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2019: APC Takes Critical Step To Checkmate Looming Massive Exit Of Tinubus; Strikes Secret Deal With Sheriff's PDP faction
News Proof 12.11.16 No comments Edit Post
Apparently, to fortify the party over the looming exit of the national leader of the party, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, APC reportedly begun has begun moves to woo some members of the Senator Ali Modu Sheriff-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Some former members of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party and the Congress for Progressive Change, according to Punch Newspaper, might cross over to the APC in what appears to be a realignment of political forces.
A Further check revealed that the defunct ANPP and CPC had become power brokers in the ruling party, a source in the APC told our source.
It was learnt that the discreet move to woo members of the Sheriff-led faction of the PDP was being spearheaded by some of the APC chieftains, who were formerly in the ANPP and the CPC.
Findings showed that some ex-members of the ANPP in the PDP were still sympathetic to President Muhammadu Buhari, who was the presidential candidate of the defunct party in 2003 and 2007.
It was learnt that the plan by the APC to poach some PDP members was hatched when the ruling party realised that it could no longer guarantee the loyalty of some of its members.
The APC currently has three power blocs, including a group of former governors of the PDP, who defected to the APC before the 2015 elections.
It was gathered that prominent members of this group include the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and a former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Another power bloc is led by the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, which comprises former members of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria.
The third power bloc consists members of the defunct ANPP and the CPC.
Besides the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, other prominent members of the party, who were formerly in the ANPP, include the National Secretary, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni; the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal; the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, and his Oyo State counterpart, Senator Abiola Ajimobi.
The power bloc was said to have played a prominent role in the party’s governorship primary in Ondo State, where a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), defeated the preferred candidate of Tinubu, Mr. Segun Abraham.
Following Ondo debacle, a top APC chief confirmed that some members of the APC, including Tinubu, were on their way out of the party, adding that they would be replaced by others.
The APC chieftain stated, “The Ondo State primary has shown that the party is not one. We are reaching out to some PDP members, particularly those in the Sheriff-led faction. Some of them are sympathic to our ideas.”
Attempts to get a reaction from the leadership of the APC were futile. Calls to the mobile telephone numbers of the party’s National Chairman, Odigie-Oyegun and Buni indicated that they were switched off.
The first set of calls was made between 3:15pm and 3:23pm while the subsequent ones were made at 7:29pm. Responses to text messages sent to them were still being awaited as of the time of filing this report.
Tinubu Singlehandedly Made Me Buhari's VP - Osinbajo Says It All
News Proof 5.11.16 No comments Edit Post
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) yesterday laid to rest speculations about his emergence as presidential running mate in last year’s election
He said in Lagos that he was nominated by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
“I was nominated by the leader of our party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, under who I served as a commissioner in Lagos State,” Osinbajo said at a colloquium on the state of the nation in Lagos organised by the Coalition of Nigerian Apostolic Leaders.
His statement tallies with the earlier account of the event given by the Secretary to the Lagos State Government ,Mr. Tunji Bello.
Osinbajo at the colloquium also spoke of Federal Government’s determination to intensify the battle against corruption which he called one of the key strategies for liberating the country from recession.
Government, he said, would revamp the economy through diversification, development of infrastructure and creation of a conducive atmosphere for the private sector to increase productive activities and boost employment opportunities.
Osinbajo said: “The reasons for the recession are because of the drop in the production of oil and corruption. Other factors are the manifestation of the two problems.”
The vice president, who explained that things were going to change overnight, said a lot of damage had been done to the economy. He noted the impatience of Nigerians, recalling that even the Isralites once complained to Moses to take them back to Egypt, the land of corruption, when they got to the Red sea.
Urging Nigerians to have patience with the Federal Government as it intensifies its efforts at repositioning the economy, Osinbajo lamented that 15 billion dollars were lost to corruption through the defense contract under the last administration. He said the problem in the Northeast could have been averted, if the money meant for arms procurement had not been stolen.
The vice president explained measures adopted to boost revenue generation and prevent graft. These include the banishment of the menace of ghost workers and payroll fraud, the enforcement of tax compliance, the introduction of the Treasury Single Account (TSA), the expansion of the Value Added Tax (VAT) coverage, the deregulation of the downstream sector and concerted action on the foreign exchange rate.
He said the Federal Government will pursue the diversification of the economy through the development of agriculture to guarantee food sufficiency, job creation and export to attract earnings.
On the anti-corruption battle, Osinbajo said : “Allegations of corruption must be submitted to the right channels. The President does not interfere in the activities of the agencies. He has given the agencies concerned the independence to act, when a formal complaint is submitted. Where there are proven cases of corruption, the appropriate agencies will always act.”
Osinbajo said Christians should not panic over speculations about Sharia bill in the National assembly.
