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Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by Themonster: 12:25pm On Apr 02, 2015
MzJackBaueress:
absolutely true!

A reporter from a popular TV Station who covered the election in Bayelsa state said the same thing. He interviewed some Bayelsans why they are not going out to vote,they responded by saying unless they are paid,they will not vote.

It is true after all! Too bad

Front page lalasticlala

sweetheart m kiss
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by Olufemiolaolu(m): 12:27pm On Apr 02, 2015
bushdoc9919:


Someone gets it.

Having lived in the North...I know that the average Northerner is a politically aware person.

Go to any Hausa run shop...and you will see the poster of the politician he backs.

And when it is rally time...he will be there well well.

Anyway...we Southerners can win in 2019....just do alliances, alliances.....make sure INEC is funded on time and works properly....and on election day COME OUT AND VOTE.!
Alliance with who?
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by moneybag100: 12:28pm On Apr 02, 2015
konos:

You be fool. You just keep trashing out nonsense. I wish people like you will just shut up and sleep. Smh
Lol pain you reach like this?
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by Olufemiolaolu(m): 12:33pm On Apr 02, 2015
EUROBOMBER:
Let me start by saying congratulations to Muhammadu Buhari for winning the presidential election and emerging as Nigeria’s president-elect. I have come to realise that Buhari’s victory is the will of God for Nigeria and so, I have come to accept him as my president.

I also want to congratulate President Goodluck Jonathan for being mature enough to accept defeat and concede the election. This man remains one of the greatest Nigerian presidents because he could have decided to set Nigeria on fire but chose the honourable path.

I want to also recognise all my fellow PDP e-warriors that stood beside the President. Thank you for your resilience and unflinching support all through the struggle. Also to recognise all the APC e-warriors who fought bravely in support of their party despite all odds and won the battle.

MY MESSAGE FOR BUHARI

Now that you have become the President, I want to let you know that the change Nigerians really need is not the change of personalities or political party, Nigerians are just tired of the way things have been going in this country. Nigerians are suffering; we struggle to provide basic needs that ordinarily the Government should provide. Thieves continue to steal and get richer while the majority of Nigerians are languishing in poverty. This is the reason why Nigerians have decided to give you a chance; the people believe that God can use you to turn things around in this country that is why you were voted for last Saturday.

(1) Fight corruption to a complete halt in this country especially in the petroleum sector. Sanitize the NNPC, ensure transparency and accountability. Nigerians all over should be able to benefit from our God-given resources. A few cannot continue to hold this country to ransom and steal at will.

(2) Provide stable and reliable power supply for Nigerians. This will enable SME’s to thrive and encourage investors to flock massively into the country. The cost of doing business in this country is crazy because of high energy costs. We must do away with generators in this country for good Mr President.

(3) Please diversify our economy. We cannot continue to depend heavily on oil in Nigeria. Sit down and take a good look at the six geopolitical zones in this country and find a way of harnessing all economic potentials for the good of all Nigerians. Our economy must be less dependent on crude oil.

(4) Deal ruthlessly with corrupt persons who believe that they can continue to steal and do business as usual. This is a democracy but Mr President, you are the C-in-C and you have enormous powers at your disposal, please use them! Don’t be like Jonathan who allowed his Government to be hijacked by criminals who looted the nation dry while Nigerians cried.

(5) Finally, Buhari could be the man that God could use to finally cement Nigeria’s bond of unity by handing over to an Igbo-Nigerian president after his tenure in office whether 4 or 8yrs. Like the Elder statesman Yakubu Gowon said, electing an Igbo president would heal the old wounds of the civil war. Buhari’s name will be written in gold both in the hearts of the Igbos if he can be the instrument to achieving Igbo presidency in this country. If Buhari, being a Fulani from the North can transfer presidential power to the Igbos after him then he will be like the hinge holding Nigeria together.

