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Ozin: Ameachi go soon hear am...Na one chance e enter

and i fg go supreme court? https://www.nairaland.com/1539129/g-5-govs-defection-presidency-may

An epic legal battle may follow the defection of five state governors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the presidency and the ruling party are set to seek the Supreme Court’s interpretation of section 306 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) over the constitutionality or otherwise of the state chief executives’ action.

Governors Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), and AbdulFatah Ahmed (Kwara) on Monday after a meeting with the APC and “new PDP” leaders in Abuja announced their defection to the APC.

Already, their supporters in the National Assembly are planning to follow suit.

But a presidency source told LEADERSHIP Weekend that President Goodluck Jonathan has asked some of his egg-heads under a five-man committee headed by State House counsel Jalal Alabi to consult and brief him within a week on the next line of action over the governors’ defection.

The source hinted that the PDP might go to the apex court to seek the interpretation of the relevant sections of the constitution on the matter.

“President Jonathan was disappointed over the defection, especially while the reconciliation process is still ongoing; the presidency believes what those governors did was unlawful, citing the Rotimi Amaechi vs PDP case where the Supreme Court ruled that the mandate was given to the party and not to an individual.

“But some officials have also cited the Atiku Abubakar v Federal Government case where the apex court ruled that Atiku should remain as vice president under the administration of former president Olusegun Obasanjo despite his defection to the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as a verdict that should be scrutinised. But some believe the two cases are not the same. So, the party may be asked to seek the intervention of the judiciary on the issue.”

On political defection, Section 68(1) (109(1)) of the 1999 Constitution states that:

“A member of the Senate or House of Representatives (House of Assembly) shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if-

“(g) Being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that house was elected:

“Provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored.”

So, for the legislature the constitution is clear: in attempting to cross to another political party, he must prove that a division in his political party exists or a merger of that party with another or factions in the party. Even then, he cannot successfully cross over to another political party until the presiding officer of the House - Senate president, speaker of House of Representatives or speaker of a House of Assembly, as the case may be - endorses the decamping.

Section 68(2) (109(2)) states that: “The President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, shall give effect to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, so however that the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives or a member shall first present evidence satisfactory to the House concerned that any of the provisions of that subsection has become applicable in respect of that member.”

Section 306 of the constitution in sub-section 1 states, “Save as otherwise provided in this section, any person who is appointed, elected or otherwise selected to any office established by this constitution may resign from that office by writing under his hand addressed to the authority or person by whom he was appointed, elected or selected.

(2) The resignation of any person from any office established by this constitution shall take effect when the writing signifying the resignation is received by the authority or person to whom it is addressed or by any person authorised by that authority or person to receive it.

(5) The notice of resignation of the governor and of the deputy governor of a state shall respectively be addressed to the Speaker of the House of Assembly and the Governor of the State.

(6) The notice of resignation of the President of the Senate and of the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall in each case be addressed to the Clerk of the National Assembly, and the notice of resignation of the Speaker of a House of Assembly shall be addressed to the Clerk of the House of Assembly of the State.

(7) The notice of resignation of a member of a legislative house shall be addressed to the president of the Senate or, as the case may require, to the Speaker of the legislative house in question.”

The presidency source further disclosed that any member of the National Assembly who defects to the APC would have his or her seat declared vacant by the PDP. “The position of the law is clear on that and this is why some of them who have been threatening to decamp have not summoned the courage to do so.

“Also, members of the National Assembly or their counterparts in the state who dare to follow these people would have their seats declared vacant. Go and read Section 306 of the constitution, it is very clear and unambiguous. This is why those who have been telling us they are going have refused to defect. Let them go ahead and do that. Their seats would be declared vacant and, within 90 days, a fresh election would be held to replace them; it is then we would know who is on ground,” he said.

Meanwhile, a PDP BoT member has asked the leadership of APC to get ready for the worse with the entrant of the five governors to its party.

When asked to react to the defection of the aggrieved chieftains, the former national officer of the ruling party said, “It is bye-bye to bad rubbish. I congratulate the PDP and I congratulate Nigerians on having the opportunity to identify politicians who are opportunists, who are not reliable and dependable. You can only know this type of people in time of crisis. Another lesson we should all learn from this show of shame is that, in Nigerian politics, anything goes and posterity will judge those who used PDP to become what they are but turned their back at the party.”

When told that the defection is an electoral fortune to the APC, he replied: “They are political pollutants and, with their presence in the APC, the party has inherited problems we have been battling with all this while. They need disinfectants to accommodate these political opportunists. Let me tell you, with what PDP has done since 1999 nationwide, it will be impossible for the APC to uproot it.”



