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He will stop criticizing the FG and now focus on how to fight Tinubu and install his own man

They are good in foreign missions because of the dollars invoved.

I promise not to talk party politics today but GMB wants me to break my silence, how can you say Nigeria was good pre 1999? What kind of man is this

The day I will see Sowore I will beat him up for bringing undue interference into our judiciary which is the hope of the common man

ApC is an enemy of Nigeria

In this new month we shall not be victims of any misfortune, Onward march to DEC 31st because we are children of excellence

Let the race begin

Gej has its own shortcomings but there is a bigger force at play which doesn't want Gej govt to succeed, it wants to remind us on how they are the best people to thrust leadership to

abbakacici:
the state is broken, but the state government is reduction tuition, so where will the state find the money to run the university

I think you need to buy jamb form and enter into University before you start spewing rubbish. I need to check all your post because of this Gbagan here

This is an unbiased reportage, it goes to show that the Fulani North wishes nobody any good. The blame should be on everyone's doorstep

Mogidi:
This is a masterpiece, couldn't believe sahara reporters would publish the above until I checked.

@donmalcolm21
I clicked on your link but it returned page not found. I found this link anyway--- http://saharareporters.com/2014/11/29/pdp-tragedy-vs-apc-threat-dilemma-yoruba-nation-remi-oyeyemi

thanks will modify it asap

Derailers, numbskulls and tribalist should stay away from this thread. Plss the mods should move this to FP

I'm singing that Rape song "story for the gods" to GMB because he will never get to that seat.

This story is misleading.

