₦airaland Forum

[size=18pt]Utomi joins presidential race[/size]

Ayo Okulaja

September 23, 2010 11:46PM



The Protem National Chairman of the Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP), Pat Utomi, has announced his decision to join the 2011 presidential race on the platform of the party.

This would be the second time that Mr Utomi is taking a shot at the presidency. He was the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the 2007 general election, during which he polled 50,849 votes (0.14% of the total).

Declaring his intent at a news conference in Lagos on Thursday, Mr Utomi said he will officially declare his ambition in three weeks.

I will be making a formal declaration in three weeks' time. It will be in response to calls from various quarters for me to run. ``It will be unwise to shy away from the challenge of continuing to seek for a change in Nigeria," he said.

The presidential applicant promised to prioritise development of education and improve the nation's healthcare delivery if elected, whilst he warned that the desired change in Nigeria would not be achieved if ‘Nigerians failed to elect credible leaders.'

"The SDMP considers the electoral process the key to legitimacy of regimes and such legitimacy is critical to policy implementation," he said "We want to particularly focus on the youth who, for too long, have been made powerless as a few people made nonsense of our democracy. If those between the ages of 18 and 30 register and determine to vote to secure their future, the shame that has been our experience will be wiped out."

Youth mobilisation

He urged the youth to mobilise the populace toward the 2011 elections by enlightening the masses on the need to vote for candidates of their choices, as well as the need to defend their votes.

Mr Utomi also called on the youth to organise public debates and invite all political applicants to tell people about their plans, in order to hold such aspirants accountable.


http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5622484-146/utomi_joins_presidential_race__.csp

He'll be the governor again come 2011

desgiezd:
Just wandering what a slap from OBJ would feel like - it could break one's neck!

LOL.Trust me you don't want to feel that. His palms probably feel like cow hide.

bk.babe97y:
Really? Ok, now, spit my 11 inches out your mouth. . . and make sure u swallow! If u dare spit out even a dribble of saliva Ima crack your freaking jaw!

Even gayer. I guess memories of you and ur mom's boyfriend's starting to get to you. dont worry man Nairaland's with u.

bk.babe97y:
Listen, deal with the topic at hand and stop trying to convince me to stick my thumb up your aszz-hole!

Dang that was gay!So u mean to tell me u imagined that in your head?LOL . you definitely put the G in Gay.

bk.babe97y:
Where are those that said Ojukwu never promised Ibo votes to the evil general!?

Did you manage to convince him to give u his autograph yet?

egift:
That is what GEJ will look like at that age.

I'm not sure about that.Look at obasanjo and he's older than both of them:

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Noone outside of kwara even knows this guy,what is he campaigning for? lol

bk.babe97y:
Man, shut the hell up! You couldnt give an answer to save your miserable life! Still trying to fake the funk! lol.

Good.

bk.babe97y:
Sure! In the time it took u to put up your usual, vile, Ibo comments, u coulda scoured Google and came up with (at least) a "half-answer" on what u know of the Hadith! Monkey! I despise pretentious individuals with a passion! If u dont know something, seek knowledge, read, ask questions instead of relying on tales told by your bitter parents under the Biafran Moonlight!

   Now, your assignment for the day:

1. Find out "What is the Hadith?".

2. How was it compiled?

3. Who were its Authors?

  Goodluck, Gorilla! You have 20 minutes!

Obviously i know what it is but i dont have to answer to you woman .try to stop turning-on your mom's boyfriend,she'll respect you more.

bk.babe97y:
So, I was right, u really are an im.becile that just hates for no reason! An im.becile that doesnt even know what the term "Landlocked" means. Dude, the same reason the North doesnt wanna secede is the same reason why the rest of Nigeria told Ojukwu "If u wanna go, go, but u aint going with the Niger-Delta!".

Do u know what the words "Land-Locked" mean now?! Doofus!

I see your mom's boyfriend's still been trying to have sexx with you.hey don't take your anger out on me man.

[size=18pt]3 Children Abducted In Jos[/size]
Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:21 Gonji Palang, Jos


3 children of the Chairman, Plateau State Muslims Pilgrims Board, Alhaji Awwalu Shehu Dankurma were yesterday abducted in Jos the Plateau state capital; with the abductors demanding a ransom of 5 million naira.

The Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Deputy Suprintendent of Police (DSP) Ikechukwu Aduba who confirmed the incident stated that the children who are pupils of the Plateau Private School Jos, left for school on Tuesday morning accompanied by the driver. However, the car was said to have developed a problem along the way; and investigations showed that the driver then left the children in the custody of an akara seller.

The akara seller, one Hajia, however, revealed that the driver later came in a black car and picked the children.

According to Aduba, The Police boss,the driver who is also a suspect is at large and the police, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and other security agencies are working to recover the 3 abducted children within the next 48 hours. The kidnappers demanded for a ransome of N25 million early yesterday morning, but later scaled down to N5 million.

