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As a prominent young Nigerian artiste, Reekado Banks has
worked with the cream of the Nigerian music industry
including Don Jazzy, Illbliss, Tiwa Savage, Olamide, Korede
Bello, Di’Ja and Wale. The story of his rise to prominence
however, has not been smooth, as the Mavin Records
recording artiste disclosed during a #MySuperStarStory
interview. Born Solomon Ayoleyi Hanniel, the Ondo State indigene revealed that after informing his parents of his intention to pursue a career in music and getting their blessing, he had to hawk blenders in traffic and work as a manual labourer at a construction site in a bid to earn some money to use to record. He also revealed that at one point, a lecturer at the university told him that he will never make it after preventing him from retaking a test he missed. His turning point came with the Mavin Records audition where he was picked out of over 5,000 hopefuls. The dreadlocked act, now popular for his ballad “Katapot” credited this triumph to God. In his words, “There is no amount of sacrifice that was enough to get me something this big.”






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Very soon E go clear 4 Apc eyes



Dem reali luv dis man em state

Handwriting of desperate rulers

Patriotic Nigerian congratz.

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Its yoruba name wil b Ibolabi

Na 2dy dem dy vote?

PORT HARCOURT – GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Barr Nyesom Wike has dismissed
allegations by Governor Chibuike Amaechi that the ongoing
governorship and House of Assembly elections was a sham.
Wike who said the governor should not be taken seriously
urged politicians in the state to emulate President Goodluck
Jonathan who conceded defeat in the last presidential
election.
“Which election has he (Amaechi) not described as a sham. He
dismissed the presidential election as a sham but when Buhari
won, did he not say it was an act of God”, he said.
Wike who spoke in Obio Akpor local government area today
further accused the governor of allegedly going round some
wards in Obio Akpor local government area, adding that he
disrupted election exercise in Ward 12.
“We should emulate Mr President who conceded defeat for
the peace of the nation. They have turns Rivers state to the
national headquarters of their party”.
Wike also said INEC had postponed elections in Ward 15 and
16 in Obio Akpor local government area.



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Hope dem no giv anoda threat

Scapegoat...........he's learnt his lesson........silly spy

E don finish distributin cash b dt

RIP

kunmis1:
I think we the igbo's have got a real big problem,
we are ranting here and there about the recent
threat credited to the Oba of lagos, it seems we
haven't learnt any lesson yet. Our igbo leaders
have sold out that region to the PDP just
because of greed and sending the region to
political extinction. Now let us reason together,
the Oba of Lagos is not a politician and secondly
he never supported the candidacy of Buhari,
which he made it open when Goodluck visited
him before the March 28 poll, he went to the
extent of raining insults on former president OBJ,
now he is coming out to create another
confusion by his comment, have we sat down to
ask ourselves maybe he might be working for the
PDP? Because they know the igbo factor in the
lagos election, and igbo man can be use to do
dirty work, once you grease the palm of an Igbo
man, he can sell his dignity. Why are we not
seeing the big picture here? Why do we always
throw away our golden opportunities to develop
the igbo people? Why do we make ourselves to
be seen as a betrayer? Lagos under the
leadership of Tinubu and Fashola has recognized
the Igbo in lagos and have been generous to the
igbo even to the extent of appointing igbo's into
their administration and allocating juicy positions,
it only in Lagos that an Igbo man has been
appointed commissioner for budget and planning,
it only in Lagos that igbo has been elected local
government chairman, other non Igbo states has
never done that, yet we allow ourselves to be
used against an administration that has been so
generous to us. I think we should be ashamed of
ourselves because we have a very big issue,
during the fourth republic, the Igbo had the
senate president and we killed ourselves, we
masterminded the impeachment of our fellow
brother because of position, it is only the igbo
turn that we had 3 senate president in four years,
we are the same people who witch hunt down
our own blood brothers because of greed, Buhari
floated CPC and won some states in the north
and today all those governors are still with him
up to date, tinubu created ACN and won all 4
states in the west and today they are still with
him, Orji Uzo Kalu formed PPA, won abia and
Imo, but what happened? They went back to that
same PDP that sent them out. You are
destroying yourselves, making yourselves inferior
to other region, becoming a follower because you
have refuse to have a leader as a result of lack
of trust in each other, we know Buhari, Babagida,
Atiku etc as current leader in the north, we know
Tinubu, obasanjo, in the south west, we know
Edwin Clark, Anenih, in the south south, who is
our own leader in the south east? Ojukwu, who
risk his career, life and family for the Igbo nation
created APGA and yet he cannot lay claim to the
whole of igbo state, this is a shame on us and
the worst of it is that, they have sold out that
legacy after his demise, former governor Peter
Obi is a betrayer, he dumped a platform that
gave him 8 years in office, and became a
follower, I can still align with rochas, he
collapsed his APGA in forming APC, he can be
adjudged as a founding member of that party
unlike Peter Obi who joined an already existing
platform, Theodore Orji can be described as the
worst governor in the southeast yet he has the
mandate to represent in the senate, Stella oduah
has corruption charges hanging on her neck yet
she got an heroic welcome in her state and was
given the mandate to senate, we openly celebrate
criminality and yet we want to be accorded
respect, in my own view I think the Oba was even
kind, he should have said igbos will be delivered
to shekau to deal with them or even put them in
a container and bombed. What were you
thinking? You think just as you have deprived
yourselves an association with the federal
government, so they will allow you to make their
state loose same too, no way! They want
development, lagos has recorded so much
progress in the last 16 years without much
federal empowerment, have you though how
much more progress it will have with the federal
might? I pity you and your investments in Lagos.
You said you want independent. I laugh, because
have always asked where are the leaders that
will govern us? Nwazurike formed MASSOB,
today you said Jonathan has bought him over,
hundreds of MASSOB members are in jail today,
they have been denied bail but non of the Niger
delta militant were jailed rather the collect
billions of naira and they are sent abroad, yet
you voted and cast ur support on Jonathan, I
was told that it was the south south that
betrayed Ojukwu during the war and he lost,
thousands of Igbo died, yet you all shout GEJ till
2019, well thank God it didn't come through,
because we are daft, he changed his name to
Ebele Azikwe and we followed and say he is our
brother. APC has come out to tell you to ignore
the Oba, Tinubu has come out to do same, he
went ahead to asked if the government have not
been paying the school fees of igbo children in
public schools, 4 igbo children has been given
opportunity to become governor in a day in Lagos
thru the spelling bee contest, they have enjoyed
scholarship to study abroad in Lagos, yet we still
shout everyday that the Oba threatened, why
didn't ur so called Eze's protest at the meeting?
The clapped for him because they are bunch of
cowards. Well for me, an Igbo boy, born and
breed in Lagos, I am appreciative of that state
and will support it. Eko o ni baje.

