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PoliticsRe: Proscribed IPOB Members Storm The Streets Of Port Harcourt With Their Flags(pics by deji17: 1:44pm On May 23, 2018
This is how you will know that the whole IPOB thing is a political tool in the hands of PDPi.g
PoliticsRe: Please Nigerians Help My Mum And Other Affected Pensioners In Enugu Get Justice by deji17: 3:35am On May 23, 2018
Igbo Amaka. Hail Biafla..
PoliticsRe: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by deji17(op): 3:14am On May 23, 2018
CodeTemplar:
We can see through the new attempt at swaying neutral mind by going after APC members halfheartedly. Sarrki A.K.A. Deji17 stop the desperate 2019 push.
You have no idea. We underatand that your heart is already with the looters. Nobody will try to sway it. But you understand that you only represent yourself and probably other wailers like yourself who are few in numbers anyway. 5%?
PoliticsRe: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by deji17(op):
johnmartus:
This government have gone so far in bringing sanity to our country
But trust wailers to twist it again. What they are too ashamed to say is: Let all looters be. The closest they came at saying that is: Bring Back their corruption. If they have their ways, they just want Buhari to disapear with the anticorruption.
PoliticsRe: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by deji17(op): 9:44pm On May 22, 2018
SalamRushdie:
It's deji17 defending an evil govt again ...Dont be like Deji
What are you trying to say?
PoliticsRe: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by deji17(op): 9:17pm On May 22, 2018
You can add Orji Uzor Kalu to the list..
If you do the crime, get ready to do the time...
PoliticsShinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by deji17(op): 9:12pm On May 22, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Despite moving to APC, two ex-governors charged with money laundering


May 22, 2018

Abdulaziz Abdulaziz


Two former governors who last year decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are among a host of suspects to be tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

A former governor of Zamfara State, Mahmud Shinkafi, and that of Kebbi State, Sa’idu Dakingari, will be docked by the anti-corruption agency for breaching the country’s anti money laundering law.



Already, charges have been prepared and filed at federal high courts in the respective states, against the two former governors and their alleged accomplices.

Critics of the federal agency often accuse it of allegedly going after opposition politicians only.

However Messrs Shinkafi and Dakingari decamped to the APC last year, without citing any reasons for their action, in a wave of defections across the country.

Critics described such defections as a means of escaping corruption charges.

In March, the two former governors attended a meeting of the ruling party’s caucus, presided by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa.

PREMIUM TIMES reported Mr Shinkafi’s decamping to the APC, in November 2017, where he was received by the deputy governor of the state, Ibrahim Wakkala.

The former governor, after picking his membership card, promised to work for the development of the party not only at the state level but the country as a whole.

“My coming to APC is home coming for me, because I left it before and now I am back home to my brothers and sisters. Together we are going to work for the party to become stronger and the party to beat in the state,” he said.



On the eve of 2017, Mr Dakingari led some high profile PDP members in his state of Kebbi into the APC.

The defectors were received by the state governor, Abubakar Bagudu, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.

Mahmud Shinkafi
The former governor, after picking his membership card, promised to work for the development of the party not only at the state level but the country as a whole.

“My coming to APC is home coming for me, because I left it before and now I am back home to my brothers and sisters. Together we are going to work for the party to become stronger and the party to beat in the state,” he said.

On the eve of 2017, Mr Dakingari led some high profile PDP members in his state of Kebbi into the APC.

The defectors were received by the state governor, Abubakar Bagudu, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.

PREMIUM TIMES gathered that Mr Shinkafi will be docked before federal high court in Gusau, Zamfara state capital, on May 28, while the arraignment of Mr Dakingari is slated for June 20.

The Diezani ‘Poisoned Chalice’

The top politicians of the PDP stock are enmeshed in corruption investigations following discovery by investigators of how Nigeria’s former petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, funnelled $115 million to fund the party’s campaign.

