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The same thing here in some parts of Lagos mainland. Good 4 days no light, they will now bring their nonsense estimated bill.

Who will rescue Nigeria from the shackles of these political misfits?

GMB/PYO!

The power is in your hands.

#Ihavedecided

Jona pack your load and go and rest. No matter how much u use in settling Yoruba market leaders and some nonsense Afenifere, u can never win Yoruba land.

For your information, the elite, the educated middleclass, the lower class, and others in Yorubaland are all psychologically & physically supporting Buhari. There is no need to talk much, just visit any place in Yoruba land and open a political discussion, you'll get same result- Buhari, Buhari, Buhari, Buhari!

This is Buhari's time. Asiko Buhari ti de. Ti Asiko eda ba de, ko si n kan ti anybody le she si

The Yoruba race will be voting massively for GMB to Jona's uttermost dismay.

Thank you for creating this thread to counter the lies of these PDP paid goons.

Their lies know no bounds!

They are seriously running out of ideas and getting extra desperate.

Silly assertions and conclusions. NOI you better go back to your admin dept in world bank. We are tired of your ineptitude. It's only on paper the economy you are managing is growing.

VOICEOFTHEMASES:
Guardian News – Houston, TX – With less than six weeks to the general
elections, campaign activities of All Progressives Congress (APC) have
suffered another setback over a tenaciously weakening health of its flag
bearer, Muhammadu Buhari. The ex-general was secretly rushed to the United
Kingdom for treatment, aboard a British Airways, according to authentic
party sources.

Buhari’s travel arrangement was made by a few close confidants under an
emergency circumstance, and shielded from the key members of the campaign.
The information it was gathered made it to the media quicker than
expected, throwing the entire campaign into confusion. As of press time,
the campaign is grounded in confusion, leaving inadvertent activities to
small party groups and social media cliques with little or no knowledge of
precise materials that represent the party objectives.

A regional campaign leader who came to Abuja for a meeting, told
International Guardian under strict anonymity, that his meeting was
cancelled without any specific reasons. “That is unusual to me, because
this is a very crucial moment in this campaign and not a period to be
travelling up and down,” he said. Other campaign leaders have voiced out
condemnation of a lack of transparency about campaign activities. For
instance, a campaign consultant attached to the social media told our
reporter expressed similar concerns, saying “We really need to get
everybody on the same page. We are all not just focusing in the right
direction. How can I defend the fact that my presidential candidate left
abroad just like that to meet who? Why the rush and why the secrecy?”

To unstiffen the blows created by the embarrassment, the Director, Media
and Publicity Directorate of campaign, Mallam Garba Shehu claimed the
general had travelled to the UK for official reasons. According to his
statement, “Buhari would hold meetings with key members of the British
political establishment and interact with some global institutions with
stakeholder interest in the affairs of Nigeria.” The statement further
claimed that “General Buhari will hopefully give a talk at the prestigious
foreign policy hub, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham
House in London.”

Excuses from the Buhari’s camp, it was gathered,  angered some campaign
members close to Buhari’s running mate, Dr. Yemi Osinbajo who were
outraged that even the aspiring vice president was always left out of
major party activities and decisions. “You can imagine the insult – yes I
mean the insult that, in my position in this campaign,  I have to read
everything about the campaign in the social media. If the man is sick – so
what? We should be working as a party not as individuals,” another
aggrieved APC senior campaign member told our field reporter in Abuja. He
continued, “How can a presidential candidate travel abroad for whatever
reason without telling his running mate? This is exactly what happened
during the Yar’Adua regime, and you can see the same thing repeating
itself.”

