The Federal Government may have tactically commenced a total clampdown on members of the New Peoples Democratic Party. Already, an event centre, A-Park, own by Senator Aisha Al-Hassan, a staunch member of the faction of the ruling party located near OAU Quarters in Maitama, Abuja, has been marked for demolition. Our correspondent gathered that Al-Hassan had been served a notice of demolition by the Federal Capital Territory. Al-Hassan, who hails from Taraba State, however, insisted that she was given permission to build the event centre, adding that she might be forced to approach the court to stop the demolition. But the Special Assistant to the Minister of FCT on Media, Mr. Nosike Ogbuenyi, said that the senator was just given a temporary permit, which he said forbade her from erecting a permanent structure on the land. He said the senator also signed an undertaking to vacate the land anytime the authority needed it. He said, “The operator was given a temporary permit only which forbids her from erecting a permanent structure on the site. The recreation facility is located on the Transit Way Corridor. “The owner signed a written undertaking three years ago, in 2010, to vacate the place anytime the Transit Way project commences. “She was never given a permanent allocation to use
the place as a park, a garden or a recreation centre. It was just somewhere she was allowed to use temporarily and that explains why she signed an undertaking to vacate since 2010. “Now, the Transit Way project is in progress, the agreement she signed to quit comes into force while the land reverts to its original purpose, which is Transit Way. The reversion is in the overall public interest and in keeping with the provisions of the Abuja Master Plan.” Also tasting the might of the government was a former governor of Gombe State, Senator Danjuma Goje,whose security details were said to have been withdrawn. It will be recalled that the security details of a former governor of Kwara State, Dr. Bukola Saraki, who is a member of the faction of the party being led by Alhaji Kawu Baraje, were withdrawn by the authority. Saraki is also being investigated by the Special Fraud Unit, an arm of the Police over the bond he took while in office on behalf of his state. It was also gathered that the Police in Bayelsa State had declared the chairman of the faction in the state, Chief Richard Kpodo and secretary, Sivi Godswill wanted. Apart from them, other members of the party in the state were said to have been declared wanted for allegedly belonging to a political party alien to the Independent National Electoral Commission. The FCT administration had on Saturday sealed off the Adamawa State Government Lodge on the orders of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed. It also revoked the Certificate of Occupancy of a building belonging to the Kano State Governor, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwanso. While reacting to these happenings, the National Publicity Secretary of New PDP, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, described the situation as alarming. He said event in the country had shown that democracy had yet to take root in the country. Eze said, “What we have in the country is the combination of military and democracy, which is militocracy.” Eze said, “What is happening is against the dictates of chapter 4 section 40 of the 1999 Constitution which allows freedom of association and liberty to freely associate. “Democracy in Nigeria is gradually under threat, there are no longer rights to association, this is not good for the development of democracy in the country. This is like the era of impunity. “Atrocities are gradually being visited on our members because of our decision to oppose what is going in the PDP. But we cannot be intimidated. We will continue to fight for what is right and just in the country.”


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Owk

Sllowppoisoon: Owk

Let the war begin...

Were they expecting a free ride from a militant president? If they had not support him for their selfish ends, may be a very good and patriotic person would have been there.

The clueless,flogging the clued!

Nonsense

hmmmmmm action speaks louder than word.....

Make I run comot fron dis thread before apc guys go come......with dier e-dane guns and blunt machetes oh

Getting more interesting...





