₦airaland Forum

cooltone:
[s]Why do some Igbos like drinking panadol on other people's headache. GEJ is a failure in terms of Igbo interest. His government rendered us politically irrelevant in the scheme of affairs in our country and his party PDP. He deceived Igbo merchants that he has lifted ban on certain commodities they import only for it to end up as lip service. He failed to do any infrastructure through out his tenure in the entire south east. He promised to go on exile if he didn't complete the second Niger before the expiration of his tenure and up till this moment the second Niger Bridge is not captured in any federal budget. I will vote and campaign for a goat come 2015 instead of the liar called GEJ. Buhari all the way.[/s]

This isn't about what GEJ didn't do, we have gone over that several times on Nairaland.
Now it is about what Buhari did.
Tell us what Buhari did for the South east, screaming ''Buhari all the way'' does not cut it one bit.
We are waiting....

Unemadu:
So your anti corruption CZAR could not jail Iwuannyanwu for embezzlement? Interesting

How could he when he was happily working under the most corrupt of all time, Abacha.
Buhari will tell you up till tomorrow that Abacha wasn't corrupt.

docadams:
[s]PTF apparently did not build roads in the SE because it allowed itself to become a victim of the typical malaise plaguing the political landscape of the SE. Their politicians hijack all government contracts and embezzle the fund without qualms. It happens in other regions but the SE case is very pathetic because little or nothing will be done. The masses, themselves, do not care because of the believe that material success is divine no matter the manner it was achieved. I lived and worked in Enugu throughout the PTF era. Up until 2005 the effects of its intervention were still being felt especially in UNTH. On the issue of road construction the people should hold Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu responsible because he was the highest ranking Abaca apologist in that era and, as such, enjoyed a lot of patronage by way of ffederal contracts. He was allegedly awarded the contract for the Enugu-PH road but ended up doing a 'shovel and head pan job'.[/s]

So those people are no longer to blame but Jonathan?
When Buhari failed us, the masses and leaders of the south east are to blame, but when Jonathan ''failed'' us (according to you guys), we should blame no one but Jonathan himself. You Buhari supporters are grade 1 hypocrites.
Tell us what Buhari did for the South east instead of some spiritual effects you were felling up till 2005.

Please my people, the next time any South westerner asks you what Jonathan did for the south east to warrant our support, don't bother trying to list anything. Just ask them what Buhari did for the South west as head of state and PTF chairman and watch them fumble and tumble.
This is what they call ''setting the cat among the pidgeons''.

Kenai:
List what your general has done for the South-East with concrete proof and stop trying to derail by calling GEJ.
You people are so empty and uncouth with your arguments and you still wonder why your general constantly loses elections.

If Buhari did anything for the East, surely, it can't be hard to find.
List out those achievements or quietly get out of the thread, you nuisance.

The only things Buhari supporters know are insult and aggression.

berem:
even if Buhari built a second Nigeria bridge as the PTF chairman and renovated the enugu airport,you will still not vote for him because you have been brainwashed with sentiments and hatred against the General. Go ahead and vote for the Otuoke clueless drunk your single vote against Buhari would not stop him from occupying Aso Rock next year.

Stop making assumptions and tell me exactly what he did?
Why are you all crying now? When you guys kept asking what GEJ has done for the South east you didn't know that one day the question will turn right back at you.
You said Igbos shouldn't vote GEJ because of the bad state of some federal roads in the South east, but you cannot tell us one single road your coup plotter general built or maintained as Head of state or PTF chairman.
Shame.

How Buhari Skewed PTF Projects in Favor of His Northern Zone- By Afenifere

The Abacha regime created a parallel government through the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) headed by Major General Muhammed Buhari. Nothing else typifies the marginalization of the Yoruba than the lopsidedness of the projects carried out by the PTF. Figures from PTF Situation Reports (Vol. 2 Dec. 98) show that the PTF carried on as if there was no South West.

