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  • Wedding bells toll for Fani-Kayode’s daughter

    Wedding bells toll for Fani-Kayode’s daughter

    It was jubilation galore on Tuesday as Temitope, one of the five daughters of former aviation minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, got engaged to her beau, Jaiye. The event marked the beginning of Temitope’s journey into holy matrimony. The event had a handful number of people in attendance as the former presidential spokesman welcomed Jaiye’s parents and other family members and friends with open arms.

    Temi, Fani-Kayode’s second daughter, is in her 20s. Celeb Watch gathered that activities are in top gear for Femi Fani-Kayode to stage a talk-of-the-town wedding ceremony for a daughter he loves so much. The bride to be is said to have been shuttling between Nigeria and London lately to ensure that all goes smoothly for the wedding proper.

  • Melaye lambasts Fani-Kayode for comments on Boko Haram sponsors

    Melaye lambasts Fani-Kayode for comments on Boko Haram sponsors

    •Falana urges Fed Govt to prosecute Boko Haram sponsors

    A former member of the House of Representatives, Dino Melaye, has accused a former Aviation Minister, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, of making hasty comments on alleged Boko Haram sponsors.

    The activist said Fani-Kayode’s accusation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with alleged connection with the sect was hasty, indecent and unconscionable.

    In a statement yesterday in Abuja, Melaye said: “Mr. Fani-Kayode’s stout defence of an alleged Boko Haram sponsor, as identified by the Goodluck Jonathan administration-appointed negotiator, Stephen Davis, and his attempt to continue pointing fingers at my party, the APC, is hasty, indecent and unconscionable.

    “The last time I checked, Mr. Fani-Kayode was not a duly-constituted independent commission of enquiry to investigate the allegations by the negotiator. One, therefore, wonders how he could so quickly exonerate any of those who were fingered by Dr. Davis purely on the basis of sheer sentiments as well as unbridled hatred for the APC.

    “What Mr. Fani-Kayode’s desperate moves have shown is that the earth-shaking revelation by President Jonathan’s negotiator has unnerved his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the administration. It has shown the veracity of the saying that when you point one finger at someone, four others are pointing at you.

    “The sponsors of Boko Haram are right within the PDP, as alleged by Dr.

    Davis, who named former Borno Governor Ali Modu Sheriff and ‘a former Chief of Army Staff, who retired in January, rightly sacked by the President’. This has corroborated what the President had said that Boko Haram is right within his administration.

    “What one would expect from a government that is keen on finding the true sponsors of Boko Haram and ending the insurgency – instead of playing politics with it – is to support an independent enquiry into the allegation, instead of rushing to shoot it down and casting aspersion on the man who made the revelation on an international television station.

    “In the rush to discredit Dr. Davis, the Jonathan administration and its attack dogs have forgotten that the President himself appointed the Australian to negotiate the release of the Chibok schoolgirls, who were abducted by Boko Haram. They have forgotten that if at all the negotiator has any sympathy, it would be for President Jonathan, who appointed him.

    “I am glad that the truth about Boko Haram’s sponsors has finally come out. I advise the Jonathan administration to look inwards, instead of unleashing attack dogs on Dr. Davis and sending spin doctors, some of who will do anything to evade justice over the allegation they face on their own, to the media to try to change the narratives.

    “Those who planted Modu Sheriff in the APC, so that they could label the party a Boko Haram sponsor, knew what they were doing. They knew his antecedents. And when the APC decided to frustrate Modu Sheriff and his likes out of the party, they should simply have embraced him and accepted that they had finally been hoisted by their own petard.

    “Enough of the distracting finger-pointing by the likes of the loquacious and truth-twisting Mr. Fani-Kayode. The cat has been let out of the bag!”

    Also, Lagos lawyer Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has urged the Federal Government to prosecute those sponsoring Boko Haram insurgents.

    In a statement yesterday in Lagos, Falana advised the government to refer those linked with the insurgency to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for prosecution.

    The frontline lawyer said the allegations against them were too weighty to be ignored.

