On FFK, Private Jet Rides and Nigerian Re-Structuring {Re:Yorubas have ran out of patience ..spokes person

[Mobolaji Aluko]

My People:

That FFK missed the Yoruba summit in Ibadan - where Yoruba patience was expressed to have run out - because of a four-hour road block between Okene and Lokoja is very interesting indeed.

Please come with me to know why......

On Tuesday, March 24, 2015  - four days to the rescheduled March 28 presidential election date -  I was booked on a 6.00 pm or so Arik flight from Abuja to Port Harcourt.  At that time, INEC had not informed any Vice-Chancellor that he/she had an electoral duty on March 28 - at least I was not aware of any, so I meant to get to Port Harcourt on Tuesday, and head to Akure on Thursday to wait out the Presidential elections on Saturday.

However, after waiting for four hours at the airport that Tuesday, the Arik flight was cancelled, and I had to return to my Abuja hotel.  There was no direct flight available to Port Harcourt on Wednesday, so I booked a 3.00 pm flight that would take me to Lagos that Wednesday, and then a 7 am flght to Port Harcourt on Thursday morning.  However, again, after about a six-hour delay, the flight was cancelled AGAIN, but this time my LUGGAGE was taken to Lagos WITHOUT me being on board - which I did not know until later!

That was the same flight to Lagos  - my second cancelled flight - that Femi Fani-Kayode was on.  When the cancellation was announced, he emerged from the VIP room with a clutter of persons  - I hardly ever use the VIP room; it is too noisy, with politicians coming and going, and banging on each others backs, but I have used the room (after reluctantly shedding N3,000K), when I episodically feel important.. Anyway,  FFK  headed to the Arik desk where I was, and I made to introduce myself to him, only for him to thrust out his hands in recognition of me, and saying "I know you, Prof.....keep on writing...I read you!"

After a quick chuckle, I lamented that this was my second cancellation in two days, to which he said, "Oh well, I have to get to Lagos tonight, I am headed right now to the tarmac for a private jet that I have just arranged!"

Lord have mercy - for a moment, I was tempted to tell him, "Please, please, can I ride with you?" - only to be held back by the thought that "Suppose he refused me?  Or suppose he accepts, and I ride with him, and the world knows that I rode with FFK on his private jet? How would I FULLY be able to explain myself?"

Anyway, I let the temptation go, and I guess that FFK did get to Lagos that Wednesday night (leaving at 11 pm), while I did not return to my hotel until about 12.30 am on Thursday - without my luggage!

That is why it is interesting to learn that FFK did not rent/hire another jet to get to Ibadan on that fateful Yoruba Summit day....:-)

Moving on....because I TOO rode a private jet like FFK five days later, this time from Asaba to Abuja.....eat your heart out FFK! :-)

It was when I and several other passengers go to Arik's luggage desk at about 11.15 pm that Wednesday that we were told that ALL of our luggage had gone with an earlier flight to Lagos!  What?  Is that not a security breach?  And as for me:  my Wednesday flight to Lagos was only really to catch a 7 am flight to PH on Thursday, which I could no longer fulfil, since I was stuck in Abuja...and now my luggage was stuck in Lagos?  

What to do?  

After many calls, it was determined that indeed my luggage was in Lagos, and that I should come back to the airport at about 7.40 am Thursday, that my luggage would be on the 7.00 am flight from Lagos to Abuja.....

So back I was at the airport at 7.00 am - after a four-hour sleep - to retrieve my luggage - on Thursday.

I was now THOROUGHLY through with air travel during that election period, and decided to go by road to Akure that Thursday and await the Saturday presidential elections there.  It was an eventless six-hour journey, arriving at Akure at about 5 pm on Thursday  - much surer that a 45-minute air journey from Abuja to Lagos or Port Harcourt - or to the abandoned Akure route.

