These people are scared of joining Mmm but at the same time jealous of people taking the risk. This is why they are doing everything humanly possible to crash mmm.. Please if you are scared,don't scare people in it; its devilish. They are already aware of the danger involved.

As Edo state goes to the poll today to elect their next governor, let's dedicate this thread to updates as distribution, accreditation, voting, counting of ballot papers and results collation go on.
Wishing Edo people peaceful and credible elections.
Cc:lalasticlala

President Muhammadu Buhari made a terrible mistake last Thursday. He plagiarized President Barack Obama’s speech to launch “change begins with me.”

So you didn’t notice that our president lifted from Obama’s 2008 victory speech and passed it off as if the words were his own?

The argument will rage, but the moral problem of plagiarism on a day Mr. President launched a campaign to demand honesty and integrity from the people is what we should concern ourselves with.

I’m not a wailing wailer and I don’t like the downfall of any man but I also don’t like to be deceived.

The very last thing you should do when you’re launching a campaign like this is to be dishonest with the people.

As Buhari talked down on Nigerians during the launch of the campaign spearheaded by no other person, other than the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, known for his trash-talk, particularly for the opposition, I started following the speech line-by-line.

I was alarmed to make the discovery. It was a scandal that escaped the attention of our newspapers. It is one of two things: either people don’t pay particular attention to Buhari’s words or we are a nation of anything goes.

Only in July, Melania Trump, the wife of the Republican White House hopeful, Donald Trump, was caught in the web of plagiarism after she spoke at the Republican National Convention. She plagiarized Michelle Obama’s speech. It was a big headline on television screen and national newspapers. Indeed it was a “global” headline.

Yes, a prime part of Buhari’s speech to the nation last Thursday to launch a campaign encouraging new culture of transparency, attitudinal change and hard work among Nigerians was plagiarized from America’s President Barack Obama’s 2008 victory speech.

Buhari’s speech during the launch of the “change begins with me”, a new national orientation campaign, contained largely the same sentiment and arrangement of words that President Obama used in his 2008 victory speech after he was elected the first American black president.

The president lifted a whole paragraph from Obama’s speech and passed it off as his own when he said: “We must resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship, pettiness and immaturity that have poisoned our country for so long. Let us summon a new spirit of responsibility, spirit of service, of patriotism and sacrifice, Let us all resolve to pitch in and work hard and look after, not only ourselves but one another, What the current problem has taught us is that we cannot have a thriving army of rent seekers and vested interests, while the majority suffers.”

President Obama used the precise words at a rally in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, United States, after winning the race for the White House in November 2008.
Eight years ago, Obama said: “In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let’s resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

“So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.

“Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.”

It is immoral to plagiarize other people’s work, but even worse to use dishonesty to launch a campaign about honesty.

When you use another person’s work without acknowledgement, you have plagiarized. You simply pretend as if it is your own. It is unethical. It makes a mess of the campaign from the start. That is what Buhari has done, nobody will believe in the ‘change begins with me’ campaign, because it was built on lies.

Now, this is what I think must have happened, an incompetent speech writer handed the speech to Buhari with no fact checking method by the president’s men that should have saved the president from this embarrassment.
I know this that with the vast opportunity provided by the internet, it’s so tempting to plagiarize, but the same internet provides opportunity to discover plagiarists.

It’s particularly troubling that the president has no inspiring words of his own other than to steal from someone.
And this, it is pathetic that this “change” conversation is taking new dimension from what we expected.

In the midst of its failure, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is asking Nigerians to change their ways, blaming everything why the country is not working on Nigerians’ attitudes.

The blame game is moving away from Goodluck Jonathan years, the only defense for failure that APC has so far used.

Interestingly, the world is watching Buhari and the story of his plagiarism may have crossed the Atlantic without him knowing. Americans don’t joke with such issue. They name and shame plagiarists.

Next week, when Buhari take his turn to address the 71st regular session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Americans will scrutinize his words and check his facts.

Before that time, it is my submission that Buhari needs to apologize to Nigerians for plagiarizing on a day he launched “change begins with me.” Will Buhari apologize?

