₦airaland Forum

What is the hope of the PDP now?

Much condolences for PDP.

chukwudi44:
can you substantiate this claim please

www.premiumtimesng.com/business/186365-2bn-eca-fund-okonjo-iweala-shifts-says-jonathan-unilaterally-approved-withdrawal.html

Immediate past Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy & Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday described as “false and malicious,” the allegation by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, that she spent $2.1 billion from the Excess Crude Account, ECA, without authorization.
Speaking through her Media Adviser, Mr. Paul Nwabuikwu, in Abuja, the ex-minister said that there was no unauthorized expenditure from the ECA under her watch in the Finance Ministry.

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Nigeria’s former minister of finance said on Tuesday night that the $2 billion she was alleged to have withdrawn from Excess Crude Account without authorisation was used to pay for fuel subsidy on the instruction of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

She however said the issue was discussed at the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), a statutory body which is chaired by the Minister of State for Finance in which all the states are represented.



The former Minister however said FAAC did not approve the withdrawal.

Ngozi can lie for Africa oooo. See the conflict between the 1st position of hers and the shift in position in the 2nd.

CC: Chukwudi44



Below is the funds shared by Buhari after due approval by the concerned stakeholders.

“It was in keeping with that disposition, that the President promptly disclosed the accrual of the NLNG dividends and taxes to the Federation Account at his recent meeting with State Governors and approved the convening of a special session of the FAAC to share it.” - See more at:

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LadyExcellency:
Presidential Approval is what settles Dokpesi's case while Dasuki's case will be settled by authentic proof that the military hardware, gears and services (including hired military contractors) were provided as approved by the President.

The keypoint is if there was proposal and tender by Dokpesi for which President Jonathan consented to under military budget for media services.

The same thing you accused PDP of doing is what APC is presently doing with DSS, media propaganda and States elections by INEC

DSS is not paying any media house for reporting news about accused or investigated suspects. INEC is doing a great job conducting elections as a neutral body, and ensuring that the results are valid and would not be upturned by tribunals and appeal courts as was the case in the miserable 16years of the PDP.

chukwudi44:
Well I have restored the original headline in line with the message this thread was created to pass.That is that Buhari approved the disbursement of N700billion as bailout to states without recourse to the NASS

Did the previous special funds shared between states and federal government as already admitted by the stakeholders, require a budget?

Does it mean Jonathan and Okonjo-Iweala are expert "diversionist" to have perpetrated such too?

What about the illegal funds withdrawn by Okonjo-Iweala on the premise that Jonathan gave a verbal approval, when even the state governors declined to give approval, yet she went ahead in clear disregard for the rules that govern the said funds?

What has the court said regarding this stale case before it that you are wailing about?

LadyExcellency:
For goodness sake media and national orientation is part of conventional/unconventional warfare and it costs money hence APC as a political party assumed the mouthpiece of the bokoharam through their continuous campaign of calumny against the military and the government using the online and print media sympathetic to their political target which is to grab power.

I'm happy you've clearly defined your position, hence your ambiguity in calling out a crime for what it is.

So the national orientation about the road construction or power generation status of the country, coupled with the propaganda in support of the PDP while maligning the APC as a party and it's prominent members, is judicious use of defence funds?

Now that the PDP is highlighting the failures of the military in concluding the victory over boko haram, I reckon that has also made the PDP the mouthpiece of boko haram?

Who spent defence funds meant for weapons on political campaigns? Was it PDP or APC?

If the above submission is your defence in court, then Dokpesi and Dasuki would have a long career in jail as the entertainers, D square.

chukwudi44:
BTW Which mod changed my headlines

The mod who realised you're a mischievous and worthless promoter of corruption and anarchy

You should be happy you were not banned for the rest of the year.

chukwudi44:
You have been able to prove that!!

Even the accused high thief and his company and son have admitted to collecting money from the NSA.

Sadly, they seem to believe that since they did their media job, the funds of the NSA have been spent as appropriated for the arms it was budgeted and sourced for.

A typical case of being too corrupt to realise the inherent crime in their act.

LadyExcellency:
The problem we have in Nigeria is one sided defense of our man against theirs.

You have no details of what you want to spin into political debate hence swerve.

Do you know the level of sympathy Bokoharam had among the military? Have you thought of the betrayals and sabotages in the ranks and files of infantry battalions and some top military brass during the start of the war against Bokoharam?

Can you recall that El'rufai and Buhari including Obama and Mrs Clinton were sympathetic to their course of Boko boys when they inferred that poverty was the root cause of the insurgency hence maximum force should be out of the rules of engagement.

The main point of my debate is the abnormal presidential powers Nigeria Presidents wields which are "technical" legal but ought not to and it continues unabated and is till prevalent in the present government.

What has all the emotional talk above got to do with the fact that both budgetary and extra budgetary spending was done with defence funds that ended up in the account of a political campaigner?

While bailout funds that were sourced without need for a budgetary approval was duly shared to all states of the federation in agreement with the respective governors?

