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The conduct of the PDP in the run up to the Anambra gubernatorial election shows that the party’s ticket may be for sale to the highest bidder.

PENULTIMATE week, the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, rolled out its guidelines for the Anambra State primary election in preparation for the state gubernatorial poll fixed for November 16.

The party also threw open its Wadata Plaza, National Secretariat for interested aspirants to pick Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms ahead of the August 24 primary election where the party’s flag-bearer would emerge to wrestle with Senator Chris Ngige of the Action Congress of Nigeria, CAN, now All Progressive Congress, APC, and the candidates of All Progressive Grand Alliance and other parties in the gubernatorial election.

Wadaza Plaza thus became a beehive of activities, heightening the political atmosphere, and, as against the solemn nature of the Secretariat, praise singers were on ground to hail aspirants who came with their supporters in different kinds of cars. It was also time to raise money for the party, a period some PDP officials described as ‘Ojanta’, meaning, ‘’Market is booming.”

For the Anambra election, the PDP set aside its 2010 guidelines for primary elections which stipulate that an aspirant shall obtain the Expression of Interest Form-Code PD002/G for N500, 000, and the Nomination Form- Code PD003/G, for N5,000,000; save for female aspirants who shall be exempted.


Soludo, Ogene, Odenigbo, Uzoh, Mrs. Ekwunife , Okonkwo, Ndubuisi and Ifeanyi Uba

Each male aspirant from Anambra State rushed to the Secretariat, collected the Expression of Interest Form for N1million, not N500, 000 as well as the Nomination Form for N10 million, not N5 million, making it a total of N11 million, while each female aspirant picked the Expression of Interest Form for N1 million and N5, 000, 000 for the Nomination Form, totally N6million as against the former arrangement of N500, 000 for Expression of Interest Form and free Nomination Form for women. There is now a new dispensation in the party where women no longer enjoy the privilege, just as the PDP is also using the Anambra election as a case study for the increase in Nomination fee.

During the period of collection of forms ahead of the Anambra primary election, twenty- six aspirants picked the Expression of Interest Forms to vie for the PDP gubernatorial ticket, but, at the close of submission of both the Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms on Monday midnight, only17 aspirants returned the forms and thus met the 12 midnight deadline.

The implication is that nine aspirants have backed out of the race.

In terms of Naira and Kobo, the PDP raked N12 million from the two female aspirants in the race and N165 million from the 15 male aspirants who submitted the forms at N11 million each.

On Tuesday, the 17 ‘successful’ aspirants appeared before the Ambassador Aminu Wali- led Screening Committee at the National Working Committee, NWC, meeting hall of the PDP National Secretariat.

Other members of the Screening Committee are former Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Mrs Biodun Olujimi; Mohammed Umaru Kumalia; former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Austin Okpara and Casmir Ugwu.

The 17 aspirants, who appeared before the screening Committee, are Senators Andy Uba and Emmanuel Anosike Obi; former Minister of Women Affairs and past National Woman leader of PDP, Chief Iyom Josephine Anenih; Dr. Obinna Uzoh; Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu; Barrister Mike Okoye; Nze Akachukwu Nwankpo; Chief Ugochukwu Okeke; Amb. Jerry Ugokwe; Sylvester Okonkwo; Tony Nwoye; Patrick Nduka Ugbomo; Agape Ifunanyachukwu Dike- Kramer; Dr. Alex Obiogbolu; Charles Odunukwe; Onwuanyi Afamefuna Damian and Walter Ubaka Okeke.

Those who picked forms and did not return for reason which may not be unconnected with the hike to N10 million the fee for the Nomination Form fromN5,000, 000 are Eucharia Azodo; Donatus Okonkwo; Chukwuka Onyema; Adimachukwu Calista; Chinyere Udemba; Ikeobasi Mokelu; and Linda Chuba Ikepeazu.

