MKO Abiola's Family Calls On The President To Make Public The Oputa Panel Report

The family of the late acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to make public the Oputa Panel report.

 Speaking yesterday during the 22nd anniversary of the annulment of the election, held at Excellence Hotel, Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos,
  the spokesperson of the family, Alimi Abiola, said: We want to appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to make the report of the Oputa Panel public. This is not just in the interest of my father but also in the interest of everybody affected by it.

 It will be good to know who did what and how it happened.

 Guest speaker at the event, Prof. Godini Darah of Delta State University (DELSU) urged President Buhari to implement the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference. He noted that the country would not make any meaningful progress without carrying out the fundamental proposals of the conference.

 President Buhari needs to implement the fundamental proposals of the conference submitted to him by ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. There is an urgent need for him to restructure the country into a federation of states with each of them having its own constitution.

 He should also look into the recommendation for the creation of additional states with each of the six geo-political zones having equal number of states.

 It is also imperative for him to approve the creation of state police to address the challenge of insurgency and crime in the country, he said.

"LEAVE ME ALONE", C. Ronaldo Told The Media

         Cristiano Ronaldo has released an official statement subtly begging the media to leave him alone and allow him do his work amidst stories making the rounds about him cheating on ex-girlfriend Irina Shayk with series of alluring, titillation, mouthwatering juicy beauties.

         Earlier in the week, a report published by the Sun claimed Ronaldo had cheated on his Russian partner Shayk with "dozens of girls", including Mexican glamour model Daniella Chavez.

 It is believed Ronaldo's act of incessant promiscuity led to the split with his partner of five years

         An allegation the 30-year-old Real Madrid forward has blatantly denied as he continues preparation for next Saturday's Euro 2016 qualifiers against Republic of Ireland with the Portugal national team in the sweltering heat of Oeiras.

  "I want this opportunity to say in the last couple of weeks the press tried to say trash about me. That I have a new girlfriend day by day," Ronaldo posted on the ....

Aliko Dangote To Supply Steady Power In Lagos

Lagos—President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote yesterday said plans have been concluded to construct a gas pipeline to address power supply challenges in Lagos State.

He disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the office of the Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode.
He said; “We also assured him that we are going to do a Gas Pipeline from Bonny (River State) to pass under the sea (to Lagos.) When it is completed, Lagos state will never ever experience blackout. There will be electricity 24 hours a day.”

Addressing newsmen after the meeting with Ambode, Dangote said they also discussed the ongoing construction of the largest fertilizer plant of two to three million tonnes of Uranium and Amonia in the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Ibeju-Lekki.

VISIT: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (right) and President Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote (left)and during Dangote’s courtesy visit to Ambode at the Lagos House, Ikeja, yesterday.
He noted that the company is also building ”the largest ever single refinery of 650,000 barrels per day, which is by far more than the consumption of Nigeria and that would satisfy our consumption at least for the next seven to 10 years by the time we finish.”
All these projects Dangote said are no small projects.

‘’We will have challenge in getting people to work there, because at the height of it, there will be close to 38,000 people working at the same location, this is something that we have to partner with the state government.
‘’Having 38,000 people on one site, not every one of them will be from the community, others will be from other states, there would be cultural issues and all that, we need to integrate everybody to ensure that the whole thing works out fine.”

He stressed that the visit afforded him the opportunity to assure the governor of his commitment to complete these ongoing projects already embarked upon by the company.
The business mogul promised to continue to support the state government initiatives geared towards securing lives and properties, adding “I have assured him that we really love doing business here, it’s a friendly state for doing business.”

According to him, “There are quite a lot of things that will come along with creating so many jobs. I think Lagos will be one of the fastest growing cities in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.
‘’ I can assure you that we would do our own bit in terms of your efforts in policing Lagos, for security and whatever the need is, feel free to call us, we would partner with you and whatever you want us to do to make
Lagos a better place”.

Responding, Ambode vowed to embark on strategies that would open the state for new investors, aimed at reducing the rate of unemployment in the state.
He said “I will just call on other investors that wherever it is that we can assist we are willing and ready to make sure that investors have comfortable life and comfortable business profile in Lagos State.”

