keyzid: For crying out loud, this man is damn too old to start bearing the task meant for 2 or more people. You are the President, you still wanna play the petroleum minister role. That's insane. Appoint somebody pls and face other things.
Do you know what is insanity? Do you think he will rule Nigeria single-handedly?
He can delegate with close supervison of activities of the sector rather than taking his eyes off the ball for some rouge to enrich himself at the expense of the masses.
ifeelgood: You can't distract Buhari with your insatiable desires.
True talk. Their greed and tribalism is atrocious to say the least.
The amalgamation treaty of 1914 created Nigeria but did not specify end-date for the treaty or for Nigeria to cease to exist as a country.
It is therefore foolish, irresponsible and treasonable for those oil-bunkering bigots, pipeline vandals and environmental polluters to question the existence of Nigeria.
In Russia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait etc, federal governments have ownership of resources found on their territories. This is a contitutional provision in Nigeria as well. So, those Ijaws that occupy that area of Nigeria do so on lease and not freehold.
It is a despicable and reprehensible tribalism that the Ijaws want an Ijaw state carved out of any states they may be.
What a squalid little thought that any tribe split across two or more states should seek to be united in a state of their tribe? The world has advanced beyond being tied to one's mother's apron string.
Nigeria as country is not negotiable. The earlier those Ijaw mischief-makers get it into their heads, the sooner they will spare themselves unimaginable self-inflicted damnation.
Asking a foreign head of state when he was going to step down was the height of irresponsible journalism.
Admittedly this Mugabe of a president had misruled his country and clinging to power as if his was a kingdom was atrocious as the nefarious regime of white supremacist he replaced, except that Zimbabwe had a better economy then.
It was nevertheless up to the zimbabweans to dethrone this despot and not for Nigerian journalists to insult a man that came to the country to honour their president.
Google63: .Sigidi.. Oh Mogidi. When will you leave Buhari alone and save yourself from unnecessary heart attack. Is he the cause of all your woes and troubles?
Wildrage: He ceases to be a private citizen the day he became our president elect, he now lives in a house built and maintained at tax payers expense, his security is now the responsibility of the state so he should stop behaving like a carefree nomad
Why wasn't he given one of the presidential jets to use, if as you said he ceased to be a private citizen? Was he only entitled to "convoy" and not presidential jets.
Maybe comparing your President-elect to a "carefree nomad" was not an insult to you but it portrayed you as lacking respect for not only your elders but symbol of national authority.
@ poster, you have not been objective but have displayed a rabid hatred for GMB and APC.
For one, Buhari is a frugal person who abhors waste. Secondly he said he travelled as a private citizen on a private visit. How did this reason attract your venom?
You have obviously forgotten that it was PDP, and not APC, that was in power during these 16 years when the country was sucked dried and brought to her kneels.
As for alleged criminals' having funded Buhari's election, you were neither a witness nor were any of those persons convicted felons by a competent court.
Similarly, you are the first and only person I have knowledge of accusing GMB of corruption.
APC campaigned as a political party and pulled collective private resources to secure electoral victory while PDP and its government bankrupted the country in the process: fuel scarcity, black-outs, strikes, $63 billion debt, $20 billion missing from crude account and another $20 billion unremitted to Federation Account.
Nigeria is better off without the unbridled corruption and damnation of the country by PDP government, which should be probed to its rotten core.
Finally, the onus is on you to stop deceiving Nigerians with such cheap opinions as Nigerians are wiser after the debacle of GEJ.
GboyegaD: Why sectoral politics? Why not see it as a time to develop the Nation?
Don't mind the biafran! SW and the North have unbreakable bond - be it inter-marriage, religion, or joining hands together to teach ojukwu a lesson. That bond has resurfaced again in the overwheling defeat of Jonathan, SS and SE.
mandozhero: GMB is gradually bringing in his people from Niger in the name of Nigerians as probably as promised during election. I am thinking on the kind of school or work Nigerians will be doing in Niger. Tomorrow Nigerians might equally return from Chad.
So you did not know that there was insurgency in NorthEast Nigeria as not to know why these people left in the first place? So you did not know that there are Nigerian refugees in the neighbouring countries, including Chad and Cameroun?
I can also see how lowly you seek to play ethnicity politics with suffering returning Nigerians by calling them GMB's people! So people from Imo and Delta are also his people from Niger disguised as his Nigerians?
If your dysfunctional GEJ had not been sleeping on his job for six years, situations could not have been so dire for these unfortunate Nigerians.
