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By   Oniuwherin It is not clear if the PDP, weakening opposition party in the country was deliberate in its choice of Atiku Abubakar as its presidential flag bearer or it was by some surreptitious omission that saw the emergence of the former vice president as its elected flag bearer at its national primary convention which     was held in Porthacourt that Atiku Abubakar suddenly earned so much votes that gave him a clear lead over other contenders speaks volume at the low sink the PDP has sunk. The APC for just that move and like the bobby trap, the PDP walked into it and now, the PDP is trapped with its flag bearer who according to an APC stalwart lacks credibility, integrity, faith and loyalty. These four virtues are most wanted in any politician seeking public leadership. Atiku has demonstrated lack of faith, credibility loyalty and of course integrity. Another APC stalwart asked; is this the kind of man the PDP is pushing forward as its presidential f...

...SAY HIS DEATH HAS CREATED A MAJOR POLITICAL VACUUM IN NIGERIA The Chairman of the South South Governors’s Forum, and Governor òf Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, on Tuesday led his colleagues to condole with the family of late politician, Chief Tony Anenih, in Abuja. The Chief mourner and first son of Anenih, Tony Anenih, and his widow, Justice Mary Anenih, received the governors. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Media Relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, said in a statement on Tuesday that Governor Dickson was accompanied by the Governor òf Rivers State, Barr. Nyesom Wike, the Governor òf Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, and their Akwa Ibom State state counterpart, Barr. Emmanuel Udom. The Governor òf Bayelsa State who spoke on behalf of the South South Governors Forum, said that they visited the residence of the late astute politician to condole with the members and encourage them on the demise of their father. He said that the governors’ visi...

Bayelsa State Governor, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has said that he has taken a decision to sign an executive order to give automatic employment to all first class graduates in the state every year. The Governor said that the executive order was aimed at ensuring that the automatic employment policy is sustained annually even after the end of his administration. A statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media Relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, quoted the governor as having stated this during an induction ceremony for 31 First Class Graduates who were offered automatic employment at the Government House, Yenagoa on Monday, He explained that the order would mandate the Civil Service Commission to present a list of duly verified applicants to the office of the governor every year for automatic employment. Governor Dickson also directed the Civil Service Commission to immediately issue letters of employment to verified first class graduates in the state. H...

2019: Why Atiku is not a threat to Buhari’s victory – Oniuwherin The Director-General/National Coordinator, Buhari/Osinbajo Will Rule Again (BOWRA), Hon Faith Oniuwherin, in this interview, says the goodwill President Muhammadu Buhari enjoyed prior to the 2015 presidential election has tripled as 2019 approaches, and that the emergence of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the PDP presidential candidate is not a threat to the victory of President Buhari in 2019. Daily Trust: What’s your interest in the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari? Hon Faith Oniuwherin: When you are presented with two colours like white and black, you should be able to choose white. As a matter of fact, we had been in the dark, which is the best way to describe the previous administration, before President Buhari came and rescued us. Our support for him is due to the agenda he has for the nation and we have put in our energy to ensure that his drive, ambition, and vision in the Nigerian Project succeeds....

Top members the All Progressives Congress, APC, and allies of former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, have dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. A former Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Gideon Ekeuwei, and a former Special Adviser, Chief Rufus Abadi, during Sylva’s regime, decamped to the PDP at the weekend. They left the APC along with over 2,000 of their supporters. They were received by the Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson on Saturday. Speaking at the rally in Yenagoa, Dickson revealed that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was planning a mega rally for defectors. He expressed happiness that more chieftains of the APC are leaving the party to join hands with the PDP in his quest to build the state. “I welcome you back home to your own party, which we all know that you are a founding member in this state. We are very happy to receive you all. I have been informed that this is a preliminary reception,” he said. “A ...

Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has said Nigeria lost a political colossus in the late Chief Tony Anenih. Governor Dickson, in a statement on Sunday by his Special Adviser on Public Affairs, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, said he received the news of Chief Anenih's passing with shock. He described Anenih as an astute politician and elder statesman whose vacuum will be difficult to fill. The governor, who is also chairman of the South-South Governors Forum, said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the South -South geo-political zone and the entire country will miss Anenih for his selfless contributions to the growth of PDP,  development of the region and Nigeria in general. "Chief Anenih will be remembered for his immense contribution to the growth of PDP, development of the South-South region and Nigeria in general. Mr.  Fix It, as he was fondly called, was a political icon, a nationalist and a great leader of men. He was a political colossus. H...

Former Deputy Director of the Buhari Presidential Campaign Council, Mohammed Lawal, has berated some retired military generals, who are alleged to have ganged up to frustrate  President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid in 2019. Speaking with VINCENT KALU , Lawal, a director in NNPC, said the former generals don’t have the needed clout to defeat Buhari, stressing that the president would retire them from politics in next year’s general elections. In another interview with  Saturday Sun , former Plateau State governor, Fidelis Tapgun, said Obasanjo, IBB, Abdulsalami and other retired generals will determine who wins next year’s election. In essence, he was saying, they have perfected the arrangement to install Atiku. How influential do you think the ex-generals really are in terms of their capacity to change the outcome of the 2019 general elections? We know there is a massive gang up by these retired generals against President Muhammadu Buhari, but the go...

