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The folks in that picture look like known APC stalwarts in Rivers State.

APC is also so dead here at the moment, none of us in R.S takes this news seriously

Let us all vote out APC across the board in multiple states just to punish them for their impunity and this their bad brand of politics.

They were supposed to be better than the pdp but they have chosen to attempt to make Ng worse both morally and otherwise.

We will do this as a lesson to any group of people who want to do this in Nigeria in the future.

They will tell themselves "Do you remember what happened to APC?"

This is why we should discipline them. So that in future, any group of people who converge to have the kind of plans these ones have had for our country will definitely remember that the outcome is very likely to be disastrous and unfavourable (politically) for them.

Ebuscoee:
Emeka Jnr., the first son of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has said since the Nd’Igbo supported former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, he cannot understand why they cannot accord President Muhammadu Buhari the same support.

He ended the controversy trailing his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying he is only following the footsteps of his late father.

Emeka Jnr., who addressed reporters yesterday in Awka, the state capital, said Governor Willie Obiano’s overtures to him to return to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) smacked of ignorance about the workings of politics in Nigeria.

Ojukwu’s first son said he was only taking to his father’s footsteps by ensuring that his actions were informed by the best interest of Nd’Igbo.

Emeka Jnr recalled how, shortly after his father’s return from exile in 1982, he joined the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), rather than the Nigeria Peoples Party (NPP), which was headed by an Igbo man, the late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe.

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He said: “I can afford to stay back (in APGA) and wallow in sentimental politics of nkea bu nkeanyi (this is our own). But in the long run, what becomes of our tomorrow and place in the great Nigeria project, for which our forefathers laboured, invested their time, talent and even their blood?

“Which is preferable: to be a big fish in a small pond or a big fish in the ocean?

“Real champions are never afraid of the big league. That could be why the late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo asserted that if you cannot reason beyond petty sentiments, you are a liability to mankind. The Nd’Igbo are not better off with emotional politics.

“So, while they seek to crucify me for joining APC, they express support and solidarity for the APC leader. Which is worse: to walk the talk or pander to politics of deceit and duplicity? What is the essence of being in a party that would rather support the presidential candidate of another party than choose its own?”

Emeka Jnr noted that having supported Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, the Nd’Igbo decided to support President Buhari in the spirit of fairness and political goodwill so that when a president of Igbo extraction emerges, other ethnic groups would reciprocate.

SOURCE: https://www.merchantv.com/2018/06/lets-support-buhari-as-we-did-to.html

Igbos "support" for Jonathan helped make him fail.

This is because they went about saying that it was the Igbo votes in the north (in 2011) that made Jonathan do well in the north the first time around.

Meanwhile, that was not necessarily true. Very very many northerners voted for Jonathan in 2011.

So what do you think the northerners did when they heard that story being peddled over and over again?

They said "Is that so? Okay. Let us see how far the "northern Igbo" votes will go in 2015"
and they withdrew their votes in 2015.

As individuals Igbos can have good diplomatic relationships with others,
but once the context becomes a group/block (Igbos interacting as a group with others) they are very terrible at diplomacy, always pursuing and executing a self-diminishing strategy (politically).

In any case, almost the whole country does not want Buhari for a second term.

Why should this call come now?

Your support to repeat what you have performed in this first three years?

ZKOSOSO:
Fate in the hands of IGP and INEC Chairman.
These two are the Rigging Machine of Buhari.

Except God Factor prevails, Buhari will coast home to Victory via the Rigging Machine who are already configured to perform the religious duty to Turban the Mahdi III of the Caliphate again..!!

If u know u know...!

ebenholer ZKOSOSO oladimejiidowu6

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When the people are popularly against you, you find out that rigging is very very hard

Could it have been easy to rig for any candidate in 2011 when Fashola was running a second time in Lag?

In my local govt area in Rivers State, rigging could not really breath because the vast majority was in support of the PDP.
The slightest attempt at rigging was easily spotted and resisted *by the people*.

If they were mostly APC supporters in my LGA, it would still be very hard for the PDP (or any other party) to rig because a certain critical level of popularity would have been reached, making it hard for the opposition to rig

By the same token a certain level of unpopularity can exist with any candidate, and it becomes very difficult for that very candidate to rig.

