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9jii:
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What actions did Yaradua take to end the Nigerdelta wahala?

9jii:
Don't forget Yar'adua's effort in the ND amnesty program.

Civilian JTF are trying and people are joining them by the day.

But people like you cant shut up and pretend as nothing is happening like this Government does.

PEOPLE like you can only see good in yourself when you compared yourself with BOKOHARAM.

Please remind me again, the specific actions Yaradua took, during the Nigerdelta wahala.

Mrs Mulikat Akande, please leave those bunch of hypocritical mad men alone. They were all part of the conspiracy. Unfortunately some of them have miscalculated. APC has tickets pending in Imo and delta states,Ihedioha and Ogor can get their tickets. They can either become govs there or try reelection to the house on APC's platform .Enough of this men of deceit. Politics is an Honorable profession, if they can't play it straight, they should become charge and bail lawyers.

So the people of Ndokwa East Local Government, went to report to police. Una head no correct. Boys no get gun for town, make una settle matter with Fulani. Una dey call police. God don punish una finish.

keep your friends close and your adversaries even closer, Politics 101. Your enemies you can nuke.

Most of the jobs loses if any will be politicians.

Fayose is only cutting government to size.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has criticized the reduction of the state ministries from 24 to 14 by Governor Ayodele Fayose, saying such policy will lead to loss of jobs and loss of morale among the rank and file in the state work force.
In a statement by the State ‎Public Relations Officer, Taiwo Olatubosun, the party criticized the policy in what it called “systematic disengagement, dislocation and dismantling of the civil service from a functional civil service to a task force civil service”.
“At Inauguration, Governor Fayose reversed the appointments of eight permanent secretaries to their former positions, thus making those who replaced them returned to their former lower positions. This is an unwarranted ‎demoralisation of the top echelon of the civil service that is central to the faithful implementation of government’s programmes.

“The present reduction in the ministries will create chaos in the civil service top cadre, as many senior officers won’t find spaces in the present arrangement while no fewer than 500 workers in the rank and file will lose their jobs,” Olatubosun said, adding:
“Instead of expanding the operations of government businesses to take in more of our jobless youths, Ekiti people are being thrown into the saturated labour market.‎ This is great disservice to the people that were promised life abundant by the governor just few months ago during campaigns.
“The governor cannot claim that the state does not have money to pay salaries and emoluments. Governor Fayemi demonstrated in the last four years that there is no need to downsize the civil service. It will be a great disservice to Ekiti people if after deceiving them into pro-masses deceits, they are now being thrown out of their jobs.”

The party also criticized the governor for taking September federal allocation to pay October salary, wondering‎ the economic sense behind skipping September to pay October salary. “We want Ekiti people to know the deceit of Governor Fayose, who has been in the media painting Fayemi black that he owed Ekiti workers two months’ salary.
Technically speaking, Dr. Fayemi did not owe any salary. If, as alleged, his administration owed September salary and he left government on October 15 while the allocation for the same September was received by Fayose, then commonsense requires that the incumbent pays the workers September salary with September allocation, while anticipating October allocation.
It is on record that Fayemi, in his four years, didn’t owe any worker salary until Fayose emerged Governor-Elect and harassed banks not to transact business with the then outgoing Fayemi administration. Ekiti workers should ask Mr. Fayose why he now finds it difficult to pay their September salary despite having received September’s allocation and over N10 billion owed the State by the Federal Government.

- http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/dont-throw-ekiti-workers-labour-market-apc-tells-fayose/

54 years of Nigeria, see how they performed.

Wallie:
@GenBuhari

I think your infatuation with the US is clouding your ability to see issues objectively. Just so you know the US stands to lose if the price of oil goes below $70 per barrel because the oil produced by fracking cost about $62 per barrel unlike the oil produced from Saudi Arabia that's about $32 per barrel.

I'll help you make the connections: look to the Saudi's for the declining price of oil. They are either dumping more oil in the market to force the US to slow production or trying to protect their market share. Either way, if the price of oil goes below $70 per barrel, production and investments in shale oil will dwindle because companies in the US will be making less profit and will invest elsewhere.

