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Elections are coming. Everybody get prepared, we say NO to postponement.

I am surprised NOI can be praising Sanusi. After they have stampeded Sanusi out of office they can now acknowledge his contributions. yeye people. Well, lets keep watching, Aunty Ngozi may finally commend him in his effort of reporting the $20B stolen money after they are kicked out in February and GMB is sworn in in May 29th.

The hallmark of this administration still shows in the response. Before they address issues, they first attack the person that tables the issues. Anybody that talks against this administration will be attacked personally even before addressing the issues raised.

Soludo's self serving article on Economic management is deficit in facts, logic & honor - Okonjo-Iweala

Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has responded to former CBN governor Charles Soludo's article titled Buhari Vs Jonathan: Beyond the election, where he criticized the presidential economic team (read here). NOI's response below...
1. For anyone who has not read Professor Charles Soludo’s article on January 25 2015, I would encourage them to do so. It is littered with abusive and unbecoming language. It shows how an embittered loser in the Nigerian political space can get so derailed that they commit intellectual harakiri by deliberately misquoting economic facts and maliciously turning statistics on their head to justify a hatchet job. We hope all the intellectuals in the international circles in which Professor Soludo has told us he flies around in will read what a Professor of Economics has chosen to do with his intellect.

2. In this one article Soludo has shamelessly pandered to so many past leaders that Nigerians are asking one more time – what position is Soludo gunning for now? He claims in his article that he has had his own share of public service, yet he has failed twice in his attempts to be Governor of Anambra State and Vice Presidential candidate of various parties. There is definitely an issue of character with Prof. Charles Soludo and his desperate search for power and relevance in Nigeria. Nigerians should therefore beware of so-called intellectuals without character and wisdom because this combination is fatal.

3. But let us turn to the main subject of Soludo’s discourse. So much of what is written is outright nonsense and self-seeking aggrandizement that need not be dignified with a response. It is totally remarkable that Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, the man who presided over the worst mismanagement of Nigeria’s banking sector as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria between May 2004 and May 2009, can write about the mismanagement of the economy.

4. Nigerians must be reminded of his antecedents as CBN Governor, and even prior to that, as the Chief Economic Adviser to the President. The consolidation of the banking sector was a good policy idea of the Obasanjo Administration but Soludo went on to thoroughly mismanage its implementation leading to the worst financial crisis in Nigeria’s history. So what did Soludo do?

5. After consolidation, the regulatory functions of the Soludo-led CBN were very poorly exercised. As Governor, he failed to adequately supervise and regulate the now larger banks – an anomaly in Financial Sector Supervision. In fact as every Nigerian knows, in his time there was very little separation between the regulators and the regulated which is a violation of a key requirement of Central Banking success. This led to infractions in corporate governance in many banks as loans and other credit instruments running to hundreds of billions of naira were extended to clients without following due process, and several of these loans could not be paid back. This massive accumulation of bad debts or non-performing loans as they are called in the banking sector meant that our banks were ill-positioned to deal with the global financial crisis when it hit.


6. In fact, the banking sector was brought to its knees and required a massive bailout by Nigerian tax payers. This bailout was done by his successor (now Emir of Kano) who cleaned up all the bad debts and transferred them to the newly-established AMCON, from where they are managed today. So let it be noted for the record books that Soludo’s single-handed mismanagement of the banking sector led to an incredible accumulation of liabilities that will cost tax payers about N5.67 trillion (being the total face value of AMCON-issued bonds) to clean up. Let it be noted also that this amount, which is more than the entire Federal Government 2015 Budget, constitutes the bulk of Nigeria’s “contingent liabilities” mentioned in Soludo’s article. It is only in Nigeria where someone who perpetrated such a colossal economic atrocity would have the temerity to make assertions on public debt and the management of the economy.

