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Baba Buhari wetin be this

“Accommodate your countrymen" Buhari in Benue


"They are foreigners from Libya and Gaddaffi Men" Buhari in London

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that President Muhammadu Buhari was becoming an embarrassment to Nigerians, urging his handlers to desist from allowing him to speak extempore.

Governor Fayose, who was reacting to the President’s claim that former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, should be blamed for the ongoing herdsmen killings across the North Central of Nigeria said; “It is embarrassingly shameful that the President has taken his blame game to the international level by blaming the dead for his cluelessness.”

According to a statement issued on Thursday, by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said it was becoming obvious that “Very soon, President Buhari will blame those who elected him for his failure.”



While meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby in London Wednesday, President Buhari had said that the arms Gaddafi, who was killed seven years ago provided to his supporters had filtered into Nigeria where they are now being used to fuel killings across the north-central.

Governor Fayose, who described the President’s statement as embarrassing, asked how many Libyans were killed by herdsmen in the
last three years.

“Nigerians are accusing President Buhari and his government of complicity in the herdsmen killings and all that the President could do in response is to blame Gaddafi, who became history seven years ago? This is no doubt another international embarrassment from a
President who knows nothing other than to blame people for his own failure.

“Methinks those handling the President should see to it he is prevented from speaking outside Nigeria without a prepared speech.

“The other time, he went to Germany to embarrass Nigeria by referring to the chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, as ‘President Michelle of West Germany.”

Governor Fayose said President Buhari should rather face the reality of his government’s failure to secure the lives and properties of Nigerians as well as its seeming culpability in the herdsmen killings instead of going to foreign lands to advertise his cluelessness by blaming the dead.

https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/04/herdsmen-killings-buhari-is-an-embarrassment-for-blaming-gaddafi-fayose/

Nigeria’s President, Facing Calls to Step Aside, Says He Will Run Again- New York Times World

Despite calls to step aside and concerns about mysterious health problems, President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria on Monday declared his intention to seek re-election next year, ending months of speculation.

In a closed-door meeting of the National Executive Committee, after national news outlets had left the room, Mr. Buhari, 75, announced that he would run again, according to people who were present and briefed reporters afterward. They said he had told the committee that he was responding to popular demand that he seek another term.

Mr. Buhari has faced widespread criticism over his government’s inability to defeat the renewed Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast, or to end violence between herders and farming communities. Last year, he spent nearly four months in Britain receiving treatment for an illness that the government has not disclosed, leading to fears that he would never return.

Some voters may see a second term as a steadying force, and his supporters have argued that Mr. Buhari, a former army general, needs more time to battle Boko Haram, and to defeat corruption and other entrenched economic problems. Last week, his government made a statement urging Nigerians to “count the blessings that the administration has brought to the country’s economy,” citing a World Bank report ranking the nation as one of the top 10 in the world in making economic overhauls.

But over the past year, calls for him not to run again — or even to step down before his current term ends — have grown steadily. Two former presidents, civic leaders, opposition politicians and even some of Mr. Buhari’s former allies have said he should make way for a younger generation of leaders.

Within hours of announcing his intention to run, the president traveled to London to attend a meeting of Commonwealth leaders. His office did not give a date for his return, leading to renewed rumors in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, that Mr. Buhari would once again be receiving medical attention in London.

Mr. Buhari enjoyed widespread support after winning the election in 2015, but it dissipated as Nigeria suffered through a recession in 2016 and 2017, and new attacks from Boko Haram, the Islamist rebel group.

“Security and the economy are the two main areas of disillusionment,” said Sola Tayo, a fellow at Chatham House, a British foreign affairs think tank. “Whilst the economy has picked up since the recession, the security situation appears to be deteriorating.”

“The herder-farmer conflict, rural banditry and the increase in kidnapping are being discussed more openly and government performance being judged more critically,” she said.

It was predictable that Mr. Buhari would run again, said Ayisha Osori, a Nigerian author, lawyer and political activist. As for whether he would win, “it is too early to say,” she said. “A lot will depend on the other candidates.”

The highest-profile challenger to emerge so far is Atiku Abubakar, 71, a former vice president and wealthy businessman who has said he will run in 2019. The election is expected to be held in February.

