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I don't think Jonathan is personally responsible for all the scheming thats going on to scuttle the elections cos he's obviously not going to win. I think the Ijaw ethnic nationalists led by Edwin Clarke, the retired militants, the chief of army staff,who's also Ijaw, and the Ijaw indigenes currently in control of our oil sector are behind the scheming. They've drummed it into Jonathan's ears that its the turn of the Ijaws for the next four years and Jonathan must do everything possible to retain power. Same thing the Hausa's did when Yaradua was sick and they wanted to retain power at all cost. This trend will continue in Nigeria until we do away with ethnic politics. Jonathan is going to try to win this election at all cost and it may cost us our democracy.

See the drama this Jonathan man is causing just because he's afraid of losing the election. The stock market will tumble further, uncertainty with corpers and many other uncertainties that i cant start mentioning. Just because of one persons selfishness!

ndcide:
Well, I drove from Ajah to lekki phase 1 today and I saw them. VGC round about, Jakande round about, Chisco , maruwa etc.

They were painted black with, Ole inscribed. That is unwarranted provocation.


There are more APC posters and banners than any other here in Lagos yet the attack that of other party.

If we are sincere we should know that APC is taking the campaign to another ugly dimensions.

APC are the authors and finishers of violence in Lagos! They always start the trouble and then run to their friends in the media to twist the story. That is what they do in Lagos. Party of thugs and hypocrites, hypocritical thugs for short

vacanci:
I HAVE BEEN HEARING THE WORD CLUELESS BEING ASCRIBED TO SOMEONE SINCE THERE PAST 4 YEARS

NOW I SEE THAT IT IS REALLY TRUE.

After 4 years! Mehn you're slow o

Mcowubaba:
“We believe we should not campaign in
churches but I am here to thank the
General Overseer and members of the
church for what you are doing.
APC merlins take note...

What a foolish statement. He believes he shouldn't be doing what he's already doing? How clueless can one be? Oma ga o

These soldiers are just ridiculously stupid! They are scheduling their operations for the 14 of February when they already know we have elections on the same day! What arrogance! I used to believe people that said the Military was skewed towards the PDP were yarning nonsense. Now I absolutely believe! This is just nonsensical

Everything pointing to bloody elections in Nigeria. Expertriates are leaving enmass! Irrespective of who wins there is going to be violence, more intense violence than we saw in 2011.

booqee:
y'all PDP mofos already dancing shoki on the thread..u should know that its the people who constitute a society that accounts for its level of corruption. notwithstanding the govt is part of it..but its majorly the citizens.

Of course we shouldn't feign ignorance of the hustling spirit of an average Lagosian. they would go to any length to achieve anything for themselves whether legally or illegally, now that's the Lagos spirit. (corrupt Lagos spirit). So this hasn't got any $hlt to do with the govt or APC)

Infact Almost every tribe lives in Lagos.. I'd be surprised myself if Lagos didn't top the list.

Lol this is just ridiculous! When Jonathan and his ministers steal, nobody says its a societal problem. When Tinubu corners the assets of Lagos, then its a societal problem, nothing to do with Tinubu? Just too ridiculous

Like seriously these people are acting like retards. When he initially scheduled the trip, they said he was going to treat a medical condition, they even forged a medical report to prove their point. Now that he's cancelled the trip, they're saying he scared of imaginary people. Buhari must be giving Jonathan and his people sleepless nights.

Its an open secret in Lagos. Don't mind all those APC propaganda people on Nairaland, most of whom don't even live in Lagos, that come here and scream like the APC is a party of saints.Those of us that live in Lagos know how corrupt Tinubu is. We know about all his real estate scams on the Island, Plycon and other proxy companies that Tinubu uses to Launder our money. We know about Alphabeta and the massive corruption that goes on at the secretariat in Alausa. You can fool all these guilible people on twitter and Nairaland, but you can't fool us, the owners and inhabitants of Lagos.

On that same stretch of road, just before you turn to moshalashi from Lawanson, the road has caved in. These people have the guts to come and campaign along that same road, and even distribute cash! And some idîots that spend hours in traffic because of that road will still stop and hail their oppressors. Nigerians are amazing people

See the mighty progressives! Our dear change agents. Mtshewww!

