₦airaland Forum

jayjay5oxide:
But its very bad ,,,,,if you guys have been watching NTA and AIT vividly,,,,,they focused on damaging Buharis Image and career,,,,

If what they say is true, then y is buhari ashamed/angered about it?

dguyindcorner:
nonsense!

You shall wan sack this guy because he fails to dance to your tunes.

Heaven punish PDP

;Dsorry for your pain

Just a wish for biafra

oneilapoh:
Really dis pple tink we r still in d colonial era.so the boko haram dey couldn't crush since all of a sudden dey r ready to deal wit dem in 6 weeks.Also why must dey wait till nw?so many questions to be answered.

AU just recently agreed a joint military action against boko haram, is it PDP that influenced that decision just made?
Chad, Niger and Cameroonian forces have just stepped up their battle against the insurgence, question is why is it now close to d elections that they've decided to do this? My bet is they have their problems n did not c BH as a priority but have had a rethink BC of increased BH attacks in their region.
If d election is to be held on d 14th, d boko haram forces chased out of chad, Niger n Cameroon border towns will have a safe haven in nigeria, so its just logical to bombard them from the Nigerian side concurrently so they'll be crushed once and for all- its logically a security strategy to go on d offensive now.

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, has concluded a briefing meeting with 25 civil society groups in Abuja Saturday informing them that all security agencies in the country have indicated to him, in writing, that they are not available to support the elections planned for February 14 and 28.
Mr. Jega, who had an earlier meeting with political parties, is rounding up another meeting with his 36 resident electoral commissioners now on what will amount to an INEC position on whether to postpone or go ahead with the elections.
Insiders at the meeting said “its pretty much a done deal at this point that the elections will be postponed” and many of the attendees told PREMIUM TIMES they were shell-shocked and depressed at what they characterize as “a clear case of political blackmail of the state against civil society”.
Jibrin Ibrahim, a leading African election expert and senior fellow at the Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, in Abuja, who was at the meeting, said Mr. Jega told the meeting that security operatives from all the agencies told INEC that they were commencing a six weeks special operations against Boko Haram insurgents in the north eastern corridors of the country and would rather not be distracted by the elections.
Mr. Jega announced that the security forces also said the operations are due to commence on February 14, the date INEC had planned for the presidential and federal legislative elections.
This decision, by the security forces, successfully renders INEC’s hitherto insistence to go ahead with the elections a risky venture.
To even collect ballot papers from their storage in the Central Bank of Nigeria for the elections will require security escort, which apparently is now unavailable in the light of the move by the security forces.

The Presidency on Friday listed some of the reasons it feels that going ahead with the February dates for the general elections as scheduled by the Independent National Electoral Commission can “throw the country into turmoil and confusion.”

It however said President Goodluck Jonathan would not engage in any form of subterfuge to pressurise INEC to change the dates of the elections.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, stated these in Abuja at a press conference called to clarify the outcome of the Council of State meeting held on Thursday.

Okupe said there was no time during the meeting held inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja, when the chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, insisted on the February dates as quoted by some media reports.

He listed the level of preparedness of the electoral body and security situation in some parts of the country as some of the reasons why it will be wise to revisit the February dates.

On preparation, Okupe said in all INEC’s submissions at the meeting, the only process that was 100% concluded was the preparation and availability of the voters register.

He claimed that all other processes including provision, distribution and collection of PVCs, printing of ballot papers, distribution of verification machines and other non –sensitive materials, recruitment and training of ad hoc staff are all “work in progress.”

He added that Jega himself admitted that given a little more time, INEC would be in a better position to perfect the processes and its readiness for the elections.

He said, “Also in his presentations to the Council, the INEC Chairman, stated clearly that for the electoral process to be free, fair, and credible,  there are other matters which were not under the control of INEC, principal among which is the issue of provision and guarantee of security of lives and properties.

“The Security Chiefs were unanimous in their advice to the Council that it will be impossible for now for them to guarantee security of electoral materials, INEC Staff, and the voting population in the areas currently engulfed by the war against insurgency.”

