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Politics › Re: Untold Story Of Senate Forgery Scandal by midolian(op): 8:45pm On Jun 26, 2016

ijustdey:
it's already on FP nah

wow! Didn't know. Quoted a part of the thread, searched to see if its bn posted and it didn't give any result..so I went ahead to post.

Politics › Re: Untold Story Of Senate Forgery Scandal by midolian(op): 8:35pm On Jun 26, 2016

Punishment for forgery

The offence of forgery carries a punishment of a jail term of 14 years, lawyers said.

In a telephone interview with our reporter, Mr. Festus Okoye said that forgery was a serious offence, but added that its punishment would depend on the law in which the accused were charged - the Penal Code (PC) or the Criminal Code (CC).

According to him, the first consequence of being convicted for forgery would be a sentence to a jail term. Secondly, convicts will not be able to contest elections again. He added, however, that for someone already in the National Assembly, it will be different.

Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said he would not want to comment on the matter.
Saraki’s camp threatens Ita Enang
Mixed reactions have continued to trail the disclosure of the list of witnesses in the forgery suit.
It has created tension at the Upper Chamber.
Pasted alongside the court summons at the National Assembly on Tuesday was the list of witnesses which include the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly (Senate), Senator Ita Enang. The list of the witnesses, which include both serving and former senators, has Senator Sulaiman Hunkuyi; Senator Kabiru Marafa (APC, Zamfara Central); Senator Ahmed Lawan (APC, Yobe North); Senator Robert Ajayi Boroffice (APC, Ondo North) and Senator Abu Ibrahim (APC, Katsina South). Others are Senator Solomon Ewuga, Senator Ojudu Babafemi, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Dan’Azumi J. Doma and a police investigator, David Igbodo.

In a phone interview, a senator in the camp of Saraki said the battle line had been drawn between them and Enang.

“You cannot be a liaison officer to the Senate and testify against us. If you are not with us, then you are against us. He cannot be against us and still be with us. There is a likelihood that he would be denied entry into the National Assembly in due time,” the senator said under condition of anonymity.

Efforts to get the reaction of Senator Enang yielded no result as he didn’t pick calls put through to him.
Senate mulls president pro-tempore

Another source in the Saraki camp told our reporter that they had commenced arrangements for a president pro-tempore.

The Senate rules made provision for a temporary Senate president in the absence of its president and his deputy. The provision is contained in Order 27, which reads: “In the absence of the president of the Senate and the deputy president, such senator as the Senate may elect for the purpose, shall be known as president pro-tempore.

In a phone interview, the senator, who did not want to be named, said that Saraki and Ekweremadu
“with the overwhelming support they enjoy, will nominate anybody of their choice as president pro-tempore.

“If Saraki is going on trial, a president pro-tempore will be appointed if the need arises. Saraki can bring anybody of his choice from our camp. He can even bring Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West). You know that unlike the House of Representatives, there is no duration for a president pro-tempore at the Senate.

“In the Senate at the moment, our camp in the All Progressives Congress (APC) has 40 per cent majority, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 40 per cent and the anti-Saraki senators only have 20 per cent. They only have the capacity to drag the leadership to trial. They have disruption ability, but they lack the capacity to effect leadership change. You know the battle is that of number,” he said.

Last minute peace moves collapse

Moves to make members of the Unity Forum who had gone to court over the forgery of the Senate rules to withdraw the case has failed. A peace and reconciliation committee was constituted in May this year to, among other things, facilitate the withdrawal of the forgery suit. The report of the Committee chaired by Senator James Manager (PDP, Delta South) was considered last Wednesday in a closed-door session that lasted about two hours.

At the end of the session chaired by Senate President Bukola Saraki, Daily Trust on Sunday gathered that the various camps stood their grounds.

A senator who attended the session said there was no need to compel the members of the Unity Forum to withdraw the suit as a date had already been fixed for the case.

However, a report of the committee obtained by our correspondent recommended the review and adjustment of the membership of the Senate standing committees to reflect equity and fairness.
It also recommended that all vacant positions for chairmen and vice chairmen of committees be filled up forthwith, and that no senator should be chairman or vice chairman of more than one committee.

The 12-man committee also stated, “Apparent discriminatory actions in choice of senators for overseas conferences, seminars and tours should be corrected.”

