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See the arrogance. "I asked Kashamu to contest".

This same Kashamu is not in anyway a role model to hardworking Nigerians. He is even a wanted drug pusher by the USA. And this Clark still wants him to be a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Alamesiegha, a convicted thief, who disguised as a woman to escape authorities in the UK is also contesting as a senator under the PDP.

I hope everybody can see the image of Nigeria this loafers want to portray to the whole world.

With these kind of characters the PDP is pushing up, no one needs to look too much for the reasons the international community does not give any regard to the govt of the day.

They have portrayed Nigeria as a Banana republic where everything goes and there is no consequence for impunity.

PDP, a party of chop I chop according to their National chairman. This party has so much messed up democratic ideals especially under this administration. The only people that were able to contest for any post under it are those that were forced on the state chapter by the National.

If the PDP is allowed to get away with this, it will spell a grave danger for our democracy and breed a culture of dictatorial imposition of candidates. From the North to South, East and West the dust of their shabby primaries is yet to settle.

I even read that as many as 3 candidates are still actively campaigning for one particular senatorial seat under the PDP in Anambra state. Imagine such confusion.

PDP and confusion, cluelessness and ineptitude are synonymous.

We need to do away with them especially for now in order to lay a proper foundation built on honesty and integrity for a better Nigeria.

As Father Mbaka said "it shall be well, it shall be well, is it until you die?!"

GMB/PYO to the rescue!

#Ihavedecided

Why I asked Kashamu to contest Senate seat —CLARK


Elder statesman and national leader of the Ijaw, Chief Edwin Clark yesterday revealed that he was one of those who asked Prince Buruji Kashamu to contest for the Ogun East senatorial seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Chief Clark, who disclosed this while addressing party leaders and faithful at the Goodluck Jonathan Political Centre, said he was buoyed by “Buruji’s commitment to justice and his love for the party and President Goodluck Jonathan,” adding that Kashamu is “a very intelligent person who has got the resources. He cannot be bought over by anyone.”

He said he asked him to go to the National Assembly so that he will be able to continue to defend the interest of the party at the upper chamber.

Clark recalled the role played by Prince Kashamu and others in stabilising the PDP for President Goodluck Jonathan when those he called “the Gang of 7 rose against the President.”

He said he was not surprised at the crowd that came to welcome him despite the a 24 hours notice because, according to him, he knows Kashamu’s capacity.

Responding, Prince Kashamu expressed his gratitude to Chief Clark for visiting Ogun State and Ijebu Igbo, in particular.
He said the Goodluck Jonathan Political Centre was not built as a commercial venture but a place for strategic political meetings and empowerment initiatives.

Kashamu informed the octogenarian that former Governor Gbenga Daniel sent his apologies for not being around to receive him as earlier planned owing to a situation that occurred yesterday morning and that he needed to personally attend to issues outside the state.

Chief Clark, who had been earlier received at the State PDP Secretariat in Abeokuta, by Aare Tunde Alabi, State Secretary, Alhaji Semi Sodipo and Dr. Yomi Majekodunmi, among other party stalwarts, paid homage to the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, alongside his wife, Dr. Abisola Sodipo-Clark, who is the PDP candidate for Ogun Central Senatorial District.

The royal father noted that Mrs Sodipo-Clark was a true daughter of Egbaland and that her father was a member of the House of Representatives in the First Republic, adding that she was qualified to represent Ogun Central at the red chamber.
He prayed for her and wished her well in her endeavours.

Among the dignitaries who received the elder statesman were the PDP governorship candidate, Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka; his deputy, Prince Tunde Makanjuola; State Chairman, Adebayo Dayo; party leaders, such as Chief Kola Ogunjobi, Alhaji Agboola Alausa, Otunba Adeleke Adedoyin, Chief Pegba Otemolu, Chief Fatai Ajibode, Elder Yemi Akinwonmi, Comrade Niyi Osoba and Mrs. Ibilola Solaja, among others.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/why-i-asked-kashamu-to-contest-senate-seat-clark/

We don suffer for this country. These electricity distribution companies are scamming us big time.

They take a senseless fixed charge from millions of customers which translates into billions every month. Steady billions even before their normal charges.

And despite these free billions they rake in every month, they have refused to install pre-paid metres for a good majority of their customers.

Especially those living in areas that are not high brow. These people are milking the average Nigerian dry and the light made available is still a pathetic one.

Sincerely Nigeria, we need to open up the petroleum and the electricity distribution industries to serious scrutiny. Massive corruption that has crippled this country is going on in these two sectors.

