Board diverts N2billion scholarship funds?

The basis for the establishment of the Adamawa State Scholarship Board cannot be over emphasized. Until two year ago the Board had been responsible for the welfare of the students of higher institutions and stimulation of educational growth of the state. Recent experiences at the Board had not only made nonsense the essence of the Board, but an instrument of retrogression and diversion of public funds meant for the development of the state. The last time the Board had fully performs its statutory obligation was 2011 when the scholarship of the students were paid to them. Students have complained of lack of payment of their scholarships since they were admitted in higher institutions up to this moment when some of them are almost graduating, while some of them from polytechnics and monotechnics said that about two sets of their seniors have completed their studies without the privilege of enjoying scholarship from the state government. More disturbing had been that the scholarship funds have not failed to reflect on the state annual budgets. What then could have been happening to the funds?
 From the findings and report of Justice Bobbo report, the board had diverted a staggering amount of 2billion scholarship fund to private pocket at the expense of the state. The pioneer also gathered
that the funds released by Hon. Ahmadu Fintiri as scholarship funds during his short tenure found itself into private pockets when it became apparent that Fintiri’s government was truncated for good.
Our reporter who was at the board on several occasions to get the version of the chief Executive Director of the Board had to contend with flimsy excuses. The correspondent at one of the visits had to leave a questionnaire as requested by the staff and was later told that the Chief Executive Director had flew out of the country on an official trip.
Some of the students who are beneficiaries of the states scholarship told our correspondent at the Scholarship Board, venue of the recent National Union of Adamawa State Students that the government had been adamant to the welfare needs of students, saying that the use of students’ welfare as a pretext to divert government funds is primitive and unacceptable. They expressed disappointment with government’s inability to disburse scholarship to qualified students even when provisions have been made for this purpose.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday Begs for Vote

http://sahrareporters.comBy Sahara  reporters: President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday met religious and
traditional leaders, and key members of the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, in Adamawa State, asking for
support ahead of presidential elections in two weeks.
On his second visit to the state in about two weeks, the
president arrived Yola, the state capital, at about 12p.m
before meeting with the Lamido of Adamawa.
 President Jonathan Returns To Adamawa To
Beg
A source at the palace said “the president had a closed-door
meeting with some traditional rulers in the Lamido’s palace
for about hour before leaving for Adamawa State
government house”.
At the government house, the president met with political
and religious leaders in the state.
Mr. Jonathan later met with members of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, including Governor Bala Ngilari, his
deputy.
Also present at that meeting were the state PDP chairman,
Joel Madaki, the PDP governorship candidate, Nuhu Ribadu,
past and present National Assembly members.
Mr. Jonathan’s first visit in a long while to Adamawa State
was on February 26, when he travelled to Mubi, a town
reclaimed recently from the insurgent group, Boko Haram.
Ahead of the trip, Mr. Jonathan had been criticised for not
visiting Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States, the three states
most ravaged for years by Boko Haram.
Unlike his first visit when he met with troops fighting Boko
Haram, and victims displaced from their communities, the
president used Saturday’s visit to canvass support for the
March 28 election.
At a meeting with the PDP leadership in the state, Mr.
Jonathan addressed some thorny issues that emanated after
the party’s primaries in the state, which produced Nuhu
Ribadu as the governorship candidate.
Mr. Jonathan, who chaired the meeting at the government
house Yola, appealed to all aggrieved party members to
work for the success of the party.
Governor Ngilari, who spoke before the meeting went into a
closed-door session, assured Mr. Jonathan of victory in the
state, as according to him, the Adamawa chapter of the PDP
has been one indivisible party.
Mr. Ngilari said the members had to meet with the president
to brainstorm on the present situation the party has found
itself.
“We must deliver PDP on 28th of this month, no two ways
about it,” the governor said. “We all agreed that we must
deliver. This is a safe place for you all the PDP candidates, as
a party faithful we must deliver you and other members.”
Mr. Ngilari said the emergence of Nuhu Ribadu as the
party’s candidate was a blessing.
“We need a governor who has an international connection
and to use the connection to build our state by bringing
dividend of democracy,” he said.
The state chairman of the party, Mr. Madaki, while giving a
report of the effort done at reconciling aggrieved members,
said that members have agreed to put behind all their
grievances and work together for the victory of PDP.
“In every organisation there must be disagreement which
does not translate to hatred. There is inter house struggle in
the Adamawa State chapter of the PDP. Before the PDP
primary there were only two major parties in the state,
which were PDP and APC. But after the PDP primaries we
have four party now and many of our people have left to
other platforms, nobody from APC moved to our fold,” he
said.
Mr. Madaki noted that the earlier intervention of President
Jonathan and other party leaders saved the situation.
‘’The intervention of the party leaders have made things to
happen in Adamawa PDP. We have been mobilising people
for your victory Mr. President, we are making progress,” he
assured Mr. Jonathan.
‘’The gubernatorial candidate Nuhu Ribadu is a humble
person. He has visited all aggrieved people individually
seeking their supports.
‘’We’ve gone out to the 226 wards in the state to reconcile
with our people. We want you Mr. President to assist all the
candidates of the party.”

How Fulani cabal knocked heads of Nggilari, Gulak over senatorial seat

How Fulani cabal knocked heads of Nggilari, Gulak over senatorial seat
EMME EMMA GWANAH
The Adamawa state PDP has created a damaging reputation for itself; it has created a reputation of political insanity and impunity perpetrated to highest level. One needs not to possess a magic wand or consult an oracle to understand the crippling power play featuring few feudalists and political demons who have reduced the ethnic majority in the state into mere skeletons and clapping boys.
The Adamawa ethnic majority cannot forget too easily how the Fulani cabal systematically terminated the well inspiring and cherished administration of Hon. Ahmadu Finitiri who was seen as a threat to their ambition to produce a candidate of Fulani extraction who could promote Fulani hegemony in the state.
Barely three days to the October 11 aborted by-gubernatorial election, the high court sent quivers and shivers down the spine of the Adamawa population by invalidating the Nggilari’s resignation. The development was said to be product of an agreement reached between the cabal and Nggilari to forfeit his ambition as the Governor and to accept the position of a senator for the northern senatorial zone.
The conclusive and successful coup d’état targeted against Hon Fintiri because of his offensive ambition to be the Governor of the state against the wishes and political calculations of the Fulani cabal was said to have been the major factor that ruffled the feathers of the party.
On the other hand, Nggilari sudden change of ambition to declare for the gubernatorial seat was seen as a breach of that agreement between him and the cabal intended to violate the previous agreement. It was a confusion and controversy that degenerated into a game of wits which precipitated the suspension scandal of some key state party officials and hosting of a kangaroo PDP primaries in Abuja to make a way for the presidency favored candidate. In an attempt to douse the tension, Engineer Markus Gundiri was said to have been promised the offer of an appointment as a federal Minister, an offer he was said to have rejected outrightly.
In the process of reconciliation, Nggilari was forced to accept the earlier agreement to vie for the senatorial seat while Ali Gulak who had earlier emerged the candidate for the northern senatorial seat at the Abuja Kangaroo primaries was forced to sacrifice his mandate for the incumbent Governor. Though the deal appeared conclusive, the cabal who was apparently offended by Nggilari’s unfavorable disposition to the initial agreement had to resort to the application of some payback measures to scuttle his chances of becoming   a senator for the northern District. Many have alleged that the subsequent revolt by Ali Gulak to keep his earlier mandate he secured at the Abuja kangaroo primaries was part of the plot by the Fulani cabal to frustrate the senatorial ambition of Governor Bala James Nggilari. Hon Ali Gulak who is fighting vehemently to claim his mandate has questioned the justification for the confiscation of his mandate when in the real sense of it, he emerged the overall winner at an election contested by seven aspirants. He argued that in that same election, Nggilari never contested for the senatorial seat but governorship seat which he lost out.
The bone of contention is how the name of Nggilari was smuggled into INEC as the senatorial flag bearer of the party when in actual sense he never contested in the Abuja primaries.
Sources have alleged that the whole Nggilari/ Ali Gulak open war was an action masterminded by the Fulani cabal to teach Nggilari how to respect simple agreement.

