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UrennaNkoli:
So ? Does that mean he doesn't know the meaning of the only true and capable party APC? Same way I can come out and call PDP "pigs democraty party"
How quick can you forget the difference between joke and reality. You don't need to merge them together, they're differently different.

Sai Buhari

YOU MEAN BUHARI WAS JOKING IN THAT AL JAZEERA INTERVIEW?

Those intending voting for Buhari will be doing Nigeria a great disservice. This man is a stark illiterate and lives in the 19th century. I agree Jonathan has not done the very best he could have done, but by jove, why Buhari and not any other APC candidate?

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1549559768630804&fref=nf

itetemi:
ask super clueless Jonny walker if it make him president first,

He is the president now and I do not see him leaving office until 2019. You are a dullard.

LoveDecay:
Fighting corruption has nothing to do with searching for past leaders who embezzled our funds. It is about preventing the further embezzlement of
our funds.

You are an hediot; a big, fat one.

itetemi:
Jonny walker is not just clueless,he is super clueless.he dares not remove jega,the election will be totally boycotted in the north and part if the south west.

Does that make GMB president then? Olodo rabata.

LFJ:
A dunce as president will be sorrounded with dunce. Is this how jonathan and his crew want to spend the six weeks opportunity? By the middle of March you people will begin to cry again, and requesting for another postponment.

Ostrich, continue living in self denial. E go soon clear you for eye. Didinrin!

slap1:
The way people hide behind fanciful gadgets to insult their ancestors is alarming. Imagine!

So who is the ancestor, me, you, the person I responded to, or Nnana?

Akanbi Kayode with Gee Gal and 4 others



Mama: You children of today, you never learn from history. Especially those of you born in South-West. You brought my granddaughter here so that I can bless your mutual ambition with General Buhari? Abi beko? And she agreed to follow you like cow.


Osinbajo: Be ni o Mummy.

Granddaughter: Be ni o Mummy. You are right, but I am not a cow.

Mama: You shut up. Let me finish. Omo ko mo. If not because of you, a man eating from the same plate with an agent of darkness would not have the audacity to first take you, my granddaughter, as his wife and then even crucify our family by accepting to deputise a man who punished and almost killed your grandfather for nothing.

Granddaughter: Mummy the man have changed o. Buhari have change. Let's not personalise issues o.

Osinbajo: Yes, mummy. Buhari is a changed man.

Mama: Yes, I know. He changed to APC. He is no longer in CPC. He is always changing before every election. And we must not personalise issues. But your party personalised its presidential candidacy? Is it not so? What is wrong with Fashola being your presidential candidate? Would heaven fall?

Osinbajo: Mummy that is not what we meant.

Mama: Ok o. Sorry, it is my mistake. So if Hitler had changed from military man to civilian, the world would have forgiven him for gassing the Jews

Granddaughter: Mummy haba. How can you compare Hitler with Buhari?

Mama: Why not? Ok, again I ask, if Idi Amin had changed from military to civilian, the Ugandans would have allowed him contest to be their president?

Granddaughter: Otio o. Buhari is not like Hitler and Idi Amin. Buhari's driver and cook are real born-again Christians o.

Osinbajo: Even his daughter is married to a Christian from Anambra state. She even converted to Christianity after the marriage and her father never objected.

Mama: And what is that his in-law's name?

Osinbajo: It is confidential, Mama. Nobody knows but we are sure it is true. They cannot lie over such issues. Abi darling?

Granddaughter: Yes love.

Mama: So if Hitler's driver and cook were Jewish, the world could have forgiven him? Is that the change both of you want for Nigeria?

Granddaughter: Yes mummy that is the kind of change we are talking about.

Osinbajo: Mummy please forgive and forget. That is what the Bible says. Buhari is now a changed man and he represents the type of change Nigerians are yearning for.

Mama: Ok o. I forgive and forget like you both are forcing me to. I am an old woman and I do not have strength to argue. But, I will give you prayers that befit your ambition.

