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OP, there is one more aspect you have not considered that the Igbos might think about. The Pdp and Anpp both had strong Northern representation, even if the pdp was preferred. The East lacks a political voice beyond 'following' someone else's platform. APGA is thoroughly discredited, and could not even see Ikemba elected as a Senator,has only one state, and thus cannot be said to be the political voice of the East. To an outsider, it seems that there is more political cohesion in other regions, which makes the alliance of the West and North seem more logical and potentially more fruitful.
Of course be prepared for tribal and other petty insults here. It's a shame such topics cannot be discussed with some decorum, and logic.

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While I am wary of Soludo because of the banking rot exposed by Sanusi, this article is a strong message to both the government, and the APC. We indeed going to be facing tough times ahead, and anyone who says different is lying. But it will be better if we have more honest and focused leadership at the helm.

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[b]I therefore pray that Buhari will be magnanimous in victory – if he wins—to put together a ‘team Nigeria’ for the rescue mission.
If Jonathan wins, then God must have been magnanimous to give him a second chance to redeem himself. Most people I know who support Jonathan do so either out of self-interest or fear of the unknown. As a friend summed it: the devil you know is better than the angel you do not know. One person assured me that we would see a ‘different Jonathan’ if he wins as he has been rattled by the harsh judgment of history on his presidency so far. I just pray that he is right. In that case, I would just draw the President’s attention to two issues:
First, beside the coterie of clowns who literally make a living with the sing-song of transformation agenda, President Jonathan must know that it remains an empty slogan. His greatest challenge is how to save himself from the stranglehold of his largely provincial palace jesters who tell him he has done better than God, and seek out ‘enemies’ and friends who can help him write his name in history. Propaganda won’t do it.[/b]

Typical of the pdp.

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A draft Whistle-blower bill was presented years ago by an APC rep, Arole Fancy from Lagos. Of course with the pdp majority it got nowhere. I truly believe that if we have something along the American model, it will be a major deterrent to public and private sector corruption. These are the things that should be animating the campaign discussion. This document is a great signal of things to come. Even with the FOI, we are still struggling to get clear information on exactly what salaries and allowances elected officials are entitled to, and what they actually collect.

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DaBullIT:
First ERdiot indeed , If Buhari wanted to massacre people, he wouldn't massacre his kinsmen, If Buhari wanted Arewa Nation, he'd just call some other generals and carry it out

If Buhari wanted to make government ungovernable, He'd sabotage presidency at all levels , Oil, mineral resources and stuffs


A reasonable person knows that Jonathan is intentionally decimating the North , he's paid Shekau to do the dirty job and i read that after his yesterday's promise to free the kidnapped girls, 200 girls were released today


My point being IF BUHARI WANTED TO DESTABILIZE THE COUNTRY, ALL IT TAKES IS A SNIPER RIFLE, AN HAUSA BODY GUARD FOR GEJ , and his routes, that's when Mend will come up with massob and biafra and we'll all kill ourselves

Open your mind , Jona sent US marines away because someone was about to link GEJ to the terror attacks , otherwise how the heck does an upright , honest man refuses help from world organization and USA unless he's hiding something

And before you mention oil, remember that crude is cheap now , its useless to USA and the world , they can't come for our crude, and even if they wanted crude oil, why not give them to save thousands of Northerners killed by the machine he devised


What's happening here is a replica of the series 24 hours with Jack Bauer, Presidency creates terror attack, solves it and becomes hero for second term , but it aint gonna work, we've seen PDP's actions for 16 years, we've seen GEJ's for 6 years, we are not pleased

You are
#stupidasmud #thickasabrick


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Please keep your uneducated prejudices to yourself. Come FeBuhari 14th, Jonathan will hear from us. (the post man is running around looking for votes and here you are insulting swathes of the population, instead of helping the poor man. Well done. APC thanks you)

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ellechrystal:
Wow.. ur own ignorance is Epic n vintage

Educating the feeble mind...

http://www.punchng.com/feature/interview/ibb-not-buhari-overthrew-shagaris-govt-col-nyiam/

You once said soldiers could be recruited for a coup without their knowledge. How is that possible?