The governor promised that his administration would open up the state to attract new investors and growth of existing business in the state, adding that the bottom line “is to create jobs for our youths.”

Source: Vanguard Ng

Professor Attahiru Jega To Retire

 Indications have emerged on Tuesday that Professor Attahiru Jega would retire alongside seven National Commissioners and 16 Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) by the end of the month.

INEC’s REC in Lagos, Akin Orebiyi, dropped the hint yesterday in Lagos during the opening session of a two-day stakeholders’ review meeting on the role of media in the 2015 elections, organised by the UNDP – Democratic Governance for Development (DGD) Project II.

Orebiyi, who said the commission could not fulfill some of its promises to the electorate, expressed hope of a better electoral process ahead of the 2019 elections.

According to him, production and distribution of permanent voters’ cards (PVCs) could not be delivered to Nigerians as planned by the commission.

“We promised to do a number of things but we couldn’t deliver all, for instance, Only 60 per cent of PVCs were distributed in the whole of Ogun state, while 5.6 million eligible voters were able to redeem their PVCs in Lagos, out of about 5.8 million who registered, this means that around 200,000 eligible voters were disenfranchised,” he said.

However, the UNDP-DGD Project II Election Expert, Prof. Bolaji Eyinla, has suggested that the commission should retain some members of Jega advisory team for institutional memory and better planning of the 2019 elections.

Eyinla noted that Jega’s effective management of men and resources and his calmness in the face of opened provocation accounted for the success of 2015 elections.

“I am also aware that Jega was supported by a body of technical advisers, it is not out of place to suggest that some of these technical advisers are retained by the electoral management body for institutional memories and of course for designing electoral success in 2019, so some of the team members sould be kept.”

INEC spokesperson, Nick Dazang, was quoted to have said that Jega would be in office until the end of the month.

Meanwhile, the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) has said it was restrained from imposing sanctions on broadcast stations which allegedly flaunted the code of conduct for broadcasting operations during the 2015 elections due to ongoing court cases.

Director in the office of the NBC’s Director General, Armstrong Idachaba, who spoke at the review meeting, said over 30 broadcast stations were sanctioned by the commission for their indiscretions, majorly on political broadcasts.

He explained that NBC could not act on certain cases due to ongoing litigations.

“When matters are in court, there is little or nothing a regulator can do, because it restrains the regulator from acting any further, since NBC is joined as a party in the court. Out of about 400 broadcast stations in Nigeria, just a few carried out content breaches under the cover of political advertising, we drew their attention to it and we ask them to respond. But some of these things take time, where there are allegations and counter allegations, we have to investigate,” he said.

Idachalla however denied that NBC hurriedly issued warning to certain broadcast stations upon the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as the president-elect, saying the commission meted out sanctions before and during the elections.

UN Peacekeepers Trades Medications And Food For Sex

UN peacekeepers engaged in “transactional sex” with more than 225 Haitian women, as well as women in other countries, who said they did so in order to obtain things like food and medication, according to a new report.

The draft by the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) looks at the way UN peacekeeping, which has about 125,000 people in some of the world’s most troubled areas, deals with the persistent problem of sexual abuse and exploitation.

The report, expected to be released this month, says major challenges remain a decade after a groundbreaking UN report first tackled the issue.

Among its findings: About a third of alleged sexual abuse involves minors under 18. Assistance to victims is “severely deficient.” The average investigation by OIOS, which says it prioritises cases involving minors or rape, takes more than a year.

And widespread confusion remains on the ground about consensual sex and exploitation. To help demonstrate that, investigators headed to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

A year ago, the report says, investigators interviewed 231 people in Haiti who said they’d had transactional sexual relationships with UN peacekeepers.

“For rural women, hunger, lack of shelter, baby care items, medication and household items were frequently cited as the ‘triggering need,”’ the report says. Urban and suburban women received ‘church shoes,’ cell phones, laptops and perfume, as well as money.

“In cases of non-payment, some women withheld the badges of peacekeepers and threatened to reveal their infidelity via social media,” the report says.

