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iluvdonjazzy:
forget about political party, wike cannot in anyway match Amaechi

Agreed! Wike can't match Amaechi in treachery, back stabbing, heartlessness, foolishness, looting, desperation, etc. Wike and Amaechi are poles apart. Whereas amaechi is not a true Niger Delta son, wike is a proud and brave Niger deltan.

The Rivers state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday sent out a statement on behalf of the Nigerian army.

The statement signed by Kasimu Abdulkarim, general officer commanding of the 6 division of the Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, debunked the allegation that military collaborated with politicians to intimidate the electorate.

It was sent via apcrivers@yahoo.com – the address it normally uses for its emails.

APC army
A screenshot of the email
Nyesom Wike, governor of the state, had accused the APC of using the military to intimidate voters.

But the statement said the accusation was aimed at tarnishing the image of the army.

“It is true that soldiers of 6 Division Nigerian Army provided security during the Rivers legislative re-run election,” the statement read.

“These people allegedly accused soldiers of ballot box snatching, illegal escorts of some politicians, arrest and detention of voters during the general conduct of the elections.

“The weighty nature of these allegations could cause members of the public to view soldiers negatively, hence the need to adequately inform the general public on the true perspective.

“The public thus need to consider them as mere farce to garner public sympathy.”

https://www.thecable.ng/extra-rivers-apc-sends-press-release-behalf-army


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Muhammad Sanusi II, the emir of Kano and former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), recently claimed that the CBN has been illegally funding the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

In his claims, Sanusi said “the CBN-FGN relationship is no longer independent. In fact, one could argue their relationship has become unhealthy.

“CBN claims on the FGN now tops N4.7 trillion — equal to almost 50% of the FGN’s total domestic debt. This is a clear violation of the Central Bank Act of 2007 (Section 38.2) which caps advances to the FGN at 5% of last year’s revenues. Has CBN become the government’s lender of last or first resort?”

Sanusi also asked questions as to whether CBN is a lender of “last resort” or “first resort”, asking why the bank is lending money to a federal government that has trillions in its treasury single account (TSA).

Following Sanusi’s allegations, the CBN said “it is rather unfortunate that some people have chosen to play to the gallery and to make statements to disparage those in leadership at this time in total insensitivity to the larger interests of the Nigerian economy”.

The bank went on to say “the seed of our current economic crisis was planted by the failure of those who occupied public office in the past,” apparently referring to Sanusi, who led the bank for four years.

Garba Shehu, who speaks on behalf of the president, also said Sanusi “doesn’t have his facts as far as those issues are concerned”.

Shehu went on to make some claims on the emir’s speech at the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development.

TheCable has taken time to fact-check the categorical claims made by the emir and Shehu as regards government lending, and what the law stipulates.

CLAIM: HAS FG OVERDRAWN ITS LIMIT?

According to Shehu, “that government has overdrawn its Central Consolidated Account” but “the overdrawing is within limits”.

“The overdraw does not exceed 1.5 trillion. It is incorrect to say, as he (Sanusi) did, that the account was overdrawn by 4.5 trillion”.

Sanusi, on the other hand, said the government has overdrawn its limits, and has violated section 38.2 of the CBN Act of 2007.

FACT: SHEHU HAD NO FACTS ON THE LAW

According to section 38, sub-section 1 and 2, of the CBN Act, “the Bank may grant temporary advances to the Federal Government in respect of temporary deficiency of budget revenue” and “the total amount of such advances outstanding shall not at any time exceed five per cent of the previous year’s actual revenue of the Federal Government”.

By law, the federal government can only take an advance of five percent (of its previous year’s revenue) to fund budget deficiencies. This means the federal government can only borrow five percent of what it made as retained revenue in 2015 to fund 2016 budget. Anything above the five percent is illegal.


Federal government retained revenue, according to CBN
The questions to then ask are: How much did the federal government make in revenue in 2015? How much is five percent of the amount made? And how much has the CBN lent the federal government?

According to CBN statistical bulletin, available on the CBN website, the federal government retained revenue for 2015 was N3.431 trillion. Five percent of this is N171.55 billion.

This means that the government can only seek an advance of N171.55 billion from the CBN.

But according to CBN’s own data, mined from its statistical database, the CBN is seen to have lent as much as N4.7 trillion to the federal government in 2016.

Sanusi’s presentation, as obtained from the Savannah Centre, highlighted government’s lending in terms “Treasury Bills & TB Rediscounts, Nigerian Converted Bonds, Overdrafts to Federal Government and Claims on Nonfinancial Public Enterprises”.

