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Politics / Re: Atiku Challenges Jonathan To Debate by appletango: 3:39pm On Dec 27, 2010
Faeb:

^
Don't worry, we will help you build a shrine to help your thief worshipping.
. . .Two candles, 3 black goats and some rotten food in the evil forest. wink

Atiku is only playing desperate tricks to hang on GEJ's popularity battle ship. He knows how long it takes to organise debates, yet the primaries are a mere couple of weeks away need I say more? Highly suspect (but such is to be expected from a thief).

shocked shocked shocked

what does that even mean?? my friend, you shouldn't be concerned about your yoruba; it's your English that's reprehensible
Politics / Re: Atiku Challenges Jonathan To Debate by appletango: 2:56pm On Dec 27, 2010
[size=40pt]GEJ's PHD= Phony Hollow Diploma.
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Politics / Re: Atiku Challenges Jonathan To Debate by appletango: 2:34pm On Dec 27, 2010
look at how team GEJ are running scared about a little old tv debate. i thought your man was educated? i thought he was a gifted administrator? i thought he had all the answers to the country's problems? come on guys, this should be a walk in the park for someone as erudite and articulate as GEJ aka The Greatest Nigerian Alive.

the simple truth is that he is a phony and even his loyal followers are aware of this, which is why everyone is making excuses like : "ts so Unnecessary cos its not the general populance that will determine the outcome of the PDP primaries" and "the debate will really be senseless since its not the masses that determine the outcome of PDP primaries,  GEJ has a good excuse to reject the invitation".  grin grin grin

it seems that GEJ supporters are just as cowardly as the man himself.

you guys ain't fit to run a kfc, talk less a country.
Politics / Re: Jonathan's Rigging Manual Discovered by appletango: 12:50am On Dec 27, 2010
Faeb:

If you had to go to court and required evidence, do you think that download will stand, or will you be laughed out? Even in a village elder setting, do you think that download will count as reasonable evidence or as rumour?
The rest of your post is sentiment, I am not trying to percieve your personality, but am simply pointing out where you have stood up to be counted. Do you now wish to add "supporter of rumour mongering" to that sad list as well?

just about everything you say constitutes rumour mongering. just look at you signature.

fool
Politics / Re: Rigging Manual: Goodluckjonathan Campaignstrategy Documentreveals How The"president" Plans by appletango: 4:58pm On Dec 26, 2010
MShittu:

That's if the media decides to cover it.
Considering the follow-follow, praise-singing nature of Nigeria's supposedly 'free' press, I doubt that most newspapers, saharareporters excluded, will choose to cover this, as GEJ's campaign team might, if the document is a true one, simply pay them to not cover it.
It is also important to note that whatever is published in the news will not necessarily affect the final outcome of the elections and/or GEJ's presidency. Rural communities with little to no access to the press will probably not get this information!

whilst i agree that the nature of the nigerian press leaves a lot to be desired I actually see this as more of a legal case. if the document is correct and it can be linked to GEJ or his team then i think you'll find a few members of NASS or PDP involved in impeachment proceedings or court cases.
Politics / Re: Rigging Manual: Goodluckjonathan Campaignstrategy Documentreveals How The"president" Plans by appletango: 3:41pm On Dec 26, 2010
lagbaja20:

Absolutely!

As long as the other side is not being held accountable, why should he limit his options? The only problem is that he is not being professional about it.

Look, when the US went into Iraq, what they met was an unconventional army, and they needed to fight them according to the way the Iraqis came at them, and yes that included fighting inside sacred places like the mosques, it also included killing suspiciously looking innocent victims like women and children.  My point is that if your enemy does not obey the rules, you would be a fool to follow the rules.

No one wins by following the rules. Mark Zuckerberg, George bush of the Bush V. Gore fame a la the miracle of Florida, and Bill gates can explain better

but he's got his hands firmly caught in the cookie jar this time. rule number one in politics is: DONT GET CAUGHT. if you dont believe me, just ask nixon.

as a sitting president who's cornerstone campaign strategy of late has been 'free and fair elections, free and fair elections, free and fair elections' to now have such a damming document released in a hammer blow to his ambition.

this is the stick that will be used to beat him over and over again.

i think he's done.
Politics / Re: Who Has Read The Gej Rigging Manual? by appletango: 1:40am On Dec 26, 2010
GEJ/SAMBO CAMPAIGN STRATEGY:

[b]1) USE POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION TO REACH OUT TO COMMISSIONERS

2)INSIST THAT MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION MONITOR ELECTIONS IN THEIR ZONES

3) REMIND THE IGP THAT HE WAS APPOINTED BY MR PRESIDENT AND REASSURE HIM OF HIS POSITIONS IN 2011

4) FUND AND SUSTAIN THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE JUDICIARY Shocked