7. Let us now look at some of the points he makes. Luckily, Soludo has told us that he has been busy travelling internationally, hobnobbing with his global partners. It is obvious from this article that from the rarefied heights at which he is flying he is completely out of touch with what is happening with the management of this economy. Take his comments on the mismanagement of the economy and the imposition of the austerity measures. The present fall in oil prices, a global phenomenon over which Nigeria has no control, has given every charlatan the opportunity to attack the economy, and by extension the managers of the economy

8. It is true that the economy grew well during the second-term of former President Obasanjo as a result of the reforms supported by the President and implemented by the Economic Management Team. Please note that the Finance Minister under whose leadership that good performance took place, including massive unprecedented debt relief, is still Finance Minister today. But thorough examination of the facts on performance under the Jonathan Administration will also reveal that at a time when global economic performance was mediocre, with GDP growth averaging about 3 percent per annum, Nigeria’s GDP growth – averaging about 6 percent per annum – is indeed remarkable. Even more interesting is the fact that the oil sector did not drive this economic performance but the non-oil sector (Agriculture, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, the Creative Economy, and so on), which shows that the current Administration’s diversification objective under the Transformation Agenda is working. Transformation equals diversification

9. This current government managed to control inflation, which he Soludo, was not able to do during his time at the helm of monetary policy in Nigeria. When he left the Central Bank in 2009, inflation – which hurts the poor and vulnerable in the society the most – was above 13 percent per annum. Now, inflation is at single-digit, at 8 percent per annum. What about exchange rates? Well this administration again managed to stabilize the naira exchange rates, such that between May 2011 and the end of 2014, official exchange rates against the dollar rarely moved out of the N153 to N156 band. It is only with the recent dramatic fall in oil prices and the consequent impact on our foreign reserves that the exchange rate has become quite volatile. The drop in oil price has been heavy and rapid impacting all oil producing nations significantly. Nigeria is no exception and appropriate fiscal and monetary policy measures are being put in place to manage this situation.

10. In fact, history will recall that careless remarks by Prof. Soludo (then Chief Economic Adviser to the President) hypothesizing a possible naira devaluation, condemned the naira to a free fall towards the end of 2003. Ray Echebiri, in his 2004 article in the Financial Standard, wrote that not even the assurances given by the then CBN Governor, Mr. Joseph Sanusi or President Obasanjo that any plans to devalue the naira existed only in the head of Professor Soludo could halt the fall of the naira from N128 to the dollar in the official market to about N140 between September and December 2003.

11. It is true that our foreign reserve accumulation is less than what it should be but the reason for this has been fully given, not as excuses but simply as fact: lower oil production and crude oil theft along with the refusal to save in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) are the reasons. Contrary to what Soludo said, oil production under President Obasanjo was higher than current levels. Quantities produced averaged 2.4 million bdp, 2.22 million bpd, and 2.21 million bpd in 2005, 2006, and 2007 respectively but has declined now to between 1.95 and 2.21 million bdp due to vandalism of the pipelines and the resulting “shut-ins” to fix the problem. It is true that had production been at the previous levels and had there been willingness to save we would have had more money in the ECA and also in the reserves. But the overriding setback to savings is that the State Governors felt it was their constitutional right to share the money. Please recall that even as we speak the States have taken the Federal Government to the Supreme Court on this issue

12. Soludo’s claim that 71 percent of Nigerians live below the poverty line is misleading and disingenuous. He uses 2011 statistics on poverty by the NBS to support his argument while ignoring more recent figures. But as stated in the Nigeria Economic Report 2014 by the World Bank, poverty rate in Nigeria has dropped from 35.2 percent of population in 2010/2011 to 33.1 percent in 2012/2013. By the way, the reason why our poverty numbers have been so wrong is that the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), under Soludo’s supervision as CEA and Vice-Chair of the National Planning Commission, departed from the international standard method of poverty measurement. Is he now ignoring the right economic statistics to wilfully manipulate information?

13. No doubt we have a problem with unemployment in this country and we must deal with it. Indeed this Administration is dealing with it and stands proud of what it has accomplished so far and is pushing hard to accomplish much more. As a first step, the Administration, through the office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President and the NBS, worked hard to determine how many jobs we need to create in a year. What you don’t measure you cannot make progress on. Why didn’t Soludo do this when he was CEA?