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[b]We’ll send confab report to NASS —Jonathan •Says it will aid constitution amendment
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PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan insisted on Tuesday that he decided to organise a national conference in order to give the disparate views expressed by Nigerians on the polity a definite focus to enable the country to move towards a more equitable and united future.
He also said the outcome of the planned confab would be forwarded to the National Assembly to aid the constitution amendment process.
Receiving the Nigerian Muslim community led by Vice President Namadi Sambo who paid him a Sallah homage at the Presidential Villa, he told them that he would do his best to ensure that this generation of leaders bequeath to young Nigerians a country they would be proud to call their own.
Jonathan remarked that the decisions of the national conference would be forwarded to the National Assembly for consideration for possible inclusion in the constitution since the legislature was in the process of constitutional amendment.
He recalled that some of recommendations of the Justices Mohammed Uwais and Alfa Belgore Committees have since been put in the form of bills and forwarded to the National Assembly for their consideration.
Jonathan stated: “Even the Justice Uwais committee that was set up, that report was passed on to the National Assembly. In 2010, we brought Belgore and others and I said in 2005 Nigerians discussed somethings, why don’t we begin to implement some of them?
“So, we need to come up with some bills in those areas we have agreed and we push it to the National Assembly. Of course, some of those bills have not come out from the national Assembly but we believe that even in the constitutional amendment that is going on, some will be useful.
“And this national dialogue is even critical and is coming at the right time because the National Assembly is thinking about how they will amend the constitution. So, the results of the discussion of course will be passed to the National Assembly.
“It is only left for all of us who are Nigerians to impress it on our representatives, those in National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly because our state and federal parliaments must work together to ensure these are properly enshrined in our constitution so that as a nation, we will hand over a country that is better than what we have met to our children.
“I assure you that myself, my Vice President and our team will continue to do our best for Nigeria so that our children will be happy in the end.”
In his remarks earlier, Vice President Sambo praised the president for his leadership and for transforming the country, observing that President Jonathan has ensured economic and political stability in the country.
He observed that Nigerians have been talking in the media about what was best for the country, but these views were largely scattered and uncoordinated and therefore have not had any effect, adding that the national conference would provide a direction for such discussions.
He said: “At times, when you listen to radio and read in the papers and you see sometimes even our elders that are supposed to give us leadership quarreling over nothing, sometimes even insulting themselves and even making provocative statements that will sometimes instigate one group against the other.
“We decided that we cannot continue that way, the talking must have a direction. What has been happening on the pages of newspapers are discussions that have no direction.”
Recalling his elementary physics, the president likened the ongoing debates to scalar quantity defined only by magnitude but without direction, saying that the national conference would bring the discussion to the standard of vector, which in physics, is defined by both quantity and direction.
Jonathan noted: “So, we want a country that will have a direction. So, the discussions must have a direction, the discussion must lead Nigeria to where we want to be, not a divided Nigeria, not a Nigeria that is sown with hate, not a Nigeria that will be based on acrimony, ethnicity and tribal sentiments in the way we conduct ourselves.
“That is a reason we set up that committee and we have given them the free will. Some people are still instigating others that the president is doing this, the government does not have the capacity to do that. We are totally committed to do what is right. We don’t need to carry a cane to flog Nigerians to show that we are determined.”
The president, who noted that in spite of the current challenges facing the nation it was still able to celebrate Sallah and express gratitude to Allah, vowed that his administration would create a peaceful Nigeria.
According him, “that is why we are totally committed to do our best to ensure that we pass a Nigeria to our young people that are coming up, a Nigeria where people will live in peace, a Nigeria that wherever you go, you call the next person your own brother or sister, a Nigeria that our young children who will become adults will say that I am proud to be a Nigerian. Not a Nigeria that people will kill them probably because they don’t recognize them.
“The killings that have been going on in some parts of the country have nothing to do with religion and ethnicity. That is why I asked those who killed those 50 students (recently); did they even bother about their religion or ethnicity?
“It has nothing to do with religion, it has nothing to do with ethnicity, it is because the world generally is experiencing terrorism.
“But in Nigeria, we must work very hard, we must talk to ourselves the way that our children will not develop hate among themselves. And that is one of the key reasons that we decided to have a conversation as a nation.”
ACF sets up steering committee for agenda
As the preparations for the proposed National Conference hot up, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), in its determination to forge a common front at the confab has constituted a steering committee.
A prominent member of the Forum told the Nigerian Tribune in Abuja on Tuesday in confidence that the decision was taken at its last week’s meeting in Kaduna.
According to the source,”we have set up a steering committee to harmonise everything as a region, once this is done, we will make further consultations with other stakeholders including the governors, traditional and religious leaders among others and then come up with a position paper for would-be delegates from the northern region as a whole.”
The source, however, dismissed the speculation doing the round that the north was not in support of the proposed confab,” individuals or political parties may be expressing their own personal opinions on the subject matter, but should not be taken to be our stand.”
“It is not true that the north is not in support of the confab, we are in total support of the confab, as we speak now, a steering committee has been set to harmonise our position for the confab,” he declared.
“Why must anybody or group be critizing or be afraid of such a golden opportunity for all the regions to come together to discuss the future of the country? Maybe those opposing the confab have a hidden agenda, the north is ready and set for the confab,” he declared.

Omole calls for caution from stakeholders
The National Coordinator of a nongovernmental body, Peoples, Problems and Solution [PPS], Dr Wale Omole, on Tuesday, called for caution over the proposed plan to national conference to reposition the country.
He said while such national dialogue was imperative, given some critical issues that tended to undermine the corporate existence of the federation, the stakeholders should avoid fanning the embers of disunity.
His views were contained in a statement tagged, National Conference: Which Way Nigeria, a copy of which was emailed to Nigerian Tribune.
He warned Nigerians against playing into the hands of some enemies of the country, who were apparently envious of the comparative advantage that Nigeria has continued to enjoy in the international community.
He said, “An intelligence report in the United States of America predicted the break-up of Nigeria into smaller nations some years ago. The issue did not go well with Nigerians. Several people have thrown bricks at America for such prediction. Rather than asking America what culminated to its drawing this conclusion, Nigerian leaders merely said ‘we reject it’ and kept claiming that the Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba, many other nationalities making up the country are one. But we all know that we are not one.
“We are groups of different people co-existing in painful tolerance. Our cultural values are different. Our main menus may be similar but not the same. We all have different languages. We have different goals. An Igbo man knows his true brother. A Fulani knows his true brother.
“Either of them knows that a Yoruba man is not his brother, but a co-habitant. So, to the majority of Nigerians within and outside Nigeria, the general perceived solution to our multiple problems is the national conference. Yes, we need a national conference, but in a larger sense, we must tread with caution and be ready to manage it and its likely complications very well because of the complexity of our country.”
He advocated wide consultations with all segments of the society, especially the major stakeholders preparatory to such conference, in view of the prevailing fragile political climate in the country.
Noting the enormous sacrifices Nigerians have continued to make to ensure national stability and preserve the corporate existence of the country, Dr Omole said the stakeholders should eschew unhealthy rivalry, acrimony and inflammatory utterances by all concerned.[/b]

Field Marshal Muamar Jonathan Alzawahiri baring his guns! Can hardly wait to see what hospital he ends up in when he's done shooting himself.

lincolnj88:

hmmmmmm action speaks louder than word.....

Make I run comot fron dis thread before apc guys go come......with dier e-dane guns and blunt machetes oh

hahaha wait make i folow u o hahahaha

ikwere militant: hahaha wait make i folow u o hahahaha

Hahahahaha
Abeg oh.....join me fast oh

Those that allow to be led by their greed, their greed will lead them to self destruction. He who kill with a sword will die by the sword.

For those wey talk say Jona na weakling....

Na Amaechi I pity pass....