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  • Edo 2024: APC pegs N40m on Nomination forms, gives discount for other aspirants

    Edo 2024: APC pegs N40m on Nomination forms, gives discount for other aspirants

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday in Abuja began the sale of Nomination and Expression of Interest forms to party members aspiring to the Edo governorship seat.

    Off-cycle governorship election would hold in Edo on Nov. 16, the same day as a similar exercise would hold in Ondo State.

    Mr Clem Agba, a former Minister of State for Budget and National Planning was the first APC aspirant from Edo to pick the forms at the party’s national secretariat.

    Mr Henry Idahagbon, a former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Edo picked the forms on behalf of Agba.

    According to a schedule of activities for Edo governorship election released by the APC, the sale of Nomination and Expression of Interest and Delegates Forms will end on Jan. 29.

    The APC will elect its flag bearer for the governorship race at a primary election to hold on Feb. 17.

    The Expression of Interest and Nomination forms cost at N10 million and N40 million respectively.

    Aspirants living with disabilities and female aspirants are to pay for the Expression of Interest Form while the Nomination Form is free for them.

    Youths between 25 years and 40 years of age are to buy the Expression of Interest Forms and the Nomination Forms at 50 per cent discount.

  • N0.1Bn Nomination Form: Prophet wants all APC presidential aspirants arrested

    N0.1Bn Nomination Form: Prophet wants all APC presidential aspirants arrested

    The Spiritual Head of Soul Revival Outreach, in Nnewi, Anambra State, Bro Iyke Uzukwu has called for the immediate arrest and probe of all presidential aspirants who through direct or covert means bought the one hundred million Naira Expression of interest and Nomination forms.

    The fire-spitting man of God who stated this at church service yesterday noted that the anti graft agencies and other security operatives should not only investigate them but apprehend all immediately.

    According to him, happenings in the nation’s polity since President Muhammadu Buhari came on board in 2015 have shown that he may not have been in charge at all.

    Bro Uzukwu expressed worry that with the way the old brigade and geriatrics who couldn’t fix the country since their hey days were being recycled and foisted on the nation things will continue to deteriorate progressively.

    Hear him, “Nasarrawa State governor contested for chairmanship of a party and won, is he the only qualified person out of the over two hundred million Nigerians? Retirement age for civil servants is sixty years but politicians can come out from their grave to contest and win elections, this is a sign of a failed system.

    “Barr Olisa Metuh’s case is still proceeding because he refused to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) cabals.

    “If he had joined them, all his sins would have been forgiven.

    “Multimillion dollar fraud allegations were hanging on Gen. Burutai, when he and his co-travelers were invited by the National Assembly, they didn’t respond, it was the same legislators that shamefully confirmed their ambassodorial nominations without screening.

    “The economy has been bastardized under the watch of the APC controlled government. If any prophet had said that things would get this bad for Nigeria ten years ago, people will call such prophet names. Today, the reality is that any ruler who can return the nation’s economy to what it was in 2015 would be an eternal great hero.

    “The president said that 90% of the nation’s crude oil is being stolen, I challenge him to name and shame the perpetrators but if he cannot, he should resign. The level of killings across the country under different toga is unprecedented. This is not acceptable”. Prophet Uzukwu declared.

    On the 2023 presidential election, Bro Uzukwu stressed that it’s the turn of the South East to produce the Nigerian president. He expressed disappointment in the presidential aspirants from the North and other parts of Nigeria, especially the South West, and South South who enjoyed massive bloc support in the recent past during the tenure of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr Goodluck Jonathan respectively.

    He therefore described those contesting as selfish.

    “Mr Peter Obi is there, he is a very good material, he has delivered as a governor, he would be a good president but the operators of the nation are afraid of him because with Peter Obi in the saddle, status quo must change drastically.

    “The APC government especially Mr Lai Mohammed has always been blaming the failure of their government on the former president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, I am surprised that the same APC cabals are now keeping vigil in Jonathan’s gate pleading to bring him back to frustrate the chances of the South East presidency.” He stressed.

    On Anambra State, the cleric urged Gov Charles Soludo to leave politicking after elections noting that the governor should guard his utterances and also leave self determination agitators who were pushed to the trenches because of obvious glaring marginalization.

    He said that he forsee a repeat of misunderstanding between Chief Willie Obiano and Mr Peter Obi playing out between Soludo and his predecessor, Obiano.

