What Tinubu said about Atiku, Oshiomhole after Wednesday’s meeting with Buhari

Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has dismissed the threat posed by Atiku Abubakar, who is the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

After meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, Tinubu was asked if he is jittery about the strategy meeting convened by Atiku in Dubai, to unseat Buhari.

“We don’t fear. Whether it is in the jungle, or it is in Dubai or it is in Abu Dhabi, people are free to meet and strategise in anyway they want but we are not going back to the illusion of the PDP.


“It is not possible, Nigerians will not do that. They say slow and steady wins the race. We inherited that from our forefathers and knowledgeable people. We can’t go back to the pit that we inherited for 16 years. They can strategise from anywhere but a leopard cannot change it skin,” he told State House correspondents.

He said the meeting with Buhari was about “the nation, the country, our people, peace, stability and economic progress”.

Asked if he was in support of the call for Adams Oshiomhole’s removal as APC national chairman, Tinubu said: “No. We all have to respect party supremacy. You were all here when we had the congress, we elected the new executives, the convention we had it, the NEC was formed and we surrendered to avoid conflict, to avoid domination, to avoid abuses of power, we surrendered our rights, all rights to the national working committee headed by Adams Oshiomhole.


“That the national working committee should set up electoral bodies to supervise various state congresses and elections. We signed for it. So, if it is not in our individual favour, so be it. We gave three options: consensus, where there is no consensus because if you are more than two or three and you cannot agree to one candidate, you go to the next level.

“The next level is the stakeholders’ delegate election and you have to be supervised by the national working committee of the party, national election committee of the party. That shows party supremacy.

“We had the freest option, the less cumbersome is to open direct primary, line up and count the number, 1,2,3. If you win, you win and if you fail, go home. Then appeal committee was set up to listen to all appeals, internal mechanism for conflict resolution. It was there, you cannot turn round against that, you cannot turn against all of that.

“No. Party is supreme, party must be respected, abuses will not do it and anger will not do it. It is party politics, somebody will win and somebody will lose… too bad

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AGEGE PSP OPERATORS EMBARK ON FREE WASTE COLLECTION IN SUPPORT OF SANWO-OLU's CANDIDACY

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The Agege Chapter of the Association of Waste Management (AWAM), better known as PSP Operators on Thursday embarked on collection of refuse in the area for onward disposal, in support of the candidacy of governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC, *Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu*.

The exercise, which happened across the state was mooted by the Executive Chairman of Agege Local Government Area, Alh. Ganiyu Kola Egunjobi.

The Council boss, who is the Director, NGOs, CSOs and Students for Sanwo-Olu’s campaign organization (BOSCO), at his instance held a meeting with the AWAM State Excos at his office where the decision to embark on the free refuse evacuation exercise was reached.

Speaking to Agege LG’s correspondents, Ismaeel Garba Ismaeel and Dare Ojole, who monitored the sanitation exercise, the PSP Operators’ Chairman in the area, Prince Adepoju Adeniyi, said the motive behind the one day free voluntary community service was to drum up support for *Mr. Sanwo-Olu* and ensure his victory on Sunday at the APC governorship primary.

Prince Adeniyi accused the incumbent, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode of economic displacement of the waste disposal operators in the state, adding that the governor’s policy sent some of their members to early grave.

He said, “Ambode maltreated us. He gave our jobs to foreigners, who are ignorant of our peculiarities and landscape. His action caused the untimely deaths of our members, who did not have other means of survival.


“Also, under Ambode, Lagos’ environment, which hitherto was a beauty to behold became an eyesore with refuse littering the streets leading to widespread diseases.”

During the exercise, compactor trucks with *Sanwo-Olu’s* campaign banners and posters on them, were sighted moving across the areas, pulling over at Isiaka Street Junction, Dorcas Morounfolu Street Junction and Salimonu Street, Ile Pako Junction in Orile Agege among others, to pick waste as residents and shop owners excitedly dumped their refuse inside it.

By Ismaeel Garba Ismael

APC Agege Ratifies Delegates For Presidential Primary - AgegePulse

All Progressives Congresss in Agege Local Govt of Lagos State held the National Delegate Congress today, Wednesday 12th September, 2018 in accordance with the scheduled of APC; as directed by the National body of the party led by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole towards the 2019 general elections.

At the Congress held at No. 66, Capitol Road, Agege, Lagos; all party members across the thirteen (13) Wards in Agege turned-out enmass and converged at the venue with their membership slips that authenticate them as genuine members of our great party APC.

Recall that the National Delegate members were duely elected during the last APC Agege LG Congress.

