₦airaland Forum

VolvoS60:
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As I said earlier, some of us are not here to play dirty politics. The Sunborn yacht affair and other well known examples of how the LASG and the APC party faithful criminally shortchanged the people of Lagos - these are some of the reasons why I cannot and will not vote for the APC in lagos state. Period.

It will be insane to turn around and celebrate the PDP for similar acts against the people of Nigeria.

March 2015, we await you.

VolvoS60:
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You talk as if nobody else knows how other parts of the world work.

In Western Europe and North America (among other parts of the world) key government reports and white papers are in the public domain. They are just a mouse click away. As I type, I have a pdf copy of the US president's asset declaration in 2012. And I am not a US citizen! I have a copy of the US government report on the 2008 financial crisis. I even have reports of US congressional investigations and US federal government white papers from the 1950s!

As far as your comment about Lagos state - i have answered you as clearly as possible so you know where I stand. Instead of you to fight for the removal of underperforming, opaque governments in both Lagos state and at the federal level, you chose to back a horse in the race.

As I said, we will all meet at the polls.

Bayswater:
Are trying to shut him up again?

Una never tire? Barcanista has made is choice, can we now allow him live his life in peace, pleaseeee.

VolvoS60:
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You are being legalistic here.

On a matter of such significance, nothing less than pride of place on a government website would have been acceptable. The document should have been scanned and uploaded, with PwC's staff signatures clearly visible.

To access the report you are now suggesting that I have to go through my senator.

We will all meet at the polling booth next month, God willing.

The Ides of March will soon be here.

Otunbab:
Foolish, Una sabi customized iPhone for GEJ pikin wedding ,e reach make una dash d people something , na stupi.D Phone wey go dey hot for person ear na hin una dey share now abi?
God must punish GEJ and hin PDP.
Buhari all d way.

Image123:
Enabling environment how? Multinationals have been coming in and going out of Nigeria in the various administrations since independence. Your other post said Yamaha was here since 1980 to 2005. They left during the global economic crises period and are trying to come back again. They have not even come back. Nigeria will always be a huge market because we are many(population), and we are rich spenders. This will happen in any government, it is not because of anything the present government did or is doing. In fact, the chief reasons why some people/investors were not coming was the power/electricity. Then few because of corruption as they cannot operate in the choking corruption in Nigeria. But this current administration has added security to the disadvantages. However, nigeria remains a big market and the business organisation will only need to weigh things and then decide whether he can still come or not. Enabling environment will be to solve power problems, and security challenges, and of course corruption. Making silly policies that turn us to slaves in our own country is not enabling environment. When corrupt firms especially from Asia- china, India and co come to Nigeria and they see that there is market and too good to be true terms, like treating citizens like slaves and getting away with it, bringing shoemakers to nigeria to become engineer and manager, getting away with poor safety and labour laws, no regards for best practices, they will come of course. But you will not/hardly see serious countries like Germany, Holland, Italy, Europe, America come here because they cannot work that way. It is majorly in oil and gas they can compromise because the money there is too much to miss for anything scrupulous.

VolvoS60:
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No sir!!!!!!

I don't have limitless time for partisan politics, sir. Particularly the amoral kind.

I can read and write. A government audit was commissioned and the audit report finally submitted to the GEJ administration by a firm of financial auditors engaged to do the job. The least the GEJ administration can do is to make that report available for citizens of this Republic to read. It is the minimum that will be acceptable. The Businessday link you provided is only accessible to premium members. The Guardian link has the NNPC GMD claiming vindication - he's not exactly a neutral party in this matter. I don't need Thisday or Businessday newspapers or whoever to analyse the report on my behalf. I can read and write!

Some group came out in the press today requesting that the ex-CBN governor apologize for his role in the NNPC saga which led to the audit in the first place. Yet other Nigerians have still not been given free access to the report to draw their own conclusions. Is that best practice? Have you been able to make head or tail of the purported extracts from the audit report in today's Thisday newspapers? . GEJ MAKE THE REPORT PUBLIC!!!