The one of electricity is even worse because they are even still extorting the little the masses depend on without even providing the power.

It is no propaganda to say the economy has been badly managed under GEJ. It is a fact!

All the regulatory agencies meant to protect the interest of the public like the NERC (electricity), DPR (petroleum), EFCC & ICPC (financial and fraud), SON (standards), CBN (banks and economy), NBC (media, multichoice just dey misbahve as they like, and nothing dey happen), NCC (telecoms- these ones are a bunch of arrogant thieves), FMEnv (Environment) among other regulatory agencies have not been visible at all and are not performing optimally!

And the resultant effect is that the Nigerian people are subjected to all forms of fraudulent practises.

Soludo hit the nail on the head, when he asserted that the economy has been handed over to the people govt is supposed to actively regulate in order to protect the Nigerian people cum consumers.

I just hope they won't come and blame other people again for this their weak oversight.

#Never again will such a weak govt lead this country.

#Never again will such a bunch of excuse givers govern hardworking and intelligent people of Nigeria.


No need for further stories...
GMB/PYO to the rescue!

#Ihavedecided

Electricity meters now sell for N60,000

The cost of acquiring pre-paid electricity meters by consumers in the country has risen due to the fall in the value of the naira following the currency’s recent devaluation by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

A single-phase meter, according to findings by our correspondent, can now be obtained for N39,375, while the three-phase meter now goes for N60,909.

Before now, the single-phase and three-phase meters were selling for N25,000 and N50,000.

However, with the latest development, the cost of the single-phase meter has risen by 56 per cent, while that of the three-phase meter has jumped by 20 per cent.

This means that household electricity consumers, who are majorly the users of single-phase meters, will pay more for the devices in relative terms compared to the users of the three-phase meters.

Our correspondent gathered that the price increase was because most of the meters in the Nigerian electricity market were imported and that the rising exchange rate of the naira to the United States dollar was posing a huge problem to importers of the product.

For companies assembling the different components of the meters locally, the challenge is the same because foreign exchange is needed to import the components.

Confirming the current cost of the meters, the spokesperson for the Eko Electricity Distribution Company, Mr. Godwin Idemudia, said, “The single-phase smart meter is N39,375, while three-phase meter is N60,901,” adding that the company was no longer installing ordinary prepaid meters.

The spokesperson for the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, Mr. Pekun Adeyanju, told our correspondent in a telephone interview that the company had not commenced its metering programme yet; but was looking at starting it on or before May.

He said the company was taking its time to ensure that the meters it would introduce to customers met global standard and could stand the test of time.

He, however, urged customers to be patient with the firm.

The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Powercap Limited, Mr. Biodun Ogunleye, told our correspondent in a telephone interview that because Nigeria was largely a foreign currency regulated economy, the devaluation of the naira would affect imported commodities, electricity meters inclusive.

With the realities on the ground, he said there was no way the pricing of the meters would not be altered.

Ogunleye said, “A lot of inputs have to be imported, and ultimately, those inputs will be passed onto the consumers at the cost plus margins. As a result, the costs of bringing in meters will go up; and there is nothing anybody can do about it.

“It is a priority that must be implemented because the people who are operating in the market will be interested in maximising their revenue. They will not want to encourage any form of income leakages.”

He said by this, whatever pricing the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission had fixed would be revisited because it had a little choice as far as granting a review was concerned.

The Powercap boss added, “We have one or two local plants that can produce meters. The high foreign exchange may prompt the government to intervene, and thus make the business more profitable.

“But bear in mind that when it comes to meters like many other electronics, the specification and a couple of other factors between the distribution companies and the meter manufacturers must be adhered in order to drive patronage.”

He said EKEDC was looking at installing prepaid meters that could be monitored from its offices, adding that the move was targeted at ensuring that communication was enhanced between it and the meters, notwithstanding where they were installed.

A text message sent by our correspondent to the Chairman, NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, to confirm the position of the agency on the matter was not responded to as of the time of going to press, just as a call to his mobile telephone line indicated that it was switched off.

However, the Chief Executive Officer, EKEDC, Mr. Oladele Amoda, during the company’s first quarter meeting with the media on Monday, said it was looking at investing $20m in providing meters to residential users as well as other smaller consumers of electricity.

For its key customer group, he said about $15m would be committed to meter provision, promising that over 300,000 meters would be installed by the end of the metering programme.

Copyright PUNCH.

http://www.punchng.com/news/electricity-meters-now-sell-for-n60000/

GMB/PYO! The best pair to salvage Nigeria out of cluelessness and rapaciousness.

GMB! God bless you, God preserve you, God strengthen you to purge this nation of thieves!

