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IYANGBALI: while you work on your conscience and intergrity

My integrity and conscience is the reason, why I'm asking you to buff up your self esteem. You are not a slave in this country, stop seeing yourself as one.

Freest: Thats true... There was a time when the sultan endorses candidates... And whosoever he endorses, wins, and that was final. Now things habe changed they crying wolf!!!

I'm enjoying this, they can keep on crying. They picked a wrong target in Pastor Ayo.

Freest: A smart religious leader... So they've just been smart. One man i know has been a major say in Nigeria politics, ranging from Governorship elections to top decisions is the sultan. The sultan had somuch power. What made General Sanni Abacha sack Alhaji Ahmed Dasuki, the then Sultan of Sokoto and replaced him It was because he was close to IBB then and Abacha had ckues that he was involved in the coup that took place in 1985 that brought IBB to power and still had this link with IBB he didn't trust.
And by the way, its just being hyped because it involves CAN/CHRISTIANs...

You are dealing with pretenders, once upon a time in this country, the Sultan could make you what ever you wanted to be. That's why you have people called Aghogho mohammed Akporaro. Pastor Ayo has not only changed that equation, CAN is no more the left hand of the National Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs NSCIA . They are pissed, what else is new.

IYANGBALI: fok off and enjoy your share of the blood money,pastor my foot,oleeeeeeeeeeee,barawo

Work on your self esteem.

The army is slowly removing the salary collectors from the service.

egift: It will remain a miracle if Jonathan don't end up in jail after office, irrespective of who becomes the next president of Nigeria.

As long as you are walking free in this country, it will be a crime to even send Shecow to jail.

brownlords: If the emir and sultan where neutral, We won't be fighting insurgency, you can cry all you want, the Man is the head of CAN nothing you can do about it, if you are Christian and you can't tolerate it then become Muslim or pegan. Nonsense

Three gbosa for you

Pastor Ayo remains the right hand man of Goodluck Jonathan and also the leader of CAN. Once upon a time in this country , the Islamist lined up daily before head of state. You people are pissed, that Christians have a voice in Nigeria. Your so called Islamic Country Nigeria, is drifting from your hands.

Omase, you people have not started to cry.

Nigeria can never be halves, every man for himself. Don't want anything to do with Islamist, no matter where they are.

ElFenomeno1: Fu..cking dunderhead!

afraid to die, then withdraw from boko haram.

ABUJA, NIGERIA — Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and largest economy. Yet the nation known as “Africa’s Giant” has only a brief democratic history and a host of serious rifts, ranging from a bloody insurgency to corruption and deep divisions between a poorer Muslim north and a richer Christian south.

So Nigeria’s elections early next year are already building into its most hotly contested, with a united opposition challenging President Goodluck Jonathan's ruling party.

Current dynamics could push Nigeria into its most volatile moment since a civil war in the late 1960s. However, optimists say that carrying off free and fair elections could help build a more mature democracy.



Unlike the 1960s, when Nigeria was a fragile newly-independent state, instability in 2015 could shake Africa and shock the world economy. The country boasts the continent’s largest oil output, mostly in the south, and previous conflicts there have raised oil prices worldwide. The extremist group Boko Haram is grabbing land in the chaotic northeast, conducting attacks in neighboring countries, intensifying religious tensions, and draining national resources.

Nigeria’s economy is already in turmoil with enormous oil wealth in a place where most people live in abject poverty, says E.J. Hogendoorn at the International Crisis Group in Washington, who adds that a serious crisis would ripple outwards. “Large scale civil strife would decimate the economy of the entire region,” he says.

To be sure, civil war is not a “likely scenario,” Mr. Hansen argues, since Nigeria’s elites have an interest in keeping the oil flowing and the nation muddling through. But tensions between the north and south are already intensifying and no one is quite sure how bad it will get.

'One good term deserves another'

Technically, no one is yet campaigning for the 2015 elections. But already Nigerian parks and public spaces are filling with posters and banners for what could be the country's first real contest since the restoration of democracy in 1999.

In Abuja where President Jonathan is in power, signs say things like “One good term deserves another” and show pictures of the president looking pensive or grinning under his signature hat.

On the other side of the political ledger, opposition groups that once competed with each other have joined forces to form the All Progressive Congress. That party will challenge the ruling People’s Democratic Party that has been in power for the past 14 years.

If the new combined opposition party chooses a single candidate it has a chance of defeating the ruling party, according to University of Abuja political science lecturer Abubakar Umar Kari.

