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Gen. IBB has been in the forefront of those crusaders who believe in religious harmony in the country.

But Mr Afegbua, are we not talking of the very same IBB that secretly registered Nigeria as a member of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC)?

This link provides a good article about the deliberate Islamisation of Nigeria http://www./Islamization%20of%20Nigeria.htm
It is wrong if we are a federation. Neither Christianity nor Islam should play any part in the nations government or government relations.

[size=14pt]Nigeria: I Am Being Blackmailed - IBB[/size]
Chika Otuchikere
26 September 2010

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Abuja — One of the key contenders for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential ticket, former military president Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has alleged attempts by unidentified persons to blackmail him and perhaps frustrate his bid for the presidency.

Making this revelation in a release signed by one of his aides and made available to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY, IBB described the attempted blackmail as not only wicked and ill-conceived but could have been the handiwork of politicians desperate to destroy him.

According to the release, the presidential aspirant was accused, through a GSM text message being circulated among Nigerians, of being behind a purported plan by Muslims to attack their Christian neighbours resident in the northern part of the country.

Excerpts of the release signed by the IBB campaign's director of press, Prince Kassim Afegbua, and entitled 'Count IBB out of any planned attack on Christians and Muslims', read: "Our attention has been drawn to a very damaging, spurious, untrue ill-motivated and orchestrated text messages being circulated by people who are desperate to blackmail our presidential aspirant Gen. IBB, linking him to a purported attempt by Muslims to attack Christians in the north.

"To all intents and purposes, this latest blackmail is not only wicked and ill-conceived, but further goes to show how desperate politicians could go to blackmail people. No matter the motive, it is conceived in bad taste and should be condemned in all its ramifications. Gen. IBB has been in the forefront of those crusaders who believe in religious harmony in the country. As a president, he was able to reopen bilateral relations with Israel which paved the way for our Christian brothers and sisters to go on Holy Pilgrimage. He neither discriminates against Christians nor does he engage in anything that tends to undermine the unity of the nation.

"For anybody for whatever motivation to link him with such dastardly intention of creating bad blood among Muslims and Christians is a clear-cut attempt to blackmail him to dim his soaring popularity in the build-up to the 2011 election. We abhor this ill-conceived intention in all its entirety. We condemn wholly the motive. We say tufiakwa to anyone who nurtures such devilish intention. Nigeria's secular status has come to stay and anyone who tries to undermine such recognition might just be inviting crisis to the country.

"We therefore call on all to disregard the ill-conceived text message and join hands with IBB in his quest to provide sound and purposeful leadership to the country through the ballot box. We call on everyone to be more vigilant in order to arrest this ugly situation and those behind the purported text message".

Gen. Babangida's chief campaigner Chief Raymond Dokpesi recently alleged plans by government agents to assassinate him, drawing a stern denial by the presidency. Only penultimate week, IBB publicly declared his intention to seek the PDP ticket in the 2011 presidential election.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201009270908.html

[size=14pt]IMHOTEP: Poverty and the wealth of nations [/size]
By Obadiah Mailafia
September 26, 2010 11:07PMT

One of the grim paradoxes of our global digital civilisation is the increasing asymmetry between the rich and the poor.

The last quarter-century has seen a doubling of global output. But this wealth has accrued preponderantly to a few nations and a few classes within those nations. In the United States, an estimated 5 percent of the population control 70 percent of the country’s wealth. Poverty still persists even in the most advanced industrial democracies. But it is mostly in Africa and South Asia that we have dramatic incidences of poverty bordering on destitution.

My respected teacher Paul Collier recently wrote a book, The Bottom Billion (Oxford University Press 2007). A former World Bank Director of Research and Director of Oxford University’s Centre for the Study of African Economies, Collier is one of the world’s most respected economists.

But much of his technical work is covered up in abstruse algorithms that are known to only a few. His recent popular work has made him into something of an international celebrity. Collier underlines four factors accounting for the phenomenon of world poverty.

