ichoku2015:
Dr. Wumi Akintide is an irresponsible hypocrite. When Saraki defected to APC with 30 senators from PDP he was a "Peter - the Rock"! Now that he has embarassed and disgrace APC and Tinubu he is a Judas Iscariot.
To hell with your partisan analysis.
CHANGE THE CHANGER.

U are the useless irresponsible type. Who called saraki a Peter when he defected to APC? BY THE WAY,what is the difference btw him being dubbed a Judas or Peter? Is Peter not that one who denied Jesu Twice when cock crowed? SARAKI HAS ACTED THE SCRIPT OF THOSE TWO DUBIOUS CHARACTERS,AS SUCH HE SOULD BE SACTIONED OR IMPEACHED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ALONGSIDE HIS YEYE DEPUTY-KWEREMAD!!!

traction:
Nigerian Democracy Is A Time Bomb And Bukola Saraki Is The Judas Iscariot Of Nigeria By Dr. Wumi Akintide

President Buhari‘s insistence that he was not going to interfere on the affairs of the Parliament is a major gaffe any way you slice it. The Parliament, as stipulated in the Nigerian Constitution, would determine whether or not his change agenda would fail or succeed in Nigeria. As a Political Science major with a deep passion for politics, I can tell you that.

The PDP began to irredeemably fall apart the day their own Speaker of the House, Tambuwal began to show more loyalty and favoritism for the opposition party, and there was nothing the PDP could do to bring him to order before the situation got out of control. Only in Nigeria is that kind of disloyalty tolerated in a party official. It is true that the Speaker of the House must be neutral in his dealings with members as much as humanly possible, but the ‘river that forgets its source or origin’ as reminded us by Elemure Ogunyemi, the Ekiti country music idol, is bound to dry up sooner than later.

Tambuwal got away with his disloyalty because he figured out that he could only be removed as Speaker by a majority of members in his Chamber, and nobody else, as stipulated by the obnoxious Nigerian Constitution. Unwritten ‘laws of decency’ should have required the Speaker to do the right thing without being told, but because politics in Nigeria is all about self rather than the ultimate interest of the Nation and the institution, Tambuwal got away with his perfidy. Not only that, he went on to be called a hero and a consummate politician in a country where corruption has become a virtue and a way of life.

Everybody in the PDP knew he was to all intent and purposes an APC member, but the PDP and President Jonathan were in total denial. Tambuwal kept that advantage until the very last moment when he publicly admitted he was going to be the APC Governorship candidate in Sokoto since he could not run for President. He won the governorship election by a landslide. That could only mean he had been rooting for the APC long before he made it official.

Even though Goodluck Jonathan tried to shake Tambuwal up by using the Inspector General of Police, Abubakar Abba by withdrawing his security details and the official cars and drivers assigned to him as Speaker. Tambuwal went to Court to challenge the move and won on legal technicalities. The PDP went into the last elections totally embarrassed and humiliated by their own Speaker, legislators like Bukola Saraki and Governors like Kwankwanso and Amaechi who openly decamped into the opposition APC. In his own case, Tambuwal only stopped short of openly crossing carpet into the APC. He was widely known to have been holding nocturnal meetings with the APC Caucus while still claiming allegiance to the PDP.

The House of Assembly in Abuja under the PDP was a House of Commotion, Intrigues, Horse-trading and Bribery if you get my point. Even though Nigerians massively voted for change on March 28 and April 11, I can assure you that nothing has changed and nothing is going to change in Nigeria for two important reasons.

First, neither of the two major political parties in Nigeria today have any verifiable ideology that explains their value system and political leanings. Neither of them operates the kind of party supremacy that is so critical in every Democracy. Once the Party takes a decision, no member, however powerful or rich can change it, whether on the floor of the Parliament or anywhere else in Nigeria

The Action Group under Obafemi Awolowo became the powerhouse that made the Western Region the pace setter in Nigeria among its peers like the NPC and the NCNC. Rich individuals like Pa Alfred Rewani, late Pa Ajao and Pa Shonibare of Lagos were moneybags in the same Action Group, but they all had to abide by what the Party says. Even Awolowo, arguably the most conscientious politician and strategist among our leaders, knew he could not achieve anything as party leader without party discipline and supremacy.