The Nigeria Police has has terminated its partnership with Skytick Technology Global Limited on the establishment of Nigeria Police Broadcasting Service (NPBS). In a press release signed by Force Public Relations Officer Ag. DCP Jimoh Moshood, for the Nigeria Police, he said that the termination is due to discovery of several inadequacies, status bars, flaws and impracticability of the project, which has been discovered to run contrary to the policy of the Nigeria Police Force and the Federal Government of Nigeria’s constitutional and statutory restrictions on the Force not to be an internally revenue generating agent. The Force Spokesperson further reitraited that  the Inspector General of Police has also dissolved the Board of Trustees and terminated the appointment of the Directors of the Nigerian Police Broadcasting Service (NPBS) in view of the constitutional and statutory implications of the establishment of the Nigeria Police Broadcasting Service and thanks them im...

The Director-General/National Coordinator, ‘Buhari/Osinbajo Will Rule Again (BOWRA),’ Faith Oniuwherin, has said that the goodwill President Muhammadu Buhari enjoyed prior to the 2015 presidential election has been tripled as he approaches the 2019 presidential election. Why your interest in the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari? My interest in Buhari is as a result of the fact that when you have two colours such as white and black, you should be able to choose white. Our support for him is due to the agenda that he has for the nation and we have put in our energy to ensure that his drive, his ambition, his vision in the Nigerian Project succeeds. How do you see his re-election bid so far, particularly being the sole aspirant of the All Progressives Congress? Is that a plus to our democratic process? That is the beauty of democracy. It was as a result of the competence of this administration in trying to ensure that things are done properly, in trying to ensure t...

The newly elected executives of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Correspondents' Chapel of Abuja, on Monday, petitioned the national secretariat of the union over an "unlawful nullification of elections" of the chapel by the FCT Council. At the elections conducted on Saturday 20th, October 2018, a staff of Daily Post, Yemi Itodo emerged as new Chairman of NUJ Correspondents' Chapel, while Collins Ajibola of Kiss FM emerged as his deputy. Mr. Rapheal Oni of Diplomat Magazine was elected as Secretary, Lesley Otu of the SOURCE was returned as Treasurer while Samson Adebayo of ONTV emerged the Auditor. But several hours after the result was announced, Mr. Primus Khaloba, acting Chairman of FCT Council nullified the election, saying there was a petition from "some aggrieved members". In a 4-page emotion-worded petition signed by Yemi Itodo and Rapheal Oni, on behalf of the new exco, the petitioners want the national secretariat to urgently ...

.. Party Chair Applaud Emevor APC For The Provision Of A befitting Party Secretariat. The gale of defections currently going on within the nooks and cranny of the Nation hits the People's Democratic Party Emevor Ward as no fewer than 50 members of the People Democratic Party defected to the All Progressives Congress APC. The event took place at the newly commissioned party Secretariat, in enlarged meeting of the party which has the leaders,executives, women and youth groups as well as party faithfuls in attendant. The Chairman of APC Emevor Ward, Mr Efe Atehe who was full of excitements as the party had never recorded such attendant in Emevor since the formulation of the party. He also ,on behalf, of APC Emevor ward expressed gratitude to one time Delta South Senatorial Candidate of DPP and a leader of APC Emevor Ward Sunny Ogwilaya for providing a befitting party secretariat to APC Emevor Ward. Some of the people who defected to the party are Y...

The Buhari New Media Center (BNMC) over the weekend inaugurated its Katsina State Leadership at the conference room of the Director General, Media and Publicity to the Katsina State Governor, Saidu Barda House, the old Katsina Government House. Katsina Media and Publicity reports that the activities of the centre in the state will be coordinated by Mallam Yawale Musa Kallah Daura, who shall be the State cordinator, whereas  Abdullahi Sarkin Yaki is to serve as the Head of the Secretariat of the Centre in the state as Secretary, Malam Ibrahim Mu'azzam Abdullahi will be the Head of Social Media Mobilisation for the center, Zainab Ghana will lead on women affairs and matters relating to gender and women mobilization as the state centre women Leader. Others are Abdulhadi Ahmad Bawa who shall deputize the coordinator, Abubakar Dantakai as the centre's treasurer, among many others. @katgovmedia reports that the Centre is expected to be a world class information resourc...

An aspirant for the position of chairmanship, Correspondent chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Abuja, Yemi Itodo, has accused the acting chairman of the union in Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Primus Khanoba, of upturning his legally won election, to pave way for his crony. Itodo was declared winner of the correspondents chapel's election held in Abuja Saturday alongside other officials for various positions. But 7 hours after the election, Mr. Khanoba, at an FCT council congress, declared that the election be redone next Saturday, saying there was a petition against the conduct of the election. Addressing Journalists shortly after the council congress, Itodo said the position of the Council was illegal, biased and partisanship. Itodo cautioned that, should anything happens to the mandate openly given to him and members of his new exco, it will result in litigation. "If we as Journalists, will run to the press in a hurry to criticise politic...

....DICKSON HAILS VERDICT, DESCRIBES IT AS A VICTORY FOR NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA Three oil producing states of the Niger Delta on Wednesday got a landmark judgment at the Supreme Court of Nigeria against the multinational oil firms operating in the country. The three states namely Rivers, Bayelsa and Akwa-Ibom states, had approached the Supreme Court for interpretation of Section 16(1) of the Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contract Act in suit number SC964/2016 filed on their behalf by their lead Counsel, Mr. Lucius Nwosu, (SAN). The particular Section requires the Federal Government to adjust the shares of the revenue accruable to the Federation whenever the price of crude oil exceeds 20 Dollars per barrel. The judgment delivered by Justice John Inyang Okoro mandated the Federal Government to embark on an upward adjustment of the shares of revenues accruing to the government whenever the price of Crude Oil exceeds 20 Dollars per barrel. The Governor of Ba...