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Fraudophobia:
Here are pictures from Osun state as they moved to the Next Level.

4+4 is now in Osun State.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Naijaalive:
https://guardian.ng/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/senate.jpg

The Senate will reconvene on Tuesday, Channels Television has confirmed.

A source in the National Assembly disclosed that the lawmakers would reconvene to discuss the suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria.

https://all-gists..com/2019/01/just-in-senate-to-reconvene-tuesday-debate-onnoghens-suspension.html

https://i2.wp.com/media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2017/01/Walter-Onnoghen.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1

bishopkay:
Boy hi and read for yourself and don't be a fool spoon fed with false information by bigger fools!

Gej then acted on the recommendation of the NJC for salami to be fired...the key words there are RECOMMENDATION OF THE NJC

So don't be smart by half. No president has the powers to sack an official of another arm of government so this action is Null and void! We have two chief justices now...a duly recognized CJN and a CJB (chief justice of Buhari)

If you want the man out, lobby the NJC to do the job. We have rules to guide us else we'd not be better than savages

new2012:
OK assuming all you've said is right... Because GEJ did it. Should Buhari follow his footstep? I thought Buhari was supposed to right GEJs wrongs?

bishopkay:
And it's so unfortunate the first commentor is a grown ass woman with kids yet she can exude such low level thinking. I wonder what she passes on to her kids.

But one thing is sure... If we saw past Abacha as a people, we'd also see past buhari. We brought him upon us but we'd see through this.

I wonder how people with good conscience still support this fool we have as president then I remember even Abacha and all other tyrants had their supporters

Campusparot:
*BREAKING NEW NUGGET

*NBA SUMMONS AN EMERGENCY NEC MEETING OVER ONOGHEN’S SUSPENSION*

25th January, 2019

FROM: THE GENERAL SECRETARY
TO: ALL STATUTORY NEC MEMBERS
SUBJECT: NOTICE OF NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (NEC) MEETING

Dear Sir,

There will be an Emergency National Executive Committee meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association on the date and at the time and venue specified hereunder:

DATE: Monday, 28 January 2019
TIME: 12 noon Prompt
VENUE: NBA Auditorium, NBA House, Plot 1101 Muhamadu Buhari Way, Cadastral Zone A00 Central Area, Abuja - FCT

AGENDA

1. Purported Suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon Mr Justice Walter S C Onnoghen
2. Any Other Business

Please note that attendance for this NEC meeting is limited only to Statutory NEC members made up of the following:

1. National Officers
2. Past Presidents
3. Past General Secretaries
4. Branch Chairmen
5. Branch Secretaries
6. Branch NEC Representatives
7. Chairmen and Secretaries of Sections

For further inquiries, please contact the General Secretary or Ms. Ayodeji Oni at the NBA Secretariat, Bar Services Department on 08130250565, 08033452825. For bookings and reservations of hotel accommodation, please contact the National Welfare Secretary, Joshua Enemali Usman, on 08036551963.

Jonathan Gunu Taidi, Esq
General Secretary, Nigerian Bar Association

odiks:
Just contemplating... Will Justice Walter Onnoghen ever get JUSTICE from Justice Tanko Muhammed now headed Supreme Court considering the fact that....

1. He is the acting CJN and a potential CJN in the making.

2. He is the new chairman of the NJC by virtue of being the acting CJN in the interim, space created by the suspension of Onnoghen and formerly the Deputy Chairman of the Council who can act in the absence of the chairman.

3. He will also be the person that will constitute the panel that will hear justice Onnoghen's appeal for reinstatement and quashing of the CCT charges preferred against him if the matter finally gets to the Supreme Court.


For me this is a very tricky one for the new acting CJN justice Tanko Muhammed.

PerfectlyPerfect:
The north has been producing most of the presidents since independence, where do they stand when compared to the west and east? Has the presidency helped them in any way?

princfred:
I do not disagree it is not nice for every tribe to rule, but in saner clones where the democracy was copied from, tribe is not the major determinant to who rules but ideas and values. Must we remain politically undeveloped because we started off like that?

abdulazeez1002:
Crowd does not doesn’t depict the level of acceptance by the people. Nigerian would go to such rallies for there financial benefits. To buttress my point, everyone yells for a new messiah to save the diminishing glory of the country yet wants a kobo in their pockets.

Nigerians can shock you!

TheRealestGuy:
Just like the northerners in Borno, zamfara, benue and taraba are paying now with their blood for supporting Buhari right?

Y'all are bizarre with your thinking on this forum.

You Nigerians only love to play ethnic, religious, clannish and devilish politics that has not benefited the common man after almost 60 years on independence.

Only a mad mad continues doing the same thing and expects a different outcome.


Until y'all are ready to play clean politics devoid of hate and extremism, Igbos are not really interested in the presidency.

princfred:
We are looking at the mess that will become Nigeria with another 4 yrs of Buhari not just the igbo presidency. Is it a taboo to have and place such national interest in Nigeria beyond the sectional interest? Must we slaughter merit, progress and national interest, all go play crude politics of tribe, on the alter of tribalism? If that's the case why not we simply divide so each side can pursue tribal politics and interest to the maximum on their own. Why shout one Nigeria with one mouth while pursuing tribal interest above every other considerations with another . The country will only remain moribund with such orientation as seen so far.