Yes, there are many instances. You might want to verify this from Gen. Buhari, he was not the initiator of that coup that brought him in as Head of State, it was Gen. Ibrahim Bako and Babangida that initiated it. But because they wanted a credible figure as a face, he was brought in. He did not know the genesis of that coup. He was not quite aware of the original idea behind the coup and that was why when he decided to make a change, he was forced to step aside. So, if this could happen to a whole Gen. Buhari, who was supposedly the leader of a coup, it shows how many soldiers can be brought in that way.

Does that mean overthrowing Shagari’s government was IBB’s idea?

It was the idea of late Gen. Bako and IBB. Buhari was only brought in because they needed a face with integrity.

Can you give other instances?

Gen. Yakubu Gowon was not part of the coup that brought him in. He was a decent man. Nigerians like to play what the Yoruba people call bojuboju; they bring a figure with integrity to cover up their real intention; the real intention of politicians in uniform who have found cheap party. Many elements of them are in our partisan politics today.

That means such heads of states were under the control of the coup plotters that installed them.

Obviously. And these people are still the reason why we are not allowed to have a proper census, they are still the ones ensuring that we don’t have a conference as well as a free and fair election because if you give the people their rights to choose who to governs them, you have freed them and these oligarchs don’t want that.

berem:
Bob Okoroji is not APGA candidate,another Igbo man is.

If we Igbos want an Igbo man to be governor of lagos,we can make it happen. Our votes can make it happen. Why must we be happy about Agbaje when he is also yoruba? What's the possiblity that Agbaje won't be the same as others. He just want our votes,that's all!

The first thing that has to change is all this putting tribe first! Nobody in lagos talks about only Awori for governor, they are looking for people who have paid their dues, who are old AD/ACN and can be trusted to stay close to the Awoist semi-socialist path. Not even the Igbos seem to celebrate the Commissioner for Economic Planning & Budget, Ben Akabueze, or Joe Igbokwe but the APC in lagos has been exemplary in having commissioners from every region (excluding the north) and every state in the West. Perhaps other states and regions need to act similarly. Let's us focus on talent and roots within the party. Mentioning tribe first is sure to take the discussion into suspicious waters. As for that 48% figure, I don't believe it. Flattery.

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RevDesmondJuju:
Lagos Island is a PDP stronghold. Ajegunle is home to Ijaws, and old Bendel tribes.

And how many councillors do they have in those areas? Abeg jo, leave matter.

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Yeah, I guess it is APC that has been spreading rumors of death in the newspapers and online? #thickasabrick

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http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/175587-buharis-certificate-police-deny-murder-katsina-college-principal.html

The school principal who released the WASC result of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, is alive and well, the police have said.

The Katsina Police Command on Sunday dispelled rumour of the alleged murder of Ballo Isyaku, Principal of Government College, Katsina.

The command’s Public Relations Officer, Aminu Sadiq, stated this to journalists in Katsina.

He said that the command had contacted top officials of the ministry of education and they confirmed that the principal was hale and hearty.

Mr. Sadiq said that the command had also contacted the Commissioner for Education, and the Zonal Director of education, who assured the police that the rumour was false.

“We are surprised to read the story online that the principal had been killed by unknown gunmen.

“The command wish to state that the principal in question is currently organising a naming ceremony for a new born baby that came into his family.”

The spokesperson called on the members of the public to disregard the publication as the handwork of mischief makers, adding that some disgruntled elements were out to cause disaffection among the residents of Katsina.

PREMIUM TIMES had exclusively published the result released by Mr. Isyaku after the APC candidate wrote the school to release the official results following rumours that he did not possess a secondary school certificate and was thus not qualified to contest the February 14 presidential election.

henryangelo:
Who is to be pitted? I should have pitted Buhari if he had at least pass his waec but I will give him the chance for recite but for now I gat no time for a buried stone, grow up and think wise

When you casts doubt on another's education, please make sure your own foundation is solid!

pit·ted
ˈpidəd/
adjective
adjective: pitted

1.
having a hollow or indentation on the surface.
"a dusty pitted road"
synonyms: pockmarked, pocked, scarred, marked, blemished More
"his skin was pitted"
potholed, rutted, rutty, holey, bumpy, rough, uneven
"the pitted lane"
antonyms: smooth
2.
(of a fruit) having had the stone removed.

