Jonathan tasks leaders on development, congratulates Braithwaite

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday tasked African leaders to make greater efforts to achieve significant improvements on the continent’s human development indicators.

Jonathan, according to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, stated this in Abuja when he received the Zambia’s new High Commissioner to Nigeria, Lt.-Col. Bizwayo Nkunika (retd.) in his office.

The President noted that

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Revealed: The deal between Jonathan, rebel govs

More facts have emerged on  the Sunday night meeting between  President Goodluck Jonathan and aggrieved  governors in the New Peoples Democratic Party.

Presidency sources made this known just as Jonathan met behind closed doors with some PDP governors loyal to the Bamanga Tukur-led National Working Committee of the party.

One of the sources at the Sunday meeting, said that the President and the other attendees discussed and agreed on five contentious issues: Amaechi’s suspension by the Tukur-led NWC;  control of the PDP structure at the state level; Jonathan’s alleged 2015 ambition; Tukur’s fate  and court cases.

On Amaechi, the parties agreed that  he should be recalled and that a committee be constituted to  visit Port Harcourt and reconcile all aggrieved members of the PDP in the state.

The governor  was suspended on June 21   for his alleged refusal to

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President Jonathan Begs Al-Mustapha To Join PDP

2015 is already here with us and the principal actors are not resting day or night, even mid-night, to strategize and re-strategize on our to get majority of votes from the core North and South-West states as it seems they will be the deciding factors in the general elections, OluFamous.Com observed.

Information reaching OluFamous.Com is that President Goodluck Jonathan was shocked at the large crowd of men and woman who turned out to welcome Major Hamza Al-Mustapha wherever he goes in the North after his release from prison custody last month.
Consequently, Jonathan has set in motion a high-powered lobby group:And their mission, I hear, is to get Al-Mustapha to join the PDP at all cost before the opposition party APC will reach any deal with him and win him over.
Jonathan is said to be very worried, due to statements credited to Al-Mustapha recently in the media, where he was quoted as saying Nigerian youths are dying of poverty. The President, sources say, is disturbed that the APC may cash in on that statement to sway Al-Mustapha to their side.

Al-Mustapha is said to be consulting with governors of the core Northern states, who are obviously against President Jonathan. As such, OluFamous.Com gathered, it would be difficult for him to accept.Posted byOlu Famousat8:38 AMEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookReactions: 10 comments:

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Is President Jonathan Afraid Of Contesting Against Buhari?

Rather than focus on how they can provide infrastructure for Nigerians, the Presidency is suggesting who and who should be the presidential candidate for the opposition party, APC? 
The Presidency has said that if the newly registered All Progressives Congress picks Muhammadu Buhari as its presidential candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan will defeat him in 2015.

My concern is; could it be that the Presidency want the APC to field a candidate that would defeat President Jonathan or they are indirectly exposing the phobia they have for General Buhari?

The Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, in a chat with Punch, said: “As far as that merger is concerned, the calculation of the Congress for Progressive Change elements is that Buhari will stand for the election. If he stands for the election, it is a walkover for the PDP; so, we are praying that they field Buhari.”

Anyway, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin of the APC has reacted. He said:
“Putting Buhari and President Jonathan side by side is like putting light and darkness together. Buhari is head and shoulder above Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who is occupying the nation’s highest seat. “It is Nigerians who will determine who will win the 2015 election, but we know that in a free and fair election, Jonathan does not stand a chance against Buhari... We have said it that the PDP will be in the opposition as from 2015.”Nigerians should be allowed to have the final say on who becomes their president when the time comes.Posted byOlu Famousat11:32 AMEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookReactions: 8 comments:

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There’s no such thing: Jonathan never planned Ramadan visit to IBB – Presidency

by Isi Esene

The presidency is demanding an apology over media reports that former Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida turned down President Goodluck Jonathan’s request to break the Ramadan fast at his home in Minna, Niger state.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, refuted this claim saying there was no such request therefore the issue of being turned down does not arise.

He subsequently demanded a retraction and an apology from the newspaper which the story emanated.

The statement read:

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