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President Muhammadu Buhari may have successfully performed the first of many miracles expected from him by Nigerians. President Buhari.jpg After 40 days and 40 nights (it’s actually 39 days) on the saddle, President Muhammadu Buhari has performed his first miracle: He has conjured a mind-boggling N414 billion out of an otherwise ‘empty treasury’. ‘Bailout’ is the catchword. And now, our errant governors can return to their old habits. There’s now plenty money to spend again. The party can start afresh. Yes, the bazaar is back! A whooping N413.7 billion. Another N250 billion (in the least) coming from the Central Bank, in the form of soft loans. A restructuring of commercial loans amounting to about N660 billion, with the Federal Government set to serve as guarantor for fresh loans that the states may procure from commercial banks. The governors have definitely got back their groove. The spirit of the prodigal is set to return. After nearly six weeks of prevaricating, PMB, who is not usually swayed by public opinion (which also explains why he’s taking his time and ignoring all of us clamouring for him to announce his first cabinet), has finally capitulated to pressure. He has emptied our excess crude account (which Goodluck Jonathan was supposed to have cleaned out, by the way) and shaken out every dime inside the purse containing our LNG proceeds. And like the PDP before it, the APC is now set to “share the money”! The only difference now is that everything has been put on the table for sharing – unlike before, when they only brought a fraction to the sharing- table, while the larger chunk remained under the table, from whence it vanished into private pockets. Of course everyone, saint and sinners alike, is getting a cut. It is to cushion the effect of 16 years of PDP’s mismanagement, especially in the last two years. A monumental mismanagement that has left the country and its economy prostrate.

