₦airaland Forum

deolu2000:
I get your point, but if they unite for their greedy purpose, why can't our supposed saint parties unite and forge a strong front as well for a sincere course? if it takes learning from the wrong and doing things better, then it is worth it. But my concern and disappointment is that our fresh air platforms are threading the same paths we detest.

well now that you know this , where do you stand ? who will you vote for on that day? have you done your research to arrive that all the "fresh air platforms" are threading the same parts ? how do you intend to be a problem solver in this issue ?

mechanics:
Nawa o, am really surprised o.

even the B.O.T are firmly behind Fela Durotoye

saintjimos:
and I ask


IS A POLITICAL PARTY NOT FOR POLITICIANS ?







GOD help us

That is why ANN is the difference, we are technocrats ....Politicians are liars and cheaters

Disclaimer!

It has come to my knowledge that there is a document being circulated as the report of a purported national convention of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), held at Ibeto Hotel on 3rd October 2018 with my name in it as a member of the new Board of Trustees (BOT) established by the so-called convention. I want to categorically state that I DID NOT attend the so-called convention and I AM NOT a party to any decisions made there. I see the inclusion of my name in the report being circulated as a deliberate attempt to mislead people into believing that I was part of it.Those who have chosen to walk the path of ignominy should be bold enough to choose from only amongst themselves.

The ANN Board of Trustees in its meeting of 27th September 2018 resolved that the Presidential Primaries scheduled for 29th September as approved by the party’s National Working Committee (NEC), should hold. I and many other ANN BOT and founding members fully participated in that convention which was supervised by 4 INEC monitors officially sent by INEC. This convention is well documented with the names and faces of delegates and participants. The convention produced Mr Fela Durotye as the ANN Presidential Candidate.

To set the records straight, ANN has 10 founding members who first met at the instance of Prince Adebola Adekoya to discuss and chart a course for a New Nigeria. Through several meetings, we coined the party name, adopted a logo, documented our vision and early guiding principles and appointed interim national executives. I am one of the 10 founding members, a member of the Board of Trustees and currently the BOT Chairman. All current members of the BOT are properly documented, and the records are also with INEC. The interim national working committee (NWC) was replaced by the current substantive NWC led by Mr. Emmanuel Dania through a national convention on 11th August. It is important to note that even though I openly complained about the procedures leading to that convention, I accepted its outcome and have worked cordially with the NWC it produced. That is because I am loyal to the party, its vision and its constitution. Additionally, the convention was duly supervised by INEC.

While a lot of noise is being made about presidential primaries, the party was not established for the sole purpose of contesting presidential elections, but to provide a platform that will produce credible leaders – who otherwise will not be given a chance by the old parties because of what they stand for – at all levels, to birth the New Nigeria of our dreams. Besides the party’s presidential candidate, ANN also has candidates for the gubernatorial, senatorial, house of representatives and house of assembly 2019 elections, across the country. Primaries duly conducted and supervised by INEC have been going on in different states, based on the guidelines and timeline that was approved by NEC. ANN does not have any factions and our constitution is very clear on how to conduct primaries at all levels, as well as how to change or modify any of the leadership organs of the party.

While it saddens me that we who should show the difference are bickering in public, I am consoled by the fact that the status quo only fights you when they see that you have the potentials to throw them out and throw them out we will! What is happening is not unexpected given the meteoric rise of ANN within a short time and the clear threat we present to old politicians who want to continue to pillage our national inheritance and mortgage the future of generations. Nothing scares the establishment more than the coming together of brilliant, credible young minds and they will not spare any tactics to attempt to scatter us.

I appeal to all ANN members and Nigerians to forgive us of any mistakes we made out of naivety, that has allowed politicians take advantage and sow seeds of discord. Fortunately, majority of the founding members, BOT members, National Working Committee Members and National Executive Committee members are staying the course. We have the party constitution, INEC regulations and Nigerian law on our side. We ask that we all remain steadfast as we will come out of this stronger, wiser and more focused. The battle for the soul of Nigeria is clearly not a ride in the park, but we shall overcome!!!

