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thornapple:
Whose camp are you. Just Want to know.

To be fair to the poster you responded to, you'll first need to be upfront and clear about the side to which you belong, then follow that disclosure with a similar request of your own. That's fair. Capiche?

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olujastro:
This is development that can be appreciated, not scam slogans like Vision2020, Transformation Agenda, Grow Nigeria, Get Nigeria Working Again.

Nigeria cannot afford to go back to empty slogans of Projects Dumping Party era filled with abandoned projects.

We have to ensure continuity so that we get All Projects Completed.
Hopefully in another 10+ years we should be taking these basic amenities that make life better for granted.

4+12 = All Projects Completed.

Amen!

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Guestlander:
Why didn't he choose Charles Soludo, Okonjo Iweala or any of the ibos who served under him to succeed him?

He did everything to make sure Atiku did not succeed him, now he wants ibos to vote for Atiku, knowing fully well that Atiku will not win.

This makes a lot of sense, actually. Good thinking, Guestlander.

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SirToby:
This is it sir. It was a mistake.

Thanks for posting.

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Xander85:
Rubbish! Of course you just had to find a way to include an Igbo name in your stupid list didn't you!

I bet, like me, some people are hearing of this Mark Okoye for the first time!

Just like you've never heard of Mark Okoye, there are some who probably never heard of Ibrahim Tahir and AMA Akinloye, until they came across the post you quoted. So there you go, the OP of the post did an excellent job of recalling history appropriately. Capiche?

And for what it's worth, the beautiful post in question IS actually quite balanced in it's name calls - covered all major ethnic basis for which corruption is infamous in our obodo Nigeria; no ethnic group/section is immune from the cankerworm.

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lexy2014:
Pls how did PDP looting during d Jonathan era lead to recession?

festacman:
Recessions don't happen overnight. They have foundation...

- Mismanagement of oil revenues,
- looting money meant for infrasrucural development,
- depleting Forex reserve,
- senseless profligacy,
- crude oil theft, etc. under Jonathan's watch laid the foundation for our recent recession.

- Ngozi Okonji Iweala forewarned.
- Sanusi cried fowl.
- Soludo wrote lengthy observations.

All fell on deaf ears.

[Emphasis mine.]

Those with some conscience and who still have some ears, let them hear.

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festacman:
Not good to talk bad about the dead but our history is important if we must move forward as a country. Now let's face it.

The greatest mistake made in this country happened when the the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) jettisoned the late erudite Maitama Sule for timid and naive late Shehu Shagari. Just like Goodluck Jonathan, Shagari who was a good guy in government allowed characters like Umaru Dikko and his younger brother, Ibrahim Tahir, AMA Akinloye, Mark Okoye, etc to loot national treasury.

Consequently, Nigeria was in economic crises in 1983 just like the recent post-PDP looting era of 2015 that led us to recession.

Interestingly at such two critical times (1983 & 2015) of our life as a nation, the lot fell on Buhari to restore order. The first time, Babangida truncated it. This second time around, every effort should be made help Buhari finish this seemingly divine assignment. It is not a coincidence.

Good thinking! Best post of the day so far, IMHO.

Your head dey there, festacman.

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Continued... (from the original post at https://www.nairaland.com/4929444/inside-story-how-why-atiku#74258580 )

“They said there were already too many functionaries of the administration from the state. If Atiku were appointed, they said, other states would protest the preponderance of Gongola State people in top government positions.

“At the time, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Gambo-Jimeta, the Chief of Air Staff, Ibrahim Alfa, and the Minister of Education, Jubril Aminu, were the most visible members of the government from the state. Murtala Nyako, then a Vice Admiral, was hoping to be made the Chief of Naval Staff. He might have also felt that giving the Customs top job to Atiku could affect his chances.

“Some people considered Atiku already too powerful and uncontrollable in the state and they felt that making him the Director of Customs would give him too much clout. Atiku was seen as an upstart, a boy from nowhere who was already threatening those who saw themselves as the power brokers in Gongola State.’ They did not want somebody outside their circle to rise,’ was how an observer put it in an interview.