I have read people refer to President Buhari as “clueless”- and suchlike adjectives of disesteem suggesting cognitive incapacity - for his recent reference to
German Chancellor Angela Merkel as “President Michelle of West Germany.” That is ignorant. And I will explain why shortly.
There are many things to criticise about President Buhari, but cluelessness isn’t one of them. His thought-processes are clearly complex, sophisticated, and high-
level. If in doubt, get hold of any of his off-the cuff remarks; go beyond the distractions of his accent, and you will see a man whose intellect is deep and whose
understanding of governance and world politics is admirably advanced. I have interviewed him twice - first when I was a journalist in Nigeria and later from here
in the US for the Nigerian Village Square website in 2010.
You’re probably wondering where I am going with this. How could someone call Germany ‘West Germany,’ mangle its president’s name and official title, and I not only say he
isn’t clueless but insist he is, in fact, intellectually deep?
OK, let me start by saying I am not some viscerally one-dimensional, unreflective Buhari apologist who is wedded to what I call the misguided philosophy of Buharist inerrancy,
that is, the wrongheaded idea that Buhari can’t ever be wrong. Buhari is only human who is liable to errors and lapses of judgment. Many of us who criticised him, and will
criticise him in the future, do so not because we are better but because, as the saying goes, the onlookers, not the participants, see most of the game.
Now, when Buhari called German Chancellor Merkel “President Michelle of West Germany,” he was merely suffering from what Americans call a “senior moment,” which is the
momentary lapse in memory occasioned by old age. As psychologists know only too well, as we age, the speed with which we retrieve information from our cognitive reservoir
slows. Age-related memory lapses, experts tell us can start as early as the late 30s and get worse as we get older.
Nobel Prize-winning neurobiologist Eric Kandel and his colleagues published a well-received study in 2013 in the Journal of Science Translational Medicine where they, among
other things, reveal that a “memory gene” in us appears to get weaker as our brain ages, causing us to forget easily, mix things up, and be unable to easily recall information
stored in our memory banks.
Buhari is not the only president who contends with age-related memory impairment. The late President Ronald Regan, America’s oldest president, who was elected at nearly 70
years in his first term, was famous for his bewildering senior moments. I will give only a few examples. Sometime in 1984, when he was 73 years old, during a meeting with
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, according to TIME magazine < http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0 ,9171,951325-3,00.html>, President Reagan
constantly referred to his own Vice President, George Bush, Sr. (father of George W. Bush), as “Prime Minister Bush.” (Remember Buhari’s reference to Vice President Osinbajo
as “Osunbade” during a campaign rally in Owerri?)
And, according to Tom Friedman’s 2006 book titled You Are Not Alone: 1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments: Of Which We Could Remember Only 246 < https://
books.google.com/books?id=-l0-QJkwNRMC&printsec=frontcover> , “President Ronald Reagan’s senior moments were legendary. He often forgot what foreign country he was
in or the name of the dignitary he was meeting. When he visited Brazil, he referred to it as Bolivia. He greeted Princess Diana as ‘Princess David;’ at a conference of mayors once
introduced himself to Samuel Pierce, the only African-American member of his cabinet, who he thought was the mayor of some American city; and called President Samuel Doe
of Liberia ‘Chairman Doe.’” (p. 85).
Have you seen any similarities yet? Well, another US president, Richard Nixon, had a senior moment when he went to France in 1974 to attend the funeral of French president
Georges Pompidou. Nixon had a lapse of memory and totally forgot why he was in France, so he said: “This is a great day for France!”
There will be many more age-related memory lapses from President Buhari. Get used to it. It’s no big deal. It’s part of the normal process of aging, and has no impact
whatsoever on cognitive ability or performance. In spite of his notoriety for embarrassing “senior moments,” President Reagan has often been ranked as one of America’s
greatest presidents. In fact, a February 2011 Gallup poll placed him ’as Americas greatest president < http://www.gallup.com/poll/146183/americans-say-reagan-greatest-
president.aspx> of all time - ahead of Abraham Lincoln.
Like Buhari, Reagan lost in a past presidential election, but went ahead to defeat a younger incumbent in 1980. He won re-election at nearly 74 years with the biggest Electoral
College victory in American history. When he left office in 1989, Reagan had an approval rating of 68 percent, which is the highest rating for a departing president in America’s
modern history. Only Franklin D. Roosevelt and Bill Clinton rival this feat.
I am not implying that Buhari will be a Nigerian Ronald Reagan, but his age-induced cognitive impairments and slips should not cause us to dismiss him. When he recently said
to Nigerians in South Africa < http://saharareporters.com/2015/06/17/old-age-will-limit-my-performance-%E2%80%93buhari> : “I wish I became Head of State when I was a
governor, just a few years as a young man. Now at 72, there is a limit to what I can do,” he was referring to the inevitable impediments that age imposes on people. But senior
moments don’t impair performance if the will to succeed is there, as the example of Ronald Regan clearly shows.
Although I think it’s ignorant to hold up Buhari’s senior moments as evidence of cluelessness, it’s fair game to poke fun at them. That’s the nature of democracy. Even Reagan
laughed at the humour his senior moments actuated. I hope Buhari - and his legion of zealous, humourless supporters - will learn to laugh at his senior moment jokes.

Source: http://dailytrust.com.ng/weekly/index.php/notes-from-atlanta/20827-criticising-buhari-over-president-michelle-of-west-germany-gaffe-is-ignorant

The Kaduna State governor-elect, Mallam Nasir
El-Rufai, said yesterday that those who have
been elected to public offices must work for the
people or be voted out in 2019.
El-Rufai, who spoke with journalists in an
interview in Kaduna shortly after receiving the
report of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
transition committee, noted that before now,
Nigerians thought that it was impossible to
defeat an incumbent government.
According to him, the defeat of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in the general election
had proved that once elections are free and
fair and the vote counts anyone can be
removed from government whether
incumbent or otherwise.
“The message I have been passing to my
colleagues in politics is that, now we all know
that we must either work or be voted out in
four years and there is no alternative, you must
work in the interest of the people.
“Here in Kaduna, my partner and I, the deputy
governor-elect will work as hard as we can to
deliver true development and progress in the
lives of our people and if we fail in four years
we will be voted out and others will be voted in.
So it is a good thing and that is how it should
be,” el-Rufai said.
He said the report of the transition committee
was the beginning of efforts aimed at
understanding the government and to see what
has been left behind and to see some more.
He restated his determination to run a
responsible and transparent government that
will account for every penny that accrued to the
state, adding that anyone who had stolen the
state’s resources would be asked to politely
return it or face necessary action.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/el-rufai-we-must-work-for-the-people-or-be-voted-out-in-2019/210377/

