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Plan B & C is definetly wat will put one on a good footing.Funny enough I have being thinking of what to do with my salary for the past 3months.
These days fixing your money in a bank is even riskier cuz you wont know which bank would be folded next.

Meanwhile am considering going into transport business; buy a taxi and place it on hire purchase cus I wouldnt have the time n stress to be shouting on d driver to be giving me my   3k everyday.What do u guys think of this one proposal ?

Had the mind of going into security systems installation-CCTV ,security fencing et all but cant leave work to cordinate this soo Im  thinking of going into storage business as my plan C just so that I wont leave my cash in the bank lol.

By Abdulwahab Abdulah, Ishola Balogun and Bashir Adefaka

The revelation and video tape tendered to a Lagos High Court Thursday as exhibit by the former Chief Security Officer to the late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamzat Al-Mustapha, is now tearing Yoruba leaders apart.

Many of them have debunked the claim by Al-Mustapha that late Yoruba leaders, Abraham Adesanya and Bola Ige were ‘settled’ to douse the tension generated by the death of the late winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola, while others such as Dr. Fredrick Fasheun who earlier posited that the statement by the former CSO should not be taken as truth have taken a new position.

Fasheun suggested that the Federal Government should set up a commission of enquiry to unravel the truth.When he was called the second time on his position, he reiterated that: “I was in the court and I saw the video clip shown. I am not a cynic.” The video tape (VHS) which was played in the court contained less than a minute’s clip of an encounter between some pro-democracy leaders, led by the late Chief Abraham Adesanya and some journalists, who asked him questions on their meeting with the then Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar.

Fasheun who saw the video clip at the court when it was played said he was now persuaded to believe the story, adding that it was confirmed. “ It is no longer an allegation. It was confirmed when they showed the video tape and with the video tape, it is no longer an allegation.”

When reminded of his earlier position, he said: “Yes, I said before that I would not believe Major Al-Mustapha but now, having seen the electronic evidence, I am persuaded to believe. I am not a cynic,” he stated.

Fasehun in a press briefing yesterday said his call for the release of Al-Mustapha over the years was borne out of the conviction that so many things happened which led to the non actualization of the mandate of Abiola and his eventual death in custody.

Calling for the immediate release of Al-Mustapha, Fasehun described his detention as “indecent, prolonged, inhuman and unjustified incarceration,” saying, “everyone now know my concern.”

He therefore said, “I will advocate that to safeguard national security, Nigeria’s image and the judiciary’s integrity, authorities should immediately free Major Hamza Al-Mustapha.”

While justifying his position, Fasehun said “for one, Major Al-Mustapha has been denied justice. The 13 years he has spent locked up amounts to 20 prison years. For what? Furthermore, I am aware that his sensitive post as a former security chief had made him a custodian of information which, if mishandled, was capable of rocking national security.”

He added that, “his keeping quiet, despite suffering 13 years of chain, torture and privation, convinced me that this man indeed valued national security above personal comfort. However, his unending incarceration has forced him to finally open up on some of the mind-boggling information he erstwhile kept close to his chest.”

Speaking on Boko Haram and the violence associated with the Sect, Fasehun said the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar raised quite some eyebrows by absolving the sect from blame for taking up arms against the state as well as condemning the ongoing military crackdown on the violent sect.

Insisting it is a fabricated story, Chief Olu Falae challenged Al Mustapha to name those who collected money. The former Secretary to the Federal Government and Minister of Finance stated that it was not wrong for the former Head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar to invite Yoruba leaders to his office, stating that he should provide evidence to substantiate his claim. “We want evidence that he gave them money or else, we are saying it’s a lie. He’s out to blackmail dead people. When Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar became Head of State, he invited the Yoruba leaders to see him. ! What’s wrong with that? What is wrong with a Head of State inviting Yoruba leaders and they visited him? Is that a crime? When Obasanjo was President, he invited me to visit him and I visited him. If Goodluck invite me today I will visit him. Is that a crime?”

He alleged that Al-Mustapha and Abdulsalami took money out of the Central Bank. Where is the money? It is convenient to say you gave it to people who are now dead. Why didn’t he mention a single person who is alive to whom he gave the money, so that he can defend himself? Ask him that question. $240 million is a huge amount of money that old men cannot carry in their pocket. Did he send it to their bank accounts? Did he send it by trust to their homes? How did do it? Did he give out $240 million? How? Where? Through whom? He remarked that Mustapha’s statement has led to nothing and should be discarded.

Second Republic Minister for Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide described the issue as ‘demolition’ after a long hesitation. He then laughed sarcastically saying, “Only one word: demolition!” When asked of whom and by who, he said, “I don’t know of whom and by who but that’s what I want to say and I don’t want to add to that.”

Former governor of Lagos state, Alhaji Lateef Jakande stated it is a lie by a desperate person. “I don’t believe him. It’s unbelievable because no Yoruba leader would work against Abiola. I think he (Al-Mustapha) is just a desperate person who wants to get out of his predicament but it will be very wrong for somebody to tell such lies.”

Afenifere leader, Pa. Reuben Fasoranti also maintained that it was very unfair to talk ill of the dead. His words, “Why did he have to wait till now before he exploded? He’s talking ill of the dead because they have no chance to counter his allegation. I think that’s very unfair. Both of them are dead.” He noted Al-Mustapha was just doing that to get his freedom. “Adesanya was very honest and upright and I knew him very well. He used his time rightly. He didn’t love money and he wouldn’t love money to such extent that he would have to compromise his integrity….

“Government has its own plan. They know why they are keeping him up till now. They know for what purpose. So, I don’t see the reason he should be saying all this kind of things at this time. What did he want to achieve? I wouldn’t know if there is any foul play here but it sounds very cloudy and I don’t know what game they are about to play.”

Those who were easily identified in the video were, Chief Adesanya who answered reporters’ questions, Dr. Arthur Nwankwo of the then Eastern Mandate Union (EMU) and the late Chief Bola Ige. As against Al-Mustapha’ claim, neither Adesanya nor Dr. Nwankwo looked happy, while responding to questions from the journalists, Chief Adesanya however smiled at the end of the interview when he said: “Journalists can now disperse,” and everyone laughed.



Let the pandora box continue to be opened.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/08/al-mustapha%E2%80%99s-bribery-allegation-splits-yoruba-leaders/

Senators upset at 40% pay cut


Several senators yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with implementation of a 40 per cent cut in overheads of the National Assembly which has reduced their allowances by about a half, Daily Trust gathered.

A source told our reporter that Senate President David Mark while revealing details of allowances to senators during closed session, said they are to be paid about N11 million for housing, car monetisation and furniture allowance. This is against about N18.5 million which was paid to senators of the Sixth Senate.

