“In bourgeois politics, the ongoing development is called ‘realignment forces.’ In the process, those who have been excluded from the ‘come and chop’ policy of the PDP are now being asked to choose their place at the table in case the APC takes over power in 2015,” Mr. Falana said.
Lamenting that the APC leaders did not have any plan to woo the youth who constitute more than 60 per cent of the country’s voting population, Mr. Falana said the mobilisation of the past leaders and other PDP chieftains had basically shown that the opposition leaders were only interested in power.

He said, “The APC has no plan to woo the youth who constitute more than 60% of the voting population. It is the belief of the leaders of both APC and PDP that the 2015 general election is going to be fixed by the traditional manipulators of elections. This is the basis of the ongoing mobilisation of the PDP chieftains including those who cannot win elections in their own wards.

“By wooing discredited military and civilian despots who have destroyed the country since 1966, the APC has shown that it is only interested in power for the sake of power.-Falana

Princess2be: APC = All Past Criminals

c0llynz02: Let's look at it this way, for all these people who destroyed Nigeria to be leaving PDP, Jonathan must be doing something right.
The man looks so gentle and naive but must be doing something very courageous behind the scenes.
Is it that he has stopped giving Obasanjo the agreed percentage of our revenue?
Check out the way he handled the compensation of former PHCN workers, every single one of them has been paid his gratuity without any noise being made about it, imagine the transition happening during Obasanjo's tenure, 99% of them would still be owed today. GEJ has succeeded in alienating these thieves, now all they do is to pretend to be on the side of the masses in order to get their support, kick Jonathan away from power and go back to ''business as usual'', but I am very happy with the responses I've been getting from people I see everyday and even here on Nairaland, people are definitely aware of the game they are playing.

omiobo:
If he is doing something right how come there is none among the rogues in prison? Let him kill corruption before it kills us all.

c0llynz02: Let's look at it this way, for all these people who destroyed Nigeria to be leaving PDP, Jonathan must be doing something right.
The man looks so gentle and naive but must be doing something very courageous behind the scenes.
Is it that he has stopped giving Obasanjo the agreed percentage of our revenue?
Check out the way he handled the compensation of former PHCN workers, every single one of them has been paid his gratuity without any noise being made about it, imagine the transition happening during Obasanjo's tenure, 99% of them would still be owed today. GEJ has succeeded in alienating these thieves, now all they do is to pretend to be on the side of the masses in order to get their support, kick Jonathan away from power and go back to ''business as usual'', but I am very happy with the responses I've been getting from people I see everyday and even here on Nairaland, people are definitely aware of the game they are playing.

omiobo:
If he is doing something right how come there is none among the rogues in prison? Let him kill corruption before it kills us all.

c0llynz02: Let's look at it this way, for all these people who destroyed Nigeria to be leaving PDP, Jonathan must be doing something right.
The man looks so gentle and naive but must be doing something very courageous behind the scenes.
Is it that he has stopped giving Obasanjo the agreed percentage of our revenue?
Check out the way he handled the compensation of former PHCN workers, every single one of them has been paid his gratuity without any noise being made about it, imagine the transition happening during Obasanjo's tenure, 99% of them would still be owed today. GEJ has succeeded in alienating these thieves, now all they do is to pretend to be on the side of the masses in order to get their support, kick Jonathan away from power and go back to ''business as usual'', but I am very happy with the responses I've been getting from people I see everyday and even here on Nairaland, people are definitely aware of the game they are playing.

JECBOSS:
In advanced countries, an insane kid like u wouldn't have had access to the internet. APC Sycophant.

c0llynz02: Let's look at it this way, for all these people who destroyed Nigeria to be leaving PDP, Jonathan must be doing something right.
The man looks so gentle and naive but must be doing something very courageous behind the scenes.
Is it that he has stopped giving Obasanjo the agreed percentage of our revenue?
Check out the way he handled the compensation of former PHCN workers, every single one of them has been paid his gratuity without any noise being made about it, imagine the transition happening during Obasanjo's tenure, 99% of them would still be owed today. GEJ has succeeded in alienating these thieves, now all they do is to pretend to be on the side of the masses in order to get their support, kick Jonathan away from power and go back to ''business as usual'', but I am very happy with the responses I've been getting from people I see everyday and even here on Nairaland, people are definitely aware of the game they are playing.

funshint:
Like the way he handled ASUU, Medical Doctors...PHCN privatization is now a mess. Nigerians are now regretting the privatization of PHCN because d electricity situation is now worse than b4 despite the uncompleted power projects he claimed to hv commissioned #Propaganda. Some of you are just condemned to be satisfied with incompetence. Hypocrites! If just half of the atrocities being committed by Jonathan was done by someone from another region you woukld hv deafen us with cry of marginalization and impeachment. GEJ is from SS despite that the region still remains worst in terms of Human-Capital and Infrastructural Development Index in Nigeria. Isn't that a food for taught for U̶̲̥̅̊ pple. Where is your Second Niger bridge? Where is your East-West Road? Niger-delta rail-line? There's no meaningful project in d East or SS to show for his stay as presidency...what a shame. If U̶̲̥̅̊ pple want to continuing wallowing in Ignorance, no problem; I say Goodluck to you. Others want to progress esp. SW *I don't know of North because they only want power but they don't know what to do with it. Nuff said!!!

