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Re: President Jonathan Warns Nigerians To Expect More Soldiers During 2015 Elections by NOLONGTIN1(m): 10:34am On Aug 13, 2014
Freelancer00: I see. So Fayose wasn't caught red handed with the 1bn naira rented poultry. U can ask Olusegun Obasanjo. Why was he impeached sef in the first place. U can take me to court sir, like it always said 'innocent until proven guilty


I wasn't there, so I don't know if he was caught red or blue handed.

But as an educated being, I'm aware that even if u catch me taking ur money, I'm innocent until I am found guilty in the court of law.

is it fair? NO. But no one ever said the law was fair

I'm not saying Omisore or whoever is innocent neither I'm I saying he is guilty.

I wasn't there, so I will based my judgement on the courts' verdict
Re: President Jonathan Warns Nigerians To Expect More Soldiers During 2015 Elections by MosquitoREBIRTH(m): 10:35am On Aug 13, 2014
hahahahahaha, funny post
jieta: my amiable presido has spoken; i will suggest you militise every state after the election so that i we see where buhari and co we come and protest or where those bamboo will be soak in there own blood
Re: President Jonathan Warns Nigerians To Expect More Soldiers During 2015 Elections by MosquitoREBIRTH(m): 10:37am On Aug 13, 2014
Nigerians have just decided to turn their blind eyes to the truth. They've refused to see the progress made by the president. As far as i am concerned, he has delivered most of his promises
ocelot2006:

I wonder who is clueless: GEJ who has actually been able to deliver on his promise of free and fair elections, or you who doesn't even have a freaking clue about what's happening in his own country?

Your choice, dumba $$.
Re: President Jonathan Warns Nigerians To Expect More Soldiers During 2015 Elections by MosquitoREBIRTH(m): 10:37am On Aug 13, 2014
Some people will bw against it saying, the deployment is mainly for rigging..
millionaireman: If use of soldiers to get credible elections in Nigeria is the way, who must be against it?
Re: President Jonathan Warns Nigerians To Expect More Soldiers During 2015 Elections by MosquitoREBIRTH(m): 10:38am On Aug 13, 2014
Not all the soldiers will be deployed... they'll be distributed evenly across the nation..
goingsolo: If all d soldiers come dey electiion ground come. 2015, who go come dey sambisa? To checkmate d oda monsters
Re: President Jonathan Warns Nigerians To Expect More Soldiers During 2015 Elections by maasoap(m): 1:26pm On Aug 13, 2014
size38: With everyday mass killings of Nigerian Soldiers by Boko Haram, how many will be left b4 2015 election?
Hahahaha.
Re: President Jonathan Warns Nigerians To Expect More Soldiers During 2015 Elections by tomiobj(m): 3:04pm On Aug 13, 2014
ceo4eva: President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday defended the heavy deployment of soldiers for the just-concluded Osun gubernatorial poll, saying the trend would continue in the 2015 general elections.

The president, who spoke yesterday during Inter-faith Conference in Abuja on the theme: “The imperative of interfaith understanding and cooperation for responsible politics,” also assured that the general polls next year would not divide the country, as wrongly suggested by some persons.

Urging Nigerians to disregard predictions of anarchy in 2015, the nation’s leader said: “Our challenges in the present must not be allowed to inhibit our progress.”

He lamented that as the 2015 elections draw near, “the doomsday sayers are out and predicting how Nigeria is going to catch fire next year. In the opinion of some so-called experts, our ethnic and religious differences are bound to boil over. They portray us doomed to fail.”

“But I can say categorically that Nigeria will not disintegrate; we will not fail. We will surely get over our challenges and become even a stronger nation.”

Jonathan blamed the Internet and the social media for aggravating the fear of many Nigerians towards 2015, saying: “You will be attempted to think along the same line. In a country of over 170 million people, the opinion of very few is now being elevated above that of over 100 million Nigerians.

“I once again assure Nigerians and the international community that the 2015 elections will come and go and Nigeria will stand stronger. The Nigerians I know and interact with every day are only asking for one thing in the election, transparency, free and fair conduct, and I have promised them.”

He added: “They want to vote and want their votes to count; they don’t want to be molested, they don’t want ballot boxes to be hijacked by criminals. If they are convinced that the process is free, fair and credible, they have no reason to be angry. Nobody can fight against one man one vote, one woman one vote, one youth one vote, and government will make sure that Nigerians are not killed during and after elections.

Expressing disappointment at the opposition to troops deployment by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, the president said their position shock him.

“I am surprised that some political parties are agitating that government should withdraw security during and after elections. What surprises me most is that even some labour leaders are agitating that government should not secure people during elections. And I wonder how short human memories are.

“We’ve just finished 2011 elections and we are talking about three years ago or quite close to four years ago and we know what happened in Bauchi. About 10 youth corpers were slaughtered in that election. We know what happened in Kano; property worth millions of naira were destroyed, some of the people have not gotten back to their houses.”

“We know what happened in Akwa Ibom where some criminals even had to severe the genitals of some men in the name of politics. Demons who want to hold political office. In that kind of situation, how would a person who called himself a labour leader come out publicly to say government should not secure people. I don’t agree with them. My promise of free and fair elections is clear.

Continuing, Jonathan insisted that all the governorship elections that had been conducted were free and fair.

“I am from the PDP, the ruling party, but I don’t use that strength to make sure that PDP must win always. The PDP has lost election in Edo State, we lost election in Anambra State, we lost election in Ondo State and, of course, only two days back, we lost election in Osun State.

“But we have said that this country must change. The kind of elections that we had in the 60s that led to the crisis in the West, that threatened the sovereignty of this country cannot come up again. The kind of elections we had during the Second Republic that some people won elections as governors and ran away from the state that they claimed elected them, cannot come up again. Nigerians must vote and our vote must count.”

