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enlightenedmind:
Firstly, there is no evidence Buhari ever collected that money from them. He was warned sternly not to take loans from the EU or US.
Secondly UK aid is OUR MONEY. UK can never aid Nigeria because to put it simply all it has is ours. Our exploited wealth. We know this so they should please come up with another deception because this "aid" one has ran its course.

All it has is ours? Complete nonsense.
Maybe their wives and children are ours too.
And why can't they claim all we have is theirs. They educated us, taught us to read and write e.t.c, e.t.c.?

One thing that hurts is in the run up to the elections, we said that we know we need someone stronger than GEJ (better is always better) [size=13pt]but that we know this man Buhari is not the alternative we seek.
Folks did not listen.
This has caused me to lose respect for many bright Nigerians who right now by their confessions are basically expressing disappointment / regret about their choice in 2015.

The reason is I never thought it was a sign of brilliance to see the wrongness of Buhari as leader of our nation.
So if these folks so emotively ran so hard in that direction and now, even when we hoped we would be disappointed, they are yelping at every anti-Buhari predictor's prediction as they are coming true.

So how does that leave my respect for their sense of judgement?[/size]

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kettykings:
igbos are not prepared for anything , no plan B, no fall back position , no strategy , no preparation, no cards on the table , no deft moves , no organisation only wailings , the igbo race is now more vulnerable than they were in 1967 and more prone to being roundly defeated in a little arm struggle like there was in 1967

It seems because others criticize Igbos, you just join in blindly.
I am one of those that criticize Igbos and you will see that in my posts.
But this one you have put up here is just kind of nonsense.
If you think in this case they are not prepared, then somehow perhaps it is you that is not prepared for what they are prepared for.
The major weakness of Igbos is no central govt (organisation) in their traditional past but declare war on them and all that disunity will disappear even before you finish declaring the words from your mouth.
In fact, you just don't know what you are saying here.
But that is not what we should be concerned about here. We should be concerned about setting our country back on track again. less than 1 year of this mistake has set us off course

TheGoodJoe:


You do not need to read the full article.

Is this a lie?

“It is curious that in their desperation to use the esteemed National Economic Council for political and personal vendetta, the persons behind these allegations acted as if the constitutionally recognized FAAC, a potent expression of Nigeria’s fiscal federalism, does not exist,” a statement signed by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's spokesperson, Paul Nwabuikwu, said.

[size=13pt]Please, I believe I finished with you on this matter several comments ago. I am not willing to expend my time on this. Engaging with you further on this amounts to a poor use of my time.
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NinaOlusoga12:
@coolscott, you seem to just want to believe that Okonjo Iweala lied. It is possible some leaders betrayed the trust of the people but not Okonjo Iweala. She was one leader that was honest and transparent in her dealings, she spoke with the press several times to inform us about situations in the country, she acknowledged funds coming into the country's finance and also states what they are used for and who approved it. Really she was honest from the very beginning, so I don't understand why you decided to use the word 'lie' but Dr Okonjo Iweala never did such a thing.

[size=13pt]I don't believe that she lied.
to just want satisfy the crucifixion desires of TheGoodJoe to let him know that even if he fully crucifies her, after he has done that, and even if she is dead, the question we must ask ourselves is "What next?"

I am fully convinced he wants the discuss to be on the irrelevant past rather than our current realities and our future mainly because he cannot stand the embarrassment of the current ground-breaking failings of a leadership he supported into office.

If I wasn't sure before, his replies confirmed that.

He is not in my view, an objective Nigerian.

If he was a supporter of the opposition, he would look for ways to justify their mistakes, in the face as of those mistakes just he hoped to make us transfer our anger and attention to Ngozi Okonjo Iweala rather than on today, the only material which we are given, with which to invent our tomorrow.[/size]

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As a matter of fact, I didn't even read his article and see no reason to as he has confirmed to me the intentions from which the article was brewed

[size=13pt]The OP is just trying to derail the discuss from the issue of a failing administration to
whether we hate or we do not hate Buhari.

The administration (failing or not) is not Buhari and the Buhari is not the administration but he is the head of the administration,
and therefore influences it's chemistry, direction and flow. That is the reason people point fingers at him. The buck usually stops at the top.

In Buhari's case, what makes things bad for him is the things he fails to do.

