₦6.87 Trillion Stolen From Nigeria Yearly - AU Report

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHnvy-k71qrhC6Bvz9lx7x-E-py0M_kPYg2fyyqnJPbzfuDEMUAFIWpihsFwZZB6vM9_ZkuiztGzO-DA1kRbcsrkhVaODGUkeNg1UNml4_HWEpzkVmU6VMItE5I58IOlG1f1ovwRNzef9r/s1600/Thambo+Mbeki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHnvy-k71qrhC6Bvz9lx7x-E-py0M_kPYg2fyyqnJPbzfuDEMUAFIWpihsFwZZB6vM9_ZkuiztGzO-DA1kRbcsrkhVaODGUkeNg1UNml4_HWEpzkVmU6VMItE5I58IOlG1f1ovwRNzef9r/s1600/Thambo+Mbeki.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Nigeria, the world’s seventh largest producer of hydrocarbon, accounts for about 68.1 per cent of the total revenue Africa is losing annually as a result of illegal transfer of revenues abroad.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The report of the Thabo Mbeki High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa adopted on Sunday by African Union Heads of State and Government at their summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia said about $40.9billion (about ₦6.87trillion) of an estimated $60billion (about ₦10.08trillion) lost through such transfers from Africa are traced to Nigeria.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The funds are stolen through corruption, tax evasion and illegal transfer of profits by multinationals, the AU said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Nigeria, which produces an average of 2.3million barrels of oil daily as the leading hydrocarbon producer in Africa, is being ravaged by poverty and underdevelopment.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The report also identified Egypt and Morocco as the other countries with the largest estimates of illicit financial flows statistics of $28.2billion and $20.3billion respectively.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Cumulatively, Nigeria and Egypt topped the list of ten African countries by illicit financial transfers between 1970 and 2008, with $217.7billion (about ₦36.57trillion), or 30.5 per cent, and $105.2billion (about ₦17.67trillion), or 14.7 per cent respectively, while South Africa had $81.8billion (about ₦13.74trillion), or 11.4 per cent.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Concerned by the high losses through these illegal transfers, which was identified in 2011 as one of the threats to the inability of most resource-rich countries in Africa to meet their millennium development goals, MDGs, the AU at its 4th Joint African Union Commission/United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, AUC/ECA, Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development constituted the Mbeki Panel to review the underlying issues stalling Africa’s accelerated and sustained development objective.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> At the presentation of the report on Saturday, the panel gave a set of recommendations that would guide African leaders in checking the growing threats of the menace to the continent’s economy, including the activities of extremist groups, instability, and poverty.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Part of the recommendations included a system that would allow automatic exchange of tax information among African countries and globally to check illegal profits shifting by multinational corporations to subsidiaries in tax haven or secrecy jurisdictions.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In its 15-point findings, the panel noted that ending illicit financial flows is a political decision by the various governments as it involved issues of abusive transfer pricing, trade mis-invoicing, tax evasion, aggressive tax avoidance, double taxation, tax incentives, unfair contracts, financial secrecy, money laundering, smuggling, trafficking and abuse of entrusted power.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The interrelationships of these issues, it stated, conferred a technical character requiring transparency across all aspects to ensure access to information and the right to obtain such information.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Panel, which noted illegal profits shifting by multinational corporations as one of the biggest single source of illicit outflows in the continent, advised countries to ensure that the automatic exchange of tax information be subject to national capacity, to maintain the confidentiality of price-sensitive business information.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The dependence on natural resource extraction, it noted, makes African countries vulnerable to illicit financial flows, pointing out that there was need to pay attention to activities in the sector in an effort to check illicit financial flows in Africa.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “African countries need to acquire the capacities and technology to monitor extraction of their natural resources better and to negotiate contracts more effectively,” the report said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to the report, tax incentives were not usually guided by cost-benefit analyses, as such African countries grant a host of tax incentives, such as tax holidays, investment allowances, tax rate reductions and administrative discretion in order to attract foreign direct investment, FDI.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Considering the effort needed in asset recovery and repatriation, the report said regulations and mechanisms were needed to ensure that financial establishments and banks identified and refuse to accept illicit financial flows, rather than relying on self-regulation by banks.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Money laundering, the panel noted, continues to require attention from the governments, with weak national and regional capacities impeding efforts to curb illicit financial flows.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Noting the impediments of incomplete global structure for tackling illicit financial flows, the report stressed the need for financial secrecy jurisdictions to come under closer scrutiny, challenging the AU to lead the effort to initiate measures to block all avenues for illicit financial flows, considering that the sources were from within the continent.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Panel recommended that African governments engage with non-African private and public actors involved in developing mechanisms, policies and laws adopted by intergovernmental organisations and governments outside the continent that facilitate the flow of illicit funds out of Africa.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Considering that the bulk of illicit financial flows, such as trade mispricing and transfer pricing, are trade-based, the Panel asked African countries to develop laws and regulations that make it illegal for operators to intentionally, incorrectly or inaccurately state the price, quantity, quality or other aspects of trade in goods and services while moving capital or profits to another jurisdiction, or manipulate, evade, or avoid any form of taxation, including customs and excise duties.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Besides, the panel recommended that all agencies involved in revenue collection in Africa must ensure that all big and small corporations were not only registered for tax purposes, but also ensure that no corporate registration was approved without proof of tax registration.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> While ensuring that the databases of the companies’ registration offices and the tax authorities were linked, the Panel urged African States’ customs authorities to proactively use available databases containing information on comparable pricing of world trade in goods to analyse imports and exports, while identifying transactions that required additional scrutiny.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> On transfer pricing, the Panel asked national and multilateral agencies to ensure that data on trade pricing on goods and services in international transactions were made available according to accepted coding system categories.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> African countries, it said, should, as a matter of urgency, establish and equip transfer pricing units in revenue in accordance with global best practices and ensure that multinational companies operating in their domains provided the units with a comprehensive report on their disaggregated financial reporting on a country-by-country or subsidiary-by-subsidiary basis.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It said countries and companies operating in extractive industries in the continent should not only join voluntary initiatives like the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI, but also demand beneficial ownership information during company incorporation or trusts registration.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Again, the panel called for the establishment of independent institutions and agencies of government, like financial intelligence units, anti-fraud agencies, customs and border agencies, revenue agencies, anti-corruption agencies and financial crime agencies charged with responsibility of preventing illicit financial flows.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> All such agencies, it said, should render regular reports on their activities and findings to the national assemblies, while central banks and financial supervision and regulatory authorities must compel banks and non-financial institutions to ensure mandatory reporting of transactions that may be tainted with illicit activity.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> To check corruption in the system, the panel urged African governments to assist financial institutions by regularly publishing the lists of politically exposed persons, PEPs, as well as any asset declarations information filed by them.</div>

