Jonathan failed because he ignored advice – NEF

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- mixloaded 8 --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8376079553520515" data-ad-slot="1422373180" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXu1fEpXvHkwg4qzBaPCOlw2-odo1WIAxLTlV-9z3d5JAh7QBVNyViNQw8RtWN1sUWwdNxImJldUWj2SHHm3KT1lWSUfZJRoaUwTD28DgTQ2E38jJ-9a_awHeZ6YhJPdI4sHqfPuHHFFf0/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXu1fEpXvHkwg4qzBaPCOlw2-odo1WIAxLTlV-9z3d5JAh7QBVNyViNQw8RtWN1sUWwdNxImJldUWj2SHHm3KT1lWSUfZJRoaUwTD28DgTQ2E38jJ-9a_awHeZ6YhJPdI4sHqfPuHHFFf0/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Deputy National Leader of the Northern Elders Forum, Dr. Paul Unongo, said former President Goodluck Jonathan would have taken the credit for ending insurgency in the country if he had listened to the advice of the forum.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Unongo said NEF wondered why Jonathan refused to implement the group’s blueprint to end the war against the Boko Haram sect.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In an interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, Unongo said the recommendations which Jonathan allegedly ignored were being used by President Muhammadu Buhari.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The NEF leader berated some opinion leaders who said President Buhari’s anti-corruption war was selective.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Citing the trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Unongo said the President’s body language had shown that the new government would not condone corruption.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said the NEF would not hesitate to criticise the new government if it acted against the wishes of the masses.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Unongo said, “We (NEF) have not written any letter to President Buhari on Boko Haram. I am sure he picked up the recommendations we sent to Jonathan and they are working for him. NEF didn’t condemn Jonathan because he is Jonathan. We gave Jonathan a piece of advice.</div> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- mixloaded 7 --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8376079553520515" data-ad-slot="7468906787" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “We were talking to him for over two years. We told him that he cannot fight Boko Haram with obsolete equipment and we told him that the battle was not only about using arms. We told him to use psychological intelligence.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “We actually wanted him to get the credit for winning the deadly Boko Haram war. He (Jonathan) doubted the kidnap of the Chibok girls and actually was seen on the television dancing azonto. Our people were being killed in hundreds. This was the height of insensitivity and we just had to complain about that. We complained creatively.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Unongo advised the All Progressives Congress to strengthen its internal democracy and concentrate on providing quality leadership that would move Nigeria forward.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said Saraki acted within his right to contest the Senate Presidency against the directive of his party.</div> <script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- Aba Dailies 8 --> <br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8376079553520515" data-ad-format="auto" data-ad-slot="9503932789" style="display: block;"></ins><script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div>

Jonathan failed because he ignored advice – NEF

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Civil servants want Jonathan’s illegal appointments reversed

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- mixloaded 8 --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8376079553520515" data-ad-slot="1422373180" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgESktYaG2vtlEKzKDUuqgXuzbko1EfZ1m6seMycO4Om_zSQSeut5QawDT8G2vjqycqvB8jBbnfk0nylps1jmU39Ka8QRVLp0zBVou1NnwMBEmkFEvvyXPfb1_K-yV4xQ5SO6pFyGD5siwx/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgESktYaG2vtlEKzKDUuqgXuzbko1EfZ1m6seMycO4Om_zSQSeut5QawDT8G2vjqycqvB8jBbnfk0nylps1jmU39Ka8QRVLp0zBVou1NnwMBEmkFEvvyXPfb1_K-yV4xQ5SO6pFyGD5siwx/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Public workers under the aegis of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse all the alleged illegal recruitments conducted during the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan or risk trade union dispute.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> They also demanded an increase in their salaries, in line with what they described as “the declining value of the naira.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em>The PUNCH</em> had on June 22, 2015 exclusively reported that the crisis in the federal civil service appeared to have worsened with career civil servants protesting against the absorption of Jonathan’s 530 aides and cronies into the civil service in the last days of his administration.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The new recruits into the service were said to have been deployed to senior officers’ positions, starting from assistant directors upward.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The President of ASCSN, Mr. Bobboi Bala Kaigama, according to a statement issued on Wednesday by its Secretary-General, Mr. Alade Lawal, made these demands at its National Executive Council meeting in Kaduna.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to him, the upsurge in arbitrariness and bias in the way and manner the Federal Civil Service Commission carried out its oversight functions in the name of recruitment was becoming worrisome.​</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Kaigama said while cases of illegal recruitments into the service had continued to rise, the FCSC had allegedly destroyed the recruitment process into the civil service on the flimsy excuse of acting on the directive from higher quarters to grant waivers to some states.</div> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- mixloaded 7 --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8376079553520515" data-ad-slot="7468906787" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said, “Our take is that the commission cannot continue to hide under the guise of spurious waivers for some disadvantaged states to import and impose unqualified and incompetent persons into the federal public service over and above qualified serving officers.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Cases abound in the service of some officers who were appointed to positions without the requisite qualifications, as provided for in the scheme of service, FCSC guidelines on appointment, promotion and discipline, public service rules and establishment circulars. Graduates with eight to 12 years post-graduation experience are being appointed as directors. It is as bad as that.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “We have made our case known to the commission and the Presidency on this vexed issue and we are still waiting for a reversal of all illegal recruitments made in the past five years in order to return sanity into the system. We make bold to say that if the reversal is not effected as being demanded, the ASCSN will have no alternative than to adopt other trade union measures to seek redress.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Speaking on the demand by civil servants for pay increase, the ASCSN President said that although no amount had been fixed, the organised labour movement, including the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria and the Nigeria Labour Congress, had set up two committees to determine the percentage.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to him, the upward review of workers’ salaries was necessary going by the current economic realities vis-à-vis the poor salary being paid to civil servants in Nigeria.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “What we collect as salaries can no longer take us to the bus stop, let alone take us home. We have endured for so long and it is time for the government to look into our direction.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “We are therefore calling on the Federal Government to enter into negotiation with labour with a view to creating a new salary regime that will be realistic enough to improve the quality of lives of workers and at the same time bridge the salary gap between the core civil service and other sub-sectors of the federal public service,” Kaigama stated.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The TUC, he said, had not resolved on the amount, but had been receiving submissions on it from its affiliated unions.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said, “The TUC will collect theirs and the NLC will collect theirs. We will then come together and harmonise our positions and come up with one demand that we will present to the government because the salaries review are long overdue. It is supposed to be after five years; we are in the sixth year.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- Aba Dailies 8 --> <br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8376079553520515" data-ad-format="auto" data-ad-slot="9503932789" style="display: block;"></ins><script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div>

