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koruji:
"Stand for corruption" - out of your mouth

Abeg go siddon somewhere.

I know everything for you has a regional or ethnic slant, so you might feel threatened by aspects of a battle by the street against corruption; that is the only reason (aside from being personally corrupt) that you would attempt to shut down a thread on fighting corruption.

If you are not sick of corruption, the rest of us are.

[size=14pt]Seize the streets and shut down corruption.
Let the common man rise up and demand zero corruption.[/size]

koruji:
Pained me? Yeah I am hurting really bad

What I am telling you is that it is not your place to be calling people to march against corruption when GEJ and his officials are at the receiving end. Your battery of objectivity is way too low - even worse your antecedents show that you have no qualms about turning whoever raises a voice in support of your call today over to GEJ's police-state to be "dealt" with tomorrow.

Get it now

Dude, I don't get where you are headed. You are actually claiming to be scared of me, because of myths founded by your own self?
Are you afraid of corruption? Are you scared to stand up for what is right? Do you have something to hide?

All your excuses are k-legged, weak and pathetic.

I don't care who the corrupt person is, where they are, what party they belong in or what section of the country they hail from. Let us stand up to corruption. Period.

@mtaj
You've been arguing strongly against the term, "core-North." You are wrong to do so.

The origin of the term, core-North is common knowledge, so it seems a bit strange when you argue about a name the Hausa-Fulani gave themselves. They got upset that Obj was giving top posts to Middle Belters and confronted him about marginalisation of the North; Obj simply pointed at the Middle Belters as Northerners in top positions. The Hausa-Fulani then introduced the term, "core-Northerner" as a distinction.

^
If what I have said pains you, then learn to stick to the topic.
If you truly hate corruption, then always stand up to it and not ask questions that cause doubt about where you stand.

CyberG:
Odenson (Dede1) ==> You must be retarde.d for your useless and valueless posts on this thread! Have you answered the question, NO and you know at your old age, you are more than a fool!? I don't like to talk like this but you're clearly stoking the embers of insult and much as I try to restrain myself, you have no brains to see that - what a lilliputian!

Now to your useless comments, so others can see you are a REAL dumbhead: My father towers above everyone in your lineage and seeing you can't even match the achievement of the best of your clan who you claimed was lost in battle, how dare your useless man talk about someone you don't know and can not look him in the face and none in your lineage could not look him in the face if he stood? Check: you are a big fool! Don't let me insult your elderly ones who had more honor than you useless, lazy piece of trash - sore loser!

I know you had no privilege in life so you are mad when I told you just a little thing - it makes you head explode!? My age is none of your business and except you have evidence to controvert that the event I described did not happen, then STFU! But obviously you are a fool for your forget I have a living witness to what I have described. Again, if you ever fought in any war (which is extremely doubtful from your juvenile and silly posts), you would recognize almost any gun even in darkness. If common sense does not make you realize that a gun pointed right at your head is close enough to be seen in any kind of light, then you have no use to humanity and you should just keel over now and die an inglorious, unsung and shameful death! The Browning was officially retired by the US Forces in 1985 so talking about 1911 make it seem like an old weapon and so improbable that I ever saw or touched it? I think alzheimers is already eating away your remaining brain cells. For your information, I have played with different weapons including AK-47, pistols, assault rifles, etc because guards watched the house morning, noon, overnight, in shifts in our own house, GRA, or wherever we were! So, you think they were useless efufuleles (talk less of efulefu) like you blowing hot wind and did not play with "ogas" pikin? Will someone like you even have a mouth to speak in that situation talk less of this your rabid ramblings in the anonymity of the internet?

You cannot answer the question meaning either you ran away when your mates were manning-up fighting and can't lie otherwise Amadioha will slaughter you on that useless computer or you were a pathetic infant who is still pissed like someone stole your candy! Fela called your type "BONN" - doubt if you can figure that out without Google or asking around!

Final word: don't derail the thread. I don't care for your existence. If you didn't fight, your contributions are useless by just pretending to be something when you are not. Are you club footed like Goebbels, and feel so inferior, you think mouthing off tribal BS will get you what you couldn't earn with your own sweat? Back off NOW!

Straight from the gutter.

