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Our campaign is not about noise making on Nairaland. Ours is a well structured campaign that is anchored on strategic thinking.

We know Nigerians with voters cards and we know those other Nigerians in Siberia -- they will never vote because they can't come home but they are very loud noise makers.We will not waste our time on these set of Nigerians.

We know those Nigerians whose ideology you can't place a finger on, unfortunately they are educated they know what is good for them but cant go for it. The good news is these set of people are in the minority-- we will keep working on them.

We have identified those Nigerians who do not know who a Ribadu is, but can identify a broom any time they see one-- they will be going to the polling booth to vote the broom.

We know those Nigerians who will always DO THE RIGHT THING even in the face of misguided opposition.They are on every land,every village square,every space and their[b] books[/b] keep faces of like minded people.They are the market women who will only look out for the broom because they know that will sweep away their sorrows and fears of the past. They will never argue unneccesarily because they know how to achieve their set targets and their mind are set at it.These are the Ribadu people .

We will continue to persuade those Nigerians who have not bought into vision of a Ribadu Presidency until such a time when we can all come together to make our country better.

Meanwhile, all Ribadu supporters should please visit the site below to send at least 5 absolutely free sms to friends and colleagues.http://www.thetimeisnownigeria.com/campaigns/sms_message/new

moshoodn:

I think i like the Ribadu fans, esp Gbawe. . .
They seem to be nice, cool, calm and collected and intellectuals.
Together we the BB fans and you guys, we'll joust PDP outta power.

From the above discussion:

Ribadu fans = Moet and Chandon

BB fans = Baron de Valls

GEJ fans = pami/burukutu

doja:

Our campaign is not about noise making on Nairaland. Ours is a well structured campaign that is anchored on strategic thinking.

Pure and simple really. Nothing more needs to be said.

Want to know about the campaign? Then visit http://actioncongressnigeria.org/

That is all.

Ribadu or no Ribadu, the change is here, after Buhari is sworn in, Ribadu is surely going to be part of the new government, after we are able to reduce corruption to the bearest minimum, the likes of Fashola, Ribadu e.t.c can set in to continue with development where BB team stops.

Simples.

Now wouldnt it be so funny if Ribadu wins?

Ribadu  neck be like i go die neck. what is the assurance that if Ribadu is voted as President, he not abandon the Nation  if we are faced with a treat. Run away  Ribarun!

Lagosboy:

Buddie, I have heard Ribadu give this explanation numerous times , the truth is Ribadu chose the short cut to success which is bound to fail. Ribadu for all he stood for should have started a movement come political party and see how millions of youths and Nigerians would have trooped out for him. Tunde Bkare mentioned how they all tried to form one party ever before Buhari candidcay was even talked about , Ribadu was part of it and had the opportunity but he chose to go with ACN.

Man mi , I totally missed this as an ode to your double standards and that of many BB fans . I hope you are familiar with the adage "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to decieve" . You are certainly guilty of it. If you contend that

Ribadu for all he stood for should have started a movement come political party and see how millions of youths and Nigerians would have trooped out for him.

 Why should the above not apply to Bakare? Afterall it would seem a natural progression , for a pious Pastor,  coming off the back of Bakare's SNG exploits, for Buhari's current running mate to have "started a movement" of his own rather than join a man he has lampooned as part of the problem of Nigeria in the past. You folks regularly accuse Ribadu of inconsistency when that word is undoubtedly the middle name of Pastor Bakare !!!! Yet Buhari still chose him !!!  Does that not show you that Buhari too has to play politics to gain a chance to vanquish those who have kept Nigeria hostage ?

Please tell us why the man (Bakare) who went around trying to get the good guys together (Ribadu, Duke, El-Rufai, Okonjo Iweala, et al) could not go it alone when many chose to ignore his effort.  The fact that you do not condemn Bakare for choosing to run alongside Buhari under the CPC banner , rather than "start his own movement" , shows that double standards is at play when you wish to infer that Ribadu should remain damned for running under the platform of the ACN.

Seriously comparing Bakare to Ribadu?? ROFLMAO!!!