Besides the raising of the fee for the Nomination Form from N5 million to N10 million, Sunday Vanguard gathered that the PDP has pegged N10, 000 each for the three delegates per ward as against the N100 that was hitherto paid by each of the three ad-hoc delegates during the past governorship primary elections, just as over N300, 000 will enter the purse of the party at the end of the exercise.

According to the PDP guidelines, ‘’for the purpose of nominating the party’s candidates for the offices of Governor of a State, member of the National Assembly(Senate and House of Representatives), member of the State House of Assembly and election of National Delegate, each Ward Chapter of the Party shall elect three(3) Ward Ad-hoc Delegates at a Special Ward Congress, at least one of whom shall be a woman…the three (3) aspirants with the highest votes shall be returned elected.”

Anambra State has 326 wards and, according to the ‘Electoral Guidelines for Primary Elections’ of the party, ‘’three delegates per Ward elected at Ward Congress at least one of whom shall be a woman, all of whom shall cease to function at the conclusion of the Congresses for which they were elected.”

Sunday Vanguard also gathered that some of the aspirants have kicked against the N10, 000 per the three ad-hoc members as delegates against the backdrop that only the very rich will get the delegates to their sides as the villagers who are coming from the ward cannot afford the money.

Some aspirants, a source said, were also, at the end of a meeting, on Monday night, complained of moves to include, as delegates, all former members of the State Working Committee on the grounds that Anambra has had up to 13 Executive Committees till date, even as the source said that the arrangement will be tailored to favour one of the aspirants.

Special Congress

According to the guidelines of the PDP, those expected as delegates to the Special State Congress to pick the Anambra candidate are the State Chairman; gubernatorial candidates; members of the Board of Trustees, BoT, from the state; members of the State Executive Committee; members of the National and Zonal Executive Committees from the State; members of the National and Zonal Executive Committees from the State; members of the National Assembly from the State; members of the State House of Assembly, who are members of the party; elected Local Government Council Chairmen and Vice Chairmen who are members of the party; Local Government Party Secretaries and Treasurers; Local Government Woman and Youth Leaders; former members of the State Working Committee who are still members of the party; former Governors and Deputy Governors produced by the party who are still members of the party; and former Speakers and Deputy Speakers of the State House of Assembly produced by the party who are still members of the party.

A major hurdle that the PDP will have to cross as it prepares for the primary and governorship elections in Anambra State is the issue of the Chairman of the state chapter that will be recognized as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Bamanga Tukur- led National Working Committee, NWC, are poised for another war on the matter.

The PDP leadership is recognizing Ken Emeakayi as the state PDP Chairman, but INEC overruled the recognition. INEC says it will continue to recognise Chief Ejike Ogbuebego as the Anambra PDP Chairman.

The office of the National Chairman of PDP was served a letter from INEC where it indicated its non- recognition of Emeakayi as the Anambra Chairman of the PDP.

INEC Secretary, Abdullahi A. Kaugama, in the letter, said, “The Commission was served with several letters on the leadership of the People’s Democratic Party in Anambra State. Several Exparte Orders and consent Judgements in none of which INEC was a party were attached to the letters.

“You may wish to be reminded that the Commission monitored a State Congress of the People’s Democratic Party in Anambra State at which Chief Ejike Ogbuebego was elected as Chairman of the Party in the State.

“The Commission accordingly recognised Chief Ejike Ogbuebego as the State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party in Anambra State. The Commission has not been served with any order in which the Court nullified the election of the said Chief Ejike Ogbubego as the State Chairman of your party in Anambra State.

“This is to inform you that the Commission will continue to recognise Chief Ejike Ogbuebego as the State Chairman of your party in Anambra State until specifically ordered otherwise by a Court of law.”

Now that the PDP has fixed N11 million for both the Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms starting with Anambra State, will the fees be sustained as the party goes for the forthcoming gubernatorial elections in Ekiti and Osun states? There are other posers arising from the hike in the fees payable by the aspirants jostling for the Anambra PDP gubernatorial ticket.

