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yns4real:
Except for last minute changes, the President of the apex body for Muslim women, Federation of Muslim women Associations of Nigeria (FOMWAN), Ekiti State Chapter and Former Commissioner for women affairs, Alhaja Dr Habibat Adubiaro has been picked as running mate of APC governorship candidate, Dr Fayemi.

Mrs Habibat is from Ado Ekiti, and a Senior lecturer at the Federal University in Oye-Ekiti.

Dr Adubiaro will be the deputy governorship candidate to Dr Kayode Fayemi of the APC in July 14th governorship election in the state.

Although the party is yet to officially announce the running mate of Fayemi ahead of the poll, her selection by the APC has matched the PDP in selection and even surpass them.

While the PDP used Deji Ogunsakin’s deputy governorship candidature to fix Muslims and Ado Ekiti, APC’s choice will cut across religious sentiment being a Muslim and settle Ado Ekiti being the biggest voter concentration area. APC also beat the PDP on gender balance.

Also, Muslims may tend more to the side of Alhaja Habibat Adubiaro been an active Muslim known in the Islamic circle.

Deji Ogunsakin though a Muslim cannot muster the popularity commanded by Alhaja Adubiaro among the Muslims in Ekiti state.The stage is set and the game is getting more interesting.

Research interests: Food Chemistry and Organic Synthesis

Adubiaro's Brief Biography

Dr H.O. Adubiaro focused her research on Food Chemistry and Organic Synthesis. She hails from Igboora, Ibarapa Central Local Government of Oyo State and got married to an Ado Ekiti indigene.

She started her primary education at Local Government Authoruty Primary School, Ikereku, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria and later attende Igboora High School, Igboora, Oyo State, Nigeria for her secondary education. She went to the then Oyo State College of Arts and Science, Ile Ife for her H.Sc. between 1985 and 1987. She later proceeded to the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State where she bagged B.Sc. Chemistry in 1994. In her quest for more education, Ekiti State University and got her M.Sc. with PhD grade and PhD in Food Chemiistry in 2004 and 2010 respectively.

She did her National Youth Service Corps in the defunct Odua Textile Ado Ekiti in 1994 and was retained after youth service, She worked as quality control supervisor for 5 years before she joined the service of Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti and lectured for 13 years where she rose to the position of Senior Lecturer before later joined the service of Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Nigeria as Lecture I. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Industrial Chemistry of the University.

She was the special Adviser to the Governor of Ekiti State between year 2003 and 2004. She has served at various committees as chairman and member in the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, Federal University, Oye Ekiti, in Government and Islamic Organizations.

She won many awards to her credit. As a researcher, She won many research grants from TETFund in the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, Federal University, Oye Ekiti and TWAS. She attended various seminars, workshops and conferences in Nigeria and overseas.

She is presently the President of Federation of Muslim Women's Association of Nigeria, Ekiti State Chapter.

She has visited Saudi Arabia, Germany and Netherland. She is happily married with children.

Sources:

http://nigeriapoliticsonline.com/fayemi-picks-muslim-woman-as-running-mate/

Been a lecturer vs a Former LGA Chairman.

Na wa for you hooo.


1. Her student in FUOYE will not even vote for her.

Just take a walk in to FUOYE to confirm

Comparing a Muslim women leader with

1. A former LGA Chairman that touch all life both Christian and Muslim.


Make una continue in una dream.

Anyway

#APCWasted3Years

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday tasked the challenges then All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Presidency to account for the over N10 trillion allegedly stolen by the party’s leaders and members of the President’s kitchen cabinet.

Uche Secondus In a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party mocked Buhari’s anti-corruption credentials, stating that under his nose, stealing of monumental proportions were going on. “The PDP asks the Presidency to address Nigerians on the leaked memo detailing corrupt oil contracts to the tune of N9 trillion ($25billion dollars) at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, which are under President Muhammadu Buhari’s direct supervision as Minister of Petroleum Resources.

“The PDP also challenges the APC and the Presidency to come clear on the widely reported stealing of N1.1 trillion ($3.5bn) worth of crude oil by APC interests operating with seven ghost companies. “This is in addition to the looting from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) evidenced in the reported stealing of N10 billion National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)’s account in the TSA, as well as revelation of the frittering of fresh N25 billion under questionable ‘deals’.