Lending to FG
Lending to FG, according to CBN Data (Click to expand)
According to CBN’s data, the closing balance (lending) at the end of October 2016 amounts to N150 billion treasury bills, N1.906 trillion converted bonds, N2.104 trillion in overdrafts, and N553 billion to non-financial public enterprises (as highlighted above).

This brings government lending to N4.713 trillion, as against the N171.55 billion stipulated by law.

CONCLUSION

According to CBN revenue and lending data, and the CBN Act of 2007, the apex bank has actually been funding the Buhari administration above the legal limit.

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A former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, says the military administration of President Muhammadu Buhari kept him in jail for 18 months between March 1984 and August 1985 because he was a rich man.

Anenih said this in his biography titled, ‘My Life and Nigerian Politics’ which was launched in Abuja on Saturday.

He said when Buhari came into power through a military coup in December 1983, he went about arresting politicians arbitrarily and he was one of those picked up because he was the Chairman of the defunct National Party of Nigeria in old Bendel State.



Anenih said, “The military regime of General Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon threw me into detention for 18 months on the basis of an anonymous petition that as a prominent and wealthy politician and leader of the NPN in Bendel State, the military administrator would not find his footing unless I was removed from the scene.

“I was sent to Kirikiri Prisons where I spent three months before I was transferred to Ikoyi Prisons.”

The retired police officer maintained that he did nothing wrong to warrant such treatment.

He said, “I must emphasise it again and again that I did nothing wrong to anyone, the government or the state to merit a detention. My crime was that I was a wealthy, influential and highly respected politician.”

Anenih, who later served as the minister of works and housing under former President Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 to 2002, said while in detention, he met other prominent politicians like former Governor Lateef Jakande of Lagos State, former Governor Olabisi Onabanjo of Ogun State; ex-Governor Bola Ige of old Oyo State; former Vice-President Alex Ekwueme, ex-Governor Ambrose Alli of old Bendel State, Chief Solomon Lar and many others.

The ex-minister said their cells were bugged by security agents who monitored their conversation.

The PDP chieftain said the worst part of the detention was that some governors who had sentenced some criminals to death were locked up in the same cells.

Anenih said, “We were transferred to Ikoyi Prisons because of the riot that took place while we were there. The condemned prisoners whose death warrants had earlier been signed by Alhaji Lateef Jakande when he was governor of Lagos State, broke loose on sighting him as one of the detainees.

“They broke out of their cells and headed towards the building where Jakande and the rest of us detainees were kept. As the prisoners were attempting to force the iron door open, mobile police were called in to quell the riot.”

The ex-minister, who gave an insight into the living condition of the politicians in detention, described the experience as hellish.

He added, “Where we were staying, the bucket latrines or toilets had opening to the rooms. These buckets were emptied maybe once a week from behind, and if for any reason the buckets were not emptied once a week as the rule, you lived with the stench.

“At night, cockroaches, rats and lizards passed through these holes housing the bucket latrines into our cells after crawling on the buckets to disturb us. So, you could really not sleep for one hour without getting cockroaches perch on you.”

http://punchng.com/buhari-jailed-18-months-wealthy-anenih/

For Olusegun Mimiko, the outgoing governor of Ondo State, Saturday governorship election was like a war. Though he had fought many political battles before, coming out unscathed in almost all, he saw the last election as the most important political battle he needed to win in order to safeguard his political future. Iroko, as he is popularly called by his admirers, has many ‘laurels’ from the many battles he had fought in the past. He fought to retrieve his mandate from the late governor of the state, Dr. Olusegun Agagu. He won. He also fought a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who claimed to be majorly responsible for his governorship victory. Many believed him.

Mimiko also wrestled with a former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, when the latter asked him to stay back in his cabinet as a minister and allow Agagu to have a second term in office. When he knew that the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party was not going to shield him from exile that he was going to be sent to, he quickly moved to the Labour Party from where he was elected a governor over seven years ago. It was a victory that changed his political life.

Since then, Mimiko had become a political colossus to his followers. Even when Tinubu again led the formidable former members of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria to Ondo State to campaign for its governorship candidate, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, about four years ago, Mimiko, the Iroko, resisted them. He won the election overwhelmingly.



The journey he started about eight years ago is about to be completed. As demanded by the constitution, his tenure would end in about three months’ time. To the chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, this was probably his toughest political party. He, therefore, needed to thread carefully as he planned to execute the war. Mimiko, like other governors, decided to singlehandedly pick his party’s candidate. Funny enough, he did not see anyone worthy of succeeding him from the two other senatorial districts apart from where he hails from — Ondo Central. The argument that the state capital, Akure, has yet to produce a governor was used to sell the candidature of Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) to the wary voters.

