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2019: THINK A BETTER LIFE, THINK ATIKU.
On the hunger and poverty issue that pervades the land,Atiku comes handy as the answer. He has a long drawn reputation for compassion and generosity. As a private citizen, he has touched the lives of many across the land. He has rescued the poor, fed the hungry and given succor to the needy with his private resources. Will he not do better with public resources at his disposal? And will the current on hunger and poverty in the land not be a thing of the past under his watch? Atiku is the best pilot to pilots the affairs of a better Nigeria. Think a better life, think Atiku.
# ProjectAtiku2019

May 15, 2018

Press Statement

Health Strike: Buhari’s Refusal To Act Is Height of Insensitivity.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the refusal by President Muhammadu Buhari to address the devastating strike action by health workers across the country, is a clear manifestation of insensitivity to the plight and suffering of Nigerians.

We lament the anguish of hundreds of Nigerians who are abandoned and dying by the day in our public hospitals, just because President Buhari and his dysfunctional All Progressives Congress (APC) attach no importance to issues that concern the average Nigerian.

Is it not the height of insensitivity that while Nigerians in dire need of medical attention are languishing, President Buhari abandoned them without any form of intervention and embarked on medical tourism in London with our common patrimony?

As if that was not enough, upon his return to Nigeria, instead of summoning an emergency meeting of critical stakeholders to find solution to the problem, Mr. President abandoned the striking health workers and chose to organize and attend a political rally in Jigawa state for a doomed 2019 re-election bid.

Such aloofness by the government is directly responsible for the escalation of killings and bloodletting in Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Plateau, Kogi, Zamfara, Borno, Yobe, Kaduna states and others parts of the country, where marauders and insurgents are pillaging our citizens as if overlooking the plight of Nigerians has become a state policy.

In the PDP, the health, security and welfare of Nigerians remain pivotal to us and that is why we feel pained that compatriots are dying in their numbers because of the refusal of the Buhari-led APC administration to address the health workers’ strike.

The PDP, therefore, stands with Nigerians at this critical time. We identify with the sick and those who have lost their loved ones under this present circumstance and urge all public-spirited individuals, humanitarian organizations and the international community to come to the aid of our nation, since it has become clear that the Buhari administration has no agenda for the health sector.

Furthermore, while we plead with the health workers to be open to ways to solve the problem, we charge Nigerians to support one another and adhere to all health etiquettes to forestall an outbreak of epidemic and health crisis.

Finally, the world have now seen why Nigerians have reached a consensus not to allow this insensitive and anti-people APC administration to continue beyond 2019.

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary

BREAKING!



Again, Police Set To Forcefully Move Melaye To Lokoja With Helicopter

BY James Badmus



The authorities of the Nigeria Police has perfected plan to move the Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, to Lokoja to face trial over alleged illegal firearms possession and arming of political thugs, even when the case is billed for hearing in Abuja as directed by the acting chief judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Abdul Kafarati.

Save for last-minute change of plan, Melaye will be ferried to the Kogi State capital tomorrow Wednesday in a police helicopter after same attempt to transport the popular lawmaker to Lokoja last week Tuesday failed.

Melaye is currently admitted at the National Hospital Abuja after sustaining injuries while resisting his forced movement to Lokoja by the operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), saying he had been marked for assasination.

He is the first Nigerian lawmaker to survive a recall move, which was apparently instigated and heavily financed by the Kogi State government.

Releiable sources at the Nigeria Police headquarters in Abuja said the plan to take Melaye to Lokoja for the second time will take place tomorrow and the means have changed from land transport to air transport for "security reasons".

It was gathered that the latest move by the Police is contrary to medical advice from the authorities of the National Hospital in Abuja, a similar scenario that played out last Tuesday night at Zankli Hospital where Melaye was initially hospitalised, a development which led to the arrest of a medical doctor and Melaye's younger brother.

Sources at the hospital confided in our reporter that Melaye is not medically fit to be taken away to any location for now.

Workers’ Day: Tapping into our greatest weapon - Atiku Abubakar
Nigerian workers, I congratulate you for this day. I salute your courage and resilience going through one of the most trying economic times in Nigeria’s history. But these challenges are showing how resilient and hardworking Nigerians are and that your indomitable spirit and work ethic will continue to go unchallenged throughout all of Africa.
These values have been the bedrock of Nigeria’s labour movement since its beginning. A movement which started off to protect the welfare of railway workers and later coal miners in the days of colonial administrations in Nigeria. A movement that has grown in height and status as the single largest rights protection organization, representing not less than sixty million workers in our country.
Owing to the sheer size of its membership, the labour movements in Nigeria – under the umbrellas of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress – have evolved to become the pivot of governments’ objectives of delivering good governance and providing higher standard of living.
Over the years, our labour movements have negotiated higher wage regimes for the Nigerian worker and it (labour) has remained a key component in the consideration for how much Nigerians pay on fuel and energy consumption. These are noble ideals that have ensured that Nigerians have more disposable income – an important safeguard for the kick-start of a prosperous economy.
Having been in government at a high level and being a private sector player with thousands of Nigerians on the payroll of my companies mean that I have seen first-hand the needs of workers both in the private and public sectors and the importance of the labour movement. But as I have stated throughout my adult life, true federalism and a proper decentralization of resources and functions away from the government at the center to the governments at the state tier of our governmental structure is key to providing the labour force what they need and deserve. I believe that our federal government will become smarter when it is smaller and more flexible in addressing the needs of our labour force.
But we must have tangible solutions to address the needs of our incredible and talented labour force. Let’s engage our leaders on the following:
1. Minimum wage: It is my firm belief that whoever works should be adequately rewarded. The reward of a service well rendered is a reasonable wage that can keep the earner sensibly motivated to put in his best. The minimum wage of ₦18,000 per month (less than $50), as is currently obtained in the country, considering the current economic reality is not only ill-motivating but embarrassing.
While it is adequate that the federal government can set the standard for the national minimum wage, such a national minimum should however not be interpreted by respective state governments (especially the rich states) as being the maximum wage they should pay to their workers but simply the baseline for them to build on.
2. Industrialization: The continuing rate of de-industrialization in our economy is of grave concern. Particularly our manufacturing sector which is supposed to create jobs for our productive youths, has continued to face decline as a result of unfavourable conditions imposed by the challenges of epileptic power supply, high cost of credit, and multiple exchange rate regime and in extreme case inadequate foreign exchange supply and depreciating value of the naira. This trend must be reversed. Ability to broker the required synergy with international partners and the private sector in key sectors of the economy such as automobile, textiles, service industry, agro allied petrochemicals, fertilizers and pharmaceutical industries, building materials, milling, paper and paper products, solid minerals, iron and steel, etc., should be the basis for the 2019 engagement with the organized labour and the Nigerian people.
3. Education: Our Educational Sector has continued to suffer decline. Agreements freely entered into by the Unions and the government have experienced serious setbacks as a result of the authorities’ penchants for reneging. This has persistently left us with a demotivated academic and non-academic Unions in the higher institution whose understandable resort to incessant strikes have rendered our institutions of higher learning comatose and pushes a substantial number of our youths out of the shores of the country in search of a more stable academic calendar and quality scholarship. This has exerted tremendous pressure on the foreign exchange of the country aided capital flight.
Funding for the educational sector has remained decimally low. The country has over the years, performed far below the international standard in terms of annual appropriation to the education sector. This problem cuts across all tiers of government. As we speak today, the Central Bank of Nigeria is in custody of billions of Naira, funds representing the Federal Government’s share of the Universal Basic Education Fund, which state governments are expected to draw from by paying their own counterpart funding. Majority of the states have failed to benefit from this fund because they have not provided the required matching funds.
I am a firm believer in our youths and the height at which they can take this country if accorded quality and affordable education. We have seen what investment in education has done to the economies of the Asian countries. Nigeria has a better potential if a little more attention is accorded to developing our human resources through the education of our youth and adult population. We must increase funding for our education and research institutions where the foundational rubrics of our development can be hatched and nurtured.
4. Healthcare delivery. Nigeria’s Healthcare delivery system is in shambles. The system is exposed to poor funding and massive corruption. The rot in the system is so deep that unless a drastic measure is taken to comprehensively address it, the country might lose the chance to be a global player when its citizens can’t have access to quality health care that is affordable. There is an urgent need to make serious commitments to massive investment in the healthcare delivery system. We need a leadership that can gather enough investment in the upgrade of infrastructure and procurement of modern healthcare technology and equipment for our hospitals and primary and secondary healthcare facilities.
This would drastically reduce the annual lose to medical treatment abroad. It is on record that Nigeria loses so much annually as a result of capital flight and medical tourism. We must work to ensure that the Africa Union’s Ministers of Health minimum benchmark/
threshold of at least 15% annual budget for healthcare is not just an aspiration but a target that must be surpassed.
5. Pension: I was one of the apostles of pension reform when I was in Government. We initiated and got the pension reform act passed into Law to address the serious challenge that turns our workers into beggars after retirement. Recently, there seems to be a deterioration in the administration of pension in the country. Incidences of MDAs and other employers withholding deductions from workers’ salaries and not remitting same to their Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs); cases of workers leaving public service and having to wait for up to 15-18 months for their pension issues to be processed; and non-payment for those who are already pensioners – especially by state governments are becoming not just rampant but alarming. This indeed needs to be seriously addressed.
Many state governments are yet to join the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS). It is apparent that despite all the hitches associated with the Contributory Pension Scheme, its benefits cannot be compared to its shortcomings. A critical factor here is that it is funded, and the funds once paid into the Retirement Savings Accounts (RSAs) of workers, are protected from the general mismanagement and misappropriation that we see at virtually all levels of governance.
These reforms once embraced by the government and political parties of all shades will expand our economic base and address the needs of empowering our youths, and there is no doubt that the labour movement in Nigeria has a huge role to play in ensuring that the objectives are met.
In closing, if we truly wish to address the needs of all Nigerians. If we wish to end the violence, extremism, and terrorism that grips our nation. If we wish to create a nation where we can see and hug our children and grandchildren every day and not only see them when they return from foreign lands where they have a better quality of life. We must create jobs and develop an economy that unites us and gives all of us a common purpose of building this great nation into what it truly can be. The weapon to fix this great nation is not one purchased from a foreign government, but one that is found within each and every one of us – the weapon of pride and an unyielding desire to work and succeed. If we allow this weapon to reach its maximum potential by empowering our labour force then we would have set the standard for a rebirth that will unite us, protect us, and get Nigeria working again.
God bless Nigerian workers.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