Is it a case of Anambra being a rich state? What happens to an aspirant who may be loved by the people and with unquestionable character but cannot raise the N11 million to pick the forms? What happens to that aspirant who may not have sponsors to invest in the business of fielding him?

Will the party extend same to the House of Assembly, House of Representatives’ elections? Should that happen, what hope does a fresh graduate have to vie for such public office? And if the person eventually raises the N11 million, becomes the party’s candidate, and the campaigns begin, how does he manage that his budget will not hit over N1billion.

And if the candidate wins the election, will he not first recoup his ‘investment’ before delivering democracy dividends to the people? There are so many unanswered questions trailing the high fees the aspirants for the PDP gubernatorial ticket are paying such that many analysts of the Anambra election say the ticket appears to be for sale to the highest bidder.


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presher: may be this is blessing in disguise for ngige now that he bears tunde he can contest for lagos governor after fashola ngige family fit even stone him

So e don reach like this

Reelsteel: Tanko, I bu onye ara

Laugh wan kill person.

Na me like your post jori.

Tundeolaniyi: As a yoruba in okoro land, I think Ngige should forget this election. He should hold fashola responsible for his failure in the election. The mood of people I have seen here in Onitsha is not so good for Ngige to fly this time.

Initially I have dusted my voters card to vote for Ngige but, because of his reaction towards ndi Igbo. It will go for Soludo solution.

Ngige should forget the election because he will lose it.

APC just messed him up.

Am from the most intelligent tribe in Nigeria, but I must condemn this unlawful act.
I hereby sentence this dude to 20 years in prison with hard labour.


Na only you like money self, as I dey so, I need money pass FG and you get the morale to push drug abi. Hehehe! you will die like a chicken.

Singing Rick Ross: Holy Ghost.
¶
Being dead broke is the root of all evil
Get money, my nigga, do good with your people
I got the calico, I got the dynamite
They wanna do it big?¶

Proudly Igbo.

iamswizz: Before opening the thread.. I already knew the tribe

Rule No 1.

Moderators where una dey.

Khaffi: Oh shut up! Pervert

Truth hurts you know.

Shut down!

Nafeesa AA: Abeg which kind rubbish be this? Tales by Moon light.
A Bayelsa Christian man sponsoring BH,
We ve never heard of Boko haram victims having their blood sucked, infact this write up is a jucky tale.

Probably one idiot finished smoking weed, picks his laptop somewhere in lagos, then decide on what to write, then he remember boko news are getting diminishing these days, Gbam! he start writing this fiction

Among the twelve apostles there is Judas.

A single person can turn a country upside down because of selfish interest.

Look at what is happening in SYRIA because of one person.

The ancient country Syria is in a big mess. Damascus has lost it's glory just because of one man.

Think!

zico2: This is very clear that immature people have taken over nairaland. Someone is given out such heart rending confession and all i could see is rubbish. This very confession should not be taken lightly. There is evidence of truth in it. We christian in this country need to wake up and open our eye. What we re seen now re sighs of endtime. These so called muslims really mean business when it comes to issue of religion. We should emulate Nehemiah in the bible. Bible in one hand and weapon in the other. This man is a real member of Boko haram with this level of confession. May God take control

Tell them.
Don't be surprise that those claiming Christian aren't.

Nonybb: If only Prophet muhammad is still alive he will handcuffed and arrest by ICC for war crimes and incitement

Muslim moderators will ban you soon.

I didn't see your comment.

Checking your profile if they have already banned you lolz.

They will soon land to defend their religion.

Lets watch and see.

Yeah, I made it.

Typing...........


Update:

they used to instruct us to recite some passages in the Quran and whenever we do that, the visitors would appear to us during those unholy hours. They could come in three or four. They appeared like humans but they are not humans.

Hope am not the only one seeing the quoted.

