Aso Rock: Last days of Jonathan

In the run up to the presidential election on  March 28, 2015, figures  obtained  from the protocol  department of the Presidential Villa indicated that more than two thousand visitors visited  President Goodluck Jonathan on the average in a week. This figures do  not include visitors that met with the president in his official residence  in the Villa. Neither do they  include those he met outside the official residence but within the precincts of the Presidential Villa. It was perhaps the number and quality of people who thronged to the Villa on  daily basis and the assurances they gave the president during the run up to the presidential election  that informed the confidence he  displayed as the election  drew nearer that he was going to win.
But on the Sunday after the presidential election when collation of votes had begun and it appeared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was not doing well and was, in fact, trailing behind the All Progressives  Congress at the polls, less than 30  persons, apart from some security personnel and aides of the president, attended the Aso Rock Chapel which had hitherto been a beehive of activities every Sunday.

Some PDP leaders serially betrayed Jonathan — Fani-Kayode

                                 
The Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, in this interview, dismisses the claim that hate campaign was responsible for the loss of President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28 election, blaming the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) for it.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) blamed the loss of the party at the March 28 presidential election on hate speeches from some party officials, particularly some members of its Presidential Campaign Organisation. How do you react?
I am sorry that you asked me this question because this is an assertion that I have refused to comment on since the allegation was made. Ever since the conclusion of the presidential election, I have been asked the question you just asked me more than any other and I believe that, for posterity’s sake, it is time to set the record straight.

Senate Presidency: APC senators-elect divided

Senators-elect of the All Progressives Congress, APC, were divided in their choice of candidates for the offices of the senate president and deputy senate president yesterday, an ill development that led to the abandonment of a two-day retreat organised for them by the national leadership of the party in Abuja.
Hardly had the opening ceremony ended when the hall used for the retreat became almost empty with a group of the senators-elect known as Senate Unity Forum leaving the hall in their numbers.
and Danjuma Goje, Bukola Saraki,Abdullahi Adamu and George Akume
Members of the forum included but were not limited to Chief Banabas Gemade, Ahmed Lawan, George Akume among others.
The outcome of their departure from the hall was a brief press conference where they endorsed Lawan and Akume as their choices for senate president and deputy senate president respectively.
Reading the endorsement, Gemade who led the group, said it was the collective resolve of the members of the group.

I am ready to die than be extradicted to the US — Kashamu

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Senator-elect, Ogun-East, Prince Buruji Kashamu,  was said to have threatened to kill himself  if  officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)  forced their way into his house, yesterday, claiming there was a court injunction against the NDLEA’s action. Some of his friends who claimed to have  contacted him on phone between 7 and 9 am told  Sunday Vanguard that Kashamu said he would remain indoors till Monday.
But the narcotic agency explained that the operatives mandate was to put the politician, who is also the Chairman, Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of the PDP in the South-West, under  house arrest pending when he  would appear in court on Monday.  The NDLEA  spokesman, Mitchel Ofoyeju , in a six paragraph statement, yesterday, said: “A special team of NDLEA has confined Ogun State senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu, to his Lagos residence pending his appearance in court on Monday, May 25, 2015 to perfect his extradition to the United States.
“The  agency has commenced extradition procedures against Senator-elect  Buruji Kashamu in line with the laws of country. He has been in contact with his attorneys and will appear in court on Monday.

Kashamu’s Attempted Arrest: NGO Calls For Due Process

A non-governmental organisation, One Child One Teacher Africa (OCOTA), has expressed concern about Saturday’s attempted arrest of Senator-elect Buruji Kashamu by operatives of the National Drug and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by its Media Consultant, Mr Richards Jude, the organisation said that it detested the manner in which the agency approached the attempted arrest.
It called for due process and rule of law in the matter by the NDLEA, insisting that fundamental rights of the senator-elect must be respected.
“The rights of every Nigerian regardless of his or her status must be not be violated in the guise of enforcing provisions of the law,’’ the statement said.
NDLEA operatives visited the residence of the senator-elect Saturday to arrest him following a request for his extradition by U.S. authorities.

