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The Buhari Administration Claim on Rice Production Is False
ATIKU MEDIA PRESS RELEASE…..

The Buhari Administration Claim on Rice Production Is
False

Abuja, Nigeria, 06 November, 2018: On several occasions, the Buhari administration has bragged that their biggest achievement is reducing Nigeria’s dependence on foreign rice. Recently, President Buhari himself made this boast when he said to British Prime Minister, Theresa May on April 16, 2018 as follows:

“We have cut rice importation by about 90%, made lots of savings of foreign exchange, and generated employment.

People had rushed to the cities to get oil money, at the expense of farming. But luckily, they are now going back to the farms. Even professionals are going back to the land. We are making steady progress on the road to food security.”

This claim was also made by the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, who on May 2, 2018 said as follows: “Unemployment in Thailand was one of the lowest in the world, 1.2 per cent, it has gone up to four per cent because seven giant rice mills have shut down because Nigeria’s import has fallen by 95 per cent on rice alone”.

However, recently released data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) World Markets and Trade Report has proven these claims by President Muhammadu Buhari and his government to be false.

According to the World Markets and Trade Report of the USDA, which is a public document, Nigeria imported three million metric tonnes of rice in 2018, which is 400,000 metric tonnes more than the quantity of the product
imported in 2017.

It does not end there. The report shows that there has actually been a steep drop in commercial rice production from its 2015 peak under the previous Peoples Democratic Party administration.

According to the report “Nigeria had consistently milled 3,780,000 metric tonnes annually – a drop from 3,941,000 metric tonnes recorded in 2015.”

The Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation therefore wishes to appeal to President Buhari and his government to be truthful to the Nigerian public, rather than claim progress they have not made, because no matter how far and fast falsehood has travelled, it must eventually be overtaken by the truth.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar will always be honest and transparent with the Nigerian people as he carries all citizens along in his mission to Get Nigeria Working Again.

Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation
120, Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja, Nigeria.
November 6, 2018
Dr. Umar GANDUJE and the Concept of Anti-corruption Propaganda
In 2015 – 2016, I was privileged to be a political consultant to a gubernatorial aspirant in my home state, a fairly unknown individual then. We took the task to digitally market him for over a year before the primaries. We created contents, advertorials, edited speeches, managed invented scandals and propaganda against him, wrote his feasible manifesto…Our constant social media marketing made him a darling of the people but all these was not without some sacrifice from me. I was before then not into partisan politics, I just wrote freely on critical issues: social reforms, justice, philosophy, morals, religion, relationships, truth, trust and other thematic issues that came to me as my own human effort. Some people who followed my writing keenly on the social media inboxed me and told me they were disappointed that I could be consulting for PDP. In as much as I explained to them the reasons, an article was wrought out of me, ‘Persons over Parties.’

In all ramifications, I choose to disagree that parties are basically bad. No, it’s humans that are bad, that are corrupt, that are incompetent, that are soulless, that are clannish, that are without ideas, that without political focus…not necessarily parties. Parties are mere vehicles to gain political positions, just as sleep could be vehicle of death. Should we now say sleep is bad?

The propaganda that no longer sells on our political space today is that PDP was corrupt for 16 years so they should not present a candidate to be voted in even when APC present the a candidate without the minimum certificate to qualify one for such contest. I don’t think that is only illogical, it is a compressed fallacy, I look at as a Post Traumatic Disappointment Disorder, PTDD (my own personal coinage). PTDD to me is a kind of disorder people experience when they are disappointed in those they believe after revealing events.

Now, if we still hold on to the stowaway thought that PDP was corrupt as a party because some members were in the time past, how do we define APC today which has become a temple for fleeing corrupt people and houses, in comfort, abjectly corrupt members like GANDUJE of Kano State? Should we now use the members to define the entire party to be politically correct? This is a governor in APC that has been viewed in three videos by millions of Nigerians taking bribe from contractors, yet without a midget of evidence, they want ‘stupid’ you to believe Alhaji Atiku is the most corrupt Nigerian. How folly can a people be, how controlling.

