₦airaland Forum

FreeGlobe: OPC would have been more appropriate. Why are this folks confused.

Muhehe muhehe
What do you expect from a gang led by two(Buhari and Tinubu) people with very different extreme criminal agenda

AnitaMandy: If it's true then I think APC are not fit to lead. They couldn't secure their name how then do they propose to secure the country. So if I decide to go to INEC now and steal this their new name They would change from ADC yet again. Maybe this time they would adopt ALC - African Labour Congress. lol

You may have spoken too soon my dear cos we may soon learn that another serious association has indeed forwarded their application to INEC to be registered as ADC,thereafter the whining losers will start all over again;they and their naive followers on nairaland

Maxymilliano: Thought Lai Muhammed was threatening fire and brimstone If INEC refuses to register the All Progressives Congress, APC, when all the legal requirements have been met? According to him, "the protest in Tahrir Square in Egypt will be a child’s play compared to what we will do at the Eagle Square,”

Why not go ahead with the threat if truly they have a legitimate claim instead of working out a plan B?

Dont mind the empty barrel,bereft of any iota and capacity for political strategy.
Alas,I have seen someone intellectually emptier than Wada Nas and yet more loquacious

Kamanda: You are Evil amd a Fraud.

Keep whining,we will see how many votes it will get you and your lazy,incompetent,unstrategic and unserious noise-making political idols

^^^
Please define strong,improved and better

Instead of those clowns in the CPC and ACN (forget about Okorocha,he doesnt know what he is doing and will be thrown under the bus in due time) to do the important things such as nam,e registration with INEC,they were busy squabbling over whether to use the picture of a broom or that of a weeping Buhari as their logo.

OK na,let them dissipate their energy on logos,while the real politicians do what is right

Threat to APC: PDP, ACN, CPC in war of words

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor

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LAGOS — The parties in the fledgling All Progressive Congress, APC, were last night engaged in a war of words with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over alleged plans by the ruling party to sabotage their merger.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, were furious over what they claimed to be plans by the PDP to sponsor the registration of a new party to be known as the African Peoples Congress, APC.

The new political association with the same acronym with the mega opposition party, it was alleged, is being sponsored to deny the mega opposition party registration before the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The PDP in a reaction denied the claim, saying it would not be held liable for the negligence and incompetence of the merger parties it described as “our grossly inferior opponents.”

The plan by the opposition political parties to merge into APC ran into trouble on account of the proposal for the registration of another party to be known as the African Peoples Congress. The sponsors of the new party could not be identified last night.

Registration remains open —INEC

INEC officials contacted on the matter, yesterday, said registration remained open to either of the two parties which first met its conditions for registration.

Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr. Kayode Idowu, confirmed that the commission received a proposal for the registration of the African Peoples Congress, APC, last week but would not confirm the identity of the sponsors.

Asked of the implications, Idowu said the fate of the two proposals would depend on the provisions of the law.

He said: “What the law requires is that if a group applies and the law has already provided for things to be met, like a checklist, it is not a matter of INEC cherry picking or preferences. There is a checklist and once a group meets that checklist, any group that meets that checklist is registered with that name.”

Asked if two parties could bear the same acronym, Idowu said:
“That is what I said, I doubt it, I doubt it, but the point I am making is that it is an application and whoever meets the conditions first gets registered.”

ACN, CPC finger PDP

The ACN and the CPC were, however, not hesitant in identifying the PDP as sponsor of the new party which they claimed was being pushed as a deliberate effort to deny their mega party registration.

“If INEC refuses to register the All Progressives Congress, APC, when all the legal requirements have been met, the protest in Tahrir Square in Egypt will be a child’s play compared to what we will do at the Eagle Square,” the ACN’s national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said in a statement, yesterday.

“We say this because we are aware that the PDP, which is mortally afraid of the rise and rise of the APC, is behind the phantom African Peoples Congress which has applied to INEC for registration, in an effort to instigate an acronym crisis and give INEC a reason, if it needs any, not to register the All Progressives Congress.

“But we will like to warn that if indeed INEC has not merged with the PDP, as one of our leaders, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has brilliantly said, then we do hope that the electoral body, which by the way is not unaware of the All Progressives Congress as the authentic APC, will not succumb to the evil machinations of the apprehensive PDP.

“It is a PDP plan in collusion with INEC but we will not take it lightly with them and all their plans will come to nothing. Indeed, we are very much aware of that and it won’t work, it will fail. We are just watching the INEC as an umpire to check them.