G-5 decision binding on me – Wamakko

Meanwhile, Sokoto State governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, who has been silent on his colleagues’ action, yesterday said their decision was binding on him despite that he did not attend the meeting because he was in Senegal.

The governor stated this at the Government House after presenting the 2014 budget to the House of Assembly and assured the people of the state of his commitment to their well-being and security.

This, according to the governor, was the primary objective of every leader, just as he urged followers to demand accountability and good governance from their leaders at all time.

Earlier, the governor had told LEADERSHIP Weekend that he had just returned from Senegal where he presented a paper at the Africa High Level Forum.

Governor Wamakko, who optimistically affirmed that Nigeria is so blessed in many folds, said all that was needed for the nation to be on the wheels of unstoppable development was genuine leadership and sincere followers.



APC not about Buhari, me - Tinubu

Also yesterday, APC national leader and former governor of Lagos State Asiwaju Bola Tinubu said the party was not about himself and Gen. Muhammadu Buhari or any leader of the APC, but about the country and the need to rescue it from inept leadership.

In a statement, his media office said Tinubu was replying to a question about the significance of the five former PDP governors joining the APC and its implications for Nigeria.

According to the statement, Tinubu said, ‘’ The APC is not about Tinubu, Buhari or any of its leaders. It is about the country and how we can come together and work to rescue Nigeria from inept leadership. The implication is change. We want to change the way things are done by working together and investing our ideas. We must change the way we do things. Imagine from the 1960s till date. The cutlass of the 1960s cannot be used for farming now. We need leaders that can think outside the box.’’

He spoke at the 2012/2013 call-to-bar ceremony of the Nigeria Law School in Abuja.

Tinubu said Nigeria needs a democratic revolution that will unleash infrastructural development and massive industrialisation. Nigeria, he said, is blessed with talented youth whose potential must be harnessed for the development of our country. ‘’The lamentations must stop. After so many years of lamentation without action, we must lead the new resolve to rally for the change our country badly needs,’’ Tinubu said.

Tinubu condemned the posture of the government on the lingering strike by university lecturers and said, “We should be more concerned about losing more brains to the outside world. We are not in a military era. The language used shows a government out of tune with the general feelings of Nigerians.’’



PDP to Oyinlola: You are confused

In a reaction to former PDP national secretary Prince Olagunsoye Oyilola’s position that he remains the party’s scribe, his successor, Prof. Wale Oladipo, yesterday described him as “inconsistent and disoriented politically”.

Oladipo further added that Prince Oyinlola had lost all moral standing and political legitimacy as a politician within and outside Osun State.

Oyinlola, who was suspended from the mainstream PDP over anti-party activities, had in the wake of the merger of the new PDP and APC denied his defection to the opposition party.

In a press statement signed by his special assistant on special duties, Abiodun Ojo, Prof. Oladipo said Oyinlola’s political opportunism, which shocked many principled politicians, especially those who drafted him into the governorship race in 2003, “is an embarrassment to us in Osun State and to his old allies within and outside the government”.

“Being a political inconsistent is not what we are worried about; the problem is when political shamelessness is added to such reprehensible conduct,” he said.

Oladipo noted that while he had deliberately refrained from joining issues with Prince Oyinlola because of his respect for old relationship, “the recent activities of Prince Oyinlola is raising so many questions about his understanding of politics and suggesting a political disorientation of sorts”.

Power sharing: No division in Adamawa APC – zonal chairman

The interim national vice chairman (north-east) of the APC, Alhaji Umar Duhu, has debunked speculations to the effect that there is rancour in the sharing formula of offices between the various blocs in the APC in Adamawa State.

Duhu’s clarifications came on the heels of subtle complaints by some stakeholders who are speculating that he will give Governor Nyako’s camp an edge in the distribution of party offices.

He said it is baseless for anyone to start complaining of being side-lined in the scheme of things in the party as the party had not started the registration of party members let alone prepare a timetable for congresses in the country.

Duhu added that all members of the APC will be given the same opportunity in line with the resolution of the national leadership that no one should be accorded preferential treatment.



We Can’t Go Back To PDP – New PDP

And ahead of Sunday’s reconciliatory meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan, the Abubakar Baraje -led New PDP, has vowed not return to the mainstream PDP.

The faction had defected to the All APC on Tuesday.

A statement yesterday by its spokesperson, Chukwuemeka Eze, accused President Jonathan and the PDP national chairman Bamanga Tukur of forcing the faction to go ahead with its “merger” with APC.

“We have bid the sinking ship called PDP bye and there is no going back. We wish to thank President Jonathan and Alhaji Tukur for ensuring the death of PDP as prayed for by the good people of our country,” he said.

http://leadership.ng/news/301113/g-5-govs-defection-presidency-may-take-fight-supreme-court

The Chief Whip of the Rivers State House of Assembly, and one of the 27 pro-Amaechi lawmakers, Hon. Ikuiyi Ibani, has defected to the camp of the supervising minister of Education, Barr. Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike.