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Wif ur wryt up, I kw wia u belong........gud job

Y ar our rulers losing dia prestige dis days?

Always made in 9ja...........Abegi, no trespass o

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Very bad

End tym tinz

Complete madness

Dis 1 is strong

So we av no ryt 2 perform our civic duty

Rivers wif dia wahala again

Wu's d winner?

AIG 4 dat matter.............Oga o, mayb he done get alert 4rm APC

Nigeria Military Group(NMG).................anoda party 2 vote 2dy.

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Watch out 4 Jimi.

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It's u we kw

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In u we trust.

Rubbish..........yoruba elites?..........apshit elites in disguise.

Rubbish

All I want is violence free election.

Still basking in the euphoria of the last presidential election
successfully held without violence across the 36 states of the
federation, Nigerians are once again on the march to elect
thirty two out of the thirty-six state governors. Four governors
of Edo, Anambra, Osun and Ekiti are yet to complete their
tenure.
From what
transpired during
the elections of the
penultimate
weekend, it was
clear that despite
the tense campaign
between the
incumbent
Goodluck Jonathan
and his main rival,
former military
ruler Muhammadu
Buhari, Nigeria was
able to hold a
violence-free presidential election. In the past, nearly every
time the results were announced , deadly violence followed.
But the March 28 presidential and national assembly elections
were different. Never in the history of this country was a
sitting President badly cornered, drilled and grilled by the
opposition political party, like the incumbent President
Jonathan was grilled. General Buhari broke political records,
re-wrote history across, within and every where in the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, as a result of the presidential election.
Also, President Goodluck Jonathan, a Niger Deltan ,from
Otuoke, Bayelsa state of Nigeria, who recorded stunning
records as the first man ever from the creeks to become
President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, also dramatically became the first incumbent
President to be knocked out of power via a credible, free, fair
and transparent election.
General Muhammadu Buhari has been applauded riotously
for his uncommon resilience and legendary passion to change
the status-quo in Nigeria since he was booted out of power in
a palace coup led by General Ibrahim Babangida in August
1985.
As historic as that feat may be, if past elections were anything
to go by, the fact that the opposition candidate, General
Muhammadu Buhari, won the polls, defeating incumbent
President Goodluck Jonathan, is itself a watershed in the
tumultuous political history of Nigeria.
But more remarkable is the show of grace and statesman’s
posture by the outgoing president, who conceded defeat and
congratulated his political rival, within a record time! By this
act, President Jonathan has exercised leadership, delivered a
legacy and built the foundation for the future almost in spite
of himself.
This was different from what happened in 2011 when
Goodluck Jonathan defeated Muhammadu Buhari. It was
recorded that nearly 1,000 people died, 80% of them in
Kaduna, Buhari’s stronghold.
When the history of this election is written, it would most likely
acknowledge the concession of President Jonathan to his
challenger.
But even before this time, at the end of the Ekiti election, the
then Governor of the State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi gave a
concession, which was celebrated as unprecedented.
Nigeria has made history. Nigerians on 28 spoke in no
uncertain terms that sovereignty belongs to the people and
that they are capable and willing to facilitate a peaceful
transition from one political party – Peoples Democratic Party,
which has ruled since the end of military rule in 1999 – to
another – the All Progressives Congress, a coalition of
opposition parties and like minded politicians determined to
checkmate the PDP dominance of politics in democratic
Nigeria.
Besides, it was the first time Nigeria was using a biometric
system to identify voters and as expected, there were some
technical glitches and elections had to be extended to Sunday
in 300 out of 150,000 polling stations.
Generally speaking, the biometric system was a success and
other African nations that genuinely want to organise a free
and fair election would be wise to follow suit. Also, what has
definitely become obvious is that with the Permanent Voters
Cards (PVC) and the Smart Card Readers (SCR) which were
used during the last elections, cerebral, people oriented and
God fearing people will be enthusiastic to throw their hats into
the political arena as Nigerian voters are the ultimate
beneficiaries of the last Presidential election.
Despite some failings, the march 28 election was adjudged to
be transparent and international observers attested to that.
The rigging efforts were not only largely ineffective, but the
design of newer ones was too slow to overwhelm the
emergent process. There were inroads to rigging only in places
where the card readers were jettisoned for manual
verification.
In the past, the observer and agent accreditation would have
been battlefields but for the biometric shift that moved the
focus to the effectiveness of technology, and not the person of
key stakeholders.
Nigerians are beginning to vote based on their perceptions.
Many Muslims who voted for Jonathan in 2011, impressed by
