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Atiku Abubakar: Timeline of a serial defector

By: Bhodemarz on November 25, 2017 / comment : 0 , , , ,

A former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Friday announced his withdrawal from the governing All Progressives Congress, APC.
In Friday’s announcement, Mr. Abubakar said he was still pondering his next political move. But if he ends up returning to the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party as he is widely expected to do, it will be the third time that Mr. Abubakar will be returning to the party after defecting to other parties.
He was a founding member of the PDP in 1998.
1999-2006.
Mr. Abubakar was elected governor of his home state, Adamawa, in 1999 on the PDP ticket.
Before he could be sworn in as governor, he was picked as running mate by Olusegun Obasanjo who secured the PDP presidential ticket. The ticket proceeded to win the presidency, with Mr. Abubakar becoming Vice President from May 29, 1999 and for a second term in 2003.
2006-2009.
Before the end of their second term, however, Mr. Abubakar left the PDP for the first time in 2006 and joined Action Congress, AC, after years of internal battle with Mr. Obasanjo.
The influence of Mr. Atiku in the PDP was systematically eroded through fresh membership registration that saw most of his supporters pushed out of the party, all in a bid by Mr. Obasanjo to ensure that he was not nominated as his successor.
Mr. Abubakar thus defected to pick the AC ticket to run for president in the 2007 election.
He was in AC from 2006 to 2009. Following disagreements with one of the leaders of the AC and former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, the former vice president dumped the AC and returned to the PDP in 2009.
2009-2013
Mr. Abubakar ran for the PDP presidential ticket in the 2011 election and lost to incumbent Goodluck Jonathan.
Following the success of the PDP in 2011 and the appointment of Bamanga Tukur as the national chairman of the PDP, the party was engulfed in a serious crisis.
Mr. Abubakar alongside seven governors eventually staged a walk out of a PDP national convention in August 2013, accusing the leadership of the party and then President Jonathan of impunity.
They eventually formed the ‘new PDP.’
2013-2017
After efforts to reconcile with the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP failed and their push to stop Mr. Jonathan from running for election also failed, Mr. Abubakar and five of the governors and others announced in November 2013 defected to the APC.
Mr. Abubakar and a former Kano State governor who was also in the ‘new PDP’, Rabiu Kwankwaso, ran for APC presidential ticket and lost to Muhammadu Buhari who eventually won the 2015 election.
Mr. Abubakar remained in the APC but has been consistently absent in many of the party’s activities at the national level.
The former vice president had complained that Mr. Buhari and the party had been side-lining him.
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Mr. Abubakar eventually defected from the APC on Thursday, November 24. Reports suggest that he has done so because he has received commitment of the PDP to give him its platform to again run for president in 2019.
The former vice president has, however, not formally declared for the PDP, nor has he declared he would run for the 2019 presidency although he is expected to do both.
Whether he will remain in PDP or his new party for long remains to be seen, given that he had announced on September 2014 that “As for me, as far as I am concerned, APC is my last bus stop.”


Source: Premium Times

2019 Election: Shekarau writes PDP, declares intention to run

By: Bhodemarz on October 26, 2017 / comment : 0 , , , ,

A former Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, has indicated interest to run for the presidency in 2019 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
His spokesperson, Sule Ya’u Sule, said Mr. Shekarau, who is also a former Governor of Kano State, sent a notification letter to the PDP of his intention to run.
The party’s spokesperson Dayo Adeyeye, in a text message this morning confirmed that the party received Shekarau’s letter of interest.
Mr. Sule said Mr. Shekarau has communicated his political ambition to various elders, community leaders, opinion leaders, political associates and religious leaders regardless of their ethnic and party affiliations.
“Malam Shekarau deliberately refused to make his ambition public because he does not want the relevant stakeholders to read it for the first time on the pages of newspapers. He first notified them before making it public. He is now making necessary consultations,” he said.
In a letter which he was said to have personally signed and sent to one of his political associates, Hassan Indabawa, dated August 22, 2017, Mr. Shekarau said after the 2015 general elections, there had been requests by individuals and groups from different quarters urging him to contest for the presidency in 2019.
Prior to this, former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, also sent a letter of notification PDP leaders and members on his interest and readiness to run for presidency in 2019.
The party has zoned the position to the north. Despite this, governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state in South-west Nigeria had declared interest in the position noting the aparthy (to declare) of prospective Northern candidates as one of the reasons for throwing his hat into the ring.

