₦airaland Forum

donchris9999: Lol! Why do i have the feelings that buhari is loosing ground in his bid to become APC's flagbearer? His supporters like this op have given up and are now calling for a revolution. Hmmm so this fulani boy called olumide is just realizing that tinubu is a smart politician and manipulator. Buhari has just given tinubu his political structure(cpc) for him to expand his empire in the name of APC. So, this op can call ACN thieves? Lmao! Lets watch as the real battle in APC begins.

When someone takes a position on an issue and later finds out in the face of new info that his stand is not so good, and changes it, He is wise.

We shouldn't laugh at him because of that because a lot of people do not have the courage to change. They'll instead die supporting a wrong idea they once held instead of changing it.

Thats for the senate only oo. By the tine u add up that of the house of reps you may begin to go crazy.
...And Tambuwal is deceiving us with his talk about a revolution when he and his men constitute the biggest liability Nigeria has.

A lot if people are focused on discuss ing about the change of govt. Whatever govt we have, NASS will be a liability to it.

Why is Fashola so obsessed with tolling?

Rossikk: Err... who would you rather build it? Americans? Germans? Do you know how much they charge for all these projects, like Rail? Airports?



So where would you rather get these things from? Italy? France? Fact is even if China says, ''you must buy from us'', it's still a good deal for us because we would have bought from them anyway. They provide the most value for the least amount in today's commercial/industrial environment.


By the way the USA owes China $1.26 trillion, so I'm not sure what the hoopla is about Nigeria borrowing $3 billion from the Asian giant.

A lot of people who are commenting here aee naive when it comes to government debt. the truth is that even the Chinese govt borrowed to finance the three gorges dam. the question should rather be the projects the money should be tied to.
Someone calculated the monthly oil money here without substracting the cost of extraction, oil companies profits, NASS salaries for instance, state s and LG money etc.

Slain traders: Assembly asks Oyo to petition FG
July 5, 2013 by Akinwale Aboluwade, Ibadan 4 Comments



| credits:
The Oyo State House of Assembly on Thursday directed the state government to send a protest letter to the Federal Government on the murder of 10 traders from Bodija Market, Ibadan, by suspected Boko Haram members in Borno State last Friday.

The House also called for adequate compensation for families of the slain traders by the Federal Government.

The traders were waylaid and killed by Boko Haram members in Mogunu, Borno State, last Friday while on business trip.

The House unanimously passed the motion on the murder as moved by the lawmaker representing Egbeda constituency in the House of Assembly, Ibrahim Bolomope.

Bolomope lamented the general insecurity in the country.

“It is no longer safe to travel to other parts of the country because of the general insecurity,” he said, urging the Federal Government to make the grains reserves at Kolapo Ishola area of Ibadan functional for the traders to purchase their products locally rather than travelling to the North.

Member of the House, representing Oorelope constituency, Yisau Azeez, said, “We cannot fold our arms and see our people getting murdered like chicken. We are Nigerians; we should be free to go to any part of the country to do business.”

Following a voice vote directed by the Speaker, Alhaja Monsurat Sumonmu, the House directed the Executive to petition the Federal Government on the incidence and ask for adequate compensation for families of the victims.

“We are asking the executive to write a letter of protest to the Federal Government in the light of the murder of the victims of the attack in the north. We also want the Federal Government to give adequate compensation to families of those who were murdered,” the Speaker said.

In separate statements, the Senator representing Oyo South Senatorial District, Olufemi Lanlehin; and the representative of Ibadan North Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, Abiodun Awoleye, condemned the killing of the traders.

Lanlehin’s statement read in part, “Every right thinking person would mince no word in condemning this dastardly act of wanton killing of innocent patriots.

“Four of their colleagues had lost their lives in similar circumstance few weeks back while pursuing their lawful business activities.

“The pertinent questions here are why the gruesome killing of fellow human beings without any provocation? Who takes the blame for such wanton and unjustifiable killings?”

Awoleye’s read, “I received the news of death of the traders with great shock. This is not only unfortunate but very sad. The killing and other killings across the country is as a result of the fallout of bad governance and lack of proper security measures”.

Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State on Thursday commiserated with families of the slain traders as well as their colleagues at the Bodija Market.

In a statement by the party’s Public Relations Officer, Kehinde Salawu, the party read, “The Boko Haram debacle is taking a new dimension with the sect targeting innocent people from Oyo State. This development is saddening and capable of undermining the spirit of oneness known to the country.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/slain-traders-assembly-asks-oyo-to-petition-fg/

Afam4eva: ^^ Is that really Detroit? I never knew Detroit had water.

