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After weeks of speculations, former minister of Information, Labaran Maku, has finally secured the gubernatorial ticket of All Progressives
​G​rand ​A​lliance, APGA, and accused his former party – Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of injustice.
Mr. Maku defected to APGA from the PDP after suffering defeat
​at​ the hands of Yusuf Agabi who scored 214 votes to emerge winner of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, gubernatorial primary.
He also attempted to secure the gubernatorial ticket of the Labour Party, LP, in Nasarawa State but failed.

Mr. Maku who was presented as the APGA gubernatorial candidate
​at ​a hotel, Manyi royal suit​,​ behind Open university Jos road Lafia, said PDP rejected his candidature because of sentiments.

He said he left the PDP because of the irregularities and injustice that transpired during PDP primary.

“I opted out in order to seek for justice​,​​​​​”​ he said.​
He said that he decided to embrace APGA which he believes would form government in the state in 2015.

He promised to transform the state to a model city where every tribe and religion would
​have ​equal rights and opportunities, if elected as governor.

Mr. Maku alleged that the PDP and the All Progressives Congress, APC – led government in Nasarawa state worked to ensure he did not get APGA’s ticket by threatening the leadership of the party in the state.

“The struggle to ensure that I did not become candidate of APGA is emanating from Government House in Lafia. There is no place they have not gone, they have threatened APGA leadership in the state”.

Mr. Maku who named Ibrahim Abu, an Alago man from Obi local government, as his running mate, said the PDP and APC fear his ability and tested leadership qualities which has endeared him to the electorates.

“They know more than anybody that when it comes to vision, to leadership, to capacity to express that vision and mobilize to get people moving, they know I have the capacity and that is why they are all jittery,” he boasted.
Mr. Maku added that he is on a rescue mission and that governorship
​seat ​should move to the Northern senatorial zone since the southern and western zone having occupied the position for a period of eight years each.

“We cannot afford another round of eight years in Lafia zone which means sixteen years wait, where is the justice in that?”

The state chairman of APGA, John Amakor, who officially unveiled the former Minister of Information as its gubernatorial candidate in the state said the party gave the ticket to Mr. Maku after due consideration of his vast wealth of experience and political clout.

Mr. Amakor, speaking on the raging controversy surrounding the candidature of Mr. Maku, said the national secretariat of APGA, certified the latter as the undisputed bearer of the party ahead of the February 28 guber election.

mrbyron:
is that you on your dp?

midolian:
May u live long reverend..

donphilopus:
Telling lies in a bid to discredit Amaechi?!



http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/12/30/rivers-apc-hails-amaechi-for-paying-workers-salaries-to-date/

Don't also forget this:

‘Rivers’ monthly allocation slashed by 50%’



http://www.punchng.com/news/rivers-monthly-allocation-slashed-by-50/

Can you now bury your head in shame?!

temitemi1:
Allegedly and nt confirm... GEJ till 2019!!!

Pedagogue:
I'm a Christian.
Believe me, we are in end times!

The role RELIGION is playing in 2015 politics is stunningly strange.

We've moved from 'No to Muslim-Muslim ticket'; 'No to Catholic-Catholic ticket' to 'Prophets' making (whatever) predictions!!!

In a sane clime, Prophet Olabayo's 'prophecies' would not have been dignified with any response by a high ranking party official. But in Nigeria, you dare not take such chances...Our people are very gullible. Any statement by anybody with the tag of 'Pastor' or 'Imam' has a sanctimonious effect on a vast majority of Nigerians.

Little wonder that GEJ/PDP waited impatiently for Buhari to announce Fashola or any other Muslim for that matter as his VP candidate. That last minute choice of a RCCG Pastor as Buhari's VP dealt a very terrible blow to their political calculations. But PDP/GEJ have not given up. They cannot even afford to give up. They know too well that the only political weapon they can use against Buhari is ethnic/religious propaganda...Nigerians, the real 2015 politics is about to begin. I have it on good authority that PDP will insidiously invade the social media in a way that has never been seen before.Many new accounts will be opened on twitter, fb, nairaland,linda Ikeji and even Bella Naija...and they will be talking about 1 thing: BUHARI's Islamic/Northern agenda.

