₦airaland Forum

November 10, 2018

Press Statement

PDP Caution el-Rufai Over Comment on Peter Obi

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cautions Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, over his unguarded comment, wherein he referred to our Vice Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as a tribal bigot

The party says Chief Peter Obi is well known for his nationalist disposition and cannot in anyway be associated with tribal bigotry.

The PDP therefore advices Governor el-Rufai to face the myriad of problems he has caused in Kaduna state for which the people have resolved to vote him out and stop his attempt to further foul the nation’s political space by making comments capable of stoking religious and ethnic division in our country.

Governor el-Rufai should not attempt to export the kind of inciting and inflammatory statements that have led to conflagration and bloodletting in his Kaduna state to our national political firmament.

From el-Rufai’s comment, Nigerians now know those behind the series of smear campaigns and spurious allegations against our Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Peter Obi.

Instead of fixating on our party and the soaring popularity of our Presidential candidate, we expect el-Rufai to show remorse that he was part of those who brought in the Buhari administration, which has inflicted so much pain on Nigerians in the last three and half years.

He must therefore know that the 2019 election will not be about name calling, smear campaign and character assassination but on finding solutions to the issue of governance for which Nigerians are fully rallied on the platform of the PDP.

el-Rufai should therefore steer clear of our party and our candidates and begin to prepare to give a full account of his tenure as governor of Kaduna state.

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/pdp-cautions-el-rufai-over-comment-on-peter-obi.html

BMC una never see anything Yet.

This news is fake.

It's just fire crackers that is been tested

People cannot test fire crackers in peace again ni

November 10, 2018

Press Statement

Stop Sermonizing, Answer Your N33bn Corruption Allegation, PDP Tells Osinbajo

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) charges Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to stop sermonizing and parading like a saint until he answers to the N33 billion corruption allegation as exposed by the House of Representatives.

The party said the Vice President owes it as a personal moral burden, both as a preacher and Professor of law, to directly explain how the fund meant for the wellbeing of Nigerians suffering in the Northeast, was mismanaged under his supervision, instead of the lame attempts to dismiss the allegation and divert public attention from the scandal.

Nigerians were thoroughly appalled to learn, from the House of Representatives, how Prof. Osinbajo, as Acting President, in June 2017, unilaterally pulled N5.8 billion, from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation, purportedly for emergency intervention on food in the North East, which has now turned scandalous.

Prof. Osinbajo should explain how, according to findings by the House of Representatives, all the six states of the Northeast failed to receive the emergency intervention for food security, for which a major part of the money was claimed to have been expended, under his direct supervision as Chairman of Board of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

What has Prof. Osinbajo to say on the revelation at the public hearing conducted by the House of Representatives that there was no evidence the World Food Programme (WFP) received the 5000 metric tons of rice, which NEMA claimed to have bought and donated to WFP for distribution to victims of insurgency in the region?

What has our Vice President to say to the report indicating that four of the companies that supplied food items to the region financed their projects through N2bn they each received as loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)?

What is his answer to the huge allegations in the public domain that bulk of the money meant for suffering Nigerians in the Northeast was diverted to private pockets of key All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Presidency cabal to finance their wasteful lifestyle?

The PDP is privy to the frantic effort by agents of the Presidency and the APC to arm-twist and intimidate the House of Representatives to abort its investigation and to ensure that the report does not see the light of day

If Prof. Osinbajo had no ulterior intentions, why did he pull the money from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation without recourse to the statutory appropriation of the National Assembly?

The PDP holds that the action of the Vice President in unilaterally approving the release of the money to NEMA, where he also presides as the Chairman of Board is completely self-serving and ostensibly conceived and executed in corrupt intentions.

Instead of answering to the allegation, Prof. Osinbajo is employing rhetoric to divert attention, claiming that his actions are covered by his apparent abuse of Section 43 of the Procurement Act.

We invite the Vice President to note that Section 43 of the Procurement Act deals with the emergency duties of a procuring entity and not the processes of drawing funds from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation which is covered by the Constitution. As such, there is no way he can justify his actions under any of our laws.

The Vice President should therefore advice himself properly by responding to the huge corruption questions and stop his unnecessary posturing.

