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etenyong:
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has refused to hang the official portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari at the party’s national secretariat, checks by The PUNCH have revealed.

Over 100 days after the President assumed office, the PDP has yet to hang his portrait at any of the offices in its Wadata House national secretariat, located at Zone 5, Abuja.

The party has also said it would never put Buhari’s portraits on its walls though it has removed that of the former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who ruled on the platform of the PDP.

“We will never hang his portrait in this office, because President Buhari is not known to our party. He is not a leader of our party and therefore we will never put his portrait here. We are a political party, very partisan and therefore, we are not going to hide that,” National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, told our correspondent on the telephone on Tuesday.

Jonathan was also the presidential candidate of the former ruling party during the last general election but he was defeated by Buhari, who was the presidential candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress.

The defeat was the first to be suffered by the PDP since the return of democracy in 1999.

Before now, the party has always been hanging the portraits of all the Presidents at the party’s reception area as well as the National Executive Committee and National Working Committee halls within the secretariat.

Metuh said the APC also did not hang the portrait of Jonthan in its offices before the former President was defeated in the March 28 election.

“Can you find out if the APC had the portrait of former President Jonathan in their office before he was defeated? That is just it,” he told our correspondent.

When asked whether the party was taking its own pound of flesh, Metuh said no but that since Buhari “is not a member of our party, we won’t put his portrait here.”

The APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Lai Mohammed, expressed shock at Metuh’s comment.

“This is ridiculous and we have no comment. Let Nigerians judge the PDP on this matter,” Mohammed said.

He said the PDP spokesman had a shallow understanding of the concept of opposition politics.

Meanwhile, work has stopped at the new secretariat of the PDP, located in the Central Business District, Abuja.

Investigations by our correspondent indicated that contractors handling the project were only doing skeletal jobs at the site.

When our correspondent visited the site on Tuesday, there was no visible job being done at the site.

It was gathered that the cost of the project was put at N11.5bn when it was awarded some years ago. At completion, the building is expected to have 12 floors, with two other floors serving as the car park.

The party had claimed that the project was being financed from levies and contributions from members.

When a fund-raising dinner was organised a few years ago, the party was able to realise about N5bn, and the project, which started more than four years ago, was to be delivered in 126 weeks.

The former National Chairman of the party, under whose leadership the project commenced, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, had then said that the complex, when completed, would strengthen the capacity of the PDP to discharge its role effectively in Africa.

The party had claimed on January 5, 2015 that it was going to spend part of the N21.8bn it realised from the party’s fund-raising on the party’s secretariat.

A former Minister for Information and the Chairman of the party’s Fund-raising Committee, Prof. Jerry Gana, had said the money donated to the PDP was not meant for the campaign of the defeated Jonathan alone.
www.punchng.com/news/well-never-hang-buharis-portrait-in-our-offices-pdp/

They should be arrested for treason.

These are fake pastors who use the pastor tag to hide their criminal identities: Rapist should be flogged on their dicks.

wellmax:
Source: http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/08/pdp-is-an-ijaw-party-if-dickson-loses-apc-will-mock-me-and-my-wife-jonathan/

This Jonathan keep promoting tribalism! PDP is an ijaw party! And some people want to die for him & PDP.

ebubemicky:
Thanks to ALL MIGHTY GOD nd thanks to our gallant soldiers

Laughing in Swahili

Fani the big mouth, since you ain't in power means something is satanic?

Khd95:
C as Dem b

You can say that again.

dainformant:
Former President Goodluck Jonathan received a host of PDP Governors who paid him a solidarity visit in his country home at Otuoke, Bayelsa state. The governors who visited include: Chairman PDP Governors Forum, Olusegun Mimiko, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and the host Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson. Four Deputy Governors represented their governors.

http://www.nationalhelm.com/2015/09/wike-mimiko-and-other-pdp-governors.html

Why is wike looking angry? Just saying.

debris:
Crazy people everywhere

You can say that again

Every tribe in Nigeria have very intelligent people but our number one problem is corruption; some highly placed Nigerian like quick money at the expense of the organizations they work for eg a procurement guy bring in substandard equipments because of kickback, HR guy recruiting expatriates instead of capable Nigerians so as to be relevant in his place of work, staff inflating prices etc, all this make employers of labour to seek for foreigners as they tend not to trust most Nigerians.