A WORD FOR THE SE

I want to thank my geopolitical zone the SE for standing with Jonathan till the end. Yes, he lost the election but we have made a bold statement that we can stand with you till death when we give you our word. There was immense pressure to abandon the minority Ijaw man and join the majority but we refused and stood with the minority till the very end. We must however join hands with the new president to move this great nation forward. Personally, I have concluded that Nigeria has come to stay since we have survived this 2015 presidential election. Let us also build good bridges with other geopolitical zones so that we can produce Nigeria’s president after Buhari. No zone can produce the president alone in this country; you need the support of at least four zones to produce the president!

Let us also eschew bitterness and drop all these talk about Biafra; we are Nigerians and we have everything to gain in this country if we can play our game well.


A WORD FOR THE NIGER DELTA

Thank God we can now say that Nigeria has produced a president for the first time from the minority in the person of Goodluck Jonathan who is about to leave office. I can understand the pain/anger because of the outcome of this election but the truth is that what has happened is the will of God for Nigeria; I see the finger of God in all these. This is Buhari’s time to rule this country; he is a man of destiny. He has come just at the right time to save this country from gliding into abyss.

Stop calling the Yorubas traitors and all that. Remember that the Yorubas overwhelmingly voted for your son in 2011 and rejected this same buhari. Check the figures and see that buhari was soundly rejected by the Yorubas in 2011. All Nigerians believed that Jonathyan would be a Messiah that would come and turn things around in this country; this was a man who had no shoes to go to school, who was from a poor background. Nigerians voted massively for him only to be so disappointed that he has not been able to make their lives better. Things are much more difficult for Nigerians now than when Jonathan took over. This is the reason why the Yourubas have rejected Jonathan this time. It is not out of hatred or gang-up but because he has not performed well! Same story about most of the MB and that is why Jonathan lost the MB. Nigerians never had it this bad, state Governors are owing salaries for months, people are hungry, unable to pay school fees and unable to meet their basic human needs.

How foolish can a Government be? Imagine someone that wants to come for a second term and civil servants were not paid their December salaries to celebrate Christmas! This is just unbelievable! It was in December last year that I began to question this Government in my mind but I still continued my relentless support on Nairaland for Jonathan. I saw my relatives who were Civil Servants going hungry during the Christmas celebrations, some could not even purchase new clothes for their kid, how painful!

As for me, I will do my very best in my own little capacity to support Buhari in changing this country for good. If things should continue the way they were going under Jonathan I wonder what the future of our children would be to be honest. It is God that has pushed out Jonathan not Nigerians because of all the prayers and crying that has gone up to him.

Let me also use this medium to appeal to all reasonable Yorubas on Nairaland to prevail on their people to stop opening funny threads about Igbo this Igbo that just because Jonathan lost. The APC people should stop opening threads to tell other Nigerians ‘Ntorrr’, we should move away from such pettiness and mediocrity.


A WORD TO THE CORE NORTH

And to the core North, let this election be a lesson and a reference point. A southerner sitting as president presided over his own defeat, accepted the results and went ahead to congratulate the winner from the north. In 2011 when Jonathan defeated Buhari, he refused to concede defeat but shouted that the election was rigged when we all know that he was defeated by Jonathan then. Nobody is burning tyres on the road in the South, nobody is burning Mosques, nobody is burning houses/cars and nobody is going about killing Northerners. Should the Northerners lose elections in future we expect them to accept the results and not disturb the peace. Jonathan has set a very good precedent not only for Nigeria but Africa.
I doubt if an igbo can be a president in Nigeria. Who will vote 4 them? d highest they can be is vice president.
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by ogbonoeba: 12:34pm On Apr 02, 2015
Trottle:
Ijaw youths accept Buhari, warn against violence

The President of the umbrella body of all Ijaw youths in the country, the Ijaw Youth Council, Mr. Udengs Eradiri, has called on all Ijaw youths across the nation to avoid all acts of violence, destruction and protests as a fallout of the last Saturday’s Presidential election, won by Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of the All Progressives Congress.

Eradiri also congratulated Buhari on his electoral victory and said that Ijaw youths would support his administration, just the same way youths from other parts of the country supported the Jonathan administration.

The IYC president warned that any Ijaw youth who got involved in protest, destruction and other acts of violence would be seen to be doing so at his or her own risk.

