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ATIKU DECAMPS FROM APC

Read statement of resignation below:

Statement of resignation of His Excellency Atiku Abubakar (Waziri Adamawa) Vice President of Nigeria, 1999-2007 from the All Progressives Congress

On the 19th of December, 2013, I received members of the All Progressives Congress at my house in Abuja. They had come to appeal to me to join their party after my party, the Peoples Democratic Party, had become factionalized as a result of the special convention of August 31, 2013.

The fractionalization of the Peoples Democratic Party on August 31, 2013 had left me in a situation where I was, with several other loyal party members, in limbo, not knowing which of the parallel executives of the party was the legitimate leadership.

It was under this cloud that members of the APC made the appeal to me to join their party, with the promise that the injustices and failure to abide by its own constitution which had dogged the then PDP, would not be replicated in the APC and with the assurance that the vision other founding fathers and I had for the PDP could be actualized through the All Progressives Congress.

It was on the basis of this invitation and the assurances made to me that I, being party-less at that time, due to the fractionalization of my party, accepted on February 2, 2014, the hand of fellowship given to me by the All Progressives Congress.

On that day, I said "it is the struggle for democracy and constitutionalism and service to my country and my people that are driving my choice and my decision" to accept the invitation to join the All Progressives Congress.

Like you, I said that because I believed that we had finally seen the beginnings of the rebirth of the new Nigeria of our dreams which would work for all of us, old and young.

However, events of the intervening years have shown that like any other human and like many other Nigerians, I was fallible.

While other parties have purged themselves of the arbitrariness and unconstitutionality that led to fractionalization, the All Progressives Congress has adopted those same practices and even gone beyond them to institute a regime of a draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy within the party and the government it produced.

Only last year, a governor produced by the party wrote a secret memorandum to the president which ended up being leaked. In that memo, he admitted that the All Progressives Congress had "not only failed to manage expectations of a populace that expected overnight ‘change’ but has failed to deliver even mundane matters of governance".

Of the party itself, that same governor said "Mr. President, Sir Your relationship with the national leadership of the party, both the formal (NWC) and informal (Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso), and former Governors of ANPP, PDP (that joined us) and ACN, is perceived by most observers to be at best frosty. Many of them are aggrieved due to what they consider total absence of consultations with them on your part and those you have assigned such duties."

Since that memorandum was written up until today, nothing has been done to reverse the treatment meted out to those of us invited to join the All Progressives Congress on the strength of a promise that has proven to be false. If anything, those behaviours have actually worsened.

But more importantly, the party we put in place has failed and continues to fail our people, especially our young people. How can we have a federal cabinet without even one single youth.

A party that does not take the youth into account is a dying party. The future belongs to young people.

I admit that I and others who accepted the invitation to join the APC were eager to make positive changes for our country that we fell for a mirage. Can you blame us for wanting to put a speedy end to the sufferings of the masses of our people?

Be that as it may be, after due consultation with my God, my family, my supporters and the Nigerian people whom I meet in all walks of life, I, Atiku Abubakar, Waziri Adamawa, hereby tender my resignation from the All Progressives Congress while I take time to ponder my future.

May God bless you and may God bless Nigeria.

Atiku Abubakar
Waziri Adamawa

Released by:
Atiku Media Office
61, Ebitu Ukiwe Street
Jabi
Abuja
Nigeria.
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Source:www.atiku.org

No surprises here.

Nigerian politicians are some of the most unprincipled and shameless lot anywhere in the world.

Especially this Atiku fellow.

Tueh!!!

If a man was found not guilty and acquitted of a crime after a 12 year trial, shouldn't he be reinstated back to the role from which he was suspended for the duration of his sentence?

What's with all the emotions. The law is blind. The same courts that set this man free also found another 2 guilty of the crime and sentenced them to die.

Paying the man what was due him for the duration of his trial is only fair and should be encouraged.

wiseEast:
President Buhari ordered lgwe Achebe, the Obi of Onitsha, to come down to Awka Anambra state capital, and receive him. He refused.

� Obi of Onitsha lgwe Achebe ordered Buhari to come down to Onitsha, and pay homage to him as the traditional ruler, or go to hell. Buhari refused.

�� APC reacted in anger, and saw Achebe's behaviour as an insult to the office of the President.

�����Thank you Obi of Onitsha lgwe Alfred Achebe for redeeming the lgbo pride.���������

All Igbos Are Biafrans

The way you people spew lies with confidence amazes me.

But what is more amazing is the huge number of gullible people who lap up the lies without questions.

irepnaija4eva:
Call your headmistress and teachers and ask for a refund..

