I am just so surprised.

So many people actually have a problem with Dora asking UMYD to hand over to his vice.

And her calling for her head.

I dint know there were so many supporters of the status quo on NL.

SEFAGO:

No I dont apparently

Now you've resorted to correcting typos  

Complete waste of time.

SEFAGO:

, she can present the memo every single day. Nothing go change. The powers that be decide our president not paper. Na her time she dey waste and she knows it very well. Nigeria has to be cleaned inside out, everyone is bloody corrupt

Then the likes of Wole Soyinka, Femi Falana and everyone who has spoken out should shut-up because they can't and haven't changed anything.

Are you saying that the people should keep quiet because they do not have enough powers to effect change.

What is your point ?

Are you sure you posses enough intelligence to comment on this issue?

Some of you are just so traumatised in your country that you think nothing good can come out of Nigeria.

The constitution says that the FEC presently is the only body with the powers (60%) to force the president to hand over power.

When I heard that I gave up hope of anything happening.

Now this woman has spoken up and commenced the motion and you want her to resign instead !

This I suppose will apply to every member of the FEC which the same opinion as she does.

Leaving the FEC with pro-yara'dua ministers.

Its begs the question, whose side are you on ?

Do some of you reason at all?

Doesn't make sense

chosen04:

Pls stop that trash.

Its BETTER NEVER THAN LATE. What is the essence of medicine to the dead man?(Call it medicine after death!)

If she has been a great supporter of the "president can rule from any where" why cant he still continue?

Aaandoka not Dora!

The Dora you know 2day has lost her credibility. She should desist from playing the Pro-masses of Nigeria role.

When and how ?
She wasn't just a darling of the press.
No one can point at one sin she has commited.
As far as im concerned she has always been a woman of intergrity and this event doesn't surprise me.

mbulela:

@ adigun 101,
if you were in Dora's shoes and you were offered the position of Information Minister for Yaradua will you accept it?

So that is her sin. Accepting to serve as minister under a democratically (undemocratically) elected government.
Let me draw you a list of people that accepted positions even under even military regimes in the past.
1. Obafemi Awolowo - Minister of Finance Gowon
2. Tai Solarin - Peoples Bank Chairman - IBB
4 Emeka Anyaoku - Foreign Adviser to Obasanjo
5. Muhamadu Buhari - PTF chairman - Abacha
6. Bola Ige - AGN - Under PDP led Obasanjo

If any of the above mentioned individuals can be termed as heroes how is Dora different ?

mbulela:

my eye don clear now.
The impression she created at NAFDAC was just a smokescreen.
she has found her true level amongst hypocrites and charlatans.
When Adedibu said she was begging him to intervene on her behalf for a ministerial appointment, everyone laughed him off now the truth is known.

And Yar'adua said she was appointed because of Adedibu ?
Well we all know adedibu who Dora clashed with as a very credible fellow.

There is no proof to back up the report, every one is saying 'informed sources' said.I am think the story might have been planted by her aides.

The story is both on SR and on Nigerian dailies
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=165768
What else do you want a video recording ?
Planted by her aides to gain what .
Dont tell me she has presidential ambitions.

Most nigerians think that the real Dora was the NAFDAC one and that she is presently acting out of character, i believe the opposite.
did she just wake up from her slumber?
where has she been these past 70 days?
after defending the ineptitude of this sick govt in public, why does she have to voice her new found sanity in secret?
they are all liars and hypocrites and Dora is no different.

It takes guts to break ranks with your boss. Full stop.
Were is everyone in government. Were are the PDP governors, were are the PDP officials. Were is the VP himself.
Give the woman kudos instead of all the bad belle.


Her records at NAFDAC were positive,
As a spokes person for the government, do you want her to attack Yaradua .

Knight1:

RULE(RUSE) OF LAW-UMY
GOOD PEOPLE, GREAT NATION (BAD LEADERS)- DORA
TO GOD BE THE GLORY- CHIMAROKE=ENUGU
PDP!!!! (RIGGING)
I DEY KAMPE/EHM EHM EHM-OBJ
HONORABLE COLLEAGUES, ORDER!!!!!-HOUSE OF REPS
NULL AND VOID-SUPREME COURT
GOVERNOR IN WAITING-UBA

Infact them too plenty abeg

That one na the latest.

mbulela:

only an idiot will believe this.
the case of that woman is long lost.
their is no redemption for her.This is her true self.
she is realising her dreams.
if you doubt it go and wake up Adedibu and ask him.

