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Group known as Mass Movement for Goodluck (MMG) that alleged to have worked for the President in the 2011 general elections, has dumped President Goodluck Jonathan for the All Progressives Congress (APC)‎ presidential candidate, gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and metamorphosed into Mass Movement for Buhari (MMB).

‎Addressing the Northwest members in Kaduna, the National Coordinator of MMB, Kenneth Ibe-Kalu said President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s failure to deliver on their electoral promises and good governance prompted their action.

According to the coordinator, the ‎PDP had failed to meet the yearning and aspiration of the citizens sequel to which the people are clamouring for change.

He, therefore, called on the good people clamouring for change to ‎ensure that they collect their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) which he said will be their voting power, just as he admonished the APC supporters to shun all forms of violence.

Responding after receiving the Northwest zone members into the ‎APC fold, Alhaji Abdulkadir commended their courage to join the change train, while assuring them that the APC government is the answer that will salvage the country from imminent collapse.

‎He urged them not to stop at just changing their nomenclature but to be proactive in the quest for change and spread the message to every nook and crannies of the country until the desired change is achieved.

“The PDP knows that their time is up and waiting only to hand over to an APC government come May, 29th, 2015, but let us not relent in sensitising people and be an ambassador of change in wherever we find ourselves.”

He also tasked them not to give in to any form of provocation by the PDP, while reiterating the need for them to shun any form of violence, remain calm and carry out their activities within the ambit of the law.


http://leadership.ng/news/410890/2015-polls-group-dumps-jonathan-buhari

mulante:
The momentum of the social media campaign has started to wear off. I think that 6 weeks is enough time to smolder whatever fervou that must have been roused by these campaigns. While the PDP on the other hand will begin to perfect moves to dominate campaign outlets to galvanise massive support from the public. It's no wonder that you hear a lot of PDP sponsored jingles lately compared to about a month ago when APC ruled the airwaves.

PDP little support base is waning seriously because of the postponement! Ask people around you!

brownlord:
Meaning banicansta, omenka, berem, gbawe and their cyber rodent not doing a good job?

Common Sense, you no get!!!

jusRadical:
Shot up there. Is Fayose not a governor. I see even the army in Amechi's convey. If the Nigerian army can be escorts to Indians and other private companies, why not for a the governor of a state.

Is Amaechi chauffeur driven by a Soldier? Gum brains!

jusRadical:
Obama is even escorted by F16s, so why this your rant?

Fayose has a military man as his driver!

RicKyRichards:
The military has been compromised. Sanity must and will be restored.

It's a very big shame!

No Wonder, He told a An Army General to "go and sit down" smh!

Jonathan Will Soon Be Disgraced!

Smh!

F22RAPTOR:
you fought who? [s]Abacha?...my friend shut up and stop lying. Where you d one that killed him, people like you can only run your mouths and have nothing to follow through with it....[/s]

Why is jonathan afraid of going back to Bayelsa?

clevvermind:
[s]why is apc more afraid of this election
postponement?
it is for the good of Nigeria and all the political
parties.
if apc believed so much that they will win the
election, they will not be afraid of the election
shift. they should keep calm.[/s]

Mumu! Who is afraid of election between The APC and The PDP??

Disregard Any useless thread saying APC would boycott the election!

It is wishful thinking of the evil party (PDP) as jonathan's ratings is now near zero within and outside Nigeria!



[size=16pt]A man leaves the country ungoverned, death every where then runs into churches 4 votes. If the Pastors accept him GOD will not!
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Jonathan has just postponed the evil day!

Next Month Will Be A General March For Buhari!

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has described the shift in the dates of the elections as a set back for democracy.

 

He said in a statement that the commission claimed that it did this because the security agencies claimed that they needed time to fight the insurgency in the North-East region of the country.

 

He said, “This is clearly a major setback for Nigerian democracy, and our party is meeting in an emergency session to study its implications and will inform Nigerians of its decisions in the next few days.

 

“In the meantime though what has happened is highly provocative, I strongly appeal to all Nigerians to remain calm and desist from violence and any activity which will compound this unfortunate development. We must not fall into this obvious trap.  Change we must. They can only delay it; No one can stop it.

