Process licensors begin audit of NNPC's refineries Adeola Yusuf eptitude. lCorporation targets 60% local refining capacity for 2017 Minister of State for lobal process li- (NNPC) with particular in- The Federal Govern- nance of the refineries in Harcourt, Warri and Ka- Petroleum Resources, Dr. censors have com- terest in the process units ment has spent more than 16 years, whereas the four duna have, over the years, Ibe Kachikwu, in one of Gmenced the audit of the four refineries. N264 billion for the mainte- refineries, located in Port suffered epilepsy and in- his visits to the refineries, of Nigerian National agreed that their non-per- Petroleum Corporation ABUJA AIRPORT CLOSURE: FOREIGN AIRLINES PREFER LaGOS TO KADUNA }4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Sanctity Of Truth NIGERIA’S MOST AUTHORITATIVE NEWSPAPER IN POLITICS AND BUSINESS Monday, January 9, 2017 Vol. 3 No. 1054 /newtelegraph @newtelegraph1 www.newtelegraphonline.com N150 /newtelegraph @newtelegraph1 www.newtelegraphonline.com Aisha Buhari: Herdsmen kill Judiciary Ex-Niger Ex-First Ladies three policemen, workers lament governor, Kure, spent £32,000 as two others non-payment dies in German jet landing cost missing }5 Idris of salaries }3 Onnoghen hospital }35 T he late Kure in London }2 Aisha 2019 PRESIDENCY: N orthern govs, others scheme for Buhari’s seat lPDP to APC: You can’t capture South-East }2 & 32 1 1,000 DAYS OF CHIBOK: POLICE STOP BBOG MARCH TO VILLA }7 2 1. Members of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) campaign during a procession in Abuja on the 1000-day of abduction of Chibok girls …yesterday. 2. Some of the policemen preventing members of the #BBOG from marching on the Presidential Villa in Abuja…yesterday. PHOTO: ELIJAH OLALUYI Bakare to President: Reshuffle your cabinet …calls for restructuring, scrapping of states }3 & 12 PEANUTS COULD PREVENT ALLERGIES IN BABIES }7 MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2017 2 NEWS NEW TELEGRAPH Northern govs, others scheme for Buhari’s seat Temitope Ogunbanke hunger, hardship and nancial Crimes Commis- “The problem is that the Ibrahim Shekarau to visit in the PDP believe that and Onyekachi Eze uncertainties across the sion (EFCC). president is not showing Governor Seriake Dick- the former vice president country, the president A source close to the for- any sign on the direction son. has more than a passing olitical gladiators would need a miracle in mer minister confirmed he might go. But left with Shekarau is also said to interest in the PDP affair. in the northern the last two years of his that the governor contact- the governors, they would be interested in the race. But his major obstacle to part of the coun- first term to earn a second ed the former minister to want him to take the Nel- Lamido has also been to the presidency remains his try are warming term. join APC. son Mandela option; do Ekiti, Osun and Gombe former boss, former Presi- Ptheir political machines It was gathered that He said: “The governor one term and leave in 2019. states, among others in dent Olusegun Obasanjo, in preparation for the 2019 within the APC, three gov- has been calling him to Many of them are hoping his bid to talk sense into who has ensured that election. They have, there- ernors from the North- join the APC. I don’t know that the option would be the party faithful. Sources Atiku neither emerged on fore, lined up some promi- West are currently work- what the situation is now, accepted by the president,” close to him said that the either platform in the past. nent political actors for the ing underground to ensure but they have been talking the source said. visits are not just recon- It was further learnt 2019 presidency. that they get the ticket of for some time to join the But while the APC gov- ciliatory. He is also selling that former governor of New Telegraph gath- the party. They are cur- APC. That was before the ernors and stalwarts like the presidential agenda to Kano State, Senator Rabiu ered that while some rently banking on Buhari EFCC arrested the former former Vice-President Ati- them. Kwankwaso, who has been (within the ruling All Pro- not running. minister and took him to ku Abubakar are keeping It was gathered that having a running battle gressives Congress, APC) One of the governors, court. He is still keeping their plans under wraps part of the reasons the with his governor, Ibrahim are banking their prepara- who is believed to be very his cards open.” and waiting on Buhari, crisis in the PDP has lin- Ganduje, who he installed, tions on the possibility that close to the president, is Another source close that is not the case with