POTUT:

Mind you, political naivety is exactly the equivalent of innocence. Fashola should admit that he is a vine among thorns, only his personal political will has set him apart from the dictators on his street. I hope they don't come back to twist his arms beyond his measure in the next four years. (Lekki toll awaits him.)

debosky:

No - he exhibited rank stupidity by dealing with personalities and ignoring performance. It is this idiotic, sycophantic worship of individuals that personifies the PDP - no one cares what you’ve achieved, but once you have power, you become everyone’s favourite.

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.”

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Politics/5675872-146/story.csp

Who told you Fashola’s running mate is against his will or are you now an ACN spokesperson?

It is not GEJ’s place to be commenting on the internal workings of another political party - focus on the ISSUES and the good governance you are going to bring.

Fashola was regarded as an ‘imposed’ candidate when he emerged, but his PERFORMANCE trumps everything else - this is what GEJ should be focusing on. How have his so called non rascals PERFORMED?

! GEJ released someone arrested for murder in his desperation to win the PDP primaries and released billions of funds on 31st December ostensibly for the same aim and we are supposed to believe he is innocent?

He is clearly naïve, silly and beginning to believe the sycophantic messages of those around him, but that can NEVER be mistaken for innocence.

Superbrain:

@ Debosky, spot on bro. Couldn't have said it any better.

GEJ is a rascal. He stood beside rascals and accused the best governors of the federation of being rascals. I leave the following comparisons below,

1. Who is the rascal? Dr. Mimiko who has revolutionalized health care delivery in Ondo State, with commendations from the World Bank and EU, or Agagu, who condoned the illegal practices of the dethroned Deji and instead of attending to the needs of his people, spent more time seeking favouritism from Obj?

2. Gov Fashola, who withstood the PDP thuggrey led by Obanikoro and has succeded in transforming Lagos state to the delight of Lagosians and foreigners?

3. Gov Rauf Who against all the evil machinations of the PDP stood for justice and has embarked on a radical development campaign for education in his state?

To those clamouring for GEJ and his cohorts, what do you have to say about this and your president's response?

1. The October 1st bomb blast?
2. The recent spate of killings in Plateau State-(the dumb Jang is talking about security and development as if he has achieved any of that during his tenure)
3. The recent voters exercise where schools were forced not to reopen but the President's children resumed school on the first day of the exercise?
4. The recent murder of the ANPP gubernatorial aspirant in Borno state- an obvious political assassination.
5. And the list is endless,

Please wake up. I am from the South South but I am accountable to my children and generations to come for decisions I make today. PDP is a failure.

And please Gov. Fashola has the right to lash back at a President that refused to respect his own office when he made that statement. I bet you, GEJ will avoid Lagos because if he shows up, he might get he least expects (we just might be having another shoe-thrower).

To hell with Mr. President and his party.

Superbrain:

@ Debosky, spot on bro. Couldn't have said it any better.

GEJ is a rascal. He stood beside rascals and accused the best governors of the federation of being rascals. I leave the following comparisons below,

1. Who is the rascal? Dr. Mimiko who has revolutionalized health care delivery in Ondo State, with commendations from the World Bank and EU, or Agagu, who condoned the illegal practices of the dethroned Deji and instead of attending to the needs of his people, spent more time seeking favouritism from Obj?

2. Gov Fashola, who withstood the PDP thuggrey led by Obanikoro and has succeded in transforming Lagos state to the delight of Lagosians and foreigners?
GBAM!!!!

3. Gov Rauf Who against all the evil machinations of the PDP stood for justice and has embarked on a radical development campaign for education in his state?

To those clamouring for GEJ and his cohorts, what do you have to say about this and your president's response?

1. The October 1st bomb blast?
2. The recent spate of killings in Plateau State-(the dumb Jang is talking about security and development as if he has achieved any of that during his tenure)
3. The recent voters exercise where schools were forced not to reopen but the President's children resumed school on the first day of the exercise?
4. The recent murder of the ANPP gubernatorial aspirant in Borno state- an obvious political assassination.
5. And the list is endless,

Please wake up. I am from the South South but I am accountable to my children and generations to come for decisions I make today. PDP is a failure.

And please Gov. Fashola has the right to lash back at a President that refused to respect his own office when he made that statement. I bet you, GEJ will avoid Lagos because if he shows up, he might get he least expects (we just might be having another shoe-thrower).

To hell with Mr. President and his party.

POTUT:

GEJ stands for democracy and its tenets. ACN doesn't. It stands for autocracy and believes it has the right to appoint the people's leaders.

And your Bank handled the transactions? Do you have proof? Aren't there ACN Senators who know this too? Can't they raise the probe?