Buhari’s campaign activities have suffered a severe setback recently over
poor health. Last month, videos of his fragile comportment, lack of
memory, and speech inaudibility were circulated in the social media –
creating another major distraction among his campaign team. Last month,
International Guardian reported how speculations that Buhari’s may not
make it through a four-year term if he won because of a visibly
deteriorating health fuelled a suspicious relationship between General
Buhari’s camp and Dr. Osibanjo. Buhari had allegedly accused the
Tinubi/Osibanjo camp of praying for his death – a situation similar to the
late President Shehu Musa Yar’Adua when critics accused former President
Olusegun Obasanjo of nominating a sick candidate to jeopardize chances
allotted to the Northern zone in the party.

Another distractive bombshell of the Buhari campaign came up when a
revelation made by Buhari’s former running mate in the 2011 election, Dr.
Tunde Bakare to Kadaria Ahmed, the host of Straight talk with Kadaria
confirm a reported scam proposed to him under a merger of the Congress for
the Progressive Change (CPC) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in
the 2011 presidential race.  Prophetic-Apostolic pastor revealed how he
was actually persuaded to sign a resignation letter as the vice president
ahead of a possible election victory, but he rejected the offer as
“illegal” and “perjury.” The video clip resurfaced in the social media
creating another round of discord within the Buhari’s campaign, and
fuelling  rumors that Dr.  Osinbajo may have accepted a similar deal prior
to his nomination – a claim Osinbajo’s camp categorically denied.

Courtesy: The Guardian News

Pathetic liar! May god have mercy on your soul. That hand and brain you used in writing this jargon, may God redeem it and converts it to a hand that does productive endeavour.

I can easily curse u for this despicable lie, but my spirit tilted more to praying for you. Repent now before the judgement of God comes upon you. Whatever is spurning u into this is not worth it, either it is your ego or financial rewards. The time to repent is now!

NobleAky:
I wonder the intonation he would use to convince the west of how he would be democratic if (but not possible) elected

that heavy hausa accent? No No No

See this one oh. To the white man he is just another funny accent English speaker just like the Yoruba man, igbo man and other Africans.

Nice one Kwanwanso. That Gov is really performing. He is changing the face of Kano and educating the masses.

God bless you.
God bless APC.
God bless GMB!
God bless Nigeria!!!

Tolexander:
the senate can only act after the impeachment by the lower house and not beginning a trial before the lower house impeachment.

Oh nice one. Alright then. Duly noted.

Tolexander:
only the lower house can impeach.

After the impeachment exercise by the house of representative by the majority, the senate makes the trial with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presiding on the trial. If the President is convicted by two-third majority, the president will be removed.

It still means the senate can 'technically impeach' then. It's just that their constitution did not call it impeachment but trial. And only difference is that the Chief justice chairs the sitting but only the senators votes.

Nicepessie:
Wat is beautiful abt Wat He Jst said?

d op ask deir different functions and someone started giving u number of Ppl in different chambers ur sayin beautiful, if I may ask beautiful Wat?

@tyms I Jst wonder How WE read and understand tins,d poor education background!!!

D op said d two chambers invited Inec,Why should it b So? Wat ARE d difference BTW d two chambers,d some strtd saying Lagos has blah blah blah members is Dat y d two chambers Hv d rite to invite.

Wat He Or she means is Dat Wat is the power limitation as person d two houses..

Chai people

Why are you beefing now? Just because I gave the guy a commendation, u re hyperventilatin.

Nairaland is one fuuny place one'll find those who don't know, but will egotistically refuse to give kudos to those who know.

And where those who lacks basic comprehension skills will ironically be bad mouthing others for same.

soe:
May i have your attention please.

Nigeria runs what we call a " binocular bicameral legislator"

In other words, the job of one legislative arm is handled by two...

From the excerpt above, this guy categorically inferred that they carry out same functions.

The other parts of his write-up which seem to be the only area u were able to comprehend was just explaining to the OP the basis of having 'a 2-body federal legislature' doing almost same thing.

It is nice response, I gained from it. If you are teachable, i'm sure you would have learnt one or two things from it as well.

He answered the OP that they carry out virtually same functions and then went further to explain to the OP why this duplication seems necessary.