the gered so long with failed might also have an interest President Muhammadu also said to be warming to an APC senator, who PDP leaders in the North. peace moves trailing it is in the race. Buhari may not run for a up for the battle. Sources preferred anonymity, told Currently, a former Gov- the ambition of the two Kwankwaso has kept second term, others within said that the governor has New Telegraph that “most ernor of Jigawa State, Dr. factional chairmen, Sena- a low profile, partly be- the ruling party and the also busied himself with of the APC governors in Sule Lamido, has declared tor Ali Modu Sheriff and cause of his battles in his Peoples Democratic Party mobilisation of forces even the North are open for the his intention to run for the Senator Ahmed Makarfi to native Kano. There have (PDP) are hoping that outside the APC; mobilis- presidency. Those who are presidency in 2019, declar- run in 2019. been speculations for a with the performance of ing even PDP members to not working openly are ing that only God can stop A top member of the long time that he might the APC-led Federal Gov- cross over to the APC. working secretly. But as him in 2019. PDP informed New Tele- return to the PDP, owing ernment going into two A top member of the you know, they are watch- Lamido is currently the graph that while it is in the to his marginalisation in years, the Buhari myth PDP in the South-West, ing developments at the chairman of the reconcili- open that Sheriff wants to the APC. that shocked the whole who is a former minister, Villa. They want to be sure ation committee of the run, Makarfi’s ambition is But it was learnt that country in the 2015 general was among those contact- the president is not run- PDP and has been tour- latent and was discovered the North-East PDP are elections might not count ed by the governor to move ning before they come out ing the whole country to by some governors of the also up to the battle for in 2019. over to the APC. That was in the open. Some of the bring back the PDP to life. party, who are not comfort- the presidency. Since 1999, There is the belief that before the former minister governors are all working He was recently in Bayelsa able with it. only the North-West has with the economic down- started having problems and waiting for the presi- State with a former Gover- He said: “We know that produced the presidents turn, which has brought with the Economic and Fi- dent to make up his mind.” nor of Kano State, Mallam Sheriff wants to run in of Northern extraction – 2019. He has not hidden it, Buhari and the late Umaru but we discovered along Musa Yar’Adua. the way that Makarfi is The argument is that also interested. That is North-East has more PDP what is behind the crisis presence than any other in the party. Both factions part of the North. want to install a chairman "This is the only region L-R: Wife of Lagos at the convention that in the North that has two State Governor, would be loyal to them. PDP governors and some Bolanle Ambode; That is why we have not members of National As- Governor Akin- been able to make progress sembly members. Except wunmi Ambode; in the peace process. A lot one member of House of General Overseer, of factors, including the Assembly in Kaduna State, Redeemed governors and of course, there is no PDP presence in Christian Church the influence of the APC- the whole of North-West. of God (RCCG) led Federal Government, "So, for equity and jus- Worldwide, Pas- are at play here. But the tice, the next PDP presi- tor E.A. Adeboye ambitions of some of our dential candidate should and his wife, Pas- leaders are a major factor.” come from North-East. You tor Folu, during Although Atiku has cannot pick a presidential the 2017 Annual severally denied having candidate from North- Thanksgiving any ambition for now, his West where the candidate Service at the La- name keeps popping up of APC in the person of gos House, Ikeja, at both the APC and the President Buhari comes …yesterday PDP camps. Some people from and expect to win," a chieftain of the party from the North-East explained. Aisha Buhari: Ex-First Ladies spent £32,000 as jet landing cost in London Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe Anule Emmanuel She said unlike previ- from the £32,000 expended direct link her. couldn’t have been linked State, who is in his second ABUJA ous operations at the High in the past as landing fees "The new accusation, to the bogus allegation of term in office is also said Commission, most of her for private jets of former however, has still not been corruption made by the to be nursing presidential trip to London were related first ladies," Mrs.