“We have already given indication and the whole world has heard us that we are APC and if they are trying to bring in another APC it won’t work.”

PDP denies allegations

But denying any involvement of the PDP in the alleged plans, the party’s national publicity secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, told Vanguard, yesterday: “The PDP is totally unaware of the status of the APC registration. We are unconcerned and completely unperturbed. In the words of our Board of Trustees’ chairman ‘we wish them well’.

“PDP cannot be held liable for any negligence and/or incompetence on the part of our grossly inferior opponents.”

The legacy parties in the APC announced their plans for merger on February 6, 2013 and forwarded a formal letter to INEC to that effect on March 6.

Mohammed was, however, insistent last night that INEC had a constructive knowledge of their proposal since last month when they made their intentions known.

Yerima’s arrest, move to clamp down on opposition

The ACN, meanwhile, has flayed Saturday’s arrest of Senator Ahmed Yerima, describing the action of the security agencies in Kaduna as a demonstration of the administration’s plans to clamp down on the opposition.

The party’s spokesman, Mohammed in a statement said the arrest of Senator Yerima for alleged incitement was indicative of the fact that the administration is jittery.

The party said Senator Yerima did not say anything extraordinary by threatening a protest, because protests are an integral part of liberal democracy and cannot be wished away or banned by anyone.

The party said it expects more arrests, investigations by anti-corruption agencies and other acts aimed at intimidating its leaders in the weeks and months ahead, but warned the Federal Government to make sure it had enough prison space to accommodate those it plans to arrest.

Mohammed said: “After all, it is generally believed that the recent redeployment of Police Commissioners in the states was done in readiness for the pre-2015 clampdown on the opposition.

“We know the arrest of Senator Yerima is just a tip of the iceberg, as the PDP-controlled Federal Government gets ready to bare its fangs. But we must warn that fascism can never prevail over liberal democracy.’’


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/threat-to-apc-pdp-acn-cpc-in-war-of-words/

rusep: Because Buhari has no house in Abuja?

Is it anybody's fault that all the money Buhari looted from the petroleum ministry and from PTF,he preferred to channel towards furthering the cause of Islamic extremism?

This APC contraption will blow up in the faces of the dreamers that constitute it

What arrant impudence,oh so the north is not only content with producing the party's flagbearer,they still want to dictate to the south west Tinubu and his ACN gang,who they should present for the VP slot.!!!

I wait to see who they will first of all nominate as their presidential flag bearer,the wahala will start when the weeping general aka serial losing contestant aka Buhari is not chosen,he will decamp from that arrangement,Tinubu will most definitely want to foist his man Friday on the APC as their presidential flag bearer as that,in his calculation,is the only way he waill have access to loot the federal treasury he has been salivating over all these years.

Like I said earlier,it will all blow up in their faces cos GEJ will still be President Nigeria till 2019.

He looks so cool in the all whiate attire
Carry on Mr President,let the haters hate and go home and be depressed

Saw it once in Japan and I couldnt stop wondering,,,,,,

Happy birthday sir,irrespectiove of your very strange and off-point comments about the polity

They keep incoporating broom in their logo.Pray tell,what does the broom signify?
Let no brainwashed ignoramuses sermonise about using the broom to cleanse anything cos the inner caucus of ACN needs more cleansing than any other person or group of persons in Nigeria

That said,what's in a logo anyways,whether a logo showing broom o,or the one showing Buhari in tears,it wont count for anything when the chips are down

Talking about Buhari,mark my words,the serial contestant will break away from the APC either in the last quarter of 2014 or very early on in 2015.The reason for this is the deep-seated distrust that exists between him and the arch-criminal and ACN/APC leader ; Tinubu,who has his own treasury-looting intentions for floating APC,so he will most likely want to field a presidential candidate that would give him unfeterred access to the treasury and be his man Friday.Buhari doesn't fit this bill,his life ambition is how to wreck other people's businesses,grind economic growth to a screeching halt,scare away FDI,sponsor and lead political terrorism and cause religious riots while attempting to turn Nigeria to a sharia state,Tinubu knows that Buhari is bad news for all,so he wont support the weeping 'General'

ROSSIKE: Without Boko Haram we would have been the fastest growing economy on earth and No 1 global investment destination. Boko Haram just means we're down to 3rd or 4th.

The MAIN reason the Nigerian economy is attracting international interest on this scale is better economic management by the federal government allied to an expanding middle class with ready disposable income, and a relatively young population.

