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Dede1:
It is unfortunate that it took the self arrogated lamentation by a northerner for the southerners to realize that Nigeria/Biafra civil war was instigated by many several reasons including the crude oil found in eastern region. What a shame.

I think the phrase of “south must seize power” is a wishful thinking. Any silly attempt to do so will lead to disintegration of the cesspit called Nigeria. The outcome of such endeavor will engender a war that will manifest the brutal atrocity never seen in human nature.

There is no possibility of war in Nigeria today between the North and South or North and whoever. By "North" I mean Northern Nigeria without the Middle Belt.
The army is peopled very heavily by the Middle Belt and the money that fuels weapon purchases comes from the South. Any act of war will be foolhardy.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=471210.msg6310877#msg6310877 date=1277925221]rotflmao.so you actually think i'm a drop-out.funny though.if i may ask,who are the nigerians of tommorrow you were referring to and why did you disregard the report ? Would you have reacted that way if saharareporters had eulogise jonathan.what a life!!![/quote]Ok, since you say you aren't a halfwit, can you tell us what federal function alams has been appointed to? Next, can you tell us the name of the function?
Of course, your answer to both will be "no I can't, because the 'news' story didn't actually say". Doh! Only halfwits wouldn't question such a "news" story but instead, find crazy scenarios and angles to build in. Na wa!

Ninny's jump at rumours, thats why I expressed sadness at some Nigerians of tomorrow.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=471210.msg6309842#msg6309842 date=1277912694]beaf as usual always myopic and inconsistent.na wao[/quote]Halfwits have started learning new words these days! In case you missed what I said, here it is again; this time connect a brain to your neck before replying -

Beaf: I really pity Nigerians of tomorrow! 

Some here are commenting foolishly as if they know for sure that Alams was given a federal govt appointment; even though, very strangely, only Sahara reporters knows about this "appointment" (just that, they don't know what is or for that matter, what it is called ).
Some others have fallen into fights with each other and are exchanging words. Shame.

I really pity Nigerians of tomorrow!  

Some here are commenting foolishly as if they know for sure that Alams was given a federal govt appointment; even though, very strangely, only Sahara reporters knows about this "appointment" (just that, they don't know what is or for that matter, what it is called ).
Some others have fallen into fights with each other and are exchanging words. Shame.

I was one of those willing to give the North a benefit of the doubt about population figures especially since, in 1975, General Murtala Mohammed yielded to popular protest and cancelled the 1973 figures.  But when in 2007 census figures were submitted which implied Lagos’ population had stagnated or decreased for about fifteen years while Kano state, out of which another state, Jigawa, had in the meantime been carved out, increased in arithmetic progressions, nobody is left in doubt that the North is not interested in having a truthful head count.  They have merely used fake population figures to declare false majorities.  Three hundred members of the House of Representatives reportedly boycotted the official presentation of those figures to the national assembly.  Olusegun Obasanjo displayed a world class sense of humour when he thanked the Chairman of the Commission Samu'ila Danko Makama for, among other useless platitudes, the secrecy of the exercise.  Many Nigerians missed the sarcasm.

Indeed, many goats and cows have been confered Nigerian citizenship by aboki.

The deliberate overstatement of the north’s population and continued extrapolation of this intensely false basis into subsequent census and election figures has a simple antidote. It is already available. It is the ‘modified open ballot system’ of counting and declaring results at the polling booths, attended by neutral observers. This tactic in 1993 produced what is yet acclaimed Nigeria’s fairest election. President Jonathan’s camp is already making noises about bringing back this joker. Complementary use of current mobile phone technology and live television broadcasts, as in the last Anambra elections, will greatly aid the strategy.

That we can see the light at the end of the power shift tunnel today is largely thanks to two soldier politicians - General Babangida who relocated the north’s power axes from Emir’s palaces to Dodan Barracks and, subsequently, Aso rock; and Olusegun Obasanjo who, with a profound understanding of the power structures of both the north and south, set about making appreciable dents on the three major elements of the north’s powerhouse, in a way the combined efforts of Awolowo, Zik, Abiola could not. No wonder they hate him with a passion.

If not for the Odi massacre, Obj would be a hero.