Just stay in your siberia and continue to dream on!

Last week in my ward,the oldman did not get even a single 'vote',yet you continue to delude yourself about his possible '25%' in Lagos!!

the fact that the two moderators of the political section of nairaland (Jarus and Aisha2) dubiously use the forum to promote BB and yet 'moderate' the views of those of us not in their camp is an indication that the artificial popularity BB enjoys on nairaland is a farce,a bubble and come April 16,the bubble go burst.
Remember,you can not build anything on nothing.

Now to those of you in siberia,the BB thing is ,I repeat,on my honour,very very low in popularity in the whole south!!People dont know the man's party,symbol and no notable political achiever of southern extraction  is promoting his candidature,yet,the political scammers promoting BB on nairaland dont consider that a serious defect,they think it is as much noise you can make on nairaland that will translate to vote.
I laugh at the ignorance of this people,BB has lost the election before it even started by thinking that his popularity in the north will translate to political acceptance in the south!!Whereas a Ribadu party has successfully penetrated and spread his acceptance all over the country!!This is the Ribadu joker!!Everybody knows and identify the broom symbol yet most people hardly recollect the oldman's party symbol and name in the south.
Now to the final verdict,that BB has failed so far to penetrate the south is Ribadu's gain!!!
That the progressives and the intelligentsia are queueing behind Ribadu further provides a swing vote of mostly the undecided in Ribadu's favour!!
That the BB campaign enjoys no single sentiment of attachment in the south and could not snatch any major endorsement from Ribadu's stronghold while pdp ,Ribadu and Shekerau quietly nibble at the northern votes BB is banking on is the game changer!!

I am making this clarification because it is too late for BB as the SW has spoken,it is RIBADU,even Mimiko could not campaign against Ribadu in ondo in order not to get any political backlash!!

Stay in siberia and continue to spew political theory while ACN continue to win new converts all around the country!!

Contonue to think,people are going to split votes,it only exists in your 'absent'mind as realities on ground is very very different from what is on ground!

Ribadu is a sure banker,anyday anytime.Even when they brought El-Rufai into their campaign,nothing changed.

^^^

Which election are you talking about? presidential election comes up on the 16th, so which one took place last week that the "oldman" didn't get any vote from?

Into hidden they have gone after bakare told them that the rot on ground is too huge for their broom,CPC have invented a vaccum cleaner.

Even tinubu and ribadu go pee for Pant if dem see that crowd on a working day in lagos, nt paid or rented as in their case.

Tinubu has his hands full wit Labour party, crack in ACN in lagos where he is busy imposing his wife, inlaw and cronies on the people of lagos state.

There is fire on the mountain, Ribadus case cant get attention 4nw.

Corrupt Tinubu is afraid cos he knows he cant escape jail under a corrupt free CPC govt.

Sit ur lazy ass behind ur screen preching a dead sermon.

Buhari bakare 2011.

IN NAIRALAND,IF ELCETION IS DONE TODAY,BB WILL WIN,WHY NOT

JARUS=MAURICE IWU

AISHA2= MADAM AYOKA ADEBAYO(DISGRACED IDO OSI/EKITI -WONDER REC)

ti iro ba lo l'ogun odun,otito a ba lojo kan!Continue to bask in perfidy being promoted by the two hatchmen of Jarus and Aisha2

@ seal777,tinubu is corrupt because he opposed three greatest dictators of our time
1.ABACHA
2.OBASANJO
3.BUHARI

While a single mortal like Tinubu singlehandedly mobilised the majority of the highly sophisticated yoruba race into a political party,you sold your own conscience to the devil's plan to railroad the yoruba into another dictator's aganda,you are on your own oh!I beleif,like all Tinubu's detractors,you will be punished by GOd as well in due time.(check out your ilk like bode george,gbanga daniel,akinfenwa,obasanjo,bucknor,pedro,gbajabiamila etc.)