Less than 10 days to the inauguration of his
administration, the President-elect,
Muhammadu Buhari, may have made his first
official appointment by naming the Managing
Director and Editor-in-Chief of The Sun
newspapers, Mr. Femi Adesina, as his Special
Adviser (SA) on Media and Publicity.
Adesina's appointment, though yet to be
formally announced, is said to have been
concluded but merely waiting for some
formality before the official announcement.
Already, the management of The Sun
Newspaper, it was gathered, is concluding plans
to re-organise its management structure
following Adesina's impending departure.
Adesina was recently re-elected as the
President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE)
for another term of two years.
The NGE president was returned unopposed at
the 2015 bi-ennial convention of the Guild
which held in Lagos by his colleagues, most of
whom described his tenure as the “best the
Guild has ever had.”
With his new appointment, Adesina also
becomes the second person to be so appointed
while serving as the president of the Guild of
Editors. The first person was the late Mrs. Remi
Oyo, who was the SA, Media and Publicity to
former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
A prolific writer and tested journalist, Adesina
started his career at the Vanguard Newspapers
as a features writer before later moving to the
defunct National Concord Newspapers. He is a
pioneer staff of The Sun newspaper where he
became the editor, and later the managing
director and editor-in-chief, a position he will
be quitting for the new assignment.
As the president, Guild of Editors, Adesina
fought for the rights and protection of
journalists at every event or fora. In one of
such events was a lecture organised by the
Bank of Industry (BoI) where he advised the
bank to find ways of encouraging media
practitioners by giving them loans for the
purpose of establishing businesses after
retirement, pointing out that the media
industry cannot afford to have more ‘veteran’
journalists.
Adesina in his presentation at the event titled:
‘‘The Media and BOI: Working Together’’
admonished Bol to patronise media houses,
saying that they are not charitable
organisations.
‘‘When you therefore have businesses,
patronise them. If they are good enough for
your press releases and other editorial items,
they must also be good enough for your
advertisements. Build a mutually rewarding
relationship, including rendering investment
support, as the journalists may require," he
said.
A seasoned and renowned journalist with over
28 years of experience in the industry, Adesina
took The Sun to a new height. Under his
leadership, the newspaper won several
reputable awards.
In 2007, he was named the Editor of the Year
by the Nigeria Media Merit Award.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/buhari-appoints-femi-adesina-special-adviser-on-media-and-publicity/209785/

The fire at the federal secretariat in Abuja
has been extinguished.
But the vicinity of the complex remains in
pandemonium, our correspondents say.
A spokesperson for the Federal Fire Service
said his agency received alert on the
incident 30 minutes after the fire started.
He said there was no casualty in the incident
but that his agency was yet to establish the
cause of the fire.
Read our earlier report on the incidence
below:
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The complex housing major government
offices in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, is on fire.
A PREMIUM TIMES reporter at the scene
said the fire started from the section of the
complex occupied by the Federal Ministry of
Education and fire fighters are battling to
save the inferno from spreading to
adjourning buildings.
The fire, witnesses said, began at the sixth
floor of the building and is believed to have
affected the seventh and eighth floors.
The cause of the fire is unknown at this
time, but thick smoke, billowing into the sky,
has engulfed the building and surrounding
ones.
Workers in the building were seen
scampering for safety while a number of
staff and visitors are believed to be trapped
in the complex.
Our correspondents say fire fighters have
arrived the scene and are battling to put out
the fire.
The firemen are however said to be
scrambling for ladders to climb up to the top
floors where the fire began.
Some workers at the complex said the fire
equipments at the building were not
functional, hampering efforts to extinguish
the fire.
“All the fire extinguishers in the building
have expired,” one official said. “That could
have been used to extinguish the fire at it
first started. But they didn’t work.”

