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incoming vice president.

eagleeye2:
Future Impossible Tense

papa deceive pickin

ll

kkk

very confident and presidential.



unlike.......

p please

v vote for

c change

ABUJA – National Leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC formerly received the defecting former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Umar N’Abba into its fold yesterday, conferring on him automatic membership of the Board of Trustees of the party.

Also given to N’Abba were copies of the party’s constitution, manifesto and a pamphlet by the APC presidential candidate, General Mohammdu Buhari, titled “My Pact with Nigeria”.

Speaking at the event, the former speaker who told the formerly told the party leadership about his defection and subsequent move to the APC, stated that successive governments of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, had failed Nigerians, saying that the country needed change.

He said: “My total sum of my communication was that I have decided leave the party that I have been a member for the last 16 years. When I and other senior members of the party left the party between 2005 to 2007, a lot of things happened that we thought were undemocratic. We had to leave the party. Eventually some of us returned after the late Umar Yar’Adua made some certain promises about change in the party which never happened.

“I believe that this country more than any other time in our history needs change, particularly on the top. In the last 16 years there has been misrule in this country. Nigerians are being misruled by successive Presidents of the PDP. Some of us fought over this and to no success. I believe that the momentum today is in favor of the APC, and we should never allow it to go down.

“It is in that quest that I feel having resigned from the PDP, I must join the APC so that I can help to roll that momentum and that it is quite remarkable that since yesterday I have been receiving calls from nook and crannies of Nigeria. That is to show you that the APC is a national party.”

N’Abba also pledged support for the victory of the APC presidential candidate, expressing optimism that Buhari would become the next president of Nigeria.

“People from all corners of this country have called me, including my colleague, former members of the House of Representatives who have decamped to the APC. My duty today is to continue to work with you and the presidential candidate of the party and at the same time try to consolidate the gains made so far.

“I’m a witness to how popular General Buhari is, not just in the north but all over the country and that I’m happy that he is going to be the next president of this country. It is our desire that he should become a national leader not a sectional leader”, he said.

He also warned against sectional marginalization, submitting that all regions of the country have comparative advantage to help develop the entire country.

“Nigerians have come a long way and I have continued to say that we can not continue to rule this country on the basis divisiveness. We can succeed in this country without maligning other parts of the country because we have all it takes.

“All the regions of this country have comparative advantages which we can build on and succeed and we don’t have to malign others to be able to succeed. God has created us into different tribes and nations. If we are all Hausas or Igbos or Yorubas, there may have been no desire for exchange among us and we may not know one another. It is a test on all us”, N’Abba said.

Welcoming the former speaker, the National Chairman of APC, Chief John Oyegun said N’Abba was a man of indisputable quality, saying that the party needed people like him.

He said: “This is one of the few truly beautiful events that I have been privileged to preside over. For the APC, it has been a matter of quality. Today, we are recovering a personality of indisputable quality into our ranks. A man of achievement, a man of principle and a man who has displayed in no uncertain terms that he share the ideals our party.

“For a long time, he struggled within the fold of the PDP to see if he can steer the ship back to safe waters. But of course, all that was to no effect because. Like he said, the dubious characters have taken over the PDP and so, it was no longer in the mood for change.”

Oyegun accused president Jonathan of dividing Nigeria along religious lines, saying that those who accuse Buhari of religious sentiments were the ones taking politics religious institutions.

“Today, the PDP candidate is engaging in religious tourism from one church to the other all over the nation even though we don’t know which denomination he truly belonged to. I asked, this man, Buhari that they accuse of being a fundamentalist, supposed he was also going from one Mosque to the other all over the nation, why can’t the ordinary Nigerian see the difference in the two personalities.

“One is exploiting the Christian religion and the other one is just being the good Muslim, just like some of us are struggling to be good Christians. He has not done the slightest thing to get Imams or Mosques every Friday to preach in his favour. He has not gone from one mosque to the other attending Friday prayers to seek for political support.

“So, we know where the problems of this nation are coming from. The PDP is tired, it is disoriented, it is confused and it is only clear and the people of the nation knows that they should be sent to the recovery bin if it is still possible for that party to recover from the state that it is in.”

Also speaking, former national chairman of the PDP now chieftain of the APC, Chief Audu Ogbe, welcome N’Abba, asking him to prevail other of his colleagues to join APC.

According to him, APC was a party for all Nigerians.

