FSU: 2015 will be thick

Imagine all Igbo in Nigeria, all SS people, many Christian Yorubas, all NC Christians, all southern Kadunans, all Christians in the North

VS
All muslims in Nigeria (NW, NE, SW)

Who blinks first?

D sage:

And what exactly is your point now? You should be talking about credible leaders,not this religions difference nonsense. RUBBISH!

mandarin: Well i do not understand your intention and the intention of your quoted middle belt but as a Nigerian with no regional affilliation I wish to state that all these talk of 2015 should be left to the electorates of Nigeria. Majority of Nigerian that will vote are in the North, the core North and only the repetition of 2011 can bring GEJ back which is and cannot be that way come ,2015 except you are bend on self illusion.
To be honest with you and all Nigerian, President Jonathan has lost the confidence of the two largest voting blocs in Nigeria: the core North and the South west and that amount to over 50% of Nigerian voters. That the President should mend fences is now belated and it has gone beyond the politicians, voters have seen it all and made up their minds if general opinions is anything to go by.
I must commend President Jonathan for one thing, elections conducted in his tenure are much better that his predecessors
and if he should tow that path I will hail him as the first President to hand over as a loser in an election. As an analyst these are my reasons:
1. The south south and south east alone cannot make GEJ win election even if he gets 100% votes from there its not just enough
2. Northerners are bend on a nothern President and believe me you need to live there to understand their mentality.
3. If the south west decides to vote for the opposition there is no way GEJ can win enough majority to avoid a run off
4. If the core north and the south west vote en masse for a candidate winning at least 75% of votes from the three regions the candidate will emerge the winner.
5. President GEJ ha no experienced politicians around him to mend fences and quicklyfix some nagging problems around the country and his questionable kinsmen are busy shouting around Nigeria.Its not good for his ambition.
6. If the President should bend on becoming the president at all cost, he may set the country on the path of irrecoverable disunity ,even serious civil strife but I pray Nigeria will be a great country.
May God help Nigeria,it is well

FSU: The “North”, Deceit and Illusions of 2015 – By Middle Belt Dialogue

Our attention has been drawn to the activities and pronouncements of the Governors of Adamawa, Jigawa, Kano and Niger States who have been going round the country inciting tension and division with the obvious intention of destabilizing the government of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The objective of these activities, as they themselves trumpeted is to get a “northerner” by which they mean Hausa Fulani, replace President Jonathan in 2015, or even by any means possible.

After meeting with Rivers State Governor Mr. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi in controversial circumstances aimed at inciting tension between the Niger Delta and other parts of Nigeria, the group proceeded to Abeokuta to see General Olusegun Obasanjo and therefter to Minna to meet with Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubakar to “report” President Goodluck Jonathan. They reportedly asked the two Generals to intervene in a way that will make “our dreams become a reality”. General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, the man who annulled the June 12 elections and championed the northern consensus programme that excluded Dr. Sarah Jibril, thereafter declared them patriots for their actions.

It is obvious to see the direction these people are coming from. Like Ango Abdullahi and a few others crying themselves hoarse about “it is the turn of the North(arewa) in 2015” it is inconceivable and totally unacceptable to them to be out of power “for so long” . As far as they are concerned only them should rule Nigeria, notwithstanding the fact that the Hausa Fulani North have had as President and Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa , Alhaji Usman Aliyu Shehu Shagari, and Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar Adua. They have had, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Alhaji Namadi Mohammed Sambo as Vice Presidents.

General Obasanjo of the South West was President for eight years, and Yar ‘Adua’s eight years would not have been debated if God had not ruled otherwise by allowing the cold hands of death on May 5, 2010 to snatch him away from us. Yar’ Adua’s erstwhile Deputy, from one of the many minority ethnic groups naturally contested and, thanks to the support from his native South South, South East, Middle Belt and South West, won the 2011 Presidential Election. This is the first time Nigeria’s Leader has emerged from the South South.