5) DEVELOP AND NURTURE THE JUDICIAL PROCESS THAT WILL BE PRO GOODLUCK JONATHAN Shocked

6) MUST ENSURE THAT SECURITY OPERATIVES AT THE GATE TO THE CONVENTION VENUE ARE OUR PEOPLE AND SHOULD HAVE CLEAR INSTRUCTION NOT TO ALLOW MONEY INTO THE VENUE FROM OPPOSITION CAMP, EXCEPT FROM OUR OWN PEOPLE. Shocked Shocked

7) SUGGESTED MINIMUM PER DELEGATES SHOULD BE BETWEEN N1.2m - N2m Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked

8] DELIBERATE REDUCTION IN NUMBER OF OPPOSITION DELEGATES ACCREDITATION Shocked

9) INTIMIDATION OF DELEGATES AT THE VENUE Shocked

10) WE MUST MEET WITH INEC AND ANALYZE THEIR STAFFING STRUCTURE TO ENSURE FRIENDLY OFFICIALS ARE POSTED TO HOSTILE AREAS Shocked Shocked Shocked :

11) WE MUST KNOW IN ADVANCE WHO ARE RETURNING OFFICERS ARE, PUT THEM ON PAYROLL FROM NOW TILL END OF ELECTION, PROMISE THEM OR THEIR FAMILIES POLITICAL PATRONAGE/APPOINTMENTS. Shocked Shocked

12) WE SHOULD ALSO HAVE A READY, DIFFERENT AND DISCREET FUNDING SOURCE FOR THE PRIMARIES ESPECIALLY AT THE CONVENTION WHERE FUNDS WILL NEED TO BE DEPLOYED AT SHORT NOTICE Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked

13) HAVE DIRECT LINK TO THE DELEGATES, ASSUAGE THEM AND BUY DELEGATES OFF THEM, PROMISE THEM IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION[/b]

your man is gonna get impeached

grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
Politics / Re: Who Has Read The Gej Rigging Manual? by appletango: 1:21am On Dec 26, 2010
These are just a limited selection of "plans" lifted straight from the document. Please note that they have been copied verbatim:

[b]1) USE POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION TO REACH OUT TO COMMISSIONERS

2)INSIST THAT MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION MONITOR ELECTIONS IN THEIR ZONES

3) REMIND THE IGP THAT HE WAS APPOINTED BY MR PRESIDENT AND REASSURE HIM OF HIS POSITIONS IN 2011

4) FUND AND SUSTAIN THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE JUDICIARY  shocked

5) DEVELOP AND NURTURE THE JUDICIAL PROCESS THAT WILL BE PRO GOODLUCK JONATHAN  shocked

6) MUST ENSURE THAT SECURITY OPERATIVES AT THE GATE TO THE CONVENTION VENUE ARE OUR PEOPLE AND SHOULD HAVE CLEAR INSTRUCTION NOT TO ALLOW MONEY INTO THE VENUE FROM OPPOSITION CAMP, EXCEPT FROM OUR OWN PEOPLE.  shocked shocked

7) SUGGESTED MINIMUM PER DELEGATES SHOULD BE BETWEEN N1.2m - N2m  shocked shocked shocked shocked

8] DELIBERATE REDUCTION IN NUMBER OF OPPOSITION DELEGATES ACCREDITATION  shocked

9) INTIMIDATION OF DELEGATES AT THE VENUE  shocked

10) WE MUST MEET WITH INEC AND ANALYZE THEIR STAFFING STRUCTURE TO ENSURE FRIENDLY OFFICIALS ARE POSTED TO HOSTILE AREAS  shocked shocked shocked :

11) WE MUST KNOW IN ADVANCE WHO ARE RETURNING OFFICERS ARE, PUT THEM ON PAYROLL FROM NOW TILL END OF ELECTION, PROMISE THEM OR THEIR FAMILIES POLITICAL PATRONAGE/APPOINTMENTS.  shocked shocked

12) WE SHOULD ALSO HAVE A READY, DIFFERENT AND DISCREET FUNDING SOURCE FOR THE PRIMARIES ESPECIALLY AT THE CONVENTION WHERE FUNDS WILL NEED TO BE DEPLOYED AT SHORT NOTICE  shocked shocked shocked shocked

13) HAVE DIRECT LINK TO THE DELEGATES, ASSUAGE THEM AND BUY DELEGATES OFF THEM, PROMISE THEM IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION[/b]

So Mr DF2006, I don't know what document you have been reading but it clearing isn't the one that has been leaked to press. Not only are they illegal but it wouldn't surprise me if impeachment proceedings began in due course. GEJ has clearly been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
Politics / Who Has Read The Gej Rigging Manual? by appletango: 11:41pm On Dec 25, 2010
Have you read it read? It reads like it's been written by beaf:

http://www.saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/uploads/Rigging_GEJ.pdf

I love the new "fresh face" of nigerian politics.

