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Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by Babacele: 3:43pm On Aug 15, 2017 |
tuniski:propaganda that PDP messed the country up ? a new dawn by Gej's PDP that Nigeria dismissed after 16 years of waste? you make me laugh? |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by Nobody: 3:44pm On Aug 15, 2017 |
adetayo234: And we want the country to move forward, we dont want agitations, we dont want parallel government, neither do we want conflict.. but the bold words says otherwise.. |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by Xfemt(m): 3:59pm On Aug 15, 2017 |
Cinkq:abeg short up, if u don't ve any reasonable tin yo say plz go and sleep nonsense 1 Like |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by tuniski: 4:47pm On Aug 15, 2017 |
Babacele:PDP advanced nigeria though not at the best rate but, APC is regressing nigeria. The new dawn is for PDP to reclaim the mantle of advancement with lessons learnt. Wake up and smell the coffee! 1 Like |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by jpphilips(m): 5:23pm On Aug 15, 2017 |
WhiskeyTangoFox: Ethnic violence and agitations? correct me if I am wrong, we have been living with communal clashes since I was born, I think presently, its reduced considering our population growth over time, they all fall under law enforcement lapses, my expectations isn't out of the ordinary, did you really vote any government in Nigeria hoping that the NPF will become NYPD? come on!! Agitations like IPOB you mean? who told you they are agitating? those are political tools used by state governors to pressure the federal government to dissolve the federation account, do you sincerely think it's a coincidence that Kanu is shouting Biafra on one end, the politicians are shouting "restructuring and resource control"? it's all about the federation account, the question is; why do they want the federation account dissolved? simple, because they want more money due to fall in crude price, so I can draft the chronology for you, fall in crude price led to agitation for Biafra, led to agitation for restructuring as the end game, do you sincerely think the FG is stvpid not to figure it out? By middle of 2013, the federation account was providing about 1.3T naira for sharing, today, it provides less than 480b naira, no thanks to the fall in crude price, so the state governors have quickly condemned the idea of sharing, they now see it as a taboo , they want to control the resources without making any investment, which sane FG will listen to that crap? now they go to the people, you and I know that Nigerians are extremely ignorant, the people side with them and the noise reaches a crescendo!! The politicians know that Nigerians are too dvmb to ask how we are gonna be maintaining equitable distribution of wealth, the primary function of the federation account? When they see the resolve of the federal government as unwavering, the so called mass followership they have will quickly define their interest, they will come to an understanding that you and I are no direct beneficiaries of state funds, they will go home, in the interim, we can all enjoy the noise, it doesn't call for any concern trust me on that. With a president like Buhari that can not be intimidated even in death , those so called economic agitations will die a natural death. Before you blame those ministers, first find out when last their budgetary allocation was paid, where is the money? when you see the money, find out if it is a borrowed fund that we will pay back or service in the nearest future. Those are the fundamental issues not the hogwash flying around. If you think the PDP will do better under the circumstance, then you must be ready for a rude shock. Prosecution of corrupt persons cost a lot of money, the smartest thing to do is collecting the much we can through plea bargain, the stubborn ones can be axed with the Judiciary hoping you understand the Judiciary bottlenecks, while i would love a democracy with consequence management, I am not so enthusiastic seeing a Madueke in prison at a huge cost, we rather settle for her loot funding a part of the budget as we saw in the 2017 budget till the situation improves. The rann bombing was a mistake though regrettable but not out of the ordinary, the military accepted responsibility and apologised for it, what else were you expecting? Axe the service chiefs? don't be ridiculous, in a game of life and death, both cards are always on the table, if you follow the news you would have heard that in October 2015, a US AC-130 gunship erroneously bombed an MSF hospital in Kunduz, that plane is more advanced and sophisticated than the ancient of days our air force use, yet they made such disastrous error, the story is the same for several advanced militaries of the world, if we have flown thousands of sorties in the NE and made just one error, I think you should cut the military some slack!! 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by Babacele: 7:52pm On Aug 15, 2017 |
