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PHILipu1:
Just like they didn't win Edo,ondo,osun,ekiti governorship and other bye elections in the south?

The guy was most probably not in his correct state of mind when he wrote what you responded to. Otherwise he has truly lost his mind.

The only other way IMHO to look at it is that the guy wrote satire, which is then perfect. After all, that crowd-pulling, PhD holder whole local Bishop himself wrongly characterized Olatunji Dare's satire on Nnamdi Kanu's infamous 'Jubrin from Sudan' fantasy.

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Muttee:
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has said with the popularity of the APC in Imo and Ogun States, the party would win the 2019 elections despite the alleged anti-party activities of their governors.

He described the governors as poor students of their own history who had forgotten they lost elections before winning on the platform of the APC.

Oshiomhole spoke after receiving the APC women leaders from Edo State and Abuja, who paid him a solidarity visit in his office in Aso Drive, Abuja.

Okorocha, Amosun and Governor Abdul-Aziz Yari of Zamfara State are at loggerheads with the national chairman for not recognising their preferred governorship candidates.

The preferred candidates in Imo and Ogun and some aides of the governors had since defected to other political parties to pursue their ambitions.

Oshiomhole said, “Those who think our political future is tied to them; they are poor students of their own political history. Some of these people who talk as if they are invincible, they have forgotten that they have run elections in the past and lost until they abandoned their parties and joined us. So if they return back, history will repeat itself.”

“Whether you are a big or small man, the rules are not supposed to discriminate. Our popularity in Imo and Ogun today is much higher. It is not that once you are a governor you have high electoral value.

“Yes in APC, our governors have high electoral value but we also a few who are electoral liabilities.”

The former Nigeria Labour Congress President said Nigeria needed to go back to the era where institutions were respected and protected and not powerful individuals.

He added that the actions of the two governors would not affect the fortunes of the party in the elections.

“In Imo state today, APC will win more votes. My focus is on ordinary Imo voters because on that day, the governor would have only one vote, his son-in-law would have only one vote while his Commissioner for Happiness would have only one vote.

“But artisans, traders, teachers and workers whose salaries are not being paid have the same weight of vote and they are excited about the renewed possibility of a new government coming with fresh ideas free of all the encumbrances of the present system. So in Imo I’m very confident.

“Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is from Ogun State. The state is one of the most enlightened States in Nigeria. They have a huge history; they are not in a political kingdom headed by one person.”

“If they were looking for true reconciliation, they wouldn’t have done what they did (defection of aides). That is not how democracy works. Nigeria must grow beyond this syndrome ‘I’m the governor, I will decide.’ You have only one vote. With due respect, I was once a governor. Overall APC is much stronger now.

Stating that the party would review if any of its rules had been breached, Oshiomhole added that the real sanction was with the electorate.

He, however, said the efforts of the Peace and Reconciliation Committee were already yielding fruits in some places while those with negotiable grievances were being sorted out.

https://all-gists..com/2018/12/apc-ll-win-ogun-imo-without-amosun-okorocha-oshiomhole.html

Mr. Oshiomhole is right on this issue.

For one thing, those two governors don't have the party machinery or the political movers and shakers in their states behind them, at least for the time being.

Secondly, the Chief Executives of states (read: Governors) can no longer control the Resident Electoral Commissioners in their states, unlike what obtained in the recent past, including in some states such as with Ms Khan in Rivers state up through April of 2015.

Third - and most important - governors no longer commandeer the instruments of coercion and security apparatuses in their states.

For the above reasons and some other, those governors who've never learned the art of door-to-door campaigning and carrying the people along, are essentially toast going forward, especially for the 2019 elections.

IMHO, love him or hate him, Oshiomhole is doing a fantastic job for their party, the APC, and it will show during future elections, just as it contributed in the official outcomes of the several elections held under his watch as his party's National Chairman so far.

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Why can't people already flagged as corrupt just lie low and not keep playing macho/front line politics? One would think by lying low, they stand a better chance of enjoying their supposed loot?

Or if they're not looters, have a better chance at a peace of mind by lying low? Are they cursed without they knowing it?

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Paul Usoro Picked Up Two Days Before His First NEC Meeting As NBA President

Usoro's arrest came two days before he presides over his first National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting as President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday.

by SaharaReporters, New York Dec 04, 2018

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Paul Usoro, President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), was arrested on Tuesday in relation to multiple corruption allegations, SaharaReporters has been told.

However, he was released on bail and has been charged to court.

Usoro's arrest came two days before he presides over his first National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting as President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday.

He emerged NBA President in August following an election that one of his opponents said was characterised by “corruption, massive vote buying, vote capture, rigging and a skewed process”.