Amen!!!

Interesting. Nice innovation from the thinking world.

Rochas, future President of Nigeria after Buhari. Ride on pls

shaddi:
Men!!!.. Its about 1:30am my laughter was so hard that my neighbours have to force my gate open to know if am still sane cos I have woken the whole estate with laugh , this PDP guys where totaly out of fact and groove.... I have to watch it over again. Mbok ette. ... Mbok nah!!!




Sai Buhari boys
Sai APC
Sai Change

Wow, same thing happened to me. I laughed so hard at about 1am, my wife woke up frightened and later got angry when she realised it is the same nairaland that she has always been complaining about.

That AyeDee guy is a big scam. He just scammed himself into the pockets of the PDP with his sweet and oily mouth. He is actually an empty barrel.

He is just like FFK. It is the same strategy Fani also used to scam his way into GEJ pocket. Tackle the govt wt a smooth mouth, then negotiate wt them behind and then come out blazing like fire supporting them on all fronts.

AyeDee and FFK are birds of the same feathers. They are big time scammers to GEJ. They are professional sweet talkers. I won't be surprised if the guy actually paid Linda for that earlier stunt that earned him his publicity. It seems like part of his grand plan to scam his way into politicians' pockets.

PDP must have spent some good money to fly the overrated guy into the country, lodge him into a nice hotel and then reward him handsomely for his appearance.

The way FFK and this overhyped AyeDee guy got into the campaign organisation of GEJ shows it clearly that GEJ is not a very smart guy.

Sanchez01:
[size=15pt]Lolz... I have unlimited data on my PC and I've been scouting Youtube for the video but haven't found it yet. I wonder why Channels haven't released the video yet.[/size]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKLrhTH0oZA

That's part 1


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-BATbabW3c

Part 2

Vicotex:
By their lies and mouth odour we shall know them.

An Apc tout spotted

Whenever SATAN listens to one of APC's lies, he screams "GOD FORBID".

Look at this one. What is the lie in what I have written? Is the PDP not morbidly terrified of card readers that is meant to discourage rigging? Instead of the PDP to bring out points to improve the use of card readers, all they have been doing is to try their all to scuttle the process.

Put your utterance side by side with mine, and tell me who is the tout & liar btw us.

Decale:
Everybody won't be and can't be like you or the poster. Even if you cooked that 80% stats from your pinehole, it doesn't mean I'm part of it regardless of the amount.

Believe this right now, there are sane people in Nigeria and you just met one

The poster should get ass-whooped even if it were dollars but should be cremated for #400 that can't even buy 2 bottles of orijin

Keep quiet and stop sounding sanctimonious. You clearly indicated that it was the amount you were concerned about. Not the fact that he collected. If you claim to be part of the remaining 20%, good for you.

I'm being real. This is the plain situation on ground, we don't have to deceive ourselves. There is serious lack in the land and good majority of Nigerians will not blink twice before collecting anything that comes free.

You just go to anywhere where there is crowd and try to distribute something free. Even if it is pencil that majority may not use, I can assure you that you'll almost get crushed.

PDP sha, already shitting in their pants. Who does not know that Vanguard is an alternative PDP mouthpiece?

chukwudi44:
Little flaws ke? I hope you won't be the one to complain after the elections.

Papa you don come again? Good morning.
But why is your party and the govt you support so morbidly afraid of this card readers?

There they go again. Party/govt of bloody excuse-givers. When will they ever bear up responsibility for their failures?

It is time they quit the stage, for the General who is ready to take both the accolades and blame for his actions.

Blame Buhari, Shettima, Lai Mohammed if Chibok girls are not found — PDP

By Henry Umoru and Levinus Nwabughiogu

Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPCO) says the All Progressives Congress (APC), its presidential candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State and the party’s National Publicity Director, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, should be held responsible if the abducted Chibok girls are not found.

It tongue lashed the leadership of the APC over what it described as a flopped one-million-man-march organised in Lagos, saying only 10,000 persons attended the programme. According to the PDPPCO, the development was an indication that the APC and its National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, are no longer in control of Lagos State.

The campaign organisation was reacting to an APC statement, yesterday, which described as callous, morbid and insensitive the comments by President Goodluck Jonathan that the abducted girls are still alive hinged on the belief that Boko Haram had not displayed their bodies to prove their death.

In a statement by the Director, Media and Publicity of PDPPCO, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, it noted that the APC and its leaders were working against the recovery of the girls, saying that while many Nigerians were happy with the efforts of the military and Jonathan and the successes recorded so far, the opposition party was not happy.

