Monday, 25 January 2016

JUST IN!!! Ijaw Youth Council’s Open Letter to Buhari (Must Read)

JUST IN!!! Ijaw Youth Council’s Open Letter to Buhari (Must Read)PMB Reading

January 22, 2016.

His Excellency,
Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR,
President and Commander in Chief,
Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
Your Excellency Sir,

PROPOSED CANCELLATION OF MARITIME UNIVERSITY, OKERENKOKO, DELTA STATE
Your Excellency, we write to protest against the ‘proposed cancellation’ of the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State as announced by the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi while briefing the Senate Committee on Marine Transport about the activities of his Ministry on Tuesday, the 19th of January, 2016.

According to the Minister: ‘We are not going ahead with the university project proposed by NIMASA because we have an institution in Oron, we have Nigeria Institute of Transport Technology, Zaria, and we have the Nigerian College of Aviation in Zaria, which we could upgrade to a University status and NIMASA is proposing to build a new one’.

Mr. Amaechi is not finished yet, he went further to state:  ‘Who will attend the University? How many parent will allow their children to go to such place where it propose to site the University?…’

Mr. President, the reasons advanced by your Minister of Transportation are not only weak, mischievous and misleading, but also highly provocative and inciting. If there is any statement or action that has painted your administration in negative light in Nigeria, especially in the Niger Delta region, it is this statement.

Beyond the fact that the university would greatly contribute to the development of high class manpower in the maritime sector in the light of your administration’s efforts to diversify the nation’s economy beyond oil; it would also go a long way to address the aged long marginalization suffered by the people of the Niger Delta Region. The university would no doubt open up the area where it is sited which is in the hinterland of the Niger Delta and help in positively impacting on the life of the people of the area concerned, especially the youths. We cannot be talking of addressing problems of militancy and other associated challenges in the Niger Delta region without giving the people education.

The Maritime University, Okerenkoko is part of the post amnesty development plan of the Niger Delta region. The reasons advanced by the Minister for wishing to cancel the university are not tenable. The fact that there are maritime institutes in Zaria and Oron should not be used as excuse to cancel the university at Okerenkoko. The existing institutes in Zaria and Oron and the university in Okerenkoko have their different roles to play in the development of the very rich but underdeveloped maritime sector in Nigeria. The institutes in Oron and Zaria are meant to train medium class manpower in the maritime sector while the Maritime University, Okerenkoko would train world class technical and managerial manpower.

This would obviously address the problems of capital flight in Nigeria where Nigerians are sent to universities in countries like Philippines, Romania, Egypt and other countries to train at great cost to the country. The existing institutes and university are expected to play complimentary roles in the development of the maritime sector. If this was not the case, then Polytechnics would not have being existing side by side with universities in Nigeria and most importantly, the Petroleum Training Institute, Efffurun, Delta State would no longer exist for the training of medium class manpower in the oil and gas sector with the establishment of the University of Petroleum Resources, Ugbomro, Delta State.

Mr. President, the most ridiculous reason advanced by the Minister is the assertion that parents would not send their children to school at Okerenkoko because of the terrain. This comment is not only ridiculous but also highly provocative and inciting. It would interest your Excellency to note that Okerenkoko Community, Gbaramatu Clan, Delta State is surrounded by several oil installations and platforms such as Egwa 1 Flow station owned by NPDC, Abiteye owned by Chevron, Makarava, Odidi 1 & 11 owned by NPDC, the Chevron Escravos Terminal and several other oil installations. And these oil installations and platforms have several oil workers including foreign expatriates who have been working for several years in that environment even during the period of hostilities in the Niger Delta region. The question is, if oil workers can go to this same environment to explore and exploit oil, why can’t the same place play host to a university that would develop the people and environment?

Contrary to Mr. Amaechi’s assertion, the Okerenkoko environment is a natural location for a maritime university. It is ridiculous for the Minister to suggest that one of the Maritime institutes in Zaria be upgraded to a maritime university.

Is Mr. Rotimi Amaechi saying that the Niger Delta environment is only good for oil exploration and exploitation but not good enough for education and infrastructural development? Is Amaechi saying that the people in the creeks of the Niger Delta region unlike other Nigerians have no right to acquire education and live a decent life? Whose interest is Mr. Amaechi serving or promoting?

