Nigeria News Forum

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the Peoples Democratic Party as a dying political party which needs to be taken to an intensive care unit. He said this on Saturday at his Abeokuta Presidential Hilltop residence in an interview with journalists, after emerging from a closed-door meeting with a factional national chairman of the PDP, Senator Ali-Modu Sheriff. Sheriff and Obasanjo Obasanjo said Sheriff called him on Friday that he was coming to visit him, and he had to oblige him. The former president explained that the factional chairman briefed him about the crisis rocking the party. Obasanjo, who was a former chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, said the PDP had lost its soul, and said he wished Sheriff would not be an undertaker that would bury it. “The PDP of today, if you can talk of a party again as PDP, its soul has been taken out of it and those who allowed that to happen are unperturbed about the fate of the party and indeed the fate of t...

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has denied an online report quoting him as saying that he had warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019.  The report, which was credited to him through his former Chief Press Secretary, Alex Nwokedi, in an on-line publication,  Post Nigeria,  dated September 3, 2016, claiming that Obasanjo had warned President Muhammadu Buhari against seeking re-election in 2019. President Buhari and Obasanjo  But Obasanjo has described the report as “completely false and destructive by those behind it.”  The former President, in a statement issued by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, in Abeokuta on Sunday, said there has been no communication between him and Nwokedi in the last three years, and wondered why any news would be attributed to him, as published by the on-line publication.  The statement read in part, “My belief is that democracy allows for anybody including President Buhari for that...

Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West Senatorial District, on the platform of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has dragged Manitoba Hydro International Nigeria Ltd, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged diversion of N13.8 billion and abuse of Public Procurement Act. In a petition, dated July 28, 2016, submitted to the EFCC, weekend, and received by the agency’s Head of Media and Public Affairs, Osita Nwajah, the senator accused Manitoba Hydro International Nigeria Ltd of diversion of funds, economic sabotage, criminal violation and abuse of Public Procurement Act. Melaye, through his organisation, Anti-Corruption Network, which he founded to assist in fighting corruption in the country, said his petition against the foreign company was borne out of objectives of the organisation’s desire to ensure that economic and financial crimes in the country were not only duly investigated but also prosecuted. In the petition to the anti-graft agency, M...