Patience Jonathan’s Visit To Ekiti State [See Photos]




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First Lady , Patience Jonathan visited Ekiti state today . She was received by Gov. Ayo Fayose, Prince Dayo Adeyeye and Ekiti State First Lady on her arrival .

The people of Ekiti State welcomed her with their rich culture and heritage during her visit .

Mrs. Jonathan also paid a courtesy visit to the Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe Aladesanmi III.

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Buhari’s Wife’s Convoy Reportedly Attacked In Ilorin This Evening

 

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The convoy of Mrs Aisha Buhari, the wife of APC Presidential candidate was reportedly attacked by some hoodlums around a film house along Emir road in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital this evening.

According to a statement by APC Chairman in Kwara state, Alhaji Balogun Fulani, 10 vehicles in her convoy were vandalized. Continue to read the statement posted on Bukola Saraki’s Facebook wall. Meanwhile, Mrs Buhari and her women reached their destination in tact.



I’m Not Ready To Feed My Husband In Prison



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Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has said she is not ready to feed her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan, in prison.

The President’s wife spoke in Ado Ekiti, on Monday, during the rally of the women’s wing of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Making a reference to the All Progressives Congress, she asked, “What did they forget in Aso rock? If you vote PDP and Jonathan, it would be better for you. If you vote APC, you will go to prison. How can you jail somebody for 300 years? I’m not ready to carry food to my husband inside prison oh!”

She openly admitted that the Office of the First Lady, which she occupies, is illegal.

She, however, said there was nothing wrong in a woman supporting her husband in office.

She said, “They said there is no Office of the First Lady. Already, we know that there is no Office of the First Lady but there is wife of the President.

“As (the) wife of the President, if you are good, people will love you. You will have a Non-Governmental Organisation through which you will touch people’s lives. That is why I brought Women for Change Initiative.”

While she was talking, women – both old and young – fought to have their share of the leftover of rice distributed by Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, during the last Christmas festival, packaged in small bags.

The women were still struggling over the rice packaged in small bags when attention was diverted to another struggle for buckets presented by Senator Gbemi Saraki in commemoration of the October 16 inauguration of Fayose.

In the struggle, which almost resulted in a stampede, many of the women got injured.

Shoes, headgears, wigs and bags littered the floor while a woman was heard complaining to a friend that she lost her bangle.

Security men had a hectic time controlling the surging women who engaged in a brawl.

Mrs. Jonathan described APC as a poison, saying, “If you drink APC, you will die.”

Accusing the party of having to change name several times, she said, “Since my father was born, they have been around changing from one name to another. Very soon they would answer Ebola. The name can’t change you; it is only performance that can change you. If you like change it 100 times.

“Nigerian women shine your eyes, don’t go for analogue, go for digital. PDP is digital, APC is analogue.

Fayose at the event took a swipe at former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying his tacit support for the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhamadu Buhari (retd.), would get him nowhere.

“After Jonathan, the North can have their own eight years. Whether they like it or not, whether that our baba, you know him, whether he tore his card or not, whether he ate the card or not, Buhari is going nowhere,” he declared.

“Goodluck is our own. He is coming back. I am carrying the madate of a people who believe in me. If they do elections here 20 times, I will win,” he boasted.

Mrs. Jonathan said it was time for the women to pay back her husband for appointing several women into positions of authority.

“This is the time to say thank you so that he will do more. Those people when they were there, they said we didn’t have brains. Jonathan came and lifted us from where we were lying helplessly.”

She urged the women to collect their Permanent Voter Cards and vote massively for the president.

“PDP is not a party that tells lies. Whatever we promise to do, we do. We are not a propagandist party. Ekiti women, your mother is here and I will not tell you lies, but the truth.

“Nigerian women shine your eyes o! Vote with what you have seen, who you already know and who has performed. If anyone is telling you change, they are deceiving you.

“These were people that when they were there before Goodluck Jonathan, they did not count you women as anything. But today, PDP has wiped away our tears. Jonathan has wiped off our tears. He has fulfilled his promise of giving women 35 per cent participation. He gave 16 seats to women out of 42 slots in his cabinet. He is a performer.”

Earlier, over 100 wives of Ekiti monarchs welcomed the President’s wife to the palace of the Ewi of Ado Ekiti, where seven of them prayed for her while she knelt down in their midst.

Speaking through the wife of the Ewi, Mrs. Abosede Adejugbe, the wives of the monarchs appealed to the President’s wife to extend the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme to Ekiti State fully.

She assured her of total support in the coming general election.

The wife of the Ewi also called on six other ‘oloris’ in addition to herself to pray for Mrs. Jonathan, describing seven as a powerful number.
Source:- Punch

Photo Of PDP Members Returning Their Cards In Katsina

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Tsunami of change hits Katsina as PDP members in their hundreds return their party membership cards to d secretariat.

Diapers-Wearing Buhari Funded With Corruption Can't Fight Corruption - Fayose

Diapers-Wearing Buhari Funded With Corruption Can't Fight Corruption - Fayose


 


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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described claim by the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate that he will fight corruption if elected as president as the height of deceit, saying; "a diapers-wearing old man surrounded and being funded by notoriously corrupt people cannot fight corruption."

