vasa:

I have à question to ask
What if come apirll 29 GEJ
Won this election? What will all of you here on nl against him do ? Denounce your
Citizenship or what?.
The truth and only solution to nigerian problem is break up.
British made à very big mistake by fusing these 3 major ethnic group
together. Nl is a typical example of real Nigeria where no one accept
fault from their ethnic group.
Waiting for answers,

anonimi:

But indeed GEJ is right on the spot that Action Group (I forgot that they have upgraded to Action Congress + Nigeria) is a bunch of rascals masquerading as pseudo-progressives and dictators parading themselves as elders.
PDP has shown itself to be a MORE democratic establishment catering to diverse and divergent views through electoral primaries as evidence of its internal structural democratic values and obedience to court orders under GEJ's watch.

What do we have in Action Group (sorry again, Action Congress + Nigeria)? A group of geriatrics playing tingods and led by an Ashiwaju of Area Boys and Thug-in-Chief Ojuyobo who has imposed close and distant family members on the docile mass of people that makes up his party followers.

Btw, I hope all those posting on this thread know ALL candidates seeking office as State and National Assembly legilators.

PDP has shown itself to be a MORE democratic establishment catering to diverse and divergent views through electoral primaries as evidence of its internal structural democratic values and obedience to court orders under GEJ's watch.
What do we have in Action Group (sorry again, Action Congress + Nigeria)? A group of geriatrics playing tingods and led by an Ashiwaju of Area Boys and Thug-in-Chief Ojuyobo who has imposed close and distant family members on the docile mass of people that makes up his party followers.
Btw, I hope all those posting on this thread know ALL candidates seeking office as State and National Assembly legilators.

Ibime:

Goodluck is a lazy national cake sharer.

As much as Action Congress has many bad eggs in it, they have a vision regardless.

Even in Lagos today, touts and dregs of society are gainfully emplyed as tax collectors, NURTW toll collectors etc. This is a model borne out of necessity to curb the area boy problem and has ramifications on security.

Fashola condemns Jonathan’s comments

By Okechukwu Nnodim

February 10, 2011 07:51AM


Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, expressed disappointment with the statements credited to President Goodluck Jonathan during the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign in Ibadan, Oyo State. Mr Jonathan had reportedly said: “We (PDP) must take over all the States in the Southwest. The zone is too important to be left in the hands of rascals.”

Describing Mr Jonathan’s statements as one that is not worth coming from a president, Mr Fashola, speaking to journalists at the presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, said that leaders seeking elective offices in Nigeria should refrain from using words that are offensive. “The office of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a very high office and I don’t think that the kind of language coming from the PDP presidential candidate is presidential,” he said. “But Lagosians will have to make the determination for we are beginning to see clearly the pattern of the candidacy of the PDP candidate who seeks to lead this country to poverty, inefficiency and to insecurity.”

“But having said that, I think that I have asked myself whether the president is more concerned about who is governor of Lagos or becoming president. I think that if the PDP wants to swap candidates for the governorship of Lagos I will be ready to face him, because his candidate is not talking about what he wants to do in Lagos. And I will leave our own presidential candidate, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to respond to the president on issues that are genuine to Nigerians; why the federal roads in Lagos have not been fixed, why Lagosians do not have electricity, why Lagosians have to pay all the cost of their own security in spite of the enormous votes every year by the federal government on security,” added the governor.

The PDP versus the ACN

Explaining that elections are meant to be won by men of integrity, Mr Fashola urged Nigerians not to vote based on sentiments, adding that he made to the office of the governor based on upright manifestos of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). “Elections cannot be won by resulting to derogatory language, by claiming luck,” he said. “Elections require those who seek elective office to focus on the people over whom they plan to exercise authority and to communicate to them in a very clear and practical manner how you intend to improve their lot. Look, I think that the PDP led federal government has a lot of questions to answer in Lagos and it is interesting that these remarks are being made from outside Lagos. So I hope that when they come here, they will be able to call us rascals again; and if we are rascals, it means that some of the other governors he has been presiding over is a republic of rascals.”

Comparing the achievements of the ACN with those of the PDP in the state, the governor said that the later failed in the delivery of the dividends of democracy. “They spent ten years trying to build a 400m bridge in Otta; and on the day that they finally came to open that bridge, instead of apologizing to Lagosians, they were fighting themselves about who was to cut the tape,” he said. “Meanwhile the road that leads to the bridge is not finished. We built Okota link bridge in 18months and it is longer than that bridge over which they were fighting. So that is what we expect them to come and talk about. Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonshoki Expressway is their road and it is pothole ridden, the road to the biggest airport in this country. This is a national embarrassment.”

Ribadu reacts

Also reacting to the Mr Jonathan’s comments, the Nuhu Ribadu Campaign Organisation described the statements as “unbecoming of a president” and “one that smacks of desperation.” In a statement signed by Ibrahim Modibbo, the Director of Media and Communications, the organisation said that Mr Jonathan had “finally shown Nigerians how desperate he is to remain in power by resorting to name calling and character assassination instead of addressing issues that bother on the welfare of Nigerians and the people of the south west in particular.”

“We recognise the president’s dilemma,” the statement said. “Of course he knows that both he and his fellow PDP governors in the south west have no achievements to brandish. They have no alternative to proffer to the positive changes being witnessed by the people in Lagos, Ekiti and Osun. It is however unbecoming of the president that in his frustration at the failure of him and his party to provide good governance to the people of the region and all Nigerians, he would resort to name calling.”

Meldrick:


So the best way to solve the area boy problem is to legitimaize their rascality. You mean empowering them to intimidate innocent citizens is gainful employment. I really don't know whether you had come to Lagos during Marwa's tenure. You will understand that your have no excuses or defense for thuggery.

oludashmi:

And how does a tax collector or NURTW toll collector intimidate citizens? Do they harrass you with guns like your police?

You talk about Marwa's tenure but thank God many of us were not brought to Lagos like you, you would have given us baseless stories.

Let me school you a bit . . .
Marwa was a military man
He used his power like a soldier
He did well in terms or roads, security and a few infrastructure and Lagosians loved him for that
He was unable to cub the touty thing cos as soldiers arrested agberos, they released them within few hrs and they would be back to their bus stops
Oshodi, Mushin and Lagos environs remained what they used to be even as Tinubu took over
Fashola came without a gun but a vision not to keep arresting the pple but to get them engaged
Fashola would not arrest touts for in-habiting a particular place but will suddenly beautify the place with flowers or construct a road network and touts will disperse as development came closer

Marwa used military power also known as force but Fashola used diplomacy
Yar'Adua was able to calm the militants cos he used diplomacy and not force.

Dont compare Fashola and Marwa together, they are two different species of leaderhood and achievements.

Pafuri:

May the "RASCALS" win the April elections.

Tippy Top:

@oludashmi
We should never justify "hoodlums" or their behaviours? I hope you never get on the wrong side of these thugs (dressed as lamb when they're actually muttons).

POTUT:

, the SW zone is too important to be left in the hands of rascals.

Those interpreting the above to mean an affront on Fashola are guilty of prejudice against the President. Is it far from your minds to discern that there are rascals on both sides of the divide (PDP and ACN)?

To push a political party through a democratic process in an undemocratic way is rascally. ACN is completely guilty of this and Fashola will now be running with a new mate against his will, among many other impositions time and space cannot contain on this forum.

To turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the malgovernance of Ogun and Oyo states by Daniel and Akala is also rascally by the leadership of the PDP.

GEJ simply made an innocent statement from his politically naive mind to a prejudiced public.

Mind you, political naivety is exactly the equivalent of innocence.