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Great news. Highly educative & inspiring.

Nonsense...

Anything to divert our attention, attach the world 'South East'. Smh

doctokwus:
If an incompetent minister in a ministry such as communications can acquire all these within just a space of 2years under the brain challenged president who can't even remember who he gives a directive to,where his appointed IGP is,imagine what the likes of ministers in ministries like defence,works/power,internal affairs,transport,finance,NDDC,Petroleum,etc,under such a grossly incompetent president have acquired.
I repeat,anyone that imagines Buhari will let go come 2019,is living in the fabled Utopia.
The 2019 elections would witness one of the greatest assaults on the national treasury,one of the most rigged in the North,and probably one of the most violent due to the uproar it would generate.
Buhari with ministers under him,for which Shittu is probably one of the least powerful,and parastatal/agency heads,will do anything it takes to keep him in power because they know that if he loses,the revelations of the kinds of malfeasance that took place under him,would make the likes of Dasuki, Diezanni,Patience Jonathan etc,look like amateurs in the act of grand scale looting.

Heaven bless you for this truth

For this to make front page, it's quite clear that joblessness has a better definition....

python1:
That is some whooping 360m.

But how did they arrive at the conclusion that he is the world's best teacher? Did they take samples from Nigeria?

I know mental slaves will scream at the top of their voices asking why I mentioned Nigerian teachers, there are Nigerians teaching in most advanced obodo oyibo and are doing better than their oyibo counterparts.

Remember the part it was reported that she thought over 5 languages...

What is really happening in this country? A governor of a state budgeting 1.3trillion? What for again?

Indeed, it is FINISHED..............

Buhari2019:
Poppycock!

HELLO ZOMBIE
DON'T FORGET TO GET YOUR OCTOBER BMC PAY...

1.
The classic insight of one ancient Greek guy, Socrates, is that the unexamined life is not worth living. The great man Socrates it appeared did not talk about the examined life. Perhaps he assumed away things. The point is: Could any life endure close scrutiny? If it did, how devastated or whole would it turn out?

2.
Perhaps that is why the same Greeks, we are told, invented the idea of democracy. Democracy is a system of self and group examination, of nation, of citizens and those elected to lead her. So democracy calls for openness, for naked kings, even if clothed citizens. Before democracy the kings were all bedecked in magnificent ensembles. The kings and emperors were clothed in robes, sometimes borrowed, and oftentimes embroidered into the heroic, the nationalistic and the imperial personae. And these kings and emperors all wooden if not rotten guys, were sold as saints.

3.
But smarter non democratic leaders quickly close the windows of national self-examination, especially those of leaders. One classic example we may all remind ourselves is the decree 34 of the then head of the Nigerian military junta, General Muhammadu Buhari. The decree says in summary that you cannot talk or examine the then president or any of his appointees even if your data and analysis were one and all correct. And if you did at all, that could earn you the most dictatorial sanction available.

4.
And General Buhari and confederates came and went. Actually they were booted out by the willy General, Ibrahim Babangida. Buhari even did a stint in Benin the city of the Obas. He was held in forced seclusion by the powers that sacked him off his seat of governance. The faction led by Babangida were palace coup makers. So the choice of Benin was in line. It was all a palace, a power game.

5.
And between the Buhari sacking and the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan a world happened. One of it was that Babangida fell out of favour with the southwest – his former political alliance partners. Thus following the law of ancient alchemy the needful happened.

6.
It is that your enemy’s enemy is your friend. So the southwest alchemists, were all looking out for who and who were Babangida’s worst and most intractable enemies. Whenever and wherever they found one they beatified him or her into a hero, a holy man and something out of this world.

7.
Unexamined, the southwest alchemists forged or made Buhari a national hero, the greatest Nigerian that never was. So Buhari’s sainthood was not strictly his. It was rather a reflection of the alleged devilry of Babangida – who is the sworn and even mortal enemy of the southwest. That is Buhari’s sainthood is the southwest continuing in war with Babangida by other, by ‘’ecclesiastical’’ means. And lest we forget the southwest controls the decibel of noises even if not signals, of the nation’s history. They don’t own the press. They run the press. Why this is so may be glimpsed off our book: Minorities as Competitive Overlords.

