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wise son:
Bukola Saraki remains the best option for Nigeria if we are to make a break from our chequered past. Goodluck Jonathan cannot compare to him, when it comes to leadership ability, passion, creative thinking and foresight. Ribadu is largely a one-trick horse. The problems of the modern world do not yield to absolutism, and I doubt that he would be a successful leader. I find Bukola Saraki to be a driven, urbane, and focused mind capable of leading Nigeria into a modern age. If there is any attribute that characterises his politics - it is stability.

Many of the responses that attend this thread talking about "oyel" money significantly fail to point out that Kwara State under Dr. Bukola is one of the most fiscally disciplined  states. It was one of the first states to open itself up voluntarily to assessment by Fitch the international credit ratings agency, as well as to Federal Government budget monitoring authorities. I don't think that with those antecedents in governance, the issue of stealing "oyel" money is a valid one.

gadogado:
you people are so gullible, great speech my foot. What has he done to suggest in anyway that he'll fight corruption. Goodluck has never won a political office/ never been elected on his own, he has no experience in governance.

If you can think properly, then experience should count for something. IBB would be a better a candidate.

Solomon227:
Brilliant and polished Ndigbo leaders always know how to avoid the Demon against personal interest.

To my Ndigbo brethren.

I may be a slow walker but I never walk backward,.,.,.

cap28:
Don't mind him, he is in for a very rude awakening.

Jonathan will not deliver because he wont win it, the result has already been predetermined and I beleive that IBB will win it, not because he is the best man for the job, none of them are qualified for the job, as a matter of fact all of the current candidates ought to be rounded up and indicted on corruption and in IBB's case murder and drug trafficking charges, but hey this is nigeria that is never going to happen.

But yes as i was saying, IBB will win it because he has already been selected by the US as the preferred candidate, Jonathan is out of his depth and will not be able to fend off the hausa fulani oligarchy who do not even think he should be there in the first place. But IBB will deliver more draconian Structural adjustment policies which will further enrich the western financial institutions and sound the death knell for the nigerian economy and the nigerian people.

cap28:
You amuse me with your naivite, in your blind and unswerving loyalty to your lord and master, it never occurred to you that Jonathan and his wife would stop at nothing in order to remain in the corridors of power.  It is so childish of you to keep askign me to provide you with sources when the information about Jonathan's wife's corruption was all over the nigerian press and then suddenly disappeared the minute he was slotted in as acting president after Yarauda's mysterious disappearance.    You better start learning to think critically and stop swallowing all the propaganda that the nigerian newspapers force feed you.

Why is it so difficult for you to accept that Jonathan would threaten and intimidate Ribadu, after all Ribadu was desperate to come back to Nigeria to relaunch himself back into Nigerian politics and if it meant doing a deal in order to make that a reality why not?

Blind psychophancy should actually be a criminal offence because for the past 50 years of this country's so called independence it has been the major reason that we have allowed a group of illiterate kleptocrats to bamboozle, hoodwink and mislead us.

cap28:
Beaf what are you getting out of this your blind sycophancy? Has Jonathan promised you a job as one of his goons?

You talk as if you don't know the power of intimidation and threats in nigeria, of course Ribadu would deny that he ever attempted to prosecute Jonathan and his wife because he doesnt want to fall out with them as they are now in a position of power.  For your information Ribadu was permitted to return to nigeria by Jonathan on the condition that he would drop all corruption charges against Mrs Jonathan.

Your naivite is mind boggling, no wonder these nigerian politicians treat nigerians like sheep, you dont even have to do anything for the people, just keep lying through your teeth and before long the likes of Beaf and other sychophants will just lap it all up.

And to think you have the nerve to accuse others of having a low IQ, when your ability to reason properly is extremely limited.
People like you deserve the govt you get, and I know it will just be a matter of time before you will be screaming blue murder when you discover that yet again you have been taken for a ride by this man and his wife.

madejibo:
@ beaf
There is a popular saying that says show me your friend and I tell u who u are. That also apply in politics. @beaf we all know u are a GEJ guy so nothing u can say that will suprise us

madejibo:
The clamour for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan(GEJ) to run for president is crazy but my sincere question is what makes him better than our past leaders? Are people clamouring for him because IBB is running, just to stop him or is his govt just organising this support (i.e is support his artificial?). This is a govt that has spent $18billion from our foreign reserve in 8months and planning to borrow $4.6billion. I am not saying don't spend o! But money spent that does not affect the common man on the street its absolute rubbish to me. All they do in Abuja is keep on increasing political appointees allowances.
GEJ's govt can not take criticisms at all. Because a professor of Economics (soludo) said govt recent policies are bound to fail you call him names saying he was the worst CBN governor ever! Must a responsible govt attack all critics and people say he is better than IBB I wonder what GEJ would have done if he was a military president probably he would have arrested the guy.
Also because Dokpesi is supporting IBB a lot of threats over his life (though it could be false alarm) and when the guy shouted govt have not stopped calling him names and govt have not thot of it wisely to launch an investigative enquiry into his claims but a govt agency FIRS has launched an investigation into his company's tax profile. The govt has forgotten that the Yaradua/GEJ is owing the mans media outfit billions of naira for covering U17 world cup.
I just laugh at naija at times same old wines in re-branded bottles (but same label- PDP). I watched the declaration yesterday and had to switch of my generator (in order to conserve my fuel for Arsenals match later since govt has refused to provide power) when I could not contain my anger any more at the level of psychophancy displayed at the declaration.
At the end of the day I ask myself what is the difference?

