₦airaland Forum

August 26, 2018

Press Statement

Buhari Knows He Has Failed, Says PDP
…Challenges Presidency, APC To Debate on Good Governance

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it has thoroughly reviewed the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration and submits that it has irredeemably failed in every sector of our national life.

The PDP notes that available data, both locally and internationally, confirm that the Buhari administration has failed woefully in all its promises and claims, particularly on fight against corruption, economy, security, democracy as well as national unity and cohesion.

The party observes that the Buhari administration’s claimed fight against corruption has been exposed to be a big lie; a charade designed to hound perceived political opponents while providing cover for humongous corruption and pillaging of resources by agents of the Buhari Presidency.

Instead of fighting corruption, this administration is practically a felonious empire of corrupt individuals, certificate forgers, contract inflators, looters of treasuries and well-known liars, making it, ‘head to toe’, the biggest assemblage of plunderers in the history of our nation.

We ask, if, Mr. President is indeed a man of integrity, as his handlers want the world to believe, why is he comfortable employing, embracing, surrounding himself with and offering protection to corrupt persons, certificate forgers and liars as ministers, advisers and political associates?

Are there things Mr. President benefits or has in common with such individuals that attract them to him or for which they enjoy his cover to steal public funds in parastatals, agencies and ministries, particularly those under the direct supervision of the President?

Largely, due to the incompetence and corruption of the Buhari Presidency, our once robust economy has been wrecked, resulting in unbearable hardship, unemployment, hunger and starvation, strange sicknesses and untold depression with compatriots resorting to suicide missions and slavery as options.

Under President Buhari, our nation has become dangerously divided. Violent clashes and bloodletting has become the order of the day. Rights of citizens are daily violated; democratic institutions, including the courts and the National Assembly have come under attack; elections are rigged with impunity; the unity of our beloved country is now under stress.

Moreover, the Buhari administration cannot boast of any major development project it has initiated, executed and completed in the last three years, in any part of the country.

If anything, Mr. President has been going around the country shopping for projects executed by other persons, including PDP governors, to commission.

The PDP is ready to commence a series to expose the lies and failures of this administration as well as the huge liability, woes and dangers it has brought on our nation.

The PDP also challenges both the Presidency and the APC to an open debate on governance, where we will further expose the failures of the APC and Buhari Presidency to Nigerians. The time has finally come!

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary

sarrki:
I don’t believe you sir

You were sacked because you are a public service

Supporting Buhari openlwas wrong

I am a die hard Buhari

What you did by going to election center and rejoicing openly was not good

Ma da loun jare


Ibo osun miran tun bo.

O nilo ounje

seunmsg:
If at this point you can't see that 2019 will be different, then I am really sorry for you. Wake up and smell the coffee my friend, parade don change gear since.

Which of the parade change gear. No be only gear na throttle

seunmsg:
As it stands, Buhari should get nothing less than 40% of the total votes from south south next year.

just like 2015.

buharitill2023:
I know say op no get sense.

What shall it profit the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Bia-fra terrorist if they sit on a golden or diamond chair and sleep in jail like dansuki and be attack by cancerous disease like mrs madueke or about to go to jail like fayose.

The Bible advice us that good name is far better than diamonds.

Typical BMC noise maker.

Abuse is their surname

Butterflyleo:
The furniture is not thorn. Look closely.

Those are flowery designs all around certain areas of the chair.

Its not a tear as you thought.

The chair is simple enough but not thorn.

Do you need a new pair of wailing eyes?

It seems too much wailing has damaged your eyesight.

Zoom the picture and see all the other flowery patterns

Open ya eyes very well.

Flower ko

Flover ni

So this noise makers just want saraki to rubber stamp their fraud inec budget without legislative process.

Ko le work.

Awon ole.

Awon iran Oshi-Omo-Ole

No be only shut down.


Na shut up.


You did not shut down aso rock that refuses to sign electoral bill into law.

