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This is wickedness. Feel so sad.
Even some of his aides and that red uniform man could not beleive their eyes.

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After 2015 Election!!!

Immediately after 2015, these are the most likely headlines that will greet you in the media for months.

1) Punch: Amaechi Begs To Return To PDP.


2) Vanguard: PDP Denies Amaechi Readmission.


3) Guardian: I Am One Of The Founding Fathers Of PDP, So No One Can Deny Me Of The House I Laboured To Build: Amaechi.


4) National Mirror: Rivers Youths Progressive Begs For Amaechi's Readmission Into PDP.


5) Sun: Amaechi Lobbies Dr. Peter Odili, Nwike, Obasanjo To Meet With Jonathan.


6) The Nation: PDP Is A Great Party: Amaechi." "Amaechi Describes Jonathan As A Charismatic Leader.


7) Tribune: Amaechi Dumps APC. Begs To Return To PDP.


8.) Compass: Amaechi Describes APC As One Man Party.

Charlatans masquerading as progressives wasting their time for election they lost!

Lovely

4,000 APC members defect to PDP in Nasarawa

November 27, 2013 by NAN 11 Comments

More than 4,000 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Keffi and Kokona local government areas of Nasarawa State.

A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria reports that the defectors were formally received into the PDP fold at Keffi and Garaku, the headquarters of Keffi and Kokona local government areas, respectively by the state’s Chairman of the party, Mr Yunana Iliya.

Speaking while receiving the defectors, Iliya commended their decision to join the PDP and urged members of other political parties in the state to also join the party.

He commended their courage of the defectors and urged party loyalists to embrace the new entrants.

The PDP state chairman assured that the party would continue to initiate programmes aimed at bringing development to the people.

Iliya appealed to the electorate to vote for PDP candidates in the upcoming local government elections in the state as as well as in subsequent elections.

He said that, if elected, the party would embark on massive construction of rural roads to open up the rural areas in the state.

Iliya said that the plight of women, children, persons with disabilities as well as other vulnerable groups would be also given top priority by the party.

While appreciating the people for sustaining peace in the two council areas, Iliya urged them to sustain the culture of tolerance and peaceful co-existence.

He also called on the public to support the efforts of security agencies in maintaining peace in the area.

Speaking on behalf of the defectors, Mr Ibrahim Anfani, said that their decision to join the PDP was informed by the leadership style of those elected under the party’s platform across the state

Anfani said that most of the people elected under the platform of the PDP had carried everybody along irrespective of tribal, religious and political inclination in the state .

Also speaking, a member of the state assembly (PDP- Kokona West), Mr Danladi Jatau, assured 100 per cent victory of the party in the upcoming council poll.

NAN reports that the party is currently on a state-wide sensitisation of its supporters ahead of the forthcoming local government elections in the state.


http://www.punchng.com/news/4000-apc-members-defect-to-pdp-in-nasarawa/

payless: These two Governors are only in PDP as mole. These two are being planted by APC. They are there to gather what is going on in PDP and relay information to APC. They know what they are doing. Deep down in their hearts, they are no more with PDP.

And you think some of the governors joining the APC are not going there as moles?
PDP will surprise you.

Aliyu will be making the biggest
political mistake by joining APC

Tribalism is Nigeria's biggest problem. It's not a coincidence that:

1) All the Board of Trustee members of the Award agency are from South West and ACN/APC politicians.

2) All the so-called judges are from South West

3) The First, Second and Third positions are all South West papers sympathetic to ACN/APC dishing out APC propaganda

4) So, The Nation and National Mirror are by these awards better than Guardian, The Sun, Daily Times, Daily Trust, Vanguard and even Thisday because they are not South West papers?

These are the backgrounds of the Directors and Board of Trustee members of Diamond Award for Media Excellence that gave Punch, The Nation and National Mirror first, second and third position respectively

1) Mr Lanre Idowu (CEO).....................formerly ACN chieftain and now APC chieftain

2) Chief Segun Olusola...................APC sympathiser

3) Mr Olu Ajomale.......................South West Contractor. APC member

4) Chief Mrs Oluremi Oyo................formerly in PDP during Obasanjo tenure.
but now a staunch APC supporter with Fani Kayode

The man is a thorough bred Nigerian Politician.
No wonder Obj didn't joke with him

President Goodluck Jonathan has written to both chambers of the National Assembly indicating his decision to postpone the budget presentation earlier scheduled to take place today (Tuesday).

