HOW NIGERIA’S OPPOSITION BROUGHT IN AN OBAMA AFFILIATED FIRM TO ENSURE ELECTION FOR A BRUTAL MILITARY DICTATOR
February 9, 2015


It is a well known fact that David Axelrod was the architect of Barack Obama’s election and re-election campaign.

What is less known is that the same Axelrod was hired by Nigeria’s opposition party, APC, to ensure victory for it’s Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, a man with a horrible history of Human Rights abuses to his name.


In the last year, Nigeria sought aid from the White House for many initiatives, including the fight against Boko Haram.

The Obama  administration refused to do anything but play lip service to Nigeria’s requests. However, it used public and private channels to internationally magnify every failure Nigeria’s government experienced.

In the last year, since the involvement of Axelrod’s firm, relations between the two nations have significantly deteriorated, with the US refusing to sell arms to Nigeria, a significant reduction in the purchase of Nigeria’s oil, and the cancellation of a military training agreement between Nigeria and the USA.

In turn, the Buhari led Nigerian opposition, used the US Govt’s position as validation for their claim that the Nigerian government was a failure.

In a February 9th article in the Washington Free Beacon (http:///guDlSH), the extent of Axelrod’s involvement in manipulating Nigeria’s affairs is revealed.

“A political consulting firm founded by Obama administration confidante David Axelrod has been far more involved in backing controversial Nigerian presidential candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari than previously disclosed…

Axelrod’s firm, the Chicago-based AKPD, has admitted to doing work on behalf of Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) party in the past, but claimed to have ceased its ties in March 2014 after the Islamist terror group Boko Haram kidnapped hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls.

However, emails sent between senior APC party members and advisers show that contrary to the firm’s claims, AKPD has quietly continued to perform political work on Buhari’s behalf as he fights to unseat current President Goodluck Jonathan.

In a series of messages between senior APC officials and advisers from September 2014 to late January 2015, AKPD polling and other work are repeatedly discussed.

“The meeting went well and the report well received. [Gov. Rotimi Amaechi] will meet with the AKPD team tomorrow to discuss the facilitation of the event but no dates fixed yet,”

APC member Olubunmi Adetunmbi wrote in one September 23 email to top Buhari adviser Kayode Fayemi.

AKPD’s work is again mentioned in a separate chain of emails sent between Buhari’s running mate, Yemi Osinbajo, and adviser Fayemi.

“I also think the AKPD surveys also clearly showed that the South West is the battle ground for this election,” Osinbajo writes in a discussion about boosting election turnouts for the APC.

A third email chain from Jan. 21 shows APC leader Nasir El-Rufai discussing an “October 2014 AKPD poll” that he hoped to disseminate to “the team.”

Other sources on the ground and familiar with the APC’s campaign say that the party has been trying to keep AKPD’s ongoing work quiet. It is rumored that AKPD employees are being housed in an APC compound located in Lagos, according to multiple sources.

“The sense is they’re being hidden currently in Lagos,” said another insider on the ground who would only speak on background. “They’re trying to keep a very low profile.”

AKPD’s close ties to the Obama administration also has given rise to criticism from those who see the White House as meddling in the elections.

“They have been particularly careful not to be seen at all because of the perception of the connection between Axelrod and the president and what that would convey,” said one of the sources quoted above.”

It is shameful that the United States has chosen to blatantly involve itself in Nigeria’s partisan politics, not based on any sort of foreign policy principle, but on a need to ensure that Axelrod’s company got to deliver on one of it’s most lucrative foreign contracts.

Source: http://ad76.com/2015/02/09/how-nigerias-opposition-brought-in-an-obama-affiliated-firm-to-ensure-election-for-a-brutal-military-dictator/

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NextIG:
HOW NIGERIA’S OPPOSITION BROUGHT IN AN OBAMA AFFILIATED FIRM TO ENSURE ELECTION FOR A BRUTAL MILITARY DICTATOR
February 9, 2015


It is a well known fact that David Axelrod was the architect of Barack Obama’s election and re-election campaign.