Granddaughter: Thank you Mummy.

Mama: Before I start the prayer, I need to ask you this question.

Osinbajo: We are all ears mama. Go on please.

Mama: If Benjamin Netanyaju's granddaughter brings someone working directly with Hitler home to be blessed by Netanyahu, what do you think would happen?

Granddaughter: Ah Mummy that is not possible except that granddaughter is sick upstairs to forget history.

Mama: But that is what you have just done. In organised countries that man Buhari cannot vote, not to talk of contesting in a democratic set-up. Anyone at all is better than Buhari because he does not believe in democracy. He is the only coup plotter still alive in Nigeria today who killed democracy. Buhari does not believe in human right. He is just looking for power to use against his enemies. The man creates enemies so that he can have people to destroy. And I can see that your husband is the next to be destroyed.

Granddaughter: Mummy, please forget about the past and let us move on to change.

Mama: Ok o. If you say so. Close your eyes and let us pray. May he put your husband in jail for committing no crime

Granddaughter: Haba Mummy. Put my husband in jail? How can I survive without my husband around me even for one night?

Mama: Do not worry, you will survive, I survived it when Buhari did it to me. May he ransack your house looking for nothing in particular.

Osinbajo: Mummy please do not say this kind of prayer for your children.

Mama: May he punish you like Jolaoso to the extent that you would lose your sight.

Osinbajo: Mummy this is not prayer. You are cursing me ke. Haba. Mo ta ka seyin. Akoba adaba, Olorun ma je a ri.

Mama: God will let you see this o. May he keep you in jail even when the courts give verdict that you are innocent like he did to Pa Ajasin, Jakande, Babatope, Ekwueme, Mbakwe, and so many others.

Granddaughter: Mummy this is not what we asked for. You are cursing us instead of praying for us.

Mama: May he instruct the judge to jail you even when innocent like he did to Fela.

Osinbajo: Darling let us go. This is getting out of hand. Mama is cursing me. I do not deserve this.

Mama: Cursing you? Hmn. I have not finished yet. This last prayer is too harsh but since you both want prayers, you shall have it. May he kill your loved ones like he killed Bartholomew and co. even when the whole world begged him not to.

Osinbajo: This is enough. I cannot take it any longer. I am out of here.

tatosh:
Who the heck is Nnana? Most of what is written in his article is from a SOLID point of ignorance, very unsubstantiated claims. Thanks to social media all sorts of nonetities these days claim to know this and that.

I'm even more disappointed with the online and offline platforms giving this sort of person relevance.

When Nnana began his journalistic career, you were either unborn or still in diapers. So hush!!

APC bribing Nigerians since 1914

ISpiksDaTroof:
You see now why it's so hard to trust Nigerians? Do you see these distrustful monkeys hailing a process by GEJ that is by every definition cheating?

Crooks I tell you. That's why they don't want Nigeria to change to a clean and orderly society.

When you APC guys were busy cloning PVC cards and now withholding the original (INEC-issued) PVC cards of non indigenes (with tendency to vote for GEJ) in Lagos and northern Nigeria, what do you think your opponent should do? Sit back and watch you? Stop being a toddler.

BTW, why are you, a supposed non-Nigerian, meddling into Nigerian affairs? This fake Yoruba man claiming to be non-Nigerian, may sango fire your yansh.

egift:
"President Jonathan is like a mad man with a lighter inside a filling station" - Gov. Sule Lamido (PDP)

Your Jega is gone, soon.

APC, master riggers association

He earns 1 million Naira per annum and so cannot afford a jet. We know this jet belongs to Tinubu who stole Lagos blind. Buhari interacting with thieves since 1914

So is GEJ still clueless?

