Simple answer is No.
GEJ is simply realizing that he must pipe down seriously with all this arrogant animal farm tactics he is employing.
Power is transient. If you lack the ability to make the situation better, stop making it worse by behaving like some overlord.

As if the president does not have earth-shaking issues to deal with in Nigeria, he keeps putting his hands in every pie - all in a bid to retain power in 2015.

jeffizy: Did Gov.Amaechi's passive humiliation by the presidency play a major role in swaying the votes in his favor?

Extremist and dust-for-brain commentators on both sides. That so-called prof. Ango is an extremely obtuse man. They have been released - stop promising fire and brimstone. Go find something useful to do, like stop Boko Haram who are responsible for the mess in the first place.

I must commend your write-up. This discussion is needed within the muslim community.
Action must follow to sanitize the system of what you called "harmless extremism" below.

These extreme radicals have taken their belief beyond humanity. It is not really the killing in London today that would shock the world so much as the complete display of any iota of human dignity of those who butchered another human being calmly in open view, and waited for the police to arrive.

I would certainly like justice if one of my family members were killed unjustly, but WOULD for the sake of my own humanity refuse to butcher another human being like these animals did - even if that were the only way to get justice. It would be better to not get justice than to debase oneself, one's religion and one's God like this.

Bsmartt: please let us discuss this as Muslims and well meaning Nigerians.peace

That is not the issue - GEJ said those structures will be preserved, but was being economical with the truth.

dragunov: . For God's sake! What democratic structure are you guys ranting about? Of what use is a structure, albeit a democracy that cannot guarantee respect for the right to live and thrive in a peaceful environment? Are you saying that democracy has now become a god who must be satiated with the blood of the innocent? Are you saying Nigeria and Nigerians must harbour and or tolerate this banal criminality as characterized by the activities of BH all because some useless democracy has to be nutured? Why don't we talk about justice; afterall he who lives by the sword must surely die by it.

You are the one without a thinking head here. GEJ laid booby-traps in his declaration of SOE. He is yet to address the fundamental problem confronting this nation. Without that, the SOE will be visiting your doorsteps in the no distant future.

onatisi:
listen to the trash this power desperado is vomitting.thank God this party will never win the presidency

GEJ would know a lot about buttlicking - that is how he got to be VP to a NORTHERNER and sold his soul to the north to become P! Kettle calling pot black.

thelastpope10: Are all you ACN supporters from SW done talking?

Stay away from ND issues. You know nothing about what we want. We are resolute.

We are not interested in your nonsense talk. Stay very far away. We will handle Amaechi our way. He is a small issue. We dont need any northern sycophant and butt licker running from Sokoto to Niger begging to be made a VP and coming back to talk nonsense in our region. Those years are gone. Amaechi will go the way of Ibori and Sylva if he messes up.

There is no good that these hacks will not attempt to twist for their own ends. Even by your mouth you acknowledge he is transforming infrastructure to 21st century standards. An honest broker would write such a man about any area that needs attention. He can't think about it all - but as a performer he would be eager to listen to honest ideas to move the state forward.

However, this here is a hachet job - a really nonsensical write-up that defeated itself before it even started.

automaticcarzz: I am from Ogun State and I am not fed with Amosun's way of Governance.

Your top is so far up someone's behind ! GEJ doesn't offend? Even GEJ is beginning to understand his own offences.

thelastpope10:
GEJ always wins because he doesnt offend. You cant fight a man that doesnt offend.

That's one of the PDP's "star" govs now a pariar because he asserted his rights. Does anyone need any moee information that PDP is a party of thugs?GEJ will not be president forever. Many of the people he is tampering with are far greater willy politicians than GEJ, and just as unforgiving as GEJ.

Goddex:

Bros, only sycophants eating with him "Love" him.

Your write-up tells you the source of the problem.
This lunatic imbibed an ideology of hate - a radical form of Islam.
He not only sullied the name of moderate muslims, but is now sullying the name of Nigerians, Yorubas, Blacks, etc.
Moderate muslims need to expose the radicals among them to the authorities, rather than wait for them to behave like animals that they are and then jump in front of cameras to distinguish themselves from the evil and vile, drug-induced thugs, who claim to be worshiping God.

Ricky_Ross: I once told someone that all Muslims have the same mentality and the person didn't believe me. From what we have gathered so far, this guy is a Yoruba guy eventhough he may be born in UK but his parents are Nigerians of Yoruba origin. In that regard, I want to know what prompted this guy to act like this? It will be more understandable if he came from Northern Nigeria. Dont get me wrong I love people from all tribes and cultures but this guys action is going to affect ALL Nigerians. I just wished he is not a Nigerian.