Alhaji Awwalu Shehu Dankurma, father of the children who spoke to LEADERSHIP said that after school when the children did not return home and the driver could not be reached, they went to the school in search of the children but discovered that the children were not in school entirely that day. However, searching around, they discovered the car parked with the children’s lunch and drinks in the car; and the driver and the children not in sight.


http://www.leadershipeditors.com/ns/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16336:gonji-palang-jos&catid=51:cover-stories&Itemid=101

[size=18pt]Group moves to restore credible leadership to S’West
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By Olalekan Adetayo, Ibadan

Thursday, 23 Sep 2010
 


Irked by alleged poor quality of leadership in the many of the states in the South-West, some concerned stakeholders are considering setting up a minimum standard which aspirants must meet to enjoy the support of the people of the region.

To achieve this, a one-day summit on Yoruba development agenda has already been scheduled to hold in Ibadan, Oyo state capital on Thursday.

Speaking with our correspondent on Wednesday, one of the organisers of the summit, Mr. Ayo Afolabi, said that it had been resolved that once the minimum standard is released through a communiqué at the end of the meeting, political parties would abide by such standard.

Afolabi added that leaders of any political party that decide to ignore the standard and field a person of “lower quality” for election would have themselves to blame as the Yorubas would be mobilised against the candidate.

He disclosed that the summit being put together by the Afenifere Renewal Group in collaboration with key Yoruba self-determination groups is expected to be attended by all Yoruba leaders irrespective of their political leanings.

He said that a Professor of African Studies, University of California, United States, Dr. Wale Adebanwi, would give the keynote address at the summit with the theme “Yoruba values: A reawakening-agenda for 2011 and beyond.”

He said, “The purpose of the gathering is to restore to the South West the kind of quality leadership that the region was known for.

“We have been wondering why it is difficult for present day political office holders to match the achievements of our past leaders in the region.

“It is our hope that at the end of the summit, we shall release the minimum standard required of any aspirant in the South West.

“Political parties can only neglect the standard at their own electoral peril.”


http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201009230535446

[size=18pt] Mayhem in Lagos[/size]
…5 killed, over 100 vehicles vandalised

By CHRISTOPHER OJI

Thursday, September 23, 2010



Five persons were killed and over 100 vehicles destroyed in the early hours of Wednesday at the Onipanu area of Lagos when two factions of street urchins popularly known as Area Boys clashed.
Daily Sun reliably gathered that trouble started when a notorious thug popularly identified as Bello, on Tuesday, allegedly led some members of a cult group and attacked some Area Boys at the Onipanu area.

It was also learnt that during the attack, one Shina Ajah, Sule Abibu, Akeem Bashiru and other yet-to-be-identified persons were seriously injured. The injured persons were hospitalized but Ajah and four other Area Boys later died. At about 12.00 midnight yesterday, some Area Boys loyal to Ajah allegedly stormed the scene where Ajah was allegedly killed and unleashed terror on residents.

The hoodlums also vandalized over 100 vehicles after they had allegedly looted the vehicles.
An eyewitness who simply identifed himself as Wasiu told Daily Sun that vehicles parked on Idera, Awoyokun, Tewose and Ajegunle Streets were vandlaised while some night crawlers were injured by the hoodlums,  On the cause of the hostility, Wasiu revealed that two factions of street urchins were supporters of different politicians in the area.

According to him, the opponent to a politician ( name withheld) whom the late Shina was alleged to have supported felt that without Shina, backing he might win. So, he allegedly sent some cult groups to eliminate him and his group member. He alleged that when Shina’s loyalists heard of his death, they came on a reprisal attack. “It was the thugs that were loyal to Shina that wreaked havoc on the streets of Onipanu,” he said.

When Daily Sun visited the streets mentioned, residents were seen fleeing the place for fear of further reprisal attacks.
A resident, Sunday Ugbah said he had lived in the area for over six years and had never witnessed such mayhem “I escaped death by the whiskers because I was outside taking fresh air and I slept off until a young lady woke me up telling me to run for safety.”
He said he managed to run inside the house where he saw many people armed with guns and other lethal weapons, adding that some of the area boys were shooting sporadically while others vandalized the vehicles.

Another resident who simply identified herself as Biola claimed she knew the late Shina. “I saw him the day he was killed. He was with about 10 of his boys when he walked past the front of our house on Tuesday.” She said when the Area Boys were attacking her street, Awoyokun, she thought the invaders were armed robbers but was shocked to see them smashing vehicles. She later heard that the attackers came to protest Shina’s death.

She accused the police of being insensitive to the residents’ plight as they did not come to the rescue of residents during the attack.
However, the command’s spokesman, Mr. Frank Mba confirmed the clash between the two factions and said only two persons, Shina Ajah and a yet-to-be identified person died. He said the scene was visited by the policemen who removed the corpses to a public mortuary, Mba assured that the police was on top of the situation and advised residents to go about their normal duties without fear.


