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Our country is in a mess. is time for d youth to rise and take over Nigeria. what dia yhu expect from a man of 70 years or above. how do your grand parents behave when they are 70 and above. like kids? the problem that happened to Jonathan is still happening to buhari. I believe in Nigeria. I believe in youths

The Governor of imo state(out going) has failed ndi igbo and he has disappointed the iconns of igbo,people like Azikiwe, aguiyi, ojukwu and others. How can he leave igbo party(Apga) and national party( PDP) and enter muslim party( Apc).
He told us igbos have a say yet all the leaders of apc are south west and north. They went to choose choose their vice president and gave it to South west.
we will allow okorocha 4 now because we want to concentrate in election of 2015 and to deliver our maximum votes to Oga Jona(president) then after that, we will purnish okorocha 4 disappointing ndi igbo and we have decided to vote him out of the Governorship seat. He cant sell us to Apc.

apc dey jealous ooooo. pls no be our fault that apc members ar not rich. let me ask a question, can a year child(apc) beat his senior brother that is 16 yrs(PDP) in a fight(Election). the answer is impossible. our presido(Gej) is just watching the noise apc is making and he is laughing. PDP.........Power.

Locapito:
am sure u re from south south region. Ethnicity apart, ur drunk fisherman brother has done nothing compare with the present situation in Nigeria and couple with billions of Dollars missing or shared among ur brothers and his thieves. I don't need to mention Buhari achievement for u, but go back home and ask the elders to tell u the name of the person that built one of the refinery within ur south south region. maybe u ve not heard that ur prodigal fisherman brother has penciled the refinery built by another good man in ur region for sale by first quarter of next year.

am not from south south. which refinerry did he build. dont allow me to open buhari's ass here and the crimes he commited. am from south East. Do u think we in south east have forgiven buhari for putting our icon Alex Ekwueme why shagari was enjoying his mansion. u must be from north, Ask ur fathers of the agriculture Gej brought back to nigeria and ask urself of the airports u rebuild. any ask urself if our economy was the biggest in africa during ur Ewu buhari regime

diluminati:
Shame on you if you call this progress. In reality this is retrogression. These contracts are handled by government cronies, they cut the funds and give you sub standard trains and rails, but you wont see that because your lifestyle is mediocre in its best.

pls brother, since we cant call it progress, wat should we call it? and tell us what Buhari did wen he was in power. if he did this railway u ar calling rubbish, President GEJ would have done more things than starting from grass. Dont allow foolish Buhari blind u.

If u watched that day Buhari was presenting the man, After his speech, Buhari started lookking 4 the short man so that he can raise his hand.

I stay in Abia but wike is the only man that can use ameachi's broom to sweep ameachi out. i love this man(wike) and the way he talks

that shows that God is with the president and his name speaks 4 him. PDP people dont make noise as Apc do but come feburary next year, we will teach apc that they are still kid to us(PDP

mistabiola:
I am a Nigerian. And a patriotic one. No amount of blackmail and name - calling will make me look back on my choice of a new president. A president I know will fight corruption. A president I know will not steal my money. A president I know will not promote violence. If the Jonathanians like, let them hug transformer. Buhari your only hope!

#iThink | #iBelieve | #iNewNigeria

#TakeBackNigeria | #iStand4NewNigeria

. my dear dont allow PDP to kill u. if ur mother's soup spoil, u apc will call PDP. focus on apc fall in feburary and leave PDP alone

Ride on my Governor

ThundrCork:
If GMB wins the presidential election, I foresee Fashola becoming the next petroleum minister

which petroleum, maybe the petroleum in south west or north certainly not the one in east or south south.

Nice post. The man is old and should go and die peacefully. i love Gowan and Ibb 4 dat

When haas a political party turn to family party or don't we have honourable men that can talk?
With the fraud we witness in PDP in Abia State, a question have to be asked. How can The Governor win the PDP Senate and his Son win state house.
Sir with this fraud we witness in PDP, i will make sure that PDP doesn't win in the state but we will vote 4 u. I cannot watch my State suffer another 8 yrs of hardship, under development from PDP in Abia. We will vote 4 APGA (Alex Otti) as our Governor. i am a PDP supporter but not with T.A Orji.
pls sir use ur post to cancle the primaries in Abia and let a peaceful primary be conducted.

