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The biographer of “Muhammadu Buhari: The challenge of leadership in Nigeria,” Professor John Paden, revealed that the leadership of Boko Haram demanded 5 billion Euros as ransom for the release of the abducted girls, based on today’s exchange rate this comes to about 1.7 trillion Naira. Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information, took it further in a recent press briefing. According to him, “on 4th August 2015, the persons who were to be part of the swap arrangements and all others involved in the operation were transported to Maiduguri, Borno State. This team, with the lead facilitator, continued the contact with the group holding the Chibok girls… All things were in place for the swap, which was mutually agreed. Expectations were high. Unfortunately, after more than two weeks of negotiation and bargains, the group, just at the dying moments, issued new set of demands, never bargained for or discussed by the group before the movement to Maiduguri.”


I am not sure I understand why our leaders choose to declassify important aspects of this negotiation when the girls are still in captivity, but I can categorically say that the claim of a demand of 5 billion Euros as published by President Buhari’s biographer gravely undermines the truth in a manner that jeopardizes the credibility of the Presidency. And while it is true that the captors of the Chibok girls have shifted the goal post several times when a swap deal was near, we must ask ourselves, what was responsible for the volatility that has denied the rest of the surviving Chibok girls and other captives’ freedom? How did I know this and write with such audacity? I was the only negotiator that was flown to Maiduguri with some detainees in an Air Force plane, and I stayed in the Maimalari military barracks for over three weeks with the detainees, trying to reach a deal, it was the window I presented that Lai Mohammed spoke about. The Nigerian security and political authorities have repeatedly called my professional assess with the leadership of both the “Jama’atu Ahlus-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad,” and the “Islamic State West Africa Province,” both are called Boko Haram that are operating in the Lake Chad, to their use. And from my professional experience with both parties, namely government authorities and the insurgents, I can state that these abducted girls would long have returned home if political and security officials in government have shown better understanding of what is at play. However, the insurgents are heavily rigid, and would normally give windows that are tied to timelines. Never, even from the days of former President Goodluck Jonathan to today’s dispensation has government accepted a window of say two, three weeks and abide by it. Never!!! So we are dealing with insurgents who do not recognize your bureaucratic heritage and continue to shut out the windows each time the indicated timelines elapsed, and also dealing with political and security authorities that never considered it expedient to do their housekeeping ahead of acceptance of negotiation windows that are tied to timelines.

There is no point to delve into much detail at this point, but suffice it to state that both sides have their share of the blame. My experience is that both the Buhari led government and the preceding Jonathan administration desired a negotiated end to this imbroglio, but none has ever showed any hunger in tracking the footprints and understanding the tendencies of the enemy. Left to each, the negotiator would be directed or ordered to go tell those insurgents to bring over those girls before dinner time. That has always been the attitude.

Ordinarily, I would have never joined issues with the government on such a sensitive matter or disclosed all these, but the issues have already been declassified by Mr. Mohammed. I am a journalist, negotiation is secondary, and it is also my credibility and life that is at stake here whether I chose to speak out or chose to remain silent. I was not only involved in one or two attempts to free the Chibok girls with the current government, but on three separate occasions and even as recently as May/June, 2016, few months before I was declared wanted for allegedly refusing to cooperate with the same government and for having “links to terrorism” by the Nigerian Army. On each of these occasions, I have always been involved on invitation by the government. Never mind if you ended up being stranded for their failure to pick up requisite bills related to the very reason for which you were invited.

So why has the series of engagements not been able to yield any meaningful outcome? I can imagine only advice officials on the strength of their convictions and motivations. I cannot force government neither can I force the leadership of the insurgents to do what it doesn’t want to do. Worse, there is a clique of vested interests that can scare anyone into silence within and around government; they have exploited my silence to develop a false narrative. There is so much misinformation that officials have weaved and made members of the public to be basking in.

Have I been made rich by my service in this respect? I just mentioned above that hardly was there any time I was invited by the Federal government that I was not compelled to borrow money to tidy up basic bills in the course of my assignment. In all the revelations about who pocketed what, it would have been necessary to open the books to where Salkida received that atrocious sum from the government or anyone representing the government. Today, I am stranded with my family in Abuja, after I was declared wanted for my decade-long professional relationship with the leadership of the insurgents, a relationship the government took advantage of several times. At least, today, I am probably the only one that has gone to location of swaps with detainees and had set my eyes on the girls in their early days in captivity, under a presidential cover to negotiate.

