₦airaland Forum

Rotimi Amaechi and Goodluck Jonathan
GOVERNOR Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State was recently
appointed Director-General of the Buhari Campaign
Organisation. At an interactive session, Amaechi among other
things, reels out plans of the campaign organisation and also
clears the air on knotty issues. Excerpts:


Why Jonathan is in trouble — Gov Amaechi
Says he didn’t fund Buhari’s campaign

IS it true you funded the Buhari campaign for the primaries?

I did not. Buhari did not spend money for the primaries.
Anybody who said they spent money should come forward
with evidence. We have maintained consistently that Nigerians
would fund us and that is why we have launched our
campaign we are hoping that people will contribute. It is
there on our website; you will just look at the account and go
and pay.
And we are making sure that we convince General Buhari to
be the sole signatory to that account. That is the way we
would raise our money. We would not depend on rich men.
You can’t fight the president on funds. See how much he
raised from people who some of them collected the
N2.3trillion on oil subsidy and are yet to pay back. If he is
not prosecuting them for oil subsidy, why shouldn’t they pay
for his election?

Symbol of change

The president is trying to raise over N200 million for power
and then those people he is helping to raise the money are
giving him N500million. We can’t fight the president with
money, we will fight him with the people. We will fight the
president by telling Nigerians that they have to vote for
change and the symbol of change for us is the APC and
General Buhari. I will like to reiterate again that General
Buhari did not pay anybody to vote for him at the primaries
and he won because Nigerians want change.

How do you intend to combine your duty as director-general
of the APC presidential campaign with your duties as
governor?

We will try. That is why there is a deputy governor. I have a
deputy who is efficient and I will also from time to time go
back to the state. But we need to deliver and we are all
making sacrifices ?to deliver this change. I don’t know how
people feel. The president and the federal government have
not denied the fact that N2.3trillion was taken for oil
subsidy and that was six months in 2011.
Oil subsidy before that time was N300billion, so how did it
rise to N2.3trillion and the people are not afraid? The federal
government and all its agents were not afraid that
N2.3trillion was taken. So, basically, I don’t mind what I can
do legally to make sure that there is a better Nigeria.

What about the controversy that you have not paid eight
months salaries?

Anybody who said I have not paid him salaries should come
forward. We have paid up till December; you can call Rivers
State to confirm. I got a Blackberry message on Tuesday,
saying; “Thank God, we are going home with our salary
before Christmas.”

Payment of salaries

What we agreed in the cabinet was that we should make
sure that everybody goes home with his salary before
Christmas because as a Christian, I know that December 23
and 24 are the two days that Christians like to shop. I do
not owe salaries in Rivers State. I am proud to say that I
will pay salaries until I leave office and I will continue to
pursue development projects in the state.
I was even surprised that the president’s spokesman even
put it in one of his statements when he was responding to
the accusation that the people who contributed to the
N21billion are those plundering our economy and he said after
all, Governor Amaechi funded the election of Buhari while he
owes teachers eight months salary. And I asked the question,
for you to be a presidential spokesman, facts and statistics
must be on your palm; you shouldn’t joke with that. But the
man was just reacting to gossip.

What are Buhari’s programmes for Nigeria if he wins the
2015 election?

The message is simple. Buhari chased away Maitasene while he
was Head of State. Continue reading....

www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/jonathan-trouble-gov-amaechi/

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A former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has called on rich and wealthy Nigerians to come to the aid of the hopeless and the less-privileged members of the society.

Obasanjo made this call at the carol service organised by him in the Chapel of Christ The Glorious King, located inside the premises of Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, capital of Ogun State, on Tuesday night.

He said there were many poor people in the society.

He said, “I want to appeal to the rich in the society to always remember the less-privileged in the society. There are many children without hope out there. We should come to their aid. There are boys and girls in our communities with such problem.”

Obasanjo cited an example of a gospel musical group from Ibadan, made up of orphans, who entertained guests at the event.

He said, “They have been part of us here and I want to thank the governor for promising to assist them after I had told him about their plight. For us with hope, we should help them.”

The former President also called on private investors to come to Ogun State and invest, given the infrastructural development and relative peace being enjoyed in the state.

He appealed to the former Head of Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan, and other industrialists who were indigenes of the state to use their connections in the private sector to attract more industries to the state.

“The challenge is for you to bring your colleagues in the private sector and give us more companies,” Obasanjo told Shonekan.

The occasion witnessed prayers for the state, the country, and Obasanjo’s family and had in attendance traditional rulers, politicians, and choristers from different churches.

http://www.punchng.com/news/help-the-poor-obasanjo-urges-wealthy-citizens/

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Senator Oluremi Tinubu on Monday picked the All Progressives Congress ticket for the Lagos Central Senatorial District at the party’s primary election.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Tinubu is presently representing the senatorial district at the Senate.

Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Mr Kehinde Akinola, who declared the winner, said a total of 2,428 votes were cast during the election, out of which 2,379 were valid.

Akinola said Tinubu had 2,354 votes while her opponent, Mr Odutola Adetokunbo, had 25 votes.

He said there were 49 invalid votes.

Addressing journalists, Tinubu commended the delegates and the people of the constituency for the confidence they had in her.