ATIKU DID NOT MARRY ANY NEW WIFE IN DUBAI: HE WAS ONLY INVITED TO GRACE A WEDDING: DISREGARD EVERY RUMOUR

The former Vice President, His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, did not marry any new wife in Dubai. The public is advised to disregard the propaganda peddled around on social media.

Rather, he was invited along with other dignitaries to grace the wedding ceremony of Anthony Chuka-Douglas and Whitney Erin Woods.

In his characteristics of being very social, His Excellency Atiku Abubakar amongst others danced freely to the rhythm of the music.

To this effect, the Atiku Media Office had issued the following through twitter:

"Rumours that HE @atiku got married to a new wife in Dubai are outright lies & fabrication. The former VP, family & friends among them Obi of Onitsha were honoured to have graced the wedding ceremony of Anthony Chuka-Douglas and Whitney Erin Woods."

For avoidance of doubt, attached is the 56 seconds video being circulated to attempt to back up this unfounded propaganda with the view to portray him in black. In the video he only danced for 47 seconds and moved on to continue his socialising with others.

The Waziri Adamawa was busy socialising, as it is said, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" and supporters of his opponents are busy circulating unsubstantiated rumour instead of selling their own candidates.

His religion only permits him to marry maximum of four wives and as at over 30 years ago he already had four wives; cutting across the three major tribes in Nigeria.

They are:
1. Titilayo Atiku (His first wife from Ilesha, Osun State)

2. Princess Rukaiyat Atiku (From Adamawa, Adamawa State)

3. Fatima Atiku (From Borno State)

4. Iwenjora Atiku (From Onitsha, Anambra State)

Therefore, the falsehood that he paid dowry in Dubai is nothing to talk about.

SIGNED:

Rev. Emmanuel Olorunmagba,
National Coordinator, Project Atiku 2019.

https://m./172906086775335?view=permalink&id=215015229231087

Buhari’s New Cabinets And Their Real Portfolios.

1) Minister of illegal subsidy payments (Muhammadu Buhari)
2) Minister of Lies (Lai Mohammed)
3) Minister of Darkness (Raji Fashola)
4) Minister of Claiming Jonathan’s Achievements for Buhari (Rotimi Amaechi)
5) Minister of Defending Herdsmen (Mansur Dan-Ali)
6) Minister of Pencil Production (Ogbonnaya Onu)
7) Minister of Sending VIPS Abroad for Healthcare (Professor Adewole).
Minister of Borrowing and Phonetics (Kemi Adeosun)
9) Minister for Cattle Colony (Audu Ogbeh)
10) Minister for Covering Up The Truth About Maina and Defending Boko Haram (Abubakar Malami)
11) Inspector General of Herdsmen Protection (Idris)
12) Chief of Shiite Extermination (Buratai)
13) GMD of Northern Nigeria Petroleum Corporation (Baru)
14) Thief of Staff to the President (Abba Kyari)
Henchman of EFCC (Magu)
15) DG of Daura Security Services (Lawal Daura)
16) SSA Procurement of Fake Awards (Abike Dabiri)
17) The show SA Propaganda (Femi Adesina)
18) The Real SA Propaganda (Garba Shehu) -

-Reno Omokri.

TEAM BUHARI : IN THEIR OWN WORDS

(1) "Kill a Fulani or his cattle, and it's a debt you or your grand children will have to pay no matter how long it takes" - Nasir El-Rufai 2016.
(2) "Those Cows and Fulani killed in Southern Kaduna are from Chad, Niger, Mali, and we have paid them financial compensation" - Nasir El-Rufai 2016.
(3) "Establishment of Cattle colonies and grazing reserves in every state of the country which this government is going to do is the best solution to the herdsmen/farmers killings" - Aviation minister Hadi Sirika 2018.
(4) "These killer herdsmen are Libyans trained by late Gaddafi" - President Buhari in London April 2018.
(5) "These herdsmen people are Nigerians so you must have to live with them" - Defence minister Dan Ali 2018.
(6)"Go and accommodate your neighbours" - President Buhari to Benue state governor Ortom January 2018.
(7) "The killings and burning of villages in Benue is a mere communal clash" - IGP Idris 2018.
( "The killings by the herdsmen is because of the anti open grazing law introduced by Benue government" - Defence minister Dan Ali 2018.
(9) "I don't know that my IGP Idris did not carry out my orders to relocate to Benue state" - President Buhari 2018
(10) "We shall do everything possible to resist this obnoxious, unpopular, and unlawful anti open grazing law" - Miyeti Allah 2018
(11) "I am scared to death if those words are coming from the very people whom we have entrusted our lives to. I can't go further with more of these list of deception, lies and insincerity, rape of a national conscience, a planned unfolding of a written script/ agenda to kill, burn, drive out, replace, and occupy" - Yours sincerely 13/4/2018.
Hmmmm. God save Nigeria. � �� .
Do well to share with your contacts. Peace.

April 15, 2018

Press Statement

CHOGM: PDP Sets Agenda For Buhari

‘Tell World Leaders How Your Administration Has Wrecked Nigeria’

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) charges President Muhammadu Buhari
to use the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which opens on Monday, to inform other world leaders of the depressing state
of affairs in Nigeria under his watch.

We urge President Buhari to resist the temptation of seeking to impress world leaders with false performance indices, but should present the real situation, particularly the pitiable state of our economy, escalated insecurity, human rights abuses, daily bloodletting,
persecution of opposition and erosion of democratic values in the last
three years.

President Buhari should not forget to inform CHOGM that back home, there is a national indignation and general vote of no confidence against his administration for its abysmal performance and failure to
fulfill the littlest in the long list of bogus promises they made
during the 2015 Presidential campaign.

President Buhari should inform other world leaders that due to the harsh economic policies and gross incompetence of his administration,
our once robust economy, internationally rated as one of the fasted
growing in the world and one of the best investment destinations,
collapsed in his hands and went into a recession; that infrastructures
are collapsing and that all sectors of public and private lives are now in shambles.

He should not forget to tell the world that not only has he failed in his false promise to increase the value of naira from N1 to 1USD, his government has wrecked our currency from N160-N170 it met it in 2015 to a devastating N350-N400, with attendant horrible pressure on the
economy.

