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Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by jcflex(m): 7:17pm On Jan 02, 2015
An inaugural meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Southwest was held in Akure on Saturday with the objective of outlining a strategy for winning the 2015 elections in the area, with Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose reiterating the party’s old mantra that the presidential contest is a “do or die” affair.

The returnee-governor said the party must be prepared to use its control of the army and the police, which it currently controls, to ensure victory for President Goodluck Jonathan at next month’s polls.

The meeting was organized by the PDP South-West co-ordinator, Gov. Olusegun Mimiko, who shared the high table with Senitor Iyiola Omisore, Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi, Senator Musilu Obanikoro, Governor Ayo Fayose and various leaders fromthe zone.

Governor Fayose underlined that the presidential election was critical, advising that the party should forget about governorship elections and concentrate on the presidential contest. According to him, once President Jonathan was re-elected, everything else would fall into place and the party could declare the governorship candidates of PDP in various States as it likes


Minutes of the meeting obtained by SaharaReporters shows that some delegates advocated de-emphasizing rallies as campaign strategy, preferring that the PDP should focus on propaganda aimed at tarnishing the image of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari. Some of the delegates wanted to use the media to dent the image of General Buhari.

In that connection, Senator Omisore ex pressed support for the extensive use of propaganda against Buhari, joining Governor Fayose in stressing that the all efforts should be mobilized to win the Presidency because the PDP would be nothing without the presidency.

Mr. Fayose disagreed with the propaganda strategy, describing it as a waste of time. Stressing that attack is the best form of defence, he said that the PDP in general and the South-west PDP should be valiant to face the Tinubus anywhere they are.

He underlined that the PDP cannot afford to lose its control of the police and the
army, which it will without Jonathan being the president.

On Fayose’s description of the presidential election as a “do or die” affair, Gov. Mimiko, obviously aware that the outburst could be used against the PDP, countered that it should not be a “do or die” but rather a “do-and-win” affair.
One of the decisions taken by the meeting was to set up a number of committees, including Security, Contacts, Traditional, and INEC.

The committee on Security is saddled with the responsibility of working with the police and the army. The party leaders also further tasked the students at both the national and regional levels to monitor various institutions and polling booths to make sure that the election goes in favour of President Jonathan.

It was also stated that a national student body had submitted a proposal for a youth conference that will hold in FUTA this month where the South-west students would adopt Jonathan as their presidential candidate.

TEXT OF THE MINUTES OF THE INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH WEST
PDP, HELD ON 27TH DECEMBER 2014

The inaugural meeting of the southwest PDP was held in Akure, at the Government House of the State (Ondo State).
The meeting was organized by the PDP South-West co-ordinator, Gov. Olusegun Mimiko. On the high table were Gov. Olusegun Mimiko, Senitor Iyiola Omisore, Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi, Senator Musilu Obanikoro, Governor Ayo Fayose, a governorship aspirant in Oyo State and various leaders fromthe South-West.

At the beginning of the meeting, the host appealed to all the South-West PDP members and leaders to be united so as for them to be able to gain more votes fromthe zone. And people were given opportunity to give opinion on how they could get more votes forthe presidential election in 2015 and win other positions.

A speaker from Lagos State made a comment that Senator Muslim Obanikoro’s son, Ibrahim Obanikoro, that contested for the position of council chairman in one of the LCDA’s in Lagos State, defeated Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his area but was not given the position.

He mentioned that that they had the key in winning Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and that Asiwaju only claims what he cannot do.
And the speaker further said that they needed the support of the Presidency to do so many things in Lagos State, concerning the forth-coming election.

Also, another speaker from Lagos State emphasized on issue of disbursement of funds for the election.

He stressed that funds were always late for disbursement for elections, so they wanted early disbursement so that they could deliver.
While another speaker from another state said they were happy for the meeting because it would foster peace among the southwest PDP members and that they could move on easily.

A speaker from Oyo State laid emphasis on use of the media and said the party should go more on the media attack on the opposition party (APC). He mentioned that effective use of the media was the weapon being used by APC.

Gov. Mimiko now stated that they made findings of who were the owners of some dailies and that it was discovered that those media outfits did not belong to members of the APC, and thus PDP could equally hijack the media.

A speaker from Osun State that he had told Gov. Mimiko to help them tell the President to use his power and office to quash Ogbeni Aregbesola before the general elections, so that PDP could produce more votes for the President and that the idea of fighting Gov. Aregbesola would be by going to the Court of Appeal which he said could be influenced to remove Aregbesola. So, he urged the honourable leaders of our amiable party to look into the issue of Osun State.
Discussions now moved on to the strategy that would be used for winning the presidential election;

• Delegates present at the meeting discussed more on campaign that they should do less of rallies, instead, they should embark on full campaign with propaganda that would tarnish the image of APC presidential candidate, Gen. Buhari. And part of what should be used use to campaign against Gen. Buhari in Lagos is that he was the one who stopped the Railway metro project of Lagos State 30 years ago, and that instead of Buhari completing the project, he paid the penalty for breaching the contract of the railway metro line project.

• Delegates present laid serious emphasis on using the media to dent the image of the presidential candidate of APC.