To remind Nigerians of Mr. Buhari’s appeal, his office has released pictures of crowds warmly greeting the president in several visits to mostly northern cities, his base of support.

Nigeria has an unofficial practice of alternating the presidency between the mostly Christian south and the predominantly Muslim north. Ms. Osori said that ambitious southern contenders might decide that it makes more sense to wait until the president has served two terms — the maximum allowed by law — and it is clearly the south’s “turn.”

Mr. Buhari's return to Nigeria last August only partially eased the fevered speculation about his health. When Mr. Buhari worked from home for several weeks, his spokesman explained it was because of the presence of rats in the president’s office. He became the subject of widespread ridicule in Nigeria.

That ridicule turned to anger in February, when Boko Haram abducted 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi, in the northeast. The president had insisted for nearly two years that the group had been defeated, and the abductions led to new questions about the government’s security strategy and its response to the kidnappings.

In March, 104 of the girls were returned to the town after successful negotiations between Boko Haram and the government. The militants drove the girls back into the town, preaching to locals against enrolling their children to school in an unprecedented propaganda effort.

Under Mr. Buhari, the government has also negotiated the release of more than 100 of the girls Boko Haram captured in Chibok in 2014, before he took office.

As a general, Mr. Buhari headed the Nigerian government from 1983 to 1985, following a military coup. Years later, he ran for president several times before being elected.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/world/africa/nigeria-president-election.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&smtyp=cur

Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, has said Nigeria does not need President Muhammadu Buhari as her leader in 2019, noting that Monday’s declaration of reelection bid by the President is an ambition that is dead on arrival.

Fayose

The governor also noted that if Buhari is reelected, he would kill the country.
Fayose, who spoke to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on Monday on the President’s intention, through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, said if Buhari was unable to read the handwriting on the wall and know when to call it quit, Nigerians would show him the exit door in 2019 by voting him out of office.


Fayose opined that Buhari was not only too old to lead the country well, he had bungled the opportunity given him by his woeful performance.

“That ambition is dead on arrival. We don’t want grandpa as president anymore. Nigeria does not deserve a Buhari as president in 2019. Buhari is old and tired. When people don’t know when to take their leave and say bye, Nigerians will show them the exit door.

” He has done more harm to this country. His ambition is a means by which Nigerians will tell him good riddance to bad rubbish when they boot him out of office. He is an easy candidate to defeat in the poll for he has failed woefully.

“He has failed in all fronts. He has failed in his so-called fight against corruption, he has failed in the economic front. He has not done well in term of security. People are being killed in large number daily and Nigerians have no confidence in him.

” His declaration today is a slap on Nigerians in the face of what Nigerians are passing through. His government is not only clueless, but in a shambles. He should go home and rest, ” he said.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/nigeria-not-need-buhari-2019-will-kill-nigeria-says-fayose/amp/

Leaders of Nigeria’s ruling party and those of the opposition parties reacted differently to President Muhammadu Buhari’s announcement on re-election on Monday.

Mr Buhari told a meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the APC that in response “to the clamour by Nigerians to re-contest in 2019,” he has decided to accept the offer.

He said at the closed door meeting that he wanted to give NEC the honour of notifying them first.

Membership of the NEC comprises the president, his vice, leadership of the National Assembly, elected governors as well as chairpersons of the party across the states among others.

For many APC governors, the president’s declaration was great news.

The first governor to react to the declaration was Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

Mr El-Rufai who often refers to himself as a “Buharist”, took to his verified Twitter page to post a “Breaking News” announcing the president’s decision immediately.

“BREAKING NEWS: PMB has just announced to APC NEC his intention to run for a second term of office. Alhamdulillah. – Nasir El-Rufai,” the governor wrote.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/264476-2019-how-apc-governors-pdp-leaders-others-reacted-to-buharis-declaration.html

Myd44 hope you can read and comprehend very well.

I hope BMC unpaid allowance is not affecting you.

Any correlation of the thread and the one you closed
https://www.nairaland.com/4441371/saraki-senators-angry-over-buharis

Senate President Bukola Saraki weighed in on the raging controversy over approval given by President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account for the purchase of weapons to fight Boko Haram insurgency and other security challenges facing the country on Saturday.

