₦airaland Forum

koruji:
I think you are too fixated on the candidates themselves, whereas they are really agents of the powers that be inside their parties. You must look at the parties and what they stand for. One thing is clear to me. Any arguments in support of PDP is similar to asking the military to come back - simply because we are always afraid to confront the issues before us. PDP needs the punishment of losing all around - it would be good for Nigeria and, depending on what they learn from it, for PDP itself.

On that basis I really believe that ACN and Ribadu provide the best combination for Nigeria at this point.

With or without GEJ PDP is just wrong - that's one. But what about GEJ himself. The last one year has shown us his style of leadership, and I am telling you it is not what Nigeria needs at the present - the man is good-hearted no doubt. OBJ was President for 8 years and yet the issue of Sharia took root - so it is not about the candidate's region. It is about three things:

1. Party platform and the precedence they have set : - PDP has failed for 12 years despite rosy economic conditions; ACN has done a good job in the states under its control; CPC has no precedence == Winner - ACN.
2. Candidate: GEJ has been okay but not great in the last one year; Buhari's previous coming and service under Abacha has a lot of questions; Ribadu was exemplary and hungry for change under very difficult circumstances == Winner - Ribadu
3. Nigerian people: We basically gave the key(s) to Aso Rock to both OBJ and Yar'adua/GEJ and slept off - and they disappointed us. What we must do inthe next dispensation is stay on the tail of the legislators, governors and the president NO MATTER WHO WINs (though we hope for someone with a vision) that they will dream of Nigerians and not their ego in when they sleep, and be eager to report progress to us when they are awake. We must hold them to an AGENDA of CHANGE.

That is my bit.

Basseti:
The jury is still out on that one, my man.

Its either GEJ is very honest or very helpless and one can argue each point genuinely.

EzeUche:
^^^

So Goodluck has to lose in order for people to sing his praises? The man has widespread support if you like it or not.

bodejohn:
It is very petty to see the results coming in as the commitment of the presidency to credible elections. What we are witnessing is the collective will of Nigerians to reject the ruling party. I voted in my ward, the first time since 1997, I also saw youths who collected money from PDP and voted according to their consience. All these didn't happen by luck. GEJ and his co travellers dare not interfer in the process lest they have an Egypt or Tunisia on the hands.

[size=14pt]Blast at polling station in northern Nigeria[/size]
Sat Apr 9, 2011 12:39pm GMT Print | Single Page[-] Text [+] LAGOS, April 9 (Reuters) - An explosion hit a polling booth in a neighbourhood of the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri during a parliamentary election on Saturday, an emergency official said.

"There is a possibility of casualties," said Yushua Shuaib, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). He said the polling station was in the Unguwar Doki neighbourhood.

Around 100 people have been killed in the run-up to elections in Africa's most populous nation, including 10 who died in a bomb blast at an election office on Friday. Nobody has claimed responsibility for that explosion.

(Reporting by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Matthew Tostevin)

[size=14pt]Blast at polling station in northern Nigeria[/size]
Sat Apr 9, 2011 12:39pm GMT  Print | Single Page[-] Text [+] LAGOS, April 9 (Reuters) - An explosion hit a polling booth in a neighbourhood of the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri during a parliamentary election on Saturday, an emergency official said.

"There is a possibility of casualties," said Yushua Shuaib, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). He said the polling station was in the Unguwar Doki neighbourhood.

Around 100 people have been killed in the run-up to elections in Africa's most populous nation, including 10 who died in a bomb blast at an election office on Friday. Nobody has claimed responsibility for that explosion.

(Reporting by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Matthew Tostevin)

13volts:
Updated for those asking of the location.

Check ekeremor and Sagabama areas in bayelsa that's where the shootings took plays.

Arms and legs of a policewoman were blown off and eyes of a presiding officer plucked out in midday blast at Ungwar Doki, Maiduguri

Kenyy:
Get your facts right; you cannot be more 'Niger Deltan' than me having spent 6years in Uniport(Bsc & Msc), more than 15years in Bayelsa and my dad's house 50metre from an oil well. For your information VIOLENCE has been unprecendented in my state, Bayelsa since 2010(GEJ's year of worse years ahead). Besides, there was bombing in my state just a few days ago, though not widely reported for political reasons and the fact that Nigerian Editors were in Abuja busy collecting their share from the National Cake baked by Nigerians, shared by GEJ for PDP and Co. Lest I forget, please be informed that we the Core Niger Deltans were ready to die for GEJ if he had not succeeded Yar' Adua, but now we know better by hindsight.

