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Ilekeh:
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That's your new president boys in action.

Ilekeh:



You guys are beginning to sound like Boko haram of the SS after Buhari's lost to GEJ.

We have lost nothing, this thread is about Rivers State and the simple mission to disgrace Ameachi. Stop us if you can. By the way, Buhari has not won anything.

TheGoodJoe:
I laugh at the high level of stupidity by Terrorists/militants in the name of Freedom fighters who threaten to blow Petroleum Installations.

After blowing this infrastructures, who suffer?

Is it not the people in the creeks who will suffer land and water pollution?

It is time for the Riverine people to start thinking and stop being gullible to crooks.

Why not wait and see who suffers.

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killerman47:
I created this thread for all concerned and patriotic rivers people , please is this the kind of Rivers state you Need? See the kind of people vying for political positions for our rivers state house of assembly under the crass PDP. (Check the photo attached , here . N:B all info there are true).
When wike was the chiarman of obio/akpor,( 1999 -2007 ) as everybody present then can tell, this era was fraught with hooligans and louts (who were never in uniforms) harassing rivers people and residents (dispossessing them of their funds and properties under the pretext of various illegitimate task forces , this era was hell for us from obio akpor ).

Also to bring to your knowledge, we (NMA rivers state chapter) had a town hall meeting with the PDP gubernatorial aspirant on tue. 24th, march 2015,where he told us after a lengthy And banal discussion, in his words "My only worry is for Jonathan to win this election, once he does, I can go to sleep, the election will be a work over " this wasn't the first time he made such statement as he has made such boastful statements before now. Thank goodness Jonathan never won.

Now i want to ask you rivers people an honest question, is that the kind of Rivers state you Want? Do you want to take rivers state back to those dark Ages? Won't you want a rivers state, filled with vision and free for all both indigene and residents, , please my good people let us choose right and move rivers state to higher grounds......


Please let's vote right..... this is for very concerned Rivers citizens that have the state at heart.....

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After Amaechi leaves power and Dakuku moves with him to Abuja to seek new employment, only then, will peace return to Rivers State. WE might not be able to move votes in the SW, NE, NC, NW or the SE. But we can move votes in SS. Wike will hand Amaechi and his soldiers of destruction the finally disgrace come April 11. The election of Wike is the freedom the great state of Rivers needs.

dearpreye:
It won't work.

Now they know oil prices are going to stay low. They promised us a strong Naira and a robust oil price. They said they have the power to make this happen. I don't know what their megaphone outlet is trying to say.

decampees to where? Wike is the next Gov. Even the decampees know this to be true.

The winners thought they have won, March 28 will be their best day in the next 4 years. Go home and rest, let's see them perform their miracles.

The APC megaphone outlets are already trying to create excuses for them. Unfortunately is not going to work.

ABUJA, Nigeria — Muhammadu Buhari won an upset victory over Nigeria president Goodluck Jonathan this week using a catchphrase that’s familiar to anyone who’s paid attention to American politics over the past eight years: “change.”

Buhari leveraged the same slogan used to much success by Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign to unseat Jonathan and his ruling People's Democratic Party, which has had its candidates occupy the presidency since Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999.

The change Buhari promised was an end to the Boko Haram insurgency that has killed thousands of Nigerians and forced over a million to flee. He campaigned on a reputation as an anti-corruption crusader, and made populist pledges such as stipends for poor people and health care for all.

Jonathan campaigned on the motto of continuity for his “Transformation Agenda,” saying the growth Nigeria enjoyed during his first elected term — during which the country recalculated its GDP to become the largest economy in Africa — would continue if he could have another four years. But voters weren’t convinced, and sent Jonathan packing, with about 2.5 million fewer votes than Buhari.

But when the former military general and coup leader Buhari takes office at the end of May, he’ll inherit a treasury depleted by the global drop in the price of oil, Nigeria’s biggest export. He will be responsible for figuring out how to put Boko Haram down for good, and what to do about the legions of people that have fled across Nigeria and over its borders. And he’ll be up against an entrenched political culture in Nigeria that’s allowed corruption to flourish for years. Fulfilling an election promise of change, in short, will be a lot harder than making one.

“He’s going to struggle with all of the programs he’d like to deliver, honestly, in the current economic climate,” said Dawn Dimowo, a Nigeria-based analyst for Africa Practice consultancy. “And I think Buhari himself recognizes this.”

This was Buhari’s fourth shot at the presidency, and he won by building a coalition of his hardcore supporters in Nigeria’s north, where he’s from, while winning states he’d previously failed to in the country’s southwest and central belt. Jonathan, in turn, only won his home state and its neighbors in the Niger Delta, along with states in the southeast and a few in the middle.

