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Arase confirmed as IGP

on May 12, 2015 / in News 4:18 pm / Comments

By Ben Agande, Abuja.

The Police council this afternoon confirmed Solomon Arase as the substantive Inspector General of Police.
Mr Solomon Arase Acting IGP

Mr Solomon Arase IGP

The confirmation came shortly after the council of state meeting when the Police council met under the chairmanship of president Jonathan.

The new IGP who spoke with state House Correspondents after meeting with President Jonathan promised that no Nigerian would suffer injustice under his watch.
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What goes around comes around,
the same Bode George that was supporting Fayose in asking for Muazu,s head is now kicking against the
removal of his boy.

Bode George kicks as Lagos PDP sacks chairman
May 12, 2015 : Eniola Akinkuotu



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Chief Bode George

Chief Bode George

There was drama at the secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos on Monday as 34 out of the 39 members of the State Working Committee sacked the state chairman of the party, Capt. Tunji Shelle (retd.).

The members, who were escorted to the premises by a team of policemen, appointed the vice chairman of the party in charge of Lagos-Central, Mr. Kamaldeen Olorunoje, as the acting chairman.

However, in a swift reaction, the leader of the PDP in Lagos, Chief Bode George, said those behind the ‘charade’ would be sanctioned for anti-party activities.

The secretary of the party, Mr. Wahab Owokoniran, who read out 14 allegations against Shelle, accused him of mismanaging the campaign funds of the party and taking some decisions that were detrimental to the party.

He said, “He (Shelle) unilaterally rendered the party structure inactive before, during and after the 2015 elections without the approval of the state executive committee.

“Funds were allocated to various party members and officials according to his wishes instead of seeking the approval of the SWC.”

Shelle was also accused of “surrendering the responsibility of the party to an interest group within the party during the elections.”

The SWC accused Shelle of sidelining the treasurer and the state secretary (Owokoniran).

The committee accused Shelle of manipulating the outcome of the party’s primaries last year which, they claimed, ultimately affected the performance of the party at the polls.

Owokoniran said for instance, the lawmaker representing Mushin constituency 1, Mr. Dauda Kako-Are, who was a member of the All Progressives Congress, wanted to defect to the PDP but Shelle prevented him from defecting, causing the lawmaker to contest on the platform of the Accord Party. Kako-Are went on to win the election.

In his acceptance speech, Olorunoje said he would look into the cause of the party’s poor performance before the local government election.

As the conference ended, some irate youths demonstrated outside the secretariat, chanting protest songs.

The youths, led by one Shamsideen Lawal, vowed not allow the new chairman and his team to function.

George told our correspondent on the telephone that the members of the SWC had no power to remove Shelle.

George said the members of the SWC would be sanctioned for anti-party activities.

He said, “They definitely will be sanctioned. It is like trying to do a coup, which definitely has no constitutional backing, and you fail. They will be sanctioned for anti-party activities.”

George said only the National Executive Committee had the power to remove a party chairman. He added that Owokoniran was only an acting secretary and thus had no power to call such a meeting.

George said the SWC should be praising Shelle for leading the PDP to its best performance in Lagos State. He added that the party needed to be more united than ever as it had a strong case at the Election Petitions Tribunal.

Shelle, in a text message sent to our correspondent, denied the allegations levelled against him. He said his removal was comical, adding that it was null and void.

nwafuluozoh:
Why is Obasanjo's son not among them. He should be tried for desertion.
As soon as the coward sighted Boko haram he took to his heels (as onye ofe) and got a bullet in his buttocks.
All he knows is to talk from all corners of the mouth like his father.

Bitterness kills faster than bullet.
Even if OBJ had wronged you but not his son,
so stop wishing the young man that risked his life for Nigeria evil

Prodigal son!

I hope he will not deny it later in the day.
Don't 4get your case is still in electoral tribunal.

saTANoids!

You said so

gratieao:
Buhari will give Tinubu Awolowo treatment.