If true, whoever is behind this policy in just goofed big time and knows zero about the construction business.

However this is probably untrue - some agents of the devil have been trying to cause confusion in Lagos lately.

So?

mukina2: Other than sport the menace and threat of Boko Haram to the lives of Nigerians has now united Nigerians
http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/05/22/boko-haram-has-united-nigerians-dixon-jubril/

Always full of it. What backlash? The belated action GEJ is taking now is because of the challenge mounted to him by Tinubu and co. A president who could have contained BH a long time ago, rather short-sightedly kept talking from the 4 compass points of his mouth - until he saw a credible threat to his political future. What a president?

But I hope he knows what he is doing this time and succeeds in finishing off BH once and for all. For the sake of Nigeria.

Wish you could learn from how Tinubu is suddenly quite after the backlash from Nigerians over his incredible bias!

Uncouth Dokubo - broaching the subject of president's death. So what if it is his time u going to sue the universe?

lekanolas: Asari- Dokubo has warned that nothing untoward must not happen to Jonathan ahead of his reelection in 2015, adding that the circumstances of the death of the acclaimed winner of the 1992 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola and assassinated Head of State, Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi, were still fresh in the memories of Nigerians. He warned that similar fate should not befall the President.

Asari-Dokubo insisted that he stood by his earlier position on Jonathan’s reelection in 2015, adding that prevailing insecurity in the North was being engineered to compel the President to withdraw from the presidential election.

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/2015-ssouth-must-get-other-zones-support-for-jonathan-fasehun/

Get off your foolish horse. ACN has been right a hundred times while GEJ slept on duty as 1000s of innocent lives were wasted by BH. But for the serious challenge to GEJ's misrule by ACN/Tinubu GEJ would have simply continued his "I don't give a damn" attitude and continue travelling around the world pretending that his country is not going down in flames. The man even has the effontery to go telling the world that Nigeria is safe for investments - but now suddenly acknowledge facing a major rebellion. You people should hide your faces in shame.

karl max: Shame on tinubu and AC-N. now that the senate has approved the state of emergency!.

Someone missed his regulars !!!

ebamma: Gej is working firstly
He brought facebook into nigeria
He brought twitter into nigeria
He brought nairaland into our consciousness
He brought 2go into nigeria and lastly
this
If u don't vote for a man who did all this you are an enemy of progress
Vote for gej
Vote for progress

She is Latino - look at her face and name. Why must she be indian or chinese? Why can't she be Nigerian?

seedord247: She must be indian or chinko.

Be careful what you ask for. Southern states will not escape harm if this mess is not properly handled.

FemiAdenekan: It should be extended to all the Northern states!

Speak for yourself. GEJ disappointed me but that doesn't mean I wish my country to go the way of Afghanistan. Paying attention to useless praise-singers that tellignoble lies is what led GEJ into this morass in the first place. When u slaughter truth, you also slaughter success.

PapaBrowne:

At the same time there are those who want the State of Emergency to fail because of the political badge others would wear if it succeeds, forgetting that the success of the SOE is the success of all peace loving people whether or not some people get a political badge out of it.

This is really kind of silly - if it were that easy to crush BH it would be a crime for GEJ not to have done it sooner.
Serious military operations cannot be easily assessed for success or failure in a matter of days. The success or not would need to be assessed AFTER the operations have ended and we are BH free for several months to a year.

There are those whose only benefit from containing BH is a political badge - for those I say you might regret this bitterly when it blows up in your wicked faces.

Idokojimmy: The state of emergency is about four days old with military campaigns and raids in Boko Haram camps. Reports indicate that over 65 confirm insurgents have been arrested, many others are in custody undergoing interrogations to establish their culpability or otherwise. Also, arms and ammunitions have been allegedly recovered including cash purportedly stolen from banks. In Ur own opinion, has the SOE faired very well? Or is there something the STF should do or refrain from doing?
Let's keep it real pals

This is the frustration with GEJ's government - taking actions and talking without thinking ahead.
Before you start hammering at an army of wacka-a-moles their potential egress routes should be secured
That way, when you go in to smash their camps and they predictably attempt get out they would be running into the open arms of blazing guns. Otherwise, you simply end up making the problem far worse.

Please secure downstream states before going into other states to smash camps - otherwise that emergency would soon reach 36 states !!!

