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These APC people won't let the president rest. Is refinery his responsibility? Should he carry spanner to go and fix them, when all night he is using torchlight to search for our Chibok girls? And dont go blaming dizzyannie because they are relations. He is trying, but it is boko haram that has vandalised the refineries. His enemies are disturbing him so he cannot work.
Excuses
Excuses
Excuses

Coming soon #change

Pity ffk. He has EFCC fraud case currently (same as ubah director of tan, facing subsidy fraud trial) so he has to try to negotiate to save his neck.

God forbid that Aribisala is an APC supporter even. Let him go and battle ffk for a share of the 21bn campaign fund. At least he is not facing fraud charges in court like ffk.

#change

laykhorn:
And GEJ just appointed him the Director of Publicity and Social Media or whatever that is?
Is Aribisala now on the APC ship? Jonathan's house is on fire

kenonze:
one voice?
I doubt .

my take is that the igbos should not vote anyone comes this general election.there should concentrate im electing governors, senators and reps members with good intent of developing the east.
there are not gonna get any meaningful thing from either GEJ or GMB even though GMB may effect a better atmosphere in Nig as a whole than GEJ.
my point may sound crazy and usuless but that's just the truth.

all these senseless politicians dey taya me sef.
igbos shouldnt be angry that GEJ has done nothing in their region.
here in ogbia bayelsa state ...GEJ own LGA has no light since february 2014. call anyone and ask, no access road, everyone here is struggling yet the first oil well in Nig is located in this Ogbia (Oloibiri)

Damm! So they chased out Sylva and brought Dickson to do what exactly?

Jonathan is fighting corruption abi?
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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday adjourned till November 11 the trial of ex-Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, on charges of money laundering.

Mr. Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, is being tried for an amended 40-count charge on money laundering by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The suit which was earlier fixed for the hearing of addresses of counsel, on Tuesday suffered another adjournment.

No reason was, however, given for the adjournment.

The court’s registrars only informed parties that the suit had been scheduled for a further date.

The EFCC opened its case on March 10.

It called six witnesses including Investigating Police Officers, bank legal officer, relationship officer and a former aide to Mr. Fani-Kayode.

All witnesses had given testimonies as to their relationship with the accused as well as the manner of investigations conducted on him.

The EFCC closed its case on July 10, while counsel to the accused, Wale Akoni, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, informed the court of his intention to file an application for a no-case submission on behalf of the accused.

The judge had adjourned the case to take addresses from counsel.

Mr. Fani-Kayode was first arraigned sometime in December 2008 before Justice Ramat Mohammed on a 47-count charge.

He pleaded not guilty to the charge and Justice Mohammed granted him bail in the sum of N200 million with two sureties in like sum.

He was re-arraigned before Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako following the transfer of Mohammed from the Lagos Division.

The accused was again re-arraigned before Justice Ajumogobia on February 11, 2013 after the transfer of Ms. Murtala-Nyako.

On March 6, he was re-arraigned before Mr. Ajumogobia following the amendment of the 47-count charge to 40-count with the EFCC dropping seven of the counts.

Mr. Ajumogobia is the third judge to handle the case in the last five years.

In the charge, the accused was to have carried out transactions with funds exceeding N500, 000 without going through a financial institution.

The accused was also alleged to have accepted cash payments to the tune of N100 million, while he held sway as Minister of Aviation and Minister of Culture and Tourism respectively.

The offences contravened the provisions of Sections 15(1), (a), (b), (c), (d) and 15 (2) (a), (b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2004.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/170254-court-adjourns-trial-of-fani-kayode.html

A laudable project indeed.

#change

tonychristopher:
But What We Are Talking About I His Manifestled Manifesto Not That If PettyPart y

Abeg, I truly don't understand this

foxxynik:
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Yes sirree...
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The essence of a manifesto was to put a detail of his goals and objectives....in few sentences..he could've explained how he'd tackle insurgency...
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Let me ask you...
If I come to ur house and tell you that I can eliminate poverty from ur family forever...won't you expect me to explain how i'll go about it? Will you just give me a go-ahead...without a clue?

