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  • Imo APC disowns Uzodinma

    …Senator cautioned on dropping Buhari’s name

     

    The leadership of the Imo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Monday said the Senator representing Imo West Senatorial zone, Senator Hope Uzodinma is not a member of the party.

    The State Chairman of the party, Mr. Daniel Nwafor, told journalists in a press conference at the party’s secretariat in Owerri, that the Senator, who runs a parallel APC office in the state, has not registered with the party both at his Ward and Local Government and is also not known by the State Executive Committee of the party.

    The party leadership also cautioned the Senator against dropping the names of President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomole for selfish pursuits.

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    Nwafor stated that the Senator does not represent APC, adding that the party has just one authentic Executive that has been authenticated by various Court judgments.

    According to him, “In the last few days our party has been inundated with calls over the activities of some persons who are posing as members of the APC. Our party is particularly disturbed that this group of people whose nefarious activities as spearheaded by a Senator from this state, Senator Hope Uzodinma. Senator Uzodinma has been misleading the public about certain issues concerning our party. Sunday, our attention was drawn to a kangaroo meeting that was supposedly held by a faction of this party led by Senator Hope Uzodinma. We want to put it on record that Senator Uzodinma is not a member of the APC; his Omuma Ward Chairman has not informed the party that Senator Uzodinma has joined the party.

    “Also Senator Uzodinma has not declared on the floor of the Senate that he has joined the APC, THE Imo State Executive of our party is not aware that he is a member of this party. There has been a lot of statements credited to him inferring that the President Muhammadu Buhari and our Nation Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomole have empowered him to determine delegates and aspirants, as well as run this party.

    “We want to inform the National Executive Committee of our party that to the best of our knowledge, Senator Hope Uzodinma is not a member of APC. If there are waivers for him, we have not been communicated formerly”.

    Nwafor continued that, “before anyone in the Presidency or National Headquarters of our party, deals with Senator Hope Uzodinma, it is pertinent that the person as the question, who is Senator Hope Uzodinma, what are his antecedents. After you have determined these two important questions, who will now know how best to deal with him. APC as a party in this state has just one leader and that is Governor Rochas Okorocha and it is on record that when this party was tagged Boko Haram in this state, Governor Okorocha won elections with the party. There is also one state Chairman that has been affirmed by several Court judgments and that his Daniel Nwafor, my humble self”.

    Explaining the adoption of indirect primaries by the SEC as the mode for selecting the party’s candidate, Nwafor stated that it was in line with the directive of NEC reached at its last meeting.

    In his words, “at the NEC direct primary mode was adopted to choose the Presidential candidate, while states were asked to go and meet and choose their preferred mode among the direct, indirect and consensus modes and in line with that, the Imo SEC of our party met and adopted the indirect mode and we have also communicated same to the NEC as directed”.

  • Yobe APC divided over Gaidam’s choice of successor

    …aspirant call for level playing ground, power rotation

     

    The soul of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Yobe state is no longer intact over the choice of Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam to anoint Alhaji Mai Mala Buni, the National Secretary of the party.

    Despites the decision of the APC Critical stakeholders meeting in the state that mandated Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam to absolutely hand-pick the governorship candidate of the party come 2019 general election, another aspirant, Ibrahim Bomoi on Sunday stormed Damaturu amidst thousands of his supporters to commission his campaign office ahead of the primary elections of the party.

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    The former Director of Treasury of the Federal Capital Development Authority was greeted with a huge number of supporters in Damaturu which caused a gridlock along the Damaturu/Kano/Maiduguri highway where his office is located.

    Fielding questions from journalists at the event, the Director of Bomoi Campaign Organization in Zone B, Alhaji Salleh Jauro called for power shift from Zone A which he said has enjoyed more political patronage in the state than any zone having ruled the state for more than twenty years.

    Jauro also condemned the action of Gov. Gaidam for coming public to anoint a candidate to succeed him instead of providing a level playing ground for the aspirants at the contest.