Then, his act was like that of a semi-juju man.
You know those juju men that incorporate the bible in their acts

contactwale:
Mr. Ochereome Nnanna, Chairman Editorial Board of the Vanguard newspapers, has described the Yorubas as "sophisticated morons".

Nnanna made this assertion in his reply to a post on Facebook.

Areh Sunday, a journalist and an aide to Delta State Governor, while reacting to President Muhammadu Buhari's declaration of June 12 as Democracy day on Thursday had gone to his Facebook page to express his disappointment in Yorubas for falling for the antics of the government of the day.

He posted:
"I use to think the South-West was very sophisticated. I was wrong. They are the most gullible. They fall for every poisoned carrot dangled before them"

Reacting to the post, Nnanna wrote:
"Sophisticated morons, more like"

This comment would not have elicited any reaction from me but for the fact that it was coming from the Chairman of the editorial board of one of the reputable newspaper houses in the country. A man of his status is expected to conduct himself in a respectful and responsible manner consistent with his function as an opinion-molder in the society.

Each and every newspaper is incomplete without the editorial section. They (editorials) are believed to be the heart and soul of newspapers. They display the values and policies of a newspaper and influence policy decisions.

A member of editorial board is expected to be matured, experienced, intelligent and well-informed. He must rise above politics, tribal and religion partisanship. An editorial member should be able to explain all the aspect of any issue in relating with past events, presents scenario and future prospectus. This is not the case with Nnanna as seen in this circumstance.

If this is the opinion of the Chairman of the editorial board of a national newspaper about Yorubas therefore, one should not be surprised about the view and news policies of Vanguard newspapers about the race.

It is my hope that Vanguard newspapers will caution Nnanna and apologise to the Yorubas for the embarrassment he has caused them.

Wale OLAYANJU

I will comment on this later.

If the defense minister cannot pin-point one provision of the anti-grazing law that is deficient,
he should forever keep quiet about his
inappropriate statement that the anti-grazing
law that was enacted (through the right law-making process) should be "suspended"
as in the first place, laws do not get made or suspended on the whims or wishes of men, in Nigeria.
They get made, modified or rescinded through the law-making process.

chairman00100:
bros,
must we bring tribe into every other thread on nairaland? btw was it only the yoruba who voted for buhari, all of middle belt voted for him and are getting slaughtered for it, or are you trying to derail the thread because some body without brain from there will surely come out to insult the only people who refused to vote for buhari and so are not responsible for this huge failure

Please, ignore him, and forgive him. He must be an Igbo man. We have more important things to focus on than falling for cheap invitation to engage in squabbles with no objective gain.

~ S. south voice

We reject this bill in its totality.
Any bill that says that the waterways in Lagos state, or Akwa-Ibom state or Onitsha or Benue should be under federal government control.

Never mind the management of this resources according to world best practices the promoters claim. We do not believe it anyway. How have they managed what is already in their keep right now? Away with them

Out with Buhari as quickly as possible, along with his 3-4 year drive to send nigeria 60 years back into history

Clowns!

AdamuAudu:
I voted Buhari too. Honestly no one knows that this man Buhari will turn out to be our greatest problems because many of us were thinking that Buhari, especially consifering the troubles of this world, his age, his level of civilizatin abi exposure and the serious voting force in his favour, I thought he will change his character even if he is a Fulani man. Yes, Fulanis will never love others outside his tribe, but we expect him to be a good man. But I strongly believe in the power of God Almight.y He will do something before this country will completely go down because of Buhari and his apc government. Amen

It is not because he is a Fulani.

It is because he is a horrible Fulani man when it comes to political leadership.

Was Abacha not Fulani?

Even though we say he was a bad man, would he have tolerated herdsmen killing in his domain this way?

What about IBB. Would he have tolorated the kinds of things we are seeing here?

It had nothing to do with Buhari being a northerner or Fulani.

He is just a baaaad and ill-fitting northern fulani.

And we tried to let you guys see.

