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INEC is giving way for anarchy,

CC lalsticlala, Myd44

Abia: INEC issues Certificate of Return to Uchechukwu Ogah

By Yomi Kareem - July 1, 2016


INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday in Abuja issued Certificate of Return to Mr. Uchechukwu Ogah as the elected governor of Abia State, in obedience to an Abuja Federal High Court order. This is as another High Court in Osisioma in Abia barred the state chief judge from administering oath of office on Ogah until the determination of motion on notice filed before it. The Federal High Court judge, Justice Okon Abang gave the order on declaring Ogah winner of the April 2015 governorship election in Abia State on Monday, when he delivered a judgment in a case instituted by Ogah, a governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. While addressing the press at a national stakeholders forum on outstanding re-run elections in Abuja,
INEC national commissioner for the South-East, Ambassador Lawrence Nwuruku disclosed this. According to Nwuruku, “We are simply obeying the court order. The court ruled that with immediate effect INEC should issue the certificate; if tomorrow another court overrules, as the South-East national commissioner I will do the same thing. “I am not above the law; the court said we should give the certificate to who won, and that is Dr. Uchechukwu Ogar, which I did because we cannot do otherwise as we are not above the law; and I’m not ready to go to jail for anybody. After the court another person we obey is God and my conscience is my God.” Asked if INEC was aware that Governor Okezie Ikpeazu had already appealed the said judgement, Nwuruku said that the commission obeyed the judgement. “Our own is to obey the judgment on ground; if by tomorrow the court says give it to another person, then the INEC chairman will obey by signing another certificate and I will issue it.” Ogah had accused Ikpeazu of submitting false information in his tax clearance certificate to the party during the governorship primaries in the state, prompting the court to order Gov. Ikpeazu to vacate his office immediately. Meanwhile, the embattled Governor Ikpeazu has reacted to the issuance of the certificate to Dr. Ogah by INEC as governor of Abia State. According to a press statement he personally signed yesterday, he said INEC carried out the issuance “despite a notice of appeal and motion on stay of the orders made by Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja.” He added that, “Our laws are clear on this matter. No one may be issued with a certificate of return let alone be sworn-in as governor when there is a subsisting appeal and application for stay. “I want to appeal to Abians to remain calm and law abiding in the face of this provocation; unless and until the appellant courts have conclusively resolve the appeal, the status remains; I am still the Governor of Abia State.” However, the situation took a dramatic turn as a high court sitting in Osisioma, Abia State, presided by Justice C.H Ahucahogu restrained the chief judge of the state from swearing Ogah in while ordering status quo to be maintained until the determination of motion on notice. The court also issued an injunction restraining the INEC from issuing a certificate of return to Ogah. Justice Ahuchaogu in granting the order relied on section 143 (1) and (2) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended).

http://nigerianpilot.com/abia-inec-issues-certificate-return-uchechukwu-ogah/

The question now is why did INEC go ahead issueing the Certificate of return. When they already have this appeal notice.


CC lalasticlala, Myd44

@inecnigeria claims it was never served the notice of appeal...well here is proof that they LIED. Once again, INCONCLUSIVE.

