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If anybody speaks against Buhari "he has collected his share of the 21billion" but if it's against GEJ, "they want change". APC and double-standards.

Meanwhile a friend wrote on his FB wall............
I am not a fan nor supporter of Oga Jona(I have always
had this strong premonition that this man smacks of
doom for this country and my premonitions have been
confirmed) but I also take srious exceptions to the
unwitty insult that the APC is hurling at our
sensibilities. As much I totally support the decision of
the APC to boycott the debate organised by BON as
well as that organised by the NEDG on the ground that
the brains behind them have ulterior motives. Which
obviously or latently aare in favour of the PDP,I cannot
find any reason(I mean a reasonable one) to excuse
the party's decision to boycott the debate organised by
the trio of Channels TV,Arise TV,and the Newspapers
Practitioners Association of Nigeria(NPAN).Channels
TV is one of those media organisations that enjoy
much viewership and this is because of their fair
reportage of events on the political scene as well as the
poking cum piercing nature of their interviews.In fact,
Channels has been one of those media outfit that has
hit hard on Oga Jona.Arise TV is the online TV arm of
ThisDay Newspaper.The Newspaper has two regular
columnists who are no fan of GEJ-Segun Adeniyi(Media
aide to late Yar'adua) and Dele Momodu- and their
reportage of events is,by my standards,of international
media practices standard. In fact,sometimes I wonder
if the newspaper is not an avowed anti-Jonathan
platform.I may not be able to say much about NPAN
but even if given that NPAN is biased,it still remains
two to one. So,APC should forget that balderdash that it
is throwing around.I campaigned vigorously for the
General and even won my polling booth for him at the
2011 polls but that will not mean we should gloss over
the truth.GMB MUST DEBATE,if truly the APC are sure
of the stuff they sell.I am sure of what I sell,is the APC
sure too?

When the governor has refused to pay salaries and pensions for months now what do you expect?
Meanwhile a friend wrote on his FB page......
I am not a fan nor supporter of Oga Jona(I have always
had this strong premonition that this man smacks of
doom for this country and my premonitions have been
confirmed) but I also take srious exceptions to the
unwitty insult that the APC is hurling at our
sensibilities. As much I totally support the decision of
the APC to boycott the debate organised by BON as
well as that organised by the NEDG on the ground that
the brains behind them have ulterior motives. Which
obviously or latently aare in favour of the PDP,I cannot
find any reason(I mean a reasonable one) to excuse
the party's decision to boycott the debate organised by
the trio of Channels TV,Arise TV,and the Newspapers
Practitioners Association of Nigeria(NPAN).Channels
TV is one of those media organisations that enjoy
much viewership and this is because of their fair
reportage of events on the political scene as well as the
poking cum piercing nature of their interviews.In fact,
Channels has been one of those media outfit that has
hit hard on Oga Jona.Arise TV is the online TV arm of
ThisDay Newspaper.The Newspaper has two regular
columnists who are no fan of GEJ-Segun Adeniyi(Media
aide to late Yar'adua) and Dele Momodu- and their
reportage of events is,by my standards,of international
media practices standard. In fact,sometimes I wonder
if the newspaper is not an avowed anti-Jonathan
platform.I may not be able to say much about NPAN
but even if given that NPAN is biased,it still remains
two to one. So,APC should forget that balderdash that it
is throwing around.I campaigned vigorously for the
General and even won my polling booth for him at the
2011 polls but that will not mean we should gloss over
the truth.GMB MUST DEBATE,if truly the APC are sure
of the stuff they sell.I am sure of what I sell,is the APC
sure too?

When it comes to owing salaries and pensions, Amaechi is still a learner. Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is the grandmaster. People in Osun are suffering and are silently praying for the tribunal to declare Omisore as the winner.

Yeepa!

