0 The New Waziri of Adamawa

Alh. Atiku Abubakar (GCON) Former TURAKI Adamawa now prime Minister of Fombina Emirate! Alh. Aliyu Atiku (Lamido) Abubakar New TURAKI Adamawa. Allah ke bada mulki ga Wanda yaso Alokacin da yakeso.
Take it or leave it Atiku is a human, economic, social, political and traditional phenomena and a positive international mafia. Congratulation
God bless Fombina Emirate
God bless Adamawa state
Allah gafartawa Aliyu Na Ahmadu Alkalin sa Allah. Fulfilment of destiny for it has been written in advance by God.
Thank you, musha ruwa lafiya

By Bappare Mohammed

0 Aliyu Atiku Abubakar as new Turaki of Adamawa

Aliyu Atiku Abubakar (Lamido) has been crowned as new Turaki of Adamawa by the king makers of emirate council
Aliyu is a son of former vice president and APC chieftain Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who was the former Turaki of Adamawa.

0 Reports of Assault On Police Sergent Not True, Mischievous - Adamawa Speaker

Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Kabiru Mijinyawa has describe reports of him assaulting a Police Sergent attached to his office as false and Mischievous.

According to Mijinyawa, he has utmost respect and regard for the rule of law and will not carry out such act against anybody, let alone a police officer attached to his office.

"There were two police officers attached to my home and one gets to spend the night on duty in my house and the other doesn't".

"On this particular night, the absentee policeman  left his official rifle in the room they stay at my house and the other policeman who spent the night locked up the rifle. So when the absentee policeman came the following morning, the policeman on duty refused him access to the room to get his rifle", the Speaker narrated.

"And that was the beginning of the problem, the issue almost turned into a physical combat and I was called to reaolvr the dispute and I went there and  separated the fight. And I reported the case to the Area Commandant and district officer, Mijinyawa added.

"Sadly for me, the next day, there was a story in the newspaper that I assaulted a Police Sergent. Which is totally not true and mischievous. It is sad that no journalist has reached me to even get my own side of the story", he lamented.

When our reporter contacted an eye witness police officer, who pleaded anonymity, he said, the never assaulted that sergent, all he did was asked them to calm down while he reported the case to superior officers of the force.

"I really dont know where that journalist got his story from, nothing of such happened. There was no journalist there, so I am sure some reached out to them with a false information", the anonymous officer added.

0 Senate president, Bukola saraki, To write resignation letter, or be impeached by Buhari this week

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, this time around might be forced by the Presidency to write his resignation letter, or be impeached, as President Muhammdu Buhari begins to study the letter written by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, indicting the Senate President and his Aides, for laundering up to N3.5 billion from the Paris Club loan refund, Post-Nigeria has gathered.

In the report, the EFCC narrated how Saraki, using his Deputy Chief of Staff and other Aides, laundered N3.5 billion that he allegedly received from the Paris Club loan refund to State Governors.

“As I speak to you, the Presidency has concluded plans to treat ‘Saraki’s fuck up’. The evidence tendered by the EFCC against the Senate President is alarming.  This is not like the CCT trial. This time around, pressure is on him to write his resignation letter, or Buhari will have to use his Presidential might on him”, a highly placed Presidential source told post-Nigeria.

He added: “If Saraki is wise, I expect him to have started writing his resignation letter now, to avoid impeachment.  Please for your information, Senate Ali Ndume, has been tipped by the Presidency to start the impeachment process.

”The Presidency has decided to fight the war. The National Assembly must be cleansed just like the Judiciary. The time is now, and the Presidency has no option than to start with Saraki.”

This came as the anti-graft agency has started probing a former Heritage Bank Executive Director, Robert Mbonu, three Aides of Saraki, and three others, on how N3.5 billion was wired into some accounts.

The cash is said to be part of the N19 billion, allegedly diverted from the N522.74 billion initial refund to States.

In a report to the Presidency, the EFCC confirmed that it had traced $183,000 into the account of a Dubai jeweler.

