Stampede as youths disrupt Buhari’s rally in Yenagoa
•Sylva flays attack
From FEMI FOLARANMI, Yenagoa
Wednesday, December 08, 2010


There was pandemonium on Tuesday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital when the youth wing of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) foiled an attempt to disrupt the rally organized for the Presidential candidate of the party, General Mohammed Buhari.

Buhari, who arrived Yenagoa in company of the governorship aspirant in the state, Mr. Famous Daunimugha and national officers of the party was driven straight to the Amarata School field amidst shouts of “Sai Buhari” by the youths wearing tee-shirts with his photograph and that of Daunimugha embossed on them.

The Chairman of the party in Bayelsa State, Mr. Williams Woyinkuro  Berezi was in the middle of his speech when bottles were thrown into the arena, causing confusion, as people took to their heels.
Berezi, who was unsure if the bottles would get to the podium, stopped his speech but was urged to continue by majority of the youths who had formed a ring around the dignitaries.

Some women and youths who scampered for dear lives when the bottles were being thrown, sustained various degrees of injuries due to stampede.
However, mobile policemen and some of the youths went to the Melford Okilo Road to confront those who were throwing the bottles and were able to get one of them, who was beaten before he was rescued by the police.

Buhari, who later addressed the people, enjoined them to protect their democratic rights during the 2011 elections.
According to him, Bayelsans must ensure they register; vote during the elections and ensure that their votes count by protecting it.
He listed security of lives and property and tackling indiscipline and corruption headlong as part of the programme the CPC would pursue if elected into government.
On the incident of the bottles thrown into the arena, Buhari said it was the responsibility of law enforcement agencies to protect people during political rallies.
Noting that CPC was not afraid of any party, he said security agencies were duty bound to protect lives of people.

Daunimugha reacting to the incident said as Bayelsans, they would not allow themselves to be scared, as they would ensure that they vote on election day.
“As Bayelsans, we would not be scared. We must vote. We would not allow anybody to intimidate us,” he said.
Meanwhile, Bayelsa State government has condemned in strong words, the use of bottles to disrupt the rally organized for Presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Bayelsa, General Mohammed Buhari.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Doifie Ola, in a terse press statement entitled “ Buhari In Yenagoa” said the government condemned the act, adding, however, that it was at a loss why the organizers of the rally did not deem it fit to inform the government about the rally.
He said as a former Head of State, protocol demands that the state government should know when Buhari came into Bayelsa irrespective of party affiliations.

“While we condemn this act with every force at our command, we are at a loss as to why neither Buhari nor his managers thought it fit to inform the state government of his campaign visit to Bayelsa. As a former Head of State, protocol demands that the State Government be in the know. “Governor Timipre Sylva was only informed about General Buhari’s visit only after the unfortunate incident at the rally ground. We consider this improper. Irrespective of differences in political party affiliations, the general and his party have to acknowledge the fact that there is a sitting governor in the state,”he said.

Blazay:

^^^

When you get to the North, you use terms like almajiris.
Then, when you get to the South the term changes to "youths". . .

C[b]orny inninnit?[/b]

stranger:

We dont have almajiris

We have responsible youths/people

We are more sensible than those mofod up north!

alj harem:

very


youth=abegero

Blazay:

Yeah. We know.
So, there are no "youths" in Northern Nigeria huh?

youth=abegero=almajiri=niger-delta militant=kidnappers.

stranger:

You don't get it, do you?
According to the Oxford dictionary of contemporary usage, youth: the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
Emphasis on vitality, which denotes the quality of being exciting and successful.

Quite alright, you have warm bodies in the north. Most of these people are grossly uneducated, and as a result, not useful to the country.
The country cannot rely on them because they are, for the most part, bound to fail.

They, like our in-house Alh Harem, are devoid of original thinking, untrainable, and they lack basic critical thinking and writing skills necessary for survival in the 21st century.[/b]They are dependent on the country, and the country functions perfectly well without them.

