10 LIVING TESTIMONIES WHY BUHARI IS THE MOST QUALIFIED LEADER FOR NOW

But within the limits of human weaknesses let's look at ten reasons while he still stands tall among other contestants for the no1 position in the land:
1.Professionalism
:The wife did not rule by proxy;in fact there was no Oga Madam Syndrome.I am sure many of us do not know the name of the wife till today.

2.Security : He was able to tame the Chadian Incursi
on of Hissen Habre and quell the fire of Maitatsne crisis of Maiduguri in 82 while serving as GOC 82ND Mechanised Div Kaduna.

3Preparation :.He was prepared for power and office and not an unwilling or opportunistic leader.

4.ECONOMY: He opted for counter trade and had a valid forex management policy using counter trade to reduce pressure on the Naira within Dec 83 to Aug 85;It will be interesting to remember that as at 27th August,1985 when IBB took over,exchange rate was =N=1.11 TO 1USD.

5.Foreign Policy : He knew that Nigeria is a regional power and without military prowess there can be no significant political prowess.Most security problems in Nigeria today could be traced to our confusing foreign policy direction.

6.Corruption ; He has the moral courage and political good will to sanitise the body polity (and this is one of the major reason while he may not be able to rule Nigeria,because the system is a corrupt system).

7.IDEOLOGY : He remains one of the last group of African leaders that are trained in the colonial era with a clear vision of what Africa should be;Buhari is a welfarist-pan Africanist ,who like late Captain Thomas Sankara believed firmly in the restoration of African dignity and dominion.

8.SECULARISM : He was able to clamp down on traditionalists and monarchs in his first time and he is a modernist who has what it takes to position us among the best in the world.

9.CHARACTER : He is one of the few leaders in the country who still have integrity;he may need to improve on personal communication but he always meant well.

10.MANAGEMENT AND PRUDENCE :Buhari is a leader and a manager,who has what it takes to catapult Nigeria from the valley to the mountain top.

CONCLUSION :WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND;BUHARI IS LIKE GENERAL DE GAULLE OF FRANCE; PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHHILL OF UK,A TRANS GENERATIONAL LEADER;HE LED 27 YEARS AGO;MOST YOUTHS OF TODAY,CLOSE TO 40% OF NIGERIAN POPULATION WERE NOT EVEN ALIVE WHILE HE RULED IN HIS FIRST TIME;

NATIONS THAT MISSED THEIR CRISIS LEADERS ALWAYS HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER GENERATION;WE WASTED A LEADER LIKE BUHARI 27 YEARS AGO;WE ARE LUCKY THAT WE STILL HAVE HIM NOW;IT WILL TAKE ANOTHER 27YEARS OR ANOTHER GENERATION TO GET A LEADER IN HIS MOLD.THIS IS THE WAY LATE CHIEF AWOLOWO WAS TREATED BECAUSE OF SENTIMENTS AND EMOTIONS;

THE ONLY ARGUMENT PEOPLE HAVE AGAINST BUHARI IS THAT HE IS A MUSLIM;BUT LET'S ASK THIS QUESTION;WILL BOKO HARAM EMERGE OR BE VIBRANT UNDER BUHARI?NO! WHY AM I SURE?HE WAS ABLE TO QUENCH THE FIRE OF MAITATSINE 30 YEARS AGO!ALSO,MORE CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED UNDER THIS REGIME AND OBJ REGIME THAN OTHER REGIMES LED BY CHRISTIANS;THIS IS BECAUSE CHRISTIANS THAT HAVE RULED NIGERIA ARE MORE OF APOLOGISTS&PACIFISTS(IRONSI,GOWON,OBJ AND GEJ) .

FINALLY;NIGERIA IS A NATION WHERE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT PREPARED TO RULE ALWAYS RULE;WE WILL ALSO TELL OUR CHILDREN ABOUT OUR COLLECTIVE ACTION IN INSTALLING UNWILLING PRESIDENTS OVER THE MOST POPULOUS BLACK NATION ON EARTH;THEREBY DRAWING THE DESTINY OF THE BLACK MAN BACKWARD! LONG LIVE NIGERIANS!

