Aisha Buhari To Patience Jonathan: Don't Be Afraid Of Prison

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp9JHndIiGszbFGjDi8HzaSiUOfOwJeaga3Rx_CK_iAEywxt3CjmBVVmO679NK2Hcr5Qw862j74pEeL6F-xMHAQO8EOoE5cusHQ7jdQpMgIeVpU2RzVhrEleTLjoVss8uTHR3nd949id1E/s1600/Patience+and+Aisha.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp9JHndIiGszbFGjDi8HzaSiUOfOwJeaga3Rx_CK_iAEywxt3CjmBVVmO679NK2Hcr5Qw862j74pEeL6F-xMHAQO8EOoE5cusHQ7jdQpMgIeVpU2RzVhrEleTLjoVss8uTHR3nd949id1E/s1600/Patience+and+Aisha.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Hajia Aishat Buhari, wife of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari has replied the wife President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan who has been campaigning that General Buhari will jail his political opponents if elected President in the March 28 election, saying Patience Jonathan needs not fear as Nigerians only want a change in the way Nigeria is being run presently.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Speaking at a mega rally where she interacted with Women in Edo State Thursday, Hajia Buhari said the PDP’s attempt to paint her husband black with the tar of religion is a desperate attempt to hoodwink the people, saying only those who want to loot the treasury campaign with religion which is at variance with politics.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> She said: “Each zone of the country has its peculiar problems. For me in this zone, girl-child trafficking should be considered one of our problems, though I know there is unemployment.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Unemployment is the major factor that contributes to brain drain and also the girl-child trafficking. General Muhammadu Buhari is a leader who led Nigeria some decades ago and he is coming back now to sanitize the system.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “For those that are campaigning, saying that he is coming to jail Nigerians, I don’t know what their fear is. But they shouldn’t be afraid, because we are all yearning for change.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The insecurity in the country, the very poor healthcare system, lack of education and other basic necessities that people are lacking I believe Nigerians need somebody like General Muhammadu Buhari now.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  “Already, they have painted him black, using religion. I’m happy today that Nigerians realize that they use religion as a cover to loot Nigeria.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Any politician who talks to you about religion is a liar; he only wants to loot the treasury and the little resources you ought to enjoy. So say no politics merging it with religion to deceive the people.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “I’m here today to let Edo women know that when my husband is elected into office as President, all these will be history. The insecurity, the girl-child trafficking, suffering of the widows in the South East will come to an end.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> There must be a cultural design that can accommodate the widow. A design that would make the girl-child comfortable wherever she is in this country. She doesn’t have to leave her country to go and prostitute elsewhere, it’s not her portion.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Her portion is to have a highly standard and moral society for her to live in. Get married, have children, train them and also mold them to become the future leaders.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “We are here today to also let you know that the collection of your PVCs is important and don’t ever sell it. It’s like selling your future. If you sell it for ₦5,000, you won’t see ₦5,000 again until after four years which will be bad.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Get your PVC, vote for APC, vote for freedom, vote for a new Nigeria with good security, good education, good healthcare, good roads and all the basic necessities.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In his address to the women, Governor Adams Oshiomhole urged them to vote for the APC since the PDP has failed in 16 years to deliver on electricity and other basic infrastructure.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to him, the PDP government fleeces even the poor through kerosene sale.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “In sixteen years, PDP did not provide light, we provide the transformers to the communities but the PDP Federal Government cannot power the lights. They collect fixed charges from the people when there is no fixed light.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “They say there’s power reforms, however instead of reform, they deform. They advertised to employ people into the Nigeria Immigration Service and use private company to charge the applicant ₦1,000 each.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The private company collected over ₦800 million from poor youths and took them to the stadium to conduct an interview, at the end people died. Instead of the Minister in charge to be reprimanded, he was given national honors.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “You need to understand the issues. Our call for Change and for people to vote for the APC and vote out the PDP is because the PDP has completely failed and deceived the people for 16 years. So they must go home.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The people must vote for APC to return Nigeria from darkness to light, from unemployment to employment and from insecurity to security.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He flayed some religious leaders who want to polarize the country along religious lines, saying the problems facing the country affect both Christians and Moslems so Nigerians should ignore the attempt to hoodwink them and preach hatred using the religion card.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In an address of welcome, wife of the state Deputy Governor, Deaconess Endurance Odubu said Nigerians have made up their minds to vote massively for the All Progressives Congress.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> She noted the achievements of Governor Adams Oshiomhole in Edo State and said when voted into power; General Muhammadu Buhari will replicate it at the national level.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> She assured Hajia Aishat Buhari that Edo women would vote massively for the APC.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>SaharaReporters</b></div>

