Buhari, Tinubu Loyalists Clash

The ensuing crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC) has assumed a new dimension following renewed supremacy tussle between loyalist of President Buhari, former vice president, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu for control of the party structure, Daily Sun reports.

Daily Sun / Monday, July 13, 2015

Sources disclosed to The Sun that the delay in the president’s ministerial list and other key government positions is is caused by some party chieftains who want the list delayed for a month or two so as to oust Saraki and Ekweremadu before key appointments are made.

“Those who are opposed to Saraki being the Senate president have promised that they can remove him and his deputy within a month or two, They don’t want the list of ministers to be sent to the Senate now until a new leadership emerges,” a chieftain of the party told The Sun.

The Punch reports that an impending clash between President Buhari and the Senate is brewing following allegations by some Saraki loyalists that the president instigated the permanent secretary of the ministry of finance, Mrs Anastacia Nwaobia, not to honour an invitation by the upper chamber.

Nwaobia, had earlier excused herself from honouring an invitation by the Senate on the grounds that she could not honour the invitation without the approval of her supervisors. However, some Senators loyal to the Senate president have described Nwaobia’s actions as a spite on the Senate, insisting that the upper chamber had the constitutional power to invite her.

“It will not urgur well for democracy if the president will not allow civil servants to do their job. We should not carry this crisis in the (All Progressives Congress) to the Senate,” a Senator loyal to Saraki warned.

The Punch / Monday, July 13, 2015

Vanguard reports that All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party are in a renewed brawl over allegations by the ruling party that the sum of $5.5bn realised by the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) since 2014 is missing.

The APC in a statement urged for a probe to be carried out to find out what became of the past Company Income tax/ Education tax as well as dividend paid to the FG by the NLNG during the PDP administration.

Vanguard/ Monday, July 13, 2015

The opposition party has however dismissed the allegations of missing funds as untrue, stating that the the administration of former president, Goodluck Jonathan, did not squander the the funds but saved them for investment.

The Nation Reports that the ruling party citing facts and figures claimed that out of the $4,728,136,946 paid as dividend by the NLNG between 2009 and 2014, only $127,851,348.19 was deposited with the FG account with JP Morgan.