Newspaper Review: How Ekiti poll was rigged as new electricity tariff takes effect
Newspapers across Nigeria focused on the shocking
revelation by, the former Secretary of the Ekiti state chapter of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Dr. Temitope Aluko that former President
Goodluck Jonathan gave Governor Ayo Fayose N4.7bn cash for the June 21,
2014 governorship election in the state.
In its report, Punch newspaper reported that Aluko
said he handled the waiver Fayose got from the PDP at the national level
to enable him to qualify to take part in the governorship primary.
Aluko said he delivered the congresses that produced Fayose and was also the governor’s principal witness at the Election Petitions Tribunal.
“It was about $35m, which is about N4.7bn he gave us for the real election and for the primaries, he released $2m to Fayose. I have details of all I am saying and I was present when they brought the money and it was Senator Musiliu Obanikoro that brought the money, the $35m, which he delivered to Fayose at Spotless Hotel.
“I can name eight people that were there. We were all there because he said he would want us to take delivery so that there will be transparency and accountability.
“Let me just stop there for now, but I am just trying to say that both the security and the funding came from the Presidency and even the primaries money we collected at the NNPC Towers in Abuja here and they took $300,000 from the $2m for courier which was on Monday, 23rd of March 2014 and we took it to Prince and Princess, Fayose’s house, but the N4.7bn came into Ekiti on June 17, 2014.”
He said the $35m was “taken to a bureau de change in Onitsha where it was converted to N4.7bn.”
Daily Sun is reporting the possibility of the emergence of a new national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the party’s national executive committee (NEC) will meet on Thursday.
The new chairman, it was gathered will conduct the party’s national convention.
Also, the Board of Trustees may likely appoint its substantive chairman to replace Dr. Haliru Bello who has been holding forth in acting capacity after the exit of its erstwhile chairman, Tony Anenih last May.
Nation newspaper is reporting that Nigeria spent
N20.2 trillion to import petrol, diesel and kerosene between January
2010 and September 2015.
According to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) figures released by Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) indicate that N12, 529, 746, 397, 978. 48 was spent on the importation of 102,374,588,480.91 litres of petrol (Premium Motor Spirit).
N6,450,576,065,479.43 was spent to import 16,679,065,103 litres of diesel (Automotive and Gas Oil). Between January 2012 and September 2015, N1,271,500,290,241 was spent on the importation of 9,448,409,070 litres of kerosene.
On the front page of Vanguard newspaper, the paper
is reporting on the planned probe of the N1 trillion rail contracts scam
by members of the adhoc committee of the House of Representatives.
To appear before the committee is the minister of transport, Mr Rotimi Amaechi; managing director of Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, Seyi Sijuwade; former chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Mohammed Bello Haliru; and former minister of transport, Idris Umar.
Guardian newspaper is reporting on the protest
against the new electricity tariff. Manufacturers Association of
Nigeria (MAN) insists charges breach court order as Labour kicks as
employers accept increase.
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Aluko said he delivered the congresses that produced Fayose and was also the governor’s principal witness at the Election Petitions Tribunal.
“It was about $35m, which is about N4.7bn he gave us for the real election and for the primaries, he released $2m to Fayose. I have details of all I am saying and I was present when they brought the money and it was Senator Musiliu Obanikoro that brought the money, the $35m, which he delivered to Fayose at Spotless Hotel.
“I can name eight people that were there. We were all there because he said he would want us to take delivery so that there will be transparency and accountability.
“Let me just stop there for now, but I am just trying to say that both the security and the funding came from the Presidency and even the primaries money we collected at the NNPC Towers in Abuja here and they took $300,000 from the $2m for courier which was on Monday, 23rd of March 2014 and we took it to Prince and Princess, Fayose’s house, but the N4.7bn came into Ekiti on June 17, 2014.”
He said the $35m was “taken to a bureau de change in Onitsha where it was converted to N4.7bn.”
Daily Sun is reporting the possibility of the emergence of a new national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the party’s national executive committee (NEC) will meet on Thursday.
The new chairman, it was gathered will conduct the party’s national convention.
Also, the Board of Trustees may likely appoint its substantive chairman to replace Dr. Haliru Bello who has been holding forth in acting capacity after the exit of its erstwhile chairman, Tony Anenih last May.
According to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) figures released by Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) indicate that N12, 529, 746, 397, 978. 48 was spent on the importation of 102,374,588,480.91 litres of petrol (Premium Motor Spirit).
N6,450,576,065,479.43 was spent to import 16,679,065,103 litres of diesel (Automotive and Gas Oil). Between January 2012 and September 2015, N1,271,500,290,241 was spent on the importation of 9,448,409,070 litres of kerosene.
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To appear before the committee is the minister of transport, Mr Rotimi Amaechi; managing director of Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, Seyi Sijuwade; former chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Mohammed Bello Haliru; and former minister of transport, Idris Umar.
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