BUT:
The Abia State Government on Thursday night said it served the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, a notice of appeal and stay of execution filed by the governor of the state, Okezie Ikpeazu, against a judgement of the Federal High Court removing him from office.
In a statement, the government contradicted INEC’s claim that it recognized Mr. Ikpeazu’s challenger, Samson Ogah, as governor, because it was not served Mr. Ikpeazu’s notice of appeal.
Mr. Ikpeazu’s certificate of return was withdrawn on Thursday morning by INEC. The electoral body issued Mr. Ogah a certificate of return, and claimed Mr. Ikpeazu had not notified it of any appeal against Monday’s court ruling which ordered him to vacate office immediately after being found guilty of tax offence.
Mr. Ogah was Mr. Ikpeazu’s challenger in December 2014 Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship primary.
But Umeh Kalu, the state Attorney-General, in a statement said the notification documents were duly served on the electoral body at its headquarters in Abuja and were acknowledged.
“It’s unfortunate that INEC said that it was not served. But the truth is that they were served. I have a proof to that. Saleh N. Ibrahim, Senior Clerical Officer at the Legal Services Department of the Commission’s Headquarters, Abuja, who stamped the Notice of Appeal and Injunction with the Commission’s official stamp by 12.50pm on Wednesday, June 29, 2016.
“With the foregoing, it is now clear that the Commission had no reason or cause to proceed with their dangerous action of issuing a Certificate of Return to Dr. Uche Ogah when it was clearly in receipt of a Notice of Appeal and Stay of Execution expressly forbidding them from taking any further action on the Judgment of Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court pending the determination of the Appeal in the case.
“It is rather surprising that the Commission could lend itself to be used for an act capable of destabilizing a State in Nigeria with the attendant consequences for anarchy and breakdown of law and order.” Mr. Kalu said.
PREMIUM TIMES has obtained documents showing that the notice of appeal was delivered at INEC’s headquarters and signed by Saleh Ibrahim, a senior clerical officer, in the legal services department of the commission.
In an interview with PREMIUM TIMES late Thursday, INEC spokesman, Nick Dazang, said the governor erred by submitting the documents at the legal services department.
Mr. Dazang said all correspondents to INEC are usually channeled through the chairman’s office from where they get dispatched to their respective directorates or departments within the commission.
But an aide to Mr. Ikpeazu told PREMIUM TIMES the claims by INEC showed that the commission had a sinister motive in withdrawing his principal’s certificate.
“Legal services department is an arm of INEC within its headquarters in Abuja, so what is the issue here?” he asked. “Could INEC have decided to issue a certificate of return to Mr. Ogah without seeking the opinion of its legal services department?”
“This is just an incompetent attempt on the part of INEC to plunge Abia State into unnecessary crisis.”


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/206257-ikpeazu-contradicts-inec-proves-commission-received-appeal-notice.html

CC lalsticlala, Myd44

PassingShot:
Sheriff faction is the authentic faction of PDP.

Sheriff is greater than all Igbo governors.

Sheriff is greater than all Igbo leaders.

Sheriff is even greater than Ojukwu.

Passingshot afefe to fe. See your life now. I gues you forget to log out before posting haaaaaa.

I vote Mimzy


Cc NLJEGA

I vote
1. Mimzy
2. Mysticgal
3. Refiner
4. Ivyy
5. Lanicky

Cc: NLJega

The DIG's

Following the appointment of Ibrahim Idris as the new Inspector General of Police, the six Deputy Inspectors General of Police who served under IGP Solomon Ehigiator Arase are to be retired.
The six DIG’s are:
1. Dan-Azumi Job Doma, DIG in charge Finance and Administration (A) department,
2. DIG Sotonye Wakama, DIG in charge Operations (B) department,
3. DIG Ibrahim Mamman Tsafe, DIG in charge Logistics and Supplies (C) department.
4. DIG Kakwa Christopher Katso, DIG in charge Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID),
5. DIG Cynthia Amaju Onu, DIG in charge ICT,
6. DIG Jubril Olawale Adeniji,

According to Vanguard’s investigation, ten Assistant Inspectors General (AIGs) of Police under the former dispensation were senior of the new IGP. They include former AIG zone 2 Lagos, Ibrahim Manko, AIG in charge Force Secretary, AIG Patrick Dokumor, AIG in charge Zone 7, Abuja, AIG Balla Nasarawa, AIG Tambari Mohammed, AIG Bala Hassan, AIG in charge Zone 2, Lagos, AIG Yahaya Ardo, AIG Musa Daura, AIG Baba Adisa Bolanta, AIG Usman Gwary and AIG Tunde Ogunsakin.