We are all humans and I don't think any business owner is investing in a business to run at a loss, if we can all change our negative attitudes then things will definitely change for the better. I believe we all read of Nigerians eg Yorubas, Igbos and others making great strides in every country they work and are resident? They even win international awards. Nigerians are doing well in nuclear physics, medicine, literature, art, music etc all over the world; our other problem is our government who do not stand up to their responsibility, how can you recruit a foreigner to occupy a position a Nigerian can easy fit in? For example Saudi & Ghanaian government don't allow companies to employ foreigners to occupy positions their citizens can occupy but in Nigeria, evey dick and harry who ain't even experts are employed to occupy positions qualified Nigerians should occupy.

Futher more, many of us are also part of this problem as we prefer to buy foreign products even products that Nigeria is known to produce very standard quality eg. Electric cables, fabrics just to mention a few. We say if it ain't imported then it ain't good.

In conclusion, Laughing in Swahili; we are all guilty of this one way or the other.

hansad:
The day people like you in Yoruba land understand that entire Yoruba land should have developed by far more than what it is today if Oduduwa Republic stands on its own, the better for Yoruba land. Nigeria is a hindrance to development for all in Nigeria.

Thanks for your comment.

AfroKnight:
No. Our leaders are smart but corruption makes an intelligent man look stùpid.

True talk.

EasternLionn:
Enyia ijikwa ahu, what rubbish is this?

Pls go buy agbo and cure yourself.

Truth is bitter and as such you can type your gibberish and continue to eat your kolanut while stepping down with your local palm wine; I have lived in the east and there ain't anything you can tell me about your people that I don't know. Omugo buruku omo olori Pele be.

forgiveness:
It is a big fat lie that we produce nothing but due to the fact that the government is not really serious about local production hence this ignorance. Nigeria produces: Wears( Shoes, bags, belt, suit and shirts), cars, pharmaceutical,aw furniture, art etcetera.

Importing inteligence! That one be like say na true ooo!

Not true bro, I work in a multinational which consists of a lot of expatriate staff but I was next in line to one before; but by God grace and hard work, I now head that department and I have expatriates working under me. We need to know that every country in the world have intelligent/people with low intelligence, all humans have different level of intelligent quotient and we just have to develop ours. Nigerian are said to be one of the most intelligent people in the United States & to a larger extent the world: this is based on research made in the US.

EasternLionn:
That is why they made sure almost all companies in East were closed all these years.

E don be for zoo.

That's not true as Igbos are not accommodative and they are the most tribalist people on earth; How would a company grow in the east when you lack expertise in certain skills and instead of you to fill those positions with people who are experts from other tribes, you prefer putting an Igbo man in that position. America is number one today due to she bringing diverse group of people into America to work to develop the United States economy, do people think American visa lottery is for free? Any country that keep hatting will never develop likewise haters association world wide.

Chiaka:
Rape is very predominant there also!

7 times higher than what we have in Nigeria.

yang:
The zoo called Nigeria is a criminal enterprise

United by the blood of Biafrans, genocide killing of Biafrans and the Stolen oil crude from all the communities where crude oil can be found

THE ZOO MUST FALL

The zoo imports tin tomatoes and palm oil

Monkeys and Baboons everywhere in the zoo

Ordinary ranting.

Burger01:
Useless woman.

Imagine the arrest of election card reader IT expert around election time. I mean, was the guy a terrorist? What's the business of DSS in election matters

She should join Jonathan and mama piss in Otuoke brewing illegal ogogoro

Really, Jonathan was a mistake never to be repeated. NEVER!

They even demanded for the codes from him!

ChrisOD:
Plus ode! Things fall Apart, the most widely read and translated book globally from Africa is about Igbo culture

Nollywood watched by millions around the world is more or less about Igbo

Mumu! The first book written in Igbo is written by a Yoruba named Ajayi Crowther. You people can't even write your language until a Yoruba man thought you how to do so. Just get a life.

steppin:
She looks fragile. For her to have attained to this level, she must have gone through a lot of crap.

She might have gone through double the stress a guy go through to get to that level.

Guyman02:
South West and North deceived the people of Niger Delta for years telling them that their enemies were the suffering people of South East their Igbo neighbours, meanwhile we have come to realise that Igbos are not our enemies after the last elections but the West and North divided us in order to rule us with propaganda.