Your teachers were actually correct and whoever wrote that stuff you posted is wrong.

Both e.g and i.e are abbreviated Latin phrases.

E.g = exempli gratia = "for example"

I.e = Id est = "that is"

This is an ok song.

I like the fact that he seems to be moving away from the traditional P Square sound to create his own unique vibe.

He is a great show man with his awesome dance skills. Plus he is an averagely good singer. If he can't write songs, he is rich enough to hire good writers.

At the end of the day, both brothers are better off together because they complement each other. But apart, they will both do very well on their own.

teresafaith:
The only thing I see here is a jealous scorned woman, who didn't believe the guy was going to get someone way better than her.

If you are truly a woman, I hope one day, someone "way better than you" steps in, disrupts your marriage and snatches your man. I also hope other women like you mock you because the only thing they see will be a jealous scorned woman who did not believe her guy could get someone way better than you.

I really do not see anything wrong with empowering these small scale business men.

Bottom line, they have been impacted by government, they are gainfully employed and are not constituting a menace to society.

Better than spending millions buying wheelbarrows in the name of youth empowerment.

[quote author=TheTrueSeeker post=62286892]No this should be investigated and if found true then the Minister should be sacked and arrested. The Governor has the right of way in his state.


This is an insult and an affront on the good and peace-loving people of Rivers State






Those journalist should pls give us their own unbiased version as I just saw a different version claiming it was CRA that escaped assassination attempt



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vixc36YFUZg





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeUYh3jsHws[/quote

This news reporter just read out the statement issued by Governor Wike's media aide word for word.

Does anyone have an unbiased report of what truly transpired in Poor Harcourt today?

johnnyvid:
Reno Omokri, ex-aide of former President Goodluck Jonathan, has criticised the government of President Muhammadu Buhari for publicising the overseas medical treatment approved for Alex Ekwueme, former vice-president.



The presidency had announced that Buhari directed that the ailing former vice-president be flown abroad for medical treatment, but Omokri took an exception to the publicity, accusing the president of attempting to score “cheap political point”.



Omokri said the overseas treatment was Ekwueme’s right and went on to say former President Goodluck Jonathan during his time in office purchased bullet-proof cars for Buhari without announcing it.



Reno in a Facebook post wrote “treatment abroad is a right of an ex-vice president. President Muhammadu Buhari didn’t do Ekwueme a favour. President Goodluck Jonathan purchased bulletproof vehicles for Buhari without announcing it. It is only a petty and shallow administration eager to score cheap political points with a sick man’s health that announces that the President has given the man his due!".

source:http://www.pressnewsng.com.ng/2017/11/jonathan-bought-you-car-without.html

Yeah it wasn't announced. Yet it somehow found its way all over the newspapers and TV stations.

Mtchewwww!

There was absolutely nothing wrong with Shehu Garba's press release about the "approval" for ex VP Ekwueme's treatment abroad. I find the mass hysteria over the issue unnecessary.

If the announcement hadn't been made, this same Reno omokri and his ilk will find a way of spinning a social media maelstrom about how PMB refused to approve adequate treatment for the ex-VP because of his hatred for Igbos.

Like the Speaker rightly informed them, they can only howl. Makes no difference what their personal or collective beef with the President is. They do not have any constitutional right to prevent the President from addressing them on a matter of national importance as the proposed 2018 budget.

He isn't coming to visit them in their personal houses but at the chambers of the National Assembly on an official matter and in his capacity as President and Commander in Chief.

The blame has always being on the Presidency for delaying the budget with final approvals usually coming mid way into the new year. This is an attempt to present the budget so that Nigeria can finally have a financial year that starts in January and ends in December like it should be. How and why this has become a negative development to attract this kind of push back from the National Assembly and derision on social media beats me.

President Buhari's leadership has left a lot to be desired. But where an effort is made at getting something right, it deserves commendation and not condemnation.

The outrage should rather be at these brood of lazy, no good Senators and Reps collecting millions of naira monthly and refusing to let the President present the budget to them simply because they do not want anything that will interfere with the usual long vacation they plan to take during the Yuletide.

Nigerians!

The only people on the earth that find a problem for every solution.

SMH!

Chukwudi4naija:
Another zombie on the loose. Why did he not act on the warning immediately as 'a man of integrity. Maybe this public embarrassment would have been avoided before the revelation by Premium Times Newspaper.

I don't know why he did not act immediately on the "warning" as a "man of integrity" that he is. But it is good that he acted after the news broke. He could have chosen to ignore like other President's before him and the heavens wont fall.

