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 Politics / Re: Edo 2020 Governorship Election Debate On Channels TV: PDP Vs APC by Clevite(m): 7:36pm On Sep 13, 2020 |
Not always easy to debate being an incumbent! The scale always swings against the incumbent because he gets what to criticise. It's not so with a challenging candidate like Ize-Iyamu because there is basically nothing to rate him upon. So it is easy for him to pick holes in his opponent's programme. 12 Likes |
| Health / Re: Ebonyi Takes Over Mission Hospital As 100-year Lease Expires by Clevite(m): 4:53pm On Sep 09, 2020 |
It is more laughable when Ebonyi Government cited deterioration in quality services as part of its explanation for taking over of the hospital. A private hospital that has kept existing for over a hundred years and still running can least be accused of lack of proper management in Nigeria. How many of Government's property, not to talk of hospitals, of less than 20 years are still in good existence? It is the choice of citizens to decide never to patronize an entity they deem not offering quality services. It is not a ground for any government to turn that private organization to its own. Government can only play a regulatory role. Now, every government can now go on to take over private businesses and turn them to state property on a flimsy excuse of lack of quality services. Ebonyi State Government has set an horrible precedence not even witnessed under the worst of military juntas. It appears the Ebonyi State Government is just labouring to bring up an excuse to justify a take over exercise for no sound reasons. Ebonyi State Government might have privately approached the Presbyterian Church to release the Hospital for it to convert to a University Teaching Hospital and the Church had refused. That might be the reason for this forceful, authoritarian and tyrannical take over and nothing more. The Ebonyi State's claim that it took over the ownership of the Hospital in order to forestall a breakdown of law and order between the Presbyterian Church and Uburu community is the most comical of it all. It reminds one of the draconian powers exercised by those primitive kings of the olden days. As a selfish excuse to settle a dispute between two men fighting over a girl, the king would step in and take over the beautiful girl as his wife! The Presbyterian Church Nigeria should assemble a formidable team of brilliant lawyers now to approach the Court of law to reverse this daylight robbery and devious property grabbing by the Ebonyi State Government. 2 Likes |
| Health / Re: Ebonyi Takes Over Mission Hospital As 100-year Lease Expires by Clevite(m): 4:35pm On Sep 09, 2020 |
If a land lease agreement between a community and a private establishment have expired, is government's taking over of the land and the entire property and investment concerns put on it the only or the best solution? It is purely a private matter between two private parties to an agreement which dispute can only be settled in a civil court through an action by one of the aggrieved parties. It is curious when the State Government is even speaking from both sides of the mouth. In one breath, you said the community donated the land to the Church of Scotland Mission in 1911; which means it was a gift, in another breath you claimed the community leased the land to them for 100 years; which means it was a well-documented contractual transaction. Which one does the government want us to believe? It is laughable for Ebonyi Government to say that the land was only leased to the Church of Scotland, not leased to the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria; that the Presbyterian Church only took over the hospital probably because most of the workers were members of the Church when the Church of Scotland was leaving. Imagine such a laughable story from a Government! So it is possible that a group of people can just take over a property or an establishment belonging to an organization simply because they constitute a large number amongst its workers, without proper transfer of ownership?! And the Government said the same Church of Scotland kept sending personnel to the Hospital years after it had left Nigeria, even till the 1990's! How can a Government be this self-contradicting? 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Health / Re: Ebonyi Takes Over Mission Hospital As 100-year Lease Expires by Clevite(m): 3:13pm On Sep 09, 2020 |
Government took over a private property, changed the name and renamed it after the State Government. Just like that! More than a 100-year-old establishment was taken over and all the property and the financial commitments put into it for over a period of one hundred years suddenly gone like that! This is just the government's own side of the story. The Church's own side of the story must be heard. Certainly, there should be more to this story than Ebonyi State Government has told. 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: The Best Combo In Nigeria's History? by Clevite(m): 12:38pm On Sep 08, 2020 |