The governor, who said Buhari must first fight his own personal corruption and health issues before talking about fighting corruption in Nigeria, added that; "President Goodluck Jonathan is already fighting corruption by allowing rule of law to thrive, and this was acknowledged by the Transparency International (TI), which rated Nigeria as the 39th most corruption country in the world in 2014 as against the most corrupt country and second most corrupt country in the world that Nigeria was rated in 2001 and 2003 respectively."

According to a statement issued on behalf of the governor by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, "If Buhari cannot be above board on issues regarding his academic certificates and health status; he should as well tell the story of his plan to fight corruption to the marines."

The governor said; "I have listened to Buhari saying everywhere he goes that 'I will fight corruption, I will fight corruption, I will corruption' as if that statement was pre-recorded in his brain and it's just being played back. Today again, the only word that came out of Buhari's mouth was 'I will fight corruption'.

"Can a man like Buhari who can hardly do anything on his own because of ill-health fight anything? Can a man, who is contending with wearing diapers when he wants to sleep fight mosquitos not to talk of corruption?

"Can a man, whose election is being funded with money from questionable sources fight corruption? Or is Buhari telling us that he also borrowed money to run his campaigns the way he 'borrowed' N27 million to obtain his party nomination form?

"Most importantly, is Buhari going to fight corruption by jailing people for 400, 300, 200 and 100 years like he did when he was Head of State? Is he going to just dumped people in detention the way he dumped our illustrious fathers like late Chief Adekunle Ajasin, late Chief Bisi Onabanjo, Alhaji Lateef Jakande and late Chief Bola Ige, all of whom served Yorubaland diligently by giving us free education and free health?

"I think Buhari should just face other issues and stop this replay of 'I will fight corruption' that was obviously recorded in his brain because President Jonathan is already fighting corruption and that has been acknowledged by the Transparency International (TI), which placed Nigeria as 39th most corruption country in the world in 2014 as against the second most corrupt country that Nigeria was rated in 2003.

"It is a fact that in year 2000, Transparency International rated Nigeria as the most corrupt country in the world and the country only improved marginally in 2001 and 2003 when it was rated the second most corrupt nation in the world. It was only under the President Jonathan's government that Nigeria made steady improvement in Corruption Perception Index (CPI) by becoming the 31st most corrupt country in 2013 and 39th in 2014.

"So, Buhari should tell us what else he intends to fight because under President Jonathan, corruption is already being fought, using global best practices."






APC, Fayemi Lack Moral Rights To Oppose Jega’s Removal – Fayose

APC, Fayemi Lack Moral Rights To Oppose Jega’s Removal – Fayose


Governor Ayodele Fayose Of Ekiti State has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of the state, Dr Kayode Fayemi, do not have moral rights to oppose any move to remove the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega.

Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka, the governor noted that “asking Jega to go on his mandatory terminal leave is not the same as sacking him; more so that his tenure would lapse in June and he is entitled to three months terminal leave.”

He said the APC must tell Nigerians what has changed in Jega’s handling of elections since the party was led by General Mohammadu Buhari, Senator Bola Tinubu and others on a street protest in Abuja on November 28, 2013 to call for the sack of the INEC Chairman and the entire management of the electoral commission after the Anambra State governorship election.

The governor said; “Nigerians must ask Buhari, Tinubu and other APC leaders, who led street protest against Jega, carrying placards with inscriptions such as; ‘INEC not fit to conduct 2015 election,’ ‘2015, no hope with Jega,’ what has changed about Jega’s credibility.

“Has the same Jega that they said cannot conduct the 2015 elections seized from being a bad person? “APC lost the Anambra election and took to the streets in Abuja, calling for Jega’s head, is the INEC boss now doing their biddings because the APC will only stand against any individual or organisation that refused to be corrupted? “No doubt, the hullaballoo of the APC and its agents concerning Jega’s position is suspect.”

On Fayemi’s position, the governor said; “it is laughable that the same Fayemi, who, as Ekiti State governor sacked the vice chancellor and two deputy vice chancellors of the state university, as well as chairmen and members of statutory commissions is the one sermonizing about legality or otherwise of asking Jega to proceed on terminal leave.”

“Fayemi, as governor, sacked democratically elected local council chairmen and councillors; killing Chief Adeleye Awolumate in the process of enforcing his illegal action, he sacked the Ekiti State University Vice Chancellor, Prof Dipo Kolawole via radio announcement, and dissolved statutory boards and commissions.

Even when courts ruled that his actions were illegal and unconstitutional, he refused to reinstate them.

“Isn’t it shameful and hypocritical that the same Fayemi is the one saying his party was fighting against the move to remove Jega because it amounted to breach of the law?”

Boko Haram Out of Adamawa



Boko Haram Out of Adamawa



The Nigerian army has successfully rid Adamawa state of the Boko Haram insurgents, a Thursday report confirmed.

This was contained in an announcement by the director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade when he said that Madagali, a former Boko Haram stronghold, was the last area in the state under terrorist control and now it has been reclaimed by multi-national troops.

He also said that the Nigerian forces suffered no casualties in the operation.

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