The new edition of the best seller excerpts written by AUTHEBURCKLEY, expanded by ABDULMALIK LARRY KRAUS ZUBEIRU is out jus now, it has sold more than 1000000000000000000000000 copies, but for our teeming supporters of good conscience and some urchins (leftists) this copy is free of charge* no tax,

" added 31 REASONS WHY BUHARI DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR VOTE

In my books, Buhari is a pretentious anti-corruption fighter. The trajectory of a man's journey in public life matters. For the following reasons I cannot vote for Buhari:

1. He is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara and dollars to be put under house arrest is my evidence. He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers who's land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.

1(a) Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after.

1 (b) Prof. Ambrose Alli also became blind as a result of this false imprisonment. When he died, he had only one undeveloped plot of land to his name.

1© Pa Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life. Whe he died, he never had any property anywhere in the world except the one he had built from his sweat as long term teacher and school principal in Owo township.

2. He put in place a retroactive law that killed three men, innocent men in my book, by public execution.

3. He jailed Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian on stories that were factually true under Decree 4. He had told the Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not, if his regime did not like it, the writer would go to jail.

4. He supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash through the MMA against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku, the then Director General of the Customs who later became the Vice President and a compromised politician himself. This smuggling of the suit cases was supervised by his ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo.

5. He jailed Fela Anikulapo -Kuti on trumped up charges under an emergency law which prompted the sentencing judge to confess that he was ordered to do so and apologised to the late musician. It was Buhari's administration that said it has "decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all."

6. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of a Northern population majority

7. He is an Islamic fundamentalist, the Bin Laden of Nigeria, who told his northern followers never to vote for anyone who was not a muslim.

8. He is a coup plotter.

9. He has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the Petroleum Trust Fund of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha.
9(a) He has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the Northern Nigeria with the so-caled trust fund.

10. He was in full support of all the atrocities of Sani Abacha against the Nigerian people. There is no single record of his criticism of Sani Abacha during those dark days when Nigeria was on precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such unfit to lead the country.

11. Buhari, as part of his tribalistic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatial mansion in Ikoyi while he locked up Shagari's Vice, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison. Shagari is Hausa/Fulani like him while Alex Ekwueme is an Igboman.

12. Ikemba Emeka Ojukwu, another Igboman who returned from 13years exile just a little over a year then was as well locked up in KiriKiri Prison by mean-hearted Buhari.Up till today we are not told what was Emeka's offence.

13. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him to be taken out of prison for immediate medical attention.The then Governor of Ogun State,Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely death.

14. Buhari ransacked the house of our late sage, Obafemi Awolowo and confisticated his International passport. Which civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Buhari as President,the same individual who overthrew an elected President? Never!

15. Plus Buhari having Sam Mbakwe in jail, went for one of Mbakwe's wives. He established himself again for what he was/is letting Mbakwe receive in jailhouse news of the death of another of Mbakwe's two wives. One (I can't remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail.

16. Buhari's henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State, is Mohammed Abacha, the same person that had/ran a personal killing squad, coordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola & attempted to kill Ibru; and also stashed money in underground tanks, all less than 13 years ago, Nigerians have very short selective memory. Shame

?17. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups/faiths; and that as PTF Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/Moslem people at the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the Nort, h. If in doubt read El Rufai's testimony where he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll Yar'Adua's election in 1999.

18. Buhari is unforgiving. When he "took over" by coup in 1983, he even remembered an article written a very very long time ago by Bisi Onabanjo ('The Mallams are coming') and a later one in which Onabanjo wrote that people should watch out for that "gangly officer from the north" after Buhari gave a no holds barred speech at some Army functions where he was reported to be very openly pro Fulani and pro Islam to the exclusive of all else and also talked about termination of democratic rule. For that, Onabanjo got one of the harshest jail terms and treatments.

19. Buhari intolerance is worse than Obasanjo's. When he was adopted as the ANPP's candidate on the night of the party's Primaries without prior warning to the other candidates (and a few of them protested), Buhari got up and made a speech that those people must be disciplined. I subsequently saw him on BBC's "hard talk" and he frightened me and the interviewer with his archaic and fundamentalist intolerant views. His understanding and articulation is very much in doubt.

