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Masari to Atiku: Your defection to PDP in futility

Posted By: adminon: December 26, 2017In: News, Politics, Top StoriesNo Comments
Masari to Atiku: Your defection to PDP in futility

Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has described the recent defection of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as an exercise in futility.

Masari made the statement in Maiadua, Katsina State  on Monday.

The governor was in Maiadua Local Government Area to receive the former speaker of the state, Alhaji Yau GojoGojo, who defected to APC from the PDP.

 

He said the defection of the former vice president would not in anyway affect the electoral success of the ruling APC, stressing that Atiku had just answered his popular name.

He said the APC was aimed at repositioning the nation by creating leaders that would champion the positive cause of the nation; “about 65 per cent of our  political appointments were allocated to the youth”.

Masari said the era of “do or die politics was over as individual character and performance speak for him in a political warfare, not unnecessary pride and display of wealth”.

He said APC in the state and federal levels would not be deterred by elitist tendencies, adding that “we are set to receive more defectors into the party by next year as many influential members of the opposition would be joining us soon”.

He said the party was willing and ready to accept and accommodate any individual who sought to defect into its fold, stressing politics was a game of number.

He said his administration had, in the last two years, constructed many roads, schools, hospitals and intensified efforts on security in the state.

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2019: Why Atiku is our preferred choice – Igbo youths

Posted By: adminon: December 19, 2017In: News, Politics, Top StoriesNo Comments
2019: Why Atiku is our preferred choice - Igbo youths
Some group of youths in the south eastern part of the country have drummed support for the presidential ambition of former Nigeria’s vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
The group, under the aegis of South Eastern Youth Movement for Atiku Abubakar, described the former vice president as a tested hand which distinguished him during his reign as vice president.
Speaking in Awka after its inaugural meeting, the group’s Coordinator, Maxwell Umeaba said the group had resolved to support the former Vice President to realise his presidential ambition with its stronghold in the five states of the South East.
“We have resolved to come together to take our destiny into our hands. We have raised army of voters in all the states in the South East.
“Atiku is a tested hand, whose works during his reign as vice president distinguished him. As a good business man who has overseen several successful businesses, Nigeria would be in safe hands if he is elected,” he said.
Describing Atiku’s defection to PDP as a welcome development towards reshaping the country, Umeaba stressed that Nigerian youths believe in him and would strongly support him.
He regretted that the present administration under the APC had relegated the youths and denied them of inclusiveness in governance.
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I believe in one Nigeria where all our people have equal opportunity – Atiku