₦6.87 Trillion Stolen From Nigeria Yearly - AU Report

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Over 20,000 Dump PDP for APC In Niger - Vatsa

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMWgwJyuvxLcHJz91a_QP_lHB_cuoxhGqwu1hQ-YJz74LaTsjqiK0yAualCVX2RdutpA6QdGIGpXEixAn5sK5N_vdLr23T-tbbc9lostqxpO_-ZMM4wP-WQDEvxt-CjLbMrmVZbDjuQUdq/s1600/APC-Vs-PDP-new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMWgwJyuvxLcHJz91a_QP_lHB_cuoxhGqwu1hQ-YJz74LaTsjqiK0yAualCVX2RdutpA6QdGIGpXEixAn5sK5N_vdLr23T-tbbc9lostqxpO_-ZMM4wP-WQDEvxt-CjLbMrmVZbDjuQUdq/s1600/APC-Vs-PDP-new.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>No fewer than an estimated 20,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Zone A of Niger State have defected to the All Progressives Congress as the party’s governorship candidate in Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Bello, rounds off his campaign tour of the area.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> APC spokesman, Mr. Jonathan Vatsa, made this known in a statement in the Mokwa area of the zone on Monday, the <b><a href="http://www.punchng.com/news/over-20000-dump-niger-pdp-for-apc-vatsa/">PUNCH</a></b> has learnt.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Vatsa said the party was overwhelmed by the crowd of defectors from the PDP from various wards in the area.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said the people of the area had complained bitterly to the APC standard bearer over the years of neglect by the PDP administrations in the state, adding that “the people said they were tired of 16 years of deceit.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He described the popularity of APC in the area and the entire state in general as “the broom revolution,” claiming that the PDP was now a shadow of itself in the zone.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Vatsa explained that while APC had carried its campaigns to the nooks and crannies of the state in view of its popularity, the PDP had stopped its campaigns at local government headquarters because the people had discovered what he described as the bulk of failed promises over the years.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Counting the gains of the APC in zone A, the spokesman said over 5,000 defectors from the PDP in Edati, 5,000 in Mokwa and another 3,000 in Kutigi joined the APC in the area.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “When we took stock of the PDP members coming to join us in each local government that constitute zone A; we realised that we got 3,000 in Lapai, 3,000 in Agaie, 4,000 in Katcha, 3,700 in Bida which has been our stronghold. The remaining ones in the PDP in Bida have now joined us,” he said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He however distanced APC from attacks on PDP campaign train in parts of the state, explaining that those who attacked PDP were its aggrieved members.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “We preach peace wherever we go,” Vatsa added.</div>

