Appointing Fani- Kayode As Campaign Manager Was Our Biggest Mistake - PDP



Ben Onyechere spoke unwell of Mr Femi Fani-Kayode During a live program on Channels TV, after the presenter put Mr Ben Onyechere, a member of PDP on phone in discussing what is next for PDP.

During the interview, the presenter asked Mr Onyechere if PDP would be able to be a strong opposition party against APC government after May 29 as President Jonathan has accepted defeat.

In response to the question, he said it was the party’s mistakes that caused them the loss. He went on to say that someone like Fani-Kayode shouldn’t have been appointed as Chairman of President Jonathan’s Media and Publicity campaign team.

Mr Onyechere condemned Fani-Kayode’s approaches before the election, stressing that he went too far in attacking and abusing General Muhammadu Buhari, and this cost them a lot. Fani-kayode was using the bad experience he had while in APC to campaign and it damaged a lot and you don’t expect to win such election.

The angry Mr. Onyechere further said that even the chairman of the party Adamu Mu’azu should be discharge of his position for losing presidential election in his state.

In all, there are many politicians who failed Jonathan, some by mistake but a lot of them intentionally

Jega Gets ‘Certificate Of Commendation’ From President Obama



The manner Prof Attahiru Jega white-washed Elder Godsday Orubebe at the collation centre for presidential poll in Abuja after he put up a rascally conducted has attracted international recognition.

President Barack Obama of the United States of America has commended the INEC chairman over the way the Presidential and National Assembly elections were credibly conducted on March 28.

Obama, who awarded the INEC boss with a “Certificate of Commendation” for his outstanding and sterling performance, said what the Professor of Political Science had done deserves replication by all.

President Obama was represented by the US Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle

 

Atiku Abubakar Reacts To Arsenal’s Victory Over Liverpool Using APC’s Slogan



The former VP who is an ardent supporter of Arsenal reacted to his club’s 4-1 victory over Liverpool using APC’s slogan .

See what he posted grin grin grin

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Full Text Of President Jonathan’s Easter Message To Nigerians



President Goodluck Jonathan has felicitated with Nigerian Christians as they celebrate this year’s Easter, urging them to be prepared and willing to make sacrifices for greater unity, peace, political stability and progress in our beloved country.

President Jonathan, according to an Easter message personally signed by him, called on Nigerians to seize the opportunity of the Easter holiday to reflect deeply on what more they need to do as a people, to ensure that the political process the nation is currently engaged is successfully concluded and that the country continues to move towards a better future for all of its citizens.

Below is the full text of the message:
Fellow citizens,

I greet you all, especially our Christian brothers and sisters, as we celebrate Easter in commemoration of the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

For Christians all over the world, the major lessons of Easter, which we celebrate this year in the midst of general elections in our nation, are to be found in the Messiah’s Divine love and glorious self-sacrifice for the redemption of mankind.

This year’s celebration of Easter is taking place at a period of very critical national choices and decisions, during which we must all be prepared and willing to make sacrifices for greater unity, peace, political stability and progress in our beloved country.

We must therefore seize the opportunity of the Easter holiday to reflect deeply on what more we need to do as a people, to ensure that the political process in which we are currently engaged is successfully concluded and that our beloved country, Nigeria continues to move towards a better future for all of its citizens.

Happily, we have already successfully scaled the hurdle of the Presidential and National Assembly Elections. I am quite hopeful that the Gubernatorial and State Assembly elections will also be conducted peacefully.

To the glory and pride of our fatherland, our collective actions since March 28 have assured the world that the democratic spirit is alive and well in our nation.

By the grace of God, our beloved nation, Nigeria is moving forward despite all challenges.

Let us all pray this Easter, that God Almighty who has brought us this far, will continue to bless our nation as we march onward towards the fulfillment of our collective vision of a truly united, strong and prosperous nation.

I wish you all very happy Easter celebrations.

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR
President,
Federal Republic of Nigeria
April 4, 2015

Lil Wayne Bluntly Explains How His Feelings About Cash Money

We aren’t privy to what’s going on behind the scenes between Lil Wayne’s lawyers and Birdman’s lawyers.