The source said, “senators were disappointed to hear that they are going to get about N4 million as rent for housing. Some of them complained that to get a decent house now in Abuja cost N5 million and landlords are in the habit of asking for 2 years.”

Mark was however said to have told his colleagues that though their explanations on the pay cut were valid, “there was nothing the Senate leadership could do because government has already cut the National Assembly overhead budget by 40 percent as provided by the 2011 budget.”

The Sixth Senate suffered low public approval ratings due to high cost of maintaining the lawmakers as they were said to be spending over a quarter of the country’s overhead funds.

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido had insisted that the legislature gulps over 25 percent of overhead costs provided in the budgets.

In his inaugural speech, Mark had pledged that the Senate is to spearhead resolve to cut down on cost of governance saying, “Nigerians complain that our democracy is too expensive. We, as representatives of the people, must initiate legislations that will reduce cost of governance at all levels thereby freeing resources to attend to the basic needs of the people.”

An official of the National Assembly told Daily Trust that members of the last Senate received N7.5 million as car loan, N6.5 million for furniture and N8 million as housing rents. The official however said the Finance office of the National Assembly is unaware of the new development.

Meanwhile, the Senate, which is yet to elect its other principal officers, has adjourned sitting to June 28.


http://www.dailytrust.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20705:senators-upset-at-40-pay-cut&catid=1:news&Itemid=2

Before you GEJ loyalists starts raining insults,I want you to place one and two 2gether:

In as much as I abhor the shenanigans cum antics of Bankole over the 10B loan,car scam et al,suffice it to say that the hurricane-like arrest of Bankole has more to do than corruption allegation. HERE IS IT.

EFCC told us they have concluded investigation about the car scam as alleged by Festus Keyamo,incidentally the guy that will be prosecuting him,and have handed the findings to GEJ.This was way way long time ago.GEJ kept quiet about it since then.

The north are desperate to recapture the precidency come 2015.Now the scheming for speakership entered the center stage with insinuation that IBB n atiku are behind the guy from north (Tambuwa or something like that) who has refused to step down for GEJ anointed chap Mrs Adeola.This Tambuwa guy is powerful in the lower chamber n initiating impeachment wont be much a hard nut for him.

Now lets connect the dots: Bankole has agreed to appear monday ie today by 2pm by which the speakership election which come ups by 10am today must have ended and the winner emerged.Sharp GEJ haven seen the scripts orderd IGP to withdraw his guard (they should've being withdrawn b4 now anyway) so as to be able to arrest him that sunday.With coercion, Bankole has now implicated the said Tanbuwal who is now on the run this morning paving the way for Mrs adeola to emerge unopposed.

Methink if actually GEJ is the fresh air,he shud come clean in his fight against corruption not playing some kind of politics.

When will some politicians learn to concede defeat amidst little irregularity  for the sake of unity of our country like what Algor did.
There were so many underage voting  captured by the media yet he turns a blind eyes to it.I want to appeal to Buhari n  his CPC guys to toe the path of honor cuz there are so many ways u can help this country aside being the president.Look at what Hilary Clinton is doing for US yet she's not the president.
No doubt ethnocentrism n religion played the dominant role in the election but a winner must emerge.GEJ has emerged.This is the time u translate the cry n wailing to the real luv by talking to these abokis many of whom may not even know why they'r protesting.D Niger Delta militants r there too remember.Let d country not halt bcuz of ur ambition sir.I luv my country.

See my people,a candidate that cant have stronghold of his administration (Ribadu) should not be there.
What about one that can do anything to become president including crying like a baby (Buhari).

GEJ is the only trusted n humble pie we have for now.

Vote GEJ. shekina

Though I joined the program halfway,I would say GEJ won my heart with two answers;

1) When asked dat knowing that the problem of Nigeria is bad leadership which he answered with an instance that wen as a leader u appropriate positions to the best people in the job irrespective of your personal interest interest;dat is good leadership.Good point if you ask me.
Non interference in appointment/politics outside your jurisdiction like in his state Bayelsa unlike wat Tinubu is doing with ACN.

2) Tackling youth unemployment which he  said can be solved by making agriculture attractive to our graduates by introducing mechanized agriculture with some incentive some incentives to kick-start it.Anoda point again.

Again  in his closing remark where he said that whoever is encouraging people to engage in criminal cases should desist bcuz the law will take its effect no matter who is involved sums  it all.Example is Bode george case

The devil you know is beta than d angel u don't know.

GEJ-1700
atiku-503 after Enugu counting.

E be like they don still one ballot paper from Edo votes.Must be atiku boys

Crossriver all 4 guduluk

Is the man saying Bigluck or waa ?

Did anybody notice that it is only the malams that are voting in a different state,confusing everybody.
This shows the illiteracy level there .Gwudluck carry go jor !!

You got a job,your friends trouped out for thanksgiving.Someones club is giving him joy,he goes for thanksgiving and you peeps r having headache.
I tire oo.

Meeeeen.some are already scheming to get the line.

I have Gov Amechi,Ajumogobia and Omeha Numbers just lying on my phone sleeping.

Considering getting rid of them now sef .it make me mad that I have such numba on my phone and am still hustling like oke (ie rat)

@duke3d

Chai Nlernders no go kill me 4 hia.lai lai.

ohh you wan enter Shell.den me go enter okada.who no like beta thing.



Come clean guy. You said uv being at home 4 3months.That you don't have a job now,and you equally asked if you should leave the place for a "BETTER" one .which one we go follow.

tips: edit your post and tell us if u have a job aside the bagco own.

Facebook don fail na black berry naw.

Score
GEJ IBB
1 0

Odikwa one kind.

I share your predicament but one thing you have to know is that you are not a failure.Absence of job has made so many people look stupid.as if they don't know anything,but what you have to know is that a lot are in this situation and you have to chart a course for yourself.

I will suggest you start with teaching job. Secondary school/Jamb/waec ssce or even extra moral classes.
Atleast that will make you busy and the same time give you some money to hustle around aside keeping your brain alert for any job test or what have you.
Keep your dream alive man.don't give up because the darkest moment is closest to dawn.

Goodluck .

Please how long does this their provision admission takes to get it bcus I learnt the scholarship application is ending this month oct.
will be glad to hear from u.

@johnpaul88


Oh really? you're handicapped on knowledge of OAU alumni.Apology accepted.

You see I'm not really a fan of tribal and unhealthy antagonism.

You should have tried to explain to the fellow why he should consider OAU  rather than starting with how UNN is bad and all worth not.

@johnpaul88
I luv dis game

Jimoh Ibrahim-Great entrepreneur cum politician (heard he is the new Adedibu if your discernible )

Ernest Ndukwe-ma brada from anada mother,great achiever, kind of strike  a balance

Fela Durotoye-Haven't heard of dat.