He fails to step in and talk to the people. Even if things don't get better quickly, re-assuring words help people to still have confidence in you.

He has been completely silent of the killings of innocent people living on their lands in Agatu, but spoke about election violence in Rivers State.

5 Fulani herdsmen were allegedly killed by Igbos in Aba and the DSS was on top of the case (after not a word has come out from the presidency for so long after the Agatu killings).

The shear silence is very, very terrible on the part of the presidency concerning these key issues which border on security, which happens to be one of the things he campaigned on.

When people are being failed (especially when they had high leadership hopes), who are you to dictate how they should complain?[/size]

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[size=13pt]I know of two Nigerians in the UK who should have had title shots at folks like Mayweather but for the fact that they do not really have a following in the UK and the promoters (who provide the backing money) don't think they will recoup their investment in terms of ticket sales and T.V viewership in such cases.

This guy got the shot, I am guessing because he grew up in the UK. When he is pitched up against an opponent, his friends all through life will be routing for him.

Folks from all the schools he attended will be routing for him.

Every county he grew or lived in will be pitching for him.

Promoters feel nice about this because they know they will sell enough tickets and have a lot of viewership on TV bringing more income from there.

The point is we have to rally round ANY Nigerian boxer plying his trade in the UK. The Nigerian community has to support and promote. They have numbers.

Is Anthony Joshua's case, he is no more Nigerian. The british crowd even rallied round him because they considered him british.

The official records will not reflect that a Nigerian owns that belt now (just like the official records never reflected that Lenox Lewis' titles where won by a Jamaican even though both his parents were Jamaican).

The British will not even give the argument that he is Nigerian a second glance.

What must we do? The Nigerian community in the UK must create its "Promote Nigerian" arm or coalition in the UK. The Nigerian population in the UK is big. Just officially backing one boxer alone will make that boxer's fights juicy enough to make it difficult for promoters to resist the lure of making those fights happen[/size]

[size=13pt]Wike has only started his tenure. I am putting this out there so that perhaps he will begin to think in that direction. He has not done badly so far but what I have said is something Rivers State badly needs and it will be to his own credit if he is the governor that pulls it off.[/size]

Scholes007:
there is no reason trying to drag ijaw into anything, ijaw have been mutual friend to the igbos though sometimes there is some tension. But the ijaw were never the major slave traders but the aros(a sub clan of igbo tribe). They sold igbos, ijaw, efik and ibibio alike

[size=13pt]You are wrong. I have been through wide areas of Ijaw land from the days when Bayelsa State was still part of Rivers State. The slave holding grounds are still there. Go to brass, it will still be there.

Kalabari, it may not be there but the slave manifests are still there

In Bonny too, the records of transactions should still be there.

Now you don't know the role the Aros played.

They were the major middlemen in the slave market. The ones who captured and bought slaves in Igbo land
and transported them to be sold to the Ijaws.

You are right that Efiks and Ibibios alike were also bought and sold.
But you are very wrong about the Ijaws being sold because the Ijaws were the last man between the slaves and the white man
The last point in the supply chain.

The Aros bigger reputation was for having the big slave market in Igbo land, where the slaves were brought, bought and transported to the coastline Ijaws, who sold them to the white man.

One of the major routes taken by the Aros in transporting the batches of slaves they had purchased was through Ndoki, which is in the current rivers state. From Ndoki, the slaves were moved by river to the various kingdoms of the south where the Kings, chiefs and rich would by them for final sale to the white man, who paid them for the slaves as well as paid the kings of the region money for permission to dock their ships and do business in the region.

History is not established out of declarations we produce out of the fantasies of our imagination. Here are a few credible links for you (and everyone else) to read up

I have attached a couple of screenshots below also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalabari_Kingdom#History

www.san.beck.org/16-10-WestAfricaBritish.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bonny#Early_history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nembe_Kingdom#History

www.ajol.info/index.php/afrrev/article/download/72292/61225[/size]
Of all the slaves sold in this region of Nigeria, Igbos formed the highest number. I the west, it was the Yorubas.
I kind of like these topics because they create an opportunity to educate us and who knows, people may want to go to Brass to see what is left of the building that slaves used to stay in. I used to see that building a lot many years ago when I was in Brass. I hope they have preserved it as they did then.