It is possible for Nigerians who hear or read of the outlandish sum quoted by Buhari’s biographer as demand for ransom to take liberty in linking such figure with today’s publicly known negotiator. Therefore, it would be a great thing if officials of government in line with the declassifying process also let Nigerians know how they came about such figure as a ransom demand by the insurgents. I want to categorically state here that there are many people that can negotiate an end to this debacle and it is also not beyond the bounds of possibility to rescue the girls militarily.

I am today being treated as an enemy of the state and denied the official communication to return to the UAE and continue my hustle. I was even denied my international passport as I write this article, worse still; I was denied any form of official intervention to settle down in my own country after I lost everything and returned to Nigeria. I am being deliberately strangulated by the same officials that made me to embark on self-exile in 2013.

I am from Borno State. This protracted crisis has affected my family and me directly. I have no stake in it other than to be able to return home and live peacefully there. If I die today, as my life is clearly in danger, my death will be a peaceful one because so far it is integrity that has saved me from snares of the powerful officials who run businesses that are tied to the spiralling bloodbath.


Salkida is a freelance journalist, now back in Abuja.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/10/08/why-chibok-girls-freedom-continues-mirage-ahmad-salkida

I can't remember oshomhole contesting the last election

BENIN CITY – Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) cannot wait to meet his opponents in the Peoples Democratic Party in court if they have any contrary claims about the governorship election result in the State.

Addressing APC youths during a victory road show in Benin City, Tuesday, Governor Oshiomhole said, “We are happy with the outcome of the election. We have gone to present the candidate to the Crown Prince, the Edaiken N’ Uselu, and he has been very well received. Thank you for coming out to celebrate. I am sure we encourage our opponents to go to court. We will be able to lead evidence to show how much they profited from electoral fraud because the Ize-Iyamu that I know is not worth fifty thousand votes.”

According to Oshiomhole, “So, it’s like an armed robber rushing to police station with bullet wounds and claiming that he has been shot, whereas he is the one who opened fire on very innocent people. We will expose them where it matters in our courtrooms. Remain firm and resolute. For me, I am happy. The political funeral of the godfathers is final. There is nothing they can do to turn the will of God. So, this is our finest hour and I can’t wait to meet them in court.”


He said, “And my message to them is, whether it’s Igbinedion, whether it’s Anenih, whether it’s Ikimi, it’s not me. It’s God who knows their sin against our people that decided to recall their political life. He has only used us to cement it and to celebrate their political funeral.”

The Governor added, “I want to be remembered not only for the road. We want to be remembered for liberalizing the politics and getting rid of godfathers so that you the youths will take charge of your destiny. Thank you for being part of this struggle, and to God be the glory.”

http://www.nigerianobservernews.com/2016/10/i-cannot-wait-to-meet-pdp-in-court-oshiomhole/#.V_SUPjNw2wg

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/10/01/nimasa-re-awards-tompolos-contract-to-rivers-apc-chairman/

"The beautiful ones are not yet born"!

Yes, since 27th.

It's just starting.

Chief of staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, an Uncle to President
Mohammeadu Buhari wants the Secretary to the Government of the Federation,
SGF, Babachir David Lawal, the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno
and Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,
Ibrahim Magu sacked from the administration.

Kyari is accusing them of leaking sensitive Government information to
“enemies of the Government,” and undermining security activities and
posing as a serious danger to the survival of the President Buhari’s
Government, a Presidential source told Pointblanknews.com

The Chief of Staff is also not happy with the National Leader of the All
Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for allegedly fanning
the ambers of discord within the Presidency and aligning with “some
forces” to malign Buhari’s trusted aides and have them sacked,
Pointblanknews.com gathered.

Pointblanknews.com sources inside the Presidency confirmed that President
Buhari has been adequately briefed of the activities of the trio by the
Chief of Staff.

Sources told Pointblanknews.com that already, Kyari has usurped some
functions of the NSA and SGF considered “very sensitive” claiming those
currently occupying the positions are not trustworthy within the Buhari’s
Presidency.

According to the highly placed source who does not want to be named,
Monguno is accused by Kyari as using his sensitive office to leak security
meetings and expose President Buhari’s activities to perceived enemies of
the Government and the Media.