Mr. President should not forget to inform CHOGM that under his administration, more than 16 million Nigerians became unemployed, 18
million more became underemployed while another 27.44 million refused to work in 2016 for various reasons not unrelated to frustration in
the polity.

Our dear President, who is already seeking re-election, should not forget to tell the world that due to his harsh policies, the middle class has been wiped off, families are in distress; hunger, poverty and strange diseases are now ravaging our people to the extent that Nigerians, once
considered the happiest people on earth, are now resorting to slavery
and suicide as options.

President Buhari should not shy away from informing the world that his
administration has failed in guaranteeing the safety of lives and
property; that under his watch, our dear nation has become one of the most insecure countries to live in; bloodletting, violent attacks and sectorial crisis have become the order of the day; insurgents and marauders are having field day pillaging innocent citizens while our land has practically transformed into a large funeral palour.

Furthermore, President Buhari must tell the world that he has woefully
failed in his much touted fight against corruption; that his
administration is merely engaged in personal vendetta, direct persecution and media trial of opposition members, while known corrupt
persons in the All Progressives Congress (APC) continue to enjoy
official cover of his Presidency.

He should not forget to confess that his administration has done nothing about the Presidency cabal involved in the alleged stealing of N9 trillion ($25billion dollars) in NNPC and billions of naira National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) intervention funds.

We therefore urge Mr. President not to allow his handlers to mislead him to colour his presentation at CHOGM as such will detract from his integrity as a leader.

As for us in the repositioned PDP, we will continue to stand with Nigerians in their collective quest to end the APC misrule and return the nation to path of truth, national cohesion and economic
prosperity, come 2019.

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary

Text of Press Conference By the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Presented by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, On Matters of Urgent National Importance, Today, Wednesday, April 11, 2018.

Gentlemen of the Press, our dear nation is now passing through her darkest hours. Our constitutional democracy is under severe attack. Agents of fascism are on the prowl. As we speak, Nigeria, as a nation is being pushed to the brinks and personal freedom of citizens under our constitution is no longer guaranteed.

Today, in our country, there is an orchestrated plan by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government to use the state apparatus of power to coerce, emasculate and effectively decapitate opposition and other dissenting voices, foist a one-party state and push a self-succession bid for President Muhammadu Buhari, seeing that their chances of winning the presidential election gets slimmer by the day.

Currently, the APC has fully commenced a major onslaught on leaders and key voices in the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), particularly our state governors, opposition leaders in the National Assembly as well as our presidential hopefuls.

You are already aware of the numerous exposed plots by the APC and its Federal Government to frame up and humiliate the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremmadu, as well as PDP governors, particularly, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and his Ekiti state counterpart, Governor Ayo Fayose.

This is in addition to advanced plots by the Federal Government to clampdown on key leaders of the party and begin to drop in public places, alleged confessional statements made under duress in the desperate attempt to achieve a pre-determined end of validating the bandying of corruption allegations against members of the PDP.

We have also been made aware of a special presidential committee put up by the APC Federal Government to persecute our leaders. Already, no fewer than 28 cases have been filed based on trumped up charges. Also we are privy to series of clandestine meetings between agents of the APC and some compromised judicial officers to get conviction at all cost.

In the same vein, we are in the know of plots to embarrass credible individuals, particularly in the PDP, known or perceived to be interested in contesting the 2019 Presidential election, having realized that their party, the APC, is finally stuck with a very unpopular and rejected Presidential candidate, who can no longer command the support of Nigerians.

We also want to bring to the attention of the international Community that in its desperate attempt to win election, the APC-led Federal Government is stopping at nothing, including resort to undemocratic proclivities.

The world is already aware of the unrelenting Gestapo style of persecution, arrests, detention and trial of opposition members as well as perceived opponents of the government, including innocent business concerns, under the guise of war against corruption.

We are not opposed to the fight against corruption, which, of course, was started by our party, through the establishment of credible anti-corruption institutions. We however demand that prosecutions must be done in a credible, transparent, legitimate and constitutional manner. We will not allow the persecution of our members under the guise of the fight against corruption.

This is in addition to a dangerous plot to arrest and detain members of the civil society, opinion leaders, the media and other professionals on trumped up charges of alleged politicization of security issues in the country, using compromised security and judicial officers.

In the light of the above, the repositioned and rebranded PDP, under the new leadership, rallied by the Nigerian people, wants to state unequivocally and in the strongest possible term that it will not in any way fold its arms and accept any attempt by the APC and the Federal government to attack or undermine any of our leaders or members, or supporters at any level of political engagement.

Let it be known to all that this is a repositioned PDP that cannot be cowed and that we are more than able, willing and overtly ready to use all means practical and available within the ambits of the law and the principles of democracy to stiffly resist and stop the APC and the Federal Government in this evil scheme.

The PDP will no longer allow anybody to tarnish any of our elected and appointed officials, particularly our state governors and leaders in the National Assembly and members of our Working Committees at the national, zonal, state and even at the grassroots levels and will do all within our laws to protect them.

We know that our governors, especially Governor Wike and Governor Fayose have been marked because of their principled position against the obvious incompetence, corruption and undemocratic credentials of the Buhari administration, for which Nigerians have been subjected to the worst form of suffering in the last three years.

The PDP is proud of all our governors, particularly, on their achievements in the delivery of democracy dividends to the people and will not allow anybody to distract them.

We want to therefore state that if this trend does not stop, we will not hesitate to call up our members and supporters in their millions in the collective effort to protect our democracy, using legitimate means provided by the laws of our land.

It is obvious to all that the failed and rejected APC and its Federal Government are mortally afraid of the repositioned PDP that has become the new platform upon which Nigerians are now rallying to rescue our sinking ship of state from the APC at the 2019 general elections.

This nation belongs to all us, we are equal stakeholders and it lies in the hands of the electorate to decide who holds any elective office at any level and not the dictatorship of the government of the day.

We therefore directly caution the Buhari administration to desist from this attempt at foisting a siege mentality on the political class and citizenry as if we are under a military regime.

In the same vein, we urge the judiciary and all security agencies to protect their independence and resist all attempts by the APC to set them against the provisions of the law and the will of the people.

Finally, while we invite the international community to note the ugly trend in our dear nation under the APC, we charge all Nigerians not to despair but to continue to focus on their collective rallying on the platform of the PDP to achieve our collective quest to end the APC misrule and return the nation to the path of democracy, national cohesion, adherence to the rule of law and prosperity, come 2019.

Thank you for your attention.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PDP AND APC/BUHARI'S ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADE:

PDP fought corruption by blocking leakages and under PDP high ranking people were sacked and some were convicted irrespective of party affiliation. But under APC, all it takes to be a saint is to carry broom

Anti-corruption War during 16 years of PDP.

-Obasanjo sacked his police chief, Tafa Balogun for corruption.

- OBJ backed the impeachment of the then Senate President, Adolphus Wabara for alleged corruption.

-OBJ sacked his own ministers - Fabian Osuji, S.M Afolabi, Hussein Akwanga, Tim Menakaya, for alleged corruption, just as he sacked Mrs Mobolaji Osomo for alleged corruption.

- Obasanjo backed the impeachment of former governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha for alleged corruption.

-Late former president Yar'Adua sacked Mrs Adenike Grange as Minister of Health for alleged administrative infraction.

Goodluck Jonathan also sacked Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina as the chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reform for alleged corruption (Though our anti-corruption crusader, Buhari brought back Mains).

Buhari's Anti-Corruption Drama

President Mumu Buhari and his ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) party are using the anti-corruption crusade as a way of distracting Nigerians from the serious problems that the country is facing.

Fighting corruption is a noble and courageous act in a country like Nigeria where it has eaten deep into its fiber but the problem with Buhari’s anti-corruption tactics is that they are not sincere.

It is impossible to advance yourself as an anti-corruption crusader when the major benefactors of your campaign are among the most corrupt Nigerians.

After his election, Buhari gave voice to these people by appointing them to his cabinet and other governmental parastatals.

Buhari's anti-corruption agenda has been reduced to a witch-hunt of the members of the opposition Party(PDP).

It's almost 3 Years that Buhari was sworn in as President of Federal Republic of Nigeria but no member of the APC has been arrested or prosecuted. Yet, a substantial number of the members of the ruling APC have been accused of corruption, but they are protected by federal might by the man that rode on the wing of "I will fight corruption" to get to power.

