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saaedlee:
If you don't provide the accurate details of when, where(time and place GMB made this statement) then you're just another clueless fellow!


I believe you have forgotten what was the major cause of the 2000 killings in Kaduna? Why attribute it to GMB. Who was in Power when the Sharia Law was passed? A Christian or Muslim?



Look @ the Insult CAN has as a President, you didn't quote Mark 12:17 for him, Just cuz a Man of God decided to make CHANGE you have decided to castigate him

Don't mind them. At every point we will challenge them to substantiate their allegations, which they know to be baseless and wholly false. We are not deceived. The president must be president to ALL Nigerians, not just the Ijaw militants and a coterie of looters. Nigeria will reject Jonathan and all he stands for,and we will not regret it for one second. Where is the issue based campaign the pdp insisted on? #shame

#change
#GMB
#APC

This is why all Nigerians need to be educated about their rights under the constitution. No Christian can be made to submit to Islamic law, against his will. They should simply have taken the matter to court. Know your rights and fight for them. Even the president lacks the authority to make anyone submit to Islamic law or otherwise. When Buhari sued Reuben Abati for libel, did the president not beg Buhari to settle out of court? Luckily for him, Buhari ever the gentleman, agreed and an appropriate apology was published in the Guardian. Sharia is for muslims alone (not obligatory even) and Christians should protect their rights in court.

oduastates:
First of all, the Niger delta is not only Ijaw. Secondly the amnesty program has been an all Ijaw affair. They can only disrupt the oil industry. The SS elites are too corrupt to wage or win a prolonged war. Fourthly, any attack of on the yoruba homeland under a war situation, will be lead to a state of total war.Do not forget that there are 5 coastal tribes within the yoruba family and numerous inland river tribes (Niger, ose,osun etc).
Can any omoluabi remember how they were trying to create a religious crisis out of osun state schoolconsolidation program. Tunde kelani had to release a play to put people on alert.
For every ethnic nation, there are good and there are bad people. Obasanjo seems to have a knack for finding the bad ones.
If any group wants to leave Nigeria, go about it through peaceful agitation and diplomacy. The UN is there for that. But do not try to set the other man's house on fire just because you want to leave via the back door.

I just wonder if our president is part of a plan to destabilise the nation because the gunboats, the fact that pipelines are monitored by a former militant, NIMASA is in Ijaw hands, the training of militants as pilots and divers... The article made me stop and think.

Can Jonathan be ethnic warlord and president at the same time? Is he actually serving the interests of Nigeria?

http://www.punchng.com/columnists/tunde-fagbenle-saying-it-the-way-it-is/nigeria-dancing-on-the-precipice/

Nigeria: Dancing on the precipice
December 28, 2014 by Tunde Fagbenle

No, it won’t be the first time Nigeria would be dancing on the precipice, far from it. In fact it could be said that the precipice has been home to Nigeria since the forced amalgamation of 1914. But, somehow, Nigeria each time manages to waltz off unto the flatter plateau of make-believe amity and progress.

The elections of 2015 forebode ill for the country given the forces in contention.

On the one hand is President Jonathan who has been unanimously affirmed as the torch-bearer of the ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party, the “largest party in Africa.” There is no precedent in Nigeria for a sitting president to lose a re-election, willy-nilly. Although the Independent National Electoral Commission under Professor Attahiru Jega, and with President Jonathan in power, has improved on the poor history of election conduct and results at the governorship level, there is also no precedent for the Presidential election to be free and fair, regardless of any pretentions to the contrary. And with the enormous power wielded by a Nigerian president over the police, security, and armed forces, it would take a saint of a president to allow himself to be “voted” out of power!

On the other hand is General Muhammadu Buhari who is making his fourth attempt at it, the popular candidate of the increasingly strong opposition party, All Progressives Congress. Perhaps at no time in our democratic history has an opposition party been as formidable as the APC is now.

Going by the present apparent tendencies of the geopolitical zones it appears as if the APC has equal, if not larger, zonal (and registered voters) share. Conventional wisdom indicates that PDP or Jonathan is in full control (at least 85%) of the South-East and South-South, zones with a combined 23.6% of the country’s voters. Conversely, APC or Buhari is similarly assured of at least 85% of North-West, and probable 70% of South-West, both zones having 47% of the country’s total voters’ density (VD). North Central, with 15% of the country’s VD, is deemed to be 50-50 for the parties or 60/40 at best in favour of PDP. The North-East, with a VD of 14.9% is problematic because of Boko Haram, with the probability of elections not holding in many parts of it, or at least in those parts still under control of Boko Haram.

