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Short Holiday Abroad After May 29 For The Jonathans

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<b>Immediately after handing over power to the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, on May 29, 2015, President Goodluck Jonathan will embark on a short break outside the shores of the country.</b></div>
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An insider in the Presidency who disclosed this added that Jonathan would, after the break, return to help rebuild the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).</div>
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According to the source, Jonathan disclosed this during a closed-door meeting with members of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) on Wednesday, adding that he will be travelling with members of his immediate family.</div>
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In the course of the meeting, Jonathan requested members of the PDP to put the recent electoral loss behind them, disclosing that even some of his close aides did not vote during the elections.</div>
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He expressed optimism that PDP would bounce back, adding that he would make the trip abroad with his family and return to politics, although not immediately.</div>
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The insider went on to reveal that the meeting was organised to address the current crisis within the PDP due to calls for the resignation of party chairman, Adamu Mu’azu and other members of the National Working Committee, NWC.</div>
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Some PDP chieftains have been blaming Mu’azu for the party’s electoral loss, with Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, accusing him of sabotaging the party in favour of the All Progressives Congress, APC.</div>
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Immediately after handing over power to the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, on May 29, 2015, President Goodluck Jonathan will embark...

APC's Delay In Zoning National Assembly Offices Dangerous - Sani

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<b>An All Progressives Congress (APC) senator-elect, Shehu Sani, has warned the party of the danger posed by the delay in adopting a zoning formula for the office the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, warning that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) might hijack the process to its advantage.</b></div>
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The APC, which will form the majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, is yet to zone the positions of the Senate President and the Speaker of the House as well as their deputies, barely three weeks to the inauguration of the 5th session of the National Assembly.</div>
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There are however speculations that the party might zone the Senate Presidency to either the North Central or North East zones while the office of the Speaker might go to the South West.</div>
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Consequently, a former Governor of Kwara State, Bukola Saraki, and a former Governor of Benue State, George Akume, as well as Ahmed Lawan from Yobe State are campaigning for the position.</div>
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All three are ranking senators of the All Progressives Congress.</div>
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There is no elected APC senator from the South-East and South-South zones although the party's national chairman hails from the latter.</div>
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The president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, is from the North West while his deputy hails from the South West.</div>
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Mr. Sani, who will represent Kaduna Central Senatorial District, said the failure of the party to determine which zone should produce the presiding officers is not only giving the PDP confidence that it could negotiate for anything, but has also divided the APC senators, both serving and incoming.</div>
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He said: “There are three consequences of this delay. First, it has divided the APC senators and members of the House of Representatives into different camps. This is dangerous because the implication is that we may have a divided house.</div>
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“Secondly, it is building acrimony, discontent and suspicion among the APC members and as a result the interest of the party is becoming secondary.</div>
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“Thirdly, the PDP is using this division to extract commitment from the contestants. That is to say if they back a candidate and if the candidate wins they will get what under normal circumstance they don't deserve.”</div>
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Mr. Sani said the race for the National Assembly seat is being influenced by some external forces in readiness for the 2019 general elections, stressing “what you see now is the voice of Jacob and the hand of Esau.”</div>
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He stated that some of the candidates are already making claims of being backed by some top party leaders, including that of Mr. Buhari.</div>
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He however expressed joy that the statement by the president-elect in which he said he was ready to work with anybody elected as the presiding officer of any of the chambers had put to rest speculations that he (Buhari) was backing a particular candidate for the Senate Presidency.</div>
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He added: “I think the problem with the selection of the leadership of the National Assembly is the problem of politics of 2019. There are forces outside the Senate that are interested in the leadership that will control the Senate for their own interest.</div>
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“The division within the APC and the refusal of APC to be categorical on zoning is giving the PDP the confidence to do things and blackmail it.</div>
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“APC must put its house in order or else we may end up with a poisonous choice. Somebody has to call the three contestants and sit them down to sort things out.</div>
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Mr. Sani explained that although the APC was yet to zone the National Assembly positions, he and some other senators-elect on the party’s platform, attended the meeting convened by Mr. Saraki, on Tuesday night because they were free to associate with anybody.</div>
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At the meeting were the chairman of the PDP Governors Forum and senator-elect from Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, and the other two senators from the state, Bassey Albert and Nelson Effiong, Andy Uba from Anambra State, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State and senator-elect for Abia Central Senatorial District and Shehu Sani from Kaduna Central Senatorial District.</div>
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“For now since the party has not zoned it, it means that any senator is free to attend any meeting or multiple meetings,” he said.</div>
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“If the party makes its position known, there are people who will naturally step down from the race. A lot of heat is being built by the contestants. The APC in the National Assembly is divided. Once the party makes its position known the activities will be gravitated towards the zone.”</div>
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Meanwhile, the National Chairman, John Oyegun, said there was nothing to worry about the delay in making official pronouncement on the zoning formula for the National Assembly position.</div>
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“There is nothing to worry about,” he said. “The party is in charge. The party knows what to do. It is a hard won victory and no member hand over this victory to another person.”</div>
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APC's Delay In Zoning National Assembly Offices Dangerous - Sani

An All Progressives Congress (APC) senator-elect, Shehu Sani, has warned the party of the danger posed by the delay in adopting a zonin...