his rags to riches tale, had been disappointed by his
performance and on March 28, had chosen Buhari instead.
Also, many Christians opted for Buhari because they felt
Jonathan’s performance was below expectation.
One of the big lessons of the March 28 presidential election is
that in a highly monetised society where politicians are known
to throw money around, money has proven not to be an
answer to all things.
This time around, integrity won. Election results were accepted
and hopefully, the gubernatorial candidates in today’s election
would be wise to concede defeat for peace to reign like
president Jonathan did to the opposition candidate.
The acceptance of defeat at the polls by President Goodluck
Jonathan demonstrates he has a large heart and that he did
not just talk about conceding if defeated , but actually did so.
By this singular act, he will forever be remembered for
diffusing tension as Nigeria edged slowly and precariously on
the precipice of a violent backlash from the election. That
singular act was brave and classy, and may have prevented
hundreds of deaths.
Secondly, from this rare Nigeria’s success story, it has become
obvious that sovereignty belongs to the people, as it is only
through them that any government can obtain legitimacy.
General Muhammadu Buhari, is a former junta leader and
self-professed ‘democracy convert’. After three previous failed
bids, he no doubt epitomises a true convert and believer of
democracy. He was able to convince the electorate that
democracy was the sole legitimate path to gaining power.
Moreover, another issue has also become very obvious. The
electorate should not be taken for granted. The chieftains of
the ruling party had vowed they would rule for 60 years but
power belongs to the people and they demonstrated same by
showing the PDP the red card. Although the party made some
remarkable progress during six weeks of postponement of the
election, that proved too late to sway support and momentum
for the ruling party.
Another area of attention is elections management in Africa,
where the winner-takes-all principal holds sway. Elections are
a matter of life and death especially in Nigeria, which has
huge oil and gas reserves. But the Independent National
Election Commission (INEC) of Nigeria may have charted a
way out of the challenges of managing complex elections on
the continent. Professor Attahiru Jega’s led INEC surpassed the
expectation of millions of Nigerians and observers around the
world.
The university don brought in a new technology into
electioneering and in the heat of uncertainties, had appeared
very relaxed despite intense pressure and scrutiny, verbal
attack and intense provocation from the likes of PDP former
minister, Godsday Orubebe.
Jega remained calm and unperturbed, his respect for due
process standing out.
The failure of the electorate to be brainwashed despite
campaigns of calumny and intense hate messages by the PDP
against General Muhammadu Buhari, with strong suggestions
that he should take a medical examination, an allusion to his
perceived poor health and thought of imminent death is a
great milestone. His education credentials were questioned
and his human rights record as a former junta leader were
lampooned. Although such scrutiny is needed in a vibrant
democracy, some of the allegations against him went
overboard.
Yet, the electorate stood their ground.
In all these, the masses were interested in issues that affect
their daily lives: bread and butter, unemployment, corruption,
insecurity, energy, and health.
This proves to a large extent that the well being of the citizenry
matters most. A government which fails to provide basic
necessities like water, electricity, security, and end endemic
corruption is just as bad as that which falters in building
infrastructure.
Another lesson is for the media in Nigeria. The Nigerian media
should be careful with certain reports during elections. At
elections period, the stakes are very high and some sections
of the media take sides, for pecuniary reasons or personal
interest.
This should be avoided. For instance, the hate broadcasts
aired by some segments of the media against General
Muhammadu Buhari should have been avoided. Obviously,
the stations never thought the voting pattern would change.
The National Broadcasting Commission and the Human Rights
Commission of Nigeria condemned some private and public
media outlets after they were deemed to have violated the
Media Code on Elections Coverage by spreading hate message
and giving the incumbent undue coverage.
Candidates in today’s gubernatorial and House of Assembly
elections should learn from the past. After the elections today,
many incumbents would be disappointed. Many political
parties would lose where they hope to win. And hopefully too,
they should read the hand-writing on the wall and concede
defeat like President Jonathan did.
Violence has never solved any problem and post-
gubernatorial election violence would not solve any problems
either. A gentleman goes to court and so should those who
may not like how things work out for them after this election.
One can say for sure that the presidential and national
assembly elections have been truly successful even though not
perfect.
Today’s elections could be better. And thankfully, President
Jonathan has created a legacy that Nigerians will not only
remember but also use as they seek to define excellence.
Hopefully too, when the results of today’s elections will be
announced, it is expected that losers go the way of President
Jonathan and not seek to ignite the polity.








