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duality: Going by your analysis, PDP will still win the presidency come 2015,

everyday: If he defects from PDP will they lose the presidential elections

BADAN—Governors in the South West states, yesterday, gathered at the commissioning of two ultra-modern malls built by Odu’a Investment Limited.
While Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State was there, his counterparts from Osun, Ogun, Ekiti and Ondo states sent their representatives.
The mall now occupies the space used by the defunct Daily Sketch Newspapers, Dugbe, Ibadan.
While speaking at the ceremony, Governor Ajimobi said: “For us as an administration and you as a company, both of us with notable pedigree and heritage, today is another icing on our historic cake.”
Ajimobi who said the malls would provide 2,000 jobs noted that the vision to construct malls of this international class was conceived some years ago by the board and management of the company.
He said the vision of Odu’a Investment was to redefine business activities and improve the quality of lives in Ibadan and other neighboring states.
In his address, the Group Managing Director of O’dua Investment, Mr. Adebayo Jimoh said that the development of the malls was borne out of the need and demand by highly placed individuals in the South-West who spent time and money traveling to Lagos for shopping.
Also speaking, a former Chairman of Odua Investment, Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi stressed the need for social and economic integration by all the Yoruba-speaking states so as to bring the South-West geo-political zone back to the path of development as it was in the days of the late Premier of the defunct Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
The commissioning was well-attended by politicians, captains of industry and royal fathers from Yoruba land.

Former Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari & former Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu.‘We’re on ruthless recruitment drive’
.I have like minds in APC – Lamido
.I’ll consult and respond – Kwankwaso
.APC govs now 23, says Rochas
Former Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari yesterday led the top ranks of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to Kano and Jigawa States where he formally invited governors Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Sule Lamido respectively to lead their supporters to the APC.
The APC team included former Lagos State governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, Lagos State governor Babatunde Fashola, Governor Rochas Okorocha and Ekiti state governor, Kayode Fayemi.
In Kano, Buhari told hundreds of politicians from across the state including PDP stalwarts that the team was “on a very top and ruthless recruitment drive.’’
Buhari said the APC feels “very uncomfortable without Kano State coming along, therefore “in our bid to get Kano state, we seek the hands of the governor to get up and join us in the APC to deliver this country and God in his infinite mercy will make us succeed.”
“Our concerns are our people throughout the country. What APC is fundamentally going to do is to secure and effectively manage this country. We come here to woo Kwankwaso into the APC so that we can continue to make our journey to achieve meaningful development,” Buhari added.
National Chairman of the APC Chief Bisi Akande said the delegation was in Kano to showcase the APC as a platform and soft ground for great minds like Kwankwaso.
The APC delegation arrived in Kano only days after Governor Kwankwaso said the G-7 governors may move to APC following the simmering crisis in their party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Addressing the APC delegation yesterday Gov. Kwankwaso said he will consult stakeholders of PDP in the state and get back to his visitors.
“I will sit down with all stakeholders because there is no decision a governor can take on his own without consulting the stakeholders of the party. Kwankwasiyya movement is a disciplined movement. We are working as group and team,’’ he said.
He described Kwankwasiyya as a `powerful movement’ which had the capacity and strength to win election in 2015. He said that the PDP had 31 out of 40 state assembly members, two senators and 14 members of the House of Representatives.
“Certainly we will sit down and look at all the challenges and the consequences if any and together we will take decision on what to do and communicate to you,’’ he said.
In Jigawa, Governor Sule Lamido said most of the members of the APC entourage were his like minds and he felt they were in the state for family reunion. He said since the PDP is ‘very sick’ it was time to set aside party sentiment and unite around the common problem of the country.
Lamido said: “This visit is what I call family reunion. All those in the defunct SDP are here. We have been friends and partners. This single visit, more than anything else, shows that we can work together to save Nigeria.
“For General Muhammad Buhari to come here to woo me to APC shows that our leaders are concerned about Nigeria. The PDP is very very sick. It is time to put aside politics and nomenclature and unite around the common problem of the country.” He described the coming of the APC to Jigawa as the beginning of a long process that will test the will and political sagacity of everyone.
“We must work as leaders and put the country first. By the time we come together you must listen to us because of our experience. We will add value to you. The journey is difficult. I am still in PDP with my eyes wide open. When I see like minds I will work with them.”
Earlier in their various speeches General Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Tinubu, APC chairman Bisi Akande, Governor Raji Fashola and Chief Adigun Oyegun said they were in Jigawa to ask the governor to join the APC because he belongs to the progressive elements in Nigerian politics.
The Jigawa State governor had mobilised all the members of the state executive council, the 27 local government chairmen, all members of the national assembly from the state, PDP state executives and Jigawa elders to welcome the APC bigwigs.
Other politicians on the APC delegation included former governor of Borno state, Senator Ali Modu Sherriff, former chairman of EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, former Speaker Aminu Bello Masari and former governor of Benue State, Senator George Akume.