14. We need to create about 1.8 million jobs a year in this country to cater for the new entrants into the labour market, but we also need to deal with the backlog of the unemployed and the underemployed, e.g. those selling on the streets. Dealing with this global challenge of unemployment is not an easy task for any country, as can be seen from the experiences of developed countries particularly in the euro area. But the Jonathan Administration is making good progress, creating an average of about 1.4 million jobs per year by driving quality growth in key sectors like Agriculture, where the bulk of new jobs are being created, Housing, Manufacturing, Financial Services, and the Creative Industries like Nollywood.

15. In addition we have special programs to promote job creation among the youth and these include:

16. On the issue of debt, Nigerians deserve to know the truth and we have said it before. The truth is that the government borrowed in 2010 to pay an unprecedented 53.7 percent wage increase to all categories of federal employees as demanded by labour unions. The total wage bill rose from N857 billion in 2009 to about N1.4 trillion in 2010, and as a result, domestic borrowing increased from N200 billion in 2007 to about N1.1 trillion in 2010 to meet the wage payments. Where was Soludo at the time? Why did he not react to the borrowing then? Was it because he wanted to pander to labour in preparation for his political career?

17. It is noteworthy that since 2011, the Administration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been prudent with the issue of debt and borrowing. The Economic Management Team not only looks at debt to GDP ratio, where Nigeria has one of the lowest numbers in the world at 12.51 percent but it looks at debt service to revenues. That is why in spite of the rebasing and a larger GDP, the administration has taken a prudent approach to borrowing. The prudent approach helped to drive down domestic borrowing from N1.1 trillion in 2010 to N642 billion in 2014. In fact for the first time in our nation’s borrowing history we even managed to retire N75 billion of domestic bonds outright in 2013.

18. Despite the present tough situation, we do not plan to go on a borrowing spree but to keep borrowing modest at a level sufficient to help us weather the present situation. We have already ramped up efforts to generate more non-oil revenues for the government while cutting costs of governance. Therefore, Soludo’s claim that this Administration is reckless with debt does not hold true.

19. Since Soludo seems so ignorant to what has been achieved by the Jonathan Administration, let us present just a few examples of them here again. This information is easily verified.

· We are improving infrastructure across the country. For example, 22 airport terminals are being refurbished, and five new international airport terminals under construction in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kano, Abuja, and Enugu. Soludo’s kinsmen in the South East now have an international airport in Enugu, and for the first time in Nigeria’s history can fly direct from Enugu to anywhere in world for which they are very grateful to this Administration. But with Soludo being up in the air with his international travels, he has not touched ground in the Southeast to observe this development for himself.

· Various road and bridge projects have either been completed or are under construction. Those completed include the Enugu – Abaliki road in Enugu/Ebonyi States, the Oturkpo – Oweto road in Benue State, the Benin – Ore – Shagamu highway, and the Abuja – Abaji – Lokoja dualization, and the Kano – Maiduguri dualization. The Lagos – Ibadan expressway and the Second Niger Bridge are under construction.

· Rail from Lagos to Kano is now functional, as is parts of the rail link between Port Harcourt and Maiduguri. All these have brought transport costs down. We recognise that more needs to be done in the power sector, but bold steps (like the privatisation of the GENCOs and DISCOs) have been taken, and our gas infrastructure is being developed to power electricity generation

· In Agriculture, over 6 million farmers now have access to inputs like fertilizers and seeds through an e-wallet system, which is more than the 403,222 that had access in 2011. Rice paddy production took off for the first time in our history, adding about 7 million MT to rice supply. An additional 1.3 million MT of Cassava has also been produced and as a result, the rate of food price increase has slowed considerably, according to the NBS.

· In Housing, we have put in place a new wholesale mortgage provider – the Nigerian Mortgage Refinance Corporation (NMRC) – to provide affordable mortgages to ordinary Nigerians, starting with those in the low-middle income bracket. This sector will help the economy grow as we tap it as an economic driver for the first time. Mortgage applications from 66,000 people are currently being processed and 23,000 have already received mortgage offers

· Our Manufacturing sector is reviving with new automobile plants by Nissan, Toyota, etc. This is in addition to the backward integration policy in key sectors like petrochemical, sugar, textiles, agro processing and cement, which Nigeria is now producing 39,000 MT and exporting to the region.