grin grin
Politics / Re: Madam Jonathan And Her English by appletango: 4:22pm On Dec 24, 2010
goggs:

cut the lady some slack! english is not her language. Ask her to read a speech in her native tongue and you'll hear the 'queens' version. Even George Bush goofs sometimes. (will post link later)

surely a basic requirement for any First Lady should be an ability to communicate effectively in the country's OFFICIAL LANGUAGE.
Politics / Re: Madam Jonathan And Her English by appletango: 3:56pm On Dec 24, 2010
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Politics / Is Goodluck Jonathan Divine? by appletango: 1:16am On Dec 24, 2010
Does anyone still think of Jonathan Goodluck as the substantial president of Nigeria after he knelt worshipping the graven image pastor Enoch Adeboye? Nigeria is full of idol people whom Jonathan must appease else he’s a fall man. One such graven image is the Frankenstein evil in Otta.

Jonathan Goodluck isn’t divinely made by sky-God nor is he self-made man. His accession to the throne was a daredevil act of ‘do or die’PDP democracy championed by ex-president OBJ. And as coequal to destruction of Nigeria, pastor Adeboye is rebranding one of the cabal products, now that it’s election era. Aside from lovely and pro-masses Pastor Tunde Bakare, pastor Adeboye and other corrupt, private airplane addicted pastors work hand-in-hand with Nigerian politicians to destroy Nigeria. The end result is churns of desperate citizens looking for meanings to their battered lives: it takes a dazed citizenry to embrace religion. In peacetime and plenty, or countries where society is run by human orderliness, the churches and other places of worship are empty. Pastors and politicians love lost and love found in Nigeria are two sided: each cabal cult promotes the other so as to have easy ride in despoiling our togetherness -as a nation of questionable devotees and complacent do-nothings.

The sightseeing of pastor Adeboye super-powering over kneeling president of Nigeria was more an eyesore than a seesaw. This is equivalent of an Israeli tourist visiting Germany and the very first thing he saw was photo of Adolf Hitler painted as an angel kneeling down before Aryan pastor appeasing Aryan God. And to make matters worse, the Israeli knockabout tourist was told that the picture of Hitler was etched there by his many rightwing supporters who sing ‘Heil Hitler’ in German language and English ‘hail Hitler.’ The tourist had to cut his visit short and ran back having found out what annoying praises Hitler rightwing fanatical poured on German internet blogospheres on daily basis supporting a criminal lowlife.

Mr. Ed Miliband, the new leader of Labour party in Britain said few months ago in a BBC interview that he doesn’t believe in God.  I shouted wow! What a lot of gut feelings and a good sense of purpose. I thought God delusional leaders as Jonathan, corruption-heavy pastors and innocent citizens who can’t separate State from religion must hear this shining and pacesetting 21st century politician from the UK. More noteworthy as a result of this, is that Ed Miliband family are originally Israelis with British citizenship.  In light of the foregoing, you’d want to indict Nigerians who adopted the Israelites God and are acting more true-to-type than the real owners of the deity.

Nigeria is booming brimful with sacred cows. In normal conventional or democratic setting devoid of cult practices as Christianity is, the picture could’ve told a better story if pastor Adeboye were to be kneeling before president Jonathan Goodluck. Jonathan seemed not to understand the fearful power of statecraft he wields. Kowtowing for anyone in living colour, before the spectacle of public glare is goof of office beyond redemption. The president has chucked protocol away to the pigs in ‘portoportor' trashcan. Nigerians are seriously shamefaced and even more scornful that; we’ve been made laughing stock in international arena by misdoings of Jonathan and their PDP party.

Let this be the last time the president kneels down before anything that stands on two feet. He has enough time packing to render houseboy services for Adeboye when he becomes private citizen in the aftermath of handing over power.

Next time, he should save us the heartbreak and shame of a lowly cheap president, attending to the say-so of all shades of commands from citizens, foreigners and foreign Gods with no resistance. Jonathan would hand Nigeria over free of charge to his plenty idols in attempt to pay indebtedness for making him ruler. This and more, are reasons he should never return to the presidency whatsoever. His idols and graven images would be running things to their whims and caprices while Jonathan do sidekick playing second fiddle. If Nigerians don’t vote Jonathan out however, the Gods are not to be blamed as they’d watch Nigeria crumble to the bottom as they've hopelessly done since our independence.

Jonathan is more a toy president than a bona fide one. You could order him to your backyard or anywhere and command him to go unclothed and show a little something, you could tell him to keel down before you with his eyes closed and mouth opened agape, you might tell him to clean your toilet with his tongue. The choice of chores or absurdities he does at your say-so is yours for the choosing. And in the end of rigmarole, just tell him that he’s undergoing the ritual of God of Israel.

