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  • Labour Minister, Chris Ngige gets into big mess [Video]

    Labour Minister, Chris Ngige gets into big mess [Video]

    The Minister of Labour and Employment, Mr. Chris Ngige, got himself into a big mess on Tuesday at the All Progressives Congress (APC) mega rally held at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium in Ado Ekiti.

    TheNewsGuru reports that the Labour Minister found himself in the big mess after he faltered by campaigning for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor Ayodele Fayose, instead of the APC he represents.

    Heavy security was on Tuesday mounted in every corner of Ado Ekiti, as President Muhammadu Buhari led top notches of the ruling APC to Ekiti for the Grand Finale of the party’s mega rally for Saturday’s governorship election in the state.

    At the rally, Ngige, either by commission or omission, praised the PDP and Governor Fayose in the presence of Buhari and the mammoth crowd that greeted the occasion.

    The Minister, who mostly spoke in Pidgin English, said “E go happen on Saturday. Those wey wan Saturday to happen raise your hands with your PVC and everything”.

    Turning to President Buhari, Ngige said, “Mr President, the leaders of our party, our people are ready, they are ready and on Saturday it will happen.

    “Especially those from the South west for the mistake they made in 2014, so they won’t make that mistake again”.

    “If you marry two wives, you go know which one wey better. Fayose is the better Wife, he dey cook, he dey give him husband better food, he no dey give am trouble, so you must bring back Fayose on Saturday,” he said to the amazement of the crowd.

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  • APC inaugurates pro-Buhari campaign volunteers for 186 LGAs in North west

    APC inaugurates pro-Buhari campaign volunteers for 186 LGAs in North west

    The All Progressive Congress (APC) North West chapter on Sunday inaugurated volunteers committed to propagating the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the volunteers, drawn from the 186 local government areas in the zone, were inaugurated by Senate Leader, Ahmad Lawan.
    Lawan, represented by Sen. Abu Ibrahim, said that the volunteers were carefully selected to diligently work under the Buhari/Osibanjo 2019 Presidency Re-election Organization.
    He added that they would propagate the policies and programme’s of the administration and canvass support ahead of the 2019 general elections.
    He stressed that the volunteers would highlight the landmark achievements of the Buhari administration especially “in the area of security, economy, fight against corruption and infrastructural development with consequent redemption of hitherto soiled image of Nigeria in the comity of Nations.
    “There is no gainsaying that President Buhari took the mantle of leadership of Nigeria when it was almost on a brink of collapse evident in the activities of Boko Haram terrorist which had captured over 14 local governments.
    “The economy was battered by the government that Buhari succeeded to the point that payment of workers salaries was about to be impossible due to embezzlement, bribery and other related economic and financial recklessness.”
    Lawal noted that apart from decimating Boko Haram, the administration has so far succeeded in fighting corruption through the enforcement of Treasury Single Account which controlled government finances effectively and blocked the siphoning of public funds by fraudulent officials.
    “Other reasons why we voluntarily support Buhari /Osibanjo 2019 presidency includes it’s sincerity of purpose, integrity, transparency, accountability, discipline, ethics, trust and tolerance displayed over the years.
    “The strong desire of the administration for continuity in progress, readiness to create opportunities for leadership experience among the youth also makes a basic requirement for their re-election in 2019,” he added.
    Also, Chairman, Northern Senators Forum, Sen. Aliyu Wamakko, said that the administration had taken good measures within three years to address some of the challenges facing the country.
    Wamakko said the diversification of Nigeria economy from old age reliance on oil as the mainstay of the county’s economy to agriculture and mining had produced positive results.
    “Yet again, the government also engages in providing infrastructure service to Nigerian in terms of good roads, railways, houses across the country.”
    Also speaking Sen. Jibrin Barau ( APC Kano) expressed support for the laudable achievements of President Buhari, adding “we must work together to sustain the good work as what President Buhari administration has done PDP has not done in their 16 years.”
    In his remarks, Alhassan Ado-Dogowa, Chief Whip in the House of Representatives, said President Buhari is for all Nigerians including the young women and old.
    Ado-Dogowa said the President should be commended for accepting to contest for another term, declaring that ” his contest is a sacrifice for the betterment of Nigeria not for any selfish benefit.
    “We are for Buhari to continue come 2019 and we must make sacrifices to achieve it.”
    The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufa’i, represented by his Deputy, Bala Bantex called on the coordinators to remain steadfast in the task ahead to ensure success.