I thank all those who have contributed their time, resources, network and reputation to grow the party at the national and sub-national levels. ANN was created as a party for all and belongs to all of us!!!

Long live ANN

Long Live the Federal Republic of Nigeria!!!

ANN the Difference.

Dr. Nkata Chuku
Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT).
Alliance for New Nigeria. ANN.

LadyHeaven:
Been shady doesn't mean you are a thief rather it means 'been of doubtful honesty or legality.'

Be informed

thank you very much for that correction, however i will be glad if you can show evidence of his shady deals. Thank you ma.

dustydee:
cc bilms

please let him come and see the authentic candidate of ANN so he can clear his doubts

deolu2000:
We have inherent leadership problem in this country, now look at the ANN Party that claim to be breath of fresh air, but can't conduct themselves better than the looters they claim they want to rescue Nigeria from, it is really a shame. Olawepo and Durotoye both claiming to be flag bearer, so they want to share the flag or what? Yeye people.

Before you jump to conclusion about something or some people next time, it is good you find out about them. You wont like it if someone that doesn't like you suddenly comes to me to say terrible thing about you which are false and i now act based on that .

Olawepo came from the PDP...all these happening to the ANN was brought from the PDP through Olawepo. He was the one trying to influence and force his way through the party but failed. This is what happenes when you think a leopard can change his skin and let him in into your fold. ANN was not like this until the man showed up

LadyHeaven:
Mtcheew, I used to like this FD dude but I don't think he is the answer to anything, he seems very shady, I won't blame him for his part in fostering Buhari on us because a lot of ppl believed in the change mantra but for not been able to put his house (party) in other and carry everyone along what kind of leader would he be? Little signs of incompetence.

he seems shady!! could you tell us what he stole from you

Adefemiaderoju1:
This people better come together OMOYELE, moghalu an co or else they are just wasting their time.

Thesame Sowore that Insulted the Onirisa himself...The Ooni and Moghalu that failed to keep to his word and lacks intehrity when he lost to Fela Durotoye at PACT ? pls bro if you don't have anything useful to say,, you can wish FD success or just insult him like you people often do and move on

mechanics:
I thought the election was cancelled.

the election that was witnessed and ratified by INEC officials you better don't let them deceive you oo

WritePal:
This young party is already in crisis. Gbenga Olawepo Hashim (GOH) is also claiming to be the presidential candidate backed by the former chairman and almost 600 delegates.

One difference I've noticed though between the 2 camps is that the FD pictures don't have crowd. Just a few people 5-15 gathering around, while GOH seem to have the crowd behind him. he said they are 550+ people that elected him by voice votes, while FD had only 19 people that adopted him, which was facilitated by Pastor Dania, current chairman. But goodluck to them sha. Their house is not in order.

The lord does not save by multitude, we are onthe part of justice and fairness, Olawepo is a billionaire from PDP so he can use his money has he pleases him, even the former chairman has been bought too by him but we wont let that deter us. There are pictures of the event, you can go to FD's official page to see them, even videos ...but that cant be said of Olawepo

Jettage:
How about this news about Fela Durotoye by the party ?ANN chairman slams Fela Durotoye, says ‘you cannot reap where you did not sow’
I first met Fela Durotoye, FD as he is popularly called in August of 2017. This meeting was brokered by Pastor Jim Bent who was introduced to me by Naseer Daura the erstwhile Interim National Secretary of ANN. I later found out that Jim and Daura have been friends from their days in the Nigerian Military School.

