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opeyemiie:
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo
state has warned the State Governor, Olusegun
Mimiko, and the National Publicity Secretary of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Olisah
Metuh, against discouraging the anti-corruption
war embarked upon by President Muhammadu
Buhari.
In a statement issued and signed by the party’s
Publicity Secretary, Omo’ba Abayomi Adesanya,
APC noted that Nigerians voted for Buhari
because the President promised to handle
corruption in the country.
APC instructed Mimiko and his aides not
exercise any fear if truly they had not mis-
managed the resources of the state since they
took over in 2009.



The statement reads:
The fight against corruption is sacrosanct and
indispensable. Nigerians voted for the All
Progressives Congress (APC) at the last
Presidential election, amongst other reasons,
because President Muhammadu Buhari promised to
nip corruption in the bud. Therefore any attempt to
jettison the fight, will amount to breach of trust on
our electoral promises to millions of Nigerians.
Corruption has been the clog in the wheels of our
economic, industrial, infrastructural, educational
and human development in Nigeria; therefore the
need to fight it with all vigour and vitality is
sacrosanct and non-negotiable.
Nigerians’ passionate appeal to Mr President is to
be fearless, not to be deterred, and to intensify
more efforts against the menace called corruption,
in order to bring culprits to book.
We are aware of the vigorous efforts by the PDP
Governors’ Forum Chair, Governor Olusegun
Mimiko, the National Publicity Secretary of PDP,
Chief Olisa Metuh, the PDP leadership and former
Ministers under the Ex-President Goodluck
Jonathan-led administration to voraciously rubbish
and blackmail the anti-corruption crusade of the
APC-led federal government by tainting and
painting it as selective, witch-hunt, political attack
and a mere time waster.
The statement credited to the Ondo State
Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kayode
Akinmade, on August 1st, 2015, that some people
have concluded plans to begin series of petitions
against Governor Olusegun Mimiko, Jonathan’s
Ministers and PDP leadership to Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is baseless
and amount to running away from ones shadow.




We advise them not to exercise fears if they are not
corrupt, as President Muhammadu Buhari, whom
the Nigerian public and the international community
has nicknamed ‘Mr. Integrity’ will be fair and just
to all in the fight against corruption.
APC as a Party and by our manifesto, strongly urge
all would-be political appointees to be exemplary
and lead by example, as there will be no waiver or
sacred cow on any corrupt act.”

opeyemiie:
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.

expressglory:
Things are becoming interesting in Ekiti state.The self acclaimed Senior Advocate Of the Masses has been busy announcing funny,odd and burdensome taxes on the people of Ekiti state for the past few weeks.Take a look
*Each slaughtered cow....N1000:00
*Each shop...3000:00 per month including market women
*Public Primary Schl Pupil...N1000 per head(every term)
*Street Hawkers...N1000per month
*Public Secondary School Students N2,500 per student(every term)
*Private Nursery/Primary Schools...150,000per year

Today..Sept.8th,2015 all mtn,glo,airtel,Dstv dealers offices were all sealed off.They were advised to contact their head office to come and pay special taxes running into millions to ekiti. (This is different from the normal signage/advert levy being paid by each of the dealers)

CR77:

bushdoc9919:
We are not a rich country.(Which is why we must eradicate corruption because the treasury they steal from is small to begin with). We are a resource dependent country with a large population.....and poor productivity.

As an example....we produce the same amount of oil the United Arab Emirates produces. Meanwhile the UAE has a population of 10 million. We have 170 million. Guess who is more prosperous.

If we want to be rich....we must be productive. Like China and Japan for example.

bushdoc9919:
In Europe....they pay heavy taxes to get free education.

If we started taxing Nigerians at the rate Europeans are taxed....you Nigerians will take to the streets to protest.

If you want awoof education.....you have to diversify your economy away from oil into industries.....and also pay heavy taxes.

Vondata:
OMG! Hw cn a sane Man eat wild Snake. I lyk d way it killd d Dog, I h8 dogs.

gbosaa:
In all his eccentricities, has he ever attacked or insulted you?
Musiwa remains the emperor of western Nigeria. If you are not comfortable with that, leave Nairaland. Do you know how much Seun has spent sending him to Yaba?


Go and ban him na.

DankemzI:


You love sex and you don't have money to spend!
Please anyone in Ibadan should help this guy, before tomorrow morning we hear of another child abuse.

SQLmastar:
A professional FTC.
She studied Nairaland in school, as a course

ladyF:
Ok

madridguy:
Can you say that to your uncle ?

madridguy:
What do you stand to gain from spreading false news ?

menabadoo:
is Ogun a city? Yorubas are illiterates