Aisha Buhari To Patience Jonathan: Don't Be Afraid Of Prison

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When The Madness Is Over... - By Segun Adeniyi | ThisDay

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI6IZUzBRU6lK9MTmE3o_kX78ZaDVQFuZpfZM4jYujxsm7tatvyGHBzuyo3Ae3qKjp4ogd_MHIutm4vNdjpTTrAw3QjmEVBc6WlAlTcrv81VHGs1QTC0XVBVVcIcbMVhA43tPNV5xLfMaq/s1600/Segun-Adeniyi-12114mar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI6IZUzBRU6lK9MTmE3o_kX78ZaDVQFuZpfZM4jYujxsm7tatvyGHBzuyo3Ae3qKjp4ogd_MHIutm4vNdjpTTrAw3QjmEVBc6WlAlTcrv81VHGs1QTC0XVBVVcIcbMVhA43tPNV5xLfMaq/s1600/Segun-Adeniyi-12114mar.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>In October last year, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a report on how the falling oil prices would affect members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), many of which “need oil prices to average way above the current Brent crude oil price of $90 a barrel to balance their books.” Using data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Arab Petroleum Investments Corp and Deutsche Bank, the WSJ wrote that the “struggling OPEC members are suffering partly for failing to diversify their economies when oil prices were high”, as well as not investing “enough in their oil industries to sustain them through leaner times.”</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In the estimated projections of how much a barrel of oil would have to sell for before the budget of each OPEC country would balance, only six (Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Angola) would fare well with the price below $100. According to the WSJ report, it would take a price of $119 per barrel for Nigeria’s budget to balance. A month later, data from the same IMF and Deutsche Bank quoted by the BBC had pushed the price per barrel that Nigeria would require for a balanced budget to $123! Today, it must be hovering above $130 per barrel at a time the commodity is actually selling for less than half of that price.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> What that suggests is that our economy is in dire straits hence more than at any other period in our history, this is the time to begin a meaningful conversation about the future of our country. The snag though is that for such to happen, there has to be a unity of purpose and a common national resolve. Yet with the presidential election just about ten days away, the feeling among most Nigerians is that the contest should come quickly and go so that we can get on with our lives given how almost everything has been in abeyance. The sadder part is that things may never remain the same again in our country no matter who wins, given the level of hate being propagated in the course of the campaigns.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> I have witnessed many elections in Nigeria but I have never experienced anything like this before. Rather than tell Nigerians what President Goodluck Jonathan will do differently if re-elected, his campaign team in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has instead been producing and circulating damaging home videos about their opponents. On the other hand, supporters of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), have also spent considerable time abusing the president and demonising his government while they may have equally started producing their own videos about key opponents.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In the bizarre season that we are in, President Jonathan has apparently been told that all it would require to get the votes of Nigerians is for him to be running around Abuja and stretching his legs with some pot-bellied fat cats, perhaps to lend credence to the “prophecy” being propagated by Governor Ayo Fayose that age has a correlation with death so we should “choose life”. Some members of the opposition have gone even further as to manufacture death certificates for their rivals within, in the bid to supplant them as APC candidates, even as a mere telephone conversation that never was with the King of Morocco has suddenly become a very important election manifesto.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Rather than be about issues, the campaigns on both sides have been dominated by gossips, name-calling and character assassination. Now, we know which man is sleeping with which man, who is using what drugs and all such dirty details about some of our big men. But how do those lurid advertorials advance our country or solve the problems afflicting our people?</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> I need to stress here that at election periods, it is expected that people would take sides and that partisanship is normal. But propagating hate and sowing seeds of discord and division is not. For sure, politicians are no paragons of virtues anywhere in the world and it is not only in Nigeria that you see them demonise one another. But it is perhaps only in our country that such would become the only item on the campaign agenda to the extent that while there may be little to cheer about the coming elections, there is indeed a lot to fear in the aftermath.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We should all be worried particularly by the ongoing mobilization of ethnic militias which has the potential to produce a violent escalation of political differences, especially after the votes are in, given the role militias played in the post-election violence of Kenya in 2008. Those who are busy mobilising these groups, in pursuit of some narrow agenda, are reducing what is otherwise a clear national political contest to the level of primordial confrontations. It is a dangerous gambit.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><i>The Verdict </i>By Olusegun Adeniyi: olusegun.adeniyi@thisdaylive.com</b></div>