This is even as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state has vowed that it would not allow the flag of Governor Amaechi's party, All Progressives Congress (APC) anywhere in the state.

Ibani, who is the lawmaker representing Andoni Constituency in the Assembly, on Sunday, announced his move to Wike's camp during local government area and ward executives inauguration and thanksgiving of the Grassroots Development Initiatives (GDI) held in Ogu.

The Chief Whip said he represented the conscience of politics and had taken a firm decision, saying; "I represent the conscience of politics. When a lion moves, it moves with its tail."

Also, the PDP chairman, Felix Obuah, had informed that more Assembly members had consulted him, expressing their apology and demanding to be readmitted.

He made this known shortly after Ikunyi announced his exit from Governor Amaechi's camp.

"Eight of them have come asking that we should admit them back; that they have been suffering. Chief Whip is leading the group of eight of them I had meeting with. We will meet to consider them."

He accused Governor Amaechi of recruiting thugs to destroy PDP signposts, charging GDI supporters to resist any attempt by government agents to destroy PDP property, adding that the party leadership would support them.

Meanwhile, the PDP has declared it would ensure that APC shortlived in the state.

In their separate speeches at the event, the state party chairman, Felix Obuah, Wike, national deputy chairman of PDP, Uche Secondus, Senator George Sekibo, a former transport minister, Abiye Sekibo, factional Assembly Speaker, Evans Bipi, and many others, stressed that the governor would not use Rivers money to fund APC.

The supervising education minister, however, said the embattled chairman of Obio/Akpor local government area, Timothy Nsirim, remained the authentic council boss, despite the dissolution of the council announced by the governor.

He charged their supporters to be firm, saying that all hands must be on deck to fight the opposition.
http://leadership.ng/news/011213/pro-amaechi-lawmaker-joins-wike-group

On being humble: If you have passed through what I have passed through, you will even be more humble than I am.

I have good health, and God shows me what I would have been in terms of sickness and death; it humbles me, and I want to use my good health for him. At times, God shows me how people are suffering and the thought that it could have been me keeps me humble. For instance, if I did anything wrong during this interview, when you may have left, God will caution me. If I am not humble, I will be out of track. If I was not in the house of God, I would be one of the touts in the motor parks.

On his ministry being seemingly more popular outside Nigeria than in Nigeria: I want to offer the same prayer for you: that God should make you more popular outside your country than in your country.

Let other countries introduce you to your country. I think that is better. As it is written in the Bible, a prophet has no honour in his country. I am not an evangelist or a pastor, I am a prophet. It is the word prophet that was used in that scriptural passage, not evangelist or so. If my people had understood the work from the beginning, it could have affected the glory of God in my life today. If people understand your vision from the beginning, you may not go far. It is better they don’t, they will understand later, and by then, you would have been very strong and God would have strengthened your desire. Praises and adoration can make you a local champion.

Where are the people that Nigerians praised from the beginning? I can mention some – even men of God, who are no longer living today, so many founders – CAC, Cherubim and Seraphim, Church of the Lord and so on. We should get this understanding that those who were local champions in the past did not reach international recognition.

Look beyond the ministry job to the secular world, was it Nigeria that introduced Prof. Wole Soyinka to the world? But when he became a Nobel Laureate, he became more powerful; when he talks, everyone wants to listen. Whereas there were some other local champions that even when they were dying, nobody took their news to CNN. They don’t know them.

God has a way of raising people by throwing the image to the international community. Even the footballers that are notable became acceptable to Nigerians when they belong to international clubs. I may not be accepted by some people in Nigeria but my acceptance in the world has been announcing me to my world. When you look at the people working with me, you see that the ratio of Nigerians working with me are not more than 10 per cent.

On special attraction that brings heads of government to synagogue: You have said it all, where there is demand, there is supply, and in that place, there would be enough anointing to do the work. God will not allow people to go to a place where there is no supply. It is not possible. I observe that if three chairs are added to this church today, you suddenly find people filling it and if four are removed, it is just the number of people that will fill the chairs that will come.

I have studied that from the beginning. Sometimes, when I see some ministries printing handbills, using signboards to advertise the church, I say those things are not necessary. God is the one inviting people, if you allow him to do it, the solution to their problems will be waiting for them. But if you take it upon yourself to do the advertisement, people that God is not expecting will come along with them and there will be crisis and trouble.