The story would have ended there, except that at noon of Friday, I got an email from INEC assigning me to Delta State to be the INEC Presidential Returning Officer!  I immediately proceeded to Asaba, and got there - after some road misses - at about 10 pm on Friday, in readiness for the Saturday exercise.

All through Saturday March 28, no Delta State election results.  Sunday March 29, ditto.  Monday afternoon, March 30, maybe five out of twenty five local government results came in.  I had meant to travel out of the country on Tuesday night March 31 to get to the US on April 1 in time for my April 2 60th birthday, and I knew my schedule was in trouble. So I re-booked my flight, moving it by one day till April 1 (to arrive in the US on my birthday), but sent a text to INEC Chief Prof. Jega that if the results did not come in on time, I would resign my ad-hoc office and have someone else complete my work since I had to be with my family on my 60th birthday.  So a few calls were made, and by Monday night, a total of about fourteen local governments came in. On Tuesday morning, by 10 am, all the remaining eleven local governments had come in;  all the results were duly compiled, and by 2 pm, a private jet revving at Asaba Airport was waiting to convey the INEC Resident Commissioner and myself (and maybe three other INEC staff) to Abuja, following which was a speedy road transfer straight to the International Conference Center.  The rest is history, post Orubebe, post-Effurun VC who could not read his own results! ;-)

So like FFK, I too had a private jet ride around Election Time - and one can get used to that if one is not careful! :-)

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

Shaking his head

PS:  By the way, all that threat of the Yoruba seceding because of some Fulani herdsman rampaging in Akure environs is top-class crap, if you would pardon my Latin.  There are more important reasons for the need to fundamentally re-structure the country - stay tuned for more progressive reasons.

 

‘Yoruba’s patience should not be mistaken for weakness’

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By Henry Umoru
ABUJA – AGAINST the backdrop of cases of kidnap, harassment and destruction of farms by Fulani herdsmen, former Spokesperson of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode has warned that the South West may resort to self help if the government fails to protect the yoruba race.

In a statement yesterday, Fani- Kayode who hailed the Yoruba peoples meeting held in Ibadan, however warned that the zone cannot be sacrificial lamb to any other zone of the country.

According to the former Minister of Aviation, if and when the people of the South West were pushed to the wall, they would then know exactly what to do, adding that the killings, cases of rape and kidnap must stop.

Fani- Kayode’s statement read in full, “I am delighted that the Yoruba leaders met in Ibadan today and that they had a historic and successful meeting. I was scheduled to attend the meeting myself and I was slated to address the gathering. We left Abuja for Ibadan in a long convoy at 5.00 a.m in the morning but between Lokoja and Okene the road was completely blocked. We were stuck in the logjam for over four hours and by the time we got to Ibadan the meeting had ended.

“Even though we didn’t make it in time I was fully briefed about the meeting and I am very happy about its’ success and outcome. I fully support all the resolutions that were made and I am very proud of all those leaders that participated in it and of the conveners.

“What they have done is long overdue and it is important that we keep it up. The Yoruba must come together and stand united against those that seek to divide, shame and humiliate us and who wish to turn us into second class citizens.

“We must also be ready to defend our territory and our people when and where the government fails in its sacred duty to do it for us. Self-help and self-defense is not a crime but a necessity. We cannot be anyone’s sacrificial lamb.

“This meeting is a step in the right direction and I hope that those who kill, maim, rape and humiliate our people and desecrate our homes and land in the name of cattle-rearing get the message. Things can never be the same again and as long as they continue to kill and attack our people there can never be peace between us.