Detroit is in the great lakes region with abundant access to water. that was one of the attractions for the auto industries.

chidindufrank: The North must be really proud of GEJ's administration because it has given due attention to the daily needs of people of the north.This rail network When completed would boost economic activities in that part of the country.

and they keep saruing he is not doing anything. This government bad as e be is the best since the first republic.

goodtalk: I said it! 2015 lagos must have a christian governor whether na oluremi o! It dosent matter in so far she is a christian! We are getting tired with all this alfas rulling lagos for more than 20yrs straight!

So you prefer you want a christian , he gives u his wife. Next time you would want a muslim it will be one of his sons.

Open your eyes! You're being enslaved and there you are looking at it from the muslim/christian perspective

The Aviation minister's plan is misplaced.

Icant believe this. At a time when we're trying to get the government out business by privatising,She is trying to get the inefficient governrmnt into business by this national carrier thing. This is the joke of the year.

What happened to Nigeria Airways? Will this one not go the same way?

This guy Tinubu has a grand plan that he has crafted out over the years and is executing them bit by bit.
He keeps his cards close to his chest and brings them out one by one as an when due.

For those who do not know the game and it's intended end, keep giving him the oppourtunity and support and just keep being naive.

By the time he finishes dealing with you in his game, you'll understand.

And it is not just him. Some other members of his family are doing same in their capacities - Check the link below if you have the time to see how Tinubu's nephew, Wale Tinubu has dealt Oando's shareholders several well-timed blows in quick successions,and all to his own personal benefit, in his capacity as the MD of the company.

The aim is to create a dynasty by all means even at the expense of Nigerians if need be.

http://www.stockmarketnigeria.com/forums/oando/1124-oando-203.html#post175180

OilSubsidy: Na Naija road be dis? waoh! I no belief

This cannot be Naija.If it is then the whoever is behind it did a wonerful job.

Guseh: Residents of Kogi West Senatorial District are to benefit from the over N600 million hospital equipment and other valuable materials donated by the lawmaker representing the zone, Senator Smart Adeyemi.
The senatorial district consists of seven local government areas.
Addressing journalists in Lokoja, the state capital, Adeyemi said the gesture was part ofthe dividends of democracy and an appreciation to the residents’ support in the last few years.
He said the equipment would be distributed to the benefitting communities during the presentation of his mid-term report to the people in a later date.
According to him, the equipment include 21 ambulances, 500 hospital beds, 100 wheel chairs, incubator for premature babies, exercise bike, 100 special wheel chair, 20 x-ray machines and ultra sound machines.
Others include 15 Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) to be presented to opinion leaders and the traditional rulers. Markets and hospitals will also be inaugurated in the senatorial district.
Stressing that other local government areas will also benefit from the gesture, Adeyemi said: “At the National Assembly, we are not only talking, the welfare of our people is equally paramount in our minds realizing that they are the one who send us there to represent them. In order to be a good representative, there is the need for us to show appreciation.”
The senator, however, described the call on him to seek re-election for third term as distraction from his legislative duties and efforts to make life worth living for his people.
He said: “I leave the call to seek re-election toGod as he would speak through the electorate.”
The benefitting local government areas are Ijumu, Kabba, Bunu, Yagba East, Yagba West, Mopa and Lokoja
source:kogireports.com

the big question here is WHAT ARE THE OTHER NASS MEMBERS DOING WITH THEIR CONSTITUENCY ALLOWANCES?

hisblud: Hmm great news from borno.

what really pricked my curiosity is that knife/cutlass.. na human being them dey use that one for or animals see that thing... na wa oh its scary

OL boy that knife na die oooo...

I FEAR FOR WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THIS COUNTRY IF WE ALLOW APC INTO POWER.

IGNORANCE IS REALLY KILLING US IN NIGERIA. THE FACT THAT ALI MODU SHERRIFF IS THE BOT CHAIR FOR ANY PARTY SHOULD MAKE THE PARTY SUSPECT.

LOOK THE MONSTER HE CREATED GIVEN THE OPPOURTUNITY TOGOVERN ONLY A STATE.

WE'RE RUINED IF ALLOW HIS SPHERE OF INFLUENCE TO EXPAND.

