Browsing: Lai Mohammed

Yet once I joined I began to see things as they really were. I have never been and will never be part of a cult and the fact that people like Mohammed and those he represents within the APC are not comfortable with any form of admonition or criticism from senior party members like me speaks volumes

In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the attack on the protesters in Abuja has confirmed its worst fears that the Federal Government was embarking on a campaign
to shift the responsibility from the government to the abductors, in line with President Goodluck Jonathan’s admonition to the protesters to direct their protests at the abductors rather than to his government

In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said it is now logical to conclude that at this point, there is absolutely no hope for Nigeria and her citizens under this capricious government

In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said just as the Jonathan Administration has bungled the fight against the sect, it has exhibited sheer cluelessness in handling the abduction of the school girls

In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the conflicting statements credited to top government officials over the conditions given by Boko Haram for releasing the girls were totally unwarranted and could send the wrong signal to the insurgents and hinder the efforts to ensure the safe return of the girls

In a statement issued in Washington, DC, USA on Thursday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said coming after the damning World Bank report, which declared Nigeria as one of the countries harbouring the largest population of poor people in the world, there is no doubt that the rebasing noise is the government’s response to the classification
The statement said: “However, the federal government has only succeeded in opening itself to ridicule

In a statement in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the investigation into the scandal is of great public interest, hence those who are reportedly piling pressure on the House Committee on Public Accounts to abandon it should back off

In a statement issued in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Thursday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the PDP’s claim that the Boko Haram insurgency and other internecine crises in the country were being sponsored by the opposition because the President hails from a minority group is totally irresponsible and absolutely not grounded in fact

Mohammed made the announcement while briefing newsmen at the end of the party’s 9th Interim National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja

The APC said that contrary to the position of the Presidency that the poll on which it based its conclusion that Jonathan scored very low with Nigerians was conducted by the party, the survey was carried out by professionals

In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the President’s action sends a wrong signal to the world about the value, which the Nigerian Government places on the lives of the nation’s children

In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said President Jonathan was wrong to have threatened, no matter how subtly, to withdraw from Borno State the troops that are battling against Boko Haram insurgents and urged him to apologize to the people of Borno State and to all Nigerians for the presidential indiscretion

In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the way the Presidency has been campaigning to malign Sanusi, using the report of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, which it described as obscure, shows that it is working hard to sweep the issue of the missing funds under the carpet and punish Sanusi for daring to expose the fraud

In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party insisted that nothing in the world can justify the senseless slaying of innocent civilians by a band of marauding insurgents and reminded the terrorists that they cannot win the ill-advised war against their fatherland

The APC said it is also not unaware of the efforts by the Peoples Democratic Party to sabotage the registration process in Abia, Delta, Gombe and Rivers States, among others, hence the need to ensure that the people of the affected states are not disenfranchised

Akande said that the party would always look up to its members in the National Assembly to stabilise the heated polity

In a statement issued in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the existing court order is to the effect that the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, should maintain the status quo concerning defecting lawmakers

The events of modern day Nigeria allows me to easily and very accurately predict tomorrow’s news

In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the reports were borne out of the gross misunderstanding of filibustering as a veritable democratic tool to impede legislation by obstructive tactics

The APC said the directive is already yielding result, as members of the Save Rivers Movement were able to stage a peaceful rally on Saturday for the first time in a long time, without being attacked by hired ex-militants, because the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, directed the police to provide protection for the rally