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Eight PDP Governors Move to Defect


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• PDP will have 15 states, opposition 21

     
As political calculations towards the 2015 elections heighten, it has emerged that at least eight Peoples Democratic Party governors are set to leave the party. It is not a question of "if" but of "when", said a senior political actor familiar with the developing strategy.

The governors are those of Rivers (Rotimi Amaechi), Adamawa (Murtala Nyako), Kano (Rabiu Kwankwaso), Jigawa (Sule Lamido) and Kebbi (Seidu Dakingari).

Others are Governors Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto and Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara.
To underscore the frustrations of the group with PDP, three of the Governors: Lamido, Kwankwaso and Wamakko boycotted the PDP peace parley in Kaduna yesterday, which had Vice-President Namadi Sambo in attendance.

THISDAY has learnt the eight governors are firmly resolved to work together politically, claiming that they have been "thoroughly marginalised in PDP" and have lost confidence in the party leadership, which they say has been totally "commandeered" by President Goodluck Jonathan and the Aso Rock political apparachik.

The governors, according to several sources, have come to the conclusion that their political fortunes can only dwindle in PDP and as such are weighing their strategic options and next political moves having reached some political "agreement-in-principle" with the Bola Tinubu and Muhammadu Buhari - led opposition merger group, All Progressives Congress (APC), after several meetings in Lagos and Abuja.

“The governors are, however, agreed on a number of decisions at present,” sources close to the state chief executives told THISDAY.
One of these is to approve the agreement with and move en-mass, with the Senators, House of Representatives members, state assembly members, local council chairmen and political structures at all levels in their states, into the opposition APC. 

And in doing this, they will be keeping their political structures in their states, at the local government and state levels, intact and alter the political landscape of Nigeria effectively making the PDP-led Federal Government a minority government as they will then have 21 state governors against the PDP'S 15.

PDP currently has 23 governors to the opposition’s 13. They will have absolute majority in the House of Representatives, given the numbers in the North-West, and share power in the Senate depending on which Senator follows them.
In their discussions with APC, they are also seeking guarantees and assurances of equality of membership, a level-playing field, internal democracy at the federal party as well as the adoption of their political leadership structures as the legitimate leadership of the merged APC in their states.

In the race for the presidency, they are demanding full internal democracy and total transparency and openness in the choice of the presidential candidate of the emergent coalition party.

According to sources, the eight governors have cited various reasons, ranging from marginalisation, moves to hijack the PDP structures from them and using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to persecute them, to other untoward moves against them, as reasons for their move to defect.

They also specifically complained that under Bamanga Tukur’s leadership, PDP had allegedly perfected the moves to dismantle their leadership of the party in their states, and weaken them through federal ministers and friends of Aso Rock.
These ministers, according to them, are being empowered to fund parallel political structures.

For instance, the Rivers State governor allegedly spoke of marginalisation within PDP, plans to prop up his former ally-turned–political-foe to hijack the PDP structure in the state from him and moves to oust him as chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum and promote his arch-political rival, Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio in the process.

Jigawa Governor Lamido has also complained of persecution within PDP leadership because of the rumour that he has presidential ambition resulting in the use and unleashing of EFCC on him as exemplified in the arrest and prosecution of his son by the commission on flimsy grounds.

For Kwara Governor Ahmed, his political godfather, former governor of the state, Senator Bukola Saraki, has been marginalised within the party for allegedly daring to contest against President Jonathan in the build-up to the 2011 election and for moving the motion in Senate that paved the ground for the probe of oil subsidy fraud.

"Despite being proved right with the uncovering of huge subsidy fraud, Saraki should be praised and honoured as a whistle-blower, instead the Villa is using the police against him," said the sources.

Governors of Sokoto, Kebbi and Adamawa involved in the defection plan have also cried of marginalisation and persecution within PDP, while Babangida Aliyu is said to be facing the same charge as Lamido: "nursing a presidential ambition in 2015".

For Kwankwaso of Kano, the charge of marginalisation is even worse: the sources say he has never been consulted in any federal appointments in Kano and no one in the Presidential Villa has ever called him to discuss his security challenges and find out how he is coping.

