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77 is too young these days. I wish Ojukwu luck, may he pull through this.

[size=14pt]Tafida, Aliyu disagree over support for Jonathan[/size]
From ABDULLAHI SHU’AIBU, Lafia
Thursday, December 23, 2010

The Director-General President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan campaign organisation, Dalhatu Sarki Tafida, and Niger State Governor, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, have disagreed over which North-central States support President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2011 ambition.

The incident occurred when Tafida was asked to deliver his address at the North-central zonal meeting with the PDP delegates in Lafia, he listed the states from the zone that were in support of President Jonathan without mentioning Niger and Kwara States.

Tafida mentioned states like Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau and Kogi states from the zone that were die-hard supporters of the president and when it came to the turn of Niger State to speak, Aliyu, who was represented on the occasion by his deputy, Ahmed Ebeto, told the gathering that he was not happy with the comments made by Tafida on their support to President Jonathan’s bid to become president of the country.

He said Niger State supported one of their own President Babangida and that now that a consensus candidate for the North had emerged, the state was now with President Jonathan and wondered why Tafida could still accuse them of not supporting the president.
On his part, the co-ordinator North-central Zone of Jonathan Sambo Campaign Organization and Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswan, commended President Jonathan for siting a Federal University in Lafia, the North-central zone, and appointment of Labaran Maku as minister of information and communication.

Suswan further appealed to the President to elevate all the junior ministers from the zone to senior ministers and empower the people of the zone economically. He appealed to the President Jonathan to dualise the notorious Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia-Makurdi-Keffi road to alleviate the suffering faced by the people of the area.

Governor Suswan further stressed the need to tap the mineral potentials for the zone as well as the need to establish agricultural research centre in the zone. Responding, President Jonathan called on the people of the North-central zone to give him the mandate in 2011 and everything they asked for would be given to them.

He also said wining the PDP primaries was as good as wining the general election and that was the reason people were picking presidential tickets from the PDP. He called on the PDP members to see themselves as one family and supprt any one that emerged in the primary election.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/dec/23/national-23-12-2010-010.htm

[size=14pt]2011: Atiku’s campaign coordinator resigns, aligns with Jonathan[/size]
Written by Adamu Amadu, Dutse
Thursday, 23 December 2010

THE Jigawa State chairman of Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Alhaji Sale Ahmed Danzomo, has resigned from the position and pledged his support for President Goodluck Jonathan.

Alhaji Danzomo announed his resignation in a letter dated December 21, 2010, a copy of which was made available to the Nigerian Tribune in Dutse.

In the letter, which was addressed to the Director-General of the campaign organisation, he said he resigned because the state government and the governor were supporting the presidential aspiration of Presidential Jonathan, adding that doing anything contrary would make him disloyal to the governor.

According to Alhaji Danzomo, “I voluntarily resigned as Jigawa State chairman of Atiku Abubakar 2011 campaign with effect from Tuesday, December 21, 2010,” adding that “I wish to thank the executive committee of the campaign organisation for an opportunity given to me to serve as the state chairman.

“I cannot be a hypocrite. My boss, Governor Sule Lamido, paid his allegiance to President Jonathan. I have no any option but to dump Atiku and go to Jonathan,” he said, adding that he had already handed over to the state secretary of the organisation, Mr Yakubu Ruba.

Alhaji Danzomo, it will be recalled, is currently the Special Assistant to Governor Lamido on Endowments and International Agencies and chairman, Jigawa State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), North-West.

Meanwhile Governor Lamido has castigated the former vice-president and the northern consensus candidate, Alhaji Abubakar, saying that “there is no basis for any PDP member to support him (Atiku), because he spent about three years opposing the party.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/15145-2011-atikus-campaign-coordinator-resigns-aligns-with-jonathan

I want GEJ to shuk pepper in di hai of his enemies! May he show dem wot soap will do to oju iyen! Awon were! _{Yoruba peeps, please forgif my weak grasp of the language.}

Come the 13th, may dia hai balls pop out like di hai's of frog. Oga GEJ, if anybodi, begin make trouble, please spray dem wit shelltox and otapiapia!