Some delegates maintained that the change that the emperor of Bourdillon wanted to change Nig. democracy to totalitarian dictatorship. Members stated that when PDP had no State in the South-west, the President got good votes from the South-west and now that the party has two States, it would be able to win all the other States if the two States in its kitty are well utilised.

Senator Omisore said in his speech that propaganda of any form should be utilised and that all efforts should be mobilized to win the Presidency as without the presidency the party is nothing.

In the speech of Mr. Ayo Fayose, he said propaganda would only waste time and that attack is the best from of defence. He maintained that the party in general and the South-west PDP needed to be valiant to face the Tinubus anywhere they are.

He further said we have the control of police and the army and “I CAN NOT AFFORD TO LOSE MY CONTROL ON POLICE AND THE ARMY” and without Jonathan being the president we will lose the control. Further, he said the presidential election is a do or die affair but Gov. Mimiko quickly countered that it should not be a do or die
affair but rather a do-and-win affair.

Governor Fayose later said they should forget about all governorship elections and concentrate on the presidential election, that once President Jonathan returns, we could be declaring the governorship candidates of PDP in various States as they like, meaning that the Presidential election is very paramount.

As the meeting progressed, leaders at the meeting put Oyo State in focus and maintained that PDP could get more votes for the president there by begging both Chief Alao Akala and Chief Rasheed Ladoja to align their parties with the PDP since they have no presidential aspirant and there is every need to throw out Ajimobi, Amosun with using militant thugs loyal to PDP.

Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi representing Otunba Gbenga Daniel said they PDP on ground in Ijebu side of Ogun State and they were grassrooters and that they could deliver with good resources.

Sen. Musilu Obanikoro in his own speech said 3 days after he lost the PDP primary election, that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to him in private which he said was quite unusual of him.
He said Tinubu asked him how much he had spent and that he was ready to give him 2 billion Naira and a senatorial seat from APC in Lagos State. He said he refused the offer and stressed that they could just imagine how smart and clever Asiwaju is.

He further stated that Cardinal James Odunmbaku (Baba Eto) was almost at the concluding part of decamping to PDP and that he had even concluded with the presidency in Aso Rock before Asiwaju hijacked him back with the position of Director-General of Campaign of Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode.

He said they could see that Tinubu is the smart type. Senator Obanikoro further said he was the only person that could match Bola Ahmed Tinubu because he said he knew his tactics. He further emphasized that with cash in his hand, Tinubu is nobody.

While Governor Fayose intervened by saying that there was nothing special in Lagos and that he normally visited markets in Lagos every weekend and before the people in the market would recognize him, they would have said so many things in his presence that they won’t know. Govenor Fayose further said he was coming to Lagos to teach people the market approach to sensitizing the people on the need to support PDP and dump APC.

Afterall this, the communiqué prepared sequel to which the press was allowed entry into the place for a brief coverage before they were dispersed again. At the end, they set up various committees on such areas as:

• SECURITY
• TRADITIONAL
• CONTACTS
• INEC etc.

Committee on contacts will meet important personalities to canvass them, they mention people like Jimoh Ibrahim in Ondo, the Ogun people mentioned Sen. Anthony Adefuye as part of the personalities to be visited, and many other personalities.

Committee on INEC would monitor various INEC commissioners in various south-west states and try as much as possible to lure them with money to compromise in favour of our great party.

Committee on traditional rulers would meet up all Obas in the southwest for consultation on the presidential election and use financial gratification to lure them as many of them really need stomach infrastructure, according to Governor Fayose.

Governor Mimiko maintained that many of those Obas are actually hungry and with good amount of money they could get them to support PDP. Committee on security is saddled with the responsibility to work with the police and the army.

Leaders of the party further tasked the students at both the National (NANS) and southwest level, state level to monitor various institutions, polling booths and make sure that the election would go in favour of Jonathan.

It was also observed that the National body of student (NANS) submitted a proposal for a youth conference that will hold in FUTA in January where the South-west students would adopt Jonathan as their presidential candidate.

Some leaders also talked about APC’s strategy of deploying 10 persons per polling booth and that they were aware of it and stated that all leaders should task themselves to use councilors in all their various booths.

Lastly, the South-west coordinator said the next meeting that would hold in Ibadan which would involve fund-raising for the presidential election from stakeholders of the PDP south-west and the meeting would be used to shake Oyo once again urging that the Governorship aspirant of PDP to be prepared.

The meeting ended with closing prayer
from a delegate from Ondo State.



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Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by tpiasb2009: 7:23pm On Jan 02, 2015
The returnee-governor said the party must be prepared to use its control of the army and the police, which it currently controls, to ensure victory for President Goodluck Jonathan at next month’s polls.


does he remember who is running against gej?
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by mperoakeem(m): 7:24pm On Jan 02, 2015
i tink its high time i introduced... Video or adonbilivit, but if dis true, i rest my case
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by mcfynest(m): 7:25pm On Jan 02, 2015
This can never be true! angry
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by simplemach(m): 7:44pm On Jan 02, 2015
Let him be at the recieving end. Omo this looooong essay no be here o
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by Datsme: 7:47pm On Jan 02, 2015
JonaTAN Thieves! When we say they r clueless, sm ppl will b defending d dm. Cn u c, Instead of going for issue based campaign, they were planning rubbish in term of propaganda. Thank God ur cluelessness is a non-infectious disease, nigerians are nw more enlightened so ur plan s dead on arrival. @GMB, baba in 9ice's voice, Mawonran (be looking at dm).
For Fayose, hs reaction should be xpected cos he dont want to loose hs seat bt he cannot escape it. Just like hs 1st term, he shall be impeached again cos no 1 citizen of any state cannot be left for a corrupt n thugery personified individual.