First, we have what is referred to as ‘the conflict trap’. Nations trapped in conflict such as the DRC, Côte d’Ivoire, Sudan and Sri Lanka are willy-nilly bound to remain poor. War saps the energy of nations and peoples, wiping off physical infrastructures and destroying the fragile networks of social capital that hold communities together. Post-conflict nations such as Sierra Leone and Liberia also have to grapple with the challenge of rebuilding hope and restoring confidence in societies where conflict and violence have eroded trust among the people.

Second is ‘the natural resource trap’. It is a well-known law of economics that nations that rely solely on one commodity for their export earnings will sooner than later run into trouble.

All raw-material exports are subject to wild gyrations in world prices. With the exception of oil and gold, most are also subject to path-dependent decline.

The wisest leaders have always pursued the path of structural diversification as the ultimate solution to the trend towards increasing economic vulnerability.

Thirdly, we have the curse of geography. Many of Africa’s nations are small and landlocked. There is only so much you can do if you are a landlocked Central African Republic surrounded by poverty-stricken warring neighbours. Much of Africa is far from the world’s growth poles. This means that commerce and transportation are bound to be much more expensive and a country cannot take advantage of the benefits of contiguity to a prosperous neighbour as nations like South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia have done.

Fourthly, we have the problem of poor governance. The accumulated wisdom of five decades of economic development makes it clear that leadership makes all the difference. It would be difficult to contemplate Singaporean prosperity without the figure of Lee Kuan Yew. It is equally doubtful that Tunisia would have achieved so much in economic and social development without the leadership of the visionary Habib Bourguiba and his successor Zine Abidine Ben-Ali. Africa’s poverty cannot be dissociated from the failure of leadership and governance.

The recently concluded summit by world leaders at the United Nations (20-22 September) has brought into sharp focus the abiding challenge of world poverty. The summit was convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to assess the achievements of the last decade in terms of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to forge a new consensus towards meeting the internationally agreed targets by 2015.

Many observers had feared that it would be just another talking shop. Diplomats are, of course, paid to talk.

And talk they did. But the summit was also significant in highlighting areas of progress and the constraints that must be overcome. It was acknowledged that an additional amount of US$35 billion would be required annually to meet the MDG targets. Donors have also pledged contributions of some US$40 billion over the next five years for the Global Strategy for Women and Children’s Health. This new initiative has the potential of saving the lives of 16 million women, preventing 33 million unwanted pregnancies while protecting 120 million children from preventable diseases.

I am pleased to note that our country was ably represented by President Jonathan Goodluck and the Senior Special Assistant on MDGs, Amina Az-Zubair. While some progress has been made in such areas as school enrolment and child health, we are well below targets in the area of maternal mortality. I dare to say that Nigeria’s problems transcend mere issues of MDGs. With our population of 150 million people, tackling poverty requires a concerted development strategy anchored on agriculture-led industrialisation. Providing electricity across the country would reduce poverty by 20 percent in Nigeria.

I know Ms. Az-Zubair and I know that she can achieve even more if she has the necessary backing. It was rather unfair that some sections of the press recently made some outrageous allegations about her Office, insinuating corruption involving figures that were wildly above the total quantum that the Federal Government has committed to poverty alleviation over the last decade. Some of the problems the MDG Office has encountered have to do with legislators cornering some of the funds in the name of ‘constituency projects’. We would do well to keep politics out of poverty.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Opinion/5623700-182/imhotep_poverty_and_the_wealth_of.csp

[size=14pt]Jigawa governor blames basin authority for flood disaster [/size]
September 27, 2010 12:47AM

The managers of Hadejia Jamaree River Basin Development Authority are to blame for releasing excess water from Tiga Dam about three weeks ago, wreaking havoc on the people of Jigawa and their farmlands.

The state governor, Sule Lamido, made the remark when the past governors since the creation of Jigawa in 1991, met to sympathise with him. Lamido had told his colleagues that, as a result of the incident, more than two million people had been displaced in 5,000 villages, while 90,000 hectares of farmland had been destroyed. He said N4.5 billion had also been lost to the disaster, adding that farm produce such as rice, guinea corn, millet, beans, sesame and maize had been washed away by the flood, portending food shortage in the state.

