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VICTORCIZA: i want to use this opportunity to apologize to Demdem and other people whom my comments on Chibok kidnapped saga pissed off. After analyzing the whole situation with the informations with me i found out that some girls were actually kidnapped in chibok!.i am really sorry .
In the innermost part of my heart i knew Gej was really incompetent and slow in taking actions that can save a messy situation, HE has this kind of I don't care and i don't give a damn attitude and it is not helping him politically. If Gej want bokoharam to end i am sure he would have given them amnesty and save us this bloody situation we found our self into. The reason i have sticking out my head for him here all these while is because of his we against them,Christians against Muslims ideologies he has been manipulating us with!
Our youths has been staying at home for a year now because of Asup strike. Fg has never been sincere in this issue of ASUP/coasu strike.
Nothing is working in Nigeria, everything seems to be on a stop botton!!
i have come to the end of the road were i will replace senseless sycophancy with common sense.let me make it clear here that nobody paid me to launder Gej image online,i was doing it because i believe he will deliver but now i am sure he is a calamity!! so i am signing out with clear mind.
Giving Gej another four years of My life is what i wont do even at gun point
My era for sycophancy has gone, from now henceforth i am keeping it real
It took me time to reach this conclusion and i hope everybody will respect it
I am officially leaving pdp nairaland warlords
thanks and Godbless
VICTORCIZA

Wish you the best, just don't bet against GEJ in 2015, because you will loose. By the way, your so called kidnapping is still a hoax.

The current minster of aviation needs to be fired. He is the root cause of all the confusion.

The defeat of the incumbent Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, by the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has caused fears and jitters in most states governed by the All Progressives Congress, SUNDAY PUNCH investigations have revealed.

The governorship election, held in Ekiti State on Saturday, June 21, saw Fayose polling a total of 203,090 votes to emerge the winner of the contest while Fayemi of the APC and another major contestant, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele, of the Labour Party, polled a total of 120,433 and18,135 votes, respectively.

Our correspondents sampled the mood in the APC states of Osun, Rivers, Borno, Lagos and Oyo. They also checked the pulse in Ogun, Kwara and Edo states.

OYO

In Oyo State, the ruling party, the APC, our correspondent gathered, had stepped up its efforts to retain the state in 2015, following the victory of the PDP in Ekiti State penultimate Saturday.

Investigations by SUNDAY PUNCH showed that the party leaders had met to discuss the modalities that would sustain their hold on power come 2015. A source said efforts were being made to reconcile aggrieved party members.

“Fayose won because he was close to the people when he was in government. Oyo APC leaders are fashioning strategies that will bring Governor Abiola Ajimobi closer to the grass roots.

“Ekiti election is a wake-up call to the party. Senator Femi Lanlehin has gone to the Accord Party and Senator Ade Adeseun is on his way to the PDP; it says a lot about the internal crisis in the party. And with the Ekiti results, those who are moving towards the exit door are moving fast now. They want to leave before the next election,” the source said.

After the Ekiti election, a serving commissioner in the state (name withheld) expressed concern over the ability of the APC to hold on to power on his Facebook page. He wrote, “A responsible government must at all times connect with the people.”

One of those who responded to the post said Ekiti election was a big lesson for Oyo State.

Another respondent said it could be too late for the APC and that the masses would react in 2015.

The Chairman of the APC in Oyo State, Akin Oke, told one of our correspondents that the party would investigate what happened in Ekiti before taking a decision on the immediate future.

“There will be investigation into what happened in Ekiti. The party will not fold its hands and watch. It is unfortunate that Governor Kayode Fayemi did not reflect on the events leading to his loss before accepting defeat. Is he so bad that he could not even win in his ward? There are fundamental questions to be asked,” he said.

Ajimobi’s Special Adviser on Media, Festus Adedayo, told our correspondent that the Ekiti election was an eye-opener.

“What the Ekiti election has done for us is to open our eyes to the newest intrigues in electioneering and party politics. We have collated all the events leading to the election, studied them and we are wiser,” Adedayo said.

Osun

Sources close to the APC in Osun State told one of our correspondents that shortly after the Ekiti election results were announced, the astounded leaders of the party in the state held a meeting and decided to pacify workers and other groups in the state.

One of the measures, it was learnt, was the payment of the May salaries of workers, aimed at boosting their confidence in the administration.

