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Gayigaskia:
This can happen if Jonathan divide the PDP and bring people like El rufai Fashola and Ribadu to his side to form a new party totally separate from the retired generals of the PDP. It is not going to be easy, but that's what is needed.
On a separate note i salute the coup in Niger Republic, as i'am half Nigerien. i personally grew up in Niamey with some of these young officers, who told me they are going to retire all the major politicians who hold power since the 1990's because they constitute a problem that is dragging the country down the drain. I hope it wont be another curse of oil and Uranium, because the oil refinery in Niger is scheduled to open next year, and the second biggest Uranium mine in the world will follow later along with the new hydroelectric Dam on the river Niger.

[size=14pt]That would be a master stroke![/size] Bring the best together from every part of the country, people who mean well and are dynamic. It save the country from the current dangerous North - South dichotomy and set us moving forwards once and for all.
Jonathan doesn't need PDP and all its jobbers and rent collectors.

justwise:
And your Mr Mugabe has being in power for 30 good yrs? All you have writen here is from his book cos this is exactly how he talks. Evil dictators blames the west. Ok since he has taken the land where is Zim now? People like u can't stop blaming the western media, we all know that Africa prob is bad leadership. Keep blaming everyone else apart from yourself.

Every single thing Mandingo said is true.

Is Zimbabwe's economy not improving dramatically? You know why? . . .Obama isn't interested in screwing fellow blacks (we have a way of doing a pretty comprensive job of it without outside help anyway), that was one of the first things he shut down on Gordon Brown.

Zimbabwe is the first country in the World to have been stopped from trading in anything, yet they survived. Their currency was fu'cked by the West, so they played a fast one and now use the US Dollar which the West and the US are never ever gonna Bleep.

Its even in todays news, the IMF has restored Zimbabwe's vote (hail Obama).

@hugooh42
Read the above, I'm sure you don't know that Zimbabwe uses the US Dollar. We blacks love to run ourselves down like its a competion at the end of which we will get 72 virgins. It is just suicide.

Crude Oil:
I am really trying not to believe that some people are trying to commend this old fool. With people like you guys, this country will not see progress in the next 100 years.

It is damn incredible!

Timehin: @ wirinet, are u telling us that because danjuma served in govt so hes entitled to a 'dash' of oil wells? Why are nigerians like u fond of celebrating crimimals who ought to be shot for corrupt practices. Are d likes of danjuma d only nigerian dat deserve good life in d midst of much sufferings in a country so blessed? Pls lets call a spade a spade, agreed he served d country but at d same time he was duly paid like every other civil servant and am disappointed dat inspite of glaring evidences of injustice in d niger delta danjuma has d gut to boast of making $500m from oil well dat belong to a nation when our people are languishing in poverty. Haba $500m just like dat? in short its annoying cos its people like danjuma dat are destroying dis nation!

Abeg, tell am!
It is only in Nigeria that "good men" make their compatriots destitute and steal billions of Dollars. In fact the bigger the billions they steal, the more some of us will respect them.

Uchek:
Beaf why are you bitter. He deserves it. This is his payback as a Northern for fighting against Biafra. My Minority brothers chose to pitch their tent with them.

P.S. One more thing. Ojukwu never made an oil block

When did Anioma, Isoko, Itsekiri, Urhobo fight against Biafra? These people were either supporters or victims of both the FG and Biafra (I have said it over and over on NL that my father had to hide from both Biafra and the FG). Sometimes the way people manufacture history is sickening.
Before you begin screaming about Anioma, go find out; it was never in Biafra. Western Ijaw (were Tompolo is from) was also never in Biafra. I am tired of hearing this bullsh!t. If anything, there should be cooperation between Igbo and all groups in that area.

You are the one that sounds so bitter that you have to create non-existent history.

For your information, in my state (Delta), the Itsekiri produce by far the most oil. There are numerous oil wells in Isoko land and Urhoboland as well.

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I have come to see him a good man who genuinely cares for Niger state. Am I wrong?

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We are all angry, but must you abuse a dying old man? Thats just poor.

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Can you imagine?!
I wish Saudi was a small country like Benin Republic so we could give our army a duty to be proud of.

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Exactly! When there are men like Babangida Aliyu, why would Northern Nigeria continue to to be led by all sorts of vultures like Aondoakaa and other jobbers?

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Oh! I thought those were all your words. Don't mind that loser jare!
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So you pray to God to show you the way to steal?