“Only seven interviewees knew about the United Nations policy prohibiting sexual exploitation and abuse.” None knew about the mission’s hotline to report it.

Each of those instances of transactional sex, the report says, would be considered prohibited conduct, “thus demonstrating significant underreporting.”

It was not clear how many peacekeepers were involved.

For all of last year, the total number of allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation against members of all UN peacekeeping missions was 51, down from 66 the year before, according to the secretary-general’s latest annual report on the issue.

The draft report doesn’t say over what time frame the “transactional sex” in Haiti occurred. The peacekeeping mission there was first authorised in 2004 and, as of the end of March, had more than 7,000 uniformed troops. It is one of four peacekeeping missions that have accounted for the most allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation in recent years, along with those in Congo, Liberia and South Sudan.

One of the UN staffers who produced the report would not comment Tuesday, saying it was better to wait until it was released publicly. A spokesman for the peacekeeping office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The UN doesn’t have a standing army and relies on troops contributed by member states. The states are responsible for investigating alleged misconduct by their troops, though the UN can step in if there’s no action.

In their response to the report’s findings, which is included in the draft, UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous and field support chief Atul Khare point out that while the number of peacekeepers has increased dramatically over the past decade, the number of allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation have gone down.

The UN prohibits “exchange of money, employment, goods or services for sex,” and it strongly discourages sexual relationships between UN staff and people who receive their assistance, saying they are “based on inherently unequal power dynamics” and undermine the world body’s credibility.

But that has led to some confusion on the ground, the new report says, with some members of peacekeeping missions seeing that guidance as a ban on all sexual relationships with local people. The report says the guidelines need to be clarified.

“Staff with long mission experience states that was a ‘general view that people should have romantic rights’ and raised the issue of sexuality as a human right,” the report says.

President Buhari Revealed What The G7 Leaders Promised Him

 A statement issued yesterday by the Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity) to the President, Garba Shehu, said that at the end of the presentation he made on Monday, the G7 leaders said to him that they recognised the Presidents massive amount of confidence and expectations behind his government.

 They acknowledged him as having emerged from an election adjudged to be the freest in the countrys electoral history, but regretted the severe handicaps his new government has to face from the outset.

 They told President Buhari that they took cognizance of the fact of the several handicaps, including the lack of resources, leaving him with a government over-stretched in capacity, itself riddled with mismanagement.

 The G-7 also noted that the countrys army lacked training and equipment with little or no will to engage.

 In recognition of the fact that the security threat of the Boko Haram had gone beyond Nigeria, equally affecting other countries in the region, the G7 conceded that no one country can tackle it alone.

 They expressed warm sentiments towards the Nigerian leader and praised him for reaching out to the countrys neighbours and the group of industrialised nations within a week of his takeover of government.

 In view of the seriousness he has shown in tacking this problem, the group pledged that they would engage, cooperate and collaborate with President Buharis government in tackling the serious problems that Nigeria faces.

 They left it to President Buhari to come up with the specifics on his requirements, assuring that they would study the requirements either individually or collectively and offer help. They asked to know the nature and the scale of the problems in order to know the nature and the scale of the assistance they will provide. Suffice it to say that they assured President Buhari that Nigeria will find a partner in the G7. Buhari, who had the privilege of being the first to address the G7 among the invited presidents and prime ministers, was warmly received at the summit. He returned to Nigeria in the early hours of yesterday.

President Buhari Returns From Germany To Meet APC Crisis

President Muhammadu Buhari returned from the G7 Summit which held in Germany in the early hours of Tuesday in time to intervene in the crisis rocking his All Progressives Congress (APC) party.

 Presidency sources told SaharaReporters that Buharis presidential jet touched down in Abuja at 12:53am, but the President and members of his delegation did not arrive the Presidential Lounge until 2am.

 Shortly after his arrival in Abuja, Buhari was briefed about the crisis, our sources said he immediately summoned all lawmakers elected on the platform of the APC to an emergency meeting at 9:00am on Tuesday to take place at the International Convention Center.