    He said: “In view of the gravity of the allegations of crimes against humanity committed by the sponsors of the Boko Haram sect, President Goodluck Jonathan should refer the suspects to the Special Prosecutor of the international Criminal Court.

    “Any local investigation conducted by the Federal Government, in the circumstance, may be manipulated by vested political interests.”

    Falana recalled that the international negotiator, Rev. Stephen Davies, who President Jonathan engaged for dialogue with the Boko Haram sect for the release of the abducted 275 Chibok schoolgirls, revealed the identities of the sponsors of the terrorist organisation.

    He said: “In a well publicised televised interview in London last week, the international negotiator said a former Borno State governor, a former Chief of Army Staff and a former top official of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) provided funds and other logistics to the nihilist body for the terrorist attacks which have claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent people in the country.”

    Falana noted that the disclosure was backed with some detailed accounts, which confirmed some information with Nigeria’s security forces.

    The lawyer also recalled that the Ambassador Usman Galtimari Committee on Insurgency in the Northeast, which was set up in 2011 by President Jonathan, recommended the prosecution of “some politicians, who sponsored, funded and used the militia groups that later metamorphosed into Boko Haram”.

    He said: “In a White Paper issued on the report of the committee, the Federal Government accepted the recommendation and directed ‘the National Security Adviser (NSA) to coordinate the investigation of the kingpins and sponsors to unravel the individuals and groups that are involved’.

    “Although the White Paper was published in May 2012, the directive of the Federal Government has not been carried out up till now because the individuals involved are said to be connected to the Presidency…”

  • Money laundering: Prosecution closes case in Fani-Kayode’s trial

    Money laundering: Prosecution closes case in Fani-Kayode’s trial

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday closed its case in the trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, for alleged money laundering.

    On June 24, prosecution counsel, Festus Keyamo, said he had one more witness, Mark Ndifreke, who was said to have paid monies into Fani-Kayode’s account.

    He said Ndifereke had been evading the court summons to testify and prayed for a bench warrant to be issued again him.

    Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia had adjourned till Thursday and directed Keyamo to file a further affidavit within seven days on why Ndifreke should be arrested.

    But Mr. Vitalis Ahaotu informed the court of a letter from Keyamo, his principal, about the prosecution’s intention to close its case.

    Defence counsel, Mr. Wale Akoni (SAN) did not raise any objection on the matter.

    He said Fani-Kayode intended to make a no-case submission rather than calling witness in his defence.

    Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia directed the defence to file their submission within 21 days, while the prosecution must respond within seven days afterwards.

    Fani-Kayode is standing trial on an amended 40-count charge of money laundering.

     

  • Fani-Kayode lied about our comments on Boko Haram proscription, APC insists

    Fani-Kayode lied about our comments on Boko Haram proscription, APC insists

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that former Aviation Minister, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, not only lied but also distorted facts to reach a prepossessed conclusion on the party’s comments on the Federal Government’s proscription of the Boko Haram sect.

    In a statement yesterday in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Fani-Kayode’s emotional response to an earlier statement by the party failed to wash off the thick mud he splashed on himself when he returned to his vomit, repudiated everything he ever said he stood for and made himself available to be used to castigate the opposition on the altar of glaring exigency.

    It said, however, that in the true spirit of the party’s belief in dwelling on issues rather than pettiness, it has decided not to engage Fani-Kayode in brickbats but to simply set the record straight, for the sake of posterity.

    APC said the action was meant to expose Fani-Kayode for who he truly is: “a Janus-faced, brassy personality who stands for nothing and will fall for anything”.

    The statement said: “On June 9, 2013, the ACN issued a statement in which it said in the opening paragraph: ‘The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that the recent proscription order against Boko Haram and Ansaru, desirable as it may be in tackling the terrorist organisations, violates the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by stifling the press and tampering with the fundamental human rights of Nigerians.’

    “Any person, especially one who supposedly had the benefit of a sound education, who interprets this statement as a condemnation of the proscription itself is either acting out of deliberate mischief or has failed to take advantage of his good education, perhaps in a desperation to escape justice at all cost.