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2017In: News, Politics, Top StoriesNo Comments
I believe in one Nigeria where all our people have equal opportunity - Atiku
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, says he ‘believes in one Nigeria where all our people have equal opportunity’.
He however added that it is critical for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members to be united and secure the trust of Nigerians ahead of 2019 elections.
He said this on Saturday in Abuja while addressing delegates and members of the party at its national convention.
Atiku said: “Under the APC, Nigeria is now more divided and acrimonious than at any time since the civil war.”
Below is his full speech:
Remarks by Atiku Abubakar, GCON, former Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, at the Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, at the Eagle Square, Abuja
Saturday 9th December, 2017.
Protocol
I believe in Nigeria.
I believe in one Nigeria where all our people
have equal opportunity
I believe in one Nigeria where we all share a common good.
This belief inspired me and other compatriots to establish The Peoples Democratic Party on the ideals of one united nation, built on the principles of Justice, Equity and Equal Opportunity.
For the past 19 years, I have fought for these principles, even when some in the party have not:
• I fought against factionalism
• I fought for our Nation’s constitution and to prevent tenure elongation
• I fought for our party’s constitution – even at the expense of being forced out of the very party that I helped found. For this is the price one must sometimes pay for democracy.
However, I never abandoned our founding principles.
I stayed true to them as I did on Monday the 17th August, 1998 when the late Alex Ekwueme, the late Solomon Lar and the late Abubakar Rimi and our other founders gathered to announce the birth of the PDP.
And, today, I am proud to say that I have returned home – home to our party.
• I am proud that the PDP is the party that successfully took over power from the military in 1999
• I am proud that the PDP gave Nigeria her first transition from a ruling party to an opposition party – a transition that is now a model for all of Africa
• I am proud that the PDP has an unequalled record of growing our economy for the benefit of all
However, in 2015 the PDP was no longer united and Nigerians voted for change.
Now we must unite as a party to secure the trust of the Nigerian people again because under the APC Nigeria is not working and our people are not working.
Let us consider what the APC has achieved versus what they promised at election time:
• The APC promised us three million new jobs a year.
In Government the APC has lost us three million jobs a year
• The APC promised us peace and unity.
Under the APC Nigeria is now more divided and acrimonious than at any time since the civil war
• The APC promised us restructuring. In office the APC denied restructuring.
The APC promised a war on corruption but all they have delivered is a war on the opposition, with handouts for their cronies and handcuffs for their opponents.
Compare the record of the APC in Government to the record of the PDP in Government:
• We, the PDP, achieved a 10-year increase in the life expectancy of our people
• We, the PDP, enabled 99 million more of our people to have a mobile phone
• We, the PDP helped Nigeria become the largest economy in Africa
As members of the PDP, we all have a lot to be proud of.
In the 16 years that we governed this nation we kept it united, peaceful and prosperous.
We made mistakes, but we put our nation first.
We did not favour only states that voted for us and punish those that did not. We favoured all.
And we also know that 5% and 97% do not add up to 100%.
We now have an APC government, which continues to blame previous governments and scapegoat people rather than solve problems it was elected to solve.
The PDP is the party that will restructure Nigeria into a modern nation with working institutions and a system that gives back power to the people by promoting:
• Free enterprise – because it is businesses that create sustainable jobs, not government
• Property rights – that encourage people to invest in job creation
• A smaller, more effective government that does not consume 75% of the federal budget just on paying salaries
We the PDP are Nigeria’s only truly national party.
We must work to earn the trust of Nigerians again and, if given another chance in Government use it to continue to work to improve the lives of our citizens.
So my message to you today is plain and simple:
The PDP is stronger together and Nigeria is stronger together.
• We, the PDP, must be the party that is the hope of the common man for the common good of the commonwealth of Nigeria
• We, the PDP, must be the party that takes power from the centre and puts it firmly in the hands of the Nigerian people
• We, the PDP, must be the party that embodies the Nigerian vision, and ensures that the Nigeria of divisions never, ever happens again
So at this very important Convention let us elect the very best leaders….
• LEADERS who truly understand what it means to position the PDP as a viable and preferred alternative to the mis-governing APC!
• LEADERS who understand the urgency of restructuring to devolve more power to the states and to our people
• LEADERS who truly understand what it means to create the right environment to create jobs – especially for our youths
So let’s get the PDP winning again so we can get Nigeria working again.
PDP! (Power)
PDP! (Power)

 

Power! (To the People)
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I will easily defeat Buhari in 2019, a lot of people are disgruntled but keeping quiet – Atiku

Posted By: adminon: December 03, 2017In: News, Politics, Top StoriesNo Comments
I will easily defeat Buhari in 2019, a lot of people are disgruntled but keeping quiet - Atiku
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said defeating President Muhammadu Buhari will be a cakewalk for him if the president runs against him in 2019.
Mr. Abubakar said Mr. Buhari has become politically weak after squandering the goodwill Nigerians accorded him during the 2015 elections.
“I will definitely beat him this time. He has wasted a lot of his massive goodwill,” Mr. Abubakar said.
The former vice-president was interviewed by Dele Momodu for his column which was published Saturday in The Boss Newspaper he publishes.
He said many associates of Mr. Buhari are furious, but they are silent about their disapproval of the president, and are waiting for the right time to strike back.
“A lot of people are disgruntled but keeping quiet and lying low,” Mr. Abubakar said. “Our youths are suffering terribly and now they are being sold into slavery.”
“Everyone knows my track record of inviting and attracting a good team and giving them the opportunity to work professionally. Nigerians are tired of leaders who cannot think big and work big,” he added.
Mr. Abubakar said he would be ready from day one should Nigerians elect him president in 2019.
Mr. Abubakar, vice-president from 1999-2007, dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress last week Friday, citing alleged failure by the Buhari administration to improve the quality of life in the country and neglect of the youth in federal cabinet appointment.
His political allies have indicated that Mr. Abubakar was on his way to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, which has opened its doors to him.
The national spokesperson for the APC, Bolaji Abdullahi, countered Mr. Abubakar’s assertion, saying Mr. Buhari would handily beat the former president should he stand for re-election.
“I believe that the reasons Nigerians voted for President Buhari in 2015 are still pertinent. They voted President Buhari because they needed a leader who has integrity, strong on corruption and capable of defeating Boko Haram.
“If he stands for election in 2019, we believe Nigerians would still vote for him,” Mr. Abdullahi told PREMIUM TIMES by telephone Saturday afternoon.
President Buhari has not yet declared his intention to seek re-election although his recent actions and comments have strongly suggested he will.
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At last, Atiku resigns from APC, says ruling party has ‘instituted a regime of draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy’