The governor confirmed this at a rally held in Ikirun on Tuesday, where he said workers had started receiving salary payment alerts.”

Also, members of the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme, popularly known as O’YES, who had not be paid for some months, it was learnt, had started receiving their salary arrears.

All these payments, a chieftain of the party said, were aimed at pacifying some categories of people who might have been aggrieved.

The loss of the APC in Ekiti State has also forced the ruling party to commence aggressive campaigns in rural communities.

It was also observed that public taps, which had been dry for months in some areas like Odi Olowo Street in Osogbo, the state capital, had started running.

Reacting to the outcome of the Ekiti election, Aregbesola had said, “What they did in Ekiti is not possible here in Osun. Osun is different and they know it. In 2011, all Yoruba states voted for PDP presidential candidate, but Osun people voted for Mallam Nuhu Ribadu (the Action Congress of Nigeria candidate). We are different in Osun. Don’t let them scare you.”

Edo

In Edo State, where the APC currently holds sway, sources close to some of the party officials told SUNDAY PUNCH that the loss of Ekiti State by the APC to the PDP shook the party.

“What happened in Ekiti was amazing. We did not expect the PDP to have such a landslide in all the local governments because our candidate had a good scorecard, when it comes to good governance.

“For instance, the provision of good roads, quality education and other amenities shows the readiness of a man to give the people of Ekiti the true dividends of democracy,” the source said.

Another party faithful, who simply gave his name as Mike, said, “I think my party might have soft-pedalled at some point. But it is a big eye-opener for Edo State in 2016. We will tighten all loose ends. We will not take chances at all because there is no room for the PDP here,” he said.

In a telephone interview with SUNDAY PUNCH, the state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Godwin Erhahon, however, described the Ekiti showdown as a display of Fayemi’s patriotic approach to governance which President Jonathan should emulate.

He said, “I think Jonathan should learn from the patriotism and democratic spirit of the Ekiti Governor (Kayode Fayemi), who accepted defeat even when there were reasons for him to protest.”

The Secretary to the State Government, Professor Julius Ihonvbere, in an interview with one of our correspondents, attributed the APC loss in Ekiti State to tactical error, stressing that the APC had gone to the drawing board to analyse the situation towards learning some lessons and preventing them from occurring again.

Ogun

In Ogun State, the defeat has started to affect the governance style of the state Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun.

One of our correspondents gathered that the governor has launched a ‘welfarist agenda,’ aimed at paying more attention to the people’s welfare.

Amosun revealed this on Tuesday at the Arcade Ground of the Governor’s Office, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta while handing over severance cheques to former political appointees, who served between 2007 and 2011.

It was observed that the civil servants were paid their monthly salaries on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, as against the practice of making such payments between 10th and 15th of the other month.

The governor had also taken a step further by holding a stakeholders meeting with the civil servants at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta on Wednesday. Many of the civil servants were aggrieved because they felt they were not getting a fair treatment from the current administration.

In addition, the governor has scheduled meetings with different groups, including the Nigeria Labour Congress.

When contacted for official reaction on the defeat of Fayemi, the factional state Publicity Secretary of the APC loyal to Amosun, Mr. Sola Lawal, said the party had nothing to say.

He said, “We have no comment.”

Kwara

In Kwara State, investigations by SUNDAY PUNCH revealed that the APC, in an apparent move to guard against a recurrence of the party’s defeat in Ekiti, had taken strategic decisions on youth empowerment programmes, grassroots mobilisation and empowerment of artisans, traders, commercial drivers and commercial cyclists.

It was also gathered that the party had evolved strategies to woo more students in the state, especially eligible voters into its fold.

A source also informed our correspondent that elected public officials of the party had been asked to redouble their empowerment and mass mobilisation drives.

The sources described the defeat of Fayemi was a big shock.

It was gathered that the party had decided to field only popular candidates and that the party leaders had started having meetings with defected party members with a view to wooing them back to the APC.

The APC in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Sulyman Buhari, said the Kwara State election results would not be “rigged, manipulated and announced in PDP’s favour from Abuja.”

He also said the party would field only popular candidates in all its elections, adding that every member of the APC was sad that the party lost a state.

He said, “We are making efforts to appease some of the APC members that defected to the PDP. Many of those that left are already coming back. I held meetings with two groups few hours ago.”

Lagos

The outcome of the Ekiti State governorship election also caused panic among leaders of the APC in Lagos State as the party has held meetings where the implications of the election have been discussed.