He said “The government should not be interested in any Sharia matter beyond what is in the constitution. If the government is interested, it is the Attorney-General that will submit the bill, following the decision of the Federal Executive Council.
“Sharia is in the constitution; it is only applicable to Islamic marriage. You cannot change
APC Crisis: Tinubu Does The Worse, Party In Total Mess, Oyegun Helpless, Buhari Couldn't Even Help
News Proof 2.11.16 No comments Edit Post
NAIJ NEWS - The feud between the National leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the party chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun is affecting the finances of the party, NAIJ.com has been told.
A senior chieftain of the party who spoke under the condition of anonymity, confided in NAIJ.com that all is not well within the party because of Tinubu’s withdrawal of financial support to the party headquarters.
“Things have gone from bad to worse,” the party chieftain told NAIJ.com on phone, “Ever since the refusal of President Buhari to fund the party activities, Asiwaju has been the sole financier of the party. “But he has withdrawn his support due to the way he was humiliated by the party chairman in the Ondo primary.”
Asked to comment on the rumours that there are plans by anti-Oyegun elements in the APC to remove him and include his name in President Muhammadu Buhari’s ambassadorial nomination list, the party chieftain said it is true.
His words: “I can confirm that the report is true. The truth is even members of the APC NEC have lost confidence in Oyegun. “Why do you think they have not come out to pass a vote of no confidence on him, which is the norm in politics when a leader is under duress."
“Majority of the NEC members are tired of Oyegun’s antics and they are all pre-occupied with positioning themselves for government appointments than staying put in party politics.”
NAIJ.com reached out to another chieftain of the party who corroborated the story. He pleaded for his identity not to be revealed because he was not authorized to speak on such matters. He said: “Baba (President Buhari) has not sent a kobo to the party since he came into office. When we went to Aso Villa to complain, he asked the party chairman how the monies for the forms sold to party aspirants was expended.
“The party chairman could not give a reasonable explanation, so baba asked us to go and look for ways to make money for the party.
“Tinubu has been the one funding us since then because we could not even approach the governors knowing their situation.”
NAIJ.com efforts to get the APC official reaction to this report was not successful as at the time it was published.
Yesterday, there were media reports that the national secretariat of the APC in Abuja has been thrown into darkness following the party’s failure to offset the N1.7 million debt owed Abuja Electricity Distribution Company.
An electricity receipt pasted on the gate of the APC secretariat which was seen by Vanguard showed that the party had only recently paid N500, 000 of the debt.
SHOCKER: EFCC 'Shortlists' Ex-Presidents, Tinubu, Others For Massive PROBE Over Corruption Allegations, See List
News Proof 13.10.16 No comments Edit Post
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday said it would probe the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience; ex- Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi and others over corruption allegations.
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The Deputy Director of Operations, EFCC, Mr. Iliyasu Kwarbai, said this on the telephone, minutes after he received a petition from Human Rights Defenders and Advocacy Centre group, which staged a protest to the EFCC’s Lagos office.
The petition urged the EFCC to probe Patience Jonathan, source of APC campaign funds used in the last elections, Tinubu, Rotimi Amaechi and some former presidents of Nigeria. Kwarbai said: “We’re investigating Patience Jonathan and if she’s found wanting, she wouldn’t go free.
If anyone is indicted, no matter how highly or lowly placed the person is, the person would be arrested. The person’s status is immaterial to the EFCC. The most important thing is evidence. If there’s evidence that the person stole public funds, the person wouldn’t go free.”
Source: New Telegraph
Between Tinubu and Buhari: The Modern Day Afonja and Alimi - By Reno Omokri
News Proof 8.10.16 No comments Edit Post
The present trials of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the colossus of the Southwest is not surprising to those who have vision. I saw it coming and that was why over two years ago, precisely on Tuesday, May 27, 2014, I wrote a back page op-ed on ThisDay newspaper titled 'From Battleground to Common Ground' and in that piece, I said inter alia as follows:
'A comrade is not for what you are for, neither does he share the same interests as you. A comrade is simply one who is against what you are against. In other words, you are bound by a common enemy.
The All Progressive Congress, is a party founded on this premise.
Those who are enemies of the President (Goodluck Jonathan) and the PDP gathered together to form a party whose foundation is their common enemy.
They share no ideological connection, neither are they friends. In actual fact, they may even hate each other, only that they hate the President and the PDP more and are willing to temporarily suppress their hatred for each other in other to gang up against their common enemy.
In my experience, it is better to have a party built on common interests than to have one built on a common enemy. This is because as even a political novice will tell you, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies only permanent interests.
Now, if the above is true, what would happen to a party that is built on a common enemy?
Parties built on this foundation last only as long as the enemy is in power. Once their enemy is no longer in power the party disintegrates.'