Beaf: Nigerians would love to know why Yar Adua's cabal (Turai, Kurfi, Tanimu Yakubu, Ruma etc etc) and the likes of Muhammed Abacha feel so cozy in CPC. We would like to know why their arrival has coincided with a massively increased level of bombings and shootings in the North.

[size=14pt]Mohammed Lado was caught bombing. . . He has been arraigned in court. He is a senior CPC man! Why?
Why is the first Suleja bomb thrower a CPC member? 11 kids died.[/size]

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/18555-suleja-bomb-blast-court-remands-cpc-assembly-candidate-in-sss-custody

Some Buhari people - "Its a primitive World, where we tell lies and throw stones and bombs!
If no Northern consensus candidate stands a chance, we will make the country ungovernable!"

ogb5:
enemies of the govt promise to make the country ungovernable unless the president chickens out of the election and does not contest. they bomb campaign rally of the president party, they bomb government workers preparing for the election and the right response from you is to blame the govt, reward thesame opposition by voting them in. Your logic is grand.

But for me no amount of bombs by the opposition will make me vote for them. Bombs and violence do not sway me.

osoisi:
it is unfortunate that you can not give us an area in Bayelsa where this is happening. if not for anything it will allow us warn those close to the area. Do you even have brother in bayelsa? If you can not tell us where (we are not even asking for street name) then carry your mobile phone and look for another thing to do with it rather than cause a panic here.

fstranger3:
Are you threating a forumite with PHYSICAL HARM?

You need to be banned for that statement. I am reporting your arse to the mods.

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Stop spreading false information, u can reach the state security services on the ff hotlines

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somze:
Where in Bayelsa exactly? It is peaceful in Yenegoa, Nembe and Yeneka. I just got off the phone with friends there.

maga1:
@ OP pls enligthen me more. I want 2 knw d party in which one of d strongest cabal member in peson of Sen. Kanti Bello is?

IVORY2009:
Stop spreading false information, u can reach the state security services on the ff hotlines

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montelik:
Tomorrows race looks like it could a real cracker, pity I may not be able to watch.

dapachez:
President Goodluck Jonathan has called on the electorate and election officials not to be deterred by yesterday’s explosion that rocked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Suleja, saying only that would put the perpetrators to shame. Jonathan, in a statement yesterday by his spokesman, Ima Niboro, said he has ordered the nation’s security agencies to take steps to beef up security at all INEC premises across the country.

It said, President Jonathan totally condemns the mindless bomb attack which claimed the lives of several Nigerians including members of the National Youth Service Corps engaged in preparatory work for the conduct of free, fair and credible elections in the country. “The President’s deepest sympathies go the families of these patriotic youth and he wishes to assure them that the Federal Government will do everything possible to bring their murderers to justice.”

Jonathan urged all INEC officials engaged in the conduct of the general elections not to be discouraged or daunted by the attack on their colleagues in Suleja, but to go about their duties with the assurance that the Federal Government will take immediate action to strengthen security measures already put in place to ensure their safety in all parts of the country.

http://nigeriamasterweb.com/paperfrmes.html

Akan:
Military rule, anybody?

[size=14pt]Meanwhile, the survivor, currently on hospital bed who gave his name simply as Mohammed alleged that the bomb was brought to them by Osama Bin Ladin[/size], but was quick to add that his late friend never told him what the bombs were intended for.
He said: “My name is Mohammed. The bomb that was brought to my friend exploded on me. I don’t know what my friend intended to do with the bomb.”

Mohammed who said he worked at a Yoghurt factory claimed to have met his late friend Lawal at Gadon Kaya in Kano, pointing out that “he just called me when he came in from Kano and asked me to meet him at the site where the accident happened.”

[size=14pt]He stressed: “I don’t know what he wanted to use it for. What happened was that when we met at Mahuta, he received a call and suddenly two people appeared in a black Mercedes 190 model. One of the occupants who is an Arab and the other a Nigerian gave him the parcel which he confirmed to me to be a bomb. The bomb accidentally exploded just as I was about asking him what he intended to do with it”. [/size]  

The owner of the house where the bomb exploded who gave his name as Abdullahi said he was approached by one of his friends to give the house to Mohammed who wanted to be coming there to read the Qua’ran and he obliged.

nagoma:
Ghaddafi is fighting for his life - please don't distract us. The national security advisor and the government have questions to answer. From 1st October to date not one of this bombings has been solved and the culprits arrested to face the law. You call that security? We are all stakeholders in this.