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This release deflects the issues raised by Soludo. FFk shouldn't hastily come to insult but must take the time to get input fro Jonathan that has outsourced his roles; NOI that is the coordinating minster of the economy.
For those that do not know, is it not laughable that a routine exercise like rebasing of GDP is an acievement of the PDP.
Is it not most unfortunate that Jonathan claims to be better than his predecessors when his administration got an average price per barrel of crude which was twice Obj's; got more average daily production but has failed to grow our external reserves, defend our currency against the free-fall it's currently in, save anything in the excess crude account, keeps mounting local and foreign debts when Obj secured us debt forgiveness.
If we could rise above the propaganda peddled by the PDP, we shall know that the PDP has to be dumped by all means possible.

[quote author=waternogeteneny post=30157284]Yes...


We want a free and fair election. PVC must get to the intended owners.


Until PVC are properly distributed, i favor postponement of the election. Just sit down there and keep typing. Those convinced of their choice of candidates and made the sacrifice of going to the INEC office at the HQtrs of the LGA where they registered; some others have gone a step further to complete necessary applications to relocate their polling units while someone like me would still make the sacrifice of travelling some hundreds kilometer to vote because I don't want GEJ/PDP.
Keep reading/analyzing the statistics while you wait for your PVC to be couriered to your address

Back then, I had a strong liking for Agbaje. Buh, when I read stuff like this, Fayose comes to mind.
Lagos would be chastised with scorpions if they make the mistake for pedestrian acts like paying for a meal at the canteen.

Thetruth2015:
The Nomination Form of General BUHARI was paid for by the Father of the convicted Detroit Bomber

Abdulmutallab Farouk

I challenge the BUHARI campaign organisation to disproof this and I will release my proofs

We say no to deceit

You are sooooooo pathetic! So that is now the issue? Why not save yourself the stress and release the proof as well. Furthermore, you can push for the prosecution of Buhari for receiving 'goodwiil donation' from the father of a failed bomber. We just have too many idiots distracting us already

Joke, right?

benarex:
No doubt, APC is growing stronger but the incumbent factor may come into play. My worry remains that even if APC eventually gains control at all levels of government, the country will still not move to the promise land because the decampees were once in charge of government at different levels without doing things differently. The motive of their actions remains personal and not the desire to move the country forward.

To allay your fears, it's imperative to remind you that a lion leading a flock of sheep would defeat a pride of lions led by a sheep. The leadership makes all the difference. Jonathan no follow at all at all.
Even if you are not convinced with the headship a Buhari would offer, let's together wrest power from the current gand led by GEJ/PDP and deliver it to GMB to stamp the supremacy of the people/electorate and dare those militants to do their worst.

Please for those that are undecided, let's dare these thieves and vote out Jonathan. This gang think say na only them sabi juju. We go all get the fortification and end this nonsense once and for all. Now that it is apparent that their patronage would be truncated, they want to threaten the rest of us. How many dem be? Dem no reach!

OrlandoOwoh:
Witches and wizards endorsed Jonathan.

And a 52yr old sibling died a week later

jiggalo:
why can't u make a point without insulting someone.

Sorry about the insults. I just feel pained that the raving crowd of GEJ supporters are insisting we pay attention to the shadow and forget the substance. It's sooo unfair how this contest is degenerating as a consequence of that

jiggalo:
90% of Buhari supporters are illiterate moslems,
jihadis, sharia supporters/ reporters and retirement
over due mafia politicians. I can swear with my
oxford forged certificate that no well educated
man/woman from the northern part of this country
will ever support Buhari' s candidacy. in a party
that has closed to 50m members across the
country and 80% of then being youths wish am one
of them untill we were denied the opportune to
match the great Jonathan with youthful force.
Kwankwaso of kano state has all it takes to lead
these youthful match to Aso Rock, not to mention
Okorocha,El rufai or Ameachi. But selfish political
interest and Islamic agendas will not allow us think
straight and today some people want to blame
some Igbos for not joining the cues like fullani
cows, known fully well that we're a nation bigger
than a country with well civilized men and women.
I know many will like to disagree with me on this
or even choose not to believe me if I tell them now
that am one of the thousands Igbo APC supporters
who throw free drinks to neighbours because of
APC with the hope of a modern change under the
new age only for us to be surprised with the kind
of change in package without any considerations
for the youths, even Fashola or Ameachi was left
out for another old man as the vice candidate.
Believe me or not... JONATHAN is the only
presidential option for this 2015.