C H A N G E is loadiiiiiiiiiiiiiii94%iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggggggggg
#APC-CHANGE
#SAIBUHARI/OSINBAJO

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Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by emmatok(m): 7:47pm On Jan 02, 2015
Governor Fayose intervened by saying that there was nothing special in Lagos and that he normally visited markets in Lagos every weekend and before the people in the market would recognize him, they would have said so many things in his presence that they won’t know. Govenor Fayose further said he was coming to Lagos to teach people the market approach to sensitizing the people on the need to support PDP and dump APC

Somebody should tell Fayose that EKITI is the least developed state in the SW.
Infact Ekiti should not exist as a state.

Fayose cant win LG chairmanship in Lagos.

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Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by Datsme: 8:05pm On Jan 02, 2015
Did Buhari promise to make Nigeria ungovernable?

Share the fact with others: asked: December 27, 2014 by saifacts

No. In 2010, as reported by various sections of the media, Lawal Keita, a PDP chieftain stated that if a person from the North did not win the
2011 elections, Nigeria will be made ungovernable . Below are links to that effect as reported by the press when that statement was made.
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/10/08/group-wants-kaita-tried-for-treason/ In April 2011, Reuben Abati slandered Buhari in

The Guardian about same statements of making Nigeria ungovernable. Buhari sued Abati to court in 2011 for damaging his name. President Jonathan begged Buhari on behalf of Abati to settle out of court because Abati might end up in jail. On 11 July 2012 Rueben Abati and The Guardian published an unreserved apology to Buhari.
http://newsrescue.com/rueben-abati-retracts-libelous-invention- linking-buhari-terror-compensates-general-damages/

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Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by oshyno(m): 8:13pm On Jan 02, 2015
Journalism has gone to the dogs. Conjecture upon conjecture.
"Source say, a chieftancy say" since u mentioned Fayose's name why can't u mention the names of others. Instead it is "speaker".

This is to me is more or less psyching. U guess what pdp moves might be and conjecture that it is already happening.
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by Nobody: 8:20pm On Jan 02, 2015
I doubt the Authenticity of this Report..
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by Nobody: 8:41pm On Jan 02, 2015
Why are you people surprised? Fayose is a beneficiary of GEJ's corrupt and ineptitude government. Ordinarily, in a sane democracy, fayose ought not to contest until after 10 years since he was impeached in 2006 ..but this is where we are as a people..he knows if GEJ lose the forth coming election, *he is in trouble*.so really he is just trying to protect his own interest..and thats Nigeria politics for you

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Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by Majikals(m): 9:17pm On Jan 02, 2015
Pdp n apc e warriors, Over too you...don't just star at the post, say something
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by Amanwulu1(m): 9:27pm On Jan 02, 2015
I stopped reading d moment I read sahara Reporter.

Dis cute boy is d representation of d strength of my youth n he is my future. He is much more dan nigerian politics to me. He'll b 2 on monday, plz celebrate him wit me wit ur like or birthday wishes.

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Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by eleven(m): 9:32pm On Jan 02, 2015
Datsme:
JonaTAN Thieves! When we say they r clueless, sm ppl will b defending d dm. Cn u c, Instead of going for issue based campaign, they were planning rubbish in term of propaganda. Thank God ur cluelessness is a non-infectious disease, nigerians are nw more enlightened so ur plan s dead on arrival. @GMB, baba in 9ice's voice, Mawonran (be looking at dm).
For Fayose, hs reaction should be xpected cos he dont want to loose hs seat bt he cannot escape it. Just like hs 1st term, he shall be impeached again cos no 1 citizen of any state cannot be left for a corrupt n thugery personified individual.

C H A N G E is loadiiiiiiiiiiiiiii94%iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggggggggg
#APC-CHANGE
#SAIBUHARI/OSINBAJO

"Sen. Musilu Obanikoro in his own speech said 3 days after he lost the PDP primary election, that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to him in private which he said was quite unusual of him.
He said Tinubu asked him how much he had spent and that he was ready to give him 2 billion Naira and a senatorial seat from APC in Lagos State. He said he refused the offer and stressed that they could just imagine how smart and clever Asiwaju is."


Bros, a gentle reminder in case you missed this part of the report. Thank you.
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by Amanwulu1(m): 9:47pm On Jan 02, 2015
emmatok:


Somebody should tell Fayose that EKITI is the least developed state in the SW.
Infact Ekiti should not exist as a state.

Fayose cant win LG chairmanship in Lagos.
no need 4 dat na. He's already a chief executive some whr, controlling many lg.