[size=13pt]I saw in the news yesterday or so that the Cross Rivers State government is building a rice city solely for the cultivation of rice.
Project cost => $4m

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/thai-investors-arrive-c-river-to-commence-4m-rice-city-project/

Today, I see in the news that the Kaduna state government is building a $150m poultry project. Actually, they are not the ones building it but they got foreign investors in to do this. Amongst other things, it will produce 1 million day old chicks per week.

The question I ask is what is our Rivers State governor's plan for diversification as seen exemplified by these kinds of project that have been begging to be done, but which have now been finally embarked upon by our neighbours in Cross Rivers State and our far away counterparts in Kaduna state?

We have suffered the grievous tragedies of being inflicted by 2 bereft personalities in the form of our 2 past governors when it comes to any kind of real and committed economic development from within. These 2 past governors have been:-

a) Dr. Peter Odili for whom it would seem that that kind of economic development did not even live on the same planet as his thoughts before and during his stay as governor. Whether his mind had any encounter with those thoughts when he left office, we may never know.

b) Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who was a glorified dunce from the onset and only revealed his true state every time he opened his mouth to speak. He was Dr. Odilli's right hand man through out Odili's stay in power and worked closely with him in the worthless performance the Odilli administration was about. He is alleged to be the one who introduced the cult boys (who later became militants) to Odilli's corridors of power, such that a militant eventually became Chief security officer of Rivers State. That a militant became the state security officer under Odilli is verifiable information.

Now we have Wike. Will he be like the rest of the tragedies Rivers State has had to bear?

Will he allow us to be crying foul when LNG or private investors decide to build a shipping dry dock in Lagos State?

Or will he find one project that will outlast him and try and make it a reality through public/private(home or abroad) partnership such that his era is etched upon the history of Rivers State for good for a long time (even after he has gone)?[/size]

explorer250:
you have no superior argument. the Igbo nation has always been in the fore front of activism against injustice since to time immemorial. what do you need an oppressive monarch for? even without monarchs and oppressive government wasn't the Igbo society organised? wasn't there law and order in the Igbo society? that same Igbo individualism and democracy is that not what america, Britain, Germany etc abandoned their monarchs for? even your foolish country is practicing democracy. the warrant chiefs was introduced to exploit the Igbo nation not because we were not organized. like I told you you lack the intellectual capacity to argue in politics, just move to romance

[size=13pt]For your records, the major relationship between the Igbos and the Ijaws of the south-south for many years in history was the sale of Igbos as slaves to the white man from our shores. Middlemen from the hinterland sold Igbos to Ijaws, who in turn sold them to the white man.
Why do you think we do not take u serious? Also, individualism does not automatically translate to organized democracy.
You just need to organise yourselves. That is what we are trying to say. Anytime you attack other people (whether Yorubas, Hausas or Ijaws) it is just foolishness in a fruitless direction that we all wonder why you cannot see.

Note: What you give to yourself from working on your inside, no one can take away from you[/size]

drss:
no be u be dis

I am commenting here just because I want to come back here and find this picture. I wonder who did this?

explorer250:
on a second note, are you more south south than me? what really makes you minorities high? what actually do your tribe have more than Igbo? is it money? oil? education? influence? development? stop exposing your ignorance you are minority and pawns in majorities chess board.

[size=13pt]Did you see how a handful of minority white men came and colonized a majority Africa?
You see, the minority Red Indian African nations did not know who was really minority/majority.
They looked at their body size and thought they were majority.
They looked at their automahauks and that they white man's pistol was minority.
When the cards were down, every colonised region from the Americas through sub-Saharan Africa knew who was
minority and who was majority.

Unfortunately, you still think it is a numbers game.

Now tell how can a people who it is the white man that came and created chiefs for, be a majority over a people the white man had to pay taxes to in order to do business in their area or use their ports?

Inferiority of organisation as a people has run within you through the years (even before the white men came).

Sorry. Your problem is not with others. It is within yourselves. Go and clean up and organise your house from within -
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[size=13pt]Igbo clowns not happy that the attention is not on them anymore in the wake of the Fulani problems and the current administrations seeming failures with fuel and electricity.

They need ridiculous arguments to erupt around the items of their thieving desires because without the arguments, they cannot steal. The same way they argued about land on benches or stools arranged in semi-circles over the ages (as that was the only way the party who knew he did not own the land saw as available to him for stealing it) they bring that primitivity into our modern age.