Are you not the same person that was shaking like a leaf and peeing your pants when you had to visit Nigeria after flame wars with Pharo_Frey, walakolobo and a couple of other Yar Adua cabal miscreants?

There is no need to be so rude and mouthy when you only have a set of micro-balls.

koruji:
Be wary when you find Beaf calling you to join a march against a government led by GEJ.

Be very very wary 

There are times when it is best to keep your silly partisan comments to yourself. The title of the thread says very clearly, "March Against Corrupt Government Officials In Nigeria." They are everywhere, and in all parties; those in ACN today will cross over to LP. PDP, APGA, ANPP or vice versa.
In any event, why would the fact that I created the thread make you love corruption instead of hating it? Perhaps, you have something to either hide or protect.
Why are you scared of standing up to corruption?

As far as I am concerned, we should either split the country or enforce true federalism. There are no doubts that enforcing true federalism might require or incur bloodshed. Are we ready to take our destiny in our own hands?

niggadee:
Gej don't have a clue how to get rid of dis evil boko haram.

Do you have a clue?

[quote author=A-40 link=topic=595435.msg9468657#msg9468657 date=1320263852]Guy would you STFU!! I posted your quote and you are now forming Wole Soyinka! You must be a off your rockers or a lil schitz . How would someone that is not mad declare that a 24 year old double world champion is far from being as good as his contemporaries? You must be an iimbecile![/quote]You are simply liar.
All you've done here is tell one shameless lie after the other. You are even pretending not to understand simple English in order to lie.
If you like burst your veins, it still wouldn't change the fact that you are a shameless liar.

The rest of us come here to chill out, not to entertain lies, 99.9999% of adults can argue without telling bare-faced lies.
So why do you continue to lie for no reason, sir? Why do you lie without tiring?
You need to examine your soul for your need to lie, especially when you even quoted what I said here: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-595435.352.html#msg9350060

Liar.

Why?

[size=14pt]150 killed by attacks in Nigeria[/size]
Updated: 09:10, Sunday November 6, 2011

About 150 people have been killed in attacks claimed by an Islamist group in northeastern Nigeria, a rescue agency official says.

'I was involved in the evacuation of corpses to the morgue. I personally counted 150 bodies,' the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said at the hospital on Saturday. He said some families had already collected their loved ones for burial, reducing the number to 97 by end of the day.

An AFP reporter counted 97 corpses still in the mortuary.

The Red Cross earlier said the death toll from Friday's violence stood at 63, while police spoke of 53, of whom 11 were members of its force.

'From our inventory, 53 people have so far been killed in the attack,' said local police chief Suleimon Lawal.

http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=682047&vId=2828384&cId=World

ibrahim007:
we bleeping all know that crude oil is one of the problems of the world,some unscrupulous element like the united states are trying to get alternative but all to no avail,as a matter of urgency they want to split naija by 2015 so they could deal with the [size=14pt]niger deltan bastards [/size]directly to swindle their bleeping oil to their country.Believe USA is the most insecured country,them just dey acquire things to equal al those asia countries wey don sabi aw far.BASTARDOS.

So why wouldn't you leave the "niger deltan bastards" and form your own country?
Those "niger deltan bastards" already prefer to deal with Americans than with those who settle arguments with their fellow citizens by bombing women and babies.

sheyguy:
@beaf
how shld the country be split?, how many part shld we it split it into and how will the nu regions be void of same problem we r facing? i really like to hear your answers because i have thought of it myself i can't seem to come with one even though i support the idea to some extent.

The reason we have corruption today is because we run an upside down system were accountability is not with our LG's, but lost in the bureaucracy and madness of Abuja. Why, for example would I want to phone Abuja when there is a fire down the street?
Our corruption is due to the lack of institutions and trail of accountability only true federalism can usher in.

As soon as the core-North is gone 99.99% percent of Nigeria's problem would be gone too. The core-Northerner is not a bad person, but their religious belief system is extreme and their cultures are inimical to co-existence. No other part of the country puts religion before everything else and no other region is ready to slaughter even babies in the name of religion. It is the mixture of religion and culture that has seen a third of core-Northern children as almajiri's; it is also the same factors that sees girls as young as ten given off in "marriage" to paedophiles. These things are staunchly defended even to the spilling of blood.