He is a bad Governor but a very smart politician.

henchamb:
na you make am prof.
he better wake up and live as an ordinary citizen for once
after all he rigged his way in 2011 against OUK

he is a prof.

Even though PDP ruled us like rags, the only opposition PDP have in abia is ApGa. otti might rule if PDP doesnt give ogah the PDP flag. but 4 Apc, i dont even knw if they exist in my state.

Kelechi2020:
Umuahia (NDR) - The information and documents leaked to NewsDay Reporters have fully indicated that doom awaits Abia State. Abians are sitting on a keg of gunpowder, because of the impending doom and economic strangulation being planned by Gov. T.A. Orji. Ndi Abia, there is no other option than to expose the criminal and selfish agreement entered by T. A. Orji and his puppet - Okezie Ikpeazu.

However, NewsDay Reporters can authoritatively and exclusively reveal that, before T.A. Orji and family started funding Okezie Ikpeazu election campaign, they had already signed an agreement, that if Okezie Ikpeazu gets elected, that T. A. Orji, Chinedum Orji (Ikuku) and Odochi Orji (the Governor’s wife) shall be receiving a total of One Billion, Eight Hundred Thousand naira (N1, 800, 000,000.00) on monthly basis as a reward for making him a governor.

The details of this criminal agreement are as follows:

a. T. A. Orji shall be receiving the sum of One Billion naira (N1, 000, 000, 000) monthly from the Abia State government allocation for four years.

b. Chinedum Orji – who is also vying for the State House of Assembly shall be receiving the sum of Five Hundred Million naira (N500, 000, 000) monthly from the Abia State government for four years. In addition, he would be made the Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly.

c. T. A. Orji’s wife – Odochi Orji - shall be receiving the sum of Three Hundred Million (N300, 000, 000) monthly from Abia State government allocation for four years. They also agreed to make her the Commissioner for Finance to make easier for the agreed payments to be remitted. This would also be a compensation for losing out from vying for the House of Representatives.

d. Concerning Local government allocations and sharing of appointments, they also agreed as follows:

i. T. A. Orji shall be in charge of all the allocations for Abia Central LGAs and also appoint the Commissioner for Finance, Commissioner for Petroleum Resources and Accountant-general of the State.

ii. Chinedum Orji and Emma Nwaka (PDP Abia State Chairman) shall be in charge of Abia North LGAs allocations and appoint the Commissioner for Works, Commissioner for Youth and Development, Deputy Director ASEPA and other Special Advisers. He would also be given road construction contracts considering that he has a construction company.

iii. Odochi Orji and Okezie Ikpeazu shall be in control of Abia South LGAs allocations and also appoint the Commissioner of Women Affairs and Agriculture while Ikpeazu will handle B-list Commissioners – such as Culture and Tourism etc.

e. Emma Nwaka shall be receiving Hundred Million naira (N100million) monthly for two years for making sure that Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah – who comes from the same Local government with him doesn’t clinch the PDP guber ticket. While other members of the T. A. Orji gang of looters will be compensated with appointments and contracts.

Abians do yourselves a great favour by sharing this news to everyone that loves the State, especially the PDP Delegates who will vote for the gubernatorial primary on Monday, 8th December, 2014. Sound this warning to their ears and its consequences, because considering the agreement aforementioned, any delegate that votes for Okezie Ikpeazu is a vote for:

T. A. Orji’s THIRD TERM AGENDA

Total privatizing of Abia State resources

An impending doom and slavery

The suffering of the masses

Increasing of school fees and over-taxing

Unemployment and insecurity

Aba to continue to be a STINKING CITY

Death-trap road and continuous bastardization of the State

Ndi Abia you can see that the future will not be bright if Okezie Ikpeazu wins. Imagine if they share the state resources according this agreement, they won’t have enough money left to even pay workers salaries, let alone construction of your death trap roads such as Obohia, Oghor Hills, Ngwa, Cemetery, Uratta, Port Harcourt, Ohanku, Osusu, Faulks/Arira, Okigkwe roads etc.

