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http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-does-not-deserve-second-term-mend/ Kai. This people will make Jona to be having High BP oh. Uppercuts from different angles. |
hahaaaaaaaa. I no fit laugh oh ![]() The Chairman himself of the Peoples Destructive Party (PDP) is already seeing the handwriting on the wall that the party is going down. |
DeLaRue:You really know Ondo state from the analysis you wrote up there. You are right, the south has some considerable PDP supporters. And coupled with the fact that they are close to the Ijaws. But generally Ondo state is fed up with GEJ. And what will cause the major damage now is the association of GEJ with Mimiko the governor. Mimiko coming to the PDP and hijacking the structure vexed some of the earlier members away. In addition, Mimiko's 2nd term has been a disaster and the revenge will be taken on anyone Mimiko is presenting for any elective post. |
I have been telling PDP guys on nairaland since. I don't know why they keep living in a fools paradise. I'm from Ondo state and I can boldly say Buhari will have nothing less than 65% of the votes cast. |
elipheleh:Pls grow up. The world is leaving u behind to rot in your myopic tribalistic views. Nobody has the time to be doing what you term propanganda. You must be very dull for you to believe ALL igbos do not support Buhari. If you are an intelligent person, definitely you should know that all human beings does not reason the same way. Buhari still has some support in the east. Although, majority support GEJ, no one is disputing that. There is no where APC as a party has ever stated that they don't need Igbo votes. Infact they have been clamouring for Igbo votes all along. It is just the way you tribalise everything that made your fellow bigots at the other side to always reply you in your own coin. |
elipheleh:Yes that is Captain Buhari, a professional soldier carrying out his duties in keeping the country as one. Stop maligning his person, otherwise your generation may suffer the consequences. If you have specific evidence against Buhari, bring it forth, otherwise PLS SHUT YOUR TOXIC MOUTH. NONSENSE! |
This is just a sensational writing to stimulate sentiments. I can see the level of support Buhari is getting is getting you panicked,hence this write up to stir up sentiments. |
Curlieweed: ![]() With the way things are going, Osinbajo may eventually convert Buhari to a Born-again Christian before they complete their 4-year term in 2019. I'm serious about this. RCCG guys sure knows how to win souls. With the successes their Administration will deliver to Nigeria, and with the robust working relationship both will have, Osinbajo may end up converting Buhari to a christian. |
PDP goons are terrible and shameless LIARS! Here is His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari visiting the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2013.
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GMB!
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The People's General
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I just love this Buhari. I can feel it! Real development is coming to Nigeria. Quality of life to all! Not just the rich & the looters. Sai Buhari 2015-2019
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Yes I agree with you. The onus falls on PDP supporters to adhere. If you have observed the political discussions on this forum, for the APC guys, they always attack PDP directly emphasizing that they have spent 16 years in central power without achieving much. They then proceed to attack the governance of President Jona emphasizing its failures. Now coming to the PDP guys, what they do most times is to reply by abusing the North saying they have born to rule mentality, insulting the South West and calling them slaves, insulting Muslims and calling them terrorists, they also proceed to demonizing Buhari and Tinubu. They find it very hard to stick to the PDP vs APC issue. They always take the discussion to an ethno-religious perspectives. |
This writer made some sense but I still disagree with his subtle method of encouraging regional politics. Our political landscape has matured more than that. And it is to the benefit of the nation as it fosters unity, peace and harmony and thus development when all tribes are well represented in the major political parties. And all persons has an active role to play in encouraging unity. There is no better way to show this unity than for different tribes to be well represented in the parties having national coverage. Good people of Nigeria, pls let's do away with this archaic political system of Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, etc party. Well, this seems to be happening already anyway, albeit at a slow pace, because if one analyzes the political landscape of Nairaland it shows that the two major political parties has support base across the tribes. Playing unhealthy regional politics is just like playing with a keg of gun powder that can explode anytime and throw the nation into anachy. The onus is on the youths to effect this change. Please lets leave the bitter tribal politics played by our parents and let's encourage politics played on conviction, unity, equity and progress to all parts of the country! I wish you all a happy, peaceful and prosperous 2015. ![]() |