Pastor Adeboye--Hmmm.well touch not my anointed.

Mimiko--Connived with Erastus Akingbola to embezzle N26B from state coffers.  Link    http://www.sharpedgenews.com/news/2010/07-21-10
/Akingbola_Mimiko.shtml

Falana- was relegated and intimidated by Ganis presence. kind of vibrant now.

ohhh less I 4get Omotola-what a name uv got (forgive my sarcasm).Ran to singing wen Nollywood was making her go broke.

Sorry brada but am not impressed.

@Johnpaul88
Uv extricated ursef from a mind boggling question.
I will remind u if uv 4gotten;
name intellectuals from ya skul that is contributing (Not looting) to the growth of d country.
Soyinka,Chinue Achebe et al were all from UI not OAU.
over to you.

@ Arysexy
What about Oby Ezekwesili ?

Great Lions and Lionesses , hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

@Johnpaul88
Interesting how you're fighting hard to project your skul,but you shouldn't allow your affection for ur skul becloud your sense of judgment.
A portray of your skul as the best in terms of structures is to say the least an intellectual hogwash. A good and sound reasoning  should av being what course is the person interested in ? I asked because Engineering in UNN where you have about 15 Professors( I mean Profs not PHD's) is left for you to articulate the quality of acada there.They have best Library in the whole WA or maybe you are for a grooving skul. UNN is about acada sefini .

New York [RR] New York—new shocking revelations show that “IBB killed Abiola, Abacha, Idiagbon, Ige and Elewi –
Abacha died of spiked viagra –
SSS kept Abiola’s sex tape –
Abiola kept Samuel Doe’s money in Swiss Bank –
Abiola funded 1985 Coup with $10 million – Nigeria might break up soon”, reports say.


But RepublicReport was first to report that not only did Babangida kill many innocent people, he sometimes killed double agents that worked for him, he, Babangida is also alleged to be a CIA agent. Reports alleged that IBB also recruited Orji Uzor Kalu as a go between agent for IBB and CIA during 1980s Nicaragua WAR in Latin America when US Congress caught funding to fight US secret wars in Latin America including Nicaragua, Panam, without the approval of the US-Congress.

Reports alleged when funds was caught by US-Congress, CIA turned to drug trafficking and due to chaotic nature of Nigeria political landscape picked & used Nigeria as shipment and supplies conduit for drug trafficking, with funds accrued from the drug-trafficking used to prosecute Nicaragua war and other wars in the 80s.

These and many other reports about alleged IBB-CIA links, is why United States trust Babangida more than Goodluck Jonathan to lead Nigeria come 2011 general election. Indeed, if anything, America would even use ”by any means necessary” to impose IBB, regardless whether 2011 presidential election is free or not, if US have their way.

Nevertheless, with massive publications and increasing publications by other media outfits out there, aggressively exposing so-called strategic interests of the US may force US to stand-down from overtly & overtely backing IBB, but I doubt it. We must brace for an impact, because anything, if not earthquake, something terrible will happen that will change forever the geo-political equation of what is called Nigeria very soon.

Already IBB’s side-kick, Orji Uzor Kalu is a mess at hoem and abroad, with recent death of one Chinwe Masi [Ogbonna] in his US-Mansion with him smuggled out of the US shores, that was widely covered and expository reports electonically mounted telling about his fraudulent and criminal baggage, efficiently and effectively circulated in the US and in the homeland makes OUK and IBB a dead wood but don’t count anything over, until it’s OVER.

Read more…



No other journalist in Nigeria would challenge his impressive fearless reportorial style with which he took on the military for a deceptive transition agenda in 1993 Nigeria. The 1988 graduate of Education and Political Science from the University of Lagos, Nigeria threw himself into the thick of the effort to dislodge the military from power.

Long before many of his contemporaries understood the game of deception foisted on his native country Nigeria, by gap-toothed sly by smiling Babangida, husky trimmed Egba Lawyer Ernest Shonekan, and the dark goggled General Sani Abacha, Fayewimo clearly interpreted, investigated and reported how Nigerians had helplessly turned to pawns in a complex political chess manipulation.

He used his media, Razor, to monitor and expose every move of the 14 year Nigerian military dictatorship.

The military was irreverent and extremely stubborn in tormenting Nigerians. Fayewimo was a consistent and dogged nemesis. He used the power of words to expose the stealing and plundering military politicians. He was always publishing their secret and coded foreign accounts containing money stolen from Nigeria.
The military caught him and kidnapped him from exile in neighboring Benin Republic in 1997. He did not see the light of day light until after Abacha’s death. Abacha would not release him even after Pope John Paul II came to Nigeria and entered a plea on his behalf.

Since he left Nigeria in 1999, he has not returned to the country of his birth. As a matter of fact, he said he may never step his foot on Nigerian soil again. But he has done well with himself. An holder of three masters degrees, one in MA Journalism (2004) from University of South Florida at Tampa, another one from State University of New York in Information Science (2006), and yet another from the same University in African History. He is also finishing his PhD in Public Administration and Public Policy even as he has just started another doctoral work in law Juris Doctor (JD). He finds time to practice as an International Consultant, writes a weekly column for pointblanknews.com and has also worked as a journalist with The Informed Constituent of Albany, New York, The Crow’s Nest Newspaper, Florida and The Works Magazine.

This is his first major interview since leaving Nigeria in 1999. When he came to pointblanknews.com’s corporate headquarters in Manhattan, New York last week, he was again his characteristic self. He held nothing back. He confessed the undue favors extended to him by some of the key actors in the Nigerian intrigue. And issued a range of challenges to living Nigerian leaders to speak up on their atrocities and rape of the country.

He was interviewed by POINTBLANKNEWS Managing Editor, OLADIMEJI ABITOGUN.

Excerpts:

You got into student union politics very early. How did that happen?

I was interested in politics immediately I entered the University of Lagos. University of Lagos, as you know, was very unique and strategic in Nigeria, not because of anything, but because of its location close to the government, because Lagos was where the seat of government was then.

So very early during my undergraduate years I was involved in students’ union politics. In 1983, one of my friends, actually I was his campaign manager, Lateef Gbadamosi, became the president of University of Lagos Students’ Union. If you could remember, his secretary-general was late Chris Imodibe who eventually died in Liberia while working at the Guardian as Foreign Correspondent.

Mr. Imodibe was part of our group and it was the first time I met Chief Abiola. It was Gbadamosi who invited him to our campus. He was with us at the Students’ Union Building. From there we went with him to Eni Njoku Buttery he ate with us and addressed us. That was my first time of meeting Chief M.K.O. Abiola in real life. Gbadamosi later graduated and left the University of Lagos. I participated in politics and became the president before I was eventually removed.

What led to your removal and how were you removed?

