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Let me tell you the truth, I like his strategy and I respect him alot infact if I have the opportunity to meet him one on one, the only thing I want to do to him is prostrate before him, but I don't like his influence over everything in the state from federal offices to state offices to local government offices, it's not fair, let the people determine their fate at times, his wife is the senator representing my constituency and she's not accessible to anyone except those in her class, that's not how to represent people, the speaker of the house of reps is my rep in the house but we see that one more often compare to our senator oluremi. I served in the north (2010), and we see the federal house of rep members come home on Fridays and everyone around them will be happy they even play music and dance.

Alhaji Lateef Jakande did better than any Governor in Lagos and baba is not holding the state to ransom. You've done well, don't let people turn against you before you allow the people move on. I know he wants to be the strongest power broker from his region which is fine but when he dies it will take such region ages to have someone of the status, that is the more reason he has to step back and give the likes of Fashola, seyi makinde, olorunnimbe mamora and some other great young minds the opportunity to lead the region. They may take some decisions not cool to him at times that's why we are human.

When everyone is allowed to express themselves politically without been bullied by a � bag the development we are craving for will happen in our lifetime.

Goke7:
all what you have said shows you guys have no ideas or better alternative on Lagos matters. Let me help you more by saying you have just described tinubu as someone very good in stakeholders management, something most Nigerian governors lack hence the reason we are not seeing much development like we see in Lagos.

Tinubu strategy is simple, try and bring as much people from the lower class into the middle class by giving them much opportunities and they keep your party in power. The Lagos state civil service work force is enough to swing votes for the party. Any party trying to win must really work hard as it won't be easy. There is also a strong synergy between the govt, apc and the corporate or private sector. Lagos is too complex, Jimi tried with his younger brother GTB's backing but still a hard nut to crack. But sure nothing lasts forever but the present edo euphoria is too small to crack Lagos for now.

Why it's hard to beat him at the grassroot level especially is because everyone plays politics of interest, some people wants to control road transport, he gives them road transport, some people wants waste management, he gives them waste management,some wants lands (omo onile), they have it, so when he needs them to work for him they are rootless about it. He's very smart about picking his governorship candidates, he goes for non politicians who will not be able to win over the state legislators appointed by him, you know he picks the house of assembly members himself to checkmate the governors whenever they are becoming stubborn. If not for the unlawful way obaseki handled the state assembly situation do you think Oshiomole's boys wouldn't have impeached him successfully, Obaseki would have become history in Edo politics but in the case of Lagos, he picked them them himself to ensure their won't be a rebellion on the part of the governor. For road transport, that's the biggest tool he exploed to plant his foot soldiers in every nook and cranny of Lagos, they use the for ballot box snatching, distribution of cash during election, intimidation generally. But Lagosians are getting tired of his gimmicks he will be humbled in his life time.

Goke7:
don't distort history, when saraki rejoined pdp after leaving APC, the guys in pdp who equally left APC when he joined, left the PDP again back to APC to plot his downfall. ok? local politics like we saw in edo kicked saraki out too.

So if it's hard to beat Tinubu in elections, how else do you want him out? You are waiting for God to finish him by thunder or fire. Bros if the Kwara people waited for God, saraki will not be out o, likewise the Edo people. Money is not everything, it's about strategy and better alternatives you think you can offer. Just admit you can't match the man in grassroots politics and laziness cannot achieve that. Most of you shouting are not even members of any political party, na social media be una party

Edo people did not show anything, I'm from the Southwest based in Lagos, believe me people are waiting for him to declare his intention to run for president you'll be surprised his main antagonists will come from the Southwest not even eastern Nigeria. The only people who might save him will be northerners which might not happen b'cos those ones will want to cut his wings.

tuniski:
Tinubu will be buried politically should he contest the presidency. Either he fails at the primaries or be thrashed at the general elections. Nigeria is beyond Lagos! Edo people just showed a preview!

Get your facts right, they did not leave Saraki's party, He left them in their party to join PDP and he lost. Talking about Lagos, it'll be hard to beat Tinubu in Lagos cos who amongst those in the opposition has the financial strength to face him, all the area boys they use to unleash terror in areas where they know will vote against them etc. God works in mysterious ways, he God has a plan which will manifest at the right time. Keep your fingers crossed.

Goke7:
is APC the only party in Lagos?, did Obaseki not move on to another party? what stops those dissatisfied in APC to truly test their popularity in other parties in Lagos. The greatest election challenge APC have had so far in Lagos was the elections that brought in the same Ambode you guys are bashing here and there. Let folks organise themselves and build their own platform to challenge tinubu's empire. Power is not served alacarte bruv.

