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abduljabbar4:
Alright, since the likes of modath are criticizing me i will take down this comment but next time avoid trying to mock someone especially when you know that you have an even greater weak point

No, you don't need to stop because shekau's boys are doing what they are known for in your region.
Or do you think it's a coincidence ?

More of you are going down and the number will keep increasing and it's going to be endless.
If you think that Nig army can defeat bokoharam, then know that a fish can survive without water.

Next time if you want to type, use your brain. The table has turned around. Who is suffering now ?

resurgent4oodua:
What is all these? You don't know that save the SE, the whole nation has been shocked by Atiku's choice today? Buhari is thanking his stars for helping him prod Atiku into a fatal error.


How wil Atiku campaign in the north and sw? Atiku's Government would have helped us mend the cracks in Nigeria but it was not meant to be. You don't put the cart before the horse. The other two major tribes are still weary of the ibos. Now Atiku has helped yoruba nazis whip all yorubas into line. We are now alert and territorial due to being shut out by the PDP. The Hausas are even a no go area when u talk of their perception of the ibos.

We shall dissect better tomorrow. I am not happy with Atiku.

Political illiterate feeling funky.. Who is weary of Igbos?
How come Shagari'/Ekwueme won ?

Very beautiful woman. Anyways she's Igbo

Balyz:
It's highly likely the SW will stick with APC while the north will generally support Buhari. The main battleground will be the NC and SS

Stop lumping north together.
Count north central out except Niger.

Did you say SS will be a battle ground?
Battle ground for who and who?
you ought to have known by now that SS is more PDP than SE. Check their governors

Lalasticlala over to you

Movic1:
In Nigeria ,Voting are done on tribal sentiments. The West will not leave Osibanjo and Vote for Obi... The Northerners also dont like the igbos..

Northerners don't like Igbos .?

What of Ekwueme and Shagari ?

Movic1:
And you think SE votes will make atiku a winner? With this, theres nothing like split votes in SW. Buhari is winning SW with 80%.

He didn't win 80 percent where we were seeing his as a saint, is it now we have seen his level of incompetence and underground corruption that he's going to win 80 percent ?

tinsel:
Don't hope on south south. They don't like us in the east.

I don't think there is any tribe that is dominating in SS. There are many tribes in SS including Igbos.
Politically, SE and SS are united.
Check their voting pattern since 1999 and I don't see it changing soon.

Racoon:
My sis where have you been dear? Missed you here wella.Welcome back.

@ Mention; Have you fogotten Buhari/APC have not only denied but cancelled all their promises?

Thanks bro.

Never again shall we allow Buhari/APC come close to Aso rock....
The mistake of 2015 must be corrected..

Why is it that Buhari has not commissioned a single project in SE and SS ?

What happened to power generation from coal he promised in Enugu during his campaign period in 2015 ?

Those that vote based on individual basis.

They are not attached to any political party, tribe religious or policies. Their votes are based on personal like.

They will vote for Party A at the Senate level, then vote party B in house of reps level.

Originallly ,VP was zoned to SE last year.
I don't know why this issue of VP should be controversial.

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I have talked to many Northerners, they told me that they have lost confidence in Buhari.
Majority of them said that they never knew that things would be this bad under his leadership. Some of them are complaining of hunger due to harsh economy.

It's obvious that Buhari has lost his popularity in the North because northerners have tasted him and have seen that he's not really whom they thought he is.
Thank God he won 2015 election ..He has shown his real colour.. Majority of northerners have turned their backs on him.

The Photoshop expert is no where to be found.

sarrki:
She’s bent on ruining Africa economy

Where is Aunty Kemi ?

I don't know why PDP is still reluctant in picking this woman as a running mate.

CilicMarin:
A luxury mansion co-owned by former Vice Presiden Atiku Abubakar, and his fourth wife, Jennifer Douglas, in the posh neighbourhood of Potomac, Maryland, United States, has been auctioned.

The property gained international notoriety in 2005 after it was searched by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in connection with a bribery scandal involving disgraced former U.S. Congressman, William Jefferson.
The seven-bedroom cream-coloured single family brick house on 9731 Sorrel Ave, Potomac, Maryland, was originally listed for $3.25 million on Zillow and other online real estate websites on January 25, 2018. It was eventually sold for a pending offer of $2.95 million on February 26, 2018 after an online auction.