What is less known is that the same Axelrod was hired by Nigeria’s opposition party, APC, to ensure victory for it’s Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, a man with a horrible history of Human Rights abuses to his name.


In the last year, Nigeria sought aid from the White House for many initiatives, including the fight against Boko Haram.

The Obama  administration refused to do anything but play lip service to Nigeria’s requests. However, it used public and private channels to internationally magnify every failure Nigeria’s government experienced.

In the last year, since the involvement of Axelrod’s firm, relations between the two nations have significantly deteriorated, with the US refusing to sell arms to Nigeria, a significant reduction in the purchase of Nigeria’s oil, and the cancellation of a military training agreement between Nigeria and the USA.

In turn, the Buhari led Nigerian opposition, used the US Govt’s position as validation for their claim that the Nigerian government was a failure.

In a February 9th article in the Washington Free Beacon (http:///guDlSH), the extent of Axelrod’s involvement in manipulating Nigeria’s affairs is revealed.

“A political consulting firm founded by Obama administration confidante David Axelrod has been far more involved in backing controversial Nigerian presidential candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari than previously disclosed…

Axelrod’s firm, the Chicago-based AKPD, has admitted to doing work on behalf of Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) party in the past, but claimed to have ceased its ties in March 2014 after the Islamist terror group Boko Haram kidnapped hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls.

However, emails sent between senior APC party members and advisers show that contrary to the firm’s claims, AKPD has quietly continued to perform political work on Buhari’s behalf as he fights to unseat current President Goodluck Jonathan.

In a series of messages between senior APC officials and advisers from September 2014 to late January 2015, AKPD polling and other work are repeatedly discussed.

“The meeting went well and the report well received. [Gov. Rotimi Amaechi] will meet with the AKPD team tomorrow to discuss the facilitation of the event but no dates fixed yet,”

APC member Olubunmi Adetunmbi wrote in one September 23 email to top Buhari adviser Kayode Fayemi.

AKPD’s work is again mentioned in a separate chain of emails sent between Buhari’s running mate, Yemi Osinbajo, and adviser Fayemi.

“I also think the AKPD surveys also clearly showed that the South West is the battle ground for this election,” Osinbajo writes in a discussion about boosting election turnouts for the APC.

A third email chain from Jan. 21 shows APC leader Nasir El-Rufai discussing an “October 2014 AKPD poll” that he hoped to disseminate to “the team.”

Other sources on the ground and familiar with the APC’s campaign say that the party has been trying to keep AKPD’s ongoing work quiet. It is rumored that AKPD employees are being housed in an APC compound located in Lagos, according to multiple sources.

“The sense is they’re being hidden currently in Lagos,” said another insider on the ground who would only speak on background. “They’re trying to keep a very low profile.”

AKPD’s close ties to the Obama administration also has given rise to criticism from those who see the White House as meddling in the elections.

“They have been particularly careful not to be seen at all because of the perception of the connection between Axelrod and the president and what that would convey,” said one of the sources quoted above.”

It is shameful that the United States has chosen to blatantly involve itself in Nigeria’s partisan politics, not based on any sort of foreign policy principle, but on a need to ensure that Axelrod’s company got to deliver on one of it’s most lucrative foreign contracts.

Source: http://ad76.com/2015/02/09/how-nigerias-opposition-brought-in-an-obama-affiliated-firm-to-ensure-election-for-a-brutal-military-dictator/

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Rubbish written by another dunce from PDP blood thirsty camp. Is this part of the lies and blackmail you all planned and have been talking about in the last few days? Is this part of the so called "heat" you want to put Jega under before the election day?