    “What the statement means is that in as much as the Federal Government may have done a desirable thing in proscribing the terrorist groups, a section of the proscription Order violates the constitution by stifling the press and tampering with the fundamental human rights of Nigerians.

    “We then quoted that offensive section of the Proscription Order as Section 5 (1), which prescribes a term of imprisonment of not less than 20 years ‘for any person who knowingly, in any manner, directly or indirectly, solicits or renders support for the commission of an act of terrorism or to a terrorist group’.

    “We said: ‘Support, as defined by the Order, includes “incitement to commit a terrorist act through the Internet, or any electronic means OR THROUGH THE USE OF PRINTED MATERIALS OR THROUGH THE DISSEMINATION OF TERRORIST INFORMATION” (emphasis ours). We said this section is in conflict with Chapter II Section 22 of the Nigeria constitution, which says: ‘The press, radio, television and other agencies of the mass media, shall AT ALL TIMES BE FREE (emphasis ours) to uphold the fundamental objectives contained in this chapter and uphold the responsibility and accountability of the government to the people.’

    “We said by stifling the press, the Order is abridging a part of the fundamental human rights guaranteed every citizen under Chapter Four of the Nigerian Constitution in Section 39 (1), which states thus: ‘Every person shall be entitled to freedom of expression including freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart ideas and information WITHOUT INTERFERENCE?’ (emphasis ours), and warned that this section could be used against journalists and the opposition,” APC said.

    In order not to be misunderstood or to have our stand distorted by mischief makers seeking to feather their own nest at the expense of the truth, we then said: “Against the background of insinuations in government circles, let us be clear that we do not condone the activities of these sects that have killed and maimed innocent Nigerians and turned a section of the country into a battle field.

    “Terrorism, in all its ramifications, is condemnable, and no responsible government will allow any group, no matter its name, grievances or ideology, to carry out terrorist acts unchecked.”

    The party said its intervention was deemed sufficiently weighty enough to warrant instant clarifications from the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    It quoted a Presidency’s statement as saying: “For the avoidance of doubt, the Order is not meant to stop journalists from carrying out their duties or the function of news gathering or reporting, as they differ from terrorist activities. Rather, the Order is out to criminalise acts of incitement by anyone, group of persons or institutions to commit terrorist acts through dissemination of terrorist information.”

    APC also quoted the PDP’s statement: “For the avoidance of doubt, no section of the Order stifled the press; violated or seeks to violate any provision of the constitution. Instead, the Order reinforced the provisions of the constitution guaranteeing the security and welfare of all Nigerians.”

    The party said it was baffling that “anyone would still take this statement to mean that APC is against the proscription of Boko Haram”.

    It said Fani-Kayode’s attempt to back away from his earlier statement that Boko Haram is the armed wing of the APC would not excuse him from tendering whatever evidence he has to support his irresponsible, malicious and libellous claim in court.

    “In line with his shifty and deceitful style, Mr. Fani-Kayode, in his rambling response, tried to tone down his earlier statement by saying: ‘I believe strongly that the APC comprises at least a handful of Boko Haram sympathisers and questionable individuals who have, at various times, expressed a certain degree of support for Boko Haram.’

    “But our response to this toned-down version of what he said on television is that it is too late in the day for him to back away from his earlier statement, for which he must apologise or face a court action,” it said.

    APC reminded Fani-Kayode, “who prides himself as a man of good breeding”, that there is no better indication of good breeding than for a man to have integrity and principles that cannot be mortgaged, even with the dangling of a dangerous carrot that could pervert the course of justice to his benefit.”

  • Fani-Kayode’s freedom of bondage

    Before the crucifixion of Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister, ex-partisan of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and returnee devotee of the ruling  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),  by observers who may consider his latest flip-flop as perhaps a reflection of his instability and  crass opportunism, it is important to point out that he is entitled to his freedoms. To start with, he has freedom of thought, also known as the freedom of conscience or ideas, meaning that he can hold an independent viewpoint. In addition, he has freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of association and freedom of religion or belief, among others.

