₦airaland Forum

This is horrible news,
Did he not have a visa?
Did he not have a personal physician in the USA/UK/GERMANY/SPAIN?
Is the man not rich enough?
Why did the AD allow this to happen?
Could they not have hired an air ambulance and sent this man abroad?
I feel for the family,
I really feel for the family, I think the AD may have just proved a point, but why use their presidential aspirant?
May the good Lord keep his soul and give his family the courage to bear this irreparable loss

ABUJA, March 29 (Reuters) - A Nigerian presidential candidate died on Thursday, President Olusegun Obasanjo said, casting doubt over whether landmark elections will be held as scheduled next month.

Adebayo Adefarati, 76, candidate of the opposition Alliance for Democracy (AD), died in the southwestern state of Ondo, private radio Ray Power FM reported. The station said Adefarati, who was diabetic, died in hospital.

Obasanjo, speaking at a campaign rally of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the capital Abuja, asked the crowd to observe a minute's silence in memory of Adefarati.

Nigeria's Electoral Act stipulates that elections can be postponed if a candidate dies after the deadline for substituting candidates passes, which is the case now. Obasanjo did not say anything about any postponement.

The constitution obliges Obasanjo to hand over power to a new administration at the end of his second term, on May 29. Any postponement of the polls would have to fit within that timetable.

The Electoral Act says a postponement can only be decided by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Spokesmen for the INEC and the AD were not immediately available to comment. It was not clear if the AD would request a postponement of the elections to allow the party to produce a new candidate.

Nigerians are due to elect their president, state governors and state and national legislators in polls that should mark the first fully democratic transition in Africa's most populous country since independence from Britain in 1960.

The gubernatorial and state assembly elections are scheduled for April 14 while the presidential and National Assembly polls are due to be held on April 21.

News of Adefarati's death comes at a time of heightened tensions in Nigerian politics. Opposition parties have accused Obasanjo of seeking ways to prolong his tenure, which he denies. (Additional reporting by Felix Onuah

It's General Babangida!

Do u think d government would do dt?How stable will b d rate if private investors come in?

Get what? One moment you are talking about not having any need for EFCC as ICPC could do the job and the next minute you are saying the opposite.

I thought you will be nice enough to tell me one innocent person in EFCC net.
I restate my case, I simply don't know why a law abiding Nigerian will want Ribadu gone.

The Action Congress (AC), has warned the chairman of Economic And Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to be mindful of the kind of language he uses on national issues.

The Chairman, publicity committee of AC, Lai Muhammad said in a press release sent to Daily Independent.

Lai said: "We are alarmed and disgusted at the kind of uncouth and dangerous language being employed by the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, to vent his anger at the Senate for having seen through his little game with President Olusegun Obasanjo to mislead Nigerians on the issue of the PTDF ."

Muhammad said it was too bad of Nuhu "to describe the Senate as unserious and threatened that Nigeria will collapse because the bottom has fallen off the charade of an investigation he conducted on the PTDF is not only uncharitable but treasonable."

"What gave Ribadu the audacity to be so contemptuous of a chamber of elected representatives of the people?

What is the source of his self-arrogated power?

"In other climes, a man like Ribadu would have apologised and resigned in shame for wasting public funds on an investigation that could not stand the simple test of fairness, instead of opening his mouth to continuously utter arrant nonsense.

"The truth is that the report of the Senate review committee has shown that it was President Obasanjo who misappropriated PTDF hence he was indicted accordingly, instead of the accusing finger pointed at Vice President Atiku Abubakar by a blatantly partisan EFCC and its puppeteers."

He continued, "it is amazing that Ribadu saw nothing wrong in the hatchet job done by the Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba committee, which could not make a connection between the body of its report and the conclusion it wanted to foist on the Senate."

"The same Ribadu turned the other eye when seven of the nine members of the Ndoma-Egba committee were conveniently given choice plots of land, complete with certificates of occupancy, at the same time they were named into the ad-hoc committee on the PTDF."

what have they achieved so far??/ in a country as corrupt as Nigeria yet there is hardly any high profile arrest you can associate with ICPC. ICPC is simply synonmous with inefficiency

I have said it before, I don't know any individual who has no questions of corruption that has been harassed by EFCC so I simply don't know why any law abiding Nigerian will be worried about EFCC or Ribadu.

FOR the second time in barely one month, another Senate committee has absolved the chairman of Globacom Limited, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr and the Equitorial Trust Bank, ETB, of any complicity in the management of PTDF money placed in ETB.

The Senator Umaru Tsauri-led review committee on the ad hoc committee report on the PTDF, in its recommendations, said there was no link between the agency’s funds placed in ETB and the funding of Globacom. The committee said it was “satisfied that due process was followed” in the manner ETB administered the fund placed with it.

The review committee also sustained all the findings of the Senator Ndoma Egba-led ad hoc committee report on PTDF which had earlier cleared Adenuga, Globacom and the ETB of all speculative charges levelled against them in the EFCC report on PTDF.
The Senate ad-hoc committee had, in clearing Adenuga and Globacom, about three weeks ago, stated that after five months of investigations, it could neither establish any connection between Adenuga and PTDF nor between the fund and Globacom.

The development has proved as false, the claims by the EFCC that Adenuga and his company were involved in the mismanagement of PTDF money. With the verdict, both Adenuga and Globacom were absolved of any wrong doing in the alleged mismanagement of PTDF money. The report also debunked the stand of the EFCC that part of PTDF money was used to pay for the licence fee of Globacom.

The committee said contrary to EFCC report that PTDF money placed with Equitorial Trust Bank (ETB) in which Adenuga has interest, were used to pay for Globacom’s GSM licence, there was no evidence of any lending relationship between ETB and Globacom.
The committee also established that Adenuga is also a shareholder of ETB and that it could not establish any link between PTDF and himself. Both Globacom and Adenuga had consistently maintained their innocence of accusations by EFCC of involvement in the mismanagement of the PTDF money.

I didn't know you could see the faces of users of this forum or is this another claim like the politicians?