All of the above would have been bearable, but the core-North is the only section of the country that is also against true federalism, because their elite [/b]fear that their system would drag them into the abyss; so the rest of Nigeria is effectively a host to a parasitic core-Northern [b]elite. For their fears, they also watered down the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to near uselessness, claiming it was "anti-North." How can a bill that governs the exploitation of petroleum be anti-North where there are no commercial petroleum reserves?
As soon as these people can be cut off, true federalism and equity would become the easiest things to attain.

sheyguy:
The boko haram r not ready to face anybody for conversation and the military is so infiltrated, u dont even want to imagine it.
Sometimes back during the plateau crisis some pple with explosive and weapon were caught and before u know it fed agent came and seized these pple for further investigation which we have heard nothing about. even the plateau governor came out to lament his innocence and how he has been in the dark over that particular case. now how do u expect such force to solve BH problem for us. we need sophisticated help from advanced nations to solve this problem.

Preach, bro.

BIGER BOY:
When I chat on foreign threads I have noticed that people go an extra mile to be polite, some times even to a fault, no body hides behind an agenda to make comments, and issues are dealt with straight forwardly.

Now when I come on our own NL I start up politely and then out of nowhere, and for no reason some one just hurls insults at u. I just quietly leave the forum.

Instead of discussing the causes and solutions and way forward, u hear some one saying split the country, the other one let every body arm up, or even ehtnic abuses,

My only grief I'd that majority of you are youths and the nations hope is on u. But I guess it's just a fools hope.

If the topic was different, I would understand your point about civility. But 63 people have just died for no reason, other than a few madmen want Nigeria to become a Muslim country based on Sharia.
Do you really think we can discuss such academically over a cool beer? 63 souls and counting, bruv.

auwal87:
This video explains it all https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-789927.0.html

Buhari is the man, any day!

Stop being a daft self-servicer. I would have understood if you had mentioned Idiagbon. Why not bring Abacha back as well?
We need to wipe out every last one of the politicians in Buhari's generation. Was Nigeria created for that crowd to pillage with their cronies?

At the time Abacha killed the local refineries and built a private refinery for himself with FG money in Sierra Leone, Buhari ran PTF to disburse the gains of fuel subsidy removal. Today, Abacha is dead; why is anyone from that most useless of all govts Nigeria has ever had still alive?

This is what Buhari took part in under Abacha:

It was only General Sani Abacha that succeeded in transferring subsidy removal benefits to Nigerians through the instrumentality of PTF

Strangely, this is what the economist an other non-revitionists recall of Abacha:

Yet, at the same time, the new president has to deal with Nigerian realities. Politics in Nigeria has become the art of stealing—chopping, as it is called. [size=14pt]For instance, millions of dollars recently allocated to repair the country’s oil refineries simply disappeared while General Abacha’s close associates made fortunes out of importing petrol.[/size] And Nigeria will not be easy to democratise. Some of the exiled leaders of the “democratic” opposition are only out because the general turned them down for jobs. It may be hard, but necessary, for the handful of Nigerians who have really suffered for their democratic principles to sit down with such people.

http://www.economist.com/node/134561

The Economist hits even harder with the truth of what Abacha was:

The reprehensible Abacha has unknowingly bequeathed his successor a brilliant opportunity to free Nigeria from military rule. First, his very unpopularity—there was dancing in the streets even in his home town when he died—makes it difficult for another soldier to take power and stay there.

http://www.economist.com/node/134561

It is not unsurprising that at this time such articles the whitewash Abacha and his evil regime; Buhari, who headed Abacha's PTF was out in full force last week, stumbling all over his tongue with an incoherent message about subsidy. This is what Buhari hard to say about Abacha's history of brazen theft:

Buhari, in his own comments yesterday, described the allegations of looting against Abacha as “baseless”, because according to him, “ten years after Abacha, those allegations remain unproven because of lack of facts”.

http://www.tzuk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2387&Itemid=105 (you can also google the comment above)