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3 things that made me realize Nigerians were not as intelligent as I thought they were:

1). The mad rush (even by those that should know better) into MMM.
2). The way millions of Igbos rallied around Nnamdi Kanu
3). And this one actually came before the first two (the crowd of Nigerians that invested their persons into ensuring the emergence of the failure we all now endure as a Nigerian presidency).

DIKEnaWAR:
People actually trooped out to get their share of the alleged money Fayemi wants to rig the elections with. They were determined to get it or steal it from him and other person's found at the scene.

Hunger dey o.

There are reports that those persons were shot by a mobile policeman. How true?

Yes. He was shot by a policeman who was moved from Lagos to Ekiti.
The official report is that he had no business in Ekiti.
Operating in Ekiti on that day was illegal.
The way it is looking, it is cowering to the demands of so called "big men" that made the police officer escort the politician to Ekiti (even though he officially ought not to be there) and perhaps this happens a lot and only got revealed this time because such a policeman got into such an incident.

Ymodulus:
Who takes the Bible serious?

A book where snakes were talking, men sleeping around on sanctions action from pseudo god, god is jealous of others, where virginsvjust magically conceive? etc

You mean the Bible whose initial version was written by a gay? King James?


Your stupid Bible that glorifies a bastard call Jesus Christ. Pls oreach the Bible to your sheeple believers not me. Cause you hit the wrong turn, and if you are so vexed with my opinions. They are strictly mine and mine alone.

Jesus won't stop loving you.
He knows... all your secret thoughts
Even ones you don't want to admit to yourself (if they do exist).
The Father of your soul, God, loves you.
He just won't stop

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greatiyk4u:
It is obvious you're on a mission to tarnish the Image of a man who used over 40years to build his Integrity.......

The herdsmen/farmers clash is as old as Nigeria, just that there is more media coverage because of social media

The Fulani race was wiped out in many local governments in plateau state yet no much reportage in the past

I am totally against any form of violence that leads to loss of lives but I still believe Buhari can't be sponsoring the killing of the same electorate that voted him in especially when he is aspiring for re-election

During GEJ regime the same Buhari was blamed of sponsoring all the violence in the country


It is pathetic and bizarre to be a chronic wailer

So you think we don't know that even you know that Buhari has been deliberately reluctant to use the forces to kill and capture the criminals?

You think we don't know that you know how swiftly the government (led by Buhari) pounced on the Islamic movement of Nigeria (with the military)?

You think we don't know that you know how swiftly the government (led by presid Buhari) pounced on the IPOB break-aways in (with the military)?

You think we don't know that you know that in the case of Benue, a major official response to the killings was the police officially launching an operation to rid all locals of illegally possessed guns? As if the AK47s employed by the killers were legal ones. In the first place, the govt sent only some policemen there and was defending it in the face of outcries and only finally gave in after much condemnation (by the public) and comparison with the two cases above.

You think we don't know that even you know that even though the killings predated this administration it intensified when this administration came on board?

You think we don't know that even you know that even though the killings predated this administration and intensified upon the arrival of this administration, the IGP said that it was the implementation of the anti-grazing bill (a few months ago) that was causing the killings by the killers?

In summary, you think we don't know that even you know in your heart that you have chosen to be a defender of falsehood here on Nairaland?

Presence in Port Harcourt?

hucienda:
N5000. One of the many problems of the welfare state.

Who will pay for it? For how long? Is it sustainable? How about its accountability in a notoriously corrupt system as in the country? Among its many problems will be that it would further entrench the seed of dependency among the recipients.

Immediately I saw that plank in their campaign, I knew these guys were not serious.

Anyway, we all know where most of the recipients (if any) would be found in the country.

lalasticlala, over to you.

They shouldn't have made that kind of promise during the campaigns

kettykings:
useless satanic ACF who will hide under the stupid cover the government of buhari to use him to deploy military againts unarmed ipob, notice how these fools never opened thier mouths againts armed herdsment and boko haram

Just rubbish. I do not support the I.P.O.B people but this statement by the ACF paints them in weak light.
How can they be bothered that igbos want to sit at home.
If igbos like let them sit at home for one week.
When a people don't know when to employ the weapon of ignoring...

All ACF should do is ignore... like the rest of us do.

For them to be saying this, it shows a level of weakness I did not know they had.