 APC legislators are expected to move from the meeting to the National Assembly to partake in the inauguration of the assembly.

 It is unclear if Senator Bukola Saraki will honor the invitation to meet with the Buhari following his endorsement by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) early this morning.

IGP Says Police Is The Least Corrupt In The Country

       Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase says that the Nigerian Police, has the least corrupt officers of all the institutions in the country.

 Arase said this at the annual symposium during a Feast of Barracuda organised by the National Association of Seadogs.

 According to him, the Police had made frantic efforts in tackling corruption even among the officers and had set in motion machinery to fish out corrupt officers in the force.

          Arase, who was represented by the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Wilson Inalegwu said that the practical step to deal with corruption was to dismantle road blocks and that has already been done.

 The IG said he is allergic to corruption and since then he has taken practical steps to deal with the issue of corruption, both the history of corruption and perception of corruption of the Nigeria Police Force, inalegwu said.

          One of the first things he did was to set up the IGPs Monitoring Teams. First of all the decision by the Police Management Team was to take out roadblocks across all our highways. It was not just to dismantle it, he set up the IGP Monitoring Team to ensure that these directives are enforced.

 If you go across most of our highways now roadblocks have been reduced to the barest minimum, and anybody mounting roadblocks, does that at his risk.

           Presentations are also made where Commissioners of Police are invited to look at the situations across the country right from the condition of suspects in Police cells and they have a technical platform that enable them to monitor the behaviour and conduct of police officers on the road as they handle suspects.

 On the issue of welfare of police and accommodation, the IG met with the OC Works across the country and they concluded to have 6,000 affordable houses for officers across the country.

          The IG said bail is free! Help lines have been provided where you can supply information. You can call to inform that you went to this station and paid this amount and I can assure you, action will be taken. Bail is free, the monitoring teams are going round to practically deal with those avenues that can lead to corruption.

 The Nigeria Police has the capacity to investigate any corrupt case under the laws, either the Crminal Code law or the Penal Code law. The Police has the competence and the capacity to investigate corrupt cases.

           The Police management under Solomon Arase is doing everything possible to eliminate corruption and has taken practical steps leading to that.

 Once corruption cases are given to the police, the cases must be investigated. The Police is the least corrupt officers in every organisation because it has an in house way of dealing with the issue of organisation, trying officers, arresting officers who engage in corrupt practices.

            I think you can hardly find institutions that is like Police taking practical steps to deal with corruption, all I want to say by way of challenge is have confidence in the Police, Inalegwu said.

 Also speaking, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Paul Erokoro said that the fight against corruption in the country will not produce any good results with corrupt leaders on the saddle.

 We should lead by example and it involves people insisting that the President should declare his assets in public, he said.

Former President GEJ To Receive Severance Allowances

  

    Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Namadi Sambo and immediate past officials are yet to receive their severance allowances.
 The sum total is estimated to be around N3.24bn.
 This is in accordance with the remuneration package put together by the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), The Punch has learnt.
       Sources in the finance minister in Abuja disclosed the former president and his vice would be paid the allowances in 2016, as this money was not included in the 2015 budget.
 According to the budget passed by the National Assembly, there should be a provision of N2.3bn for entitlements of former Presidents/Heads of state and Vice Presidents/Chiefs of General Staff.
    Explaining why the allowances were not included in the last years budget, the source said that the budget draft was being prepared last year, when the outcome of the general elections was not clear.
 You will recall that the 2015 budget was prepared sometime last year and during the budget preparation, the elections had not been held.
 So it would be wrong to include the severance package of political office holders in the budget because as of the time the budget was prepared, these people were still holding political offices.
 Secondly, including their severance package before the elections were conducted would mean that we were pre-empting the outcome of a political process.
       So what we do is to wait for the outcome of elections and on the strength of this, we can know the number of people that have left office and those re-elected.
 As for those political office holders that are leaving office this year, their severance package would be included in the 2016 budget, which will be prepared later in the year.
 Jonathan package according to RMAFC provisions:
 The ex-president is entitled to 300% of his annual basic salary;
 The presidents annual salary N3, 514,705;
 Thus severance allowance will be N10, 544,115.
 Sambos package
 The ex-vice president is entitled to 300% of his annual basic salary;
 The vice presidents annual salary N3, 031,572.50
 Thus severance allowance will be N9, 094,717.50.
 This is without prejudice to other constitutional entitlements stipulated for both officials.
 About 76 senators and 290 reps, not returning to the 8th National Assembly, so as 42 ministers and 133 presidential aides are also to receive the allowances.

