PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday in Maiduguri, accused Borno State Elders of playing to the gallary over the activities of Boko Haram Islamic sect insurgency in the state, describing the situation as unfortunate.
Jonathan spoke during an interactive session with Borno State stakeholders at the Multi-Purpose Hall, Government House Maiduguri, in continuation of his two- day working visit to Borno and Yobe States, the epicentres of Boko Haram.
He was responding to requests by the Elders for the Federal Government to grant amnesty to the sect members as well as withdraw the military Joint Task Force, JTF from Maiduguri and other areas in the state during the second day of his working visit to Borno State..
President Jonathan lamented that none of the elders in the state had publicly condemned the killings and bombings being carried out by the sect members and advised them to put their ‘’house in order,’’ by talking to their children who had been causing havoc in the country to drop their arms against the country.
Buhari faults crackdown on Boko Haram JUNE 3, 2013
Presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 Presidential election, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has frowned on the emergency rule in parts of the North. He alleged that innocent civilians were being killed in the states.
Buhari speaking during a Liberty FM Hausa Service Programme, Guest of the Week, on Sunday in Kaduna said that Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished unlike the “special treatment” given to the Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government.
Whynotthetruth: My gross with Jonathan presidency is why his media crew allowed APC to intimidate the populace with lies and propaganda...
Sincerely; records show that entrepreneurs and business developers and even those into commerce and trading are FAR BETTER now under Jonathan than back in 1983/1985 under buhari...Creative and innovative ideas are doing well now; while some lazy chaps(annoyingly claiming graduates with no original or innovative or creative or cognitive reasoning) lie down at home waiting for stipends & screaming sai buhari...
Under buhari; ***businesses closed; ***companies folded; ***government sacked people; ***private employers downsized; ***essential commodities were scarce; ***railway collapsed; ***press died; ***unionism went into extinction; ***economy bled; inflation figures wasn't managed well; ***selective justice thrived; ethnic motivated trials upped; ***no new school or improvement in education sector;
***NOT A SINGLE SIGNATURE PROJECT IN 20 MONTHS etc...
IF BUHARI FAILED IN HIS PRIME AS A LEADER; HOW WILL HE GET IT RIGHT NOW THAT HE'S TIRED
Published on Feb 17, 2015 Not Only Boko Haram is an Issue, Buhari is also a big Problem - Prof. Goran International Criminal Law Professor Speaks from Washington DC
john4reala: During the time of President Obasanjo, Nigerian Artists sang songs like;
•'Nigeria jaga jaga' by Idris, •'Food no dey,brother water no dey'by African China, •'you don hit my car' by Tony Tetula, •'we go flog politicians koboko, •Dem just dey do us ojoro' by Oritse Femi,
Because there was so much Hunger and Corruption everywhere,
During GEJ's tenure, Our Artists are singing songs like
•'chop my money' and Testimony byP square, •show you the money' by Wizkid, •'Emi Omo Baba Olowo' by Davido, •'Emi ni baller' by Miss Kedike, •'Limpopo' by Kcee, •'Bank Alert' by Illbliss, •'Godwin' by Koredo Bello,
This simply Means that hunger don reduce....
Please Please and Please don't take us back to Egypt when we are almost at the promise land...
Oga GEJ Surulere while Buhari Pullover, VOTE FOR CONTINUITY...........
Indeed hunger and corruption have reduced as confirmed by those oyinbo wey don dey look us for since time imoriver
The Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Mr. Reno Omokri, has noted that the Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2014 confirmed the success of the anti-corruption fight of the president. Nigeria improve on the CPI from 144 in 2013 to 136 this year.
He attributed the success to the clinical surgical incision made by President Jonathan at the centers of corruption in the country. “The significant improvement Nigeria has made in the 2014 Corruption Perception Index released by Transparency International is as a result of the clinical surgical incision made by President Jonathan at the centers of corruption in Nigeria.