NIGERIA: A NATION RULED BY ROGUES/419

"President Jonathan's Economic Advisers Owing Nigeria N1.3 Trillion; CBN Bars Banks From Doing Business With 419 Deadbeat Companies And Individuals."

An explosive Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) circular published today by a local Nigerian newspaper lists some of President Goodluck Jonathan's economic advisers among the country’s worst deadbeat debtors

.

Some of the worst offenders are household names: Mr. Femi Otedola, Alhaji Sayyu Dantata, Sir Johnson Arumemi-Ikhide, Prof. Bart Nnaji, Mrs Elizabeth Ebi and Dr. Wale Babalakin.

And businesses too: Zenon, Arik, MRS, Aero Contractors, Capital Oil and Gas, to list just five.

But now local banks are barred from extending even one more kobo of credit to them until they clear all debts.

The big debtors are also among the nation’s richest companies and individuals, and their extensive uncollateralized loans from Nigerian banks to the tune of billions of dollars led to the collapse of the banking sector.

Several of the debtors were also involved in the petroleum subsidy scam that bled the Nigerian economy of some $6.5 billion.

Instead of prosecuting the predatory lenders and borrowers the Jonathan government pushed the problem aside by setting up a bogus body known as the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to absorb the debts and enable the debtor roam free and engage in more economic crimes.

They apparently roamed far and wide, all 113 companies and 419 directors/shareholders. 419 is the actual number given by the CBN.

The document circular obtained by Thisday, dated last Monday, September 17, showed that the disdain by these rich individuals and companies for their debts has grown so much that the CBN decided to bar banks in the country from extending further credit to them.

“It has become necessary to stop debtors who failed to repay their loans to banks and had these loans subsequently transferred to AMCON, from further enjoying credit facilities from Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) until they fully repay agreed outstandings to AMCON,” said the circular, which was signed by CBN’s Director of Banking Supervision, Mrs. A. O. Martins.

According to ThisDay:

• The circular, which was accompanied by a detailed list of the blacklisted debtors, showed that worst hit by the directive are Zenon Petroleum, owned by Otedola, which was indebted to banks to the tune of N192.4 billion; MRS Holdings Limited, which belongs to Dantata – N119.98 billion; Seawolf Limited – N98.32 billion; Arik Air Limited, belonging to Arumemi-Ikhide – N85.481 billion; NITEL Plc/M-Tel – N71.547 billion; and Capital Oil and Gas Limited, which belongs to Ifeanyi Ubah – N48.014 billion.

• Others include Falcon Securities, whose Managing Director, Mr. Peter Ololo, was arraigned alongside several bank executives in 2009 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) – N162.9 billion; Rockson Engineering Limited, owned by Arumemi-Ikhide – N60.475 billion; BGL Securities – N6.44 billion; Rahamaniyya Oil & Gas Limited – N46.38 billion; Bi-Courtney Limited – N20.214 billion; and Geometrics Engineering, owned by Nnaji – N19.76 billion.

• The restriction also applies to: Aero Contractors Company, owned by the family of Olorogun Michael Ibru - N32.579 billion; Tinapa Business Resort – N18.509 billion; Nestoil Limited, belonging to oil and gas entrepreneur, Ernest Azudialu – N13.506 billion; Dorman Long Engineering – N9.667 billion; Ascott Offshore Nig. Ltd, belonging to former banker, Henry Imasekha and the Berkley Group – N64.728 billion; Gitto Constuzioni – N11.838 billion; and Dansa Foods – N14.880 billion, whose directors, Sani and Abdul Dangote, are the brothers of business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote.

Furthermore, the banks have also been directed not to grant further credit to two States: Cross River and Zamfara, because of the failure of the Tinapa Business Resort and the Zamfara Accountant General to pay back loans collected.