The money, stashed with Fidelity Bank, was shared to PDP campaign coordinators and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to ensure success of the PDP in the 2015 polls.



In a nationwide crackdown, EFCC arrested and detained many politicians across the federation who are believed to be party to collection and distribution of the slush funds.

Some INEC staff were also convicted for taking cuts in the N23 billion election bazaar.

On Monday, former Minister of Water Resources, Mukhtari Shagari, was arraigned along with four others for allegedly indulging in the funds.

Others charged along with Mr Shagari are Abdullahi Wali, Ibrahim Gidado, Nasiru Bafarawa and Ibrahim Milgoma.

They are accused of receiving N500 million from Mrs Alison-Madueke’s slush funds “without transacting through a financial institution and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 18(a) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act”.

Sweeping Trials
An insider at the EFCC told PREMIUM TIMES that the commission’s leadership had decided to prepare charges against all those involved.

Saidu Dakingari
However, careful not to lose the cases on account of lack of adequate evidence to convict the suspects, the EFCC has decided to go after what the official called “low hanging fruits”.

Instead of charging the suspects with stealing public funds or conspiracy to commit act of corruption, the commission has decided to go after the “more obvious” money laundering offences.

The suspects are therefore mainly charged with breach of anti-money laundering regulations of wiring large amounts of cash through financial institutions.

Others slated for trial in this wave of prosecution, are former Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, and another former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aminu Wali, both from Kano state.

While Mr Wali is said to have confessed to collecting money from the slush funds, Mr Shekarau is said to have denied involvement. An aide who was also initially identified as the one who collected Mr Shekarau’s share has reportedly recanted.

Already, Mr Shekarau has alleged witch-hunt. In a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES by his spokesperson, Sule Sule, he said the EFCC was trying to prosecute him despite having no evidence.



Mr Shekarau served as education minister under the Goodluck Jonathan presidency and has indicated interest to run for president in 2019 under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“Since 2016, when the issue of election fund came up, Shekarau was invited by the EFCC to explain the amount given to him along with other stakeholders of the (PDP) party in Kano, but he denied ever receiving such amount and challenged EFCC to produce any one who has given him the money or any evidence to prove that he actually collected the money,” Mr Sule said in the statement.

In Jigawa, former junior minister of foreign affairs, Nurudeen Mohammed, and the governorship candidate of PDP in the state, Aminu Ringim, are also being prepared for arraignment.

As Jigawa state’s most senior representatives in the then government, Mr Mohammed reportedly collected the cash ‘contribution’ for the PDP campaign in the state, and handed the money over to Mr Ringim, who was the party’s candidate and close aide of then governor Sule Lamido.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/269345-exclusive-despite-moving-to-apc-two-ex-governors-charged-with-money-laundering.html

PoliticsRe: Meet Michael Nwokolo, A Police DSP With Unbelievable Stack Of Qualifications by deji17: 2:37pm On May 22, 2018
Which qualifications? 2 for 1 naira. Which kind cash and carry qualification be that. If you ask am basic function of a policemam he might not know it. Nigerians put too much emphasis on paper qualification. Whereas Education is beyond and not limited to paper qualification.
BusinessRe: IMF Doubts Nigeria’s Capacity To Repay Debts by deji17:
CodeTemplar:
deji17
Between Dec 2012 and June 2015, Jonathan racked up Nigeria debt from. $48 billion USD to $63billion USD. That is $15 billion USD within two and a half years. Between June 2015 to Dec 2017, Buhari has increased Nig total debt from $63 billion USD to $71 billion USD. That is an increase of $8 billion USD.
Jonathan borrowed 15 bilion US dollars despite high oil earnings while Buhari has borrowed 8 billion US dollars within the same 2.5 years despite low oil earnings. Buhari is doing capital projects with money borrowed. While Jonathan and his cronies stole the money for themselves. Hope you get the difference now.