Unfortunately, Akure being the state capital, harbours the majority of the civil servants in the state who are unhappy about the non-payment of their salaries as and when due by the state governor. It has been argued that an average worker has about six other voters sympathetic to his cause. Patiently, the angry workers waited for their governor to pay him back with their votes on Saturday when they trooped to the polling booths to reject Mimiko and his candidate, Jegede, who is also part of the governor’s cabinet.

Thus, the idea of picking a candidate from Akure, the same district with Mimiko, was met with anger by voters some of whom merely reside in the state capital but are from other parts of the state.

A staunch member of the PDP and a senator from Ogun State, Senator Buruji Kashamu, said that this was one of the reasons why his party lost the election. Kashamu said, “We told Governor Mimiko that after eight years in office, the good people of Ondo State would resist the injustice of producing a successor from the same senatorial district where he hails from. The votes that came from the state capital did not justify the picking of Jegede as he shared them with his arch rival, Akeredolu.

“It is not that Jegede is not a good material. He is urbane, intelligent and smart. He would have probably won had he come from any other senatorial zone than Mimiko’s. We told Mimiko that the people would not take anything that would look like a third term for him and his senatorial district. He would not listen.”

Some were also of the opinion that the state under Mimiko did not pay much attention to the development of other senatorial districts. For example, Igbokoda which is a part of the southern district, is said to have been in darkness for about five years while Okitipupa joined in the darkness crisis, two years ago. Also, the bridge that connects Okitipupa and Irele township was also said to have been abandoned since Agagu left office. The people of the northern district were also not left out in the cry of maginalisation. To them, another eight years under Jegede were intolerable and unbearable.

Apart from these, some people also argued that the allocation which was said to have come to the state in the past eight years, did not match the development on the ground. Ondo State is the second richest among the six states in the South-West.

The desertion of the governor by some of those who were said to have helped him to power was said to have also added to the defeat of his party and the success recorded by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress. It is instructive to know that the state, which used to be predominantly a PDP state, does not have a sitting senator belonging to Mimiko’s political party today. Some serving commissioners and advisers also jumped ship as soon as Jegede was seen to have been imposed on the party.

One of the inhibiting factors that worked against the governor was the crisis that engulfed the party following its factionalisation at the national level. Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, a self-confessed hater of Mimiko, who was imposed on the party as its governorship candidate by Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, was rather busy campaigning against the governor instead of selling his party.

The attempt to vacate the judgment at the higher court, left Mimiko and his supporters in a state of uncertainty for weeks, until three days to the election when the Court of Appeal gave him and his candidate the go-ahead to replace Ibrahim. By then, the deed had been done. Some of Mimiko’s supporters had pledged allegiance to other candidates, some were left in disarray and above all, Mimiko and his party and candidate were unable to strategise and mobilise funds. The result was an unprecedented bashing of the man who many had thought would always wangle his way out of difficulty.

The loss of the Iroko was the gain of the main challenger to his exalted office, Akeredolu. Backed by federal might, the APC candidate drew up from his past experience as he started his campaign early. While Mimiko, Jegede and their party were in courts, Akeredolu was busy campaigning and reaping from the disgruntled members of the PDP who felt that its candidate was foisted on them.

The former President of the Nigerian Bar Association was also able to use the crisis that produced him from his party as its candidate to his advantage as he distanced himself from those that were used against him during his first attempt at seeking the office of the governor of the state. Then, many including Mimiko, had referred to him as an appendage of Tinubu, who was then backing him ferociously. This time round, Akeredolu found a new alliance with some ministers led by a former governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. He was also backed by serving governors, the national leadership of the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari.

These men provided the needed funds that enabled him to traverse the whole of the state and also reached out to the voters personally.

For now, Akeredolu is expected to resume with an indigene of Imo State as First Lady, Mrs. Chioma Akeredolu.

http://punchng.com/akeredolu-reaped-pdps-mistakes/

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has accused former Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton of reneging on her concession speech certifying the results of the Nov. 28 presidential election.

Trump, in a series of tweets on the recount, condemned Clinton’s support to the votes recount efforts by Green Party nominee Jill Stein for Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Stein has raised over six million dollars crowd-funding in hopes of securing a recount in the three key states won by Trump in the Nov. 8 presidential poll.

“The Democrats, when they incorrectly thought they were going to win, asked that the election night tabulation be accepted. Not so anymore!

“Hillary Clinton conceded the election when she called me just prior to the victory speech and after the results were in,” he said.

