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Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu

The Chairman, All Progressives Congress Presidential Screening Committee, Chief Ogbonnaya Onu, has described the controversy over the certificate of the partys presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, (retd), as unnecessary.

Onu spoke to reporters in Abuja on Wednesday.

He explained that his committee screened the presidential candidate in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), and found him worthy to seek the partys nomination.

He said that the APC committee found the affidavit deposed to by the former Head of State as sufficient and in conformity with the laws of the land.

He also argued that the fact that the APC candidate went to secondary school and attended several military schools at home and abroad was not in dispute.

Onu said, Really, that issue shouldnt create the kind of problem that we are seeing today in the polity. When this matter came before us in the presidential screening committee, we had to rely on the constitution of our great country. You have to be a Nigerian by birth, he has to be 40 years of age; he has to be a member of a political party and that political party should sponsor you and finally should obtain education, at least, up to secondary school level or equivalent.

He said in the case of Buhari, Our presidential candidate has attended military schools in Nigeria, in India, in the United Kingdom and in the United States of America. He attended the US Army War College. So, there isnt any reason whatsoever to create this type of problems that we now have in the polity.

In response to a question on whether the APC screening committee requested for the copies of the certificate in question, Onu replied, We demanded for that but there was an affidavit and you know once you swear to an affidavit, that definitely gives you whatever protection in any matter not just in this case.

He accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party of making a mountain out of a mole hill because the Nigerian constitution was superior to any other operational law in the nation.

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Asiwaju Bola Tinubu | credits: File copy

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday said President Goodluck Jonathan had destroyed the integrity of the Nigerian Army.

Tinubu, who addressed supporters of the APC in Katsina State during the partys presidential campaign, was reacting to the claim by the Nigerian Army that the original certificates of the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), were not in its custody.

Tinubu said the controversy suggesting that Buhari might not have sat for the West African School Certificate Examination as he claimed, having failed to tender the results, was an unnecessary distraction and a proof that the Peoples Democratic Party lacked the capacity to woo voters.

The APC leader described the President Jonathan administration as a failure, adding that the certificate controversy would not stop Nigerians from voting him (President) out of power.

He said, We are confronted with terrorist challenges of the violent Boko Haram sect. Instead of Jonathan to stop Boko Haram, he is busy dancing around and the Peoples Democratic Party are busy talking about qualification of Buhari. They have destroyed the Army. They are destroying the integrity of the Army.

Are you questioning the time that Buhari was recruited into the Nigerian Army? Are you saying the colonial Army did not inspect his certificates before they sent him for training as a cadet officer? Are you saying he did not graduate as a cadet? Are you saying he did not become a captain? Or are you saying he did not become a colonel? Are you saying he did not take any exam in the Army? What is the Nigerian Army becoming? Is it a Jonathan Army or election Army?

Tinubu, whose speech was interrupted with shouts of Sai Buhari from the crowd, urged the northern youths to vote out Jonathan in the February elections.

He said President Jonathan did not deserve a second term because he was incompetent to tackle the nations problems.

Tinubu said, They are not talking about corruption. They are not talking about the money; how Nigerias oil money is being stolen. They are busy stealing the money pretending to be fighting corruption and always giving us excuses everyday and every time. We should vote him out. Change Jonathan, vote Buhari.

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Leftists and progressives believe that the U.S. should become more like Europe. They praise Europes massive welfare state, socialized medicine and stifling economic regulation and accept its unwillingness to defend itself against barbarism. I wonder whether Americas leftists and progressives want to import some of Europes barbaric extremism associated with its Muslim population.

Several European countries have what are called no-go zones. No-go zones function as microstates governed by Shariah. The host countries authorities have lost control over these areas. In some cases, they are unable to provide even police, firefighting and ambulance services.

In France, no-go zones are officially called Zones Urbaines Sensibles, or Sensitive Urban Zones. According to some reports, there is hardly a city in France that does not have at least one ZUS. There are estimated to be more than 750 such zones in France. According to The Washington Times, France has Europes largest population of Muslims, some of whom talk openly of ruling the country one day and casting aside Western legal systems for harsh, Islam-based Shariah law.

France is by no means by itself. Sweden has some of the most liberal immigration laws in Europe. Malmo is Swedens third-largest city, with a population over 300,000, of which 25 percent are Muslims who have created large no-go zones for non-Muslims. Fire and emergency workers refuse to enter Malmos mostly Muslim Rosengaard district without police escort.

Gothenburg is Swedens second-largest city. In Angered, one of the citys districts, Muslim youths pelt police cars with Molotov cocktails and have already destroyed more than 15 police cars. They use green lasers to temporarily blind police officers by pointing them at their eyes.

The Gatestone Institute reports that an Islamist group called Muslims Against Crusades has launched an ambitious campaign to turn 12 British cities into independent Islamic states, including Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and what the group calls Londonistan. The so-called Islamic Emirates would function as autonomous enclaves ruled by Shariah and operate entirely outside British jurisprudence.

Several years ago, The Telegraph reported: Islamic extremists have created no-go areas across Britain where it is too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter. ... People of a different race or faith face physical attack if they live or work in communities dominated by a strict Muslim ideology.

No-go zones have also emerged in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy. The basic question is: Does the Western world have the power to control its countries? In terms of capacity, as opposed to will, the answer is a clear yes.

Western lack of will is a result of our having been paralyzed by the doctrine of multiculturalism. Diversity worship and multiculturalism have currency and are cause for celebration among our elite. Multiculturalists teach that cultural values are morally equivalent, such as those of Islam and the West. To suggest that Western values are superior to others would win one opprobrium by the know-it-all elite.

Western values are indeed superior to all others because they hold the individual as supreme. Though Western values are superior to all others, one need not be a Westerner to hold Western values.

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Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola

The All Progressives Congress on Tuesday inaugurated platforms which will make it possible for any Nigerian to contribute to the funds for the campaign of General Muhammadu Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osinbajos presidential ticket.

The Chairman of the Buhari/Osinbajo Fund-Raising Committee, Governor Babatunde Fashola, during the event at the Lagos House, Marina, said Buhari was keen on having a campaign fund-raising that would involve ordinary people and be transparent.

Fashola said, This project will be different from the ones that we are accustomed to. And this is part of the change that our party wishes to bring. This has been designed to give everyone the opportunity to participate in effecting that change.

We have seen the enthusiasm of young people to participate in this election, especially those who will be voting for the first time.

Fashola said the fund-raising committee had developed many platforms which would allow everybody to participate in the presidential election by contributing to the Buhari/Osinbajo campaign.

He said, There will be five payment platforms and no amount will be too small. The first is through bank payment. And five banks have been saddled with that responsibility. What the banks will do is to provide dedicated teller and it will have APCGMBPYO 2015 on it.

The second is through e-transaction through http://www.apcgmbpyo.org. As you make this donation, there will be record and I will do my best to acknowledge you through text messages or possibly by letters.

The committee chairman said the firms that the committee partnered with had no partisan affiliation with the APC.

It is important to emphasise the intolerant disposition of the ruling party to the opposition by informing the public that our partys domain name http://www.apc.com.ng which incidentally promotes the country, has been shut down by the Federal Government because they do not want us to use the internet to communicate.

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