He said that the IYC would accept the leadership of Buhari, as the South-South region had had its own chance but could not use the position to its advantage.

Eradiri advised the youth populace in the region to resist being manipulated politically.

He said, “I want to use this opportunity to congratulate Gen. Buhari who has emerged the winner of the presidential election.

“And so as IYC, when we had our own as President, the Igbo, the Yoruba, the Hausa were loyal to him. We will be loyal to the President-elect, Gen. Buhari, who from May 29, 2015 would become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“We will accept it (the results of the election). We had our own knife and yam; we were not able to cut it the way we wanted. We have no other person to blame. It is in this part of the country that people ask for money to go and vote. However, the northerners were paying for their own transportation to go and exercise their rights and to go and pick their PVCs.

“Our people were expecting that they would be paid to collect PVCs and the results reflected so. We have no other choice; we are the architect of our own problem. So, we should be able to live with it.

“If you go and protest, you are on your own. If you go and destroy anything, you are on your own. I, as the leader of youths in this region, have reached out to other ethnic nationalities to canvass support. Maybe, we started late. Maybe the attention was not given that should have started with the political class.

“History has already recorded it. So, the best we can do is to key into his (Buhari’s) administration, just as the Yoruba and Hausa key into the administration. It is time for us to also key into the administration. So, I called on our people to steer clear of all those political manipulations.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/ijaw-youths-accept-buhari-warn-against-violence/

cc: Lalasticlala

Asari Dokubo,
I hope you are reading this. The peoples General hasn't taken over yet and your people are already falling in line. Don't cause trouble or else...

You have been warned wink

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Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by GodofGrace(m): 12:44pm On Apr 02, 2015
EUROBOMBER:
Let me start by saying congratulations to Muhammadu Buhari for winning the presidential election and emerging as Nigeria’s president-elect. I have come to realise that Buhari’s victory is the will of God for Nigeria and so, I have come to accept him as my president.

I also want to congratulate President Goodluck Jonathan for being mature enough to accept defeat and concede the election. This man remains one of the greatest Nigerian presidents because he could have decided to set Nigeria on fire but chose the honourable path.

I want to also recognise all my fellow PDP e-warriors that stood beside the President. Thank you for your resilience and unflinching support all through the struggle. Also to recognise all the APC e-warriors who fought bravely in support of their party despite all odds and won the battle.

MY MESSAGE FOR BUHARI

Now that you have become the President, I want to let you know that the change Nigerians really need is not the change of personalities or political party, Nigerians are just tired of the way things have been going in this country. Nigerians are suffering; we struggle to provide basic needs that ordinarily the Government should provide. Thieves continue to steal and get richer while the majority of Nigerians are languishing in poverty. This is the reason why Nigerians have decided to give you a chance; the people believe that God can use you to turn things around in this country that is why you were voted for last Saturday.

(1) Fight corruption to a complete halt in this country especially in the petroleum sector. Sanitize the NNPC, ensure transparency and accountability. Nigerians all over should be able to benefit from our God-given resources. A few cannot continue to hold this country to ransom and steal at will.

(2) Provide stable and reliable power supply for Nigerians. This will enable SME’s to thrive and encourage investors to flock massively into the country. The cost of doing business in this country is crazy because of high energy costs. We must do away with generators in this country for good Mr President.

(3) Please diversify our economy. We cannot continue to depend heavily on oil in Nigeria. Sit down and take a good look at the six geopolitical zones in this country and find a way of harnessing all economic potentials for the good of all Nigerians. Our economy must be less dependent on crude oil.

(4) Deal ruthlessly with corrupt persons who believe that they can continue to steal and do business as usual. This is a democracy but Mr President, you are the C-in-C and you have enormous powers at your disposal, please use them! Don’t be like Jonathan who allowed his Government to be hijacked by criminals who looted the nation dry while Nigerians cried.