The examples of kwara you posted, did they not leave saraki party to another party to challenge him? abeg find another excuse

No body want Tinubu's head, he should allow Lagosians determine their leaders, nobody forced him on Lagosians he should not impose representatives on Lagosians. Mogabe lost his respect in Zimbabwe after he has over stayed his welcome. Oshiomole lost his relevance in Edo when he wanted to turn himself to am emperor same thing happened to saraki in kwara, same people who have turned themselves to semi gods in their respective states were instrumental to Saraki's defeat in Kwara, same fate awaits them one by one.

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Goke7:
which state govt in this country is visionary, pls tell me or you guys simply want Lagos to be in ruins like other states? The Edo that everyone is shouting about, are they visionary there? why do we like lies a lot as Nigerians. You admit in your post that tinubu tried yet you guys want his head. na wa for us as Nigerians, so full of self destruct

Lagos is strategically located, that's why Lagos is prosperous, so many business men and women all over the world have a stake in Lagos. Hence, they cannot allow their businesses go down the drain. It is pertinent to note that in 2017 Lagos had a GDP of over $136 billion, accounts for over 60 percent of industrial and commercial ventures of Nigeria (not built by any politicians). A 2015 report by the Economist states that annually Lagos State generates $90 billion dollars in goods and services (not also influenced by any politician). If Lagos was a country its economy would be number 7 in Africa making it bigger than that of Kenya, Cote D’Ivoire, and Ghana.

Let's not praise the APC govt either federal or state for the growth of Lagos, the state has been developing before 1999, I can say Lagos would have developed more under a visionary govt not those who will divert states resources to their personal use. Though, Chief Bola Tinubu tried but Lagos would still have developed so "Let no man claim the glory of a prosperous Lagos".

GeneralPula:
Compare the whole yeast that Pdp been ruling for the past years to the Lagos that Apc been ruling, then maybe you’ll know who should librate itself from Zombeism..

NIGERIAN STUDENTS TO BEGIN PROTESTS AGAINST INCREASE IN PETROL PRICE, STAMP DUTY, ELECTRICITY TARIFF NEXT TUESDAY
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK SEP 04, 2020

We are calling on the Federal Government to reverse the anti-people increment in stamp duty, PMS price, electricity tariff and the stoppage of the anti-social media bill amongst others

The National Association of Nigerian Students (Zone D) on Friday said it has commenced mobilisation of students for a mass action next Tuesday to reject the anti-people policies of the President Muhammadu Buhari's government.

Kowe Odunayo Amos, Coordinator of NANS (Zone D), in a statement described the increase in stamp duty cost, PMS, electricity tariff and others as punishment to Nigerians given the prevailing economic hardship in the country due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

He said, “Sequel to the press statement of NANS Zone D on Wednesday, 2nd of September, 2020 calling on the Federal Government to reverse the anti-people increment in stamp duty, PMS price, electricity tariff and the stoppage of the anti-social media bill amongst others, the leadership of NANS Zone D call on all Nigerian students, workers and the Nigerian people to be prepared for a mass action.

“Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Time: 7am
Lagos State, Ogun State, Ondo State, Osun State, Ekiti State and Oyo State.”

http://saharareporters.com/2020/09/04/nigerian-students-begin-protests-against-increase-petrol-price-stamp-duty-electricity

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK
AUG 13, 2020

The NBC management described the broadcast as “unprofessional” in a statement signed by management of the organisation.

The National Broadcasting Commission has ordered a radio station, Nigeria Info, to pay a N5m fine for airing comments made by a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailaifa, on terrorism in the country.

The NBC management described the broadcast as “unprofessional” in a statement signed by the management of the organisation.

The statement reads, “The National Broadcasting Commission has noted with grave concern, the unprofessional conduct of Nigeria Info 99.3FM, Lagos, in the handling of the programme ‘Morning CrossFire’ aired on August 10, 2020, between 8.30am and 9.00am.

“The station provided its platform for the guest, Dr Mailafia Obadiah, to promote unverifiable and inciting views that could encourage or incite crime and lead to public disorder.

“Dr Mailafia Obadia’s comments on the Southern Kaduna crisis were devoid of facts and by broadcasting the same to the public, Nigeria Info 99.3FM, is in violation of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code.

“In line with the amendment of the 6th edition of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code, Nigeria Info 99.3FM Lagos, has been fined the sum of N5,000,000.00 (Five Million Naira), only.