Ima Niboro under many pseudo and his cheering crowd psychology people would sing amen in loud amity and profess to the world that their principal has been divined by that single act of coercively persuading a sitting president into a devotee slave to dictates of seriously commercialised foreign God of Israel.

The president has been unique in the negative, showcasing self before posterity. Pettiness and buffoonery has been elevated to core, and taken to centre stage with cheerleaders cheering clear-cut fooleries. It wouldn’t be long before pastor Adeboye aid Jonathan to perform the miracle of walking on water. Delusion and hallucination have been their alcohol of choice as they drink them in to their mental disorder, believing the flimsiest impossibility once it’s a foreign and imported God practices.

It’ll take Modesty to deliver this president from underperforming behaviour for the rest of months he has to govern Nigeria. Judging by his desperate strives to be the next president; he might surpass himself and end up in a hole as Saddam Hussein or The Hague like Charles Taylor. There’s every need the president pump the break – he’s making his way too easy. It takes a thin line between sociocentric tendencies and rouge leadership. Jonathan Goodluck is the type who’d press the nuclear button, endangering humankind before he realises the damage has been done.  And to all leaders, I say, err on the side of caution!

President Jonathan, corrupt politicians and sleazy pastors who egg dirty politicians on, to be the Devil and suffer Nigerians hard, need to check themselves before they wreck themselves, as they sing in hip-hop music.

Happy Christmas and merry New Year to you all, all in advance!

http://www.saharareporters.com/article/jonathan-goodluck-toy-or-real-president
Politics / Re: North Disowns Atiku; Campaign In Trouble by appletango: 9:07pm On Dec 23, 2010
Since when is Lamido "the north"?? He is a OBJ stooge and is barely in control of his own state.
Politics / Re: Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 6:44pm On Dec 23, 2010
Beaf:

Like I said, you are punch drunk and just making up stuff to argue with in typical akara seller style, just so it seems like you've said something.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5628394-146/exclusive_okah_calls_next__.csp

The argument has always been about Okahs so called access to phones after he was jailed. The questions have always been if the person that spoke to Al Jazeera and Next was Henry Okah or someone else; how that person could read text messages word for word from a phone that had been siezed by the police etc etc.

Dunce.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! WOW!!!! Again you seem to have missed the whole point you weirdo. I'll let you and your silly nigerian journalists worry about the minor issues of "how has the man managed to memorise a 7 word message (because clearly that is the major talking point here you twit); however what normal people are focusing on is the practicality of the situation. Was he out of custody when he received the calls/texts? Yes. Did he have access to a mobile phone at the time? Yes.

If you want to run around and argue about "how a person can read a 7 word text message word for word from a phone that has been siezed" and "was it really henry okah (it's the whole "gej: mend didn't do it, mend: yes we did" nonsense all over again) then by all means do it, but don't do it on my time you bloo.dy mor.on.
Politics / Re: Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 6:09pm On Dec 23, 2010
Beaf:

Hmmmmmmmmmm. You don't even know what you are arguing about anymore? Na wa!

I see you are now punch drunk, no real surprises, cos I'm like a super-heavy weight while you are fly-weight or maybe we should create a new class called mosquito-weight.
I guess one of them bad punches caused your lil brain to fall out of one of your ears! grin grin grin grin

Of course, your lord and idol, Okah made very incriminating calls and texts (which is why he is deservedly locked up today without bail), he made those communications before he was kept out of mischiefs way by the SA authorities.
Now, please pick your lil brain from the floor, reattach it between your ears and listen; the calls and texts that we pooh-pooh are those he claims to have made after being banged behind bars and after his phones and computers were siezed. Can you engage with that mentally?

www.nairaland.com/attachments/317132_ROTFLM_gif474f1382cac6aa709538e551d507cbfc

you have lied so much that even you are now starting to believe your own lies. where has okah ever said that the texts or calls came after he was arrested and in jail? he has never said that so where are you getting your information from? what he has said was:

On Saturday morning (2nd of October), just a day after the attack, a very close associate of President Jonathan called me and explained to me that there had been a bombing in Nigeria and that President Jonathan wanted me to reach out to the group, Mend, and get them to retract the earlier statement they had issued claiming the attacks.

They wanted to blame the attacks on northerners who are trying to fight against him [Jonathan] to come back as president and if this was done, I was not going to have any problems with the South African government. I declined to do this and few hours later I was arrested. It was based on their belief that I was going to do that that President Jonathan issued a statement claiming that MEND didn't carry out the attack because they were expecting a kind of retraction from the group.

he was arrested late on that same day on the evening of the 2nd.

are you schooled at home? i hope your parents don't spend any money on your education because you are a very simple boy.
Politics / Re: Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 5:31pm On Dec 23, 2010
Beaf:

^
Are you yinka85?