The EFCC report said in part: “Mr. Robert Mbonu, is alleged to have received N3.5 billion into his company’s (Melrose General Services Limited’s) account, from the NGF through Account 0005892453, domiciled in Access Bank.

“Investigation revealed that one Kathleen Erhimu is the Relationship Manager to Dr. Bukola Saraki’s account with Access Bank.

“That Saraki at a meeting introduced one Joseph Oladapo Idowu and Gbenga Peter Makanjuola to her and Hon. Makanjuola, thereafter introduced Robert Mbonu to Ms Kathleen Erhimu.

“That Mbonu operates an account, Melrose General Services, with Access Bank Plc 0005892453, and 0005653500 which was up till 13th December a business account.

“That Halima Kyari, the Head of Private Banking Group, stated in a letter dated 13th December, 2016, that Mr. Robert Mbonu requested a transfer of Melrose General Services Company account, from a Business Account to a Private Banking Group Platform, as he was expecting huge funds into the account.

“Subsequently, on the 14th December, the sum of N3.5 billion was lodged into Melrose General Services Company account number 0005892453, domiciled in Access Bank, from the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF).

“That thereafter, Mr. Obiora Amobi and Hon. Gbenga Makanjuola, were introduced to Access Bank as representatives of Melrose General Services Limited by Robert Mbonu, to enable them cash withdrawals from the account.

“That one Oluyemi Braithwaite, the MD/CEO of Reinex Bureau de Change, Caddington Capital Limited and Westgate Limited, also manages a BDC, stated to have known Mbonu as a client and he requested for dollars in exchange for the Naira equivalent, which were to be handed over to one Mr. Gbenga, in Abuja.

“That Ms Oluyemi Braithwaite contacted one Hassan Dantani Abubakar, the owner of Hamma Procurement Limited, Ashrab Nigeria Limited and Insoire Solar Application, to make available the dollars based on the Naira equivalent. as transferred from Robert Mbonu, who she had introduced via phone to Hassan Dantani.

“That on 16th December, 2016, Melrose General Services transferred the sum of N246 million to Hamma Procurement First Bank Account No. 2030756168, in exchange for the sum of $500,000, which was handed to one Mr. Gbenga, in Abuja, who acknowledged receipt of the same amount.

“That on the 21st Dec. 2016, Ms Oluyemi Braithwaite contacted Hassan Dantani Abubakar, requesting for another transaction of $370,000. Melrose General Services Company, transferred the sum of N181m to Inspire Solar Application. The $370,000 was handed over to one Mr. Dapo, in Abuja.

“That on the 4th of January 2017, Mbonu through Melrose General Services Company transferred the sum of N248, 500,000 to Caddington Capital Limited, belonging to Ms Oluyemi Braithwaite, who transferred same to Hassan Dantani Abubakar’s FCMB account, Ashrab Nigeria Limited, for the sum of $500,000. The dollar equivalent was handed over to Mr. Kolawole Shittu, in Abuja

“That on the 10th of January 2017, Mr. Robert Mbonu, through Melrose General Services Company, transferred the sum of N99,820,000 to Caddington Capital Limited, belonging to Ms. Oluyemi Braithwaite, who transferred same to Hassan Dantani Abubakar’s FCMB Ashrab Nigeria Limited, for the sum of $200,000. The dollar equivalent was handed over to one Mr. Peter, in Abuja.

“That on the 19th December, there was a cash withdrawal of the sum of N50 million from Melrose General Services account via cheque, by Hon. Gbenga Peter Makanjuola.

“Also, the sum of $1,570,000 was received by the trio of Mr. Gbenga Peter Makanjuola, Mr. Kolawole Shittu, and Mr. Oladapo Joseph Idowu, at various times and locations at Abuja, FCT.

“That on the 29th December, 2016, Mr. Robert Mbonu called Mrs. Kathleen Erhimu of Access Bank, requesting her to source for a customer that would have the sum of $500,000 in exchange for the Naira equivalent. She introduced Mr. Robert Mbonu to Acarast Commercial Limited and Capital Field Investment to help him source for dollars.