When they goof, criticise. But when they do right, have the decency to commend. They (government) are human too. Don't be so fixated on the negatives.


PS. Try not to respond to otherwise civil posts with a personal slur like the emboldened. It doesn't make you look very intelligent and detracts from your contributions. Eschew the hate. It kills silently and slowly.

dre11:
http://punchng.com/buhari-aware-of-mainas-reinstatement-i-warned-him-hos/

3 letters starting in January 2017 and the last in April 2017.

You verbally "warned" the President after FEC meeting on the 11th of October, 2017.

Please clap for yourself Madam for the good job.

Chiedu4Trump:
I know but we hope that by the grace of God, dem eyes go open one day.



My point is that our blessings are in Jesus and no more us keeping the law of tithing.
Tithing is not wrong but tithing to get blessings from the law means Jesus is not enough.

We have gone back to tithing out of gratitude & not necessity.

Jacob said if he is achieves his goals he will tithe, so it's out of gratitude & not to obtain something from God.


Genesis 28(KJV)
20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God:

22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

So u can see it's npw gratitude and no more a source



Spot on, its the belief that its the way to blessings that is wrong.
Thereby making the tithes not Jesus the Source of our blessings, now this is very wrong



Again I agree with you, so making it the focal point is satanic.
taking the focus off Jesus.


I wont say it were that important, if it were it would not just show up in a yabbing of the Pharisees.

Jesus would have exhorted the virtues of tithing too, if it were that important

My post wasn't really countering yours.

The impression I just needed to correct was one that seemed to be saying that because Jesus did not receive tithes, it means he outlawed it for believers under the new covenant.

I also feel this general perception that ALL pastors preach about tithes to the neglect of other vital aspects of the gospel is an over generalisation. Charlatans exist and have always existed; even in the days of Christ. He particularly warned against false preachers who would emerge in the last days. he warned that they would preach a perverse version of the gospel that would be so real that even the elect could be deceived into believing these false doctrines.

Seems to me that because of the activities of these charlatans, there is an overt attempt by the enemy to rubbish the church and list tithing as one of the false doctrines that Christ preached against.

Preaching about tithing does not a fake pastor make.

Chiedu4Trump:

DaddyFreeze, here are biblical reasons why tithing for blessings are wrong.



If you expect God to help you becos of your tithes, you are offending Jesus,and are why..

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Joshua conquered all because of God's blessings NOT tithes.


Deuteronomy 11:25
There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the Lord your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

Now Our Blessings are in Jesus not Tithes.
Noitce it says ALL not some

Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:


So choose which is better, money or Jesus


The Law does not make anybody perfect!
Heb 7:19
For the law made nothing perfect!

What makes us perfect before God is the sacrifice Jesus made for us.

Colossians 1:28
Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom;
that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

If tithing could get you favor with God or save us, Jesus would not have died.

QUESTION
What do you think carries more weight in heaven?

The Blood Jesus shed for you and I

Matthew 26:28
For this is my blood of the new testament,
which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

OR

The tithes you pay?

Remember that the Silver & Gold already belongs to God.

Haggai 2:8
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.



In fact believing that things will work because your tithe means;
you are saying to God that the sacrifice Jesus paid is not good enough and you need to add more to it.

And the bible is clear that all our blessings are in Jesus Christ and not our tithes.
Notice it says ALL!
So everything we want Jesus has paid for it, so tithes cannot get it.

Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

So the law of tithing does not bring favor.


[b]Now a quick question, did Jesus collect tithes?[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]
The only time it's menitoned in the New Testament is to yab the Pharisees.

Apart for that once, tithes was never mentioned again in the New Testament.

So why do pastors make you put your faith in ur tithes & not Jesus?

Answer is simply, GREED
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There is no mention of Jesus collecting tithes. But there is also no where he outrightly condemned it either.

The only time Jesus directly mentioned the tithe, he was tongue-lashing the pharisees in Matthew 23 vs 23:

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former."

Notice that he was chiding them because, much like these days, some of them paid tithe only because they believed it was a way to "buy" God's blessings while neglecting the true essence of righteousness in God. Notice here that he urged them to practice the "latter" (Justice, mercy and faithfulness" as well as the "former" (tithing).

No one will go to hell because they did not tithe but it is an important and vital aspect of being a Christian. But it is a decision that should be made without compulsion as SOME pastors tend to do. There are a lot of churches out there (a large majority actually) however, that preach about the virtue of tithing but also take the pain to let the flock know that it should be done right or not at all.

life2017:
A rejoinder to this post on front page

https://www.nairaland.com/4145670/81-buharis-100-appointees-northerners

Many of us saw the headline created by the newspaper and just Jumped into comments without looking at the fact before us.