You pre-evolved link between man and ape; find out when Okah's phones were siezed and why you made the useless defense that he borrowed a friends phone, and why Henry Okah (or whoever spoke to Next) made the equally useless defense that text messages had somehow been saved on another phone. When you have run those errands, it would greatly assist your learning process to find out why courts never accept duplicate copies of any sort.

Are you now claiming that the so called interviews with Al Jazeera and Next happened on the 1st? Chineke me e!! shocked
Dude, aside from you deluded folk, no one can twist logic so shamelessly and still convince themselves that other people take their word seriously. Damn!

are you mad. the man was not in prison on the 1st. the text messages were sent on the first. you own prosecution team is stating that he was sending texts on the 1st. why the hell are you rambling on about anything else. weirdo
Politics / Re: Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 5:20pm On Dec 23, 2010
Beaf:

Dude, if I was interested I would have been involved with that thread. I am not, whats your point exactly? Cos I don't see where you are driving to.

you're too scared to answer me?? leave this thread alone please and bu.gger off back to that "IBB decamps to GEJ" party and play with the mass of illiterate religious zealots that sees to make up most of your support nowadays.
Politics / Re: Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 4:49pm On Dec 23, 2010
Beaf:

You're just as dimwitted as kobojunkie who claims no one does forensics on phones! NL go kill pesin wit laf one day sha!
So, in prison, you ask for your friends phone? And he gives it to you? That would have to be Chima Orlu or Ben Jessy, his partners in crime, either that or a dimwit (we see that their population is very high).

Of course, you wouldn't care that Sahara Reporters forged a picture as evidence of a news item, would you? Dishonesty is a hallmark of Atiku followers; their man was sacked from custom for corruption, is wanted in the US for laundering $40m, forged a PDP poll last week. . . The shameful list goes on!

you simple minded monkey. was okah in prison on the 1st.


Consequently, the prosecution presented evidence against Mr Okah in court this morning. Prosecution lawyer, Shaun Abrahams, read a supplementary affidavit signed by the Police Services Officer in charge of the investigation, Noel Graeme Zeeman, which said prior to the detonation of the two vehicle-improvised explosive devices on 1 October in Abuja, two vehicles were purchased in Lagos on Mr Okah's instructions.

According to the affidavit, the explosions took place under the supervision of Chima Orlu, who is said to have acted on the instructions of Mr Okah. Mr Orlu's telephone records show that he had been in contact with Mr Okah on numerous occasions leading up to October 1. Mr Okah is said to have sent text messages to Mr Orlu on 30 September 2010 at 12h 38:11pm, and on October 1 at 6h 02:39am, 7h 40: 20am, 7h 41:22am and at 7h 41:35 am. Mr Zeeman's statement stressed that "of greater significance is that Mr Orlu sent an SMS to Mr Okah at precisely 10h 58:59 am on 1 October, 13h 13:01am and 13h 29:59pm on the same day."

so YOUR OWN prosecution has presented evidence saying that he was sending messages on the 1st, but somehow by your reasoning he wasn't able to receive any texts because he was safely tucked away in prison?

yam head.
Politics / Re: Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 4:25pm On Dec 23, 2010
if i lose my phone i will got out and buy a new one immediately or i will use one of my friend's in the meantime. to think i man like okah only has access to one phone is just a moronic argument - one that's typical of nigerians; you guys are the masters of misdirection.

it's like beaf and his silly picture of the unclothed man. who cares if it's one man or two or four of fifty. the point is that there where unclothed men walking around in thongs and beating drums - all the rest is small print. beaf is like the man who meets a two headed dragon and yet afterwards only wants to discuss whether or not the dragon has a mobile phone.
Politics / Re: Gani Fawehinmi Chambers - Atiku’s Statement Is Frightening by appletango: 7:37pm On Dec 22, 2010
who?
Politics / Re: Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 6:52pm On Dec 22, 2010
Beaf:

Now this is another fish sellers tale! You want to convince me that Okah's defense team are so naive that they would attempt to prejudice and destroy their own position before their day in court?
Abeg, Okah has lawyers defending him, not shoemakers and rewires.

Daft.

well at least you now admit that these documents do exist. whether you want to hear about it from SR or in a SA court is just a matter of timing.

the truth will out.
Politics / Re: Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 6:34pm On Dec 22, 2010
Beaf:

You will continue laughing, but at yourself.
I cannot fathom how thinking folk can believe that Sahara Reporters obtained a secret report from SA. It is just absolutely ridiculous, but we've seen Nairalanders stoop to lower lows before, so no biggies.

this report is being used by the defense team for henry okah and has been made available to all parties in this case. all will become public in due course but by then i'm sure you will have finally disappeared to wherever it is you came from.
Politics / Re: Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 12:58am On Dec 22, 2010
Ibime:

Let's get one thing clear. . .

Tony Uranta was not involved in the SNG bribery scandal. Bakare called Uranta (an SNG member) to return the money to GEJ. Uranta did not give nor receive any bribe.

errrr, he did more than that. he was one of those denying the rumours:

The confirmation came in the midst of denial of earlier report by Tony Uranta, one of Jonathan’s political operatives.