(5) Finally, Buhari could be the man that God could use to finally cement Nigeria’s bond of unity by handing over to an Igbo-Nigerian president after his tenure in office whether 4 or 8yrs. Like the Elder statesman Yakubu Gowon said, electing an Igbo president would heal the old wounds of the civil war. Buhari’s name will be written in gold both in the hearts of the Igbos if he can be the instrument to achieving Igbo presidency in this country. If Buhari, being a Fulani from the North can transfer presidential power to the Igbos after him then he will be like the hinge holding Nigeria together.

A WORD FOR THE SE

I want to thank my geopolitical zone the SE for standing with Jonathan till the end. Yes, he lost the election but we have made a bold statement that we can stand with you till death when we give you our word. There was immense pressure to abandon the minority Ijaw man and join the majority but we refused and stood with the minority till the very end. We must however join hands with the new president to move this great nation forward. Personally, I have concluded that Nigeria has come to stay since we have survived this 2015 presidential election. Let us also build good bridges with other geopolitical zones so that we can produce Nigeria’s president after Buhari. No zone can produce the president alone in this country; you need the support of at least four zones to produce the president!

Let us also eschew bitterness and drop all these talk about Biafra; we are Nigerians and we have everything to gain in this country if we can play our game well.


A WORD FOR THE NIGER DELTA

Thank God we can now say that Nigeria has produced a president for the first time from the minority in the person of Goodluck Jonathan who is about to leave office. I can understand the pain/anger because of the outcome of this election but the truth is that what has happened is the will of God for Nigeria; I see the finger of God in all these. This is Buhari’s time to rule this country; he is a man of destiny. He has come just at the right time to save this country from gliding into abyss.

Stop calling the Yorubas traitors and all that. Remember that the Yorubas overwhelmingly voted for your son in 2011 and rejected this same buhari. Check the figures and see that buhari was soundly rejected by the Yorubas in 2011. All Nigerians believed that Jonathyan would be a Messiah that would come and turn things around in this country; this was a man who had no shoes to go to school, who was from a poor background. Nigerians voted massively for him only to be so disappointed that he has not been able to make their lives better. Things are much more difficult for Nigerians now than when Jonathan took over. This is the reason why the Yourubas have rejected Jonathan this time. It is not out of hatred or gang-up but because he has not performed well! Same story about most of the MB and that is why Jonathan lost the MB. Nigerians never had it this bad, state Governors are owing salaries for months, people are hungry, unable to pay school fees and unable to meet their basic human needs.

How foolish can a Government be? Imagine someone that wants to come for a second term and civil servants were not paid their December salaries to celebrate Christmas! This is just unbelievable! It was in December last year that I began to question this Government in my mind but I still continued my relentless support on Nairaland for Jonathan. I saw my relatives who were Civil Servants going hungry during the Christmas celebrations, some could not even purchase new clothes for their kid, how painful!

As for me, I will do my very best in my own little capacity to support Buhari in changing this country for good. If things should continue the way they were going under Jonathan I wonder what the future of our children would be to be honest. It is God that has pushed out Jonathan not Nigerians because of all the prayers and crying that has gone up to him.

Let me also use this medium to appeal to all reasonable Yorubas on Nairaland to prevail on their people to stop opening funny threads about Igbo this Igbo that just because Jonathan lost. The APC people should stop opening threads to tell other Nigerians ‘Ntorrr’, we should move away from such pettiness and mediocrity.


A WORD TO THE CORE NORTH

And to the core North, let this election be a lesson and a reference point. A southerner sitting as president presided over his own defeat, accepted the results and went ahead to congratulate the winner from the north. In 2011 when Jonathan defeated Buhari, he refused to concede defeat but shouted that the election was rigged when we all know that he was defeated by Jonathan then. Nobody is burning tyres on the road in the South, nobody is burning Mosques, nobody is burning houses/cars and nobody is going about killing Northerners. Should the Northerners lose elections in future we expect them to accept the results and not disturb the peace. Jonathan has set a very good precedent not only for Nigeria but Africa.
. for the very first time I have to agree with you and I'm believe Nigeria youth should have this mindset.
God bless GEJ
God bless GMB
God bless Nigeria and nigerians
God bless nairaland and nairalander
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by zendy: 1:03pm On Apr 02, 2015
I want to send a big shoutout to my people of the SE and our SS brothers. Our prefared candidate didn't get re-elected but we have shown decorum in the mist of disappointment. God knows that if Buhari had not been elected,thousands of lives and property worth Billions would have been up in flames in the north by now. We are not northern zealots and never will be. We are much better than them.It doesn't matter what the North does with power,they won't be able to see the backs of southerners. I pray that we will one day be able to dissolve whatever political ties we have with the northerners and Yorubas but until that time comes,we keep the faith. One consolation in all of this is that whatever the incoming administration does is going to affect everyone with equal measure. Life goes on.
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by raffite: 1:03pm On Apr 02, 2015
All Hail!