NOT NOW, DR. ZWINGINA

NOT NOW, DR. ZWINGINA

Time it was when the Lunguda people of especially Adamawa state had cause to show pride in one of their sons, the erudite senator Jonathan Zwingina. They sang it and danced it and the music and the dance steps reverberated beyond the shores of the land. Senator Zwingina’s fame snowballed from the state to the national levels with international trappings. The Lunguda people continued to dance and sing with self-satisfaction and a huge expectation of a bountiful harvest of dividends from an obvious promising son. It never came. The flames burned out leaving behind a tale of woes and despair. It is like a well fed bull released for a fight but suddenly turned round with its menacing horns and strength to devour its master.
The turned around of the bull tendency manifested earlier during the days of the MAMSER campaigns where Senator Zwingina was the state Director. On a visit to his home local government Guyuk, the MAMSER boss picked the gauntlet with the chairman of his council area for failing to receive him at Kilometre 3 as the MAMSER Boss. Although this created ill feelings within the community, it was overlooked and the MAMSER boss was later to be given an overwhelming support to become the senator of the southern Senatorial Zone.
This was in spite of the grudge of the community on what they considered as first sin of their son, that is the unceremonious dissolution of the hitherto Lunguda Development Association (LDA), an association that bound the community together for which the senator was a treasurer. What annoyed the people most was the fact that the community had organized a fund raising from which a substantial amount of Money was realized for itself development? The community was not told the whereabouts of those funds only to be told that LDA was to be substituted with the (LDDA) Lunguda Districts Development Association, an organization unlike the LDA was not purely a Lunguda Association. Proponent of LDDA, senator Zwingina could not sustain the ideals of the union which the community rightly observed smirked off political undertones. The senator wanted to use the new LDDA to cover up the missing funds of the LDA as well appealed to the non-Lungudas for political gains. The people got disenchanted and abandoned the union entirely. Today, the community has no registered platform, thanks to senator Zwingina. But this too, was overlooked on the days of struggle to get the son of the community to the senate.
It was however at the senate that the true colours of their son manifested. It started with the electrification project of the senator who decided to connect his voting village to the national grid. He had three options to get the national grid lines to his village. One, one is to take the line from Guyk via Kurnyi, to Gundenyi and then to Falu his village. The other option was to take the lines from Lokoro to Kawa via Lamza, Walu and Falu. The third option was as the geographers will say “as the crow flies” meaning the lines would go straight from Guyuk to Falu without any village benefiting. To the consternation of the community, the senator took the third option which left out all the neighboring villages. There are allegations that the senator did secure a constituency project to execute a water project amounting to the tune of N200million. Although there is no way the community could verify these allegations as there is no single borehole on ground to attest to it, the allegation itself brought back memories of what the senator did when he was the Commissioner for Water Resources in the Adamawa state. In one of his official tours of local government in the state, the former Military Administrator of the state Group captain Grengory Agboneni visited Guyuk in company of his commissioner of water Resources.
The Administrator observed while inspecting the site of a presidential lodge that Guyuk people lack water and wandered why building a presidential lodge was more desirable. The Administrator therefore scraped the presidential lodge project and directed the Water Resources Commissioner to convert the project to a water one. Senator Zwingina never came back to tell the community what happened to the water project, instead the site of the presidential lodge which was to be used on that water project is now the presidential home of senator Zwingina in Guyuk.
It is not clear if the senator has the original (Co of O) that transferred the plot to him; allegations suggests that he used his position as the senator to cow the local government council into building the place for him.
Needless to say, the water ministry was the senator’s albatross. A senator Wanpana commission which investigated the tenure of the senator as the commissioner of the ministry revealed untamable inconsistencies and the people of the southern senatorial zone would have been saved from the agony of having to send such a son to the senate if a white paper was released in support of the commission’s findings.
Senator Zwingina had his primary school in the present day Guyuk central primary school. During his school days he was often sent out of school for lack of school fees and if his uniforms were worn-out together with many children of the less priviledge families. No denigration is intended here, but to point out that any pupil with such an experience who eventually become a senator will know that many of the children of his home community are still at the level at which he was.
Up to the end of his eight years tenure of the senate, nothing was done to show that the senator cares to look back when friends and relatives contributed to his education.
These and many more things that time and space cannot permit made the people to conclude that their son, the senator, “was more in the mouth” than keeping promises and commitment. It is apparent that senator Zwingina has enjoyed the service cheaply from his community since his elementary school to his senatorial level without commensurate reciprocation. It is also politically immature that after eight years as senator, senator Zwingina does not see the whole of the community as his constituency. He still believes in politics of seclusion where only lackeys who lack the capacity to question what he does are preferred by him.
All of a sudden senator Zwingina left Abuja to Yola to coordinate the campaigns of Right Honourable Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri. The gravevine had it that he took the position to help clear Fintiri before a committee headed by Deputy President of senate, Ibrahim Mantu, a friend to senaroe Zwingina whose responsibilities was to either clear or not to clear Fintiri for the guber race. Others felt that there could be more to do than meet the eye for senator Zwingina who successfully coordinated for a president of the federal Republic of Nigeria Late M.K.O Abiola to all of a sudden descend this low to coordinate for a governor in a state. it has since been found out that Senator Zwingina was not interested in coordinating for Fintiri, but he was coordinating for his senatorial ticket. In any case Fintiri did not need a coordinator in the person of senator Zwingina in order to win an election which he was sure of winning given his acceptance by the people across the state. in fact senator Zwingina was the darkest blemish on the immaculately white political robes of Rt. Honorable Ahmadu Fintiri.
But while Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Fintiri has since accepted that it was a stroke of providence that Madagali will provide the leadership of Adamawa state at these trying moments, he is teaming up as it should be with Governor Bala James Nggilari, the stabilizer, to ensure that Madagali delivers. Rt. Hon. Fintiri is what my people figuratively call Jiswanka, a special arrow for a special game in the near feature. Feelers suggest that instead of visiting governor Nggilari to congratulate him for becoming governor, and also making the senator’s childhood friend Ibrahim Welye the SSG, the senator is said to be involved in complicities that saw to the disintegration PDP as a party in the state.
In desperation, senator Zwingina clinched a senatorial ticket from questionable party primaries which has torn the party apart in his home state Adamawa. Today Senator Zwingina is booed by the youths in Guyuk for wasting eight years as a senator and wonder why he thinks he deserves to be given another chance. Just before the Christmas the senator was on his way to his voting village and decided to take his normal route “as the crows flies” suddenly he realized he realized the road was washed away by the rains and a rivulet which will not cost a serious senator half a million to construct a culvert across prevented him from continuing his journey. The locals booed and showed him an alternative road to Falu, his voting village whether senator Zwingina picks the senatorial ticket is immaterial what matter is if those who gave him the ticket will also crown him the senator elected. If democracy is a game of numbers, Zwingina is on his own. Senator Zwingina has squandered the good will of his people on the altar of greed and self-centeredness. Gone are the days the people follow stupidly only to be disappointed. Certainly, not now Zwingina. 

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Adamawians are free from Bokoharam

The nigerian military have today succeeded in clearing bokoharm out of Madagali, which is the ls the last town held by the terrorist in Adamawa state, the director deffence information, major general Chris Olukolade, who has been on a tour  mission in North-East disclosed that there was no casualties on the side of the Nigerian Trops.