It shows what they are really afraid of is Igbo unity and/or oneness of purppose to igbo action.

And when you are unsettled by simple anticipation of cohesion among others, it means you live in a profoundly low place.

I am disappointed but perhaps it is a good thing that I can see these people are not as sophisticated as I had earlier believed.

WinkWrld:
Clueless man is having clues

After Buhari came to power, we realized we didn't really know what cluelessness was before as we came to understand/appreciate the true meaning of cluelessness.

Asking the right questions usually point us in the direction of the right answers

Now let us take it more seriously (let us stop taking it for granted)
by voting out the folks who threaten it by their actions today.

https://dailypost.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/herdsmen.jpg

Some, as I have heard, have said we should not call the killers killing Benue state and Taraba state farmers herdsmen.

The question we should ask them is...

..."Who moves in and benefits from the land when the killers have chased the villagers away?"

Who moves into the lands?
What do they do when they move into the lands?
What happens between the people who move into the lands and the killers after they have killed and chased away the villagers?

Below is a picture from the mass burial ceremony conducted for the dead after the 2018 new year's day attack courtesy CNN (https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/11/africa/benue-killings-mass-burial/index.html)

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180111185513-benue-killings-mass-burial-1-super-tease.jpg

deomelo:
OP, thank me for dashing you 1 post to help your dead and failed thread.


Ndo...

You may not be right at all

I might have reason to remind you here

4). Lieutenant General Turkur Buratai:

After the scandal burst that President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Army staff had bought multiple properties in Dubai allegedly worth $1.5 million, the Nigerian Army released a statement claiming that Mr. Buratai and his wife bought the properties from proceeds of their “personal savings”.

However, the same Buhari administration is trying Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia in court for corruption and rejected her argument that the sum of $793,800, which she was alleged to have, was from her legitimate earnings.

Federal High Court judges earn more than Major Generals in the army (A’s Buratai was when he made the suspicious purchases). If the Buhari administration rejected Justice Ajumogobia’s argument that she could have $793,800 from her legitimate earnings, how come they are willing to accept Turkur Buratai’s argument that he bought the alleged $1.5 million Dubai properties from his ‘personal savings’.

~ Italicized text copied from Reno Omokiri's post

2). The Maina Saga

[color=#000]Maina is the biggest alleged thief in Nigeria’s civil service history. He was dismissed by former President Jonathan after allegedly making off with over $130 million. He was also declared wanted by the International Police (Interpol) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Yet, Maina, was recalled, reinstated and double promoted by the Buhari administration. When the Nigerian Senate sought to probe the circumstances of his recall and reinstatement, President Buhari’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice went to court to secure a kangaroo injunction to stop them.

The current head of service of the federation, Mrs Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, revealed that she personally and verbally warned President Buhari of the Maina affair BEFORE he was recalled and the President REFUSED to stop the immoral action.

According to Junaid Mohammed, the Buhari government gave Maina armed guards to protect him and was preparing him to contest to he Governor of Borno before his cover was blown.

Abdulrasheed Maina is known to have many properties[/color]

The facts are true, but the text was taken from the post here:

https://www.facebook.com/omokri/posts/10216012973974468.

I am certain the list can be very long but let us just stick with a few ridiculous instances of open support for corruption by this administration.

1). The Former SFG
First, the dramatic events surrounding the allegations against Babachir Lawal, the former secretary to the federal government.
This man was found (through the senate's investigations) to have committed gross sharp practices with funds approved for the betterment of IDPs affected by Bokoharam.

The funny thing is the president had established that the gravity of the crime committed by the former defense minister in allegedly misappropriating defense money was so grievous because the funds were meant to keep innocent civilians in the north safe from Boko Haram.

Fast-forward to 2017 when the all the sharp practices revealed to be carried out by the the SGF's company or by him came to the fore, the president (the current president Buhari) actually...

... Sent a letter to the senate actually clearing him of all wrong doing after a thoroughly carried-out (yet, to this day, very invisible) investigation.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/221411-buhari-writes-senate-clears-sgf-lawal-grass-cutting-contract-scandal.html

http://sunnewsonline.com/alleged-corruption-buhari-clears-sgf-magu/