You just continue doing your work and leave the advert for God, then those that God didn’t invite will not come and there will be peace and tranquillity. You should not go out to start saying ‘I can heal, I can deliver.’ At synagogue, our critics are our advertisement. They are people that don’t want to hear about us. They tell other people that ‘that church is devilish;’ unknowingly, some of the people they tell get inquisitive and they will want to come here and see what a devil looks like since they haven’t seen one before.

God has been using this as advertisement for us. Ninety per cent of people who come here do so in the bid to come and verify what they had heard about this church. When some of them get here, they will sit at the back, fearing that they could be hurt. Some put on dark glasses or disguise in a way that will not allow people that know them to recognise them. But before the service is over, some of them will pick up their bags and move to the front seats. They eventually become my prayer warriors.

Let me tell you something that amazes me and that I always thank God for – those who are with me are more than those that are against me. They keep supporting me all over the world. I have more, more, more people around the world. Whenever I say this, tears flow from my eyes (sobs for a while). These are tears of joy. I get so sad when I hear people’s confession when their eyes become open to what God is doing here. Some say, “I wish I had known this, my mum would not have died. She asked me to bring her here but because of what I was hearing about this place, I refused until she died. I hope that she will forgive me.”

On President Goodluck Jonathan’s involvement: When it comes to relationship, I think he would be in the best position to answer that question. Since what we are doing is creating impact around the world, you should expect Nigeria’s president to also be part of it. We are praying for the nation and being a Christian acknowledges it.

If Jonathan had been here, it would have been shown on our Emmanuel Television network. No president has ever visited this place in secret. The Bible says that if you confess me before men, I will confess you before my father in heaven. I am not a witch doctor; we have nothing to hide. If you have not read in the newspapers that your president came here, then that is that.

Anytime presidents of other countries come here, Jonathan is usually aware. If he doesn’t believe in what we are doing, he would have told them that we constitute security risks.

On “instructing” the nation: I say it on the television and all over the world. I accept that is not enough; it is better to see him one on one.

But what is the essence of a President’s visit if he won’t follow what I will tell him? This kind of trend keeps staining my name. I will not mention anybody, when they leave here; they do not obey the instructions.

What are presidents looking for in the church: The reason why people visit a man of God is to receive instructions, his opinion about them or their country. But if they don’t follow it, yet the whole world knows that they are close to TB Joshua, it has no benefit.

It is no big deal. Except they obey the counsel given to them, it has no benefit. It is not something to be proud of. At least, seven presidents have visited this place since inception. But each time presidents come to this place, I get query from God. When they come around, you won’t have time to attend to other people. They will block the road with their security and at the end of the day, they won’t do what you advise them to do.

On allegations that his generosity is what woos people to the church: How much will I give to the president of a nation to come here? Even when they come, I don’t get any financial gain but I incur cost because I want to ensure that they are well cared for. That is all; I even prefer to spend my time with the poor than to be with the presidents.

If a president visits this place today, the whole of the day will be devoted to that visit, I would have lesser time for the poor people, who need my attention. God has been warning me over this trend so much that when some presidents said that they wanted to visit me, I said no. I said it would be better for me to visit them in their countries. Each time they visit this place, I receive query from God because of my time that should have been used to attend to the poor and the needy that are waiting for me.

One soul is not superior to the other, why should I continue to receive query? Really out of three presidents that may visit, there will hardly be one that will show good example of the counsel that they received from me. If the needy are more receptive to God, it is better to give them more of my time.

Why he still asks people to display the items given to them live on camera: We do so to encourage other people to do likewise. Some of them are physically-challenged or indigent people who do not even have bank accounts, so we have to give them cash. We don’t want them to be duped, but we don’t do that often anymore.

It is not a deliberate advertising.

Every man of God has his own habit. Habit is a gift from God. Like Daniel, whenever he wants to pray, he will open his window, that is his habit. The disciples of Jesus prayed six times a day; that is their habit. It is not that we are showing off. When people see what we are doing, they learn how to be good givers.

If you do everything privately, what will people write about? Jesus fed the 5,000 people in the open, not in secret. That is why it could be written. When the tax collectors came to him, he did not hide to say, ‘I don’t want them to see that they want to collect money from me.’ Even when he healed a man and they asked him how he did it, he asked them to go and ask the healed man.

On how God speaks to him: Faith must first be in the heart before there could be an accepted confession. That means faith must first be in the heart before there could be an acceptance of prayer, request, talk from God. Faith is of man’s heart, which is spirit. Heart literarily means a different thing from the spirit. You use your faith to put a demand.

I use my faith to place a demand. You don’t understand what I am saying. Let me put it this way, faith is a channel through which the anointing flows. That means you use your faith to put a demand and ask for whatever you want. If there is faith in your heart, you can close your eyes and make a demand that you want to know what is happening around the world and before you know it, you will see the vision.