All we need is solution to our problems and the solution is Soludo.

Soludo Solution all the way.........

I can't' just stop laughing.

Bread own funny pass.

GTBank all the way.

There is only two banks in Nigeria. GTBank and others.

slap1: Something must kill a man.

Yes, but it's too bad to be killed by a drink.

jaymichael: palmwine nko? that one too bad?

Palm wine isn't among. Truly natural but, drink responsible.

berem: Noted! anytime i have a visitors in my house, I'll simply offer them water. shikena!

Aaaah.

The number of visitors will reduce drastically.

Experimental malaria vaccine shows promising results in small, early-stage clinical trial in people, researchers say.

An experimental malaria vaccine has proved highly effective in a small, early-stage clinical trial in people, raising hope in the global effort to combat the deadly disease, US researchers reported in the journal Science.

"This was something that everybody said was not possible. And here it is," Navy Captain Judith Epstein, one of the researchers, said in a telephone interview on Thursday.

"We're in the first stages now of really being able to have a completely effective vaccine," said Epstein, who said hopes to see licensing of the vaccine within three to five years.

Malaria, commonly spread by mosquitoes, infected 219 million people in 2010 and killed an estimated 660,000, according to estimates by the World Health Organization.

That translates into one child in Africa dying every minute.

Proof of concept

"It's an important proof of concept," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said of the clinical trial held from October 2011 to October 2012.

Fauci said the test results were the most promising yet of any experimental vaccine. The vaccine was produced by privately held Sanaria Inc of Maryland.

Fauci resisted calling the trial a breakthrough. He said the test only involved a small number of people and that it was not yet clear how long the vaccine's protection against malaria would last.

The study involved 57 healthy participants aged 18 to 45 who had never had malaria. Of these, 40 got the vaccine and 17 did not.

"There are several more steps before you can feel comfortable that you have something that might be ready for
prime time," he told Reuters. "So we're really not there yet, but it's encouraging to see these very favourable results."

The vaccine, known as PfSPZ, is made from live but weakened parasites of the species Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly of the malaria-causing parasites.

Experiment

To test for safety, those in the vaccine group were split into two groups who received two to six doses of the intravenous vaccine at increasing dose levels. They were followed closely for a week, and the team saw no severe side effects.

To test for effectiveness, the team exposed each study participant - those who got the vaccine and those who didn't - to bites from five malaria infected mosquitoes.

After a week, volunteers were checked for infection, and those who were infected were treated for malaria. The team found that those who got the higher doses of the vaccine were far less likely to develop malaria that those who got lower doses or were not vaccinated.

In the study, only three of 15 participants who received higher dosages of the vaccine became infected, compared to 16 of 17 participants in the lower dosage group who became infected.

Among the 12 participants who were not vaccinated, 11 became infected after exposure to infected mosquitoes.

Manufacturing the vaccine was itself an achievement.

The company that produced it, Sanaria of Rockville, Maryland, was able to expose sterile mosquitoes to the malaria-infected blood, irradiate them to weaken the parasites that cause the disease and then - and this is the hard part - dissect the tiny insects to extract those parasites.

Only then could they make the vaccine.


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Good move, the case can't die like fowl.

Fish them out.

Gorrbachev: Their warnings should be directed at Obi, Kalu and other ibos, they are the ones trying to create crises out of nothing. Fashola is not in their league. Igi imu Gina si ori. Fact.

Must you comment?

Rule No 1.

Coalition of Civil Society Group, CCSG, has blamed the Federal Government for the alleged “deportation’ of 14 destitute from Lagos to Anambra State, saying rather, “the central government is lacking in the provision of social care for the vulnerable.”

The group also described the action of Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State as an abdication of its responsibility to the citizens of the state.

Briefing at the International Press Centre, Ogba, Ikeja, on ‘Security Challenges and the Raging Controversy,’ the group said rather than condemn Lagos State Government, citizens of Igbo extraction should blame the Presidency for not providing the necessary support for the vulnerable persons in the country.

