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Harfisco:
Nice one

Johnnyessence:
this is a good development bola ige legacy will be remembered.

histemple:
Oga, so Bisi Akande has replaced Odigie-Oyegun as APC chairman? Nawa oh!

nkemcd:
d lion of Africa............

d general of common sense revolution.....

we are strongly n solidly behind u.

Kenai:
The Rivers Monorail has already arrived...

And it's about to take off...
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... To outer space.

Mogidi:
He delivered good governance hence his protégé was unsuccessful in his bid to become governor.
Amaechi is high on grade 1 Buhari urine.


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Originality007:
Is only a wicked person will rejoice when dey heard the news that bokoharram are on rampage.....May God help Nigerian Army

tobisystem:
God save us from the hands of boko

osaslord500:
And he said hewill finish bokoharam in two months! !

Firefire:
I am really worried about the increasing death toll...

Buhari said: “If you elect me as the President of Nigeria on February 14 (now March 28), I am assuring you that our government will chase Boko Haram out of Nigeria within two months because it is the responsibility of any reasonable government to secure the lives and property of its citizens.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/polls-campaign-promises-great-expectations/

GreenWhiteGreen:
History won't forget the atrocities Bola Ige caused in Osun State. The 29 million is useless. How about the civil servants that died during the retrenchment of workers in early 2000 under AD political party. Some children lost either their mom, dad or even both.

Bola Ige, you left no good legacy, So rest in pieces wherever you are.

Akshow:
Though laudable, I'm tempeted to ask :Where them get the money from?

clickwtB:
SARAKI ATTACKS APC FROM WITHIN TOO BRUTALLY,APC WILL RATHER HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING PDP THAN SARAKI!!!

ceometromedia:
About 13 governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC were formerly members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

See list below:

1. Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state

Using the PDP platform, he was elected Senator for the Ogun Central district of Ogun State in April 2003
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2. Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state

He served as FCT minister under the PDP
[img]http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/attachments/nasir-el-rufai-jpg.70682/[/img]

3. Governor Aminu Masari of Kastina state

Former House of representatives speaker under the PDP.
[img]http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/attachments/aminu-masari-jpg.70683/[/img]

4. Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State

Former Commissioner of Commerce and Investment under PDP.
[img]http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/attachments/governor-abubakar-bello-of-niger-state-jpg.70684/[/img]
5. Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto

Former Speaker of the house of representatives under the PDP
[img]http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/attachments/aminu-tambuwal-jpg.70685/[/img]
6. Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara state

Former Commissioner of Finance and development under the PDP
[img]http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/attachments/abdulfatah-ahmed-jpg.70687/[/img]
7. Governor Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa State

Former front runner of the PDP in Jigawa.
[img]http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/attachments/badaru-jpg.70688/[/img]
8. Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau state

Former speaker of the Plateau state house of assembly under PDP.
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9. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state

Former commissioner for local government and former Deputy Governor under PDP.

10. Governor Samuel Orthom of Benue state

Former Minister of Trade and Investment under PDP
[img]http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/attachments/samuel-ortom-jpg.70691/[/img]

11. Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa state

Former frontliner of PDP in Nasarawa

12. Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi state

Former senator representing Kebbi Central under PDP

13. Governor Bindow Jubrilla of Adamawa state

Former Senator representing Adamawa North under PDP.

http://www.metronaija.com/2016/02/13-apc-governors-who-were-formerly.html

truthalways:
SARAKI: THE FACE OF CORRUPTION

Deen77:
Do you know many Nigeria vote Buhari Osinbajo because of integrity.

TANTUMERGO007:
tinubu wrote this article himself

Babasessy:
Awo Family Without An Awo By Sam Omatseye (The Offensive Article)



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The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.

It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”

Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.

Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close.  The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.

But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.

