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courage54:Deep inside you, i knew you dont really mean it.... Buhari will hardly 100 votes in all of the SS & SE. We Niger Deltan cant vote for APC and Buhari. |
arsetalks:Two things will happen in 2015: it is either GEJ remains as the President or we divide Nigeria. Pls, quote after the election. |
Ybholy:some poeple are just wasting there time! GEJ remain the President until 2019, and handover to whoever he want. Nobody can stop, not even the use of bombs will stop him. |
kestolove95:then, you should come and vote him out!!! |
Code213:Sorry, i'm not very good at name calling... I must not believe in everything you say here and i must not force you believe me too. We should all debate contructively. Let me still repeat what i said earlier. ''The Northern Politician should keep watching while there region is being destroyed'' at the end of the day, we would see who will lose. Sometimes you think you can disqualify GEJ with bombs, never! He's already on the seat and must continue till 2019 then, handover to whoever he likes. So live with that fact. |
udatso:*then, what do they believe in? *What religion do they base there fighting to protect. What book do they use in defending *what they doing? |
tbaba1234:Ok..! It has nothing to do with Northern Politician? They should keep watching while their region is being distroyed. It cant stop GEJ from contesting and winning this 2015 Election. Keep bleming... If need be, you will blem him from now to 2019. |
datolee:All i know is that, Buhari will never rule Nigeria. Nomater how good is he. We dont want him. |
mikeansy:May God never allow them. I want a Nigeria that is free from anything called APC. |
cramjones:GEJ remains the President Of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria until 2019. He must contest and must win... |
denko:Nobody can use bombs to remove GEJ in Abuja, anyone doing that will only be wasting his or her time. GEJ 'must' complete his second term and nothing anyone will do about. The easiest way to end Nigeria is when anything happend to him. |
nigerianvenom:It's either GEJ in 2015 or we divide Nigeria. GEJ must complete his second term and leave office in 2019. |
she marry? |
BetaThings:bros, sorry to say, Nigeria has always been a very corrupt Country, and GEJ was never the one that invented it. GEJ may not be doing very well, but he remain BEST among those we have in Opposition. He may not be doing very well in fighting corruption, but i will still vote him 100,000 times and for Buhari O time. The major reason why they are fighting GEJ is because He's a Christian and from South South, therefore, we must not abandon him. We will always stand to defend him. When you dont want me to rule, i will never allow you to rule too. |
gists:Is ok, But GEJ must complete his second term, then, we will now check wether to divide Nigeria or remain one. |
egift:GEJ TILL 2019. Things has changed.... He must complete his Transformation Agenda. GEJ will be rejected if fail to complete our remaining 4 Years. It's not really about him, but about us and about all Good Nigerians. |
Dblack:You are not totally correct. They are not only sympathizers of APC, but they are The APC(s) and APC is them. |
Let no Christian vote for APC. They must be Stopped!!! |
This is indeed the time for us to answer some hard questions and speak some home truths. It is a season that shall separate the men from the boys. It is a time that the holy and wholesome light of truth shall overwhelm and expose the evil darkness of doublespeak and deceit. It is a season that the enunciation and exposure of the ugly realities of the day must not be sacrificed or compromised on the alter of political expediency or on the table of fear. Thankfully there are a few courageous and discerning voices that have risen to the occasion, made the relevant observations and asked the right questions. Amongst them are Bayo Oladeji and Opeyemi Agbaje. Permit me to begin with the former. Oladeji, a seasoned and experienced journalist who writes for the Leadership Newspaper, wrote the following on his Facebook page on 31st October 2014. ”When Chief Femi Fani-Kayode came out to expose the plan of the APC chieftains to impose a Muslim/Muslim ticket on the party, their attack dogs were ordered to abuse him using words picked from the gutter. They even told us he was never part of them! Chief Tom Ikimi came out and corroborated him and they said he was telling a moon tale. They then recalled his participation in the Abacha evil rule which murdered Ken Saro Wiwa as if their hero, Muhammadu Buhari did not play same role in the same government. When I raised the issue here after confirming from those who were involved in the plan some who can never talk to their hero rose up ignorantly to fault me. But since President Olusegun Obasanjo did the same, their response remains a deafening silence! When I was growing up I was told that SILENCE MEANS CONSENT. Meaning those who have been saying it are not wrong after all. The Church has kept mum for so long and these people in the opposition