A Count-out for Buhari

By Toyin Shittu Adebowale Newsdiaronline Fri Apr 1,2011



How times have changed ! And General Buhari is a presidential candidate in a democratic dispensation with the audacity to tease the people’s sense of history of just where he is coming from. Discerning minds will however remain alert to the opportunistic presence of General Buhari in the forefront of the very civilian democratic dispensation he so hated with a rage, that not only undermined and eventually violently terminated a democratically elected government, but went to the sadistic excess of hounding and quarantining the nation’s political class. General Buhari was then so inebriated with power from the barrel of an AK-47 that he disparaged democracy and politicians and swore to never have anything to do with either. The General was so ruthlessly committed to imposing his dictatorship on the entire country as he went about preying on all basic human rights, including the sacred right to life which he violated with impunity. There are several survivors of the notorious "Buhari Era" who have not and cannot forgive or forget the atrocities arbitrarily unleashed on them just for being civilian political leaders, let alone condone his callous attempts to reap where he did not sow.
Such a heavy political handicap and widespread resentment has haunted the lack-luster political career of General Buhari and rendered him an anathema among the political class and subsequently hopelessly at the disposal of three nonentities who are themselves very contemptuous and arrogant in dealing with fellow human beings. Together they have practically turned General Buhari into a puppet on their strings, flagrantly flouting all known
ethics of consensus and consultation in a political party and putting every decent person off. As has now been amply demonstrated, Buhari supporters are almost exclusively mobs of exuberant but uninformed youths whom even he can hardly control let alone lead to any gainful end. And he continuously recycles the same mobs to the venues of his campaigns to create the impression of mass support where none has ever existed for him.
The reality of his being politically unpopular is unmistakable also in the failure of his many strenuous bids to be considered worthy of partnership in endless negotiations with Bola Tinubu’s ACN crowd. Buhari is notoriously a non-starter in the entire south which only complicates his political pariah status in the north and qualifies him as the most desperate failed politician in Nigeria’s history. Only blind desperation can explain the retired general’s opting for the Lagosian clergy by picking Pastor Babatunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly as his running mate. There is every reason to expect the General to be soaked to the bones in the latter rain of presidential elections ! Such an ill-fitting running mate, whose contempt for northerners could spell doom should there be a repeat of the circumstances that saw Goodluck Jonathan inheriting the Yaradua Presidency !
General Buhari has further holed himself up in the cave of political isolation and diminishing returns for northerners who might still regard him as their saving grace. Even more unsettling to the northern parochial sentiment is the General’s adoption of, not just a Christian, but a pastor as his political partner while the region’s Muslim renegades are busy condemning pro-Jonathan Muslim governors as heretics and sell-outs. With the political tide turning wildly away from the North, the ethno-religious sentiments on which Buharism is precariously perched could well become a death-wish for an ill-fated and ill-fitting presidential ambition.
But it is just as well that Buhari’s political career is dead on arrival even in the north. He only deserves a nemesis kiss of death for his still unforgettable political false-starts and outright fiascos. When he became military head of state in those draconian days of yore, the hard-hearted general had no qualms about picking a Muslim Idiagbon as his deputy, a choice that exposed his less than nationalistic instincts but which still did not impress the likes of Kano Islamic preacher Kalarawi who lampooned the general for departing from the familiar "Buhari-Muslim" Hadith partnership and coming up with a bizarre "Buhari-Idiagbon" alternative.
That was to be the beginning of the end of any notion of General Buhari having any dependable pro-northern or indeed pro-Islamic slant in his dictatorial tenure as he went on to unleash a series of outrageous affronts on that constituency which included limiting the number of Hajj pilgrims, imposing screening and permits on Muslim preachers, banning teenagers from Hajj-except Idiagbon’s son-and eventually detaining the revered Sheikh Gummi for criticizing the excesses of his regime ! Not even the northern political leadership was spared Buhari’s draconian callousness as Umaru Dikko and President Shagari can still testify. Remember the Justice Okorodugwu’s sentence of the Late afro beat maestro Fela Anikulapo Kuti whom the Judge had to trail to his hospital bed to beg for forgiveness, confessing that Fela did no wrong but was forced by Gen Buhari’s administration to jail him over basic travelling allowance saga.
But the General did not spare himself either because of the rough shod manner in which he wielded his arbitrary might. Recall the infamous 56 suitcases airport saga and the despised Decree 17 that permitted official victimization of civil servants through summary dismissals without right of appeal and swept over 100,000 of them into instant misery along with millions of dependants. This decree triggered a wave of corrupt practices and plunder of public funds as jittery civil servants prepared themselves for sudden retirement without benefits !
Then there was his recourse to retroactive legislations and draconian sentences of several lifetimes clearly targeting certain hated politicians who were charged to kangaroo tribunals with trumped up offences that never existed before Buhari came to power and others already provided for in common law with civilized penalties. Decrees 2 and 4 are reputedly comparable only Hitlerian era of unapologetic victimization of dissenters which Buhari even boasted about as he cast away the legitimate rights of the Press and civil servants alike. In the process he outraged the nation by trampling rough shod on the fathers of the nation by seizing the passports of the Emir of Kano and the Ooni of Ife because they did not come begging him to travel out ! In another act of wasteful self-aggrandizement, Buhari ordered the construction of presidential palace in his hometown of Daura for a whopping 7 million naira of those days of valuable naira but which has remained an abandoned white elephant tribute to his extravagance since his ouster in 1985.
In other outings, General Buhari turned out not be as firm and fearless as his fans would want us to believe. Recall how a couple of hapless drug traffickers were summarily executed despite public outcry only for the General to back-step and dilly-dally when a certain well-connected chap and his girl-friend were nabbed for similar offences until eventually they got scot free while the unconnected families mourned the execution of their children. He led the race of acquiring choice plots in Kaduna’ high brow areas where he still lives in a mansion and would have similarly cornered Abuja’s plots if it had become the nation’s capital in his tenure.
The PTF also exposed the General as being susceptible to undue influence in the award of contracts through cronyism and nepotism, from which a deep pool of public funds were made available for some favoured individuals to, among other things, set up media houses some of which still exist to glorify the General’s "impeccable" character beyond the call of duty. He was after all not the initiator of the PTF concept but an appointee of General Abacha given a blueprint to implement but who instead converted it to an opportunity to build an empire for himself and his hangers on. Come to think of it, what tangible contribution to national development has ever been attributed to General Buhari’s 18 months rule of terror that he can now recall to justify his interest in the presidency ? Certainly, nothing comparable to President Goodluck Jonathan’s acclaimed nine month successful tackling of intractable fuel scarcity, constitutional crisis and imminent sabotage of governance and federalism?
Even today as he is being propped up as the flag-bearer of the North’s flagging political stake, the General is proving far short of expectations and propaganda. Most of the irate youth fanatical about his leadership were not born in his draconian days as military head of state and only succumbed to the latter day media profiles spun by his PTF beneficiaries. The CPC emergence only worsened this profile in the manner the General personalized the party and imposed his long-standing lackeys to thwart internal democracy and frustrate credible people’s legitimate bid to contest for positions. The exit of Chief Mike Ahamba in disgust over the General’s sheer incapacity for leadership of a political party, leaving Buhari to publish an apologetic appeal to Ahamba to forgive and forget has said it all.
All said there is just no way for General Buhari to meet up to the current demands of generational and transformational change in caliber of national leadership and process of governance nor the challenges of Nigeria’s future aspiration. By his antecedents he should be in the museum of military dictators and by his present political predicament he belongs to the back row, not the high table of presidential politics which he strains himself to occupy ! Definitely we shall look back at him in a few weeks as the president Nigerians roundly rejected.