I Have No Plans To Leave PDP For APC - Dickson

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<b>Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa on Thursday denied that he was planning to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).</b></div>
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Mr. Dickson was responding to Wednesday's defection comment by the outgoing Senator representing Bayelsa-East Senatorial District, Clever Ikisikpo, who claimed that the Governor will soon join APC.</div>
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The lawmaker, while announcing his defection from the PDP, alongside other lawmakers from Bayelsa at the APC national secretariat on Wednesday, said Mr. Dickson will soon defect to the APC.</div>
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Mr. Dickson described Mr. Ikisikpo's claim as uncharitable.</div>
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In a statement issued on Thursday in Yenagoa by the his spokesperson, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, the Governor berated Mr. Ikisikpo for his comments.</div>
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Mr. Dickson said the comments were made out of frustration.</div>
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"Ikisikpo wants to dignify his perfidy and rope Governor Dickson into his dubious defection scheme," the statement said.</div>
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"A man who rose from relative obscurity through the platform of the PDP from 1999 as House of Assembly member and later to the National Assembly. And serving as a two term member of the green chambers and from there rose on the shoulders of President Goodluck Jonathan to the Senate.</div>
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"He could not even as a mark of honour and respect, wait for the President, his benefactor, kinsman and leader of a political party that gave him so much, to leave office before defecting to the APC.</div>
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"It shows the height of desperation, treachery, mischief and blackmail perpetrated by some of the so-called PDP leaders, who worked to deny the party victory at the polls even against one of their own.</div>
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"As a government, we are not surprised at Ikisikpo's action and others like him. In fact, the public should expect many more defections in the days to come from those, who worked against the party in the State Assembly elections.</div>
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"It is pertinent to state that their leaving the party is of no consequence to the fortunes. We want to assure them that posterity will be the judge."</div>
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I Have No Plans To Leave PDP For APC - Dickson

Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa on Thursday denied that he was planning to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progres...

