How DSS Forced Me To Sign Document Recanting ‘N7bn Bribe’ Allegation Against CAN – Borno Pastor

The Borno State-born pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa,
who affirmed the allegation that President Goodluck
Jonathan gave the Christian Association of Nigeria,
CAN, N7 billion to support his re-election bid, has
cried out over threats to his life by operatives of
the Directorate of State Service (DSS).
While insisting that the Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor-led
CAN collected the said amount, Dikwa said the DSS
had forced him to sign a document which they
would use against him to prove to the entire world
that “the President (Jonathan) did not bribe CAN to
work against the presidential candidate of APC”,
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)
Dikwa said the DSS planned to use the ‘document’,
which he was made to sign under duress in some
national dailies to portray him as telling lies against
the body of Christ.
“They forced me to sign and promise to link me up
with the CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, for
us to ‘settle’,” he said
The pastor claimed that all these were in addition
to pleas from other Christian leaders, especially the
Abuja CAN Chairman, to deny that the Christian
body collected the said amount (N7bn).
Speaking in Kaduna Thursday, Dikwa told
journalists that after the DSS Operatives had
treated him like a “common criminal”, they forced
him to sign a document to deny what he had said.
According to him, since he broke the news to
Nigerians of how the CAN collected N7bn to work
against Buhari, his life had been under threat.
He added that as soon as he finished addressing
members of the press on the alleged bribe, the DSS
invited him to its headquarters in Abuja and asked
him to say that CAN did not collect a dime from the
President.
The cleric said, “The DSS invited me to their office
in Abuja. They wanted to know who gave me the
information that CAN collected N7bn from Jonathan
and I told them.
“They said all the people I mentioned will be
invited. I told them to go ahead and invite them. I
even told them how the money was distributed.
“They also said they wanted to know whether the
opposition All Progressives Congress was the one
sponsoring me to tarnish the image of the CAN and
even mention Sam Nda-Isaiah (Publisher of the
Leadership Newspapers) and I told them my
relationship with him is not political, because since
2006, I have been with him. I told them he (Sam)
does not know anything about my revelation on the
said money.
“They also asked me what my connection was with
the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and Governor Rotimi
Amaechi, and I told them there is nothing that
connect us. I told them whatever I said was done
for the love of my country.
“After sometime, they drafted a letter which said, ‘I,
Pastor Musa… the information I gave that the
President gave CAN money was false and that I
won’t do that again’.
“They said I should copy what they wrote in my
own hand writing. I have to do it because I was
alone with them and I felt they could harm me and
frame me up.
“They forced me to sign after writing what they
drafted. I wanted to refuse but I feared for my life”.

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UNIPORT Confirms: Mr Jonathan A Fake Doc! Has No PhD

UNIPORT Hides Details Of
President Jonathan’s ‘Doctorate
Degree’
by Ben Ezemalu
In a response to the Institute of Human
Rights and Humanitarian Law, a Rivers
State-based civil society organization,
the university said a request for
President Jonathan’s academic records
did not fall within the provisions of the
FOI law. “The Management of the
University has carefully considered
your request vis-a-vis the FOI Act,” the
university stated in their letter dated
26th February, 2015, and signed by
Eric Loveday Osuo Abonemi, the
institution’s Legal Officer.
“It is my instructions to inform you
that your request does not come within
the relevant provisions of the FOI Act
for its practicability or for the
University to provide such details as
requested.
“Details of the Ph.D Degree of President
Goodluck Jonathan in the University of
Port Harcourt cannot therefore be
made available to you.”

The Institute of Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law had filed an FOI
request, three weeks ago, to the
university seeking relevant details of
Mr. Jonathan’s doctorate
qualifications.
The letter requested the following
information relating to the president’s
doctorate qualification, citing the
provisions of Sections 2 and 4 of the
FOI Act, 2011:
1. The title of the president’s doctorate
dissertation
2. Year of registration as a doctorate
candidate
3. Name of his doctorate supervisor(s)
4. Name of his external examiner(s)
5. Comments/reports of the external
examiner of the dissertation/thesis
6. Photocopy of the dissertation/thesis
7. Date of graduation from the
university
The organization said it was willing to
bear any cost the university might
incur in making photocopies of the
requested documents and for posting
them.
President Jonathan was admitted into
the Department of Zoology (now
renamed Animal and Environmental
Biology), University of Port Harcourt,
in 1977, where he graduated with
Second Class Honours (Upper Division).