OAUTemitayo:
That was the same way Agbaje performed in 2007 against Fashola and people were accusing Fashola of being a dunce.
Governance is not about big grammar and eloquency.
I have not seen a Nigerian who is more eloquent and coherent in intellectual analysis than James Ibori, yet he turned out to be a TOTAL FRAUD. If Agbaje cannot run his pharmaceutical company successfully, i don't think he can run Lagos.
Lagos is not for experimentation.

Mr temitayo, I also finished from Ife. I believe OAU students are objective irrespective of party affiliations. Have you seen the video of the debate? Let's forget Agbaje and focus on Ambodes responses during the debate. Did he give reasonable and eloquent responses? Were his answers intelligent? Please answer sincerely and honestly.

suremanpatriot:
...I am no politician,but let the truth be told. Lagos has been stable and peaceful since God installed Tinubu's Leadership.
It is just so funny that some Lagosians have forgotten so easily how barbaric things were those days. We need peace and progress to continue, let Tinubu led government CONTINUE THE GOOD WORK IN LAGOS AND NIG.AS A WHOLE no matter the party name whether SDP OR AC OR APC . LAGOSIANS BE TRUE TO YOURSELVES AND BE GRATEFUL TO GOD FOR A THRIVING AND ENVIABLE LAGOS

Things are not barbaric now? The cult clashes in Mushin and bariga have stopped? All the slums and shanty towns in Isale eko, Apapa and costain have disappeared? Maroko is now a haven? The area boys and agberos have disappeared from our roads? You people think we don't have any Lagosians on Nairaland to verify all the nonsense you're always spewing here? Better stop these stupid lies and start telling the truth! Lagos is. Of the heaven you people are making it out to be.

lolababe331e:
Dude you are officially a broken record, go and listen to Ambode's interview and not a propaganda edited debate that was slanted to make Agbaje look good. The only thing Agbaje is good at is propaganda and shoddy editing, I heard both of them on Jimi Disu and Ambode did much better. Ambode speaks with facts And figures and I appreciate the fact that he dosent make stupid promises. That is because he knows governance

It seems dunce is your favorite word.

Anyway you already admitted that Agbaje is a dunce so no need to go back and forth

Lol this is comic! Its either you don't have data on ur phone\pc to watch the video or you're an APC liaison officer on nairaland. So this debate video was edited? Lol! I won't dignify you with any response again. Ambode spoke with facts and figures? Someone that could barely construct a full response to ANY of the questions posed to him? Your case is hopeless!

lolababe331e:
I have heard Jimi speak numerous times and I get more disappointed each time. His ideas are beer palourish that is why he will continue to " win " debates and lose elections

Not arguing with u until u watch the debate. Lets even forget Agbaje, Please watch the debate and rate Ambodes responses. The guy is a first rate dunce!

lolababe331e:
this is what you call an Own goal

Expressing ones self in numbers in no way makes one a dunce, in fact it's rather stupid to suggest that. There are many mathematicians and scientists who think in numbers and that takes a lot of intelligence . There's no point saying many words with good English when the things been said are myopic and unattainable like Agbaje has been doing

Lol you're talking crap. The person I quoted was yarning dust when he said Ambode was expressing himself in numbers. Please go and watch the debate. Agbaje quoted all the numbers, figures and facts. Ambode just stood there and watched in awe, like a môron. He wasn't expressing anything! Don't let that silly fellow, adebisicutie fool u. Watch the debate!

adebisicutie:
Blah, blah, blah

Every time Jimi comes out to say he won debate yet he loses the election same thing happened during Fashola's time, it shows the voters know that behind the English is a lack of workable ideas . For a man who has been in politics for donkey years it's no big deal if he is eloquent, Infact it is expected since the more you do public speaking the more you get comfortable with it as opposed to a man who just joined a political party and has always expressed himself in numbers.

