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So we should thank Abacha for rehabilitating him? What has he been doing with himself in terms of personal development and capacity building to prepare him for a modern day government?

As per decimating my opening post, I am waiting,

@9ijaman

I started this thread with the intention of bringing to fore the critical issues that should influence the direction of our votes this year.Buhari is a good man but his he intouch with current realities? and like Gbawe said , what has he been doing with himself since he left office in 1983? If there was no Ribadu in this race i will definitely be a Buhari man.

I agree if u say I am a die hard Ribadu fan, but I am not supporting him blindly I gave 5 reasons why I think he is better than the other candidates I expected you to counter my arguement by telling us why u think your man is better not by just saying I should come over and join your team.

9ijaMan:
Did Ribadu call Tinubu a thief or not? Did EFCC ever investigate Dame Patient Jonathan or not? If The same thief Tinubu is now in bed with Ribadu, how can you convince me that he (Ribadu) is any different from GEJ. I've told you not to push it, but you won't listen.

How in Gods name will you compare Ribadu with a GEJ please do not do that. Let us agree that he did investigate Tinubu and now he is dinning with him, there is a new head at EFCC now, why has she not been able to bring up the case and continue the prosecution?

9ijaMan:
And your point is?
Corrupt business men also got punished during Buhari's regime. What we are saying is that Buhari punished just about every corrupt person in the country and made it virtually impossible for anyone to openly display acts of indiscipline and corruption. The same can never be said for Ribadu's tenure as the EFCC head.

One can argue that he could have performed better if OBJ had not drwan a red line for him never to cross, vis-a-vis the likes of Tony Anenih and Bode George, but again he could have either revolted openly against those untouchables or leave OBJ's administration honorably.
Do not push it please!

My point is simple Ribadu prosecuted all that was under his mandate, it was when he started prosecuting politicians that he was accused of bias. Buhari was military head of state he had powers he ruled by decree for God sake!Ribadu was just the head of a government agency bound by the EFCC act. He does not just pick up somebody to prosecute there has to be a petition by any member of the public reporting a corrupt practice before the EFCC can swing unto action.

There is nothing to push your argument is flawed!

9ijaMan:
You need not let your imaginations run wild. Did Ribadu prosecute corrupt politians? Yes.
Did he go after all corrupt politicians like Buhari did? NO
Bode George was free until RIbadu left office. UMYA put George behind bars.

Do not forget that the same Ribadu is now in bed with the Tinubu he called several unprintable names. I mentioned earlier that I'd rather oust a GEJ than to spend my energy and time pointing at Ribadu's weaknesses. Make we leave am there o!

Thread softly bro. Buhari in every ramification you may want to consider is head ans shoulders above Ribadu.

And about Farida, yes she's being used by the current GEJ led government.

Ribadu prosecuted politician because they stole more but he did not prosecute only politicians, he prosecuted business men( Emmanuel Ofule, Obum Osakwe, Chief Nzeribe and Amaka Anajemba), bankers(Emmanuel Nwude), police men(Tafa Balogun) etc

Please educate us with fact if you have any about Ribadu

Wadeoye:
Stop wasting other people's time along with your own. If PDP is the problem of this country, the only thing that makes sense at this time is for us to work together and chase them out and jail all those that have been stealing from the till. There is no time for all these not-well-thought-through ambition.

Join BB train today to chase the monster called PDP out of power. Sure Ribadu can still be given a role in the new government that will be formed by BB.

See the below picture, who will not want these upright, matured and exprienced men to lead his country?

I have not come to waste your time but sell to you a very courageous and competent leader. If we all agree that the PDP is the problem of our country, then we should replace them with a party that has a structure like the ACN. CPC does not have a structure that can support a presidency.Remove a Buhari from the CPC and you wil find out that the party is empty. But remove a Bola Tinubu from ACN and the party get stronger with the likes of Fashola,Ben Akabueze, Dele alake , Abike Dabiri ,Adams oshiomole,Fayemi,Belgore,mamora and so on.These are people that can hold their own anyday.

Buhari led this country as a military head,he had absolute powers he ruled by decrees but things are different now this is a democracy , can he cope? Bakare, as a church leader is used to being listen to but now he would need to us the constitution not the bible. You can interprete the bible as led by the holy spirit but the constitution cant be interpreted that way ,can he cope?

I urge you to join the Ribadu/Adeola train so that we can change this country together.