Just to remind Nigerians that the N270 million grass cutting scandal has been swept under the carpet of Aso Rock.

IkoyiGate is a forgotten issue as it concerns the untouchable APC Members.

The luxurious houses in Dubai allegation has been submerged with a threat to send the military after anyone that dares to speak about it again.

Houses seized during GEJ regime over corruption cases have been returned as the owners carried broom.

The $300,000 and the 3 SUVs collected from Dasuki has turned the case to secret trial.

Even talking of the witch-hunting of PDP members, has a single person been convicted since the harassment started under Buhari 3 years ago?

#BuhariMustGo

ONE OF THOSE THAT WENT TO ASO ROCK TO SCAM BUHARI IN THE NAME OF "AREWA PASTORS" HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS HENRY SADO WHO CLAIMED TO BE A BISHOP.

One of those that went to Aso Rock to scam Buhari claiming to be "Arewa Pastors" has been identified as "Henry Sado" who claims to be a Bishop, but findings revealed that he is neither a Bishop nor ever pastored any church.

According to our discovery he does not live in the North and has no business in the north, rather he resides in Edo State.

When his face was identified in the picture (as he is marked in these pictures) his facebook account was traced and messages were sent to his friends. One of his friends contacted that responded agreed that Bishop Henry Sado truly went to Aso Rock.

He also revealed that his activities indicate that Buhari must have given them huge amount of money.

His friend, who also abhorred what the group did, said that "he is spending lavishly and he even bought a new phone worth N136,000. And this is the same person that his phone couldn't browse well and his battery is always running down fast, that it's always a serious challenge to get him on phone."

He further revealed as follows, "in fact, his Facebook account is full of posts from his friends and even on his last birthday he could not respond, upon all the birthday greetings sent to him through Facebook due to bad phone and weak battery." He concluded.

We will continue to dig into this matter. Since they promised Buhari to expose the Pastors that are against him (Buhari), we will first expose all of them to the world as Judas Iscariot. And we will continue to move against Buhari until we retire him from politics back to Daura and nothing will happen to us by the grace of God.

Nigeria is our beloved country, no Judas Iscariot can stand us in our mission to send Buhari and his APC out of Aso Rock.

1. In 2012, Boko Haram a renowned terrorist group opted for dialogue with the Federal Government under @GEJonathan. The group according to media reports nominated President Buhari as mediator. That's a landmark historical event Nigerians can't ignore.

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2. In 2013, President Buhari faulted the Federal Government's action against the terrorist group. He accused the government of killing and destroying their houses while the Niger Delta militants were given special treatment by the government.


3. In 2014, the media reported an attack on President Buhari in Kaduna. Buhari said he was the target of the bomber while his loyalist Rotimi Fashakin said “I’m sure political Boko Haram are behind the attack”. Boko Haram did not claim the attack till date.


4. In 2015, Buhari became president and later declared that he is ready to negotiate with the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists without any preconditions.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/audio-buhari-willing-to-negotiate-with-boko-haram-presidency/


5. In October 2016, the government paid the terrorist group what the London Guardian of October 14, 2016 called a “‘handsome ransom’ worth millions of dollars” in exchange for the release of 21 Chibok girls. “Millions of dollars” would add up to at least a billion naira.

6. As a reward for releasing 84 Chibok girls, the Buhari government paid Boko Haram a €2 million ransom, which adds up about N705 million, according to the Wall Street Journal of December 4, 2017.

7. On January 15, 2018, the federal government freed 244 “repentant” Boko Haram members. How the hell did they know that they are “repentant”? And what does that even mean? If you know tell me.


8. Again on February 11, 2018, the government paid Boko Haram an unspecified amount of money to free 13 hostages. In essence, Boko Haram now has a bigger, fiercer, more menacing war chest—financed from Nigeria’s public treasury— than the Nigerian military.


9. Meanwhile, in addition to paying the terrorists N705 million in 2017, five notoriously vicious Boko Haram commanders in the custody of Nigerian authorities were released. Recently, the government freed another 526 Boko Haram members, according to CNN.


10. According to BBC Hausa and Daily Trust, our soldiers who came close to capturing Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau were told to back off by unnamed honchos in Abuja. Who gave the order?


11. On Monday last week 110 pupils of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, remain unaccounted for after Boko Haram terrorists invaded their school. Then, a lot of lies started flying around.

12. NOTE | Daily Trust- largest circulating newspapers in Northern Nigeria.

The New Telegraph- chaired by Dr. Orji Kalu who is a member of APC

The Nation, you know the owner

They all published a LIE from the pit of hell on the front page.


13. After the negotiations between this government and Boko Haram, Buhari paid approximately N2 billion to rescue 105 Chibok girls and released 775 Boko Haram members.

14. After claiming that they have defeated Boko Haram, they are now using the same Boko Haram to loot our treasury in preparation for 2019 election. Approving whooping $1 billion (about N360 billion) to fight the acclaimed defeated Boko Haram is a tragedy. That is N10 billion per state if divided by 36 states.

*Is this not a government of Boko Haram by Boko Haram for Boko Haram?*

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*APC ,THE LOOTERS DEN*

1. During the initial implementation of TSA, REMITA fraudulently made N26Billion in 6 months. Do you still remember the then whistleblower? Senator Dino. Interestingly, no action from Buhari till date.

2. A government that is yet to account for $26Billion (N9Trillion) stolen through corrupt Oil contracts in the NNPC, yet APC/Buhari claim to be fighting corruption.

3. N1.1 Trillion worth of crude diverted to service APC interests, Both APC/Buhari are Quiet.

4. N18 Billion Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) intervention fund stolen by APC officials.

5. N270Million Grass-cuttering Scandal involving, Former SGF, Babachir Lawal Aka "Who is the Presidency" till date no prosecution, nothing! Babachir still walks freely majestically.

See List of 5 Companies Babachir Lawal Used In Grass-cutting Scandal:

A. Josmon Technologies Limited:
According to Senate report, Josmon Technologies Limited transferred N317 million to Rholavision between March 29, 2016 and April 20, 2016, immediately the company got the two “grass-cutting” contracts worth N530.6 million for clearing invasive plant species in Yobe State.
The transfers were said to have made in tranches, mostly N10 million per transaction, and N47 million on the last day.

B. Rholavision:
Babachir’s company, Rholavision was awarded the consultancy contract for the “grass-cutting” contract on March 8, 2016. This is a breach of Nigeria’s code of conduct for public officers and the Public Procurement Act.

C. JMT Global Technologies Ltd:
JMT Global Technologies Ltd on August 8, 2016 transferred N30 million from its Zenith Bank account 114357188 to Rholavision after he got eight contracts for “rehabilitations/renovations in Adamawa” state for the sum of N199.4 million.

D. Messrs Adamawa Boreholes and Drilling Companies Ltd:
Messrs Adamawa Boreholes and Drilling Companies Ltd transferred N18 million to Rholavision, after being awarded N54.8 million contract to renovate seven classrooms at Yeskule Girls Secondary School, Michika Adamawa state.

E. Barde Brothers Multi-Services Limited:
Barde Brothers Multi-Services Limited which got seven contracts to renovate classrooms in Adamawa state for N145 million paid N71 million to Rholavision account on October 10, 2016, and another N13 million between July 7, 2016 and September 9, 2016 to his private account.

6. N10 Billion National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for which members of the Buhari cabal were indicted.

7. MainaGate, where the APC government recalled, reinstated and promoted an individual indicted for scam running into billions of naira.

8. Buhari's Chief Of Staff, Abba Kyari indicted in MTN N500Million scam. A MTN staff named Amina Oyagbola (Dir. Of Strategic Communication) was fired for her involvement in a shoddy deal with Abba Kyari but Buhari hasn't done anything till date against his COS.

9. DG, NIA Amb. Ayo Oke, N13Billion Osbourne Towers, Ikoyi Loots investigation also swept under the carpet by Buhari.

10. President Buhari’s refusal to sack his Chief of Army Staff, General Yusuf Buratai who has been shown with overwhelming evidence to have corruptly enriched himself.

11. Sahara Energy’s $50 billion Scandal has been swept under the ground by Buhari’s aides, most notably the Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari and the Director of DSS, Lawal Musa Daura. So far, Buhari has not deemed it fit to intervene.