“The APC and Presidency have been playing saint and pointing fingers while their officials are having field day frittering trillions of naira to finance their opulent lifestyles and political interests, even under the watch of the African Union (AU) Anti-Corruption Champion,” the statement read in part.

The party also called on the ruling party to “address Nigerians on the widely reported stealing of N18 billion Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) intervention fund as well as the source of the N671 million allegedly stolen from the APC account by some of its national officers.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/05/account-stolen-n10-trillion-leader-pdp-tells-apc/

mbattled Senator representing Kogi West Dino Melaye has been challenged to resume plenary on Wednesday as the senate does not feel the same without him.

Bayelsa state senator Ben Murray Bruce who made the call in a tweet via his official twitter handle said Melaye should resume in whatever condition he was.

Ben Murray-Bruce, the senator representing Bayelsa East, on Monday requested that his embattled colleague from Kogi West, Dino Melaye should resume sitting at the Senate on Wednesday.


The Bayelsa lawmaker stated that the Senate has not been “the same” since the absence of Melaye.

In a tweet, Ben-Bruce wrote, “I want @dino_melaye to come to the Senate on Wednesday even if he is on crutches.


“The @NGRSenate is not the same without Dino! We miss him. I know he is on crutches but I want him to come on Wednesday and I will stand with him.”

Melaye is currently involved in a face-off with the Nigeria Police Force.

The lawmaker, who allegedly jumped-off a police van transporting him to Lokoja, Kogi State, has since been arraigned in a state High Court.


However, Melaye was granted bail by the court

http://dailypost.ng/2018/05/28/dino-melaye-senator-must-resume-plenary-ben-bruce/

ACCUSTOMED to meeting most of their financial obligations from their monthly share-out of the Federation Account, Nigeria’s 36 state governors were recently confronted with less-than-expected offers from the pool. Under-remittances from the state oil company and some other agencies mean less revenue for states battling rising costs, high debts, deficits and an impending election cycle. The chickens the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation hatched are coming home to roost.

The alarm raised earlier this month by the states’ commissioners of finance that expected remittance to the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation from the NNPC shifted to near-panic mode at state houses last week. Two consecutive meetings of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee – a gathering of the Minister of Finance and the states finance commissioners – ended without agreement as delegates rejected alleged under-payment by the NNPC.

Fresh confirmation of our untidy national book-keeping practices has just come from an audit report prepared by KPMG and commissioned by the National Economic Council. The report found that 18 federal revenue federating agencies withheld the sums of N526 billion and $21 billion from the Federation Account between 2010 and June 2015. NEC, chaired by the Vice-President, includes the finance minister and the state governors who are understandably livid at the continuation of a system that allows the NNPC especially, to carry on as usual.


They woke late to the posers this newspaper has been raising over the oil company’s dangerous monopoly on refined petroleum products since September; its unverified claims on volumes imported and distributed; its self-regulation; its runaway self-imposed habit of subsidising petrol, and virtual autonomy under an inattentive President who has also made himself the petroleum minister.

Now, governors are finally waking up to the dangers. They should have spotted the booby trap when the NNPC gleefully announced that it was now the sole importer of petrol after independents left the field, citing losses arising from a landing price then of N171 per litre compared to the regulated price of N145 per litre ceiling. The alarm should have been louder when, first, the NNPC said it would absorb the losses and quaintly labelled it “under-recoveries,” and, next, claimed the improbable supply figure of 55 million litres per day. A healthy scepticism would have prompted independent checks much earlier than now to safeguard public funds. Now that landing cost is N191 per litre, NNPC is heartily subsidising on our behalf while we pick up the bills.


In between, Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director, claimed the company incurred $5.8 billion in two months. In January this year, petrol imports cost N1.4 trillion.

Improbability has given way to incredulity: governors have now taken a cue from The PUNCH in questioning the new figure of 60 million litres supplied per day and Baru’s vow to bring in 100 million litres per day for two months.

Neither Buhari nor the lazy, distracted National Assembly can run away from providing answers to the governors’ posers. Who verifies the NNPC’s import and expenditure claims? There should be a thorough investigation of the company’s operations to ascertain how much petrol comes into the country and where they go. It stretches the imagination that the neighbouring markets of Benin Republic, Niger Republic, Togo, Cameroon, Chad and Ghana can absorb the excess over the 35 million litres per day claimed by the NNPC as our national demand.