North/South division tears INEC apart

on October 19, 2014 / in Politics 1:50 am / Comments














30,000 PUs: Jega, commissioners’ stormy meetings

By Jide Ajani

If there were doubts as to he real intentions behind the determination of Professor Attahiru Jega, National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to foist on Nigeria an electoral process that gives unparalleled advantage to his northern part of the country through the instrumentality of a lopsided allocation of some 21,000 Polling Units, PUs, as against slightly over 8,000 PUs for the states of the South, the doubts disappeared at his ast week’s meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs.

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At that meeting, like a “pulpit bully”, and against convention where decisions at INEC are reached through consensus, Jega insisted that RECs should be involved in the admittedly primitive mode of open voting on a matter that was as controversial as PUs allocation.

This report presents Jega’s systematic approach to see through his scheme, starting with his attempt at power mongering.

MEETING WITH RECs

Driven by a messianic desire to confer electoral advantage on northern Nigeria against states in the South, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, upped the ante last week at a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs.

The meeting took place at the INEC Headquarters in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.

It was a stormy meeting, held Wednesday, October 15, 2014.

Inside sources at the meeting expressed shock at what was described as the “pulpit bully” attitude of the INEC Chairman.

Sunday Vanguard gathered that what was meant to be a meeting of minds, where the main focus would be the now controversial lopsided allocation of Polling Units, PUs, turned out to be a farcical engagement, with Jega, practically “coercing the commissioners”

There were 30 RECs in attendance.

What was strange, however, was that the RECs did not know that they were being led into an ambush by Jega, whose proclivity for maximum control of INEC had, sometime last year, seen him write to the Attorney General of the Federation, seeking clarification about the powers of his office (details are provided below).

CONCERN RAISED BY RECs IGNORED

REC after REC, most of those in attendance expressed concern on the PUs controversy and “actually counseled that the idea be shelved until after the 2015 general elections.

“The meeting, which also reviewed the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) and the distribution of the Permanent Voter Card (PVC), witnessed several expressions of concerns by State Electoral Commissioners whose appraisal of the PVC distribution process was mostly unsatisfactory,’’ a source at the meeting said.

“They insisted that the Commission was moving too slowly and that the limited time barely three months left for the election may be insufficient for the exercise if things were not fast-tracked”.

THE DICTATOR CHARGES

The source further disclosed that Jega waxed dictatorial:

“Jega insisted on conflating the time pressure by pressing forward with the much criticized allocation of new Polling Units.

This came against sound advice by some commissioners who warned that given the prevailing public perception regarding the Polling Units allocation, it may raise unnecessary ethnic tensions’’.

“Even when he was reminded of the letter from the Senate Committee on INEC”, the source continued, he was said to have reacted angrily that the letter was not a decision of the whole Senate and has no effect.

Similarly, he was said to have been reminded of the fact that some groups of Nigerians and even a political party have gone to court over the matter and there was need to suspend the exercise, but he bluntly responded that, except there was a court order, the Polling Units must be created.

He may be right on that score: only a court order, in the strictest sense, can stop him, especially based on the seeming messianic inclination.

But more was to come.

For a Chairman who treats some of the commissioners as his staff, Sunday Vanguard learnt that even the letter from the Senate Committee calling for the suspension of the allocation was read on the pages of newspapers like most Nigerians.

The letter has not been discussed at any formal meeting apart from the tangential mention it got last week.

Jega, it was gathered, had also been sent a security advisory given the dangerous dimension the lopsided PUs had taken; but this was ignored.

Even then, it was gathered that RECs from the South-West, South-South, South-East and, interestingly, North-Central, verbally cautioned Jega.

Sensing that the tide was turning against his desperation, the INEC Chairman, the source went on, called for voting which was agreed to.

PRIMITIVE OPEN VOTING

But he ambushed the commissioners by directing that the voting process should be open.

“In the end”, the source went on, “voting was conducted – in which three, RECs who had previously advised against the policy and still maintained their objections, abstained from participating in the voting because they were angry and disappointed that, despite the clear voices of the majority who advised against it, the Chairman surprisingly called for vote thereby allowing the matter to degenerate and brought to a clear-cut sectional dichotomy.