These elements have enabled the Hausa and their cohorts operate Nigeria like a kingdom, where the ‘princes’ played and invited their southern and other ‘friends’ to play with them. Deconstructing this stronghold is what power shift is all about and currently all indications are that, gradually, the south has begun to chip large chunks off this powerhouse, which explains the obvious panic in Arewa camps where stranger-than-fiction bedfellows are pretending to have a non-existent common cause.

The South must sieze power.

[size=14pt]Ganging Up Against Jonathan – 3 Reasons Why Arewa Mob Action Will Fail [/size]
Written by Olaitan Ladipo
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 17:00

Alhaji Bamanga Tukur is famously reported as saying that Yoruba people do not care who ruled them, as long as they are ruled well. He made example of the military administrations of Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Buba Marwa in Lagos state, contrasting the execration of his Yoruba kith and kin for Oyinlọla, with their hero-worship of northerner Marwa. Since Lagos is a melting pot of all of Nigeria’s ethnics, I believe the same can be said of the whole country. The current gradual shift and emergence of new dominants of political power in the country is a natural occurrence, something that was meant to happen. It is happening because power, like all dynamic concepts, flow from higher ground to lower. These dynamics have also been aided by the fact that northern politicians and their cohorts continually demonstrate a stupendous incapability to use power to benefit mankind. Power for the sake of power has never lasted. How can anyone expect, for example, that the blatant oppression of the Niger Delta will simply continue forever? It is against natural justice and no one can stop a natural change.

Even if the country does not witness an appreciable shift of power dominance by 2011, it will not be because the nation would have succumbed to the group of geriatrics going about threatening hell-fire if the presidency is not illegally zoned to the north. There are now too many young politicians from the north, rich and powerful in their own right, enjoying their new time and status and who, unlike spent old men with nothing to lose, will, as happened in 1999 when the chips were down, choose the path of least resistance. In 2007 General Buhari threatened to call the mobs out if he was not handed the presidency he blindly believed he won. The nation called his bluff. Not one leaf on a tree was rustled. By the way, power rotation makes mockery of the post of vice president or deputy governor as we have seen with Goodluck Jonathan and in Kaduna state, unless the incumbent and his deputy come from the same zone.

Many commentators like to make so much of the shrewd northern political leadership, in a way that suggests southern leaders had gone to sleep while their northern counterparts articulated leadership for the north’s benefit. The reality is that while traditional northern Nigeria political leaders may be arguably more astute compared to their southern counterparts, it is, if true, only marginally so.

We are well aware that Hausa language (not religion, not origin) is the single most unifying factor of the north. We however forget that just as Sir Ahmadu Bello, a Fulani, was able to harness the various ethnic groups of the north Chief Awolowo, a Remo, also coalesced the nations of the south-west into one Yoruba political group to the extent that all of the south-west today have one lingua franca and only a few people today know that the Ijebu, Egun, Remo, Awori and a few others are not even Yoruba. Many south-westerners have not forgiven Awolowo for subjugating the status of many traditional Oba in the southwest, to achieve his pan-Yoruba aims.
Similarly we overlook that Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe from Onitsha brought all of Nigeria’s south-easterners under the dominance of the Igbo. The oppressive nature of Igbo power in the east is the single most important reason they lost the Biafra war. You cannot win a war with slave soldiers. Servile collaborators are usually potential saboteurs. This dominance is also the root cause of the highly charged abandoned properties issue in Port-Harcourt.

Being very articulate though, perhaps only marginally better than the south, is one of the reasons the north’s elite have ruled Nigeria for so long.

There is an argument that, given power, anybody can rule; that leadership is entirely a different concept. Such arguments are right, but only up to a point. They argue that since the British decidedly handed the major implements of power (especially that institutional rigging device called national population by a dubious census) to the Hausa, the north’s hegemony is assured.

The reality is that it required more than a little help from colonial friends to force a subjugation of the south in the way the north have done. We must all admit that most of the power-devices that now reside in the north have been acquired progressively, through systematic foresight, through strategic planning, and through hardnosed execution.