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The governorship and
State House of
Assembly elections are
scheduled to hold
today, April 11, 2015
across Nigeria.
But the governorship elections will only hold in 29 states in
the country excluding Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo, Kogi, Anambra
Bayelsa and the Federal Capital Territory. The elections will be
a follow-up to the presidential and National Assembly
elections which held two weeks ago and threw up a few
surprises.
The biggest surprise was the unprecedented defeat of the
incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples
Democratic Party by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of the
All Progressives Congress, the first time in the history of the
country’s young democracy that a sitting president would lose
in an election.
Of the 29 states where governorship elections are expected to
hold today, 17 are in the hands of PDP while the remaining 12
are under APC governments.
PDP used to be the dominant party in the country until a
merger between the Action Congress of Nigeria, the All Nigeria
Peoples Party, the Congress for Progressive Change and a
faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance brought up APC.
The last presidential and National Assembly elections showed
the increasing popularity of APC in the country. Therefore,
there are indications that the governorship elections will
throw up stiff competitions across the country, with some
states having stiffer battles than others based on the strengths
of candidates and the dynamics of the states.
Lagos
Lagos State is Nigeria’s economic capital and is expected to
have one of the most keenly contested polls. The state has
never been won by the PDP.
It is home to a national leader of the APC, Ashiwaju Bola
Tinubu, and therefore seen as a stronghold of the party.
The two main candidates in the contest are APC’s Akinwunmi
Ambode and PDP’s Jimi Agbaje. There were originally 15
governorship candidates in the state but only five are left after
10 others stepped down for Ambode.
Although, in the 2011 governorship election in the state,
Agbaje lost out to the incumbent governor, Mr. Babatunde
Fashola, who will be rounding off his second term in office by
May 2015. However, his chances look brighter this time
around against a fellow rookie.
Meanwhile, the contest is unpredictable as reactions from a
cross section of residents in the state show that voters are
almost evenly split between the two main candidates.
Adamawa
In Adamawa State, the incumbent governor, Bala Ngilari will
not be participating in the election, leaving room for Senator
Jibrilla Bindo of the APC and Mallam Nuhu Ribadu of the PDP,
who are seen as the main contenders.
Incidentally, Ribadu was the presidential candidate of the
defunct ACN in the 2011 elections after becoming famous as
the pioneer Executive Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, an anti-graft agency.
In August 2014, Ribadu defected to the PDP from APC with the
intention to run for the governorship of Adamawa State.
Ironically, his foremost contender, Bindo, was formally a
member of the PDP who went the other way.
Ribadu may be more popular than his foremost contender
but Bindo is not without political clout having won the
senatorial seat for Adamawa North district under the PDP
platform in 2011. Bindo is currently the Deputy Chairman,
Senate Committee on Defence and Army.
The battle between these two politicians is also expected to be
a close one.
Rivers
Rivers State has probably been in the news for political
reasons more than any other state in the last two years and
its governor, Rotimi Amaechi and the presidency are often at
the centre of such reports.
Following a dispute between Amaechi and the presidency,
particularly President Jonathan and his wife, Patience, there
has been political tension in the state.
Although Amaechi, who has since defected from the PDP to
APC, is not contesting in the governorship election, he is
rooting for his party’s candidate, Dakuku Peterside. The PDP
candidate, Nyesom Wike, was Amaechi’s Chief of Staff before
the two fell out.
APC is the ruling party in the state but Wike, who is also a
former Minister of State for Education, is expected to pose a
strong challenge to Amaechi’s candidate, having had the
backing of Mrs. Jonathan, who announced him as the next
Rivers State Governor several times.