http://www.dmo.gov.ng/debt-profile/total-public-debt
PoliticsRe: Court Orders Ex-presidential Investigator Uwajeh’s Arrest by deji17(op): 12:40pm On May 22, 2018
You assume you have God in your life, Pharisee...
PoliticsRe: Court Orders Ex-presidential Investigator Uwajeh’s Arrest by deji17(op): 1:30am On May 22, 2018
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PoliticsCourt Orders Ex-presidential Investigator Uwajeh’s Arrest by deji17(op): 1:06am On May 22, 2018
Court orders ex-presidential investigator Uwajeh’s arrest
Posted By: Eric Ikhilae, Abuja On: May 21, 2018


A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a former investigator with the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIPRPP), Victor Osita Uwajeh.

Justice John Tsoho issued the bench warrant while ruling on an application filed by Kayode Alilu, a lawyer for the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), following Uwajeh’s failure to appear in court for his trial.

The office of the AGF has since September 19, 2017 filed a four-count charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/148/2017, in which Uwajeh was said to have “utter a false document” with which he allegedly claimed to be acting as agent of Senator Emmanuel Andy Uba.

Uwajeh was recently sacked by SPIPRPP as special investigator on April 23.



In the letter with reference number SPIP/LR/2018/Vol. 1/29, SPIPRPP said it sacked Uwajeh due to his alleged non-disclosure of a criminal charge pending against him before the Federal High Court in Abuja.

At the commencement of proceedings on Monday, Alilu told the court that the prosecution has executed the court’s order for substituted service of criminal summons on the defendant.

http://thenationonlineng.net/court-orders-ex-presidential-investigator-uwajehs-arrest/

PoliticsRe: American Based Company Set To Invest Over $10 Billion In Coastal Rail Line by deji17: 12:01am On May 22, 2018
Sai Buhari!
Sai Osinbajo!!
Sai Baba!!!
PoliticsRe: American Based Company Set To Invest Over $10 Billion In Coastal Rail Line by deji17: 12:00am On May 22, 2018
Loathe him or hate him.. Nigeria have never had it so good in terms of infrastructure upgrade for the past 30 years
PoliticsRe: Precious Chikwendu Fani-Kayode Expecting Triplets (Maternity Photos) by deji17: 6:23pm On May 21, 2018
Karma is a bitch. This woman and Fayose in Ekiti Govt house... Hmmm

FFK receiving payback for what he did to Ojukwu, wife and children..

AgricultureRe: How Calabar Rice City Project Will Generate Over N70bn Yearly – Gov. Ayade by deji17: 5:27am On May 21, 2018
Nice one.
AgricultureRe: Nigeria’s Cocoa Export Rises by 20% in one year by deji17(op): 8:17am On May 20, 2018
SBG04:
Don't mind those two idiotic and illiterate posters above. Every single economic statistic for Nigeria is positive! The naira has become stable, inflation has been declining for 15 consecutive months now and is at 12.5, foreign reserve accretion is nearing USD50 billion thanks to prudent management and rising oil price, GDP is at its highest since q4 2015 at >2%.
The kind of economics those idiot posters above prefer is the economics of distributing N100 naira and Bags of rice on the street Fayose style. As if the cocoa farmer is not a common man.
Thanks. The positive economic indicators is another source of their worries. Unfortunately they love bad and negative news.
AgricultureRe: Nigeria’s Cocoa Export Rises by 20% in one year by deji17(op):
lovelygurl:
Not really. We aren't able to process it. We export to import. Same thing with oil, which is why although Nigeria exports a lot of oil, it's still expensive to buy.
That aspect is being addressed by Govt and smart investors / entrepreneurs.. This video provides some answers ..