The way and manner you wrote your jargons clearly shows you had a distorted basic education.

babaagba1000:
my friend how can you be talking like that?..who travels out of his country secretly at the peak of election of an election his vying for a sit in... this your excuse not good enuf...think of another one...if there is no muchu muchu moves lai mohammed or who ever is his press sec. would have announced his trip...like they announce all other things....

He didnt travel secretly!! Why are you people so dull at hearing like this? His party released a statement about the trip to the media. He was even sighted at the airport in Nigeria and over there. You guys should quit this evil propaganda of wishing another person sickness.

soe:
May i have your attention please.

Nigeria runs what we call a " binocular bicameral legislator"

In other words, the job of one legislative arm is handled by two.

The reason is very simple.

The Senate reflects Equality of states

36 states produce 3 senators, FCT produces 1.
(36*3)+1=109senators with equal power


The House of Reps reflects the equality of every citizen.

In this case, every state is given rep mrmbers based on their actual population. Lagos has one of the highest number of honourables (24), same as kano (24), then bayelsa and nasarawa are the least with 5 seats each before FCT (2 seats). But the total number of honourables is 360.

The senate was created because most states felt cheated based on the population thingy, so we decided to make all states have the equality in the senate.

I hope you understand?

Beautiful explanation. This is what I like about nairaland before political jobbers took over. Intelligent responses to questions. I was among the folks canvassing for scrapping of one of the arms.

But with this your superb explanation, I have changed my mind. I think it is better we retain both. I like the explanation you used about Bayelsa and Kano. Bayelsa has lesser population than Kano but the same number of Senators. But the house of rep corrects this anomaly with Kano having more Reps than Bayelsa. Also Bayelsa has already being compensated for this by having an equal number of senators with Kano.
This is beautiful.

Tolexander:
A very nice thread!

The same quetion I've been trying to solve when I saw both Houses individually threatening to impeach the president.

The nigerian constitution is modeled after the US constitution and to my understanding of the US constitution, only the lower house(house of rep) can impeach. This has made me to start searching for the nigerian constitution.

But they impeached Clinton then, and he still served his term out. Is that not an indication that their upper house can also 'technically impeach'?? Because I heard the senate did not impeach him was what made him to complete his tenure.

GMB! My incoming presido!

faroukfahima:
https://www.forumspotz.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Buhari-LDN.jpg

Yesterday presidential candidate of All Progressive Congress, Muhammadu Buhari flew to England for a yet to be disclosed reason.

Opposition party claim he traveled for medical reasons, but we all know how APC and PDP throw banters at each other, so you might want to take that with levity.

http://www.forumspotz.net/see-photo-of-buhari-spotted-in-london/

OP/Writer get your facts right. @bolded, a reason has already been given by his campaign organisation. Stop giving room for unnecessary insinuations.

simplemach:
And yet they say he did not go for treatment.

Why cant you use your head. So anybody that you see in a foreign airport has now gone to the country for treatment right? The way some of you guys think is an embarrassment.

Modified****
This dude went to modify his earlier post and still added another statement that does not make much sense.

simplemach:
And yet they say he did not go for treatment. Somebody should tell me if that inscription beside him is for mr Biggs or shoprite

So his hospital is now at the airport right? kai, drop this issue man. You are embarrassing yourself. According to you, all those air hostesses coming out from that place are also cancer patients who had just received treatment I guess.

interesting

GMB all the way!

lol

PhockPhockMan:
I watched the chairman of INEC, Prof ATAHIRU JEGA's presentations at the Senate today of the organization's preparedness for this year's elections. I can tell who cares to listen that this card reader is a time bomb waiting to explode. According to JEGA, the card reader will record and keep accreditation record for reference purpose.
To my surprise, more than one senator asked him if the card reader is admissible in the court of law.
His answer was that "it's left to court to decide"
Imagine after election is won and lost, and the court ruled that it's not admissible in the courts. What do you think will be the fate of the litigants?