But judging from what Weezy said last night in Jacksonville, Florida during one of his Sorry 4 The Wait 2 release parties there is still a whole lot of animosity.
“I’m about to turn you’ll up for a second,” Wayne told the crowd. “You have a note of this. Free Weezy album coming soon. Tha Carter V coming soon. Fuck Cash Money!”

The crowd was delighted by Wayne’s blunt words, with some repeating them back. Check out Weezy’s defiant declaration:

 



And now a word from #lilwayne


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Kendrick Lamar Engaged To Whitney Alford

The King of New York has officially found his queen! Kendrick Lamar confirmed on Friday, April 3, that he is engaged to his high school sweetheart Whitney Alford.

The celebrated rapper, 27, was speaking to Power 105.1’s Breakfast Club show about his new album To Pimp a Butterfly when he was asked about rumors that he and Alford are planning a wedding.

Famously quiet about his private life, Lamar took the chance to acknowledge that he is, in fact, engaged.

Asked outright by The Breakfast Club DJs if he and Alford are engaged, Lamar said simply, “Yeah, yeah, definitely… I’m loyal to the soil.”

When the radio hosts extended their congratulations, he added, “[I] appreciate that.”

“At the end of the day, you want to always, always have real people around you, period,” the Grammy winner added of his commitment to his future wife.

“Whether it’s male or female, and everybody that’s been around me, they’ve been around since day one… I always show respect when respect has been given, and people that have been by your side, you’re supposed to honor that.”

The “King Kunta” performer has been dating Alford for about 10 years, beginning a relationship with his now-fiancée when they were both in high school

The Phone Call That Save Nigeria – BBC




The editor of the BBC, Mansur Liman, explains how he broke the story of the historic phone call from Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan to admit election defeat – and how it almost didn’t happen.

I was at the election results centre in the capital, Abuja, and at around 17:00 (16:00GMT) the votes from all but three states had been declared.

Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate for the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), had the lead over incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.

During a break in the results, it became obvious to me that the lead was unassailable and I began wondering about what was going on in the APC camp. Were they celebrating or still anxiously waiting?

Going by previous Nigerian elections, when rigging and results fiddling has allegedly taken place, nothing could be taken for granted.

It turns out that so many calls were coming through that there was no time to answer them all – and Gen Buhari did not even know where his phone was.

I thought that there would still be some more bumps on the road, given the passion in the campaign and the fact that a governing People’s Democratic Party official had already tried to halt the count.

I have a lot of contacts within Gen Buhari’s circle and I know him personally so I decided to try and call someone who I knew would be with him to find out the mood.

After he missed my call, and I missed his response, I eventually got through.
‘Unimaginable’

I asked him what was going on, given that there was no way President Jonathan could win and I was surprised by the response.

He told me that Gen Buhari had just received a phone call from his rival, in which the president conceded and congratulated him.

I did not doubt that this was true as I trusted my source, but given what has happened before in Nigeria, this kind of concession was up to that point unimaginable.

I was pretty sure that I was the first journalist to get the story so as soon as I got off the phone I alerted the BBC’s election desk and tweeted the details.

There were, of course, people who were very concerned about what could happen if the result was contested.

And I have since discovered that members of the National Peace Committee, which is headed by former President Abdulsalami Abubakar, visited President Jonathan as the results were being announced.

I understand they were the ones who persuaded the president to do something to avoid any trouble, and shortly after the visit he made the call.
‘Pick up the phone’

But even making the call was not straight forward. I heard later that the president could not actually get through to Gen Buhari.

He rang all the numbers he had for people in his camp, but no-one answered.

It turns out that so many calls were coming through that there was no time to answer them all – and Gen Buhari did not even know where his phone was.

President Jonathan resorted to sending a messenger round to his rival’s house to tell him that the president wanted to speak to him. And that he should pick up the phone the next time he tried to call.

By making that call the president saved Nigeria a great deal of pain. If the PDP had insisted that they had won the election, and the APC had said the same, the country would have been in chaos.

Lives would have been lost and property would have been destroyed. That call showed that in Nigeria, people can put the country first.

I have heard from PDP supporters that the president took the decision to make the call without consulting anyone. They told me that if he had talked to some of his advisers, they would have objected.

Source: BBC
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