    He also disclosed that both Zone A and Zone B have teamed up to break the political hegemony that the Kanuris have enjoyed in the state, while calling for the total rejection of the Gov. Gaidam’s choice of Mai Mala Buni as the candidate for the party.

    “It is morally wrong for Ibrahim Gaidam to choose any body from Zone A which is his zone to be governor of Yobe State again. This is a zone that has enjoyed more political patronage than any other zone in the state.  The APC National Secretary was zoned to Northeast and down to Yobe and Borno, Bonor gave it to Yobe and Ibrahim Gaidam gave it to Zone A, the minister is from zone A, the ambassador is from zone A. Zone A has ruled Yobe for twenty years now and Ibrahim Gaidam will now pick a governor from Zone A and from Gujba again where Bukar ruled for more than ten years. This is unacceptable. Gov. Gaidam should have shown justice by allowing Zone B to complete the tenure of their son Late Mamman Ali who appointed him deputy and ruled for eighteen months before he died. After zone B, then we would have handed the governorship to Zone C in the spirit of rotation,” Jauro said.

    On whether they would leave the party, Alh. Jauro said, “there is no question of leaving the party. We are going to stay inside and ensure victory on our side. It is Allah that gives power and we believe in Allah and by His grace our candidate Ibrahim Bomoi will emerge victorious”.

  • Osoba’s son Olumide, rejects inclusion on consensus list

    … Says it’s absurd to ship him from North to South of Abeokuta

     

     

     

    Row over the list of 40 All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates for the 2019 general elections in Ogun state allegedly drawn by Governor Ibikunle Amosun deepened on Monday with Hon. Olumide Babatunde Osoba rejecting the inclusion of his name on it.

    Olumide who represented Abeokuta North, Obafemi Owode and Odeda Federal Constituency from 2011 – 2015, said he was neither contacted for any consensus arrangement nor did he participate in one, but his name was listed for Abeokuta South Federal Constituency seat’s ticket.

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    The son of former Governor of Ogun State, Aremo Segun Osoba, who made this known in a statement, added that it is not only “absurd and ridiculous to find his name on a list been peddled as a consensus list,” but also wrong to attempt to ship him from his primary constituency into another.

    He explained that he owes full allegiance to Abeokuta North, Obafemi Owode and Odeda Federal Constituency and had never entertained any thought of abandoning them to seek election into the House of Representatives from another Constituency.

    The statement reads in full: “I, Olumide Osoba, was privileged to be among the few chosen  360 out of the over 160 million Nigerians to Represent my people in the Green chamber in 2011-2015 at the House of Representatives.

    “I will forever be grateful to the people of Abeokuta North, Obafemi Owode and Odeda Federal Constituency for finding me worthy to be their Representative.

    “Having said that I owe full allegiance to that Federal Constituency and at no time have I ever entertained the thought of abandoning them to seek election into the House of Representatives from another Constituency.

    “I served them with all I had and I am till this day grateful for the bond we have. I registered and vote at Owode Ward 3, unit 006 Geleodun polling unit in Obafemi Owode Local Government and I have never participated in the politics of Abeokua South.

    “It is therefore absurd and ridiculous to find my name on a list been peddled allegedly as a consensus list.

    “I at no time participated in any consensus arrangement and neither was I contacted. I therefore wish to disassociate myself from the list.

    “On the issue of primaries of our Great Party for aspirants seeking to become Candidates in the General election of 2019 I totally abide by the ruling and communiqué of the NWC and i am ready and willing to submit myself to a direct Primary in my Federal Constituency of Abeokuta North, Obafemi Owode and Odeda Federal Constituency,” Olumide stated.

  • Leave us out of PDP’s problems, APC tells Wike

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday asked the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to concentrate on the task of the 2019 elections and leave it out of its challenges of choosing a presidential candidate from the deluge of aspirants in its fold.

    Acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena told The Nation that it will never descend to the level of planting aspirants in any party as was the tradition with the PDP when it held sway.

    Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike had in an interview with an online newspaper said that they were aware that some of the Presidential aspirants of the party were being sponsored by the APC and the Presidency.

    Wike said in the interview that “Those who are complaining about me are those who are afraid because they are the agents of APC. We know those PDP presidential aspirants who are agents of PDP. We know them. The presidency and the APC have planted people within our party, and we know it.

    “They planted Modu Sheriff and we fell for it. I bought into it not knowing it was a set-up. And then when we realised, we said no, we have to fight it. And we fought it. I cannot again fall for the fool that I became under Ali Modu Sheriff. I know some of our presidential aspirants who are running on the sponsorship of the APC and the presidency.”

    Nabena said “that is not true. We will never descend to that level of planting people in the PDP. We all know that they were the ones planting people in the past. We have no business with whatever they are doing.

    “The PDP should face their problems and address them. We have better things to do than think of how to plant aspirants in their party. The people that left our party for the PDP were those they planted in the party and when they failed to achieve their aim of destroying the party, they left.

    “So, the PDP should face their problem and leave us out of it. We have nothing to do with them and their aspirants”.

  • Buhari’s visit to China already yielding results to Nigerians, says APC UK

    The United Kingdom chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that President Muhamnadu Buhari’s recent official visit to China is already yielding positive results for Nigerians.

    Mr Ade Omole, leader of the chapter, said  this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja.

    He said that the President deserved commendation.

    He stressed that the visit was already yielding results, especially with the assurances from the Joint Venture Partners handling the 3,050 Megawatts Mambilla Hydro-electric Plant project.

    Omole added that the fact that work would commence on the project early in 2019 as assured by the contractors, was a good development that deserved praise.

    He recalled that President Buhari received the assurance at a meeting with Prof Lyu Ze Xiang, the President of Chinese General Chamber of Commerce (CGCC), the construction company handling the project, in Beijing, China during the visit.

    “Electricity is key to national growth and a major feature for business sustainability.

    “We understand how critical the Mambilla project is to your country and we will take a serious look at it and ensure that it succeeds because of its social and economic importance.

    “We fully understand the importance of this project to the economic and social well being of Nigeria,”Xiang had said during the visit,”

    Omole noted that arrangements on the commencement of the project in early 2019 had reached advanced stage, adding that the APC-led Federal Government was doing everything possible to better the lives of Nigerians.

    “The contractor had assured that pre-commencement work would begin with access to site and putting in place the necessary support infrastructure such as power, water and transportation,” he said.

    He further said that when completed, the Mambilla Hydro-electric Plant would provide 3050 megawatts of electricity to Nigerians, thereby adding to the power grid for the country’s development.

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    NAN reports that President Buhari had asked for support from China at a meeting with the Chinese President Xi Jinping, for the country’s aspiration to build the 3050 Megawatts Mambila hydroelectric power project in Taraba.

    This, followed the signing of $328m for the Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Backbone Phase II (NICTIB II) project by the two countries.

    The concessional loan agreement between Galaxy Backbone Limited and Huawei Technologies Limited (HUAWEI) was signed by Nigeria’s Minister of Finance Kemi Adesoun and Wang Xiaotoa, Director-General, International Development Agency, in the presence of Presidents of the two countries.

    Nigeria and China had also signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the One Belt One Road Initiative (OBOR).

  • 2019: Buhari deserves second term – party chieftain

    A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi, Chief Egwu Chima said that President Muhammadu Buhari had done well in the delivery of his electoral promises to deserve a second term.

    Chima, a former Commissioner of Information in Ebonyi, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Abakaliki.

    He said that the outstanding performance of the President in his first term had brought a lot of attraction to the office of the presidency of the country as attested by the number of presidential aspirants jostling to take over from him.

    Chima said that Buhari had restored and repositioned the country’s battered international image, making Nigeria a hub for genuine international investors.