2015 POLLS:PDP’s RIGGING PLOT IN ADAMAWA EXPOSED

Following the Abuja PDP kangaroo primaries that produced the Former EFCC Boss Mallam Nuhu Ribadu as the gubernatorial flag bearer of PDP in the state, the development may have not only stirred up internal crises and mass exodus of the party stalwarts to other political parties, but has also created apathy and tarnished the image for the party on the side of its supporters and sympathizers.
Only recently, the purported winner of the PDP gubernatorial aspirant concluded what he termed thank you tour of the local governments in the state. Follow up reports indicated that his tour suffered a serious setbackas many wind screens of some vehicles of supporters on his entourage were smashed, while others were reported to have chanted Boko Haram after his name to humiliate him. The information maintained that in some local governments in the state, even some card-carrying members of the party joined the masses to respond with a slogan “sai Gundiri” any time Ribadu and his team shouted “Adamawa sai waye”
Sources closeto the party secretariat stated that the just concluded thank you tour of the controversial PDP candidate was a tactical maneuver to test his popularity and the confidence people of the state repose in his candidature.
The same sources revealed that after the tour the controversial PDP candidate came face to face with the reality that he lacks the capacity and popularity to win the forthcoming election in the wake of free and fair election when he was reportedly quoted as saying that “even though I seem not to be the popular choice of the people in the state, but I have the chances of becoming the Governor of the state through electoral, security and judicial manipulation. Even if I score one vote during the election, the influence of my godfather whooccupies a high position in the presidency will pave a way for my victory at the polls”
Sources close to the PDP secretariat said that since the humiliation and outright opposition and hostilities the controversial PDP gubernatorial candidate faced inthe wake of his tour, he has engaged in series of meetings with his cabal to chart a new course that will facilitate his emergence as the Governor of the state without regard to the rule of law.
Sourcesalleged that the presidency is coming face to face with the reality of the weakness of PDP gubernatorial candidates of ten states in the country, whose possibility of winning election in their state is virtually impossible; it was reported that the presidency had arrogantly released ten billion to each aspirant, with Adamawa state inclusive.
Sources close to PDP secretariat alleged that the party has been doing underground work to win the forth coming election at all costs even if it means snatching ballot boxes. The sources who pleaded anonymity reliably disclosed to newsmen that there is a plan by the PDP to engage thugs in snatching ballot boxes with compensation of N2 million per box, apart from the use of compromising electoral  and security officials.
Sources told newsmen that the party is planning to roll to the streets of the state stomach infrastructuresbefore the countdown to forthcoming election just as the party exhibited in Ekiti state recently as a maneuver to attract sympathy and support of the hostile electorates in Adamawa state.
A source who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that a friend(name withheld) told him that he was called by a familiar friend who is a die-hard of the former EFCC Boss, Mallam Ribadu and asked if he is interested to serve as an Adhoc Staff of the INEC to conduct the February elections.
He said that he was told that he would be recruited as an Adhoc Staff only on the condition of giving his consent to work for Ribadu as an Adhoc staff.
From this revelation, it is becoming almost clear that a group working for the “victory at the February polls may be walking under cover to recruit workers who are favorably disposed to the PDP’s candidate to facilitate rigging or electoral manipulation.
A source within the People’s Democratic Party told newsmen that before now, the proponents of Ribadu’s candidature or the existing cabal in the state have been working to ensure that no party fields Engineer Markus Gundiri as a gubernatorial candidate for fear of his amazing popularity and acceptability in the state. The apparent failure of this plot was said to have forced the cabal to explore the possibility of using some prominent Christian Politicians (names withheld) from Demsa, Guyuk, Mubi North and Madagali local governments to infiltrate the ranks of Church leaders and Pastors by offering them mouth-watering financial incentives to influence the voting pattern of Christians in the state.
Another heart-piercing plot is the alleged use of INEC officials to manipulate results of the election in favour of PDP in the state.
The same source alleged that a top ranking National officer of the INEC had asked a gubernatorial candidate of PDP in the state to name any Resident Commissioner of INEC of his choice for posting to the state to work out an apparatus for his victory at the February polls.
This plan was said to have been concluded before the recent reshufflement of some INEC Resident Commissioners across the country ahead of the February 2015 general elections.
Speaking to the newsmen, the publicity secretary of All Progressive Congress Adamawa state chapter, Rev. Padio Phineas, said that their party is aware of all the plans and maneuvers of PDP to rig the forthcoming election, adding that their party is putting measures in place to checkmate the PDP and its plans to rig the forthcoming election, elaborating that their party is ready to match PDP fire for fire until justice is done to the electoral process in the form of free, fair and credible election.
“Kangaroo eras of rigging election easily have gone, we are ready to cast and defend our votes until justice prevails. All the plans put in place by PDP to rig the forth coming election will be nothing but a far-fetched dream because their plans are finally exposed and our party is ready to match them fire by fire” Padio said.
Also speaking, the organizing secretary of the Social Democratic Party in the state, Engr. CharlseTumolva said that his party is aware of such plans to rig out the most popular candidate contesting under the platform of the SDP saying that 2015 will certainly not be a business as usual.

Fintiri in fresh trouble over alleged missing N3.9 billion

The former acting governor of Adamawa State Hon Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri
is said to be swimming in troubled waters following the recent
revelation that over N3.9billion was missing from the state coffers under his acting tenure as the acting governor of the state.
There are strong indications that Fintiri may be investigated over alleged dirty deals by the present administration to expose certain realities associated with his first brief tenure he served as the Deputy Governor when the court earlier ordered the conduct of elections in five states of the federation including Adamawa.
The same Justice Bobbo Commission of inquiry constituted by the state Assembly speaker, Hon. Ahmadu Fintiri was said to have indicted the speaker alongside other PDP bigwigs in the state for alleged financial misappropriations.
Subtle observers were said to have criticized the committee report based on blunders identified in the report and the revelation of the chairman of the committee presented during the presentation of the committee report to Governor Bala James.
The committee had admitted that it could only carry out 40% of the assignment given to them, a declaration that gave rise to suspention and condemnation.
Insetigations revealved that the former secretary of the company had resigned from serving the community based on issue of personal intergrity and morality. He was said to have frowned at the failure of some government’s officials to honour the imitation of the committee to appear before it for a questioning.
The secretary of the committee Mr. Cornelius Nyari was said to have been disturbed by the operation of the committee and its unexplained silence over Fintiri and bello Tukur’s deliberate refusal to appear for questioning. Bello Tukur who was chief of staff of the impeached governor was been fingered in most alleged deals of Nyako’s government.
Many have question the credibility of the Justice Bobbo commission report due to the absence of the identity and signatories of both the old and the new secretary as well as the deliberate replacement of the secretary as well as the deliberate replacement of the secretary.
Governor Bala James Nggilari who was apparently worried by the glaring abnormalities and acts that implies selective justice had distanced himself from the report saying that he does not believe in witch-hunting.
He was reported to have said that the assignment may be compelled to set up another committee to study the half-baked report before further action since the report lacks appropriate ingredients that will stimulate government action.

A social crusader in Adamawa State Malam Ibrahim Medugu has
challenged the Speaker of the State, House of Assembly Hon Ahmadu Umaru
Fintiri to come out clean and prove that he did not embezzled the
state resources valued at N3, 908,255,626 during his tenure as the
acting governor of the state.

Fintiri had submitted a report that during his stay
in office as the Acting Governor of the state that he earned a total of
Twenty One Billion, Four hundred and Six million, three hundred and
forty thousand, Seven hundred and sixty Seven (N21,406,340,767) as
income  and expended the sum of(20,698,085,140) leaving the of
(N708,255,623) as surplus in the state coffer for the incoming
Governor.

