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06/03/2018

GANDUJE’S DAUGHTER, AJIMOBI’S SON ARE ‘ZAWARAWA’ – KWANKWASO MOCKS ELABORATE WEDDING

March 5, 2018

Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso has mocked the wedding ceremony of Fatima and Idris, the daughter and son of Governors Abdullahi Ganduje and Abiola Ajimobi, respectively.
On Saturday, President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, governors, the APC national leader, Bola Tinubu, among many others attended the ceremony..
Addressing his supporters in Kaduna at the weekend, Kwankwaso mocked the couple, saying they are ‘zawarawa’.
The term in Hausa language, among others, means that the couple are non-virtuous.
Only few people are happy with the marriage of a single zawarawa because they are just one”, Daily Nigerian quoted him as saying.
“We heard the eastern, the western, the southern and the northern entry points to Kano are all shut for the marriage of a single ‘zawarawa’ couple.
“This shows a sharp departure from the Kwankwasiyya ideology in Kano State.
“Kano was at a standstill because of this marriage,” the former governor said.
The lawmaker also lambasted dignitaries who stormed the state for the wedding, saying they are “less busy”.
“We also heard a lot of people from other places that are less busy have abandoned their duties to attend the wedding.
“I also heard this event involving a single couple has made lot of people doing their legitimate businesses remain indoors.
“All these show difference between honesty and dishonesty, between light and darkness, between mass wedding of a thousand couple and that of a single couple,” he added.

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03/03/2018

DOKUBO DISMISSES FAYOSE, TAMBUWAL, REVEALS PDP’S BEST CANDIDATE

Ex-militant leader in the Niger Delta, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, has advised the Peoples Democratic Party on the choice of presidential candidate ahead of the 2019 election.

Asari, who spoke with Sun believes that only former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has the credentials to wrestle power from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, come 2019.Speaking on other candidates indicating interest under the umbrella of the PDP, Asari, said mentioning names such as Tambuwal, Sule Lamido, and others shows that the main opposition party is not ready for the election.

His words, “Yes, the PDP is not ready for a fight. If the PDP is ready for a fight, there won’t be talks of Tambuwal candidature, someone who is a governor in APC. He destroyed PDP and ran to APC. They are talking of Tambuwal, who knows him in Bayelsa?

“PDP governors are lobbying a character like that to join the PDP and contest for the presidential ticket. They are talking of Makarfi, a man who could not win Senate election; a man who during the 2015 presidential election allegedly voted for Buhari and showed his ballot paper to the people before putting it in the box.

“Such a man is the one some PDP people are lobbying to get on the presidential ticket.“Sule Lamido is not different from Buhari. He is one of these arrogant Fulani people who feel they own this country and the rest of us are just like appendages.“Yes, I was in the SDP with Atiku Abubakar. He is the most liberal of all the people coming from the North. He has his own baggage. Let us look at other people. What are people like David Mark doing that they can’t contest?

“Is it that they are not courageous enough to come and fight? So everybody in the North would abdicate to the Fulani. Other Northerners are even afraid to take their liberty even when we have told them that we have taken our liberty and they should take theirs.”

On Fayose, he added, “Yes, he has signified his intention but it is not going to fly. Who is going to run Fayose’s election for him? Whose money is going to be used?“ The South West does not vote heavily. The percentage of voters is low. Ekiti state where Fayose is governor has one of the lowest voting population.

“The other voters in South West are in the hands of the APC. For me, David Mark would have been the very best for PDP to galvanise the swing nationalities; those people outside Hausa, Fulani and Yoruba and bring them together to join with the Igbo and some other liberal Yoruba people.

“But if David Mark is not there, among the Fulani if the PDP insists on having a Fulani to become its presidential candidate, Atiku is their best bet.“We also have Ibrahim Shekarau , a very honest and cerebral man. But does he have resources because election demands resources. At the end of the day, a lot of people do not know Shekarau in the South.

“Atiku already has platforms across Nigeria and whatever it is he can fight more. Aside that, he has also talked about restructuring and as an Ijaw man, we want to engage him, what he means by restructuring. If PDP is looking for somebody with a war chest to fight and that would attract a lot of people from the APC, it is Atiku.”

