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agabusta:
I am a supporter of GMB but I don't support this subtle threat. We want a free and fair election at every corner of the country.

Am not threatening anybody, but you shld know that, there is notting like free and fair election in nigeria. Most part of the east and south south did not conduct last presidential election, they just give figure and we are ready for that

TheClown:
You think Buhari would win the NW? I dey laugh. The earlier the fulanis and their willing slaves realise that nigeria is for everyone, the better for them. We will vote just to prove a point, not because we like the person we would vote for, get that into your heads.

Where did buhari get his 12million votes in 2011 election? This time around, it is operation total vote for buhari. He is getting 95% of votes in north, all what we need is south west state

Icon4s:
It is statistics like these that make APC feel dat d SEners have little efect in the equation of d presidential election. They always forget dat atleast 30% of dat SW figure are Igbos.Atleast 30% of d SS population are Igbos. U need to know d population of Igbos in NC particularly Abuja and Jos. For NW nobody needs to tell u abt d high presence of Igbos particularly Kano and Kaduna. For NE BH activities have driven a large number of Igbos away, however dey are still in areas like Bauchi and Adamawa.

The election results will swing in d favour of who ever d Igbos throw their support for.If Buhari wants to b president he needs to seek how to win over d Igbos.

You are talking as if igbo people will stand in polling unit to defend their votes, well it will be nice to see igbo people that day in kano, come out and defend your votes for jonathan

Mogidi:
Christians in the SW may have been trampled upon but Christians in the North Central SS/SE have not been subjugated as the ones in the SW.
A Buhari/Fashola is a hint the SW and the North wants full sharia. We will not be part of it.

Chino u lied, north central state Christian don't bother about religion. Most of the family in north central states are mixed family, like SW. we are not religious bigot like SE

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http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/fashola-akiolu-shasore-seek-return-tbs-others-lagos-fg/
By Olasunkanmi Akoni and Monsur Olowoopejo
Ahead of 2015 general elections, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and the paramount ruler, Oba of Lagos, Riliwanu Akiolu 1, Friday, urged the Federal Government to return the Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS to the original owners, Lagos, saying, “the central government was given the edifice to manage.”

They spoke at the launch of a book on law and justice, titled, ‘Possession,’ authoured by former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in the state, Mr. Olasupo Shasore, held at the City Hall, Lagos, which also had in attendance, the former governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Niyi Adebayo, Former Federal Commissioner for Works, Mr. Femi Okunnu.
Also in attendance were; former Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Interior, Mr. Odein Ajumogobia and Mr. Ademola Seriki, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, among others.

On return of TBS, others to Lagos
On the need for the Central Government to return TBS edifice to Lagos, Fashola said, “So when people tell me that they have sold Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, I laughed because they did so in absolute ignorance. It can never be sold.

“That use to be part of the land that belongs to the king of Lagos. And with the conquest and possession of Lagos, it became crown land administered by the British Crown.
“At the end of the colonial era, it was passed on to the Federal Government. And when Lagos was created along with other 11 states, it became state owned land.

“All lands that were inherited by the Nigerian Government from the British government were further handed over to the states which those lands where.
“And the only legislation that exists today on the place was the TBS management act. With this act, the Federal Government was given the managerial power and not the ownership of the facility,” the governor added.

Akiolu on Shasore and heritage
Akiolu who spoke in Yoruba and English language, however, was not categorical on whether he had dumped support for Akinwunmi Ambode for Shasore in the race for next year’s governorship election, even as he said, “There are many things that were taken unlawfully from us.

He added that they will look at the issues that have deprived Lagos State some of its benefits especially some of the heritages of the state.

According to him, “I prayed that I do not want to be the inspector General of Police but the Oba of Lagos and God did it. I also prayed that the former governor of Central bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, should assumed the throne of his father and God answered the prayer and this that we are about to accomplish, will come to past.

“The one that we are facing now, “Ibiti olohun ati emi Oba gbesi, ibe ni oma lo, (where God and I, Oba Akiolu want support, that is how it will be),” he added.

Explaining Shashore’s lineage, “You all are calling Shasore today, but many do not know that he is a grandson of the land owners in Lagos.

“His grandfather, Rufai Ojoye Shasore was to be the Chief Oluwa of Lagos in 1913, but intrigues from some people did not allow him to assume that post. The man took all that happened in good fate but Oba Faolu was not happy.

“The grandfather of Shasore and Oba Faolu’s mother, Adeogun were related to that palace. This was why immediately Oba Faolu became Oba of Lagos, he appointed Supo Shasore’s father as the Shasore of Lagos.