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Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by oduastates: 9:49pm On Jan 02, 2015
Thieves,thugs and idiots
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by bjjbam: 9:53pm On Jan 02, 2015
Thugs on the loose!
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by Alphaoscar: 9:57pm On Jan 02, 2015
See devilish plan? We have been saying this for long that this people are enemy of democracy and some people will come here to spit trash.
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by eleven(m): 9:58pm On Jan 02, 2015
Majikals:
Pdp n apc e warriors, Over too you...don't just star at the post, say something

Nothing much to say. The report if true already shows both parties are planning to rig the election and win by all means possible legally or illegally. APC & PDP are one and the same...Siamese Twins of Corruption.
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by minister2015: 10:03pm On Jan 02, 2015
PGP is fighting a lost battle. Fayose thinks 200,000 he got in ekiti is enough to secure a victory for gej, may be, he is high. kano voting might is 15fold ekiti voting might. useless agbero.
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by duwdu: 10:09pm On Jan 02, 2015
Amanwulu1:
I stopped reading d moment I read sahara Reporter.

Dis cute boy is d representation of d strength of my youth n he is my future. He is much more dan nigerian politics to me. He'll b 2 on monday, plz celebrate him wit me wit ur like or birthday wishes.

Why are you irresponsibly dragging your little, innocent child into partisan politics? Why don't you instead project the child in the Family section of the forum, say, if you must curry/call for sympathy likes?

P34c3
.....
...

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Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by luvmijeje(f): 10:13pm On Jan 02, 2015

He said they could see that Tinubu is the smart type. Senator Obanikoro further said he was the only person that could match Bola Ahmed Tinubu because he said he knew his tactics. He further emphasized that with cash in his hand, Tinubu is nobody.

While Governor Fayose intervened by saying that there was nothing special in Lagos and that he normally visited markets in Lagos every weekend and before the people in the market would recognize him, they would have said so many things in his presence that they won’t know. Govenor Fayose further said he was coming to Lagos to teach people the market approach to sensitizing the people on the need to support PDP and dump APC.

See power trip, they are just finding ways to collect money from Jonathan using Tinubu's name. Thieves.

Governor Fayose underlined that the presidential election was critical, advising that the party should forget about governorship elections and concentrate on the presidential contest. According to him, once President Jonathan was re-elected, everything else would fall into place and the party could declare the governorship candidates of PDP in various States as it likes

After he has won his own election by crook, the party should not bother focusing on governorship election. Selfish guy.
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by adaweezy(m): 10:36pm On Jan 02, 2015
Ekiti kete
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by HzRF(m): 12:01am On Jan 03, 2015
Let me say this again

Itz so cheap that it can buy the cheapest of commodities

Sahara ko kamara ni
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by Etruth: 12:41am On Jan 03, 2015
mcfynest:
This can never be true! angry

Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by fitzmayowa: 12:52am On Jan 03, 2015
eleven:


"Sen. Musilu Obanikoro in his own speech said 3 days after he lost the PDP primary election, that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to him in private which he said was quite unusual of him.
He said Tinubu asked him how much he had spent and that he was ready to give him 2 billion Naira and a senatorial seat from APC in Lagos State. He said he refused the offer and stressed that they could just imagine how smart and clever Asiwaju is."


Bros, a gentle reminder in case you missed this part of the report. Thank you.

Whao now i see why there is so much 'defectees' from PDP to APC, immediately you defect you get 2billion naira and probably a political slot shocked...

And our "incorruptible/messiah" GMB is yoked with people like asiwaju...it might be PDP propaganda though...

