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berem: No,we are not afraid of elections. We are only afraid of PDP rigging the elections as at what happened in Anambra.

I guess pathetic “born-again” losers are always afraid of anybody rigging election. Elections are not rigged when the scoundrels win elections.

Abagworo: I hope you know that most of the people against GEJ now were the same people that stopped OBJ's 3rd term and also fought for Jonathan's emergence as President. They are the civil rights activists and lovers of united Nigeria. They have no particular political affiliation but are bent on keeping the peace and unity of Nigeria.

The above crap represents one of the characteristics of most Nigerians that attempt to compare incomparable things. The so-called OBJ’s 3rd term bid was against his constitutional mandate. Why would a sane person oppose GEJ’s bid for 2nd term which is constitutionally mandated?

It is very shameful to see the same airheads who had accused the northerners of exhibiting “born to rule” attitude are the same fools opposing GEJ’s constitutionally mandated 2nd term in the office because the a cross section of moronic Nigerian society thought otherwise.

unuane1: There was confusion in the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday as it made two conflicting demands from both the House of Representatives Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal , and the Federal High Court, Abuja on the defection of 37 of its members to the All Progressives Congress.

While the PDP released a statement in which it requested Tambuwal to declare the defectors’ seats in the House vacant, in the court, it asked for an order compelling them to return to its fold.

In the statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, the party argued that since the 37 lawmakers had renounced their membership, the Presiding Officers of the House must declare their seats vacant without any further delay.

The PDP said that a court order which the 37 lawmakers referred to while announcing their defection on Wednesday was wrongly interpreted.

Metuh’s statement reads, “The attention of the PDP has been drawn to claims by 37 defecting members of the House elected on the platform of the PDP to the APC that they obtained an injunction restraining the leadership of the National Assembly and the party from declaring their seats vacant in line with provisions of the 1999 Constitution.

“We have, after a careful review, discovered that this claim is false. For the avoidance of doubt, the order of the court clearly says that ‘status quo’ be maintained which means the affected members shall remain members of the PDP.

“The constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in section 68 (i) (g) clearly spells out the consequences of defection when there is no division in any Party. We wish to re-emphasise here that the courts have pronounced, and INEC has concurred, that there are no factions in the PDP.”

Metuh said this shall be in adherence to our grund norm, which is the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).

But at the FHC, Abuja, the PDP asked that the 37 lawmakers ‘ defection should be declared “null and void.”

It warned that their defection could lead to a breakdown of law and order in the National Assembly and the entire polity if not reversed.

In the suit filed by its counsel, Joe-Kyari Gadzama (SAN), on Thursday, the PDP maintained that the defection contravened the order made by the Abuja FHC on December 17, 2013, when counsel to the 37 lawmakers tried to move a motion for interlocutory injunction, seeking to stop a plan to declare their seats vacant.

According to the PDP, the FHC had on December 17 ordered the 37 lawmakers to revert to the status quo, pending the hearing and determination of the motion for interlocutory injunction.

The party therefore wants “an order from the court declaring the defection, on December 18, 2013, by 37 of the plaintiffs from the PDP to the APC as null and void and contrary to the order made on Tuesday, December 17, 2013.”

The PDP also asked for “a mandatory order that the 37 legislators revert to the status quo pending the hearing of the plaintiffs’ motion on notice for interlocutory injunction.”

As an alternative to the mandatory order directing the lawmakers to revert to the status quo, the PDP asked for “an order setting aside the earlier order on parties to maintain the status quo pending the hearing of the motion for interlocutory injunction.”

In an affidavit in support of the motion, which was deposed to by one Tajudeen Ayeni, the ruling party averred that the subject matter of the suit bordered on the alleged “intention” by the plaintiffs to defect to the APC.

It added, “The plaintiffs were worried that the defendants would declare their seats vacant in the House of Representatives on account of their proposed defection and so instructed their counsel to file a motion for interlocutory injunction before this court.

“When this matter came up for hearing on December 17, 2013, counsel for the plaintiffs sought to move a motion for interlocutory injunction but this was resisted by the 1st and 4th defendants/applicants counsel. The honourable court then made an order suo moto that status quo be maintained.”