The people of the south-south way back centuries ago, were not even that primitive in their dealings. Transactions were made and recorded.

I like to say that as a naked African/Papua New Guinea chief came out to greet his white visitor in his proud and naked glory, so also these Igbos don't know how they dishonour (more like disgrace) themselves before our very eyes when they come out like this.

Just as the chief would not have understood if his foreign visitors tried to explain to him that he was naked, it means totally nothing to these Igbo folks that their balls and everything else are out in the air
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TheGoodJoe:
Her lies are exposed and if she tries to lie more, I will do my best to expose her. Enough of the deceits. How can we move forward if we wallow in lies and deceits.

[size=13pt]Ride on exposing. Ride on. All the alleged past lies and deceits, Placing a priority on the alleged lies and deceits of the past over the ones that may be threatening to swoop us right now into the future.

Ride on. You will get really very far by doing so.

You will get really, really far. Don't stop. Ride on!

Don't stop. Make sure you continue ridding on oh!

Ride on and don't stop.

Just keep navigating your way through the lies of our past through ur rear-view mirror

Don't stop, my dear. Ride on.[/size]

TheGoodJoe:
I am not judging her. I am exposing her lies. If she was from China and she tried this...

[size=13pt]Cool. When you are done (i.e. completely satisfied) I think that will be a good time for you to proceed with engaging today, the only window with which to embrace the future[/size]

TheGoodJoe:

Which one is go on with the country? How can we go on I'd we do not learn from our mistakes?All your are saying is to protect the woman and not the truth.

This is not about battering Madam Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. It is about exposing the lies and burying the lies.

With this educational piece, few will write that Madam Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala would have saved if not the Governors.

This is about saving a battered truth.

[size=13pt]I don't know what your problem is.
I have said, if you believe she is guilty, please do thoroughly satisfy yourself with the most exerting punishment you can give her.
And after you are satisfied, can we please move forward?
Now if you want to remain (after doing that) in the zone called bitter, no one is obliged to stay there with you[/size]

[size=13pt]I Just found out the last post I put up here isn't from Sahara Reporter's facebook page
I put up the post, "Sahara Reporters Publishes Alleged Tinubu Foreign Accounts On Facebook Page" uploading a picture I found on what looked at saharareporter's facebook page.
https://web.facebook.com/Saharareportersnewsupdate/photos/a.1476762459301811.1073741828.1476755985969125/1578854109092645/?type=3&theater

https://www.nairaland.com/3036049/sahara-reporters-publishes-alleged-tinubu

I asked if anyone had heard anything about it and someone alleged the it wasn't sahara reporter's fb page. So I went to take a closer look and this is what I found:

1) The page belongs to owners of the website, SaharaReportersRescue.com
2) Their name is actually SaharaRescue.Com. At least that is what they project
3) They already have over 33,000 likes on facebook.
4) It would seem the intent is to cruise on the already established name Sahara Reporters has made for itself in their quest for success.
5) So far, it seems to be working[/size]

[size=13pt]I found this on the Sahara Reporters facebook page.
Decided to share it here.
Anyone seen it anywhere else?[/size]
Source: https://web.facebook.com/Saharareportersnewsupdate/photos/a.1476762459301811.1073741828.1476755985969125/1578854109092645/?type=3&theater

TheGoodJoe:



The question is, why is it that we could not save during the windfall.

I expected Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to take responsibility. Instead, she heaped the blame on the Governors. Thus, lying to the people she served and trying to deceive them.

It is time we faced the truth, understand the situation of things and give the government time to fix it.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala lied, withdrew funds from the ECA and broke the trust of the Governors.

The truth will free the shackles on the mind of the people and make them reasonable.

As long as the article or thread exposes lies and educates the public with the truth, it is relevant. Education can not be wrong.

[size=13pt]As I said, after satisfying yourself with the crucifixion of the lady (and please do it thoroughly to your satisfaction) can we go on with our country?[/size]

TheGoodJoe:

What do you mean by look good? Or the only good news we can post is how to make this administration look bad.

This thread is to expose the truth. That is what is most important. The truth.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala lied repeatedly until a lot of people believed it.

The Governors did not force her to spend the ECA funds. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala already spent $2 billion dollars from it.