“Jigawa is a very poor state, therefore, I want the federal government to come and rescue my people,” he said. The Emir of Hadejia, Abubakar Maje, whose emirate is badly affected, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the river should be dredged to forestall further calamity. Twelve local governments were affected. They are: Jahun, Miga, Kafinhausa, Hadejia, Guri, Kirikasama, Birniwa, Mallamadori, Kaugama, Taura, Ringim and Auyo.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5623670-146/jigawa_governor_blames_basin_authority_for.csp

Becomrich0:
but thank you for posting the picture. after seen the picture I made a call to President jimmy carter centre, and requested to present the case of Nigeria to President Jimmy carter and would try to get in touch with the OIC. And how difficult conducting election would be in nigeria. i would like to show him the satellite pictures and what nigeria census figures says.

My friend sharap dia! You think Americans understand Ennngggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiissssssssssssssss? You want to be locked in Guantanamo?
Just calmly collect your Sikira and be whispering batu in her ears jare!

oyb:
classic methodology of our resident madman, liar, hypocrite , sycophant and all around comedian

when shown to all as the fool that you are , spam

fresh wind of change - bringing the familiar stench of corruption and mad self entitlement

instead of parading on this thread after being thoroughly humiliated, you should be hiding yourself in one of your masters dustbins - you belong with garbage, that's what you are after all, a dirty valueless foul piece of refuse that has no business polluting the atmosphere of reasoned minds

Damn! It must take a heck of a lot of effort to maintain the position of village !diot!
www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

I donate this for use in 2011, to those hating unreasonably, straw clutchers and tribal lords.

oyb:
look at this mindless dolt

must you reinforce the conviction that your are a consummate retard?

[size=14pt]does michelle follow obama around the world? does she carry her personal staff[/size] and friends ?

are you truly so silly that you think that the trp to the UN is a girl's night out?

look at this daft sycophant with the reasoning of a village eediot

you were talking trash about gej fulfilling the constitution as regards asset declaration - better go and remind your master that first ladies are not recognized in the constitution

keep up with your shameless attempts to derail the thread

patriotic Nigerians are flabbergasted by this show of shame, you are trying to play the games of misinterpretation and misdirection you have become famous for


i hope your 1 million volunteers see this thread - and see the change your hero really stands for

so akala and david mark's  wives are close personal frinds of madam gej?

you know what they say about birds of a feather

i don't even want to imagine what kate akala is like, given her husbands start raving illiteracy /idiocy
and that is the chum of our fisrt lady

'nuff said

don't know how this slowpoke equates military hardware with support personnel entourage of friends

Can someone near oyb give him a dirty slap? Cos thats what fools deserve, expect and respect. 
Our village !diot and resedent bunkerer thinks screaming Obama somehow makes his lies become true.
This is Obama stepping in for a G20 meeting;

[size=21pt]Prospect of Barack Obama show causes UK to clear its decks With an entourage of 500 staff[/size], an armour-plated limousine and a fleet of decoy helicopters, America's new president will arrive for his first visit to Britain amid huge razzmatazz on Tuesday for the G20 summit. But it will be his closed-door meetings with world leaders that are likely to prove the most significant of the trip. . .

More than 500 officials and staff will accompany the president on his tour this week - along with a mass of high-tech security equipment, including the $300,000 presidential limousine, known as The Beast. Fitted with night-vision camera, reinforced steel plating, tear- gas cannon and oxygen tanks, the vehicle is the ultimate in heavy armoured transport.

In addition, a team from the White House kitchen will travel with the president to prepare his food. As one official put it: "When the president travels, the White House travels with him, right down to the car he drives, the water he drinks, the gasoline he uses, the food he eats. . .