Reaction of the Unity Forum

In an interview on Thursday, the spokesperson of the Unity Forum, Senator Kabiru Marafa, said they had no regret instituting a legal action on the forgery. “I have no regret at all. At my age and status, do you think I will do something wrong and be reluctant to apologise? I am of the conviction that what I did was the right thing. And for your information, I am trained to speak the truth.’’
Saraki, Ekweremadu fault suit

In separate statements by their media officers, Saraki and Ekweremadu denied forging the Senate standing rules.

“Those who decided to smuggle the name of the Senate President into the charge sheet know perfectly well that only the leadership of the 7th Senate were invited for investigation. But they needed to implicate him in keeping with their declared vow to ensure that even if their current efforts to nail him through the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) fail, they would find other ways to carry out their vendetta.

“This so-called forgery case is another wanton abuse of the judicial process and making a mockery of the institution of justice. As the Senate earlier stated, the sponsors of this plot are not only gunning for Dr. Saraki, what they have just launched with this latest antics is a grand onslaught on the foremost institution of our democracy. Therefore, by seeking to cripple the National Assembly, they have declared a war on our hard-won democracy and aimed for the very jugular of our freedom,” Saraki’s media aide, Yusuph Olaniyonu stated.
Also, Ekweremadu’s special adviser on media, Uche Anichukwu stated, “So far, everything is in the realm of the onslaught to malign, bully, intimidate, and divert attention from the real challenges presently confronting the nation. However, when the bird jerks in the air, we can fathom where it would perch.”

Both media aides insisted that their principals were never interrogated by the police.

The Assistant Force Public Relations Officer (AFPRO), DSP Abayomi Shogunle, told newsmen at the Force Headquarters on July 6, 2015, that although the police team met Mr. Salisu Maikasuwa, they neither invited nor interrogated Ekweremadu.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/untold-story-of-senate-forgery-scandal/152662.html

Politics › Re: Untold Story Of Senate Forgery Scandal by midolian(op): 8:34pm On Jun 26, 2016

Police investigation report

In the letter to the police, challenging the amendments to the rules, members of the Unity Forum contended that at no time was the Senate Standing Rule 2011 amended during the 7th Senate. In the letter, signed by the secretary to the Forum, Senator Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi (APC, Kaduna North), the group stated, “The Senate Standing Order 2015 as amended and used by the Clerk of the National Assembly and Clerk of the Senate to inaugurate the 8th Senate on June 9, 2015, was fraudulently produced as the 7th Senate did not, at any time during its tenure, amend the Senate Standing Rule.”

The police, after conducting its investigations, concluded that the amendment to the Senate Standing Rules was illegal as it failed to follow laid down procedures provided by Section 110 as amended. The police investigation report on the matter stated, “The allusion by the Clerk of the Senate, Benedict Efeturi, to the procedure of amending the Standing Orders of Parliament through ‘practice and not necessarily by procedure’ is a misplaced analogy and undemocratic because the Nigerian Senate has a clear procedure to be adopted in amending its standing orders.”

In his statement to the police, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Business in the 7th Senate, Senator Ita Enang, said the standing order was not amended. Enang told the police that the committee proposed the amendment of the 2011 standing order, but up to the expiration of their tenure, the proposal was not debated and approved or rejected at any sitting.

But in his statement, the Clerk to the 7th Senate, Mr. Benedict Efeturi, said there was nothing wrong with the amendments. He told the police that, “The leadership of the 7th Senate ordered the 2015 Standing Rules as amended by their convention and practice. The Senate Standing Orders 2003, 2007 and 2011 followed the same procedure as that of 2015. In the parliament, amendment of standing orders is by practice and not necessarily by procedure.”

Another prosecution witnesses, Senator Abdullahi A. Gumel said, “During the induction course of the National Assembly, he was given a copy of the Senate Standing Order 2011 (as amended) as the rules book to guide their conduct and working in the Senate. On resumption of the 8th Senate, a new standing order 2015 as amended was shared to them with which all the businesses of the Senate are being conducted.

“In one of the sittings of the 8th Senate, Senator Kabiru Marafa raised a point of order that the new Standing Order 2015 (as amended) produced and shared was never approved by the 7th Senate, as such, it is a fraudulent document. At that point, it came to his notice that all the activities conducted from June 9, 2015 are null and void.”

