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With all the corruption charges hanging around his neck.

A P C will you accept this crook?

LMAO. . .was he still in PDP? I thought he was rejected a long time ago together with El - Rufai and Co. Anyway, I won't be surprise if APC make him their presidential candidate since they are fond of outsourcing their candidates from rejected PDP dropouts.

take dat: So it wasn't as if the party executive investigated the allegations levelled against him and found him wanting before he was suspended?! PDP celebrating their Childishness on Children's day! Craze people!

Forget Premiumtimes. Research the terms of Reference of this committee yourself to know the truth.

Amaechi is a closed chapter. What makes matters worst for him is that he doesn't have the backing of Rivers people in this battle.

Goddex: Fayemi claims Uduaghan was the returning officer. In an election, it is the returning officer that collates and announce results. Why then was the DG Governors Forum made to announce the results instead of Uduaghan?

Fayemi is obviously lying. That election was inconclusive. I gathered reliably that disagreements started midway into the elections when Amaechi refused to step down and also accept Jang as concensus candidate. Besides, he was still exercising his powers as chairman and overruling suggestions from the pro Jang group. This got the Pro Jang governors pissed-off and they abandoned the meeting and left Rivers state lodge venue of the meeting for Akwa Ibom lodge. The remaining 16 pro Amaechi governors seized that opportunity to pressure the DG Governors Forum to announce a concocted result.

My thoughts exactly, Uduaghan, the returning officer should have been the one to announce the result and not a civil servant Director General employed by Amaechi and working inside Rivers state lodge. Forget this Fayemi man. He is lying. That is why they are keeping quiet.

musiwa27: first of all , you people are only putting yourself into trouble by trying to use religion for election. because there are 5 times more churches in lagos than mosque. and lagos as the record of having the world highest church density .

i dont get your point.

Musiwa, the ratio is even more. I would say for every Mosque they are 10 churches.

Obinoscopy: Would Buhari agree there's even a better candidate?

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2iic: Former Head of State and presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 general election, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said he is ready to step down as presidential candidate of the newly formed All Progressives Congress in the 2015 presidential election, if there is a formidable and better candidate.

He said he might contest the 2015 presidential election on the platform of the yet-to-be-registered APC, depending on what happened before the time.

Buhari stated this in Minna at the maiden edition of Sam Nda-Isaiah Public Lecture Series, in honour of the publisher of the Leadership Newspapers, which took place at the Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi International Conference Centre.

Answering questions from journalists on the possibility of him stepping down in case more candidates emerge on the platform of the party, Buhari said, “Whoever thinks he has got a chance, let him come out because the more we are, the merrier it becomes.

“I will be ready to step down if there is a formidable and better candidate. It is not about me but for the survival of the party. APC is about ensuring internal democracy. Whoever emerges is the person I will support. Yes I will be ready to step down.”

Buhari had, earlier in his address at the lecture, called on leaders and those in positions of authority to ensure a viable environment for people to thrive. He also called on the media to constantly demand and put leaders in check.

He said, “The moment there is nobody in the country to make our leaders to create a viable environment, then the nation is in trouble.”

Former Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau, said the holding of the national conventions of both the CPC and ANPP by May 11, 2013, was ideal as he was ready to drop his presidential ambition for the survival of APC, should a better and formidable candidate emerges as the party’s standard bearer for 2015.

Shekarau, who was at the lecture, said the emergence of APC standard bearer would be democratic, despite the array of formidable presidential materials in the APC.

He said, “It is too early to talk about or to have a presidential candidate. In APC, we will have internal democracy that will guide the party. Let us have the party on the ground first, congresses will be held at various levels that will produce our candidates. At that point, anybody can contest and the party will support the best candidate that emerges.”

Shekarau said as soon as all the merging parties were through with their national conventions, formal requests would be made to Independent National Electoral Commission for APC registration, to give room for other activities that would climax in the emergence of the party’s candidates.