The fact without doubt remains that the anti-corruption campaign by Buhari was a mere populist propaganda, it has never and it will never work. APC will tell you they are studying the Ganduje video while chasing corrupt shadows. Nothing will ever happen to Ganduje even as we speak he has been summoned by the state assembly over the bribery allegations. He is one of the strongest supporters of Buhari, he cannot afford to allow his man go down over mere dollars he dipped into his babaringa (agbada). Ask me what happened to Babachir Lawal, the professional multi-million Naira grasscutter? Ask yourself what happened to Maina, the pension thief and fugitive. Ask yourself what happened to Baru of NNPC or Abba Kyari of the MTN bribery. Ask yourself where they got the billions to buy votes with police force in Ekiti and Osun States. Ask what would happen to Oshiomole who is asking the courts not to go on trial for corruption. If you ask them these thematic issues, they would tell you Sai Baba till 2023! That vexatious clamour for Simpleton from Simpletons.

During the Obasanjo Era, he haunted corrupt members of PDP and those who were even in his cabinet with EFCC and other unconventional means. He disposed some using their state assemblies to impeach them. Some went on trial and were sentenced according to the law. Even his police chief, Tafa Balogun, was not spared.

Today, even corrupt members of the public are blackmailed to join the incorruptible party with some hallelujah triumphant welcome in the Absence of Shame. The just conducted APC primaries were fraught with corruption and high level fraud. Members of INEC were bribed to conduct primaries in hotel lobbies and personal living rooms and the other rooms shortchanging less connected aspirants. Ask Pat Utomi. These and others are echoes and echoes of Shame and Dishonour.

Elempe Dele
November 5, 2018
MOUNTING PRESSURE ON BUHARI’S INTEGRITY
“Buhari has tarnished whatever is left of his battered reputation and Integrity and that of his office by condescending this low to purchasing WAEC attestation certificate for an examination he obviously never sat for.”

Prior to the 2015 presidential election, the selling point of Mr. President was Integrity. It was used to veil his tyrannical disposition which him and Idiagbon exhibited when they took over power forcefully from a duly elected government making themselves criminals and subverters of the will of the people. But the sale of integrity was widely accepted by some simpletons, which constituted a larger population of the electorates. Many didn’t have the opportunity to interrogate his personality because he was a recluse and was incommunicado. He lived behind the closed walls of his mind, coming out once in four years to contest elections and to fail.

When he took over power in 2015, so much of his personae started coming to the fore, and somehow, people started doubting his claim to integrity. His first failure was his lopsided appointment which was supposed to be guided by the Federal Character as enshrined in our Constitution. Over 80 % of his appointment came from his tribe, state or and his family. This earned him the notorious Nepotistic Tribalist. Other regions were marginalized which resulted to the aggressive campaign by the Ingenious People of Biafra, IPOB for secession. Even the Yorubas who gave him block votes through Tinubu were disengaged through the trapdoor and thrown out from the scheme of things while strangers took over the government, that irresponsible cabal.

His second test to integrity was his fight against corruption having said in his inauguration he was for nobody and was for everybody…Him and his handlers were married to the anti-corruption slogan. However, his one-sided fight against corruption questioned his integrity. While his corrupt associates walked freely, he is harassing members of the opposition and members of his party who are critical of his policies. His party became a refuge for fleeing corrupt elements. The grass cutter, Babachir, NHIS boss Prof Yusuf, Abba Kyari, the MTN scandal and presidential COS, Baru of NNPC, Buratai, the Army chief, Maina, the pension thief and fugitive…were among those who have been fingered in corruption but are being shielded by Mr Integrity himself.

Who could have guessed or predicted that Mr Integrity would be involved in a certificate scandal without summoning courageous integrity to say the truth? Who had the prescient perception to predict this national embarrassment where elderly people are dancing to the store bought attestation?

The certificate narrative has been changing like a chameleon. When the issue first came out some years ago, a lawyer went to court on it, it took Mr. President over 12 SANs and a threat to the life of the lawyer for the matter to die down then. Like a cat with nine lives, undying, the matter has risen again this time with such a great vermin that it is ready to consume anything on its ways.

The president initially said in a published statement that his credentials were with the military. And that left us with a throwback question: who lives his original documents with a board after sighting them? At most after sighting the original, you leave photocopies and go home with the original, that’s the standard practice all over the world.

Well, we asked that INEC should compel him to bring his original not sworn affidavit he has been using to contest elections, this cannot be business as usual. Suddenly the narrative changed, the credentials which were safely with the military had disappeared. A little time lasted for presidential retrospection and sober reflection. Precisely on the 2nd of November, 2018 a badly plotted play ensured. The president was given an attestation by WAEC in an over publicized Noble Prize-like show. Yet the probing masses have mounted unrelenting pressure on Mr integrity to do the needful: show us your original certificate, show us the WAEC master list from which the attestation was written from or decline from contesting to face perjury probe.