But as the saying goes "no fire without a smoke" meaning for every rumour there must be an atom of truth in it...
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by donmalcolm21(m): 12:58am On Jan 03, 2015
I don't belive this SR trash
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by fitzmayowa: 1:00am On Jan 03, 2015
jcflex:
An inaugural meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Southwest was held in Akure on Saturday with the objective of outlining a strategy for winning the 2015 elections in the area, with Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose reiterating the party’s old mantra that the presidential contest is a “do or die” affair.
The returnee-governor said the party must be prepared to use its control of the army and the police, which it currently controls, to ensure victory for President Goodluck Jonathan at next month’s polls.
The meeting was organized by the PDP South-West co-ordinator, Gov. Olusegun Mimiko, who shared the high table with Senitor Iyiola Omisore, Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi, Senator Musilu Obanikoro, Governor Ayo Fayose and various leaders fromthe zone.
Governor Fayose underlined that the presidential election was critical, advising that the party should forget about governorship elections and concentrate on the presidential contest. According to him, once President Jonathan was re-elected, everything else would fall into place and the party could declare the governorship candidates of PDP in various States as it likes
Minutes of the meeting obtained by SaharaReporters shows that some delegates advocated de-emphasizing rallies as campaign strategy, preferring that the PDP should focus on propaganda aimed at tarnishing the image of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari. Some of the delegates wanted to use the media to dent the image of General Buhari.
In that connection, Senator Omisore ex pressed support for the extensive use of propaganda against Buhari, joining Governor Fayose in stressing that the all efforts should be mobilized to win the Presidency because the PDP would be nothing without the presidency.
Mr. Fayose disagreed with the propaganda strategy, describing it as a waste of time. Stressing that attack is the best form of defence, he said that the PDP in general and the South-west PDP should be valiant to face the Tinubus anywhere they are.
He underlined that the PDP cannot afford to lose its control of the police and the
army, which it will without Jonathan being the president.
On Fayose’s description of the presidential election as a “do or die” affair, Gov. Mimiko, obviously aware that the outburst could be used against the PDP, countered that it should not be a “do or die” but rather a “do-and-win” affair.
One of the decisions taken by the meeting was to set up a number of committees, including Security, Contacts, Traditional, and INEC.
The committee on Security is saddled with the responsibility of working with the police and the army. The party leaders also further tasked the students at both the national and regional levels to monitor various institutions and polling booths to make sure that the election goes in favour of President Jonathan.
It was also stated that a national student body had submitted a proposal for a youth conference that will hold in FUTA this month where the South-west students would adopt Jonathan as their presidential candidate.
TEXT OF THE MINUTES OF THE INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH WEST
PDP, HELD ON 27TH DECEMBER 2014
The inaugural meeting of the southwest PDP was held in Akure, at the Government House of the State (Ondo State).
The meeting was organized by the PDP South-West co-ordinator, Gov. Olusegun Mimiko. On the high table were Gov. Olusegun Mimiko, Senitor Iyiola Omisore, Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi, Senator Musilu Obanikoro, Governor Ayo Fayose, a governorship aspirant in Oyo State and various leaders fromthe South-West.
At the beginning of the meeting, the host appealed to all the South-West PDP members and leaders to be united so as for them to be able to gain more votes fromthe zone. And people were given opportunity to give opinion on how they could get more votes forthe presidential election in 2015 and win other positions.
A speaker from Lagos State made a comment that Senator Muslim Obanikoro’s son, Ibrahim Obanikoro, that contested for the position of council chairman in one of the LCDA’s in Lagos State, defeated Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his area but was not given the position.
He mentioned that that they had the key in winning Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and that Asiwaju only claims what he cannot do.
And the speaker further said that they needed the support of the Presidency to do so many things in Lagos State, concerning the forth-coming election.
Also, another speaker from Lagos State emphasized on issue of disbursement of funds for the election.
He stressed that funds were always late for disbursement for elections, so they wanted early disbursement so that they could deliver.
While another speaker from another state said they were happy for the meeting because it would foster peace among the southwest PDP members and that they could move on easily.
A speaker from Oyo State laid emphasis on use of the media and said the party should go more on the media attack on the opposition party (APC). He mentioned that effective use of the media was the weapon being used by APC.
Gov. Mimiko now stated that they made findings of who were the owners of some dailies and that it was discovered that those media outfits did not belong to members of the APC, and thus PDP could equally hijack the media.
A speaker from Osun State that he had told Gov. Mimiko to help them tell the President to use his power and office to quash Ogbeni Aregbesola before the general elections, so that PDP could produce more votes for the President and that the idea of fighting Gov. Aregbesola would be by going to the Court of Appeal which he said could be influenced to remove Aregbesola. So, he urged the honourable leaders of our amiable party to look into the issue of Osun State.
Discussions now moved on to the strategy that would be used for winning the presidential election;
• Delegates present at the meeting discussed more on campaign that they should do less of rallies, instead, they should embark on full campaign with propaganda that would tarnish the image of APC presidential candidate, Gen. Buhari. And part of what should be used use to campaign against Gen. Buhari in Lagos is that he was the one who stopped the Railway metro project of Lagos State 30 years ago, and that instead of Buhari completing the project, he paid the penalty for breaching the contract of the railway metro line project.
• Delegates present laid serious emphasis on using the media to dent the image of the presidential candidate of APC.
Some delegates maintained that the change that the emperor of Bourdillon wanted to change Nig. democracy to totalitarian dictatorship. Members stated that when PDP had no State in the South-west, the President got good votes from the South-west and now that the party has two States, it would be able to win all the other States if the two States in its kitty are well utilised.
Senator Omisore said in his speech that propaganda of any form should be utilised and that all efforts should be mobilized to win the Presidency as without the presidency the party is nothing.
In the speech of Mr. Ayo Fayose, he said propaganda would only waste time and that attack is the best from of defence. He maintained that the party in general and the South-west PDP needed to be valiant to face the Tinubus anywhere they are.
He further said we have the control of police and the army and “I CAN NOT AFFORD TO LOSE MY CONTROL ON POLICE AND THE ARMY” and without Jonathan being the president we will lose the control. Further, he said the presidential election is a do or die affair but Gov. Mimiko quickly countered that it should not be a do or die
affair but rather a do-and-win affair.
Governor Fayose later said they should forget about all governorship elections and concentrate on the presidential election, that once President Jonathan returns, we could be declaring the governorship candidates of PDP in various States as they like, meaning that the Presidential election is very paramount.

As the meeting progressed, leaders at the meeting put Oyo State in focus and maintained that PDP could get more votes for the president there by begging both Chief Alao Akala and Chief Rasheed Ladoja to align their parties with the PDP since they have no presidential aspirant and there is every need to throw out Ajimobi, Amosun with using militant thugs loyal to PDP.

Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi representing Otunba Gbenga Daniel said they PDP on ground in Ijebu side of Ogun State and they were grassrooters and that they could deliver with good resources.

