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ckenneths:
If I have chance today, I may go there as I am still at Independence layout.

ckenneths:
I am just warming up bro. Pictures are too many here, just that I am always busy to sit down and post them.

ckenneths:
The sand we get from River Niger is a very good sand but useful for other purposes like block molding, concrete mix and mortar chalking, its usually very coarse, but this type you see them digging from hills and swamps are soft sandy soils which is useful for mostly plastering works and other finish works in a building and it's comes out very beautiful.

horsepower101:
Nnamdi Kanu at that meeting actually showed willingness to work with them but few days later they invaded his house to kill him.

Funnicator:
What are our deals with Atiku?

Our votes in exchange for VP position only?

If that is the cut then SHAME on us.

The cut must not end with VP position.

We also demand full and complete upgrade of Enugu airport.
Enugu-onitsha and enugu-aba.
As well as link of Aba-onitsha-owerri-enugu-abakaliki by rail tracks.

These are what responsible SE leaders will demand not just VP position.

Shame on them if anything beyond this.

Funnicator:
Lol look at You!

Umuahia has flyovers? No! EBONYI HAS THREE!

ABA ROADS ARE THE WORST IN NIGERIA.
UMUAHIA ROADS ARE FAIR.

ABAKALIKI ROADA ARE DEFINITELY BETTER THAN ABA.

UMUAHIA AND ABAKALIKI ROADS MAY BE ON THE SAME PAR BUT THE PRESENCE OF FUNCTIONING STREET LIGHTS AND FLY OVERS MAKES ABAKALIKI ROADS BETTER THAN UMUAHIA ROADS WITHOUT FLY OVERS.

LEMME STOP HERE. PLEASE PAZIENZA I AM NOT BRAGGING. JUST CLEARING THINGS UP. MUCH RESPECT TO MY ABIA BROTHERS THEY ARE VERY EDUCATED AND INDUSTRIOUS BUT I WANT THEM TO VOTE PDP OUT IN ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT IN THEIR STATE AND INSTALL APGA IN ALEX OTTI.

By: Yusuf Alli On: October 21, 2018

•Ekweremadu, governors weigh options
•Why S/East leaders are angry
•Saraki wades in, holds talks with Ekweremadu

Southeast political leaders are accusing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of reneging on some pre-convention agreements reached with him.

And this is the cause of the bad blood generated in the zone by Atiku’s choice of former Anambra State governor Peter Obi as running mate for the 2019 election, The Nation can now report.

Particularly irked by the alleged renege are Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and some governors in the zone, sources said yesterday.

Associates of the Deputy Senate President and some PDP leaders in the Southeast are already putting pressure on Ekweremadu to review his status in the party.

His options are to defect from the party or remain in PDP to fight for survival.

The alleged agreements include consultation with Southeast leaders on how to pick vice presidential candidate; consensus on other positions conceded to the zone; finding a meeting point with the zone on Atiku’s idea of restructuring; need to spend one term in office and cede power to the Southeast in 2023; the offer of the VP slot to Ekweremadu (Right of First Refusal) before any other candidate.

Atiku had allegedly offered Ekweremadu the vice presidential slot a year ago.

Sources said the Deputy Senate President’s response had always been: “let us get the ticket first. I am interested in the Southeast being in the mainstream of power equation in Nigeria.”

As the PDP Port Harcourt convention approached, majority of the Southeast leaders in PDP were determined to work for Atiku, hence their decision to shun overtures from Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to team up with Sokoto State Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.

It was gathered that a few days before the convention, Ekweremadu and some Southeast governors shunned all the meetings convened by Wike.

Within a week of Atiku’s emergence as PDP presidential candidate, he named Obi as running mate, causing bad blood in some political quarters in the zone.

The first salvo was fired by Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi who said Obi’s choice was made without consultation with leaders of the zone, although he was quick to add that he has nothing personally against Obi.

Obi himself has since launched a mission to douse the tension, moving round the zone to talk to those that matter.

But sources said the issue has continued to be a source of worry for Atiku in the Southeast.

“All our leaders have no grudges against Obi but they are just unhappy about how Atiku reneged on some of the agreements reached with him especially the essence of carrying stakeholders along,” a well- placed source said yesterday.

“Shortly after he emerged as the PDP candidate, he has stopped consulting Ekweremadu, Southeast governors and leaders.