If however, he scales through this trial he has set before himself, his greatest test to integrity would be his acceptance of defeat which is imminent and 60% loading. This is not about PDP or APC. If he fails to accept defeat, he will be bundled out of Aso Rock.

Elempe Dele
November 5, 2018
PROF. IWU’S DAUGHTER SUES PDP & INEC OVER FLAWED PRIMARIES FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEAT IN IMO STATE:
Prof. Iwu’s daughter, Mrs. Ijeoma Ann Nwafor has instituted a law suit against PDP, INEC and Hon. Nwawuba over what she described as a contravention of the PDP Constitution and Guidelines for Primaries during the conduct of the primaries of PDP for Mbaitoli/ Ikeduru Federal Constituency Seat on 6th October, 2018 at Owerri. In Suit No FHC/ABJ/CS/1160/18 filed on her behalf at the Federal High Court, Abuja, by the Lawfirm of West-Idahosa & Co, the plaintiff in an Originating Summons is asking the Court to nullify the primary election for the said Federal Constituency. In addition, the plaintiff is also seeking an order of court to restrain INEC from recognizing Hon. Nwawuba as the candidate of PDP for 2019 general elections for the said constituency.

Also contained in the reliefs sought by the plaintiff is an order to compel PDP to order fresh primaries as well as an order to compel INEC to extend the time within which PDP can conduct fresh primaries for the said constituency. The matter has been fixed for hearing on October 31st, 2018, before Hon. Justice A. Chikere.
October 27, 2018
ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE: MAN WITHOUT HONOUR OR REPUTATION
Adams act like Fayose, submit yourself to EFCC.

How dare he say the petition is stale or that Edo people don’t have locus to demand that he is investigated for corruption.

Adams Oshiomhole has no good reputation that is deserving of protection by the honorable court. (Defendants statement in libel suit Adams Oshiomhole ran away from)

He has been caught in a lie about his birthday

He has been caught in a lie about the primary school he attended.

He has been caught in a lie about the size of his mansion in Iyamoh.

He lied about the commissioning of Central Hospital Benin.

He lied about the Storm Water project in Benin.

Adams Oshiomhole lied his way to head APC.

“They say I am a very corrupt megaphone of falsehood and deceit who is unfit to occupy and remain in office as the duly elected Governor of Edo State” … (Statement of Claim of Adams Oshiomhole in the libel suit he abandoned)

I dare add office of national chairman of government party.

Mr Adams Oshiomhole: SUBMIT YOURSELF TO EFCC!

On December 31st 2014, the N.N.P.C. paid $54.9 million dollars to Edo State Government and her Local Government Councils as contributions to Power Sector “Special Sector Intervention Fund”.

The money did not reflect in the income of the State and till date was never captured by an Appropriation Act for the State. There is no place in Edo State where any project was built with funds from the so-called Special Sector Intervention Funds. The said funds were merely diverted for private use by Mr Adams Oshiomhole.

#SubmitYourselfToEFCC

#RescueNigeria
October 24, 2018
MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO; COURT TELLS EDO STATE GOVERNMENT
The National Industrial Court sitting at Akure has ordered all the parties in the suit to maintain the status quo in the case filed by Helen Osasuyi and 9 others vs Edo State Government and others. In Suit no NICN/BEN/08/2018, the plaintiffs are seeking several Declaratory orders and injunctive reliefs to reopen the College of Agriculture, Iguoriakhi and pay the staff therein in accordance with the terms of their employment. The claimants also want the Defendants to refrain from abrogating the establishment law of the college.

Ruling on the Motion for Interlocutory injunction filed by the Law firm of West-Idahosa & Co, on 10th October, 2018, the trial Judge, Hon. Justice O.O. Oyewumi, held that the parties should maintain the status quo and ordered accelerated hearing of the case. The case is fixed for 12th & 13th of November, 2018. By this order, Edo State Government is restrained from purporting to sack the workers of the college or expelling any student thereof for any reason whatsoever pending the determination of the substantive suit before the court.
October 24, 2018
THE NYESOM WIKE FACTOR IN PDP’S FINAL DISINTEGRATION
It is necessary to write this story now if PDP as a party must get it right in the up coming presidential election.

There is a famous saying that pride goes before a fall. Many have learnt that lesson over the years. There are those who believe that history can be changed by doing the same thing to solve like problems even when it failed in the past.