It would serve my conscience to educate you a bit from the little I could pick up from your gibberish, having fought the urge to make your obvious lack of education pass. In an electoral contest within a political party, members who feel qualified are encouraged to express their intent and pick up nomination forms, following which they are screened and made to go through the party primaries. Five candidates vied for the presidency in the APC in a fair and transparent contest from which GMB emerged.
Buhari wasn't thrust on APC and you need to understand that he beat younger contestants like Sam Nda Isaiah, Rochas Okorocha, Rabiu Musa Kwankwanso and Atiku Abubakar to emerge candidate. How you can wish for a Fashola or an Amaechi that did not buy forms beats me.
Your duty is to stick with Jonathan since he appears the best of the 10 candidates in the presidential ballot, to you, and stop the mudsling and name-calling. As a citizen, I would vote my choice and accept the choice of the majority in a free, fair and credible contest.
When PDP said GMB is the easiest opponent they can be gifted by the APC, I thought they would just go to sleep and come back on the 15th Feb to claim the presidency but how mistaken I am. We have seen a re-definition of issue based campaigning now laced with a clandestine call/plot for the postponement of the polls.
As for Fayose, Ekiti people have gotten what they deserve. He should be cheered on. Certainly, when the heavens fall, it shall be on all of us. No shakes!

obinnaifeoma:
.Are u sure we can get the required change from Buhari/Osinbajo?

Advocating and effecting a change comes with an outstanding advantage: that a ruling party would be aware that its contract with Nigerians can only be extended after scaling a test of verifiable performances.
Does it not make u sick to see a party thumb their chests assuring a 'conquered' people that they would rule for 50 years, and them proceed to coronate clowns as flagbearers?
Talking about the desired change, I am aware that all achievements have gestation periods, as such we shall be guided as such when making our terminal assessments, but on the interim we just have to throw out these group of bandits that have gatecrashed into power.

noblealuu:
But seriously I dnt like all these attacks on GEJ campaign convoy and voyage. APC folks shuld relax and do the needful @ the polls. Electioneering violence will rather mar the chances of GMB. APC stalwarts shuld curtail the excesses of its supporters forthwit! The violence is uncalled for biko. GMB has d capacity from all indications and feelers gathered so far to send GEJ back to Otuoke if God really wants him in Aso villa coz d voice of the pple has alwayz been and will remain the voice of God!

Dnt let me belive the propaganda that a whole lot of APC peeps are touts. Peace be still!!!

My brother, the convenient name to call whoever doesn't support you is 'opposition'. Don't u consider GEJ a man lacking in shame to make campaign rounds to the north, especially the NE? This man presided and abdicated his responsibility while more than 13,000 of their kiths and kins were slaughtered yet Metuh added insult to it when he said the BH were restricted that area, otherwise they would captured half of the country.
Pray a member of your family experiences violent death so you can understand their grievances.
On my honour, there are two things I would not do if I was the president: firstly, pay a courtesy call on the emir of Kano (the man who wanted to spoil the technology I am using to fight corruption) and secondly, go anywhere near the NE to campaign since they are now sacrificed to maintain the rest of Nigeria's territorial integrity by a rampaging BH