1.POLITICL PARTY
Ribadu belongs to a party that has shown over the years that it has superior ideas.ACN has been able to show us that democracy is not all about promises but delivering on basic deliverables. Look around all ACN states and you will appreciate what I am talking about.
A place like Edo State where PDP has its misrule for over 10 years is now a totally diffferent place in just 2 years after an ACN government took over. Take a look at the National assembly and tell me what u see, we have very few ACN members in both houses but you will agree with me that they are amongst the most respected of the whole lot no scandal has been associated with any of them and they have sponsored bills that are very important e.g. The freedom of Information bill sponsored by Abike Dabiri,National Tobacco Policy(Senator Mamora),National Health Bill(Senator Mamora) and so on. I am not going to say anything about Lagos, the news is everywhere! 
Now, imagine what happens if the national assembly is flooded with top quality legislators of the ACN. Whatever some of us would like everyone to believe about the leadership of the ACN, the party still seem to be the best we have for now if we are looking at what they have delivered, the quality of  ideas they have put up to the table.
2.CORRUPTION
Ribadu will fight corrupttion that is a fact but should that make us happy? I say yes! For us to understand why fighting corruption is a big deal is for us to understand what it does to our national life. The most obvious way corruption hurts our society is its neutralizing effect on public servants, be they police or politicians, or anyone in between. When the country needed a contractor to build a $6 billion natural gas plant in Bonny Island, the consortium of four companies that won the contract paid a bribe of about $180 million to government officials. The head of one of the companies (KBR) Jack Stanley who  pleaded guilty in a US court  to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act on this case speculates that because bribery so thoroughly compromised bidding on the Bonny Island contract, the project may have ended up costing Nigeria an extra 1 billion dollars. So what that means is that because of the greed of a few, the country lost over a billion dollars! That is a direct loss to the country. Now imagine what about 150 billion naira would do in the Niger Delta.
Do you know that the Niger Delta is one of five most polluted places in the world? It is not a coincidence that one of the most corrupt places in the world is also one of the most polluted in the world. Because of pollution life expectancy in the Niger Delta is 40years while the average for the country is 47. Gas flaring has been going on unabated for 50 years and government has not been able to take any definitive stand on the issue because of corruption. The last time the issue was mentioned at the National Assembly there were unconfirmed report of 'settlement' and that was the last that was heard on the issue meanwhile people are dying daily because of an environment that  is far from being sustainable.
Even so, pollution is not the top concern for the average Niger Delta inhabitant. Hunger is. We supply one-tenth of the United States' oil, more than Iraq and Kuwait combined, yielding billions of dollars in oil revenue every year. Yet in the country most people survive on less than a dollar a day, well below the World Bank's threshold for extreme poverty. Kuwait became an independent country in 1961 from the British even after a seven month war; Kuwait is heaven compare to anywhere in Nigeria. You may want to argue that the population is small but that is not it, it is what they do with the money.
Do you still think fighting corruption is not a big deal?
Between 1960 and 1999, Nigerian officials had stolen or wasted more than $440 billion. That is six times the Marshall Plan, the total sum needed to rebuild a devastated Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War. When you look across a nation and a continent riddled with poverty and weak institutions, and you think of what this money could have done – only then can you truly understand the crime of corruption, and the almost inhuman indifference that is required by those who wield it for personal gain.
Corruption hurts our society because it makes thieves and bribe takers very powerful they now have so much money to buy weapons and to engage jobless youth in act capable of destabilizing our polity they are getting bolder and soon, if we do not fight this battle now, they will turn themselves into cartels just like the drug cartels of Mexico. 
Of all the presidential candidates, Ribadu is one that has shown the will and capacity to fight corruption in modern day Nigeria with success. Buhari fought corruption in the eighties when politicians stole only Tens of millions of Naira nowadays, politicians steal in billions of dollars the appetite has increased hence we need a Ribadu that is in touch with current realities. 
Ribadu’s achievements in the EFCC included the de-listing of Nigeria from the FATF List of Non-Cooperative Countries & Territories, admission into the prestigious Egmont Group and the withdrawal of the US Treasury FINCEN Advisory on Nigeria. They helped make the EFCC the foremost Anti-Corruption Enforcement Agency on the continent, cementing Ribadu's reputation in the world as a respected anti-corruption crusader.