In its recommendations, the police stated, “From findings, especially from the statement of the Clerk of the Senate who doubles as the Deputy Clerk of the National Assembly, the Senate Standing Orders 2015, which was used to inaugurate the 8th Senate on June 9, 2015 was ordered by the leadership of the 7th Senate without following Section 110 of the Senate Standing Rules 2011 as amended, which requires that any amendment to the rules must be debated and approved by senators on the floor of the Senate.

“This practice where some senators amend the rules of the Senate without following legal procedures is not only criminal but portends danger for our growing democracy. It should be discouraged.”

Procedure for amending the Senate Standing Orders

Section 110 of the Senate Standing Order 2011 provides that “(i) any senator desiring to amend any part of the rules or adding any new clause shall give a notice of such amendments in writing to the president of the Senate, giving details of proposed amendment; (ii) the president shall, within seven working days, cause the amendment to be printed and circulated to the members. Thereafter it shall be printed in the Order Paper; (iii) the mover or movers of the amendments shall be allowed to explain in details, the proposed amendments; thereafter the Senate shall decide by simple majority votes whether the amendment should be considered; (iv) if the decision is to consider the amendments, then another date shall be set aside by the rules and Business Committee, whereby an opportunity would be given to senators to further propose amendments, but must strictly be confined to the original amendments; (v) two third majorities shall decide the amendments, and such amendments shall form part of the Rules of the Senate.”

However, speaking to Daily Trust on Sunday via telephone, the leader of the 7th Senate, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said that at no time did the 7th Senate amend the Standing Orders 2011. He said, “The Committee on Rules and Business proposed amendment, but it was not debated.” He, however, declined further comment as the matter is already a subject of litigation.

Checks by Daily Trust on Sunday showed that the Senate Standing Orders was last amended on May 18, 2011 to provide, among others, Section 3(2) that introduced ranking to the process of electing presiding officers and other appointments in the chamber. The amendment was sequel to a motion for the amendment to the Senate Standing Orders 2007, sponsored by then Senate Majority Leader, Teslim Folarin. It followed all the procedures of amendment laid down in Section 110 of the standing rules.

The litigation

Based on the recommendation of the police investigation report dated July 14, 2015, the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, sued the accused before a Federal High Court in Abuja. Former Clerk of the National Assembly, Salisu Abubakar Maikasuwa, outgoing Clerk of the Senate, Ben Efeturi, President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki and Deputy President of Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, are charged with conspiracy and forgery, an action contrary to sections 97 and 362 of the Penal Code law.

According to court documents seen by Daily Trust on Sunday, the prosecution contends that, “It is a prosecution’s case against the defendants, that about June 9, 2015, the defendants (Saraki, Ekweremadu, Efeturi and Maikasuwa) conspired among themselves to forge the Senate Standing Order 2011 (as amended) and caused the said forged document to be circulated among the elected senators for use during the inauguration of the 8th Senate of the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“It is the forged document that was used in the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly which paved the way for the election that ushered in the present leadership of the Senate.”

Politics › Untold Story Of Senate Forgery Scandal by midolian(op): 8:33pm On Jun 26, 2016

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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu

.Major Sections on Elections Altered
.7th Senate Never Amended Rule – Former Leader
.It’s a Criminal Act – Police
.We Are Innocent – Saraki, Ekweremadu

The 8th Senate led by Senate President Bukola Saraki is enmeshed in a protracted crisis that has divided the chamber since inauguration on June 9, 2015. The two groups that fought hard to secure leadership of the Senate last year have remained at logger heads over allegations of illegal amendments to the Standing Rules that purportedly aided the emergence of Saraki as President of Senate and Senator Ike Ekweremadu as Deputy President. Daily Trust on Sunday brings you an in-depth report on major alterations to the Senate Rules and the controversies that trailed the amendments.
Reports of alteration to sections of the Senate Standing Rules have been causing ripples in the Nigerian political landscape since June 9, 2015. The replacement of ‘open’ with the ‘secret’ voting system, among other amendments to the rules, have set the stage for the prosecution of Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, on allegations of conspiracy and forgery.

The forgery suit against Saraki, Ekweremadu, the outgoing clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa and the deputy clerk to the National Assembly, Mr. Ben Efeturi, is slated for tomorrow at a Federal High Court in Abuja.

The charge preferred against the quad, signed by the principal state counsel, Federal Ministry of Justice, D. E. Kaswe, reads thus, “That you, on or about June 9, 2015, with fraudulent intent, forged the Senate Standing Orders 2011 (as amended) causing it to be believed as the genuine Standing Orders 2015 and circulated same for use during the inauguration of the 8th Senate when you knew that the said order was not made in compliance with the procedure for the amendment of the Senate orders. You thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 364 of the Penal Code laws.”

