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These are my people, all we want is the democratization of FCT political leadership, so that we can elect our leaders like every other state, as stipulated in the constitution (Section 299) that FCT be treated as if it were a state. we have been deprived of our rights as Indegenes of FCT, our land taken from us, with no benefits.

Reporting from Kashimbila Dam, the multi purpose dam, for provision of water and electricity (40MW), though a resident, Taraba is a cool place

RIP, May God Almighty console and comfort you during trying period, I lost mum quite recently too, and I still feel the void up till day

Mizhi Gbagyizanu, Ushafayiza, awolona Omi Agbagyi aje?

Hope FCT(Abuja) candidate is included in the list this time around, else we wont take it lightly with PMB

What is the percentage of the implementation of the 2016 Budget? whose effect has not been felt by the masses, it's time this govt sit up and do something fast, 2019 is fast approaching, which project are they going to showcase as their achievement that with warrant re-election?

The best constitutional amendment ever propose as far as am concern, hope it scale through the both houses, particularly as it relate to FCT, State Assembly finances, LG Autonomy e.tc

Lalastical pls do the needful, I think this thread deserve your attention, and beside I was first to post this here, with all evidences attach

John Alechenu, Abuja

Former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has formally joined the All Progressives congress.


Kalu was received by the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led National Working Committee of the party at the National Secretariat on Wednesday.kalu-defects-to-apc

He said he has succumbed to pressures from his friends and well wishers to contribute his quota to building the party in Nigeria especially in the South East.


Details later…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BF-S87Xkdc

This is a welcome development, however the govt must endeavor to right the wrongs and give my people a right of belonging, after all the constitution stipulated in section 299, that FCT should be treated as if it were a state.

Why is FCT not represented in the list? this is unfair and unjust, since 1999, FCT has always has an ambassadorial nominee, and now PMB has taking away our right as a people to have a representative? this man is a sadist, and to think some states have more than one nominee

What of Justice Gabriel Kolawale of Abuja Federal High court? that man is corrupt and need to be arrested as well,

jeje123:
Are you sure these people are Nigerians leaving in my own FCT in this computer age!

Do you have culture where you come from? do you expect them to where coat and tie to a cultural event?

wastedsperm:
Primitive animals

you be must very stupid to refer to my people and culture as primitive, am not surprise though, your name says it all "wasted sperm"

The appeal court sitting in Abuja has dismissed an application by James Faleke, running mate to late Abubakar Audu in the 2015 Kogi governorship election, to nullify the installation of Yahaya Bello of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as governor of the state.

Bello was nominated by the APC to replace the late Audu following his death.

Faleke had argued that the votes polled by the party in the election were his, since he was a joint candidate to Audu.

But in his ruling, Justice Jummai Sankey noted that according to Section 221 of the Nigerian constitution, only the party could canvass for votes.

She explained that the constitution does not recognise independent candidature, so Faleke could not lay claims to the number of votes polled before the demise of Audu and before the election was concluded.

“So it may be said that he is not a candidate,” Sankey said.

The judge also held that Faleke was only joined to Audu after the primaries had been concluded, but Bello, whom the APC chose, participated in the primary election that produced Audu as candidate.

Sankey also added that the nomination of Bello to replace the late Audu did not contravene the constitution or the electoral act.

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This guy was my class mate @ GSS Bwari-Abuja, a very brilliant and sharp guy, am not surprise with the level of his achievements,

A federal high court in Abuja has granted the application filed by the Ali Modu Sheriff faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop the convention scheduled to be organised on August 19 by the Ahmed Makarfi caretaker committee.

The plaintiffs are Sheriff; Wale Oladapo, national secretary; Dennis Alonge-Niyi, deputy national youth leader; Bashir Maidugu, deputy national legal adviser; Hanatu Ulam, deputy national women leader; Lawal Dutsima, Anchi deputy national auditor; Okey Nnadozie, deputy national organising secretary and Olisa Metuh, national publicity secretary.

Ferdinand Obi, counsel to the Ahmed Makarfi faction of party, challenged the court that it did not have jurisdiction to hear the motion seeking to stop the convention from holding. He further sought to disqualify Okon Abang, the judge.

He argued that Bashir Maidugu, the erstwhile deputy national legal adviser of the PDP, could not be plaintiff and a second defendant in the same suit.

Obi also told the court that a federal high court in Port Harcourt recognises him as the counsel representing the PDP.

He urged the court to recognise his appearance for the PDP based on a judgement by a high court in Port Harcourt.

In opposition to Obi’s submission, Akintola counsel to the Ali Modu Sheriff faction referred the court to a ruling of June 30, which recognised him as the lawyer representing the PDP.

“In one breath, he wants your lordship disqualified from the proceedings and in another breath he is challenging the jurisdiction,” he said.

According to him, the motion to disqualify the judge did not exist as they have only been served with the application to disqualify the court.

Falokun, counsel to the plaintiffs explained that the judgement from the Port Harcourt cannot override a judgement that has already recognised him as the representative of the PDP.

In his ruling, Abang held that the caretaker committee was “illegal” based on the the Ikeja division of the federal high court and cannot take decisions on behalf of the PDP.

While dismissing Ferdinand’s applications, he said the counsel to Makarfi would not recognised as a representation of the PDP.

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07081342465 pls

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I never knew Sen. Buruji Kashamu is this intelligent, full of wisdom and objective, I thought he was in the same category as Thug Fayose.