“Let this meeting be a warning to those that underestimate our resolve in this matter and that mistake our kindness and patience for weakness. The message is loud and clear: if and when we are pushed to the wall we know exactly what to do. The killings, the rapings, the abductions and the desecration and pillaging of our land and farms by these Fulani herdsmen must stop or else there will be consequences.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/yorubas-patience-should-not-be-mistaken-for-weakness/

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[Philip Achusim]

VC Aluko: Ewena iwe. Don't vex. This is a habit of mine, a compulsive habit, I might as well confess. As I read your post, my thoughts were not on whether you got to Lagos or Port Harcourt. But rather on the tolls on your health that these frequent episodes take. I ask myself if my health would be adversely affected if I had to wait 4 hours for a flight that is cancelled eventually. I say yes. I cannot do that. To begin with, I have not flown on any local flights in Nigeria since 1989. I am afraid some sucker will forget to change the oil or substitute jet fuel with kerosine to save money. Rather than wait 4 hours at an airport, why not leave 4 hours earlier on the road? Ok. You have been gone for 4 years from the friendly confines of DC. Have you aged just 4 years or more in that period? When was the last time you had your annual checkup in DC? Health wise, how are you? Is waiting 4 hours for a 1 hour flight that is eventually cancelled, and returning to your hotel room after 12.30am taking a toll? And your wife was home sleeping? Do you now see why Nigeria has widows and not widowers? And I am Ezeana Achusim Odi-Isaa Nwa Dim Orioha AKA Onyeukwu. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

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[Mobolaji Aluko]

Igirigi Ezeana Achusim:

Thanks for your concern.  I have not booked Arik Airlines EVER (except from Warri to Abuja last week; no other airline) since those three horrible days in March - preferring Aero and Dana instead, in that order, and not once have I had those experiences of excessive delays or cancelled flights.

As to my wife, yes she was sleeping at home - in Maryland USA during that period!  However, when she was with me recently for an extended period of time, she STOUTLY refused to fly anywhere in Nigeria, so I had to tag along with her on the road everywhere we had to travel together to......

Which led to a recent experience between Otuoke and Lagos.....

At 1 pm, in broad daylight, on a Saturday two months in ago, just outside Benin,  we suddenly saw a number of cars and buses turning round in front of us!  What is the problem, what is the problem, we asked?  Apparently, a band of highway robbers was operating not too far in front of us, so everybody was taking shelter in a gas station not too far from where we had to turn back from.  We joined them, and waited for about one hour at the gas station before we were told that the coast was clear....

That was my wife's first experience of that "near-robbery", but that was my second, the first being outside of Oraifite (Anambra State) back in 2010 or so....

Anyway, an hour after proceeding from that near-robbery site, some passing cars started to wave at us and point to our front driver's side tire....it was wobbling dangerously, so we had to stop, luckily at a village that had a road-side mechanic that turned out to be a nice Ondo "egin" fellow.  He thanked God for us that our tire would have flown off, and when he inspected the second front tire, he found the same problem, and advised us to change the tire gears for both.  By this time, I think that my wife was wishing that we had flown jejely from Port Harcourt to Lagos - but she could not voice it lest I got angry :-).  Anyway, we asked the mechanic to fix the problem, so he called his "parts supplier", who quickly showed up with two brand new (Japanese original?) parts - that cost us N300K (after hard bargaining) on the spot!  The supplier plaintively asked me whether we were going to pay him, and I said, "Of course.....just fix it."  My wife and I looked quite prosperous to him, so he went ahead to allow the mechanic to fix the car before we paid him a penny......only for me to whip out my credit card!  How do you expect me to be carrying around so much money?

No problem - he said.  He called, then got and gave me his boss's bank and account number, and there and then I transferred money from my bank account to his boss's bank account - high technology in a Nigerian village! I showed him my own alert indicating that money had been transferred from my account....but his boss had not received his own alert yet, but the mechanic trusted us, and allowed us to proceed to Lagos.

Man, did we get the part supplier in trouble for the next two days......his boss did not get an alert that night (Saturday), or throughout Sunday.  So he was arrested by the police for suspicion of duping his boss, and police came to the mechanic's place and slapped him around.  We got desperate calls from both the supplier and the mechanic pleading with us to "send another money" - which I refused because I was sure that I had sent the first tranche. Anyway,  I asked to speak to the boss - gave him my name, and explained to him that I was VC of Federal University Otuoke, that he should exercise patience, that I was not about to dupe him, that maybe it was weekend that was why the money had not shown up.