Mr. President, Mr. Amaechi is obviously not promoting the interest of your government! He has only succeeded in painting your government as an anti-Niger Delta administration. We of the IYC are shocked that a suggestion not to build a university in the hinterland of the Niger Delta is coming from Mr. Amaechi who is from the same region. We wish to also point out that if allegations of alleged corruption are one of the reasons for the decision, such issues be handled in accordance with the law. It should not be a reason for cancellation of a laudable project.

Mr. Amaechi also stated that the only thing on ground in the Maritime University, Okerenkoko is the feasibility studies and that no work has been done. This is obviously very far from the truth. Apart from the temporary site at Kurutie Community with completed structures, a lot of work has been done at the permanent site of the Maritime University at Okerenkoko.

We hereby attach pictures of work done so far (see pictures on right side of this page). Pictures do not lie and these facts are verifiable and we call on you to set up an independent team comprising of different stakeholders to verify these facts.

CONCLUSION
The tragedy of this nation has been facilitated and often repeated by politicians driven by sectional, ethnic and other primordial sentiments. The policies and decisions needed in the march to greatness have been sacrificed on the altar of personal, narcissistic and egoistic indulgence to the detriment of the greater good of the nation. We should realize that the elections are long over and it is now time for nation building.
Mr. President, we call on you to reject the proposed decision of the Ministry of Transportation to cancel the Maritime University, Okerenkoko. If it is decision that already has your blessing, we appeal for the reversion of the decision. It is not in the interest of the country and your administration. The decision would only provide justification for hostility in the Niger Delta region towards your administration.

Signed for the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Worldwide:
Udengs Eradiri
President
Eric Omare, Esq.,
Spokesman


Biafra Will Be Achieved Without Violence

Biafra Will Be Achieved Without Violence



Solomon Chukwu, one of the leaders of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign States of Biafra (MASSOB) has said that an independence of the Biafra republic would only be realized without violence.

Chukwu via MASSOB spokesman, Sunny Okereafor, criticised the violence and killings which happened during the last protest calling for the release of Radio Biafra Director, Nnamdi Kanu in Aba, and blamed the Uchenna Madu faction for being sponsored by politicians to sabotage Biafra.

He said: “MASSOB condemns the violence and killings in Aba over the detention of Nnamdi Kanu. We only support peaceful agitation and genuine protest. We don’t carry knives or gun. Our leader, Ralph Uwazuruike has stated severally that Biafra will only be achieved through non-violence. If you watch our activities, we are non- violent in our approach to the Biafran struggle. That is why people see us as the genuine pro-Biafra group. With this violence and killings in Onitsha, Aba and other cities, what have they  achieved? Nothing. Why have all these violent protests and killings not led to the release of Nnamdi Kanu? What sense does it make for you to cause violence and killing of the same people you want to liberate? MASSOB has no hand in it.

“The federal government should question Uchenna Madu and his cohorts for the violence and killings in Aba. He has been expelled from MASSOB and should stop using the name of the Movement to commit violence. Anybody doing business with Uchenna Madu under the name of MASSOB does it at his own risk.”

Meantime Rivers state police command reacted to the accusation that it brought the pro-Biafran activists it arraigned before the magistrate’s court half naked.

It dismissed the allegation and the pictures published by some online media as malicious and deceitful, adding that the force cannot malhandle suspects.

The South East and South South parts of Nigeria are on the throes of protest by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). They call for creation a country under Biafra and for the release of their leader Nnamdi Kanu.

Metu docked at commencement of trials (PHOTO


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The image here captures the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh being docked at the Federal High Court at the commencement of trial this morning.

Metuh was again brought to the court in handcuffs.

Abia North Rerun: Nat. Assembly Deletes Ohuabunwa; We’ve Confidence in Kalu, Electorates

Abia North Rerun: Nat. Assembly Deletes Ohuabunwa; We’ve Confidence in Kalu, Electorates 
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The management of National Assembly has finally deleted the bio-data and photographs of former Senate President, David Mark and eight other senators from its website, our correspondents report. Twice, our correspondents had reported that Mark and 11 other senators that were sacked from the senate last year by the Court of Appeal were being paraded as serving lawmakers on the website of the National Assembly.

