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nairavsdollars:
By Temidayo Akinsuyi

Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), in this interview with TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI speaks on his expectations for the New Year, his thoughts on the 2019 presidential election and other issues. Excerpts:

What are your expectations for Nigeria in the New Year especially under the Muhammadu Buhari administration?

I expect things to get better in 2019. The economy will get better and the situation of things will greatly improve. Nigerians will begin to see that the coming of Buhari has been a great blessing for this country. They will also see that some of the foundations he is laying down now for accountability, transparency, honesty and integrity and applying the resources of the state judiciously for infrastructure and other things of development will become permanent. No government in future will be able to fritter away the resources and leaving the masses suffering as it was done in the past before the coming of Buhari. So, I strongly believe that he is going to leave a permanent record which successive governments have to struggle to meet.

The 2019 election is coming up in few weeks’ time. Do you see President Buhari retaining his position?

I have no doubt that President Buhari will win the presidential election by a landslide.

Don’t you see Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a threat to him with many Nigerians believing that Northern votes will be divided between the two?

Atiku can’t divide his votes in the North and he will not get anything significant in the Northern region. Everybody especially in the North trust Buhari. They have confidence in him because of his records and integrity. They are sure that whenever he makes promises, you can hold him to his words. You cannot say that of Atiku. Nobody will want to leave what is good, what they have experienced and now take a risk for something that is uncertain. So, I believe President Buhari has performed creditably well to deserve a second term and Nigerians who are appreciative of what he has done in the last three and half years will ask him to continue for another four years.

Were you surprised by the actions of some federal lawmakers who booed President Buhari recently during his budget presentation?

The action of the lawmakers who booed the President was nothing but an animal behavior. Harry Belafonte used to sing one song. He said ‘ A donkey will sometimes bray, let him bray; let him bray’. That is my response to the actions of the lawmakers. We should allow their donkeys bray. They behave like animals and they just demonstrated their true nature during the budget presenation. We should just tolerate them at their low level of humanity and conduct. You saw what the President told them. He said they are expected to be above this because the whole world is watching them. I think the President is wrong because they are not above what they did. That is their level and they are demonstrating it to the world. So I am not surprised at all.

Some lawmakers in the House of Representatives have begun moves to revert Nigeria to parliamentary system of government. Do you see this as a step in the right direction?

I believe Nigerians (this time unemployed legislators) have found a new favourite subject for debate and wasteful diversion of time and resources. Suddenly, Parliamentary System of Government is the holy grail for Nigerian political salvation. For days now, the media, both orthodox and social have become fiercely engaged in pursuing a new political chimera with excitement and apparent seriousness.

Let it be made clear, the whole idea of one system being better than the other is “poppy cock”, time wasting, arising from either ignorance or mischief. The mischief here being to have a Buhari with reduced powers.

In 1963, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Ife, the Students’ Union invited Chief Rotimi Williams, soon after he left office as Attorney-General of the Western Region, to address the Students’ Body on which system was preferable for Nigeria: Parliamentary or Presidential? I have never forgotten his answer. Briefly summarised, it was that neither of the two systems was better than the other.

The success of Governance depended on the quality of the operators of government. Bad operators, i.e., bad politicians and “leaders” would always produce bad and failed governance. In other words, the fault was not in the system of governance, but in the quality of the operators of the system.

We were operating this suddenly “golden” parliamentary system then. It led to a declaration of a state of emergency in the Western Region, restriction and detention of major political figures, crisis and violence, and the fall of the first Republic. The fault dear Nigerians, was not in that system, but in the irresponsible and reckless manner in which First Republic politicians conducted themselves.

It is even more foolish to think that the introduction of the parliamentary system will weaken the Buhari Government and empower the opposition. On the contrary, the Prime Minister under a Parliamentary System is far more powerful than a President under the Presidential system.

The Prime Minister combines the positions of Leader of Parliament and Head of Government. He does not need the confirmation of parliament to appoint Ministers. It is his sole prerogative. If a vote of no confidence against him succeeds, he can dissolve parliament, and compel his critics and foes to face a fresh election in which they might not be returned.