“After the voting, Jega got 13 votes for his lopsided PUs, and 13 votes against.”

But this was a stalemate. Althou it would have been 14 for him but one vote was voided because the administrative secretary who represented the REC from Benue State had his vote voided.

Now, had the three abstaining RECs been counted and the votes of six who did not attend as well as some Administrative Secretaries who did not vote, because they erroneously thought the voting was for commissioners only were taken to account, it was clear even to Jega that he was swimming against the tide of internal and external stakeholder opinion.

Despite this, less than 24 hours after the stalemate, the INEC Chairman directed a Director, one Musa H. Adamu, through a letter dated, Thursday, October 16, 2014, to all RECs, to submit report on the implementation of the PUs in their respective states on or before Thursday, October 30, 2014.

Nuru Yakubu, who is seen as the architect of the allocation, Musa Adamu and Jega himself are all from the North and appear to be pushing an agenda that places undue advantage in the hands of the North against the states of the South.

This was the same way the northern dominated military regimes created for Nigeria the lopsided 774 local governments with the North preponderantly favoured against states of the South; just as state creation has left the South-East geo-political zone with just five states whereas the North-West has seven states.

Meanwhile, the lopsided local governments creation engenders a regime of unequal resource allocation in a nation of clashing socio-political and economic interests.

It is under this same condition that Jega had sought extra-legal platform to capture all available powers in INEC, part of a grand scheme to ride rough shod over his colleagues.

JEGA SEEKS MORE POWERS

To get the legal backing to his enormous power-grab, Jega had written a letter dated June 19, 2013, to Mohammed Adoke, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, asking for clarification on who should be the accounting officer of the body.

He noted: “Since our assumption of office as a new Commission in July 2010, having regard to the fact that neither the Constitution nor the Electoral Act defined the role of the Secretary to the Commission as the Accounting Officer, I have considered myself as such, relying upon provisions of the Procurement Act, particularly Sections 18, 19 and 20 of the Act and Regulations issued by the Bureau of Public Procurement to the effect that in an MDA/Corporate procuring entity, the Chief Executive is the Accounting Officer.

“I have also done this, given the weighty personal liability which the Procurement Act places on the shoulders of the Accounting Officer.

The tradition in INEC had been that a Permanent Secretary was posted as the Secretary, until 2008, when INEC, having regard to the provisions of the Constitution and Electoral Act appointed its Secretary. The functions/roles of the Secretary as specified did not say or imply that he is the Accounting Officer”.

Jega told Adoke that the clarification was necessary in the light of the restructuring and reorganisation going on in the commission as it prepares for what he described as “better, effective and efficient service delivery towards 2015 and beyond”.

He insisted that it was “pertinent to seek this clarification for the avoidance of doubt and in order to put lingering matters to rest.”

The “lingering matters” Jega spoke about, it was learnt, might not be unconnected with what a source described as the frosty relationship between the Chairman and other commissioners over the chairman’s powers.

ADOKE CLARIFIES LIMITS OF CHAIRMAN’S POWERS

In a July 26, 2013 reply to Jega’s request, Adoke declared categorically that the Chairman is not the accounting officer of INEC.

Adoke said: “I have examined relevant provisions of the law particularly, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, the Electoral Act, the Public Procurement Act and extant Financial Regulations in order to determine whether the law has expressly provided for the position of either the ‘Chief Executive Officer’ or ‘Accounting Officer’ of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

“Regrettably, it would appear that no such terminology was used in the statutes examined. Item 14(1)(a) of Part 1 to the Third Schedule of the Constitution only provides that the Chairman shall be the Chief Electoral Commissioner.

The provision does not state that the ‘Chief Electoral Commissioner’ is the ‘Chief Executive Officer.