Fani-Kayode said, “Whilst the majority of Nigerians are overjoyed by the fact that the President has given us hope by saying that the girls are still alive, Lai Mohammed and the APC are not happy.

“The truth is that they do not want those girls to be found and neither do they care about their welfare or their safety. We say this because this was a man, and a party that complained and protested at the fact that Boko Haram was proscribed by the Federal Government last year.

“Lai Mohammed proclaimed that the proscription was unjust and unconstitutional. We have always believed that Buhari, Lai Mohammed, Governor Shettima and the APC know far more about the whereabouts of the Chibok girls and the activities of Boko Haram than they have cared to admit.

“Let it be clearly understood that if anything happens to those girls and if they are not produced at the soonest, we will hold Lai Mohammed, Buhari and the APC responsible”.
On the one-million-man-march organised in Lagos, the spokesperson for the PDPPCO said, “The fact that what the APC boasted would be a one-million-man march could only attract about 10,000 persons is a reflection of the pitiful state of delusion that they are suffering from.

“They have lost touch with reality and with the people of the state over whom they have maintained a wicked and ungodly economic and political stranglehold for all of 16 years. But the people of Lagos have now seen through their deception and have decided to reject them at the polls this time round.
“The Lagos people have amply demonstrated their anger against the APC and its leader.
“It is interesting to read that Tinubu asked the people at the flopped march to march for their freedom. I agree with him and the people will obey him by freeing themselves on April 11 from the political and economic bondage into which Tinubu has put them since 1999”.

‘Deeply offensive’
In its statement, the APC, yesterday, had described as callous, morbid and insensitive the comments by President Goodluck Jonathan, that the Chibok girls are still alive hinged on the belief that Boko Haram had not displayed their bodies to prove their death.
In the statement issued by its National

Publicity Secretary, Mohammed, the party   said   it found the “comment deeply offensive to human sensibilities rather than providing hope and succour for the traumatised parents of the girls”.

It said a key role of Presidents everywhere in times of tribulations and tragedies is to offer hope and be the consoler-in-chief, not to make statements that will deepen the suffering and sorrow of victims.

APC said one would have expected a President to speak on the basis of actionable intelligence, not some twisted, melancholic and offensive logic.

The party said the statement “played on the fears of the parents of the girls and indeed of all Nigerians concerning the fate of the girls, who have now been held in captivity for over 300 days, with an impotent government unable to rescue them”.

It said “all that the parents of the girls as well as all concerned people around the world want to know is what the Jonathan administration is doing to bring the girls home safely   and as soon as possible, not a depressing statement about their bodies being displayed via a video by Shekau if they had been killed”


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/blame-buhari-shettima-lai-mohammed-if-chibok-girls-are-not-found-pdp/

Decale:
#400? I'm really ashamed right now.

Cut the guy some slack abeg, the guy is a student who was passing by and saw the opportunity to collect some free cash.

He is not different from the rest people who has been collecting thousands of GEJ dollars. His own cash is just little cos of his perceived lesser influence capability.

Definitely a lot of people will sanctimoniously come to the internet to denounce his action, but in real life, a whopping 80% of students especially in politically active public schools will collect that money.

Nigerians sha. They condemn unethical practises only when the amount involved is meagre.

sleemfesh:
Have you for once sat down and asked yourself whether these scams started under Jonathan? Then after that do you ever ask yourself how come under him all of them were brought to the surface. How come the past Admin didn't seem to discover it. It is in itself a plus. He tried to stop the subsidy scam but you and me matched against it and still have the temerity to blame him for its persistence. The pension scam was uncovered and tackled and today we know the thieves there and some faced and are still facing the music including the one that collapsed in the courts. Thier acts span to dates well before GEJ. So what are you telling me?

Some of us are just out to condemn everything mindlessly and full hate and lack of objective analysis.

I can see he indeed tried to stop the subsidy scam by making one of the actors the Leader of his TAN group.

For your information, he only tried to take action in a weak and convenient way that will not anger his subsidy thieves, and will impoverish Nigerians futher.

Why should Nigerians be made to pay for the sins of a weak govt?

Why should Nigerians be impoverished further because a weak govt cannot tackle corruption in the oil industry.

If there is no effective and consistent consequences for corrupt practices, no matter the system put in place, the corrupt elements will still find away to circumvent it as they are confident at the end of it, there will be no consequence for their action. Just noise in the media.

Elders in states like Rivers, Kaduna, Plateau, Bauchi and Lagos need to come out and lead a campaign for peaceful polls.

