I REGRET BUILDING APC, GIVING BUHARI A PLATFORM TO BECOME PRESIDENT – TINUBU

The crisis rocking the ruling party, The All Progressive Congress (APC), seems to deepen further as the APC chieftain, Asiwaju Tinubu has lashed out to President Muhammadu Buhari following the Ondo governorship election.

L-R: Tinubu & Buhari
An undisclosed sources who reported to Abacityblog of the state of the current clash between Tinubu and Buhari, had it that Tinubu regretted of letting Buhari become the president of Nigeria under the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC.

According to our sources, while receiving a segment of APC chieftains from South West who paid him a solidarity visit late yesterday evening after keeping them waiting for over 5 hrs, (from 5pm to 10 pm before seeing them).

Tinubu lashed out and said, ”I regret building APC and giving Buhari a platform to become president”.

“We all knew he didn’t merit to be president, but you know how we politicians behave when we are desperate for electoral position; We beg.

”That was how President Buhari always and frequently came to my private house here in Ikoyi with his entourage which included that Nasiru and others”.

”At a point, he “Buhari” was practically living in my house, under my roof. The room he was sleeping was just 6-7 steps from my own private room. I was building his confidence because he didn’t have it”.

Photo: Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo's £15million private jet crashes in Barcelona

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo's £15 million private jet crashed while trying to land in Barcelona on Monday evening. The plane, a Gulfstream G200 which he bought last year, is sometimes rented out to private clients or companies. The crash happened at El Prat airport.

The plane's landing gear broke on impact, and a runway at the airport was closed. None of the footballer's friends or family was onboard when the crash happened. The pilot was treated for minor injuries, but no one was seriously hurt.

Commuter Train Crashes Into Hoboken Terminal, Injuring At Least 100

A commuter train in New Jersey crashed into Hoboken Terminal in New Jersey on Thursday morning, resulting in multiple injuries and visible structural damage.
New Jersey transit officials said at least 100 people are injured, Stephen Nessen of WNYC reports. Joseph Scott, the CEO of Jersey City Medical Center, said the hospital had admitted some victims in critical or serious condition.
Gov. Chris Christie, speaking to MSNBC before noon Eastern, said that there had been one confirmed fatality. He told MSNBC and CNN that everyone trapped on the train has been rescued or removed, and that there was no indication that the crash was anything but an accident.
Nessen reports that passengers on from the train that crashed say it approached the station at "full speed" before slamming into the barrier at the end of the track, with the impact throwing riders onto the floor.
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Passengers walk to safety after a NJ Transit train crashed in to the platform in Hoboken, N.J., on Thursday morning.

WNYC's Nancy Solomon arrived on the scene shortly after the crash, and says she personally saw 20 to 30 injured people, including at least four who were unable to walk.
She says a train had traveled "all the way into the station — not into the waiting room but into the outdoor part where people transfer."
The station suffered visible structural damage, with water spraying from the area affected. "About a fourth of the roof is collapsed," Solomon tells our Newscast unit.
Solomon spoke to one man who had been a passenger on the train that crashed, in the second car. He said he noticed the train didn't seem to be slowing down enough as it approached the station, and he braced himself for impact.

"People all around him were bloodied," Solomon says. "The train went dark after it crashed. People were screaming, and then they helped each other — there was really no assistance — they helped each other off the train."
Witness Ben Fairclough tells NPR's Morning Edition he, too, talked to people who were inside the train as it crashed.
"They said the train was shaking before it came to an eventual stop and it was moving at a high rate of speed," he says. "There were people climbing out of windows, there was water coming down from the top of the ceiling and there did appear to be folks who were unconscious."
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A portion of the roof collapsed after a NJ Transit crashed in to the platform at the Hoboken Terminal on Thursday morning.Pancho Bernasconi/Getty Images
There is no indication of what may have caused the accident. The Federal Railroad Administration has investigators on site, NPR's David Schaper reports, and the National Transportation Safety Board is gathering information on the crash.
Rail service in and out of Hoboken train station has been suspended, New Jersey Transit has announced. Transit buses and the NY Waterway are accepting rail tickets and passes.
Hoboken Terminal is a major commuter hub, connecting New Jersey Transit commuter rail to PATH trains into New York City. The station averages more than than 15,000 boardings each weekday on New Jersey Transit, and 28,000 each weekday on PATH.
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First responders treat injured passengers after a New Jersey Transit train crashed into the platform at Hoboken Terminal during morning rush hour on Thursday.Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images
This is a breaking news story. As often happens in situations like these, some information reported early may turn out to be inaccurate. We'll move quickly to correct the record and we'll only point to the best information we have at the time.

