Buhari won’t spare Jonathan if ex-president is proven corrupt –Presidency

In Nigeria’s ongoing war against corruption, President Muhammadu Buhari will not spare anyone who has a case to answer, and his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, would face justice if guilty, presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, has said.
Mr. Adesina told PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday, when he visited the newspaper’s office in Abuja, that Mr. Buhari has “no accord” to shield any corrupt person from prosecution.
“There is no accord,” he said, “if the corruption fight needs to get there (making Mr. Jonathan face justice), it will get there.”
Several top officials who served under Mr. Jonathan, as well as his political associates in the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party, are currently being tried, or investigated by the Economic and Financial crimes Commission, for corruption.
A major case involves a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, accused of diverting $2.1 billion arms money, and sharing same to politicians and cronies of the former president.
According to investigators, Mr. Dasuki said he was authorized by Mr. Jonathan to release the money for the nation’s security programmes, and for the 2015 presidential campaign.
The spokesperson for the PDP, Olisa Metuh, also said he received payment from Mr. Dasuki after carrying out some assignments for the former president.

More photos of Olisa Metuh's court appearance today...in handcuffs

More photos of Olisa Metuh's court appearance today...in handcuffs

IF BUHARI CALLED US 5% THEN IT IS A CLEAR INDICATION THAT HIMSELF AND HIS PARTY AREN'T WANTED IN OUR LANDS. (How can we vote for a party that sees us as 5%? NEVER)
On the 28th of January 2015, I was a witness to the "MOTHER OF ALL RALLIES". Governor Wike urged us to come in our numbers and welcome our Son, brother, father and inlaw who was just coming back home as the "PORT-HARCOURT 1ST SON" to tell his people that he is going back to ASO ROCK. And we came in our thousands, we turned up well at the Adokiye Amiesimaka stadium - it was groundbreaking.
We gave our words and the votes said it all, more than 1.4 million votes from RIVERS STATE alone. And it was "THE SAME VOTING PATTERN" all over the south-south and south-east states. Rivers State as usual gave the highest though it wasn't enough to secure victory for GEJ, because while our men, women and youths came out to vote, in another region the men, women, youths, children, unborn babies, including their animals all came out to vote for the other candidate.
There was deafening silence when our hero lost, the hurt was there, the pain was felt, and then NYESOM WIKE held a solidarity rally, ohhh I won't forget his words (what a leader). At the end he woke us up from the disappointments and charged us to defend our region. The gubernatorial election wasn't about WIKE again, I tell you it was bigger than him, it was about protecting our lands, we saw the handwriting and we rejected their party the APC, the hand of the monkey was already in the soup, so we had no option than to cut it off. At the end we cut it off, as we recorded over 1 million votes again to PDP. Akwa-ibom did the same thing, Delta state did the same thing and Cross Rivers. It was a "VOTING PATTERN", we were then waiting for Bayelsa State which eventually came and the "VOTING PATTERN" didn't change as we won convincingly under their APC government, what can be more insulting than that?? Oh I forgot, we were called the 5%ERS😊.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MY RIVERS PEOPLE, listen, we aren't called the 5%ers for NOTHING, they know their states, and we know ours. We won't go and challenge them in kastina and kano, they also should have their boundaries and know they can't come and challenge us in Rivers state and Akwa-ibom state.
After the supreme court judgement, we shall start again if needs be. But like I was 100% confident that APC will not be able to take BAYELSA STATE, I AM EVEN MORE CONFIDENT THAT WIKE WILL WIN BY MORE THAN A MILLION VOTES. Simple reason is "THE MAN DON WORK, NO BE BOBO JUICE, EVERY WHERE IN RIVERS STATE IS NEW, HE HAS ACHIEVED MORE THAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT" As for AKWA-IBOM, the legacies of the uncommon transformation governor Godswill Akpabio is enough to do the campaigns.
LASTLY
YOU CAN ONLY RIG AN ELECTION WHERE YOU ARE POPULAR, if they said Rivers State and Akwa-ibom state were Rigged, then they should know they were popular there, else why couldn't they(APC) rig Bayelsa State?????????? Because they were simply not popular. LET'S GIVE PEACE A CHANCE!!!!!!
GOODLUCK TO THE 5% ERS............... THIS TOO SHALL END IN PRAISE.
I am Oyinemi Nicholas Endeley, a son from the IZON KINGDOM and I just want to make commonsense. DAZZIT AND DAZZOL 4 NOW.
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Newly sworn-in Imo commissioners and their portfolios:

1.Law Eboruo-Lands &urban plannig
2.Ngozi Njoku-Health
3.Chidi Ibe-Information,Youths n sports
4.Getrude oduka-Education
n social dev
5.Obinna mbata-Finance
6.Nlemadim-Attorney General
7.Emma Ibediro-Local govt n rural dev.
8.Rodney ajaelu-Public safety n public utilities
9.Ifeanyi ararume(jnr)-Commerce industry n tourism
10.Josephine udoji-Works n transport
11.Orikeze Ajumbe-Internal resources n pension matters
12.Inno Eke-Community govt n traditional affairs
13.Udo aguoha-Agric n natural resources

SSA to President Buhari, Ita Enang replaced 2016 budget with new one - Saraki
The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki has admitted on Thursday that the Senior Special Adviser to the President, Senator Ita Enang removed the original copy of the 2016 budget proposals which was presented to the joint session of the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari and replaced with a different copy, different from the one presented by the President.