· The Creative sector is now a factor in our GDP, with Nollywood alone accounting for 1.4 percent, creating over 200,000 direct jobs and nearly 1 million indirect jobs. This is the first Administration to recognise its importance and support its further development with a grant program.

· A new bank – the Development Bank of Nigeria – will soon be operational and this bank will help bridge the access to finance gap, which is a major constraint for the private sector especially SMEs. The bank will provide long-term (5 – 10 years) financing at affordable rates for the first time in our nation’s history.
20. This is the path that the government has been on before this fall in oil prices. The response to the economic shock has been spelled out to the Nigerian public over and over again, and the Administration intends to focus on managing this crisis appropriately. This year will be difficult. To say anything less to Nigerians will be untruthful. It would have been better if there had been a bigger cushion of the Excess Crude Account to manage this situation but despite this the nation can rise to the challenge. More importantly, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and the Economic Management Team are seeing this as an opportunity to diversify the revenue sources of an already diversifying economy. In fact let me at this juncture use this opportunity to comment on Soludo’s appalling statement that rebasing brings no policy value. Rebasing has enabled us to better grasp the new diversified nature of our economy. This provides the basis for our present drive to support different sectors with appropriate policy instruments to enhance their development. Rebasing has also enabled the Administration to create the platform from which to drive our work on increasing non-oil revenues. These are areas of critical policy value.

21. Soludo mentioned the issue of the Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU, noting that this Administration has not been vocal or clear on its direction with this agreement. On the contrary, the Administration, particularly the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment, has been clear on this issue but since Soludo has been in the air he probably has not been aware of this. Just recently, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment reiterated again to the corporate sector that Nigeria has not signed and does not propose to sign the EPA in its present form.

22. The point is that this government has been pursuing the right economic policies, and its efforts have been acknowledged nationally and internationally. Let me say that there are objective ways to measure performance. There are international institutions globally accepted to do this. They have acknowledged this Administration’s good economic management up to the recent crisis and even now.

23. We cannot go by someone’s subjective view, driven by bitterness and bile. We need to look to the truth and to professionalism. This is where Professor Soludo totally fails. For the other gratuitous, political, and personal attacks, we are sure that those mentioned will respond appropriately. It is a sad day for Nigeria and the economics profession that someone like Soludo, a former CBN governor should write such an article. If Soludo wants to regain respect, he should return to the path of professionalism. He certainly needs something to improve his image from that of someone whose sojourn into National Economic Management ended in disaster for the banking sector, his sojourn in politics, ended in overwhelming rejection by the electorate, and more recently, his sojourn abroad, has put him out of touch with the reality of the Nigerian economy.


Paul C Nwabuikwu
Special Adviser to the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance


http://lindaikeji..com/2015/01/soludos-self-serving-article-on.html

It is getting more interesting.

I am surprised NOI can be praising Sanusi. After they have stampeded Sanusi out of office they can now acknowledge his contributions. yeye people.

Well, lets keep watching, Aunty Ngozi may finally commend him in his effort of reporting the $20B stolen money after they are kicked out in February and GMB is sworn in in May 29th.

The hallmark of this administration still shows in the response. Before they address issues, they first attack the person that tables the issues. Anybody that talks against this administration will be attacked personally even before addressing the issues raised.

I like this. Kudos to SR. I will comment more on the debate after I've watched and analysed it.

cuteboy2:
Thank you for confirming that English and Mathematics were "part of the criteria".

But were those criteria mutually exclusive?? The obvious answer is NO!!!

The basic requirement was credit in English and Mathematics + 3 other subjects, IN ADDITION TO recommendation from a public officer, in this case his school Principal.

You are very correct to state that Buhari cannot join the army exclusively with a letter from his school Principal. He needed to obtain those 5 credits as well. There is no way his Principal would have been so specific in mentioning this requirement if it was not required.

[size=18pt]"I CONSIDER THAT MOHAMED BUHARI WILL PASS WEST AFRICAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE WITH CREDITS IN ENGLISH, MATHS, AND THREE OTHER SUBJECTS"[/size] - Principal Provincial Secondary School, Katsina

You are a fraud. Why are you editing my statement and putting another one in its stead. No wonder the PDP is so afraid of Buhari. Majority of you guys are thieves and frauds and will definitely end up in jail when GMB takes over.