Abeg clarify when your eyes don clear !

real4life:

Totally wrong move.

First things first, she should resign her appointment as minister, beg Nigerians to forgive her for all her lies during her tenure, then she can start spilling her guts.

She made a genuine attempt to re-brand your dirty Nigeria image asides that what has been the womans sins so far.
What are her lies?
Can someone reply with a list.

I only remember this woman for Nafdac, re-branding and now this!
She is always one of the better nigerians we can ever boast of.

THE MASSES, COMMON MAN, GEO-POLITICAL ZONE, NIGER DELTA, MEND, ACTION GOVERNOR, 7 POINT AGENDA, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, VISION 2010, VISION 2020, VISION


ELECTION TRIBUNAL, ELECTION MALPRACTICE, VOTING IRREGULARITIES

SOLUDO : CONSOLIDATION, MICRO-FINANCE, NAIRA RE-DENOMINATION,POST & PRE-CONSOLIDATION ERA

SANUSI : INSOLVENT, MARGIN LOANS, NON-PERFORMING LOANS, CAPITAL EROSION, RE-CAPITALISATION, REFORMS, RISK MANAGEMENT

Source ?

metal-gong:

At least with the above imbecillic ranting, you have showed the world that Obi has small mentality while you have a BIG mentality. What a dunce!
Whether you like it or not, Peter Obi remains the best Governor Anambra state had seen. He is doing the work Anambrarians elected him to do and he doesnt need to advertise it on the pages of newspaper for your type to see.
If you want to know the reason why he is the darling of the press and why he has been accruing different leadership awards, then go down to Anambra state and ask the common men and women.
Peter Obi's only crime is the delivery of good governance to Anambrarians and the insulation of the greedy elites out of Anamra treasury.

I know I am a dunce but I can understand pictures. Show me the pictures.
If not you are a gullible Id!ot.

Eziachi:

I don't think Soludo will rule with his wife and children but with the same PDP you hate. In Nigerian version of democracy, its the party that matters in the end as governor or presidents can't even choose those that will work with them. So it doesn't matter whether Soludo is Jesus Christ, he will be as good as PDP is. And the PDP record is not something to cheerful about. Mark my word.
The pathetic thing in Nigeria is that, they hate noiseless people like Peter Obi, who goes about his business very quietly, unfortunately, that will be his draw back next week. As they will likely go for the highest noise maker, that is, if the vote matters in the end.

Tell me the governor with the highest sponsored accolades on the face of Nigeria's dailies without any on-ground achievement to show and you say his not making noise. This guy has spent so much money on cosmetic gratification.

Obi's problem is that hes got a small mentality. Thats why he cannot achieve anything meaningful.
He spends money and time trying to create this illusionary image.

My question is what has he done (in pictures), what legacies has he introduced.
Anyways he'll be history in a few mnths.

You can report tribalistic threads to the moderator and let him/her take appropriate action.
Im kind of amazed at comments people getting away with and how they were beginning to poison my mind.

I agree that Nigeria is a highly fragmented society, but this forum should be a medium to solve problems not enable them.
If things do not improve, I would have to leave for good!

Believe me, you all on this forum will have a lot to lose if I do !

You see the problem with Obi is that he reasons like a stark illitrate petty trader.
I mean like a chewing stick seller.
I'm sure his days are numbered.

As far as i am concerned, nothing is new. Fo anambra it is even a good thing that the debate still went ahead.

Tell one single thing that have EVER BEEN ORGAIZED in Nigeria

Organize is a word that doesn't go with Naija.

ud4u:

I can't even understand where she is going, what does poverty has to do with Abdulmutallab.

It makes no meaning.

montelik:

This is bad. So this is what a whole secretary of state has to say. CHEI  . Here I was thinking that Ojo Maduekwe was an embarassment.  

Exactly !

"The information we have on the Christmas Day bomber so far seems to suggest that he was disturbed by his father's wealth and the kind of living conditions that he viewed as being not Islamic enough."
1. We all should be worried about rich muslim kids who are worried about the kind of living conditions around them.
2. Osama bin laden (a son of a rich man) was probably was lured into terrorism for the same reasons.
3. American kids get disturbed by wealth while the poor ones are stable.
4. When poverty around you are not islamic enough, you pick up a bomb and board a plane for the US.
5. Poverty drives poor kids into extremism and Wealth drives rich people into extremism.