Just as it was in 1984/85 when Tunde Idiagbon was the strength of Buhari's military regime, Yemi Osinbajo is the power house of this administration. That's what makes the difference. Despite the attempt to muscle him out by the cabals and power hawks around Aso Rock, Osinbajo has proved to be the best Vice President Nigeria has ever had. 2 Likes |
| Politics / Re: House Of Rep Majority Leader With His 4 Wives 27 Children- Photo by Clevite(m): 10:24am On Aug 18, 2020 |
All because a person lives only on public fund, not on proceeds of any personal business.. 3 Likes |
| Politics / Edo 2020:We’ll Support You To Take Back 2016 Stolen Mandate–BFGG Tells Ize-Iyamu by Clevite(m): 2:44pm On Jul 23, 2020 |
Adekunbi Ero ★The Church will be Honoured, says Ize-Iyamu. A group of pastors and church members in Edo State under the aegis of Believers Forum for Good Governance, BFGG, has pledged its support for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the September 19 governorship election, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, promising to help him recover the mandate allegedly stolen from him in 2016. Ize-Iyamu, pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, was the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in the election which brought in incumbent governor, Godwin Obaseki. The APC candidate lost the contest against the electoral decision in the court. The Believers’ Forum gave the assurance weekend when it presented some items to the governorship candidate at his GRA residence to support his campaign. Items donated included packets of branded bottled water and campaign flex to be hung at strategic locations across the state. Speaking at the presentation ceremony witnessed by former state deputy governor, Peter Obadan, a clergyman, President of the group, Osamuyimen Isibor, founder, God’s Household Ministry, Benin, recalled a similar support extended to Ize-Iyamu in 2016. According to Isibor, “Today, we have also come to show to our honourable that by the grace of God, we are still standing. As members and pastors holding the ground in Benin, we are the voice of the land and we control 80 percent of pastors in Benin City. We have up to 7,000 members with 180 executives across the 18 local governments in Edo State; 7000 membership that will sit in any meeting which they have come many times to see us. So, we are out to support our pastor, Osagie Ize-Iyamu to take back the mandate which was stolen from him in the last election”. Isibor, who expressed their preparedness to help out in any way, stated that “if there is any challenging areas you want us to cover, let us know. We are ready even with our own money”. Ostensibly lending credence to the recent alarm raised by the APC that its campaign billboards and other materials were allegedly being removed and destroyed by agents of the state government, the clergyman made a similar complaint. According to him, “One other thing we noticed is that we put one big flex in two areas, they went to remove them. We don’t know who is doing that. Anytime we put it on billboard, they will go there and tear it to replace it with PDP’s own. The last time I saw one, I confronted them. Only God knows how they almost removed my cap. I said I am the chairman of this body so you must come down now; we paid for it. However, we couldn’t stop them”. Expressing conviction that Ize-Iyamu would deliver as governor, Isibor said “We have seen the SIMPLE agenda he has come up with and it showed he has very good programmes for Edo people. He has promised to bring out loans of not less than five percent interest to support people who are in business… Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu will not be moving from house to house to be giving people money. By so doing, all these business centres ; that is why we are reaching out to these business centres to tell them that it will profit them”. He said the APC candidate also made a strong commitment to solve the problem of flooding in the state. “And we saw the vision and his passion; and as one of our colleagues, we are standing behind him to take over Edo State in 2020”, Isibor stated. Accepting the donation, Ize-Iyamu thanked them for their support which he noted, had been consistent. Acknowledging their moral and financial support before and now, the former secretary to the state government said “I want to let you know that by the grace of God, your efforts will not be in vain. I believe that this is God’s time. The last time (2016), we were saying the future is now. This time, we are saying God’s time is now. I believe we will achieve this and it will be to the glory of God. “I want to thank you and let you know that the Church will be honoured. And when we are talking about the Church, we are talking about you and I because we are the Church; and you have shown so much commitment. God does not even believe you should sow and not reap. There is a time to sow, and there is a time to reap; and by the grace of God, I believe that after September 19, we will be able to say that yes, indeed, the government is in our hands and we will be able to do well with it”. Source: https://tell.ng/well-support-you-take-back-2016-stolen-mandate-believers-forum/amp/ :Pp=22505&__twitter_impression=true |