The answer to the question, "whose North?" has become increasingly urgent.
These people are not looking out for any Northern interests. They are criminals who are after lining their pockets with greasy lucre, the nation needs to stand up to them.

This specie of despicable criminal is known collectively as "the hawks".
With every passing day, they are becoming a deep embarrassment to the region they represent; yet, this is the same region that produced Maj Umar, Balarabe Musa, the late Aminu Kano, El Rufai, Nuhu Ribadu and countless other sons and daughters of distinction; there is an urgent need for the renaissance of Northern progressives, who seem to be an endangered species.

Jonathan should go right ahead, call their bluff and sack two thirds of the serving ministers and other deadwood. They can't do jack.

[size=14pt]Whose North?[/size] .
Saturday, 20 February 2010 00:00 Nigerian Compass   

. .The drumbeats of war have begun; the unwary should take heed. The Northern caucus of the National Assembly was on Thursday reported to have, quite distressingly, told Acting President Goodluck, in no unmistakable terms, to prepare for impeachment if he dared dissolve the current federal cabinet.

Twenty-four hours after the threat, which was reportedly issued after the caucus met at the Apo Quarters of Abdul-Ningi, there has been no rebuttal of the claims. So it is safe to take the report as true.

Apparently to them, it is irrelevant if the ministerial team is incapable of pushing through the visions of the Acting President, or even of the ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, let alone that of the nation. The cabinet has come to stay, pure and simple.

That the cabinet has since inception failed to raise power generation and supply across the country, and has not given any indication that it will anytime soon, is irrelevant to the Northern caucus of the national legislature.

It also does not matter to the caucus that the current cabinet has failed to frontally tackle Nigeria’s heavy food imports, or improve the provision of water, or get  appreciable results on road construction and repairs. We are nowhere near the starting blocks in science and technology, or education, or industry. Please, do not mention the petroleum sector where Nigeria has continued to behave like a slowpoke, watching Western nations refine its crude oil, shipping the black gold abroad for refining, and milking us all the way through.

To the legislators in the caucus, the current Minister of the Niger Delta can continue being busy doing nothing; federal highways can be death traps until eternity, the national healthcare system can continue to be in the hands of usurious private medical practitioners; indeed, the status quo that preserves the so-called advantages of the North in the current dispensation must be maintained.

And, oh!, Michael Aondoakaa, who has served the interest of the North so well must be kept in office in whatever shape or form. He can still be of great use, whether in the Ministry of Justice or as Special Duties minister.

Fortunately, the North has the numerical advantage in the National Assembly, going by Nigeria’s peculiar history, a trend that dates back to the colonial days. Thus, it is irrelevant if the entire South and the common people of the North are agreed on an issue, it will be defeated when put to vote once the Northern elite decide against it.

[b]The only unfortunate thing is that the so-called interest of the North that they seek to protect is narrow, very narrow. It does not include the interest of the farmer in Kaura Namoda, whose children may never go to school and are either sent into almajiri training, when males; or  married off at tender ages, when female. The so-called northern interest that is being sought to be maintained at all costs by this caucus does not include the mass of the people in Maiduguri who have no access to electricity, or enjoy it only in fits and starts; or the pregnant woman in the other parts of the North, like her counterparts in the South,  who in the subsisting dispensation is left to her fate, both in delivery and training of the offspring. It does not include the interest of the nomad, or the elderly man who has been a street beggar all his life and has sired more beggars and deserve a national leadership that will come up with a programme of social security for the young and the aged.

It does not address the serious disconnect between the leaders and the led that bred boko haram, a doctrine that sees all sorts of Western education as evil since virtually all its known beneficiaries have put the knowledge to negative uses.

Truth be told: the so-called Northern interest, if it continues to be at variance with that of the nation, will impoverish the average Northerner, equally, if not more that his Southern compatriot.
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Pray, what is wrong in giving the Acting President a free hand, so that he can make the best of the remaining years of this joint presidency? Is it in doubt that even if he is well enough and returns to the country today,  Yar’Adua has been presented to Nigerians and the entire world as one who abdicated his throne without justification; that the ailing President has been alienated from the citizenry by those who preferred to run the country on his behalf, anonymously and without being held accountable?

Without doubt, it is a warped sense of Northern interest, and not national cause, that led Yar’Adua’s handlers to keep him away from Nigerians since November 23 last year, and have him held hostage by doctors in Saudi Arabia; the sitting president of another country!

