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  • Expert backs Atiku on privatization of NNPC

    Mr Momoh Aliyu, a financial expert and Managing Director of Cyber1 Systems Network International, has backed decision by PDP’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar to privatise the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

    Aliyu made his position known while reacting to statement credited to Atiku on his proposed plan to privatise the NNPC if elected president.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the PDP’s flag bearer on Wednesday said that he would privatise the NNPC if elected, describing the state-owned oil firm as a “mafia organisation’’.

    Atiku, who spoke at an interactive session with the business community in Lagos, said that he would take the step even if doing so would cost him his life.

    He explained that he sold the idea to former President Olusegun Obasanjo whom he worked with as a deputy between 1999 and 2007.

    According to him, the former president did not approve of it but he is convinced that NNPC will run better if not managed by the government.

    The expert said that the privatisation of NNPC was long overdue but, however, doubted the integrity of Atiku in spearheading such process.

    According to him, a country with population projected to double by 2050, and presently has many Nigerians that are unemployed should only focus on productivity.

    Nigeria’s population is presently estimated at 180 million.

    Aliyu said the only panacea to productivity and job creation was to privatise and diversify the nation’s economy.

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    He said that the government would find it difficult to diversify conveniently because of its policies on public service which were critical to key sectors of the economy.

    Aliyu suggested that NNPC should be a regulatory body and not a commercial body.

    “Now, this is a problem of personal integrity.

    “Atiku who spare headed the sales of some national assets during Obasanjo’s regime as vice president, how successful was the exercise under his watch.’’

    The managing director noted that direct appointment of the head of Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE) by the presidency was hindering independent decision and transparency in the system.

    This he said would give room for any president in power to directly influence contract and sales bidding for their favourites.

    NAN

  • Yoruba youths apologies to Nigerians over Obasanjo’s recent outbursts,

    As reactions continue to trail the recent statement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the state of the nation, the Council of Progressive Yoruba Youths has apologized to Nigerians.
    The youth group said the latest missive in circulation entitled “Points For Concern And Action by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo” was off-point and should be discarded in its entirety.
    Speaking at a news conference in Lagos on Tuesday, the National President of the group, Kola Salawu, said Nigerians needed to forgive Obasanjo for the eight years he wasted as a civilian president and for the wrong path he set the nation on.
    Salawu said the Yoruba race was deeply ashamed that a so called elder from its ethnic stock decided to remain in a muddy gutter by penning such nauseating content.
    He lamented that Obasanjo sowed the seed for extremism that birthed terrorism. He backed this up by ensuring that the military was emasculated and unable to respond to the threat he has created.
    The youth leader said, “In Yoruba land, we take pride in answering our names. Only a bastard will deny his name. In practical terms this translates into us standing by our decisions and actions, irrespective of what outcomes they produced. Where the outcomes are good our head swell with the accompanying accolades; where the results of our actions are undesirable, we accept responsibility with honour and explore how to make amends so that we remain an integral part of the society. Of course, in the ancient past, where the failing is too grievous and involves a king that remained recalcitrant the relevant powers will have to present hi, with an empty calabash.
    “This is a level of honour Obasanjo has never possessed and is incapable of learning. Had he such honour he would have accepted that the current insecurity he ranted is the outcome of his misrule that is only now yielding fruits. The poverty that makes it possible for terrorists, militants and separatists to gain new recruits was first instituted under his watch as president. The extremism that the nation today grapple with first surfaced under him with some states declaring Sharia rule, which was the incentive that made terrorists started demanding nationwide strict implementation Sharia.
    “In the entire eight years he held office, Obasanjo was in mortal fear of being overthrown because of the unpopularity of his government. His solution to this was to destroy the military in the belief that there would be no way to plot a coup against him if there is no virile military. In addition to embarking on massive sacks and purge that deprived the military establishment of crucial institutional memory, he also ensured that the military inventory was depleted without replenishment or procurement to make sure that the military was incapacitated.

