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God bless PMB for this comment.

Allahu Akbar!

MizMyColi:
Did you even read thru' this thread to see that some of us actually feel a deep likeness for the man at this news?

As an opposition, we know it is a rule of thumb never to see anything good in those you oppose.
But some of us will always let our conscience trump the need for power.

You type like a person who is programmed to reason in a certain thought pattern!
Like an alien reasoning would lead to a crash of your programming.

Show some dynamism.
Change!

The likes of that human being are full of hatred, lies, & propaganda.

Please stop taking them serious.

Whynotthetruth:
Nawa o...nah barca uncle im be jare and Dearpreye uncle-in-law

Haaaahaaaa

Nigeria needs deliverance

chuna1985:
Including getting the weapons @ all costs. Both legally n[b] illegally[/b].

Following the illegal route results into something like what we see in SA.

A sovereign nation can source weapons through any means legally/illegally without moving physical cash,

chuna1985:
Don't paint things. With Boko haram slaughtering Nigerians everyday, a sensible government can do anything to protect their citizens.

Yes! including following the rule of law...& International best practices.

driand:
blessed are the TANoids who know they are sinners and willing to repent for theirs is the kingdom of God.

What are you yawning ? Repent from what

Aregbesola is a scammer...

Thank God.

The action of the past administration in this matter is purely against the Anti-Money Laundering / combating the financing of terrorism regulations of CBN. AML/CFT REGULATION (2009).

How would an organized and sovereign nation stack money in suitcases?

“President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration was forced to resort to the alternative market to obtain arms when western powers blocked every access to the formal arms market but the cash were seized both at the airport and in the bank”.

I understand the predicament of the then government in procuring arms, this does not warrant this approach of moving ‘raw-cash’ across countries.

We must learn from this and move forward as a nation.

Shalom!

francizy:
How does Fayose expect Buhari to keep them under house arrest when he was indeed crying fowl when Boko were been attacked by Jona? Nigeria never see anything...

Painful!

you see...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has condemned the invasion and sealing-off of the Abuja and Sokoto residences of the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA), Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd) by men of the Department of State Services (DSS), saying; “persecution of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwarts and others perceived as opposed to the All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government is an ominous sign of imminent return of dictatorship and draconian rule in
Nigeria.”

The governor, who said he still believed that the invasion of Col. Dasuki homes may not have the backing of President Mohammadu Buhari, said; “if this is being done by some people to please the president, he should check the excesses of those behind it and call them to other because overzealousness by those that are close to the president is inimical to the image of the government.”

In a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti today his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said he was sad that democracy is already being put on trial, less than two months that President Mohammadu Buhari assumed office, adding that; “Rather than invading homes of Nigerians and putting people under house arrest, the government should invade Boko Haram territories and arrest the insurgents.”

Governor Fayose, who also condemned the persecution of Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, said; “the desperate plot to remove Senator Ekweremadu from office is dangerous to democratic rule in Nigeria because there is no portion of the Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution that made positions of Senate President and Deputy Senate President the exclusive rights of the political party with highest number of senators.”
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He said; “President Buhari should rather keep Boko Haram under house arrest, not opposition party members.[/size] Those heavily armed security men that invaded Col. Dasuki’s Abuja and Sokoto homes should have been put to a better use by sending them to the Boko Haram ravaged North Eastern part of Nigeria.

“The president should keep the rising exchange rates of Dollar, Pound Sterling, Euro and other foreign currencies under house arrest. He should pay attention to governance, be guided by the rule of law and be for everyone and for nobody as he promised when he was sworn into office.”

He advised President Buhari to be magnanimous in victory, act like a leader and father of all Nigerians instead of seeing his return to
power as an opportunity to revenge against those perceived to have wronged him in the past.

The governor asked; “Was there any invitation by the DSS to Col. Dasuki that he refused to honour? Isn’t it worrisome that in this democratic age, security agents could in a commando-like invade the house of a former NSA to carry out his arrest when there is no record that he was invited and he refused to honour the invitation, or that he resisted arrest?

“Could Col. Dasuki’s present ordeal be as a result of his advice that the presidential election be postponed?

“Is this not an indication of an impending clampdown on PDP members and other Nigerians perceived not to be on the same page with the President Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government?

“We in the PDP supported our party during the presidential election like every other loyal party members should do, should this display of support for our party and its candidate now warrant persecution by the Federal Government?