Well, we had problems. When Abiola learnt that I was preparing to play politics in UNILAG in 1984, he sent for me. But I ran into problems with the administration of the then Vice Chancellor, Prof. Akin Adesola as a result of my principled opposition to some of the policies. I was banned from contesting the presidency of the Students’ Union. I had problems at the University. I almost became a permanent student. It was hot (laughs). So I took a year off. And I went to Abiola’s house and explained my situation.

Were you on suspension or you acted on personal volition?

I was not on suspension. I acted on my own because I was also having some academic problems. Let me just say that I was not in a hurry to graduate. That is why I said it was fun. Well I had an interesting meeting with Chief Abiola who, having listened to me, gave me a letter to the then Deputy Editor of National Concord, Mr. Ismaila Mohammed. That was in 1984. That was how I knew and witnessed the Babangida coup of 1985. You want us to continue from there?

What kind of personality did Chief Abiola project when you first met him?

There were many students. We all surrounded him at the Buttery. Gbadamosi brought him. So many people hated Gbadamosi because there was the erroneous impression that the students’ union was being sold to the government of National Party of Nigeria (NPN) led by Shehu Shagari. Lateef Gbadamosi had gone to congratulate Alhaji Shagari for being re- elected in 1983 shortly before he was removed by the military.

Abiola was a very simple person. He ate with us. He waited in line. Everybody saw him in queue, he was served. He projected a populist personality. He made people laugh. People liked him. That was my first time in his company. He took and shook my hand after I was introduced to him by Lateef Gbadamosi. And that was it.

Nigerians often complain about falling standard of education. I feel it has always been that way. How were things during your time?

I was president of UNILAG Students’ Union from 1985 to 1986. To me, I think Nigerian students can hold their own anywhere in the world. Pointedly, it was General Babangida who spoiled the Nigerian educational heritage. His pathological hatred for any organized opposition made him to move against the educational system. That was why he targeted students’ unionism.

Student union association was not voluntary during our time. So long a student was duly admitted, such a student was made to pay the union fee alongside the university tuition. Students cannot aspire to full leadership training without a rallying point like the union. The cults mushroomed because Babangida sacrificed the union.

Administrators, professors and every other component of university system are in place because students came to school. When students are denied their rights to associate, when the platform for such association, the union is destroyed, something so important for students to agitate for their interests, students become cultists. You are here in the United States; you see how Nigerian students excel. But the Babangida regime was very silly. The man systematically destroyed our schools and he destroyed our heritage as well.

But the man had his argument. He said some professors were “extremists” who were teaching what they were not paid to teach. He felt that unionism was being democratized when students had options of joining or not joining but strictly listen, learn and graduate…

He was only trying to run Nigeria like a military barrack. He could not expect to arrive at a consensus on behalf of 120 million Nigerians. He also could not assume that Nigerians, 120 million, would have consensus on an issue. That is what society is about. What is a university? The university is supposed to mould its products to have questioning minds. That is what the university system is supposed to teach, to develop minds to such a degree where they can question things.

There is no way you proffer solution to the multifarious problems of modern societies if university students do not have questioning minds. So it is mere bunkum. Universities are not supposed to be military academy where ideas have to be regimented and you have to regurgitate what your professors are teaching you. That has been the tradition. All over the world that has been the tradition of the university. Babangida and his cohorts, all these people they never attended a traditional university, so what do you expect?

They wielded out radicals like Patrick Wilmot and Festus Iyayi from what should be a natural environment.

Who should decide what university students are supposed to be taught?

You had met Abiola. You later became the president of the students’ union government of UNILAG. You have not explained what actually led to your removal from office.

There was a contemporary called Panaf (shortened form of Pan Africanism). His real name was Olajide Olakanmi. He was the president of ULSU (University of Lagos Students’ Union) in 1981. Unbeknownst to most students of University of Lagos, he was, and I think till today was an informant for the State Security Service, SSS. He was given some money; most students would not know this that is why I am disclosing this, after almost twenty years. He was parading himself at UNILAG as a radical but he was actually working for the SSS. He first brought some money when I was contesting for the presidency to assist me in order to become, purportedly, the president of the students’ union. They claimed they embezzled some union funds but my budget had not even been passed by the Student Union Senate but every right-thinking person at Unilag at that time knew they orchestrated my removal because Akin Adesola, the VC knew I was too tough for him. That was the whole
truth.

How much?

At that time, it was two thousand naira. Meanwhile, my friend, Lateef Gbadamosi, had warned me about the foggy moves of Panaf. Elsewhere, in some of the places we used to go, we had tips that Panaf had collected money from the SSS. He had assured them that he could influence political events at UNILAG. Things were usually super-charged in those days and the security service were always interested in who should become the leaders in those days. And actually, I was approached after I became president, if I was interested in becoming an operative or informant. And since I was not interested, they demanded to have a nominee from me. I gave them the name of one guy we used to call Tonee. He was my campaign manager.

Was this another payment apart from what Panaf was to pay your campaign?

Panaf had already graduated and he was actually working with UNILAG then. He read integrated social science. He served as president and graduated. Then he went back to the university as a worker. As a matter of fact, Olu Shodimu, the present Registrar of the University of Lagos, was actually a student leader, later worker for the SSS. The point is, at the University of Lagos, if you become a student union leader, the SSS would approach and try to recruit you. So there are many student leaders who the Nigerian masses often take for radicals, even activists out there. They are mostly phonies (laughs). So, Panaf Olajide Olakanmi got the money and used the money to buy himself a Citroën car. Anthony Kayode, whom I had nominated for the SSS job did not get the job because at that point, there were serious disagreements and we were sacked.

How much was involved sir?

Well, I would not know. But Panaf brought to me two thousand naira. And Alozie Ogugbuaja, the then Police Public Relations Officer told Lateef Gbadamosi and I that we used to visit Ogugbuaja, the man who accused the military of always idly drinking pepper soup and had the time to stale cups. He was removed. But because I had the information and I travelled to Bayero University Kano for NANS convention and before I came back, Panaf Olu Sodimu and the students’ union authorities colluded and removed me before I came back from Kano. This was in February 1985. That is exactly what happened.

Would you say if ULSU was an exception or was it the standard practice all over Nigeria for the SSS to aggressively recruit students’ leaders?

Hmn, I think throughout the 80’s down to the time Babangida came after Ahmadu Bello University, ABU crisis of 1986, when students were killed in Kaduna and Babangida set up a panel led by Segun Okeowo and some leaders, up till the time that the Justice Akanbi panel recommended voluntary unionism, I think they felt the need was no longer strong to compromise student leaders. Uptill my time, it was standard practice like I explained UNILAG being the cynosure of all eyes, due to its strategic location, I think that they did that in other universities, Ibadan in particular.