Of all the roads rehabilitated by the PTF, only 1984.5 kilometres of roads representing 10.84 per cent were carried out in the South West; from where the bulk of the PTF revenue came since the zone consumes over 60 per cent of refined petroleum products. All the Southern States had 4,440.43 kms or 24 per cent of road rehabilitation as against 13,870.47 kms or 76 per cent in the Northern States zone three comprising the North-West States of Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara had a lion share of 5020 kms or 27.42 per cent because the Fund’s Chairman, Buhari and the military dictator Sani Abacha were from there; zone four comprising the North-East States of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe picked 23.48 per cent. This is the zone where Salihijo Ahmed, the late Chief Executive of Afri-Project Consortium APC, the sole consultants that supervised all PTF projects came from.

Figures in other sectors were more scandalous. For instance, under the National Health and Educational Rehabilitation Programme (NHERP), the South West had zero allocation in the tertiary programme, while the North picked 100 per cent. In the vocational programme, the South West had zero while the North had 97 per cent. In the primary area, the South-West had zero against 88 per cent for the North and in the secondary area, it was zero for the South-West and 86 per cent for the North.

The health sector is similar. For the Teaching Hospitals, the South-West had zero while the North had 62 per cent. For the Specialist Hospitals, it was zero for the South-West and 71 per cent for the North; in General/State Hospitals the Yoruba had nothing while the North had 56 per cent for health clinics, it was zero for the South-West against the North’s 100 per cent.

Under the food supply summary, the Southwest had 7.26 per cent compared with 83 per cent for the North, Buhari’s zone having 60.54 per cent to itself.

Demographic Manipulation: The Northern wielders of power have skewed all demographic indicators to marginalise the Yoruba and confer undue advantage on the North. For instance, while the old Kano and Lagos used to have the same number of divisions, various demographic manipulations over the years have brought about absurd disparities between the two states. While the old Lagos remains a state with 20 local governments, the old Kano has become two states-Kano and Jigawa with 77 local governments. These are some of the indices used for revenue sharing.
www.nigerianmuse.com/20061228122222zg/nigeria-watch/all-about-the-oputa-panel-hrvic/nigeria-has-persecuted-the-yoruba-submission-of-afenifere-to-the-human-rights-violations/

Unemadu:
Chai my people. So handing out bedsheets and few books is now seen as a big achievement of Buhari for the south east?

I trust ndigbo not to fall for pettiness

The sun will surely rise!!!!!!!

Their hypocrisy can make one cry.
He gave mosquito nets to people of the south east, that was his achievement.

banki:
So we are now comparing ptf chairman in 1997 and 1998 to president of nigeria 2010 to20114.....isnt it a shame......

Let me talk the one wey concern me

What were the achievments of gej as governor of bayelsa state?

Buhari was PTF chairman from 1994 to 1999. He had billions of naira (possibly running into trillions in today's naira value) to work with. He had no civil servants to pay salaries or states to give allocations, all he was asked to do with all that money was to embark on projects.
What were the projects he sited in the South east?

barcanista:
Dolt, you asked a question, you were given answers, and next you resort to pathetic "comparism". You are a typical example of a bigoted joke and mockery. I have no time to join issues with you anyway!

Idîot, I thought Buhari paved the roads in the south east with diamonds which GEJ refused to do?
Why not tell us what Buhari did in the South east that will warrant us giving him our votes?

Shehu Shagari built most of the Federal roads in the South east together with his vice Ekwueme, Buhari kicked them out in a coup and took over.
What did he do for the South east after then?
What did he do for the South east as PTF chairman?
We want clear answers.

My questions still stand.
What did Buhari do for the South east?

To the Yorubas who keep asking us what GEJ did for us that we still want to vote for him;

What did Buhari do for the South west as head of state and as PTF chairman that you want to vote for him?