Mark had been at the National Assembly since 1999, representing Benue South Senatorial District until November last year when his election was nullified. He was Senate President from 2007 until his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost control of the senate in 2015. Checks on the website of the National Assembly yesterday showed that the bio-data and photograph of Mark who is set to contest with Daniel Onjeh, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the February 18 re-un election has been removed. Also, the photographs and bio-data of Uche Lilian Ekwunife who was also sacked late last year have been deleted on the website. Until last weekend, she was being paraded as a serving senator representing Anambra central on the website of the National Assembly.

Others that were expunged from the website are: George Thompson Sekibo(PDP, Rivers East), Olaka Johnson Nwogu(PDP, Rivers South-East), Osinakachukwu Ideozu(PDP, Rivers West), Abdulrahman Abubakar(APC, Kogi east), and Mao Ohuabunwa (PDP, Abia North).

However, Nneji Athan Achonu (PDP, Imo North), Mohammed Abdulsalami Ohiare(APC, Kogi Central) and Ighoyota Amori(PDP) Delta central) who were also sacked last year are still serving senators on the website. While the pictures and bio-data of Achonu and Ohiare are still on the website, only the bio-data of Amori was seen there yesterday.

Meanwhile, the bio-data of Abubakar Yusuf Abubakar who replaced Abba Marafa Bashir of the Taraba Central senatorial district in the senate has been uploaded. Our correspondents observed that his picture is yet to adorn the website.

Meanwhile, indigenes of Bende Lo­cal Government Area of Abia State came out in large numbers in a carnival-like event on Saturday to show solidarity to former gover­nor of Abia State and Pro­gressive Peoples’Alliance (PPA) candidate for Abia North senatorial re-run poll, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu.

Speaking on behalf of the organisers of the event held at Onu Ibina Hall, Igbere, Mazi Paul Uche expressed confidence in the candida­ture of the businessman-cum-politician, and noted that it would be in the inter­est of Ndigbo to have him in the Red Chamber. He added that Kalu is a patriot­ic nationalist who believes in a fair and just society.

“The forthcoming re-run election for Abia North senatorial district is a rare opportunity for us to correct the imbalance in our zone.

“Kalu has the skills and wherewithal to bring the desired change to the re­gion.
“He would use his vast contacts and political clout to ensure quality represen­tation which will lead to the execution of Federal Gov­ernment and other projects across Arochukwu, Bende, Ohafia, Umunneochi and Isiukwuato local govern­ment areas.

“In the past eight years, our roads, hospitals and other social amenities have been abandoned because our representatives at the National Assembly have placed personal interests above the collective needs of the people.

“The time is now to bring on board a charismatic and experienced public servant in the person of Kalu to draw the attention of con­cerned authorities to the marginalisation of the re­gion in terms of infrastruc­ture.
“We call on youths, el­ders, students, artisans, traders, traditional rul­ers and chiefs, religious leaders, among others, to come out en masse to cast their votes for the people’s choice, Kalu, on the elec­tion day. We have undis­puted confidence in the PPA candidate,” Uche con­cluded.

Speaking earlier, a for­mer chairman of Bende Lo­cal Government, Benjamin Kalu, who represented the front-line politician at the event, reaffirmed Kalu’s commitment and passion for humanity.

He noted that Kalu’s milk of human kindness transcends the political circle and added that his philanthropic gestures have impacted lives positively beyond the South East .

Kalu said the event has heralded a new begin­ning in the history of Abia North.
The show of love and support as demonstrated today was not only encour­aging but also a challenge for the former governor to do more.

“As a generous person, he will continue to expand his scope of charitable ac­tivities in the interest of the masses. It was our collec­tive decision to present a notable figure to represent us at the National Assem­bly.
“Kalu has performed well in all spheres of life and he remains the best choice for Abia North.”

The former chairman seized the occasion to cau­tion youths against violence before, during and after the rerun poll and noted that law-enforcement agencies will apprehend violators of the electoral act.

He also urged the elec­torate to cast their votes for the PPA candidate at the forthcoming re-run election scheduled for March 5.