[size=13pt]I have to confess I did not read the article because of my belief about its purpose/usefulness to us as a people.
But to bring some pragmatism to the table, let us agree she was (and in all likelihood still is) bad.
Can you please crucify (i.e. punish) her to the best of your satisfaction and when
you are through with it, can we then go on with our country?[/size]

ashjay001:
At least u've toned down ur rhetoric. Expecting u on d zombie train soonest!

[size=13pt]I am not involved in your crap "zombie" or "wailers" labelling saga please.
If you love it, you can stay and enjoy it it.
And I wonder what this alleged rhetoric of mine was.[/size]

LouisVanGaal:
Even if NOI and GEJs names appear on panama papers, you guys would still find a way to lick their salty black asses!

[size=13pt]What is the point trying to make a topic about if NOI was great or if GEJ was great now is the question.
In my statement, I don't think I praised NOI. Neither did I even mention GEJ.
I simply identified this thread as unnecessary and an attempt to make other things or people A (no, THE) topic of discussion right in the middle of the unprecedented challenges we are facing now as a country?
As a parting note, where I come from we are do not consider people's asses edible.
Where you come from, Do you?[/size]

[size=13pt]This thread is not necessary at all.
It only serves to try to make this administration look good (in the face of the troubles it faces)
by attempting to make
a long gone administration look worse.[/size]

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edoc
leopard
pidgin
thegoodjoe
yyeske
ashjay001
prexpert
louisvangaal

SUPERPACK:
dollar exchange rate 1999 =21.89 naira
dollar exchange rate 2015 =199.9 naira.
=199.9 ÷ 21.89= 9.13
Appreciation =9.13 * 100 = 913%
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so is it nt close to 1000%. U fail to mention that he also sold oil during oil price growth, meaning he also got revenue frm oil sell, buhari on the other hand is now selling oil at almost the production cost, without profit.

[size=13pt]Please we are talking about the depreciation of the U.S dollar. A depreciation in the value of the naira relative to the dollar does not equate to a corresponding depreciation in the dollar. In fact, if both of them were depreciating together at the same rate, the naira would still be =N=21.89 to $1.

But you have actually nailed yourself here because it means that for every USD in the foreign reserves Buhari has close to 10 times more naira with which to work in the country.

In 1999, $3bn was equal to (1billion x 21.89 x 3) =N=65,670,000,000 ::: 65billion naira
1n 2015, $3bn is equal to (1billion x 150 x 3) =N=570,000,000,000 ::: 570billion naira

But he has $30bn so let's multiply =N=570bn by 10.
That gives us =N=5,700,000,000,000 ::: 5.7 trillion naira.


plaetton is right. He should sit down and get to work if OBJ sat down and got to work with only 65bn in reserves to work with[/size]

SUPERPACK:
do you knw that $3 billion dollars in 1999 is bigger than $30 billion dollars in 2015. because the xchange rate in 1999 is $1=22naira, while in 2015 $1=199 naira. it means that inflation rate is 10% per year meaning Obj got same money with buhari, but the difference is 16years. When Obj became president in 1999 our economy dependence on oil was only 50%, bt he personally took it up to 75% meaning any slump in oil price will affect the country, to show u an example how much did u buy the following in 1991 compare it to 2015 price.
1. Bread
2. pure water
3. cabin biscuit
4. fuel
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did Obj have terrorist to spend on,?
Did he meet any global oil price slump??

plaetton:
You must be a stark economic illiterate if you say that $3 billion in 1999 is more than $30b today.

Where did you go to school, if at all ?

With $30 billion today and very little international debt to service, the government has almost 100 times more spending power than OBJ could have dreamt of.

With $3 b , OBJ still had to service debt with $4 b annually.

Call a buffoon a buffoon, and stop shaming your self.

[size=13pt]For $3bn in 1999 to be worth more than $30bn in 2015, the U.S dollar has to have suffered a depreciation of more than 1,000% over that period.

The die-hard Buhari supporters are not trying at all. They are making it look as if only the less developed intellectually, are within their ranks.

Just see what this one has put up here now.[/size]

[size=13pt]The role of a pastor in political times is to neither stand with one politician or against another, but to stand with what is right.
Any politician who wants to stand with the clergy should find that the only way to do that is to stand with what is right.
This way, the clergy is not see to be patronizing any individual but sticking to the path of his calling.
And if a politician wants to be seen as pleasing God, all he needs do is walk the path of right.

