2019 Elections May Not Be Free With Retired General Buhari As President” — Atiku

This statement was made by former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar while fielding questions from an international news organisation.

Atiku said that unlike former President Goodluck Jonathan, who was in power during the 2015 general elections and was “much more level-headed” being a “peaceful, (and) very patriotic Nigerian,” the country was now dealing with “a retired general, (who is) very uncompromising, also power-drunk; (and) who will not be ready to leave power without a fight.”

“The characters that are involved this time, as far as the leadership of this country is concerned, are different from 2015.

He asked the Federal Government to explain why the decision to by share $322m Abacha’s loot and also begged for a Chinese loan worth $328m.

Speaking further, Atiku while responding to Osinbajo’s response to his stands on the need to restructure the country accused Osinbajo of not being coherent in his arguments.

“I must say that his dovetailing into the area of the economy does not explain certain facts such as the fact that the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics reported in December 2017 that Nigeria lost 7.9 million jobs in the 21 month period under review.

“If the Vice President cannot see that losing 7.9 million jobs in 21 months while creating 500,000 jobs is a deficit, then I do not know what to say to the honourable professor.

“Professor Osinbajo also harps on ‘prudence in public finance,’ but he fails to show the wisdom in sharing out $322m of Abacha funds to the poor only to take a loan of $328m from the Chinese the very next month. Many Nigerians, myself included, see this as imprudence.

“Finally, while the Vice President is not exactly correct when he says ‘In four years from 2010 to 2014, the PDP government earned the highest oil revenues in Nigeria’s history, $381.9bn. By contrast, the Buhari administration has earned $121bn from May 2015 to June 2018’, let us for the sake of argument say that he is right.

“While I was the Vice President in 2006, Nigeria’s Economic Management Team, of which I was a prominent member, paid off Nigeria’s entire foreign debt of $30bn, at a time when the country was earning one third of what the Buhari administration is currently earning from oil. So, such arguments are puerile at best”.

He however advised Osinbajo to choose whether he was for restructuring or whether he was against it and stick to his choice; adding that it was not in the interest of the professor of law to be jumping from one argument to the other without any clear point.

“Faced with an avalanche of public condemnation for his 360-degree turn on the concept of restructuring, it is understandable that the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has written to Premium Times to douse the tension his comments created. However, in doing so, the Vice President should not attempt to revise history by saying that he spoke against ‘geographic restructuring.’

“I have been in the forefront of the discourse on restructuring since the 1995 Abacha Constitutional Conference and to the best of my knowledge, there has not been any term like ‘geographic restructuring’.

“It is a strange concept, not only because it is not what the restructuring debate is all about, but also because the words of the Vice President, which prompted my response, were clear, unambiguous and unequivocal.

“Mr Osinbajo said, ‘the problem with our country is not a matter of restructuring.’ That I disagree with and so do many other Nigerians. If the Vice President has changed his stance, I welcome it, but we should not use one finger to hide behind semantics.

“For the Vice President to say ‘Alhaji Atiku’s concept of restructuring is understandably vague, because he seeks to cover every aspect of human existence in that definition’, is most unfortunate.

“I have been very clear, detailed, and unambiguous about my ideas for restructuring. At several occasions, including, but not limited to my speeches at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (made in April this year and July 2017, respectively), I gave very clear and concise ideas about restructuring including: “Devolution of powers and resources to the states; matching grants from the Federal Government to the states to help them grow their internally generated revenue position; privatisation of unviable Federal Government-owned assets”, Atiku said in a statement signed yesterday

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2019 Elections May Not Be Free With Retired General Buhari As President” — Atiku

This statement was made by former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar while fielding questions from an international news organisation.

Atiku said that unlike former President Goodluck Jonathan, who was in power during the 2015 general elections and was “much more level-headed” being a “peaceful, (and) very patriotic Nigerian,” the country was now dealing with “a retired general, (who is) very uncompromising, also power-drunk; (and) who will not be ready to leave power without a fight.”

“The characters that are involved this time, as far as the leadership of this country is concerned, are different from 2015.

He asked the Federal Government to explain why the decision to by share $322m Abacha’s loot and also begged for a Chinese loan worth $328m.

