ZACHIE: moderators this is poor
very poor
they is a running thread before this stolen piece yet it did not hit FP

aduje:
(1)..."we want to thank the president for bringing facebook to Nigeria" ...Information Minister Labaran Maku.

aduje:
(3)..."Foreign investors should ignore Boko Haram and invest in Nigeria"...GEJ

aduje:
(4)..." I will water your school and fire your school"..Orji Uzoh Kalu

aduje:
(7)..."I founded this school for the masses and the school fees is
850,000 naira"...Atiku Abubakar

aduje:
("..until I see someone eating out of the gutters before I believe
there is poverty in Nigeria." - Umoru Dikko.

aduje:
(9)..."Telephon­e is not meant for the poor"..David Mark

aduje:
(10)..."The worth of a child born and breed in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States" -Yakubu Gowon

aduje:
(11).."school is not meant for the poor, only for the rich"..Ikedi Ikiri Ohakim

aduje:
(13).."Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria"...Obas­anjo

aduje:
(14)..."The corp members where destined to die, nobody can run away from destiny"..Malla­m isa Yaguda, Gov Bauchi State.

AK 48: Kumba!

tchidi: 1: this post is a joke!
2: Dame Patience didn't say d suicide thingy!! It was a politician in South Africa or something..

naptu2: Patricia Etteh's English.

1) On the day the National Assembly was inaugurated, Mrs Etteh reminded House of Representatives members of the need to register their names, warning that any person who failed to do so would have their name “striking out”. Slip of tongue? Perish the thought. The following day she repeated the phrase “striking out” several times.


2) When a motion was tabled, she asked the member who was speaking, “are you in support of favour?”


3) Any time the ayes have carried the day on the floor, she wastes no time in announcing, “the hayes has it”.


4) Giving her defence before the David Idoko panel, Etteh informed the nation that she spoke to the management of the national assembly if due process was followed and each person “answered in the affirmation action”.


5) When the German ambassador in Abuja visited her, the speaker enthusiastically announced that the first place “I visited as a young parliamentarian was a German”


6) When the Spanish ambassador paid her a courtesy visit with a fairly large delegation, an impressed Etteh spared no effort to “welcome the strangers”.


7) When officials of FERMA visited the House, speaker Etteh urged them to urgently “make our roads habitable”.


8 ) To demonstrate the urgency of fixing major roads nationwide, she did not fail to make the point of the “deploration state of our roads”


9) When a House member tabled a motion on the unenviable condition of Kaduna Airport, Etteh called attention to the “two run-aways of our airport”.


10) Concerned about the increasing wave of vices, such as occultism on university campuses, excessive drinking, smoking and womanising by our youth, she has set for herself the task of reducing, if not, eradicating these social vices, which she colourfully calls “social devices”.


11) In far-away South Africa, at a meeting of the African Parliamentary Union, speaker Etteh stated that Nigeria has vast land where agriculture could thrive so much, that it could serve as an alternative source of foreign exchange, or in her own words, “Nigeria has fast land where agriculture is alternate”


12) To Etteh, the comity of nations can sometimes be referred to as “international countries”.


13) The office of the speaker has regained its aura as, not just an exalted place, but an “exotic office”.


14) The House has become respected as “a hollow chamber”, rather than just a hallowed chamber.

Gaffes by other Nigerian politicians in the past.


1) Chief (Alhaji) Adegoke Adelabu: Penkelemes (Peculiar mess)


2) First Republic minister was asked a question in New York on his stand on a controversial international issue and feeling that the Nigerian government had an open mind on this matter, he replied, “I have an empty mind as far as this issue is concerned”.


3) Anambra moneybag politician, Okechukwu Odunze, who contested the SDP primaries for the post of Governor of Anambra state boasted that, “if Arthur Nzeribe has money, I also has money”. When a reporter asked for his view on a hot national issue, he replied “no commentary”.


4) Alhaji Barkin Zuwo, who stated that Kano “has surplus minerals like Fanta, Coca cola, Sprite, Mirinda and even Tango” while voting for massive use of derivation as a means of sharing national revenue, whereas Kano state, which he was representing in the senate, did not produce mineral resources. Legend has it that Barkin Zuwo once saw a number of car marts and concluded they all belonged to one person known as Saleh, because they all had the inscription, “for sale”.