In other words, a Prime Minister is President and Speaker of the House of Representatives rolled into one. Never mind the fact that the British Parliament has someone designated “Speaker”. All he does is to recognize House members who wish to speak.

The Prime Minister must be recognised above every other person as soon as he or she rises up to speak. The Speaker has no discretion in that regard. It is the British Prime Minister who exercises all the powers currently enjoyed by the Nigerian speaker. The House of Lords (Senate) is simply a decoration intended to give the aristocracy and retired elder statesmen a false sense of importance and relevance.

The Prime Minister is effectively, National President, Speaker and President of the Senate, rolled into one. To bring home the message clearly, there will be no “Saraki”, no “Dogara”- in that system. Buhari will bestride the Nigerian World, under the parliamentary system being proposed.

The Senate and its President in such a system is an impotent and relatively unimportant body. It can delay, but cannot hold-up legislation. In fact its opposition to any bill can be overridden by the House under the leadership of the Prime Minister.

So those calling for the re-introduction of the Parliamentary system in the mistaken belief that it will result in a weak Executive Branch should think again. They are foolishly asking for a system in which a powerful Prime Minister will control both the Legislative and the Executive Arms of Government. My advice to them is “Beware of what you wish for yourselves.
https://www.independent.ng/future-governments-will-struggle-to-meet-buharis-records-sagay/

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Which records

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amaniro:
I have no doubt that President Buhari will win the presidential election by a landslide.

Don’t you see Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a threat to him with many Nigerians believing that Northern votes will be divided between the two?

Atiku can’t divide his votes in the North and he will not get anything significant in the Northern region. Everybody especially in the North trust Buhari. They have confidence in him because of his records and integrity. They are sure that whenever he makes promises, you can hold him to his words. You cannot say that of Atiku. Nobody will want to leave what is good, what they have experienced and now take a risk for something that is uncertain. So, I believe President Buhari has performed creditably well to deserve a second term and Nigerians who are appreciative of what he has done in the last three and half years will ask him to continue for another four years.

Were you surprised by the actions of some federal lawmakers who booed President Buhari recently during his budget presentation?

The action of the lawmakers who booed the President was nothing but an animal behavior. Harry Belafonte used to sing one song. He said ‘ A donkey will sometimes bray, let him bray; let him bray’. That is my response to the actions of the lawmakers. We should allow their donkeys bray. They behave like animals and they just demonstrated their true nature during the budget presenation. We should just tolerate them at their low level of humanity and conduct. You saw what the President told them. He said they are expected to be above this because the whole world is watching them. I think the President is wrong because they are not above what they did. That is their level and they are demonstrating it to the world. So I am not surprised at all.

Some lawmakers in the House of Representatives have begun moves to revert Nigeria to parliamentary system of government. Do you see this as a step in the right direction?

I believe Nigerians (this time unemployed legislators) have found a new favourite subject for debate and wasteful diversion of time and resources. Suddenly, Parliamentary System of Government is the holy grail for Nigerian political salvation. For days now, the media, both orthodox and social have become fiercely engaged in pursuing a new political chimera with excitement and apparent seriousness.

Let it be made clear, the whole idea of one system being better than the other is “poppy cock”, time wasting, arising from either ignorance or mischief. The mischief here being to have a Buhari with reduced powers.

In 1963, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Ife, the Students’ Union invited Chief Rotimi Williams, soon after he left office as Attorney-General of the Western Region, to address the Students’ Body on which system was preferable for Nigeria: Parliamentary or Presidential? I have never forgotten his answer. Briefly summarised, it was that neither of the two systems was better than the other.

The success of Governance depended on the quality of the operators of government. Bad operators, i.e., bad politicians and “leaders” would always produce bad and failed governance. In other words, the fault was not in the system of governance, but in the quality of the operators of the system.

We were operating this suddenly “golden” parliamentary system then. It led to a declaration of a state of emergency in the Western Region, restriction and detention of major political figures, crisis and violence, and the fall of the first Republic. The fault dear Nigerians, was not in that system, but in the irresponsible and reckless manner in which First Republic politicians conducted themselves.

It is even more foolish to think that the introduction of the parliamentary system will weaken the Buhari Government and empower the opposition. On the contrary, the Prime Minister under a Parliamentary System is far more powerful than a President under the Presidential system.