Speaking further, Atiku while responding to Osinbajo’s response to his stands on the need to restructure the country accused Osinbajo of not being coherent in his arguments.

“I must say that his dovetailing into the area of the economy does not explain certain facts such as the fact that the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics reported in December 2017 that Nigeria lost 7.9 million jobs in the 21 month period under review.

“If the Vice President cannot see that losing 7.9 million jobs in 21 months while creating 500,000 jobs is a deficit, then I do not know what to say to the honourable professor.

“Professor Osinbajo also harps on ‘prudence in public finance,’ but he fails to show the wisdom in sharing out $322m of Abacha funds to the poor only to take a loan of $328m from the Chinese the very next month. Many Nigerians, myself included, see this as imprudence.

“Finally, while the Vice President is not exactly correct when he says ‘In four years from 2010 to 2014, the PDP government earned the highest oil revenues in Nigeria’s history, $381.9bn. By contrast, the Buhari administration has earned $121bn from May 2015 to June 2018’, let us for the sake of argument say that he is right.

“While I was the Vice President in 2006, Nigeria’s Economic Management Team, of which I was a prominent member, paid off Nigeria’s entire foreign debt of $30bn, at a time when the country was earning one third of what the Buhari administration is currently earning from oil. So, such arguments are puerile at best”.

He however advised Osinbajo to choose whether he was for restructuring or whether he was against it and stick to his choice; adding that it was not in the interest of the professor of law to be jumping from one argument to the other without any clear point.

“Faced with an avalanche of public condemnation for his 360-degree turn on the concept of restructuring, it is understandable that the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has written to Premium Times to douse the tension his comments created. However, in doing so, the Vice President should not attempt to revise history by saying that he spoke against ‘geographic restructuring.’

“I have been in the forefront of the discourse on restructuring since the 1995 Abacha Constitutional Conference and to the best of my knowledge, there has not been any term like ‘geographic restructuring’.

“It is a strange concept, not only because it is not what the restructuring debate is all about, but also because the words of the Vice President, which prompted my response, were clear, unambiguous and unequivocal.

“Mr Osinbajo said, ‘the problem with our country is not a matter of restructuring.’ That I disagree with and so do many other Nigerians. If the Vice President has changed his stance, I welcome it, but we should not use one finger to hide behind semantics.

“For the Vice President to say ‘Alhaji Atiku’s concept of restructuring is understandably vague, because he seeks to cover every aspect of human existence in that definition’, is most unfortunate.

“I have been very clear, detailed, and unambiguous about my ideas for restructuring. At several occasions, including, but not limited to my speeches at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (made in April this year and July 2017, respectively), I gave very clear and concise ideas about restructuring including: “Devolution of powers and resources to the states; matching grants from the Federal Government to the states to help them grow their internally generated revenue position; privatisation of unviable Federal Government-owned assets”, Atiku said in a statement signed yesterday

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2019 Elections May Not Be Free With Retired General Buhari As President” — Atiku

This statement was made by former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar while fielding questions from an international news organisation.

Atiku said that unlike former President Goodluck Jonathan, who was in power during the 2015 general elections and was “much more level-headed” being a “peaceful, (and) very patriotic Nigerian,” the country was now dealing with “a retired general, (who is) very uncompromising, also power-drunk; (and) who will not be ready to leave power without a fight.”

“The characters that are involved this time, as far as the leadership of this country is concerned, are different from 2015.

He asked the Federal Government to explain why the decision to by share $322m Abacha’s loot and also begged for a Chinese loan worth $328m.

Speaking further, Atiku while responding to Osinbajo’s response to his stands on the need to restructure the country accused Osinbajo of not being coherent in his arguments.

“I must say that his dovetailing into the area of the economy does not explain certain facts such as the fact that the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics reported in December 2017 that Nigeria lost 7.9 million jobs in the 21 month period under review.

“If the Vice President cannot see that losing 7.9 million jobs in 21 months while creating 500,000 jobs is a deficit, then I do not know what to say to the honourable professor.

“Professor Osinbajo also harps on ‘prudence in public finance,’ but he fails to show the wisdom in sharing out $322m of Abacha funds to the poor only to take a loan of $328m from the Chinese the very next month. Many Nigerians, myself included, see this as imprudence.