In a letter addressed to the National Assembly and read by the Senate President David Mark, the president said “there is a need for both chambers to harmonise the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Financial Strategy Paper (FSP) before the presentation”.

The letter further said “in the circumstance, it has become necessary to defer the presentation of the 2014 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly until such a time when both respected chambers would have harmonised their positions on the MTEF” hoping that “it will be in the shortest possible time”.

After the announcement, the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila told Channels Television in a live broadcast of the 12 noon version of the hourly News Track, that the president “gave a very cogent reason why the budget could not be presented. Under the Fiscal Responsibility Act, as you will be aware, the budget is predicated upon the MTEF and the MTEF has not been passed” noting that the Senate passed a version of it with a benchmark at $76.50 and the House has passed $79 per barrel benchmark”.

He also applauded the president for not sending a proxy to present the budget, as was rumoured, and noted that “it will have been unacceptable to some of us, based on tradition, law and the constitution”.

He noted that the deferment has “put us back in reverse” insisting that “it is rather unfortunate”.

He further added that the Fiscal Responsibility Act envisages a situation where the MTEF is actually submitted to the National Assembly months ahead of the passage of the budget, not a week or two before the budget, so it will give us time to thoroughly and vigorously debate the issues that may be contained therein”.

“Definitely, they will have to, at some point, if it comes to that, go back to the drawing board and re-arrange or re-draft their budget in conformity with what the benchmark is, because it throws it up quite a bit” he said.

Despite the setback, the House Minority Leader maintained that “we cannot sacrifice a proper budget at the altar of timeousness” stressing that “it is unfortunate but the National Assembly will speed up its harmonisation process; we can harmonise in a couple of days if we want to and agree or disagree”.

Last week’s session was shifted because the Medium Term Expenditure Framework , the government’s financial outlay for the next three years, was not adopted by the Senate and the House of Representatives.


http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/11/19/jonathan-postpones-2014-budget-presentation/

oluwashaddow: pls do it chap chap oooooooooo,cos I knw dis is wat ASUU is waiting for,to see if u will put the promised 250billion for 2014 in d budget,b4 dey call off d strike, all d mourning stuff na formality

Bros, I think so too

It has nothing to do with security.

It's the harmonization of oil benchmark.
Senate is proposing ..........N76.50k
House of Reps..................N79
Fed Govt.........................N74

Long overdue
Yar'Adua was ill advised to reverse an earlier privatization of these drainpipes

Which media again is naijacenter.com

BY VINCENT UJUMADU

The battle line is drawn among the five major contestants in the very keen contest to replace the outgoing governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi. These are Chief Willie Obiano of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Senator Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Tony Nwoye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Ifeanyi Ubah of Labour Party, LP, and Mr. Godwin Ezeemo of Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA.

Obiano and Nwoye are from Anambra North senatorial zone, the only area that has not produced the governor since Anambra State was created in 1991, while Ubah and Ezeemo are from Anambra South.

Ngige is the only candidate from Anambra Central and the reason politicians from the zone did not seek the highest political office in the state this time around is because by the time Governor Peter Obi completes his tenure next year, Anambra Central would have occupied the seat for 11 years (eight years by Obi and three years by Ngige).

So, it is equity consideration on their part, one may say.

For the South senatorial zone, the four governors they had produced namely, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju, Dr. Andy Uba and Mrs. Virgy Etiaba, have jointly occupied the Government House for about six years.

Therefore, for Saturday’s election, issues that will be on the front burner include the zone of the candidates, the political godfathers behind them, their closeness with the churches, programmes in their manifestoes and their antecedents, among other considerations.