In 1985, Mr. Jonathan obtained a
Master of Science degree in
Hydrobiology and Fisheries, and a
Doctor of Philosophy degree in Zoology
10 years later.
Both degrees were also from the
University of Port Harcourt.
Lately, Mr. Jonathan’s academic
qualifications have come under
increased scrutiny ahead of the
forthcoming general elections. Critics
have accused the president of failing to
complete his doctorate programme. In
a response to an enquiry by Punch
Newspaper in January, the university
dismissed such claims as having
“neither legs nor grounds to stand on”.
The university had also told any person
or organization seeking additional
information on Mr. Jonathan’s
qualifications to contact the school
authorities.
“We have absolutely nothing to hide as
an institution that has a statutory
mandate to advance the frontiers of
knowledge,” William Wodi, the
university’s Deputy Registrar
(Information), had told the newspaper.
It is unclear why the university
declined to release Mr. Jonathan’s
academic qualifications to the civil
society organization after giving that
commitment.
Jiti Ogunye, a Lagos-based lawyer, said
the president’s academic records ought
to be freely available in the university
and not be “opaque or hidden”.
“The FOI is applicable to the academic
records of a public officer whose
academic records are being requested
by a Nigerian citizen or a
nongovernmental organization duly
registered in Nigeria with a view to
promoting accountability and
transparency in government,” Mr.
Ogunye said.
“The academic records of the president
are not the medical records of the
president in which case a medical
officer can say the FOI is exempted, or
the records between a lawyer and his
client which are covered by the
confidentiality rule.”
WHAT THE FOI ACT SAYS
According to Section 14(1) of the FOI
ACT, subject to subsection (2), a public
institution must deny an application
for information that contains personal
information and information exempted
under this subsection includes:
(a) files and personal information
maintained with respect to clients,
patients, residents, students, or other
individuals receiving social, medical,
educational, vocation, financial,
supervisory or custodial care or
services directly or indirectly from
public institutions;…
(2) A public institution shall disclose
any information that contains personal
information if –
(a) the individual to whom it relates
consents to the disclosure; or
(b) the information is publicly
available
(3) Where disclosure of any
information referred to in this section
would be in the public interest, and if
the public interest in the disclosure of
such information clearly outweighs the
protection of the privacy of the
individual to whom such information
relates, the public institution to whom
request for disclosure is made shall
disclose such information subject to
Section 14(2) of this Act.
Mr. Ogunye said that an institution
might attempt to hide under Section
14(1)(a) to decline disclosure of
information.
“My argument is, this information is
publicly available and ought to be
disclosed. The president has said he
obtained his Ph.D in that institution, so
it’s publicly available,” Mr. Ogunye
said.
“So why will an institution refuse to
disclose an information that is publicly
available? The university has acted
wrongly and can be compelled by the
suit of the non-governmental
organization concerned to disclose the
information.”