“Finally, while the Vice President is not exactly correct when he says ‘In four years from 2010 to 2014, the PDP government earned the highest oil revenues in Nigeria’s history, $381.9bn. By contrast, the Buhari administration has earned $121bn from May 2015 to June 2018’, let us for the sake of argument say that he is right.

“While I was the Vice President in 2006, Nigeria’s Economic Management Team, of which I was a prominent member, paid off Nigeria’s entire foreign debt of $30bn, at a time when the country was earning one third of what the Buhari administration is currently earning from oil. So, such arguments are puerile at best”.

He however advised Osinbajo to choose whether he was for restructuring or whether he was against it and stick to his choice; adding that it was not in the interest of the professor of law to be jumping from one argument to the other without any clear point.

“Faced with an avalanche of public condemnation for his 360-degree turn on the concept of restructuring, it is understandable that the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has written to Premium Times to douse the tension his comments created. However, in doing so, the Vice President should not attempt to revise history by saying that he spoke against ‘geographic restructuring.’

“I have been in the forefront of the discourse on restructuring since the 1995 Abacha Constitutional Conference and to the best of my knowledge, there has not been any term like ‘geographic restructuring’.

“It is a strange concept, not only because it is not what the restructuring debate is all about, but also because the words of the Vice President, which prompted my response, were clear, unambiguous and unequivocal.

“Mr Osinbajo said, ‘the problem with our country is not a matter of restructuring.’ That I disagree with and so do many other Nigerians. If the Vice President has changed his stance, I welcome it, but we should not use one finger to hide behind semantics.

“For the Vice President to say ‘Alhaji Atiku’s concept of restructuring is understandably vague, because he seeks to cover every aspect of human existence in that definition’, is most unfortunate.

“I have been very clear, detailed, and unambiguous about my ideas for restructuring. At several occasions, including, but not limited to my speeches at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (made in April this year and July 2017, respectively), I gave very clear and concise ideas about restructuring including: “Devolution of powers and resources to the states; matching grants from the Federal Government to the states to help them grow their internally generated revenue position; privatisation of unviable Federal Government-owned assets”, Atiku said in a statement signed yesterday

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Reno Omokri, PDP Public Secretary React To Cost Of APC Nomination Form

Reno Omokri, a former aide of former president Goodluck Jonathan has reacted to the high cost of the All Progressives Congress(APC) nomination form.

The APC announced that its expression of interest form for presidency is N5,000,000 while its N45,000,000 for nomination form for the same category.

Reacting to the cost, Mr Omokri has said that the presidential nomination form of the ruling party is too expensive and as such, mocks the #NotTooYoungToRun Act, that was recently signed by president Muhammadu Buhari.

Omokri, in a Twitter post on Wednesday stressed that Nigeria needs a #NotTooPoorToRun Bill following the high cost of the APC nomination form for presidency.

He Wrote:

Dear @OfficialAPCNg

₦45 million for a Presidential nomination form is too expensive. You make mockery of the #NotTooYoungToRun Act. Your nomination forms cost 4 times what @OfficialPDPNig charges. Nigeria needs a #NotTooPoorToRun Bill because of what you are doing #RenosDarts

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BREAKING: I Will Run For Senate In 2019, Says Amosun

The Ogun State governor has declared his intention to run for the senatorial seat in the Ogun Central senatorial district.

He disclosed this on Wednesday at the state executive council meeting of the All Progressives Congress held at MITROS suites, Ibara, Abeokuta

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KING KONG!!! Davido Sells Out Concert At House Of Blues Arena In Boston, US (See Details)

