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PoliticsRe: Why Obasanjo Endorsed Buhari By Ngozi Okonjo Iweala by Change2015(m): 10:48am On Feb 19, 2015
FAKE.
From the moment I saw 'am' used instead of 'I am'... Like her or not NOI went to school beyond that level.
#fail

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PoliticsRe: Has GEJ Really Constructed 25,000km Of Roads? by Change2015(m): 10:35am On Feb 19, 2015
Immune1:
Get an engineer's perspective on the design/finishing of GEJ roads!!! The railway system will soon be privatized; what government is doing now 'in the road context' is building roads and running ABC transport and CHISCO..........its not sustainable on the long run. But nonetheless goods and humans are already being transported by rail; you can research further and find out the freight that leaves Apapa by rail and the people transported daily.
Lol. I travel by road frequently enough to see the work being done. As they block off one part of the express for 'repairs' ALL the traffic has to use the other side of the road which does not exactly increase its lifespan? As for the drainage, there are still many places where water accumulates which further hastens decay. What is the engineers perspective on that?

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PoliticsRe: Igbo Have No Preferred Presidential Candidate – OHANEZE NDIGBO ELDERS by Change2015(m): 10:18am On Feb 19, 2015
Are they truly saying that the callous neglect of Igbo territory since the end of the civil war; is unchanged under the current government? So what explains the pro-gej hysteria we see on nairaland?

@doctokwus an admirable opinion. It truly irritated me when Cecilia Ibru and Ibori and Alams started trooping in and out of Aso Rock as if they were decent people. Our president should not be seen in the company of people facing criminal allegations or convicts, ex or not.

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PoliticsRe: Saharareporters Censorship! by Change2015(m): 10:03am On Feb 19, 2015
The first thing you should do, is provide evidence for your claim!

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PoliticsRe: Between CAN And Buhari Islamizing Nigeria by Change2015(m): 10:01am On Feb 19, 2015
Simple answer is no. In a country that periodically experiences religious tensions it is best such partisanship in politics does not exist.

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PoliticsRe: Has GEJ Really Constructed 25,000km Of Roads? by Change2015(m): 9:56am On Feb 19, 2015
Immune1:
So are you now suggesting that old roads that were constructed as far back as the days of Gowon and have been forgotten by successive governments before now should be allowed to rot further? Do you even know the history of Lagos-Ibadan,Lagos-Benin and Abuja-lokoja that Obasanjo literally messed uphuh?. After Gowon, GEJ has built the best quality of roads ever in Nigeria and the revival of the railway system will ensure these roads last even longer..........if u wanna still wallow in deceit and denial just keep believing Jonathan hasn't done anything.......i really don't have any words for you......whether you like it or not GEJ is winning this elections. So better start licking your wounds already!!!
I do not believe the claim, but any reasonable person will understand that unless the bulk of freight haulage goes by rail instead of road, those roads will still decay as we have seen time and time again. So far, there has been no meaningful decrease in the haulage of goods by road.

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PoliticsRe: Pondering Why People With No Conscience Are Defecting! Check Here by Change2015(m): 9:47am On Feb 19, 2015
anonimi:
Here is the thread on Buhari bribing northern pastors to endorse him some days ago shocked


Buhari’s Bribe Tears Northern Pastors Apart
N3000-5000 sounds more like transport fare money and not a bribe. Unless some pastors, like many public servants, we're expecting to take a bus to abuja and then get 'compensated' with the equivalent of an airfare ticket?

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PoliticsRe: Pondering Why People With No Conscience Are Defecting! Check Here by Change2015(m): 9:38am On Feb 19, 2015
pendy79:
It is a pathetic situation that Nigeria find itself. Integrity is sold on the altar of highest bidder, men with honour are bought with chicken change and go about laundering image of a corrupt and reckless regime all because money is to be made.

See Ayo Odumakin who after attendance at the conference organized by GEJ with his wife have now began to sing a new song forgetting his role in the fuel subsidy protest.