Okupe said while some opinions were proffered that elections could be allowed to hold on February 14 in 32 states not affected by insurgency, Jonathan made it clear that he would not allow an election where some people will be excluded for no fault of theirs.

He quoted the President as further saying that endorsing such would tend to confirm the falsehood already being propagated in some parts of the country that he was encouraging the war in the North East to ensure that voters in the APC states were not allowed to vote in the 2015 elections.

He added, “For the avoidance of doubt, Nigerians are hereby re-assured that there has never been, and never shall be any plan to cancel the 2015 elections, for any reasons whatsoever. It will not happen, and the May 29th date for the swearing-in is sacrosanct. All talks about interim government arrangement is pure fiction.

“The consideration behind the possibility of change of date is to allow those who may be disfranchised from voting on the 14th February to have an opportunity to exercise their lawful rights to vote and participate in the general elections.

“The new wave of successes being recorded by the Military in the War against insurgency, especially with the arrival of new effective combatant equipment and machinery, plus the newly revamped cross border co-operation with Niger, Chad and Cameroonian Military, offer a very genuine hope that in a very short while, the situation in the affected states will be brought under such reasonable control that will guarantee safety of the electoral process and electorate in the war front region of the North–East at a no distant future.

“We repeat that the only set of people who stand to benefit from a shift in election dates are Nigerians who desire to vote and have not been able to collect their Permanent Voters Cards and other innocent citizens living in the war zone who may not be able to vote on the 14th February.

“We also wish to recollect that in 2003, 2007, and 2011 the elections were held in April, and the hand over date was not affected.

“We therefore challenge the opposition to tell Nigerians in clear terms, what dangers the change of date from February 14th portends to the electoral process or to the Nigerian electorate. It will also be good if the opposition tells us who stands to benefit or be disadvantaged from any shifting of date and how.”

Okupe, while saying that INEC was not fully ready for the elections, dared the commission to direct its Resident Electoral Commissioners to swear to an affidavit to prove their readiness for the polls.

“It will be very re-assuring if the INEC can get its RECs to attach their state of readiness to a sworn affidavit and show it to Nigerians.

“The interest of this government is to ensure that we do not have a rancorous and poorly conducted general elections that will throw the country into turmoil and confusion with the likelihood of an unnecessary internal and external rejection and condemnation,” he said.

Okupe claimed that in Sokoto State, nine local government areas are yet to receive PVC for the continuous voters registration, barely nine days to the election.

He also claimed that the majority of the 960,000 ad hoc staff needed by the commission are yet to be recruited and trained especially on the operations of card readers that are yet to be made available.

He added that Lagos State is yet to receive a balance of about 12,000 card readers for elections.

If there is anything they have to settle its how to ensure all Nigerians, including those that have fled their residence for fear of election violence n those displaced in d North east vote in the coming election.

Why negotiate with terrorists?
Drop a bomb in their midst let them experience in real life what they mete out to others

Why negotiate with terrorists?
Drops bomb in their midst, simple

Reports reaching us from the Nigerian defence headquarters in the ongoing offensive on d bokoharam terrorists indicates that they are plans with neighbouring countries for the surrender of about 35,000-40,000 boko haram terrorists.

Source: http://newsrescue.com/surrounded-chad-cameroon-forces-boko-haram-negotiates-surrender-40000-terrorist-troops/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=NewsRescue

Do u now wonder y he's called GOODLUCK?
always cruising through to victory
n now his main opposition would b facing jail time

Their blood haunts d cranky old general

Does this old semi-literate consider d health implications of coal mining n burning to a community?
Owww, I'm sorry, he wants to finish what he did during d Biafra war

Hu hahaha, this is so so interesting
WAEC fa

AMEN to No. 46

charleszzn:
Assemblies of God (aka Church of GOD Mission)

Really?
You're impossible!