It is not as if there are no youths in the north, the problem is that the ones that can be called 'youths' are few and far in between. It would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to find a responsible young adult in the north. That said, once in while comes along people like 'Blazay' who shatters all pre and mis-conceptions of the way the average northerner is viewed. [b]That said, people like 'Blazay' are not the norm in northern Nigeria; whereas people like

Seun Osewa, fstranger,    Ilek-ide, Igbobuigbo, Dapobear, 'Bawomolo (RIP), Katsumoto and the rest abound in abundance in the south.

Furthermore, it is on the shoulders of the aforementioned people from southern Nigeria, not the almajiris, that the future of the country lie.

udezue:

Almajiri does not exist in the South, East of Ore town so Blazay get your mind right. Your region is quite useless.

Berezi, who was unsure if the bottles would get to the podium, stopped his speech but was urged to continue by majority of the youths who had formed a ring around the dignitaries.

However, mobile policemen and some of the youths went to the Melford Okilo Road to confront those who were throwing the bottles and were able to get one of them, who was beaten before he was rescued by the police.

Pappij:

This is distasteful to our politics, with all the degrading comments about certain sections of our country.

enamaye:

What insolence! Nigeria cannot be one wit her citizens stock piling negative records of her regional dwellers. Total impudence! Arant nonsence! I detest all u tribalistic chauvinist.

Blazay:

I am flattered. Blazay the 'paranormal' Northerner. . . you wish. If only you knew what I know about "Blazay". . . . .

I think you need to give up the booze.
Just when I thought I had read it all from you.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrant nonsense.
What twisted logic.
So, besides jumping around this NL attacking Igbos and Hausas, what have you and your 'cult' members accomplished in or out of NL to get Nigeria out of it's sorry state of existence? With the time you guys spend on this NL being mostly under 25 "youths". . , with questionable sources of income, I doubt Nigeria can be rescued by your kinds. With all that smooching going on on FB and all over NL. . . one can only wonder what your brains can accomplish on the long run.


Since you and 'them' up there are smarter than the almajiris, pray tell me why your villages still have no electricity and running water, even worse than the almajiri lands?
How have the almajiris stopped you in the Southern parts of Nigeria from becoming the China of Africa, considering the fact that the wealth of Nigeria is concentrated mainly in the Western part of Nigeria? For one, you cannot even maintain just Lagos city with gutters every where for owamnbe venues, since you do not have almajiris in Lagos State for example? Most of your folk back home still need to travel out of the country to get medical attention huh?

You are not serious. Was it the almajiris of the North that obstructed the Buhari rally in Yenagoa?
What can someone like Ileke-Idi contribute to Nigeria besides showing us how flatulent with Ofe mmanu-mmanu, watery ewa and ijebu garri and curvatious like samba drums the Yoruba bakassi is(while hers is dryer than 'kpanla')?

As for the other tribalists like you and that your Depolar Bear of Nairaland and co. . . I will reserve my comments for now.

I only know that Seun Osewa owns Nairaland. . . just hope he is not related to Pa Anenih somehow.

You nor well at all.

jikings:

Blazay, thanks for your observations that Southern Nigeria has not yet moved very far though you rightly acknowledged we have more industrious youths who have decided to take their destiny in their own hands by doing their best to survive in this marriage called Nigeria.  You failed to understand that the Northern youths who mostly depend on handouts from their so called “leader or looters “ (you choose) who held Nigeria back for over 4 decades have no other ambition than to continue to do so. They rise on the slightest provocation to burn down businesses, maim and destroy property as they own nothing and for them life is worthless.

I admit that  northern villages do have electricity and water supply as you have rightly claimed but remember that[b] it has been provided freely and the rest of us pay for it.[/b] The Burden posed on the economy by these almajiris and boko haram people who prefer to live in the Stone Age is enormous and pulls the rest of us to the gutter!

[size=16pt]As long as they remain parasites, there is no way the South or Nigeria will move forward without the reorientation of these youths and their contribution![/size]