Former US President George W Bush Converts To Islam

         In a press conference today, former US president George W Bush announced to the world that he has decided to convert to the Islamic faith. This amazing conversion story has shocked both the global Muslim community and the American public. Bush appeared before the media, along side his long time friend and confidante Shaikh Hamza Yusuf, to tell of his conversion and to answer any questions from those in attendance.
Describing how he felt after he had embraced the faith, Bush said,
“Well, in the words of the great James Brown, I feel good. Like I knew that I would. I feel good. So good. So good. I got you Allah.”

          The former commander and chief continued,
“After takin’ my shay-hay-day, I feel such a sense of relief, such a sense of calm. Like the calm after the storm when the rescue teams come. Like the calm after Katrina, y’all know what I mean?”
A reflective Bush continued to tell of his long time affection for Islam,
“I always said, even while I occupied my office and Iraq, that Islam was a religion of peace, and I really meant that. I know I lied about other things, but that was one of the true ones. Y’all are so nice, an’ welcoming. Almost like a whole religion of Texans. It really changed my life when I found out white people could be Muzlums too. Its like I learned somethin’ or somethin’. Its hard to express what I’m feelin’ in words y’all will understand. Knocked my socks off, tell ya what. Knocked ’em clean off. Its like someone just came in and turned all the lights on. I was in complete darkness pretty much before, but now I feel pretty happy. I feel fresh like a new born baby boy.”
When asked if it was his own self studying of the religion that had brought him to his decision, Bush stated,
“Well to be honest, not really, not really no. I mean, I have been a friend for a long time with my buddy Hamza here,” the former president said as he slapped Shaikh Hamza Yusuf on the knee in a jovial manner.
Speaking of his long time mentor, Bush said,
“I give a lot of credit to Shaikh Hamza, or Hammy as I like to call him. Hammy an’ me go way back, and he’s helped me a lot you know, teachin’ me the basics of the deeni-oolla. How’s my teej-wad Hammy?”

          Shaikh Hamza Yusuf smiled, nodding his head in the affirmative. The respected California based scholar offered much praise for the newly converted Bush,

“I have known brother George for over a decade now. I can remember the first time I met him in the Oval Office. There was just something about him, I could see noor just pouring off his face,” the Shaikh said as he began to tear up, “I thought… (sniff), Wallahi… Huwa min Ahlil Jannah!… (sniff)… and I made du’a for him ‘Oh Allah, give this beautiful man faith in You.’ And here he is today, he has said his testimony in front of two witnesses. His whole past life of sins are totally wiped clean, he has a fresh start. He is totally forgiven, completely innocent, as the day he was born.”

“Yeah, I like that part,” chuckled the former president. “Cuz I’ve made some real doozies in my day. But its all smooth sailin’ from here on in to Janet Faradawzi. That’s the Muzlum word for heaven. I don’t know who Janet was, maybe Adam’s third wife or somethin’.”

          Among the gathered reporters was Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist and broadcaster who infamously threw his size 10 shoe at the then President several years prior. Al-Zaidi addressed the newly converted Bush saying,

“Mr. President, I am so overjoyed that you have embraced the true religion, and you have come to your senses. I just want to say that please accept my apology for throwing my size 10 shoe at you, and for calling you a dog. It is really wrong for a Muslim to hurt another Muslim, so I just wanted to ask your pardon for that lack of good manners.”

“Well here’s the deal Zaidi,” Bush said, “I sure do forgive you. I mean, if Allah can forgive all the things I did to your country of Iraq, and all the things I did in Afghaniland, I think I can find it in my heart to forgive a Muzlum brother. So al ham-doo-la-la-la. So long as ya aren’t one of them shi’ites, its all good bud.”