“Babangida yielded to pressure from those people and appointed an outsider, Dr Bello Haliru Mohammed, as Director.“ Mr Mohammed would later become National Chairman of the PDP.

“Naturally, Atiku was disappointed. From that period, Atiku said he could not trust Babangida again. He felt Babangida was not firm and reliable. It was not the first time that Babangida had disappointed both Atiku and the Lamido of Adamawa.”

Mr Abubakar found working under his new boss, Mr Mohammed, “most frustrating.”

According to the book, “Mohammed was not comfortable with having around him someone who had competed with him for the same position. He felt he could never trust Atiku and that Atiku would not be loyal and committed to his success in the job. He wanted Atiku gone.

“Thrice he recommended him for retirement, but thrice Shagaya turned it down. Atiku went to see Shagaya and told him that he would like to leave service voluntarily because he did not want to be disgraced out of office. Shagaya advised him not to quit. Atiku had at least 10 more years to go in the service and Shagaya felt he could still head the agency before his retirement.

“But Atiku’s soul was no longer in the Customs. He needed to move on. He had always wanted to work for himself anyway. He asked for his annual leave and it was approved. He left for the lesser hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

“Before his departure, Atiku had written his resignation letter (dated April 28, 1989), put it in an envelope, sealed and given it to his friend, Adamu Yaro, to hand it personally to Bello Mohammed, his boss.”

“He enclosed in the letter the receipt of the payment into government treasury of his three months’ salary in lieu of notice.

“Atiku had by then packed out of his Reeve Road official flat in Ikoyi and moved into a spacious, furnished guesthouse owned by NICOTES (his oil services company) on Bourdillon Road in Ikoyi.”

He had established Nigeria Container Services (NICOTES) with an Italian friend, Gabrielle Volpi in 1982 while serving as Customs Area Administrator at the Apapa Ports.

The company was later renamed INTELS after it was seized by the regime of late Head of State, Sani Abacha. The new name was retained after the company was returned to the original owners after the death of Mr Abacha.

Politics: You will run Nigeria by age 52

“One of those Atiku consulted about his planned resignation was his old friend from Apapa Ports, Oyewole Fashawe. He visited Fashawe at Owo, his hometown. Like most of his friends, Fashawe advised him not to rush out of Customs until he had served as Director. But Mrs Lydia Ijamolayemi, Fashawe’s mother, had a different opinion. She advised Atiku to leave the Customs and embark on the journey God has destined for him.

“Five years earlier, she had visited Atiku in his office in Lagos and predicted that Atiku would be presiding over the affairs of Nigeria by age of 52 to 55 years. The matriarch of the Fashawe family was well known all over Owo and beyond as an extraordinarily gifted seer.”

Mr Abubakar jumped into politics at the deep end of the pool. In fact, he was attending meetings of the political association of his friend and business associate, Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, a year before he quit the Customs.

Mr Yar’Adua had retired from the Nigerian Army as a Major-General in 1979 after serving as Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters between 1976 and 1979.

Mr Onukaba narrated how the paths of the two men crossed.

How Atiku met Yar’Adua
”While in office one day, Atiku was informed that Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, the retired Major-General and deputy to Obasanjo, was waiting to see him. Atiku invited him in. The General entered and they greeted each other warmly. It was the first time Atiku was meeting him. He was simple and humble.

“Yar’Adua wanted an import license to bring beans from Niger Republic for sale in Nigeria. Since leaving office in 1979, the General had gone into business to keep body and soul together. His business included agriculture, banking, shipping and manufacturing. Some of them, such as agriculture, banking, shipping and manufacturing businesses had been disastrous, due largely to unstable government policies, mismanagement and inadequate supervision. Now, the General wanted to try his hands at buying and selling.

“Atiku told him that he would have to write an application to President Ibrahim Babangida for an import license. He showed him how to write it. Yar’Adua thanked him and left. He wrote the application as Atiku had advised and Babangida gave his approval.

“He obtained the import license, imported the beans from Niger Republic, sold it and made a lot of money. He felt he needed to show appreciation to the Customs officer who had assisted him. He offered Atiku a token of appreciation, but Atiku declined, saying it was not necessary. He said he was just doing his job.