20. The evil genius, IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha's demise, Buhari said that Abacha stole nothing from Nigeria! Despite millions of Dollars recovered from banks around the world and the Abacha family signing a formal agreement to return over $1 billion dollars, Buhari still said that Abacha's stealing remains an unproved allegation!!!! Why? Because Abacha set Buhari up like an emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions.

21. Buhari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Despite the fact that Buhari knew how inportant reconciliation is to the stability of democracy. Buhari has never apologised at anytime.

22. Buhari executed Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26). To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. and At the time Ogedengbe committed the crime it did not carry that punishment. If we must live as civilised citizens we must go by the rules. Article 11.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission WHICH DID NOT CONSTITUTE A PENAL OFFENCE, under national or international law at the time when it was committed. NOR SHALL A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT BE IMPOSED THAN THE ONE THAT WAS APPLICABLE AT THE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Killing people with retroactive laws is not the civilised thing to do - and for as long as we will have people who refuse to see the truth only because their heroes are inching to rule when they have not purged themselves we will continue to wallow in misery.
23. Let’s informed Buhari that Lateef Jakande’s $60 million metro rail project for Lagos, which he cancelled immediately after he over-threw the Second Republic, has now accumulated a debt profile of over $3 billion for Lagos State, making the state the most indebted state to Paris Club in the federation.
24 let also remind Buhari that Gbolahan Mudashiru, his Military Administrator for Lagos State, alerted him on the clause in the contract agreement that would yoke the state to this debt, if the contract was cancelled unilaterally, and that he replied Mudashiru, that he didn’t care a damn.Though the fund for the execution of that project which would have given the people of Lagos an intra-city light train transport system would not have come from Buhari’s Supreme Military Council, General Buhari, as Military Head of State, cancelled this wonderful project of the state government, with ethnicity on his mind.
25. Let us again tell him that his action of jailing Dr Alex Ekwueme, then Nigeria’s vice president, from Anambra, and keeping President Shehu Shagari, from Sokoto State in a house arrest in Ikoyi was also ethnically fired.
26. So also was the shorter end of the stick he handed the South, as chair of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), in the execution of projects.
27. Shagari’s regime (1979-1983), incurred Buhari’s wrath when it decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that disappeared from the Midland Bank, London account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, (NNPC), during General Obasanjo’s era as military head of state that preceded Shagari’s. Dr. Olusola Saraki, Turaki of Ilorin, was the majority party leader of the Senate at the time and he headed the Senate Committee set up to trace the stolen money after some three years of clamour for such an investigation by members of the civil society. The money was traced to the Midland Bank London branch fixed account of Buhari, Obasanjo’s appointee as military head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The Committee’s report was presented to the Senate during the tail end of Shagari’s regime in 1983, so the House decided to deal with the matter soon after the 1983 general elections.
28. He locked up without trial, politicians and critics including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue. Vera Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked through his prodding as military ruler, for reporting what Dr. Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was traced to Buhari’s account at a Midland Bank London branch. Vera eventually won her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and was financially compensated.
29. Abacha rehabilitated Buhari with the chairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) before he (Abacha) died in 1998. When Obasanjo returned to power in May 1999 as civilian president, he found that over 2.5 billion naira had not been properly accounted for in the PTF and that there was not much on the ground to show for the colossal expenditure the agency was claiming. On the day Obasanjo announced the scrapping of the PTF, a non-staff brother-in-law of the boss, allegedly serving as his conduit on some PTF projects, died suddenly from what appeared to be heart failure.
30. Buhari’s conflicting statements on the money laundering charges involving his ADC in 1984 on the 53 suit cases saga, has indicted him.
31. He should reveal to us his health status… Buhari at 69 yr old is a clear liability on Nigeria and Nigerians is Nigeria a health insurance scheme?




If Nigerians reward dangerous, insensitive, dishonest, mean, cruel, partial, egoistic, religious, fundamendalist, conscienceless human beings like MOHAMMADU BUHARI with the presidency of Nigeria with his kind of track record, then why do we still wonder why Nigeria has not and will not make it?