The point is that Fashola is still a vine among thorns. If you think your president is silly, then you truly have no hope.

Pretty huge manliness (PhD) holder

Tippy Top:

This is a chance for most of you berating GEJ to know the meaning of "Rascal"

Rascal (noun)
"a mischievous or cheeky person, especially a child or man
(typically used in an affectionate way)."

GEJ used it in the above context unless Nairalanders have their own dictionary.

P.S
For those who can't afford a dictionary, there's a free online dictionary   here.

Kobojunkie:

^^^^ In Nigeria? Rascal is a term of endearment?? Even ordinary hand gesture, "waka", could get you killed in Nigeria and you are here trying to tell us that calling a person a RASCAL in Nigeria is a term of enderment??

[size=15pt]ROFLMAO!!![/size]

jason123:

LOL. Do you know what people call "context" or "implicit messages" . Na wa oo for Naija

Tippy Top:

This is a chance for most of you berating GEJ to know the meaning of "Rascal"

Rascal (noun)
"a mischievous or cheeky person, especially a child or man
(typically used in an affectionate way)."

GEJ used it in the above context unless Nairalanders have their own dictionary.

P.S
For those who can't afford a dictionary, there's a free online dictionary   here.

Tippy Top:

This is a chance for most of you berating GEJ to know the meaning of "Rascal"

Rascal (noun)
"a mischievous or cheeky person, especially a child or man
(typically used in an affectionate way)."

GEJ used it in the above context unless Nairalanders have their own dictionary.

P.S
For those who can't afford a dictionary, there's a free online dictionary   here.

Hamid O:

Rascal - dishonest person: somebody, especially a man, who is dishonest or otherwise unethical
Microsoft® Encarta® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

That is another definition for you. Only GEJ can tell you the context in which he used the word.  GEJ is a slowpoke simple.

bk.babe97y:


For some reason I thot u was being sarcastic, then I read Kobo's retort, then I went to your profile to read your last posts . . . . . .

Then I determined that youre just another Idi*iot wasting bandwidth in cyberspace. . . . . . .

Tippy Top:

No I don't, please tell me.

Tippy Top:

Go back to your nut house "oya" "quick quick" "chop chop".
Who let the "DOGS" out, whoo whoo whoo whoo whooo.
As kobo would say ROFLMAO!!!

President Goodluck Jonathan has stressed the critical nature of the South-West to his administration, saying that the zone will not be left to[b] “rascals” to rule.[/b]
Specifically, the President noted that Lagos State, being the commercial and industrial hub of the country, must be governed by the PDP.
Jonathan spoke on Tuesday in Ibadan, Oyo State during the commencement of his presidential campaign in the South-West.
The President said the party’s machinery would be legally deployed to ensure that the PDP governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr. Ade Dosumu, emerged victorious in April.
According to him, PDP leaders “will not sleep” until power was wrested from the Action Congress of Nigeria in Lagos State.
He said, “South-West is the most important zone in Nigeria. It is the most cosmopolitan zone where all Nigerians come. It is a mini Nigeria and it is very unique.
“Major commercial activities take place in Lagos and its adjoining states. We are happy that we have a strong support base here. All we can promise the people of the South-West is transparent and good governance.
“We (PDP) must take over all the states in the South-West. The zone is too important to be left in the hands of rascals. We shall take over Lagos, Ekiti, Osun and Ondo states.
“It is true that we have our challenges in the zone, but we are on top of them all. We shall resolve our differences in our own way.”

Jonathan didn’t call ACN govs rascals- Presidency
News Feb 10, 2011
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By DANIEL IDONOR
THE Presidency yesterday distanced President Goodluck Jonathan from suggestions that he called names when he said that the “the south west is too important to be left in the hands of rascals.”

Fielding questions from State House Correspondents, Presidential Spokesman, Mr Ima Niboro, stated that “at no time did the President ascribed the rascal he mentioned to anyone”.

However, he added that while the President did not refer to anyone specifically as a rascal, whoever that would wants to appropriate the name of a rascal to himself is welcome.

He said: “Please note that the president didn’t call any names when he said the south west is too important to be left in the hands of rascals”.

According to him, “so any one who wants to appropriate the name to himself is welcome to do so”.

President Jonathan had on Tuesday while flagging-off his presidential campaign in the South-West geo-political zone, in Ibadan, declared that the south West is too educated to be left in the hands of rascals to lead come April 2011, insisting that the people must vote for credible leaders in the next election.

Tippy Top:

Am sorry but I can only quote the dictionary definition. As far as I know there's no "Nigerian Dictionary". For sake of debate lets use standard dictionary as a reference point. My turn to [size=15pt]ROFLMAO!!![/size]