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Atiku and his political mentor, Shehu Musa Yar’adua

“Yar’Adua was highly impressed. In an organisation known for its endemic corruption and other unethical deals, he was happy to find one decent officer. From that day, a friendship developed between Yar’Adua and Atiku. They discovered they had a lot in common: they had both been big time farmers; both had interest in maritime business; and they shared a common vision for Nigeria.

“Yar’Adua briefed him about his own efforts to build a grassroots political movement that would be the vanguard of a new Nigeria with a common purpose. He wanted Atiku to work with him to realise that vision.”

Mr Abubakar would later offer 20 per cent of the shares of NICOTES to Mr Yar’Adua. By that time, the company had turned into a multi-million dollars enterprise and made Mr Abubakar “fabulously wealthy.”

Early involvement in politics

In fact, Mr Abubakar’s involvement in partisan politics dated much further back to 1983 when he worked for the election of Bamanga Tukur of the then National Party of Nigeria as governor of the Gongola State. He said he had always been involved in the affairs of his immediate community in the state.

“I was spending all the money I had to assist people and the community. If people needed employment, they came to me for assistance. As much as our people appreciated my little contributions, I felt I was not doing enough. I began thinking seriously about the possibility of using political power to transform the lives of our people, of using political power to help more people and to continue to render social services, but this time, on a grander scale. Honestly, this was when I really began to consider going into politics after retiring from service,” Mr Abubakar explained.

By 1988, Mr Abubakar had started attending regular meetings at Yar’Adua’s Ikoyi home.

Earlier in 1987, on the second anniversary of his coup, Mr Babangida set up a 46-member Constitution Review Committee and a Constituent Assembly to debate and adopt a new Constitution. He also created a National Electoral Commission (NEC) and placed a ban on past politicians from seeking and holding public office for 10 years effective from the date the ban on politics would be lifted.

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Intels office building (Photo Credit: The Guardian)

“While waiting for Babangida to lift the ban on politics, Yar’Adua and his group began to put together the structure of a political party.

From Peoples Front of Nigeria to Social Democratic Party

“A month after Atiku formally left the Customs, the Babangida administration lifted the ban on politics in May 1989. The President also announced a revised transition timetable that would lead to the establishment of elected civilian government on October 1, 1992.

“The Yar’Adua group immediately unveiled its political association, the People’s Front of Nigeria (PF). At its first national convention in June 1989, Atiku was elected one of the National Vice Chairmen of the party.

“Atiku had won the position as a result of his substantial contributions to the association… Among the original founders of the association, he was the wealthiest and had one of the widest contacts. He and Yar’Adua paid the initial expenses of the PF.

“Besides income from NICOTES, his oil servicing company, he had become a big time trader. With his friend, Peter Okocha, he imported green tea from China, long before the communist country became the favourite destination of many importers. Business was so good that Atiku bought three Mercedes Benz 600 series for himself, Okocha and Yar’Adua. Money as well as his personal qualities brought him respect and influence within PF.”

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NICOTES

“The PF was one of the 80 political associations that applied to NEC for registration in 1989. Although NEC prequalified 13 of the associations and recommended them to Mr Babangida’s Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC) for approval, on October 7, 1989, Mr Babangida announced that the AFRC had decided not to register any of them because they were “set up by the same discredited politicians who must not be allowed back in power.”

Instead, he set up two new parties, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the National Republican Convention (NRC) and asked politicians to join either of the two.

Although Mr Yar’Adua, like other politicians, was shocked that Mr Babangida refused to register his association, he and his group later joined the SDP.

That very year, Mr Abubakar ran a tempestuous race against his local political rival, Bala Takaya, for the SDP governorship ticket in Adamawa, which led to both of them being banned from the race by Mr Babangida.

In 1993, he was drafted by the Yar’Adua group to run for the presidential ticket of the SDP, after Mr Yar’Adua had the previous year been banned following the cancellation of the party’s presidential primary which he was on the verge of winning. He came third in the first ballot, behind the late Moshood Abiola and Babagana Kingibe. He supported Mr Abiola to win the race during the second ballot.

