My vote belongs to Atiku/Obi. Because he is the only one that can save Nigeria from the misery we are going through.

What are you even saying? and who are you deceiving? Atiku never said he is a perfect man because nobody is even you yourself, if given an political opportunity, you would get your hands dirty but the bitter truth is that Atiku has done so much for Nigeria than Buhari will do for in his life time. This man is ready to work with Nigeria something Buhari didn,t do for four years. He cancelled all his promises and expect us to vote him again? who does that? "Our mumu don do" Buhari will never achieve anything even if we give him enterity. Its not in him to succeed

Baawaa:
Buhari that does not sold firewood,he is poor for betterment of Nigeria,Buhari leads by example.Our Lord Jesus Christ was poor for we to be rich,Atiku is nothing but a looter

We are aware of his plans and we ready to let him know that we aren't fools

We believe in you Sir, we know you don't just promise but you deliver this is because we have seen this when you were a vice and we saw all what you helped to achieve. With you, this country can be better again. #BetterNigeriaWithAtikuObi2019

why does he fight his opponents instead of corruption?

Buhari has started again.. why does he fight his opponents instead of corruption?

#BetterNigeriaWithAtikuObi

Another quality which makes Atiku the best choice for the Nigerian people is that he is a hard-working businessman and investor who provides thousands of jobs for Nigerians of all walks of life and consequently is well-wired to replicate same peradventure he is given the opportunity to lead the country thereby ensuring that millions of our people are shielded from hunger, unemployment and destitution.

The shiites has started again? How come the president cant control this people for crying out loud, This are humans dying not animals.

Atiku is a strong advocate of constitutionalism and the rule of law. We strongly believe with Atiku things will get better again.

The problem with Buhari was that he took the presidential seat to personal. Lets hope and pray that Atiku will make a big different not just by saying them but with his action.

As a vice president, Atiku administration refocused government’s attention on making laws and good policies with a conducive atmosphere for businesses to flourish. This was the time the minimum capital base of banks was increased in order to make the Nigerian banks stronger, healthier and globally competitive. Atiku Abubakar would make a good president in 2019 because of his ability to enforce good laws.

That was a fair trial. Democracy still stand. south west for PDP. Nigeria for PDP 2019.

APC has rigged the election. After all President Mohammed Buhari said its a do or die affair. He has showed the world what he is. He want power and don't care about the peace of Nigeria. This is the greatest tyranny of all time. We don't want this kind of President.

A President that can't point any achievements with empirical evidence in 3 years lacks the moral right to talk of a second term. Say no to backwardness.

These are the reason i will not support buhari going for second term.

1. Power supply: Nigerians have been groaning over epileptic power supply which has crippled many businesses. While campaigning for the presidential election last year, the APC on which ticket Buhari contested, promised to expand electricity generation and distribution to 40,000 MW. Igerians are still waiting for this to become a reality.

2. Economic crisis/Naira: The value of the naira has continued to dwindle. Today, it’s going up and the next day it’s dropping. As at Monday, April 18, it was trading between N317 and N320 for a dollar. During the campaign period, Buhari was reported to have said he would make the naira equal to the dollar but he has since denied making any such promise.

3. Security challenges: While Buhari focuses on curbing Boko Haram insurgency, he continues to keep mute on the wanton killings by Fulani herdsmen terrorising farming communities across Nigeria. Fulani herdsmen are causing havoc and nothing is being done.

4. Unemployment: Buhari promised the creation of 1 million new jobs annually during 2015 election campaigns. While Nigerians wait for Buhari to fulfill this promise, some who have jobs are being fired on a daily basis as some companies laying off staff due to the harsh economy. People that used to be employed have now joined the teeming population of unemployed persons.

which are the key reasons why we masses voted them in 2015. He should keep to his word and step down That he will only rule for 1 term.
because he has nothing to offer again

A President that can't point any achievements with empirical evidence in 3 years lacks the moral right to talk of a second term.Say no to backwardness.