The Central Bank warned that any bank that flouts the guidelines would be made to make an immediate provision of 100 per cent of total principal and interest outstanding in the account of the customer and related parties, in addition to whatever regulatory penalties the CBN may decide to impose, ...This Day Newspaper

WORTHY OF CELEBRATION

Yesterday President Goodluck Jonathan rewarded Super Falconet and Paralympics as follows: Golden Medalist - N5million; Silver Medalist - N3million; Bronze Medalist - N2million; Coaches - N2.2million; Falconet - N1million and Team Mates N.5million each. This is worthy of celebration. Had we as a nation priotized celebration of notable acts and outstanding achievers, our search for good leadership and patriotic citizenship would have been much easier and our country a much better place. This will not only reawaken the consciousness of patriotism but will rekindle hope that Nigeria is on the path to greatness. I salute all those who put their best effort for the service of nationhood. Be on the watch as we unveils other outstanding youth achievers to commemorate Nigerian 52nd Independence Anniversary. Dont just go away

NIGERIA: A BLFSSED LAND BUT FILLED WITH POOR/CURSED PEOPLE

R*E*V*E*A*L*E*D
Nigerians Bought 123 Private Jets This Year..Peter Obi
**Who own them? These are people who are receiving (oil) subsidy
**owners of private jets include politicians, businessmen and pastors.
**Bishop David Oyedepo, is known

to have the most number of private jets in the country.

Upwards of 123 private jets have been acquired this year alone by some rich Nigerians even as the vast majority of Nigerians wallow in poverty as the economy goes from bad to worse.

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State made this shocking disclosure yesterday in his goodwill message during the opening ceremony of the Second Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) holding in Umuahia, Abia State capital, South East Nigeria.

Giving indices of corruption in Nigeria, Obi lamented that this is happening in a country where many go to bed hungry. The governor declared that those who bought the private jets owe the public an explanation as to the source of their wealth.

This year alone, 123 private jets have been registered in this country. Who own them? These are people who are receiving (oil) subsidy. It is time to stop them, Obi said.

News Express reports that Nigerians who own private jets include politicians, businessmen and pastors. Bishop David Oyedepo, Founding Bishop of Living Faith Church International a.k.a Winners Chapel, is known to have the most number of private jets in the country. His fourth private jet, a Gulfstream V, is worth $30m and he has announced plans to buy a bigger one. Governor Obi in his speech also revealed that Nigerians seeking medical attention in foreign lands and those sponsoring their wards abroad for schooling spend about $10 billion doing so in a year.

Remedy to this needless capital flight, he noted, lies in fixing and handing over schools and hospitals in the country to the missions with adequate support from governments at all levels.

His words: We have schools in this country but nearly $6 billion is paid for education outside this country every year. Who are those paying it?

In this country, we pay over $4 billion for hospitals in India every year. Who are those paying it. We can fix our hospitals, let's put in money. Government cannot manage schools, government cannot manage hospitals. The ones we go to in India are not managed by government. Therefore, let's give it those who can manage it and support them. The missions can manage schools, they can manage hospitals.

The schools abroad that we take our children to are managed by missionaries; the hospitals we go abroad are managed by missionaries. Let the missionaries here manage our own so that if they fail, we hold them responsible. That is what we should all work for.

Obi explained that domestic debts portends ill for the country. What I want Nigerians to do is to resist the level of domestic debts that is being accumulated in this country by local, state and the federal governments,†he said, adding:

Domestic debt is very dangerous because it is Nigeria, your pensions, your future that we are burning out. The consequence is that In future, if they (the governments borrowing the money) can't redeem it, they devalue the currency and the naira will worth nothing. Let us know who is borrowing this money and what is it being borrowed for.

We borrow money in this country for consumption and not for productivity and who are those consuming, the same people who you must today hold responsible.

Citing the Middle East corruption and bad governance antidote, Obi said “People are blockading streets in the Middle East, let’s start doing it here. If anybody is not doing well, let's block his house.