Ex-militant leader in the Niger Delta, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, has advised the Peoples Democratic Party on the choice of presidential candidate ahead of the 20

19/01/2018

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13/01/2018

BETWEEN DECAMPING AND GOVERNANCE

January 13, 2018

By Azibola Omekwe

The other day Dele Agekameh continued the hype of Atiku’s decamping from the APC to the PDP. It is clear it has generated a spirit that has possessed Nigeria in recent times. The hullabaloo is buzzing, akin to Nigeria having successfully won the World Cup, or the Nigerian economy having overtaken that of the USA and China.

More to that, it is being believed to be a criminal thing since words like “political prostitution” were used to describe this lawful and basic right of a public figure who has been a champion in the public service, business and politics. In a country where it is believed that most public office holders have skeletons in their cupboard, Atiku has thrown a challenge to the whole world for anyone who has evidence of any thievery by him to come forward with it.

The truth is that there are enemies of Nigerians who do not want him to be president come 2019. And they believe that the surest way to stop him is to tar him with corruption. But none has come forward to the challenge. This is the most delicate open declaration by someone who has been in a Nigerian cash agency like the Customs Service and has been a Vice President for eight years. The person he is likely to contest against, in an apparent challenge to Atiku, dared him to go to the United States as if that country is more concerned about corruption in Nigeria than he who claimed he was going to arrest corrupt people and jail them. But as at now, this purported austere president of ours who has led us in evidence against Atiku’s decamping is being linked to one of the best built residential estates in Nigeria. Surprisingly, the press missed that. If I may ask, how can Atiku’s decamping raise dust more than an exuberant First Family?

The most shocking of all is how the media has decided to oblige the present APC-led regime by being diverted to talk about Atiku decamping. Why do we have to cast aspersion on what is lawful? We urge the media to rather look at Atiku’s character of sacrifice for democracy. What about his journey from grass to grace? Can the youth learn and hope in such a model? What is his position on restructuring and devolution of power? Why is he not intimidated by such a new national phase? We believe those are the things that should engage us. Why criminalise a lawful act?

Truth be told, this provides us with a choice come 2019. Should we undermine the opportunity of choice to talk about a lawful action which most politicians including the president are guilty of? If we enact a law that all Nigerian politicians who ever decamped be banned from politics, we might require a microscope to sift through those who never did.
Since the advent of democracy, the Nigeria media has shown itself to be the best guardian of Democracy. They had severally mobilized Nigerians to oppose obnoxious government actions. A classic example was the role they played on the occasion of bedridden late Yar’Adua. A major newspaper based in the north in collaboration with Obasanjo told Yar’Adua to give way for the necessary things to be done. Obasanjo said exactly what Nigerians wanted. That was the deadly blow that quashed the stalemate. Barrage of opinions ensued. And then death came calling and Nigeria moved forward. The rest is history.

In virtually every sector in the country, the Nigeria media has performed creditably. On Goodluck Jonathan, they preferred a Buhari replacement thereby throwing decorum overboard. Admittedly, while many worked behind the scenes for Buhari, a handful were objective, which automatically did not work in favour of Goodluck Jonathan. The ones who wanted GEJ out went on unsolicited whistle-blowing of everything he touched. It was a hysterical blitzkrieg. Some papers did what they did under the guise of for ‘God and Country’, and for ‘trust’ while a handful of them desperately wanted Jonathan. Buhari won. High Chief Raymond Dokpesi spoke about the written and unwritten reasons GEJ lost that election. They are obvious. Perhaps for national expediency and the tragedy that has continually haunted Nigeria, nobody would be bold enough to come out to put it in black and white. In fact, it was better we let it be and face the restructuring we want.