Jlow2:
i guess u have not used that airport since the upgrade was done, they repainted it and tagged it international airport , i dnt think ethopian airline landed der more than trice, ibos re not that dump, there is no formal contracts as regards to 2nd river niger bridge , julius berger was sent der after gej visited obi of onitsha earlydis year and he was bold enough to remind him he failed the ibos,am not talkin abt the enugu- onitsha exp or enugu portharcout exp way or the onitsha seaport, i and my family re voting buhari, gej is a disaster,i cant sell my conscience at d detriment off the innocent unborn generations.

Stop telling lies, if repainting the airport alone is enough to make it international, what stopped successive past governments from doing so?
Ethiopian airlines is still landing there up till tomorrow and their numer of flights and destinations contine to increase weekly.
Bad belle sorry.
www.ethiopianairlines.com/en/destinations/nigeria/flights-to-enugu.aspx

chamboy:
PTF built some hospitals n Schools in SE n SW

What are their names?
So GEJ hasn't built school blocks and hospitals in the South east?
Go around the universities in the east including state universities, you will find Federal government projects all over, mainly through Education Trust Fund.

Maple:
Yeah, recently I heard Akanu Ibiam has been upgraded to SEA-AIR Int'l Port, the first of its kind in Nigeria.

You keep recylcing pictures of a one hour freak flood that happened only once since the airport was upgraded to international status, but it hasn't stopped international flights from landing and taking off from the airport.
Airport floods happen everywhere, that freak one hour flood does not stop Akanu Abiam airport from being international, does it? So what exactly is your point?
Pictures of flooded airports all around the world below.
www.nairaland.com/attachments/1644097_imagesrqm14d4r_jpega6a173d6651d99dea556c203344eff29

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[img]https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/1644103_a-police-car-in-a-flooded-008_jpeg2bb8227dfb843eacd14582887ad0df45[/img]

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1644104_china_jpegffe8dd88fbd9243bcd63749be0f25546

Gbawe:
@OP.


Buhari did absolutely nothing for the SE and SW. Now kindly take your vote and that of your family to the camp of the man who has totally destroyed Nigeria for the past five years and spare us these pathetic threads most Nigerians are now tired of and in no mood for as we look forward to change and the chance to vote out the ultra-corrupt Jonathan who has damaged Nigeria immeasurably .

In case you do not know,most Nairalanders and Nigerians have worked out the tactics of people like you. You are ethnically and religiously devoted to GEJ even as you know in your heart he has failed woefully, is totally out of his depth and has brought misery to every corner of Nigeria. Because you know Jonathan has no record to run on the only option open to you and his other ethnocentric devotees is to present the "People's General" as a candidate Nigerians should run from. It will not work. Rather you are all making Buhari more popular with your dishonest attempt to malign his character and political personality.

As for the cheap attempt to whip up ethnocentric sentiments amongst those now viewed the 'gamechanger', i.e the SW, it will not work. A piece of factual information for you. Did you know that the SW delegates gave Buhari almost 100% of their vote at the recent APC presidential Primaries and would not be swayed the slightest by any amount of money on offer? Go and reflect on that reality instead of coming here with your cheap attempt to rope the SW into the blanket hatred of Buhari afflicting you and yours. The SW already knows who it will vote for so stop wasting your own time.

Your hypocrisy stinks to high heavens.
You are the one that posted this just yesterday.

Gbawe:
Buhari has no hope in the SE but I think there are many good folks in the region who are now determined to shun herd mentality and vote on the conviction that GEJ is tried, tested and failed. There will be no 99% figures for GEJ in the SE in 2015 as was the case in 2011 because there are principled Igbos who know there is no way to spin the fact that GEJ has let the SE down badly.