Medugu observed that Fintiri left a deficit of over (N3.2billion) and
not a surplus as he claimed based on the records available, stressing that figure involved is too great for one to have probably suggested to be a mistake.
Medugu alleged that the state resources were diverted through a
construction company named Mayim construction and property LTM which
had link with the acting governor  in purchasing a tea plantation on
Mambilla belonging to S.M. Nguroja Nig .Ltd at a cost of N650million
through Eco bank.

According to him the construction company with registration number RC 695885 is being investigated by
695885 by EFCC on allegations of money laundry.


 He specifically cited the purported purchase of prado jeeps valued at N247, 556,478 for the local Government
Chairmen in the state by Hon. Fintiri as one of the many deals and crimes of Finitiri adding that Nyako had already paid for the vehicles.
He also wondered how N75, 767,216 could have been paid for the
electrification of Kirchurga which at that time was firmly under the
grip of insurgents and could not have benefited from the project.

Another grey area identified by Medugu was the renovation of houses
which gulped N279,413,091 wondering which houses were renovated when
all the staff quarters in the state had been sold off.

He also noted that the purported N279million used for
renovation could have built an estate of almost 60 flats at the
ongoing rate of about N5million per flat.


However immediately Fintiri was sacked by Abuja High Court from office
he denied of any mismanagement of the state resources, giving account
of his stewardship, that over N20 billion was spent on projects

Fintiri at a Press Conference held at the House
of Assembly complex shortly after his removal by an Abuja high court explained that he expended over N20 billion on
salaries and projects during his 86 days tenure as Acting Governor.

According to him his three months old administration received a total
income of N21. 4 billion and expended N20. 6 billion and left behind
N708. 2 million.

" Accountability is is one of the most essential virtue of leadership
in and out of office. I therefore, find it necessary to give an
account of my stewardship as the Acting Governor to the people of
Adamawa.

"It is pertinent to state here that the financial position of Adamawa
at the time we came to power was catastrophic.

" The state was heading to total collapse due to high level of
indebtedness. The state owed liquid cash of over N12.8 billion to just
one bank, and for over three years, the state government had been
paying salaries through over draft.

" The state was paying about N100 million monthly as interest on
overdraft, term loan repayment of about N1 billion monthly, and
overdraft repayment of N3.5billion monthly", Fintiri said.

He said his brief administration was able save the state from drowning
in debt by involving the service of professionals who brought about
financial stability.

“Consequently, monthly interest on overdraft drooped to zero naira,
the repayment of term loan also dropped from about N1billion monthly
to N311 million monthly and the repayment of overdraft dropped from
about N3.5 billion monthly to zero naira monthly.

" In addition, my administration saved the interest in debt of N12.8
billion from the usual 22 per cent to 16 per cent,  resulting in
saving about N2 billion, besides the over N400 million that was made
from the moratorium period agreed", Fintiri said.

According to Fintiri, the stability being enjoyed by the state as at
now was as a result of his administration is accountability and
transparency in governance which he said made it possible to pay
salaries and salary arrears as well as embark on projects.


However, commenting on the controversial Fintiri tenure as the
acting governor of the state, a  APC chieftain in the state, Alh Uba
Dan Arewa said that governor Bala James Nggilari needs to set a panel
to probe Fintiri administration.
He said that since Assembly speakers are not provided by law, the Nggilari administration should be protected by law, the Nggilari administration should investigate and apprehend the speaker if found guilty.
He further accused Fintiri of giving out to only PDP legislators with the exclusion of other law makers from other parties.

political dispensation evolving in Guyuk local government

With the current political dispensation evolving in Guyuk local government, bringing into account avalanche of complaints of the people of the constituency of poor representation, one Hon. Chief Ayuba Bamaiyi (Ajiyan Lunguda) answered the call of the people of the area to contest for the member of the state house of assembly under the platform of social democratic party to bring good tidings to Guyuk. 
Speaking with pioneer, Ajiyan Lunguda said that what motivated him to answer the clarion call of the people of his constituency to join the contest of the state house of assembly is the impoverish and mediocratic underrepresentation his constituency is suffering from, lamenting that throughout the present tenure Guyuk constituency has not enjoy a single dividends of democracy from its representative adding that all constituency allocations and allowances meant for the masses has been criminally looted and diverted to private coffers, given assurance that he came on board to offer accountable representation and prudent legislation, to make good laws that will have direct impact on the citizenry most especially the socio economic development of the constituency, youth empowerment and to create enabling and conducive atmosphere for investment and to create employment opportunities for the youth of his constituency.
Chief Bamaiyi said that he viewed what happens to him in PDP as a stepping stone to his political fortune believing that political party is just a mere platform but what matters is the credibility of a candidate and the confidence electorates have in ones candidature.
“Certainly people are aware of the injustice that transpires in the PDP; the electorates were denied access to their right candidates, rather imposition was the order of the day as such people like us who are political orphans in PDP; we who belief in progressive politics, who does not advocate godfatherism found ourselves dumped in the name of kangaroo primaries.
After the perpetration of that great impunity we decided to defect to SDP as our plan B to work in respect to the clarion call of the people of my constituency and I belief that with God on our side and people at our back we shall ride on our white horses and pursue vampires that have been sucking the blood of Lunguda land and finally restore sanity.
 As far as I am concern what matters much is the credibility of the candidature involves not the political party; the political party is just a platform but rather the confidence the electorates have in a candidate is what matters much. Let me at this juncture tell people of Guyuk local government that there will be surprises by 2015 and that surprises will led to turn around in the misfortunes of the land.”
Hon. Bamaiyi call on the electorates of his constituency to continue in their spirit of zealot haven confidence that very soon the storm will be over and they shall open a new chapter towards the development of Guyuk land, promising that there administration will establish a free and a democratic society where the will of the people will be respected and the true definition of democracy as was define by Abraham Lincoln as government of the people by the people and for the people will be formulated and people will partake in the formation and running of government, given assurance to people of Guyuk that certainly if given mandate he will work as an errand boy not as a dictator, he will endeavor to deliver good dividends of democracy that will bring good tidings to the Lunguda land.
Ajiyan Lunguda expatiated that there are insinuations from certain quarters that members of a certain party are planning imposition adding that gone are those kangaroo eras where such mischievous activities are condone, elaborating that era of manipulations and ringing has cheated his constituency and people of Guyuk local government this time around people are ready to cast and defend their votes to the latter given assurance that they will work in the corridors of law in accordance with electoral act where it stipulates that winners be declared right from unit to state level.
He lamented over how Kiri Dam is been under-utilize promising that when voted to power he will liaise with the government to ensure that the dam is being use as a source of income to Guyuk and shelling, adding that he will make sure that youth are employ into dry season farming believing that if the dam by extension if properly use will take care of northeast and that will improve the standard of living of the local government.  
“I am a small medium scale industrialist, right now in my organization I can’t precisely estimate the number of the people from Guyuk that are working under me, aside with that, I have trained a lot of people from my constituency and today are living a life of luxury.in the aspect of community project I will boldly tell the world that just minor among the majors is the provision of portable water for the people of my area, and is my earnest desire to do more when given mandate. As an experience business man and as an exposed individual I will even go extra mile to bring good tidings to my constituency.
Ajiyan Lunguda further call on the politicians of Guyuk local government to deviate from the politics of victimization, intimidation and all forms of attitudes that will not help their community, elaborating that gone are those days where one will just come on board and think that he has godfather and he will be impose on the people of Guyuk local government.

ADAMAWA ON THE BRINK OF POLITICAL REVOLUTION?