My source went further to tell me that some of the phantom monikers that will be opened will be tweeting/posting as if they are supporters of Buhari/APC. Nigerians, SHINE YOUR EYES! Let's call their bluff FOR ONCE!!! They think we are fools. They steal our money and allow Christians and Moslems to be killed by insurgents and they still want another 4 years? Hell NO!!!

Tell me, who's a Christian? My Bible tells me that The Apostles were first called 'CHRISTIANS' in Antioch because the people there saw the life of Jesus Christ in them! They did not call them Christians because they'd wined and dined with Christ! No!!! It was because of the kind of life they were living...so, tell me, Is GEJ a Christian? Is corruption, ethnic bigotry,crass impunity a life of Christ? Is FFK (the self-appointed Christ-defender) a 'Christian' ? These people are 'Christians' because of accident of birth; and the same applies to Buhari....So, whether anybody likes it or not, I am, by the grace of the Almighty God a Christian and I will, God willing, vote for APC/BUHARI/Osinbajo on February 14, 2015.

...and of course, I will vote for Ambode/APC in 2015. I know how Lagos was in 1999; I know how it is now. This is not to say that Agbaje is not a person of integrity! No! It is about his party. I will rather have Tinubu as my governor's godfather than have Bode George/Ogunlewe. I will rather have a party that has been consistent in it's developmental plan for Lagos than have a party that has a different mentality! If Fashola could surpass Tinubu that was seen as better than his contemporaries...then Ambode will (I believe) be better than Fashola!!!

***Really sorry for the long epistle/diversion from the main topic.

femi1410:
Lol,
You know I was once a GEJ fan, but now I keep asking myself, why have I supported this man in the first place?
Why will I support a president who is an activist of STEALING?
why will I support a president who as a comfortable official jet and still think of getting a new one, despite the austerity measure?
This is unhuman
This is not Government
This is not democracy!
Let us Vote Change
Let us Vote Buhari

simplemach:
Everybody clamouring for change, this same change seems to be with is and they dont even realise it. GEJ is a better option to solving Nigeria's problem. Because i see changing to APC as going from frying pan to fire.

showgolee:
Goodluck Johnathan is a good man as a
person,
his simplicity and gentlemanness is second
to
none.
*He has given us his very BEST over the last
6
years. I mean, what else are we asking for?
*He has granted Alameisiya 'STATE
PARDON' and
my guy is now running for Senate.
*He allowed Fayoose to distrupt a court
session
and beat up a judge, while he walks freely. I
wonder if Nigeria is sane. *He locked up the
house
of rep from the entrance of the
CONSTITUTIONAL
speaker of that house.
*7 law makers impeached a speaker in Ekiti
in a
house of about 26 men, and nothing
happened.
*16 was suddenly greater than 19 in base
10, just
to cancel the one-term agreement he
signed with
the NIGERIA Governors' Forum and all
Nigerians
in
2011.
*Subsidy has been removed and the
standards in
our hospitals have reduced with time.
*$20 billion is missing and minister of
Petroleum
eats and dines with the prexy. *Another
BIGGER
&
BOLDER subsidy is scheduled for 1st of
June,
2015
and you may have to sell your laptop
charger
before you can buy fuel to charge that
same
laptop!!!
* Earlier this year, over 22 innocent
Nigerians
were
killed in the job scam organized by the
Nigerian
Immigration Service(NIS) . The Minister of
Interior,
Abba Moro, told us the job interrwas
"simply
mismanaged" and he has retained his office
and
even with extra luggage.
*1 Naira used to be equal $1.2 under #
GMB but
now it's #186.5
to just $1, the worst ever in our history.
* Madam Gele, Ngozi Okonjo, just told us
we
need
an extra $5 billion, through debts of course,
so
that our economy will not collapse like
Humpty-
Dumpty.
*While Benue State University was on an
unending
internal strike killing the future of poor
Nigerians,
Senator DAVID MARK (son of the soil) built
his
own PRIVATE UNIVERSITY, of course with
tax
payers' money, and my gentle president
followed
him to launch the school shamelessly.
*He has spent all money in the treasury
and even
had to BORROW an extra $1 billion but
# BokoHaram keeps getting
more equipped than our military.
*Over 200 girls are missing, over 15,000
killed by
# BokoHaram , over 6 million displaced
from their
homes and uncountable injured beyond
repairs
yet
my president went to a a meeting in #
KENYA
with 7 different PRIVATE JETS.. *clears
throat...
* # PHCN is giving their loyal customers
GENERATORS
as gifts for paying their # electricity bills on
time..Grab your
COPY NOW!!! .
That's less than 1% of the reasons we need
to
dance to a new SHOKI, this AWILO is no
more
wulo for us. Cheers to an unstoppable
change..

grayht:
Weed @ work..