    The party chieftain said that though there were still some challenges in the country, Buhari had performed remarkably and had acquitted himself well as president of the country.

    Chima, who is also a member of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), said those who said Buhari had not done well were either playing politics or refused to check the facts.

    According to him, the president has achieved a lot in the areas on which he anchored his campaign promises, despite the herculean problems he met on ground.

    “President Buhari has done well based on the facts available and not sentiments.

    “He has done well in the delivery of his campaign promises despite the big problems he met on ground, especially in the fight against financial corruption, insurgency, and creating job among others.

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    “He has made the office of the presidency more attractive than any other president before him.

    “The multiplicity of presidential aspirants, especially from the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), jostling to take over from Buhari is a testimony of one fact; thatt Buhari has made the office more attractive.

    “Others who had ruled this country before dwelt on fear, trepidation, not identifying real issues and had played to the gallery.

    “But he came and tackled what others feared to tackle and confronted those issues posing national disgrace and embarrassment head long without fear or favour.

    “It is the excellent work that he is doing that he is now stepping on toes of those stealing from the country because so many of his policies are touching on the reach.

    “He has steered the country back to economic growth after the global economic recession while some other countries are still wriggling under recession caused by crash in commodity prices.

    “The country is out and is even doing well in the area of economic diversification,” Chima said.

    He said that the credibility problem of the other aspirants from the opposition parties had made Buhari almost a ‘sole’ candidate in the 2019 presidential election.

    “Buhari’s popularity has continued to soar with support base from every nook and cranny of the country.

    “With the ‘integrity’ problem of most of the major aspirants from the opposition parties, Buhari will run almost as a sole candidate in the presidential election.

    “Nigerians will massively vote to re-elect him for the second term in office in 2019.”

    Chima, one of the founding fathers of Ebonyi, said the opposition was only seeing Buhari’s performance based on their perspectives which did not reflect the facts on ground.

  • 2019: Two PDP senators vow to sack El- Rufai

    Two serving Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators have vowed to sack the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai from office in the 2019 governorship election in the state.

    Senators Suleiman Hunkuyi (Kaduna North) and Danjuma La’ah (Kaduna South) said they have joined forces against the governor to defeat him at the poll.

    While Hunkuyi is contesting the position on the platform of the PDP, La’ah said he was mobilizing voters in his senatorial district for his colleague to unseat El-Rufai of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Addressing a gathering at the rally, Hunkuyi promised that if elected, he would, within one week, reinstate all the traditional rulers and chiefs that were sacked by the governor earlier this year, describing their removal was an act of injustice.

    The aspirant also promised to revisit the case of the over 25, 000 primary school teachers who were sacked by the governor. Hunkuyi said he would set up a committee that would review the cases of the affected teachers strictly on their merits.

    He accused the state government of impoverishing the people through harsh social and economic policies, adding that the governor has plunged the state into huge debts for coming generations to grapple with.

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    Hunkuyi, who dumped the APC for the PDP in July, expressed regrets that El-Rufai could turn against him after providing the political structure that enabled him win the seat in 2015.

    The federal lawmaker further said El-Rufai cannot pretend to be unaware that the people of Kaduna State have rejected him, owing to what he described as the governor’s anti people policies.

    El-Rufai and Hunkuyi used to be in the same political camp in the APC. They were however torn apart by disagreement arising from differences in opinion and conflict of interests.

    They disagreements got to a baking point in May this year, when the governor demolished the senator’s property in Kaduna.

  • APC shift sale of nomination form by 24 hours

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday extended its sale of nomination form by 24 hours, from Monday, September 10 to Tuesday September 11.

    In a statement signed by the Acting National Publicity, Yekini Nabena, the party said submission of the form however remains Wednesday, September 12.

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    The three paragraph statement reads: “The Progressives Congress (APC) has extended the deadline for the sale and submission of presidential, governorship, National Assembly and House of Assembly forms to Tuesday, September 11, 2018.