Raiders:
Buhari took 2 days to crush the Maitatsine insurgency in 1985. We need a leader with military experience to destroy boko haram. GEJ don't have any military experience and he cant even boost the moral of our armed forces by visiting them regularly in the war front. GEJ has failed woefully in terms of security even the world media are criticizing the Nigeria government. I believe Buhari will deal with boko haram when he is swear into office in May.

The maitatsine of 1985 are not as sophisticated as the Boko Haram of 2015. Maitatsine are just religious fanatics and fundamentalists, Boko Haram is a terror group.

So it can be painful to him? I've always said it, Buhari cannot take half of what APC haul at Jonathan. Like a contributor in Nigerian Tribune wrote "Moreover, Nigerians can take it for granted that if President Goodluck Jonathan was the one caught in a certificate scandal Lai Mohammed and the APC leadership would have been on every media channel in Nigeria and even beyond; he would have issued several press statements everyday demanding not only the president's resignation but his prosecution"

You said he has dumped PDP but in the body of the news you said he may soon dump PDP. Who did this to you? Your propaganda can't take you anywhere, without any official statement from him on his next line of action, the meeting might swing either way.

Thought Osinbajo said GMB will personally lead the fight against Boko Haram. APC can make mouth ehn. Their mouths just be like "we will solve the Boko Haram issue in 2 months". Dem think say insurgency na beans. Check throughout the world and tell me one country that has succeeded in crushing insurgency completely. China as sophisticated as it is is yet to crush the Uighur muslim militants, Russia with its superpower status and its great arsenal is yet to crush the islamic militants in its Dagestan region, FARC has been existing in Colombia for over 50 years, the PKK are still a pain in Turkey's azz, the USA despite spending billions of dollars and with all its sophistication couldn't completely crush al-queda and taliban, ISIS is currently taking over territories in the middle east and the US has done little to halt their advance. Insurgency is not rice and beans, I did a course on Terrorism and Violent Political Movements and my view about terrorism change, it is a malignant tumour that's VERY hard to battle.
The problem with these APC folks is that they lack knowledge but their militant attitude and crowd mentality will never make them seek knowledge.

"we have been shouting that let
us educate the people of the North, but they don’t
want to be educated as we are. Yet they want to be
qualified as we are"
I think this sums everything up. God bless you sir for that wonderful insight. Emi, baba mi, iya mi ati awon omo iya mi ti se ipinu pe Goodluck Jonathan ni a ma dibo fun. #GEJWins

Tonylyte:
Oky bro. Am in yala, okuku precisely at the moment. So hw are u enjoying bekwarra?

We dey rock am with palmwine o

Tonylyte:
Brother are u from bekwarra in cross river state? Am from yala.

I'm serving in Bekwarra. I've been to Yala also several times, Okuku, Okpoma, Yatche, Yase et al

JackBaueress1:
So Abba M0ron get mouth to talk after supervising the most ridiculous and fatal immigration test ever conducted in Nigeria?

The trio of David Mark,Gabriel Suswan and Abba M0ron are wrecked ediotts and certified thieves.

I don't know how easy it is for you people to insult your leader and people old enough to sire you with such relish and when they do so for Buhari and his ilk you'll nearly commit suicide promising fire and brimstone. Speaks much of the kind of upbringing you had. An apparent failure of the family as an agent of socialization where children are taught morals and ethics.

dejt4u:
Yes..that 19k is so embarrasing.. It shld br skyrocketed to lyk 60k/month with the standard of living in Nigeria today

And what were they paying before GEJ increased it to 19800?

JackBaueress1:
Like Fayose,like Asari Dokubo. A tale of two mannerless thugs.

Well the guys that stoned the president are good boys right? GEJ is too meek in this era when people get one year jail sentences in some countries for insulting the president on twitter. I bet even Buhari would have given them 300years prison sentence.