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    “The destruction of the military armory at Ikeja Cantonment about this time of the year in 2002 has now been confirmed to be part of Obasanjo’s desperation to de-tooth the military. A military plane crash that killed a dozen generals under Obasanjo’s watch in 2006 is equally put down to part of his obsession to gelatinize the military. He seemed to have succeeded with it.
    “The taint on the military from Obasanjo’s directives for troops to disregard rules of engagement in Odi and Zak-Ibiam remains an obstacle to the military. Even when their recent and ongoing operations meet the global standards for the rules of engagement, the stain from the Obasanjo years remains a perspective from which the military is perceived. This affects the ability of the military to procure arms when they need it and the same tyrant under whose watch this happened is today playing the saint.
    “In essence, Obasanjo sowed the seed for extremism that birthed terrorism. He backed this up by ensuring that the military was emasculated and unable to respond to the threat he has created. What has saved Nigeria from Obasanjo’s evil intent was the timely turnaround being witnessed under President Buhari, who has high regards for institutional memory in the military.
    “The whole of Nigeria became his enemy and he has never lost on any perceived opportunity to exact vengeance on all citizens. May we refresh our memory that Obasanjo reportedly trained 1000 killer snipers abroad with the intention of using them to assassinate those who stand in the way of his ambition. These snipers formed part of the pioneer team of killers that have remained loose in the country till date.
    “The outcome of that election produced Mallam Umaru Yar’Adua as president and it was a matter of months before Obasanjo started wishing him dead because he turned out not to be the stooge that Obasanjo expected. Yar’Adua’s demise paved way for Goodluck Jonathan, whom Obasanjo did much to mislead and abandoned after he incurred the anger of Nigerians pleasing the former President. If Obasanjo thought he would have a pliant President Buhari following his opposition of Jonathan he was in for a rude shock.
    “If Obasanjo supported Yar’Adua and later disowned him over ill health, supported Jonathan and later disowned him for consulting others and supported Buhari and now disowning him for not bending to his wishes, then maybe it is not these president that something is wrong with. The problem is Obasanjo. He feigns support for successive presidents in the hope of being able to use them as puppets and continue as a life president while they act as the symbolic leaders. Such deviousness is not the Yoruba way because it is without honour.
    “We do not want to go into the past of an Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), whom Obasanjo convinced Nigerians to be a very corrupt person. The same person God will not forgive him for forgiving. He has turned around to tell Nigerians that this is the same person to vote in the hope of acquiring a new puppet. A Yoruba elder will not be caught doing such, it amounts to being incitement, which is unbecoming of anyone that has become a grandfather.
    “We apologize for the eight wasted years of Obasanjo as a civilian president and for the wrong path he set the country on, which we are now all trying to correct. We apologize for his callous thinking that had projected that Buhari would die in office. We apologize for the unbecoming tantrum he has been throwing for not having his way as a puppet master of successive presidents. We apologize to you all Nigerians because what Obasanjo is does not reflect who the Yoruba are.”

  • Nigerian Army deserves better welfare, says Atiku

    Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has said that his administration would improve the welfare of the military personnel if elected the next President.

    At a news conference at the PDP secretariat in Akure, the Ondo State capital, the former Vice President the contributions of men of the Nigerian Army to the growth of the country.

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    According to him, men of the Nigerian Army deserve better welfare considering

    their services to the nation.

    He noted that many of them have sacrificed their lives for the survival of the nation.

    Atiku particularly hailed the Nigerian Army for waging serious war against Boko Haram, stressing that the war against insurgency was fought majorly by the Nigerian army.

  • Atiku to Supporters: Reject APC

    Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Monday urged the people to  reject President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress(APC) at the poll during the next month general election.

    Besides,he charged them to monitor and ensure that they vote  a competent person to run the affairs of the country

    According to the former Vice President,the coming election would determine the future of the country.

    Speaking at a campaign rally at MKO Abiola Democracy Park in Akure, Atiku said Buhari was no more competent to rule the country.

    He said the problems that were facing the country could only be solved if the people of the nation come out massively to reject APC in the coming election.

    According to him, the nation needed someone that is competent and has experience to revive the dwindling economy of the country.

    Atiku said “We have insecurity in North West, North Central and we have problem of the
    insecurity all over the nation.