You may recall that the Fertilizer Procurement and Distribution regime of the Agricultural sector used to be a cesspool of corruption. Billions of dollars were lost as middlemen inflated costs yet supplied subpar products to our farmers. But under the guidance of President Jonathan, 14 million farmers were registered by the Ministry of Agriculture and were connected directly to the product through the e-wallet system which allowed the ministry send texts to farmers to go and pick up their fertilizer and seeds direct from the depot. Nigeria has saved close to $2 Billion that would have gone into the pockets of corrupt officials and middlemen by this system.
Also, I am sure Transparency International took into account the fact that this administration took the unprecedented step of auditing the workforce of the Federal Civil Service and in the process weeded out fifty thousand ghost workers saving Nigeria almost 350 billion Naira per annum. Due to the President’s determination to punish this economic sabotage, those responsible have been forwarded to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for prosecution to the highest extent of the law.
It is also common knowledge that this administration has all but eliminated electoral fraud. Nigerians as well as Transparency International can attest to the fact that all elections held under the watch of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, whether the 2011 General Elections, or the elections in Edo, Anambra, Ondo, Ekiti, Osun and Niger, have been free and fair and seen to be so by the International Community.
These and other policies are the criteria that TI has used to bump Nigeria up in her ratings.
Dollarization Of The APC Primaries: How Amaehi Vanquished Atiku #saibuhari
The blogosphere was inundated with reports of the excessive sharing of dollars at the All Progressives Congress which took place during the latter part of last week.
One APC supporter and Special Adviser to Osun Governor on Environment, BolaIlori had blown the scandal open after he saw the beginning stages of the dollarization in action.
He took to his Facebook page and scribbled, “Crazy things are happening here!!! Some of these cannot represent the change Nigeria is yearning for. Excessive dollarization by one of the aspirants to is to say the least obscene. I have been involved in political process for decades now, I have never witnessed this volume of raw dollarization of party primaries. I only read about this kind of things in PDP primaries. A question been asked by conscientious delegates is that whoever can be giving out between $2000 to $5000 to…delegates certainly does not represent the kind of change Nigerians want…those who contributed to the pauperization of Nigeria now revel in dollarization… majority of Ondo delegates are still standing with Buhari but have been reduced from 85% to 70% within 24 hours…the remaining has gone with dollars ooo.!!!!!”
One has to wonder how Buhari was able to win the primaries in this era of stomach infrastructure where dollars are like the Biblical manna that God sent down from heaven to nourish the Israelites as they made their way to the promised land.
Sources close to the APC with knowledge of the way the Primaries unfolded have revealed that it was Rivers State Governor, Amaechi who flew back to Rivers State and returned to Lagos on Thursday morning with enough dollars to make Benjamin Franklin blush.
It has been revealed that Atiku offered the delegates $5000 each, but Amaechi doubled it to $10000 a pop. Thus turning the tables in favour of General Buhari.
Since his adventure into the APC, Amaechi has gone out of his way to prove himself a party loyalist, always the first to shoki or azonto at the many events the APC holds, which he himself is usually the chief sponsor.
According to party insiders, Amaechi has overtaken Tinubu as the major financier of the party. One does not need to wonder why he is always at President Jonathan’s throat over misappropriated oil wells or other such business. Anything that diminishes from the State’s coffers will have a ripple effect on his funding budget for the APC.
The 2015 National Electoral Poll was not commissioned by any political party, or vested organizations and/or individuals in the Nigerian political process. . . . Both authors have previously written public articles in support of Muhammadu Buhari’s candidacy.
make una see as fear of a fourth FAILURE dey send confusion into the midst of Buhari supporters
ANY patriotic Nigerian who understands international relations PROTOCOL should wonder about this UNVERIFIED statements from Deby & in particular its timing
tommysparks: Rotimi Amaechi has already said they will declare a parallel govt if Apc looses. So it's not new. It's Amaechi that plans to announce the result ahead of inec WHEN buhari looses. Period