Photos: Tinubu Breaks Fast with Pres. Buhari; dismisses rumours of strained Relationship

President Muhammadu Buhari welcomes Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to dinner at the Presidential Villa, Abuja

After Rumours about their relationship being strained, National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former governor Rotimi Amaechi and Chief Audu Ogbeh were among the dignitaries that partook in the breaking of fast with President Muhammadu buhari in Abuja today.

Representatives of 13 other political parties were also at the dinner.

In after dinner comments, Tinubu dismissed speculations that his relationship with Buhari has gone sour.

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari at a dinner at the Presidential Villa

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari at a dinner at the Presidential Villa

President Muhammadu Buhari exchange pleasantry former Governor of Rivers state and Director General APC Presidential Campaign, Rotimi Amaechi during the breaking of Ramadan fast at the Aso villa in Abuja

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu laughs to a joke shared by President Buhari as he exchanges pleasantry with Rt Hon Rotimi Amaechi

Chief Audu Ogbe also gets a presidential handshake as he joins Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Tinubu, Rotimi Amaechi at the dinner table at Aso Villa in Abuja

Source: PM News

Okonjo-Iweala hands Pres. Buhari list of Corrupt Deals Approved by Goodluck Jonathan

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the immediate past Finance Minister has handed President Muhammadu Buhari a list of corrupt deals approved by Goodluck Jonathan, SaharaReporters has reported.

The online news medium claimed that Okonjo-Iweala has been quietly cooperating with Buhari’s administration. “In an attempt to curry favor with the new government, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala recently directed officials of her polling agency, NOI Polls, to give President Buhari a 70 per cent approval rating among Nigerians,” SaharaReporters said.

Federal Law maker Sued President Buhari And Other Federal Officers

Report has it that a member of the House of Representatives in Nigeria, Honourable Igariwey Onwe has sued President Muhammadu Buhari for granting a bailout to states, insisting that the decision was ‘unconstitutional, null and void’.


The case was filed with the Abuja High Court on Wednesday and is seeking to establish whether the President can by way of fiat, call for the appropriation and disbursement of public revenue from the distributable pool account to the Federal, State and Local Governments, without prescription from the National Assembly. Our President Buhari recently approved a N400 billion bailout package to enable states pay salaries to their workers.

Sued alongside President Buhari are the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice and the Federal Ministry of Finance. Others are the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, the Accountant General of the Federation and Auditor General of the Federation.

Basketmouth Defends Pres. Buhari

Popular Nigerian comedian Basketmouth defends President Buhari against PDP's accusations of incompetency.

7 Things Pres. Buhari told the new Service Chiefs

Newly Appointed Service Chiefs Meet President Buhari (Photo: Vanguard)

President Muhammadu Buhari in a surprise move, sacked all the service chiefs, and immediately appointed new officers to replace them.

And he told them the following seven things:

1. All of you, including the National Security Adviser, were chosen on merit.

2. Your records gave you the job. Save for the new Chief of Army Staff whom I briefly met at his Command at the Multi-National Joint Task Force, in Chad.

3. I don’t know any of you.

4. Your records recommended you.

5. Legally, you are in acting capacity until the National Assembly accepts you.

6. It is only then that you will take the oath of office.

7. Thereafter, we will sit down and talk in more detail.

Buhari Sacks Chief Security Officer

Report has it that President Muhammadu Buhari has relieved his Chief Security Officer, Abdulrahman Mani of his duty and requested the State Security Service to redeploy him out of the presidential villa. He has been replaced with Abubakar Usman,who, until his appointment was an assistant director in the Bayelsa state command of the SSS but the presidency has yet to officially announce the development.

It has been revealed by sources within the Presidency why Mani was sacked. He was sacked over what insiders described as "shady deals" in fixing appointments and for "undermining the president."

According to the presidency sources, Mani committed various misdemeanours, “chief among which was a recent discovery that he was actually the one who leaked Buhari’s itinerary to Diezani Alison-Madueke when he travelled to London in May”. Alison-Madueke, then minister of petroleum resources, had surprisingly travelled on the same British Airways flight with Buhari, sitting in the same cabin and right behind the then president-elect. The former minister normally flew private jets in and outside the country and her presence on the flight was not considered a coincidence. It was alleged that she wanted to curry the favour of Buhari following a series of allegations of corruption against her, although her aides denied the claim, maintaining that she was on a private trip for her son’s graduation. “Investigations also revealed that Mani has been actively undermining the president, working against every value the president upholds and conducting himself in such a manner as to suggest that he is out to pull down the president". Mani was appointed Buhari’s CSO after the presidential election in March, although he had been organising security for Buhari s
the presidential election in March, although he had been organising security for Buhari since 2011. Buhari also fired Widi Liman, his administrative officer, who was said to be hand-in-gloves with Mani in turning securing appointments with the president into a “business venture”. Bashir Abubakar is the new CSO to the president while Mani has been redeployed to Ebonyi state. Abubakar was until now an assistant director in the Bayelsa state command of the Department of State Service (DSS). Liman, who is yet to be replaced, was a close aide to governor of Kaduna state, Nasir el-Rufai, while he was FCT minister. He has been transferred to Oyo  state command of the DSS.

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[Photos] APC NEC meeting: Buhari, Saraki and Dogara attend while, Tinubu and Akande absent

President Buhari, Senator Bukola Saraki, Hon Yakubu Dogara and other party members are currently at the APC National secretariat to attend its inaugural National Executive Council meeting. Two of the party's chieftains, Bola Tinubu and Bisi Akande did not attend the meeting. Top on the agenda of the meeting is the crisis rocking the National Assembly. More pics after the cut...