12. There has been mountain of petitions against Rotimi Amaechi. Amaechi has a reputation as “one of the most corrupt members of Buhari’s cabinet”. Amaechi has not been able to explain to Nigerians how he got the $36 million with which he bought Jets. His name has also been mentioned by two different judges in serious acts of corruption. President Buhari could only have the judges arrested on allegations, but not Amaechi on any allegations. He still allows Amaechi to remain in the cabinet.

13. The Lai Mohammed’s N13Million scandal in which the Minister of Information and Culture caused a letter to be written by his Director of Public Relations and Protocol to the National Broadcasting Commission requesting a loan of same amount. Buhari has refused to investigate this.

*“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.”*
*- John F. Kennedy, in his Inaugural Address January 20, 1961*

I really sympathize with those Nigerians that wasted 15million votes on this pretentiously corrupt Party called APC and Buhari!

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OSINBAJO EXPOSED: FROM ALJAZEERA

VIDEO OF HOW OSINBAJO RIPPED OFF $10 MILLION AT THE EXPENSE OF FAMILIES OF VICTIMS OF KANO FAILED DRUG TEST THAT RESULTED IN DEATHS AND PARALYSIS OF OVER 100 CHILDREN

THIS IS BEST TITLED "HOW OSINBAJO RAKED IN $10 MILLION BLOOD MONEY"

How Osinbajo threw principles of justice into the wind for $10 million (blood money) and left the victims of the 1996 vital tragedy of Kano failed drug test denied of justice, conniving to allow the heinous crime against the Nigerian children go unpunished in what was described as ethical malpractices and sheer profiteering from the tragedy.

The outbreak of Cerebral Meningitis in 1996 that affected over 109,000 resulting in 11,770 deaths in Kano, Nigeria drew sympathy from the international community.

While foreign countries were out to help Nigeria, some privileged Nigerians were scheming how to profit from the tragedy.

Pfizer was contracted to help contain the epidemic. But they flew into Nigeria with untested antibiotics only to administer them to over 100 people without first testing them on none-humans. Another tragedy struck as some of those they administered them to died, some paralysed, disoriented and others lame for life.

Both criminal and civil cases (claiming $6 billion in damages on behalf of the victims) were instituted. And Simmons-Coopers Partners of which Prof Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) was Principal Partner was contracted to stand in for the victims.

But, unfortunately Osinbajo through his law firm were settled with $10 million and they (as plaintiffs' counsel) ended the case thereby denying families of the victims justice. Thus, the heinous crime against the Nigerian children will go unpunished while Osinbajo through his law firm was $10 million richer.

This is best referred to as Blood money.

Watch the 15 minutes video for full details:

For the credit on the video, we appreciate the following international media companies:

1. Aljazeera
2. Press TV
3. Washington Post
4. Democracy Today

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BUHARI HAS RUINED NIGERIA
Our hopes are dashed. Our dreams are unrealizable within the APC's maladministrati
on. Those who work hard are in penury. Those whose lands are producing the resources
are in poverty. APC deprives those who value education. Buhari constricts those who want to be international businessmen. Buhari is holding us back from jumping into the age of technology. APC is depriving us a secularity that has been part of our cultural heritage...... APC is impeding those who want merit. Buhari is humiliating those who value integrity.
Buhari is disgracing those who want self- respect and dignity.
We should stop singing Hallelujah in Hell fire. It saddened my heart whenever some fools claim Nigeria is now a paradise on earth. They keep hailing the government even when they had ruined our economy, about 3years ago, Nigeria had the largest Economy in Africa, But reverse is the case now. Our Naira keeps losing value against the currencies and some youths are claiming all is well in this nation?
Lol. To dine with the devil, you must grab a very long spoon. If APC keeps ruling us with propaganda, we are always ready to vehemently resist and tackle them with facts and records.
I'm always ready to go to war with anybody or group in order to librate my country from the oppressor called BUHARI and ALL PARTNERS IN CRIME(APC).
#BuhariIsIncompetence

WORDS ON MARBLE:

Our situation under the APC has become so pathetic that the world is now contemplating on how to help us. Under the APC misrule, the average life span of Nigerians has become abysmally low, purchasing power is eroded, the middle class has been wiped off, security is almost non-existent, all the economic gains of the PDP years have been destroyed, and our nation is now placed on auto-pilot.

- Kola Ologbondiyan (National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party)



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March 24, 2018

Press Statement

Hacking Allegations: PDP Pillories Presidency over False Claims

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has pilloried the Presidency for falsely accusing it of hacking into President Muhammadu Buhari’s personal data in the run up to the 2015 general election.

The party said President Buhari’s handlers decided to concoct the fabrications just to divert public attention from the overwhelming national and international rejection of their administration particularly the Bill Gates’ verdict on the economy.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Saturday, said the Presidency, in its haste to dish out lies, failed to realize that contrary to its claims, the report they relied upon did not even mention the PDP or any of its officials and that it even exonerated former President Goodluck Jonathan as having no knowledge of the alleged scam.

Since the PDP has never been involved in hacking into the any person’s data, we decided to peruse the documents and publications in the Guardian UK relied upon by President Buhari’s senior special assistant, Mallam Shehu Garba, only to discover that none of them alluded to any involvement of the PDP or any of our officials or members, directly or indirectly of being in any way whatsoever a part of the said saga.

It is incontrovertible that the documents had clinically stated that, “there is no suggestion that Jonathan knew of the covert operation.” Nigerians must therefore be shocked at the extent the Buhari-led Presidency can go in its penchant for beguiling, contrivance, deceit, fabrication and lies.

Like a bunch of famished broom, it is clear that the sinking Buhari Presidency has become desperate in its bid to divert public attention from its multifarious failures and damning verdicts from national and international figures.

Furthermore, it is laughable for the Presidency to say that the PDP is afraid of elections. This is the same Presidency that recently informed Nigerians that President Buhari was delaying his declaration for 2019 for fear of political opponents.

Who is afraid of election? Is it the PDP or the President’s All Progressives Congress (APC) that has failed to conform with its constitutional provision of constituting a Board of Trustees (BOT); a party which is so afraid to conduct even internal election and had to extend the tenure of its executives because its stuck 2019 presidential candidate is even afraid of other possible contestants within its fold?

From the actions of the APC, it is manifest that the party is not only mortally afraid of elections but engaging in all manner of shenanigans to suppress opposition in our nation.

Nigerians are aware of the show of shame in Kano state, earlier today, when the APC Federal Government, out of fear of our soaring support from Nigerians, used the police to attack our members and stopped our mega rally in Gaya Local Government Area of the state.

Our message to the Presidency and the APC is that lies, propaganda and use of force will not save them from the looming electoral disgrace as Nigerians are tired of their misrule and are now rallying on our repositioned PDP to salvage our nation come 2019.