“This is expected to serve as a deterrent to all other broadcast stations in Nigeria who are quick to provide a platform for subversive rhetoric and the expositions of spurious and unverifiable claims, to desist from such.”

Mailafia had during the radio programme said that repentant Boko Haram members revealed to him that a serving Northern governor was a commander of the terrorist group.

He was subsequently invited for questioning by the Department of State Services on Wednesday but was released after six hours.

They bow to him, they lick his ass, the man is a god to some of them, they lack vision yet they call him a visionary leader. The only mission they have is to loot and become rich, look at the corruption scandal hanging on the neck of his political son (Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker), I bet you nothing will come out of it. Lagos Politics is now controlled by people from other south Western states and the original Lagosians are there looking and bowing to settlers.

sotall:
The writer must be very stupid!


So anyone that becomes a governor under the APC must bow to Tinubu or lick his ass? And if not, he is ungrateful!

Stupid talk!


Obaseki is a free born and not a slave to anyone.

Let's support #otogelagos

BY FREDRICK NWABUFO. JULY 25, 2020
Sahara Reporters.

It will happen. That change that Nigerians seek will come by the hands of the forgotten. If Nigeria’s young are timid, tractable and apathetic to economic and political issues affecting their country, blame the anvil on which they are forged. The government, the formative schools, the universities and the predatory politics – all are the forgers of today’s youth. A system, which lobotomises the young from nascency has already denied them not only the ability to emote, think, act, but also the power to speak up for themselves, fight for their rights and defend themselves.

There was a time in Nigeria when the youth held the fort. They were unbending to the caprices of the military and to the stimuli of fear and avarice. I will cite two epochs for emphasis – the dawn of Segun Okeowo, the provocateur of the Ali Must Go uprising of 1978, and the dusk of Omoyele Sowore – the trenchant voice of the June 12 struggle.

In April 1978, the Ministry of Education led by Ahmadu Ali announced an increment of 50 kobo (from N1:50 to N2:00) to the cost of the daily meal of students. But the National Union of Nigerian Students led by Okeowo will not have it down its throat without some justification. The union asked the ministry to revert to the status quo, but it balked shifting responsibility to the Supreme Military Ruling Council. A head-to-head was inevitable.

Students poured into the streets to press home their demands but received police bullets as rejoinders. Eight students were reportedly killed. But this did not stop the righteous movement which engulfed the entire country. The youth held their ground. They made their statement and their power was felt by the military government. I call this epoch the dawn of youth activism in Nigeria.

Only 50 kobo increase in the cost of daily meals for students actuated a nationwide revolt. But today, what has changed? I will explain. Our formative schools and universities are no longer centres of critical learning. They are now robot factories where anyone who goes in as human comes out as a machine with flesh – beaten, broken, pliable and malleable. The mould from which the like of Wole Soyinka was shaped at the University of Ibadan which made him assertive and daring has long been smashed to smithereens.

University administrations in cahoots with scourges in the highest realm of government have over the years sterilised student unionism. Student leaders no longer represent their constituencies but the school leadership which most times select them. Students are stampeded out of reason and seized of the power of independent thought and critical thinking. They are instructed to parrot whatever the lecturer and the school say. In fact, the methods of some universities today are not distant from concentration camps – only that there are no gas chambers.

Another reason why we have a soluble youth population is our predatory politics. I believe student unionism was corrupted from 1999. Youth activism as we know it ended with the epoch of Sowore and the June 12 struggle. It is the reason I regard it as the dusk of student unionism.

The National Association of Nigerian Students is now a club of men battling middle-age crisis. The association is, in fact, a chapter of any ruling party of the day. It is utterly porous of ideas and intellectual grit. There is no shade of difference between today’s NANS and the National Union of Road Transport Workers – led by MC Oluomo. NANS only thrives for its sheer industry of violence and capacity for noise.

Members of NANS leadership live like the quotidian Nigerian politician in unearned luxury, coursing through cities and towns in convoys labelled with vanity plates. The end of student unionism ensued with the meddling of the political class. Agitators became one with the oppressors.

Fundamentally, if there was to be a revolution in Nigeria; it would not come from the BBNaija-loving Nigerian youth on social media. They are already seized of the mental alacrity for action. I believe the biggest uprising in the country will come from hard-pressed young Nigerians insulated from the disempowering academic system and its corollaries. It will come from boys on the streets like we witnessed in Katsina when some protesters burnt the billboard of President Muhammadu Buhari.