Moderator b4 u push this thread to front page, remember this news is morethan a year now

Lamido: APC is Political Fraud
11 Jul 2013
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Governor Sule Lamido
The Gubernatorial Interview
In an interview with journalists in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, the state Governor Sule Lamido, spoke on issues bordering on 2015 elections, his rumoured presidential ambition;
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backtosender:
alhaji adamu is just PDP chairman no biggie PDP is an igbo man idea since 1999 is not hausa man idea that is the different

No northern, no PDP

Imaging Olisa metu a spokeman for PDP talkin of summoning Chief Mike Onolememe , a whole Chief Mike Onolememe, tony anenih PDP board of trusty chair first political child. Surely he just fooling his igbo brothers

He abandoned his party to pay homage to Alhaji Adamu Mu'azu of PDP, igboman always desperate

Sincere9gerian:
All the drama you read in the press is just out of respect for the age of OBJ and to give him false impression of importance. OBJ lost his polling unit in 2011 elections and currently has ZERO electoral value.

Just the way vice president Sambo lost his polling unit in 2011 election, but his party PDP still win

This is a former president opinion on his country and his beloved party. Baba has spoken well, This thread deserve front page. If i may ask, what are they begging baba for, in the first place?

http://saharareporters.com/2014/10/11/character-and-credibility-african-leadership-sonala-olumhense

Character And Credibility In African Leadership By Sonala Olumhense

What is Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan’s worth?

In a story on Africa’s richest leaders, the website RichestLifestyle last week put it at $100 million. It implied that such a stunning figure, for a man who has only been in power for a few years, was plundered from the public till.

That left Mr. Jonathan publicly seething with fury, presumably because—in dollars & cents—the story had “overrated” him.
Jonathan’s net worth, insisted presidential spokesman Reuben Abati in a press statement, was “a very, very far cry from the $100 million.”
I wonder how a presidential aide would know Jonathan’s most-closely guided secret, but that is a story for another hour.
The presidential statement described the presidential emotion as one of “consternation.” It demanded an apology and retraction, or the preparation of the publishers and re-publishers of the story to be sued around the world.
The following day, RichestLifestyle deleted Jonathan’s #6 spot in the story between Cameroon’s Paul Biya with $200million and Chad’s Idris Deby, with $50 million. For the record, that #6 spot, at $100m, was not vacant; Jonathan had shared it with Swaziland’s King Mswati III.
Abati’s explanation of Jonathan’s worth is a work of art, each word a weapon chosen with the penetrating calculus and clarity. Here are the three operational paragraphs from the statement:
“As is well known, President Jonathan…has held public office since 1999 and has regularly declared his assets as required by Nigerian laws. He has had no personal income since 1999 other than his official remuneration as deputy governor, governor, vice president, acting president and president which are matters of public record.
“There has been no significant variation in the totality of his personal assets as contained in his last declaration to the Nigerian Code of Conduct Bureau in 2011 which, as can be verified, was a very, very far cry from the $100 million figure now being bandied about by Richest Lifestyle.com and other irresponsible, copy-cat publications.

The clear and unacceptable imputation of the claim that President Jonathan is now worth about $100 Million is that the President has corruptly enriched himself while in office which is certainly not the case.”

RichestLifestyle fulfilled one of Jonathan’s demands: remove the story, but it did not apologize for having published the material, referring all interested parties to the source of its information: CelebrityNetWorth, a website based in California.
Apparently, the Nigeria ruler’s Internet sleuths and warriors—really, Reno Omokri?--had paid CelebrityNetWorth no mind,

apparently because no scandal had been provoked. Then RichestLifestyle brought the narrative into the limelight, into context, and into presidential consternation.

As a result, it is both websites and other publishers that President Jonathan must now sue. The deletion of the story is irrelevant: if the material is offensive, and the publisher has parted with no apology, it is offensive in its totality.
As a public service, I would like to point out that CelebrityNetWorth warns of its work:

“All of our figures and articles are thoroughly researched, scrutinized and fact checked by our team of writers and financial analysts. The figures are acquired from all publicly available information including salaries, real estate holdings, divorces, record sales, royalties and endorsements. The estimated net worths come from a formula that takes out taxes, manager's fees, agents' fees, and lifestyle…”

Before Jonathan assembles the finest lawyers money can buy, however, I would like to point out that he is heading for the wrong court. The one he should really care about is the court of public opinion. It is the one in which Jonathan solidified his lack of credibility when he refused to declare his assets publicly in 2011.

In an interview in 2012, the Nigeria ruler declared his abhorrence of public declaration of assets, explaining that his declaration as Vice-President in 2007 was owed to pressure from President Umaru Yar’Adua, who had done so. It was actually worse than that: there had been a loud D-Y-A (Declare Your Assets) uproar in the press for him to do so.