Anyway, by Monday noon, the money had shown up - and my phone did not ring anymore, just like Abati's no longer rings....

That is part of my road experience so far.......pretty interesting, is it not?

The moral of the story is that I fly EVERYWHERE I can in Nigeria, rather than use the road.  If I were to ADD up all the delays in the airports to ALL the delays I would have gotten if I drove to ALL of where I fly to, there would be NO COMPARISON.  When I fly, I take my laptop - with a modem stick - buy newspapers, and time flies by quickly during delays. On the road, I can't surf easily, and I spend all the time cautioning my driver or helping him on the lookout for untutored oncoming drivers.   The only constant stress in flight - outside of delays - is when the plane does "jigi-jigi" in the air..like when from your neck of the woods an Igbo passenger next to me once exclaimed while we were descending  "Stupid pilot - .ee nor see the bump?  Aha, the plane just go up and down.. ee nor see the bump?"..  It is only on those occasions that  I wonder whether "this is it!" in a fatalistic gallows humor.

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

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[Philip Achusim]

VC Aluko: You are married to a wise wife. She probably read me write years ago that the last time I flew from Lagos to Jos in 1989, I learned from an onboard Phillipino mechanic that I was riding in a plane retired from service in his country. Since then, I take all my chances on the road, dictating the speed of travel. When my own employees were hesitant to drive me to Lagos from Jos in my own truck, after suggesting I fly, I took a luxury bus to Lagos. Near Abuja, thieves left stones on the road. I assured all Dim Orioha was on the bus with me. Besides I know Ekiti. Arrived Lagos late. Nothing happened. It is not that the planes will crash. But the thought that our maintenance culture may leave a plane in service that should not fly is what will torture me in that 1 hour of flight. I take all my chances on the road in Nigeria to avoid that stress. I could faint if I was on board a local flight in Nigeria and there was an air turbulence. Upon arrival in Lagos, it was not unusual to see me at Ibru Fisheries loading a 911 for my long trip to Jos. I rode with the right attitude. VC. I tell my children and other relatives to shun every stressful situation. I avoid all stressful situations at any cost. Stress is not good for my health. Catching a local flight in Nigeria is full of stress, I read repeatedly.

And I am Ezeana Achusim Odi-Isaa Nwa Dim Orioha AKA Onyeukwu. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

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[Yeye Rolling]

I think this story is made up  fabu..  Credit card payment in the middle of no where    Na lie!

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[Ayo Ojutalayo]

Yeye Rolling, What would be the purpose for fabricating the fabu? Ayo Ojutalayo Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From:"'Yeye Rolling' via AfricanWorldForum" <africanw...@googlegroups.com> Date:Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 6:25 PM Subject:Re: [africanworldforum] Re: On FFK, Private Jet Rides and Nigerian Re-Structuring {Re:Yorubas have ran out of patience ..spokes person

[afis 'Deinde]

This Yeye Dey Smell, Femi Weresanya, can't read.

Who says he paid with credit card?
If the payment was made with credit card how come the mechanic and the seller of parts kept calling till 12noon on Monday?

Why the bank alerts telling both parties the money cleared?

Yeye Dey Smell, go learn to read and understand.

Shikena 

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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[Yeye Rolling]

Ayo:

A business that is not set up to accept credit card payment can not do so on a moment notice.   That is a blatant lie!

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[Yeye Rolling]

Shut up   omo ale !

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[afis 'Deinde]

This Yeye Dey Smell, Femi Weresanya, can't read.

Who says he paid with credit card?
If the payment was made with credit card how come the mechanic and the seller of parts kept calling till 12noon on Monday?

Why the bank alerts telling both parties the money cleared?

Yeye Dey Smell, go learn to read and understand.