I can not in good conscience support Buhari's candidacy on the above grounds. I wish we have intelligent people who know what democracy means. I wish we have civilized minds. However, I am 100 percent sure that Buhari will never again rule Nigeria.
It is clear that apart from the states of the North-West and North-East, his Congress for Political Change (CPC) would hardly earn 25 per cent of the total number of votes cast in the remaining states of the federation. By implication, two zones just cannot earn Buhari the presidency he is looking for, no matter their voting strength.

like all Tinubu's detractors,you will be punished by GOd as well in due time

i beg no dull hand for here.
so tinubu is now GODS SON.

Oh!, Tinubu knows God and he is busy imposing candidates against the wish of lagosian, other parties are conducting primaries, ACN is nt.
Tinubu has started in lagos with his wife,inlaw and friends yl Osoba has started wit his son, is this what awolowo and southwest politics stood for?.
What is d difference btw obasanjo and tinubu?.
OBASANJO=TINUBU.

now you want to put tinubu in ur association of anti-democratic elements.Even when most of ur mentors were jumping ship to pdp or keeping quiet while pdp defiled nigeria,only TINUBU STOOD STILL,WE WILL VOTE THE PEOPLE WE KNOW THEIR ANTECEDENTS,if u like change ur name from pdp to labour in lagos,they will be rejected with their paymasters.


As far as Nairaland is concerned,BB is winning .Why not?


JARUS=MAURICE IWU

AISHA2= MADAM AYOKA ADEBAYO(DISGRACED IDO OSI/EKITI -WONDER REC)

Yes Ribadu is finished politically (except as a jobber). Buhari is leading the last charge of the clueless generals that led Nigeria into her current mess.
It is highly instructive that neither Ribadu nor Buhari can even articulate the reason they are running for president. We really don't need such.

After 2011, its the bin for the sort of strange politics the likes of Buhari practices; such as holding campaign rallies almost exclusively in the North and not making any attempts to woo the South. Unsurprisingly, all members of Yar Adua's cabal (from Turai to Aliero, Kurfi, Ruma etc) have found shelter in Buhari's party.
Sectional politics along with the ethnically bigoted politics of zoning must be buried for Nigeria to progress.

gej that is floating,infact,it is his badluck that made the two zones with the highest number of registered voters are opposing him.
abeg serious people should vote ribadu

what can he do when been allowed to rule this nation where because he will not be granted much free hand, has he did while EFCC chairman

This election is between GEJ and Buhari. Very sure Buhari all the way,  Ribadu should sit down for now.

doctorT:

This election is between GEJ and Buhari. Very sure Buhari all the way,  Ribadu should sit down for now.

i dont think Ribadu has what it takes to govern Nigeria.He is a bit inconsistent.

Gbenge 77:

i dont think Ribadu has what it takes to govern Nigeria.He is a bit inconsistent.

And Yar Adua did? "Underwhelming" Jonathan does? You guys should wake up and understand that we can all sieze the day instead of surrounding the office of President and other positions of authority with mythical pontifications that do not exist[b] if we are to go by the calibre of men who have actually become Nigerian Presidents, Senate presidents, Ministers , etc[/b].

Yar Adua, GEJ, Shagari and OBJ are all men with less passion and less goodwill than Ribadu IMO. If they all made it to our number 1 job then one has to wonder if folks like you are talking about Nigeria when you classify Ribadu as not fit to be President . Non-Nigerians must look at us as if we are mad !!! We had a paranoid recluse who was [b]chronically ill [/b]leading us yet that is somehow better than imagining Ribadu as President? Mediocre GEJ also made it to our number 1 job. Most ridiculously , a dull school teacher (Shagari) 'defeated' one of the most natural and visionary leader Africa has known (Awolowo) to become President yet , according to your logic, we are to believe that it is men of great qualities and "consistency" who have occupied the seat Ribadu now vies for ? I bow for Nigerian logic . It is simply the best.

seal777:

Into hidden they have gone after bakare told them that the rot on ground is too huge for their broom,CPC have invented a vaccum cleaner.
Even tinubu and ribadu go pee for Pant if dem see that crowd on a working day in lagos, nt paid or rented as in their case.