As each of the National Delegate members were called out in the presence of the crowd, members of the party in Agege across board, unanimously, with a show of hands in favour; upheld the ratification of the National Delegate members as elected during the last Congresses in Agege.

Ratified members of the National Delegates were:

1. Chief Safari Adisa Adaranijo (APC Agege Apex Leader)
2. Professor Babatunde Samuel (APC Agege Apex Leader)
3. Mrs. Maryam Sayeed

The electoral head of Agege INEC, Alhaja (Mrs) Lawal along with her Admin. Officers I, II and III; monitored the ratification exercise in line with the stipulated rules of the electoral body.

Also present at the Congress include:

Chief Safari Adisa Adaranijo, Prof. Babatunde Samuel (Ably Represented), Hon. Taofeek Adaranijo (MHR), Alh. Ganiyu Kola Egunjobi (Executive Chairman, Agege LG),  Alh. Owolabi Dada (First executive chairman of Agege LG), Alh. Ayoni Shittu, Hon. Tunde Azeez (APC Chairman, Agege LG), Hon. Olaniyi Salawu (APC Chairman, Orile Agege LCDA), LG executive members of Agege APC, All the Ward Chairmen with their excos.


 _Reported by:_

 *Comrade Ismaeel Garba Ismaeel*

APC To Adopt Direct, Indirect Primaries

The All Progressives Congress has approved the use of direct primaries at the national and indirect primaries at the state levels of party’s primaries.

This declaration was made on Thursday during the National Executive Council meeting of the party in Abuja.

The meeting had in attendance Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, Senate majority leader, Ahmed Lawan, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, Governors on the platform of the ruling APC, chieftains of the party and new party members like Sen Godswill Akpabio were also at the meeting.

Today, before the NEC meeting, thirty four states of the federation, including Abuja, Nigeria's Federal Capital have adopted the option of indirect primaries for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming primaries to field candidates for next year's general elections.

That development was on the heels of an emergency meeting held in Abuja on Wednesday by the caucus of the party.

Part of the reasons for adopting indirect primaries as reliably gathered, was because the party was yet to authenticate the actual number of its members, and that there was not enough time to do so with the primaries just few weeks away.

It was further gathered that the only two states that have maintained their stands on Direct Primaries were Lagos and Edo States.

According to sources within the party hierarchy, states that still want to opt for direct primaries can write to the national headquarters of the party for deliberations and subsequent consideration, depending on whether they have the capacity to do so but the final decision of the NEC is that indirect and direct primaries have been adopted for state and national levels of the party’s primaries respectively.

Lagos Panorama


Below is APC Schedule for primaries as released by the party

Presidency 24th September
Senate 26th of September
House of Representatives September 27th
Governorship September 29th
House of Assembly October 2nd.
Sale of forms commenced on 1st of September.

APC chief shot dead at viewing centre, APC, Fayemi seek probe

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The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has challenged security agencies to fish out the killers of a commissioner in the Federal Character Commission, Bunmi Ojo, and prosecute them.

Ojo, a former Personal Assistant to ex-governor of Ekiti State, Segun Oni, was shot dead by unknown assailants at a football viewing centre around Ajitadidun area in Ado Ekiti on Friday night.

The deceased had gone to watch an English Premier league match between Manchester United and Leicester on Friday night with some of his friends.

Shortly after settling down to watch the  match, eyewitnesses told our correspondent that six gun-wielding men invaded the centre and shot him in the head and stomach at close range.

His remains have been deposited at the morgue of the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti.

The Publicity Secretary of the APC, Taiwo Olatunbosun, in a statement rued the untimely death of the APC chieftain, describing it as “a brutish end to a blossoming life and career.”

Describing Ojo as a personal friend and an amiable personality who would not hurt anyone, Olatunbosun said his death was a personal loss to him and everyone who was close to the deceased.

“Those who knew Bunmi (Ojo) cannot but like him, he was an easy-going and upright politician who cultivated friendship in both high and low places, which endeared him to many people.

According to him, his death could not be far from the political machinations of “a devilish politician” in the state.

"We will not rest until the assailants are fished out. This is a test of efficiency for the police and other security operatives,” Olatunbosun added.

Another member of the APC, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Ojo’s death might not be unconnected with his ambition to contest the Ekiti North Federal Constituency II in the House of Representatives.

The Federal Constituency is comprised of  Ido/Osi, Ilejemeje and Moba Local Governments.

The Police Public Relations Officer in Ekiti, DSP Caleb Ikechukwu, could not be reached for comments.