A pending offer means a buyer and seller of the property have reached a deal. However, a buyer can still pull out from the deal (which is very unlikely) if they cannot resolve issues like cost of repairs or they cannot get a bank to approve a loan for the purchase of the property.

Atiku and his wife bought the 7,131 square feet house in December 1999 for $1.75 million. Built in 1988, the house was described on Zillow as one of the finest in the tony neighbourhood of Falconhurst, Potomac, where houses are valued between $2 million and $10 million.

The Atikus’ mansion is a colonial-style building that sits in the middle of a 2.3 acres premises of lush green trees. The mansion has a total of 21 rooms, multiple terraces which are said to be ideal for outdoor parties, a pool sauna, a gazebo, a gourmet kitchen and an outdoor swimming pool.

Sources with knowledge of the state of the mansion but who requested not to be named because they did not want to be publicly associated with this story, said the Atikus had not lived in the mansion since the politician left office as vice president in 2007.

One source told PREMIUM TIMES that after 2007, house service staff lived in the mansion for some years, but the place was later locked up, and had remained unoccupied.

Tax records from the Montgomery County, Washington DC, show that Ms. Douglas consistently paid property taxes on the mansion from 1999 to 2016. She, however, is in default of $27,913.77 being that for 2017.

The house was not in foreclosure as it was paid for completely by the Atikus and available records showed that no bank loan was involved in its purchase.


The sale of the mansion was not listed as a public auction, which is an auction done under a court order on behalf of government or its agencies.

There is also no evidence that the sale is connected to the now infamous 2005 case or any other unknown criminal investigations.
Paul Ibe, the spokesperson for the former VP told PREMIUM TIMES the sale of the mansion was voluntary and strictly an investment decision.

“Atiku Abubakar is a successful businessman who has a long history of real estate investments,” Mr. Ibe said in response to an enquiry by this newspaper.

“The U.S. home was simply one of such numerous investments. The home was no longer serving the purpose for which it was bought. Consequently, it has to be put up for sale via open auction, a growing and preferred method of selling high end properties. The proceeds thereof will be deployed to business aimed at creating jobs.”
Atiku has consistently denied any wrongdoing in the Jefferson corruption saga that led to the search of his home.

But the former vice president’s political rivals have always harped on that episode to discredit him.

What is more, the billionaire politician,  believed to be nursing a fresh bid to become president of Nigeria in 2019 after several failed attempts, has not travelled to the U.S. for a long time. That has fuelled speculations that he might be avoiding a possible arrest or prosecution.

But in an interview with the BOSS newspaper last December, he explained he had made attempts to visit the U.S. but was turned down for administrative reasons.

“I applied but wasn’t issued a visa. However, they did not decline me categorically either. They’ve only said my application is going through administrative process. It is the sole prerogative of America to determine who they want in their country or not. I’m not running away from America,” he said.


Atiku, William Jefferson and the FBI Search Warrant

The sold property attracted international media attention in 2005 after the FBI videotaped Mr. Jefferson, who was the congressman representing Louisiana, receiving $100,000 worth of $100 bills in a leather briefcase as part payment of a $500,000 bribe allegedly demanded by Atiku, who was vice president at the time, to facilitate the award of contracts to some two American telecommunication firms in Nigeria.
On August 2, 2005, the FBI applied for a search warrant from William Connelly, a US judge in Maryland, to search the Potomac mansion.

A day after the affidavit was filed, the FBI raided the congressional office of Mr. Jefferson and discovered $90,000 “wrapped in aluminum foil and stuffed inside frozen-food containers” and hidden in a freezer. The serial numbers on the bill matched those the FBI had given to an informant.

The affidavit filed by FBI special agent, Edward Cooper, in support of the application for a search warrant of the Maryland home further revealed the details of the bribery scandal.

Mr. Cooper told the court that the search of the property was necessary because the FBI has probable cause to believe that the there are evidence of the violations of Title 18 United States Code, Section 201, which relates to the bribery of a public official; Title 18 United States Code, Sections 1343, 1346, and 1349, which deals with wire fraud, deprivation of honest service and scheme defraud.