Birds of a feather.
[size=14pt]We have also seen Tam David West, Buhari's petroleum minister equally animated and exercised in recent times. Both Buhari and Tam David West have one thing in common, and it is whitewashing the histories of their masters. What has this clique got to hide? Does the average Nigerian who refuses to read know that during Abacha's regime, with Buhari at the head of the PTF racket; the refineries were deliberately run down and monies for their turn around maintainance routinely vanished into thin air? But wait for the cracker! At the time this lot were running down our local rineries, Abacha actually used FG funds to build a personal refinery in Sierra Leone, so he and his cronies could milk the nation dry as a fuel importers!
That refinery was aqcuired through the vehicles, Integrated Investment Trust Limited and Nasimatume Investments Limited jointly owned by Abacha and his National Security Adviser, Ismaila Gwarzo.

Needless to say, the Abacha refinery in Sierra Leone is now cobwebbed. Many of our ex-generals are in similar rackets, they destroy the refineries at home, while having shares or ownership of refineries abroad to milk the nation dry.[/size]

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-792025.0.html#msg9439973

Kill them all.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=797093.msg9489629#msg9489629 date=1320528607]Now you are talking

solution :- The president should invite Boko haram leaders, talk to them and try to resolve the issue

If that does not work, then military action should be taken to make sure the BH are arrested and persecuted[/quote]Is this foolish suggestion the reason you are flying all over the thread with silly posts?
Why don't you go and resolve the issue with your people instead? Are you not from Borno state, isn't it your people killing aimlessly like life is a toy?

Dunce.

Carry your onions and pepper and go. Split the country.

obowunmi:
what will happen if the useless police pick up arms and begin shooting,

We shoot back.

If you have ever taken part in any serious aluta, you would know that the police feel exactly the same pinch as the rest of us. There is nothing easier than convincing a policeman to think about his family and the bread he can put down on his table after an honest days work.

I have recounted several times how we stopped a column of armoured cars during the June 12 aluta; they had streamed out of Ikeja Cantonment to put down the popular uprising. It happened under the footbridge at Palmgrove bus stop in Lagos, and we had nothing, but our scrawny teenage chests and barely countable pubic hairs. All we did was stand our ground and keep shouting that whoever was in the tanks should think about their families, their parents, brothers and sisters who were there with us, if not physically then in spirit; we urged them to think about the country and ponder if they were happy.

Well, well! The turret of the lead tank opened and out popped the commander. He didn't utter any words, but simply lifted his uniform to reveal a tee-shirt with MKO Abiola's face emblazoned on it. He told us they were with us and asked us to let them go through so that they could fulfil the orders they were sent on by driving through to Surulere.

That experience of what the courage of even scrawny chested teenagers could produce has indelibly seared the belief into my mind, that the fight for a just and better Nigeria can be won over and over with the people as a resource.
If only the older generation of the time had had the same courage, Nigeria would have changed for the better long ago; MKO Abiola would have been President, Abacha would never have ruled etc

The future is ours, but we must claim it.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=797093.msg9489336#msg9489336 date=1320525438]Now stop instigating hate for ethnic groups or regions of a country. IT IS BAD beaf

Bauchi= lead
Borno= gold
sokoto/kano = gold and MAN POWER THAT PROTECT OUR COUNTRY FROM INVASIONS

adamawa= meat that is sold as far as lagos and owerri

[size=14pt]Kebbi = Onions/ pepper[/size]

I can keep going on and on

stop this your delusion that the north does not contribute anything.[/quote]You must be the only person on Earth that sees onions and pepper as a contribution to national wealth.
To hell with your damn onions and pepper!

[size=14pt]Split the country.[/size]

Behold the worst governor by a looooooooooooooooooooooooong shot!

[table][tr][td][size=14pt]Chei! My broda!
Lagos sweet o! Na deh I de stay na!
Forget Osun! Am a part time governor!
Lagosu! Lagosuuu!! Lagosuuuuuuu!!![/size][/td][/tr]
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BootyOnMe:
My grand pa was blown out of his bed in one place called called Otu-Ogwu!
My momma and grand momma ran to Benin.
My parents were sooooooooo jobless, they kept phocking and phocking. . . THEREBY PRODUCING 5 CHILDREN IN LESS THAN 4 YEARS! I think only 10 separated sibling #2 from sibling #5! My poor mom did not see a period for ALL 4 years! NO PADS! My last sibling was born in 1971! The they stopped!!!
I suspect the native doctors had opened up their 'abortion' clinics to help my parents out. . . MY MOMMA WAS A STAUNCH CATHOLIC(STILL IZZZZ). . . EWWWW!!!
Thank God one of us quench! (Not my portion sha)
My Nyamiri uncles ran to Biafra land and were eating dead people and smoking Igbo endlessly with Ndi-Igbo across the Niger!
Thank God ALL of them are still alive and well.