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Huge US Dollars Cash To Be Imported Into Nigeria To Frame Our Leaders - APC

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGbRHwFBrrnKYMHcCPZsaTHgsNZFJaxyl0ReclIzTewX41CdC-LiRZgR8wnGVE9lyFEKq07PSGf_8BHC7oD8ARpozaQBPZDOtegJlq5s2z1aEN6Cxii3Z8Ip7Fe3QRQs6GDv_oknLcHC20/s1600/Lai_Muhammed_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGbRHwFBrrnKYMHcCPZsaTHgsNZFJaxyl0ReclIzTewX41CdC-LiRZgR8wnGVE9lyFEKq07PSGf_8BHC7oD8ARpozaQBPZDOtegJlq5s2z1aEN6Cxii3Z8Ip7Fe3QRQs6GDv_oknLcHC20/s1600/Lai_Muhammed_4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has uncovered yet another in the series of devilish plots being hatched against the leadership of the party, this time involving a huge amount of money (in US dollars) which are being ferried into Nigeria by some people who will then claim they were hired as cash couriers by APC leaders.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the funds are to be ferried into the country through the Seme or Idi-Iroko, or any other border posts, anytime from now.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It said those who orchestrated the importation of the raw cash from a West African nation have also tipped off the security agents at the border posts to watch out for those who are bringing in a colossal amount in US dollars.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> ''Their plan is that once the couriers - who have been coached on their assignment - are arrested by Nigerian security agents, they will point accusing fingers at some top APC leaders who supposedly commissioned them to bring in the money to be used for the forthcoming elections.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> ''The plotters of the evil plan will then order the arrest of the leaders, with a view to damaging their credibility and destabilizing them ahead of the elections,'' APC said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The party said as many evil plots as are being hatched by desperadoes who are bent on setting the country ablaze just to realize their naked ambition will be exposed, because Nigerians themselves, within and outside the government, have decided to be extra vigilant.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> ''Let's be clear: Our leaders, who have been the targets of unprecedented mudslinging as well as physical and psychological threats will not be intimidated into abandoning their epic struggle to save our country from a rapacious administration.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> ''Therefore, let those who have been unrelenting in threatening them and also painting them black, using every means imaginable, desist, because their game is up. The people of Nigeria have repudiated their primitive tactics,'' it said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> APC said those who will, in their usual manner, rush to deny this plot must remember that despite their denials in the past, all the alarms raised by the party have either come to pass or have been checkmated by their exposure.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> ''Let us remind them that we raised the alarm over their plan to postpone the elections and it came to pass. We raised the alarm over their opposition to the use of card readers and now all Nigerians can see. We raised the alarm that the OPC will demonstrate against Jega in Lagos and it was accurate to the day. We will continue to expose the plotters of evil,'' the party said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Alhaji Lai Mohammed</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> National Publicity Secretary</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> All Progressives Congress (APC)</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Abuja, March 19th 2015</div>

Huge US Dollars Cash To Be Imported Into Nigeria To Frame Our Leaders - APC

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