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We demand the full report. Let us study it ourselve and confirm our thorough PWC was.

ucheheart:
What's the difference? Kukuma make it N200 na.

That N200 mark has a psychological influence on the psyche of the populace, I assume that is why they pegged it at 199 (lay man's assumption).

Kai, Iweala and Emefiele has totally messed up the economy.

Either Buhari or Jonathan wins, we need to do away with Okonjo Iweala. Obasanjo realised she was not that in-tuned to our local economy, that was why he eased her to the ministry of foreign affairs in his 2nd term.

Bugatie:
Commissioner of works at 27?
Can a 27 year old be given such opportunity today?

Mimiko of Ondo state gave some young dudes the position of commissioner and special adviser, but not as young as 27 sha. They are in their thirties.

inisco:
wat do u knw about war strategies,u think its american movies,is the ukrainan army on offensive or defensive wen the rebels attack them?mayb i shud give u a riffle so u can go on the offensive since u a warlord and u have like five lives to finish the battle since think its a computer game,in war u plan b4 u engage or u might be ambush.kudos to the millitary

What's this one saying? Why are u trying so hard to sound intelligent?

babestella:
Hahahahaha, you make me laugh. Your fake general is totally unsellable you are here making noise. Don't be deceived, I had already said that within this 6 weeks, your s1lly party will self destruct with their lies and propaganda. Mr. Man, lies and propaganda, mud slinging, calling GEJ clueless will never and can never win your pathetic fo00lish party any election. Except in LAGOS and Osun where you have abysmally insane people like your type. Nature and God will not allow some few insane animals drag this country into retrogression, into the hand of APC, a party full of liars, bigots and deceptive old men. Wait and cry with your fake general come March 28. You think NIGERIANS are as fo00lish as you are to vote a man like your fake general.

Thank God u re aware Lagos and Osun are already under wraps for the presidential election.

Peradventure your dumb self do not know, numbers win d election, not a deranged animal's wailing on nairaland.

...and definitely not a bigoted schizophrenic's sentimental and emotional wishes.

1miccza:
This is why i've always described your party as a "kill joy" party must your Lai Mohammed always spew thrash? Commend someone that's doing the right thing for once by the way now that Sambisa forest has been erased where then are the elusive "chigbogu girls"?

No commendation? Maybe u need need to read the article again.

Evil and desperate PDP at it again. God will definitely deliver us from their antics.

Their desperation know no bounds. Nothing they wouldn't do just to have their way to rig in this election.

TVC that more than 70% of the electorates has either returned to INEC or can no longer find it is what they re still clamouring to be used for the elections.

We still have more than 5 weeks to the elections and there is big possibility that those interested in collecting their PVC will be able to do that before the elections, yet, they are still justifying their rigging strategy on the fact tht people cannot collect their PVC.

babestella:
You are a fo0l, insan1ty and deliberate blindness have gotten the better part of you. I can how APC exchanged your brain with bunch of over cooked noddles. Keep deceiving yourself, you'll come to terms with realities after March 28.

You are a deranged nonentity. I can imagine the shock that will ripple through your soul when the presidential election result is announced. Just hang on a little to witness the swearing in pls.

ilovecritics:
Stupid idiot!!! The weapons just came in! What took the house so long to approve of the money to procure equipments?

See this insane animal. You better go for insanity treatment treatment before it is too late.

All what Jona requested for security has always been given speedy approval for the past 4 years. Trillions of naira has been awarded to GEJ during the course of this war.

A good amount of this money has found its way into the pockets of corrupt Generals without any inquisition/punitive action.

PDP has seriously messed this country up. If that Wike wins Rivers state, it will throw them back to an era of hooliganism with cultists running things as they like. It will create people that are too powerful to be called to order by anyone.

Soludo is here again with flying kicks . They better send peace emissaries to this guy.

Obiagelli:
This news was published by PM newspaper, watch how they turn it on apc's head.
This is the new trick from the pdp, fly false information by proxy then come back to debunk it as Apc lies.


www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/02/22/jonathan-commissions-plant-obasanjo-commissioned-in-2007/

You are very correct on this one. I also noticed this. And it usually puts APC enthusiasts in a defensive position as they always want to defend APC and will thus reinforce the message that the PDP is churning out that the news indeed emanated from APC whereas the opposite is the case.

PDP is a serious evil that Nigeria must do away with especially at this present time. The level of propanganda they are playing is highly despicable to say the least.

And after they spin their propaganda, they will immediately release their internet army to propagate the stance with so much ferocity. APC is luckily surviving their onslaught just because they have a huge number of passionate supporters online.

"According to the amended sections, any person who had held office as President or Deputy President of the Senate, Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be entitled to pension for life."

Hope this will not put a toll on our economy? They should have just made it only the President and the Vice President.

opiaoku:
Buhari is a terrorist
Apc Is bokoharam
Gej till 2019

Buhari is a certified terrorist
Buhari will fail and after that he will be hit by stroke

You better go for mental treatment before it is too late.