are cornering all for themselves. For example, I have challenged the apologists of APC to publish the list of names and the religions of all their political appointees in the Southwest especially the following- the governors, SSGs, Speakers, Finance Commissioners in all the APC controlled states in the southwest. Let us see how fair they are to the two religions in the country. If they could do this at the state level where they have someone who claims to be a Christian as deputy governor, we wonder what they would do when they have the President and the Vice President from them. In the whole of the North, there is only one Christian in the National Executive Commitee and the National Working Commitee of the APC. His name Engineer Babachir David Lawal from Adamawa State! And if you know the extent he went to get that seat, you would know what that party is up to. These are the issues. It goes beyond President Jonathan. If the party does not change, God spares our lives, come 2019, you will still find me doing the same. Until the rotten tooth is pulled out of the mouth, the mouth will continue eating with caution. It is a tragic irony that those who have come out to defend them are those who claim to be Christians”. Oladeji’s observations are indeed food for thought even though in fairness to the APC, their party Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, did come out and respond to Obasanjo by saying that his party had no intention of fielding a Muslim/Muslim ticket. Few believe him. The question is this: in the light of General Mohammadu Buhari’s latest assertion that he cannot rule out the possibility of the selection of a muslim running mate if he manages to win the nomination as the presidential flagbearer of his party, can the belated assurances of the National Chairman be taken seriously? I doubt it very much but even if I do take John Odigie-Oyegun seriously and even if he has the best of intentions, the fact of the matter is that at the end of the day it is the Presidential candidate of the party alone that will make the choice as to who his running mate will be and what religious faith that running mate espouses and not the party’s National Chairman. To that extent Buhari’s celebrated and widely reported comments about not seeing anything wrong with a Muslim/ Muslim ticket, in my view, speaks volumes and outweighs Odigie-Oyegun’s denials and desperate attempts to calm the waters. To make matters worse it is quite possible that John Odigie-Oyegun may end up not being National Chairman for much longer simply because he has dared to challenge the status quo and say what no one else in his party has dared to say. To add to Oladeji’s concerns, permit me to point out the fact that in the APC- controlled Lagos State today, 80 per cent of the State House of Assembly members are muslim, 80 per cent of Local Government Area Chairmen are muslim, 80 per cent of National Assembly members are muslim and 80 per cent of Commissioners and key government functionaries are muslim. All this in a state that has an overwhelming christian majority and that has been governed by a muslim governor for the last 15 years. I will not even go into the affairs of the APC- controlled Osun state which is slowly being turned into a Taliban enclave and which is a place in which Christians are fast becoming second class citizens. Should anyone be surprised or alarmed by all this? I don’t think so. It is a well- orchestrated, well-thought out, well- designed and well-implemented agenda. That is the APC for you. With them you will never see what you will get until it is too late. They are very good at using religion to achieve their objectives and at playing double games. And of course propaganda and the manipulation of the mass media is their forte. They implement their hidden agenda by guile, stealth, deceit and subterfuge and they prey on our sense of fair play, generosity and magnanimity. In short they have taken us all for granted and they have mistaken our genuine sense of liberalism and the desire to accomodate other schools of thought and perspectives as weakness and stupidity. Yet it gets worse and it doesn’t stop there. It is also a fact that every single state that is under the control of the APC in the south west today is governed by a muslim whilst 90 per cent of APC governors throughout the Federation are muslims. If this does not paint a clear picture about what the overall agenda of the APC really is and if it does not give a clear indication about what their intentions for our country really are then nothing ever will. Let us come to Opeyemi Agbaje who is a banker, an economist and a lecturer at the Lagos Business School. He made his own contribution to the debate by asking the following insightful questions on his Facebook page on 31st October, 2014 . He asked: ”How come the only debates we have in Nigeria are over a “Muslim-Muslim” ticket? How come the opposition partys instincts are always in that direction- Nuhu Ribadu/Fola Adeola in 2011 and now all sorts of Muslim-Muslim permutations and possibilities? How come a discussion of