And should anything befall the President, a White House medical unit will be at hand to provide emergency care. The team consists of surgeons, nurses and other medical personnel and carries supplies of blood of the type AB, the president's blood group. At the same time, Obama will be constantly minded by his personal aide Reggie Love, who dials his BlackBerry, fetches his jacket and tie and supplies him with snacks. First Lady Michelle Obama will also have a coterie of assistants, including a secretary, a press officer and several bodyguards.

Much more here;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/29/obama-london-visit-uk-g20

monkeyleg:
@Beaf,

You would have gained a lot of respect, if you simply admitted that Oga GJ wife got it wrong, then we move on from there, But to simple sit here are defend the indefensible is just comedy. Please tell us what about this story is right?

You guys are providing all the comedy, I'm doing most of the watching. Imagine NL's village !diot pulling Obama up as an example of how to travel light! I'm here laughing while you guys fool yourselves, clutching at straws as usual.

ziddy:
Oba J knew how to dress for sure. He even had a walking stick for full effect lol

Yeah, he looked so regal! Nobody would believe it was a whole United States President standing behind him!

Dis Guy:
oh so because Obama does it its okay for Madam Obese to take her luggage officer or take a second physician as she is to Obese to be treated by just one expert medical Doctor or perhaps all the Dr available in NY?

The guy making himself into a laughingstock on these pages (oyb) was the one who raised Obama as an example. So its all good. I simply educated him, it is foolish to question the Presidents entourage.

That is our culture, shining proudly!

Obj is not wowo!

What a picture! Jimmy Carter might well have got down and polished Obj's shoe's to complete the effect!
I found the pic on Wikipedia, boy! Did Obj really know how to package!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Obasanjo_Carter_3.gif

www.nairaland.com/attachments/323693_AP_Nigeria_Election_Goodluck_Jonathan_10Jun2010_480_jpg93cb16b7beac78add6cbace58d2cb3ae

[size=21pt]IBB: [/size][size=14pt]"My political message is tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, ZONING OR MAYHEM. . . IF I DONT WIN, FCK UP THE PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What will I do for Nigeria? . . .Tribalism, religious strife, Boko Haram!!

The North will secede and mayhem will be unleashed, if I don't become the PDP flagbearer!"[/size]

. . .Cry baby!

Everybody, please feel free to plagiarise this document. . .

www.nairaland.com/attachments/324375_IBBYouthStupid_jpgbbe9db14c8fe5550aba9d91fd1c5a07d

edoyad:
A break up would be more welcome Mr. Pastor.

. . .And where do you think you've been?
I almost started an article a couple of months ago. Welcome back dude!

oyb:
look at this mindless dolt

must you reinforce the conviction that your are a consummate retard?

does michelle follow obama around the world? does she carry her personal staff and friends ?

are you truly so silly that you think that the trp to the UN is a girl's night out?

look at this daft sycophant with the reasoning of a village eediot

you were talking trash about gej fulfilling the constitution as regards asset declaration - better go and remind your master that first ladies are not recognized in the constitution

keep up with your shameless attempts to derail the thread

patriotic Nigerians are flabbergasted by this show of shame, you are trying to play the games of misinterpretation and misdirection you have become famous for


i hope your 1 million volunteers see this thread - and see the change your hero really stands for

so akala and david mark's  wives are close personal frinds of madam gej?

you know what they say about birds of a feather

i don't even want to imagine what kate akala is like, given her husbands start raving illiteracy /idiocy
and that is the chum of our fisrt lady

'nuff said

don't know how this slowpoke equates military hardware with support personnel entourage of friends

Can someone near oyb give him a dirty slap? Cos thats what fools deserve, expect and respect.  
Our village !diot and resedent bunkerer thinks screaming Obama somehow makes his lies become true.
This is Obama stepping in for a G20 meeting;

[size=21pt]Prospect of Barack Obama show causes UK to clear its decks With an entourage of 500 staff[/size], an armour-plated limousine and a fleet of decoy helicopters, America's new president will arrive for his first visit to Britain amid huge razzmatazz on Tuesday for the G20 summit. But it will be his closed-door meetings with world leaders that are likely to prove the most significant of the trip. . .

