Sky Blue:

LOOOL. Why am I not surprised? I won't even bother with you any more. Have a nice day

Sky Blue:

LOOOL. Why am I not surprised? I won't even bother with you any more. Have a nice day  

We would like to state, for the umpteenth time, that President Goodluck Jonathan's desperation to be President again in 2011 can only take Nigeria back to the dark days of President Olusegun Obasanjo's Third Term with all its attendant instability and the wasting of innocent civilians’ lives. Now that the President has proven that he is incapable of leading the nation justly and fairly and that he is desperate enough to want to hang mass murder around the neck of unnamed Northerners to achieve his second term, we as citizens of this country have totally lost confidence in his leadership and hereby call on him to immediately resign. If he fails to do so by the end of the week, we call on the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceedings against him with immediate effect. We state, without any equivocation that, as Northerners and as citizens of this country, we no longer feel safe and secure under his leadership.

Ibime:

@ Obiagu,

The inability to crush MEND is not for want of trying. MEND is not based in one location like Boko Haram who were easily picked off. I can point to 3 different occassions where helicopter gunships have invaded MEND camps unsuccessfully.

Secondly, I am not for GEJ. My problem with this statement is the group it comes from, a group which believes it has the right to pick and choose which tribe produces Nigerias leader. Its the same group that would rather leave a dead President on the throne for 3 months than hand over to another tribe. A group that promises Presidency to SS in 2015, then turn around to promise it to SE. Who made these people kingmakers?

Look at the text of the speech, describing ND as a small group of terrorists who try to extend their influence beyond their "small corner of Nigeria". Trust I dislike Jonathan, but faced with a straight choice between him and this genocidal group, I will back GEJ on this point. As it is, Ribadu presents a better alternative to these thieves.

ferari90:

Answer the question my friend ktewwwwwwww

Obiagu1:

Northern political leaders were right to ask Jonathan to resign as he failed to treat MEND like Yar’Adua treated Boko Haram. You got it right so suck it up.  

Sky Blue:

Why do you continue to expose your blatant ignorance? I asked you whether you knew what was going on in the Niger Delta with regards to the Nigerian army. When gun ships were bombing the creeks was that kids gloce? Are you kidding me? Why kdod you insist on refusing to obtain information which would cost you nothing? Are you scared of using your internet? You asked a poster why the Nigerian government has been going easy on MEND as compared to Boko Haram (which by the way is still active and the government continue to ignore - but you would rather sidestep that ofcourse) and I alluded to such postulations being rubbish when backed up with factual incidences. Or have you decided to contract selective amnesia so you don't have to recall when whole areas of creeks were bombed all in a quest to get Ateke Tom about a year into Yar Adua's presidency? Was that also child's play? Look, there is nothing I can do for you if you refuse to use resources available to you for free. Boko Haram broke free a significant number of their operatives from jail and no one is talking about it. How many so called militants were killed? You can force a horse to the stream but you can't force it to drink water. I won't indulge you any further.

Onlytruth:

What I see in this is further heating up of the polity and ratcheting up of tensions.
Frankly, unless something is done fast, Nigeria is headed for a major conflict. I see all the signs.
Jonathan is the president. He has one of two choices before him. Either be strong and get resource control by any means necessary, or he must crush the MEND.

Going forward, his leadership will be called into question more. He is losing power as we speak. Nigeria is a nation of 150 million restless Africans, and soon someone will be tempted to upturn the apple cart. Nature abhors vacuums and if for a second Nigerians feel a vacuum at the top, Jonathan is gone. He must understand that there are no more middle roads. Nigeria is coming to a head and only a strong leader will continue from here.

Onlytruth:

What I see in this is further heating up of the polity and ratcheting up of tensions.
Frankly, unless something is done fast, Nigeria is headed for a major conflict. I see all the signs.
Jonathan is the president. He has one of two choices before him. Either be strong and get resource control by any means necessary, or he must crush the MEND.

Going forward, his leadership will be called into question more. He is losing power as we speak. Nigeria is a nation of 150 million restless Africans, and soon someone will be tempted to upturn the apple cart. Nature abhors vacuums and if for a second Nigerians feel a vacuum at the top, Jonathan is gone. He must understand that there are no more middle roads. Nigeria is coming to a head and only a strong leader will continue from here.

Kobojunkie:

Analysis . . . analysis. What happened to your earlier analysis that MEND had nothing to do with this? ROFLMAO!!

Kobojunkie:

I suggest you read up on the issue. MEND has confessed over and over to be involved.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-525884.0.html

Onlytruth:

I don't even think Jonathan's biggest headache is next year's elections.

We have bigger issues to deal with. If I were him, I will declare marshal law and postpone the elections indefinitely until I get resource control or defeat MEND. It must be one or the other.

Aloy+Emeka:

Then other groups will spring up and face him squarely. MEND, Egbesu, OPC, Arewa, Ohaneze ,Nadeco. You think he can stand the heat?

