₦airaland Forum

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

HOW APC SENATORS FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO IMPEACH SARAKI – LAI MOHAMMED

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has revealed why it has been difficult for the All Progressives Congress, APC, to remove Dr. Bukola Saraki as Senate President.



Mohammed, speaking how the problems being witnessed in the ruling party started, said that Saraki forced himself into the office of the Senate President and made Ike Ekweremmadu, from the opposition, his deputy.



The Minister quoted Saraki as saying that ‘If you remove me, you are going to have PDP as Senate President’ adding that the Senate President had aligned and worked for the PDP all along.



Mohammed said this in an interview with newsmen in Lagos, where be reacted to the gale of defections in the APC.

He said that recent events in the party did not come to him as surprise, adding that they were expected.

He said, “The foundation for what you see today was laid the day the Senate President forced himself on the party as Senate President.

“That was the day the foundation for what you are witnessing today was laid because traditionally, it is the party’s prerogative who becomes the presiding officers in the two houses. Here, we were met with a fait accompli when Dr. Bukola Saraki, against the wishes of the party, did the unthinkable by aligning with the opposition and making them an offer they could not refuse.

“I can’t quite remember the number, but almost the entire 40 plus senators in PDP voted for him. So, he needed only a minority from the APC. We were all waiting for Mr. President to come and address us on this issue at the International Conference Centre, it was announced that he (Bukola) had emerged as the Senate President.

“From that day, we knew we had two problems: one, we had a Senate President who imposed himself on the party, and to make it worse, as an insurance, he arranged for an opposition person to be Deputy Senate President; that makes it impossible for us to remove him, hence his thinking, ‘If you remove me, you are going to have a PDP Senate President.’

“From that day, we had a problem. This is not a surprise at all. Of course, you could see the behaviour of the National Assembly since then. We have a National Assembly in which we had a clear majority in both houses, but which treated the executive with contempt and actually slowed down the work of government.

“In 2016, 2017 and 2018, our budgets were delayed. In 2016 and 2017, the earliest we got our budgets was June. Key appointments, nominations and confirmations for key organisations that could move the government forward like the CBN, like the NDIC, were delayed.
“Really, it couldn’t have been worse if the PDP had a majority in the National Assembly.”

https://newsflash247.com.ng/2018/08/how-apc-senators-found-it-difficult-to-impeach-saraki-lai-mohammed/

The anti-graft agency, EFCC, has responded to an allegation by an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari that it and other security agencies may have worked for the benefit of the embattled Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

Babafemi Ojodu, Mr Buhari’s adviser on political matters, reportedly made the allegation in an article.

The allegation that some security agencies were working with Mr Saraki became rife last week after the siege by the State Security Service (SSS) on the National Assembly.

While many Nigerians believed the siege was to forcibly remove Mr Saraki from office as senate president, others including presidency officials believe the SSS was playing a script by the senate president.

Mr Saraki has rejected the allegation and condemned the siege on the National Assembly. He also commended the sack of the then SSS Director-General, Lawal Daura.

The EFCC in a statement by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, on Sunday said it was not working with Mr Saraki.

Read the full EFCC statement below.

The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to a widely syndicated article by Senator Babafemi Ojudu, special adviser to the President on Political Matters entitled, fifth Columnists in Our Recent History, wherein he portrayed the Commission as a conscript in the devious plots by Senator Bukola Saraki to undermine the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Ojudu, “From the shenanigans at the Benue House of Assembly, to the siege on National Assembly, the attack on judges home in the night, the so called barricade of the Senate President’s house, the laughable kidnap of Boy Dino and “his eleven hours on a tree’, the freezing of Benue and Akwa Ibom accounts all are scripted, produced and acted by Oloye Productions”.

The Commission takes exception at the attempt to impute false motive to its investigative activities. The recent placement of a ‘Post No Debit Order’ on some accounts in Benue and Akwa Ibom States were the culmination of many months of painstaking investigation activities. To reduce such activities to the level of a stunt in a real or imaginary script by any politician is outrageous.

It is important to state that the EFCC is NOT a party to the so called script by Saraki. Members of the public should disregard the innuendo in Ojudu’s article as it is unfounded.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/279899-were-not-in-cahoots-with-saraki-efcc-replies-buharis-adviser.html

madridguy:
The OP, No one on this platform don't know him as PDP paid agent whose duty is to be spreading lies.

Debunk the lies or stop been childish

madridguy:
The OP, No one on this platform don't know him as PDP paid agent whose duty is to be spreading lies.

Stop thinking with your anus, think with your brain

Afamed:
You are right, but the OP had a mission with the pics. He's trying to make the pictures an APC affair that APC won because of bribing. You can see he's already concluding that the elections were not fair

When will you stop supporting criminality.

Nigerians should rise and defend her democracy,

should we all say it should be given a free-day to start election violence.

This should stop.

that is the point

Afamed:
You are right, but the OP had a mission with the pics. He's trying to make the pictures an APC affair that APC won because of bribing. You can see he's already concluding that the elections were not fair

Open your eyes to the reality and stop been childish

Kogi state government openly distributing cash and gift to people during election and INEC is conducting free an fair election

Yahaya Umoru stabbed to death for snatching ballot box in kogi yesterday

Watching the Yesterday Election i have this to say that INEC will kill Democracy in Nigeria if they will not seat up and up their game.

How on earth will INEC staff conduct free and fair election with the following pictorial evidence from Bauchi, Kogi and Katsina.


Our Democracy in serious trouble with the latest APC using government apparatus (INEC, POLICE, DSS, Military, Money and Thugs) to destroy electoral process.

This is a very shameful act.

APC BMC always looking for noise about.


Madridguy, your 24 sin-a-tors did not need to wait till Next Tuesday,


Tell Your kacki Comradee Mouth Diarrhea National Chaiman (THE UNDERTAKER) to lead the 24 sin-a-tors to the NASS now, if truel na him Papa born am

buhariguy:
a quorum is 36 and 2/3 of 36 is 24, that is for Senate president,

To impeach president, 2/3 of the whole from both chamber.

Where was your quorum in the constiution.

Sir-Gay student of upside down constitution

APC NOISE MAKERS CREW (BMC): Enough of Disturbance, Ask Your acclaimed 52 Senator to go ahead this morning, ask them to reconvene and impeach Saraki today.

This your daily rants on Nairaland will is just creating nuisance to Nairalanders.

Enough of media impeachment, if all your logic's are anythign to go bye, why not ask your senators to put it into practical and let us have rest of mind on Nairaland.

Does Nairaland look like NASS to you.

Saraki ruling in Senate Chamber, ApC BMC noise-makers crews impeaching on Nairaland, bunch of noise-makers.

CC: myd44, Buhariguy, madridguy, et. al

Sarki: https://www.nairaland.com/4669319/oshiomhole-vows-saraki-definitely-impeached
Ngeneukwenu: https://www.nairaland.com/4669021/apc-senators-stop-foot-dragging-impeach

buhariguy:
no kwankwasiyya in Edo state,
I stay near Bob izua at ekpenede street, nobody know as kwankwasiyya in that street, even no Hausa quarter in Edo state bear kwankwasiyya.
The same disgrace kwakwaso received in Kaduna yesterday, he will get more of disgrace if he come to Edo state, nobody will received him.

Some miscreants shouting slay Buhari are wht you call boos. No be only booos na boost