Speaking at a retreat on “Strengthening Executive -Legislature Relations” organized by the Senate Press Corps held in Jos, Plateau state, the Senate President said the controversies could have been averted if the executive had collaborated better with the legislature on the issue.

He noted that some senators are already angry over the manner the approval was announced without taking them into confidence. Bukola Saraki

“Just a few days ago, there was the issue of providing funding for the purchase of security equipment. In a good environment, such an issue needed to have been discussed with lawmakers.

“Already, some senators are angry. They said they were not consulted by the executive before such a decision was taken. These are the issues we are talking about,” the Senate President said.

He added that the Executive and the legislature are partners and need each other since the constitution does not allow one arm to work alone.

He added that some heads of security agencies in Nigeria are contributing to the frosty relationship between the executive and the legislature.

“There is no the security architecture of this country that can work without a strong synergy between the executive and the legislature.

“When you see certain agencies, who by their actions and utterances frustrate the relationship between the two arms, you begin to wonder.

“What do we need to do? Do the police need more funding or more powers? Do they need new legislation to strengthen them? These are the issues where the executive and the legislature must work together.

“I needed to be here to speak on these issues. It is not just about today. Posterity will be here to judge us that what I am saying is true. If we do not change the way we behave, we will remain like this for many years to come,” he said.

He added that collaboration and engagement between the Executive and the Legislature also needed to achieve the goal of quick passage of the annual budget

http://saharareporters.com/2018/04/07/saraki-senators-angry-over-buharis-approval-1bn-security-equipment

Live video.

Oshokomola Of Ekiti is right now addressing the crowd


https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=229803304236283&id=185400175343263&notif_t=live_video_explicit&_rdr

Hmmm

More.

More

Happening Live the PDP chairman Prince uche Secondus is in Katsina for a rally.


For live video


https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=229803304236283&id=185400175343263&notif_t=live_video_explicit&_rdr

Breaking: Secondus sues Lai Mohammed to court for defamation


The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has dragged the Minister of Information and Culture to court for alleging that he was involved in corruption to the tune of N200 million.

The action of the top politician was in fulfillment of his threat to sue Lai Mohammed if he did not withdraw the statement within 48 hours.

Lai Mohammed had included Secondus’ name on the list of PDP members who looted the national treasury when the party was in government.

Secondus had however denied the claim and warned that he would drag him to court if he did not withdraw the statement.

In a statement and documents made available to The Next Edition by his media aide, Ike Abonyi, Secondus said having failed to retract the claim of corruption against him, he had filed a suit against Lai Mohammed.

The suit was filed at a High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Among other things, Secondus wants the court to award him the sum of N1.5 billion being damages for humiliation, castigation, vilification attack on his person and integrity as a result of the publication.

In the suit with no/PHC/1013/2018, Secondus is also claiming that Lai Mohammad’s publication is defamatory and is asking the court to direct him to retract the said publication and apologise in writing.

He demands that he should also be made to publish the retraction and apology in all the social media including major newspapers where the defamatory story was published.

Uche Secondus is also asking the court for a perpetual injunction restraining the defendant from further publishing defamatory materials against him.

Joined in the suit are the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Attorney General of the Federation and the Vintage Press Limited, publishers of The Nation newspapers.

Below are the documents.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/breaking-secondus-sues-lai-mohammed-court-defamation/

GOFRONT:
Pot calling kettle balck

Go front and face front

buhariguy:
idiotic pigs of Biafra said buhari also scripted chibok girls.
He scripted the killing of shekau 6times
This buhari is wonderful,
He also scripted farmers/ herdsmen crisis.
Buhari was the man that kill Yusuf Mohammed.

The utterances of a man show who he is.


It takes a dirty pig To know another idiotic pig.


Lo sun

yanabasee:
PDP should go and bury itself and wait for karma to play-out after 2019 elections......


When a thief can easily point out loopholes where another thief is looting our treasury from, we don't have to take it lightly.....


I can't sue APC but I can vote them out......

Let us join hand together and Oxidized Buahari Out of Aso Rock come 2019

papoudaupolos:
The truth doesn't have any effect on the enemies.

PDP is free to fabricate any liar and choke it down the throats of their minions

So all those asking for the President whereabout are Buhari's enemies,

Continue in you illusion

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday alleged that cabals in the presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have turned the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) into their “Automated Teller Machine (ATM) where funds are taken at their conveniences.”

