₦airaland Forum

enyojo:
IT IS GOOD TO SEE THAT BEAF HAS ABANDONED HIS 'VOTE FOR THE PERSON NOT THE PARTY' GARB AND HAS FULLY BECOME A STAUNCH PDP DEFENDER.
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petroleum marketers in the territory have advised motorists not to engage in panic buying as the hiccups experienced in getting the product will soon be over.

The petroleum marketers, who attributed the fuel scarcity that is gradually building up in the area to a break in supply chain occasioned by transportation problems, said efforts were going on to put the situation under control

Date Published: 05/05/11
Fuel Scarcity hits Abuja

For the first time in more than one year, fuel queues returned to Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

What started as a rumour on Monday led to panic buying by motorists as long queues emerged but quickly disappeared as the supply of petroleum product was restored.

The queues, however, returned Wednesday as sale of the product witnessed a boom at the black market. Presently, five litres of fuel sell for between N1, 500 and 2,000 while 10 litres go for N3, 000 and 3, 500 respectively.

Spokesman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Levy Ajuonuma, had told the nation that there was sufficient petroleum products to last the next 39 days. He said what was being created was artificial scarcity and urged marketers and those involved in the distribution chain to maintain supply of petroleum products.

The situation, however, worsened Thursday as most petrol stations in the city were no longer selling the product prompting return of lengthy queues. Most people slept at the petrol stations while only the NNPC Mega Station, Total and Connoil all located at the Central Area part of the city were still selling petrol.

Transportation fares had also risen by 100 per cent prompting commuters to either remain at home or resort to trekking.

koruji:
I don't get into many of the arguments here on NL but do read a lot of the political stuff and cannot recall anyone on NL aggressively or gently push ACN as a Yoruba party. If you have a reference it would be good to see it.

The fact is that PDP stole elections in the SW as it did in many other states - the SW on their honor waited for the end game. How are the people supposed to recover their stolen mandate? They certainly can't fight back by going into PDP. Mind you, it was not simply rigging. No, it was the fact that OBJ made a political deal and BAREFACEDLY broke it. No honor at all! Tinubu single-handedly stuck to his gun and suffered for it, but was vindicated. That is the long and short of his fame - he showed himself wise, patient and hard working. There is nothing GEJ is likely to visit on Tinubu that OBJ has not tried.

As for pushing the supremacy before your face - I don't know where these statements come from. If it is from NL postings, I recall that you had advised others not to form real life outlooks based on NL. So take your own advice. If you call the desire of the SW for good leadership and the ability to push the cream to the surface "supremacy" then that is not really fair to you or me or to our people who are desperately in need of people who mean business.

Tinubu did not attack any wide region, although you are implying it from his statement! He specifically refered to GEJ as a "drunken fisherman" in reply to GEJ's reference to the SW being in the hand of rascals. I am not saying it was good to make the GEJ drunken fisherman quip, but it was just as bad to make the SW rascals quip. We both know that GEJ was attempting to embark on a political fight - which was quickly counterbalanced aggressively. If anybody is to bear blame for painting with a wide brush in this case it is President GEJ. What probably annoyed Tinubu most was GEJ's reaction after he was told that such a language is unbecoming. He said something like I did not call SWers rascals, but they are free to call themselves rascals. That last statement was worse than the initial one. It is a tongue in cheek statement like "if not that I have great respect for you I would say you are a . . .". The point is that the same way that you are translating "drunken fisherman" in ethnic terms is the same way an individual Yoruba is likely to say "se a wa ni okunrin yi n pe ni rascal" i.e. "are we the ones this man is calling rascals" and when you call him/her a name he/or she is unlikely to call you a name back. He/she is more likely to refer specifically to parents and grandparents both dead and alive because that is the way your name calling feels.

As for NLers taking up the "drunken fishermen" phrase I do not doubt that some NLers have used the word as you stated. This is unfortunate, but you know the nature of NL and we cannot let the dreg of NL dictate what we do in real Nigeria, especially those at the helms of her affairs. NL should be called T.it-for-tat land, but it is really a case of a normal human being attempting to argue with a mad man. At the end of the day, both are mad in perception, and reality if not stopped.