Mrs. Jonathan, who is also from Rivers State, has been
involved in partisan politics in the state.
On the other hand, Peterside, a native of Biriye, Opobo
Kingdom, is a member of House of Representatives and also
the Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum Resources
(Downstream).
In spite of APC being the ruling party in the state, the last
Presidential and National Assembly elections showed that the
PDP still has overwhelming popularity in the state.
However, like Amaechi and the governor before him, Dr. Peter
Odili, Wike is also of Ikwerre ethnic nationality and this may
count against him in some quarters. Some people in the state
have been calling for rotational governorship as only Ikwerre
persons have governed the state since this democratic
dispensation commenced in 1999.
Oyo
The contest in Oyo State will also be tough with two former
governors of the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja (Accord Party)
and Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala (Labour Party), vying to return
to the position by scuttling APC’s Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s
second term bid.
A two-time senator, who rose to become Senate leader
between 2007 and 2011, Teslim Folarin of the PDP and Seyi
Makinde of the Social Democratic Party are also in the race,
but residents of the state are generally of the opinion that the
election will be won by one of the other three candidates
mentioned.
Kaduna
Alhaji Mukhtar Yero, who used to be the deputy Governor of
Kaduna State, was sworn in as governor in December 2012
after the death of Governor Patrick Yakowa in an air crash.
Today, he will be contesting under the platform of the PDP
against Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, a former Minister of the
Federal Capital Territory and staunch member of the APC.
El-Rufai and his party are becoming increasingly popular in
Kaduna but running against a sitting governor in Nigeria is
always a tough task. Therefore, the contest in Kaduna State is
expected to be close even though Buhari won with a wide
margin in the Presidential election in the state.
Sokoto
The governorship election in Sokoto State is expected to be
intriguing with the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Honourable Aminu Tambuwal (APC) battling it out with his
brother-in-law, who is also a former senator and senate
leader, Ambassador Abdallah Wali (PDP).
Wali reportedly introduced Tambuwal to national politics
when he appointed him as senior legislative assistant in 1999.
The two candidates are the strongest contestants in the
election and it is expected that one of them becomes the
state’s next governor. Although, Tambuwal enjoys the support
of Governor Aliyu Wamakko, who is also an APC member,
Wali has been in politics longer than Tambuwal.
The contest is also expected to be stiff.
Imo
In Imo State, the popularity of Governor Owelle Rochas
Okorocha (APC) has had some question marks lately, but
residents still expect a keen governorship contest in the state.
Okorocha’s biggest contender is Hon. Chukwuemeka Ihedioha,
who is currently the deputy speaker of the House of
Representatives.
Ihedioha contested and won as a member representing Aboh-
Mbasie-Ngor Okpala Federal Constituency of Imo State in
2003.
Between 2003 and 2007, he served as Chairman, House
committee on Marine Transport. The two contestants stand
tall above the rest but there appears to be no clear gap
between them, making it another close one.
Abia
Abia State has three main candidates: Okezie Ikpeazu (PDP);
Alex Otti (APGA) and Anyim Nyerere (APC).
With PDPs stronghold in Abia, Ikpeazu is seen by residents as
probably the strongest of the three.
Otti, an economist, banker, investor and the immediate past
Group Managing Director of Diamond Bank Plc, is however
expected to give the PDP candidate a run for his money in
spite of a recent setback he suffered in his party.
Earlier in the week, a faction of APGA in the state dumped Otti
and instead adopted Ikpeazu, citing some internal crises in
the state chapter of the party. Some political analysts say this
may affect Otti’s chances but no one knows if it will be enough
to cost him the governorship seat.
Nyerere, a former PDP chieftain in the state before his
defection to the APC, is also expected to make the contest
stiffer.



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U're nt meant 2 be simple.