The four-day conference, holding at the Bishop Nwedo Episcopal Centre, Mater Dei Cathedral, Umuahia, is being attended by Bishops from the 52 Ecclesiastical Provinces in Nigeria, government functionaries and the laity.

*Photo shows Bishop David Oyedepo, who owns the most number of private jets, relaxing inside one of them.

F*I*R*E!

Jonathan Cannot Win Free and Fair Election in 2015 - Buhari.

**let South South people vote for him when 2015 comes.
**I don’t take the decision of South-South leaders seriously.

**Buhari criticized Govt for not prosecuting those indicted in the pension, subsidy and other scam.

The defeated Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and former Head of States, Maj Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) has dismissed the call by South South leaders that it is Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 or no one else.

The retired general believes those rolling drum for the president were member of the leading People Democratic Party (PDP).

Buhari stated this in Kaduna when the party’s governorship candidate for the October 20 election in Ondo State, Mr. Soji Ehinlanwo was received by him.

His words: “I don’t take the decision of South-south leaders seriously. The South-South people said it is Jonathan or nothing; I know they are members of the Peoples Democratic Party, let them vote for him.

“In a free and fair election, let us see if they can give him the ticket against other geo-political zones. Let them give him the primary ticket first. Let them vote for him when 2015 comes and let us see if he would win.”

He stressed that, “It is also up to the elite to participate and ensure that elections are free and fair. It is not necessary for them to be card-carrying members of political parties. They know how to participate; they should not sit and look. They can go to their constituencies to identify and enlighten their people on the need to entrench free and fair election to stabilise the country.”

The Kastina-born former leader had asserted that it was only in Nigeria that workers would serve the government for 10 to 35 years and come out without due compensation as they end up joining the queue to continue in another phase of struggle in order to survive.

While lamenting the delayed in prosecution of those indicted in the pension, subsidy and other scam, Buhari maintained that “this can only happen in Nigeria”.

Who is wise?....

 

#5000 will bring all of us to poverty...Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.



IF I AM CBN GOVERNOR, I WILL PRINT #10,000 note...Former Bank Chief, Atedo Peterside. Great Nigerians, how far?

At Gatwick Airport, Air Nigeria Asks Passengers To Donate £40 Each To Buy Fuel For Flight To Lagos

 

In a scandalous twist of events, SaharaReporters learned that an Air Nigeria crew at Gatwick Airport yesterday asked passengers to contribute £40 each to enable them purchase fuel to depart for Lagos several hours after the flight’s takeoff was delayed.
About 190 passengers on Flight LOS-VK 0292/08 said they were surprised by the request.  They confronted the airline official who had made the request, and he quickly disappeared from the riotous scene.
The flight, which was scheduled to fly out of London at 9:50a.m, eventually did so at 5p.m., arriving in Lagos at 12:30a.m.   But the ordeal of the passengers was hardly over.
A passenger, Lekan Fatodu told SaharaReporters that when they arrived at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, they discovered their baggage had not arrived with them. They were left stranded for several hours before an official of the airline told them to return the next day for their luggage.
It was learned that the airline’s bag handling service, Swissport, refused to provide ground-handling services to the airline because Air Nigeria had not met its obligations to the company.
Air Nigeria’s embattled owner, Jimoh Ibrahim, last week announced the sacking of over 500 workers at the airline and suspension of all flight services starting from tomorrow, September 10.
Mr. Ibrahim claimed that his workers were disloyal to the company but the workers said during a street protest that Mr. Ibrahim was a bad manager who diverted funds given to the airline by the Nigerian government and is negligent in aircraft maintenance. The workers have not received salaries since April 2012.
Mr. John Nnorom, a former chief financial officer of the airline told SaharaTV yesterday that of the 11 aircraft in Air Nigeria's fleet, only one is serviceable. SaharaReporters learnt that most lessors have repossessed their aircrafts from Air Nigeria, leaving it with only four aircrafts.
Following the publication by SaharaReporters of a powerful petition by Mr. Nnorom detailing the troubles facing the ailing airline, Air Nigeria’s operations were suspended.
The petition appeared on June 4, one day after a Dana Air MD-83 aircraft crashed near the Lagos airport killing 159 people.
The international flights were operated through a wet lease arrangement between Egypt Air and AirNigeria.