Shittu Adebowale can be reached at toyin_shittu2011@yahoo.com

A Count-out for Buhari

By Toyin Shittu Adebowale Newsdiaronline Fri Apr 1,2011



How times have changed ! And General Buhari is a presidential candidate in a democratic dispensation with the audacity to tease the people’s sense of history of just where he is coming from. Discerning minds will however remain alert to the opportunistic presence of General Buhari in the forefront of the very civilian democratic dispensation he so hated with a rage, that not only undermined and eventually violently terminated a democratically elected government, but went to the sadistic excess of hounding and quarantining the nation’s political class. General Buhari was then so inebriated with power from the barrel of an AK-47 that he disparaged democracy and politicians and swore to never have anything to do with either. The General was so ruthlessly committed to imposing his dictatorship on the entire country as he went about preying on all basic human rights, including the sacred right to life which he violated with impunity. There are several survivors of the notorious "Buhari Era" who have not and cannot forgive or forget the atrocities arbitrarily unleashed on them just for being civilian political leaders, let alone condone his callous attempts to reap where he did not sow.
Such a heavy political handicap and widespread resentment has haunted the lack-luster political career of General Buhari and rendered him an anathema among the political class and subsequently hopelessly at the disposal of three nonentities who are themselves very contemptuous and arrogant in dealing with fellow human beings. Together they have practically turned General Buhari into a puppet on their strings, flagrantly flouting all known
ethics of consensus and consultation in a political party and putting every decent person off. As has now been amply demonstrated, Buhari supporters are almost exclusively mobs of exuberant but uninformed youths whom even he can hardly control let alone lead to any gainful end. And he continuously recycles the same mobs to the venues of his campaigns to create the impression of mass support where none has ever existed for him.
The reality of his being politically unpopular is unmistakable also in the failure of his many strenuous bids to be considered worthy of partnership in endless negotiations with Bola Tinubu’s ACN crowd. Buhari is notoriously a non-starter in the entire south which only complicates his political pariah status in the north and qualifies him as the most desperate failed politician in Nigeria’s history. Only blind desperation can explain the retired general’s opting for the Lagosian clergy by picking Pastor Babatunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly as his running mate. There is every reason to expect the General to be soaked to the bones in the latter rain of presidential elections ! Such an ill-fitting running mate, whose contempt for northerners could spell doom should there be a repeat of the circumstances that saw Goodluck Jonathan inheriting the Yaradua Presidency !
General Buhari has further holed himself up in the cave of political isolation and diminishing returns for northerners who might still regard him as their saving grace. Even more unsettling to the northern parochial sentiment is the General’s adoption of, not just a Christian, but a pastor as his political partner while the region’s Muslim renegades are busy condemning pro-Jonathan Muslim governors as heretics and sell-outs. With the political tide turning wildly away from the North, the ethno-religious sentiments on which Buharism is precariously perched could well become a death-wish for an ill-fated and ill-fitting presidential ambition.
But it is just as well that Buhari’s political career is dead on arrival even in the north. He only deserves a nemesis kiss of death for his still unforgettable political false-starts and outright fiascos. When he became military head of state in those draconian days of yore, the hard-hearted general had no qualms about picking a Muslim Idiagbon as his deputy, a choice that exposed his less than nationalistic instincts but which still did not impress the likes of Kano Islamic preacher Kalarawi who lampooned the general for departing from the familiar "Buhari-Muslim" Hadith partnership and coming up with a bizarre "Buhari-Idiagbon" alternative.
That was to be the beginning of the end of any notion of General Buhari having any dependable pro-northern or indeed pro-Islamic slant in his dictatorial tenure as he went on to unleash a series of outrageous affronts on that constituency which included limiting the number of Hajj pilgrims, imposing screening and permits on Muslim preachers, banning teenagers from Hajj-except Idiagbon’s son-and eventually detaining the revered Sheikh Gummi for criticizing the excesses of his regime ! Not even the northern political leadership was spared Buhari’s draconian callousness as Umaru Dikko and President Shagari can still testify. Remember the Justice Okorodugwu’s sentence of the Late afro beat maestro Fela Anikulapo Kuti whom the Judge had to trail to his hospital bed to beg for forgiveness, confessing that Fela did no wrong but was forced by Gen Buhari’s administration to jail him over basic travelling allowance saga.
