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APC governors walking down the street of maiduguri

freegaza: I saw Babatunde Raji Fashola...RochasOkorocha( dressed in babban riga).The governors even went to monday market n post office...am impressed...where is GEJ?

R u serious

KnowAll: Is this truth, abi na bobo?

Very true check any major news outlet

Billyonaire: The meeting point has finally cemented our earlier thoughts on Buhari, as commander in chief of the Boko Boys. He is stepping into Maiduguri with full assurances from his Boys that all is well. Imagine living in a country, where the "Chosen" and "Anointed" BokoHaram mentor forges the next President, and his union with the Lion of Bourdillon is a very deadly combo, cos he is neither Awolowo nor Obasanjo. God, let us not support these deadly men, one is a coupe plotter, the other's source of funds is tactically coded.

Witnesses say
several bombs have exploded in a
northeastern Nigeria city which is hosting a
meeting of opposition political parties.
The blasts happened Thursday afternoon
in the city of Maiduguri, long under assault
by a radical Islamic sect known as Boko
Haram. A security official said he believed
some soldiers were killed in the blasts, but
did not have any other information. The
official spoke on condition of anonymity as
he was not authorized to speak to
journalists.
The All Progressives Congress, a recently
announced amalgam of opposition parties
in Nigeria, was holding a meeting
Thursday in the city that had drawn
powerful politicians.

several bombs have exploded in a
northeastern Nigeria city which is hosting a meeting of opposition political parties.
The blasts happened Thursday afternoon
in the city of Maiduguri. A security official said he believed
some soldiers were killed in the blasts, but did not have any other information. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to journalists.
The All Progressives Congress, a recently
announced amalgam of opposition parties
in Nigeria, was holding a meeting
Thursday in the city that had drawn
powerful politicians.

Some ppl still blve cpc or buhari controls BH...wen he is even a target

Jenams: If GEJ nor fit bomb all dis pipo for maiduguri tru any means, I go bliv say him be really weaklin. Lolz

several bombs have exploded in a
northeastern Nigeria city which is hosting a
meeting of opposition political parties.
The blasts happened Thursday afternoon
in the city of Maiduguri, long under assault
by a radical Islamic sect known as Boko
Haram. A security official said he believed
some soldiers were killed in the blasts, but
did not have any other information. The
official spoke on condition of anonymity as
he was not authorized to speak to
journalists.
The All Progressives Congress, a recently
announced amalgam of opposition parties
in Nigeria, was holding a meeting
Thursday in the city that had drawn
powerful politicians.

Witnesses say
several bombs have exploded in a
northeastern Nigeria city which is hosting a
meeting of opposition political parties.
The blasts happened Thursday afternoon
in the city of Maiduguri, long under assault
by a radical Islamic sect known as Boko
Haram. A security official said he believed
some soldiers were killed in the blasts, but
did not have any other information. The
official spoke on condition of anonymity as
he was not authorized to speak to
journalists.
The All Progressives Congress, a recently
announced amalgam of opposition parties
in Nigeria, was holding a meeting
Thursday in the city that had drawn
powerful politicians.

Witnesses say
several bombs have exploded in a
northeastern Nigeria city which is hosting a
meeting of opposition political parties.
The blasts happened Thursday afternoon
in the city of Maiduguri, long under assault
by a radical Islamic sect known as Boko
Haram. A security official said he believed
some soldiers were killed in the blasts, but
did not have any other information. The
official spoke on condition of anonymity as
he was not authorized to speak to
journalists.
The All Progressives Congress, a recently
announced amalgam of opposition parties
in Nigeria, was holding a meeting
Thursday in the city that had drawn
powerful politicians.

APC is making pdp nd their supporters very uncomfortable...its a very good news for democracy nd nigeria

The haters are now claiming its a publicity stunt....for me it shows courage nd commitment