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary

Breaking: Sergeant David Bako deserts N/Army, leaks how Dapchi girls' abduction was planned in the Villa & executed with N80 million
PARIS, MARCH 24, 2018: (DGW) As many Nigerians continue to react to the Dapch girls' kidnap drama, a certain Nigerian Christian soldier, Sergeant David Bako from the Middle Belt, Plateau State to be precise has revealed how the Dapchi girls kidnap drama was plotted and executed.
He said he found it absolutely necessary to make the confession considering the criminal killings across the country which he likened to ethnic cleansing.
In an email sent to our newsroom here in Paris, Sergeant David Bako said the plot was planned and rehearsed for two weeks by Buhari's loyalists in the army of which he was one.
He said the desperation by Buhari to rule Nigeria for another four years drove him on to employ all means to make sure he remains in power.
President Buhari, he said, will be no pushover in 2019 because he has perfected plans to remain in the Villa beyond 2019.
Continuing the story, he said, they were given N80 million to execute the plot to restore the peoples' waning confidence in the Buhari government as Boko Haram stepped up attacks recently which was a complete embarrassment to the Buhari government after claiming to have defeated the Islamist sect.
He said the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks and killings in the northeast drove the government to find all means possible to regain the peoples' confidence seeing that 2019 election is as good as lost.
Buhari, he said, does not want to leave the Villa under any guise in 2019. In the email below he narrated how the plot was planned and executed.
He wrote: '' I feel constrained to make this confession and as I make this stunning confession, I am no longer in Nigeria because I have to unavoidably desert the Nigerian Army to save my life and that of my family from a possible summary execution by Buhari's secret agents.
Barnawi faction of Boko Haram knows nothing about the abduction of Dapchi girls. We were paid N80 million to carry out the abduction which we planned and rehearsed for two weeks to make it look real. 16 of us, strong Buhari's loyalists took part in the plot and were given N80 million and some trucks with which to carry out the operation.
On February 19, 2017, after we had received the money, we were told to make it a top secret and further told we would be handsomely rewarded if the plan pays off. The plan, according to our unit commander, is to make Nigerians regain their confidence in the Buhari government, demobilize the PDP which we all dislike with a passion and the Obasanjo coalition which the Villa saw as an emerging threat if something is not urgently done.
Obasanjo, our commander told us will succeed in dislodging Buhari from the Villa in 2019 if we do not contrive a means to make Nigerians believe more in Buhari's leadership.
The money we got was not paid into our accounts but was brought by car from Abuja totaling N80 million naira which was shared amongst us with trucks to carry out the operation.
On that night the soldiers stationed in the neighbourhood were deployed to other locations to enable us carry out the operation hitch-free which we did. The Boko Haram flag you saw us carrying was designed by us and had ourselves wrapped up like the insurgents.
There was no such thing like kidnapping by the Barnawi faction of the Boko Haram. We drove into the school compound in a commando style, broke through the school gate while the night guards numbering three or more ran for their dear lives as they heard our gunshots and chanting Islamic war songs amid 'Western education is a sin''. We drove straight into the school dormitory and ordered the girls to get onto the trucks some of whom slept naked because of the scorching heat. Although we had been given warning by our commander not to molest or rough handle the girls as such action would not be tolerated under any guise.
We were given 1 hour and 45 minutes to carry out the operation from where we drove to the school and the operation did not last for more than 45 minutes to get the girls on board the trucks. So they had no time to carry any of their belongings.
We drove them to an undisclosed location which was unknown to any of us because our unit commander led the way until we arrived in where they all were carefully kept.
The claim that five of them lost their lives is of course not true as we did not kill or even shoot any of them following the strict orders and instructions that they should be treated gently, kept safe and unharmed.
While where they were kept we were told to preach to them, make ourselves look like terrorists to enable them to believe, recount and narrate what they saw which would make people believe the abduction story.
We were not allowed to go with our phones to the location where the girls were kept, therefore we could not take photographs of the girls and the location. Was there any statement released on the abduction by the Barnawi group? Was there any video footage by the Barnawi group like that of the Chibok girls? That was to make it a top secret which the government does not want to play it.
On the day we were asked to return the girls, police and our colleagues were deployed out of the route to avoid any possible confrontation - I mean with those who knew nothing about the plot.
While leaving, we told them to embrace Islam and gave them clothing because some of them were taken away naked with wrappers they slept with when we abducted them from the dormitory.
Out of the money that was shared, I got N3 million and on second thoughts I decided to return the money to my unit commander to keep it for me as I have no ready use for the money. I told him I would be traveling to Jos to see my mother who was very ill and that on return I will collect it back from him and take it to my bank.
Unsuspicious of my motives, he collected it from me and gave me five days to report to my duty post.
With the visa I had in my passport I had to go as far as Port Harcourt where no one knows me and flew out of the country while asking God forgiveness for the part I played in the whole operation.
What actually made me repent of the evil is the plot on the ground to carry out ethnic cleansing in Nigeria and as I write this piece, I make bold to say here that every Nigerian community in the southern part of the country has been infiltrated by armed militias imported from Niger, Mali, and Chad by the Buhari government to unleash terror on Nigerians if they by a twist of fate resist the ongoing ethnic cleansing.
My colleagues have often boasted that the Quran, according to the late Sardauna, must be read in the sea and that is what this government is doing. The Dapchi girls purported abduction is to make Nigerians believe the Buhari government is working and it would, therefore, make no sense to vote him out.
The remaining four years is to make him execute the hidden agenda to carry out ethnic cleansing. The plot on the ground is to have every dissenting voice executed that would be a threat to the successful execution of the agenda. That is the reason why they first came up with the cattle colonies which the southern leaders rejected.
As I write this piece, my heart bleeds for Nigeria and I regret the part I played in the abduction of the Dapchi girls to further swindle Nigerians into believing Buhari is the best person to lead the country in the coming years. Please Nigerians, I beg for forgiveness and ask you to help me with prayers to God for forgiveness in the role I played. Share this story and let it go round to save Nigerians the grave danger of allowing President Buhari to continue beyond 2018 in the Villa. I will return to Nigeria when Buhari leaves power, God willing.''

BREAKING:

NIGERIAN POLICE VIOLENTLY DISRUPTED PDP RALLY TO RECEIVE THOUSANDS OF APC DEFECTORS IN KANO:

Arise News247 reports that a detachment of fully armed policemen in ten police vehicles stormed the venue of PDP Rally in Kano scheduled to kick off by 3:00pm and disrupted the preparation.

According to an eyewitness who spoke anonymously to Arise News247; "The fully armed policemen stormed the venue of the rally violently, dismantling the podiums and canopies and injuring PDP party supporters ‎at the venue of planned rally for the reception ceremony of thousands of APC members that have defected into PDP in Gaya Local Govt, Kano."

He further raised alarm, "See how Nigerian Police from the Kano State Command dismantled our podiums and canopies after injuring some PDP party faithfuls, and afterwards carted away with the canopies, podiums, chairs, speakers and sound systems at the venue of PDP reception ceremony where it was planned that #HaskenKanawa Engr. Bashir Ishaq Bashir and thousands of his supporters from APC will be formally received into the fold of PDP in Gaya, Kano State. This has caused pandemonium as people are running. They almost collected my phone," he added.

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2019: DANKWAMBO'S EX-CAMPAIGN DG BACKS ATIKU PRESIDENTIAL BID:

Senator Saidu Umar Kumo, A member of the Fourth Senate who represented Gombe Central on the platform of the defunct All Peoples Party (APP) has explained why he wants former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.
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Kumo was Director General of 2015 campaign organisation of Gombe governor, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo.
The former Special Adviser to the late President Umaru Yar’Adua said “Atiku is long overdue in the PDP to become its presidential candidate and be elected as president.

“Nigeria of today needs someone like Atiku; there are many challenges that we require someone like him to step into the leadership to bring about an all inclusive administration with focus.

“He is going to be the right choice for Nigerians. But first, we want him to be the choice of the PDP, when the PDP choose him to become its presidential candidate, then we can sell him to Nigerians.”

On the rumoured presidential ambition of Dankwambo, Kumo said he was not aware of the governor‘s intention.
“I really don’t know that Dankwambo is angling for the presidential ticket. Because he never discussed the issue with me, he never discussed with someone that came to discuss with me, he never sent someone to inform me.
“My party leadership never called me to say Gombe governor is angling for the PDP presidential ticket. Nobody told me until this moment. I’m not the one to push him and say, ‘come out and contest for this position.’

“If he is nursing such ambition, maybe he told those that matter. Maybe they are aware, maybe he didn’t come to our level. But already there is another person that saw us and considers us important in this project and we are for him.
“That doesn’t mean he cannot gun for the ticket, he must work for it. But for me, I have made my position clear; everybody knows I’m for Atiku in the North- East and Nigeria,” he said.
Reminded that the PDP only controls Gombe and Taraba States, Kumo replied: “Is there anywhere in the North except the North-East where you find PDP government?”

“That’s more reason the PDP should reward us for standing strong when other states in the North were swept away in 2015.

“We should be considered because there is no PDP government in North West and North Central. For that, we should be considered.”

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2019: DANKWAMBO'S EX-CAMPAIGN DG BACKS ATIKU PRESIDENTIAL BID:

Senator Saidu Umar Kumo, A member of the Fourth Senate who represented Gombe Central on the platform of the defunct All Peoples Party (APP) has explained why he wants former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.

Kumo was Director General of 2015 campaign organisation of Gombe governor, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo.
The former Special Adviser to the late President Umaru Yar’Adua said “Atiku is long overdue in the PDP to become its presidential candidate and be elected as president.

“Nigeria of today needs someone like Atiku; there are many challenges that we require someone like him to step into the leadership to bring about an all inclusive administration with focus.

“He is going to be the right choice for Nigerians. But first, we want him to be the choice of the PDP, when the PDP choose him to become its presidential candidate, then we can sell him to Nigerians.”