“Kyari does not trust Monguno. He believes the NSA leak information to the
media and those who are considered enemies of the President within the APC
and other Parties. He is doing everything possible to have him sacked,”
the source told Pointblanknews.com.

The source added that the NSA not only releases information to “enemies of
the Government” but also manipulates the information he releases to indict
the Chief of Staff to the President and any other person he perceives to
be against him.

On the SGF, the source told Pointblanknews.com that senior officials of
the Buhari’s Presidency no longer pass sensitive information through his
office as the Chief of Staff have told them he is a mole and not trust
worthy.

“The Chief of Staff told some people that no classified information
received by the SGF has remained with him. He particularly mentioned a
certain information from a meeting with the President which was later
discovered to have been leaked to some APC leaders and the media.”

The Chief of Staff, according to the source is particularly angry with the
National Leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
whom he accuses of clandestinely working against President Buhari.

Pointblanknews.com gathered that the Chief of Staff believes Tinubu’s
anger is purely based on the refusal of President Buhari to allow him
unfettered access to the Presidency.

“Tinubu does not have direct access to President Buhari. He has to go
through the Chief of Staff. Most times he wants to see the President, the
Chief of Staff rebuffs his request. So that has become Tinubu’s anger
because he believes he should not be hindered from enjoying the
Presidency,” the source said.

Kyari, according to the source believes part of Tinubu’s antic is to use
the South West Media and disgruntled APC leaders to malign him and others
and have them sacked and replaced by “Bourdillon lackeys.”

On the EFCC Chairman, sources told Pointblanknews.com that the Chief of
Staff has sworn never to see to the confirmation of Magu as the
substantive Chairman of the anti-graft agency by the Senate. He has
accused Magu of running a vendetta and Casino like agency purely to
satisfy the desires of the NSA and the SGF.

“Kyari believes the trio of Monguno, Babachir and Magu are working
together to undermine Buhari. For Magu, Kyari believes he runs errands for
the NSA and Babachir and also leaks information skewed to serve the
interest of the two men to the media and other people.

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/crack-presidency-abba-kyari-wants-nsa-sgf-efcc-chair-sacked-angry-tinubu/

Chief Lucky Igbinedion is one of the pillars of the opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, and was a two-term governor of the state. In this interview with some select journalists, he sheds light on a number of issues from the postponement of the Edo State governorship election to the performance of his administration as governor.

How would you react to the postponement of the governorship election in the state?

I take INEC by its word. INEC has promised a free, fair and credible election and I don’t’ have any reason to doubt the Commission.

How prepared is your Party? There have been comments that you have not been campaigning with the party’s candidate?

I wonder why people would be reading meanings to my silence. I think I am a very dignified person in the sense that I have served the state as a local government chairman and as a two-term governor and our own candidate is matured enough. He does not need to be baby seated. He doesn’t need a feeding bottle. As far as I am concerned, our party is well grounded and our party chairman is very versatile and very capable. He has been doing very well. He has my full backing. He has my endorsement and support.

Are you still in PDP?

I have never left the PDP. That is one thing for sure. I have remained a staunch member of the PDP since inception. We were the founding members and I have never denied being a PDP member. It is true that I have not been active the way people expect me to be because I believe that after serving the state, it is better to take the back seat and I am not a political jobber. I have other things to do. I have my business to run. I have my family life to live as well. I believe that once you have served the public, there will come a time when you will have to take the back seat and allow new hands to come on board. The PDP candidate is matured. He is well grounded and he knows the state very well and has gone through the mill all through the local government to the state level. I am playing my role as a PDP chieftain. And you know that experience counts. From time to time I volunteer my wealth of experience. I speak with the party chairman and other party members. It is not about making noise.

Igbinedion Sir, ever since you made the comment that the next governor of the state will come from your political family, the state governor has seen this comment as an opportunity to renew his attack on your person and even your administration?

I don’t have the same background with the incumbent governor. We come from different backgrounds. I have never criticized this government and that is not my style. It is now time for the people of Edo State to really look inwards and search their souls and ask, under which administration have they lived a more comfortable, prosperous and secured life, a more people oriented life. I leave the people to make that judgement. But him, he believes in listening to himself. I believe in watching and listening to other people rather than making unnecessary and vile, rude statements about other people. Without mincing words, the condemnation of the Igbinedion administration seems to be the greatest focus of the present government. Of course, what comes out of the mouth, it is like an egg, once it is broken, you cannot put it together again.