3.INTEGRITY , SINCERITY & CREDIBILITY
Nigerians do not trust their leaders not because we do not want to but because we have not seen the sincerity in our leaders we need a leader with integrity a leader we can trust a leader whose words are like a collateral. Ribadu has shown us over the years that he is a man of integrity.
During the course of his duty Mr Ribadu was offered bribes to pervert the course of justice, amongst these was a Former Delta State governor Ibori who offered Mr Ribadu a bribe of $15 millon and a house abroad. Ribadu took the money and used the bribe as evidence to prosecute the state governor. A Nigerian business man that was involved in a 419 case (242 million dollar Brazillian Bank Scam) was said to have bribed Ribadu with the sum of 30million Naira this was also used in the prosecution of the business man.
If we vote Ribadu, we will be voting someone whose integrity has been put to test and has not been found wanting.GEJ has started giving out bribes (USD50, 000 to the SAVE Nigeria group), his choice of friends are these same people who brought us where we are today so I do not trust him and I do not expect fellow Nigerians to do so.

4. ADMINISTRATIVE COMPETENCE  
As part of conditions given to the country in early 2000 in order to secure a debt cancellation of 30 billion dollars and partially in response to pressure from the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), which named Nigeria as one of 23 countries non-cooperative in the international community’s efforts to fight money laundering, The EFCC was established in 2003.
Ribadu was appointed the head of the new agency and therefore was saddled with the responsibility of building it from scratch and that was what he did. He built a world class law enforcement agency from scratch! That is a big deal nothing more can show how competent Ribadu is administratively but that is not all.
In three years, the EFCC under his leadership built what is now the most celebrated Crimes Training and Research Institute in the sub-region. The agency also recorded about 250 criminal convictions, a record that is far ahead of the total record of the police in its 147 years of existence, and far ahead of the Attorney-General’s office in the 49 years of the country’s post-colonial history.
Ribadu was a member of the highly commended Failed Banks Tribunal that sanitized the rottenness in the Nigerian Banking sector of the late eighties.  He helped pioneer the setting up of the Legal and Prosecutions Department of the Nigerian Police, a unit that served as think tank and policy nerve center of the police.
Now take a closer look at the CVs of the other two main presidential candidates and you will clearly see that while Buhari is at a very distant second, GEJ is just too far from it. He was acting governor in Bayelsa for about 2 years and no one has been able to point to any legacy of his government and then he became the vice president and now president and the only legacy we can clearly see without any further explanation from his camp is the fact that the excess crude account has been totally depleted at a time of increasing oil price.
5. A SMART YOUNG PRESIDENT
We have all clamoured for a younger president but then, should we just take any young man as a good choice? A leader should be able to articulate his thoughts, a leader should be intelligent, a leader should be convincing in words and actions, a leader should be courageous and finally a leader should be smart!
Why smart? A smart leader will can only attract smart beings to himself it is natural. So what this means is that a vote for a smart man will definitely yield many other smart guys and this is the main reason GEJ has not been seen to be doing well, he does not have the capacity to attract thinkers and that is why he keep making statements and denying them the next minute.
A vote for Ribadu is a vote for a smart man and you can be rest assured that he will turn things around for good. We all say excellent things about Fashola but we all know he is not the commissioner for works or for environment or for educationneither is he the commissioner for transport but because he is smart he has been  able assemble other smart men and that is why he is getting all the attention.

As usual, after the statement comes the denial! I wonder why he is paying meat beaf so much for this trash propaganda work he is doing.

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well said my brother

Have u guys noticed that Nesta Sanni of STV is always on the same black tie? you think I am joking? check him out tonight STV news @10.

all the thieves were present at the thanksgiving service, so sad

What kind of country is this? a convicted thief in church for thanksgiving? and our 'president' thought it wise to send a powerful delegation to celebrate with a convicted fellow? are we going to be quiet as these thieves get bolder and daring? are we going to allow this party plunder our collective wealth further?

This is terrible!

texazzpete:
Even if Fashola's claims were to be taken as gospel truth, the 700,000 naira figure was mentioned for 'senior doctors'. That meant experienced consultants with at least a decade of solid experience under their belts. I don't know why in your envy you're jumping to conclusion that all the doctors are earning in that range.

I don't care what Fashola claims. What he's paying is below CONMESS. Ordinary ekiti state pays 100% CONMESS and Yet in Lagos state, less than 100% CONMESS is now an obscene amount.

Think first before you start insulting your betters.