APGA, NDIGBO AND ROAD TO POLITICAL PERDITION DECEMBER 31, 2014 BY UCHE IGWE (PUNCH NEWSPAPER) The fate of my brothers and sisters from the South-East in the current political permutation is difficult to locate. I have tried very hard but I cannot get my hand around it. Without being patronising, it just seems that they are nowhere. Apart from waiting for a few crumbs to fall from the incumbent government, one can hardly notice a coordinated presence of Ndigbo in the Nigerian political landscape today. As a student of Nigerian political history, I have found this situation very surprising and in some ways both unacceptable and inexplicable. For a people that had many of their prominent sons and daughters at the forefront for the struggle for independence, one is very worried how they beat such a progressive and seemingly permanent retreat from national political relevance and prominence. Many will suggest that it was as result of the civil war. That could be part of it. The civil war generated a lot of bad blood and inter-ethnic suspicion and tension for Ndigbo among other entities in Nigeria. But that happened almost 50 years ago. Are the Igbo still suffering the hangover of war and are other ethnic groups in Nigeria united to punish them because they fought the war or are their political problems self-inflicted? Are the Igbo architects of their own misfortune? How strategic have they been in their political engagement and mobilisation? I will be inclined to the latter than the former that Ndigbo are the cause of most of their problems in the country since the civil war. The inability of Ndigbo to regain some prominence in the scheme of things is partly their own making. It is not unconnected to the fact that unlike other geopolitical zones, the Igbo have been unable to rally round a common platform. The Yoruba in the South-West did it with the Alliance for Democracy that later became the Action Congress of Nigeria which merged into the All Progressives Congress. The northerners rallied round the All Nigeria Peoples Party and the Congress for Progressive Change which later merged into the APC. The only political party that would have provided hope for Ndigbo to engage constructively with the Nigerian project, the All Progressive Grand Alliance was invaded by greedy, selfish and crafty politicians. The story of the rot in APGA is simply distressing. Since December 2004, the incumbent National Chairman toppled the leadership of the party by elbowing out the former Chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie, through a judicial ambush, it has been one crisis after another, one litigation after another for the party. Currently, one of the party stalwarts, Chief Maxi Okwu, is asking the Supreme Court to set aside the Court of Appeal ruling of July 2014 and uphold the judgment of the Federal High Court of January 15, 2014 that says that the party’s April 8 national convention was valid. If he gets victory, that will render most of the decisions taken by the current leadership null and void. Besides this litigation, the tenure of the chairman should have long expired by the first week of December. However, in his usual gestapo style, Chief Victor Umeh afterwards assembled his loyalists to an emergency congress that he presided over where he surreptitiously proposed an amendment into the party’s constitution that granted him and his cronies an additional 120 days in office. Those who are familiar with the happenings in the party suggest that the chairman who doubles as a senatorial candidate wants to continue to take charge of the party until after the 2015 elections. In running the affairs of APGA, Umeh is famous for not tolerating dissent. For him to have his way, he stifled internal democracy in the party completely. The media is awash with his “exploits” in all the states where effectively two different factions are today competing to be recognised by the Independent National Electoral Commission after the parallel primaries. The case of Imo State throws light on the extent of confusion created in the party’s just concluded primaries. Two people are each laying claim to being the rightful governorship candidate for the party as two parallel congresses held in two different locations in the state. The first congress was organised by the state executive led by Prince C.C. Nwaka at the Jesus Family and Friends Hall behind NUJ Press Centre which produced Chief Okey Ezeh as the party’s torch-bearer. While the second one was organised by the same state executive led by Peter Ezeobi which produced Emmanuel Iheanacho. Although the Nwaka-led executive was said to have emerged through a state congress as demanded by the constitution, his rival was said to have been handpicked and singleheadedly installed by the national chairman. This impasse is almost replicated in all other states and may affect the electoral chances of APGA in Imo State. The intractable crises in APGA have continued to diminish the chances of expansion of the party in the zone. How can a party that controls only one-fifth of the zone speak for Ndigbo? Instead of investing time to expand the fortunes of the party and consolidate in the region, the party’s leadership is aloof. The last primaries were a sort of bazaar. Apart from formal and informal contributions received from aspirants, the governorship forms were sold at N12m each. The party’s Senate nomination forms went for N5m, House of Representatives forms sold for N3.5m while the nomination forms for the House of Assembly went for N1.5 million. In one of the states, the party sold more than 100 forms for the House of Assembly which amounted to more than N100m. Even delegates at the ward level were made to pay as much as N3,000 before contesting the delegate elections. All these funds accrued to a party that barely has national spread. This does not include subvention which the party is said to receive monthly from Anambra State. I do not want to make hasty generalisations here but I sense that the same things that have distracted APGA from seizing the opportunities to grow within the South-East are the same things that have hindered Ndigbo from forging a united political front