“The Committee which was set up have investigated and the report shows that the Senior Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang had withdrawn the original copy and replaced with another one that has conflicting figures,” Saraki said.
Saraki made this disclosure at Thursday’s plenary after the senate’s two hours closed door meeting.
Also speaking after the brief session, Senate Spokesman, Aliyu Sabi insisted that the budget was not missing, but that the Senior Special Adviser to the President, Ita Enang withdrew the original one and replaced with a copy with a different figure, and that the Senate Committee had discovered some differences.
Sabi, however, added that he will not specifically point out areas of differences as the committee has been detailed to work further on that aspect.
“I will not be able to point out in specifics areas of differences, we should all be patient to see its outcome,” he added.
He also explained that the Senate was interested in seeing the original copy which would be made available in soft copy so as to guide them in the course of doing their work.
“The Senate will make copies of original ones as presented to the joint session by Mr. President and would work on it according,” he insisted.
According to him, “the presented copy has legal implications which the Senate has already taken cognizance of, hence, they will be guided,” he maintained.

AT LAST EFCC GOES FOR METUH

Olisa Metuh is currently at the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, answering questions regarding some funsd traced to his firm.
Operatives of the agency reportedly arrived the Abuja home of Mr. Metuh on Tuesday morning, and invited him to follow them to the commission’s headquarters.
Mr. Metuh’s aide, Richard Ihediwa, in a statement said upon enquiry on the reasons for the invitation, the officials stated that he has some issues to clear with the commission.
“They also said he was not being arrested but friendly invited. The operatives, four in number, came in a White unmarked Toyota Hiace bus,” Mr. Ihediwa said.
He also said as at the time of issuing the statement, Mr. Metuh was still being kept at the commission’s headquarters and his lawyers were making frantic efforts to reach him.
“While details of why Chief Metuh was invited is yet to be made pubic by the commission, it could be recalled that several times, Chief Metuh, as the mouthpiece of the opposition party, had alerted in various press conferences and statements that he has been under threat and that the ruling party and the government have been very uncomfortable with his stance.
“The latest being the outburst and threats by the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Oyegun in reaction to Chief Metuh’s criticisms of President Buhari’s widely criticized response on government’s disobedience of court orders, during last Wednesday’s Presidential Media chat.

“The Office of the National Publicity Secretary will keep the public updated on any development on the issue,” the statement said.
The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, could not be reached for comments at this time.

Ebonyi can’t afford to be in opposition —Onu
ABAKALIKI—THE Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, weekend, called on the people of Ebonyi State to support the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as the state cannot afford to be in opposition.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain stated this at his country home, Uburu, in Ohaozara Local Government Area of the state while addressing leaders and supporters of the APC in Ebonyi State who came to celebrate the New Year with him.

He added that the state with its tremendous potentialities stand the chance of benefiting from Federal Government’s policies and programmes.
Onu, a former Governor of old Abia State noted that Buhari inherited bad economy from the past administration and has been working round the clock to fix it through diversification of the economy.
He restated his readiness to reposition the Ministry of Science and Technology to make it vibrant and result oriented.
The minister also raised alarm over an illegal facebook account created in his name by some unscrupulous elements to defraud innocent citizens of the country.
According to him: “In the first place, I don’t operate any facebook account and I wonder why people are using my name on facebook with my picture to do all manner of business.
“So many people called me on phone that they were the ones chatting with me on facebook and I stand here to say I don’t operate facebook account, I don’t

We have used all channels to warn Nigeria over Shi’ite leader – Iran
Iran says it is using all diplomatic channels to pursue the release of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky who was arrested by the Nigerian army last month.

“We have used all those channels to warn them [Nigeria] regarding this issue. So hopefully the government… would adopt wise action given the sensitive situation,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hoseyn Jaberi-Ansari told reporters in the capital, Tehran.

Sheikh al-Zakzaky after members of his Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) clashed with the army in the northern city of Zaria.
Campaign group Human Rights Watch said at least 300 IMN members were killed and quickly buried in a mass graves during the incident. The Nigerian military denied the claim.
The military accuses the pro-Iranian sect of trying to assassinate army chief Gen Tukur Buratai, which it denies.
Iran is currently embroiled in a diplomatic row with Saudi Arabia over the execution of a prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
Shia in Nigeria
Shia are minority in Nigeria but their numbers are increasingThe IMN, formed in the 1980s, is the main Shia group led by Sheikh Ibraheem ZakzakyThey operate their own schools and hospitals in some northern statesThey have a history of clashes with the security forcesThe IMN is backed by Shia-dominated Iran and its members often go there to studySunni jihadist group Boko Haram condemns Shias as heretics who should be killed