What's going on has absolutely nothing to do with Nigeria.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/11207301/Brent-crude-tumbles-as-Saudi-escalates-Opec-oil-price-war.html

Very correct insight. The current price war is very good for OPEC. The North American producers are already closing down wells and future investments are been drastically reduced. OPEC read the signals right. This is not about price but about market share. OPEC is pretty determined to push the price to $60, the North Americans are the ones going to lose.

phrancez:
Four years impact and am still jobless

whose fault is that

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barcanista:
I am surprised at you all. You don't know who Clark is? He is an Old Opportunistic Fraud using the name of Ijaw for his personal bank account. What contribution has Clark made to Ijawland? Even in His own Delta State what has he done? Who is Clark in Rivers State? What are his conribution to Bayelsa State? Who exactly is he? Please, Ijaw as long as I am concerned have NO political elder or leader. The INC and IYC are disgrace of a group and sellers. I am rooting for the candidacy of Hon. Dakuku Peterside, not because he is Ijaw but because of his disposition to issues, though my NUMBER ONE Choice remain Tonye Princewill-Sadly, he may not govern Rivers State again.

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The next one hundred generations of your linage will not surpass 1% of what Pa Clark done in Delta. I have warned you, to ask your mother, to tell you the truth about your father . Stop insulting people, our Nairaland ijaw indigene

Lordlexyy:
A winning team indeed. They are in for a real shock. Buhari causing tsunami every where.

I asked you, to stick with your Xbox games.

pendicle:
Aint Nigerians the most gullible people in the world? A FG that overthe last 8months has not been able to meet it constitutional revenue sharing formula to the other two federating units is singing and publishing fathom economic fallcies.

That your minister of finance had to give a press conference that the nation is not broke but just experiencing some little challenges and yet people are showing.

Better smell the coffee we are in a perilous times, the economy is in tatters.

Where did you get that and from what constitution? The revenue shared is normally based on collections, are you implying something new here?

I hope they will lay low and never make any headline against the political and moral interest of their dad. Fayose is truly a blessed man.

Nigerians voted for a PDP Speaker, but got an APC wolf in PDP sheep’s clothing.
It is customary to refer to members of the House of Representatives as “honorable.” In which case, the appropriate title for the current Speaker might be the Right Honorable Aminu Tambuwal. But the activities of the Speaker over the last four years, capped by his recent defection to the APC, shows that such a title would be grossly misplaced if applied to him.
There is nothing honorable about Tambuwal pretence for the better part of three years that he is a PDP member, when in actual fact he has been nothing of the sort. There is nothing honorable about the way Tambuwal has despised the Constitution he was sworn to protect. There is nothing honorable about the wayTambuwal has betrayed the trust of the Nigerian electorate, as expressed in the 2011 election. I can find no better or more precise language with which to describe Tambuwal than that he is a traitor.

Tambuwal’s treachery

Tambuwal is a serial defector of dishonorable repute. He defected from the ANPP to the DPP, then to back to the ANPP, then to the PDP and now to the APC. He is a traitor for defecting from the PDP to the APC without first resigning from the House. He is the representative of a constituency in Sokoto comprising a majority of PDP voters. They elected him to represent them as a PDP legislator. He has now betrayed their trust by defecting to the opposition APC. This is nothing short of treachery. His constituents did not elect an APC man to represent them.

Tambuwal has shown that he is not a man of high principles. He is just another 419 politician. Nigeria is operating a democratic system largely borrowed from the United States. The Speaker of the House of Representatives comes from the majority party in the House. That party is the PDP. Tambuwal was elected under the PDP platform. However, he has been operating as an opposition APC man disguised treacherously as a PDP man.

The job of the Speaker is to spearhead the legislative programme of the government in the House. A Speaker who is in cahoots with the opposition is, in effect, a traitor to his party and to the government. That has been the case with Aminu Tambuwal. If Nigerian voters wanted the House of Representatives to have a Speaker who is from a different party from the President, they would have given the opposition a majority in the House of Representatives. They did not. They gave the PDP, the president’s party, the majority. Tambuwal’s shenanigans in the last four years have been designed to frustrate the express will of the Nigerian electorate.

ACN treachery

Aminu Tambuwal became Speaker by aligning himself with the selfish ambitions of Bola Tinubu and his ACN opposition party. Tinubu claims to be a leader of the Yorubas, but when the PDP zoned the position of Speaker to South-West Yorubas, Tinubu decided that the interests of the Yorubas would not serve his personal political ambitions. A Yoruba Speaker would provide another focal point for Yoruba leadership apart from the Asiwaju; therefore the ACN decided to frustrate the candidature of their kith and kin, Mulikat Akande.
To do this successfully, they needed a traitor from the PDP who would go against the directives of his party, while remaining a member of the PDP, and challenge the party’s chosen candidate to become Speaker. They found that traitor in Aminu Tambuwal. Here is how it worked. Tinubu used his political muscle to convince gullible Yoruba legislators to vote against a Yoruba woman, Mulikat Akande, in a post that was specifically designed by the PDP as a benefit for Yorubas. He then got these same “mumu” Yoruba politicians to vote instead for Aminu Tambuwal; a scion of the Sokoto Caliphate with a Hausa/Fulani agenda.

