Adeboye to pray for Buhari, Jonathan in Abuja on Sunday

President Goodluck Jonathan and his successor-in-waiting, Muhammadu Buhari, are likely to meet the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Abuja tomorrow, during which the man of God will pray for two of them.

The event is the annual “Day out with God of Daddy G.O.”, which is taking place at the International Conference Centre, Abuja at 5pm on Sunday and to be attended by other top-ranking Nigerian political, business and religious leaders.

The event, according to the organisers, is meant to provide an avenue for Adeboye to pray for outgoing President Jonathan and the President-elect, Buhari, and his new administration, which is coming at a time of great socio-economic challenges that require the prayers and support of all Nigerians to succeed.

Jonathan sacks PEF, NCMDB Fund boss, appoints replacement

President Goodluck Jonathan continued his last gale of appointment and sack of public office holders on Tuesday with the removal from office of the executive secretaries of Petroleum Equalisation Fund, PEF and the Nigeria Content Management Development Board, NCMDB.

The presidency announced the appointment of Asabe Asmau Ahmed as the new Executive Secretary of PEF.

The new appointee, who is currently the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, takes over from Sharon Adefunke Kasali who has been Executive Secretary of PEF since 2007.

Jonathan has ruined the economy, APC govs cry out

Okorocha, Chairman, APC GOV FORUM

Old and incoming governors elected on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, have accused President Jonathan of running the economy aground, leaving them with an empty treasury.

The governors under the umbrella of Progressives Forum also stated that the president-elect, General Mohammadu would be faced with unprecedented financial challenges as he takes the mantle of leadership from Jonathan on May 29.

Another man treks from Abuja to Otuoke to honour Jonathan as ‘Hero of Democracy’

After the celebrated trek embarked upon by a man from Lagos to Abuja to celebrate the victory of Nigeria’s  President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), in a related development, another Nigerian, Oladele John Nihi from Kogi state has started trekking from Abuja to Otuoke, the hometown of President Goodluck Jonathan, to celebrate him (Jonathan) as the hero of democracy.

Jonathan’s meeting with Agbaje, Adams, Obanikoro in Lagos is on how to rig guber election to avenge his defeat- APC

The All Progressives Congress has raised the alarm over President Goodluck Jonathan’s unannounced visit to Lagos State a day to the governorship election.

National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statement, wondered why Jonathan arrived in Lagos late on Thursday.

He said Jonathan had a closed-door meeting with the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje; the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs II, Musiliu Obanikoro; and the National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Gani Adams.

Mohammed alleged that the meeting was obviously to strategise on how to manipulate the polls.

He said Jonathan was using the general perception, that he is a ‘good sportsman’, to deceive Nigerians.

AUDIO: What Jonathan told Buhari in historic concession phone call

The audio file of the historic conversation between President Goodluck Jonathan and President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, during which the former conceded defeat in Saturday’s presidential election, has been made public.

With presidential election results from all but one of Nigeria’s 36 states counted, and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, clearly in unassailable lead, President Jonathan had telephoned Mr. Buhari to concede defeat.

President Jonathan made the call a little past 5P.M. on Monday after it became clear his party had lost the election.

Jonathan, family begin packing of personal effects out of Aso Rock

President Goodluck Jonathan and his family members have started moving their personal belongings out of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, few days after the President lost his re-election bid.

At about midday on Friday, some buses were sighted loaded with travel bags moving out of the President’s official residence.

One of the buses, a white 18-seater Hiace bus marked PF 6244 AL, was still being loaded with bags of different shades and sizes at the time of filing this report.

Jonathan, Buhari hold secret meeting in Presidential Villa

President Goodluck Jonathan and President-elect, Gen. Muhammad Buhari (retd) met behind closed doors Friday in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The meeting, the first between the two leaders since the Presidential election which saw incumbent President Jonathan losing to the opposition leader was said to be a private meeting.

FOR THE RECORD: Map of how Buhari defeated Jonathan

I t is no longer news that Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) of the All Progressives Congress, APC  has defeated the incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to emerge the president-elect of Nigeria.

Here is a map showing how Buhari won the March 28 Presidential election.

APC leads as Jonathan, Sambo, Agbaje, Ribadu, Bode George, Mimiko, Dasuki, Obanikoro, Fani-Kayode, Adams, others lose at units tree

*Jonathan loses at Aso Villa units


Some heavyweight politicians lost their polling units in yesterday’s elections.


A major loss by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the one at the two polling units in front of Aso Villa – the Presidential abode.


The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari won in the two units.
Buhari got a total of 613 votes, while Jonathan polled a total of 595 votes.


Vice President Namadi Sambo got the same treatment in the former polling unit (Kabala 005) in Kaduna where the APC received overwhelming majority of votes.


The APC scored 386 votes to beat the PDP that scored 53 votes in the presidential election. APC got 385 and 369 votes in the senate and house of assembly elections respectively while the PDP got 59 and 62 respectively.
The results were announced by the presiding officer Abdulfatah Ali.


In Lagos State Governorship candidate Jimi Agbaje’s Apapa polling unit the APC won 126 votes while PDP won 60.

Jonathan talks tough, vows to deal with troublemakers

President Jonathan: Vows to deal with troublemakers

President Goodluck Jonathan in a nationwide broadcast on Friday urged Nigerians to go out en masse and exercise their electoral franchise by voting for credible leaders.

Speaking in a 10-minute broadcast, Jonathan also urged Nigerians to exercise caution and be ready to accept the results of the elections.

 The President said that the government would deploy all institutions of state to deal with anyone, who would attempted to upset the electoral process or foment trouble.