There is what you call a measure of faith – deep, deeper, deepest faith. I don’t know which level you belong. Faith grows as we hear the word and obey it. We are not all at the same level, but all things are possible to him that believes. What is possible for you may not be possible for me.

On people believing he is not a follower of Jesus Christ, but a member of some other sect: We don’t get power, it is faith we have. The power in our life is released by faith through our mouth. The issue of getting power is wrong. We don’t talk about getting power here. If you don’t have faith, power will remain dormant. In Mark, Jesus said this kind won’t be possible but by prayer and fasting. The disciples had power but lacked faith to release it.

Nigerians cannot tell me who I am. The percentage of my people around the world is more than those in Nigeria. I am celebrated around the world. Go on the internet, Emmanuel TV is the most watched. Forget about anybody, I don’t need to promote myself. Even Jesus could not win everybody’s soul.

The word Christian is a title. How do you know that those people talking believe in Jesus Christ when Christianity is a matter of the heart?

That is what I am correcting you about; that someone said he is a Christian doesn’t mean he is. If somebody says he belongs to this or that fellowship, only God knows. It is not about confessing that I am a prophet, a pastor, only God knows who is serving him. A mango tree cannot bear coconut. What you believe radiates around you. I’m more than that kind of confession. If anyone doesn’t believe me, they would when the time comes.

Christianity is not an association. Let us talk about Christianity. I don’t celebrate religion. I am a follower of Jesus; I am a Christian, that is all I know. I will invite you to come and worship here this Sunday. I am known by my love, not by my association, so whether Pentecostal, Catholic, Charismatic, Methodist, who is serving God? I don’t judge people but people can judge me. All I know is that my persecution has been a blessing; I have been tamed by it. It has strengthened me. I am a Charismatic.

I have told you about faith. You know that Elijah anointed Elisha, but can you tell me who anointed Elijah? So you see God can choose to do it the way He wants. Because I don’t want to hurt you, I don’t know which circle you belong to, maybe your own pastor was anointed by a man.

On Jim Iyke: Oh please, don’t drag me into that. All I can say is that if a person needs to see a doctor, he should be free to do so. I like the young man. He has been defending himself on the internet. Is he not enjoying a better life now? Are things not working for him?

On his family members: I don’t expose my family. I hear people saying that I don’t have a wife and that I have no child. That is the news everywhere. You have seen my wife, and this is a photograph of my daughter.

My wife is a very wonderful woman. She believes in receiving her own call. She does not just want to hold microphone because her husband is a pastor.

Men of God need to take care of their children. My daughter studied Law she is doing her PhD in Harvard and she is coming back home to preach the gospel. She loves to preach.

On his looks and if his wife is responsible: I love to look good, too; it is 50-50 anyway. She has been a great woman to me. She has been a great source of encouragement in the midst of my challenges. She is different in the sense that she said I was the one God called, so she is waiting until she is called by God to be a pastor. That is unlike what most men of God do, they believe that once they are called, their wives must be pastors too.

[b]On when he is going to buy his own private jet: When one is at the airport to catch a flight, you see that many have become like Molue. They could disappoint you by saying the flight has been cancelled. Even when you eventually get on board, people keep thronging you for one reason or the other. The person serving you the meal may be someone that needs deliverance, by giving you food, she will deliver you.

There was an experience I had when travelling by air for a trip of about nine hours. I was pressed but couldn’t go and ease myself because I had to queue like other people before I could use the restroom. Besides, I thought that some of those people could go to the toilet immediately after I had used it in expression of faith, so I remained glued to my seat all through the journey. That would not have been if I was flying a private jet.

Or if you are a man of God that snores and they see the pastor sleeping and snoring, they will think he shouldn’t snore. Meanwhile, he is human. So a man of God should have a private jet if the situation demands it.

If the use is for the church, the church should buy it, own it and manage it. It should not be bought in the pastor’s name. When he is no longer there, the jet remains the church’s.[/b]

On what inspired him to owning a football club: It is the desire to help people realise their dreams. There are other social platforms that we use to help people.

Is God not too busy to talk to him about that? The same God speaks about everything. God is aware of everything. It is all about the faith that you have; it manifests even in small things. We need to know how much we need God.

Source: Punch Nigeria
http://www.informationng.com/2013/12/tb-joshua-on-president-jonathan-gods-talking-to-him-private-jets-going-to-restroom-and-many-more.html

Stevosty: I'm definitely in support of lending a helping hand, but must it be that particular widow all focus must be on, while we have more helpless widows on the streets?

because she was told to go and die by her governor. she can be overwhelmed by the thoughts and commit suicide if nothing is done...

btw... where is nairaland e-helpers. they dont exist again?

via APC

biafranqueen: Apparently the New PDP donated N250,000 to her. They apparently have her contact! I am so proud of Nigerians we are really caring people if only are leaders can reflect that!
http://saharareporters.com/video/gov-oshiomhole-apologizes-harsh-public-dismissal-helpless-benin-city-widow

Which New PDP? the dead one or another one?

brixton: Bro any update from ur end as per locating d woman?