“That on the 21st December 2016, GCA Energy Limited paid the sum of $25,000 to Asterio Energy Services Limited, which subsequently transferred the sum of $23,200 to Cactus Communication Limited account with Access Bank.

“The MD of Sought-After International Synergy Limited, Julius Okedele, stated that Mr. Kelechi Edomobi of Acarast Commercial Enterprises contacted him and requested to purchase dollars after the transfer of N73, 950,000 to Sought-After International Synergy Limited. Mr. Edomobi gave him the account number of Cactus Communication Limited Access Bank, as the nominated account to receive the dollar equivalent of the sum of $149,000.

“Investigation further confirmed that Cactus Communication Limited is owned and operated by Joseph Oladapo Idowu, an Aide to Bukola Saraki.

“That Mr. Kelechi Edomobi also transferred the sum of N1m on the 15th of January, 2017, to Joseph Oladapo Idowu’s personal account number 0001679877 with Access Bank Plc.

“That Asterio Energy Services Limited on the 21st and 22nd of December, 2016, transferred $100,000 and $85,000 to Bhaskar Devji Jewellers LLC in Dubai, respectively the same company that Dr. Bukola Saraki repeatedly made transfer to from his Black Card Account.

“Furthermore, other payments from Melrose General Services Company have also been linked to companies that Dr. Bukola Saraki has interest in, and carry out transactions with.

“This includes the sum of $183,000, which was transferred to Bhaska Devji Jewellers, Dubai, a company Dr. Bukola Saraki had repeatedly made payments to.

“Also, the sum of N200 million was transferred to Wasp Networks Limited, that subsequently transferred the sum of N170 million to Xtract Energy Services Limited, a company that routinely made deposits into Dr. Bukola’s Access Bank United States Domiciliary Account.”

0 Why are you harassing me

You could be forgiven if you think only prostitutes are shameless but you deserve being slapped and not forgiven if you don't think both prostitutes and thieves are shamelessly shameless on the same scale! That's the tragedy that has befallen  former clueless President Jonathan who should have been arrested on May 29, 2015, charged with looting, plunder, and genocide, and thereafter convicted and sentenced to death by either hanging or firing squad!

But because he has been extended a courtesy he doesn't deserve by being allowed to roam the streets freely, confused Jonathan now thinks he can afford to insult us by ranting that his family is being harassed by the Buhari administration, and that's even after the same Buhari also gave his pugnacious and cantankerous wife, Dame Patience an undeserved respect of not being arrested and handcuffed for the stolen millions of dollars found in the fictitious bank accounts she opened!

Well, that such a blatantly corrupt and shameless thief as Jonathan is now insulting our sense of prestige and dignity should be blamed on the same Buhari administration that has been pussyfooting over the overdue arrest of this notorious criminal!

Dumbo Jonathan adds no value to any society or any community just as he never ever added any value to Nigeria throughout his public career. He is so useless to the point that Satan found him useful to use him to make Nigeria useless among nations, and that's the tragedy the country is trying to wriggle out from!

He plundered the country; he divided the country with his penchant for ethno-religious divisions; he lifted mediocrity and buffoonery into officialdom; he taught us that stealing is virtue and not a crime; he cultivated terrorism while in office, and while out of office he enjoyed the services of the Niger Delta Avengers! Yet not a finger was raised to arrest him as a common criminal that he is, but yet he rants that he is being harassed?

Wait! Is this rogue aware that some of the monies he stole with his gang members are now being discovered either in farms or tanks or septic tanks or air-conditioned mud houses or in rented flats in towers or in other places yet to be discovered?

The EFCC needs just one break to give Nigeria back many of the billions of dollars stolen by Jonathan - they should just invade the rogue's houses, farms, and other properties across Nigeria. Even the hundreds of millions of dollars he was reported to have received as bribe in the famous Malabu Oil scam may be found!

President Buhari and the EFCC have the patriotic duty of arresting this rogue and serving him justice, or the rogue will continue to insult us!

THE WAR ON CORRUPTION WILL ONLY START ON THE DAY THIS CRIMINAL IS ARRESTED!

By Cham Sharon.