    However, paradoxically, it is possible to be in bondage even while exercising freedom, on account of the fact that the thought could be thoughtless, the conscience could be confused, the association could be awry, and the religion could be religiosity.

    With the 2015 general elections in view and the escalation of rivalry between the country’s principal parties, it is logical to think that Fani-Kayode probably has his eyes on an attraction that he possibly reasoned was beyond his reach if he remained in the APC. So his apparent wander-lust can be appreciated in the context of personal ambition, and he unquestionably has a right to aspire to the ceiling of his dreams.  But it is possible to question his subservience to the ladder.

    To preceptive minds, the evidence of incompatibility was ever-present and only required time to attain maturity and full manifestation. His sensational April visit to President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, about two months after formally joining the APC was a pointer that he might be rethinking his political association. Indeed, on the occasion he seemed to have been preparing people’s hearts and minds for a certain eventuality, which happened on June 2 with his publicised return to the PDP. At the time, in answer to curious reporters, he said: “The step I will take will be made known to Nigerians at the right time.”

    There is no doubt that the timing of his defection was well-calculated and strategic, coming a few days to the first APC National Convention, scheduled for June 13, where a substantive national leadership is expected to emerge and take the place of the Interim National Executive Committee that has managed the party’s affairs since last year following a multi-party merger. He said, in a loaded valedictory statement, “I was not only a member of the APC but I was also a leader of that party and a foundational member.”  He then followed with a declaration that was not exactly a sucker punch: “I have left the APC and gone back to the PDP. I wish the APC well in all their endeavours, but as at today, we have parted ways forever and my spirit has left them.”  It is enlightening that he sounded convinced about the irreversibility of his move; and it is apt to wonder whether his spirit was ever with the party, or even in the party.

    It may be premature to conclusively determine the damage his exit possibly inflicted on the party, but there is realistically likely to be a cost implication. Not surprisingly, the PDP is gloating, and has taken opportunistic advantage of the development, claiming that Fani-Kayode’s reasons for dissociation support its position that the APC is “averse to the unity of the country.” According to its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, “We have now been vindicated.  The truth may be hidden for sometime but it has a way of expressing itself. The world can now see that we do not speak for nothing.”

    Fani-Kayode’s disturbingly damning allegations certainly deserve contemplation, particularly because they were made by an individual who reasonably could be expected to have an insight into the management of the party. “I cannot remain in a party where a handful of people that have sympathies for Boko Haram and that have a clear Islamic agenda are playing a leading role,” he said, with alarming conviction. It is on record that he expressed opposition to an alleged plan by the party to present a Muslim/Muslim combination for next year’s presidential election. Even if this was true, and there is nothing fundamentally evil about the idea, it is a puzzle how such arrangement translates into having a soft spot for the Islamist militia that has terrorised the country since 2009.

    His reasoning betrayed a self-serving perspective that suggested he was possibly unhappy about his ranking in the party but employed the sentimental argument of religious discrimination to cover the bitterness of personal disappointment. According to him, “ I believe that religion ought to play no part in politics but a situation where members of the Christian faith are not treated as equals and where all substantive positions of the national executive of the party are made up of almost exclusively Muslims is unacceptable to me.”  It is unclear which “substantive positions” he was referring to, given the fact that the party convention to fill such positions was still ahead at the time he made his claim.  He also alleged that “a number of leading people” in the party “question the secularity of the state”, which is clearly far-fetched and probably designed to reinforce his allegation of “sympathies for Boko Haram.”

    For a self-characterised “servant of truth”, he has evidently been unfaithful to fact in these accusations, which gives him away as not only desperate to create a basis for disconnection but also anxious for acceptance. His resort to apparent untruths in order to advance his political career does not deserve compliments, just as his adoption of aggressive tactics which continues to distinguish him whenever he takes sides politically. Has the PDP forgotten so soon, in the euphoria of the moment, just how caustic and devastatingly pugilistic he could be? The party perhaps needs to be reminded of the ferocity of oppositional bashing that he gave Jonathan while he was outside. Or maybe that does not matter anymore; it must be a relief to have him back on their side.