Awolowo initially wanted to make free education in the Old Western region both ‘universal’ and ‘compulsory’ but the party settled for universal only. Awolowo had no other choice because the party was supreme. If Awolowo, the party leader, could do that, no other member could challenge the party and remain in the Action Group. Awolowo was that strict. It was not like the “animal farm” of today where a deserter from the PDP like Bukola Saraki would not take no for an answer because he is hell bent on becoming Senate President to gain immunity from public prosecution for atrocities he committed with “Societe-Generale Bank“ a public institution he plundered.

I don’t blame the APC for accepting “leprous” Saraki into their fold. The APC was like a drowning man that would cling to a snake at the time it accepted Saraki, and the gamble paid off big time in Kwara State, if not the whole of Nigeria. They must now deal with and tame the monster or suffer the same fate as the PDP suffered in Kwara. Saraki is a true son of his father. He is in politics not to help humanity but to laugh all the way to the Bank for his own benefit. As Saraki has become Senate President, forget it. That is the end of Buhari’s anti-corruption agenda.

I have cited the above examples to show that neither the PDP, nor the APC that dethroned the PDP for the first time in more than 55 years in Nigeria has anything other than selfish interest at heart. It is a complete outrage that Bukola Saraki, who destroyed the PDP for his own selfish gain is attempting the same thing in the APC. Saraki is just like his twin brother in crime, Ayo Fayose, the current Governor of Ekiti. He is the Judas Iscariot of Nigerian Politics.

Ayo Fayose, the outlaw Governor has got away with murder in Nigeria, so to speak, because Goodluck Jonathan’s policy was to join the rotten eggs of Nigerian Politics rather than beat them. Fayose openly encouraged the PDP members in the new Senate and the House of Representatives to muddy the waters for the APC and cause confusion by voting en masse for Sola Saraki as Senate President.

He has the effrontery to do that because, under the Jonathan government, he completely outmaneuvered the 19 APC legislators he drove out of Ekiti so that the 7 PDP legislators could continue to do as they liked with him as the overall boss. One would have expected the new APC Government to have paid more attention to Fayose and what he was doing in Ekiti prior to the APC’s victory in the last election. The APC dropped the ball on Fayose, who took advantage of the APC’s silence and ineptitude to wait out the 19 legislators till June 6th when his new set of PDP legislators took over the Ekiti House of Assembly.

I have completely lost confidence in the APC and President Buhari for being so sluggish and slow at doing what was expected of them. I could not understand the strategy of the APC to put Ayo Fayose on notice that his antics in Ekiti would no longer be tolerated by Buhari. They were supposed to hit the ground running, but grew so careless that Ayo Fayose treated them like amateurs in Politics. The man beat the APC arms down in Ekiti, if the truth must be told. He definitely put “Okaraba Baba Edi“ on the APC and juggernauts like Ahmed Tinubu. The wizardry of Ahmed Tinubu has been rubbished by Ayo Fayose.

I agree that it is true that there are more urgent problems to tackle than facing Ayo Fayose, but I condemn the APC, President Buhari and Vice-President Osinbajo for completely taking their eye off the ball in reference to Ayo Fayose and the ugly developments in Ekiti.

I am also amazed, if not totally shocked, that one week after Buhari’s inauguration he still has not found the time to issue a statement on the 60 Nigerian officers and soldiers awaiting execution for not fighting Boko Haram with their “bare hands”. Boko Haram was fighting Nigeria with tanks, armored vehicles, AK-47 rifles and other deadly improvised bombs like what Biafrans call “Ugbunigwe” during the 1967 to 1970 civil war. These soldiers were expected to face this people with prayer and fasting. That is just wicked.

It is unconscionable that Buhari, a retired 4-star General has not seen the need to issue a statement on the fate of those brave soldiers within a week of his inauguration. The cowardly Chief of Defense Staff and the other heads of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force who worked with Goodluck Jonathan are still there, enjoying their loot from Jonathan. Buhari looks insane to me right now to keep quiet and not say a word. Many, if not all, of those officers should have been let go immediately.