Pls why is the PDP and her supporters so critical about this card reader? What is the issue sef?

karkel:
And long serving president in history........dat what obj don't want

This is a very dumb assertion. Even if Jona wins 2nd term (God forbid), he cant serve as long as Obj's total period of ruling Nigeria. Obj spent 3 yrs ealier and then 8 years making 11 years.

If GEJ comes back (God forbid ) he will be spending 9 years and months.

komek:
Senator Eyinnanya Abaribe just asked a very reasonable question, not what that illiterate Ndume was asking.

They think there riGging strategy wud wrk.

Give us the update jor. Which question? Some of us are following from the office.

luvmijeje:
I thought he said with the card reader multiple voting will not be possible.

That is an additional layer of security.

EUROBOMBER:
All in all, Jonathan will emerge victorious. This is the simple political arithmetics:

GEJ will win the SE/SS/MB. buhari will win heavily in the NW as usual; Kaduna is going to be hot and divided 50-50 between Kaduna north & south. besides, Jonathan's VP is from Kaduna and the sitting Governor is PDP too. Lamido of Jigawa will do all he can to gather some Jigawa votes for Jonathan. Votes from the SW will be split and GEJ will get a reasonable size of the votes from there. The NE will not be too impressive because of the ding dung battles between boko haram and the MNTF; losing ground and recapturing it tomorrow.

The APC soldiers on nairaland are fighting a lost battle. I pity them because they will know the real definition of frustration after the elections.

Goodluck Jonathan will remain Nigeria's president come next month!

Continue deceiving yourself and your paymaster. GEJ cannot win the MB. Let me break down the middle belt for you and the result.

Niger: GMB 70%
Kwara: GMB 60%
Nassarawa: GMB 60%
Benue: GEJ 60%
Plateau: GEJ 55%
Kogi: GMB 55%

Final result for the North Central zone (middle belt)

GMB 60%
GEJ 40%

internetpo:
pls a link to the distribution chart pls

Although a chart is not here, but you will find useful information here.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/75-94-of-total-pvcs-distributed-inec/

STAY THE COURSE: TEXT OF THE ADDRESS BY BUHARI TO LEADERS & ELDERS OF APC



APC presidential candidate Gen. Buhari addressed leaders and elders of the APC today Feb. 17th at the Shehu Musa Yar'Adua centre in Abuja. Below is the text of his address...
The National Chairman Chief John Oyegun, thank you very much for your speech. Leaders and elders of our party, I want to join the Chairman in welcoming you all to this meeting. In the last two months, we have travelled the length and breadth of this country, we have heard the cry of our people and we have told them that we hear their cry – the cry for change.
As you are all aware, our country is passing through trying times imposed on us by the bad PDP administration. The imminent change in answer to the yearnings of our people has been delayed by the postponement of the February 14th, 2015 elections. Our patience and resilience will be tested in the days ahead. We must pass this test. In a time like this, which in football analogy can be referred to as extra time, we must avoid making costly mistakes. In the weeks ahead, I would like to implore you to remain true to the vision – to build a country that works for all of us and not just for the few. To rescue and stabilise our nation from the hands of plunderers. On this, I believe we are all agreed.

The important issue today is that we must use the next six weeks that have been imposed on us, to re-charge and re-focus on our goal. The goal is to win the elections now slated for March 28th and April 11th with a convincing majority. We should aim to achieve a victory that will be beyond dispute and proceed to form the next government and start work on the task of rebuilding our beloved country.

Our eyes must be on the objective to build a great society that works for all of us. A country where every child has an equal opportunity to get an education, where every young Nigerian who needs a job can find one. Where the sick are looked after and senior citizens are provided for. A country which gives value to human life, where the welfare and security of all is a national priority and corruption is defeated.