But the General did not spare himself either because of the rough shod manner in which he wielded his arbitrary might. Recall the infamous 56 suitcases airport saga and the despised Decree 17 that permitted official victimization of civil servants through summary dismissals without right of appeal and swept over 100,000 of them into instant misery along with millions of dependants. This decree triggered a wave of corrupt practices and plunder of public funds as jittery civil servants prepared themselves for sudden retirement without benefits !
Then there was his recourse to retroactive legislations and draconian sentences of several lifetimes clearly targeting certain hated politicians who were charged to kangaroo tribunals with trumped up offences that never existed before Buhari came to power and others already provided for in common law with civilized penalties. Decrees 2 and 4 are reputedly comparable only Hitlerian era of unapologetic victimization of dissenters which Buhari even boasted about as he cast away the legitimate rights of the Press and civil servants alike. In the process he outraged the nation by trampling rough shod on the fathers of the nation by seizing the passports of the Emir of Kano and the Ooni of Ife because they did not come begging him to travel out ! In another act of wasteful self-aggrandizement, Buhari ordered the construction of presidential palace in his hometown of Daura for a whopping 7 million naira of those days of valuable naira but which has remained an abandoned white elephant tribute to his extravagance since his ouster in 1985.
In other outings, General Buhari turned out not be as firm and fearless as his fans would want us to believe. Recall how a couple of hapless drug traffickers were summarily executed despite public outcry only for the General to back-step and dilly-dally when a certain well-connected chap and his girl-friend were nabbed for similar offences until eventually they got scot free while the unconnected families mourned the execution of their children. He led the race of acquiring choice plots in Kaduna’ high brow areas where he still lives in a mansion and would have similarly cornered Abuja’s plots if it had become the nation’s capital in his tenure.
The PTF also exposed the General as being susceptible to undue influence in the award of contracts through cronyism and nepotism, from which a deep pool of public funds were made available for some favoured individuals to, among other things, set up media houses some of which still exist to glorify the General’s "impeccable" character beyond the call of duty. He was after all not the initiator of the PTF concept but an appointee of General Abacha given a blueprint to implement but who instead converted it to an opportunity to build an empire for himself and his hangers on. Come to think of it, what tangible contribution to national development has ever been attributed to General Buhari’s 18 months rule of terror that he can now recall to justify his interest in the presidency ? Certainly, nothing comparable to President Goodluck Jonathan’s acclaimed nine month successful tackling of intractable fuel scarcity, constitutional crisis and imminent sabotage of governance and federalism?
Even today as he is being propped up as the flag-bearer of the North’s flagging political stake, the General is proving far short of expectations and propaganda. Most of the irate youth fanatical about his leadership were not born in his draconian days as military head of state and only succumbed to the latter day media profiles spun by his PTF beneficiaries. The CPC emergence only worsened this profile in the manner the General personalized the party and imposed his long-standing lackeys to thwart internal democracy and frustrate credible people’s legitimate bid to contest for positions. The exit of Chief Mike Ahamba in disgust over the General’s sheer incapacity for leadership of a political party, leaving Buhari to publish an apologetic appeal to Ahamba to forgive and forget has said it all.
All said there is just no way for General Buhari to meet up to the current demands of generational and transformational change in caliber of national leadership and process of governance nor the challenges of Nigeria’s future aspiration. By his antecedents he should be in the museum of military dictators and by his present political predicament he belongs to the back row, not the high table of presidential politics which he strains himself to occupy ! Definitely we shall look back at him in a few weeks as the president Nigerians roundly rejected.