It does not matter if you hate Reno Omokri's guts, but ask yourself if what I said has not turned out to be the truth.
In the space of just a month, Bola Tinubu has been deliberately mystified and treated with such contempt that even those who he considered his worst enemies find themselves feeling sorry for him.
But he should have seen it coming!
The unraveling of Bola Tinubu actually began on the 3rd of June 2016, when President Muhammadu Buhari publicly and right in Tinubu's face told him at a reception the President held for members of the National Assembly at the Presidential Villa that the All Progressive Congress had no such position as a National Leader.
I know this because a Senator who attended the function called me almost immediately after the event and told me about how the hall descended into almost pin drop silence after the President made that assertion.
I can assure my readers that President Muhammadu Buhari would never have made such a remark prior to the 2015 elections. But who needs a piece of toilet paper after it has done its job!
That remark was the signal that sleeper agents within the APC were waiting for to begin the unraveling of the masquerade.
Teaching him a lesson in Ondo state is only the beginning. Bola Tinubu's comeuppance is not yet complete in the eyes of his traducers.
And then look at the way he is portrayed in Professor John Paden's biography of the president. Paden portrays Tinubu as a desperate power monger who kept throwing himself at Buhari only to be rejected at each instance. Tinubu, see how low you have fallen!
I do not know why Bola Tinubu is angry at Paden. Did he not read that this was an official biography?
Paden was not there during the horse trading. The book was written with the cooperation of President Buhari. The things he wrote about Tinubu were the accounts he was given by the President.
So Tinubu should call a spade a spade. President Buhari merely told the world what he really thinks of Tinubu.
And look at all the men around President Buhari who got to where they are on the back of Tinubu. Has anyone of them come out to speak in his defense? Where is Vice President Osinbajo? He can blame Jonathan but cannot defend his benefactor. Where is Fashola? He can come up with excuses for giving Nigerians darkness but cannot speak up for his oga? Lai Mohammed is nowhere to be found. Perhaps he is too busy dressing up masquerades or looking for a parastatal under him to loan him some money!
At the end of the day, after all the terrible things the propaganda wing of APC said and did to Ayo Fayose and Femi Fani Kayode, who came to the help of Tinubu but the two men demonized by the very same propaganda machinery that Tinubu helped set up.
And as for Tinubu, I cannot imagine why someone will write a book and insult you in it and still invite you to the launch and you agree to go simply because he is a president.
Even worse, they asked you to write a review for the book and you did! Is this the same Tinubu that was so mouthy under Jonathan? Look at how he has become a chihuahua today. Lord have mercy!
Tinubu! Your Afonja too much!
Did you not see what ex-President Goodluck Jonathan did with the so called Leadership Award. You do not honour a gathering designed to reduce you with your presence. As the late kakanfo MKO Abiola would say 'a man who allows his head to be used to break a coconut may not live to eat it'!
Even the well respected Pastor Osinbajo cannot even publicly come to your defense and tell the truth of how you helped him secure his exalted office. Yet he is the chief beneficiary of your generosity.
My advise to you, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is this: a woman who continues to make herself available to a man that only remembers her when he needs her services to satisfy his lustfulness should not be surprised when her own children deny that she is their mother!
Finally, going forward, before labeling people like Ayo Fayose and Femi Fani-Kayode as enemies, remember that it is better to be insulted with the truth than flattered with a lie.
Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno Omokri
APC Crisis: At Last, Oyegun Meets Buhari, Breaks Silence On Tinubu's Allegations & Resignation Call
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President Muhammadu Buhari and Chief John Odigie-Oyegun Today In Aso Rock |
Slated to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, the national Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun stormed the Aso Rock Presidential villa earlier to to discuss probable a wayout of the crisis.
Speaking with the State House correspondents after meeting with the President on Tusday, Chief Oyegun said there is no rift with the party National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Oyegun also said he will not resign as APC chairman based on newspapers’ reports.
Tinubu had called for Oyegun’s resignation over his role in the emergence of Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu as the party’s candidate in the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State.
The ex- Lagos State governor had claimed that Oyegun over-ruled a panel set up by the party which recommended the conduct of a fresh primary.
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President Muhammadu Buhari and Chief John Odigie-Oyegun Today In Aso Rock |
He therefore called for the party chairman’s removal in order to allow internal democracy to return to the party.
But Oyegun said on Tuesday that there are procedures to be followed for such resignation to happen.
Although he agreed that there are disagreements on the Ondo primary, he denied any rift with Tinubu.
He said: “There is no rift with Asiwaju we have difference of opinion, difference of perception and I think that is normal. Yes, I agree that the nature of the statement was a bit harsh.
“The method of getting rid of a national chairman if that is what I will call it, are spelt out in the constitution. They don’t take place on the pages of newspapers.
