

At the beginning of the meeting, the host appealed to all the South-West PDP members and leaders to be united so as for them to be able to gain more votes from the zone. And people were given opportunity to give opinion on how they could get more votes for the presidential election in 2015 and win other positions.

A speaker from Lagos State made a comment that Senator Muslim Obanikoro’s son, Ibrahim Obanikoro, that contested for the position of council chairman in one of the LCDA’s in Lagos State, defeated Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his area but was not given the position. He mentioned that that they had the key in winning Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and that Asiwaju only claims what he cannot do.

And the speaker further said that they needed the support of the Presidency to do so many things in Lagos State, concerning the forth-coming election.

Also, another speaker from Lagos State emphasized on issue of disbursement of funds for the election. He stressed that funds were always late for disbursement for elections, so they wanted early disbursement so that they could deliver.

While another speaker from another state said they were happy for the meeting because it would foster peace among the southwest PDP members and that they could move on easily.

A speaker from Oyo State laid emphasis on use of the media and said the party should go more on the media attack on the opposition party (APC). He mentioned that effective use of the media was the weapon being used by APC. Gov. Mimiko now stated that they made findings of who were the owners of some dailies and that it was discovered that those media outfits did not belong to members of the APC, and thus PDP could equally hijack the media.

A speaker from Osun State that he had told Gov. Mimiko to help them tell the President to use his power and office to quash Ogbeni Aregbesola before the general elections, so that PDP could produce more votes for the President and that the idea of fighting Gov. Aregbesola would be by going to the Court of Appeal which he said could be influenced to remove Aregbesola. So, he urged the honourable leaders of our amiable party to look into the issue of Osun State.

Discussions now moved on to the strategy that would be used for winning the presidential election;
• Delegates present at the meeting discussed more on campaign that they should do less of rallies, instead, they should embark on full campaign with propaganda that would tarnish the image of APC presidential candidate, Gen. Buhari. And part of what should be used use to campaign against Gen. Buhari in Lagos is that he was the one who stopped the Railway metro project of Lagos State 30 years ago, and that instead of Buhari completing the project, he paid the penalty for breaching the contract of the railway metro line project.
• Delegates present laid serious emphasis on using the media to dent the image of the presidential candidate of APC.

Some delegates maintained that the change that the emperor of Bourdillon wanted to change Nig. democracy to totalitarian dictatorship. Members stated that when PDP had no State in the South-west, the President got good votes from the South-west and now that the party has two States, it would be able to win all the other States if the two States in its kitty are well utilised.

Senator Omisore said in his speech that propaganda of any form shoule be utilised and that all efforts should be mobilized to win the Presidency as without the presidency the party is nothing.

In the speech of Mr. Ayo Fayose, he said propaganda would only waste time and that attack is the best from of defence. He maintained that the party in general and the South-west PDP needed to be valiant to face the Tinubus anywhere they are. He further said we have the control of police and the army and “I CAN NOT AFFORD TO LOSE MY CONTROL ON POLICE AND THE ARMY” and without Jonathan being the president we will lose the control. Further, he said the presidential election is a do or die affair but Gov. Mimiko quickly countered that it should not be a do or die affair but rather a do-and-win affair.

Governor Fayose later said they should forget about all governorship elections and concentrate on the presidential election, that once President Jonathan returns, we could be declaring the governorship candidates of PDP in various States as they like, meaning that the Presidential election is very paramount.

As the meeting progressed, leaders at the meeting put Oyo State in focus and maintained that PDP could get more votes for the president there by begging both Chief Alao Akala and Chief Rasheed Ladoja to align their parties with the PDP since they have no presidential aspirant and there is every need to throw out Ajimobi, Amosun with using militant thugs loyal to PDP.

Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi representing Otunba Gbenga Daniel said they PDP on ground in Ijebu side of Ogun State and they were grassrooters and that they could deliver with good resources.

Sen. Musilu Obanikoro in his own speech said 3 days after he lost the PDP primary election, that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to him in private which he said was quite unusual of him. He said Tinubu asked him how much he had spent and that he was ready to give him 2 billion Naira and a senatorial seat from APC in Lagos State. He said he refused the offer and stressed that they could just imagine how smart and clever Asiwaju is. He further stated that Cardinal James Odunmbaku (Baba Eto) was almost at the concluding part of decamping to PDP and that even he had even concluded with the presidency in Aso Rock before Asiwaju hijacked him back with the position of Director-General of Campaign of Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode. He said they could see that Tinubu is the smart type. Senator Obanikoro further said he was the only person that could match Bola Ahmed Tinubu because he said he knew his tactics. He further emphasized that with cash in his hand, Tinubu is nobody.

While Governor Fayose intervened by saying that there was nothing special in Lagos and that he normally visited markets in Lagos every weekend and before the people in the market would recognize him, they would have said so many things in his presence that they won’t know. Govenor Fayose further said he was coming to Lagos to teach people the market approach to sensitizing the people on the need to support PDP and dump APC.

After all this, the communiqué prepared sequel to which the press was allowed entry into the place for a brief coverage before they were dispersed again. At the end, they set up various committees on such areas as:
• SECURITY
• TRADITIONAL
• CONTACTS
• INEC etc.

Committee on contacts will meet important personalities to canvass them, they mention people like Jimoh Ibrahim in Ondo, the Ogun people mentioned Sen. Anthony Adefuye as part of the personalities to be visited, and many other personalities.

Committee on INEC would monitor various INEC commissioners in various south-west states and try as much as possible to lure them with money to compromise in favour of our great party.

Committee on traditional rulers would meet up all Obas in the southwest for consultation on the presidential election and use financial gratification to lure them as many of them really need stomach infrastructure, according to Governor Fayose. Governor Mimiko maintained that many of those Obas are actually hungry and with good amount of money they could get them to support PDP

Committee on security is saddled with the responsibility to work with the police and the army. Leaders of the party further tasked the students at both the National (NANS) and southwest level, state level to monitor various institutions, polling booths and make sure that the election would go in favour of Jonathan. It was also observed that the National body of student (NANS) submitted a proposal for a youth conference that will hold in FUTA in January where the South-west students would adopt Jonathan as their presidential candidate.

Some leaders also talked about APC’s strategy of deploying 10 persons per polling booth and that they were aware of it and stated that all leaders should task themselves to use councilors in all their various booths.

Lastly, the South-west coordinator said the next meeting that would hold in Ibadan which would involve fund-raising for the presidential election from stakeholders of the PDP south-west and the meeting would be used to shake Oyo once again urging that the Governorship aspirant of PDP to be prepared.

The meeting ended with closing prayer from a delegate from Ondo State.

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