With the Niger Delta amassing arms and gunboats, insisting their man MUST have his second term, and with Boko Haram in the North and the history of what happened in 2011 when Buhari was said to have lost the elections fresh in our minds (may the souls of the innocent NYSC youths and thousands of others rest in peace), it takes no soothsayer to anticipate the probability of war, either way.

To back these fears of mine on the danger ahead for the country was an email received a couple of days ago from a good aburo and friend of mine, Akintayo, son of First Republic minister, Akin-Deko, with the subject: GUNBOATS. Akintayo was forwarding what he received from someone who would remain anonymous. It states:

“I was in conversation with a United Nations official yesterday and we were talking about the acquisition of warships by ethnic militant Tompolo, in a country were our brave soldiers are being starved off equipment. He told me point-blank that in every major conflict he has assessed or been involved in as a UN official it all started with one fellow choosing to arm an ethnic militia as against the national army of the country, sometimes deliberately depleting the army before the violence starts.

“I first got reports of Niger Delta militant Asari Dokubo buying military helicopters and hardware from diplomatic intelligence sources about two years ago. Shortly after that he was arrested in Benin Republic but released upon the intervention of our government. What I can see is very clear, Jonathan is leading an effort to create an alternate military force in the Niger Delta to force the hands of the generality of Nigerians when the time comes. How else can one explain Tompolo a man once declared wanted for killing our soldiers now effectively taking over the duties of our navy?

“Where is all the money coming from? Do you think the arms are being bought for boat parade or regatta? No they are to kill Nigerians. Jonathan has never been able to rise to fill the position of the NIGERIAN Presidency, he acts like an ethnic warlord and at the rate he is going, he is going to push us into the path of Liberia and Sierra Leone, while silly people are busy cheering him on.

“I have taken it upon myself to write a letter of complaint and warning to the United Nations Secretary General to pay attention to what Jonathan and his cohorts are doing in Nigeria, seemingly pushing the country closer to a violent ethnic crisis. This crisis would consume the entire African continent if not checked.

“This morning I received this in my inbox, and I couldn’t help but shudder that we are dealing with really devious human beings who have mistakenly found themselves in power. Their attitude and body language say it all:

“I’m really amused that we are all screaming murder years after the deed was done? It’s well over three years that I have been screaming the overall plans and strategies of the South-South versus the behemoth Nigeria, i.e, their eventual emancipation! For the sake of many who have not read or few who have taken these posts as scare mongering by Oyenuga Lanre Paul, I’ll re-summarise them here:

“To free their region of the shackles of endless exploitation and domination by the rest of Nigeria, the South-South decided as follows: 1). Cripple the Nigerian Army’s capacities to engage in sustained warfare: thus the encouragement of BH (Boko Haram) and decimation of the army’s hardware and personnel. 2). Ensure Nigeria is economically destitute and unable to spend on warfare: thus the unprecedented looting of the treasury, resulting in our current vulnerability. Okonjo-Iweala is not ‘coordinating’ for nothing. 3). Is the military takeover of our coastal waters by the South-South, which is what the coastal waterways protection contract with Government Tompolo was designed to guarantee.

“Let no one be deceived, less than 0.5% of our military, (including naval and air force) personnel can swim in an 8 foot deep pool, not to mention a river or coastal waters. Thus, how do you engage this toughened militia in their coastal waters, when we couldn’t tackle BH in plain view? 4). Is the intense frustrations of the oil producing companies by the South-southerners nouveau-riche to hand over the onshore production bases to them by forced sale or outright disruption of their operations. As we chat here, 70% of the onshore operations have been sold off by the major players like shell, Mobil, etc.

“As well as the training of ex-militants as pilots under amnesty. The South-East are tagging along with the South-South, for obvious reasons and I don’t blame them!

“The choice of Buhari is due to these calculations by our rulers in the South-West and the core North. Unless I’m paranoid, we have a scary situation ahead. I moved my family out as far back as 2011, based on these concerns. GEJ will very likely lose the elections in 2015, but the South-South will keep their oil. Can we afford a war with a region sitting on oil? Do we have a military capable of delivering our goal? Would it not be cheaper to renegotiate our federation? Or, would it be another Rehoboamic declaration of “To your tents o Israel”? GEJ ain’t clueless, he’s merely troubled by the plots he’s a key player in. Viva Le Nigeria!’”

Signed off: “Ajagzy Okunrin Ogun.”

Perhaps, no time compares with this in magnitude of imminence and inevitability of ruinous conflagration. It is as if the country, or its leaders, are wilfully playing to the script of the long-foretold probability of dissolution of the country by 2015. Those who want to remain cocooned in self-deceit or denial may call it unnecessary “wolf-crying,” but wiser folks would take heed and work towards averting the impending calamity. As the Yoruba saying goes: Ogun awitele ki p’aro to gbon. Meaning: A wise cripple does not fall casualty in a war foretold.