He added, “We are not talking of just dismantling the PDP; we want change. We are not just talking about change in democracy but change in attitude, change in approach, change in character, change in conducting the business of government. That is why our slogan is ‘change’. We are determined to change Nigeria for the better.”
http://www.punchng.com/news/im-ready-to-step-down-for-better-candidate-buhari/

Invariably, the baboon is telling us that he is the best APC can offer ni?

The man is daft and has got nothing to offer Nigeria.
It's high time he stepped down.

By the way, I thought he told us in 2011 that he would never run again.

For a man that told us about "the monkey and baboon being soaked in blood, he killed corpers, asked muslims to vote for only muslims candidates, obviously enjoys the BokoHaram bombings of churches etc. The baboon can contest but he will surely cry again!!!!

ACN are hypocrites. If Boko Haram throw their bombs, this same Liar Muhammed will be running his mouth everywhere. Is GEJ a spirit? How does he expect him to tackle the insurgent if not through intelligence? Now that he takes steps to check and nip this thing in the bud, the guy is still here complaining.

But, why was his party, the ACN, silent about the "True Federalism" during the recent constitution review. A member in the National Assembly had raised alarm about the hypocricy of South West ACN leaders for singing "True Federalism" on pages of newspaper but failing to bring the matter up in the constitution review.

Ok, we hear you, Oga Tinubu.
Atleast your boy Fashola introduced street light to Nigeria.

But wait oh . . . is Tinubu admitting he rigged elections for Fashola?

But seriously, this Inyanya guy na fine boy oo . . .

Ameachi will soon receive the Temipreye Silva treatment.
He is becoming powerdrunk and has forgoten how he became governor.

Shekarau will be more marketable than Buhari.
Buhari is an old cargo dented by religious and
ethnic extremism.
His English accent and interpersonal skills are both awful.

Shekarau showed brilliance during the last debate. I remember
Pat Utomi stepping down for him after that debate.

However, GEJ all the way. There is no vacancy in ASO Rock until 2019.
Whichever candidate APC fields will be crushed.

I recommend Calabar hospitality to the world – Kenya coach

APRIL 12, 2013 BY PIUS AYINOR LEAVE A COMMENT
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Kenya coach Adel Amrouche spent just three nights in Calabar and got swept off by the hospitality of the people of Cross River State. The Belgian shared his feelings with Pius Ayinor
In Nigeria Cross River State is reputed for wonderful hospitality. Their capital city of Calabar is therefore seen as the centre of fun and good rest. While many love their traditional foods, some others love the serenity of the environment. But quite a lot of stories are told about their women. It was not clear which of the stories Amrouche heard before he set out for Nigeria but he was amazed, in any case, by what he saw off the field when his team took on the Super Eagles in a Brazil 2014 World Cup qualifying match.
But whatever story he heard, the Belgian said he was moved by the way the people received him, attended to needs and was essentially touched by the environment. The city turned out so much different from the image he had before he boarded the flight from Nairobi.
[b]“Calabar is a very good place; very good,” Amrouche said [/b]even as he complained about poor officiating in the match the Kenyans played the previous night against Nigeria which ended 1-1.
[b]“It’s such a wonderful place to visit. I am very happy to have met the people of this city. They are friendly and I really love our hotel and the people running it. Calabar is the best city I have seen for a long time in Africa and I recommend it not only to other Nigerian cities but to the whole of Africa and to the world. I was really surprised by what I saw and I love this place. I love Calabar.”
[/b]But what in particular could have touched the heart of this European in less than a week’s visit? Could it have been their food, their reputed women or the environment?
“Their women? No, not really; I have moved around Africa. If you come to Burundi or Rwanda and some other places you will see very beautiful women. I must admit you have very beautiful women in Africa but it is not about them in Calabar; I just like this city. It is about the people and the place.[b] Perhaps I could not really go round to see the inner ghettoes for lack of time but I like all the places and the people I met. It’s clean and example of hospitality to other African countries.”
[/b]But in the midst of the love he professed Amrouche was not happy with the way he was received when he entered the country through Lagos. He complained about nearly everything until he got to Calabar and fell in love.
“Why was the game taken to Calabar,” he queried as he suggested it was a deliberate attempt to frustrate the Harambee Stars.
“I didn’t like it because it was not okay administratively; it is always difficult with such movements in Africa. [b]For the encounter we were assured that we will get a good stadium to train in Lagos but that was not possible. Instead I got a school and my players had to train on sand. We were given the National Stadium to train when they knew that it would cost us about 10 hours of that day – 4hours to go there in Lagos traffic and another four returning and off course two hours to train. I’m not stupid so I turned that down.
“And then they put my team in a ghetto hotel; that was not a national team hotel, its sub-standard.”[/b]
With such complaints one would have expected that Amrouche would pay the Nigerians back when both teams meet again in June in Nairobi but it appears that the three good days in Calabar have helped to calm him and his players. Or would he pay back?
“Why should I do so? That will not be fair. You cannot punish three people for the error of just one person; that is not right. Whatever happened in Lagos was the error of one or a few people and not the Super Eagles of Nigeria or the entire Nigerians.
[b]“The Nigerian players treated us very well; their coach is a nice person and the game itself was played in a very friendly manner and so everything that happened in Lagos was forgotten there. I have assured the Nigerian team that things would be lovely in Kenya. It will be quality hospitality for them.
“We hope to market the game very well and get the crowd in. Playing African champions is surely classy and that is what we are looking forward to.”
[/b]And will they beat Nigeria?
“I can’t say for now. I want to take it day by day until June. It is tough for me to talk about how June would be like while we are still in the month of March. I don’t even know how tomorrow will look like so let’s wait and see.”