You can spin whichever way you want. Buhari is going to contest and win this election. Buhari is here to stay. Go back to drawing board and keep planning. You should have quit by now if you all have your senses intact because everything you have thrown at Buhari has made the man more popular and more acceptable in the eyes of the voters.

keep cooking up lies and keep attaching your crazy links to rubbish from Reno Omokri factory.

I believe this story, this was expected, because I remembered someone revealed APC plan to use a foreign agency to help them secure Aso Roack come 2015. I also remember saying taking that route by APC is not good for Nigeria because after they help to install our President, they'll want to benefit, they'll want to control Nigeria. We should be careful as a nation, the desperation of APC will do more harm to Nigeria if this is true. Also, about the claims of US trying to run the efforts of the current administration, I think has a connection with this. They were the first Country to condem the Election shift, Refused Helping Nigeria win the war on terror, refused to invest in Nigeria, etc. If we open our eyes and give sell this country because of CHANGE which you know nothing about, your we have ourselves to blame. Say No to Febuhari, March4Goodluck.

sincerenigerian:
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Rubbish written by another dunce from PDP blood thirsty camp. Is this part of the lies and blackmail you all planned and have been talking about in the last few days? Is this part of the so called "heat" you want to put Jega under before the election day?

You can spin whichever way you want. Buhari is going to contest and win this election. Buhari is here to stay. Go back to drawing board and keep planning. You should have quit by now if you all have your senses intact because everything you have thrown at Buhari has made the man more popular and more acceptable in the eyes of the voters.

keep cooking up lies and keep attaching your crazy links to rubbish from Reno Omokri factory.

Well, Mr Insincere, to you, the information above is rubbish and lies. Just chill. The recent postponment of this election will reveal so many dirty and evil programs which have been concealed by your evil party in order to rig the election. If not for their evil plans, why the hue and cry concerning the shift in date? Was 14 and 28 of February a constitutional date? The coming revelations with facts in the coming days will surprise the world. The APC you are trying to die for is not the saints you are thinking. Just wait.

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NextIG:
Well, Mr Insincere, to you, the information above is rubbish and lies. Just chill. The recent postponment of this election will reveal so many dirty and evil programs which have been concealed by your evil party in order to rig the election. If not for their evil plans, why the hue and cry concerning the shift in date? Was 14 and 28 of February a constitutional date? The coming revelations with facts in the coming days will surprise the world. The APC you are trying to die for is not the saints you are thinking. Just wait.

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God has expose apc and buhari!

drwebs:
[s]I believe this story, this was expected, because I remembered someone revealed APC plan to use a foreign agency to help them secure Aso Roack come 2015. I also remember saying taking that route by APC is not good for Nigeria because after they help to install our President, they'll want to benefit, they'll want to control Nigeria. We should be careful as a nation, the desperation of APC will do more harm to Nigeria if this is true. Also, about the claims of US trying to run the efforts of the current administration, I think has a connection with this. They were the first Country to condem the Election shift, Refused Helping Nigeria win the war on terror, refused to invest in Nigeria, etc. If we open our eyes and give sell this country because of CHANGE which you know nothing about, your we have ourselves to blame. Say No to Febuhari, March4Goodluck[/s].

Absolute rubbish from Doyin Okupe,Femi-Fani Kayode and Reno Omokri aka Wendell Simlin

So they hired Ahitophel to counsel them...well, we all know how he ended up.

NextIG:
Well, Mr Insincere, to you, the information above is rubbish and lies. Just chill. The recent postponment of this election will reveal so many dirty and evil programs which have been concealed by your evil party in order to rig the election. If not for their evil plans, why the hue and cry concerning the shift in date? Was 14 and 28 of February a constitutional date? The coming revelations with facts in the coming days will surprise the world. The APC you are trying to die for is not the saints you are thinking. Just wait.

Is Jonathan you suddenly tag Goodluck and Azikwe messiah?
Most of you people that reason with your foot will be normal when APC take over government. We understand the evil of PDP and its works on Nigeria people but from May 2015, things will begin to change for the best of our dear country.