    They promised to create jobs but we have lost more than ten million jobs.They stole your jobs, do you now want them to steal your votes.

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    “Do you know why are said they are planning to steal your votes, it is
    because they are not talking to you.

    “But here in PDP, we are not doing that becuase our people are talking to you, and all engaging you”.

    The PDP presidential candidate reiterated his promises to channel forty percent of his cabinet for the youth and 30 percent for the woman thereby making it seventy percent

    National Chairman, Uche Secondus said the country had been plunged into crisis under the APC’s government.

    Secondus, however, noted that President Buhari has only been shying away on his responsibilities to develop the nation’s economy.

    He said” The President that we all have had been sleeping, he has been sleeping for 24 hours and that is the reasons why the economy is dwindling and the depleting.

    The Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign
    Council,Dr Bukola Saraki said there were too much sufferings and hunger under the APC

    Sakari described the anti-corruption war of the APC as a ‘total scam’, noting that it was aimed at perceived enemies.

    According to him, Ondo state remains a PDP state and urged the people to shine their eyes.

  • ‘Atiku, PDP not committed to southern Presidency in 2023’

    The APC Women and Youth Presidential Campaign has alleged that the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar were not committed to returning power to the south in 2023, saying his refusal was creating instability in the country.

    Chairman of the Media and Strategic Communications of the campaign team, Hon. Abdulmunini Jibrin who spoke at a news conference in Abuja said Atiku Abubakar and his political party were the biggest threat to security and stability of the nation today, stressing however that the PDP candidate may however be forced to commit a commitment which he does not believe in and will not implement if he becomes President.

    Jibrin said southerners should ask the PDP and its Presidential candidate what they have done wrong that they want to take away their right in 2023.

    He said: “We all know that power should and will go to the south in 2023 and every zone in the south is entitled to it. The south-south is qualified for it, the south east is qualified for it and the south west is equally qualified. But then, it is your contribution and your ability to negotiate within the party system as well as the value you bring in board that will determine where power will go. I think this has sent an instructive message to all of us.

    “We are relaxed because we are talking within the circle of the party. One thing the party believed in is that there should be fairness and justice in this country and we all believe that by 2023, power will go back to the south.

    “As sensitive as this matter is, we have people in the opposition PDP contesting for the presidency and even the party itself who have decided to incite the North, insisting that power will not shift. That is why the PDP presidential candidate has refused to commit to one term which is a simple thing to do.

    “What does it take for him to commit and say, if I win, I will serve one term because from 2023, it will be the turn of the south to produce the President. There is nothing like that. If tomorrow he comes out to commit to it, you should know that he does not really believe in that because since he won the nomination, what has stopped him from committing to it.

    “If he does today, it will be because of pressure and not because he believe in it and at the end, he may give it a Jonathan treatment and will say it is not in the agreement. That his refusal to commit is already creating instability and is a potential threat to the stability of the country because they are determined to hold on to power in 2023. That is the agenda of the PDP and its Presidential candidate.

    “So, the south should ask them where they have offended them that they want to withhold what belong to them. In the APC, there is fairness, justice and equity and we are determined that power should go to the southern part of the country in 2023.”

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    He said further that “The biggest threat to the stability of this country is the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the Director-General of Atiku Campaign, Bukola Saraki who are taking Nigerians for granted by muting the idea to incite the north not to support power transfer to the southern part of the country after president Muhammadu Buhari completes his second term in a clear attempt to short change the southern part of Nigeria.

    “No wonder, the PDP presidential candidate has refused to commit to returning power to the Southern part of the country after 2023. This is even after concerted pressure by many of their stake holders.

    “This is already heating up our polity with combined negative consequences on our economy, security and general development. So, if we are talking about the politicians who are threatening the foundation of the peace and security of our country, the cap fits Saraki and Atiku.”

    On the performance of the President, Jibrin said “there has never been any government in the history of this country that has created more jobs like the Buhari administration. Even more commendable is the quantum of jobs that has been created within this period of time. In any case, I am in a position to say this because I have been in government for a couple of years and in the previous administration, we can say what we saw.