OLUWOLE. All hail TINUBU

Mutuwa:
REVEALED: Jonathan, PDP embark on election extension campaign, bribe TV stations, newspapers houses to support plan

Jonathan and the PDP have perfected plans to shift the February polls for another three months. The Monitors gathered from a reliable source that due to daily security reports received by President Jonathan that he will lose the forthcoming election woefully, the only option left is to shift the elections for three months in the first instance and for another three months in the second instance.

The security reports which are not favourable to Jonathan are daily getting worse for the President as the Buhari tsunami rages daily. With what is on ground now, it is clear that Jonathan will lose to Buhari with a wide margin! This is why the PDP hawks came up with series of plans to stop the election and push for an interim government.

The first of the plans is to hide under insurgency and the fact that Nigeria is at war to shift the elections. But INEC did not agree with this position as it told Nigerians about its readiness to conduct the elections. According to INEC, both sensitive and non - sensitive materials are ready. Also about 70% of voters have collected their PVCs.

The second plan is the DSS unwarranted invasion of the APC Data centre with the allegation that APC has hacked into INEC database but later told Nigerians that APC was trying to clone Permanent Voters Cards (PVC cards) without evidence to back up the accusation. The actual plan of the DSS which failed was to accuse APC of hacking into INEC database and that this had destroyed the database as a result of which elections shall be postponed. This option also failed as INEC did not complain that its database was hacked into by the APC or any other organisation!

The third option is to start aggressive campaign about the "Buhari's no certificate issue". The PDP started shouting on the rooftops that Buhari has no certificate but INEC did not agree with them. When the PDP would not stop pestering INEC over the certificate issue, PDP was advised to go to court but up till today, the PDP has not gone to court! Meanwhile, the Military institution which Buhari attended in tthe USA (United States War College) confirmed in writing that the certificate Buhari obtained from them is equivalent to Masters Degree. That put paid to the "Buhari no certificate campaign". So the third plan also failed.

Fourthly, they moved to the fake health record and false report of Buhari's ill health. A notorious aide of the Governor of Ekiti State, one
Lere Olayinka circulated a forged health report that Buhari has prostrate cancer and that he has been flown out to the USA for an undisclosed ailment. Buhari himself debunked this report and continued with his campaign in two states that he was scheduled to visit on that day,

The fifth and the latest plot to shift the elections is by using certain TV Houses to invite speakers to their stations to start arguing in favour of election postponement. In this plot, AIT owned by PDP chieftain Dokpesi), NTA, Silverbird and (STV, owned by Ben Bruce, PDP Senatorial Candidate in Bayelsa State) got N1billion each for this purpose. The Monitors got this information two days ago and it was confirmed on AIT Kakaaki this morning when four guests were invited to the station to start arguing in favour of election postponement. The guests were, former Labour Party Chairman, Dan Anyanwu, Tanko Yinusa from Kaduna State, Alhaj. Shehu Musa former Chief of Staff to Bauchi Governor and Mr. Yinka Odumakin. They argued in favour of election postponement as predicted.

This is a frightening scenario that constitutes clear and present danger. This is a serious threat to the 2015 elections. We call on all Nigerians of goodwill, civil society coalitions, pressure groups and the International Community to rise up and ask Jonathan to start telling Nigerians how he will hand over power. From the look of things, Jonathan is not ready to relinquish power even if he loses in February. He needs to be given the Burkina Faso treatmet
change MUST come.

