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Senator Alex Kadiri calls out his Party,  APC for treating Nigerians like conquered people

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Senator who represented Kogi East from 1999 to 2023 Chief Alex Kadiri and a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has called out his party over the shoddy manner it is currently been run like a one man enterprise
Speaking with newsmen on Saturday in Abuja, the elderstatesman faulted the party’s process of recruiting its Chairmen, with specific reference to the emergence of former Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje whom he said does not showcase any integrity for the party.

“One painful thing is the way my party is being run. I have the right to complain about the way it is being run. I have done that through the civil methods by complaining to the party twice and the party is setting up two different reconcilliation committees to look at our case and up till the time I am talking to you the party has not written me or called me to inform me that my complaints were not genuine, neither did they say they have taken action about the coplaints because things are getting from bad to worst.
“To crown it, I was not part of the process that picked Ganduje as the new chairman but as a member of the party I think we are taking Nigerians for granted, that we can do anything and get away with it.
“If Abdullahi Adamu nust be removed can’t we get somebidy else with clean record to lead the party, a national party of the size of APC? I beleve that Ganduje is the wrong person and I have said it times without number, they said they were going to expel me but uptil now they have not done that. “I don’t know what they are waiting for because as long as I am a member of the party and I see things that are wrong and I keep quiet God will not forgive me at my age.
“Secondly, look at the rot going on between Nyesom Wike and the governor of Rivers State. Again my party is involved, Wike is serving Tinubu who is a product of APC whom I voted for. If all we are hearing, if all of them are true then it is a disgrace for Wike as Minister.
“If he is breathing down on the neck of his successor, picking commissioners for him, picking Chief of Staff for him and asking the fellow to be removed. Are we practicing democracy? Why are we killing our country slowly? And the President is aware of all these and has not called Wike to order, is it right? Is it not a bad image for the APC?
“That we can take in anything and contain anything? We believe that Nigerians can’t do nothing? I think it is wrong.

“I dont know if you have seen a recent video clip by a commissioner in Zamfara State who alleged that the former Governor used to habor Bandits in government House and that he bought vehicles for them.
“It is my party that we are talking about and I am still a member of this party, I have not died yet and I will keep talking.
“Look at the cost of living, a bag of rice is now N62, 000. What is the salary of a civil servant with wife and four children? How can he cope? I go to Garki also twice a week and I look at the faces I see there coming to work and going back home in a week, that is almost half of the salary they get in the hospital.
“So they kept grumbling everyday because the money is not just enough to take them to and from work in 30 days, not to talk about school fees, medical attention.
“Where are we going in this country. The thing that pained my heart is what is going on in Kogi State. I have said it openly at the APC national secretariat, I have said it in press releases and the party does not care. As we are talking my party is fielding a candidate to succeed Yahaya Bello. I think it will be a tragedy if my Party wins the election on the 11th of this Month.
“What have they done to justify being reelected? What we have is bloodshed, shooting, killings left right and center and all the security are just looking, nothing, nobody has been arrested or apprehended.
No gun has been retrieved or recorvered.
“Before they used to shoot in the night but now they shoot in broad day light, nobody is apprehended, people are dying and we want to say we have won election on that platform and you ask people to go to the Tribunal, which tribunal?