tuniski:not in this lifetime again, if Buhari won't fix the thieves who have held this nation down by 2019, we help him do it at all costs. PDP is dead! |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by tuniski: 10:49pm On Aug 15, 2017 |
Babacele:Come and kill it nau. Delusional kawai! 1 Like |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by Babacele: 3:10am On Aug 16, 2017 |
tuniski:ba delusion ba. walahi PDP is dead. do you know that the life of PDP was power and it has been taken away from them. who will give them back? |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by Babacele: 4:00am On Aug 16, 2017 |
jpphilips:we ain't even excusing the economy but rather going to tell the people those who stole the lifeblood of the economy : money, kept them in toilets, cemeteries, etc rather than in the economy. The sledgehammer of npower, school feeding program, infrastructural dev, Amnesty and other gains in the ND, Boko haram defeat, diversified economy, working refineries, ASUU being happy after all, well utilized recovered loots, stealing becoming corruption, improved international credentials which is already yielding as US is giving us Tuacanos unlike during the ineffective Buffon era ,and many more gains is what we shall hit the rogue paper boat in our political sail in 2019. An opinion poll conducted by the same PDP 2 months ago shows 60% of Nigerians still prefer APC to PDP despite the downturns. yes Gej did well and please let us beg PDP to present him for reelection in 2019. |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by AngelicBeing: 11:09am On Aug 16, 2017 |
onatisi:A quick question for you and sorry for asking here, how much is the equivalent of 90million Ghanaian cedis to Nigeria naira?. I am asking because of a business transaction l have to execute their, thanks |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by onatisi(m): 11:11am On Aug 16, 2017 |
AngelicBeing:90million cedis or 90 million ghana cedis ? There is big difference oo |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by AngelicBeing: 11:12am On Aug 16, 2017 |
onatisi:Yes, I meant 90million Ghana cedis, I am confused with all this their endless zeros, is 90 million ghana cedis equivalent to 810,000 naira? |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by AngelicBeing: 11:15am On Aug 16, 2017 |
@Onatisi, what is the difference between 90 million ghana cedis and 90million cedis? And what is their equivalent to Nigeria Naira? still waiting for your response,thanks |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by onatisi(m): 11:53am On Aug 16, 2017 |
AngelicBeing:10,000 cedis = 1 ghana cedis 4.5ghc = 1 us dollar 12.5 ghc = 1000 naira |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by AngelicBeing: 12:10pm On Aug 16, 2017 |
onatisi:From your tabular above, it means 90,000 000million ghana cedis <> 90 000 000 divided by 10,000, that brings it to 9000 Ghana cedis, multiplying it by 100naira =900,000 naira, Na wao, it means 90 million ghana cedis = 900,000 naira? It means 1 ghana cedis =100 naira |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by onatisi(m): 1:27pm On Aug 16, 2017 |
AngelicBeing:that is the reason why I asked if the amount quoted for you is ghana cedis or just cedis. There is no way they will quote 90 million ghana cedis because that is aboUt 19million us dollars |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by AngelicBeing: 1:41pm On Aug 16, 2017 |
onatisi:I got it now, it is about 9,000 Ghana cedis in their new currency which is approximately about 900,000 naira, thanks |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by Babacele: 4:09pm On Aug 16, 2017 |
Goodluck Jonathan And The
Ostrich Game By Peter Claver
Oparah
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan -
remember him? He is the same
man that was offloaded off power
here some two light years ago. He
is still the bumbling man
perpetually living in denial, even
in the face of egregious evidences
of failure. He is still the same
person who said he went to
school without shoes yet when
asked to declare his assets, after
some few years in power, he
declined and thundered ‘I don’t
give a damn!’.
BY PETER CLAVER OPARAH
AUG 14, 2017
G oodluck Ebele Jonathan -
remember him? He is the same
man that was offloaded off power
here some two light years ago. He
is still the bumbling man
perpetually living in denial, even
in the face of egregious evidences
of failure. He is still the same
person who said he went to
school without shoes yet when
asked to declare his assets, after
some few years in power, he
declined and thundered ‘I don’t
give a damn!’. He is still the same
man who, as president, shocked
the nation when he declared the
stealing is not corruption,
wondering why people were
making comparison between
‘ordinary stealing’ and
‘corruption’. He is still the same
fellow who harvested tremendous,
unparalleled revenue in a
providential oil boom and frittered
the hefty accrual, which exceeded
the combined revenue made by all
previous governments before his.