PointB:
No problem, at least we know that:

1. We know he lied about his certificate being with secretary military board
2. He joined the army with a recommendation letter that he will pass English, Maths, and three other subject
3. We know through the dodgy result he failed mathematics and ordinary wood work
4. We know he lied about being in the same class with Shehu Yar Adua
5. We have shown that the result he presented are doctored
6. Lawyers have dragged his ass to court
7. Several Nigerians are ridiculing him social and print media for lack of certificate, etc

If he did have the result, how would all these embarrassment have helped his cause? Wouldn't it have been better if people didn't know some this about him? How does allowing this to fester help his image as "Mr. Integrity" even as election draw close?

Nowm even if it is eventually confirmed by Cambridge that he did have the result issued by Kastina board, does that in anyway help the fact that he failed Mathematics, and then proceeded to further disgrace himself by having F9 in wood work? Don't forget the news flying around that he failed all him military exams!

How do all these fit into his image as the president of highly educated Nigerians? Wouldn't Nigerian be ridiculed as the country ruled by dullard?
I am convinced that he doesn't have it (the certificate)! No politician who knows his/her onions will allow such ridicule to fester, if he/she has the power to stop it!

Buhari cannot stop this ridicule (or propaganda) because he has something to hide; perhaps something more sinister that failure in maths and wood work. Sooner or later more revelations will surface!


All these happened because Buhari failed to promptly request for his result! He is too slow, perhaps a slowpoke!

1. We know he lied about his certificate being with secretary military board

The military chose their words carefully, they said the result and its copies were not found in his file. Which can mean it was earlier there and no longer there OR it was never there.

2. He joined the army with a recommendation letter that he will pass English, Maths, and three other subject

Those are part of the criteria for joining the army. Someone will write a recommendation for you. He was not employed to the army solely on the strength of this recommendation for your information.

3. We know through the dodgy result he failed mathematics and ordinary wood work

And so? Have you brought out the criteria for joining the army in 1961 that shows that those that failed maths but had complete 5 credits (including English) were not eligible?? If not, please keep quiet for now.

4. We know he lied about being in the same class with Shehu Yar Adua

You know?? Has Yarudua's family refuted this? What of their other classmates, have they refuted this as well? Who are you? Why are you relying on Wikepedia's information that can be edited by anybody.

5. We have shown that the result he presented are doctored

All your noise will be thrown at your face when Cambridge releases the result by themselves. I just hope u wont claim Buhari has bribed them then.

6. Lawyers have dragged his ass to court

What were you guys waiting for earlier? Instead of making noise that was what you were supposed to do right from time. I'm glad you are now making use of your thinking faculty.

7. Several Nigerians are ridiculing him social and print media for lack of certificate, etc

lol, several?? and majority are saying they dont even care if he present it or not!

cuteboy2:
Why should Buhari authorize Katsina Govt College to release his result and certificate, when the right and authentic body to execute this directive is The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES).

And now you are assuring us "the result will be released by Cambridge". So you know the right source after all.

Did Buhari authorize you to make this lofty promise on his behalf?

Or are you the new APC publicity secretary? Have you taken over from Alhaji Lai Mohammed?

What are you saying? The school is the first point of call because they also have a record of the result! The awarding body should be the last resort.

jmaine:
Invariably you are campaigning for a tyrannical General disguising as a Democrat to deceive the masses.

This is democracy, we have a right to stampede him to do the needful, any resistance shows the yelling of "CHANGE" from the APC crew is a very fraudulent one. Simply because the main actor isn't any different from his notorious history.

You are right this is democracy, but majority of the outcry for his certificate are from those doing that just to embarrass him and spoil his chances at the polls. Infact, they even know that he indeed has this qualification, but just playing to the gallery.

He has already stated in his press statement that he was authorizing the school to release the results based on the demands of his supporters. You PDP goons has chosen your time to cast aspersions on the Peoples General, we his team will take our time as well to throw back your innuendoes at your face.

There are times a leader has to be assertive. It is not every time a leader can be stampeded into making decisions. A good leader who wants to make sterling achievements has to be both soft and hard!