          With that, the former leader of the free world ended the press conference with prayers of peace and a heartfelt thank you,

“Thank y’all so much for being so kind, really means somethin’ to me. Wa lakaam asalaam wa rami-toola wa abracadbratuhu. I’m still workin’ on my teej-wad, but y’all know what I mean. Peace.”

reported by the Mullah Liam ad-Deen Team

 SOURCE: CNN

China Hackers Trash U.S Government

China-based hackers are suspected of breaking into the computer networks of the U.S. government personnel office and stealing identifying information of at least 4 million federal workers, American officials said Thursday.

 The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that data from the Office of Personnel Management and the Interior Department had been compromised.

 4 million current and former federal employees may have had their personal information hacked.

 The agency, which conducts background checks, warned it was urging potential victims to monitor their financial statements and obtain new credit reports.

 U.S. officials believe this could be the biggest breach ever of the governments computer networks.

 The FBI is conducting an investigation to identify how and why this occurred, the statement said.

 An assessment continues and it is possible millions more government employees may be impacted.
 American investigators believe they can trace the breach to the Chinese government. Hackers working for the Chinese military are believed to be compiling a massive database of Americans, intelligence.

 A U.S. official, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the data breach, said it could potentially affect every federal agency. One key question is whether intelligence agency employee information was stolen. Former government employees are affected as well.

 This is an attack against the nation, said Ken Ammon, chief strategy officer of Xceedium, who said the attack fit the pattern of those carried out by nation states for the purpose of espionage. The information stolen could be used to impersonate or blackmail federal employees with access to sensitive information, he said.
 It is not clear what the purpose of the database is.
 Employees of the legislative and judicial branches, and uniformed military personnel, were not affected.

 The FBI is now investigating what exactly led to the breach.

 We take all potential threats to public and private sector systems seriously, and will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace, the FBI said in a statement.
 The federal personnel office said personally identifiable information had been breached, though didnt name who might be responsible.

 Source: CNN

Nigeria’s 1914 Amalgamation Has Expired, Says Ijaw Congress

The Ijaw National Congress (INC), said the 1914 British amalgamation of ethnic nationalities by the British colonialists has since expired.

The congress said in a communiqué at the end of a two-day summit in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State, that it has therefore decided that the Ijaw nation would initiate the process of re-negotiating its co-existence with other nationalities in the country.

The meeting came barely hours after Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s immediate past President, relinquished power on Friday, May 29, 2015 to Muhammadu Buhari, winner of the March 28, 2015 Presidential election.

According to the communiqué issued at the end of the summit, which had as theme: ‘The Ijaw Agenda Beyond 2015,’ made available Monday, “the cession treaties between the Ijaw and British colonial authorities have lapsed and that the instrument of amalgamation of 1914 that produced the country Nigeria expired in 2014.”

Rejecting laws and regulations that deny the Ijaw people control of their resources, the INC expressed regret over the refusal of successive administrations to unite the Ijaws in homogenous states.

The communiqué signed by the INC chairman, Boma Obuoforibo and 30 others, further stressed that “the Ijaw Question predates Nigeria and the current structure of the Nigerian State is lopsided in favour of the majority ethnic nationalities without adequate socio-political and economic space for the minority ethnic nationalities.”

The group agreed at the end of the summit attended by over 1,500 men, women and youths, participated at the summit, that ethnic nationalities in the country “should form the basis of a true Nigerian federation.”

The apex Ijaw socio-cultural body, also condemned the present constitutional and legislative arrangements for resource control and allocation, adding that resource-bearing communities in true federations and the civilised world control their resources.

It noted that in spite of the adverse impact of crude oil and gas exploration and exploitation on Ijaw land, the Federal Government had yet to address the negative effects on health, economy, culture and environment.

INC further argued that the restiveness in the region was the people’s reaction to oppression and frustrations, stressing that the militarisation of the area had resulted in severe erosion of their cherished values as a people.

The summit, however, thanked Nigerians for the support and solidarity they gave the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan even “in the heated ambiance of the 2015 general elections”.