Understand the difference with

pit·y
ˈpidē/
verb
past tense: pitied; past participle: pitied

feel sorrow for the misfortunes of.

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Pdp is not interested in issues since nobody can make sense of how 'transformation agenda' has improved their lives one bit. Insurgency, kidnapping, government excesses, corruption, no refineries, oil theft, no 2nd Niger bridge, electricity still scanty, NECO /JAMB mass failures, naira collapse ... And all the excuses from the president as to why your life will not improve until 'tomorrow' comes. Who will have electricity to watch the debate as it happens? Many will get their news from online snippets or the newspaper stands free readers association. APC is ready to discuss issues daily so Nigerians know the issues and their position. PDP is talking about old age and certificate. Ish.

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Dangote has his head office and more in lagos. While there is some resentment from Kano people, a business has to base it's decisions on commercial logic, not ethnic sentiment. In every corner of Nigeria, people know the problems of employing relations in their businesses.

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Your ignorance is legendary! IBB and Abacha were the instigators and organisers of the coup that overthrew Shagari, and also the coup that toppled Buhari. Buhari was chosen over IBB to become head of state because some in the military were already apprehensive about IBBs character. Buhari had nothing to do with the coup that brought him to power. As for your other baseless lies... Jeez! Black propaganda. #fail

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ilugunboy:
Absolutely.....he is just leveraging on his father's old influence.

I think the PDP realized late how invaluable an asset he is and they quietly eased him out of the Kano calculation...

The same PDP that under Obasanjo's government let them keep 10% of one chunk of loot? A wretched party if you ask me.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Nigeria+targets+the+%27gnomes+of+London%27%3A+the+government+finally+gets...-a087146563
So, it is Switzerland that Nigeria has to thank for the agreement reached on 16 April with the Abachas' lawyers, under which $1 billion is to be returned to the Nigerian government through the Bank for International Settlements in Basle.

The agreement was reached out-of-court after many months of haggling, and has several provisions that have nor been made public. One controversial aspect of it is that it will allow the Abacha family to keep $100 million.

The Swiss Federal Office of Justice described this $100m as funds "acquired prior to Abacha's term in office and which, according to the Nigerian authorities, demonstrably do nor derive from criminal acts."

The settlement also requires the Nigerian government to drop some criminal charges against Abacha's son, Muhammad, and a business associate of his, Bagudu Abubakar.

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Big #fail

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overhypedsteve:
hmm. That his master must be great oh. If he was republican maybe I would have agreed with you.

Lol, you mind person.

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henryangelo:
Now I can see you are talking out of pity,sentiment and sympathy.well Feb 14 I hope you will be proud to tell me that Buhari failed again

Pity, sentiment and sympathy is what Jonathan is looking for, running from pillar to post having been rejected even by bigwigs in his party of whom obasanjo and Ibb are just some. He has brought division to his party and the nation, and now is looking for every means to delay the election. But then again, I'm talking to a brick wall... Until February 14th. #done

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Zedric:
1) a needle has no mouth, 1st failure
2) work means to use energy and u use energy to eat but u don't know that
3) If the exact amount can be known then that ll happen. How do u recover smth u don't even no the value?
4) There was a man (albeit a female that underwent surgery) that was pregnant. Google World' 1st pregnant man.


But u don't know all these because u are busy with ur propaganda against God' own GMB. Ur mates dey read, u dey find attention up and down.


GMB, sai Buhari

Classy

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henryangelo:
Don't just shout change because you saw people who sold their vote for pie nut saying change, try and investigate the type of change you hear,as for me I found out is a negative change and I advice you carry out your research.TRANSFORMATION IS THE KEY

Oga, I joined the Alliance for Democracy in 1999 and have continued through ACN to APC. I am not a casual observer of politics like many. What I clearly understand is that in every way, the pdp has led Nigeria, step by ridiculous step, to the edge of the precipice. Have you even read Buhari’s first 100 days plan? What are the ideas the pdp is marketing? Must we all die of old age waiting for Jonathan to take his job seriously?
The APC is qualitatively superior to the pdp in ever way. Nigerians have not only had enough of Jonathan, they also appreciate that it will not be business as usual under an APC government. You are the one who is obviously out of sync, but come February 14th, that matter will be decided.