So it is now in your dying days as president that you realised the IGP was not performing? What about Boko Haram that you slept over it for six years? You should resign now rather that wait for handover.
The new IGP's priority is misplaced. Whilst welfare of his men and women are important, the priority of all Nigerians is for him to tackle head-on the unspeakable corruption of the Nigeria Police Force. There is a new anti-corruption president on the block; watch it or else you are out!
splashbaby: Recently I was discussing the role many prominent Igbos played in helping GMB to the presidency and many never believed they did much.
1. Fr. Mbaka: The voice from the pulpit aimed several serial political attacks at GEJ with wreckless abandon. His abbatoir was the adoration ground that had earlier anointed the wife of the president in an elaborate program...but within weeks he was his biggest critic. His sermon were laced with anything ANTI-GEJ.
Father Mbaka was a constant torn the GEJ's never got an answer to silent him. Was he working for the APC or was He under the influence of the holy spirit as he claimed? Only time will tell. Watch him talk below
2. Oby Ezekwesili: The former minister took the #bringbackourgirls crusade to a new height. A constant nuisance depleting the rank and file of the GEJ government's lilly liver fight against the dreaded Boko Haram sects. Locally and internationally, she highlighted all that was wrong with the GEJ's regime.
The height of her campaign was laying siege at the national assembly. Many believed that her campaign was bore out of political sentiment than sincere concern for the kidnapped girls. However she never missed any opportunity to rub on the failure of the GEJ's government whenever she speaks.
3. Rochas Okorocha: This is the real deal for the Igbos. A flawless orator and the new face of the Igbo nation. He was the lonely voice of the APC in the East...this was a man who had been members of almost all the major political parties in Nigeria, from APGA to ANPP, AA to PDP and now APC. He stood firm in the face of adversity as the PDP threw their weight unhindered in the South East. He was the strongest APC henchman in the East that gave them public appeal as a true National party. He may one day rule Nigeria if his kinsmen rally round him.
4. Ogbonnaya Onu: A political arrow head of the APC, He was a key factor in the creation of the APC. The only authentic address the APC his in the east is the home of the former governor, a loyal leader that Buhari and co holds in high esteem. He was involved in many of the failed battles in the east to garner support for Buhari during the election.
5. Dr Chris Ngige: A former governor and a progressive to the core...many of his political battles are well documented with sometimes too weird to fathom, but his role as the APC foot soldier from the east provided the necessary arsenal the APC needed to dislodge the ethnic/religious tanthrum the PDP threw at them... He was a stabilsing factor from the east doing the mop up whenever Lai Mohammed releases his missles.
6. Charles Soludo's: last ditch effort to rubbish the economic power house of the GEJ's administration led by Ngozi Iweala was a terrible punch below the belt. It was a destraction they never expected. He charged GEJ for leadership failure and enumerated on many political and economic indices bothering on sustained systematic corruption leveled against the government. He challenged the defacto prime minister Ngozi Iweala to an economic debate that never materialised.
You got the order of most tribalistic wrong. Ibos are the worst. As for Buhari not ever ruling Nigeria again, may I ask if it is in your will power? You post dribbles with tribal bigotry.
@ poster, this tribalism central is the bane and eternal fall of biafra, which means entrusting leadership of this country to a biafran is not an option for the masses of Nigeria. Aligning yourselves with South South is a marriage of convenience to secede but the South South are not foolish enough to play second fiddle to the biafrans. Ibos are only in it for oil-grabbing and opportunity to lord it over South South. It is time these ibos or biafrans gave up this fruitless and idle pipe dream of a separate country unless they have not learnt that "once bitten, twice shy"!
midolian: Abeg make this "Hero" just leave matter for market women..
Is he now saying the low scores recorded for Buhari in the S/S and S/E is a deserved one? Elections in Nigeria has always favored who rigged it best buh this time, with the introduction of card reader and PVC(which clipped the wings of the rulingrigging party), to a very large extent, it(Election) has favored the choice of the masses...And hence, the emergence of General Muhammadu Buhari
He must be living in cloud 9. Only he and those in the SS and SE did not see the writing on the wall. As if surrendering parts of Nigeria to BH for six years was not a national disgrace enough, failure of government to pay salaries as due and almost total decadence of infrastructures coupled with unprecedented corruption, armed robbery, kidnapping, human ritualism and the other unspeakable ills that held the nation in limbo were strong enough nails for his coffin. [font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]
msmon: He'll if only he has another four year to hand over. SNAIL!
If Nigeria is terror-free on/before May 29, I will walk on Ogun river bare footed. Trust me!