  • 2019: Kwara APC declares total support for Saraki, awaits directives on defection

    The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state on said declared its loyalty to Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

    The party also said it is awaiting Saraki’s directive on defection from the ruling party.

    The State Chairman of the party, Ishola Balogun-Fulani told reporters in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital that members of the party remained committed to Saraki and would follow his decision.

    Balogun-Fulani described the APC as a broken party, saying the cord of unity among members had been severed due to internal wrangling and the “unwarranted” trial of the Senate President.

    When asked to respond to a call last week by the party’s three senatorial chairmen asking Saraki to lead them out of the APC, he said:”Everyone has a right to express what he wants but as for us, we wait on what our leader (Saraki) will decide ”

    Baligun- Fulani expressed relief, satisfaction and justification by the decision of the Supreme Court acquitting Saraki of allegations of false asset declaration, pointing out that the party held the same position since the now ended trial began three years ago.

    “Like we have always maintained, no political party ever survived war waged against itself. Indeed, It is now clear that the bond of cohesion in the APC has been weakened, damaged, fractured and severed.

     

  • APC threatens to arrest, prosecute Galadima, others in R-APC

    The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday said it would take legal actions against the National Chairman of the Reformed-APC, Alhaji Buba Galadima, and other members of the group.

    The National Legal Adviser of the party, Babatunde Ogala, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday.

    He said this in reaction to the formation of the splinter group, R-APC.

    Recall that aggrieved members of the New Peoples Democratic Party bloc and other aggrieved members of the ruling APC had on Thursday last week announced the formation of the R-APC.

    Ogala accused Galadima and other R-APC leaders of impersonation, fraudulent interpretation, conducts likely to breach public peace and breach of trademark and infringement of copyright.

    The APC also hinted possible arrest of leading members of the R-APC by security agencies.

    The legal adviser stated, “For the infringement so far committed by Mr Galadima and the odium he has brought upon the APC brand, we will be seeking civil redress against his person and that of his group.

    “With respect to the criminal aspect of his conduct, we will be notifying the appropriate authorities to do the needful.”

    According to Ogala, the press conference and statement issued by Galadima “were reminiscent of the televised military address issued after a successful execution of a coup d’état” which had become the order of the day before the return of democracy.

    Ogala accused the Galadima-led R-APC of resorting to self-help instead of seeking legal redress.

    He said if members of the group felt strongly about events that took place during the recently concluded national convention of the APC, they should have approached the court.

    He noted that Galadima’s press release could be captured under three major issues, namely:

    “That the party’s convention was improperly conducted by the convention chairman as consensus candidates were only subjected to a ‘yes’ vote in alleged contravention of Article 20 of the APC constitution.

    “That a group of delegates have come together 10 days after the successful conduct of the APC convention to, in their words, ‘take control and give legitimacy’ to APC now to be known as Reformed APC.

    “That R-APC, whose congresses and convention date has yet to be disclosed, already has the full complement of national executives, national working committee, state executives and local government officials in all 774 local government areas across the country.”

    Faulting Galadima, Ogala stated, “The question of elections within the APC is covered by Article 20 of the APC Constitution. Specifically, Section 20 (1) provides that all party posts prescribed or implied by this constitution shall be filled by democratically conducted elections at the respective national convention or congress; subject where possible to consensus.”

    In a veiled reference to alleged criminal breaches of the law on the part of the R-APC, Ogala maintained that the immediate consequence of Galadima’s action is that “he and his gang” had committed several criminal infractions against the APC.

    The legal adviser said by referring to himself as a national chairman, Galadima had committed the offence of impersonation.

    He said Galadima, knowingly made a statement which he knew to be untrue with the aim of deceiving Nigerians into abandoning the APC.

    The APC legal adviser further argued that the APC is a brand owned by members of the political party so registered and that by using the APC brand, the R-APC had infringed on the copyright of the APC and was thus liable.

    Ogala said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration was prepared to do all that was lawfully necessary to cleanse Nigeria’s political process of people who had become accustomed to brigandage and being unruly.