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/182942-update-fire-at-nigerian-govt-federal-secretariat-contained.html

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A shocking video recorded for PREMIUM TIMES in Polling Units 009, 010 and 011 at Oniong West Ward 1, Onna Local Government Area of
Akwa Ibom State, has exposed an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission colluding with supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party in the area to rig the presidential and national assembly election in favour of the party. The ugly incident happened in the village square – Ikot Eko Ibon village – within the full
glare of the villagers. Former Secretary to the Federal Government, Obong Ufot Ekaette and wife, Eme Ekaette, a former senator, are from the
area. But they did not show up for voting on Saturday. Some of those who spoke to PREMIUM
TIMES in the area said the Ekaettes may have stayed away from voting because of their
disappointment with the PDP and Governor Godswill Akpabio’s leadership style. INEC officials were through with voters’ accreditation as
early as 1:30PM in the three units, but refused to commence voting until some PDP chieftains
arrived around 4pm. The PDP chieftains, who apparently were working in agreement with the INEC officials in the units, immediately ordered all the voters to move away from the polling centre.
In the midst of the confusion that ensued, gunshot was fired within the polling centre, prompting the voters who were
mostly old men and women
from the village to run away to
safety.
The PDP supporters then had a
field day thumb-printing ballot
papers, under the supervision of
INEC officials.
Security officials were not deployed in the
three units. It is unclear if it is deliberate to
allow the PDP supporters execute their plans
without molestation.
One of the INEC officials in the units told
PREMIUM TIMES he and his colleagues were
under pressure from their ‘boss’ to assist the
PDP win the elections, but didn’t however
explain who the boss was.
The PDP governorship candidate, Udom
Emmanuel, is from Onna Local Government
Area where the rigging captured on the
video took place.
In other parts of Akwa Ibom state, especially
in areas considered as APC strongholds,
there were reported cases of non-
availability of election result sheets at the
polling units.
The APC governorship candidate, Umana
Umana objected to INEC accreditation and
election taking place in his ward at Ndiya,
Nsit Ubium Local Government Area, because
election result sheets were not available.
The Akwa Ibom state chapter of the APC has
petitioned INEC chairman, Attahiru Jega,
calling for fresh election in the state.
On Monday, the APC governorship
candidate led a peaceful protest to INEC
office in Uyo calling for the cancellation of
the poll, describing it as a farce.
The protesters stormed the INEC office while
the collation of the presidential election
result was going on.
Mr. Umana said the party would not accept
the results of Saturday’s elections held in the
state.
He said the party, after a review of field
reports on the elections across the state, had
come to the conclusion that the elections be
cancelled. The People’s Democratic Movement’s
candidate for the House of Representatives
(Ikot Ekpene Federal Constituency), Anny
Asikpo, has made similar allegation of
election result sheets not being available
during the election.
“We have 365 polling units, but as I speak to
you I have not seen nor know how the result
sheets for yesterday’s election look like
because everything was carted away by the
PDP to an unknown destination. There was
no election in Ikot Ekpene Senatorial
District,” Dr. Asikpo told a local radio station
in Akwa Ibom State, Planet FM, on
telephone during a live phone-in
programme on Sunday.

Watch Video via this link


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8SdHmeqGfo&feature=youtube_gdata_player


Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/180239-nigeriadecides-video-exposes-inec-officials-colluding-with-pdp-to-rig-elections.html

President Barack Obama and his cabinet
watching Nigerian Presidential election results

The All Progressive Congress (APC) has issued an alert alleging that the Department
of State Security Services (DSS) is detaining one Alhaji Sani Musa the supplier of the
Permanent Voters Card (PVC) to be used by Independent Electoral Commission
(INEC) in the general elections.
The APC statement claims Sani Musa is being tortured by the DSS to release the PVC’s
security codes.
When contacted to confirm if Alhaji Sani Musa is in DSS custody, the spokesperson
for the DSS Marilyn Ogar said: “I will not mention names of people. We have been
mandated to do our job and that we will do.”
She added that: “It is election period and people cannot stop us from doing our job.
We are not politicians, we will not be dragged into political issues.”
Alhaji Sani Musa, who is the owner of ACT Technologies, the company that
manufactured and supplied the PVCs to INEC, is now under unlawful detention in
DSS dungeons, the APC said.
The alert noted “This is very alarming development for a lot of reasons. ACT
Technologies is a reputable, well established, Nigerian company based in Abuja.
Between 2013 and 2014, INEC paid the company the sum of N2.6 billion to
manufacture the PVCs with very high security specifications.
“Among the security specifications is a robust encryption system that could not be
easily broken. Now the DSS wants the security codes to the PVCs encryption system!
The entire forthcoming general elections are under threat if the DSS were to obtain
these security codes,” the APC added.
They called on well meaning Nigerians to register their revulsion at this treasonable
move by the DSS, by writing letters, calling, texting, or emailing the EU Elections
Monitors based in Abuja.
“Ask the EU Monitors to put pressure on the government to release Alhaji Sani Musa
immediately,” APC demanded.