Anonimi - this is what I said earlier about defending the indefensible. You are proving me right once again.

raumdeuter:
This is a leader. Not one who hides under Patience wrapper

The peoples General come and save us from the clueless leadership

Sai Buhari

Demdem:
Going by ur warped reasoning, buhari u claimed is the leader of boko haram yet we have a fool who is the c in c in aso rock who has deemed it fit not to arrest or even question him for once therby allowing thousands of innocent country men of his to perish.
By the way, was it not ur god that claimed evil boko members as his brothers and sisters?

an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.

From: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/freudian+slip

pendy79:
If this report is confirmed to be true, It galvanize me more to believe in the character, selflessness and brazen show of strength and non cowardice of Buhari and the true spirit of the training he received as a soldier.

He has said he's going to lead from the front and this act shows more than ever that he is a MAN OF HIS WORDS not a chicken livered idiot and never a COWARD.

Reading this brought me close to tears and how blessed Nigeria is to have this man as an alternative in our quest for true nationhood.

I’ll meet other generals to draft anti-terror plan – Buhari

The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday said that though Nigeria is a rich nation, its people are extremely poor due to bad governance.

He also promised to involve serving and retired military generals to devise an effective strategy to crush insurgency in the country, if elected as President in 2015.

More from: http://www.punchng.com/news/ill-meet-other-generals-to-draft-anti-terror-plan-buhari/

manchy7531:
Nnamdi Emmanuel:

On June 28 2007, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan placed his life on the line, by travelling to Okerenko, visiting the notorious Camp five, where he held a seven hours meeting with all the leaders of the militant camps in the Niger Delta. He made the trip without a single security detail. The whole world stood still. For seven hours he was incommunicado. Global leaders feared the worst. He emerged from the creeks later, shaken but resolute. He came out of those creeks with a commitment from the militants and the Niger Delta disarmament program was borne. Normalcy returned in the region. The bloodletting ceased. Oil production tripled and the government could breath again. In 2012, the leadership of Jama’atul Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad aka Boko Haram named General Buhari as the number one mediator they will listen to for peace to reign in the north east. The spokesman of the group, Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulazeez, who doubles as the Second-in-Comma nd (Amir) to their leader, Imam Abubakar Shekau, made the group’s intention known in a tele-conference with journalists in Maiduguri. General Buhari declined the offer.

If Buhari truly loves this country, he would have taken that offer. But NO. That would have been a victory for the Jonathan government . So he declined the offer, rather promising to end the insurgency when he becomes President. Does this man deserve our vote? I don't think so. If we have to elect you as President before you assist the government in quelling an insurrection in your region, who will help us quell the crises if it erupts in other region. Be wise. Stick with facts. A vote for Buhari is a cowering to the dictates of terror. A vote for Buhari is a submission to hand over your mandate by the dictates of guns and blood. Vote President Jonathan . We will surely win the war against terror and secure our future. God bless Nigeria

Demdem:
It's not difficult to spot a true leader. Buhari is indeed one.

Buhari faults crackdown on Boko Haram

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.

More from: http://www.punchng.com/news/joining-apc-not-about-2015-presidency-buhari/

VolvoS60:
As I write this, the GEJ administration is yet to make public the PwC report for Nigerians to see.

‘PwC’ forensic audit report vindicated NNPC, no money missing’
Wednesday, 11 February 2015

More from: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/national-news/197726-pwc-forensic-audit-report-vindicated-nnpc-no-money-missing

Deconstructing PwC’s forensic audit of NNPC account
February 11, 2015


More from: http://businessdayonline.com/2015/02/deconstructing-pwcs-forensic-audit-of-nnpc-account/#.VONJw_nF-LE

Image123:
Ah ah, so this one too is President Jonathan's achievement? Yamaha's announcement and a joint agreement with CFAO S.A. The thing has not even started oh, and Jonathan did not contribute 1naira. Companies and businesses/corporations come and go. There are so many multinationals in Nigeria and they have been here even during military era, PZ, Sclumberger, Mobil, Lafarge, Chevron, Total etc. how can we start naming these as government achievement? And it is even a future target, it has not yet happened. Why are achievements this scarce?

VolvoS60:
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Thank you for your response, sir. But I don't agree with it.