Lai Mohammed is talking facts here. I am very sure if an independent panel of enquiry is asked to look into this Boko Haram issue, they will definitely indict President Jonathan. How come the military could not curtail Boko Haram until elections are here before they suddenly woke up?

I must commend the military anyways for their recent victories, because they are the ones doing the dying and fighting but I still maintain as I have been saying that it seems the military was purposely on a systematic stand down until now.

They have always maintaned a defensive fighting strategy which even people without a military background saw was a mistake. They usually wait for BH to attack before fighting back. They usually wait for Boko Haram to take towns before going back to attempt to retake them. They refused to go on the offensive for the past 4 years.

It is now that elections are around the corner that they saw the need to go offensive in the BH war. This seems fishy, but anyways, I am happy they are giving the Boko Haram the death and misery they deserve.

barcanista:
While APC took Buhari to meet Blaire, Mr Blaire is lobbying to see President Jonathan. This shows that the international community have seen the schemes of APC and are resolved to rather work with President Jonathan till 2019.

Blair's office just said that as a face-saving to the obviously embarrassed Nigerian President.

Its just like saying "dont worry, we'll meet you as well"

Aksonman:
You are a confirmed lunatic. So a place in London will have exact interiors as a place in Abuja save for pictures on the wall?

Buhari's interview was done about a month ago and most hotels usually embark on periodic make-overs on their suites. Mumu!

You obviously does not make use of the brain God has given you. So you think an interview was made about a month ago but was hidden from the entire Nigerian masses? All the people working for the media house also hid the interview right?

During the heat of campaigns, the same interview was still also hid right? God you guys are really silly.

Tanoids how market na? Must you always make a fool of yourself to the whole world??

If it is even yourselves alone, it would have been better. Unfortunately you are portraying Nigeria as a country with so many dafties.

Tanoids are an embarrassment to this country. They are always causing us unnecessary international embarrassments due to their silly way of thinking.


**That was how they made millions of people to bombard US war college for information about Buhari, when they claimed he didnt go to the school nor bagged the equivalant of a masters degree. The school had to answer so many emails and calls till they got fed up and refused to answer again.


**Afterwards, they claimed Buhari's WASC of 1961 is fake. Both friends and foes and newsmen bombarded Cambridge University for information. Cambridge University got tired of their shenanigans and had to put a a public notice on their website for them.

**Now it is the turn of Chatham house and Tony Blair to be disturbed and bombarded.

When are these PDP guys ever going to think properly? is there something associated with PDP that makes them and their supporters incapable of intelligent conclusions??

How can Fayose be this dumb? Does Fayose think it is possible Buhari did not meet with Tony Blair and he will announce same to the whole world? Does Fayose think Buhari is of questionable character just like him??

These PDP guys are getting me seriously irritated with these their antics.

Tanoids are an embarrassment to this country. They are always causing us unnecessary international embarrassments due to their silly way of thinking.


**That was how they made millions of people to bombard US war college for information about Buhari, when they claimed he didnt go to the school nor bagged the equivalant of a masters degree. The school had to answer so many emails and calls till they got fed up and refused to answer again.


**Afterwards, they claimed Buhari's WASC of 1961 is fake. Both friends and foes and newsmen bombarded Cambridge University for information. Cambridge University got tired of their shenanigans and had to put a a public notice on their website for them.

**Now it is the turn of Chatham house and Tony Blair to be disturbed and bombarded.

When are these PDP guys ever going to think properly? is there something associated with PDP that makes them and their supporters incapable of intelligent conclusions??

How can Fayose be this dumb? Does Fayose think it is possible Buhari did not meet with Tony Blair and he will announce same to the whole world? Does Fayose think Buhari is of questionable character just like him??

These PDP guys are getting me seriously irritated with these their antics.

Buhari is hale and hearty! Anybody wishing sickness and death will bag same.

Eluwilussit:
Agabusta, read your post again. You should be ashamed of yourself. You don't hate jonathan? Really? You only don't support him. Cool. But those of us who don't suoport Buhari for some reasons, hate Buhari.

As smart as you try to sound, you are still a typical hypocrite. One rule for you and a totally different rule for others. That's the problem with APC and people like you. Shame.

Keep your mouth shut pls. Didnt you see how you closed your earlier statement? Your hate is obvious from your posts. I hope you are aware that the record of every user's post is available on nairaland. I maintain I dont hate GEJ, but disapprove totally with his style of governance. Although there are so many of the people around him that I dislike.

Now truthfully tell us your own disposition towards Buhari.

Is it indifference, dislike, hate or chronic hate?

Eluwilussit:
When you were jumping all over every thread, boasting that he was with Tony Blair and was gonna talk at Chatham House, why didn't you postulate this same argument? Hypocrite. It is your hatred for jonathan that's shameful. Watch him win again. Buhari is a coupist and a despot. Period.