#Dasukigate: Indicted Army Officers Lament Unfair Treatment

Following the ongoing investigation into the $2.1 billion arms procurement fund, some of the Army officers indicted in the scam have cried foul.
Former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh and others indicted in the $2.1 billion arms scam will be interrogated in batches.

The officers alleged that they were not allowed to appear before the Special Investigative Committee (SIC) before being referred to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Meanwhile, the EFCC has gathered a team to interrogate the indicted officers in the shady arms deal. Those to be interrogated are a former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, and 17 others, including 11 senior military officers.

The list of military officers to be quizzed also includes two former Chiefs of Air Staff, Air Marshals M.D. Umar and A.N. Amosu (rtd). Others to be grilled are 22 companies traced to associates and relatives of some of the suspects.

Also to be questioned are: AVM A. M. Mamu (the Chief of Administration); AVM O.T. Oguntoyinbo (former Director of Production, Defence Headquarters);  AVM R.A. Ojuawo (Air Officer Tactical Air Command, Makurdi;  AVM J.B. Adigun (former Chief of Accounts and Budgeting in NAF); and AVM JA Kayode-Beckley (Director, Armament Research in Air Force Research and Development Centre); AVM T Omenyi (MD, NAF Holdings) four top officers at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Air Cdre A.O. Ogunjobi; Air Cdre G.M.D Gwani; Air Cdre S.O. Makinde; Air Cdre A.Y. Lassa and Col. N. Ashinze , who was the Special Military Assistant to the ex-National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.). Col. Ashinze is in the EFCC’s custody.

The Nation reports that a source within the anti-graft agency disclosed that the officers would be quizzed in batches.

The anti-graft agency has quizzed Alex Badeh Jr., son of the former Chief of Defence Staff, in connection with the arms scandal.

“We are going ahead with the interrogation of some former and serving military officers as recommended. There is no going back on this. We have a team ready to interact with these officers and about 22 companies. But we will conduct the interrogation in batches.

“Very soon, we will invite these officers. We have a schedule of how we will conduct our findings,” the source said.

The source also confirmed that some serving and former military chiefs have raised issues on why they were referred to the EFCC because the sic had not invited them.

“We were surprised that the EFCC has been mandated to interact with some of us when we were never invited by the sic which made the recommendation to the Presidency.

“This is an area we want the President and Commander-In-Chief, HE Muhammadu Buhari, to look at. The sic did some preliminary work for EFCC to act upon. But we were not asked to appear. We are not afraid of accounting for our tenure but due process must be followed,” the source said.
However, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, who was the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has denied ever receiving any invitation from the EFCC contrary to reports.
Muazu’s aide, who spoke on behalf of his boss, said: “Contrary to what is being reported, Mu’azu is yet to receive any invitation from the EFCC or any agency.

“The ex-PDP National Chairman is also not aware of any allegation against him. Yet we read of N500 million and some ambiguous figures on a daily basis. Some even alleged that the former governor is on the run, which is not true. Mu’azu was a party leader and he did not go beyond his bound while leading the PDP.”

In a related development, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, may risk arrest as the House of Representatives Ad-hoc committee, investigating sharp practices in the collection and management of non-oil revenue remittances by ministries, departments and agencies is irked over failure of honouring invitation.

Meanwhile, Dasuki has filed a suit against the federal government before the ECOWAS court in Abuja over his continued detention. In the suit filed by his lawyer, Robert Emukpoeruo, Dasuki wants the court to declare among other things that his continued detention after having been granted bail by three different courts and met the conditions for his release, was “unlawful, arbitrary and an egregious violation” of his human rights.

Kanu’s Son Receives a Name

Kanu’s Son Receives a Name

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu has finally given the name to his handsome son.
Nnabuikem Kanu, the son of the Biafra leader
The son of the Biafra leader, who is currently in custody, will be called Nnabuikem.
Nnabuikem literally means ‘God is my strength’.

Her husband was in mid-October 2015 arrested in Nigeria by the country’s secret police, charged to court where he was granted bail and still remains in DSS custody after meeting all bail conditions.
Pro-Biafrans are campaigning for the independence of the territories that constituted the Biafran Republic, established during the civil war in Nigeria which was previously headed by Ojukwu.