My meeting with FD took place in my hotel room at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel. This meeting that I thought would be a one-hour exploratory discussion to my amazement, started at 8pm and ended at well past midnight! After that meeting I was perplexed trying to make sense of all what we discussed. Two things that I could take away from that meeting was that FD wanted to court my friendship as a way of guaranteeing the ANN ticket and that he believes he is on a spiritual journey that had been ordained by God so he set out to bamboozle me with all sorts of revelations and prophesies to make me have no choice than to offer the ANN ticket to him right there and then. A couple of weeks after this, we had another meeting in the same location and followed the same pattern. The only difference this time was that he asked if I had presidential ambition to which I replied that my focus as at then was to build a credible platform that he and others can contest on to realize their various ambitions. As a follow up to this meeting we agreed to have a meeting of our teams in Abuja. To this day, that meeting is the most embarrassing meeting I have ever attended because one of our founding members at the time in the person of Prince Adebola Adekoya thoroughly embarrassed FD which I felt wasn’t necessary. His grouse is that FD does not have what it takes to be president and that he is not welcome to join the party.

A follow up meeting was hosted by FD and his team in Lagos and I attended with Onome Ojigbo our Lagos State Coordinator at the time, Samuel Ajayi our adviser on Media and Strategy and Olumide Olutayo one of our strong members in Lagos. One of the next steps following that meeting was the need for Team FD to fuse into the party and to start attending ANN meetings with other members. Another action point was the setting up of the ANN state secretariat which FD promised he will provide. Till this day, that promise is yet to be kept. In fact, the secretariat we currently have in Lagos was donated to the party by Olumide Olutayo! The first sign of FD’s treachery was, rather than work with our Lagos Coordinator to strengthen the party, he attempted to poach Samuel Ajayi who he had identified correctly as the architect of our media campaign, by aggressively following up with him to device media strategies for him and placed him on a retainership of five hundred thousand (500,000) naira monthly. If Sam wasn’t a loyal and trusted friend I wouldn’t have known about this because he told me about it, showed me the check, and he was shocked to find out that FD didn’t inform me about this before engaging him. One of the other things discussed in the meeting and some other subsequent ones were the roll out plan of FD’s presidential aspirations. All this left me with the feeling that all what FD was about was projecting himself as the undisputed candidate of ANN. Subsequent events were to confirm this.

Now, all these meetings and discussions were going on while we were still pursuing the party registration by INEC. In October 2017, we received notification from INEC that they will be coming for verification of our application and this includes assessment of our secretariat. As at then we had yet to complete the fit-out of the secretariat. I reached out to FD for support and he managed to send in a total of One Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira in three tranches over a 2-day period. TILL THIS DAY, THAT IS THE ONLY CONTRIBUTION FD HAS MADE TO ANN!

Another issue of concern for most members of ANN including myself was the issue of accessibility or otherwise of FD. He doesn’t pick calls neither does he return calls. He responds to messages sometimes after 72 hours. I made several appeals to him, cajoled, shouted and sent people to talk to him on the need for him to support the party and the platform he wants to run on, but all these were to no avail. Instead, he went about trying to undermine the party. Installing people in state party executives and even in my office to advantage himself. Even Daura confessed to me that he was approached by Pastor Jim Bent to do all he can do from the inside to ensure that FD gets the ANN ticket. As part of this grand plan, Jim approached me offering a proposal to provide security and protocol services for the party.

By January of 2018, it became very evident that the relationship between FD and ANN was doomed to fail and I personally had made up my mind to move on. However, with intervention by some concerned individuals like Samuel Ajayi, Dr. Dale Ogunbayo and Greg Aduda, I agreed to have a meeting with FD once again. The meeting was very candid, and I told him my mind especially how he tried to poach Samuel Ajayi from the party. He apologized for that and he also raised his own concerns. Again, the issue of funding for the party was raised and he promised to do something about it. Of course, he didn’t but went ahead to publicly declare his membership of ANN on February 22nd. An accident involving FD’s wife happened on that day at the party secretariat and she was promptly attended to by Dr. Shola Olutayo, Olumide’s wife who is a specialist in medical outreaches having worked with several multinationals. The report that got to me subsequently was that having realize Dr. Olutayo’s skillset, FD attempted to poach her to work for him and she referred him to the party.