The lowest for odumakin was his voicing support for the removal of Jega and asking for election postponement too and I felt the saying that " THERE IS NO MAN THAT CAN'T BE BOUGHT IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT" aptly described some pro democracy activists in Nigeria, apologises to the likes of Wole Soyinka, pastor tunde bakare, shehu musa, festus keyamo and others who still give hope to average Nigerians that there are still few with conscience.
A man whose conscience is for sale is certainly not a man of honour. The church and mosque in Nigeria have become just another job opportunity for desperate people and I treat both with extreme caution. Thankfully Buhari has not been prostitution himself from congregation to congregation. Buhari has dispelled the lies and slander against him and the people know he is the candidate that stands on the side of truth and honour.

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PoliticsRe: Asari Dokubo Attacks Apc by Change2015(m): 9:43pm On Feb 18, 2015
Akshow:
If only he knows he is ruining the presidents ambition with his childish tantrums which makes it seem like d president is condoning militancy.
All the signs are that the president condones militancy, as long as it is by his people.

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PoliticsRe: LEAKED: Interrogated Boko Haram Member Implicates FG (audio) by Change2015(m): 6:34pm On Feb 17, 2015
Until more credible media look into its provenance, I withold judgement.

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PoliticsRe: Address By GMB To APC Leders And Elders At Shehu Musa Yar'adua Center Today by Change2015(m): 4:49pm On Feb 17, 2015
Buhari, now more than ever makes me proud to be a member of the APC. This is sensitive and timely encouragement to the hundreds of thousands of volunteers across the nation. Our expectation will be delayed but not denied. Nigeria needs #change and he is the man leading the way. The values we represent will triumph over the divisive plunderers in government.

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PoliticsRe: Polls: Only Dishonest Politicians Need Fear Card Readers- The Sun Newspapers by Change2015(m): 4:35pm On Feb 17, 2015
Lol. I hope Orji Kalu has collected the money for the pdp phone giveaway, because this his newspaper is coming out with stuff that oga will not appreciate. Abi he wants to play on both teams?

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Jobs/VacanciesRe: Abia:56 Sacked Non-indigenes Drop Dead. by Change2015(m): 4:16pm On Feb 17, 2015
Watching to see if, and how this discussion progresses.

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PoliticsRe: Why Ambode should be the Next Lagos State Governor by Change2015(m): 3:54pm On Feb 17, 2015
Yet again, the initiative is snatched away from the incompetent pdp. I am truly touched by this and can only imagine the expectations of the Chibok parents who have waited long enough for signs that someone is still listening,and their children are not forgotten. Jonathan has been challenged severally to do this and to date, he has declined. His loss, and his shame. Buhari will lead the way.

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PoliticsRe: Why would NEMA paste GEJs pic on relief materials? by Change2015(m): 3:14pm On Feb 17, 2015
To remind them of the cause of their misfortunes? It certainly seems quite improper especially since Jonathan is not personally paying for or providing the materials.

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PoliticsRe: Confirmed!!! Justice Abdullahi - I Sat For WASC Exams Alongside Buhari, Others by Change2015(m): 3:11pm On Feb 17, 2015
Totally as a side issue, I wonder if Buhari still has an interest in football, and if he does what team/s he follows.

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PoliticsRe: Another Retired General Attacks Jonathan And Predicts He Would Lose The Election by Change2015(m): 3:00pm On Feb 17, 2015
kettykin:
Why I am saying this is that other generals who were not even as privileged as Danjuma invested in agriculture in their States and live in their States but Danjuma has only rent property and lives in Abuja, Danjuma reaped where he did not sow in the petroleum industry he has no knowledge in but could not invest in agriculture he has knowledge in despite the fact that the land is there in Taraba and farming would have given much money and employment to Taraba people preventing the chronic poverty that is driving some northerners into suicide bombing
Please go and review the activities of the TY Danjuma Foundation

http://tydanjumafoundation.org/latest-news-3/the-management-of-ty-danjuma-foundation/

The Management of TY Danjuma Foundation (TYDF), led by its interim Executive Director, Dr. Edugie Abebe, mni, embarked on an advocacy tour of Taraba State. This visit became necessary as the Foundation is currently in the third year of its inaugural three year strategy; hence the need to engage all stakeholders in broad consultations in order to inform the strategy for the coming years. The aim of the visit to Taraba was to hold talks with TYDF’s critical stakeholders, and jointly review its interventions.