And when he did, he revealed a curious cache of about N295 million, despite having been in office as Governor of Bayelsa State for about 17 months. Not having had “a personal income since 1999 other than his official remuneration as deputy governor and governor,” it was unclear how he had amassed so much.

I enter a caveat: in June 2006, when President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Joint Task Force on corruption recommended Jonathan, along with 14 other governors for prosecution, one of the charges against him was false declaration of assets. Listed as examples were expensive cars he claimed to have received as gifts, despite such gifts being prohibited by the law. Another charge was acquisition of properties outside legitimate income. Some lavish duplexes in Ogbia, Yenagoa and Abuja, were cited.

But characteristically betraying the national cause, Obasanjo did not permit Jonathan or any of the governors to be prosecuted.

Instead—and despite those revelations and the embarrassment—he made Jonathan the Vice-President of the Federal Republic, and one of the luckiest men in all history.

We do not know if those homes and expensive cars were returned to Jonathan—or simply reclaimed—but as I speculated in a previous story, the current Nigerian ruler’s fear of declaring his assets must be tied to Obasanjo in 2006, and Yar’Adua in 2007.

They set the stage for 2011, when Jonathan, emerging President, boasted he would never again declare his assets even if he was “criticized from heaven.”
And in that moment in which he crossed the transparency Rubicon, he declared, rather un-presidentially, “I don’t give a damn!”

Not surprisingly, during his tenure he has fertilized corruption in one way or another, and it has grown dynamically through officials and institutions who, accepting his example, do not give a damn.

That brings us to the present. To be fair, Nigerian law does not require Jonathan to declare his assets publicly. But that is meaningless unless he also does not care that History—perhaps in the form of the 2015 election, or of a lawsuit about his assets in a culture where information is free—will not have an opinion as to whether that is realism or reaction, bluster or bravery.

In other words, we are dealing with the wrong question. It is not: What is President Jonathan worth? The right question is: What is President Jonathan’s worth to Nigeria?

That is: has he, and is he capable of a leadership of vision, valor and character?

I offer the presidency all of my SOS accommodations next week to respond to this concern in the court of public opinion. If not, I certainly intend to follow the impending worldwide lawsuits of the Nigeria ruler very closely. After all, credibility, as Job Number 1, cannot be left to be a “very, very far cry” away.

sonala.olumhense@ gmail.com
Twitter: @SonalaOlumhense

One thing is clear, there was a deal between cameroon and boko haram members. May God guild the innocent once in nigeria against bokos

Vanguard is lying, is on bbc news

foliman:
I knew it, these guys(BH) can't gain ground as they thought of.

after this make dem release the Chibok girls o.

So u think boko will just release those people like that? Sm pple don't reason walahi

A deal most have been struck between cameroon and boko haram, nigeria govt shld shine their eyes.

Moderator remove this thread from FP, this is anti-jonathan/anti-PDP thread sponsored by APC/supporter of APC member. President jonathan will complete all the project b4 2015
Gej till 2024

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Interesting, i learnt jerry gana was also a jolly good friend to the late boko haram founder, so not surprise

asadike:
B4 nko? No b ibeto glory obasanjo carry dash am?

Let goodluck dash ibeto, now that obasanjo is not in power

chukwudi44:
Wetin con carry Asari enta dis matter naa? Where did Lie Mohammed see asari's name in the transaction

leave lai mohammed out of this, let fg or asari come out to denied it, this is the latest report by south african govt that asari was on-board. Who is asari buy arm for? Alhaji Mujaheeden using a pastor jet, this collaboration is something else. Don't be caught unaware in the war, u better listen to the sound of drum of war

http://www.punchng.com/news/sultan-wamakko-advocate-creation-of-state-police/

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar III and Gov. Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State have advocated the creation of State Police in the country to tackle insurgency .

The two leaders spoke in Sokoto on Sunday, when the Sultan paid the traditional Sallah homage to the governor.

Abubakar, who was the first to speak, said state governments were already spending huge sums of money to provide vehicles and security gadgets, among others to security agencies in the country.

“Most state governments, if not all, provide one form of assistance or the other to security agencies; they build or renovate offices for them.

“The time for the creation of state police is now”, the sultan said, adding that the creation of state would help in addressing current security challenges in parts of the nation.

Responding, Wamakko said state police, when created would assist in reducing difficulty currently faced by policemen often deployed to states other than theirs.

“State governments have continued to suffer so much as a result of security challenge, the security of lives and property will be enhanced if state police is created,” Wamakko said.

ideylaff:
Rubbing minds for progress of the NATION is quite far different from rubbing minds for "selfish interest + ego trips" ....