That Nigeria’s president had to seek medical attention abroad is shameful enough, but for our legislators to insist that the status quo must continue is unacceptable. With such a disposition, it will be difficult, if not impossible to hold Jonathan responsible for the performance of the cabinet. It is not in doubt that in this clime, as well as most parts of the world, the choice of ministers is strictly of the President and not the party, much less of his deputy. If, in the unexpected development of the deputy taking over the reins, as is the case with Dr. Jonathan, the country must live with either a change of cabinet by the new leader or a lack-lustre performance by the administration. The decision to retain ministers and any other appointee ought to be left to the new leader who will take the ultimate credit or blame for the performance of the administration. Forcing a clearly unenthusiastic team on the Acting President is a disservice to not just the country but the larger Northern interest that the legislators purport to represent.

Shorn of its linguistic garb, the declaration of war by the caucus is not in the interest of the North, by any stretch of imagination, but of those who stand to profit from the dark clouds in the horizon. If something radical is not done about the Yar’Adua/Jonathan cabinet, as is being rigorously advocated by the caucus, the negative consequences will be suffered by the mass of the Nigerian people, including if not more particularly, those of the North on whose behalf the caucus purports to act.

http://www.compassnews.net/Ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41657:whose-north&catid=666:article&Itemid=795

Easy solution, dissolve NNPC and make the petroleum industry a regional affair, same as solid minerals.

saiyaman:
WHAT A "DONKEY"

You got that right.

It is better for them to start with catapult, then small small, give them bow and arrow, then small small dane gun and mark IV. . .
7 years experience, before AK47

That old man is an agbaya!
Why did he beat up someones father, husband and boyfriend like that? Damn!

What is this World coming to?

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Interesting!
I didn't realise that. Doesn't he have to clear such appointments with the legislature first? If he doesn't, this will be seen as a judgement call (except there are other angles).

The country desperately needs men of integrity to move forward.
Bringing men like Ribadu and El-rufa’i back home to help build the country would achieve three very important things;

[list]
[li]It will deal a death blow to the lie by criminals that they are holding us back in the interest of the "North"[/li]
[li]It will win us immediate international cooperation as both men are currently viewed abroad as Nigeria's icons and matyrs of integrity[/li]
[li]Within our borders, there can be no louder signal that the era of business as usual is over[/li]
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[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=401282.msg5549318#msg5549318 date=1266631777]Jonathan needs to replace the ambassador to Saudi Arabia immediately, at the very least.[/quote]That is a brilliant suggest, but I think it might be too late.
They've now got their visa's, so they might be off as soon as tomorrow. I believe Jonathan has other plans though, he is most likely giving the most powerful members of the kitchen cabinet a rope to hang themselves with. It is hard to see how they can come out of this glittering with success (a fail, fail situation ).

Jonathan seems incredibly wily and patient, lets hope it doesn't backfire on him (Turai + Ibori is no joke).

[size=14pt]FG Woos Ribadu, el-Rufa’i[/size]
By Idowu Sowunmi, 02.20.2010

Some top federal government officials are making moves to bring former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufa'i, back to the country, THISDAY has learnt.

Although it is not yet clear in what capacities they would return, it was gathered that Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is not averse to working with the two men who were instrumental to the successes recorded by the past administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Ribadu and el-Rufa'i fell out of favour with President Umaru Yar'Adua shortly after he assumed office in 2007 and the two men, who are currently on self-exile, were soon charged before the courts for alleged offences which are believed to be politically motivated.

While Ribadu is standing trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal allegedly for violating the Code of Conduct law by failing to declare his assets, el-Rufa'i is being tried by the EFCC over the sale of government property in Abuja. Both of them have denied the charges.

Jonathan, who assumed the role of Acting President last week, has promised to pursue the anti-graft war more seriously as well as focus on power and electoral reforms.
A top government official said last night that Jonathan was ready to work with credible Nigerians anywhere in the world, hence the decision to reach out to Ribadu and el-Rufa'i.

"It is not just the two people you have mentioned. Jonathan has indicated his preparedness to work with the best Nigeria has to offer no matter where they are based, provided they are credible," the source said.
Ribadu's removal as EFCC chairman and subsequent demotion and sack from the police force by Yar'Adua is believed to have dented the anti-corruption efforts of the government, with US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton saying last year that the EFCC had "fallen off."

