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Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)

The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday said that though Nigeria is a rich nation, its people are extremely poor due to bad governance.

He also promised to involve serving and retired military generals to devise an effective strategy to crush insurgency in the country, if elected as President in 2015.

Buhari, in his Christmas goodwill message signed by the Director of Communications, Buhari Campaign Organisation, Mr. Dele Alake, expressed displeasure at the security challenges in the country and the poor state of Nigerian roads.

He said his administration would focus on how best to make the condition of living of the common man the index for the assessment of our policies and not the amount of billionaires our administration would have made.

Buhari felicitated with Christians in the country as they celebrated Christmas, assuring Nigerians that they would have better reasons to celebrate the festival if he is elected in 2015.

He said, On my part, I intend to initiate consultations with serving generals and those who have served our country and distinguished themselves on the battlefield across the world to work out an alternative and effective strategy to crush this insurgency within the shortest possible time if elected president on February 14, 2015.

I have said that I live the life of a pensioner. I share the burden and anxiety of majority of our poor, powerless people. I have offered myself on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, the party of change, because I desire to give back to a country that clothed, fed and trained me to be what I am today. Our people are poor. But our country is rich.

The former Head of State, who berated the President Goodluck Jonathan administration over rising poverty in the country, said, In a nation where a few individuals could raise N21bn because they wanted to make their friend President, millions of citizens, who truly own the resources being accumulated by a few, are left to suffer in sorrow, tears and blood.

Buhari said while many Nigerians travelling towards the eastern part of the country would encounter the failed promises of the Second Niger Bridge; those travelling through the South-West would have to bear the gridlock on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

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Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola | credits: File copy

The All Progressives Congress in Osun State on Wednesday accused the Federal Government of impeding the development plans of the state government by reducing the states federal allocation.

In a statement signed by the partys Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy , Kunle Oyatomi, the APC said Osun State is being made to suffer because the state stood up to the Federal Governments tyranny and voted against the PDP in the last August 9 governorship election.

The party said, The last federal allocation paid to Osun State was the least in the whole of the federation and was less than a third of what the state used to receive in the first half of 2014. Between June and October, this year, the federal allocation paid to Osun fell from over N3.8bn to less than N1.3bn. But the states salary profile alone is N3.6bn every month.

The Federal Government has not offered any plausible explanation for this drastic drop, leaving room for reasonable speculation that the PDP is taking its pound of flesh in reprisal for the defeat it suffered at the August 9 governorship election in the State of Osun.

In this season, when people are celebrating the great advent of Jesus of Nazareth, the Federal Government, led by a so-called Christian, is entertaining himself with the agony of Nigerians who are miserably suffering under the massive corruption of the PDP that has left our economy comatose.

The APC called on the citizens of the state to exercise courage, fortitude and perseverance as they celebrate the Christmas festival.

The party added, There is hope that divine change will occur to end this needless suffering that is sweeping across Nigeria under the PDP-led Federal Governments utter mismanagement of the countrys finances.

No matter the economic terrorism of the Federal Government and the PDP, the people of Osun shall remain unbowed to the evil economic might of the PDP-led Federal Government, which they are currently using to strangulate workers in the State of Osun.

The party, therefore, encouraged the people of Osun to take heart and be joyful nonetheless for as the birth of Jesus brought hope to mankind, so will the defeat of the PDP in next years elections usher in a new era of progress and efficient management of the countrys economy.

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I was amused to see the news that Vermont has decided to abandon their attempt to be the first US state with a truly single payer health care system. Amused because there are people like myself (and thoroughly libertarian economists like Mike Munger) who do think that a single payer system would be better than the current mess that is the US health care system. This isnt because we know all that much (or at least in my case it isnt) about the details of health care systems, its because we know something about economics and incentives.

Heres the news out of Vermont over that single payer system:

Believe it or not, there really are liberals disappointed that ObamaCare does not involve more taxation and central planning of medicine. So be grateful for the state laboratories of federalism and in particular Vermont, where the purest progressive progressive version of ObamaCare has imploded.

Last week, in a reversal that deserves more attention, Democratic Governor Peter Shumlin announced that Vermont would no longer create Americas first statewide single-payer health system. Vermont was seeking a waiver from the Affordable Care Act to abolish whats left of the nominally private insurance market by 2017, but Mr. Shumlins budget gremlins concluded the plan was too expensive and would damage the state economy.