The lives of people of Adamawa state have been shaped by the past horrifying leadership experience to the point of preparing for any political emergency that could frustrate the realization of their dream to produce a credible, popular and acceptable candidate in the forthcoming march general elections.
The past political experience in the state has undoubtly left practical lessons in the minds of the citizens of the state on the real meaning of imposition and its implications, which is why people in the state may stop at nothing to ensure that only the popular wishes of the majority is respected.
When Nyako was imposed on the state some years ago, it was obvious that the citizens of the state tolerated the conspiracy and imposition; the same circumstances reenacted itself in 2011 election because of what many described as the weak and insensitive posture of the ethnic majority in the state.
The former president, Olesegun Obasanjo who facilitated imposition of Nyako 2007 was quoted as saying, “had it been that people of the state protested the imposition of Nyako I would have withdrawn his candidate to avoid any uproar and breach of peace”
It is true that Adamawa has a history of imposition of candidates without stiff resistance but the current imposition of the former EFCC Boss, Malam Ribadu seems to have made history because of the mass resistance it has generated up to this moment.
There are strong indications that the Adamawa ethnic majority are poised for a surprise this; to prove to the world that the power behind the imposition of candidates in Adamawa may not be right this time.
Not long ago the Fulani cabal who were alleged to have brought Nggilari through judicial process were reported to have recently viewed his government as stumbling block to the realization of the their political interest because of what they described as a strange romance between Ngglari and the opposition in the state.
The cabal was said to have mounted pressure on he presidency to remove the Governor of the state on the grounds that the governor has been sympathic to APC and SDP in the state.
The plot to remove the governor due to perceived disloyalty to the party received a boost recently but lost its steam when the governor assured the presidency that he was still loyal to the party (PDP). Sources close to the party said that the governor was arm twisted to support the PDP guber candidate inspite of the unpleasant circumstances surrounding the process that brought him up as the party’s flagbearer in Abuja recently. The recent removal threat against local government chairmen and commissioners by the chief executive of the state was said to be an aftermath of the intense pressure on the governor from the presidency.
It was quite disturbing that the commissioners were compelled to take an oath that they will not be engaged in anything inimical to the interest of the party.
Many are worried that in our current level of democratic growth and experience that politicians are forced to declare their loyalty for the party under oath.
Many have alleged that the pressure mounted on the local government chairmen and stake holders to vote for PDP by the governor is a calculated steps by the governor to prove his innocence and loyalty to the party against accusations that he was romancing with the opposition.  Nigerians are still watching to see the outcome of the ongoing political calculations especially with the presence of the likes of A.T Shehu and Chief Joel Madaki who suffered humiliation in the hands of the national party leadership and their favoured candidate.
Will the arm-twisting of the chief executive also make difference? The recent hard posture of the chief executive council members looks real but with some hidden elements of deception.
Would it be possible for a man who has been hunted down by his enemies turn back to support the enemy who has been responsible for his woes and truncation of his political ambition? This is a hard riddle to solve but only time will tell the answers. Nggilari, Joel Madaki and A.T Shehu are not the only ones nursing their wounds inflected by the entrance of Ribadu in the party; many whose ambitions have been scuttled are in the party; majority party loyalists are also hiding and waiting for the arrival of their prey.
Will Ribadu be lucky enough to escape the sharp and penetrating claws of the vicious and hungry lions waiting for him to step into their territory?
Only a miracle will make a big difference in Ribadu’s political life. The ethnic majority out there are also waiting to see how such miracle will translate into concrete reality the political calculations of the controversial PDP candidate in the state. Whatever coercive pressure mounted on the local government chairmen to support PDP will not change the minds of the electorates because the past horrifying leadership experience has shaped the lives of people in the state.You can only fool me once but you cannot fool me twice!

RIBADU SPITS FIRE

By Tukur Ahmed
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Adamawa State, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has committed hara-kiri; he has threatened the people of the state with fire and brimstone, even though he is still seeking their mandate. The ex-cop and EFCC boss went berserk and spit fire in the presence of journalist at his Yola residence on Saturday, February 28, 2015. He said his compatriots in the state have forgotten he was a cop and EFCC boss who gave bloody noses to Ministers and governors. He warned that the citizens of the state who take him for granted will soon know who he is in their “small Adamawa.”
Ribadu was reportedly irked by either the plain rejection or poor reception he received in his campaign tour of the 21 Local Government Areas in the state. Beclouded by myopia, haughtiness and weird political calculus, he thought he would get red carpet reception and meet huge welcoming crowds wherever he went. Unfortunately, he was terribly disappointed when he didn’t meet people at some of the rally grounds as they deserted him; he was therefore taken aback and bitter. Now, frustration has set in. The lack of support or plain rejection has not gone down well with Ribadu, who saw himself as a Crown Prince only waiting to be summoned to the throne!!
The former EFCC boss has so soon forgotten how he emerged as governorship candidate at a Kangaroo primary election held in Abuja. If he has short memory, the people of Adamawa State have not forgotten or forgiven that incident. Ribadu was a highly respected Nigerian with his anti-corruption credentials. With what happened at the Kangaroo primaries in Abuja, he has lost all the respect and credibility he had.
In 2007, impeached Governor Nyako was similarly imposed on the people of the state and they are still grappling with the wounds and trauma he inflicted on them with his inept and corrupt leadership which left them grossly impoverished and dichotomised on ethno-religious divides. They are yet to overcome and forget what ex-governor Nyako did to them. Although Nyako’s case was much more better, what is transmitted through the grapevine doesn’t paint Ribadu in good light; that he will be worst than Nyako in terms of inflicting pains through discrimination, disempowerment and misery. This is what will befall the vilified and impoverished people of the state and what sends them scampering for cover whenever Ribadu approaches their domains for campaigns.
Malam Nuhu Ribadu seems to have forgotten his grievous sins against his compatriots; he is oblivious of the fact that nemesis is trailing his footsteps and the victims of his vindictiveness are now wielding their own weapons and waiting anxiously to disgrace him at the polls on March 11, 2015. Already whispers making the rounds in Yola, the state capital, say the fate that befell his late father at the polls in 1979 when he was roundly defeated by a relatively unknown Alhaji Abubakar Barde (of blessed memory) is what will befall him on March 11, 2015.   
Ribadu is seen by some people as unlucky while others attribute his poor political outings to his past sins against prominent citizens in the country. In 2011 when he contested for the presidency on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), he lost woefully and came a distant third after President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari; now in 2015, his best chance, according to pundits, is to retain the same third position in Adamawa state. The dismal result will tell Ribadu his class and rightful position in the state. This will be a bitter lesson for those that reach the apex of their professions, attain national prominence and forget their home bases.
People that traverse the length and breadth of this country know the huge community services rendered by prominent Igbos, Yorubas, Binis, Kanuris, etc. In Adamawa state, most of our blessed and well to do citizens who attain national prominence disregard and snub their brethren and their local communities. But when election periods come around, they troop home thinking that they will be rewarded for doing nothing to their communities or expect to reap from where they never sowed anything. This era is gone.
Malam Nuhu Ribadu is firing shots and threatening fire and brimstone for nothing. He should ask himself what track records of exemplary service he has in the state or programs and projects he executed for his community in Yola, apart from malice and vengeance that he visited on the prominent sons of the state. Can he honestly face former Vice President Atiku Abubakar or former governor and present Minister of Youth Development, Boni Haruna? Why did he go on self-exile and become a fugitive under late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s administration? Let him therefore stop his empty threats and reap what he sowed as EFCC boss!!!
Tukur Ahmed writes fron Karewa GRA, Jimeta-Yola. 