Trump recalled Clinton’s reaction when he hinted at the third and last presidential debate that he would keep Americans guessing over whether he would accept the election outcome. “That is horrifying. That is not the way our democracy works; been around for 240 years. We’ve had free and fair elections.

“We’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them, and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on during a general election. “I, for one, am appalled that somebody that is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position,” he quoted Clinton as saying.

Trump said Clinton also, at a campaign rally, slammed him, saying: “He said something truly horrifying … he refused to say that he would respect the results of this election. “That is a direct threat to our democracy”. The president-elect further quoted Clinton’s concession speech where she urged her supporters to accept the result of the election. “We have to accept the results and look to the future, Donald Trump is going to be our President. “We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead,” he quoted Clinton as saying.

Trump said in the votes recount efforts in the three states, money and time would be wasted. “So much time and money will be spent – same result! Sad”.

Trump, who trails Clinton with about two million popular votes, claimed that he won the popular votes, alleging that millions of people voted illegally. “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally

“It would have been much easier for me to win the so-called popular vote than the Electoral College in that I would only campaign in three or four states instead of the 50 states that I visited. “I would have won even more easily and convincingly (but smaller states are forgotten)!”

He also alleged voter fraud in favour of Clinton in other states, which were not reported. “Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California – so why isn’t the media reporting on this? Serious bias – big problem!”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/u-s-votes-recount-trump-accuses-clinton-reneging-concession-speech/

Vicitor

Festus Okoebor, an eyewitness has debunked reports indicting the Onojie of Uromi, His Royal Highness Anselm Aidenojie 11, traditional ruler of the Uromi Kingdom, to have physically assaulting one Mrs. Betty Okoebor. HRH Anselm Aidenojie, Onojie of Uromi

According to him, “it gave me great concern to clear the air on recent happenings and to set the record straight as I was present at the scene which led to the crisis. “We voted in Unit 8 and 9 of Ward 4, Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State on that fateful day. Both booths are at the same location.

As someone with strong political background, I was there not just to vote but to ensure that my vote counts. “So, we were there casting our votes when we observed that some persons were issuing money to induce voters to vote for them. The situation became tensed and uncomfortable for the ordinary man who did not intend to sell votes.

“During that process, His Highness came in and said he received a call from somebody who said there were issues going on in that polling unit. Customarily, when the Onojie steps into a crisis, the people ‘sheath their swords’ as a mark of respect. “As an Onojie, his priority is for the safety and security of lives.

However, at that polling unit, both my brother and sister were the APC agents collating their data. The Onojie went straight to my brother (as his hand was on his shoulders). “All of a sudden my sister was video-taping the conversation between His Highness and my brother Matthew Okoebor. When the Onojie saw the phone drawing near to him as my sister was video- taping him, infuriated by the act of insolence, he hit the phone targeted towards him.

“After that action, my sister was insulting the Onojie before we begged His Highness to leave the area, which he left. I was at the scene and there was no slapping of my sister as alleged by former Governor Adams Oshiomhole.

“After the incident, she went to plead with the Onojie for forgiveness, which the Onojie did forgive her and prayed for her right in the palace, because we were all present. “But later on, we heard that the governor suspended the Onojie because of that act and then went ahead to depose His Highness, which to us is a sacrilege, disrespect to traditional leadership, because the Onojie by virtue of position is not appointed but hereditary and cannot be dethroned unless by death.

“Well, we don’t know what the former governor had in mind, but the issue is not quite clear to us because we had settled this crisis like a family and don’t understand the interest of the governor in this issue,” he added.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/onojie-of-uromi-didnt-slap-my-sister-festus-okoebor/

Obama trying to rig Hillary Clinton into power!

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Following the results of Tuesday night’s election, President Obama has signed Executive Order 13805, which orders a full recount of all votes cast in the election and calls for a special election to be held on December 19th. Obama signed the order in response to the concerns of thousands of voters across the country who said that they were prevented from casting a ballot on election day, too many absentee ballots have not been found or counted, equipment failures, as well as concerns that some members of the electoral college may have acted unethically.

Read more at:

http://abcnews.com.co/obama-signs-executive-order-declaring-investigation-of-election-results/

Number one zombie in this government has spoken. Is this man really a Prof of law? He had always been an ass licker.

CONSTITUTIONAL lawyer, Professor Itse Sagay, SAN, has lampooned critics calling for the resignation of Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, from Buhari’s administration, saying the call is borne out of malice. The legal icon, however, said he spoke in his personal capacity and not as Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption.

It will be recalled that Justices Ngwuta and Okoro of the Supreme Court accused Mr Amaechi of attempting to induce them to subvert the course of justice in some electoral matters.