For Aliyu Muazu Babangida, the man who voted against President Goodluck Jonathan during the PDP Primaries and in the 2011 general elections, Jonathan should not have been elected in the first place and anything done to get him out as quickly as possible is patriotism, hence the desperation. It would have been funny were it not so rude, incorrect and based on a flawed understanding of the dynamics playing out in Nigeria today.

Secondly the patriotism which these gentlemen were adorned with by General Ibrahim Babangida must be based on the recent “disgrace” they meted out to Governor David Jonah Jang. Alhaji Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the former Right Honourable Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, when Babangida was military president gloated that they played politics on Jang and President Jonathan, when he, Kwankwaso at a meeting presided over by Aliyu Babangida, and attended by other northern Governors, nominated Jang as consensus candidate for the NGF chairmanship only to dump him a few hours after.

Hapless Jang, who had no intention of contesting for the chairmanship of the NGF, was left stranded? or so they wished.How will this not be patriotism to General Ibrahim Babangida? During Babangida’s transition to civil rule programme General Yakubu Gowon had the same Jang treatment meted to him when he was asked to start his option A4 presidential bid from Zaria.

What is more? Kwankwaso gleefully related what happened to the media and said they wanted to teach Jonathan politics. To nominate someone who was not interested in an office with the intention of disgracing him shows how honourable Kwankwaso really is. And Jang’s constituency, the Middle Belt, is supposed to be amused by such a shoddy treatment of our own? We are supposed to nod our heads enthusiastically when the establishment cries “there is only one indivisible north”! Besides, can these Honourable men whose words don’t mean anything to them be trusted when they speak of one north? How will you know when they want to teach politics and when they are telling the truth?

A section of the North overwhelmingly voted for Buhari in 2011. As a matter of fact Kwankwaso in Kano printed campaign posters with the pictures of Buhari superimposed on them. Aliyu Muazu and Murtala Nyako voted for Buhari in the 2011 elections. The President got about 18% of the votes in Kano. Yet President Goodluck Jonathan has bent surprisingly backward to accommodate and make them the mainstay of his government. The fact that they nominated most ministers and senior political appointees has not satisfied them. They are working assiduosly hard to throw him out before the end of his tenure.

We reaffirm our position that post-Goodluck Ebele Jonathan presidency is for the Middle Belt. We in the Middle Belt do not agree with the agitation that power should leave the Niger Delta now. By the natural reconfiguration of the zoning formula as a result of the natural death of President Umaru Musa Yar Adua, the Niger Delta is still supported by the Middle Belt to conclude its eight year tour of duty. It is significant to note that the artificial security challenges created by those who said that they would make the country ungovernable are being addressed; the railway lines which stopped working during the administration of General Ibrahim Babangida have slowly but steadily started to work; massive power transmission lines are being installed across the country. In terms of performance therefore, those persecuting Jonathan cannot claim to have performed as much as he has let alone say better.

On Governor Amaechi and the orchestrated tension in Rivers State, we wish to align ourselves with the advice given to him by Yinka Odumakin, and echoed by the South South Peoples Assembly; We wish to remind him that those who ride on the tiger back end up in its belly. Those who are clapping for him now to weaken and or undermine President Jonathan love him only to the extent that he keeps undermining Jonathan. Not long from now they will give him the Gowon, Abiola and Jang treatment.

Amaechi and his cohorts should remember how the Northern People’s Congress (NPC) used Akintola to weaken Awolowo’s support base in the early 1960s; The people of South South are not so unwise calculators that will prefer the number two position of Governor Adams Oshiomhole or Rotimi Amaechi to the number one? Come on!

We wish to remind the South South citizens that the Northern agenda, as championed by these Governors, is to use a southerner to destroy a southerner and nothing more. These characters lauded as patriots are but cheap traitors running an unpopular script that is doomed to fail.A word is enough for the wise.Abi-O.


