POTUT:

When I heard this, I promptly diagreed with the notions it was projecting.

The ONLY thing ABSOLUTELY wrong with this Bill is that it is NOT the solution to the problems raised by Mr. President!

I am shocked that the calibre of Reuben Abati is strong enough to twist his own conscience into making this announcement so early in his appointment.

Gbawe:

When Saharareporters hinted that Jonathan would employ Abati they were abused by the apologists of GEJ. Lo and behold, it came to pass . When they stated that Jonathan would seek tenure elongation the shameless fans of GEJ wasted no time in pouring invectives on the news agency. Now it is formal.

Saharareporters are now stating that they have uncovered that the single 7 year tenure is a way for GEJ to benefit from this without facing another election after having pledged only to do one term . As usual "Mr. Fix it" (Tony Anenih) is involved in this nefarious plot. Who wants to bet against Saharareporters? Their accuracy means that it may even be our First Lady who is their Aso Rock mole. For all those saying GEJ will not benefit from this tenure elongation , I call only ask you not to run your lives as naively as you view political events given how you can miss all that Nigerian political history should have made crystal clear to you. Of all the pressing issue at hand this one that will "not benefit" GEJ is the most important for him to deal with right now abi? I hail una Einstein thinking. Even the article below picks up on this: Nigeria will be broke and renamed Naijanistan or Niraq by the time GEJ and his callous co-traveller are done with selfish measures that can only heat up the polity further, cause more deep rancour and lead to more senseless blood-letting .


http:///news-page/jonathans-single-term-proposal-scam

gist4real:

GEJ is a let down and abati is a disgrace.

Sadly , you mistake Nigeria for a sane model of nationhood. The capitalist private sector in Nigeria is dangerous because , aside from it being owned heavily by current and past politicians , their interests often runs contrary to that of the rest of Nigeria. The richest and most powerful private sector players always fund PDP Presidents so as to gain leverage with which to then act as powerful lobby groups constantly frustrating the radical policies that can transform Nigeria. Who does not know that Femi Otedola is a diesel baron? What would happen to his empire if Nigerians suddenly stopped buying diesel for their generators? I would think it is obvious that Otedola is very happy with the current status quo. I cannot see him willingly embracing any change to the status quo.

Many of us forget that the wealthiest politicians are also heavily involved int the private sector  directly and indirectly. They are often hidden partners to the likes of Otedola, Dangote et al. These compromised politicians can therefore not be as impartial as they should be and this is why change is frustratingly slow in Nigeria. It is therefore madness for anyone to think Otedola would pump money into Jonathan's campaign unless he is sure his business interests are safe. He will , for example , know that , despite the noise, it is pseudo-privatisation of the power sector (which will not harm Otedola and his ilk) that Nigeria will get. Otedola and co now queue behind Jonathan because they feel assured of a PDP win and the continuation of "business as usual".

mbulela:

Gbawe, that article you just posted made me laff.
the same way i was laffing when folks said Madueke will not be returned as minister

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=700706.msg8616318#msg8616318

Reuben Abati, shame on you and your Jonathan. You people think you always deceive Nigerians every time. When Vanguard sort your opinion over this matter last weekend, you called it speculations. Now, your speculations is reality. God will punish you people.

Until Jonathan and his PDP cult is kicked out of Nigeria, we will remain where we are. Ungrateful people.

I am voting Jonathan not PDP people, come and see the outcome of your stupidity and foolishness.

The Christian community that promoted this cultist Jonathan, God will punish you people with emerolds in your private parts.

Jonathan and his co-tavellers on this ignoble project will suufer the fate of the defenceless citizens being slaugthered by Boko Haram in the North.

Every meetings organised by Jonathan for tenure elongation will scatter in Jesus name. Amen. I pitied those foolish and stupid Christians, who were deceived to vote for Jonathan because, he uses Christianity to cover face. Jonathan has never been a Christian and will never be. He is a deceiver, occultist, pretender, failure and the like. In October 2010, Jonathan told our Daddy G.O at the Redemption Camp that, he is taking his emergence as the president of Nigeria like the story of David. Pastor Adeboye was excited and even promised to lead a mass protests, should Jega and his INEC rigged the elections. I was surprised that, after Jega announced magic numbers for Jonathan from the South, our Daddy G.O never queried the results at all. I am sure he was comforted that, afterall, Jonathan is a Christian. Now, it is very obvious that, the South were blind folded by the evil PDP, to bring in Jonathan, a cult member as a Christian. To your tents oh Nigeria. Tony Anenih, you joined Lucky Igbinedion to destroy Edo State for 8 years. You were instrumental to the rigging of 2011 elections that brought this clueless man in as President. Now, you are at the fore fronts to elongate Jonathan's time in office. I want to promise you that, the way you destroyed Edo State, so God will destroy you very soon.

Goodluck Jonathan is now a deceiver President. Thank God I never wasted my vote on him.

fuke:

I knew for long and I said it.

Nothing good will come from this man

He is wasting precious time on nothingness.