The same newspaper published the 100 names and thier region. Did anyone bother to count it before commenting?

Looking through the list published, the number of Northerners was about 64, number of Southerners about 32 and with about 4 unconfirmed regions.

We should say things as it is. It is already lopsided. Why inflate it even more?

Note: In my counting Kwara, Benue and Kogi are counted as North. If we discount those 3 states from the and call them neutral region it will be about 57 Northerners, 32 southerners, 7 neutrals and 4 unconfirmed.

Not to mention that there are some deliberate mix-ups if you look carefully enough.

For instance, number 27 and number 71 are the same name repeated twice.

Seems like the only drama this woman involves herself in in recent times is on Instagram and other social media. I haven't seen her in any recent movies.

She needs to get over her bitter divorce and move on with her life. She needs to channel her energy into something more productive than attention whoringon social media.

I see nothing wrong with Timi Dakolo's post. He is a Christian and speaking from the perspective of God's expectation of a "Christian's" marriage.

Let me paint a scenario. If you walk into a room accepting that that is the room you will leave in for life with no exit doors, would you not endeavour to make that room as comfortable as possible? Regardless of the challenges you face in that room, you will work them out or adjust to them with patience and equanimity.

A few year's ago, i watched a movie called The Life of Pi. It was a story about a little boy that was castaway on a small canoe with a wild Bengal Tiger after escaping a ship wreckage. Drifting at sea and with the knowledge that he would be the tiger's meal as soon as it got hungry, the movie chronicles how Pi patiently and tenaciously built a relationship with the tiger, ensuring that they both survived until they returned to land. the only reason he went through all of that pain was the realization that he had no where else to go. There was no escape so he either found a way to live on that small canoe with this hungry tiger, or jump into the sea; or worse still end up in the belly of the tiger.

There is a proverb that says that with patience, even a stone can be cooked. Successful marriages are built on a bedrock of love, patience, endurance and long suffering. At various points within the marriage, you will need all or any of these virtues to keep the relationship going.

But once you walk into that marriage with an exit strategy already mapped out, it is only a matter of time before you use the exit doors you have created for yourself. When that happens, it doesn't really matter how many times you tell or try to paint yourself as the "innocent victim". Bottomline is that you have failed.

Contrary to popular belief, marriages last where the parties seek out ways of improving and adding value to the other. if you do not have that understanding, then do not get into it.

SalamRushdie:
Why will he arresst his friend

I hope you realise the person in the picture you posted isn't Maina.

That is Alhaji Alhassan Doguwa, the chief whip of the House of Reps.

lightblazingnow:
https://newsdiaryonline.com/query-head-of-service-beats-deadline-submits-maina-report-to-abba-kyari/amp/

The President needs to leverage this opportunity to put his house in order by dealing RUTHLESSLY with whosoever is indicted for this unholy act.

The President should not be seen to be pussyfooting around these heinous acts of sabotage perpetrated by "trusted" members of his in-house crew of personal aides and hangers-on.

Emperoo:
Source- http://punchng.com/buharis-sack-of-maina-an-afterthought-fayose/

Better late than never.

People like Fayose wish that PMB had ignored the public outrage and retained Maina so they will continue to have a reason to criticise him. PMB cut short their sick desire yet again by taking urgent steps to correct what is obviously a clandestine move by some members of his kitchen cabinet. The President should go further to identify these fifth columnists within his government and weed them out before they destroy the little goodwill that he has left.

For people like Fayose and his ilk, criticism isn't done with any altruistic reason. Rather, their aim is to always gain political mileage from every misstep of the government.

I wish the President can also move with this same urgency on other pending cases of corruption by other members of his kitchen cabinet like Babachir and Oke.

morereb10:
Presidential aide on social media, Lauretta Onochie has lashed out on Femi Fani-Kayode, former aviation minister, for describing President Muhammadu Buhari as a “closet radical Islamist and Christian-hating mass murderer and salafist.”

Fani-Kayode on Sunday, October 22, shared a tweet where he said President Buhari was and I quote; “Christian-hating mass murderer.” Reacting through her Twitter handle, Onochie asked the former minister to get a life since the IPOB he was allegedly using as a tool to fight the government was no more.