8.
And on the basis of this political alchemy, Buhari took on the task of wanting power as a democratic contender. And he lost severally. Even the southwest, wary of who he really is or what he really is not, bided their time in embracing him. That is, in all the Buhari long walk to the presidency, the southwest kept to a narrow path. They allowed Buhari to wallow in the broad road that led him to nowhere. Buhari only gathered northern votes and no more. In the southwest he was scorned. And the southeast, the south-south and the middle belt seconded the vote of no confidence on the then candidate Buhari.

9.
And then Jonathan happened. And suddenly the southwest led by Jagagban Tinubu, fell out of love with President Jonathan. And they began to hate themselves. In fact one may recall that Jagagban called Jonathan, a drunken fisherman. It was apparently in reply to a Jonathan taunt. Luckily in those eras there were little like hate speech. So nobody was indicted.

10.
However, the important thing here is that Jonathan and Jagagban became mortal and sworn enemies. And a system of alchemical petri dishes returned. Of course, again, Jonathan and Buhari are sworn political enemies. Buhari thought Jonathan was a minor and not just minority upstart. Buhari’s own assessment of who he is – something Hegelian, a world spirit on the Nigerian soil – was that he was some kind of Mahdi. A Mahdi against a minion? That was what Buhari couldn’t quite put up with. That was the why and how of the monkeys and baboons being soaked in blood. Things were teleological, racing towards the end.

11.
And quickly the Jagagban washed up with a vision of turning rust into gold. And he became to resell Buhari in the guise of the anit-villain Babangida, now anti-villain Jonathan saint. No metaphors, no imageries, and by some logic forgeries were spared by Jagagban and troupe to set up and sell their alchemical concoction as the real gold. And some believers essentially from the southwest bought. The core north were a ready believers and believing congregation.

12.
And the saint – Buhari – began to live a life, a presidential life. And this is a democracy. And democracies work on the Socratic theories of the examined life. And citizens and historians began to examine the great Buhari and his Socratic or un-Socratic credentials.

13.
The results are all we live through. Let us help ourselves by leaving things to Punch. Punch by the way has been accused of supporting the Buhari alchemical emergence. Please see our book: How and why the Yoruba fought and lost the Biafra Nigeria civil war/FFK. Anyway that is an assertion. Whatever the truth of the assertion, the point is that Punch assertion is historical and verifiable. They are things we can individually affirm. But we need an authority so let’s quote the Punch.

14.
‘’ABANDONING his trademark reticence, President Muhammadu Buhari acted decisively on Monday by ordering “the disengagement of Abdulrasheed Maina,” the former chairman of the Presidential Pension Reform Task Team, from service. But before then, the damage had already been done to his sanctimonious crusade against corruption….
But Buhari was elected President in 2015 on a promise of combating the blight of Boko Haram terrorism and corruption. He has professed for too long to be morally offended by the level of corruption on Jonathan’s watch. Far much more than his opponents could ever dream, however, the President has damaged his own reputation for integrity, compromised the anti-corruption war and dashed hopes that he would be a unifying figure in a fractured, divided nation. His swift response to the Maina scandal is uncharacteristic and the scandal might never have happened if he had acted so decisively in the past.
There has been a serial condoning of corruption when it comes close to home. The Chief of Army Staff, Yusuf Buratai, and Dambazau were alleged to have acquired unexplained wealth, as was his controversial Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari….
Buhari should change gear or come out completely discredited. He should investigate the veracity or otherwise of the deluge of complaints against his top aides and other associates that are reported to exert so much influence despite holding no official positions. As Tam David-West, a former Petroleum Minister, once advised, Buhari needs to clean up his house. He should know he is acting with impunity by ignoring allegations of corruption against members of his kitchen cabinet.’’ Maina: The audacity of corruption. Punch October 24, 2017

15.
Even more this is a chance to stay as follows. Despite our enthusiasms no man is born and gifted with the DNA of integrity or personal honesty. What is, is that men become corrupt or are co-opted by the power diagrams at work and play. If power is concentrated in one or few hands the wielders become in spite of themselves corrupt or co-opted. This is one of the discoveries of our book: Corruption in Africa: resolution through new diagnosis. And the Punch almost gave us a grill for the mill. It writes in the same editorial:

16.
Maina first came to public consciousness as an instrument for cleansing the monumental fraud and outright stealing that were being perpetrated in public pensions and he quickly went to work, claiming back then in 2012 that about N3.3 trillion might have been released by the Federal Government since 1976 without being accounted for. The details were shoddy.