Ogini di?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ_Tpgvwt-c?fs=1&amp[/flash]

[size=21pt]@chizillar[/size]

Your idol Atiku whom you claim was a multi-millonaire in the 80's was sacked from the Customs service for corruption in, guess what year? 1989! Horror!

Now reply in 100pt font size, cos you can't see clearly. Olodo!

babasoty:
Does this really add up--- Okah's phones and that of his family members was seized a day before the blast and he was contacted by the GEJ's aide a day after the blast----how ?, through which phone , the seized one ?---- Sahara Reporters shouldn't think we'd be this gullible na, haba,

. . .But Debosky says the story adds up! He argues that it is highly plausible! He maintains that Okah is some sort of holy man from whom "corroboration" is expected like the trumpet of the lord, he is waiting to "hear from Okah himself."

This life, will always spring surprises!

@Debosky
Abeg, entertain ya sef wit dis artwork jare! Okah will soon "corroborate" it. Olodo:

www.nairaland.com/attachments/324341_SaharaReportersFakePicture_jpg69a0b6e4ad1c8831fa731bd73bb022d2

yinka85:
@BEAFFY,

I just dey laugh.And I will continue to laugh whether or not you chose to call issues what they are.

You have already defined yourself in my last challenge to you concerning your silence on a thread where sneaky Dora sticked it in the face of your beloved GEJ,thereby once again exposing the sham called PDP and her thuggish sympathizers like you.

Just continue to choose and cherry pick your news sources in line with what you like them to write or not,and I will continue to laugh on your cynicism.

Wonders!

You are truly sick. So you think I have the time to read all threads, especially the type that excite meat seller types? Na wa!
Get a life and challenge other customers of iya akara, I'm too far above you mentally.

It is left for us to seriously develop, so one day we can sieze and auction Big Ben and Nelsons column to African business men and women.

[quote author=cou-gar link=topic=572965.msg7390542#msg7390542 date=1293042782]look at this fool. it is the community formed on the communities on ps3 that is now social networking. there are chat rooms on ps3 you doofus![/quote]Really? So why did you equate the blackberry and ps3 to social networks? Was it a temporary "software glitch" or was it a more permanent expression of low self esteem (of the name dropping type)?
You really need to get your issues in check.

[quote author=cou-gar link=topic=572965.msg7390542#msg7390542 date=1293042782]this block will not crumble if we continue to have hypocrites like you chatting poppycocks. how will your positive energy change the corrupt leaders in that country? do you seriously believe nigeria can be redeemed or you are just hopelessly deluded like the naija leaders themselves.[/quote]The difference between us, is that while I engage positively, you waste your energy baying at the Moon. I am attempting to build stuff, and you know what? My efforts have brought me in contact with people who actually have the same views and lots of focussed energy. Our conversations and plans are always about moving forward, not ranting about facebook like we invented it (there's real tools we invent, but thats another story ).

The chambers reminded the former vice president that “we are no longer in military regime where force was the order of the day while it called on all Nigerians to ensure that men of such attitude are rejected in our democracy system of government so that the country could attain peace, progress and profitable projection”.

word.

[size=14pt]Atiku’s Statement Is Frightening —Fawehinmi[/size]
Posted By On December 22, 2010 @ 12:48 pm
By Paul Sanusi

Gani Fawehinmi Chambers has described the recent statement of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a presidential aspirant on the platform of Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, as frightening and undemocratic.

Mohammed Fawehinmi, head of the chambers, made this assertion in a release made available to P.M.NEWS.

The statement reads: “We have heard of the statement credited to former Vice President and an intending presidential aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in person of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

“The statements is frightening because it shows clearly that Alhaji Abubakar is so desperate for power as he is ready to scuttle the 2011 elections if he is not allowed to represent the party based on alleged zoning formula.