Pataki: Dumbo, stick to the topic of this thread. If you continue trolling, I will report you for another ban.

And trust me, I have always been spot on with my requests to ban you for your gross inanity.

PHIPEX: This woman must be an Iron lady to survive all these attacks from all direction. If I may ask, is it the same Oduah that is currently in Isreal that signed? According to all these peppersoup joint gossip, Kwankwaso complained yesterday and Oduah signed today, I wonder where the people that believe this kept their brain.

funnyx: He he he Thank God this is not coming from a Yoruba politician otherwise the bigots would have been all over this thread crying Yoruba this, Yoruba that blah blah blah blah

HAH: The good part is that all the airline that were asked to go to Enugu or PH have refused to go except Ethiopia, furthermore from a reliable source the ethiopian airways are also complaining of lack of customers in enugu because some times they have less than 50 passengers.

What I want madam minister to know is that, airline are looking for passengers, anywhere there is market they will go, forcing them to go to an unprofitable route is not possible.

tyson99: Nigerians funny sha....the woman na ogogoro seller and hin bro na SA to the president,he no upgrade hin sister at all,if to say he give hin sis 32m wey hin take bail her, no be alomo she go dey sell.shame

HAH: When kwankwaso speaks the Authorities listen, for your infomation stella oduah gave emergency approval to turkish airline to land in kano just before she left to israel.

Mind you turkish applied 10 months ago and were told to go to Enugu or Port Harcourt, but miraculously during the BMW saga they were approved to land in kano.

Who is deceiving who ?

http://dailytrust.info/index.php/news/8412-fg-grants-turkish-airlines-landing-permit-to-kano-abuja

cleobunny: All these ethnic bigots, you will wake up in the morning search online looking for a topic or story to start ethnic war on nairaland. The yoruba that do this, are from ibadan, osun, ekiti and co. Lagosians don't hate.

JMOI: He was a political lightweight, that was why he was booted out with ease. He can't do that with Oduah.

Northern Elders are not prepared to back down on the North’s demand for the presidency in 2015,spokesman for the group, Professor Ango Abdullahi has said.
“There is no going back on the presidency returning to the North in 2015, and that has remained our position,” he told The Nation on the outcome of the last weekend meeting of the Northern Elders Forum.
Professor Abdullahi accused the President of playing politics with the proposed national conference.
“As far as we are concerned, all this talk about national conference is political and geared towards 2015. It is also becoming clear that the only card on the table of Mr. President is ethnicity or religion. We are waiting to see how this will work in his favour,” he said.
But he explained that the North is not in any way against the conference.
His words: “The Northern Elders’ Forum met last weekend and we generally agreed with the direction of the North on the National Conference. And we said why not? The point we tried to make is what kind of conference?
“This is because we have had all sorts of conferences in the past from 1914 to date. All the reports of these conferences are there in the Government House. The Northern Elders’ Forum wondered what kind of conversation, dialogue, or conference that would be different from the ones we have had before.
“We agreed that the only thing that will make the proposed conference significantly different is when it is sovereign. What needs to be done is to suspend the current 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly to pave the way for a peoples’ conference. The National Assembly should vacate itself to enable the sovereign conference to take place.
“I am particularly surprised that those who have always wanted a sovereign conference are now backing out and for whatever reason, I cannot say. While the Northern Elders’ Forum may be at home with the proposed conference, as we have always maintained that we are ready for any kind of conference, I still maintain that we either have a sovereign conference or nothing else. Without that, we had better manage the system as it is. Otherwise, the proposed conference will be a mere talk shop and a jamboree.”

FreeGlobe: tribalism is even 'rifer' in yoruba churches, go to Redeemed Church, Deeper Life etc and see tribalism walking on its two legs, one of the reasons I gave up on the inbred tribal nature of yorubas especially the old generation. I have had Yoruba friends tell me they know they are tribal