Source:http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/09/16/buharis-plagiarized-speech-in-change-begins-with-me/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

asuustrike2009:

Didn't you watch the drama of some waec students protesting? Probably that was considered but are you sure of the postponement because vanguard says otherwise
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/breaking-news-inec-go-ahead-edo-election-despite-security-concerns/

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According to two online media outlets dailytrust and thecableng, the dss and police has asked inec to shift the edo governorship election scheduled for this Saturday.......more details soon. See tweets from them.
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/politics/police-dss-call-for-postponement-of-edo-election/161764.html

I smell what PDP did in 2015 when they that apc was going to carry the day. Let's wait and see

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Barely 24hrs after the hon minister of finance tweeted that recession was just a word, she could not stand the heat of the backlash from @pdpNigeria media platform and Nigerians. This made her to edit her official twitter handle to parody.
Still, Nigerians attacked her for the denial of her account instead of apologizing. See pictures. ...

trinity227:
Its all over news treads that the first lady of Nigeria Aisha Buhari visited washington Dc on some bullshit seminars, this is a cheap scam orchestrated by our bad government to put an end to the halliburton scandal smelling round the first lady of Nigeria.

the first lady never visited the USA and she will never risk it.

there has not been any first lady in the world that visit United States Of America that the First Lady of America will not be there to Welcome her. not to talk of Washington Dc the front yard of the first lady of America.

check these photos of China, Russia, South Africa and Cameroon first ladies visit to America.

Why was Michelle Obama not at the Airport to welcome Aisha Buhari ?

Even as small as Cameroon, she was there for their first Lady....

Nigeriaaaaaaaaaa which way ?

They said she attended the program on this pics with her pics yet abike is saying d opposite

The fog of the 2015 general election is finally clearing up; the falsehoods sold to the people as change are unravelling at dizzying speeds. Even some vociferous supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari are deserting him in droves. Those who have not openly expressed some apprehension about the path the “messiah” has chosen to lead the country are grumbling and sniveling. However, a few diehards are still clinging to a tiny strand of hope that a miracle just might happen and things would change for the better under his government.
Well, it is going to get old saying I told you so. I can bet my bottom naira that nothing is going to change, at least not from what we have seen so far. As I have repeatedly stated in this column, change cannot come from a man who has not changed one bit, nor shown the slightest inclination to change contrary to the tales that were peddled on the campaign train. That will only happen when it’s proved that a leopard can now change its spots, or a tiger can change its stripes. His recent actions are a further proof of his ironclad narrow-minded, and ethnically inclined nature.

Those who collectively misled the people that Buhari had changed but are now singing a different tune must be held to account. We were bombarded with all sorts of virtuous and exemplary conducts of his past, and told his ethno-religious tendencies were “contrived” to undermine him. We were assured that Buhari would heal this land and restore hope to a fractured people. That has not happened; instead he has more than any president in the history of Nigeria consciously exacerbated the ethnic and religious divisions of the country by his actions and total display of insensitivity by his appointments.

They told us that he was the expected one – the long-awaited messiah who would bring back the glory of the fatherland and restore the pride of a people that were terribly famished. That wishful thinking has now clearly exploded in the faces of the proponents who spent their precious naira burnishing his image with cosmetics, as the candidate played along to the excitement of many
In the last one year, the Nigerian economy has practically collapsed under the great “fixer”; the business environment has been scorched to the ground. Hunger and starvation have become daily companions of many people such that parents now exchange children for food. The change agents told Nigerians the ominous sounds of the prospect of a Buhari presidency that rang out so loudly during the electioneering were in fact drumbeats of exhilaration, hope and renewal.

Today, Nigeria stands challenged in all spheres, rudderless and floundering like never before. And of course we have so many astonishingly ridiculous and perverse people making silly excuses for the man who clearly has no business being at the helm of affairs of this country. Now it seems so obvious that Buhari and his party were very good at making promises but only excel spectacularly at making excuses for not fulfilling them.

The clamour for change can be categorised into four broad subheads, viz., the genuine change-seekers, the willfully blinded, those that lost out in the power struggle and had become spiteful, and the extremely partisan and sneaky activists who now even look the other way as the rule of law is mocked and torn to shreds.
It is true that many people yearned for a more fundamental change and desired it desperately; indeed, they still do. They constituted the genuine but ignorant, naive, vulnerable and undiscerning majority. These genuine change-seekers however became easily susceptible to the illusions called “change” promised by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its standard-bearer who walked about with padded feet, waving and smiling sweetly at everyone to frenzied applauses from enthusiastic crowds.
Secondly were those who chose to be willfully blinded to the danger signals that were so glaringly visible that then Candidate Muhammadu Buhari represents. Thirdly was the category who embraced change more out of spite and malice than conviction that Buhari’s presidency would bring the much-needed elixir and healing to this troubled country. Having lost out in the struggle for power and control, they wanted to get back at former President Goodluck Jonathan. And in a clear act of sheer desperation, progressive-minded people joined forces with ultra-conservatives in an unholy alliance to get power.