It was gathered that the status of this set of Assistant Inspectors General of Police, will be decided by the Federal government, who will determine those among them to be appointed Deputy Inspectors Generals of Police and if the rest should continue or be asked to proceed on retirement. The appointment of the DIGs will however reflect the six geo-political zones of the country. The input of the new IGP will however play a key role in the determination of the positions to be given the senior officers.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/digs-to-be-retired-as/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Whosoever append his signature to this madness should be treated as a coup plotter and taken to psychatric for brain surgery

trippy:
so which faction is doing the primaries?

States are not having factions

I vote for...

Mimzy
Lanicky
Ivvy
Refiner

Cc NLJega

tibaonnet:
You failed to tell us that the Police station at Ota Pete was razed & Police vehincle burnt by the Students.

Man Newton said "to every action, there is equal and oposite reaction"
Am not supporting the anybody,
Can you tell when this post was written and when the said events took place.
Now can you imagine what the police said love on Orange Fm radio, that they are not involve in the chasing, and that it was the police that take the victim to u hospital, which is a blatant lie

blackpanda:
OP grow up already! This is democracy. Everyone has the right to disagree with certain govt policy. Theres nothing like "shaming" there!

Why not channel your grievance to Omokri or to Ibe Kachikwu, whichever the case may be

It is well

The Shaming of President Buhari’s ME-Nister by the People’s Minister

By now, you probably have watched the viral video of the town hall meeting organized by the ministry of masquerade dressing (otherwise known as ministry of information) in Uyo the Akwa Ibom state capital.

At that event, the mild mannered minister of state for petroleum resources, Ibe Kachikwu, proved that you should not judge a book by its cover as he publicly took on the minister of transport, Rotimi Amaechi and gave him an answer that could not be responded to.

By now, you probably have watched the viral video of the town hall meeting organized by the ministry of masquerade dressing (otherwise known as ministry of information) in Uyo the Akwa Ibom state capital.

At that event, the mild mannered minister of state for petroleum resources, Ibe Kachikwu, proved that you should not judge a book by its cover as he publicly took on the minister of transport, Rotimi Amaechi and gave him an answer that could not be responded to.



Amaechi, in response to a question on why he appears to want to consign the maritime university Okerenkoko to history, responded thus:

“I am not against the University. I hope you people appreciate that. My argument about Okerenkoko is that the land alone is N13 billion. If you give me N13 billion I will buy half of Lagos. That N13 billion has built the university already so there is no need to spend more money. Let EFCC retrieve the money from them and then release them and we would build the University. I believe the Federal government has no money to continue. When we have money we would continue. The Minister of state for Petroleum has whispered to me that he would look for the money to continue…Minister, bring it to me and I will continue”

In response to this, Mr. Kachikwu said:

“First let me say on Maritime University, I disagree with the minister of transport. Any facility that is placed in the south south, we should work towards developing it. I don’t care the circumstances under which we are placed… It is not my position to determine whether land was valued at N19 million or N10 million or N3 million. The appropriate institutions which are the court systems will determine that. That has nothing to do with the development of the infrastructure. As far as I know, so much has gone into that property. So much fiscal assets are being developed. We are not going to throw the baby with the bath water. We will deal with the issues but the University will be developed. If he doesn’t want it in maritime, I will take it to petroleum”

Seated with the duo was the minister for budget and planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma. The cameras actually caught his smile as he listened to Kachikwu and I tell you, that smile was worth N13 billion.

It was the type of smile you get when you watch an Uncle Tom being given a lecture he so badly needed.

An Uncle Tom is defined as an individual who is excessively apathetic to the group interests of his community while at the same time rabidly crying more than the bereaved in support of the group interest of another community with competing interests to his own community within a state or a nation.

I will leave it to my readers to determine whether this definition defines Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi or not.

But since the minister of state aptly chided Amaechi for attempting to throw away the baby with the bath water, it might be expedient of me to bring my readers up to speed about the origin of the term ‘throw away the baby with the bath water’.