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Jonathan’s defeat affected Lagos PDP’s rigging plan – APC

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- ads3 --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8376079553520515" data-ad-slot="2033089187" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidwhv-Glc7ez1RiqOCHkaPI8g9vLsZfG-IK8Ix58Sc5oiQHjMY71xsLKINA8hSQ4qSIJTAbyimpxyiQpz4VIqYk_9WY5B4Dxl9FxfzOCeRmpkcteEaubH0me3-81dXy16OFOwWWyVaJIWs/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidwhv-Glc7ez1RiqOCHkaPI8g9vLsZfG-IK8Ix58Sc5oiQHjMY71xsLKINA8hSQ4qSIJTAbyimpxyiQpz4VIqYk_9WY5B4Dxl9FxfzOCeRmpkcteEaubH0me3-81dXy16OFOwWWyVaJIWs/s320/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress says   the loss of the presidential election by the Peoples Democratic Party on March 28, 2015 frustrated its plans to take over Lagos State by force.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The APC, while reflecting on the victory of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at the Supreme Court last week, said the PDP would have deployed security agencies and ethnic groups to remove the APC government in Lagos if Nigerians had re-elected former President Goodluck Jonathan.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In a statement issued by the APC spokesman, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, on Sunday, the party commended the resilience of Nigerians during the presidential poll to free themselves from 16 years of oppression of the PDP.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The APC said, “Had the PDP succeeded in stealing the presidency on March 28, 2015, it would have used the army, the police, the Department of State Service to ‘steal’ Lagos by force.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Supreme Court verdict has proved beyond reasonable doubt that Ambode won the governorship election fair and square, defeating Mr. Jimi Agbaje of the PDP with more than 160, 000 votes.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> While assuring Lagosians that the APC government in Lagos would not lower the bar of leadership, the group said Lagos would continue to be a pacesetter.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The APC said the Supreme Court verdict was another call to duty , adding that Governor Ambode possesses the required skills, training, experience, to consolidate on the gains of the past 16 years.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The statement read, “As a bean counter, he has hit the ground running, restructuring and repositioning critical institutions in Lagos. He has been busy embarking on reforms. The resounding victory at the apex court tells us in no uncertain terms that Lagosians have not forgotten how AD (Alliance for Democracy), AC (Action Congress), ACN (Action Congress of Nigeria) and now APC, transformed Lagos in the last 16 years and made the city the fastest growing cosmopolitan city state in Africa, with a Gross Domestic Product of more than $135 bn.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Lagosians have not forgotten that the progressive party cleaned up Lagos and made it a habitable city. They have not forgotten how our party made Lagos a haven for business activities to thrive. They have not forgotten how we built the most formidable security architecture in Lagos to protect lives and property of more than 18 million Nigerians residing in the city of Lagos.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “The apex court ruling has put paid to the controversy surrounding the April 11 poll. The victory would spur the Ambode-led administration to implement the party’s people-oriented policies and programmes.”</div> <script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- Aba Dailies 8 --> <br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8376079553520515" data-ad-format="auto" data-ad-slot="9503932789" style="display: block;"></ins><script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div>

Jonathan’s defeat affected Lagos PDP’s rigging plan – APC

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