ebamma: i always thought that the apc party is playing in a different league, its now that i have realised that PDP and APC are playing in the same Corruption Premier league

funshint:
Most of you just going about condemning APC...Do you think to upstage PDP go dey easy?! U̶̲̥̅̊ need to make compromises and alliances everywhere...hvn't U̶̲̥̅̊ heard that your enemy's enemy is your friend. Politics is a game thus U̶̲̥̅̊ hv to be calculative and savvy. Just because APC is making alliances with different individuals doesn't mean they don't hv a clear and well detailed plan of action for the progress and development of this country unlike PDP that is presently confused. Everybody is virtually stealing this country blind with the president behaving as if nothing is happening. GEJ holds the highest record of inconsistent policies in the history of this country; making policies and reversing them the next minute. Nigeria's international reputation is at the lowest level right now...Mandela's burial was just a pointer to how degraded Nigeria's reputation is internationally. I trust Baba Iyabo he'll hv staged a walk-out!!! *Go and ask what he did to the Togolese president when he was in power. Nigeria virtually controlled AU under OBJ but see what is happening now it's such a pity. The Igbos refusal to accept that GEJ is alrdy a colossal failure is not helping matters at all *despite the fact that deep down within them they feel highly disappointed and bitter with him. I don't mind if the next president comes from SE or from Otuoke itself but definitely not GEJ. SW didn't vote based on ethnicity; we voted GEJ with the intention of all round social-economic development and national progress. Nobody shld tell me "I don't hv right to complain" at the sight of national backwardness just because "he's our son". If that is the case then return my vote, if not, pls shove that ethnic jargons into your arse!!! OBJ greivances against GEJ is that instead of him building on the gains he had already made by securing a lot of foreign debt cancellation and improving the country's international reputation after the bloody Abacha years, GEJ instead set the country on a reverse mode. Nigeria is now retrogressing faster than ever. Come 2015 leadership must definitely change hands. A second term tenure for GEJ will only spell doom for this country. God forbid!!!

ceo4eva: Says he will always speak truth to power •Opposition leaders meet

ex-president, laud letter to Jonathan • Buhari offers him APC Card

Politics brought two former Heads of State, Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari, together on Saturday and the former president restated his commitment to a strong and unified Nigeria, adding that his mission was to rescue Nigeria from the brink of collapse.

Buhari was in company of prominent leaders and governors of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), at Obasanjo’s Hilltop residence, Abeokuta, who came apparently to woo him into their fold.

Buhari later offered him a membership card, which Obasanjo rejected.

“You don’t need to offer me your party card, I am card-carrying member of the PDP (shows his card), I will take it from you out of courtesy, but I won’t fill it.

“My party is PDP, my politics is Nigeria, Africa and the world in that order.

“I am a democrat, one of the essential ingredients of democracy is opposition party; democracy that has no opposition is questionable.

“If you see yourself as opposition, you are essentially enhancing the chances of democracy in this country”, said the former President, while responding to Buhari’s offer of APC membership card.

In what appears to be a veiled reference to brickbats about his qualification to speak out, he said: “Let me crave your indulgence to say this; that whoever has enjoyed any political office since 1999, such a person can be claimed to be my political child by virtue of the political position and office I have held

“I can conveniently say I am a political father to all,” the former President said, while he also tasked his visitors to play politics devoid of rancour, bitterness and embrace politics of decency, which has Nigeria at heart.

He described himself as an optimist about the Nigeria project thus: “I am optimist about Nigeria, I am totally committed to Nigeria and nothing will detract me from that”.

In his remarks, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, described Obasanjo in superlatives words, saying that his politics is one that should be envied by Nigerians.

He said their mission was to rescue the country from mis-governance and commended the former president for writing a letter to President Jonathan to remind him that the country is on the brink of collapse.

Tunubu said for a man who, in a civil war and military dictatorship, to keep the country together, Obasanjo can rightly be described as the father of the country,

Tinubu said although APC is an association of strange bed fellows, it was meant to pull the country from the brink.

He said they have come to tap from his wisdom as former military ruler and president.

His words: “No one is unique as yourself, you have seen the tribulations; you have witnessed the agony of totalitarianism and sectarian crisis.

“Your experience in solitary confinement puts you in good stead to speak and act in the interest of the country”.

The APC leaders and their host later went into close door meeting.

Apart from the party’s Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, Buhari and Tinubu, other party leaders on the entourage are, governors of Rivers, Rotimi Amaechi; Imo, Rochas Okorocha; Ogun, Ibikunle Amosun; Oyo, Abiola Ajimobi; Adamawa, Murtala Nyako; Kwara, Abdulfatai Ahmed; Kano, Rabiu Kwankwaso,

Others are Nuhu Ribadu, Former FCT Minister, Nasir El-Rufai; Senator Bukola Saraki; former PDP chairman, Kawu Baraje; and former House of Representatives Speaker, Bello Masari.
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/12/im-rescue-mission-obasanjo/