Mr. Cooper also claimed that the evidence he sought in the Atikus’ mansion were believed to be in violation of Title 15, United States Code, Section 78dd-1, which deals with the bribery of a foreign official, Title 18 United States Code, Section371, which deals with the conspiracy to commit bribery and the bribery of a foreign official.
Mr. Cooper also listed the items to be seized from the mansion as:
1. Cash in $100 denominations or higher.

2. A new, reddish-brown coloured briefcase retailed or manufactured by Bosca.

3. A reddish-brown coloured cloth bag with two drawing strings on top of the bag.

4. All video recording devices, surveillance videotapes, CDs, digital media or any other electronic devices related to the surveillance of the house grounds, driveway and premises.


5. All recording of visitors to the premises recording arrival, departure or length of stay information.

6. All records, logs, schedule of employees or personnel working at the premises from Monday July 18, 2005 at 6 pm to the present.

7. Records, documents from January 2001 to the present relating to IGate incorporated, Rosecom.net, NDTV, Multimedia Broadband Services Inc, and W2 IBBS Limited.

8. All records and documents relating to communication to and from Atiku Abubakar and William Jefferson regarding the proposed business venture in Nigeria.
The bribery investigation started in March 2005 when a “cooperating witness”, who has since been identified as a Virginia-based businessman, Lori Mody, approached the FBI after he suspected that he had been a victim of a fraudulent scheme involving Mr Jefferson, Vernon Jackson, and Brett Pfeffer.
Mr. Mody told the FBI that he suspected that the trio were scheming to defraud him of $3.5 million using Mr. Jackson’s company, iGate Incorporated.

He said he paid the money to Mr Jackson, who had developed a technology that could enable the transmission of data, audio and video through copper called “Triple Play”, for its reacquisition from another company which had acquired it from iGate. However, Mr. Jackson, after collecting the money, could not produce proof that he had reacquired the technology.

He also told the FBI that Mr. Jefferson promised to assist him with his business dealings in Nigeria for a percent share of his business, which he directed to be issued in the names of his children.

At the time, Mr. Jefferson was a member of the congressional African Trade and Investment caucus as well as member of the congressional caucus for Nigeria.

The FBI revealed that Mr. Jefferson had already received a 30 per cent equity in a Nigerian company controlled by Mr. Mody in exchange for promoting communication equipment and services offered by iGate in Nigeria. Mr. Jefferson also requested that the 30 per cent stake be placed in a Nigerian company controlled by his children.

He was expected to use his influence to communicate with the Nigerian president and vice president to secure the business venture for iGate. The FBI said he wrote to Atiku seeking his assistance in overcoming opposition to iGate’s business venture from the defunct Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL).

“With regard to the Nigerian business venture, Jefferson has discussed the making of payments to high-ranking government officials there including the Vice President of Nigeria,” the affidavit stated.

“Congressman Jefferson met with the Vice President of Nigeria on July 18, 2005 in Potomac, Maryland. At the meeting the Vice President agreed to help secure the necessary approvals for the participants in the Nigerian business venture to commence operations in Nigeria in exchange for at least 50% of profit planned to be received by CW’s (Mr Mody, the cooperating witness) Nigerian partner,” he wrote.

The FBI also claimed that Mr. Jefferson discussed the payment of $500,000 to Atiku before the commencement of the Nigerian business operations. Video surveillance taken on July 30, 2005 at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City indicated that Mr. Jeffeson collected $100,000 in a leather briefcase (a reddis-brown Bosca briefcase) from Mr. Mody, which he allegedly claimed was to be given to Atiku to secure his support for the Nigerian business venture.

Two days later, Mr. Jefferson told Mr. Mody that he had delivered what he described as the “African art” to Atiku  in the early hours of July 31, 2005.


Mr. Jefferson had originally suggested, in one of the two meetings with Mr Mody, where the possibility of bribing Atiku was discussed, that the alleged bribe should be paid into a foundation run by Ms. Douglas.
During the conversation Mr. Jefferson added that the stated aim of the foundation was to help Nigerian women. He however said the foundation was likely a front.
On the evening of July 18, 2005, the FBI stated that Mr. Jefferson visited Atiku and Ms. Douglas at their Potomac mansion and held a private meeting with the former vice president for approximately an hour.


