₦airaland Forum

ednut1:
what has obi got to do with this? What is the obsession with obi lol

PresidObi:
Rivers state money is used to fund elections for northerners.

scribble:
The blogosphere was inundated with reports of the excessive sharing of dollars at the All Progressives Congress which took place during the latter part of last week.

One APC supporter and Special Adviser to Osun Governor on Environment, BolaIlori had blown the scandal open after he saw the beginning stages of the dollarization in action.

He took to his Facebook page and scribbled, “Crazy things are happening here!!! Some of these cannot represent the change Nigeria is yearning for. Excessive dollarization by one of the aspirants to is to say the least obscene. I have been involved in political process for decades now, I have never witnessed this volume of raw dollarization of party primaries. I only read about this kind of things in PDP primaries. A question been asked by conscientious delegates is that whoever can be giving out between $2000 to $5000 to…delegates certainly does not represent the kind of change Nigerians want…those who contributed to the pauperization of Nigeria now revel in dollarization… majority of Ondo delegates are still standing with Buhari but have been reduced from 85% to 70% within 24 hours…the remaining has gone with dollars ooo.!!!!!”

One has to wonder how Buhari was able to win the primaries in this era of stomach infrastructure where dollars are like the Biblical manna that God sent down from heaven to nourish the Israelites as they made their way to the promised land.

Sources close to the APC with knowledge of the way the Primaries unfolded have revealed that it was Rivers State Governor, A[b]maechi who flew back to Rivers State and returned to Lagos on Thursday morning with enough dollars to make Benjamin Franklin blush.[/b]

It has been revealed that Atiku offered the delegates $5000 each, but Amaechi doubled it to $10000 a pop. Thus turning the tables in favour of General Buhari.

Since his adventure into the APC, Amaechi has gone out of his way to prove himself a party loyalist, always the first to shoki or azonto at the many events the APC holds, which he himself is usually the chief sponsor.

According to party insiders, Amaechi has overtaken Tinubu as the major financier of the party. One does not need to wonder why he is always at President Jonathan’s throat over misappropriated oil wells or other such business. Anything that diminishes from the State’s coffers will have a ripple effect on his funding budget for the APC.

Joe Francis wrote in from Port Harcourt.

http://www.theheraldng.com/dollarization-apc-primaries-amaehi-vanquished-atiku-saibuhari/

shrinkchido:
Dogara Bombs Governor Bala Mohammed…says "shut up, Wike financed your governorship election"

…How Wike mandated Chief Dan Osi Orbih to deliver PDP ticket to Mohammed
… Bala Mohammed knelt to collect money from Wike in my presence
...Bauchi Governor a serial betrayer, ingrate and psychopath

Shut up, Wike financed your governorship election- Dogara Bombs Governor Mohammed.
… How Wike mandated Chief Dan Osi Orbih to deliver PDP ticket to Mohammed
… Bala Mohammed knelt to collect money from Wike in my presence- Dogara
… says Bauchi Governor a serial betrayer, ingrate and psychopath

vanitybutiwanti:
obi is the poster boy for an ideal politicians to some of you ignorant Nigerians, I was just bringing it to your notice that he is also complicit in this scheme, he's no different from others

ednut1:
what ever is the issue in your head may the lord help you. Face topic and leave obi alone. Why is wike using rivers states funds to sponsor politicians

GloriousGbola:
nothing we don’t already know

PDP no longer has money from the center

Wike carried PDP for 8 years with rivers money

the man is not presidential material but even so - the same PDP who had been collecting money from him did him dirty in the 2023 primaries

and they had no plan to placate him. expected he would take his betrayal lying down

they also have very little business calling out wike when they have atiku a much bigger ashewo who dealt a mortal blow to the party in 2015 back and calling the shots

i am actually surprised pdp has not split after what happened in 2023 - because the party is now funded by money from the SS states. the northern states are not brining anything to the table but they still play tribal politics during primaries

anonimi:
2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury

Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.

One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.

Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.

https://www.thecable.ng/2023-pdp-and-politics-of-healing-wikes-self-inflicted-injury/amp

ednut1:
what ever is the issue in your head may the lord help you. Face topic and leave obi alone. Why is wike using rivers states funds to sponsor politicians

vanitybutiwanti:
none of your business, if you don't know, wike also funded Obi. It's not a new thing, all your politicians are complicit.

vanitybutiwanti:
must wike work with Fubara? What is Bala Muhammed business with wike and Fubaras fight? Why can't he mind his business like other governors? Bala thinks he can get fubara to sponsor his presidential campaign in 2027 and 2031 that's why he started attacking wike. I hope wike has also learnt his lesson to stop doling out cash to some of these politicians, most of them do not like him and when they have problems the run to hi, an example is duoye diri and Aminu Tambuwal.

ednut1:
what ever is the issue in your head may the lord help you. Face topic and leave obi alone. Why is wike using rivers states funds to sponsor politicians

PresidObi:
Rivers state money is used to fund elections for northerners.

EmeeNaka:
Wike put himself in that position where Bala will insult him. If Wike had worked with Fubara instead of working against Fubara, these problems will not occur.
If Dogara and Wike like, let them write Epistle from now till 2100, Fubara will be doling out money to Bala in self defense.

NwaAmaikpe:






This is as blatant as a wife telling her husband's umunna during a family meeting that all her kids belong to the gateman.

It has never been this bad and corruption has never been this bold, imagine a former speaker admitting that he is privy to the use of state funds for electoral financial inducements.

To the best of my knowledge, Wike was not born into wealth, how he affords to fund a whole party and sponsor their elections round the country makes me wonder what the real job of EFCC is.

Just the other day, Yaya Bello who is being prosecuted for a stupendous fraud and outright theft of public funds was seen fraternizing with a serving government official...if it were in a country that had the littlest of decorum, such a government official will voluntarily resign for maintaining such affiliations.

But it is Nigeria; where the muscular dark boy with zero pedigree who doesn't practice what he preaches is deemed a messiah, while Tuface who is fed up of being emasculated is now considered a demon.

Till then, welcome to wherever you are.

vanitybutiwanti:
none of your business, if you don't know, wike also funded Obi. It's not a new thing, all your politicians are complicit.

nairavsdollars:
Dogara desperately looking for what to eat

anonimi:
Wike did himself dirty with ambition for what you say he is not material for.

By the way, should ordinary citizens not be contributing money to political parties and campaigns like in the past and like in the japa destinations

How do we get accountability without investing in the political process?

EmeeNaka:
Wike put himself in that position where Bala will insult him. If Wike had worked with Fubara instead of working against Fubara, these problems would not occur.
If Dogara and Wike like, let them write Epistle from now till 2100, Fubara will be doling out money to Bala in self defense.

3ice9ce:
Wike also funded Peter Obi.

https://www.channelstv.com/2022/11/19/i-must-provide-logistics-support-for-peter-obi-wike-insists/amp/

PresidObi:
Rivers state money is used to fund elections for northerners.