Addressing a press conference, yesterday, Sagay said the embattled justices were out on a smear campaign against Amaechi and the Buhari government. Sagay, SAN He called on the justices not to indulge in such diversionary activities in the “midst of grave and ominous charges facing them.” His words: “Two Justices of the Supreme Court affected by the DSS raids of October 8, 2016, have been quoted as stating that Minister of Transportation, Mr. Amaechi, once attempted to induce them to favour the APC in an election petition. This outburst by the two Justices is surprising, considering that it is totally unrelated to the raids of their premises, their arrest and subsequent charges before our courts. Men of that status should not indulge in such diversionary activities in the midst of grave and ominous charges facing them. I would have thought that they would use the time at their disposal to prepare their defences against the serious charges they are facing.

“In any case, given their statuses as Supreme Court Justices, even in the middle of the adversity confronting them, they should not have engaged in a distraction totally incompatible with the dignity and respect that their high offices attract. “It is demeaning for them to abandon their legitimate defence in order to smear a high official of the Buhari government, whom they probably considered to be the source of their predicaments.

“Mere allegations cannot have enough weight to affect the position of such a high official as Amaechi, otherwise knowing the disposition of Nigerians for putting people down, no office holder will be safe in this country. It is, therefore, improper and ridiculous to compare the position of the Justices in whose houses millions of naira and hundreds of thousands of dollars were recovered, to that of Amaechi against whom there is only the mere (ipse dixit) words of mouth of the judges.”

The Professor of Law, who fingered some politicians from Rivers and Akwa-Ibom States for promoting and funding judicial corruption said: “This sudden anti-Amaechi narrative is consistent with the objectives and interests of the chief promoters and funders of judicial corruption during election petitions.” He said: “These powerful opposition politicians are well known. To be more specific, they are from Rivers and Akwa-Ibom States. They are the ones, who financed judicial corruptions and brought that great institution, the judiciary, to its knees, after the 2015 elections. “These allegations are intended to undermine and weaken the Buhari Federal Government, by depriving it of the service, input, ideas and productivity of some of its brightest stars. This is intended to set the stage for charging the government with ineffectiveness and cluelessness. In other words, it is an attempt to reduce the image and perception of this Federal Government to the low level of their own late and unlamented government.

Therefore, the call for Amaechi to step down is malicious and vindictive. It should be ignored with complete ignominy.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/calls-amaechis-resignation-malicious-sagay/

Osho Baba, farewell gift to the Edos! Wish him well.

Edo State Government said it has deposed a suspended monarch, Anselm Eidenojie, as the Ojuromi of Uromi, in Esan North-East Local Government Area of the state.

His dethronement was contained in a letter dated November 9, 2016, signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere, and made available to journalists on Wednesday night.

This came a few days after Anselm Eidenojie had filed a suit at Benin High Court against Governor Adams Oshiomhole ‎and several others over his suspension, claiming an infringement on his fundamental human rights.



‎The suspended monarch, who added the Commissioner of Police, Assistant Inspector-General of Police, the Inspector-General of Police, Ms. Okoebor and one Matthew Okoebor, as respondents, has demanded a compensation of N1bn for damages.

Eidonojie had earlier been given a seven-day suspension by the state government for allegedly assaulting one Ms. Betty Okoebor, during the September 28 governorship election, sequel to his failure to respond to a query issued to him and travelling outside the country without permission.

He was later suspended for one year over alleged misconduct, among other offences.

The government statement entitled, “Deposition from office as Ojuromi of Uromi: Addendum,” reads in part, “Please, be informed that the initial exco decision of October 26, 2016, has been further affirmed.

“Consequently, you have been deposed as the Ojuromi of Uromi, pursuant to Section 28 (1 and II) of the Traditional Rulers and Chiefs Law, 1979.”

Meanwhile, it was learnt that the development sparked a protest by residents of Uromi town.

It was gathered that protesters, who marched round major roads in the area, described the ‎action of the state government as unacceptable.

http://punchng.com/breaking-edo-deposes-monarch-residents-protest/

Come on, Mr Governor! If Buhari can do it at 73, why can't you at 71. Don't worry about your predecessors. All fingers are not equal. Oh, have you considered that our dear Buhari may be interested? Or are you looking at 2023? Then you will be a mere 75 years old 'young' man. What a record that will be.

Yes, they have. Got mine on the 28.

Great one from Reno

When we in the South say that the Hausa people of Northern Nigeria are our enemies, we really ought to be aware that we are just playing into the divide and rule strategy of the oligarchs who have been the powers behind the throne in Nigeria for decades and who want the North and the South to be suspicious of each so they can play one side against the other and continue to dominate us to our detriment.