Sharing Fani-Kayode’s post, she tweeted:

“There’s life after IPOB. get a life, Femi Fani-Kayode! “Igbo traditional leaders, south east governors, Igbo opinion leaders and even His Royal Cluelessness, ex-pres. Goodluck Jonathan, have all denounced your boy, Nnamdi Kanu and his idea of Biafra.

“It’s over. Go to rehab, clean up and get a life. Thank you. You are a Christian. Your are also a criminal.”

Editor's Note:

Frankly, I am indeed disappointed of how Nigeria government has degenerated to this kind of stupidity. Even if former government officials are bent on throwing tantrums, (which is what they are suppose to do as opposition parties) does that make the incumbent government stupid?

How can this lady be insulting an ex president of this country Goodluck Jonathan officially? Yes he can be insulted on social media and other places by the citizens but not through official channels and her words are too harsh. She can insult FFK, I don't care but an ex president? He is not his mate for God sake.

What do you think guys?

more @ http://www.exlinklodge.com/2017/10/presidency-mocks-ffk-ex-pres-jonathan.html

Like FFK, no one takes Lauretta Onochie seriously. She and FFK are cut from the same cloth. Both have gutter mouths and cut no punches when it comes to engaging in social media rofo rofo fight.

Decent and rationale folks generally ignore them because if you decend to their level, they will mess you up.

What if it is fake? What if a mischief maker just laid hands on a blank receipt for the church and wrote "deliverance fee" on it?

Some churches run bookshops. Some run creches and schools. Some offer other commercial services that require them to give out receipts to customers.

The churches do a mighty lot of good in our societies and I do not think it is fair to discountenance the good they do just because of a few bad eggs among them.

Even in the days of Christ, there were quacks who attempted to pervert his gospel for personal gain. That's why as a Christian, you are admonished to work out your salvation and test every word against the word of God (the Bible).

Priscy01:
This is savagery of the highest order!!! So because a neighbour of this lady refused to pay his electrical bill but always puts on his generator every time, she decided to play a fast one on him!

According to her, she poured salt inside the fuel tank of his generator , unknown to the gentleman, upon returning from work, he decided to put on his generator but had a mechanical fault instead.

His generator broke down and so, both the man and his evil neighbour will be left in darkness leaving the latter justified.

She shared on Twitter;

News From; http://www.torimill.com/2017/10/just-poured-salt-inside-my-neighbours.html

Errrr...she actually just confessed to committing a crime.

I wish the guy would see her tweet and press charges against her. At best, she will end up buying him a new generator.

NaijaEfcc:
http://saharareporters.com/2017/10/15/buhari-belongs-northerners-south-west-regrets-voting-him-adebanjo

Absolute nonsense!!

Not holding fort for the President but he may have said that because of the situation in the Northeast.

The link below is to all current and past World bank projects in Nigeria. A simple examination will show that all of the projects in Northern Nigeria from 2015 to date are all aimed at the "Northeast" as a way of ameliorating the impact of the Boko haram scourge in that zone (apart from the Kaduna one that is a KDSG initiative).

http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/nigeria/projects/all?qterm=&lang_exact=English&os=0

I am sure the FG and the World bank president will soon issue another statement clarifying his statement seeing the furore it has generated.

crackerspub:


I LOVE KANU


WHEN HE IS AROUND THEY TALK ABOUT HIM


WHEN HE CASTRATED IN PRISON, THE MEDIA WAS ALL OVER HIM


NOW HE DECIDED TO GO UNDERGROUND, THEY ARE STILL MASTURBATING ABOUT HIM

Errrrr...."CASTRATED"?

Oh you mean "INCARCERATED"?

sunnyb0b0:
The attached message went viral 3 days ago and today, the Nigerian govt through the Army went on said medical outreach without first dispelling such rumour and sensitising the public and you expect people to allow their wards take such vaccines?

Incompetence is written all over this government.

But monkey pox isn't even fatal and no one has died from it. Sheer ignorance and abuse of social media.

oikirodah:
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said on Monday that all it required to award a contract was the approval of the Tenders Board and not the minister’s endorsement.

The Corporation said in statement that the clarification followed the publication of alleged lack of adherence to due process in the award of contracts by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, in his August 30 letter to President Muhammadu Buhari.

The minister had claimed that “several major contracts were never reviewed or discussed with him and the NNPC Board.”
https://www.ireporteronline.com/kachikwus-allegations-baseless-need-buharis-approval-award-contracts-nnpc/

This headline does not quite capture what the GMD said in his comprehensive response to the allegations raised in the Minister's memo.

All these half baked news blogs that peddle fake news should be sanctioned.