Oil is sold at $35/barrel, government is trying its best to recover loots taken into private pockets during period of oil boom and we have fool.ish citizens saying the government should not perform its duties.

Most of them are anarchist, some do not even know their rights as citizens.

chukwudi44:
Lolz I see some people want to fund the 2016 budget with proceeds from groundnut and cocoa lol

I've always known you are a supporter of every form of criminality known to man, as long as the proponents are not Tinubu or Buhari.

You stand for nothing but the infamy of a corrupt and "souless" anarchist.

theV0ice:
Exactly!!! the bold is what i'm after. Prove that the funds were used for arms purchase.

Though i wonder the type of guns and bombs that is known as 'media and publicity' which Dokpesi claimed his own part was for

LOL!

Even spiritual warfare had its own share of our defence budget.

theV0ice:
You're wrong.....

the more important question is ''was the money used for what Dasuki claimed he wanted it for''?

If PMB approved N160/$ for christian pilgrimage and boutique owners benefit from it to import clothes, then that is fraud and it's a crime.

CC: LadyExcellency

LadyExcellency:
In Nigeria, things are not yet normal. This goes with previous and present Heads of States and President though it is quite regrettable.

In our clime, the question and answer is basically who gave the order and the final approval. Was it endorsed by the President? If yes that settles it.

Recently, President Buhari approved an exchange rate of N160 to $1 for christian pilgrimages to Jerusalem when the actual exchange rate is N195. Is PMB right to act in that direction against the extent laws of the Federation. Hell No but as our President, no qualms.

The exchange rate reduction is a subsidy.

That still doesn't explain why funds budgeted to be spent on arms by the office of the NSA should end up in the account of a media man doing a job for the president and his party.

Yet soldiers fled the war front into Cameroon, on account of being poorly equipped.

nertonert:
How did the sea belong to Nigeria? That body of waster was called the bight of Biafra. It belonged to Biafra long before there was anything like Nigeria. Even if the sea belonged to Nigeria, British warships should not have been there. Britain should have stayed out of the Nigerian/Biafran matter which was not their business.

Mercenaries fought in both sides of the war, what won the war for Nigeria was the British warships which prevented Ojukwu from selling oil and bringing in food and ammunition. You think Gowon could have fought the war with Groundbut pyramids?


The Biafran army that went to the Midwest did that after Nigeria started war.

Ojukwu declared Biafra not war. Gowon was the person who declared war. Go and learn history

The people whose land bordered the sea had already been liberated from the grip of the Igbo Biafra. They were satisfied with being Nigerians and fought for Nigeria.

Till today, they accord Gowon the respect merited by his actions.

Whose oil did Ojukwu attempt to sell? Oil belonging to people who were proud to identify as Nigerians, or the yet to be explored oil in Igbo land?

Whose forces first invaded the territory of the other, the Biafran rebels or the Nigerian Army?

LadyExcellency:
Any deal approved by elected Nigerian President is "technically" legal because of enormous power he wields provided it takes responsible for whatever becomes the outcome thereafter.

All the noises about arms deal payment and approval are dead on arrival if it can be proved that the arms were supplied. Extra budgetary expenses are not out of order in Nigeria because of the use of supplement budget for balance.

El'rufai paid a corper millions of Naira per month when he was FCT minister as that ends the transaction as there wasn't a refund nor was the corper tried for receiving the payment.

The executive is too powerful and assumes total control without recourse to Legislature and Judiciary. This is a pity.

Apart from the extra budgetary expenditure on arms, even the budgeted funds have been traced to the accounts of Dokpesi for media political campaign.

Is that a supply of arms?

nertonert:
This cheap propaganda is only for the gaulible.

Did the report also state that Nigeria is a result of the illegal amalgamation of unconsenting indigenous ethnic nationalities without their consent?

Did the report state that Biafra was the direct result of breaking the confederal agreement the Government of Gowon signed in Ghana?


Did the report state that after Biafra was declared, Nigeria could have chosen other peaceful ways of resolving the dispute than rushing to war?

Finally

Did the report state that it is the inalienable right of man or a people to self determination?

Personally, I think that Britain is still ashamed of its role in the Biafran war saga. Britain should have stayed neutral. Instead, Britain supplied ammunition to Nigeria, discouraged other countries from recognising Biafra, blockaded the sea to prevent Ojukwu from bringing in food and ammunition. Britain won the war for Nigeria.

The sea that belongs to Nigeria? Is Igbo land anywhere near the sea?

Britain won the war for Nigeria, while mercenaries lost the war for Biafra, right?

Did the report state that after Biafra was declared, Nigeria could have chosen other peaceful ways of resolving the dispute than rushing to war?

Peaceful ways like welcoming the invading Biafran Army into the MidWest or declaring a trade treaty for dropping bombs on Lagos?