Hillary was never my woman but she just scored a huge low.
What kind of icoherent, patched up statement that still doesn't fit !

They just made a scapegoat of Nigeria Period!

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/21/ted.talk.adichie.excerpt/index.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK-yu14daHY

What is your opinion on all the negative stories of Nigeria.

This is only for the intellectually gifted. Retards and tribalists stay away !

I really wish we could bury this Biafra mess and get along.

kidonig:

Igbos did not stupidly follow Ojukwu into an egotistic war. Igbos were being killed in the thousands in different parts of the country especially in the north (much like what is happening now in jos but in this case nationally) and the federal government turned a blind eye and refused to acknowledge the fact or even address it.

The Igbos then decided to all run back to the east where they come from as a place of solace. There was no form of dialogue that ensued. Even the Aburi peace accord which Gowon agreed to in Aburi, was discarded.

People twist the history just to propagate their own agenda. Read books about Nigerian History and visit war museums and research before you come to conclusions. What our parents tell us will always be their own point of view.

I suggest you read Frederick Forsyth's Books (I think on of them is "The Making of an African Legend" but I am not sure) and other independent authors not just Nigerian writers as everyone will talk from his own point of view.

And then you send your people to battle without guns against a formidable adversary with international support

Katsumoto:

I will not go into the coup here or else we will digress.
The Yorubas lost credibility but yet Abiola won the fairest and freest election in Nigerian history. Abiola defeated Tofa in the West, East, and the North. IBB did not hand over power for many reasons, some of them selfish. It had nothing to do with the events of the 60s. If the Yoruba's lack credibility so much, why did the rest of the country agree for the first president in 1999 to be Yoruba?

You are making a point but it is not about credibility. It is about trust and the lack of it. You will find it difficult to find credible politicians in Nigeria. Credibility had nothing to with Awo being denied the presidency in 1979; that was more about election rigging and the myth about population figures. I agree that Awo was ever unlikely to win an election in the East. I applaud your attempts at being neutral but there is no need to perform a balancing act. Just present facts as facts and your opinions as opinions.

Perceived credibility translates to trust. By credibility I actually meant trust. If you had read the context of my post you would've noticed that.
The north handed over to OBJ because he was a man they could trust but that doesn't translate to Yoruba trustworthyness.
OBJ was a man the Yoruba deemed a traitor. And was widely despised.
One technique to fight an adversary is to unite with his enemies.
Abiola on the other hand did not have credibility or trustworthiness issues with Nigerians/Nothern masses but with the Northern elite, the power cabals.
These are the people who I am directing my focus on.
Politics you remember, most especially in Nigeria is an elitist game.

Katsumoto:

What credibility are you talking about? Are you aware that people from the East, including prominent Igbo sons, fought against Biafra? The west wanted to stay out of that war because the west was just coming out of the crises that engulfed it in the early 60s. While Awo might have acted against Biafra, did several Yoruba sons not fight for Biafra? Was Soyinka not jailed? Were Ijebu farmers not killed for protesting against the war? If you are not informed, then get the knowledge. Stop perpetuating this myth of Yoruba guilt.

Did Awo not try to get both parties to avoid war? Did Awo or anyone in the west invite the Biafra Expeditionary Force? Was there an agreement between the west and Ojukwu? Afterall, when Awo met Ojukwu in May 67, did Ojukwu tell Awo that he was going to be sending forces to the west to assist the west in defending itself against incursions from the North? Why did Ojukwu have this erroneous impression that the West needed protection? Afterall, the West had not declared any stand at that point. Unfortunately, that incursion that stopped at Ore was a turning point because the West did not understand why Ojukwu was sending its forces to the West.

What you fail to understand is that the whole quagmire in 1966 started in the west. The west, politically was in a state of mini war due to incessant meddling by the central government and the coup was supposed to address that. That was even the excuse the coup plotters gave. The west was the only region in Nigeria who has very serious fundamental political problems and could not heal itself.