I'm not in any way surprised at all, after all this irrelevant write ups and publications by the highest evil and desperate govt of modern history is among the reasons for the provocative postponement of the elections. Only God knows what GEJ and his vampire cohorts already have in mind to turn this blessed Nation into. They preach violence and division every now and then and even run the clerics for meetings and curses/blessings and it's quite unfortunate so many ain't seeing the evil days coming yet..... Even if we're to disintegrate, my only prayer is that it shouldn't degenerate into a civil war of any guise.

I don't get it, can't a party decide what it wants again. If APC hires axelrod from US, then PDP could go to Russia and hire any PR company it desire. Enough of these childish tantrum from an incumbent Government. Common PDP blaming US, Tinubu and all for your woes. On a final note I think this government has started monitoring mails(if this story is true).

[size=20pt]David Axelrod’s Political Consulting Firm Far More Involved in Nigeria Election than Previously Disclosed[/size]

By: Adam Kredo

Adam Kredo
Adam Kredo is senior writer for the Washington Free Beacon. Formerly an award-winning political reporter for the Washington Jewish Week, where he frequently broke national news, Kredo’s work has been featured in outlets such as the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and Politico, among others. He lives in Maryland with his comic books. His Twitter handle is @Kredo0. His email address is kredo@freebeacon.com.

A political consulting firm founded by Obama administration confidante David Axelrod has been far more involved in backing controversial Nigerian presidential candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari than previously disclosed, according to a series of emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon and interviews with sources on the ground.

Axelrod’s firm, the Chicago-based AKPD, has admitted to doing work on behalf of Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) party in the past, but claimed to have ceased its ties in March 2014 after the Islamist terror group Boko Haram kidnapped hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls.

However, emails sent between senior APC party members and advisers show that contrary to the firm’s claims, AKPD has quietly continued to perform political work on Buhari’s behalf as he fights to unseat current President Goodluck Jonathan.

With the controversial elections now delayed for another six weeks amid security concerns related to Boko Haram, sources on the ground in Nigeria are beginning to raise new questions about AKPD’s work on behalf of the APC and Buhari, who previously rose to power in the mid-1980s after leading a military coup.

AKPD’s ties to the APC first sparked controversy in March, when Boko Haram’s terror campaign attracted international outrage and shined a spotlight on Nigeria’s problems combatting terrorism.

Under pressure from the press and negative attention, the AKPD told reporters in March that it had ceased its work with the APC.

“AKPD worked with the APC from December 2013 to March 2014,” AKPD spokesman Isaac Baker told the Washington Times last year. “We helped them as they worked to form a new political opposition party and create a platform in advance of their first national convention. We were no longer working with the APC when the Boko Haram kidnapping of the young girls took place.”

However, AKPD’s Baker admitted on Monday that the firm worked again with the APC in December 2014.

“AKPD worked with APC from December 2013 to March 2014, at which point our contract ended. Nine months later, in December 2014, the APC re-hired AKPD for a 3-week engagement to help the party in organizing announcement events,” Baker told the Free Beacon in an email. “That was our only involvement with the party since we completed work in March.”

“That project is now complete and we have no ongoing relationship with them,” Baker said.

The internal emails sent between APC advisers over the past several months and obtained by the Free Beacon confirm that the work with AKPD continued after March 2014.

In a series of messages between senior APC officials and advisers from September 2014 to late January 2015, AKPD polling and other work are repeatedly discussed.

“The meeting went well and the report well received. [Gov. Rotimi Amaechi] will meet with the AKPD team tomorrow to discuss the facilitation of the event but no dates fixed yet,” APC member Olubunmi Adetunmbi wrote in one September 23 email to top Buhari adviser Kayode Fayemi.

AKPD’s work is again mentioned in a separate chain of emails sent between Buhari’s running mate, Yemi Osinbajo, and adviser Fayemi.