“The painful thing is that he bowed to pressure from outside the Southeast to pick Obi and he did not care to revert to these leaders and governors on his choice.

“For instance, Ekweremadu (the highest ranking political office holder in the Southeast) was not briefed and has not been briefed till today on why Obi was picked.

“Yet, it was Ekweremadu who coordinated and delivered the block votes from the Southeast to Atiku at the convention.

“The assumption is that if Atiku can treat South-East leaders and governors in this manner as a candidate, what if he becomes the President. It is just a matter of trust. When in need, he offered Ekweremadu the position of running mate. Courtesy demands that he should have also confided in Ekweremadu before choosing Obi.”

Another source confirmed that following pressure from his associates and PDP leaders in the Southeast, Ekweremadu has started weighing options on his next step.

Investigation revealed that the Deputy President of the Senate has to choose between remaining in PDP or defecting to prove a point that he is a force to reckon with.

The third option is to remain in PDP and sabotage Atiku by entering into an alliance with President Muhammadu Buhari on a good deal for the Southeast if he is re-elected.

The source added: “From the look of things, it seems there is a conspiracy within PDP to alienate Ekweremadu.

“Apart from Atiku, the National Chairman of PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has not deemed it fit to call the Deputy President of the Senate on why Ekweremadu was not invited to the meeting where Obi was nominated. Even after the nomination, Secondus has not met with Ekweremadu on the choice of Obi.

“The party and Atiku went ahead to constitute the Presidential Campaign Council without any input from Ekweremadu. This is an insult.

“Some powers that be are angry with Ekweremadu for backing Atiku and the same presidential candidate does not care a hoot about Ekweremadu.

“It is regretful that we all betrayed Wike and now Atiku is abandoning our leaders.”

Responding to a question, the source added: “With the choice of Obi, Atiku is going about as if he has the South-East in his pocket. Far from it, the scenario may be different during the presidential election.

“Atiku needs to sit down afresh with Ekweremadu and other leaders to win votes from the zone. These are matchmakers in their own right.

“The unfinished business includes the following:

*Reaching consensus on other posts to concede to the zone;

* Finding a meeting point with the zone on Atiku’s idea of restructuring;

*Need to spend one term in office; and

*Ceding power to the Southeast in 2023

“Without definite answers to these demands, Atiku should forget the backing of the Southeast.”

It was also gathered that Senate President Bukola Saraki, who is the Director -General of the PCC, has waded into the complaints of the Southeast leaders.

A PDP leader said: “I am aware that Saraki has opened up talks with Ekweremadu.”


http://thenationonlineng.net/2019-fresh-trouble-for-atiku-in-southeast/

iksmoore:
Ekweremmadu, should know the he remains a force to reckone with in South East politics. He should not take steps that will kill his political future. Currently, he is not in the good books of APC. Apc is still licking their wound from what him and saraki did to them. He is coming back to the Senate in 2019. Atiku/Ekweremmadu will not sell PDP to Nigerians. I will advice him to remain calm if he still want to be relevant in South East politics cos uncalculated steps taken might spell doom for him .

christejames:
Was in the Coal City fortnight ago and I can say that the City is still glistening apart from few skirmishes here and there mainly towards traffic lights that are barely regulating the traffic. Most junctions only have the Amber blinking...

The real estate sector is booming. I so much love our tenements that dot the city's skyline, I saw beautiful tenements that can pass for mansions.

omadeltason:
onye ka aga akolo

spyder880:
I love this. God bless Anambra state.

oneast:
Peter Obi was already onto all these companies long before he joined politics. There are not up to 3 Nigerian politicians that were established like Obi before joining politics.


Former Chairman: Fidelity Bank Plc.

· Former Chairman: Guardian Express Mortgage Bank, Ltd.

· Former Chairman: Future Views Securities, Ltd.

· Former Chairman: Paymaster Nigeria Plc.

· Former Chairman: Next International (Nigeria) Ltd

· Former Director: Guardian Express Bank Plc.

· Former Director: Chams Nigeria Plc.

· Former Director: Emerging Capital Ltd

· Former Director: Card Centre Plc

He also owns Hero beer(largest shareholder

Also the largest shareholder in sabmiller brewery Nigeria.



Read more about the man Peter Obi here..

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/10/peter-obi-a-complete-profile/