“I have similarly examined the functions and powers of the Commission as provided for in item 15 of Part 1 of the Third Schedule to the Constitution and sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the Electoral Act and wish to observe that these are functions and powers that can only be exercised by the Commission and not by the Chairman or any individual Commissioner except as may be delegated by the Commission under Section 152 of the Electoral Act or item 15(h) of Part 1 to the Third Schedule to the Constitution.”

“Consequently, in the absence of any clear donation of the powers of a Chief Executive Officer or Accounting Officer by the relevant statutes, and in the absence of any evidence to indicate that these functions and powers of the Commission have been delegated to the Chairman, I am unable to come to the reasoned conclusion that the law contemplates that the Chairman of INEC shall be the Chief Executive Officer or Accounting Officer of the Commission,” Adoke explained.

He added that the Electoral Act confers on the Secretary enormous administrative powers akin to those of Directors-General, who are “statutorily the Accounting Officers and Chief Executive Officers of their various Commissions”.

Adoke pointed out that this is what obtains in similar commissions, such as Police Service Commission, National Population Commission and Federal Judicial Service Commission.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/northsouth-division-tears-inec-apart/#sthash.EcMWkjgr.iIBDzXqv.dpuf

Many did not know that JEGA was working for APC to install Buhari - see an example of this below. But GEJ threw a master stroke using the army and JEGA's obvious incompetence in readying for the election as excuses to checkmate both JEGA and APC. The army, the custodian of national security, has claimed they cannot ensure a violence free election at this time. Apparently they have a big role to play in the security surrounding the election. So no security, no election.

Interestingly, JEGA's tenure ends in June and he is required to proceed on terminal leave 3 months before then. Effectively, he will not be the one to eventually conduct the election as GEJ will not be renewing his appointment.

So the question is this: Do you think that Prof. Jega has a choice but to comply with the civil service procedure by proceeding on his three months terminal leave with effect from March 1, 2015, since he is expected to retire on June 13?

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titicamara22:
I feeel there should be a positive corellation between GDP growth and employment generation, exchange rate, poverty level. But all we hear is GDP is increasing but the average man on the street is wallowing in hunger and poverty.
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Indeed, the case of GDP is quite funny. In many countries (e.g., USA) GDP growth would benefit investors and those who work hard to take themselves out of poverty. The same is also true for Nigeria where the rich gets richer and the poor gets either stagnated or even poorer, despite GDP increase. The difference between these countries (and I am only using them as examples) is that one has over many years evolved systems to cater - to some extent - to the poor. The other has not.

Bottomline: GDP growth is for national growth not for individual growth. Ironical, yes?
They should scrap GDP fast, it makes no sense to the common man in New York nor Lagos.

DonaldGenes:
[b]Firstly off, the beautiful thing about this debate is both hail from Yoruba States,(if i am right) Very Intelligent folks trying to even each other.

Another thing is; Does the party big wigs even know or let's say recognizes both of them ?

Mr.Ayedee was on the defense apparently and Kayode on the other hand was well composed right from the start, he ironed out his definitely while Mr.Ayedee was being tentative in his answers... If you watch the video well without bias.

However, iJust Downloaded the video and to my surprised, here is what I can deduced for the (Not done yet watching it)

~Mr.Ayedee sarcastically insulted Nigerians by saying that " The social media in terms of Freedom of expression was freely handed down to us by GoodLuck Johnathan Administration" Of course, let's drop the theatricals - how can he say that?.

..And When asked, "if both of 'em has received any financial benefit from either party"? both denied, Mr.Ogun added that, " he on his own has supported Buhari's campaign with $10,000.Mr.Aye didn't.......

iDo hope, none of 'em is nursing the nosy ambition of being given our "NEXT INCOMING MINISTER FOR INFORMATION" You never can tell.