Yet with potential candidates long regarded as powerful “Big Men” in their backyards, they may not stick with the party if not chosen. “It’s not clear if they lose the primaries [whether they] leave the party or help the party,” Dr. Kari says.

The All Progressive Congress candidates list in coming primaries is not settled. But former military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari and current governor of Kano State, Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso, are expected to contest. In early September, former vice-president Atiku Abubakar announced plans to run.

North-south divide

While there is overlap, the two rival blocs roughly represent northern and southern leadership, with the ruling party under the southern-based Jonathan and the opposition led by northerners.

Tensions between the north and the south in Nigeria are old and complex. After the 2011 elections riots broke out in the so-called “Middle Belt” between the two. Some 1,000 people were killed in clashes between Muslims who generally support northern leadership and Christians who generally support southern leadership.

The founders of Nigeria’s democracy saw this coming and arranged what they called a “gentlemen’s agreement” in which power and the presidency would rotate between north and south every eight years.

The arrangement broke down after northern president Umaru Yar'Adua died in office in 2010, leaving then Vice President Jonathan from the south in charge. As a result, northerners have only held the presidency for three of the last 15 years.

Northerners blame southern politicians for neglecting their region, while southerners complain the northern elites take oil profits from the south, bank them, and leave ordinary people in the north impoverished.

Here in the Middle Belt, many say that 2015 will be a bloodbath no matter who wins, according to Hafsat Baba, a local opposition politician in the city of Kaduna.

But the election, she says, must go forward despite the danger of violence. “The government, we are holding them accountable,” she says. “They must conduct free, fair and credible elections. That is what they promised us and that is what we are looking for.”

Emergency rule

Three northern states have been under emergency rule for more than a year even as the Boko Haram insurgency continues to grow. Thousands have been killed and hundreds are missing this year alone. It's unclear if free elections can take place in war zones, with the risk of even deeper tension over northern representation in the political process.

In the south, Nigeria is losing as much as $1 billion a month to oil theft, and Nigerian oil elites are accused of paying tens of thousands of former militants not to fight.

Transparency International ranks Nigeria as the 33rd most corrupt country in the world. The situation angers ordinary Nigerians and creates pervasive distrust – and public discontent is the most dangerous issue in the 2015 election, says Kari, the lecturer. The result is "an army of youths who are jobless, illiterate, poor and who have nothing to lose.”


http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2014/0917/Nigerians-brace-for-elections-amid-north-south-rift-and-Boko-Haram

saytan: For real,you are little kid who, prolly smoking weed and saying all sorts of rubbish.
Well meaning Nigerians will laugh at your miserable life.

You mean if GEJ SMUGGLES cash into another country and then arms into the country, it is the right thing to do? are you that silly?

Do yourself a favour and go to sleep. When you find a crime lemme know. The lamentations of alamjiris, have no value in my presence.

Lemme leave this thread with words of encouragement. Look at the man call Goodluck Jonathan, you people will call him President till 2019. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, you almajiris can do to stop. it. Your lamentations are for the dogs.

To keep Nigeria one, is a project that must be accomplished. Including buying black market arms to kill all the boko haram, bent on acting otherwise.

arewanationz: Shame on you and that cultist/gun runner/rap star you call your pastor

I am sorry, you are so pained, you have not started crying yet.

kokoA: Doing a great job for PDP/GEJ and you likes I guess. Has his loud mouth stopped BH from bombing innocent christians? What has CAN as a body done to alleviate the sufferings of innocent Christians currently being chased out of their villages by BH lunatics? How many times has CAN sent relieve materials to these victims? How many times has CAN issued out statements to encourage minority christians in the far north? What did CAN do for the brave Chibok girls who escaped from captivity? Atiku Abubakar who is a muslim has offered them scholarships in his "rich kids" school, how many of our jet flying, university running pastors (including the CAN president) offered to help these girls? Mention one positive thing that your pastor has used CAN to do for Nigerian christians apart from singing GEJ/PDP praises or remain silent!

Don't worry yourself, the more you see, the less you understand. Pastor Ayo got it just right.

majekdom2: who hates who ? whose property is the jet ? kai , you are one of these people we need to deal with for us to progress in this country..... na ur kind go steal money , dem catch you and go still talk say no be u .

Go and read the press brief.

IYANGBALI: what good job?you no dey shame?I am shaming shame for you and that orisa man,shameless people,ole,barawo

You need to work on your self esteem, never be ashamed for anybody but your self. Pastor Ayo remains miles apart, from you and your noise making crew. This is Nigeria, we are rolling in it. The 80s,90s are gone. Stop acting and talking like an almjiris slave.

duality: All what this folks are interested about is CAN and pastor Ayo. They are not interested in the main issue. No matter wat Ayo says, The'll still look for ways to twist it and bring him down.