The 8th Senate has not known peace since its inauguration on June 9, 2015. The crisis rocking the Senate originated from the bitterly contested leadership tussle between the camps of Senate President Bukola Saraki and Senator Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan. Following the controversial emergence of Saraki as president, the Ahmad Lawan-led Senate Unity Forum alleged that Saraki’s camp; the Likeminds, conspired with bureaucrats in the National Assembly to “illegally alter the Senate rule with the intent of dubiously” ensuring his emergence.

Soon after the election, the Unity Forum reported the alleged forgery of the rule to the police for investigation. The present leadership of the Senate was elected based on the Senate Standing Orders 2015 as amended, which contains provisions that differ from the 2011 Orders submitted to the 8th Senate.

The contentious amendments

A comparison of the two documents by Daily Trust on Sunday shows amendments to key provisions regarding the mode of election of the Senate
President and the Deputy Senate President. A fundamental amendment to the rule is on the method of voting provided in sections 3 (3e) (i & ii), (f) and (k). The 2011 Standing Orders provides in section 3 (3e) that “When only two senators-elect are nominated and seconded as presidents of the Senate, the election shall be conducted as follows; (i) the Senate shall divide with proposers and seconders as Tellers; (ii) voting shall be conducted by the clerk-at-the-table using Division List of the Senate with the Tellers in attendance. The Clerk of the Senate shall submit the result of the division to the Clerk of the National Assembly; (iii) the clerk shall then declare the senator-elect who has received the greater number of votes elected as President of Senate.”

But the controversial Senate Standing Orders 2015 as amended introduced electronic voting and secret ballot system to the procedure. The document provides in section 3(3e) that “when two or more senators-elect are nominated and seconded as
Senate President, the election shall be conducted as follows; (i) by electronic voting, or (ii) voting by secret ballot which shall be conducted by the clerks-at-table using the list of the senators-elect of the Senate, who shall each be given a ballot paper to cast his vote, with proposers and seconders as Tellers.

“(iii) The Clerk of the Senate shall submit the result of the voting to the Clerk of the National Assembly, who shall then declare the senator-elect who has received the highest number of votes as Senate President-elect.”

The voting pattern proposed by the Senate Orders 2011 provides an election process where all senators are required to openly declare support for candidate of their choice, while the allegedly forged 2015 version provides for secrecy in the voting procedure.

Another contentious amendment is the right of all senators-elect to vote during the inauguration sitting. Section 3(3k) of the Standing Rule 2011 provides that “all senators-elect shall participate in the nomination and voting for the president and deputy president of the Senate.”

But the 2015 amended version provides in its Section 3(i) that “all senators-elect are entitled to participate in the voting for Senate President and Deputy Senate President.” This provision is another major point of disagreement in the 8th Senate as some of its members did not attend the inauguration session. It would be recalled that

Saraki emerged as the Senate President unopposed as his main rival, Senator Ahmed Lawan and several other APC senators were at the International Conference Centre (ICC) for a purported meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, when the Upper Chamber was inaugurated. They did not take part in the elections that produced Saraki and Ekweremadu as presiding officers.

Politics › Re: National Assembly Unduly Roping Presidency In Its Woes – Adesina by midolian(op): 10:20am On Jun 26, 2016

AlPeter:
don't call me a mind reader but I knew that was going to b his reply.

No mind d guy joor. Baseless allegations everywhere!

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Politics › Re: National Assembly Unduly Roping Presidency In Its Woes – Adesina by midolian(op): 10:00am On Jun 26, 2016

bejeiodus:
You can continue to feign ignorance of the obvious. Saraki's travails and the face-off between both arms of government are absolutely strange to you, I guess?

You still have not answered the simple qwestion he threw to you bros grin

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Politics › Re: I Regret Convening Meeting Same Day Saraki, Ekweremadu Were Elected - Oyegun by midolian(op): 9:44am On Jun 26, 2016

DrRasheed:
If there is life there is hope. Saraki must go !!