PDP made the disclosure while alleging of fresh plot by the APC-led Federal Government to loot another N25 billion from the coffers of the Scheme.

A statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said the APC and the Presidency had been “bleeding the nation”, adding that “the very idea of stealing funds meant to provide health lifeline to the already impoverished Nigerians is agonizing and shows that the ruling party has lost all scruples.”

The former ruling party said Nigerians were still lamenting the “N10 billion stolen earlier from the agency’s savings in the Treasury Single Account (TSA) by presidency

cabal”.

The statement reads, “Our nation is now faced with daily pillaging of our national patrimony by APC interests and a notorious cabal, who, operating under the cover and protection of the Buhari Presidency, have turned our revenue agencies, particularly the NHIS into cashcows to painfully milk funds for APC’s ill-fated 2019 re-election bid.

“When we say that this Buhari administration is debauched, many do not realize to what extent. This administration is so brazen in stealing in the NHIS that the Presidency has to recall and reinstate the indicted
Executive Secretary of the Scheme, Prof. Usman Yakubu, while he was still being quizzed by the EFCC for alleged corruption.

“Betraying its complicity in the NHIS racket, the Presidency has refused to speak out on allegations that it reinstated the suspended Executive Secretary to conceal the earlier looting and protect members of the cabal and has also refused to order any form of investigation in the exposed frauds.

“The magnitude of direct looting that is going on in revenue agencies, such as the NNPC, Nigerian Ports Authority, Customs, Federal Inland Revenue Services, MDAs and even the TSA already infiltrated by Presidency cabal and APC interests, who hide under spurious investment portfolios, inflated concessions, allocations, jobs and other financial sleazes to siphon public funds are better imagined.

“In the last three years, the nation has witnessed unparalled impunity to the extent that the President could even unilaterally make approval of releases of public funds without recourse to the legislative instrument of the appropriation.

“We also want to remind Nigerians that this administration has refused to take any step to investigate the alleged stealing of N9 trillion ($25billion dollars) in NNPC through corrupt contracts, the alleged diverting of N1.1trillion worth of crude to service APC interests, the alleged stealing of N18 billion Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) funds among other grafts.

“This Buhari-led APC administration is fast looting our nation into an economic desert and we urge Nigerians not to spare any thought in voting them out come 2019.”

http://dailypost.ng/2018/04/05/notorious-cabals-presidency-turned-nhis-atm-pdp/

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded that the presidency immediately make public all issues relating to the private visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to the United Kingdom.

The party, which queried the presidency for always shrouding issues around the president in secrecy, pointedly demanded a full disclosure on the scope, purpose, direct destination, duration as well as the cost and source of the funding for this undisclosed tourism.

The PDP, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, yesterday said President Buhari is not a private citizen and cannot embark on private trips and wrapped in secrecy, since his upkeep draws directly from national resources and taxpayers’ money.

According to him, “While the PDP has nothing against the president embarking on any trip, we insist that as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, there must be full disclosures to Nigerians because the citizens deserve to know the purpose of the visit and the cost on the country.

“We know that the president is billed to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to take place between April 16 and 20, but Nigerians are wondering why he is taking off to an undisclosed destination in London two weeks ahead.

“We ask: ‘Is President Buhari and his handlers hiding anything from Nigerians so much that they cannot disclose the reason and duration of the so-called private visit?’

“Nigerians are invited to note that this secret visit has a departure date but silent on the purpose, date and place of arrival.

“Today, our economy is hemorrhaging and the citizens are languishing because of the continued lack of accountability and total incompetence of the Buhari-led administration.

“The PDP insists that public officers at all levels, particularly the occupier of the office of the president, must be accountable, transparent and answerable in all their dealings at all times, especially under an administration that claims zero tolerance for corruption.”

Also yesterday, the opposition party in a statement, said the APC was passing through death throes and pre-election trauma as its leaders are now in a frenzy over the baggage of an extremely unpopular presidential candidate, ahead of the 2019 general election.

It added that the confusion, backstabbing and vicious scheming in the APC was a tragic testimony of a party that has become politically decapitated by the evident dishonesty, greed, selfishness and lust for power by its incompetent leaders.