Awo betrayed the Igbos to please his slave masters, who later turned the heat on him. Northerner leaders’ve given prominent Yoruba men an overdose of humiliation that will last them a life time despite using them to fight the civil war.


Did Awo die a fulfilled man? NO ……the Hausa Fulani whose interest he severed during the civil war sent him to grave. Jakande was used by IBB to rope Awo into treasonable felony …Awo later committed suicide.

Stop fabricating and spreading lies.
May God heal you of bitterness.

kettykings:
Tinubu will end up in Jail very soon for treason,it is just a question of time.

For supporting CHANGE?
saTANoid,you better face the reality that Nigeria has changed for good

Propaganda of enemies and haters of progress .
Your evil wishes will not come to pass.

Patience are you still there?

How leaders impoverish the populace through corruption.

For d love money is a root of all evil

Jona,don finish Nigerians with bribe.
All these so called nollywood stars that were campaigning for him were just enriching themselves with Jona's campaign fund.
I know a lot shall be revealed after May 29th

If you report an offender or lodge a complaint at d station,you must pay something,if you are taking to d station for anything whatsoever either guilty or not guilty you must pay something.
The biggest business centre in Nigeria where they make much money but sell no commodity is Nigeria Police Stations.
In fact being a police in Nigeria is a license to extort money from citizens,licensed AGBERO.
GMB,you must do something because this institution called Nigeria Police need urgent CHANGE

Why are you deceiving us?You know that bail is not free at police stations in Nigeria.
Mr I.G,all what you are saying and doing recently are P.R stunts ,you know that nothing is free when dealing with Nigerian Police.

Oliseh vs Fayose = full revelation of Ekitigate
I can wait to hear the details.
Fayose has forgotten that he was made a Governor by influence of Wadata house

He remained in opposition till he took power from the ruling party.
Kudos to Bola Tinubu

Na only she waka go

francizy:
The great man, lion of the tribe of the Yorubas

the only man the stared the lion of burdillion in the eyes without running

the man of the people

the man who refused to fall even as 19 kingdoms stood against him

Anu ana agba egbe ona ata nri, atu'o ya bomb otaba chewing gum (the great being who eats food when shot and eats bubble gun when bombed)

Ogbu agu one of Ekiti state (Lion killer of Ekiti state)

One man mopol

The humble son of the soil

The fearless leader

The man after God's heart

A blessing to the land...

The PDP unchangeable CHANGER

Cc Temitemi1

I know this madness will surely come to end
soonest.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
impunity,greediness,arrogance,corruption and insubordination are major problems of PDP.

By the time Abuja oxygen masks are removed on the 29th May,most of these parasites will die
politically.

GEJ was so weak and clueless that he allowed people with no credibility to hijack the party.

PDP crisis: Jonathan orders ceasefire as Tsav says PDP was taken over by Mrs. Jonathan, Fani-Kayode, Fayose

on May 06, 2015 / in News 7:09 am / Comments

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor, Wahab Abdullah, Dapo Akinrefon, Charles Kumolu & Gbenga Oke
LAGOS — President Goodluck Jonathan has intervened in the open war between his aides and the National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The President’s intervention during a closed-door meeting with the NWC members followed strident calls for the resignation of the national chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu‘azu and other NWC members for purportedly leading the party to its first defeat in a presidential election.

The president’s intervention was, yesterday, matched by calls from senior party members who also called on the warring members to pull away from the acrimony that has seen NWC members openly blame the President’s handpicked campaign managers for causing the defeat of the President in the election.

The call for ceasefire nonetheless, the crisis continued to smoulder with Chief Bode George, a former deputy national chairman of the party calling for the resignation of Mu‘azu from office.