Don Demu: The Federal Government, pushed to the wall by activities of the Boko Haram sect that has caused heightened insecurity in the country, has vowed to crush to extinction every bit of terrorist element in the north sequel to its declaration of emergency rule in three northeast states.

The demonstrated commitment of the Federal
Government in military operations and raids on the sect in Maiduguri has led to its members seeking refuge in neighbouring Bauchi, Gombe, and Jigawa states. Determined to contain the threat posed by members of the sect, the Federal Government has requested top military officers in charge of operational raid against terrorist insurgents to undertake an assessment of the situation, one which may likely lead to a declaration of emergency rule in four more states of the north.....
www.legisreportsng.com/insecurity-fg-vows-to-crush-boko-haram-may-extend-emergency-rule-to-bauchi-gombe-katsina-and-jigawa-states/

If you buy into this B, you will buy into anything.

hisblud: Few days ago, i read how the military intend to use balloons in thier quest to fight the boko haram. Hope for nigeria posted the following piece. Have they really deployed unmanned drones?

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=544510172273776&substory_index=0&id=100484630009668&from_feed=1&refid=8&_ft_=qid.5879680323599483531%3Amf_story_key.-5754244610012665410

When you don't know the end-game of your enemy you will keep searching for phantom roots.
For the upteenth time their founder was trained in the terrorists camps of Afghanistan.
When he came to Nigeria he set up his own camp and named it "Afghanistan" - all while our FG was sleeping on duty.
Their fundamental objective is to create a narco-religious state like their mentors the Taliban-cum-al qaeda.
BH is primarily part of a dangerous global phenomenon, which takes on local colorations whereever it is allowed to take root. As the northern elite is finding out, these are mad dogs, that would gladly help you chew up your enemies and then have you for dessert. Stop looking looking for their sponsors - that network is way greater than Nigeria.

What GEJ should have done, and hopefully he is doing at this late date is to block their entry and exit in Nigeria, create a barrier against uninfected parts of Nigeria, corner them and pummel them to death. This is not a war you fight with knee-jerk reactions or that you declare victory a mere 72 hours after the beginning of a major assault. These are people committed to DYING and have modern training on how to take as many lives as possible before they meet death.

Sagewood: I hope the ongoing military campaign against the Islamists/ terrorists in the three
NE states will render them impotent.
What is the federal govt., security and intelligence agencies doing to corner the BH sponsors
both local and foreign- based. Without the sponsors, Boko Haram will be dead.
BH is likely sponsored by a group of individuals, organizations or foreign governments. The weapons they are
using and their training will likely run into hundreds of millions or billions of naira.
The federal govt., and its agencies should double down heavily on these sponsors and expose them.

Long live Nigeria!

Baba Kogi has spoken.

shymexx: "Nigerian disease: Nigerians need to be purged of a certain kind of arrogance of expectations, of demand, of self-attribution, of a spurious sense and assertion of entitlement. It goes beyond art and literature. It covers all aspects of interaction with others. Wherever you witness a case of ‘It’s MINE, and no other’s’, ‘it’s OURS, not theirs’, at various levels of vicarious ownership, such aggressive voices, ninety percent of the time, are bound to be Nigerians. This is a syndrome I have had cause to confront defensively with hundreds of Africans and non-Africans. It is what plagues Nigeria at the moment – it’s MY/OUR turn to rule, and if I/WE cannot, we shall lay waste the terrain. Truth is, predictably, part of the collateral damage on that terrain." - Prof. Wole Soyinka

These words smell coming out of you people's mouths. It is only a short-circuited brain that will start giving GEJ glory for taking the state of emergency step at this time. Many of us, even on the ACN side of things, called for a state of emergency a long time ago when a properly applied force would have contained the BH menace. Although a state of emergency is still needed to deal with this situation, what is required now goes far beyond mere application of force. You people have allowed BH to grow into a monster.

All these crap you are posting from the safe haven of your offices in front of 40 laptops are just that, crap. Even the greatest army on earth finds it difficult to deal with this kind of groups with finality. That was why it is especially grievous that GEJ slept on the job while this threat turned into a monster. He is declaring a state of emergency now only because he sees is political future under serious and credible threat - that is the long and short of it.

[size=14pt]We were all here when GEJ set a specific month for the end to Boko Haram. That date came and passed with nothing to show. Why would we believe him now. Because his 40 useless laptops profess victory? Even as the battle is just getting underway? This is a delusional approach that is almost surely to end up blowing up in arrogant faces. If it were that easy to solve the BH problem and GEJ waited this long to do the needful, wasting 1000s of innocent lives in the process, he deserves to be impeached after all is said and done.[/size]

Still, my prayer is that GEJ actually knows what he is doing this time and succeeds in containing BH - for the sake of lives that are being lost to the animal BH and the incompetent approach by GEJ.