El-Rufa'i was quoted during the week as saying he was ready to support Jonathan if he showed good leadership qualities - a statement said to have rattled prominent figures of the Northern establishment who believe that a Northerner should be president in 2011 to "complete" the tenure of that section of the country in the event that Yar'Adua is unable to continue in office.

"If Jonathan shows real leadership over the next few months, many of us will campaign for him to be our president, and I think Nigeria and the West African sub-region will be the better for it," el-Rufa'i told Reuters recently.
He added: “Even with the limited time, Jonathan could make a start on priorities such as the amnesty for rebels in the oil-producing Niger Delta, fixing power supply and roads, as well as electoral reforms.”

Ribadu, on his part, praised the elevation of Jonathan to the position of acting president, adding that the resolution of the National Assembly indicated that things are changing for the better in the country.
The former EFCC chairman said he was ready to return to the country to be part of the process of reconstruction desperately needed in the society.

It was further learnt that the government would not be opposed to dropping the "trumped-up" charges against the two men, in addition to restoring Ribadu’s rank, who was demoted by two ranks from Assistant Inspector General of Police to Deputy Commis-sioner of Police before he was finally dismissed for going AWOL (away without official leave) after failing to report for duty in Edo State.

The police disciplinary committee that recommended his dismissal was headed by Ogbonna Onovo, who is now the Inspector General of Police.
When Ribadu was denied his certificate by the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies for failing to wear his police uniform - which would have meant donning his demoted rank and subsequently challenged the demotion in court at the time - it was Jonathan who ordered NIPSS to release his certificate.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=166888

snowdrops:
I have said it before; the more you make posts the more i believe you have an empty space between you ears.

And you are so smart that the above is the sum total of your contribution to this topic? Can't you even give a civilised opinion like others?

Listen to those who live in, work in or have 1st hand experience of Zimbabwe and you will surely learn something. I maintain that Zimbabwe is a better place for small scale business than Nigeria, they maintain their infrastructure a 100 times better than we do ours, they are less corrupt, they are better educated. . . The list goes on, if you have an argument, make it.

Ekwerenmadu was on AIT today, saying that issue's like the Yar Adua - Saudi one, can cause nations to go to war.
We must break diplomatic relations with Saudi as a first step, if the ministers are not allowed unfettered access to Yar Adua and his full medical records. The next steps would be to activate necessary action in the NASS and then take the matter to the UN.

[size=14pt]Turai bars family members, ministers get visas[/size]
By Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja, Published: Saturday, 20 Feb 2010 

Members of the Governors’ Forum and the House of Representatives, the Principal Secretary to the President and leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party were not the only people barred from seeing hospitalised President Umaru Yar‘Adua in Saudi Arabia, Saturday Punch investigations have revealed.

Some members of the Yar‘Adua family were also prevented from seeing their ailing brother at the King Faisal Specialist and Research Hospital, Jeddah by the First Lady, Hajia Turai Yar‘Adua, recently.

Sources close to the family disclosed this to our correspondent on Friday even as the newspaper learnt that the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation had procured Saudi visas for all the ministers selected to visit Yar’Adua in Jeddah.

President Yar’Adua has been on admission for acute pericarditis at the Arabian hospital since November 23, 2009.

Saturday Punch investigations revealed that Turai allegedly prevented some key members of Yar‘Adua‘s extended family from visiting the ailing President at the hospital recently.

It was learnt that the President’s sisters had bought tickets and were billed to travel to Saudi Arabia to see things for themselves when they were asked to stay back by Turai for reasons she did not disclose.

One of the sisters said to be resident at the Gwarinpa Estate, Abuja, and others who are said to be worried about the health of their sibling were said to have been stunned by the decision of the First Lady, an impeccable source told our correspondent.

According to the source, the only person from the Yar’Adua family who could not be prevented from seeing the number one citizen is a younger brother of the President, a Lt. Colonel in the Army. The source added that the colonel was the only close extended family member that had been to Jeddah to see the President since his illness worsened.

The source added that one of the wives of the late elder brother of the President, Gen. Musa Yar‘Adua, an Ethiopian lady, who had four children for the elder Yar’Adua, was also dissuaded from travelling to see the president.

It was learnt that only three people has access to the President in the Saudi hospital; the Chief security Officer to the President, his Aide de Camp and Turai. It is only these three that have information about President Yar’Adua’s state of health.

Since the illness became protracted, several highly placed Nigerians have made futile efforts to see the President.

