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PLEXPLEX: POLITICS! APC CONTAIN WITH IT.
Y RIBADU SEF,? I LL PREFER FORMER LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR

For What?

luluosas: Wicked people.
Why not call on Adamawa people to support Ribadu in the APC if he wish to contest? Why beg him to join PDP if your intentions are good?

Where this one from sef.

jayseehe: Ribadu won't like to be in the same party with the thieves he probed

See your life, didn't Ribadu probe Tinubu, Atiku, Amaechi and others in APC?.
APC is worst than PDP.

whatlyf: Whay are PDP so desperate? Why poaching on APC? I use to think it was the reverse... This shows that Jonathan crew has lost touch with the reality and self admitting! So PDP is not popular in Adamawa Anymore?

I expect Ribadu to reject this greek gift....they should work on the Ribadu Committee subsidy report. Ribadu should not be a party to corrupt regime.


Pdp shd give Marwa....abi no be dem want power?

Marwa Till 2019 lolsss



#Barcanista

I advise you adopt chameleon as moniker because, that's what you are. Mind you, Ribadu is a product of PDP government, PDP want him back from where he was poached to.

disloman: I don't believe this story.

Then go back to sleep.

There is pressure on former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman Nuhu Ribadu to join the Adamawa governorship race on the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The pressure on Ribadu is coming from PDP Muazu and party chief.
Besides some presidential aides, including a top official close to President Goodluck Jonathan, and some businessmen who have the President’s ears, have been pleading with Ribadu to accept PDP’s ticket.
A peaceful march has been fixed for tomorrow in Yola by some PDP leaders and stakeholders to demand Ribadu as the party’s next governorship candidate.
But the ex-EFCC chairman, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has not accepted the PDP’s overtures.
The PDP is desperate to give him a waiver and make him its candidate.
It was gathered that the PDP is after Ribadu to “pull the carpet off the feet of APC” which may benefit from sympathy votes to compensate for Nyako’s impeachment.
Ribadu “credibility” is said to have attracted the PDP.
It was learnt that one of the permutations of the PDP is to use the “snatching of Ribadu” to checkmate the influence of a former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who is still keen on contesting the presidential race in 2015.
In line with the agenda to whittle down the influence of APC in Adamawa State, the Acting Governor, Umaru Fintiri, has forced all local government chairmen to rejoin PDP and all APC chairmen and secretaries in most local governments are being lured back to the ruling party.
Muazu, some principal aides to the President, some businessmen, who are friends of the President, and some respected stakeholders from Adamawa have met with Ribadu in the last two weeks.A source in the PDP said: “Muazu, some presidential aides and some businessmen close to the seat of power have had audience with Ribadu in Abuja on the need to join PDP.
“We are begging Ribadu to join us to be our governorship candidate to prove to the people of Adamawa State that the removal of Nyako was well-intended and not directed at APCper se.“Security reports confirmed the need to re-fix the state and we decided to use our majority in the House of Assembly to remove Nyako.
“Having tried many candidates in Adamawa State, PDP leaders and stakeholders within and outside the state have concluded that only Ribadu has the integrity to save the state.
“If Nyako is gone and another APC chieftain is coming under the cloak of PDP, the people will not see anything wrong.”Asked if the PDP move was not a way of decimating APC, the source replied: “That is part of the game.
After all some PDP governors have also defected to APC.“Adamawa is strategic to the PDP as far as its plans for 2015 poll is concerned. It is one of the targeted states by this party.
“The way the PDP is zeroing in on Ribadu has local content. We want the best for Adamawa State.
“Even some forces in the presidency have agreed on the need to redirect the state.”But some stakeholders have kicked against plans by PDP to “give Ribadu a waiver and readmit him into the party”.Another source said: “There is no way PDP members can accept Ribadu as their candidate; he cannot come and reap where he did not sow.“They are making some of us to regret Nyako’s removal.
Are they saying the Acting Governor, Umaru Fintiri is not good enough to lead PDP to victory? What of ex-Governor Buba Marwa, ex-Minister Aliyu Idi Hong, Principal Secretary Hassan Tukur, ex-UBEC Executive Secretary Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Modibbo, Dr. Umar Ardo and many others?”“So, what will be the outcome of ex-PDP National Chairman’s investment in the ouster of Nyako? Are they saying they are not giving Bamanga Tukur’s son also the ticket.“Some of us will resist the granting of waiver to Ribadu. In fact, the waiver can not work because it cannot be backdated.
Ribadu is expected to spend at least one year in the PDP as a returnee before he can contest for any post,” the source added.
Ribadu, The Nation learnt, is said to be scared of joining PDP.
But we want to hold a peaceful march on Thursday to prove to him that we are serious this time around in poaching him.
“Already Ribadu’s posters have flooded Yola without any party symbol.
Some stakeholders were behind these,” another source said.
A top source in Ribadu’s camp said: “Since the day Nyako was removed, there have been overtures from PDP leaders and some bigwigs but he has not given them any response. “They are just begging him to come and save the state but he has not make any commitment at all. “You know Ribadu is not the ambitious type at all.
He believes whatever is going to be will be. He is also a man of the people and he will allow their will to prevail.”