During these visits, which coincided with activities marking the 21st anniversary of the creation of Taraba State, the TYDF Management engaged in talks with the Secretary to the Taraba State Government, Ambassador Emmanuel Njiwah; the Commissioners for Health, Alhaji Prince Mustapha Hammangabdo; Education Mr. Yakubu Sale Agbaizo; and Information, Mr. Emmanuel Bello; as well as the Chairpersons of Wukari and Takum Local Government Councils.

The TYDF team also paid advocacy visits to the traditional leaderships of Wukari and Takum, to solicit for broader and more focused collaboration in the Foundation’s interventions. Officials of the Jukun Development Association and the Kutep Development Association present at Wukari and Takum, respectively and were engaged in talks by the TYDF team as a means of creating greater understanding and enlightenment with regards to the Foundation’s processes for making grants. Some grantees of the Taraba Community Fund were also visited for inspection of project sites and review of project strengths, weaknesses and opportunities.

The grantees visited include: God’s Will Farms Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society – Training of 15 Women on Poultry Farming in Mayo Dasa and NTA communities; Neighbourhood Foundation – Training of 20 out-of-school youths from Papule and Kpantinapo on Fish Farming in Yorro LGA; Danbazzau Community Youth Organisation – Establishment of a Cyber Cafe and Training of Youths on Computer Appreciation in Mararraban Gassol, Gassol LGA; and Mfayima Orphange Foundation in Wukari, a successful 2012 grantee of the Taraba Community Fund.

Some highlights of the tour came when the TYDF team visited the Aku Uka of Wukari and the Secretary to the Government of Taraba State (SSG). The SSG, Ambassador Emmanuel Njiwah, who received the TYDF delegation on behalf of the Executive Governor of Taraba State, Pharmacist Danbaba D. Suntai, pledged to accelerate the documentation process for the land which was donated to the Foundation in Jalingo by the Governor.

At the Aku Uka’s palace, the Foundation’s delegation was received in regal fashion. Leader of the delegation and interim Executive Director of the Foundation, Dr. Edugie Abebe, called for the support of the Traditional Council in identifying credible grassroots organisations in Wukari and environs, to partner with TYDF’s Taraba office for implementation of projects that will further reach people of the Jukun nation. Dr. Abebe directed the Taraba office to, with immediate effect, map out plans for building the capacity of local organisations in Wukari to position them to be able to access grants from TYDF and other donors; she also directed that the office should work closely with the Traditional Council to identify the organisations whose capacity will be built. Reacting to the IED’s remark, the Aku Uka of Wukari, His majesty Dr. Shekarau Angyu, in turn praised the contributions of General TY Danjuma, whom he said he had known since 1949, to the development of Taraba, the Jukun nation and Nigeria as a whole. Conceding that he and the people of Taraba had not appreciated the TYDF Founder/Chairman enough, the monarch also noted that, although his Council had conferred on General Danjuma the traditional title of Abonta (i.e. Commander of the Royal Army) of Jukun land, he and his people could not find the words to thank him enough for his unrelenting support for the sustenance of the Kwararafa University, which the monarch described as the only community university in Nigeria, and which would not have been a reality without the regular support of General TY Danjuma. The royal father promised to do everything within his power to support the Foundation in all it is doing in Taraba state.

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PoliticsRe: Bomb Rocks APC Rally Ground In First Lady’s Town by Change2015(m): 2:37pm On Feb 17, 2015
Still waiting for the bigots who only see violence in the 'north'. Rivers State has now experienced the shooting of APC supporters, the murder of one official, the bombing of offices and now this...
The log in your eye...

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PoliticsRe: Another Retired General Attacks Jonathan And Predicts He Would Lose The Election by Change2015(m): 2:23pm On Feb 17, 2015
kettykin:
Dangote is planning mega tomatoes factory that would employ millions of kano people, Dangote invested billions into rice farming in kebbi and sugar farming in numan.
What investment does Danjuma own except oil license and landed property in Lagos, Abuja and pH. Danjuma is a typical example of a very greedy shylock reaping where he did not sow
There is no obligation on any Nigerian to invest in any business, much less something that he has no interest in or knowledge of.

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PoliticsRe: Introducing Chief Olusegun Obasanjo:The Navigator of A.P.C Ship of "Change" by Change2015(m): 2:20pm On Feb 17, 2015
dunkem21:
..For the umpteeneth time, are you sure you are not lai Mohammed?