Elvisu:
What we igbos need is good governance and policies that will make our businesses strive. The president can come from any tribe. We don’t cares much about that. Meanwhile PMB can never hand over power to an Igbo man. He is pushing Tinubu for 2023. Atiku is the only person that can hand over to an Igbo man after his eight years.

OrientDailyNews:
https://orientdailynews.com.ng/politics/political-miscalculation-mar-igbo-presidency/


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Ndlistic:
Obasanjo throws his support once again to Atiku. This time around he listed reasons why Atiku will be better than President Mohammadu Buhari as a president.

Obasanjo said, that Atiku will perform better than PMB. That he, Atiku surely understands the economy better.

Obasanjo listed the following:

*Atiku will surely understand the economy better

*He has business experience that can make his administration business friendly and improve the economy and provide jobs for our youths

*He has better outreach nationally and internationally and that can translate to better management of foreign affairs

*He is more accessible and less influence able and more open to all parts of the country in many ways

*And when he becomes the Nigerian president, which insha Allah, you will be, remember what we did together in government. We ran an administration by Nigerians, for all Nigerians, where merit and performance count more than blood relationship, friendship or kit and kin

Source:
https://thenaijafame..com/2019/01/obasanjo-list-reasons-why-atiku-is.html?m=1


Watch the full video HERE

Blogsphere:
The President of the Association of Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi has on Monday evening said that institutions that pulled out of the ongoing strike and opened their doors to students will regret their action in future.

Ogunyemi made this known while speaking to The Punch correspondent, who asked on his view on the perceived disunity in the union’s ranks.

The Punch reports that since the commencement of the industrial action no fewer than 6 institutions who are members of the union had pulled out of the industrial action.

The President hinted that members that pulled out of the campaign were pressured to abandon the fight by their vice-chancellors, or governing councils.

Ogunyemi said,



READ MORE: https://www.inoutnaija.com/2019/01/universities-that-pull-out-of-strike.html
When ASU or ASUP is on strike it should be binding on all chapters.Nowaadays some will pull out and expected to benefit from the outcome of the strike.That is why Unions are becoming laughing stocks before government.

Blogsphere:
The President of the Association of Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi has on Monday evening said that institutions that pulled out of the ongoing strike and opened their doors to students will regret their action in future.

Ogunyemi made this known while speaking to The Punch correspondent, who asked on his view on the perceived disunity in the union’s ranks.

The Punch reports that since the commencement of the industrial action no fewer than 6 institutions who are members of the union had pulled out of the industrial action.

The President hinted that members that pulled out of the campaign were pressured to abandon the fight by their vice-chancellors, or governing councils.

Ogunyemi said, When ASU or ASUP is on strike it should be binding on all chapters.Nowaadays some will pull out and expected to benefit from the outcome of the strike.That is why Unions are becoming laughing stocks before government.

Blogsphere:
The President of the Association of Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi has on Monday evening said that institutions that pulled out of the ongoing strike and opened their doors to students will regret their action in future.

Ogunyemi made this known while speaking to The Punch correspondent, who asked on his view on the perceived disunity in the union’s ranks.

The Punch reports that since the commencement of the industrial action no fewer than 6 institutions who are members of the union had pulled out of the industrial action.

The President hinted that members that pulled out of the campaign were pressured to abandon the fight by their vice-chancellors, or governing councils.

Ogunyemi said,



READ MORE: https://www.inoutnaija.com/2019/01/universities-that-pull-out-of-strike.html
When ASU or ASUP is on strike it should be binding on all chapters.Nowaadays some will pull out and expected to benefit from the outcome of the strike.That is why Unions are becoming laughing stocks before government.

Adeitanajoke:
Lanre Issa-Onilu, spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says former president Olusegun Obasanjo is haunted by his actions while in office, especially with regards to the conduct of elections.

Issa- Onilu said Obasanjo “would realise that he is not God” after the presidential election.

He was reacting to allegations by Obasanjo that the APC-led federal government had concluded plans with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the elections.

“For eight years of Obasanjo in office, all the elections he held, infact, government policies were determined by whatever mood he found himself,” the APC spokesman said on Sunday.

“All the institutions of government were brought under his wings and what he did for those eight years is what is haunting him.

“He cannot imagine that a government will allow INEC the statuary independence that it has. We have had 93 elections or more since APC came to power, and you can be sure that all those elections were conducted without government interference.

“We can understand where the former president is coming from, his past is haunting him, he imagines that perhaps the way he did it is the same way we will do it.”

The APC spokesman advised Obasanjo to adjust himself to the reality of an imminent defeat.

“He has carried himself about as the dispenser of our destiny and God is showing him clearly that he has just only been lucky,” he said.

“And the favour that God has done to him, he now considers as the things that are coming from him.