"PIB Debate: North Controls 83% of Oil Blocks"
by Henry Umoru and Joseph Erunke

"Abuja - Chairman Senate Committe on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to revoke and re-allocate oil blocks, saying that the northerners control 83 percent of the Oil blocks in the country. He also revealed that eminent Nigerians benefit from the distribution of the Oil blocks. He named late President Umaru Yar'Adua; former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; the Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero; former Minister of Petroleum Dr. rilwanu Likman; former Minister of Defense (1999 - 2003) and Chief of Army Staff (1975 - 1979), General Theophilus Danjuma. Others are Alhaji Aminu Dantata; Col, Sani Bello; Alhaji Mai Deribe from Borno State; Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi; Alhaji Saleh Gambo; Mike Adenuga; Yinka Folawiyo (Folorunsho Alakija worth $2.5 billion and Femi Otedola etc).

------ Vanguard News Thursday March 7, 2013

"PIB Debate: North Controls 83% of Oil Blocks"
by Henry Umoru and Joseph Erunke.

----- Vanguard News Thursday March 7, 2013

"I Made $500m From Oil Block, but didn't know how to Spend it - Danjuma."

----- Punch News Thursday February 18, 2010.

"Halliburton Scandal: Report says Abdulsalami, Etiebet, Bayero got $50m"

----- Daily Independent Newspapers Wednesday April 21, 2010.

"N27 bn Halliburton Scam IBB, Abdulsalami, Diya, 77 Others Indicted"

---- Daily Independent Newspapers Thursday April 15, 2010.

"Abdulsalami's Firm named in Failed Power contract of N19 bn"

------ Vanguard Newspapers Friday March 14, 2008.

"Nigerian Leaders Stole $380 bn"

----- BBC News Friday 20 October 2006.

Refineries in Warri and Portharcourt were fixed by Diezani under Jonathan administration. Buhari could not have done a thing in just 2 months. Stop the lies.

"Who is going to fight corruption? The APC people or Obasanjo? They only pay lip service to fighting corruption. Buhari himself is not clean. What is corruption? Malpractices, parading questionable certificates, swearing to false affidavit, they are all part of corruption. And in the 1970s when Buhari was federal commissioner for Petroleum, about $2.8 billion Oil money went missing. It was later discovered that this amount was paid into a British Bank where it yielded about $400 million interest. Nobody knows where that money is. Buhari said he did n't know about it. He was appointed by Abacha as chairman of PTF, my own brother Prof. J.P. Clark was a member. In fact only prof. J.P. Clark and Buhari are still living members of PTF. Buhari brought his brother-in-law as a consultant and later handed over the entire administration of PTF to him and others. They had the authority to execute all projects. At the end of it all, they left and Obasanjo dissolved the board and removed all of them. Then Obasanjo set up a Commission of Enquiry to probe the PTF and the report, which had just been published by some newspapers, shows that N25 billion could not be accounted for by Buhari and those who administered the place. Yet Obasanjo came out to say the only thing he found against him was that instead of building roads and houses, he was busy buying mosquito nets with PTF money."

------ Edwin Kiagbodo Clark Vanguard News Sunday February 22, 2015.

"'Some $30 billion dollars was reportedly earned from Oil during the Babangida years (1985 - 1993). There was in particular the 12 billion dollars Oil windfall earned from 1991 Gulf War. Where did all these huge sums of money go? The most visible answers are some of the multi-billion-dollar white elephant projects around the country. According to Okigbo the handling of the special projects accounts by the Babangida regime was a "gross abuse of public trust."'

-- This Day Newspapers Saturday September 16, 2000.

"...even as Nigeria's oil revenues have soared: in the course of Obasanjo's eight-year tenure, Nigeria earned $223 billion, two and a half times the amount earned over the previous eight years. But thanks to kleptocracy and rampant graft, much of the money has not gone where it should have....Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) estimates that the country has wasted $400 billion since 1960."

----- Jean Herskovits, Former CIA Officer on African Affairs in "Foreign Policy", a United States Journal, August 2007.

"Has the former President (Obasanjo) forgotten that he wasted $16.5 billion dollars on power during his tenure and that $16.5 billion dollars was never accounted for?"

------ Rowland Owie, Former Senate Chief Whip, 1979 - 1983 --- Vanguard News Thursday November 6, 2014.

"The resultant effect of this shoddy approach to National Development was an unmitigated disaster and a colossal los of a whopping sum of nearly 16 billion dollars" .

---- Ameh Ebute Senate President 1993 --- Vanguard News Tuesday October 21, 2014.

"Abacha Served Nigeria Well, say Buhari, Abdulsalami. He did not loot treasury, Babangida declares."
From Adamu Abuh (Kano) and Kodilinye Obiagwu (Lagos)

---- Guardian Newspapers Monday June 9, 2008.

"Abacha Loot: Switzerland has returned $700 m to Nigeria"

---- Vanguard Newspapers Wednesday December 5, 2012.

