Thursday, 5 July 2018

See Full List Of New National Ex-Co Of R-APC Nigeria

RAPC chairman, Buba Galadima
The Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC), a breakaway from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has released the list of its national executive committee [Ex-Co].
R-APC which has Engineer Buba Galadima as its National Chairman, provided the full list as follows:
  1. Yobe State – Buba Galadima- (National Chairman)
  2. Kano State – Bala Muhd Gwagwarwa- (National Deputy Chairman, North)
  3. Abia State – Chief Theo Nkire- (National Deputy Chairman, South East)
  4. Ondo State – Hon. Eko Olakunle- (National Vice Chairman South West)
  5. Kaduna State – Hon. Hussaini Dambo- (National Vice Chairman North West)
  6. Kogi State – Mahmud Mohammed Abubakar– (National Vice Chairman, North Central)
  7. Benue State – Hon. Godwin Akaan- (Deputy National Secretary)
  8. Oyo State -Dr Fatai Atanda- (National Secretary)
  9. Edo State – Kazeem Afegbua- (National Publicity Secretary)
  10. Adamawa State – Daniel Bwala- (Financial Secretary)
  11. Jigawa State – Abba Malami Taura- (Deputy National Auditor)
  12. Kwara State – Hon. Kayode Omotosho- (National Treasurer)
  13. Anambra State -Barr. Nicholas Asuzu- (National Youth Leader)
  14. Rivers State – Barr. Baride A. Gwezia- (Legal Adviser)
  15. Katsina State – Haj Aisha Kaita- (National Woman Leader)
  16. Bauchi State – Mrs. Fatima Adamu- (National Welfare Secretary)
  17. Ogun State -Alh. Isiak Akinwumi- (Deputy Financial Secretary)
  18. Zamfara State – Alh. Bashir Mai Mashi- (Deputy National Treasurer)
  19. Abuja – Hauwa Adam Mamuda- (Deputy Welfare Secretary)
  20. Sokoto State – Hon. Shuaibu Gwanda Gobir- (Deputy National Publicity Secretary)
  21. Katsina State – M. T. Liman- (National Organising Secretary)
  22. Niger State – Dr Theo Sheshi- ( Deputy National Organising Secretary)
 Some of the State Chairmen include:
  1. Adamawa – Dimas Ezra
  2. Anambra – Sir Toby Chukwudi Okwuaya
  3. Bauchi – Sani Shehu
  4. Benue – Noah Mark Dickson
  5. Jigawa – Hon. Nasiru Garba Dantiye
  6. Kaduna – Col. Gora (Rtd)
  7. Kano – Umar Haruna Doguwa
  8. Katsina – Sada Ilu
  9. Kogi – Alh. Hadi Ametuo
  10. Ogun – Alhaji Adeleke Adewale Taofeek
  11. Ondo – Hon. Otetubi Idowu
  12. Oyo – Alh. Ali Alimi Isiaka Adisa
  13. Yobe – Mohammed Burgo Dalah
  14. Zamfara – Alh. Nasiru Yakubu
  15. Niger – Hon. Samaila Yusuf Kontagora
  16. FCT – Adaji Usm
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Senator Shehu Sani Calls APC “Egypt”, Buhari as “Pharaoh”

 
The Senator representing Kaduna Central Constituency of Kaduna State, Shehu Sani has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) as “Egypt” as the lawmaker sets leave the party.
He also labelled the party as “the land of cruelty and injustice”

Senator Sani drew the analogy on his Twitter handle on the eve of the formation the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC).

He was ascribing to the ill treatment he and his fellow party members received despite being part of the founding and dues-paying members of APC.
Not done with that he qualified the party leader, President Muhammadu Buhari as “Pharaoh Thutmose”.

He wrote:
“We the persecuted are on Exodus, riding on horses, chariots and caravans, departing Pharaoh Thutmose’s Egypt. “We are now at the coast of the Red Sea, about to leave the land of cruelty and injustice.”