According to a leader of the party in Lagos, who pleaded anonymity, there have been meetings at different levels in the party where the party’s strategy towards retaining the state in 2015, in spite of threats by the PDP, were discussed.

Apparently, one of such was the closed door meeting Governor Babatunde Fashola had with the vice-chairmen of the 20 local governments and 37 local council development areas at the State House, Marina, on Thursday.

Fashola’s comment on the Ekiti election after the meeting was an indication that APC’s chance in Lagos governorship election in February, 2015, must have been a reasonable item of discussion at the meeting.

While fielding questions from journalists, Fashola was quoted as saying, “The lessons that are supposedly coming out of Ekiti are frightening lessons for me. Lesson about whether the people of Ekiti are really saying that this is all about money and rice. It must be a very dangerous message to simply suggest that once you give people money, then this is the way it will happen.”

A member of the APC, Mr. Gbenga Fakoya, confirmed that the outcome of the Ekiti election underscored the need to make adjustments to the party’s strategy for campaigns.

“Before now, we could go to bed and take it for granted that the South-West belonged to the APC; but the Ekiti election has shown us that we can no longer take anything for granted. More work needs to be done. There is no more room for assumption, we need to face reality.”

He said after the Ekiti loss, APC leaders had gone back to the drawing board and part of what had been decided was to establish proper internal democracy.

Rivers

No doubt, the APC defeat in Ekiti has not only stunned the Rivers APC, it has made the party to adopt quick measures against similar defeat.

A source, who is a strong member of the state APC, told SUNDAY PUNCH that what happened in Ekiti was worrisome and that the outcome of the election meant more works would be done by the APC in the Rivers.

The source, who preferred not to be mentioned, explained that despite Fayemi’s good performance, he lost the election because he was not on the ground.

“What happened in Ekiti was worrisome to us. But we learnt that Fayemi was not on ground in terms of being close to the voters. Even with the good works he did in the area of people-oriented projects, they said he was not on ground,” the source said.

He said the governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, would strategise to put measures in place to ensure APC’s victory in forthcoming elections in the state.

Amaechi’s Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Chief Tony Okocha, attributed the failure of the APC to win in Ekiti State to overconfidence, saying that there was also the lack of relationship between Fayemi and the voting population.

He said, “The circumstances in Ekiti and Rivers are not the same. There are very peculiar circumstances. What played out in Ekiti was an issue of overconfidence.

“Overconfidence was at the fore, based on performance, and there was no relationship with the voting population. Of course, you know that Nigeria is not yet attuned to the politics of development. People are eager for what will go into their stomach; the issue of stomach infrastructure was not addressed.”

Borno/ Yobe/ Adamawa

Although SUNDAY PUNCH investigations revealed that the APC members in Borno and Yobe states did not feel threatened by the turn of events in Ekiti, the same cannot be said of Adamawa State.

The Publicity Secretary of the APC in Borno , Makinta Zarami, said, “The PDP has never won the governorship election in Borno State before,” and still had no chances to do so.

Similarly, an APC member in Yobe State told one of our correspondents the success of PDP in Ekiti could never be “replicated here.”

He asked, “Where is the structure they want to build on? They may even suffer devastating loss worse than in the past here as the insurgency has further nailed the party coffin in the state.”

In Adamawa, the finding was that victory could go either way, for PDP or APC.

An analyst said, “Adamawa, even when Abubakar Atiku vied for presidency under the ACN, voted for PDP and the same scenario may play out this time around.”

“The party will still win the state; Atiku and Nyako cannot dictate the destiny of the state for there are other bigwigs within the PDP that can still dictate the politics of the state.”




http://www.punchng.com/news/ekiti-defeatapc-govs-woo-workers-appease-members-others

The fear of the silent majority is the beginning of wisdom. PDP, as always, power to the people.

Orlando Owoh: Everybody appear to be angry with Rauf Aregbesola, even retired teachers and principals.

what happened to you? Did reality strike you gor once?

look at the APC sore loser on this thread. What happened in 2011 in Ogun and Oyo? PDP's internal war delivered the states to you. Abi una don forget?

