CCT vs Saraki Trial Asiwaju Bola Tinubu React

CCT vs Saraki Trial Asiwaju Bola Tinubu React

      Reacting to the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu yesterday said the present administration cannot overlook certain things in its fight against corruption.

Meantime, Tinubu has called on Nigerians to often put God and the nation first in their daily activities, saying “What is missing in Nigeria is lack of patriotism, dedication to God and to our people.

Tinubu, speaking after activities for the Eid-il-Kabir celebration at Dodan Barracks, praying ground, said that the ongoing anti-corruption war embarked upon by President Muhammadu Buhari will further strengthen the country’s institutions and fast track development.

        This came 48 hours after Saraki appeared before the CCT in Abuja on September 22nd, 2015, claiming that he was not guilty of the charges leveled against him by the tribunal.  According to him, “It is part of nation’s development. We cannot overlook a lot of things. And we cannot personalise a lot of things as if it was vendetta. We have to endure and be patient as we look for justice, equity and a balanced society.”

He stated that to achieve a just and balanced society, the various institutions in the country must be strengthened, adding “If we do not strengthen these institutions, how can they work for the development of the nation? If we fail and result to blackmail, how can the nation reverse the decadence that is perceived in our society?”

Tinubu lamented that citizens often denigrate public officer as one who mismanage public funds allocated to his office.

         The APC leader said: “Government officials are no longer believed by the citizens. When one has a public responsibility, the citizens look at it as if the source of wealth to steal and mismanage public funds and do things not included in the democratic norms and values.

‘We have to live by example and by our words. We can be talking about it alone. We have to work it without any iota of blackmail.”

         The former governor recalled how he went through such trial and was later discharged and acquainted, saying; “It is not what I haven’t personally experienced.”

His words: “I have been through it. The second week I left office, I was invited by Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC. I went there and answered their questions. Later, I took them to court and I won. Some years back, after they discovered that my asset declaration had some questions, they claim. It is only then I accused the government of being selective.”

He noted that the country had surmounted some challenges but to avoid a repeat of such, Nigerians must put the nation first and do the right thing.

        Tinubu said: “Yearly, we talk about sacrificecharged me to the tribunal. I went and challenged them to show proof. I was later discharged and acquainted because there was no evidence to prove their s and perseverance of people. If we want people to persevere, from the top to the bottom, we have to demonstrate as leaders that we are very serious about nation building too.

“Our leaders should look compassionately at the suffering masses and create the demand locally and diversify our economy. Go through it at once and have a nation that we will all be proud of. Develop citizenship that will be blind to tribe or ethnicity but believe in character.

“It is worrisome that when we meet ourselves outside the country, we embrace one another but immediately we arrive in this country, we revert to ethnicity, tribalism and others.

The APC Victory: Dr Emem Wills an Advocate of Change in Nigeria --by Brendan Iseh

THE APC VICTORY: Dr. Emem Wills an Advocate of Change in  Nigeria

BY BRENDAN ISEH

It remain a thing of joy for greater number of Nigerians on the Victory of All Progressive Congress (APC), in the just concluded state and national polls that brought the enthronement of APC members as state Governors, parliamentarians, and the emergence of his Excellency Mohamadu Buhari as the President and Commander in Chief of the arm forces. The wide spread happiness is not only regionally observed, but internationally celebrated occasioned by mass expression of passion for nationality and multiple symbol of a clearly defined national honour. These also occupied every section of our public discourse across the Northern and Southern part of the country, even the internally displace person(s) within their discomfort zone also demonstrated their feelings of patriotism.