So If Okezie comes for campaign and promises you that he will do this and that...ask him with which money? Is he going to do it with his bare hands? They have also planned to increase taxes for Keke operators and other levies to 200%! And if you do not resist this now with your votes, that means you have agreed with them to continue your suffering and your state will continues to be a laughing stock.

This agreement is a Press leak and if any doubt we will publish the original document signed by the governor and his fellow lootersl

@ op, u are very stupid. am not supporting T.A orji but do u know abia allocationDid they sign the agreeement in ur house

With the Apc screening, we have seen that PDp is not in the same level with Apc. Apc didnt screen even the criminals out but in PDP, nobody is bigger than the party.we saw how they screened people without agenda for the masses out, Even the ex chairman is on suspension now. that will show u that they practise real democracy................................... P.........D.......P. Power

when i say ameachi is mad, they will say am an idiot. but u can see that Apc wants mad people to rule us. Do u want mad people to be ur leaders?

@ op, i support u. that man na Apc prof

if wike is a thug, ameach is a chief thug. ameachi is the president of agboro(thugs) in nigerian parks.

U people should leave him alone. he is working.
How many projects hav ur Apc governors commissioned

The real yoruba's have accepted Gej as the president. the few ones rejecting him are from osun state.

2019, he will contest in SDP
hahaahahhhaaaaaahaahahahaahaaha

when i hheard that the Apc senators and there reps(law breakers) are refusing to extend the state of emergency, i keep laughing. who ar the ones dieing? who are those shading tears? when i say Apc dont have brain, some people will say am a kid. i better be a kid than to be an adult fool. when they all died, let me see who will vote 4 u. Apc are behind the insurgents thats why they don't want our able soldiers to kill them thereby refusing to extend state of emergency.
Long live PDP
Long live Dr Gej
Long live Nigeria

praise God. atlast Burahi will be a president but not president of Nigeria but president of my toilets. Gej till 2019 after i will continue from where he stopped. Apc will be shocked when u receive the news of the 2015 results. i trust my oga at top, he will win

the op is not saying the truth. where is the president's convoy and why is ur picture dark. who ar u trying to deceive. we saw oau students welcoming our presido. My dear, if u dont have work just tell so dat i will make u a cleaner in my house

mikolo80:
so wetin you want make dem take defend dia vote ,.if you no answer this question your children go.....

Dont u belive in God or the rule of law. well am not surprise because ur leaders are dictators so they dont belive either in God or rule of law but they belive in juju and satan. Am sorry to say this" we cant go back to square one because that's what apc wants