Coincidentally when Buhari came to power, executives of some popular media houses got appointed to ‘juicy’ positions. They are Nigerians. It is their right. They had been very critical of governance throughout the days of PDP. But we are lucky those that criticised the government came to power. Nigerians have never seen worse poverty like today. Bomb blasts have considerably been reduced with a great takeover by cattle herdsmen. There is increased insecurity on our roads. Nigerians are generally afraid to travel. Surprisingly, the media has gone to sleep on a general note. They are silent over practically everything that has gone wrong: joblessness, runaway unemployment, inflation and insecurity. They probably have decided to ‘siddon and look’ before they react.

But how come they are now agitated about Atiku’s decamping when no doom statistics roused them? When foreign debt has attained a frightening position? Are they sold by the ‘righteousness’ of Buhari? How does righteous and austere living substitute for good governance? How can we trust austere character more than Nigeria’s future? Is it true that soon there will be an increase in pump price of petrol? Lest we forget, a section of the media, political parties and civil society had insisted there must not be increase in price of petrol during Goodluck Jonathan’s regime. But this administration doubled the price of petrol and wants to do so again. However, because ‘our mumu never do’, we saw nothing wrong with it. There is no need for a strike again because some people have crossed the bridge and are no longer sorrowful.

They are however on guard against anyone who decamps and leaves their party for another to challenge them. They are sure of our gullibility to remind us of how staying in one party is morally right. But then they would have us forget that the political party they started with has gone into extinction. The government of the day has performed so creditably that some columnists have decided to partner with it to make sure Nigerians remain in the government party – apologies to Dele Agekameh. In fact, those who provided a platform to tell late Yar’Adua to resign are now commissioning already-made railway and dry port with no tangible start-up facilities in the face of poverty. That Nigeria would soon produce the highest population of the poor in 2018; what percentage would the north take under Buhari? All eyes on Atiku’s decamping rather, says the media.

Recently, Rotimi Amaechi accused Goodluck Jonathan of squandering the Excess Crude Account. Everybody was stupefied for this crass falsehood. In fact, the fight to squander the ECA as propounded by Amaechi was his journey to stardom then in opposition circles. We have not forgotten how Amaechi and his co-travellers rushed to court and defeated the government to bring the ECA for sharing. The future did not matter at all. But few weeks ago, he had the temerity to tell Nigerians that he fought to protect the ECA. Sadly, Atiku’s decamping noise completely dwarfs that part. The government machinery redirected our attention to a mere moral bias that is even lawful instead of reprimanding Amaechi for peddling falsehood. The media did not find it fit to rebuke the government for Rotimi Amaechi’s action. Our children, future leaders, have been taught one lesson: if you are feeding fat, nothing matters again.

This terrible silence by a section of the media has sown a seed and raised falsehood to statecraft. But can it be admitted that this government has degenerated to this extent? We were told he is a man of integrity. In short, he is on the verge of rewarding Amaechi with re-appointment as a campaign DG. Telling lies apparently is going to be the thrust of this government.
But let it be clear, this government is not really against decamping even if it happens a million times. What made Atiku’s decamping distasteful is that he decamped from APC to a party that would unseat them. Just steal all the money you can, you could even be the most sought after guy in the EFCC. But all you need is to decamp to APC then walk majestically; the chief host of the party would be at the gate welcoming you with a lot of hype and razzmatazz. Then the EFCC will eventually understand. Then the money you stole will have gone forever. Even the media does not see such commando decamping as anything. Truth is, they have crossed the bridge and feel no more sorry.

Nigerians, remember nobody knew who reinstated Abdulrasheed Maina. By the utterances of his lawyer, it shows the man is in the good books of the government and the last has not been heard about him. The latest frivolous application of the Attorney General of the Federation before the Federal High Court shows the silhouette position of the government in Maina’s case. Nigerians have moved on despite Buhari’s henchmen knowing and protecting him. The Nigeria media and civil society that kept vigil in Abacha’s regime have been kowtowed. Emboldened by Nigerians pliability, the in-thing in town is that the dead and zombies are now on our pay roll! That is upping the stakes. Since some are preoccupied with Atiku’s decamping, ghost workers now hold sway. And if you complain too much, they will tell you it was a mistake.