You have no problem telling the people of the south east not to vote for GEJ because he has failed them but you get your fûcking nickers in a twist when the same logic is used for Buhari.
Why do you cry every time people are asked not to vote for your god Buhari, but have no problem asking people not to vote for Jonathan?
I have no interest in who the South west or Yorubas votes for, but as long as you and your likes continue your cheap blackmail at getting Igbos to vote for your preferred candidate, we will continue to turn your logic right back at you.
As for your game changer crap, it is just what you tell yourselves to feel happy, there is no such thing as that.
The South west gave GEJ a meagre 2.7 million (the second lowest of all regions) votes the last time but he still won with a landslide because he was able to amass 20 million from other regions. So stop deceiving yourself, you are no game changer.

superstar1:
[s]Fashola has done what the whole of SE governors combined together can never achieve in 40years to come.

Is it not reflecting in the rate of your net migration to the Centre of Excellence, State of Aquatic Splendour. You keep witness loss of manpower and brain drain to the same Lagos and SW as a whole, your economic regression and doldrums is making your rival Sahara Desert in productivity and contribution to National GDP, all due to the visionary and exemplary leadership of Fash and you are here salivating like pavlov's dog.

As clueless as GEJ, as leadership inept and bankrupt as the whole of SE Govs.[/s]

Absolute trash!
People have been migrating to Lagos as capital and former capital of Nigeria even before Fashola was born.

To turn the question 180 degrees.

What did Buhari do for the South west as head of state and PTF chairman?

I believe the thread is big enough to accomodate all answers.

With the 2015 elections drawing nearer, people have been trying to blackmail the south east into voting their preferred candidate by claiming that the incubent President did nothing for the region.
The issue of what he did or didn't do has been dealt with severally, so no point going into that now.
The questions that have not been asked are:
What did Buhari do for the South east as Head of state for 2 years?
What projects did Buhari site in the South east as PTF chairman for 6 years?

VoteOkezie2015:
vote okezie, he is an aba boy who knows abia inside out.

Yet he couldn't clean up the place he knows so well as head of the environmental sanitation agency.

https://saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/styles/normal_medium/public/APGA-Logo.jpg
Trouble surfaced within the Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday, as some aggrieved members renounced a reconciliatory committee set up by the party to assuage the anger of those that lost during the last state and National Assembly primaries in the state, by seeking tickets to run under the banner of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) for the coming elections.The state working committee, led by its chairman Col. Sam Inokoba, had on Monday established a panel chaired by traditional ruler of the Opume kingdom, King A.J. Turner, to reconcile members unhappy with the outcome of primaries in the state. Other members of the panel were the former acting Governor of the state, Chief Peremonowei Ebebi; former political adviser, Chief Thompson Okorotie, and former Speaker of the old Rivers State House of Assembly, Talford Ongolo.
Despite the attempts, former President of the Ijaw Youth Congress (IYC), Jonjon Oyeinfa, and a former Commissioner in Bayelsa State, Zuwa Konugah, rebuffed the panel. The two sought to represent their various constituencies at the next general election in the state on the platform of the APGA.
Kodugah until recently was a commissioner for State Capital Development under the administration of incumbent governor of the state, Hon. Seriake Dickson.
At the primaries of the party held at the Atlantic
Hotel in Yenegoa, yesterday, Oyenifa and Konugah were adopted by APGA after passing party requirements.
The State Chairman of APGA, Engr. John Sokare,
said the party will give their unwavering support to the new flagbearers.
The chairman also reiterated that the party has
adopted President Goodluck Jonathan as their flagbearer in the next election.
http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/10/incensed-bayelsa-pdp-members-seeking-assembly-tickets-dump-party-apga

superstar1:
Lol.

GEJ did not hoodwinked us with 4MB
Lekki Int'l Airport is a state govt project, not another silly promise of the Mandela of Otuoke
Lekki Seaport project is going steadily.
The ones the Clueless one promised us ar Ore-Benin and Lagos-Ibadan

Fashola hoodwinked you with all that and not a single stone has been laid for any of those projects.

superstar1:
Like Ibaka, like Onitsha Port
Like Ibaka, like 2NB
Like Ibaka, like Enugu-PH expressway.

Like Ibaka like 4th mainland bridge
Like Ibaka like Lekki International airport
Like Ibaka, like Lekki seaport.

