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The present Government is trying so much to make sure that the fiscal budget returns to January to December, yet The NASS and its supposed leaders will undermined this effort and Nigeria people will not see a reason to questioned this NASS leaders, rather they will go back and start hail the Sarakis and Ekweremadu for a job well done...

What is the leadership style of Saraki, if not a leader that place his individual interest over group interest,, same Man that went against his party to become senate President, same man that presided over budget padding, delayed our budget for 7 months, despite we all know that the Economy was recovery, and decamped because of idea of juicy appointments.. not a leader that we need right now in Nigeria...

Declaring income tax, while Biafra is still under the federal republic of Nigeria is really an action MASSOB and its followers need to consider in other not to plunged the nation into turmoil..

I see screen shot of Atiku going abroad for a fracture leg, indeed the internet do not forget. thumps up to Atiku for acknowledging Buhari for a good deed, and he should tell his PDP Agents to always applaud the Government if they see a laudable work, and criticize properly not with fake news..

Even if Oshiomhole talks too much, it is only normal that we do what is right, and what is right is that Saraki a PDP member can not be senate President over the Majority party, APC remains the Majority, but while all this distraction it is important to point that Muhammadu Buhari administration has successfully presided over the movement of Train to warri...

Whoever believes Saraki part of the story that, the executive delayed the INEC budget by summiting it late, that person is really gullible, because how is it possible for the executive to submit the INEC budget , while the main budget has not been passed by NASS..its really unfortunate that people believe Saraki gimmicks at this time...

Some people do not understand how impact-full this Trader moni is to petty traders, 10,000n will go a long way in boosting up a corn seller, Okpa seller, mai table etc , this are the people targeted for this programmed, and to be sincere they are even the once with PVC,,the APC is really doing their ground work.

PDP is preaching holier than thou, It is IBB that has made this country economy to depend on borrowing, It is through Borrowing that government finance infrastructural projects, and its as a result of SAP introduced by IMF to Nigeria..

where is the grand e entry now, Nairaland is becoming home of spreading falsehood, its high time the MODs should try as much as possible to control this spread of falsehood.

FFK will just come on social media and spread falsehood, information without facts, Is it not same Tinubu that PDP government investigated that he is talking about, if PDP government investigated him and give him a clean bill of health, how will his own party now be mandated to investigate him..

FFK and Reno should learn from their mistake of 2015, attacking Buhari without facts, attacking him without reasons like what your PDP has achieved and what APC has been unable to achieve, will only make him grow stronger in popularity..

Reno should act like a Pastor for once and tell Nigerians how was the Power generation during Jonathan and the power generated under Buhari, Buhari government have generated power more than any administration and if only the Discos will upgrade faster, Power transmitter would have been enjoyed by Nigerians..

It is necessary to always review security architecture and the President first move has to be getting first hand information on how the security make up has been faring..

Whoever want to twist Akpabio statement is free to twist, but the fact is that Akpabio defection to APC will give PMB the required percentage in AKWA IBOM, and will make the governor sit up and do his constitution duty, because for the passed 3 years the governor has been unable to replicate what Akpabio has done in Akwa Ibom,, and has even failed to continue projects Akpabio started...

So the presidency should submit INEC supplementary budget to the Senate when they have not yet passed the main Budget, People should understand things, That its not possible to send the INEC budget as at the time NASS was still holding on to the 2018 budget, it is still the NASS and its Leadership that lead us to this current Impasse and for Political reasons they are refusing to reconvene..

A coalition of groups, under the umbrella of Concerned Nigerians against Saraki (CNAS), has listed a number of reasons it is against the presidential bid of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

A few days ago, Saraki alluded to his decision to contest Nigeria’s presidential seat in the forthcoming elections, in an interview with Bloomberg, held at his Abuja residence.

When asked if he would contest, Saraki said: “I am consulting and actively considering it. I believe I can make the change.”

CNAS, in the statement, however, cited various reasons Saraki should not run for the office of the Presidency, making particular references to several corruption allegations levelled against him.

Citing his alleged link to the robbery in Offa, Kwara State; allegations of fraud during his time at the Société Générale Bank Nigeria Limited; issues relating to the Panama Papers investigation, among others, the group stated that the Senate President “cannot be trusted with the national treasury of the people’s mandate.”