We are sometimes forced to make pragmatic political choices. I am living in the real world and I accept this truth no matter how inconvenient it may be.

I can understand having to make a choice between two poor options when there are no others. But that isn't even the case in this election. There are at least 9 other presidential candidates. Is none of them worthy?

You will have to explain further this relentless campaigning for the GEJ administration despite well documented evidence of its very serious failings. I cannot understand how you can actively and rabidly support an administration (the GEJ administration, that is) with a history and an entrenched culture of serial malfeasance.

Unless there is something you know which we don't. Is that what your reference to vultures means?

VolvoS60:
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Exactly the same way. I will be voting against Mr Fashola's party's candidate for governor in next month's election. Just like I voted against Mr. Fashola himself when he ran. I cannot understand how an APC legislator at the federal level can sponsor far reaching, pro-people legislation (the FOI bill) and a governor from the same party will refuse to 'domesticate' the same bill at state level. On what grounds? . This lack of transparency is just one of the many reasons why I will vote against Mr. Ambode and his party in next month's gubernatorial election.

Unlike you, Mr. Anonimi, I am not an online gun for hire. I can and will defend my actions. In one of my posts on a previous thread I asked you to explain how you changed from an advocate of civic duty and responsibility in 2011 to a party hack defending the indefensible in 2015. You have still not answered my question.

It still beats me how you went from what you were before the 2011 elections to what you have become now. But I digress.

I take it I have answered your question about Lagos state. Do you have any more questions?

VolvoS60:
In Mr. Dikko's piece - as is common with those who support GEJ, the man's modest achievements are loudly promoted while his gravely serious failings are ignored. That is no way to carry out an honest assessment. The choice before GEJ after 2011 was clear: do something radical about corruption in Nigeria and gain mass appeal/popular support OR maintain the status quo while pretending to transform the way the Nigerian project is being run.

989900:
It is wrong, regardless of party.

bayumyguy:
Fayose did d same in ekiti and now they are regretting their action,Man shall not live by rice and yam alone,nigerian be wise

DaBullIT:
6 solid years

they can't farm, help farmers , build rice processing plans or even sugar refinery


but they share seized but customized rice to Nigerians


Why won't they collect when Nigerians live on less than 2.00 usd per day

seunfly:
PDP strategy is based on poverty, impoverish the people and buy their right from them.

femliany:
So, some youths dey special? U just dey collect oga Joe money dey deceive am..

ayukdaboss:
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YES...Lagosians will take their destiny in their hands and would not vote the boy of an ex-convict Bode George to lead their state. Lagosians would not also vote in JK (Just Kidding) who stated publicly that "he would rule Lagos State how other PDP governors are ruling their states". Lagosians are wiser than you.

eighTHREAD:
Imagine the huge crowd at the APC rally in borno, a troubled region https://mobile.twitter.com/remiteo/status/567467255437737984/photo/1

Buhari faults crackdown on Boko Haram

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.

More from: http://www.punchng.com/news/joining-apc-not-about-2015-presidency-buhari/

folahann:
What nonsense is this? So PDP wants to justify their clamour for interim government by referring to something that happened 8 years ago.

baccaspace:
FIREFIRE anonimi truckpusher jmaine you may like this thread... Ngwakwe please Antispambot has banned barcanista (he informed me ). Also see to this thread

GenBuhari:
Something about the news does not sound real.

My view is that Boko Haram are Chadian troops in mufti

Why has he not spoken of the carpet bombings of Northern towns that are supposed to target BH?
we expect weeks of all types of stories supposedly about war against BH, whilst being kept in the dark about the fact that our government is allowing Nigerian towns to be bombed, cleared and annexed by France and its puppet regimes Chad, Niger and Cameroon. Our government is allowing the break up, because key members of our government have been compromised and blackmailed by America 's CIA.

APC should install their parallel government before our clueless government and our enemies finish breaking up the country.

menesheh:
I Hope it is human being that sent those items not ghost or a coincidental fall off from the outer space.

Lets continue deceiving ourself.

Some people are somewhere sponsoring this menace and we are here looking for mr clueless and mr incompetent.

