The European Union (EU) has denied favouring President Muhammadu Buhari above other candidates during the 2015 presidential election. Santiago Fisas, the former chief observer of the 2015 EU Election Observation Mission (EU EOM), and member of the European Parliament, said this in Abuja on Sunday while making clarification on EU assessment of the 2015 elections. […]
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Reno Omokri, former aide of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, has hit out at Femi Adesina, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, describing him as the mouthpiece of a murderous regime sustained by propaganda and surviving on corruption. Adesina had said Nigerians did not resent the hike in the price of fuel because they trust Buhari. But in […]
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Femi Adesina, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, says the difference between his principal and former President Goodluck Jonathan is trust. Adesina said this in response to Jonathan’s comments on the reaction of Nigerians to the hike in petroleum products under Buhari. In 2012 when Jonathan’s government increased the price of fuel from N67 to N97, […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) needs a very vocal chairman, stating that the party must win the 2019 presidential election. Speaking on Tuesday when he received Raymond Dokpesi, an aspirant for the party’s national chairmanship position, at his residence in Abuja, Jonathan warned members of the party not to make […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan says he cannot be under probe over Aso Villa Clinic allocation, as he knows nothing about how the 2015 budget allocated to the state house medical centre was spent. Speaking on the committee set up by the house of representatives to look into the allocations of the clinic, Jonathan said as […]
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Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, says most cabinet members in the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan were not sincere with him. Wike, who served as a minister under Jonathan, alleged that members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the north ganged-up against the former president in the build-up to the 2015 presidential election. […]
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Niger Delta statesman, Edwin Clark says media reports of a rift between former President Goodluck Jonathan and Bayelsa Gov. Seriake Dickson are aimed at creating tension in Bayelsa. Clark, who is the National Leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), made this known in a statement in Abuja. “In the past few days, the media […]
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A former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in an interview with BBC in Lagos on Monday, said the reason ex-President Goodluck Jonathan did not fight the Boko Haram insurgents early enough is that the latter did not believe it was a serious issue. Obasanjo said he brought the grievances of the sect to the […]
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Reno Omokri former special assistant to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, has Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, “can continue living in his fool’s paradise”, and urged him to stop boasting about invisible accomplishments of his principal. He said Shehu’s claims that there was no capital project completed under Jonathan “further exposes his intellectual […]
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Reacting to comments credited to Reno Omokri, former president Goodluck Johnathan’s former media aide, who said there is no evidence that the current administration is fighting corruption, Garba Shehu, spokesman to President Muhammadu Buhari, in a statement issued on Monday, accused Jonathan of “wiping” the nation’s treasury. He said the current administration inherited an economy […]
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