    “I have said this repeatedly that never have we seen the kind of massive infrastructural development in the history of this country like what we are expecting at the moment and you know the multiplier effect. Manufacturers, construction, labourers, employers are benefiting because a lot of jobs are being creates.

    “Then, the special intervention programmes, the N-Power, the startups that the Vice President is right now going round the country giving out. Why can’t we open our eyes and look at that? There is also the Anchor borrower scheme which has created 12 million farmers who are living in prosperity. What do you call jobs and what are the indices that you use.

    “Everybody knows that the growth rate has never been this good. The opposition can continue to hammer on that, but Nigerians will continue to remind them of their records of stealing and sharing of money. That is no longer happening.”

    On the issue of Buhari being a dictator, he said “As far as we concerned and as far as available records suggests, President Muhammadu Buhari is the most Democratic President has ever had. We have seen how previous Presidents of this country dealt with issues. Buhari is a President who follows the tenets of the rule of law and so, it is very unfair to associate the President with dictatorship. Show me one example.

    “We have seen in the past how the President dealt with the National Assembly. We no longer have that and right now, everybody is breathing fresh air and the President is seated doing his job. You can see this resonate all over the country and everywhere he goes, people are praising him unlike the opposition. So, I think we should be fair to Mr President and be objective when accessing him.

    “The reality of the matter is that President Muhammadu Buhari is not a tribalist and his policies are not ethnic based. He fought for the survival of this country and has always been a pro-one Nigeria person and has demonstrated this in so many ways.”

  • Atiku condoles with families of supporters involved in accident

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has condoled with family members of those who lost their lives on Saturday road accident after his rally in  Jos.

    He expressed the condolence in a statement issued by his Media Aide, Mr Paul Ibe, on Sunday in Abuja.

    Abubakar said that he received with sadness report of the loss of Mrs Christy Dungtou and Mr Donatus Morkwap, members of one of his support groups, in a road accident on their way to Shendam after the Jos rally.

    Mrs Dungtou died at the scene of the accident while Morkwap passed away as he was being conveyed to General Hospital, Barkin-Ladi.

    Mr Kwalmi Julius, one of the injured whose condition is critical is receiving treatment at the Plateau Hospital, Jos, while the other two had been referred to Shendam.

    The statement revealed that the Atiku Presidential Campaign is in liaison with an official of the support group who has confirmed that the corpses of the deceased have been deposited at the mortuary in Shendam Local Government Area of Plateau.

    Abubakar expressed his condolences to the families of the deceased even as he prayed for the speedy recovery of those still in hospital.

    The former Vice President has also directed his campaign organisation to spare no resource in ensuring that those still in hospital receive the best of medical care.

    He has also instructed that the Campaign takes care of the burial cost of the deceased.

    Abubakar acknowledged the efforts and sacrifices of thousands of his support groups and millions of their members in his avowed commitment to get Nigeria working again for the good of all.

    He assured that their sacrifices would not be in vain.

    NAN

  • PDP denies defection of Atiku’s campaign DG to APC

    The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PPCO) has denied reports that a Director-General (DG) in the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign team for the North East, has decamped to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    A statement issued by PPCO Director Media and Publicity, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, on Saturday in Abuja, said the report was a lie and desperation to deceive Nigerians.

    “For the avoidance of doubt, our campaign organisation does not have a DG in the North East as claimed in the malicious tweet.

    “Our Campaign structure only has Zonal Coordinators and our Zonal Coordinator in the North East is Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe state.’’

    Ologbondiyan noted that Sen. Saidu Kumo, who was being celebrated in the APC as having dumped the Atiku campaign team to join President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid, had nothing to do with PPCO and was never assigned any role.

    He urged Nigerians to disregard the claims.

    “Finally, the PPCO assures all Nigerians, particularly our supporters in the North East that our presidential campaign structure is completely intact and rallying Nigerians in their national consensus to vote in Atiku Abubakar as the next President of Nigeria.’’