More than 500 officials and staff will accompany the president on his tour this week - along with a mass of high-tech security equipment, including the $300,000 presidential limousine, known as The Beast. Fitted with night-vision camera, reinforced steel plating, tear- gas cannon and oxygen tanks, the vehicle is the ultimate in heavy armoured transport.

In addition, a team from the White House kitchen will travel with the president to prepare his food. As one official put it: "When the president travels, the White House travels with him, right down to the car he drives, the water he drinks, the gasoline he uses, the food he eats. . .

And should anything befall the President, a White House medical unit will be at hand to provide emergency care. The team consists of surgeons, nurses and other medical personnel and carries supplies of blood of the type AB, the president's blood group. At the same time, Obama will be constantly minded by his personal aide Reggie Love, who dials his BlackBerry, fetches his jacket and tie and supplies him with snacks. First Lady Michelle Obama will also have a coterie of assistants, including a secretary, a press officer and several bodyguards.

Much more here;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/29/obama-london-visit-uk-g20

realborn:
@ Post,

I do not believe that the use of the word 'rammed' is appropriate.
I believe the Taxi driver may have been on the right of way of the convoy as was with Uzoma Okere's case
A case of atempted murder that was not celebrated in February at a time when the tension was high reflects that it may not be as serious as we have been told
It was also said that the prosecutor disappeared and never returned to court after the first time of visiting
The best approach would have been to search the taxi nd the driver to ascertain if deadly weapons or bombs were on. If none was found, then he should be warned to be careful next time.
Three months in jail is wicked and inhumane.
My 2 cents

I have used this case several times in posts since February, to illustrate the difference between Jonathan, the leader and our past rulers. Nigerians don't know about it simply because we tend not to follow news and events as closely as we should.

As for the prosecutor not appearing in court, there might actually be several cases and several twists and angles to the matter. It is simpletons like Gbawe (OP) that feel the case is not important to govt for that reason alone. There could well be several accomplices etc. When a case is in court, the wise thing for us to do is await the courts verdict, not begin pronouncing parties innocent like Gbawe has done (which is a crime).

oyb:
look at this desperado

this is 234next we are talking about - the only paper with the guts to publish that yardua was brain dead in saudi arabia

keep living in denial

beaf come and see [size=28pt]your fresh wind of change[/size]

what is patience even following gej around in the first place

is that how obama does it?

long hiss. when saharareporters was lambasting obj and co , they were your darlings. you lot are the must dubious hypocrites i have come across in a long time.

have u read the king is unclothed/the emperor has no clothes?

are u waiting until lesser nations start laughing at us before you call your messiah to order?

Look at this donkey, airing his extraordinary foolishness in public as always.

Every village has its !diot, so i guess oyb is doing the job for NL.

In case you don't know, Obama travels with his kitchen staff (only they can cook his meals), he takes his official US govt car along, a full compliment of Hercules planes and jet fighters etc.

Here is a bit more Buhari stuff;

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-518968.0.html#msg6814435

Do you know PTF estate in Wuse? The sweetheart deal that Buhari's PTF made with the contractor was so sweet. Not only would the contractor collect rent from PTF, but after 8 years, the place would be his to own!

but Buhari who you paint in such glowing colours, still agreed to serve under such a man as the chairman of PTF. As chairman of PTF, he made Salihijo Ahmad's Afriproject the sole consultant for monitoring and assessing the value of contracts. Afriproject consortium was so corrupt that at the inception of Abdulsalami's regime, fearful of exposure, the sole consultant committed suicide in his office. When the books of PTF were opened, the can of worms was so much that Haruna Adamu said he felt sickened by it. One body determined the contracts to be awarded, the payments to be made and whether the contracts had been satisfied.

Buhari has no moral standing to point at criminals. He has more than enough questions to answer concerning our US$2.8 billa he nicked as NNPC boss.
Only IBB surpasses that scale of theft.