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Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by mcprince32(m): 1:08pm On Apr 02, 2015
Eko'onibaje ooo.
I'm not a Lagosian but On January 2nd 2015 I had a vision and saw a big challenge staring at all, and the need for solution, but no one could until I had a loud voice, "JIMI AND IFEANYI". When I made search, I realised it's Jimi Agbaje and Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State. We all know it's not much about party but individual composition and God's approval. Although I don't know them personally, but I kindly request us to give them the chances. Jimi Agbaje and Ifeanyi Okowa. God bless you all.
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by nzeBiddle(m): 1:11pm On Apr 02, 2015
Lol apparently godsday (or is it godswill?) orubebe's the biggest looser in the whole episode.
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by Nobody: 1:14pm On Apr 02, 2015
Olufemiolaolu:
I doubt if an igbo can be a president in Nigeria. Who will vote 4 them? d highest they can be is vice president.

People are still in shock because nobody ever believed Buhari would pull through the election but because it was his God-ordained time, he won! Go figure.
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by Nobody: 1:16pm On Apr 02, 2015
PassingShot:


I mean not to underestimate or belittle you but I never knew you could produce intelligent post such as this.

Your emotions got the better of you during the campaign.

Kudos!

cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy

cool
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by United4lyf(m): 1:33pm On Apr 02, 2015
Larryfly:
We in the South are more sane than those up there


We don't suck blood
lol mama peace is that you?
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by M4gunners: 1:52pm On Apr 02, 2015
Tuntheycr7:




I board bike, I tell the aboki guy.
"Sai Buhari"
he say "Sai Baba".
He say make I no bother pay.

After I go Mai suya, after I ordered for suya. I tell am
"Sai Buhari"
he say "Sai Baba"...
He say make I leave money. grin

After the aboki guy polished my shoe.
I said Sai Buhari.. He replied by gnashing his brownish teeth... Sai Baba.
He said : ma prend leave money... grin

Then I go Mai Shai. I tell am same thing he say
"Aboki leave money"....

WhaooO!!!
Seems it's working..

Can't wait to go to this my Aboki car dealer in
Surulere tomorrow..... grin
Na dia u go know say no be him manufacture the Cars lol.U better carri moni follow body:
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by Curvinus(m): 2:04pm On Apr 02, 2015
Elections time and time again in this country have been shown up to be nothing more than a conspiracy of the elite. In other words, whoever is most favoured by the aristocracy would most likely emerge the winner.

Now, the big question is can the APC genuinely glve Nigeria 40,000 megawatts of electricity in eight years as they promised in their manifesto?

Let us hope so.
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by Nobody: 2:06pm On Apr 02, 2015
Olufemiolaolu:
Alliance with who?

Basically....look for guys who you can make compromises with...and who can make compromises with you in return.
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by VoteOutPDPJona: 2:18pm On Apr 02, 2015
coolshegs10:
Buhari is the man..Everybody will accept him as their leader cos dey got no choice.
Patiently waiting for Fayose to accept him shamefully
•Yoruba politicians deceiving others just for money since 1962•
Fayose has congratulated Buhari.
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by dasensible1(m): 2:28pm On Apr 02, 2015
Tuntheycr7:




I board bike, I tell the aboki guy.
"Sai Buhari"
he say "Sai Baba".
He say make I no bother pay.