In an election, as in war, all is fair! 2011, I was studying at Port Harcourt and voted there. Overall, the voter turn-out shouldn't come up to 60 percent, but the PDP made sure they used up all ballots and that was why a voter turn-out of over 85% was recorded in the SE and SS, and of course the results were upheld.
APC should ensure such feat is replicated and deliver a crushing defeat to the PDP in its strongholds, anything less than this would be unacceptable to good conscience.
Meantime, for all of us on the change wagon in areas dominated by the PDP, let's make it happen by getting our PVCs and exercising our franchise so there would be one less for those shameless bandits to use for their advantage.
Imagine the insults! So they made BH fester so they could shortchange the NE politically? Thank God e no work

sincerenigerian:
Loser! Why don't you ask Jonathan to publish his own WAEC result so we can judge both Buhari and Jonathan?

To qualify to study Zoology (now Animal and Environmental Biology) in UNIPORT you must have an F9 in Maths. And to have come from an educationally less advantaged state, the president's result go cause APPoLLo. That's why my PhD is not coherent and articulate. But, no denying the fact that God blessed him exceedingly

Add Sokoto and Rivers State make e clear. All strategy has to be employed in the coming elections. If citizens in opposition stronghold are not killed by terrorism, then they have to be scared from exercising their franchise

mrofficial:
I told you guys before, that people who have suffered from the terror attacks will not be happy with GEJ, because he has refused to do something about it. He has been blaming the opposition and left the people for dead.

Aside that, what makes you think it wasn't staged by the PDP to draw sympathy, these brethren have 21.8bn Naira to draw from. They have promised to revise the strategy of their issue-based campaign you know. On the other hand, some aggrieved guber contestants may be getting back at them for their wayo wayo primaries, afterall they said Pwajok was returning from the 'well attended' mother of all rally held by the PDP in Lagos

manutdadex:
shows how shallow u are..wit all dis; lives are lost yet na sai buhari u go mention! Am worried wit d kind of opposition we av...death of citizens an opportunity to campaign.....wat abt support for d nation? It shows aw much u love ur people....

You may be excused if you think the FG represented by JEG is not complicit in all these. One hare-brained nonentity has dragged a huge number to an untimely death and u have a president who has said terrorism is everywhere in the world, maybe this is our turn. a man that would fight terrorism by a decree from the church or through wishful thinking just as he has outperformed previous administrations in the fight against corruption by an hogwash 'technology' that only him understands.
The earlier you realise that it does not serve GMB's political advantage to kill a mass of people critical to realising his ambition, then you can begin to share the grief of the families that have lost loved ones and are still losing them.
Your president could commiserate with the french people on the death of just 12 people whereas lives means nothing here as his purposelessness keeps decimating the population of a region.

Louislewis:
@ Sokera...Below are the list of what he has done. After going through them, please kindly list what Buhari did when he was Head of State..

[size=16pt]Some of GEJ's achievements.

