The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has described former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as bureau de change because of the mindboggling foreign currencies that reportedly exchanged hands at the recently held National Convention of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), before he emerged the party’s presidential candidate.

Mbaka, who had in his new year eve message of 2015, predicted Buhari’s electoral victory over then President Goodluck Jonathan, said advised Nigerian politicians to seek God’s wisdom in their dealings, stressing that they struggled for power at all cost because they lack wisdom.

“Somebody will have billions and want to take the one belonging to the public while hunger will be killing his people. Look at the type of money they shared during the primaries to the extent that they brought Bureau de Change. They said Buhari is change, but Atiku is bureau de change. They were sharing the money in dollars and it was going out in millions of dollars in Nigeria where hunger is killing people; where you don’t have food to eat.

“If they spend such monies to get ticket, how do you think that when they get into power they will rule, of course, they will first recover the money they have spent but the worst is that the money was not being shared to the poor,” he lamented.

The priest expressed fears that Atiku may not be able to solve the problems of Nigeria if he emerged victorious, as according to him, the problems of the nation were so enormous and challenging.

“If anybody is thinking that if Atiku becomes the President of Nigeria things will get better, ‘who born you’ because for this country to be good it is easier for a carmel to pass through the eye of a needle than this country to be good,” he said, urging that Nigerians must do their part to make Nigeria the nation of their dream.

“There are no people that will develop this country that are not in Nigeria. We have people who will develop this nation; but our President left the same type of people who don’t have the same type of vision around him and everything they do is in your head.”

Source: The Sun.

Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, lawyer to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, has dismissed claims by the former Nigerian minister of aviation, Femi Fani Kayode that his client had indicated interest to work for the removal of President Muhammadu Buhari from office in next year’s general elections.

Reacting to Fani Kayode claim today, Saturday, that the controversial IPOB leader wanted by the Nigerian military authorities had given his word to work with like minds to remove President Buhari from office, Barrister Aloy Ejiofor said: “I want to make it clear to all that Nnamdi Kanu’s brief chat with Fani Kayode earlier today did not include anything close to agreeing to ‘work together with Fani Kayode to vote out Buhari’, as is being circulated on social media.

“On the contrary, Nnamdi Kanu wants all to know that IPOB remains solidly committed to Self Determination and Referendum; and is therefore not interested in any partisan politics of the moment. I urge all and sundry to take caution and be guided accordingly.”

The lawyer, in a Facebook post after Fani-Kayode’s tweet said: “as Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s Special Counsel, he’s been speaking with me from his location in Israel in the past few days.”

Nnamdi Kanu went missing sometime in September 2017 when the military raided his family home in Abia state in which scores of young people were allegedly killed.

Kanu and his group have been calling for a referendum to determine if the mainly Igbo speaking people in the South Eastern part want to remain part of Nigeria

“As prayers heal the land, so do bad declarations bring hardship,” so said Aisha, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari at the 2018 Episcopal Harvest of the Anglican Communion at the Cathedral of Holy Trinity, Gwagwalada, Abuja today, Saturday.

Aisha Buhari who was honoured with Deborah Award by the Church said: “there is power in the spoken word, the power of life and death. Nigerians should therefore make positive declarations about their country.”

 She advised the citizens to pray for the nation’s leaders to enable them make the right decisions for the betterment of our country, even as she called on them to embrace peace so that stability and prosperity will prevail.

She thanked the Diocese for recognizing her with the award, adding that as a mother of the nation, she has a duty to impart her humanity on those that are less fortunate with her humanitarian activities.

Earlier, the Bishop of the Gwagwalada Diocese and host of the event, Right Rev. Moses Bukpe Tabwaye, said that Aisha Buhari has impacted in many areas that affect the less privileged, especially women and children.

He confessed that Aisha’s hand of mercy had reached all Nigerians, irrespective of faith or ethnicity even as he advised her to continue the good work she is doing.

Deborah Award is named after the prophetess Deborah, who is noted for her courage, wisdom and leadership.

The President’s wife was represented at the occasion by Mrs. Grace Chamah, wife of the former military Governor of Katsina and Kebbi states.

Former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, has carpeted successive military governments that ruled Nigeria for 29 years since independence, saying they created states and local governments by fiat for selfish reasons rather than through any scientific political reasoning.

This, according to him, has necessitated a restructuring of the country even as he lamented that the military might have inequitably created more local governments per population per state in the North than in the South, thereby giving the North an unfair advantage in revenue allocation from the national treasury.

Akande, who is also a former governor of Osun State, made the assertion in a paper on “Devolution of Powers and National Restructuring” which he delivered at the weekend at the APC-USA Second Annual Convention in Washington DC, United States of America where he was Special Guest of Honour.

He therefore called for restructuring, which he described as “equitable rearrangement and redistribution of the existing states and local governments per population within the various ethnic nationalities”.

Appropriate amendments to the country’s constitution, according to him, will be required to accommodate the various rearrangements and redistributions.

The former APC chairman, however, admitted it would be politically unwise to define the word equitable in such a way that it would be easy to convince those enjoying the unfair advantage at present to surrender such.

He said restructuring was a Herculean task for all Nigerians compared to the political change of power for which the APC was put together.

Akande said: “The North is a largely Hausa-speaking people traditionally mix-bred and assimilated with and governed by minority Fulani rulers through Islamic emirate system since two centuries ago. The North has been amalgamated with the South in-law and in fact since a century ago. And, presumably, the Fulani has been perceived to be manipulating the North to rule Nigeria since independence.

“Even if one does not like the minority Fulani rulers of the North for being hegemonic in characteristics, can one separate them from the original majority Hausa-speaking people of the same North? Unless one was ready for another civil war, could one ostracise the whole North in the political considerations of the country.”

He said it was within that context that some of them who were not ready to wait for another civil war to effect a geo-political restructuring of the country decided to go ahead with the APC arrangement, “while our opponents are left behind to assume a loud coarse noise on mere sloganeering-restructuring- without any clear definition or a peaceful workable strategy.”

The former APC chairman also said constitutional amendments or not, Nigerians have begun to see themselves as belonging to geo-political zones-North-western, North-eastern, North-central, South-western, South-eastern and South-southern zones-.

He said the South-west, on its own, had moved further to create a Development Agenda Commission for Western Nigeria, DAWN Commission, to conduct research to generate pieces of advisory information for the benefit of the each of the South-western state governments on integrated development programmes.

According to him, as a first step, the people of these South-western states are trying to key into the APC to back up the possibility of their governments to speak with one political voice, using one manifesto under one political party.

He recommended this initiative to other geo-political zones, saying it is an experiment worthy of encouragement and emulation for the strengthening of a federal political attitude towards physical and social development within each zone.