On August 10, 2010 the Nigerian chapter of the African Women in Diaspora after their inaugural meeting in Lagos made a call on President Goodluck Jonathan to declare his intention to run for presidency in the 2011 election. In the widely reported statement, the women also appealed to commercial se'x workers to join them in the pro-Jonathan crusade.

On Saturday September 18, 2010, these half-naked men were caught prowling the grounds of the Eagle Square. Jonathan people swear that they didn't hire anyone to attend the declaration yesterday, were these men responding to the impending lift of embargo on se'x?

sbeezy8:
They should vote for IBB to correct that then-

cap28:
Its either you are suffering from acute amnesia or you are hoping for a few crumbs to be thrown your way if he wins the presendential ticket,  have you forgotten how 13.5 million USD  of Bayelsa state funds was seized from Mrs Jonathan by the EFCC when she tried to launder it through one of her relatives abroad.  As if that wasnt bad enough the EFCC had earlier obtained a court order to freeze N104 million of looted funds that was found in her and her husbands  bank account - where did they get this huge sum of money from, i thought she was suposed to be a teacher - are teachers that well paid?

One of her relatives a Mrs Ebere Nwosu even implicated her,it was only becuase of her husband's influence tha t the whole saga was covered up.

Ribadu also denied allegations that he mishandled a corruption case against Dame Patience, when her husband, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, was governor of Bayelsa State.

[size=14pt]He said that it was propaganda to taint his image and that of Jonathan during the 2007 polls.[/size]

Ribadu explained that the EFCC never handled any case against Patience. “The case had to do with a lady and a man who lodged huge sums of money in the bank. The EFCC was alerted by the bank and an investigation was carried out,” he said.
According to him, it was found that they legitimately earned the money through contracts executed in the state. All the reports in the media were lies, he insisted.

“For instance, it was initially reported that N70 million was lodged into the bank. Later, it was reported that the money ran into millions of dollars. Such was the extent of the lies,” he said, maintaining: “We never handled a case against Patience Jonathan.”
Meanwhile, Tofa is set to declare his presidential ambition on the platform of ANPP today in Abuja.

sbeezy8:
what can be done to fully integrate the igbo because all the igbos I know are enjoying naija and live no different than any other tribe-

Onlytruth:
Well, if I must burrow it into your skull, we want to be Nigerians or Biafrans. It must be one or the other. How can I be a Nigerian when I can't tell my child that he can become Nigeria's president one day?
If I can't say that -because of whatever reason- then there is a question about my nationality. Are Igbos Nigerians?
If we are, then we MUST produce a Nigerian president. If not, we must leave Nigeria. Simple.

koruji:
As a fly on the wall of Ojukwu's palace related it "IBB went to inform Ojukwu that he would be withdrawing from the race."

Soft landing for IBB - they are going to put the competition with Jonathan on Saraki.

mikeansy:
How come the almyghty JEGA got even his timetable wrong?

First he did not know how much he wanted, as we heard all sorts of figures.

Now they misjudged how much time they needed.

Hope we will not finally confuse who actually won the election?

So much for the new and credible INEC. No be Nigerians dey for the current INEC? make we hear word abegi!!!!!!!!

In paragraph nine of his four-year-old speech, Atiku declared: “Today, as we stand on the threshold of a new era Nigeria requires a new kind of leadership, a leadership committed to this change process.

“We need a leadership that is not hampered or constrained by the regressive politics of the past or the unproductive ideologies of the present. Nigeria deserves a proven, committed and experienced leader who knows how to reinvent government to help solve the real problems our people today.”

One of our sources said that Jonathan’s speechwriters “tried hard to conceal the stealing of another man’s intellectual property, by changing a few words here and throwing a few words there,” adding, “but the evidence of plagiarism came out clearly all the same.”

monkeyleg:
@Beaf,

What false claims did I lay against GJ? I simply asked you to state why u felt GJ was the best man for the job, and what he did as governor of Bayelsa state, and you call that false claim?

Just give-up and stop making a real dogs-arse of yourself. You are now begining to look very bad for this your uncle. Just give up and go and sleep