More importantly, we should stop the national folly of continuing to allow vested interests to prevent the privatisation of the NNPC’s four loss-making refineries and liberalising the oil downstream. Buhari and Baru are driving the economy that shrank to 1.95 per cent in the last quarter aground. Rather than sell them post-haste, Baru, in accordance with the retrogressive presidential fiat to make them work “at any cost,” is on a forlorn, unworkable drive to attract investors who will provide funds but will not own. Such shallow thinking and convoluted rigmarole have ensured that the refineries cannot meet local demand and continue to accumulate operating losses over the last three decades (group losses of about N546 billion in the three years to 2017). The refineries lost N82.09 billion in 2015, N78.95 billion in 2016 and a report by Bloomberg puts recent losses at the NNPC HQ and the refineries at about $500 million.

Baru’s acrobatics of wooing the original builders and others to invest in refurbishing them are not viable. As long as the NNPC remains a major player in the downstream, operators will continue to flee the local market as Chevron, Texaco, Mobil have done, leaving only the bold and influential Dangote on whose upcoming 650,000 bpd Lekki refinery lies the country’s sole hope of breaking the NNPC stranglehold.

Opaque, self-regulating and over-politicised, the NNPC’s losses pale in contrast to the strong showing of other SOEs like Norway’s Equinox (formerly Statoil), Brazil’s Petrobas and Gulf oil majors that all posted rebounds in 2017 as oil prices rallied. The world eagerly awaits the flotation of Saudi Aramco whose owner, Saudi Arabia, is reforming its economy away from oil dependency and opening up to global investors. Nigeria must follow suit.

Buhari should relinquish the petroleum resources portfolio and reconstitute the NNPC board to allow for reformers from outside the rotten NNPC system. In line with his electoral promise, Buhari should follow the advice of Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna to “kill the NNPC” to make way for a new entity to emerge and meet national aspirations. A recent report that depots and pipelines that are not even fully utilised drained N174 billion reinforces why the NNPC should exit the downstream sector completely and concentrate on its core function as a holding company.

In the meantime, the parliament should launch an all-out probe into the fuel import system and the refineries. Governors should not stop at insisting on full remittance of all funds due to the CRF, they should go to court to demand their rights.

https://www.punchng.com/buhari-baru-have-made-nnpc-worse/amp/

madridguy:
don't want old man, I prefer from 19 to 27

She size u now

Lauretta NEE Buhari Mrs Bitterness

Weldone

Sarrki so fun Baba Buhari wipe ki o ko omo yen ni

A for Abacha is a Good man

B for Buhari is an Old Man

D for Democracy

Sarrki ewo tun re hoooo pelu Baba Buhari

onigbese aregbese baba-gbese

Aregbese

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  Mr. DONALD TRUMP 


President Donald Trump 

Through: 

Ambassador Stuart Symington 

United States  Ambassador to Nigeria 

U.S. Embassy, 

Diplomatic Drive  

Central Business  District  

Abuja - Nigeria.  


URGENT NEED TO SAVE NIGERIA'S  DEMOCRACY 

Sir, 

It is with great delight that I write you this letter, hoping that it meets you well. I congratulate you for having kept to your promise of "America first" so far in all your policies and programmes since assumption of office. Permit me to say that this is not my first letter to an American President, as I made a similar appeal to President Barack Obama in 2015, under former President Goodluck Jonathan, intimating him of the failings inherent in that government and thankfully he acted on the letter. I believe you will also take heed of the urgency of this appeal and act accordingly. 


Indeed, your effort to make good on your electioneering promises to the American people and the world, is widely acknowledged and appreciated by all lovers of democracy. However, it is rather unfortunate that in my country, for which I now write to seek your intervention, your friend, President Muhammadu Buhari, is largely paying lip service to his promises and has refused to follow the rule of law in the exercise of his powers under a democratic setting. Democracy in Nigeria is currently facing some of its most severe threats and unless something is done, it could be derailed and jeopardised altogether. 


Your Excellency sir, while you daily work to advance the cause of the United States, the Nigerian situation under the present administration, led by the ruling All Progressives Congress, has failed to promote the nation's interest and work for the sustenance of our democracy. It was most unfortunate that when President Buhari visited you recently, he minced words on the true situation of the current happenings in the country, which pose a great threat to our national fabric of Unity, Peace and Progress. 


