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OBJ's disgrace will be immortal

Aloralord1:
I don't support the public criticisms of Jonathan by OBJ but I think its something that should worry the leaders of PDP.
Shows the party isn't as strong and united as it was. It also shows that people like OBJ do not see prospects in PDP anymore cos no politician wld want to leave where its 'happening'. The truth is, PDP needs serious help!

You got the word. Where it is "happening". I think we shouldn't argue further why Obasanjo is sounding pained. Dude has been cut to size, he's no god.

Aloralord1:
He's from my mum's hometown too and I don't like him but truth be told, at his age, he has nothing to lose by saying the truth. Did u watch the video that showed OBJ promising northerners that GEJ will spend one term in 2011? Jonathan was there nodding in approval and u expect OBJ to go back to the same north to campaign for Jonathan.
The failure of Jonathan is something that has been internationally acclaimed; OBJ got this one spot on! Why support a failed president cos of party affiliation ?

My brother if you look at the way OBJ is going about this thing, you'll know that there is more to it than meets the eye.

Thank God. The foolish man is gone.
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It doesn't take rocket science to know that this man is desperate for something and feels pained about it. Whoever thinks Obasanjo is doing all these because of patriotism and not selfish interest needs his head checked. Mark my words, OBJ will be APC's albatross. It disgusts me at times to think this man is from my mum's hometown.

The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo , has warned ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo over his reported remarks on President Goodluck Jonathan.

Media reports had quoted Obasanjo as saying that Jonathan shifted the election dates because he was afraid of defeat and that perhaps the President had been listening to aides telling him that he stands the risk of being jailed for corruption should the opposition All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) wins the poll.

The former President also alleged that Jonathan was engaging in “the do-or-die” politics played by the former President of Cote d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo.

But the Ohanaeze Youth Council warned Obasanjo to stop inciting Nigerians against the President, who, according to the group, “has dwarfed the achievements of all former Nigerian leaders.”

Speaking with our correspondent in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, the National President of OYC, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said “Obasanjo should stop fanning the embers of war through his unguarded utterances against a sitting President.”

Isiguzoro accused Obasanjo of plotting, in connivance with some undemocratic elements, to topple Jonathan’s government through inciting comments, warning that any attempt to derail Nigeria’s democracy would be resisted.

“Obasanjo is a disappointment to democracy. He should not plunge Nigeria into another civil war through his hate remarks against Jonathan,” he said.

Isiguzoro said Jonathan had “by all standards proved to be a core democrat, otherwise the likes of Obasanjo should be cooling his feet in the jail by now because of his evil deeds while in office.”

The OYC leader said corruption was institutionalised during Obasanjo’s administration and wondered when the former President overnight turned into the vanguard of democracy.

He said, “Obasanjo should know that he has expired politically and Nigerian youths cannot allow him and other spent forces that belong to the past to ruin our future.

“Nigeria cannot buy his belated and selfish idea of Interim National Government, and all those plotting to put Nigeria backwards will be disappointed because the youths are now wiser.”

Isiguzoro further argued that “if anyone should be afraid of going to jail because of corruption and illegality, it is Obasanjo who superintended over the destruction of Odi town while he was in office.”

He said that President Jonathan deserved the right to seek re-election and should not be deprived of that right by “members of a self-serving cabal who think that Nigeria is their private estate.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/igbo-youths-warn-obasanjo-against-anti-jonathan-comments/

If boko means book then I want to BOKO this space for future use.

STALE

Hmnnnn

Oya moti book space. Buhari aye e ti ta.

We must try to be truthful here, it costs us nothing. Obasanjo has done more harm than good to this nation. Dude is only sounding to be patriotic. He's as guilty if not more guilty of everything he's accusing GEJ of. He disobeys court rulings at will, hound his political opponents with EFCC and to crown it all, it was under him that a sitting governor was impeached by a house in which the person who conducted the sitting that day was the former head of NURTW in that state Late Eleweomo. I'm talking about Oyo state. His administration witnessed the highest number of impeachment of "recalcitrant" state governors. The executive and legislature were eternally at logger-heads. Political assassinations almost became a daily occurrence. Now tell me a bigger BADLUCK

Jesu dakun gbawa lowo awon omo Buhari o.

yemmit90:
Can someone tell me the full meaning of that name 'KiKi'?

