₦airaland Forum

texazzpete:
Chauvinist!
But seriously, that was uncalled for.

houvest link=topic=569014.msg7345373#msg7345373 date=1292478158:
one million soldiers vs one nuclear bomb =? please fill the gap.

texazzpete:
Chauvinist!
But seriously, that was uncalled for.

Aloy_Emeka:
[size=14pt]Jittery Over Atiku, Jonathan Threatens To Fight Dirty[/size]
Posted: November 27, 2010 - 04:04

By SaharaReporters, New York
A few hours after a committee composed of Northern politicians chose former Vice President Abubakar Atiku as its "consensus candidate," aides to Goodluck Jonathan accused the Nigerian media of misrepresentation in their description of Atiku as the Northern consensus candidate.

The statement, which was signed by presidential spokesman, Ima Niboro, argued that Atiku was a candidate of fringe elements in the North within the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF).

Shortly afterward, Jonathan's political machinery also reached out to the media claiming that they were excited by the selection of Atiku. They boasted that the president’s odd of winning the nomination of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had vastly improved with the Northern group’s endorsement of Atiku.

However, Saharareporters has learned that Mr. Jonathan and his handlers are deeply jittery over Mr. Atiku’s emergence as their main challenger.

“We made a big strategic miscalculation,” a senior adviser to Jonathan told Saharareporters. “Prior to Atiku's selection, we mostly concentrated our attacks on [former military dictator Ibrahim] Babangida, almost forgetting Atiku,” he added.

But several sources within and outside the Jonathan camp have disclosed that the president and his handlers now recognize that Atiku is a much harder opponent than Babangida.

After all the braggadocio the day Atiku emerged the candidate of the Northern wing, it dawned on Jonathan that celebrating Atiku's choice might have been a major mistake.

One source told us that former President Olusegun Obasanjo was one of the first to warn Jonathan that Atiku was the most dangerous of all the four Northern politicians who were formerly in the race – Babangida, former security chief Aliyu Gusau and Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara. The source said Obasanjo chastised Jonathan for letting Atiku receive a party membership waiver earlier in the race.

After Obasanjo and other advisers warned Jonathan about Atiku’s political resilience, wide contacts across the country and strong political skills, a visibly nervous president ordered his aides to arrange a meeting with the leaders of the Save Nigeria Group (SNG). The organization had organized nationwide rallies and led the struggle to help Jonathan emerge as President when former President Umaru Yar'adua was holed up in a Saudi hospital, incommunicado for three months.

Since assuming office, Jonathan had distanced himself from the SNG operatives.

Facing the prospect of a strong challenge from the Atiku camp, President Jonathan last Monday night received the SNG leadership in Aso Rock. The SNG members, led by fiery Lagos preacher, Pastor Tunde Bakare, were invited to see Jonathan in a meeting billed as a way of reviewing his performance so far in office.

But a source told Saharareporters that the SNG delegation found a downcast Jonathan who was solely interested in talking about his presidential ambition and how to achieve by all means.

A presidential source told us that Jonathan was visibly shaky when the SNG delegation insisted on discussing the president’s performance in office. They reportedly drew Jonathan’s attention to the lawlessness perpetrated in Ogun and Bauchi, two PDP-controlled states, where two of his campaign coordinators have acted with political recklessness, violating the constitution and the rule of law.




The SNG reminded Jonathan that Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi, his coordinator in the state, had refused to honor a court order re-instating the impeached deputy governor, thereby leaving the state with two deputy governors. They also remarked that Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun was working with a state assembly of minority lawmakers who had purportedly impeached the majority of their counterparts.

Rather than pledging to help restore order in the two states, Jonathan countered that Mr. Kayode Fayemi, the recently inaugurated governor of Ekiti, had arbitrarily dissolved the state’s local government councils. The SNG delegation implored Jonathan to take more interest in the illegalities perpetrated by members of his PDP across the country if he wished to set a tone for addressing the nation’s political logjam.

In an often contentious meeting, the SNG also criticized Jonathan's declaration that there was no longer any need for a Sovereign National Conference to resolve issues pertaining to Nigeria's federal structure as well as other social, economic and political crises. Jonathan admitted that he was not misquoted in his dismissal of the idea of a national conference, but told his visitors that he feared that the statement might be used against him in the future.

A source within the SNG delegation told Saharareporters that they were shocked when Jonathan launched into a lengthy criticism of the four-year. “We were bewildered to hear him say that he would prefer a one-term tenure of seven years instead.” Jonathan told the SNG that he thought it was too expensive to run elections every four years, preferring instead that both the president as well as governors should get a seven-year tenure.

Speaking about his political chances, he told the SNG delegation that he did not see how Atiku could defeat him in the primaries or how any other opponent could unseat him in the general elections. “You can't defeat an incumbent,” he said, to the shock of his guests.

benchwest:
this new militants are taking advantage of the amnesty program for their personal earnings.
i hope this wont result to militant to militant crashes,Jonathan has done his job,amnesty is still in place.this currents criminals where were on earth were they when the amnesty was granted?.
i join to call on this present criminals acclaiming to be militant to go to shared and let the nd delta in peace.

princekevo:
No wonder!!! Jst checked your location, you are very far away from Nigeria. Sometimes you need go back home or closer to Nigerian medias, probably you would have known that not all MEND members accepted amnesty. Moreover, i dont think MEND was fighting for an amnesty programme, but for something greater. Since after the amnesty, what has government done to grant them what they were fighting for?
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point of correction
which band of militants rejected the amnesty programme? even okah then accepted the programme,he held so many meetings with then yar adua

now okah is against the whole programme, apparently?
give me a break brother.i want change in the region, but lets give this administration the chance to prove their intention.
why haven't this present militant carried out any sought of as ult on the region since the amnesty?,if they didn't accept it then.why waited till now ?.they are criminals trying to take advantage of the situation,if the govt mistakenly grants this group ne amnesty then you will see other criminals will take the new stage for same.

i am on line everyday contributing my little insight and reading peoples insight as well because of the love i got 4 our country.
and i don't need to come home for update.
we are more closer than we are in the 19 century or 20.
the real mend has surendad.

femmy2010:
BenchWest,
Pardon the delayed response.
Am interested and would respond to your email.

benchwest:
guy i ant to transfer money from niaja to my swedish acount, so do you guys have an office?, my bros have some money he need to transfer me here so ho are you going to meet ith him tomorrow for the transfer?.he told me he cant just give money to some one he doesnt kno to transfer to me abroad,so what are the basic facts that will make one trust your transfer?,
do you have office?,is it from bank?. and will bank garanty the transfer.just break it down to me so that i can conect you to him.
or do you want me to give you his numbers because he is in lagos olodi apapa.
waiting to hear from you

benchwest:
guy i ant to transfer money from niaja to my swedish acount, so do you guys have an office?, my bros have some money he need to transfer me here so ho are you going to meet ith him tomorrow for the transfer?.he told me he cant just give money to some one he doesnt kno to transfer to me abroad,so what are the basic facts that will make one trust your transfer?,
do you have office?,is it from bank?. and will bank garanty the transfer.just break it down to me so that i can conect you to him.
or do you want me to give you his numbers because he is in lagos olodi apapa.
waiting to hear from you

gowaga68:
Sending him down to our Office will be the best idea.
our office is at Lagos Island near Martins Street. cant disclose such info here pls. EFCC new rules in effect now.

gowaga68:
am sori no GBP rate from me now.
am still on Holiday