Uranta had claimed on his Facebook page on Monday that Saharareporters misrepresented the crux of the meeting between the president and the Pastor Bakare-led delegation.

Uranta denied that Jonathan discussed his ambition to run for office with the SNG delegation and also said no money was offered to the SNG team.

anyway, that's neither here nor there and i'd say that he has more pressing matters at the moments, no? like a court date in SA perhaps  grin grin
Politics / Re: Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 12:39am On Dec 22, 2010
Beaf:

Who gave them confidential reports in South Africa?

Have Sahara Reporters carried their Dugbe market fake news and rumour mongering to SA now?
Na wa o!

I de laf oooooooooooooo!!!!!! grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

it didnt turn out too well for you the last time you tried to deny a SR story.

anyway, i'm gonna stop arguing with you; you're man is finished.
Politics / Re: Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 12:36am On Dec 22, 2010
Beaf:

Yes, it is over for the tribalists, vultures and neanderthal cabals that have been holding Nigeria back.
You have been outflanked, outmaneuvered and within a month, you will be binned.

Lets see what you've got and who owns what. cool

[size=14pt]Fresh Air 2011![/size]

hmmmmm,  speaking of your "fresh air":

President Goodluck Jonathan is pitching his candidacy on a “breath of fresh air” but revelations from a 2006 Joint Task Force on fighting corruption has shown that the man whose bid for the 2011 presidency has polarized his party has a filthy past.

Also, former State Governors were found to have breached the code of conduct for public officials and were recommended for prosecution in line with the Code of Conduct Bureau Act.

The Joint Task Force empanelled by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on fighting corruption comprised the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), The Department of State Services (DSS), and the Nigerian Police. Former Chairman of the EFCC and presidential aspirant under the platform of the Alliance Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Nuhu Ribadu, was theChairman of the Task Force.

The part of the report (EXCERPT Number 11) concerning President Jonathan (who was then Governor of Bayelsa State) listed the following as grounds for his prosecution:

Substance of Charges (1) False Declaration of Assets

(i) Lexus Jeep worth N18 million claimed to have been acquired through savings in 2004. Verification reveals that the Jeep was a gift collected in contravention of the CCB Act of 1990. Same for BMW 7351 Series bought in 2005 worth N5.5 million;

(ii) Acquisition of properties outside legitimate income; Seven Bedroom Duplex acquired in 2001 worth N18 million at Otuke Ogbia LGA, Four Bedroom Duplex acquired in 2003 worth N15 million at Goodluck Jonathan Street, Yenegoa;
Five Bedroom Duplex - acquired in 2003 worth N25 million at Citec Villas, Gwarimpa II – Abuja.

Overall, that Task Force identified three issues to wit:

(i) Some public officers had declared Assets far above what they owned as their declaration could not be substantiated. A case of anticipatory declaration.

(ii) Some public officers did not declare some of the properties they acquired while in office.

(iii) The issue of ownership of foreign account and late declaration was treated with levity. The consequences of the above is that so far 15 State Governors have been found to have individually contravened some of the Provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Part I to the 5th Schedule, especially on the issue of false declaration of Assets and or acquisition of properties outside legitimate means.

According to the report, which from all indications was not acted upon or was partially acted upon by Obasanjo, State Governors and the various chargeable offences identified against them have been reproduced below:-

Code of conduct Tribunal Findings on State Governors

BRIEF ON THE ACTIVITIES OF' THE JOINT TASK FORCE
The President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria - Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, in June 2006 set up a Joint Task Force on fighting corruption comprising the following organizations namely; the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), The Department of State Services (DSS), and the Nigerian Police. On the whole each of the Establishments named above contributed five members of staff on the team.

The activities of this Joint Task Force came under the control and supervision of the EFCC hence its Chairman - Mr. Nuhu Ribadu is the Head of the Task Force.

The Task Force commenced its activities in a temporary office located at Asokoro. During its inaugural meeting, the team noted that its main functions were to complement the activities of their primary establishments.

ASSETS VERIFICATION EXERCISE

The team commenced its activities by embarking on the verification of Assets of Public Officers. This is to give it background knowledge to identify corrupt public officers for further investigation. In doing this, the team decided to collate copies of the Assets Declaration of all State Governors as a starting point. The forms were scrutinized and the verification exercise commenced. So far thirty-two State Governors have had their Assets verified. The remaining State Governors have been asked to schedule appropriate dates that they would make themselves available for the exercise. The Task Force has also notified the Deputy Governors, Speakers of State Assemblies and Secretaries, to the various State Governments to prepare for the verification exercise.