I hate to say it, but Nigeria’s revolution (protests for change) lies in the hands of the Almajiris – even though they themselves are exploited for political gains. But they are the outliers of the system. It is the reason I see no point haranguing young people taken over by the reality show -- BBNaija. They are victims of the situation themselves.

And why am I mulling protests for change in Nigeria? With the shocking revelations from the NDDC probe and the mindboggling disclosure of sleaze across all sectors of the economy, I believe we cannot make any progress as a country this way. Something must give.

It will happen. That change that Nigerians seek will come by the hands of the forgotten.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK JAN 12, 2020


Rather than issue a public apology to Mr Anthony Okolie, an Asaba, Delta State-based businessman, unlawfully detained for 10 weeks for purchasing and using a SIM card previously used by daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari, Hanan, the Department of State Services, Nigeria’s ruthless secret police, has embarked on a campaign to tarnish the victim’s image in a bid to justify their heinous act.

Okolie was arrested in September 2019, cuffed with chains and ferried to Abuja from Asaba where he was held for 10 weeks without a court order for using the SIM card in question.

He had purchased the item in December 2018 from an MTN outlet in Asaba for N2,000 and had used it up until September last year when he was suddenly arrested by the DSS on the orders of Hanan.

After subjecting him to physical and psychological torture for 10 weeks and with President Buhari’s daughter failing to show up at the DSS headquarters to testify if Okolie had used the telephone number for any illegal or criminal act, the secret police eventually released the young man, telling him that his “sins had been forgiven”.

Speaking with SaharaReporters earlier in the week, Okolie said that he was treated like a criminal for committing no offence.

He said, “I was seized like a criminal and subjected to threats by DSS officers and transferred to Abuja, chained in the legs and handcuffed from Asaba to their headquarters.

“After my statement, I was abandoned in custody. They said I was making use of a SIM card previously used by Hanan Buhari, that I am a criminal and that the President wanted to see me.

“I bought the SIM card legally and committed no offence by so doing. It was however, surprising to see myself being detained for 10 weeks.”

The young man went on to narrate how his unlawful arrest and detention had destroyed his fish farm investment worth N5m, shattered his relationship with his fiancée, who he was about getting married to before the incident, and escalated his mother’s health condition.

However, in a report in its Sunday edition, a national newspaper, apparently doing the bidding of the DSS, turned logic on its head by offering a counter and uninspiring narrative of the entire event and facts surrounding Okolie’s illegal arrest.

In the story written by its Regional Editor, Northern Operation, and titled: I’m labourer, not fish farm investor, Anthony Okolie, man who used Buhari’s daughter’s number, the newspaper and especially the writer not only shamelessly tried to criminalise the Delta State-based businessman but also failed to support its claim of him carrying out criminal activities with the SIM card in question without any sort of evidence.

Alleging that Okolie used the SIM to swindle unsuspecting members of the public especially those, who knew Hanan with the telephone number, the newspaper’s story failed to mention names of those it claimed were defrauded by the young man and how much was involved on each occasion.

Apart from citing exclusive documents seen by it, the newspaper and writer of the story didn’t make any attempt to convince readers with its own version of events by tabling some proof.

Throughout the story by the national daily, there was no attempt by the newspaper or the writer to contact Okolie to get his own side of the story as good journalism practice stipulates.

Instead, the publication ran wholly with what the ‘exclusive document’ it claimed to have sighted outlined.

Describing the story as a deliberate attempt by the DSS to use the media outfit and the journalist behind the story to defame Okolie and cover its criminal act, legal representative of the victim, Tope Akinyode, said that they will take the matter to court in the coming days in order to get justice for the young man.

He said, “Our attention has been drawn to a poorly-written propaganda on a national newspaper in which the media outfit made spurious allegations against our client, claiming the allegations are the outcome of its investigations.

“In the publication, even though the newspaper admits that our client lawfully bought the SIM in question without having any knowledge that the phone number was once used by Hanan Buhari; President Buhari's daughter, the newspaper howbeit disgracefully proceeded to turn logic on its head by alleging that our client used the SIM card to perpetrate fraud and illegal activities.

“The newspaper alleged that our client discovered that the name Hanan Buhari was registered against the phone line on a mobile App; True Caller, and our client should have complained to the network provider as a result.

“The publication further stated that rather than complain, our client disguised as a lady to defraud people of money.

“The publication did not state the names of the persons defrauded or the amount received out of fraud.

“For the records sake, it is important we draw the attention of the public to the fact that our client was illegally detained for 10 weeks at the SSS facility without a detention order and was not charged to court all through.