Besides, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State stuck to his guns on the demand for the resignation of the NWC members, an assertion that drew the sharp response of a senior official of the NWC who reproached Fayose for biting the very fingers that fed him in his time of need.
From left: PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN ; Otunba Gbenga Daniel former governor of Ogun State and VICE PRESIDENT NAMADI SAMBO DURING PDP PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIN RALLY IN ABIOKUTA

From left: PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN ; Otunba Gbenga Daniel former governor of Ogun State and VICE PRESIDENT NAMADI SAMBO DURING PDP PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIN RALLY IN ABIOKUTA

At the meeting with the NWC members on Monday night, the President had, according to sources, called on the party officials to keep the peace, saying that two wrongs do not make a right. Apparently to appease the party officials, the President promised to investigate the rumpus with a pledge to sanction his aides that may have erred.

The President’s plea for peace was matched by a number of stakeholders, including some members of the Board of Trustees, BoT, such as Chief Bode George, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, Chief Don Etiebet, the Lagos State chairman of the party and a retired Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav.

The president’s plea forced the national chairman, Mu‘azu, to withdraw a statement in which he had alleged that presidential aides were determined to destroy his legacy through their open conflict with the party officials.

A senior official of the NWC, however, replied a swipe by Governor Fayose earlier yesterday in which he reiterated his call for the dissolution of the NWC.

“It really hurts, I mean it hurts for Ayo Fayose to ask us to resign, considering the risks we took to ensure that we gave him a level playing ground to contest even when some members thought that he had no right being in the race,” the NWC official said yesterday.

Mu’azu can’t be a judge in his case —Bode George

In his reaction to the crisis, yesterday, Chief George, a former deputy national chairman of the party said: “Playing politics has to do with maturity. After any election, there is a way it is being done that any party that lost, the managers of the party will honourably bow out.

“There should be civility in anything being done but in the meantime, you cannot be a judge in your case. That is legitimate, that is sensible. All the noise about people collecting money here and there, to me it should not be so.

“You do not wash your dirty linen in the public. Do you think the All Progressives Congress, APC, do not have their filthy linen? With what they (PDP leadership) have done, they are sending shivers into the spines of Nigerians.

“We are going to readjust ourselves and strengthen all the structures from the wind that just blew us. You do not go to the marketplace and start describing the name and house of your father.

“The position we arrived at, at the Ado Ekiti meeting was the consensus of the party leaders after thorough deliberations which recommended that the National Working Committee should step aside for an independent group to reshuffle the party. If they found out that they (NWC) still need to be there, they will be recalled.

“I am shocked about the reactions of the people which now became an issue on the pages of newspapers. Which party in the world that is existing without internal wrangling? It is natural and normal.”

We’re waiting for outcome of BoT meeting — Babatope

In his remarks, Chief Babatope said: “I am not personally interested in the tantrums that are being thrown at each other by presidential aides and the National Working Committee of the party. I believe the BoT should be meeting in about two weeks where some of these major issues will be thrashed.”

Babatope, who is a member of the BoT of the PDP, said: “I am only interested in what the outcome of the BoT meeting is and not this tantrum being thrown around.”

PDP govs don’t mean well— Etiebet

On his part, Chief Etiebet said: “I have nothing to do with the PDP so I cannot comment on their actions. It’s just a good feeling that all leaders are singing my song which I kept singing since last September that the PDP Governors Forum’s actions would spell doom for the party at the polls.”

Blame game can’t help our course—Shelle, Lagos PDP chairman

Speaking on the current controversy in the party, the Lagos State chairman of the PDP, Mr Shelle said: “I just don’t want to be part of the controversy.”

He, however, urged the leadership of the party not to play the blame game.

Shelle said: “The blame game cannot help our cause. We should start putting our house in order to be able to get rid of those that stole our mandate through conspiracy by the compromise of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Police.

“We as a party only played into their hands. We will bounce back because the so-called APC is PDP in another form. Those who sold out are, however, advised to bow out of office before they are exposed.”

