₦airaland Forum

double0seven:
Do some people still listen to this guy?

Only idiots will stand start debating anything with him.

GboyegaD:
I believe it and will do again. GEJ has approached different quarters about the interim government thing.

Sanchez01:
Unfortunately the General is right. The only people nabbed by the EFFC are those that have personal vendettas with the President. the EFFC have been reduced to nothing. We honestly need a man who has zero tolerance for corruption. Fayose, Obanikoro and a whole lot of others would have been sweating under a no-nonsense leader.



#God Bless the General
#March4Buhari
#May for Jonathan
#iHaveDecided
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GboyegaD:
Why is GEJ thinking of an interim government if he meant well for the country? He has failed and should take the election results when it comes as the voice of the people.

politifact:
how old are you?I guess there are too many kids not yet of voting age on this forum

politifact:
did u just say jonathan will win niger state,plateau state,kwara state,nasarawa state and kogi?benue will be too close to call and GMB might still win abuja.its obvious you know nothing about nigeria politics as witnessed in your analysis.aS it stands,buhari only need to win lagos,ogun,osun,oyo and a slight victory in ondo to become president

OLADD:
If you really mean nothing has improved in the last 6 years of Jonathan administration, I think you're the authentic Dumbo. Do yourself a favour by looking at his records in road construction/rehabilitation, railway revamp, construction and rehabilitation of educational institutions, improved agriculture and mechanised farming etc and compare to where we are coming from as a nation. Nobody is saying we're there yet but the foundation for a better tomorrow has been laid and must be built upon by Jonathan's reelection. May your conscience judge you.

sam13:
I hate it when people show traits of hypocricy and one sided without facts.Tell me who amongst these so call politicians who had not enrich themselves while in office,Tinubu uses the money he has to establish organisations that employ labour but many do not and dont be surprise that at the end of this currrent dispensation more atrocities will be reveal

deemdeem:
ooops, am bad

Its not govt but deemdeem sponsored.

Very Foolish talk.

IVORY2009:
wat are you saying mr man, less brainstorm alittle, this is part of the proof by the federal government, and if he Tinubu wants to be dealt with, it will be easy, with the proof shown to the world, or dont you know, wen going to the court one needs prove, facts and figuares? Is a gradual process my friend!

deemdeem:
what info are u still waiting for that will be more serious with the ones in the documentary?
How well have ur kind made use of this information by making sure Tinubu face justice by charging him to court?
Better still, what has ur govt done about it?
DO u think in sane environments, govt only publish documentaries of "criminals" and do nothing afterwards?

IVORY2009:
dont mind him "Demdem" or Deemdeem, he has brains, but unfortunately, he can not make use of it to think outside the box, perhaps for some change being paid to him per post here on nairaland.com

Ttalk:
Since we have entered season of propaganda and documentary of Nigeria citizen by the Federal Government, let the government also air the documentary on;

1. Infamous reign of GEJ as a governor of Bayelsa State

2. FFK romance story with Biafra Queen

3. Alamaiseiagha disguise and impeachment travails

4. Bode George's looting and his imprisonment

5. Oritshajafor's Jet Dollar seizure by SA government

Untill these documentaries are equally sponsor and show in AIT, i will take their smearing campaign against Asiwaju Tinubu as a useless and a diversionary attempt by a sinking government

Demdem:
[b]They are fed up with the propaganda against General Buhari, it is now the turn of a man who is not
contesting for any elective position anywhere in the country. No right thinking government will have
"Arsenal" of evidences of corruption on ONE man and would not have or will not prosecute such a man in
a competent court.

The best our "Serious" government led by Retardeen Egebre Jonah-daft could do is
to sponsor a one hour political propaganda against Bola Tinubu. Where in a sane country is that done?
If you have all these evidences, why is Bola Tinubu still walking free?. This is
the ultimate question? Why can't the PDP send these evidences to EFCC, ICPC and other agencies for
prosecution? Am sure if there is any credence in any of these evidences, Tewonde George especially
wont hesistate to pursue it to conclusion considering his hatred for Tinubu. And they say this
government led by the drunkard is serious about governance when the least thing to do becomes
politics.....