And that’s saying it the way it is!

Jonathan is so dull that in spite of studying zoology, I would trust him with anything more than an animals carcass. Buhari stands head and shoulders above him when it comes to integrity, character and performance in office. Till tomorrow Otuoke looks like a backwater slum despite the billions the first couple have looted. He uses azikiwe to fool igbos, Ebelema has tactically become Ebele. Criminals in power, but only for a short while.

#change
#GMB
#APC

Tundeiab:
80 percent of those followers are "Abokis" who doesn't even anything about twitting.

Thankfully they know little about twits tweeting.

Oga pls, simple advise, when telling lies, make them short and sweet. This your thesis dull pass...

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Mama p, Ole, mama p, ole
Just imagine they could have been in jail and not aso rock! #missedopportunities

Pataki:
Wtf is "western certificate"? Too many human beings on this forum competing with goats.

Lol, perhaps he means visa? Idk

beopened:
Oh i see......Your Western certificate is really doing wonders

Pls dont feed the animals! [standard zoo sign]

iluvnaija:
When MEND claim responsibility GEJ said "it's not MEND" does that ring a bell?

I was disgusted! Truly. Why the haste, and why the need to comment at all? His stupidity is beyond compare, and he just brings no dignity to the position of President. The end is nigh.

#change
#GMB
#APC

How much did the ticket cost? APGA fundraiser no ni

kestolove95:
guy even mi knw sae. d guy don fucck up..dats y I dey beg. for am na...abg make una no vex..d guy don promise to dey drink ogogoro,dats sign of change...aswr d. guy fix evritin wey him spoil..if. him no do am...make una hold me responsibl..

U sef, na synagogue we go carry u go. Please hold 150k for special prayers

I won't comment on the central allegation but it is disgraceful to imagine our president is in contact with this type of character. Totally infra dig.

kestolove95:
ok..gej has bleeped up...bt let's pls gv him anoda chance to repair what he has spoiled...if God can forgv us..y can't. we forgv ourselfz

You really must not like your life. 6yrs to mess up is enough. Jeez, are you serious, does good governance mean nothing to you?

GMB makes me proud and hopeful for Nigeria.

Buhari o!

Our Chibok girls are still missing, and nothing seems to be happening to free them.

#change

simplemach:
pls who understands this?

For accuracies sake, this is from the book of Daniel chapter 5;

25 “This is the inscription that was written:

mene, mene, tekel, parsin

26 “Here is what these words mean:

Mene[e]: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

27 Tekel[f]: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

28 Peres[g]: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Jesus on the cross uttered these words...
Mark 15:34
And at the ninth hour, Jesus shouted in a loud voice, "Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

‘Nigeria’s Electricity Consumption Per Capita Lowest in Africa’ August 20, 2014

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/-nigeria-s-electricity-consumption-per-capita-lowest-in-africa-/186796/

Nigeria's electricity consumption per capital has been adjudged to be the lowest in Africa, according to a report by Agusto & Co. The country's electricity consumption per capita, measured by the World Bank at 149 KWH, is low due to self generation by most of the citizenry which is often not captured.

"Typically, Nigerians resort to self-generation of electricity; about 81 per cent of the national population (or 130 million Nigerians) generate electricity through alternative sources to compensate for irregular power supply, said Executive Director, Agusto & Co., Yinka Adelekan in an exclusive Interview with THISDAY, while commenting on the report.

She also said that with an estimated annual economic growth of between seven per cent and 13 per cent, as well as urbanisation rate of 3.8 per cent, Nigeria's electricity demand is projected to grow from 15,730 mega watts (MW) in 2914 to 41,133 MW and 88,282MW by year ends 2015 and 2020 respectively.

Adelekan added that vast opportunities exist in the power sector for intending investors, given the wide supply-demand gap and the country’s huge population.

She disclosed that as at March 2014, electricity supply from the national grid stood at 4,306MW, far below the estimated demand of 12,800MW.

This, Adelekan added, implies that currently Nigeria is only generating about 34 per cent of the country’s requirements, and this provides an enormous potential for new and existing players in the Industry.

She stated that the demand for electricity in Nigeria has been upheld by strong economic growth and increasing urbanisation.

“Nigeria’s electricity generation capacity has fluctuated between 3,500MW and 4,400MW over the last two years, due in part to shortage of gas supply (a significant number of gas pipelines were vandalized across the country, which disrupted gas supply to power plants).