Onlytruth:

I mentioned marshal law because I cannot see how he gets resource control with the current national assembly. No southerner can get anything like resource control without restructuring Nigeria through marshal law. That is why he needs to be a strong leader.
Nigeria has MAJOR issues threatening its very existence. Elections are not even supposed to happen while those issues are swept under the carpet.
He needs to demonstrate the urgency of the situation and communicate that effectively to Nigerians and international community.
The last thing we want in Nigeria is a war.

publisher:

The problem in Southern Nigeria is 'too much' education with every Ade,Chike and Ochuko claiming intellectual superiority in their analysis. GEJs down fall will not be due to Northerners but by his fellow Southern compatriots.
From an objective point of view GEJ never goofed in any way as it relates to MEND's involvement. Most people on this fora have ignored the fact that Henry Okah is described as an EX-leader of MEND. The bulk of what used to be known as MEND negotiated with the late Yaradua and accepted the  amnesty offer. Henry Okah fell out with his former comrades in arms and proceeded on a self exile in South Africa. So when the bomb blast occured,GEJ was right to acknowledge that the MEND he knows could not have carried out the act because they had accepted the amnesty programme.
Unfortunately,IBB apologists on Nairaland,Sahara reporters and 234Next highjacked this statement and worked very hard to use it to sway public opinion online,they've succeeded. IBB failed woefully on facebook but has done quite well in other websites. Henry Okah's allegation on GEJs involvement and the prompt resort by so-called Northern leaders asking GEJ to resign is clearly a planned strategy.
As a legal practitioner,i would say that Okah has indirectly confessed to knowing about the crime, but lets see how it goes. However,Okah and most Nairalanders seem to have forgotten that the Nigerian government prompted Okah's arrest days before the bombing and were equally appalled when they got to know that SA authorities released him. How then will the same government want to co-opt the same Henry Okah into such a conspiracy days after the bombing In any case,this is Nigerian politics,lets see how it all plays out.

Aloy+Emeka:

You want to turn Jonathan into a dictator?. We are a democratic nation.

publisher:

The problem in Southern Nigeria is 'too much' education with every Ade,Chike and Ochuko claiming intellectual superiority in their analysis. GEJs down fall will not be due to Northerners but by his fellow Southern compatriots.
From an objective point of view GEJ never goofed in any way as it relates to MEND's involvement. Most people on this fora have ignored the fact that Henry Okah is described as an EX-leader of MEND. The bulk of what used to be known as MEND negotiated with the late Yaradua and accepted the  amnesty offer. Henry Okah fell out with his former comrades in arms and proceeded on a self exile in South Africa. So when the bomb blast occured,GEJ was right to acknowledge that the MEND he knows could not have carried out the act because they had accepted the amnesty programme.
Unfortunately,IBB apologists on Nairaland,Sahara reporters and 234Next highjacked this statement and worked very hard to use it to sway public opinion online,they've succeeded. IBB failed woefully on facebook but has done quite well in other websites. Henry Okah's allegation on GEJs involvement and the prompt resort by so-called Northern leaders asking GEJ to resign is clearly a planned strategy.
As a legal practitioner,i would say that Okah has indirectly confessed to knowing about the crime, but lets see how it goes. However,Okah and most Nairalanders seem to have forgotten that the Nigerian government prompted Okah's arrest days before the bombing and were equally appalled when they got to know that SA authorities released him. How then will the same government want to co-opt the same Henry Okah into such a conspiracy days after the bombing In any case,this is Nigerian politics,lets see how it all plays out.

ayo84:

has anyone seen the video of the so called niger delta militants
:

those so called fighters in that video are not real niger delta militants
they are hired goons,who have collected an ex general's looted money,all in a bid to ferment trouble and cause commottion on nigeria and make it unstable and start claiming that goodluck cannot rule this country

please look at that video very well, some one is financing these boys and they arent real militants. The spokesman's '', and whatever, '' naunces imply that he is well educated, certainly not in the creeks. did you see the MEND emblem, brand new, someone has financed their uniforms, their brand new guns, everything. Like you said even the wooden structures are very well built, well paid for. Some one is financing these folks to cause havoc, someone very conniving, an evil genius with a lot of money to burn.

1. The place was a new place
2. The uniform they had were all new/fresh. The guns are most fresh, the looked too organized to be militants that we know that accepted the amnesty(thats if u realy saw the occassion), implying that they had been trained by someone somewhere for this purpose or even sth more to be seen later
3. The location was somewhere south; giving the palm trees and rivers
4. The spokesman cannot be a true militant cos he showed signs of : planning, maturity, education only very fear of such go all length to the creeks
5. The place is being built by a competent carpenter, there is no sign to show its done in a hurry a its a "make do"
6. The first time a lady would go to such a dangerous (assuming) in Nigeria given that most militants are womanizers, ill-behaved etc
7. He said the attacks are on just 48 hours before the Bomb blast at Abuja :signifying that some other group was on that mission and it will be linked to them based on this video "else how come the video just 48 hours to the event"

For goodness sake, who are these people trying to deceive