₦airaland Forum

Our Stand on the Illegality perpetrated by leadership of the All Progressives Congress. We in the 8th Assembly Consolidation Group of Hon. Yakubu Dogara wish to state our position on the event of today Saturday 6th June 2015. We got invitation for a meeting summoned by the APC leadership and we went their with the expectation the party wanted to give us last word ahead of Tuesday’s inauguration of the House.

However, we began to notice some moves in the hall where members supporting. Hon Femi Gbajabiamila started campaigning and soon we saw ballot papers being moved in the hall. The National Chairman of the party Chief John Oyegun informed us that they were going to conduct a mock, straw or primary election. The 8th Assembly Consolidation Group mandated Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin to speak on our behalf. First, we read out the statement issued by our leader, President Muhammadu Buhari on the election of National Assembly leadership. We then told Chief Oyegun that it is either he is disagreeing with the President, undermining his stance, or does not agree that the president is the leader of the party.

Secondly, we informed the party that the remaining two aspirants in the race for the Speaker are of the APC since no. PDP member is contesting for the position. constitution. Consequently, we demanded that the process be delayed with atleast 24 hours to enable us to prepare and mobilise our members After raising these objections, the national chairman Chief Oyegun did not respond to any of the points raised
We should therefore be allowed to sort it out among ourselves on Tuesday.

Thirdly, if we were coming for election we ought to have been notified well ahead. We therefore view this as an ambush, manipulative and indicative of the fact that the party leadership came with a predetermined position which was skewed to favour Hon Gbajabiamila.

Fourthly, we also informed the APC leadership that the process they were about doing contrary to the provisions of the party’s constitution which did not prescribe that a primary election be conducted for the Speakership, contrary to the provisions of the House Standing Orders and above all, contrary to the provisions of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The next Speaker of the House should be allowed to be elected in tandem with the constitution. Consequently, we demanded that the process be delayed with atleast 24 hours to enable us to prepare and mobilise our members After raising these objections, the national chairman Chief Oyegun did not respond to any of the points raised initially, the chairman agreed to halt the process but one hour later the National Vice Chairman North Senator Lawal Shuaibu came up and said the process must go on whether we like it or not. We had no option than to walkout of the hall and address the press The election of the House Speaker is not an exclusivity of the APC but include all members from all political parties.

Our position is that we are not a party to what they did and we maintain that the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives Cannot be conducted outside the chamber of the House and we are ready to participate in that process on Tuesday 9th June, 2015.

Signed: Rep. Abdulmumin Jibrin PhD.
For Yakubu Dogara Consolidation Group.

Cc: Lalasticlala

PassingShot:
I swear that I was not paid. Just being patriotic and helping the OP in a way.

cbrass:
Stop saying what you don't know Mister. He wasn't even based in Nigeria sef until politics came up

cbrass:
Bukola saraki is not Hausa neither does he speak fulani. He is from Ilorin a Yoruba state. He was once a Christian but converted to Islam because of politics however his wife is a Christian and from LAGOS state

barcanista:
Yeah, I changed the layout to make it user friendly and easy to navigate. Should I revert back to the original layout?

ARIWO OJA

By Pius Adesanmi.

My last take on this AIT matter before I move on.

Ariwo oja, the din of the market place, is the greatest threat to the Yoruba person's presence in the economic and affective environment of the market. You have been to Oyingbo and Alaba, you have been to Dugbe and Mokola, you have been to any kasua in the north, you have been to Onitsha market. Then you understand what the Yoruba mean by "ariwo oja" - the noise of the market place.

For all the psychic sensations it exerts on the senses; for all its vitality and vibrancy, the noise of the market can distract. If you let it get into your head, if you let it influence you, you could lose your bearing, your sense of purpose, your sense of mission. You could even forget the reason you went to the market in the first place. It can disorient you. It can cause economic loss. You could buy things inferior for lack of concentration. That is why the Yoruba advise you to face the specific trader you are in transaction with and shut out the noise of the marketplace. Customer and trader are advised to focus on what is important and ignore the distracting chaos that is ariwo oja - the noise of the market.

Ma w'ariwo oja - the Yoruba philosophy of focus, of concentration on that all important goal, of savoir-faire, of avoidance of distraction.

In this business, you, Buharist wayfarer of the marketplace, have only two propositions in the market: Nigeria and GMB, the man on whose shoulders you have placed the burden of national rebirth. Everything else is ariwo oja - ignore it and stay focused.

Yes, the current ariwo oja is malevolent and sore, its only determination being to ensure Buhari's failure from the very start. Every tentative step will drive this ariwo oja into a frenzy because they are assiduously investing their hope in the failure of your man. What Nigeria gains or loses in that failure - if it ever happens - is of no significance because the important thing to ariwo oja now is to prove that your man is a failure like his, that your man is no better than his.