17.
So Maina was a good guy. He is now turned ugly. And what causes it? It is that the powers in our constitution is such that a president and his aides are mini-gods. They can do and undo. Maina is only a beneficiary of a thuggish and roguish constitution we all have acquiesced to. The fault in part is ours. To summarize let it also be known that the unexamined lie is not worth telling. It may soon all too soon un-tell itself

1.
The classic insight of one ancient Greek guy, Socrates, is that the unexamined life is not worth living. The great man Socrates it appeared did not talk about the examined life. Perhaps he assumed away things. The point is: Could any life endure close scrutiny? If it did, how devastated or whole would it turn out?

2.
Perhaps that is why the same Greeks, we are told, invented the idea of democracy. Democracy is a system of self and group examination, of nation, of citizens and those elected to lead her. So democracy calls for openness, for naked kings, even if clothed citizens. Before democracy the kings were all bedecked in magnificent ensembles. The kings and emperors were clothed in robes, sometimes borrowed, and oftentimes embroidered into the heroic, the nationalistic and the imperial personae. And these kings and emperors all wooden if not rotten guys, were sold as saints.

3.
But smarter non democratic leaders quickly close the windows of national self-examination, especially those of leaders. One classic example we may all remind ourselves is the decree 34 of the then head of the Nigerian military junta, General Muhammadu Buhari. The decree says in summary that you cannot talk or examine the then president or any of his appointees even if your data and analysis were one and all correct. And if you did at all, that could earn you the most dictatorial sanction available.

4.
And General Buhari and confederates came and went. Actually they were booted out by the willy General, Ibrahim Babangida. Buhari even did a stint in Benin the city of the Obas. He was held in forced seclusion by the powers that sacked him off his seat of governance. The faction led by Babangida were palace coup makers. So the choice of Benin was in line. It was all a palace, a power game.

5.
And between the Buhari sacking and the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan a world happened. One of it was that Babangida fell out of favour with the southwest – his former political alliance partners. Thus following the law of ancient alchemy the needful happened.

6.
It is that your enemy’s enemy is your friend. So the southwest alchemists, were all looking out for who and who were Babangida’s worst and most intractable enemies. Whenever and wherever they found one they beatified him or her into a hero, a holy man and something out of this world.

7.
Unexamined, the southwest alchemists forged or made Buhari a national hero, the greatest Nigerian that never was. So Buhari’s sainthood was not strictly his. It was rather a reflection of the alleged devilry of Babangida – who is the sworn and even mortal enemy of the southwest. That is Buhari’s sainthood is the southwest continuing in war with Babangida by other, by ‘’ecclesiastical’’ means. And lest we forget the southwest controls the decibel of noises even if not signals, of the nation’s history. They don’t own the press. They run the press. Why this is so may be glimpsed off our book: Minorities as Competitive Overlords.

8.
And on the basis of this political alchemy, Buhari took on the task of wanting power as a democratic contender. And he lost severally. Even the southwest, wary of who he really is or what he really is not, bided their time in embracing him. That is, in all the Buhari long walk to the presidency, the southwest kept to a narrow path. They allowed Buhari to wallow in the broad road that led him to nowhere. Buhari only gathered northern votes and no more. In the southwest he was scorned. And the southeast, the south-south and the middle belt seconded the vote of no confidence on the then candidate Buhari.

9.
And then Jonathan happened. And suddenly the southwest led by Jagagban Tinubu, fell out of love with President Jonathan. And they began to hate themselves. In fact one may recall that Jagagban called Jonathan, a drunken fisherman. It was apparently in reply to a Jonathan taunt. Luckily in those eras there were little like hate speech. So nobody was indicted.