“I also think the AKPD surveys also clearly showed that the South West is the battle ground for this election,” Osinbajo writes in a discussion about boosting election turnouts for the APC.

A third email chain from Jan. 21 shows APC leader Nasir El-Rufai discussing an “October 2014 AKPD poll” that he hoped to disseminate to “the team.”

Requests for comment sent to several APC figures mentioned in internal emails were not returned by press time.

Sources on the ground in Nigeria and familiar with how the elections have been shaping up say Buhari has run an uncharacteristically disciplined campaign.

“They have run … a well disciplined message campaign, running on a clear and singular message of change,” said one source who agreed to discuss the matter only on background. “It sounds very familiar to another campaign some Americans might remember from seven years ago.”

While the APC has had trouble displaying unity in past election bids, the current campaign has showed few signs of dissent, the source explained.

“It strongly points to coaching they ordinarily would not have had in past elections,” according to the source. “That’s really the clearest sign that I’ve seen and other have seen that these guys are running a Western-style, Western-directed campaign that has identified a message through polling and research.”

While Buhari has positioned himself as an agent of change, critics point to his controversial and oppressive rule over Nigeria in the 1980s.

Buhari’s military government was known for harshly cracking down on civil rights, arresting opposition forces, and intimidating critical journalists. Human rights activists routinely criticized Buhari’s military rule. Buhari was deposed in a 1985 coup.

Other sources on the ground and familiar with the APC’s campaign say that the party has been trying to keep AKPD’s ongoing work quiet. It is rumored that AKPD employees are being housed in an APC compound located in Lagos, according to multiple sources.

“The sense is they’re being hidden currently in Lagos,” said another insider on the ground who would only speak on background. “They’re trying to keep a very low profile.”

AKPD’s close ties to the Obama administration also has given rise to criticism from those who see the White House as meddling in the elections.

“They have been particularly careful not to be seen at all because of the perception of the connection between Axelrod and the president and what that would convey,” said one of the sources quoted above.

http://freebeacon.com/author/adam-kredo/
This is the original article in Washington free beacon

This is nothing coming from PDP or Abati

sincerenigerian:
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Rubbish written by another dunce from PDP blood thirsty camp. Is this part of the lies and blackmail you all planned and have been talking about in the last few days? Is this part of the so called "heat" you want to put Jega under before the election day?

You can spin whichever way you want. Buhari is going to contest and win this election. Buhari is here to stay. Go back to drawing board and keep planning. You should have quit by now if you all have your senses intact because everything you have thrown at Buhari has made the man more popular and more acceptable in the eyes of the voters.

keep cooking up lies and keep attaching your crazy links to rubbish from Reno Omokri factory.

Adam Kredo is not a PDP member neither is he a Nigerian

PDP with their propaganda.. Their next agenda is to ask Buhari to provide his certificate of birth.. smh

vote for change

Vote Buhari/Osinbajo (APC)

NextIG:
Well, Mr Insincere, to you, the information above is rubbish and lies. Just chill. The recent postponment of this election will reveal so many dirty and evil programs which have been concealed by your evil party in order to rig the election. If not for their evil plans, why the hue and cry concerning the shift in date? Was 14 and 28 of February a constitutional date? The coming revelations with facts in the coming days will surprise the world. The APC you are trying to die for is not the saints you are thinking. Just wait.

^^^


Belief APC false change at your peril.


APC doesn't represent the good change Nigerians want.

Please Nigerians vote wisely, GEJ is still the better option for now.





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I have always known that Obama is against GEJ after since GEJ refused to legalize same sex marriage and is supporting buhari. Am sure they have planned on how to rig the election in othere to make sure buhari wins and dats why they are angry becos the election was shifted. But no matter how clueless GEJ is, Obama could not control his administration making GEJ the main authority in Nigeria. But no matter what they do, GEJ till 2019.