And this is why you get on the defensive when you don't have to. This is why you think that admission of any misstep by your own man is delivering him to the chattering unruliness of Jonathanian ariwo oja. You do not want to deliver him to enemies who have refused to move on with their lives after March 28, 2015 and now waste their talents 24/7 scheming for and willing Buhari's failure into being.

But you are making a mistake by paying attention to ariwo oja when that philosophy says you should face your two customers squarely: Nigeria and Buhari. Buhari can only achieve Nigeria's rebirth with your help. You will not help him by adopting the strategies through which those now authoring ariwo oja destroyed Goodluck Jonathan and ruined Nigeria.

Always remember this: nothing would please ariwo oja more than the satisfaction of seeing you destroy Buhari the way he destroyed Goodluck Jonathan through uncritical, undiscerning blind followership fed by civic poverty.

Yes, they will taunt you. They will jeer. They will scoff. They will laugh and ridicule what hasn't even begun. You must always remember that such is the stuff that infantilist ariwo oja is made of. You must ignore this ariwo oja and focus on Buhari squarely and help him to be the very best that he must be: and this involves patriotic acknowledgement and critique of missteps.

When you listen to ariwo oja instead of ignoring it completely and focusing on Nigeria and Buhari, you start to hair-split. You start to cut and slice. You start to rootle the dictionary for the difference between "prohibit", "ban", and "bar". Then you start to lie to yourself: he did not ban, he merely barred them from access for family and security reasons.

Ariwo oja wins because you have become like him. He has goaded you into becoming him. Remember ariwo oja says that there is a difference between stealing and corruption and 14 million of you rose up to reject that leprous morality of his? You rejected that vision. You said Nigeria deserves better.

Now you are hair-splitting between ban and bar.

Then you wake up with a straight face tomorrow and resume condemnation of ariwo oja for hair splitting between stealing and corruption?

Please, ignore ariwo oja. Focus on Buhari and Nigeria. Help Buhari to deliver on hope and change. Help him to begin the foundation of a Nigeria that will be unforgivably hostile to mediocrity and the rationalization of the unacceptable.

That should be the covenant between you and Nigeria.

Ignore ariwo oja.

Ma w'ariwo oja.

Let them say

agarawu23:
some ppl with fish brain sha

Nalikedis:
Way to go. I have been dreaming of this a long while ago. especially in our secondary schools... this will raise the awareness of this children as they are growing up so that their fate wont be that of the present generation that are demanding for the old men to relinquish power for them yet majority of them stay away from the polling booth during elections...

Jackeeh:
This is wrong.

There seems to be a clash of ideas already in the camp of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as Senator Bukola Saraki has stated that declaration of assets by politicians and public office holders would not make anyone less corrupt or accountable to the people.

His remarks differ with those of President-elect, whose opinions in recent times, suggest that his cabinet members will declare their assets, as a way of curbing public corruption in the country, when his regime takes flight on May 29th.

Saraki who made this assertion in an interactive session with Tribune said “I don’t think it is declaration of assets that would make you less corrupt or more accountable.”

However, made this claim against the declaration by President-elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari that anyone who must work with him should declare his assets publicly in order to halt corruption and enhance transparency.

“I pledge to publicly declare my assets and liabilities, encourage all my appointees to publicity declare their assets and liabilities as a pre-condition for appointment.” Buhari stated.

Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress, (APC) Senator observed that declaration of assets should not be taken as an issue.

He said “I think it is your own individual commitment to your party and leadership provided.”

“Leadership is very important because the leader leads by example. Honestly, things will change. Instead of sitting with the president to seek favour, you come home and sit down with your people so that you can have the better chance of winning election.” He added

Saraki representing Kwara Central senatorial district noted that the key areas which would be addressed by the incoming APC-led government are the issues of corruption, security and jobs for youths in the country.

He noted that “There would be zero tolerance for corruption and because of the backdrop of that, you begin to see revenue coming up and you will have more money for infrastructural development.

kestolove95:
Dix man is tall Dan Nigeria problem he will just crush all our problems with his height

Medley:
by the time he fires every Nigerian he met in different positions,who will be left to vote for him