Over 20,000 Dump PDP for APC In Niger - Vatsa

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Buhari Opts For Town Hall Meetings

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBj-XdAC2NUQpf9vLxU6wgwsoMpiMgfm-UGG8O5XuLyqjrK-X3j0za89SrnZEh2fG2_-IxElRsSCBrw8Pea5h8BSQBSujbWuxFDLrwIfx5AkwTTZRcDFN2G6NoCURPqqdZOhW2-cC4uwt/s1600/Buhari1-653x365.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBj-XdAC2NUQpf9vLxU6wgwsoMpiMgfm-UGG8O5XuLyqjrK-X3j0za89SrnZEh2fG2_-IxElRsSCBrw8Pea5h8BSQBSujbWuxFDLrwIfx5AkwTTZRcDFN2G6NoCURPqqdZOhW2-cC4uwt/s1600/Buhari1-653x365.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Against the backdrop of its decision to stay out of presidential debates, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO), has announced the commencement of town hall meetings, as a deliberate strategy of the campaign ahead of the February 14 presidential poll during which General Muhammadu Buhari and his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo will interact and explain directly to citizens the policy thrust of their envisaged administration and how the set objectives will be achieved.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The APCPCO said in a statement in Abuja that the town hall meetings kicked off in Lagos on Monday with a robust interaction between Buhari/Osibanjo and the Organised Private Sector.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The statement signed by Mallam Garba Shehu, Director of Media and Publicity of the Campaign said that the party was compelled to chart this course because of the compelling need to have a person-to-person interactive sessions during which pertinent questions will be posed to the candidates and responses provided.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Our campaign decided to chart this path because we cannot afford to shy away from the more pressing urgency to have one-on-one interactions with Nigerians through town hall meetings,” Shehu said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The statement reads: “The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation wishes to announce the commencement of town hall meetings ahead of the February 14 presidential election.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Due to the more pressing urgency to have an open interaction with Nigerians, the campaign will be organising town hall meetings in different parts of the country.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “The town hall meetings kicked off today (Monday) in Lagos with a public interaction between the presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, his running mate Professor Yemi Osinbajo and representatives of Organised Private Sector.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “On Tuesday, the town hall meeting will hold in Kano with traders and market associations. Thereafter, the meeting will hold in Benin with labour and civil society leaders.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “The focus of the town hall meeting will then shift to Ibadan where students and youth groups will be engaging General Buhari and Professor Osinbajo, while Enugu and Port Harcourt will follow suit.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “The direction the that the campaign will be moving in the countdown to the election day is to have as many as possible person-to-person interactive sessions for Nigerians to hear directly from the presidential candidate and his running mate,” Shehu said.</div>

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[UPDATE] Bomb Blast After Jonathan's Campaign In Gombe

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj427KKL_S1F3ZdtFs8Vva-ulQqPP3wqlToBazC7ZULG_k7ZGbFhnHdwc87R44_bQi18JpScxwnCBd59qNv9WwqRrl9i4i-HO3cyr2wSezu0ttl00rrQCUk4lpONozNjX5K9Buur8hBDvY8/s1600/GEJ+GMB+Expl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj427KKL_S1F3ZdtFs8Vva-ulQqPP3wqlToBazC7ZULG_k7ZGbFhnHdwc87R44_bQi18JpScxwnCBd59qNv9WwqRrl9i4i-HO3cyr2wSezu0ttl00rrQCUk4lpONozNjX5K9Buur8hBDvY8/s1600/GEJ+GMB+Expl.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>A blast ripped through a car park outside a stadium in northeastern city of Gombe where President Goodluck Jonathan had addressed a re-election campaign rally on Monday, minutes after he left, witnesses told AFP.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Mohammed Bolari, who was at the rally in the northeastern city of Gombe, said the explosion happened at 3:10 pm (1410 GMT), just three minutes after Jonathan's departure.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A local reporter added: "The president had just passed the parking lot and we were trailing behind his convoy when the explosion happened... just 100 metres (yards) from the bus we were driving in."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> His appearance in the city came just a day after two blasts in the city, including one that targeted a military checkpoint. At least five people were killed.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> There was no claim of responsibility for Sunday's attacks but the city has been hit by suspected Boko Haram militants in the past and suspicion was likely to fall on the Islamist group.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Bolari said of the latest blast: "It is difficult to say how many people were affected because of the confused struggle by the huge crowd leaving the venue to escape for fear of another blast."</div>