    In his reaction, the National Publicity Secretary of the R-APC, Mr Kassim Afegbua, said, “This long epistle to the Romans with a series of legal jargon is only food for the ears of their political buccaneers and economic predators.

    “This so-called legal adviser does not need to bog us with this long, windy and twisted legal logic; all he needs to do is to approach a court of competent jurisdiction and sue us.

    “As one of the beneficiaries of a convention, he needs to impress his new economic predators that he too has all it takes to fit into the filthy lucre of the present arrangement.”

  • 2019: APC suffering from pre-defeat trauma

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the All Progressive Congress (APC) is on the throes of death and that its panic-stricken leadership has resorted to fabrications and cheap blackmail against those leaving their sinking ship in droves.

    Already suffering from pre-defeat trauma ahead of the 2019 elections, the now shattered APC has become intensely nervous and chaotic over the soaring popularity of the PDP as well as the surge of Nigerians, across board, into our fold as a repositioned and rebranded party.

    We are therefore not surprised that the APC, out of frustration, has recourse to sponsoring of spurious publications filled with deceptions, fabrications and lies against the PDP.

    The APC is particularly unsettled by the huge successes recorded by the Liyel Imoke-led PDP Contact and Integration Committee, in seamlessly galvanizing alliances among stakeholders across other parties, including those returning from the overtly dysfunctional and derelict APC.

    The APC is further disconcerted by the spirit of accommodation, agreement and oneness of purpose that pervade the alliances among old, new and returning members of the PDP in our key structure across all the states of the federation, particularly in Sokoto, Kogi, Kwara and Kano states, where all new and retuning members have been accorded very warm reception.

    We know that the APC will stop at nothing in its sneaky efforts to cause confusion among our members, including suggesting that there are disagreements where none exists.

    What the APC, in its depravity and desperation, has failed to note is that the PDP had, since its repositioning, made adequate arrangements, ahead of time, to accommodate all interests and alignments in this collective quest to rescue our nation from the misrule of President Muhammadu Buhari, come 2019.

    The APC should come to terms with the fact that as the name of our great party connotes, the rebranded and repositioned PDP remains a party of all Nigerians and will continue to provide equal opportunity for all Nigerians to freely aspire, even for the highest position in the land, irrespective of creed, tribe or even previous party affiliations.

    We advice the APC leaders to further accept the fact that their party is now beleaguered with a demystified and unpopular presidential candidate and an unelected National Chairman who is overburdened by corruption allegations and as such can no longer produce a President that will be acceptable to majority of Nigerians.

    We therefore charge Nigerians to continue in their rally with the PDP as the epicenter of a new broad-based political engagement to rescue the nation and return her to the path of peace, unity and economic prosperity, come 2019.

     

  • Buhari, Osinbajo, ministers, ruling Nigeria in confusion – R-APC

    The Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) on Friday accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Ministers and other top government functionaries of lacking the required coordination to rule the country.

    The National Publicity Secretary of the RAPC, Mr. Kassim Afegbua, who cited the issue of restructuring as an example, said President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo held different opinions on the subject, even though the APC promised it to Nigerians before the 2015 elections.

    Afegbua said the APC was not the party its founding fathers envisaged when they came together in 2014.

    He said, “As we speak, the APC has jettisoned its own manifesto. Where is the restructuring we promised Nigerians? They hurriedly came up with a committee headed by Governor (Nasir) el-Rufai; where has that landed us?

    “The Vice-President is a supporter of restructuring. The President of the country is not a supporter of restructuring in the same government. There is no synergy. There is no coordination on any issue.

    “You have about three or four opinions from the same government; that is not the way to lead.

    “When the Fulani herdsmen issue came up in Benue State, the Inspector General of Police came up with a different position; the Minister of Defence gave a different position; and the Presidency is giving a different position.”

    Recall that the New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) bloc in the APC and other aggrieved members of the ruling party, had on Wednesday announced the formation of the R-APC.

    R-APC, at a press conference attended by the leader of the nPDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, announced Alhaji Buba Galadima, a former ally of Buhari, as its national chairman.

    However, the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, had in an interview with journalists on Thursday dismissed the R-APC.

    Reacting to Oshiomhole’s claims that the R-APC members were mercenaries hired to destabilise the APC, Afegbua said they were genuine members of the party interested in retrieving the party from usurpers.