In medieval Europe up until the Industrial Revolution, water was scarce. You could hardly get enough to drink, let alone bath with, so people did not have their bath regularly as they do today.

What would happen is that a family would obtain a bath tub’s worth of water at great expense and then the man of the house would have his bath right in the bath tub. When he was done, the next ranking male member of the family would have his bath. This would continue until all the men in that household had had their baths according to their pecking order.

Next in line would be the females who, believe it or not, would all have their baths in that very same water, according to their standing in the family.

Finally, the minor children of the household would then have their baths in that same water and bath tub.

As you can imagine, by this time, the water would have become dirty and almost muddy and by the time the matron of the family came to throw away the water, she may not notice that a young child or baby was in the water and in many cases they threw the water into the sewers along with any unfortunate child that was hidden in the water by the dirt.

This historical occurrence is a metaphor for Nigeria.

The precious water in the bath tub represents the wealth of Nigeria, which in this case is largely centered around the oil industry which is domiciled in the Niger Delta.

The bath tub itself is Nigeria.

The men, women and children who bath with the water in the bath tub are the various ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria.

The man who first enters the bath tub is the Northern gentleman. He is followed in quick session by the Westerner and then the Easterner and the women are the larger minorities.

Finally, the children and babies are the smaller minorities that largely make up the Niger Delta.

The matron who attempts to throw the baby away with the bath water are those people close to power and who rather than serve the people from whence they came, prefer to serve the powers that be.

By that standard, Rotimi Amaechi is a matron who must realize that he was not sent to the Niger Delta by President Muhammadu Buhari. Rather, he was sent by the Niger Delta to President Buhari.

Ibe Kachikwu gets this and I wish more people around President Muhammadu Buhari would get this.

In recent years, there has been an attempt by many pseudo intellectuals to try and revise Nigerian history by peddling the false narrative that prior to the discovery of oil in commercial quantities in the Niger Delta, other regions shared their wealth equally within the Nigeria project.

This is simply a lie.

The fact is that until the infamous Decree 34 (Unification of Assets) was passed by the Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi administration after the aborted Nzeogwu/Ifeajuna (or Ifeajuna/Nzeogwu depending on who you believe) coup of January 15th, 1966, Nigeria practiced a brand of True Federalism known as regionalism.

The 1960 Independence Constitution arising from the 1957 Lancaster House Conference provided that each of the three regions (a fourth region, Midwest Region, was created in 1963) kept 50% of its income and paid 25% to the central government and 25% to a central pool that was then shared amongst the regions.

So in essence, what Nigerians freely agreed was that each region should keep at least 50% of its income (it could go as high as 75% when the central pool was shared amongst the regions).

Now without consulting the minorities, Nigeria’s majority ethnic nationalities, through force of military might, stripped the regions off control over their own resources and vested it in the newly created Federal Government and the minorities have been overruled at every constitutional conference since that time as they tried to reclaim their God given heritage.

On my first ever visit to Bayelsa state in 2012, I saw tens of human bodies that had been burned as if in a nuclear incineration. They had been scooping petrol from a fallen petrol tanker which eventually burst into flames and took them with it to other world.

Why did they do this? Because of poverty.

These people are so poor, yet Lt. General (rtd) T.Y Danjuma publicly declared that after he sold an oil block given to him by General Abacha, he made $1.5 billion (yes, you heard me right, $1.5 billion not Naira!) and had so much money that ‘I did not know what to do with it’!

Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija is the richest woman in Africa with a net worth of over $2 billion. She can afford to dole out millions of dollars through her charitable foundations because, like Mr. Danjuma, she also got an oil block from a military regime.

Not only has the Nigerian state stripped the Niger Delta of its own resources, the state has also used those resources to enrich a selected few individuals to the exclusion of the region that lays the golden egg.

So if Niger Delta oil has made well connected Nigerians over $13 billion in personal wealth, then Mr. Amaechi, what is the big deal if $13 billion is spent on the maritime university at Okerenkoko?

