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He said the exercise of signatures compilation for the return of President Jonathan for second term “is an ongoing one and that similar rallies would be held in all the geo-political zones of the country before the presentation of the overall documents in Abuja next month.”

Before presenting the booklets to the SGF, Arogbofa described the South-West zone as a home to Mr. President, recalling that the zone was the first to adopt him ahead of the 2011 election and urged him not to ignore the call, which he said was a demonstration of love and loyalty to the President.

The Chief of Staff to the President called on the people of the zone to join hands together to give PDP resounding victory during the 2015 elections holding next February, noting that President Jonathan had proved himself a performing and transforming public servant since his election in 2011. According to him, “I want to call on my people to let’s work with unity of purpose and I can assure all of us that if we work together, the reward will be superlative. We worked for Mr. President in 2011 and we all can see that there’s no regret and this time around, we will not regret but have more and better reward.”

Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, in her remark, was emphatic in declaring the support of the zone for President Jonathan, stressing that anybody saying anything contrary was only deceiving him/herself. She said the people of the zone would vote massively for President Jonathan come 2015 in order for the zone to have more dividends of democracy with a pledge that all hands would be on deck to ensure victory for the party in all other elections coming up in the zone.

Her counterpart in the Ministry for Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan said those ganging up against the re-election of President Jonathan were working against God because it was God that raised him up for this moment in the political history of the country.

Rhetorically, he asked: “As a zone, what did we benefit from the Federal Government in the whole of the eight years when we had our own person there? The Lagos/Ibadan expressway that is wearing a new look was there when our own son was there among other laudable things the President is doing for our zone. All those rising against him had benefited from the PDP at one time or the other and since it had not been possible in history for any individual or group of persons to rise against God and defeat God, they would also fail”, he added. Going into Quran to back up his assertion, he said all those, who rose against Prophet Mohammed in his days were destroyed just as those ganging up against Mr. President. He sealed his assertion with some Quranic prayers to which all those in attendance with Islamic knowledge joining him.

Kingsley Kuku, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs charged the youths in particular to seize the opportunity of having somebody that believes in them to work for the betterment of their future. He charged the people of the zone to ensure full participation in the on-going registration of voters so as to be able to exercise their franchise at the appropriate time, stressing that the importance of voter’s card in electoral contest cannot be over-emphasized.


http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/08/jonathan-supporters-locked-ibadan/

The call for President Goodluck Jonathan to run for another four-year term in the 2015 presidential election grew more intense last Saturday. On that day, the ancient city of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, witnessed the convergence of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South-West geo-political zone, comprising of Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Lagos States. The event was a rally organized under the auspices of Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) to press for President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration for another term.

Indeed, the city could be said to have been literarily shut down as traffic gridlock became the lot of motorists having anything to do with all the routes leading to Obafemi Awolowo Stadium (formerly Liberty Stadium), Oke-Ado, venue of the event. Peradventure, if one had nothing to do in all the routes leading to the venue as just stated, one could not ignore the hovering of the security helicopter mounting surveillance on the entire city while the programme lasted and which reinforced the belief of the residents that Mr. President was in town as earlier announced.

Though the President, who was out of the country, could not make it to the rally, the Presidency was powerfully represented and it was not an exaggeration to say that the Abuja, the seat of power, was temporarily located to the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium in Ibadan, the venue of the programme. With the highest political office holder from the zone, the Chief of Staff (CoS) to the President and Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Jones Arogbofa (rtd); the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim and some of the cabinet members from the zone in attendance, the presidency was very much in attendance. Elected members of the National Assembly from the zone, led by the Deputy Senate Whip, Sen. Hosea Ayoola Agboola; House Leader, Hon. Mulikat Adeola Akande, and others complemented the members from the Executive arm of the government.

At the party level, it was who-is-who from the former Deputy National Chairman (South) of the party, Chief Bode George, his successor in office, Alhaj Yekini Adeojo, the current caretaker committee chairman of the party in the zone, Chief Ishola Filani and his committee members, former governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala and several others.

Following the massive radio and television publicity mounted ahead of the programme by the party in the state, party supporters had started trooping to the venue as early as 8.00 am and this was complemented by the crowd mobilized in loads of buses by the governorship aspirants from the zone and other party leaders. The governorship aspirants’ supporters came carrying their banners of various sizes and colours, thus, the entire stadium, the main bowl as well as the whole stadium arena was packed-full of PDP sympathizers in various different types of ‘aso-ebi’ depending on which state one came from.

At the event where the Ekiti State governor-elect, Peter Ayodele Fayose, was conspicuously absent alongside other leaders, including Sen. Lekan Balogun, the party leaders took turns to address the mammoth crowd.

Filani told the crowd that the party had been reorganized in the zone and the result was the victory recorded in the Ekiti State governorship election which produced Fayose. Like a student who would say “he passes examination if he’s successful, but alleges that he’s failed by the examiner if unsuccessful”, he maintained that the party was said to have lost the election in the State of Osun.