| Politics / Re: Edo 2020: Wike, Fintiri, Others Strategise To Defeat APC by Clevite(m): 7:15am On Jul 16, 2020 |
IpobAntidote:By then, democracy will have sustained serious injuries and be in danger in Edo and Nigeria. US, UK, EU, ECOWAS, AU and UNO will then be called to come and rescue democracy lying in ICU! 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics / Re: Mala Buni Of Yobe Appointed CTC Chairman Of APC by Clevite(m): 1:39pm On Jun 25, 2020 |
OBAGADAFFI:Once the NWC has been dissolved,there is no more Chairman or Acting Chairman. Victor Giadom laid claim to being an Acting Chairman by virtue of him being a member of the NWC, in the first place. |
| Politics / Edo Election: Ize-Iyamu Scales Court Hurdle As APC Candidate by Clevite(m): 12:39pm On Jun 25, 2020 |
Benin High Court has declared the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Edo State, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, eligible to contest last week’s primaries. https://ait.live/edo-poll-ize-iyamu-scales-court-hurdle-as-apc-candidate/amp/?__twitter_impression=true 9 Likes 1 Share
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| Politics / Re: Ajimobi Has Been Discharged From The Hospital by Clevite(m): 10:09am On Jun 25, 2020 |
Somodooo:You still see Tinubu to attack in this news, too?! 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: An Open Letter To Tinubu By Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK) by Clevite(m): 8:18am On Jun 25, 2020 |
One fascinating thing is that these similar things have been said over and over in the past about this same man. 30 Likes 6 Shares |
| Politics / Re: Rivers State APC Suspends Victor Giadom by Clevite(m): 5:50pm On Jun 21, 2020 |
millhouse:The Magnus Abe faction that has just been recently affirmed by Court as the legally recognised Rivers State chapter of the APC. 10 Likes |
| Politics / Re: APC Waiver For Victor Giadom As Dep. Nat. Secretary and Acting National Secretar by Clevite(m): 12:26am On Jun 21, 2020 |
Agboriotejoye:You quoted Salihu's words and I refer to the same words you quoted as they agree with the provision of APC's Constitution that nomination of a Party member for a position is made from Ward level which is the primary constituency of every party member, to his LGA up to the State level and then to the Zone which only endorses the nomination. And I gave you Article 3(iii) of APC's Constitution that spells out the constituencies in their ascending order. There no complexity in the news saying that Rivers APC nominates. It is actually in order and not invalid because a ward is just a component of the larger political structure of a State. And as a matter of fact, a ward cannot forward a nomination straight to the NWC. It has to pass from LGA to State level, then endorsed by the Zone up to the final ratification by the NWC/NEC. What I'm telling you is not by my logic. It's by the Constitution of the Party in quetion. |
| Politics / Re: APC Waiver For Victor Giadom As Dep. Nat. Secretary and Acting National Secretar by Clevite(m): 11:45pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
Agboriotejoye: Don't you see that your reference above actually supports my position that appointment into a National Office of a Party starts with the nomination of and support from the nominee's primary Constituency, which is his ward and then to the endorsement by Committees from his Zonal constituents? Zonal caucuses only meet to endorse the nomination already made from his ward up to his State level. The fate of every Party Officer at any level rests on their status at the ward level. That's the spirit of the Constitutional provisions, gentleman. |
| Politics / Re: APC Waiver For Victor Giadom As Dep. Nat. Secretary and Acting National Secretar by Clevite(m): 11:29pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
Agboriotejoye: Yes! The President and Governors as aspirants within the Party must be nominated and supported from their primary wards to be eligible to contest for the ticket to vie for election into the Offices under the Party flagship. What do you think the idea of picking Nomination Forms by Presidential and Gubernatorial aspirants is all about? Who is nominating who? Get the Constitution and Electoral Guidelines of any major Party and get yourself familiar with all these things. |