How do I mean? The ruling APC and President Buhari were ecstatically embraced by Nigerians and voted into office with a promise to fight corruption, insecurity and grow the economy in 2015. However, three years on, prevailing maladministration and insecurity have left everyone spell bound, as wanton killings by herdsmen, kidnapping for ransom, armed robbery, corruption and insurgency in the north-east still ravage the country unabated. Furthermore, the cost of fighting these deadly malaise continues to skyrocket without corresponding mitigation in insecurity. A recent example is the withdrawal of $1billion from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) to fight Boko Haram and other security challenges across the country, by the Executive in collaboration with the National Economic Council, without due recourse to the National Assembly for statutory approval. More so, need I mention that the recent advance payment of $496million to your country for the purchase of 12 Tucano fighter jets, by the Buhari-led Federal Executive Council, was done in complete violation of extant laws regarding such purchases. I must say that that action remains illegal, criminal and a breach of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which empowers the National Assembly to approve all expenditures of the executive. I am aware that the United States is a nation ruled by laws and therefore cannot condone impunity and illegality of this nature - no matter the amount of benefits accruable to it from the sale. I would therefore, kindly appeal to you, to use your good offices to ensure that the $496million is repatriated into the Nigerian coffers and the deal renegotiated and made to follow due process. 


I want to also appeal to you to help save our democracy by prevailing on President Buhari and his administration to respect the fundamental Human Rights of Nigerians. The right to life, freedom of association, freedom of speech and freedom from fear, torture and molestation which are irreducible minimums in any democratic setting, have taken the back seat since this administration came into power.  Unfortunately, these rights are being denied under the guise of fighting corruption by the Executive and its agents. Permit me to say that the fight against corruption by the Buhari government is laudable but grossly selective. I am by no means saying the Nigerian government should not investigate and prosecute corrupt officials or those found to have looted the public treasury. I support the fight against corruption and thus use this opportunity to call on the American government to help Nigeria to win the fight against corruption. However, this letter is to intimate you on the true situation about the ongoing fight against corruption in Nigeria, which is highly selective and partisan instead of being transparent and fair. While members of the opposition PDP and nPDP are being hunted and liquidated in the name of fighting corruption, fraud allegations against close aides/allies of the President and other favoured members of the coalition that fused to form the APC are being consistently swept under the carpet, with the culprits allowed to live freely without any form of legal repercussion.


Regrettably sir, Nigerians are no longer free to express themselves or to criticise the activities and policies of the government without being assaulted or clamped down upon. For example, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, was one of those who supported Buhari and the APC to win the 2015  general elections, but today, has been branded an enemy of the state because he is criticizing the wrongdoings and failings of the administration. 


Similarly, I dare say that the harassment, coercion, intimidation and humiliation being meted out on the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, is basically because he emerged as the President of the Senate against the wishes of some  powerful and influential members of the ruling party in  2015 and not because he is corrupt as being claimed by some agents of the executive. It is worthy of note, that H.E. Saraki  belongs to the nPDP stock of the APC and his unjust trial and persecution over charges of false asset declaration since 2015 coupled with new attempts to link him with arrested murder suspects and cultists in his home state of Kwara, points to the selective nature of the fight against corruption being waged by the Buhari-administration. Note that the political onslaught against Saraki and the National Assembly under his leadership, culminated recently in the invasion of the Senate Chambers by sponsored thugs, who forcefully took away its mace and symbol of authority, without the prosecution of the perpetrators. Besides, facts have recently emerged to buttress this assertion about political persecution of perceived opponents of the government. A Special Investigator engaged by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property, Evangelist Victor Uwajeh, recently revealed that he was specifically directed to investigate Saraki and other PDP stalwarts who have been marked for persecution by the Buhari-led administration. Uwajeh, in a statement published by the Cable, an online newspaper, said the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property, established by the Buhari's administration, was specifically created to investigate Saraki, his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, Senator Stella Oduah, Senator Albert Bassay Akpan, ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Femi Fani Kayode, Senator James Manager, Governor Nyesom Wike, Senator Jonah Jang, Patience Jonathan and the current National Chairman of the PDP, Chief Uche Secondus, among others. 