You already know the story of refined petroleum products with Dangote refinery and modular refineries starting production by 2019
Where we are going is better than where we are coming from.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5oLHul7rp8
AgricultureRe: Nigeria’s Cocoa Export Rises by 20% in one year by deji17(op):
abokibuhari:
How does this rubbish benefits the common man on the street

Useless statistics
It benefits the cocoa farmers and results in the increase of Govt revenue / Nigeria GDP .
AgricultureRe: Nigeria’s Cocoa Export Rises by 20% in one year by deji17(op): 3:46am On May 20, 2018
Ratello:
I just pray this paid BMC dude will not kill himself on top this forsaken and diabolic government of Buhari, which one is Nigeria's Cocoa Export Rise as if that's our mainstay now, how is the common man benefitting from this useless government of propaganda. What a funny post
We are talking diversification here.. What do you know?
AgricultureNigeria’s Cocoa Export Rises by 20% in one year by deji17(op): 2:58am On May 20, 2018
Nigeria’s cocoa export rises

MAY 19, 2018

OVER 300,000 tonnes of cocoa was exported from Nigeria last year, Executive Director, the Partnership in the Niger Delta, (PIND), Dr. Dara Akala, has said.

Akala spoke in Akure, Ondo Stste capital, during the Cocoa Value Chain Study Validation Workshop. “2017 saw an increase in the quantity of cocoa exported from Nigeria rising from about 250,000 tonnes exported in 2016 to more than 300,000 tonnes in 2017”, he said. “The increase was triggered by the devaluation of the Naira in 2016 by the Nigerian government in a bid to wade off recession. “While the devaluation of the Naira and subsequent increase in tariffs or outright ban of certain imported goods led to a 30% loss in the value of Nigeria’s currency in comparison to the United States of America’s Dollar.”

Nonetheless, he stated that products like cocoa enjoyed increased demand and production because of its viability as an export product. Akala urged government at all levels and other development partners to utilize the economic potentials available in cocoa production to cushion the effects of global oil doom. “As Nigeria’s cocoa production and export began to increase in 2017, the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) carried out a value chain study of the sector between January and April 2018,” he said. The PIND Market Development Projects Manager, James Elekwachi, said ‘’cocoa sector has the growth potential and the opportunity to increase income and employment for millions of people, especially the unskilled and semi-skilled in the region.”

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, also speaking at the occasion, revealed that the state government has embarked on several revolutionary measures to optimally utilize the cocoa potentials in the state for massive development.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/05/nigerias-cocoa-export-rises/

PoliticsPdp’s Secret Deal For Saraki, Dogara, Tambuwal, Others by deji17(op): 1:06am On May 20, 2018
PDP’s secret deal for Saraki, Dogara, Tambuwal, others


Posted By: Yusuf Alli On: May 20, 2018


•Party’s Contact and Integration Committee gets two-week extension
•Jonathan’s ex-minister emerges dark horse in the race
•Ex- Gov. Boni Haruna is Turaki’s Campaign DG
•Dogara walks tight rope

WHAT’S ON OFFER TO WHO

KWANKWASO: State PDP structure in Kano, governorship ticket to his preferred candidate and Senatorial seat


SARAKI: PDP structure in Kwara, governorship ticket to his candidate, Senate Presidency
presidential primaries, ministerial ticket if he loses
WAMMAKO: PDP structure in Sokoto, governorship ticket to his candidate, Senatorial seat





DOGARA: Speaker, House of Reps; Ministerial appointment

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given its Contact and Integration Committee a two-week extension to wrap up negotiations with Senate President Bukola Saraki, House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara, and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who are keen on switching camps.

Other bigwigs being expected are Governors Aminu Waziri Tambuwal (Sokoto) and Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara); Senators Rabiu Kwankwaso, Danjuma Goje, Aliyu Wammako, Ahmad Sani Yerima, Adamu Aliero, Sulaiman Nazif, Isa Hammah Misau, Muhammad Muhammad, Shehu Sani and Dino Melaye; as well as a former PDP national chairman, Alhaji Kawu Baraje; and about 120 members of the House of Representatives.

The Nation gathered yesterday that the secret deals have dragged this long because of persistent review of positions and shifting of grounds by the personalities involved.

Highly placed sources gave our correspondent an insight into the demands of some of the intending defectors whom the PDP committee has rated as “assets” and what the PDP is willing to concede to them.

