₦airaland Forum

Must people ask this same question every year..

Leave am like that.. it's not your business.

She should end corruption first. Every other things will come in place.

Like wife like husband.. that one wants to end terrorism why dolling out money to Tompolo and co month in month out.. SHAME.

looknlaff: Methinks Mr Abati and Saharareporters who broke the news are both saying the same thing but with different motives. The bottom line is that at the appointed time that President Jonathan was to make his speech, he was unavailable. Whether it was as a result of hangover of excess apeteshi of the previous night or late strategising on how to upturn Ameachi's victory as stated by Saharareporters or a corner, corner bilateral gist with an unmentioned fellow president is irrelevant.

Gbam! million times.

Goddex: Our APC hawks in Nairaland abhor this kind of explanation. They prefer only negative comments and will give a blind eye to this or try to prove Abati wrong even when they were not there.

Pot calling kettle black.. Our GEJ {PDP} hawks in Nigeria.. You did the same to Buhari, El-Rufai etc ..

koruji: People that talk crap without knowledge of history.
If you know anything about the UN security council you will understand the non-permanent seat is for all comers.
This is no achievement at all. Read below to educate yourself:

They are praise singers.. they see that weakling an achiever.. Nigeria hmmmmmm!!

Some bad children will never get it.

FFK though not a fan, still I agree with you, Mallam is speaking for us.

thelastpope10: Whether he is reelected tomorrow is irrelevant. The governors forum is dead. It has no constitutional powers. It is just governors coming together to try to use the platform to further their personal agendas. He is lucky GEJ is a gentle man. Do you think if push comes to shove, the north will put their necks out for Amaechi?. You must be kidding yourself. At the end of the day, he will be isolated. Let him go to the north if he likes. He is on his own. We are not interested in traitors and sycophants who serve the whims and caprices of the north. That is what people like Tam David West did in the past and sold our region away. No more. Amaechi will be left in the cold at the end of the day. It is not GEJ's fight. You lads dont understand it yet. Even GEJ cannot decide not to contest in 2015. It is bigger than him now. It is about our children and grand children!

You are so blinded by you GEJism.. It's never too late to repair your brain.. GEJ is a mere mortal.

youngies: Reading the interview Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) gave to Daily Trust which was published on Wednesday the 22nd of May 2013, I am compelled to raise historical issues that put the former military Head of State's words in perspective.

Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) blamed President Jonathan for the insurgency occasioned by the militant sect, Jamā'a Ahl al-sunnah li-da'wa wa al-jihād, commonly referred to as Boko Haram and asked President Jonathan to resign saying "Jonathan should vacate and give way to competent hand to govern the country".

Buhari further said "When the Niger Delta militants started their activities in the South-South, they were invited by the late President Umaru Yar'adua.

An aircraft was sent to them and their leaders met with the late President in Aso Rock and discussed issues. They were given money and a training scheme was introduced for their members. But when the Boko Haram emerged in the north members of the sect were killed".

Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) may wish to note that[size=20pt] President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan never supported militancy and criminality in the Niger-Delta at any time in his political career.[/size] Furthermore, the administration of President Umaru Musa Yar'adua used a combination of carrot and stick to end the militancy in the Niger-Delta.

Stick was used in the form of heavy military intervention by way of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) which routed the militants by way of ground attacks and aerial assault with the use of Nigerian Air Force Jets and helicopters. After this initial pacification, the carrot was introduced whereby the administration offered an olive branch for those wishing to embrace dialogue. Those who accepted the offer to dialogue came out of the creeks and dialogue took place leading to the conditional amnesty (militants were made to surrender their weapons and renounce violence before they could benefit from the amnesty).

Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) may or may not be aware that these same steps were taken by the current administration with regards to the insurgency occasioned by Jamā'a Ahl al-sunnah li-da'wa wa al-jihād or Boko Haram.

This administration in fulfillment of its constitutional responsibility to maintain law and order and enforce the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria empowered Nigeria's security forces to check the insurgency. As a democrat and listening leader, President Jonathan's ears were opened to the cries of the people in the affected areas and after meeting with different informed groups agreed to employ the dialogue option and called for the leaders of the Jamā'a Ahl al-sunnah li-da'wa wa al-jihād or Boko Haram to show themselves.

In furtherance of his desire to peacefully resolve the insurgency, President Jonathan inaugurated the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North on Wednesday the 24th of April 2013 at the Presidential Villa Abuja under the leadership of a cabinet minister, Tanimu Turaki, Minister of Special Duties.

A week after the President's initiative, Jamā'a Ahl al-sunnah li-da'wa wa al-jihād or Boko Haram rejected the amnesty proposal yet the President kept faith with the Committee and met with them as recently as a week ago and in furtherance of that meeting he issued orders for the release of certain classes of detainees held in connection with the insurgency.

With the detailed historical TimeLines provided above, it is my considered opinion that Major General Muhammadu Buhari's (rtd) statement castigating President Goodluck Jonathan for not treating the Jamā'a Ahl al-sunnah li-da'wa wa al-jihād or Boko Haram as others were treated are not factual and are borne out of insufficient study of historical facts.

Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) also accused the President of using undue force on the Jamā'a Ahl al-sunnah li-da'wa wa al-jihād or Boko Haram saying "In Bama and Baga towns, military personnel were reported to have been engaged in extortion and sometimes raping of women. And because a soldier was killed in Baga the whole town was sacked by military. This is not the best way military should have acted when they were sent to restore law and order in a town. How can a responsible government allow its people to be killed in this way".

Let me say that I appreciate Buhari's concern for the victims of the Boko Haram attacks on Bama and Baga. However, Buhari should be reminded that the President ordered an investigation into the incidence at Bama. The investigations are being carried out by qualified persons and Buhari ought to wait for the results of those investigations before apportioning blame. Members of the Nigerian armed forces are sacrificially laying their lives down to protect Nigerians and they deserve more loyalty from us all, particularly from one who was once their Commander-in-Chief.

But going back to history, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) is reminded that this is not the first time that terrorists have unleashed mayhem on Nigerians.

[b]Buhari is reminded that in February and March of 1984, the Maitatsine sect unleashed violence in Yola under the leadership of Musa Makaniki. A conservative estimate is that 1000 people died during those riots and half of the residence of Yola in present day Adamawa state were rendered homeless. The military was unleashed on the sect by the military administration of Major General Muhammadu Buhari. Similar charges as the ones made today by Buhari were made against the soldiers sent by his government to quell the Maitatsine riots of 1984. They were accused of undue force, destruction of property, raping women and killing civilians. Many human rights groups and activists including J. Peter Pham, the Director of the Michael Ansari Center at the prestigious Atlantic Council whom I have personally met and who is alive today have documented what took place during those riots. In putting down the Maitatsine insurgency, the military incurred collateral damages. Yet Nigerians understood with Buhari. Did anyone call for his resignation as military Head of State because of the incidence?

Also, it is a historical fact that Maitatsine riots again flared up more than a year after this in April of 1985, while Buhari was still Head of State, this time in Gombe in present day Gombe state. Hundreds of people were killed and the military again was called in. There were collateral damage and Musa Makaniki, the arrowhead of Maitatsine escaped to the Cameroon and was not caught until 2004 when Obasanjo had ascended to power. To the best of my knowledge, nobody called on Buhari to resign even though he could not apprehend the leader of the sect.

Is it too much to ask that Buhari show the same level of understanding that Nigerians showed to him in 1984-1985 to the President?
[/b]
Some issues should be beyond politics. Anytime an elder statesman calls into question the abilities of our armed forces it goes a long way to weakening their morale and resolve which is precisely what should not be weakened when we face an insurgency such as the present one.

http://www.punchng.com/opinion/on-buharis-call-for-the-presidents-resignation/
http://channelkoos.com/index.php/news/4659-on-buharis-call-for-the-presidents-resignation-reno-omokri

Bolded and listed

1. Tompolo
2. Fasheun
3. Asari Dakubo
3. Chief Edwin Clark
4. Oritsajefor
5. Kingsley Kuku etc

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-ex-militants-threaten-to-resume-violence-in-2015/
http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/2015-jonathan-lures-ex-militant-commanders/


Reno I know you don't have shame.. waiting for post-GEJ administration to see how ill-relevant you become. Bloody Opportunist.

Lilimax: You are not different from you silly comment.
I am entittled to my opinion afterall there is freedom of speech.*sigh*

You will die young IJN.. am also entitled to my opinion too after all there is freedom of speech.*sigh*.

tomakint: My dear if you think Fashola is the one ruling Lagos you are wrong! Tinubu is ruling by proxy, Fashola owes Tinubu 100% allegiance, this is nothing but the Gospel Truth!

Story story.. Storyyyyy!!!

Is this how you want to belittle Fashola's 8 years achievement?. Proxy ko, server ni. my friend you know you are wrong.

Well done.. Radio Wayo

This link will do you good. Alabosi
http://saharareporters.com/news-page/amaechi-wins-governors-forum-election

You failed to mention..
Subsidy scam
Insecurity
Alams pardon.
etc

ckkris: Teacher. Were these problems created by President Jonathan, or by Hell Roofai and his fellow born-to-ruin?

Am very sure the line above is from a kid.

Now I know your position.

So vicious circle continues, why do we have a government in place then, when a sitting government cant repair the woes of previous government. Sure come next dispensation, they too will claim,the woes was created by GEJ etc... And you compound mofos are calling GEJ to continue come 2015.

noblezone: Bros, it is not as simple as that:
When did the Boko Haram start?
Also, before the escalation of hostilities, there were promises from some Northern leaders that Nigeria would be made ungovernable should Jonathan or any other southerner win the election. They insisted that the President must be of Northern (Hausa/Fulani Moslem) origin.

As for dividing the country along political and religious lines, my position that Nigeria is a fraud has nothing to do with any riots:

A niece of mine wrote the national common entrance and scored more than 120, she was denied admission while some who scored less than 20 were admitted because of quota system and catchment area.

In my early days of graduation, I was asked to write my state of Origin at the back of the application envelop. The state of origin is an automatic qualification/disqualification as the case may be.