Dankwambo is a courageous, resolute, principled, dedicated and patriotic man that has passed the test of time and stands ready to take nation's destiny to the next level.

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Mr. DONALD TRUMP

President Donald Trump

Through:

Ambassador Stuart Symington

United States Ambassador to Nigeria

U.S. Embassy,

Diplomatic Drive

Central Business District

Abuja - Nigeria.

URGENT NEED TO SAVE NIGERIA'S DEMOCRACY

Sir,

It is with great delight that I write you this letter, hoping that it meets you well. I congratulate you for having kept to your promise of "America first" so far in all your policies and programmes since assumption of office. Permit me to say that this is not my first letter to an American President, as I made a similar appeal to President Barack Obama in 2015, under former President Goodluck Jonathan, intimating him of the failings inherent in that government and thankfully he acted on the letter. I believe you will also take heed of the urgency of this appeal and act accordingly.

Indeed, your effort to make good on your electioneering promises to the American people and the world, is widely acknowledged and appreciated by all lovers of democracy. However, it is rather unfortunate that in my country, for which I now write to seek your intervention, your friend, President Muhammadu Buhari, is largely paying lip service to his promises and has refused to follow the rule of law in the exercise of his powers under a democratic setting. Democracy in Nigeria is currently facing some of its most severe threats and unless something is done, it could be derailed and jeopardised altogether.

Your Excellency sir, while you daily work to advance the cause of the United States, the Nigerian situation under the present administration, led by the ruling All Progressives Congress, has failed to promote the nation's interest and work for the sustenance of our democracy. It was most unfortunate that when President Buhari visited you recently, he minced words on the true situation of the current happenings in the country, which pose a great threat to our national fabric of Unity, Peace and Progress.

How do I mean? The ruling APC and President Buhari were ecstatically embraced by Nigerians and voted into office with a promise to fight corruption, insecurity and grow the economy in 2015. However, three years on, prevailing maladministration and insecurity have left everyone spell bound, as wanton killings by herdsmen, kidnapping for ransom, armed robbery, corruption and insurgency in the north-east still ravage the country unabated. Furthermore, the cost of fighting these deadly malaise continues to skyrocket without corresponding mitigation in insecurity. A recent example is the withdrawal of $1billion from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) to fight Boko Haram and other security challenges across the country, by the Executive in collaboration with the National Economic Council, without due recourse to the National Assembly for statutory approval. More so, need I mention that the recent advance payment of $496million to your country for the purchase of 12 Tucano fighter jets, by the Buhari-led Federal Executive Council, was done in complete violation of extant laws regarding such purchases. I must say that that action remains illegal, criminal and a breach of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which empowers the National Assembly to approve all expenditures of the executive. I am aware that the United States is a nation ruled by laws and therefore cannot condone impunity and illegality of this nature - no matter the amount of benefits accruable to it from the sale. I would therefore, kindly appeal to you, to use your good offices to ensure that the $496million is repatriated into the Nigerian coffers and the deal renegotiated and made to follow due process.

I want to also appeal to you to help save our democracy by prevailing on President Buhari and his administration to respect the fundamental Human Rights of Nigerians. The right to life, freedom of association, freedom of speech and freedom from fear, torture and molestation which are irreducible minimums in any democratic setting, have taken the back seat since this administration came into power. Unfortunately, these rights are being denied under the guise of fighting corruption by the Executive and its agents. Permit me to say that the fight against corruption by the Buhari government is laudable but grossly selective. I am by no means saying the Nigerian government should not investigate and prosecute corrupt officials or those found to have looted the public treasury. I support the fight against corruption and thus use this opportunity to call on the American government to help Nigeria to win the fight against corruption. However, this letter is to intimate you on the true situation about the ongoing fight against corruption in Nigeria, which is highly selective and partisan instead of being transparent and fair. While members of the opposition PDP and nPDP are being hunted and liquidated in the name of fighting corruption, fraud allegations against close aides/allies of the President and other favoured members of the coalition that fused to form the APC are being consistently swept under the carpet, with the culprits allowed to live freely without any form of legal repercussion.

