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Come on home aunty you've really represented us well in the presidency.

Amaechi has to be the Governor of the Year!

The APGA is really bringing out great governship candidates. Rochas Okorocha is definitely the man for Imo.What he has to do now is find a way to beat the criminality that is for sure to come his way by Ohakim. All in all, this is good news!

[size=18pt]Dora Akunyili Set To Quit Jonathan’s Cabinet[/size]

Saturday, 11 December 2010 02:25 Andrew Oota, Abuja




Minister of Information and communications, Professor Dora Akuniyili, is set to quit President Goodluck Jonathan's cabinet next week LEADERSHIPWEEKEND gathered yesterday.

Prof Akunyili was reported to have been promised a seat in the senate by Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State against APGA senatorial ticket to contest for the Central Senatorial district.

It was gathered that the decision of the information minister to quit is for her to pursue her senatorial ambition having lost out at the last governorship primaries of the PDP for Anambra state to former CBN governor Professor Charles Soludo.

It was gathered yesterday afternoon that, the Information Minister visited the National Communication Commission [NCC]. She told the executive staff that she was on a farewell visit. And that she will be resigning by the middle of next week.

Akunyili had played a pivotal role in the emergence of President Jonathan following the death of the former president. Following the ascension of Jonathan to the seat of Presidency, her stock with the presidency dwindled. The aides to the President saw Dora Akunyili as a threat and thus moved to silence her.

Competent sources also said Akuniyili was also not happy that the special Adviser to the President on media Ima Niboro has taken over her responsibilities.

The details are still sketchy but Dora Akunyili is expected to make her resignation public in the coming days.

In response, the Special Assistant on Media to the Minister of Information, Isaac Umunna, has debunked the claims that the minister, Prof. Dora Akunyili, is quitting as a member of President Goodluck Jonathan's team. LEADERSHIP Weekend had reached to clarify the report on ukpakareports.com where it was authoritatively stated that she was quitting her job because of a strained relationship between her and President Jonathan and his media aide Ima Niboro.

According to him, "She has not told me she is resigning and I think I am close enough to know. It is a mere fabrication' he said. Another very close source said the minister was surprised when she heard about the online report. 'She is under tremendous pressure to run for several positions in the elections ahead but she has a good relationship with the president and she has not resigned. If she is to resign she will do so honourably and openly. There will be nothing hidden about it and she would have consulted widely before doing so' he said. Another source revealed that Prof Akunyili will likely speak about this issue on Monday".


http://www.leadershipeditors.com/ns/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21022:andrew-oota-abuja&catid=51:cover-stories&Itemid=101#

[size=18pt]Jonathan endorses Amaechi for 2nd term[/size]

News Dec 12, 2010

By Jimitota Onoyume, Port Harcourt



PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday endorsed Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as his candidate for next year’s governorship election.

The president, who spoke at a special civic reception organised for the governor by his ethnic group on the platform of Ogbakor Ikwerre Cultural organisation, further called on the governor to context the election.

The president, who was represented by the vice president, Namadi Sambo, cited Amaechi’s performance in the state as the major factor behind the endorsement.

“Amaechi is a special person. Amaechi, please run and run. We have endorsed you as our aspirant. Rivers people have made a good choice. Rivers is the only state that has a well furnished and equipped secondary school in Nigeria and the entire West Africa.

“When you have an intelligent and performing son like Amaechi, the right thing is to support him. I will support Amaechi and Rivers State.”


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/12/jonathan-endorses-amaechi-for-2nd-term/

[size=18pt]2011: I want to be Imo Gov –Okorocha[/size]

From VAL OKARA, Owerri

Sunday, December 12, 2010




A 2007 presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha, yesterday, formally declared his intention to run for the governorship election in Imo State in 2011 on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

Okorocha said he was on a rescue mission in the state and promised free education, reopening of the Evan Enwerem University, Owerri, that has been under lock and key for over four months as well as implement the new minimum wage for the civil servants if elected as governor.
The governorship aspirant, who decried the state of decay in the state, recalled with relish the defunct regime of the late Chief Sam Mbakwe and promised to begin from where he stopped.