"US Freezes $458 m Stolen by Nigeria Dictator Abacha"

---- Vanguard News Wednesday March 5, 2014

"State of Jersey to Return 315m Pounds Abacha Loot to Nigeria."

---- Vanguard News Wednesday December 3, 2014..

But you allied with your Igbo brothers and see where it lead Jonathan who instead of seeing himself as the President of Nigeria after his over convincing 1st term election victory went to the east and started shouting at the top of his voice that Igbos are the back bone of his administration. The North & the West even voted for him then but he only praised the east! The same corrupt Jonathan kept traveling all over the west to meet mostly 3rd class Obas for Yoruba support thinking Yoruba's don't know their right from their left; Though Obas are well respected in Yoruba land but they can't force Yorubas to vote for anyone. People in the west vote based on who they think will meet their expectations. Let haters Keep hating & see where it will get them.

Guyman02:
South West and North deceived the people of Niger Delta for years telling them that their enemies were the suffering people of South East their Igbo neighbours, meanwhile we have come to realise that Igbos are not our enemies after the last elections but the West and North divided us in order to rule us with propaganda.


"PIB Debate: North Controls 83% of Oil Blocks"
by Henry Umoru and Joseph Erunke

"Abuja - Chairman Senate Committe on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to revoke and re-allocate oil blocks, saying that the northerners control 83 percent of the Oil blocks in the country. He also revealed that eminent Nigerians benefit from the distribution of the Oil blocks. He named late President Umaru Yar'Adua; former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; the Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero; former Minister of Petroleum Dr. rilwanu Likman; former Minister of Defense (1999 - 2003) and Chief of Army Staff (1975 - 1979), General Theophilus Danjuma. Others are Alhaji Aminu Dantata; Col, Sani Bello; Alhaji Mai Deribe from Borno State; Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi; Alhaji Saleh Gambo; Mike Adenuga; Yinka Folawiyo (Folorunsho Alakija worth $2.5 billion and Femi Otedola etc).

------ Vanguard News Thursday March 7, 2013

"PIB Debate: North Controls 83% of Oil Blocks"
by Henry Umoru and Joseph Erunke.

----- Vanguard News Thursday March 7, 2013

"I Made $500m From Oil Block, but didn't know how to Spend it - Danjuma."

----- Punch News Thursday February 18, 2010.

"Halliburton Scandal: Report says Abdulsalami, Etiebet, Bayero got $50m"

----- Daily Independent Newspapers Wednesday April 21, 2010.

"N27 bn Halliburton Scam IBB, Abdulsalami, Diya, 77 Others Indicted"

---- Daily Independent Newspapers Thursday April 15, 2010.

"Abdulsalami's Firm named in Failed Power contract of N19 bn"

------ Vanguard Newspapers Friday March 14, 2008.

"Nigerian Leaders Stole $380 bn"

----- BBC News Friday 20 October 2006.

Refineries in Warri and Portharcourt were fixed by Diezani under Jonathan administration. Buhari could not have done a thing in just 2 months. Stop the lies.

"Who is going to fight corruption? The APC people or Obasanjo? They only pay lip service to fighting corruption. Buhari himself is not clean. What is corruption? Malpractices, parading questionable certificates, swearing to false affidavit, they are all part of corruption. And in the 1970s when Buhari was federal commissioner for Petroleum, about $2.8 billion Oil money went missing. It was later discovered that this amount was paid into a British Bank where it yielded about $400 million interest. Nobody knows where that money is. Buhari said he did n't know about it. He was appointed by Abacha as chairman of PTF, my own brother Prof. J.P. Clark was a member. In fact only prof. J.P. Clark and Buhari are still living members of PTF. Buhari brought his brother-in-law as a consultant and later handed over the entire administration of PTF to him and others. They had the authority to execute all projects. At the end of it all, they left and Obasanjo dissolved the board and removed all of them. Then Obasanjo set up a Commission of Enquiry to probe the PTF and the report, which had just been published by some newspapers, shows that N25 billion could not be accounted for by Buhari and those who administered the place. Yet Obasanjo came out to say the only thing he found against him was that instead of building roads and houses, he was busy buying mosquito nets with PTF money."

------ Edwin Kiagbodo Clark Vanguard News Sunday February 22, 2015.

"'Some $30 billion dollars was reportedly earned from Oil during the Babangida years (1985 - 1993). There was in particular the 12 billion dollars Oil windfall earned from 1991 Gulf War. Where did all these huge sums of money go? The most visible answers are some of the multi-billion-dollar white elephant projects around the country. According to Okigbo the handling of the special projects accounts by the Babangida regime was a "gross abuse of public trust."'