WHY NGGILARI MAY NOT IMPLEMENT JUSTICE BOBBO REPORT

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Nyako misappropriates N500 Billion in 7yrs Only recently, the Justice Bobbo Umar Commission of inquiry into the finance and human resources management of Adamawa state Government from June 2007 to June 2014 set up by Rt. Honorable Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri aborted government presented its six weeks investigative report to the state government with great expectation that the government will set up committee to study the report and issue a white paper on the report.
Nggilari’s continued silence over the report since the submission of the report had raised fundamental questions from the opposition that the governor may not have the moral justification to implement the report since he was part of the Nyako’s ousted government.
Recent pronouncement by the Governor of Adamawa state that he will not be part of any form of witch hunting clearly implies Nggilari’s unpreparedness to pursue the report to logical conclusion.
The report present a shocking revelation of N500 billion allegedly misappropriated by the Nyako Administration in seven (7) years of his tenure.
The report also described the impeached Governor as the “Chief Accountant” of the state, while the chief accountant  was just operating as mere “cashier,” while the Bank manager of Zenith as a “defector” Account holder of the state government, a situation that makes embezzlement very easy.
The report further revealed that in 2008 the state government collected a loan from Zenith Bank for the project of street light in the state capital and Mubi, and paid whooping sum of over ten billion naira (10,000,000,000:00) as interest charges over the period to the bank while the sum of three hundred and fifty four million, nine hundred and thirty one thousand, two hundred and seven naira (354,931,207) remitted into the account of the secretary to the state government by the facility manager of Adamawa plaza, Abuja between 2010 and 2014 was diverted by the SSG since only N9million was remitted into the state account.
Some of the areas the report indicted the Nyako’s administration is the looting of the local government Accounts (JAAC), sponsorship of Nyako’s wife foreign trip, diversion of N1billion education fund, diversion of N2 billion workers two months salaries and N175 million monthly SA allowances among others.

HOW NYAKO NAILED ADAMAWA TO THE CROSS

    I rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy: hypocrisy, fraud and tyranny. Sohocles

These timeless words kept on bubbling and re-echoing in my mind when I started flipping through the pages of the findings of the investigations carried out on the seven years tenure of Nyako by the Justice Bobbo commission of inquiry where heart pouring revelations and atrocities of Murtala Nyako were flown to the limelight for public consumption.
With the towering revelations emanating from the Justice Bobbo Commission on the activities of past terminated government, the name “Nyako” when mentioned in the state creates an impression of a word that is interwoven with either freakish fraudster, swindler or a blind man who captains a ship with the influence of back-seat drivers.
Not long ago, Bello Ali (not real name) likened the financial devastation of Nyako to the havoc caused by bevy of monkeys that stormed a farm land. He was quoted saying over the media in Hausa that “Gomana barnan biraye akan barnan Nyako don barnan da Nyako yayi wa Adamawa yafi barnan da biraye zai yi wa babban gona”.When translated means that the nature of devastation Nyako reposed on the treasury of the state supercede that of the one caused by monkeys on a large farmland.
These revelations has written the name of Nyako with golden pen in the first page of the Guinness book of record of the state as a governor whose tenure and government was a symbol of corruption and injustice. It was a government where corruption and the act of injustice is virtually institutionalized.
The justice Bobbo Commission which is primarily set up to investigate the ousted government of Nyako was shocked to bone marrows after coming face to face with the reality of the intensity of how the government in questioned plundered the resources of the state, which compelled the commission to exclaimed in its first meeting that: “the assignment was not like investigating one ministry. It was a thorough investigation of a government which was dominated by mediocre and cronies, which displayed total impunity, disregarded all facets of transparency and accountability, completely ignored the importance and need for complying with due process. A government that at its inception had no economic, social or even political plan for the state, completely frustrated and demoralized the bureaucrat structure, disobeyed all known set rules and regulations, carried on, as if it has no constitutional limitations and lasted seven years. What was important was not how the state was going to benefit but how the commonwealth was going to be shared”
The Justice Bobbo commission discovered that the government of Nyako had misappropriated not less than five hundred billion naira in seven years. For the governor to make the embezzlement easier, he literally assumed the duties of the “Accountant general”, while the appointed “accountant general” was merely playing the functions of a “cashier”. The manager of a new generation Bank in the state became a “defacto” account holder of the state government.
The intensity of plunder was high, a situation that compelled the commission to describe his government as “no system system” government. The total alteration of structures gave them leverage to abolished structures meant to effect checks and balances mostly in the case of tender boards to facilitate easier plundering of resources. The system of government was deliberately designed to enable the state government to transfer the supervisory responsibility of the internal revenue to the office of the SSG as the chairman of the board surrendered his functions to the SSG memos generated to transfer of funds were written and initiated by the SSG to ease and facilitate easier diversion of the state funds.
Another strategy employed by the government for easy diversions of state funds was the transfer of all state government accounts to the Zenith as a product of conspiracy and evil alliance between the Governor, accountant general, the director board of internal revenue and a manager of Zenith which made embezzlement easier.
On 27 August, 2008, the state government collected a loan from Zenith bank for the project of street light in the state capital and Mubi, the project that was never executed inspite of the fact that a whooping sum of over ten billion naira was charged as interest over the period by the Bank.
The government of Nyako reduced the ministry of local government affairs to a milking cow by hijacking the entire federal statutory allocations of the LGs through illegal deductions to level that about 109% was deducted every month leaving the LGs with a negative of 9% every month. This pushed many LGs into taking loans and overdrafts to pay salaries and wages of their staff.
From 4 December, 2012 to the day Nyako was impeached, the state government deducted about 9.8 billion for the funding of security challenges in the state which is illegal.  On 22 July 2013 about N20, 369,326:00 and also N28, 974,000 were removed from the treasury of JAAC to sponsor the trip of the wife of Nyako to China and South Korea. The sum of N50, 144,000:00 was approved from JAAC for the supply of sanitary materials and provisions to government lodges. About 4,808,000:00 was deducted from JAAC accounts to allow local governments' participation in the 2013 Abuja Trade Fair.
The commission also revealed that the Nyako administration diverted N1 Billion naira meant for scholarship to private pockets. The September and October 2011 workers’ salaries of N2 billion was also cornered by the state government.
More disturbing is that, after SSG took over the control and operation of the Board of Internal Revenue, the proceeds of rents from the Adamawa plaza Abuja, were directly remitted to his private accountant rather than the account of the Board of Internal Revenue. The plaza facility manager had reserved no secret to dig out how the revenue generated to the state vie the plaza was squandered. He confirmed that the sum of three hundred and fifty four million, nine hundred and thirty one thousand, two hundred and seven (N 354,931,207) naira from 2010 to 2014 was remitted into the account of SSG with only the sum of N9 million remitted into the account of the state government.
The farmer turned politician who was widely acknowledged for nepotism and promotion of ethnic agenda was accused of operating a policy that largely accommodates the Fulanis. Nomadic Fulanis and relations of the sacked governor are often seen in Banks to withdraw their allowances under S. A. programme. The Nyako aborted government spends N175million monthly on the S. A. programme.
Nyako operated an aristocratic government where corruption and injustice are committed with great impunity at the expense of the state and the people.
 With these revelations of great impunities and kleptomaniac elements by the ousted government flown to the limelight for public consumption, I am surprise after coming face to face with the reality that the front line actors of the impunity are still having mouth to say that their impeachment is a product of conspiracy. I believe that had been that Adamawa state is in civilized countries where fraudsters and criminals are not tolerated, they would have grown slim by now with their families behind the iron bars of prison, but since they are in Nigeria where criminals are celebrated we are still seeing them on the streets of the state.
Let me conclude with the words of Dr. Umar Ardo At a Press Conference on September 28, 2011, where he summed up the rot and decadent personality of Nyako that: “The old age did not bring in the expected fear of God; the high positions earlier held did not improve the understanding of the issues; the past experience did not serve as lessons for the present. On the contrary, the old age became an impulse to acquire as much as quickly as his insatiable greed can contain before the lights are dimmed; the high positions earlier held seem to serve as an eye-opener to the present opportunities so as to more than make up for lost ones of the past; while the pas experience serves as an impetus to just do as he pleases with the people’s common wealth put in sacred trust into his hands believing that nothing will happen. In consequence, Adamawa state has today become the worst off for it in several areas of governance.”