He is the same man who gave no
damn that his cronies and those
of his party men freely and
impudently raided the national
treasury and salted away mind-
bugling amounts under his
pernicious watch. He has cut a
mark for himself for always
burying his head in the sand when
you expect him to be a man. He
plays deaf and dumb in the hefty
indiscretions and corrupt acts that
have been linked to his men and
subalterns. He creates the mien of
an inscrutable man who lives with
unimaginably corrupt people. He
does not betray any qualms
trading this paradoxical picture
because his favorite pet must be
an ostrich.
Last week, Jonathan made a
cameo appearance at a PDP
meeting and as he was wont to do
since he was offloaded from
power, devoted the entire time he
was on their stage, beating and
dancing to his own drum. To him,
he was the best thing that
happened to Nigeria. He said that
when he was here, the country
was awash with bountiful
blessings; everybody was secure,
food was aplenty, inflation was
nonexistent, corruption was
exterminated, poverty was
banished, etc. You will wonder
which country Jonathan was
rambling about. You even wonder
if life was as bountiful as he tried
to make it look, why was Jonathan
voted out by millions of
enthusiastic Nigerians just two
years ago even in the face of very
desperate measures he and his
hirelings took to stick to power?
Perhaps, to Jonathan, Nigerians
made a mistake to end his
‘glorious’ era and of course, he
must have been talking to a
country living in regret for voting
his golden era out.
Let’s be clear. Jonathan has every
right to bolster his image,
especially in the face of the
humbling he received in March
2015. With the horrific picture of
wanton and egregious plundering
that happened under Jonathan,
assaulting the public space since
he left, it was just charitable that
he said, tongue-in-cheek that his
regime failed to plug all loopholes
for corruption. That means that he
plugged some loopholes if we are
to believe his moonlight revelry.
That he even made that
admittance was an afterthought
especially in the light of the
horrendous evidences of
corruption that has continued to
waft out from his regime. To
Jonathan and his disciples, to
whom he was directing his feel-
good epistle, that was a cheery
story, but to millions of Nigerians,
still reeling from Jonathan’s
gargantuan misrule, those were
stories for the gods. Fact is that
try as he and his cronies may
wish to, Jonathan ran a
brigandage where tremendous
providential resources that would
have lifted Nigeria from its present
atrophy, were salted and stolen by
his unconscionable cronies while
he looked on. Truth is that Nigeria
had enough resources to take it to
the zenith of development under
Jonathan but he presided over a
total despoliation of the country
as his moonlighting lasted.
A nation that understands its
onions would have, by now, be
calculating the costs of the
brigandage and vandalism which
Jonathan supervised in Nigeria for
nearly six years. For that period,
Jonathan harvested enough
resources to take Nigeria into the
first world when oil, the mainstay
of our economy went as high as
over $120 per barrel and Nigeria
exported over 2.5 million barrels
every day. Jonathan inherited a
rich foreign reserve of well over $
64 billion and an Excess Crude
Account in excess of $12billion.
In the period when Jonathan was
president, no new roads were
constructed. The ones that were
existing decayed out of existence.
No new railways were
constructed. No model hospitals
were constructed. No new airports
were constructed. Unemployment
soared to the extent that it took a
call for recruitment of 3,000 staff
by the Nigerian Immigration
Services for millions of Nigerians
to fill all stadia and open spaces
in the country after being extorted
of a compulsory fee running into
billions of Naira. In the ensuing
stampede for space, over 20 of
these youths were trampled to
death and no one got employed in
the long run. Inflation? It was a
soaring affair as the rate of
inflation climbed to a double digit
when Nigeria was swimming in
billions of petro dollars. What
more, Jonathan left power with the
country’s power generation
capacity at below 1,000MW, and
23 states clearly on the throes of
anarchy as several months of
unpaid workers’ salaries
threatened to unleash violent
crisis all over Nigeria as Jonathan
and his band left power in 2015.