Source http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/news/50516-dss-detains-pvc-supplier-demands-encryption-code-apc

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Source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/03/22/controversy-allegations-“shady-deals”-rock-nigeria-election-debate-group

The Nigeria Election Debate Group, NEDG, has
organised presidential and vice presidential
debates since 1999, but fresh claims have
emerged questioning the independence and
partisan nature of the group.
The debates, the final lap of the series of
debates organised by the NEDG, is holding on
March 22, according to the organisers.
But there have been allegations that the group
is actually a one-man show run by Raymond
Dokpesi, the Chairman of DAAR
Communications Limited (owners of Africa
Independent Television, AIT), who uses it as a
bargaining tool for private gains and political
advantage.
When it was incorporated in 2011, the NEDG
listed six organisations as shareholders, each
with a representative.
They include Broadcasting Organisation of
Nigeria, BON, represented by Abubakar Aji;
DAAR Communications, represented by Tony
Akiotu; Nigeria Union of Journalists,
represented by Mohammed Garba; Alliance for
Credible Election represented by Emma Ezeazu;
Nigeria Guild of Editors, represented by Gbenga
Adefaye; and Transition Monitoring Group,
TMG, represented by Moshood Erubami.
At a press conference on Friday in Lagos, a
pressure group, Value and Integrity Group,
accused Mr. Dokpesi of having turned the
NEDG into a private estate put at the service of
President Goodluck Jonathan and his Peoples
Democratic Party.
“Our investigation reveals as follows: First, a
First Bank account was opened for the NEDG
and had Dr. Dokpesi as the sole signatory,
though he is not listed as one of the Directors,”
the group said in a statement signed by Sina
Odugbemi and Popoola Ajayi, Coordinator and
Secretary respectively.
“He also used the DAAR communications office
address, a personal address as the address
listed in the bank account documentation.
These two moves effectively turned the NEDG
into Dokpesi’s private company.”
According to the group, an initial N1 million
was paid into the said NEDG account, and on
March 28th, 2011, another N20 million was
paid into his (Mr. Dokpesi’s) personal account.
“The N20m was paid into his personal current
account number 2017171535 because the
NEDG account opening was in process then
hence he received the N20m in his personal
current account instead of NEDG,” the group
said.
“A text message from Dokpesi to the banker
confirms this. The text message reads – ‘He
sent about N20 million to the account since last
week and I utilised about N50 million for the
NEDG DEBATE. As soon as the sponsors pay, I
will pay in.daar'”
The group, brandishing copies of Mr. Dokpesi’s
bank account opening documents and NEDG’s
certificate of registration at the Corporate
Affairs Commission (CAC), also said that Mr.
Dokpesi tried to open another First Bank
account in 2012.
“The First Bank account was opened by Dokpesi
at the Maitama branch of the First Bank in
Abuja with account number 2021069251 with
Chief Raymond Dokpesi as sole signatory to the
account with the help of his aide banker.
“The second account which Dokpesi equally
instructed the banker to open in the Bwari
branch of the First bank is pending to be
opened because the banker left. However,
before then, Dokpesi in fact signed the
application forms, attached his passport photos
entered his personal details in 2012. The
account was yet to be approved before one of
the manager handling it was eased out of the
bank.”
‘Sole organiser’
The NEDG began organising election
presidential debates in 1999 and describes itself
as a coalition of broadcast organisations, civil
societies and professional groups committed to
entrenching enduring democratic cultures
through organised television debates.
“The Nigerian Elections Debate Group has since
transformed into a broad based non-partisan,
non-profit making organisation with the
primary mandate of organising and hosting live
televised debates for all Presidential, Vice
Presidential and Gubernatorial candidates in
Nigeria,” the NEDG stated on its website.
But in their press briefing on Friday, the Value
and Integrity Group described the NEDG as the
non-profit wing of DAAR Communications,
available to do the bidding of the ruling party
and which had kept other NEDG directors in the
dark about their financial transactions.
“An Organisation on the board of the Group,
Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), had last
year dissociated itself from the planned