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This elitist perspective is antithetical to democratic principle. What happened in Ekiti State is how democracy suppose to work. The people voted and gave mandate to whom they like in free and fair election.
Economist Magazine in its Ivory tower elitism is implying that the people made a mistake and are not competent enough to elect the 'right' leader. In democracy free people freely elect their leaders. We called it freedom and Ekiti people are free people.
Economist loaded agenda analysis is patronizing and condescending, unbecoming of supposedly a free and fair media.

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I've read a few of the comments in the thread and can't but agree that as usual, Western style news reporting defines a successful "election" as one in which the candidate they prefer wins. Any other outcome is a misnomer.
It is condescending, patronising and insulting to infer that merely because the people of Ekiti did not re-elect Fayemi, they are backward, poor and hungry and only worthy of "criminal" leaders. As someone rightly observed, in Lagos there is a Governor who has won two terms and the 2nd was secured in the face of opposition from his own political Godfather. He won that election because the people recognised reform and wanted him back.
This article is fundamentally flawed and lacks context, as there is no reference to the dynamics of the APC, the Ekiti situation and the people's refusal to be shepherded mindlessley by Bola Tinubu.
Get your facts right and publish news that we can read and classify as credible and objective.

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What is the old order? the simple truth is that Fayemi isn't popular with the people of Ekiti. Oshiomole of Edo state implemented same policies and won his 2nd term. Mimiko is a definition of a drastic change and he won his 2nd term. Fayemi couldn't have won a free and fair primary election in APC. Fayose wouldn't have defeated Opeyemi Bamidele of the LP with that wide margin if he was APCs candidate. What does this writer even mean by appeals to good governance?
saying the article is total bullshit and lies would be an over-generalisation else I would have called it so. Calling it a half-truth would be more appropriate. The vague notion of "old order" used by the writer to paint the electorates of Ekiti and the PDP is an unholy sweep. The serious questions raised and spurious conclusions reached by this writer smacks more of delusion than reason. The writers conclusion which reads; "Indeed, the election was a clash between appeals to good governance on the one hand and the lure of old-school clientelism and populism on the other. Despite Ekiti having a relatively well-educated electorate, the old ways prevailed. This does not bode well for political reform across the country." simply indicates that he is a person of interest carrying the burden of political biases. The writer by saying "In dismissing a forward-thinker, the voters sent out a loud message" pinpoints him as a rabble-rouser delving into the arena by an unwelcomed meddlesomeness. Is fayose a backward thinker? Is there any governor in Nigeria that does not lay new roads? Did Ibori and Alamieseigha not lay new roads when they were governors? Did Fayose not lay new roads when he was governor between 2003 and 2007? Or were there no roads at all in Ekiti b4 Fayemi became governor? Or The PDP governors who lost out to the defunct ACN in the southwest never laid a new road? This article is an insult to the free-will of the Ekiti-Kete electorates. The writer is a biased interloper whose half-truths would have been better left unsaid than said with coated lies and a deliberate sweeping insult directed at a peoples freewill in a democratic election. Too bad.

ONE of Nigeria’s most reform-minded and articulate governors has been ousted in an election in Ekiti, a south-western state, by a populist who was once impeached following charges, albeit unproven, of embezzling public money. The vote was deemed generally free and fair. The result highlights public resistance to political reform.

The incumbent governor, Kayode Fayemi, a member of the All Progressives Congress, Nigeria’s main opposition, was trounced by Ayo Fayose (pictured) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the party that rules Nigeria at the federal level and is backed by the president, Goodluck Jonathan. It was a big win for the government, which hitherto controlled none of Nigeria’s six south-western states and has been struggling with internal divisions; several PDP governors have defected to the opposition. By gaining a gubernatorial foothold in Ekiti the PDP’s chance of victory in next year’s presidential election looks brighter.

In dismissing a forward-thinker, the voters sent out a loud message. After coming to power in 2010, Mr Fayemi laid new roads, improved the university system, presented a plan to get more young people into jobs, created a social-security scheme for the elderly, and cut corrupt wage payments to government workers. But such reforms upset people with a vested interest in the old political system. Unqualified teachers who have been told to take tests as part of Mr Fayemi’s education reforms probably voted against him. So did civil servants upset by his more meritocratic hiring practices. Such people plainly prefer the old “politics of the belly”, which keeps them comfortably on the state payroll and hands out cash in return for their votes. “We felt we had the people on our side, but the people themselves made this decision,” an aide to Mr Fayemi mournfully admits. “It is worrisome just how much enlightenment the electorate needs.”

