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APC should settle their differences and move on!
We don't need this right now....We need CHANGE!!!

Patiently waiting for $1 = 1 Naira

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, and
so, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC
seems to be learning almost every day.

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor

Senator Rabiu Kwankwanso was dressed in a
flowing white gown with the red Kwankwansiya
cap to match this past Monday evening. His
posture was far from a rattle snake about to limp
for prey as he sat down to a session with
newsmen in his Maitama Abuja residence.
However, after about an 80 minute session with
newsmen that evening, he had sufficiently rattled
his party in a way only a rattle snake could have
done on a prey. The APC was, however, not
Kwankwanso’s immediate prey that evening.
“It is sad that the party did not get it right; it is
unfortunate and I can tell you categorically that
the party is divided, but it is not too late to
correct many things and that is what I think the
party should be doing right now”.

The president of the Senate, Senator Bukola
Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu were the
immediate preys of Senator Kwankwanso who
warned Saraki not to destroy their party, with his
alleged ambitions.
Senator Kwankwanso did not hide his objection
to the emergence of Saraki as the President of the
Senate and Yakubu Dogara as Speaker of the
House of Representatives. Indeed, in the
perspective of a key associate of Dogara, Senator
Kwakwanso did more damage more than anyone
else to stop the emergence of Dogara as speaker
and it was said that if not for him, Dogara and as
such, Saraki would have easily emerged as
speaker.
When the former governor cautioned Saraki about
his ambition, it inevitably brought to fore the
flowing issue of the 2019 ambitions of the
separate leaders of the APC which their critics in
the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP
had for long argued would be the ruin of the new
ruling party.
Saraki’s alleged 2019 presidential ambition, as
has been generally reported, was the basis of the
opposition several party leaders had against his
emergence. Kwankwanso who teamed up with the
Bola Tinubu camp in opposing Saraki’s Senate
Presidency quest is also reported to be interested
in the 2019 pie having been deputy speaker,
governor, minister and now, senator.
Remarkably, Kwankwanso and Saraki were central
leaders of the G7 or new Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP group who left the then ruling party in
November 2013.
In his session with newsmen, an emboldened
Kwankwanso who probably only defers to
President Olusegun Obasanjo, confessed that he
supported Senator George Akume in the Senate
leadership contest and switched on to Senator
Ahmad Lawan when Akume stepped down for
Lawan.
His reason for supporting Akume ahead of his
fellow nPDP co-leader some said was simply in
view of 2019 given that Akume is not in the
permutations for the presidency.
If Kwankwanso was restrained in his vituperations
against Saraki, the outbursts the same day, of the
deputy national publicity secretary of the party,
Comrade Timi Frank against the national
chairman and working committee simply went
overboard.

Frank, in another session with newsmen in Abuja
demanded the resignation of Chief John Odigie-
Oyegun as national chairman. He even took on
the party icon and his immediate boss,, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, charging him with misdemeanour in
the discharge of his duties. Those who contacted
Mohammed on the issue said the party
spokesman was in a state of shock over the
issue.
Noting that his party was slacking in its promise
of change, Frank said faulted the party’s decision
to present a set of nominees for the National
Assembly leadership contests saying that the
decision of the leadership had shown the party to
be out of touch with its base.
“If my party could not keep to the promise of
change, then we must correct them to keep to
that. I have no fear or favour than to say that the
current leadership of the party has practically
failed. With this incident alone, the chairman
should resign from his position after taking a
position against the people and the people’s
position has finally come to stay.
“In the Western world, by today the party’s
national chairman would have resigned
honourably. Not just the national chairman but
the entire leadership that took this decision of
conducting mock election against the outcry of
the larger members of the party. Against the
bigger picture of Nigerians. A hand-full of the
party leadership came to take a decision, and by
today the people have shown that the voice of
the people is the voice of God.
“You could see the way the party including the
national chairman was speaking before the NASS
leadership elections; it showed clearly that the
chairman had totally taken sides which wasn’t
meant to be. I understand, he took some of those
decisions based on pressure. In this century, APC
as a party does not need a chairman that will be
under pressure.
“And the party’s national chairman caused it
because times without number some leaders told
him to come up with a zoning formula from the
beginning. He was asked to take a decision and
let people follow that but he didn’t do that. They
were playing hide and seek with the issue until
the last minute when they saw the danger, and
they wanted to play hanky-panky, which led us
to lose one position at the Senate.”