Several calls to his phone by our correspondent were not picked.

However, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has condemned Ojo’s murder, calling on security agencies to arrest and prosecute the killers.

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WHY I DUMPED APC FOR PDP - AgegePulse

WHY I DUMPED APC FOR PDP - Read full text of Atiku Ababakar's resignation letter

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The much anticipated decamping of former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar from the All Progressives Congress, APC, back to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was made official today as the perennial presidential aspirant uploaded details of the rationale behind his action:



The statement reads in pairs: Statement of resignation of His Excellency Atiku Abubakar (Waziri Adamawa) Vice President of Nigeria, 1999-2007 from the All Progressives Congress

On the 19th of December, 2013, I received members of the All Progressives Congress at my house in Abuja. They had come to appeal to me to join their party after my party, the Peoples Democratic Party, had become factionalized as a result of the special convention of August 31, 2013.

The fractionalization of the Peoples Democratic Party on August 31, 2013 had left me in a situation where I was, with several other loyal party members, in limbo, not knowing which of the parallel executives of the party was the legitimate leadership.

It was under this cloud that members of the APC made the appeal to me to join their party, with the promise that the injustices and failure to abide by its own constitution which had dogged the then PDP, would not be replicated in the APC and with the assurance that the vision other founding fathers and I had for the PDP could be actualized through the All Progressives Congress.

It was on the basis of this invitation and the assurances made to me that I, being party-less at that time, due to the fractionalization of my party, accepted on February 2, 2014, the hand of fellowship given to me by the All Progressives Congress.

On that day, I said "it is the struggle for democracy and constitutionalism and service to my country and my people that are driving my choice and my decision" to accept the invitation to join the All Progressives Congress.

Like you, I said that because I believed that we had finally seen the beginnings of the rebirth of the new Nigeria of our dreams which would work for all of us, old and young.

However, events of the intervening years have shown that like any other human and like many other Nigerians, I was fallible.

While other parties have purged themselves of the arbitrariness and unconstitutionality that led to fractionalization, the All Progressives Congress has adopted those same practices and even gone beyond them to institute a regime of a draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy within the party and the government it produced.

Only last year, a governor produced by the party wrote a secret memorandum to the president which ended up being leaked. In that memo,  he admitted that the All Progressives Congress had "not only failed to manage expectations of a populace that expected overnight ‘change’ but has failed to deliver even mundane matters of governance".

Of the party itself, that same governor said "Mr. President, Sir Your relationship with the national leadership of the party, both the formal (NWC) and informal (Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso), and former Governors of ANPP, PDP (that joined us) and ACN, is perceived by most observers to be at best frosty. Many of them are aggrieved due to what they consider total absence of consultations with them on your part and those you have assigned such duties."

Since that memorandum was written up until today, nothing has been done to reverse the treatment meted out to those of us invited to join the All Progressives Congress on the strength of a promise that has proven to be false. If anything, those behaviours have actually worsened.

But more importantly, the party we put in place has failed and continues to fail our people, especially our young people. How can we have a federal cabinet without even one single youth.

A party that does not take the youth into account is a dying party. The future belongs to young people.

I admit that I and others who accepted the invitation to join the APC were eager to make positive changes for our country that we fell for a mirage. Can you blame us for wanting to put a speedy end to the sufferings of the masses of our people?

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

May God bless you and may God bless Nigeria.

Atiku Abubakar
Waziri Adamawa

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Obasa reiterates commitment to develop Agege, says: See Agege, See Paris

No doubt, the speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa is passionate about seeing a drastic and effective development of his constituency and the entire Agege community as a whole.
Obasa returned to Orile Agege on Wednesday 21st September, 2016, as a guest representing the Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode at the commissioning of Ogundele Street. The speaker was treated to a rousing accolade by dignitaries' most especially female politicians and the market women at the event.
The number 3 man in Lagos commended the commitment of the members of the All Progressives Congress in the area. He noted that the commissioned road is one of the many rewards the community would benefit from their investment in voting APC candidates into elective offices during elections.
“It is heartwarming that Agege is now ranking among top cities in Lagos and Nigeria at large with the rate of developments going on in the community. We promise that we will commission more roads in Agege very soon which will bring total transformation to the area.
By the time the Abule Egba and Pen Cinemas bridges are completed, you will see wonder in Agege LGA and Orile Agege LCDA. Then everyone can boldly say “See Agege, See Paris”.
Obasa went on to deliver  Gov. Ambode's speech and afterwards cut the ribbon to officially open the Ogundele Street for use. He proceeded to Fashola street