It also beats my imagination that the same Buhari, up till now, has not said a word on the fate of Captain Sagir Koli, who blew the whistle on the covert operations that helped Fayose rig the election in Ekiti on June 21. Brigadier-General Aliyu Momoh, the commanding officer of the operation is still in the Military, while Sagir Koli has had to runaway from Nigeria to avoid assassination or victimization by his commanding officer. Yet, Buhari still wants Nigeria to believe he is the Messiah, coming to save Nigeria. If you believe that crap, I have an island to sell to you in the Pacific. Time is of the essence. Buhari is damaging himself irredeemably in the court of public opinion for all of the above.

I was one of the strongest supporters of General Buhari during the election and I still support him, but disillusionment has set in for many of his supporters across Nigeria and for me. I am not so sure any more from what he has done in his first two weeks in office. I am more worried today about his silence than anything else. I know there is a limit to how much he could have done in 2 weeks but he should at least have issued some statements to assure Nigerians that he is not totally lost or overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of the problems he has to confront.

I suggested to him more than a year ago, that he needed to set up a Rapid Response Team to draw attention to many of these lapses, since he was not avid reader of briefs sent to him. He should have had somebody looking into social media to compile information and advice he needs. The Sahara Reporters of New York is a major resource that he cannot afford to ignore. If he is in any doubt, he should talk to his friend, Pastor Tunde Bakare, who visits the website every day before breakfast. Buhari is losing momentum and I deeply regret that.

Buhari has told us enough about Nigerian problems. What Nigerians want to hear now are his solutions to these problems. I am not talking of solutions that would require the involvement of the Senate or the House of Representative or the Judiciary. I am talking of solutions that he is able to do with executive orders. He should make himself and his Vice President a shining example of the change he wants to see in Nigeria just like El Rufai and his Deputy Governor have done in Kaduna State. They both declared in their inaugural address that they would both accept a 50 percent salary cut until further notice.

That Buhari is yet to name a single member of his cabinet and principal officers close to 2 weeks after inauguration is proof that the man is not ready for prime time. I am saying it out loud because I want the man to succeed. I can tell you right now that what Buhari has promised to do in Nigeria cannot be achieved with the level of sloppiness and lethargy he has shown in his first two weeks in office.

He offered Nigerians a sartorial list of the problems he wants to tackle but he has not articulated the ends, the ways and the means for solving those problems with any comprehensive strategy. What he is trying to do cannot be done with his current level of commitment and drive. It is sad to say but it is the truth.

I fully understand that Buhari is trying to convince his critics he is no longer the maximum dictator he used to be as a military ruler but he is doing it the wrong way by looking weak and incompetent. By openly telling Nigerian he would not interfere in what is going on in the Parliament, he became spineless.

I would not be complaining this much if I saw some convincing evidence he really wants to strengthen the supremacy of the APC. I see no evidence of a guiding ideology that should influence all of Buhari’s decisions. I see none of that and I think the observation should be of concern to all Nigerians like me who voted for change on March 28 and April 11.

The APC won 59 seats in the Senate and the PDP won 49 in the new Parliament. The APC won 213 out of the 360 seats in the House of Representatives leaving the remaining 147 to the PDP, the APGA and the other parties in Nigeria. If you compare that margin of victory with what normally obtains in stable Democracies like the United States, Britain and the State of Israel, you will all see that the APC has a majority that is comfortable enough to be able to effectively and successfully govern Nigeria. What if the margin of victory for the APC was much smaller? The APC has no excuse to give right now. If it fails it will have nobody but itself to blame.

I don’t care about the horse-trading currently going on in the Parliament. The bottom line is that the legislators sponsored by the majority party must be seen to have won. That it did not happen is a bad omen for Nigeria’s nascent Democracy under the APC.

I don’t care how the APC and Buhari do it, the duo of Saraki and Ekweremadu as Senate President and Deputy President is as a major humiliation and defeat for the APC, and more so for Buhari and Osinbajo, and a bad omen for the interest and future of Nigeria.