Atiku has decamped from the APC to the PDP. We know. But how does that surpass the inaccurate lies that have characterised the fuel crisis since December last year? For the sake of hapless Nigerians, Atiku needed to decamp. Some are decamping to save their loot while he decamped for good governance that he is obsessed with. He can decamp for the sake of the Nigerian state. Remember, even a section of the media and the civil society have decamped from vigilance.

–Hon. Omekwe is a former member of Bayelsa State House of Assembly

By Azibola Omekwe The other day Dele Agekameh continued the hype of Atiku’s decamping from the APC to the PDP. It is clear it has generated a spirit that has possessed Nigeria in recent times. The …

24/12/2017

ATIKU’S INDECISIVENESS VERSUS EL-RUFAI’S DISCOURTEOUSNESS

By Idowu Akinlotan

December 24, 2017

FORMER vice president Atiku Abubakar can be sometimes self-effacing despite his long history of combative politics, opinionatedness, defiance and even irreverence. On a Voice of America programme last week, the unrepentant jouster spoke of his indecision about contesting the presidency. “For now, I have not made up my mind,” he said tentatively. “When I decide, I will let the world know.” For a man who all but gave indication he migrated from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) because he felt stifled by the grovelling self-abnegation of the party’s governors, it is puzzling that he would equivocate about his presidential ambition. In fact, his unending political somersaults, which are sometimes perplexing in the ease with which he defects from one party to another and are deeply execrated by nearly all his friends and enemies, can only be explained by his obsession with the presidential seat.

Few think Alhaji Abubakar meant his word when he talked of being unable to make up his mind. He often accuses the governors of sycophancy, a vice he and many critics think the Kaduna State governor Nasir el-Rufai is preeminently suited, but it is an accusation driven by the former vice president’s displeasure with those who oppose his ambition. On a few occasions he had solicitously gone to see his old nemesis, ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, to propitiate the old man. Alhaji Abubakar, in short, gives the impression he would do anything, placate anyone, and joust with any enemy to achieve his lifelong goal of ruling Nigeria. For such a man to go on air to indulge in a timorous display of political subterfuge, he obviously wasn’t expecting to be taken seriously.

Should he, however, be sincere in considering whether to contest or not, it would imply that his politics has matured far beyond what the public has dismissively characterised it. Alhaji Abubakar knew he could not hope to get the nomination in the APC while the president kept his interest alive and his health was on the rebound. The former vice president and others like him, including the voluble Mallam el-Rufai himself, had nurtured some presidential ambitions while the president was away on medical vacation and didn’t seem likely to return. But after his return, and with his health getting more robust by the day, it has become apparent to any serious contender that the president would show interest in a second term and bare his fangs to guard that interest. If the ingratiating but less discerning governors that populate the APC could read the signs of the times, the more astute and less dissembling Alhaji Abubakar can be trusted to decode the moment even more adeptly. Few, except idealists, were therefore surprised by the ex-vice president’s defection.

His return to the PDP could therefore mean only one thing: that he would do everything possible to clinch the nomination. He seems to think that once he crosses that hurdle, all things considered, he would make a short work of the president who, despite his recuperation, is unlikely to shed the toga of lethargy that still drapes both his style and government, not to talk of the campaigns when they begin in earnest. Alhaji Abubakar’s chances of getting that nomination, however, are slim, regardless of his immense wealth, bright ideas and political talent. Dr Jonathan’s surreal admonition to Alhaji Abubakar to secure Chief Obasanjo’s support before contesting the position is sadly the regnant wisdom in the PDP. But even if he embarked on the pilgrimage to Abeokuta, to the wolf’s lair, it would still be fruitless. The PDP undoubtedly needs Alhaji Abubakar, but only as a backbone not as a standard-bearer. They know by instinct, if not experience, that the country seemed to have moved on long ago beyond whatever goods and services the ex-vice president was capable of bringing to the market.