| Politics / Re: APC Waiver For Victor Giadom As Dep. Nat. Secretary and Acting National Secretar by Clevite(m): 11:12pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
Agboriotejoye: There is no provision of the Party or any Party whatsover, apart from APC, that permits a member to occupy any National Office without nomination and support from his primary base, his constituency. No Zone can impose a candidate from a State on his State Chapter without their contribution. Read Article 31(1)(iii) with Articles 2 & 3(iii) to get a clearer understanding. It does not support even a common sense, rather than law, for a Party Officer not to need the people of his Ward and State to get to a National Office only for him to need them when he is to apply for a waiver in the same office. For Giadom to have been elected/appointed into the Office of the Deputy National Secretary, he had passed through the nomination process through his Ward to the State and Zonal constituents. And when he was to seek a waiver to retain that Office till he would be nominated to contest for an elective office, that's why he had to apply again through his Ward up to his LGA , State and Zone as provided for in Article 3(iii) of the Party Constitution. So it is wrong to say that Giadom did not need his Ward or Rivers State Party Chapter when he occupied the NWC Office. He actually did. Now, the same people have exercised their power in nominating another person to replace him. And I tell you, it is a valid nomination. |
| Politics / Re: APC Waiver For Victor Giadom As Dep. Nat. Secretary and Acting National Secretar by Clevite(m): 10:48pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
Agboriotejoye: No! But their nomination must come from their primary constituencies as relevant to them i.e. their wards. Their nomination must be supported by their wards primarily, before they can be endorsed to be validly appointed or elected into the offices by the State or Zonal constituents relevant to them, as the case may be. It doesn't mean all the wards in their State, Zone or Country, when the position is a national one. Without their nomination being made and supported from the primary constituents/wards, no Party member can validly hold any office within the Party at State or National level. For an Officer of the Party to be qualified to hold any office within the Party at State or National level, he must be nominated for it through his ward. And for him to be granted a waiver to retain that Office while seeking for nomination or a ticket to contest in a general election, as in the case of Giadom, he must apply for it through his Ward, too. Article 31(3)(iii) of the APC's Constitution provides: "A person may be granted a waiver ONLY ON THE CONDITION that: He or she applied for waiver in writing to the National Working Committee of the Party THROUGH HIS/HER APPROPRIATE WARD, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA/AREA COUNCIL, STATE, FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, and ZONAL COMMITTEES." |
| Politics / Re: APC's Resolution Lifting Oshiomole's Suspension by Clevite(m): 7:32pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
AntonVince:In the absence of Chairman, all they need is to form a quorum and then elect one of them as Chairman in acting capacity, then the meeting is properly held and any resolution passed thereat becomes valid. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics / Re: APC Waiver For Victor Giadom As Dep. Nat. Secretary and Acting National Secretar by Clevite(m): 7:07pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
Agboriotejoye:Relevant constituency there refers to the specific constituency applicable to levels or hierachy of position a member seeks to occupy in or through the Party. For instance, for the level of a Ward Chairman, nomination is limited to members of that Ward from various units. For a Local Government Party Chairman, nomination must come from all Wards in the LGA, for the State Party Chairman,then constituencies relevant for his nomination are all the LGAs in the State and so on. |
| Politics / Re: APC Waiver For Victor Giadom As Dep. Nat. Secretary and Acting National Secretar by Clevite(m): 6:53pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
Agboriotejoye:South or South-South, Giadom couldn't have represented a Zone or a Sub-Zone in the Party without having a leg to stand in his own Constituency. He must be nominated and presented by his constituent members. That's the Constitutional requirement.He can't avoid it. How could Giadom have represented a whole political Zone comprising of many States, without being nominated by Rivers State, his own very constituency? Even the President and the Governor, before being elected to occupy those Offices, must be nominated from their ward as a matter of primary condition. |