“If Col. Dasuki actually committed any offence to warrant his arrest and questioning by the DSS or any of the country’s security agencies, shouldn’t warrant of arrest have been issued against him? Shouldn’t he have been invited by the DSS instead of invading his houses and sealing them off in a commando-liked manner?

“Nigerians must therefore rise against this emerging dictatorship and save the country’s democracy from imminent collapse because today, it is Col. Dasuki, tomorrow it can be any other person.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/hunt-boko-haram-not-opposition-leaders-fayose-tells-buhari/

Cc: Lalasticlala

shadowgwalker:
in my yansh

14 years imprisonment...

1after:
Sir, I know you are very wicked at heart and pray Boko haram strike daily so you can spite your enemy called Buhari cos I know how you rejoice whenever those evil element strike. You now talk of witch hunt but praised GEJ during the Tambuwal saga, the Ekiti election saga where Obanikoro and his thugs arrest and intimidate the opposition, the grounding of Ameachi's Jet, the bursting of APC office and arrest of all its workers without search or arrest warrant, the leadership newspaper issue, e.t.c I hate hypocrites and people that see white and call it black just to defend criminals. Learn to be honest even if your paymasters will not like it, be bold sir.

Where is the CHANGE if you are referring and comparing the 'Wicked & Evil' PDP Govt.

I presume you agree with me that the CHANGE is fake since their is no difference

Interesting moment ahead as per the campaign promises...

Earlier you said you admitted that you did not realise the rot in government until you got in. Nigerians will like to know why you made so many promises without having the full knowledge of what was on ground.


I think you are missing the point. You see, a political party must have an agenda. It must be able to analyse situations and say what are the major problems confronting my country today. When I get to power, how will I address them and what will be my priorities? That is what they mean by a manifesto. A manifesto also distinguishes one party from another. Are you going to be social welfarist party or what?


President Buhari promised to publicly declare his assets and prune the presidential air fleet, he hasn’t done anything in that regard, yet you say this government is not slow?

What has that got to do with being slow? Hear that. Wait, I will answer you. I think the office of the Code of Conduct Bureau said the President can only go public after it has verified the assets he said he has.


No, what the CCB said was that it didn’t stop the President from going ahead to declare his assets publicly.

No, the CCB said so. No! No! No! Supposing I said I have 10 houses but actually have only one house. Then after verification, it is discovered I have only one house, won’t that be ridiculous? So that was why the CCB said that it should happen after the assets are verified; it is then the President can now make his asset declaration public. But how do you term that as being slow? Then the other one, you ask about pruning the presidential air fleet. So even if I want to sell my car, won’t you value it to know the condition in which it is? Do you think what they want to sell is Akara (bean cake)? Number one, I don’t know when he made that promise. But even if that is true, a man has four years to spend in office and you want him to do everything within the first four weeks? What is this inordinate haste about?

But with the pace at which the President is going, how will he deliver on his promises to feed school children, steady the Naira, pay graduates stipends and the rest?

I’ve just told you now that what we discovered in four weeks is that money meant to be paid into the federation account had been paid elsewhere. When that money can be put where it belongs, what do you do with it if not to use it to execute your projects? I’ve just given you two examples. I know that there is a new era of transparency in Nigeria today. So we are not really daunted by challenges but let Nigerians know that [size=15pt]we have met a very bad situation on ground. It’s not an excuse for us not to perform, though. We do little things[/size] but people are not appreciative of them; small drops become a river.


Don’t you think that Buhari’s aloofness has come back to haunt him and the party considering the National Assembly crisis?

All I will tell you about the National Assembly is that we are working towards resolving it. The party has a crisis on its hands and it is working towards resolving it.

What about the alleged rift between Buhari and a chieftain of the party, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu?

Some people somewhere are feeding a lot of stories to the world about a perceived rift between Asiwaju and President Buhari and I can tell you that it doesn’t exist. There is mutual respect between the two leaders. When you are in politics and there is nothing to write about, people will write about all kinds of things.

But you surely can’t deny that there is a Northern agenda to cut down Tinubu’s influence in the party which manifested in the National Assembly crisis?

That is absolute bunkum. You see in APC, we don’t think in terms of North, South, West, East, no. The whole of Nigeria fought for the victory. It’s a national mandate and it cannot be reduced to an ethnic or regional mandate by anybody for whatever interest. I’m a member of the party’s National Working Committee and I don’t think in terms of North, West, East or South, no. When we were fighting for this mandate, we sought everybody’s support, we can’t get there now and start saying it’s a Northern mandate or a Southern mandate.