It is you and GEJ's business if the only benefit of success to you is political - it shows the kind of people we must avoid mixing with even if this grotesque British apparition called "Nigeria" failed to do the natural i.e. collapse under its own weight of unworkability.

thelastPope: The communities which were identified as Boko Haram safe havens and have been taken over by the troops are New Marte, Kirenuwa, Zabamari, Zambiza Forest, Mafa, Baga, Bama, Banki, Woloji, Gulumba, Gamboru-Ngala, Damasak, Malam Fatori, Abadam, Gashigar, Kukawa, Monguno, among others.

FEDERAL TROOPS RECAPTURES 17 COMMUNITIES TAKEN OVER BY BOKO HARAM.. YET LAI MOHAMED AND TINUBU OF ACN SAY'S THAT THEY ARE AGAINST THIS POTENT TACTICS..Hmmmm

He has started making empty promises again.
Only this time he knows where not to take this trade in useless promises.

What is GEJ doing commissioning this airport again?
He commissioned a 300m meter extension and 15 meter widening of the runway before the 2011 elections. I guess this is the second stage mentioned below, but the airport is not international by any stretch.

The project is being executed in two phases. The first phase that was commissioned yesterday involved the asphalting and extension of the runway length from 2400 metres to 3000 metres and the width from 45 metres to 60 metres to enable wide bodied aircraft such as Boeing 747 to use the airport. The cost is N4.1 billion.

The second phase involves the construction of a new apron and taxiway; and the upgrade of the Airfield Lighting System to Category II. The cost is N11.2 billion and the contract will terminate in November 2011.

[url]http://enugustatedirect.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=197%3Aenugu-state-jonathan-commissions-akanu-ibiam-enugu-international-airport&catid=1%3Alatest&Itemid=28[/url]

Sincere 9gerian: President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is currently on a one day state visit to Enugu. The president is scheduled to commission the re-constructed Enugu Airport and perform the foundation laying ceremony for the international terminal of the Enugu Airport. Later in the day, the president will hold a town hall meeting with the good and peace loving people of Enugu state.

It will be recalled that reconstruction of the Enugu Airport and building of an international terminal were some of the promises made by the president during the 2011 election campaigns.

Mr President, welcome to the Coal City. We love you!

(The Townhall Meeting is now live on NTA)

His sentence is death. That is what he deserves. Death row inmates spend ages waiting to be executed.

overdrive: Yes he deserves to b pardoned bt I guess he knows a lot of things(state secrets) that is why he is still being incarcerated.

Mr. Frontpage - why the attachment to what or what doesn't make the frontpage. Everything appears to be a lie to u becos it is your job to lie each waking hour for GEJ !!!

Sincere 9gerian: Unbelievable! So this naked and wicked LIE eventually made front page? Seun, why na?

Anyway, congrats @Gbawe..,for forcing this thread to the front page. However, I think you'r an intelligent fellow and you can do without these naked and wicked lies. You can do your thing with some sincerity

Agents of darkness always have a lie burning in their hearts to tell.

olaezebala: Finally, those staying in Osun are voicing out. Boda Gbawe should pls stop posting news from osun defender. This is a news agency owned and financed by the governor. Oh, broda Gbawe, do u know the debt profile of osun state? A state with a budget of #183 billion with annual revenue of #80 billion? @ the rate ogbeni is borrowing, an average of #100 billion per year (house just approved another #10billion) future gov of the state will smell pepper.

Change is always strange to the ignorant or do-no-gooders. Which one are you?
Gov. Aregbesola is not attempting to create a dependent army of people that leave on peanuts.
The real objective was to help the OYES participants acquire better life skills and spirit of community service.
So, of course do-no-gooders without ideas will always describe the outcome of such a widely acknowledged scheme in disdainful terms - no surprise there.
That the first 20000 were moved on to different jobs was not hidden - those that were not qualified for better jobs were given additional training on different vocational activities.

Here is an article I am almost sure you know about already: http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/20000-oyes-cadets-graduate/

D sage: @Gbawe, though I'm not living in Osun-State, but please stop spreading a misleading information. I like ACN as a polical party but hate it when people trying to play politic in order make them look like a better side.

I learnt he(aregbesola) offloaded the 20,000 people he claimed he employed before the commencement of this current OYEs program. How are we sure he actually employed the said 20,000 youths? So, where on earth did you get your statistic from?