The “Fund” was money derived as 2 per cent surcharge for all contracts under the Cabotage regime, which came into force in 2004 by virtue of the Coastal and Inland Shipping Act (Cabotage) 2003
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Quoting President Jonathan’s recent confession that he underestimated Boko Haram, the APC presidential campaign said the admission was a direct evidence that Jonathan, elected on the platform of the PDP, has nothing to offer and must bow to the wind of change
In a statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mallam Garba Shehu, the APC observed the panicky and uncoordinated management of the national economy by President Jonathan and his economic team
A statement by the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the APCPCO, signed by Garba Shehu, in reaction to the 72 hours ultimatum by NIMASA demanding retraction and apology over the report, said the APC will present credible witnesses in court to prove not only this, but the fact that the maritime agency has since transformed into a campaign outpost for the PDP
Shehu called on INEC to take cognisance of the superior courts’ ruling on the role of the military in elections and the military’s own commitment of its readiness to deploy troops for the 2015 elections
The APCPCO, which made this charge in a statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, accused the Federal Government of re-bagging all the grains at the nation’s strategic grain reserves, paid for with public resources in PDP colours and Jonathan campaign slogans ahead of issuance to the public
A statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APCPCO, Malam Garba Shehu, on Sunday urged families of all those who may have lost their loved ones in the tragedy to take solace in the comfort of God
The Director of Media and Publicity of the APCPCO, Malam Garba Shehu, in a press statement on Saturday said the endorsements from a section of Christian leaders from the North, that of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and frontline industrialist, Festus Odimegwu, are clear indications that Nigerians from all walks of life have accepted the message of change, which the APC promotes
In a statement signed by the campaign’s Director for Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, the APCCO said Jonathan’s loss of control was quite evident in the media chat he hosted on Wednesday
This situation persisted for about an hour until two things happened: the twitter and the Facebook began to render accounts of the siege and the call to Muslim prayers came and passed without my family members leaving for the Mosque
The APC said the action is in line with the ongoing harassment and intimidation of the party’s leadership by security agencies
Hence, the body of civilised and democratic people around the world believe that the security excuse used by this unpopular government to prolong the polls is untrue and pretentious
In a statement released by the campaign’s Directorate of Media and Publicity on Monday, the APCPCO said that while the election postponement was supposedly to enable a multinational force that will launch an onslaught on Boko Haram and recover the terrorist group’s stolen territories, President Jonathan had actually seen the handwriting on the wall and had become desperate, like most men in a state of panic
In a statement released on Thursday in Abuja, the APCPCO said that President Jonathan had repeatedly stated while campaigning for re-election that he resuscitated the country’s railways which he says had been moribund for over 20 years, a claim that that the APC described as a hoax
In a statement on Thursday, the APCPCO noted that President Jonathan’s yet unfulfilled promises include: The rehabilitation of all existing power generation, distribution and transmission assets to give a minimum of 6,000mw of electricity; the harnessing of alternative sources of energy such as coal, wind and solar to generate an initial 13,000mw, and the unbundling of PHCN into 18 successor companies.
The APCPCO said this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, signed by Garba Shehu, the Director of Media and Publicity of the campaign
Shehu dismissed the insinuations from spokesman of the PDP Campaign, Femi Fani-Kayode, that the boycott of the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria-organised debate by the APC, which is premised on principle, amounts to “shielding Buhari from intellectual discussion” as the ranting of a man “with deficit communication acumen and mastery of simple logic”
A statement from the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the APCPCO on Friday, said the decision of the AU to send troops to confront the Boko Haram onslaught will bring succour to many Nigerians who have haplessly waited for government intervention
A statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APCPCO, Mallam Garba Shehu, on Thursday noted: “What else more can be a signpost of failure if a president comes back after five years in office and cannot point a finger at a single project he has initiated in an entire state
The Campaign said this was because of the unhidden bias and campaign of calumny by some key organisers of the programme against the corporate political interest of the party and its candidates