“The use of the word ‘violent change’ is not only shameful and regrettable, it indicates his undemocratic attitude.”

The chambers reminded the former vice president that “we are no longer in military regime where force was the order of the day while it called on all Nigerians to ensure that men of such attitude are rejected in our democracy system of government so that the country could attain peace, progress and profitable projection”.

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/12/22/atiku%e2%80%99s-statement-is-frightening-%e2%80%94fawehinmi/

[quote author=cou-gar link=topic=572965.msg7390339#msg7390339 date=1293040499]shut up, stop talking before i expose your folly further. there are communities of gamers on ps3 where people actually interact online. the above drivel you typed isn't coherent. i will give you one more chance to advance your point instead of wasting bandwidth.[/quote]Hmmmmm. In my opinion, you have only exposed yourself. Not only have you demonstrated that you do not know what a social network is, but here you are arguing doggedly that blackberries, ps3's and facebook members are social networks!
If you do not understand simple definitions, how can you possibly grasp the current topic? Million Dollar question!

[quote author=cou-gar link=topic=572965.msg7390339#msg7390339 date=1293040499]so what will get anything done? you have been talking about this positive energy now for eons - what has it changed in nigeria? 40 million youths are still jobless while your moronic governors/senators are stashing $$$ in foreign banks and you are here acting like your positivity will change the hot temperature in sokoto. go and sit down and keep your fantasies in your wet dreams.[/quote]Like I said, you have continously expressed a low self esteem, hence the sense of hopelessness conveyed in your words. Yes, the country has problems, but they will never be tackled by baying at the Moon. Get your energy together, get a focus, team up with like minds and channel the energy you are wasting; you will find that belonging to focussed, positive groups will do a lot to lift and strengthen you.

You might have given in to hopelessness, but many others haven't. We keep chipping at the huge block, because we know that one day it will crumble.

appletango:
this report is being used by the defense team for henry okah and has been made available to all parties in this case. all will become public in due course but by then i'm sure you will have finally disappeared to wherever it is you came from.

Now this is another fish sellers tale! You want to convince me that Okah's defense team are so naive that they would attempt to prejudice and destroy their own position before their day in court?
Abeg, Okah has lawyers defending him, not shoemakers and rewires.

Daft.

The soldiers are there to stop any saboteurs within PHCN from marooning or selling vital equipment as they have done in the past.
The generator mafia and the cabal are the last groups to be defeated (fuel mafia has gone 6 feet below) and they must be defeated.

Privatisation is the only way forward and until that is achieved, PHCN installations must be kept under guard from paid up vandals.

yinka85:
@Debosky
''The funniest bit here is Beaf - when we get confirmation from other sources, he will start backtracking like Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk''

I really dey laugh.

You will continue laughing, but at yourself.
I cannot fathom how thinking folk can believe that Sahara Reporters obtained a secret report from SA. It is just absolutely ridiculous, but we've seen Nairalanders stoop to lower lows before, so no biggies.

Sweeten your laughter with this bit of artistry from Sahara Reporters. No fear! Its right up your street from the "believable" press:

Sahara Reporters is best known for fake news these days.

[size=14pt]The fake pic below too is courtesy Sahara Reporters[/size]. Shame.
http://saharareporters.com/photo/photonews-jonathans-declaration-when-jonathan-women-met-goodluck-men

www.nairaland.com/attachments/324341_SaharaReportersFakePicture_jpg69a0b6e4ad1c8831fa731bd73bb022d2

I de laf oooooooooo!!!!!

[quote author=cou-gar link=topic=572965.msg7390069#msg7390069 date=1293037280]stop disgracing yourself on a public forum. there are gamers' community on facebook. there are millions of gamers worldwide on playstation and they do interact too. social networking is not limited to facebook alone. grab a book![/quote]Funny.

If by your logic the presence of gamers on facebook makes the ps3, blackberry etc, social networks; there are members on facebook. Are the members social networks too?
You are stretching much further than the Minister.