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/303185-inside-story-of-how-and-why-atiku-left-nigeria-customs-30-years-ago.html#jp-carousel-289230

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Inside story of how and why Atiku left Nigeria Customs 30 years ago

December 29, 2018Bisi Abidoye

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Atiku Abubakar

About six weeks to the 2019 presidential election, most Nigerians are probably unaware of the circumstances under which one of the frontrunners, Atiku Abubakar, left his first public service career 30 years ago.

Mr Abubakar is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on which platform he served as vice president between 1999 and 2007. He has also been adopted by about four dozen minor parties under the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), making him the main challenger to President Muhammadu Buhari who is seeking re-election on the ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mr Abubakar will be standing in the crucial election almost three decades after he left the then Department of Customs and Excise on April 30, 1989, over his disappointment at being denied the top position in the agency; and the lure of politics.

He had joined the agency as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent on June 30, 1969, a few weeks after taking a diploma in Law at the Institute of Administration of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

When he joined the Customs at the age of 23 years, he had drawn a graph anticipating his career progression from Cadet to heading the agency by age 40.

“I told myself that if by the time I was 40 years old I did not head the organisation, I would quit,” Mr Abubakar said in his authorised biography, ATIKU: The Story of Atiku Abubakar. The 338-page book was written and published in 2006 by the late Adinoyi Onukaba, who at the time was Mr Abubakar’s Senior Special Assistant on Media.

According to the accounts of Mr Onukaba, who died in 2017 while trying to escape a roadblock by armed robbers in Ondo State, Mr Abubakar’s joining the Customs was fortuitous.

Fortuitous entrance into Customs

It was the period of the Nigerian civil war which broke out in 1967 as an immediate consequence of the first military coup of January 15, 1966, that sacked the Nigerian First Republic and the counter-coup that followed six months later.

“As the war raged on, some radical university students did not feel comfortable with the general indifference of Nigerian students to the unfolding tragedy in the country,” Mr Onukaba stated in the book.

“They began to mobilise their colleagues in support of the war to keep Nigeria one. There were demonstrations by students in support of the Federal Government. From Zaria, Atiku and other students marched to Kaduna to demonstrate against French support for Biafra. Twice they were arrested and detained briefly by the police.

“One day after participating in a protest in front of the French Consulate in Kaduna, Atiku marched off to the headquarters of the First Division of the Nigerian Army in Kaduna to sign up for the war. He told the recruiting officers to take him, that he was ready to go to the war front to fight. The officers took a long look at him and then dismissed him: ‘We are looking for school certificate holders and not undergraduates.’

“Atiku, frustrated and disappointed, headed back to Zaria.

“Before completing his diploma in Law programme in June 1969, a team from the Federal Civil Service Commission came on a recruitment drive to the university. The departure of Ibo from the Federal Civil Service and federal agencies and parastatals had left many vacancies. The team was touring Nigerian universities to interview graduating students interested in filling up such vacant positions.

“Atiku attended the interview. By chance one of the interviewers found in his file a report that he had been found suitable to join the police force and had in fact received some training in 1966. This information was brought to the attention of the chairman of the interview panel who promptly ruled: ‘O.k., you go to the Department of Customs and Excise.’

“That was how Atiku joined the Customs in June 1966.”

Bitter Disappointment

Fast-forward to 18 years later in 1987 and Mr Abubakar was appointed Deputy Director of Customs and Excise in charge of Enforcement and Drugs.

As one of the six deputy directors, he was in the line of succession to the post of Director, as the head of the agency was then known. The incumbent, Abubakar Musa, was his friend but their relationship was no longer cordial.

“Despite having played a role in Musa’s appointment by lobbying two key ministers (in the Second Republic), Ali Baba and Abubakar Iro Dan Musa, Atiku felt that as Director of Customs Musa surrounded himself with people who were telling him that he (Atiku) was after his job.

“For eight years Atiku was kept on one rank – Assistant Comptroller. He was disappointed that his friend could allow people to come in between them and destroy a relationship of many years. It was only after Musa was retired that Atiku was able to move up.