Nigeria: Forex Scarcity Threatens Nigeria's Mission to Zambia

Abuja — The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is in the fix as it is struggling with preparations for the Super Eagles' visit to Zambia next weekend for the 2018 World Cup qualifier because of scarcity of foreign exchange.

After failing to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations next year in Gabon, Nigeria will be pitching to be at the World Cup and salvage its reputation as a continental soccer powerhouse.

THISDAY scooped last night that the high aspiration could be imperiled by the inability of the federation to source for dollars to prosecute the match.

The Super Eagles are expected to travel by a chartered flight to Ndola, for a showdown with Zambia on October 9 in one of the opening fixtures in Group B.

A reliable NFF source disclosed last night that aside other obligations, the executive committee was still banking on the Ministry of Sports to provide money to charter a flight to Ndola.

THISDAY also learnt last night that travel agencies were also declining to issue flight tickets to the foreign-based players invited by coach Gernot Rohr, stemming from the federation's failure to redeem outstanding debts on tickets previously issued.

Rohr, who will be overseeing his second match as the national coach, invited 20 players who ply their trades in Europe for the confrontation against the Cooper Bullets.

Though NFF did not pay a bonus to the players following their victory against Tanzania in Uyo last month, in an African Cup of Nations match deemed "a dead rubber", officials led by the President Amaju Pinnick, are unsure of how to shop for bonus, given the free fall of the naira in the parallel market.

An official, who pleaded not to be named, predicted an unfolding crisis in Ndola in view of the foreign exchange scarcity caused by global decline in price of oil.

The dollars exchanged for N450 to the Naira yesterday in the parallel market, a rate which NFF claimed it making a mess of its operation as its projection was made at the rate of N200 to a dollar for the season.

Meanwhile, Rohr has replaced injured defender Leon Balogun with Uche Henry Agbo. FSV Mainz 05 of Germany centre-back Balogun, who shone in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Tanzania in Uyo earlier this month, was named in Nigeria's 23-man roster for the big match before copping an injury.

Granada FC of Spain's Agbo has already been contacted by Rohr and his invitation letter sent to his club by the NFF.

He will join the other players who are expected to start arriving at the Bolton White Hotel and Apartments, Abuja on Sunday.

I REGRET BUILDING APC, GIVING BUHARI A PLATFORM TO BECOME PRESIDENT – TINUBU

The crisis rocking the ruling party, The All Progressive Congress (APC), seems to deepen further as the APC chieftain, Asiwaju Tinubu has lashed out to President Muhammadu Buhari following the Ondo governorship election.

L-R: Tinubu & Buhari
An undisclosed sources who reported to Abacityblog of the state of the current clash between Tinubu and Buhari, had it that Tinubu regretted of letting Buhari become the president of Nigeria under the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC.

According to our sources, while receiving a segment of APC chieftains from South West who paid him a solidarity visit late yesterday evening after keeping them waiting for over 5 hrs, (from 5pm to 10 pm before seeing them).

Tinubu lashed out and said, ”I regret building APC and giving Buhari a platform to become president”.

“We all knew he didn’t merit to be president, but you know how we politicians behave when we are desperate for electoral position; We beg.

”That was how President Buhari always and frequently came to my private house here in Ikoyi with his entourage which included that Nasiru and others”.

”At a point, he “Buhari” was practically living in my house, under my roof. The room he was sleeping was just 6-7 steps from my own private room. I was building his confidence because he didn’t have it”.

Edo Election Update: APC And PDP Candidates In Tight Race

The Edo State governorship election, held on Wednesday, is a tight race between the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Godwin Obaseki and Peoples Democratic Party’s Osagie Ize-Iyamu.