Presidential debate. TMG accused the
organisers of the debate of fraudulently using
its name in the promotion of the event and
warned NEDG to desist from such shenanigan
forthwith.
“Chief Dokpesi’s name does not reflect in the
NEDG registration documents from the CAC
only that of DAAR representative, Tony Akiotu.
But Chief Dokpesi has opened the account in
his name and went ahead to single handedly
organise the 2011 election debate with AIT
staff – Imoni Amarere and Nancy Ilo as
moderators.
“Again, he is accused to be the sole organiser
of the 2015 presidential election debate for the
NEDG which has generated unpleasant
credibility crisis for the NEDG.
“It is alleged that for the 2015 debate, well over
250 million has been paid to the organisers by
the Presidency.
“Unfortunately, the refusal of the leading
opposition to attend the integrity deficit
presidential debate, AIT has chosen to
unprofessionally attack and even defame both
the candidate and the party.”
In January, the All Progressives Congress said it
would not participate in the presidential debate
organised by the NEDG, accusing the organisers
of bias and “wearing the toga of government
control, especially being composed mainly of
agencies and allies of the incumbent PDP
administration”.
The parties involved
When PREMIUM TIMES contacted Mr. Erubami,
who was the Chairman of TMG when NEDG
was incorporated, he said issues like that did
not arise during his time at the helm of the civil
society organisation.
“I only know to the extent of the time I was
chairman of Transition Monitoring Group, but I
have completed my time and I’m now at
Ibadan, I don’t know anything about the group
again,” Mr. Erubami said.
“If you want to confirm the veracity of what
has happened you can contact the current
chairman in Abuja.”
Ibrahim Zikirullahi, the current Chairman of
TMG, was more forceful in his response,
accusing the NEDG of lacking integrity and
being involved in ‘shady deals.'”
“While I cannot authoritatively say whether
Dokpesi is the only sole signatory, I will also say
that the claims (of the Value and Integrity
Group) are not far from the fact,” Mr.
Zikirullahi said.
“I became chairman of Transition Monitoring
Group in July 2012, till date, nobody informed
me that TMG is a member of the Nigeria
Election Debate Group, neither my predecessor
nor those that are holding fort at the Nigeria
Election Debate Group.
“Between 2012 and now, there was no meeting
that was called upon which to deliberate on
any issue regarding Nigeria Election Debate
Group until now when I saw our name being
floated in the media that we are one of the
organisers of the presidential debate.”
Mr. Zikirullahi accused the NEDG of using
TMG’s name to send out proposals to foreign
donors seeking support for the presidential
debate.
“So as far as I’m concerned, I don’t know
anything about the debate. No phone call has
been made to me or to any of my officers, no
written invitation, and there is no meeting
between us in which we agree on the mode
and scope of the debate,” he said.
“So for me I cannot allow them to be using our
corporate identity. It was on that strength that
I wrote to them asking them to stop forthwith
using our corporate identity.”
Mr. Zikirullahi said that he had it “in good
record” that the NEDG had already collected
billions of naira from a political party.
He declined to name the party.
“Yet, to make it credible they are just sending
out proposals to donor agencies, and those
donor agencies we have a very good
relationship with them. And before they do
anything that they see our name they need to
verify from us.
“And it was on that stretch we got to know the
extent to which they have gone to. If not they
should mention the source of their funding,”
said Mr. Zikirullahi.
“A lot of shady things they are doing that is not
known to the public, and I said under my
regime we cannot be part of that hidden
agenda. It’s better they come out open let us
know the direction they are going, let us know
the source of their funding?
“Who is running the secretariat? How is the
board being appointed? From 2011 till now
there is no meeting that has been called. So it’s
just a one man show, I can agree especially, it
is a product of AIT and Dokpesi and so for us
you have to count us out at any time we are
not part of it.”
‘It’s not true’
Eddie Emessiri, NEDG’s Executive Secretary,
dismissed all the claims, accusing Mr. Zikirullahi
of dabbling into partisan politics.
“High Chief Raymond Dokpesi has no hand (in
NEDG), or let me put it better, High Chief
Raymond Dokpesi was even the founder of this
whole thing because he started election debate
in 1999,” Mr. Emessiri said.