We also have another typical Nigerian problem, those who believe that money overrides wisdom, integrity and intellect. We have also seen how power corrupts and blinds, it can take a person from “we” to “I” excluding others from decision taking.

Governor Nyesom Wike was former Governor Rotimi Ameachi’s boy, whom after been helped saw the need to step on the toes of his predecessor. We all viewed the battle between the two. Wike had to go all the way to the supreme Court just to retain his office.

It wasn’t long before the party was faced with another saga which concerned Senator Ali Modu Sheriff. Wike had approached him to rescue the party and brought him in as the interim chairman serving out the term of his predecessor. Having achieved their purpose they proceeded to dump Sheriff which ended up in many court battles. Succeeding in removing Sheriff from office, in came Makarfi who sat as the caretaker Chairman until a convention was conducted and Secondus was elected as the National Chairman of the PDP.

Now, since the contest within the party started, we have read many grumblings and reckless statements from Makarfi which gives many of us the impression that perhaps he was promised the ticket for the presidency if he played ball and help get rid of Sheriff.

The bad decisions made by Governor Nyesom Wike does not end there. He fails to see the need to work with the leaders of party and other governors to come up with the best solution going forward into the presidential election scheduled for next year. He prides himself as the richest state’s Governor. Hence, the convention must be held in Port Harcourt and he supports Governor Tambuwal. No issues there, everyone has a preference. The problem is when such a preference is forced on the party. The other problem is when the PDP NWC and it’s leaders are rubbished, removed from a position of objective umpire, by the National Chairman of PDP, Secondus by holding them hostage at the Ibadan Airport for 4 hours forcing them to wait for Governor Tambuwal to campaign to the delegates there.

I trust that Governor Nyesom Wike is aware that if the PDP fails to secure the presidency in 2019 the he will definitely not return for a second term.

They say what an old man sees sitting down, a child cannot see it standing on a mountain. A word is enough for the wise. We are sure he will learn from the failing of his friend in Ekiti who thought he alone could do it all.

The wise listens to good counsel. Wike, please don’t lead the people’s hope for a new Nigeria into shambles.

God bless Nigeria. God bless PDP.
September 20, 2018
Removal of Acting DG SSS May Be the Last Straw
PRESS STATEMENT

Removal of Acting DG SSS May Be the Last Straw

The attention of the Southern and middle Belt Leaders Forum has been drawn to a clandestine plot to remove the Acting Director General of the Department of State Security (DSS), Mr. Matthew Seiyefa from office by a cabal in the Buhari presidency.

We ordinarily would have ignored this report but for the clannishness, sectional proclivity and exclusive handling of the security architecture of the country by President Buhari in the last three years.

He had defied all protestations from all well-meaning Nigerians in making appointments into all key and sensitive security positions in sectional and kith and kin affairs in a very insensitive and you-can-do-your-worst manner that until the recent sack of Daura 16 out of 17 service chiefs were from his corner of the country. It is equally not surprising to us that since the President returned from his holidays in London he has not made a comment on the invasion of the National Assembly by the DSS in his absence which led to the Acting President, Prof. Osinbajo rightly removing the former DG, Lawal Daura confirming speculation that he is not happy with the removal.

The plot to remove the Acting DG is said to be hinged on the professional reorganization of the service by him which the cabal is now interpreting as removing APC elements in DSS for PDP apologists, a clear indication of the divisions this administration has caused in every facet of our life as a nation.

Facts at our disposal however show that what the Acting DG has done is a good example of how to run a diverse polity which this administration has ignored in the last three years.

It was said that under Daura, every need to organize the service along federal character and fill existing vacancies were ignored as he concentrated on nepotism in running DSS and keeping a coterie of those who have retired or have passed retirement in service and many of them having nothing to contribute. The service rule says such people can only be taken on contract if they have special skills.

The Acting DG reportedly noticed that there were three other Directors from the South-South apart from himself and decided to relieve 2 of them so that a Director could be brought in from the South West that had nobody on the management and another person from the North West.

There were about 40 senior officers who were due for retirement or pre-retirement leave whom he had found competent replacement for in a fair manner and according to the service rules.

The Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari is said to have given instructions that the DG should ask all the newly promoted to go back to their previous positions, a directive that ought to have come from the National Security Adviser if there was the need for any. Now the plot is to remove Seiyefa himself.

All these confirm the politicization of a purely security outfit and the denigration of all institutions by an administration that has shown scant regard for the due process.