0 Adamawa speaker beats up police sergeant

The Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Kabiru Mijinyawa,  has beaten up a police sergeant attached to him, the police have confirmed.

A witness told journalists in Yola yesterday that the speaker got angry when the policeman complained about non-payment of his allowances. The speaker grabbed the policeman and slapped him severally until the man was rescued by some security men around.

“The dazed sergeant was rescued by a civil defence man who had to remind the speaker that he was beating up a policeman,” the witness said.

The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Othman Abubakar confirmed the development, saying the commander in charge of Yola Area Command was handling the matter.

Attempts to talk to the speaker were unsuccessful as he did not respond to calls and text messages sent to him.

Source: dailytrust

0 Plot File Regarding Assassination of Sheikh Jafaru, Cash Recovered From Senator Goje’s Residence – Police

The police have denied carting away the 2017 proposed appropriation bill during their raid on Senator Danjuma Goje’s residence in Maitama, Abuja last week. The Force stated that it recovered 38 files and six envelopes containing documents and write-ups on “how former Kano State governor, Ibrahim Shekarau plotted the assassination of Sheikh Jafaru.” The police in a statement on Thursday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, added that N18.056 million, $19,850 and SR9, 400 (Saudi Riyals), and a laptop were also recovered during the search.

The Force stated that it recovered 38 files and six envelopes containing documents and write-ups on “how former Kano State governor, Ibrahim Shekarau plotted the assassination of Sheikh Jafaru.”

The police in a statement on Thursday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, added that N18.056 million, $19,850 and SR9, 400 (Saudi Riyals), and a laptop were also recovered during the search.

He stated that detectives also recovered files on funds spent on security administration and information gathering– a-g, 2009; file on release of funds for  Special operations a- f, 2009; file on Gombe State government cash inflow 2005; file on Project 2007 – Executive Briefs on how to fight opposition in Gombe State – Strategies and Tactics.

Other exhibits included envelopes containing permit in operating as an Oil Industry Service Company (special categories) 2011 and letters from Alhaji Mohammed Danjuma Goje (Sarkin Yakin Gombe) to the Managing Director, LUBELL Nigeria Ltd. of proposed residential Devt at Kashere Phase II dated January 16, 2007 and November 19, 2010.

“The Nigeria Police Force wishes to state categorically that there was no single document relating to 2017 budget sighted or removed by the Police team that executed the search warrant. There is video recording of the execution of the search warrant,” the statement said.

The Force disclosed that the search warrant from a court of competent jurisdiction was executed at the former Gombe governor’s residence following intelligence report that stolen funds and other incriminating items were about to be moved out of the house. 

Moshood said that on arrival of the police team, the house keeper, Ango Usman informed Goje about their mission and he promised to come around, but later  switched off his cell phone.

He said, “The search warrant was successfully executed in the presence of three close relatives of Senator Danjuma Goje who are residing in the house and the recoveries were made in their presence.  

“The relatives-Danjuma Mohammed, nephew to the Senator, Usman, house keeper and Aisha Umar, stepdaughter to Goje-opened the house and took the police  team round the building, and endorsed their signatures after the completion of the search as required by the procedure of law on search warrant which contained  the money, documents and laptop recovered, and none of the items include 2017 budget document.”

Moshood stated that the Inspector-General of Police had appeared at the National Assembly on Wednesday to explain the legality of the search that was executed at Goje’s residence. 

He insisted that the police action were in line with the provisions of Sections 4 and 28 of Police Act and Regulations, adding that investigation was ongoing. 

0 2017 Budget Documents Stolen - Senate Alleges ...You'll Be Shock Who Did

The Senate, yesterday, alleged that the Nigeria Police had stolen all documents relating to the processing and passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill, urging Nigerians to hold the Force responsible for delay in the passage of the bill.

The Senate also directed the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to as a matter of urgency, return the documents and all electronic gadgets, including computers containing the budget files, which were taken away from the residence of the chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Danjuma Goje.

This was as the chamber set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the invasion of the Abuja residence of Goje, by the Police last week Thursday. The upper chamber further directed the same committee to investigate the alleged assassination attempt on the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye.

