Politics

Jonathan’s 2015 posters flood Abuja streets, can this be true?

 

 Opposition parties yesterday launched a broadside at President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 campaign posters, which have flooded Abuja, the nation’s capital.

But the President and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) denied backing those pasting the posters.
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) residents resumed from the New Year’s holiday to see the streets flooded with posters campaigning for a second term for President Jonathan.
The glossy posters with a bold picture of the President carries the inscription “2015: No vacancy in Aso Rock. Let’s do more.”
Also inscribed on it is “One good term deserves another; support Dr. Goodluck Azikiwe Jonathan for 2015 presidency.”
The posters were first seen in various neighbourhoods and public facilities in the FCT on New Year’s Day.
By yesterday, they had covered main areas of the FCT and the satellite towns.
The President distanced himself from the posters, but said those pasting them are exercising their right.
His party – the Peoples Democratic Party – also disowned the posters.
One question we should ask is that who sent them?

 

 

 

 

ACN warns soldiers, policemen

 
 

Action Congress of Nigeria   has warned security agencies deployed  in the state ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State  to be neutral.

The party called on soldiers and policemen “not to compromise  themselves with logistic support to aid their duties from the ruling Labour Party.”

A statement by the spokesman for the Independent Campaign Network, Mr. Bosun Oladimeji, on Wednesday, said there were allegations the LP was “trying to hoodwink the securities agencies”.

The ICN is one of the campaign organisations of the ACN’s candidate for the poll, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu.

Oladimeji said, “There are also allegations that LP chief, want to mount pressure on some top-ranking military officers to help disorganise the securitymen drafted to monitor the election.

“The ACN has it on good source that Mimiko has been in very serious discussion with the top officers of the Nigerian Army.”

He also alleged that Governor Olusegun Mimiko had compromised the leadership of the National Orientation Agency by promising it logistic support during Saturday’s election.

We’ll disgrace you, Mimiko tells Tinubu

IN a sharp response Governor Mimiko described the ACN national leader, Asiwaju Tinubu of being unworthy of the title of national leader of a national party accusing him of behaving like a common street boy in his manners and utterances.
Speaking through his campaign spokesman, Kolawole Olabisi, deplored the use of what he called raw and dirty language that he claimed would even be detested by area boys.
Noting that the ACN leader lacked the moral credibility to address Mimiko, he said:
“Pray, isn’t it absurd that Tinubu could be asking the people to vote for his party when all over the South West where he controls, governance is at it lowest ebb. It has been strikes galore as workers and government are at loggerhead over unpaid salaries and emoluments.”
“Students of higher institutions are groaning while they pay through their noses. Yet, they say they want to capture Ondo State which is better governed than any of these states and has become a benchmark in the art of good governance in Nigeria.
“When so-called leaders dance naked on national television and unleash verbal abuses on a sitting Governor of a state who has chosen nothing but high sense of respect for him as well as assault the sensibility of the people of Ondo State, then such leaders should be prepared to be disgraced.”