So, consistently, FD have been trying to steal from the party in a bid to steal the presidential ticket. Tell me, how is he different from the people he has been lampooning? The only positive we got from FD as a party is the increased awareness and influx of new members at the time he joined. But all that was negated by the fact he never allowed those people to be fully integrated into the party. In fact, most of them are not financial members of the party as all their donations are channeled to Team FD.

I have since come to learn that politics is about interests: my interest is to provide a credible platform. Yours is to get the ticket of that platform from without. Why would you be crying like a baby because someone’s else interest is to get the ticket from within by supporting the party?

No amount of blackmail and propaganda by you and your team can shake me. I am purposed in my mind and my conscience is very clear. You know in your heart of heart that I have put in my all to bring ANN to where it is today. I will be addressing the issue of the failed hijack of the party by some powerful forces who you are working with in subsequent releases.

God Bless Nigeria!
Dr. Jay Osi Samuels
National Chairman
Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN)
ANN, The Difference!

that trash has been thrown in the dustbin , they are all lies

Afam4eva:
I want to see how hey will succeed in Owerri.

It's funny how they ignored Porthacourt.

with all that crime we read about PH ?

Pekele007:
Ask around or better still google the hypocrisy of FD.

what hypocrisy, if you have nothing to do can't you get your self busy ? an idle and lame mind is the devils theatre

princejenks:
which word? He had issue with the process that produced durotoye as pact candidate,what's wrong with challenging a process you're not comfortable with? Besides,I was making comparison based on my analysis of the two candidates' knowledge of the issues on ground and preparedness to proffer solutions,moghalu cuts it for me cos he has a wider knowledge of the issues and solutions too,that's it

you know the voting was two rounds. first round he didn't pull out, then second round when some concede defeat he still didn't pull out but when he lost by a vote he now have problem with the process....you guys are shamelss

please who has a link where i can watch the match

transformed:
I dont even know what FD is doing in the party before. Since he alreasy missed it as a result of wrong association, I think it is expedient for him to bury his ambition and team up with Moghalu and Sowore...let Association of nonentities support their Hashim. ann will die a natural death.

Can't you Sowore folks support your people quietly without jumping or dragging FD to your stuffs

princejenks:
never really fancied durotoye for that plum job as president,he comes across more as a motivator than an administrator,moghalu appears to have what it takes for that number one position

Thesame Moghalu that didn't honor is word when he lost to Fela Durotoye?

WaleBinSanusi:
FD is a scam and a self centered bastard...my experience with him years back...same thing he tried to do to me and my friend.

Can you substantiate this with evidence?

Enigmaticprof:
Thanks for your submission! I look forward to seeing FD emerge as ANN candidate.

He is already the candidate and the flag bearer of the party in 2019 presidential elections. He Beat Olawepo Hashim with 240 votes last week Saturday, and it was witnessed by 5 INEC staffs

WawaIPODJew:
More like .
9 trash talk

ok, can you explain the trash ?

FarahAideed:
ANN has not even won class captain election and they are already giving us so much headache ..haba haba haba

This happens when you allow politicinas from APC or PDP into your fold, they will always bring confusion

cc : @mynd44 there have been lies and propaganda been spread on your medium by a certain user , and the content has always been moved to the front page. It will show a great deal of fairness if you move this to the front page for Nairalanders to know the truth and decide who they want to believe.

1. The old, in persons of Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim and Dr. Jay Osi Samuels are currently fighting the New as they see it irrevocably coming. Please tell them #ANNIsNotForSale
#FelaDurotoyeForPresident

2. Gbenga Olawepo (former PDP secretary) and his cohorts are totally abacked and disappointed money politics can not work in the New Nigeria. #ANNIsNotForSale #FelaDurotoyeForPresident

3. ANN Board of Trustees have also enjoined the authorities and everyone else to disregard what these political hoolums of the old order are doing. Money politics can no longer work. #ANNIsNotForSale #FelaDurotoyeForPresident