Lastly were members of the intellectual/activist class who staked their reputations built over many years to sway support for the general on the extremely naive and dishonest premise that Buhari had changed. By endorsing Buhari, they were endorsing a brand of populism rooted on a campaign of half-truths, “true lies”, ignorance, prejudice, sectional politics and outright deception driven by a motivation to mislead the people to achieve power. To this group, the end justified the means.

The intellectual/activist class is particularly guilty of the situation we find ourselves today. They vouched for Buhari with such vigour and gusto that left the discerning dumbfounded. Our own hero and Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, stood shoulder above all others on this score. This was how he expressed his love for him: “It is however just as purblind to insist that he has not demonstrably striven to become what he most glaringly was not, to insist that he has not been chastened by intervening experience and – most critically – by a vastly transformed environment – both the localised and the global.” This to me was a pure fiction.
There is a saying in the land of my fathers that the hardest thing in life is vouching for someone, especially someone you barely know. When you do that, you are indirectly saying, ‘I’m putting my reputation on the line. I believe this person is a good person, with good character’, or has changed. This was what Nigerians were told. Soyinka and co. stood as referees for Buhari when he applied for the position of the president of Nigeria. They vouched for a changed Buhari and encouraged the public to employ him for the top job.

Will Soyinka honestly tell Nigerians whether this was the change he assured them would come from Buhari? Has Soyinka seen the lopsided appointments Buhari has been making across all strata of government? It is a chilling reminder of his past stint in office, particularly his tenure as the Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF); a past that was denied by his hysterical supporters in the run-up to the election.
Professor Pat Utomi was one of those who like our own dear Soyinka put his reputation on the line to reassure the people that Buhari “will restore hope” and lead Nigeria out of the woods during the high fever of electioneering.

You can imagine my profound shock and disbelief a few months ago when he launched a scalding attack on President Buhari and his government for the beyond-belief manner he was managing the national fault lines as well as his poor handling of the economy. This was what he was reported to have said: “The problem with Buhari’s administration is his medieval mindset. He excludes rather than includes. So, he does not get the best idea. He is insular. Because of their medieval mindset, they have created a country that is more divided than they met it. And that is a problem for leadership that is marching towards progress. His ideas go back 30 years and they are irrelevant to this world.

Open up your mind and listen to people and you can make progress. To lead is to serve. To lead, you must be knowledgeable. People don’t follow somebody who doesn’t know where he is going. Otherwise, you fall into a ditch.” After reading that statement, I could not but asked myself and anyone who cared to listen, did he just know this about Buhari? I’m baffled as to how I could have seen it all and more experienced people like Utomi didn’t.

As if Utomi’s about-face was not dramatic enough, read what Oby Ezekwesili of Bring Back Our Girls fame had to say about the administration: “Buhari’s economic policies are archaic and opaque, reminiscent of his first coming in the 80s. During that era, inflation spiralled. During that era, jobs were lost. During that era, the economic growth level dipped. That era wasn’t the best of eras in economic progress. “What did not work in 1984 cannot possibly be a solution in a global economy that’s much more integrated.”
She accused Buhari of rehashing the same “command and control” approach towards economic issues which has left the country’s economic indices worse off, adding: “We have lost the single digits inflation status we maintained in past administrations.”

The question we should all ask our bouncy campaigner is: did she just know this about Buhari? The truth is, she was one of those who consciously ignored the danger signals that were all so visible to everyone but which many chose to be willfully blinded to. The Chibok girls’ plight became a vote-catcher for then Candidate Buhari who repeatedly played it up and assured the nation it would top his list of priorities only to quickly relegate it to the footnote after gaining power. Where is Professor Charles Soludo? Is he still in this country? If yes, then he must be grumbling quietly by now about the state of the economy. That is, if his economic theories still make any sense. But why is he not talking? The change he helped foist on the people is mutating into a crippling police state.

The economy is in a perilous state – on the verge of a recession. Is he not aware? To the chagrin of investors recently, a “changed” Buhari lest we forget, talked down the CBN new forex policy moments after endorsing it, thereby making many potential investors to nervously wait and watch from the sidelines. Now, won’t Soludo tell Nigerians how much the country has lost through the mismanagement of the economy, lack of policy direction and lost investment opportunities under one year of Buhari — N10 trillion, N20 trillion, N30 trillion or more? It will be interesting to hear from him, that is, if he still has the courage of his conviction. It is a crying shame that a first-class economist of Soludo’s stature was one of those who just couldn’t see through the facade of lies; maybe he did, but was driven more by petty revenge and that disease that afflicts only black people.