“He was promoted thrice – from Assistant Comptroller to Deputy Comptroller, Comptroller and Deputy Director – on the same day by the then Minister of Internal Affairs, Brigadier John Shagaya, who oversaw Customs following the removal of Customs from the Federal Ministry of Finance.

“In the unending reorganisation of the Department by successive governments, the Customs, Immigration and Prison Service Board (CIPB) was established with the Minister of Internal Affairs as Chairman. The Board was responsible for appointment, promotion and disciplining of Customs staff.

“In February 1988, the post of Director of Customs was moved from Level 16 to 17 while the six Deputy Directors were moved from Level 15 to 16. In addition, 18 Assistant Director positions were created on Level 15 and six zonal commands were set up as part of the decentralization of the service, which was aimed at facilitating quick decision-making.”

Mr Abubakar hoped to be appointed Director after Mr Musa retired from service and Mr Shagaya recommended him for the appointment to the then military president, Ibrahim Babangida.

His father-in-law, Aliyu Musdafa who was then the Lamido of Adamawa, also put in a word for him following which Mr Babangida assured the traditional ruler that he would do it.

“High profile appointments, such as Director of Customs and Excise, are political. Merit counts but political connection counts more. Atiku knew he had to lobby the right people and drop hints at the right places that he was available to lead the Customs,” Mr Onukaba wrote.

Mr Abubakar was confident of bagging the appointment, more so too that he counted the military president among his friends.

“Atiku had known Babangida since 1974 when he was just a Major. They met at a party in Lagos, and became good friends. In 1982 when Babangida, then a Major-General, imported a BMW car into the country, it was his friend, Atiku, who helped him to clear it from the Lagos ports. Babangida was not the only top military officer or prominent civil servant that Atiku had assisted.”

Mr Abubakar narrated to the author: “They would import cars and come and hand over the documents to me. I paid duties on those cars from my own pocket. What could I do? They were all my friends and they did not want to go through the hassles at the ports. Being the man on the ground, they wanted me to do that for them. I enjoy helping people.”

According to Mr Onukaba, “Since taking over power in 1985, Atiku had not asked him (Mr Babangida) for anything. The only matter before him was Shagaya’s recommendation for him (Atiku) to be appointed Director of Customs. It was a position for which he felt he was eminently qualified. He thought Babangida would not hesitate to give it to him.

“Indeed, Babangida approved Shagaya’s recommendation. But before it could be made public, a group of eminent Gongola State (the state was later broken into the current Adamawa and Taraba states) indigenes in his government pleaded with the President to drop Atiku.

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Ibrahim Babangida, Former Nigerian dictator

[Continued in another post below...]

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/303185-inside-story-of-how-and-why-atiku-left-nigeria-customs-30-years-ago.html#jp-carousel-289230

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ninocia18:
We'll I don't blame all these accusation and counter accusations. The atiku pdp is fielding is not a saint. In fact no politician of that generation is fit and has any right to come out and make accusation. This is the only thing I hate about this election. We are removing a criminal to put a formal criminal. The only reason why I am going to vote in Atiku is cuz we don't have a choice and cuz of Peter Obi. If not I see no reason why we don't have Peter Obi as president and Osibanjo as vice.

sogodihno:
u no get sense, why can't we have Osinbajo as president and Obi as Vice. Fool. go and put Obi in Aso rock, u go cry fire in February.

No main stream political party would field Southern candidates for both President and VP slots at any one election cycle anyways.

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Wiseandtrue:
Infact he would have justified and stood by his decision to any length!

IamJames:
Exactly.

Then Udom Emmanuel would have gotten the Chibuike Amaechi treatment, simple.

When the then Governor Amaechi refused to allow then President Jonathan/PDP the use of the Liberation Stadium in Port Harcourt in 2014(?) for similar reasons, the Federal government through the security forces simply commandeered the stadium for the purpose, leaving governor Amaechi embarrassed with eggs on his face, hehehe.

(IIRC, some of the facilities at the stadium were reportedly damaged in the process, but who cared anyways, right?)

