It would be recalled that the governors had on February 22 met behind closed doors, after which the President pledged to address the nation on whether he will seek re-election in 2019
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The election is to take place on July 14, 2018.
Obasanjo had on Monday while addressing a group of youths who visited him in Abeokuta, Ogun State described the Buhari administration as a failure
Obasanjo said this at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State while playing host to the New Nigeria 2019 group, led by the convener, Chima Anyaso
They announced their defection from the PDP on Monday
The senator was in the town to inspect some classroom projects
The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, made available to newsmen gave the APC-led administration a three-day ultimatum to respond to allegations that it was elected with looted funds or find itself top of the list of confirmed looters.
In a post on Facebook by his spokesman, Reno Omokri, Jonathan said the list, made up of top shots of the All Progressives Congress, is one President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, do not want Nigerians to see.
The National Coordinator of the group, Dave Agwalla, made this known in Enugu on Monday while briefing newsmen at the end of a special prayer session for God’s intervention in the state.
The governor said: “With the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, saying that corruption has become more endemic in Nigeria than it was in the last 16 years, with the country moving 12 places below its rating, a honourable government would have stopped using fight against corruption as its major achievement and releasing names of people that are still under trial as looters just to cover up its failure.”
Wałęsa stressed the importance of the messages conveyed in the keynote address given by Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohamed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, at the opening ceremony
Both Obasanjo and Babangida have advised Buhari not to seek reelection in 2019
The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Sunday in Abuja said that the claim has no nothing to do with the PDP.
Babangida said he and other like-minds proposed as far as back as 1989 the possibility of handing over the country’s leadership to younger people who have the passion and zeal to propel it on the path of development and growth, but the older generation was recalcitrant then.
Tadese, currently the Acting Head of Department of Political Science and Public Administration, College of Management and Social Sciences, Fountain University, Osogbo, berated the administration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola for lacking human face and subjecting the people of the state to abject poverty.
The party said while it welcomes an open investigation into the Cambridge Analytica saga, it demands that such inquest be extended to cover the sources of the looted funds used to prosecute President Buhari’s campaign in 2015.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Sunday said Senator Mantu’s reported claims was personal to him and has nothing to do with it, as the party has never directed any of its members to rig election on its behalf at any point since its formation
A Presidency source informed Sate House correspondents at the weekend that the Federal Government has set up an in-house committee to investigate whether Cambridge Analytica’s work for the then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, in the 2007 and 2015 general elections campaigns broke the laws of this country or infringed on the rights of other parties and their candidates.
The incident occurred on Saturday
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Fayemi had hosted leaders and scores of members of the party from all the 16 Local Government Areas and the 177 Wards of the state.