Go and check history of the most successful leaders and you will see this quality in them.

I can assure you the result will be released by Cambridge at the most strategic time to the utter shame of PDP propagandists.

jmaine:
Are we voting in a General or a Democrat ? Your utterance simply shows the mentality of Buhari and all those seen to be supporting him.

We are voting a General who is a democrat. He cannot be pushed around by propaganda. He is confident of himself. He has taken it upon himself to allow his result to be published by his school to the whole world, despite failing maths sef. How many of your so called 'democrats' today can publish their results publicly?

The result will be published by Cambridge in due course. Take a chill.

But you are not going to stampede him into making decisions because of your fake outcry. Those are the qualities of strategists (the core of military commanders).

They make decisions at a strategic time.


I am sure if 50 years from now someone is doubting your WAEC result you will be taken aback. Infact you'll be angry. If you authorise your school to release the results you bagged with them 50 years earlier and they did that and you detractors are still crying foul, you will even laugh at them sef and give them some more time to wallow in their ignorance before giving them the final blow by further authorizing the awarding body to release the results to the hawks. hope you got the flow??

AlfaSeltzer:
The british already admitted that Northerners were their puppets, so I'm not surprised to see them using their institution to try and impose a certificateless man on us again.

Even if Mohamed Buhari passed a WASC in 1961, it doesn't matter because Mohamed Buhari is not running for presidency of Nigeria. I want to see the WASC certificate of Muhammadu Buhari.

ha ha ah, you are already opening another front for your lies abi you are just shameless.

Now its no longer that the hausa was not offered, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9 were not used for grading then, the certificate is fake, etc

You better quit propaganda and face real issues.

jmaine:
Q.E.D . . .

Nobody can push a General around. He would authorize them in due course at his own appropriate time. Not because some silly FFK and PDP is diverting attention through the issue.

23 January 2015

The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), now known as Cambridge Assessment, in response to requests to authenticate a candidate’s exam certificate, today said: “We can only confirm or verify results at the direct request of or with the permission of a candidate.”

“This is in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and section 40 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.”

The organisation also confirmed that according to the Regulations for 1961, African Language papers, including those for Hausa were set for the West African School Certificate.



NOTES:

1. Examination results were classed in grades by 1 to 9. 1,2,3,4,5 & 6 indicate a Pass with Credit; 7 & 8 indicate a Pass; 9 indicates a Failure.
2. To pass the School Certificate, candidates had to pass examinations in a variety of groups. It was compulsory to pass English Language, but not Maths, in order to gain the Certificate.
3. The number of candidates who sat for the WASC Hausa examination in 1961 was 152.
4. Our records show that Hausa was set in the Northern Region in 1961.

http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/news/statement-in-response-to-nigerian-presidential-election-enquiries/


Well, Nigerians has obviously been inundating Cambridge with their requests and propaganda, hence they have added additional notes as found above for clarifications.

It's there for all to see that indeed Cambridge WASC used the grades 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9. And they set exams for Hausa in 1961. Infact they even provided the total number of candidates that sat for Hausa in the year in question. And for those claiming WASC does not provide certificate for candidates that did not pass maths, you have your answer there already.

Nobody can push the People's General around, I am confident at the appropriate time, he'll authorize Cambridge to release the result from source to the Nigerian public and shame all the liars.

Three days public holiday to collect PVC is too much. These guys are not even calculating its effects on the economy. We that we are broke, the govt needs the economy to run so as to get its revenues.

The importance of distributing majority of the PVCs cannot be overemphasised as well.

Well, I can suggest a 2 day public holiday for PVC distribution BUT that is after INEC has received the remaining PVCs. The distribution should be decentralised to the polling unit level and it should run for 4 days straight from Thur to Sun.

This should be preceded by loads of media advert for the pickup. If this is done, i'm sure majority of those interested in picking their PVC will do so.

This is far better than postponement of the election.

PDP's plan to postpone the elections has failed totally as the international community knows this will only lead to anarchy and has verbally and through body language made this known to Jona and his crew.

I can see the incoming president, GMB is already relating with the US and EU and establishing his foreign relations stance early... hmm, I like tht.