I rest my case.
http://saharareporters.com/2015/06/09/nigerian-democracy-time-bomb-and-bukola-saraki-judas-iscariot-nigeria-dr-wumi-akintide

PMB will succeed either they like it or not

How I wish it is possible to carry what happened in the elections of the senate president and speaker out over and over again into where ever Buhari, apc, Tifnu.bu as well as to do it as many times as possible to this shameless Dr. wimi Akintide. I can feel the effect and severity of the pain arising from the senate presidency and speakership elections and how his brain regions is in complete mess.
There is a common saying that first to do nor dey pain but the second one na dey pain pass. This Dr., Wimi can cry enough in other to full up as many empty drums as possible right in his front. Buhari, Tifnub.u,, apc etc., were very happy, forcefully pushed the innocent man GEJ away. Now nature has to pick the fight on GEJ behalf. Almost all apc members all over the country are shouting, crying uncontrobly. They have not seen any thing yet. They will definitely see and experienced more of this. Tambuwel, because of GEJ minority situation, without looking back punished GEJ, they were all dancing. Apc and indeed all her supporters will now cry last.

It doesn't matter because APC is full of Judas iscarots starting frm the general of common sense revolution.

I laugh at the 'change' that APC supporters where chanting a little over a week ago. It's change alright, change from one set of political criminals carrying an umbrella to another set of criminals carrying a broom. The vultures are circling over Abuja waiting to feast over the carcass called Nigeria. Saraki was just the first Vulture to swoop down, others are on there way.


Nobody and I mean nobody can rescue Nigeria while it is running this leperous unitary system of Government. Government has to be decentralised to made effective. Career criminals are all in Abuja running things and people think things will get better? I laugh in Swahili.

Nigeria is a failed enterprise and anyone who has hope of redemption should forget it. What does not work, simply does not work

ichoku2015:
Dr. Wumi Akintide is an irresponsible hypocrite. When Saraki defected to APC with 30 senators from PDP he was a "Peter - the Rock"! Now that he has embarassed and disgrace APC and Tinubu he is a Judas Iscariot.
To hell with your partisan analysis.
CHANGE THE CHANGER.

The article is very balanced. He condemned his earlier actions as well

ugodean8485:
This Igbo blog makes a lot of sense. I need something like this to improve on my mother tongue. Well done bro....keep the flag flying #odenigbo

Animals!! Get out with that ur Igbo stuffs mhen!! Go to tribal section to post those bullshit!! U people are always the first to post insultive tribal-coloured comments here!!

tociano009:
Shut up Dr wunmi you are mad and stupid where are you when Apc gang up against hon mulikat adeola, do you think God is not watching , political science my foot

u are wrong. not APC, But the northern senators. they don't like a lady to govern the affair of the house

akoaki:



I respect your opinion but words like "foolish", "maga" and "mumu" are not the best you can use on a public forum. Other options are available if you can find time to acquire them.

I know u ryt buh u read post from em diz past months u wont tell me this. dey lack manners so dey deserve such words too ts annoying

Op, you are a disgrace to this country and your addiction to tinubu is written on your episode.

My questions are:
1. When tambuwal betrayed pdp who was he?
2. When Saraki dumped pdp and join apc who was he if he is Judas Iscariot now?
Answers:
1. Tambuwal's drama was victory for democracy while Dogara's own is betrayal of the Highest order.
2. When Saraki joined apc he was Peter Ismango but now Judas Iscarrot!
Rubbish write-up.

Dont let me hear anyone say the elections in the houses is bad for Nigeria again. It is only bad for:
1. Tinubu
2. Oyegun
3. Lagos apc
VICTORY FOR DEMOCRACY!

Missmossy:

Change ur dp joorh, e don too tey for dere.

Save your breadth! Sore loser! Ehen I want to use this opportunity to congratulate the winners of new Senate and Deputy Senate President!

wen we called amaechi a betrayer.u guys called him a hero....nw we say we love saraki nd u guys are calling him a betrayer....I bet u guys nw knw y we call amaechi a betrayer. ..nw,u all live with ur Morden day judas all I can say is



sai saraki

traction:
Nigerian Democracy Is A Time Bomb And Bukola Saraki Is The Judas Iscariot Of Nigeria By Dr. Wumi Akintide

President Buhari‘s insistence that he was not going to interfere on the affairs of the Parliament is a major gaffe any way you slice it. The Parliament, as stipulated in the Nigerian Constitution, would determine whether or not his change agenda would fail or succeed in Nigeria. As a Political Science major with a deep passion for politics, I can tell you that.