I dont understand why his meeting with Tony Blair is a problem for you guys to the extent that you were claiming it is false. What is the problem of you people sef. You guys saw the press statement, but decided to rubbish it by claiming he was never scheduled to speak, when in actual fact what they said was that they hoped. This made some enthusiastic APC online supporters to maintain a defensive argument.

I didn't dignify a lot of you with a response on the issue, cos I perfectly understand what the press statement said. I never defended the issue nor argue for it, because the press statement is quite unambiguous for sensible literates. "They hoped he will speak...". It can go either ways.

Now going to the other assertions you made in your post. YOU GUYS NEED TO HAVE YOU HEAD EXAMINED. That a lot of people do not support President Jonathan for 2nd term does not mean we hate him!!! We are not like you guys that do not support Buhari and also hate him with passion. Stop using how you feel to categorise other people.

I dont hate GEJ, but he is not qualified for a 2nd term. Simple.

I support Buhari because I strongly believe he will perform better than President Jonathan on a lot of fronts.

ayindejimmy:
Now that you had to call me out.
Lemme repeat myself clearly. Buhari is not answerable to any pdp fans.
1, All you guys trying to do is pull him down. So why should he be bothered by your hypocritically laced ranting.
2, He needs to direct his time and energy to those that have faith in him. Those that wish him well. That's where he gets the energy to live through to inimical plans of pdp and rigorous processes of campaigns.
If and when he's elected... Then everyone can have him. Cos he's now Nigeria's property.
4, All he needs now is constructive criticism. And it doesn't seem like pdp have that in mind whenever they open their mouth
5, Buhari will give only people that focus on issues based criticism audience not those only interested in propagandas and gossips about his family.
6,No apc member questioned Gej when he travelled to Germany for medical checkup. So Buhari is not expecting to entertain any interrogation from people with sinister inclinations.
Those of us that have faith in Buhari knows he's in good condition of health. But for those that choose to believe otherwise... Buhari can't help you with the otherwise you have chosen to believe.
I can go on and on. .. But my lunch break is over.
Hope you got the message with this little epistle?

Thank you for taking your time to give such a reply. I am just sick and tired of this PDP goons. They all seem to have mental instability with the way they are going about issues.

Eluwilussit:
I truly don't want to believe the level of sensational stupidity that our youths exhibit. APC lied to us last week that Buhari had gone to UK to speak at Chatham House, even though there was no such arrangement at the time. We don't see anything wrong with that? Why should we then believe or not believe all the theories flying around?

It is time our people started practicing honesty. Partial truth, is a liar. Even if Buhari finally gets his slot, the truth will remain that it is more or less an attempt to save face. Our presidential candidate shouldn't be begging to speak at Chatham House. Are the gonna vote for him in March? Unless Buhari is forming an alliance, in case he has to form a parallel govt or go to war.

We need to tread cautiously.

PLEASE USE YOUR HEAD! When did APC tell you the nonsense you wrote there? The press statement did not categorically say Buhari went to UK to speak at Chatham House. It said they hope he'll speak. You are talking about truth, but your statement is not truthful to the letter. You should be ashamed of yourself. The only point categorical in their press release is that "In the course of the visit, Buhari is expected to hold meetings with key members of the British political establishment"

The APC Statement reads:
The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General
Muhammadu Buhari today (Thursday) left Abuja on a short working visit to
the United Kingdom.

In the course of this visit, General Buhari is expected to hold meetings
with key members of the British political establishment and interact with
some global institutions with stakeholder interest in the affairs of
Nigeria.

General Buhari would hopefully give a talk at the prestigious foreign
policy hub, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatam House in
London.

If you dont have comprehension issues, what this simply implies is that they have not yet booked a confirmed spot but hoped he would be given a spot so you need to eat the trash you wrote up there about 'saving face'. Hatred seems to have clouded the reasoning faculty of a lot of you guys.

ArcToyin:
if is on the case of equality, let the lower house be scraped out sonce they both perform the same function.

The implication of that is that the areas that has more population will not have a representation that measures up. Imagine Ekiti state with 1.6m people having equal representation at the National Assembly with a Lagos with 12m people. If one is to be scrapped, it should be the senate. The House of Rep is closer to the people and are more vocal in representing the people than the senate. The senators seems to far away from the people they are representing- they sort of seem elitist.

NO ELECTION UNTIL JEGA QUITS – EZEIFE (CONT'D)

But do you think that on a very credible platform of free, fair elections, Jonathan will beat Buhari?


On a fair and free platform, there will be no contest between Jonathan and Buhari. Number One, we know Buhari, we know his antecedents, we know what he has said with his mouth. Buhari terminated the democratically elected government of re-elected Shehu Shagari in 1983. Some people said that he did it to prevent Ekwueme from becoming the president of Nigeria after Shagari. For whatever reason for which he did it, he terminated a government chosen by the people. He performed illegal actions, killing people with retroactive legislation. He packed the late Umaru Dikko in a container, in a crate to bundle him home. Grave inhumanity. He collected all the leaders of Nigeria and put them in jail. He said with his mouth that Sharia will get to every home, every village, that a Muslim cannot vote for a Christian, that an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the North. So many things are wrong with the records of Buhari that the question is why should they want to inflict him on the nation? Therefore, in a free and fair election, and it is the electorate that will determine who wins, Buhari will have no votes.