IPOB supporters have held a series of protests across the country in recent months to demand Kanu’s release and voice their calls for a breakaway state for the southeastern Igbo people.
Meanwhile, the court recently ordered that Kanu be remanded in prison custody until a bail application is heard on January 25.


Uchechi Okwu Kanu delivered a bouncing baby boy on January 5.

BEFORE APC CONVERTS BUHARI TO A THIEF

BEFORE APC CONVERTS BUHARI TO A THIEF

The most consequential Nigerian political news of last week slipped under the radar.
Here it is; the executive of the ruling All Progressives Congress huddled together with President Muhammadu Buhari in the State House. They reported their Party’s cash crunch and implored President Buhari to start funding the Party!

A cartoon buff who encounters the story is sure to instantly conceive a drawing idea: APC Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, and the dozen plus company on their knees, desperate suppliants, praying a throne-seated Buhari to give them this day a character after the image and likeness of Sambo Dasuki!
Newspaper reports say it was a closed door meeting. But it doesn’t take a giant leap of imagination to surmise that Oyegun presented the plea in the standard way Nigerians make request of their ruler. He must have delivered it like sandwich.

Buhari would have been repulsed if Oyegun had gone straight to the point. “Mr. President, your party and our party, the All Progressives Congress, desires you to officially approve that the party be a parasite on the national treasury!’’
 
Oyegun, former Governor and a man of gray hairs, knows better than to breach cultural protocol. He could not have dared to beseech the president without first performing the foreplay of flattery to make the ruler attentive, receptive and disposed to granting the yet-to-be named favor.
 
And so, Oyegun may have cherry picked some positive developments attributable to Buhari’s tenure, exaggerated their significance and declared that Buhari has wrought more feats than other Nigerian leaders living or dead. Then, Oyegun would sneak in the request wrapped with euphemism. And then, Oyegun would end by praising Buhari again, smiling with the fakest authentic smile his facial muscles can be mobilized to contrive!
 
Thankfully, Oyegun’s hypnosis failed. President Buhari rejected the poisonous pitch. Buhari refused to commit himself to being the party’s financier. Buhari asked Oyegun to search for clean ways of funding the party’s operations.
 
Ordinarily, Oyegun and co should have known that no other answer was possible in the circumstances. Even if Buhari was not a strict ascetic, even if he was not a man of lean taste, even if it would have been out of character for him to accede to their demand, that proposition was against the spirit of the times.
This is a season when the whole nation is still reeling from the revelations of how President Goodluck Jonathan underwrote the prodigal politics of the Peoples Democratic Party. People are outraged that a leader and a political party that were elected to govern worked hard to bankrupt the country. The anti-graft agencies are still wrestling with the impossible arithmetic of summing up the heists of the Jonathan days.
So weird is the miasma of the disclosures from the state-sanctioned vampire politics of the PDP that Chukwuma Soludo, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, felicitously compared the scale of Jonathan era looting of the Nigerian treasury to the apocryphal story of Africa’s first class buffoon, Idi Amin, ordering the Ugandan mint to print him money to spend!
It’s probably the most inappropriate time for Oyegun and his cohorts could have chosen to ask Buhari to license APC to continue the thievery of PDP!
 
Oyegun, former governor and a man of gray hairs, is the face of a new party that marketed itself as a corrective savior. APC’s motto was, and still is, ‘’CHANGE’’. Last year, he sold that theme of CHANGE to the constituency of disenchanted voters. He repeated countless times that the CHANGE APC was offering is the alternative reality the Nigerian people deserve.
 
While stumping for Buhari and other candidates of APC, Oyegun rhapsodizes that the putative difference between the philosophies of APC and the PDP was the reason the electorate should break up with the party that has mis-governed Nigeria for 16 years. He told the rallies that a new future was at the fingertips of Nigerians. They could recreate their future by deploying their thumbprint.
 
After APC won the presidency and the governorship of a majority of States in Nigeria, Oyegun promised that his party would wear power responsibly. APC would be a governing party. Not a ruling party.
Nobody knew that given the opportunity of an audience with President Buhari behind closed doors, Oyegun, former governor and a man of gray hairs, would not advance the leader of Africa’s most populous country constructive counsel or a policy proposal. Oyegun would, instead, urge Buhari to destroy Nigeria. Oyegun would advise Buhari to unleash APC on the treasury–to calamitous effect!
 