Next step. The lawmakers will beg him to be the
first beneficiary of this elongation and he will accept
in the interest of Nigerians.
Doom.

isleman:

Fellow Nigerians, please read in-between the lines. He bribed the National Assembly by granting them longer renewable tenure so that they can approve his own tenure elongation.

He promised one term, we have given it to him. he should impress us or just go away.

Gbawe, that article you just posted made me laff.
the same way i was laffing when folks said Madueke will not be returned as minister

Madueke is GEJ's,  Hold that wan and keep it 2 your chest

Even b4 Minster sef,

GEJ has 2 more GF's in that cabinet,

In 9ja only a few married women have resistance to Pawa like that of The Presidency

Nowadays its a show of power to have an affair with a married woman in Political Circles,

U can even hear them boasing, na my babe be dat,,,,na me dey dia ooooo

Can u imagine,

Goodluck Jonathan’s Tenure Elongation Gambit
Posted: July 21, 2011 - 13:03
By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu

It was NATIONAL MIRROR newspaper of Tuesday, July 12, 2011, which first reported that the presidency had “concluded plans to send a bill to the National Assembly for a single term of seven years for governors and presidents. It had “reasoned that political violence was always caused by the resolve of incumbent governors and presidents to run for a second tenure of office”. By Monday, July 18th, a slight amendment to the NATIONAL MIRROR story emerged in DAILY SUN and NIGERIAN TRIBUNE; the tenure shortened by a year, to six, but the nut and bolt remained constant: Goodluck Jonathan is working on a tenure elongation agenda!

Soon after he was “freed and faired” into power in April, Jonathan was hosted to a dinner by the mandarins of the private sector, during which he lamented that a four-year tenure was too short to make a meaningful impact in governance. Not long after, Chief Emeka Anyaoku was reported to have canvassed for a tenure elongation for Goodluck Jonathan. If people thought what we confronted were examples of a Freudian slip, from those two sources, then the “concluded plans” to send a tenure elongation bill to the National Assembly, shows that there is an elaborate agenda in the works, to manipulate Nigeria’s democratic space for the umpteenth time, and the cast of characters has a permanence which should worry all patriots.

The emergence of Goodluck Jonathan as PDP candidate and eventual winner of the April polls bitterly divided the country, in a manner reminiscent of the June 12, 1993 debacle. In an effort to soothe frayed nerves, Jonathan promised to do a single term ending by 2015. By seeking a constitutional amendment, Jonathan is attempting to be clever by a half: if his amendment is for a 7-year term, he would have been in power effectively for eight years anyway; and even a single 6-year term would make meaningless his promise to leave in 2015; perhaps lurking behind the original promise had been the tenure emendation plot in the first place.

In the past few weeks, there have been all manners of conspiracy theories, which are beginning to make sense now. The main thread in those ‘theories’ was that the Jonathan presidency had been desperate to ensure that its minion was Speaker of the House of Representatives, because of the tenure elongation agenda. David Mark as the Senate President can always be trusted, given his antecedents as a gung-ho activist for Obasanjo’s Third Term agenda a few years ago, to support Jonathan’s tenure elongation project. What needed to be in place, was a Speaker that would play ball. Dimeji Bankole was not for the plan, by supporting Tambuwal’s emergence as Speaker. To punish his temerity, the old Obasanjo method of politics by hostage-taking was then deployed: check the accounts of the National Assembly and bring the young man to court!

An elaborate quid pro quo is also embedded in the tenure elongation project; there is the plan to create states which might favour David Mark who wants a state for the Idoma and his Deputy, Ekweremadu, who would like to be seen as having won an extra state for the Igbo people. So from all political angles, we face a determined onslaught by individuals with every reason to push their personal agendas down our throats: Jonathan wants to be president for the next six years (God forbid such an eventuality!), while the two leading Senators need states! So it is head they win; tail, Nigeria loses! A new front of struggle has now opened for the Nigerian people. We must mobilize to ensure that the proposed emendation of the constitution is dead on arrival, because it is not in the interest of the Nigerian people. Goodluck Jonathan was elected for a four-year term and he should not be allowed to get extra years through the back door of a contrived constitutional amendment. If it becomes an imperative, then he should not benefit from it; simple! Amending our constitution to serve personal whims should never be allowed to fly.

Bensonite:

Gbawe,
You are absolutely right.I have been regretting my denial of some of this events when they were first exposed by sahara reporters. I regret everything GEJ now.

Funkymallam:

http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/july/27/national-27-07-2011-01.html How do we read on nairaland or is it the fallen standard of our educational system or just ignorant. My country,

okada_man:


A man that cannot confront deep foundational issues, explain why that man is deserving of even two extra days.

You must be FOOOOLISH to even entertain this nonsense!

Toks2008:

I wonder how Nigerians can allow sentiments and bias overcloud their sense of judgement.

As for me, nothing can be better than this bill if passed into law and i don't have the time to elucidiate on various reasons but i strongly believe it is a right step in the right direction.

One more bill they need to pass is removal of immunity for serving Presidents, Governors,

Gbawe:

Is that you Mr. President?

BIGER BOY:

hahahahahaa!!!!!!!! ;Dhahahaahah ;Dhahahahahaah