[quote author=cou-gar link=topic=572965.msg7390069#msg7390069 date=1293037280]the youths congregate because they have been let down by the pathetic elders/rulers of the country. we cannot channel energy until we purge from the top. what is the essence of channeling any energy at the bottom when we have fools presiding over us? once the head is corrupt, it will infect the other parts.[/quote]Sorry, those who congregate at screaming matches are not focussed. They cannot identify what they want and go for it, otherwise they wouldn't waste so much energy screaming at the sky and affecting nothing. Energy is better channelled, screaming about a Ministers "misspeak" won't get anything for anyone.

[quote author=cou-gar link=topic=572965.msg7389959#msg7389959 date=1293036343]says who? you can browse the internet from playstation. i have used facebook on ps3 several times.[/quote]That doesn't make either a ps3 or blackberry the equivalent of facebook, does it? If you came down so hard on the Minister for a little spin, how hard are you willing to come down on yourself for saying the above?

Dude, life is about moderation, about give and take. There are very serious issues plaguing Nigeria and we tend to find good folk missing when concerned discussions crop up, instead the youth congrgate at "who can scream loudest" matches. It is a sheer waste of energy. Lets channel that energy into better and more concrete things. How can we kill corruption and obtain true federalism? How can we obtain a citizen-state contract that will give each and every one of us a sense of belonging in Nigeria? How can we build a country? etc etc etc
These things are the real questions we must expend energy on.

debosky:
You have finally lost the last bit of sense you had. SMH

I have noted your presence. Next!

[quote author=cou-gar link=topic=572965.msg7389906#msg7389906 date=1293035927]wum alert! what's next? gej brought iphone and blackberry phones to nigeria and errrrrr, don't forget playstation 3 too.[/quote]No!
Seriously, you can't consider playstation 3 to be a social networking tool?

Jarus:
El-Rufai has been actively facebook-politicking for at least 2 years now.
Ditto for Fashola.
So Beaf, I beg to disagree.

Fact is, no politician made any sort of impact on facebook before GEJ. His impact was felt Worldwide and is known to be the first time an African politician took his belief in democracy to the web. Through GEJ, social networking has become a democratic tool in Africa; he actively reaches out to the small and the mighty.
It is worth the praise the Minister gave.

[quote author=cou-gar link=topic=572965.msg7389580#msg7389580 date=1293033737]gej introduced social networking to nigerian politics? you must be as dumb as the information minister himself.[/quote]Charlie, stop spreading low self esteem all over NL. GEJ brought facebook to Nigerian politics and by extension, to Nigeria.
You have called Nigeria "useless" so many times that I can see where you are coming from; we need our youth to be self confident, not self self-deprecating and lacking in esteem. There is a country to be built.

rasputinn:
Say no to malaria say no to Atiku

“That the findings of the said Senate Committee showed clearly that Atiku Abubakar was the source of the over 440m dollars brought into the USA over a period of 8 years (2000-2008) through more than 30 accounts and both questioned the nature and source of Atiku’s wealth as well as found that the allegation by the SEC that Ms Douglas received over $2 million in bribe payments from Siemen AG intended part for her husband cannot be dismissed.

Damn!
I strongly foresee disqualification. The above, added to the fact that he was sacked from customs for corruption? Chineke! Olorun ma je!
The Customs service is already extremely corrupt by nature, so a person getting sacked from its fold for corruption must be a real don dadda!

In 1984 (Buhari's time), the customs officer in charge of MMA on the day of the 53 suitcases of raw cash saga was one Mr. Atiku Abubakar. . .

GEJ introduced social networking to Nigerian (even African) politics. That is what the Minister meant, he was 100% correct.
Because of GEJ, all Nigerian politicians are striving hard to seem in connection with the masses and youth through facebook, twitter and the likes (even monsters like IBB).