“Mbakwe is my yardstick and since he left office, there has not been any government in the state,” he said, and expressed regrets that avoidable hardship, dilapidated infrastructure, non-payment of workers monthly salaries and youth unemployment had taken over the state.
The APGA governorship contender assured that God had spoken to him to rise up and rescue the people of the state from hardship, hunger, starvation, kidnapping and other violent crimes, which had been their lot in the past three and half years.
The politician, who professed his respect for President Goodluck Jonathan, said he had to quit the PDP because of obvious lack of internal democracy and party discipline.

He promised to be fair and just to all, even as he expressed optimism that APGA will sweep the polls in the South East in 2011 as the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) had done in the South West.
Okorocha, while urging the people to shun politicians with empty promises, also promised to nominate Governor Ikedi Ohakim for an ambassadorial position in Afghanistan if elected as governor.
National Leader of APGA, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, who spoke through his wife, Bianca, described Okorocha as a rare philanthropist and true Nigerian who has touched the lives of the masses through his foundation.

Chief Ojukwu also hailed him as a great asset and treasure to the party, who is no longer looking for wealth but one keen and desirous to create a change “that our children will go to school and get employment upon graduation.”

He urged the people to support whoever had the capacity to replicate Mbakwe’s magic wand in the state.
Also speaking, the Coordinator-General of Rochas Campaign Organisation, Professor Tony Anwuka, described the experience of the people of the state in the past three and half years as a classical example of mismanaged power, stressing that when power gets into the wrong hands, they get irretrievably mad with it.
This, he lamented had given birth to unspeakable disaster such as kidnapping, murder, closure of the university and blatant lies.


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/dec/12/national-12-12-2010-007.htm

alj harem:


gbammmmm

gbamm gbosa

chikena

spot on 

may God continue to bless u and your family for the truth

may God never bless you and your family for your mischief . You make a lot of comments with no facts or logic.At least jason has the manhood to with some sort of dept but you don't. Why not come out and lets reflect on this dicussion like he did and stop consining.Took a look at the video he posted also, from beginning to end.

Must be his Igbo side.

jason12345:
okay, sorry for the misunderstanding.

it's kool. no probs mehn.

jason12345:
how did i lie? did i say it was an igbo coup? read my previous post!!! i said it was viewed as an igbo coup by nigeria! i had accepted this fact a long time ago. so, my brother i did not lie. infact if you read my post, i said it was NOT an igbo coup or an ethnic coup!!! i even said that the so called invasion was seen as a form of aggression. in a war, there are always two sides to the story

I wasnt referring to the part of it being an Igbo coup. I already know you didn't see it as an igbo coup. I was referring to when you said it was Igbo officers that were unarming the northerners. The statement was not true gowon said that the southern officers but especially the Igbos.This would include other southern tribal officers as well,west,east, and midwest.

jason12345:
i am talking of the army. i do not know whether it was by discrimination or hard work. i guess it would have been hard work but we seem to forget that the high ranked igbos soldier told the northern soldier to surrender their weapons to them in lagos and abeokuta (yoruba lives would have been lost) where a fight broke out. all this things are from the west and midwest point of view back then.

don't worry, chyz is cool.

you are mixing things up!

1967 was a war not genocide.

secondly, jos crisis was an ethnic misunderstanding. i am sure the yorubas (main target) and the igbos  would have killed some northerners too. also, you have to take into account that these northern youths are used by their leaders like how adedibu uses his thugs to rig elections. they are uneducated and would do anything for money. so you cannot conclude that they hate igbos or yorubas.

thirdly, ethnic clashes happen regularly. it only occurs when a group of people feel insecure in their own place (thats why i keep tell the pro-biafrans to stop saying, "we own lagos". i would not read much into what happen to musa. it is sacrifices that makes a country stronger not weaker. even before we had GB, there were ethnic groups that fought and some would have been almost wiped out by the opposing ethnic group. even ireland does not like britain today.

lastly, i think nigeria can only go UP if we have good leaders. our development is not based on ethnicity but a collective effort and conducive environment. once our leadership problems are solved, you would be surprised on how much we get along!

Akin-Egba:
This is what's destroying you people, ignorance, incompetence, zero vision and sense of porpose.

Before you illeterates spew your ignorand rubbish, you people need to ask yourselves the following question .

Who elected Awolowo to run their affairs? Ibo or Hausa people?