The PDP noted that it was now clear that the ruling party is an ideologically empty movement and a special purpose vehicle put together by egoistic strange bedfellows just for the purpose of winning political power and not for the good of Nigerians.

“The APC is stewing in its own venomous broth. The nation can now see why, even with a sitting President, the party is still finding it difficult to agree on simple issues, but always attempt to circumvent and violate the laws to push desperate agenda of their selfish leaders.

“We call on Nigerians not to be deceived by the sudden law-abiding stance of the APC, as it is merely cosmetic and meant to cloak their hidden but soon to be manifested plots to manipulate the laws to push a self-succession plan of their incompetent candidate.

“It is evident that APC has never had anything to offer Nigerians other than confusion, disagreements, economic recession, bad national image and painful bloodletting.

“Nigerians must therefore remain alert and very wary of all activities of power mongers in the APC, who are so mortally afraid of elections that they are ready to destroy our democratic institution to achieve their selfish agenda of perpetuating themselves in power to the peril of our dear nation.

“On our own part, the repositioned PDP remains open with a level playing ground for all Nigerians to aspire for any position, without hindrances or manipulations, while ensuring strict observance to internal democracy at all level of our process.”

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/04/05/pdp-demands-full-disclosure-on-buharis-trip-to-london/

BlackPeni5:
Buhari is copying Jonathan's administration word for word. He's just like a dull student who decides to copy your work including your name.

Haahahahahha.

The momen the marker. Seee

Answer like:

Oxidation is the Removal of Buhariguy oxygen and addition of cleverly to myd44

buhariguy:
idiotic pigs of Biafra said we have not defeated their terrorist group and their affiliate terrorist group the boko haram

Have you defeat them.

Yea or no

buhariguy:
for the final burial of your new idiotic pig of Biafra supreme leader shekau.

Awon omo akotileta.

E fe je ogun iranderan tan.

A o ni fi aye gba yin.

Awon ole

fk001:
Gej is clueless to the extent that he left BH on the loose, they even had the audacity to claim some territories.




Sai PMB

So can u now explain what the $1billion is meant for.

Awon akotileta omo

buhariguy:
no local government is on hold by boko haram,

So what is ur $1billion meant for.

For siphoning

Awon ole

Esseite:
This was at a time bokoharam was alledged to hold 14 local govt and kidnap of chibok girls. Atleast the weapons was and are still being used till date. We can all attest to that.

But here we are wanting to loan same amount on a defeated enemy, no local govt on hold, dapchi girls released, and just alledged pocket crimes by bokoharam...

Nigerians... judge for yourself.

APC are looting our monie for 2019 election. that's just the truth.

sarrki, madriguy, buhariguy, cleverly are all out to make sure they get their portion of this loots

Two President, Same Terrorist, Two Different Condition


2014 about 10 Months to 2015 General Election Present Jonathan Seek Approval for the military Equipment to confront the ravaging Boko Haram that is ravaging in the north-East of the country

Jonathan seeks to borrow $1 billion to fight Boko Haram

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has sought the National Assembly, NASS, approval to borrow $1 billion (N168 billion) to fight Boko Haram.

In a letter sent on Tuesday and addressed to the Senate President, David Mark, Mr. Jonathan spoke about the need for external borrowing to enable the upgrade of security equipment in order to fight the insurgency that is currently bedevilling Nigeria, particularly the North East.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/165053-jonathan-seeks-to-borrow-1-billion-to-fight-boko-haram.html

The National Assembly gave the Approval for the Money

Jonathan gets approval to borrow $1billion to fight Boko Haram

The Senate on Thursday approved a request for external borrowing of not more than N1 billion dollars by President Goodluck Jonathan to tackle security challenges in the country.

This followed the consideration of the report of the Joint Committees on Finance, and Local and Foreign Debts on the loan request at plenary in Abuja.