If you look at Jonathan, it looks like he is not there. He doesn’t look very presidential, and very determined, and a courageous fighter. He adopts appeasement strategy in dealing with the North. Your core opponent has the Minister of Defence, National Security Adviser, Inspector General of Police, and now the Chief Judge of the Federation. I forgot to mention to you that in the minutes, you will find that the Northern Elders Forum, decided to select some people to go and talk to all Northern Judges. We discovered a comprehensive plan to rig the national elections by the Northern Elders Forum, and no human being born by woman can defeat the argument.

Let’s go to Jonathan. Jonathan went to school. We are not talking about getting school certificate or not. He made Second Class (Upper) in his first degree, did his masters degree and then a PhD, and became a lecturer. He is an intellectual. Nobody can fault his brain power.

Some groups of Nigerians, young ones, were treated as waste materials. They were called Almajiris. Today, there are more than 120 schools to convert the waste materials to development resources, because education is the basis of development resource in today’s world.

Jonathan built schools to change what is considered as waste materials to development manpower. Jonathan has without advertisement revolutionized agriculture in Nigeria. People don’t know, just like the APC has buried PDP and Jonathan with their propaganda. How can anybody describe Jonathan as clueless. Second Class Upper? Masters? PhD? Clueless? Something is missing. Ebullience is missing in Jonathan. Ebullience, fire eating are missing. No president before Jonathan has achieved as much as Jonathan. Do you know that when people see the railways running, they think of something else. They don’t credit it to him, because APC says he did not do it. Power was so bad in Nigeria, before Jonathan summoned the guts to reform the power sector, such that any minute of darkness means loss of income to some private companies and nobody likes loss of income. So, as soon as they perfect distribution and production, you will find out that power returns life to the market. With PHCN, it was darkness.

Agricultural reforms, power reforms, industrial plants, employment. We had high unemployment, but look at the thinking that brought SURE – P. Do you know what SURE – P has done? Take away SURE – P in the South East, then there is problem. Just like his academic performance shows, his performance in projects in national development is high.


Who is in charge of this government? There are charges that Jonathan is not fully in charge; that a few other people are running the show.


Jonathan has some predilection to sticking to his decision and his friends. He brings you on to work in his government, he keeps you, and is reluctant to remove you, even when it can be demonstrated that you are of no use. This is even when some of these people are not working for his success. Look at the campaign now, it appears many people around him are looking for money. They take money; they organize up to 9,000 groups and these groups were given certificates and some of them were forced to register with the Corporate Affairs Commission, and with the PDP. They were asked to come for rallies. On their own, they paid their way, stayed in hotels at their own expense, and went home. They were then looking forward to when the campaign will start and will be mobilized. Now most of those people have not been mobilized and have become liabilities. It is very possible that they will turn to opposition. 4,000 co-ordinators of various groups met and sent a letter saying, you know we have been coming to Abuja on the auspices of Jonathan support group, and your promise was to prepare us for campaign. Now that there is campaign, they have forgotten us. People are coming with big money to us and we are resisting it. Well, I just told them if you know what is good for Nigeria, do it, irrespective of the treatment given to you by Jonathan’s people. Follow your mind. Look at Nigeria, who can advance Nigeria? The 2014 National Conference recommendations were lauded by Nigerians. They said it will form a new and better Nigeria. Who between Jonathan and Buhari will implement it?

You know that Buhari will never implement the conference resolution. The “born to rule” group will never allow that. The people who support Buhari – Hausa/Fulani Muslims- are bent on having Nigeria stay on this, because of the advantages they have over us. Even during the conference, you know what happened? They were raising all kinds of problems, imagining all kinds of leadership scenarios – third term agenda, fourth term agenda, this agenda, that agenda. But, because of maturity, the conference eventually ended peacefully with beautiful recommendations for everybody in Nigeria. Had it been that it has been implemented, things will be different. We the ones who are already in our twilight, would like to see it implemented and then go, knowing that our children are in good hands. But if you leave this Nigeria the way it is, oh my God, you go back to the village and buy bullet and gun.

PDP is said to be panicky and sufficiently intimidated. How do you look at May 29, the official inauguration day?

I believe in the Almighty God in heaven. Jonathan, I see, from everything about him, from deputy governor, to governor, to vice president, to president, I see him as a tool in the hands of God. And he reveres God. He has faith in God. He trusts God. If you call him clueless he laughs at you. He knows the direction. Jonathan is a tool in the hands of God, to do God’s purpose. If Jonathan has furnished the purpose God wants him to achieve, he will go. If not, no man born of a woman, can take that office from him. That’s why I see, I look in the future and see Jonathan taking the oath of office for President, (2015 – 2019) because the way I feel, his tolerance of the weakness of man will continue to guide and rule this nation. I like what General Babangida did say the other day, that Nigeria is safe under Jonathan. This is because the way he reacts is like the ordained of God.