The grounds on which General Buhari is
being promoted as the alternative choice are
not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History
matters. Records are not kept simply to
assist the weakness of memory, but to
operate as guides to the future. Of course,
we know that human beings change. What
the claims of personality change or
transformation impose on us is a rigorous
inspection of the evidence, not wishful
speculation or behind-the- scenes
assurances. Public offence, crimes against a
polity, must be answered in the public space,
not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we
have been offered no evidence of the
sheerest prospect of change.
On the contrary, all evidence suggests that
this is one individual who remains convinced
that he is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot
call to order. Buhari? Need one remind
anyone – was one of the generals who
treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa
Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like
Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put
in appearance even though complaints that
were tabled against him involved a career of
gross abuses of power and blatant assault on
the fundamental human rights of the
Nigerian citizenry. Prominent against these
charges was an act that amounted to nothing
less than judicial murder, the execution of a
citizen under a retroactive decree. Does
Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps
the names of three youths – Lawal Ojuolape
(30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and
Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite
plainly, one of those three Ogedengbe – was
executed for a crime that did not carry a
capital forfeit at the time it was committed.
This was an unconscionable crime, carried
out in defiance of the pleas and protests of
nearly every sector of the Nigerian and
international community religious, civil rights,
political, trade unions etc.
Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-
crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this
inhuman act for one reason and one reason
only: to place Nigerians on notice that they
were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under
governance by fear. The execution of that
youthful innocent for so he was, since the
punishment did not exist at the time of
commission – was nothing short of
premeditated murder, for which the
perpetrators should normally stand trial upon
their loss of immunity. Are we truly expected
to forget this violation of our entitlement to
security as provided under existing laws? And
even if our sensibilities have become blunted
by succeeding seasons of cruelty and
brutality, if power itself had so coarsened the
sensibilities also of rulers and corrupted their
judgment, what should one rightly expect
after they have been rescued from the snare
of power. At the very least, a revaluation,
leading hopefully to remorse, and its
expression to a wronged society. At the very
least, such a revaluation should engender
reticence, silence. In the case of Buhari, it
was the opposite. Since leaving office he has
declared in the most categorical terms that
he had no regrets over this murder and would
do so again. Human life is inviolate. The right
to life is the uniquely fundamental right on
which all other rights are based. The crime
that General Buhari committed against the
entire nation went further however,
inconceivable as it might first appear. That
crime is one of the most profound negations
of civic being. Not content with hammering
down the freedom of expression in general
terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public
discussion of a return to civilian, democratic
rule. Let us constantly applaud our media,
those battle scarred professionals did not
completely knuckle down.
They resorted to cartoons and oblique,
elliptical references to sustain the people’s
campaign for a time-table to democratic rule.
Overt agitation for a democratic time table
however remained rigorously suppressed
military dictatorship, and a specifically
incorporated in Buhari and Idiagbon was
here to stay. To deprive a people of volition
in their own political direction is to turn a
nation into a colony of slaves. Buhari
enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried
in a master-slave relation to the millions of
its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that
the same former slaves, now free of their
chains, should clamour to be ruled by one
who not only turned their nation into a slave
plantation, but forbade them any discussion
of their condition. So Tai Solarin is already
forgotten? Tai who stood at street corners,
fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up
the gauntlet where the media had dropped
it. Tai who was incarcerated by that regime
and denied even the medication for his
asthmatic condition? Tai did not ask to be
sent for treatment overseas; all he asked was
his traditional medicine that had proved so
effective after years of struggle with asthma!
Nor must we omit the manner of Buhari
coming to power and the pattern of his
corrective rule. Shagari’s NPN had already
run out of steam and was near universally
detested except of course by the handful
that still benefited from that regime of
profligacy and rabid fascism. Responsibility
for the national condition lay squarely at the
door of the ruling party, obviously, but
against whom was Buhari’s coup staged?
Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was