Politics › Re: Why Fayose Should Not Enjoy Immunity For Alleged Corruption -SERAP by midolian(m): 9:25am On Jun 26, 2016

dukie25:
Meanwhile Buhari is using 13 SANs to defend his own corruption of not having the minimum certificate required for partaking in a presidential election.

pls stop singing this song. Its whack and out of date. angry

Politics › Re: I Regret Convening Meeting Same Day Saraki, Ekweremadu Were Elected - Oyegun by midolian(op): 9:13am On Jun 26, 2016*

So this man called for that meeting huh

I am highly disappointed angry

Behold, one of the problems facing this great country! angry

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Politics › I Regret Convening Meeting Same Day Saraki, Ekweremadu Were Elected - Oyegun by midolian(op): 9:10am On Jun 26, 2016

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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has opened up on the worst mistake he made in the recent past as the APC chairman, which if given a second chance he will undo.

He disclosed this “bad mistake” to Daily Trust in an interview, stating that his decision to call a meeting of the federal lawmakers elected on the platform of his party on the day the eight National Assembly was inaugurated was a terrible mistake, stressing that if he had not listened to the advice of those who persuaded him to do so, the Peoples Democratic Party wouldn’t have produced the deputy Senate President.

According to Oyegun, “There are lots of decisions, not just one, some of which are private. If you want to limit it to the recent past, I would say the decision to call the meeting that took place on the day the National Assembly was inaugurated. That was a bad mistake.

“I was persuaded and I agreed to call that meeting. Had it been it did not take place, we probably won’t have a PDP person there today as the deputy Senate president. The anger within the leadership of the party may not have turned out as strong as it became.”

It would be recalled that following the inability of the federal lawmakers to choose a consensus candidate to lead them at the inauguration of the National Assembly, the ruling party leadership had reportedly scheduled a meeting with the lawmakers for 9am same day of inauguration.

However, before APC Senators, who are in the majority, could return from the meeting which took place at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, their PDP colleagues helped to install Saraki as the Senate President, electing one of their own, Ike Ekweremadu as his Deputy.

http://dailypost.ng/2016/06/26/oyegun-regrets-convening-meeting-same-day-saraki-ekweremadu-were-elected/

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Politics › Re: National Assembly Unduly Roping Presidency In Its Woes – Adesina by midolian(op): 8:43am On Jun 26, 2016

kcnwaigbo:
Continue to dream dear,it is very much allowed.

why are you everywhere around me? angry

who are u pls? huh

Politics › Re: National Assembly Unduly Roping Presidency In Its Woes – Adesina by midolian(op): 6:19am On Jun 26, 2016

joborskill:
The man is very rich and popular already, i don't know what he wants again in life. Very greedy people who will not give up power until death comes knocking

He probably wants to become God.

BeeBeeOoh:
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talk wetin dey ur mind grin

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Politics › Re: National Assembly Unduly Roping Presidency In Its Woes – Adesina by midolian(op): 6:09am On Jun 26, 2016*

joborskill:
Until saraki steps down, there won't be peace in the Senate

Or until he is removed. Saraki will NEVER step down. He doesn't want to lose grip of that gavel. Unfortunately, another gavel will be used by a judge to pronounce that verdict which ll remove and if possible sentence him to decades penal servitude

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Politics › National Assembly Unduly Roping Presidency In Its Woes – Adesina by midolian(op): 6:02am On Jun 26, 2016

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Since tAdesina as Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, he has applied himself to the job, making frantic efforts to defend the administrative policies of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government. In this exclusive interview with Independent correspondent in the Aso Villa, INNOCENT OWEH, he dismissed allegations by the National Assembly leadership that the Presidency was behind its many travails. He also spoke on why the immediate past administration of President Goodluck Jonathan abandoned several Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) signed with foreign allies, which could have translated to more development for the country. Excerpt…

With the gloomy economy, workers are becoming tensed, and recently staff of the Federal Ministry of Finance protested over poor welfare issues, are you aware of their grievances?

I read the explanation from the finance ministry that what they are agitating for had been stopped by the previous government, that explains it. If there would be further explanations, I think its the ministry of finance that would do it, but I think what they have said satisfies me, suffices for now

What would you say is the policy direction of this administration, especially on the economy?

It is that Nigerians need to look inward, all the luxuries that we can’t afford have to be cut off and that is simply what this government wants to do. There are 41 items under forex ban now, that already shows you the direction this administration is going.

Whatever we cannot afford and we can do without let’s cut it off. Why do we expend scarce foreign exchange on rice, cement, toothpick or tomato puree; on things that we can produce locally, so that already wants to take the economy.

Nigerians seem to have taken government deregulation policy in its stride, what informed this policy?