The PDP began to irredeemably fall apart the day their own Speaker of the House, Tambuwal began to show more loyalty and favoritism for the opposition party, and there was nothing the PDP could do to bring him to order before the situation got out of control. Only in Nigeria is that kind of disloyalty tolerated in a party official. It is true that the Speaker of the House must be neutral in his dealings with members as much as humanly possible, but the ‘river that forgets its source or origin’ as reminded us by Elemure Ogunyemi, the Ekiti country music idol, is bound to dry up sooner than later.

Tambuwal got away with his disloyalty because he figured out that he could only be removed as Speaker by a majority of members in his Chamber, and nobody else, as stipulated by the obnoxious Nigerian Constitution. Unwritten ‘laws of decency’ should have required the Speaker to do the right thing without being told, but because politics in Nigeria is all about self rather than the ultimate interest of the Nation and the institution, Tambuwal got away with his perfidy. Not only that, he went on to be called a hero and a consummate politician in a country where corruption has become a virtue and a way of life.

Everybody in the PDP knew he was to all intent and purposes an APC member, but the PDP and President Jonathan were in total denial. Tambuwal kept that advantage until the very last moment when he publicly admitted he was going to be the APC Governorship candidate in Sokoto since he could not run for President. He won the governorship election by a landslide. That could only mean he had been rooting for the APC long before he made it official.

Even though Goodluck Jonathan tried to shake Tambuwal up by using the Inspector General of Police, Abubakar Abba by withdrawing his security details and the official cars and drivers assigned to him as Speaker. Tambuwal went to Court to challenge the move and won on legal technicalities. The PDP went into the last elections totally embarrassed and humiliated by their own Speaker, legislators like Bukola Saraki and Governors like Kwankwanso and Amaechi who openly decamped into the opposition APC. In his own case, Tambuwal only stopped short of openly crossing carpet into the APC. He was widely known to have been holding nocturnal meetings with the APC Caucus while still claiming allegiance to the PDP.

The House of Assembly in Abuja under the PDP was a House of Commotion, Intrigues, Horse-trading and Bribery if you get my point. Even though Nigerians massively voted for change on March 28 and April 11, I can assure you that nothing has changed and nothing is going to change in Nigeria for two important reasons.

First, neither of the two major political parties in Nigeria today have any verifiable ideology that explains their value system and political leanings. Neither of them operates the kind of party supremacy that is so critical in every Democracy. Once the Party takes a decision, no member, however powerful or rich can change it, whether on the floor of the Parliament or anywhere else in Nigeria

The Action Group under Obafemi Awolowo became the powerhouse that made the Western Region the pace setter in Nigeria among its peers like the NPC and the NCNC. Rich individuals like Pa Alfred Rewani, late Pa Ajao and Pa Shonibare of Lagos were moneybags in the same Action Group, but they all had to abide by what the Party says. Even Awolowo, arguably the most conscientious politician and strategist among our leaders, knew he could not achieve anything as party leader without party discipline and supremacy.

Awolowo initially wanted to make free education in the Old Western region both ‘universal’ and ‘compulsory’ but the party settled for universal only. Awolowo had no other choice because the party was supreme. If Awolowo, the party leader, could do that, no other member could challenge the party and remain in the Action Group. Awolowo was that strict. It was not like the “animal farm” of today where a deserter from the PDP like Bukola Saraki would not take no for an answer because he is hell bent on becoming Senate President to gain immunity from public prosecution for atrocities he committed with “Societe-Generale Bank“ a public institution he plundered.

I don’t blame the APC for accepting “leprous” Saraki into their fold. The APC was like a drowning man that would cling to a snake at the time it accepted Saraki, and the gamble paid off big time in Kwara State, if not the whole of Nigeria. They must now deal with and tame the monster or suffer the same fate as the PDP suffered in Kwara. Saraki is a true son of his father. He is in politics not to help humanity but to laugh all the way to the Bank for his own benefit. As Saraki has become Senate President, forget it. That is the end of Buhari’s anti-corruption agenda.

I have cited the above examples to show that neither the PDP, nor the APC that dethroned the PDP for the first time in more than 55 years in Nigeria has anything other than selfish interest at heart. It is a complete outrage that Bukola Saraki, who destroyed the PDP for his own selfish gain is attempting the same thing in the APC. Saraki is just like his twin brother in crime, Ayo Fayose, the current Governor of Ekiti. He is the Judas Iscariot of Nigerian Politics.