Buy goin to maiduguri they hav shown more balls than the federal govt

Opposition governors who met in Lagos on February 5 and unanimously endorsed a merger plan ahead of 2015 will meet today in Maiduguri in continuation of their series of meetings towards actualising the plan.
The governors and their parties have already agreed to register a new political party, the All Progressive Congress (APC), under which platform they plan to dislodge the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Today’s meeting is expected to discuss developments after the Lagos meeting, Daily Trust learnt.
Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’aziz Yari (ANPP), yesterday arrived in Maiduguri in company of some of his commissioners and advisers. The advanced parties of some of the governors also arrived.
Those expected at the meeting include the five governors from the Action Congress of Nigeria-controlled states viz; Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Abiola Ajumobi (Oyo) and Rauf Aregbesola (Osun). The sixth ACN governor, Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State who was absent at the Lagos meeting is expected at the Maiduguri meeting today.
Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha (APGA); Nasarawa State Governor Umaru Tanko Almakura (CPC); Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari (ANPP); Yobe State governor Ibrahim Gaidam (ANPP) and host governor Kashim Shettima (ANPP) will also be part of the meeting.
Daily Trust observed that preparations for the meeting had gone far at the government house in Maiduguri where the meeting is expected to hold.
Secretary to the Borno State government Ambassador Baba Ahmed Jidda is chairing the committee set up by Governor Kashim Shettima to ensure the success of the meeting.
A member of the committee who spoke to our correspondent last night said: “The essence of the meeting of the governors in Maiduguri is to concretize the solid foundation the opposition governors have laid. The ultimate goal of the APC is dislodge the PDP by 2015 and entrench a virile democracy”.
After a four-hour closed door meeting at the Lagos House, Marina on February 5, host governor, Fashola, said the meeting was “essentially about the concerns on Nigeria and the way forward,” adding that key decisions were taken at the end of the meeting.
He dismissed insinuations that the merger plans would die before arrival, saying the drive behind it would produce some of the best hands the nation could boast of.
Reading the communiqué issued at the end of the meeting, Governor Shettima said the governors reviewed the situation in the country and resolved to endorse the merger initiative with a primary intention to fix Nigeria.
He said, “This must be done as progressive and patriotic leaders of our people across party, religious and geopolitical zones. “We are concerned about the state of the nation and in the interest of our people we deliberated on what can be done to rescue our country.
“As governors, we fully endorse the merger initiatives already commenced by our various political parties. Nigeria is greater than all of us and we have a duty to make it work for our people and the future.”
Governor Yari said the brains behind the merger would offer a better political option to what the nation had witnessed since her return to democracy in 1999.
He said, “The objective is to fix Nigeria in the right perspective. Go and ask many people outside here whether they are happy since 1999 till date. It is a duty for all of us as leaders to drive our people right and we believe the PDP has done less.
“We have the knowledge and progressive idea to move the country forward, so if you say that we intend to move the PDP out of power, yes we are ready to do that.”
Governor Okorocha said the move would prevent any chance by the government at the centre to turn the nation to a one-party state.


http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/top-stories/51592-apc-10-oppostition-govs-meet-in-maiduguri

The heading was a shock to me...the content showed class nd respect...tricks used by media nd pdp to paint the man black

So GEJ ppl say sumthing

Nigerian. Leaders. Don't knw the weight there words should carry

It was Dalhatu Tafida, the Nigerian High
Commissioner to the United Kingdom, who
first let the world into the working of the
president’s mind.
At a press conference in Abuja in late
2010, a day ahead of President Goodluck
Jonathan’s formal declaration to run in the
2011 presidential election, Mr. Tafida, then
Director General of the Jonathan/Sambo
campaign organisation, said the president
won’t seek another term in 2015.
The president, he said, would be available
for only a single term if elected.
“The President wants to run for one term…
Let us give him the four years and see how
he performs,” Mr. Tafida implored, in what
now seems a campaign gimmick.
That explanation sounded logical at the
time following the subsisting power
rotation formula between the North and the
South of Nigeria. Ex-President Olusegun
Obasanjo, a southerner of Yoruba
extraction, was in office for eight years.
The late President Umaru Yar’Adua’s, a
northerner, was therefore expected to take
the north’s eight-year turn.
But death suddenly struck, foisting Mr.
Jonathan, who was Mr. Yar’Adua’s deputy,
on the nation.
So, when Mr. Talfida spoke, the president
didn’t deny or fault his arguments. Rather
he reinforced them in his actions and
speeches.
Although he denied knowledge of the
power rotation arrangement, he was
unambiguous about his future.
Addressing Nigerians in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, where he attended an African
Union Summit, the president regretted they
would not vote on April 9, 2011, in a poll
that was to return him for a fresh term.
“I would have loved that Nigerians in the
Diaspora vote this year. But to be frank
with you that is going to be difficult now,”
he said on January 31, 2011,before
striking home his point.
“Nigerians in the Diaspora will not vote, but
I will work towards it by 2015, even though
I will not be running for election.”
The presidency’s denial on Sunday that he
has made no commitment to anyone not to
run again has shocked many watchers of
Nigerian politics with some describing Mr.
Jonathan as a shameless liar.
The denial has also triggered debate on
whether Mr. Jonathan’s tenure will, or not
transcend 2015.
In a reaction to Niger state governor,
Babangida Aliyu’s claim that the president
endorsed a pact with the governors to exit
in 2015, presidential adviser on political
matters, Ahmed Gulak, said the claim was
“frivolous” and a figment of the governor’s
imagination.
“The alleged agreement only exists in the
figment of the imagination of somebody
with presidential ambition,” Mr. Gulak said,
referring to Mr. Aliyu’s own ambition to
succeed the president in 2015.
The president himself has yet to personally
speak on the subject. But that is not
surprising as that is a well known Aso
Rock’s tactic where the president pushes
aides to express his position on issues. At
times, when a sentiment expressed by an
aide gets controversial, the president
pushes back, disowning such a remark.
Still, Mr. Gulak’s response on the
president’s behalf seems deliberate.
For a potentially stormy subject, the
president, through his political mouthpiece,
Mr. Gulak, needed to have made it clear he
signed no agreement if indeed he didn’t.
But he should also have explained if he
had changed his mind about running
again. He said it himself he won’t run in
2015.
At a time the presidency is being criticised
over the disgraceful admittance of lying to
the public about the health of the First
Lady, it faces even greater condemnation
should it continue to deny that the
President didn’t tell the world he won’t run
in 2015.
Nigerians seem to respect the president’s
right to seek re-election. The concerns
have been more about whether Mr.
Jonathan once pledged to run for only a
single term ending 2015.
The president’s remarks in Ethiopia,
probably alongside others, provides a
response to that concern. The president
indeed said so. A denial today would be
ungentlemanly and unpresidential.
Ahead of that famous Ethiopian speech,
the resolution of a meeting of 18 governors
and two deputy governors provided a
much-needed weight at the time for the
president’s ambition, with a statement
backing Mr. Jonathan for one term.
Governor Aliyu’s claim probably derived
from the outcome of that meeting.
Also, after the president’s declaration in
Addis Ababa, former president, Olusegun
Obasanjo, warmed up to that position on
March 26, 2011.
Speaking in Abuja during the grand finale
of the Jonathan/ Sambo ticket, Mr.
Obasanjo praised the president for
agreeing to stand for only a term and urged
Nigerians to give him that one chance. Mr.
Jonathan was in the audience the ex-
President addressed and he nodded in
agreement to Mr. Obasanjo’s remark.
Mr. Jonathan should resist the temptation
to be blinded by ambition. He should be a
man of his words. He should not run again