The military officers carried out a coup and the Igbo populace beared the brunt. It all ended up with Awo who was at the centre of the whole issues serving under the military Junta of Gowon. That is what I call loss of credibility to the Igbos and even the northerners.
Since then they never respected Awo or any Yoruba leader.
This even cost him in 1979 (he won the election but had credibility issues)
See Abiola June 12 1993.
The Yorubas as a major ethnic group would and should've played a better part at a minimum stayed completely out.
The war was more or less between the Eastern region and the North.
The onus was on the Yorubas to lead proceedings as at the time.
As soon as the Awo took sides with the nothern led government in turned into a tribal issue.
All non-igbos in the eastern region abandoned Ojukwus kinsmen.
The world and the international community saw the Igbos as a renegade ethnic group.
Ojukwu stupidly did not see this !

The Igbos on the other hand allowed Ojukwu, a 33  year old rascal to single handedly lead them to an ill conceived war, refusing all diplomatic and non-military options. A war based on his own sheer ego. A war he fought with no support no guns nothing!
The Igbos stupidly followed him even ignoring a high establisment of political personalities they had at the time (including Zik)

At the end of the day, the story of southern Nigeria reminds me of the story of Esau and Jacob.
Where the former sold his birth right over a plate of porridge.
Everyone in the south sold their esteemed position to the north at the expense of the Igbos not considering that they were at the time superior educationally, civil and others to the north.

That is why till date they feel they can always play all of us the way they want and get away with it.
Look at the whole yar'adua debacle (typical example)

I will always speak the truth as I always deem necessary.
I am no worshiper of people be it Zik, Ojukwu, Awo, Saruduna and co.
These individuals either by commission or omission made the mistakes that have crystallised into Nigeria problems today.

I now understand why Nigeria is in such a peculiar situation.
The Biafran war looks like an open wound/cancer/curse on this country.

No discussion can be completed without Yorubas, dogged by guilt and having lost their credibility at a certain time in Nigerias history turning it into an anti-igbo tirade.
The Igbos on the other hand have had an inferiority complex since the end of the war (having been deceived by Ojukwu) , hence they get easily irritated.
The middle belt see themselves as fools who have been used by the hausa/fulanis against their fellow Christian folk they have been paying the price ever since.
The Niger-Delta who abandoned their fellow eastern Nigeria folk when things got worse have all but lost their identity hence they need people from the  not to tell them about their origins(see Niger-Delta or South-south) no clear definition.
The winners end up being the highly inept uneducated hausa/fulanis who cannot believe their luck!

I think what we need in Nigeria is full reconciliation were everyone admits to their mistakes and this ghost of Biafra is laid to rest once and for all.
So that we can have meaningful discussions.
I think this biafra issue has lingered on that it now seems like a curse !

KunleOshob:

Uncle Sege is definitely by far the best president this country has ever had no matter what all the ill informed people on this forum say. despite all his short comings, [i agree he had plenty sef] baba was still highly commited and he gave his best to the development of this country. Also under him we witnessed massive economic growth even though some haters would deny that but the facts and figures are there for all to see that is apart from the fact that it was obvious the economy had gained a lot of strength under him. I sincerely miss baba in power, i really wish his third term ageanda had sailed through , i am sure we won't be in all the mess we are today.

You see people like you are the reason a retard like OBJ is the best we can offer.

Well I must add even with all his imperfections, UNFORTUNATELY, HE IS !
That says alot of our country

With regards the journalist and the minister, one phrase comes to mind.
Two wrongs dont make a right.
But in a world were a journalist was praised for throwing shoes at a standing president, I think we are continuously slipping away from humanity and civility.

That said, Foreign ministers all over the world including Nigeria , Have a primary duty to sell the sitting administration to the world. You will never get a foreign minister that will talk against his administration. So I dont think anyone should expect anything more from the minister. They shouldnt even have bothered.

PDP on the other hand does not have the power to force the president.
The country cannot rely on the FEC who are employees of the president to prevail on the president not even the AGF.

The onus falls on the legislature and the judiciary to act on the presidency! Very important take note.

I am quite amazed . But I've got a few questions.
1. Based on CBN audit depostor funds in oceanic bank were about 20 - 30 bn.

2. Non-performing loans were N278.

3. If Nigerian banks hold up to N500 billion of an individuals deposits. Why is it that their depositor total is not more than 50 billion.

So where did the money come from. Is is that she defrauded shareholders and directed all the banks loans to herself.

I need some clarification on the issue. This story lacks credibility.

Some of us are less gallible than most of you.