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/11/stop-sermonizing-answer-your-n33bn-corruption-allegation-pdp-tells-osinbajo/amp/

knightehis:
I watched it life on NTA this evening. Its true

Fake news

Lalasticlala this are false news carriers

Zombies matter are serious programming robotic problem

kcmichael:
https://www.nairaland.com/4836394/breaking-news-gov-wike-convoy

Shameless liar

kcmichael:
See real story here,una go cry water this time

Shameless liar

SaintLucia:
You mean the entire Fowl nyash that sent your god Cownu and his entire family to a hidden hole. I'm sure the beating received by your god Cownu by the soldiers has rendered his brain useless to continue to dey yan okpaka. Like Cownu like his followers.

ṣe o ri aye APC lode bayi

Daboomb:
Olori pelebe omo Yiibo Oole!
Baba e, Iya e, Oole ajokuta ma'momi.

Just tell your new Hero, Atiku-looter to go and collect his Visa at the US Embassy or does he not want it anymore?
America will be delighted that they dont have to stress themselves to arrest that thief....he will walk into his cell by himself.
Atiku-looter must travel to America before the election. We wont allow him to use Presidential and Diplomatic immunit to sneal into America, as he is hoping.

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maina ole
gandọlla ole
aunti kẹmi gbewiri
babachir lawali ole
abba kyari fẹwọfẹwọ
ajọ nnpc ole

yarimo:
PDP when will ATIKU visit AMERICA?

Oju ole re

Daboomb:
All these noise from PDp is just a distraction!
We all know Oshiomole has been living outside the country with his Oyinbo wife for sometime before coming back into politics.

How did Oshiomole become the "FACTIONAL" chairman of APC...who is the substantive Chairman? PDP should tell us whether it is Ologbo-di-eniyan

When did it become the job of PDp to issue international arrest warrant? Are they now EFCC or Interpol?

That they did not see Oshiomole for two days now mena she has runaway? Runaway from what sef?
If FFk, Raymond Dokpesi, Mama Piss and many other looters in PDP did not run away, is it the Chairman of the ruling party that will run away?

Abeg, PDP and Okorocha and Amosun should find something else to say.
Noise is not Music.[b][/b]

Oju ole 're ole

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GOD BLESS NIGERIA

Oju ole re

wealthkayk:
well done Ganduje

Which Ganduje

furrr:
Sabon gari flyover kano

To be commissioned by president BUHARI ... December 2018

Lalasticlala this is fake and false news

CilicMarin:
Ipob. Yoot this is different from the one being commissioned.

You ipob yoots are daft..

Keep quiet LIARS

Lalasticlala

CilicMarin:
Ipob. Yoot this is different from the one being commissioned.

You ipob yoots are daft..

Lalasticlala here comes another lie from BMC

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APC una go hear gwhen

APC zombies never disappoint


We saw it clearly in the morning how APC fake their endorsements.

Now no single rebuttal in that long epistle up there.

APC the sinking ship

Mexyz:
Guy keep quiet there and come with your real moniker.

That is butterdlyle0 the liar on nairaland.

He was placed on ban

Daily Post Nigeria

POLITICS 2019: Tinubu made a “foolish mistake” with Buhari, Yorubas will vote Atiku– Afenifere Published on November 7, 2018
By Ifreke Inyang

Elder statesman and Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has said the Yoruba nation will not be deceived again by the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari next year.

Speaking with Daily Independent, Adebanjo, revealed he has thrown his weight behind Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

According to him, Tinubu succeeded in selling Buhari to the South-West in 2015, due to his claim that the president has integrity and the willpower needed to turn the fortunes of the country around.

According to Adebanjo, Tinubu himself has realised he made a great mistake entering into alliance with Buhari, but he is ashamed of saying it out.

“Do you think we are stupid people in the South-West? Yoruba people are more intelligent than all that. Tinubu succeeded in 2015 because of the fake integrity attached to Buhari. He succeeded in bringing Buhari because of the fake integrity attached to him but the last three years has exposed him to be fake.

“People have seen him to be fake. He is not somebody anyone can rely upon and I have no doubt in my mind that Tinubu would have seen the stupidity of aligning with him. By now, Tinubu must have realised the foolish mistake he made by aligning with him but he will not come out to admit it.

