₦airaland Forum

skimanski:
As for the Visitors Toilet Opening In or out is up to you the owner. Depends on how you wish to live in it. Then for the Ante room, if you want it as an ante room and not a verandah/Entrance Porch, its also up to you. All I will want you to consider in that case is the window on that wall between the Living room and ante room, maybe the ante room reduces the Light and Air that comes through the window, anyway still your choice to make. Slightly more worrying is the Bedroom2, looks too small for me in scale, if you have more land space, I think it will be a Good idea to have more space in that room. Now most worrying for me is the Dinning. Seems too big in comparison to the Kitchen. You'd rather you give the space to the Kitchen than giving it to the Dinning. Apart from that, the guy has done a good Job. Kuddos to him.

ojesymsym:
The new trend in the property section is Ibeju Lekki and the free trade zone. With government putting their search light on those areas, there are a lot of rumor about certain areas under government acquisition, is there anyone who from previous searches or experience or even rumor can advise on areas one should stay clear of, so as not to fall victims.

INSTINCTS: I guess money has changed hand.

Jakpon: Flooded Enugu international airport. This is the landmark achievement of Gej to the igbos

bbdrown: My uncle I once stayed with is so mature!!! Responsible and mature ones know how to deal with such issues.

If APC Survives One Year, Don’t Call Me Okupe, Presidential Aide
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Apr, 24 2013, 10:04AM — siteadmin
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Doyin Okupe
By SaharaReporters, New York
The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public
Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, on Tuesday described the merger of opposition
political parties on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a
weak association that would crumble and disappear by 2014, one year before
the next general election.
So confident is he of this that during a courtesy visit to THISDAY corporate
offices in Lagos yesterday, he put his father’s name on the line.
“If they don’t crumble and disappear by 2014, don’t call me Okupe,” he
bragged.  
Okupe’s visit to THISDAY seemed to have been a public relations stunt that
was carefully arranged either when the journalists went to lunch, or after
Okupe had gagged them, because no professional asked him any questions
following what seemed like a one-sided lecture.
The self-described “attack lion” of President Goodluck Jonathan dismissed
the view that the merger would rout the ruling Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) in the next election, calling the forces behind it unserious people that
are incapable of causing a major upset in national politics.
“Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Maj-Gen. Mohammadu Buhari are not serious-
minded people; they are going round like people dancing in a market place,”
he said, defiantly. “I expect that when you post an aggregate of people of
that calibre who want to run government, by now they must have a policy
statement on power, agriculture and employment and not just talking about
PDP leaving.
"Is it by mouth that they will run the nation? These are not serious-minded
people. Can someone get your vote by using word of mouth that PDP should
leave without a policy?”
Okupe was hinging his political prediction on the projection that the
president's joker, which is stable electricity, is attained by 2014, the
opposition would be punctured and rendered ineffective.
Specifically dismissing Tinubu, he held that the ACN chieftain has ridden
roughshod over the South-west, but that Nigeria is bigger than that.
“This is their first time out in national politics; alright, and let me give you
some bad news: the relevance that ACN has in Nigerian politics is that they
are a Yoruba party. That is what makes them relevant in politics and by
dropping that toga, the party is dead.

Tukur Not A PDP Member, Says Baraje’s faction Asks INEC to de-register ‘Old’ PDP

Posted by: Our Reporter on September 3, 2013 in Exclusive Leave a comment



The Kawu Baraje-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Indepenent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to de-register the Bamanga Tukur-led faction of the party.

Baraje said Tukur’s PDP failed to comply with Section 222(D) of the Nigerian Constitution, which requires a political party to notify the electoral umpire about an alteration in its constitution.

Section 222 (d) states; ” Any alteration in its (a party’s) registered constitution is also registered in the principal office of the Independent National Electoral Commission within thirty days of the making of such alteration.”