Tinubu has his hands full wit Labour party, crack in ACN in lagos where he is busy imposing his wife, inlaw and cronies on the people of lagos state.

There is fire on the mountain, Ribadus case cant get attention 4nw.

Corrupt Tinubu is afraid cos he knows he cant escape jail under a corrupt free CPC govt.

Sit your lazy backside behind your screen preching a dead sermon.

Buhari bakare 2011.

Because Ribadu fans are not of the loud braggarts variety? You think everyone likes to shout ignorantly like Bakare and fight the entire world to a standstill without understanding that , after all is said and done, one still needs other human beings to secure progress ? Like I said before, after Buhari leaves the stage , as the last of the old boys some of you have romanticised and deified[b] excessively [/b] , folks like you will have no choice but to look at the new generation who will be front runners to lead Nigeria . It will be interesting to see what you will all be saying then when we stand Ribadu alongside GEJ, Fashola, Duke, El Rufai, Ameachi et al. Very easy to tout Buhari and Bakare(who has never had a public job) as saints without a realistic appreciation of what Nigeria is today in comparison to when Buhari last had a public job. Nigeria is far more corrupt , more complicated and way more complex today than when Buhari held sway. None of the guys we all praise , as performers , like Fashola, Ameachi et al are operating without some degree of obeisance to corruption . Corruption is now so intrinsically ingrained into every aspect of our society to the extent that some Nigerians will pass out if folks like Fashola tell you what they have to do to deliver as they are doing currently .

Some of you should understand what Ribadu achieved in a democracy and without the power to arbitrarily lock folks up whenever he fancied . In the context of the modern world , with technological challenges and advancement that make things far more daunting than in less complicated times , Ribadu's achievements are spectacular and this is why the entire world rates him highly . By all means praise your candidate but lets not jettison commonsense and logic to the extent we start insulting those who have delivered for Nigeria[b] recently[/b]. In Buhari's time , he was simply able to jail corruption without any arguement . In Ribadu's time , corruption was allowed to fight back Ibori-style. Ribadu therefore needed more skills and tact to operate successfully since he was not a head of State who can simply lock folks up and throw away the keys.

Bakare , if at all gracious, should not be going around insulting folks who have risked life and limb for Nigeria while he was preaching to his meek congregation. He chose the church Ribadu chose to tackle murderers and killers. In sane societies Bakare would certainly not be encouraged to talk as he does because he is a big fat zero as far as politics and public administration goes . He cannot be compared to Ribadu who , in reality, is a battle-scarred administrator who has been there and gotten the T-shirt to world acclaim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuhu_Ribadu

Ribadu’s achievements in the EFCC included the de-listing of Nigeria from the FATF List of Non-Cooperative Countries & Territories, admission into the prestigious Egmont Group and the withdrawal of the US Treasury FINCEN Advisory on Nigeria. They helped make the EFCC the foremost Anti-Corruption Enforcement Agency on the continent, cementing Ribadu's reputation in the world as a respected anti-corruption crusader.

Beaf:

Yes Ribadu is finished politically (except as a jobber). Buhari is leading the last charge of the clueless generals that led Nigeria into her current mess.
It is highly instructive that neither Ribadu nor Buhari can even articulate the reason they are running for president. We really don't need such.

After 2011, its the bin for the sort of strange politics the likes of Buhari practices; such as holding campaign rallies almost exclusively in the North and not making any attempts to woo the South. Unsurprisingly, all members of Yar Adua's cabal (from Turai to Aliero, Kurfi, Ruma etc) have found shelter in Buhari's party.
Sectional politics along with the ethnically bigoted politics of zoning must be buried for Nigeria to progress.

@Beaf, I support the bolded part in your post. To ensure this, we must vote out the party that practices this bigoted politics of zoning - PDP!
As you remember, the Chairman of the BOT, the veritable OBJ, just confirmed that zoning is here to stay in PDP, even long after he is dead. Giving that OBJ is the main backer of GEJ, does that mean that you despise what GEJ is supporting?