a Christian-Christian presidential ticket is completely inconceivable and has not been countenanced by anyone? How come Buhari, who even in a military regime instituted a Muslim-Muslim/North-North ruling clique along with Idiagbon and 8 or 9 out of 11 Supreme Military Council members, is now testing the ground again with another possible Muslim- Muslim pairing? Is it that we have a shortage of capable Christians in NIgeria?” I wonder if anyone can answer these questions. I believe that the Nigerian people deserve to hear the answers. The fact of the matter is that even though many in our country are in deep denial and have buried their heads in the sand like the proverbial ostrich, religion has not only become a factor in our politics today but it has actually become THE factor. This was never meant to be the case and it is a sad and unwelcome development but, sadly, that is the reality and we have no choice but to live with it. Those that dispute it ought to be reminded of the fact that these are the days of Abubakar Shekau and Boko Haram. They ought to be reminded of the fact that this is an age that has witnessed the unprecedented and meteoric rise of Islamic fundamentalism, religious intolerance and ISIL-like barbarity in the affairs of our nation. They ought to be reminded of the fact that these are the days that have witnessed the advent of an opposition party that is hell bent on using religion as a major political weapon in an attempt to grab power at the center regardless of the dangers of undertaking such a dangerous and unpredictable course of action. They ought to be reminded of the fact that this is a time in which the leading Presidential candidate of the opposition party is on record as saying that an attack on Boko Haram ”is an attack on the north”. They ought to be reminded of the fact that the same man told the Nigerian people in 2002 that he wishes to spread sharia law ”all over the Federation”. They ought to be reminded of the fact that the official spokesman of the opposition party only last year said that the proscription of Boko Haram by the Federal Government was ”unconstitutional and unjust”. Given all this only a fool would suggest that religion is not a major factor in the unfolding events in Nigeria’s political arena today. Yet I am not surprised and neither should anyone else be. That is style and manner of Nigeria’s opposition party. That is the APC way: lies, deceit, doublespeak, Byzantian manouverings, subterranean plots and hidden agendas are their stock in trade. They are nothing but darkness and only the light of God and the power of truth will expose them. May God deliver our nation from their ilk. There is no gainsaying that both Oladeji and Agbaje have raised some very pertinent issues and their deep concerns reflect the thinking of millions of Nigerian who are very worried about the unfolding agenda. We await the response of anyone within the ranks of the Buharists and the Haramite hordes for an answer to these pertinent questions and observations that these two courageous and deeply patriotic Nigerians have raised. Whichever way we choose to look at it one thing remains clear: the reaction of the Nigerian people will be decisive and swift if those that wish to turn our nation into an ISIL-style state push their luck too far. |
A suicide bomber has blown himself up at a Shia religious ceremony in north- east Nigeria, killing about 20 people, eyewitnesses have told the BBC. The bomber joined the ceremony in Potiskum town and blew himself up, the witnesses said. No group has said it carried out the attack, but suspicion is bound to fall on militant Sunni Islamist group Boko Haram. It denounces Shias, a small minority in Nigeria, as non-Muslims. Witnesses said the bomb exploded as the crowd was marking Ashura, a solemn day when Shias mourn the martyrdom of Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in 680 AD at Karbala in modern-day Iraq. Boko Haram has waged an insurgency in Nigeria since 2009. It has repeatedly targeted Christians and rival Muslim groups. In July, it was blamed for bombing an open-air mosque in Potiskum, killing four people. |
MecTessy:Amen |
Trut:i'm always happy to hear that. We wont allow Buhari or Kwankwaso to go anywhere near Aso Rock. They will only be there by a strick invitation Mr.Ebele. God bless you my brother. |