Right in Maitama and Asokoro, there are lands and properties that you can buy for $13 billion, yet there is not a single drop of oil in the Federal Capital Territory. As a matter of fact, the infrastructure that has made Abuja one of the most developed cities in Africa was funded by petrodollars from the Niger Delta.

So as my Yoruba brothers would say, kini big deal?

Ibe Kachikwu gets this. One wonders why Amaechi doesn’t? The two of them are very unique in that both Amaechi and Kachikwu straddle the world of both the Niger Delta and the Southeast where the Biafra agitation is currently very strong.

They should be telling President Buhari how to resolve both the Biafra agitation and the Niger Delta militancy.

I am not in support of violence and I urge both the Biafran agitators and the Niger Delta militants to advocate for their cause through non violent means.

I do not think secession is the answer. If I had the ear of the President, I would tell him that the federal government’s approach to Biafra agitators and Niger Delta militants is wrong. We should do what the United Kingdom did to Scotland. Pet them. Develop their region. Persuade them they are better off in Nigeria.

But I do not have the President’s ears so I count on Amaechi and Kachikwu to tell him for me.

Someone like Amaechi should know that abandoning a project like the Maritime University Okerenkoko will only serve to deepen the unrest in an already restive region.

The state that contributes the highest resources to the federal government is Akwa Ibom where Kachikwu confronted Amaechi. That state did not even have an airport until the state government built one with their own money!

Delta state had to build its own airport. The airport in Amaechi’s home state of Rivers was named by CNN as the worst airport in Africa in a broadcast on February 1, 2016.

Is this then the region that Amaechi wants to strip of whatever little infrastructure that she has?

Amaechi has this all wrong. He will serve Buhari better by explaining the Niger Delta to him than by explaining Buhari to the Niger Delta.

Amaechi should not get too carried away. Let him ask himself two questions. Where was President Buhari living before he became President? Was it not Daura and Katsina both in the Northwest? Where has former President Jonathan lived since he left power? Is it not Otuoke in the Niger Delta? Where has former President Obasanjo lived since 2007? Is it not at Ota and Abeokuta in the Southwest?

Abuja is sweet to call home when you are in power but when power leaves you (as it does to even the best of us) you will have no choice but to return to your mother’s house.

But one thing is clear going forward. Ibe Kachikwu has turned out to be the star in an otherwise lackluster cabinet. He had taught us the difference between a MINISTER and a ME-nister. A minister ministers to Nigerians while a me-nister ministers to his ego!

–– Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno Omokri.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/06/18/the-shaming-of-president-buharis-me-nister-by-the-peoples-minister/

TheGoodJoe:
So Hon. Amaechi who built top quality hospitals for the Rivers People and provided Quality health care free for the young and elderly is not a true son of the Niger Delta. Pictures of some of the Hospitals below.

This is not Under-23 Olympic team thread. How back there pls

ayampissed:
As for me am a learner in all this politics brouhaha, but I must say that this your piece @TonyeBarcanista has made me understood a bit. however, from what I read up there, i need clarity on points made.

you said:

-Sheriff chairmanship is legal.
- Chairman(Sheriff) tried to organize May 21 convention but didn't want it to happen.
-Sheriff denies being a part of the suit to stop the convention.
- Court stops the convention.
- All factions complied with the court ruling.
- Sheriff continues to claim chairmanship.

Now you are asking what does sheriff wants abi?

Questions?

- Isn't it clear that Sheriff remains the chairman after the court stops the convention?
- Why would all factions comply with the court ruling stopping the convention and yet not recognize the seating chairman?
- Who organized the 7 man convention to take charge of the party affairs for three months?
- Can PDP go to court (the PH fed high court) without the the consent or awareness of its chairman because as I see it 'the Chairman is PDP and PDP number one man'.

From the ongoing what I see is, you guys are angry that he didn't want the convention to hold and as such, decided to do away with him. Am I right?