“I think this party is taking Nigerians for granted too much. It is unfair, we have not conquered Nigeria, Nigerians are being treated like conquered people. Unfortunately with this system that we have, criminals are in charge left right and center. Criminals have all the means, they have all the funds.
“I think it is not right, this country is dying slowly, please do not kill it.
“I want to be alive to see things change for the positive but things are getting worse, getting extreemly bad while I am still watching
He expressed delight that Natasha Akpoti Uduaghan won at the court of Appeal saying,
“I like Natasha’s case, she is a dogged fighter. She used to be a school mate to my last daughter in the University. I have not seen or spoken to her in the last two years but I like her fighting spirit, though she actually won her election Tribunal or no Tribunal.
“Denying somebody victory is wrong. And all these people go to church on Sunday and go to Mosque on fridays, they pray to Jesus and Allah and we are all hoping to get to heaven after all the bad bad things they are doing.
“God is a very patient God
It will be tragic, it will be a major tragedy if APC is seen to win the next election in Kogi State because there is no basis, nothing that they have done to justify being reelected.
“I can not ban my party from participating but if I have the power APC should be excluded from the next election because the havoc they are causing everbody in Kogi State.
Abuja people may be happy, we are all here whether they kill themselves, whether it is only three people that are left on the election day, assuming that the APC wins they are happy but that is not all, the people dying in large numbers are Kogi people. The people terrified in Abuja, Lagos who can not go home are Kogi people, nobody wants to die prematurely. I told you I am ready to die. I have even dug my own grave, so if you kill me they will just push me in there and corver it but I will say what I am saying now until I die as long as things do not change in this country.
“This country must change for God’s sake, the countries that have died, this is how they start.”

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Ondo Governorship Primaries: APC commends Ododo over peaceful conduct

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo for his impressive performance in the just concluded Ondo State Governorship primary election where he served as chairman of the committee.
Special adviser on media to the Governor Ismai Isah in a statement indicated that Governor Ododo received the commendation while presenting the report of the Ondo state APC primary election committee to the party’s national chairman, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday.

Receiving the committee’s report from Governor Ododo, Dr. Ganduje congratulated the Governor for a job well done and noted that the party is proud of the performance of the Kogi State Governor for the conduct of the Ondo State Governorship primary election which he noted was the first national assignment of the Governor.

The APC national chairman praised the extraordinary leadership skill and impeccable manner the Kogi State Governor managed the Ondo State APC Governorship primary election, adding that the Collation of results from the 203 wards and the 18 Local Government areas of the state that was viewed live on national television was a rare display of transparency and integrity of the entire election process.

Earlier in his presentation, Governor Ododo thanked the APC National Working Committee for finding him and his committee members worthy of the all important national assignment.

The Governor stated that the committee’s report took cognizance of everything that transpired during the primary election and it contains recommendations that will enable the party to deal with the aftermath of the Ondo State Primary election and ensure that the APC goes into the November governorship election as a united party ready to retain power in Ondo State.

Governor Ododo was accompanied to the presentation of the report by the Secretary to the Committee, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Kogi State APC Chairman, Honourable Abdullahi Bello, House of Representative Member Representing Ajaokuta Federal Constituency, Honourable Abdulrahim Egidi and the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Barr. Deedat Ozigi Salami, and some of his senior aides.

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Ondo 2024: Emami admonishes Aiyedatiwa to Seek support of aggrieved aspirants

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***Says APC stands to win
with genuine reconciliation

Seek for genuine reconciliation with all the aggrieved aspirants who contested the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election Chief Ayirimi Emami, has admonished the Ondo State Governor and winner of the party’s ticket in last weekend governorship primary, Lucky Aiyedatiwa,

In the primary election conducted by a team led by Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, his colleague, Governor Aiyedatiwa was declared winner having polled 48, 569 in the Direct Primary exercise to defeat all the other 15 aspirants.
Some of the aspirants have since kicked against the outcome of the election, alleging that the Governor Ododo team did not follow the party’s guidelines and laid down procedure
The APC chieftain who congratulated Governor Aiyedatiwa, described his victory at the primary as testament of his impactful governance for the few months he has taken over as governor of Ondo state.
He urged him to broker peace with the aggrieved aspirants, accomodate them in the course of his campaigns for the overall interest of the APC and development of the oil producing state.
While he maintained that Governor Aiyedatiwa posture should be a no victor, no vanquished towards the other aspirants on the outcome of the primary, Chief Emami, said the cooperation of other aspirants would make the Party victory seamless and accelerate the developmental strides being witnessed in the state.
He equally appealed to other aspirants that contested the APC governorship primary to sheathe their sword and support the candidacy of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa.
Some of the contenders for the ticket won by Governor Aiyedatiwa included
senator representing Ondo South Senatorial District, Jimoh Ibrahim; Olusola Oke SAN, former President of Nigerian Medical Association, Prof. Francis Faduyile, a mechanical engineer, Dr Funmilayo Waheed-Adekojo and the National Vice Chairman of the APC (South APC (South West), Isaac Kekemeke.