You sound so pained, bro. The APC made a mistake of not putting barcanista in their strategy team. I know he has made some killer recommendations that would have left the PDP gasping for breath if implemented. One of them is encouraging Buhari and the APC to honour the debate.

For me, the APC needs one barcanista over a thousand OBJ's and they should triple whatever offer they think he got to get him back. ..at times, sheer conscience and genuine patriotism supersedes material gains.

The moment of truth is here; lets chart a new course for the Nigeria of our dreams.

Sai 'nista.
Don't be ridiculous! The only thing that would 'pain' me is if Obasanjo was accepted into the APC. Thankfully we have no reason to fear that. He does not share our core beliefs.

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PoliticsRe: Another Retired General Attacks Jonathan And Predicts He Would Lose The Election by Change2015(m): 2:10pm On Feb 17, 2015
kettykin:
If you check very well I said industry or factory. Going by the sum of the contract N500m can not build a standard 1km of road neither can it build a bridge but culvert.
That is the type of investment To Danjuma
Like Dangote has been hated on by the people of Kano, but a business is not a charity and it's location must be determined by economic logic not sentiment.
Danjuma is not a business neophyte, and if the contract has been negotiated at that price, he is sure it is value for money. It is not a government contract with extraneous matters built in. If you have evidence to the contrary, please provide it.

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PoliticsRe: Jigawa Gov. Sule Lamido To Dump PDP by Change2015(m): 2:07pm On Feb 17, 2015
Gbawe:
@OP.

Possible. Lamido's body language shows that he is not with GEJ in spirit. Lamido resents GEJ but was whipped and bullied into toeing the PDP line. He once described GEJ as a "drunk with a lighter in a petrol station" and there is no coming back from such a statement which shows that Lamido , deep down, views GEJ as a very reckless and dangerous individual.
The problem with Nigeria is that too many people refuse to speak the truth to power. Stories about Jonathan and drink abound in political circles and there is even more that the press is afraid to mention. Lamido did not lie. The Conservative party in the UK forced out Thatcher, from the leadership race, even though she was the sitting prime minister (she had become an election liability) and they went on to win the following election with John Major at the helm. The pdp will rue the day the plan was set in motion for Jonathans primary/coronation without a vigorous contest.

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PoliticsRe: Another Retired General Attacks Jonathan And Predicts He Would Lose The Election by Change2015(m): 1:53pm On Feb 17, 2015
kettykin:
Danjuma doesn't have a single investment in Taraba, despite the billions he looted from the niger delta, Taraba has no single industry or factory, how can Tarabans take such a person serious
Just two points to refute your obvious lie!

http://m.allafrica.com/stories/201404141522.html/


T.Y Danjuma to Construct N500 Million Bridge in Taraba
14 April 2014 , By Itodo Daniel Sule, Jalingo, Source: Daily Trust

Former Minister of Defence, Lt. General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, has signed a N500 million contract for the construction of three narrow mini bridges linking the Army Barracks, Takum Taraba State with Katsina-Ala, Benue State.

Speaking at the contract signing ceremony yesterday in Takum, Danjuma assured the people of the local government that he would continue to embark on meaningful projects.

General Danjuma, who was represented by the former minister of water resources, Obadiah Ando, said the contractor, MNC Mayar Company Nigeria Limited, has been mobilized and that work is expected to commence immediately.

"Last year when General T.Y Danjuma came home, he passed through the road and when he saw how bad it was, he asked me to look for contractors to fix the road. Though many quotations were submitted, we signed the contract with MNC Mayar Nigeria Limited," Ando said.

He noted that the bridges linking Takum in Taraba State with Katsina Ala in Benue State had been abandoned for decades, urging people in the area to cooperate with the contractor handling the project to enable deliver quality job.

Representative of the Taraba acting governor, Barrister Musa Tende, described Gen. Danjuma as a beacon of hope for people of the state, adding that his philanthropic nature has endeared him to millions of people not only in the state but across the country.

He added that the government would continue to support any program that would bring development to the state.

On his part, the Managing Director of MNC Mayar, Engr. Raouf Makhaul, said the company would execute the project according to contract specification.

http://allafrica.com/view/photoessay/post/post/id/201406050001.html
T.Y. Danjuma Foundation Delivers Community Health Services to Taraba

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PoliticsRe: Who Will Ask Obasanjo To Shut Up? - Shehu Dikko by Change2015(m): 1:42pm On Feb 17, 2015
VolvoS60:
Fair points made by Mr. Dikko. But his analysis is incomplete.