For the record, Bola Tinubu I know from records i know of has been discharged and acquitted of all
corrupt charges leveled against him. The CCB cleared him. No security agency till date has any pending
issue with him anywhere in the world. However, we have people like Bode George, Alaimeseigha, Femi-
Fani Kayode, Buruju Kashumu etc who were either convicted or still in court for corruption charges
working for the President in one capacity or the other...Just like the propaganda against the General
made him more popular, i have no doubt that Tinubu will come out unscathed from this also. Above all,
this will not in anyway stop the emergence of the General as the president of our dear Nation.

The booting out of the curse currently governing is a clarion call all sane Nigerians will respect.
To hell with[/b] Jonah-daft. My friend if you live in this country and you do not know about the corruption dynasty that is reigning in lagos, and you also watch this documentary, yet your still defending the un-defendable, the I will like to ask how much they are paying you to steal your sense of judgement and morality? No offence meant, this is no longer about politics, musch as I do not say that this guy is the only corrupt nigeria, nut lwts encourage people with innformation to come forward and air it to the world, so that we cann know those that are destroying the collective fortunes of this country! Not to start defending the culprits!

olujastro:
I wanted to ignore your post as I mostly just read comments on NL, but a lil part of me decided to educate ur ignorance.
Firstly, u were not specific on "Corruption, Impunity & Untouchables in lagos" so I'll pass on that.
2ndly, tolls are not new to this world, I wonder why you guys tk that of lekki so personal. Doesn't ur F.G collect several tolls at ikeja, airport area? See the state of the airport roads we pay tolls, very messed up! But see lekki-epe express, always properly maintained and beautified by LCC. Any vehicle that breaks down is removed in minutes, same attention for car accidents. I was once in a bus and d driver commented that "this is the best road to drive on in Lagos,if not Nigeria sef"
For the okota link rd, Fashola started it, but was taken to court by some landlords whose properties were to give way for d road. Being a law abiding SAN, he had to stop work.
So because there's no pedestrian bridge at ur regular route I suppose at Toyota, d one at ilasa is now useless to lagosians? Well I've used it severally. And there's no pedestrian bridge leading to my abode too as Fashola can't do everything. Mind you, Oshodi-Apapa is a federal responsibility incase u forgot.
Lastly, lemme end by telling you no one is perfect and u av a right to criticise Fashola. But for every finger u point at him(a performer), 1000 others point back at GEJ(a failure) and all his PDP governors(except Akpabio)

harbdulrasaq88:
Re: Gov Fashola said:
“President Goodluck Jonathan said he constructed 25,000 kilometres roads in the country. Now, the distance from Lagos to London is just over 5,000km. What the claim by the President means is that they have constructed a road from Lagos to London five times. But the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway that is 404km and has not been done. So where did they see the 25,000km roads?


How can anyone with access to Google believe such fib?
The Interstate Highway system that the United States of America(almost the size of a continent on its own) prides itself with is 76,000 kilometers and cost about $426 Billion in 2006 dollars when last valued—so who really can believe the Goodluck Jonathan Administration constructed 25,000 kilometers of road in 6 years at a running cost of almost a $100 billion in modern construction cost?..Who writes this script for this people?

http://www..net/2015/02/shocking-fashola-hits-back-at-jonathan.html

CaptainAmerica1:
I believe it's more than Godfatherism and control. For him to be talking like this about Goodluck, there's something he has seen.

I have problems with OBJ but you can rule out the fact that he has the nations best interest at heart.

Jchi9876:
Distraction and nuisance two words you have no idea of.

Pause for a couple of seconds take a deep breath be open minded and ask yourself genuinely if this "nuisance and distraction" has elements of TRUTH in it.

CaptainAmerica1:
http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-afraid-buhari-will-jail-him-obasanjo/

focus7:
Who is Ayo Adebanjo and what made him an elderstateman? Some frustrated old man who do not have relevance in their community, now trying to take advantage of the political events in the country to gain popularity becos he is sponsored by Jonathan and his aids. What has he done to affect the Yoruba race effectively? I have never heard his name before, if he think he has any issue to contend with Tinubu, let him first list the names of the people he has affected in Yoruba land compare to Tinubu or he should keep silent and go home to lie down on his bugs infested bed.

