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UK Press Blasts Theresa May for Visiting Buhari, blames him for herdsmen killings

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6 years ago

September 2, 2018

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UK Press Slams Theresa May Futile Visit To Elderly Nigerian Dictator Muhammadu Buhari:

One of UK’s leading UK newspaper, The Mail has slammed Prime Minister Theresa May for visiting Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari whom the paper described as a dictator

The paper blames Buhari for the killing of hundreds by herders and his willingness to get air from the UK.

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THERESA MAY’S robotic dancing made some people laugh. But the Maybot was not the biggest joke about the Prime Minister’s visit to South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya last week. That would be her reaffirmation of Britain’s bizarre commitment to handing billions of pounds to despicable despots and dodgy schemes as part of this country’s absurd foreign aid policy.

May said she was ‘ immensely proud’ to be giving away a fixed slab of national income – regardless of need, rising demands at home and the reality of global poverty falling with stunning speed due to capitalism, consumerism and scientific advances.

So never mind the sex scandals exposing gross abuse of power, the blood-stained dictators stuff- ing bank accounts with our funds, the fat-cat consultants and charity chiefs fleecing taxpayers – and of course, all those i nsanely wasteful projects this newspaper has exposed around the world.

Take Nigeria and Kenya, two recipients of big aid payouts and both controlled by painfully corrupt elites. Although riddled with grinding poverty, these two nations have some of the highest-paid government executive in the world compared to their citizens.

Britain is spending £235 million directly in Nigeria this year. Yet much of the nation’s vast oil wealth has been looted and last year the acting president admitted half his government’s food aid for people fleeing an Islamist insurgency in the north had disappeared.

The elderly president, widely known has having triggered unprecedented post-election violence with over 800 Nigerians killed by his supporters when he lost the country’s 2011 presidential elections, incidentally, was receiving medical treatment in London at the time – proving how little faith he has in his public services.

Uhuru Kenyatta, the Kenyan leader who admonished May for a lack of British Prime Ministerial visits, is the son of the nation’s first post-colonial president and his family is among the wealthiest in the country.

Along with his rich deputy he escaped charges at the international criminal court over links to horrific political violence after witnesses were allegedly bribed or intimidated, with others dying. No wonder younger generations are so hungry for change across Africa. Yet often they are bullied, beaten and intimidated by those we endorse with our billions.

She trotted out the same old cliches and claptrap

Look at neighbouring Uganda, where a festering regime ridiculously hailed for its democracy by the Department for International Development has been torturing a brave pop star called Bobi Wine who became a rallying point for opponents.

Or Rwanda, sponsor of the Arsenal football team and a place where desperation to find an aid success story persuaded charities and politicians to overlook the crushing and killing of opponents, along with obvious manipulation of development statistics.

May’s quickstep around Africa was designed to drive home the message that post-Brexit Britain can be an influential global player by deepening links and investment in a fast-growing continent being wooed by other global powers.

There are many good reasons to step up engagement in Africa, given its rising wealth, education and population. And it is sensible to solidify trade ties – even if a boost in business with Botswana and Lesotho will hardly solve post-Brexit problems.

Yet while falsely claiming a ‘fundamental shift’ in aid spending, the Prime Minister simply trotted out the same old cliches and claptrap based on that weird desire of Westminster to fritter away taxpayers’ cash.

Theresa May, like her three predecessors, spouts vacuously about ‘global Britain’ while blowing huge sums of taxpayers’ cash and appearing to be a heroic saviour of the poor. She tried to freshen up the haggard aid argument, of course. Yet she repeated one of David Cameron’s daftest claims: that it is in our national interest to spray billions around the planet at a time when public services struggle at home.

What a shame she did not visit Ghana, a country that cherishes democracy. Its business- minded president Nana Akufo- Addo, who took power last year, argues that foreign aid fails to achieve growth and creates a dependency culture.

He is right: aid corrodes democracy since it negates the need for leaders to serve their own people, as pointed out by a Nobel-winning British economist. But naive Westminster politicians, egged on by self-serving charity cheerleaders, ignore more informed and independent voices as they fritter away almost £14 billion a year.

May said last week that extra aid will go to counter migration. Yet studies show that as prosperity rises, more people move around since they have higher means and aspirations.

Stability is key – yet our cash fuels conflict, corruption and despotism.

There are ways Britain can help: crack down on our own firms and tax havens washing stolen funds. Stand up for human rights and democrats, not despots and dictators. Soften the hostile environment visa process that has made it so tough for African tourists and traders to visit Britain.

Instead, May is trapped in the old groove on Africa and dancing to the wrong tunes.

