DanKan0:

Every person capable of thinking knows Boko Haram has plotical sponsors. Lol @ thinking a ragtag group with no 'Western' education and no money can bomb and do these targetted hits themselves.

Why you guys think GEJ is 'slow to react' the man knows very well whats going on.  

This is why I said above that "You don't set punishment that will affect the conduct of you and your 'crew' ". Whether folks accept it or not, Boko Haram members , indirectly, are GEJ's crew. This is why they are sent to jail (probably house arrest) for 3 years and granted bail for terrorism. As if that makes sense to a Country now being destroyed by terrorism. All GEJ can do is lamely tell us that the situation today is worse than that which precipitated chaos in the 1960's. You know that yet you are allowing terrorist recieve slaps on the wrist and suggesting 5-year jail term and fines. Meanwhile if you are gay in Nigeria, may god help you .

It is what Nigeria has become i.e a bizarre place where those who are part of the problem are allowed to be part of those pretending to seek solutions. All these PDP goons drawing hefty pay from the Nigerian coffers yet killing innocent Nigerians with impunity while their 'pal' refuses to tackle them for obvious reasons i.e "it is a PDP affair". Next, they will suggest amnesty for Boko Haram with double the stipend being enjoyed by former militants. To afford this largess, they will then tell us they are removing the subsidy on the air we breathe or " the economy will collapse".

seunlayi:

na wa for our leaders o

Why are you surprised ? These boys always start off as political thugs until they are being abandoned by their political godfathers when they win elections.MEND also started off as political thugs controlled by Alameisia,Ibori and Odili even jonathan used Mend when he contested for governorship election.

hey people are waiting for confirmation kia! for where. abeg use your head jor

dayokanu:

GEj control the South militant arm of the PDP also known as MEND

Sambo controls the Northern militant arm of the PDP known as Boko haram

The difference, I suppose, being GEJ seem to have done a better job controlling MEND. 

diluminati:

hey people are waiting for confirmation kia! for where. abeg use your head jor

I wonder. Did Senator Ndume , in the end, not admit to knowing Ali Konduga the Boko Haram spokesman? I guess, as some of us have insisted, it is now becoming clear that it is members of the "nest of killers" fighting each other with terrorism and using innocent Nigerians as 'collateral damage'.

@ PDude - the guy who escaped was the guy who organised the madalla massacre. This guy is different.

Goodluck has to be careful because he's surrounded himself with wolves

Like I always quote that in Nigeria anything.-.- I mean it anything can happen imagine all this nonsense, I think is about time people start to relocate to other african country before issue get out of hand

muyoto:

The difference, I suppose, being GEJ seem to have done a better job controlling MEND. 

My guy, it is because MEND cannot 'act up' too much while GEJ is President. This is why he moved quickly, as if he was President of the ND and MEND, to announce that MEND was not responsible for the independent day bombing. GEJ knows most of the boys have been "settled". It would not be in their financial and sectional interest to make Mr. President look bad.

Same with Boko Haram. They would not be killing Nigerians as they are doing currently if a Northern candidate had clinched the Party ticket. It is now all politics and I don't see why Nigerians don't understand that. It is the PDP pals of GEJ, with their insatiable lust for wealth and power, Nigerians should be most angry with and target over this Boko Haram mess.

Well he was always part of the game plan of the North, according to my understanding:


[size=14pt] Frustrate GEJ's efforts , Get the SW's backing ( Never a problem), Seek GEJ's impeachment (SW driven) and then put Sambo in the seat of authority .[/size]

Just my thoughts

I wonder the kind of Juju someone will use to convince me to vote PDP again. We have seen enough for us to know that all the ills in this country are a product of PDP. PDP must GO!!!

@ PDude - the guy who escaped was the guy who organised the madalla massacre. This guy is different.

Goodluck has to be careful because he's surrounded himself with wolves

the guy escaped? thats wot the made us believe. the true story is that they let him out. let those bas,.tards stop deceiving themselves thinking they are deceiving us. GEJ is no surrounded by wolves, he is a wolf in sheep clothing.

Where are those struggling to link Buhari with boko haram. Shame on you all but may God forgive you.

ifeci:

I wonder the kind of Juju someone will use to convince me to vote PDP again. We have seen enough for us to know that all the ills in this country are a product of PDP. PDP must GO!!!