Can you tell us some of your achievements as governor?

Oh, several, several and that is why when I listen to some people ask what did the PDP achieve in the past 10 years, I just laugh because it is either the people that are talking conveniently forget the facts of where we were before 1999 when we took over or they are just deliberately propagating falsehood. This was a state that was purely known as a civil service state. This is a state that we brought about industrialization, this is a state we revived the educational sector, this is a state we turned into a centre of sporting activities, this is a state where we inherited a wicked self-sustenance policy handed down to agencies and parastatals and we moved away from it. this is a state that workers and pensioners were being paid as at when due, this is state I left in 2007 without owing a single debt whether local or foreign. This was a state that people were happy to wake up and go to work. When I came, there were no banks here except Union bank and First bank but with the enabling environment that I created, the security level that I created, various companies started coming in but because of the wickedness of some people the propaganda they decided to employ, they say no, PDP has not done anything and I challenge them that the PDP government did far better than many administrations before us and better than this administration by far. PDP did fantastically well.

Your administration was accused of laying off workers prematurely?

In any work environment, when you get to the retirement age you retire. When we came on board we discovered that our wage bill was over bloated and for one reason or the other we had to do some restructuring but we also employed many teachers. Like any organisation, companies retire and employ. The federal government retires and employs, so it is a continuous exercise but we were not owing anybody.

Sir, how do you feel knowing that the PDP candidate Pastor Ize-Iyamu left your party for the then ACN, later APC and back to PDP?

Like I said, he is above fifty and everybody has the right to associate with any political party and you know that our politics is very fluid. Our politics is not really based on ideologies as of today. People dump one party for the other for different reasons but for whatever decision someone takes there must be a reason.

Are you in support of his candidacy?

Hundred percent, I am hundred percent in support of Pastor Ize-Iyamu who is the candidate of my Party, the PDP.

Sir the issue of plea bargain you opted for how do you react to this?

It depends on what you mean by opting for plea bargain. You don’t know who initiated the plea bargain, whether it was me or the EFCC. I just felt I should move on with my life first and foremost. What happened had happened but I can tell you that I never stole Edo State money, I never mismanaged Edo State money. I was never charged for money laundering locally or internationally. As far I am concerned those talking are just talking out of ignorance or malice. Did we have the money to be stolen? We were receiving one of the lowest allocations in the federation. I can say categorically that my administration was one of the best and I impacted positively on the lives of our people.

Any regrets?

I have no regrets whatsoever. I did my best and my best benefited the people of the state.

Did you achieve all you set out to achieve as governor?

It is not possible to complete all you wanted to do, otherwise, America would have stopped working, and Britain would have stopped working. That is what I mean by continuum. When people believe they can just come and stop what you have been doing. If I say I did all I wanted to do, I would be lying to you. If any government says it has done everything it is lying. No government can do everything. You do your best with the resources at your disposal and I think we did our best with the resources available to us then. The priorities at that time were different from the priorities of today. If I had not paid those pensioners, setting up the foundation for industrialization, created environment for security and peace, education, sports all that, they will not be talking about what they are talking today, the cosmetic projects that they are doing. The Ambrose Alli University was formerly known as Edo State University. I was the one that converted it from Edo State University to Ambrose Ali University. I renovated and renamed the Ogbe Stadium to Dr. S. O Ogbemudia Stadium. I did that because I believed in continuity. There is no area my administration did not touch. When you invest in the people they will not be a burden. My administration did perfectly well in human capital development and the evidence is there for all to see

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/best-governor-edo-state-lucky-igbinedion/