The Chairman of the Committee on Finance, Ahmad Makarfi (PDP-Kaduna), who presented the report, said the facility was not a cash loan but supply of military hardware to be paid over seven years.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/168645-jonathan-gets-approval-to-borrow-1billion-to-fight-boko-haram.html

Fast-forwarding.

here is 2018 almost 10 months to the General Election, The APC Led Government led by President Buhari[b] Approve $1 Billion to FIGHT TECHNICALLY DEFEATED BOKO HARAM[/b]

https://www.channelstv.com/2018/04/04/breaking-buhari-approves-1bn-to-purchase-military-equipment/

Boko Haram technically defeated, Buhari insists.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday insisted that the Boko Haram militant sect has been technically defeated, despite recent attacks by the group.

The terrorists’ recent deadly attack was carried out on Dalori, a village in Borno State, where about 86 persons were killed.

The militant group was said to have burnt some children alive when it overran the community, which is four kilometres away from the capital city of Maiduguri. http://punchng.com/boko-haram-technically-defeated-buhari-insists/

Without Approval by the Senate or National Assembly.

[qoute] Buhari can’t spent $1bn on arms procurement until NASS approves – Murray- Bruce

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/967847/[/quote]The question we need to ask the Government is, What is the need for $1 Billion to fight, Technically Defeated Terrorist Group.

APC should remember that they cannot go Scot free on their corruption spree regime.


Good Morning.

CC; lalasticlala, Seun, myd44

Good Morning

THE Senate, Wednesday took a swipe at the Presidency following the final approval by President Muhammadu Buhari that the sum of $1bn should be released for the purchase of Security equipment to fight Boko Haram and maintain the peace of the country, saying that only the Senate has such powers to give approval for such money to be spent.

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce and President Muhammadu Buhari Speaking with Vanguard Wednesday, Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Ben Murray- Bruce, PDP, Bayelsa East said that the presidency cannot spend such amount of money until the National Assembly approves it.

Senator Bruce said, ” it has not been approved, it is simply the choice of words, the presidency or the executive cannot spend a single kobo on such a mission unless the National Assembly approves that. It is only when the Senate or the National Assembly approves that, that the executive can go ahead to spend such money.

The executive can only recommend and not to approve.” It will be recalled that fielding questions from journalists after the indoor security meeting with all Security Chiefs and President Muhammadu Buhari, the Defence Minister Mr. Mansur Dan-Ali, said, “I can inform you that of recent, our leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, gave approval for the purchase of more equipment for the military, worth $1 billion. “This is a normal meeting of security agencies in the country.

As usual, we discussed the current activities that affected most of the states in the federation like Taraba, Zamfara and other states. We have operationalised a division in Sokoto, there will be a brigade in Katsina and another brigade in Zamfara that will take care of security situation in that area.

“The strength of security personnel has increased, including the Air Force additional quick response group, they have added enough manpower in that area.”
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/967847/

Tragedy struck again in Taraba State on Wednesday wiping away a family of four despite the ongoing military operation dubbed ‘Operation Ayem Akpatuma’ meant to quell insurgency and incessant militia onslaughts on innocent farmers and communities in the state.

Our correspondent learned that the latest attack, which occurred in the early hours of Wednesday in Mbiya village in Takum Local Government Area of the state, claimed a man identified as Sunday Sabo, his wife and two children, who were all shot to death by gun-wielding herdsmen in their sleep.

According to local residents, the murder of the four by the herdsmen took the community by surprise as the AK-47-wielding men, disappeared from the area before natives could gather to organise any response. The attackers reportedly invaded the farming community around 1 am on Wednesday when most of the inhabitants were asleep.

Sources said they were more than 20, all of them armed with guns and cutlasses. According to residents of the area, the armed men later swooped on Bassa village and also set it ablaze. Curiously, Taraba State is among states being covered by the ongoing ‘Operation Ayem Akpatuma’ ,which is aimed at disarming people in order to secure lives and properties.

The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Taraba State on Media, Mr. Bala Dan Abu, confirmed the attack and said that the matter had been reported to relevant security agencies. Abu said the governor, Arc. Darius Dickson Ishaka, was grieved over the incessant attacks on innocent citizens of the state by herdsmen.

It will be recalled that the governor had last week lamented the inability of the military personnel mobilised to the state to contain the rampaging militias killing and maiming innocent persons in the state. Like, the former Defence Minister, Theophilus Danjuma, who expressed disappointment over the apparent connivance of military officials with attackers, the governor said he was unhappy over the continued attacks on the citizens without appropriate response from the military.