Shittu Adebowale can be reached at toyin_shittu2011@yahoo.com
Source:http://newsdiaryonline.com/count_buhari.htm

KraticKratus: Sucks to be a northerner or a westerner today. They are no longer needed. MB, SE and SS only and the rest can blow themselves up.

Janathan till 2019, then an Igbo man will take over. Either that or no more subsidy.

IT DOESN'T SUCK TO BE A SOUTH-WESTERNER OR A NOTHERNER. SOUTH-WESTERN SUPPORT IS VERY MUCH NEEEDED AND ITS IS UP TO GEJ TO CONVINCE THEM THAT HE MEANS WELL FOR THEM WHICH I THINK HE DOES.

DO NOT FORGET THE 25% OF THREE-QUARTER OF THE STATES REQUIREMENT.JONATHAN SORELY NEEDS SOUTH-WESTERN SUPPORT

LAGOS STATE GOVT PROMISED JUNE 2013 BUT THERE HAS BEEN SOME DELAYS. THEY SHOULD SIMPLY COME OUT AND TELL US WHAT CAUSED THE DELAY, THE CURRENT STATUS, AND WHAT THE FORWAD PLANS ARE.

DELAYS LIKE THIS ARE NOT GOOD BUT THEY HAPPEN. FOR INSTANCE I PLANNED TO COMPLETE MY HOUSE BY JANUARY THIS YEAR BUT RIGHT NOW IT IS STILL AT ONLY 85% COMPLETION

PDP SHOULD PLEASE SHIW US WHAT THEIR MAINFESTO IS FOR OSUN AND EKITI STATES.

THE PEOPLE SHOULD SIMPLY ASK THEM FOR THAT. IT SHOULD NOT BE EMPTY TALK ONLY.

Aderostock: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has stated in her
interview to one Abuja's radio station that
the federal government "may not be able to
pay workers' salary by October," should the
national assembly fails to amend the content
of the 2013 appropriation budget.

Nigeria's Minister of finance and coordinating
minister of the economy said thus: "It come to a
point where some amendment has to be made
and that's why Mr president sent this
amendment to the national assembly. I think
we can continue a little longer and at some
point we need the amendment to pass, because
come September or October, we may not be
able to pay salary.
"We have been talking with various committees
and the leadership in a collegial way trying to
see how we can fix this problem. But one
specific example that is critical is the salary and
between now and October, we will need about
N32 billion."

Speaking on the current state of Nigerian
economy, the Minister tried to refute the
reports that the country is broke, stating that
Nigeria's economy is "strong but currently
experiencing some cash flow hiccups".
"We have been very open about it. I always
believe in telling Nigerians about what the
situation is all about with regards to the budget,
with regards to the economy. Nigerian economy
is fundamentally strong but within a strong
economy, you can experience a cash flow
problem. Outside agents regard us as
fundamentally strong. Now the issue is we are
experiencing short term problem," she
disclosed.

It would be recalled that President Goodluck
Jonathan has re-submitted the 2013 budget to
the national assembly for amendment with a
reported slashing of about N56 billion to the
earlier rejected budget amount by House of
representatives last week.

http://m.naij.com/news/38911.html

I wish the said salaries will not be paid as an when due. That may be the trigger that we are looking for.

X-factoria:
Thank you, I couldn't have said it better. These people know that Nigerians have short memories and they take a free-ride to insult people's intelligence.

The rogue was a principal officer of the house during Bankole's tenure and was part of the collective decision to borrow from the Bank to finance the illegal increase in their salary and allowances which they hoped to smuggle into the following year's budget. So sweet of him to be talking of corruption and revolution!

As long as we keep ourselves in the dark by simply not keeping up with history, we'll keepp on being used as pawns by the master chess players.