Jonathan noted, ``In spite of the many challenges we have had to contend with since 1999, our present democratic dispensation continues to endure and grow stronger in keeping with the yearnings and aspirations of our people.

Nigerians in Canada back Jonathan’s re-election bid, urge electorates to vote him en-mass

*To present Jonathan housing development scheme synonymous with the Canadian mortgage financial model  for immediate implementation for the benefits of Nigerians.

*Nigerians in Diaspora promise to present housing development scheme synonymous with the Canadian mortgage financial model  to Jonathan for immediate implementation for the benefits of Nigerians.

Ahead of Saturday's presidential election, some members of professional groups, who are Nigerians in Canada, have lent their weight behind the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Nigerians in Diaspora appealed to Nigerians at home to vote for Jonathan because, according to them, the president had done well enough to earn a second term.

No fewer than 50 Nigerian professionals who are medical doctors, engineers, economists, educators, captains of industries, legal luminaries, and policy analysts met in Toronto, Ontario and endorsed Jonathan for another four years.

They promised to support the president, after his victory in Saturday’s elections, in the creation of two million jobs in the mortgage sector in Nigeria.

Jonathan does not deserve re-election – Group

Ahead of the Saturday’s presidential election, a group, Quest Parliament, has said in Kaduna that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party under President Goodluck Jonathan has failed, submitting that the President does not deserve re-election for second term.

Adducing reasons why Nigerians must vote out Jonathan on Saturday, Chairman of the group, Ahmed Garba, at a press conference in Kaduna on Wednesday, noted that Jonathan had failed the country in the areas of health care delivery, security of lives and property of Nigerians.

Garba, who led other Peoples Democratic Party supporters to the All Progressives Congress, said Jonathan should be voted out of office for non-performance.

Jonathan has plans to hand over to military if he loses, says Obasanjo

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said  he has uncovered another plot by the Presidency to handover to the Nigerian military if it loses the coming Presidential election.

Obasanjo said this alleged plot would undermine the integrity of Nigeria among the comity of nations.

The former President stated  this yesterday while playing host to the South West women of the All Progressives Congress led by the wife of the party’s presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, Hajia Aisha Buhari.

I’m not desperate for power, Jonathan declares

He has said it and we have to take him for his words. President Goodluck Jonathan has declared that he was not desperate to serve.

He stated this yesterday in Abuja at the launch of the book , ‘The People’s Choice’, at the Presidential Villa.

The book which chronicles his life is authored by Rev. Fr. Charles Imokhan.

President Jonathan said: “Sometimes people ask me ‘Mr. President, from what we read and what we see, we see you are still smiling and unruffled.’ Yes, nothing will really ruffle me because I’m willing and ready to serve but I’m not desperate to serve.

Why OPC is openly supporting Jonathan, Gani Adams reveals

Gani Adams, OPC National Leader

The National Coordinator, Oodua Peoples Congress, Chief Gani Adams, has explained the reason his militia group has been openly supporting President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term bid.

According to Adams, his open support for President Jonathan arises from the fact that aside from the fact that he has promised to implement the recommendations of the National Conference report, either the Presidency’s moves were political or not, he has been able to do what other government had not not done by empowering the group.

OPC members on rampage

How Mu’azu’s calling Ijebus ‘stingy people’ caused Awujale’s non-endorsement of Jonathan

Facts have emerged on why Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona and other Ijebu monarchs failed to take group photograph with President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan when he paid a courtesy visit last Thursday.

Jonathan is the Presidential candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Presidential election coming up in the country on March 28,2015.

A source who was privy to the meeting said the PDP Chairman,Alhaji Adamu Muazu, had annoyed the monarchs and chiefs when he described the Ijebu people as stingy people.

He was angrily corrected by Awujale, who replied him, “we are not stingy, but prudent in our spending.”

I didn’t offer Tinubu interim govt VP slot, Jonathan hits back

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said there was no truth in the claim by a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that he offered the former Lagos State governor the opportunity to serve as Vice President in a proposed Interim National Government.

Jonathan, who spoke with State House correspondents in Abuja through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, described Tinubu’s claim as absurd and ridiculous.

Tinubu had in a statement by his media office on Thursday claimed that the recent attacks on his person were because he rejected the offer by Jonathan to serve as the Vice President in an ING.

Apologise to Nigerians over your phantom phone conversation with Moroccan King, APC tells Jonathan

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to apologise to Nigerians for the embarrassment that he has caused them over his phantom phone conversation with the King of Morocco.

‘’In our earlier statement on the issue, we gave President Jonathan the benefit of the doubt by asking him to clarify what happened, just as the Moroccan King has done. Instead, a loquacious spokesman for the President decided to abuse us. That tells us that, indeed, these people have something to hide over the phoney phone conversation,’’ the party said in a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

At last, Jonathan confesses; ‘I didn’t speak with the Moroccan King’

                                     ….orders probe into the Morocco phone scam

Contrary to the assertions of officials of his Foreign Affairs Ministry, President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday that he has neither spoken to or had conversations with King Mohammed VI of Morroco.

In an embrassing twist to the brewing diplomatic row between Nigeria and the North African country, President Jonathan described claims that he had spoken with King Mohammed to “misinformation” in a statement issued on his behalf by Reuben Abati, his special adviser on media and publicity.

Abati added in the statement that the President had ordered the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali to urgently undertake a full investigation of the claim which emanated from the Ministry.

“The investigation is to identify all those who were responsible for the unacceptable act of official misinformation which has resulted in an unnecessary diplomatic row with another country and national embarrassment.

“It is also expected to unveil the motives of the culprits.

“President Jonathan has also ordered that prompt and commensurate disciplinary action be taken against the culpable  person or persons,” said Abati.