They say NANS president now has escort cars with sirens. Was it also like that in your time?

No. I am sure they are doing that because of politics. That was not the practice. Students’ union officials may be important to them now because of politics. And of course some of these so-called student leaders, there are other things they do now, take university girls and go and give them in Abuja. Things do not happen in Lagos anymore. It is now Abuja. And I read many heart breaking things from Nigerian news papers. But my conclusion, before I left Nigeria ten years ago was that, students’ union is dead in Nigeria.

How did you come to know so much about the August 1985, Babangida coup d’etat?

I had left university of Lagos for one year like I said. I lived in a military barrack, the Ikeja cantonment. I lived there with an uncle and that was when I started working with the Concord. I actually had three people in Ikeja cantonment at that time. I do not want to mention their names because one of them is still in active military service. One is here now in the United States, came originally as a political assylee. The other one has retired. I would not like to mention their names. But I was living with them. The Babangida coup was planned around Ikeja cantonment. I have to tell you this General Muhammadu Buhari, the then Head of State is still alive, he knew it two weeks before the coupists struck. And for the first time, Nigerians should be able to know why Babangida staged the coup, because we have heard so many stories. There have been several guesses all over the place. Of course I am not a coup plotter, but we heard the real truth because we
lived in the barracks.

My senior colleague, Dr. Taiwo Ogunade of City University of New York has been able to also disclose some of these information. Basically, what I want to say is that Chief Abiola was the one who sponsored the Babangida coup in 1985. And the reason Babangida struck was because he had been marked down by Buhari and Idiagbon for drug running. For posterity reasons, all these things should be disclosed to Nigerians. Brigadier Aliyu Mohammed, you have heard of his name. He later became a Lieutenant–General. He was brought back by Babangida to become National Security Adviser, NSA to Obasanjo. This man and Babangida were actually involved in drug running when Babangida was chief of Army Staff to Buhari regime.

Babangida has been amply rewarded as one of the arrowheads of the coup that toppled Alhaji Shehu Shagari.

The other key players in that coup were Late Tunde Idiagbon, Mamman Vatsa and late Brigadier – General Ibrahim Bako. Buhari was brought in as the head of that government as a compromise leader after Bako had been killed in the coup at the presidential palace in Abuja while attempting to arrest Shagari. Idiagbon became Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters for ethnic balancing. Remember? He was a Yoruba from Kwara state. The coup plotters ran into serious problems. Major Jokolo, who became the Emir of Gwandu, was one of them. He threatened them that none of them would leave Dodan Barracks alive after the takeover. Idiagbon had made a broadcast to the nation. That was 31 st of December, 1983. Buhari was then the General Officer commanding in Jos, Plateau State. They were deliberating on who would step into Bako’s shoes. Jokolo insisted…

Point of observation, sir, General Babangida, in an interview with Point Blank News/people’s magazine, said that Brigadier General Bako was never in consideration for the exalted office of Head of State.

Then who were they considering for that position? As usual, the deceptive general said Buhari was the first choice Buhari was never part of the original plotters of the coup.

He said Buhari had always been the first choice. No question. Number two, you said there was an ethnic balancing, but that was not obvious. Buhari/Idiagbon was a moslem/moslem and North/North ticket. Ilorin was in the North.

Remember I was not in the military, I am a civilian. I did not take part in their coup. But you know Ilorin people. When things are robust they claim south. When things ­twist otherwise, they claim north. The name Tunde Idiagbon, is a Yoruba name, the man wasa moslem. They put him there to look like geo-political balancing. The point is that Buhari was not one of the ring leaders of that coup.

He came in as a compromise candidate. The composition of that government was changed because Bako died at the presidential palace. I was twenty three or twenty four at that time. It wasn’t as if I knew much.

The one I knew very well the coup that Babangida himself planned. The coup was neither motivated by altruistic motive nor by patriotic motive. It was a self survival coup d’etat. That is the point I want to stress. There are different ways coups take place in third world countries. It could be to reject oppression, change a bad direction for a country or to serve patriotic purpose on how a nation should be governed. None of these reasons motivated Babangida to organize his coup.

His career was on the line. He had his back to the wall, because of his activities as a former GOC and as the Chief of Army Staff under Buhari regime.

You should also know that Obasanjo knew and subscribed to the coup that toppled Buhari. Like Babangida, Aliyu Mohammed was also a drug baron that was well known to Buhari and Idiagbon. Aliyu Mohammed was slated for retirement as well. Babangida and Mohammed were both marked down for retirement and possible trial.

Ambassador Mohammed Rafindadi was in charge of the then National Security Organization, NSO, now known as State Security Service, SSS. He, Rafindadi was an uncle to Buhari. When they came into office, a lot of things were going on and they discovered Idiagbon insisted on death penalty for drug pushers. And most of the drug peddlers and international couriers were Babangida’s boys. As a matter of fact, Babangida’s clique introduced drug-running into Nigeria. When Buhari regime uncovered the elaborate entrenched Babangida drug-running network and the rumor of his wife, Maryam’s involvement as well, they penciled him down for retirement. We shall talk about the Gloria Okon connection later.

The Babangida’s removal announcement had been scheduled for October 1, 1985. Babangida knew and staged the coup to pre-empt the calamity of October. They had the coup plans. They wanted to strike in October, but with Babangida’s pending retirement, they quickly brought the date back to August.

After they had agreed, the boys, Abubakar Umar, Abdul Aminu, Lawan Gwadabe and Anthony Ukpo went to Otta to inform Obasanjo that they wanted to remove the Buhari/Idiagbon regime. Any military coup also needed Obasanjo’s clearance. There is no coup in Nigeria, either successful or abortive that Obasanjo does not know of. You know he had this phony organization called African Leadership Forum. It was all a ruse He used that organization for anything but leadership training. He came here to the Council of Foreign Relations to collect the initial money to set up that clandestine organization. Anyway, that was the body they used to plan anti-people policies at Ota including coup planning.

Nzeogu’s coup as well?

I am talking of anything that happened after he became Head of State in 1976. He was even in the know about the coup that killed General Muritala Mohammed.

You mean he knew about the Dimka’s plot?

Yes of course. That was why he left for Abeokuta that day. The CIA has documents in the United States here about this.

But he maintained the face of the avenger of his boss’s death to all of us. Are you accusing Obasanjo of hypocrisy?

Yes. He became the Head of State and checkmated the other plotters. He knew of the 1976 coup. That is why I said he always knows about every coup plot including that of Abacha.

Well maybe because he would have access to intelligence estimates as a former leader of the nation.