The problem with the GEJ administration is that in essence, it is no different from the old order which needs to be supplanted and which we have been repeatedly told it will supplant.

In Mr. Dikko's piece - as is common with those who support GEJ, the man's modest achievements are loudly promoted while his gravely serious failings are ignored. That is no way to carry out an honest assessment. The choice before GEJ after 2011 was clear: do something radical about corruption in Nigeria and gain mass appeal/popular support OR maintain the status quo while pretending to transform the way the Nigerian project is being run.

He chose the latter option and he is facing the consequences of that choice. To use the jargon of bank currency dealers: the market has moved against him.

It doesn't look good.
You certainly have a way with words. Nice one. Personally I hold Jonathan culpable for falling into the hands of sycophants, probably because he had no ambition to lead or core philosophy outside from appeasing people with the aid of the national treasury.

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Jokes EtcRe: Editorial Cartoons: Nasoweseeam by Change2015(m): 1:33pm On Feb 17, 2015
Nice. Perhaps getting a little more current re topic and acerbic is a good idea?

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PoliticsRe: Abdullahi Babangida Muhammed Tears PDP Membership Card OBJ Way by Change2015(m): 1:26pm On Feb 17, 2015
boss1310:
leaders even elder statesmen heating up the polity.we suppose to be more civilized than this.if you dont like a certain party express yourself during the polls.what is this country turning to are we goin back to violence of the early 60's
So tearing a paper called party membership card is now an act of violence? Ish!

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PoliticsRe: Funny Pics Of A Truck Pusher. L Guess We All Need A Change by Change2015(m): 1:20pm On Feb 17, 2015
Nice one. He knows what is good for him and his country.

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PoliticsRe: Another Retired General Attacks Jonathan And Predicts He Would Lose The Election by Change2015(m): 1:13pm On Feb 17, 2015
SOLMICHAEL:
General Danjuma has spoken!!
This means that Taraba state is likely to give APC the majority of their votes. Good news.

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PoliticsRe: PDP Faction Wants Jonathan Out As Candidate, As Party Faces Deepening Schisms by Change2015(m): 12:47pm On Feb 17, 2015
The pdp should have known better but they preferred to trust in the power of incumbency and the words of sycophants. As they have made their bed, so must they lie in it. The gubernatorial primaries in Akwa Ibom, Delta and Rivers State were particularly acrimonious and they will suffer for it.

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PoliticsRe: Obasanjo Didn't Call Anybody A Drug Baron; Twitter Account Fake by Change2015(m): 12:26pm On Feb 17, 2015
jorlons:
Before Baba wey corrupt vex call somebody corrupt make you just try reason how corrupt GEJ be.

Before Babangida open mouth talk say he administration better pass GEJ own. Omo dat shows the extent of corruption in this administration.

Call OBJ a hypocrite but he is saying the truth about this Lootocratic govt led by the lootocrat GEJ.

Abeg Jona come dey go O. By the way baba don drop one name o

''kashamu'' time to look the guy record.
The allegations against Kashamu have been public information for years. I can appreciate why he thinks it infra dig to have Kashamu as one of the top pdp-west leaders.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/153561-obasanjo-sends-jonathan-pdp-documents-on-buruji-kashamus-drug-case.html

Obasanjo sends Jonathan, PDP, documents on Buruji Kashamu’s drug case
January 19, 2014Festus Owete
President Goodluck Jonathan (left), ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo
President Goodluck Jonathan (left), ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo

These are the six documents Obasanjo sent to Jonathan and the PDP to nail ex-political ally, Buruji Kashamu.

In a bid to nail his estranged political associate, Buruju Kashamu, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has sent six incriminating documents to President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to support his claim that Mr. Kashamu is wanted in the United States of America over a drug related offence.

The damning documents, obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, include court papers and proceedings as well as local and international newspaper clips on the allegation made against Mr. Kashamu, a chieftain of the PDP in the South West geo-political zone where the former president hails from.