To highlight the insight on the climax of the euphoria was a circumstance that this narration may soon lead us into a lengthy script or dilemma due to conflicting expression of joy in the phenomena. It appears so sudden situation that precipitate strange behaviours but on their faces it was apparent that their soul was overwhelm by joy. In the height of the euphoria a minute pass the victory declaration by various state electoral commissioners and INEC Chairman Prof. Atahiru Jerga. This instantly provided a new mode in our public environ. Public jubilation was a common symbol, and a louder uproar came to change the normal interactive pattern. The expression of joy came in different ways by different people. The faces of our citizen in diaspora were seen in television channel shrouded by smiles after many years in exile. Many break into long awaiting smiles, for a rare hope, the hope of a better life, or may be the hope for a good government, the hope for twilight after many years in darkness by corruption and impunity. Most citizens preferred street jubilation while some roll out their dancing drums singing ooo change in One Nigeria, Change for so long a time. Some showed their happiness by drinking and eating their delicious meal while many worshippers bow their heads in fasting and prayer. Earnestly, it was all over jamboree that this article may not content it detail. Thus, various sacrifices exercise by citizens in the circumstances may be best described as different stroke for different folks.    

In Eket, an oil community is not an exception, as the former state commissioner Dr. Emem Wills stole a show in what is describe as extraordinary political reception amidst media chat with media practitioners. Apart from it that, he is a circular politician and a registered member of All Progressive Congress (APC), he is also a progenitor of various progressive groups in oil politics, not because he hails from Eket the oil rich community. Eket is one of the largest oil rich metropolitan cities situated in North south senatorial district of Akwa Ibom State where the Exxon Mobil joint venture producing Nigeria unlimited is located. The Eket born medical specialist cum administrator had his primary education in Saint Francis Primary School Ikot Afaha Oku. Also attended Saint Gregory Catholic Secondary School both in Eket and University of Calabar where he graduated in Medicine and surgery. He is a former commissioner ministry of special duties and later ministry of commerce and industry trade investment Akwa Ibom State.

Before his appointment as a state commissioner, he was discovered by the State Action Committee for AID/HIV (SACA), where he was appointed chairman of mobilization and specialist committee, a position he served with accountability.

         In the course of changing Nigeria his dauntless effort to join his Excellency, Obong Umana Okon Umana, the senatorial candidates, Elders and teaming supporters of APC to restructure and strengthen the party in Akwa Ibom State is ever crystals in the eyes of the party chieftains, which non may also express doubt on his effective representation in any capacity.

To attest to his intellectual prowess, as a commissioner in the ministry of commerce and industry trade and investment, he introduced an extraordinary policy framework which made the executive members of Akwa Ibom State chambers of commerce and industry one of the government decision making bodies. The decision making model coupled with his constant public media interaction evoke the most popular trade fair that increase the state revenue generation by 10% and fast-track the increase in the migrant traders and investors by 30% both in production capacity and sales of produce. These also enable total progression in the marginal production by small and medium scale entrepreneurs (SME^S) like bakery owners, tissue paper producers, hotels etc where direct beneficiaries of the public policy model.

           As a politician, he is described as a team player who believes greatly in policy reform in changing the society for the betterment of his people. Among his political thought is how to abate conflict in administration such as the problem of administrative handling which bothered on topics as consociation, ethnicity, Affirmative action whose resultant effect is the corruption and impunity in today Nigeria.

         Dr. Emem Wills intellectual prowess and his undaunted personality, is designated for possible solution of inevitable change at any capacity to his attestable, immeasurable efficiency and effective representation. He is a proponent of progressive ideology and an advocate of change in Nigeria.          

 

 

Udom Application suffers setback in Tribunal

Mr Udom Emmanuel the governor of Akwa Ibom State whom many believe won the April 11 governorship election through high level rigging is now seriously worried of what will become his fate at  the electoral tribunal seating in Abuja. MediaLink gathered that Mr Udom is in the state of confusion after his applications of relocation of tribunal to Uyo was ignored by the tribunal yesterday in Abuja, a source close to Mr Udom Emmanuel inform MediaLink that governor was weeping after the rolling in government house. According to the source who made it known that the cry attracted more sympathize among whom were Otuekong Idonesit Nkanga, Obong Pual Ekpo, Effiong Bob and others.

The tribunal yesterday grantede applications of the APC candidate in the said April 11 election by extending days for the APC to inspect electoral material under the custody INEC. The tribunal also ordered that all election material be move from INEC office in Uyo to Abuja not later than ten days.