This is so dumb. The APC manifesto is out there if you care to look it up. They tried to keep it brief because Nigerians are notorious for not liking to read. Publish a military plan in a manifesto? Smdh. Does he know the state of the army Jonathan is leaving behind?
And yes Nigerians, if you come to their door like that the first response will be a loud shout of amen. Don't you even know your own people? P/s there is no Buhari manifesto, the primaries are over. That document was to sell himself to the party delegates. Now he is obliged to take on the APC manifesto, and rightfully so, if you understand anything about party politics. Buhari does not own the party but he is a leading light and inspiration to most of it. That is why we are here giving our time and energy, and sometimes money too.

#change

bossmini84:
APC making promises on social programs and want which primarly would be funded by money gotten from the SS and u want to kick their man out of office. Coming from a yourba man. How does buhari plans to find alternative income for nigeria. How does he plan to stabilize oil prices. I see nigeria splitting up. If a buhari becomes president. Imagine with these low oil price the boys gets back to the creek. Even lai mohammed said to slove the problem of insurgency you must attack it from the grass root. That's why jonathan has not been able to make a head way. The northerners have not given him the chance. Same would happen if a buhari is president. Anybody mingling with a northerner would be seen as an outcast. Yardua succeded because jonathan was their own and there was money to spend. Now no money how to spend how would you appease the boys. Imagine the oil blocks been sold and the owners are now northerners and yorubas. These APC cohorts are deciving demslves. If the north is smart they shold wait for jonathan to finish his term. The nigeria two party system is not split into ideologies, but rteligous and ethich sentiments. Anyhow u look at it its a time bomb. I for one prefer nigeria splits than a buhari to be larded ova me. As soyinka puts it the buhari leadership was carried out as if the people of nigeria has no volition of their own. I can only judge buhari by his past because he has not shown me his future and dat past was dark. And dat includes his recent past.

Translation required!

Eziachi:
Buhari manifesto or APC manifesto? Junk journalism.

Apparently some people find it hard to understand that a candidate for primaries can have his manifesto, but it can never be superior to the manifesto of the party. Since Buhari won the primaries, his manifesto has been replaced by that of his party APC. The APC manifesto was produced after tough discussions involving leaders from all parts of the country, and it may have similarities with Buhari manifesto, but the party is supreme in this matter. Has the writer even seen the APC manifesto? Lazy lazy lazy journalism

PassingShot:
He will soon be welcomed back in the same PDP

Like a dog returning to its vomit...

raumdeuter:
This has actually had a negative effect and the level of hatred towards Jonathan as a result of these character assassination is unprecedented

Its when a President who has spent 6yrs on the throne has nothing to campaign on that he resorts to these tactics

Then they wonder why drivers are unwilling to take their pdp vehicles to Kano from kaduna. This aspect of the campaign has been extremely distasteful, and there will be a price to pay.

sufido123:
It is Buhari that scares the hell out of others with his calls for sharia. Tinubu has not helped matters by making sure that even in the liberal Yoruba enclave, the Muslim hold sway and are mostly in charge of Yorubaland.

Do not blame the messenger blame the message. That Apc flirted with Muslim/Muslim ticket did not even help matters.

You divisiveness is unworthy. For all the Muslim governors in the West do Christians feel threatened or bothered? Tinubus wife is a Christian, Fasholas wife is a Christian and he even drops her and the children at church. Nigerians are better than you think. As I live in lagos it is the best place for me and work. At least 40%of the West is Muslim. What is the problem, when we all live in peace and intermarry as we wish?

stebell:
Now I see yu were left in the gutter to rot when someone picked yu up.
Get behind me yu son of the devil.

Lol, do I lie? I think not.

Tibins:
Your father and GMB are the idiots. Shame on you. Unfortunately the man you are bringing is not the change Nigeria needs.
If a young man, well schooled like Osinbajo, Fashola, El-Rufai, Shema, etc irrespective of their religious inclination, I can support that change you are talking about..... But Buhari, No No No...! He's definitely not the change Nigeria needs now, not for ever. I am a Northerner, Never will I vote for GMB. Let good luck continue instead. I also desire change, but definitely not GMB.
Unfortunately again, The constitution of did not give any significant power to the VP. so I cannot because of Osinbajo VP position cast my precious vote to GMB, NEVER.