The Prime Minister combines the positions of Leader of Parliament and Head of Government. He does not need the confirmation of parliament to appoint Ministers. It is his sole prerogative. If a vote of no confidence against him succeeds, he can dissolve parliament, and compel his critics and foes to face a fresh election in which they might not be returned.

In other words, a Prime Minister is President and Speaker of the House of Representatives rolled into one. Never mind the fact that the British Parliament has someone designated “Speaker”. All he does is to recognize House members who wish to speak.

The Prime Minister must be recognised above every other person as soon as he or she rises up to speak. The Speaker has no discretion in that regard. It is the British Prime Minister who exercises all the powers currently enjoyed by the Nigerian speaker. The House of Lords (Senate) is simply a decoration intended to give the aristocracy and retired elder statesmen a false sense of importance and relevance.

The Prime Minister is effectively, National President, Speaker and President of the Senate, rolled into one. To bring home the message clearly, there will be no “Saraki”, no “Dogara”- in that system. Buhari will bestride the Nigerian World, under the parliamentary system being proposed.

The Senate and its President in such a system is an impotent and relatively unimportant body. It can delay, but cannot hold-up legislation. In fact its opposition to any bill can be overridden by the House under the leadership of the Prime Minister.




That's why there is a head of government which is the prime minister and a head of state which is a celebratory president. The prime minister sets up his minister, and he is taken out of office by a vote of no confidence, if you look at it critically you'd see powers are equally shared, and the prime minister can be easily impeached just like what almost happened to may.

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And not PDP 16 yrs, that will be great if yiu can keep to that because i know you dont have much achievements, so you must look for what to say, maybe blame your wife for poor performance

Gistpeeps:
https://cdn.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/13212554/Olusegun-Obasanjo.jpg

I was so delighted to see former United States Presidents, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush Jnr, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama line up at the funeral service of former President George H. W. Bush Snr.

The lesson here is, all these leaders and several other former Western leaders alive, never participate in their country’s politics after leaving office. They remain great statesmen and only comment on global issues affecting humanity generally.

I want to see Obasanjo do the same to show that he is indeed a statesman.

https://all-gists..com/2018/12/obasanjo-quit-active-politics-be-a-statesmen-reporter.html

Why dont you direct this message to PMB

made4naijamusic:
Davido orders one of his camera men off his private jet after he used the toilet.

Watch video

source :

https://www.made4naija.com/2018/12/davido-orders-one-of-his-camera-men-off-his-private-jet-after-he-used-the-toilet-video/

It may be the smell, only God knows what the guy ate

Esseite:
He is seeking greener pastures while running from what they created...

Dont mind them, i have sent his details to German authorities, he will not be given visa he must remain here to get a full dose of Sai baba

yns4real:
https://punchng.com/breaking-n68bn-fraud-efcc-seizes-46-properties-from-jonathans-campaign-director/

Prosecute her, why tell us, do your job EFCC and leave the public alone, but it still does not change the fact that APC and PMB has failed Nigerians and will be voted out.

EFCC if you have enough evidence take her to court and if found guilty she will be jailed, so focus on your job and leave the public out of it.

Same time next year you will come again and tell Nigerians how much APC and Co stole

The FGN should respect the state govt irrespective of Political affiliation, what happened in IMO state ? why did the FGN not forceful open up the location that was initially planned for the campaign, why is that of Akwa Ibom different, Nigerians are watching this show of shame being display by APC and the FGN at the time of reckoning everyone involved in this act will be accountable to actions

Philistine:
U are very foolish, so a murderer should be set free?

Did you not read the part that he was discharged and acquitted, continue taking sides with evil, one day it will knock at your door step

1Ebiscoo:
The lawmaker representing Kaduna Central district at the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, has warned governors with the tendencies of denying opposition political parties the use of Stadium and public places for campaigns to desist from such.

Senator Sani said the news that the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel has rescinded his earlier decision to stop President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress, APC, from using the Godswill Akpabio Stadium was a welcome development.

DAILY POST reported earlier that the Akwa Ibom state government said President Buhari will not be allowed to use the Stadium in Uyo, for his campaign next Friday.