You call a declaration of war a dispute?

drss:
yes yes we know d drill GEJ is d cause of all nigeria's problem. D zoo was a developed con3 where everything was working with water n 27hr power supply before GEJ came n destroy it. GEJ stole N2.8 billion nnpc money in 1978, created fuel subsidy and even created boko haram to punish nigeria. Yeye dey smell.

Biafran alert!

Why are you crying for the sake of the supposed zoo?

Your misery has just begun. Nigeria will rise from the abyss the PDP condemned it.

drss:
...and ur daura president cluelessly approved d implementation of d %1 charge without reveiwing d contract agreement.

Dude kindly go back to the drawing board. Your attempt today to malign the Buhari government is a wasted effort.

Think of something else that does not implicate the PDP while making APC look like a party that is ready to unravel the shady deals of the Jonathan regime.

The propaganda report did not mention that a war resulted from the secession attempts by Biafra and that the Biafrans even attempted to venture into Nigeria?

It also avoids revealing that the millions who died are as a result of a failed Biafran state being unable to feed its own population during a war it was so boastful about at the onset, but depending on charities and the hope that such propaganda would illicit more sympathy and support from world powers.

The propaganda report also mentions 3million Biafran deaths, the revisionist figure just like the revised 50 thousand pogrom deaths manufactured to justify why secession was necessary when the war began to look like a wasted effort, but only confirm the irresponsibility of the Biafrans not having learnt anything about the futility of their schemes.

In tune, the BBC describes Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the founding leader of the Biafran independence movement, as a “secessionist leader” – a tag it wouldn’t dare use to refer to either Alex Salmond or Nicola Surgeon!

Imagine Ojukwu being refined and packaged as a leader of Biafran independence movement. Was he a parliamentarian who was pushing for a legitimate independence? Was he an activist who was campaigning on the streets for an independent Biafran nation?
Was he not a soldier and a rebel who seceded and boasted he had the best military known to the black race?

It is an insult to the sensibilities of all students of history to try to compare a civil campaign by the Scots to the rebellion of Ojukwu. The tag given to Ojukwu by the BBC is well justified.

Ben Bruce has become a clown who talks too much for his own good. Lesson: not every smooth talker is smart upstairs.

If not that he grew up in Lagos and had a sound education, I would have concluded that there's an inherent cluelessness in the culture of Bayelsans. Maybe it's in the genes though.

This is the same dude that said government should allow illegal refineries as a solution to fuel scarcity. Does he even understand that the source of crude for those illegal refineries are the proceeds of bunkering, vandalism and sabotage?

A law maker for that matter.

olatunji21:
Incompetent chairman..Always condoning anti-party activities..A chairman without balls... "Nansense"

Indeed!

It would seem Oyegun is a clueless party chairman without the balls to confront the anti-party ambitions of his party men.

Saraki and Dogora did it without remorse, Yahaya Bello supported Wada of PDP and is now gifted with the ticket (though he was the runner up and the default 2nd choice) of the same party he opposed at the elections. Faleke has picked up the habit too having learnt that this party cannot instil discipline, and believing he has a chance to be his own boss too.

I'm beginning to like this Faleke of a guy.

He has realised that if the party could not do anything to Saraki or Dogora, then he has a right to fight for his own ambitions too without regard to a party that does not know how to uphold party supremacy.

It would be an insult to work under a man who worked against the campaign of his late boss as being alleged by almost everybody. This is an ideological stance and I love him for that.

If the party stood for shit in the eye of Yahaya Bello who worked for Wada of PDP after the late Audu beat him at the primaries, then it is the solemn duty of Faleke to ensure that Yahaya will never reap where he did not sow. This is the path of honour.

Even if he loses his judicial bid to become governor, he will not become the lapdog of a governor who he cannot respect and who in turn can never truly trust him.

Let Faleke continue his quest for justice without regard to the party APC. If Saraki, Dogora, and even Yahaya Bello can disregard the party for their own gain, then Faleke must not be the fool.

Let the courts decide who is governor.

OreMI22:
Buhari's witch hunt of political enemies using EFCC is a waste of time.

Just because AIT ran documentaries about Tinubu's corruption Inc. and Buhari's murderous style of governance, they now frame AIT owner with corruption and terrorism charged.

They can continue to intimidate people using the DSS secret police, the EFCC and the Nigerian army. In the end, they cannot erase the truth.

How can it be a frame-up when the accused, his firm, and his son have admitted to collecting N2B+ from the NSA from funds already budgeted for arms procurement?

I know you are only defending your own dailybread.

Hunger is truly bad.

GudluckIBB:
Na wah o!

Money that will be enough to feed the hungry that's what Akpabio keeps at home.

The painful thing now will be at the snap of his finger, Udom Emmanuel will replace the money


Its a pity.

The story is about Akpabio's cousin.

A lot of charlatans without journalism ethics have invaded the Nigerian internet with sensational fables and misleading headlines.

He is nothing but a low life thug.

But this is what the citizens of Ekiti deserve. I commiserate with them for such good tidings.