Please how many doctors are on the pay roll of the Ekiti State government? Does the Ekiti State government offer the other pecks the Lagos State Government is offering? do they have the kind of facilities you work with in Lagos? I will advise you guys to collect what the government is offering you now and continue to negotiate with them. You do not fight your employer !

As for olaifa, he went against the rule of engagement and the price was what he got.

Oh ! Sorry people I said it was Dokpesi and IBB then, because I never knew he was my father but now that I know he is my father we are looking at the possibility of labelling some other persons with that terrorist act.

Can u imagine these thieves want to bring Ribadu in!Anyway I am not bothered, i trust Ribadu will come out with a response that will put them where they belong.

Can u imagine these thieves want to bring Ribadu in!Anyway I am not bothered, i trust Ribadu will come out with a response that will put them where they belong.

If not for the death of my late boss Yaradua, we would have met our 7 point agenda and by now we would be on the 8th one which is to radicalize the rascals of the south west.

Sponge,Boxers, Towel , ATM card infact everything apart from toothbrushes , oh my wife my wife I cant wait to get home tonight!

WHY NUHU RIBADU MATTERS

Nigerian politics is not yet at the point where democratic institutions have taken deep root so the 'type' of leader we have sends a lot of 'signals' down the food chain which in turn gives the government whatever character it is seen to have.

So Shagari was seen to be incompetent and spineless, this was a signal to men like Umaru Dikko and many others in that government that you could pretty much take whatever you wanted from the commonwealth with impunity. Likewise when  a few days to the 2007 elections, President Obasanjo described it as a do or die affair, this was a powerful signal to every politician, especially those in the PDP, that whatever barriers to rigging that were in place previously had now been removed. The result was that we had a shame of an exercise that must never be referred to as an election.

The examples are endless. After Murtala Mohammed became Head of State, civil servants were said to be reporting at their desks by 7am. Fast forward a few years and our civil servants are more likely to be found watching Africa Magic or hawking all sorts of wares in the office.

The President does not need to patrol every ministry unannounced to make our civil servants sit up at their desks. He only needs to send a strong enough signal, in word and in deed, that things will no longer be as they have and people will sit up.

Similarly, we need leadership that will send a strong signal to the rest of the world, that things are different now so we can attract the quality foreign investment we need along with the skills transfer this would bring.

But most of all, we need leadership that sends a strong signal to every Nigerian that things have well and truly changed and after so many false starts, our country can finally get going. One man cannot unwind our totally corrupt system but he can at least introduce punishment into the system so that people know that there will consequences for robbing the nation. A system whereby people facing trial for corruption are awarded multi million naira contracts sends out all the wrong signals to the clerk in the ministry.

Nuhu Ribadu's candidacy excites me. For one, I know that the ONLY way he can be President is if Nigerians come out in their numbers to vote for him. Perhaps in my lifetime, this will be the first real transfer of power from the people, via a mandate, to a man they have deemed worthy of presiding over the affairs of the nation. He cannot rig his way into office neither can he buy his way to the Presidency.

I am also excited by the fact that this candidacy is getting a lot of its power from those who will own this country tomorrow. Those who will be called next. I need not bore you with the man's biography or achievements. His Wikipedia page has all the information you need.

A foolish consistency they say, is the hobgoblin of small minds; the time for doing the same thing 'one more time' hoping for a different result is gone now. It is getting boring even. I watched the PDP primaries in 2003 that handed Obasanjo the party's presidential ticket to contest that year's elections. It promised so many surprises to the point where I stayed up till very late in the night listening to Tom Ikimi repeat 'Oba-sanjo' again and again till I was nearly in a trance. And then a few weeks ago, I watched again as 'Jonathan' after 'Jonathan' was called out. This time I didn't wait very long before going to bed.

We are being asked once again to vote for a candidate delivered by the exact same system that has produced his predecessors because after 12 years, this time it will be different. I leave you to imagine what signals will come out of Aso Rock in 4 years if we are to continue with the PDP.

No word has been as much abused as the word 'change' especially when it comes to politics and campaign. And because Nigeria cries out for change so obviously, change has become a single door through which a throng of politicians try to run through at the same time whenever elections approach leaving the race not to the best but to the most thuggish.

But I can make my decision based on those who indeed brought change when they had the chance to do so, anyone can brandish a credit card with change written all over it. At some point, real cash will have to be involved to complete the transaction.