EDUCATION

1. 125 Almajiri Schools in 13 Northern States
2. 27 Special girls school
3. 34 new NCE awarding institutions
4. 101 Presidential Special Scholarship for
Innovation and development
5. 10 Million increase in Basic education
enrolment (UBEC)
6. 75% Increase in O'Level credit pass in Math
and English due to improvement in our academic system
7. 100 Innovation Enterprise Institutions licensed
8. 7000 lecturers sponsored for post graduate
studies home and abroad
9. 51 Polytechnic laboratories rehabilitated
10. Doubled increase on Education allocation
11. 104 candidates scaled the final hurdle (First
Class Graduates) for Presidential scholarship
award and were asked to apply to study in any of
the top 25 universities in the world approved for
the scheme for their PhD.
12. When GEJ assume power in 2010 98% of
students that sat for NECO failed to make 5
credits including mathematics and English, as at
2013 70% of students that sat for NECO make 5
credits including maths and English.
13. All states of the federation without a federal
university had one each during GEJ Government
and they are listed below (12 New Federal
Universities). Imagine Number of jobs created for
both academic and non-academic staffs and
percentage of awaiting students fixed into these
schools (Note: 9 out of these 12 universities are
in Northern Nigeria).
Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State. —
North Central.
Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State. ——-North
Central.
Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State.– North
East.
Federal University, Wakari, Taraba State. —-
North East.
Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State.-
North West.
Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State.——-
North West.
Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State. —
South South.
Federal University, Ndufe-Alike, Ebonyi State.-
South East.
Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State.——-
South West.
Federal University Gashua, Yobe State —-North
East.
Federal University Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi state.——-
North West.
Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State.——-
North West.
TRANSPORTATION
Rail Transport:
14. Revitalisation of the railway sector resulting
into annual volume of people moved by April 2014
to be 5Million against 1Million of people moved
prior to GEJ government.
15. Completed the reconstruction of Lagos-Kano
Railway Line that was moribund for many years
with no single train movement for 15years but
GEJ fixed it in 1year.
16. Kaduna Railway Line is at 85% completion
17. Improvement in rail transportation by a pilot
scheme of AC fitted trains in Lagos.
18. Port-Harcourt to Maiduguri rail line
abandoned for over 30years is at about 90%
completion.
19. Other rail way under construction are:
Lagos-Kano Rail
Kano-Maiduguri, under construction
Lagos-Portharcourt Under construction:
Kaduna-Abuja
Abuja Standard Gauge Rail axis
[/size]

These GEJ achieved irrespective of Buhari and his Northern cohort made and is making this nation ungovernable for him.

I will be glad to see what Buhari has done. List them if you are proud of Buhari

Very laudable achievements. I would need you to update this long list with some comments: costs of the project; addresses for the ones that do not have addresses; tell us if they are completed or on-going; if on-going, whether contractors have been fully mobilized to state them as achievement. Finally, tell us how much the government have raked in from revenue sources in the six-year period our fantastic president has been in power and I quit supporting Buhari

iamrahoof:
A plane was about to crash and there were only 4 parachutes in d plane
mean while dere were 5 people on it. D 1st person was lioel messi nd he
side I'm d best footballer, i can't die now so he took 1 parachute and left.
The 2nd who was aliko dangote said I'm d richest man in Africas nd I'm
too young to die so he too d 2nd parachute nd left.
The third was president Jonathan nd he said I'm d smartest president in d
world so i can't die now my people still needs me, so he took 1 nd left.
Then it was left with comedian Akpos and a little school girl. And
Comedian Akpos said to d little girl take last one, i will sacrifice my life for
you d little girl replied no need for dat "there re two parachutes left.
Comedian Akpos asked her how come?.

The little girl replied the Nigerian
president took my school bag[b][/b] Una no go kee person fa. Smartest indeed! Now he is using 'technology' to fight corruption, the technology that was programmed to make Diezani obtain a perpetual injunction restraining the NASS from summoning her to give account; the technology that empowered the minister for interior to scam over 500,000 job seekers of 1000 naira each and organize a sham recruitment test that led to the death of over 15 in a stampede at various venues; the technology that provided a soft landing for Stella Oduah after a procurement scam involving using 255 million naira to buy two bullet proof BMW cars, and ultimately rewarding her with a senatorial ticket in Anambra . A smart guy wen dey abuse person say im no know in fone number whereas im go commission cyber cafe and dey use mouse dey click computer wen dem no even switch on. this joke is such an apt description of our man!

I accept the inalienable rights of citizens to freely elect their leaders, but just one thing do i wish for: may the desires and expression of the greater majority of the citizenry for a change in leadership be translated to reality no matter the bumps put on the way by the current gang of renegades and their cheerleaders. Mo FeBuhari 2015

hotwax:
Point of correction Jonthan is behind boko-haram.

50% of our budget is used for fighting boko-haram, yet our military guys are not getting weapons, but boko-haram are getting modern sophisticated weapons...COmmon sense will tell you our budget is going to boko-haram..

Azazi said PDP=Boko-Haram...

Reason man..Use your head....