“Yoruba people are too intelligent to be used again. Once bitten, twice shy. Tinubu has sold the Yoruba by aligning with Buhari, even at this stage. He agreed with Buhari to do restructuring, to do federalism. When the man now got there and he is not doing it, has Tinubu got the courage to pull out?

“And I have said it to him and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. They are unfair to the Yoruba because everybody is thinking that because they represent the Yoruba, all the things against the race, they would address them. But they are quiet on them all.

“There are killings right and left, but they are quiet. They are quiet on the issue of revenue allocation. Even the case of local government under this restructuring, Tinubu took Obasanjo to court, it is part of restructuring programme and the man who handled the case in court was Osinbajo.

“They won the case at the Supreme Court. Under what principle did they take the then President Obasanjo to court? *They sold out and the same Osinbajo, who took Obasanjo to court for not following the federal system, is now saying he does not understand what the federal system means".


https://www.dailypost.ng/2018/11/07/2019-tinubu-made-foolish-mistake-buhari-yorubas-will-vote-atiku-afenifere/amp/

The opposition People Democratic Part PDP, Today launches her Official TV Channel for
@OfficialPDPNig Presidential Campaign.

BREAKING| United States Institute For Peace USIP Denies Predicting a Buhari Win in 2019



Correcting a Media Error: USIP Makes No Prediction on Nigerian Election
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

NEWS TYPE: Announcement

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A few Nigerian newspapers reported erroneously this week that the U.S. Institute of Peace has made a prediction about the possible outcome of Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election. USIP never makes predictions about election outcomes and has not done so in this case. The Institute’s work on elections is confined to helping nations avoid electoral violence.

The erroneous news accounts misrepresent USIP’s recent 20-page report on the risks to a peaceful 2019 election in Nigeria. This study is based on interviews across the country with more than 200 Nigerian respondents—election administrators, political party representatives, security officials, civil society and youth groups, the media, traditional and religious leaders, prominent community figures, business people, academics and others.

The USIP report noted that, in the interviews, “some respondents” discussed their own views of Nigerian public perceptions about an election outcome. A Nigerian news account mis-reported this passage as a USIP prediction of the outcome, and other Nigerian news organizations repeated the error.

As USIP is a strictly nonpartisan institution, its work on elections focuses entirely on preventing violence

https://www.usip.org/press/2018/11/correcting-media-error-usip-makes-no-prediction-nigerian-election

New minimum wage: Presidency states Buhari’s position on labour’s insistence on N30,000


The Presidency has frowned at misinterpretation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s remarks when he received the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage on Tuesday.


A presidential source told NAN that the president did not endorse N30,000 as proposed by the committee as being reported.

He, however, stated that President Buhari had expressed his commitment to ensuring the implementation of a new National Minimum Wage.


“But the president’s speech at the event was immediately made available to the media and nowhere indicated that the president endorsed N30,000 Minimum wage.

“It is not the duty of the president only to endorse a new national minimum wage. The process involves the Federal Executive Council (FEC), the National Economic Council (NEC) and the National Assembly.

“It is imperative for us to always avoid misinterpreting a written speech,’’ he added.


It would be recalled that President Buhari had pledged that the Federal Government would soon transmit an Executive bill (on National Minimum Wage) to the National Assembly for its passage within the shortest possible time.

He said: “Our plan is to transmit the Executive bill to the National Assembly for its passage within the shortest possible time.

“I am fully committed to having a new National Minimum Wage Act in the very near future.’’

Buhari also expressed delight that the committee had successfully completed its assignment in a peaceful and non-controversial manner.

“Let me use this opportunity to recognise the leadership of the organised labour and private sector as well as representatives of State and Federal Governments for all your hard work.

“The fact that we are here today, is a notable achievement.

“As the Executive Arm commences its review of your submission, we will continue to engage you all in closing any open areas presented in this report.

“I, therefore, would like to ask for your patience and understanding in the coming weeks.”


https://www.dailypost.ng/2018/11/07/new-minimum-wage-presidency-states-buharis-position-labours-insistence-n30000/amp/