JONATHAN HANDING OVER NATION IN DEEP CRISIS – APC

The All Progressives Congress has said President Goodluck Jonathan is handing over a nation in deep crisis, even as his administration continues to contrive more crises without making any effort to solve any of them.
In a statement in Abuja on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party however appealed to Nigerians not to lose hope, despite the daunting challenges they were currently facing in “this atmosphere of contrived chaos”, saying help was on the way.
APC said, ”In a few days’ time, President Jonathan will hand over to President-elect Muhammadu Buhari. Never in the history of our country has any government handed over to another a more distressed country: No electricity, no fuel, workers are on strike, billions are owed to state and federal workers, 60 billion dollars are owed in national debt and the economy is virtually grounded.
”Today, Nigerians are roaming the streets, jerry cans in hand, searching for everything from kerosene to fuel to diesel to power their homes, keep their vehicles on the road and keep their businesses going. They are paying as much as 300 Naira per litre for fuel, if at all they can get it. Yet their government is not saying a word about the situation.”

Can You Believe This! Danjuma Urges Buhari To Probe Jonathan's Government

Former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma yesterday asked the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to probe the outgoing government.
Danjuma said the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan was very corrupt.
He spoke to reporters in Takum, Taraba State, while commissioning three newly built bridges along Takum-Katsina Ala road.
The bridges were built by Danjuma at the cost of over N500million.
Danjuma, who expressed dismay that the country’sdebt was over $60 billion, said he is optimistic that Buhari on assumption of office would probe persons found guilty of corruption.
He pointed out the debt burden was necessitated by the financial recklessness of the outgoing government.

My Heart Goes For Jonathan, For Accepting Defeat To Keep Nigeria One--Oladele GEJ Trekker

The trekker Oladele -John Nihi who identify with the outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan has described Omotola Jolashade Ekehide's statement as insensitive of what would have become of Nigeria if the March 28th Presidential election had gone the way other elections in Africa have somehow being..
He lamented that a celebrity of international repute like OMOTOLA would align herself to such uncanny statement rather than show her utmost support to a man that sacrificed personal aggrandizement to safe the country from being plunged into chaos and political disharmony.
Speaking with SaharaTv in a telephone discussion, Oladele John Nihi extolled President Godluck Jonathan for the sacrifice and urged other African  leaders to emulate the leadership prowess expounded by the president.

See Farewell Gift From DAVID MARK To President Goodluck Jonathan Worth $200,000

Senate President, David Mark reportedly gave outgoing Pres. Jonathan this $200,000 24k solid gold customized watch as a gift. According to Vanguard who reported that they received the image, the gold watch has '750 N (North) 34379″ on it, and also a 'Special Edition 2010' on the top and also bears: “Presented by Senator David Mark GCON,” and to “H.E. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan” etched into the gold as well as the Nigerian emblem over its visible working parts.

SENATE PRESIDENCY: 59 APC SENATORS TO SELECT SOLE CANDIDATE

Ahead of a one-day retreat organized by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for its senators-elect in Abuja tomorrow, checks indicate that the party is going ahead with an open primary to select a sole candidate to succeed David Mark as Senate President next month.
A ranking senator from the South west told Daily Sun yesterday that the APC is set to organise primary election for all contenders for the Senate Presidency, “much in line with how the primary was conducted to select our presidential candidate in 2014.”
All 59 senators and senators-elect of the party would be delegates at the primary. The ranks of the APC senators depleted by one with the death, on Saturday, May 16, of Borno senator, Ahmed Khlaifa Zannah.
It is yet unclear whether the primary would hold in Abuja or Lagos but it was further gathered that, all the 59 senators and senators-elect are “expected to sign an undertaking to abide by the party position on whoever emerges as the party’s candidate after the primary.
“Thereafter, the runner-up is expected to emerge as the deputy Senate President. In the event where the runner-up is from the same zone as the winner of the primary, another primary election would be conducted and whoever emerges would be the deputy.”