Dangote: I’m Not Interested in Buying NLNG, Other National Assets
Says naira under attack, N500/$ not true reflection of currency’s value rights in the event of assets sale Chika Amanze-Nwachuku, Obinna Chima and Ejiofor Alike Following the outcry that has
trailed the advocacy for the sale of the country’s national assets as a quick measure to fund the 2016 budget and
boost the country’s foreign exchange reserves, the President/Chief Executive of Dangote Group, Alhaji
Aliko Dangote, has dismissed insinuations that his advocacy for the sale of the assets was self-serving, saying he was
IOCs to exercise preemptive
not interested in any of the assets. Dangote, who spoke in an exclusive interview with
THISDAY, stressed that if the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Continued on page 6
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Sheriff, Makarfi to Meet Jonathan, Governors on Peace Deal Fresh convention on the cards Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja In furtherance of the new peace efforts embarked upon by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee (NCC) and the faction led by Senator Ali Modu Sheriff have resolved to meet with former President Goodluck Jonathan and the governors elected on its platform to intimate them of the reconciliation plans. The meeting with the former president and governors is scheduled to take place between Continued on page 9
FINALLY, BUHARI GETS HIS BIOGRAPHY
L-R: Wife of the president, Mrs. Aisha Buhari; President Muhammadu Buhari; former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon; and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, at the launch of the president’s biography titled, “Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria” written by Professor John Paden, in Abuja… yesterday
Tinubu: How We Plotted PDP’s Ouster Says Buhari on assignment to correct decades of past wrongs Proceeds from president’s biography donated to IDPs
Tobi Soniyi in Abuja andErnest Chinwo in Port Harcourt The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday in Abuja gave a historical account of how the ruling party came to being and brought to a
sudden end the reign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Reviewing the book, “Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria” written by Professor John Paden, during its launch in Abuja, Tinubu provided a rare insight into the challenges
faced by political parties that came together to form an alliance that produced the APC, which eventually ended the reign of PDP. According to him, to defeat PDP, which had boasted it would rule Nigeria for 60 years, a political alliance had to be formed.
He said: “In forming the ‘new’ party, we had three challenges. The first was learning the right lessons from the aborted attempt at political cooperation in 2011. Fortunately, both the ACN and CPC regretted our inability to conclude a pact in 2011. “We agreed that there
would be no recrimination over what did not happen before. We agreed there would be an intensified effort to forge the united effort that eluded us in 2011. “In 2011, both parties wanted cooperation, but became stuck on whether that should take the form of an
alliance or outright merger. This difference gave rise to another one, regarding how the vice-presidential candidate, who would run with the presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, would be selected. Continued on page 9