nationally. Today, the biggest support base of President Goodluck Jonathan is among Ndigbo. If one may ask, do Ndigbo really have a stake in the Jonathan Presidency? What do they have to show for it except a few hand-outs who a few opportunists and political cheerleaders masquerading as leaders go to Abuja to collect? The South-East zone remains the only one that still does not have up to six states. Its infrastructure continues to decay. The Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway is still a death trap. The same as the Imo end of the Owerri-Port Harcourt Road. If you visit Aba, you will feel sorry for Ndigbo. The town has been abandoned for hoodlums. Most of the boys who used to trade in Ariaria market have all abandoned their shops and crafts to at best street trading and at worst kidnapping. The time for political awakening of Ndigbo is here. They cannot continue to be at the sidelines of Nigerian politics. Let us start by insisting that the right people lead the only surviving Igbo political platform, APGA. Year 2015 is by the corner and Ndigbo can no longer stand aloof for some political lightweights to keep parading themselves as Igbo leaders through political manipulation. Ndigbo should wake up and take their zone from these agents of transactional politics. Copyright PUNCH. Contact: editor@punchng.com http://www.punchng.com/opinion/apga-ndigbo-and-road-to-political-perdition/ |
Integrity all the way
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And the wind of change continues to blow! Sai Buhari! |
mecusbosco:It's u that actually wasted space. Read my comments again more slowly this time around so that u can grasp everything and tell me where I stated that he 'commanded' IG and DSS? For your information I quoted him directly from the source of the news. |
Fake account created by PDP touts to discredit GMB. Fake Twitter Account To Discredit Buhari Surfaces fake twitter account by a certain Ima Sadiq, tweeting @imamsadiq123 has surfaced to discredit the Presidential candidacy of General Muhammadu Buhari of the opposition All Progressive Congress. The account which was started on Friday and has some 51 followers is posing as a Buhari supporting Islamic cleric, suggesting that Buhari’s singular mission in Aso Rock is to entrench the Shariah law. Already vigilant social media users have rubbished the twitter account as an attempt to discredit Buhari’s candidacy by echoing the propaganda that have been used over the years to portray Buhari as a religious fanatic. Tolu Ogunlesi, journalist and social commentator, who has been blowing the whistle on the account told Sunday Trust that “it is obviously a fake account. Clearly is someone who is being mischievous, someone who wants to pose as a Buhari supporter to exploit religious tensions.” The profile picture of the twitter handle was initially that of the US first openly gay imam, Daayiee Abdullah, and when this was pointed out, the operator of the handle changed it to that of Washington DC Masjid imam, Abdul Alim Musa. The twitter handle has attracted pro-Jonathan supporters, including the PDP Youth Frontier (@PDPYF) which have engaged the purported imam to further explain his tweets. This was one of the exchanges on the twitter account: PDP Youth Frontier @PDPYF: @imamsadiq123 You mean you don’t believe that Nigeria is a secular state? Are you supporting Buhari bks he Believes in Shaaria law? Writer and publisher, Eghosa Imasuen says the kind of social media users that have engaged the handle are “the same robots that are paid N100,000 monthly.” “It would be tragic if it wasn’t so transparent,” he said. Popular blogger and tweeter, Japhet Omojuwa also speaking to Sunday Trust said there is an antecedence of something like this. “The Modus Operandi looks like something we have seen before with the Wendell Simlin scandal. The idea is to make it look like a Buhari supporter and enforce all the things that have been said about him in the past. “I have asked for it [the account] to be reported to Twitter. It is a good thing that it is being ratted out so that the impact can be checked,” he said. Earlier in the year, Presidential aide, Reno Omokri, sent out documents in the name of a certain Wendell Simlin trying to associate former Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi of being behind Boko Haram The president’s senior adviser on social media however forgot to remove his digital signature on the documents and was widely condemned for his action and attempt at spreading false information on a perceived opponent of the Jonathan government. http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/29/fake-twitter-account-discredit-buhari-surfaces-sunday-trust |
Someone pls tell me why the PDP and their cohorts are trying to use blackmail to gain support? I think they are finally seeing the handwriting on the wall and they are getting desperate!! After all the abuses and castigation they subjected Buhari to, they discovered that it is not working and now they want to try another method. The level of propanganda they are even playing is pathetic to say the least. This is capable of throwing the country into confusion and chaos. Imagine such desperation to the extent that their paid online goons are now using Islamic cleric's picture that is readily available on the internet to create social media accounts, and then proceeding to making inciteful comments with those accounts just to get christians worked up and hateful of muslims. Is that not wicked and devilish? With the level of desperation being displayed, it is getting obvious by the day, that the govt of Jona needs to be shown the door. And with this level of desperation, I wont be surprised if an independent investigation panel indicts GEJ's govt for this Boko Haram wahala. And imagine this one, a dumb and talkative Minister (who had earlier undergone trial for murder) stating that he has told the IG and DSS to arrest people making certain comments, who does he think he is?? Someone pls enlighten me. Does a Minister have a command over the IG and DSS. The level of impunity in this administration seems to know no bounds. Very sad I must say. ![]() |