We call on President Buhari to immediately call his Chief-of-Staff to order so that he can withdraw the obnoxious directive and allow the agency to run professionally.

We also warn of the consequences of further alienating sections of the country by the administration particularly the Niger Delta where the Acting DG is from and the South West whose only representation on the Management of DSS has now been reversed.

The rest of the country has lived with the insensitivity of Mr. President in handling the security architecture in the last three years with equanimity. It may be necessary not to overstretch it by removing the Acting DG and stopping the professional reorganization in the DSS because it is not in tandem with the ethnic domination script of Mr. President.

It may turn out the proverbial last straw!

Mr. Yinka Odumakin
South-West

Senator Bassey Henshaw
South-South

Prof Chigozie Ogbu
South-East

Dr Isuwa Dogo
Middle Belt
September 3, 2018
2019 Presidency: Atiku weeps, obtains PDP Nomination Forms
By Dirisu Yakubu

ABUJA- Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar Friday wept at his Presidential Campaign Office shortly after obtaining his Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) headquarters in Abuja.

Atiku who was filled with emotions while receiving the forms from the Atiku Support Groups (ASG) which purchased same for him, reiterated his commitment to the Nigerian cause, and promised to do everything possible not to disappoint Nigerians if given the opportunity.

Unable to overcome his emotions while a member of the ASG, Princess Adekemi Adesanya was painting in graphic details, the sorry state of affairs in the nation, the former Vice President fought back tears as he sobbed, wiping his eyes with the aid of a white handkerchief.

He said: “The event today (purchase of nomination form) is significant and historic because this is the only time in my political career that young men and women in this country have come together without my knowledge or even consent to contribute their own hard-earned money to buy me an Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms.

“You could have seen that one of the ladies who spoke virtually succeeded in getting me to weep. This is because she aptly described the challenges every Nigerian is facing in this country today and she believed honestly and sincerely from the bottom of her heart that I could be an instrument of addressing those challenges.

“So, for such a woman to believe that I have got those leadership qualities and including those of you who have brought out your monies to by this form, is one of the most serious challenges I have ever faced in my political career.

“And believe me, addressing those challenges is possible because we have brought young men and women, Nigerians who have got the talents, who have got the education, who have got the experience, who have got all what it take to honestly turn this country around.”

Atiku also attributed the slow pace of development in the country to the failure to harness the creative energies of young people by successive administrations.

“Putting together such talented young Nigerians requires leadership and it is that leadership we have not been fortunate enough to have on a consistent basis that this country has not been able to take her rightful position in Africa and indeed, the world,” he stressed.

That said, the Wazirin Adamawa eulogised former Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua (of blessed memory) on whose feet, he learnt the rudiments of partisan politics.

His words: “The man who actually brought me into politics, the late Shehu Yar’Adua, when he invited me as a young man told us to break the regional siege that every parts of this country had been subjected to.

“He asked us reach out to every Nigerian across the Niger. To him and for him, that was a major objective; so when he died and I decided to build the Yar’Adua centre in his memory, we got an architect to design the uncompleted bridge.

“The significance of that bridge was that we had started building bridges of understanding and unity across this country and unfortunately, the man who started building that bridge died. I wish I could complete building that bridge.

He thanked his supporters, and assured them of his commitment to job creation if voted into office as President even as urged them to accompany him to Wadata Plaza for the submission of the forms.

“On that day (submission of forms), let us overwhelm the PDP secretariat, let us bring Abuja to a standstill. I bet you by the time we overwhelm the secretariat and bring Abuja to a standstill, the PDP will have no alternative than to give us the ticket,” he added.

Note: The Atiku Support Groups (ASG) is made up of various non-governmental agencies, who believe in the leadership skills of the principal, HE, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Wazirin Adamawa, the man who can move Nigeria forward progressively and in unity.
August 31, 2018
Group presents PDP presidential forms to Atiku
In readiness for the PDP party primaries, Members of All Atiku Support Groups officially presented PDP Presidential Expression of Interest and Nomination forms purchased by the group for His Excellency Atiku Abubakar (GCON) at the campaign headquarters Abuja today 31st August, 2018.

This is not only in support of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar interest in contesting for the seat of President, but the belief by these support groups that he is the best option to put forward by the party in the next presidential elections.

The presentation to HE, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar

Acknowledgement by HE, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar

Appreciation by HE, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
August 31, 2018