Sen. Musilu Obanikoro in his own speech said 3 days after he lost the PDP primary election, that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to him in private which he said was quite unusual of him.
He said Tinubu asked him how much he had spent and that he was ready to give him 2 billion Naira and a senatorial seat from APC in Lagos State. He said he refused the offer and stressed that they could just imagine how smart and clever Asiwaju is.

He further stated that Cardinal James Odunmbaku (Baba Eto) was almost at the concluding part of decamping to PDP and that he had even concluded with the presidency in Aso Rock before Asiwaju hijacked him back with the position of Director-General of Campaign of Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode.

He said they could see that Tinubu is the smart type. Senator Obanikoro further said he was the only person that could match Bola Ahmed Tinubu because he said he knew his tactics. He further emphasized that with cash in his hand, Tinubu is nobody.

While Governor Fayose intervened by saying that there was nothing special in Lagos and that he normally visited markets in Lagos every weekend and before the people in the market would recognize him, they would have said so many things in his presence that they won’t know. Govenor Fayose further said he was coming to Lagos to teach people the market approach to sensitizing the people on the need to support PDP and dump APC.

Afterall this, the communiqué prepared sequel to which the press was allowed entry into the place for a brief coverage before they were dispersed again. At the end, they set up various committees on such areas as:

• SECURITY
• TRADITIONAL
• CONTACTS
• INEC etc.

Committee on contacts will meet important personalities to canvass them, they mention people like Jimoh Ibrahim in Ondo, the Ogun people mentioned Sen. Anthony Adefuye as part of the personalities to be visited, and many other personalities.

Committee on INEC would monitor various INEC commissioners in various south-west states and try as much as possible to lure them with money to compromise in favour of our great party.

Committee on traditional rulers would meet up all Obas in the southwest for consultation on the presidential election and use financial gratification to lure them as many of them really need stomach infrastructure, according to Governor Fayose.

Governor Mimiko maintained that many of those Obas are actually hungry and with good amount of money they could get them to support PDP. Committee on security is saddled with the responsibility to work with the police and the army.

Leaders of the party further tasked the students at both the National (NANS) and southwest level, state level to monitor various institutions, polling booths and make sure that the election would go in favour of Jonathan.

It was also observed that the National body of student (NANS) submitted a proposal for a youth conference that will hold in FUTA in January where the South-west students would adopt Jonathan as their presidential candidate.

Some leaders also talked about APC’s strategy of deploying 10 persons per polling booth and that they were aware of it and stated that all leaders should task themselves to use councilors in all their various booths.

Lastly, the South-west coordinator said the next meeting that would hold in Ibadan which would involve fund-raising for the presidential election from stakeholders of the PDP south-west and the meeting would be used to shake Oyo once again urging that the Governorship aspirant of PDP to be prepared.

The meeting ended with closing prayer
from a delegate from Ondo State.



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The only picture this report paints, is that 2015 elections will never be free and fair...