It is a double tragedy that he even aided and abetted the campaign of malicious lies with his allegation of “missing” or “mismanaged” N30 trillion during the run-up to the presidential election. It was a season when the walking wounded with malice in their hearts would come to the public space to spew rubbish just because they wanted to hug the headlines the next day. It keeps me up at night knowing that they willfully led this nation back to a replay of 1984/85, the consequences of which are the debilitating economic and socio-political crises we have today.

Let Nigerians ask former President Olusegun Obasanjo whether this is the “Nigeria of our dreams” he so gleefully told the world Buhari was building some months ago. The same Obasanjo acknowledged even before the election that Buhari knew next to nothing about economic management but went on to recommend him for the top job. Obasanjo who instituted an enquiry into the activities of the PTF even denied the findings. It was the height of fierce determination to push through his spiteful “change”. If Buhari was not good on the economy, he has even proved worse on politics. No one can tell for sure, maybe, just maybe, this was the change they meant after all.
Source:
http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/07/15/buharis-endorsers-and-state-of-the-nation/

MrDavidson:
How did this man ever become a governor? Is this governance? While the likes of Ambode is signing contracts with UAE, this man is busy making mockery of the Office of the Governor.

Is Ambos the only governor in SW aside fayose? How many has Aregbesola signed?

kenonze:


U will

Anu mpama!!!!

kenonze:
I think we are giving those scavengers more oxygen for media fire.

I will soon ignor their news like Fayoshe news

And who cares if you avoid their news?

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Ogoniland in Senegal?

Fadekebisola:
Has anyone noticed the utmost seriousness given to Enugu attacks than agatu despite few persons been killed unlike agatu were hundreds were massacred...

Even to the extent of sacking CP of police in Enugu and APC governors storming Enugu.....

are some regions now more important than others?

Because the governor took action...do you know how long it took gov otorm to visit agatu? Enugu gov even went to villa...called pressmen for conference....visit the vilage the following day

Mrpoker:


http://saharareporters.com/2016/05/03/enugu-police-commissioner-sacked-over-fulani-herdsman-attacks


Pic1 : Former Commissioner of Police for Enugu State, Nwodibo Ekechukwu

2: Newly appointed Police Commissioner in Enugu State, Emmanuel Ojukwu

Was he not the one that granted interview on channels admitting the attackers were really fulani herdsmen contrary to the initial police report? If he has been sacked truly, then its cos of that interview.

madridguy:
Only the IPOD tout will believe this lie.

Did you check their twitter handle before writing this rubbish? They actually posted it.

donphilopus:
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I rather make FFK the kiss and tell my role modem than make that nitwit who openly told that world that
his mother uses diapers my role modem. The deliverance you need is from the God of Commonsense.

Role modem KO.....Glo modem ni

mcee1:
This man is a Coward I swear. Him no fit talk and contribute where him mates dey,na with small boys/girls him fit dey felx muscle with. Mtcheew!

By d way,what's wrong with what d guy say? Where are d english guru's?

What do u mean that? Do you really watch legislative proceedings?
Google and YouTube would be of help to u.. .don't allow propaganda that he is not effective blind you