Indeed, the election was a clash between appeals to good governance on the one hand and the lure of old-school clientelism and populism on the other. Despite Ekiti having a relatively well-educated electorate, the old ways prevailed. This does not bode well for political reform across the country.


http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2014/06/politics-nigeria

My position on this fraud has not changed. You cannot find something, that was never lost.

Filed Under: World, Nigeria, Boko Haram
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States reduced its surveillance flights to help find more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants after building a body of intelligence and after other states ramped up support, a U.S. official said.

Nigeria has committed itself to the hunt for the girls, who were kidnapped in April in one of the violent group's most spectacular attacks, and received help from the United States and other countries, including its neighbors.

The senior U.S. defense official told Reuters that the U.S. intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance flights, first announced in May, were now flying at an "intermittent" rate.


The official said overall intelligence-gathering had not diminished, and noted additional operations by Britain and France.

"We had substantial initial coverage for the baseline and we’ve moved into a maintenance mode," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The official declined to say how long the period of heightened initial U.S. coverage lasted. Asked whether it was just a week or two, the official said: "No. We were ... building this baseline for a good period of time."

The Pentagon had said on Thursday that there were "around the clock" intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) operations in support of Nigeria's search. U.S. military personnel are in Abuja helping coordinate the effort.

The United States also sent about 80 U.S. military personnel to Chad in May to support the surveillance operation. Chad lies to the northeast of Nigeria, bordering the area in which Boko Haram operates.

In the last month U.S. officials have played down expectations about a swift rescue of the girls and stressed the limitations of intelligence gleaned from surveillance flights.

One U.S. official told Reuters of concerns that Boko Haram may have laid booby traps in areas the girls could be held and there have been reports that the girls may have been split up into small groups.

"ISR alone will not solve this problem. It will take … the Nigerian piece of the equation with their own sources and human intelligence coupled with the other forms to really understand the picture," the defense official said.

In an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Friday Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said his government and security services had "spared no resources, have not stopped and will not stop until the girls are returned home."

The defense official did not discuss specific U.S. intelligence but acknowledged that information gathered from different sources had left only a murky picture of where the girls might be, in how many groups and even in which country.

"What is clear is a sense of dispersion that would contribute to pessimism in terms of the prospects for a successful rescue operation to be mounted by anyone, whether it’s the host nation or supported in any way by external actors," the official said.



http://www.newsweek.com/us-reduces-nigeria-surveillance-flights-seeking-abducted-girls

crusader01: I was one of the people that felt bad when Fayemi lost. A man said,Fayemi really tried by constructing roads and other things but there was no link between him and the people of the state.
Fashola should learn from Fayemi's lost. I have to change my perception about democracy seeing Fayose going from markets to markets,from streets to streets to campaign by himself. And at the end it paid off.

No amount of twitter, facebook and social media propaganda, can create that connection for you. All politics is local and will remain local. APC just got served.

Cnn can do better, even though I don't expect it.

There is confusion in the APC camp. Fear don catch dem die

Truckload of BS from people living in a delusional world. OP, slap yourself and wake up.

Abuja – An Abuja Federal High Court on Friday granted an ex-parte application filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for substituted service against its five governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
PDP had sued the governors, praying the court to declare their seats vacant on account of their defection on Nov. 26, 2013.
The affected governors are Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Chibuike Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano State), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto State) and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa).
Delivering ruling, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, held that the PDP had disclosed good reasons to warrant the granting of the application and granted the application accordingly.
“I am satisfied that the plaintiff/applicant has disclosed good reasons to warrant the granting of the application.
“The plaintiff’s application is, hereby, granted as prayed and the applicant shall within seven days publish one insertion of the suit in THISDAY or GUARDIAN newspapers.
“The defendants would be entitled to thirty days within which to respond,’’ the judge ordered.
Earlier, Dr Alex Izinyon, PDP’s counsel, who moved the application, said the application filed on June 26 was brought pursuant to Order 6 Rule 5(c) of the Federal High Court Procedure.
The one-prayer application is supported by a 12-paragraph affidavit deposed to by one Friday Izinyon from Izinyon’s chambers.
Also Kolawole had on June 24 adjourned the case sine die (indefinitely) for want of diligent service by the PDP.
He held that PDP failed to properly serve the governors with the court processes at the address earlier ordered by him and consequently directed the party to comply with the law in serving the governors.
The judge adjourned the case to Sept. 22 for mention. (NAN)

www.vanguardngr.com/2014/06/court-grants-pdps-application-serve-defecting-govs-substituted-

wale26: GEJ Administration, totally neglected southwest and as a matter of fact, Nigerian has lost interest in his administration as regards to the loss of lives and unemployment. Finally, this administration has ever be the most worst administration in the history of our dear country.