“I am glad that Ghali Na’Abba is back. I happened to be chairman when the impeachment saga took place and I knew how strong Ghali was, insisting that the right thing must be done. For a number of reasons such as national survival and cohesion, I tried to persuade him not to go ahead with it and he listened. It was not because the grounds on which the impeachment was based were wrong but because we advanced other overriding national considerations. Welcome to this party, Ghali Na’Abba and all of you out there who are still preparing to join this party.

“Ghali, please inform your former colleagues in the house that this is the place to be. This is a place for their ideals. This is the place for their dreams. This is the place for those who are worried about tomorrow, for the young who cannot find a flat to live in, young men who cannot marry because they don’t have money, young women you can’t marry because the young men are running away”, he said.

Similarly, another chieftain of the party, Prince Tony Momoh while welcoming N’Abba boasted that APC was now the largest party in Africa.

“We are a very big party, an opposition party in government and all that is happening today shows that a party that is resisting change is the part in opposition. It is the PDP that is resisting change.

“I welcome our brother, friend for coming into a party that cannot even stop change. If APC today says no change, they will be stoned. That is to tell you that the agitation for change is mass agitation of the Nigerian people and APC is only a representative of that war cry “change”, he said.

The event attracted several members of the party which included the Deputy National Chairman, (North), Senator Lawal Shuaibu, Deputy National Chairman (South), Engr. Segun Oni, National Vice Chairman (North East), Engr. David Lawal, National Auditor, Chief George Moghalu, former National Chairman of PDP, Chief Audu Ogbe, National Secretary, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni, National Treasurer, Alhaji Bala Mohammed, National Vice Chairman, South South, Prince Hillary Eta, National Publicity a Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed amongst others.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/buhari-would-become-the-next-president-of-nigeria-nabba/

mycar:
Fashola goofed, he should own up and apologise.

goofed.....................jonathan is master of goofing

MzJackBaueress:
Obanikoro now minister of state11 foreign affairs? As in 3rd in rank in the foreign ministry? Hahahahahaha!!

Thank God he wasn't given the defence portfolio. Lemme see if he will rig elections for his paymaster again. Hahahahaha!!

men, the guy is almost finished politically

this one na real shame ooooooooooooooooooo

koro, pele.

na pdp comic relief.................even jona know say koro no get political strenght

minister for state 11, deputy junior minister..................................


the koro brand has been damaged

This is an indication that oga jony knows that obanikoro is a lightweight in Lagos state politics.

koro is almost done in terms of lagos politics.

:DPresident Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday inaugurated the eight new ministers recently confirmed by the Senate before the commencement of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting.

The President thereafter assigned portfolios to them as follows: Senator Patricia Akwashiki (Information); Prof. Nicholas Ada (State, Foreign Affairs I); Senator Musiliu Obanikoro (State, Foreign Affairs II); Col. Augustine Akobundu (retd.) (State, Defence); Mr. Fidelis Nwankwo (State, Health); Mrs. Hauwa Bappa (State, Niger Delta Affairs); Mr. Kenneth Kobani (State, Industry, Trade and Investment); and Senator Joel Ikeya (Labour and Productivity).

The President also named the Minister of State, Health, Khaliru Alhassan, as the Minister of Health. Alhassan has been acting as Supervising Minister of Health since Prof. Onyebuchi Ckukwu resigned in 2014











http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-inaugurates-eight-ministers-assigns-portfolios/

another fake sourceless crap

BeeBeeOoh:
Nawa oh. U create thread, na u still be FTC. Na so ur bele blaq reach

classic

pls see the vanguard caption for this story:
FG cuts electricity tariff by over 50%

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/fg-cuts-electricity-tariff-by-over-50/

oga jonny walker has been scammed

heywhytech1:
This serve the Clueless well, continue promoting corruption Mr. President , your days are numbered

you dey mind the joker

even atiku has also officially denounced the so called group.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/178658-atiku-disowns-120-groups-defecting-to-pdp.html

pdp is over desperate

jonathan and deceit

Some former members of the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), a political machinery that was the brain child of the former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, have revealed how the embattled governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko, bribed leaders of the party to endorse President Goodluck Jonathan for a second termome former members of the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), a political machinery that was the brain child of the former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, have revealed how the embattled governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko, bribed leaders of the party to endorse President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term.


They spoke on Monday shortly after the endorsement press conference at the Adegbemile Cultural Centre Press in Akure on Monday by the members of the group under the banner of Atiku and the PDM.

