2015: Atiku’s camp jittery as Buhari formally declares for presidency

 

Buhari

Nigeria's former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari declared he would run for president on Wednesday, criticising President Goodluck Jonathan's administration for corruption and failing to tackle the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency.

Meanwhile, Buhari’s bold declaration SHOWBIZPLUSng learnt has already unsettled and making the Alhaji Atiku Abubakar camp jittery .

His bid for the opposition ticket, if accepted, would pit him against Jonathan for a second time.

Addressing thousands of cheering supporters in a white traditional robe, dark glasses and a green skullcap, Buhari berated the government for failing to stamp out insecurity.

Jonathan bombs Tinubu, Fashola, says Ikimi’s defection, final blow to APC

L-R: Jonathan and Tinubu

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday described the defection of a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tom IKmi, from All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party as spelling the end of the APC.

He also vowed that the Peoples Democratic Party would win Edo and Rivers states in the 2015 and 2016 general and governorship elections in the two states.

President Jonathan spoke during the PDP South-South unity rally held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, the Edo State capital.

While welcoming Tom Ikimi and other former members of the APC, including national and state assembly members, back to the party, he stated that the defection from the APC to the PDP, led by Ikimi, meant that “the last oxygen has been removed.”

Opinion Article: Ribadu’s dance of shame

Ribadu

By AZUH AMATUS: Sincerely, I never wanted to comment or dabble into discussions surrounding the recent defection of former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Truth is, I’m not a fan of Ribadu, but hugely applauded his courageous exploits in the past as EFCC boss.

 Besides, I’m also not a card carrying member of both the PDP and APC.

However, I changed my mind after angrily reading the disappointing and inglorious reasons, Ribadu adduced and justified as his main reasons for jumping ship, while reacting through his spokesman, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz.

Even though, Ribadu is a professional in politics, I never expected him to come up with such lame and laughable excuse, which has firmly put him in the mould of typical Nigerian politicians.

Eid-El-Fitr: Muslims urged to imbibe lessons of Ramadan

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has congratulated the Muslim faithful on the occasion of this year's Eid-El-Fitr celebrations
marking the successful conclusion of the month-long period of fasting.
In a statement issued in Kaduna on Tuesday by its National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and sent to SHOWBIZPLUSng, the party hailed its Muslim brothers
and sisters for their self-deprivation and spiritual supplication to God, and urged them to imbibe the lessons of Ramadan in their daily
lives, far beyond the fasting period.