The PDP, Edo State will not let any Edo person ‘to go and die’ if it can help it, especially not hardworking people like that widow who are engaged in lawful enterprises that are, in themselves, not easy to carry on.

To this end, our party has instituted an endowment fund for all widows and oppressed people in the state and by this release, we invite the widow captured in the video of the encounter with Governor Oshiomhole to come to the PDP Secretariat on No. 70, Sapele Road, at 11am on Tuesday December 3, 2013 to receive a first-installment sum of N250,000.00 to cushion the pain, trauma and loss occasioned by her mistreatment and the seizure of the items she sells. Governance is about the people and as a responsible National Institution, Edo PDP cannot be unconcerned about the wrong treatment of indigenes of the state to whom the present administration promised heaven just to win their votes.

the woman should be at edo pdp secretariat next tuesday by 11. am

https://www.nairaland.com/1536440/pdp-rescues-go-die-widow

Billyonaire: THE WIDOW MUST NOT DIE! SOMEONE IN EDO STATE SHOULD LOCATE THE WIDOW AND SEND A SHORT VIDEO WITH ACCOUNT NUMBER.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1439891_aa97f7754e3f513e754579cd90a698ac_jpg3744a68f88dc28b23c18d72c5eecb1d2

Hw about getting a corporate organization located in edo involved to help find her. maybe a newspaper company or redcross ( https://www.facebook.com/edoredcross/info ) ?

nairaarea: The Rivers State Government in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the constitution has just announced the dissolution of the Obio akpor Local Government.

SIGNED: GEORGE FEYII


SOURCE: RSTV
3days after a high court in port harcourt reinstated the the suspended chairman of the local government Hon Timothy NsiriM

THE MOVIE IS STILL ON.

Then the President, Goodluck Jonathan is likely going to dissolve Rivers State. let's see hw it ends

dapachez: Will try and locate her tomorrow then give a feedback.I just hope they don't go after her. This is the worst thing a man of Oshiomole's standing can do,its so damn disppointing to say the least. He needs to be groomed on how to act in public. Smh for him

if u can get to the location, just ask around. someone might know her.

you guys want to put oshiomole to shame? he deserves it. hope he would realize his mistake.


Tomorrow's news headline:

Nairalanders teach Gov. Oshiomole how to treat widows...

one advantage of the underground method is it wld check all these illegal connections nonsense. when nepa staffs disconnect some pple, in the night, the bring some electricians to reconnect.

some even use the power from year to year without paying a dime. i could that take that any longer from my neighbor here and had to report him to the nepa officials.

btw. i heard a story of hw Ojukwu sacked one of his drivers who couldnt wait for a helpless woman hawker. the woman hawker was crossing the road when her ware fell off her head in the middle of the road. the driver was impatient as she was trying to gather her goods and kept blasting the horns on her. ojukwu collected the car keys from the driver and sacked him there and then for adding more confusion and troubles to a helpless woman.


compare the two characters....

i heard in some developed countries, electricity is transmitted underground via cables and pipes. shouldn't the new nepa owners be thinking of that?

funnyx: What a heartless words to say! 'go and die', I'm very disappointed in Oshiomole. What a shame!

i wonder.... check hw he signs death/execution warrants for condemned criminals. what happened to mercy and pity. is he really as brutal as his face appears?

The National Disciplinary Committee set up by the leadership of the Bamanga Tukur led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has recommended the expulsion of Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Dr. Sam Sam Jaja.

They were suspended on November 11 for what the leadership of the party described as anti -party activities. Baraje was the national chairman of the New PDP while Jaja was his deputy. Oyinlola was the national secretary of the Baraje faction.

He, however, said he remained the national secretary of the ruling party. Oyinlola has been at war with the leadership of the PDP over the latter’s failure to reinstate him as the party’s national secretary.

The Court of Appeal in Abuja had on November 6, ordered the PDP to reinstate him as the national secretary of the party. The party suspended him instead.

Announcing the committee’s recommendation on Wednesday, Deputy Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, pronounced Baraje, Oyinlola and Jaja guilty as charged.

Babatope, who spoke on behalf of the committee however said the case of Senator Ibrahim Kazaure who was also suspended alongside the trio, had been deferred for one month. According to him, Kazaure would still have to appear before the committee on December 10 to clarify certain issues relating to his case.

