₦airaland Forum

Caseless:
That rogue was busy pointing accusing finger at Amaechi.

Since he rigged his way into the govt house, he has become a saint of some sort.





Terrestrial asinine!

Bayswater:
Dear Lord, please send Omoyele Sowore my way this year. I promise to dash him just one hot slap, so help me God. Amen.

Sowore na goat, simple.

tdayof:
Action man.

abdulaz:
make any man no just try this one o, see as she gallant finish ready for action.

LadyFiona:
The biography of that mad man is amazing.KGB, FSB, trained in all forms of mortal combat and defense, a spy extraordinaire etc, then a billionaire.!!!! Vladimir Putin--- badass.

OAM4J:
The point is the party needs to know who is standing for what? who are the people with common interests? which group are in the majority in APC? And the earlier we know this the better. If the party will break let it break now so that those with common interest and purpose can regroup before the next election.

Let's know who are the real forces behind APC and the owners of APC so the populace will know if they are worth trusting.

tdayof:
The Russians are looking more gallant

OAM4J:
If a party loses its honour and discipline then it stands for nothing.

It is better to be in the minority with honour, dignity and discipline than claim a majority that is out of your control.

If I am in charge of APC, I will tell Saraki and all APC lawmakers who are not willing to respect the party to go to hell and let those who are willing to abide by the party stand up and be counted. Then I will count my loss, accept to be in the minority with honour and discipline, and let Saraki, his followers and PDP begging to scramble for top legislative positions among themselves.

As it stand PMB will have problem with any house that does not respect the party positions, so its better he prepares his mind to work with an assembly that is out of his control; either he finds a way to achieve his goals with existing laws or use the popularity and goodwill he is presently still enjoying to push through any new law he wants.

edogirl2:
But Vanguard (PDP newspaper) told us yesterday that Representatives from the NW had turned their backs against supporting GBAJABIAMILA and others nominated by the party.

Yet, on various TV channels, and going by this statement from the Rep member from Katsina (a very conservative Northern State), and even on today's NTA You tube video, representatives from the North West and many parts of the North have been the most vocal opponent of Saraki and Dogara.


This is going to be a long fight, with no sign that either side will back down.

donphilopus:
What's this one Saying? The Presidency would 'back' him to adjourn sitting till next month? Maybe you're thinking Jonathan is still the President. With Buhari, the era of impunity is over!

donphilopus:
Some fooooools cum TANdroids would soon invade this thread and commend Saraki for being foolish. Anyway, fools ain't called fools for no reason, they exhibit foolishness, so they would like a foolish person.

NgeneUkwenu:
APC senators should reconvene and Impeach him now!

Where does he expect The President to submit the List of his Ministerial Nominees??

Why Must He Close the Chamber?
#UnSeatSarakiNow!

OrlandoOwoh:
Learn how to punctuate, for easy understanding. How can you write in up to three paragraphs without a punctuation mark?

OrlandoOwoh:
saTANoids are yet to answer how a government that now claims to have money in its reserve borrowed, not for infrastructure, but to pay salaries.

God bless the President.

gbl01:
In as much as Saraki might be wrong, let the APC allow the senate to work for Nigeria and not for APC. Dictating everything that goes on there is weird! Its the National Assembly for Nigeria not for APC

Firefire:
I expect him to have resigned honorably, but this is Nigeria.


How can Osun people still allow this failure called Raufu to continue to lead them, this could be Africa Magic.

Jacide:
Na today?

softwareman:
Arrant nonsense. Why do they contest on the platform of the party to bet to the senate if they were supposed to dictate to the party.
The rebels are in the MINORITY within APC. Unlike in the last contest this is an entirely APC affair.
The meddlesomeness is actually from PDP sympathisers who are desperately trying to reap where they have not SOWED.

huptin:
So far VAT contributes about 46% of total government earnings and some idiots will be shouting that Lagos( which generates about 80% of the VAT) was built with oyel money. Mad people.

olasmith10:
Good thing is allocations won't b shared with sentiments again!!!

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, have yet again defied their party, the ruling All Progressives Congress, rejecting the APC’s nominees for top leadership positions in the two chambers of the National Assembly.
Messrs Saraki and Dogara defeated candidates nominated by the APC for the positions of Senate president and House Speaker respectively.
Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila were the APC’s official candidates for the positions of Senate President and House Speaker.