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Shuku0kukobambi:
Eyah... sorry. You remember the thread below?

https://www.nairaland.com/745731/yoruba-marginalization-elders-met-jonathan

Whoa, thanks for this pointer. Without previously seeing that sort of thread, one would think the poster you responded to, was actually "marginalized" or sober! And I dare add that, give such people another Jonathan/Igbo presidency and they'd do far worse against other tribes and minorities than they did under Jonathan.

Indeed, the Internet never forgets.

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lilytender:
That day will never ever come until you stop abusing other tribes calling yourself the Jews of Africa who are superior to other tribes. Do you think a Hausa, Fulani, Tiv, Ebira, Kanuri man gives a damn about the Jews of Africa or Jews of Middle East? The same narcissism that made Emeka Ojukwu to declare a senseless war against the Federal Republic of Nigeria. No Igbo man will ever rule Nigeria until you get some brains into those flat heads of yours.

Hmm, this is not far from the sentiment that's currently largely held; it is, therefore, reference worthy.

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Sunofgod:
All parties have the same agenda......to use igbos for votes and then abandon them once power has been obtained.

Here we go again with this victim mentality of some people... You mean just like the Igbo presidency of Jonathan abandoned the Yoruba after they helped him to fully take over after Yar'Adua passed, and then gave him their majority votes in all states in the Southwest minus Osun in 2011?

Some posters' yeye go just dey smell full ground anyhow.

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rentAcock:
All this election talk is nauseating. Politics divides us more than religion and tribalism. I rather read about some olosho actress showing cleavage than read about politics.

And who's holding you back?

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maybachmusic:
the akwa Ibom in oshogbo sha


not the one i live in

Your claim can't be a surprise nah, since you wouldn't have known zip, because there was no way someone like you would have been in all the places at once where and when results were being written and rigged; even if you were your local "Super Mario." Capiche?

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Olukat:
Voted by the largest constituency in Rivers state politics 'The Judiciary'

Just like Wike was forced on the people by 'the largest constituency in the nation,' the judiciary?

Ntooorrrrr...

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Donelli:
IPOB and Atikulators are two different entities mind you.

Which of the two groups is more in number then?

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Donelli:
Bro I take God name beg you, no dey mention that your bridge. Your northern associates are not interested in the development of the SE, we Igbos are not wired to lick boots like you Yorubas do in the name of building "pako" bridge that only last as long as they can use your sophisticated selves. They need your media to make them look good and propagate their smokescreen which hides their real agenda. Guess who'll be next after they've conquered the NC?

Guy you funny sha

Actually, no other region has licked the boot of the North more than the East has been doing throughout our democratic journeys as a nation. Let's list the following complete history replete with extreme boot-lickings by the East:

Balewa+Azikiwe vs Awolowo;
Shagari+Ekwueme vs Awolowo;
Obasanjo+Atiku vs Falae
Yar'Adua+Jonathan vs Atiku;
Jonathan+Sambo vs Ribadu.

Do you have more to add?

And we all know the Southeast vuvuzela'd Jonathan's 5-to-6-year term(s) as an Igbo presidency, and Jonathan blatantly made sure it was so.

So, if you live in a glass house, please don't throw stones. Plus, those who forget/ignore history are condemned to repeat it.

'Nuf said.

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Donelli:
Is it the Tinubu that was greedily aiming to gain control at the federal level and was cut to size and he now ran back to gather the SW he was managing before?

Yes!

Just to be sure you put my answer to your poser in proper context, I'll add this: No politician since Independence by himself has ever had the overwhelning political support of more than one of the three main regions at any one time before an election, not even Buhari in 2015. The only exception to the rule was Abiola.

I leave the rest to your imagination, so make of that what you may.

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Oshigun:
Did you lot not said worse than this before Buhari won in 2015? I.e "GEJ or Nigeria burns" and "Fulani will never rule Nigeria again" . Is Nigeria burning now and is it an Urhobo that is President right now?

Sitting online and making noise alone will not get you far in life. You still need to get on the ground to work for what you want. Look below to see how history has wasted your fellow kinsmen to show they are noisemakers and awful analysts who get it wrong because, like you, they work with sentiments 100% of the time. Never with pragmatism and a realistic appreciation of issues.