He even summons pastors, mallams and bishops and takes decisions based on communication with powers that be. You will see Jonathan being sworn in again. It’s the APC that is making it easy for Jonathan to come back, because God is using all of us, including me to bring him back.

The fact of bringing Buhari by APC makes it easy. Kwankwaso is a younger man and maybe there would have been trouble. The Speaker, Tambuwal, if he has been APC candidate, I tell you that we would have braced up for surprise. Yesterday, today and tomorrow, it has to be by the will of God. Fortunately, I have very good relationship with all of them. Buhari, Ango Abdullahi who is now becoming a northern irredentist, and Maitama Sule, who all of us worshipped as a ‘one Nigeria man’ is now becoming a northern irredentist. They know that what I am saying is what I feel to be true. This is the only truth, and nothing but the truth, and I am not saying we should condemn a person to let everybody know that God, who created us, gave us our lives to live, same way He will protect Nigeria.


What’s your panacea for the resolution of the post-election postponement crisis?


The postponement of the election was necessary. I am not in the social media to know what they are saying. The social media has been converted to a platform of propaganda. For me, there must be a drastic decision. Number one: Jega must go, because enough is enough. Number two: we should reconsider all the PVCs, TVCs (all the VCs) and junk them. We should find a way to make use of Option A4 – The option we used when Abiola was elected. We can modify it and use it. And then, set up a new INEC, which will within four years be able to do what can be done in six months. This present INEC was not able to be ready for presidential election in four years, and they never complained of being starved of funds. Nigerians must learn to obey the injunction to love their neighbors as themselves. Whether you love your religion, whoever you are, the law is love your neighbor as yourself. We must stop butchering human beings. Almighty God is Almighty. He can be with us, He can help us, but we cannot help Him. No person who has friends can kill another person, another child of God.

Just before I misinterpret situational injunctions, Mohammed the prophet of Allah made it clear that religion is not by compulsion. When it is to fight, you fight; until religion is freely practiced. If religion is freely practiced, what are you fighting?

Therefore, Jihad is a defensive operation, not offensive. If you read the Quran properly, you find that some people decide to choose situational injunctions and treat them as if they’re permanent. After he was to go back to Mecca from Medina, they were resisted. What choice? Therefore, he preached for war. Give yourself to God for war. If you die there, you go to paradise. That was when the situation warranted it. The ordinary thing is fight until religion is really practiced. The ordinary thing is that religion is not by compulsion. This is Quran. In some circumstances, you hear cut his fingers, knock his head off. That’s also in the Quran. But the majority of Muslims are taking the peaceful aspect of Islam, and only a few are jumping into violence. Look at ISIS. Iraq is ninety something percent Muslim. What is ISIS doing there? Their own version of Islam? They believe that until the world is under Islamic government-sharia, they have not done their job. It’s not true. Mohammed didn’t mean that at all. Some of them don’t even like you reading Quran. But we read everything, and we see that some people are abusing their religion.


Beyond coup, Interim National Government, do you see Nigeria breaking up?

Allah, by God, by Chineke, Oluwa (by all the names you call God). God created Nigeria for a purpose. God used the instrumentality of British imperialism to create Nigeria, but not for the purpose of the British, but for the purpose of God. To provide the blackman; original sons and daughters of God, a big brother, and a rallying point to develop into a superpower. God gave Nigeria the impetus for industrialization and development, to wipe the faces of the black, wipe off slavery, put shame on slavery for the sake of the blacks. Today we are still ashamed that we were slaves. It is the job given to Nigeria by God to develop this country to match any superpower. And therefore, everybody should see the original sons and daughters of God as equal or even superior. Americans are white; a German will argue that he is superior to the black. What happened was that God gave us good climate and we were “lazing” around, eating fruits everywhere, whereas the Europeans were in hot pipe race. They started to pick their steps from the hot pipes, and gradually they jammed the process of continued improvement, overtook us by far, and then looked back and said “are these human beings?” or are they half formed apes? They started buying us for their plantations, etc, until the Lord planted in the soul of some of them the repugnance of the act and we are now free again. Since the beginning, this is how human beings were ranked in the whole world. Number one – the Egyptians, number two – all other blacks, number three – Indians, number four – the blue eyed barbarians (the whites). Today, with technological development everything is upside-down. And we are ashamed. This is the manifest job of Nigeria to wipe off the shame of slavery from the face of all blacks. What that means is that Nigeria must remain one, because size counts in the comity of nations.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=105990

NO ELECTION UNTIL JEGA QUITS – EZEIFE

BY CHIDI OBINECHE

Former Anambra State governor, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife is angry with everything connected with the forthcoming elections on March 28 and April 11, and declares that it should be put on hold until the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC , Prof Attahiru Jega leaves the stage. Ezeife told Sunday Sun in Abuja that Jega, is highly compromised and incompetent.

