Mu’azu’s seat under threat as PDP Governors, Tukur seek his removal

For allegedly tampering with the delegates’ lists submitted from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, congress elections held in some states last month, governors of those states who are angling for absolute control of the party structures are believed to have perfected plans to oust the PDP national chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.

Similarly, immediate past national chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, who resigned in January this year, is warming up to return to Wadata Plaza, as he is reported to have briefed his lawyers to challenge his resignation as the national chairman of the ruling PDP, claiming that he did not resign properly as the national chairman of the party.

After collecting their N24m, PDP rejects two presidential aspirants

A fresh crisis is brewing in the Peoples Democratic Party over the insistence of some of its members to contest its presidential primary with President Goodluck Jonathan.

But the national leadership of the party has refused to sell its presidential nomination and expression of interest forms to two other presidential aspirants.

Two of the aspirants, Dr. Abdul-Jhalil Tafawa-Balewa and Prof. Akasoba Duke-Abiola, were at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja on Tuesday to purchase the forms, but they were turned back.

2015 presidential ticket: APC govs insist on VP slot

Via PUNCH

There are strong indications that the All Progressives Congress governors may produce the party’s vice-presidential candidate for the 2015 election.

Saturday PUNCH’s investigations on Thursday in Abuja showed that the governors were demanding that one of them should be given the party’s vice-presidential slot.

It was reliably gathered that their demand was premised on the indication that a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) or ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar might get the presidential ticket.

Jonathan’s campaign director, Haliru Mohammed, a confirmed bribe taker

President Goodluck Jonathan’s choice for reelection campaign director, Bello Haliru Mohammed, a former minister and once an acting head of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, is a confirmed bribe taker, indicted by a German court in 2007, PREMIUM TIMES can report today.
Mr. Mohammed, named Thursday to oversee Mr. Jonathan’s declaration and campaign for re-election, in a potentially tense political battle likely to pitch him against either former head of state, Muhammadu Buhari, or former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Messrs. Buhari and Atiku are vying for the presidential ticket of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.

APC Port Harcourt Rally in Pictures

This rally took place on the 25th of October, 2014. With the crowd I saw, PDP is in for a serious battle.

How state governors are mortgaging their states, By Col Abubakar Umar

It has become necessary to alert the nation of a dangerous, indeed an explosive scheme by which some state Governors are mortgaging the future of their states through excessive borrowing from commercial banks and other financial institutions to finance projects of dubious viability.

The motive is entirely unclear. But one suspects it is either to fraudulently acquire campaign funds as the 2015 elections approach or retirement benefits. Some of them are also desperately selling off state’s assets including shares and other long term investments.

PDP administration is evil and heartless, says Bauchi APC guber

Gubernatorial aspirant of the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bauchi state Engr. Nuhu Gidado has described the PDP led administration as evil and heartless to the citizens at all levels of governance.

Engr. Nuhu Gidado stated this yesterday while briefing journalists on his intention to run for the state governorship seat at the NUJ secretariat in Bauchi. He said no effort could qualify Nigeria to say we are in the learning process because of the heartless governance of the ruling party.

He pointed out that its very unfortunate that Nigerians cannot move freely because of the high rate of insecurity in the country while leaders at all levels of government cannot move freely in the society as a result of bad governance.

“At the moment, the horrific, maladministration by our present leadership has made governance of our state yearn for holistic rescue mission as many might have lost hope and many are still weary from the ever growing level of official neglect, corruption with utter impunity which has almost sent Bauchi state into bankruptcy and to the more even scary national deterioration of our homeland security. It is therefore imperative to come together to chart a course that will arrest the current scourge” he said.