Frank’s call immediately echoed the sound of war
from the leadership contest. Frank is a well
known associate of former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar and even though he didn’t claim to be
speaking on his behalf, few would doubt that he
resounded the opinion of Atiku on the National
Assembly leadership contest.
Atiku had backed Saraki and Dogara against the
desire of Kwankwanso, Tinubu and others and the
reason was easily because the duo did not back
his own presidential aspiration last year.
There is also the growing perception that Atiku
has joined the school of thought which believes
that Tinubu’s wings in the party should be
clipped.
It was as such not surprising that his Man
Friday, Frank in the same outburst questioned the
alleged claim by his party boss, Lai Mohammed
that President Muhammadu Buhari is not the
party leader.
“Let’s go back and ask Lai Mohammed who the
leader of the party is. If he does not recognise
the president as the leader. In my own view, If Lai
Mohammed that is my direct boss could come up
to tell Nigerians that the president is only a
product of the party and not the national leader of
the party, then he should have been able to tell
us who the leader of the party is.
“We have seen that even in then PDP, former
President Goodluck Jonathan was the leader of
the party. If in our own case the President cannot
be the leader of the party, he should tell us who
the leader is then,” Frank averred.
Against the call by the likes of Kwankwanso that
Ekweremadu should resign his position as Deputy
Senate President, Frank dug in saying, “those that
are calling for the deputy senate president to
resign are anti-people, and I will campaign
against it. I will continue to support Bukola
Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu and every progressive
Nigerian should support this mission as it will
take Nigeria to the next phase because failure to
do this will disrupt democracy.”

Source: www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/apc-a-progressing-crisis/

cc Lalasticlala ishilove

ayindejimmy:
Answer the question.
Did PDP give ANY post to former ACN or CPC when they were in power? Even Buhari has promised to choose his cabinet members across parties. That's something GEJ never did. All Ministers were even made to campaign for PDP.
Rightly, if APC had United we won't be saying all this but Saraki's complacent ambition made him betray 'his party' and that is history now.

The deed is done. APC should just re-strategize chikena!

APC bleeped up! I mean, who goes for a meeting on an election day? Moreover Ekweremadu's emergence was within the law...so nothing can be done about it!
APC should move on!

We are waiting for the CHANGE promised by them!

smh...This Old man no fit siddon one place work!

I guess he's now the new Minister of Tourism

Ekoo oni baje oh!!!!

Ambode how market?

That's what you get when you marry wives that can't cook...

Mrs Omowumi don fall my hand!

How does this help #UndressNass ?

Anyways....Congrats to him

This is just the Genesis!

“He severally asked of the whereabouts of Chief Johnson Agada, before he broke a plastic chair on the head of his candidate’s opponent, Tony Odo and he subsequently ordered his boys to stab him on his ear."

Lmao....This got me ROTFL
The way APC is falling....they might soon discover Oil

kazmanbanjoko:
Mtcheww. PDP is a wicked party. During their reign, did they allow any other political party have a position in jonathan's cabinet or the NASS. Now, they wan dey form holiness. Na ogun go kill all of 'em. #ekweremadu must be impeached.

So according to your assertion... APC is a kind party? SMH!!!

Ekweremadu isn't going anywhere... Even if APC senators shout from now till next year

Nice!

He's giving the military an easy access to commit a coup if they so desire...This man will never learn!

A member of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the National Assembly, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, yesterday, vowed that his party was battle- ready to resist any attempt to unseat the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, since he was duly and constitutionally elected.
Nwaoboshi, representing Delta North in the Senate, who spoke with our reporter in a telephone interview, condemned the comment made by the former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, to the effect that Ekweremadu’s seat be declared vacant and returned to the ruling All Progressives Party, APC, that for the 16 years PDP ruled the country, at no time did the opposition get the benefit of having such a position.

Nwaoboshi, also a former chairman of Delta State chapter of PDP, told Vanguard: “It is an insult for Kwankwaso to make such annoying statement because he became a governor of Kano on the platform of PDP. He (Kwankwaso) is an ingrate, who enjoyed a lot of patronage including that of NDDC under the PDP platform.

“He should leave Saraki, Ekweremadu alone; in short it was his (Kwankwaso) ambition to become the President of the country that made him to leave PDP for APC and failed woefully to achieve that ambition.