In all, Mr.Ayedee was being smart and not really honest but he's quite learned. 7.8/ 10 Rating

Mr.Ogun was honest but he was somehow warped in the last stage of the debate by Mr.Ayedee sharp responses. 8/10 Rating

Lastly, the momentum is with APC rather than PDP.
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Aye Dee is not Yoruba. Stop claiming. Kayode the Yoruba one is obviously the less intelligent and less composed of the two.

''Buhari got a concession from OPEC to increase Nigeria's oil production from 1.3 to 1.45 million barrels a day'' Kayode Ogundamisi

What is the difference between 1.3 M and 1.45 M? Just 150,000.

How significant is that? I beg oil experts please help.

KINGTELLER:
I need a summary of the long epistle Okonjo wrote to counter Soludo

Both of them wrote long epistles. It is up to you to digest and imbibe those long epistles any which way you can.

Truth24:
Its madam Ngozi oooo

Can you guess what Obasanjo would be thinking about them now?

mailmiyes:
i can: vote me...

Please share some fun with this thread. Life is too short and precious to waste it on uncle Jonah and granpa Buhari.

Given the recent accusation and counter-accusation between these above-named individuals, I wanted us to have some fun comparing them.

So folks let's set the ball rolling:

Between Charles and Ngozi who is more accomplished - personally, academically and professionally?
Both are economists, and economic giants nationally and internationally
Both have PhDs, one from Nsukka (local champion, like all Naija unis), the other from Harvard (almighty, world over)
Both have been in govt in Nigeria, one as CBN Gov and the other as Minister (several times)
One is a failed governor wannabe, the other is scared to death to contest for any political office, content instead with being appointed by people she is apparently better than.
Both have worked considerably in the international sphere, one as Consultant (repeatedly), the other as MD/VP of the World Bank
One is female, the other is male (obvious, duh!!)
Both have children, but what are the statuses of their respective kids?
Both are married (one to a popular US Neurosurgeon, the other to who?)
Both are Igbo, one from Anambra, the other from Delta (but now Abia by marriage)

What do you think of them? If these two giants served together under one govt (Obasanjo's) and yet could not find common grounds, who else can?

I am just wondering what Obasanjo would be thinking about them now. They were among his most beloved hires back then.

FastShipping:
Let me advice you to watch his debate performance in 2011 on youtube. He did very well.

2015-2011 = 4 = today

Eziachi:
Buhari an intelligent man but in the matter of delivery and oratory like El Rufai, he is absolutely zero percent for me.
If there is a debate, it will be interesting because Jonathan is not far away in that regard.

Oh God! Why have you forsaken Nigeria? How in the world did we end up with these two?

A semi-cluless PhD (terminal degree in the academia) holder, and an extremely clueless military general (terminal rank in the military)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4vtan7pDiaU

Please follow link above. Hheheheh!!! See the disgrace you want to get for a president in 2015?

He is slurry, noncognitive, senile, sickly completely clueless and unattentive. He does not even know the name of his VP; he calls him Yemi Osunbade. He calls Excellences ''excellencicies''; he calls 'APC' 'APCs'.

Listen to him carefully and you will agree that he is more than another Yaradua (okun/onwu/deadi bodi) in the making

Eventually, Osibanjo may end up as the President of Nigeria because GMB is a walking corpse who likely will not last the tenure.

Hehehehe! Yoruba ''smart'' no be small. Getting back the presidency from the back door.

bashydemy:
Go and sit down and bow your head in shame, Yam are in other west african countries and also people have been eating Pounded in US, UK, Europe etc... I remember my brother first food in UK is pounded and that was in 2009..

Oponu!! What is the relationship between other West Africa (WA) countries and Yams and palm oil labelled made in Nigeria and sold in USA? Are you suggesting that other WA countries would label their own products as made in Nigeria?

OtunbaJega:
they grow yam in bolivia and many other countries around the Americas.....NAFDAC number!!;...hahahahaha... I hope u r well sha

They call it Iyan in Bolivia? I thought you said you have been eating Naija food since 1999. What are you arguing here then?