I am a firm believer in the virtue of magnanimity in victory. I also think that, as Frank Sinatra once said, “Overwhelming success is the best revenge.” So if I were to advise President-elect Buhari, I would say he should resist the urge to take revenge against people who threw the kitchen sink at him during the last election. His overwhelming electoral success, in spite of expectations to the contrary, is enough revenge. Nevertheless, for President-elect Muhammadu Buhari to signal to the world that the change he promised is not a mere mealy-mouthed election-winning mantra, he must get rid of certain intolerably insidious elements of the ancien régime before he even gets down to work. My only caveat is that if he will merely replace them with people who will replicate their notoriety, unprofessionalism, and toxic partisanship in his government, then there is no point reinventing the wheel. The same people will change loyalty and render the exact services they rendered to Jonathan—with, of course, the same results. And we all know what the results are. If Buhari is prepared to be a real change agent, to be the catalyst for Nigeria’s structural and systemic makeover, to be the trendsetter for future generation of transaction-oriented leaders, he should get rid of the people listed below and tell their replacements never to repeat their mistakes: 1. Marilyn Ogar. The spokesperson for the Department of State Services (DSS) has no business being in her job. I would lose confidence in Buhari if he doesn’t fire this woman immediately he gets down to business. She was thoroughly and unprecedentedly irresponsible in the explicitness of her political partisanship. She is the most despicable spokesperson the DSS has ever had the misfortune to be saddled with. Given the centrality of the DSS to the internal security of the country, we can’t afford to retain a person with her mindset and level of hate at the helm of the agency’s information management.[img]http://4.bp..com/-ffeWF4gHXLI/VTHcahFm55I/AAAAAAAAEBs/7OuidznDlhk/s1600/Marilyn%2BOgar.jpg[/img]
It’s impossible to recount all the appalling things she said in the discharge of her duties in the past few years, but a few gems will suffice. When APC won the Osun governorship election in 2014, for instance, she said, “We should thank God that since after the Osun State election there has been no bomb blast. Glory be to God.” She basically implied, without a shred of evidence, that APC was responsible for the bomb blasts in Nigeria. She also dismissed the #BringBackOurGirls movement as a “franchise” of terrorist organizations. That level of obnoxious partisanship is unacceptable for the spokesperson of the nation’s top intelligence agency.

2. Suleiman Abba. In my November 29, 2014 article titled “Suleiman Abba: Inspector General for the President (IGP),” I wrote: “Let’s stop the pretense. We have no Inspector General of Police in Nigeria. What we have is an Inspector General for the President. It’s still IGP, but we know what the “P” in the initialism actually stands for. IGP Suleiman Abba will certainly gown down in the annals as the most openly politically partisan police chief Nigeria has ever had. “….Abba has carried on as if he is no more than an appendage of the president’s office. But it isn’t his overzealously undisguised partisanship in and of itself that is unusual; it’s the bewilderingly tasteless showiness with which he is doing it. “From instructing his men and women to forcibly deny members of the House of Representatives entry into their chambers, to initially spurning the invitation of the House before grudgingly accepting it, to refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the Speaker when he appeared before the House, Abba has stepped outside the bounds of decency and conventional policing. He has redefined his role as not the chief law enforcement officer of the nation but as a protector of the president and a tormentor of his opponents. These days it’s hard to tell the IGP apart from the People’s Democratic Party’s hacks and spin doctors. In fact, he seems to be doing a better job at defending the PDP and the President than the people who are paid to do so. Any Inspector General of Police who outdoes hacks and spin doctors in political propaganda is beneath contempt.”
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No one will take Buhari seriously if he does not fire Suleiman Abba. I will personally transmute into Buhari’s severest critic if he retains Abba.

3. Service chiefs. All the political service chiefs that conspired with Goodluck Jonathan to cause a shift in the date of the presidential election should be fired. They were clearly partisan and unprofessional in ways that have no parallel in Nigeria’s democratic history. While we are at it, Brigadier Olaleye Lajide, the rabidly obsessive army spokesman who lied to the news media that Buhari had no school certificate, and that Buhari got enlisted in the army on the written recommendation of his principal, should be fired. He would do a better job being PDP’s spokesman. In the last few months, the Nigerian military got embarrassingly politicized, and they in turn militarized our politics. A politicized military of the kind we witnessed under Jonathan has no place in a democracy, especially a democracy brought about by the thirst for change. They are a danger to the nation. Buhari should weed them out forthwith if he truly means change.

4. NTA chief executives. No one watches the Nigerian Television Authority these days. The few who watch it do so either because they have no option or because they are curious to know what the heck the dinosaurs at NTA are up to. All NTA does now is, to use my description of the organization in a 2004 article titled “Tonie Iredia’s Propaganda on NTA,” assault “our sensibilities with cheap, unimaginative propaganda,” and being an “irritatingly boring, one-sided propaganda mouth-piece of an insensitive, incompetent and unbelievably venal government.” NTA was particularly vicious in its propaganda in the last presidential election. For NTA to be worth viewing again, its top dogs need to go. Never again should we have the kind of NTA we had in the months leading up to the election.

5. The corrupt fat cats at NNPC.

Who else should go to smooth the path for the change Buhari promised us? I’d love to read your thoughts.

ELTON123:
If this make fp i go commit suicide

Tallesty1:
Variable Skink

EITHER Rainbow Skink OR Striped Skink

Eesha:
I tot its called monitor lizard

ChaiSee my olodo-self

Tallesty1:
This looks like a good investment.




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ToyeBanji:
It's called Fire skinks....

CC. Seun
Ishilove
Lalasticlala
Obinoscopy

Move it to Education section.

qbd2:
Oh dat one dat yorubas rumour to be able to turn to snake.