Mr. Obasanjo had in a letter dated January 7 to the immediate past National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bamanga Tukur, and Mr. Jonathan, threatened to withdraw his participation in the activities of the party at all levels if it not did stop treating Mr. Kashamu with reverence.

In the three-paragraph letter, the former president said on no account should Mr. Kashamu, who he described as a known habitual criminal wanted abroad for crime, be extolled as a political leader in a respectable and wholesome nation-building political party.

He said the way Mr. Kashamu was being extolled by PDP was unsavoury, insisting that politics played by any national political party must have morality, decency, discipline, principles and leadership examples as cardinal principles.buruji-kashamu

“Since I stick in my practice of party politics to the hallowed and cherished principles enunciated above, I take this opportunity to let you know that while I continue to remain a card-carrying member of PDP,” Mr. Obasanjo said.

“I cannot and I will not subscribe to a wanted habitual criminal being installed as my zonal leader in the party; a criminal for whom extradition has been requested by the US Government.

“I will consider withdrawing my activity with PDP at Local, State, Zonal and national levels until the anomalous and shameful situation is corrected.”

The former president sent a copy of the one-page letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, who he addressed as the National Leader of the PDP.

Mr. Kashamu has since fired back alleging that Mr. Obasanjo was crying foul because he had lost relevance in the PDP.

He detailed his relationship with the former president, including how he used to enter Mr. Obasanjo’s bedroom and how he donated huge sums of money to the church and other projects the former president embarked upon.

In his reply to Mr. Obasanjo, the former PDP chairman explained how Mr. Kashamu assisted the party financially and became a rallying point of its members in the South-West zone.

Short of begging Mr. Obasanjo not to quit the PDP, Mr. Tukur said the former president still had more roles to play in the party and urged him and other leaders from the zone to build a strong consensus for that purpose.

Mr. Jonathan, on his part reportedly spoke with the former president on telephone.

PREMIUM TIMES has now obtained a copy of a bunch of documents Mr. Obasanjo sent along with his January 7 letter to Messrs Tukur and Jonathan.

The documents were marked serially and packaged to convince the president and the party that Mr. Kashamu is a wanted man with which a serious political party should have no dealings.

One of the documents, a clip of the Chicago Tribune newspaper edition of November 14, 2013, marked No 1 by Mr. Obasanjo quoted the U.S attorney’s office as saying Mr. Kashamu “is still wanted on charges alleging his drug ring moved millions of dollars worth of heroin from Europe and Southeast Asia through O’Hare International Airport during the 1990s.”

The article authored by David Heinzmann also said that while Mr. Kashamu’s lawyer was trying to clear the politician’s name in Chicago, he had “become a player in Nigeria’s chaotic politics.”

It added, “He runs a faction of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party near the capital, Lagos, and is frequently quoted criticizing other politicians in the West African country. Recently, newspapers there have reported that the Nigerian courts are reconsidering whether to extradite Kashamu to the US.”

Another clip of a Nigerian newspaper, Vanguard, which the former president submitted reported in its edition of November 27, 2009, that at a time when the United Nations Office on Drugs and Corruption was expressing deep concern about illicit drug trafficking in West Africa, the U.S. Government and a Chicago Court had linked and traced an alleged drug smuggling kingpin to Nigeria and declared him a fugitive, although the alleged kingpin was believed to be a citizen of neighbouring Benin Republic.

The report, “US Government traces wanted drug kingpin, Kashamu to Nigeria, said in paragraph 2, “According to Empowered Newswire Nigeria, a name came up in a recent court ruling by Judge Charles Norgie of the US District Court in Chicago, who upheld the indictment of a Beninoise multi-millionaire, Mr. Buruji Kashamu by the U.S. Government for drug smuggling charges and heroin importation conspiracy for which some of his co-conspirators have been jailed and served prison terms already.”

It said in another paragraph that, “Mr. Buruji Kashamu has since been indicted twice in the U.S., according to court papers. Two weeks ago, Buruji, whose residency in Nigeria was said to have been established by the U.S. government, according to court papers, is frantically fighting the charges asking the court to reconsider its recent decision to uphold the charges and reject his motion to quash a bench warrant for his arrest.”

