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mike404: ALWAYS EXPECTED. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG IN DEFENDING YOUR SLAVE MASTERS.. KERP UP THE GOOD WORK

''404'' VERY APPROPRIATE......THats what u are.....Bingo Now go back to your vomit or lick ya nuts,,,, you do not belong here

mandarin: Building consensus is the strength of political bigwigs. That is one area the President has weakness and he allowed his adversaries a huge time in building theirs thereby reducing his own influence. As the President of a country you have access to all human resources available in your country and globally, the President would have access that, I think he should learn from his mistakes and move on.
What he need to do is to reach out to all groups, may be its a little bit too late but something can still be done. So all his guys that bark at opposing views may have to be changed for more calm and matured ones and if the President want to really do something unusual, he can begin to work on a successor that will wrestle power for any political bloc he favours maybe from the middle belt or even south-west to damn his adversary and rub salt on their eyes, now that's a very tough decision but it will write his name in gold and make him a power broker.He will have battles at home though against his own kinsmen.
I think the imaginary problems seen by the president's advisers is an off shoot of reacting to everything the media say, it shouldn't be so, what if GEJ is the President of USA where there are thousands of media houses and millions of powerful critics? I think he President should try his best best to see and take his chances in 2015 but he can drop his personal ambition and become a statesman by doing the following which I will suggest:
1. Reach out to the Akande-Tinubu camp secretly(like Israel-Palestine) and come up with a constitutional conference that will change the current political structure which will revert revenue formula to 50-50 for states and federal as being done during regional governments.
2. Align major ethnic groups to form states and minorities to come together as states with their own internal autonomous governing and resource control system. This will seriously limit the power of ethnicity and dominance and it will breed competitions and economic developments. so we can have for example, all Yoruba in South-west,middle Belt, South -south into one Oduduwa state with their Premier, the Igbo in South-east and south-south into an Ndigbo state, the Efik,Ibiobio and kinsmen into a state of their own, the Ijaw into a state,remaining people of Edo and Delta can form their Bendel state or Edowa while other minorities down south can form a state. The work of the president is to ensure these new states evolve internal structures that recognized minorities when they have their own districts/principalities etc. This can be replicated in the north as the Hausa/Fulani will form one large state of Arewa, the Kanuri and kinsmen will form their Borno while minorities across the large expanse of middle belt will evolve their own states through alignments and co-operations may be five or up t 10 states.
3.By this education, transportations, security, local government administration and resource control can be ceded to states while an arrangement of joint board management for the oil and gas can be established for the first ten years to ensure current investors do not lose their place until next bidding round and to assuage fears from the power brokers.
4. Allowing the new states level and retain their VAT and control transports facilities ports, sports facilities and come etc
5. At the expiration of the ten years of joint control of oil and gas, the federal tax of 30% should take effect on all oil and gas explored within Nigeria and states will control what happens about them while non oil minerals should attract say 5% and so on
6.Nigeria should revert to a parliamentary system in which all states are equally represented.
My word and take: The root cause of corruption in Nigeria is the unitary system of sharing revenue , shatter the table and allow everyone fend for themselves. The President should come up with smart plan for change that will benefit the Niger Delta and ensure equity but he will need to sacrifice his personal ambition and his selfish goons, he may yet become the Mandela of Nigeria!

eGuerrilla: Your incessant vituperation towards anyone who expresses criticism about the current administration in Nigeria is worrisome

The question I have is: how does your conscience reconcile the high level of tolerance you seemingly have for corruption in your country of birth, with what obtains in your current place of abode (the United States)? I really want to know.

DerideGull: Only fools will listen to such idiotic sermons. Both moronic airheads had been in government for years and never had a dent on corruption in Nigeria. Americans say talk is cheap.

POPE II: I only have Faith in God and the Catholic church, besides the presidency is not a do or die affair.

berem: Dede must have been seeing me in his dreams. He surely needs help. Thanks babe!

DerideGull: You are partially right because if I am in the shoes of GEJ, the dead woods such Tom David-West and OBJ would have been manures by now.

shaneroberts26: Na wah for all d posters above me.How can you say that somone is beautiful when you cant even see d person's legs? From d way she slouched,it is pretty possible she limps.Op,take heart.

chukwudi44: Mumu the letter also affected APGA ,obJ tried to impugn APGA's elctoral triumph in Anambra so they had to respond

Billyonaire: Tissues of Lies from an old man that thinks he is the only one to chose who leads Nigeria even against the constitution of the country.

tovieye: full u think say Nigeria fit survive without us

Sincere 9gerian: Thank you my brother. Not only Akinwumi was appointed in that manner, even the INEC chairman was appointed by the president simply because of integrity and professionalism. Same with Christopher Kolade, Olusegun Aganga, Prof Nebo (power minister), Omobola Johnson (minister of ICT), Sam Amadi (chairman NERC), Okonjo Iweala, etc. These people are neither politicians nor any of the re-circled faces we''r used to in the past govts. And as far as I'm concerned they represent FRESH AIR in governance.

lakhadimar: my thought exactly. The total number of voters in the concluded anambra election was less than 500,000. And i think anambra state is the most populated in the southeast, so let us assume the the entire electorates in southeast votes for Gej, the number of votes he would get from there might not be up to two million

jamace: OP, any "vice" position is not good for a performer like Akunyili. She should be the head and not the tail. Most ogas will not like their vice or deputy to be high performers who will overshadow them. Have you forgotten the rule in 48 Laws of Power which states, "Never outdo the master"? If Dora is vice, she will not perform to the maximum because of the oga on the top who may envy her and before you know it, the oga will say, "Dora is not loyal" and before you say jack robbinson she will be frustrated out of office.

pazienza: Nigeria as a country died in 1970. It is strategic that Igbos support GEJ, not because GEJ will do us any special favours(which we know the Yoruba/northern gang up can never do, they had four decades to prove otherwise), but because GEJ represents equality and justice, he will provide a level playing ground for all Nigerian groups, and when you have a level playing ground for all, Igbos will always dominate. This is the sole reason GEJ must remain in Aso rock till 2019, it will buy Ndiigbo enough time to trim the Yoruba- hausa/fulani influence more, and place us in a better position to face the Yoruba/northern gang up again with GEJ departure, but this time around, better prepared.


To keep GEJ in Aso rock till 2019, is a task that must be done.

POPE II: You really think an Igbo will ever become a president of this country? please look around you how many ethnic group which lost a war or failed to secede are holding key sectors like Igbo are even doing? How many of their people became president after the war ?
This is pure logic the losers will always b marginalized and ostracized this is an unwritten rule an igbo will never become president go ask the Hutu, touareg, collabo(Algerian who helped France ) etc they don't trust us .

berem: whether the figures were imaginary or real,its on record that Igbo voted massively for him. I don't want to talk about Anambra election because I don't wanna get angrier than I am now. He should fulfill his promises that's all!