On the rumoured presidential ambition of Dankwambo, Kumo said he was not aware of the governor‘s intention.
“I really don’t know that Dankwambo is angling for the presidential ticket. Because he never discussed the issue with me, he never discussed with someone that came to discuss with me, he never sent someone to inform me.
“My party leadership never called me to say Gombe governor is angling for the PDP presidential ticket. Nobody told me until this moment. I’m not the one to push him and say, ‘come out and contest for this position.’

“If he is nursing such ambition, maybe he told those that matter. Maybe they are aware, maybe he didn’t come to our level. But already there is another person that saw us and considers us important in this project and we are for him.
“That doesn’t mean he cannot gun for the ticket, he must work for it. But for me, I have made my position clear; everybody knows I’m for Atiku in the North- East and Nigeria,” he said.
Reminded that the PDP only controls Gombe and Taraba States, Kumo replied: “Is there anywhere in the North except the North-East where you find PDP government?”

“That’s more reason the PDP should reward us for standing strong when other states in the North were swept away in 2015.

“We should be considered because there is no PDP government in North West and North Central. For that, we should be considered.”

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March 23, 2018

Press Statement

Bill Gates Comments Vindicate Nigerians Resolve to Kick Out Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the verdict by Bill Gates that President Muhammadu Buhari’s economic policies are anti-people has justified the resolution by Nigerians to kick out the dysfunctional All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Federal Government come 2019.

The party said the verdict has also vindicated its stand that the Buhari administration is the worst in the history of our nation; that it never had the interest of the people at heart but has been lying to Nigerians with false performance indices and cosmetic appearances, while its agents continue to siphon funds meant for the welfare of the people.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Friday, said President Buhari and the APC can now see that the entire world is fully aware of their misrule and as such should stop wasting the nation’s resources on pointless image laundering and desperate quest for international endorsements.

The PDP noted that Gates was just being polite to his host, President Buhari, when he said the policy of his government is not reflecting the needs of the people.

What Gates did not tell President Buhari and his team was that their administration is so incompetent, disorganized and confused that it could not develop any functional economic policy direction and that this has caused our nation her current economic woes.

Bill Gates comments on the Federal Government’s empty, deceptive and discredited Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), right in the Presidential Villa and in the presence of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, came to President Buhari and the APC as stunt gone awry as they had planned to use the world figure to earn an undue international endorsement ahead of 2019 elections.

More disheartening is that instead of being remorseful, officials of the APC administration, including Prof. Osinbajo, are attempting to put up a lame defence, despite the indicting facts.

The whole world is sad that under President Buhari and the APC, our dear nation, which was hitherto one of the most vibrant economies, has now become one of the most dangerous places to give birth, with the fourth worst maternal mortality rate in the world.

This administration, in the last three years, has not been able to initiate any functional policy on health, education, housing, agriculture, electricity, industrial growth, effective economic empowerment and gainful employment, or any deliberate plan to grow a sustainable middle class in the country.

Instead, what Nigerians get is a sinking economy resulting from anti-people policies; multiple taxations, increased tariffs on essential commodities and services, increase in food prices, fuel price hike, huge foreign debts, a weakened currency and massive job loss while APC interests continue to fritter away trillions of naira for their selfish gains. 

It is obvious that this Buhari administration derives joy in seeing Nigerians suffer hunger and starvation even in the midst of our huge potentials at remaining one of the greatest nations on the globe.

We however urge Nigerians not to despair as our rebranded and repositioned party will bring up a credible and people-oriented candidate that will work with the citizens to salvage our nation from the economic woes and the misrule of the APC come 2019

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary

Atiku welcomes release of #DapchiGirls

Abuja, Nigeria, 21 March, 2018:

Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has welcomed the release of some of the schoolgirls freed by Boko Haram on Wednesday morning four weeks after they were kidnapped from their school in Dapchi, Yobe State.

In a press statement released by his media office in Abuja on Wednesday, Atiku said he was gladdened by the return of the girls and expressed joy that some families who had been heartbroken will now have the tears wiped from their faces, as will other Nigerians who were distressed by the kidnappings.

"This is a moment of joy for all of us as a nation," he said. "We may not all be in Dapchi at the moment but we are all celebrating with the families, the community and the entire Yobe State."

Atiku, however, noted that the grief of the parents whose daughters weren't returned would probably take on a new and more tormenting dimension, as they continue to wait and pray for their safe return.

"May God continue to strengthen and give them hope," he said.

According to the statement, the former Vice President believes that while the events of today are fresh in our heads, a call for a more permanent solution to the problem of kidnapping of girls from schools should be found.

He proposed several ideas including the immediate reassignment of 150,000 Nigerian police personnel to secure schools in volatile areas of the northeast. In addition, the government should look at redesigning schools to make them more secure from attack including the addition of safe rooms.

"We cannot continue to allow our daughters to be used as instruments of negotiation, subject to capture and release at the whim of any group," he said.

"For the sake of our youth who embody the best of our tomorrow, we must confront this Frankenstein monster. Working together as a Nation we can and must bring an end to this. Not a day must be wasted in finding solutions. We must make it safe so our girls and women in every part of the country can study and flourish in peace".

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March 10, 2018

Press Statement

PDP Tasks Presidency, APC Over Illegal Importation of Military Equipment

…Demands Open Investigation On Gov. Bello’s Alleged Involvement.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the linking of the exposed illegal importation of military equipment to All Progressive Congress (APC) interests, particularly in Kogi State, is revealing and places a heavy question on the doorsteps of the Presidency and the ruling party.

The PDP said Nigerians have been wondering how weapons and other military equipment get into the hands of marauders, who have been ravaging the nation, adding that this discovery could be an unfolding clue for which an open investigation must be conducted.

It also expressed fears that the development could be part of the alleged plot by the APC to compromise the nation’s security system and set the stage for the intimidation of Nigerians during the 2019 general election to push their desperate but ill-lucked re-election bid.

The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Saturday also tasked the Presidency and military high command to immediately come out with explanations to Nigerians on how APC’s Governor Yayaha Bello allegedly secured the permission to import military equipment, which function is exclusively under the purview of the Presidency and the military.

From the reports so far, it appears that we are now having a clue on how weapons and other military equipment being used by marauders and criminals to ravage and murder our citizens are illegally sneaked into the country and by which interest.

Nigerians now know that some persons and officials linked with APC interests have been playing roles in compromising the security of our nation by smuggling in military equipment for unknown groups ostensibly to carry out evil activities.

We hold that this is a very critical matter and as a pro-people party, committed to the well being of Nigerians, urge the Presidency and the military to quickly offer explanations to Nigerians on who issued the end user certificate for the importation of the said military equipment into our country.

The PDP therefore demands and open forensic investigation so that Nigerians will know the truth. Nigerians need to know where the military gadgets were sourced from and who purchased them? They need to know who issued the end user certification for the importation and, if they are not for the military, then who is the actual end user and where is the intended final destination?

Furthermore, we want an open inquest into the alleged involvement of Governor Yahaya Bello and his aides in this matter. What is their interest in the illegal cargo? Do Kogi officials run a militia or are they involved in an illegal trafficking for a wider political interest in the APC? How long have they been in this illegal business and what is the volume of deals so far?

We therefore call on all well-meaning individuals and groups as well as the international community to note this development in our country and join forces in ensuring that the nation gets to the root of the matter

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary

OGUN 2019: THINK A BETTER LIFE, THINK GNI
Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka popularly known as GNI is a leader with great vision and caring heart with silent and most coded philanthropism to assist the downtrodden across the length and breadth of Ogun State.
Style and approach of GNI that has been observed over time suggests that as a governor, Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves because he knows and have record of driving his team to achieve success; his Banking CV and near magic he performed as the GMD of Gateway Holdings are not far away testimonies.
That kind of teamwork will build a new Ogun State that will lead our Nation to achieve its potentialities to compete with the comity of Nations of the world which in turn will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.
GNI that we know will be fair and sincere to all. Young people regardless of their religious beliefs, tribe or political affiliation will get a fair deal under the administration of Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka who has proved to be the best of all those jostling for the governorship seat of OGUN STATE because he has made youth empowerment, mentorship, confidence building and inculcation of values orientation as the cornerstone of his leadership strategy. If we want a leader who can combine talent and vigour to move Ogun State forward, then we should think of Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka.
GNI has been anointed by God to make life more abundant in Ogun State and we urge Ogun residents to believe and support the candidature of Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka come 2019.
Think a better life, think GNI

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This speech by Atiku is highly presidential and it justified my irreversible support for Atiku. Atiku is the next best and most glamorous thing to happen in Nigeria come 2019 hence I'll continue to support and mobilize for Atiku Presidential mandate.