He further spoke of other issues affecting the nation.
On the recovered monies from looters, he wrote: “When the future generation asked the question what happened to the loot, they will read that it was recovered.

“And when they asked what happened to the recovered loot, they will read that it was shared to people known to people in power.”

Sani was, no doubt, ascribing to President Buhari-led government’s announcement to share the loot recovered from former dictator, General Sani Abacha to the poor.
More Nigerian have also criticised the move saying it is laying foundation for monumental fraud as Nigeria is suffering from several vices.

Some of the vices mentioned include poverty, bad roads for farmers to transport their harvest, no electricity for artisans to work, those willing to do business cannot because of infrastructural decay, small businesses are dying due to lack of enabling infrastructure for business, etc.

Senator Shehu Sani also paid glowing tribute to ‏Mallam Adamu Ciroma who passed away today after brief illness.

He said:
“We lost a great Nigerian, a patriot and a man whose life exemplified honestly, simplicity and moral uprightness.

“Mallam Adamu Ciroma was a President we never had. He was an outstanding politician.”
Finally he congratulated to the Guardian Newspaper for its 35th birthday.
He said Guardian is a paper that has remained calm in times of turbulence and professional in times of sentiments and objective in times of partisanship, saying it stood by him in the years of the struggle.

He recounted that the Late Guardian publisher, Akex Ibru was appointed a minister under the military junta.

The paper, he said, refused to change its principles in the defense of liberty and democracy. It  was shut and the publisher was sacked and shot.
“No  patriotism is higher than that,” he intoned.

Oshiomole sacks Amaechi as DG Buhari 2019 campaign

The newly elected chairman of the All Progressives Congress [APC], Mr. Adams Oshiomole has sacked the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi as the Director General of the President Muhammadu Buhari 2019 campaign organisation. 

ElombahNews gathered that Oshiomole replaced him with the Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha.

An aide to Owelle Rochas Okorocha has told Elombah News that the move was sequel to impressive crowd that attended the first major APC Southeast mega rally for President Muhammadu Buhari, organised by the Imo Governor.

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was “apparently impressed with the mammoth crowd that graced the event”, the aide stated.

He added that “the newly elected national Chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress has given a clear indication that he would prefer to work with the Imo State governor, as the Director-general of President Buhari’s Campaign Organization instead of former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi who has been parading himself as such.”

He said that “Comrade Oshiomhole who is clearly focused on strengthening the Party and returning it to the masses for whom the Party was original envisioned was a special guest at the hugely successful mega rally for President Muhammadu Buhari, which was hosted in Owerri, the Imo State capital.”
Speaking during the rally, the former President of the Nigerian Labour Congress and immediate past governor of Edo State, praised the leadership and visionary credentials of the Imo State governor and encouraged him to continue to lead the way for Igbos to follow. He was accompanied to the mega rally by most members of the APC National Working Committee, including the National Organizing Secretary, Emma Ibediro, National Auditor, George Muoghalu and national vice Chairman, Southeast, Emma Eneukwu.

The former labor leader charged all members of the APC in the Southeast to dissolve into the leadership of Owelle Rochas Okorocha as he has shown sterling leadership qualities and credentials.
“The rejection of Rotimi Amaechi as DG of the President’s Campaign Organization may not be unconnected to the Transportation Minister’s several anti-democratic and anti-Party activities and utterances in recent times. Some commentators have also pointed out that the former Rivers governor has set himself as an embarrassment to the cooperate image of the Party and a disloyal appointee of the President and Commander in Chief, arguing that such a person cannot lead a successful campaign for the re-election of the President.

“Governor Rochas Okorocha on the other hand has married himself completely to the vision of the Party and the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. He has shown an undeniable readiness to sacrifice even his personal ambitions to ensure the overall success of the Party and the President.”

