Capableben:
TANX BRO U RE ON POINT. GEJ IS TRYING OOO.

chidindufrank: Fashola? Yes,the man is good. Kwankwaso? I beg to disagree, the man is not an achiever. He was governor from 1999 to 2003,minister of defence 2003-2007,governor 2011 till date. My brother! maybe I don't know much about his achievements,please help me out.

A Poverty Assessment by the National Bureau of Statistics in 2007 when Lamido took office, concluded that 90.9% of Jigawa people lived within the margins of poverty-the highest in the country at the time. That record barely improved by 2008.

The 2013 report by the World Bank returned the same verdict five years on, rating Jigawa’s poverty level at 77.5 percent, compared to the lowest, 22.9 percent for Lagos state. It was the second time the north-west state would receive the damning ranking under Lamido. The first was in 2008.

Within the same period, government papers say, the state’s debt grew from $12.58 million in December 2006 to $33.67 million by December 2012, and despite receiving hundreds of billions of naira of federal allocations and international grants, the unemployment rate oscillated from a low of 5.9% in 2008 to 26.7% a year later; and 14.3% by 2010-the latest figures from the statistics office.

Health too

The health sector paints a gloomier picture. After managing to also lift funding from a paltry to N4.2 billion in 2008, the figures soon plummeted to N2.83 billion in 2009, an average that remained through 2010.

Returns from the measly investment showed so much the government admitted in its report- Jigawa State Strategic Health Sector Plan – covering 2008 to 2011, that the state’s mortality rate and disease burden was “unacceptably high”.

A rare self-assessment for the governor, who, at the time was completing his first four year term, said that the under-five mortality rate of the state was 98 per 1000 children, and an estimated 2,000 women were dying in every 100,000 live births. The figures again were amongst the nation’s highest.

“Leading causes of ill health and death among children are mostly communicable diseases, vaccine-preventable diseases, diarrhoea and malnutrition. Malaria is reported to be associated with 70% of illness among pregnant women,” the report said.

While the results have mostly been flopping, the state insists its priorities are right and it was breaking the ranks from the past even though key sectors like health and agriculture continue to receive comparatively low funding.

Education relatively better

But if one sector provides a minimal validation for that claim, it would be education.

Lamido met a state with an overall adult literacy rate was at 39.5%- much below the national average of 65.7%; primary education gross enrolment of 40.1% was among the lowest in the country and significantly below the national average of almost 93%; and secondary education gross enrolment at 23.7% (national average is 74.5%).

Under the governor, funding to the sector has grown from 6% in 2006 to 10% in 2007; 22% in 2008 and 25% in 2009. In 2010, the government set aside 28% for education. Much of the supervision was undertaken by current minister of education, Ruqayyatu Rufai, at the time, the state’s education commissioner.

chidindufrank: lol, keyboard permutations.Buhari/fashola ticket cannot see the light of the day. As for Lamido,he has every right to print posters ,but,he is not yet ready for the top job. GEJ's government is working so hard to phase out the rots inflicted on us by past administrations. You don't expect him to do it like God. He's human for God sake. The problems of Nigeria started many years ago of which some architects of these problems are still alive and are fighting hard to cement their evil deeds.

egift: They can bring it any day. If the northern elites love Nigeria, they should forfeit their greed and support a Buhari/Fashola in 2015. That way Nigerian masses can benefit from good/focused leadership and policies.

chidindufrank: Fashola? Yes,the man is good. Kwankwaso? I beg to disagree, the man is not an achiever. He was governor from 1999 to 2003,minister of defence 2003-2007,governor 2011 till date. My brother! maybe I don't know much about his achievements,please help me out.

Emperor_007:




^^^

Be truthful to yourself, Muslim / Muslim ticket wouldn't fly in present Nigeria.

Stop sleeping and wake up.




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Emperor_007:




^^^

Be truthful to yourself, Muslim / Muslim ticket wouldn't fly in present Nigeria.

Stop sleeping and wake up.




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egift: They can bring it any day. If the northern elites love Nigeria, they should forfeit their greed and support a Buhari/Fashola in 2015. That way Nigerian masses can benefit from good/focused leadership and policies.

ckkris: Buhari/Fashola CANNOT defeat Jonathan in 2015

Gen. Specific:
All these mediocre northern politicians with little or no achievements other than winning an election in their backward states. Just like TAMBUWALA. Do you know how easy it is to become a senator representing any of the northern states in comparison to that of any state in the south?

Gen. Specific:
Fashola for vice? Why do you ACN or rather yorubas like subjugating yourselves to Arewa?
The northern call for power come 2015 is based on a PDP arrangement and not a constitutional clause.
Why can't ACN field their beloved Fashola for President and pick a token northern politician as his vice?

Una no get sense at all! That's how Tinibu fielded a northerner in the last election with mumu Osun people voting for him.

All this won nah bad belle against GEJ AND E NO GO WORK!

dayokanu:

Because the Yorubas have more sense than you

When our son OBJ was president the North voted for him without complaints why cant we reciprocate

egift: They can bring it any day. If the northern elites love Nigeria, they should forfeit their greed and support a Buhari/Fashola in 2015. That way Nigerian masses can benefit from good/focused leadership and policies.

odunragbada: Tambuwal/fashola 2015 dat is d best combination dat can bring peace among APC.because the northern leaders will still hv faith in tambuwal because he is new and free of corruption for now

Gen. Specific:
All these mediocre northern politicians with little or no achievements other than winning an election in their backward states. Just like TAMBUWALA. Do you know how easy it is to become a senator representing any of the northern states in comparison to that of any state in the south?

prettyG: Despite that record, Lamido has garnered a surfeit of top-ranking endorsements for the nation’s top job in 2015. While he has all but launched a campaign, he is one of the few potential candidates whose posters have been on display in parts of Abuja and other states.

His highest rating yet came nearly a month ago after former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, snubbed a Democracy Day event hosted by President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, for a similar event in Dutse, Jigawa state capital, where he highlighted Lamido’s achievements.

“You can help anybody to find a job, but you cannot help anybody to do the job. In this case, we found a job for Sule Lamido; he was ready, willing, able and competent to do the job,” Obasanjo said.

The former President was later quoted as saying, “When you help someone to leadership and he cannot perform, you look for another person. And I’ve found one in Lamido.” This remark was interpreted by many as a subtle message to President Jonathan concerning 2015.