Kindly note that apart from HE Saraki, all other persons listed above are members of the opposition party, PDP.  Mr. Uwajeh's statement, I must say has practically vindicated HE Saraki and other opposition members currently on trial that the allegations against them were politically motivated. Uwajeh had unequivocally stated that his refusal to work with the APC-led Government to humiliate the so-called enemies of Government has led him into exile.


I write to you because Nigeria and America have a long history of friendly relations, added to our system of government which is modeled after that of the United States. Much as the United States and other national governments assisted Nigeria to return to democracy from military dictatorship in the past and has continued to support the nation's fight against insurgency and corruption, it is time to come to our aid once again in order to sustain our democracy and maintain strict adherence to the rule of law. I believe you are better placed to advice the current leadership on the need to obey the rule of law and be impartial in its ongoing anti-corruption campaign. 


I humbly invite you to work with other defenders of democracy, freedom and human rights across the world, like the European Union (EU), United Nations (UN) and organizations like the Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, etc, to ensure that the present gagging of the press and opposition political party members in Nigeria do not degenerate further. Help us to prevent imminent breakdown of law and order that may result to chaos and anarchy if the current atmosphere of government's orchestrated harassment, intimidation, coercion, denial of the right to free speech and outright repression of perceived enemies of the administration, is allowed to continue unabated.


I thank you in anticipation that you will take positive steps to liaise with your friend, President Muhammadu Buhari, in order to prevent escalation of anti-democratic acts by agents of the administration. 


Long live U.S.A.! 

Long live the  Federal Republic of Nigeria! 


Yours  sincerely, 


Comrade Timi  Frank 

Deputy National Publicity Secretary  

All Progressives Congress  

timifrank40@gmail.com 

07033555555

hisgrace090:
PDP, just give us 4 years to see what APC can offer you no gree
Them born you born Nigeria?

It is after APC 4 years that I will pass judgement on them.

Iyan to ba maa yo ni okere la ti n mo.


Odun meta ti to.

They will surely fail.

EKITI 2018: ANOTHER APC RIGGING PLAN EXPOSED!

Beware! APC Using Fake Empowerment To Collect People's Voters Cards

Our attention has been drawn to a Form being distributed by the APC under the guise of Ekiti Development Front, purportedly for empowerment.

Residence of Ekiti State should note that this is a new plot by the APC to collect people's VOTERS CARDS, thereby preventing them from voting on July 14, 2018.

The sinister plot is aimed at first collecting Voters Cards numbers and later asking for submission of original Voters Cards for Biometric Exercise so as to be qualified for the fake empowerment scheme.

The moment you submit your original voters cards to them, they will disappear.

Members of the public should note that there is no contact address on the Forms being distributed. Therefore, after releasing your voters cards, where do you go to get it back?

Also, they are working with the possibility of deactivating as many voters cards as possible, using the voters cards numbers provided in the Forms.

Targeted for this criminal act are Ado Ekiti and Ikere Ekiti as well as other major towns in the State where the APC have perfected plans to disenfranchise as many people as possible to reduce votes.

Since 2014 that APC lost power in Ekiti and 2015 that it assumed power in Abuja, no empowerment program was done for Ekiti people.

Now that election is less than seven weeks and its initially plot to directly buy voters cards was exposed, the APC has opted for the fake empowerment to steal people's voters cards.

Ekiti people are therefore urged not to surrender their voters cards to anyone.

Your voters card is the only weapon that you have to choose who governs you, do not surrender it under the guise of an eleventh hour fake empowerment.

Also, there is no organisation called Ekiti Development Front. It never existed in Ekiti State before now. The APC only designed it now as a tool for collection of people's voters cards so that only the party members will be able to vote on July 14.

Don't surrender your voters cards to anyone, don't get disenfranchised.

On July 14, Ekiti people must vote and their votes must count.

Lere Olayinka
Director of Media and Publicity
Kolapo Olusola Campaign Organisation

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is planning to clamp down on citizens campaigning against it ahead of the 2019 elections.

In a statement on Saturday, the party said the APC was never a political party meant for governance, rather “a contraption for oppression and vendetta”.

The statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP spokesman, said the APC is the problem of Nigeria as it has “proven to be the clog in our collective quest for national cohesion, happiness and economic prosperity as a people”.

“Already, there are plans by APC to extend the clampdown on opposition leaders to regular citizens, who have seen through their lies and deception and are in open agitation to vote them out in 2019,” the statement read.