Shikena 

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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[afis 'Deinde]

You are still a punk Yeye Dey Smell......how's your Mortuary work? 

Are you still having carnal knowledge of Dead Bodies? 

Stupid man, fucking dead bodies at a mortuary job, wait till I report you.

You gon' be famous!

This Yeye Dey Smell, Femi Weresanya, can't read.

Who says he paid with credit card?
If the payment was made with credit card how come the mechanic and the seller of parts kept calling till 12noon on Monday?

Why the bank alerts telling both parties the money cleared?

Yeye Dey Smell, go learn to read and understand.

Shikena 

Afis

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[Ayo Ojutalayo]

Yeye Rolling,  Becareful how you underrate how technology is being used/adapted in developing societies.  Ayo Ojutalayo

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[Philip Achusim]

Ayo: Yea. He must be careful indeed. Would you accept a credit card payment in the developing countries? No. A travel agent in Oaklawn, a suburb of Chicago, accepted American Express payment for a dozen round trip tickets Lagos to London by a Nigerian. Those were not American Express cards. They were Nigerian Expresc cards. They lost big time.

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Yeye Rolling, Becareful how you underrate how technology is being used/adapted in developing societies. Ayo Ojutalayo

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Ayo: A business that is not set up to accept credit card payment can not do so on a moment notice. That is a blatant lie!

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Yeye Rolling, What would be the purpose for fabricating the fabu?

Ayo Ojutalayo Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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I think this story is made up fabu.. Credit card payment in the middle of no where Na lie!

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[Yeye Rolling]

There is a registration process that happens prior to a merchant accepting credit cards..   It can not happen at the point of transaction       Aluko is lying 

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[Afis 'Deinde]

"My wife and I looked quite prosperous to him, so he went ahead to allow the mechanic to fix the car before we paid him a penny......only for me to whip out my credit card! How do you expect me to be carrying around so much money?

No problem - he said. He called, then got and gave me his boss's bank and account number, and there and then I transferred money from my bank account to his boss's bank account - high technology in a Nigerian village! I showed him my own alert indicating that money had been transferred from my account....but his boss had not received his own alert yet, but the mechanic trusted us, and allowed us to proceed to Lagos.".........Dr Aluko.

This dumb ass Femi Weresanya is a pest. He's an ignoramus who don't and can't read.

Human waste!

Afis
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[Ayo Ojutalayo]

"Apparently, a band of highway robbers was operating not too far in front of us, so everybody was taking shelter in a gas station not too far from where we had to turn back from." . . . . Bolaji Aluko

The incorrigible Inyanminrin Vin Otuonye will want us to believe that the correct sentence is a "band of highway robbers were operating".

Ayo Ojutalayo

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ” . . . Martin Luther King Jr

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[Vin Otuonye]

Agbaya Ayo Ojuotele:
 
The best thing I've done to you these couple of days is to get you to check your sentence to make sure the right verb is used. Now, thank me for that. I still think you're a juvenile. You have to be. Your reasoning leaves much to be desired.
 
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Subject: Incorrigible Inyanminrin Vin Otuonye: Re: On FFK, Private Jet Rides and Nigerian Re-Structuring {Re:Yorubas have ran out of patience ..spokes person

[Yeye Rolling]

Odoyo ni e.  Why is he whipping out a credit card in the middle of the jungle?    What technology is he talking about?  The implication here is that the credit card was the basis of payment.   Roasted monkey!

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[afis 'Deinde]

"Why is he whipping out a credit card in the middle of the jungle?    What technology is he talking about?  The implication here is that the credit card was the basis of payment.".......Femi Weresanya, Assistant Mortuary Attendant, Chicago General Hospital.


Afis comment: I now know why you do driveby, you can't sustain any intelligent debate, your musket is empty halfway.