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That Jonathan has taken so long to understand the seriousness of the boko haram issue beggars belief. Okupe was proud to say they 'only' occupy 20,000 square miles of our territory? Now with an election coming, they are muttering about a final offensive against boko haram. Who are they fooling? Certainly not me. Too little, too late... As always with Jonathan.

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double0seven:
The poster of this thread is stup.id he-goat. where in the article did the Northern Youth Forum threatened to kill the president. All they said is that he will lose Northern votes. The OP should change the thread topic or the moderators should delete this thread.

You know he has an agenda, to stoke prejudice against the north, even though their Jonathan needs votes there. Like with Fayoses advert, the APC will benefit from all this foolishness.

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Fayose, well done, ko!

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Keep on posting this thrash. Now that many in the north are seeing that not only do you intend to denigrate GMB, but insult all of them too, don't be surprised when the vast majority vote for the opposition. Adamawa has a majority christian population, kaduna has a large christian community as do many other states, but you choose to issue blanket insults. You are really showing the quality of Jonathan supporters, and the benefit is all for the APC. Well done!

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A commendable opinion, but I will suggest this.
Post World War2, the USA was occupying Japan and was instrumental in the new direction Japan took. The USA was also concerned with the recovery of Europe hence the Marshall plan. It wasn't a simple idea to make money, but to build healthy non-military economies that would be interrelated and bound together by commercial and security interests, without being aggressive militarily. There was actually a development plan put in place for Japan, but in the case of South Korea, it was a post war military leader that set in motion the development we see today.
Nigeria can never develop if we never learn how to make things we need or others need. No nation has skipped that stage of development. Importing, buying and selling does very little to develop the huge supply of human capital that we have. Nothing absorbs labour like manufacturing. It is the lust for money without real labour that has brought our society to this sad state. Why fix the refineries if you can just import, very depressing state of affairs. We need better leadership that can deliver on the necessary infrastructure that will lower manufacturing costs (electricity, freight trains and routes for distribution, decent roads, stable policies, eradication of multiple taxation, justice system reforms so that contracts can be clarified in a timely manner etc) so that we may become the manufacturing hub for Africa at least. Chinese goods are a trojan horse that will destroy our capacity if we continue down that road. Already the textiles industry is comatose after hundreds of thousands of workers were laid off. We need a new direction.

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OP, just adding remainder of the article::

There is much at stake in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, even as it falters — the currency has dropped sharply, questions are swirling about the ability to pay civil servants and the country’s oil-money reserves have withered. The campaign has become a vociferous, at times violent, joust between Buhari partisans in the mostly Muslim north and supporters of Mr. Jonathan in the largely Christian south.

Mr. Buhari’s tenure as Nigeria’s military ruler was brief: a 20-month stint in the 1980s, ended by another military coup. Yet it is remembered with trepidation by many Nigerians.

His self-proclaimed “war against indiscipline” was carried to “sadistic levels, glorying in the humiliation of a people,” wrote the Nobel laureate and writer Wole Soyinka. Mr. Buhari forced tardy civil servants, even older ones, to perform frog jumps, jailed journalists for critical articles, and expelled tens of thousands of immigrants from other West African countries, blaming them for the country’s problems.

The current president and his party, which has held power since military rule ended more than 15 years ago, have made this past a central part of Mr. Jonathan’s re-election strategy, hoping to fan old fears about the general.

Full-page newspaper ads suggest that Mr. Buhari is eager to introduce Shariah law all over the country, beyond the northern states where it already exists (in the campaign, Mr. Buhari has not said that).

Other ads remind readers of the retired general’s coup-prone past. (Historians say that even before Mr. Buhari came to power in a military coup at the end of 1983, he played an active role in the coups that marked Nigeria’s early years.)

But Mr. Buhari’s supporters are far more interested in the instability shaking the north, urging a total overhaul of the lackluster fight against the Islamists. Many of them turned out in this northern metropolis this week for a glimpse of the general, who has traded his medal-bedecked uniform for traditional robes and thick-framed spectacles.

Hadiza Bala Usman, the main campaigner for the return of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram last spring, was waiting for the general at the airport here. She helped start the group that pressed the government on the girls’ fate, demonstrating for weeks in a public square in Abuja. Nine months after their abduction, the girls remain missing.

