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The Simple fact is, southern kaduna elites have benefited but the ordinary person nd the area is still in darkness,hunger insecurity nd backward ness...Balat and Buhari are both right depending on point of view

Oga chaimo (Bamanga) is claiming that he did not invite politicians (Govnrs) to the wedding cos it was a personal event...sso Vp sambo, fct minister are not politicians

Hmmmmm in port H at the moment nd am very impressed with governor Ameachi...Odilli should be Ashamed....

Etelite: I beg to differ from some replies here. I just think that the Govs are scared due to the state of insecurity in the core northern states.

Katsina is safe, its is BH free...8 gov were in bauchi and bauchi is far far BH attack prone

engrfcuksmtin: When will the son of pepper seller marry the daughter of a millonaire

Never its a capitalist world

gtrust: Yes Oh!
Besides, rumour has it that NO Governor was invited so that the NGF stuff will NOT play out at the wedding!
So, it was the wedding ONLY and no NGF wahala.

Good game Tukur for not allowing them distract your son's wedding!

The same pro nd anti ameachi govs whre in bauchi with no problems

No single elected person attended except v.p namadi

The beef is real: Only one governor attends wedding of Bamanga Tukur’s son

by Paul Osas

Well, it’s not like we enjoy comparing politicians or anything of that sort but we couldn’t resist.

Only last week, the wedding between the son of former vice president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, and the daughter of a former governor of Bauchi, Adamu Muazu took place in Bauchi. The guest list was impressive – the speaker of the House of Representatives was there, 8 governors were present, as well as several former governors, a former head of state and the world’s richest black man.

So when the son of the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bamanga Tukur, was getting married in Katsina on Friday, it was expected that the roll call would be similarly impressive, after all he is the chairman of the largest party in Africa with the power to suspend and recall erring governors.

It didn’t turn out that way.

Of the nation’s 36 governors, only one – the host governor, Ibrahim Shema of Katsina – was present.

The only reason why it is important to point that out is not because it detracts from the wedding but because it shows the widening gulf between the party boss and the governors in the party.

Only this week, Tukur engaged in a war of words with the Sokoto governor, Aliyu Wamakko, who the PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC) recently suspended. The Tukur led NWC also recently suspended the Rivers governor, Rotimi Amaechi. Presently, 9 Northern governors are believed to be pressing for his removal.

The wedding went on smoothly and there were several other dignitaries present to be sure, including Vice President Namadi Sambo, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed; former Minister of Defence, Dr. Bello Halliru; business mogul, Dr. Hassan Adamawa, and several leaders of PDP.

Tukur’s son, Muhammad Tukur is an engineer, and his bride, Badiyya Isah Katsina, a medical doctor, is the daughter of Alhaji Isah Katsina, the former secretary to the Katsina state government in the Umaru Yaradua administration as state governor.

The wedding reception took place at the Katsina Government House.

http://www.thescoopng.com/the-beef-is-real-only-one-governor-attends-wedding-of-bamanga-tukurs-son/

16250 people will loose their jobs in the so called transformation...if Mr GEJ wants to reduce cost, he should start with his food (over a billon naira) nd other aso rock amenities (newspaper is bought a 250 per one)

Bye bye etisalat....till u uncap your BIS...thank God for Airtel...hre we come

pazienza: Yobe zero? Now this is funny. Nigeria is a fraud.

The 0 for yobe is cos no 1is applying due to bh
The 2 for gombe is a blant lie...I knw a grl with 105 who couldn't get into FGGC bajoga (gombe) cos the cut off mark is 110

CAN presido de complain cos militants were targeted by buharis comments...I think say Niger delta militants are very religious ppl...if Can had accused Gen Buhari of inciting religious violence/hate then I would hav said good, they are withing there rights but wen CAN is complaining about Niger Delta militants then am sure its PDP CAN talking

Hmmmm

nuclearboy: The entire NL comedy cast will be here soon to berate you for daring to suggest GEJ isn't Christ returned to transform Nigeria.