Now if you are a Southerner, ask yourself, who are these so called Hausa people that are dominating us? Of the thirteen Prime Ministers, heads of state and Presidents that have either ruled or led Nigeria since her independence from Great Britain in 1960, not one of them have been Hausa by tribe.

Tafawa Balewa, our first prime minister was from a small minority tribe called Gere in Bauchi state, known in the singular form as Bagere. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi was Igbo by tribe from Abia state. General Yakubu Gowon is Angas by tribe from Plateau state. Murtala Mohammed was Fulani from Kano state and President Olusegun Obasanjo is Yoruba from Ogun state.

President Shehu Shagari is a Fulani from Sokoto state. President Muhammadu Buhari is a Fulani from Katsina state while President Ibrahim Babangida is a Gwari from Niger state. Ernest Shonekan is Yoruba from Ogun state and Sani Abacha was Kanuri although he claimed Kano as his state because he was brought up there.

Abdulsalami Abubakar is the only Hausa leader we have ever had. Yet was he a dictator? Was he domineering? Capital NO. In office, he was a God-fearing ruler who treated every part of Nigeria equally and ushered in the Fourth Republic which has been our longest democratic experience ever.

Abdulsalami is, and was a good man. Does his image fit the stereotype of the mean and monstrous Hausa man? No! Abdulsalami is more humane than some people who even call themselves clergymen! If he had wanted to stay on in power, you and I would not have been able to stop him. More than President Obasanjo, General Abdulsalami Abubakar is our own Mandela!

After him we had the second, Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration which was succeeded by the Umaru Musa Yar’adua administration. President Yar’adua was a Fulani from Katsina state. He was succeeded by President Goodluck Jonathan, a minority Ogbia (a minority clan within a minority tribe).
He has been succeeded by President Muhammadu Buhari who is a Fulani from Katsina as previously noted.

From the above, some persons may want to adjust Hausa domination and make it Fulani domination, but that again is another Myth! Of the four Fulanis who have either ruled or led Nigeria, two of them were reluctant Presidents. President Shehu Shagari, whom I have met physically, never wanted to be President of Nigeria. That is what he meant by the title of his own autobiography, ‘Beckoned to Serve’. All he wanted was to be a Senator. He was prevailed upon by the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) to run as its flag bearer. He was a reluctant President.

Ditto for the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua. He never wanted to be President. He wanted to retire as a chemistry lecturer in Katsina. He was persuaded by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to be the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and even during the Presidential campaigns of 2007, President Obasanjo campaigned for Yar’adua more than Yar’adua campaigned for himself!

Now of the remaining two Fulani leaders, President Muhammadu Buhari tried three times to be Nigeria’s President and three times he failed because he largely depended on the Hausa-Fulani (there is really nothing like Hausa-Fulani, it is a creation of the Lagos-Ibadan press. You are either Hausa or Fulani). The fact of history is that in 2015, the then candidate Buhari’s victory depended on God who used two Southwestern Yoruba men, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former President Olusegun Obasanjo. In other words, what the North could not do for President Buhari was done for him by two South-westerners.

So ask yourself who is dominating who? And in fact, Hausa is more of a language than it is a tribe. It is a language that connects the people of Northern Nigeria. A lot of these people that we in the South view as Hausa are not Hausa. They have their own individual ethnic nationalities. But when we in the South resist them and band them all as Hausa, they have no choice but to fall back on that identity and unite on it to also resist us in the South. You cannot expect people you do not like to love you. And government cannot force us to love each other. Government cannot legislate patriotism.

You and I must learn to understand each other and grow to love each whether we are from the North or South. When the oppressed people of Nigeria unite against their oppressors, it is then they will know that the masses are the only dominant power bloc in Nigeria. Until then, enjoy your imaginary Hausa enemies!


Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno Omokri By Reno Omokri

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/called-hausa-people-dominating-us-reno/

Happy birthday, the peaceful one! The mother and wife of the hero if our democracy, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR. Nigerians are celebrating you. Mama Peace!

Alexk2:
Truth must come out one way or the other.
If there was phone calls btw them as the Justice claimed, let DSS trace the call lock and let Nigerians know the truth of what actually went down. ....let the Corrupt fellow face the full wrath of the law. Curruption; not in my country!

Which DSS are you asking to trace the call? Did you read the Justice's letter? The DSS is heavily involved. We should rather invite the FBI.

sosanova:
[b]This is Oshiomole vs Osunbor 2007 happening all over again


PDP doesn't want cancellation of the election, but PDP wants the tribunal to order a re-count of the ballot papers at INEC office and compare with the fictitious and fake results and figures that INEC announced.