Liberating terrorist-held parts of Nigeria does not mean terror-free Nigeria. Was GEJ asleep all these years? Is he just waking up from his slumber of 6 years? That Boko Haram could even capture parts of Nigeria was a terrible and terrifying indictment of his mis-rule and average Nigerian man and woman's misfortune, which they have endured in silent agony. Good riddance!
You make it sound as if it is a physical battle. Don't deceive yourself - Nigeria is no where near South Africa, economically or militarily. Just call a spade a spade! Who is to blame but our corrupt leaders!
Pedagogue:I've always said it,there is nothing called NANS anymore!
They can give 14 days ultimatum to FG because of Amaechi but they can't even hold a strong rally against ASUU strike!!!
If the umbrella association of students in the country is being controlled by money grabbers and vision less youths,where lies the future of the country?
Good! Rather than striking over the corruption among lecturers who invariably demand favours in kind from female students or cash from males in order to give good grades; and the incessant ASUU strikes that have lowered standard of education in the country, the students are now preoccupied with politics!!
stildude: Let's expose who are the real hirelings here. A quick scan of most of anti -PEJ respondents profile's revealed a lot. Hassman : 1 post, and it was a reply and targeted at PEJ Ptolomes: 12 posts, 1st post on current topic Amasu: 4 posts, 3 of them on PEJ 1 deleted and all 3 are replies. Abikubu: 3 posts, 1st and 2d post on pej, all posts are replies. Danpatrick: 2 posts both on PEJ, both replies Tundamartin: 3 posts, 1st on topic responding to me. Adeogunshia: 3 posts, all on politics and all concerning the Goodlucks.
From these statistics, it is very obvious that most of you are not intelligent enough to come up with your own fresh opinion. Always replying to other people's opinion,that also make you pessimistic and negative critics. It also shows that likely more than 3 handles are used by one person. which means, you are duplicating IDs with most likely the intention to sway public opinion for your paymasters. well, I will tell you this. I have been here a little longer than you and can tell you that the game of numbers on Nairaland does nothing to affect the majority of real Nigeria. Check out previous threads on the last pre -presidential election debate on this forum, and also the missing child in winners chapel. Though a lot of noise was made here, in the final outcome, the unbiased truth prevailed and haters were once again losers. As for me, I am not a member of any party. not from rivers state, not a member of vikings or seadogs, and earns a decent living by the grace of God from profession. So who is the real hirelings here? I think that is obvious now.
[color=#000000] In your feverish imagination you have begun to see mirages. Sorry for the type of internet hirelings being employed by PEJ & GEJ in what is essentially a national disgrace, creek militant![/color]
livingday: If you live in the past then there can be no future for you. Admittedly, if mistakes were made under Obasanjo and Yar'adua that does not mean they should continue under a new leader. For your information, there is nothing like the 'Office of the First Lady of Nigeria' under the constitution. So stop defending the 'indefensible'. PEJ is crass, drunk with power and a stark stain on both her weak husband and weaker Nigeria under his misrule!
Good!Livingday, don't mind the apologist for PEJ & GEJ @ stildude!
These kind of men tempt me to label mankind as a brand of hypocrisy.
I am really appalled by our intractable first lady's machinations, however, in response to Joe Igbokwe, I must state that PEJ has introduced nothing new in this continuum of abuse of power by incumbent Presidents, Governors and their wives.
I have always pointed out that in the times we live, situations seem more dire, actions appear to be more widespread, effects seem more impactful on our psyche all because of the internet and information super highway.
Have we forgotten all those sudden removal of military sole administrators without explanation or reason? Can we ever know the source of the intrigues that characterized so many regime changes and power play right from the IBB regime (he started this subtle inclusion of office of first lady into our national consciousness). We become aware of situations today almost at the speed of light. If this Rivers saga had happened under IBB, assuming it was a democracy, only a handful of Nigerians would have heard about it one month later.
My point is, let us drop this hyper hypocrisy. Everyone we have ever elected since IBB's transition program has indulged his wife in one scheme of abuse of power or the other at all levels of the executive. What we ought to do as citizens of Nigeria is to this modern tool of information (internet and social media) to build our electoral character, take hold of our full powers to recall elected individuals or reject them in subsequent rounds of elections...not to spread hypocrisy.
There is nothing hypocritical in calling PEJ to order. If things were bad before, we refuse to accept that they continue. Dwelling in the bad past as a yardstick to judge PEJ is self-defeatism. You sound like a PR for GEJ & PEJ in disguise!