Below is the full text the statement by Concerned Nigerians against Saraki (CNAS):

Société Générale Bank Nigeria Limited collapsed under the watch of Saraki and his family. Bukola Saraki was Director of the defunct bank between 2002 and 2003. Allegations of fraud still trail them till today, while the bank’s shareholders and customers suffered losses in millions. Over N1bn was alleged to have been looted from the SGB treasury. The EFCC charged Saraki to court for alleged fraud. Eight of the 30-count charge were directed at Saraki alone, and three solely for the defunct bank's MD.

There are claims that the Saraki family liquidated SGB to fund Bukola Saraki’s governorship campaign in Kwara State. The Senate President, Saraki, has been doing the same, dipping into the nation’s treasury and taxpayers’ funds through fraudulent juicy allocations to him and his cronies.

During his two-terms as governor between 2003 and 2011, Bukola Saraki converted by unscrupulous means Kwara State Government funds into his personal cash cow. He dipped his hand into the Kwara treasury at will and disregarded government due process, while he allegedly converted Kwara State government assets into his own or for his cronies.

Saraki cannot be trusted with the national treasury of the people’s mandate. He has a history of betrayals trailing him. He reportedly slapped a commissioner under his administration for being more loyal to Bukola Saraki’s own father than to him. Bukola Saraki betrayed his family – father (late Waziri of Ilorin, Dr. Olusola Saraki) and sister – because of his greed, arrogance and devilish thirst for power. He did the same when he defected from APC to PDP despite being elected as Senate President under the APC and does not obey the rule of law as he operates with impunity to those who go against his wishes. He will do the same if elected president, betray the Nigerian people.

In 2012, Saraki, was questioned by the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police in Lagos, in relation to a N11 billion financial scandal at the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc. Inside sources said Saraki was able to get away with the scandal due to his connections in government then.

Saraki was linked to the ‘EFCC wanted Kennedy Izuagbe’, a former director of Societe Generale Bank Nigeria Plc. Societe Generale Bank is owned by Saraki’s late father, Olusola Saraki. Mr. Izuagbe, 45, was being investigated in a case of conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of over N3.6 billion.

Bukola Saraki as Governor in Kwara State saw to the enactment of a fraudulent executive bill that allotted to himself huge sums and other privileges in form of pensions and salary as an ex-governor.

Saraki’s tenure as governor was described by some persons in the state as “self-serving, self-seeking and selfish.

Investigation uncovered Saraki’s hidden assets, including London property in the name of Toyin Saraki but which was left out among the assets declared by the Senate President. Some of them are as follows:

* The hidden property is located at #8 Whuttaker Street, Belgravia, London SW1W 8JQ. It has title number NGL802235. The first, Girol Properties Ltd, was registered on August 25, 2004, (a year after Mrs. Saraki’s husband became governor of Kwara State) in the British Virgin Island (BVI).

* Company documents show that Mrs. Saraki owns 25,000 numbers of shares.

* According to TI, Land Registry documents show that the houses at 7 and 8 Whittaker Street, Belgravia, London are owned by Landfield International Developments Limited and Renocon Property Development Limited. Based on current market estimates by Zoopla, the properties are worth a combined total of around £15 million.

* As part of the Panama Papers revelations, these companies were controlled by Toyin Saraki, the wife of the President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, as well as one of his personal aides. At the time of these revelations, none of the offshore holdings were reported in Mr. Saraki’s official asset declarations.

* In 2003, his asset declaration showed he had amassed tens of millions of pounds worth of assets during his time as Director of Société Générale Bank and Special Assistant to the President on Budget. The explanation he provided for these acquisitions was stated simply as “business”.

Saraki was again caught in the web of “falsification of Senate standing order’ with the Police investigating the matter and submitting its report to the office of the Attorney General of the Federation.

Saraki was accused of ‘falsification of asset declaration’ by the Code of Conduct Bureau. The CCB had levelled a 13-count corruption charge against the Senate President.

Saraki’s link to the N298m armoured Range Rover SUV seized by the Nigeria Customs Service.

Saraki is linked to $19.5b Paris Club Loan Refund scandal in which he was alleged to have received $2.5b from the amount embezzled.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/08/19/concerned-nigerians-list-13-reasons-saraki-cannot-be-president

PDP have forgotten their role in this present Democratic Government, as the opposition they are suppose to criticize the government constructively with fact, not spreading falsehood, fake news and False allegation. Over the pass months we have discovered that PDP now indulge in Heating up the Polity unnecessarily, Maybe to get cheap Political score or sympathy votes, but that will not work again, Let them show Nigerians what they have done in 16 years, and what they will do differently, than APC, and obviuosly all they have to show is abandoned project liter everywhere in the Nation....