My brother, it grieves the heart that his raving fans have shut their faculties to logical and sensible inferences. This man keeps killing civilians as well as soldiers in the NE thru his BH to gain political advantage, yet some numbskulls will eternally express outrage over 11 or so corps members that unfortunately lost their lives in the violence that trailed the 2011 presidential polls. For heavens sake, more than 13,000 people (including corpers, undergraduates, farmers, businessmen and women, security agents) have died because of the indecisiveness of the president, yet they want to pull wool over our eyes by pointing in the direction of a man and a party they love to hate.

Jonathan's campaign is to first time voters because they are impressionable! If this man is moved about to just raise his hands, smile and dance without saying anything during his campaigns, it would serve his party better. He no dey try at all! Oluwa e ma saanu wa?

Na now day break? You anytime dem talk e be like say dem think say we be imbeciles. If oga and him spokemen no talk dem go appear sensible, than open their mouths evritime dey gbagaun. When u wan list achievements, start with average price per bbl of crude;average daily production; revenue generated from other sources; inherited debt; current debt position; scams recorded; savings; relative succes at providing for the welfare and security of citizens; respect for the rule of law;then verifiable achievements with associated costs.
Whether from church or villa, all these yarns dey tire person.

MadCow1:
As of 31 December 2014, I was a die hard Jonathan supporter.. Then I realised the folly of my way.


GEJ has got to go... The guy is easily the worst decision Nigeria has ever made in its 50plus years of existence.

Flesh and blood did not reveal this to you. Congratulations bruv. Everything has to be done to sack the gang that is asking us to brace for more austere conditions when their budget for feeding (drawn from our dwindling commonwealth) keeps an onward northward journey

kayalla:
Infact the real truth is that these old soldiers should leave power and give the younger generations a chance, that is wat we should be fighting for not clueless people and those their days re numbered and will only cause more havoc when they get in power and then die off.
these people has been in power before our parents were born and u re still there screaming blue nonsense.

Unfortunately, the old soldier did not foist himself on us like another brother did (arm-twisting all strong contenders by subtle maneuvering while denying a final two that bought their forms as having less electoral capital). He made himself available alongside four other strong contenders in a open, free, fair and credible contest and was the preferred candidate. Talking about death, it is not in anyone's power to control: on Sunday, the younger sister of the president, 52, died while my granny who's over 100 is still fine.
If GMB does not appeal to you, and you're equally fed up with the PDP, some other 8 political parties have younger candidates you can choose from. Please get your PVC and make a statement, about the change you desire, with it on Feb 14. God bless you

Because so damning a revelation was made by a source you cannot disclose, shame on The Leadership newspapers! But to say Mbaka was nudged by the hierachy of the Catholic Church to lie about a 'revelation' from the Holy Spirit shows how much the campaign team of the PDP seeks to amplify the things that divide us. This is just totally unacceptable. How many Catholics would you win to your side by disparaging their church? Anyways, all's fair in a war. May the PDP continue to make mistakes that will deplete their followership and sway undecided voters to queue behind 'CHANGE'

Ambrogio:
Like i asked, who stands to gain from Boko Haram? Buhari who needs as many votes as he can get especially from the North East and Central regions? Or Jonathan who can sacrifice the North and be sure of the South supporting him come 2015? And if you check your historical data, you'll realise the bombings and killings became pronounced from 2013, just at the point Jonathan started talking about another term and the north began quoting the zoning rule. For someone as desperate to rule again as Jonathan, he is the only one who will want Boko Haram to ravage the North. He is the only one who has sole command over the Armed Forces, and he alone can let Boko Haram continue. Buhari lacks the funds or influence to get Boko Haram the weapons they posses. Buhari lacks the support of other past military heads of state, and with the reshuffling of the army that OBJ did, Buhari has no way to sustain an insurgency for even up to a year. So who else has the power and influence to not only supply an insurgency, but command and limit it to a specific region of the country other than the President with an agenda to weaken his opponents?