    “The previous deadline was Monday, September 10, 2018.

    “All aspirants for the listed positions are to submit their duly completed forms to the APC National Secretariat and the Party’s State Secretariat in the case of House of Assembly on or before the close of work of the new deadline.”

  • Group buys nomination form for Niger governor

    Market men and women from across all the local government councils in Niger state on Friday besieged the national Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to purchase a N22.5 million nomination and expression of interest form for Niger state Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello.

    Coming under the auspices of the Niger state Market Men and Women Association, the Group said they decided to buy the nomination form for the Governor because of their conviction that his tenure has brought lot of blessings to the people of the state.

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    Spokesman of the traders, Alhaji Ahmed Salihu told newsmen that traders in the state camp together to contribute money to purchase the firm, stressing that they were heading back to Minna to present it to the governor as a surprise gift.

    He said “In the history of Niger state, this is the first time that Market Association decided to buy the nomination and expression of interest forms for the present governor of Niger State, Abubakar Sadiq Sani Bello.

    “We are doing this because the governor has achieved a lot not only for market people but to the entire Niger people. Talking about the market people, for the first time the governor fixed all the roads in the market.

    “He provided three 500 KVA transformer to the market. He did this because he wants to discourage the use of small power generating sets in the market in order to avoid fire disaster.

    “So because of his achievements, the market people decided to come together to do this for him. We are here on his behalf without even his knowledge. After here we are going back to the state present it to the governor as a big surprise.

    “If the market association has a chance, it would have first purchased the form for President Muhammadu Buhari for what he has done.”

    Salihu disclosed that improvement in market activities in the State has helped improve the internally generated revenue in the state, saying under the governor’s administration, the state IGR has improved just as commercial activities have risen”

    Also on Friday, 12 members of the Sokoto state House of Assembly who refused to join former Speaker of the house of representatives, Aminu Tambuwal to defect to the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) were also at the secretariat to buy a nomination form for one of them, Faruok Malami Yabo.

    Leader of the delegation, Sani Alhaji Yakubu told newsmen that they are ready to take over the government from the current PDP government led by Aminu Tambuwal.

    While insisting that the APC will take over power from the PDP in the State during 2019 general elections, Yakubu said “As you can see, we have all contributed a total sum of 22 million, 500 thousand to obtain form for Honourable Yabo

    “We decided to contribute our hard-earned salaries to the gentleman because we found it very imperative,” he said.

  • ‘SDP will win Kogi in 2019’

    The Social Democratic Party (SDP) on Friday said it will win the 2019 elections in Kogi State.

    The secretary of the Kogi chapter of the party, Barr. Paul Abraham, made the assertion during the inauguration of state and local government executives in Lokoja, saying that the SDP has the capacity, experience and maturity to bail the people of Kogi State from what he described as the precarious condition in the state.

    According to him, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state has failed the people in the areas of welfare and infrastructural development.

    He described the SDP as a third force that can bail the people out of hardship.

    According to him: “In the last two and half years the people of Kogi state especially the civil servants were not paid; many of them have been rendered destitute as a result of non-payment of salaries and pension.

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    “SDP because of its social standing is the party for the people and the party believes in human resources. As a leader if you develop the people, it is natural that infrastructure will follow”

    He berated the government for not utilizing the abundant potentials in the state to better the living standard of the people and called on them to join SDP to change the narratives by doing the needful for Kogi people.

    The zonal Chairman of the party in charge of Kogi East, Mr. Michael Mustapha Ibrahim, said that the newly elected executives of the party were saddled with the responsibility of ensuring that they work for the success of SDP in the forthcoming election.

    He noted that by virtue of the popularity of the party in the state and the calibre of the people in its fold, the party would pull surprises in 2019.

    He disclosed that the rumbling in the state chapter of the party has been resolved, urging members to work together for the success of the party at the poll.