This is something that could never have happened the other way around. It is inconceivable that a Hausa/ Fulani legislator would be persuaded to give something that has been zoned to Hausa/Fulanis to a Yoruba man. To put it bluntly, the Hausas/Fulanis are not that stupid. But what does that tell us about Yoruba politicians? They are slave traders. They have no qualms about selling their own people into slavery. They have no qualms about throwing other Yorubas under the bus.

With the Yoruba politicians gullible enough to agree to be sold, yet again, into Northern slavery, at the treacherous plotting of their self-proclaimed godfather, it was not difficult to find Northerners from the PDP who gladly joined in this treachery to put another Hausa/Fulani into office as Speaker. Aminu Tambuwal was that choice.

False pretences

There are two quick lessons to learn from this. The first is that as Bola Tinubu and the ACN betrayed the Yorubas with the election of Tambuwal of Sokoto as Speaker of the House, so also are they determined to sell Yorubas into slavery again by their current alliance with the North-West and the Sokoto Caliphate through the APC. As there was nothing in Tambuwal’s Speakership for the Yorubas, so will there be nothing for the Yorubas in a North-West APC presidency. Yoruba voters really need to “shine their eyes.”
The other issue has to do with Aminu Tambuwal. Tambuwal became a Speaker under false pretences. Although he continued to parade himself as a member of the PDP, he was in actual fact no longer a member of the party. He shunned the party and became a mouthpiece of the opposition, all the while still pretending that he belonged to the PDP. Clearly, the honorable thing for Tambuwal to do, since he had clearly lost his affection for the PDP, was to resign from the party. However, Right Honorable Aminu Tambuwal did not do this because he is not an honorable man.

Violating the Constitution

Tambuwal’s other disaffected PDP colleagues were more honorable than him. 37 of them defected to the APC. But Tambuwal remained in the PDP in order to retain his job as Speaker. As long as he continued to claim he belonged to the PDP, even though he really no longer liked the party, he could continue to enjoy his rights and privileges as the Speaker. Tambuwal did not care what Nigerians think about his treachery. We voted for a PDP Speaker, but got an APC wolf in PDP sheep’s clothing.

Tambuwal’s treachery also meant he had to violate the Constitution of Nigeria which, as Speaker, he was sworn to protect. Section 68 (g) of the 1999 Constitution says: “A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected; provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored.”

This required the Speaker to declare the seats of the 37 PDP House members who defected as vacant. There was no division in the PDP; its members simply defected to another party. But given that Tambuwal was really an APC man in PDP disguise, he refused to fulfil his constitutional duty as Speaker to declare the seats vacant, in spite of the proclamation of the courts. He betrayed his duty as a PDP Speaker to protect the interests of the PDP. He denied the PDP seats that rightfully belonged to the PDP. He violated the will of Nigerian voters who elected the PDP traitors.

Tambuwal’s defection

Tambuwal’s last act of treachery was his outright defection to the APC. He waited for the majority leader of the House to move for adjournment until 3rd December, 2014, before reading his defection letter. Having long manipulated the system to his selfish advantage, Tambuwal has now discovered that others can also manipulate the system to his disadvantage.

The police have been instructed to withdraw his security detail as Speaker, on the grounds that, with his defection, he is no longer a member of the House and thereby no longer the Speaker. In truth, the Speaker of the House of Representatives cannot come from the minority party. Tambuwal has now resorted to the courts. But this is the same Tambuwal who failed to declare the 37 seats of PDP defectors vacant, in spite of a court decision to that effect. People like Tambuwal who violate the verdict of the courts and show no respect for the courts don’t deserve protection by the courts.

If Tambuwal, as Speaker, can ignore the verdict of the courts; then Jonathan, as President, can equally ignore it. In this dog-eat-dog game that Tambuwal initiated, he deserves no sympathy whatsoever. He will quickly discover that a president has far greater nuisance value than a Speaker. If the president decides to make life difficult for Tambuwal, and I see no reason why not, then Tambwal is in for interesting times before his demotion to Sokoto Governor’s lodge.

He can be thrown out of his government house. He can then take the government to court, but the case might not be decided until June 2015. Tambuwal cannot have his cake and eat it. He cannot manipulate the system and then go to court to challenge others for also manipulating it. He started this nonsense. He deserves the repercussions. He should have done the honorable thing a long time ago. Resign as Speaker; and leave the House of Representatives.