http://thenationonlineng.net/new/adamawa-pdp-woos-ribadu/

chibanj: My broda we all know politics is a game of interests. We all say trust no man and yet we still 4get dat d lawmakers are men lyk us dat shouldn't b trusted. Just a meeting can determine amaechi's impeachment.

We all knw jonathan would definitely win 2015 no doubts, guess d lawmakers knows dat too n dey are no fools. Nyako once had his HOA in his palm until he got d impeachment, amaechi's case is no difference @ all.

By November get ready 2 see mass defection 4rm APC to PDP not just in d HOA but also in government offices, only care taking chairmen will be left wit amaechi.

You're on point.

Plus10: All this while I actually thought apc was for Rivers...not until I found my way to ph.I bet you,in every newspapers stand you may find yourself in ph, majority of them sing the same song:Apc is a boko haram party,or another Ikwerri man(Wike) cannot be governor...but if that is what pdp would bring as their candidate they would rather vote another party but not apc!


PS:I currently reside at Rukpokwu,ph.

Please tell those Yoruba-Rivers indigenes.

Amaechi, you're right, they're not.



They are supporters of APC.

NgeneUkwenu: ...And this market gossip makes front page! smh!

Ngene Ukwu Ewu. Only waka you waka come? Where is berem and obiagelli.

Mynd44: Who remembers this?

My friend, close your mouth and do the NEEDFUL...................

Front page.

Amaechi is already a history, only 13 out of so called 25 loyal members of house of assembly actually defected to APC. No matter what Apc may want us to believe, Rivers state remains a PDP state, this is a fact all the lawmakers including Amaechi knows. One thing is sure, none of politicians including the lawmakers want to follow anybody to bottomless pit.

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The APC has congratulated the 25 PDP lawmakers of the Rivers State House of Assembly who recently declared for APC.
By so doing, they have proved and demonstrated that they are true progressives who are resolutely committed to an egalitarian, virile and vibrant Rivers State, the party said.

With this development, the Speaker, Rtd.Hon Otelemaba Amachree, Deputy Speaker, Hon Barr Leyii Kwanee, Majority Leader, Hon Barr Chidi Llyod, Deputy Leader, Hon Ewor Nname Robinson, Acting Chief Whip, Hon. Irene M. Inimgba and others, APC now enjoys an overwhelming majority in the Rivers State House of Assembly.


http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/07/intrigues-lawmakers-defection-rivers/