10.
However, the important thing here is that Jonathan and Jagagban became mortal and sworn enemies. And a system of alchemical petri dishes returned. Of course, again, Jonathan and Buhari are sworn political enemies. Buhari thought Jonathan was a minor and not just minority upstart. Buhari’s own assessment of who he is – something Hegelian, a world spirit on the Nigerian soil – was that he was some kind of Mahdi. A Mahdi against a minion? That was what Buhari couldn’t quite put up with. That was the why and how of the monkeys and baboons being soaked in blood. Things were teleological, racing towards the end.

11.
And quickly the Jagagban washed up with a vision of turning rust into gold. And he became to resell Buhari in the guise of the anit-villain Babangida, now anti-villain Jonathan saint. No metaphors, no imageries, and by some logic forgeries were spared by Jagagban and troupe to set up and sell their alchemical concoction as the real gold. And some believers essentially from the southwest bought. The core north were a ready believers and believing congregation.

12.
And the saint – Buhari – began to live a life, a presidential life. And this is a democracy. And democracies work on the Socratic theories of the examined life. And citizens and historians began to examine the great Buhari and his Socratic or un-Socratic credentials.

13.
The results are all we live through. Let us help ourselves by leaving things to Punch. Punch by the way has been accused of supporting the Buhari alchemical emergence. Please see our book: How and why the Yoruba fought and lost the Biafra Nigeria civil war/FFK. Anyway that is an assertion. Whatever the truth of the assertion, the point is that Punch assertion is historical and verifiable. They are things we can individually affirm. But we need an authority so let’s quote the Punch.

14.
‘’ABANDONING his trademark reticence, President Muhammadu Buhari acted decisively on Monday by ordering “the disengagement of Abdulrasheed Maina,” the former chairman of the Presidential Pension Reform Task Team, from service. But before then, the damage had already been done to his sanctimonious crusade against corruption….
But Buhari was elected President in 2015 on a promise of combating the blight of Boko Haram terrorism and corruption. He has professed for too long to be morally offended by the level of corruption on Jonathan’s watch. Far much more than his opponents could ever dream, however, the President has damaged his own reputation for integrity, compromised the anti-corruption war and dashed hopes that he would be a unifying figure in a fractured, divided nation. His swift response to the Maina scandal is uncharacteristic and the scandal might never have happened if he had acted so decisively in the past.
There has been a serial condoning of corruption when it comes close to home. The Chief of Army Staff, Yusuf Buratai, and Dambazau were alleged to have acquired unexplained wealth, as was his controversial Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari….
Buhari should change gear or come out completely discredited. He should investigate the veracity or otherwise of the deluge of complaints against his top aides and other associates that are reported to exert so much influence despite holding no official positions. As Tam David-West, a former Petroleum Minister, once advised, Buhari needs to clean up his house. He should know he is acting with impunity by ignoring allegations of corruption against members of his kitchen cabinet.’’ Maina: The audacity of corruption. Punch October 24, 2017

15.
Even more this is a chance to stay as follows. Despite our enthusiasms no man is born and gifted with the DNA of integrity or personal honesty. What is, is that men become corrupt or are co-opted by the power diagrams at work and play. If power is concentrated in one or few hands the wielders become in spite of themselves corrupt or co-opted. This is one of the discoveries of our book: Corruption in Africa: resolution through new diagnosis. And the Punch almost gave us a grill for the mill. It writes in the same editorial:

16.
Maina first came to public consciousness as an instrument for cleansing the monumental fraud and outright stealing that were being perpetrated in public pensions and he quickly went to work, claiming back then in 2012 that about N3.3 trillion might have been released by the Federal Government since 1976 without being accounted for. The details were shoddy.

17.
So Maina was a good guy. He is now turned ugly. And what causes it? It is that the powers in our constitution is such that a president and his aides are mini-gods. They can do and undo. Maina is only a beneficiary of a thuggish and roguish constitution we all have acquiesced to. The fault in part is ours. To summarize let it also be known that the unexamined lie is not worth telling. It may soon all too soon un-tell itself.

courtesy: Jimanze ego-Alowes

Why can't this man have peace of mind?