  • My N100m presidential nomination form – I don get alert – By Mideno Bayagbon

    My N100m presidential nomination form – I don get alert – By Mideno Bayagbon

    By Mideno Bayagbon

    (mideno@thenewsguru.ng)

    Acct101****970
    Debit, 03-05-2022 0700hrs
    Desc:TRF O… GODWIN
    Purpose: ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS (PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION FORM AND EXPR INTEREST FOR MIDENO BAYAGBON)
    Amt:N100,000,000.00
    Bal:419,205.11
    REF:3585567794

    I am happy to report that I have joined the gang of Nigerian big-boiz politicians, (at least in my dreams), who get nebulous pretender groups, unknown associations and persons to go to the secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, purportedly to buy expression of interest and nomination forms for them. The pretence is, they are so in demand, so saviour-like, that groups and persons are begging them to contest for the presidency of the country.

    Mine came in the form of a text message. The message was crisp and short: “I just paid for your APC Presidential nomination form my brother. My contribution to your Presidential ambition”

    Imagine my shock; the sheer level of disbelief. Imagine how many times my heart skipped a beat when I opened my phone and the content of the alert was the text above. Unbelievable. A good Samaritan has taken it upon himself to pay the humongous N100 million fee demanded by the corruption abetting, and deeply conniving All Progressives Congress, APC.

    Recall that a while back I had written that I Have Been Ordered To Join 2023 Presidential Race. And in trying to justify my reluctant entrance, I had written the following as an introduction: Here is the news: I have been ordered to join the 2023 Presidential race. This is authentic. It is, as it were, from the horse’s mouth. And I have no choice. Consider it a fait accompli. I have been ordered and it is compulsory that I obey; no questions asked. The order has come from quarters no man in his right senses would disobey. It has come from the one I sometimes call, head of government or Amebo Deno!

    All I can say for now, is that you, my dear friends, and enemies alike, get ready. Get ready to give your widow’s mite. Get ready to pound the streets, knock on doors, shake every hand, and take the message to all the hamlets, villages, towns and cities of this country. It is urgent, it is incumbent. No excuses. No dilly dallying. We will win the race without the billions of stolen funds politicians have stacked.

    Yet I did not, even in my wildest dreams, think of going into Nigerian politics. I have over the years resisted every attempt to co-opt me into it. I have rejected appointments up to the federal level and refused serious attempts to drag me into contesting for political offices. Yes, yet here I am, now fully into the race and I am starting at the top. I am now ready to give all the Tinubus, the Amaechi, the Anyims, the Atiku Abubakars, the Sarakis, and so on, a run for their money. And I will triumph, beating them silly, even in their homesteads.

    Somehow, someone, somewhere, a well heeled acquittance, had taken the above to heart. And seriously, like so many people who have volunteered to be of service in one area of the campaign or the other, decided to concretise the dream by “donating” the outrageous sum demanded by the corruption deodorising APC leadership.

    I was still in this euphoric state when I woke up to news that some unnamed farmers have also decided to toe the part of the Nigerian comedy. They too have decided to sell a cup of garri here, an egg over there, some tomatoes in the neighbourhood, and generally have gathered millions of other farmers, to buy the N100 million APC Presidential Nomination Form for the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele. How come I didn’t know Emefiele was such a messiah to Nigerian farmers? I burst out laughing. I laughed hard and long at the unfolding tragicomedy before I could check myself. This is serious, I found myself muttering seconds later, still stewed in shock and disbelief.

    Then the floodgate of other groups allegedly buying the N100 million forms expanded further. Minister of State, Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, was all celebratory as he attempted to make Nigerians believe, that yet another group, Good People of Nigeria, without his knowledge have somehow magically bought him the forms. I was still ruminating over this when yet another news flashed. This time with definitely the icing on the cake: the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), or a group pretending to be them, claimed to have bought the N100 million forms for the dilly dallying former President Goodluck Jonathan. No questions asked. They promptly hit the media with the story. By the time Ikechukwu Eze, the spokesman of the former President issued a statement distancing Jonathan from the group, the damage had already been done.

    For some fleeting seconds the names of other presidential aspirants who some curious groups and persons have allegedly bought the nomination forms for, scrolled through my inner mind: Alhaji Bola Ahmed TINUBU, Vice President Yemi OSINBAJO, Minister of Niger Delta and former Governor of Akwa Ibom state, GODSWILL AKPABIO; Africa Development Bank President, Akinwumi Adesina; just to name a few.