Take the oil sector for example. It is not by accident that the large majority of Nigeria oil industry’s top executives are northerners. As soon as it became apparent in the early sixties that oil would become Nigeria’s economic mainstay and knowing then that they had no people qualified in that sector to enable their dominance, the north embarked on a short to long-term programme to train northerner professionals. I know this from authentic sources. The leading but only one of many of the products of that effort is Dr Rilwanu Lukman. Dr Lukman had the best qualifications and experience of any contender worldwide for executive and technical management of an oil economy. It is on the merit of his knowledge and experience that he was repeatedly appointed Chairman and Secretary General of OPEC over a long period. The petroleum refinery and the proposed petroleum university in Kaduna are all part of the same agenda.
Also recently when it looked that south-south militants might be winning the military conflict in the Niger Delta Hausa strategists achieved a total surrender (patronisingly termed amnesty) of the agitators by presenting a threat-to-Europe-and-America-oil-supplies argument to Western leaders who promptly assisted a satellite-aided bombardment of the creeks for a military rout of MEND.

The three major factors that have aided the north’s grip (some read stranglehold) on Nigeria’s political power are 1. The institutionalised rigging device called national population figures. 2. The army and military institutions are controlled largely by the north. 3. The north controlled and still controls Nigeria’s gigantic oil revenue, to dispense as they wish and to use to entrench themselves further in power.

These elements have enabled the Hausa and their cohorts operate Nigeria like a kingdom, where the ‘princes’ played and invited their southern and other ‘friends’ to play with them. Deconstructing this stronghold is what power shift is all about and currently all indications are that, gradually, the south has begun to chip large chunks off this powerhouse, which explains the obvious panic in Arewa camps where stranger-than-fiction bedfellows are pretending to have a non-existent common cause.

Nevertheless the possibilities of breaking the north’s powerhouse, built up over decades, need be rationalised, as it will require a systematic understanding of the factors.

We all understand now that this power shift is not engendered by the type of ethnically coloured military adventure of 15 January 1966. A similar attempt much later, by Gideon Orkar and his group, was doomed to fail in the long term for the same reasons. Neither will this change be achieved by the type of strategies adopted by Chief Awolowo and his team – great visionaries but hopeless politicians. It seemed that while Awolowo and his disciples had lofty plans to transform Nigeria into the leading world black democratic economy, they had no panacea for achieving necessary political power (necessary being the operative word).

That we can see the light at the end of the power shift tunnel today is largely thanks to two soldier politicians - General Babangida who relocated the north’s power axes from Emir’s palaces to Dodan Barracks and, subsequently, Aso rock; and Olusegun Obasanjo who, with a profound understanding of the power structures of both the north and south, set about making appreciable dents on the three major elements of the north’s powerhouse, in a way the combined efforts of Awolowo, Zik, Abiola could not. No wonder they hate him with a passion.

I was one of those willing to give the North a benefit of the doubt about population figures especially since, in 1975, General Murtala Mohammed yielded to popular protest and cancelled the 1973 figures. But when in 2007 census figures were submitted which implied Lagos’ population had stagnated or decreased for about fifteen years while Kano state, out of which another state, Jigawa, had in the meantime been carved out, increased in arithmetic progressions, nobody is left in doubt that the North is not interested in having a truthful head count. They have merely used fake population figures to declare false majorities. Three hundred members of the House of Representatives reportedly boycotted the official presentation of those figures to the national assembly. Olusegun Obasanjo displayed a world class sense of humour when he thanked the Chairman of the Commission Samu'ila Danko Makama for, among other useless platitudes, the secrecy of the exercise. Many Nigerians missed the sarcasm.

The deliberate overstatement of the north’s population and continued extrapolation of this intensely false basis into subsequent census and election figures has a simple antidote. It is already available. It is the ‘modified open ballot system’ of counting and declaring results at the polling booths, attended by neutral observers. This tactic in 1993 produced what is yet acclaimed Nigeria’s fairest election. President Jonathan’s camp is already making noises about bringing back this joker. Complementary use of current mobile phone technology and live television broadcasts, as in the last Anambra elections, will greatly aid the strategy.

The second major factor that has aided the north’s stranglehold on power is the military. The north had traditionally enjoyed a preponderance of military personnel, leadership and institutions. The Ikeja cantonment explosions that killed more than 2,000 Lagosians, is a casualty of our military politics. Reports say while he was president General Abacha ordered the removal of vital weapons and munitions from southern states and other ‘unfriendly’ locations. When Obasanjo came to power he ordered the return of such equipment earlier so relocated. What triggered the explosions in Ikeja, we are told, were bombs and rockets brought back and waiting to be stored safely in the cantonment but which were yet left dangerously exposed on lorries that brought them from the north. There is speculation that political reluctance may have contributed to the delay in safely storing the explosives.