On the budget, the Senate decided to heap the blame of its failure to pass the budget as earlier scheduled on the Police, following the point of order raised by Goje, alerting the chamber that his residence was raided last week by the Police.

Goje also told the apex legislative chamber that the Police took away files and laptop containing the 2017 budget documents, in addition to carting away monies in naira, dollar and other currencies.

While adopting the presentation made by Goje pertaining to the invasion of his residence last week, the Senate asked the Police to tender public apology to the National Assembly and also return all the allegedly stolen documents to enable the chamber to continue with work on the budget.

The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, told the lawmakers that the Police had informed the Committee on Police Affairs that the operation in Goje’s house was carried out based on wrong information from a whistle blower.

However, Saraki insisted that the Senate would not accept the excuse as he declared that an immediate official explanation must be made to the Red Chamber on the operation.

The members of the ad hoc committee set up to investigate the invasion include Senators Jibrin Barau (APC, Kano State), Isa Misau (APC, Bauchi State), Chukwuka Utazi (PDP, Enugu), David Umoru (APC, Niger State) and Foster Ogola (PDP, Bayelsa West).

In his submission to the Senate, Goje said the policemen took N18 million in addition to $19,000, 4,000 Saudi Riyadh, 18 files and a laptop which contained budget documents from his house during the operation.

He lamented that his family members and himself were thoroughly traumatized in the operation he said lasted for four hours while he was away trying to put reports of the budget together at the National Assembly.

He said: “In addition, they also took my laptop. And to make matters worse, they took 18 files from my office. I am so traumatized now and I don’t know which files are missing, which files are available now. Some of these files have to do with the work I am doing, that is the budget.

“Like I told you, we were holding a meeting on the budget when they came last Thursday. So from Thursday till now, we have not been able to meet because some of the papers are no longer available; many of us are traumatized, my house as a politician is a beehive of activities; people are coming from all over the country to sympathise with me.

I have no time to sit and from today we are trying to start sitting again as appropriations committee to see what we can do with the budget. “I want to apologise to my colleagues that we could not keep to the timetable you gave us to lay the budget yesterday (Tuesday) and to get it passed today (Wednesday); and I think it is not our own fault, it is the fault of the police because the police interfered with the whole of the budget process and I hope Nigerians will not turn out to blackmail the National Assembly because the process were truncated by the police.”

Goje also told the Senate that the Police had not contacted him to explain why his house was invaded; pointing out that he was not yet in the know of the reason behind the action of the Police. Saraki insisted that the Police must give explanations on why it carried out the act without any convincing reasons.

He said: “This matter is a very serious matter as Senator Goje has said; it is now over five days with no statement or comments from the police to tell us why this raid was done or to tell us where these files are which are very important in the appropriation process.

“Sadly, I must tell you distinguished senators, that, informally the chairman of the police committee told me this morning that the police are saying that it is something to do with whistle blower. If the whistle blower misled them, I think the police should apologise not only to him, but to the entire country.”

The Inspector General of Police reportedly visited the Deputy President of the Senate, Dr. Ike Ekweremadu and the Senate leader, Ahmad Lawan, to seek peaceful resolution to the impasse between his establishment and the apex chamber. A source within the Senate told New Telegraph that the IGP had to visit Ekweremadu and Lawan because Saraki refused to see him, in retaliation for his refusal to pick his calls when his men invaded Goje’s house in Abuja.

Also, the House of Representatives yesterday issued a 24-hour ultimatum to Idris to return documents relating to the 2017 appropriation bill seized in Goje’s house.

The lower chamber warned that failure to return the documents would slow down the early passage of the 2017 budget. This followed the adoption of a motion brought by Hon. Abubakar Ahmad Yunusa (APC, Gombe) on the need to check the excesses of security agents with regard to invasion of residences of law abiding citizens.

In adopting the motion, the House resolved to set up an ad hoc committee to invite Idris to appear before it to explain what warranted the invasion of the residences of law abiding citizens.