Regrettably sir, Nigerians are no longer free to express themselves or to criticise the activities and policies of the government without being assaulted or clamped down upon. For example, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, was one of those who supported Buhari and the APC to win the 2015 general elections, but today, has been branded an enemy of the state because he is criticizing the wrongdoings and failings of the administration.

Similarly, I dare say that the harassment, coercion, intimidation and humiliation being meted out on the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, is basically because he emerged as the President of the Senate against the wishes of some powerful and influential members of the ruling party in 2015 and not because he is corrupt as being claimed by some agents of the executive. It is worthy of note, that H.E. Saraki belongs to the nPDP stock of the APC and his unjust trial and persecution over charges of false asset declaration since 2015 coupled with new attempts to link him with arrested murder suspects and cultists in his home state of Kwara, points to the selective nature of the fight against corruption being waged by the Buhari-administration. Note that the political onslaught against Saraki and the National Assembly under his leadership, culminated recently in the invasion of the Senate Chambers by sponsored thugs, who forcefully took away its mace and symbol of authority, without the prosecution of the perpetrators. Besides, facts have recently emerged to buttress this assertion about political persecution of perceived opponents of the government. A Special Investigator engaged by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property, Evangelist Victor Uwajeh, recently revealed that he was specifically directed to investigate Saraki and other PDP stalwarts who have been marked for persecution by the Buhari-led administration. Uwajeh, in a statement published by the Cable, an online newspaper, said the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property, established by the Buhari's administration, was specifically created to investigate Saraki, his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, Senator Stella Oduah, Senator Albert Bassay Akpan, ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Femi Fani Kayode, Senator James Manager, Governor Nyesom Wike, Senator Jonah Jang, Patience Jonathan and the current National Chairman of the PDP, Chief Uche Secondus, among others.

Kindly note that apart from HE Saraki, all other persons listed above are members of the opposition party, PDP. Mr. Uwajeh's statement, I must say has practically vindicated HE Saraki and other opposition members currently on trial that the allegations against them were politically motivated. Uwajeh had unequivocally stated that his refusal to work with the APC-led Government to humiliate the so-called enemies of Government has led him into exile.

I write to you because Nigeria and America have a long history of friendly relations, added to our system of government which is modeled after that of the United States. Much as the United States and other national governments assisted Nigeria to return to democracy from military dictatorship in the past and has continued to support the nation's fight against insurgency and corruption, it is time to come to our aid once again in order to sustain our democracy and maintain strict adherence to the rule of law. I believe you are better placed to advice the current leadership on the need to obey the rule of law and be impartial in its ongoing anti-corruption campaign.

I humbly invite you to work with other defenders of democracy, freedom and human rights across the world, like the European Union (EU), United Nations (UN) and organizations like the Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, etc, to ensure that the present gagging of the press and opposition political party members in Nigeria do not degenerate further. Help us to prevent imminent breakdown of law and order that may result to chaos and anarchy if the current atmosphere of government's orchestrated harassment, intimidation, coercion, denial of the right to free speech and outright repression of perceived enemies of the administration, is allowed to continue unabated.

I thank you in anticipation that you will take positive steps to liaise with your friend, President Muhammadu Buhari, in order to prevent escalation of anti-democratic acts by agents of the administration.

Long live U.S.A.!

Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

Yours sincerely,

Comrade Timi Frank

Deputy National Publicity Secretary

All Progressives Congress

timifrank40@gmail.com

07033555555

APC Promised us heaven and earth prior to 2015, 3 years after APC finally discovered his talent, blaming the living & dead for his in component , get your PVC and vote out evil and retrogressive, get back democracy.

Dankwambo is the hope of Nigeria. Get your PVC and secure the future of NIGERIA

In the world of misery and pain, the destiny of Nigeria rest on the shoulder of a young man.. His name is Dankwambo.

shame on APC

UcheSecondus:
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has appealed to the United Nations, the European Union and other foreign countries, to urgently intervene in curbing the excesses of President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.