    Ologbondiyan said that no amount of fabrications could change the reality. (NAN)

  • Centre berates Atiku over attempt to taint COAS, Buratai’s integrity

    … demands apology or to face legal action
    The Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET), has berated the Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, for attempting to taint the person and office of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai.
    Atiku had listed Buratai among 30 persons he claimed were corrupt and working for President Muhammadu Buhari.
    Reacting, the centre said it was wrong for Atiku to drag the army chief into partisan politics.
    Osaloni Gbemisola osadua Esq, Executive Director, while addressing a press conference on Tuesday, warned the PDP presidential flagbearer against peddling falsehood  that could cause injury to the integrity of others,
    He said, “The pressure he is under, from political barometric as of today, is beyond the realization that he is set to lose the presidential election when it holds in a few days from now, the pressure is coming from the appreciation that the result of the polls will permanently and conclusively retire him from politics.
    “Rather than heralding a befitting end to an illustrious political career, this damning retirement would demystify Atiku Abubakar’s in the annals of Nigeria’s political history.
    The PDP presidential candidate, in fairness to him having not been ever arraigned talk less of being convicted, goes around with the burden of corruption, heavy enough for himself to have acknowledged that allegations of corruption is the heaviest burden he has to carry in his failed quest to rule Nigeria.
    “Even though he has now embarked on a revisionism, Atiku Abubakar’s former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, when he has prime contact with the PDP current candidate described him as the most corrupt Nigerian there was. We sympathize with him that he has to go around with this kind of tarnish.
    “But it beats the imagination that this same Atiku Abubakar, irrespective of how desperate he has become in his bid to fend off an enforced retirement, is now wildly accusing other upstanding Nigerians of corruption. Our initial thought was that overzealous aides went beyond their briefs to make such accusations on behalf of Atiku Abubakar but we have since learnt that he is in on the game after waiting a considerable time without him walking back the release of the list by one Phrank Shaibu, who is said to be his Special Assistant on Public Communications.
    “With the names that made Atiku’s list of corrupt persons connected to President Muhammadu Buhari, even the electorates that will cast the losing votes for him should at this point begin to question the extent to which their choice candidate has succumbed to psychosis.  The list confirmed that Atiku Abubakar’s desperation no longer has much to do about winning but is now the manifestation of a man that has become embittered by the prospect of losing to the extent that he maniacally wants to drag down everyone with him.
    “First, the list went on to name the likes of Babachir Lawal, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Ayodele Oke, the suspended Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). This goes to show that Atiku is obsessed with finding allegations of corruption against President Buhari to the point where the PDP candidate continues to accuse him of being connected to the people he has sacked.
    We also saw Bola Tinubu, former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the APC; Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari and other past and serving appointees making the list even when they have never been convicted by any court, save the circus of public opinion convened by Atikulooters.
    “Most infuriating for Nigerians is Atiku Abubakar’s indiscretion in including names of patriots like Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, the Chief of Army Staff, which is wrong on many levels.
    “We consider it most unpatriotic to insult a man that is leading Nigerian troops against terrorist in this manner without substantiating the allegations of corruption against him. It is on record that the Code of Conduct Bureau has cleared him long ago and he has not been convicted by any law court. We have followed Buratai antecedents and know him as an honest and transparent man, who has conducted himself appropriately in office.
    “It is ridiculous how the same candidate that was harping on the need for the military to be apolitical to now be the one trying to drag the Army into politics.
    “The inclusion of a serving military chief in his phantom list is consistent with the errands that Atiku’s minions and urchins have been running on his behalf for several months now. These errands, as have been reported, are meant to undermine the military and provoke a leadership change so that pro-coup-plot officers that are sympathetic to reversing Atiku’s unfolding political twilight will come into office.
    This is a brazen threat against our democracy and must not be received halfheartedly. Nigerians must rise up across party line to demand that Atiku contain whatever emotional fall out arising from his imminent loss to himself and not drag the country down with him.
     “CESJET warns that attempts by desperate politicians to drag the Army as an institution into politics should be totally discarded as by well-meaning Nigerians will resist such plot using all permissible means.
    “There is no law that precludes people from becoming insane by reason of emotional stress brought on by the glaring confirmation of loss at the polls. What the Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) and indeed the entire Nigerians will not condone is when the insanity involves the patient going berserk and indiscriminately throwing muds at honorable citizens, whose weakest moments trump Atiku at his most pious.
    “Atiku’s political fortunes are already sinking. It would hurt his credibility if angry Nigerians are further mobilized to increase the margin by which he will be defeated. This will be the case in the event that he continues to drag the wrong persons into his private war with his emotional trauma.
    “In addition to demanding that the PDP presidential candidate ceases and desists from peddling rumours that cause injury to the integrity of others, CESJET hereby demand an apology from Atiku Abubakar and his hirelings.
    “Considering the impact of Atiku’s indiscretion on the man leading the counter-Insurgency operations in Nigeria, we shall be left with no option in this case than to institute a legal action against him in court if the position of the Chief of Army Staff is not immediately withdrawn from his fake list and apology tendered to General Buratai within two weeks from today.”