The People Democratic Party (PDP) has again said that All Progressive Congress (APC) leadership under President Muhammadu Buhari was sacrificing Nigeria’s hard earned democracy on the ‘slab of falsehood’ and that Minister of Finance, Ms. Kemi Adeosun’s statement on Airport Terminals Counterpart Funding was false, misleading, malicious. The PDP in a statement on it twitter handle signed by Prince Dayo Adeyeye the PDP National Publicity Secretary recently said that APC was ‘consistently disregarding and denying all the obvious achievements of the 16 years of PDP era and collective successes of Nigerians.’ PDP while questioning the Minister of Finance, Ms. Adeosun’s statement on Airport Terminals Counterpart Funding that “Nigeria has not paid the Airport Terminal Counterpart Funding of $100 million” said Adeosun’s statement was false, misleading, malicious. The party further said that APC government should ‘concentrate on governance and stop deceiving Nigerians with their constant lies’ saying that what Nigerian need from the government in this period of harsh economic recession was not meaningless and misguided lamentations from government of “Change” but good governance demonstrated by at least providing food on their table. The statement read thus Re: Airport Terminals Counterpart Funding – The Facts And The Lies Of The APC…Kemi Adeosun Confused… Once again, our attention has been drawn to a statement made by the Minister of Finance, Ms. Kemi Adeosun during the Channels Television Live Programme, ‘Sunrise Daily’ of Tuesday, September 20, 2016 in which she stated that “Nigeria has not paid the Airport Terminal Counterpart Funding of $100 million”. Kemi Adeosun This information like many of her previous statements is false, misleading, malicious and was deliberately made with the intention of blackmailing previous PDP led administration which have been the Hallmark of the APC Government. We are pained that the All Progressive Congress (APC) under President Muhammadu Buhari is bent on sacrificing our hard earned democracy on the Slab of Falsehood by consistently disregarding and denying all the obvious achievements of the 16 years of PDP era and collective successes of Nigerians. Why is that? You will recall that the former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, in 2014, Awarded the Contract of Remodelling and Building of International Airport Terminals in Lagos. Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano and Enugu on a ‘Built, Operate and Transfer’ (BOT) basis, financed by Chinese EXIM Bank with counterpart funds from Nigeria. The Contract Total Sum was $500 million with Counterpart Funding of $100 million from Nigeria. The fact of the matter is that, Nigeria paid her own sum of $100 million on the 29th of January 2014 through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the beginning of the Projects. You will also recall that the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Aviation, Hajiya Binta Bello corroborated our position during her interview with Thisday Newspaper on the 14th of September, 2015, where she stated that, “Finance was not an impediment, and Nigeria government counterpart funding of $100 million has been paid at the commencement of the Projects”. She went further to assert that the projects will be completed and delivered at the first quarter of 2016. In the light of the above, the claim by the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun is not only standing the truth on its head but depicting the habitual lies and deceit the All Progressive Congress (APC) is known for. For the Record, the previous PDP Government entered into an agreement with the Chinese Government to construct terminals in five Airports, and in January 2014, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) wrote the Debt Management Office informing them of effecting the Payment of $100Million to the Chinese Firm, CECC which was remitted as directed by the CBN. In another thought, could it be that this needless confusion from the Minister regarding the already Paid Fund is to represent the Voucher again for payment? It is however unfortunate that a Minister that is expected to know better on this matter would deliberately deceive the public in order to continue scoring cheap political points To this end, we want to further advice the APC led Administration to concentrate on governance and stop deceiving Nigerians with their constant lies. What the people of this Country need in this period of harsh economic recession is not meaningless and misguided lamentations from a Government of the so called “Change” but good governance demonstrated by at least providing food on their table

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/adesouns-statement-false-misleading-malicious-pdp/

WARRI- THE rejection of the Federal Government –sponsored two –day Niger Delta Summit initially planned to hold Monday and Tuesday by the Pan –Niger Delta Coastal States Consultative Forum, led by former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark and pointed disagreement over the one-sided concept , forced government to suddenly postpone the talks, Friday night. This came as Chief Edwin Clark warned President Muhammadu Buhari not listen to the Minister of Transport, Rt Hon Rotimi Amaechi, saying that “Amaechi is one of the problems of the Niger Delta, he is seeing himself as next to the President’ and that the people of Niger Delta were ready to work with President Muhammadu Buhari, but he should not listen to people like Amaechi and others that were allegedly confusing him and telling him untruths about the region.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/clark-others-rebuff-n-delta-summit-warn-buhari-not-listen-amaechi/

Oshomhole the man with mouth diarrhoea! If Lucky and Iyamu diverted 4 billion naira as you alleged, what did you do to make them refund the money. Nothing, because it was used for your 2007 election? Oshomhole, tell us another story! You have deceived Edo people enough!

calyto:
LOOOL! This clearly shows that you don't even have a clue of what you're saying and it also confirms my initial statement that your post is politically motivated.