We shall talk more about that. So the boys went to him in Otta. They gave him a note to know if he had a candidate in office. He did not want any obvious association, but he gave them the name of his cousin, Onaolapo Soleye who was a lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Ibadan to become Buhari’s Minister of Finance. Buhari drifted and his economic policies were harsh. Obasanjo tried to advice him then, they snubbed him. He was annoyed and that was why he said he would never talk to a “deaf regime”. He had a pre-existing axe to grind with the Buhari regime.

So when the IBB boys came to tell him that they wanted to remove Buhari, he asked to know who they had as Buhari’s substitute. They said Babangida. He said o.k.

He said that? Would he not have had intelligence that IBB was a drug baron?

He said o.k. I don’t know what he knew or what he did not know. He gave them his blessings. They told him they had a problem. What was the problem, he asked? They said with Buhari, it would be very easy to topple the government, but with Idiagbon, they did not want to kill anybody. How would they get Idiagbon out of the way? They want Obasanjo to call Idiagbon to lure him to go out of the country to go to Saudi Arabia on Umrah, the lesser Hajj. Obasanjo invited Tunde Idiagbon. Tunde Idiagbon came to Obasanjo’s farm at Otta. It was the first time Idiagbon smiled to journalists. He was always frowning, but he laughed for the first time in Obasanjo’s farm. Obasanjo gave him the bogey advice that it was time for Nigeria to court the economic co-operation of the Saudis and the Middle East, so that the economy of the country could be revived. It was a dummy idea of the Babangida boys to get Tunde Idiagbon out of the way. And when Tunde Idiagbon was
going, they were also afraid of Vatsa, he was in charge of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. Vatsa was asked to go with him on Holy pilgrimage to Mecca. During the Sallah celebration, they took over power. The coup was staged on a Friday. It was at Ikeja cantonment.

The private jet that conveyed Babangida from Lagos to Minna where he went for the Sallah holiday was an Abiola personal aircraft. Abiola had travelled out of Nigeria a week before the coup which took place on 27 th of August, 1985. Abiola had walked into our newsroom at Concord to address all of us in the newsroom and that was where he told us “we should forget about this government”.

Most people did not know what was happening. I was working at Concord and was in the news room when he said it. He said that the government was gone. A week later, the coup was staged and Babangida became the Head of State.

The point I want to make was that the coup was that of a self- survival. It was not patriotically motivated. It had nothing to do with nationalistic agenda. It was selfish and that is why Babangida exhibited the kind of evil reign that we witnessed for eight years. That is the point I want to make. Buhari-Idiagbon came to rescue Nigeria from the destruction of Shehu Shagari. 22 months later, Babangida came not for any reason but for his own survival because he was about to be tried for drug-running.

It is not so obvious to the general public that IBB was a drug dealer. We heard of his wife and Gloria Okon, Dele Giwa’s connection. We do not have any fact of IBB’s direct involvement. How is it hidden from us?

No. It is not hidden. I don’t know why in Nigeria. The press is there, the newspapers are there. It is not hidden at all. All the top journalists are there and nobody is talking now because IBB is still alive. You will see them talking immediately the man is dead. He has interests in virtually all the newspapers. You know what I mean?

Let all these people talk. Segun Osoba, Farouk Mohammed, Yemi Ogunbiyi, Ajibola Ogunsola, Sam Pemu Amuka, Stanley Macebuh, Patrick Dele-Cole, Imeh Umanah, Alex Akinyele, Tony Momoh, Doyin Abiola, Felix Adenaike, Banji Kuroloja, Dan Agbese, Yakubu Mohammed, Soji Akinrinnade, Raymond Ekpu. Let all of these people open up. And they all know why Mr. Dele Giwa was killed.

Infact, the story you are talking about that Dele Giwa was killed over, these people, top journalists they have it in Nigeria. If I could have it then, I was the first person to go public with the story in September 1993 before my senior colleague; Dr. Taiwo Ogunade of CUNY now came out to corroborate it. I was the only person through Razor, who came out to stick my neck then.

Sir, that was the story?

It was Babangida who planned the death of Dele Giwa. It was Babangida that killed him. It is very obvious. Senator Florence Ita – Giwa, Dele Giwa’s former wife knew. The one they now call Mama Bakkassi was a girl friend to Aliyu Mohammed, the one I just told you was to be retired with IBB, although he later changed his name to Mohammed Gusau just to deceive Nigerians.

You sure he is the same person?

Oh sure. He is the same person because immediately Babangida became Head of State, Babangida brought him back. Gusau Mohammed was about to be gazetted by the Buhari regime. I just told you why they struck. Babangida left him with Abacha, and Gusau later became a Lt-General. He was the person whom Babangida brought back to become National Security Adviser to Obasanjo. That is why Obasanjo was governing but did not rule and Nigerians did not know for eight years. Every step that Obasanjo wanted to take Aliyu Mohammed Gusau was always there. I mean your national security adviser is your life. Don’t you know? That is why IBB foisted the guy on Obasanjo. There are a lot of things in Nigeria, that Nigerians cannot hear about now until when IBB is dead. That was why he spread his tentacles all over the newspapers. And those whose names I have mentioned are alive…

What is the deal that IBB made with those notable journalists?

Immediately Babangida came into power, he knew that any journalist who was about town had the story. The first thing he did was to make Aliyu Mohammed (Gusau) the Directorate of Military Intelligence man. He surreptitiously was Babangida’s National Security Adviser, NSA. They had to cover their past dirty stuff. The man called all the top journalists in Nigeria, all these names that I have just given you, they assembled at the DMI, there was no DMI before IBB took over. He set up the Directorate of Military Intelligence at Apapa where they took me to under Abacha (Lagos).

So he now called them and said gentlemen, we want to cultivate the friendship of the press. If there is any story that is incriminating, we want to be sharing ideas, let us know. You understand now? You know they have their press briefing, media chat. Exactly. I have told you that there are always two stories in Nigeria: the official story, which they want the people to hear and the unofficial underlying real story that they do not want you and I to know.

Are you saying, sir, that the media is guilty of mediocrity in all of this?

No. I have told you of the institutional problem of media operations and ownership. The guys who are stealing the money are the ones rich enough to set up newspapers in Nigeria. And who will pay the piper would dictate the tune. Look at all the newspapers in Nigeria. Tell me which one is not being bank-rolled by these bad guys. That was why when I set up the Razor, it became a phenomenon in Nigeria, besides being modest. If I had one of the Generals as my chairman, do you think I would be able to publish all those stories? This is the problem in Nigeria. Nigerian newspapers are owned by the same set of people who are causing the problems; they have control over all the newspapers. Tell me which paper, tell me in which paper does Babangida not have shares in Nigeria, by proxy?

After killing Dele Giwa, he told one of his guys, Mike Adenuga, to go acquire shares in Newswatch. Babangida has shares today in Newswatch. Let Ray Ekpu, Soji Akirinnade, Dan Agbese and Yakubu Mohammed come out and tell Nigerians. That is why those guys can’t do anything.