[size=14pt]Shagari's regime (1979-1983), incurred Buhari's wrath when it decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that disappeared from the Midland Bank, London account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, (NNPC)[/size], during General Obasanjo's era as military head of state that preceded Shagari's. Dr. Olusola Saraki, Turaki of Ilorin, was the majority party leader of the Senate at the time and he headed the Senate Committee set up to trace the stolen money after some three years of clamour for such an investigation by members of the civil society. [size=14pt]The money was traced to the Midland Bank London branch fixed account of Buhari[/size], Obasanjo's appointee as military head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The Committee's report was presented to the Senate during the tail end of Shagari's regime in 1983, so the House decided to deal with the matter soon after the 1983 general elections.

The attempt at civilian-to-civilian transition provided the fillip for mayhem at the time. The elections were marred by massive rigging because incumbent political office holders were refusing to slacken their stranglehold on Nigeria Plc., mortgaged as the leaders private property. On the 31st December, 1983, [b]Buhari struck under the cover of the political commotion that trailed the presidential election results. Buhari generally had no agenda for leadership but vendetta against those he called critics and rabble-rousers. Buhari did not see any moral wrong in his conversion of our oil money into his personal use. Rather he railed at the press and what he described as the self-righteous sections of the country for making a big deal out of the issue. He locked up without trial, politicians and critics including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue. Satire saved my neck at the time. [size=14pt]Vera Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked through his prodding as military ruler, for reporting what Dr. Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was traced to Buhari's account at a Midland Bank London branch. Vera eventually won her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and was financially compensated.[/size][/b]

http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvnews/34773/1/is-the-north-incapable-of-giving-us-quality-leader.html

All parties are corrupt. APGA and ANPP have been turn apart by financially induced battles. ACN is led by a man who is much worse than Ibori, and there is documentary proof.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/139268_BolaTinubuHeroinforfeiture_jpgb084d334c74cec7150ee9588a3aed2fc

[size=14pt]Tinubu ran heroin ring in US, says Drug Agency .[/size]
Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:00 Hope Afoke Orivri .Share 0


Dotun Oladipo

Contrary to denials, the Nigerian Compass yesterday learnt that the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) confirmed that a former Lagos State Governor, Mr. Bola,

Ahmed Tinubu, ran a heroin ring in the country; was convicted, though with an option of fine; and was actually quizzed last month while entering into the country.

More here http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10593%3Atinubu-ran-heroin-ring-in-us-says-drug-agency&Itemid=7966

oyb:
see this desperate retard running his mouth

brra go and dance with ya old cargo teeny bopper nollywood political love-peddlers

Dimwit.

@topic
One funny thing with the guy's stretching the case and claiming it should be treated like a simple accident is, they don't even know where the taxi rammed into the convoy from. Was it from the same side of the road? Was is from the other side of the road (really ominous)? Was he packed and waiting for the moment, before he struck (ominous)? What happened to his brakes and why were they not applied? How fast was he going when all roads were blocked?

From the video above, the Presidents convoy is very intimidating and awe inspiring, so a lot of question need to be asked about the taxi driver. Indeed he is the luckiest person on Earth that we have a different kind of person than the past leaders as President, that is why he is still alive today and going through the justice system.

MetalGong4:
They are on their own.

My good friend, it must be hard being a political orphan.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=519780.msg6829383#msg6829383 date=1285585328]Beaf cannot get away with streatching the truth here because knowkeadgeable people will call him out. His statements are becoming too much to bear.

@Ibime, no one can accuse you of being a forward thinking nationalist. I'd recommend that you consider thinking along nationalistic lines.

Please educate these people. Onlytruth should change his name to Onlylie or OnlyIgnorance. olodo.[/quote]The truth always sears the souls of liers. What has happened to your false story of "golden groundnuts fed Nigeria?" And next time, write in English, batu is becomerichs exclusive preserve.

You're one of the funniest people to ever walk NL. We will sing and dance with Igbo's (with whom we have a lot in common) and rather die than listen to a parasite from a far off desolate core North coming in to tell us who or what to teach each other.

Try a new trick.