Check out the party,all the people that brought Nigeria to this terrible state from 1960 till date are in pdp. . .

omo alaro:

Where are those struggling to link Buhari with boko haram. Shame on you all but may God forgive you.

before i get accused of anything
I did not vote during the last elections cos i am not in naija and if I was,I doubt I would have voted for any of the people that ran because they are all 1 and the same.no matter how much you claim to support buhari,he is one of the problems we have in this country likewise GEJ,IBB,OBJ and whatever acronym they use as names these days
All these thieves who masquerade as politicians should all be given the JJ Rawlings treatment I swear maybe things will get better

~Bluetooth:

Check out the party,all the people that brought Nigeria to this terrible state from 1960 till date are in pdp. . .

You are indeed very correct. PDP is just the umbrella Vultures congregate under for the single purpose of controlling Nigeria's commonwealth i.e "national cake" as an America official admits below. the American official, chillingly, even inadvertently predict what we are seeing now: "She also pointed out that the PDP is a party divided within itself with different interest groups jostling for prominence. According to her, the biggest threat to the PDP is within the party itself rather than from the opposition".

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5684470-146/story.csp

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Right, president Goodluck Jonathan, Namadi Sambo, former president Olusegun Obasanjo, pdp’s south west zonal chairman, Tajudeen Oladipo and Tony Anenih at the PDP rally in Lagos

American official says PDP is not a party

Nicholas Ibekwe


The United States does not consider the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party a political party, a US diplomatic cable leaked to the whistleblowing site, Wikileaks, and made exclusively available to NEXT has shown.

Charge d’ affaires of the US embassy in Nigeria, Lisa Piascik, in a dispatch dated October 19, 2007, informed Washington that despite its labelling as a political party, the PDP did not meet “the common western understanding” of a political party.

According to Ms. Piascik, the PDP “lacks key ingredients most political parties share”.

After taking a swipe at the party’s mission statement, the American diplomat proceeded to deliver what is probably the most scathing analysis yet of the PDP.

[size=14pt][b]“The PDP remains an agglomeration of interest groups formed around persons of prominence and power which are loosely tied together by a desire to remain in office and maintain access to the “national cake” or resources of the state”, Ms. Piascik declared.

“The PDP remains a highly fractious and opportunistic coalition of interests. True opposition, in the form of a powerful group with access to the pillars of power, comes from within the PDP - not from without as would be expected in a democratic party structure.”

She added that the party, which claims to be the biggest political platform in Africa, has no “ideological consensus” whatsoever and had remained divided from the start.

In a comment attached to the cable, the American diplomat said, “The PDP remains a highly fractious and opportunistic coalition of interests. True opposition, in the form of a powerful group with access to the pillars of power, comes from within the PDP - not from without as would be expected in a democratic party structure.”[/b][/size]

However, the leadership of the PDP yesterday faulted Ms. Piascik’s analysis, saying she had no right to deliver such a verdict on the party.

The party’s spokesperson, Rufai Alkali, said “the People’s Democratic Party is governed by its constitution and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.

“We are an organisation, recognised and registered by the Independent Electoral Commission,” Mr. Rufai said. “It is only its membership and leadership of the party and the law governing its operation that can determine it status. It is strange for any organisation outside the shores of the country that is not part of the operation of the party to give it any other name outside of what is known by the party”.

Mr. Alkali therefore urged his party’s supporters to “disregard any information that is likely to undermine the credibility of our great party”.

Interest groups in the PDP

In her breakdown of the configuration of the PDP, Ms. Piascik described the party as a network of pockets of interest groups largely centred around former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his successor, late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

She also pointed out that the PDP is a party divided within itself with different interest groups jostling for prominence. According to her, the biggest threat to the PDP is within the party itself rather than from the opposition.

“When viewing and interpreting developments such as the scandals surrounding House Speaker Patricia Etteh and Senate President David Mark or the intrigues surrounding investigation of former PDP governors, it is important to remember that the largest opposition to the PDP continues to come from within the party, not without”.

Ms. Piascik identified the contending forces in the PDP as the conservatives, the progressives, the Abacha appointees/supporters, the retired generals, the Obasanjo Network, the Yar’Adua network and the Immediate past governors Network”.

The conservatives and the progressives

The conservatives, the cable explained, are made up of the initial 18 northern politicians (G-18) that were opposed to the self-succession bid of former military dictator Sani Abacha and the southern politicians that later joined them to form the G-34.

This group, according to the diplomat, were the bedrock of the PDP and commonly referred to as the founding fathers of the party. The cable explained that this group was sidelined soon after the victory of the party in 1999 elections.

“Several original members left either because they disagreed with the influence of former Abacha-appointed politicians in the party or because of disagreements with President Obasanjo. Obasanjo was well-known for his fickleness and shortly after coming into office side-lined many of the G-34 who had been influential in bringing him into office”.