The best ticket is Buhari/Fashola or even Buhari/Tunibu

Buhari/Fashola is my ticket for 2015 for so many reasons...Buhari and his stand on corruption while fashola has vision...buhari will guarantee votes espcl from the north while fashola will help from the south...

After goin thru the 6 pages or so of the post I hav come to the conclusion that Most commentators here want “our tribe“ or “ou religion“ president. Most don't care if nigerians sleep with hunger, walk in fear nd lack hope..as long as its our own then its all good...let me tell u that one day wen u list expect it the effect of all ur hate nd selfishness will catch up with us all and by that time it will be too late...I pray to God almighty in his grace to help Nigerians wake up nd realised they are been fooled nd divided nd give us the strength to change for the better cos the whole Nigeria system isn't working for 95% of nigerians nd the sad thing is they refuse to see wats right in front of them.
God help Us

ckkris: Is Jona that brought Nigeria to this condition?

Do u believe he can change it for the better or has he shown the conviction to do it

jomonic: My brother I agree with you, but only in an ideal or near ideal situation. This is not the case with this country. In my opinion Obama will not succeed as a good president under Nigerian situation. There are lots of root causes that should be addressed for anybody to govern successfully.

Ur right only a true patriotic Nigerian can do it bt we. Lack them nd wen we spot one the religious/tribal/corrupt cabal are always at hand to stop him/her...Nigerians of all the wahala they are facing refuse to see beyond tribe/religion

Many in the north respect fashola for the work he has done in lagos..majority on the streets don't even knw he is a muslim..fact

van bonattel: I may be interested to change things and maybe obtain APC party card, but if 2 muslims are contesting, how do I sell them to my xtian dominated region?

Love ur contributions...so assuming u are to pick a ticket for APC dat will stand a chance of wining..who will pick

slimghost: Happy? Maybe! The North should have let GEJ have his one term in peace so he wouldn't have any excuse for failing. Nothing North will appeal to SE/SS, we were not born to be under them!

U hav concluded that all northerners are bad den

onatisi: they cant win,two things determines politics in nigeria ,ethnicity and religion.the two has to be balances on the ethnic side they got it but on the religion side they missed it

So cos they r both muslim...
So name ur potential wining team

eggheaders: the tribal warlords are here again.I don't wanna start this back and forth with them anymore. to the topic, that ticket looks promising tambuwal/fashola.we really need a break from this putrid air.

Thank you..the major thing is do they hav the ability to do better than wat we hav or not...if not den who...nt their tribe

slimghost: Lwkmd! APC, dead on arrival! GEJ till 2019!

Are u happy with the way thins are or just cos ur frm ss/se?

jomonic: Because this alliance of North and West got us to the pr esent impasse. Ruling at the pinnacle of governance should be open to all irrespective of tribe. I fervently pray that CPC fails.

For me I dnt mind who is president as long as he provides good leadership,security and economic prosperity...let it be colonial masters or aliens bt am tired of hw thins are nd the road nigeria is on