Others were Dr Soji Ehinlanwo, Akinfolarin Samuel, Okunjimi Odimayo, Adewale Akinterinwa, Olugbenga Edema and Brig. Gen. Ohunyeye Olamide (retd), Morayo Lebi, Oladiran Iyatan and Engnr. Ifeoluwa Oyedele.

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Concerned Kano Progressives throw weight behind Ganduje

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***Alerts President Tinubu over Kwankwaso’s scheming to destabilize APC

From Mohammed Abubakar Minjibir

A Kano-based political think-tank, the CONCERNED KANO PROGRESSIVES, {CKP} has vowed to do everything humanly possible to support ongoing efforts of the national Chairman of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Alhaji Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to reposition the party and encourage all elected representatives on the platform of the APC to manage the gains of their respective, electoral successes.
Similarly, the KCP, have also vowed to checkmate, what its members, have described as , “the infantile and highly dysfunctional thought-processes being elicited by one-time civilian Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Kwankwaso, in his drift towards political mischief-making against the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu “.
These views, were contained in a Media statement issued to newsmen on Sunday, by the National Coordinator of CKP Alhaji Mohammed Z. Abubakar.
The CKP stated that, “Anybody who knows Alhaji Kwankwaso and his conditioned behaviour towards matters of political socialization processes and mentorship, can attest to his high affinity for not only being domineering, high-handed, self-opinionated but abnormally dictatorial in the way and manner he relates with his peers, eminent political leadership figures and sundry loyal party members.”
The statement explained further that, “Alhaji Kwankwaso, is believing that he has the nationwide capacity to swing the sociology of the voter-behaviour of the larger Nigerian voting electorate come 2027, to actualize his animated ambition of becoming the President of Nigeria.”
The CKP, said that Alhaji Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s self-inflated ego, is what is perhaps, leading him into nursing the faulty impression-formation disposition that, apart from the entire northern electorate, “voting” massively for him under the NNPP, the social and political rating which President Tinubu presently enjoys, is far below his self-proclaimed social and political stratification rating, which, has given him the pseudo courage to embark on his ongoing secret plans to destabilize the All Progressives Congress by using his NNPP political party platform to achieve his ambition of becoming president of Nigeria in 2027.
According to the CKP spokesman, Alhaji Mohammed Z. Abubakar, “Alhaji Kwankwaso’s hope of executing his plan of action is largely reliant and premised on the funding from his political stooge, the current Governor of Kano State, who will never dare defy the directives of Alhaji Kwankwaso, his father in-law and mentor.
Alhaji Kwankwaso, according to the Progressives, “uses the Kano State Executive Governor, Alhaji Abba Yusuf, as a willing instrument to prosecute his current thinly disguised agenda to blackmail and demonise the APC National Chairman, Alhaji Ganduje, and his party in such a way as to destroy the APC brand before the next general elections in 2027.
The Progressives, have therefore humbly advised President Tinubu and APC members nationwide to be on the alert about the scheming of Alhaji Kwankwaso.

The organisation indicated that, “the unfolding pockets of mischief-making ploys, antics and deviant behavioural traits being orchestrated by the former Governor of Kano State, Dr Kwankwaso and the current NNPP government led by Alhaji Abba Yusuf, to tarnish the good image and reputation of both the ruling APC and its National Chairman, Dr. Ganduje, will fail. “We stand resolutely in solidarity with Dr. Ganduje”, the statement concludes.

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