PDP was taken over by Mrs. Jonathan, Fani-Kayode, Fayose —Tsav

Similarly, a retired Police Commissioner, Alhaji Tsav, said: “When the PDP was formed with pomp and pageantry some years back, its members boasted that it was the largest party in Africa. Some at a point boasted that it would rule for 60 years and beyond. Things went right, and everything flourished in the party. Everybody went for the umbrella but today, the situation has changed and the umbrella is leaking profusely not only from torrential rain but from the rays of the tropical sun.

“Most of the founding fathers have left the party in anger ranging from lack of internal democracy to encouraging illegality. The situation was worsened by the departure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is an institution himself.

“The party was taken over by Mrs Jonathan, Gov. Fayose, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode among others. Imagine the First Lady inciting people to be violent during the campaigns. She also brazenly insulted the people of the North and a former Head of State without due regard to the party chairman, who is from the North. Fayose and Fani-Kayode also engaged in the hate campaign against the opposition. The opposition was focused and never left the substance to pursue the shadow.”
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The first sign of self destruction is madness.
I pity his family

CAN SOMEONE IN THE HOUSE GIVE US THE LIST OF THESE
PRAISE SINGERS THAT MISLED MR PRESIDENT

The blame game among top Peoples
Democratic Party members continued on
Tuesday with the PDP National Chairman,
Adamu Mu’azu, saying praise singers and
insincere people misled President Goodluck
Jonathan during the electioneering period.
Mu’azu, who is under pressure from some
members of the party to resign for not doing
enough to boost Jonathan’s chances during
electioneering, took to his Twitter handle on
Tuesday to defend himself and other
members of the party’s National Working
Committee.
Insisting that he would not resign, he said
those that were praise-singing and insincerely
advising” the President during the campaign
period were responsible for the PDP defeat
in the March 28 election.
The PDP chairman also said the low
perception of the President and the PDP in
the North was partly responsible for the low
votes they garnered from the region.
Mu’azu, who is a former Governor of Bauchi
State, stated that he could not have
convinced the people of the region to vote for
Jonathan.
He said, “The perception of Jonathan and our
party in the North was at an all time low
because of the lies the people were told by
politicians.
“Those who blame us for not delivering
maximum votes to the President in the North
seem to have forgotten that it is the people
who vote.”
Mu’azu denied allegations that he conspired
with the All Progressives Congress to ensure
that the Presidency was returned to the North.
He said he had been a member of the PDP
since 1999 and had helped the party to
remain in power for 16 years.
To him therefore, it is unfair for anyone to
accuse him of tribalism. He said in the face
of insult and ridicule, he continued to support
Jonathan till the end.
He said, “I have repeatedly reminded many
that I, Adamu Mu’azu, has been in the PDP
since 1999 as a matter of principle and
strong ideology.
“Those who insinuate that I did not do my
best for our great party and Mr. President
during the elections are being economical
with the truth.
“In the face of abuse, insult and open ridicule
by our friends and brothers, we supported our
leader, President Jonathan, faithfully.
“I gave my best and my all to the campaign
of Mr. President and the party. We went to
every state in Nigeria to campaign.”
The PDP chairman stressed that those
calling for his resignation alongside other
NWC members were the ones that contributed
to Jonathan and PDP’s defeat.
He said, “For those wishing that I will either
defect or resign, I advise you to kindly stop
the wishful thinking. We have a party to lead.
“Those who are seeking change in the entire
NWC were the same who brought us to this
level with their insincerity and praise-singing.
“We are committed to repositioning our great
party, the PDP, and we will provide able
leadership by restoring its glory.”
Mu’azu urged all Nigerians to support the
PDP as democracy cannot thrive without a
formidable opposition.
He however called on all members of the
party to sheathe their swords and work with
him to reposition the PDP.

PVC , CARD READERS and determined Nigerians helped a lot in removing pdp from central government.

DSS should seize international passports/traveling documents of all office holders till proper probe is done

Oga Jona,say something

Beginning of the end of PDP
I know they will destroy the party before the end of this year.