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Activa: una never sabi the superior politics wey dem dey play with una.

the important word here is division. have u forgotten how long oyinlola fought with tukur's pdp? was there no division [/b]then?

let's even ignore that of governor's forum and pdp governors forum.

shebi governors walked out of the pdp convention? is that not a division?

it's true that the court didn't recognize the nPDP as a party but there was a [b]division

continue to lick your wounds bro.

pdp is fnished.

it should better merge with labour and apga.

sorry bro

Activa: una never sabi the superior politics wey dem dey play with una.

the important word here is division. have u forgotten how long oyinlola fought with tukur's pdp? was there no division [/b]then?

let's even ignore that of governor's forum and pdp governors forum.

shebi governors walked out of the pdp convention? is that not a division?

it's true that the court didn't recognize the nPDP as a party but there was a [b]division

continue to lick your wounds bro.

pdp is fnished.

it should better merge with labour and apga.

sorry bro

Olaolufred: YOU ARE ACTUALLY SLOW FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO BACK UP YOUR ASSERTION WITH PROOF OR PROOFS.

YOUR RANT ABOUT DECLARING SEAT VACANT IS BASELESS.

YOU ONLY HEARD WHAT THEY SAID AND YOU REPEATED IT.

SO TAKE GOOD CARE OF THE IGNORANCE YOU ARE BROODING OVER.

Olaolufred: OKAY.

YOUVE ACCEPTED THE FACT THAT YOU DON'T KNOW THE CONSTITUTION YOU CLAIMED TO BE CLEAR.
GOD BE WITH YOU AS YOU CONTINUE TO WRITE WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW.

Akanbi_edu: Well, elections at the presidential level has little to do with electoral message. Nigerian president, at this time, is made by elites' agreement.

Olaolufred: YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW THE SECTION OF YOUR

CONSTITUTION THAT YOU SAID IS CLEAR?

HOPE NIGERIANS CAN SEE WHAT MOPOL IS TYPING.

Akanbi_edu: Tinubu is just being wise.

Obasanjo's ultimate dream is to be seen as the greatest leader in Nigeria and he would stop at nothing to sabotage anything that promises to outshine him. You have a more serious problem, in OBJ, if you are Yoruba. It is on record that he sabotaged both Awolowo and Abiola. Recent moves by Tinubu into Obj's traditional power base, the northern part of Nigeria, poses a serious threat to Obj's relevance in the scheme of things. I can imagine what it feels like for OBJ having lost significant influence in SW.

Tinubu knows very well what the man is capable of, that's why he chose the wise way. If Obj is not going to work with APC, let him not work against at least.

Olaolufred: YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW THE SECTION OF YOUR

CONSTITUTION THAT YOU SAID IS CLEAR?

HOPE NIGERIANS CAN SEE WHAT MOPOL IS TYPING.

Olaolufred: Pls, go to 1999 constitution as amended and copy out conditions under which their seats can be declared vacant.
I want to discuss that with you.
If not, I will take you for an ignorant fellow.

dayokanu: Simon Kolawole was the former PDP mouthpiece so what do you expect
He was the Abati of the FG like 6yrs ago

[size=20pt]The Canonisation of Obasanjo[/size]

[/b]I thought it was designed to be a joke. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu stood reverently in front of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, pleading with him to come and rescue Nigeria along with the APC. “We’re resolved and determined to rescue Nigeria... we want you to be our navigator,” Tinubu told Obasanjo. Like seriously? [b]All you need to attain sainthood in Nigeria today is to be opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan. If Gen. Sani Abacha were alive and had written Obasanjo’s kind of letter to Jonathan, he would have become an instant hero. Just six years ago, I would have sworn that nobody would ever take Obasanjo’s views seriously again, but this is Nigeria where our memory is so shallow. Misfits get easily rehabilitated. We are told to ignore the messenger, even when the messenger is the eternally manipulative “navigator”.