Abeg make me understand biko.

note: am not a member of any party in Nigeria o!

The summary of the matter is that. Sheriff was not truthful to its promise of organizing free and data election without impossition. Which majority did not want, hence the crooked court cases

Kachisbarbie:
I really don't know what the man wants, but I want to know how one man can conveniently hold a whole party down? Abi na juju?

I also don't know how shii like this works, can't they sue him to court with the agreement of majority?

"Abeg can anybody hem interprets this statement of the letter to atuleka a.k.a Sheriffu....."

"I hereby say that I knows nothing about the case. And neither did I authorize anybody to file the case in the name of the party."

bettercreature:
Dont mind @TonyeBarcanista he is looking for sympathy

Sympathy for waiting. When does it becomes a crime to Remind atuleka a.k.a Sheriff the letter he wrote and signed himeslf

modath:
It is unethical & criminal to take someone's money and not deliver what the person paid for.... whatever grouse you have take it to aspiring VPs Fayose,Wike, Ekweremadu and Akpabio they will help you, you are only preaching to the choir here..


No one on NL can help you!! Go to Wadata & fight your battle.

Who paid who.

#SAS is going on a misson-impossible and SAS knows dat

#SAS go and cool off at EFCC leave PDP alone oooooh

papayeye:
Na now I know say APC dey support Markafi. Na big lie sey dem pursue sheriff. I read am for Sahara Reporters say Youths wen like Sheriff later show face con give dem jobless APC thugs hot chase comot from PDP house. Wetin I see for Dem Sahara Reporter Computer be sey Sheriff still dey sit down for PDP chair gedegba.
http://saharareporters.com/2016/06/15/second-youth-group-supporting-ali-modu-sheriff-forces-pdp-secretariat-open-now-occupying

Make una read real gist

Read where you are quoting very well. .. before coming here to abeg....

Didn't you read "Thay seek to" but what happen. The real PDP Youth are fully in control, the rented Sheriff APC tugs where given a very hot chase

ybalogs:
Abeg, what's the title of the movie? I gaz get am fastfast

Sheriff relay race through the back door Part 1

PDP youths have taken over the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

The youth who stormed the secretariat in their numbers scaled the perimeter fence, made their way to the offices while the staff and other Ali Modu Sheriff supporters had to scamper for safety.

Senior member of the party and owner of AIT, Raymond Dokpesi, later arrived the scene and commended the youths for what he called their “gallantry”, while also assuring that the party will definitely get back on its feet.

The youths then handed the keys to the secretariat over to him but he declined, telling them that the BoT Chairman of the party was on his way.

The chairman of the PDP care-taker committee, Ahmed Makarfi later surfaced at the scene. He addressed the crowd, commending the youths for their action.
He later collected the keys to the secretariat from them and went inside.

Barely 48 hours ago, the ousted PDP chairman, Modu Sheriff stormed the National Secretariat of the opposition party with his supporters to take over the affairs of the party.

Sheriff has maintained he remains the chairman of the party until 2018.
He was chairman before the party’s national convention held in Port Harcourt on May 21.

Makarfi had reacted angrily to the invasion of the PDP National Secretariat by Ali Sheriff.
The spokesperson for the Makarfi committee, Dayo Adeyeye, had addressed a press conference on Tuesday at the residence of one of the members of the Committee, Abdul Ningi, in Abuja saying Sheriff was working for the APC to destabilize the PDP.

Sheriff was removed at a convention held in Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria on May 21, with a caretaker committee set up to co-ordinate the affairs of the party.
The Caretaker Committee headed by Senator Ahmed Makarfi, a former Governor of Kaduna State, was mandated to elect a new National Working Committee for the party within three months.