  • Southwest will deliver massive votes to Buhari

    A group, Southwest Frontiers Group for Buhari 2019 has said that the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari was the collective responsibility of all eligible voters in Yorubaland.

    The group emphasized that the restructuring being canvassed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was to deceive them in order to garner votes during the polls.

    Besides, the group criticized the fractionalized socio-political organization, Afenifere for declaring support for Atiku.

    According to the group, the Afenifere was not speaking for the people in the South-West on their choice for the next month poll.

    The group hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for his excellent performance, stressing that he deserved re-election.

    Speaking to reporters in Akure, the Ondo state capital, the spokesman of the group, Omowumi Adebayo said the restructuring planned to carry out by Atiku was deceitful.

    Adebayo said the people of the South-West would not be part of such ‘arrangee’ restructuring.

    He said Afenifere was not speaking for the interest of the South-West people, but only fighting for their pockets.

    His words “We in Yorubaland have always been in the progressives’ camp since the days of Awolowo. These people are deceiving us that they are progressives but they are not.

    The coordinator of the group, Joseph Ayodele said those behind the restructuring compromised the June 12 election, won by late Chief MKO Abiola.

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    He said if Atiku could work with Obasanjo for eight years and described as being corrupt by the former President, Afenifere ought to distance themselves from such an individual.

    Ayodele pointed out that ” If the PDP ruled for 16 years and Atiku was the vice president for eight years out of the 16 years and could not restructured the country then, he asked what type of restructuring does he (Atiku) want to give the country now

    The group urged the people in the South-West to vote for Buhari, alleging that Atiku would draw Nigeria backward with his flair for corruption.

  • FG challenges PDP to prove allegation of campaigning with state funds

    The Federal Government on Friday challenged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to prove its allegation that the All Progressive Congress (APC)-led government was using state resources for electioneering campaign.

    Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed in a statement in Ilorin said that the allegation was made by a media aide to the PDP Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

    According to Mohammed, Abubakar’s media aide’s allegation was provoked by the ministry’s widely circulated testimony series showcasing the achievements of President Buhari’s administration.

    He dismissed the allegation as “acute paranoia’’, stressing that those who made the comment should prove it.

    “It is up to those who made the accusation on the use of state resources for electioneering campaign to prove it, in line with the maxim that he who alleges must prove,’’ the minister said.

    He said that the Buhari administration’s massive achievements had rattled the PDP and its candidate, and their actions amounted to an acknowledgement of the administration’s impressive accomplishments.

    “In publicising the activities and achievements of the Federal Government, the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture is only carrying out its statutory role.

    “Long before the elections, the ministry has used various platforms, including town hall meetings, to showcase the activities and achievements of the administration.

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    “We understand that the PDP and the Atiku Campaign Organisation have been rattled by these successes as well as the effectiveness of the campaign to showcase them.

    “We are sorry we can’t help them,’’ the minister said.

    He expressed surprise that the PDP that had said earlier that the Buhari administration had not achieved anything had now changed its tune.

    Mohammed said the PDP had turned around to admit that the media was awash with video testimonies from Nigerians on the Buhari administration’s achievements.