Can This Be True?

 A rumour about the purported death of Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has started making the rounds as she remains incommunicado for the third straight week.
Following enquiries by anxious Nigerians who wanted to know if the story of the First Lady’s alleged death is true or not, News Express put a call across to Dr. Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, around noon. His phone rang but was not picked.
News Express then sent a text message to Dr. Abati, requesting his comment on the news. About four hours later, the presidential spokesman is yet to reply even though the phone showed that the message was delivered. Dr. Abati had on Tuesday evening last week (Sept. 4) dismissed Dame Jonathan’s reported illness as a rumour after News Express and some other media reported her medical trip to Germany.
As reported by News Express on Sept. 5, a spokesperson for Horst Schmidt Klinik, the hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany, where Dame Jonathan is believed to be receiving treatment, had revealed that she was in a bad state of health when she arrived the hospital for treatment two weeks ago.
The official disclosed that initial records showed that the Nigerian President’s wife had earlier been treated for food poisoning back home before being brought to Horst Schmidt Klinik, where she underwent a major surgery for a ruptured appendix to remove the poisons in her intestine.
Though admitting that Dame Jonathan travelled to Germany, presidency spokesmen had claimed that she went for a rest but kept sealed lips on her whereabouts.
Horst Schmidt Klinik is gradually becoming a choice hospital of Nigerian top government officials. It was the same hospital that late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua once received for kidney-related ailments.

Nigerian students spend N160b in Ghana varsities, says Babalakin

 No fewer than 75,000 Nigerian students are currently studying in three Ghanaian universities   incurring a total of N160billion expenditure annually, the Chairman, Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, Dr Wale Babalakin, has said.
The expenditure is less than the Federal Government’s total budget for all its universities last year,  Babalakin, Pro-Chancellor, University of Maiduguri added.
 He spoke in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, at the weekend at an award night organised by the University of Ilorin Alumni Association in honour of Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed and three  other  alumni of the institution.
 Also honoured were the outgoing Vice Chancellor of UNILORIN, Prof Ishaq Oloyede; Vice Chancellor of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Prof Abdulrasheed Na’Allah; and the Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of UTC Nigeria Ltd, Mrs. Folusho Olaniyan.
 Babalakin, who was the chairman of the occasion said: “University education is at a crossroad in Nigeria. Only in 1973, four Nigerian universities were rated among the best 20 in Africa. Today, none of them is among the best 30, while none is among the best 1000 in the world.
 “University education is a collective effort. University education can only grow properly with government and active support of the populace. Leaving it for government alone is not fair. Everybody should contribute to ensure education that grows in Nigeria.
 “Since 2009, when the power to appoint VC had been delegated to the university, it has been done relatively peaceful. Most people are surprised that there has not been any rancour in the appointment of VCs. This is the first step towards university autonomy. There are still so many areas that are still not autonomous. It is when we become totally autonomous that all the universities will have the necessary energy to develop at their own pace.
 “The university should be allowed to generate money internally for development purposes. If we generate substantial money within the university and those monies are spent with great discretion, you will be alarmed at how far it will go and the catalytic effect of development.
 “Nigeria government should put measure in place to attract foreign students to Nigerian universities. In the 70s and 80s, so many went abroad for their ‘A’ level and came back to the Nigerian universities.”
  “Before the just concluded Olympic games everyone of us was happy that Nigeria was participating, but I told some of my colleagues that Nigeria would have a dismal outing. This is because we don’t have outstanding primary, secondary and tertiary institution competition.”