TINUBU ASSERTS THAT NIGERIA NEEDS ATIKU TO MAKE LIFE MORE MEANINGFUL AT THIS TIME:

Osun F'Atiku is not the only group testifying of the qualities inherent in His Excellency Atiku Abubakar and his antecedent with his experiences that will be useful in lifting Nigeria out of this gulf; Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is not even a member of PDP had categorically and fundamentally asserted that, "Nigeria needs Atiku to make life more meaningful."

This he disclosed in his letter to Atiku, which partly reads,

"Your life has been a life of service to your people, your country and the causes you believe in. Nigeria has been well-served by your stewardship and leadership.

“Your steadfastness in walking the democratic path sets you apart as a leader with substance.

“Your passion for education has seen you invest your time and resources in education, knowing full well that when you educate people, you educate a nation.

He then concludes that Nigeria needs him, "Do not relent because Nigeria needs you and others like you to continue to make life more meaningful. We must continue to explore common grounds towards promoting the common good."

-Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu boldly remarked.

Courtesy: Osun F'Atiku

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THE ATIKU ADVANTAGE
A new vista of opportunity has opened in 2018 for the electorate in Africa’s largest democracy to rejig their political architecture, which, for many, arguably requires immediate restructuring for equity and national development. This year, therefore, symbolically, heralds a new era of political activities and permutations nationwide. With over 60 political parties gazing at the crystal ball of 2019 general elections, the country of 180 million citizens with multifarious challenges ranging from hunger and unemployment to ethno-religious conflicts and outright breakdown of law and order, is verily available for a comprehensive administrative reset and political reform. Meanwhile, the race towards 2019 presents the would-be voters at party primaries and general elections with a classical choice of choosing from mere rookies and solid masters. In fact, it is obvious that there are few serious contenders to the throne and many clowns in flowing gowns pretending to aspire for the crown. So, without prejudice and unequivocally speaking, only the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its arch rival the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) can boast of the massive muscle and mileage across the country capable of putting a president in Aso Villa via the ballot box. The rest fledging parties are yet to develop the wings to fly in Nigeria’sinclement political windstorm. And the country, currently bedeviled by socio-economic and political malaise, may not be ready for awaiting-result politicians! Succinctly put, the battle for Aso Rock in 2019 is one between two political titans in the country – APC versus PDP. But that’s a story for another day. Nonetheless, a concrete point peaks as a cynosure: the likely inability of the ruling APC to have a landslide victory and smooth sail to power next year. Many reasons may adduce for this seeming rough road. The party, lacking in cohesion and team spirit, has almost lost the confidence reposed in it by majority of the populace in 2015. Thus it has been scored below par in most of its rosy pledges as chronicled in APC manifesto. Truly, the PDP is an active volcano gone dormant. But one that is awaiting eruption. The more reason its affairs as per who the party will feature to challenge incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential election, itches the skin of political analysts and of great public interest. Precisely, many leading opinion leaders in the country are converging on scoring the present APC Federal Government low. Many reasons are being given by clerics, political watchers and the ordinary citizen for their conclusion. They allege and allude to a seeming absence of policy direction, reported nepotism in terms of appointments, ambiguous anti-corruption campaign, insensitivity to loss of human lives, abdication of role as citizens’ protector, doubtful economic resuscitation, fuel scarcity, poor infrastructure and power supply, rising unemployment and incessant breakdown of law and order.
However, the APC still stands as a strong political force that cannot be swept under the PDP umbrella without a thoughtful and strategic game plan; a plan purposefully hinged on a go-getter and an election-winning candidate who has charismatic mass appeal and the wherewithal to race the horse home triumphantly. Currently, Nigeria and Nigerians are longing for a rescuer since their ‘Messianic expectation of 2015’ seems to be failing the litmus test on reality and pragmatism. With the country tilting towards the fault-lines of insecurity, disunity, disillusionment and hopelessness; many are vociferously searching for a leadership bailout.
The PDP as an alter ego to the APC must, therefore, take the bull by the horns and pedal hard to change its past adversity at the polls to prosperity, hostility to friendliness, apathy to sympathy and failure to success. How? By thinking out of the proverbial box in choosing a presidential standardbearer that cuts across the spectrum of society. Such a leader must be patriotic and compassionate, politically experienced and commercially sensitive, innovation and technology compliant, people-centered and development oriented investor in education, job creator and wealth generator, detribalized and non-religious fanatic; also locally focused and globally connected. Who will this cap fit? Meanwhile, it is pretty obvious that the Nigerian state is sitting on immense untapped natural resources with matching human endowment all of which requires the political dexterity and administrative acumen of an all-rounder leader to harmonise,synchronise and synergise, for the greater good of the greater majority of a yearning populace. So without belabouring the point, the PDP is urged to screen their candidates for the primaries on the basis of the aforementioned and see whose camel can pass through the needle’s eye in terms of public acceptability and political correctness. The PDP, without iota of doubt, has a legion of distinguished members who could aspire to the top job. However, methinks, only one candidate fits the billing on equity, restructuring, political sagacity, constitutional audacity, business astuteness, philanthropic pedigree, local understanding and global relationship, detribalised and non-fanatical, patriotic and compassionate, visionary team player, visible and accessible, youth mentor and bridge-builder and, most of all, a defender of democracy, statesman and selfless steward. Who is he? Your eyes may be on the same crystal ball as most of our fellow countrymen and women! Nigerians as at today want former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. He is tested and trusted. He will tickle everyone back to life if given the opportunity. His antecedents and overall performance indicators are too obvious to ignore in the current scheme of political permutations in the country. Like he once said, “people without business knowledge should not have business in government.” That is a well-articulated point of view. Apt and poignant. Finally, PDP is now the cynosure of all eyes: let the party rescue Nigeria and Nigerians. Things could be done better. Let’s make our country and countrymen work again. Let a job creator do the job. Atiku is the man to beat. After all, Lord Acton, British political philosopher once said that: “for forms of government, let the fools contest; whatever is best administered is best governed.”
- PROJECT ATIKU 2019

2019: WHY ATIKU ABUBAKAR ?

With Atiku Abubakar as president in 2019, every Nigerian would be a winner. Knowing that individual poverty and collective underdevelopment elicits the feelings and fears of marginalization among the people, he is not likely to leave any stone unturned in ensuring that meaningful development is distributed across the nation without bias or favor to any group in the Federation. Atiku Abubakar has the pedigree to give every Nigerian a sense of belonging in the governance of the nation.
Atiku's 2019 agenda is not about him. It is all about the downtrodden, it is majorly aimed at touching the lives of the people positively. ATIKU believes in capacity building and succour provisions for the
needy. You are also involved just like every other persons.
#ProjectAtiku2019

ATTENTION: BEWARE OF THIS FRAUDSTER IN EDO STATE
There is a fraudster who goes by the name Prince Mike Osazee in Edo State currently parading himself as Coordinator of Edo Project ATIKU 2019 and he has duped many good people of Edo State of their hard earned resources. According to information from a reliable source, Prince Mike Osazee had never has a direct link to the national coordinator of Project ATIKU 2019. He's just an ordinary member who has been suspended after the leadership of Edo Project Atiku 2019 discovered that Mike is using the name of the group to duped innocent resident of Edo State. Mike Osazee is also parading himself as the biological son of the current Oba of Benin but after series of investigations we discovered Oba of Benin don't even know the bastard exist. He has duped many people by impersonating Edo Project ATIKU 2019 Coordinator,he has also been using his fake identity as Prince of Benin Kingdom to dupe many politicians and deceived many ladies to have sexual intercourse with them. Leaders of Edo Project ATIKU 2019 told our correspondents that Prince Mike Osazee had never been appointed to any position in the group, he is just an ordinary member who was suspended indefinitely due to his criminal activities .The law enforcement agency are also aware of Mike criminal activities and he has been declared wanted.
If you have any information that can leads to the arrest of this criminal in the picture below, kindly contact the nearest police station.
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