1. I am from Benue State so i don't even care. It's your State, It's your future so wetin concern me.

2. Tony Anenih was minister of works briefly in 1999 and if you were already an adult then, you should have known that there was nothing like Benin bypass by then.As for 40% of bypass in most transiting states, i think they were all done in your dreams.

3. As for Irruah-Uromi road, simple google search will reveal to you that one of the first roads Oshiomole did was the one leading to the ancestral home of Chief Anenih.

If you like, vote for anybody that you like thats fine, but even God almighty will not forgive you if you allow yourself to be used as a tool for propaganda.What have you gained from this? Highest, 2k recharge card.
Why not just apply for YES-grant or something else that will benefit you rather than coming here to hail some and wail about some?

You are soooo ignorant of development in Edo state! Though considering you are a Benue man, I am not surprised.
Anenih was works minister from 1999 - 2002. The Benin bypass and Irrua - Uromi road were constructed during this period. They are federal roads. I am from Irrua. Stop saying what you don't know.

Oshomhole will never see this. Constructing it will not boost his ego. Pray that the incoming govt looks your way

Jay542:
Pastors should be in church

And what is Vp Osinbanjo doing in government?

INTROVERT:
NO SAUCE

Extrovert, help me.

A case of all looters are equal. But some are more equal than others. As long as the looted fund is coming to my me or my party, I will turn a blind eye.

President Muhammad Buhari has received concrete evidence that his Chief of Staff (CoS), Abba Kyari, took N500m from operators of MTN to help the telecommunications giant mitigate the fine imposed on it by the federal government, SaharaReporters has learned.


Sources say the evidence was presented to President Buhari several times including during the Sallah holiday.

The mind-boggling revelation is the latest in the mounting allegations of corruption involving members of the top echelon of President Buhari’s administration.

Confronted with the evidence, the CoS reportedly claimed he was helping the All Progressives Congress party raise funds for the gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State, to which the president is said to have asked him if he was the party chairman, but did not relieve him of his post.

SaharaReporters has previously revealed several corrupt actions of the Chief of Staff. They include taking money from Jide Omokore, a shady businessman who was massively involved in corruption in the oil sector in the preceding administration.

Following acceptance of the money, Mr. Kyari reportedly took Mr. Omokore twice to meet President Buhari to enable the businessman to make a promise to refund some of the funds. A source told Saharareporters Omokore promised to refund N500 million

When Omokore was eventually arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the CoS reportedly told President Buhari that it was the EFCC chair, Ibrahim Magu, who had bungled progress concerning Omokore. SaharaReporters has also previously reported that Mr. Kyari wants to remove Magu from the anti-graft body in favor of a candidate who is more amenable to his wishes.

On his part, Omokore is also known to have bribed the judge handling the case with $2million. He was released on bail without leaving the court premises.

Other members of President Buhari’s inner circle have been exposed as engaging in serious cases of corruption but the President has not acted on their cases, either. In some instances, they reportedly got members of President Buhari’s office to absolve them of any “wrongdoing”.

Among others:

The Chief of Army Staff, Yusuf Buratai, was found to have used Nigerian Army funds to purchase homes in Dubai;
The Minister of Internal Affairs, Abdulrahman Dambazau, bought homes for millions of dollars in Boston in the United States;
Several other aides and officials within the government have been exposed for involvement in illegal employments and forgery of age and certificates.

As in the case of Mr. Kyari, they have so far all been shielded by President Buhari. Speaking earlier this to journalists in Daura, his hometown, the president said his “anti-corruption war” was being implemented on the basis of justice and fairness.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/09/20/buhari-presented-evidence-his-chief-staff-took-n500m-help-mtn-reduce-fine

It appears some of us were not in this country when President Buhari called APC (All Progressives CONFIDENCE), INEC (Independence NIGERIAN Electoral Commission), Imo state (IBO State) and Osinbajo (OSUNBADE).

Even as President, he called GERMANY, West Germany and referred to Deutsche Mark as the currency being used in Germany.

When he presented the corrected version of the 2016 Budget to the NASS, it was said in the letter written to the National Assembly that he presented the 2016 Budget on December 22, 2016!