Politics is first of all a power not governance game. [With Corrections]
1
The truth is not that President Muhammadu Buhari just won't, but can't sack Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), and his counterpart in the Ministry of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau. Sacking any or all of the two is not the way politics, the politics of power goes.
2
Perhaps it is now clear to informed observers that Nigeria's greatest political strategistm, in terms of personal or group acquisition of power is General Sani Abacha. And this is built on established facts not asserted fancies. The rap that a Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu and or Babangida are great strategists of the power game is not proven by the facts of it. And this is so on the national scene. The national scene is our area of immediate concern.
3
If one checked off the deficits and aces of the Awolowo and Tinubu performances in the power game, one thing is clear. Both suffered irredeemably from the hands of their alliance partners.
4
In Awolowo's case it was so much that his northern alliance partners foreswore his ever being president. And this is despite his sacrifices for them during and after the civil war. Awolowo not only helped the north to win the civil war, he absent mindedly handed over the country, whole and entire to the north. It was during this age of innocence or absentmindedness that the north got round to restructuring the country into a political agent and province of the north. In a sense the call for the restructuring of the country is a verdict on the Awolowo naivety in handing over the country to his co-confederates. And he did this on one hope. He wanted to be president or prime minister. And the north said no. It was so bad with him and the north, he had to come down east to shop for a vice president. Boy things happen.
5
Of Tinubu, the biting comments by Nadeco old hand Chief Adebanjo is proof enough. Immediately Tinubu sacrificed all to erect Buhair president and his hero, he, Tinubu was dismissed and branded a stranger to power. But worse, it was in such a self-compromised manner, that he can't even protest his own marginalization. See Adebanjo's comments.
6
Check all these against the Abacha's alliance with General Ibrahim Babangida. What is revealed is that Abacha is as good a prince, as Machiavelli would have canvassed for Medici Italy. Abacha understood power as no other Nigerian known to this correspondent. First he understood that power was a dangerous and duplicitous hunt. And he understood too that when the jungles mature, any bodies can be gamed and or haunted. He also understood that the alliance with which you won a battle is not the alliance with which you govern the victory. That is that alliance partners can be sacrificed for more power or its sustainability for the winner faction.
7
So strategic prescience required that you secured an independent power base before entering into any alliance, before any wars. And that you make sure that even within that alliance, that as you keep your support and power base integrated, you do so in manner that they are separate or easily separable. The lesson is to never fuse your power base into any other and hand over command, to any persons or angels, save to yourself. The morality is simple. An alliance is only as good as can be enforced. That is an alliance between two insurgent parties that leads to victory, becomes immediately fragile. Its old power sharing rations and ratios may only be sustainable if the two parties are equally and independently powerful, that is in rough parity terms. Please see the thoughts of Alfred von Tirpitz the German admiral.
8
Otherwise the old alliance will be now structured with the weaker party made or forced into a dependency tributary state. It has happened severally since ancient Greeks. Athens converted her allies into dependencies after victories.
9
It is in the logic of this gambit that one has to understand Abacha's power imperial statement. And he was addressing his Commander in Chief, General Ibrahim Babangida. Abacha, as a commander, sure of his forces, he impishly told his CIC: We came together and we shall go together.
10