I would like to remind Tinubu, and other easily excited Nigerians, about the antics of the man called Obasanjo. Lagos State would have been enjoying uninterrupted power supply today but for the petty “navigator” who interrupted Tinubu’s independent power projects. Obasanjo tried to frustrate the Enron-built AES power plant (which today supplies 230mw) until Tinubu reportedly went to prostrate to His Imperial Majesty inside his hallowed chambers at Aso Rock. But the “navigator” still made sure the other phases of the project did not see the light of the day.
The 4th Mainland Bridge would have been completed by now but for Tinubu’s “navigator” who refused to give the necessary Country Guarantee to secure a World Bank loan. (The same Obasanjo is hypocritically accusing Jonathan of stalling the Rivers water project - and Nigerians are clapping for him). In the 2003 elections, the “navigator” did everything to uproot Tinubu as the governor of Lagos State. On INEC’s website, Funsho Williams (PDP) had been announced as the winner, the same way other AD governors were swept out. I still don’t know how Tinubu survived.

In 2004,Tinubu created additional local governments. The “navigator” immediately withheld funds due to Lagos councils, describing Tinubu’s action as unconstitutional. The Supreme Court ruled that Tinubu’s action was in order but that the councils were “inchoate” until listed in the constitution. The court further ruled that Obasanjo had no power whatsoever to withhold funds due to any tier of government. The “navigator” still refused to release the funds, not even to the 20 constitutionally recognised councils. President Umaru Musa Yar’Adau released the funds three years later I saw General Muhammadu Buhari on the team that went to Abeokuta to plead with Obasanjo to come and rescue Nigeria. My heart sank. I supported and voted for Obasanjo in 1999, but I was so disgusted with his conduct in office that I shifted my loyalty to Buhari in 2003. We all know how Obasanjo won his re-election that year. The presidential poll, conducted on April 19, was for years described as “419” election by Buhari. For instance, Obasanjo won 72,000 votes from 72,000 registered voters in Brass, Bayelsa State. No more, no less.
[b]
The 2003 presidential poll was called the most fraudulent election in Nigerian history. It is incredible how Obasanjo is now in the forefront of rescuing Nigeria as APC’s “navigator” simply because he criticised Jonathan - and I am very worried that Buhari has descended to this low level of politicking.Buhari told me something four years ago in his hotel room in London. I had been agonizing Just six years ago, I would have sworn that nobody would ever take Obasanjo’s views seriously again, but this is Nigeria where our memory is so shallow. Misfits get easily rehabilitated that Obasanjo was president for eight years and still failed to address power and refinery issues. I said no matter what Obasanjo achieved as president, those two things would continue to taint him Buhari then narrated an encounter he had with Obasanjo at a Council of State meeting sometime in 2001. He recalled: “I said Mr. President, when you came into power in 1999, you said our refineries were not working because somebody (Abacha, that is) was awarding fuel import contracts to his family members.

Two years on, Mr. President, who is getting the fuel import contracts? Are the refineries working now? He interjected and tried to stop me... That was the last time I attended Council meeting under Obasanjo’s government.” Well, the meeting has now resumed in Abeokuta!.[/b]


I also saw Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi peeping from behind in the APC group photograph with Obasanjo during their expedition to Abeokuta. Was he also trying to pour accolades on Obasanjo? If my memory serves me right, Obasanjo callously denied Amaechi the PDP ticket in the 2007 election, openly describing his candidature as having a “K Leg”. But for the Supreme Court, which bent backwards, Amaechi would not have been governor. He should count himself lucky that the judgment was delivered when Obasanjo had left power, if not it would never have been implemented. We were all witnesses to Obasanjo’s lawlessness anytime the courts passed judgments. He often refused to obey. His Attorney-General always had his own interpretation, even for matters as simple as “return to status quo ante”.


I am waiting for Dr. Chris Ngige to pour his own encomium on the “navigator”. I don’t need to remind anyone what Obasanjo did to Ngige in Anambra State in 2004. If you’re too young to know, please google it. I am also waiting for Chief Audu Ogbeh to take his turn. He was removed as PDP chairman by Obasanjo because of his letter on the Anambra brigandage, in which he passionately pleaded with Obasanjo not to allow “this beautiful edifice of democracy to crumble”. As an APC chieftain now, Ogbeh can follow Tinubu’s footsteps and ask Obasanjo to be the “navigator”. No wonder, some people have given up on Nigeria. With Obasanjo as the “navigator”, a shipwreck is inevitable - as Professor Wole Soyinka has put it. If I may ask: what is Obasanjo’s electoral value? He has never won any election fair and square in his life. He lost woefully in the South-west in 1999, and used state power to corner those states for the PDP in 2003 and 2007.