At the end of the meeting Mr. Jefferson met with Mr. Mody at a restaurant and told him that Atiku agreed to help with securing the necessary approval for NITEL to participate in the iGate venture for a share of the profit to be earned by iGate’s Nigerian partner, Rosecom (Rosecom has a 25 per cent stake in the business) expected to earn from the business and a $500,000.00 described as “front end” payment.

Mr Jefferson also suggested that the money could be sent to Atiku through an investment in the stock market.
When eventually searched, no money was found in Atiku’s home, indicating Mr. Jefferson simply kept the bribe money to himself.

Jennifer Douglas
Ms. Douglas, also known as Jennifer Iwenjiora, Jamila Abubakar, and Jennifer Douglas-Abubakar, met Atiku in the 1980s when she was a television reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).
They dated for a while but lost contact when she emigrated to the U.S. While in the U.S, she married and took the name Douglas but was later divorced and became a naturalised American.

They were reunited in the early 1990s and resumed their relationship. Atiku spent a considerable amount of time with Ms. Douglas in Maryland during the regime of late dictator Sani Abacha between 1995 and 1998. Atiku was one of those who was persecuted by Mr. Abacha – his stake in logistics company, Intels, was stripped off him on the orders of Mr. Abacha.

Mr Douglas enrolled in a PhD in International Relations at the American University and received a doctorate in 2007. She and Atiku married officially in 2003. In that year, Ms. Douglas made a $1 million donation to the American University School of International Service Building Fund, an investigative committee of the U.S. Senate revealed in 2010.

The Senate committee, whose mandate was to investigate the flow of suspicious funds into the U.S., revealed that between 2000 and 2008 Ms. Douglas helped her husband bring in over $40 million in suspected illicit funds into the U.S through wire transfer from offshore corporations.

In 2008 a civil inquiry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claimed Ms. Douglas received over $2 million in bribe payments in 2001 and 2002, from German technology company, Siemens AG.
Though she denies wrongdoing, Siemens pleaded guilty and settled bribery related civil charges and told the Senate committee that the money was sent to her account.
Ms. Douglas, whose last known place of employment was at the American University of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirate where she was a professor on International Relations, played an active role in the establishment of Atiku’s American University of Nigeria Yola.

According to the U.S. Senate report, she approached the authorities of the American University, where she was a student in 2002 for assistance in the setting up of the university and served as a liaison between the institution and her husband. She is an unpaid trustee of the university’s board of trustees.


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/261868-exclusive-blocked-from-america-atiku-sells-controversial-2-95-million-u-s-home.html

You have been running around since Sunday like a headless chicken digging out nonsence and be posting on social media, painting people black while buhari remains a saint.
Even @12 midnight when normal human beings are sleeping, you are busy deceiving yourself with lies, deceit and propaganda.

You deserve nothing but pity ...

We are all Christians serving one God.

The issue of denominations should not raise any dust. It's something that should be settled amicably.

Christians should come together and fight their common enemy buhari. Yarada was a Fulani Muslim, but he never shed the blood of any innocent Christian unlike the current terrorist in Aso rock that drinks human blood like water.
This will tell you that something is obviously wrong with buhari as a person...

Based on the report that was released last three months ... It's was predicted that Christians/Christianity might go into extinction if Buhari wins in 2019.
The killing reduced because the election is around the corner.
It will swing into full gear if buhari is reelected..

IbrahimDamola:
The muntula don pick race commot from this forum, when guys blow him cover. He was exposed as a hungry 2-bit ebook selling hungry zombiefied manchi.

Nowadays he sneaks in once in a while to only read comments and run away. Before his boobhari became president he was begging for N100 MTN data cheat codes, now that boobhari have spread more poverty, he needs to ration his use of data to 5kb per day. Country hard my brother.

You always make me to laugh out loud.
Just like reading your comments..

pazienza:
South Sudan was United by shared enemy they had in North Sudan.
Immediately their shared enemy was removed out of the picture, they found out they didn't have much else in common.
They were a multiethinic country and quickly degenerated into tribal skirmishes, immediately they gained independence.
This is what could happen in multiethnic Biafra with bitter Igbophobic Igboids and non Igboids in SS. Which is why I'm strongly against a multiethinic Biafra. Those groups are too far gone in their Igbo resentment to be ever cured again. They would infect a new struggling Biafra with so much toxicity that she might never succeed.
We are better off without them. If only IPOB would understand.