I know you can't read but try to read this again, he states: "He called, then got and gave me his boss's bank and account number, and there and then I transferred money from my bank account to his boss's bank account - high technology in a Nigerian village! I showed him my own alert indicating that money had been transferred from my account....but his boss had not received his own alert yet, but the mechanic trusted us, and allowed us to proceed to Lagos.".........Dr Aluko.

My tenants pay into my account in Nigeria, and I get "bank alerts".  So what is so mind blowing to you, Yeye Dey Smell, that you couldn't fathom?
You can send money into people's account electronically now in Nigeria, even in a village.
Yeye Dey Smell, you need to go back to Nigeria, visit sometimes!

Shikena
Afis
“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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Links to "Ministerial Screening: Rivers Apc Woos Senate, Says, “let Amaechi Take A Bow And Go”

By APC Rivers State

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the weekend made a strong case for the immediate past governor of the State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to be among the few who should be given special consideration by the Senate during the screening of ministerial nominees.

The party in a statement issued on Sunday in Port Harcourt by the State Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, commended the Senate for decision to be thorough in the forthcoming screening exercise but appealed to it not to totally discard the tradition of asking deserving ones to take a bow and go.

“We wish to respectfully appeal to the Distinguished Senate to put Rt. Hon. Amaechi on the list of nominees to be honoured with the ‘bow and go’ tradition because he is a distinguished former lawmaker and, indeed, the only Nigerian who apart from being the Speaker of a State House of Assembly for eight years from 1999 to 2007, but also meritoriously served as Chairman of the Nigerian Speakers Forum, thereby greatly contributing to the legislative evolution of Nigeria,” Rivers APC said.

The party also pointed out Amaechi is one of the few Nigerians who have enjoyed the privilege of being elected Governor of a State for two consecutive terms and is the only Nigerian who has served for two terms as the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum.

"Based on the above facts coupled with the revolutionary leadership of Amaechi during his eight golden years in Rivers State that stands him as the best Governor that ever governed the State, we appeal to the Senate to ignore the ranting an ramblings of the drowning Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, whose frustration stems from the fact that Amaechi led the battle that ousted the evil administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. We equally appeal to ignore the misguided petitions by Senator George Sekibo and his co travellers and accord Amaechi his due respect as a great and patriotic Nigerian by allowing him to take a bow and go during the screening exercise," the party said.

“In addition, Amaechi’s great sacrifices that helped to bring about the present change in the country are well known and have been widely acknowledged by people from various walks of life. We are confident that our great Senators will follow suit by asking this patriotic Nigerian whose love for a strong, virile and united Nigeria is infectious to take a bow and go when he appears before them in the days ahead,” Rivers APC said.

http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/193302/1/ministerial-screening-rivers-apc-woos-sena.html

http://newsdayngonline.com/?p=6798
http://www.naijacenter.com/politics/ministerial-screening-lets-amaechi-take-a-bow-and-go-rivers-apc-woos-senate/

https://www.today.ng/news/23705/ministerial-screening-apc-urges-senate-to-let-amaechi-take-a-bow-and-go/

http://newsdiaryonline.com/ministerial-screening-rivers-apc-urges-senate-to-let-amaechi-take-a-bow-and-go/

http://www.nigeriannewspapers.today/rivers-apc-woos-senate%E2%80%8E-wants-amaechi-to-take-a-bow-and-go/

http://metrowatchonline.com/rivers-apc-woos-senate%E2%80%8E-wants-amaechi-to-take-a-bow-and-go/

http://www.swiftreporters.com/ministerial-screening-rivers-apc-woos-senate-says-let-amaechi-take-a-bow-and-go/

http://www.puoreports.com/2015/10/rivers-apc-begs-senatorshelp-us-ask.html

http://newafricanpress.com/2015/10/11/ministerial-screening-rivers-apc

http://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/detail.php?news=16179&title=Ministerial-Screening:-Rivers-APC-woos-Senate,-says,-%E2%80%9CLet-Amaechi-take-a-bow-and-go%E2%80%9D

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