Nor be small tin o!

Bruv, you are swimming with the tides of madness.

Relax101:
Eziachi and GenBuhari(didnt knw He is Igbo)

GenBuhari that old? I don't believe, that guy loses his rag too quickly and obsesses to much (aside from becomerich, thats the only guy on the planet, known to single-handedly take a thread to several pages).

jason123:
. . . and when Biafra surrender, did Nigeria wipe Igbos out No! So, what "survival" are you talking about? The truth is, it was a war of secession. There is no point hiding it.

You weren't there to know if Abagworo's folk were fighting for survival or not, so what claims are you making? This is the very sort of sensational bunkum the OP is kicking against. It occurs on both sides.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=797093.msg9489158#msg9489158 date=1320523945][size=33pt] What makes you think every northerner is part of boko haram. is every southerner part of mend !!!!! you bigot[/size][/quote]Dunce! If all core-Northerners are not boko haram, then all boko harm are core-Northerners. You people add zero value to Nigeria, your only contributions are sand, cheap death and illiteracy.

Split the country!

obowunmi:
Goodluck Jonathan should resign and let Buhari take over.  

You want to cure boko haram by installing boko haram?

If you were beside me, I would have responded with the most tooth jarring slap I could muster, followed by a couple of well aimed ball splitting kicks; before liberally applying a cricket bat to choice regions of your dense skull.

Maybe some shock treatment will shock intelligence into your rock solid brains.

Dude, you are daft.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=797093.msg9489140#msg9489140 date=1320523774][size=36pt] Why should we spilt ? !!!!!!!![/size][/quote][size=36pt] So that you boko harams can phuck off.[/size]

Nice thread!
I wonder how many NLers are 56 and over anyway? I don't think there will be more than a handful, and as the OP rightly inferred, we need to reach out to these handful of wise heads for direction when it comes to fundamental issues like the civil war.

Brilliant article. Will you join in the match against corruption?

https://www.newcombat.net/images/for_outsiders/fire.jpg

[size=14pt]March against corrupt government officials in Nigeria [/size]
World News - Africa
Saturday, 05 November 2011 12:00
Written by Emefu Clement

-Matters arising from the fuel subsidy removal crisis-

In the wake of President Goodluck Jonathan`s move to remove the fuel subsidy, the media has been bombarded with arguments for and against this motion in the past weeks. There are obviously reasons for this panic and reaction, very understandable. Various public classes react differently according to their own interest based on the little or the much they know. Definitely there are those who always benefit from such confusion.

The poor masses – the ordinary Nigerian public, about 75% of the population only see the aspect of increase in the pump price of petroleum products as a consequence of the removal. Of course that is the much or the little they understand. I belong to this group. This ordinary public sees the N65 per litre charge for fuel as the ONLY dividend which the government`s fuel subsidy policy can offer them. This implies ipso facto that removing it will clearly spell-out government`s disinterestedness in the plight of the Nigerian common man, whereby ordinary basic amenities have looked almost impossible amidst the wealth of this country. Therefore, adding to the bottled animosity against corrupt government, this becomes the last straw that is breaking the Carmel’s back. Perhaps the concrete and tangible motive for a revolutionary move against corruption in the political class that we have been waiting for is at last here.