From the look of things, it is evident that there is fire on the Nigerian Mountain. This fire is all consuming and there is no obvious way of checkmating this fire. The fire, it seems, is going to lead to the end of Nigeria. But for someone like me, who has lost faith in the Nigerian Project for a long time, it is just a matter of course. This is because Nigeria is gradually approaching her DESTINY - the eventual freeing up of the ethnic nationalities within its confines. Like Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, popularly known in history as Lenin, was always saying about the situation in mother Russia in his exile days in Switzerland when the Bolshevik revolution was fermenting, “The worse, the better.”
While the dynamics of the Nigerian centrifugal forces are presently cocooned in the façade of politics, giving the wrong impression that we have a country in which we all believe, Nigeria is gradually ebbing away into its natural habitat of independent ethnic nationalities committed to determining their own destinies and being the captains of their own souls. The political class may still be able to postpone the doomsday, if Nigeria survives 2015, but it is a doomsday that would still come, nevertheless. The façade of politics is the present opium of the fake nationalists that believe in Nigeria at all costs, to them Nigeria is a subsisting country when indeed, it is a mirage.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been in power for the last 15years plus. The Hausa Fulani oligarchy, after frustrating the mandate of Chief M.K.O. Abiola in 1993 made efforts to assuage the anger of the Yoruba Nation by imposing another Egba man from Owu Kingdom in Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who has always been their “willing tool” (apology to Sir Ahmadu Bello, the late Sardauna of Sokoto and former Premier of Northern Region) to subjugating other nationalities in Nigeria. This oligarchy made sure that the Yoruba never got what they wanted and that the Yoruba aspiration could only be as determined by this Hausa –Fulani neo-colonialists. This oligarchy and its satellites across the country - Southwest, South-south, Southeast, Northeast and Middlebelt (or Northcentral) – in conjunction with their “militocrats” ensured that Obasanjo was shoved down the throat of Yoruba in particular and Nigerians in general in 1999.
Since the inept days of Tafawa Balewa to the tyrannical aeon of Mohammadu Buhari, through the anomic era of Ibrahim Babangida to the inane epoch of Musa Yar’Adua, the PDP, euphemised in different taxonomies, has been “failing.” I put the word “failing” in quote because as far as Nigerians are concerned, their fate has grown progressively worse in geometrical terms. But as far as the Fulani descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio are concerned, Nigeria could not have been better for them as an “inherited estate” – largely feudalistic and underdeveloped- peopled by hewers with subjugated will and failed dreams.
This brings us to the present spell of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ), also on the platform of the same PDP. He is reported to have earned a Doctorate in Zoology. GEJ, as he is popularly called, is an extraction from the minority Ijaw nationality whose homelands have provided Nigeria with its petro-dollars for decades while its landmass had been wasted recklessly and mercilessly by the Hausa-Fulani inspired Nigerian government. His people along with other minority nationalities in South-south have been fighting for preservation of their land while the land was being exploited. The renowned author and dramaturgist, Kenule Saro-Wiwa and seven others were murdered in the course of this struggle in what has come to be known as the Ogoni Eight Murders. The indifference of the Nigerian Government to the plight of the South-south people led to the calls for Resource Control and Fiscal Federalism.
Thus, when GEJ, who could not afford shoes while he was growing up as a young lad in Otuoke, ascended the Presidency of Nigeria, the descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio, who considered themselves as the “inheritors” of Nigeria, which to them is “an extension of the estate” of their ancestor vowed to make Nigeria “ungovernable” for him. They have made good their promise and have gotten away with it. And I don’t blame them. It is GEJ’s fault, all through and through. This is because as the Yoruba often say, “Aguntan ti ri Jinadu bee, ki o to gba isu owo e.” (The sheep has discerned Jinadu to be insensate before dispossessing him of his yam).
When GEJ assumed power, he was expected to be guided by history. He was expected to remember the struggles of his people to benefit from the resources gushing from beneath their homelands; to remember how over 80% of those who have oil wells are from the Hausa-Fulani stock to the detriment of other Nigerians in general and his people in particular; to remember that his people have suffered endlessly in the hands of the Nigerian political and economic carpetbaggers; to remember how the homelands have become desolate from ruthless exploitation and his people could hardly farm or fish any longer; to remember the tears and the wailings of his people who have been forgotten and thrown to the curbs of poverty and want.
But alas! He suffered pathological amnesia as soon as he got to the comfort of Aso Rock. He not only failed his Ijaw people and other Nigerians who looked up to him as a liberator, he failed himself and all those who fought for him to get to the exalted position of power. GEJ’s case is emblematic of the sayings of my wise forefathers in Yorubaland “Ai kuku j’oye, osan ju enu mi o ka ilu” literally meaning “It is better not to ascend power than to have power and whine about inability to appropriately use it.” GEJ should have gone out to take on the condescending and deleterious “inheritors” of the Nigerian “estate” who made the country “ungovernable” for him. He had the means and the power to put them in their place and help them to understand that all are equal partakers in the stake called Nigeria. He had the opportunity to remind the “Born to rule” goons that Nigeria belongs to all.