The group, which has members across the Southwest states of the country through its leader, Bode Ajewole said their decision to endorse Jonathan was hinged on the position of Jonathan to implement the recommendations of last year’s National Conference immediately he is reelected.

They said: “The Yoruba people are in the support of the recommendation of the Confab held last year, most which the sitting president Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has vowed to implement immediately after his re-election.

"Believing in the ultimate fulfillment of Jonathan promises to us in the southwest, we therefore direct all members of AAA/PDM collectives and all members of the Yar-Adua political family in the southwest including those in APC, SDP, PDM, Labour Party and Accord to support and vote for President Goodluck Jonathan.”

[b]But speaking with a SaharaReporters correspondent shortly after the purported endorsement, the members of the group confirmed they were bribed through the leadership of the group to endorse President Jonathan.

Some of them, who spoke under condition of anonymity, disclosed to SaharaReporters that they were fully mobilized from other Southwest states to travel to Akure, with all expenses paid, to carry out the endorsement, and that their leaders received a huge sum of money from Governor Mimiko for the job.

“Quote me anywhere, Governor Mimiko gave us money through our leaders to endorse President Goodluck Jonathan for second term. I know you are very inquisitive and eager to know more but I won’t tell you the amount I was given but I can tell you it’s a bribe”, one of the members said.

A woman and member of the PDM from Ekiti State also disclosed that she received a text message from the publicist of the group to mobilize members to Akure for the endorsement. Thereafter they were paid cash for the visit, she said.

“Although leaders of the group have been telling us that there would be a meeting in Akure with some powerful politicians but they never revealed that the meeting would be with governor Mimiko to endorse President Jonathan but this morning I received a text message to mobilize some members to Akure for a Press conference and that was how I got to know that it was President Jonathan they want to endorse”, she revealed.

“I received N30, 000 for the visit, although a friend told me, I was cheated because I came all the way from Ogun state in free vehicle but at least I didn’t lose, I still gained from them”, another member told our correspondent.

[/b]Asked if he would surely vote Jonathan in the next week presidential election, he said “My friend, I don’t know the people in other Southwest states but for [us] in Ogun State Jonathan is a failure because if I vote him, my wife would kill me, she dislike Jonathan [more] than anything. The man has done nothing in the Southwest and he wants [our] vote.

“We are just collecting this money because it’s our money. We shall keep on deceiving him and his cohorts like Mimiko, we know that General Buhari is the only change for now that we need”, he declared.

Meanwhile, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), Bashir Yusuf, has described those who endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan, at a press briefing in Akure as “not card carrying members” of the movement.

“We wish to make it categorically clear that members of the group that addressed the press conference in question are not members of PDM,” he declared in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday. “They defected from our Party in June last year to pursue their aspiration in APC and are no longer members of our party.”

Furthermore, he stressed that the party had already endorsed the candidature of General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as far back as January, reiterating that those who endorsed Jonathan lacked the mandate to speak for the party.

The National Chairman dissociated the party from the purported press conference convened alongside governor Mimiko in Akure in the name of the party to endorse Jonathan for a second term.

“Since they are not card-carrying members of PDM, they do not speak for PDM nor have any basis for doing so. While we wish them luck with their new project of supporting President Goodluck Jonathan in the forthcoming election, we call on them to desist from using the name of PDM in this obviously sponsored and commercial misadventure. They should find another platform to realise their aspiration since PDM is not for the highest bidder.

“The National Executive Committee of PDM had, at its meeting of January 22, 2015 unanimously, without any dissension, resolved to support the candidature of General Muhammadu Buhari and our Party will stand by that commitment until the end.

“Our members are already busy canvassing for support for Gen. Buhari across the country and will not be distracted from doing so. These political jobbers should please leave PDM out of their Jonathan-for-president misadventure”, the statement read.


http://saharareporters.com/2015/03/17/pdm-pretend-members-akure-reveal-gov-mimiko-paid-jonathan-support-party-national-chairman

its a real shame the way this country's image has become.

who knows whether the OPC/PDP violent arrangee protest has also compounded things internationally.

pls front of page

scam scam scam


go and check your nepa meter bill for the next 2months.

yes, jonny walker and his oga madam

pacifique:
I have been asking for dislike button

ask further

barcanista:
Sai OPC... The people of Yoruba nation in Lagos are with Jonathan. The propaganda of APC isn't flying...


Sai Jonathan

you actually said this.

kheart:
Surrender? So na war PDP dey do wit APC sef.

na real tire o