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Breaking: Wike Plans to Attend Thursday’s PDP NEC Meeting

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April 17, 2024

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By Eric Elezuo

The immediate past Governor of Rivers State, and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, may have concluded plans to attend the much advertised National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), billed to hold on Thursday, in Abuja.

Impeccable source, who is in the know, told The Boss that the minister, whose membership of the PDP is yet to be revoked even as he frolicks with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and serving in the President Bola Tinubu government as a minister.

The Source told The Boss that Wike’s impending presence at the NECeeting on Thursday is not unconnected with plans, already hatched with some governors, to weaken the opposition PDP.

“Yes, we have on good authority that FCT minister, Wike is planning to attend the NEC meeting tomorrow all in a bid to weaken the fabrics of the PDP, and pave the way for the continuation of the Tinubu administration come 2027, and by extension, relapse Nigeria to a full blown one party state.

“From every indication, Wike and his co-travellers, are bent on unleashing the same crisis ravaging the third force, Labour Party, and Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso’s Nigerian National People’s Party (NNPP) on the PDP for the APC to remain the only political party in the country, and ensure that Tinubu has no challenger, come 2027,” the Source said.

It would be recalled that Wike has boasted over and again that there’s no opposition against Tinubu’s re-emergence in 2027, and that they have made sure of that. He has been compensated with the Ministerial job after he withdrew support for his party, and supported the APC and Tinubu to emerge as national government.

The Source further revealed that in the attempt to actualize the intended one party state, a lot of funding is ongoing to ensure that concerned stakeholders are ‘settled’ handsomely.

Wike, prior, during and after the 2023 general elections, has been floating in between the two major political parties; the APC and the PDP. While he claim to still be a member of the PDP, he is functioning as a minister in an APC government, mocking the inability of his party to discipline him.

Political stakeholders have concluded that the outcome of Thursday’s PDP NEC meeting will determine the path Nigeria’s political trajectory will take, and that it may portend the end of multi-party system and political democracy if Wike succeeds in his plan.

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Bribery, Corruption: APC Suspends National Chairman, Ganduje

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April 15, 2024

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The All Progressives Congress ward in Ganduje, Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area, has suspended the party’s National Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje.

The party ward legal adviser, Halliru Gwanzo, announced the suspension while addressing newsmen in Kano State on Monday.

Gwanzo cited allegations of bribery against Ganduje levelled by the Kano State Government as the reason for the suspension.

“We decided to suspend Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje from the party due to the seriousness of the allegations against him,” Gwanzo said.

Meanwhile, efforts to contact the Chief Press Secretary to the APC National Chairman, Mr Edwin Olufo, failed as his mobile phone was unreachable.

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Akpabio Commits to Collaboration with Tinubu, Governor Umo Eno

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April 12, 2024

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The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has stated his commitment to working closely with Nigeria’s President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Governor Umo Eno to ensure the delivery of democratic benefits to the people of Akwa Ibom State.

Akpabio stated this in his country home, Ukana, Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, while briefing his constituents on the journey so far as their representative in the red chamber.

He assured the people of Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District of his commitment to their welfare in appreciation of their total support for him, President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in last year’s election.

The Highpoint of the constituency briefing was the distribution of over 10,000 bags of rice and other essentials for his constituents from the wards, to the local governments.

A statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Jackson Udom, quoted Akpabio as saying, “I am here once again, to thank you for standing by me, our President and the party, before, during and even after last year’s elections. I have come to say thank you and also bring Renewed Hope to you all.

“As the President is doing his own, the Senate President is also doing his bit and being complemented by the state governor, Akwa Ibom would be the better for it. We have finished elections and politics, we are now into governance. The governor of the state must touch you, because he is the governor of all the people in the state irrespective of political affiliation.

” As I am touching you now from the political angle, I will also touch the state without any political party affiliation. Most of the projects we are putting in place would be used by people resident in the state. Relax, things are getting better.”

The former Governor of the state, assured his constituents that his current position as the Senate President would be used for the development of the state in collaboration with the President and the Akwa Ibom State Governor.

Hear him: This Senate President is not the one that would be fighting the state government. I will collaborate with , I will collaborate with , to make the state better for us all. We cannot be out of government for a long time. You have to go to a government that carries you along”

Akpabio promised to work for his constituents and Nigeria with all his strength, noting that, “as the President of the Senate, I am for the Southern region and the entire country. I may not come here regularly to tell you what I have been doing for you, but you will be feeling the impact on way or the other. Our unemployed youths would be gainfully employed. I will construct a mini stadium in all the local governments in the district, for our youths to develop their sporting potentials. ”