Frankiss44:
The man is making a whole lot of sense.... Who is he?

donfineboi:
How about he who kneels before the man you once disgraced out of office for spilling the truth(Sanusi)

hahahaha!!!!

I can only imagine whats going on in Oga Jona's mind while he's kneeling before Sanusi

hahahaha

Bobby4090:
Democracy, Deferred: Postponed election, an embarrassment of bad choices, by Chimamanda Adichie.

Last week, Victor, a carpenter, came to my Lagos home to fix a broken chair. I asked him whom he preferred as Nigeria’s next president: the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan, or his challenger, Muhammadu Buhari.

“I don’t have a voter’s card, but if I did, I would vote for somebody I don’t like,” he said. “I don’t like Buhari. But Jonathan is not performing.”

Victor sounded like many people I know: utterly unenthusiastic about the two major candidates in our upcoming election.

Were Nigerians to vote on likeability alone, Jonathan would win. He is mild-mannered and genially unsophisticated, with a conventional sense of humor. Buhari has a severe, ascetic air about him, a rigid uprightness; it is easy to imagine him in 1984, leading a military government whose soldiers routinely beat up civil servants. Neither candidate is articulate. Jonathan is given to rambling; his unscripted speeches leave listeners vaguely confused. Buhari is thick-tongued, his words difficult to decipher. In public appearances, he seems uncomfortable not only with the melodrama of campaigning but also with the very idea of it. To be a democratic candidate is to implore and persuade, and his demeanor suggests a man who is not at ease with amiable consensus. Still, he is no stranger to campaigns. This is his third run as a presidential candidate; the last time, in 2011, he lost to Jonathan.

This time, Buhari’s prospects are better. Jonathan is widely perceived as ineffectual, and the clearest example, which has eclipsed his entire presidency, is his response to Boko Haram. Such a barbaric Islamist insurgency would challenge any government. But while Boko Haram bombed and butchered, Jonathan seemed frozen in a confused, tone-deaf inaction. Conflicting stories emerged of an ill-equipped army, of a corrupt military leadership, of northern elites sponsoring Boko Haram, and even of the government itself sponsoring Boko Haram.

Jonathan floated to power, unprepared, on a serendipitous cloud. He was a deputy governor of Bayelsa state who became governor when his corrupt boss was forced to quit. Chosen as vice president because powerbrokers considered him the most harmless option from southern Nigeria, he became president when his northern boss died in office. Nigerians gave him their goodwill—he seemed refreshingly unassuming—but there were powerful forces who wanted him out, largely because he was a southerner, and it was supposed to be the north’s ‘turn’ to occupy the presidential office.

And so the provincial outsider suddenly thrust onto the throne, blinking in the chaotic glare of competing interests, surrounded by a small band of sycophants, startled by the hostility of his traducers, became paranoid. He was slow to act, distrustful and diffident. His mildness came across as cluelessness. His response to criticism calcified to a single theme: His enemies were out to get him. When the Chibok girls were kidnapped, he and his team seemed at first to believe that it was a fraud organized by his enemies to embarrass him. His politics of defensiveness made it difficult to sell his genuine successes, such as his focus on the long-neglected agricultural sector and infrastructure projects. His spokespeople alleged endless conspiracy theories, compared him to Jesus Christ, and generally kept him entombed in his own sense of victimhood.

The delusions of Buhari’s spokespeople are better packaged, and obviously free of incumbency’s crippling weight. They blame Jonathan for everything that is wrong with Nigeria, even the most multifarious, ancient knots. They dismiss references to Buhari’s past military leadership, and couch their willful refusal in the language of ‘change,’ as though Buhari, by representing change from Jonathan, has also taken on an ahistorical saintliness.