Earllier in November, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had narrated Usoro’s alleged role in how the sum of N1.7 billion was withdrawn from the Akwa Ibom State government’s accounts and diverted for personal use.

In a statement of defence filed before the Federal High Court in Uyo and seen by SaharaRepoters, the commission indicted Emmanuel Udom, Akwa Ibom State Governor; the Accountant General of the state, Uwem Sunday Andrew-Essien; Commissioner of Finance, Nsikan Linus Nkan; one Margeret Thompson Ukpe and a company, Paul Usoro & Co.[block]

In August, the anti-graft agency had placed a freeze order on all bank accounts controlled by the Akwa Ibom State government, leading to the filing of a N50 billion law suit against the commission by the Attorney General of Akwa Ibom State.

However, in its response, EFCC said it acted within the purview of its enactment act that empowers it to place a stop order on any account suspected to be involved in any crime. It said on March 10, 2016, the sum of N700 million was withdrawn in cash from the state’s Accountant General’s imprest account.

EFCC stated further: “That out of the said N700,000,000.00, the sum of N300,000,000.00 was deposited in cash to the Zenith account No. 1014604466 belonging to Paul Usoro & Co on the 14th of March, 2016 without any contractual relationship between Akwa Ibom State and the said Paul Usoro & Co.

“That the 1st defendant (EFCC) invited Paul Usoro (SAN) who volunteered extra judicial statement confessing that the said N300,000,000.00 was his professional fees for handling Mr. Udom Emmanuel’s personal matter before the election tribunal. That the remaining N400,000,000.00 was also diverted to private use.

“That in similar vein, the total sum of N1,100,000,000.00 was also removed from the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Justice account No. 1011191486 domiciled in Zenith Bank Plc and lodged in the Paul Usoro & Co’s account number 0690123425 domiciled with Access Bank Plc without reasonable justification."

The anti-graft agency claimed that out of the N1.1 billion, Uwemedimo Thomas Nwoko received a kickback of N65million from Paul Usoro.[block]

The Akwa Ibom case is not the only bribery allegation against Usoro. In October, the National Judicial Council (NJC) asked President Muhammadu Buhari to dismiss two judges after they were investigated and found to be guilty of corruption allegations brought against them by the EFCC.

The affected judges were Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia of the Federal High Court and James Agbadu-Fishim of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, who had been in the news for at least two years for allegedly receiving bribe from Usoro.

NBA’s NEC meeting holds on Thursday (arrival on Wednesday and departure on Friday) at the NBA Auditorium, NBA House, Plot 1101 Muhamadu Buhari Way, Cadastral Zone A00 Central Area, Abuja.
Attendance is restricted to only statutory NEC members, who are the national officers, past presidents, past general secretaries, branch chairmen, branch secretaries, branch NEC representatives, and chairmen and secretaries of sections.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2018/12/04/paul-usoro-picked-two-days-his-first-nec-meeting-nba-president

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What a relief for the masses and powerless looking helplessly along while some public officials in positions of trust looted our common patrimony dry. Things are really changing in Nigeria.

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Court gives EFCC, SSS, Police 72 hours to arrest Diezani

December 4, 2018Press Release

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Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke

Justice Valentine Ashi of a Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Apo, Abuja, on December 4 ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Nigerian Police Force, the Department of States Security Service and all other security agencies to apprehend and arrest a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke within 72 hours.

The order was made, following a motion ex parte made before the court by counsel to the EFCC, Msuur Denga, praying for an order of the court, to issue a warrant of arrest against Mrs Alison-Madueke, to enable the Commission apprehend and arraign her for alleged financial crimes in Nigeria.

The EFCC investigated the former minister along with Jide Omokore, a former Chairman, Atlantic Energy Drilling Company, following a petition dated October 2, 2013, from Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, bordering on money laundering and official corruption.

EFCC said in a statement that investigations into the petition revealed that Mrs Alison-Madueke as supervising minister of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, was found to have engaged in illicit and monumental fraudulent dealings in oil transactions, which she entered into on behalf of the Federal Government.

Mrs Alison-Madueke and Mr Omokore are also alleged to have accepted and given gifts in properties located at Penthouse 22, Block B, Admiralty Estate, Ikoyi, and Penthouse 21, Building 5, Block C, Banana Island, Lagos. They are to be arraigned on February 25, 2019 on a five-count charge for the offences, which are contrary to Sections 26(1) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.

When the matter came up on Monday the Commission however filed application for warrant of arrest, condition precedent for Mrs Alison-Madueke’s extradition protocol to bring her back home to face trail.