You think OBJ is not still pained about the people who thwarted his 3rd term plan sit with him privately and u will know how he still hurts

Also for Tinubu you think he really wants to see others become President when he himself will like to have a shot but handicapped by many
factors.

Lastly that visit might even be to satisfy OBJ's ego to make him feel very relevant.....if he was really relevant GEJ will be at his residence not David Mark.. simple truth

OBASANJO STATEMENT ON HIS LAST VISIT TO ASO ROCK AUGUST 28 2014, SO U NO WHO IS RELEVANT BETWEEN OBJ and GEJ

*The meeting was held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on the invitation of President Jonathan.
Chief Obasanjo, who confirmed his meeting with the President shortly after he arrived Abeokuta from Abuja, yesterday, said the meeting was purely on security matters.
When asked to confirm the meeting, Obasanjo said: "Yes, I can confirm that I met with Mr. President on his invitation. In fact,he had wanted to come down to Abeokuta, but as a sign of respect to the Office of the President, I had to go.We had discussion on the country's security issues and that is all."

Tinubu is a smart politician, obasanjo want PDP to conduct primaries that will edge jonathan out, but PDP was quick to adopt jona as consensus candidate. Now obasanjo supporting jona for 2ndterm is like obasanjo supporting Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, is hack enemy which will b a disgrace to obasanjo in international community. So obasanjo has no other choice than to pick his loyal boy in APC, which kwakwoso for president.

onatisi:
bros forget. The only way to unseat or defeat gej is to make him lose the pdp ticket. Anyone that wins that ticket is the next president and as at today gej holds that ticket. Apc should concentrate on winning more states ,the presidency is already settled ,the fight is now on for the state governorship,and legislature both state and federal

U will know the reason why america say nigeria will break by 2015, be alter

sexyviper: you an azzhole, its because of eediots like you that reasonable people don't know how to contribute to pressing national matters on nairaland anymore, you and your other God forsaken fools on NL are calling for the wrath of God on your generations to come and you will get what you are looking for, accursed set of people.

A nairaland moderator said they need more fans to support nigeria army on this forum than boko haram, they said media terrorism is like a football game, i don't know if boko haram insurgent is on media or on a field. Boko haram left sambisia forest to claim towns and villages with many innocent lives lost, but some people are telling us to pretend as if notting is happening. I hope it get to their house one day

Is nigeria going to break-up?

Obinoscopy: I don't know. I don't even know if they lied or not. I'm not in the corridors of power thus I don't have access to the information they have. But what I know is that the moral of our soldiers will remain high and those of BH will remain low if we Nigerians are optimistic about our victory over terror. If you watch football, you'd know the importance of the crowd in matches. You'd know the boosting effect of the cheers and the demoralising effect of the jeers.

Oga are u trying to equate boko haram insurgent to a game(a football match)? My brother nobody is happy with what is happen, it is better for govt at all level to find a lasting solution to this madness. The govt shld endeavour to kill all corruption in our military circle, if we choose to play boko issue down like a game, we might be caught unaware in the game and that will be the end of nigeria.
Wake-up and call the appropriate authority to stop boko, except if u are in support of nigeria disintegration or lost of innocent life.

Just saw this one on lindaikeje blog is this true, nigeria army shld confirm the picture on this link
http://lindaikeji..com/2014/10/photo-of-nigerian-airforce-pilot.html

A new video is reported to have been released to AP by Boko Haram men showing the beheading of a man said to beamilitary pilot who co-piloted the missing Navalair forcejet.
The video also shows burnt out plane parts with Nigerian military markings. Two pilots and an Alpha jet have been missing since Sept. 11. Below is the report from AP...
A new video allegedly shows Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau disputing claims of his death, and the beheading of a man who identifies himself as the pilot of a missing Nigerian Air Force jet. It shows burnt out plane parts with Nigerian military markings, the first indication that Nigeria's homegrown Islamic extremists have the capability to shoot down aircraft. The man beheaded with an axe identifies himself as a wing commander, saying he has not seen his second pilot since the jet was shot down.
Before his beheading, the pilot reportedly gave his name, rank and date of birth, which is 1975 and also said
"I'm a pilot of the Nigerian air-force. On September 11th, I was assigned on a mission to Kawuri, Borno state. During the mission we were shot down and our aircraft crashed. To this day, I don't know the whereabouts of my second pilot. I was taken into the care of (Boko Haram). At the time of the crash, I sustained cuts and broken hand and some other injuries to the head.After saying this, the pilot was forced to the ground and his head chopped off with a pick axe. The pilot is said to be a Wing Commander
The jet after it was allegedly shot down...
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