Monday, June 29, 2015
Monday, 29 June 2015
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PDP to Buhari: You can’t blackmail us...
Monday, June 29, 2015
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says no amount of intimidation, blackmail and propaganda by the Presidency would stop it from standing shoulder to shoulder with Nigerians in demanding that President Muhammadu Buhari kick-starts government and commence implementation of his campaign promises for which he was voted into office.
The party said Presidency’s excuse of clearing the so-called Augean Stable is lame and diversionary noting that it stands by its statement that the delay is creating loopholesThrough which some persons claiming closeness to the President have infiltrated executive bodies, arm-twisting and conniving with unscrupulous elements in the bureaucracy to syphon the nation’s resources in the last 30 days.
PDP National Publicity
Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh in a statement on Monday said the party would not
in any way be cowed by threats and wild allegations by the Presidency into abdicating
its responsibility of speaking out as an opposition party where the system is
derailing.
“The PDP and indeed all
well-meaning Nigerians were appalled by the response from the Presidency
regarding our call for prayers to enable President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC
administration locate its bearing, compose a government and halt the prevailing
stagnation with its huge negative impact on the system.
“Instead of addressing
the issues raised, the Presidency descended to insults, abuses and innuendos, a
stance which not only bears out the case made by the PDP but also raises
questions about the capacity of this administration to shoulder the enormous
responsibility of governance.
“While we expect the
present administration to be serious about the fight against corruption, probe
and persecute each and everyone involved in such, irrespective of their party
leaning, we restate that these must be done within the ambits of the law and
must not be used as a witch-hunt ostensibly to discredit and undermine the
opposition. We therefore caution against the current drama of politicizing the
issue of corruption in the country.
“Furthermore, the
analogy of the Augean stable, is completely baffling to us at this level as it
goes to a great length to question the capacity and the sincerity of those
around the president.
“In Greek mythology,
Hercules in his ingenuity took the task and efficiently cleared the Augean’
stable in a day for which he demanded a reward of a tenth of fine cattle
belonging to the king.
“Nigerians would not
want to believe that in the so-called clearing of the Augean stable, although
not delivering in one day, President Buhari wants to play Hercules in his
demand, this time, by wanting to run the government alone without the statutory
components of the executive as enshrined in the constitution.
“We ask, is the
so-called clearing of mess responsible for his inability after 90 days of winning
an election to make up his mind on rudimentary appointments such as Secretary to
the Government of the Federation, Chief of Staff and his demand for 15 Special Advisers
as approved by the PDP controlled Seventh Assembly since June 5, 2015?
“Perhaps we need to draw
President Buhari’s attention to the fact that while he is busy clearing his
imaginary mess on the pages of newspapers, some persons claiming closeness to
him have in the last 30 days been piling up sleazes that also need his
attention in key agencies of government.
“Despite the absence of
approving and supervising officials, key income generating institutions like NNPC,
NIMASA, NPA, FIRS and other strategic agencies have been invaded by persons claiming
to be friends and associates of the President and this puts to question the sincerity
and seriousness of the administration to affect the so-called change upon which
they rode to power.
“Auxiliary to this is
the issue of the construction of a helipad, amongst various expenses and other
major government expenditure going on across board in the last one month and without
due supervision as the eyes of the President cannot be everywhere.
“We declare
unequivocally that we do have respect for the person and office of the
President especially considering his age and status as an elder statesman.
However, we will like to make it very clear that the President of the Federal
Republic Nigeria is neither a Sherriff in the Old Wild West nor a military
dictator in some Banana Republic. He is an elected president under a democratic
setting.
LET THE SPIRIT OF
DEMOCRACY REIGN!!!
Signed:
Chief Olisa Metuh
National Publicity Secretary
Northern elites, oil subsidy barons behind National Assembly rebellion - Bisi Akande
Monday, June 29, 2015
“Some time in 2013, the Action Congress OF Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) resolved to merge and set up a merger committee to work out the modality for glueing together as one political party under one name, one constitution and one manifesto.“A splinter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) sought to be included in the merger. An application made to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to this end by All Progressives Congress (APC) National Interim Committee, composed of ACN, ANPP, CPC, and factions of APGA and Democratic People’s Party (DPP) was approved in July, 2013.
“Between Bola Ahmed Tinubu (an ACN leader) and Kashim Imam (a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader), the idea came up and was adopted that the new party should embark on a membership recruitment drive to certain PDP governors, whose main agenda was to see President Goodluck Jonathan out of power. “The recruitment efforts took APC leaders to Rivers, Kwara, Niger, Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa and Adamawa states.