“I don’t even want the elections to go ahead , if it must be conducted by Jega as chairman of INEC,” he declares, matter-of-factly.

He demands that Jega should either resign or be suspended, and that if the elections should lead to the “death” of Nigeria, an Interim National Government, (ING) should be set up with President Goodluck Jonathan at the helm.

Ezeife, ever blunt, says he sees Jonathan taking another oath of office on May 29, despite the prevailing situation in the country even as he insists that those behind Jonathan’s campaign are just after the financial accruals.

On the presidential candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress,APC, General Muhammadu Buhari (Retd), the former federal permanent secretary, says the party made a mistake in picking him, because younger elements like Kano State governor, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal would have given Jonathan a tougher race.

Ezeife, who was special adviser to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo gives reasons why he parted ways with the ex-president, describing him as ‘a bully’. He also speaks on APC propaganda, a new INEC, and the Ohanaeze crises among other burning issues. Excerpts.

The election slated for February 14 and 28 were shifted by INEC. What do you consider as the undercurrents that necessitated the postponement, apart from what INEC told the world?

The major cause of shifting the election is the un- readiness of INEC in many activities connected with the elections, from training to distribution of PVC, to printing of voters’ cards, etc. But the Southern Nigeria Leaders Assembly, SNLA, don’t even want the elections to go ahead if it must be conducted by Jega as chairman of INEC.

We were lucky some days ago to get minutes of three meetings of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, and we found from the minutes that all the actions, or most of the actions of Jega in INEC were guided by the decisions of the Northern Elders Forum. Let me give you instances. You know sometime ago, your newspaper published me as saying that the North has hijacked INEC. Why did I say so? Jega was supposed to create 30, 000 new polling units. This is how he allocated them: 21, 000 plus to the North; 8,000 plus to the South. South-east with five states has fewer polling units in Jega’s allocation than Abuja and Zamfara State. It is clear that Jega knows that South-east and South-south are the main support base of Jonathan.

Now what happened? We found out that efforts at creating new polling units were exactly as directed by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF). They created massively more polling units and distributed them in such a lopsided way that the North will have so much more than the South. I think that decision must have been made two weeks before Jega jumped on the implementation. Just along the same line, we discovered many things. Number two; Jega was instructed to depress the voting power of South-east and South-south by being very strict on registration of voters. On the other hand, for the North-west and other favourable areas to them, they told him not to have any regard for age. So, a 20-yr-old or 5-yr-old , anybody of any age can be registered in the area. So, systematic rigging began a long time ago. That one was done. You can go and check it out, and you’ll see the voting strength of the South-east and South-south in the 2011 elections. Compare it with those of the North-west in the 2011 polls, and juxtapose it with what it is now in the 2015 elections. Number three; the Northern Elders Forum agreed with Jega that the distribution of permanent voters cards, PVCs and anything connected with the elections favour the North. And when they come to the South, they discriminated between South-west and the rest of the South. But I won’t say anything about South-west, because they didn’t mention South-west in the minutes. Then, NEF, decided to assemble lawyers. One step of the lawyers was to go to court to attempt to disqualify Jonathan. They had done that in compliance with NEF decisions. Another step is to be ready to go to court to face those who are challenging the announcements. So, we have far more information now. That so called PVCs were being printed in Maitama by some people – the same type of people in religion and tribe. And, you can see the print quality. It’s only when they noticed monumental failure in it, that they went to China. Now, the number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and Concentration of IDPs is in the North. IDPs are mainly from the South-east – people who ran away from Mubi, Bama; Kaduna, Kano, etc. They were registered before they ran away, and therefore will lose voting rights. They are disenfranchised.


I thought they said they will give them a chance to vote?


Where and how will they give them a chance? They are now in many villages in the South-east. So, the proposals for IDPs are for rigging purposes. Now, take the distribution of PVCs. Go to Lagos and see what is happening there. Lagos has 5.7 million voters. About 2.8 millions have not gotten PVCs. People are systematically excluded and disenfranchised. You saw the report I was giving you about PVCs in the areas where there is insurgency, they give them 80% – 99% collection of PVC. In other areas, very calm areas of South-east and South-south they give lower rates of collection. So, we found irrefutable evidence. That’s why, actually when even with the intervention of the Senate Committee on INEC, Jega continued with the polling units. And you look at the decision of the commission, they were divided along North – South lines. Yet he was bent on implementing it. Then, some people went to court. That was the time he withdrew the polling units. I made a statement that he had shown clear intention to rig, and cannot be trusted as umpire to conduct the election. You push him away from polling units, he would find other ways. He has so much compromised everything that I doubt why Nigerians are cursed. Professorial positions are much respected and of high value. Professors should have very high moral compulsion.

The least for him is to resign. The whole saga is ethnically motivated – Hausa/Fulani – Muslims. Some of them have taken a decision that power must return to the North at all costs. This is in the minutes of NEF. They think Nigeria will be bound by it. Everybody is behaving in manners to actualize it. That was what we saw and called a press conference.