Sounds like the name of a bird

KEVIND:
Actually, we were told that Gen. Buhari wanted to have an audience with us regarding his presidential aspiration. The idea was that it was going to be an interactive session. I believe this is a sponsored endorsement. Our patrons and leaders are too noble to bring us to this embarrassing situation this way.  There was no meeting or agreement that suggests that this organisation or all leaders of Christians in the North should come and endorse Gen. Buhari or any other presidential candidate…
 

The altar was desecrated yesterday as some clergymen from the North tricked their unsuspecting colleagues into a meeting in Abuja to endorse All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari for the March 28 presidential election.
Signs that all was not well in the camp of the organisers started emerging at the venue of the meeting when some of the invited pastors complained that they were not told that the forum was called to endorse Buhari and his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
A group, which identified itself as Northern Christian Leaders Eagle-Eye Forum, spearheaded the meeting at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, where Buhari and Osinbajo were in attendance.
Some of the Christian leaders who openly protested the action of the patrons of the group, alleged that they were deceived into attending the meeting.
They alleged that the organisers told them that the meeting was put in place to enable the clergymen take up Buhari on some topical issues but lamented that it “turned out to be total declaration of support for Buhari.”
While some of the aggrieved pastors stormed out of the meeting, others stayed till the end.
They were however shocked when contrary to the organisers’ promise to give each participant either N50,000 or N100,000 (depending on the locations from whence they came), the funds released by a governor who bankrolled the meeting, was between N3,000 and N5,000. Some of the pastors said that the money given to them was not bribe but welfare package and insisted on collecting it.
It was learnt that the governor, whose identity was not disclosed, bankrolled the meeting with N500million.
In his address at the occasion with the theme: “Declaring Total Support for General Muhammadu Buhari,” the chairman of the Forum, Pastor Habu Aminchi, promised that his group would not only work for Buhari but would deliver 85 percent Christian votes in the North for the APC candidate.
However, some members of the group staged a walkout of the hall when Pastor Aminchi declared in the course of his speech that the Forum has endorsed Buhari for the presidential election.
The angry pastors said that they were neither involved in any meeting where such a decision was reached, nor were they informed about such a position to suggest endorsement of any presidential candidate or party in the forthcoming general elections.

Meeting initiated by Ango Abdullahi
Pastor Aminchi stated that the group used to work for the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, but that “what we are passing through today as a country made us to change our mind.”
According to him, the idea to convene the meeting came to him after Chairman of Northern Elders’ Forum, NEF, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, called him on phone and invited him for a chat.
Pastor Aminchi said that after his meeting with Prof. Abdullahi, he became convinced about the credibility of Buhari’s candidature against all the propaganda, an indication that all the negative media reports about him were all lies.
He described those who do not like the personality of Buhari as “attackers of destiny” who do not want him to succeed in his presidential bid to salvage the country from corruption, insecurity and declining economy.
Aminchi said he had since realised that all the propaganda against Buhari were false and were designed to smear his public image and make him an enemy of Christians in order to divide the political parties and the country along religious lines.
According to Pastor Aminchi, voting for Buhari means voting for Prof. Osibanjo, who is also a pastor. Buhari, according to him, is capable of restoring the country’s lost glory if he wins and reintroducing discipline and result-oriented anti-corruption campaign in the country, just like he did when he served as head of state.