“Instead, having discovered that any case against our client would head for the rock, the SSS cowardly released our client after 10 weeks of detention claiming he had been forgiven.

“We make bold to state that if it were true indeed that our client actually perpetrated fraud, it would have been illegal, immoral and outrageously insensitive for the SSS not to have charged him to court.

“The refusal to charge him to court is due to the fact that there is absolutely no case against him because he has not committed any offence.

“We are sorry for the newspaper for deliberately shattering its own integrity by such a distasteful publication.

“As earlier noted, we have concluded plans to file a lawsuit against Hanan Buhari, SSS, and MTN Nigeria and the lawsuit shall be filed shortly. We shall not allow lawlessness to thrive.”

Okolie’s ordeal is indeed an insignificant fraction of the violation of rights of citizens perpetrated by the DSS in recent times.

In September 2019, the Nigeria Bar Association said the DSS was carving a notorious image for itself by constantly disobeying court orders.

In a statement by the association’s National Publicity Secretary, Kunle Edun, at the time, the NBA described the agency’s attitude towards court orders as unfortunate and unacceptable.

“The NBA notes that the Department of State Security is cutting for herself the notorious image of an agency that enjoys treating judicial process with disdain, particularly as it pertains to obeying orders of courts enforcing the fundamental rights of Nigerians,” the statement reads in part.

Fearing what the DSS could be up to next, Okolie told SaharaReporters that he has since switched off the telephone number in question.

“I've switched off the line ever since that bizarre incident because I'm still scared and don't know what their next plan may be,” he said.

idid:
I don't understand how our people reason.

No one is talking about policy and ideology at all. The Atikulators hardly talk about what he would do, only how he will sell NNPC to his friends... Buhari too has divided this country so much and people are talking second term without any explanation of what he would do different.
Yet Moghalu, Sowore and the likes are there.

I don't understand my people.

Political season is interesting in my country. The way individuals promote their preferred candidate is as if only one person determines the winner. We forget about personalities (candidates) and their party manifesto, their track records. What I can't really figure out is the way educated Nigerians play bias and ethnic politics in chosen their leaders, Omoyele Sowore and Mogelu are begging for our votes but the so called educated Nigerians still prefer old politicians who have failed us before. Nigeria my country, when will our youths be ready to save you from vampires.

Political season is interesting in my country. The way individuals promote their preferred candidate is as if only one person determines the winner. We forget about personalities (candidates) and their party manifesto, their track records. What I can't really figure out is the way educated Nigerians play bias and ethnic politics in chosen their leaders, Omoyele Sowore and Mogelu are begging for our votes but the so called educated Nigerians still prefer old politicians who have failed us before. Nigeria my country, when will our youths be ready to save you from vampires.

Political season is interesting in my country. The way individuals promote their preferred candidate is as if only one person determines the winner. We forget about personalities (candidates) and their party manifesto, their track records. What I can't really figure out is the way educated Nigerians play bias and ethnic politics in chosen their leaders, Omoyele Sowore and Mogelu are begging for our votes but the so called educated Nigerians still prefer old politicians who have failed us before. Nigeria my country, when will our youths be ready to save you from vampires.

Political season is interesting in my country. The way individuals promote their preferred candidate is as if only one person determines the winner. We forget about personalities (candidates) and their party manifesto, their track records. What I can't really figure out is the way educated Nigerians play bias and ethnic politics in chosen their leaders, Omoyele Sowore and Mogelu are begging for our votes but the so called educated Nigerians still prefer old politicians who have failed us before. Nigeria my country, when will our youths be ready to save you from vampires.

Political season is interesting in my country. The way individuals promote their preferred candidate is as if only one person determines the winner. We forget about personalities (candidates) and their party manifesto, their track records. What I can't really figure out is the way educated Nigerians play bias and ethnic politics in chosen their leaders, Omoyele Sowore and Mogelu are begging for our votes but the so called educated Nigerians still prefer old politicians who have failed us before. Nigeria my country, when will our youths be ready to save you from vampires.

Political season is interesting in my country. The way individuals promote their preferred candidate is as if only one person determines the winner. We forget about personalities (candidates) and their party manifesto, their track records. What I can't really figure out is the way educated Nigerians play bias and ethnic politics in chosen their leaders, Omoyele Sowore and Mogelu are begging for our votes but the so called educated Nigerians still prefer old politicians who have failed us before. Nigeria my country, when will our youths be ready to save you from vampires.