GEJ had the opportunity, to reinforce the Republican nature of the Nigerian State and insist that though, “tongue and tribe may differ,” we are all one and the same with equal rights and access to whatever appurtenances Nigeria has got to offer. He should have focused on righting a lot of historical wrongs for the disenfranchised nationalities in the country and carve a niche for himself in history. He had the opportunity to save Nigeria from itself by charting a different path for it. But as his detractors often say, he is “clueless.” His actions have worsen the situation and he has continued to wallow in delusion as he allows his enemies free reign to ruin him and whatever reputation he might have had. Goodluck Jonathan is the emblem of PDP as a tragedy.
Jonathan failed his Ijaw people. He also antagonized the Yoruba people through the length and breadth of his administration. The Yoruba were not just relegated from his administration, they were excommunicated. After being excommunicated from the Jonathan administration, the Yoruba became the butt of witch hunting, blackmailing, ridicule and undeserved humiliation. It was Jonathan administration that engineered the idea of the Yoruba State of Lagos as being “no man’s land.” He called Yoruba politicians “rascals.” If not for a Yoruba man, used by Providence, Jonathan would not be President today. Jonathan has been odiously ungrateful to the Yoruba Nation. He is a tragedy to the aspirations of the Yoruba Nation.
But as 2015 approaches, another serious threat to the survival of Yoruba Nation is in the horizon for which Jonathan would be indirectly culpable if it comes to fruition. Jonathan would be indirectly culpable because he has given “cover” to some compulsively traitorous Yoruba politicians to be able to actively collaborate with the enemies of Yoruba Nation in the bid to unseat him (Jonathan) because of his “cluelessness” and the tragedy that his administration represents for and to the Yoruba Nation. And that threat is represented by the leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and their sentries. The APC has foreclosed its presidential ticket to the “Born to Rule” Hausa-Fulani ethnic stock. This is the ethnic nationality that has held Nigeria to ransom for the last five decades.
Both through the history of Nigerian civilian and military administrations, several ethnic nationalities have been seeking ways to extricate themselves from the bondage of the “Born to Rule” Fulani “inheritors” of the Nigerian State. Obafemi Awolowo was denied the leadership of this country by this clique because he insisted in defeudalising Nigeria. Gideon Orkar and company laid their lives down for this freedom. Tai Solarin was consumed by this struggle. Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s life’s trajectory was changed because of this struggle. Yohanna Madaki suffered unfairly and had his career taken from him in his bid to ensure this freedom. Alhaji Abdulrahman Shugaba was humiliated and deported from his motherland because he resisted this feudalism. Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi sacrificed his life to attain this freedom.
Ebitu Ukiwe’s career was cut short by this Hausa Fulani oligarchy while insisting on this freedom. Fela Anikulapo Kuti dedicated his talent for this struggle. His nationalist mother, Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome Kuti was murdered in this fight. Ken Saro-Wiwa died in this struggle. Gani Fawehinmi died engaged in this fight. Isaac Adaka Borro gave up the ghost seeking this freedom. Wole Soyinka foreclosed his youth and mortgaged his adulthood in order for us to have this freedom. Beeko Ransome Kuti gave all he had for this struggle until he died. Even, Major Abubakar Umar Kankiwa, a Fulani himself, got a raw deal because he dared to dislike feudalism as espoused by the oligarchy of his ethnic nationalism.
And this precisely, is what the APC is trying to bring back and send the Yoruba Nation and other disenfranchised ethnic nationalities to another round of slavery in the name of politics! If the APC is a serious political party, intent on bringing true change to Nigeria, why must it dexterously preclude other ethnic nationalities from its presidential ticket without having to say so? To make matters worse, the APC could only showcase the worst of the Hausa-Fulani in its contenders! From a born-again cunning tyrant, incompetent and incorrigible religious fundamentalist in Mohammadu Buhari through a baptized international fraudster in Abubakar Atiku to the loudmouth political neophyte named Rabiu Kwankwanso, the APC is projecting itself as a NEW THREAT to the dreams of the constituent units of ethnic nationalities in Nigeria - to be free and be able to self determine their destinies.
For the Yoruba Nation and other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria, this indeed, is a serious dilemma!
But 2015 would not present a dilemma if we could all find the courage to do the right thing. Before the advent of further bloodshed, the killing and maiming of innocent children and women, we could muster the courage to do the right thing. Enough people have died already. If Option One – PDP and GEJ is unattractive; and Option Two – APC and the trio of Buhari, Atiku and Tinubu is also detestable, then it is time to consider Option Three – break up this façade called Nigeria and let my people go. Yes, to your tents O Israel! T. http://saharareporters.com/2014/11/29/pdp-tragedy-vs-apc-threat-dilemma-yoruba-nation-remi-oyeyemi

