Nwosu stated this in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, at a press conference organised to receive Gboyega Nasir Isiaka, a two-time gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, who joined the ADC on Friday
Browsing: Olusegun Obasanjo
When the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo finally, in August 1978, lifted the ban on political activities imposed in January 1966, two main political tendencies emerged in Nigeria’s reconstituted national ruling class. The first tendency was thoroughly conservative and aspired, and largely succeeded to be national in composition, character and formal leadership
Time, that greatest healer of all wounds, will soon tell if Fayemi’s groveling apology to the people of Ekiti has been accepted. Time will tell if he is truly the stone that was once rejected but about to be the capstone
Okonjo-Iwella made the shocking revelation known in her new book: “Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines”
While reacting to comment credited to Buhari that despite the huge expenditure, there was no corresponding power supply to Nigerians, the CNPP Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu, in a statement noted that one of the ways to give the anti-graft position of the Buhari government a meaning is when he openly probes the Obasanjo administration.
Reacting to the public spat between President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the organisation said the Federal Government has a duty to probe “all grey areas in every administration, beyond the alleged $16 billion power sector expenditure”.
The organization also urged Buhari to “refer to the EFCC and ICPC not just allegations regarding the $16 billion power projects but also the alleged squandering of over N11 trillion meant to provide regular electricity supply covering the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan.”
SERAP made the call in a statement by its Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, on Wednesday.
Obasanjo spoke at the 22nd Convocation Lecture of the Lagos State University.
The duo spoke on Monday in Ado Ekiti at the inauguration of four ultra-modern projects instituted on the campus of the university.
The meeting, which was held behind closed doors for about 30 minutes, was believed to be ahead of 2019 election and way forward for the Yoruba race.
Nkem Lemchi, Lagos State Chairman of ADC, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the party was witnessing influx of people coming for registration and declaring their interest to use the platform.
The nPDP was one of the major groups and political parties that formed the APC
Upon his assumption of office in Nigeria in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari, recognizing this fact, decided that he would focus on the abuse of campaign financing and tackle electoral corruption. The way he has gone about it and the conduct of his own political party, the All Progressives Congress, should be a useful global study in how not to tackle the challenge of campaign finance
In a strongly worded statement signed by its General Secretary, Akin Malaolu, on Friday night, the group said Obasanjo was trying to deceive Nigerians again with “rhetorical and platitudinous speeches”.
The party gave the assurance in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Friday
Allegations of missing money are often translated into naked truth, in this season, without due reflection, and regard for the facts of the case. This is so, in this instance, because of reports of corruption involving and surrounding the OPL 245 transactions and foreign investors – Shell and ENI, into which the courts in the home jurisdictions of those companies are inquiring
Obasanjo said this in reaction to a news making the rounds that he had changed his position on the President, adding that the spin was being peddled by “some elements in the Muhammadu Buhari camp and or support group (are) desperate to secure a second term, fair or foul.”
Adesanya, a politician, lawyer, activist and deputy leader of NADECO, a pro-democracy movement formed in 1994, died on April 27, 2008 at 85.
Buhari, who spoke with the Hausa Service of the Voice of America in Washington, United States of America, accused the media of doing just what it wants to