Davido has kicked off his Locked Up US Tour with a sold performance at the House of Blues arena in Boston, US. The pop star who few days ago made major headlines after he was spotted at the Lagos NYSC camp, has kicked off his tour of the United States with an impressive performance at the House of Blues arena, in Boston, US. The exclusive arena located next to Fenway Park in Boston, and which caters for a capacity of 2,500 people witnessed a sold out turnout of excited fans who were out for a night of fun, music and showmanship. Performing some of his songs like ‘Assurance’, ‘If’, ‘Fia’ and more, Davido alongside his disc jockey, Ecool had the crowd playing the role of back up singers as they sang along to every line during his set. The hall was packed full with his fans from across America with a large crowd of people standing across the upper floors. He will next be taking to the stage at the Tidal hosted Made In America concert alongside Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill, happening on the weekend of September 1-2 at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, US. Davido has been announced to perform alongside J. Cole, Nelly and Big Sean at the Dreamville Festival in North Carolina, US. This was announced via a tweet shared on the offical Twitter handle for the festival, [@Dreamvillefest} on Friday, August 31st. The inaugural edition of the festival which will hold on September 15 in Raleigh, North Carolina, US will be headlined by Dreamville Records boss, J Cole and he will be joined by other international superstars like Davido, Big Sean, Bas, Nelly, Young Thug, Teyana Taylor and more

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Mercy Aigbe-Gentry And Her Daughter Step Out In Style

Mercy Aigbe and her 15-year-old daughter, Michelle Gentry, know how to make you stop and stare with their lovely photos. The pair looked happy in these new photos as they prepared to step out for a concert holding tonight in Lagos. More photos below;

Unbelievable!! Tonto Dikeh’s SExT@pe Le@ked Online By An Unknown Person!!- +18 ONLY Cl!ck To W.atch the Vide0 Now

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UPDATED NEWS! CNN RELEASES LIST OF 20 MOST CORRUPT NIGERIANS – NO 1 WILL SHOCK YOU

In a recent publication, CNN has gone ahead to publish a list that shows how corrupt our former leaders are and how much they looted from our treasury. I think this should guide President Buhari in his corruption fight looking at the amount of money this guys looted, though his Minister Rotimi Amaechi is at number 11. Obasanjo ranks number one in the list,
above IBB. Other ones would shock you.nigerian-looters

20. Kayode Fayemi
This former governor stole $40 million and stashed some part of the loot in Ghana. He was reportedly bought a bed for N50 million.

19. Rauf Aregbesola
He has milked Osun State to the tune of $60 million.

18. Kashium Shettima
This governor has stolen about $80 million and still counting.

17. Rabui Kwankwaso
He stole $100 million as a governor of Kano State. EFCC has arrested many of his aides and they are “singing” how they siphoned the money.

16. Sule Lamido
He stole $110 million between 2007-2015 and out of that amount, $50 million was found in his sons’ bank accounts. He was arrested and detained for days together with his sons.

15. DSP Alamieyeseigha
He stole $120 million and was arrested for money laundering. He pleaded guilty and long served his term.

14. Amina Mohammed
This woman was the founder of Afri-Project Consortium (APC) that was in charge of all PTF Projects during Abacha’s regime. About $125 million was stolen from PTF accounts from 1994-1998. Buhari has just nominated the same woman as a minister to continue to stealing.

13. James Ibori
He stole $150 million from 1999-2007 as governor of Delta State. He’s serving his term for money laundering in the UK.

 12. Atiku Abubakar
When he as asked by our reporter how he made his money, he simply said “he was always at the right place at the right time.” Atiku is an astute businessman, but through shady deals, he stole $500 million from 1999-2007.




11. Chubike Rotimi Amaechi
From 2007 to 2015, he stole $700 million and $150 million from that money was used to sponsor Buhari and APC.

10. Tunde Fashola
He is the poster boy of Tinubu. Boht of them looted Lagos dried and left it in debt of about N1 billion. Fashola, among other thing built his personal website for N78 million, drilled borehole for over N100 million per each and built a kilometre road for N1 billion. He stole $900 million from 2007-2015. He’ll soon be a minister to continue the looting.

9. Nasir El Rufai
Before he was made the FCT Minister, El Rufai was broke, homeless and was
looking for loan to import taxis from the UK. After he was made the minister, he seized landed properties that belonged to Nigerians and resold them with huge profit. It’s estimated that he stole $1 billion from 2003-2007.

8. Bukola Saraki –
Through his father, Olukola Saraki, their bank, Societe Generale and as a governor of Kwara State (2003-20111) he stole $1.1 billion

7. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
He stole $1.2 billion as CBN Governor from 2008-2014.

6. TY Danjuma
He fraudulently got enriched through oil blocks from the Niger Delta worth $20 million in the 70s after the counter coup. Those oil blocks worth billions of dollars in today’s value.