berem: Fasheun should shut the hell up! where else does he want to get money to resuscitate UPN? Why is he lying? it's so sad that ACN which is the pride of Southwest politics will now be divided because of the selfishness of OPC. It is time for Yorubas to stand up and don't let Jonathan use Fasheun to destabilize the unity of the Southwest.

You wrote this shiiit? Seriously, are you ok?

Abujafood: Does the Leadership Newspaper have any real defense other than press freedom? Question remains provide proof that the document you published isn't falsified, they're yet to comply!

This whole thing was fabricated by Tinubu and his gang to forestall posible probe of his loot. The strategy was to raise an alarm using an Abuja-based newspaper (not Lagos) so Nigerians don't suspect they were behind it. There was no presidential directive anywhere. No bromide exist anywhere. The so-called bromide publish by leadership newspaper was a mere graphic work that was poorly done by an amateur.

On the contrary, it is we that should grant you pardon – Boko Haram

KANO (AFP) – The leader of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram has rejected the idea of any potential amnesty deal, which the country’s presidency said it would study in a bid to curb a bloody insurgency, in a statement obtained by AFP Thursday.

Abubakar Shekau, the purported head of Boko Haram who has been designated a global terrorist by the United States, claimed his group had “not committed any wrong to deserve amnesty.”

“Surprisingly, the Nigerian government is talking about granting us amnesty. What wrong have we done? On the contrary, it is we that should grant you pardon,” he said, listing what he described as the state’s “atrocities” against Muslims.

The Hausa language audio recording was distributed by email in a manner consistent with previous Boko Haram messages, and the voice was similar to that of previous Shekau statements.

President Goodluck Jonathan last week formed a panel to look at the possibility of offering an amnesty deal to the Islamists, whose insurgency has left more than 3,000 people dead since 2009, including killings by the security services.

Jonathan has come under intense pressure over the issue, with politicians from the country’s violence-torn north as well as Nigeria’s highest Muslim spiritual figure, the Sultan of Sokoto, calling for amnesty.

The panel, reportedly to be composed of national security officials, northern leaders and others, is due to report later this month.

The move has been widely debated in Nigerian media in recent days.

Boko Haram has claimed to be fighting for an Islamic state in Africa’s most populous nation and largest oil producer.