People say the APC leadership should be ashamed for making an issue out of the National Assembly crisis when in 2011, the APC supported former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, against the directive of the Peoples Democratic Party. Yet, the PDP let it go.

I think you are comparing apples with oranges. It’s not the same thing.

They all disobeyed party directives, what is different in that?


Leave us to resolve the issue. I can assure you that the party will resolve the issue.


So when can we expect the list of ministerial appointments which the APC failed to use the two months it had before inauguration to prepare for?

When you set up a transition committee to go and give you an agenda and restructure government, you have to wait for that transition committee to come back before appointing ministers. I remember that the committee did recommend reducing the number of ministries. So supposing the President had nominated 29 ministers and the committee says you should have only 19, what happens to the other 10? So we have to wait. There is so much importance attached to nominations by the public and less attached to governance and the workings of the government. But again, we can assure you that sooner than later, key appointments will be made including those of ministers.


But how will the President deliver on his promises and his party’s manifestoes when the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, don’t belong to the same caucus?

I have said it here that I would rather not comment on National Assembly crisis.


Some experts still wonder why this government failed to consider the negative effects of pumping so much money into the economy with the bailout, one of which is inflation and the Naira slump. Did the APC-led government overlook this?

Look at the exponential effects on the economy. People have more money to buy more goods; the manufacturer will produce more and employ more people. But for God’s sake, we are talking about human beings. We are not talking about statistics or numbers. We are giving people a lifeline, people who had no source of income for nine months. Their relations have been borrowing, but when we now created a lifeline for them, people are complaining. I think the essence of government is to take care of the welfare of its people, which is what this government has done.

National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, insists in this interview with GBENRO ADEOYE that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has not been slow

The All Progressives Congress won the election about two months to President Muhammadu Buhari’s inauguration and yet, no ministerial appointments. Are you sure this party is prepared for governance?

I think that view is a bit misinformed. In the first instance, President Muhammadu Buhari came to power just about six weeks ago and it is not correct to say that because certain appointments have not been made, therefore, the government has slowed down or that the APC is not ready for governance. Unfortunately, this view is gaining ground but it is not correct.

A party has two documents that guide it when it comes to power, the first is the manifesto. The manifesto is what you put together as your proposals and ideas when you are not in power yet. This government, as soon as we won, we set up a transition committee. That committee was to look at our manifesto and the handover notes that we received and see that we are able to harmonise both. Like they say, you campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose. Until you are in power, you don’t know exactly the kind of situation or rot you are going to meet on ground. So however laudable some of your programmes might be in the manifesto, until when you are given the handover notes, you don’t really know how feasible they are.

In our own case, we were not very fortunate with the level of cooperation that the transition committee got from the immediate past government. I’m sure that everybody knows that we are not making excuses, it’s true and it’s a fact that until five days to the inauguration, we never received any handover notes. So that hampered us.

Secondly, the rot we met was unexpected. In spite of whatever anybody is saying, the obligations that were left behind was about N7trn. When you have obligations of about N7trn, then you know it is a very deep hole. I’m not talking about debts or unpaid workers’ salaries, but obligations left in all the various ministries.

Beyond the failure to appoint ministers, Nigerians say everything about this government is slow, is it deliberate?

Again, why do people say this government is slow? This government is not slow. The government is focused; it is methodological. It is following its manifesto and the recommendations of the transition committee in what it’s doing. People will say this government does not have ministers and a Secretary to the Government of the Federation, but we are saying this government wants people with proven track records of competence and integrity. This is coupled with the fact that Nigeria is a delicate country that is sensitive to ethnic and religious divides. Even when you want to make appointments, you will make it, looking at two issues.

One, the APC itself came in as a coalition government of different parties or forces. Two, we have inherited a complex country. All we are doing is to make a thorough and meticulous research before we start putting people in key offices. And in any event, if you look from 1999 till date, it has always taken about six weeks for any administration to name its ministers. Also, this is the first time we are having a real transition. It’s not one President succeeding himself or one party succeeding itself, this is a completely new scenario where you have hundreds of appointments to make, so we have to be very careful. Then again, Nigerians must understand that the fact that you don’t have ministers or SGF or Chief of Staff does not mean that the government is not performing. This government is performing. Policy statements are being issued, things are getting done. But we have this fixation on ministers and their appointments. This Buhari effect has really fast tracked matters and within the six weeks, we have not been idle. Within six weeks, the President has hit the ground running on security.