You mentioned a brain, having one or using it sparingly doesn't mean anything. But using it efficiently like i hope you'll do will go a long way in clearing your thoughts. If you have any.

Do accept the assurances of my highest regard, monsieur. Some guys are just so incapable of critical thinking or rational analysis.

pobosky20:
The Nigerian Army is a disgrace. No wonder its commanders(appointment holders) are so so so incompetent. They don't keep records. They don't even know the strength (total figure) of the Army,not to talk of air force n navy. Do u know that when you ask a commanding officer the number of men under his control,what u hear is..."nearly ...roughly...close to....about...almost..." simply because they don't have time for records. someone will retire and no pension for years all because they didn't see his/her files! What nonsense is that!! The army chief should b arrested he he can't produce GMBs cert. Didn't GMB attend Nigeria Defence Academy(NDA)? The army gave him a military number to identify him anywhere. GMB once headed military formations before becoming the head of state and today no files to trace and produce his cert? chai!!! there is God o. One day it will be David Mark or YOU. These people are bunch of clowns.

#produce that certificate nig army#

The uproar this whole saga is generating saddens me. Honestly, i find it hard to believe that the army would keep the original of personnels' certs. My father is a 63 N/A who was recruited during the civil war without a care for the certs. Later in the mid 80s he sat for GCE and submitted same for promotion, i guess. Popsie still has his certificate even if he made copies for purpose of applying for promotion. That way, I would concur that the original copies cannot be with the military, however, can't the photocopy be verified? It sure has the year the exam was taken as well as a candidate number on it,abi? I'd be so very disappointed if, assuming Buhari joined the army without the requisite qualifications, he still failed to upgrade to have the minimum requirement he progressed in his career. Waiting for this to be sorted out, GMB is still my man!

Still appears to me that somebody's 'holy communion' is mixed with conc ogogoro. Another declaration from the church! I'm the religious bigot! Shioor

So this is politics abi? I can see part of the campaign war chests deployed already. I simply give up! This 'issue-based campaigns' redefined portends grave danger, and those that predicted that there may not be elections may be proven right eventually.

I cannot imagine these folks in the PDP would condescend to this base level. They asked for an issue-based campaigns and have resorted to threats, blackmail and mudsling. One would expect them to present an impressive scorecard after almost 7years, but, rather they would tell us to vote the devil we know than the angel we don't know. They would go to church to whip up sentiments bothering on religion;they would accuse opposition politicians of making inflammatory comments when their goons issue threats without caution; did Amaechi say the APC would form a parallel govt or he said they would form one if the elections are rigged. I have an advise for the APC: ensure that voter turn out in your areas of strength is at least 90 percent and make sure you get an average of 95 percent in each of those states like the PDP did in the SS and SE in 2011 (they've shown it's possible, it just has to be replicated). As for the Police Affairs minister, I can understand how difficult a job can be when you are adjudged to be less- performing.

Obinoscopy:
This is how you lose potential votes. You brand everyone (including non-pàrtisan citizens) who is critical of your party as a PDP member.

My post was never about Jonathan's role in the current insurgency in the north-east. Neither was it about PDP. It was about the role of CPC (and Buhari) on the 2011 post election killings.

I have a lot of grouse with Jonathan. But that was not what I was talking about. This thread was about APC and their resolve to prevent what CPC couldn't prevent in 2011.

Don't let your partisan-oriented anger cloud your ability to constructively respond to a concerned citizen's post on the forum lest you lose his or her vote come 2015.....a word of advise .

Nairalanders and guests are reading your posts you know .

Ordinarily, I won't join issues with you but it sucks to read your endless rejoinders that aims at achieving a misplaced indictment. I am no politician, even if I am a supporter of Buhari, and I respect the fact that an exercise of your franchise should be your discretion. I care less who you vote, but would only be pained if the majority chooses someone I do not favour. Afterall, Jonathan has done wonders! Just tone down your biases and we are cool. You mustn't stretch logic to get people to agree to your fabrications