The state government, instead, directed the president and the APC to make use of the Uyo Township Stadium, which accommodates a far lesser number of people compared to the 30,000-capacity Godswill Akpabio stadium.

But in a statement yesterday, Akwa Ibom Governor, Udom Emmanuel, rescinded the decision and announced the approval of the Stadium for the flag-off of President Buhari’s re-election campaign in the South-South region.

A terse statement signed by the Commissioner for Youths and Sport, Mr Monday Uko, Monday night confirmed the approval.

Reacting to the development, the lawmaker tweeted, “Denying any party or candidate the use of public stadiums for political reasons is uncivil and sadistic.

“The news that Akwa Ibom has rescinded it’s earlier decision is a welcome development.

“All state Governments with this kind of autocratic tendencies should take note.”

http://mcebiscoo.com/2018/12/25/2019-shehu-sani-reacts-gov-emmanuel-finally-opens-godswill-akpabio-stadium-buhari/

Shehu, Kwankwaso,is very close to you what happened to him after he must have paid for eagle square, I dont like people that speak from both sides of their mouth, APC Government is tuning this country into something else and we are clapping for them

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ImperialYoruba:
Saraki is a fo0l!

The top lawmaker in the country begging securoty agents to abide by the law.

Can you imagine? The person that presides over what becomes law and what doesnt is begging those who are supposed to enforce it to please act right and obey law.

What the heck! What is he waiting on? The law gives him right to invite the Chief Law Enforcement Officer, the AG of the Federation to come to Senate and answer why citizens rights are being flouted by security agencies. He should never write Buhari. He cant bring the President to the assembly for questioning. He should write Attorney General to come assembly and answer.

Saraki has fall my hand! . They have taken power from Saraki and rendered him useless in his own chambers. Chineke God!

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Rubbish

Philistine:
Saraki is foolish

I feel you are the foolish one here

It is good for them, I don't pity them at all, if the governor arrange for a rally you will see all of them at the rally, so let them suffer they deserve it

Get your facts right before you mislead people because you are very much go at it, was not GEJ that opened the stadium in port Harcourt but Wike that instructed for the stadium to be opened

helinues:
And you think the budget will be passed next month right?

Well we sit and watch them play their usual politics, PMB has failed Nigerians and even himself, asking for another fours years with nothing to show rather than blame PDP for it's 16yrs with the PDP leaders that govern the country in that 16 yrs with you in APC

These are the once we call patriot, using their little resources to ensure the right thing is done, I not that suya sellers and its BMC gangs that are paid 30k calling themselves patriot .

I salute your courage Sir, you will never be forgotten in the history of this nation

helinues:
Atiku is playing with fire ( Nigerians) which will consume him.

You can't win an election this way

By exposing them or speaking the truth, what do you want him to do keep quiet?

Iwillbegreat:
Whoever have the connection, please I want to join.

Buhari is the best president Nigeria ever had, so I'll like to praise him here.

We can chat on WhatsApp about the fee, don't worry I'm great at marketing

The fee is 30k a month tax free and you must be a very bad/pathetic liar

yemobrown:
The op is a fool. I expected to see pictures of the projects to counter the honorable but rather present a silly statement from some people as fact.

Nonsense.

Please to confirm what your long time friends said please kindly post updated pictures of the bridge Currently been constructed or you desist from calling him a liar

quickberry:
You don hit my car.....oyinbo repete

Don't mind my phone

Tell us what you have done in 4 yrs, not PDP 16yrs, I really don't understand you guys in APC, what have you done, because if you continue like this your own 16yrs will be worse than that of PDP

GBAREN:
Learn what? What is there to learn from a party rally

I wonder

haryomikun:
The law of not using phones while driving is on point. If you drive, you'd understand driving needs full concentration. Mobile phones distract one's attention from the environment, especially on the highway

What about the hands free

dre11:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/302419-driving-with-hands-free-illegal-in-nigeria-frsc.html

Very soon you will not be allowed to talk while driving in Nigeria

I understand that making calls me while driving is not good, but you can use the hands free, if you say no hands free it's as good as no talking while driving

Asshurbanipal:
You can see the names if witnesses against APC. Do those names sound like names of people from upper iweka?