Anambra North (Obiano and Nwoye) The emergence of the two candidates from a zone noted for delivering bloc votes during elections is a source of concern to stakeholders from the area. When Nwoye and Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu from Anambra South were engaged in a legal battle for the ticket of the PDP, many people from Anambra North somehow prayed that the area should not be made to face the problem of splitting their votes between him (Nwoye) and Obiano. So, when Nwoye eventually won at the Supreme Court, the reality starred them in the face.

Tomorrow, the two, who are in fact from the same local government (Anambra East, may have to decide whether to go for one person or vote according to their political leanings in which case there will be the inevitable splitting of votes in the area. It was gathered as of press time that prominent people from the area are still putting heads together to resolve the issue before the election.

But if the two candidates split the votes in the four local government areas of Anambra East, Anambra West, Ayamelum and Oyi which is the area popularly known as Omambala, whoever gets the upper hand in the other three local government areas that complete the zone namely, Onitsha North, Onitsha South and Ogbaru, will carry the day in the zone.

For the two candidates, their performance in Anambra Central will be determined by the personality of Governor Peter Obi, who is totally in charge of Anaocha and Njikoka, two local governments that can be described as no go areas for other politicians, in which case, they have become Obiano territory.

In Dunukofia, where Prince Arthur Eze, the billionaire sponsor of Nwoye comes from, other parties may try, but it is PDP that will likely carry the day. Awka North and Awka South will likely be shared among Obiano, Ngige, Nwoye and Ubah in that order. In Idemili North and Idemili South, Ngige will get the majority any day, although the influence of Senator Annie Okonkwo, who abandoned Ngige after he was initially named his campaign director general, should not be underrated. Okonkwo has already pitched tent with Nwoye and another advantage Nwoye has is the massive support from the youths, who have already stormed Anambra State ahead of the election.

In the South senatorial zone, with the position of the Uba family still unclear and with the loss of the PDP ticket by Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, the area will be for grabs for the candidates, although Nnewi North and Ekwusigo are very likely to go to Ifeanyi Ubah, Also, Obiano, Ubah and Nwoye are also going to make impact in Ihiala local government. Ihiala, it should be recalled, used to be the traditional PDP area, but it changed during the second tenure election of Governor Obi in 2010, when the people decided to vote for APGA because of what the governor did in the area. This time, many prominent people in the area are said to be supporting Obiano. For Orumba North and Orumba South, what will determine the candidates’ performance is their effort to sell their programmes.

Ezeemo is from Aguata local government, but whether he would be able to stamp his authority there and in other local government areas in the zone will be seen on Election Day.

The Running Mates Another factor that will also influence the election will be the running mates and their ability to pull out the votes from their areas.

For instance, Obiano’s running mate is from Enugwu Ukwu, a densely populated area of Njikoka local government in Anambra Central, while his wife is from Ogbunike in Oyi local government. Ngige’s deputy is from Anambra West local government area in Anambra North and he is a known grass root politician.

Also, Nwoye’s deputy is from Orumba and he too is a known politician in the state and particularly Nnewi, where he is practices medicine.

Ubah’s deputy is a Prince from Ukpo in Dunukofia, although his uncle, Prince Arthur Eze is the person funding PDP in the election

Powers behind the candidates –

APGA - Unarguably, Governor Obi is the power behind the candidate of APGA. His performance in the state in the past seven and half years in all parts of the state is the selling point for the APGA campaign.

Obi has mixed the campaigns with the commissioning of projects and the flagging off of new ones, including the equipment of educational and health institutions. With the statement by Obiano that he will continue with the projects started by Obi, there is no doubt in anybody’s mind that it is the same government and if Obiano can govern the way Obi is doing if he wins, then the state is on the part of rapid development because Obi has laid a solid foundation for taking the state to the next level.

With government machinery at his disposal, Obiano is having an easy campaign and with his academic excellence which has been sold to the electorate, he is the candidate to beat.

APC – Senator Ngige, on his own, is popular among Anambra people, having been in government at a time the state was in dire need for good leadership. For this election, his backers are the governors of the APC states who want to use the Anambra election prove that the party is prepared to take over the country after the 2015 election.