The PDP is Nigeria’s biggest opposition party, and was defeated only in May 2015 after holding power for 16 years.

http://www.tv360nigeria.com/pro-markarfi-activists-take-pdp-national-secretariat-abuja/

Will this help in the PRESIDENCY ULTIMATE SEARCH for PMB certificate

Lalasticlala

kpogede77:
The ignorance exhibited by Ibe Kachukwu on the political dynamics of the Niger Delta may create a dangerous conflagration in the Niger Delta that will finally cripple the Nigerian economy. Ibe Kachukwu is a close friend of Okowa. Okowa is pupet of Tompolo/Avenger, the deputy governmenor is a cousin to Tompolo. Ibe Kachukwu insistence that Itsekiri land of Omadino community called okerenghigho which was changed by Ijaws to Okerekoko after the warri crises should be acquired by government for 13billion to build a university without consulting the rightful owners is an invitation to anarchy. Ibe Kachukwu, you want to negotiate with militants who are your friends to give them amnesty for the second time because you want oil, Itsekiris are also planning to bomb oil welll in their area too to attract negotiation. note that 30% of Nigeria's oil out put are in Itsekiri land. Amaechi is a former governor of a Niger Delta State. He knows the game better than you. You are not experience in the Niger Delta issue. Many militant camps will spring up after this second amnesty. You will continue to give amnesty. Non violent youths will take to arm struggle.

And what happen to this structured.....

Hmmmmmm

PDP Crisis: I won’t step down for Sheriff – Makarfi
— 14th June 2016
(Taiwo Amodu, ABUJA)

Former Kaduna state governor and chairman of the PDP caretaker committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi has dismissed as mere speculation, claim that he has opened discussion with former chairman of the dissolved national working committee, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff with the motive of stepping down for the latter.

The former Borno state governor had on Monday stormed the national secretariat and took over its administration.

Former national vice-chairman, South-south, Cairo Ojougboh at a news briefing yesterday claimed that Senator Ahmed Makarfi has accepted Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as the legitimate chairman of the party.

But addressing newsmen at his residence in Abuja, Senator Makarfi dismissed the claim as fraudulent.
He said:” That’s very fraudulent. I saw him, (Senator Sheriff) at the convention of course, but I haven’t sat privately with Modu Sheriff in the last 3 months, or anybody representing him not to talk of me making such a statement.

“I haven’t granted any press statement. If that is the case, how can it be that the only statement I would make is to apologise to him and express support for him? “There is no basis for that, absolutely no basis for that. This is what we are trying to get rid from PDP and all the so called court orders, judgment being bandied about aren’t really true. We know what the courts have said, the court never stopped any convention, of course it said do not elect and we didn’t elect and the order which was said to be vacated and that’s the Port Harcourt court order hasn’t been vacated and the IGP and INEC till today said it is an existing order.

“So, I really don’t know why they are spreading falsehood.”

The former Kaduna state governor however disclosed that he was open to dialogue that would ensure the amicable resolution of the seemingly protracted impasse facing the party.

“All said and done, I still believe that the path towards resolving political problem is dialogue, accomodation and I am open to that.

“But as I am open to dialogue, accomodation so that we become one strong united family once again but it is very, very unfair to make a fraudulent statement that there is a document purported to have been issued by me. That never, ever happened and I never even dreamt about it not to talk of issuing it.”

http://sunnewsonline.com/pdp-crisis-i-wont-step-down-for-sheriff-makarfi/

IHEJIRIKAisBOKO:
So APC that was formed in 2013 created MEND that has been in existence since circa 2004

Those people are only looking for ways to sell the idea of Pipeline survellance to their boys.

Nothing more. The sponsors have nothing to do with Niger Deltans interests. Since Tompolo had been scheme out by the Present govt. They also want to get their share as government person

IHEJIRIKAisBOKO:
So APC that was formed in 2013 created MEND that has been in existence since circa 2004

Those people are only looking for ways to sell the idea of Pipeline survellance to their boys.

Nothing more. The sponsors have nothing to do with Niger Deltans interests. Since Tompolo had been scheme out by the Present govt.