Too expensive there should be taken to mean everyone had conniption fits when they saw what theyd have to ask the voters for in increased taxation. But heres the bit that has me wondering whether theyre mad up there or merely Progressives:

There are only 14 hospitals, and providers are already divided into nonoverlapping service areas meant to reduce competition.

Theres confirmation of this is this report from the Robert Johnston Foundation:

Vermont is divided into non-overlapping service areas, which reduces competition among hospitals, mental health agencies, and other health care organizations.

What? No wonder health care is expensive there (second most expensive in the country I believe). Therere arguments in favour of state provision of health care, of state financing of it (that single payer, as opposed to single provider) just as there are advantages to having markets and competition in both. The net balance can be argued over: but its insane to go to all the expense and cost of ensuring that youve still got multiple private sector providers and then insist that they dont compete with each other. Thats to entirely throw away all and any of the advantages of having private sector involvement at all.

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Are They Actually Mad In Vermont Or Just Progressives?

SILVER SPRING While most people are winding down for the holidays, Progressive Maryland is gearing up.

The liberal grassroots organization held their first phone bank of the season on Dec. 18 to fundraise $20,000 before the start of the legislative session on Jan. 14, according to Deputy Director Larry Stafford. The group has 31,000 members and supporters throughout the state, with Montgomery County as one of the most active areas.

But going into a new session with a Republican Governor, Stafford said they have to mobilize.

We understand that the best way to (reach Governor-elect Larry Hogan) and to also hold accountable any elected officials in this state is to build a grassroots groundswell of support and thats what youre seeing tonight, Stafford said. Were calling through a list of about 1,000 or so of our members and supporters and we want to get those people in for other phone banks and have that build on itself, and then next thing you know theyll be in Annapolis walking around.

The group is focusing on two issues: campaign finance and keeping programs for working families in the state budget.

Montgomery County recently passed its own local public campaign finance legislation, and Stafford said he hopes that is one reform to which Hogan is receptive.

He ran and won using the public campaign financing system. I would hope that he could find some value in it. I think what he really should have seen is that it gives a fair opportunity to candidates of all kinds that may not have as much of a fair shake, Stafford said.

Progressive Maryland also plans to focus on the budget. The latest numbers show a predicted $1.2 billion budget shortfall over the next two years throughout the state, even more than predicted when Hogan ran on a platform of cutting state spending.

We believe we may have to do a lot of defense for working families in Maryland because we see the prioritization that this Governor-elect already has toward more wealthy individuals, Stafford said. So we want to encourage him as greatly as we can to prioritize the needs of working families and fund projects like the Purple Line and keep up our funding for our education system, which has been one of the best in the nation.

The importance of transportation is one reason Linda Saffell, a new Progressive Maryland member and Prince Georges County resident, decided to help with the phone bank. She said she wants to see more people from her county step up, particularly with a Republican governor.

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Progressives rally for new legislative session

The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has said his desire not to be hostage to anyone was the reason behind his decision to rely on the sacrifices by ordinary Nigerians to fund his campaign.

Buhari said this at a press briefing on the General Muhammadu Buhari Crowd Funding Platform, in Abuja, on Tuesday.

This is even as he announced that the sum of N54, 415,386.70 has so far been received as donations through direct deposit and sale of cards to the First Bank account number: 2026724405.

He expressed confidence that the financial support he was receiving from ordinary Nigerians will see him through the campaign period.

According to him, his supporters who floated the platform drew inspiration from President Barrack Obamas campaign.

The candidate noted that when Obama first came on the scene, he did not enjoy the support of big corporations for a variety of reasons, but that he was able to surmount this challenge when he turned to ordinary Americans who shared his dream.

Buhari said, That is why I depend on them, we are taking this idea from what we have in the United States when Obama came out to contest, he was a coloured person, the big companies were not for him and so on.

But he knew, he had foot soldiers so when he came with this idea, he was able to finance his campaign without looking for money bags or anybody influential, so he remained independent and was hostage to nobody. And this is what I want to achieve.

He said the Buhari Support Organisation currently has 82 registered support groups with over 475, 796 coordinators and total membership in the region of 8, 492,226 across the length and breadth of this country.

Buhari explained that the organisation intends to use the registration and donation cards to enlist the members of the groups as volunteer change agents and also capture the spatial distribution of its donours.

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