Irony of Life in Nigeria

Rich man marries and have 4 children. Poor man marries and start mass production of children that he can't afford to train because the only thing that gives poor man joy is the body of his wife.
The country has beaten him to the level that sex is his only idea of enjoyment.

Politicians steal your money, sleep with your wife and girlfriends and sister, make sure you don't go to school, even when you struggle to, he makes sure you don't finish on time let alone getting a job.
He sends his children to the best schools abroad so they will take over from him when he is done playing with your future.

He initiates a poverty alleviation program, videos himself cutting tapes during the mounting of an electric pole. He gives you N4000, bags of rice at rallies and arms to fight his opponents.
He paints the roads and puts Street lights when there are no light in your home. You hail him!
He spends millions on billboards of his fake projects, hires the best PR experts to keep you drooling with hunger and uninformed and keep on doing damages to your common sense. You defend him.
Second tenure, no jobs, no food, the N4000 has finished and the bag of rice wasting in the pit of your toilet. He must recover the billions he spent buying your votes. For he is not qualified to lead but you qualified him.

You start making use of the guns he bought you. You kill the poor like yourself who is suffering the effects of the N4000 and bag of rice that you took. You try to Kidnap his friends, their police orderlies fire back at you.

His friends tell him that there is insecurity in town and it will affect their mobilization for him for second term. 

He shouts ahhhh, second tenure is like the second round of sex that puts one to sleep after, except, perhaps, he works for vivid entertainment or one of those Hollywood porn industries.
He complains of lack of security to the commissioner of police and General Officer Commanding, Air Officer commanding or the Flag Officer Commanding.

He spends millions hosting them. They tell him what to do. By now, you have become a threat.
He buys even a bigger gun for the police and the military plus operational vehicles.
He pays for radio and TV jingles to warn you.

You rob, you die. You protest, you die. You stay at home, you die of starvation.
Then, you get recommended to a church and since you can't pay tithes, pastor turns you into an errand boy. 

He sends you to buy biscuits for his children, wash pants for his wife and clean his cars.
You sweep the church for free while awaiting your heavenly reward while the pastor fly private jets and drive flashy sedans.

You are happy that your pastor is rich and argue for him in midst of your friends.
He runs to the UK at the slightest symptoms of headache but prays for you when you are sick and tells you to bring your sick mother to church for prayers instead of taking her to hospitals to waste money. 

She dies and he tells you that it was God's will while his mother has been in the UK for months receiving the best treatment that tithes can buy.

He buys a new land for a new church branch, you help to carry blocks and turn concrete, then collect blessings as reward. You are happy to be working for the salvation of your soul, heaven will pay.
The pastor lives his heaven on earth.

The new church building is completed on your sweat.
He invites the president, governor, senator, house of representative member and every other person who made sure that you are poor by design.

The whole area is policed with guns and armored cars. You are comfortably seated at the back while straining your neck to see who and who came.

The president and governor and senator plus their contractor friends donate hundreds of millions for the new church while you cheer from the back.

The food they shared didn't get to you but you are happy the president and governor and senator came to your church. You even brag to others of how your pastor is well connected.

You get home, hunger Knocks angrily on the belly door, your neighbor bails you out while you wait for heaven to pay.

10 years on the jobless job, pastor's children have been sent abroad for studies. Age is no longer on your side, pastor hooks you up with another aunty that sweeps the church for free with no education just like you and Weds you both on a Friday evening church service and you are happy. Your children starts the cycle all over again.

What is the difference between an Ordinary Thief (OT) & a Political Thief (PT)?
  1. The Ordinary Thief steals your money, bag, watch, gold chain etc.; But the Political Thief steals your future, career, education, health & business!
  2. The hilarious part is: The Ordinary Thief will choose whom to rob; But you, yourself chose the Political Thief to rob you
  3. The most ironic one: Police will chase and nab the Ordinary Thief; while the Police will look after and protect the Political Thief!
That’s the travesty cum irony of our current society! And, we blindly say we are not blind!
It may not make sense to many but just read and be wise. 
Its election year again

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Court asks APC to conduct new congresses in Imo

The Federal High court sitting in Owerri Imo state has ruled that there was no Ward,LGA and state Congresses in the state just as it ordered the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Secretariat to conduct a new congress in the State.