It maintained that Tukur is not a bona fide member of the party having been expelled by its National Executive Committee (NEC) in 2001. Baraje’s faction held that Tukur has yet to be properly re-admitted into the party let alone be its national chairman.

In its statement of claim obtained by Pointblanknews.com, the Baraje faction reminded the High Court of Lagos State that it was the 2009 PDP constitution that midwifed the party’s amended 2012 constitution.

“Evidence has surfaced to prove that strange clauses which were not part of the proposed amended were inserted into the original produced version of the 2012 constitution and those alterations were not approved by the party convention and the National Executive Committee thereby making the document a forged document which is invalid,” the faction told the court.

“The forged 2012 constitution was not equally filled before INEC as required by the constitution, thereby making the PDP constitution upon which the 2013 convention was held an invalid document and the outcome of that convention invalid, as it was held without a valid constitution,” they claimed.

“The proof of these evidence can be seen in the approved memo by the PDP NEC upon which the amendment was done in the 2012 and the original version of the PDP constitution filled with INEC will as well prove these violations.”

Justifying the impropriety of Tukur presiding over the party’s national convention, the faction drew the court’s attention to Tukur’s expulsion in 2001.

“Exactly on the 31 May, 2001,” said the statement, the PDP NEC after its meeting held in Abuja expelled eight members of the PDP in accordance with the PDP constitution which gives the NEC the powers to discipline NEC members who breaches the constitution.”

The statement explained that “they were expelled after NEC considered and adopted the report of the Iro Dan Musa-led PDP Disciplinary Committee.” The eight expelled members, recalled the statement, included Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Don Etiebet, Asheik Jarma, Ume-Ezeoke, Emmanuel Ibeshi, (late) Harry Marshal and Gbenga Olawepo.

“Note that Article 10(b) iii of the PDP 2009 constitution and Article 8(17) of the 2012 amended constitution which holds that any member of the party who loses his membership by expulsion can only return to the party with the approval of the party executive at his ward, state and national levels, who shall give him a waiver,” narrated Baraje’s faction.


“Since the expulsion of Bamanga Tukur in 2001, he has not complied with the above requirement of the PDP constitution, meaning that his purported participation at the 2012 convention where he was elected was a fraud and invalid, as he is not yet a member of the party,” they held.

Baraje’s faction prayed the court to void the August 2013 convention of the party on the grounds of illegal delegates in the convention, and the arbitrary disqualification of duly elected delegates by the Screening Subcommittee of the National Convention Committee.

The camp urged the court not to turn a blind eye on of the party’s failure to comply with the provision of Section 85(1) of the Electoral Act which holds that, “a registered political party shall give INEC at least 21 days notice of any convention, congress, conference or meeting convened for the purpose of electing members of its executive committees, and other governing bodies.”

Based on the provision, the Baraje faction held, the PDP NEC ratified the conduct of the 2013 national convention in its meeting of August 22, and the congress running nine days later, on August 31, the party ran foul of the required 21 days notice required to inform INEC about the exercise.

The faction also claimed to have evidence on unelected delegates from the South West Zonal Caretaker Committee participating and voting in the 2013 national convention. This, the group held, contravened Section 85(3) of the 2010 Electoral Act, which states; “the election of members of the executive committee or other governing body of a political party, including the election to fill a vacant position in any of these bodies, shall be conducted in a democratic manner and allowing for all members of the party or duly elected delegates to vote in support of a candidate of their choice.”

They also claimed that the decision of the screening subcommittee to conduct the screening of delegates less than 24 hours before the convention, falls short of democratic conduct as it does not afford disqualified delegates to seek redress.

By dorning vests canvassing votes for Prince Uche Secondus as deputy national chairman of the PDP at the convention ground, the group held that supporters of Secondus violated Article K, Page 8, of the PDP Code of Conduct for Conventions.

The code states; “a party member, aspirant, candidate or agent shall not canvass for votes within the vicinity of the congress venue or party primary convention.”