Adminisher:
It is not looking good for Jonathan at all.
It is actually better for other PDP candidates at Gubernatorial and Senate levels than Presidential.

We heard exact same stuffs four years ago.
www.nairaland.com/609783/state-state-figures-inec-voters

Those are figures from the 2011 voters list.
www.nairaland.com/609783/state-state-figures-inec-voters

aresa:
Toll or no toll, Lekki bridge was built by the people of Lagos

Lekki bridge and toll road belongs to the people of Lagos

Tolls collected by the people of Lagos state stays in Lagos state to fund similar projects in Lagos state to benefit the people of Lagos state..


On the other hand--

2nd NB belongs to JB for 30 years

Money collected from your men, women and children wont benefit your region because it goes straight to Germany

And after the 30 years, the bridge still won't belong to any of your states, it goes back to the people of Nigeria..

Basically, your region just paid tolls for 30 years to build that bridge for the rest of Nigeria even though you fund that bridge with your money and sweat...


You are not making any sense.

Why are you giving the con man credit for what you are going to pay for?

Mumu you seem to be carrying the 2nd Niger bridge toll matter alone on your head. The issue was only mentioned once but you have since picked on it and continued to repeat it like you were one of those that signed the contract.
The same thing has been said of Lagos -Ibadan road several times but you turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to it.
The small issue of tolls isn't what is going to stop us from having the 2nd Niger bridge built. We will wait till it is completed then see if we will pay the tolls or not. We will literally cross the bridge when we get there.
Assuming, against all odds, the bridge actually gets tolled after completion (like the Lagos-Ibadan road), our people will still have the choice of using the other bridge which is toll free, private car owners will spend a lot less money on fuel as they wouldn't be experiencing traffic jam on the bridge anymore, the money paid for toll will be insignificant compared to the money and time they will save. Commercial vehicle users will spend less money on transport fares even with the tolls as the operators will have no choice but to reduce their fares when they start spending far less money on fuel and far less time on the road.
It is a win-win situation for us, although the likelihood of us paying a toll for that bridge is as low as it gets.

waleadex:
That's indeed a political strategy that requires cautious sensitivity. I hope it works for you since APGA is almost evaporating in the east.

APGA evaporating in the east? You guys just sit down in your huts and make conclusions about other places.
APGA is retaking Imo and adding Abia state to its list of states come 2015, that will make it at least 3 out of 5 states is APGA's control.

Citadelbot:
Amadi Collins, you are a shameless liar. He was a military head for just 18 month.

so what did he do for the south east within that period?
What about as PTF chairman for 6 years with access to billions of naira (back then)?
How many of his projects were in the east?

aresa:
Their is hope with the man that took your votes and did nothing for you in return, but their's no hope with the man that you haven't voted for or put in any kind of position to do anything for you?

Odikwa very risky with you people's ridiculous and upside down logic I swear..

Eko Ile shut the fuçk up!
Buhari was military head of state for 3 years, what did he do for the South east?
He was PTF chairman for 6 years, how many projects did he cite in the South east?

amakaeugene:
yes thats why u people are called igbos, when u have apga you would abadon urselfs and sell ur birthrite to fishermen because you don't think you people are good enough to contest for president. Sadly ur zones vote to him would not be enough he lost the most vital north and west.

Shut up Yoruba fool and go learn how to spell.
You just opened an account today with an Igbo name and you have been going round spewing anti-Igbo diatribe.
Stop attaching yourself to the north by force, what do you mean by ''most vital'' north and west, why not most vital ''west''? GEJ won the last elections by a landslide without getting any reasonable amount of votes from the west, he can do it again.
Talk about yourselves alone and stop the by force attachment to the north.

I don't know why it is far flung Edo people that usually carry Niger delta matters on their heads here on Nairaland.
In the real sense of the word are you ''Niger deltans'' or even South south (whatever that means)?

I am a Sunni muslim from Yobe state, my dad is an Imam. I will vote Jonathan