    Interestingly, he provided proof of his self-description as “a lover of poetry” by his coinage of “Haramites” to refer to those who supposedly have a Boko Haram mentality. He declared, “I am not prepared to stay and fight from within because the presence of any closet Haramites on the same political platform as me is something that I find utterly repugnant.”

    Still on self-definition from his Twitter account where he also calls himself “a believer in God”, it is difficult to associate the divine with the opposite of truth, reliability and integrity; and the latest performance by Fani-Kayode certainly fell short of these values.

  • Fani-Kayode: Drama as court declares EFCC’s witness hostile

    Fani-Kayode: Drama as court declares EFCC’s witness hostile

    There was drama at the Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday as Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia declared an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness hostile.

    The witness, Ojo Agbor, was testifying in the trial of a former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, for alleged money laundering when the prosecutor, Mr. Festus Keyamo, applied to the court to declare him a hostile witness.

    Keyamo said Agbor’s testimony was totally different from what is in his statement to the EFCC.

    The lawyer also alleged that the defence had “coached” the witness on what to say in court.

    “He has been coached. That is why he has been running away despite different invitations to testify. We had to write his director to produce him this morning,” Keyamo said.

    After the judge declare Agbor a hostile witness, Keyamo accused him of deliberately lying to the court.

    He also alleged that the witness and Fani-Kayode had communicated through phone prior to Wednesday’s proceedings.

    “Your phone record will show that you have called the accused person or the accused person has called you,” Keyamo said. The witness replied: “He has not called me.”

    Keyamo said: “I want to put it to you that you’re here today to tell deliberate lies,” to which Agbor said “No.”

    He also alleged that Fani-Kayode was giving the witness signals on what to say during proceedings.

    When Fani-Kayode turned to gaze at Keyamo in a look of denial, Keyamo said: “The accused person is looking menacingly at me,” adding jovially: “The way he’s looking at me is like we’re dragging one girlfriend.”

    The witness said the statement he made to the EFCC was not voluntary.

    According to him, the commission’s officials asked him to lie otherwise he would be charged along with Fani-Kayode.

  • Fani-Kayode’s rigmarole

    Fani-Kayode’s rigmarole

    From the look of things, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, an ex-minister of Aviation, former partisan  of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and lately an enthusiastic voice of the opposition in the All Progressives Congress (APC), may be exploring a renewal of old political affiliations. Evidence of such possibility was supplied not just by his publicised closed-door meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja; it was even more strongly provided by his words after what may not be inaccurately described as a reunion.

     In the first place, after familiar but unconvincing bromides about the Presidential Villa being a place where every Nigerian who is welcome can always visit, Fani-Kayode spoke about “the wonderful people here”, a flattering reference that was food for thought, given his known oppositional attitude to the Jonathan administration.  What has changed about the government to warrant the praise, or perhaps more precisely, what has changed about Fani-Kayode to inspire the new song?

    “I won’t go into that,” was his curt reply to reporters who sought information about what he discussed with Jonathan; and when he was asked whether this rather unexpected meeting was a signal that he was about to exit APC, his answer was pregnant with meaning. He said: “The step I will take will be made known to Nigerians at the right time. The most important thing, and I think you are fully aware of this, is that I cannot and will not be associated with a situation whereby any group of people is promoting a religion above another.”

    It would appear that there was a lot more significance about what he did not say than what he actually said. There was an unmistakable implication that all is not well with his APC-connection.  More importantly, there was also the implied point that religious differences, or differences in perspectives on religion and its political influence, may be why he is rethinking his political affairs. According to him, “I think all of us have gone past the stage of religious politics in this country. We must treat the Muslim community with utmost respect and we must treat the Christian community in the same way, and even the non-religious.”

    So who is playing “religious politics” by Fani-Kayode’s definition or standard? It is noteworthy that Jonathan, before he visited Pope Francis at the Vatican last month, which was possibly the ultimate move in a series of churchy activities, faced a barrage of public criticism for his overt romance with Christian places of worship in particular and his indecent exploitation of otherwise spiritual space for the  strictly secular business of politics.