The prosecution told the court that Mrs Alison-Madueke, who is currently in the United Kingdom, jetted out of the country while investigations into the alleged fraudulent acts were ongoing.

The court today, granted the ex parte motion, and ordered the security agencies to provide Mrs Alison-Madueke within 72 hours, for her to face the charge preferred against her.

“The Inspector General of Police, the Chairman of the EFCC, the Attorney General, the Department of State Services, are hereby ordered in the name of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria to apprehend and arrest the first defendant and produce her before this court for further directives within 72 hours,” the judge held.

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/299081-court-gives-efcc-sss-police-72-hours-to-arrest-diezani.html

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MalcoImX:
That's the reality bro.

Note that this is NW rally. Wait until Buhari's Sokoto (not even NW) rally and they'll know the difference between Mohammed Ali and Bash Ali.

Epic!!!

(I'm a lover of the Sweet Science. )

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BREAKING: SaharaReporters Floors Saraki At Appeal Court... N4bn Judgement Overturned

The Appeal Court judges — Honourable Justice Ibrahim Mohammed Musa Salauwa, Honourable Justice Chidi Nwaoma Uwa and Honourable Justice Hamma Akawu Barka — unanimously ruled that the judgment be nullified and assigned to a new trial judge at the lower court for a retrial.

by SaharaReporters, New York Dec 04, 2018

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The Court of Appeal in Ilorin, Kwara State, has nullified the lower court’s judgment that awarded a N4billion cost as sum of damages against SaharaReporters and its founder, Omoyele Sowore, in a suit between the two and Bukola Saraki, Nigeria’s Senate President.

On Tuesday, the Appeal Court set aside the judgment of Justice A.S. Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin delivered on June 28, 2017.

The Appeal Court judges — Honourable Justice Ibrahim Mohammed Musa Salauwa, Honourable Justice Chidi Nwaoma Uwa and Honourable Justice Hamma Akawu Barka — unanimously ruled that the judgment be nullified and assigned to a new trial judge at the lower court for a retrial.

The account of Sahara Reporters Media Foundation, a Non Governmental Organisation, was garnisheed in a suit between SaharaReporters, an online citizen journalism news website, and the Senate President even though the foundation was never named in the suit, neither is it a news publishing platform.

Justice Oyinloye had entered a judgment of N4billion against SaharaReporters and its founder, Omoyele Sowore, over allegations of defamation involving Saraki. However, the judgment was used to obtain a garnishee order against the foundation, a separate entity.

Sometime in 2017, Saraki had sued SaharaReporters and its founder to the tune of N1billion each as general damages for four different publications on SaharaReporters.

He also sought the court “for injunction restraining the Defendants from further writing, printing or causing to be written, printed or circulated or otherwise published of the Claimant, the said or similar libel".

However, Stanley Imhanruor, a senior lawyer from Falana & Falana’s Chambers, who represented SaharaReporters at both the High Court and the Appeal Court, argued that his clients were never served in the motion on notice neither were they given an opportunity to defend themselves during the hearings that led to Justice Oyinloye’s judgment.

Paul Erokoro, Saraki’s lead counsel, had claimed in court that he could not serve the counter affidavit on the counsel for SaharaReporters because there was no address for service within the court’s jurisdiction. He argued that he had no obligation to serve counsel directly unless the court ordered him to do so or if he sought the court’s leave to serve counsel directly.

Imhanruor contested this argument, stating that his chambers had sent one Adams Adebara to the chambers of Tunde Olomu & Co to pick up the counter affidavit, to no avail. He told the court that, rather than give the document to Mr. Adebara, the chambers rudely dismissed him.

He explained to the court that Saraki’s lawyer had asked Adebara, who was to collect the counter affidavit, to meet with him on the premises of the court so that the bailiff could serve him, but Erokoro failed to deliver on his promise. He told the court that multiple calls to Erokoro were ignored.

The case was, however, withdrawn from the lower court, having lost faith in the process and an appeal filed at the Court of Appeal.

The protracted case had taken several turns before the eventual judgement of the appeal court. In one of the hearings at the Federal High Court in Ilorin, journalists and student activists who had gone to court to observe the hearing were harassed by alleged loyalists of the Senate President.

Reporters from CoreTV, AIT News, and ChannelsTV who were in court to cover the proceedings were harassed and their cameras seized. They were also forced to erase footage of the court proceedings and the assaults that took place in the premises of the court.