Also, in the President’s letter submitting names of Ministerial Nominees to NASS, Ministerial was written as MINISTERAIL.

All these were pointed out then, but those who believed that President Buhari was their god that must not be questioned dismissed it.

When his secondary school certificate was demanded, many Nigerians gladly said even if he presented NEPA BILL, no problem.

So what is plagiarism to all the above embarrassments from Buhari, both as APC candidate and as President of Nigeria?

My concern is that President Buhari should not sign away Nigeria one day and cede the country to Ghana.
Hissssssssssh.

1. Buhari said he would pay unemployed citizens. You clapped. He said he cannot pay unemployed citizens. You also clapped.


2. Buhari said he does not know anything called subsidy. You clapped. He later paid subsidy. Today he has removed subsidy.
You clapped again.


3. When he removed all road blocks. You clapped. When he reinstalled road blocks. You also clapped.


4. When he relocated military command to North East. You clapped. He returned military command back.
You clapped.


5. He said he would never devalue the Naira. You clapped. He devalued the Naira.
You clapped.


6. He said he would not have the office of the first lady. You clapped. He has the office of the first lady.
You clapped.


7. He said he will make N1 equals to $1. You clapped. $1 is officially equal N420. You are still clapping.


8.He said he will make petrol price to N40, you clapped, now petrol price is N145.
You clapped.


9. He said he will end Boko Haram insurgencies 3 months into his regime, you clapped with joy. He later said December when the rains stop. You clapped hopefully. Today, Boko Haram is still killing people.
You are there, still clapping.


10. He said he would turn all presidential jets to national carrier. You clapped. Today, he and his family are cruising on all presidential jets.
You are clapping.


11. He said he would build one new refinery each year. You clapped. Its getting to two years, no refinery has been built.
You are still clapping.


Isn't it glaring that there is a very big problem with this government and you're their mumu! Olodo rabata!

That's who you are!
You've been caught by their broom stick voodoo.

If this isn't sorcery what else could it be? ~ Dr Carl Oshodi.

ABUJA – The Bring Back Our Girls BBOG movement has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to seize the initiative in rescuing the 218 abducted Chibok school girls rather than granting unnecessary powers to the abductors, the Boko Haram sect, by asking them to determine the rescue options.

The movement stated this Tuesday in Abuja during another failed attempt to march on the presidential villa. It said 869 days since the abduction, no evidence of persuasive, deliberate and result- targeted action has been conveyed by the president. President Buhari had on the side-lines of the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) recently held in Nairobi, Kenya suggested a willingness to swap the girls with Boko Haram fighters preferring that the terrorists engaged an international Non-Governmental Organization in the intermediation process if they so wish.
"If they (the terrorists) do not want to talk to us directly, let them pick an internationally recognized Non-Governmental Organization, convince them that they are holding the girls and that they want Nigeria to release a number of Boko Haram leaders in detention, which they are supposed to know”, Mr Buhari had stated.

However, the BBOG said it was at a loss as to why terrorists have to determine the process for rescue. It lamented the current situation whereby it appears the president now heavily relies on media reports to gather intelligence about the terrorists.

In the address, jointly signed by its leaders, Oby Ezekwesili and Aisha Yesufu, BBOG said; “We fail to understand why our Federal Government is giving so much powers to determine process and first mover actions to the terrorists. We have always maintained that the President has the powers to assemble all relevant intelligence assets required for determining the best action in terms of lowest risk option. Many countries with superior capabilities have indicated willingness to help our Government gather security and intelligence assets on this and other related North East challenges. We were therefore extremely shocked to read Mr. President state, that ‘some of the information about the division in Boko Haram is already in the press and I have read it in the papers about the conflict in their leadership’.

Are we right to conclude from that statement that our President merely relies on newspaper reports like the rest of the Nigerian public for information on such an important and monumental tragedy? This is a grave basis for concern to our movement. “So, while we welcome the statement, we counter that it sounds too tentative and lacking of the conviction, decisiveness, strong ownership, and urgent actions required to #BringBackOurGirls. This tragedy must no longer be allowed to linger any further! It is time to act with the fiercest urgency and the authority that must lead this action is our President, Commander – in-Chief – of-the-Armed-Forces”.

: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/chibok-girls-swapping-stop-giving-much-powers-terrorists-bbog-charges-buhari/

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