If Tambuwal thinks Buhari and Co will give the presidential ticket of the APC to a former PDP man, he should think again. If he thinks Northerners will elect a North-West Sokoto man as president in 2015, he should think again. If he thinks Yorubas will vote a member of the Sokoto Caliphate as president in the current political environment of Nigeria, then he should dream on.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/aminu-tambuwal-traitor/#sthash.TwZd2luV.dpuf

Threaten ke, they should dump and live with the repercussions. Na today.

Namadi Sambo Namadi Sambo Namadi Sambo why change a wining team.

Eziachi:
First shot at who? When did changing ones political associated becomes firing a shot? Some of you who thinks that they are practicing democracy but still thinks like Mobutu when it comes to opposition needs a total rethink. Its not meant to be a war but fight of ideas

Please i never inferred a war. I meant a the political shot. Also, I was replying a commentator, asking, if the president knew the country was at war.

tit:
ode.
track who?
am i hiding?
tompolo will beat you die.
fool!

why are you licking the arse of the man who called the governor to confirm bola ige's death?

You people will not kill me on NL

fyneguy:
SMH...You guys know next-to-nothing about politics. You actually think some PDP guys can not collaborate with APC members to get him impeached. It's all about interests.

Why is everyone of you people, not smarter than a primary 6 pupil.

Arch1:
Five days ago - Boko Haram captured Mubi

Two days ago - A bomb blast rocked Gombe

Yesterday - There was a jail break at a maximun security prison in Kogi; more than a 100 dangerous criminals/terrorists escaped

Today - A bomb blast rocked Potiskum, Yobe state

president jonaTAN the commander-in-chief of the country seems to be more concerned with fighting tambuwal despite the detoriorating security situation of the country.

Can someone help me tell this useless president that the country is at war. The enemy is out there killing Nigerians. Impeching tambuwal shouldnt be the presidencys priorty now

So the country being at war is Jonathan's only problem. Some people can chew gum and walk at the same time. There are pirates in the Nigerdelta, robberies somewhere in the west today, car theft/accidents in east, you name it, its happening somewhere in Nigeria as we speak.. Yet, your APC has decided to make Nigeria's politics a hell hole. Actions and reactions are equal and opposite. Tambawal fired the first shot, he forgot Nigeria was at war with boko haram in the Northeast , abi you want one side to sit and allow a bunch of political bastarddds calling themselves APC run this country into the bush? No, let's set this place on fire, is that not what you people want. Thereafter, the losers will count their losses.

Push has come to shove. God bless the great party PDP

GEJ till 2019.

By Emman Ovuakporie and Levinus Nwabughiogu
ABUJA-PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has given Peoples Democratic Party, PDP lawmakers the order to ensure that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is removed from office.

Sources close to the presidency revealed that the president who could not hide his anger told some ranking members of the House at a meeting held at the Presidential Villa on Friday night to immediately start moves towards Tambuwal’s ouster.
He blamed them for allowing the speaker to exhibit such control over the lawmakers without protecting his own interest.
The source further explained that”we had to apologise to him and promised to carry out his instructions as to how to remove the speaker”.
“Towards this end, we’ve summoned all our members to reach Abuja today,yesterday, unfailingly to attend a meeting with our party leaders “.
Another top ranking member of the House who spoke to Vanguard under the condition of anonymity said”why we are angry with Tambuwal is simple-he betrayed the collective trust of we PDP lawmakers”.

“He became speaker because we believed in him and he rode on our back to achieve his dreams”.
“Then barely 48hours after at the APC convention he went berserk and started calling PDP names that was a serious betrayal of trust and this was where he shot himself on the foot”.

The Vanguard through an impeccable source gathered that a 4-term lawmaker, Bashir Adamu, PDP, Jigawa has been tipped to replace Tambuwal.
Also on the table to be considered is Hon Usman Kumho, but from all indications he does not have a strong support base to become speaker.
Their game plan, according to the source is that “we will frustrate him out of office and ensure we remove him citing the fact that his defection did not follow due process”.
“Though we are aware that he may go to court to quash it but the damage must have been perpetuated and the court may not decide until after May28 and by then this House must have been rested”.
On the grand design to impeach Emeka Ihedioha, the Deputy Speaker, the source said”it is virtually impossible because we can’t lose two strong PDP lawmakers”.

“We’ve lost Tambuwal, Ihedioha remains for now and that is not really our challenge”.
The source further added that the PDP and the presidency cannot afford to lose both men at the same time and so, would tread cautiously.
He boasted that Ihedioha is now a big asset to the party, stressing that removing him would crash PDP ship in the House.
He said though there was pressure on the deputy speaker from some quarters to get Ihedioha on the move against Tambuwal, he would rather not compromise his relationship with his boss.