Bros you can do better

"I assumed my result was with the military board". SMH

A gift of N2 million Abiola Ajimobi, governor of
Oyo state, is the subject of rancour
between students of halls of residents in the
University of Ibadan and their executive council
members.
On Friday, January 2, 2015, the governor invited
leaders of all halls of residence in UI and
neighbouring The Polytechnic Ibadan to a meeting at
the government house, where he gave them N2
million.
The money, which was to be shared among the hall
chairmen and chairpersons at N100,000 per head,
was taken out of the government house to an
undisclosed location.
An inside source who spoke to TheCable said the
student leaders eventually got N70,000, because
Adelabu ‘Labzy’ Adeola, former presidential aspirant
of the National Association of Nigerian Students
(NANS); and Segun Olaleye (popularly known as
Radical Brother), former UI Students Union
president, deducted N30,000 as “PR” cost of
organising the meeting.
The source added that of the N70,000, N20,000 was
to be taken by the leader of every hall, while the
remaining N50,000 was for the hall.
After the meeting, some of the student leaders
returned to their halls to deliver meagre sums within
the range of N500 to N3000 to the so-called
stakeholders in the halls of residence.
“When the students found out how much was given
to the student leaders, they confronted their leaders
to ask for more, which eventually led to heated
disagreement between the students and the
executives,” the source said.
Some hall leaders had to lie to their hall members
that they were only given N20,000, which had been
distributed already.
It was not just current hall leaders who were present
at the meeting. Others were Toba Bankole, onetime
chairman of Nnamdi Azikwe hall; Teslim
Ogundiran, former information minister of the same
hall; Victor Olojede, onetime aspirant of NANS JCC
Oyo vice chairmanship seat; as well as ‘Labzy’ and
‘Radical Brother’.
Speaking on the meeting, Adelabu said he had always
helped halls in the university access funds from
politicians for their hall week celebrations.
“Over the years, I have always assisted the hall
administration in getting funds from politicians to
assist in their hall week, from the governor, Senator
Olalehin, Honourable Awoleye and our own Radical
Brother,” he said.
“The governor and Lanlehin only donated money
once in 2011 after their inauguration, while Awoleye
and Radical brother have been consistent.”
Adelabu went on to explain that he joined Radical
Brother, who is a member of the governor’s contact
committee, to approach the governor for support
funds, which the governor turned down outright,
saying UI students had not been grateful to him.
Radical brother pleaded on behalf of the students,
promising they would “make it up this time around,
since there was going to be public announcement of
the money.”
On January 2, the hall leaders converged on the
government house, where they were told the
conditions tied to the money, which were not
disclosed to TheCable.
On agreeing to the terms, the governor allotted
N100,000 to each hall present, amounting to about
N2m for halls from UI and The Polytechnic Ibadan.
According to Adelabu, the N30,000 removed from
each hall was to be shared by attendees and spent on
PR.
“N70,000 was given to each attendee, N50,000 for the
hall week and N20,000 for each hall chairperson. The
rest was shared by the attendees and on PR,” he
explained.
“Everybody was aware. I, Bankole and Ogundiran (all
three not hall chairmen) also got N20,000. Extra
N10,000 was given to the representatives of hall
chairpersons who couldn’t make it, so they can settle
their hall chairs too. The halls that were not present
had their representatives.”
Elsewhere, Lateef Bada, the chairman of Mellanby
hall, UI’s premier hall of residence, said the money
was a gift but it was “slashed by the inner cabal” just
for him to have N20,000 only.
“Truly, the governor invited us during the weekend
and gave us money as gift. To my utmost surprise,
the money was slashed by inner cabals; I personally
got N20,000,” he said.
Bada, who disclosed that the Students Union
president was present, named the inner cabals as
senior special advisers and special advisers to the
governor and the likes.
However, Odesola Oluwafemi the SU president better
known as ‘Huntersola’, said he was “not given a kobo”
because he was not part of the deal.
The hall chairpersons have not been speaking with
one voice on the purpose of the money. While some
have said they were given the money for their hall
week, which held some weeks ago, others claim the
money a mobilisation for the governor’s second-term
bid. A third group says the money was “just a gift”.
www.thecable.ng/rancour-in-university-of-ibadan-over-ajimobis-n2m-gift

Even OBJ decided to further his education and augment his academic qualifications after he finished his tenure as president. He enrolled at NOUN and made Bachelor's Degree. He has enrolled for a Masters Degree in the same institution. Call it passion for self development. Buhari has been so stagnant. No entrepreneurial spirit, no passion for education. Still the same 1m and 150 cows since 1985. It's not too late for him to write WAEC, pass and enrol for a degree in the federal university GEJ built for his state.