“By the time NEDG was formed, a group of
organisations now decided to get this thing
over, and he handed the management over to
Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, BON.”
Mr. Emessiri explained that the chairman of
BON at any particular time was the Chairman
of the Board of Trustees of the NEDG.
According to him, the headship of BON is
rotated between the three federal government-
owned media of Nigeria Television Authority,
NTA; Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria,
FRCN; and Voice of Nigeria, VON.
The current head of NEDG, Sola Omale, is the
Director-General of NTA.
Before him were Taiwo Alimi of VON and
Abubakar Jijiwa of FRCN.
“The only thing Raymond Dokpesi does, or used
to do, or even now is simply we contact him
and tell him please we need airtime, we want
to do this, and he’ll just give his final approval,
ask his Group General Manager, Tony Akiotu, to
give us every support that we require,” said Mr.
Emessiri.
“And that is why they have given us airtime to
carry everything, all their stations anywhere
they are we want to advertise anything. And
they are the hub of the production.
“Raymond Dokpesi does not even attend our
meetings. How then can they say Raymond
Dokpesi is the person who directs NEDG.”
Mr. Emessiri denied claims that Mr. Dokpesi
was a signatory to NEDG’s bank account.
“I am the Executive Secretary of the
organisation, I manage the bank account and
the bank account is Zenith bank. Come to
Zenith Bank, Area 7, Abuja, and find out. That
is the only account that we have,” he said.
“The First Bank account was the account that
they ran many many years ago and we don’t
use that anymore. It was at the very beginning
when Raymond Dokpesi founded the
organisation, even before 2003. We never used
that in 2007, we never used that in 2011, not to
talk of now.
“We moved over to Zenith Bank when the
chairmanship of the organisation went to VON.
And VON also has account in Zenith bank, that
particular branch.”
Mr. Emessiri insisted that the NEDG had been
having meetings, adding that TMG was part of
the group but he doesn’t know “what got into
the head” of Mr. Zikirullahi, its current
chairman.
“He didn’t look through the books he had to
know that the former chairmen of TMG were
full time members of NEDG and present in
every of our meetings. This man has taken over,
because he has a bent on politics he started
criticising.”
PREMIUM TIMES also contacted Mr. Dokpesi,
who vehemently denied all the claims,
particularly the allegation that he collected
billions from a political party on behalf of
NEDG.
“Which politician ever gave me money? Which
politician ever gave me money?” he asked.
When told that some newspapers had already
run the story on how he was using the NEDG as
a private estate, Mr. Dokpesi said he had not
seen the publication yet.
“I’m in Edo North at this point in time. Election
is next week, I’m busy in my senatorial district
so I do not know what you are talking about,”
Mr. Dokpesi said.
“But you say there is a publication, they can
publish anything they want. Before they invited
you to a press conference I’m sure they already
had what their considerations are.
“NEDG is a group that started the debate in
1999. DAAR Communications and I have
always wanted a debate in Nigeria since 1999.
Almost single-handedly, it is part of our
budget.
“In 1999 when we held the debate in Lagos all
the media people (that) are existing how did
they contribute? When we held in 2003 was it
not the same DAAR Communications that
funded it? When they held in 2007 was it not
DAAR Communications that supported It?
When they did in 2007, did they not see It?
“Why is this one the particular one that is now
an issue?”
Asked if he carried other board members along
in NEDG’s activities, Mr. Dokpesi responded,
“What do you mean whether I carry? Who do I
have to carry? Mr. Gentleman, understand that
there is a chairman, NEDG, in the person of
Aremu Taiwo Alimi. There is a chairman Board
of Trustees of the NEDG, that was Jijiwa but it’s
now DG of NTA. They have their Board of
Trustees, what is my role in It?
“I have no problem. I know that…. Who are
these Integrity Group? Who are they made up?
Mr. Dokpesi also denied the claims that he
single-handedly ran the account of the NEDG.
“So why don’t you find out, they have an
Executive Secretary of NEDG, whether I know
anything about the account?
“I have no apologies. I can understand. I’ve
told you I’m in Edo north at this present time.
“Whatever is the issue it is good, if the fear of
Raymond Dokpesi is the beginning of wisdom
now, may God Almighty help Nigeria.”

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