“They built a political machine that spanned the length and breadth of most of the country,” political commentator Chris Ngwodo said of Buhari’s campaign. “That was probably the game changer in all of this.”


On the campaign trail, Buhari promised universal health care and monthly $25 payments to vulnerable people. His party erected billboards with a simple message: “we will defeat Boko Haram,” and said he’d never let the group overrun territory in the country’s northeast again, as it was able to do on Jonathan’s watch.

But when Buhari moves to the capital Abuja in May, he’ll be inheriting a budget ravaged by the global slide in crude prices. The price of oil, which makes up 70 percent of Nigeria’s government revenue, is now fetching a paltry price of around $50 per barrel. “He’s going to be inheriting a very depleted account,” said Chuba Ezekwesili, research analyst at the Nigerian Economic Summit Group.

“Tax collection,” which would insulate the state and federal government from oil price shocks “is down and it’s going to remain down for a long time. That’s not going to change in the near future,” he added.

Similarly battered is Nigeria’s currency, which has lost ground against the dollar thanks to oil, thus hurting Nigeria’s foreign reserves. “Nigerians will have to exhibit a bit of patience and not expect immediate relief from the government,” said Idayat Hassan of the Centre for Democracy and Development West Africa. “There might have to be structural adjustment, there might have to be austerity.”

Big social spending programs, such as universal health care, may have to wait, Ezekwesili said.

Nigeria’s struggling finances makes Buhari’s task of rebuilding the northeast — crucial to making sure Boko Haram goes away for good — even harder, Dimowo said.

The group started taking over territory last year, eventually overrunning an area about the size of Belgium. Earlier this year, Nigeria joined with armies from neighboring Chad, Niger and Cameroon to rout Boko Haram from its hideouts, along with the help of foreign mercenaries.

Meanwhile, a million displaced people are spread across the country, with some living in camps in the northeast, relying on handouts from Nigeria’s emergency agencies or from local philanthropists. Hundreds of thousands of others are in camps in neighboring countries. Their hometowns, as Nigeria’s military has discovered as they’ve retaken them, have been burned and looted by the insurgents.

Boko Haram is on its back foot now thanks to the multinational offensive against it. But experts believe making it go away completely will require an approach that goes beyond force. “You need to address some of the issues … socioeconomic factors that would allow that to happen,” Dimowo said of Boko Haram’s conquest of towns in the northeastern Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states last year. “And that, honestly, is easier said than done. It’s anybody’s guess what specific steps he will take to do that.”

And the needed steps will likely be expensive. Northeastern Nigeria was overwhelmingly poor long before Boko Haram emerged.

Analysts agree that one way Buhari can help stabilize Nigeria’s finances is to cut down on the corruption that keeps the wealth of Africa’s largest economy from being spread equitably through the population. The 72-year-old campaigned on cutting down corruption, bolstered by his reputation as a no-nonsense military ruler from 1983 to 1985.

How he plans to do that remains to be seen. Ngwodo said he expected Buhari to grant prosecutorial autonomy to Nigeria’s corruption watchdog, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, while Hassan said a constitutional clause that grants prosecutorial immunity to sitting presidents, governors and their deputies should be done away with to spur accountability.

But many of the top leaders of the APC are former PDP members who defected when the party formed as a union of Nigeria’s main opposition groups in 2013. How truly different his government will be from the PDP will only be known after the May 29 inauguration.


aljazeera.com/articles/2015/4/3/change-unseated-nigeria-president-but-may-be-slow.html

Lots of noise after the election. PDP lost because PDP voters did not vote. Looking at the 2011 vs 2015 numbers, PDP core voters did not show up. Enough of this fake analysis.

This will be an interesting 4 years. At least after Buhari most Nigerians will come to understand the ineffectiveness of government.

A strong opposition will start after, the bounty of victory is shared.

MalcoImX:
Prosperity not poverty. Haven't you heard the Naira has appreciated, the stocks gained, and even Boko Haram are now eating ice cream, just on the sound of Buhari's boot. If his shadow could achieve this, just imagine what would happen by the time he appears, physically.

Come back and sing your poverty song come May 2019. Like I said my own political fun is about to start.

MalcoImX:
The goodwill enjoyed by Buhari, by the grave of God, cannot be frittered away. We are also praying for him. April used to be a hot month in northern Nigeria. On the day he was declared a winner came a heavy harmattan that reduced the unbearable heat. Just to tell you that the spiritual will aid Nigeria in her journey to greatness. All these are good omen.

Pray harder, you will need all the prayers, because the poverty that's about to visit most of you, will be worst than your April heat.