Similarly, the House mandated its Committee on National Intelligence to investigate the source and actual ownership of the N13 billion recovered from a residential apartment in Lagos by personnel of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

This decision was sequel to a motion on the need to investigate the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) over the N13 billion recovered from an apartment at Osborne Towers in Ikoyi moved by Hon. Babatunde Kolawole.

0 2017 Budget Documents Stolen - Senate Alleges ...You'll Be Shock Who Did

The Senate, yesterday, alleged that the Nigeria Police had stolen all documents relating to the processing and passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill, urging Nigerians to hold the Force responsible for delay in the passage of the bill.

The Senate also directed the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to as a matter of urgency, return the documents and all electronic gadgets, including computers containing the budget files, which were taken away from the residence of the chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Danjuma Goje.

This was as the chamber set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the invasion of the Abuja residence of Goje, by the Police last week Thursday. The upper chamber further directed the same committee to investigate the alleged assassination attempt on the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye.

On the budget, the Senate decided to heap the blame of its failure to pass the budget as earlier scheduled on the Police, following the point of order raised by Goje, alerting the chamber that his residence was raided last week by the Police.

Goje also told the apex legislative chamber that the Police took away files and laptop containing the 2017 budget documents, in addition to carting away monies in naira, dollar and other currencies.

While adopting the presentation made by Goje pertaining to the invasion of his residence last week, the Senate asked the Police to tender public apology to the National Assembly and also return all the allegedly stolen documents to enable the chamber to continue with work on the budget.

The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, told the lawmakers that the Police had informed the Committee on Police Affairs that the operation in Goje’s house was carried out based on wrong information from a whistle blower.

However, Saraki insisted that the Senate would not accept the excuse as he declared that an immediate official explanation must be made to the Red Chamber on the operation.

The members of the ad hoc committee set up to investigate the invasion include Senators Jibrin Barau (APC, Kano State), Isa Misau (APC, Bauchi State), Chukwuka Utazi (PDP, Enugu), David Umoru (APC, Niger State) and Foster Ogola (PDP, Bayelsa West).

In his submission to the Senate, Goje said the policemen took N18 million in addition to $19,000, 4,000 Saudi Riyadh, 18 files and a laptop which contained budget documents from his house during the operation.

He lamented that his family members and himself were thoroughly traumatized in the operation he said lasted for four hours while he was away trying to put reports of the budget together at the National Assembly.

He said: “In addition, they also took my laptop. And to make matters worse, they took 18 files from my office. I am so traumatized now and I don’t know which files are missing, which files are available now. Some of these files have to do with the work I am doing, that is the budget.

“Like I told you, we were holding a meeting on the budget when they came last Thursday. So from Thursday till now, we have not been able to meet because some of the papers are no longer available; many of us are traumatized, my house as a politician is a beehive of activities; people are coming from all over the country to sympathise with me.

I have no time to sit and from today we are trying to start sitting again as appropriations committee to see what we can do with the budget. “I want to apologise to my colleagues that we could not keep to the timetable you gave us to lay the budget yesterday (Tuesday) and to get it passed today (Wednesday); and I think it is not our own fault, it is the fault of the police because the police interfered with the whole of the budget process and I hope Nigerians will not turn out to blackmail the National Assembly because the process were truncated by the police.”

Goje also told the Senate that the Police had not contacted him to explain why his house was invaded; pointing out that he was not yet in the know of the reason behind the action of the Police. Saraki insisted that the Police must give explanations on why it carried out the act without any convincing reasons.

He said: “This matter is a very serious matter as Senator Goje has said; it is now over five days with no statement or comments from the police to tell us why this raid was done or to tell us where these files are which are very important in the appropriation process.

“Sadly, I must tell you distinguished senators, that, informally the chairman of the police committee told me this morning that the police are saying that it is something to do with whistle blower. If the whistle blower misled them, I think the police should apologise not only to him, but to the entire country.”