Have said it before and am saying it again, nigeria is centuries away from free and fair elections...with this set of politicians...
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by Nobody: 1:53am On Jan 03, 2015
jcflex:
An inaugural meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Southwest was held in Akure on Saturday with the objective of outlining a strategy for winning the 2015 elections in the area, with Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose reiterating the party’s old mantra that the presidential contest is a “do or die” affair.
The returnee-governor said the party must be prepared to use its control of the army and the police, which it currently controls, to ensure victory for President Goodluck Jonathan at next month’s polls.
The meeting was organized by the PDP South-West co-ordinator, Gov. Olusegun Mimiko, who shared the high table with Senitor Iyiola Omisore, Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi, Senator Musilu Obanikoro, Governor Ayo Fayose and various leaders fromthe zone.
Governor Fayose underlined that the presidential election was critical, advising that the party should forget about governorship elections and concentrate on the presidential contest. According to him, once President Jonathan was re-elected, everything else would fall into place and the party could declare the governorship candidates of PDP in various States as it likes
Minutes of the meeting obtained by SaharaReporters shows that some delegates advocated de-emphasizing rallies as campaign strategy, preferring that the PDP should focus on propaganda aimed at tarnishing the image of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari. Some of the delegates wanted to use the media to dent the image of General Buhari.
In that connection, Senator Omisore ex pressed support for the extensive use of propaganda against Buhari, joining Governor Fayose in stressing that the all efforts should be mobilized to win the Presidency because the PDP would be nothing without the presidency.
Mr. Fayose disagreed with the propaganda strategy, describing it as a waste of time. Stressing that attack is the best form of defence, he said that the PDP in general and the South-west PDP should be valiant to face the Tinubus anywhere they are.
He underlined that the PDP cannot afford to lose its control of the police and the
army, which it will without Jonathan being the president.
On Fayose’s description of the presidential election as a “do or die” affair, Gov. Mimiko, obviously aware that the outburst could be used against the PDP, countered that it should not be a “do or die” but rather a “do-and-win” affair.
One of the decisions taken by the meeting was to set up a number of committees, including Security, Contacts, Traditional, and INEC.
The committee on Security is saddled with the responsibility of working with the police and the army. The party leaders also further tasked the students at both the national and regional levels to monitor various institutions and polling booths to make sure that the election goes in favour of President Jonathan.
It was also stated that a national student body had submitted a proposal for a youth conference that will hold in FUTA this month where the South-west students would adopt Jonathan as their presidential candidate.
TEXT OF THE MINUTES OF THE INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH WEST
PDP, HELD ON 27TH DECEMBER 2014
The inaugural meeting of the southwest PDP was held in Akure, at the Government House of the State (Ondo State).
The meeting was organized by the PDP South-West co-ordinator, Gov. Olusegun Mimiko. On the high table were Gov. Olusegun Mimiko, Senitor Iyiola Omisore, Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi, Senator Musilu Obanikoro, Governor Ayo Fayose, a governorship aspirant in Oyo State and various leaders fromthe South-West.
At the beginning of the meeting, the host appealed to all the South-West PDP members and leaders to be united so as for them to be able to gain more votes fromthe zone. And people were given opportunity to give opinion on how they could get more votes forthe presidential election in 2015 and win other positions.
A speaker from Lagos State made a comment that Senator Muslim Obanikoro’s son, Ibrahim Obanikoro, that contested for the position of council chairman in one of the LCDA’s in Lagos State, defeated Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his area but was not given the position.
He mentioned that that they had the key in winning Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and that Asiwaju only claims what he cannot do.
And the speaker further said that they needed the support of the Presidency to do so many things in Lagos State, concerning the forth-coming election.
Also, another speaker from Lagos State emphasized on issue of disbursement of funds for the election.
He stressed that funds were always late for disbursement for elections, so they wanted early disbursement so that they could deliver.
While another speaker from another state said they were happy for the meeting because it would foster peace among the southwest PDP members and that they could move on easily.
A speaker from Oyo State laid emphasis on use of the media and said the party should go more on the media attack on the opposition party (APC). He mentioned that effective use of the media was the weapon being used by APC.
Gov. Mimiko now stated that they made findings of who were the owners of some dailies and that it was discovered that those media outfits did not belong to members of the APC, and thus PDP could equally hijack the media.
A speaker from Osun State that he had told Gov. Mimiko to help them tell the President to use his power and office to quash Ogbeni Aregbesola before the general elections, so that PDP could produce more votes for the President and that the idea of fighting Gov. Aregbesola would be by going to the Court of Appeal which he said could be influenced to remove Aregbesola. So, he urged the honourable leaders of our amiable party to look into the issue of Osun State.
Discussions now moved on to the strategy that would be used for winning the presidential election;
• Delegates present at the meeting discussed more on campaign that they should do less of rallies, instead, they should embark on full campaign with propaganda that would tarnish the image of APC presidential candidate, Gen. Buhari. And part of what should be used use to campaign against Gen. Buhari in Lagos is that he was the one who stopped the Railway metro project of Lagos State 30 years ago, and that instead of Buhari completing the project, he paid the penalty for breaching the contract of the railway metro line project.
• Delegates present laid serious emphasis on using the media to dent the image of the presidential candidate of APC.
Some delegates maintained that the change that the emperor of Bourdillon wanted to change Nig. democracy to totalitarian dictatorship. Members stated that when PDP had no State in the South-west, the President got good votes from the South-west and now that the party has two States, it would be able to win all the other States if the two States in its kitty are well utilised.
Senator Omisore said in his speech that propaganda of any form should be utilised and that all efforts should be mobilized to win the Presidency as without the presidency the party is nothing.
In the speech of Mr. Ayo Fayose, he said propaganda would only waste time and that attack is the best from of defence. He maintained that the party in general and the South-west PDP needed to be valiant to face the Tinubus anywhere they are.
He further said we have the control of police and the army and “I CAN NOT AFFORD TO LOSE MY CONTROL ON POLICE AND THE ARMY” and without Jonathan being the president we will lose the control. Further, he said the presidential election is a do or die affair but Gov. Mimiko quickly countered that it should not be a do or die
affair but rather a do-and-win affair.
Governor Fayose later said they should forget about all governorship elections and concentrate on the presidential election, that once President Jonathan returns, we could be declaring the governorship candidates of PDP in various States as they like, meaning that the Presidential election is very paramount.
As the meeting progressed, leaders at the meeting put Oyo State in focus and maintained that PDP could get more votes for the president there by begging both Chief Alao Akala and Chief Rasheed Ladoja to align their parties with the PDP since they have no presidential aspirant and there is every need to throw out Ajimobi, Amosun with using militant thugs loyal to PDP.
Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi representing Otunba Gbenga Daniel said they PDP on ground in Ijebu side of Ogun State and they were grassrooters and that they could deliver with good resources.
Sen. Musilu Obanikoro in his own speech said 3 days after he lost the PDP primary election, that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to him in private which he said was quite unusual of him.
He said Tinubu asked him how much he had spent and that he was ready to give him 2 billion Naira and a senatorial seat from APC in Lagos State. He said he refused the offer and stressed that they could just imagine how smart and clever Asiwaju is.
He further stated that Cardinal James Odunmbaku (Baba Eto) was almost at the concluding part of decamping to PDP and that he had even concluded with the presidency in Aso Rock before Asiwaju hijacked him back with the position of Director-General of Campaign of Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode.
He said they could see that Tinubu is the smart type. Senator Obanikoro further said he was the only person that could match Bola Ahmed Tinubu because he said he knew his tactics. He further emphasized that with cash in his hand, Tinubu is nobody.
While Governor Fayose intervened by saying that there was nothing special in Lagos and that he normally visited markets in Lagos every weekend and before the people in the market would recognize him, they would have said so many things in his presence that they won’t know. Govenor Fayose further said he was coming to Lagos to teach people the market approach to sensitizing the people on the need to support PDP and dump APC.
Afterall this, the communiqué prepared sequel to which the press was allowed entry into the place for a brief coverage before they were dispersed again. At the end, they set up various committees on such areas as:
• SECURITY
• TRADITIONAL
• CONTACTS
• INEC etc.
Committee on contacts will meet important personalities to canvass them, they mention people like Jimoh Ibrahim in Ondo, the Ogun people mentioned Sen. Anthony Adefuye as part of the personalities to be visited, and many other personalities.
Committee on INEC would monitor various INEC commissioners in various south-west states and try as much as possible to lure them with money to compromise in favour of our great party.
Committee on traditional rulers would meet up all Obas in the southwest for consultation on the presidential election and use financial gratification to lure them as many of them really need stomach infrastructure, according to Governor Fayose.
Governor Mimiko maintained that many of those Obas are actually hungry and with good amount of money they could get them to support PDP. Committee on security is saddled with the responsibility to work with the police and the army.
Leaders of the party further tasked the students at both the National (NANS) and southwest level, state level to monitor various institutions, polling booths and make sure that the election would go in favour of Jonathan.
It was also observed that the National body of student (NANS) submitted a proposal for a youth conference that will hold in FUTA in January where the South-west students would adopt Jonathan as their presidential candidate.
Some leaders also talked about APC’s strategy of deploying 10 persons per polling booth and that they were aware of it and stated that all leaders should task themselves to use councilors in all their various booths.
Lastly, the South-west coordinator said the next meeting that would hold in Ibadan which would involve fund-raising for the presidential election from stakeholders of the PDP south-west and the meeting would be used to shake Oyo once again urging that the Governorship aspirant of PDP to be prepared.
The meeting ended with closing prayer
from a delegate from Ondo State.
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Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by Datsme: 10:24am On Jan 03, 2015
eleven:


