He made this known in a letter addressed to the National Chairman of the party, lyorchia Ayu, on Monday.
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Abubakar said this on Tuesday while addressing PDP faithful in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital
The party said it has been aggregating the opinions of its members and Nigerians at large on the way forward and has since perfected a level playing ground as no individual or group can claim ownership or control of the party under its present leadership.
The prominent members of the party met at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Abuja for a meeting to that effect
In more direct language, what I am trying to draw attention to is how in recent times, despite the fact that we are under a democratic dispensation, there has been a seeming militarization of the political space, by the incumbent political administration at the centre
In referring to CAN as manifesting symptoms of Orubebematis, MURIC was reacting to the demand by the Christian body that the National Assembly should compile a list of all organizations that Nigeria belongs to and all the treaties signed with a view to dropping the religious ones
Danladi Umar, Chairman of the tribunal, delivering the judgment on October 4, ordered the forfeiture of the asset, a plot of land located in Asokoro part of the FCT to the Federal Government
Umar said: “The tribunal has taken time to review all the evidence turned in by both the prosecution and defendant.
“The prosecution had initiated this suit because of allegation of failure of the defendant to honour the Code Conduct Bureau invitation to clarify some grey areas in his asset declarations
This was contained in a notice of Tribunal’s sittings scheduled for the month of September / October respectively, captioned Re-Notification of Tribunal Session for the Months of September and October, 2016 and signed by Principal Registrar I Barr. Victor Isibor for Director Legal Services Department, dated 17th August, 2016
It stated that the tribunal chairman, who travelled on Thursday, however, fixed April 20 as the new date for continuation of trial.
Orubebe was arraigned by the Federal Government on a one-count charge of false asset declaration, which he pleaded not guilty.
At the last sitting, the first prosecution witness, Samuel Madojemu, led in evidence by Mohammed Diri, said Orubebe did not declare Plot 2057, Asokoro District, Abuja as minister between 2007 and 2011
The witness accused Orubebe of failing to declare his property at Plot 2057, Asokoro District, Abuja as a minister between 2007 and 2011.
The witness said he co-ordinates the Code of Conduct Bureau’s “intelligence on observed breaches of the code and asset tracing investigation”
But at the resumed hearing on Tuesday, counsel to the Federal Government and the Director of Public Prosecution, Mohammed Diri, in an oral application withdrew the charge earlier filed against Orubebe and replaced it with an amended one-count charge
However, on Thursday, the prosecution, led by Peter Danladi, rather than call its first witness, proposed to orally amend counts two, three and four, an application which the defence lawyer, Selekowei Larry (SAN), opposed
Orubebe is standing trial for failing to declare a property at Plot 2059 Asokoro District, Abuja
The charges are: “That you Godsday Peter Orubebe while being a Minister of Federal Republic of Nigeria in charged Niger Delta Affairs, on or about June 29th 2011 did make a false declaration in your Asset Declaration Form by failing to declare plot 2722 Kyamu District Abuja on assumption of office on 26th September 2007 and on leaving office (at the end of your tenure), on June 29, 2011 and you thereby committed an offence under section 15 of Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act Cap C15 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 and as incorporated under paragraph 11(1) & (2) of part 1 fifth schedule to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and punishable under section 23(2) of the CCB & T Act and as incorporated under paragraph 18 of part 1, fifth schedule to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended)
“It is no surprise that the former president, Goodluck Jonathan failed woefully because he surrounded himself with such charlatans as Godsday Orubebe, whose only credential is his ethnic origin and the large size of his bowler hat.
The media was awash on Tuesday morning with the news that Orubebe was leading the PDP to join “his folks” in the APC
Never in the history of ‘die-in-the-office’ leaders had any one been generous and patriotic enough to willingly accept political defeat and usher his opponent to the Presidential or Prime Minister’s seat
Elder Orubebe, who maintained that “I have a dream to make Delta State get the status of global standard”, vowed to ensure equitable distribution of the state’s resources
Dr. Uduaghan; the Chairperson of the Congresses Team, Chief Josephine Anenih; Senator James Manager; Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa; former Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Elder Godsday Orubebe, among others at a PDP stakeholders’ meeting in Asaba on Sunday described the exercise as peaceful