“Now that he is eyeing to become president in 2019, he is ranting. He was in the hall on our inauguration even though he did not vote.
“If he is aggrieved, including those APC senators, they should know the proper thing to do. They should initiate impeachment proceeding and not on the pages of newspapers. Let me tell you we, the PDP senators, are waiting for them. They don’t have the number, they don’t have the capacity to impeach.

“It is quite unfortunate that he is speaking like that. I can recall that I was one of those that went to Kano to conduct the State executive election that brought him there.

He betrayed PDP because he wanted to be President and has no right to castigate PDP over the Ekweramdu’s seat,” he added.

Source: www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/impeachment-pdp-senators-battle-ready-to-protect-ekweremadu-nwaoboshi/

Derik is good!

Nwaba!!!!

Proud of him!!!

Igbos got this never die spirit encrypted in their DNA"

reduce it to 100,000

That's the change we want!!!

CR77:
Get some sence

what's sence?
Go back to kindergarten

Keneking:
1. Enugu
2. Owerri
3. Anambra
4. Ebonyi
5. Abia

Ranked in order of organisation and development.

Have you been to those states or is it just according to what you see on Nairaland?

PS Owerri isn't a state

Enugu state is highly underrated!!!

Buhari will pay the unemployed graduates 5k
the NASS furniture allowance is 9m so 5k isn't too much for them

Buhari will pay the unemployed graduates 5k
the NASS furniture allowance is 9m so 5k isn't too much for them

Osunbade my boy!!!

We are getting ready!!!

UMU Igbo Amaka!!!"

Pecking things...


Boys bad sha

Goddess ko

cc Lalasticlala ishilove

Ogun-East senator in the National Assembly,
Buruji Kashamu, has withdrawn a N20.1bn libel
suit he instituted against former President
Olusegun Obasanjo before a Federal Capital
Territory court in Abuja.
It was learnt that the presiding judge, Justice
Valentine Ashi, struck out the suit on May 26,
2015, following the notice of discontinuance of
the suit filed by the plaintiff.
Kashamu, a Peoples Democratic Party chief in
Ogun State, was said to have anchored his
decision to withdraw the suit on “an ongoing
settlement talks” between him and Obasanjo.
But the lawyers who are representing the former
President in the suit said they were not aware of
such talks.
Kashamu had on February 6, 2014, sued
Obasanjo for “maliciously and recklessly”
publishing a letter titled, ‘Before it is too late,’
addressed to former President Goodluck
Jonathan in December 2013.
The newly-inaugurated senator had asked the
court to award him N20bn as aggravated and
exemplary damages, and another N100m against
Obasanjo for maliciously portraying him as a
fugitive wanted for drug- related offences in the
United States of America.
Kashamu had already called two of his three
proposed witnesses before he decided to
withdraw the suit.
The two witnesses who had appeared before the
court, Haruna Rasheed and Omotayo Alade-
Fawole, testified that the publication of
Obasanjo’s letter in the media portrayed
Kashamu in a bad light and destroyed their long
years of business relationship with him.
But before he could call his third witness,
Kashamu on December 5, 2014, moved the court
to grant an order restraining Obasanjo from
going ahead with the public presentation of his
book, “My Watch.”
Kashamu had anchored the prayer on the
grounds that the book touched on the subject
matter of the libel suit.
But Obasanjo had shunned the court order and
went ahead to present the book in Lagos on
December 9, 2014.
The plaintiff, however, returned to court on
December 10, to report that Obasanjo had
flouted the December 5 court order.
Justice Ashi, in a ruling, held that Obasanjo was
in contempt of court for flouting his order and
directed the various security agencies to seize
the copies of the books wherever they were
found.
The judge also gave Obasanjo 21 days to show
cause why he should not be punished for
contempt.
The judge later lifted all orders against Obasanjo
in a ruling delivered in April following counter
arguments by Obasanjo’s lawyer, Mahmud
Magaji (SAN).
Proceedings were to resume on the main libel
case, when Kashamu brought an application for
the withdrawal of the suit.

source: www.punchng.com/news/kashamu-withdraws-n20bn-libel-suit-against-obasanjo-2/

Change Hostel now....Haba!!
U can get cheaper hostels at Imsu front gate or Orji!!!!

Atrocity!