Ayo Fayose, the outlaw Governor has got away with murder in Nigeria, so to speak, because Goodluck Jonathan’s policy was to join the rotten eggs of Nigerian Politics rather than beat them. Fayose openly encouraged the PDP members in the new Senate and the House of Representatives to muddy the waters for the APC and cause confusion by voting en masse for Sola Saraki as Senate President.

He has the effrontery to do that because, under the Jonathan government, he completely outmaneuvered the 19 APC legislators he drove out of Ekiti so that the 7 PDP legislators could continue to do as they liked with him as the overall boss. One would have expected the new APC Government to have paid more attention to Fayose and what he was doing in Ekiti prior to the APC’s victory in the last election. The APC dropped the ball on Fayose, who took advantage of the APC’s silence and ineptitude to wait out the 19 legislators till June 6th when his new set of PDP legislators took over the Ekiti House of Assembly.

I have completely lost confidence in the APC and President Buhari for being so sluggish and slow at doing what was expected of them. I could not understand the strategy of the APC to put Ayo Fayose on notice that his antics in Ekiti would no longer be tolerated by Buhari. They were supposed to hit the ground running, but grew so careless that Ayo Fayose treated them like amateurs in Politics. The man beat the APC arms down in Ekiti, if the truth must be told. He definitely put “Okaraba Baba Edi“ on the APC and juggernauts like Ahmed Tinubu. The wizardry of Ahmed Tinubu has been rubbished by Ayo Fayose.

I agree that it is true that there are more urgent problems to tackle than facing Ayo Fayose, but I condemn the APC, President Buhari and Vice-President Osinbajo for completely taking their eye off the ball in reference to Ayo Fayose and the ugly developments in Ekiti.

I am also amazed, if not totally shocked, that one week after Buhari’s inauguration he still has not found the time to issue a statement on the 60 Nigerian officers and soldiers awaiting execution for not fighting Boko Haram with their “bare hands”. Boko Haram was fighting Nigeria with tanks, armored vehicles, AK-47 rifles and other deadly improvised bombs like what Biafrans call “Ugbunigwe” during the 1967 to 1970 civil war. These soldiers were expected to face this people with prayer and fasting. That is just wicked.

It is unconscionable that Buhari, a retired 4-star General has not seen the need to issue a statement on the fate of those brave soldiers within a week of his inauguration. The cowardly Chief of Defense Staff and the other heads of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force who worked with Goodluck Jonathan are still there, enjoying their loot from Jonathan. Buhari looks insane to me right now to keep quiet and not say a word. Many, if not all, of those officers should have been let go immediately.

It also beats my imagination that the same Buhari, up till now, has not said a word on the fate of Captain Sagir Koli, who blew the whistle on the covert operations that helped Fayose rig the election in Ekiti on June 21. Brigadier-General Aliyu Momoh, the commanding officer of the operation is still in the Military, while Sagir Koli has had to runaway from Nigeria to avoid assassination or victimization by his commanding officer. Yet, Buhari still wants Nigeria to believe he is the Messiah, coming to save Nigeria. If you believe that crap, I have an island to sell to you in the Pacific. Time is of the essence. Buhari is damaging himself irredeemably in the court of public opinion for all of the above.

I was one of the strongest supporters of General Buhari during the election and I still support him, but disillusionment has set in for many of his supporters across Nigeria and for me. I am not so sure any more from what he has done in his first two weeks in office. I am more worried today about his silence than anything else. I know there is a limit to how much he could have done in 2 weeks but he should at least have issued some statements to assure Nigerians that he is not totally lost or overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of the problems he has to confront.

I suggested to him more than a year ago, that he needed to set up a Rapid Response Team to draw attention to many of these lapses, since he was not avid reader of briefs sent to him. He should have had somebody looking into social media to compile information and advice he needs. The Sahara Reporters of New York is a major resource that he cannot afford to ignore. If he is in any doubt, he should talk to his friend, Pastor Tunde Bakare, who visits the website every day before breakfast. Buhari is losing momentum and I deeply regret that.