    Nigeria is now so prosperous that Okada riders, bicycle repairers, and daily labourers are pulling all their sweat together. They are forgetting the hunger, the insecurity, the poverty ravaging their families. They are raising, borrowing or stealing N100 million to buy forms for the same politicians whose thievery and ineptitude have ensured their lives is brutish, short and contemptuous.

    Nigerians are expected to believe that hungry, unemployed youths, some women group or associations banding together to raise N100 million to buy the APC forms to beg an Akpabio, or an Adesina to run for office as President. It is like Nigerians are a fooled collective, easily deceived and swayed. At least that is what we seemingly are, in the estimation of the politicians in both the APC and PDP. We are such a bunch of fools. That must be why Nigeria politicians motto remains: let the people be fooled.

    The impunity of it all. The sheer devilry in trying to fool the people into believing the lie. They forget the saying attributed to iconic American President, Abraham Lincoln, which says: You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

    What this all boil down to, in my reasoning, is that Nigeria and Nigerians are still not serious about bringing the country back from the brinks of economic, social and political implosion. The politicians think we are in a circus. They think they are the master manipulators. They think they can always deceive us, rape us at will, with no consequence at all. That is why apart from Peter Obi or so, none of them has come out with any serious plans on how they intend to tackle the myriad of problems the Buhari government, especially, and all the others, have pushed us into. Today, we are no longer even a third world country. We ‘are a big for nothing pre Atom Age lilliputians. We are a joke to the rest of the world. No one takes us seriously. We don’t ourselves. So why should others.

    Take the case of Godwin Emefiele. He sits tight as Central Bank Governor and has been, in some cases in collaboration with the Attorney General, Malami, in raiding the courts for ways to breach the CBN Act. He wants to continue to be CBN Governor while pursuing his ambition of trying to become president. Or take the case of Chris Ngige, the Labour minister, whose seven years tenure in that ministry has seen universities shut down for more than half of that time. Like most Nigerian politicians, they are desperate. They lack character. They lack integrity. They insult us all by their perfidious behaviour. That is why they and all those who rubbishes our intelligence with claims of groups buying nomination forms for them, should go hide their heads in shame. Nigeria deserves better than them.
    In other climes, their types end up in the rubbish dump of history.

  • 2023: Mokelu joins APC presidential race as 28th aspirant

    2023: Mokelu joins APC presidential race as 28th aspirant

    Chief Ikeobasi Mokelu, on Tuesday in Abuja, picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) Expression of Interest and Nomination forms to contest its 2023 presidential ticket with other aspirants.

    Mokelu, who was the last aspirant to pick the forms as sale ends, was a former Minister of Information and Culture in the military administration of late Gen. Sani Abacha.

    Mr Timothy Amah, a member of Mokelu Campaign Organisation confirmed the purchase of the forms to newsmen.

    He expressed optimism that Mokelu would emerge as the APC 2023 presidential candidate at its primaries slated for May, 30 and June 1 because of his experiences.

    According to him, Mokelu’s presidency will apply the values of honour, character, and integrity in the application of efficient and sustainable governance at all levels of government and in the three arms of government.

    Mokelu is the 28th aspirant to purchase the APC 2023 presidential Expression of Interest and Nomination forms at the cost of N100 million.

    The aspirant had earlier said that he was joining the 2023 presidential race after due consultations, adding that he was convinced that he was qualified to take on the challenge of moving the country to the next phase of her
    development.

    “I have a rich political and polity pedigree. I was born and mentored by two great nationalists and independence fighters.

    “My belief in the enduring legacy of our forefathers led me to develop and encourage the crafting of various elements of what is today, the 1999 Constitution.

    “It is on record that during my short tenure in office as Minister of Information and Culture, I fostered one of the best relationships with the media and civil society, even at the risk of losing my job,” Mokelu had said.

    Mokelu was a delegate to the National Constitutional Conference between 1994 and 1995 where he served as chairman of several subcommittees, including security, power-sharing, and social welfare among others.

    Popularly called Onwa, Mokelu was the founder and convener of #Istandwithbuhari, an APC movement established in all the 774 Local Government Areas of the country.

    He was also the initiator of #Handshake Across Nigeria and Movement for Brotherliness Across Nigeria.

    Some of those in the APC 2023 presidential race included: Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation and Sen. Rochas Okorocha, immediate past Imo governor.

    Others are Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, Dr Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajuba, the Minister of State for Education, Gov. David Umuahi of Ebonyi, and Sen. Ken Nnamani.

    Also in the race are Ekiti governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun (APC-Ogun Central) and former two-term governor of Ogun, Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Pastor Tunde Bakare.