... ǝʌıʇɔǝdsɹǝd ʇuǝɹǝɟɟıp ɐ ɯoɹɟ ǝɟıl ʇɐ ʞool oʇ ǝʌɐɥ noʎ sǝɯıʇǝɯos

chronique:
Whether witches and wizards endorse GEJ,it does not concern me. All I know is that come 2015,I won't cast my vote for a northerner and that automatically means I'm voting for GEJ. My decision is based on the premise that,if the north had ruled Nigeria properly and done the right thing during the years they held power,we wouldn't have been talking about what we're complaining about today. In more than 30 yrs of northern rule,Nigeria was left to decay;I won't be fooled to believe a miracle would be performed by a northerner in 2015. To this end,I'd gladly vote a man from another region. If the APC had given the presidential ticket to any other person other than a northerner,I would have been so sure of a new govt in Abuja in 2015...

maxism2:
The South East zonal spokesman of the All Progressives Congress, Osita Okechukwu, has commended members of the party in Enugu State “for being the highest donors to General Muhammadu Buhari’s Support Fund.”
Okechukwu, in a statement made available to journalists, explained that the fund, to which the “masses can donate only N100, has so far garnered N54m.”
Okechukwu told members of the APC in Enugu State that Buhari would “remain grateful for their contribution,” which, according to him, shows clearly that “the celestial bond between him (Buhari) and the masses and the middle class is Pan-Nigerian and that Nigerians are earnestly yearning for regime change.”
“I commend my people for being a critical chain in the Buhari-Bandwagon-Vehicle for Salvation, so that tomorrow nobody can marginalize Ndigbo,” Okechukwu added.
He noted that Buhari “has 60 percent chance of winning the 14th February, 2015 presidential election,” because, according to him, “President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is the de facto campaign manager of General Muhammadu Buhari.”
According to Okechukwu, Buhari’s election became imperative because Jonathan failed to guarantee the welfare and security of Nigerian citizens.

“President Jonathan lacks neither the political will to stem corruption nor to fight Boko Haram, that is the GMB (General Muhammadu Buhari) appeal, even from unlikely quarters like South South and South East.

“It is my candid view that our dear president wasted golden opportunity by failing woefully to fulfill the promises he made four years ago.

“For instance on 13th May, 2010, he awarded a $23bn contract for the construction of three greenfield refineries; one to be located at Bayelsa, one for Lagos and one for Kogi – five years down the line the money had grown wings and the refineries dead on arrival,” Okechukwu said in the statement.

He noted that the failure to build the proposed refineries had resulted in the squandering of over N2trillion annually on importation of refined petroleum products, the devaluation of the naira, “gross unemployment,” collapse of the textile and ancillary industries, as well as a huge foreign debt profile.

The APC spokesman also accused the Jonathan administration of “posting of phantom economic growth in the midst of widespread poverty.”

Continuing, Okechukwu said, “My brothers and sisters, you must agree with me that if Mr. President, a young man with phd, had performed, automatically Nigerians from all shades of opinion will not today be clamouring to vote for an old GMB for president, that’s why President Jonathan is his (Buhari’s) campaign chief.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/enugu-apc-donated-largest-amount-to-buhari-spokesman/

Blackchampion:
People's Deceivers Party(PDP)

backtosender:
i saw a video were wike was openly calling amaechi a mugu for APC it was very sad that a whole governor used his state funds on a terrorist party such as APC PLS SOMEBODY SHOULD POST THE VIDOE FOR EVERYBODY TO SEE

Kachi188:
Nigeria is really strange. After taliban attacked that school in pakistan, all the political parties put thier differences aside and are willing to even change part ofthe constitution to address terrorism frontally. In Nigeria, whenever a bomb goes off, all u hear is 'government has failed', GEJ is clueless etc. When will all our parties come together and brainstorm to end this menace once and for all?

iamrealdeji:
Stomach infrastructure lol,Fayose is a funny guy who loves to play his people.Ekiti people just dey start,he'll keep manipulating them.he stopped at a phone booth to make call like a normal man or student and he's siphoning billions into foreign accounts