THE BURDEN OF THE BUHARI SUPPORTER
Forget all the braggadocio, these are not the best of times for those who supported the emergence of President Buhari.
I am one of them, so I am speaking from a position of authority.
I am not a man given to pretense. I try as much as I can to be very objective in my analysis of events. I am even bold enough to admit my shortcomings.
I expected so much from this government. I wasn't expecting magic though but there are basic things I looked forward to.
Let me start from the known to the unknown.
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu was sworn in on May 29, 2015. That day was a Friday. By the next day, he attended a thanksgiving service in his church and probably spent the next day being a Sunday receiving visitors.
By the next day, Monday, June 1, 2015, as early as 8am in the morning, he was on the streets of Aba flagging off the construction of 7 roads! That was his first real day in office as Governor.
He didn't wait to tell us how he met an empty treasury. He simply had to act! That's what leadership entails!
By December this year, almost all those roads were ready for commissioning. Indeed, three of them were commissioned on the same day by former President Obasanjo.
Governor Ikpeazu knew that expectations were high and he seized the moment. The symbolism of that action will never wear off.
Road projects have been flagged off in all the three senatorial zones of the state, and this is happening at a time when funds are low.
All the problems in Abia State have not been solved. All the roads have not been fixed but by the way he has carried on, a greater majority of Abia people now sincerely believe that things are getting better and will get better.
First impressions are very critical.
This was where Buhari missed it.
Imagine where Buhari had flown to visit the project site of the East West Road within the first week of his inauguration. I mean just a visit.
Imagine where he had announced three days after the inauguration that 75% of the planes in the presidential air fleet were to be sold off since we couldn't afford the luxury of maintaining them.
Imagine where he had named his cabinet within his first two weeks in office.
Imagine where he had flown in a helicopter to Agatu and assured the people that they have not been forgotten. Imagine the effect it would have had on the people.
These were what we expected him to do. You don't need to have a Phd to understand that these non financial gestures will soothe the minds of the people.
But he didn't.
These ones didn't involve spending any money.
Money is not everything!
First, Buhari did not need to have waited for six months to name his cabinet. We all had a fair idea of who and who will make the cabinet. We all knew that people like Fashola, Amaechi, Ngige, Onu, Fayemi will make the cabinet. So why wait for six whole months to tell us what we already knew?
From the developmental perspective, I had expected that Buhari would within his first month in office awarded contracts for the rehabilitation of at least one critical federal road in each of the six geo political zones of the country. That would have sent a very powerful message.
These things count in how the people see their leader.
The challenge we Buhari supporters have is that we are unable to even articulate what is the economic agenda of this government. How can one possibly defend what you don't understand?
There is no economic advisory team in place. There is no economic blueprint which can form the basis of further studies.
Take the current fuel crisis as an example.
I am yet to hear a clear cut, well thought out strategy to tackle this challenge in the long run.
Even on the issue of payment of subsidies, there doesn't appear to be any clear policy direction. Today, you hear that subsides are back, the next day you hear that it's not true but that we will have price modulation.
In my view, this is straight forward matter. It's either you deregulate the market or continue to pay subsidies.
While I agree that the economic climate isn't good now with the crash of oil prices which has affected our mono economy badly, there are certain things a leader will do and his people will at least see that he is in sync with their yearnings and aspirations.
Look at the drama from the budget.
But there is one that bothers me very well.
It is the silence, or rather, the inaction of the men who I saw as forming the intellectual foundation of this government. The Fasholas, the Ngiges, the Onus, the Fayemis.
You hardly hear them talk these days. These are men who have good grasp of what leadership is and did perform creditably when they served as governors of their states. What has happened to them?
Is that they are not given the latitude to work or what?
Please feel free to laugh but for me, elections are over and now, the business of nation building has commenced. You dont have fuel and you are laughing? Ok, kontinuu.
I shall remain hopeful that things will get better but the President and his team must give us something to hold on to as we hope.
Chai...if only Baba is performing, I would have set Facebook on fire.
Baba...
Is it me, Chief Ururuaja that you want to strip naked in public? (copied)

See as this lady turned from a buharist to a wailer just under one year.. Please wailers form is finished. ..we don't want more members...



Lalasticlala come and see this lady oo.

Anubis:
This is the special advisor to the President on students not one of the people employed by cbn

Saw that too. I two different reports from two different sources.

lalasticlala:


You should have posted a screenshot of where it was reported that he was among those secretly employed by CBN

I can get that but not by a media agency

Lalasticlala come and see oo

What do you think about this twitter post? Is he Worth secret employment into CBN? That's what we see in Nigeria

eleko1:
Contact una state govt .How much u the middleman don contribute for ur friend in Russian? Who send him to Russia? .Better still,let him contact IPODIANS secretary in Russia for help

He has contacted them but time is running out.

Please I am moved to post this here.a brother ifeanyichukwu Hillary seriously needs financial help from us. He is studying international law at Tambov state technical university, Russia.
Currently he is in his finals and has been given until next weekend to pay up $2800 or be sent back to Nigeria.
His number is +79202377270. He is willing to provide any document needed from him or d school as evidence to his claim. I believe he can be helped out and that is why i am posting this.
Once again u can reach him via this number +79202377270 or contact the school for authenticity. Thanks.
Lalasticlala

Please I am moved to post this here.a brother ifeanyichukwu Hillary seriously needs financial help from us. He is studying international law at Tambov technical undiversity Russia.
Currently he is in his finals and has been given until next weekend to pay up $2800 or be sent back to Nigeria.
Hi number is +79202377270. He is willing to provide any documents needed from him or d school as evidence to his claim. I believe he can be helped out and that is why m posting this.
Once again u can reach him via this number or contact the school for authenticity. Thanks.
Lalasticlala