If the link below , from 2012 when Igbos were drunk on GEJ "Azikiwe" Presidency, is not enough I can supply a hell of a lot more thay will only compound your disgrace and that of your kinsmen.

https://www.nairaland.com/986533/why-hausa-fulani-may-never

Hmm; truer words have never been written.

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Those legitimately transiting such humongous cash ought to have discretely alerted relevant security agents of such movements. For all anyone cares, robbers could have gotten to those couriers and caused fatalities and damage to public property before anyone would cry Jack!

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vicdom:

Those supporting Buhari are in two groups:
1. Those from SW who knew Buhari failed but hoping to produce the president in 2023
2. A group of Islamic fanatics who believed Buhari as a rescuer and emancipator of Muslims, especially in the area of appointment
In all these, the common denominator between the two ret@rded groups is a clear knowledge that Buhari has failed but sadly enough, their parochialism is stronger than patriotism.

Then get your numbers above theirs and vote them out. Simple. Stop all the invectives and ineffective lamentation; they get you nowhere, TBH.

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AngryRebel:
Shut ur mouth. We all know the BMC zombies are paid 30k.

Stop being uncouth. Answer the question you were asked, or provide credible evidence to support your allegation. Simple.

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modath:
Dem never pay me this month 30k

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ayomilore:
Buhari is first president since 1999 who has been able to tame the excesses of these legislooters.

You're right; he's still to tame many of their excesses, though, so he's still got his work cut out for him. And believe me, the more Buhari tries to correct things, the more the looters make it tough for him to succeed, because they had become so entrenched.

So the man has to really roll up his sleeves for the oncoming rounds of battles.

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RealityShot:
Canada is trying to copy Buhari's Npower scheme;

Facebook CEO is talking about it;

Bill Gates is talking about it;

Virgin Airline CEO is talking about it;

So many billionaires are talking about it and suggesting to USA and the world as a way to save humanity in the FUTURE..

and you wey no get $1billion dey oppose am..

you better avoid village this season make dem no kontinu where dem stop O...

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CilicMarin:
President while acknowledging cheers from the APC caucus members of the National Assembly during the 2019 Budget Presentation, displayed a 4 +4 Sign with his fingers to indicate he has 4 more to deliver the promise he made to Nigerians...

Meanwhile, can you see the look on the faces of Saraki and Dogara at his back

lalasticlala Mynd44

Corrintians..

These photographers certainly know their onions.

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I honestly think all fair minded observers should take into consideration in the course of their political analysis all reports, including the subject report. That way, such observers will get a more realistic view of the political situation on local grounds. And with that, a better assessment of what the outcome of elections in localities/states will be.

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Shettima-led S’West c’ttee submits report

By Muideen Olaniyi   | Published Date Dec 21, 2018 3:27 AM

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Gov. Kashim Shettima

The Governor Kashim Shettima-led APC national peace and reconciliation committee set up over crisis in the South West says it consoled aggrieved members and reassured them of possible inclusiveness.

The committee said this, yesterday, in a 60-page report of analytical findings and far-reaching recommendations submitted to the party’s National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, in Abuja. The panel said it also sought the inputs of the aggrieved on how to increase APC’s chances in the South West ahead of the 2019 elections.

Governor Shettima, who chaired the committee, sent copies of the report accompanied by a formal letter addressed to Oshiomhole, both of which were delivered to the party chairman by the committee’s secretariat.

The committee had Governors Nasir el-Rufai and Akinwunmi Ambode, former Senate president, Senator Ken Nnamani, former deputy governor of Ekiti State, Professor Modupe Adelabu, the D-G, NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside and Barrister Sa’ida Sa’ad Bugaje as members.

In his letter to Oshiomhole, the governor said rather than converging members for a public presentation, the committee delivered the report through its secretariat, in response to the chairman’s passion and eagerness to address areas of concern in the South West to reposition and strengthen the APC in the geo-political zone.