Political season is interesting in my country. The way individuals promote their preferred candidate is as if only one person determines the winner. We forget about personalities (candidates) and their party manifesto, their track records. What I can't really figure out is the way educated Nigerians play bias and ethnic politics in chosen their leaders, Omoyele Sowore and Mogelu are begging for our votes but the so called educated Nigerians still prefer old politicians who have failed us before. Nigeria my country, when will our youths be ready to save you from vampires.

Political season is interesting in my country. The way individuals promote their preferred candidate is as if only one person determines the winner. We forget about personalities (candidates) and their party manifesto, their track records. What I can't really figure out is the way educated Nigerians play bias and ethnic politics in chosen their leaders, Omoyele Sowore and Mogelu are begging for our votes but the so called educated Nigerians still prefer old politicians who have failed us before. Nigeria my country, when will our youths be ready to save you from vampires.

Political season is interesting in my country. The way individuals promote their preferred candidate is as if only one person determines the winner. We forget about personalities (candidates) and their party manifesto, their track records. What I can't really figure out is the way educated Nigerians play bias and ethnic politics in chosen their leaders, Omoyele Sowore and Mogelu are begging for our votes but the so called educated Nigerians still prefer old politicians who have failed us before. Nigeria my country, when will our youths be ready to save you from vampires.

Political season is interesting in my country. The way individuals promote their preferred candidate is as if only one person determines the winner. We forget about personalities (candidates) and their party manifesto, their track records. What I can't really figure out is the way educated Nigerians play bias and ethnic politics in chosen their leaders, Omoyele Sowore and Mogelu are begging for our votes but the so called educated Nigerians still prefer old politicians who have failed us before. Nigeria my country, when will our youths be ready to save you from vampires.

Political season is interesting in my country. The way individuals promote their preferred candidate is as if only one person determines the winner. We forget about personalities (candidates) and their party manifesto, their track records. What I can't really figure out is the way educated Nigerians play bias and ethnic politics in chosen their leaders, Omoyele Sowore and Mogelu are begging for our votes but the so called educated Nigerians still prefer old politicians who have failed us before. Nigeria my country, when will our youths be ready to save you from vampires.

Political season is interesting in my country. The way individuals promote their preferred candidate is as if only one person determines the winner. We forget about personalities (candidates) and their party manifesto, their track records. What I can't really figure out is the way educated Nigerians play bias and ethnic politics in chosen their leaders, Omoyele Sowore and Mogelu are begging for our votes but the so called educated Nigerians still prefer old politicians who have failed us before. Nigeria my country, when will our youths be ready to save you from vampires.

Ahead of Saturday elections, a political group, the Movement for Actualization of Campaign Promises, MACP, has urged Nigerians not to succumb to People’s Democratic Party, PDP propaganda because it cannot be trusted.

The group stressed that the PDP had portrayed Nigeria as a country where events and history could easily be distorted and as a country where her people could easily be confused through propaganda, half truth and lies.

“There is need to alert the general populace to ensure they do not succumb to massive propaganda, lies and distortions of facts by the main opposition party called People’s Democratic Party (PDP) which, throughout the entire campaign period till now was busy embarrassing the sensibility of Nigerians by portraying the electorates and indeed the entire citizens of Nigeria as people who lack the capacity to know their right from their left.”

In the statement yesterday signed by MACP’s Executive Director, Olushola Olaleye, noted that while the not so popular political parties were busy trying to sell their programmes and mission statement to the populace but due to their inability to muster enough funds and establish formidable structure across the country, the PDP was busy pushing out fabrications.

"The PDP, through those they called their handlers, have failed to realized that their sins which they apologized for early last year were actually the ones that put Nigeria down to her sorry state. Nigerians and indeed the present Muhammadu Buhari – led APC government have accused the PDP led 16 years of misrule and massive looting of Nigeria resources with evidences and facts. The PDP was the one that sold many of the country’s infrastructures allegedly to her cronies.

“They (PDP) were accused of not doing anything to our roads, our schools, the health sector and the economy for 16 years despite huge sum of revenue from oil. For 16 years, the PDP according to the Buhari – led APC government told Nigerian (with some proofs) that PDP administration ensures that not only that our electricity was crippled, it succeeded in selling same to their friends, families and members who have no known capacity, knowledge and financial strength to handle such sensitive and strategic project,” it stated.

MACP decried that the Nigerian Airways and the country’s massive Nitel and the railways were killed through the sharp practices of the PDP in power for 16 years from 1999 to 2015 when Nigerians booted them out, adding that despite the bare facts and proofs, the PDP still wanted Nigerian to see their vote that brought in the APC as a mistake.

