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mankevo: Jonathan is confortable replacing Amechi (South-South Christian) with Gov. Shema (Nothern Muslim)

But affraid of himself being replaced by Northern element come 2015. Yeye dey really smell!!
Am sure if Amechi deserves the second chance, the governors will re-elect him with the backing of the opposition ones just as Speaker Tambuwal got his seat via opposition support.
Now even if the governors themselves wanted to remove Amechi, the Presidency position might make them rethink.
In Naija everything is Do-Or-Die in politics because they aint fighting for the masses but themselves.

But Jonathan insisted that although there were
cases of corruption in the country, the menace was
being "over-amplified."

Uncertain of his candidate winning next month’s chairmanship election of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday night met with selected governors at the Presidential Villa and appealed to them not to vote for Mr. Rotimi Amaechi.

The meeting was said to have become necessary when Jonathan's foot soldier, Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, was unable to convince fellow PDP governors to vote for Gov. Ibrahim Shema for the post.

Akpabio had tried unsuccessfully to persuade a majority of the governors to vote out his fellow South-South governor in place of a Northerner. Most of the governors from the North believe that his action is not out of love for them but to firm up the machinery for Jonathan's 2015 ambition.

The election for the office of the NGF chairman comes up in May, and the incumbent, who is not popular in the President's camp but is loved by his colleagues, is running.

At the Villa's night meeting, in addition to Akpabio, were 14 other governors, including the governors of Bauchi, Gombeand, and Katsina States.

Sources at the meeting said Jonathan begged the governors to rally round Shema and make sure he defeats Amaechi.

"You can do it. Tell your colleagues, especially those from our party that Shema is our sole candidate," the President reportedly urged. Unfortunately, none of the governors gave the President any word of commitment even when Akpabio asked them to speak.

"We have heard Mr. President. There is nothing to say, but we must make sure that the Forum is not seen as an extension of the PDP," one of the governors was said to have told Mr. Jonathan.

The NGF has scheduled a meeting for next Wednesday, but the election is not part of the agenda.

phreakabit: The most notable sign of insanity is dissociative identity disorder. You know you are loosing your grip on sanity when you know you are not Igbo, yet lie to yourself (and also believe your lie) that you are.

BTW, I like how you said " some of us the IGBOS". LOL! You should really take an IQ test asap! At the moment a beach pebble sits just above you on my official IQ table.

kkkp: 2 nicompoops

outrage: Nairaland is owned by seun osewa.

Funny but true!












This thread can never make front page.

Rossikk: Actually, the reason we can employ gatemen is because we can afford to, just like we can afford to hire house helps, drivers etc. The cost of labour is low compared to the west, where only rich fat cats like Obama and Bill Gates can employ security, drivers and butlers. If ordinary westerners could afford private security, they'd all get it at the drop of a hat due to their high crime rate, including burglaries, mugging and murder. So try another excuse for hating Nigeria. This one just failed.

Rossikk: You, a patriot? Someone better hold your ankles before you disappear completely up America's backside. Dumb asss kisser. Keep taking lectures from criminals and mass murderers in the US elite.

Rossikk: Why should inconsequential garbage like this be front page? Nigeria will take no lessons from the US, the country with the most corrupt, bloodthirsty leaders in the entire human history. A country that murders millions of innocents in order to steal oil to fatten further their already bloated elite. Why are war criminals like George Bush, Di.ck Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell still walking free? How many innocent Afghans did Obama slaughter today? How many African progressives have the US and friends slaughtered, from Murtala to Lumumba to Sankara to Nkrumah? Why did a US court just last week absolve Shell of all criminal responsibility for environmental devastation in Nigeria? Nasty two-faced criminals poking their dirty noses into what concerns them not, and deceiving the gullible with their fake "sainthood".

franchizy: I condemn dis report cos there is no Iota of truth in it. GEJ Administration is the most transparent and the best Nigeria ever had.
GEJ exposed and is prosecuting all involved in the subsidy scam. Also the Pension scam, Farouk Lawal.
It is only in GEJ regime dat any minister caught having intrest in a company must resign. (Minister of Power).
GEJ is the only Nigerian president who ve never stolen a kobo or looted any money. The only president dat has no investment. The only president dat transformed our airports to world class standard. The only president dat gave Nigerians steady Electricity, good roads, water scheme, health and Freedom of information.
Based on the foregoing, I tink the reporters are paid AGENTS. GEJ will rule Nigeria till 2019. Haters shud go and hug the nearest transformer.

Billyonaire: When did America become a watchdog to sound convictions against other countries ? I think US should focus on their failing economy and home grown terrorism. US is over 300 yrs old as a country of immigrants, I can remember vividly that America was not as advanced as Nigeria is when they celebrated their 60yrs Independence from Britain.
Anyway, who cares what America says, we should be thinking how to learn Chinese Economic models instead of listening to a failing nation with economy of bubbles.

musiwa23: Wole soyinka finally agree Musiwa is a great person. I am wonderfully blessed in the morning, evening and all over the world..

Through the Satellite

vanstanzy: I guess the Iranians and North Koreans will be pissing in their pants right about now.

solomon111: Mscheww!

Sincere 9gerian: The road is a FG road and if the state govt wants to do work on the road they should follow due process and obtain approval from FG. Its okay to have good intentions but executing a well intended act thru illegal means rubbishes the good intention. For instance, if you want to demolish my house to build a bigger house for me, you cannot do that without my permission. You cannot just forcefully move bulldozers to my house without my consent. If I'm living in an unpainted house and someone wants to help paint the house for me, the person will seek my consent first. Even in medicine, you cannot administer any treatment to a patient except they consent.

My point is that DUE PROCESS is important in whatever we do, irrespective of how well intentioned the act is