Former Kano State Governor Kwankwaso is being offered control of the state structure of the PDP and the governorship ticket to go to his candidate.



But the party does not see him going far in his presidential bid.

“The best he can get from PDP is a return to the Senate because he cannot go far in his presidential bid,” a source said.

“The party will allow him to contest its presidential primaries but he may not be the ultimate flag-bearer. Other concessions to Kwankwaso are handing over the State PDP structure to him and governorship ticket to go to his candidate.”

The party expects some backlash from the camp of a presidential aspirant, ex-Governor Ibrahim Shekarau once Kwankwaso returns to the fold.

Accordingly, it plans to placate Shekarau with a ministerial slot and ask him to “name his terms.”

Regarding Tambuwal, the source said: “Nothing can stop his desire for the presidential ticket of PDP because he is desperate for it and he has invested heavily on his ambition across the country such that none of the aspirants can match his goodwill at present.

“But his aspiration, buoyed by a prominent and PDP-inclined Northern Emir, may not translate to victory at the presidential primaries of the party.

“Certainly, he is a major contestant for the presidential ticket in PDP except that with ex-Governor (Sen.) Aliyu Wammako, he needs to work on Plan B in case he fails in his bid.

“The most visible alternative if he fails to clinch the presidential ticket is a ministerial appointment.

“A smart and slippery politician, Tambuwal has hijacked the APC structure in the state from Wammako. Learning from the need to protect the home front, Wammako’s negotiation centres on the need to control the PDP structure in Sokoto State and produce the next governor of the state having not enjoyed much from Tambuwal who was foisted on him in 2015. Wammako is said to be sure of a return to the Senate, courtesy of PDP.

“Both Tambuwal and Wammako have a game changer and grassroots politician, ex-Governor Attahiru Bafarawa (also a presidential aspirant) to contend with. It was Bafarawa who brought Wammako (popularly called Alu) into politics.

“The people of Sokoto State will be willing to offload Tambuwal who hardly stays in the state because of his shuttles for the presidency.”

The source said Saraki would have loved to be PDP’s presidential candidate but having weighed his chances; he prefers retaining “his present powerful position of President of the Senate which he seems to be enjoying.”

The PDP has assured him that the position will be retained in the North-Central, especially Kwara State.

It has also promised to grant him the control of the structure of the party in Kwara and allow him determine the governorship candidate and candidates for other elective offices.

The source added: “Saraki will determine the fate of his godson, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, who has been pleading for the senatorial slot of Kwara South District.

“Ahmed can either be a Senator or a minister since the present ministerial position given to Kwara State resides in Kwara South District.

“What will become of our former national chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje is left to Saraki to decide. Although Baraje, a sharp, patient and visionary ex-principal with depth in party politics, nurses gubernatorial ambition, but for historical reasons, the Ilorin Emirate Council is not disposed to him.

“His gubernatorial ambition is limited and it is left to Saraki not to make him a complete loser again after he led the New PDP (nPDP) revolt in 2014.”

It was also gathered that strategists of President Muhammadu Buhari are working out a response on the security reports available to them on Saraki’s moves and PDP offers.

This includes “wooing some of the present PDP leaders in the state like Moshood Mustapha (a hitherto trusted ally of Saraki), a young and sensational governorship aspirant, Alhaji Luqman Mustapha, and Senator Gbemisola Saraki, among others.”

The plan is “not only to win Kwara State (which looks Herculean) but to defeat the Senate President in Kwara Central Senatorial District and forestall his return to the Senate.”

The PDP is said to be in a sort of dilemma on the fate of House of Reps Speaker Dogara, a Christian minority from Bauchi State as it is difficult for him to seek a Senatorial slot or be a governorship candidate.

The options for PDP on him are to “concede a return to the House of Representatives to him so he can retain the seat of a Speaker if the party has the majority or make him a minister if the opposition defeats the APC in 2019.”