Boko haram members = northerners
Food item senders= northerners
Parents of boko haram members =northerners
Bros and sis of Boko Haram =Northerners
Likely to join boko haram =northerners
Area affected = north
Region most in Nigeria military =Northerners
Sponsors of Boko Haram =Northerners
Kidnapped girls = Northerners
Mostly killed= southerners
Mostly destroyed worship place(church)=.....


Informations from civilians to military =almost non


Buhari and his fellows! na only you waka come

Diaris God oo

Buhari faults crackdown on Boko Haram

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 [size=14pt]Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished[/size] unlike the “special treatment” given to the Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government.

More from: http://www.punchng.com/news/joining-apc-not-about-2015-presidency-buhari/

PointB:
10 Powerful Reasons to Vote General Buhari

I am not a fan of Buhari, but I admire his doggedness and capacity for pain. Heck a man who keeps going for election every four-year, loses, then proceed to court, loses in court, does nothing meaningful preceding the next election, only to pop-out again during another election period, is a "specialist in failure" (to borrow from Morinhno). So even as I don’t like him, I admit he’s an enigma, and have put up these 10 reasons why we should consider casting our votes for him. “I have come to bury Caesar, not to praise him!”

1. To Save an old man some tears
Nigerians are happy people (happiest at some point) and we always like to be hospitable and respectful especially to the elderly, old, and aged. So why do we derive joy in seeing an old man – General Buhari weep? Is it because he murdered his colleagues during his active period in the army? Is it because he signed Nigeria into Organisation of Islamic Country (OIC)? Is it because he asked “Muslims to vote for muslims, and Christians to vote for Christians”? Is it because he truncated the Lagos Metro Line setting the city back, in similar fashion as he truncated democracy in 1983 to turn the hands of clock backward? Is because of those he murdered with retroactive decree and several of those infractions he committed when he was a clueless dictator? Is it because he’s more clueless than he looks? How much more crocodile tears must this weeping general shed for Nigerians to forgive him and vote for him? A bucket? A river?

2. To save the Dogs and Baboons
Ladies and gentlemen, and erudite members of this platform, the sanctity of life is paramount; that’s why it is the fundamental of every human right principle. In 2011, when General Buhari lost his third series of general election, our able bodied and talented Youth Corpers, in services of the nation, were slaughtered by supporters of the people's general - almajiris. Throughout this spontaneous act of sheer wickedness and barbarism, not once did the general call them to order; not once did he tell his supporters that they are not acting on his behalf. The general kept mute, obviously pleased with what his supporter did in his name (and hoping it spiral out of control). Thankfully it never did.

Not long ago, the unrepentant general threatened again that “the dogs and the baboons will be soaked in blood” should another humiliating electoral defeat befall him. Nairalanders, let’s save our Youth Corpers, let’s save our friends and family, let avoid this ominous threat altogether by voting the General, else his almajiris, now evolved and more organised with choice weapons, will slaughter all the “dogs and baboons!”

3. To help avenge the death of Buhari’s people killed by JTF
At the height of the Boko Haram murderous saga, the JTF acting in the interest of Nigeria, and while performing their duties, gave Boko haram members a taste of their own medicine by returning fire for fire. As the casualty mounts, General Buhari was famously quoted to have insinuated that the JTF are killing “his people”, instead of inviting them to Aso Rock for dialogue. Equating the murderous and barbaric Boko haram hordes (his people) to the Niger Delta Militants, Buhari was of the opinion that the JFT should stop killing them, rather we should pay them off (amnesty package) for killing Nigerians. A similar debt is said to be owned by the good people Oyo. El Rufia, his party member, reminded us that such deaths are debts which will be paid, even if it takes a hundred years. Gentlemen and ladies, shouldn’t we vote this man in so that our debts are quickly paid and forgotten?

4. Gen Buhari is original “Born to Rule”
Let’s face fact, unless you are Fulani muslim, you are not born to rule, and MUST NEVER rule. If you do, it must be under specific terms and conditionS. Even if you are voted in, you are either a puppet or just a temporary occupant. Buhari fits the profile: He is a Fulani Muslim; a special stock, a descendant of the great Uthman Dan Fodio, conqueror of Hausa, scourge of Ilorin, owner of Nigeria, the prima dona of Born to Rule. Nigeria, according to Ahmadu Bello, is the estate of Uthman Dan Fodio. Who better continue this storied lagacy than General Buhari himself, a true descendant of Uthman Dan Fodio?