It should have been obvious to the Oyegun delegation that Buhari would disappoint them. Buhari, a man who owes both his public persona and very human essence to a claim to rigid integrity, cannot be swayed to replicate the fraud of feeding the ‘’party in power’’ on the national treasury. The tiniest credible leak of such arrangement would precipitate a spate of events that would erase Buhari’s very existence!
 
Oyegun and the adults he took on that shameful mission know this. But it seems that they were deceived by their own optimism. Buhari might indulge them if they tried. And they would experience fairy tale enrichment like Anthony Anenih, Olisa Metuh, Haliru Bello, Jim Nwobodo, Olabode George, Attahiru Bafarawa, and others.
 
Or probably, Oyegun and his associates were, indeed, cognizant of the irredeemable foolishness of their agenda but had, nevertheless, collectively decided to push it. Maybe they had hoped that their sheer number would exert a magical effect on Buhari.
 
Oyegun probably curses his stars. He is the chairman of the wrong ruling party. If he had been the chairman of the PDP in the days of Jonathan, Oyegun would not have to cry for funds, like a baby cries for its feeding bottle. Oyegun would be in have been in Jonathan’s bosom, sucking nourishment non-stop!
Consider the request one more time.
 
Oyegun and his team had not asked Buhari to make a one-off intervention to help APC address a financial emergency. They did not ask him for a one-time bailout. They had asked him for perpetual funding. Feed us money every day.
 
In a manner of speaking, they asked Buhari to construct a pipeline of petro-cash, stretching from the presidency to APC national secretariat. He would build the conduit and maintain the flow. Money must be ever surging at the right velocity. So that Oyegun, other officials and chieftains of the party may be protected from lack. So that they may be eternally happy. So that the may remain loyal to the source!
 
Now, how does Oyegun expect Buhari to conjure the windfall to foot the party’s bills day by day, week by week, and month by month and year by year? From Buhari’s private bank? From Buhari’s half-presidential salary? Through some money ritual?
 
Oyegun, without a doubt, presumes that President Buhari sits atop Nigeria’s riches. Buhari has the carte blanche to spend taxpayers’ money as he pleases. Oyegun also believes that it is right for the leader of a democratic nation to channel the resources of the entire citizenry to the mundane affairs of the one political party of his preference.
 
Thus, Oyegun might be said to be blissfully unaware that he was a tempter, prodding Buhari to felony. Never mind that Oyegun has authored and signed about ten press statements, disparaging PDP and its leaders for robbing Nigeria and Nigerians under the pretext of doing the duty of governance.
 
Oyegun believes his party is entitled to its own spoil time. CHANGE to Oyegun means a set of would-be thieves displacing the old occupying gang. And the new thieves stealing with the old thieves’ playbook!
Oyegun’s concept of a political party is flawed. His idea of a ruling party is one that wins power as a means to hijacking the national treasury. His interpretation of the party in power is the party in money!
And, it may well be that Oyegun’s vision is to make APC overtake PDP in infamy!
 
Now, why did the APC turn to Buhari for funding? Is he the party’s benefactor of first resort? Is the party Buhari’s private concern? Is Buhari the only member of the party?
 
By asking him to assume the obligation of financing the party singlehandedly, though his total legitimate earnings as head of state would prove grossly insufficient, isn’t the APC goading Buhari to rob the country to pay the party?
 
It looks yesterday when APC conducted a nationwide registration of its members. While the exercise progressed, the party announced that it was close to capturing the particulars of 25 million people in its digital register!
 
The natural question to ask is, where are the million members APC had touted. Have they all vanished from our shores? Or are they so small in number their dues can’t fund the party?
 
Before Oyegun and his vanguard of august beggars destroy Buhari, I am constrained to advise that Oyegun and APC executive stay away from the Villa and look elsewhere for funds. If they are incapable of enhancing the President’s ability to govern whenever they engage him, they should not inflict themselves on precious presidential time. They should not convert Buhari to thievery.
 
Instead of pestering Buhari to gift APC a Dasuki-like ATM, Oyegun should ask Google how political parties of advanced democracies fund themselves!