I said people should give Buhari till Oct 1 2015, before saying anything. Head or tail my people of the Nigerdelta will always come out as winners. Let's wait and hear what the man has to say.

MalcoImX:
Your mention will naturally hibernate, the cause of your being on Buhari's neck (GEJ's re-election) having dissipated. But take solace in the fact that you're more honorable than Sincere9gerian and Ochejoseph, being still there sticking your nose out for what you believed in. Maybe you're not a PPP like those.

My cause just started, time to have some real political fun. Because most of you will still be in same poverty after May 29 2019, unemployed and living from hand to mouth. At least Goodluck Jonathan will no more be blamed for your miserable life.

MalcoImX:
Just reminding you that there's no basis for you to cry having lost only once, while I've lost it three times. You should be a good sportsman and extend your hand, not throwing direct insults, - something you don't engage in.

Do me a favour and get off my mention. I don't have time for congenital liars. Activate your other monikers and keep on trolling.

MalcoImX:
But 'wireless, this election thing I lost it three times oo!

Election was over almost 4 days ago, stop trying to be smarter than a primary six pupil.

MalcoImX:
Ah ah 'wireless. You hardly abuse now. What's wrong? Say what you want, but help me advise my brothers in the delta not to listen to Asari.

You have been advised already to stop worrying about people 1000000 times better than you. Help your parents out, they need poverty deliverance from you, if you can deliver yourself first.

MalcoImX:
I hope you're happy now as the Niger Delta has come under the management of visionary leaders who would give the common man what's due to him and his environment. The era of few stashing millions is over as all leakages for siphoning off the commonwealth will be sealed. Help me great Asari Dokubo if you see him. Tell him I said, why is he deceiving the ND youths and other Nigerians. He went to Cotonou and kept all his money and built his businesses while urging hardworking ND youths to fight. If anything happens he'll just run there to enjoy his loot. Wise up my good ND youths; don't follow Asari.

You are wasting your time with me. Your poverty stricken family will remain the same come May 29 2019. Worry about yourself and keep trolling with your 500 monikers on NL.

MalcoImX:
'wireless are you back? Why is it I haven't seen you for some days now, or is it the shock?

Gone where, I don't stalk people. Also I hate liars like you.

When it dawns on most of the sai buhari crowd, almost nothing will change by this time next year, besides those that use their own hands to improve their lives, depression will become a contagious disease among you all. You will need more than N500, 000 to explain, why 99.9% of his promises are still mirages.

doctokwus:
The environment is degraded,thus can't feed themselves, oil prices are low,thus won't have enough to cater for needs of d region;rag tag militant groups roam every nook and cranny of d region thus conflagration is just a lighter strike away.
Op,nigerdelta region needs Nigeria more than Nigeria needs it because despite your oil,you people cannot survive and organize yourself. Take this from me,d only thing keeping nd as a phantom single entity now is its consumation under Nigeria; if d region is allowed or forced via armed force to go its own way,a thousand ethnic groups wud spring up and prolonged strife in Liberia and Rwanda would b child's play compared to what your region would pass through.

This dog runs his mouth online 24X7. Why not dig your grave and look for wood to make your coffin, you will need it.

Some people actually thought, this will all go away if they vote against Goodluck. Sorry people, your sufferings have been multiplied.

Nigerians will truly enjoy this ride. We shall all see who among us are the clueless ones. Waiting for the Naira to hit N300 by December 31 2015.

OrlandoOwoh:
How you dey? I'm just happy my selfless service campaigning for Buhari in the face of people like you that called us names has paid off.

You still remain an impostor and a liar. Enjoy your victory and learn to be truthful in life.

PointB:
I believe some people are doing it to save face, I have no regret supporting GEJ.

As for Buhari, what I said about him still hold, until proven wrong.

He's an unlettered bigot; winning an election does not erase the fact. Let the victors enjoy their victory laps, but there will be no peace for the wicked, not even when he wins election!

No regrets, there is nothing I will change from what I have done since GEJ became President. The journey just started, I don't know, if Nigeria understands the waters ahead. But, today I will tell them congratulations. Tomorrow is a new beginning, we shall all live on earth to see and hear.

sincerenigerian:
Despite all you rant and promise of brim storm, look at what you have become after an humbling defeat. I was expecting heaven to fall since you promised here that no way Buhari was going to become the president. I thought you said Niger-Delta was ready to go her own way.

What an hopeless loser and hopeless human being you are. Let me warn you and your fellow militants, throw a tantrum and get dealt with like any other criminals before you.

Why not enjoy today, also stop throwing tantrums on a faceless forum. The only warning due is to your parents and your family. Try and be safe, its going to be a very great ride.