My name is Feyi Fawehinmi and I am 32 years old.[b] If I had been born in the east end of London, in my lifetime I would have seen Canary Wharf rise from the ground from a part of London that was no more than a glorified marsh. And I would have grown up with a vision that no longer sees the obstacles in front of me but the possibilities.

Or if I had been born in Beijing, I would have watched in my lifetime as my city was completely transformed into one of the most developed cities in China good enough to host the Olympics. And I would have grown up not being overwhelmed by the problems but excited by the possibilities.

I could have been born in Atlanta, Georgia and I would have watched my city transformed by the 1996 Olympics and seen life spring up from empty spaces all over the city turning the city into a world class town. And with that, never again will I look at an empty dark space the same way again. And when Barack Obama says 'we do big things', I would nod in understanding.

As it turns out, I was born in Nigeria so the gutters that have been open for as long as I can remember remain open till today, filled with quite possibly the same stagnant water. I might therefore think that covering gutters (which will in turn reduce mosquitoes that still kill our people) is such a big deal. And when I travel round the country and see open gutters everywhere, I am more likely to be overwhelmed by the scale of the problems that have been left to fester for forever[/b].

The inimitable Pius Adesanmi put it best when he said; "You are not likely to consider constant electricity in the 21st century a right that must be fought for if your mental universe is such that you want to mount the pulpit on Sunday and give testimony that you went to the lord in prayer and fasting and came against the spirit of darkness and, behold, “NEPA did not take light during the naming ceremony of my child!"

In other words, because I am a Nigerian, my idea of development and advancement is completely warped (not different, warped) and I have come to view certain things as perhaps acceptable. We underestimate how far behind we are from where we should normally be. And we forget that the world is not sitting down somewhere waiting for us to catch up. We cannot continue to flirt with a party that is more likely to produce a Peter Odili as governor than it is to produce a Rotimi Amaechi.

We are all partly to blame for where we find ourselves because as much as we have had the misfortune of being ruled by the most clueless of generals, there have been those moments when an olive has been offered us and we turned it down. We could have perhaps voted for Awolowo instead of Shagari and our story might have been different today. Or maybe not. The important thing to note is that we had a choice then and we have a choice once again now.

A wise man once said that the reason why God gave us Mondays was so we could start again even after a very bad week.

I am voting Nuhu Ribadu because Nigeria is crying out for positive change and nothing says change like his candidacy, not just a change in the choice of headgear.

We are at a point in our nation where we are being sold second hand sophistry packaged in a new wrapper. That the presidency is defined by a man who would be nowhere in the reckoning were this to be anywhere near a serious open contest. That a man propelled to the top of the nation's leadership by a series of events that would make Lemony Snicket green with envy apparently had all the solutions inside of him all along. That a man, just like his late boss, who had never been known to aspire to the highest office in the land is now the best man for the job, presumably after having seen what the job entails and declaring it to be only slightly more difficult than a cakewalk.

It is important that we pause and listen to the arguments being presented to us. Yours truly is an accountant and I work in a firm where I report to a Director. If something were to happen and my boss couldn't make it in to the office one day, I could probably cover for him for a couple of days using whatever knowledge I have gleaned from working with him. This does not however automatically make me a director. If my boss were never to return to the office again, the reasonable thing for the company to do would be to call for applications for the vacant role and if I felt confident enough to apply, I would do so like everybody else. I would not expect to be treated differently even though I might have an edge.

But in Nigeria we have created a system whereby, as long as you are able to reach the Presidency by whatever means, you automatically become the 'best man for the job'. To sit on the chair is to be. And invariably the country is dragged to your level of competence, usually downwards hardly ever upwards.

Nigerians are once again faced with a choice and we can be fixated on the person sitting on the chair to the detriment of every other person. We only postpone the evil day in that regard.

So when I look at all the candidates running for office, I comfortably come down on the side of Mr Ribadu as the best man for the job. I am not moved by luck or chance. I choose to remain clear eyed when making such a serious decision.

It is practically impossible to talk about the candidacy of Nuhu Ribadu without talking about Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos state and ACN chieftain.

Without mincing words, I am no fan of the Asiwaju mainly because I think he lacks the intellectual capacity to come up with a vision as leader of the Yorubas, never mind Nigeria, as he is seen to be these days.

But unto Asiwaju what is due Asiwaju.

Wole Soyinka once said that 'records are not kept to assist the weakness of memory but to serve as guides to the future'. So a quick recap will suffice.