The probability of Dogara becoming Speaker again is however said to be remote because the PDP wants to use the position as a bait to woo the South-West and defeat Buhari in the zone.

Sources said Dogara is adamant on a return to his seat as Speaker.

Another source, who is neck-deep in the defection talks, said: “Dogara is a major challenge for us because aside his Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency, he is a paper weight in Bauchi State politics.

“There was a time he visited his constituency with about 250 policemen and soldiers. He cannot aspire to either be a Senator or a governor in his state because he is a Christian minority.

“But if he is able to win re-election in his constituency, where he is almost a perpetual winner in the past few years, the PDP can retain him in office to appease the Middle Belt. Otherwise, the best he will get is a ministerial appointment.”

“Other Senators from Bauchi namely Sulaiman Nazif, Isa Hammah Misau, and Muhammad Muhammad who all desire automatic return to the upper chamber have been promised senatorial tickets by the PDP.

The PDP rates Senator Danjuma Goje highly and is willing to cede the party structure in Gombe State to him.

“The fact that he is in control of Gombe State politics is not in doubt,” said a second source.

“His main asset has been his excellent performance in office as governor which has remained unbroken. If not for the rebellion of some of his political godsons, APC would have produced the governor of the state in 2015.

“The PDP has taken note of his reunification of his political family and it is banking on Goje for a landslide victory. The deals with Goje include securing the PDP platform, allowing him to produce the governorship candidate, and offer of a senatorial seat.”

But Goje may be resisted by Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo who cannot leave his political fate to the senator to determine.

When Goje’s wife died and Dankwambo accompanied First Lady Aisha Buhari to commiserate with him, Goje poured invectives on the governor. It won’t be easy for him to regain control of PDP structure in Gombe from Dankwambo, both sources acknowledged.

For Senator Ahmad Sani Yerima whose political son, Governor Abdul-Aziz Yari has built a parallel platform in Zamfara State, his safe berth will be PDP.

If his deal sails through, this will be the first time he will be in PDP camp since 1999.

The top source added: “For Yarima, who has been in the Senate since 2007, he needs PDP to assert his role as the godfather of Zamfara politics.

“With his ally, ex-Governor Mahmud Shinkafi defecting from PDP to APC, the calculation of the opposition is that Yarima is a big catch.

“Yarima wants the party structure, Senatorial ticket, the right to nominate the governorship candidate, which Yari will not allow him to do.

“His problem is turning against President Buhari. Since 2007, he has sold Buhari to the people of the state and it is a dilemma to turn around and paint the President bad. The consequence of a volte face might be politically costly for him.”

Sources also told The Nation that it has not been smooth sailing for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in the PDP since he returned to the party from the APC which he accused of sidelining him.

They said he rushed to defect to PDP without “proper negotiation.”

“The only thing he has benefited from his defection is the amendment to PDP Constitution which gives equal rights to new and old members, especially aspiration for presidency,” one of the sources said.

“So far, he is savouring this right to aspire for the presidency but he has since discovered that he has more hurdles to cross and more aspirants to contest with.

“He appears to be a lone ranger with PDP governors playing a hide and seek game with him.

“Whatever is the situation, PDP will allow Atiku a symbolic shot at presidential primaries (as a veteran since 1993), put the party structure in Adamawa under his arm pit and allow him a substantial say in the nomination of governorship and ministerial candidates. If he loses the party’s presidential ticket, he will remain a local political benefactor.

“His former boss, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo is his albatross,” the source added.

The PDP has ex-Osun Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola on its radar as the coordinator of the coalition against APC in 2019.

The source said: “We don’t know whether or not he is returning to PDP or staying put in CNM (Obasanjo’s inspired Coalition for Nigeria Movement) or ADC.

“Whatever it is, the PDP might grant him a Senatorial ticket or a ministerial nomination which he had expected from the current APC administration.