5. Ahmed Bola Tinubu
He stole and continues to steal from Lagos State treasury since 1999 till date. It’s estimated that he has stolen $6 billion so far.

4. Sani Abacha
He stole $7 billion from 1993-1998

3. Abdulsalam Abubakar
He stole $9 billion from 1998-99

2. Ibrahim Babangida
He stole $15 billion from 1985-1993 ($12.4 billion from oil wind fall in 1990)

1. Oluesgun Obasanjo
He stole $25 billion from 1999-2007 ($16.4 from power sector alone)

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Femi Adebayo Arrested By Police For Armed Robbery

In the Yoruba movie industry, Femi Adebayo is undoubtedly known to be a fantastic actor who always puts in his best to entertain his fans and educate them about what is happening in the society.




Apart from the fact that his acting prowess is incomparable, he also takes his time to produce quality movies for his lovers which has ultimately made him a thespian to reckon with in the industry.

As usual, Jelili as Femi is fondly called by friends has done it again. He has just produced another movie titled “Gbewiri Meta” which means three Armed Robbers.
In this new movie which also stands as his first ever crime movie, Femi played the role of a notorious armed robber terrorising the society alongside his two other gang members of the underworld.

They were eventually caught in the act and arrested, and this became unbearable for his family. Gbewiri Meta is full of action, suspense and a lot of lessons.
It was shot in Oyo town, Oyo State, Nigeria and it features other stars like Adebayo Salami (Oga Bello), Faithia Williams (Balogun), Kelvin Ikeduba, Dele Odule, Sanyeri, Aina Gold, Aisha Lawal, Itele, Austin Emmanuel, Ibrahim Chatta, Seyi Ashekun, Bigval among others.

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Money Is Good ooo!! Y'all Need To See This Throwback Photo Of Popular Actress Faithia Balogun

Like I said, this is throwback Wednesday... This is Faithia Balogun before fame and money. I guess she looks like Tope Alabi, or what do you think?

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Actress Kemi Afolabi Displaces Toyin Aimakhu, Mercy Aigbe, Iyabo Ojo To Become The Most Paid Actress In The Yoruba Movie Industry

Yoruba movie industry is undoubtedly one of the largest movie industry in Nigeria and its sure provides job opportunity for people that aspiring to become an actor or actress.
Over the years, Kemi Afolabi has been that actress that very hardworking, she never jokes with her job aside leaving the industry sometime in 2009 to attend to her maternity, she has always been seen from one location to another.


Although, the industry is filled with several actresses who are putting their best into work, but we have some standout personnels such as Iyabo Ojo, Mercy Aigbe, Fathia Balogun, Ronke Oshodi and many others.
Since actress Funke Akindele left the Yoruba industry, Toyin Aimakhu took over the mantle of the most paid actress but her controversials and scandals has always been hindrance for the actress.
However, according to news reaching us now, star actress Kemi Afolabi is now the most sought after and the most paid actress in the Yoruba movie industry.
She's reported to charge up to N350,000 per movie. Recalled that, Kemi was awarded with the best actress of the year award earlier this month.
Congrats to Kemi!

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Funke Akindele and Eniola Badmus are still fighting

Funke Akindele clocked 39 on Wednesday, August 24, one person that seems to have missed is Eniola Badmus.
Colleagues, fans and well wishers showered Funke with loving messages, but it is worth noting that Eniola, who got her big break in Funke’s hit movie, Jenifa didn’t do any of such – either on Instagram or Twitter.


In fact, she only had three tweets on the day, with one being a birthday shout-out (not to Funke), while she refrained from posting any pictures on her Instagram.
However, there is no compulsion in sending birthday wishes to Funke on social media, as the plump actress could have other ways of reaching out, even as she maintains a huge social media presence and activeness.
In an attempt to clear the air on reports of animosity between the duo, Eniola said in an interview with City People over a year ago, ‘the rumour that I and Funke Akindele are in a serious cold war is not true. I can never engage in a fight with her because she is a strong pillar behind me in the industry. She brought me into the industry, and I have featured in so many movies through her before my name got registered in people’s minds. So, why should I be fighting with her?’
The last time both Nollywood actresses were seen in public together was almost two years ago and there is huge doubt all is still rosy between the duo.

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