Not only do you have fuel prices are coming down, it shows you that by the time the thing is in full stream there is going to be competition in terms of prices and people will buy where they like and that very process itself would force down prices.

The executive have come under criticism from the National Assembly as being behind its travails, what is your take on this allegation?

They are independent arms, the judiciary is independent, the legislature is independent of the executive, so if they are independent, how can one be behind the travails of another. It doesn’t add up. If you know this President you will know that this President plays by the rules strictly. So, he will not have anything to do with undermining any other independent arm of government, not this President, they can source their troubles to some where else if they have any troubles but not this President.

They are purely independent bodies, they just relate within the ambit of the law and constitution and I have no cause to believe that there is anything wrong with the relationship.

The 2016 budget is undergoing implementation, should Nigerians still maintain high optimism that they had at the inception of this administration?

Optimism is part of life, optimism keeps us going. By the time we loose optimism we have lost everything. So, I expect that we continue to be optimistic as clear as day follows the night, things will get better in Nigeria.

Buhari has obviously made his mark in tackling terrorism but Nigerians would like to know what gave him the impetus to deliver in a short time?

The difference is clear. Government is a continuum; we know where the last administration stopped. This government continued from there and we all know where we are now, where we are today is very far to where we were this time last year. Infact there is almost no comparison between where we are now on the issues of terrorism and where we were this time last year.

How was the magic performed to quell the crisis?

You know the President himself is a retired General, so he knows what to do, he changed the leadership of the military, he arranged for retraining, he arranged for re-equipping, he arranged moral booster for them and everything working together for good has led us to where we are now.

But challenges of IDPs have cropped up as a result of terrorism, how would the Federal Government address that issue as well?

You know that there are groups and agencies working with the Federal Government on that. There is also the Danjuma Committee set up to ensure that their plight is attended to. There are international organisations working in concert with the Federal Government on that, all I want you to know is yes, the issues of IDPs are being tackled. It is a major issue that is being attended to.

How far about the MoUs signed by President Muhammadu Buhari on his recent trip to China, has it been rested?

We came back from China with potential investments in excess of about $6billion dollars and it is work in progress now because it’s a process, we have signed the Memorandum of Understandings and we must come up with counterpart funding, which was what the Jonathan administration did not do; they signed most of the MoUs but they didn’t do their own part of it. This government, despite the paucity of funds will do its part,as soon as we provide the counterpart funding and China does its part those things will come on stream.

We have heard that the railway transport programme resuscitated by the immediate past administration will come on stream by July, can you throw more enlightenment on that?

Yes, the Ministry of Transport is in a better position to tell you but I am aware because I have heard the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi saying that it will come on stream soon, so its a good development. Nigeria is making progress. That shows you the benefits of continuing with the policies and projects of the previous government because that was a project inherited and it was taken forward, its easy, a petty government could have come and discontinued it, no it was taken forward and we are in the verge of launching it. It shows you that government must always be large-hearted, broad minded enough to continue the good things it inherited.

You have been with the President as one of his media aides in the last one year, how would you describe your experience so far?

Fulfilling. I came to do this work in the first place because it is the President, the person of the President brought me. I am not a person that wanted to work in government but the person of the President was the attraction for me and I am happy doing it. I will serve him any day.

http://independentnig.com/2016/06/26/national-assembly-unduly-roping-presidency-in-its-woes-adesina/

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Politics › Re: PDP leadership Crisis: Ali Modu Sheriff created Boko Haram - Makarfi by midolian(op): 10:39am On Jun 25, 2016

ITbomb:
Trust the zombies, they will read the headlines and start playing the recorded tape

if Ali Modu sheriff created Boko Haram as Makarfi has rightly said, what does that mean? undecided

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Politics › Re: PDP leadership Crisis: Ali Modu Sheriff created Boko Haram - Makarfi by midolian(op): 10:22am On Jun 25, 2016

If we know the root of a problem, I think the problem is half solved.

Politics › PDP leadership Crisis: Ali Modu Sheriff created Boko Haram - Makarfi by midolian(op): 10:16am On Jun 25, 2016*

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Caretaker Committee, Sen Ahmed Makarfi has accused the factional leader of the Party, Sen Ali Modu Sheriff of creating terrorist group, Boko Haram that has killed thousands of people in the North Eastern part of the country.
Sheriff on Thursday had claimed that Makarfi deployed hired Fulani herdsmen to chase out his team from the party’s National Secretariat.