For in stance, a delegation of the Governors‘ Forum led by its chairman, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and comprising Gabriel Suswan of Benue State; Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State; Isa Yuguda of Bauchi; and the President‘s Economic Adviser, Dr. Tanimu Yakubu, travelled to Jeddah on November 29 last year, but was not allowed to see the President.

On December 26, 2009, the president‘s Principal Secretary, Mr. David Edevbie, also travelled to Saudi Arabia but was not allowed to see his ailing boss. A delegation of the House of Representatives led by Shehu Agaie (Niger State) and comprising Ali Ndume (Borno), Patrick Ikhariale (Edo State), Moruf Fatai (Lagos State) and Jibril Adamu (Kaduna State) also went to the hospital on February 9 but after waiting for five days without seeing Yar‘Adua, it returned to Nigeria.

And just last week, a delegation of the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party led by the party‘s National Chairman, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, also travelled to Jeddahbut was reportedly barred by Turai from seeing the President.

[b]Meanwhile, the six-man delegation raised by the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday to visit the president may depart for Jeddah on Sunday, even though that departure remained uncertain as at Friday.

Reliable sources in Abuja told Saturday Punch that the SGF collected the ministers passports on Thursday, took it to the Saudi Arabia embassy in Abuja and returned it with visas on Friday. He also added that a decision had been taken that the delegation should depart for Saudi Arabia on Sunday. The delegation is expected back on Monday to brief the FEC about its findings next Wednesday. Sunday is a working day in Saudi Arabia, the flight is expected to take about five hours and the delegation may not spend more than an hour at the hospital if things work according to plan.

However, a source was also quick to add that there was uncertainty about the departure date, saying, “Although the ministers now have their visas, the Sunday departure date has not been confirmed or cancelled. So, no one knows if the trip will take place on that day.”

The delegation comprising the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed; the Ministers of Justice, Adetokunbo Kayode; Agriculture, Abba Ruma; Foreign Affairs, Ojo Maduekwe; Health, Babatunde Osotimehin; and Petroleum, Rilwan Lukman, will also pay a courtesy call on the King of Saudi Arabia.

But the inability of the previous delegations to see Yar’Adua has given rise to concerns that the FEC team may not be allowed to see him at the King Faisal Hospital.[/b]

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201002202421614

He said although the force's manpower is about 370,000, but would be raised to 500,000

This is gross irresponsibility. Damn! 130,000 more "rogers" and peppersouper's.

@Ibime

Well said. You really hit the nail on the head.

Everybody forgets that these lands are simply seized by the govt.
Some have come come here to hail Danjuma like he is some sort of beneficiary of fortuitous circumstances, like he wasn't one of those who created the evil rules for extorting the ND. There is nothing about "business as usual" or "anybody would have done it", we are talking about peoples livelihoods being seized and "allocated" to govt or ex-govt officials. There is no level of fraud and corruption more insidious than this.

It is a fraud committed on several levels, first against the ND and then against the country. There is no accounting of these blocks to the treasury, there are no taxes paid, there are no fees paid, the blocks are “allocated” to individuals with no oil prospecting/drilling knowledge. . . It goes on and on.
In the meantime, there is poverty everywhere, no structures or power supply, because oil blocks and Nigeria’s money is going into private pockets.

@ilugunboy
The nerves of the average 9ja are raw 24/7 
Everybody outside the corrupt ruling classes is severely cheated by the system, it only varies in degree. Something needs to be done, even if it looks innefectual, every drop counts toward creating an ocean.

They will fail. Somebody should please start clearing jail places for certain VIP's, because their time is up.

With a little tact, we should see a Goodluck Jonathan presidency, come 2011. Just, so far as Yar Adua does not miraculously return.

[size=14pt]The North And Goodluck Jonathan Presidency [/size]
Fri Feb, 19 2010
By Zayyad I. Muhammad

It is no news that Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is fully in-charge as the Acting President of the Federal Republic Nigeria. But the high-wired political intrigues, manoeuvres and horse-trading that heralded his emergence as the Acting President will continue to deepen as well as become very interesting. As events unfold, political pundits and students of history will have a lot to comment on, learn from and also use to predict things to come, while ordinary Nigerians will watch with keen interest.

The emergence of Yar’Adua as the President of Nigeria was a product of many factors. One of the main factors was the unwritten ‘agreement’ of power rotation between the north and south, which many observers see as undemocratic and also an offshoot of the never-ending ploy by the Nigerian political elites to continue to hold on to power, but it supporters described idea as the only way-out for all parts of the country to taste power.