She described the victory as a “debt” that would be paid back through quality representation at the Senate.

NAN reports that Adetokunbo and his agents were not at the venue when the result was announced.

The election started at about 1pm and ended at about 5.40pm at the Landmark Centre, Oniru Estate, Victoria Island.

http://www.punchng.com/news/tinubu-picks-lagos-apc-senate-ticket/

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Local government councillors from Ife/Ijesa district have warned the All Progressives Congress in Osun State against upturning the victory of Alhaji Sola Lawal, who was reported to have won the party’s Senatorial ticket in Osun East Senatorial District.

The councilors, who took a protest letter to the APC secretariat in Osogbo on Monday, threatened not to recognise any candidate imposed on the party in the zone.

The letter was signed by about 80 councilors from the local government areas across the senatorial district including the Chairman, Councillors Forum in Ife/Ijesa Senatorial District, Rawlings Oyebayo.

The letter read, ” We, members of the body of councillors in Ife/Ijesa have watched with dismay recent development in our party particularly with regards to the nomination of flag bearer for the senatorial seat in our district. It is noted that the process of indirect primaries is welcome, it is a marked improvement on the old order of imposition.

“We are, however, dismayed that the popular candidate for the Senate in our senatorial district, Alhaji Sola Lawal, who won the acclaimed primaries with 17 votes to beat the incumbent’s paltry three votes, is about to be robbed of his victory.

“It is our wish to state unequivocally that anybody presented outside the rightful owner of the mandate, Sola Lawal, will not be acceptable to us. We are resolute in our firm belief that only a credible candidate can win the next election for us.”

Sources close to the party had told our correspondent that Lawal, who is the Publicity Secretary of the APC in Ogun State, scored 17 votes against three votes polled by serving Senator Babajide Omoworare in the modified primary conducted at the Government House. But Omoworare’s media aide, Mr. Tunde Dairo, told our correspondent that no election was conducted while describing the modified primary as a kangaroo one.

He alleged that the chairman of the screening committee, who screened the aspirants, Isa Azeez, surprisingly turned the screening into the “so called primaries.”

He said, “After the sham, the governor called party leaders and they organised a proper primaries, which Senator Babajide Omoworare won convincingly.”

However, the Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy of APC in Osun State, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, said in a telephone interview with our correspondent in Osogbo on Sunday that the party had not conducted primaries to pick its flag bearers for the National Assembly elections.

He said the result of the APC’s primaries would be made available either on Tuesday or Wednesday.

http://www.punchng.com/news/80-osun-councillors-warn-apc-against-upturning-lawals-victory/#comments

The Peoples Democratic Party has filed a fresh suit seeking an order compelling the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, to declare himself no longer fit to represent the Kebbe/Tambuwal Federal Constituency.

The suit was filed while the one instituted by Tambuwal seeking to stop his removal and declaration of his seat vacant on the account of his defection from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress was pending.

Both suits are filed before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court in Abuja, had earlier fixed the one instituted by Tambuwal for hearing on December 3.

Justice Mohammed on Monday granted an ex parte application seeking leave by the PDP to commence its suit against Tambuwal.

The office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives; Tambuwal himself; and the Deputy Speaker, Mr. Emeka Ihedioha, are the respondents in the suit.

The court after granting the leave also ordered the plaintiff to put all the respondents on notice.

The court also directed that the court order and the motion on notice to be filed by the plaintiff should be served on the three respondents.

The PDP in its fresh suit, maintained that by virtue of section 68(1)(g) of the Constitution, Tambuwal’s defection from the party, which sponsored his election to the House of Representatives, amounted to losing his seat.

The plaintiff contended that under section 68(2) of the Constitution, it was mandatory for Tambuwal, as Speaker of the House of Representatives, to declare as vacant the Kebbe/Tambuwal seat, whose occupant had defected from the party which sponsored him to the House.

They are also seeking an alternative order compelling the Deputy Speaker to declare the seat vacant in the event that Tambuwal fails to do so.

The prayers being sought by the PDP in its suit filed on November 24 and marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/901/2014, read, “An order of mandamus compelling the 1st respondent (office of the Speaker) to give effect to the provisions of section 68(1)(g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) by declaring the Kebbe/Tambuwal Federal Constituency seat vacant.

“An order of injunction restraining the 2nd respondent (Tambuwal) from performing or continuing to perform the function of the 1st respondent in the House of Representatives, or sitting or continuing to sit in the House of Representatives as a member.

“In the alternative, an order of court compelling the 3rd respondent (Deputy Speaker, Ihedioha) to declare the Kebbe/Tambuwal seat vacant by an order of mandamus in terms of relief (a) supra.”

While moving the ex parte application seeking the court’s leave to commence the suit on Monday, PDP’s lawyer, Chief Mike Ahamba (SAN), said section 68(1)(g) of the Constitution was not “self-implementing.”

But he added that the provisions must be given its effect by virtue of provision of section 62(2) of the Constitution by compelling Tambuwal to declare the Kebbe/Tambuwal seat vacant.

The matter was adjourned till December 12.


http://www.punchng.com/news/pdp-files-counter-suit-to-sack-tambuwal/

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