The governor remarked that the Judgment of the Court on the issue of APC congresses in Imo has only authenticated his sustained claim and that of patriotic leaders of APC in Imo that the congresses did not hold in the state with a lot of proofs to that effect.

The governor argued that the judiciary has remained not only the last hope of the common man, but also the last hope of institutions and processes especially as they concern our democracy.
The governor regretted that the former National officers of the party, had, for one reason or the other decided to mess up the congresses that would have taken place in the state and had also ignored his genuine concern and repeated appeal that the congresses should be conducted to enable party members in the state fully participate and elect officials of their choice.

He said Imo is the only APC state in the South-East and should have been encouraged to have successful congresses, to show good example to other states in the geo-political zone but regretted that those who had the task of conducting free and fair congresses decided to submerge the whole venture for their selfish agenda.

Tuesday, 3 July 2018

APC Southeast Rally for Buhari - DO NOT TAKE THEM SERIOUS


Following the crops of Gov. Rochas okorocha's farced stooges and followers showcased yesterday in the name of South East APC leaders at the boosted South East Leaders' Dinner ahead of the proposed south east mega rally today in honour of PMB, one need not a suite sayer to convenience him that the RALLY IS ROCHAS OKOROCHA'S government rally not South East APC Rally.

An APC SOUTH EAST leaders gathering that you don't have somebody like: H. E. Dr OUK, Chief Kane Nnamani, H.E Suilevan Chime, Dr Ogbonna Onu, Dr Ibe Kachukwu, Dr Nwonye, Chief Jim nwodo, Chief Nwonye, Dr Chris Ngige, Sen. Izunaso, Sen. Araraume, Sen. Uwajiogu, Chief Emeka Nwajiuba, Jasper Azutalam, Chief Mrs Tina Akaekpuchionwa, TOE Ekechi etc, that one na SOUTH EAST? NOOOO! rather na APC SOUTHnorth geopolitical zone newly created for ORO and his stooges.

A gathering where the IYC president, Prof Obiaraeri and some other appointees of the governor gathered at a well decorated round table arrangements on their white and white cum red cap attire and called themselves South East leaders from other South East States, in a Dinner designed and painted to host the movers and shakers of APC SOUTH EAST.

If that could happen last night, then don't expect the obvious today at the proposed rally.
Watch out for the most expected people to gather at the dilapidated DAN ANYIAM SPORTS STADIUM for this mistargeted rally.

They are:
1. imo Security network numbering over 1000 persons to dress in corporate attire led by pastor Frank.
2. ENTRACO boys numbering over 300, led by the G.M
3. NURTW Agboros numbering over 500, led by their Chairman and the commissioner for Transport
4. Hired women numbering about 200 persons led by the three women commissioners in the state.
5. IYC boys numbering about 500 persons led by their President Comr Iyke Ogbonna
6. NUISS chanting boys numbering about 300 students
7. YAN busy body boys numbering about 50 persons led by their speaker.
8. Ugwumba this and that, numbering about 1000 persons led by the coordinator of Ugwumba movement.

9. SDC hungry men and women numbering about 700 persons and
10. All governor's appointees and Rt Hon Ihim's legislative boys

All these groups are expected to disguise themselves in different dressings and to claim different LGAs in all the South East States, hoisting different flags & banners in the name of all the states in South East, as well as branding their buses in the same manner.

Do not take them for serious.
When the real South East APC do her rally, you will then know why ndi Igbo ji na asi na, AGU BATA OHIA MGBADA AGBAWA OSO, i wee mara egbe bu egbe.