Goodluck Jonathan’s Acting Presidency and the likelihood of him becoming the President will interweave within three issues; the return or otherwise of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the North’s political moves and Goodluck’s political future.

The north would be the epicentre of politics to come. Since the emergence of the facts about President Yar’Adua’s health status, political gladiators in the region are busy putting their political machinery to action by building networks and strategising for the 2011 presidential election, believing that the probability of Yar’Adua seeking a second term is very slim. There is strong feeling within the political class in the north, that the region must hold on to power till 2015 based on the aforementioned unwritten agreement, but most observers are quick to remind the political elites from the north that during the 2003 elections which was the turn of the south to complete their eight years in power, the same north fielded candidates to seek the office of the President.

Let’s assume all things being equal, and the north is allowed to go solo; is the political class in the region ready to make amends and present a candidate that would bring dynamisms and also exhibit an understanding of global trends? The north had made a serious mistake by allowing Obasanjo to pick his choice to represent it, because the region had the political power to block Obasanjo then. Though, the beauty of this remains a lesson to other regions when their ‘turn’ comes.

Now that it appears the north is slowly losing the Presidency, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan will be closely watched by the region; in addition, his actions and inactions will be thoroughly read by the northern political class. In return, the Acting President has to face the north with two calculations in his mind. The first; he has to keep in his mind the likelihood of the return of his boss, Yar’Adua, in this case, Jonathan will employ his usual tactic of being Mr. Patient. So, those that are expecting him to go bananas will be disappointed. But if he eventually becomes the President, he has to play the imitable- approach the north through political manoeuvring that requires reaching painstaking political agreement and concessions. Politics, they say, is all about give and take.

However, if Yar’Adua returns, Jonathan’s political calculations will definitely change. As earlier mentioned, the man must have been playing his politics with two things in mind, the return or otherwise of his boss. If Yar’Adua returns, Jonathan’s calculations must be on how to remain the Vice President, regardless of who will be the presidential candidate that will be presented by the north. Though, the feeling in many quarters is, the likelihood of Yar’Adua going for second term is slim. But is Yar’Adua ready to allow the north to represent another candidate for the 2011 presidential elections. If the north presents another candidate, there is no grantee he/she will do only one term of four years, so as to allow the south takeover, thus jeopardising Acting President Goodluck Jonathan chance of becoming President after the north might have finished its two terms.

If Yar’Adua do not eventually return, and in the end Acting President Goodluck Jonathan becomes the President, there is nothing that can stop him from seeking election into the office of the President, in fact many political elites from the north will campaign for him if they see the possibilities of their interests being promoted. In that case, high-wired politics that involves manoeuvres and horse-trading will be employed. Another possible scenario is, if Jonathan performs excellently, this will give him the advantage of winning the heart of Nigerians. He may also use the leverage of being the President and impose himself in 2011 as the President using the machinery of the State.

Acting President Goodluck Jonathan’s political future will be determined by four issues, the first and the most important is the return or otherwise of President Yar’Adua, the second is the political direction of the north, the third is his political intention and his ability to craftily play the usual Nigerian politics, while the fourth which is also closely tied to the first is his performance in office. Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has found himself in a situation that both politics and policies may determine his political future. To see him through, he has to take careful political steps and intelligent policies, these require more than good luck!

Zayyad I. Muhammad writes from Jimeta, Adamawa State, zaymohd@yahoo.com, 08036070980. He blogs at www.zayyaddp..com

http://www.thetimesofnigeria.com/Article.aspx?id=2462

. . .And to think that I last saw becomerich near Minna!

Katsumoto:
OPCman
Please stop this Yoruba supremacy talk; it is not helpful.

Beaf
What was the point of producing those pictures? Are the areas in those pictures the only deprived areas in Nigeria? Are there no deprived areas in the Niger Delta? There are slums in every country, including the US.

Of course there are deprived areas, but they are not our minority areas and we do not wish to be consigned to anybodies chauvinistic backyard.
I understand that they might cause offense, but they were necessary in the face of OPCmans falsehoods and provocations.

The photo's have been deleted https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-395698.0.html#msg5484608

@OPCman
You have come back from your robbery operation abi? Now you are back typing crap on your stolen computer. Guguru is in your brain. Ode, lastma official!