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/sept/23/national-23-09-2010-019.htm

I think anioma should be ceded to the SE and the then the SE carves a state out of their area that way the non-igbos in the south who have been clamoring for their own state like the urhobo can have it

MShittu:
@chyz
Money? Electricity? Good roads? Health care?
They can also educate the Northerners.
We dont need to adopt their ideologies
But they can help us develop

Arabs are the ones who pervert Islam. They are the ones whose ways the northerners have learned and become murderers. Arabs mix islam with their culture and thats where the barbaric nature comes from. Also the northerners need to stay away from the Hadith because it is evil. Nigeria can get all of those things you've mentioned from other African countries, we can even get it from ourselves if these political thieves are done away with and honorables are put in their place. Arabs have messed up the northerners and they would bent over backwards to kiss an arab man's feet but they are so quick to kill their own african brothers and call him an infidel. No to Arabs.

MShittu:
@chyz
Maybe, but I myself think that Nigeria'll be better with the North, because then we'll be able to appeal to oil-rich Arab nations for economic assistance and stuff.

Why would nigeria need economic assistance from arab nations?what do they have to offer us that we dont have to offer them?

MShittu:
@chyz
Being landlocked means that its going to be much more difficult and much more complex to export goods. And that the countries surrounding landlocked ones closer to the sea can actually control your own economic growth.
It pretty much limits self-dependency.

thats where diplomacy comes in.that is another reason southerners want the north to go their way because they lack deplomacy and want to attain everything by force.Treat your neighbor good and you have nothing to worry about.

seanet02:
okay Ojukwu has taught YOU that it makes more sense to import automobiles with AIRPLANES, Import heavy products with airplanes. Better go and read geography if you a SPARE PART DEALER

Allah will provide for them

ALMUSTAQIM:
IS THIS TRULY TRUE.

I AM VERY PLEASED & HAPPY TO HEAR THIS.

GOD BLESS OBAMA

GOD BLESS AMERICA

GOD BLESS YOU ALL

ALLAHU AKBAR.

He's not muslim

jabbok:
Gbam!
One important factor people are not looking @,

hows that going to hurt them?

Abagworo:
If things go this way,I perceive an ethnic cleansing war worse than Biafra.It is obvious that Igbos,Yorubas and other south south groups which includes minority Ijaw will fight on the federal side.

Jonathan will lose to a northerner who will offer peace and reconciliation but will be met with sabotage and bombardments of oil installations.

This is a prophesy.

It is a false prophesy.

yabadabado:
common people' , we  can't survive on  our own.
the yoruba can't  seem to agree and they  say  is the AFONJA curse .  the ibos  can't  seem to  agree too .  this some blame on the love of money i.e someone is  always willing  and ready to collect money in order to scuttle the plan or ambition on some other kinsmen. the people of the niger delta would finished themselve at the slightest opportunity and u  would see another replay of the Nigeria's nollywood drama as Ijaw people dominating the other minorities group ,they would start fighting for land ,oil  bloc  etc  and before you say  ALAMAYSIEYA , tribes with start the sort of  conflicts that we have seen in the past  in that region.
NO DOUBT, the core north would  suffer in the short run but they always seem to agree so they can always solve their problems with the  RANKADEDE approach . the north central/middle belt would move on/ away from the shadow of the core north because they are now wiser with the help of obasanjo . i spent more that a year there and most of them want out cus there are a lot of christians and non hausa people there . eg state like benue,plateau, taraba,adamawa, etc . tribes like jukun,tivs, taroks, berom,kwalla  etcs.

Ha,  the north needs people in the south to eat their meat and  other consumable  agric produce , \the ibos, the enterprenuerial strength of nigeria needs the milllions of people to dominated and excellence ,the yoruba needs the plurality  in the nation to see beyond  it own plurality , other tribes needs the the three big  tribes to be bigger than the small  tribes obtainable else where.  SOUTH CAMEROUN OPTED OUT SOME TIME IN THE PAST .  QUESTION:is their life better than people in nigeria?  Obafemi awolowo is for me the greatest national hero  for me eventhough am not from his place doing thing that no other national hero did like , first TV station in western nigerian even before switzerland and france, free education for all , acquired a nuclear site for a nuclear energy as far back as the 70s ,the university of IFE then had proposed airport and other facilities that would have seen the light of day, UNI ibadan was the extension of  oxford  so to speak,induatrial/residential estate like no other in the whole of africa etc that is  why his people would still be using awoist style for political leverage decades after his demise. no other tribe is using their own hero like this man is being used.    
THIS MAN STILL DID NOT LEAD HIS PEOPLE OUT OF NIGERIA , maybe for personal reason or otherwise

WHAT WE NEED IS A NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO AGREE ON SOME CERTAIN THINGS BOTHERING EACH  TRIBE  and with a  good president we could have that, no need for seceding  tribes drama.

We dont need to be in the same country with each other.Fighting over resources can be check by regions going their own ways and if one country need a particular resource then they can establish trade.This will provide peace instead of a tug of war like we have today.

if he really wanted to move the Igbo to Aso Rock,he would he calling igbo elites and organization for continuous round tables and blueprinting something out.There was no point of him making this address. I swear I hate that anything attached to that name "Orji".The never of this fool to use his people's name to campaign for IBB as if nobody can tell.

Enough of this nonsense.when igbos start dealing their cards right and apply pressure by and work together then they will get to Aso Rock until them shut your mouth and stop looking for presidential handouts.

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