The sources insist that they are not sure if the Presidency called him with any support after the last dastardly Kano bombing, which claimed 25 lives, but point out it was Bola Tinubu and APC leaders that came in a symbolic gesture to see the Kano people "in their hour of need".

“The president does not call him to find out how the state has been coping in respect of the incessant bomb blast,” another source close to the governor lamented as all attempts by Kwankwaso to reach the president to discuss the security problems have proved abortive.
The defection would be a major blow to the PDP and is said to enjoy the moot support of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

If that is true, Nigeria could witness a major alliance of the North-west where most of the defecting governors come from, and the South-west, controlled by the Action Congress of Nigeria.

Following the 2006 population census, the North-west comprising seven states and with a total population of 35,915, 468 followed by the South-west with six states and a population of 27, 721, 832 have the highest of the six geo-political zones.

Other zones and their populations are as follows: South-south-21,034,081; North-central-18, 963, 717; South-east-16,395,545 and North-east-14, 331, 233.

When contacted, a senior presidency official said he was not aware of the development and that he would check.


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And Enugu!

Ahmadu Ali himself: And you people still don’t recognise him, especially the Yoruba people who are totally ungrateful kind of people in this country.

You want me to quote you as saying that?

Put it like that. They are ungrateful.

How sir? Yoruba leaders said Obasanjo was unfair to his people throughout his time in government.

What do you mean by being unfair to them? He is not a tribalist and he was not ruling a Yoruba kingdom. He ruled Nigeria. My own kingdom is one of the oldest kingdoms in this country –Igala kingdom. By 1100 or so when the barbarians were invading Britain, Igala was already a kingdom. How do you expect the man to behave?

Many Yoruba said Obasanjo was determined not to hand over to Obafemi Awolowo in 1979. They said Obasanjo administration of which you are part robbed Awolowo of victory at the polls…

Don’t talk rubbish. You are talking rubbish. That is the stupidity of the press and the self-appointed Yoruba leaders who are failures in their various fields of endeavour. They are just a total failure. How can you say, in an election where one candidate scored 12 million and showed presence in more than 12 states out of 19 and another candidate scored five million and showed presence in only five states, you then give it to the second person? What is democracy about? Is it a game of numbers? All the argument is about 12 two third? What is two third? The man had 12 states and 12 million votes. Awolowo had only five million and only in five states. You want to go and give it to him? Yoruba are another character..

Good reasoning

musiwa20: the politics math of 6 zones.



East get 2 --Enugu ,Yenagoa

West get 1 Lagos ( while is as the largest population)

North get 3 Yola , Abuja , Kano

Stewpid divisive fool!

Is Yenagoa in the East?
And is West the largest in population?
And assuming without conceding that Yenagoa is part of the East, then that will include all the South South states making the 'East' have a total 11 states far larger than the 'West'.

U see how clearly eediotic u stupidly are?
Coupled with your abysmally terrible English!!!

Therefore,may the Devil punish u and ur generation for your highly more than divisive and barbaric utterance in this matter.
Uncircumcised retardeen.
Anu mpam!

ebamma: He deserves it to me i rate him a better football analyst than victor oliseh and amokachi

Sir, do u mean Victor Ikpeba?

Oga @ T T

The EFCC Oga @ d top oughta kno that a suspect is deemed innocent until proven guilty and should resist the urge to publish images or parade the suspects otherwise their own Oga @ the top must frown @it oh!

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I kinda smell the hand of Omowunmi Allen in this! Smh

1MCN: Some1 has asked if 'Election' was the best way to 'Elect' God's Chosen Leader. My brov, the Cardinals dont actually ELECT, that's just the use of human language to convey the idea. You could see this even in the way u used the word, "Is election the best to way to elect..." So the process is not truly an election in the sense they teach in Pol Sci class.
To my frnd who is wondering where Caths get their doctrines from, although the Chr is Apostolic, it is important to note that it is also Organic-it developes.
People talk abt an African Pope, the chr does nt run itz leadership on quota system or fed character. Even if a Pope stays on the seat for a day befor death or resignation he must hav fulfilled his mandate as divinely prospected
For those who say this is the last Pope befor the anti-Christ, well, thatz never mine to decipher when Christ comes, bt i can only spk from Christ's promise and authority concerning the Seat of St Peter that "... The gates of hell shall not prevail against it." He went further to say " I shall be wt u til the end of time." History has breathtaking records of the devil attempting to infiltrate the powers, strike the Sheperd so that the sheep may scatter (even using so-called xtians who're either uninformed or misinformed or malinformed to blackmail the Chr) , bt from them all the Lord delivers the Chr.
I dont kno wen Christ returns bt I sure do kno that we're closer now than we ever were. Bt whether he coms evn after a couple million yrs or after i drop tis comment, I hop to be found worthy of his Friendship