not against Shagari’s government but against
the opposition. The head of government, on
whom primary responsibility lay, was Shehu
Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cozy
house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless
deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-
kiri prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of
equitable apportionment of guilt and/or
responsibility.
And then the cascade of escapes of the
wanted, and culpable politicians. Manhunts
across the length and breadth of the nation,
roadblocks everywhere and borders tight as
steel zip locks. Lo and behold, the chairman
of the party, Chief Akinloye, strolled out
coolly across the border. Richard Akinjide,
Legal Protector of the ruling party, slipped
out with equal ease. The Rice Minister,
Umaru Dikko, who declared that Nigerians
were yet to eat from dustbins – escaped
through the same airtight dragnet. The
clumsy attempt to crate him home was
punishment for his ingratitude, since he went
berserk when, after waiting in vain, he
concluded that the coup had not been staged,
after all, for the immediate consolidation of
the party of extreme right-wing vultures, but
for the military hyenas. The case of the
overbearing Secretary-General of the party,
Uba Ahmed, was even more noxious. Uba
Ahmed was out of the country at the time.
Despite the closure of the Nigerian airspace,
he compelled the pilot of his plane to
demand special landing permission, since his
passenger load included the almighty Uba
Ahmed. Of course, he had not known of the
change in his status since he was airborne.
The delighted airport commandant, realizing
that he had a much valued fish swimming
willingly into a waiting net, approved the
request. Uba Ahmed disembarked into the
arms of a military guard and was promptly
clamped in detention.
Incredibly, he vanished a few days after and
reappeared in safety overseas. Those whose
memories have become calcified should
explore the media coverage of that saga.
Buhari was asked to explain the vanished act
of this much prized quarry and his response
was one of the most arrogant levity. Coming
from one who had shot his way into power
on the slogan of discipline, it was nothing
short of impudent. Shall we revisit the
tragicomic series of trials that landed several
politicians several lifetimes in prison? Recall,
if you please, the judicial processes
undergone by the septuagenarian Chief
Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried
before Buhari’s punitive tribunal but
acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-
trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this
man guilty of a single crime, so once again
he was returned for trial, only to be
acquitted of all charges of corruption or
abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby
released? No! He was ordered detained
indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning
an election and refusing to knuckle under
Shagari’s reign of terror. The conduct of the
Buhari regime after his coup was not merely
one of double, triple, multiple standards but
a cynical travesty of justice. Audu Ogbeh,
was one of the few figures of rectitude
within the NPN. Just as he has done in recent
times with the PDP, he played the role of an
internal critic and reformer, warning,
dissenting, and setting an example of probity
within his ministry. For that crime he spent
months in unjust incarceration.
Guilty by association? Well, if that was the
motivating yardstick of the administration of
the Buhari justice, then it was most
selectively applied.
The utmost severity of the Buhari-Idiagbon
justice was especially reserved either for the
opposition in general, or for those within the
ruling party who had showed the sheerest
sense of responsibility and patriotism.
Shall I remind this nation of Buhari’s
deliberate humiliating treatment of the Emir
of Kano and the Oni of Ife over their visit to
the state of Israel? I hold no brief for
traditional rulers and their relationship with
governments, but insist on regarding them as
entitled to all the rights, privileges and
responsibilities of any Nigerian citizen. This
royal duo went to Israel on their private
steam and private business. Simply because
the Buhari regime was pursuing some
antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a
policy of which these traditional rulers were
not a part, they were subjected on their
return to a treatment that could only be
described as a head masterly chastisement of
errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a
free citizen of the Nigerian nation require
the permission of a head of state to visit a
foreign nation that was willing to offer that
tourist a visa? One is only too aware that
some Nigerians love to point to Buhari’s
agenda of discipline as the shining jewel in
his scrap-iron crown. To inculcate discipline
however, one must lead by example, obeying
laws set down as guides to public probity.
Example speaks louder than declarations, and
rulers cannot exempt themselves from the
disciplinary structures imposed on the overall
polity, especially on any issue that seeks to
establish a policy for public well-being. The
story of the thirty something suitcases it
would appear that they were even closer to
fifty – found unavoidable mention in my
recent memoirs, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT
DOWN, written long before Buhari became
spoken of as a credible candidate. For the
exercise of a changeover of the national
currency, the Nigerian borders air, sea and