“We cannot deceive ourselves, there was commotion leading to IBB’s stepping aside in 1993. [size=14pt]Those who felt aggrieved by his actions leading to the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election would wish themselves dead rather than see IBB return to office[/size]. It is a potential issue that could further polarise the country,” a source who has been monitoring the exchanges between IBB and his former boys said.

They surely got that right!

oyb:
links are in adconline's article

note that this is the second most powerful man in the world we are talking about here. those who 'work quietly behind the scenes' should take note of how it done by the running mate of the fellow they are attempting to imitate

Another clown.

Others reading the quotes you supplied would have noticed quite easily that the accidents in Joe Biddens motorcade involved only members of the motorcade. In the first instance, it was two outriders; in the second, it was one of the cars tail-ending another one. How is any of the above comparable to the present object of this thread (even to a kid)?

What quality of adult is this country producing in some cases?

@Gbawe
You just sound really desperate, ridiculous and dishonest. Even a toddler wouldn't come up with these funny and illogical positions.

Netotse was kind enough to upload a video of the Presidents motorcade. Did you bother watch it?
It would have taken either an absolute fool, madman or assassin to drive in and, of all cars, ram the Presidents. Because of the blind hatred that is blocking your common sense; you can't even reason that even if the man couldn't understand that the road was blocked, he would have heard loud syrens. Lets assume he had the best AC in the World and couldn't hear a thing from outside; is he he blind? Do you see a train of cars of that calibre with their headlamps blazing and drive into the most important one? How would a man that see's everyone else packed, carry on with so much speed that he rammed into the Presidents car?

The above are just a few questions. Stop making yourself into a comical spectacle.

Here's Netotse's video again;

[flash=480,385]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT4PM6tAGRs?fs=1[/flash]

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=520630.msg6827833#msg6827833 date=1285554096]What does he mean by "You Us"?[/quote]It would take a prof in batu to get that one. "That why" I don't know.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=520630.msg6827823#msg6827823 date=1285553839]becommrich, se o wa okay?[/quote]My sista, you see how some pipul de fin' trouble for NL?
Na wa!

Dede1:
Please engage in exploratory research on the issue of crude oil discovery in cesspit called Nigeria before going public with unfortunate post such as this one.

Bros Dede, please what is wrong with it?

[size=14pt]2011: IBB ‘Boys’ want him to withdraw [/size]
•It’s campaign of calumny -IBB •As YCE bans him from campaigning in Yoruba-speaking states
Written by Taiwo Adisa, Yekini Jimoh and Emmanuel Adeniyi
Monday, 27 September 2010

THE widely acclaimed group of loyalists of former military ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida who were known in his days in office as Babangida Boys, have joined the push of the influential figures moving to see the former military leader out of the 2011 presidential race.

Sources in the political circles disclosed at the weekend that the former military top brass who displayed their unflinching support for General Babangida while in office had reached out to their former boss and declared the need for him to serve as a bridge builder in the 2011 presidential race rather than being a loser.

It was gathered that while the former military governor of Kaduna State, Colonel Abubakar Umar, had written to Babangida, asking him to withdraw from the race, others had chosen different means to inform the Minna General to quit the race.

Sources also confirmed that the President of the Senate, Mr David Mark, had asked to be counted out of IBB’s political moves long ago. He is said to be of the belief that the time has come for IBB to play the role of a statesman, who could be consulted on issues rather than being an active participant that would hold an executive position.

It was further learnt that most of the acclaimed IBB Boys had distanced themselves from his repeated bid to return to Aso Rock because they believed that such a move would rake up old wounds.

A source close to a number of the  generals who are known as IBB Boys said that with the manner in which Babangida left office in 1993, there would always be controversy whenever he attempted to regain the presidency.

“We cannot deceive ourselves, there was commotion leading to IBB’s stepping aside in 1993. Those who felt aggrieved by his actions leading to the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election would wish themselves dead rather than see IBB return to office. It is a potential issue that could further polarise the country,” a source who has been monitoring the exchanges between IBB and his former boys said.