(11) DR. GOODLUCK JONATHAN - GOVERNOR BAYELSA STATE
Substance of Charges (1) False Declaration of Assets
(i) Lexus Jeep worth N18 million claimed to have been acquired through savings in 2004. Verification reveals that the Jeep was a gift collected in contravention of the CCB Act of 1990. Same for BMW 7351 Series bought in 2005 wortl1 N5.5 million
(ii) Acquisition of properties outside legitimate income.
Seven Bedroom Duplex acquired in 2001 wortl1 N18 million at Otuke Ogbia LGA Four Bedroom Duplex acquired in 2003 worth N15 million at Goodluck Jonathan
Street Yenegoa
Five Bedroom Duplex - acquired in 2003 worth N25 millionat Citec Villas, Gwarimpa II - Abuja.

http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/goodluck-jonathan-bola-tinubu-bafarawa-gbenga-daniel-made-false-declaration-assets-2006
Politics / Re: Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 12:11am On Dec 22, 2010
Beaf:

Who gives a flying fck about Ciroma like creatures? "North" this, "North" that! You bloody scarecrows do not represent Northerners, neither do you control fck all. Bring it on, lets know who feeds who and how many weeks you can last.

Fcking ethnically bigoted bastar'ds.

i can tell by your tone that you know it's over wink wink
Politics / Re: Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 11:59pm On Dec 21, 2010
Kobojunkie:


Orubebe and Uranta again? shocked shocked shocked These two were implicated earlier this month in the Bakare-Jonathan Bribery Scandal . Make someone tell em say make dem go wash head ooo . . . This one pass coincidence . . . ROFLMAO! grin cheesy grin cheesy

i actually don't believe its possible for him to recover from this. the north are barely on speaking terms with him at the best of times and now this shocked shocked

GEJ: RIP 21st of December 2010. He came, he saw, he bungled.
Politics / Jonathan’s Aides In Abuja Independence Day Bomb Saga by appletango: 11:48pm On Dec 21, 2010
An account of the role played by aides to Goodluck Jonathan in trying to convince Heny Okah to dump the blame for the Independence Day bomb blast in Abuja on “Northern elements” are emerging, just as Mr. Okah's lawyers received the news of a January 4, 2011 date to appeal his denial of bail application which has enabled his continued detention in South Africa.  Last month, he was denied bail by a South African magistrate after the judge said "The accused was untruthful and he lied to the court" .

Saharareporters has obtained a confidential report which might a major role in the trial that details calls made to Okah by several key Jonathan aides the night after the bomb blasts, at a time MEND was claiming responsibility for them.   Those named in the secret report include Jonathan's former ADC, Moses Jituboh, a police officer whose current designation is “Personal Security Officer to the president;"  the Minister for the Niger Delta, Godsday Orubebe; and Tony Uranta, the same Jonathan operative who was recently named in the $50,000 bribery of the Save Nigeria Group (SNG).
   
The secret document shows that four calls were traced to Mr. Orubebe, and several calls as well as a key text message were traced to Mr. Uranta, who used telephone numbers: +2348075407801 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              +2348075407801      end_of_the_skype_highlighting, +2347084961205 and +2348069280206 to communicate as he acted as an intermediary between Mr. Okah and President Jonathan up to the night after the Abuja bombing in October.

The document shows that after the bombs went off, Uranta sent a text message to Okah, saying, "Please get JG to withdraw claim," ["JG" being the shortened form of "Jomo Gbomo", the mysterious but widely-known email name used in MEND releases] but Okah responded by text, saying , "Don't even think about that".

Mr. Uranta responded with another text message to Mr. Okah, saying the critical words, "Govt will blame bombing on Northern elements."
That was the last text message before Mr. Uranta joined a delegation of Niger Delta delegates which “commiserated” with Jonathan over the bombings.  Meanwhile, as Jonathan possibly thought the deal to blame the blast on "Northern elements" had sailed through with Mr. Okah, he announced publicly that MEND was not responsible for the bombing even as the MEND had already claimed responsibility.

As was exclusively reported by SaharaReporters, Mr. Okah's house was ransacked by the South African police the day before the Abuja bombings, and his phones and laptops—as well as those of his children—confiscated. The search had been initiated by the Nigerian government, having been tipped off by Western security agents about the impending blast.  MEND had also issued press releases announcing its intentions prior to the blast.

The confidential document revealed that Jonathan called his South African counterpart, President Jacob Zuma of South Africa to have Okah arrested to "prevent" the deadly blast.  In turn, Zuma directly asked South African prosecutor, Shawn Abrahams, to get a Magistrate to issue a search warrant and an arrest warrant for Okah's arrest.

Two South African Magistrates, Nonhle Jadezweni and PJ du Plessis, were contacted to issue the search warrant and warrant of arrest. Both initially refused to comply, for lack of sufficient information or disclosure of course of action, but Mr. Du Plessis was told by the prosecutor that it would be in the interest of the Nigeria-South African bilateral relationship.