“The herdsmen were brought to the secretariat by the caretaker committee chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi.

“We thank God, the national secretary and the national auditor narrowly escaped,” Sheriff had said.

But Makarfi in his reaction alleged that Sheriff was known to be violent, reason the police withdrew his security details.

Makarfi said, “Sheriff is the one known to have created Boko Haram, therefore, he is continuing in similar direction.

“I’m never known to be associated with violence. He made same malicious allegation before the former IGP and DG SSS which was disregarded as baseless. On the contrary, I was there and then given official additional security,” he said.

The former Kaduna State Governor revealed that due to Sheriff’s violent attitude, the police withdrew his security details.

“The police had withdrawn all his security both in Maiduguri and Abuja because of his actions. He had to beg in front of all and after agreeing to take the path of peaceful resolution before they agreed to return some to him.

“As I speak to you he reneged on that peaceful resolution and resorted to filing more cases before courts and has refused appointing his four-member delegation.

“So you media should know who thrives in violence. If you have record of that press statement I will sue him,” he said.

http://dailypost.ng/2016/06/24/pdp-leadership-crises-sheriff-created-boko-haram-makarfi/?utm_source=snap_dp1&utm_medium=twitter

Politics › Re: Buhari’s Advisers To Testify Against Saraki And Ekweremadu by midolian(m): 9:57am On Jun 25, 2016

77Trumpet:
Saraki should have resigned by now. But this guy has no integrity. Most of these Nigerian politicians are backward. Men from the jungle.
Continue to embarrass and disgrace the Nigerians and the whole of Africa internationally. Bastard!!!!!!!!!

The man prefers to be embarrassed out of office and so shall it be. I don't know why black men ae generally power hungry.

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Politics › Re: Buhari’s Advisers To Testify Against Saraki And Ekweremadu by midolian(m): 9:50am On Jun 25, 2016

Ihsan6:
i pity you oo, wc of ur interests is saraki there to protect? Abi no be that thief from my state. He can sacrifice anybody to get what ever he want. He should just do the needful. Even as a governor of kwara state then he didn't protect our interest...#sarakiisselfish

gaffig:
it's so unfortunate that no drug can cure your stupidity, no offense Bro, imagine one day you'll call urself a father....plus don't pass dis trait on

You guys can't understand.

Politics › Re: Buhari’s Advisers To Testify Against Saraki And Ekweremadu by midolian(m): 8:34am On Jun 25, 2016

Progressive01:
Orubebe must be very proud of you.

Politics › Re: Buhari’s Advisers To Testify Against Saraki And Ekweremadu by midolian(m): 8:32am On Jun 25, 2016

Fmartin:
wailer noted

Politics › Re: Buhari’s Advisers To Testify Against Saraki And Ekweremadu by midolian(m): 5:40am On Jun 25, 2016*

kenzo25:
Saraki, can't u see Cameron? just do like him jo, all these will be over for u.

ifa hear! Saraki is not Cameron and can never be. Saraki is there to serve our interests, Cameron was their for personal interest. This is the difference.

Plus Saraki is being witch-hunted. Tell tinubu and Buhari to leave him alone. angry

In particular Our son Senator Ike Ekweremadu is occupying the
highest political office in the South East and not be unduly humiliated and embarrassed by this recurring antics. We shall no longer take this lightly. We shall mobilize other like groups all over the country to resist the tyrannisation of democracy in our country. angry

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Politics › Re: Saraki/Ekwerenmadu forgery case: Ohaneze youths threaten showdown with AGF by midolian(op): 9:23pm On Jun 24, 2016

Dannyset:
Chai.........This is how bad and shitty Nigeria has become. Illegality has now become the order of the day all in the name of ethnicity.

It's a big shame that some set of people won't change just because of the peanut they get from these politicians.

At the end of the day, we will see who will laugh last and those that will cry last.

Shior!

I dey teee you! I can't believe these pipu still have this "Our son" mentality.

In particular our son Senator Ike Ekweremadu is occupying the highest political office in the South East and should not be unduly humiliated and embarrassed by this recurring antics.

Jesus wept..