Jonathan’s ‘sound economic
team’ told awe-stricken Nigerians
before the March general election
that it had to borrow nearly half a
trillion Naira to pay federal civil
servants’ salaries. Yet, crude oil
sold for $60.30 the day Jonathan
handed over; a price it had never
reached for the period Buhari has
presided over our affairs yet
Buhari not only released a huge
bailout to clear the hefty amount
of salaries states accumulated in
the oil boom era of Jonathan and
has followed it up with periodic
releases to make the states
solvent. As for security, yes,
Jonathan is so shameless as to
flaunt a situation where he was
living in perpetual scare of Boko
Haram in Aso Rock, which made
unchallenged constant bloody
raids in the nation’s capital after
seizing a fifth of Nigeria’s
territory. It is as bizarre as it is
tragic! While he surrendered the
security of Nigeria to Boko Haram
and sundry other gang lords, his
National Security Adviser was
sharing a huge sum of $2.1 billion
voted for security to all manners
of PDP aficionados.
I am not trying to rebut the torrid
of humongous claims Jonathan
and his cronies continue to make
to dupe our senses. Rather, I want
to just take a peek at the persona
of Jonathan; a simpleton who
relishes playing the ostrich in his
delusional feeling that Nigerians
are afflicted with short memory.
Fact is that Jonathan and his
reveling PDP compatriots know
that they are living a lie of what
they really represent in Nigeria
and what Nigerians think of them.
They know the horrible place they
occupy in the hearts of Nigerians
who are still smarting from the
vicious liabilities of the PDP era.
They know that even as they try to
take chance with Nigerians’
memories that everybody knows
the ignoble role the PDP and
Jonathan played in this country.
They know that Nigerians know
the hefty cost, the wasted
opportunities and the missed
chances we incurred when
Jonathan and his men were
vandalizing the country to the
bones. They know that Nigerians
know that Nigeria would have
become great if we had an
accountable leadership that
utilized well the close to N100
trillion oil earnings, the hefty $64
billion foreign reserves, the $12
billion Excess Crude Account
which Jonathan and cronies
looted and ran Nigeria into
recession. Perhaps with the
exception of Venezuela, no other
major oil producer ran into the
kind of storm Jonathan and co ran
Nigeria such that when oil prices
crashed as President Buhari was
taking over, every other oil rich
country dipped into its rich
savings to mitigate the effects. For
Nigeria, everything was stolen;
courtesy of Jonathan and co who
‘didn’t plug all loopholes of
corruption’. Pray which one did
Jonathan plug? Nigeria is where
we are today because Jonathan
and his lickspittles where were his
exclusive cheerleaders as he
makes his naked dance, ate our
yesterday, our today and our
tomorrow when bizarre stealing
replaced statecraft.
However, if PDP feels Nigerians
have forgotten where the present
rain started beating them, they
have a huge opportunity to stage
a referendum of the Jonathan
regime. This they will do by
presenting him for the 2019
presidential contest. Yes, if they
believe in the lie they told
themselves and those whose
senses they have looted that
Jonathan did very well, let them
put Jonathan on their ballot for
2019. Not that it matters who they
present for 2019 but putting
Jonathan on the ballot will help
them get a clearer picture of how
Nigerians feel about the regime
vis-à-vis the present regime.
Jonathan should spare what
remains of his saliva and throw
his hat into the ring if he and what
remains of PDP believes in the
lies they regurgitate to themselves
that he did well in power. Let the
PDP simply exhume Goodluck
Jonathan and present him to
Nigerians on its 2019 ticket as the
best they have for the presidency
on the mantra that he did so well
for the six years he was here and
let Nigerians vote, if in real terms
they have forgotten the lessons of
March 28, 2015. That is the best
way to walk one’s talk than
indulging in self-delusive revelry
of futile creation which Jonathan
and his hirelings have made their
favorite pastimes, since they were
dismissed from power.
Peter Claver Oparah writes from
Ikeja, Lagos. You can reach him at
peterclaver2000@yahoo.com |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by Chikelue2000(m): 8:18pm On Aug 16, 2017 |
fastgyal:wish I can see u one day |
Re: GEJ Replies Garba Shehu: Time For Propaganda Over, It's Time For Proper Agenda by jamace(m): 8:29pm On May 07, 2018 |
The APC Propaganda bug has caught Osibanjo. 1 Like |
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