So we have Africa's largest middle class, a highly educated and entrepreneural population of 170 million, world class oil and gas reserves to fuel development, basic but growing infrastructure, stable govt system and laws, a reasonably independent judiciary, a highly developed banking system. So we have what it takes to attract global interest and move to the next level.

Well done
Faultless submission,you're a true son of your father.Here's my biz card,call me sometime

MINT

Well done team GEJ on the success (so far)of the transformation agenda.


There's more to be done,the power sector reform must be seen through 100%,the aerotropolis project must be totally implemented(all dubious airport concessions should be cancelled,especially Bi courtney's that has a clause that specifies that for 36 years,no other airport should be developed in the whole of Lagos state,whilst Wale Babalakin smiles to the bank with whatever services his firm forces down our throat).Reforms in the agric,petroleum/energy sectors must move to the next gear.What of the rail projects,they are so many to mention,but I call on concerned MDAs to deliver on Mr President's transformation mandate as it affects their MDAs

Buhari Can’t be Champion of Democracy, Says Wayas

Second Republic Senate President, Dr. Joseph Wayas, Sunday declared that former military Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 elections, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, cannot parade himself as champion of democracy,
Wayas, who fielded questions at a personality programme on the Kaduna-based Liberty Radio, said Buhari, as someone, who terminated the Second Republic through a military coup, does not have the credentials of a democrat.



“I have nothing personal against Gen. Buhari, but I cannot equally reconcile certain things in my mind, that is, is Buhari the man to champion democracy?

“That is the question I ask myself and I will answer it and say no, because he dethroned democracy for a military dictatorship and after doing that how sincere will I count on him, this is not the place for one to say everything.
“Am very serious and without painting anybody black I believe that certain people play certain role, he is not the only military man, there are others and they have not come out to tell us that they want to champion democracy, I believe that he is carrying something in him that he cannot be a champion of democracy,” the former senate president stated.



According to him, “the action of the military to sack democracy took Nigeria back many years, I don’t really know their reason because am yet to see any of us that were the pioneer leaders then flaunting any serious wealth to day.”

He accused foreign powers for always using corruption stories on African leaders to blackmail young nations and undermine their democracies.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/buhari-can-t-be-champion-of-democracy-says-wayas/140514/

Hot air,hogwash,very very empty noise
There was NEVER an agreement and the Minna mallam knows this too well,except he has forged one
What happened then at the meeting with the governors was that they asked GEJ to give them his word)especially Babangida Aliyu and Murtal Nyako)that he would not seek a second term,GEJ kept mum,it was Tony Anenih that stood up and said "Yes he will not seek a second term".Now everybody knows that cannot be taken as anything concrete,how much more to be referred to a "signed" agreement by GEJ
Mallam Alihu please spare us

2015
Bigger trenches will have to be dug

Origami III: Tinubu was wealthy long before he became a governor.
He was a top management executive staff at SPDC.
He was an ex-senator and a major financial backer of NADECO during abacha's dark era.
Tell me do you become a governor and become poorer?Pls be sincere to appreciate good things in pple rather than running them down with hate comments.

I wish you could hear yourself
Your post is one of the most unfortunate summations I've seen this year
SMH

chukkynwob: Have you confirmed or rebated this accusation before bashing it as propaganda? if you have an idea the number of human lives that go through that bridge everyday,you first thought should be let us invite an independent contractor of unbiased repute to reassess the bridge.

In engineering its safety first before politics.

You have not still answered my question,tell me when this so-called independent assessment was carried out,cos I have people who ply that bridge on a daily basis and they never noticed any body carrying out any assessment of any sort,or did Tinubu and Ashafa carry out the assessment as they drove through??

Which rule of scavengers?
Is it PDP that has been governing Lagos,Borno,Kebbi,Anambra etc for the whole of the past twelve years
So who gets to save Lagos from Tinubu and his other scavenging gang

He told newsmen at a briefing later, that an independent assessment showed that repair works carried out in October 2012 by the Ministry of Works did not meet the required standard.
“Repair works embarked upon during the last quarter of 2012 by the Ministry of Works, were just mere window dressing on the expansion joints.
“A recent report by some experts in concrete structural engineering found out that the last repairs that were done at the end of October did not meet the entire requirement. The experts went back after those remedial actions were taken and came back with the report that something has to be done urgently.