“But Oyinlola is reputed to be the brain behind the emergence of Senator Ademola Adeleke after the death of Sen. Isiaka Adeleke. He has been fingered in the governorship ambition of Ademola which the PDP may buy into in order to win Osun State Governorship poll.”

The scenario in Kaduna appears an arduous task for PDP where an influential politician Isa Ashiru and Senator Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi (a politician with large following) are seeking the governorship ticket of the PDP following their sealed defection from APC.

“Both Ashiru and Hunkuyi are already trying to outwit each other for the governorship ticket. It appears Ashiru might get the slot and Hunkuyi will return to the Senate with Shehu Sani if he moves to PDP,” sources said.

The horse-trading in PDP is likely to continue over the next two weeks before the gale of defections begins.

A party source said yesterday that the PDP leadership “extended the timeline of the Committee contact and Integration Committee by two weeks.”

Asked to react to the ongoing deals by defectors, the National Publicity of PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbodiyan, who was non-committal, said: “Certainly, everybody has his interest and politics is a game of interest. They might want to find expression in our party and how to go about it.

“Our party is open and we welcome every member who has become despondent with the administration of APC. We urge all democrats wherever they may be to allow the coalition to work in order to chase away this inept government of President Buhari.”

It was also gathered that Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs in the Goodluck Jonathan Administration, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), is in the process of joining the presidential race on the platform of the PDP.

Turaki, who is considered an aspirant without blemish, is being promoted by what a member of the National Working Committee (NWC) described as a “Third Force in PDP.”

Some in the party see him as a dark horse in the race.

Turaki has already set up his campaign directorate with ex-Governor Boni Haruna as Director-General.

To assist Haruna are ex-Military Governor of Bauchi State, Col. Habibu Shuaibu (rtd), (Deputy DG North), and ex-Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Steve Oru as Deputy DG (South).

“The composition of the directorate during the week suggested a bigger accord and alliance in PDP,” a member of the NWC said.

A member of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT), speaking on the ongoing horse-trading in the party said: “The odds favour a dark horse. Go and look at the history of past presidents and how they earned their tickets, it has been a story of dark horses.

“Ex-President Shehu Shagari least expected his nomination; ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo wanted only an eminent role as a statesman and he came out of Yola Prison to become President; ex-President Umaru Yar’Adua never aspired to be President and ex-President Goodluck Jonathan was having lunch in Transcorp Hilton when Obasanjo invited him to come and be the nation’s Vice President which later propelled him into presidency with the Doctrine of Necessity.

“Some leaders of the party are of the opinion that we should ignore lousy aspirants; those who have cases with anti-graft agencies and those who have issues with leaders of the coming coalition which may give President Muhammadu Buhari a fight. Unlike APC, we will pay much attention to age factor too. No room for old men like me.

“If there are other younger elements like Turaki, we will all sit down and look at all the options. Dankwambo has age on his side but he is from the North-East. The only way to defeat Buhari is to get a presidential candidate from the North-West.

“Governor Tambuwal is favoured by age but he has a challenge bordering on the fact that Governor Nyesom Wike and some of his colleagues are desperate to force him on the party. This is undemocratic. We will leave him to contest the primaries but he might not secure the ticket.”


http://thenationonlineng.net/revealed-pdps-secret-deal-for-saraki-dogara-tambuwal-others/

PoliticsRe: AMCON Takes Possession Of Asset Of Nigerian Senator, Stella Oduah by deji17(op): 7:03pm On May 19, 2018
aribisala0:
She went to study in the US and on her way back they gave her cash to go and continue her life in Africa

Americans are lovely people.
Hahahahaha. You mean they gave her huge sum of money when she was coming back from Amelika?
PoliticsRe: Bishop, Minister Fight Over Ekwueme’s Missing £200,000 Medical Bill Refund by deji17: 6:03pm On May 19, 2018
Haha. 200,000 pounds gini? Just to treat one individual? Do you want Nigeria to go bankrupt Where will the country get the money to fix Enugu - Onitsha road, when only Ekwueme family corners 200,000 pounds?
PoliticsRe: See How Enugu State Wellcomed Vice President Osinbajo by deji17: 6:39am On May 19, 2018
Nice
PoliticsRe: AMCON Takes Possession Of Asset Of Nigerian Senator, Stella Oduah by deji17(op):
Xander85:
Fool, so you're equating Senator Oduahs' situation with that of Bode George who was tried and convicted? Now tell me, what is Senator Oduahs' crime?