Speaking on behalf of the group, Mr. Abiodun Sowunmi lamented that the “central government hardly intervenes in the provision of mass housing and there is no record of any intervention in the provision of social care for the destitute in the country.

“Rather than care for them, the Federal Government embarked on a zero policy on the presence of destitute in the Federal Capital territory, FCT, Abuja and is currently demolishing villages belonging to the Gwari people (the indigenes of Abuja) and driving them out of the vicinity of the seat of power.

“Therefore, it is beyond belief that any governor of a state in Nigeria, specifically Governor Obi, with the knowledge of above-mentioned intolerance of the poor, will invite the Presidency to caution a state government that was implementing the law of its state.

“For instance the Lagos State Environmental law 2012, allows the state to clear beggars and destitute off the streets and then rehabilitate them. So what the state government did was absolutely right.”

Speaking against the action of the Anambra State Government, Mr. Nelson Ekujumi said “the government whose citizens have migrated en masse to other states as destitute are themselves indicted and Anambra State ought to take measures to rehabilitate them instead of accusing another state government of ‘deportation.’”


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Realdeals: With my high resolution Nikon camera by my side all corrupt police officers are in trouble

Yeah, but be careful.

iheanyi40: c dis one where you from ,dat stuff works on Q1 even L3 it should work on M3 too so don't come here Ãήϑ type rubbish just †̥O̅ be noticed.

You aren't 100% sure that it will work on M3, because it worked on Q1 and L3.
Don't give a solution on mobile you aren't 100% sure. Even though it's working must you use abusive word on who you do not know?

Mind what you type boi.

jude d writer: because we don't value lives in dis country. In america, they can investigate d death of a child up to 10 years till they trace d killer; d whole nation is tensed when a citizen dies. here, boko kills scores of kids and within a week we forget all about it.

They investigate the death of a cat not to talk of humans.

A police officer caught on film soliciting for inducement by an unknown motorist has been dismissed by the Nigerian police force.

Deputy Force Public Relations Officer Mr Frank Mba who confirmed the dismissal of the officer, identified him as sergeant Christopher Okpal aeze.

He added that contrary to Mr Okpaleze’s claim to have accomplices, the phone call was found to be false to make the motorist part with his money.

Mr Mba added that the dismissal of Mr Okpalaeze is in line with the new Nigerian police zero tolerance for unethical and unprofessional conducts.

The police warn that it will not fail to weed out the bad eggs, while well behaved officers will be appropriately rewarded; it also urges Nigerians to like the motorist, join in the policing of policemen to help rid the force of corrupt officers.

Until his dismissal Mr Okpalaeze had served a total of twenty -one years in the Nigerian police force.

Reacting, the Nigeria Police PRO, Mr. Frank Mba commented saying the said officer did not place the call that was captured on the video, that it was only meant to prompt the motorist to cooperate, an antic which he referred to as ‘ antics of corrupt Nigerians, antics of corrupt police officers’.


Check out this page for the video if you haven't watch it >>> https://www.nairaland.com/1387201/nigerian-police-officer-asking-bribe


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WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO AND THAT IS WHY WE NIGERIANS NEED EDUCATION MORE THAN ANY OTHER THING.
WE ARE STILL IN DARK. THANK GOD I DON'T/WILL NEVER GIVE A DAMN IF SUCH THING HAPPEN ON MY SIDE "I MUST SURELY FIND THE ROOT"

Those old grand mama's and papa's in the village don't know whats up and that is why we Nigerians need to be enlighten and that will be through education so that our future generation will have a say.

We need to put things right so that our next generation will see the light.

The whole problem many Nigerians sit down and allow such to happen is because of Illiteracy.


I like IMO state current government for the FREE EDU 4 ALL.


#FREEEDU4ALL