-- This Day Newspapers Saturday September 16, 2000.

"...even as Nigeria's oil revenues have soared: in the course of Obasanjo's eight-year tenure, Nigeria earned $223 billion, two and a half times the amount earned over the previous eight years. But thanks to kleptocracy and rampant graft, much of the money has not gone where it should have....Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) estimates that the country has wasted $400 billion since 1960."

----- Jean Herskovits, Former CIA Officer on African Affairs in "Foreign Policy", a United States Journal, August 2007.

"Has the former President (Obasanjo) forgotten that he wasted $16.5 billion dollars on power during his tenure and that $16.5 billion dollars was never accounted for?"

------ Rowland Owie, Former Senate Chief Whip, 1979 - 1983 --- Vanguard News Thursday November 6, 2014.

"The resultant effect of this shoddy approach to National Development was an unmitigated disaster and a colossal los of a whopping sum of nearly 16 billion dollars" .

---- Ameh Ebute Senate President 1993 --- Vanguard News Tuesday October 21, 2014.

"Abacha Served Nigeria Well, say Buhari, Abdulsalami. He did not loot treasury, Babangida declares."
From Adamu Abuh (Kano) and Kodilinye Obiagwu (Lagos)

---- Guardian Newspapers Monday June 9, 2008.

"Abacha Loot: Switzerland has returned $700 m to Nigeria"

---- Vanguard Newspapers Wednesday December 5, 2012.

"US Freezes $458 m Stolen by Nigeria Dictator Abacha"

---- Vanguard News Wednesday March 5, 2014

"State of Jersey to Return 315m Pounds Abacha Loot to Nigeria."

---- Vanguard News Wednesday December 3, 2014..

But you allied with your Igbo brothers and see where it lead Jonathan who instead of seeing himself as the President of Nigeria after his over convincing 1st term election went to the east and started shouting at the top of his bout that Igbos are the back bone of his administration. The North & the West even voted for him then but he only praised the east! The same corrupt Jonathan kept traveling all over the west to meet mostly 3rd class Obas for Yoruba support thinking Yoruba's don't know their right from their left; Though Obas are well respected in Yoruba land but they can't force Yorubas to vote for anyone. People in the west vote based on who they think will meet their expectations.

This ain't true! The hospital staff calling them after she had been discharged saying she gave birth to slippers! To me, all the hospital staff present should be arrested so that they can get to the root of the matter, but how come she didn't hear a baby cry if she actually gave birth to one? Also, it ain't easy to discharge a woman who just gave birth that quick. Something is amiss with this delivery.

Dharniel:
waiting to see that loud mouth, fayose's asset...

Fear go fear fesr if fayose mistakingly declare his true assets.

hubs:
Someone should be please let this lady know Reggie Rockstone is a married man. Just checkout how she was intentionally enticing Reggie with her buttocks.
Apparently, the wife was also around and so maybe she give her the go away to do that.
Lets just hope it doesn’t lead into something else. more photos >>> http://rangeblogz..com/2015/09/this-is-another-sodom-and-gomorrah.html

Reggie is a Ghanian and this most have happened in Ghana probably in one of Reggie's bar or club.

Now let see how corrupt politicians especially PDPfraud members will escape probe & probably imprisonment; shebi they were holding meetings with Jonathan with the aim of presenting forged documents to counter probe panel report. Thank God they now have all the time to defend themselves.

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freedom96:
The sleeping governor see his eyes abeg I just don't know how rivers voted this man into power...anyway na them sabi...they now have a "guavanor"

Chicken eyes no be open eyes.

obinnajr:
NEKWANU AKUKO


AND APC HAS BEEN FOOLING YORUBA PEOPLE SINCE 1759

And Igbo people have been losers since 971BC.

PDP is a party with no good direction except direction for looting.

mikeapollo:
I hope the same Alaafin will pay homage and show respect to the new Ooni when he is eventually crowned and installed.

In Yoruba culture and tradition, the Ooni is superior to the Alaafin, any day! Adeyemi better learns that fast

Alafin is superior to Oni if you talk about Yoruba history but Oni became very popular in modern day Yoruba land and also due to ife being the cradle of Yoruba civilization.

agarawu23:
How I wish I can be the next king of Ife

Haters ganna hate but I will still make them my abobaku .

If you hate me, you have No choice than to die with me

We all love billions