God bless u mightily.

KnowAll: Out of those 3000 policemen, there could be a traitor amongst them " Etu Brute" and u too Brutus, says a dying and shocked MaCbeath.

Empty barrel. Its not MaCbeath but Macbeth. And not Etu Brute but et tu Brute. Coupled with your appalingly v.bad English. Mnwl, it was Julius Caesar who said that and not "MaCbeath" and contrary to ur name u know absolutely nothing and sound like a simpleton.

I just saw this video and have not been able to close ma mouth ever since. This is a must watch for everybody!

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Be entertained!

[quote author=mr.official]Once he defects to PDP, APC will win Ondo. Nobody likes to hear PDP, it's evil (Report)100 Likes (Like)

Gboliwe: Your username is crazily funny. Coconut head. Lol

Lashccomnaiweda!!!

Afam4eva: Osazie is spot on. If Keshi knows that his performance in SA was a fluke, he should better resign and be remembered as one of the best coaches ever produced by Nigeria just like Clemens westerhoff. if he continues as the coach and fails, the same people that gave him money and praised him will be the ones calling for his sack. That's the story of our football. meanwhile, while it lasts, he should enjoy all that he's getting and collect more. Maga don pay this year.

You're on point as usual

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This is vely vely insightfool. By the time wey the computer illiterates don fizzle out I swear, na we go take over. This is the lolest news of the year.

Beesam: @mentcee I appreciate ur concern bt I log in2 the site u gave n it is smhw different 4rm the form I filled den during the registration

@ Beesam, I used that site during the appli. Got my alert yesday morn and was invited to UniIlorin for the test slated for 27/2/13.

@ Ezenwa Ez, take note.

May be I'm wrong or my eyes decieve me but I am sure of a warning (caveat) logo or sign on the NIMC website/portal when I applied for the NIMC job in the 2012 recruitment exercise (and even up till now) warning that people should beware of phishing websites advertising jobs @ NIMC and that the commission IS NOT RECRUITING. It is still there and moves across the page and stubbornly refuses to go away. Someone pls attest to this! Is it NIMC doing that or hackers or a mistake or what? Nobody appears to say something about this and its serious.

And now this widely circulating rumor that the whole exercise is a sham orchestrated by ex staff of NIMC who have now hacked into their website. Coupled with the incongrous and mindlessly thoughtless posting of candidates to states not chosen by them, and even the invitation of candidates who did not complete their application forms online.

And by the way, how on earth is it that about 85% of the applicants were posted to Ilorin even though they chose to be examined elsewhere?

Kindly see it at http://www.nimc.gov.ng/apply_cv.htm

Attached are the munched screens for ease of reference.

Who is Baba Suwe? And eeeeeem....who is Goldie too?

No doubt looks like this man! Or any contrary view?

This man

I must confess; I have stretches in my unders looking at this chic and won't mind getting down with her.....really

Ikenna351: Note:

If you already own any of those car models and you are yet to experience it (if your car has done more than 150k kilometers), either the engine has been replaced or rebuilt by the previous owner(s) or its likey to visit you soon. "Its not my portion" no dey for dis one. Though, there is nothing prayer cant do. But just be ready, incase the miracle no come happen.

By the way, dont rely on odometer while buying any of those cars. Only few honest Nigerian car dealers dont roll back the odometers of cars they sale.

Ikenna.

Ikenna, you are gifted. Thanks

Kill Him Silently
Last updated: 23 January 2013 by Aljazeera

The story behind Mossad's bungled bid to assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.
Filmmaker: Yaser Abu Hilalah

On September 25, 1997, the Israeli secret service tried to kill Khaled Meshaal, the Palestinian political leader of the Hamas movement.

