PapaBrowne: Abagworo, all this attempt to get Soyinka to help cover up for the brutal attempted murder of a fellow House member in the presence of the Governor wouldn't save nothing. Soyinka or not, a grevious act was committed and we all saw it on camera.

Lets stop all these nonsense propaganda. Its becoming disgusting. The idea is to distract from Amaechi by making it appear like Soyinka and the presidency are fighting.

Abagworo:

It is none of my business whatever happened in the house but I belong to the class of humans that believe in justice. Soyinka and other detribalized Nigerians fought hard for Jonathan to ascend the Presidency but today many of Jonathan's supporters are making it seem like North and West are against Jonathan.

dayokanu:

Where were these Jonathans supporters when Soyinka and Bakare were fighting for Jonathans mandate?

atlwireles:

They were in the senate working with David mark to bring up the resolution and counting votes that actually mattered.

Abagworo:

It is none of my business whatever happened in the house but I belong to the class of humans that believe in justice. Soyinka and other detribalized Nigerians fought hard for Jonathan to ascend the Presidency but today many of Jonathan's supporters are making it seem like North and West are against Jonathan.

PapaBrowne:

But why should we decieve ourselves na? Who are the main opposers of Jonathan today. Many of the people you say fought hard for Jonathan during the cabal saga did so because they taught he was weak and wouldn't have the guts to contest afterwards.

dayokanu:

Oh this liar is back. The one who told us Germans dont insult their leaders or are you not the one who fled after you were shown evidence?

Mind telling us those who in the senate were working to bring whatever resolutions

atlwireles:

My friend keep your insult to yourself. Start by using me the way you insult your father in the village.

PapaBrowne:

But why should we decieve ourselves na? Who are the main opposers of Jonathan today. Many of the people you say fought hard for Jonathan during the cabal saga did so because they taught he was weak and wouldn't have the guts to contest afterwards.

PapaBrowne: Lets stop all these nonsense propaganda. Its becoming disgusting. The idea is to distract from Amaechi by making it appear like Soyinka and the presidency are fighting.

dayokanu:

Now its fathers abuse since you have been found out to be a shameless liar as usual. I bet you are as empty as the rest of them

atlwireles:

shameless two faced liars are left to breeds like you in Nigeria. We know you people from Sokoto to badagry.

dayokanu:

Why wont you know them are they not the ones who informed you that Germans dont insult their president. Bloody liar or simple minded ignoramus

atlwireles:

Look at this dip stick. My friend look for mia kaya to trade words with. No basket for rotten mangoes.

atlwireles:

They were in the senate working with David mark to bring up the resolution and counting votes that actually mattered.

Abagworo:

It is none of my business whatever happened in the house but I belong to the class of humans that believe in justice. Soyinka and other detribalized Nigerians fought hard for Jonathan to ascend the Presidency but today many of Jonathan's supporters are making it seem like North and West are against Jonathan.

dayokanu:

Where were these Jonathans supporters when Soyinka and Bakare were fighting for Jonathans mandate?

Akunyili Opens Up On Memo To Fec by mekuszyx: 2:47am On Feb 08, 2010

If I die I die: Dora Akunyili, the woman that sacked the president, opens up on Yar’Adua memo
By Pade Olapuju padepoju@yahoo.com

Sunday, February 7, 2010

When Information and Communications Minister, Prof Dora Akunyili, presented her memorandum asking her colleagues to wake up to their responsibility to the Nigerian nation, tempers flared and voices were raised. Some of the ministers rose from their seats so their voices would carry in the chambers of the Executive Council of the Federation (EXCOF). Some rained insults on her. A few asked her if she had weighed the risks of her presenting such a position paper.

Akunyili


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There were also threats of sack from those who felt Akunyili should not continue to stay in council after submitting such a strong-worded memo.

Sunday Sun findings showed that the memorandum took the ministers by surprise and if the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Yayale Ahmed, had not had the presence of mind to ask for the copies already in the hands of the members, it would have been difficult to calm frayed nerves at the meeting.


There were 42 copies of the document with all of the members but when the ministers were told to return them, the SGF discovered that three copies were missing. It took another round of search and persuasion before the missing copies were retrieved.

According to one of the ministers sympathetic to Akunyili’s stand, “I salute Dora’s courage because it takes courage to look your boss in the eye and ask him to step down for his deputy. Many of us are also not comfortable with the way things have gone in the country these past two months, which is why we are supporting her.”


A source at the meeting also told Sunday Sun that the memo took the ministers by surprise.

“We all thought it was just another presentation from her ministry until she started reading. You should have seen the faces of some of the ministers. They shouted, hurled insults at her and some pointedly told her her days were numbered in the council. They asked her if she had weighed the risks of her action. It was really a hot session.


“The meeting ended formally around noon but when I sent one of my aides to the Villa around 4 o’clock later that day, he told me some of the rattled members were still cooped up in a meeting, trying to figure out their next line of action,” the source revealed.

After the meeting ended, ministers were seen standing in groups discussing the memo, most wearing frowns on their faces.

But another minister angrily told this reporter when asked if he thought Akunyili was sincere or grandstanding: “What does it matter now if she is grandstanding? She has boldly stood her ground. Let others also boldly step out and grandstand. All I know is that four Katsina boys cannot continue to hold this nation to ransom.”


Why I did not tell Jonathan - Akunyili

Getting Prof Akunyili to speak on why she seized the EXCOF by the jugular last Wednesday was like trying to squeeze water out of a stone. But after a lot of persuasion, the protagonist agreed to speak with Sunday Sun for a few minutes, with a promise to speak more elaborately on all the issues later.