Gbawe:

Some of you should understand what Ribadu achieved in a democracy and without the power to arbitrarily lock folks up whenever he fancied . [/b]In the context of the modern world, with technological challenges and advancement that make things far more daunting than in less complicated times , Ribadu's achievements are spectacular and this is why the entire world rates him highly . By all means praise your candidate but lets not jettison commonsense and logic to the extent we start insulting those who have delivered for Nigeria[b] recently. In Buhari's time , he was simply able to jail corruption without any arguement . In Ribadu's time , corruption was allowed to fight back Ibori-style. Ribadu therefore needed more skills and tact to operate successfully since he was not a head of State who can simply lock folks up and throw away the keys.

@Gbawe, the bolded part of your posts is stretching it a little too far. Ribadu knowing he had the backing of OBJ, did to an extent arbitrarily lock up folks whenever that would help him achieve what he wanted. Let me remind you of the Plateau, Rivers and Bayelsa house of Assembly members, plus the storming of Adenuga's residence.

Indeed the world rated him high and fancied him a lot, when he was diligent at doing the main EFCC work. Upon using that diligence to build up his stock, he however dabbled and muddied himself up in the politics of the times and allowed himself to be used by OBJ. The US govt did in fact reduce their funding of the EFCC at some point and did request for clarifications from him, when the noise about him being used was getting too loud.
Corruption was allowed to fight back against Ribadu, when he started soiling his hands and therefore created the opening to enable folks ridicule or hold him to ransom. A case in point, for all of what Ribadu portrayed about Odili, and kept on saying the court gave a restraining order; it is on record that EFCC under his watch did not even try to appeal that judgement, as it was just convenient to hide under such. A closer scrutiny of that particular case would uncover more dirt, did you know that the EFCC lawyer in that case was not even bothered to be in court in 3 different sessions prior to the judge's pronouncement!

In as much as I admire you and also Ribadu, I fail to accept a man that would compromise his principles for personal benefit. I can understand one that compromises for the greater good of all, but not one that compromises for personal benefit.

Akainzo:

@Gbawe, the bolded part of your posts is stretching it a little too far. Ribadu knowing he had the backing of OBJ, did to an extent arbitrarily lock up folks whenever that would help him achieve what he wanted. Let me remind you of the Plateau, Rivers and Bayelsa house of Assembly members, plus the storming of Adenuga's residence.

Indeed the world rated him high and fancied him a lot, when he was diligent at doing the main EFCC work. Upon using that diligence to build up his stock, he however dabbled and muddied himself up in the politics of the times and allowed himself to be used by OBJ. The US govt did in fact reduce their funding of the EFCC at some point and did request for clarifications from him, when the noise about him being used was getting too loud.
Corruption was allowed to fight back against Ribadu, when he started soiling his hands and therefore created the opening to enable folks ridicule or hold him to ransom. A case in point, for all of what Ribadu portrayed about Odili, and kept on saying the court gave a restraining order; it is on record that EFCC under his watch did not even try to appeal that judgement, as it was just convenient to hide under such. A closer scrutiny of that particular case would uncover more dirt, did you know that the EFCC lawyer in that case was not even bothered to be in court in 3 different sessions prior to the judge's pronouncement!

In as much as I admire you and also Ribadu, I fail to accept a man that would compromise his principles for personal benefit. I can understand one that compromises for the greater good of all, but not one that compromises for personal benefit.

I submit and i concur

RIBADU is growing and needs time. he will use this election to learn a few things

1 good thing though is that while he was out of the country he was able to reflect and now understood OBJ very well. Ebora Owu,

@Gbawe

I understand you an ACN man, You said some of your folks are running under ACN which is goo and you have every right to defend them and your beliefs. What i want you to understand is and i have said it before there is no where in the world where politicans dont bash each other and it is for this reason i respect our Old Beloved General who has never bashed Ribadu, Tinubu or even GEJ in person (except for Yinka odumakin). Ribadu and Tinub have gone on the offensive to Buhari, Joe Igbokwe and Lai mohammed went oon public to bash Buhari.