Ishaku also said he had reported the inaction of the military to the presidency and asked it to take steps to prevent further bloodshed but the defence ministry denied receiving complaints from the governor against the military but promised to look into it.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/gunmen-wipe-taraba-family-4-despite-military-presence/

Karhal29 see ur Parosident

Fayose queries Buhari’s approval of $1bn for arms, alleges “fund meant for president’s re-election”

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has queried President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of $1 billion for the procurement of security equipment to fight Boko Haram insurgency, describing it as “pooling of public funds for the purpose of funding President Buhari’s reelection as well as the coming governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun States.”

The governor demanded to know whether or not the $1 billion was from the Excess Crude Account (ECA), adding that; “it will be illegal and against the principle of federalism that operates in Nigeria for the President, who is the head of just one of the federating units to approve spending of fund belonging to the three tiers of government without the consent of heads of other federating units.

In a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday, and signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose asked; “When did the National Assembly approve the spending of the $1 billion? Or can the President spend $1 billion belonging to Nigerians without the approval of the National Assembly?”

He said “Nigerians required explanations from the federal government as to where the $1 billion will be sourced because the President lacked power to unilaterally spend money from the Excess Crude Account. Not even when there is a pending suit by Ekiti State Local Council Chairmen, challenging the powers the 36 state governors to purportedly execute the constitutional duty of the Federal government without the their consent.”

“Another question the federal government must answer is; which insurgency are they buying arms worth N370 billion to fight? Is it the same Boko Haram that they told Nigerians they completely defeated?

“Since they said they have defeated Boko Haram, and later told Nigerians that they had ceasefire agreement with the insurgents, what else do they need a whopping sum of $1 billion (over N370 billion) for; if not to fund the 2019 elections?

“Also, up till now, the government is yet to give satisfactory explanations as to the abduction and return of the Dapchi School Girls. With the hurried approval of $1 billion, is it not being reinforced that the Boko Haram insurgency has become a source of looting public fund by this government?

“It is on record that Transparency International (TI) once said in its report that some top military officials in the country were feeding fat from the war against Boko Haram by creating fake contracts and laundering the proceeds in the United States, United Kingdom and elsewhere.”


The governor reiterated his challenge to the federal government to make available to Nigerians, how the money released by international donors for the fight against Boko Haram was spent.

He said; “Like I have maintained, they are building a very huge financial war chest towards the 2019 elections and our treasury is daily being looted to achieve this. One of such means is the $1 billion approved by the President, purportedly for the procurement of arms to fight a Boko Haram insurgency they claimed to have defeated.”


https://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/04/fayose-queries-buharis-approval-of-1bn.html?m=1

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the All Progressives Congress (APC) is already passing through death throes and pre-election trauma as its leaders are now in a frenzy over the baggage of an extremely unpopular presidential candidate, ahead of the 2019 general election.

The PDP said the confusion, backstabbing and vicious scheming in the APC is a tragic testimony of a party that has become politically decapitated by the evident dishonesty, greed, selfishness and lust for power by its incompetent leaders.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Wednesday, said it is now clear that the APC is an ideologically empty movement and a special purpose vehicle put together by egoistic strange bedfellows just for the purpose of winning political power and not for the good of Nigerians.

“The APC is stewing in its own venomous broth. The nation can now see why, even with a sitting President, the party is still finding it difficult to agree on simple issues, but always attempt to circumvent and violate the laws to push desperate agenda of their selfish leaders.

“We call on Nigerians not to be deceived by the sudden law-abiding stance of the APC, as it is merely cosmetic and meant to cloak their hidden but soon to be manifested plots to manipulate the laws to push a self-succession plan of their incompetent candidate.

“It is evident that APC has never had anything to offer Nigerians other than confusion, disagreements, economic recession, bad national image and painful bloodletting.

“Nigerians must therefore remain alert and very wary of all activities of power mongers in the APC, who are so mortally afraid of elections that they are ready to destroy our democratic institution to achieve their selfish agenda of perpetuating themselves in power to the peril of our dear nation.

“On our own part, the repositioned PDP remains open with a level playing ground for all Nigerians to aspire for any position, without hindrances or manipulations, while ensuring strict observance to internal democracy at all level of our process,” the statement reads

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