The source said that former military officers who served under Babangida had not been enthusiastic about his possible return to office because of the larger effects such a development would have on the country.

Another source also said that rather than live the life of a statesman, Babangida had decided to throw himself into the race where younger figures like President Goodluck Jonathan and Mallam Nuhu Ribadu were already making waves.

“Many of us were also not happy that while a lot was expected from IBB during the crisis that engulfed the nation as a result of the prolonged illness of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, he remained in the dark and only declared interest in the presidency after Yar’Adua’s death.

“The period of Yar’Adua’s illness would have provided the best opportunity for Babangida to bounce back into positive reckoning of Nigerians when they would easily have forgotten his past errors. But because he was not seen as having played a stabilising role at that time, his past has continued to make the headlines,” the source said, adding that rather than being seen as one of those who stabilised the nation, IBB was mentioned as one of those who allegedly masterminded the secret return of President Yar’Adua to Nigeria on February 24, even when his health had not improved.

Sources said that while key former IBB Boys, including Senate President  Mark,  Senator Tunde Ogbeha and former military governor of Lagos State, Brigadier-General Raji Rasaki, had identified with President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2011 race, others who were not that visible politically had told Babangida to avoid being humiliated in the race.

“It would have been better for his political image if he was defeated by somebody like former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was his senior in the force. But for him to be defeated by younger elements, that would diminish his political standing and rubbish his ego. The well-known IBB would be demystified and that is not good for him, that is why many of his close associates are advising him to withdraw from the race,” a source close to many IBB Boys said.

It was gathered that many of his military loyalists were already advising IBB to utilise the opportunity of the consensus option by the North to disqualify himself from the race and then start playing the role of a statesman.

Another option said to have been suggested to IBB was that he could capitalise on the so-called ambiguity in the zoning formula of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  to withdraw.

“When these guys were serving in the military, nobody talked of North or South. It remained a united Nigeria. But you can see that IBB is now reducing himself to fighting a sectional cause. It is painful to those you refer to as his boys,” a source said on Sunday.

However, General  Babangida, has described the report as a campaign of calumny aimed at discrediting his image before Nigerians in the build up to the election.

Reacting through Prince Kasim Afegbua, the Director of Communications, IBB Campaign Organisation, the former military president said that it was far from the truth that his loyalists in the Army were mounting pressure on him to withdraw from the presidential race.

“There is nothing like that. We took a decision and we will pursue it to a logical conclusion. Why are they afraid of IBB?,” Afegbua said.

Meanwhile, 51 members of the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) in the country have warned  General  Babangida not to campaign in any of the Yoruba-speaking states, including part of Kwara  and Kogi states, as he prepares for the 2011 presidential election.

Chairman, Kwara State chapter and National Executive member of the YCE, Senator Suleiman Salawu, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin, at the weekend.

According to him, General Babangida should forget the race, to Aso Rock for now because the people of Nigeria, particularly the Yoruba-speaking race would never forgive him for his role in the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election, the death of Dele Giwa, Chief MKO Abiola and other prominent people in the country during his rule as military president.

He said: “If Babangida wants to come to Yoruba-speaking states to campaign for his presidential ambition, then the only ticket that can enable him to come is to bring along Dele Giwa and Chief MKO Abiola  alive.”

Senator Salawu, who is the national chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), also alleged that it was the period of the Babangida regime that the naira depreciated drastically.

He said it was a pity that the man, who allegedly devalued the Naira and encouraged corruption, would want to come back and rule the country again.

“What does he want again, he was there for eight years and could not save the country; all he did was to devalue our currency, while our economy suffered seriously. Corruption was everywhere, he should forget his ambition, we don’t want him,” he said.

The senator said that his party, AA,  was solidly behind President Good-luck Jonathan in the 2011 presidential race.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/11609-2011-ibb-boys-want-him-to-withdraw-its-campaign-of-calumny-ibb-as-yce-bans-him-from-campaigning-in-yoruba-speaking-states

I wish all parties would follow the same process, so we can have some semblance of sanity in the election of our political reps.