Now we come to the political public class, who has been running and milking the Nigerian wealth for over four decades now. More revelations unfold as matters arise from the cries of the ordinary citizens against the fuel subsidy removal saga. In response to my article titled: Open Letter to President Goodluck E. Jonathan, , a friend linked me up to another article titled: Fuel Subsidy and Fake Subsidy…, Articles | THISDAY LIVE by a fuel subsidy activist Mr. Simon Kolawole. Very insight filled and thought-provoking, at the same time a corpus of saddening revelations concerning the fuel subsidy, which the ordinary Nigerian citizen is not privileged to know. I still wonder why the government cannot open up and address Nigerians on the major reasons for this removal plan, if it is not an accomplice. Most strikingly, Kolawole qualifies the fuel subsidy as the greatest fraud in the history of corruption in Nigeria involving government officials; namely, the fact that the non-functional state of our four refineries is stage-managed in order to pave way for the continual importation of petroleum products. The so-called petroleum importers (partners in criminality with our government officials and the ruling class) now charge billions of dollars on daily basis from the Nigerian government for inexistent figures of consumed fuel in the name of fuel subsidy. This is still in addition to the subsidy on importation damage charges, even when they are never incurred. One cannot believe the amount of billions of naira that go into the pocket of small group of individuals – about 20% of the population, which consequently impoverish the rest of the population. This remains the underlying reason why the President wants to move against all odds towards the removal of the subsidy. Seemingly a bold and patriotic move, but is the approach equally patriotic? Do the ordinary citizens not have the right to know the reasons for policies in their own interest? The President surely has questions to answer, and indeed an account to render to the Nigerian common man.

Interestingly furthermore, Kolawole posed a question to his intelligence source on the details of this state of affairs, as regards bringing to justice this network of corruption cables that hold the nations progress to a standstill for years now. The answer comes quick and is more worrying as it fingers our government officials as the custodians of this corruption. Imagine a country whereby every sector has collapsed, as the President himself observed few months ago: legislative, judiciary, and even the executive owing to the kind of people that surrounds it irrespective of the good intentions. Mere signing of a document to propagate this criminality, for example at the price of N50 million has become a normal way of life for them. Recall the amount of billions being reported on the headlines that Nigerian individuals carry out of this country; how else do they make such whooping sums of money?

It is at this juncture that I come back, to continue from where I stopped in the previous article – Open Letter to President Goodluck E. Jonathan,  My fuss is not much about the fuel subsidy fraud as seen from these revelations but rather on the magnitude of the corruption that stifles the Nigerian growth in all spheres of life: human development, economic growth and stability, education, energy and power, basic infrastructural development, etc. These remain the normal dividends of governance in any nation of the world. But on the contrary, this has been beyond the reach of the ordinary Nigerian for many decades now.

I maintain, it is these poor Nigerians that voted President Goodluck Jonathan to power, in hope that at least a rescue mission has finally become a reality. Then I continue to ask, can Mr. President not use his executive power to stamp out this abysmal corruption? Of course he can and has no other option that to do it. Nigerians need results and the dividends of good governance. The poverty line in this country needs to be minimised to the lowest degree considering our vast rich reserves of natural resources. The only way to do all this is to fight and stamp out corruption in the Nigerian governance no matter who is involved.

The Nigerian people have no other option than to violently revolt against these corrupt leaders. It is not necessarily to destroy lives and properties, but to express most loudly their disapproval of this injustice perpetrated by a handful of the population. We have no other choice. We have no choice than to take the streets and pour out our Anger against the level of corruption in this country. A corruption whereby one`s life is stunted by the selfishness, greed and wickedness of another. Enough is enough!

Chimaobi Clement EMEFU,

Imo state.

http://www.codewit.com/africa/3711-march-against-corrupt-government-officials-in-nigeria

[size=14pt]Govs Fail To Save Sylva [/size]
Written by Taiwo Adisa and Leon Usigbe, Abuja Saturday, 05 November 2011

EFFORTS by four South-South governors to convince President Goodluck Jonathan to back embattled Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State in his search for Peoples Democratic Party  nod to contest the forthcoming gubernatorial primaries of the party have apparently hit a brick wall, as they failed on Friday to obtain the president’s assurances.

The governor is yet to be cleared by the party which is reluctant to allow him to participate in the primaries where four other aspirants had already been cleared.

Though PDP claimed that the screening process was an ongoing exercise, there were indications that it considered Sylva’s case a closed one and did not intend to revisit it.

Governors Rotimi Ameachi, Liyel Imoke, Godswill Akpabio of Rivers, Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom respectively were in the Presidential Villa along with Sylva to intercede on his behalf, but signs emerged early that Jonathan was not enthusiastic about their mission when he did not show up for the meeting for hours.