The meeting is a fraud
However, several members of the Christian body alleged that Gen. Buhari and his party, APC, are sponsoring division among Christian communities in the North.
In an interview with Nigerian Pilot, Pastor Bitrus Yerima, the national president of Gospel Advancement Leadership Initiative and a member the Northern Christian Leaders Eagle-eyes Forum, said that most of the pastors, including himself, who attended the “endorsement meeting” had no prior knowledge of what was to happen at the event.
He said: “Actually, we were told that Gen. Buhari wanted to have an audience with us regarding his presidential aspiration. The idea was that it was going to be an interactive session. I believe this is a sponsored endorsement. Our patrons and leaders are too noble to bring us to this embarrassing situation this way.
“There was no meeting or agreement that suggests that this organisation or all leaders of Christians in the North should come and endorse Gen. Buhari or any other presidential candidates,” he said.
According to him, “whoever came up with this idea, I believe, is speaking his own mind and not that of Northern Christian leaders. What you just witnessed is a fraud. This Forum has no right to take such a decision the way it has taken. Our members comprise of people belonging to different political parties and it is our belief that our members are free to vote for any candidate of their choice,” he said.
Another pastor who sought anonymity told our correspondent that the agenda was dead on arrival.
“The fact is that we were taken unawares by this so-called endorsement. Some of us have invested our integrity in our spiritual assignment that we cannot sell ourselves so cheaply. There are going to be a lot of counter reactions to this embarrassing development after this moment.”
Outside the lobby of the ICC, pastors were sharply divided as they discussed the development and its implications on their integrity and sub-groups in the northern region. A group was overheard expressing its displeasure that they could be invited to such a “shameful programme.”
One of them told newsmen when he was approached that the endorsement was planned. “I am an insider and I know everything that is happening here.”
The cleric stated that he had been in Abuja since the beginning of the week for an important event before a friend who was one of the organisers of the event asked him to wait behind to attend the meeting.
“It was supposed to be an interactive discussion with Gen. Buhari by the pastors to hear from him the grievances of the clerics from the northern part of the country but dramatically, it turned out as an endorsement meeting. Of course, the pastors will collect their welfare packages and go back knowing full well that this is fake,” he said.
Another Jos-based clergyman lamented that he had been dribbled into what he described as a big scam by politicians in the forum who are working for APC.
“Some of us were promised N100,000 each if we come here (Abuja). Later, they said the money had been reduced to figure of N50,000.”
However, what aggravated the anger of the clerics was the way they said they were shabbily treated. “What is so annoying now is that they eventually gave those of us who came from Jos N5,000, and then doled out N3,000 to those within Abuja axis. It is regrettable to have come here at all,” he said.
When Pastor Aminchi was later asked by newsmen to react to the grievances of some of his members, he said that “all the members on our list were sponsored.”
Asked to clarify the contention that the issue of endorsement of Buhari or any other presidential candidate was never discussed in any of their previous meetings and if it was, did the executive council of the Forum send the resolutions to all members, Pastor Aminchi emphatically stated that, “the issue was well discussed and attended.
“We held meetings in Zaria and Kaduna last week. Anyone who has a dissenting voice against what we have just done is definitely not our member,” he said.
In an attempt to give the meeting a wider spread, some of the pastors registered their churches in the states of the North where they are not represented. They also included the names of churches whose leaders were invited but did not attend the meeting.
Among the northern Christian leaders in at the meeting included Pastor Paul Great of Methodist Church, Jos; Bishop Lawrence Awanorwo, New Creation School of Divinity, Niger State; Bishop Daniel Oboni, Christ Life Evangelistic Church, Bauchi State (instead of Jos); Bishop Musa Gomson, Unlimited Mercy and Glory Church, Gombe State (instead of Jos); Apostle (Dr.) Abraham Babe, World Christian Mission, Taraba State (operates in Jos); Paul Zumta, Alheri Baptist Church, Sokoto State; Rev. Sam Adejoh, Life Changer Christian Centre, Yobe (instead of Jos); Rev. Daniel D. Gonzuk, Amazing Grace, Benue State (operates in Jos); Rev. Emmanuel Edesiri, Destiny Path Assembly Int. Nasarawa State (instead of Jos), Rev. (Dr.) Sunday, Divine Latter Times, Borno State (instead of Jos) and others.
Beside Osinbajo, Buhari was accompanied to the meeting by former Chief of Army Staff and Director of Security Committee of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, Prof. Abdullahi and Gen. Paul Tarfa. Both Buhari and Osinbajo were presented copies of the Holy Bible at the meeting.