Jimi Agbaje will lose again because he knows nothing about governance . He can have the tittle of debate winner

You've indirectly just agreed with me that Agbaje is a clueless dunce, yet you're still adamant that he should be governor. See why people say Nigerians are the architects of their problems?

adebisicutie:
Your Jimi no even sabi how supply and demand determine the price of land. Dude continue living in dream land waiting for free internet he is a clown

Its either you're too dumb to understand what Jimi Agbaje was saying, or you've deliberately chosen to be dogmatic in your support for Ambode. For your sake I pray its the latter

adebisicutie:
Your Jimi no even sabi how supply and demand determine the price of land. Dude continue living in dream land waiting for free internet he is a clown

Oga he said local government secretariats, especially in far reaching areas like ikorodu and badagary, and where students and others always gather would be ideal places to setup WiFi hotspots. He never said anything about free internet in Lagos! Stop lying and twisting facts to make your points sensatioinal! And what was Ambode's response sef? He was just looking like the clueless dunce he is

adebisicutie:
Yawn , yawn , yawn

Jimi Agbaje is all English and no sense. If he isn't promising Lagosians free internet he is promising to reduce the price of land lmao.
The guy has no clue about governance and the needs of lagosains, his English cannot distract us from that. Very amateurish ideas

Only an illiterate would deduce that from what he said. Just admit that u no sabi book and someone will come and break down what Agbaje said to you.

adebisicutie:
Ambode's CV

Akinwunmi was born on June 14, 1963 at the Epe General Hospital, Epe, Lagos, as the sixth of ten children. His late father, Festus Akinwale Ambode was a teacher while his mother, Christianah Oluleye Ambode (nee Oresanya) was an entrepreneur who ran a thriving sewing business in her prime. In 1967, when Akin was still four years old, his father moved to the mainland part of Lagos with the family and continued his teaching career until his death in 1981. Akinwunmi Ambode began his education at St. Jude’s Primary School, Ebutte Meta, Lagos, Nigeria in 1969. In 1974, while still in Primary 5, he sat for the National Common Entrance Examinations and was admitted to Federal Government College, Warri in the same year.

Ambode spent 7 years in Warri, where he completed his Ordinary and Advanced Levels and had the distinction of achieving the second best result in all of West Africa in the Higher School Certificate Examinations in 1981. He was on the school’s Hockey and Cricket teams and was part of the then Bendel State Cricket team while still a student.

Ambode proceeded to University of Lagos where he studied Accounting, graduating at the age of 21 in 1984. He completed his mandatory[National Youth Service Corps year serving with the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sokoto, Sokoto State, where he started his relationship with the Public Service.

CIVIL SERVICE CAREER

After his NYSC year, Ambode commenced his career at the Lagos State Waste Disposal Board (now LAWMA) as Accountant Grade II. He enrolled for Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) exams and at the same time was awarded a Federal Government Scholarship to pursue a Masters Degree in Accounting at the University of Lagos. By the time he was 24, Ambode had qualified as a Chartered Accountant and had completed his Masters Degree programme in Accounting, specializing in Financial Management.

His career was fast-tracked and in 1988, Akinwunmi Ambode was appointed the Assistant Treasurer, Badagry Local Government. In 1991, he was posted to Shomolu Local Government as Auditor. He was later deployed to Alimosho Local Government as Council Treasurer. Ambode was posted back to Shomolu as Council Treasurer and later on to Mushin Local Government as Council Treasurer. He criss-crossed many Local Government Councils in different roles in a 10-year period and got a first-hand experience of the direct impact of governance on the citizenry.

In 1998, Ambode was awarded the US Fulbright Scholarship for the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship program, in Boston University, Massachusetts, USA. His Fellowship Year was spent studying Public Leadership with emphasis on Finance and Accounting. During this programme Ambode had professional internships at The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Cabinet Office of Administration and Finance (Governor’s Office), City of Boston Treasury Office as well as with the World Bank and IMF.

On his return from the programme, Ambode became acting AuditorGeneral for Local Government. This position was confirmed by the State House of Assembly in 2001.

In January 2005, Ambode was redeployed to mainstream public service as the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Finance. By February 2006, Ambode was given the added responsibility ofaccountant general for Lagos State, in charge of all the financial activities of the state and directly responsible for over 1400 accountants in the state service. Under his watch, the State Treasury Office (STO) revolutionized the way Lagos State finances were raised, budgeted, managed and planned. In his six years as the Lagos State accountant general, the state’s financial performance improved visibly with the budget performing at a remarkable average of 85% annually. Ambode believes that “public financial management is about ensuring that public money is well spent and it is made to stretch as far as possible. It provides leaders and public-sector managers with information to make decisions and to know if they are using resources effectively.