The PDP argued that in spite of the order, the 37 legislators decamped to the APC . It stressed that the defection was aimed at putting it(PDP) at a huge disadvantage ahead of the next hearing date in the matter, which is January 22, 2014.

The party said, “It is necessary for this honourable court to reverse the action of the 37 plaintiffs which is clearly in disobedience of the order of this court.

“The action of the 37 plaintiffs, if not reversed, is capable of dissipating the res in this matter and may also lead to a breakdown of law and order in the National Assembly and affect the entire polity.”

Gadzama had earlier in a letter informed Tambuwal of the suit filed by the party in a bid to reverse the defection of the 37 lawmakers.

In the leter, he said, “We have today filed a motion on notice, which has already been served on your office, seeking to overturn the purported movement of the 37 plaintiffs to the APC.

“It is in the light of this that we enjoin you to act in obedience to the order of court and direct the plaintiffs to revert to the status quo ante bellum.

“Anything contrary to this will send out wrong signals to Nigerians and the world that federal legislators have no regard for the law and constitution which they have sworn to uphold.”

The letter added that the action of the 37 lawmakers “if not contained, may lead to a state of anarchy.”

The defection of the lawmakers had given the APC a simple majority in the House, increasing its numerical strength from 135 to 172, against PDP’s 171.

http://www.punchng.com/news/confusion-in-pdp-over-37-reps-defection/

Nigeria is on second leg of its death. There is a constitutional stipulation on the fate of any member of the national assembly that switched party before the end of his/her term.

Oduduwaisreal: What are you talking about?
You can use Google translator to translate it to igbo

There is no doubt you were born and raised in Nigeria. Now let us I assume in ANKARA, TURKEY about 2011 that GEJ in a meeting with Nigerians in Diaspora said “by 2015 even though I will not be running for election’’. Was the alleged statement made under oath? Did the statement negate or replace GEJ’s constitutional mandate for a second term? Is GEJ not humanly entitled to change his mind?

Oduduwaisreal: So you cannot decipher the meaning of "I will not be running in the election"?
SMH at this okrika people

The writer of the article did not follow through to the context. Did you read the part that states "Even though I will not be running in the election".

The goofy character has no credibility left to leverage a claim to the position of governor of CBN. GEJ should remove the technically inapt goon as governor.

@OP

I say shame on the poster of this old news. Was GEJ on oath when the alleged statement accredited to him was made? It is silly to equate “I have no ambition to stay in office beyond 2015 to “I shall not contest election in 2015”.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]Is there anyone else who doubts that GEJ is finished?

Note how Tinubu has sort of taken a back seat and allowed Buhari to be the fase of APC. Buhari has been making pronoucements such as "We will meet with OBJ" etc. Tinubu is turning out to be a very savvy and smart politician who understands that he has some baggages which his enemies can use to fight APC if Tinubu were the face of APC or its presidential candidate.

I believe Jagaban Borgu may be one of the most powerful politicians in Nigeria today. GEJ has alienated every well meaning supporter and he continues to present himself as the President of the SS/SE or Ijaws alone. GEJ and his crew have been selling off national assets to their cronies and believe they can renegotiate the oil block contracts whereby, they will move the same to their cronies, come 2016.

His handlers have grossly miscalculated and will pay dearly for their miscalculations.

We continue to watch the Dangotes and the Odetolas of Nigeria; if those guys shift allegiance from GEJ, then GEJ may not make it to 2015 as our President.[/quote]Mr. chucks,

Have you recently heard what your boy, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, is saying about the goofy letter he allegedly wrote to the President about the so-called missing $50 billion from crude oil proceeds?

[quote author=ndu_chucks]I also truly hope that GEJ cleans up the system as a result of recent events. Unfortunately, I doubt he'll be able to do so given the facts that election campaigning will start in 2014, the national conference ia planned for 2014, and the PDP has lost control of NASS.

If he can still clean up the system given these realities, then OBJ would have been one of the people to cause that change, so OBJ will still deserve the Person of the year award, as far as I am concerned.[/quote]GEJ must ask Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to resign as the governor of CBN.

Aigbofa: Absolutely. How can someone sit in the back of a bus with no tires, and apparently no one in sight to fix it. And he just sits there waiting for Godot. Absurd.