“With the kind of eagerness, desperation and hunger of the PDP as demonstrated at their campaign grounds and public comments therefore, it becomes curious the motive, mission and agenda of the PDP as a party in their quest to get back to power. Till today, all public comments, body language and activities of the PDP as a party had further reinforced their known stand that there is nothing like corruption in Nigeria,” the group said.

MACP said it was very important to let Nigerian know that there is a looming danger should the PDP be voted back to power, saying that “this call however is not in any case intended to embarrass the party or confuse her members but to let Nigerian know that the party (PDP) had not shown itself as one that had purged herself of arrogance, lies, corruption, propaganda and of attitudes that led to her fall and mostly led Nigeria to her sorry state today.”

As a Non-government organization, we have watched closely and seen the need to quickly and painfully too, assist the Nigerian electorate in their choice of candidate(s) come February 23rd especially for now. PDP cannot and should not be the alternative to the present APC led government which through our field survey has practically done well and much more in three and a half years compared to the 16 years of the PDP which her leadership is trying hard to make Nigerian forget its misruled.

“As a result, we have realized as a non-government organization how the PDP has on several occasions championed the campaign that none of her members are corrupt in the land. We have therefore decided to tell the PDP and of cause its ambitious flag bearer (Atiku Abubakar especially) to go back home and purge themselves of all negative utterances and their underestimation of the Nigerian people for the next 16 years before it could come back on same name to beg Nigerian for vote,” it stated.


Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/poll-dont-succumb-to-pdp-propaganda-group-tells-nigerians/

THE National Chairman of the Door-to-Door Campaign of the All Progressives Congress, Presidential Campaign, Mr. Bola Ilori yesterday pleaded with Nigerians not to go back to Egypt as they go to the polls on Saturday. Addressing youths in Akure, the Ondo state capital, Ilori said Nigerians should instead move to the promise land by reelecting President Muhammadu Buhari.

“God used Moses to take the Israelites from Egypt, he first led them into the wilderness, not five star hotel o. Some people complained about hardships in the wilderness and made another God to lead them back to Egypt, thereby unwittingly turned a journey of 40 days to 40yrs. “Eventually Moses led them out of the wilderness and handed them over to a Joshua that led them to the promise land.

“It is clear that Nigeria has left PDP’s Egypt through Buhari, but currently in a wilderness and the Moses is laying a solid foundation for a Joshua to get Nigerians to the promise land.

“The Next Level is not to go back to Egypt but to move to the promise land and we shall get there”. The Ex-Osun Commissioner for Regional Integration highlighted different achievement of APC led federal government ranging from huge infrastructural development, social investment programmes and far reaching reforms in other areas of the economy.

Ilori appealed to the people to cast their ballot for the party that centered its policies towards a better tomorrow.

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allthingsgood:
Sorry but APC made a fatal mistake. You have been keeping quiet and allowing PDP to spread their lies and propaganda. Its almost too late now to try to counter them

don't mind APC, they have minister of communication, minister of information, special advicers to the president and vice president on information, they failed to tell Nigeria's the role the opposition played when Niger delta militants pushed the economy of the country into recession by blowing up pipelines, they did not educate the people about the implication of IPOB unrest in the south east (as if we don't no their elites sponsored Nnamdi Kanu). I have said it before that herdsmen crisis will escalate some few weeks or days to the general election to make the weakness in the security architecture of the country fresh in the minds of the electorate (fresh killing in agatu). The truth is this miscreants perfected their plans before 2015 inauguration. They are now telling us that their candidate is the best choice after 16 years damage. APC and PDP should be disqualified from this election lets enjoy fresh air in our country.

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) is reported to have arrested an associate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate,Atiku Abubakar, over alleged laundering of $4 million.

The money is termed “suspicious election cash”, the Nation said.

The arrest followed an intelligence report on a suspicious transaction by a Bureau De Change (BDC) operator.

The Nation had exclusively reported how the PDP reportedly allocated $3million each for “logistics” to its 36 state branches and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Most Bureau De Change operators and banks have, however, refused the “pressure” to convert the hard currency to Naira.

“A BDC operator was intercepted for shipping $2million from Abuja to Lagos for suspected money laundering,’’ Sources in EFCC is reported to have said.

The source said the BDC operator admitted that the suspect paid the Naira equivalent of $4 million into his account in exchange for hard currency.