After I go Mai suya, after I ordered for suya. I tell am
"Sai Buhari"
he say "Sai Baba"...
He say make I leave money. grin

After the aboki guy polished my shoe.
I said Sai Buhari.. He replied by gnashing his brownish teeth... Sai Baba.
He said : ma prend leave money... grin

Then I go Mai Shai. I tell am same thing he say
"Aboki leave money"....

WhaooO!!!
Seems it's working..

Can't wait to go to this my Aboki car dealer in
Surulere tomorrow..... grin
For your mind! You must "pai baba", else no car for you o. grin
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by Nobody: 3:01pm On Apr 02, 2015
CR77:
Hope the boys will listen

I hope GMB will also call BH boys to order

Nigeria is a blessed country
Hope you got my message?
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by CR77(f): 3:19pm On Apr 02, 2015
Hahaha smiley
AgapeCharis:
Hope you got my message?
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by DanjaNinja(m): 3:20pm On Apr 02, 2015
EUROBOMBER:
Let me start by saying congratulations to Muhammadu Buhari for winning the presidential election and emerging as Nigeria’s president-elect. I have come to realise that Buhari’s victory is the will of God for Nigeria and so, I have come to accept him as my president.

I also want to congratulate President Goodluck Jonathan for being mature enough to accept defeat and concede the election. This man remains one of the greatest Nigerian presidents because he could have decided to set Nigeria on fire but chose the honourable path.

I want to also recognise all my fellow PDP e-warriors that stood beside the President. Thank you for your resilience and unflinching support all through the struggle. Also to recognise all the APC e-warriors who fought bravely in support of their party despite all odds and won the battle.

MY MESSAGE FOR BUHARI

Now that you have become the President, I want to let you know that the change Nigerians really need is not the change of personalities or political party, Nigerians are just tired of the way things have been going in this country. Nigerians are suffering; we struggle to provide basic needs that ordinarily the Government should provide. Thieves continue to steal and get richer while the majority of Nigerians are languishing in poverty. This is the reason why Nigerians have decided to give you a chance; the people believe that God can use you to turn things around in this country that is why you were voted for last Saturday.

(1) Fight corruption to a complete halt in this country especially in the petroleum sector. Sanitize the NNPC, ensure transparency and accountability. Nigerians all over should be able to benefit from our God-given resources. A few cannot continue to hold this country to ransom and steal at will.

(2) Provide stable and reliable power supply for Nigerians. This will enable SME’s to thrive and encourage investors to flock massively into the country. The cost of doing business in this country is crazy because of high energy costs. We must do away with generators in this country for good Mr President.

(3) Please diversify our economy. We cannot continue to depend heavily on oil in Nigeria. Sit down and take a good look at the six geopolitical zones in this country and find a way of harnessing all economic potentials for the good of all Nigerians. Our economy must be less dependent on crude oil.

(4) Deal ruthlessly with corrupt persons who believe that they can continue to steal and do business as usual. This is a democracy but Mr President, you are the C-in-C and you have enormous powers at your disposal, please use them! Don’t be like Jonathan who allowed his Government to be hijacked by criminals who looted the nation dry while Nigerians cried.

(5) Finally, Buhari could be the man that God could use to finally cement Nigeria’s bond of unity by handing over to an Igbo-Nigerian president after his tenure in office whether 4 or 8yrs. Like the Elder statesman Yakubu Gowon said, electing an Igbo president would heal the old wounds of the civil war. Buhari’s name will be written in gold both in the hearts of the Igbos if he can be the instrument to achieving Igbo presidency in this country. If Buhari, being a Fulani from the North can transfer presidential power to the Igbos after him then he will be like the hinge holding Nigeria together.

A WORD FOR THE SE

I want to thank my geopolitical zone the SE for standing with Jonathan till the end. Yes, he lost the election but we have made a bold statement that we can stand with you till death when we give you our word. There was immense pressure to abandon the minority Ijaw man and join the majority but we refused and stood with the minority till the very end. We must however join hands with the new president to move this great nation forward. Personally, I have concluded that Nigeria has come to stay since we have survived this 2015 presidential election. Let us also build good bridges with other geopolitical zones so that we can produce Nigeria’s president after Buhari. No zone can produce the president alone in this country; you need the support of at least four zones to produce the president!