Honourable Aminu Zang

Member, House of Representatives -1993

For the Secretariat

FSU:

Jonathan is as credible as any politician you can get in Nigeria. If in doubt name anyone more credible and willing to dabble into the murky waters of Nigerian politics

Let him finish his second term, then another ''credible'' person can take over. Those who use Boko Haram and religion (Buhari, ACN, CPC, APC) to disturb GEJ's govt are the ones causing the problem, not me.

D sage:


Fashola, Oshiomole, Rochas or even Aregbeshola would've done better than GEJ. Though they might not be absolutely good but these leaders are honestly hungry for change/development.

mandarin: Well i do not understand your intention and the intention of your quoted middle belt but as a Nigerian with no regional affilliation I wish to state that all these talk of 2015 should be left to the electorates of Nigeria. Majority of Nigerian that will vote are in the North, the core North and only the repetition of 2011 can bring GEJ back which is and cannot be that way come ,2015 except you are bend on self illusion.
To be honest with you and all Nigerian, President Jonathan has lost the confidence of the two largest voting blocs in Nigeria: the core North and the South west and that amount to over 50% of Nigerian voters. That the President should mend fences is now belated and it has gone beyond the politicians, voters have seen it all and made up their minds if general opinions is anything to go by.
I must commend President Jonathan for one thing, elections conducted in his tenure are much better that his predecessors
and if he should tow that path I will hail him as the first President to hand over as a loser in an election. As an analyst these are my reasons:
1. The south south and south east alone cannot make GEJ win election even if he gets 100% votes from there its not just enough
2. Northerners are bend on a nothern President and believe me you need to live there to understand their mentality.
3. If the south west decides to vote for the opposition there is no way GEJ can win enough majority to avoid a run off
4. If the core north and the south west vote en masse for a candidate winning at least 75% of votes from the three regions the candidate will emerge the winner.
5. President GEJ ha no experienced politicians around him to mend fences and quicklyfix some nagging problems around the country and his questionable kinsmen are busy shouting around Nigeria.Its not good for his ambition.
6. If the President should bend on becoming the president at all cost, he may set the country on the path of irrecoverable disunity ,even serious civil strife but I pray Nigeria will be a great country.
May God help Nigeria,it is well

D sage:

GEJ credible? Well, it depend on your own definition of 'credible leader', but to me, I doubt if there're credible leaders or politicians in PDP.

Fashola, Oshiomole, Rochas or even Aregbeshola would've done better than GEJ. Though they might not be absolutely good but these leaders are honestly hungry for change/development.

FSU:

You are kidding yourself. Look beyond the veil.
Your ACN cannot stand the credibility test.

D sage:

And what exactly is your point now? You should be talking about credible leaders,not this religions difference nonsense. RUBBISH!

sleekdot: I am a Yoruba Christian and I am not voting Retardeen Jonathan

sleekdot: I am a Yoruba Christian and I am not voting Retardeen Jonathan

Willy4Willy:
Don't lie, you are not Christian but a Yoruba Babalawo man

bloggernaija: I do not know Where these sponsored and clannish agents of division suddenly sprouted from.
One thing for sure, I am simply uncomfortable with these pygmies around the seat of power.
Ask them to let us have true federalism or regional autonomous government and you will see the real coalition of vested interested who actually
1 feast on the resources others
2who abuse the accommodation of others without reciprocating that privilege .
3vote the same way for most of the country's history.
4do not bring anything to the table.
5caused most of the wrongs in the country's history.

The southwest is not in coalition with the north .
The southwest is looking for leader who can stop this continuous descent into the abyss which this current president and his predecessors ,by act of omission or commission, is encouraging.
Even if the APC do not produce the president , the coalition will ensure that PDP is playing defense.
This oil dependent , import dependent ,Abuja centrally controlled economy is not in our interest.
Neither is the way the country is set up in our interest.
Exactly the reason why the ACN is duplicating all those inefficient federal instititutions like the airport , ports etc which are very vital for our economy but which politicians and civil servants from all over the country kill themselves to the transferred to,in order to plunder. etc