The Inspector General of Police reportedly visited the Deputy President of the Senate, Dr. Ike Ekweremadu and the Senate leader, Ahmad Lawan, to seek peaceful resolution to the impasse between his establishment and the apex chamber. A source within the Senate told New Telegraph that the IGP had to visit Ekweremadu and Lawan because Saraki refused to see him, in retaliation for his refusal to pick his calls when his men invaded Goje’s house in Abuja.

Also, the House of Representatives yesterday issued a 24-hour ultimatum to Idris to return documents relating to the 2017 appropriation bill seized in Goje’s house.

The lower chamber warned that failure to return the documents would slow down the early passage of the 2017 budget. This followed the adoption of a motion brought by Hon. Abubakar Ahmad Yunusa (APC, Gombe) on the need to check the excesses of security agents with regard to invasion of residences of law abiding citizens.

In adopting the motion, the House resolved to set up an ad hoc committee to invite Idris to appear before it to explain what warranted the invasion of the residences of law abiding citizens.

Similarly, the House mandated its Committee on National Intelligence to investigate the source and actual ownership of the N13 billion recovered from a residential apartment in Lagos by personnel of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

This decision was sequel to a motion on the need to investigate the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) over the N13 billion recovered from an apartment at Osborne Towers in Ikoyi moved by Hon. Babatunde Kolawole.

0 Obasanjo BOMBS Jonathan Again! (You’ll not Believe What He Said This Time)

JONATHAN, FROM BEGINNING, WAS TOO SMALL FOR THE PRESIDENCY – OBASANJO

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that former President Goodluck Jonathan from his first days as President showed he  was too small for the office, saying he, Obasanjo, acted more as an opponent of Jonathan than a supporter of Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2015 presidential poll.

Ex President Jonathan and Gen. Obasanjo (Rtd)
Obasanjo, who said Jonathan deceived him that he would not give Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke the petroleum portfolio in his cabinet was deceived into believing that he could use money to buy the 2015 presidential election.

Obasanjo in the book, Against the Run of Play: How an Incumbent President was defeated in Nigeria, written by former presidential spokesman, Segun Adeniyi, also revealed that Jonathan was gripped by the fear that Buhari, as president, would jail him or lead him to an early grave.

In the 204-page book, former President Jonathan is himself quoted as saying he could not be held accountable for provocative remarks made by some of his supporters, even as former Senate President, David Mark, is also quoted in the book as alleging that he forewarned the former president about the alleged conspiracy against him in the north but to no avail.

Problems of  minority agitation

Obasanjo in the book is quoted as saying that following Umaru Yar’Adua’s death in 2010, he endorsed Jonathan for the 2011 presidential election principally to solve the problems of minority agitation in Nigeria.

The former President said: “I saw the emergence of Jonathan as an opportunity to solve the problem of minority agitation. The three majority ethnic groups in Nigeria can always sort themselves out but not so for the minority. A good example is my state here in Ogun.

“Despite the best of intentions, nobody from Ogun West has been able to become governor because of this minority issue and it will take a conscious effort to make it happen. So, it was in the context of that I had to plead with prominent people in the North to allow Jonathan run for a term.”

I warned him not to make Diezani petroleum minister

But in a tone laden with regrets, Obasanjo pointed out that there were certain things Jonathan did that fell below his expectations as a former president.

“There were certain decisions taken by Jonathan very early in his administration that pointed to the fact that the office was bigger than him and one of them was the appointment of a petroleum minister,” he said.

According to Obasanjo, he cautioned Jonathan not to appoint Diezani Alison-Madueke to such a sensitive sector but the president ignored his counsel.

“Jonathan gave me the impression that he was not going to give her the portfolio but at the end he did and we can see the consequence. He, of course, knew what he was doing,” Obasanjo stated.

Why I opposed Jonathan

The former president also hinted at what riled him against Jonathan and why he parted ways with him in the run up to the 2015 election, a development which has given the impression that he was actively working in support of Buhari’s candidature. But Obasanjo denied any direct support to Buhari.

He said: “I didn’t join them in supporting Buhari; I joined in opposing Jonathan so Buhari was just a beneficiary of my opposition to Jonathan since my position was AOBJ: meaning Any Option But Jonathan.”,

Obasanjo explained that Jonathan and his handlers believed that they could buy the last election and that they were so arrogant about it that the PDP would print only one nomination form for him and him alone. He said: “If he was wise, he would have yielded the ticket to somebody else in the PDP.”