Is it Vanguard you want to tell me about? He has shares. Let Amuka come out and deny it. How much did he have when he left Olu Aboderin’s The Punch? VANGUARD was about to die. Are you listening to me? VANGUARD was about to die when Babangida came and injected funds into the place.

O.K. Is it Tony Momoh? IBB knew that Tony Momoh knew about the death of Dele Giwa, he made him Minister of Information. Is it Alex Akinyele? Akinyele was a Director on the Newswatch’s board. He also made Akinyele Minister of Information.That was why IBB said “Oh, I know Nigerians very well”.

What of Guardian? Do you know that the Dasuki family in Sokoto has shares in Guardian? I am telling you that they sit on the board. And you know the closeness of the Dasukis and the Babangidas. How would Guardian write anything? You know the owners, the Ibrus collected contracts from the Babangidas too.

Is it Ajibola Ogunsola of The Punch that would go against Babangida? There is only one news organization in Nigeria that can rattle the government, perhaps, maybe The News.

All of them. Is it The Sun? It just came out through Orji Uzor Kalu. Kalu was also a Babangida boy. The Daily Independent is owned by Ibori. James Ibori was an Abacha goon. He has not spoken up on his connection with the death of Chief Alfred Rewane. Which other one? The Nation owned by Tinubu?

Sir, Tinubu was a democracy crusader…

He said he was (laughs) He was.

You were part of the movement, how sincere was he?

There was no movement really. We were fractured. We shall get to that later. It was a loose coalition of like minds. There was no platform that we really had. Even NADECO (National Democratic Coalition) itself was a contraption. We all just felt there must be a way for us to resist the Abacha INSULT, the dictatorship. We were so disjointed. Everybody had different agenda. There was not concerted effort.

Let us go back a little bit on your allegation that prominent journalists benefitted over the death of Dele Giwa. Investigative journalists like us find it difficult to connect the dots.

What dots?

Yes, it was not so obvious that the letter bomb came from IBB. Gani Fawehinmi and many other theorists said it did come from “C-In-C”, Halilu Akilu, Col. Togun are not talking.

Let me clear that one for you. Buhari wanted to make Dele Giwa Minister of Information. Buhari actually granted his maiden interview to Dele Giwa, Ray Ekpu and Yakubu Mohammed for the Concord in February, 1984. In the interview, Buhari said “I would tamper with the press”. That was how Decree No. 4 was promulgated.

After the interview, Buhari made overtures to make Dele Giwa the Minister of Information. Buhari called M.K.O. Abiola and said “I want to make your editor the Minister of Information”, because Dele Giwa was editing Sunday Concord then. M.K.O. Abiola said Dele Giwa would not be interested. That was one of the reasons Dele Giwa left Concord. He was not consulted before Abiola determined his fate.

His fate was determined just like that?

more Here,

http://www.republicreport.com/bombshell-revelation-linking-ibb-to-mko-abiola-abachas-death%E2%80%94reports/

Is not everybody that can take some shait especially wen you believe in ya self.
Free the guy jaree.

This guys think from their anus oo!
They forget that fielding many aspirants during primaries weakens them by number.
Aboki na aboki tele tomorrow. youths are wiser now.

There has being serious outrage globally over planned burning of Quran by Terry Jones of Dove world outreach center in Florida USA.
He claimed that the essence is to commemorate the 9/11 attack and the same time send a warning that enough is enough for the Islamic radicals.
Asked as a christian what happened to "turning the other side of your chic when slapped",the man of God said that even Jesus whipped the tax collectors out when they were defiling His Father's Temple.
Meanwhile this is coming on the heels of Americans protesting about building a mosque close to ground zero(where terrorist attacked).

The Imam behind building of mosque close to ground zero, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf- an American, has categorically stated that there is no going back on building the mosque.Reason-"The headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack," he said, and that could encourage Muslim extremists to attack troops overseas as well as American citizens at home"

Could this be so that as there is a global outcry over both burning of Quran and Building of mosque that both ideas could be thrown out ?.

your opinion please !!

This is going to revive the stock market.
My fear here is that any slump in DCC will heavily affect the stock market.
This being that report has it that DCC market cap will be more than the 23 consolidated banks put together. I won buy share oo, which way to go fellas !!

FIFTY-FOUR days after his emergence as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Okwesilieze Nwodo was yesterday described as “a mistake” by governors elected on the party’s platform.

They resolved at a three-hour emergency meeting at the Kwara State Governor’s Lodge, Abuja, that Nwodo must prove that he is “a national chairman and not a factional chairman” or he should be ready to leave the party.

Nwodo succeeded Prince Vincent Ogbulafor on June 17, 2010 at the 51stst National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the ruling party after the latter was forced to resign.

At yesterday’s meeting were the host and Chairman of the Governors’ Forum, Bukola Saraki (Kwara); Ikedi Ohakim (Imo); Aliyu Shinkafi (Zamfara); Martin Elechi (Ebonyi); Babangida Aliyu (Niger); Akwe Doma (Nasarawa); Saidu Dakingari (Kebbi); Ibrahim Shema (Katsina); Sule Lamido (Jigawa); Danjuma Goje (Gombe); Sullivan Chime (Enugu) and Segun Oni (Ekiti).

Others included Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta), Gbenga Daniel (Ogun); Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers); Liyel Imoke (Cross River); Timipre Sylva (Bayelsa); Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom); Isa Yuguda (Bauchi); Murtala Nyako (Adamawa); Olagunsoye Oyinlola (Osun) and Adebayo Alao-Akala (Oyo).

The meeting, which ended at 8 p.m., agreed that Nwodo’s conduct was unbecoming of a national chairman.

He was quoted to have declared that he was going to embarrass any governor who comes to his house to lobby him.

Already, the state executive committees in Abia has been dissolved. That of Ogun was ordered to fuse into another group and excos in states, such as, Delta, Lagos, Bayelsa, Rivers, Adamawa, Zamfara, Niger, Bauchi and a few others are under threat of the National Working Committee (NWC’s) dissolution.

Reporters who waited till the end of the meeting were disappointed as the governors, wearing long faces, refused to speak with them.

But, Saraki, when cornered, said it was “a family meeting.” He refused to speak further.

A South-South source, whose state exco is about to be affected because of the influence of a former minister in Abuja, said the governors may ask for Nwodo’s resignation very soon.

“They resolved that the on-line registration should be discarded with and all the excos tampered with should be reversed and the rest should be left intact. They also discussed the planned convention and resolved that it must be dropped.

“On zoning, they could not agree. They, however, decided to leave it till Thursday’s NEC meeting,” he said.

A presidency source disclosed yesterday that President Goodluck Jonathan will meet with the governors today at a dinner to declare his intention to run or not.