WHY NGGILARI CONCENTRATED POWERS IN THE HANDS OF HIS CHIEF OF STAFF

Nyako’s government which was a complete deviation from the acceptable practice of the act of governance has come and gone. It is now a forgotten antique but the reality of Nggilari’s government is a reminder of the excesses of Nyako’s government which almost crippled the future of the state and its citizens. Nggilari who is a judicially manufactured governor took over the mantle of leadership from his predecessor Hon, Fintiri who was almost putting smiles on the faces of the citizens through popular policies.
The people of the state are worried that some of the acts of governance in the present administration are almost a complete reflection of Nyako’s government where rules and procedures are violated with great impunity. One of such areas is the concentration of power into the hands of a favoured individual and hijacking of responsibilities from individual officers.
Only recently the governor of the state was reported to have either subzone or concentrated power and the entire machinery of government of the state into the hands of his chief of staff. It is a situation where virtually all the official function of the top government functionaries are subtly denied the privilege of exercising their duties to allow the chief of staff handle such official responsibilities.
The same office of the chief of staff which was earlier scrapped at federal government level due to lack of constitutional backing is surprisingly given undue recognition by this administration just like its predecessor did, despite the fact the office is not recognize by the scheme of service.
There is no doubt that the office of the chief of staff is a brainchild or creation of the impeached governor, Murtala Nyako to deliberately cave a vacancy for his lackeys to participate in his government. In the case of administration of Nggilari, the unconstitutional office in question was over glorified and magnified above the constitutionally recognized office of the secretary to the state government among others.
Many have argued that ideally, the office of the chief of staff of the state is not superior to the office of the Deputy permanent secretary which does not go beyond the management of the affairs of the staff working in government house.
Sources close to the government house have alleged that since the inception of the tenure of the incumbent governor of the state he has dignified the office of the chief of staff to the level that all the powers of constitutional offices with clear terms of office like secretary to the state government and deputy governor were taken away from them and concentrated into the hands of the chief of staff leaving them with virtually no glory or glamour.
The sources maintained that there was an instance when the deputy governor of the state who brought a memo to the governor for attention was reported to have been referred to the chief of staff by the governor, a development said to have infuriated the deputy governor who questioned the justification and opted to take back home his memo.
In the same vein, the secretary to the state government Mr. Ibrahim Welye was alleged to have not only threatened to resign but also wrote his resignation letter in protest against the hijacking of his constitutional responsibility by the office of the chief of staff. Sources close to government House indicated that the number one citizen of the state had delegated some loyalists to plead with the SSG on his behalf to shelve the idea of resignation because of its adverse implication on his government.
Sources close to the Dougirei government house revealed that the chief of staff has not only received an overdose of power to place him far above the SSG and the deputy governor but now plays the role of a supervising commissioner of the ministry of local government and chief executive of the state. The chief of staff is now seen as the “defacto” governor because of the great influence he wields. Pioneer in search of answers to this amazing reality discovered that the chief of staff had found favour in the eyes of the governor because of some recorded cases of loyalty and trust. The Governor was said to have entrusted the sum of N500, 000 into the hands of the chief of staff during the 2011 elections which he judicially utilized and returned part of the money to his principal which he claimed was a left over.
Such act of loyalty and honesty was said to have created an atmosphere of trust and respect among the duo. The chief of staff in another show of loyalty had openly declared his support and loyalty to Nggilari before Bello Tukur who wanted him on their side during emerging conflict s between his principal and their opponents, the chief of staff had reminded the opponents of his principal of their choice of Micheal Ularamu above him when he was contesting the seat of Madagali as chief Executive of the local government. According to the sources, Nggilari had stood behind the chief of staff to win the chairmanship seat of the local government, a development said to have compelled the chief of staff to declare his willingness to sacrifice his life for Nggilari. The chief of staff was said to have also stood behind his principal during his trying moments and funded the judicial process that returned Nggilari as the governor of the state.
Many have suggested that Nggilari’s favourable disposition to the chief of staff may be a reciprocal gesture. It is however disturbing that the chief Executive of the state whom the lives and future of the people of the state largely depends on had to sacrifice justice, rules and procedure on the altar of friendship and loyalty.
Where there is need to reward loyalty, the interest of the majority and the demands of social justice must not be jeopardized.

ORGANIZATION TONQUE LASHES MISCHIEVIOUS POLITICIANS

The Ganye youth Patriotic front a non-governmental organization in the state working for the promotion of good governance has reacted to reports being circulated by a failed politician in Adamawa state that Reverend (Hon.) Habila Istifanus the deputy Governor to the gubernatorial candidate of the people’s democratic party (PDP) and former EFCC Boss Mallam Nuhu Ribadu is an indigene of Plateau state and not a politician of Chamba extraction in Adamawa state.
In a statement signed by the chairman of the organization, Mr. Dakitemi Laban Gindau, the organization condemned the malicious report saying that it was deliberately intended to cast aspersions on the personality of the Reverend gentleman whose history and contributions to the development of chamba land is not in dispute:
The statement indicated that the organization is tempted to react to the report being peddled by some mischievous politician from Ganye because by their disposition and antecedents, they have no moral justification to speak on the personality of a highly respected clergy and politician like Rev. Habila because of their blind ambition to achieve certain political interests.
It also questioned the indices used by the politicians to trace the indigene ship status of the Reverend to Plateau state, a land where the Reverend only stepped on in 1984 to acquire his first degree in theology.
The chairman argued that if the same indices were to be applied on some these politicians, their state of origin would have been traced to other state where they have worked for over a decade and have received traditional titles from other places other than Adamawa state.
The organization explained that its response to such baseless allegations was not because it could have any damaging impact on the personality of the Reverend gentleman, but to put the records straight and to expose their selfish and evil intentions behind the inventions of such lies.
The statement described their action as not only primitive but an outburst that flows from the mixture of anger, envy and political hatred owing to the growing popularity and acceptability of their victim within the chamba enclave and the state at large.
To keep the records straight, the statement called the attention of the mischievous politician to the fact that Reverend Habila was born in Gangkero village in Yebbi ward of Ganye Local Government on February 15, 1960 and had his primary education in Gangjonen Village from the same ward. His first primary’s school classroom teacher who is still living was Mr. Markus Topkenenka.
The statement further challenged the female politician to embark on an investigative voyage to discover the identity of the biological Father of Reverend Habila, late Istifanus Seupasi who hails from a Village called Sangotim Danubi and lived his life at Gangkero and Yebbi.
The chairman also intimated that the humble politician (Rev.Habila) who had been living among his people and improving their living conditions had the privilege of coming from the clan (Damen) called Danub (Paternal) and Teumsikun (Maternal) emphasizing on that the Reverend has a rich cultural history as a Chamba man more than the mischievous politicians who hides under the canopy of politics to cause mischief.
It is very disappointing and sad that instead of appreciating and applauding enormous contributions the Rev. has brought to his community, such failed politicians have belatedly wasted their time in baseless attacks which is nothing but show of shame.

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JONATHAN I WILL RESCUE THE CHIBOCK GIRLS

Mr President assured Nigerians that  he will rescue the abducted school girls by bokoharam last year.."I will rescue the chibok girls from bokoharam" he made this statement in a media chart held on Wednesday...bellow are the comments of some Nigerians about his statement..