That coup plotting has become seriously unattractive amongst our military may not be entirely due to the democratic instincts of our soldiers. It also has to do with the realisation amongst our officer cadre that the period of cowering of other sections of the population into instant submission using military menace is over. Today each major component of the federation boasts its own army, be it regular or militia. Consequently civil wars are just not on the Nigerian menu now.

The recent blood-letting in NNPC inspired by Jonathan and his Petroleum minister, the delectable Diezani Allison-Madueke is simply to redress years of Hausa near-monopoly of milking of Nigeria’s cash-cow. Even peoples’ revolutions need money let alone Nigeria’s political economy. It is hoped that the new Aso Rock power brokers will temper justice in our oil industry with technocracy, so that needed progress can be made.

In the eighties one of my old tutors, and Englishman, told me a story he said symbolised Nigeria. Three men - one Yoruba, one Hausa and one Igbo - were walking along a country road when they came to a pawpaw tree with ripe fruits. The Yoruba man said it would be good to have the fruits. The Hausa man said if it was the will of Allah they would have them. The Igbo man climbed up the tree, plucked the fruits, came back down and sold the fruits to the other two.

Keen to show that I knew my country better than any foreigner, I told him the story did not end there. The ending, I told him, was that the Yoruba and Igbo men woke up the next day to find the Hausa man now owned the pawpaw tree. That was 1988.

My ending will be even different today. It will be that the three men – Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba – now realised that a man who they had ignored but who sleeping quietly under the papaw tree when they arrived, has now woken up and he is claiming he actually planted the tree. He is a south-southerner.


http://saharareporters.com/articles/external-contrib/6386-ganging-up-against-jonathan-3-reasons-why-arewa-mob-action-will-fail.html

Mr Fire:
Beaf, sorry to ask but are you a Jonathan arse-licker? What has been his achievements since he took over last year from Ag position?

Please choose your words wisely. I'll give you the grace you are still being welcomed on NL.

EmperorOlu:
Well this is what google brings up when you search for mugabe's house :
http://www.google.co.za/images?hl=en&q=mugabe's+house&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=kSoqTLGRKIKgOP367bID&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCEQsAQwAA

even on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLqlH8v41uQ&feature=related

Some of these videos were made by british journalists so i don't believe that they are fake.The photos you showed have been printed in several zimbabwean newspapers.

Na! I have now found out that the house is a total hoax. It neither belongs to IBB or Mugabe; this is an abject lesson in how people sit down and make up stories. It is a real pity.
Its a building thats used for shooting films and all sorts of tv.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/mugabe.asp

I wonder if Sanusi now has nightmares of being tied to a stake at bar beach, as well as being the officer in charge and the poor sud who has to pull the trigger. . . 

CBN needs people with sarvy and financial sophistry, not marabouts who wish to decide the fate of Nigeria by throwing beads.

saddik:
[size=14pt]On point, DAT IS REALLY IBB HOUSE.

I have been der b4, and i swear it is his house[/size] , how did u get such picture from d web?

Thanks a lot for your reply.
I rest my case! The picture is really all over the place, I found them at a blog and then did a google search to try to verify. I couldn't find any definite info thats why I'm asking here; perhaps, there might be eye witnesses like yourself and others who might actually have their own pics of the mansion.

EmperorOlu:
^^^^^^^Please stop lying ! That is President Mugabe's house in harare ,zimbabwe. Just google "mugabe's House". Naija people sabi claim! IBB maybe able to afford a house like this but he is too "razz" and "local" to have the kind of of taste well educated men like mugabe have.He probably designed his minna house like a mosque just like many of his northern peers do and just like he designed ASO ROCK.