land had been shut tight.
Nothing was supposed to move in or out, not
even cattle egrets.
Yet a prominent camel was allowed through
that needles eye. Not only did Buhari
dispatch his aide-de-camp, Jokolo later to
become an emir- to facilitate the entry of
those cases, he ordered the redeployment as
I later discovered – of the Customs Officer
who stood firmly against the entry of the
contravening baggage. That officer, the
incumbent Vice-president is now a rival
candidate to Buhari, but has somehow, in the
meantime, earned a reputation that totally
contradicts his conduct at the time. Wherever
the truth lies, it does not redound to the
credibility of the dictator of that time,
General Buhari whose word was law, but
whose allegiances were clearly negotiable.
On the theme of double, triple, multiple
standards in the enforcement of the law, and
indeed of the decrees passed by the Buhari
regime at the time, let us recall the notorious
case of Triple Alhaji Alhaji Alhaji, then
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of
Finance. Who was caught, literally, with his
pants down in distant Austria. That was not
the crime however, and private conduct
should always remain restricted to the
domain of private censure.
There was no decree against civil servants
proving just as hormone driven as anyone
else, especially outside the nation’s borders.
However, there was a clear decree against
the keeping of foreign accounts, and this was
what emerged from the Austrian escapade.
Alhaji Alhaji kept, not one, but several
undeclared foreign accounts, and he had no
business being in possession of the large
amount of foreign currency of which he was
robbed by his overnight companion. The
media screamed for an even application of
the law, but Buhari had turned suddenly
deaf. By contrast, Fela Anikulapo languished
in goal for years, sentenced under that very
draconian decree. His crime was being in
possession of foreign exchange that he had
legitimately received for the immediate
upkeep of his band as they set off for an
international engagement. A vicious sentence
was slapped down on Fela by a judge who
later became so remorse stricken at least
after Buhari’s overthrow that he went to the
King of Afro-beat and apologized.
Lesser known was the traumatic experience
of the director of an international
communication agency, an affiliate of
UNESCO. Akin Fatoyinbo arrived at the
airport in complete ignorance of the new
currency decree. He was thrown in gaol in
especially brutal condition, an experience
from which he never fully recovered. It took
several months of high-level intervention
before that innocent man was eventually
freed. These were not exceptional but mere
sample cases from among hundreds of
others, victims of a decree that was
selectively applied, a decree that routinely
penalized innocents and ruined the careers
and businesses of many.
What else? What does one choose to include
or leave out? What precisely was Ebenezer
Babatope’s crime that he should have spent
the entire tenure of General Buhari in
detention?
Nothing beyond the fact that he once warned
in the media that Buhari was an ambitious
soldier who would bear watching through the
lenses of a coup-detat. Babatope’s father
died while he was in Buhari’s custody, the
dictator remained deaf to every plea that he
be at least released to attend his father’s
funeral, even under guard. I wrote an article
at the time, denouncing this pointless
insensitivity. So little to demand by a man
who was never accused of, nor tried for any
crime,much less found guilty. Such a load of
vindictiveness that smothered all traces of
basic human compassion deserves no further
comment in a nation that values its
traditions.
But then, speaking the truth was not what
Buhari, as a self-imposed leader, was
especially enamoured of enquire of Tunde
Thompson and Nduka Irabor both of whom,
faithful to their journalistic calling, published
nothing but the truth, yet ended up
sentenced under Buhari’s decree. Mind you,
no one can say that Buhari was not true to
his word. Shall tamper with the freedom of
the press swore the dictator immediately on
grabbing office, and this was exactly what he
did. And so on, and on, and on….
source. opinions.ng

major466:
I saw the interview too. It was quite a hot on both sides. Liar Muhammed looks very defensive, a sign that suggest guilt and lack of ideas. Olisa Metu on the other hand was able to articulate his points expressly in a calm and relax manner.

my brother u ar right. if u ask Apc their agenda, they will tell u is to remove Mr president. if not that, why did ameachi leave PDP? he left because PDP didnt give him vice president slot. Mention 3 people that are progressive and i will dump PDP.

Apc is corrupt, look at the people they are projecting, i wonder wat we be the name of Nigeria wen they make Buhari (a corrupt leader that stole without mercy wen he was the NNPC chairman)as president and Ameachi( the thief that stole Rivers money in the name of mono_rail) as vice president with Tinubu( this one don pass to be called a thief, he is a criminal) as their Godfather, El-rufai( the wicked man that made people of Abuja homeless) as a minister. pls the devil we know is better than the angels we dont know. Be wise and vote 4 PDP

pls Apc supporters why do u think i will remain in ur party when u keep welcoming the evil ones PDP rejected? i remember when ameachi said " the people that use broom are juju and night soil men but now that he has join Apc, please what do we call Ameachi?