Are you referring to the recent spate of bombings and the lives that are being lost every day? How does that translate into hitting the ground running?

Nigerians should look at things in the correct context. What was Boko Haram this time last year? What is it today? This time last year, Boko Haram held territories.

But by the time former President Goodluck Jonathan left, our soldiers had reclaimed the territories and we were winning the war. But Buhari came in and Jonathan’s success seems to have been lost…

No! It’s not lost. You see, let me tell you something. The achievements will be lost only if the liberated areas have been retaken by the insurgents. What did Jonathan administration achieve? His administration liberated certain territories that were held by Boko Haram insurgents. He achieved driving the insurgents out of Sambisa forest. We have not lost one single territory, not one inch, since we came to power. Anybody who understands insurgency will know that once you dislodge them from their stronghold, they will lack central command and control and each of them will go on suicidal missions. They don’t have the capacity they used to have before to plan attacks. What we have today is each of them operating in silos and I can assure you that by the time the multinational joint task force takes off at the end of this month, and with the new appointments of the service chiefs, improving our intelligence gathering, we are going to see that Boko Haram will be a thing of the past

Cc: Lalasticlala

http://www.punchng.com/feature/hotseat/buhari-is-not-slow-hes-working-mohammed-apc-spokesperson/

APC jagajaga, poor man dey suffer sufer...

[size=18pt]"Nigerians did not vote for the All Progressives Congress, APC for it to “lament the mishandling of Nigeria by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP but to fix the wrongs in the polity"[/size] - Revd. Diamond

Danjuma827:
why won't you people allow our humble president to be alone. all you people do is to tackle and blame home for one thing or the other. let's wait and see his achievement for at least a year and we will start to finalize matter

Nobody is blaming the 'humble president', he should stop complaining already about PDP, he should start fixing and making real all his campaign promises.


Enough of story telling.

Finito!

You see,...

GENERAL Overseer of Trinity Gospel Mission, Delta State, Rt. Rev Diamond Emuobor, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to proceed to lead Nigeria ‘out of the woods’ and stop bemoaning the mishandling of the country by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Emuobor, in a statement, said Nigerians did not vote for the All Progressives Congress, APC for it to “lament the mishandling of Nigeria by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP but to fix the wrongs in the polity.”

He said: “Fix Nigeria with your APC manifesto and stop making excuses. Why has Buhari started shouting his inability to meet his obligations to lead because money was stolen from the vaults of Nigeria?”

Saying that the president had not attempted any measure of relief promised by his party, the statement noted that,

“bemoaning the decadence of the past administrations as the reason of APC’s inability to perform is to say the least, a defeatist agenda. “

Depending on America, Europe and other international organizations to come to donate money or help recover what was stolen before you can progress or succeed is a statement of failure; this is a plan of deceit on the Nigeria populace.”

The cleric maintained that “you don’t depend on already overspent money to project your programmes.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/stop-bemoaning-pdps-mishandling-of-nigeria-cleric-tells-buhari/

Cc: Lalasticlala

lagmostkuit:
Mr Know it..

Pls teach me!

Please stop quoting that hateful element.

“It is just a witch-hunt. If you want me to make clarifications on any issue, in the spirit of democracy and the rule of Law, have the courtesy to invite me and as a gentleman, I will honour the invitation. Sending two trucks to lay siege on my house and restrict my movement is just abysmal".

Dmeji4444:
Is the ogun state Governor from Igbo(Forest, Marijuana) Land?
So Obj should have used the whole nation maney for his state or region(west) alone abi, so that u would be able to open that ur gutter called mouth to say , "Obj did this and that for yoruba alone" OBJ ws a fuc king National President.

kini eleyi nso ?

SenseiX:
After immense pressure from IBB, GEJ,Gusau,Danjuma and the Sultan, Buhari ends the siege

We are watching the tyrannical move

Firefire:
Buhari revenge mission will surely boomerang, his perceived pursue of his enemies without recourse to the rule of law will destroy him.

I heard he has an unforgiving spirit, I am very sure that “Evil Spirit" will completely destroy him sooner than expected.

PMB, see my honest advise to you below:

MizMyColi:
Kponkwem!

Folks seem to get a kick of sorts from mentioning his name.
I'm not surprised.
After all, he is good luck.

The earlier they start calling on Buhari the better for the loads of promises...

Orfankwagh:
That man didnt help his people

The baba could not even fix the road leading to his farm in Otta, Cannan Land have being rescuing us whenever they have program until Ogun state Gov. Fixed the road.