Nigerian Gazette

The elders of the People Democratic Party Thursday placated and reconciled the Alimodu Sherif faction with the Senator Makarfi led National Caretaker Committee in the official lodge of the Senate deputy President, Ike Ekweremadu. The reconciliation was brokered by the Some PDP governors, and elders of the party for peace to reign, more so that the party has two important governorship elections at hand in Edo and Ondo states respectively. According to information obtained by Nigerian Mirror, Senator Ali Modu Sherif was going to dump Buruji for peace to reign. He got the message that someone somewhere was making extras off the crises in PDP. He decided to sheath his sword for the good of the party. The only option left for Buruji was, if u can't beat them, join them! Senator Buruji while towing the path of peace also pledged obedience to makarfi led caretaker committee and even hugged Governor Fayose in the spirit of reconciliation It is no doubt going to be sad news for th...

"Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value."Joe Biden Full implementation of the much 'FETED' 2016 budget hope may have been dashed already. Nigeria is 40% off her major revenue generation according to report . The economy has been brought to its knee. I heard the president saying 'NO ROOM' for free money again as we need to diversify our economy from the mono. I nodded my head,YES YES YES! I ask myself,where are we diversifying to? Is it manufacturing without electric generation ? Oh,sorry! Agriculture with Fulani herdsmen invasion, destruction, killing and maiming? Tourism without proper planning or road map? Education without adequate funding and trial and error policies? Do you mean with BOOBA OPA relationship that exists between executive and legislative arms of government? Shior! If you are one of the 'hailing hailers' out there;listen to yourself anytime you speak again and again...

Core politicians from the Northern part of the country as well as other key PDP leaders have been advised to appeal to Senator Ali Modu Sherrif to stop being 'pushed' around by Senator Buruji. This decision was arrived at after the 'Strategic Revival of the PDP' meeting held by the North Central zone of the PDP Positive Force in Ilorin, Kwara State. The spokesman of the group, Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed spoke that their findings confirmed that the Ogun State born politician has only find a 'partner' in Senator Sherrif to constantly heat the polity within the party. They opined that questions should be asked why the crises in the PDP has lingered on this long. "What benefit is the crises within the PDP to both Senators Sherrif and Buruji"? "Do they consider that indeed, if we are desirous of winning the 2019 Presidential elections, we must be working towards fine-tuning our plans in Edo and Ondo States on how the elections are going to be won...

The counsel to Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, Mike Ozekhome has replied the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari, through her counsel, Mary Ekpere & Co, justifying the governor’s claim that Mrs. Buhari was mentioned in the Halliburton scandal In a letter dated July 8, 2016, Mr. Ozekhome affirmed that the statement made regarding the involvement of Mrs. Buhari in the Halliburton scandal was “correct and justified in law, having regards to a court judgment convicting one Mr William Jefferson for bribery in the Halliburton case”. The counsel to the president’s wife, Mary Ekpere & Co had written a letter dated June 22, 2016, to Mr. Fayose, demanding a retraction of the governor’s statement that the president’s wife was involved in the Halliburton scandal, threatening legal action if the retraction was not made within five days. However, Mr. Ozekhome said the statement of Governor Fayose was correct and justified, having been factually premised on an ...

For his acceptance and recognition by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) In Edo State, the Ogun State chapter of the party has congratulated Mr. Osagie Ize-Iyamu. The state Chairman of the party, Hon. Sikirulahi Ogundele, said in a press statement that with the recognition of Ize-Iyamu by INEC, the wind of success has once again blown to the side of the party. Ogundele added in the statement, which was signed on his behalf by the Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Mr. Malik Olamilekan Ibitoye, that the confirmation of Ize-Iyamu by the INEC has further given credibility to the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the party. The state party chairman used the opportunity to reiterate that the PDP should come under one umbrella as it used to be, saying that the party has every opportunity to bounce back to reckoning at the national level. "We in the Ogun State chapter of the PDP wish...

Ekiti State Government has said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has promoted its vendetta against opponents of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of President Mohammadu Buhari, especially the State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose to the level that the anti-corruption agency was now carrying out investigations by trial and error. The government disclosed that “officials of the EFCC stormed a popular Guest House on Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja today to seal off the property believing that Governor Fayose owned the Guest House only for the EFCC officials to be confronted with the fact that operator of the Guest House leased the property from its owner for ten years.” In a statement signed by the Special Assistant the State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the government said it was only in Nigeria that anti-corruption agency will first arrest suspect first before looking for evidences to prosecute the suspect. The s...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) notes with serious concern, but without any iota of shock, the recent comment by the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, that the continued rumpus in the Senate, including the unrelenting harassment of its leadership and the recent arraignment of its presiding officers on phantom criminal charges of conspiracy and forgery, was all about the emergence of Senator Ike Ekweremadu as the Deputy President of Senate. In a Freudian slip that reveals the underbelly of the entire shenanigan, the National Chairman of the APC had said they would never accept Ekweremadu as the Deputy President of the Senate. His words: "I think the thing that rankled us most was the election of Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President. Saraki is a member of the APC, much as the main line of the Party would have wished a different result and a different scenario. But we all find it very, very difficult to accept the emergence o...