    Fani-Kayode is probably yet to make full public disclosure concerning the apparent reawakening of his old political passion.  Although in a clearly unpersuasive defensive effort, he subsequently argued that his visit to Jonathan did not amount to departure from APC, adding it was premature for observers to conclude that he had defected to PDP, there is little or no doubt about the signs of disconnection.

    Of course, his freedom of political association is beyond question. So, if Hardball may ask, why the rigmarole?

  • Fani-Kayode’s trial stalled as judge chides Keyamo

    Fani-Kayode’s trial stalled as judge chides Keyamo

    The trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, was stalled yesterday at the Federal High Court in Lagos following the absence of the prosecuting counsel, Mr Festus Keyamo.

    Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia was dissatisfied that Keyamo, who was said to be ill, failed to give the court a prior notification of his absence.

    She said: “The court is displeased that the prosecutor did not have the simple courtesy of writing to inform the court of his absence. This is a case in which the accused attends court from outside jurisdiction. So, it was wrong for the prosecution counsel not to have intimated the court of his absence.”

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is prosecuting Fani-Kayode on an amended 40-count charge of money laundering.

    The former minister was said to have laundered about N100,219,500 by paying them into his personal account through an associate.

    Fani-Kayode is to be represented by former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN).

    The lawyer told the judge yesterday that he had joined the defence and would lead the team as from the next proceedings.

    Olanipekun takes over from Mr Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), who will remain a part of the defence team. He was in court yesterday.

  • Prosecutor’s absence stalls Fani-Kayode’s trial

    Prosecutor’s absence stalls Fani-Kayode’s trial

    The absence of the prosecutor on Wednesday stalled the trial of a former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, before a Federal High Court, Lagos,

    The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Fani-Kayode on an amended 40-count charge bordering on money laundering.

    When the case was mentioned on Wednesday, the matter could not go on due to the absence of the prosecutor, Mr. Festus Keyamo.

    Fani-Kayode’s counsel, Mr. Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), therefore, asked the court for an adjournment.

    The judge, Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, expressed displeasure that the prosecutor was absent without writing a letter to the court that he would not be available.

    “This court is displeased that the prosecutor did not have the simple courtesy of writing to inform the court of his absence.

    “This is a case in which the accused attends court from outside jurisdiction, and so, it was wrong for the prosecution not to have intimated the court on his absence,” she said.

    Ofili-Ajumogobia adjourned the case till May 14 for continuation of trial and ordered hearing notices to be issued on the prosecution.

     

     

     

     

  • I haven’t left APC, says Fani-Kayode

    I haven’t left APC, says Fani-Kayode

    A former Aviation Minister, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, said yesterday he has not left the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The former minister visited President Goodluck Jonathan at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja on Tuesday, fuelling speculations that he was planning to return to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a party he has berated for sundry misdeeds against Nigerians.

    He was minister in the PDP-led Olusegun Obasanjo administration for a year.

    In a statement yesterday, Fani-Kayode denied leaving the progressives’ fold, though expressed his misgivings about the alleged Muslim-Muslim ticket of the party, which has been speculative since APC has not announced such.

    The statement reads: “I have not left the APC. If I ever choose to leave the party, I will let the Nigerian public know, and I will give my reasons. This has not happened. I was at the Villa the other day and what transpired there has been the subject of much online speculation.

    “What I said to the media whilst there was very clear and I chose my words very carefully. Let those that are interested read those words in the newspapers rather than speculate. Other than that, I will say no more on this matter until I am ready to do so.

    “A few days ago, all the APC governors from the Southwest were in the State House where they held a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan. What they discussed has not been made public until now. Does that make them PDP governors? The Presidency belongs to every Nigerian, irrespective of religious and political persuasions.

    “Again, General (Muhammadu) Buhari was recently honoured by the same President Jonathan during the centenary celebration, which the APC did not support. Does that mean he has joined the PDP?

    “Again, the ongoing Federal Government confab has some APC chieftains participating in it, despite the fact that the party is against it. Does that mean they have left the APC? People should get real and stop speculating.