Obasanjo, Atiku, Saraki Perfect Plan to Unseat President Zakari: PDP reports Buhari to Abdulsalami Committee, UN Shola Oyeyipo and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja As the presidential election inches closer, former President Olusegun Obasanjo; former Vice President and Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yesterday held a crucial meeting in Lagos to perfect strategies for the election.
The meeting came on the heels of the call by the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation on the General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd)led National Peace Committee, the United Nations and all
world leaders to call President Muhammadu Buhari to order, insisting that there is no way free and fair elections could be guaranteed when his niece, Mrs. Amina Zakari, is heading the collation of presidential
election results. The over three-hour meeting, which held behind closed-door at the Lekki Phase I Estate residence of renowned South-west leader and Afenifere chieftain, Chief
Ayo Adebanjo, had prominent politicians in attendance. A source at the meeting told THISDAY, “It was a strategy meeting towards 2019 and how Continued on page 11
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THE DEBATE BEGINS... L-R: Editor, THISDAY Newspapers, Mr. Bolaji Adebiyi; Chairman, Editorial Board, Mr. Segun Adeniyi; State House Correspondent, Mr. Omololu Ogunmade; Managing Director, Mr. Eniola Bello; President Muhammadu Buhari; Chairman, THISDAY and Arise News TV, Prince Nduka Obaigbena; Managing Director, Arise News TV, Ms. Ijeoma Nwogwugwu; and Deputy Managing Director, THISDAY, Mr. Kayode Komolafe, after THISDAY Board of Editors’ interview with the president in Abuja... yesterday godwin omoigui
Despite a decline of 17.8 per cent recorded by the Nigerian stock market in 2018, some investors in the market still recorded gains, THISDAY’s investigation has revealed. Apart from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) AllShare Index (ASI) that fell by 17.8 per cent, all other indices also depreciated with many underperforming the NSE ASI. But THISDAY gathered that amidst the rampaging bears, some stocks still delivered significant positive returns to investors last year. For instance, Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCNN) Plc, which is a member of BUA Group, Continued on page 49
Buhari: I Stand with the Masses, Knowing They Will See Me Through Promises to take action on IG Idris
Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari last night said he would continue to stand with the country’s masses because they constitute the bulk of his supporters and
proceeded to descend heavily on the elite for what he called their complicity in the events that led to the sorry state of the country. Buhari who made this declaration during an exclusive interview with THISDAY's
Board of Editors in the State House, Abuja was very critical of the Nigerian elite, resulting in the question on whether his hard stance against the elite was because majority of his supporters are drawn from the masses.
The president was very swift in answering the question in the affirmative, saying the editor who asked the question had already answered it by noting that indeed, it was the masses who helped him to ascend to the seat of power
and remained his unalloyed supporters. "Exactly. You have answered the question," Buhari said. He questioned the role the elite played when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was in power, saying
despite the oil price boom at the time, the party rather than improve infrastructure looted the national treasury without any whimper from the elite. He said, "I told you my
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