Na, it not Mugabe's house, I just did a quick search.
Even the unkind British press reported that Mugabe's house couse £3.5 million, pictures also show Mugabe's to be an entirely different design with much less opulence and its been dealt over and over as a hoax. What we have here is a house that is worth hundreds of millions of pounds sterling. So, question; is it really IBB's house?

teskyg:
daily trust, ?that ethnic ,religious and bias media org,

Exactly!
That is IBB's trumpet and the most disgustingly tribalistic paper in nigeria. They were immensely overjoyed at the antics of the cabal and now they are getting their own aboki's to talk foolishly about buying yatchs. But God catch dem! as we would say back home, because it is impossible to be more aboki than Vice Admiral Ishaya Iko Ibrahim.[b][/b]

Southerners, don't be fooled by desperate aboki tricks. [size=14pt]Say no to power rotation, PDP and zoning.[/size]

Fhemmmy:
IBB could not possibly be broke.
I am not sure you know what he could do with 12B Naira

You mean $12 billion! That is what it was.

denitro:
Our human brain functions in a unique way, to determine if something is hot, the brain must compare the input from different sources — and then make many other comparisons as well. All our actions are governed by the law of comparisom.

Those saying Tinubu was a failed governor might be Wrong or Right, Depending on how their brain process the input,
IN COMPARISON TO OBASANJO - TINUBU WAS A SAINT
IN COMPARISON TO ORJI UZOR KALU - TINUBU WAS A SUCCESSFUL GOVERNOR
IN COMPARISON TO IBORI - TINUBU WAS A FANTASTIC GOVERNOR
IN COMPARISON TO OBAMA - TINUBU WAS A FAILURE
IN COMPARISON TO CNN REPORT ON LAGOS - TINUBU WAS NOT SERIOUS
IN COMPARISON TO ZIK, AWOLOWO AND THE FOUNDING FATHER - TINUBU WAS A DISASTER.

IT ALL DEPENDS - WE HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE EVERYONE'S POINT OF VIEW

IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW YOU LOOK AT IT

Dat one na big lie!
Ibori really improved the infrastructure in Delta state, what we indegenes just can't stand is his stealing. If Ibori was not a thief, he would be seen today as a stellar governor. But a thief is a thief.
Tinubu and his lot should be in jail. No thief is better than another.

philip0906:
haba beaf. . .did u start this thread for us 2 begin 2 argue here?haven't u seen dis pix b4?almost everybody has it on their phone or laptops.its been on d net 4 close 2 a year nw even here on nairaland and we've discussed 'bout it.abi u wan ressurect lazarus

No, I actually saw these on the web and was shocked. I would really like to know from those who have at least seen the Hilltop Mansion in Minna.

. . .the request forwarded to the Minister of Defence Adetokunbo Kayode from the office of the Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral [size=14pt]Ishaya Iko Ibrahim[/size]

Aboki's want to buy a yatch for the President to create rumours in their war of "it is our turn", when educated almajiri's and educated Boko Haram unleashed on the nation should be our problem.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Ahmed_Sani_Yeriman_Bakura.jpg

www.nairaland.com/attachments/115155_ug_JPGe0e0bfaf971c070f8c9541c1578a1273

[img]http://4.bp..com/_McGJGARvPYM/RxQe6BopJsI/AAAAAAAAAJo/0GuIz48P61M/s1600/l.jpg[/img]

[img]http://4.bp..com/_McGJGARvPYM/RxQfSBopJtI/AAAAAAAAAJw/M98bu1kZYnk/s1600/m.jpg[/img]

[img]http://3.bp..com/_McGJGARvPYM/RxQdlxopJjI/AAAAAAAAAIg/GKS3D2HAhDA/s1600/c.jpg[/img]

tpiah:
as usual, naija dudes feeling happy at the sight of violence against women.

==hisses==

As if women too, no de take "Roger". Anyways, all I can see is a woman being violent toward a car with her size 1/2 arse! The car is the victim!
. . .Finally, if only you'd looked carefully, you would have noticed that the driver of the victimised car is. . . What do you know? A fellow babe!

^
No probs, but I am far from a guru.

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redsun:
Same jonathan that is planning to waste 50 billion of nigerian money celebrating depency.Same jonathan that is not bothered about the legitimate looting of nigerian senators in the name of salary and allowances.

Why is a country of 150 million people be left with the options of lesser and bigger rogues for leadership?