4. Please let's stay focused as the activities Mr. Gbenga and his cohorts are only distractions. The ANN National Chairman, Mr. Emmanuel Dania and the Board of Trustees declared their anomalies as fraudulent and misleading.
#ANNIsNotForSale #FelaDurotoyeForPresident

5. ANN National Chairman, Mr. Emmanuel has re-affirmed the outcome of ANN Presidential Primaries held on 29th September 2018. Fela Durotoye is the party's only Presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections. #ANNIsNotForSale #FelaDurotoyeForPresident

6. ANN is not for sale and remains a political party driven by the sound principles of Transparency, Integrity and Excellence.
#ANNIsNotForSale #FelaDurotoyeForPresident

7. You are priceless and so is the New Nigeria. We can never settle for anything less. Don't be distracted, we are still on the move. It's either we have a new Nigeria or we have a new Nigeria. No other option. #ANNIsNotForSale #FelaDurotoyeForPresident

8. Say goodbye to money politics. Nigerians are bigger, stronger, better and wiser now. The future of this nation is not for sale. #ANNIsNotForSale #FelaDurotoyeForPresident

9. Fellow Nigerians, we cannot keep recycling the old. We are super glad about the progress so far in making the new Nigeria Dream come true. ANN is the party with the mandate for the new Nigeria. Become a member https://alliancefornewnigeria.org/be-a-member/ #ANNIsNotForSale #FelaDurotoyeForPresident

shakespere:
Religious bigot, so Ambode is not a christian, Sanwo olu is not a christian, check most of the commissioners and heads of parastatals and stop spewing rubbish. When same Tinubu made pastor Osinbajo VP, you didn't kill yourself.

If you dont like Tinubu's monopoly say so without linking it to religion. You need factory reset for your rusty brain.

You get time o... Don't you know it is the new trend now for ibos to be using the words Yoruba Muslims, they have taken it to Facebook sef...

CyynthiaKiss:
If what Tinibu is doing in SW is What you call leadership, it means you are not mentally stable.
I am a Christian Yoruba, Tinibu is not and will never be my leader.
He can keep deceiving his fellow Yoruba Moslems with his archaic politics , but not progressive Yoruba's.
This is 21st century for crying out loud. One man cannot be in his bedroom and be pressing a whole tribe like a remote.

I love people that have and independent minds, not what Tinibu is doing In SW

It's this kind of comment of yours that made Igbos to call us slaves.

When will you ibos stop this Yoruba Muslim thing of yours, it won't work on the Yorubas, you sha want to create enmity between brothers... Kolewek

Enigmaticprof:
I've always been in support of Fd but I'm dumbfounded and disappointed. No man is to be trusted. Desperation is at the height of it.

You can't be a honest supporter of FD and not know the authentic chairman of ANN

Enigmaticprof:
He's not been responsive/addressing the issues. I trust Fd to go on Instagram to address it if it was a false claim. I've been stalking it to see if I can read anything.

How so you expect FD to know that something was posted on Nairaland, not everybody has an account here, allot of people don't even know any site called Nairaland. Why haven't u asked your self why all the lies by this OP is always making front page even with just a comment at times, that should tell you there is a gang up somewhere. This man that called himself the ANN chairman was the interim chairman. There is a new chairman already. Even with these lies the man kept contradicting himself, he said FD never contributed to the party only to say again that FD contributed money and gave the party publicity

bilms:
Olawepo Hashim is a respected leader, who is known for his ideology and credibility.

He his the only authentic ANN candidate.

It will be in the interest of Fela Durotoye to stop his boy scout politics and support the legitimate candidate.

While i appreciate Fela's effort, he his no match for Hashim anyday, any time. Hashim is the one who brought ANN to its current enviable height. Fela is an serious person, who is only fronting for some godfathers. This is why he never supported ANN at any time.

Until when he received alleged hush money from his godfathers, when he started trying to bribe party officials, he never did anything serious.

So, bro, i love your passion. But don't waste your effort. Support Hashim, that's the only option.

@hush money

Youngsage:
But why is the party not posting any update on their IG social media page?

It is on their Facebook page