    Mr Adams Oshiomhole, a former APC National Chairman, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology and Ms Uju Ohanenye, a female aspirant and Mr Godwin Emefiele, CBN Governor are also in the race among others.

    The APC special presidential primary convention is scheduled to hold from May 30 to June 1.

  • 2023: MACBAN denies buying Jonathan presidential nomination form

    2023: MACBAN denies buying Jonathan presidential nomination form

    The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), a Fulani sociocultural organisation, says it did not buy any nomination forms for any candidate contesting elections.

    The National Secretary of MACBAN, Alhaji Baba Ngelzarma, stated this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.

    Ngelzarma appealed to the media professionals to take their time to understand the difference between the various Fulani organisations and avoid dragging MACBAN into “political mud.

    ” The Attention of the National Headquarters of MACBAN had been drawn to a trending story in which we are being quoted as having bought a Presidential nomination form for former President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2023 elections.

    ” We wish to make it clear that MACBAN did not and will not buy any form for any Candidate contesting elections.

    ” As an association, we have far higher needs for money to assist our members being uprooted and killed in some part of the country.

    ” MACBAN does not see any gain in this kind of profligate enterprise that adds no value to the million of our members who are wallowing in poverty as a result of banditry and cattle rustling.”

    The secretary said that MACBAN believed that politics should be left to politicians, saying ” we see no milage in supporting any politician when we are overwhelmed by the crisis being faced by our members nationwide.

    According to him, MACBAN, will when the need arise support a candidate that shows commitment to end the suffering of its members after the conclusion of party primaries by all the political parties.

    ” We look forward to seeing the manifestos of the various candidates and where our members fit in to determine who to fully support,” he said.

  • 2023: I’ll be Nigeria’s next president – Ayade boasts as he gets form

    2023: I’ll be Nigeria’s next president – Ayade boasts as he gets form

    Cross River Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade on Monday in Abuja, said he would be Nigeria’s next president given his pedigree and the support enjoyed from Nigerians.

    Ayade made this known when concerned group of persons known as sons and daughters of Cross River, presented him the All Progressives Congress (APC) nomination form to contest for Presidency in 2023.

    The governor, who assured that he would tackle the problem of poor electricity supply head-on, said that he was ready to deploy workable solution to fix the problem once and for all.

    On whether or not he stood the chance of emerging as the party’s choice being a southerner, Ayade assured that the leadership of the APC would find lasting solution to the issue.

    He said the inheritance of democracy as a practice in Nigeria and other African countries without customising the ethnic sensitivity and diversity of the people had become a critical issue.

    “As other democracies deal with population and numbers, which is the supremacy of numbers over the minority, democracy as an instrument for egalitarian distribution, equity, fair sharing and equal access to power is a subject for discussion.

    “So, if power by the nomenclature of democracy supposes that people will have fair and equal access, one will imagine that by the extension of that definition, power should go to the Southern part of Nigeria having done eight years this way.

    “I think that the sensitivity of this is such that the President is cautious. That explains however the proponents of the many candidates from the southern part of the country.

    “Hopefully it has to be a southern candidate. That is one of the major ways of guaranteeing the unity of this country.

    “If we rely on the muscle of numbers then it becomes the situation where power belongs to the man with the greatest fist,” he said.

    Explaining that he propounded a theory called, “Afropolitan theory”, which was the basis for the word “afrotionism”, he said it derived it’s meaning from the need to offer ones shoulder for others to lean on.

    According to him, irrespective of the population disbalance in Nigeria, what is fair is fair.

    He said if it was the turn of the South, power should be allowed to go there.

    On his chances given the huge number of people aspiring for the same position on the platform of the APC, Ayade said he was optimistic.

    On security, the governor said the security situation could have been worse but for the dexterity of the present leadership.

    He said the collapse of Afghanistan and the equipping of ISIS, with the aim of taking over West Africa, had put the subregion, particularly Nigeria under threat over the years.

    He added that the aim of the infiltration was to get the “economic soul” of African countries, particularly those with huge resources like Nigeria, Congo among others.

    Ayade promised to tackle insecurity with modern and more strategic measures like the use of technology.

    The APC puts its Presidential nomination fee at N100 million per aspirant and more than 25 persons from different geopolitical zones have picked nomination forms to run for the position

  • 2023: Fmr President Jonathan denies ordering any group to purchase APC forms

    2023: Fmr President Jonathan denies ordering any group to purchase APC forms

    Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied authorising the purchase of presidential forms to run election under APC.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports this was contained in a statement signed by his media aide Ikechukwu Eze insisting the former President has not authorised any group to purchase the forms.