| Politics / Re: Rivers APC Sends Replacement For Victor Giadom by Clevite(m): 6:01pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
The nominstion for replacement is validly done. I've said it somewhere on another thread that the foundation of all that any party member wants to become within any political party starts from his or her local Constituency. He or she must first be nominated by their constituents before they can stand any chance of being elected or appointed into any office within the Party or in a general election. And to be removed, it must start from the base, the Constituency. The process for the suspension of Adams Oshiomole as Party Chairman rightly started from his Constituency, only that the people that started it were in the minority; they didn't make the required number. They didn't also follow it through to ratification level by the NWC/NEC. They stopped at the State level. Giadom has been successfully removed from his Constituency, if the members that nominated his replacement made the required number at Ward level. All that is needed is NWC's ratification and it stands, unless the NEC decides otherwise during their next Convention. At that time, it would be a game of number, power and intrigues. (Modify) (Quote) (Report) (Share) 1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics / Re: APC Waiver For Victor Giadom As Dep. Nat. Secretary and Acting National Secretar by Clevite(m): 5:34pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
Agboriotejoye: In fact, Giadom did not only represent Rivers State in the NWC, his being there had a lot to do with the interest of his Zone, South South, within the party hierachy. What do you think is the reason why Ekiti State chapter of the APC went to court to contest the position of Ajimobi as the Deputy National Chairman (South) in the NWC? It's because the man that vacated the position to become a Minister, Mr Adeniyi Adebayo, is from Ekiti State. And so, they felt it is unfair not to have been allowed to nominate another person from the State. |
| Politics / Re: APC Waiver For Victor Giadom As Dep. Nat. Secretary and Acting National Secretar by Clevite(m): 5:27pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
Agboriotejoye: You can actually agree or disagree without throwing manner to the wind, friend! According to Article 31(1)(iii) of APC's Constitution, "All nominations into elective offices shall be supported by a specified number of nominations from the RELEVANT CONSTITUENCIES, as may be prescribed or provided for in the Party's Electoral Guidelines". The foundation of all anyone wants to become within any political party starts from local constituency. He or she must first be nominated by their constituents before they can stand any chance of being elected into any office within the Party or in a general election. That's why the process for the suspension of Adams Oshiomole as Party Chairman could be started from his constituency. |
| Politics / Re: APC Waiver For Victor Giadom As Dep. Nat. Secretary and Acting National Secretar by Clevite(m): 4:58pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
Agboriotejoye:You're nominated from your primary constituency, that is, ward, to be qualified to occupy an office at the National level of the Party. That's the constitutional provision of every political party. And if you are to be disqualified or removed, the process must start from your constituency, except you willingly resign. |
| Politics / Re: APC Waiver For Victor Giadom As Dep. Nat. Secretary and Acting National Secretar by Clevite(m): 4:42pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
Unfortunately for Giadom, the said waiver has no legs to stand in APC's Constitution. He can't take it to court to enforce it and succeed. APC's Constitution only makes provision for a waiver for a person who was not a member but who came shortly before a general election to be the Party's flagbearer. It is also for an Executive Officer of the Party to be permitted not to resign from his office 30 days prior to the date of his nomination or to the date of Party primary to contest for an elective Office in a general election. Article 31(1)(iii) of APC's Constitution makes it mandatory that any Party Officer seeking to contest an election " SHALL RESIGN and LEAVE OFFICE 30 days prior to the date of nomination or Party Primary for the Office he or she is seeking to contest." Article 30(2) empowers the NWC to grant him waiver for the Provision. By implication, it only means that the requirement to resign 30 days to his nomination can be waived. It means the Party Constitution only permits him to remain in office without resigning until the day of his