On Wednesday, July 16, about twenty five lawmakers in the Rivers state Houseof Assembly formally defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The decision to officially dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was taken during a plenary session in the old banquet hall of the Government House by lawmakers loyal to Governor Rotimi Amaechi.
Twenty six of the lawmakers and the Speaker of the House, Otelemaba Dan Amachree, were on April 29, 2013, suspended by the leadership of the PDP for failing to rescind their decision on the suspension of the chairman, vice chairman and seventeen councilors of Obio/Akpor local government council. Since then, the lawmakers have on the face value been out there doing their legislative business without any party affiliation. But in the eyes of the public, they have been the backbone of Governor Amaechi administration.
In the House of thirty two members, the APC lawmakers have been sitting without the six PDP legislators, led by Hon. Evans Bapakaye Bipi.Leader of the House, Chidi Lloyd, made the declaration at the sitting of the Assembly at the Old Government HouseExecutive Council Chambers where the pro-Amaechi lawmakers have been sitting for about five months now. Only about 13 of them were present at the Wednesday’s sitting.?
He stated that they have ceased to be members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), adding that further correspondences to them should bear the APC.
“The 25 pro-Amaechi lawmakers have asked me to declare our formal defection to All Progressives Congress (APC). Henceforth, 25 of us should be referred to as All Progressives Congress.
We are telling the world today that we are all members of All Progressives Congress.
All correspondence to us should describe us as APC members.
”In his respond to the defection, the Speaker, Otelemaba Dan-Amachree, requested his colleagues to document their decision.Reacting to this development, PDP said the announcement of the formal defection of the members of the State House of Assembly loyal to Governor Amaechi to the All Progressives Congress, APC, is belated and of no consequence to the PDP.
The Party in a statement signed by the Special Adviser, Media, to the State chairman, Jerry Needam, berated the lawmakers for inundating the media with stale news, stressing that their membership of the APC was not a new development.
The PDP recalled that the same lawmakers had long ceased to be their members since they were suspended for anti-party activities and while contesting their suspension from the PDP in court went ahead to take part in the APC State-wide membership registration exercise last year which was a clear case of contempt of court.
The party, according to the statement, has continued to grow bigger and stronger without them ever since, and has never wished to have them back to its fold because they were rather a cog in the party’s wheel of progress.
The announcement, the party insists makes no other sense than to re-assure “their paymaster”, Amaechi, of their continued support in the wake of wind of change and, or impeachment of visionless and lawless State chief executives by state legislators across thecountry.
“We are the least bothered because we are not looking for liabilities which the rubber stamp lawmakers are.
Our party is on track and has lost nothing because these people had never been part of us.
The formal announcement of their defection is inconsequential and most uneventful,” the PDP noted.
The decision to officially announce their defection could be attributed to an alleged late night meeting between the Minister of state for Education, Barrister Nyesom Wike, and nine pro-Amaechi lawmakers in a certain hotel in the heart of Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital, last week.
The meeting was said to have been moderated by the state PDP chairman, Felix Obuah, after a former Minister from the state had brokered the opportunity in a meeting held in Abuja.
It was in that meeting that the pro-Amaechi lawmakers pledged to work for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Another school of thought has it that the idea to officially announce the defection by the lawmakers was to further convince Governor Amaechi that there was no need for him to be afraid of the fate of the former Adamawa state Governor, Murtala Nyakor, who was impeached by the state House of Assembly on allegation of “gross misconduct”.There has been a wave of impeachment move against Amaechi by the six PDP lawmakers, a situation that generated an unprecedented fear in the government circle.
An insider informed this writer that the governor wanted to ascertain the loyalty of the lawmakers, hence the need for them to declare such loyalty before the public court.
On the other hand, the state PDP chairman, Obuah was quoted in a public outing as saying that more lawmakers in the House had been calling, appealing to be re-admitted into the party. “Eight of them have come asking that we should admit them back, that they have been suffering”, he was quoted.
Though Obuah did not mention the names of the eight lawmakers, it is also clear that following the constitutional provision, the defected lawmakers may stand the risk of losing their seats in the House.
It is being feared that the defected lawmakers may be running therisk of losing their seats in the House if the constitutional provision to that effectis to strictly apply.
In section 109 subsection (1) (g), the 1999 constitution as amended is explicit on this.
Some governors and lawmakers had since returned back to the PDP for fear of losing their seats. A lot more have even declared support for President Jonathan in the 2015 election. They have also raised some kind of structures to support the President’s ambition.
In an exclusive interview in Port Harcourt, the factional speaker of the House, Hon Evans Bapakaye Bipi disclosed that an impeachment notice would have been served on the state Governor, Amaechi, last week but that decision was “delayed” because the state judiciary is not functional.“I and my colleagues met last week to serve Amaechi the impeachment notice.
But we are delayed because there is no judiciary. That is why we have to hold on.
As soon as the judiciary resumes, wewill serve him”, Evans said.
But the deputy speaker of the House, Hon Leyii Kwanee, responded that the impeachment process by the six PDP lawmakers was “a mere rumour”.Kwanee explained that the seventh Assembly has not found any fault in Governor Amaechi that would warrant his impeachment. He said: “Six of them cannot and will never think of that.
The 7th Assembly does not see any reason to impeach Governor Amaechi because he has not done anything that would warrant his impeachment in any way.
What you have been hearing is a mere rumor and we cannot waste our time on that.”On the defection of twenty five lawmakers loyal to Amaechi to the All Progressives Congress, APC, Evans said those seats have already been declared vacant by the PDP, saying that there is a constitutional backing to such declaration.
Evans who represents Ogu/Bolo state constituency in the House explained that the 1999 constitution is very clear on the issue of defection, noting that those who won elections on the PDP platform and decided to defect to another party before the expiration of their tenures have automatically lost their seats.“Their seats have been declared vacant.
In the National Assembly, those who left PDP for APC have since returned because they know what the constitution says.
They don’t have any legal reason to continue to occupy those seats because they are no more members of the PDP.
”APC in its remark to this development reassured party faithful that the job of the State Governor remains very much safe.
This reassurance becomes necessary in view of the apprehension in some quarters following confirmation by APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, that Amaechi was one of the five APC Governors penciled down by the Presidency to be impeached before the 2015 elections. Others include the Governors of Adamawa (already impeached), Nasarawa, Edo and Borno.