And the PDP that built road, airport is one single man with uncommon transformation, Akpabio, and today Akpabio is now in APC with same Oshiomhole that Dino is talking about..So Dino should have point to what Udom Emmanuel have done, as he is the current PDP Governor...

Later some people will come and say i should vote in PDP candidate that did not give us any social investment programme, that reach out to common man as the APC government has done,

We know the PMB government have challenges. but with little, they have done more in 3 years,,

Imagine such show of wealth!!!! He is just a senator, He does not have any other thing doing but politics, this is the kind of people some persons feel is fighting for them, because he is in PDP, In saner countries Dino should be in Police cell for faking his assassination attempt and faking his kidnapped, but no, this is Nigeria and when he is being prosecuted by Government they will start shouting that Buhari is anti Democracy..Unfortunately Nigeria is a pluralistic society and everything is given Ethno-religious coloration...

The problem with Nairalanders is that most of them like negative news, hence the traffic on this thread will not be much, it is only in Nigeria that certain elements will be praying for bad news or negative news, so they can blow it out of proportion to score cheap political points and while the government is doing well, they try as much as possible to drag it down..

APC are really turning up, they do not want to lose any ground by allowing the PDP to gain majority in the Senate house, with Buhari even attending the senatorial campaign in Bauchi and now acting President Osinbajo attending This one in Katsina. PDP should just forget about those zones..

AS if people like Atiku, Kwankwaso, Lamido will agree to a consensus, Even Maikarfi who fought to bring back the PDP from the Dead will also not be satisfied, PDP will end up dividing its house and at the end of the day, they will have members unwilling to work for them at the general elections, while the APC will cash in on the members who are not satisfy..

Babyforever:
One of Jonathan's achievement buharia is trying to take the glory...... wise up Nigerians

This is the problem, do you rather prefer the project be abandoned by Buhari administration and let it waist away? Moreover its not even Jonathan's Administration that started it, it was Obasanjo as part of bid for Abuja to host the 2014 commonwealth games. The project ground laying ceremony was on 27th May 2007, and it has been there wasting away, so you see, it too Nigeria 11years to finish her metro station because of mentality like yours!!!!

Babyforever:
One of Jonathan's achievement buharia is trying to take the glory...... wise up Nigerians

This is the problem, do you rather prefer the project be abandoned by Buhari administration and let it waist away? Moreover its not even Jonathan's Administration that started it, it was Obasanjo as part of bid for Abuja to host the 2014 commonwealth games. The project ground laying ceremony was on 27th May 2007, and it has been there wasting away, so you see, it too Nigeria 11years to finish her metro station because of mentality like yours!!!!

Lawal Daura is compromised, Cause i wonder why he keep submitting security report on Magu to senate president rather than the President. He chew more than he can bitter this time around, let him enjoy his wealth in his house in Katsina...

This is what i having been telling people around that by joining APC his case is not close yet, one will ask why has the EFCC not charge him to court since 2015. The institution is still carrying out investigation to gather evidence and when they are done he will be charge to court if found guilty...Nigerians are quick to conclude, even if they do not have facts..

Many people who think that the 2016 recession that we experience in this nation is cause by Buhari actions and in actions, such people do not know that for an economy to plunge into recession, it passes through stages, and all those stages were several warning that the PDP, refuse to take into consideration. Never again will Nigerians trust her treasury to the PDP again...

The innovation in this Government to block all sharp practices is unprecedented, at least this will checkmate marketers that tend to divert fuel from one unknown location to another, Kudos to the acting President..

From the pictures alone, one will see that the alleged protest is just like up to 10 persons involved, and we do not even know why they are protesting, all mischief makers that are trying so hard to frustrate this government by any means possible, are only going to succeed in giving the Nation a bad name in the international community, and will not even stop PMB from winning..

The battle for the soul of Akwa ibom has begin, But at the end of the day the people will follow who has been more productive and the one that has developed the State the more, and we all know that Akpabio has done more and defecting to another party will not change the developmental tendencies of Akpabio..

Funny propaganda, this is another fake news, one among many we are going to see in coming weeks about the DSS blockade, The federal ministry of Information need to do more on their campaign against fake news..