The cartoonist knows very well there will be no red cap in the vicinity of apparent mad dash for fraudulent lunch.

I can say unequivocally that tribalism is better than censorship. It is beyond the pale of enlightenment that a goon should tamper with or destroy the mental property of another person all in idiotic pretense. In USA, people still feel free to discuss the ancestral differences of the people of USA regardless the crudity of the language.

ilugunboy: Serious..

My neighbor sent his brother in advance to arrange for two MOPOL to meet him at the Owerri airport en-route Uhumuia...they will stay with him and his family till and follow them back the airport in Owerri..en-route Lagos in Jan.


He is been doing that in the lat three years.

Illegitimateboy

In addition to cowardice, it is safe to say deceit is an inherent trait among your people. You have been posting the above crap for three years every Xtmas period. It appears hyena can not change its spots.

shymexx: Darn!! You cook them and feast on them, yes?

Well, I'm never going near Igboland when I get to naija.

Also, subconsciously, since I saw that ish, I've been running away from all the Igbo chics I used to chat to.

Cannibalism is unclean!

Shyman,

Tell the bolded part to the Yoruba.

ilugunboy: You be winch?

Exactly what I had in mind...or the resource control hat

I guess you will have a mind ache if you were wishing to see a red cap hustling over to APC. Naturally, an Igbo man is not a inherent turncoat. The picture might be a cartoon but it spoke volumes about certain creatures in Nigeria.

shymexx: Bwahahahahahaha

Thanks, bruddah!



http://www.heretical.com/cannibal/nigeria.html

^^^^Classic!!

Sure, we do not take prisoners.

Orlando Owoh: Mention it for we to engage you, or you keep shut, agadi nwoke.

jason123,

You are a regrettable omo ale. I do not deal with intellectually challenged dingbats such as you. At least, I have two arokes to flog.

shymexx: I know of a tribe running around stark naked in 1913 - and a region where cannibalistic feasts were rampant till 1921, from the West of Onitsha in Asaba - all the way to almost every part, East of Onitsha. I didn't make it up, I read about it from an academic link posted on nairaland. I did a scholarship on it, and found out that everything there is the truth and nothing but the truth. So what say you, Mr-shrapnel-stuck-in-skull-since-the-civil-war?

Shyman

It is good to hear you just did a scholastic review on the crap you vomited above. In my case, I lived in Yoruba land and in some cases passed as Omo-Yoruba. In addition, I performed empirical research on the gbomogbomo and the cannibalistic practices reserved for royal class, olodo.

dayokanu: 1. Attack the opponent

2. Boast about being the best in the world

3. Opponent replies with a bigger crushing blow

4. Whine about how much force was used in crushing you

5. Blame any convenient opponent leader (Awolowo, Tinubu, Fashola Adekunle etc)

6. Start all over

I guess we are in stage 4 now

Dayolodo,
I know it will take seconds before you arrive with your silly Ogbomoso illogicality.

shymexx: Whining again, ain't ya?

I knew something was amiss, then boom, I checked the thread you cited and I had a good laugh - HYSTERICAL!!

I'd say I'm absolutely proud of the Yoruba e-warriors, you made my day.

However, till I see: "Igbo's are either uncultured or cannibalistic" on google search as the most populated entry, just the same way Igbo's populated google's servers with "Yoruba's are dirty" - I'd say you're still losing.

Keep the fire burning!!

Shalom!!

bittyend,

You can do better than the above conjectural crap. I do not think a group of people that invented gbomogbomo and other forms of atrocities could be termed as cultured.

I know a section of Nigeria were first son was buried with his highly placed father in the society. It has suddenly changed to eating the heart of deceased father by the surviving son before the later could be enthroned.

Aigbofa: The PDP bus is also missing a tire; meaning it's going nowhere.
Na wah o.
If I could change the cartoon a little, the man at the back of the PDP bus will wear a red cap.

Very good observation.

Olaolufred: ALL POLITICIANS ARE ACTUALLY HUSTLERS-JONATHAN INCLUDED.