Naked without state power in 2011, his candidate for governorship in his home state, Brig-Gen.Tunji Olurin, was roundly defeated - and his own daughter, Iyabo, could not win re-election into the Senate. Obasanjo cannot deliver the polling booth in front of his house to APC. His children will not even vote for him. [b]How many Nigerians will vote for a candidate because of Obasanjo’s endorsement? [/b]Is this the kind of “navigator” APC needs? Agreed, Obasanjo has his nuisance value and his letters will always make headlines, but APC would be well advised to proceed with caution. I fully understand the disenchantment with President Jonathan. Nevertheless, APC should beware of 419.




http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/the-canonisation-of-obasanjo/167543/

By JOHN AINOFENOKHAI
PERMIT me to go straight to the point by calling on Nigerians, in the light of the recent defection of 37 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives to the All Progressive Congress (APC), to draw attention to Section 68 (1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution as amended which states: “A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if – being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected; Provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored.”


Nigerians should also note that on Friday, October 18, 2013, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja and presided over by His Lordship, Justice Elvis Chukwu, had ruled that there was no division in PDP and thus restrained the self-styled new PDP from using the colour and logo of the PDP under the chair of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. Recall that the Court had also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to refrain from recognising, dealing and relating with the new PDP.

It should be further noted that prior to the ruling, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had on Friday, October 10, 2013, expressly declared that it did not recognize the now defunct new PDP, thus putting paid to the factionalisation plot being orchestrated by members of the group.

The Commission, in a letter with reference number INEC/LEG/PDP/19/111/245 signed by the Acting Secretary, Mr. U.F. Usman, addressed to the National Secretary to the now defunct new PDP, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, had acknowledged receipt of his letters dated 1st and 23rd September wherein he had requested for the Commission’s recognition of the Alhaji Kawu Baraje-led NWC.

The Commission had noted in the letter: “You will recall that the Commission monitored the National Convention and Special National Convention of the PDP held on the 24th of March 2012 and 31st of August 2013 at the Eagle Square, Abuja, after notices to the Commission.
“A National Working Committee (NWC) was elected at the two conventions with Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as the National Chairman. The Commission will not withdraw recognition from the leadership of the PDP elected at the conventions duly monitored by the Commission. Be guided accordingly.”


Now that these 37 members of the House of Representatives, in defiance of the provisions of the Constitution and pronouncements by relevant bodies- the Court and INEC- that there is no division in the PDP leadership, have left the party for the APC, I ask: where is the division in the PDP or in its leadership? Are they saying that the Court and INEC were incapable of determining the presence of a division in the party? I concur with the court and INEC that there is no division in the party leadership.


So, on what basis have they left the PDP and now keeping their seats in the House? To answer the question, it was on the basis of an interlocutory injunction purportedly granted them by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 that they hurriedly effected their defection plan.

The injunction had purportedly restrained the PDP, its chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the INEC, Senate President and Speaker of House of Representatives from declaring vacant the seats of the defecting federal lawmakers to the APC. The leadership of the PDP had gone to court praying that the seats of its members who defected to the APC be declared vacant, which was the right to do in line with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.Now, which ground is provided in the law: is it not the condition for defection, to wit: division, which is absent, in the PDP leadership? Or, is it the restraining injunction granted by the court, which can be vacated? What will happen tomorrow if the injunction is vacated?


Without a division in the PDP, their defection will be legally flawed, standing on nothing. In that circumstance, they would be expected to do the needful: leave the House so that INEC can also do the needful: organise new elections to fill their seats. They can then decide to re-contest the seats on the platform of their new found APC.


Flowing from the above, I expect that men of integrity and honour within the APC, if any, that they should not be involved in political fraud by appropriating what is not rightfully theirs. What these legislators have done is immoral: taking the mandates given to them on the PDP platform to the APC. Understandably, the APC is happy to harness the fraudulently acquired mandates which it knows it did not get, directly, from the people.