SOCIAL MEDIA...GENEROUS but also DANGEROUS

MAJ. Gen. Frank Osokogu, father of Cynthia, the young lady who was murdered in Lagos by her Facebook friends, has admonished all youths to beware of trusting total strangers they meet only on Facebook and other social media. If other youths are saved through this warning, he said, it would lighten his deep sorrow over the loss of his only daughter.

Osokogu who spoke in an interview with journalists in Jos, said it was Cynthia’s friends in Abuja, whom she had visited en route Lagos, who first notified him that she had not returned from her trip, days after she was due back.
 
See full interview  below
How did it all begin sir?
My daughter was in Nasarawa State University, Keffi, doing her Masters programme. She stayed there. I stay in Abuja and Jos, while my wife stays in Jos. So, we are not together.
It became very difficult to know exactly when she was missing from school. But I got to know about everything when her friends started looking for any of her family members and they got to know me and got to know my number.
So, they called me saying that my daughter travelled and she had not come back. From what they had said, my daughter was their schoolmate and friend. She finished before them in the university and they lived in Abuja and she stayed with them anytime she was coming to Abuja.
So, this time around, she (my daughter) called them that she was coming to Abuja on her way to Lagos, because she was going to buy some items and they told her that they were in NYSC camp and not at home.
However, they told her that the key to their flat was with their gateman and she could collect it and do what she wanted to do before travelling.
They said she brought in her belongings and took what she wanted to use in Lagos and left. They didn’t see her; all these were just telephone conversations.
I think it was when the time she told them that she would come back had elapsed and they didn’t see her and they took one or two more days extra, giving her the benefit of doubt, they still didn’t see her that they started looking for any of the family members.
That was how I got to know that she was not in school and had travelled and that she was missing.
How long did she tell them (the friends) she was going to stay in Lagos?
She left on July 22, which was a Sunday, and she told them she was going to spend about three or four days.
When did the message finally get to you that she was missing?
That should be about the end of July. I told you it took about one week after the time she said she was going to come back before they started looking for family members.
I can’t remember the exact day now, but it should be around July 31 or August 1 or thereabout.
What did you do?
Immediately they called and told me her car and some of her belongings were there and they wanted to return them to my house for safekeeping, I said they should bring them. I gave them the description and they brought the car with the items.
When they came, I told them that returning the items was just not enough, that they had to go to the Police to make some statement … and they agreed.
So, we drove to Gwarimpa Police Station, because they live in Gwarimpa and that was the last point my daughter must have travelled from, and they made statements and the Station referred us to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in the Federal capital Territory (FCT), where they have the technological know-how and facilities to track missing persons, missing telephones, coordinating or whatsoever, which the ordinary Police don’t have.
They gave us quick passage to SARS. We went there and they made statements too. The SARS swung into action.
Before this time, did you have any inkling of her movement?
No, no! I told you she was in school; she was a postgraduate student and was a big girl now. I don’t stay with her or follow her movement.
I phoned her from time to time and she would tell me if there was any problem. Occasionally, I visited her and come back to my base.
Within this time, you did not phone her because there was no need to?
I had just seen her before she got missing. I went there and saw her. She told me that their examination was on, so practically there was no need to disturb her.
As she was growing up, what type of girl was she?
Oh, she was a very good girl, very serious, very focused. She had done very well. She finished her youth service about the age of 22 and had never been lagging behind.
So, I was very confident that she was full of promises, full of potentials and we didn’t have any problem with her.
You must be pained reading all the comments about her and the incident, how do you feel as her father?
Well, definitely, it is one of those things. When things like that happen, a lot of speculations and insinuations will come, but that is not my problem now. My problem is to get focused that at least, somebody is dead, and luckily, the Police have been able to do a thorough job from what I was told. I have not gone to Lagos to see the Police, but my brother and my son had been there and from what they told me, the Police from the beginning, did a marvelous job in tracking down the suspects.
So, we are worried about how to move forward with the case, not about what people say. I don’t work on rumours; I don’t work on stupid foundations. In fact, there is no need for that.
For your information, I have always had a standing order allowance for my daughter from the age of 15 till now. When she was going for youth service, I had to give her a car as gift.
I am sure she must have been getting some little allowance from her brothers too, and of course from her mother. So, I don’t see any reason why she should not have at least enough money to go on for people to begin to insinuate that she was a “runs girl” or whatever they mean by that.
So, I don’t want to talk more on that.
How do you feel sir, losing your only daughter?
Well, it is very painful; it is devastating, it is incomprehensible. Our consolation is that when some things happen, you just take it with equanimity. What cannot be helped must be endured.
I believe too that the situation that is unfolding is a big lesson for other youths. They have a lot of lessons to draw on why they should not just be chatting with strangers on Facebook, the Internet or Blackberry or whatever and then decide to go visiting them when they don’t know them.

ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU AT OBAMA's CAMPAIGN

E*X*P*O*S*E*D!
Tinubu Lied about Obama’s Invitation.
**he paid $5,000 for VIP seat at the convention.
**“it is immoral to deceive anyone that we are who we
are not.” - DNC
**DNC did not invite him, he bought his ticket like others.

**this gentleman (Tinubu) is not like your popular National icon,
businessman Moshood Abiola whom we know. - DNC.

Fresh facts have emerged that Leader of the Action Congress of
Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, paid $5000 to obtain the generic invitation from the Democratic Party campaign office, but claimed he was personally invited to attend by President Barack Obama as leader of Nigeria opposition.

Obama, it has been revealed, did not personally extend what has been dubbed by Tinubu “a gold card invitation” to him to attend the Democratic party convention (DNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina. contrary to claims by him and his aides.

This is not the first time Tinubu has been enmeshed in controversy bothering on false claims. The controversy surrounding his academic qualifications, his claim of being a Certified Public Accountant, and discrepancy in his age records are still fresh in memory.

According to investigations by reporters of a United States based online medium, Sharpedgenews.com, the invite received by Tinubu was a generic kind sent out to donors by the campaign organization.

The medium which is attending the convention, also revealed that the DNC denied ever inviting Tinubu on any official capacity as the “ leader of opposition” in Nigeria
The media team of Tinubu had claimed that he was invited to the Democratic National Convention in his right as the leader of the opposition in Nigeria.

According to his media aide Sunday Dare “ Tinubu will be at the ring side as the Democratic Party conduct activities that will
culminate in the nomination of President Barrack Obama as its
candidate for the November 2012 Presidential elections in the USA.”

“Tinubu receives a gold card invitation which is prime and with this,
he will be joined by three other eminent personalities – Governor
Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state, Speaker Lagos state House of
Assembly Adeyemi Ikuforiji and former Commissioner for
Information and Strategy in Lagos state, Mr Dele Alake.” His
statement added

DNC sources irked by the suggestive news reports which is being
interpreted that Barack Obama may have extended a preferential
invitation to Mr. Tinubu in spite of similar politicians in his native
country of Nigeria, said that such notion was further from reality as
was claimed by the ACN leader

The DNC source explained that the invite that was given to Tinubu
was a generic type that similarly went to whoever donated more
than $5,000 to the Obama campaign.

“The invitation card sent to Tinubu, the former senator from
Nigeria, was generic and it generally goes from the campaign
organization and not personally from President Obama,” the highly
placed source explained under condition of anonymity.

The source said that it would be difficult for anyone to implicate
Obama in attempts at foisting a preferred leadership on Nigeria or
Africa as that would negate the philosophy of Washington’s new international engagement.

“Nigerians are capable of determining its destiny,” said the source.

The source said that politicians are free to strategize, while
explaining that “it is immoral to deceive anyone that we are who we
are not.”

“This gentleman is not like your popular national icon,
businessman Moshood Abiola, who was well-grounded and at
home with many people in government and private sector.
Americans don’t want to be dragged into the affairs of any country
through personal preferences. The man probably did what he had
to do in order to gain access to the convention ground.” The
source said. Is is a Shame!