“We note that since the recent boast by President Muhammadu Buhari on his abuse of rights as a military ruler, there has been an escalation of clampdown on citizens, particularly, the opposition, in various parts of our country.”

The party also said since coming to power, the APC has done nothing to improve the lives of Nigerians except “actions and comments that promote hatred and violence” in the country.

“It is also on record that the APC has not formulated any clear-cut programme for good governance; it has never called its government to order in their recklessness, particularly, on the documented abuse of human rights and violation of our constitution and democratic order,” the statement read.

“Despite attempts in blaming past administrations, it has since become clear that the on-going barefaced looting of our national treasury, particularly through the sleazy oil subsidy regime under President Buhari’s supervision, coupled with government’s gross incompetence and official highhandedness, are directly responsible for the economic hardship and escalated violence in our nation today.”

https://www.today.ng/news/politics/pdp-apc-planning-clampdown-nigerians-campaigning-117407

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will soon introduce some innovations for a free and fair election so as to end the use of election tribunals in the country.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Akwa Ibom, Mr. Mike Igini, who disclosed this in Calabar recently while presenting a keynote address on the theme: Engendering Issues Based Campaigns in an election year, the Media Perspectives said the commission is working towards a model whereby once a result is declared at the polling unit, it will be as it is declared.

While fielding questions from participants at the public lecture, he said, “in Nigeria, we spend so much to buy forms and a billion in tribunal to contest election result. Where do they get the money? The human agency is the problem we are having. When people cry out that the card ready is not good, it is not correct because people sabotage card reader in certain places. But in 2019 we are doing something different to ensure that truly the vote of the people will be a reflection of the vote cast.”


He said money politics in Nigeria is a bad politics and the commission is working to introduce measures to attract our eggheads into politics, as it is the case in some countries.

“Card reader has reduced moon slide and land slide results and for 2019; the card reader hardware will be enhanced. We are going to have software and process enhancement. If you look at the finger print window, it is going to be expanded to accommodate your finger or thumb. The sensitivity of the card reader will also be enhanced. In process enhancement, there are always issues of what happened after the polling unit when results have been declared at the polling unit and they are moving to the ward collation centre.

“All things being equal, by 2019, the moment the poll has closed, the ballot papers counted, declaration made and form C16E entered and the duplicate for each agent given, right from that point we are going to transmit the result of the polling unit directly to the collation centre. With the audit unit, you can compare what has been declared at the polluting unit, ward cantres, local councils, state and others and if it tallies with what you have at the collation centre. The crisis of confidence between poling units, wards and the last point of collation will be drastically reduced”.

Igini pleaded for the neutrality of security agents in 2019 as, adding, “the political class does everything to frustrate electoral process and the rule of law. In Nigeria, there are no consequences; we cannot have a society where there are no consequences and expect anything good to come out.

The problem of Nigeria is that the politicians are using Nigerians to undermine the business of the country.“We are partnering with NICOMSAT so that the election result will be a true reflection of what has happened at the polling unit. Some places like Cross River have very difficult terrain, the satellite will be used to transmit result or monitor as they do not have internet facilities,” he said.


http://guardian.ng/politics/inec-to-end-election-tribunals-in-nigeria/?F

May 24, 2018

Press Statement

Threats Against Wike: PDP Vows to Leave Nothing to Chance.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the outburst by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government that it would have dragged in Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, but for his constitutional immunity, confirms the fears that government wants to silence the opposition.

PDP condemns in very strong terms, the further threats against Governor Wike by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who arrogantly dismissed the governor’s allegation that there was a plot by the Federal Government to kill him in a crowd.

It is shocking that instead of calling for an investigation into the serious revelation, the Federal Government resorted to siege mentality to scare the governor, ostensibly to cover up the severity of the allegation.

Nigerians will recall that the PDP had earlier raised the alarm over plots to harass, intimidate, implicate and orchestrate untoward situations like assassinations, unexplained accidents, inexplicable "armed robbery” attacks, high profile abduction and sudden disappearances of opposition leaders and members.

The PDP, therefore, invites all Nigerians and the international community to note this threat against Governor Wike, as well as the action and inaction of the APC-led Federal Government, as we are not prepared to leave anything to chance.