Asked why the party is not calling for the National Executive Committee to meet on the issues, he said: “it’s proper for them to meet and they will all meet at the appropriate time.”
By now, you must have read the FFK story on Tinubu and his predictions for the APC before 2019. There is no doubt also that the FFK's political savory has went viral on social media and is also being analyzed by many political zions. Truth be told, what do you make of this cry out of FFK at this trying times of the APC in our land? This was a party who rode on the crests and backs of all Nigerians in less than two years ago. Today, the whole political gymsim of APC is in total disarray.
Are there facts in the FFK brouhaha? Yes there is of course. He predicted very rightly and conscientiously. Tinubu has been decimated no doubt and his control room set on brim fire. For him to have demanded the removal of the APC Chairman shows that he can no longer be pretending of not suffocating under his political strong room.
What is therefore, the sin of Tinubu? Unfortunately, those behind this act were not known politically some years back. Asiwaju brought many of them into politics. You know all of them without a mention of anybody's name. He used his money and good political records to build them into the Nigeria's political arena. Some of them are acting fast to destroy this uncommon political enigma and the political structures he has built for many years. Look round the country today, where has Tinubu not invested in people. You may not like his person or even political style, but the truth is that Tinubu has built his empire everywhere. In the Judiciary, academics, politics, business, corporate world, traditional institutions, media, even religions. His hands are full everywhere. Tinubu has made more people than any others person in this generation. Tinubu is not only rich in people, he is also very rich in good ideas. He is a man bake and made by God for the people of the world. Tinubu has won many battles and lost very few.
Such a person is very difficult to destroy. You can search his forays into the Nigeria's political arena and you will see that Tinubu has covered more grounds than any politicians in history. Tinubu has also had more followers than any other politician in our present political history. The facts are everywhere to judge my assertions.
If not for Tinubu, where would Nigeria be today. We've all seen how decimated Nigeria was turned into in the last 6 years of a government. Today, those who have the ideas of how best to run a decimated economy are kept off from the ivory power house just because "Baba Buhari" will not trust them. Today, there is no clear way out of our present economic quagmire. Show me one person clearly that can be followed in this Buhari's government without you going hungry? Clearly, nobody. Nobody, except you would die a hungry man.
Let me tell you, without the connection of a brilliant Tinubu, it will be very hard for APC to win elections in the coming Edo, Ondo and even in Ekiti elections. Look at the situation in Ondo State APC. Under that arrangement, it will be very difficult for the likes of AKETI to win an election in the face of politically enigma person called IROKO. APC should just forget. In Ekiti as I write this small note, the APC is in total disarray. No leadership structures in place neither a captain to paddle the affairs of the party. The party boys and girls are in disarray and growing blindly hungry day by day. The JKF boys are virtually crying for help not even a crumble from the minister's table again. Fayemi is all alone in Abuja, while his boys abruptly and awful go to sleep in empty stomachs. What a calamity. That is the stuff the APC Is made off when Tinubu's hands are tied to the poles.
Tell me who amongst the so called adversaries of Tinubu can still win elections in their domains if elections are to be conducted today. Is it Fashola in Lagos, Ajimobi in Oyo or Amosun in Ogun. Except Aregbe and Ambode the rest are just packs of awful politicians. All these people rode to power on the heels of Tinubu and after getting to power suddenly became acclaimed political powers. But like FFK wrote, Tinubu is an enigma and political caterpillar that will always fight back.
Good day.
Signed
Asiwaju Kasali Oluwafemi.
Tinubu Appoints New Media Aide, Tunde Rahman; Drops Sunday Dare
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Tunde Rahman |
Premium Times - Former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has approved the appointment of Tunde Rahman as his new media adviser.
He replaced Sunday Dare, who was in August appointed a National Commissioner for Stakeholders Engagement in the National Communication Commission, NCC.
Mr. Rahman, who hails from Iwo in Osun State, confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES on Monday that he had since assumed duty.
Until his appointment, Mr. Rahman was the publisher of WESTERN POST, a regional newspaper, which covered the defunct Western region, comprising Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Lagos, Ekiti, Lagos, Delta and Edo States.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science, a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism and a Master of Science Degree in Communication Studies. He also attended course at the Lagos Business School. Mr. Rahman began his journalism career in 1989 as Political Correspondent of Lagos Horizon, a community newspaper, and later moved to the old Daily Times where he rose to position of Political Editor.
He later moved to the Punch newspapers as the News Editor/Assistant Editor at its Abuja office and then Group News Editor at its headquarters in Lagos. He quit the Punch in 2004 to join THISDAY as Deputy Editor of the Sunday title, during which he pioneered the political arm of the paper called CICERO.
Mr. Rahman later became the Deputy Editor of the daily newspaper and then the Editor of the Saturday and Sunday titles. He resigned from THISDAY to float the WESTERN POST newspaper.
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