Diesel that they claimed has been fully deregulated, its price refused to come down. Whereas, cheaper diesel price will help the economy and make business cheaper to run as most businesses, factories, govt agencies and even Aso Rock sef runs on diesel.

Na only God go save us from this cabal that is holding the country and its leadership by the jugular.

This is getting interesting. Jona is entering panic mode. He is sponsoring loads of ludicrous propaganda in their silly NTA and AIT Ads.

Instead to tell us what they have achieved and hope to achieve again, they are spending billions on newspapers and TV Ads to demonise GMB.

What they do not know is that they are just making the man more popular and appealing to the masses.

Jonathan seriously messed up the economy.

joeyfire:
So the minister of defence who could not say a word all this time boko haram has been on rampage quickly talks to lend support to buhari? yeye dey smell

See painment

Chai, chai, there is panic in the PDP camp, good, good, good

Politically, losing Amaechi was a blunder. Rivers state has a chunk voting population. GEJ will definitely win Rivers, but Amaechi will successfully reduce the votes he'll get significantly. Moreso, Amaechi thru his influence as Rivers governor will effectively checkmate any rigging antics the PDP will like to deploy.

It is the results of this election that will make GEJ to know the influence of those governors he lost.
Kano
Kwara
Rivers and the rest.

These states will give the opposition heavy votes. If these states were still under the PDP, they would have been able to curtail the influences of the opposition.

Jona thinks he can muscle his way using the might of incumbency.

A soldier once said this about the battle field...

"the intensity of firing does not matter, what matters is the accuracy".

Politically, losing Amaechi was a blunder. Rivers state has a chunk voting population. GEJ will definitely win Rivers, but Amaechi will successfully reduce the votes he'll get significantly. Moreso, Amaechi thru his influence as Rivers governor will effectively checkmate any rigging antics the PDP will like to deploy.

It is the results of this election that will make GEJ to know the influence of those governors he lost.
Kano
Kwara
Rivers and the rest.

These states will give the opposition heavy votes. If these states were still under the PDP, they would have been able to curtail the influences of the opposition.

InglishTeechar:
CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT PLAYING POLITICS WITH NIGERIA

After several request made by some Nigerians as regards the authenticity of Buhari's 1961 certificate and whether or not Hausa was a subject at that time, this website:

http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/news/statement-in-response-to-nigerian-presidential-election-enquiries/

came up with a response and even posted a link to a pdf file on their website claiming to be an archive file stating that Hausa was a subject.

http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/Images/199936-subjects-of-examination.pdf

But interestingly, the stamp on that file dates 23 Jan 2015 while the 1961 - 1962 was hand written. It appears they are trying to protect Gen. Buhari...Nigerians are smart people, you cant fool us. I urge our historians to please come out and tell us if truly Hausa was indeed a subject in Nigerian Schools in 1961.

Kai, I don give up on u guys. The school in conjunction with Ministry of education of the state which is even a PDP state released the result, u picked holes in it.

His classmates spoke that yes, they went to sch together and sat for the exams together, and even confirmed that he was their head boy, u complained.

An old pix of the sch with him and the other classmates even surfaced, u disregarded it.

You instead decided to believe ONLY a journal that failed to list hausa as a subject offered. Note the choice of my words pls. The journal failed to mention it. It is not that the journal stated that hausa was not offered.

Infact, other journals that stated that hausa was offered even came up, u guys decided to ignore that one.

Now the body that set the exams themselves have come up to say that yes, indeed they set exams for hausa and you are still speaking gibberish.

Now Buhari has bribed Cambridge abi. Do u even in your wildest imagination think that Cambridge, one of the oldest and well respected institutions in the world can be manipulated by African politians??

I think u need to travel more, u are obviously deeply infected with the Nigerian syndrome, otherwise u should know that a lot of western institutions don't joke with their integrity and do not compromise their records.

The archives record released was stamped to depict authenticity. I'm embarrassed that you are still querying the date of the stamp. A lot of demands came in for this information, they released the information on a particular day, and stamped it to show that indeed it emanated from their archives office.

So u expect them to stamp the document on a particular day and change the date of the stamp to 1961 right? Kai, pls think with an open and not a biased mind.