First of all you need to know the intricacies that led to APGA winning the election in FCT, Gwagwalada Area Council, is the only Area Council that has been in opposition since 1999 (ANPP), even when PDP tried all it can to snatch the council from ANPP, this is possible because of the political sagacity of Hon. Danladi Zakari Angulu (Member House of Rep, Abuja South APC), the incumbent chairman (APC) fell out with him (God father) and the party tried all it can to reconcile them before this election but was not successful, consequently Hon. Angulu switch his support to APGA candidate, which led to this victory, before now, there was nothing like APGA in Gwagwalada, so credit must go to Hon, Danladi Zakari Angulu, and the candidate also, because he is equally popular. Note this same APGA candidate was the PDP candidate in 2013 Area Council elections, but lost to ANPP candidate then (now APC candidate).

Why election scores missing in Obio/Akpor 1&2 state constituencies and return is made? INEC pls explain

Seem this is tru, I saw this video on Facebook, and all about the attack on people by Hausa/Fulani as mention by one of the youth.https://www.facebook.com/Large-News-Live-488757394609870/videos

FP material, reorientation of citizenry, to stop glorifying, supporting and celebrating rogues and criminals. we will all be losers if we continue with this trend.

PMB for equity and justice, pls grant us this request, which is a constitutional right, the change must be felt in FCT also.

There was a mild drama on the floor of the House of Representatives, yesterday, when a member from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari should appoint an indigene of the territory as a minister.
Coming under constitutional point of order and personal explanation, Rep Zaphaniah Jisalo (PDP, FCT), representing AMAC/Bwari Federal Constituency, argued that based on the provisions of the 1999 Constitution, the FCT could not be denied a ministerial slot.
Daily Trust reports that since the inception of the current democratic dispensation in 1999, there was no time an indigene of the FCT was appointed into any ministerial position.
But Jisalo said Section 297 of the Constitution provides that there shall be FCT, while Section 299 says the FCT shall be treated as if it were a state.
Based on this, he said, Section 147 provides that there shall be a minister for each of the states of the federation, calling for the FCT to be considered.
“Based on these constitutional provisions, I, Zaphaniah Bitrus Jisalo, representing AMAC/Bwari Federal Constituency of the FCT, hereby protest the exclusion of FCT indigenes from the list of ministers nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari in the face of the enormous contributions of my people to the development of this country, especial the nation’s capital city.”
While Jisalo was making his point, our correspondents observed that some lawmakers, mostly of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), were murmuring, while his PDP colleagues cheered him.
After making his point, Rep Leo Ogor, the minority leader supported the motion, arguing that there was a Constitution breach and disregard in the appointment of ministers without considering the FCT.[url][/url]http://dailytrust.com.ng/news/politics/ministers-rep-protests-exclusion-of-fct/115219.html

The Nigerian constitution in section 299, has made a provision that FCT shall be treated as a state, over the years successive administration have flouted this section of Nigerian constitution, by ignoring and denying us a slot in FEC, however we expect this administration of change to deviate from this trend and grant us our legal right as citizens of this country.

North Central Consultative Assembly, NOCCA, has condemned the continuous exclusion of indigenes of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, from the list of ministerial nominees submitted to the Senate for screening by President Muhammadu Buhari. The assembly said it had waited and watched in vain for the inclusion of a nominee from the FCT in the latest list of nominees forwarded to the Senate, adding that it was at pains to once again be so harshly reminded that the FCT would not be represented in the Federal Executive Council. The assembly, which decried this deliberate neglect, appealed to President Buhari to reverse the situation, make the votes of FCT indigenes count by bringing about positive change in the way things were done in their favour. NOCCA, whose membership cuts across the six north central states, described as gross injustice not only to indigenes of the FCT but the entire north central geo-political zone the continued denial of the voice of the FCT in the Federal Executive Council. The assembly said the refusal of the president to nominate a candidate from the FCT was in breach of the constitutional provision that each state be represented in the cabinet. “Whereas section 299 (a) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) grants the FCT a state status, sections 14 (3) and 147(3) of the same constitution provides for the indigenes of the FCT all the rights and privileges being enjoyed by other states including ministerial appointments into the Federal cabinet. “Regrettably, subsequent administrations have continued to dent the FCT indigenes the right of being appointed into the federal executive cabinet,” the assembly said in a release signed by its director-general, Alhaji Alfa Miohammed. It recalled that for years, not a single indigene had been appointed into the FEC, adding that it was not abuse of constitutional provision but a travesty of the tenets of democracy. The assembly said since Nigeria practiced democracy that is accommodating, the FCT indigenes who had sacrificed the core of their livelihood to Nigeria, should in the least be made to benefit from whatever constitutional provisions are due them, including representation in the Federal Executive Council. It recalled that previous administrations had made several promises in this regard but had always failed to keep to its words, and regretted that the change expected from the new administration appeared not to be extended to FCT indigenes. Accordingly, the assembly plans to hold an emergency meeting with all the executives in the six states where resolution will formally be presented to its national assembly members as well as the respective governments within the geo-political zone. Also, the position of the assembly will be formally presented to President Buhari by a high-powered delegation that will include governors, national assembly members and key opinion moulders in the region. - See more at: http://nigerianpilot.com/ministerial-nominees-north-central-protests-exclusion-of-fct-indigenes/#url]

I think Joe Igbokwe of Lagos State APC can effectively replace Alh. Lai Mohammed, he seem to have same qualities with Lai and has discharge his duties efficiently so far.

Am resident in Taraba State, even though a staunch supporter of APC, but truth is, APC made a serious mistake in d selection of it's gubernatorial candidate in this state, if APC had nominated a Male Christian candidate, no doubt the party could have won this state without much stress at all, however I must concede the fact that Mama Taraba put up a serious fight against PDP, considering her gender and religion, for now, it's almost impossible for a muslim to win gubernatorial election in Taraba.

@ Blackpanda, sincerely u need to have ur brain examine to ascertain ur sanity, how on earth u dare insult my people, our case is just like dat of Niger Delta, our land was taken from us with no compensation and u come here to say we are silly? u are insane