Thanks a lot

As regards to Biafra Including SS non Igbos, dont you think that there won't be agitation because everybody will be controlling his resources unlike what is happening in Nigerian where the Fed govt is rubbing Peter to pay Paul . I am asking because I have seen IPOB stand about resource control .

Remember that there are many multi ethic countries that are living in peace because everyone is in charge of his recourses.

Note : I am not in support or against any minority to be in Biafra.. It should be up to them to decide before they start shouting "Igbos want to steal our ooyel" even when they are not currently in control of the oil in their region.
Just asking...

Again, is South Sudan govt practicing the kind of government.. of rub Peter to pay Paul ?
Thanks..

[quote author=pazienza post=71958557][/quote]What is really happening in S Sudan?
I thought they just had their independence recently cutting out from Sudan..
Why the rivalry again?

omoharry:
Igbo People see the way una dey disunited over the choice of Atiku, picking a fellow Igbo man as his VP..how una won they even manage una BIAFRA if there is no love among the Igbo nation..I dey shame for una ooo!What is going on the Igbo nation is the same thing playing out in the whole country, when a particular tribe thinks they are supreme and better than another, so therefore, shouldn't not be accorded any position even if they deserve because of the place they are from.You guys better sit up and be united for once..Remember that divided you fall and united you stand..this is the power the North and the South West have over you guys..UNITY.. I am the South South.

Even in families, there is always rivalries, agreements and disagreements, but at the end of the day they will go for the best.
Meanwhile, stop hiding under SS to yarn rubbish because there are many tribes including Igbos in SS.
Tell us your tribe be proud of it if really you are from SS.
In fact, you are smelling like a Yoruba Muslim .
Mind you, I am a Yoruba Christian.

Disappointment and heartbreak awaits Buhari in 2019.
Let him keep hoping on Akpabio who will deliver multi ethnic SS for him.
This issue is similar to what happened in 2015 when APC agents who supposed to supervice and protect APC votes in Uyo turned back and started tumprinting for PDP.

That anti corruption war nonsence is no more selling.

I am still waiting to hear what APC will use to campaign in 2019.

IbrahimDamola:
Ahh this shameless unprincipled hungry protectionist.

He has modified

dazzlingd:
Yourbas play politics well, they flow with power, check it out, since 1999, Yoruba have been determining your next leaders,.
Obasanjo brought Gej and Yaradua for you. Obansanjo turned against Gej. The jagabans brought you your present government. Everyone knows very well yorubas are needed to take power. Can that be said of the iPobs who are so irrelevant because of their rigid style of politics and chest beating.

Any party that Yoruba is not strongly invovled in 2019 will not win. Sorry, it's your atiku that should be begging for Yoruba support.

Yoruba never determined Nig president in 1999. Youruba voted massively for Olu Falae. Ask yourself why Obasanjo is hated in Yoruba land. Stop Rewriting the history. Obasanjo was rejected by Yorubas.
Igbos voted Obasanjo and he won while majority Yoruba's were busy cursing him.
Igbos supported Yaradu, he won .
Igbos supported Jonathan in 2011.... He won while Yoruba's were busy romancing Tinibu with his then regional ACN party.

Forget what ethnic and religious politics that happened in 2015. This time around, it's going to be fire for fire. North Vs North. Muslin Vs Muslim

Mind you... I am Yoruba

centboy123456:
married to an abia man those it mean she from abia pls were did u keep ur sense she is from Delta igbo

This is politics section.
Go and discuss with your likes in Romance section.

Klinee:
She is not from Abia she is Delta woman

Married to Abia man.
Go and read her profile.

Throughout her stay in government, she's bn taking Abia state slot because Abia is her home.

Nice Combo.

Gender equality.....

Asking a Lucifer to help you to fight demons is laughable.
Both Buhari, Abubakar Shekau and Oic belong to the same category.
How can you give someone a gun to shoot himself?... How possible it's ?.

November last year...., we all saw how Abubakar shecow was listed as one of the most influential Muslim in Africa.
Asking OIC to fight Boko Haram is like asking Rome to fight Juliet.