Who did Awolowo swore oaths to serve and protect? Ibo or Hausa people?

Who was Awolowo accountable to? Ibo or Hausa people?

What region did Awolowo premiered? Ibo or Hausa region?



It's obvious  that while Yoruba people are moving on and consolidating their gains and uniting their region for development and advance as Awolowo pland, Ibo people are still buried under hate, bigotry, jealousy, pettiness and self destructive behavior. 



Kalu didn't say nothing we new, the basically echoed what we all know and whet we see on the ground in iboland



Like I said, Kalu didn't say nothing new. Too back greed, hate and jealousy is in total control of their thinking and way of life.

Didn't you took the time out to go look for some dumb poster to display your immaturity and the typical ibo abhorrent and anti social behavior.



@ dumb  above my post, that post wit everything you highlighted is for you and your people, nothing you highlighted is going to change your fate or your second class status in Nigeria.



https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-566307.0.html

ROTFLMAO! . Beccomrich pt.2!

this is no way near what happened at Odi. That devil obasanjo issued a shoot-on-sight. GEJ is a nigerian president and NOT Ijaw president.stop trying to cook up opposition to GEJ.

matazzmagi:
When Nigerians want to distract people from their endemic criminality, they level false accusation on Igbo and Biafrans. These people calling themselves Nigerians are nothing but unrepentant evildoers and satan worshippers. Its their culture

The video proves there was no "Igbo" coup. Like i said the first time the whole "igbo" coup propaganda was brought up was in Britain and NOT nigeria.

jason12345:
i am talking of the army. i do not know whether it was by discrimination or hard work. i guess it would have been hard work but we seem to forget that the high ranked igbos soldier told the northern soldier to surrender their weapons to them in lagos and abeokuta (yoruba lives would have been lost) where a fight broke out. all this things are from the west and midwest point of view back then.

jason12345:
gowon said it on an interview


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1MjFV98ai8

i cannot remember the exact time he said it but if you have time, you can watch the interview and see things from the nigerian point of view

Now Jason, did you really have to lie to push ur point. Gowon said some SOUTHERN officers, "especially" the Igbo soldiers, tried to unarm some northern officers because they hear about a possible northern counter coup. This meant both Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw, Ibibio, were also involded in the unarming of northern soldiers. No need to lie mehn. Start from 25.05.

Gowon just jumped from january '66 to july '66. start from 22:57.

Jason, Gowon just said he was the COAS under the administration of Ironsi,meaning he was in carge of the army. Do keep in mind, Gowon was a christian(by affiliation) and a middle belter, not a cor northern muslim.

jason12345:
my brother, that i do not understand. i have said it on NL recently that it was not an ethnic coup but it was viewed as an ethnic coup because the igbos ran everything and they also headed the coup . also, for some reasons, only igbo officials were untouched in the coup so it was viewed as such (ethnic coup)

There is an Igbo official that was killed. Gowon is even insinuating that is was not an "igbo" coup.he even said that he followed after ironsi to end the coup attempt in lagos.Start at 17:20.

jason12345:
as i said earlier, i am not sure. . .  . . it should be within the first 20 mins!

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=561815.msg7265909#msg7265909

^^^^ thats also a link relating to what he said.

Still watching.Interesting. quick question though. if the Igbo were already on top of practically everything through hard work,why would "they(Igbo)" have needed to stage a coup?

jason12345:
gowon said it on an interview


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1MjFV98ai8

i cannot remember the exact time he said it but if you have time, you can watch the interview and see things from the nigerian point of view

This is a long azz video.where in the video does he say that although i will watch the whole thing?

jason12345:
i am talking of the army. i do not know whether it was by discrimination or hard work. i guess it would have been hard work but we seem to forget that the high ranked igbos soldier told the northern soldier to surrender their weapons to them in lagos and abeokuta (yoruba lives would have been lost) where a fight broke out. all this things are from the west and midwest point of view back then.

The midwest has always been mutual. now as far as where the top ranked igbo soldiers to the northern soldiers to surrender their weapons, where did you hear that from?Link please? i have never heard that in my life and neither has somthing like that ever been mention on nairaland.

alj harem:
@jason

pls do not post to this eedoits again just stop

u are just bring urself low to this people

I, myself have not been bias at all so him discussing with me is not degrading himself,thank u.