The committee therefore extended his suspension by 30 days. But in a reaction yesterday, Oyinlola maintained that he remained the national secretary of the PDP and that his expulsion cannot stand.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/pdp-expels-baraje-oyinlola-jaja/

"Anambra Election crisis: APC leadership to march on INEC, warns police against
stopping it" - by: Lai Mohammed

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced it will stage a peaceful procession to INEC headquarters in Abuja on Thursday to register its disapproval of the Commission's string of failures in conducting recent elections, including the Delta Central Senatorial District bye-election and the 'inconclusive' Anambra Governorship
poll.

In a statement issued by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party vowed to proceed with the march, despite the illegal move by the police to stop it.

''We are doing this as a patriotic service to the nation because INEC as presently constituted is not capable of organizing a free and fair election again in Nigeria. If the Commission is not checked, its incompetence and conniving acts could plunge the country into chaos of unimaginable proportions,'' it said.

APC explained that ahead of the march, it wrote a letter to the FCT police command to inform it of the planned procession and to request for police escort to forestall a possible hijacking of the march by sponsored hoodlums.

''To our dismay, however, the FCT Police Commissioner did not only turn down our request for police escort but also cheekily advised us to restrict our activity to holding a press conference within our party headquarters to convey our grievances to INEC .

''We reject this very patronizing directive from the partisan FCT
police command and hereby states that in exercise of our
constitutional rights, the leadership of the APC will go ahead with its planned peaceful procession on Thursday, the 28th of November, to express our dissatisfaction with the corruption-ridden INEC and to pass a vote of no confidence on the Commission,'' the party said.

It said the police should not mistake its letter to the security
agency as a request for permission to stage the procession, since the law has said no such permission is required.

''When we wrote this letter, we were quite aware of the ruling of the Appeal Court affirming the decision of Justice Chinyere of the Abuja Federal High Court the in the case of All Nigeria Peoples Party v Inspector General of Police (2006) CHR 181 which said, inter alia: 'If as speculated by law enforcement agents that breach of the peace would
occur, our Criminal Code has made adequate provisions for sanctions against breakdown of law and under so that the requirement of a permit as a conditionality to holding meetings and rallies can no longer be justified in a democratic society.'

''Being mindful of the position of the law on this issue but as a law abiding and a patriotic political party, we nonetheless in our said letter asked the police to provide us with escort during the procession, in line with international best practices. That the police turned down this request speaks volumes about its disdain for the rule
of law.

''We will not be deterred by the blatantly-partisan police, who have missed another great opportunity to affirm their neutrality and respect for the rule of law. We will use this march to prove the point that we shall not condone a Police Command, however partisan or corrupt, abridging our constitutional rights.

''While we shall do all in our powers to make Thursday's procession to INEC as peaceful as possible, Nigerians and the entire world should hold the FCT police command responsible for any breakdown of law and order that may be occasioned by their unprofessional, partisan and illegal action,'' the APC said.

Alhaji Lai Mohammed
Interim National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)
Abuja, Nov. 27th 2013

https://www.facebook.com/nasirelrufai/posts/10153520822760128

just got that on the Radio nigeria network news

A good attitude is ur friend. I saw this book "Attitude is Everything" tho havent read it. getting involved in some social activities can be useful. then, looking good and always appearing neat is non-negotiable....

i suspect a poisoned birthday cake or something or maybe ulcer. beware!

To give in to the lecturer's threat is a stupid option.

Report the matter to the Association of Women Lawyers. They have the power to disgrace that so called lecturer. i can give you their contact if u r interested.

"Fallout of Anambra Guber: I Did Not Rig Alone - Arrested INEC Official" - By: Donald Ojogo, Okechukwu Obeta, Bayo Oladeji, Igho Oyoyo on November 20, 2013

A principal actor in the controversial Anambra governorship election of November 16 has reportedly made sterling revelations to his interrogators in Abuja.

Mr Okeke Chukwujekwu, the electoral officer in charge of Idemili North local government area of Anambra State, currently in police detention over his role in the electoral saga, was said to have told his police investigators that he was “being used and dumped”.

The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, had, in the heat of the controversies generated by the flawed poll, admitted that the “electoral officer” in Idemili North “messed up” and that he would be handed over to the police for prosecution.

Chukwujekwu was moved to Abuja on Sunday, just as INEC said it was conducting a probe into the deliberate sabotage of the governorship election.

A top official involved in the election confided in LEADERSHIP yesterday that the arrested INEC official had made useful statements even as he was apprehensive that top directors of INEC might be “implicated”.

“The way this whole thing is going, it looks as if many heads will roll in INEC because the young man has made useful statements and if what he said is anything to rely upon, it then means that some big names in that commission might fall with him.