Make sure he's pelted

That's a learned man talking
a semi-literate old sick man is no use as presidentt

APC keep d lies going
Come failbuhari d truth will be revealed

Not flogged
Tried in a court of law n if found guilty, locked up for good.
This buhari man shouldn't be walking freely for all his multiple crimes

What rubbish is that giving pdp 90% in akwa ibom
PDP 98% in akwa ibom jo

So he failed in maths,
No wonder he couldn't compute that cancelling d Lagos metroline was a silly loss of money
Y was he even ashamed to show his result, he has a better result than most of his supporters

wakacome:
Even if buhari should have only birth certificate I will still vote for him...

That's your level

Can't buhari produce even a photocopy of his certificate? or even give details of his grades if every photocopy of his on earth was carted away by d military?
Or did d military cart away d memory of his certificate grades too?

Can't buhari produce even a photocopy of his certificate? or even give details of his grades if every photocopy of his on earth was carted away by d military?
Or did d military cart away d memory of his grades too?

nwanna89:
Minimum wage in USA is not 18,000 naira per month

Price of crude oil is constant worldwide so price of petrol is expected to be uniform
It just cheaper in Nigeria because d government still subsidizes fuel

For people advocating for (an acclaimed) 72 yr old dieing old man without a school certificate to rule d most populous black nation on earth doesn't speak well of d black race!

President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected explanations by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, over concerns about his qualification.
The PDP accuses Mr. Buhari of not having requisite secondary school certificate or its equivalent to bid for president.
Speaking to journalists on Sunday, Mr. Buhari expressed surprise at the growing concern by the Mr. Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on the matter, saying he was qualified the three times he contested to be president.
“I have contested three times under the same rules set by INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) where there is a basic educational qualification you must have.” The former military ruler was quoted by Punch newspaper as saying.
“I was allowed to contest all these elections because my certificate was in order and there were individuals that wrote to the United States War College and the college answered them and they were published in the newspapers.”
He continued: “So, I really don’t understand this desperation or misinformation that is being passed around. They will do nobody any good because our minds are being taken away from the serious issues of corruption and incompetence by the PDP.”
But in statement by his campaign group Monday, Mr. Jonathan said that Mr. Buhari was allowed thrice to contest elections does not imply he was qualified.
Read the statement signed by Femi Fani-Kayode, head of Media of Mr. Jonathan’s campaign organization.
It is disingenuous for Buhari to say that he contested previous elections and that the issue of his qualifications did not arise. Had INEC not complied with the Electoral Act this year, which requires that they paste the academic credentials of all the Presidential candidates, Nigerians would have remained ignorant of the fact that Buhari has probably been submitting affidavits for the past elections.
The fact that he got away with it in 2003, 2007 and 2011 does not make it right. The minimum that Nigerians require from Buhari is the presentation of his secondary school certificate which enabled him to gain admission into the Nigerian Military College in 1962 and on which basis he became a commissioned officer of the Nigerian Army.
This forms the fulcrum for the subsequent courses that he attended as he rose in the Army, including the U.S. War College. Failure to produce that school certificate implies that Buhari’s entire career in the Army was based on falsehood which cannot stand. This brings to question the admission system/policy into the Army in the early 1960s.
Were the rules bent for certain individuals in fulfilment of the quota system? Anyone that reads General Alabi Isama’s book which was published last year will know that this was the case. In fact, Alabi Isama went as far as to allege that some Nigerians were admitted into the military academy without the necessary qualifications like school certificate.
We believe that Buhari was one of those people and this is why he is unable to produce his certificate. The truth is that he was never qualified for entry into the Military Academy in the first place and consequently he should never have become a commissioned officer let alone a man that rose to the rank of General. At best he ought to have remained a non-commissioned officer.
As long as he cannot produce that secondary school certificate, we believe that he is not qualified to run for the Presidency of Nigeria. This is a matter of law and not sentiment. Buhari, just like any other Nigerian, must be compelled to abide by the law and he must prove his eligibility for the Presidential election by simply producing his secondary school certificate.


http://mobile.newsnow.co.uk/A/754131105?-395:737

The blood of d innocents killed in 2011 post election violence n boko-hari will never allow buhari c aso rock