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erniok: hope you read the article well as i saw nowhere it was mentioned that he was wanted. a forfeiture deal was reached between him and the FBI as it's obvious he allowed his account to be used in domiciling drug proceeds. who knows, the dealers may not have told him the truth on how they make the money.

You dont understand how intelligence works in the US. If there was a forfeiture deal, they wont even let him near any event as sensitive as a Democratic Convention. This is the laziest form of trash reporting and intelligent people should not even give it a second thought

mamikky: The grand patron Tinubu himself!!!.......i sure know more of ur dirty and shady deals will keep coming out....This is truly not the type of National leader or so called Patriot, we want to steer the wheel of the future of our great country.

Take a good look at all the bank numbers in that article, dont they look funny to you? I mean how can somebody open a "money market"? What the hell is that? PointBlank are liars of the highest order. If Sahara Reporters really obtained these facts, why didn't they publish this story themselves? Na lie jor!!

This is the biggest collection of lies since the beginning of time. Only an idiot would believe the lies published on pointblank. This is a website know to have collected $25,000 from Doyin Okupe to publish horrible stories against the opposition. Just go to their website and see all the negative stories on APC people. I hope the the money GEJ paid them is useable in hell because that is where they are going.

Tinubu is fine and well. Recovering from knee surgery. Returning soon.

The factional national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bamanga Tukur, has warned former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and a group of seven aggrieved governors of the party who formed a splinter group that the party’s train will leave them behind. He urged them to retrace their steps before it is too late.

Mr. Atiku and Governors Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), and Abdulfatai Ahmed (Kwara) had walked out of the party’s recent special convention that held at the Eagle Square, Abuja. The former vice president, the seven governors and other disaffected party members then met at the Musa Yar’Adua Convention Center where they released a list of grievances against the Bamanga Tukur-led party. In addition, they announced their formation of the new PDP, electing Baraje as the chairman of their faction. The Baraje faction has since gone to court seeking a declaration that Mr. Tukur should stop parading himself as the party’s chairman.

But in one of his most direct responses to the growing splinter group, Mr. Tukur described them as prodigal sons.

He made the comments while giving opening remarks at a seminar jointly organized by the offices of the party’s national women and youth leaders. Women and youths drawn from the 36 states of the federation attended the seminar.

Mr. Tukur said that the recent split in the party “is something of concern but it is also something that can happen in a family. You can quarrel but all should really be resolved within the house not outside. Anyone who has a son or daughter who [leaves], we call them prodigal son or daughter. If they go [and come back] we can say welcome back prodigal son.”

Mr. Tukur added: “But, of course, if you are coming back you will also have the consequences for taking a wrong step. You have to reconnect and correct your wrong step. If you don’t, the PDP train will move without you.”

In her remarks, the PDP’s national women leader, Kema Chikwe, said the party was facing challenging times because of the “morbid quest for power by unreasonable members of the party.” Ms. Chikwe served as a minister in the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. At a past convention of the party, she had declared that there would be no opposition to President Goodluck Jonathan’s quest to secure a second term in 2015.

The Rivers State Government on Thursday night raised the alarm that the Commissioner of Police in the state, Joseph Mbu was taking measures it believed were endangering the life of Governor Rotimi Amaechi.
In a statement made available to PREMIUM TIMES, the state Commissioner of Police, Ibim Semenitari, accused Mr. Mbu of making curious discreet enquiries about the governor’s movements.
Mrs Semenitari also accused the police commissioner of redeploying the police officer in charge of Mr. Amaechi’s convoy for failing to furnish him with details about the governor’s movement.
“After redeploying the Escort Commander, CP Mbu also requested the Camp Commandant of Government House, Port Harcourt, to give him prior briefing of the Governor’s daily movement. A request which in practice would be difficult to comply with unless the Camp Commandant gets prior knowledge of the Governor’s movement,” the statement said.
The commissioner added, “We suspect that the request for daily prior briefing on the Governor’s movement may be to furnish strange persons with necessary details of his movement and, thereby placing him in harms’ way.
“At different times, CP Mbu has compromised Governor Amaechi’s security and safety, and even personally led an attack on Government House, Port Harcourt on July 10, 2013. As Commissioner of Police, CP Mbu, refuses to brief the Governor, who is the Chief Security Officer of the state on the state of security in Rivers State.”
Read full statement below.
Today, Thursday September 5, 2013, the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu redeployed the Escort Commander, in charge of the Convoy of the Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. The redeployment according to CP Mbu was because the Escort Commander had refused his directive to “furnish (the CP) with prior information of the movement of the Governor.” The Escort Commander is not in charge of the Governor’s Protocol and cannot have prior knowledge of the Governor’s movement, especially in the prevailing circumstances regarding security in the State.
After redeploying the Escort Commander, CP Mbu also requested the Camp Commandant of Government House, Port Harcourt, to give him prior briefing of the Governor’s daily movement. A request which in practice would be difficult to comply with unless the Camp Commandant gets prior knowledge of the Governor’s movement.
The Government of Rivers State is most uncomfortable with these developments and their implications for the security of Governor Amaechi. This is more so, as the developments are coming on the heels of the Rivers State Police Command’s declaration of Governor Amaechi’s ADC (which is receiving medical attention) as a deserter.
This sudden interest of CP Mbu regarding the daily movement of Governor Amaechi cannot be borne out of love. If his intentions were noble and above board, CP Mbu has Governor Amaechi’s telephone number and could have reached him directly to make the request of prior briefing of his movements. Alternatively, he could have written officially to the Secretary to State Government to make the same request.
This would be the first time, since Governor Amaechi assumed office in 2007, that a Police Commissioner would be requesting prior information of his movement. This was not the case even in the hey days of militancy in Rivers State. As far as we know this is an exception rather than the rule.
The fact that CP Mbu waited for the Governor to travel out of Port Harcourt to issue the invitation to policemen attached to Government House is curious and indicative of ulterior motives. His sudden interest in the Governor’s movement is suggestive of a more sinister motive.
CP Mbu has not hidden the fact that he holds Governor Amaechi in disdain and would stop at nothing to either harm him or aid those planning to harm him. After all in May 2013, he allowed ex-Militants to barricade the gate into the Government House after parading major streets of Port Harcourt. He has even acknowledged before the media that he found nothing wrong in fraternizing with militants.
We suspect that the request for daily prior briefing on the Governor’s movement may be to furnish strange persons with necessary details of his movement and, thereby placing him in harms’ way.
At different times, CP Mbu has compromised Governor Amaechi’s security and safety, and even personally led an attack on Government House, Port Harcourt on July 10, 2013. As Commissioner of Police, CP Mbu, refuses to brief the Governor, who is the Chief Security Officer of the state on the state of security in Rivers State.
The Governor had made formal report to the Police High Command concerning his worries about the CP and nothing has come out of the complaint. We have chosen to cry out to Nigerians and the rest of the world about this threat to Governor Amaechi’s life as a last resort. We therefore wish to alert Nigerians and the rest of the world that CP Mbu should be held responsible should anything evil happen to the Governor of Rivers State Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, any principal officer or top government functionary in Rivers State. We believe that his current actions are sufficient warning to us “as a tree that cries out cannot kill anyone on its path.”
Signed
Ibim Semenitari
Commissioner Of Information and Communications

Good riddance