 

“I want to assure all Nigerians that the All Progressives Congress will not abandon its commitment to change and will sustain the struggle to establish a new Nigeria.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/polls-postponement-a-set-back-apc/

[size=24pt]FAKE NEWS FROM PDP!

APC is participating fully!!

Idiats![/size]

Seun, Obinoscopy, lalasticlala, please remove Sahara Reporters from this devilish article written and sponsored by writer sent to Sahara Reporters and other media outlet! What makes it an Opinion of Sahara Reporters?? Smh

[size=15pt]Now I believe jonathan is really on a mission to bankrupt Nigeria!!
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Nigerians Shey na like this we go dey dey??

The power is in your hands as we approach Febuhari!!

Nigeria, the world’s seventh largest producer of hydrocarbon, accounts for about 68.1 per cent of the total revenue Africa is losing annually as a result of illegal transfer of revenues abroad.

The report of the Thabo Mbeki High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa adopted on Sunday by African Union Heads of State and Government at their summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia said about $40.9billion (about N6.87trillion) of an estimated $60billion (about N10.08trillion) lost through such transfers from Africa are traced to Nigeria.

The funds are stolen through corruption, tax evasion and illegal transfer of profits by multinationals, the AU said.

Nigeria, which produces an average of 2.3million barrels of oil daily as the leading hydrocarbon producer in Africa, is being ravaged by poverty and underdevelopment.

The report also identified Egypt and Morocco as the other countries with the largest estimates of illicit financial flows statistics of $28.2billion and $20.3billion respectively.
Cumulatively, Nigeria and Egypt topped the list of ten African countries by illicit financial transfers between 1970 and 2008, with $217.7billion (about N36.57trillion), or 30.5 per cent, and $105.2billion (about N17.67trillion), or 14.7 per cent respectively, while South Africa had $81.8billion (about N13.74trillion), or 11.4 per cent.
Concerned by the high losses through these illegal transfers, which was identified in 2011 as one of the threats to the inability of most resource-rich countries in Africa to meet their millennium development goals, MDGs, the AU at its 4th Joint African Union Commission/United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, AUC/ECA, Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development constituted the Mbeki Panel to review the under
lying issues stalling Africa’s accelerated and sustained development objective.

At the presentation of the report on Saturday, the panel gave a set of recommendations that would guide African leaders in checking the growing threats of the menace to the continent’s economy, including the activities of extremist groups, instability, and poverty.
Part of the recommendations included a system that would allow automatic exchange of tax information among African countries and globally to check illegal profits shifting by multinational corporations to subsidiaries in tax haven or secrecy jurisdictions.
In its 15-point findings, the panel noted that ending illicit financial flows is a political decision by the various governments as it involved issues of abusive transfer pricing, trade mis-invoicing, tax evasion, aggressive tax avoidance, double taxation, tax incentives, unfair contracts, financial secrecy, money laundering, smuggling, trafficking and abuse of entrusted power.


The interrelationships of these issues, it stated, conferred a technical character requiring transparency across all aspects to ensure access to information and the right to obtain such information.
The Panel, which noted illegal profits shifting by multinational corporations as one of the biggest single source of illicit outflows in the continent, advised countries to ensure that the automatic exchange of tax information be subject to national capacity, to maintain the confidentiality of price-sensitive business information.

The dependence on natural resource extraction, it noted, makes African countries vulnerable to illicit financial flows, pointing out that there was need to pay attention to activities in the sector in an effort to check illicit financial flows in Africa.
“African countries need to acquire the capacities and technology to monitor extraction of their natural resources better and to negotiate contracts more effectively,” the report said.

According to the report, tax incentives were not usually guided by cost-benefit analyses, as such African countries grant a host of tax incentives, such as tax holidays, investment allowances, tax rate reductions and administrative discretion in order to attract foreign direct investment, FDI.
Considering the effort needed in asset recovery and repatriation, the report said regulations and mechanisms were needed to ensure that financial establishments and banks identified and refuse to accept illicit financial flows, rather than relying on self-regulation by banks.
Money laundering, the panel noted, continues to require attention from the governments, with weak national and regional capacities impeding efforts to curb illicit financial flows.
Noting the impediments of incomplete global structure for tackling illicit financial flows, the report stressed the need for financial secrecy jurisdictions to come under closer scrutiny, challenging the AU to lead the effort to initiate measures to block all avenues for illicit financial flows, considering that the sources were from within the continent.