Source: PremiumTimesNG

Maina's Reinstatement: A Classical Example Of Honour Among Thieves -PDP

By: Bhodemarz on October 24, 2017 / comment : 0 , , ,

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that the return of the embattled former head of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina to public reckoning is a classical case "of honor among theives.”
The opposition party said ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, could not absolve itself from the mess generated by the controversial return and promotion of the civil servant, who is under investigation for alleged diversion of billions of pension funds.
The party which said this in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Mr Dayo Adeyeye, Monday condemned the action.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday directed the immediate dismissal of Maina, who absconded after being declared wanted for corruption, but was recently reinstated to a higher post.
But PDP appears not to be impressed.
“Birds of a feather flocks together. The party condemns this action of reinstating a supposed criminal and fugitive, Abdulrasheed Maina to office instead of getting himarrested.
“All people of good conscience will not forget in a hurry that Maina, who was given an assignment by the last PDP administration to superintend the now defunct Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, dipped his hands into the jar and helped himself to N100 billion of what he was supposed to safeguard.
“With good conscience at fighting corruption, PDP government then mandated the anti-corruption agencies to perform their constitutional duty. Maina fled, only to resurface in the country four months ago under Buhari Administration,” the party said.
“As a party of good conscience, we wish to condemn in strongest terms, the penchant of the administration of President Buhari to giving safe haven to known criminals while hoodwinking Nigerians that it is fighting corruption,” it added.
It called for the arrest and persecution of Maina and ”other criminals like him.”
“While we are growing fatigued shouting ourselves hoarse in protest against nepotism, a clear form of corruption under this administration which has been elevated to state craft, we are appalled that the reinforcement of financial corruption by this government might soon lead to the demise of this nation if the Celestial does not intervene.
“We are worried that the APC Administration seem to have grown thick skins to constructive criticism; otherwise, no sane government, in spite of the open condemnation the party has received from Nigerians over its shielding of criminals, will repeat another one as done in the case of Maina.
“PDP wishes Nigerians could demand from APC government, the civil service rule it relied upon in promoting a wanted criminal who had abandoned his duty post as an Assistant Director, to the position of a Director with all benefits attached.”
It asked President Buhari to act with dispatch on other corruption allegations against members of his government.
“Nigerians have not forgotten in a hurry how the so called corruption fighting Government of President Buhari refused to allow the law take its course in the graft allegations involving suspended Secretary to Government of the Federation, SGF Babachir Lawal and the Director-General of Nigeria Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ayo Oke.
“The Government seems to have also buried without shame, the expose by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Ibe Kachikwu on the illegal award of contracts running to over $25 billion by Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) who has told the World that he had the Support of President Buhari in carrying out the heist.
“Though we know that the APC is like a dead horse immune to any positive prompting; we however, will not do, but ask that the right thing be done.”


Source: reubenabati.com

PDP asks N/Assembly not to approve Buhari's $5.5 bn loan

By: Bhodemarz on October 13, 2017 / comment : 0 , , ,

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the National Assembly not to approve the $5.5 billion foreign loan being sought by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.
The party explained that the move was an attempt by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to plunge Nigeria into further debt and consciously mortgage the future of the nation.
The PDP in a statement Wednesday night by its national publicity secretary, Prince Dayo Adeyeye asked the government to account for all the monies it borrowed since assumption of office.
"As major stakeholders in the Nigerian Project, we are worried that if the National Assembly does not stop this latest demand for foreign loan, the money when released, will go the way of other loans obtained in the last two years without any tangible result to show for it.
"For emphasis, we are dismayed at the rate by which the APC is plunging the nation into debt through local and foreign borrowingwithout concomitant developmental projects in any sphere of the nation's ‎economy to justify the huge borrowing.
"The figure released recently by the Debt Management Office (DMO) stating that the nation under the administration of the APC government in the last two years of being in office, has borrowed N7.51 trillion. It is mind-boggling.
"Mind boggling because all round infrastructural decay has now reached alarming proportions. The roads have deteriorated, the state of power supply has become worse and there is no increase in wages to match the skyrocketing inflation.
‎"We are constrained to ask the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to explain to Nigerians what his government has done with the
several huge sums borrowed in the last two years in the name of financing infrastructural development in the country.
 "The data shows that since President Buhari was sworn-in, the Nation's Debt has risen by 61.96% in only two years," the PDP said.


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