A solid f-u to start the year with, to u. Vote as you wish, but please save your rage for the psych ward. I guess asking the president to deal firmly with boko haram and find the Chibok girls and all others kidnapped, really offends you? #fail

agabaI23:
Happy new year sir. Talking about issues based campaign, tell me where APC has campaigned with issues and not about cursing GEJ and PDP? I'm waiting. Let's talk

Let's say I'm not excited at the fact that some APC energy is being dissipated on responding to pdp comments. Even here... Now the pdp has a history of its candidate in government and no doubt a manifesto. The APC has its candidates and it's proposals for when in government. That we can talk about.

WhiteTechnology:
Have your State and LGA received salaries for the months of Oct Nov Dec

Don't worry

From March expect no salaries when we stop oil flow

Jokers!

This idjiot should first crack down on Boko Haram. Not all government action has to be dictated by his personal interest. Bring back our girls

TheDEVlLHimseIf:
Even i the devil knows that Buhari is a confirmed terrorist

And Gej is clean


Remember am an immortal

Father of lies, and you expect to be believed? Ooook

Please it is not 'am' but I am, or I'm ... Help your country

Will there be electricity. Even now new year has started on generator.

ps, I will accept 19bn for my vote, he must be really desperate by now. Lolz

#change

Na wa o, so the man go school, graduate sef? Pdp sabi lie o.

#change

TheDEVlLHimseIf:
BUHARI and his supporters are terrorist
Apc is BOKOHARAM
Tinubu is a bastard
Osinbajo is a vagabond


Gej till 2019

The irony of it. Gej marketed by thedevilhimself. You don't understand how bad and yet appropriate your mess is.

As soon as I saw what the fool had to say about tb Joshua I stopped. There is a reason why the pfn will not accept Joshua, and I'm behind them totally. How much did jesus charge for prayers, and did he fake miracles weekly? Now he does not want to appear before the coroners court after over 50 people died in his church premises.

People should marshal logic in their arguments. If gej has been such a great president, why are so many in every corner eager to see him out? What impact has he had on security, education, transport, employment etc. Even his supporters are hardly challenging the APC on the basis of what is in their manifesto, and they have produced no credible evidence to back their allegations against GMB only hoping that if they throw enough mud, something will stick. The issue based campaign the pdp insisted on has drowned in their flood of black propaganda. I am not interested in religion or ethnicity because neither pays my rent or feeds me. I want to see a Nigeria that is heading in a positive direction, and for all his mildness, Jonathan appears overwhelmed by his responsibilities.

yibomustgo:
Yeebos are the one causing all these problems. Yeebos are the ones creating enemies for Jonathan. It is as simple as that.

Fani Kayode is not. There are many people disturbing the peace of Nigeria instead of promoting the supposed good deeds of their candidate. And they are in every tribe, the small minded bigots.

Generator here also. Na wa o

[b][size=18pt]His Royal Highness

Oduduwa Ade. Ade. Ade. Ade AdeMusiwa

House of Oduduwa
Emperor of Independent country of the Kingdom of Western Nigeria ( by International law).



I am already the emperor of the country of western Nigeria.

You can see that professor osibanjo is an illiterate professor.

When countries goes into trade treaty. I mean western Nigeria and Nigeria. There will be two leaders. Jonathan good luck and emperor oduduwa ade ade ade ademusiwa.

It is a trade treaty, international law does not want anybody in western Nigeria to pay taxes to Nigeria. So call your family and tell them. Not to pay taxes to nigeria. Osibanjo and his father in law because they want to make money in Nigeria want you to pay taxes. Ako tileta ni osibanjo.

There is two leaders. And I am now the emperor of western nigeria

Why am I the emperor. Because of oduduwa .

Awolowo was not well educated, I will assume

Why am I the emperor. Because of oduduwa.

Awolowo was not well educated, I will assume.


Most countries have royal family. So my family been the royal family which I believe awolowo was jealous over. Awolowo was been just been stupid.

Lack of knowledge.

If you look at the security situation in Nigeria.

I have lived in the north. And I have seen the satellite picture. The north will never agree. So the need to go back to the correct procedure.