The Panel recommended that African governments engage with non-African private and public actors involved in developing mechanisms, policies and laws adopted by intergovernmental organisations and governments outside the continent that facilitate the flow of illicit funds out of Africa.
Considering that the bulk of illicit financial flows, such as trade mispricing and transfer pricing, are trade-based, the Panel asked African countries to develop laws and regulations that make it illegal for operators to intentionally, incorrectly or inaccurately state the price, quantity, quality or other aspects of trade in goods and services while moving capital or profits to another jurisdiction, or manipulate, evade, or avoid any form of taxation, including customs and excise duties.
Besides, the panel recommended that all agencies involved in revenue collection in Africa must ensure that all big and small corporations were not only registered for tax purposes, but also ensure that no corporate registration was approved without proof of tax registration.
While ensuring that the databases of the companies’ registration offices and the tax authorities were linked, the Panel urged African States’ customs authorities to proactively use available databases containing information on comparable pricing of world trade in goods to analyse imports and exports, while identifying transactions that required additional scrutiny.
On transfer pricing, the Panel asked national and multilateral agencies to ensure that data on trade pricing on goods and services in international transactions were made available according to accepted coding system categories.
African countries, it said, should, as a matter of urgency, establish and equip transfer pricing units in revenue in accordance with global best practices and ensure that multinational companies operating in their domains provided the units with a comprehensive report on their disaggregated financial reporting on a country-by-country or subsidiary-by-subsidiary basis.
It said countries and companies operating in extractive industries in the continent should not only join voluntary initiatives like the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI, but also demand beneficial ownership information during company incorporation or trusts registration.
Again, the panel called for the establishment of independent institutions and agencies of government, like financial intelligence units, anti-fraud agencies, customs and border agencies, revenue agencies, anti-corruption agencies and financial crime agencies charged with responsibility of preventing illicit financial flows.
All such agencies, it said, should render regular reports on their activities and findings to the national assemblies, while central banks and financial supervision and regulatory authorities must compel banks and non-financial institutions to ensure mandatory reporting of transactions that may be tainted with illicit activity.
To check corruption in the system, the panel urged African governments to assist financial institutions by regularly publishing the lists of politically exposed persons, PEPs, as well as any asset declarations information filed by them.



http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/176141-n6-87trillion-stolen-nigeria-yearly-au-report.html

Mtcheeeeeew! [size=22pt]Sai Buhari!![/size]

Firefire:
Brainwashed poster

Okay! Jonathanian

Firefire:
We don hear...

Empty poster!

Why are the PDP and jonathan afraid of handing over power??

THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that postponing the general elections is not a solution to address the country’s insecurity situation.

It urged government to immediately put in place a conducive environment for the conduct of the elections.

In a statement by its General Secretary, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, in Abuja, the umbrella body of Nigerian workers said it was not in support of those calling for the postponement of the elections.

He said they appreciate the security situation in the country, there was no guarantee that the security situation will improve in the next few months, adding that postponing the election has the potential of confirming the allegations of manipulation by government.

The statement entitled: “Do not postpone elections,” said: “Recently, the National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, citing security concerns, urged the government to postpone the general elections.

“While we at the Congress appreciate the security situation in the country, especially in the Northeast, we stand to be counted on the side of those who argue for holding of elections on their prescribed dates.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/nlc-opposes-shift-polls/

MalcoImX:
Let him come back. He's here shouting "hypocrisy', 'hypocrisy' not knowing that he's the real hypocrite. They always begin with something like: "I am not a GEJ supporter ....but ....Buhari/APC is ....
My problem with such people is, why can't just lay their points and ask for our votes rather than being 2faced?

They are the worst set of hypocrites on earth! How can you be ashamed to identify with the person you support yet turn around to praise him and malign his opponent and call yourself a neutral commentator??

The guy don run away from his thread!!

derrick333:
Witout rigging Jona wunt win

And the rigging has to be monumental and massive!

eighTHREAD:
Shut up! That's a [size=67pt]Massive Crowd[/size]

Cc Ceo4eva!!

No wonder Abati/Ceo4eva Couldn't photoshop this one! This man is a goner!!!