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary

ABUJA —THE House of Representatives Committee on Works, yesterday, declared that the Buhari adminstration hasn’t awarded the contract for the second Niger Bridge, accusing the Bureau for Public Procurement, BPP, of deliberately frustrating the award of the contract by the Federal Government.
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The committee stated that while the works ministry had concluded early procurement processes for the award of the contract, the Federal Government had not awarded the contract because of the delay in approving the due process by BPP.
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The committee said the construction work being done by Julius Berger was the early earth work which is in four stages and not the building of the bridge as the public was being made to believe.
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Chairman of the House committee, Rep. Toby Okechukwu, made this disclosure in an interview with journalists yesterday.
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Okechukwu explained that while the ministry of power, works and housing had concluded work on the contract details and forwarded same to the BPP for approval, the lawmaker however, regretted that the inability of the BPP to approve the contract is holding back the Buhari administration from awarding the contract for the bridge.
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He stated that the delay by the procurement agency in concluding the due process that will lead to the eventual contract award by the government “may force the construction giant to demobilize from site in June, until the contract is approved and awarded to it legally.”
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Already, Okechukwu revealed that Julius Berger was scheduled to complete early earth work on the bridge by June, warning that unless the BPP approves the contract for procurement, the construction firm may leave site and remobilising to site might cost an estimated N10 billion.
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“The government hasn’t awarded the contract for the second Niger bridge. And Julius Berger is due to stop work by June and if they demobilize and mobilize again, it’s going to be very expensive.
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“I’m aware that the ministry has concluded their negotiations with Julius Berger and submitted it to due process. Due process are the ones holding the process down.
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“Julius Berger is working. They’re piecemeal early earth works one, two, three and four. Early earth works four will end in June. If it ends, you’ll go through procurement again.
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“So, why are you not procuring the entire contract?
And there is no framework for expenditure of money put in the budget if you don’t have a contract.
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The money put in the budget will be a waste if you don’t award the contract.
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“And why should you award four different contracts going through processes for the past three to four years. So, there must be an end to every litigation.
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“If this contract is not awarded prior to the end of June, it will be colossal in terms of the economic and financial consequences in the contract execution.
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“If Julius Berger demobilizes and has to mobilize again, it will cost not less than N10 billion. And more importantly, you’ll not be able to take advantage of the seasonal weather issues,” he said.



Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/05/fg-hasnt-awarded-2nd-niger-bridge-contract-reps-cttee/

Our presido seriously transmissioning corruption

Buhari to Obasanjo: You have questions to answer over $16bn power projects




President Muhammadu Buhari,has said that former President Olusegun Obasanjo has questions to answer over the spending of $16 billion on power projects during his administration.


Mr Buhari stated this Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja while receiving the Buhari Support Organisation led by the Comptroller-General of Nigerian Customs Service, Hameed Ali.

Although the president did not mention Mr Obasanjo’s name, he however, asked “where was the power after a former president claimed to have spent $16 billion on the project?”

The power project was done during the Obasanjo administration (1999-2006). It has been described as a mismanagement of public funds by observers and civic groups.

The House of Representatives in 2008 described the $16 billion spent on power by the Obasanjo government as colossal waste.


The House said the expenditure was a case of “poor budget planning and a lack of proper oversight by relevant bodies.”

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) had in 2016 also urged the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria at the time, Walter Onnoghen, to immediately appoint an independent counsel to investigate the allegations of corruption in the spending of the $16 billion by the Obasanjo government.

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Mr Obasanjo was a key supporter of Mr Buhari in the build-up to the 2015 general election.

Mr Obasanjo has, however, pledged to work against Mr Buhari’s re-election in 2019 saying he has performed poorly in office.



https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/269323-buhari-to-obasanjo-you-have-questions-to-answer-over-16bn-power-projects.html

Firefire:
E don tey wey APC promised to form a parallel government. A promise fulfilled.

Really and very sad

As it stands APC is having 74 State chairmen.


Everything na double double

The All Progressive Congress today held its state congresses all over the state.

Find below the summary.

LAGOS - Parallel Congress



OYO - Parallel Congress



DELTA - Parallel Congress



ADAMAWA - Parallel Congress



IMO - Complicated.



BAYELSA - Parallel Congress


ONDO - Congress Turns Bloody as Armed Thugs Invades Venue, 50 Injured.



ENUGU - Chime, Nnamani, Others Escape Attack As Violence Mars APC Congress.



AKWA-IBOM - Parallel Congress



KWARA - Parallel Congress



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