The point is that Abacha wasn't moralizing or bluffing. He knew and insisted on keeping his army fully under him and loyal to him first - and this even in his unity of purpose with Babangida. As chief of army staff he never let Babangida mess with the army in any form or force. They remained first and above all Abacha's army.
11
In fact a Vanguard columnist Dr Dele Sobowale reported that a news release was issued by Babangida's faction. It carried the momentous news that Abacha had been retired from the army. Apparently Babangida didn't know that there then was no Nigerian army. What existed in real terms was Abacha-Nigerian Army. And the so called release sacking Abacha from his army, from Abacha Army, was hurriedly rescinded, and withdrawn. If you asked why, the answer is this. Abacha had the battalions to so demand and effect things. You don't give command by words of mouth. You give commands, by the outplay of forces at play and at work. And if you insisted otherwise then you have called for a showdown.
12
In summary Abacha knew that there is no depth of alliance today that can guarantee eternal unity and respect of alliances, eternally. That is Abacha knew that what kept alliances are not goodwill or words to that effect. What keeps alliances are the play of forces.
13
That is erstwhile allies can come to blows and they have in history at the group or personal levels. Russia and Stalin and Hitler and Germany. Awolowo and Akintola/Zik and Eyo Ita. So no matter the alliance, the duty of the strategic player is to prepare for a showdown tomorrow. Not precipitate it, but to be so prepared.
14
Now Buhari was a victim of the Abacha-Babangida alliance putsch. They pushed him out of power and almost out of history. He just recovered. Our suspicion is that that has made him a better strategist. He has learnt more about power. Those who think Buhari strategically naïve, may be losing the point. That he beat an ace, Tinubu, to it should make us concede things, however grudgingly to him.
15
And one of the rules of the power game is that, you don't sack your inner team members. Why? Because you can't. They are privy to too many secrets to be out in the open looking for jobs. An applicant, a job seeker, is a very vulnerable person. He could be hired. And your enemies will offer him a premium, not just for his person but for his prized information and insider knowledge. The point is that Malami (SAN), Dambazau and the rest are members of the Buhari sanctum sanctorum. They collectively and severally know where the dead are buried, where the ghosts hover. And who killed them.
16
The only way to lose such men is through death, not sack. So those calling on Buhari to sack any or all of those guys are not getting the gist. The cost to Buhari may be his presidency and almost certainly his bid for second term. The best he can do is to reshuffle them. They are the princes of the house, the iwarefas as the Yoruba will say. They own the power, in part at least. They are not viziers. The viziers are those you sack. The viziers are those who are hired and may be sacked. The princes you keep. It is an ancient and iron lore.
17
A similar example happened with President Jonathan. The guy who killed millions, ok scores of innocent kids, promising them fake immigration job just to make illicit billions for himself, couldn’t be fired by Jonathan. Jonathan couldn’t summon the liver to do so. But poor pitiful Ms Stella Oduah, whose sins are not very clear or half as damaging, was quickly pushed. The question is why. The point is simple. David Mark who was Jonathan's enforcer had the murderer-minister as his princeling. The homicidal minister was a part of the Mark house of power. And Jonathan depended on Mark to pacify several important constituencies. That included the north, the army and the senate. So neither Mark nor his nominees could do any wrong. Sorry could be fired. That is the logic of it. The cost would have been too much for a Jonathan. So he keeps them. And in the end as was written in the book revelations, Senator Mark and President Jonathan, literally came together and went together. Ahiazuwa.
18
Lesson you don't sack princes or princesses who will bring the kingdom and you down. You keep and or are advised to keep them to strengthen your power. Keeping and projecting power, not ruling the people, is the game. Ruling the people is an afterthought, if thought of at all. It is all in the game.