Tambuwal is not the messiah and not a revolutionary.

We need a revolution. We've always known that. People that we are going to hit hard with it is Tambuwal himself.
He is pretending he is for the masses but we know where he belongs -- he is against us.

This thread is getting derailed

u see. that's the problem. u think because they've done nothing they are not a force. u think people will vote based on performance?
Votes will be cast based on serious sentiments and it is on that basis that you need to look at them again.

chidindufrank: The name of the party must be... Boko Haram Supporters Party(BSP) with Major General .............rtd as their presidential flag bearer.

This guys may end up winning. you have to take them serious. Btw its not only northern govs that ll be in that party. it'll be a party for people who wont be welcome in either APC or PDP- the undecideds all over the nation and there are many of such people.

mike404: MUST YOU ALWAYS REASON WITH YOUR AN.US WERE YOU NOT THERE WHEN BUHARI AND TINUBU WERE SHOUTING FOR AMNESTY...ODE

Can you give us some evidence why upu think Buhari is support ing or sympathetic towards them?

He has a right of political association at least

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on
Sunday linked the "dwindling fortune" of the
Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West
to betrayal of the party's leadership.
Atiku, in a statement on Sunday, said it was
easy to draw the conclusion considering the
party's easy victory in the 2011 presidential
election in all but one of the South-West
states.
The former VP said, "It still remains a
paradox to me how the presidential candidate
of the party would win massively in all but
one state of the South-West, yet the party
failed to produce a single governor in the
region and could only produce 18 state
Assembly members in the same election.
"My experience in politics tells me that this
paradox can only be explained in one way
that is, the leadership of the party must have
abandoned the party and negotiated the
victory of the President at the expense of the
party."
Alleging deceit, Atiku appealed to the party
leadership to ensure sincerity in the
application of party rules and to abandon the
"divide and rule policy" in handling its
affairs.
He said, "Recent events have shown that the
leadership of the party has demonstrated
insufficient sincerity in resolving the
numerous crises, which are pitting the party
members against themselves.
"Political manoeuvring that relies on the
politics of patronage and arbitrary application
of sanctions will not sustain the popular will
of the people through which the party can
recover the lost ground.
"The eloquent silence of respected leaders on
the various crises is a disturbing sign which
leaves the majority of the members
confused."
Atiku added "The national leadership of the
party needs to respect the democratic wishes
of party members in the zone and discourage
the deliberate creation of factions, and
upturning the results of duly conducted
elections at the various congresses and the
national convention.
"In all we do, the adherence to the
constitution of the party in the conduct of the
party's affairs is the only hope for sustaining
the existence and legitimacy of the party.
"Also, the legitimacy of the party can only be
sustained if the provision of the welfare
needs of Nigerian citizen takes precedence in
the heart of the leaders rather than
primordial politicking."
Meanwhile, a PDP stalwart in Oyo State,
Alhaji Kehinde Olaosebikan, has called for the
re-integration of the party's estranged
members in the South-West as a way of
reclaiming the region.
Olaosebikan made the appeal in an interview
with one of our correspondents in Abuja on
Sunday.
He said it was important for the party leaders
to fully take advantage of the vacancies that
would be filled in the party in the region to
establish a reconnect with the government at
the centre.
He said, "The PDP can regain its lost glory in
the South West if all these steps are taken as
soon as possible."