Algebra12:So he is the policeman that will enforce the law right? |
jmaine:Barcanista really tried against that guy's onslaught that day. Barcanista proved himself as an all-round guy. I was deeply impressed. He was attacked left, right, front, back, and was even ambushed by several guys using the weapons provided by that datolee and he was still able to stand his ground. |
Berem (she has taken so much abuses and threats, but still flying the APC flag high) ![]() or Barcanista |
All those badmouthing Amaechi and blackmailing the dude, pls come out and defend your lies. The man has categorically stated on national media that he has paid salaries to date. Anyone with contrary opinion should please come forward with proof. PDP and lies are Siamese twins. ![]() |
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/jonathan-trouble-gov-amaechi/ GOVERNOR Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State was recently appointed Director-General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation. At an interactive session, Amaechi among other things, reels out plans of the campaign organisation and also clears the air on knotty issues. Excerpts: Why Jonathan is in trouble — Gov Amaechi Says he didn’t fund Buhari’s campaign By Dapo Akinrefon Is it true you funded the Buhari campaign for the primaries? I did not. Buhari did not spend money for the primaries. Anybody who said they spent money should come forward with evidence. We have maintained consistently that Nigerians would fund us and that is why we have launched our campaign we are hoping that people will contribute. It is there on our website; you will just look at the account and go and pay. And we are making sure that we convince General Buhari to be the sole signatory to that account. That is the way we would raise our money. We would not depend on rich men. You can’t fight the president on funds. See how much he raised from people who some of them collected the N2.3trillion on oil subsidy and are yet to pay back. If he is not prosecuting them for oil subsidy, why shouldn’t they pay for his election? The president is trying to raise over N200 million for power and then those people he is helping to raise the money are giving him N500million. We can’t fight the president with money, we will fight him with the people. We will fight the president by telling Nigerians that they have to vote for change and the symbol of change for us is the APC and General Buhari. I will like to reiterate again that General Buhari did not pay anybody to vote for him at the primaries and he won because Nigerians want change. How do you intend to combine your duty as director-general of the APC presidential campaign with your duties as governor? We will try. That is why there is a deputy governor. I have a deputy who is efficient and I will also from time to time go back to the state. But we need to deliver and we are all making sacrifices ?to deliver this change. I don’t know how people feel. The president and the federal government have not denied the fact that N2.3trillion was taken for oil subsidy and that was six months in 2011. Oil subsidy before that time was N300billion, so how did it rise to N2.3trillion and the people are not afraid? The federal government and all its agents were not afraid that N2.3trillion was taken. So, basically, I don’t mind what I can do legally to make sure that there is a better Nigeria. What about the controversy that you have not paid eight months salaries? Anybody who said I have not paid him salaries should come forward. We have paid up till December; you can call Rivers State to confirm. I got a Blackberry message on Tuesday, saying; “Thank God, we are going home with our salary before Christmas.” What we agreed in the cabinet was that we should make sure that everybody goes home with his salary before Christmas because as a Christian, I know that December 23 and 24 are the two days that Christians like to shop. I do not owe salaries in Rivers State. I am proud to say that I will pay salaries until I leave office and I will continue to pursue development projects in the state. I was even surprised that the president’s spokesman even put it in one of his statements when he was responding to the accusation that the people who contributed to the N21billion are those plundering our economy and he said after all, Governor Amaechi funded the election of Buhari while he owes teachers eight months salary. And I asked the question, for you to be a presidential spokesman, facts and statistics must be on your palm; you shouldn’t joke with that. But the man was just reacting to gossip. What are Buhari’s programmes for Nigeria if he wins the 2015 election? The message is simple. Buhari chased away Maitasene while he was Head of State. Many Nigerians will remember that Maitasine was like Boko Haram and they were killing people in Borno and Kano and Buhari chased them away because he is a strong leader. We need a strong leader now to chase away Boko Haram or it will chase us away. Buhari will deal with insurgency because he has done that before. Many Nigerians would remember that when Borno was attacked by Chadian rebels, Buhari as an officer of the Nigerian Army almost chased them into Ndjamena. He had crossed the Lake Chad when President Shehu Shagari called him back. If he didn’t do that, Borno would have been overrun by Chadian rebels and till today Chad has never crossed into