Good to admire Fashola, but without Tinubu we would not have a Fashola, at least not the way it happened. If Tinubu did not fight the good fight and stand up to OBJ there would be no party to counterbalance PDP's corrupt ways since Yar'adua decapitated ANPP with his GNU and Buhari relied on a phantom CPC for the elections. OBJ had a chance to deliver Nigeria into competent hands in 2007, but first he tried to keep it for himself and then he handed it to a dying man. So for worth it is worth Tinubu has done well. It is obvious that the man has also taken himself out of active political office for obvious reasons. That is someone who is willing to give up personal ambition (even though his wife was substituted in return). It is more than what can be said for the daylight-thieves and possible murderers that have no qualms contesting and "winning" elections under PDP.

There is really no need to worry about how ACN is running itself. In another 4 years we get a chance to judge their results. Tinubu has certainly done a couple of things that one would frown at. In any case, I 'll rather have at least two "crooked" parties that can counter each other than a "good" one-party Nigeria - because there is nothing like a "good" one-party state, especially in the Nigerian context. If there is really a party to worry about, it is PDP which has wasted 12-years of Nigeria's time and money.

RoadStar:
Hasn't this been the problem of Yoruba politicians all along ?
It seems to be a culture demanded by the Yorubas that their leaders must depict loyalty to Yorubas by expressing contempt for other tribes.
Tinubu for one is not a tribalist, this is a guy that as governor of Lagos state, hired commissioners from other ethnic groups.

But in other to appeal 2 yorubas he has 2 show contempt for others.
This is the same qualities which denied many brilliant Yoruba leaders of national acceptance including Awo, Bola Ige, Adesanya etc (With OBJ being the only exception) although he is well disliked by his Yoruba Kit and Kin

I must add that the Ibo political class have always been Nationalistic in Orientation and Ngige wont be the last.
From Zik , Ekwueme, Anyaoku, Nnamani, Okadigbo etc (Ojukwu being the one exeption) but some may argue that he was a product of circumstance at the time.
Its seems that to gain the trust of the Ibos u have to show accomodation for others.

It might just be a cultural thing .
Not tryna say that Yorubas are any less hospitable than Ibos or any tribe 4 that matter.
Just Food for thought.

zstranger:
^^^

WE also own PDP since we wrote the constitution.

Doofus!

koruji:
@Beaf
You are developing [size=14pt]a penchant for making statements that are not backed by facts to people who may be unaware that they are false[/size]. I cannot remember anybody on here pushing, either aggressively or gently, ACN as a Yoruba party. True, ACN is THE platform that the Yorubas used to reclaim the OPEN ROBBERY THAT PDP ENGAGED IN IN 2003, 2007, and to a very good extent in 2011.

If you are a true democrat, with the welfare of the Nigerian nation at heart, you would be thankful that ACN is going to bring a semblance of democracy rather than the one-party state that you guys are pushing, whether by omission or commission .

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the reply Tinubu gave to GEJ. There was nothing ethnically bigoted about it. In fact, he specifically mentioned GEJ, while the latter used a broad stroke that referenced an entire group of people. May be you are trying to tell us that Ijaws are the only ones known for fishing or getting drunk, otherwise I do not see the connection. If you must interpret that statement ethnically then you need to know that to call someone rascal in Yoruba land is to cast aspersion on their upbringing & family. That is why Tinubu descended on GEJ with so much forcefulness. Rascal is a word that applies to area boys, street urchins and the like. If President doesn't know the enormity of refering to someone like Tinubu in those terms then there is his education.

Is the below what GEJ and co are going to spend four years doing with Nigeria's time and money? Pursuing shadowy enemies and getting back at people for spats, instead of moving rapidly to unite the nation and get to the job of development. Well, if that is the case, Goodluck (and appropriately so) to him. Yar'adua lost his way the day he decided his entire government would be about getting at people.