Buhari has told us enough about Nigerian problems. What Nigerians want to hear now are his solutions to these problems. I am not talking of solutions that would require the involvement of the Senate or the House of Representative or the Judiciary. I am talking of solutions that he is able to do with executive orders. He should make himself and his Vice President a shining example of the change he wants to see in Nigeria just like El Rufai and his Deputy Governor have done in Kaduna State. They both declared in their inaugural address that they would both accept a 50 percent salary cut until further notice.

That Buhari is yet to name a single member of his cabinet and principal officers close to 2 weeks after inauguration is proof that the man is not ready for prime time. I am saying it out loud because I want the man to succeed. I can tell you right now that what Buhari has promised to do in Nigeria cannot be achieved with the level of sloppiness and lethargy he has shown in his first two weeks in office.

He offered Nigerians a sartorial list of the problems he wants to tackle but he has not articulated the ends, the ways and the means for solving those problems with any comprehensive strategy. What he is trying to do cannot be done with his current level of commitment and drive. It is sad to say but it is the truth.

I fully understand that Buhari is trying to convince his critics he is no longer the maximum dictator he used to be as a military ruler but he is doing it the wrong way by looking weak and incompetent. By openly telling Nigerian he would not interfere in what is going on in the Parliament, he became spineless.

I would not be complaining this much if I saw some convincing evidence he really wants to strengthen the supremacy of the APC. I see no evidence of a guiding ideology that should influence all of Buhari’s decisions. I see none of that and I think the observation should be of concern to all Nigerians like me who voted for change on March 28 and April 11.

The APC won 59 seats in the Senate and the PDP won 49 in the new Parliament. The APC won 213 out of the 360 seats in the House of Representatives leaving the remaining 147 to the PDP, the APGA and the other parties in Nigeria. If you compare that margin of victory with what normally obtains in stable Democracies like the United States, Britain and the State of Israel, you will all see that the APC has a majority that is comfortable enough to be able to effectively and successfully govern Nigeria. What if the margin of victory for the APC was much smaller? The APC has no excuse to give right now. If it fails it will have nobody but itself to blame.

I don’t care about the horse-trading currently going on in the Parliament. The bottom line is that the legislators sponsored by the majority party must be seen to have won. That it did not happen is a bad omen for Nigeria’s nascent Democracy under the APC.

I don’t care how the APC and Buhari do it, the duo of Saraki and Ekweremadu as Senate President and Deputy President is as a major humiliation and defeat for the APC, and more so for Buhari and Osinbajo, and a bad omen for the interest and future of Nigeria.

I rest my case.
http://saharareporters.com/2015/06/09/nigerian-democracy-time-bomb-and-bukola-saraki-judas-iscariot-nigeria-dr-wumi-akintide

. The summary of dis long epistle == APC lost, PDP won!

Bull shyte of an analysis. From a totally partisan perspective.

He is just so pained.... The writeup is neither here nor there.

Does the guy believe amaechi is a Judas?

D writer tried hard 2 praise d late sage Awolowo bt conviniently forgot 2 tel us of the war of attrition he had with Ladoke Akintola Dat led 2 bloodshed in the early 60's please leave Saraki alone when there was gale of defection 4rm PDP he probably wld b 1 of dose shouting change on old wine in new skin bottle when we had 12 other aspirant 2 chose from

globalresource:


u are wrong. not APC, But the northern senators. they don't like a lady to govern the affair of the house

lie you know nothing ask femi and tinubu

barcanista:
The rant of a pained Tinubu slave. I told you guys that the politics for 2019 just began. You will keep writing epistles like this while PDP soars...

ok

Dr Wumi Akintide should realise that in politics there are no permanent friends, but permanent interests. Dr. Saraki is very knowledgeable in political horse-trading and got the position he desired.
Dr. Akintide will do well to advise the APC not to victimise Dr. Saraki, but see his election as democracy at play; if APC does otherwise, then they will have another case of Tambuwal versus the PDP on their hands, which might make Dr. Saraki to defect fully to the PDP.
The above incident is a lession to political parties in Nigeria that, they should desist from attempting to impose a party appointed Senatorial President on the house in order to avoid intra-party conflicts with unpredictable consequences.

Laffing in yala language,,,so how much him collect...akpocheee na Godwin..