Olusegun Obasanjo got elected in 1999 in an anomalous fashion in that he lost his entire constituency (South West Nigeria) but went on to win the Presidency. In a parliamentary system such as the UK, David Cameron would no longer be Prime Minister if he were to somehow lose his constituency of Witney in Oxfordshire.

Four years later this anomaly was seen as a weakness for Obasanjo and there was much grumbling directed at him from within the PDP. Invariably having learnt the lessons of politics, he needed to correct this problem. So by hook or crook he needed to 'deliver' the South West to the PDP from the AD. This was achieved in various ways from outright rigging to giving false assurances to men like Segun Osoba.

Yes it is true that Lam Adesina was considered to be pretty much useless by the people of Oyo state but today they have Adebayo Alao-Akala in his place, a man who has plumbed the depths so far that the only place left to go is for him to drop out of the earth's bottom.

Yes it is true that Olusegun Osoba was seen to be disconcertingly haughty by the people of Ogun state but he was replaced with Gbenga Daniel who is never far away from the gravest of allegations ranging from murder to theft.

Yes it is true that Bisi Akande and Adebayo Adefarati were seen to be old and lethargic by the people of Osun and Ondo states respectively but they were replaced by Olagunsoye Oyinlola who never once let anything stand in the way of his enjoyment around the globe and Olusegun Agagu who performed so woefully in Ondo state that he saw fit to hire Mike Tyson, Michael Jackson and such like to aid his re-election in 2007.

Yes it is true that Adeniyi Adebayo in Ekiti state was seen to be a spoilt and privileged daddy's boy but he was replaced with Ayodele Fayose who spent billions of naira on a shameful poultry project in the state where not ONE single chicken was ever seen.

In the end, the PDP hostile takeover of the South West in 2003 was a self serving move led by Obasanjo using his patented brand of do or die politics.

Now pause for a moment. And imagine if the PDP had completed a clean sweep and taken Lagos state in that same 2003. The APP/ANPP had also been decimated by the PDP from 9 states down to 2 states.

Today the ACN is in control of 4 states and has more than a good chance of capturing at least 2 more states in April. The ANPP remains stuck on 2 states and is likely to remain at that after the coming election.

There is therefore no doubt that the ACN is the #1 opposition party in Nigeria today. And it would never have been possible if the Asiwaju didn't somehow stand firm in 2003 to repel the PDP juggernaut. The only hope we would have an opposition worth the name today would be us waiting for the PDP to implode and spin off a new arm.

Then there is of course the question of legacy. No amount of garnishing can turn a plate of frog meat into something palatable that one would want to eat. However if push came to shove, one would at least make a choice in favour of the frog with an egg inside it, so says the Yoruba proverb.

Obasanjo and Tinubu were motivated by the same selfishness when they were picking their successors in 2007 but it is hard not to imagine that Babatunde Fashola is in fact the frog with an egg inside it when placed side by side with the late Umaru Yar'Adua.

The ACN as the main opposition party in Nigeria today presents the most realistic vehicle for Nuhu Ribadu to achieve his aim of change. Politics always comes in packages; It is not a Christmas hamper where you can take what you want out of the basket and abandon the rest. This is the reason why Barack Obama rose out of the same party in the same state of Illinois as the hopelessly corrupt  Governor Rod Blagojevich.

To repeat; this is not a defence of the Asiwaju, he comes with baggage. But the office of the Nigerian president does not tolerate a godfather for too long and I am confident that Mr Ribadu will be his own man and set the agenda as President. Because I know he at least stands for something.

I believe a new Nigeria is possible. And on April 9th I will vote for Nuhu Ribadu as the man best able to deliver the vision of Nigeria I have when I close my eyes and imagine the possibilities.

But I will also abide by the choice of the Nigerian people. Whoever wins will be recognized as my President. And not a drop of any Nigerian's blood will be shed in the name of any politician, Ribadu included. And I am confident that our votes will count. And the people's voices will be heard.

But I do not love any one candidate more than I love Nigeria to the point where I believe he has to win or nothing else. Presidents will come and go but Nigeria will endure. I will vote my conscience and I will accept the result. I am not afraid.
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"For our Vision 20-2020 to be realised, we must develop our oil and steel potentials, and Kogi State is key in this regard given its rich mineral deposits," Mr. Jonathan said.

Is he just realising that fact? how come he has not made any move in that direction in the last one year? now he needs another four years! Nigerians please let us do the right thing. let us vote right this time.