You guys are just embarrassing Nigeria. That was how you bombarded US war college with so many requests. Some of those requests were even cunningly composed to trick them into providing answers in your own way. For example, someone mailed US war college that did a Buhari ever bagged a MSc from the institution? Imagine such a silly request. That person must think he/her is the only one wt a brain. Buhari never stated he bagged a MSc from that institution. He stated that he bagged a diploma there. But that diploma is equivalent to today's Masters offered by the college.

You guys are done wt embarrassing Nigeria at the US war college, it is now time for Cambridge.

Imagine your bias, Cambridge has not even published the result publicly yet, you are already crying that they have been compromised.

Ondo is my state! And we are for GMB!

Nairaland PDP guys always putting Ondo in their equation will surely cry when they see Ondo presidential results. We now detest Mimiko with passion, and woe betides anyone who associates with him at the polls.

How come it's only PDP and her agents that are clamouring for postponement??

The inability of the GEJ govt to indict and prosecute any publicly know figure for this BH onslaught is self-indicting and points to the fact that it is his own team (GEJ) that will face prosecution at the world court for crimes against humanity.

It is now during election period that they ready to fight boko haram right?

When we have been screaming that the FGN is purposely standing down and not taking action against BH, people thought we were jokers.

I will strongly advise INEC against considering any shift.

These PDP guys are desperate, they may purposely allow BH to take over the 3 states completely and still make incursions into additional states just to ensure elections are frustrated! And this is human lives we are talking about.

Jega pls don't listen to them. The lives of a lot of people is hanging on your decision. They have had 5 yrs to fight BH, and they messed up the fight and gave BH territories (more than 20 local govts, the size of Belgium, according to a foreign news report). They are now claiming they want to finish them once and for all. Stories, infact they may want BH to finish those 3 states once and for all sef.

When BH was still in Sambissa, the National security Adviser did not plan an onslaught to finish them once and for all, but now that they are occupying and siting comfortably in territories, and election is around the corner, they have now woken up and ready to finish them

Yeye dey smell

It's also on their website.

http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/news/statement-in-response-to-nigerian-presidential-election-enquiries/

Sai Buhari

Nigeria aint breaking. Incoming President Buhari will calm nerves after the election and give us real development, peace and progress.

PDP will get disgraced at the end of this their macabre dance

http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/news/statement-in-response-to-nigerian-presidential-election-enquiries/


They first started by claiming he was a fanatic...they failed.

They then tried to blackmail him using age...they failed!

They thereafter resorted to claiming he was not healthy, some devilish minds among them even went as far as forging medical report just to discredit him... they failed!

They tried to discredit his US war college diploma (equivalent to today's Masters)...they failed!
(their nairaland dogs has since left the issue to open another front for their lies)

Now they are attacking his WASC qualification.

...and u know what, they are failing already!

Thank God, the record is even with Cambridge, if not, they won't mind burning down the school or even WAEC office sef.

Now goin back to their dogs on nairaland who has been peddling information that Hausa was not offered in 1961, I hope u have eyes to see what Cambridge herself wrote down there.

I know u liars will leave that one for now and come up with another devilish lie. Silly morons

Just hold on a little bit, i'm sure the People's General with impeccable integrity will definitely authoris Cambridge to release the result to u hawks, only God knows the lie u will spin next.

Jarus:
LAST BULLET:

If you think Buhari will forge result given what is at stake (including disqualification from contesting if found true), then your ignorance is pathetic.

If you think anyone would be stupid to release a fake document bearing Cambridge - of all places - in a matter of this criticality....

If you think PDP cannot be using this to deflect attention as a political gimmick...then you're the political ignoramus here.

Thank you Jarus for taking your time to reply all the liars.

I just find it difficult to comprehend why people instead of making use of the brain God has given them, has decided to have a 'herd mentality'of goats.

Cambridge University is there for the PDP, if they think the result is fake they should go there and gets their facts to nail the issue instead of one silly FFK doing computer analysis of a computer broadsheet.

Infact instead of going to the courts to ensure the courts disqualify GMB, why is the PDP calling for press conferences??

Does this not show that they are just trying to make this a media publicity issue and not the core issue it is supposed to be??