You must agree though that some politicians are worse than others.

itsrandeeboi: I understand that, institutionally, we have some things to correct but do we have to wait for government to act before we make changes that are within our power to make? Isn't it every Nigerian that is suffering Nigeria's problems regardless of who gets allocated what? People shout that there are too many northerners in positions of authority in this country. That may be true, but go to the North and find out, at the grassroots level, how many common northerners are benefitting from it all? Blackouts/power failure is a reality across the country, not just in certain states. Same as bad roads, poor healthcare, decripit state of education and every other problem plaguing Nigerians. When will we realize that we are all suffering the same problems from Lagos to Aba to Kafanchan to wherever else?

As technically and socially advanced as USA, I bet not everybody benefits from all government programs. However every citizen of USA seemed to believe he/she belongs to the country patriotically. Tribal bigotry in Nigeria is as old as the country. Have you seen any Yoruba or Hausa, or Fulani or Kanuri shouting above his/her voice requesting the federal government to situate international airport in Igbo land or defunct eastern region? I remembered the day someone told me to go back to my country while still in Nigeria.

I am not delusional about socio-politico-economic situation in Nigeria. A lesson was learnt long ago not to attempt to change anything socially or politically in Nigeria. Those who tried were branded as tribal bigots and enemy of the state.

itsrandeeboi: My problem is not exactly about how the tribalism on the threads affect me because I know enough about how silly it is to be tribalistic to prevent myself from getting emotional about one tribe or another. Where I have issues is with impressionable people like teenagers who, whether we like it or not, also are members of this forum and read through the threads and pick up things from what people post here. Some of these e-warlords just take the whole thing as a joke and see themselves as catching fun by poking fun at other tribes. But someone else learning is taking it all seriously and would get the impression that all the tribes in Nigeria just hate each other (which in reality is not at all true). Stupidity has a way of setting of real trouble and by God I will not stand by and watch that happen.

Nigeria denotes tribal bigotry because tribal bias is institutionalized in the country. From quota system, state of origin, deportation to federal character is all governmental bias spurred by tribal bigotry. I would want you to stop federal character and quota system in Nigeria and initiate ground root ideas which will state that every square inch of contiguous restate in Nigeria is an ancestral home to every joker. Nigeria shall remain a melting pot until we decide to go our separate ways.

Carpet-crossing in politics always has boomerang’s effects. These goons that seemed to rush over to APC must be watched closely. They are nothing but hustlers and shall be the likely losers that will shout election is rigged, election is rigged and election is rigged!!!

itsrandeeboi: I am quite sure that i'm not the first person to write about this but I certainly would like to be the last. I read through the following thread with concern https://www.nairaland.com/1561102/34-year-old-enugu-ebonyi-bridge-collapses seeing how people who claim to be educated spout crass stupidity on a public forum. I mean, someone posted news of a collapsed bridge and all some people could think about is how to make it a tribal thing? Are some people high or just dumb? These are people who claim to have degrees, who claim to be good parents to their children but when they go online, they display such an amazing lack of intelligence that leaves one wondering.

Nigeria as an entire country is lacking development, so anybody wasting time arguing that their tribe is better than another is incredibly dense. It is amazing how Nairaland has degenrated from a forum that seriously considers the Nigerian discourse to a place where crassly illiterate minds and degenerates spew forth the empty filth they have inside them. The annoying thing is that some of them are not even resident in the country. Should a tribal war break out, they would be in the safety of other countries while people who weren't even participating in the rubbish online discussions get killed.

My worry is that it seems to have the tacit blessing of the mods and the admin seeing as that thread has gone four pages long and growing and it has still not occurred to somebody to either lock it, delete the tribalist comments or ban the offending posters. Is the admin now trading a chance at Nigeria being a peaceful nation for hits? This is quite frankly shocking and I cannot just believe how this is being allowed to happen. Everyday every Nigerian faces the same set of challenges of power supply, health care, falling education standards and so on and all some narrow minded bigots can do is come online and make fun of other tribes?

Sometimes I just feel like I hate this country as a whole, my own tribe inclusive.

There is no doubt the above post showed sign of defeatism and self-pity. Why worry about crass stupidity people display on public forum? Unless the picture says something difference from the article, the bridge in the picture is not collapsed. Although the bridge is in serious bad shape that it should be closed down, it is not a collapsed structure. Also, I equally doubt if the bridge transverses a river or stream on federal or Truck “A” road.