“We invited the suspect for interrogation on Monday and Tuesday. Our detectives have also conducted a search of his home. Some useful documents were retrieved. Investigation is, however, still in progress.”

“Apart from documents relating to posh properties at home and abroad, a copy of the EFCC Investigation Report on Atiku’s relationship with a jailed U.S. lawmaker, Williams Jefferson, was retrieved.’’

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ABUJA: National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has lashed out at the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Atiku Abubakar, saying his attack on the presidential directive to security operatives on tackling ballot box snatching during this weekend’s polls akins to seeking protection for thugs and setting the country on fire.

Oshiomhole spoke Tuesday night with journalists at his private office on Aso Drive, Abuja. “There is no responsible candidate down to the House of Assembly who will find fault in any pronouncement that seeks to discourage thuggery in the coming elections. So, for a man who is aspiring to preside over a country like Nigeria to seek protection for thuggery, to seek cover for thuggery, even as he has already said he would grant amnesty to looters, I do not think Nigerians have any basis to doubt that Atiku Abubakar’s mission is to set Nigeria on fire just so that he can become president even if he will preside over a graveyard. Only those who rely on thuggery can find fault with the President’s directive”, he said.

On the allegation by the PDP that the ruling party imported smart card readers from China to be deployed in certain parts of the country, Oshiomhole said; “We are not like stammerers who look for a fight because they cannot win an argument. Assuming, without conceding that it is true, it means Atiku is working hand in hand with the ICT unit in INEC to know the kind of card readers that are deployed to a particular location. INEC being independent as it is, I am not in a position to determine where the card readers would be deployed or where they were imported from”, he said.

In another statement, APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu said, “the leaked security report of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP plan to deploy $111milion for vote-buying across the states under the pretence of ‘logistics’ during the General Elections raises new fears ahead of the forthcoming polls”.

He said it is now clear that the PDP has no plans to win the elections through legitimate votes, but through illegally procured votes.

“Again, in the aftermath of the configured card readers recently recovered from PDP agents in some states, the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has gone to town with face-saving conspiracies that the All Progressives Congress APC has imported slow-working card readers from China which will be deployed to the South South and South East which Atiku considers his ‘stronghold’.

Denies planned internet shutdown on election day
“Atiku also alleges a plan to shut down communication on Election Day. How illogical that a party that is in a contest with clear superior numerical support would shutdown communication on Election Day. Will the communication shutdown affect only the PDP while leaving APC supporters and agents? Nigerians can see through the infantile lies.

“Nigerians will recall that the APC had earlier reported the PDP’s plot before last Saturday’s postponed elections. The recent arrest of several armed PDP political thugs and recovery of INEC card readers and arms from PDP agents in some states points directly to the PDP’s plan as revealed by the security report.

“Atiku has called on the president to retract his instruction to security agencies regarding violence, ballot box thieves, and other electoral malpractices. The question is how such instruction disturbs anyone that is truly interested in free, fair and credible elections. We reiterate the resolution of the Monday’s meeting of the APC expanded National Caucus which urged the security agencies to step up their activities by ensuring that all those involved in violence, ballot box snatching, falsification of results, vote-buying and other election illegalities should face the full weight of the law. It is a shame that PDP is kicking against this. We are not surprised because PDP has marshalled plans to get to power by all means possible. The option of one man one vote is not on the PDP’s table.

“Atiku has admitted what we already know that he is not popular by claiming he has two geopolitical zones while the APC has the four other geopolitical zones. On Election Day, Atiku and the PDP should prepare for the shock of their lives. The South South and South East are not oblivious of the unprecedented developmental achievements recorded in the zones under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration, compared to the PDP’s wasted years. The good people of the South South, South East and indeed all the geopolitical zones will speak through their legitimate votes, not the procured ballots planned by the PDP.

“The PDP’s illegal plot requires improved surveillance by our security agencies particularly the Department of State Services (DSS), Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and allied agencies to check illicit financial flows and movement in the leadup to and on Election Day.

“On INEC’s part, following the unfortunate last-minute postponement of the election, the electoral body must realize that it has a lot to prove to the Nigerian electorate that it is still able to conduct credible elections. A first step will be that the electoral body identify and change its officers who have now beyond doubt become partisan and are actively working for partisan interests.

PDP’s NEC meeting, disrespectful
“Finally, PDP Tuesday’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting has achieved only one thing: Atiku and PDP sank into a new low of rudeness and incivility. They showed acute disrespect to the office of the President with the choice of words employed. This is the same office they intend to occupy”, the APC added.

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