berem: Why are these monikers with "nigeria" attached to their names so silly? I am yet to contend with the stupidity of insincere9gerian,now another mad moniker named "activatenigeria" is taking over from the stupidity of his brother?

Stop personal attacks and face topic. Haba.

NWANICHODE: But I can remember clearly that before his birthday, he gave the prophecy that chibok girls will soon return. Either before his birthday as his birthday gift or soon after his birthday. He added that if not that he is a prophet he should have been among the people doing bring back our girls in abuja. Well, maybe he did not reason like asiri dorkugbo before.

can you prove it?

poiZon: americans of all people came n left, why? COS they know nobody was kidnapped!
end of discussion.

That's the point I've been making all along.

cyril83: Alex baddeh said that cyril83 is a braggart coward.

Op, you're correct. See the link below.
https://www.nairaland.com/1831890/tb-joshua-insinuating-chibok-scam

egift: https://www.promptnewsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Escaped-Chibok-Girls-with-GEJ-e1406044092629.jpg



- President Jonathan and David Mark met with the Parents of the girls. The meeting was also attended by the girls who escaped from Boko Haram.
- Jonathan signed a Presidential Weaver for Shekaru's childhood friend, he met face-to-face with Boko Haram leader severally on behave of Jonathan, a day before the girls would be released, Jonathan went to the Paris meeting, he pulled out in the 11th hour.
- A Presidential Committee setup by Jonathan after an extensive findings, stated that the abduction occurred.
- And don't forget "The good news for the parents of the girls is that we know where they are" - Air Marshal Alex Badeh (Chief of Defense Staff)

Air Marshal Alex Badeh knows where the missing girls are, they're in the heart of evil people like you.

500GP: IT'S 5.00GP. SEUN CHANGED IT

Eyaaah, you follow for nairaland re-naming ceremony. Congrats.

cyril83: 100 percent operation were not given to the foreigners, some of the military equipments were not allowed in the country, there are bad eggs within Nigerian military, so how do you now expect good things to come out of the search ?

That's why we must shun APC'S deceptions and support Jonathan for more prosperous future.

500GP: LOOK AT THE FOOL.

IDUMUOSE - FRANCIS OCHEME

Then, this must be 500GP = FIVE HUNDRED GENERAL PURPOSE guns.

cyril83: That makes you more intelligent than world leaders.

Who are the world leaders? The ones that can not locate a missing plane over three months now. See, if there is really abduction of such magnitude, why the foreign detectors haven't detect their whereabouts.


#Chibok Is A Scam

Clerverly: I am ashamed of my tribe! Yes!

Your tribe is ashamed of you the more.

suwailad: i thought pastors are supposed to be preaching end of the world crap, kindgom of heaven things etc. This one is political opinion and not a voice from God.dont get High BP.

Do mallams and other Islamic preachers restrict themselves to 72 virgins crap?

Fooooooooooooooll.

suwailad: thanks to allah it is an opinion not prophecy.

to hell with your blood thirsty Allah

egift: OP are you trying to drag Tb Joshua's name into your stone hearten propaganda or are you calling President Jonathan a fraud for announcing he met with the actual victims in person?

My brother, Jonathan used that to cool down some nerves, he knows the truth, because millions of informations is available for him. In fact, TB JOSHUA yesterday confirmed Jonathan’s revelation that Boko Haram has infiltrated his government. This time, the prophet said that Boko Haram is EVERYWHERE, school, banks, motor parks, market, ministries, navy, airforce, army etc.

He said the crisis is not and will never affect government or Nigeria steady growth. He challenged anyone in doubt to check Nigeria economic Indices. He said nobody can stop Nigeria's destined greatness.