As for violence, the North is notorious for killing fellow Nigerians at the slighted excuses. the previous religious unrests you mentioned, why must they start from the North? What is wrong with the North? It is the North that has divided Nigeria!

that continued unrest in the North will weaken the North, is a fact that the Northern Leaders never thought of. They thought that violence will intimidate Jonathan. They have failed.

Perhaps in your conspiracy theories, it is Igbo Christians who killing and bombing churches in the North, shouting "Allah Ahkbar"!
Excuse me jor!

Oga, what is the role of security here? Why all these didn't happen during OBJ tenure? It's either the president is not doing his work or security personnel... The same story everyday "promises from some Northern leaders that Nigeria would be made ungovernable should Jonathan or any other southerner win the election." and yet, no arrest.

Burger01: What 'continuity'? Continuity of political thrash.

Are you not 1 of those praising Fashola for job well done in Lagos. Don you want him to transform Nigeria too...

Dear All,

To put the record straight.. Buhari's choice is not about religion and ethnicity.. It's corruption and corruption ... Nigeria will be great again, Nigeria will be safe.. If you believe it and I believe it.. Nigeria will be great.

strangest: They should come down to Onitsha, so boys can throw them satchet water...

And you be the first set people to cry out .. "They dont campaign everywhere" .. "They only campaign in northern part of the country".. is this your plan against good people? The people that seeking for progress of the country.

Come 2015.. PDP will die without trace.. IJN.

strangest: They should come down to Onitsha, so boys can throw them satchet water...

And you be the first set people to cry out .. "They dont campaign everywhere" .. "They only campaign in nothern part of the country".. is this your plan against good people? The people that seeking for progress of the country.

Come 2015.. PDP will die without trace.. IJN.

Burger01: It baffles me why Fashola mingles with these Political waywards. Damn! Change your party man..now I know that's quite impossible.

Because you dont believe in continuity? Abi you want him in your party?

oshyno: North is on fire and all this mofos think is rally ? like wtf. Walahi these opposition think with their anus. Nonsense.

Na you set fire there? COMPOUND mofo..

What you all failed to understand is, the 2 daughters will not go hungry as well they will not eat from dustbin. They have secured future. What will be the fate of those without rich parents? This is what the man is trying to talk about. You all leave the message murdering the messenger.. Nawa to you all.

Lemme share this with you.. someone sent this to me this morning "Do you have any programmer/web admin that is job hunting? There is vacancy but salary is 40k".. I thought he said "400k".. Already started calling my friends to send me their cvs.. and to look again.. the only response I have is "LOL". In as much I know people job hunting, I CAN never send them this offer because it's .. don't have the right word yet. RIDICULOUS!

Mallam El-Rufai ride on.. we need people like you to tell them the truth.

God bless El-Rufai and his household. God bless me too.

Time will tell, whether Buhari is wrong or Jonathan.

Obasanjo attacked ODI village

Jonathan attacked Borno, Yobe etc

Remember boys will go back to creeks, a sitting president 'can' declare SOE, it's a matter of time.

Some people will not die well.

All I have to say is, You all don't have elders at home. Your kids and younger 1s will never respect you.

AnanseK: Right to detain suspects for 48hours! Do you know how many thousand suspects are in various detention centers and many of them have been there for months and even years and Without charging them to court?and with no SOE in place?
You think JTF have been using warrants to search houses in Maiduguri and Yobe?
Total offensive on BH enclaves ? When over 2000 houses and were destroyed and over 200 civilian men women and children were killed by JTF in Baga there was no SOE.So tell us something new to make us celebrate the SOE and the hope it brings to Nigerians.

My friend, no stress yourself ja re!. SOE is dead on arrival.

Most of these posers are either kids or PDP(GEJ) apologists. Truth is bitter, this is just what I know.

dirifred: Can ACN keep shot? what is the problem with these political warlords? A country in crisis seek solutions. how long will innocent people be killed to create fear and make the govt appear ineffective? what is the demand of this brainwashed Boko Haramist that you think we as a nation should meet? is it not glearing enough to see this terrorism is politicaly motivated? Since ACN joined APC they have been more infected with thier religion of hate. haters just hate even for no reason

Small pikin is worrying you my friend. Leave ACN as the message came from them.

The message is simple. Will state of emergency quench, kill, wipe out (etc) Boko Haram?

This still baffles me, why you people always run to religion to make your point? Nasarrawa incident is Boko Haram right? Kidnapping/Bunkering in the Niger Delta is also Boko Haram?

This is about SECURITY not RELIGION.

Fools will defend fools. Simple!

On repeat here!

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Same here chief!

Buhari, Please don't?

The question is who is the better candidate?

God bless Nigeria.

GEJ election was done on excel sheet. It's simple: GEJ to his supporters "Guys not ballot snatching and distribution of arms, even police and other forces should lay low. Mr. Jega has Ms Excel experts in-house."

Shame on you and your GEJ.. So tell us another story.

Leboska: Have you bother to read how responsible government do theirs? Fashola i lose every respect i have for u. U can never rule nigeria lagos will be your last.

Mumu