When the president eventually met them at the First Lady’s Wing of the Presidential Villa, the governors had no cheering news, as they were unable to persuade the president on the need to support Sylva.

On  emerging from the meeting, the governors, who fought hard to conceal their disappointment at the outcome, declined to talk to State House correspondents, who were persistent in their request for comments.

An obviously disturbed Sylva, at a point, queried reporters for insisting on getting the governors’ reaction, saying: “Why are you following me with microphones now? I don’t want to talk!”

All the governors subsequently drove out of the Villa in an SUV chauffeured by Amaechi himself to an unknown destination.

Meanwhile, it has emerged that the refusal of PDP to confirm Sylva as an aspirant   was predicated on an “advice” from what sources described as the highest security quarters in the land.

It was reliably gathered that the governor had earlier appeared before a panel of security chiefs, where the issues were crosschecked with him.

The sources claimed that while President Jonathan had prevailed on his loyalists prior to the primaries, held in January to back out of the contest and allow Sylva pick a second term ticket, the governor’s camp has never really trusted the president.

It was gathered that the statement contained in a petition currently being investigated by the party and the security agencies was said to have been made by the governor under the atmosphere of distrust for Jonathan.

But the sources said the president has told his aides not to be directly involved in the Bayelsa fray so that he would not be accused of meddling in the state politics.

However, while Jonathan was staying on the sidelines, it was gathered that his loyalists had taken offence against the alleged persistent accusations against the president, leading to the adoption of Hon. Henry Dickson by the Green Movement, the group that produced Jonathan as PDP gubernatorial standard bearer in 2006.

The source said that those, who accused the governor of making statements regarded as threats to security, were not hiding their faces and that as far as they stood by the allegations, there was a narrow prospect of the governor securing PDP clearance.

“The president has shown he is the father of all in this matter, but we have seen that the governor has never really trusted him. His camp has been behind the series of accusations against Mr. President in recent times.

“A meeting of the governors and series of interventions by some party leaders have failed to locate the genesis of the issues,” said a source, adding that many of the interventions had been painted as if the president was the cause of Sylva’s problems.

Another source said that while the president was insisting on due process, the whole issue was being made as if he had an axe to grind with the governor.

As a result of such outlook, it was gathered that loyalists of the president were insisting that the governor, having allegedly run foul of the law, should not be cleared for the primaries.

The sources said that the posture in the governor’s camp was reminding the president’s loyalists of some activities of the governor, especially when Jonathan was vice president.

A source said that Jonathan deserved commendations for allowing Sylva contest the January primaries in the first place and prevailing on his loyalists to drop their ambitions.

According to the source, Sylva disregarded the then vice president by the way he removed the former executive committee of the PDP in the state, despite the agreement with Jonathan to the contrary.

He was also said to have joined the camp of anti-Jonathan in the days preceding the president’s confirmation as acting president in February 2010.

But a source said that there was hope that Sylva could still be allowed to partake in the primaries if he secured “a last minute clearance.”

“There are feelers that he would contest the primaries. He could be granted a last-minute clearance, following his explanations before the security team,” a source stated.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/front-page-articles/5775-govs-fail-to-save-sylva.html

manny4life:
@Beaf,

I've for sometime stood by GEJ decisions, but some of his recent decisions are making me think twice. Wasup with Nuclear power? Western countries are trying hard to do away with Nuclear---Germany, France, United States (at least not anytime soon, but they won't be commissioning again says the NRC). We have enough gas reserves, what happened to Hydro? I know they have clean coal energy, like what is seriously going on?

Do you endorse this idea?

I'm all for the mini-reactors that require zero maintenance. We wouldn't need to do anything aside from returning them to the factory where they were made to be recharged with fuel and sent back. That seems perfectly safe and just a few of those can seriously boost our power production overnight.
That said, such plants should only be used as quick wins to get power production up to economically appreciable levels. In other words, nuclear should form a disposable part of our energy strategy; a highly effective technology that we can phase out as we get richer and put more coal, solar, gas and hydro replacements into production.

I am against old style larger nuclear plants that need detailed care and maintenance though, cos na suicide be dat.

Nice!

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