Two of the APC staunch member, Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara have been adopted by PDP as Senate president and speaker of the house of representatives. The move haS happened after PDP might have sensed trouble in the paradise of the All progressive congress after the embattled individuals walked out of the mock election that happened at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.
Bukola Saraki who was one of the members that see to the election of APC presidential candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari is not happy with the party arrangement of using Senator Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila for the leadership of the National Assembly.
PDP has urged his senators and house of rep members-elect in the National Assembly to act accordingly, by voting Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara as their adopted candidate.
The information was contained in a letter signed by the PDP publicity secretary, Olisa Metuh.
What could these disagreements in less than a month mean to the organization of the APC? .
In a meeting called by the vice-president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo to offer a truce, senator Saraki boycotted the meeting and said he he Could Not Be Summoned To A Meeting By A ‘Commissioner’, referring to the vice-president who was a commissioner of Justice in Lagos state, when he (Saraki) was a governor in Kwara state. Saraki then became a senator while Professor Osinbajo is not the vice-president.
Following the snub and statement of Bukola Saraki, Professor Osinbajo did not attend the meeting, but the party met with is lawmakers and other Saraki earlier supporters joining the meeting.
The National Working Committee of APC has declared their support for any candidates chosen during Saturday’s mock primaries of the party.
Maryland, USA : You need to Watch the video below and read about the town hall meeting of the All progressive congress candidate (APC) Professor Yemi Osinbajo in Maryland, USA.
When he was the attorney general of Lagos state, one of the things Osinbajo did was looking into the corrupt practises of the judiciary.He found out the Judge were living under poor condition, he finds out most judges even after living office are still living like poor masses,and cannot afford to have their building or afford a comfortable apartment. This was some of the reason of corruption in Lagos state judiciary. Professor Osibajo reviewed the salaries of the judges, and the salaries and allocation of the judges was well paid.
If a judge is suspected to be corrupt, he will be taken to court and prosecuted. Before the end of his tenure, he decided to have a survey on the level of corruption in Lagos state judiciary system, and the result was zero. This was the welcoming speech by the MC of the occasion as the man, Professor Yemi Osinbajo was ushered to the platform.
Speaking to the audience, Osinbajo said that Nigeria is a blessed country and in the last 16 years, Nigeria is being ruled by the wrong government, he said the education in Nigeria is degraded.The health care is worst and we loose 300 women every day due to maternal related issue alone. The children die of different diseases like diarrhoea, polio, and many more. Am sure you know our Naira is devaluated. Why is our Naira going down day by day?
Money is missing from the country's treasury, and at the time when other countries were selling oil at the high price of barrels, where is the money the Nigeria government saved? Look at Saudi Arabia, they saved doing the time oil barrel was high.
We need change to kill corruption, like General Buhari said, if we don't kill corruption, it will kill us. We must have consequences for corruption so that people will not be corrupt. We need to stamp out corruption. The way money is stolen in Nigeria is going to kill the country, No country can survive at the rate of which corruption has penetrated into the government, stopping that is the first order of business.
To help with election rigging, Professor Osibajo referred to the Nigeria constitution and said that Nigerian Army are not supposed to be at the polling booth like they did in Osun and Ekiti. It is illegal for the men of the army to intimidate voters. So we have let the government and the international community know that soldiers are not to be deployed to polling booths. We are also letting people know that they must not allow election rigging, they should stay in their polling booth till the votes are counted. Kudos to the women in Osun state for doing that during the last gubernatorial election, they were not intimidated and make sure the election was free and fair, and as you remember APC won the election, he said.
The government should be able to provide series of jobs for Nigerian youths. The level of education in Nigeria now is not so good for Nigerian youths to work outside of their comfort zone. We will revitalize the education system.
Nigeria should be an outsourcing hub for different companies in Africa and abroad . Look at countries like India, their youths have gotten jobs from different part of the world online, they get paid and they are able to feed themselves. Our government is ready to build an environment that other Africans countries and the world will outsource jobs to our youths. Remote connection, troubleshooting peoples' computers abroad while in Nigeria and getting paid should be easy for Nigerian youths. We will build a technology park with stable electricity, internet for startup companies or people who like to train or learn by themselves. We will provide an environment that is subsidized by the government with collaboration to private industries.
These are some of the issues discussed by Professor Yemi Osinbajo. We have provided links for the video to watch it at full length.