PDP- Comrade Nwoye’s campaign is being backed by the oil magnet, Prince Arthur Eze. Eze has said that it is his desire to ensure that Nwoye becomes the next governor of Anambra State. The prince has consistently said that his interest is not what he would benefit from government because God has already blessed him, adding that his main concern is to ensure that a humble person like Nwoye is in charge of Anambra State.

LP- Ifeanyi Ubah is a very wealth person who said he does not need to enrich himself any longer through public office. His reason for seeking to govern the state, he said, is to help the less privileged persons and thousands of youths roaming the streets in search of jobs.

PPA- Ezeemo too has not godfather and he is enjoying the wealth he acquired abroad. He was even said to be the person funding the APC before he fell apart with the leaders of the party over the ticket of the party for the governorship election in Anambra State.

Role of church

The church is playing a major role in this election. Remarkably, the four most popular candidates, Nwoye, Obiano, Ngige and Ubah belong to the Catholic Church and they have been wooing the church for support.

The clergy also appear to be divided over who to support, but there are indications that the bishops may direct the priests on who to support among the four persons vying for the exalted office. As expected, the candidates have been making mouth watering donations to the various churches to solicit their support. - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/anambra-showdown-may-fare-tomorrow/#sthash.bm21ydde.VSEJqNYF.dpuf

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/anambra-showdown-may-fare-tomorrow/#sthash.bm21ydde.VSEJqNYF.dpuf

Aregbesola even awarded the contract to his son.
Sources say the boy suddenly became an instant millionaire throwing money around everywhere

@OP
The writer of this piece and you yourself are babies in politics.
Why not shelf your empty pride and learn politics from the masters of the game- the PDP?

hercules07: The guy is a punk, Obama has had to deal with a House that blocks everything he brings, every single thing, even if it is to help ordinary Americans, they do not care, they prefer the country burn than for Obama to succeed.

Hypocrite!
Is it not what your criminals and terrorist in APC do?

1) Ever wondered why the APC states of Borno and Yobe remain two hotspots of Boko Haram killings

2) We were crying everyday about corruption in the Oil Subsidy regime, but when govt opted for an end to the subsidy regime, your thieving masters brainwashed you guys to go on a jamboree at Ojota in the name of protest

3) people of the SouthWest complained of marginalization and the govt favored a South Westerner Mulikat for Speaker House of Reps, your Asiwaju progretheives Congress betrayed their own blood and opted for a northerner

4) Lots of imperfections were noticed in the Oil & gas industry, a Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) was forwarded to the Assembly which your men are sitting on till date

5) For nearly two decades, the entire country has been calling for a National Conference, the govt backtracked and offered you one, your hypocrites criminals then turned round shouting "no no no no it is not National Dialogue we need but Free and Fair 2015 elections"

6) Boko Haram were killing and maiming innocent citizens. Govt extended invitation to them for dialogue for a long time and they refused. During that time, your criminals masters were sponsoring propaganda of how govt is weak. The grace period for dialogue expired and govt decided to wield the big stick by declaring a state of emergency. Your Buhari and Tinubu became so pained, making it obvious to Nigerians that APC was behind Boko Haram activities.

I can go on and on . . . . . . .

APC is simply an Islamic Brotherhood.
Cos all I see in these pictures is a bunch of Islamic Boko Haram sponsors (except Abdulsalam Abubarkar)

APC thieves.
Was wondering how forbes forgot Tinubu in its list of world billionaires

mark_jac01: is it me? or am i beginning to like d blonde low cuttie dancer?

The beginning part of him playing the waiter role also looks cool
Song will be a hit

We are begging him ohh . . .
a certain group has even threatened to take him to court if he fails to declare.
Really, is there any past Nigerian President that ever did so much in just less than three years?

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Hm . . . even coming from an APC sympathiser.
Buhari is a leopard and a leopard can never change it's spots.

The whole hype about Nigeria's corruption perception is a creation of APC media propaganda to pave way for Buhari who is being packaged as incorruptible. But the APC spin doctors will be disappointed. Nigerian's are wiser.

You are a fo*ktard.
The "next Government" will still be one headed by GEJ

Neaman: I have always said it..Ngige is a good Man buh his Party choice marks the begin of his end politically.

Senator Annie Okonkwo was one of Ngige's biggest assets.