Source :- NewsRescue

PDP will reclaim lost states – Mu’azu

The National Chairman of the
ruling Peoples Democratic Party,
Ahmadu Mu’azu, has stated that
the party will reclaim the five
states it lost in 2013 after
governors of the states defected
to the opposition All
Progressives Congress.
Governors Rotimi Amaechi of
Rivers, Abdulfatah Ahmed of
Kwara, Murtala Nyako, of
Adamawa, Rabiu Kwankso of
Kano and Aliyu Wamakko of
Sokoto all left the PDP after
storming out of a national
convention of the party
alongside two other governors,
Sule Lamido of Jigawa and
Mu’azu Aliyu of Niger states
who remained in the PDP.
In a statement Friday by his
spokesperson, Tony Amadi, Mr.
Mu’azu said “the PDP is
determined to claim back the
states lost to carpet crossing and
win all those states that have the
potential for economic growth”.
The PDP chairman also accused
the defected governors of
abandoning the governance of
their states to concentrate on
campaigning for the opposition
APC.
He said the “desperation” by the
APC, to win the 2015 elections
has led to the stoppage of most
ongoing projects, particularly in
the five states.
“Following the day light hijack
of the five states, Adamawa is
back but the remaining four
including Zamfara State will
return to the PDP after the April
11 elections because their
governors have used up their
treasury to prop the presidential
bid of their party.”
Mr. Mu’azu said the governors left the PDP
for over a year and seven months but are
still using the PDP manifesto to try and prop
up their new allegiance to the APC.
“Unfortunately for their new party and
their desperation to become the ruling
party, they have made little or no progress,
thus leaving their states impoverished as
they concentrate on spending their state’s
meagre resources to support their party’s
presidential election bid instead of
providing dividends of democracy to the
people.
“In Sokoto state no new project has been
started or completed since Governor
Maigatakarda Wammako switched to the
APC. His Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mukhtar
Shagari who remained in the PDP has
complained severally to the National
Chairman that the people of Sokoto are
being shortchanged because of lack of active
governance in the state.
“The same goes for Rivers State, where the
MonoRail venture of the state government
has become a white elephant project while
other infrastructure projects started when
he was in the PDP has virtually been
abandoned. Ditto to various abandoned
road projects in the state capital and
beyond. Before his defection, Amaechi and
Akwa Ibom Governor Akpabio were
involved in a healthy PDP-induced
competition as some of the richest state
Chief Executives and both governors reveled
in the healthy competition,” he said.
He added that while Akwa Ibom has not
only overtaken Rivers in the provision of
democratic dividends, the quality of
governance in Akwa Ibom state has
outstripped those of Rivers State.
“If you take the stadia the two governors
built in their respective states for
comparison it is easy to find the one looking
more solid and of international quality.
While Akpabio’s Uyo Stadium is a pride to
behold, it is also of international standard.
Amaechi’s stadium hasn’t got the quality as
in most APC controlled states where the
penchant for poor quality output is well
known.
“Talk about states and infrastructure
development and you find that every PDP
state has got an airport no matter the size of
its federation account. The poorer states
like Taraba and Kebbi have managed to put
together magnificent airports. Checkout
Ahmadu Bello International Airport, Birnin
Kebbi started and finished under PDP
administrations, its sheer quality and the
new airport at Dutse in Jigawa state where
Governor Sule Lamido has wrought wonders
and you can begin to appreciate how PDP
states are fastest in development.
“Bauchi has the Tafawa Balewa Airport with
all the attributes of an international
airport. PDP states are known for their fast-
tracked development
“In comparison, APC states like Zamfara
don’t even have a helipad let alone an
airport while Yobe have none but its
neighbour, Gombe, a PDP state has an
airport,” he said
Mr. Muazu said if the PDP controlled
federal administration had folded its hands;
there would be no university in Zamfara
state until President Goodluck Jonathan
built a Federal University for the state.
He said the APC administration in Zamfara,
have no desire of building an airport not
even air strip there, making it difficult for
investment to come to the state.
“It is another ample reason why Nigerians
should remain with PDP at all levels to have
the chance of transformation in all sectors
of the 36 states’ economies,” he said.

Corp Members In Kebbi State Learning How To Use Guns? - NYSC

According to a LIB reader who is a Corper in Kebbi
state, he said Corps members are being taught how to
use the m60 guns for protection because of the
insecurity related to the forthcoming election.
"The corp members were given security tips on how to
prevent and handle mishaps in the course of the
elections. They will not be given guns and ammunitions
but in case the Boko boys decide to show their faces,
Corpers will be able to help the security agents. After
all, we are all serving our father's land." He said
Dignitaries at the event today where Corpers were
shown how to shoot by soldiers include the Emir of
Gwandu, Commanding officer of the 1Battalion Dukku
Barracks Lieutenant colonel M.M Abu, the
Commissioner of police, Director of Ndlea, military and
paramilitary personnel and some corp members.

Patience Jonathan Is As Old As Buhari But Hiding It With Make-Up” – Borno Women - Politics

Retired female civil servants in Borno State have
launched a scathing attack at the first lady, Patience
Jonathan, over her broadsides on former military ruler,
Muhammadu Buhari, and her comments regarding the
violence in northern Nigeria.
The women, under the Forum for Retired Female Civil
Servants in Borno State, particularly expressed outrage
over Mrs. Jonathan’s repeated attacks on Mr. Buhari,
who is the presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, President Goodluck Jonathan’s
major challenger.
The women pointed at Mrs. Jonathan’s description of
Mr. Buhari, 72, as a “brain-dead” old man.
The women said Mrs. Jonathan has no reason
taunting the former general as she could be older, if
she wears no make-up.
“Patience Jonathan is saying that Buhari is an old
man and recently they stoned the convoy of Buhari’s
wife. If Buhari is old, I believe that Patient Jonathan
is not any younger than Buhari to say the fact
because as a woman, we know how women hide their
age behind make ups to look younger, therefore, we
are saying enough is enough,” said Aishatu Ngulde,
who spoke on behalf of the Forum.
The women said they decided to speak out because
they had become irritated by the personality attacks
by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
“We are here today because we have been pushed to
the walls and anyone that is pushed to the walls has
to react.
“They say we gave birth to children and throw them
on the streets to become Boko Haram,” the women
said.
The group also accused the wife of the president of
not showing concern to the plight of Borno women,
thousands of whom have become widows or have lost
their children due to the ongoing Boko Haram conflict.
”The First Lady has never come to Borno state but we
have seen her supporting even other countries; never
has she come to see for herself what the Borno people
are actually passing through. She only sits in Abuja
and passes judgement on what she knows nothing
about.”
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