The beginning of the defiance of party directives, concerning the appointment of key officials in the national assembly, by the legislature, has its root in the Obasanjo Presidency. At that time, Chief Obasanjo saw the national assembly as an appendage of the political party, of which he was the national leader. President Obasanjo was responsible for the removal of three senate presidents ( late chief Chuba Okadigbo, Dr Adolphus Wagbara and I think, the late Evan Enwerem); he attempted to do the same for the house of Reps, under Hon. Ghali Na'abba but was stoutly resisted by the leadership then.
The above incidents must have toughned the legislators, with a resolve among them to assert their independence as enshrined by the constitution under the doctrine of the rule of law.
That is why the national assembly has experienced this level of defiance, first under the GEJ Administration and now under PMB.

I'm not suprise though cox what goes round comes round. Both party should beware of Saraki but mind my word today his fall will shock Nigeria.

millionaireman:
When Tambuwal was getting away with his perfidy, Wumi Akintide of APC was smiling.

When Tinubu tutored ACN Reps to vote against PDP's choice of Speaker position slotted for the SW, in a bid to create enmity between the Yoruba and Jonathan, this Wumi Akintide must have kept mum.

I seriously doubt Akintide is full blood APC, he is close to the Falae/Fasoranti group in Akure. The group that brought in the new Deji of Akure. Akntide seems to have supported Buhari but Falae actually is not a believer in Buhari, and does not have much faith in him, I think AKintide may be towing the Falae/Fasoranti line.

APC lost focus along the way... PDP using over ambitious Saraki to get back to their feet comes 2019.

ichoku2015:
Dr. Wumi Akintide is an irresponsible hypocrite. When Saraki defected to APC with 30 senators from PDP he was a "Peter - the Rock"! Now that he has embarassed and disgrace APC and Tinubu he is a Judas Iscariot.
To hell with your partisan analysis.
CHANGE THE CHANGER.

I agree with u totally. A million likes to ur statement. When he joined the APC to destroy the PDP, this Dr Wunmi Akintide or whatever did not say anything or when Tambuwal was wining and dining with d APC, he did not say anyrhing. But just now that the table turned he started whining and talking nonsense. Where was he when the defunct ACN connived with Tambuwal to deny the PDP its rightful candidate for the speakership of the 7th House of Reps. One problem we have in ds country is dat we hate truth. We're only happy when it benefits us and unhappy and resentful when it is not in our favour.

abeg no kpai me with laff here oo

ichoku2015:
Dr. Wumi Akintide is an irresponsible hypocrite. When Saraki defected to APC with 30 senators from PDP he was a "Peter - the Rock"! Now that he has embarassed and disgrace APC and Tinubu he is a Judas Iscariot.
To hell with your partisan analysis.
CHANGE THE CHANGER.

A very naive and annoying analysis. Why do some of these old men think the President should interfere in such dirty party politics?? Buhari's jurisdiction is bigger than APC. Also, there was nothing unconstitutional about Saraki's win. Yes he should have been a party player but that's not a requirement if he can get the job done. Besides, I prefer the duo of Saraki and Ekweremmadu over that failure of an ex-governor called Akume and his colleague, Lawan.

I also like this because we all want to minimize God-fatherism in Nigerian politics. Did Tinubu hand-pick the APC nominees or were they selected democratically by APC members? We ultimately just want a credible team that will represent us well.

bamuffy:

Animals!! Get out with that ur Igbo stuffs mhen!! Go to tribal section to post those bullshit!! U people are always the first to post insultive tribal-coloured comments here!!

Na wa ohhh... Where did this street urchin come out from this hot afternoon.

iheanyiebeneze:
As a POLITICAL PUNDIT , i can authoritatively state that Senator Bukola Saraki will be impeached before the end of his tenure. Am sorry to say this but i must have to say it. We see the future from today. Goodbye for now.

hahahah!!.. then PDP will now be in charge of the senate seat.I don't think that is a wise decision.

This is just ranting out of frustration. Why don't you save your energy and lubricate your shock absorber for future monumental surprises.

He is on point but I disagree about saraki because in my own opinion saraki is a better devil than Tinubu.

saintTim:
I love and envy this Judas at this time of change



IN FACT

Na your papa born you, jare. No mind all them hypocrites.