Citizens of the federal republic of Nigeria, who are
worried about the qualifications of General Buhari as
a leader who promoted autarky in its extreme form
in Nigeria between 1983 and 1985, do have every
reason given the emerging facts about his inability to
present even the minimum requirement of just a
leaving school certificate to question his moral and
other credentials for pursuing the position of the
president of Nigeria. The current emerging shocking
disclosures brings to the fore how and what
qualifications were used to recruit him into the
military without a minimum school leaving
certificate, where he rose to the rank of a General
and even became the Head of state through a military
coup that truncated a democratically elected
government in 1983.
Beyond the moral burden of human rights abuses
and other sundry anti-democratic practices in his
public records, we find that even in other spheres of
democratic practices and in particular on the matter
of due processes, his disdain for democratic conduct
has not changed. Academic qualification is a
threshold issue that cannot be waived for any citizen
no matter how highly placed and irrespective of
whichever region such individual comes from except
as provided by the constitution. Thus the question
must be asked; is Buhari or any other citizen
qualified to contest election into the office of the
president without meeting the minimum
constitutional requirement? A perusal of the Nigerian
constitution at section 131 unequivocally stated
that;“A person shall be qualified for election to the
office of President if: (a)He is a citizen of Nigeria by
birth (b) He has attained the age of forty years(c)He is
a member of a political party and is sponsored by
that political party; and (d) He has been educated up
to at least School certificate level or its equivalent. It
is to be noted that section 131 (d) is a specific
directional order for all candidates to show proof of
education up to a minimum standard not below
school certificate or its equivalent. But from what
INEC has published, Buhari has not submitted any
personal particular of minimum school leaving
certificate for the 2015 election and shockingly from
INEC documents displayed in all constituencies, he
also did not submit anything in 2011 and never
referred the umpire then to the Secretary of the
Military Board as well as previous elections he
contested as evidenced in all available INEC records
until this current discovery.
If the constitution did not require proof, it would not
specify a minimum. To strengthen this claim the
extant Electoral Act directs that such proof must be
sworn to by each candidate at a Court under section
31 (2) to (5) viz (2)“The list of information submitted
by each candidate shall be accompanied by an
affidavit sworn to by the candidate at the Federal
High Court, High Court of a state or the FCT,
indicating that he has fulfilled all the constitutional
requirements for election into that office.” (3) “The
Commission shall within 7 days of the receipt of the
personal particular of the candidate,(emphasis here
is personal particular and not INEC form given to fill
or court document like affidavit) and publish same in
the constituency where the candidate intends to
contest” (4) A person may apply to the Commission
for a copy of nomination form affidavit and any other
document submitted by a candidate at an election
and the Commission shall, upon payment of a
prescribed fee, issue the person with a certified copy
of the documents within 14 days” (5) “Any person
who has reasonable grounds to believe that any
information given in the affidavit or any document
submitted by that candidate is false, may file a suit at
the federal high court, High Court of a state or FCT
against such person seeking a declaration that the
information contained in the affidavit is false” (6)” If
the court determines that any of the information
contained in the affidavit of any document submitted
by that candidate is false, the court shall issue an
order disqualifying the candidate from contesting the
election.”
It should be noted that for elections to the office of
the president and for the purpose of display of
particulars of candidates for all presidential
elections, the entire country is taken as one
constituency i.e the 774 LGAs of the 36 states
including the FCT where these particulars have been
displayed. Nigerians that have perused the affidavit
of nomination as submitted by General Buhari as
published in all INEC offices, as well as the copies of
his similar INEC documentations for 2011 clearly
revealed that a man who claims to be of integrity has
not been true to Nigerians. It can be seen that as
indicated in section 31(6) there is reasonable
grounds to believe that a false deponent was
declared in the affidavit where it indicates that all
documents relating to the personal particulars of
General Buhari are with the Secretary of the Military
Board. First in the INEC Form CF 001 for 2015 filled by
General Buhari at section C of the form, the
instruction on the form clearly states “Attach
evidence of all educational qualifications”, this was
not done, yet an affidavit was sworn otherwise.
Curiously, he did not refer INEC to this board in 2011
in his records available for anyone who cares to see
how Buhari has, in breach of the constitution of 1999,
contested elections severally without meeting the
mandatory constitutional reqirement and has been
treated preferentially. Is Buhari above the law of the
land or should we suspend or amend the constitution
to accommodate him?
It is common knowledge that military board like any
others do not keep or retain original copies of
personal particulars of individuals such as birth
certificates, passports, and academic credentials of
any personnel, especially retired personnel after over
3 decades. It must also be stated, that INEC erred in
law by publishing the name of a candidate without
receiving the personal particulars of the candidate
within 7 days of receiving his nomination forms as
indicated in section 31(3), this is indeed a tragedy
illustrating what Nigeria has become, that an
individual is so powerful that the law has to be
ignored to accommodate him. Certainly, INEC printed
nomination forms or High Court affidavits are in no
way or by any stretch of definitions, the same as
personal particulars such as school leaving
certificate.
Oladele sent this piece from Ibadan, Oyo State.