[UPDATE] Bomb Blast After Jonathan's Campaign In Gombe

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Buhari's Certificate Controversy A Dent On Nigeria - Momah

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmvulvDERX7aT-ZDkmL9AdxxkXvdKeQ55spp464yx8bMi-UajJ_bqd53Lk02UNuZZeAry54M-dqhBSPApVhxLheissIbcjADY4Ti-Lle2VZiS7d-_Xm2kPAdPp-14qaeKqSt7zcS0X1Z2a/s1600/BuhariFam79.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmvulvDERX7aT-ZDkmL9AdxxkXvdKeQ55spp464yx8bMi-UajJ_bqd53Lk02UNuZZeAry54M-dqhBSPApVhxLheissIbcjADY4Ti-Lle2VZiS7d-_Xm2kPAdPp-14qaeKqSt7zcS0X1Z2a/s1600/BuhariFam79.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Raging controversy over the educational qualification of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to contest this month’s Presidential election has been described as a dent on Nigeria and not the former Head of State.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A former Minister of Science and Technology, Gen. Sam Momah, who made the call in an interview with <b><a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/certificate-controversy-dent-nigeria-not-buhari-momah/">Vanguard</a></b> yesterday, warned those questioning Buhari’s qualification to bury their heads in shame for trying to denigrate Nigeria before the world.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Momah, who had worked in several formations in the Nigerian Army and as a Principal Staff Officer to Buhari when he was the General Officer Commanding 4th Division in Lagos, described as despicable the current attempt to disparage the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The former minister said it was wrong for some politicians to demonise Buhari, who had undergone several strategic military and educational trainings at home and abroad, including the prestigious United States War College obtaining a Higher Diploma.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Describing the controversy over Buhari’s certificate as ridiculous, Momah said the action of the promoters of the matter was clearly aimed at distracting Nigerians from the main issues at stake, which they should explain to Nigerians.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Momah said: “Those accusing Buhari of not having the qualification to contest election are simply doing so to distract him. Buhari is one of Nigeria’s best Generals who has trained up to the American War College, graduating with a post graduate diploma.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “I, therefore, find it very petty and offensive for some elements to begin to make noise about Buhari’s qualifications. The people behind this very shameful act should note that they are ignorantly denigrating Nigeria and not Buhari.”</div>

Buhari's Certificate Controversy A Dent On Nigeria - Momah

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Daniel Inaugurates Jonathan's Campaign Team In Ogun

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVWcS27zm_bjejMAhPCxLIb_7TAHL1cI0z1raN48kfMdIPhgHL_qAr7Tf9yOMHaxg0YFT6pTOA7i5DZP7hEV99H9qzpadmzlUovAZYHCUJfl6NMRn0Zr4s1VvAat7xjgqMBWq5u3fGhIPg/s1600/Gbenga-Daniel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVWcS27zm_bjejMAhPCxLIb_7TAHL1cI0z1raN48kfMdIPhgHL_qAr7Tf9yOMHaxg0YFT6pTOA7i5DZP7hEV99H9qzpadmzlUovAZYHCUJfl6NMRn0Zr4s1VvAat7xjgqMBWq5u3fGhIPg/s1600/Gbenga-Daniel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>A former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has said President Goodluck Jonathan, is one of the best performing presidents in the history of the country, and should be re-elected in the February 14 election.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said this while inaugurating the state’s President Goodluck Jonathan/Sambo Presidential Campaign Organisation Advisory Committee at party secretariat, Onikolobo, Abeokuta.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The <b><a href="http://www.punchng.com/news/daniel-inaugurates-campaign-team-woos-voters-for-jonathan/">PUNCH</a></b> reports that the 22-member committee is headed by Segun Seriki, while members include a former Speaker, House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole; former Speaker, Ogun State House of Assembly, Titi Oseni; and Senator Jubril Martins Kuye among others.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Daniel said President Jonathan had rejuvenated the railway system, carried out extensive road construction and other infrastructural development across the country.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said, “The Peoples Democratic Party has become one in this state. We must all vote for President Goodluck Jonathan. He is one of the best performing presidents in the (history of the) country.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “When we were young and we were to go on excursion, we travelled by train from Idogo, passing through Ijoko, Agege among others. The rail system suddenly went into a coma. It is President Jonathan that revived it.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “On road construction, we must give it to Jonathan. We can all see the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, and the Sagamu-Benin-Ore Road. What about the renovation and construction of airports? He also established more higher institutions in the country.”</div>

Daniel Inaugurates Jonathan's Campaign Team In Ogun

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