In this stance, he must be somehow like traditional leaders in that they are neither for nor against any contestant.
But they must give their godly counsel to all who come ask for it. Any humble enough to seek that. Which is why
in my view, Pastor Adeboye made it a point to publicly pray for both Jonathan and Osibanjo.

For Reverend Mbaka, if folks had said he crossed the line, they would have been attacked.
God did not call the modern day Christian to be a diviner, predicting outcomes of elections.
The things we are to do is grow in the fruits of the Spirit and disciple others to do the same using our lives
as examples and the word of God.

Now recount the words Rev Mbaka said that night in the crusade.
Words spilled with tear-filled eyes.
He reduced himself then to a politician although he did not know it
because now, what he said of the past administration with tears in his eyes,
Nigerians are all genuinely wailing about the one he supported with metaphorical tears in our eyes.

What is unfolding today is not the handiwork of any group or any party.
Nobody can say that people are sponsoring hate ads against the folks at the helm of affairs.
What we are observing is a collapse from within the current handler of our country
that embarrasses all who staked a lot to support them.

Many supported this administration in coming into power and clearly are getting nervous and embarrassed.[/size]
Now Reverend Mbaka is unfortunately one of them and this should not have been the case.

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Perhaps the clergy man should be even more neutral than the trad leaders giving the God perspective to all who will give an ear to him

ehinmowo:
my points:
1. grazing reserves are advocated by some of d best minds Nigeria can offer, d benefits are almost countless

2. u cnt compare Igbo or Yorubas to Fulanis who are largely crude, nomadic, unschooled (no apologies)

3. you sound very tribalistic and bias (you sound inferior. sorry if that is harsh)

4. it is an insult to Christianity when you say that someone wants to jslamise Nigeria. that cannot happen. nit subtly and never by force

[size=13pt]You are very wrong on the 4th point.
Northerners (from Dan-Fodio to Buhari) have publicly expressed this desire. Why should we then force ourselves to believe they don't want to. About if they can or not, they have always been chipping persistently at their goal. People just resist.
I would have loved for it to happen so that we can say "we told you" but every inch of islamisation is very difficult to reverse as we have seen even in cases when the actions committed are illegal.

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[color=#000000]There was a time in Europe when Winston Churchill was warning his countrymen that Hitler was a mad tyrant but nobody wanted to believe Winston Churchill's imaginations that anybody could be foolish and mad enough to want to conquer Europe and indeed, the rest of the world. Somehow, you wouldn't blame them. Hitler had to be stupid and outrageously mad for Churchill to be correct.
They just did not know that Hitler, the German politician, was already mad.[/size][/color]

ozoebuka1:
when 5% say that they are the smartest in nigeria, the 95% will be arguing.... what 5% saw before election, 95% are just seeing after election... how pathetic!!!

[size=13pt]I usually say that a man who walks out to the village square and announces that he is wiser than everybody else is not wise at all.
However, in this case, I have downgraded my opinion of the Buhari guys because their lack of ability to see was so very outstanding(actually, let me use the word, EPIC here)
I don't think they know the enormity of the folly I believe they displayed in their support of Buhari.
We told them that we know Jonathan had his flaws but Buhari was not the alternative.
These Buhariists came from all over the country.
From Bayelsa to Lagos all the way to Sokoto.
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janellemonae:
Ur pretty st*pid, what abt d 46% southwesterners DT didn't vote buhari? Maybe u should say APC voltrons in d sw should not complain. Tribal propagandist.

I don't support ur calling him stupid although I understand you are angry. That is how Igbos talk. I heard a northerner complain that they said they are the ones that gave GEJ votes in the north in 2011 against opposition from northerners. Meanwhile many northerners voted for the GEJ/Sambo ticket. Remember GEJ was Yar Adua's loyal and respectful "boy" at that time, never giving any troubles.

Igbos have a record of diplomatic ineptitude the fruits of which they lend to those with whom they take sides, in a bid to support them

[size=13pt]I voted for Jonathan because I believed Buhari was not the alternative we needed.
But I don't think GEJ should run and I don't think He is even thinking about it (at all).
We have to look for someone else with whom to replace PMB and his party.
Let us consider Ibrahim Shekarau.
My only problem with him is I read that he was "the driving force behind the creation of the religious police, the "Hisbah Guard", which enforces Sharia law." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Shekarau#Governorship[/size]