The touts, perceived to have been supporters of the Senate President, also assaulted a middle-aged woman, Funmi Jolayemi Ajayi, stripped her naked and beat her. Ajayi, a civil society activist, had travelled from Lagos to observe the court proceedings in Ilorin.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2018/12/04/breaking-saharareporters-floors-saraki-appeal-court-n4bn-judgement-overturned

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salford:
scammer ni man yi sha.lol
He wants to eat his cake and also have it
Funny some idiot decamped while their ring leader refused to. lol.

Exactly.

I wrote the following elsewhere:

"Amosun is in fact hiding behind a finger by insisting on he being on the same ticket/ballot day with Buhari.

Amosun knows very well that if he's on any party's ticket other than that of the APC on the day Buhari is on the APC ballot, he (Amosun) cannot guaranteed himself the win to the senate seat he's contesting for.

Amosun has no liver to leave the APC as that party presently operates in the South West. Simple."

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san316:
Let him travel if he likes. We all know that the only swearing in he will attend is the 2nd term swearing in for Buhari

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FarahAideed:
He never moved the money illegally , it was counterpart payment to his American university technical partners, problem was that it was at the height of 911 emotions and homeland security had stringent measure in place to track suspicious funds coming into the US and Atikus 40 million raised a red flag , even Dangote was taken in for question by FBI in Potomac at the same period but was cleared when he was found be Sugar and cement mogul .... stop your lies against Atiku

This is "half a story," my friend. So why wasn't Atiku cleared on his own part like Dangote was cleared? Otherwise if you have credible proof that Atiku was also cleared, please provide it. Simple. Shikenan.

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grandstar:
My relation who resigned from a dead end job at the CBN to travel to the States.

He told us he was being sent for training by the CBN ( the silly boy was deceiving us)

Well, we took him to the airport and he jetted.

We no hear from am again. He didn't call to thank us for taking him there or that he had arrived safely. We felt we was unthankful like we suspect many are over there.

I was to meet him about 3months later in Ondo town. They no gree he enter. They deport am at the point of entry.

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wink2015:
ANENIH THAT IS A VERY CORRUPT MAN, EVEN BUHARI MR INTEGRITY IS RAINING PRAISES ON HIS HEAD.
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In decent societies, including ours in Nigeria, you don't need to disparage the dead in order to make your point.

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StoneLucifer:
I expected to see more VIPs from across the country in this burial. Where is Obasanjo? At death, nobody knows u again. Hypocrisy and man are inseparable!!

Indeed. And even serving national officers of the PDP and/or their reps could not be at Anenih's final internment? A whole Anenih, the celebrated doyen of their PDP?

Hmm.

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Abfinest007:
3rd world war is when atiku win d presidential election n appoint fayose as effc boss

Post of the day.

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Oshigun:
This is a good development and it seems APC is learning. Buhari wanted to move away from the image of military dictator and his hands-off approach was abused by Saraki, IPOB, Fayose, FFK et al.

As long as the authorities act within legal purview, I back them to shut down this Deji and his ilk before they become another Kanu menace. Kanu has set the precedence of gaining wealth and popularity by stage-managing the ruse he is a so-called freedom fighter for the people taking on a "repressive dictator" Government. Lunatic FFK and attention-seeker Fayose also do same.

The APC Government should always move to shut these people and their mischief down quickly before anarchy from kanu-type and Deji-like opportunists becomes a real problem for Nigeria.

Buhari is too lenient and he lets things get out of hand for fear of appearing dictatorial and this is one of the big problem I have with him. Kanu and Deji would not be doing this under OBJ and Sahara reporters Sowore would be arrested and detained under OBJ let alone he will be moving around freely and seeking to be President.

I share your premises, sentiments, views, and conclusions as quoted, Oshigun. Well done.

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Gkay1:
tinubu is doing all dis because of 2023 presidential election, he want to become president but he will never get there

See chest beating, LOL... Will you commandeer the largest voting block - the North - to not vote for him if he wins his party's nomination for President?

You're reasoning like Pa Chukwudi44, I swear.

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dermmy:
Then take them to IDP camp you and your family will be fed there

Epic, this!

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Dnevasaynevaguy:


These men are made oh.
So,after 3 years of draging him up and down,paying for lawyers and what have you,he still has waayyy much more than 400m in his account.
Choiiii,these men money haf looong finish!

Na so o... they're not labelled "looters" for nothing. They're definitely well-heeled with war chests.

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gaby:
The ordinary Nigerian citizen is indeed a Lion and a hard nut.

You elites can't even stand what the ordinary and down-trodden Nigerian citizen has come to see as normal and take with a straight face and chin...haba mana

This reminds me of when I was in my teens and had a mini poultry consisting of the Agric 'fowls" (broilers) and our own very African chicken A.K A (okuko-igbo). At every Harmattan or bird-flu season, you'd usually find my broilers slumped and surrendered to the season while my original scavengers do their best at beating every odds stacked up against them.