Don't mind the fool

Ecstasy154:
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has slammed previous administrations of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for lack of transparency and accountability with a charge on Nigerians to ask them what they did with monies earned from the sales of crude oil.


Prof. Osinbajo gave the charge during the weekend at the palace of the Ovie of Ughelli, HRM Oharisi III during a courtesy visit on the monarch in company of other Urhobo monarchs.

The Vice President also disclosed that in building infrastructures for the development of the country, the administration of President Muhammad Buhari had spent N2.7 trillion on building infrastructure since its assumption in office.


In his address to the monarchs, Osinbajo, who was accompanied by Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachukwu, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and others, said: “This is not a government that believes that the money of the people should be stolen because our determination is to build this country.

“We are earning today 60 percent less than what the country earned in the past 10years, yet we are spending more in building infrastructure than any government in the country today.

“The question we ought to ask previous government is, what did they do with the monies if today we are still building the Itakpe-Warri railway line which was established 35years ago as well as the Kaduna Hydro project which also was established 40years ago?”


http://dailypost.ng/2018/12/22/tell-nigerians-oil-money-16-years-osinbajo-tells-pdp/

Show us Your Own for three and a half years

While we wait for the source, this is a lesson learned if the story is confirmed that all power belongs to God, so PMB watch out

stephanie11:
@POLITICSNGR

Ex-Aviation minister, Femi Fani Kayode has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari swore to deal with lawmakers that 'booed' him during the 2019 Budget presentation at the National Assembly last week.

PoliticsNGR gathered that FFK, in a series of tweets on Saturday afternoon disclosed that the President allegedly swore in Aso-rock that he will 'show lawmakers who is in charge', blaming the Senate president, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Reps, Yakubu Dogara for the embarrassment.

He wrote; "A reliable source at the Presidency told me that when Buhari/Jubril got back to the Villa after being booed at the National Assembly he sat down in silence for almost one hour after which he pointed to the sky with his right finger and, in deep rage, swore that "WHEN" he comes back in 2019 he will "teach the legislators the lesson of their lives" and "show them who is in charge".

He blamed Saraki and Dogara for the whole episode and mentioned the names of APC legislators who he claimed were involved in"the wicked and evil conspiracy to disgrace me".

https://politicsngr.com/buhari-vowed-deal-lawmakers-booed-femi-fani-kayode/

There's nothing new than frame them with Trumped up charges and lock them up, but he should not forget that God is bigger than him

njelrapheal:
This story doesn't add up. U met Aisha who asked u to meet kyari to clear your name only to be assassinated. My take is that he had information that could expose a lot, he threatened to release such if his name isn't cleared and so was silenced. The jubril matter comes to mind again

But he should have instructed his lawyers to release any information he has if anything happened to him. How can he keep any form of information without a back up

deomelllo:


APC Massively Testing Microphone @ Dino Melaye's Constituency. PICTURES.

So despite the poor baby performance of the governor and APC this people you came out for what

dre11:
* Plots to shutout APC NWC members

*Underground battle for campaign funds control rage

*Why presidential campaign council is yet to be set up

*No one can hijack our campaign — APC

* Campaign may last for five weeks



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/12/2019-cabal-hijacks-president-buharis-campaign/

Cabal is working for PDP simple nothing more

kristenafolabi:
Governor Ibikunle Amosun has shown support to his annointed Candidate Adekunle Abdulkadir Akinlade by supporting him financially for the APM rally held today at the M.K.O Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta.
This is what Governor Amosun released for APM launching and it was shared at Alhaji Lemboye"s house in the presence of Americo and WillyKay (AMORAN) and others

15k to each polling Unit (3,326 polling units in Ogun State)


To hire buses for each polling unit

15,000 × 3326 = 49,890,000

500k to each ward (236 wards)

500,000 × 236 = 118,000,000

Derin Adebiyi , Adenmosun and others (#5,000,000)

Security (500,000 × 56 DP)

Overall of #201,000,000

After spending this kind of money, the staffs of Mapoly and TASCE are still been owed salaries and allowances and all our governor can do is spend on his preferred candidate....

If he had spent same amount on APC campaign will you come up with this article?