The best APC can do now is to prevent the tribunal from ordering a recount of the ballot papers in the court and the results is compared with the results that INEC announced.


Even APC chieftains and supporters in across Edo state are aprehensive over the inevitable and impending tribunal order which will order INEC to bring all the ballot papers used in the election and be counted in Court and compared to the result that INEC annouced.


It will be very hard for APC and Oshiomole to defend the figures that INEC announced to the whole world as the final result from Edo election as against what APC and PDP representatives saw and inspected at INEC office in Benin City last week.


Almost a month after the election wad conducted, INEC is still yet to upload the results of what they announced to the whole world on INEC website, the results INEC announced to the whole world is very contradictory, such instances is; several parties whose names where not found on the ballot papers on the election day and the ballot papers at the INEC office but these parties were allocated votes in the results that INEC announced.

Both PDP and APC supporters Who various party representatives inspected the election materials last week after the tribunal granted both parties permission to do so are speaking are already speaking in hush tones across Benin City that the results sheets and ballots papers at INEC office benin city was contrary to what INEC annouced. [/b]

Are you sure? How did you come about these information? Agreed, PDP won that election. But can they prove they were out rigged by Oshomhole and APC?

Justices arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS,
Justice John Inyang Okoro, has accused Minister of Transport Rotimi Amachi
of having attempted to bribe him over three election petitions matters
that were resolved earlier this year.In a letter addressed to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Okoro
narrated his ordeal in the hands of DSS on the night of Friday October 7th
and early morning of Saturday October 8th.
He said Rotimi Amaechi came to his house to inform him that both President
Mohammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress asked to tell him that
they must win their cases in three states of Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Abia
states.

The judge said Amaechi told him that he sponsored Umana Umana, the
candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Akwa Ibom state
governorship election. He alleged that Amaechi promised him a monthly pay
from Umana once the candidate is declared the winner of the election by
the Supreme Court.

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/judge-accuses-amaechi-umana-attempting-bribe-akwa-ibom-election-petition/

BENIN—AS preparations for the coronation of a new Oba of Benin intensify, the Crown Prince of Benin Kingdom, Eheneden Erediauwa, weekend, embarked on a symbolic wrestling bout with the Chief Priest of Okhuaihe shrine and the Ohen N’Ukoni Neyedo, Osarodion Usuanlele.

The implication of the symbolic wrestling bout which took place at the shrine located at Evbuekoi community, in Uhunwode Local Government Area of the state, is that once the Crown Prince becomes Oba, both of them will never see each other again.

The Okhuaihe Chief Priest, will not enter Benin City again and whenever the Oba wants to pass through the vicinity, the Chief Priest would leave the area. As part of the rites and rituals, the Crown Prince visited the Chief Priest about 7:55p.m., and both of them proceeded to the sacred forest in the community where some rites were performed before the symbolic wrestling bout.

The Crown Prince left Evuekoi for Azama N’ Uhe ancestral shrine at Oloton’s Palace in Isekhere street where some traditional rites were also performed as part of the coronation rituals.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/coronation-ritual-benin-crown-prince-eheneden-wrestles-chief-priest-hell-never-meet/

BENIN—AS preparations for the coronation of a new Oba of Benin intensify, the Crown Prince of Benin Kingdom, Eheneden Erediauwa, weekend, embarked on a symbolic wrestling bout with the Chief Priest of Okhuaihe shrine and the Ohen N’Ukoni Neyedo, Osarodion Usuanlele.

. The implication of the symbolic wrestling bout which took place at the shrine located at Evbuekoi community, in Uhunwode Local Government Area of the state, is that once the Crown Prince becomes Oba, both of them will never see each other again.

The Okhuaihe Chief Priest, will not enter Benin City again and whenever the Oba wants to pass through the vicinity, the Chief Priest would leave the area. As part of the rites and rituals, the Crown Prince visited the Chief Priest about 7:55p.m., and both of them proceeded to the sacred forest in the community where some rites were performed before the symbolic wrestling bout.

The Crown Prince left Evuekoi for Azama N’ Uhe ancestral shrine at Oloton’s Palace in Isekhere street where some traditional rites were also performed as part of the coronation rituals.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/coronation-ritual-benin-crown-prince-eheneden-wrestles-chief-priest-hell-never-meet/

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige is to appear today before the joint Senate Committee on Labour and the House Committee on Labour, over alleged skewed and lopsided appointment of 131 new workers at the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF).

The joint committee had earlier summoned the acting Managing Director of the NSITF, Mr Ismaila Agaka on the nature of the recent recruitment carried out in the agency, after which the minister was held responsible for the lopsided exercise.