Why can you not handle Bakare bash Ribadu nor handle Buhari supporters bash Ribadu based on facts no one can dispute. The issue is politics , it is about an election in 9 days , everyone is going for the kill , after 10 days if there is a run off we all have no option but to come together to kick out our common enemy. this is life and this is politics ,  you just have to live with it. This is what i have been trying to let you understand as it happens everywhere in the world. Ribadu made mistakes , just accept and let us move on, Bakare has made mistakes we also move on. Both are new in politics and bound to err .

I know in your inner most heart you know Ribadu cannot win this election neither can he become second, neither can he win Adamawa state nor his local govt. why not support a more realistic candidate and Ribadu can use his passion and skills in another capacity in a Buhari administration. You do not have to be president only to be able to effect change.

Akainzo:

I fail to accept a man that would compromise his principles for personal benefit. I can understand one that compromises for the greater good of all, but not one that compromises for personal benefit.

I don't agree that Ribadu compromised himself for personal benefit if that is what you are saying. Unlike most here , and perhaps because I still have my own life to live and run, I don't idolise anyone to the extent I will make excuses for their blatant wrongdoing . I was very critical of Ribadu as well . I am ready to admit , anytime , that Ribadu made mistakes but I believe he made those mistakes because he thought , in a nation of anomalies , he was doing what is best for Nigeria. Whoever you support , wether Buhari or GEJ and perhaps even Shekarau, I can conveniently and easily point to the mistakes they have made also that would cast aspersion on their core character. What I do not do is take those mistakes alone to qualify their character without looking at all their laudable achievements , if any, as part of the complete picture. I believe this is what Wole Soyinka, Femi Falana , Rotimi Akeredolu and other prominent Nigerians have done in backing Ribadu passionately out of all the candidates available.

There is no one currently doing well who is not 'bearing their own cross' , in one way or another , wether it is Fashola, Amaechi or Duke in our highly bastardized and grossly imperfect nation. We all saw Amaechi capitulate , despite fervently opposing the candidacy of Mr. President, once GEJ used the EFCC to bully him in line . I think only a fantasist will think Fashola , even as we all admire him, is uber clean to the extent that he does not have to make 'compromises' . My overall point is that we will find character flaws with even the good guys but that is not an indictment against their ability to lead effectively if we look at the real challenges presented to those who want to lead a nation where everything that is an abberation elsewhere is the norm in Nigeria. The current Nigerian political system can make anyone "inconsistent" and "compromised". What we have to look for are guys who , even with their flaws, have shown they can deliver. If these guys come in and work back to back , then we can see a better system evolve where our top performers will never be put in positions where they must make Hobson's choices such as those Fashola made that is now seeing him do things that have been ignored for over two decades in Lagos.

The posts by most of the guys on this forum lacks substance and detailed analysis. You chose the easier route and attributed most of our successes and failures to the government of the day led by the PDP, while at the same time trapping yourselves with the silly view that the PDP is the problem of Nigeria which is not true. I am very sure that most of you do not live in Nigeria and from the comfort of your enclaves your biased views for all to read. In 1999 after the military regime, Nigeria had not even one working institution, the police, railways, the armed forces, even the NCAA and FAAN were all at the all time low in terms of equipment and quality of their personnel, all which was caused by the military incursion in politics which lasted for about 16 years. Military rule was characterized by the appointment of all manners of persons into positions of authority leading to the crash in our institutions. While the performance of the PDP is debatable, I have to say that they have tried to the best of their abilities given the Nigerian context to perform. Most opposition candidates are either off shoots of the PDP who have either lost out in the politics of the party or were indicted for various heinous crimes. You guys should try to at least visit Nigeria to see things for yourselves, while those of you in Nigeria should please vote for someone who offers solutions to our numerous problems. Remember that there is nothing idealistic in politics it is all about compromise.

@Gbawe, you are too much. When i think of your comments, i hate[b] Beaf[/b] the more.
if it were to be him here, he would have used a lot of abusive words in defending his candidate.
i am a BB fan, but i dont condemn Ribadu as he is also a good candidate.
But @Gbawe, you are too much, in temperamence and explicit analysis of points
@Lagosboy, , Gbosa for you too.

GOD BLESS NIGERIA.