tribune.com.ng/quicklinkss/opinion/item/26295-buhari-non-submission-of-certificate-saga-and-eligibility-question

lanjum:
did you ever go school southwest is for which tribe in Nigeria? No wonder u are being rule by clueless cos u sef be mumu

I shouldn't have dignified you with a response but it would be a better option to augment your little bag of knowledge. I was born, I grew up and had all my education in the southwest. So I know what I'm saying. I was at the rally where GEJ made the statement in Ibadan so uncouth foul-mouthed swine like you can misinform me. You called me mumu right? Well I won't reciprocate the gesture because the way you struggled with the use of English is enough to tell me what an odoriferous product of an unprotected sex between an agbero and a prostitute you are.
Mention me again and I will crush you into smithereens.

lanjum:
did you ever go school southwest is for which tribe in Nigeria? No wonder u are being rule by clueless cos u sef be mumu

I shouldn't have dignified you with a response but it would be a better option to augment your little bag of knowledge. I was born, I grew up and had all my education in the southwest. So I know what I'm saying. I was at the rally where GEJ made the statement in Ibadan so uncouth foul-mouthed swine like you can misinform me. You called me mumu right? Well I won't reciprocate the gesture because the way you struggled with the use of English is enough to tell me what an odoriferous product of an unprotected sex between an agbero and a prostitute you are.
Mention me again and I will crush you into smithereens.

jayonpoint:
U mean yorubas are stupid to elect a man who called their leaders rascas n marginalized for 6yrs? U dnt seems to knw us or perhaps u bn veiled by d paid crowd u saw yestdy? Hahahaha dnt make me laff.

Typical APC misinformation. He didn't call any Yoruba leader rascal. He merely said "let us chase the rascals out of the southwest" which is true considering the fact that he was referring to TINUBU et al.

enigmaotr:
We've just concluded election survey in this state yesterday and I can tell you, 90% of electorates with no party affiliation will vote Buhari/Osinbanjo.

Oshey Surveyor

The person that pulled off the "Buhari has no certificate" stunt must be a Political wizard. So far, Pa Buhari has not been able to meander his way through this. Seems there is an iota of truth in this.
GEJ till Buhari matches my BSc Political Science.

Who is deceiving who? The farmers and their tubers will be used to front while the Tinubus, Amaechis, Sarakis and their ilks drop the big bucks.

Buhari and the Emekas on a romantic trip.

CHM11:
Buhari be careful ith your wife oh, Tinubu is a yoruba man and they are know for hmmmmmm with other peoples wives.

Aye e o ni da. Ko de ni da fun awon to pon e dagba.