Other foreign bodies copied in the petition include the American Ambassador to Nigeria, H. E. W. Stuart Symington; Ambassador of France, France Embassy, H. E. Denys Gayer; Ambassador of China, Embassy of China, H. E. Dr Zhou Pingjiang; Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Nigeria, Nikolay Udovichenko.

Ivy League 300 x 250
The 12-paged petition obtained by TheNewsGuru.com, was signed by the PDP National Chairman of the party, Uche Secondus, who alleged that President Buhari and his administration are desperate to retain power against the wishes of the Nigerian people who are groaning under the yoke of the misrule of the government in the last three years.

2019: I will return PDP to Aso Rock if elected chairman – SecondusPDP chair, Secondus
Secondus who took office as PDP chair on the 9th of December 2017, lamented that Buhari led APC government is doing all it can to frustrate the legitimate opposition and to intimidate and persecute our leaders
and ultimately destroy the fragile fabrics of our burgeoning democracy.



The petition titled ‘Threats to Democracy, rule of law, basic freedoms and gross human rights violations by the federal government of Nigeria’ reads in part:

“On the 9th of December 2017, I was elected as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), by virtue of which I became the official leader of the opposition in Nigeria. Prior to this, in 2015, our party’s government led by President Goodluck Jonathan conducted a globally acclaimed free and fair presidential election and for the first time in our nation’s history superintended a peaceful, democratic transition of power from a party in government to an opposition party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) – led by General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd).

“Our expectations had been that this government would work to strengthen or at least, sustain the gains of this democratic milestone.

“Regrettably, the President Buhari led APC government is doing all it can to frustrate the legitimate opposition and to intimidate and persecute our leaders and ultimately destroy the fragile fabrics of our burgeoning democracy.

“Our nation has become heavily polarized along dangerous fault lines where citizens now live in fear and mutual suspicion; where citizens are slaughtered by the day by marauders; where hunger and strange diseases ravage the people due to the insensitive and incoherent policies of this government. I am constrained to bring to the attention of the United Nations what appears to be a predetermined and orchestrated plan by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Government of Nigeria through various agencies including the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Nigerian Armed Forces, the Nigerian Police and other security organisations to truncate Nigeria’s democracy.

“The President and his administration are desperate to retain power against the wishes of the Nigerian people who are groaning under the yoke of the misrule of the government in the last three years.

“It is imperative to bring to the attention of the world, the various constitutional violations and the unrelenting persecution, arrest, detention and harried trial of opposition members as well as perceived opponents of government, including innocent business concerns, apparently in pursuit of the grand plot to discredit and stifle the opposition in Nigeria.

“There is also, the increasing unwarranted attacks by government-controlled security forces on journalists, media houses and other well-meaning Nigerians carrying out their legitimate duties simply because they hold different opinions from those of APC led government.



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TonyeBarcanista:

I see that you are not at peace with common sense.. It is a shame that a young man that has gone through secondary school is too intellectually incapacitated to claim that a former 2 term "Senator" could not win Senatorial ticket as if the "Senator" before his name was a Chieftaincy title.

To whom brain is given, sense is expected! Use your brain...

Your level of comprehension is pathetic.

An incumbent senator and 2-term Governor that loses his senatorial ticket wants to be president. SMH

You are a well known bitter loser. So be prepared to lose.

TonyeBarcanista:
The most credible alternative for the Presidency in 2019 remains Senator Ahmed Makarfi.

Lamido will come distant second in the primary

Atiku Abubakar should continue wasting his money

Dankwambo? Lols even Gombe delegates will advice him to go to Senate or wait for ministerial appointment

A Markafi that could not even win a senatorial ticket even as a 2-term Governor.

I’m sure he will end up a failure just as TonyeBarcanista has been a failure all his life from APDA Youth Frontier to a failed PDP National Youth League (that has turned to a social media group).