I remember the Buhari years as a blur of bleakness. I remember my mother bringing home sad rations of tinned milk, otherwise known as “essential commodities”—the consequences of Buhari’s economic policy. I remember air thick with fear, civil servants made to do frog jumps for being late to work, journalists imprisoned, Nigerians flogged for not standing in line, a political vision that cast citizens as recalcitrant beasts to be whipped into shape.

Buhari’s greatest source of appeal is that he is widely perceived as non-corrupt. Nigerians have been told how little money he has, how spare his lifestyle is. But to sell the idea of an incorruptible candidate who will fight corruption is to rely on the disingenuous trope that Buhari is not his party. Like Jonathan’s People’s Democratic Party, Buhari’s All Progressives Congress is stained with corruption, and its patrons have a checkered history of exploitative participation in governance. Buhari’s team is counting on the strength of his perceived personal integrity: his image as a good guy forced by realpolitik to hold hands with the bad guys, who will be shaken off after his victory.

In my ancestral home state of Anambra, where Jonathan is generally liked, the stronger force at play is a distrust of Buhari, partly borne of memories of his military rule, and partly borne of his reputation, among some Christians, as a Muslim fundamentalist. When I asked a relative whom she would vote for, she said, “Jonathan of course. Am I crazy to vote for Buhari so that Nigeria will become a sharia country?”

Nigeria has predictable voting patterns, as all democratic countries do. Buhari can expect support from large swaths of the core north, and Jonathan from southern states. Region and religion are potent forces here. Vice presidents are carefully picked with these factors in mind: Buhari’s is a southwestern Christian and Jonathan’s is a northern Muslim. But it is not so simple. There are non-northerners who would ordinarily balk at voting for a ‘northerner’ but who support Buhari because he can presumably fight corruption. There are northern supporters of Jonathan who are not part of the region’s Christian minorities.

Delaying the elections is a staggeringly self-serving act of contempt for Nigerians.
Last week, I was indifferent about the elections, tired of television commercials and contrived controversies. There were rumors that the election, which was scheduled for February 14, would be postponed, but there always are; our political space is a lair of conspiracies. I was uninterested in the apocalyptic predictions. Nigeria was not imploding. We had crossed this crossroads before, we were merely electing a president in an election bereft of inspiration. And the existence of a real opposition party that might very well win was a sign of progress in our young democracy

Then, on Saturday, the elections were delayed for six weeks. Nigeria’s security agencies, we were told, would not be available to secure the elections because they would be fighting Boko Haram and needed at least another month and a half to do so. (Nigeria has been fighting Boko Haram for five years, and military leaders recently claimed to be ready for the elections.)

Even if the reason were not so absurd, Nigerians are politically astute enough to know that the postponement has nothing to do with security. It is a flailing act of desperation from an incumbent terrified of losing. There are fears of further postponements, of ploys to illegally extend Jonathan’s term. In a country with the specter of a military coup always hanging over it, the consequences could be dangerous. My indifference has turned to anger. What a staggeringly self-serving act of contempt for Nigerians. It has cast, at least for the next six weeks, the darkest possible shroud over our democracy: uncertainty. Source: The Atlantic.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/nigeria-election-democracy-deferred/385341/#disqus_thread

otemanuduno:
After years of thorough study of human behaviours, I have come to a point whereby I can easily detect the reasons why human being do the way they do. Applying this to studying the characteristics features of both GEJ and GMB supporters ahead of the upcoming election, applying both my a priori and a posteriori epistemologic idea as the professor of the mind, here are my findings concerning the two calibre of teams:

1.
The Buhari Supporters Are The Strong In Heart. You will hardly find a gentle market woman or an illiterate supporting Buhari. Also, people with old mentality, e.g, the old people who are encumbered with olden day histories will never support Buhari. They will bank on his military records and the number of people he has killed, forgetting that he was a military man then.
On the other hand, the GEJ supporters are the fearful ones who believe that war will erupt if GMB come up the post. They are the type the Bible called "Who for the fear of death remain captive all their lives."

2. GEJ supporters, majority of them, are those who have remained in one position for long. A typical GEJ supporter may be a principal somewhere, managing someone else's business and earning 45k as salary. They fear that if they quit and 'change' the job, they might remain jobless forever, not knowing that jobs are abundant for someone who is very experienced. A Buhari supporter is a go-getter. He is ready to quit a job that is not paying well even when another job is not at hand.