“The resources meant for the military don’t go to the military; the bullets and boots don’t go to the soldiers,” Ms. Usman said. “And what is happening to security, you see it in all the sectors.”

“The support we’re giving” to Mr. Buhari “is for ending the insurgency,” she added. “And so no more children are abducted.”

A retired general in the crowd of supporters, Alhassan Usman, who is not related to Ms. Usman, agreed, expressing anger that Boko Haram had gained the upper hand over Nigeria’s soldiers.

“The issue is lack of discipline; the commander has eaten his money,” he said, arguing that officers take money meant for soldiers, who then see little reason to obey orders.

Mr. Buhari stood as ramrod straight as he had in the days when he rose in a coup against Nigeria’s fledgling, but corrupt, democracy. After taking power, he soon instituted what he called his attempt to straighten out a chaotic nation.

That tarnished past has been, if not forgotten, at least pushed aside by many in the tumultuous jumble of Nigerian history. Mr. Buhari is expected to do particularly well in the Muslim north, his home turf, on Election Day, as he did in an unsuccessful run four years ago.

Still, his campaign faces stiff obstacles. Tens of thousands of people in northern Nigeria have been displaced by relentless violence, and many of them will be unable to vote in the Feb. 14 election. Even if they can, Nigerian elections are prone to violence and fraud.

This week, the streets of Kaduna were packed three-deep with people, many waiting since early morning or trekking miles from nearby villages to see him. Partisans yelled as they climbed on the general’s vehicles, frenetically brushing windshields with the symbolic brooms.

Mr. Buhari spoke only briefly to the packed stands in a downtown stadium, vaguely promising greater security, prosperity and better education. But the words appeared not to be the point. It was his presence, and an implicit promise of austerity and military action, that the crowd seemed to want, after years of scandalous stories in the Nigerian news media about missing oil funds and high living by officials in Mr. Jonathan’s administration.

“The enthusiasm for Buhari is almost like a religion,” said Nasir el-Rufai, a former government minister running for governor of Kaduna State.

“Look at all these people,” he said, pointing at the crowds pressing up against his own car before the general arrived. “They are all waiting just to see Buhari.”

As military ruler, Mr. Buhari showed little respect for the democratic process, rising to power in a coup that swept aside a civilian government and promising to include the political participation of Nigerian citizens “at some point.”

His government also carried out a bizarre kidnapping plot targeting a former minister who had fled to London. It involved Israeli secret agents, giant packing crates and anesthetic drugs.

In an interview, Mr. Buhari said that the times had changed and that he had changed with them.

“I operated as a military head of state,” he said. “Now I want to operate as a partisan politician in a multiparty setup. It’s a fundamental difference. Whatever law is on the ground, I will make sure it is respected.”

Yet it is Mr. Buhari’s long military career, not the respect for civil liberties he has proclaimed later in life, that will ultimately swing voters wary of his past, analysts say.

“You’ve got the Boko Haram in the northeast, where they bomb churches and marketplaces, and slaughter children,” Mr. Buhari said.

But he also noted the security problems in the nation’s south, where militants at oil fields have created havoc for years. “No highway in the country is absolutely safe,” he said.

Though supporters insist he will knock out the Islamists “in a month,” as Mr. el-Rufai put it, the retired general is far more cautious. He spoke of a methodical approach, declining to say whether he would fire the country’s top military chiefs.

“We have to see the whole picture,” Mr. Buhari said. “We’ll ask them to brief us, one by one. Why haven’t they been performing?”

“Let them justify the use of funds,” he said. “What is the intelligence community doing?”

Referring to Boko Haram, he added, “Where do they get weapons?”

He focused on the individual failures in confronting Boko Haram — the misspent money, the lack of weaponry for the soldiers, their lack of motivation for the fight — rather than on an overall condemnation of the army.

His jaw muscles tightening, he said, “This is not the Nigerian Army I knew.”

Skillz02:
What is d essence of building schools & allow d students to sit @ home for up to a year ASUU,ASUP,COESU strike still fresh in my mind

#i have decide

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#GMB is my choice

Perhaps it might be better for people to boast about the quality of teaching, and the resulting pass rate at NECO /JAMB?

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