A six-member team had arrived in the Jordanian capital, Amman, a week before the date set for the assassination of the head of the Hamas political bureau who was living in exile.

The Israeli agents had entered through Jordan's Queen Alia International airport from Amsterdam, Toronto and Paris using false Canadian passports.

Interviewed in the film, Meshaal says: "The Israeli threats started that summer. Israel had tried but failed to prevent Palestinian operations. So it escalated its threats especially against Hamas leaders abroad. With hindsight, those threats reveal what the Israelis were planning. But at the same time we felt relatively at ease since Israel had never carried out an operation in Jordan."

Mossad's move to assassinate Meshaal came in the wake of a series of suicide bombings Hamas carried out in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The attacks had left over 20 Israelis dead and hundreds injured.

Israel was enraged and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, called for an urgent meeting with his security services, including Mossad. He wanted a significant and telling strike against Hamas.

The objective was clear: retaliation.

At the same time there was a growing sense of mutual irritation at the heart of the Jordanian-Israeli relations. With this backdrop, Netanyahu gave the green light for the Mossad covert operation against Meshaal.

It was to involve a slow-acting but lethal poison that would gradually shut down the brain's respiratory centre, leading to death. The plan was to spray the toxin into Meshaal's ears, leaving no apparent trace of any weapon, and leading to death within 48 hours.

One of Meshaal's bodyguards, Muhammad Abu Saif, had chased the two Mossad agents who had carried out the operation and, with the help of a passing Palestinian Liberation Army officer, later captured them.

The failed assassination proved to be one of the greatest fiascos in the history of special operations, and a pivotal moment in the rise of Hamas.

This two-part film features exclusive interviews with Meshaal himself as well as with Danny Yatom, the then head of the Mossad, who masterminded the attempt to kill the Hamas leader, and who later fled to Jordan with the antidote that saved Meshaal's life.

Part two - this episode will start airing from January 29

The second part of the film shows events following the failed assassination attempt, including behind-the-scenes discussions during the diplomatic struggle involving Jordan, Israel and the US.

Retired Major-General Ali Shukri, who was the manager of the office of Jordan's King Hussein back in 1997, played a key role in managing the crisis that ensued following the Israeli attack on Meshaal.

"King Hussein called President Clinton and informed him of what had happened. Clinton listened with astonishment. He couldn't believe that could happen in Jordan. By the end of the conversation Clinton was angry and said: "That man is impossible!", referring to Netanyahu.

"King Hussein informed Clinton of his demands – the antidote and the nature of the [toxins] used against Meshaal. He told him the peace treaty between Jordan and Israel would be over if Meshaal died."

At the same time, Danny Yatom, then chief of the Mossad, immediately travelled to Amman to meet King Hussein, who was reportedly furious with Yatom.

The aim of Yatom's trip: To contain the situation.

With tensions running high, King Hussein ordered his security forces to surround the Israeli embassy in Amman, where other members of the Mossad assassination squad were believed to be hiding.

Meanwhile doctors at the Hussein Medical City hospital were struggling to diagnose Meshaal, who already lay in a coma.

After expert consultation the doctors concluded that a large amount of an opiate-like drug had been administered to Meshaal. Tests showed it was a drug similar to morphine, which if administered in high doses, would have the effect of disabling the body's respiratory system.

On September 27, Meshaal came out of the coma, appearing to return from the dead.

The media knew nothing of the secret negotiations between Jordan and Israel, or King Hussein's demand for the antidote, until later.

The Israeli government and the secret service came under Israeli media fire for a double humiliation – of failing to kill the Hamas leader without being caught and of being forced to release the founder of Hamas from jail in a prisoner exchange deal.

Kill Him Silently is the story behind Mossad's bungled bid to assassinate Meshaal and the part the operation played in the Palestinian group's rise to power.

Damn all of you comparing Goodluck wit Obj. How on earth can u do that in view of the latter's evil and heartless atrocities in Nigeria as president. Damn! I think most of you are clueless, and are swayed by the 1st persons to comment. You guys are unreasonable fools!