"Sen. Musilu Obanikoro in his own speech said 3 days after he lost the PDP primary election, that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to him in private which he said was quite unusual of him.
He said Tinubu asked him how much he had spent and that he was ready to give him 2 billion Naira and a senatorial seat from APC in Lagos State. He said he refused the offer and stressed that they could just imagine how smart and clever Asiwaju is."


Bros, a gentle reminder in case you missed this part of the report. Thank you.

I read d whole report so I missed no part of it. On ur mention, I wil say dt s Politics for u if u dont know n if u v any contrary opinion u cn share it for us to learn
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by Datsme: 10:25am On Jan 03, 2015
eleven:


"Sen. Musilu Obanikoro in his own speech said 3 days after he lost the PDP primary election, that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to him in private which he said was quite unusual of him.
He said Tinubu asked him how much he had spent and that he was ready to give him 2 billion Naira and a senatorial seat from APC in Lagos State. He said he refused the offer and stressed that they could just imagine how smart and clever Asiwaju is."


Bros, a gentle reminder in case you missed this part of the report. Thank you.
Re: Governor Fayose Explodes: Presidential Contest A Do-or-die Affair by jcflex(m): 10:33am On Jan 05, 2015
This is information is for the wise only !!!

Are You Aware?
• That Skye Bank Plc Chairman, Chief Tunde Ayeni
bought Nigeria's moribund M-TEL/NITEL for
$252M?
Are You Aware?
• That Skye Bank Plc Chairman, Chief Tunde Ayeni
bought the Ibadan (PHCN) Disco Distribution?
Are You Aware?
• That Skye Bank Plc Chairman, Chief Tunde Ayeni
donated a whopping N2Billion to President
Goodluck's re-election fund on Saturday 20th
December?
Are You Aware?
• That President Goodluck Jonathan just after 2
days of receiving # 2B donation from Skye Bank
Plc chairman, has approved
increase in tariff of PHCN?
......
Its unfortunate that people who supports Jonathan
misrule to continue thinks they are doing Buhari
harm. The only harm being done is to themselves
and every other Nigeria.
By 2019, our country would have been completely
sold to the highest bidder and nothing will be left
for the honest and hard-working Nigerians.
If you hate Buhari because he is a Muslim, at least
look at his Vice, he is a Pastor.
If you hate Buhari because he doesn't have a
"Primary Six certificate", as some are claiming,
look at his Vice, he is a Professor of Law.
If you fear that as a formal military leader, Buhari
may have the tendency of not upholding the rule of
law, then look at his Vice, he is a distinguished
Lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
Even if you think Buhari has nothing to offer, he
cannot be as hopeless corrupt and harmful to
Nigerians as Jonathan's Government.
You have no reason to allow this corrupt
administration to continue till 2019 when you can
booth them out now.

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