What prompted the bombshell you dropped on the Executive Council of the Federation on Wednesday?

Let’s just say I got tired of the whole thing. It just got too much for my mind. I could no longer live with myself. I was not sleeping well. I was depressed. My husband thought it was malaria but I knew it was not. I went for tests and nothing was found. I simply knew I could not continue to live a lie. On Tuesday night, I could not sleep at all and I spent half the night praying. That was when I decided to do the memo. I wrote and typed it myself. I only told my Assistants and Special Adviser on Wednesday.


What was their reaction?

Naturally, they thought it was too loaded, too much. They wanted me to tone it down. They were worried about something happening to me but I was resolute. I told them ‘if I die, I die.’ I was not afraid. I know that God who protected me through all my battles in NAFDAC is still alive.


Did you tell the Vice President?

No, I did not tell the VP. I felt he would discourage me if I told him what I wanted to do. I did not tell anybody. It was just a burden I wanted to do something about. It was my burden, my decision. While I was praying on Tuesday night, I remembered one sermon given by one bishop. He said, all the time people were screaming ‘crucify him, crucify him’ at Jesus Christ, nobody spoke up for Jesus. If one person had had the courage to say ‘no, Jesus does not deserve to die,’ perhaps he would not have been crucified. Maybe if someone had mustered the courage to speak up for Jesus, the course of history would have changed. But no, everybody joined the multitude to do evil. Remembering that sermon was instructive. I had to stand even if I was standing alone.


Did you at any point in time try to reason with your colleagues in the cabinet, convince them to join your stand?

Oh yes, I did. About four weeks ago, I tried to talk to some ministers but I did not get any encouragement.


What was the reaction of the ministers when you presented that memo?

I’m sure you can imagine it. Everybody voiced his opinion. Tempers rose but I was not bothered. I am happy with myself. I feel good. I feel like a heavy load has been lifted off my chest. That night I slept well.


Now that you have submitted the memo at the council secretariat, what should we expect next?

I am hopeful that the letter transferring power to Dr Goodluck Jonathan would finally arrive so that the tension in the country can be doused. I also expect that when President Yar’Adua returns, he will take over. The VP cannot stop him from returning to his office. It is not possible. Let me also state clearly that nobody wants Mr President dead. No child of God will wish a fellow human being dead. I don’t want my boss to die. Only evil people want him to die. He will return. So all this tension in the country is unnecessary. We all know what is right and that is what we should do.

Dora Akunyili: ‘God is in this with me’
By SHOLA OSHUNKEYE


On February 3, this year, at the peak of the controversy over the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s actual state of health, a needless controversy that almost drove the nation to the brink, Akunyili presented a memo to the Federal Executive Council, FEC, asking the council to square up to the reality of the ailing President’s dilemma and transmit a letter to the National Assembly for a smooth transition.



Although her memo shocked, awed and tore the federal cabinet apart, it provided the impetus for the flat-footed National Assembly to recognize Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, then Vice President, to assume duties as Acting President in Yar’Adua’s stead. The ‘shock-and-awe’ memo created a few enemies for Akunyili but further endeared her to majority of Nigerians who saw her as an embodiment of courage.

PapaBrowne: Abagworo, all this attempt to get Soyinka to help cover up for the brutal attempted murder of a fellow House member in the presence of the Governor wouldn't save nothing. Soyinka or not, a grevious act was committed and we all saw it on camera.

Lets stop all these nonsense propaganda. Its becoming disgusting. The idea is to distract from Amaechi by making it appear like Soyinka and the presidency are fighting.

Soyinka messed up by defending the indefensible. Nobody would watch that video of Amaechi's men trying to kill a fellow house member and lend his very respectable name to that kind of act. In all sincerity, Soyinka didn't watch that video before going to press and he would right now be very ashamed of making the statement he made.

Awake9ja: if there is any person or group to receive reward of making GEJ president its that iron woman "Dora Akunyili"

she is not from my tribe nor state but I point at truth whenever I see one.

I don't deny the fact that SNG didn't make an impact but she "Dora" get the job done.

WE even found out later that most of the SNG was into the protest for a political reasons(TUNDE BAKARE etc).

Our own Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu
Ojukwu is in the news again. This time he is asking the Igbo
to support IBB for his presidential ambition in 2011. His
reason: IBB was the president who released all his fathers’
property seized during the civil war and kept by the federal
government for 23 years after the war. As I write this Ikemba
Nnewi is deploying foot soldiers to all nooks and crannies of
Igboland to campaign for IBB

so let us give honor to whom honor is due,
some people deserves a hand shake while some deserves I big PRIZE.

She did. She called him cabal and called all his people cabal, in spite of the fact that she was also around him before. She is
now exonerating herself, making it look as if those people are so
bad and that she is the only good person and saint. I am telling
you, she used to sit on the floor in front of the First Lady. She
can deny it now because things have changed

A hand shake is a sign of appreciation and a Prize is a sign of REWARD.

Mr Ayittey had also lambasted GEJ for “impatiently” indicating that he would not declare his assets.
He had ended his criticism with a call on Nigerians to rid themselves of GEJ as soon as possible.
But these criticisms did not go down well with some Nigerians, who took to twitter to criticise the Prof and urged him to focus on Ghana’s own problems.



However, In a calm and measured response, Prof Ayittey called on Nigerians to look beyond tribe and religion in analysing socio-policio-economic issues.

He said his criticism of GEJ aimed at helping the Nigeria identify its flaws, and exposing the Nigerian people to new or alternative perspectives.

The Economist underscored the need for Nigerians to be amenable to criticisms and new ideas, adding that outsiders were sometimes in a better position to offer criticism or advice.