APC Has Nothing to Offer - Patience Jonathan



The first Lady and wife to President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan, on Monday 23 March 2015 at a crowded People Democratic Party, (PDP) women rally held at Dennis Memorial Grammar School, DMGS, Onitsha, Anambra State described All Progressive Congress, APC, as Ebola that will die immediately after the conduct of the Presidential election.

In her words, 'APC is Ebola and will on 28 March die after the Presidential election and will not resurrect again,' She maintained.

'APC has nothing to offer Nigerians except propaganda, we are not here for propaganda, APC talks and forgets, President Jonathan does not talk like that. Jonathan made us to forget the civil war, Jonathan is our messiah, PDP has come to stay,' she revealed.

Nigerian soldiers afraid of recaptured Boko Haram towns —Chad

 

Chadian and Nigerien troops fighting Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East are reportedly begging their Nigerian counterparts to take over towns recaptured from the sect.

Nigerian authorities had announced that troops had recaptured all towns occupied by members of the terrorist group in Adamawa and Yobe states, remaining Borno, the last of the three north-eastern states mostly affected by the insurgency.

A report by The New York Times on Friday, entitled ‘Foreign troops beg Nigerian soldiers to occupy recaptured towns,’ said foreign troops had led journalists on a tour of the liberated towns without Nigerian troops on the ground.

Chadian authorities were reported to be angered by “the near-total absence of cooperation from the Nigerians in a crucial regional battle.”

Death threat: Enugu bishops meet Mbaka today

The Catholic Diocese of Enugu, which oversees the Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka-led Adoration Ministry, has said it will meet with the cleric today to investigate his claim that President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, want him dead.

This is as the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria on Saturday said Rev. Fr. Mbaka, had yet to report to the said allegations to it.

Mbaka, who has repeatedly stated his opposition to the President’s re-election, had alleged during a sermon he delivered in his church, as seen in a recent video uploaded on YouTube last Sunday that President Jonathan and his wife want to kill him.

Jonathan has ordered EFCC to arrest Tinubu –APC=c

The All Progressives Congress on Saturday raised the alarm that the Federal Government and the Peoples Democratic Party have sent a red alert to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to arrest one of its national leaders, Bola Tinubu.

The party alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration was bent on decimating the major opposition party in order to gain what it called an undue advantage in the March 28 and April 11 general elections.

I regret not impeaching Obasanjo — Na’Abba

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’Abba, in this interview with Ashiwaju.org speaks about his trials, regrets, triumphs and joining the All Progressives Congress

What have you been doing ever since you left the forefront of Nigerian politics?

I have been facing my private business since I left the House of Representatives and I am also involved in politics. Politics is something that I cannot really bid farewell. Therefore, I am still in politics.

YOUR ADVICE TO FIRST LADY IS NEEDLESS, PDP TELLS BUHARI’S WIFE

The Peoples D e m o c r a t i c Party Presiden¬tial Campaign Organisation (PDP¬PCO) has dismissed as needless the assur¬ance of wife of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential can¬didate, Aisha Buhari, to the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan that she (First Lady) would not be sent to jail if her husband, General Mu¬hammadu Buhari, wins the coming presiden¬tial election.
Director of Media and Publicity of the PDPPCO, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, in a statement issued yes-terday in Abuja in response to Aisha Buhari’s attack on the First Lady in Benin, said the entire PDP presi¬dential campaign did not appreciate her counsel be¬cause the First Lady had not committed any offence.

I’M NOT DESPERATE TO SERVE, SAYS JONATHAN

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said although he was ready and willing to continue to serve as the President of the country, he was not desperate to continue in office.
He said, that was the reason he had remained unruffled despite the various things that had been said or written about him.
Jonathan spoke at the public launch of a book, “The People’s Choice: The story of President Goodluck Jonathan,” written by Rev. Fr. CharlesImokhai.
Over N175m was donated by individuals and groups at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja venue of the launch of the four-part book which chronicles the life of the President including his educational background, political career and family among others.
Jonathan advised politicians who are interested in occupying any elective position either at state or federal level not to be desperate.

BREAKING: RIVERS STATE DEPUTY GOVERNOR DUMPS APC, DEFECTS TO PDP

 

The Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Tele Ikuru, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party from the All Progressives Congress while urging his supporters to vote for PDP
Ikuru declared his defection on Sunday, six days to the general elections.
More details later

Kano Flyover Name After Late Emir By Jonathan

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan today in Kano, the capital of Kano State, commissioned a recently constructed flyover paid for by the Federal Government. The flyover is located near Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital on Zaria Road in the Kano metropolis.

There was a political undertone to the event as Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, who belongs to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), recently brought his party’s presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a recent critic of Mr. Jonathan’s, to commission flyovers built by the state government.

Speaking at the commissioning, Mr. Jonathan, who is the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), described Kano as a strategic commercial center. He said the flyover would help the state in the trans-Saharan trade. “Kano is important to us and we will not forget the state in our developmental projects,” Mr. Jonathan promised.

“Shady Deals” Rock Nigeria Election Debate Group

The Nigeria Election Debate Group, NEDG, has organised presidential and vice presidential debates since 1999, but fresh claims have emerged questioning the independence and partisan nature of the group.

The debates, the final lap of the series of debates organised by the NEDG, is holding on March 22, according to the organisers.

But there have been allegations that the group is actually a one-man show run by Raymond Dokpesi, the Chairman of DAAR Communications Limited (owners of Africa Independent Television, AIT), who uses it as a bargaining tool for private gains and political advantage.