An easy way to ban similar sounding names to one that has been banned is to use the [size=14pt]Levenshtein Distance algorithm[/size] together with a special list of banned names. Then we won't have bannedName123 registering as bannedName321 or banned456Name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

Please, lets get rid of some folk for good. The politics section should be about serious, intelligent and inspiring inputs, not the sort of gutter scraping logic and topics that some paint the place with.

1025:
unfortunately i have a business in ivory coast as we speak. i spent 8 months in abidjan till march 24th of this year when i left. i shld be in abidjan if not for one thing or the other.
abidjan is an european city compared to what we have here. they have 100% night live which nigeria lacks as a result of insecurity as informed by darkness.
[size=14pt]quattara [/size] is of the northern side and it is believed that the northern part is made up of visitors especially those from burkina faso and mali and the are popularly known as the jula ppl.
on the election, they were announcing the result when a pro gbagbo who saw that it was not going their way and went out to destroy the result. un believed the result they have favoured [size=14pt]quattara[/size] but were waiting for the official result when gbagbo used his own machineries to declare himself winner and swore him in.
the arguement of the gbagbo's men which was even aired on CNN is that the constitution of ivory coast says that for any result to be authentic, it must have the signature of the president which the first result lacked. well, it is not my business to lecture u on the situation but all am saying is that in any situation, jonathan is a product of shallow selection and has no moral justification to speak peace in the situation in ivory coast.
for jonathan to be qualified to talk in that situation, he must first of all resign his position and appologise to nigerians otherwise, he shld accept anythin g from ivory coast because they are just birds of a feather.
a blind man is not allowed to lead a blind man else they fall into a ditch.
it is a culture in africa for rulers to get to their targets via a DO OR DIE AFFAIR(obasanjo).
gbagbo himself knows jonathan more than u and i and that is why he is even not looking at them as serious ppl.
where were u when african leaders acted in the situation in zimbabwe? mugabe told them how each and everyone of them got to power including our own obasanjo.
in togo, they cld only ask them to go back for election which the same man won. so tell me how active your corrupt jonathan and his fellow african leaders are in fighting corruption.
for your information, no country of this african is loosing more funds and resources to corruption than nigeria.
we are living in darkness so seeing is a very big problem in darkness.
my dear, u have nothing to offer in sensitive issues and as long as you are concerned, i am an authority hence i stand a mile clear to lecture u anyday anytime.

You only reinforce the fact that you are a dunce by making wild claims. How can anybody who has even a passing interest in Ivory Coast talk about [b]q[/b]ua[b]tt[/b]ara? What the fck is "quattara?"

Dimwit, I repeat, do not involve my name in any airing of your jankara market arguments. Stick to the things a market trader would know and can cope with, like the price of meat, fish etc.

1025:
unfortunately i have a business in ivory coast as we speak. i spent 8 months in abidjan till march 24th of this year when i left. i shld be in abidjan if not for one thing or the other.
. . .

In jail or as a free man?

“That Atiku was invited by the Senate Committee for questioning but that he declined the invitation.“That since he was invited for questioning by the said US Senate Committee, he has never set his foot in the USA for fear of being arrested.

^
Like I said, you are a fool. You have no idea of the problems in Ivory Coast, yet feel you must butt in with your fish sellers tales. Its a level of idiocy thats just infuriating and not worth engaging.
I have spent the whole day lamenting the sort of low IQ's that are common in this section. Why should idiots be allowed to comment in the politics section?

What you need is a mechanic or carpenter to nail a new brain in your head, cos di one wen de deh don knock!

Talk about things you know, this isn't a fish market. Also, please engage those at your level, cos you only irritate those who know more than you.

^
Dude, you're a known fool so no point attempting to reason with you. Lets just preempt you by saying Obasanjo caused the Ivorian problem.
Please do not reply any of my posts if you have only foolishness to post; I really hate overt displays of stupidity and ignorance.

A thief will always behave like a thief.

For instance, the plaintiffs averred that “between 1969 and 1989, Atiku Abubakar rose to become the Deputy Director of Customs and was dismissed following the findings of a panel of inquiry that recommended his dismissal.