They are after CAN, they need to shut the christians up, as it use to be, under their bishops slaves. Pastor Ayo has them by the balls.

saytan: do you have a soul?

i see you as a soulless, and a dark person.

That should never be your problem, Mr soul seeker.

majekdom2: is it by the whole world knowing you and then seen as supporting evil. he isn't the only pastor with a private jet , besides there are politicians who own jet , why not theirs.... The truth be said , associate with no evil. if perhaps he is innocent, he needs to handle his properties wth care.

Read the story and tell us, how he is involved in anything. Don't allow your hate for Pastor Ayo, drive you people into the market.

omerta: If not romancing with thieves would make THE CHURCH that, then so be it! The CHURCH would forever remain undefiled for refusing to romance with thieves in power. Now, shove your unbridled allegations up your excretory opening. Insufferable fawner!

You don't a hole, transgendered or transgender, which one are you. But again, you are an almajiris, born into the world of the janjaweeddddd. You people have not seen anything yet.

arewanationz: You miserable fellows don't only create division between muslims and christians but also among your fellow christians. Smh!

I blame the notherners for Liberating you animals from the creeks.

Look at you and us, ask yourself who needs and needed liberation. I am from the creeks, what is it to you.

kokoA: You can never compare the respect these bishops command worldwide with what you pastor gets in Nigeria.. Can El'rufai, GEJ or anybody in Nigeria address[b] bishop Onaiyekan, Cardinal Okogie, bishop Akinola, bishop mba[/b], etc like the way they address this current CAN president? No! This is because these men respect themselves and stay out of politics as much as possible, they only offer their words of advice when necessary and everybody (irrespective of religion) respect them. Unlike the current president who shamelessly announce to the whole world that he supports GEJ/PDP.. I'm a christian but I will speak my mind when I see wrong.

They can keep their respect, Pastor Ayo has gotten the Job done. Ask, the man on street who bishop Onaiyekan, Cardinal Okogie, bishop Akinola, etc, are, they have no clue. Ask the mass murdered northern Christian who these men are , they have no idea. Then, ask them who Pastor Ayo is, come back and tell us what they tell you. The current CAN president is shameless according to Islamist, guess what, we like him so. For you all to be after him and constantly trying to bring down. With the likes of Rufai, your sultan, Muric at the forefront, only tell us, Pastor Ayo is doing a great Job.

omerta: Yeah, vibrant as a political arm.

We copied from your Islamist movements in Nigeria. CAN has perfected the formula, all hail Pastor Ayo.

omerta: The Catholic church has long since pulled out of C.A.N, a semi dead association. The Anglican, Methodist and Baptist churches are the only churches keeping C.A.N. Without them, it is DEAD!

CAN is more vibrant today, than any time, I can remember. We will never again return to days of Catholics leading CAN. As you can see, you have not been missed. You and your Bishops can keep on breaking fast with your sultan leader, just count Pastor Ayo out.

omerta: Quoted to prevent the "I didn't see it excuse".

@topic: C.A.N has never had it this bad. Imagine the bling-bling wearing Donjazzy prototype Oritsejafor hiding under the church to defend his sinful actions?! How can any sane creature compare this omi Iwere burku to John Onaiyekan?

John Onaiyekan, the favorite CAN spokes person of the islamist. There lies the problem.

Pastor Ayo causing alamjiris and their creators heartburn since 1987. You people can only make noise, that's all you can do

By Emman Ovuakporie
ABUJA — THE House of Representatives yesterday started moves to amend Section 9 of the 1999 constitution to provide for referendum in the enactment or alteration of a new constitution for Nigeria.
This move may be connected with the controversy surrounding what to do with the report of the recently concluded national conference convoked by President Goodluck Jonathan.
The bill has already been listed to be debated and may be given accelerated consideration by lawmakers.
Entitled “a bill for an act to amend section 9 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to make provision for referendum in the alteration or enactment of a new constitution,” the bill is sponsored by Raphael Nnanna Igbokwe, PDP, Imo.



- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/reps-move-include-referendum-constitution/#sthash.tpdzhvkl.dpuf

They are still mourning their losses.

Muric, or whatever this sadist group is called. When Nigerdelta Militants need to buy weapons, they will handle their transactions off the coast of the Nigerdelta. Private jets will not be needed.

The Umbrella party is the only show in town.

Look at expo