Awon alariwo lasanlasan

Daura 800m WALK: Buhari Deny Garba Shehu

On behalf of Nairlanders and Nigerians at Home and in diaspora, we are soliciting for funds to renovate our president's chair.


for more information contact the underlisted.

CC: madridguy, myd44, buhariguy, kcmicheal, sarkki et. al

[quote author=kcmichael post=70568907][/quote]APC from Imo, Edo, Delta, Cross River, Rivers state.

If you dont know before, now you know.

but this are Akwa-ibomites

mrvitalis:
Bro they are rented I'm in uyo... Even his campaign office is been constructed ...he did this in a hurry I just don't know why

The man hasn't done shit in uyo or ikot ekpene just eket

Trust me and uyo man and an oron deputy in apc udom is gone

Evidence that they are rented crowd.

But you people said, nobody is with Udom again.

Now it is rented crowd.

BMC always shifting goal-Post.

by the way, where is Oshi-Omo-Ole, had anybody suck his battery dry ni

kcmichael:
See akpabio crowd

This one na foreginers from all over APC states.

moreso na so so POLICE full this place

PDP had not even conducted their primary, yet BMC and their APC are unsettled like this. O ma ga hooo.

Had Oshi-Omo-Ole (Poverty, Son of Thief) battery gone down low

The gathering of BMC

Felixv:
Sadly yes

I work half the time in Lagos and somewhere else

But to the point of the budget. It was handed to the Nass -November 2017

I know you guys don’t like buhari. Which is all well and good. But he has done a lot more than what pdp did in 16 yrs

Unfornately we allowed Saraki to steal the SP role - a very bad mistake.

The budget was sent to Nass November 2017 , Nass complained about ministers not defending their budgets in March 2018.

Nass being clever by half, because ministers knew that the Nass would be requesting bribes.

Nass then inserts over 3k items in the budget, and increases their own budget and to 139bn

Yet some people out of pure hatred still blame the presidency,

As a 100% lagosian we cant accept that rubbish.

It's just an assumption.

Why are mdas afraid to defend their budget b4 nass.

All to find excuse as you ar giving today

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/262021-after-meeting-nass-leaders-buhari-orders-mdas-to-defend-budgets-before-national-assembly.html

Butterflyle0:
So says the butthurt one. Your pain is because we are not with you in PDP.

I have never been more calm than now because your angst is pretty evident and the reason is also pretty clear.

You are a bitter, hatefilled soul and I am so enjoying getting you riled up in your spiteful bile.

If you like it or not its going to be PMB till 2023. Enjoy your high blood pressure till then

Shame no dey catch you.


Be reasonable for once.

Should the budget just be rubber stamped.

Allow the committe do their job


If you are not satisfied let your 2/3 reopened the nass.

If that is not done then APC are just losing sleep

sarrki:
Brother mi awon ti saraki

Saraki is now apc manifesto

Felixv:
We need leaders in the NASS who can work with the presidency to push policies that are for the betterment of the people - not a contentious leadership that only wants to antagonize the presidency

It took Saraki and his friends 7 months to pass the national budget - ok, he blamed the ministries but the truth came out - budget padding,removing money from critical infrastructure development and the increase the already over bloated NASS budget.

Now with fear hovering over Saraki and Ike ( thanks to oshi baba) the INEC budget is nearing approval.

You are sounding incoherent

You need to cover your eyes in shame


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/262021-after-meeting-nass-leaders-buhari-orders-mdas-to-defend-budgets-before-national-assembly.html

sarrki:
Saraki and Ekweremadu must vacate the leadership of the senate

Sarki iwo yiii


Sora re hoo

Hoodlums with heavy security men fully armed.

hmmmmm


BMC crew over to you

Butterflyleo:
Those twitter users and others who have typed above me all scored F9 In English.

He used words like expected to add , is bringing, there are two turbines READY TO GO,

He now ended by saying IF WE ADD THESE THREE......