Eventually, five PDP governors of Sokoto, Kano, Adamawa, Kwara and Rivers, together with the majority of their PDP National and State Assemblies members and other PDP National Assembly members from Gombe, Bauchi and Nasarawa, under the banner of the new-PDP, joined the APC.
“The APC thereafter organised membership registrations in all the over 120,000 polling units and followed up by using these registered members to conduct congresses in all the almost 8000 wards, in over 770 local governments, in all the 36 states (including Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and a convention at the National level, thereby creating one united APC party structure all over Nigeria.
“With this air of oneness, APC went ahead to conduct primaries to select candidates for state governors and Houses of Assembly and for the presidency and the National Assemblies.
“After the elections, which saw the APC to victory all round, a meeting was reported to have been held by certain old and new-PDP leaders in Alhaji Kawu Baraje’s house at Abuja to review what should be their share in this new Buhari’s government and resolved to seek collaboration with the PDP with a view to hi-jacking the National Assembly and, having got rid of Goodluck Jonathan, with an ultimate aim of resuscitating the PDP as their future political platform.
“Unknown to most APC members, while Senator Bukola Saraki was being adopted as the candidate for Senate President by certain old and new-PDP tendencies, the theory was being propagated that, like in most presidential democracies, the APC minority leaders in the old National Assembly (i.e. George Akume for the Senate and Femi Gbajabiamila for the House of Representatives) should automatically become Senate President and Speaker respectively, now that APC has the majority.
“Certain leaders felt that most past Senate presidents had come from Benue State, which Akume represented and that Benue State should be made to assume the traditional home of all senate presidents.
“At the same time certain, senators were clamouring for one of the most ranking senators anywhere outside the Northwest zone that produced the President. That was how Ahmed Lawan, who has been in the House of Representatives for eight years and in the senate for another eight years emerged as the candidate for the senate president.
“Democrats among the APC leadership insisted on selection by mock elections, rather than tribal or sectional considerations. As a result of primary elections, Ahmed Lawan and George Akume emerged as APC candidate for Senate President and Deputy respectively while Femi Gbajabiamila and Mohammed Monguno emerged as the Speaker and Deputy for the House of Representatives.
“Numerous among those calling themselves businessmen in Nigeria are like leaches, sucking from the nation’s blood largely through various governments and particularly through the Nigerian Federal Government.
While all these schisms were going on in the APC, those who were jittery of Buhari’s constant threat of anti-corruption’s battle began to encourage and finance rebellions against the APC democratic positions which led to the emergence of Senator Saraki as the candidate of the PDP tendencies inside and outside APC.
“Before the party knew it, the process had been hijacked by polluted interests who saw the inordinate contests as a loop-hole for stifling APC governments’ efforts in its desire to fight corruption. “Most Northern elite, the Nigerian oil subsidy barons and other business cartels, who never liked Buhari’s anti-corruption political stance, are quickly backing-up the rebellion against APC with strong support.
While other position seekers are waiting in the wings until Buhari’s ministers are announced, a large section of the Southwest see the rebellion as a conspiracy of the North against the Yoruba.
“What began as political patronages to be shared into APC membership-spreads among ethnic zones, religious faiths and political rankings and experiences have now become so complicated that the sharing has to be done by and among PDP leadership together with cohorts of former new-PDP affiliations in the APC, by and among gangs of past anti-Buhari’s Presidency, and certain APC legislators and party members who dance round the crisis arena to pick some crumbs.
“Now that the whole conspiracy has blown open, it is doubtful if the present institutions of party leadership can muster the required capacity to arrest the drift. It is my opinion that President Buhari, and the APC governors should now see APC as a recking platform that may not be strong enough again to carry them to political victory in 2019 and they should quickly begin a joint damage control effort to reconstruct the party in its claim to bring about the promised change before the party’s shortcomings begin to aggravate the challenges of governance in their hands.”the statement read
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Monday, June 29, 2015
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Monday, June 29, 2015
Aisha Buhari's brother, Musa Yola, denies being arrested over N300m fraud
Monday, June 29, 2015
“As we speak, I am in the President’s office and I was with him last night. I simply don’t know or understand who is behind these malicious rumours,” he said.H added that he had never been involved in any Fraudulent act. Also speaking on the report, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Shehu Garba, said there was no truth in the report “It is definitely not true, there is no iota of truth in this report there is no basis for the president to do that,” he said.
Photos: President Buhari inaugurates National Economic Council
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