Why Tambuwal dumped PDP

By Emman OvuakporieSince the speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal whose middle name simply means the’ Guardian of the Fate’ emerged the first among equals in the 7th Assembly on June 6, 2011, he had a game plan as to how to checkmate the onslaught of his party, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
His game plan finally came to bear last Tuesday when he red carded the party on whose back he clinched the speaker-ship of the House.
His reasoning was simple, since he was not the anointed candidate of his party and he knew the antics of PDP, he carefully waited for the dying days of the 7th Assembly to drop his masterstroke via his decampment to the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Aminu Waziri Tambuwal,

In the first place, it was the APC that ensured he won. Hon Mulikat Akande-Adeola, the PDP preferred candidate for the office of the Speaker failed on June 6, 2011 House of Representatives election. APC lawmakers ensured his victory with the support of some PDP legislators.
There and then, Tambuwal knew where he should pledge his allegiance and this he covertly and overtly applied until last Tuesday.
He kept his friends and political acolytes on their toes as to where his allegiance lay all these while. He knew from day one that if  he faltered the fire works of the PDP would be too explosive for him to handle.
He knew what happened to his predecessors that dared PDP. They went into political oblivion and remained politically irrelevant. And he accommodated genuine fears that he would face the same music if he remained in PDP. Re-election was almost uncertain and his political future remained bleak with PDP. He decided to join APC on whose platform he could run for the office of governor of Sokoto State or run for re-election back to the House.
Tambuwal, on his own, became his own pathfinder which endeared him to the hearts of his fellow lawmakers who at a time saw him as one rare gem that has come to right the wrongs of the past.
His leadership style  was embedded in the doctrine of humility which was one rare ingredient that his predecessors could not exhibit as speakers.
He came on board with a populist 7 point -Agenda designed primarily to keep the  House 100percent independent from all forms of incursions from the executive arm of government.
To a large extent this was achieved in the first two years of his administration as lawmakers  spoke in one voice until 2013 when the New PDP emerged following the break up of the Governors Forum.
This singular development that almost tore PDP into shreds affected the comradeship among members who, hitherto, enjoyed peace and oneness since inception.
The House he had toiled to construct day and night now became divided.
Tambuwal, at this stage, employed many intrigues but the damage had been done. He had to  prepare himself for the last card on his table which is his movement from PDP to APC.
His major challenges:
Tambuwal could not execute his pet project which was the 7-point Legislative Agenda to the letter. He recorded at least 70 percent success.
He had wanted to make Nigeria’s Green Chamber the first African e- Parliament compliant. Though work on this is at an advanced stage, this dream may not be accomplished before he leaves.
Secondly, his fervent desire to  carry along his 359 colleagues despite paucity of  funds was a major setback to him.
It is on record that Tambuwal knows every member by their  first name and the constituencies they represent. A very rare gift.
Thirdly, his penchant for good legislation to make Nigeria a better place for all is never in doubt.
Implication of his defection
The House has less than two months to execute serious legislative business as the month of December is always work free. The lawmakers may seat for only six days.
January 2015, lawmakers would be in the battle field trying to see how they can return to the House.
February is the month of election so there will be no legislative business.
By March the results of the election must have had their toll and casualties of the election would have been known.
April, there will be little legislative action on the floor of the House.
By May the politics of who emerges the new speaker  peaks.
By June 5, the 7th Assembly will be rested and the 8th Assembly emerges.
The effect of his defection may lead the House into a war zone. But one thing is certain, the PDP needs at least a dozen cranes and a 100 buldozers to buldoze Tambuwal out of office.
As it is now, the PDP has 195 active lawmakers while the APC has 159 leaving the remaining 6 that could pitch their tents  where it suits them.
PDP does not have the 2/3 majority to unseat Tambuwal which is a mandatory constitutional provision. PDP needs 240 lawmakers to shove Tambuwal aside.
Tambuwal’s trump card
After the PDP primaries, the lawmakers who failed to win will solidly stand by Tambuwal making the House an entirely APC House.
This development could make the 2015 Budget suffer an unprecedented setback, causing more problems for the PDP led government.
Tambuwal has an unequaled track record of being the only lawmaker that has gone to the House for three terms and was appointed a principal officer.
In 2003-2007 he was deputy minority under ANPP. 2007-2011 he was deputy majority whip. In 2011 he emerged speaker.
This his experience will come to bear and may further rubbish whatever impeachment plan in the offing for him.
Tail or head Tambuwal is on both sides of the coin.