Better go get a Kevlar vest

The  thing is that most of them hav low IQ and won't be able to comprehend the "long" write up...am safe

Short cuts are the reason nigeria is in its current state of wahala

Has President Goodluck Jonathan heard
about the tale of “The Emperor’s New
Clothes?” If he has not, I will tell him. The
story goes like this: A long time ago, a
vainglorious emperor, who did not give a
damn about his people except wearing
beautiful clothes and robes, was
approached by two liars (like some of the
people around the Nigerian president
today) who promised to weave the finest
clothes ever made for the emperor. The
emperor was excited. The swindlers told
him that the new clothes would be so
magnificent and so esoteric that only the
very smart and worthy among the people
would be able to see them. The robes
would be invincible to idiots, stupid and
obtuse people. The clothes would also be
invincible to ministers unfit for their offices.
The emperor then paid the swindlers large
sums of money to start weaving the
magnificent clothes at once. “If I wore
them,” the emperor thought, “I would be
able to know which men in my empire are
unfit for their posts. And I could tell the
wise from the fool.”
The swindlers set up two looms and
pretended to weave, though there was
nothing on the looms. They requested the
finest silk and purest old thread which all
went into their traveling bags, while they
worked the empty looms far into the night.
It was a classical 419 case.
After the “clothes” had been woven, the
swindlers went along to “dress” the
emperor in the imaginary clothes. The
emperor himself did not see anything. He
was confused. Is it that he himself was not
worthy of being an emperor? But he said
nothing. The ministers who also did not
see anything pretended they saw the
esoteric clothes for fear of being labeled
unfit for their offices and incompetent. The
swindlers then led the emperor in a
procession before his subjects to show
them these new wonderful clothes. The
people played along, not wanting to
appear foolish and stupid. This lie
continued until a little child in the crowd,
too young to understand the scam that was
going on, screamed that the emperor was
stark naked. At this point, a few others also
started crying out. The emperor shivered,
suspecting that they were right but he
proudly continued nonetheless.
Watching President Jonathan and his
band of praise singers present their so-
called mid-term report last week eerily
reminded me of “The Emperor’s New
Clothes” or “The Emperor Without Clothes”
as some writers prefer to call it. Minister
after minister, PDP bigwigs of all sorts,
liars and scammers one after the other
praised what Jonathan has so marvelously
achieved within such a short time since he
became president. All of them concluded
that it has never been so good for
Nigerians. I have never seen such level of
shamelessness. You would think you were
watching some horror movie. The act of
shamelessness was unbelievable. If you
did’t live in Nigeria and you were listening
to those clowns, you would think that
Nigeria really had never had it so good
since the amalgamation of 1914.
But the reality on ground is clear, Mr
President. Nigeria has never had it so bad.
Security of life and property, which is the
first responsibility of every government, is
at its lowest ebb. The north, south-south,
south-west, south-east are under the siege
of kidnappers, Boko Haram, armed
robbers, ritualists, Ombatse, MEND and all
sorts of militancy. Last week, in a damning
report on the Iraqi government’s inability to
get a handle on the militancy in the
country, a US news organisation declared
that, since January, more than 2,400
people had been killed in Iraq. For that
reason, Iraq qualified to be termed a failed
state, it said. In Nigeria, we have lost more
than 6,200 innocent people to Boko
Haram, armed robbery and all sorts of
criminality since January. We must then be
more than qualified to be called a failed
state, by that news organisation’s
assessment.
Stealing in government has never been
this brazen, with a few pension thieves
protected by the presidency itself.
Government officials are now so
audacious in their corrupt practices that
they do not give a damn about who is
watching and they do not in the least fear