19
And lest we forget too, President Jonathan couldn't garner the liver to sack Ms Madueke. And this is despite the many complaints against her. At least former Governor of Akwa Ibom and a fervent Jonathan supporter complained. He couldn't see Ms. Madueke for 2 and more years running. And Jonathan couldn't do anything, couldn't sack her. Why? As oil minister, Ms Madueke was in the know of a few big things, like the hedgehog. So how dare you throw her to the dogs?

Courtesy: Jimanze Ego-Alowes

It depends on the location. If its in the South-south, east or west, township remains the best. But in the north, the reverse is the beginning of wisdom...

emmayayodeji:
exporting you to where?

Mumu Island

prettyboi1:
Tell that to Nnamdi Kanu the fvcking terrorist who was threatening to burn Nigeria, kill the president & cut his head off, who also threatened to kill ex-president Obasanjo & any Nigerian government official who stepped foot in the South-East of the country. Is that diplomacy? If that's diplomacy, then boko haram should also be calleded 'our brothers' since Nnamdi Kanu & Shekau are using the same tactics.

Nobody is against diplomacy or laying complaints, but if anybody wants to complain, follow the appropriate channels. You want a 'referendum', talk to your member s of house of representatives to carry it up. Is that not the right way? Is that not diplomacy?

Any other terrorist like Kanu that resurfaces will be dealt with by the Nigerian state cos you can't terrorize an entire country because of your selfish wants.

I think what you need is someone to recommend you to a psychiatric home

zoba88:
In a move to promote national unity and peaceful coexistence , a high-powered delegation of the Northern Governors Forum on Monday visited Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, commending him for taking urgent steps that led to the protection  of Nigerians living in the state.

The Northern Governors Forum delegation led by its Chairman and Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima had

Katsina State Governor, Rt Hon Aminu Bello Masari, Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri, Kebbi State Governor, Senator Atiku Bagudu,  and Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong as members.

Shettima said that the Northern Governors were in Rivers State  to identify  with Governor Wike and commend the governor  for nipping the unfortunate  conflict  that erupted in Oyigbo Local Government Area.

The Northern Governors Forum said that the actions of Governor Wike, especially his state-wide  broadcast helped to restore peace, despite  the challenges.

He declared: "Governor Wike we are mightily proud of you.  We are mightily  associating  ourselves  with you. Nigeria is greater than political  differences. We belong to one political  family  and that is the Federal Republic of Nigeria .

"No interest should be bigger than the Federal Republic  of Nigeria. You believe in the Nigerian Project  . For that, we remain eternally  grateful ".

The Northern Governors Forum called for the enthronement of Peace building  measures despite the challenges  facing the country.

According to the Northern Governors Forum, no law-abiding Nigerians  deserve to be punished because of where they reside and do business.

Governor Shettima said despite the unfortunate incidents in Abia, steps have been taken  to ensure that there are no retaliatory  attacks in different parts of the country.

In his response, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike declared that he will continue to protect all Nigerians and foreigners  living in the state.

He said: "Rivers State  believes in the unity of this country. Rivers State will not be a part of those calling for the disintegration of Nigeria. We owe it as a duty to protect every Nigerian living in the state.

"I will not allow any group intimidate, harass or attack other Nigerians living in the state.  We are Rivers people and we belong to the Niger Delta ".

While stating that violence  can never lead to the resolution  of any grievances, Governor Wike  urged those who are aggrieved to embrace dialogue  in the interest of Peace and development.

"I am not against anyone who wants to protest  any grievances, but there are channels for such protests", he said.

Governor Wike added that the people of Rivers State have their own peculiar grievances  against developmental issues in the country.  He pointed out that as Governor, he has raised such issues, but will never  support the disintegration .

Simeon Nwakaudu,

Special Assistant to the Rivers State Governor, Electronic Media.

18th September, 2017.



Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2017/09/national-unitynorthern-governors-visit.html?m=1

Well...History is about to be made. The summary of all these is: It takes a man with courage to create history while others will live to tell about the history created by that courageous man. Well done kanu... .

ChangeIsCostant:
A delegation of Northern Governors Forum, led by its chairman and Borno State governor, Alhaji Kashmir Shettima, including the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the Kastina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, Plateau State Governor, Simon Dalong, Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Abubakar, are in Abia State to interact with the Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu on the recent fracas between the Nigerian Army and members of IPOB in the state...

It will be recalled that the Chairman of the South East Governor Forum and Ebonyi State Governor, while reading the resolutions of the governors after their meeting in Enugu last week said: " We are in touch with the Northern Governors Forum they have assured us of the safety of all our people living in the north and we have also planned to exchange of visits between the Governors and to re-enforce the confidence of Nigerians in this respect."

According to governor Shettima, the governors visited Abia state to thank Governor Ikpeazu for saving this nation from destruction...

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2017/09/northern-governors-arrive-abia-state-meet-with-gov-ikpeazu.html

Well...History is about to be made. The summary of all these is: It takes a man with courage to create history while others will live to tell about the history created by that courageous man. Well done kanu... .

Oh...What a country I have found myself...

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