This is a govt touching lives of individuals everyday, why can't we join hands to make it succeed. Gej till 2019

Clerverly:
Can the Mods ban this guy for using a Censored word to describe APC supporters?

Ishilove, Obinoscopy!

for this comment you just lost your thousand bucks again for doing drugs.

abbakacici:
So because kwara have saraki family, lagos have Tinubu family that why south east want to have they very own powerful family. however North central, south west and even north east (Bukur abba family) dont make worst among them their political Goodfathers

Stay drug free and see the wonders of being sober start manifesting wonders in ur life

Obj is the worst thing to have happened to Nigeria

Caseless:
Ibo people, no be una get oil, na una come get refinery wey de refine oil belonging to another in an attempt to enjoy the oil producing state status.
U don ever see wey pesin de bear landlord and hin nor get house? Or u get car-key and u nor get car?
All this is put in the news to make us think gej is working and to garner vote for him. Ok! We know gej is not working.
Anyway, we wont vote gej again!

Any day you stay drug free, I will give you a thousand bucks.

Where are the APC goons, they are hiding their faces in shame because Fayose has started giving Ekiti people the breath of Fresh Air.

These are the kind of devt we yearn for, while APC states fight and maim, investment is pushing up in PDP states

The Seat of disappointment is in APC

Why are the SW APC promoting GMB at the detriment of Atiku when primaries have not been held, it goes to show that on the day of the Primaries there will be a walk out because of the open bias by the Tinubu SW camp

Let there be a source for verification plzz. I dare the senators to move againt Gej and see Nig exporting 20k barrel of crude per day at the rate of $50 per barrel.

With all these devt why can't the opposition give up and join in making the country prosperous.

worth about S20bn on completion **2000 high net worth jobs coming - Barring any last minute administrative or technical setback, Kogi state would soon join the big league of Nigeria’s oil producing states when its first 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery, undertaken by Creek Refinery and Petrochemicals in conjunction with the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) comes on stream from next year.

 This was disclosed by Elder Chinedu Okoronkwo, the National President of IPMAN who is representing the promoters of the new project in an exclusive interview with our correspondent in Awka yesterday, shortly after an IPMAN executives meeting.

 This may permanently lay to rest all the crises and bloodletting between some Kogi communities and their neighbouring Anambra communities over the ownership of oil wells currently being drilled by Orient Petroleum/Refinery Plc. which went into operations mid-2012.

 Okoronkwo disclosed that another 200,000bpd refinery, by Aggrey Petrochemicals and Refinery Ltd is coming up in Bayelsa state.  

 According to him, "It is no more a hidden thing, that as we speak now, the government and good people of Kogi state have given us over a thousand hectares of land to build a refinery. The people of Bayelsa have done so too. We have gone to the two states with our foreign counterparts for site inspection. All the technical works are already in progress. The President is graciously in favour of our efforts.

The project, he stated, "includes building of a seaport in Abia state, with an industrial park that would open up the area because in that industrial park, we will have fertilizer manufacturing company and processing plant. A lot of other ancillary industries will come up there, including petrochemical industries also. There would be over 26 oil tanks that would aid products storage, distribution and exportation. The focus is going to be mainly on our neighbouring African countries.

It is expected to provide more than two thousand (2000) high net worth direct employment opportunities were anticipated to be provided, while about ten thousand(10,000)indirect employment opportunities would also be created by both refineries.  

 According to the oil chief, “the technical drawings/designs are already being tidied up. And soon the actual construction would commence.” Among other projects coming together with the turnkey project put at about 20billion dollars on completion were seaports, petrochemical plants and refineries.

 They target to refine imported crude oil from other countries, while hopefully exporting not just Nigerian crude oil but high grade refined products too.

 Their Peruvian technical partners have already been working actively to meet all technical projections.

 Okoronkwo disclosed that series of very fruitful deliberations have been going on between key Nigerian promoters of the venture and officials of the Petroleum Resources Ministry and the department of Petroleum Resources.

 Actual construction works on both the Kogi and Bayelsa sites respectively were expected to commence within the first quarter of next year. While actual production which he noted would come in phases would begin before the end of 2015.

 He also confirmed that the preliminary works, surveys and the clearing of the sites have been completed

 When this feat is eventually achieved, it could avail Kogi state the right to be admitted into elite club of the nation's oil producing states as the 10th and latest member.