However, I must not fail to mention at this point, one issue which has become topical in the last few days and that is the worrisome revelations by Capt. Sagir Koli about how he, a serving officer at that time, was deployed, with other serving officers, some more senior in rank to work with key politicians of the PDP to rig the Ekiti elections. Up till now, there has been no official denial of this most unfortunate event. It makes me wonder, in the circumstances that led to shifting of the date of the Federal Elections, whether the security services are even now being prepared to play similar roles in the March 28th and April 11th elections. Let me reiterate once more that our security services have serious constitutional responsibilities to the people of the nation and so their importance to the health of the country cannot be under estimated. It is therefore imperative that their leaders must not drag these invaluable institutions into the realm of partisan politics.

I personally and, am sure, all Nigerians, have tremendous respect for our security services. I therefore urge strongly that they stick to, and concentrate on, their constitutional duties, otherwise they stand the risk of becoming part of our already complicated national situation.

I am deeply encouraged by the very high degree of cooperation and commitment to our common purpose of changing Nigeria for good that you all have exhibited in our campaign. I have noticed many of us embarked on our campaign trips without carrying a change of clothing hoping to return home the same day only to spend the night on strange beds because the dynamics of the campaign required that they spend the night away from home. You have ignored in some cases personal health challenges and given yourself to the campaign effort just to be part of the movement for change.

There are some of you who lost in the various primaries to choose candidates for our party during these elections and rather than being disappointed you have thrown your energies and resources to the campaign not minding your personal losses. And there are others who have been made mind boggling offers by our opponents in a bid to break our ranks and curtail our momentum in the march to change Nigeria for good, yet you have chosen to be on the side of a cause that is just.

I therefore appeal to you all party leaders and faithful not to rest thinking that all is won. Six weeks is a long time and we do not know the plans of the other side but with our strong resolve we will prevail.

Therefore let us keep our eyes on the ball. Let us work as we have never done before, and let us watch and help each other. The days and weeks ahead will be tough. Our resolve will be tested and all kinds of evil tricks will be on display. But do not despair. The goal is in sight. Change is coming. The people of Nigeria will prevail. God has destined Nigeria to be a great country. We shall overcome and Change shall be achieved.

God bless you all, God bless the APC and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Thank you.

General Muhammadu Buhari GCFR

(Presidential Flag Bearer of the APC, 2015)

http://lindaikeji..com/2015/02/stay-course-text-of-address-by-buhari.html


Nice speech. I can feel it strongly that true positive change and progress is about to start in Nigeria with the government APC is about to form. The Nigeria of our dreams is about to start, where there is equal opportunity.

Change is here!

gunuvi:
But APC were against changing the speaker when he jumped ship to their party so PDP can select another speaker then. They now want to a change of leaderships now that it favours them. But what sort of bunch of hypocrites flocks together like that.
Well, let's wait and see.

They were not against changing the Speaker. What they were against was changing the Speaker in an unconstitutional means. Get your facts right. You cannot ridicule due process and the rule of law because you want to change the speaker.

itetemi:
abeg, which one oga jonny walker do with all the trillions we dey hear......................okay madam diezani rented private jet with 100 billion naira.

haba why you dey exagerate na. Na 10billion National Assembly talk and she run, she no gree come explain herself. She come dey talk yesterday say e no reach that one. I wonder why she didnt go to NA to give her explanations earlier. Nonsense woman without regard to the people's representatives.

bushdoc9919:
I always do son....and anyway....I do not live on Nairaland 24/7. I have a life

Well, if you happen to be around, remember to do the needful

bushdoc9919:
The Police must investigate......who did this must be caught.

[size=14pt]NO TRIBAL JOKES PLEASE. RAPE IS A NIGERIAN ISSUE....NOT A TRIBAL ISSUE[/size]

Please do remember to post this your comment and pix when the next reported case happens in Ibadan, Ogbomosho, Kano, Akure, Lafia, Ondo, Osogbo, Katsina etc

Ahmeduana:
YOU SOUND LIKE A FRUSTRATED FELLOW!

And u sound like a dullard with comprehension problems.