But most of the leaders of the SNPA were not present at the conference. Were they?


There was no time to assemble everybody, and it was not necessary because the leader for the South South was there, the coordinator for the South East (myself) was there. I was with Alex Ekwueme that morning. I won’t like to talk about his health. Then Femi Okurounmu, the person who prepared the grounds for the national conference, and who has been consistent with the leadership was available. So, we had the leaders of the three major ethnic groups.

But Edwin Clark is a card carrying member of PDP. To give it some measure of credibility, don’t you think non-partisan leaders should have been the ones to address the issues?

I am not a party man. When I was in a party, I was in Alliance for Democracy, AD, and Social Democratic Party, SDP. When I turned 70, I left politics. This press conference should have been addressed by one person. The truth is the truth. You as a pressman, take a careful look at the details of the minutes and see whether there is any flaw in what we are saying, otherwise, you won’t see me talking like this.

You said they assembled lawyers to defend a possible Buhari victory. What other things did they put in place to support Buhari?

In the minutes, when you read it, you will convince yourself that Jega has been so compromised that his continued stay there is not morally wise. He should be honourable enough to resign and save the nation this confusion. The president is a very soft person. His tolerance is unmatchable. Therefore, he is talking about easing him off by letting him go on terminal leave.

But he has recanted on that, hasn’t he?

If he recants on it…well…… …. the only way the president would be seen to be presidential is to suspend him immediately; so that the person who is coming to replace him will have time to scrutinize what he has done.The president has no reason to hang on exchange of views in the press with Jega. He has the right to appoint and dismiss.

But the Senate has a say in his dismissal or suspension doesn’t it?

He only gets ratification from the Senate. The National Assembly doesn’t appoint. They ratify.


What about speculations about his retirement from office?


No! No!. in this case, it’s different. His normal retirement period is three months. He has to start it in March, and that is very constitutional. But if he starts to exchange views with the president on the pages of newspapers, ordinary Nigerians will know that the president is not out of step, and deserves some respect, no matter how Christian and soft he is.


Still on the postponement, there are views that the election was postponed because PDP was not ready and needed more time to catch up with the APC. Do you agree?


My brother, I am not in PDP. I support Jonathan to be re-elected. From the minority area he comes from, he should be able to complete two terms like others before him did. It’s not because he is not “born to rule” therefore, he must go. Even when he was vice president and the opportunity came for him to be acting president, he was denied that, until when the “Doctrine of Necessity was introduced”. There was no need for Doctrine of Necessity because the thing was clear. And now, he cannot stay there and complete his terms. And a group of Nigerians insist that he should come back. There was no way Buhari would not have been announced the winner on February 14, whether he wins or not. All these things about PVCs, all these things done with registration of voters, all these things done with every aspect of voting were in favour of APC and Buhari. But the President is the president of Nigeria. The opposition, whether they are getting money from heaven and hell should not outspend the president. He should be able to outspend the opposition. See, PDP and their candidates have been buried in propaganda. I don’t know, if you score APC 75% in propaganda, you have to score PDP 25%. So, that is what has happened, so that the “born to rule” group who are sponsoring both Boko Haram and APC have made ordinary Nigerians to say they are sick and tired of Jonathan. Why? Just because Jonathan cannot stop Boko Haram.

Let us talk about insecurity. The first responsibility of government is the security of the people and they say, Jonathan has not been able to secure Nigerians. Somebody put fire on a house, moves outside and starts shouting: Fire! Fire!! Fire!!! Jonathan cannot stop this fire o! Whatever efforts that are made to put out the fire, it is burnt down. They go to another house and put another fire. After shouting many times, the people, gullible people begin to believe what is the opposite. Jonathan becomes the oppressor.

I want to explain what is happening. Now we had Ebola. Nigeria performed miracle on Ebola. With single minded commitment, we drove out Ebola. What do I mean? Nobody was siding Ebola. Nobody was sending text messages to Ebola bodies to show where our military are, or where they want to attack. The president, the minister, the doctors, all of us were committed to fighting Ebola. That cannot be said in the fight against Boko Haram. And the ‘born to rule’ group are the initiators, supporters, funders of Boko Haram. If you plan an offensive, they leak it to Boko Haram, and you face the consequences. So, Jonathan has done marvelously in the context of the situation. People are alive today, healthy, walking the streets, saying with their own mouths that they would make the country ungovernable and from that proceeded all the sufferings we have in Nigeria. Whether it is unemployment, blood-letting, all the problems people say they are tired of, are the effects of ‘born to rule’ group not wanting Jonathan in power.


Some people are proposing Interim National Government because of the postponement of the election. Is it necessary? There are also speculations that PDP in order to beat or cage Buhari is considering adopting a younger person of Northern origin to run against Buhari. How possible are these?