Monday, 2 July 2018

How NNPC Is Deepening Its Corrupt, Opaque Management Of Oil Revenue

NNPC MD


For three consecutive days, the federal government and the 36 states have been in a most unlikely collaboration in their stand off with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over underpayments to the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC).

Finance minister, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, led her ministry and the 36 state commissioners of finance in querying the NNPC in what the managers of government finances said is a serial breach of the templates for determining the revenue due to the federation account.

Having sought the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari to rein in NNPC when she brought the specifics of the case to him and his vice, industry experts are urging the president to back the minister in ensuring that NNPC is held accountable and transparent in its remittances to the federation account.

The stand off was precipitated by the unilateral change in the template and cost components for the extraction, processing and sale of Nigeria’s highly valued low-Sulphur North Sea Brent premium blend.

With oil price averaging $77.85 per barrel in June and daily production of 1.95 million barrels, Nigeria’s outlook in revenue had improved significantly given that the country has one of the lowest production costs at $20 per barrel among members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting countries (OPEC).

The main grouse of the Ministry of Finance and the states is the drastic change in the cost templates effected by NNPC without any “logical explanation”, according to an official of the ministry.

“Everybody is aware that there is no logic in the overnight increase in the volume of refined products imported and distributed by the NNPC. Up to February this year, just about 30 million litres of petrol was consumed daily . Almost overnight, it rose to over 60 million litres. Even the NNPC itself acknowledged that the increase is indefensible. The expectation was that this anomaly should have been addressed by now. Unfortunately, NNPC continues to increase the figures in fuel importation, at least on paper,” an official of the Federal Ministry of Finance told Business and Maritime West Africa.

In June, NNPC escalated its figures on the quantity of petrol imported and distributed in the country. Invariably, the figure also correspondingly affected the “under recoveries” as NNPC and the federal government prefers to call the subsidy paid on imported petrol.

While the subsidy claim has continued to rise, it was also gathered that NNPC has been putting up some claims which the states had warned were “spurious” and would not be acceptable again. The fluctuating claims were justified by the poor state of the four refineries which best production level has not exceeded 18 percent of installed capacity in 2018.

“It is like every month, NNPC comes with different headings of expenditure which significantly whittled down the revenue handed over to FAAC for sharing. FAAC had previously objected to the introduction of unknown expenditures and had made good their promise to set up a parallel accounting process to determine the revenue accruable to the tree tiers of government,” Business and Maritime West Africa was told.

Without going into specifics, Adeosun had alluded to the discrepancies in NNPC’s submission to FAAC, noting that  “we operate the NNPC as a business. We have invested public capital in that business; and we have expectations of return. And when that return falls lower than our expectations, then the owners of this business, which in this case are the Federal Government and states, need to act.

“So, that was what caused the deadlock yesterday (Wednesday) and we really felt the figures the NNPC was proposing for FAAC were unacceptable. We felt that some of the costs couldn’t be justified, and so we have decided that rather than approve the accounts, we will go back and do further work,” Adeosun told journalists on Thursday after state governors joined their finance commissioners to examine the discrepancies in NNPC’s figures.

It is being suggested that the face off between NNPC and the government is an illustration of the failed bid by Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, to rein in the group managing director of NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, over the award of $25 billion oil contracts without due process or recourse to the ministry.

Unlike the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to back Baru in his snubbing of Kachikwu, experts insisted that Adeosun should be allowed to critically evaluate the presentations by NNPC. “The fact that the finance minister is on the same page with the states in querying the integrity of NNPC’s books is enough for President Buhari to let this stand off end in verifying the contentious areas,” a top executive of one of the indigenous oil cmpanies who did not wish to be named said.

“This is the point where the president has to demonstrate his commitment to transparency in the management of our oil resources by backing Adeosun to take NNPC to task. There is a lot of transactions NNPC is engaged in that are questionable. That Baru succeeded to shutting out Kachikwu in the running of the corporation and award of contracts in order to deal directly with Buhari could not have been informed by the desire to take the best decisions for the country,” the official stated.