"For our Vision 20-2020 to be realised, we must develop our oil and steel potentials, and Kogi State is key in this regard given its rich mineral deposits," Mr. Jonathan said.

Is he just realising that fact? how come he has not made any move in that direction in the last one year? now he needs another four years! Nigerians please let us do the right thing. let us vote right this time.

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why please?

yemmight:
In a country where free and fair election is experience, how do you compare GEJ/Sambo to Fola Adeola/Ribadu? GEJ/Sambo has gotten nothing to offer this country.

I tire ooo.

Ayowumie:
This gej of a guy is neva coherent. I wonder why he can expressively convey his thought without been misunderstood. He was misunderstood in septemba wen he was submitin his nominatn form. The same thing hapnd in October and nw again.
How ar we sure his manifestoes ar nt d opposite of wat he means if he wins d electn?
This is a nice damage control piece, i mean literary-wise.

My brother i tire oooo.He is only coherent on facebook when obviously the speech has been prepared for him

When are we going to stop this ethnoreligious thinking? are we saying Fola Adeola can't deliver?are u saying he is not one of our best? am delighted at the thought of that man as our vice president and am sure he will be supported by all.

texazzpete:
I can't believe people are falling for this crap.
His campaign expenditure will be comfortably funded by the ACN and their medley of thieves. They just want to paint a picture that Ribadu is being sponsored by the masses.

i have no idea why people are being decieved into believing that this corrupt, hypocrite and liar is the messiah for Nigeria. As an EFCC boss, he did not do his job in an outstanding manner, preferring to let the media sing his praises. It was Ribadu who told the world in 2005/2006 that Bode George had no case to answer. Naturally, the whole world was stunned when he came out to condemn Bode George only AFTER his successor had brought that old thief to book.

While in power, the man helped shield and protect corruption by turning a deaf ear and blind eye to frantic calls for the prosecution of crooks like Anenih, Andy Uba, Bode George, IBB etc. When the going got tough the man lied to the whole nation about an 'assassination attempt on his life' to skip town.

This man is no messiah. He is no solution.

Why are u taking palliative drugs for someone else's headache? We have not asked for you for money. If u are not interested in supporting this message just ignore and create a thread for your candidate where you can feed people with like minds with falsehood.

GEJ would have become a well respected african leader had he decided not to contest this election using the opportunity he has now to organise a very credible election he would command respect everywhere in the country and the world and he could grow to become a political reference point .

He has been advised to do otherwise and it is so sad he has lost an opportunity to write his name in gold. As for the elections, if he wins, Nigeria as a country is domed.

I cant imagine we are going to be stuck with a president that is only articulate on pages of Facebook!
I cant imagine we are  going to live with this wasteful president for another four years!

President Obasanjo could address any gathering and you will be confident that he would not gaffe but imagine a Jonathan addressing the UN.

Let us help our self by doing the right thing. Vote right this time!

Another four years of arbitrariness and corruption!

People dont be decieved by the rhetoric of these GEJ supporters.Please lets do the right thing RIbadu is the best choice.

The argument of those who say that, by endorsing Buhari, they are settling on someone who can be guaranteed to give Obasanjo and the NPN a good fight, is one of the most depressing excuses I ever encountered for placing a political noose around a nation’s neck. Buhari owes a debt to this nation, not the other way round. If Buhari wishes to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the citizenry whom he has so cruelly wronged, he should first scuttle his ambitions, then place whatever following he has garnered in the meantime at the disposal of a consensus candidate among the opposition. To insist on another taste of power, after such a history of gross abuse of power is an insult to any nation that values freedom and human dignity. Buhari should sit with the opposition and coordinate strategies to defeat the most unscrupulous act of political gerrymandering that, we all know, is about to be inflicted on the nation by a desperate incumbent seeking for a clone to secure his exit from power. The nation has more than sufficient time and strategic intelligence to organize behind a common choice, publicize his or her qualities and defeat the arrogance of incumbency


I love Buhari for the fact he has the capacity to instill discipline and by and large he is a good man. But the fact still   remains that he is tainted. His human rights records are not encouraging.

tolu001:
I'd rather not vote than vote for a clueless, thoughtless, and visionless leader like Jonathan

Its worse if you do not vote. Please go out and vote else, your drivers, cleaners and that danfo driver you hate so much will choose a president for you. There is a viable option out there and he is a good one.

He was not a disciplined player during his days with the super eagles so I am not surprised he is not outside the field of play.