The president said if he was interested in manipulating elections, his party, the PDP would not lose governorship election in any state.

He said: “All what we want is credible election. I always tell politicians that none our own ambition is worth the blood of any one Nigerian. If anybody wants to be a president, governor, a senator or anything, know that your ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian.”

“How many of us can line up our children and kill them just because we want to be president. Can we use our children for sacrifice because we want to be governors? Why do we want other people’s children to die? Do we politicians think that we are created differently by the Almighty God? “

“I think we are just privileged to hold the offices we are holding and we must know that, we must make sure that this incessant killings must stop.

“Responsible politics is the politics of service. Anything short of these attributes makes politics a bad thing and destructive. We must continue to preach this message for people. Politics is all about serving people and if people don’t want you to serve go and stay in your house.

“Our states are not our private estates. This country is not owned by any individual. If you are called to serve, you serve. If it is not your turn, you leave; whenever it is your time, people will say come and serve at all levels.”

On the conference, he said: “It is heartwarming that there are people of diverse religion in this conference today. This is for our good; it is a clear demonstration of deep religious tolerance and understanding that have permeated minds of Nigerians out to embrace one another, having realised the need for mutual tolerance and understanding.”

“The interfaith initiative, as I understand it, is conceived to be a unifier, it is an avenue for all and sundry to engage with one another constructively, to understand one another, to respect one another and to care for one another.”

The President praised the organisers for the foresight in convening such a conference on a topical issue that seems to encourage political understanding among religious adherents, pointing out that there are many countries with one religion and still at war with one another.

Speaking further, he said: “We have seen countries with one single cultural heritage go to war because of minor reason. We are a people created by God and we enjoy the creation. Our country was also possible by Him and I am confident that working together, we can make our country even a better place for ourselves and our children. I will rather we focus on the mechanism that we have developed by ourselves as we evolved into a viral nation.”

“Having said this, I do not run away from the fact that we have challenges, just like any other country. I do not deny the fact that there is a reason for people to express fears about our future.

“Some politicians have been making reckless and irresponsible statements that are capable of stoking tension and inciting people to take laws into their hands and destabilise the country. But we have to understand that these statements are not borne out of the genuine reason of mood and temperament of Nigerians. Rather, these enemies of peace are only trying to spoil the mood and create temptous temperature, but they will fail.”

“Unfortunately, these statement are coming from very senior people. Our elders are making the whole country to boil. From my interactions with so many young Nigerians, just a few days back, I addressed a group of young professionals, the young generation want to live together. They want a better country where they will have the infrastructure – power, good health services, good educational facilities, roads etc. They are not interested in breaking the nation.

“But those of us who are old mainly from my age and above continue to breach peace in this country. We are not helping our children at all,” Mr. Jonathan regretted.

http://dailypost.ng/2014/08/12/2015-jonathan-warns-nigerians-expect-soldiers-elections/

Hallelujah. We r expecting more soldiers. Not more 50x gannn. 0x50=? M sure we will see the difference
Re: President Jonathan Warns Nigerians To Expect More Soldiers During 2015 Elections by Freelancer00(m): 5:04pm On Aug 13, 2014
NOLONGTIN1:


I wasn't there, so I don't know if he was caught red or blue handed.

But as an educated being, I'm aware that even if u catch me taking ur money, I'm innocent until I am found guilty in the court of law.

is it fair? NO. But no one ever said the law was fair

I'm not saying Omisore or whoever is innocent neither I'm I saying he is guilty.

I wasn't there, so I will based my judgement on the courts' verdict
I get ur point.
Re: President Jonathan Warns Nigerians To Expect More Soldiers During 2015 Elections by austertee01(m): 7:55pm On Aug 13, 2014
Nice Shot from the President .
Re: President Jonathan Warns Nigerians To Expect More Soldiers During 2015 Elections by Wealthlex(m): 7:59pm On Aug 13, 2014
This is wht a leaders should say whn ever he/she is adressing the people,GEt u re the man God we continue uprade u with wisdom.
ratiken: Excellent.

My amiable president.... please by every means sustain this fresh air - free and fair elections. That is our biggest achievement under democracy.

All of a sudden, power belong to the people.
Thanks to God, God bless GEJ.
Re: President Jonathan Warns Nigerians To Expect More Soldiers During 2015 Elections by Nobody: 4:14am On Aug 14, 2014
parklamson: Oga presido is in spirit not only spirit but in spirit of ogoro, shepe,regal gin, and Chelsea. Well is a drunker
read your post again and clap for yourself...."Well is a drunker".......apologize to your parents for waste of school fees....I'mbecile
Re: President Jonathan Warns Nigerians To Expect More Soldiers During 2015 Elections by johnahmed: 12:03pm On Aug 14, 2014
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Re: President Jonathan Warns Nigerians To Expect More Soldiers During 2015 Elections by mactoni91(m): 8:58pm On Aug 14, 2014
lafuria1: Alright, be ready to bring in more soldiers from UN.

By the way, if Nigerian has enough soldiers to man each state during the general election, then why is the battle in borno and yobe proven so difficult.

That's not even the case some fools are saying President Ebola Jonathan is a democrat I guess I need to remind dem dat jonathan is just a clueless head of state....in the last osun election the fool said it was free and fair naw my people tell ♍ƺ how someone who won d election ,win with 390,000 something for 24 local govt and the looser 280,000 for just 6 local govt......too all those who feel jonathan is b best Bleep ᵞᴼᵁ all...I believe in change jonathan cannot bring the change his a weaklen. Stupid president...........most critisized and cursed president online.

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