Balarabe Musa Warns: Unless Sovereign National Conference is Held Bloody Revolution is Imminent
A former Governor of Kaduna State and leader of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has warned of an imminent military coup or revolution in Nigeria.
He said in Kaduna on Friday that unless a Sovereign National Conference was convened, a drastic solution to the myriad of problems besetting the country was inevitable. Although Musa noted that the convocation of the SNC was risky, he said it was the only way to avert the impending revolution in the country.
The former governor said this in a paper entitled, Towards Enthroning and Sustaining Democratic Practices and Ethos in Our Polity, delivered at the 2012 Law Week of the Nigerian Bar Association, Kaduna branch. Add a commentBabangida to Northern Governors:North Must Unite Against Any Southern Candidate in 2015
Speaking the minds of his colleagues at the opening session of the meeting, chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, and Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu said the northern governors, this time around, will not allow what happened in 2011 to repeat itself in 2015 as they will unite against candidates from the south.
According to Governor Aliyu, “we must be united more than ever to go into the 2015 elections as one entity with the aim of producing the president”. He then advised all governors and politicians in the north to remain focused and pursue issues of development rather than trivial issues that have led to the retrogression of the region in recent years.
L-r: Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa of Kaduna State with chairman, Northern Governors Forum, Dr Babangida Aliyu of Niger State and Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State at the Northern Governors Forum meeting in Kaduna, yesterday. Photo: Olu Ajayi.
Add a commentNorthern Governors, Arewa to Buhari: Stop Inciting Your Supporters To Bloodshed!
Chairman of the forum and governor of Niger State, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu
The statement credited to General Muhammadu Buhari that there would be bloodshed if the 2015 elections are rigged is drawing condemnation from key Northern voices.
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), the pan-Northern group, has asked the former presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) to stop making “inflammatory statements”.
Although it did not mention Buhari by name, the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) also Thursday warned “prominent Nigerians” against statements that are capable of inflicting injury on the nation.
The latest call from the ACF which spoke through its chairman is a direct rebuttal of the stand of the ACF two days ago when it's spokesman, Anthony Sani, had issued a statement in support of Buhari. Add a commentBreaking News: Port Harcourt Bus Explosion Was Robbery Not Boko Haram- Governor Rotiimi Amaechi
River State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has after an on the spot visit to the scene of a bomb blast in Port Harcourt, the River State capital, confirmed that the blast which occurred there earlier today was not a terrorist attack from Boko Haram but a robbery incident gone bad.
Amaechi who spoke in a televised message urged the public to remain calm.
Apparently, two robbery suspects and their driver were on the way to their intended target with some dynamite in the car which went off apparently due to their smoking cigarettes in the car. Of late there have been several newsreports of robbers using dynamite to bomb bank vaults with the latest incidence occurring in Ondo states where on the 1st of May 2012, dare devil robbers had bombed three banks in a successful attempt to rob the bank. They also killed five persons. Theeffected banks robbed at Ikare Akoko in Ondo State are Wema bank PLC, First Bank PLC and Ecobank PLC.
Also, Governor Amaechi revealed that the robbery suspects did not die as it was only their driver who was killed in the explosion. Both suspects are now in a hospital where they are under observation.
Bola Tinubu-Jonathan Won 2011 Elections Fair and Square
Former Lagos State governor and the National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Bola Tinubu,, said on Monday (July 18, 2011) that President Goodluck Jonathan won the 2011 Presidential election, fairly and squarely.
Mr Tinubu gave the endorsement at the Chatham House, London.
He was presenting a paper, entitled: "Democracy and the Rebirth of Opposition in Nigeria."
"I believe Jonathan won the election but that the returns attributed to him in some parts of the country obviously appeared exaggerated," the Europe Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quoted Mr Tinubu as saying.
Mr Tinubu noted that due to the unique circumstances of Mr Jonathan's rise to power, the public saw him as a distinctive figure.
CPC Hits Back, Says Jonathan Using Christian Association of Nigeria to Demonize Buhari
The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has noted the response of Dr Goodluck Jonathan, as President of Nigeria, to the altruistic statement credited to our National Leader, General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB) wherein he had stated inter-alia dire consequences for the perpetual riggers of our electoral process in 2015. In the statement signed by Dr. Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President on Media, GMB was grotesquely characterized as a sectional leader.
First, GMB has been out of office as Head of Government for about 28 years, yet his relevance to the Nigerian nation is something firmly acknowledged by a broad spectrum of Nigerians, including his adversaries. As Head of State, his Oil Minister was Professor Tam David-West, a Kalabari man in Rivers state. As a Leader, he created the ambience for his ministers to work unobtrusively and devoid of executive meddlesomeness. But what do we find with Dr Goodluck Jonathan? All the appointees as Oil ministers in his two-year reign thus far as President of Nigeria have been Nigerians of Ijaw extraction, like himself!
Add a commentArewa Consultative Forum Backs Buhari's Statement
The biting attacks on Buhari were immediately dismissed by the CPC which threw its weight behind its 2011 presidential candidate. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Engr. Rotimi Fashakin said yesterday that General Buhari was only reiterating what many Nigerians had been saying for long.
“They are merely talking balderdash; what General Buhari has said is what many Nigerians have expressed . Remember Professor Wole Soyinka had said election rigging is violence against people and that they have the right to confront violence with greater violence”.
Fashakin who alleged that the PDP connived with INEC to rig the 2011 general election and opposition parties had said it would not be business as usual in 2015, stressed, “PDP colluded with Professor Atahiru Jega INEC to foist Jonathan on us. That’s why we are battling with this clueless government. There must be sanctity of votes of Nigerian electorate. Add a comment
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