Notable members of the conservatives, as listed by the dispatch, include, former Vice President Alex Ekwueme, Chairman of the Northern Political Leaders Forum, Adamu Ciroma, former Ambassador to the U.S, Jibril Aminu and Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum Sunday Awoniyi.

The cable further classified the immediate past chairman of the party, Okwesilieze Nwodo, the second republic governor of Plateau State, Solomon Lar, the late former governor of Kano State, Abubakar Rimi and former Minister of Environment, Iyorchia Ayu, Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido and former information minister, Jerry Gana, as members of the progressive camp in the party. Also in the group, Chairman of the All Nigerian Peoples’ Party (ANPP) Ume Ezeoke, who Mrs. Piascik explained is “considered a PDP mole within the ANPP”, and former Minister of Justice who was assassinated in 2001, Bola Ige.

Abacha-appointees and the retired generals

According to Ms. Piascik, the Abacha-appointees are those who had served in different capacities under Mr. Abacha. They include former minister of works in the Obasanjo administration, Tony Anenih, former Chairman of the PDP, Barnabas Gemade, second republic governor of Anambra State, Jim Nwobodo and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Yar’Adua administration, Ojo Maduekwe.

The retired general’s faction includes former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, Former National Security Adviser, Aliyu Gusau, former Minister of Defence, Theophilus Danjuma, and a former military Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar.

Mr. Abdulsalami is not known to be a member of the PDP.

The main power blocks

Despite the preponderance of loosely aligned factions struggling for control of the party, Ms. Piascik identified three power blocks at the top of the PDP hierarchy as at the time the cable was written. The factions were listed as the Obasanjo Network, the emerging Yar’Adua Network and the Babangida Network. The faction, which appears to be the most influential of these three, according to Ms. Piascik, was the Obasanjo Network.

“By the end of his presidency in May 2007, President Obasanjo had completely taken over the organisational machinery of the PDP,” Ms. Piascik wrote.

“He made all major decisions on membership, candidates, and matters of party structure, including amendments to the PDP Constitution in December 2006 which virtually guaranteed him chairmanship of the Board of Trustees”.

Prominent members of the Obasanjo Network identified by the Charge d’ Affair are Senate president David Mark, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Patricia Etteh, who was described as the “romantic interest” of Mr. Obasanjo, owner of the Dangote Group and chief financier of Obasanjo’s campaign in 2003, Aliko Dangote, self-acclaimed godfather of Anambra politics, Chris Uba, who the cable described as having “criminal ties” and his brother, Andy Uba, a former domestic aide to Mr. Obasanjo. Other members of the camp were former PDP deputy national chairman, south, Olabode George, former Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Adamu and his Bauchi State counterpart, Adamu Muazu.

Immediate past governors’ network

This group, according to the cable was “formed and coalesced largely around a shared desire to avoid prosecution”. They are also suspected as being the major financiers of Mr. Yar’Adua’s campaign. They include former governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, his Abia State counterpart Orji Kalu, Peter Odili of Rivers State, James Ibori of Delta State and Joshua Dariye of Plateau State. Others are George Akume of Benue State, Ahmed Makarfi of Kaduna State, Adamu Aliero of Kebbi State, Saminu Taraki Jigawa State, and Chimaroke Nnamani of Enugu State.

It is not true, it is a blunt lie,
set up in other to paint
people back before the
community. Nuhu is not a
sponsor of Boko Haram,
everybody knows how
kaduna use to be when it
comes to crises. People must
keep license arms for self
defence. When does it
become an offence in Nigeria
for one to keep knife, axe,
dagger or cutlas for self
defence? When an arm
robbers would enter people's
houses and kill them at will
and go scout free? The real
place is Maiduguri not
Kaduna. People should stop
chasing shadows. We are too
wise to be fooled, u cannot
disarm people and give other
people leverage to kill
people without defence. This
is stage managed, ask GEJ to
tell you who is Boko Haram?

Boko Haram Christmas day bomber's photo;

Am not surprised. With the circumstances under which the guy escaped, it is obviouse he had inside help

see photos and details here:,

http://5slate..com/2012/01/boko-haram-latest-madalla-blast.html#axzz1jkag8iQn

This one na Political Boko Haram. I am far more worried about the ones holed up like Taliban in the far north.

The Guy who obviously had an assisted escape is different from this guy

Una no dey bother verify certain claims, na to gulp people ignorant post like mumu

Lawal123!, are you for real, how dare you defend Nuhu on the grounds of self defence.
Do you need an armory, bullet proof vests and fake plate numbers against robbers
It would have made better sense to completly deny the allegations than to put up such a lame argument.