Jonathan to run for president again in February 2014-10-29 17:33 Abuja - President Goodluck Jonathan's office confirmed on Wednesday that he will seek a second term in office in elections set for February. Jonathan, who had been widely expected to run again, will collect a nomination form on Thursday to be the ruling party candidate in the presidential vote, his spokesman said. "President Jonathan thanks all Nigerians, members of the PDP, friends, associates who in sincere appreciation of the achievements of the administration in the last four years have been urging him to seek a second term in office," presidential spokesman Reuben Abati said in a statement emailed to press. The announcement will be seen as a mere formality by the Nigerian political class since Jonathan had already been adopted as sole candidate by the board of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Also read: Jonathan urged to contest election in 2015 Jonathan's government has been beset by criticism over its inability to end an insurgency by Boko Haram Islamists, for his response to their abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls still being held six months later, and for a raft of oil corruption scandals. However, the president still appears to be in a strong position, partly because there is no clear alternative, but also because Nigerian elections tend to be fought more on vast patronage than on policy, which gives an encumbent in this oil-rich state an advantage. The battle lines between Jonathan and whoever wins the nomination for the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) are increasingly being drawn, with several defections both ways over the past year. Nigeria's lower house speaker and fourth most powerful person, Aminu Tambuwal, defected to the opposition coalition on Tuesday, boosting its bid to unseat Jonathan. The top two contenders for the APC presidential ticket next year are former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari and recently defected vice president Atiku Abubakar. Both are Muslim northerners, while Jonathan is a Christian southerner, which will inevitably add an ethnic and sectarian dimension to the contest. In 2011 Buhari's defeat against Jonathan triggered three days of bloodshed that left 800 dead and 65,000 displaced. The APC's failure to agree on a leader has diminished its support among Nigeria's elite and made it look weaker as the polls approach. Several lawmakers defected to the APC last December as it gained momentum, but since then a number of powerful figures have swung back to the president's camp. - Reuters |
bunmioguns:Yeah, it sound like a foolish talk, but is fact! |
bunmioguns:GEJ till 2019. He is the only symbol of unity for now. Anything less than GEJ in 2015 only means the division of Nigeria. |
lonelydora:The only men i love in APC are Fashola and Oshomole. But the rest are... |
Sincere9gerian:Hmmm... It is better for GEJ to rule for EVER than to have Buhari as the President. |
AbdulAdam56:The problem originate from North Sudan. |
Why always the North? 2014-10-27 18:25 I didn't chose where I belong but God did it for a purpose, otherwise I could have chose to be in the East, West or South but not in the North. Since in the era before Christ, most of the trouble and wars recorded in the Bible histories came from the North. Consider our world today, most of the countries having conflict suffer it from the Northern part. Why always the North then? Does it means the North is a cursed land without blessings or God is angry with the inhabitant of the North? Also read: Jonathan urged to declare 'total war' on Boko Haram The problem of Iraq is from the North, that of Mali is from the North, Sudanese problem started from the North, the Boko Haram here is from the North and is affecting the Northern Cameroon. Why the North, lets pray for the North. The southern and eastern part are busy showing the world their achievement by inviting either the President, his deputy, Senate President or Speaker house of Reps for commissioning their achieved project but it is a pity and sorry for the Northerners all their shares have been spent on the security issue but the matter remain as no one attend to it. "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" if we the Northerners cant handle and develop a single state, why the federation? God is the one holding power in his hand and the ability to lead to anyone He wishes. Northerners lets develop our state first before we think of the federation. If the power is not in the hand of a Northerner particularly islam, my country ll loose its peace, why always the North? Look, Polio the North, poverty the North, poor education and desertification the North, oh God why always the North? |
basbone:Buhari should forget about being Nigeria President. It will never work in One Nigeria! |
''...On the other hand, Buhari’s popularity surged to messianic peak among the ordinary northern Muslims not because of his incorruptible ascetic-like qualities but the day he debunked the Atiku’s ‘back to status quo’ declaration during the heated Sharia and Anti-Sharia debacle of Zamfara’s Sharia reintroduction. This same reason, Christians are still not comfortable with him. My fear here is that what Buhari did was the right thing and should never regret it even if it cost him his presidency. That is his most pleasurable achievement to Allah for standing against for his own faith being tarnished and politicized. The moment he stands for the presidency he has two options, lose the Christian votes or dilute his Islamic credentials by going extra miles to prove he is not an islamist which they all know he is not'' - Islamic Scholar, Sheik Gumi |
It will be better for GEJ to rule for ever than to have Buhari as the President of One Nigeria - Akpan |
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