There are many speculations. Many of them I can’t talk about. When we were going to the National Conference, I wrote a small paper. One small portion of it was where I asked a question that if the National Conference comes into conflict with the timetable for 2015 election, what do we do? I proposed that if there’s a threat to Nigeria’s survival as a result of the election, or as a result of the National Conference, let us secure the land before looking for the mat on which to lie. Securing the land is getting the constitutional framework, the structure of the nation right and then go into the elections. If there is peace, based on mutual understanding, equity, justice and fairness, then we can go and conduct elections without anybody hearing who is the candidate, and who is not.

Stabilize the economy of Nigeria, create conditions where people can trade and do business. But they have to think about politics also. If you allow them to choose, they will choose peaceful environment for business and let any other person be president. So, I am not in support of an Interim National Government at this time. And I fail to see the merit. But there is a persistent point from my earlier paper. The persistent point is that 2015 elections will scatter Nigeria, divide Nigeria, create doubts about the permanence of one Nigeria. Anything else is better. It’s at that stage that you can say, let’s have Interim Government. And if there is an Interim Government, there is no other way to do it. You just can’t get anybody to come and head the government. That is coup. Let the governors, senators remain in place, the House of Representatives should remain in place. You give them a term, let’s say two years.


But the AGF said it is unconstitutional. Is it?


I am talking about the death of Nigeria, and whatever can be done to revive it. Instead of Nigeria dying, you have a way to save it. I wouldn’t be a constitutional lawyer there. In that case, you can give them two years, and within the two years, the recommendations of the National Conference which most Nigerians accept as laying the foundation for a new and better Nigeria, should be implemented. Whether it’s through referendum, or whatever, the mandate of Interim Government should be to implement the 2014 National Conference resolutions and give Nigeria a stable basis for existence, and give the permanence of one Nigeria a chance. So, the other wild idea about PDP changing this or that, I don’t know anything about that. I haven’t heard it from a source that will make me think seriously about it. You mentioned a possible coup? Well, God is available to everybody. The South South people have packed up, the Boko Haram people have packed up. They have jammed their storage of weaponry. Only the South East is still waiting. No ammunition, nothing. I don’t know anything about the South West. But God gave us something. The Igbo are the gift of God. Whatever we want to do, we do it to the best of our abilities and thoroughly. If there has to be a war now , we left before, after the pogrom but they forced us back, God help everybody. This country is one of the greatest created by God. Climate is excellent, material resources surplus, human resources, what don’t we have? Igbo, Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba, Ijaw, all Nigerians, large and small groups have the greatest vested interest in the country. If we stop the idea of Christians wanting Christianity to dominate Nigeria, or Muslims wanting to Islamize Nigeria, (and this is a major problem) the country will stay and grow. This islamisation threat is a major problem. What I am saying is that the islamisaiton threat is beyond Nigeria. Western countries, whether they are now pulling out from it (because they know now that we know) are threatened. They believe that Nigeria cannot resist islamisation and that Islamic Nigeria with her population and location will make world ordering, or governance very difficult. The decision is that, it’s best to have Nigeria split up, so that it will not be too heavy in the comity of nations. That’s the origin of the prediction that Nigeria will disintegrate in 2015. And of course, 2015 is an election year, and it was well calculated that there will be chaos. That was just wishful thinking. The US promised to help combat Boko Haram, but all of a sudden they chickened out, saying that we committed human rights abuses in a situation of emergency rule. There is emergency in the area, and you are saying that somebody is committing human rights abuse? What abuse did he commit? So, you can find that the Boko Haram is becoming an instrument in favour of those who don’t want Nigeria to remain together. And unfortunately, the core North, the Hausa/Fulani didn’t give rise to Nigeria. To begin with, it was the amalgamation of Southern and Northern Nigeria protectorate that gave rise to Nigeria in 1914; to use the resources in the south to cover the deficit of the North in 1914. The core North is trying to create a situation that will disintegrate Nigeria.

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This old man's words are so so irritating and repugnant. Just because Jega refused to dance to their macabre music, he thinks blackmail is the next solution.

GEJ is personally going around and begging for votes, this one is saying bullcrap at one corner and making things hard for him.

I'm putting this story up so that everyone will know those to hold responsible when the katakata this man is wishing for finally happens.

Chai, so it was a 1967 ship Jona came to commission with so much fanfare?

Ship that has been used and used by the US, they needed place to park the carcass and decided Nigeria was the ideal junkyard for tokunbo products.

May God rewrite our story oh.

Nice points. The points remain very valid, despite the unstable nature of the OP.

This undue attention being given to Barcanista is is making him feel he has some nonexistent influence on nairaland. His defection was based on this premise. Whereas, what he doesn't understand is that his popularity grew just because he supported the masses' clamour for change. In the next few weeks just watch as his popularity will go down as it happened to cramjones.

After this initial dust of your defection settles, u'll just become another PDP nairaland handle without repute.

Let him continue meeting Ifa clerics, christian clerics, muslim clerics, etc Otuoke na him sure pass in few months time.