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koboko69:
If you are not blind, you will see the article repeated the same assertion of Okonjo, so what exactly is your point? Are you toe-in the same was as plaetton?

adioolayi:
MINIMUM WAGE: Old Price #18000......New Price #18000

koboko69:
Your point is?

koboko69:
The joke is on you. You guys only see what you want to see.

You cleary see this

"Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, promptly rose to the defence of Mr. Jonathan’s administration, saying of the $63 billion debt, the administration only incurred $21.8 billion."

See link;

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/185471-jonathan-left-n7trillion-deficit-for-nigeria-buharis-transition-committee-chairman-joda.html

As for OBJ, he received the bulk of Abacha's loot. And it took a whooping 8 year to leave 47bn in the reserves. Also note that oil prices soared high, hence your logic is null and void.

Get your facts right.

madridsta007:
Let's hope, as it may likely turn out to be, that this is another piece of propaganda from the APC- a party that has effectively ran Nigeria for a year via propaganda. That is a feat, one must admit.

One year in power and the Buhari-led government has fallen abysmally short on all counts as predicted by every rational mind before March 2015. Inflation rate has gone on to double digits; 1.6million jobs lost in 2016 alone and over 1 million lost between May 2015 and Dec 2015; the GDP for the first time in 2015 years is on negative growth rate; prices of essential commodities have either doubled or tripled...

I could go on and on. The government is in dire need of a distraction. So it needs to create and drive the narrative. The release of the Chibok girl(s) last week wasn't sufficient as it was a script riddled with glaring inconsistencies and, at best, it was too pedestrian for all who had a causal read on the news.

Arresting Jonathan would create an excellent diversion. However, if Buhari has any adviser whom he listens to, that would be a very, very, very bad move. As a retired general he should know that starting a new war within a space which has an ongoing war is a terrible, terrible move. While Boko Haram was set up to make the country ungovernable, attacks by militants in the Niger Delta will effectively ground Nigeria, affect oil prices and bring in the capitalists to throw him out. Yes, this will what will happen.

The aim of "arresting GEJ" is simple; create a national distraction; when that distraction, which will generate huge public attention dies away, release in batches "news and revelation" from the EFCC to media houses of how much GEJ "stole"... This will effectively run for another year or two. Then start campaigning for 2019, blaming your inability to deliver on even 5% of your 2015 campaign promises on PDP's "16 year misrule", GEJ's stolen funds, pipeline attacks, a comatose economy based on pipeline attacks, fluctuating oil prices... Etc. The North will easily be sold that, the West will again refuse to align with the South East and South South for a much better candidate... And Buhari-led APC will be sworn in again.

Nigeria will be obviously worse off for it, but I fear the above will happen.

• Agip pipeline hit for second time in one week, vandals arrested

• MEND calls for end of attacks as presidency considers Alaibe for Amnesty post

• Report: Shell paid $5bn to FG in 2015


There are strong indications that former President Goodluck Jonathan may have gone into temporary self exile in Cote d’Ivoire, following reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may arrest him on his arrival in Nigeria from his overseas tour on allegations of corruption and misappropriation of billions of dollars in the five years during which he was Head of State, THISDAY has learnt.

Several sources close to the ex-president, who confirmed that Jonathan had sought refuge last week in the West African country, also blamed the heightened attacks on oil and gas installations by Ijaw militants in the Niger Delta, resulting in the loss of an estimated 800,000-900,000 barrels of crude oil per day (bpd), to what they claimed was “the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to renege on his promise that his predecessor had ‘nothing to fear’ from him (Buhari) after he handed over the reins of power on May 29, 2015”.

Immediately after his electoral victory in 2015 and at his presidential inauguration, Buhari, in what was seen as a political gesture, had stated that he would not go after his successor, despite allegations that the former president had presided over widespread corruption during his five years in the saddle.

However, since Jonathan’s departure, anti-corruption agencies led by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have swept in on several associates of the former president on allegations of money laundering, diversion of public funds and contract scams, mostly linked to defence sector contracts and the purchase of arms used for the prosecution of the war against Boko Haram in the North-east.

In recent weeks, the EFCC has in addition to arresting and prosecuting several public office holders who served under the Jonathan administration, arrested some of the closest allies of the former president including his cousin, Mr. Aziobola Robert, in connection to a $40 million pipeline surveillance contract, and his former principal secretary and confidant Mr. Hassan Tukur.