 

Etiebet condemns PDP ward delegates' congress in AKS

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Etiebet condemns PDP ward delegates’ congress in A’Ibom

A MEMBER of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Don Etiebet, has alleged that the ad-hoc delegate congress in Akwa Ibom State was a hoax, as due process was not followed in all the 31 local councils of the state.
  Etiebet, who revealed this yesterday while speaking with journalists in his Ewet Housing residence in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, said the whole exercise was not only a farce but a fraud to democracy, calling on the national headquarters of the party to wade into the matter so as to avoid seeming crisis in the state chapter of the party.
  He said: “I want to tell you that I am not satisfied with the conduct of the ward congress conducted in the state on Saturday. It was a farce and there was no congress conducted in the state.”
  He further alleged that the Chairman of the PDP Electoral Committee in the state, Senator Abdulaziz Ibrahim, was bias because he refused to address the party elders in the state when he arrived on Friday preceding the ward congress.
  “Senator Ibrahim openly told the stakeholders and aspirants that he did not come to conduct ward congress but to monitor. Normally when such team arrives in the state, they will talk to party elders, they will address the different aspirants and their supporters but they did not do that. We did not even know that they were in Akwa Ibom,” Etiebet alleged.
  He said that when he got to know that the committee was in the state, he had to call the chairman on phone by 11:00 a.m. on Saturday when the chairman directed him to wait in the party office, which he did until 3:00 p.m. when the chairman surfaced with sealed envelopes.
  He explained that when the aspirants and stakeholders asked him to disclose the content of the envelopes, the chairman bluntly refused to oblige to their demand.
  Etiebet, who argued that such was not the instruction given to the electoral committee by the headquarters of the party, noted that his action gave room to suspicion as the envelopes might have contained doctored names of delegates for a preferred candidates.
  “I was surprised because the term of reference given to them was to come and conduct ward congresses. If he came to monitor, that means he was not conducting, which means there was no ward congress.  If he is monitoring, who then was conducting?
  “The truth of the whole thing is that we don’t accept the outcome of the ward congress. The party in Abuja is a listening one, if we are able to prove and we have proven that there was no ward congress in Akwa Ibom State, the party will have to send a new team to re-elect ward delegates. As a BoT member of the PDP, I want to assure you that I stand for justice. There should be a normal internal democracy, and whoever emerges, we will support”, Etiebet further said.
  He then called on the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Adamu Mu’azu and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to intervene and cancel the fraudulent ward congress in the state.
  He said that people were aggrieved and were only being controlled by party elders in the state, stressing that the people would only be satisfied when there is free, fair and level-playing field for all aspirants

Clashes mar A' Ibom PDP ward Congress

clashes mar A’Ibom PDP ward congress   

Several people were injured when two factions of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from Eastern Obolo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom engaged each other in confrontations during Saturday’s ward congress.
The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Gabriel Ochong, who confirmed the clashes when he spoke to newsmen in Uyo, however said no one was killed.
Mr. Ochong said if any of the victims had died, the police, who took them to hospital, would have informed him.
“I don’t think there was any person that died. I was in Four Lane myself.
“The problem started when two factions from Eastern Obolo used wood to hit one another.
“The injured were bleeding and the police had to take them to hospital.
“If anything had happened to anyone of them, the police who took them to the hospital would have informed me.
“However, at the time I left my house for that place, I was even told that two people had been killed, only for me to get there and found out that the people who engaged themselves in brawl only sustained injury.
“No position is worth the life of any Nigeria, let the election be peaceful so that the will of people will prevail,” he said.
The state Governor, Godswill Akpabio, however, expressed satisfaction at the turnout of people.
He said that the turnout was impressive and promised that every aspirant would be given level playing ground to seek elective offices.
(NAN)

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