At the rally where it was disclosed that over 1,800,000 people from the zone had appended their signatures, asking President Goodluck Jonathan to run again for the 2015 presidency, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, who received the collection of booklets from the Chief of Staff to the President, Jones Arogbofa, commended the people of the zone for the love and support expressed for Mr. President.

BadBoy25: I support and agree with the OP. anyone disagrees deserves to be shot in the eye .

Na somebody choose BadBoy for you?
Mtcheeeeewww.

Iluvberem:

You too wan change name?

Bawss1: Pinch of a button eh?

,Shaaarraaaaap.

MailSA: Pls don't quote people wrongly! Mr Nwodo said "I acknowledge the presence of former head of state Gen Yakubu Gowon, I remembered how he gave us seats after the civil war when we were sitting on blocks to learn in our classrooms in his bid to recocile all agrieved." That means Gowon provided seats for them to stop sitting on blocks. Stop inciting people!

Shaaarraaaaap, were you there?

AZeD1: I'm pretty sure i know more than you.

Do you think the mastercard logo is just for design?

Stop celebrating your naivety here. MTN,u AIRTEL And ETISALAT are all foreign companies, yet they in possession of personal information of millions of Nigerians including you, if NSA want any of the information from any of them, including Glo, an indigenous company, its a matter of pinch of button.

Op, you're completely right and completely wrong.
In a society like ours, minority like you have their say, while majority have their way. Even in Britain, there are many languages including Scottish and Irish yet, English dominates.

Iluvberem: Yes exactly and I will stand a chance to be the father of the president of Nigeria.

Thanks bro

Jesus is Lord

So that berem will be called MOTHER OF CLUELESS PRESIDENT.

deeobserver209: I suggest the name Goodluck to your first born son.

Make dem first marry na, aaahh.

puffpuff: All hail emperor Sullivan chime

Hmmm.

champion3: please does anyone know where their office is located in portharcourt.so i can go and register

Their office is located at Aba road, near NDDC office, opposite the filling station.

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emperorchedda: Onyebuchi had the intention to contest for Senate in the next election meanwhile the Chief of Staff of Enugu, Ifeoma Nwobodo already has that ambition, she is just as strong as Sullivan in the state so she had no problem ejecting Onyebuchi from the seat since he wants to compete with her. Like I said, power pass power

Thank you for this information.
Enough of this chicken this chicken that.

Op, you're correct. See the link below.




https://www.nairaland.com/1877270/breaking-ifeanyi-nwoye-emerges-new

Rilwayne001: How am i going to apply for it?

Go to their office nearest to you or visit

http://www.nimc.gov.ng/

tandj: I thought as much.

This sullivan, u r biting more than u can chew. It will def hook u on d throat very soon.

U didn't see anything to accuse this man of except rearing chicken?
And d useless house followed suit?

Talk of autocracy.
I wonder what will happen to us if ur type is made d president?

He just lost my trust and vote.

It's all about 2015.

emperorchedda: This is just a simple power tussle which is not new to the inner caucus of enugu state govt. Onyebuchi challenged a woman who's at a higher and more influential place than he is now he got served immediately.

Please tell us more. Because I don't believe a deputy governor can be impeached just because of fowls.

miteolu: Is not my biz

How, are you not a Nigerian?

Dreal1247: This is indeed a multi-purpose identity card. I cant wait to have mine.

Today's event is truly a historic one.

Chicken impeachment.

Enugu State House of Assembly, on Thursday, confirmed the nomination of Rev. Ifeanyi Raphael Nwoye as the new Deputy Governor of the state.

He is from Ishiogbo Nara in Nkanu East local government, the community of the impeached Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi.

Nwoye, a former Commissioner for Environment under the Chimaroke Nnamani administration is a Pastor of the Christ Ascension Church and son of the church’s founder.

Governor Sullivan Chime forwarded his name to the House yesterday and he was screened and confirmed by the lawmakers at their sitting Thursday morning.

The new Deputy Governor once served as Caretaker Committee Chairman for Nkanu East local government area for a period of three months in 2007.

He is likely to be sworn in later today, Thursday.

Meanwhile, eight vehicles belonging to the impeached Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, have been withdrawn by security operatives from the Government House, Enugu today.

The security operatives numbering over 20 led by the Chief Security Officer , CSO, to Governor Sullivan Chime, Mr. Fidelis Ogaraba stormed the GRA resident of Onyebuchi at about 2pm, according to one of the aides of the former Deputy Governor, Onyeka Nnaji, and demanded the keys to the vehicles.

He said that there was no resistance as Mr. Onyebuchi who was not available at home at the time was contacted about the development on phone and he reportedly asked his aides to allow the security men access to the vehicles.

A total of eight vehicles, including five used as his official convoy, two 406 cars he got from the Chimaroke Nnamani administration and a Nissan Car belonging to his wife were taken away by the security men, who claimed to be acting on the orders of the governor.