Asked to choose between the reliable and sagacious Alhaji Abubakar and the effervescent but unprincipled el-Rufai, neither the people of Kaduna nor Nigerians as a whole would find any reason to dither. Examine the governor’s obnoxious characterisation of Alhaji Abubakar’s politics: “We in the APC were aware of it long ago that Atiku was going to leave the APC back to the PDP in December, but we even thank God that he left in November. Atiku had seen that we in the APC, especially the APC governors, had made up our mind to support President Muhammadu Buhari to run again in 2019. That is why he left APC since he was only looking for where to contest for president. Even for the 2015 APC primary election, Atiku didn’t come second; he was floored by Kwankwaso. So, even if President Buhari decides not to contest, Atiku knows that the APC ticket is not certain for him. Majority of the APC governors have endorsed President Buhari as our candidate for 2019. And God has continued to improve the health of the president. Each time I see him, I thank God and I still pray that God continue to give him sound health.

“So, by 2019, we are waiting to see Atiku contest; we are waiting to contest against him and see what happens. I cannot lose sleep because Atiku wants to contest because, by God’s grace, this is the reign of President Muhammadu Buhari. It is agreed that in politics if you lose even only one person, it should worry you, but the utterances of the former vice-president that APC used his money; who did he give the money to? For me, I know those that supported us with their money and property that we used during the election…”

What is most offensive about Mallam el-Rufai’s dismissive characterisation of the former vice president is not even his conclusion that the latter was unelectable or excessively ambitious. No, what worries any observer is his appalling sycophancy. His words judge him. He is probably the most officious, discourteous and ingratiating governor in the APC today. And were it not for the boundless theatricalness of the Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, a man so unamenable to seriousness and moderation, Mallam el-Rufai would probably easily rank as the worst. Nigerians, it seems, would rather have Alhaji Abubakar’s flighty and tragic politics. There is really nothing to contemplate in el-Rufai’s dangerous and sneaky obsequiousness.

The Nation

07/10/2017

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22/08/2017

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21/08/2017

Aiteo Threatens Lawsuit Over Links Tp Diezani Alison-Madueke

August 21, 2017

Indigenous oil explorer, Aiteo Group, says it may seek redress in court against an online publication and its sponsors over claims that it maintained a corrupt relationship with former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.

This followed an allegation that Aiteo was linked to the reported 2015 Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) bribery scandal, an accusation it described as “prejudicially designed” to soil the image and reputation of the company and its executive vice chairman.

Regretting that it could not comment on all issues raised because some are sub-judice, it stated, however, that the rebuttal was for the sake of “shareholders, host communities, the over 11,000 people who derive their livelihood from the company and the general public,” according global best practice.

“At no time in our company’s history has any of our directors or employees ever been involved in any form of criminal or immoral business, other conduct or activity with the former petroleum minister, any NNPC or other government staff or agent,” a statement by the Aiteo Group’s Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, Ndiana-Abasi Matthew, read.

“Aiteo never benefitted from the Strategic Alliance Agreements referenced in the article. We were a major player in the Nigerian oil sector, importing petroleum products for NNPC and exporting naphtha, fuel oil and condensate and were already a flourishing and prosperous group by any standards long before Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s appointment as Minister of Petroleum Resources.

“Aiteo’s core area of business has been the trading and distribution of sundry petroleum products since its inception in 1999. Furthermore, the NNPC has publicly confirmed that no Aiteo entity is indebted to NNPC or any of its subsidiaries.”

The statement further noted that “the sale of OML 29 to the Aiteo Consortium by Shell was conducted under international best practices, with Aiteo emerging as the preferred bidder due to its superior technical and commercial competence.

“The rigor and transparency under which the bid was conducted by the owners of the purchased interest, Shell, Total and Agip, made it unnecessary and impossible for anyone to influence the outcomes inordinately. These allegations are therefore wrong and should not have been published.

“That Aiteo is able to announce a production increase of 400 per cent from about 23kbpod a year ago, averaging over 90kbpod, is a testament to the technical robustness of our workforce and the prudence and professionalism of our management team.

“Despite our open-door policy to media enquiries, the authors claimed to have attempted to contact us several times. However, it is a shame that none of those efforts extended to using the contact details on our corporate website.

“It is apparent that there is vested interest behind the unsavoury publications, and an orchestrated campaign of calumny on an international level against an indigenous company that has gone global in outlook and outreach.”

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