If you need more clerification with photos, visit this blog:,

http://www.5slate..com/2012/01/suspected-boko-haram-sponsor-arrested.html#axzz1jkag8iQn

Gbawe:

My guy, it is because MEND cannot 'act up' too much while GEJ is President. This is why he moved quickly, as if he was President of the ND and MEND, to announce that MEND was not responsible for the independent day bombing. GEJ knows most of the boys have been "settled". It would not be in their financial and sectional interest to make Mr. President look bad.

Same with Boko Haram. They would not be killing Nigerians as they are doing currently if a Northern candidate had clinched the Party ticket. It is now all politics and I don't see why Nigerians don't understand that. It is the PDP pals of GEJ, with their insatiable lust for wealth and power, Nigerians should be most angry with and target over this Boko Haram mess.

i guess this the backlash expected after the failed occupy nigeria commedy show, well it is to be expected from our SW brothers,

dayokanu:

GEj control the South militant arm of the PDP also known as MEND

Sambo controls the Northern militant arm of the PDP known as Boko haram

you forgot to add that Tinubu controls the OPC in the west, just to complete the equation, even though tinubu and OPC are saints from heaven.

These days any stup!d article makes it to the front page.
For one thing, Sahara Reporters is known for fake news, for the other, a man running a campaign organisation is usually seeking political ties. There are many who jumped up and down in the last elections and gained nothing.

The level of snake-tongued posts on display here is crazy. People would think that the man was arrested by an ACN govt. Some people talk too much and create problems for themselves with the amount of hatred and bitterness they carry in their everyday lives.

It is the sort of treachery and lies by the ACN supporters here that has resulted in tanks rolling on the streets of Lagos, and assured that ACN's meagre LG chairmanship positions in other parts of the country will shrivel away. What a waste of humanity!

hey!!!!!!!!!!!, thanks for the information about those scammers. my name is remi from lagos

I am pained by the escape of the Madalla bombing suspect. Pissed with the police.

Where are those struggling to link Buhari with boko haram. Shame on you all but may God forgive you. GEJ is financier for MEND while his VP is chief of BOKO HARAM.
PDP are the TERRORIST!!!, to cause war and steal!!!

^^^
Could you explain to us in detail what you were trying to insinuate by that statement?

Some posts in NL are intellectually disgusting and totally devoid of common sense! Now that many of you have found HATE, what are you gonna do with it? I would like some of these political analysts to tell this forum which of the existing political parties in Nigeria will lead the country to the promised land. Before Gej ascended to power, after Yar' Dua attempted to rule from the other side of the Rubicon, Nigeria has remained gravely underdeveloped. This sudden mad hatred for a regime barely two years in office, coming mostly from the North and South west, can never be an ingredient of national unity.

Nigeria is actually doomed to fail, not my wish, but stating the inevitable.

joeyfire:

@ PDude - the guy who escaped was the guy who organised the madalla massacre. This guy is different.

Goodluck has to be careful because he's surrounded himself with wolves

he is the king wolf himself.

Reggie2:

Some posts in NL are intellectually disgusting and totally devoid of common sense! Now that many of you have found HATE, what are you gonna do with it? I would like some of these political analysts to tell this forum which of the existing political parties in Nigeria will lead the country to the promised land. Before Gej ascended to power, after Yar' Dua attempted to rule from the other side of the Rubicon, Nigeria has remained gravely underdeveloped. This sudden mad hatred for a regime barely two years in office, coming mostly from the North and South west, can never be an ingredient of national unity.

Nigeria is actually doomed to fail, not my wish, but stating the inevitable.

Just like there was mad hatred for Abacha, IBB and even OBJ

We know the slaves of Nigeria the AGIP who slave to any government in Power

OBj couldnt even win his local govt yet he won landslide in Yiboland, the slaves of nigeria

I thought BOKO HARAM was an arm of CPC?

SILAKABUWA:

[size=16pt]Where are those struggling to link Buhari with boko haram[/size]. Shame on you all but may God forgive you. GEJ is financier for MEND while his VP is chief of BOKO HARAM.
PDP are the TERRORIST!!!, to cause war and steal!!!

We have not forgotten

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=648376.msg8144913#msg8144913

[size=14pt]If Jonathan wins it's because he used his government power. It looks like he has done too well," said Habib Bazallahi, a local official from Buhari's party, leaning through a classroom window in the northern city of Kano to watch a vote count.

"Buhari says he won't go to court if he loses but that doesn't mean us, his supporters won't fight. We are ready. We're going to look for Kalashnikovs, bazookas ,  There is no going quietly this time," he said, to cheers from the darkness.[/size]

http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE73E8DU20110416?sp=true

Is this news confirmed?
Let's all wait until it's confirmed before we start vomiting trash
Goshhh we are so full of hatred