A microsurvey for you: If you are working in a place where the salary is very tiny, as well as the salary of the managements, ask the managers, principals, headmasters, teachers etc of that place who have served for at least 10 years, and they will tell you they are GEJ supporters.

3. A GEJ supporter is one who is gullible, believing every simple story and following every little idea that is so it meaningless. A GMB supporter is not easily convinced. They critically want to make research before uttering a word.

Assignment: Ask the GEJ supporters around you what they know about BUHARI and they will tell you some "dem say, dem say" story. They haven't made personal research about the islamization thing. They only heard the rumours from their political pastors.

4. A typical GEJ supporter is rigid in mind. Such is the type who works in a company where everyone is told to upgrade himself or herself in ICT but he/she will never do so because something new is bad to him. He/she will fault the idea of using e-things, writing e-lesson notes, submitting e-reports, etc, just because pen-work is already a part of his/her life. He believes in the housewife parable of "the devil he knows is better than the Angel he doesn't know" such that he doesn't want to go for more or less, just because of skepticism. But a GMB supporter is always ready to grab new things, explore new ideas, etc.


5. A GMB supporter is a freethinker; not very much immersed in religious bigotry. Such person will not fall headlong into a public weeping by some so-called prophets and pastors who cries out "BEWARE OF ISLAMIZATION!" Yes! Religion is good, but it has been politicized. A GEJ person will vote for whosoever his/her pastor asked him/her to vote while a GMB person will follow his mind(which could even be the mind of his God). A typical GEJ person is someone who goes from one pastor(or afa) to the other for spiritual counsel, etc. They don't have the mind of themselves. They are the 'Our Pastor Says' type. A GMB person is one who can make decision for himself.

6. Ironically, a typical GEJ person is ethnical and tribal. He doesn't want the position to go to a northerner and that is all the reason why he wants GEJ there, but a GMB person is not concerned with such.

7. A GEJ person has 'MANAGING' mentality but to a GMB person, it is sheer nonsense. When I say management, it doesn't mean being an MD or a GM of an oil firm. I mean that poor man's mentality of managing 10k for salary or managing 100 naira for a meal, just because of poverty. A GMB person will believe in change and will end up having more than 'change' in his pocket.

More to come...
Do the research and you will see for yourself.

As For Me, I Once Have A GEJ Mentality, But When My Orientation Changed To A GMB Mentality, I Began To Do EXPLOIT!!!

miqos02:
In August 1985, the evening of the 26th to be specific, at a time when Nigerians were celebrating the Muslim festival and enjoying the public holiday, a soldier named Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida was executing his plans of overthrowing the Nigerian Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari.
One of the soldiers who arrested Buhari at gunpoint was a soldier named SAMBO DASUKI.
After Buhari was arrested and his government toppled, IBB threw him into prison and handsomely rewarded Dasuki by making him his ADC (aide-de-camp).
Sambo Dasuki was one of the four army majors that arrested Buhari at gunpoint that day. Others were Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, Lawan Gwadabe, Abdulmumuni Aminu.
Buhari was left to rot in jail for two years and this wrecked his family life so bad that it led to a divorce with Safinatu, his beloved wife upon his release.
While Buhari was also in jail, Babangida sent soldiers to ransack and vandalize his residence, in the process destroying some of Buhari’s most valuable credentials and valuables.
Let me skip what happened to Sambo Dasuki and his father the former Sultan of Sokoto under General Abacha to today. He has been appointed as the National Security Adviser to President Jonathan and you really think Sambo Dasuki will want the elections to go on and Buhari become the President of Nigeria?
Think again, what is going on has nothing to do with PVCs or bla bla bla. It is all about the interests of a few people strangling the country. I think all Nigerians should remain calm and read more and see how the game is played with the destinies of the almost 200 million of us. Things are not always what they seem to be.
*This write-up was provided by Konra, one of our readers

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/02/10/what-you-dont-know-about-sambo-dasuki/