He is talking about what the additions would yield and not that it was already at 7000.

The BEDC simply confirms his first position of 4000mw.

Make una go school all of una go dey disgrace una self everywhere.

is comprehension your problem.

Has move from 4000 to 7000

he never said expected to.

stop typing trash

BNMC

B-erems
N-genekwenu
M-Madridguy
C-ow (the senior citizen's)

LIEEEEEEEE-MOHAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMED

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the escalation of the blockade of the National Assembly by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) was as a result of the circulation of fake news, especially on the social media.

Mohammed stated this, in Abuja, during a courtesy visit to the headquarters of Blueprint Newspapers.

The visit, according to the Special Assistant to Mohammed, Segun Adeyemi, was in furtherance of the Federal Government’s campaign against fake news in the country.

“When we launched the campaign, we did not envisage the kind of event that occurred at the National Assembly last week, specifically August 7 – less than one month after the launch.

“That event, during which the National Assembly was barricaded, is a classic example of how fake news can aggravate conflicts. In fact, it was driven all the way by fake news.

”A serving senator led the fake news onslaught, claiming that only APC members were being allowed into the chambers as a ploy to impeach the Senate President, while PDP members were barred – FAKE NEWS! No APC members was in the chambers at the time!” Mohammed said.

Mohammed further said but for the timely intervention of the acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the situation could have deteriorated and brought great opprobrium on the country.

Mohammed added that in the aftermath of the crisis, news that N21 billion and assorted weapons were found in the home of the sacked Director-General of the DSS also turned out to be fake.


http://www.observerstimes.com/news/fake-news-responsible-for-nass-blockade-lai-mohammed/

osazeeblue01:
APC and their Gorilla chairman should go and buy some common sense.

You mean the Undertaker, mouth Diarrhea Chiarman

iammo:
.nicely written, if APC have enough legal backing they would have head to court

\\That is why they where fighting tooth and nail confusing everybody about

FOLYKAZE:
Saraki is been lured into the slaughter

By who?

Homeboiy:
which law school all these people attend


Falana will say the opposite

sagay will say the opposite

ozekhome WILL say the opposite

I weak

Falana and Sagay are only playing to the gallery,

No legal or constitutional basis for Saraki to resign as Senate President- Ozekhome

Says 24 APC States Having Parallel Congresses during Convention Clearly showed division in the Party

Constitutional Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome SAN, has dismissed the call on Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki to resign his position as Senate President following his defection from the All Progressive Congress (APC) to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

The dismissal was contained in a statement issued by Chief Ozekhome entitled, “Must Dr. Bukola Saraki Resign as Senate President because he Defected from APC to PDP?

He said, “In law, there is no legal or constitutional basis for Dr Bukola Saraki to resign or be removed as president of the Senate and Chairman of the NASS simply because he has decamped or defected from APC to PDP.

“The first point to make here is that section 68(1) of the 1999 Constitution provides inter alia, that any member of the 109 Senators and 360 members of the House of Representatives who loses his Nigerian citizenship, or is made a minister, or decamps from his political party to another party Automatically loses his seat.

“However, section 68(1) (g) of the same 1999 Constitution permits a legislator to decamp or cross carpet from his original party under whose platform he contested and won election, to a new party if he can show that there has occurred a division or fractionalization of his original party, or that his party has merged with another party, or a faction of another party. “It is a question of fact, not of law, if there exists a division in a party.

“In the case of APC, 24 states held parallel congresses before the national convention. Can there be any better or stronger evidence of a division in a party? I think not.

“To add to the gravity of this internal implosion and vertical and horizontal schism, a new wing, r-APC emerged from the APC at the national level.

“It is headed by no less a person than Buba Galadima, a tested political strategist, Buhari’s right hand man and former Secretary of Buhari’s CPC.