As Du Plessis was contemplating the next course of action, Mr. Abrahams put a man whom he said was President Zuma on the phone to tell the judge how important it was to issue an arrest warrant for Okah. The prosecutor then went ahead to produce an Interpol "Red Notice" which was issued in 2007 on Okah.

On the part of Magistrate Jadezweni, a search warrant was issued to the effect that Okah was a violent criminal with stockpiles of arms in his Johannesburg mansion. A search into Okah house did [not] yield any arms.

Dumisa Ntsebeza SC has now joined Okah's defense team and will be with him at the South Gauteng High Court in Johanessburg in two weeks to try and secure his bail.  Okah's legal team is requesting the magistrate records as a way of proving that his arrest and detention was orchestrated politically because of his refusal to be used by Jonathan to endorse his candidature as president in the upcoming 2011 general elections.

If Okah's trial proceeds as planned, revelations from his team will ultimately reveal the extent of the Nigerian government’s involvement with Okah at the highest levels.   The involvement of President Zuma and the Johannesburg Magistrate, Heine Louw, were attributed to pressures on South African business interests in Nigeria. Mr. Louw is due for promotion to the South Africa High Court system.

Meanwhile, MEND sources said they are planning series of attacks that would cripple Nigerian oil production between now and January 2011. Chevron has already suspended production due to recent pipeline sabotage.  A MEND source told SaharaReporters that their sabotage campaign would affect as much as 500,000 barrels per day.

MEND's threats follow the disappearance of four militants from Port Harcourt prison a few days ago. Our source said they fear that Tamuno Tonye Kuna, known as "Commander Obese", who recently surrendered to the Joint Military Task Force, may have been killed by JTF operatives along with the four missing militants.

“Commander Obese” was reportedly lured out of the creeks by Farrah Dagogo with his fighters and made to turn over some hostages.

Said a MEND source to SaharaReporters, "President Jonathan promised Obese N500 million and a second Amnesty, but they arrested him as soon as he surrendered his forces."

http://www.nigerianpaperstoday.com/2010/12/21/henry-okah-trial-in-south-africa-uncovers-role-of-jonathan%E2%80%99s-aides-in-abuja-independence-day-bomb-saga/

shocked shocked shocked shocked

Is this the end of GEJ??
Politics / Re: Primaries: Atiku Leads Jonathan In Pdp opinion Poll by appletango: 7:42pm On Dec 21, 2010
bisiaet:

Which Poll who conducted it? This is just a farce a boody white lie to shift attention from already a drown man like Atiku. How can Atik win in a opinion poll? It is impossible a man who is afraid to face journalist, a man who U.S are waiting for a slight chance for pin him down and to come and stand trialfor money laundry, a man who up till today has no runing mate, a man that has no direction, a liar, a looter, a defector, a disloyal man  how can he win any opinion poll I reapeat it is impossible he can not win anything.

Either he Atiku or the Northern anufia or old for nothing Ciroma and his gang beleives it or not their chance is after 2020 or 2025 that is after the East finish their own term then they can talk of any chance but in as far 2011 is concern either Atiku win fake poll or lie poll is irrelevant 2011 is Gej nothing can anybody do about it, if any one of the goats show face he will go jail that is all. Power has shifted from them and that is the end of the story.

you are going to be really upset when jona loses, aren't you? anyway, i hope you remember to take your blood pressure pills because it seems as if you are getting a little too excited
Politics / Re: Primaries: Atiku Leads Jonathan In Pdp opinion Poll by appletango: 4:22pm On Dec 21, 2010
daroz:

for where atiku for dey lead GEJ for poll? Definately no be for PDP site, cos what i am seeing now is GEJ, 43.8% and Atiku, 18.8%

WOW. Team GEJ really has no shame. See how they have attempted to doctor the results. The poll as of last night was:

682 ATIKU (48.3%)
665 GEJ (47.1%)

and now we have figures of:

7 GEJ (43.8%)
3 ATIKU (18.8%)

BUT on this new "latest" poll you can see at the bottom of the screen that the last vote was made on the 18th of November SOME 5 WEEKS AGO. How is this even possible when last nights figures were accurate as of 6pm 20th December.

Next time you fiddle with the figures guys make sure you clean up ALL THE MESS afterward.  wink wink
Politics / Re: Primaries: Atiku Leads Jonathan In Pdp opinion Poll by appletango: 1:05pm On Dec 21, 2010
As somebody stated, this isn't about what people on here or on facebook think. Public opinion really isn't important until after the primaries. What this is really about is what the PDP thinks. And the majority of those within the PDP believe in zoning. GEJ can continue to post on facebook or receive his hollow endorsements but you'll see the real side to nigerian politics come the convention. The party knows its power comes through the zoning principle - and it knows that jettisoning that will spell the end of its power. When push comes to shove they are not stupid enough to commit suicide.

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