The group also claimed the February 19 kidnapping of a French family of seven over the border in Cameroon. Their whereabouts remain unknown.

Boko Haram’s demands however have repeatedly shifted and the group is believed to include various factions in addition to imitators.

Nigeria offered an amnesty to militants in the southern oil-producing Niger Delta region in 2009, which has been credited with greatly reducing unrest there, though oil theft has since flourished.

Violence blamed on Boko Haram has been concentrated in the mostly Muslim north.

Christian and Muslim civilians, the security services and other symbols of authority have been among the group’s victims.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/on-the-contrary-it-is-we-that-should-grant-you-pardon-boko-haram/

But seriously, why is ACN jittery about other groups meeting? Just recently in Edo, Tinubu criticised the formation of PDP governors forum, meanwhile ACN governors have been meeting regularly. Does APC actors think that they alone should be meeting and strategising while others should fold their arms and wait for defeat? The same way Tinubu like power is the same way every other politician be it Fasehun, Olu Falae etc

President of the Oodua People’s Congress, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, has alleged moves by the Action Congress of Nigeria leaders to heat up the South-West.

Fasehun particularly accused the ACN Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, of engaging in campaign of misinformation against plans to resuscitate the Unity Party of Nigeria founded by Chief Obafemi Awolowo in 1978.

In a statement on Monday, Fasehun, who is the Chairman of the Committee for the Resuscitation of UPN, said they would return “fire for fire”.

He said, “We know how far they can go and we are calling the nation to note that although Fasehun entertains no fear from them, should there be any danger lurking around him or his interests, we will not only attack the offending tree, we shall inflict collateral damage on its branches.”

Mohammed had last Sunday accused the Federal Government of engineering confusion towards the 2015 polls through several means, including the resurrection of UPN.

But Fasehun said Mohammed and his leaders were the ones introducing instability into the South-West by indulging in “misinformation, disinformation, lies and propaganda”.

Fasehun said, “Reports said Mohammed at the media conference echoed recent Internet postings that the Federal Government had awarded OPC and Fasehun a monthly N2.4bn pipeline protection contract to bankroll a plan to use UPN to rattle ACN in its South-West stronghold.

“Let me say they were lies and propaganda concocted by a warped mentality against him, OPC and the common people of Nigeria.”

He recalled that he had addressed the press on January 17, 2013 and in subsequent newspaper and interviews about the OPC proposal to stem pipeline vandalism.


http://www.punchng.com/news/fasehun-warns-acn-against-heating-up-swest/

The difference is only in the rear lamps.
All other parts are the same.

The media have been bought over by disgruntled political losers we call opposition.
Imagine such a fake piece they called presidential directive. Besides, it was very funny that even Liar
Muhammed had to call a press conference to raise an alarm about a concocted presidential directive.

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ACN is jittery

Amechi is empty my brother.

It doesn't make much difference.
They will be properly returned following due process.
I can't say for Jaja anyway, because he is Ameachi's candidate.

take dat: Its the same way some of us no longer take what comes out from this government known for double-talk, boo-boos, dirty tricks and irrational political behaviour seriously!

It is the opposition propaganda machinery that has been twisting government's position
for gullible minds like you. Next time you read newspapers,
do so with your head not your asss.

teskyg: This Lai Mohammed mumu is whinning more than Tinubu,the owner of Action congress.
Action Congress is a collection of embarrasement.

My dear, even the bible says "The wicked flee when no man pursuet"

I no longer read Liar Muhammed's trash anylonger.
All he feeds unsuspecting public are lies, lies, lies and more lies.

gramci: No timeline?

My brother, Fashola told us the Lekki Int'l Airport will be ready by end of 2012. We are in 2013 now and he is still making promises even with no timeline. The Lagos - Badagry expressway has been abandoned. He only completed about 3% of the entire road from Orile - Mile 2.

These ACN states are sucking us dry and yet blinding us propaganda. The people are suffering and smiling.