“At first, he was trying to rationalise his action in that local government area when he was verbally quizzed before the intervention of the police; but, after some time, especially at the point of his detention, he started to cooperate but the cooperation is loaded because he has mentioned some top officials of INEC, especially directors and a PDP chieftain, as those who ‘put him in trouble’.

Although the source declined to disclose the identities of those involved, he said “preliminary confessions” point to the fact that the bungled election in most LGAs of the state was “packaged by aggrieved politicians in connivance with top INEC officials both in Abuja and Awka” adding: “It was a well-funded package.”

“All fingers point to some aggrieved politicians and it was a well-funded package that involved quite a lot of people; that is why the man is saying he has been used and dumped,” he said.

Meanwhile, Jega has said all enquiries regarding arrests made in the bungled Anambra election should be referred to the police.

Jega’s chief press secretary, Kayode Idowu, told LEADERSHIP on the telephone that INEC would not comment on the arrested official who allegedly played a key role in the flawed poll.

“One, I cannot say anything on his matter because the police has taken over a larger chunk of the matter; only the police can say something on the role of the man arrested and how far they have gone with their investigation; so you have to contact the police.

“Again, it will be out of place for me to reel out what the commission intends to do. Mind you, INEC is also carrying out its administrative interrogation on his matter,” he said.

INEC does not need court order to cancel tainted poll - APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused INEC of being economical with the truth by saying only the courts can order the cancellation of last Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra in which about 1.3 million of the 1.7 million registered voters were unable to exercise their franchise.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its interim national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party reminded INEC that it did not wait for a court order to cancel the National Assembly elections in 2011 when it was obvious that many voters across the country could not vote due to the late arrival or non-delivery of voting materials.

‘’In announcing the cancellation of the National Assembly election in 2011, INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega said, among others, that it was to ‘maintain the integrity of the elections and retain effective overall control of the process’,’’ it said.

APC said the situation in Anambra last Saturday was even more serious because, in addition to the fact that voting materials were either late or not delivered at all, most voters were disenfranchised by an INEC official who apparently tampered with the 2011 voters’ register for the state.

‘’Therefore, there are more compelling reasons now to cancel the Anambra governorship election than what led to the cancellation and rescheduling of the National Assembly election in 2011, unless of course INEC is still acting out the script handed to it for the ill-fated election,’’ the party said.

Apologise to Nigerians, HURIWA, TCN tell Jega
In a related development, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) and the Transparency Center Network (TCN) have asked INEC chairman Prof Attahiru Jega to apologise to Nigerians for the apparent failure and administrative flaws that marred the November 16, 2013, governorship poll in Anambra State.

The groups also asked the hierarchy of the electoral body to name, shame and prosecute all the electoral officials that in one way or the other colluded with reactionary political forces to undermine the transparent conduct of the bungled election which was declared inconclusive.

According to the groups, the bulk of blame and responsibility lies with INEC which is constitutionally empowered to conduct free, fair and transparent elections nationally.

The groups stated this in a joint statement signed by the national coordinator of HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, who is also the deputy chief of mission for Transparency Center Network (TCN), an officially accredited election observer to the Anambra election, as well as the national director of media affairs of HURIWA, Miss Zainab Yusuf.

They noted that the failure of INEC in Anambra is an unfortunate foretaste of what may happen in 2015 unless and except comprehensive reforms are executed in INEC by the National Assembly to make it transparent, accountable, effective and efficient.

http://leadership.ng/news/201113/fallout-anambra-guber-i-did-not-rig-alone-arrested-inec-official

Though the result of the Anambra State gubernatorial election is still being awaited, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Chris Ngige has called for cancellation of the election.

The Director of Media and Communication of Ngige Campaign Organisation, Chief Charles Amilo accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of conspiring with the ruling party in the state, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to rig the election in favour of the latter.

He alleged that the commission deliberately distributed voters materials late to areas considered as APC’s strong-hold just to short-change the party’s candidate.

http://www.nigeriaintel.com/2013/11/17/anambra-guber-ngige-calls-for-cancellation-of-election/

is APC truly leading as elrufai said?

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The APC situation room is well organized and the results are coming in. APC is ahead of APGA, PDP and Labour are out of the race....
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After 23 hours of the violation of my freedom of movement and association, I have gone out of Finotel Hotel to visit the APC situation room
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who won the election?

haf dey deklared APGA d winner?

kaycee2012: PDP is winning now in 12 local governments where voting has almost been concluded.
APC and APGA agents are all busy fighting each other at each polling boot.

it wld be a miracle for pdp to win

its a mortgage bank owned by assemblies of God church. i have someone bought 1200 shares from them about 6 years ago at 1.20k per share. anyone know about them? no website working now. all i can find online is this.

http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/210233011/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3