nomination or getting the ticket to contest at the Party Primary, after which he SHALL LEAVE or vacate the Office, according to Article 31(1)(iii). The Officer is deemed automatically to have leaved or vacated that Office from the day he secures Party's ticket or nomination to contest in a general election. That's the reason, in the case of Victor Giadom, for his seeking for a waiver "requesting to resume office following the conclusion of the 2019 General Election". You don't resume to where you didn't vacate from in the first place. But unfortunately for him, there is no provision for such resumption or return in APC's Constitution. No mention is made of waiver for an executive member who had become the Party's flagbearer to contest for an elective office seeking to return back to the executive position, like the case of Giadom. The waiver granted to him was just a gentleman political arrangement initially aimed at reconciling him and Amaechi, his godfather, with the Party. It can be reneged upon or reversed. And that's what the NWC had done by ratifying his resignation, immediately he started laying claim to the Party's highest Office again. And Giadom can't successfully seek to enforce the waiver because it has no foundation in their Constitution. No part of the Party's Constitution empowers the NWC to grant waiver for return of Exco members back to Office, after contesting an election. If there is, it would have been an unconstitutional act on the part of the NWC to repost him to another position, as they have done for Giadom, giving him the post of an Acting National Secretary instead of the Office of the Deputy National Secretary from which he left to contest. All it means is that it is just a gentleman's arrangement accepting him back into the Executive position in the first place having vacated the position to seek an elective office. |
| Politics / Re: Kabiru Adjoto Threatens Hope Uzodinma, Tells Him To Steer Clear Of The State by Clevite(m): 10:25pm On Jun 19, 2020 |
If this do not qualify as a criminal threat to life worthy of arrest and prosecution, then the Police and the Judiciary should free all convicts who have been committed to prisons for far less threat to life statements than this. 93 Likes 10 Shares |
| Politics / Re: APC Crisis: Fresh Suit Asks Court To Bar INEC From Recognising Ajimobi, Eta by Clevite(m): 8:12pm On Jun 19, 2020 |
By the time a hearing date is fixed for the, APC has already had a candidate on Monday. 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: Court Restrains Victor Giadom From Parading Himself As Member APC NWC by Clevite(m): 7:50pm On Jun 19, 2020 |
fergie001:Alright. Let's keep our fingers crossed. |
| Politics / Re: Court Restrains Victor Giadom From Parading Himself As Member APC NWC by Clevite(m): 7:46pm On Jun 19, 2020 |
fergie001:What I'm saying is that the waiver to come back to the position after resigning, contesting and losing an election is not a provision of the Party Constitution. It is just a gentleman political arrangement between them, which can be reneged upon or cancelled. That's what the NWC has done by coming back to ratify his resignation. |
| Politics / Re: Court Restrains Victor Giadom From Parading Himself As Member APC NWC by Clevite(m): 7:30pm On Jun 19, 2020 |
fergie001:That provision for waiver in Article 31(2) is only talking about a waiver that can be granted to an officer of the party mandated under Article 31(1)(iii) to resign from office at least with a 30-day notice prior to nomination or party primary. What that means is that the requirement for his resignation can either be waived for him to contest while still holding that position or for him to be permitted to resign less than 30 days to the primary election as required by the Article 31(1)(iii). The waiver provision doesn't talk about returning back to the executive position for an officer who had contested an election, lost and seeking to return back to the position. You can read it more carefully. |
| Politics / Re: Court Restrains Victor Giadom From Parading Himself As Member APC NWC by Clevite(m): 7:27pm On Jun 19, 2020 |
fergie001:That provision for waiver in Article 31(2) is only talking about a waiver that can be granted to an officer of the party mandated under Article 31(1)(iii) to resign from office at least with a 30-day notice. What that means is that the requirement for his resignation can either be waived for him to contest while still holding that position or for him to be permitted to resign less than 30 days to the election as required by the Article 31(1)(iii). The waiver provision doesn't talk about returning back to the executive position for an officer who had contested an election, lost and seeking to return back to the position. You can read it more catefully. |
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