It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

hopilo:
So the style of fighting corruption is to get those that have case and want position. If a man steal and is corrupt without disobeying the party like Akume did, all his sins are covered. But the day he makes noise and refuse to play along his closet is open to see the skeletons. This is world class corru

Sara1981:
EFCC To Arraign Two (Sam Egwu and George Akume)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to charge two more ex-governors to court for corruption and money laundering after completing investigations into graft allegations against them.  Read more by clicking on the link below.

http://odili.net/news/source/2008/may/10/213.html

I really hope it's these thieves that will soon be facing the wrath of EFCC. That goes double when it comes to SAM EGWU!!!

kinziking:
I hope he get buried in the grave he dug

funlord:

_Fuck saraki! No one likes a disloyal nigga!

dotTEE007:
But none of them is saint even bubu av skeleton in his cupboard

2el:
Saraki must go, else we stand the risk in this country of being ruled by a blood thirsty financially motivated tyrant.

PassingShot:
Imagine ex-convict bragging!

May PDP in whatever disguised form never have the privilege to rule Nigeria again.

DONMAYOR19:
thief- nubu na pastor abi? hypocrite.

knostbrown01:
Stop misinforming people, this is an odd picture

Funshorrh:
this is what people failed to understand, most of the people hating on him are state workers, solely because of the half salary he used to pay. Removing this fraction from the whole masses, you will have aregbe's people. This guy is working if not for the salary ish.

modath:
Aregbe is no saint but the media reports about him are grossly exaggerated.

He isn't owing a year's salary either..

Drop in allocation isn't peculiar to Osun but Osun gets the most press!!

He has done better than all his predecessors put together, he however doesn't play the brown envelope game as well as his peers!! Dazall.

hucienda:
B. Fowler, the Tax General of the Republic.

Lagos was his domain, now Nigeria is his fiefdom.

mpowa:
That's not the culture yet in Nigeria, who get time for that?... If that's the culture APC and PDP go don sue themselves tire, Fayose will be in serious sh*t now. --> She should do the right things to enjoy her life in peace SIMPLE! when you try to pull people Down, you go down 1st, it's a bad business.

janellemonae:
FACTS? Hope u know this their history did not start yesterday. She has been posting lies for a while. This happened in october last year and she never retracted the statement:

4 days ago, Nigerian blogger, Linda Ikeji broke the news that students of American University of Nigeria are pissed with singer, Wizkid for failing to honour an alleged ‘agreement’ with the school as regards coming to perform at the school.

With the news having gone viral, the school authorities In an official statement signed by the office of Students Activities and Involvement, the University explained that contrary to reports, there was no contractual agreement between the two parties because Wizkid stated his unavailability for the chosen date.

With this, Wizkid goes straight for the jugular in a series of tweets where he said, ‘I know this is all that’s feeding you and your family but please , let people with real talent and purpose live their life!’.


The guy clearly had ENOUGH this time!

angels09:
truthfully everyone packages at one point or another in life... but lindaikeji is a cyber bully... the shot at Femi Kuti's children and DNA test is just the height of bullying... why ruin children because of traffic?, why stigmatize and traumatize the poor innocent kids just for traffic?

Wizzy had an issue with his accommodation while on tour... you claim he's been bundled out just for traffic...do you even care about his reputation where he is? did you get a feedback or confirmation from him? Since she probably does not have a life outside gossips, she feels everyone has nothing to protect like her... that publication alone can ruin a lot for the poor guy who has no blog or opportunity to counter her malicious content on time. And now for her to start playing the gender card shows a lot is wrong with her upstairs... than we thought.

lindaikeji runs a business without morals or ethics...even saharareporters will not do that.

AreaFada2:
Saraki gambled wisely. He was never going to be President or VP as a Northern minority.

Even Senate presidency looked set to elude him. But he grabbed it by force. They all grab power by force: coup plots, betrayal, bribing delegates, etc.

Whatever happens, he has made history as number 3 citizen.

They are all thieves, Saraki is just one of them,

Nobody should play holy holy.

angels09:
yes like Bola Ige, Harry Marshal, Okadigbo, Funsho Williams, A.K Dikibo... I see your point and where you belong.

...F A C T.. C H E C K ...

'Obasanjo and Atiku in 8 years built one UNIVERSITY each for themselves....Bells and ABTI.
They built NONE for Nigerians.

Jonathan and Sambo in 4 years built 14 (FOURTEEN) new universities for all Nigerians.
NONE for themselves.

NOTE: OBJ and ATIKU are now consultants/sponsors/piloters/members of APC....



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