5. Buhari has no property; no house (maybe like our current President – no shoes)
Buhari has no house, no property at all (since Nigeria belongs to his great grandfather perhaps). This according to his supporters is the acme of incorrigibility. I don’t know if Buhari’s parents grew up in the streets, and had no houses/properties – not even cows. If they did have any of those, they must be corrupt; they and other Nigerians who own houses are only able to do so because they are corrupt! If Buhari could work, and earn salaries all these years, yet unable to own a home or two, therefore any Nigerian who earned salaries of equal amount as Buhari but manage to own property or two must have corruptly enriched himself. Buhari’s lack of properties has nothing to do with his inability to think, forecast, plan, and execute, he couldn’t own a house because only corrupt people do. Let’s vote Buhari because he has no house, no property (perhaps no shoes too).

6. Buhari will “fight” corruption
Buhari will fight corruption they continue tell us. But no one seems to tell us how! Fortunately, history tells us how Buhari did it the first time out. After successfully (some say cowardly) benefiting from the coup plot that ousted Shagari ‘corrupt’ regime, Buhari placed President Shagari under house arrest, while Ekwueme the VP was bundled into prison. Buhari threw Fela Anikulapo Kuti into prison for possession of foreign currency (Fela had just returned from performing abroad, the poor fella didn’t know a decree has been passed prohibiting holding foreign currency). Meanwhile in the same era 53 suitcases containing some $700M was smuggled into the country by Emir of Gwando, the father of Buhari’s ADC. While Fela languished in detention, the Emir, a well connected “born to rule”, was given a pass! Let’s not forget banning of press freedom (decree 4) and the botched attempt to smuggle a fugitive from the UK by the Buhari’s regime. That is how Buhari fought corruption; wouldn’t we rather go back to this ‘wonderful’ era by voting him?

7. To enlarge Tinubu's empire
The say Buhari is poor, and has no property anywhere in the country (they must really pay peanuts in the military for someone to be unable to save, buy a land, and build a three bedroom apartment after working for decades, either that or the individual has no vision). Since Buhari has no need for material acquisition, but has chosen one of the most avaricious as his backbone and sponsor, isn’t it clear who stands to benefit from the contract? Let’s vote Buhari, and expand Tinubu’s empire from Lagos to beyond!

8. To continue the population lie
A major event in 2016 (a year after the election) is the National Population Census. The stakes are high as evident from the drama and rhetoric. Only in Nigeria is the Sahel savanna region more populated than tropical region, citerus paribus. The fellow who stated he will demystify this myth by not counting cows and goats in the core North as people has already lost his job. Knowing how things work in Nigeria, we can continue with this lie, by voting the People’s General – Gen Muhammad Buhari!

9. To maintain oil block status quo
We know how the oil blocks ownerships are skewed against resources owner, while abundant solid minerals littering other enclaves are rarely stated in the equation, let alone exploited federally. The oil blocks are due for renewal by 2015 and beyond. We can continue to cheat the South and maintain the status quo by voting Buhari! Least we forget, these oil blocks are spoils of war, and payment to the Northern elite for the liberation of Niger Delta from Biafran force. (abi no be so?)


10. To save Buhari's Bank manager
At the basic human level, I really sympathize with Buhari’s bank manager (if Buhari N27M loan claim is anything to go by.) Sanusi spent most of his tenure as central bank governor, hounding bankers for granting loans to you and I to invest in capital market, with the certificate as collateral. If that is considered criminal, how much more granting unsecured loan of such magnitude to Buhari? Or didn’t the bank manager read severally that Buhari has no properties, hence nothing of value to use as security/collateral! I didn’t even know that bank managers can grant a loan of such magnitude on the spot. Someone please tell me the bank and branch. I smell fraud! I am sure the bank manager is being grilled by bank’s credit committee even as we speak, but he could become the finance minister if we all vote Buhari!


I know there are several other reason to 'vote' buhari, but these are my top 10. Let's hear yours.