    Afegbua, said, “Adams Oshiomhole needs to take a look at our past. We do not possess the characteristics of hirelings or mercenaries.

    “We are bona fide members of the APC. When it is convenient for people, they dress you in very elegant robes but when they are losing the battle, they call you names, but we will not call them names, we will continue to insist that we are going to rescue the APC and reposition it for optimum performance.

    “We cannot be preaching to be progressives when we are law-breakers. We cannot be preaching that we are progressives when we are a party that has performed abysmally low in all sectors of the economy.”

     

  • [Video] Senator Melaye ridicules APC praises PDP in ‘new song’

    [Video] Senator Melaye ridicules APC praises PDP in ‘new song’

    The senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has made mockery of the All Progressives congress, APC while extolling People Democratic Party, PDP.

    Bye bye to jati jati.

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  • Dino Melaye celebrates imminent APC exit [Video]

    Kogi West Senator Dino Melaye took to social media on Friday to share a video of him celebrating what seems to be an imminent exit from the All Progressives Congress (APC).

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  • 2019: Only enthronement of justice can solve APC crisis, Dogara tells Oshiomhole

    The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has warned the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that it is only by enthroning justice and equity that it will be able to silence voices of dissent and opposition within the party.

    According to a statement released by his spokesperson, Turaki Hassan, Dogara spoke on Thursday at a meeting between APC members of the House and members of the newly elected national working committee of the party, led by the chairman, Adams Oshiomhole.

    He said the meeting took place at the National Assembly.

    According to the statement, Dogara noted that although there is no human endeavour that is perfect.

    “APC lawmakers only expect justice, which is indivisible and universal.

    “In every family whether it is a nuclear, extended or an organisation there is bound to be problem and that is because we humans that are running those institutions are not perfect ourselves. So we don’t expect perfection from any quarters.

    “Our only expectation is the issue of justice and justice is indivisible. What is justice to the executive should be justice to the legislature and it should be justice to the judiciary,” Dogara was quoted to have said.

    “What is justice to the President and the Vice President should be justice to the Governor and it has to be justice for the members of the National Assembly, because you can’t divide justice. Once you begin to divide justice you don’t have justice.”

    “And once we are able to get these things in their proper perspectives to some extent, we will be able to silence the voices of dissent within the party.

    “But that we have problems is perfectly okay, but we mustn’t allow our problems to define us. Rather, we should define our problems as a party.”

    Dogara expressed optimism about the ability and capacity of the new APC chairman, Oshiomhole, to tackle the challenges confronting the party.

    He said, “I know that you come well prepared; we can only wish you well and pray for God’s additional wisdom because human wisdom won’t be enough as you navigate very treacherous terrain.

    “We pray God wisdom for you.”

    For his part, Mr Oshiomhole told the lawmakers that “every person matters in our party because all party members voluntarily moved from various political platforms, and dissolved those platforms in order to give birth to the All Progressive Congress.”

    He said that the idea of delivering the greater good for the greater number of Nigerian citizens is what binds the APC together and “defines us in spite of the teething problems we were bound to experience that every new organisation goes through.”

    Recall that Oshiomhole had on Wednesday held a similar meeting with the Senate caucus of the party.

    The meeting came as some members, including associates of leaders of the National Assembly, gathered at a hotel in Abuja and announced the formation of the Reformed APC.

    The party later on Thursday formally reacted to the emergence of the group, describing it as a mischievous attempt to create an impression that the APC was factionalised.

  • No panic in APC over emergence of R-APC – Yari

    No panic in APC over emergence of R-APC – Yari

    Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State on Thursday said there was no panic in the camp of the ruling All Progressives Congress over the emergence of a faction known as Reformed-APC on Wednesday.

    Yari said this in an interview with State House correspondents after a meeting he attended at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    The governor said crisis was expected in a big party like the APC, especially ahead of general elections.

    Although he said he was worried over the development, Yari expressed the conviction that the party leadership would handle the matter.

    He said, “Of course, I am worried (over the matter) but it is something the party will handle.

    “You know that with the forthcoming elections, you will expect this kind of thing. You will expect crisis left, right and centre because of political interest, especially in a party with an overwhelming majority.

    “The most important thing is that with the emergence of new leadership (of APC), everything will be resolved. Therefore, there is no panic.”