These arrests were said to have shaken the former president, given that they were the two persons closest to him during his presidency.

A source, who spoke to THISDAY on Jonathan’s decision to give Nigeria a wide berth, said the former president was reliably warned by security sources of the plan to arrest him once he stepped into the country, hence his decision to seek exile in Cote d’Ivoire.

Jonathan, the source disclosed, departed Nigeria for the United States almost two months ago travelling to several cities but stayed in New York for some two weeks. After departing the US, he travelled to London to be with his children for a few days, preparatory to his return to Nigeria.

But while in the UK, he was warned by sympathetic officials in different arms of government of the government’s decision to arrest him once he returned to Nigeria.

On getting wind of the plan,  Jonathan, THISDAY gathered, contacted a few West African leaders including the President of Cote d’Iviore, Mr. Alassane Outtara, who offered him a safe haven until the coast is clear for him to return to Nigeria.

Sources close to the president said since the information of the government’s resolve to arrest Jonathan swept through the Niger Delta, Ijaw militants have gone berserk and stepped up their attacks on oil and gas installations in the region. They are said to be hell bent on shutting down oil output completely.

One source said the militants are targeting all onshore and shallow water installations, from where Nigeria derives the bulk of 90 per cent of its foreign exchange earnings and may head for the deep offshore oil fields if the federal government does not back down.

“Perhaps the only installations that may not be affected in the interim by militant attacks are those in the deep offshore basin because they are more difficult to reach and would require large vessels to access,” said the source who, however, added that “during the last militant crises we went as far as shutting down the Bonga deep water oil field”.

In order to stem the renewed wave of attacks, governors in the region have scrambled and sent teams to the creeks to placate the militants, but so far their efforts appear to have fallen on deaf ears.

The governors are particularly concerned that the attacks on oil installations would hurt the Niger Delta states the most due to the attendant decline in revenue.

When contacted on the plan by the government to arrest Jonathan and his purported exile, Buhari’s media adviser, Mr. Femi Adesina, said he was not aware that the former president was in exile, adding that questions on his arrest could only be addressed by the security and law enforcement agencies.

malton:
Blame artists, buck-passers and projectionists;

Globally, economies that oscillate around single-commodity exports are all having torrid times owing to economic downturn and the drop in global commodity prices.

Scapegoat Buhari all you want, truth still remains that he's not responsible for your woes.

I could go on and on with this, but there's nothing I'll say that will make y'all change your hate-filled minds. So, have a field day!

olatunji21:
I campaigned Vociferously for Buhari though i am currently battling with the economic downturn bt i never for once stopped believing in him..

olatunji21:
That is If he fails to perform... And besides there is a believe now that anything Buhari do wrong is/was due to influence of saboteurs..... Go to the street and listen to the people's opinion...

Tokety7:

What u Av refused to accept is SW will weigh her options. Apart from Buhari, what other options are u presenting to them? Kwankwaso? Atiku?
I put it to u that even u with ur reservations with Buhari can still keep ur money with him with all eyes closed but Atiku?..........u must be kidding.
What other options are u offering? Buhari beats them all combined.

EbukaFran:
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It depends on what you mean by a new party

Will it be members of PDP forming a new party or a major rebranding i.e change of name?

Or is it a brand new party of people that have no affiliation with PDP with a new ideology ?

bettercreature:
Only Fasola can defeat Buhari in south-west at the moment no one else! Most south-westerners don't support buharis policy at the moment but they believe they are save with Buhari and has immense trust in him

EbukaFran:
True

But the SW will not vote for PDP

I don't think you realise that Yorubas have been totally sidelined in the pdp

The highest office zoned to the SW in the PDP EXCO is the publicity secretary lolzzz

The North has 50% of the main positions while the rest is shared by the SE/SS

The Yorubas will rather for KOWA than PDP


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olatunji21:
Kwankwaso plus Atiku plus Saraki cannot and wil never defeat Buhari in South West...Buhari would trump even OBJ himself in SW..

iamrealdeji:
God bless Atiku for stealing our money and multiplying it for his bank account? Chai,poverty no good o

Jesusloveyou:
Atiku cannot stil stand pmb, kwankwaso can stand pmb only in apc, but he cant stand pmb if he goes to new party or pdp