You see, don't think that I don't need money. I need money like everyone. But considering the security implication. I have to make a sacrifice for the military, police etc from western Nigeria and Nigeria to make a Royal demand since western Nigeria is not part of Nigeria to save the country from civil war.

You can go to Congo and Somali. And you see what war did.

By Jonathan respecting international law. I have save you people from civil war. Because the north will not agree with the satellite picture.

So basically the country of western Nigeria is like Britain. With me Emperor oduduwa ade ade ade ademusiwa


If you return all officers from Western Nigeria back to Western nigeria and move officers from Nigeria out of Western nigeria. The army officers inside Nigeria will not know, dont know that you have change the badges to read Western nigeria.

Idjiot. Wasting people's data with your ramblings!

People promoting ethnic or religious division are simply misguided and anti Nigeria.

One of the more thoughtful commentaries on the election campaign so far.

Nigeria’s presidential election is 46 days away. But one of the major tragedies facing the PDP candidate, incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan is that by their actions and overzealousness, many of his aides, friends and associates are doing a great disservice to him. Many of them still delude themselves that divisive utterances and manipulation of religion are going to serve as effective tools in 2015, as it did in 2011.

They do not seem to realise that Nigerians are now wiser, knowing very well that both Christians and Muslims bear the brunt of their leaders’ failings or incompetence. Muslims and Christians drive on the same bad Nigerian roads, buy from the same market, spend the same currency. There is no strong naira for Christians or weak one for Muslims.

Instead of presidential aides and associates of President Jonathan to market him as the leader that has made unprecedented strides in agriculture, or one that has enriched enrolment into basic schools from 23 million in 2010 to 29 million two years later, they are busy offending millions of northerners and Muslims and making them turn their backs on the President.

There are so many positives to market Jonathan with: In the first ever meeting I was privileged to have with the President in 2012, he felt offended when I told him, in response to a question he asked me, that I was an indigene of Kano State. He remarked that young men of my generation represent the best hope for this country, and that we should always look at ourselves first and foremost as Nigerians.

By invoking religion, trying desperately to paint General Muhammadu Buhari as a Muslim fundamentalist who is going to introduce Shari’a in all nooks and crannies of Nigeria, with a view to getting Christians to hate the man and vote against him, these supposed friends are making it look as if the President hasn’t achieved anything positive to market him with.

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is a leader I hold in deep esteem. But I am getting more and more disappointed in him these days, owing to the way he goes about disparaging Islam in the way he hurls insults on Buhari, as well as abusing the Hausa-Fulani for the same reason. No Muslim worth the name, for example, will be happy with Fani-Kayode’s description of Buhari’s behaviour as belonging to the “6th century Saudi Arabia,” as he did in his article entitled: Questions Buhari Must Answer, published in his column in this newspaper on December 15th, instant.

Perhaps even worse is his quoting a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Bosun Emmanuel, whose sermon, as quoted by Fani-Kayode in his article entitled A word for Yemi Osinbajo, published on December 22nd, instant in this newspaper, as telling Christians not to have anything to do with Muslims. He quoted the pastor as saying, in his ‘famous sermon’ titled ‘The Nigerian Church’, that “woe be unto any believer who joins hands with the enemies of God in an attempt to bury the Church and destroy the gospel.”

He was, in that article, trying hard to paint the vice-presidential candidate of the APC, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, in dark light for accepting to play “second fiddle” to a man who is a “notorious troubler of the (Christian) faith.” He added an unfortunate clincher: “woe unto the children of light that secretly delight in darkness and that seek to thwart the counsel of God for their nation by joining hands with the sons of Boko and the daughters of Haram.”

I know the man is going to try to deny this or colour it in some other way, but the fact remains he has succeeded through these write-ups, among several others before then, to alienate Muslims and make them a subject of mockery by Christians. What the Fani-Kayode’s of this world don’t seem to know is that there are millions of Muslims out there that want to vote for Jonathan in the forthcoming presidential election, as they did in 2011.

Showing contempt for their religion could only make many of them change their minds. My senior colleague, Mr. Azubuike Ishiekwene, writing in his column, Conversation With Azu, published in Leadership newspaper of last Friday, quoted the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, a collection of the main conservative Christian churches, as planning a “52 weeks of all-round prayers for Nigeria,” which, very unfortunately, specifically includes praying to God “to upturn all plots by the All Progressives Congress if their hidden agenda is to Islamise Nigeria.”