Anonymous
"Choreographed nonsense. The moderator with her nappy hair kept putting
words into his mouth and the lengthy answers is clear evidence the mumu
got "expo" before the chat. The most disappointing of the journalists present
was Ibanga of Premium Times, he just didn't cut it and was not articulate
with his few follow-up questions, he looked nervous. The sharpest there was
Deji Badmus but his aggression was curtailed by the nappy-haired Adesuwa
and her rudeness in interjecting in-between peoples' sentences including the
so-called President's remarks. She was a mess just as the whole chat was
unimpressive. The amount seized in SA is $15million not $9.5million, when
Dumbo said, "the case is in court"...even my dog would have barked, 'which
court?' Nigerian or South African court as in the "due process" requisite to
recover our seized money. None of those stooge journalists asked about the
forensic report and our missing $20bn at the NNPC. None asked why a Govt.
that claimed they know where the missing Chibok girls were has till date not
rescued them... and the most annoying, when Dumbo said May 29th is
sacrosanct, none of those clown journalists asked about March 28th being
sacrosanct. In all, it stank to high heavens that this was a programmed chit-
chat. Online mosquitoes (Gejitoes) can buzz all they like, the crook from
Marijuana Creeks is going back to his enclave as Nigerians are discerning
people who have grown wiser than TV pep talks... Mama Bisi, odeku biko
make I gulp. Nonsense!"
Mr President said.."I will rescue the chibok girls from book haram"
okwuch......

"What's the meaning of "the issue of Chibok girls will get better"? How
would it get better when the inept and conscienceless President celebrated
his birthday with pomp and pageantry in Aso Rock surrounded by his family
including his aged mother, five Governors, members of NASS while the poor
girls still languished in Sambisa forest? This olodo man thinks Nigerians
are all idiots? What's your take on this? By the way, my Cameroonian
colleague said the other day that on the issue of the Chibok girls Nigerians
should vote out Mr. Jonathan."

OYE OLORUN.....

I Wonder oooo,my Brother!!!

john......

Get it right, he was asked on the issue of Chibok girl.

Kola UK...
Wahala has already put you in the gutter where you belong and instead
of you to look for an escape route you're toasting a babe. When
someone called you Ode last week I thought he was joking, but you've
now confirmed that you're proper Ode.
Life must be really hard for you to be changing names in this forum
every hour. It's not easy being a political thug I can see, what a shame.
I totally agree with Wahala, Reno Omokri, get help even if it's from Fani-
Kayode or the man that is keeping the key to the gate to hell.

Sa'adu Gidado.....
Stop deceiving people Jona.

ELECTION POSTPONEMENT AND NATIONAL ECONOMY

Nigerian 2015 election postponement leaves thousands in appalled expression,
while others with different anticipation.
The former vice president Atiku Abubakar on his twitter page described the
postponement as a factor that will hinder the flow of Nigerian economy.
It is very crucial to pay attention to the real effect of this election postponement
on our national economy, investment and job creation.
He added ‘the postponement has increased economic uncertainty which means
more apprehensive investors are trying to abandon their fund as a result of this
repatriation.
More so Pressure on Naira is causing more devaluation, meaning that jobs of our
youths are at risk.
Lastly he accused federal government of having no effort to calm the investors.
"So far there has been no effort by federal government to calm investors, this is
irresponsible, and the economy should not suffer due to politics."

HOW FORWARD IS GOOD LUCK JONATHAN?

HOW FORWARD IS GOOD LUCK JONATHAN?

The Nigerian President, Good luck Jonathan whose 2015 presidential campaign is anchored on the forward slogan started by blaming all Nigerians Leaders but himself for the country’s woes.
President Jonathan, who from all indications has run out of ideas, is now preoccupied in teaching Nigerians history by focusing on especially some issues of the Buhari regime of 1983-85.
The man who, promised forward is not telling us what the new ideas he is bringing on board to ensure a better and a secure future for this country.
We were thinking Jonathan will tell Nigerians his forward strategy on security, Power, education, agriculture and so on and so forth. Rather, he chooses to read IBB Coup Speech of 1985.
In Enugu Campaign, while Nigerians particularly the Igbos wanted to know what happened to the construction of the second Niger Bridge, which he promised them in 2011, he appeared not interested in that part of history but instead took them backward to 1984 to tell them that Buhari jailed Former Vice President Alex Ekweme for 301 years.
While kidnappers, armed robbers, and looters are operating left, right and Center under his watch, he told Nigerians he will not send them to prisons like what Buhari did in 1984-85 because according to him, Nigerians don’t want their Uncles to be put in prisons.
Unless your income is tied to Jonathan’s incompetence, it is crystal clear he is not talking about anything forward in his campaign so far.
To this end, let me quickly take him to some of the recent past history from May 2010 to date to see if his condemnation of the un-elected Buhari’s government of 1983-85 can be justified.
When the Boko Haram Insurgents abducted more than two hundred Chibok school girls, the Jonathan who is moving Nigeria forward has to wait for almost three weeks to say something on it.
And when he said something, the first thing he did, was to set up a committee headed by General Sabo to investigate whether the Chibok girls were actually abducted.
The in sensitiveness to the Chibok girls issue was also taken to the highest level when his wife Dame introduces what I called the “chai! Grammar” to the issue where among other embarrassments, she asked “what of the two teachers that can tell us they conducted that Exam”?
In normal tradition the world over, People visit the bereaved to sympathize with them but in President Jonathan’s case, the opposite was the reality because it was the parents whose children were abducted that visited him at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
While the Buhari, he is condemning for not equipping the military during his 1980s regime visited battle front when Maitatsine crises broke out in Jimeta and ensured that the crises became history within a short period.
The last time I checked, Jonathan is yet to visit any battle front on the ongoing war against Insurgents in the North- East.
Under Jonathan, Military officers bitterly complained of poor motivation and inadequate equipment thereby forcing some of them to do what they called “tactical maneuver” to Neighboring Cameroon and Niger.
Considering the fact that no any “tactical maneuver” was reported when the Nigerian Military fought the Civil War in the sixties and the Maitatsine crises in the eighties, it is clear, beyond all reasonable doubts, blaming the past leaders for not equipping the Military cannot hold water.
May Almighty Allah save Nigeria and Nigerians from those who preached forward and keep graveyard silence for days while more than two thousand people were massacred in Baga, Borno State by the Insurgents.‪ By Ya'u siuto Gembu

Obama in India: US, India agree to a "new vision" for Asia Pacific

the economic times report

   NEW DELHI: Seeking to enhance their strategic cooperation, India and the US today agreed to a "new vision" for Asia Pacific by deciding to advance their shared security concerns in the region.

To support regional economic integration, the two countries decided to promote accelerated infrastructure connectivity and economic development, including by enhancing energy transmission and encouraging free trade and greater people-to-people linkages.

As part of the understanding, the two sides will "oppose" terrorism, piracy and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction within or from the region.

"We have also agreed to a new vision for Asia Pacific so that we are doing more together to advance our shared security and prosperity in this critical region," US President Barack Obama said in his media statement during joint press interaction here.

The White House later said in a statement that to support regional economic integration, India and the US will promote accelerated infrastructure connectivity and economic development in a manner that links South, Southeast and Central Asia, including by enhancing energy transmission and encouraging free trade and greater people-to-people linkages.

"Regional prosperity depends on security. We affirm the importance of safeguarding maritime security and ensuring freedom of navigation and over flight throughout the region, especially in the South China Sea.

"We call on all parties to avoid the threat or use of force and pursue resolution of territorial and maritime disputes through all peaceful means, in accordance with universally recognised principles of international law, including the United NationsConvention on the Law of the Sea," the statement said.

It said the two countries will "oppose terrorism, piracy, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction within or from the region."