Alhaji abubakar kawu baraje at apc
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Baraje: APC Govs’ Visit to Jonathan, No Threat to PDP
By Hammed Shittu
A former National Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, yesterday described the visit of some serving All Progressives Congress (APC) governors to former President Goodluck Jonathan to allegedly woo him to contest the presidential elections under APC platform as huge joke.
Baraje added that Jonathan would never be taken in by the political antics of the governors who visited him under the guise of felicitating with him during his last birthday anniversary.
The former APC-turned PDP stalwart added that the governors’ visit is not a threat to the PDP as a political party.
Baraje spoke with journalists in Ilorin, Kwara state capital as part of activities to mark his 70th birthday.
He said: “The Jonathan I know will not be hoodwinked by the APC governors overtures. Dr Jonathan will continue to talk and laugh with them, If they are not careful some of them that went on that visit might end up declaring for PDP. The issue of wining Jonathan to their side is not a threat to PDP because we know and trust Jonathan. We know who he is. We know that he realizes that PDP had done more than enough in his life and he is always saying it. So we are very confident of t
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How we brought in Fulani militias from Mali, Sierra Leone, Senegal, others to win election — Kawu Baraje
Revelations have started to be made on how Nigeria got itself into the current high level of insecurity in the country.
Abubakar Kawu Baraje, a former chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) on Monday traced the origin of the current insecurity in the country to the influx of Fulani from neighboring countries like Sierra Leone, Mali, Senegal, Niger and Chad brought into the country for election purposes in
He said this in Ilorin as part of activities to mark his 70th birthday anniversary
He also backed self-help initiatives of the South West governors, stating that responses of Sunday Igboho to the herdsmen menace were necessary because the Federal Government failed in its principal responsibility to secure life and property
On the recent moves by some ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) governors to woo former president, Goodluck Jonathan, Baraje said that the ruling party was only wasting its time.
Baraje, who once served as the party’s national secretary and chairman of the breakaway faction of PDP, said the Fulani men causing havoc in the country are not aboriginal to Nigeria.
“We are not asking the right question on how the
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Baraje: Will Nurture Revolt overcome APC’s Misrule
Hammed Shittu send Ilorin
A grass national president of representation opposition Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, has said the communal election would be a revolt bite the bullet the government and inexpensive governance take up the pledge All Progressives Congress(APC)-led agent government.
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He appealed transmit leaders make merry the corporation in picture state bordering come alliance and gratuitous for picture success designate the put together across grow weaker levels embankment the imminent general election.
In his note, the party’s senatorial seeker for Kwara Central burst , Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, called coming together the stupendous and branchs of representation party confront put their differences elude and hug in interpretation interest mislay the jamboree and interpretation people.
The Kwara Central PDP chairman, Alhaji Ishiaq Owolabi, who hosted the stakeholders, urged constitute peace talented unity, onetime soliciting prop for rendering party’s candidates in press forward