Early results from Wards in the state, which had not been authenticated by the Independent National Electoral Commission, indicated that the two candidates were running neck and neck in the poll.

The two parties, however, claimed to have gained comfortable lead in the election while accusing each other of planning to rig the poll.

While unconfirmed results showed that the PDP won seven out of the eight units in Ward 3, Uromi in the Esan North-East Local Government Area, where a former chairman of the BoT of the PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, hails from, the APC won one unit.

Also, the APC lost in the polling unit of the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, where the PDP emerged victorious.

The APC, on its own, won in Ward 7 in the Oredo Local Government Area of the state.

The APC scored 4,412 votes while the PDP got 4,047 votes.

The governorship candidate of the PDP in the 2012 election in the state, Charles Airhiavbere, who is now in APC, led the party to beat the PDP in Unit 18, 19, 20 and 21 of Ward one in Oredo LGA.

In Unit 18, PDP got 158 while the APC got 259. In Unit 19, APC scored 146 and PDP polled 85.

In Unit 20, the APC got 259 votes while the PDP polled 208 votes and in Unit 21, the APC scored 128 votes leaving the PDP with 98 votes.

In Oredo Ward 12, out of the accredited 4,399 voters, the PDP took the lead with 2,066, leaving the APC with 2,041.

In Oredo Ward 4, out of the total accredited voters of 4,911, the APC scored 3,058 while the PDP polled 1,541.

PDP national leadership alleged on Wednesday night that APC was planning to overturn its alleged victory in the Edo State governorship election.

The party said the results it received from its agents in the state indicated that it was leading the APC with a wide merging in the election.

Spokesperson for the party and member of its National Caretaker Committee, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye, stated this in a statement in Abuja.

Adeyeye said, “Having received results from our agents at approximately 1,800 of the 2,627 polling units spread across the 192 wards in the 18 local government areas of Edo State, we can confirm that our party has attained a near unassailable lead in the Edo State governorship election.

“The results so far confirmed to us that our candidate has garnered approximately 55 per cent of the total votes cast by voters.’’

He alleged that the PDP was aware of the alleged connivance between the state government and a national commissioner at INEC to rig the election in favour of the ruling party in the state.

PDP’s Adeyeye, a former minister of state for works, added, “We will like to reiterate our earlier note of warning: The Edo people and our party will resist any attempt to subvert the collective will of the people as expressed by their votes today.”

He urged members and supporters of the party in the state to continue guarding their votes at the ward collation centres and the local government collation centres.

“Eternal vigilance is the price we all have to pay for victory,” he added.

APC accuses PDP of mischief
Reacting to claims by the PDP, the APC said the opposition party was being mischievous “as usual”.

APC National Vice-Chairman (South), Mr. Segun Oni, said, “The PDP is simply being mischievous. From the results I have seen from the field, from where we are monitoring the elections here in Abuja, the APC is in a comfortable lead.

“Out of a hundred, PDP has not won five, even in units they claim to have won. We are investigating because the number of voters exceeds the number of registered voters per unit.”

Meanwhile, the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 5, Isaac Eke, described the election as very peaceful.

“The process has been peaceful; there was no hindrance to voters to exercise their franchise.”

SERIOUSLY? We Are Already Coming Out Of Recession – Finance Minister Says

Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, the Minister of Finance, has said Nigeria is already getting out of the economic recession, given the pragmatic approaches the Federal Government is taking to reverse the trend.

She said this on Wednesday while fielding questions from journalists at the end of a 2-day National Council of Finance and Economic Development conference held at the Green Legacy Resort, Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta.

It was held in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Finance with the theme: ‘Enhancing revenue generation and obtaining best value for money in expenditure.’

Commissioners of finance from the 36 states across the country were in attendance. The minister noted that since the problems have been identified, and steps are already being taken to block waste, the road to recovery was sure.

She said, “We are already getting out of recession because of the actions the Federal Government is taking. We’re investing more in capital than we have ever invested. We’re sorting out infrastructure, we are stopping wastage and so the signs of recovery are already there.”

She explained that agriculture and solid minerals are already starting to grow, as they are responding to government’s policy initiative.