It is, indeed, in the light of the above that I call on well-meaning Nigerians to urge the INEC to do the needful within the ambits of the law and call for elections where necessary. If the electoral body needs the pronouncement of the court on the issue to enable it act accordingly, the court should discountenance technicalities and other political shenanigans to rein in and sanitise the political process and system by acting strictu sensus with the provisions of the extant laws.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/defection-misadventure-37-federal-legislators/

Demdem:
Though I want Jonathan to appeal this case, it doesn't change the fact that till date El-Rufai remains the best FCT minister IMO.

Pukkah: It is curious that the 'quashing' Court says contract-splitting is 'unknown to law'.

See excerpts from the Public Procurement Act 2007:


Fundamental Principles Section 16(4).
37. The appropriate methods, procedures and contract award for public procurement of goods and works shall be subject to the prior review thresholds as may be set from time to time by the BPP.

38. Value for money obtained through efficiency, fair access to bids and transparency, shall remain the main objective of the Procuring Entity.

39. Contracts shall not be split into smaller units [size=25pt]in order to avoid competitive bidding [/size] or be distributed among various lots to different bidders to enlarge bidder participation [size=25pt]at the cost of lesser economy and efficiency[/size].


I thought it was an exaggeration when it was said that it is somebody's destiny to bankrupt Nigeria.

ibsmooth: What is wrong with this PDP led government.Do you guys think Nigerians are illitrates like must of you or our sense of purpose is dead.Their thought process is either sick or dead.What happens to Isah Yuguda of Bauchi state who was elected Governor on the platform of ANPP but defected to PDP?what about MHA and Senators who cross-carpeted from other parties to PDP?please GEJ and his kitchen cabinet should either reconcile with his party men or keep quite.If you think GEJ led PDP is confused,please click like

bappahman: SUMMARY OF 18PAGES OBASANJO LETTER TO MR.PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN.

An apparently angry and frustrated ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has written what clearly competes as one of the most acerbic letters in modern history to President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of ineptitude and of taking actions calculated at destroying Nigeria.

“Nigeria is bleeding and the hemorrhage must be stopped,” Mr. Obasanjo said in the 18-page letter dated December 2, 2013 and exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday.

He said Mr. Jonathan has failed to deliver on his promises to the Nigerian people, stem corruption, promote national unity and strengthen national security.

He said in the letter titled “Before it is too late” that rather than take steps to advance Nigeria’s interest and up the standards of living of Nigerians, Mr. Jonathan had betrayed God and the Nigerian people that brought him to power, and has been pursuing selfish personal and political interests based on advice he receives from “self-centred aides”.

In the detailed letter, dripping of anger , frustration and what appearsa genuine concern to rescue a nation on the brink, Mr. Obasanjo lamented that Mr. Jonathan had become terribly divisive and clannish, destroying his own party, polarizing the country along regional and religious lines and ridiculing Nigeria in the comity of nations.

Without mincing words, Mr. Obasanjo blamed Mr. Jonathan for the crises tearing the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, apart.

In the detailed letter, dripping of anger , frustration and what appearsa genuine concern to rescue a nation on the brink, Mr. Obasanjo lamented that Mr. Jonathan had become terribly divisive and clannish, destroying his own party, polarizing the country along regional and religious lines and ridiculing Nigeria in the comity of nations.

Mayor_of_Lagos: As he flies around the world, attending this meeting and that meeting I hope he is doing due dilligence of finding an appropriate home to serve his exile. He can rest assure that a most disgraceful aftermath awaits him if he remains on this soil after 2015. He should go in exile and wait to be pardoned, however long it takes.

Akpangbon: old news just to find something to say against GEJ.


BY THEOPHILUS ABBAH AND MUSBAHU BASHIR, 5 AUGUST 2012

Yomieluv[b:
]I think[/b] GEJ is worst than Abacha In looting spree,he's careless,and the definition above fits him. He should be made accountable for all corrupt practice during his tenure. He's also a lilly livered person,who disguised as a gentle man,but vindictive against his opponent by the use of EFCC.

Obrafour: Yeah, I concede it might have been an oversight from an overzealous institution, I questioned the policy myself after reading the story. But it was your compatriot who threw the first punch....