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Chris Nehikhare and PDP ought to be ashamed of themselves. Zero fact!!!

We are following it live here. Long live APC on the state level!!!!

The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has sought a role for Qatar-based Nigerian, who hails from Edo State, Mr Michael Jonathan Asemota, in Nigeria’s quest for role models for Nigerian youths.

Dabiri-Erewa said that Mr Asemota, a businessman with the business name, Fidelity Contractor and General Services, based in Qatar, returned N150 million wrongfully posted into his account to the bank.

In a letter to Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, Hon. Dabiri-Erewa said: “I write to bring to your attention, an uplifting report from one of your indigenes in Edo State but based in Qatar, Doha, Mr Michael Jonathan Asemota a.k.a. Teddy, for his sincerity and honesty by returning QR 1,502,000 equivalent of ($441,127.99 USD) and over N150 million, wrongfully posted into his account in Qatar.

“This singular act has given Nigeria and Nigerians a positive image in Qatar and indeed all over the world. Consequently, I am of the view that this success story of one of ours, Mr Michael Jonathan Asemota, could be used to positively impact the lives of many youths across the country,” she said.

The Presidential Aide explained in her letter that Asemota had opened an account with a cheque of QR150,200 with a Qatari commercial bank, where he is the sole signatory of the account.

Dabiri-Erewa told Governor Obaseki that Asemota received an alert from his bank showing that a QR1,502,000 had been credited into his account by mistake, instead of QR150,200. He went to see the manager to report the error of QR1,502,000 deposited into his account and after checking for confirmation, the manager of the bank gave Asemota a warm handshake in appreciation.

Asemota is an official of Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation-Qatar (NIDO-Qatar) the umbrella body of Nigerians resident in the country.

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has commiserated with the family of the late former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, the people of Jigawa State and Nigerians, over the death of the former CJN. Obaseki noted that Justice Musdapher’s death is a great loss to his family and the nation at large. While praying the Almighty Allah to grant his soul eternal rest, the governor said that “the late Jurist will be remembered for his life-long contributions to the nation’s judiciary which have been referenced by eminent Nigerians since the news of his death broke.” He said Justice Musdapher’s commitment to hard work saw him rise through the judiciary ranks, beginning with a laudable practice in the bar, his appointment as the Attorney General of old Kaduna State, a Judge in the Kano State Judiciary and his rise to the position of the Chief Judge of the state before he was promoted to the position of the Justice of the Court of Appeal. He was elevated as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and retired five years ago as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). Obaseki consoled the family to “find comfort in the good and exemplary life of Justice Musdapher,” which he described as “a model for Nigerians aspiring to attain similar height in life.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/obaseki-mourns-dahiru-musdapher/

Since the APC's Mega Rally in Benin City, where former PDP leaders defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday, January 19, Chris Nehikhare has not known peace.

Those close to him say he has been lamenting about the fate of the dying party and his dwindling political value in the state's political space.

Nehikhare's frustration is understandable. Every spokesman's ambition is to capture more hearts, ears and minds. In his case, his audience is dwindling by the day and very soon, he will be issuing press statements that will be read only by himself.


The fear of talking to only himself hunts him daily and the only way he can express his growing depression is to resort to vituperations.


For Nehikhare to describe the APC Mega Rally at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium as a tragic failure where "two or three former PDP members" decamped to the APC, shows how scared he is of the truth.


We know that Nehikhare's feeble attempt to rally nonexistent support for the highly degraded PDP is to justify his monthly stipend from his paymasters, which he fears might reduce to a few naira notes in the coming days, as more PDP members join the progressives in the APC.


If the APC's new members - Matthew Iduoriyekemwen and Hon. Johnson Agbonayinma with their followers, some of whom were introduced at the rally, are just "two or three," according to Nehikhare, then, the PDP spokesman surely did not pass his basic arithmetics.


Serious people who know Nehikhare as a serial liar, 2-faced and sunk in the political waters of Edo State do not pay his illogical quibbling any attention.


No serious image maker will be speaking for party A, only to run to party B by night, to beg for money to pay his medical bills. Only PDP members are notorious for such level of disloyalty and fraud as deceit runs in their veins.


Since the APC Mega Rally, more PDP members have expressed their readiness to work with Governor Godwin Obaseki to consolidate on the gains of the APC in Edo State.

If the defection of Hon. Johnson Agbonayinma and former gubernatorial aspirant, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen is not a huge blow to the PDP, why did the dying party work so tirelessly to stop them?

Edo South has been completely taken by the APC and the few members of the PDP in Edo Central have sent words of their imminent defection.


By Chris Azebamwan.
Chris Azebamwan is the Edo State APC Publicity Secretary

Nehikhare admits illness, still denies begging Governor Obaseki for money

We have a popular Benin parable which says that when a thief admits stealing a few tubers of yam, be certain that he stole the missing bags of yam. (Oyi gha miugan kue, aghi ren we re ewa ere o domu)

The rattled image maker of the infamous Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has come out to say that Governor Godwin Obaseki offered to pay his medical bills when he took ill. This is against his earlier declaration that the story was a figment of the imagination of the APC.

But our insistence that he begs the Governor for money has made him admit that he fell ill at a time, though he still lies about being the one that asked the Governor for money to pay his medical bills. Nehikhare should be courageous enough to bare it all. Half truth is good, but telling it all will make him a real hero, though he stands to lose his job.

The world knows who to believe between a PDP spokesman who defends the activities of a bandit that parades itself as a political party and the APC.

Very soon, Nehikhare will tell it all.