If care is not taken, there could be serious outbreak of violence in these places due to the high political tension already on ground.

tit:
it is now fire-for-fire!

See this one hiding under one cave in Enugu calling for fire for fire. I can see how selfish you are. Just because you are not resident in an area prone to violence you are selfishly encouraging violence.

Assuming you have loved ones in Kaduna, i'm sure you'd have been calling for restraint and maturity.

Children of anger and hate! They are not difficult to identify at all.

As if Jona sef get oratorical strength.

GMB delivers his speech in a better and more confident way than Jona.

GEJ delivers speech as if there is hot yam in his mouth.

You cannot hire hordes of low lives to hurl insults at my person, my wife, my family and what I represent and still expect me to be doing a debate with you.

Of course, i'll just leave you and your gang to continue wallowing in your ignorance and hate, and will take my message directly to the electorate. Simple

The PDP is at it again emphasising the little flaws that was recorded.

Either they like it or not, we'll send them parking from Aso villa.

It is time honest and people of integrity steer the affairs of this country.

GMB/PYO!

temitemi1:
Are you too blind to see that buhari is already back to his cows in his village

Continue in your robotic ways. Even Jona himself is aware that he is closer to Otuoke like never before.

That is why he is massively depleting our resources to settle irrelevant people.

We'll soon correct the mistake of having someone like him at the helms of affairs by March 28th.

#Change is here!

GMB/PYO!

temitemi1:
Are you too blind to see that buhari is already back to his cows in his village

Continue in your robotic ways. Even Jona himself is aware that he is closer to Otuoke like never before.

That is why he ismassively depleting our resources to settle irrelevant people.

We'll soon correct the mistake of having someone like him at the helms of affairs by March 28th.

#Change is here!

GMB/PYO!

All these people including GEJ thinks we are not smart.

When GEJ came on board in 2011, he didn't deem it fit to organise a confab immediately. It was only one year to the end of his administration when politics was already heating up that he now set up a confab just for political gains. And since the end of the confab that we spent billions on, he has abandoned the report in one corner to gather dust.

But now that the tension is high on the political front , he has now started campaigning with confab report.

Fake! Jona has no plan for no confab report. He just used that conference to buy some people over and then allow some others to share out of the national cake.

All we are sayinggggg...

GeneralMarch4Buhari! (GMB)


GMB/PYO pair are a honest pair that one can trust to keep their words.

They will subject themselves to accountability like no Nigerian leader has ever done, and will set an example for the whole political class to follow. This alone will bring thousands of foreign investors and ensure stability.

The Fed Executive Council team these guys are going to set up will be the best brains in the country.

I can see the signs of a greater Nigeria through this pair...

We must never miss this wonderful opportunity to elect leaders with integrity and honesty...

#Ihavedecided

GMB/PYO!

GMB!

deletrue:
You fit do me? You people thinks you will always have your way because you feel GEJ is gentle. When has the intentions to allow the system to grow, you people thinks he is a work over. Just to allow him to complete his two normal terms since his performaces are there, you want power by all means becuase you people are the almighty. Oya come rule. Dafts.
Imagaine the deliberate problems you have caused this government. Don't cry. You people not seen any thing yet. You will commit suicide.

From the way you are going, it is evident you are the one that will commit suicide when GMB is declared winner of the election and sworn in May 29th.

I don't need to respond to the remaining nonsense and half truths u put up there.

deletrue:
It is you, your apc, the four governors who are from on region that decamped, left GEj and the 'only me rule group' that is seriously CURSED. You nonentity and foolish idio.t. Are you regreting what is happening? Are you not enjoying all these manipulations? Are all these not much more interesting? You people have not seen anything. Tell us the reasons and motive behind boko haram and your subsequent use of boko haram against GEJ during campaigns. Nonsense. If you cannot beat them join pdp. When Obasanjo was damaging GEJ with all the unfounded lies against GEJ, you people were jubilating because, you want GEJ out by all means
Look, whenever we Nigerians are ready, nobody will tell us. For now let us not cry. It is for the strongest, the rishest, etc that is expected to win the elections. That is the truth.
Let me stop here and wait for you. I swear, I will finish you.

Frustrated soul no be me dey do u oh

Ngwakwe:
Instead of blaming Jega who acted like an emperor by denying registration to a legitimate application eight months ago the blame game has now being shifted to PDP.

Lest assume it was APC registration that was stalled and this judgement .What would have been your opinion?

Jega is the problem, , that's the truth.

The party is challenging INEC for not communicating it's decision on time, they are not disputing that they were not validly denied registration.

And pls get your facts right, Jega as an individual is different from INEC as a body.