When we get free and fair elections, all the current BS will be a thing of the past. There is little Jonathan can do to clear a den of vipers out, when everywhere he looks, there are only more vipers, he needs a team to help him break the iron grip of our corrupt political classes. Let the vast majority be voted out in free and fair elections and then we'll see.

. . .the request forwarded to the Minister of Defence Adetokunbo Kayode from the office of the Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral [size=14pt]Ishaya Iko Ibrahim[/size]

Aboki's want to buy a yatch for the President when almajiri's and Boko Haram unleashed on the nation should be their problem.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/252009_almajiri_jpg3b717fb76953051fdc484005e071f01b

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=470557.msg6301589#msg6301589 date=1277799008]beaf has a perfect answer for you[/quote]This is called stalking.
If you were a woman, you would be in my bed by now, really getting it and giving birth every weekend.

Maybe we should cancel all economic summits with foreigners, avoid places like the UN, dump the Commonwealth, Ecowas etc; because we want to have all investment meetings at home. Some of you think anally.

. . .the request forwarded to the Minister of Defence Adetokunbo Kayode from the office of the Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral [size=14pt]Ishaya Iko Ibrahim [/size]

They really said they would hire aboki's to create false rumours in their "it is our turn" battle.

So navy aboki wants to buy yatch?
www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

olafolarin:
He is silly and dumb.

In as much i respect most of your posts,I am disappointed in this.He was never fined for any drug runnings in Chicago.
He was suspected of being in a drug ring but no evidence whatsoever was found to nail,pin or link him to the charges.
To him it was a clear case of "guilty by association".
He voluntarily forfeited less than $500k met in his account which the judge claimed is not well accounted for.And that was the period when progressives in Diaspora were "oiling" international press to put pressure on the then FG for the actualisation of June 12.Tinubu was thick in its action and as such funds were traced to his account.Despite massive interrogations on the case,he was acquited of all charges after agreeing to forfeit the $500k.And this judgement was delivered by a judge who has the most conservative records in Chicago's legal/judicialhistory.

And do you think his 8 years as lagos Governor is a failure?If you think so,then you might not be as intelligent as i think.His achievements are there for all to see and fashola till date is still attributing his success to the foudations and plans laid down by his predeccessor-Bola Tinubu.
I am not saying Bola Tinubu is a saint but he definitely deserves more than those unwarranted comments.

Really?

According to the Verified Complaint for forfeiture in case No. 93 C 4483 Obtained by SaharaReporters, which was filed on July 26, 1993 before the Hon. Judge Nordberg of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the United States Government urged the Court to order the forfeiture of  funds   in accounts Nos. 263226700 held by First Heritage Bank in the name of Bola Tinubu, funds in accounts 39483134, 39483396, 4650279566, 00400220, 39936404 and 39936383 held by Citibank N.A in the name of Bola Tinubu and funds in accounts 52050-89451952,52050-89451952, 52050-89451953 held by Citibank in the name of Bola Tinubu because there was probable cause to believe that the funds in Tinubu's bank accounts represented proceeds of narcotics trafficking or were monies involved in financial transactions in violations of 18 U.S.C, sections 1956 and 1957 and therefore, was forfeitable to the U.S Government.

http://pointblanknews.com/os1147.html

And here is the proof that Tinubu did not "voluntarily" forfeit $500,000.00 drug money to the US govt. Men like Tinubu, Saraki, Ibori and IBB need to be locked up and the key thrown away. Instead, they roam around our corridors of power with their worshippers; poluting government with outrageous levels of corruption.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/139268_BolaTinubuHeroinforfeiture_jpgb084d334c74cec7150ee9588a3aed2fc

The man has probably been a thief since the day he was born. Convictions and ignominy trail his steps from Europe to Africa and soon, to the Middle East.
Jail awaits Ibori.

[size=14pt]Court can’t stop your arrest, judge tells Ibori [/size]
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 01:21 Isaac Aregbesola

A Federal High Court sitting in Asaba on Monday threw out former Delta State Governor James Ibori’s application for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights for lack of merit.
Ibori had filed the action following attempts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest him for allegedly diverting the state’s shares in Oceanic Bank to guarantee a loan granted Ascot Nigeria Limited by Intercontinental Bank. The anti-graft agency declared the ex-governor wanted for failing to respond to its invitation to appear before it.