Posted By: adminon: November 24, 2017In: News, Politics, Top StoriesNo Comments
At last, Atiku resigns from APC, says ruling party has ‘instituted a regime of draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy’

At last, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
It is believed he is on his way to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to contest for the presidency in 2019.
A statement entitled: “Statement of resignation of His Excellency Atiku Abubakar (Waziri Adamawa) Vice President of Nigeria, 1999-2007 from the All Progressives Congress,” on Friday, reads: “On the 19th of December, 2013, I received members of the All Progressives Congress at my house in Abuja. They had come to appeal to me to join their party after my party, the Peoples Democratic Party, had become factionalized as a result of the special convention of August 31, 2013.

“The fractionalization of the Peoples Democratic Party on August 31, 2013 had left me in a situation where I was, with several other loyal party members, in limbo, not knowing which of the parallel executives of the party was the legitimate leadership.
“It was under this cloud that members of the APC made the appeal to me to join their party, with the promise that the injustices and failure to abide by its own constitution which had dogged the then PDP, would not be replicated in the APC and with the assurance that the vision other founding fathers and I had for the PDP could be actualized through the All Progressives Congress.
“It was on the basis of this invitation and the assurances made to me that I, being party-less at that time, due to the fractionalization of my party, accepted on February 2, 2014, the hand of fellowship given to me by the All Progressives Congress.

“On that day, I said “it is the struggle for democracy and constitutionalism and service to my country and my people that are driving my choice and my decision” to accept the invitation to join the All Progressives Congress.
“Like you, I said that because I believed that we had finally seen the beginnings of the rebirth of the new Nigeria of our dreams which would work for all of us, old and young.
“However, events of the intervening years have shown that like any other human and like many other Nigerians, I was fallible.

“While other parties have purged themselves of the arbitrariness and unconstitutionality that led to fractionalization, the All Progressives Congress has adopted those same practices and even gone beyond them to institute a regime of a draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy within the party and the government it produced.
“Only last year, a governor produced by the party wrote a secret memorandum to the president which ended up being leaked. In that memo, he admitted that the All Progressives Congress had ‘not only failed to manage expectations of a populace that expected overnight ‘change’ but has failed to deliver even mundane matters of governance’.

“Of the party itself, that same governor said ‘Mr. President, Sir Your relationship with the national leadership of the party, both the formal (NWC) and informal (Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso), and former Governors of ANPP, PDP (that joined us) and ACN, is perceived by most observers to be at best frosty. Many of them are aggrieved due to what they consider total absence of consultations with them on your part and those you have assigned such duties.’
“Since that memorandum was written up until today, nothing has been done to reverse the treatment meted out to those of us invited to join the All Progressives Congress on the strength of a promise that has proven to be false. If anything, those behaviours have actually worsened.

“But more importantly, the party we put in place has failed and continues to fail our people, especially our young people. How can we have a federal cabinet without even one single youth.
“A party that does not take the youth into account is a dying party. The future belongs to young people.
“I admit that I and others who accepted the invitation to join the APC were eager to make positive changes for our country that we fell for a mirage. Can you blame us for wanting to put a speedy end to the sufferings of the masses of our people?

“Be that as it may be, after due consultation with my God, my family, my supporters and the Nigerian people whom I meet in all walks of life, I, Atiku Abubakar, Waziri Adamawa, hereby tender my resignation from the All Progressives Congress while I take time to ponder my future.
“May God bless you and may God bless Nigeria.”

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