The committee’s secretary, Isa Gusau, said in a statement emailed to journalists, that the delivery was to ensure timely report that would be useful to the party rather than a delayed public presentation. Gusau said the report contained submissions by members from consultative meetings and the committee’s interactive hearings in Ado-Ekiti for Ondo and Ekiti states; in Ibadan for Osun and Oyo states and in Lagos for Ogun and Lagos states.

The statement recalled that the committee had met with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and other leaders including Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun as well as party leaders from the six states.

Source: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/shettima-led-swest-cttee-submits-report.html

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Kwankwaso loyalist, Hafiz Abubakar, others re-join APC, meet Buhari

By Ismail Mudashir   | Published Date Dec 21, 2018 3:27 AM

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The immediate past Deputy Governor of Kano State, Professor Hafiz Abubakar, has re-joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) which he dumped for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) few months ago.

Abubakar, a loyalist of former Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, had dumped the APC and resigned his position as deputy governor to Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.

Abubakar had contested for the PDP gubernatorial ticket in Kano but lost to Kwankwaso’s son- in law.

The professor thereafter dumped the PDP unceremoniously and joined the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) where he equally lost out to Malam Sagir Takai in the struggle for the gubernatorial ticket.

On Wednesday night, Abubakar met President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa Abuja together with other returnees including a former Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Architect Aminu Dabo; the immediate past National Treasurer of the APC, Bala Mohammed Gwagwarwa; The Security Adviser to Kwankwaso, General Danjuma Dambazau (rtd); Engineer Mu’azu Magaji, all of them staunch members of the Kwankwasiyya as well as Senator Isa Zarewa who left in protest against the last primaries.

Buhari in his remarks during the meeting stressed the need for genuine reconciliation and appealed to stakeholders of APC all over the country to work for genuine reconciliation “for the benefit of our people and our nation.”

Presidential Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu in a statement issued after the meeting, said the president in welcoming the party leaders back to APC assured that the house was large enough to accommodate everyone.

They were led to the president by the Governor of Jigawa State, Abubakar Badaru. Shehu said Buhari had promised to speak to the leadership of the party and the government in Kano to accommodate and work with the returnees.

Responding to the presidential directive, Governor Ganduje welcomed the return of the party stalwarts.

He assured the president that he was ready to work with everyone to record another historic victory in the general elections.

Source: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/kwankwaso-loyalist-hafiz-abubakar-others-re-join-apc-meet-buhari.html

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Dogalmighty17:
I have dated this girl for three years. We fixed a date for the wedding for late this year. However, events seemingly out of my control necessitated that I shift the wedding to February next year. Initially, she was against the shift but I pleaded with her.

Sometime in August this year, we had a disagreement because I noticed she was being disrespectful towards me. She is hardworking, cooks well and is very business oriented. But her sense of independence makes her struggle with submission to her man. I told her how uncomfortable I was with it and she's promised to make amends. She has but from time to time, her old self comes out.

I was at a loss on what to do that I had to voice out the issue to her family. When they asked her, she told them that since I requested for a shift in wedding date, she became uncomfortable with the relationship. Her family then told her to call off the relationship. I got to know about this decision and I called her and she said she was going to obey the wishes of her family. Her mom also told me that since I keep complaining about her daughters lack of respect, I should leave her daughter alone. It took serious pleading from me before the family accepted the continuing of the relationship. They asked me that since the date I initially agreed for the wedding wasn't going to be convenient for me, when then do I think will be convenient? Since I didn't want to loose my woman, I mentioned February. The desperation on my path was much.

My mom on the other hand wants a wedding in April. She has said February is not convenient for her. All my pleas have fell on deaf ears. She has threatened not to bless the union and has even gone as far as threatening to curse me with her breasts if I wed in February.

My girl has refused to even entertain the thought of shifting the date again. She maintains that it is better that we outrightly call off the wedding, than shift it again. I understand her fears. She feels that I may just be wasting her time. I am not

This is my dilemma. Should I go with my woman who has spent three years of her life with me or do I go with my mom?

I must also mention that my mom was informed of the initial date of the wedding over a year ago. But she foot dragged in her support for months until much later in the year that I now had to take issues into my own hands.

Just to be sure I capture this original post in my profile. After all, the world is a small place.

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