“Although APC leadership had dismissed the breakaway factional members that have fecund Kassim Afegbua as their spokesman, the wind was removed from their sail when they commenced frantic fire brigade appeasement missions to the respective homes of these aggrieved members. “They did these nichodemusly at wee hours of the night, even when they had claimed they would not lose sleep. They lost: plenty sleep.

“The Pandora box has since been broken as three governors, Senate president,15 Senators, over 40 House of Representatives members, Local government chairmen, Councilors, Commissioners, etc, have defected in droves to the PDP, and some few ones to ADC and SDP; and still counting.

“So, all the legislators, including Dr. Bukola Saraki, are constitutionally covered and immune from removal from office, because their APC party is eventually irredeemably broken into smithereens and totally factionalized.

“Must Saraki and Yakubu Dogara (I can bet he will soon defect) lose their leadership positions as Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively by this defection? “The answer is a categorical no.

There is nowhere in the extant 1999 Constitution where it is provided that the ruling party must provide these principal heads of the bicameral legislature.

“Indeed, APC was lucky in June, 2015, when Saraki, then in APC, was narrowly elected Senate President and Ike Ekweremadu of PDP as his deputy.

“It could have been the other way round as has happened many times in the USA and heavens would not have fallen.

“Section 47 of the Constitution provides that the Senate shall consist of 109 members and the House of Representatives 360 members. “By virtue of section 50(1) (A) of the Constitution, the president of the Senate and the Deputy President of the Senate shall be elected by members of the Senate.

“By section 50 (1) (b), the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be elected by members of the House.

“There is nowhere it is stated that such officers must come from any political party, whether ruling, or opposition.

“The only circumstance in which the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives can lose his seat is provided for in section 50(2) of the same Constitution.

“It states, inter alia, that the president of the Senate, the Deputy President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives shall vacate their offices through a resolution passed by 2/3rd majority votes of members. Consequently, for Saraki (and later, Dogara), to be removed, each of the houses needs 2/3rd majority votes.

“In the case of the Senate, that is a humongous 73 senators, and a whopping 240 members of the House of Representatives to remove Dogara.

“That is an impossible task under the present circumstances even if this corrupt government that feigns anti-corruption war promises all the oil blocks and automatic tickets to the legislators.

“This is because its antecedents of self-denial on everything it ever promised during campaigns makes it very untrustworthy to be believed on anything. In law, we call it similar facts.

“The last time I checked, APC and PDP stand shoulder to shoulder on membership, with each laying claim to numerical superiority.

“So, where will it achieve this talismanic constitutional superiority of 2/3 majority votes to sack Saraki and Dogara. It will not happen.

The deft Machiavellian and superior sagacious political acrobatics of Saraki and r-APC movement have left APC breathless and confused.

“They must go to the drawing board, a tabula rasa, if it hopes to snatch the burning kernel from the blazing inferno. The next weeks and months will be very interesting. My Kobo take.”


Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/no-legal-or-constitutional-basis-for-saraki-to-resign-as-senate-president-ozekhome/

Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999
CHAPTER V
THE LEGISLATURE

Part I

National Assembly

A Composition and Staff of National Assembly

47. There shall be a National Assembly for the Federation which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.

48. The Senate shall consist of three Senators from each State and one from the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

49. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the House of Representatives shall consist of three hundred and sixty members representing constituencies of nearly equal population as far as possible, provided that no constituency shall fall within more than one State.

50.

(1) There shall be:-
(a) a President and a Deputy President of the Senate, who shall be elected by the members of that House from among themselves; and
(b) a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall be elected by the members of that House from among themselves.

(2) The President or Deputy President of the Senate or the Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives shall vacate his office -

(a) if he ceases to be a member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, otherwise than by reason of a dissolution of the Senate or the House of Representatives; or
(b) when the House of which he was a member first sits after any dissolution of that House; or

(c) if he is removed from office by a resolution of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, by the votes of not less than two-thirds majority of the members of that House.

Mr. Lai Mohammed; Saraki must be impeached hooo, by tulasi ni ooo