    “It has come to our notice that a group has purportedly purchased Presidential Nomination and Expression of Interest forms, of the All Progressives Congress APC, in the name of former President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
    “We wish to categorically state that Dr. Jonathan was not aware of this bid and did not authorize it.

    “We want to state that if the former President wanted to contest an election, he would make his intentions clear to the public and will not enter through the back door.”

    The statement further emphasized that “While we appreciate the overwhelming request by a cross-section of Nigerians, for Dr. Jonathan to make himself available for the 2023 “Presidential election, we wish to state, that he has not in anyway, committed himself to this request. Buying a presidential aspiration form in the name Dr. Jonathan without his consent, knowing the position he had held in this country, is considered an insult to his person.

    The general public is therefore advised to disregard it.”

    TNG recalls the social media was agog with stories on Monday that a fulani group had bought nomination forms for the former number one citizen to for APC presidential race.

  • BREAKING: Goodluck Jonathan joins 2023 presidential race

    BREAKING: Goodluck Jonathan joins 2023 presidential race

    Former President Goodluck Jonathan seems to have thrown his hat in the ring to contest the 2023 presidential election.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that the presidential nomination and expression of interest forms of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been picked for Jonathan on Monday.

    It was gathered that a northern group picked the forms on behalf of the former president in Abuja.

    TNG, however, reports Jonathan was yet to defect from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC.

    Recall that recently the former president had refused to come out plain if he were interested in the 2023 presidential election or not.

    When he was accosted by a group of protesters, who stormed his Abuja office, Jonathan said he can’t disclose whether he is going to declare to run for the 2023 presidential election as the process he said then was ongoing.

    His campaign posters had flooded the national secretariat of the fueling insinuations the Bayelsa politician may run in the 2023 elections.

    Meanwhile, it is yet to be known if Jonathan will reject the nomination and expression of interest forms bought for him just as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele did.

    TNG reports a coalition of northern groups purchased the APC expression of interest and nomination forms for Jonathan.

  • BREAKING: Timipre Sylva joins presidential race, buys N100m APC nomination form

    BREAKING: Timipre Sylva joins presidential race, buys N100m APC nomination form

    Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva has joined the race for the 2023 presidential election.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Sylva joined the 2023 presidential race after purchasing the nomination and expression of interest form of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

    It was gathered that a private group purchased the form for the former Bayelsa State Governor.

    The private group known as Good People of Nigeria presented the nomination and expression of interest form to Sylva at the NNPC Towers in Abuja on Monday.

     

    Details shortly…

  • Coalition picks APC presidential form for Adesina

    Coalition picks APC presidential form for Adesina

    A Coalition of 28 support groups, led by Mr Ademola Babatunde of the Youth Arise Movement (YAM), says the challenging situation of the country informed their call for Dr Akinwunmi Adesina as Nigeria’s President come 2023.

    Adesina, former Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, is currently the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB).

    Adesina is yet to declare his intention to contest for the office of the President in the 2023 general elections.

    To demonstrate the coalition’s seriousness, however, Babatunde showed a copy of the N100 million payment acknowledgment slip of the All Progressives Congress (APC) issued in the name of Adesina.

    Babatunde said the coalition was set to obtain the APC Presidential Nomination and Expression of Interest forms for Adesina on Sunday.

    He listed some of the groups obtaining the nomination form as One Nigeria Group, Prudent Youth Association of Nigeria, women groups, farmers, people with disabilities and other civil society groups.

    Babatunde, who is a former presidential candidate of the defund Nigeria Community Movement Party (NCMP) in the 2019 presidential election, said that the groups believed in Adesina’s capacity to fix the challenges bedeviling the country.

    “We are 28 groups, precisely, that came together after very serious consultations, and deliberations on the way forward for a better and united Nigeria.

    “We unanimously decided that though the money is outrageous, but if we truly want a better future for ourselves and our children, we must put our resources together to obtain the forms for Adesina.

    “We are very much aware of the critical time that Nigerians and our country, Nigeria, are going through.

    “If we fail to support a candidate of credible and worthy note, like Adesina, we will eventually hand over this country to mediocre, who will finally destroy our commonwealth.

    “This is one of the supports we are fundamentally and passionately determined to render for ourselves by putting Adesina forward to Nigerians,” he said.

    Babatunde said that the coalition was fully ready in the coming days to mobilise its stakeholders and ensure support for Adesina to emerge as the flag bearer of the APC.