Politics › Re: Saraki/Ekwerenmadu forgery case: Ohaneze youths threaten showdown with AGF by midolian(op): 9:11pm On Jun 24, 2016*

wowmenow:
We are watching how buhari wants to destroy democracy in Nigeria

if Buhari destroys democracy in Nigeria, it will be the best thing ever to happen to her. Democracy has done this country more harm than good. It was never meant for us angry

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Politics › Re: Saraki/Ekwerenmadu forgery case: Ohaneze youths threaten showdown with AGF by midolian(op): 9:10pm On Jun 24, 2016*

rifasenate11:
Op..

Seems like you ate rice prepared with weed.

The weed I took in is less harmful when compared to what these ohanaeze boys took in before releasing this statement.

Politics › Saraki/Ekwerenmadu forgery case: Ohaneze youths threaten showdown with AGF by midolian(op): 9:00pm On Jun 24, 2016*

Ahead of the Monday arraignment of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekwerenmadu by the Federal Government on Monday over Senate Rules forgery case, Ohanaze youth forum has threatened a showdown with the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Mr. Abubakar Malami.

https://d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Saraki-Ekweremadu1.png
Saraki and Ekweremadu

Specifically, the youth stated that they would mobilize similar groups to scuttle the arraignment, stressing that the prosecution was politically induced.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday and signed by the co-chairman, Mazi Okemiri Alex, the Youth warned the AGF not to touch the deputy senate president, Ekwernmadu who they said was “their son”.

According to the statement, the Senate as an independent body had investigated the case in question and found the presiding officers not guilty, demanding that the federal government should allow the national assembly to do its job in the spirit and letters of the principle of separation of powers.

The statement read thus: “The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council is alarmed by the sudden resurfacing of the arraignment of the Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu over the purported forgery of the Senate 8th session rules.

“In as much as we do not condone any act of illegality,from any quarters, we make bold to state that the present attempt to arraign Senator Saraki and Ekweremadu is ill -motivated and politically induced.

“The issue at stake has been investigated by the Senate and the duo found guiltless in the past.The Senate is the highest law making body in the country and the principle of separation of power confer on them the privilege to internally investigate and even discipline any of their erring members.

“Also the principle of separation of powers presupposes that the three arms of government viz, Executive, legislature and the Judiciary have a reasonable level of independence , though working in synergy.If the Senate has not found the duo guilty, is it the Judiciary or the Executive that should do so.

“We therefore advise the AGF representing the judiciary and the Executive arm to allow and respect the principle of separation of powers. In particular our son Senator Ike Ekweremadu is occupying the highest political office in the South East and should not be unduly humiliated and embarrassed by this recurring antics. We shall no longer take this lightly.

“We shall mobilize other like groups all over the country to resist the tyrannisation of democracy in our country”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/sarakiekwerenmadu-forgery-case-ohaneze-youths-threaten-showdown-with-agf/

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Politics › Re: Samuel Ikon Writes US Ambassador, Threatens Legal Action by midolian(op): 2:21pm On Jun 24, 2016

Solitude101:
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh midolian!!
What didst me to thou that thou wantst to finish me with laughter?

Politics › Re: Samuel Ikon Writes US Ambassador, Threatens Legal Action by midolian(op): 12:45pm On Jun 24, 2016

BeeBeeOoh:
in other words, the head na “Insignia?

Dis guy haf kee me

Politics › Re: Samuel Ikon Writes US Ambassador, Threatens Legal Action by midolian(op): 12:30pm On Jun 24, 2016

BeeBeeOoh:
Lol.. Bet why are you dis wicked??

But truly truly, if u see pple with this kain head, sabi say dem dey like woman

Politics › Re: AGF, Malami ‘shuns’ Senate; Issues Statement by midolian(op): 12:13pm On Jun 24, 2016

Naughtysite:
They can issue arrest warrants. Dont play with the senate .

why didn't they issue it when Lamorde and Danladi Umar didn't honor their Invitation?

Politics › Re: Samuel Ikon Writes US Ambassador, Threatens Legal Action by midolian(op): 12:03pm On Jun 24, 2016

modath:
Mido, thou shall not finish me with laughter.

On Topic,

Politics › Re: Zenith Bank Officials Kneeling Down To Beg Gov Fayose; Lies From The Pit Of Hell by midolian(op): 11:29am On Jun 24, 2016

Alphaoscar:
I heard from a very good source that the guy kneeling down for fayose is actually a zenith bank staff but he was employed through fayose and he went their to beg to protect his head not really on behalf of the bank.

The two pictures were taken at different occasions.

better!

What I am very sure of is that Zenith can never stoop this low for a favor from Fayose.

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