the president one bit. Presidential
directives are routinely flouted by the three
most powerful ministers, who incidentally
all happen to be women — they are now
famously referred to as the “Bermuda
Triangle”. The nomenclature of Bermuda
Triangle for these women should be
ominous for the president if he knows the
first thing about the Bermuda Triangle.
Things are indeed very, very bad and the
president appears absent, or at the very
least impotent. The absence of the
president is far worse today under
Jonathan than the period when President
Yar’Adua was physically absent and
nobody knew where he was.
President Jonathan needs to look around
himself. He has no clothes on and yet
some palace courtiers are telling him that
he has the most gorgeous clothes on. The
mid-term report is now the subject of very
angry conversations among Nigerians. But
no minister will tell him the truth and he
has tragically lost touch with reality. In
other words, this naked president does not
have the advantage of that little child who
screamed that the emperor was actually
naked. It is so ironic that a president who
claimed to have grown up without shoes
can be so out of touch with the common
man.
First, this corruption has to stop. The level
of stealing in government has become
maddening. It is simple common sense
that there is no way to achieve anything
meaningful with the kind of stealing going
on in government. There are some in this
government that import their food items,
including beef, from Harrods in London
virtually on a weekly basis. Yes, the
insensitivity is that bad. About 150 private
jets have been purchased since Jonathan
became president without a corresponding
economic activity to explain this. And while
all these are happening, our oil production
has plummeted from 2.6 million barrels per
day to 1.7 million due to stealing of the
crude clearly with cover from some people
in the government. Those who steal this
crude oil are now telling us that they will
kill all of us if we do not vote Jonathan for
another term in 2015. But we will leave that
until we get there.
I have been a critic of President Jonathan’s
government for what I see as
incompetence and a lack of focus and
seriousness on the part of the president. I
have done this with the fervent hope that
President Jonathan would sit up and lead
the country in a way that would benefit the
greatest majority of Nigerians. I have all
along been living in delusion that the
president could and would change even if
for the sake of his 2015 ambition. But after
watching the mid-term report of the
characters who make up his government
and his associates, and the self-
congratulatory way the president was
smiling to himself, I have come to the
conclusion that this president cannot
change. He is too far gone!
EARSHOT
Didn’t The US Hear That Jonathan Has
Pardoned Alams?
Last week, the United States authorities
confiscated a mansion in Maryland
belonging to former Bayelsa State
governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha,
claiming that his assets were proceeds of
corruption. They have also declared that
they are waiting for him in the United
States. Apparently, the American
authorities have not heard that our
president has forgiven his former boss for
everything he stole. They obviously do not
give a damn about Jonathan and his funny
definition of corruption. And it would
appear that, so long as we have the wrong
people presiding over the affairs of this
country, so long shall we depend on other
countries to fight crimes for us. It was the
UAE authorities that arrested James Ibori
and it was the British authorities that jailed
him. And we depended on South Africa to
get Henry Okah. To teach other crooks like
former attoney general and minister of
justice Michael Aondoakaa (still remember
him?) a lesson, the United States a few
years ago revoked the former AGF’s visa
for which he has been sulking.
It would appear that all these foreign
countries have more stake in Nigeria than
our leaders have. We have become a
byword and a laughing stock in the
international community. But Nigerians
needn’t be this helpless. We must take our
destiny as a nation in our own hands in
2015. We need to deliver our country and
liberate ourselves and our progeny
By
Sam Nda-isaiah
Publisher leadership newspapers