I’ll not promote one religion over another – Buhari
In his speech at the event, Buhari assured the Christian leaders that he would not promote one religion over another if elected president of Nigeria.
He said as a practicing Muslim, he never shared the views of any extremist group.
Buhari said: “I will not entertain, consider or promote the religious agenda of anyone. I will not condone any initiative that seeks to promote one religion over the other. Neither I, nor my party, or any member of my team has any desire or plan to Islamise or Christianise Nigeria or support anyone with such intention.
“Although I am a practicing Muslim, and I have been so all my life, I have never belonged to, nor shared the views of any extremist group. I am not even a cleric. I believe that religion is personal and private.
“Most of my bodyguards are Christians. If I have not Islamised these people who serve under me, how will I Islamise the likes of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, Ogbonnaya Onu, Governor Rochas Okorocha,
Kayode Fayemi, Rotimi Amaechi or Prof. Yemi Osinbajo who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a pastor?”
Buhari stressed that religion was never a factor with people he had worked with, saying what matters was that they were competent.
The APC candidate said Nigerians at all time should hold the unity, peace and progress of the country paramount and above all other considerations, especially politics.
http://nigerianpilot.com/endorsement-buharis-bribe-tears-northern-pastors-apart/

I'm coming back when it becomes hotter

alujonjonkijon:
muazu got it wrong,fela is not soyinka's towns man.soyinka is from isara remo and fela is from abeokuta and they are not friends they are cousins,soyinka's mum was a ransome kuti.

Shut up and stop saying what you don't know. Wole is an Egba man.

PS: This is my own opinion.
I think Olusegun Obasanjo is the bad luck afflicting this nation if there is any at all. The general connived with his abo.ki friends to rig Shagari into power and deny more credible and cerebral men like Awolowo and Azikiwe the chance to become president. We all know the economy debacle and unenviable legacy left behind by Shagari.
After that he became president in 1999 and his achievements are way below expectations. Despite being our first democratically elected president in 1999 and coupled with the goodwill and enormous resources at his disposal, what Baba Iyabo achieved was way below expectations. The old man was just junketing around the world in the name of diplomacy. Where are the roads built by OBJ, where are the infrastructures he left behind? What were his achievements in education? Agriculture? Sports? Entertainment? Electoral reforms? Job creation etc? Maybe I'm too ignorant, can someone please lecture me? At the twilight of his tenure, he did everything possible to get a tenure elongation but God and well-meaning Nigerians denied him. He left in anger by increasing the price of PMS.
He forcibly installed a sick man as president and we all can remember the political debacle that followed that. He helped installed the same Jonathan he's trying so hard to castigate and now he wants to install Buhari. Whoever he has forced on us in this country has turned out to be something else. No more Obasanjo stooge in this country. He should stop doing as if this country is his property. We rarely see Clinton, Bush and other past US presidents giving Obama problems. They've done their bits and the rest they can do is play advisory roles and give support. But our own dear OBJ can only "pull him down at all cost if he's not doing our bidding". You can't force Buhari on us sir, let us choose for ourselves this time. Sir I think there are two major reason for your antagonistic nature towards this present administration. 1. You don't want him to outperform you. 2. You still want to be a godfather to him and he doesn't want that.
Gbogbo nnkan ti eda ba n se laye, ko ma gbagbe ojo atisun.
#CHIKENA.

Islam is against everything good and western

Eye yam cumin

Big fat lie

tatosh:
You are finished, you have no hope

Take rat poison to cure you of your insanity but if symptoms persist after 3days consult ur doctor

Awon goons Buhari

Thought Nigeria will be burning by now with the postponement. APC and noise-making sha. When the CinC talks, you mofos gatz listen and stay calm. Amaechi where art thou? Come and lead protest nah. Na unknown soldier go just diffuse your miserable life. GEJ has just begun his own game, may we all live long to see the end of it and know who wins. APC na starting una get, what you people have been doing since all these days is what we in France call IGG- Initial Gra Gra.

Soloter:
cultist and thug. a Nigeria in the hands of GEJ can't guarantee you a Job after service except you know a Senator, or you bring a letter from above. this is why we're craving for #CHANGE and not fake transformation that's only transforming the pockets of PDP polithiefcians.

Oshey prophet. Don't worry Tinubu will soon give you a job with lawma or Aregbe with O-yes

wristwatch:
Too much story. Just one like. 2 much of words is not gud.

If symptoms persist after 3days see your doctor.

As I like woman reach, a married one is a no go area.

Naso

They only flex muscle on social media