We'll Zone, But Won't Impose Speaker, Senate President - APC

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<b>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it has not discarded the principle of zoning in determining the leadership of the National Assembly, but assured it will not impose anybody for the positions of Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives.</b></div>
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The National Chairman of the party, John Oyegun, stated this while clarifying the position of the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, on the choice of the presiding officers of both chambers of the National Assembly.</div>
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Mr. Oyegun said the party would merely guide the Senators and the House of Representatives on where to choose their leaders from, but would not be involved in the process of who deciding who becomes what.</div>
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Mr. Buhari had in a statement on Wednesday, said he was ready to work with anybody who emerges as the Senate President or the Speaker of the House of Representatives.</div>
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The remarks fuelled speculations the party may be discarding the zoning principle, to allow the lawmakers choose from any part of the country.</div>
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"What General Muhammadu Buhari said does not contradict our position on the zoning of the offices," Mr. Oyegun told <i><b>PREMIUM TIMES</b></i> in a telephone interview Thursday.</div>
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"What is certain is that members of the Senate and the House of Representations are the only one who can choose their leaders. We are going to advise them on where they will choose their leaders for obvious reasons. Then it is for them to choose their leaders.</div>
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"The party cannot name people for them, but for the sake of balancing we will advise them on where they should choose their leaders."</div>
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Speaking against the background of Kano State Governor and Senator-elect, Rabiu Kwankwanso's expressed fear that APC may lose the leadership of the National Assembly to the Peoples Democratic Party (APC) as it continues to dilly-dally over the subject, Mr. Oyegun said that it would be impossible for PDP take over the legislative arm of government.</div>
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APC will not allow it, he assured.</div>
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Also speaking with PREMIUM TIMES, the APC spokesperson, Lai Mohammed, said the party has not made any decision on zoning as far as positions of National Assembly leaders are concerned.</div>
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"As of now, I am telling you officially that we (APC) have no position on zoning," Mr. Mohammed said.</div>
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Also, one of the leading contenders for the position of Speaker who asked that he should not be mentioned, said he was confident the leadership of the party would conclude on zoning next Monday or Tuesday, thereby confirming Mr. Mohammed's position that the party has no decision on zoning yet.</div>
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Meanwhile, different individuals in the party hierarchy said the party had concluded on its decision concerning zoning.</div>
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They, however, differed in terms of which zone takes what.</div>
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A member of the APC National Executive Committee, who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, said the party had concluded on zoning.</div>
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According to this source, the positions of the Senate President and the House Speaker go to the North Central and North East respectively and that "those promoting the propaganda that South-West has the speaker are Gbajabiamila people."</div>
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On the contrary, two members of the House of Representatives, Abdullahi Garba and Aliyu Madaki, said that with the information they had but which had not been made public yet, the party had concluded on zoning.</div>
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While Mr. Madaki only said the South-West had been given the position of Speaker, Mr. Garba said the position of Speaker and Senate President had been zoned to the South-West and North-East respectively.</div>
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They argued that it is not possible for the North to have the positions of the President of the country, president of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives.</div>
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<b>For saying that he will not forgive killers and arsonists, National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday urged the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, to see himself as a father of the nation who should live like late South Africa President, Nelson Mandela.</b></div>
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Speaking with Journalists yesterday in Abuja, PDP Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus who was apparently responding to General Buhari’s comment when some stakeholders and traditional rulers from Rivers State visited him Wednesday, said that as the President-elect, he should comment as a father on issues that may be brought before him, rather than take sides especially on issues awaiting adjudication and before a panel of inquiry or the judiciary.</div>
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According to PDP, Buhari should endeavour to deal with such issues with passion of a father to all irrespective of party affiliation, adding that such utterances do not portray him as an elder statesman.</div>
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Secondus said: "the utterances of the President-elect when he received a delegation of some traditional rules from Rivers State do not portray him as a statesman. He is the president-elect and indeed the father of all. He should exercise caution and restraints in some issues, especially when such issues are still in court.</div>
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"The election tribunals in the country and even in Rivers State have just commenced sitting and unguarded statements could be seen as prejudicial and give negative signals.</div>
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"The president-elect should emulate the late President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela who assumed office as president of South Africa at such a critical time in the history of South Africa.”</div>
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The PDP Deputy National Chairman who noted that it was unfair for Buhari to make such claims and statements when the issues involved, including the integrity of the governorship election in the State was subject of election tribunal, said: "He is the president-elect and soon to be sworn in as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and not the president of the APC."</div>
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President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari had said on Wednesday that he will not forget or forgive perpetrators of violence before, during and after the recent governorship elections in Rivers State.</div>
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Buhari spoke when the Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) paid him a congratulatory visit in Abuja, adding that he owed the people a duty to ensure justice in the land, also assured that every Nigerian deserved respect and dignity.</div>
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He had said: "We will confront them with facts and figures. We will not forgive and we will not forget those who perpetrated killings and arson in Rivers State during the elections. At least this is the much we owe Nigerians."</div>
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<b>Hundreds of graduate trainees under the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) in Kaduna on Thursday held the State Governor, Mukhtar Yero, hostage over unpaid five-month allowances.</b></div>
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Although the target of the protest, <i><b>The PUNCH</b></i> correspondent gathered, was Yero, who narrowly escaped the anger of the placard-carrying youths. The youths besieged the venue of the inauguration event of the distribution of cheques to benefiaciaries of the ₦1 billion partnership fund between the state government and Bank of Industry (BoI).</div>
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The governor was represented by his Deputy, Nuhu Bajoga, at the event.</div>
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The protesters, who completed SMEDAN training since January this year, beat the security to find their way to the late Gen. Hassan Katsina House, Kawo, Kaduna, venue of the event.</div>
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At about 1.25pm, the aggrieved trainee graduates forced themselves into the main hall where they expected to see the governor himself but were disappointed that the deputy represented him.</div>
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Not done, the youths opted to disrupt the speech of the Deputy Governor.</div>
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As the written speech of the governor was read by the deputy, the protesting youths shouted him down.</div>
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They chanted solidarity songs, “What we are saying, give us our money!” to distract the listening guests.</div>
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The development forced the programme to end abruptly.</div>
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Government officials and other guests from the BoI at the ocassion had to rush into waiting vehicles to leave the venue of the event.</div>
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Inscription on some of the placards displayed by the protesters read: "SMEDAN programme is a fraud"; "This is 419"; "Give us our entitlements"; "We have not been paid any kobo but the state government said it has paid us; it is a lie"; and "You cannot use us and dump us, we are tired of this government."</div>
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A leader of the SMEDAN trainees, Abdulraman Salihu, said since they completed their training, the government had failed to pay them.</div>
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He said the trainees were entitled to ₦1bn across the state but till date none of them had received anything.</div>
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Salihu said: "We finished training since January this year, but the government refused to pay us and what we are hearing from people is that we have been paid, but nobody paid us any kobo.</div>
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"We are entitled to one billion Naira across the state, but up till now we have not been paid."</div>
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