noblezone: @OP,
Better be careful before the APC (Arewa's Political Cancer) will declare a fatwah on your head for making such a catastrophic assumption!
"Dogs and Baboons" and even ants might start getting soaked in blood with immediate effect.

I no dey oo.

Hmmm u will be suprised nt all hausas feel dat way infact mst dnt

Ameachi for me

idupaul: Ameachi is an alpha male and cannot be allowed to be President ever..

So we need a sheep or lamp president

SLIDE waxie: Why shld i vote amaechi for stiring controversies jes to get public sympathy and score cheap popularity and publicity points?
Does dt result to performance ratings?

And why shld i vote GEJ again? Is it for us to still remain without shoe or to remain clueless?

I knw, i knw. I shlda said 'none', but i needa voice ma vexation na!

Ok wo love ur passion..who do u suggest as the best for nigeria

Rhino.5dm:
Just what I told my friend this morning, I ask him what if APC gave someone like Amaechi their ticket?

@OP
Amaechi is million light years ahead of Jonathan. Here in PH, the shadow of Amaechi's performance is felt everywhere. Though, when you put his achievements side by side the allocation coming to the state you would find sime grey areas and all that. Personally I see no reason why a state governor should buy a jet with public funds. For sure he won't be eating 1 billion naira food or budgeting 280 million naira to take care of his pets in aso rock.


Comparing him with Jonathan is like comparing life and death. He is a kind of guy with strong aura and mental capacity to rule this country.

Wow

[quote author=eagle,eye][/quote]think they have similar track record

qualified: the North (we are born to rule) will not allow that in APC.

We are assuming he (ameachi) gets the apc ticket to check mate GEJ....who will you vote..who will be better for Nigeria

sexkillz: [color=#000030]None. [/color]

Why nd who do u prefer

If Rotimi ameachi happens to be the APC presidential candidate in 2015 nd he is contesting against GEJ...Who is better for Nigeria??......pls who will u vote??...sentiment aside

So the Battle is Ameachi Vs Jang for NGF

All may have been set for the victory of a
dark horse in the person of Jonah Jang,
the governor of Plateau State as Northern
Governors reportedly adopted him at a
meeting in Asokoro this afternoon/evening.
Prior to this development Katsina State
Governor, Ibrahim Shema and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi had been the bookies favourite for the plum job.
LEADERSHIP gathered that
both Governor Isa Yuguda of
Bauchi state and Governor
Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State have
withdrawn from the Nigeria Governors
Forum chairmanship race.
Following this, the northern governors
adopted Governor of Plateau State, Jonah
were in a crucial meeting as a prelude to
the election of Chairman of the Nigeria
Governors Forum later today.
Meanwhile, the opposition governors are
presently meeting at the Lagos State
Lodge, in Abuja

All those shouting kill,shoot,wipe nd destroy the cities/towns/villages must not understand wat that may lead to...it will create thousands of orphans, who will be easy recruitment as foot soldiers leading to an escalation nd prolonged crises...carefully planing is the way out
, not the rush rush of the army
For those that keep under estimating BH, u have to a rethink...they may have started as a weak disorganised group but now they are growing..I just hope those in charge see and understand the dynamism and stop underestimating BH

All those shouting kill,shoot,wipe nd destroy the cities/towns/villages must not understand wat that may lead to...it will create thousands of orphans, who will be easy recruitment as foot soldiers leading to an escalation nd prolonged crises...carefully planing id the way out
, not the rush rush of the army
For those that keep under estimating BH, u have to a rethink...they may have started as a weak disorganised group but now they are growing..I just hope those in charge see and understand the dynamism and stop underestimating BH

All those shouting kill,shoot,wipe nd destroy the cities/towns/villages must not understand wat that may lead to...it will create thousands of orphans, who will be easy recruitment as foot soldiers leading to an escalation nd prolonged crises...carefully planing the way out
, not the rush rush of the army
For those that keep under estimating BH, it means u have to a rethink...they may have started as a weak disorganised group but now we they are growing..I just hope those in charge see and understand the dynamism and stop underestimating BH

Dokubo Asari if u want to shoot, shoot nd don't talk

kpogede77: In all your acclaimed capabilities, a small country call Isereal has turn all your people to slaves and prisoners . America came to ur own land to kill ur leader Osama Binladin, nothing happen. Untill the Niger Delta millitant took over the creeks, no body knew they had such assorted weapons. American soldier does not need to commit suicide to wipe out the entire north with chemical weapon

So ur comparing mend to Israel nd america...u most be out of touch with reality...even ur super Hero Israel isnot at peace it might be bullying arabs but they too leave in fear...My friend better rethink ur position because these militant are doing it for themselves nd not for the people of south south...the moment it gets tough I assure u they will split with there money..we already know Asari has dual citizenship..