To this end, the joint committee had summoned Chris Ngige to appear along with Mr Agaka and the Chairman of the Federal Character Commission, Shettima Bukar-Abba, today.

Their invitation was necessitated by the current controversy and crisis trailing the recruitment, which, according to them, defiled all common sense and logic, and in flagrant disobey of the law of the land.



Many stakeholders, which included the Senate Committee on Labour and the House Committee on Labour have condemned the lopsided and skewed recruitment and decried it as high level displaying of nepotism, against the law of the land.

They regretted that major weakness of Nigerian political gladiators and elites at the detriment of millions other Nigerian masses, is high level Nepotism, favoritism and tribalism by Nigerian political office holders.



Incidentally, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, who decried the previous recruitment in the agency when he resumed as the minister, was alleged to have masterminded and supervised the recent lopsided recruitment.

The NSITF is a parastatal under the Ministry of Labour and Employment and genuinely or otherwise, Ngige when he was newly appointed minister lambasted the previous management of the NSITF and the former President Goodluck Jonathan’s board, who according to him, embarked on a “market place recruitment,” in NSITF, without due process and without considering the number of workers needed.

In short, Ngige blamed them for recruiting more than what was needed without adequate provisions for offices and other office requirements to perform optimally.

However, in less than six months after that condemnation, the minister, without a substantive board in place has led the NSITF to embark on secret recruitment of about 131 workers, in a more unlawful and illegal way.

According to a source, the last recruitment which the minister condemned was well known to Nigerians, people were aware of it across the country, but the recent recruitment conducted under Ngige as a minister was a clear departure from that, as it was carried out in secret even without the knowledge of major players in the sector.

The source also lamented that people were recruited to the top management level, thus filling unavailable positions at the top and blocking old staff from getting promotion if the need arises.

“It was very doubtful if the position filled were advertised in popular national dailies and across the geopolitical zones of the country as required. People don’t know when the interview took place and who conducted it. The recruitment is the worst you can talk about. If journalists like you, who cover labour and this parastatals for year were not aware, how do you explain that,” he added.

The recent recruitment, according to the source was not only done to insult the sensibility of ordinary Nigerians but President Muhammadu Buhari himself and the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

While Ngige allotted 45 slots out of about 131 recruited to his state, Anambra, he graciously gave Katsina, President Buhari’s state one slot and none at all to the Senate President state, Kwara.

Already the Senate and House of Representatives Joint Committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity, has summoned the Minister, Chris Ngige, to appear before it over the skewed recruitment.

At a meeting held with managements of the NSITF last week, the joint committee accused the minister of impunity and gross abuse of office, while in its resolution cancelled the employment exercise.

The recruitment was said to have been undertaken by the ministry between July and September.

Also summoned to appear with Ngige on Tuesday (today) is the Acting Managing Director of the NSITF, Ismaila Agaka and the chairman of the Federal Character Commission, Shettima Bukar-Abba.

Chairman of the Joint Committee, Senator Suleiman Nazif, lamented the skewed recruitment and noted that it was in violation of the federal character principle.

According to Senator Nazif, “Employment is of paramount important and the committee would ensure that employment is done in a manner to reflect the principles of federal character. I think there’s something going on in NSITF that no one is willing to talk about.

“It is clear that the Minister, Chris Ngige, is responsible for this irregularities, impunity and anomalies, resulting in gross abuse of his office, and we’ll take action on it.”

Disturbed by the development, the joint committee has also sent the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, to report the issue to President Buhari and brief the President accordingly.

According to the joint committee chairman, “the minister’s state, Anambra, had 44 slots out of the 131 available, with some states such as Katsina and Kwara getting one and none, respectively.

“We want you, Senator Ita Enang, to inform the President about it, because he’s trying to put this committee in trouble. Anambra has 45, while other states have two or even one.”

Senator Enang has also taken the responsibility upon himself to brief President Buhari, and stressed the need to strictly comply with the principles of federal character.

“Let me just say that I just received this document this morning. I will relate back with the executive on this and we will speak with the committee, and make a representation, and where we’ve gone wrong we will address it,” he said.

http://tribuneonlineng.com/appointment-131-nsitf-ngige-appear-nass-today/

Abang again?

duro4chang:
You are a liar.This video was taken last year (2015) during the election in portharcourt not in Edo.You can go to youtube and see when the video was uploaded.Must you lie to people before you butress your point?

Liars and zombies! Show us the YouTube link or forever shut the fvck up!

The Chibok girls ssga had become a case if America wonder 'the more you look the less you see'. When will the curtain on this drama drop?