Let us also eschew bitterness and drop all these talk about Biafra; we are Nigerians and we have everything to gain in this country if we can play our game well.


A WORD FOR THE NIGER DELTA

Thank God we can now say that Nigeria has produced a president for the first time from the minority in the person of Goodluck Jonathan who is about to leave office. I can understand the pain/anger because of the outcome of this election but the truth is that what has happened is the will of God for Nigeria; I see the finger of God in all these. This is Buhari’s time to rule this country; he is a man of destiny. He has come just at the right time to save this country from gliding into abyss.

Stop calling the Yorubas traitors and all that. Remember that the Yorubas overwhelmingly voted for your son in 2011 and rejected this same buhari. Check the figures and see that buhari was soundly rejected by the Yorubas in 2011. All Nigerians believed that Jonathyan would be a Messiah that would come and turn things around in this country; this was a man who had no shoes to go to school, who was from a poor background. Nigerians voted massively for him only to be so disappointed that he has not been able to make their lives better. Things are much more difficult for Nigerians now than when Jonathan took over. This is the reason why the Yourubas have rejected Jonathan this time. It is not out of hatred or gang-up but because he has not performed well! Same story about most of the MB and that is why Jonathan lost the MB. Nigerians never had it this bad, state Governors are owing salaries for months, people are hungry, unable to pay school fees and unable to meet their basic human needs.

How foolish can a Government be? Imagine someone that wants to come for a second term and civil servants were not paid their December salaries to celebrate Christmas! This is just unbelievable! It was in December last year that I began to question this Government in my mind but I still continued my relentless support on Nairaland for Jonathan. I saw my relatives who were Civil Servants going hungry during the Christmas celebrations, some could not even purchase new clothes for their kid, how painful!

As for me, I will do my very best in my own little capacity to support Buhari in changing this country for good. If things should continue the way they were going under Jonathan I wonder what the future of our children would be to be honest. It is God that has pushed out Jonathan not Nigerians because of all the prayers and crying that has gone up to him.

Let me also use this medium to appeal to all reasonable Yorubas on Nairaland to prevail on their people to stop opening funny threads about Igbo this Igbo that just because Jonathan lost. The APC people should stop opening threads to tell other Nigerians ‘Ntorrr’, we should move away from such pettiness and mediocrity.


A WORD TO THE CORE NORTH

And to the core North, let this election be a lesson and a reference point. A southerner sitting as president presided over his own defeat, accepted the results and went ahead to congratulate the winner from the north. In 2011 when Jonathan defeated Buhari, he refused to concede defeat but shouted that the election was rigged when we all know that he was defeated by Jonathan then. Nobody is burning tyres on the road in the South, nobody is burning Mosques, nobody is burning houses/cars and nobody is going about killing Northerners. Should the Northerners lose elections in future we expect them to accept the results and not disturb the peace. Jonathan has set a very good precedent not only for Nigeria but Africa.

My brother, I would vote for you if you were to contest for presidency. Your articulate and expansive write up says alot about you. Your are a wise and matured individual. God bless u immensely for this writeup. #HUGS #Nohomo
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by billyG(m): 3:24pm On Apr 02, 2015
Trottle:
Ijaw youths accept Buhari, warn against violence

The President of the umbrella body of all Ijaw youths in the country, the Ijaw Youth Council, Mr. Udengs Eradiri, has called on all Ijaw youths across the nation to avoid all acts of violence, destruction and protests as a fallout of the last Saturday’s Presidential election, won by Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of the All Progressives Congress.

Eradiri also congratulated Buhari on his electoral victory and said that Ijaw youths would support his administration, just the same way youths from other parts of the country supported the Jonathan administration.

The IYC president warned that any Ijaw youth who got involved in protest, destruction and other acts of violence would be seen to be doing so at his or her own risk.

He said that the IYC would accept the leadership of Buhari, as the South-South region had had its own chance but could not use the position to its advantage.

Eradiri advised the youth populace in the region to resist being manipulated politically.