The ordinary Nigerian citizen has gone so long without an account, not even a frozen one but keeps pushing, hoping and acting like all is well with a cosmetic smile.

Una no get liver but una like to thief everybody yam. I wished the FG would enact a law and contract Akwa Ibom people to handle every political looter. Those guys can represent Africa successfully in mob/jungle justice. Even if you by any stretch survive their handling, when next you see a yam that isn't yours, not minding how hungry or greedy you are, you'd learn to swallow your saliva and hop on along. ..

Idiots

Very well written, gaby.

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Sirjamo:
No matter how good Eyimba (Saraki) is, it can never defeat Barcelona ( Tinubu)

Epic!

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kitaatita:
Unmerited votes were awarded to Jonathan in Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa and all the South East states. He bought figures. His defeat could have been more devastating.

Your analysis is so on point.

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akinbode1:
You are the most stupid have ever seen in the mars of the earth..A man that said the blood of any Nigerians doesn't worth his political ambition. Think about it, if GEJ didn't conceed defeat, May be you have gone with the war and violence that would have happen in 2015. I don't blame you, the blood of tyranny and clueless is running in ur vein..

Arrant nonsense..........

'Goan' improve on your grammar, abeg; it's a reflection of the poor quality of your mind and thinking process, and a disgrace to how you grew up.

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OLAMIFRESH:
NIGERIA PERSONALLY VOTE U OUT because 26 STATE IN THE COUNTRY CANNOT PAY WORKS SALARIES JUST IMAGINE THAT FUEL BONKERY EVERYWHERE IN COUNTRY HAS IF NIGERIA IS COTONOU WHERE U CAN BUY FUEL FROM THE STREET.....

Yet another solid reason the man GEJ was voted out.

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michoim:
GEJ should better keep quiet than to resort to lies, falsehood, blame game etc

Exactly.

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GavelSlam:
Jonathan should shut up.

His party was banking on the regular ballot stuffing and intimidation at the polls.

Jega would have none of it, and introduced card readers.

I remember when Fayose and PDP generally were looking the use of card readers.

I remember when Fayose said Jega must resign and heaven would not heaven would not fall.

You've often boasted you use technology to fight fraud. Well, here you have it. Technology was used to fight electoral fraud.

Be proud of yourself.

Very well said, GavelSlam.

It's easy and convenient for some to forget that Jonathan did all in his power to stop the use of the Card Reader, once he realized it was going to drastically curtail classical rigging methods of the past 16 years prior to 2015.

Those rigging methods include acts such as thumb printing of multiple ballot papers by single individuals, stuffing of ballot boxes with phantom ballot papers, and writing of fake voting results in the homes of mostly PDP's bigwigs and passing those results as official outcomes of elections. Those were some of the things even Yar'Adua himself acknowledged were prevalent in the election process that brought him to power. And Jonathan wanted to continue with them?

By God's grace, this our Obodo Nigeria will never go back to that dark age of blatant election rigging.

Enough is enough.

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Igbokid:
Tell the clueless Otuoke drun.kard to lick his wound and stop blaming everyone for his woes.
Only sore losers behave in such manner.
His administration was brazenly corrupt and without human face.
The scam engineered by Jonathan and the useless Abba Moro is still fresh on my mind.
May the souls of those innocent job seekers rest in peace

Amen to your prayer.

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seunmsg:
Jonathan is nothing but a sore loser. He has blamed everyone else except himself for his 2015 defeat. Obama, David Cameroun, PDP governors, Bornu governor, Chibok girls, and now INEC. When will he face the reality that Nigerians voted him out because of his incompetence and high level of corruption that characterize his government? When will he blame his wife for practically pushing Amaechi and some other leaders out of PDP? When will he blame himself for marginalizing the south west that stood by him in 2010 and 2011 from his government? He should accept his failures and stop deceiving himself.

Very well said!

Honestly, Jonathan reasons and acts like a simpleton. No more, no less.

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israelmao:
By-election in 4 LGAs in Kwara is just like a drop in a mighty ocean.

The ocean is made up of drops.

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Abeyjide:
kwara North and kwara south won't follow saraki while kwara central vote will be divided . those traditional rulers who collected money were unable to influenced the result. APC beats them right in Front of the palace.

Hmm. Posts such as this just dey sweet my bele.

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tegrianonigltd:
Lagosians had his back, abi the agberos had his back

What's your problem? If Lagos voters are agberos and the winning party of the voters keeps presiding over an always buoyant economy that Lagos is, then so be it. So, please park well.

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