Also, another PDP lawmaker who spoke to Vanguard on the condition of anonymity said that even if PDP heeded the call of giving automatic ticket to lawmakers as widely reported, the idea to impeach Tambuwal would still fail.
In any case, the lawmaker said that none of them was ready to play politics of impeachment at the moment given the fact that every lawmaker has returned to their constituency to fight for tickets.

“Look, they are only playing politics. I can tell you that no PDP lawmaker is ready to vote for Tambuwal’s impeachment. Even if there would be anything like that, it can’t be now. Everyone has gone home to fight for his/her return. The primaries are almost here.
“The only time we expect issues and controversy that may generate heat in the House will be when Tambuwal upon the resumption of the House decides to pursue APC’s agenda. At that point, we will fight them with our number since we have the majority in the House. That means that we will resort to calling for a division on issues before anything can be done”, the source stressed.
Also lending his voice, an APC lawmaker from Rivers State, Hon. Ogbonna Nwuke said that the PDP lawmakers did not have the required two third majority to oust the Speaker.

According to him, the only way such could happen was if some lawmakers for APC decide to betray the party which he said was impossible.
He said: “Let me say this to you. It is not possible for PDP lawmakers to muster two third majority. They don’t have it. The only way they can get that is if some APC lawmakers decide to betray the party. But that is not possible.”

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/presidency-insists-tambuwal-removed/#sthash.XSCMstfG.dpuf

All the noise and will come to an end next year. Till then, expect more propaganda from APC. That's all they have to offer Nigeria.

Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the North-West and South-West geopolitical zones are currently slogging it out over which zone will produce the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, following the defection of Honourable Aminu Waziri Tambuwal to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Sources in Abuja confirmed to Sunday Tribune that leaders of the North-West had, at the weekend, made representation to President Goodluck Jonathan over the possibility of another Speaker emerging from the zone.

The request from the North-West is clashing with the interest of the South-West which leaders had earlier made a similar representation to President Jonathan to ensure that the post goes back to it.

It was confirmed that shortly after Tambuwal’s defection to the APC, leaders of the PDP in the South-West immediately made representations to President Jonathan, asking him to ensure that the zone regains the Speaker’s position which was allocated to it in 2011.

Leader of the zone were said to have argued that the marginalisation of the zone should now be ended with the exit of Tambuwal.

They were also said to have argued that of all the seven top posts in the federal hierarchy, the South-West is completely left out.

While the South-South produced President Jonathan, the North-West was allotted the post of Vice-President, with the North-Central producing Senate President.

The South-East produced Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), while the North-East produced the national Chairman of the party.

The South-West was to produce the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in line with the PDP zoning arrangement, but the emergence of Tambuwal from the North-West upturned the arrangement, thus ensuring that the North-West produced the Vice-President and Speaker of the House of Representatives.

It also ensured that the South-East produced the SGF, deputy Senate President and deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, a position that was originally zoned to the North-East.

“Indications have emerged that the North-West leaders are insisting on producing the next speaker of the House who will succeed Tambuwal. This is not going down well with the South-West leaders of the PDP who are unequivocal about their desire to right the wrongs of 2011 with the exit of Tambuwal. I can tell you that the President has a big decision to take in a matter of days,” the source said.

The source, however, said leaders of the two zones had agreed that Tambuwal ought to be removed from office as quickly as possible.


http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/news-headlines/item/20360-north-west-south-west-battle-over-tambuwal-s-successor

The NBA chief explained that the Nigerian
Constitution did not envisage the defection of the
Speaker or Senate President


Are they not legislators? The constitution is clear on the subject matter.

68. (1) A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if -

(g) being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected;

Provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored; or

14 years of PDP rule.

The economist, one of the magazines the Nigeria haters like to quote, had this in their most recent issue.

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21627646-africas-lodestar-nation-has-weathered-ebola-extremist-takeover-has-exposed

"If they were independent countries, some of Nigeria’s northern states would rank bottom globally in terms of development, even though the country is the seventh-biggest oil producer in OPEC. Nowhere else in the world are more children out of school. Fewer than 5% of women in some parts can read or write. Estimates put three out of four residents in the north-east below the poverty line, around twice as many as at the southern end of the country. “Boko Haram is a reflection of the deeper crisis in the"

bamosagie:
If he contest, some Nigerians mostly from the western part will campaign for him vigorously and call him the amiable general. they will state is democratic and messiah qualities, the north will of course vote their own, so he may even win by a landslide.