Ibrahim Buba, the presiding judge, who on Monday held that the court lacks the power to stop a statutory body from arresting anybody in connection with a criminal act and that the court’s intervention would only be necessary where such a body acted ultra vires, stressing that the EFCC has not violated any law by inviting the former governor to appear before it.
James Ibori

Buba equally faulted one of the premises of the Ibori application for a preventive order; that he was being haunted by the anti-graft agency over matters which had already been resolved by the court when it quashed the 170-count charge of money laundering preferred against him by the EFCC.

The judge noted that the application before him didn’t disclose any charge by the EFCC, and that it would amount to a waste of time to pontificate on a matter that is not before the court. “Until a baby is born, you cannot tell whether the child would be a boy or a girl”, he stated.

He, however, agreed with J. B. Daudu, Ibori’s counsel, that it has jurisdiction to entertain the application. Chile Okoroma, counsel to EFCC, had argued that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the application as Ibori was invited to appear before the anti-graft agency in Abuja, while the invitation letter was delivered to him in Lagos.

http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12196:court-cant-stop-your-arrest-judge-tells-ibori-&catid=85:national&Itemid=340

!00%?!!
We are praying for free and fair elections. Lets hope that was simply a play on words.

[size=14pt]Plateau pledges 100% vote for Jonathan in 2011 [/size]
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 01:21 Horatius Egua

Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has pledged to deliver 100 percent votes to President Goodluck Jonathan should he decide to contest the 2011 presidential election.
James Mannok, director of press to the Plateau State governor, said during a chat with state House Correspondents on Monday that Jang along with key political figures in the state were already mobilising the people at the grassroots to vote massively for Jonathan in the presidential election.

Mannok said: “I can assure you that as a people, we will support President Jonathan to ensure that he wins the 2011 presidential election with resounding victory. We will all give him our solid support and by the grace of God we are prepared to deliver 100 percent votes to Jonathan in Plateau state”.
Jonah Jang

“The state government will do all within its powers to ensure that people of the state vote massively for the president in the 2011 election,” he stated further.

Jang had recently disclosed that he would support the president should he signify interest in contesting the election as no provision in the 1999 constitution bars the president from contesting the presidency on account of his geopolitical zone.

Mannok said those canvassing the zoning formula were just whipping up sentiments but urged them to be conscious of the reality of democracy and subject themselves to public contest instead of hiding behind the zoning arrangement to cause political confusion.

According to him, “as a founding father of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and a member of its board of trustee, there has never been a time the leadership had adopted the zoning formula”, stressing that “what happened in 1999 was to take care of the exigencies of the time which then favoured the South-West”.

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Mr Fire:
See Tinubu, a failed governor, calling another failed governor to question? How can two house rats fight each other when there is enough to grab in the kitchen?

Exactly!
He was also very heavily fined (about $500,000) for being involved in drug running in the US.

Mr Fire:
1. Publicly accepting never to have met Jega states clearly , he didn't make the choice. Somebody else made it. "As a leader you should Never let people know you are not in control"
2. It is okay to thank the military, but not in public. It de-values the belief in democracy and strengthens the wrong notion in the public eye. (That is : That we really can't do anything if the khaki boys return- even if this was true, his job is to make us believe that it isn't. )
3. This is self explanatory. Even the self righteous Yar Adua never washed PDPs linen in public except of course when he delivering a punishment( Baba Gana). A party leader must watch his words even if the party is the 'Largest group of corrupt, inept and misguided legalized touts in the world'."

How about, meeting Jega would be seen as unduely influencing the appointment of the INEC chairman; especially at a time the nation is harping on the neutrality of the INEC chairman?

There is nothing wrong with commending the military for being professional. That is what Jonathan did, I challenge anyone to provide a quote that proves otherwise. It is easy to twist other peoples words.

PDP is recognised as a massive rigging machine by the Nigerian public. Jonathan on the other hand, has promised free and fair elections. Don't you think that wrestling the PDP monster to the ground is to the benefit of Nigeria? We must also realise that Jonathan is the President of Nigeria, not PDP.
It can only take strength and courage to wrestle with the entrenched negative interests that see the PDP rigging machine as their vehicle to corrupt largesse.

I weep if Yar Adua has now become a yardstick for good governance.