Browsing: Lai Mohammed

It also said that in spite of its continuous dismissal of the All Progressives Congress as a group of strange bedfellows, which the ACN described a well-worn cliche that has now lost its meaning, the PDP can only underrate the merger at its own peril

In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also warned the JTF against engaging in extra-judicial killings, saying the security agencies must respect the relevant rules of engagement in their ongoing onslaught against the sect in order to spare the lives and property of innocent civilians

The pedagogy of what Lai Mohammed is doing is that it teaches Nigerian politicians to practice politics by the power of the word. When you see what they are doing in the British Parliament you will notice that there is a tradition there of debate powered by eloquence and the choice of words

Let me also use this opportunity to commend the Leadership Newspaper, in particular, and the entire, irrepressible Nigerian media, in general for living up to the role that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria prescribes for them. You – the media – are the true heroes of our democracy

In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said oil theft and pipeline vandalism, the cost of which has been put between $6 billion and $12 billion per annum, have now reverted to the pre-amnesty period, when oil theft peaked at about 350,000 barrels of per day – higher than the quantity of oil produced daily by Gabon or Equatorial Guinea

In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the arrest, over a story the government has refuted, is the worst attack against press freedom under the President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Administration, and a sign of the seemingly-inevitable descent into dictatorship by an increasingly-desperate presidency

A press conference in Lagos, this Thanksgiving Sunday, addressed by Alhaji Lai Mohammed continued this pattern when he alleged that the Federal Government was deliberately promoting policies that will plunge the nation into crisis with the objective of scuttling the 2015 elections. He tried to exploit real challenges confronting the nation by instilling fear in the populace through the use of unrelated events; hoping to use such patterns and trends to build a conspiratorial case. Like all conspiracies, the case made fell quickly like a pack of cards when confronted with the facts

In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party called on all lovers of democracy within and outside Nigeria to join in the efforts to stop the PDP and its collaborators from truncating the nation’s democracy

It said the government has now beaten its own record for profligacy by its decision to build a 2.2 billion Naira Banquet Hall in the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, which the man who announced the white elephant project, FCT Minister Bala Mohammed, justified by saying ”other smaller countries have better Banquet Halls near their Presidential residences”.