Pure hogwash intended to pooh-pooh the repair work done by an opposition government
Pray tell,who and who carried out the independent assessment on the bridge after the repairs,when did they do it,in the midnights of some days.
I wonder when Tinubu and Ashafa became experts in concrete structural engineering.

Utter balderdash of a propaganda

chicfarmer: @ rasputinn

That is why most loans go bad. How can a genuine business
pay interest of 20% flat every month? At that rate the
business would have paid back the original sum
in five months and still have the principal outstanding. No
financially enlightened person would take such a deal.

Interested lenders can still contact me for further discussions.

I understand your sentiments,but that is the harsh reality out there.So many "financially enlightened people" have taken and would continue to take such deals.Have you heard of being between the devil and the deep sea?
The world is not fair,but I wish you good luck in your quest

@Angel investors in the house
You might want to contact chic farmer and take a look at his proposal,he isn't asking for much

^^^
Honestly I dont think financiers will find your 6% flat interest rate attractive enough.Some of them have been known to ask for 20% flat or even more PLUS some form of collateral security which must be worth three times the amount you are asking for.
The only exception is if you just stumble into an investor that just wants to assist you irrespective of.I hope you do stumble into such an investor

braine: that man aint remaining in that office after 2015.

Jonathan WILL REMAIN in office beyond 2015 if the best candidates you guys can present to run against him are losers like Buhari/Bakare,jokers like Kris Okotie/one of his broads or political nonentities like Ribadu/what was the other fellow's name

I'm not surprised at Buhari's opportunistic rant.He so often tries to politicise every incident and shamelessly seeks to profit therefrom,however and unfortunately for him,the more he tries,the more uncaring,unempathic,hard-hearted and wicked he reveals himself to be and the more his desperation for power shows

Uyi Iredia: The one I pity out of the lot is Chris Okotie.

Why do you pity him?
INEC has just saved him from himself and you pity him?

FXKing2012: na lie, wey d pix?

FXKing2012: na lie, wey d pix?

Look well before you post,it's there.
BTW,must you need see a pix,why is your name not Thomas?

Has Airhiabere not disgraced himself enough
What is the Edo chapter of the PDP waiting for?they should expel him already for dragging the name of the party in the mud.I dont know him well enough,but I know Adams,even personally,that aside he is doing a good job in Edo state.I also watched part of their debate prior to the election;my deduction then;Airhiabere will be a bad governor;A VERY BAD ONE.Therefore I'm not completely surprised at his judicial misadventure to the electoral tribunal,appeal court and supreme court.The state chapter of the PDP should deal him the sucker punch of expulsion from the party.Enough of this madness

Nice one
I hope the government will provide the enabling environment and give them all the necessary support needed to improve on this achievement
Kudos to all the guys involved in this

lagcity: Only an experienced election rigger can be so sure that Buhari will never be president. If you are part of the PDP rigging machine, I URGE YOU not to press your

So if I say Buhari CANNOT win 2015 election,that automatically makes me an election rigger.This is the most unbelievable baloney,malerky and crap I've heard this year.

Where are you from mister?With all of Buhari's anti-democratic baggage,you still see him smelling presidency?well I know the electorate is wiser now,even more than they were in 2011,Buhari is unelectable.Any party that presents that religious bigot and tyrant as their presidential flag bearer would just have comitted political hara kiri

Another act of crying wolf where there is none by ACN's propaganda secretary

In any case,even if that were to be the case,if there's no dirt to be dug up,then I advice them to fret not.

This is no freaking rocket science,Ayatollah Bin Buhari wants presidential powers to amongst other stupid dreams of his;
(1)Push for the islamisation of Nigeria
(2)Kill free enterprise by regularly invading retail/wholesale shops and selling off their wares at below auction prices
(3)Of course he needs presidential powers to be able to kill more corpers on national assignment

The man is bereft of ideas,he knows not the first thing in a democratic government,this is why it gladdens my heart that Buhari will NEVER rule Nigeria again.

Somebody told the story of his birth,why some people chose to post comments loaded with hate for the revered pastor is just unfathomable.If envy is the reason,well there's nothing the simpletons can do about it for they will NEVER in their lifetime achieve a tenth of what this man has achieved.

Again,he just told the story of his birth,he didnt make a political statement,neither did he even say or do anything to warrant the senseless attack on his person here on this thread.I'm sure he doesn't visit this forum,but I hope he stumbles on this thread so he can pray God to forgive all you unfortunately envious lot