Another report in ThisDay Newspaper’s edition of July 8, 2013, titled “Appeal Court vacates injunction against Kashamu,” which Mr. Obasanjo also sent to Messrs Tukur and Jonathan, said “A three-man panel of justices at the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal has set aside an order of perpetual injunction granted in favour of a chieftain of the Ogun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Buruji Kashamu.”

Mr. Obasanjo also sent in an 18-page summon from the U.S. Court of Appeals Court for the Seventh Circuit. In the court paper, the US is listed as Plaintiff Appellee and Mr. Kashamu, the Defendant Appellant.

Suit No. 10-2782 has the title “Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Division No. 1:94-cr-00172-15-Charles Norgie, Sr., Judge; Argued May 3, 2013 – Decided September 1, 2013.”

The paper filed before Posner Kanne and Tinder, Circuit Judge said, “This appeal requires us to consider the collateral estoppel effect, if any, of findings made by foreign courts in extradition proceedings. Back in May 1998 defendant Kashamu returned by a federal grand jury in Chicago with conspiracy to import and distribute heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C S963. He was indicted both in his own name and under what the government believed to be two aliases that he used “Alaji” and “Kasmal”.

“But he could not be found. He had not been arrested; he did not jump bail; his whereabouts simply were unknown. The government did not ask that he be tried in absentia. The case proceeded against the other defendants (except for one who like Kashamu could not be found) and all of them were convicted.”

The court paper also said, “In December 1998, Kashamu surfaced in England and was arrested as our government’s Justice Department lawyers, working with their English counterparts, sought his extradition to the United States to stand trial.

In February 2009, the papers said, Mr. Kashamu filed a motion in the district court in Chicago to dismiss the indictment against him on the ground that the English magistrate had found that he was not “Alaji” and that the finding should be given collateral estoppel effect in the criminal proceeding and that if this was done he could not be convicted and therefore shouldn’t have to stand trial. The district judge denied the motion, precipitating this appeal.”

In another document “Letters Blogatory: The Blog of International Judicial Assistance by Ted Folkman of Murphy and King, which Mr. Obasanjo marked No. 6, and titled Case of the Day: US V. Kashamu November 1, 2011, Mr. Kashamu was said to have been indicted by a grand jury in Illinois in 1998 for conspiracy to import and distribute heroin.

The 10-page document opens thus: “Buruji Kashamu, a Nigerian national, was indicted by a grand jury in the Northern District of Illinois in 1998 for conspiracy to import and distribute heroin. The indictment named him under his own name and under two supposed aliases “Alaji” and “Kasmak.” Kashamu’s whereabouts were unknown. His co-defendants were tried and convicted. Later in 1998, the government found Kashamu living in England, and the government there arrested him at the request of the US. The Justice Department sought his extradition. The extradition proceedings were “incredibly protracted,” lasting until 2003. The English judge refused to extradite him. Kashamu left England and is believed to have returned to Nigeria.”

The document shows that a metropolitan magistrate once ordered him held pending extradition, though Mr. Kashamu applied for writ of habeas corpus.

It also states that the South West politician once sought dismissal of the indictment. It says, “Kashamu, who must have felt he had not had enough transnational litigation for his liking, moved to dismiss the indictment after his return to Nigeria on the grounds that the English judge, in refusing to extradite him, had found that he was not “Alaji” and that the English judge’s finding of fact should have conclusive effect. Judge Norgie, the presiding judge in Chicago, denied the motion and Kashamu appealed.”
PoliticsRe: Introducing Chief Olusegun Obasanjo:The Navigator of A.P.C Ship of "Change" by Change2015(m):
Sincere9gerian:
My friend, can we face the topic for once? How does your post relate with the topic? Are the facts highlighted by the op true or false? Hypocrites!
It can be annoying when people take a simplistic view. The APC has successfully positioned itself so that the majority of the nation expects Jonathan to lose the election to Buhari. Is it now that they need a navigator? When success looks more than likely? Will Tinubu and others who have built and sustained the Western opposition in the ACN, now bow down to someone who contributed nothing to those years of effort? Or will Buhari for that matter? A more critical mind will see that Tinubus comments are more likely meant to further embarrass the pdp /jonathan and twist the knife that is firmly embedded in the flesh of the pdp. Tinubu is a leader in the party but there are structures that have been working to bring the APC this far, and I can assure you the majority of the party would firmly resist any intrusions by Obasanjo.

#change
#GMB
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