He said, “I want to use this opportunity to congratulate Gen. Buhari who has emerged the winner of the presidential election.

“And so as IYC, when we had our own as President, the Igbo, the Yoruba, the Hausa were loyal to him. We will be loyal to the President-elect, Gen. Buhari, who from May 29, 2015 would become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“We will accept it (the results of the election). We had our own knife and yam; we were not able to cut it the way we wanted. We have no other person to blame. It is in this part of the country that people ask for money to go and vote. However, the northerners were paying for their own transportation to go and exercise their rights and to go and pick their PVCs.

“Our people were expecting that they would be paid to collect PVCs and the results reflected so. We have no other choice; we are the architect of our own problem. So, we should be able to live with it.

“If you go and protest, you are on your own. If you go and destroy anything, you are on your own. I, as the leader of youths in this region, have reached out to other ethnic nationalities to canvass support. Maybe, we started late. Maybe the attention was not given that should have started with the political class.

“History has already recorded it. So, the best we can do is to key into his (Buhari’s) administration, just as the Yoruba and Hausa key into the administration. It is time for us to also key into the administration. So, I called on our people to steer clear of all those political manipulations.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/ijaw-youths-accept-buhari-warn-against-violence/

cc: Lalasticlala
That is very correct what baffles me with ND youths is when govermnet want to construct Roads,water projects for them they demand to be paid 1st even in billions before they will allow govt. to develop their communities!Hia una see una life now.IYC pls reorientate yur youths.
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by dangambus: 3:42pm On Apr 02, 2015
Such is life. It's high tympanum we stop money politics in this country.

MzJackBaueress:
absolutely true!

A reporter from a popular TV Station who covered the election in Bayelsa state said the same thing. He interviewed some Bayelsans why they are not going out to vote,they responded by saying unless they are paid,they will not vote.

It is true after all! Too bad

Front page lalasticlala
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by Nobody: 3:46pm On Apr 02, 2015
CR77:
Hahaha smiley
You didn't understand what I meant. Did you? grin
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by Nobody: 3:50pm On Apr 02, 2015
DanjaNinja:


My brother, I would vote for you if you were to contest for presidency. Your articulate and expansive write up says alot about you. Your are a wise and matured individual. God bless u immensely for this writeup. #HUGS #Nohomo

Thank you very much, God bless you.
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by coolshegs10(m): 3:56pm On Apr 02, 2015
VoteOutPDPJona:

Fayose has congratulated Buhari.

really? oops,I missed that. Really wished I saw him eat his vomit.Thanks
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by Myself2(m): 4:01pm On Apr 02, 2015
Udengs is speaking for himself,his seat as the IYC president is not secure. Udengs go and sit down, we will do what we will do from time to time to guard and protect the collective destiny of our people
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by egobetatoday: 4:06pm On Apr 02, 2015
the fact that GEJ conceded defeat sent messages to his kinsmen that he is neither ready nor in support of anyone who wants to foment trouble.

GEJ, you've earned my respect Sir.

this is contrary to what happened in 2011 election and i bliv we can still remember the aftermath.

Leaders/ GMB should learn from this.
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by egobetatoday: 4:22pm On Apr 02, 2015
Curvinus:
Elections time and time again in this country have been shown up to be nothing more than a conspiracy of the elite. In other words, whoever is most favoured by the aristocracy would most likely emerge the winner.

Now, the big question is can the APC genuinely glve Nigeria 40,000 megawatts of electricity in eight years as they promised in their manifesto?

Let us hope so.


NO!! we will no longer waste 8 precious years before we know who is competent or not ( just like in Oga Jona's case)

4 yrs is enof!

40,000 megawatts in 4 yrs or else...

well, that will be the basis for re-election.
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by CR77(f): 4:24pm On Apr 02, 2015
Oh ur email
AgapeCharis:
You didn't understand what I meant. Did you? grin
Re: Ijaw Youths Accepts Buhari, Warns Against Violence- Punch by CR77(f): 4:30pm On Apr 02, 2015
I didn't get ur message send it again.
AgapeCharis:
You didn't understand what I meant. Did you? grin

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