As much as i don't trust the Nigerian legal system, i'm quite prepared to accept any decision emanating from there, no matter the misgivings i may have about said judgement. My problem with you lot is how you try, convict and sentence anyone you don't like the look of just because they're of the 'wrong' party, ethnic group, religion or disposition!
Look into the mirror, you will see a fool.
As for criminal case in court against Oduah, the BMW case is still in court and she is also being investigated for other crimes. As at the time Bode George was being investigated / tried and now Sola Amosu, nobody read tribal meanings into their trial. Ditto, Dasuki among many others.



EFCC Seizes Stella Oduah’s Passport Over Alleged Fraud
March 4, 2018
http://saharareporters.com/2018/03/04/efcc-seizes-stella-oduah%E2%80%99s-passport-over-alleged-fraud
PoliticsRe: Massive Crowd Welcomes Osinbajo To Aba And Enugu (Picture) by deji17(op): 1:53am On May 19, 2018
ashjay001:
It is only paid employment workers n wailers, doing d lamenting o! Which tribe, do u think, benefits most from all these buy Nigeria businesshuh
I wonder o.
PoliticsRe: AMCON Takes Possession Of Asset Of Nigerian Senator, Stella Oduah by deji17(op): 1:38am On May 19, 2018
Xander85:
Dude, coming from a despicable character like you, somehow the tag 'oaf' looses its sting!

So Senator Oduahs' companies and assets have been taken over? How the fuc/k does that concern you? Have you finished looking for propaganda and lies on your ogas gov't to post online, before finding the time to get happy and wan'k over a Igbo persons business being taken over?

Can you vouch that Senator Oduah is any more of a 'crook' or (whatever it is you're accusing her of) than say the likes of Tinubu, Otedola, Alakija or Dangote?

I've warned my people that they'll constantly have to watch their backs if they want to continue sharing the same country with you scheming and hateful lot!
The boor came back with loads of more rubbish... His problem is the tribe of the lady. When Bode George was sent to prison, nobody read tribal meaning into it.. Examples abound of people from every part of the country and from different party that are facing trials or had their assets recovered or account frozen. But the odious fellow cannot see beyond tribe when it comes to corruption.

Your people who are criminals, have better watch their back.
CrimeRe: Lagos SARS Operatives Who Extorted N5,000 From Woman And Her Friends Arrested by deji17: 12:59am On May 19, 2018
Good. Everyday for the thief, one day for the owner of the funds.
PoliticsRe: AMCON Takes Possession Of Asset Of Nigerian Senator, Stella Oduah by deji17(op): 12:58am On May 19, 2018
Some of the cash recovered from looters..

PoliticsRe: AMCON Takes Possession Of Asset Of Nigerian Senator, Stella Oduah by deji17(op): 12:08am On May 19, 2018
SalamRushdie:
I can attest she most of the listed asset before she ever ventured into politics .. .politics made her just ruin SPG for nothing ..I dont really know what she gained from politics ooo than bad name sef
I think its greed.
PoliticsRe: AMCON Takes Possession Of Asset Of Nigerian Senator, Stella Oduah by deji17(op): 11:41pm On May 18, 2018
BabaRamota1980:
grin grin
See your life! Your region is begging for development and infrastructure but your Senator prefer to develop another man land and donate IGR for Yorubaland.

Na we develop Lagos but when Lagos hustle catch up with una you go begin dash blame for Yoruba and Hausa....you don forget say na you develop Lagos.

Yeye transformer angry
These guys are surely deluded.. Their madness no get part two.

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