2015: Northern governors may form new
party
2013-06-30 00:00:46
Northern governors, and other senior
politicians in the region, may form a new
political party, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt.
A source who is part of the move to ensure
that the region recaptures power in the 2015
general elections disclosed this to one of our
correspondents in Abuja, on Friday.
The source said the formation of a new
political party was one of the three options
being considered by northern political leaders
as politicking for the next general election
gathers steam.
The source added that the region would not
allow itself to be used and dumped in the
manner "Nuhu Ribadu was dumped by the
Action Congress of Nigeria during the 2011
elections."
Ribadu, the former Chairman of the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, was the
presidential candidate of the ACN in the 2011
election.
However, he lost the states controlled by the
party, except Osun State, and is believed to
have been a victim of a deal between his
party's power brokers and those of the
Peoples Democratic Party.
The source, who pleaded anonymity because
he was not authorised to speak to the press,
said, "The reality of our current political
isolation is not lost on us here in the North.
"I believe also we have learnt a thing or two
from the brand of politics which led to the
set up of Nuhu Ribadu by the ACN during the
2011 elections.
"If by any chance we allow that kind of thing
to happen again, then we are doomed. There
are three options before us and we are
considering them seriously.
"One: remain in the Peoples Democratic Party
where we are almost certain that President
Goodluck Jonathan will impose himself on
the party; for those who may have forgotten,
this was done in the last Nigeria Governors'
Forum election. Don't forget that some of the
northern governors are facing expulsion
threats from PDP.
"Two: join the All Progressives Congress to
defeat the PDP or three: float a fresh political
platform altogether. For those who think the
third option is a long shot, I suggest they
should think again because the Congress for
Progressive Change would have been the
party to beat today but for some tactical
blunders.
"Politics is a game of numbers; we have the
numbers as well as the political sagacity to
build bridges across ethnic and religious
divides, we have done it before, we can do it
again."
Speaking to one of our correspondents, the
Convener of the Coalition of Northern
Politicians, Academics and Businessmen, Dr.
Junaid Mohammed, in a telephone interview,
confirmed the plan, adding that a new party
could be the best option for the North.
He said, "I believe that if they are determined
to do it, they will get public support.If you
have that support and it is seen that you are
being victimised by government, it will
bounce back on your accusers. We are
strategising but it's not what I would want to
go into in details."
Junaid also spoke about speculations that
General T.Y. Danjuma is being considered as
a possible consensus presidential candidate
by the North.
He said, "I know General Danjuma and we
speak a lot. I do not believe General Danjuma
takes this seriously.
"If he had wanted to be President he could
have been one, especially before the
assassination of General Murtala
Muhammed. After the assassination, he was
the de facto leader of the junta and he was
also in effective control of the armed forces
but he didn't want it."
Meanwhile, northern leaders and groups have
been holding meetings towards picking a
candidate for the 2015 elections.
On Friday, the spokesman for the Northern
Elders' Forum, Dr. Paul Unongo, told
SUNDAY PUNCH that it was working with
the Arewa Consultative Forum, to ensure that
the North presented a credible consensus
candidate for the next presidential election.
"What is going on now in the North is just
discussions. ACF has been meeting and
consulting with the Northern Elders' Forum.
We have held two or three meetings. We have
areas of agreement and areas of slight
disagreement. We are consolidating on the
areas we agree on."
He added that the choice of a northern
presidential candidate would be largely based
on competence and the person's acceptability
to other parts of the country.
Ugongo said, "The Speaker of the House of
Representatives seems to stand very tall. The
capacity he has displayed has elicited
confidence in his people (members of the
House) from all the geopolitical areas. He
seems to command the respect of all the
political parties that have representation in
the House.
"He must be doing something pleasing to the
ACN, CPC and some members of his party,
PDP. Some of us consider him very attractive
and we will be very proud to present him as
somebody to be looked at for possible
leadership of this country.
"Somebody like Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, if
he was young and interested in this type of
thing, we would have been happy to present
him. But he is known to say 'no' to political
leadership right from the time when he was
in the military.
"If the Governor of the Central Bank, Lamido
Sanusi, retires from the bank, where he has
established himself as an upright and
fearless Nigerian, convincing the most
brilliant minds that he can compete with
anybody in the world, he is the kind of people
Nigeria should be looking for.
"I am told that the Niger State Governor,
Babangida Aliyu, has indicated to some
people that he wants to become President.
He hasn't told me or the public. I hear that
the Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido,
wants to run and I also hear of the Governor
of Bauchi, Isa Yuguda. As far as I'm
concerned any of these gentlemen is
eminently qualified to run for the presidency
of Nigeria."
When contacted, the ACF declined comments
on the issue stating that it was too early to
talk about 2015 general elections.
The spokesman for the forum, Mr. Anthony
Sani, said promoting 2015 politics would heat
up the polity.

take dat: You must be joking! I listed 17 key positions in the PDP, with christians occupying 13 out of the 17 and you called that more balanced? Are there no christians occupying positions in APC which the @Op out of mischief left out. You stink of Hypocrisy!

Can you name the people he left out lets see? maybe its even PDP that is guilty.

take dat: more balanced as in positions/post fairly shared or what?

more balanced in terms geo-political zones, christian/muslim. Can't you see?

luvinhubby: Interim or not, these are pioneer national exeçutives of the party & has painted them Islamic at a time religious sentiment is rife in our body polity, APC is dead on arrival for sure.

My dear dont mind them. Anybody who is telling you abt interim is either trying to cover the obvious or is a learner.

THE IDEA IS THAT WHEN YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS U FIRST RELEASE A RUMOUR (WHICH IS TAKEN BY CALLING THEM INTERIM) TO TEST THE WATERS. IF NEGATIVE REACTIONS ARISE THEY'LL REBALANCE AND SAY AFTERALL THE POSITIONS WERE INTERIM AND VICE VERSA.

PDP IS NOT SAYING ANYTHING FOR NOW. THEY ARE HOPING THE POSITIONS BECOME PERMANENT BEFORE THEY START ATTACKING.