Where is Agbaje's CV ? MD of road side shop

Oga, d same way we've told the PDP people at the centre to shut up about Buhari's credentials and face the issues is the same way I'll tell u to shut up and face the issues in Lagos!
Jonathan, with his Phd, cannot complete a sentence on national TV without fidgeting. He ran away from the debate with Buhari in 2011 because he had nothing to offer. Ambode, with his honours degree from Unilag, cannot articulate his ideas, irrespective of how weak or strong they are, in a debate. He was jist watching Agbaje talk like the dunce he is. Its a serious indictment on the educational system in Nigeria. Please watch his debate with Agbaje and try to be objective. If you have the moral right to say Jonathan should leave the centre because his credentials have been a waste, you have no moral right to push for Ambodes governorship in Lagos.

Adegbodolu1:
No be by force nau? If you no like am relocate.

As for we omo-onile the status quo kampe!!!

Spoken like a true agbero. Hope it's not all APC supporters that are like this

njays24:
Why won't he play ball? His godfather has settled everything;election or not,he wins. Won ti pari ise!

Abi. Like a houseboy that has seen oga wash all the dishes and has nothing else to do than play ball

bamidele029:
Stop lying, which out of nothing. Jimi Agbaje was born into a wealthy family and had the best opportunities yet he has nothing to show for it.
Ambode started his career from the lowest level in civil service and rose through the ranks due to his hard work. Jimi Agbaje is a silver spoon kid who wasted his family money on a failed pharmacy. A man who calls himself a pharmacist yet cannot point to one drug he has manufactured instead he is busy selling pampers in his kiosk. A man who cannot even perform his basic duty as a resident of Lagos by paying his tax

Forget story and face the issues! One of Ambodes campaign promises is to retain the services of Tinubu's alphabeta tax consultancy in Lagos, and to retain the tolling on the Lekki ikoyi bridge, even when a court has declared it illegal. He has also promised to continue the illegal tolling on the Lekki-epe express even after Lagos has totally reembossed the private construction firm that built it. Mr Ambode has promised to continue with all the illegalities Tinubu and Fashola have been perpetuating in Lagos, is that the kind of governor you want?

adebisicutie:
Why do these 2 comments sound like they are from the same person How much did Jimi pay you He needs a refund because you are too obvious

Typical of these touts, nothing about the message but will always attack the messenger. I'm sure you haven't seen the video cos you probably don't have enough Mb to watch it

adebisicutie:
Ambode for sure, we don't want a tax evader

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/drug-crimes-apc-leader-bola-tinubu-still-suspect-u-s/
The very foundation of the APC is steeped in drug money. If the foundation is corrupt...........

We don't need all this crap! Tell us what you want to do for Lagos period! Lagosians should go and watch the two debates he did with Agbaje. Agbaje floored him and took him to the cleaners! After losing the debates, Now his next strategy is to apeal to the monkey in all of us with all the public grandstanding he's been doing lately. Buying roadside boli and now playing football, so we will all clap and hail him like monkeys, stupidly forgeting that he has nothing to offer us.
Here is a video of the debate. Trust me when i say Ambode is a DUNCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdrdYot78T8

There should be a law to punish all these idîots that take these horrid pictures. If you can't help a dying victim or help remove a corpse from a scene or contact the authorities, walk the fuçk away! Why take a stupîd picture of a dead or dying person? For whose amusement?

Na wa o! A strangers twitter handle is now the source of Front page news on Nairaland! No one has bothered to ask if the info has been confirmed. People already sending congratulatory messages and shedding "tears of joy". Incredible!

raayah:
It is really painful.

Its not impossible that they actually didn't hear anything. But they've all been blinded by the "change" dogma in the air to take note, just like we were so hoodwinked by Jonathan's shoelessness in 2011, that we forgot to probe further and ask how he planned to govern Nigeria.