The same group also wants God to “to purge corruption in the opposition,” conveniently ignoring the corrupt in government, whose actions are badly affecting tens of millions of downtrodden Christians, not just Muslims. But what do these people take their fellow Christian brethren for, people who cannot read between the lines and see this as a cheap, sad way of campaigning for President Jonathan? Do they think attacking Islam (though they hardly do so directly) is going to appeal to Muslims and make them re-elect the President? Can anyone between Jonathan and Buhari win the presidency with only the votes of members of his faith? We all know it isn’t possible for anyone, however powerful, to Islamise Nigeria, as falsely being peddled by some religious leaders.

But the consolation is that even among their flock, these leaders are fast losing respect, and it is the reason this time around, religion will not be manipulated to play such a significant factor in determining who wins next year’s presidential election. For me, a Hausa-Fulani Muslim, I feel very, very bad to see this going on as a campaign for any presidential candidate because many of us of my generation don’t even care whether the next president is a Christian or Muslim.

All we care about is the Nigerian leader that would deliver the goods – make this country a better place for all, irrespective of our diversity. And, I bet you, this belief is shared by the 75 percent of the Nigerian population that are under the age of 35, who are being denied legitimate opportunities just because they were not born with silver spoons in their mouths.

Similarly, it was totally uncouth for the PDP National Secretary to call General Buhari an illiterate jackboot, as he did lately, just because the man doesn’t hold a Ph.D, as Jonathan does. Does this man know that 80 percent of the over 67 million unemployed Nigerians (rated by the National Bureau of Statistics) do not have university degrees, and that he could incur their wraths by this reckless statement? And for those making the mistake of lumping all Muslim as Boko Haram, let them know that majority of us are guided by the Holy Qur’an and teachings of the great Prophet of universal peace and harmony, who freely told all Muslims, in a charter of privileges and rights he granted all Christians at Mount Sinai in 628 C.E., to fight for Christians.

He said, “the Christians are my citizens, and by Allah I hold out against anything that displeases them. No compulsion is to be on them. No one is to destroy a house of their religion, to damage it, or to carry anything from it to the Muslim’s houses.

The Muslims are to fight for Christians. Their churches must be respected. They are neither to be prevented from repairing them nor the sacredness of their covenants.” The Holy Prophet of Islam concluded the charter by directing all Muslims the worlds over to abide by this covenant till the Last Day (of judgement). A vast majority of those causing all sorts of trouble and drawbacks for this country are less than 3.5 percent of the population, those aged 65 and above, and many of them can be found around both Jonathan and Buhari, among Christians and Muslims.

The voices of Chief Tony Anenih (a Christian) and Alhaji Tanko Yakasai (a Muslim) were among the most hilarious in the effort to stop Jonathan from assuming the presidency in acting capacity in 2010 when President Yar’adua was terminally ill and the nation was tottering. Today, they are shockingly among the biggest beneficiaries and enforcers of the Jonathan Administration. In the same vein, one should not be surprised if Chief Edwin Clark or Asari Dakubo become kitchen cabinet members of a Buhari Administration.

It may sound impossible, but it is the way of our politicians. It is, therefore, up to such leaders of the young generation as Femi Fani- Kayode to lead in the crusade for peaceful, united Nigeria where Muslims and Christians have equal rights to prosper. In achieving that, they don’t have to lump up all Hausa-Fulanis and insult us as having the tendency of ‘born to rule’ or any such nomenclature. Personally, I don’t believe in it. It isn’t a workable idea. They should therefore tone down their divisive campaign. It is an evil wind that will blow no one no good, especially as Nigeria is bigger than both Jonathan and Buhari.

http://www.opinionnigeria.com/revealed-jonathan-s-friends-aiding-buhari-by-suleiman-gaya/

Gmajor:
mr hypocrite, how many wives did obasanjo have ?

Please ask pdp headquarters, fool. Thank you for pointing out what useless and corrupt leadership the pdp has had from day one.

Using the army and police to do party political business. Shameless but typical.