What else does one expect from a supporter of APC.

APC is gone from Osun already. Their defeat is a settled matter.

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ihimami: Are you guys already in a different country other than Nigeria? Take it easy guys and wait till the country disintegrate before you claims your coastlines. ok?

Go and ask the people in Bakassi, if Nigeria disintegrated before you sold them out. Nobody is making any claims, I'm just telling you, the way things are today.

re@lchange:
maritime resources are national resources worldwide
the only resources that are not national are the ones found within the borders of each state (in-land resources)
offshore resources are owned collectively
this is one of the things APC will fix when they come in

APC to the power of a million will not dare shit. I don't need wasting my time with that. 200 nautical miles boundary cannot be changed by you or anybody.


An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a seazone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.[1] It stretches from the baseline out to 200 nautical miles from its coast. In colloquial usage, the term may include the territorial sea and even the continental shelf beyond the 200-mile limit.

ndu_chucks: No one really has a problem with resource control. Most people, including me, supports 100% resource control of inland resources. Most also agree that offshore resources which are located outside the boundaries of any state are jointly owned and their benefits must be equitably distributed. A very fair concept.

Fair concept As long as fairness means we own our coastal lines like most countries around the world.

re@lchange:
the main truth in this statement is that the offshore oil belongs to all nigerians
the great injustice going on now is that this offshore oil is not shared as it should -according to population and maybe landmass
so, maybe if we share it as we should, then yes the north is immediately richer than "niger delta"

What offshore oils? Without Nigeria there is Iteskiri, Ijaw and Ibibio land. The great injustice my foot.

That's why the North must push 100% resources control and less centralized government. They can use their resources to build their dream Arewa republic. Time to take control of all your wealth northerners. National conference offers you that platform.

This kind of personal attack politics is totally useless. Wait for politicians, you don't like at the polls. Amosu, Oduah, Goodluck etc, should not be attacked like this. Let's not turn our politicians into imams and bishops, guess what, they are not.

ilugunboy: Like I tell your type always....even if facts and issues are put right there into your nose...you will always fail to perceive it....not that you lack the sense of smell....but the crumbs you eat from politicians is blocking your sense.

The crumbs from politicians this coming from the same soul, that cannot tell the difference between an accident and a political acrobat. An Acrobat that refuses, in his life to accept responsibility for anything. I know foools that live off crumbs, the ones looking for a federal expressway, in the mist of tragedy.

ilugunboy: Yes...an accident...which is completely preventable if things have been done properly.

If the FG have agreed to restrict movement of combustible petroleum product to certain period of the day....maybe...just maybe the casualties would have been kept at the tanker driver and other occupants.

You see politics......we see common sense...which many of you and the FG lacks. No wonder many people see the FG as clueless on many issues affecting the country.

Your common sense is what real people call bitterness, anger and hate. You spew it like a 5 year kid daily on this forum. The federal government you cannot live without Sell your common sense to your kind.

Alcatraz001: Maybe its time you people started investing money in the media so that you can tell your own stories because we yorubas won't tell the world your stories for you!

AS long as those of us in the state know and feel the presence of government, media propaganda is not needed.

ilugunboy: Still the exhibition of shortage on knowledge of the issues and the background of what led the governor in making the statement.

If the accident occurred on Awolowo road in Ikeja.....the LASG would take the blame. The Apapa -Oshodi stretch of the road starting right from Creek road where Folawiyo tank farm is located down to Oshodi is not within the purview .....so LASTMA guys are always not welcome in on that road....the tanker drivers always claim they are on FG roads.

Stop commenting on issues you know absolutely nothing about....it makes you sound really foolish.

The foool here is a guy not able to separate politics from an accident. Spin and dive all you want, blaming NNPC, Railways and the federal government is simply pathetic. Tell your gov. it was a damn accident. Due to a speeding Tanker driver. Probably delivering petrol to some local stations in Lagos. Repeat, it was an accident, don't play politics with it. You people are just too petty.