Other factors contributing to the country’s low electricity generation output is the deplorable condition of some of the PHCN successor generation and distribution companies, as well as high transmission/distribution losses and shortfalls in gas supply.

“Nigeria’s power generation capacity is markedly low compared to the estimated demand of 12,800MW. Access to electricity is equally low in the country, as only 40 per cent of the population have access to electricity, compared to the world average of 80 per cent," she said.

Agusto & Co puts the estimate turnover of the Industry at over ₦380 billion, representing approximately 0.5 per cent of Nigeria’s rebased GDP of ₦80 trillion.

“The Industry employs about 50,000 workers, majority of which are on the payroll of the PHCN successor companies. Profitability varies from one segment of the Industry to another, with grid-connected generation remaining the most profitable.

This is mainly due to the economies of scale derived by grid connected independent power producers (IPPs) and the PHCN successor generation companies (gencos). Typically, when plants are operating at optimal capacity, grid generation plants record operating profit margins in the region of 15 per cent to 20 per cent (due to economies of scale advantage)," she added.

Collynzo9:
2 facts in the article:
Our police are always powerless in serious situations and rely on soldiers intervention heavily.
Northerners resort to violence too quickly.

Obviously you have never lived in Warri or PH. Your second point reeks of prejudice. Check out reports of NURTW election crises in lagos and Ibadan.

Silly child

So now he is 'pleading' with Nigerians? Now that elections are close he is discovering humility? Let me just be kind enough to say that even he knows he would not be as woeful a President as Jonathan. 4yrs they have all had to build public confidence in them, so please no tears before judgment day. The evidence is in, and the people will deliver their verdict shortly.

#change

https://m.facebook.com/notes/dr-tunde-bakare-apostle-of-jesus-christ-by-the-will-of-god/the-sins-of-buhari-by-professor-tam-david-west/202366893131188

There are many testimonials as to the character of Buhari. He remembered the honesty and dedication of Dora Akunyili and recommended her to head NAFDAC. His modesty, lack of avarice, and his belief that Nigerians can tackle their problems is evident in his record. A corper I know spent a year in his residence and remains full of praise for the attention he gave him as a yoruba boy. The president has to set a moral tone for his government and party, and the nation, and in all that, there is an abundance of evidence to suggest that Jonathan has failed.

Incompetent

This same Kwankwaso, ko? Lolz #fail

While speaking at the fundraising dinner, Mr. Kwankwaso lampooned the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan for failing to rise up to the challenge of protecting the lives and property of Nigerians.

“I always feel bad that we can no longer protect ourselves as a country. But this is a country where its military performed creditably by protecting people from other African countries and helping a country come out of a repressive apartheid regime,” he said.

“As we are sitting here, thousands of Nigerians are refugees in Chad and Niger. We have over five million internally displaced persons in the North-east. This is a very sad development because many people do not think the North-east is still a part of this country.”

Mr. Kwankwaso noted that securing the lives and property of the citizenry is one of the cardinal functions of government all over the world, adding that “any government that fails in this sacred responsibility has no business being in power.”

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/172623-kwankwaso-attacks-jonathan-says-president-incompetent-commander-chief.html

Jonathan will and should not step down. What we need to see in a free election is the massive defeat of a corrupt pdp and the clueless leader with the abrasive wife. We need to demonstrate our rejection of incompetence, indolence and avarice. A sweeping victory for the APC under Buhari will teach the political system a deserved lesson.

Marching to a historic victory!

#change
#GMB
#APC

Gbawe:
I agree with this point as well. Cowardice and greed combined to undermine the PDP. GEJ induced and bullied his way to gaining a ticket his abject performance would have automatically disqualified him from seeking in a sane Party that is about the progress of a nation above everything else. GEJ running as the PDP candidate is very good for the APC because it means the PDP has nothing at all to sell GEJ on and must now rely on spreading negative propaganda and 'money politics'. SAdly for GEJ and the Pdp, Nigerians are in no mood for these antics.

After the election they will be the first to pounce on him. Getting them addicted to easy access to the treasury and then losing the office that holds the key. I pray for saner leadership, not this avaricious mob, where billionaire militants feel free to threaten and kill as they please and bh claims 20,000 square miles of Nigerian territory. Even a fool must recognise that pdp has better materials than Jonathan but our tradition of 'worshipping' people who attain a certain office, has caused them to muzzle the truth, while hoping for the best. I truly await the presidential debates, but I am not sure he would like that to happen, with his tendency of putting foot in mouth.

#change
#GMB
#APC

Whatever they bring, take, eat, but come February 14th, they will see their reward.

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#GMB
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