President Goodluck Jonathan while commissioning the facilities of the Orient Petroleum Resources and Refineries Plc. on Aug 30, 2012 classified Anambra state as the newest member of that elite big bucks club.

Anambra state has been confirmed to have oil and gas deposits in commercial quantity since about 1958 but was said to be for "strategic reserves". But following agitations by the state government to be accorded all the rights and privileges of an oil producing state, it was reminded that such were for 'oil producing states' only. 

That apparently necessitated  their efforts from 2001 when an oil investors' forum was organized by the state government at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, aimed to be a springboard to launch an economic revolution in the state into the current millennium  They therefore intensified efforts to commence actual production of oil, even if it was just ten cups.

But so far, more than two years after, Anambra state government says they were yet to be so accorded in real terms. So no one knows how long it would take Kogi when they eventually beginning to prospect oil from any of its wells.

 www.elombah.com/kogibayelsastartoilrefinery

Ogonis lost out the. Day they decided to support Amaechi and APC

The two are walk over for GEj, they are just like six and half a dozen.

The Ogoni appear divided in their response to the emergence of Hon. Dakuku Peterside as consensus gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State.
President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, Mr Legborsi Pyagbara, in a statement, said it was regrettable that the party did not concede its gubernatorial ticket to an Ogoni, adding that the process that threw up Peterside was an indication that there was no internal democracy in the APC.
While calling for a reversal of the action of the caucus of the party on the governorship ticket, the umbrella body of MOSOP condemned the development.
The MOSOP president, who spoke through his media aide, Mr Bariaria Kpalep, further enjoined Ogoni to remain calm.
“We condemn, in strong terms, this disappointedly appalling action of the APC reportedly influenced by the leader of the party in the state, Governor Rotimi Amaechi. The process, besides being a sham, has rubbished the party’s trumpeted respect and commitment to internal democracy and it demonstrably smacks of the highest level of impunity’’, he said.

Dakuku Peterside
“We are aware that the motto of the APC includes justice and equity. We do not see how this action of the party, which is not in sync with transparency, accountability, fairness and justice, promotes its motto aforesaid and declared commitment to internal democracy. We consider this action of the party and its leader as an expression of rejection, display of hatred and humiliation of the Ogoni ethnic nationality”.
“We therefore call on the party to reverse this position in the interest of justice, fairness and equity”.
Meantime, a former militant Commander, Chief Solomon Ndigbara, and the family of the late Ken Saro-Wiwa, in separate statements, lauded the emergence of Peterside as the flag bearer of the APC in the state.
“The APC by this action has shown that it is sensitive to the yearnings and desires of the Ogoni people,” Ndigbara said.
“Dr. Dakuku Peterside is a true son and friend of Ogoni land who not only grew up in Ogoni land but was involved in the MOSOP struggle through his relationship with the Wiwa family where he is a son.”
Chief Loveday Wiwa and Elder Harry Wiwa, in a statement released on their behalf by Keira Porobo, expressed happiness with the emergence of Peterside as the APC guber candidate.
“We find it hard to contain our overwhelming excitement at the good news that Dr. Dakuku Peterside is on his way to becoming the governor of Rivers State; we are truly elated and give thanks to God Almighty,” they said.
“Our happiness knows no bound because Dakuku spent most of December holidays in the Wiwa family house at Bane. But more than anything else, Dakuku’s association with our family made him to actively identify with the Ogoni struggle led by our great legend, late Kenule Saro-Wiwa. w. www.vanguardngr.com/ogonidividedoveremergenceofDakukuPetersideasAPCgubercandidate

Why should Obj be taken serious, A man that cannot return his daughter back to the Senate, whither obj and allow Gej to continue his good works.

I didn't see. Fashola, Tinubu, Atiku or GMB on that list. Ride on Gej because onu kwuru njo ga e ku mma