Jonathan was not really afraid about life after office but Buhari

The former president, who also criticised the role played by the military in the last election, said he suspected that Jonathan was not really afraid about life after office but Buhari, his successor.

“I believe the President’s concern or fear is not about life after office per se, because he and I have had occasions to talk about this both seriously and jovially. I believe the President’s fear is particularly motivated by the person he sees as his likely successor, that is General Buhari. I believe the people would have been telling him that Buhari is a hard man; he would fight corruption and he (Jonathan) may end up in jail if not in the grave,” Obasanjo narrated in the book.

The book also placed the defeat of Jonathan at the 2015 poll on the utterances of those close to the former president, chief among them being his wife, Patience.

The book recalls the allegation by former Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, accusing the former first lady of insulting the North with incendiary language, thereby alienating them from Jonathan during the election.

It quoted Mrs. Jonathan as making a denigrating remark against Almajiri in the north, by saying “Our people no dey born children wey dem no dey count. Our men no dey born throw way for street; we no dey like people from the other side”, an apparent reference to the concept of Almajiri common in the north.

Reminded in the book that some persons close to him, especially Chief Edwin Clark and Asari Dokubo, were rather vocal and provocative in their utterances, Jonathan wondered why he should be held accountable for their personal opinions.

The former president retorted: “Okay,  let us agree for the sake of argument that Chief Clark and the others were offensive, what about those from other ethnic groups who were also making incendiary statement about my person with insinuations about people who wear bowler hats?

“I am not defending whoever may have crossed the line among Ijaw people but let us  be fair, why should I be held accountable for that and you would not hold other leaders accountable for what politicians from their own ethnic groups also said? he queried.

On why Jonathan lost the election, former Senate President, David Mark, said that he saw the defeat coming and had pointed out the unrealistic voting projections made by the party about the North to the former president and the conspiracy against him but he was not taken seriously.

He said Jonathan should have seen the handwriting on the wall and done something about what was pointed out to him but no action was taken.

Mark lamented, “I saw it and at difference times, I pointed out to him and the party that the projections being made by some people around the president about what the voting pattern in the north would were wrong.

“I could see the conspiracy and the gang-up building up in the north against the aspiration of Jonathan but my  voice was drowned out by those who took it for granted that a sitting president, and one from PDP, could not lose,” Mark said.

The former Senate President also mentioned that the former Vice President, Namadi Sambo, was also aware that Jonathan was not strong in the North but apparently had little to say in the campaign to re-elect Jonathan.

“Some people were deceiving the president with the kind of false scenarios they were painting for him. The VP could see the conspiracy but I don’t know how much influence he had on the campaign. Why Jonathan couldn’t see it until it was too late is what I find difficult to understand,” Mark pointed out.

0 Adamawa law makers donates the sum of one million two hundred and fifty thousand to Isa Hamman for Kidney transplant

Adamawa lawmakers have agreed to donate N1. 25 million to Isa Hamma, a patient, who lost his kidney to an operation that, went wrong in a private clinic in Yola.

Newsmen recall that in June 2016, a doctor of a private clinic in Jimeta (name withheld), allegedly conducted a surgery on the victim, a herdsman, removing his kidney in the process.

A member representing Hong Constituency in Adamawa Assembly, Hassan Barguma (Hong-APC), had moved a motion under a “Matter of Urgent Public Importance” in February to seek assistance for the patient.
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0 Senate holds valedictory session today in honour of late Senator Adeleke

Saraki urges senators to always relax because of stress

By Henry Umoru, Emman Ovuakporie & Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA—THE Senate will today hold a valedictory session for late Senator Isiaka, Adeleke (APC, Osun West), who died last Sunday.

The Senate observed a minute silence in his honour, just as the lawmakers in honour of their deceased colleague, suspended all other businesses at yesterday’s plenary and subsequently went for the signing of the condolence register.