But, Nwodo has traced the crisis affecting the party to the doorsteps of opposition parties, especially the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).

The attack came less than 24 hours after the Action Congress (AC) changed its name to ACN at an elaborate event in Lagos.

Nwodo said the PDP would resist any attempt by the ACN to import thuggery, violence and rigging into the ruling party.

Referring to the Chief Bisi Akande-led ACN as an unstable party, he said, in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Prof. Rufai Ahmed Alkali, that the PDP is more democratic than other parties.

The statement reads: “The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been drawn to spurious speculations of a deliberate plot to stop certain persons from flying the flag of the PDP in the forthcoming general elections.

“The latest speculations, which are obviously the handwork of opposition elements, started with planted newspaper stories alleging that governors elected on the platform of our great party were threatening to decamp in view of the PDP planned review of the Constitution. The sponsors of this baseless story have gone a step further to list the names of office holders whom they claim will be witchhunted for various reasons.

“The Peoples Democratic Party wishes to state categorically that there is no iota of truth whatsoever in these rumours. We wish to state that the era of witchhunting and undue victimisation of party members under whatever guise is long gone in the PDP. With the current reform and repositioning programmes of the party under the leadership of Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, only the votes of party members, in properly constituted congresses, shall decide the fate of any aspirant.

“The PDP leadership will never be involved in arbitrary denial of rights of its members to seek any office; neither will it be involved in conferring undue advantage on any member in the conduct of its primaries. These phantom stories are another failed strategy by the opposition to concoct an atmosphere of crisis in the PDP. Their objective is to strike fear amongst our members and make them vulnerable for backdoor poaching by these desperate politicians.

“We wish to declare unequivocally that while the PDP is an umbrella organisation of divergent views where debate is constantly encouraged, there is at present no crisis threatening its existence or cohesion at whatever level.

“However, the same cannot be said of other political parties that are in total disarray as a result of myriads of crisis; including that of identity. We have particularly noted the constant identity sommersaults of the Action Congress which only yesterday (Monday) changed its name, the third time over the recent past. This crisis of identity is an epitome of inconsistency and accounts for their dismal failure in all previous elections.

“We shall not be surprised if they change their name again before the general elections. As we all know, the name AC has been associated with political violence, rigging and vendetta as evidenced in their horrendous activities in Lagos and Edo State. No amount of change of name will clear away this ignoble image.

“No doubt, Nigerians are better off identifying themselves with a party like the PDP which is consistent and focused rather than continue trailing behind chameleonic groups with no clear agenda or direction”.

But, the National Secretary of ACN, Dr. Usman Bugaje, described the PDP statement as unfortunate.

He said: “That allegation is not true and everybody knows that. He is just talking nonsense because they are the ones fomenting trouble, not only within the AC and other political parties, but across the country.

“Look at the crises in the ANPP, PPA, APGA, everywhere, they are not devoid of the scheming and machinations of the PDP. The only problem they have with us is that we have resisted them in our party. They have tried all they could to scuttle this great party, the only party of the Nigerian masses, and they have failed. That is why they are crying.

“What I can tell you is that PDP’s nemesis is catching up with them. You remember this whole thing started under (former President) Obasanjo, now God is catching up with them. They have perfected the art of violence, thuggery, rigging and other vices that this nation is now battling with. PDP is the problem of this country. That we are changing our name shows that our party is dynamic. PDP is the one that has remained static.”

In Lagos, there are very strong indications that the PDP national leadership will, in less than two weeks, dissolve the state Executive Council.

The Nigerian Compass reliably gathered that when that happens, the National Working Committee (NWC) will opt for a Caretaker Committee to be headed by a former Minister of Communications under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Dapo Sarumi.

Sources close to the party disclosed yesterday that members of the proposed caretaker committee expected to be constituted also include Mrs. Modupe Sasore, Alhaji Kamal Olorunje and Chief Mrs. Aduke Maina, among others.

The decision to dissolve the Hon. Setonji Koshoedo -led state Executive Council (SEC), according to a source, has the backing of Obasanjo and was finally taken on Sunday night at a meeting in the GRA area of Ikeja, attended by many elders of the party in the state.

The source said that some of those that attended the meeting included, Alhaji Shitta, Alhaji Rafiu Jafojo, Olorunje, Sarumi and Ambassador Wahab Dosunmu, amongst others.

The Sunday night meeting, where the elders of the party decided on the dissolution, was preceded by the ones held in Mushin last Thursday and in Ikeja on Friday and Saturday before the Sunday meeting.

A source, who was at the meetings but pleaded anonymity told the Nigerian Compass: “The dissolution will underscore the party’s seriousness to win Lagos. The party does not want people who will make money from the SEC and candidates without winning the elections next year. The caretaker committee will be responsible to pick a candidate for the party and prosecute the election to ensure that the PDP wins election in Lagos next year.

“By the plan that is being put on the ground, the members of the caretaker committee will be men of timber and calibre, who are proven and can win elections. The normal thing of having executives that are only interested in making money and losing election only to cry after is no more acceptable. The party is bent on giving the AC a good fight next year and winning. We are not going to just run for the sake of running”.

Another top member of the party who confirmed it but does not want to be quoted said, “Yes, I can confirm that arrangements have been concluded for the dissolution with the meeting held on Sunday night. Chief Sarumi should be in Abuja this week, if he is not there already where everything will be concluded. I can tell you that Obasanjo is involved but from the background. One thing that is sure is that Nwodo will announce the dissolution soon. The party is serious about winning Lagos and I think, the men and women in the caretaker committee will be able to do it. It is after the election that they will then conduct elections into the SEC”.

The Koshoedo-led executive has been in charge of the party after the 2007 general elections which the party lost to the Governor Babatunde Fahsola-led Action Congress. They were installed by the now incarcerated former Deputy National Chairman (South) of the party, Chief Olabode George.

But Koshoedo told our correspondent on the telephone that he was not aware of the development.

Rather, he said that when Nwodo visited Lagos last week, he summoned the SEC members to a meeting, where they updated him on what they have been able to do so far.

He said: “He told us that he would summon all the stakeholders to a meeting and give us an appointment in Abuja soon. That has not happened. They gave him the impression that there was crisis in the party, but he told us that so far, he has not seen anything to that effect”


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Am short of words by this expose'
Bookmarked sharp sharp .

Sorry mate. I have done online transaction b4 and It worked. Hear how it happened;

I placed an advert for a PTDF pin.a fellow called me and said he's interested.
Both of us being wise and mindful of scams, I told him for me to send the pin number I must have my cashew first.What he did was to call somebody that gave me the money cash and insisted  I must wait for awhile while he confirms the  pin.He confirmed it and the deal was sealed.
so guy once bitten twice shy.no fall mugu again ehh.