Similarly, Onyebuchi’s security was withdrawn few hours after the State House of Assembly impeached him on Wednesday.

He could not be reached for his comment on the development.


http://dailypost.ng/2014/08/28/breaking-ifeanyi-nwoye-emerges-new-enugu-deputy-governor-onyebuchis-security-aides-withdrawn/

ISpiksDaTroof: A non muslim, non Yoruba or Hausa person.

GEJ!

BIGOT.

ISpiksDaTroof: After Seeing your user name, previous posts and knowing your antecedents, you really think I wanna get involved in an exchange with you?

Buzz off.

Your signature alone shows that you are an abandoned child who grew up in motherless babies home hence the hatred for your country. You're an embarrassment to mankind.

raumdeuter: A Senior Advocate of Nigeria. The highest level a Lawyer can get to

Can you tell us the professional and criminal credentials about PDP candidates like Alao-Akala, Obanikoro, Omisore, Fayose etc

Is Alao-Akala, Omisore and Fayose Lagosians?
The topic is about Lagos State, you hear?

raumdeuter: PDP lacks credible candidates in the SW

How credible was Fashola in 2007?

Twistaray: 'Na mouth them they take win? yeye people make una win first nah

Lol

Yes o o, na mouth PDP used in winning Ekiti election.

I can't wait to collect my national ID card. I registered since 15th December last year.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, will tomorrow at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja inaugurate the national electronic identity card, which will kick-start the issuance of a unique National Identification Number (NIN) and electronic identity card to all eligible citizens, provide a secure means to access the national identity database to authenticate and verify identities.

A statement signed by Anthony Okwudiafor, director, corporate communications of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) which has the responsibility to create, maintain and operate the National Identity Database said tomorrow’s event was a remarkable milestone in the National Identity Management System (NIMS) as well as a huge achievement in the overall objectives of the commission.

NIMC has the mandate to issue a multi-purpose card for identification, electronic signatures, biometric on-card verification, and other applications. The card which would subsequently be issued to all Nigerians who have successfully enrolled for the National Identification Number (NIN), has five applications already activated at issuance, with a built- in capacity to host more applications post-issuance and on request.

The NIMC spokesman said the process of activating applications on the card would be done in two phases. The card is an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) compliant travel application to be used as a Machine Readable Travel Document (MRTD), for local/regional travel. It is a Nigerian Electronic Identity application to be used to authenticate an individual’s identity.

Other features include Electronic Public Key Infrastructure (‘ePKI’) application to be used for Identification, authentication and digital signatures; Fingerprint Match-on-Card (‘MoC’) functionality to be used for Biometric (fingerprint) verification; and banking application (‘EMV’) to be used for deposit, withdrawal, payment, transfer, inquiry, etc.

The national ID card can well be used as an International Driver’s License, transport application for loading credits/units on local bus terminals; Tax application for making tax payments, verify payments, etc; voter ID application for casting votes; pension application for managing Retirement Savings Account; NHIS application (eHealth) for upgrade, renew, health insurance; and Insurance application to be used to subscribe to insurance policy, renew insurance policy, etc.

The card can as well be used as repository for saving telecom subscribers personal MSISDN numbers previously registered with the NCC and a custom tool used to save space for more applets in the future. Expected at the card launch include the Vice President, Nigeria, Namadi Sambo, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim.

Other digniotaries include ministers, permanent secretaries, representatives from international agencies, divisional president, sub-Sahara Africa, MasterCard, Mr. Daniel Monehin; the group managing director, Access Bank, Mr. Herbert Wigwe; representatives from the NIMC harmonisation and integration committee, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) among others.



http://leadership.ng/business/382157/jonathan-flag-national-id-card-tomorrow

ISpiksDaTroof: Tribalistic?! Against who? For Whom?

You're referring me to 2007 when it was OBJ v Falae, while I'm talking about 2014 when it's Ibos v North v Yoruba v Hausa v West Fulani v Muslim v Every Non-Ibo....

The absolute truth is, but for the Ibos GEJ would've been long gone. This is not to say there aren't certain Northern elements (plus their Western and South Eastern collaborators) that are bent on retaining power and keeping the status quo, but it's to say the Ibos are just as (if not more) religiously and culturally intolerant as their up north Neighbors.

GEJ has destroyed Nigeria because he can't be "checked" (impeachment, Coup, resignation etc). He knows if he's called to account for any of his actions his "brothers" will spring to his defense and that's the impunity and ineptitude you see in full swing in Nigeria today.

Hate it or love it I've spoken the truth.

So 2007 election was between Obasanjo and Falae abi?
MUMU.

idumuose: Your post smells tribalistic.The Igbos voted overwhelmingly for obsanjo during the 2007 presidential election.Go and check your records if you have any and come back here and apologize.

Don't mind that Id1ot, the time igbos was backing Obasanjo, yorubas was busy opposing him.