One advice to President GEJ. Do a good job instead of planning for 2015 even before the 2011 swearing-in ceremony is over. It is sad that the same GEJ camp that accused people of ethnic bigotry when people tried to zone him out of the presidency are the same ones trying to wrap the cloak of ethnic bigotry around someone else - throwing around weighty words like facism.

SMH

sbeezy8:
SAGAMITE dont know wtf hes talking about

humebuloe:
I think our Judiciary is now living up to expectations,let's watch and see what becomes of the whole thing if it is already in the court.

seanet02:
Why do you enjoy playing Politics with double standards- you said Tinubu called gej i drunken fisherman Did he just said? Was it not that clueless ediot that was calling his betters Rascals? case of double standards you are known for.

The history of Nigeria’s current democratic dispensation will not be complete without the mention of Dr. Alex Ekwueme. The seasoned architect and multidisciplinary degree holder was founder and Chairman of the Institute of Civil Society, an organisation that gave birth to the G34. The history to G34 and the formation of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party is all well known.

So much has been said about Ekwueme and the issue of rotational presidency in Nigeria. For the avoidance of doubt, it was Ekwueme’s minority report recommendation at the 1994/1995 National Constitutional Conference that led to the emergence of the now widely accepted six geopolitical zones of Nigeria.

You were one of the leaders of G-34 that fought for return of democracy. Is the group dead?

Lar: G 34 is still very strong. It is still there. You see there again there are issues that make you feel bad when you recall all that happened.

For instance, I feel guilty for a man like Dr. Alex Ekwueme who was the national chairman of G 34, I was his deputy, he was also the interim National Chairman of PDP but yet we did not support him we did not give him this position (presidential ticket).

Many people thought he could have been given the position but because of this peculiar Yoruba position of June 12, this had to be abandoned. G34 is still there. Dr. Alex Ekwueme is still there, he is a very god man, wonderful gentleman, I like him. With the benefit of hindsight, we feel sorry that we did not support him to become president.

zstranger:
You are a mo/r/on

Pray tell, who founded PDP?

Mention the illustrious Igbo man, good enough, and capable enough to found a credible, well organized national party?

FYI, PDP was founded mostly by the Northerners. The manifesto was written 'SOLELY' by an illustrious Yoruba son. The biggest financier of PDP are northerners. Just because they make you PDP chairman at one time or the other in no way make PDP an Igbo party. If at all anything, it is an Hausa party.

What a m/o/r/o/n.

The only igbo parties that are doing fairly well are PPA and APGA, which are nothing more than secondary school asscociations

The biggest political machinery that heralded the creation of PDP was the Shehu yar'adua movement which metamorphosed into the PDM under the control of Atiku. The PDM was effectively demolished by OBJ when it was getting out of control.

Peoples Democratic Party came into being on the 19th August, 1998. It was formed by a group called G.34 Committee headed by Dr. Alex Ekwueme, the Vice-President of Nigeria in the Second Republic.

adamabdul:
I hope they come out with something even though they are very lazy and silly.Here in Maiduguri there is never a day we would not hear gunshots-everyday people are killed by boko haram

10cirenoh:
What are you trying to say please? you claimed underage voted for him and that there are evidence, please prove and show to US how you found out that underage voted for CPC

To see if you are truly intelligent, please answer this

What kinda voting method was used?
How then was it possible for a third party to know that a certain set of people voted for party A?
Who was the person that videotaped these underaged who voted for CPC?
Did they instruct the kids to show them their thumbprinted ballot paper after use?

Back to the registration question, IF THEY WERE ALLOWED TO REGISTER, WHY SHOULD THEY BE REFUSED TO VOTE?

bashr4:
its the yorubas that started calling it a yoruba party and thats what is stalling their progress in other regions just like how apga have been tagged and igbo party and CPC northern party , they dont see us going about calling PDP an igbo party because it was founded by the igbos.