Nigeria to fight us. It takes a strong leader to do that. We will deal with insurgency. The country may be broke now because of two factors. The first which is very critical is the diversion of funds at the NNPC. That is the greatest factor for me. The level of diversion in the NNPC has affected everybody including me. We will deal with power because if you don’t address it, you cannot tackle unemployment. The essential factor for industrialisation from elementary economics is power. So, when you hear that people in the power sector contributed N500 million for the president’s re-election, where did they get it? First, you must pay your bill every month whether you like it or not; whether you have power or not. People are now being forced to pay N75 every month whether they use power or not. So, they are being punished for not having power. How do you respond to the claim by the PDP that Buhari is a semi-illiterate jackboot? Our campaign will be issue-based. The president has a PhD in Zoology, how many farms do we have and how many people has he employed? If you say the president has a PhD and Buhari does not have one, let him show us his thesis. You are bringing yourself to the level of those who are making those allegations. Don’t bring yourself to that level, remain focused on the issues and let the president meet you there. Many have defected from the PDP to the APC and as soon as they move they become progressives. What exactly does the APC stand for and what is the ideology of the party? How many people would say that when I was in the PDP, I wasn’t a progressive? Those who left the PDP are the progressive wing of the party. Please tell me what else I need to do to become a progressive. The ideology of progressivism is about the people and I bother about them a lot. That is why there is free education in my state which is not part of the PDP manifestoes. While in the PDP, I introduced free education and health care. What else would I need to become a progressive? Those who studied at the University of Port-Harcourt will say that I have been a Marxist from my university days till today. APC stands for a progressive ideology and you can see that in our manifestoes. What is the assurance that Buhari will win the presidential election? The simple electoral arithmetic is that before the president had the South-south and Southeast 100 percent, but now there are problems for the PDP in Cross Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta States. It wasn’t like that before. By this time the PDP would have been dancing but have you seen them doing so? When they were doing the Transformation Ambassador of Nigeria (TAN) rallies, I knew that it will get to this point. You have not seen the PDP dancing or doing any major campaign because there are problems everywhere. There is problem within the party in Enugu, Ebonyi and Abia States. So, it is no longer the same. The electoral map appears to have changed. If we go to the north, does the APC have problems in Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa and Sokoto? Did we have problem in Lagos State? No, it is the PDP that has problems in those states. So the political map has changed and that is why I believe that by God’s grace, Buhari and the APC will win. I am a Christian and I think positively. I am not from the north; I am not from the south. I am a Nigerian. I don’t believe in indigeneship, but in citizenship. Buhari will win the 2015 presidential election by God’s grace and he will also win because the political map does not favour the president anymore. In 2011, in the South-South and Southeast, we said he is our brother and now we are saying he is no longer our brother. - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/jonathan-trouble-gov-amaechi/#sthash.Kodi8rn4.dpuf |
Did Ribadu get the Adamawa PDP ticket? |
Nice one. We need to keep on preaching peaceful coexistence. I know 'some' people on both sides of the divide will still sneer at this good news. But may the Lord touch all their souls. We are going to get there soon. A peaceful Nigeria with equal opportunities for all. Meanwhile... GMB 2015-2019. |
Ameachi cannot stoop low to debating with Wike. Moreover Amaechi is not contesting for any elective post. Why is Wike's campaign centred on attacking Amaechi? Ameachi can delegate any member of his cabinet to represent him or even his party’s gubernatorial candidate. This Wike is just a noise maker. |
oziegbe2015:I'm not PDP Bro. Infact, I am even a staunch supporter of change both online and in real life. But I think it's not nice for u to be making jest of someone that does not have children (if that is the case anyway). To the extent that u are even casting smear on adoption of children. Adoption is good and should be encouraged by all well meaning Nigerians. It will go a long way in resolving some flaws in our thinking pattern and even behaviour. Jona is trying to use his adoption principles to publicise he is a good man with a good heart. You are already falling into the trap he is setting for u to criticise him on that and thus makes him the saint and caring man and u the vagabond who does not care for the fatherless. Bros politics has now advanced, and it's even like a chess game now. One must be careful of all utterances while also strategically analysing the moves and objectives of the other side before reacting. |
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oziegbe2015:What u wrote up there is not nice. There should be a limit to where politics should be played. Kindly retract the statement. |
PDP propaganda if we are not careful may give us serious issues in this country. This is because this propaganda is being fired up by bigoted and highly biased ethnic jingoists. |
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