On Tuesday, the party wrote the two leaders directing them to adopt candidates who lost at the elections as principal officers.
In its letter, the party picked Mr. Lawan as Senate Leader; Sola Adeyeye as Chief Whip; George Akume as Deputy Senate Leader; and Abu Ibrahim as Deputy Whip.

For the House Representatives,Mr. Gbajabiamila is the party’s choice to emerge House Leader, while Mohammed Monguno would serve as Chief Whip; Alhassan Doguro Deputy Speaker; and Pally Iriase as Deputy Whip.

However, investigations by PREMIUM TIMES revealed that Messrs Saraki and Dogara were yet to accept the party’s terms as at 5 a.m. on Wednesday.

“The issue of the principal officers is a party affair,” a senior party leader told PREMIUM TIMES. “Traditionally; in the legislative practice, it is the party that forwards names of its members who should fill the positions to the Senate President or Speaker as the case maybe. And that is what APC is insisting on.”

The official said while Mr. Dogara has agreed to a power sharing arrangement with the party, Mr. Saraki has vowed not to adopt any of the party’s nominees for the positions.

“What Dogara is saying is that if the party takes the House Leader, a member from his group should be the Chief Whip and so on. But Saraki is not ready to comply with the party’s directives at all.

“You know why Saraki is doing like that and making the party to be at his mercy? He is confident the party cannot mobilise the two-thirds majority to remove him,” the party official said.

He said the party was not prepared to negotiate its directives with any of the two leaders this time.
“The party has written letters to both the Senate President and the Speaker. What the party is expecting is compliance; nothing but compliance.”

Asked what the party would do should the National Assembly leaders decide to kick against the directive of the party, he said, “We are expecting him to do that. We are waiting for him. We shall wait for him.”
Mr. Saraki and his aides could not be reached for comments Tuesday night. Telephone calls to them were neither answered nor returned.
But a staunch supporter of the Senate President, Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi) told PREMIUM TIMES his group was not prepared to compensate those who lost out in the election for the senate president position.

“Saraki has won the election and become Senate President,” Mr. Dino said on telephone. That’s the position everybody should live with it. And I don’t know for the man who contested for the Senate President but now lobbying to be Leader. It is like contesting for governor and then looking to be Commissioner. They should have pride.”

The Senate president’s refusal to accept the party’s position played out Tuesday at a stormy session that split lawmakers into two factions – those supporting Mr. Saraki and those backing the party and Mr. Lawan.

The two sides disagreed on the procedure for choosing members for the available positions of principal officers, leading to verbal exchanges.
Members supporting Saraki want the positions zoned by the Senate as follows: Majority Leader, North-East; Deputy Majority Leader, North-West; Chief Whip, South-West; and Deputy Whip, South-South.

By contrast, lawmakers in support of the party said the APC must fill all the available positions.
Suleiman Hunkuyi, who represents Kaduna North senatorial district, said the disagreement was caused by an attempt by the leadership of the Senate to impose its decisionon the majority of the APC senators.

“The leadership of the party, which is the APC, still reigns supreme to decide the true position of leadership and we shall have it. An attempt to do otherwise is to cause confusion,” he said.

Abu Ibrahim, representing Katsina South senatorial district, said the senators had no power to zone the leadership positions to any region.
“As far as I am concerned this was never done, I was a principal officer in the last senate, the party gave our names and that’s how I became a principal officer,’’ he said.

He called on the APC to “wield its big stick, if anybody decides to go against the directives of the party. The party must take disciplinary action”.
Shortly before the Senate’s closed-door meeting Tuesday, the senate president, Mr. Saraki urged the lawmakers to work as a family and resolve their issues.

“Distinguished colleagues, I do believe that no matter what are the issues outstanding amongst us as a family, they are surmountable and resolvable in the atmosphere of love and understanding.

“In this room today, we can and shall put the past behind us and we shall all come out of this room, individually and collectively victorious. There is nothing like a winner or loser.

“Our party, the APC is the winner and we are all conquerors,’’ he said.

papoose999:
boom I lyk d part of D3....badt guy

talktimi:
Some months back, I posted some excerpts from a young Osun man stating the different natural resources in the state and their potentials for revenue. The young man is clearly miles ahead of the governor in his plans for Osun state but they just flung him aside so they could continue rapíng the state with grandiose white elephant projects