“I think it is time for him to smell the coffin, this election will come and it will be free and fair, APC does not have any reason to rig it.”

Issa-Onilu said the presidential debate missed by President Muhammadu Buhari was only important to those seeking power.

“The president does not have to give reason for now attending that debate,” he said.

“Let me reiterate like I have said earlier, the debate is just one of several platforms for our candidate to engage with the public. We pick the platforms that are impactful and we are the one to determine which one we want to use.

“Debate with who? That’s an insult. That the president will come and debate with who? The debate the president is having is what he did in Niger state – [Niger people] can look to a brighter future. The people of this country, everywhere they go they see development, they can see projects going on. So these are the debates that the president is already engaging with the public.

“That particular debate could be important and I think it is important to those seeking power not somebody who has has a lot speaking for him already.”


https://www.thecable.ng/apc-replies-obasanjo-after-feb-16-you-will-realise-youre-not-god

toliba1:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/acf-afenifere-ohanaeze-pandef-others-react-as-obasanjo-bombs-buhari-again/

agwom:
Governor Simon Bako Lalong of Plateau State has described the crowd that greeted President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Jos at the weekend as “the mother of all rallies.”

He said “the unprecedented” turnout was not the first time the people of the state showed love and support for President Buhari.

Daily Trust reports that thousands of supporters overwhelmed security agents at the Rwang Pam stadium, venue of the rally, preventing the president or any of the dignitaries from making a speech.

President Buhari only waved at his teeming supporters and an hour later, left the stadium through a rear exit. However, Lalong said in a live discussion on national television that the uncommon crowd was typical of Buhari’s visits to Plateau all the time.

“When he visited Plateau in 2011, he was unable to get out of the vehicle due to the mammoth crowd and could only wave at the people,” Lalong said.

“In 2014 when he came to campaign, the crowd was so overwhelming that a stampede unfortunately claimed three lives.

“The crowd had been expected because everywhere the president goes, a huge crowd followed him but what we witnessed in Jos was so overwhelming that people are now calling it the mother of all rallies,” the governor said. He stated that the chances of APC in the state were bright, especially since Saturday’s rally had attracted people from across the state irrespective of ethnic and party affiliations. He said his administration had done well in the last four years and therefore deserved reelection.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/mother-of-all-rallies-took-place-in-jos-lalong.html

Anambralstson:
PDP Local Govt by Local Govt. Campaign today at Tarauni local Govt. Kano State.

kaleam:
Yesterday 19th January was a great surprise for APC Bauchi, This is just one Local Government.

aminulive:
@POLITICSNGR

President Muhammadu Buhari, Sunday night replied former President Olusegun Obasanjo for attacking him and his government.

In a lengthy statement on Sunday, Obasanjo attacked President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration comparing it to that of the Abacha era.

Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, in a statement said: “The sixteen-page letter the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari and released this afternoon is the last push by desperate politicians who can’t handle the President politically and have resorted to subterfuge.

“Our first message to the former President is that he needs a good doctor for good treatment and to say to him, “Get well soon.”

“As repeatedly said of him, since Chief Obasanjo left office in 1979, he never let every succeeding leader of the country function freely, and this included the one he personally handpicked against all known rules drawn up by the party that put him in the office of the President. But Chief Obasanjo is jealous because President Buhari has more esteem than him and the sooner he learns to respect him the better.

“It is a notorious fact that in dealing with any leader that he failed to control, he resorted to these puerile attacks. As the grand patron, more correctly the grandfather of corruption as described by the National Assembly, Chief Obasanjo released today’s letter purely for the reason of rescuing his thriving corruption establishment.

“The elections starting in February will be free and fair as promised the nation and the international community by President Buhari.

“What Chief Obasanjo and his co-travelers in the PDP should expect is that from the outcome, we will teach them a political lesson that they will never forget. This margin will be much bigger than we had in 2015.

“Claims that President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have embarked on the president’s “self- succession project, by recruiting collation officers who are already awarding results based on their projects to actualise the perpetuation agenda, in which the people will not matter and the votes will not count” is not only utterly false, but a copious note from the book on the failed third term agenda of President Obasanjo.

“The man, President Buhari who has taken Nigeria’s reputation to a higher level internationally and is working hard to improve on the records of elections he found in place cannot descend to the level that Obasanjo has himself sunk.

“As for his attacks of the administration’s records in fighting corruption, what the former President said is no more than evidence that President Buhari’s war against corruption is succeeding. They thought it is all a joke.

“A leader who took USD 16 billion “upfront” to supply electric power yet failed to add a single megawatt to the national grid and to date, there is no trace of the money is jittery that he will be called to account. He is a coward.

“Chief Obasanjo, manifesting a confused state of mind blames President Buhari for the fall of Libya into a failed state and the unholy alliance between the Boko Haram terrorists and the ISIS, while at the same time calling it an African problem, saying “the struggle must be for all West African, Central African, North African and most East African States,” which really does not amount to saying anything new.

“Nigerians looked up to him as a role model and a ray of hope to ethical and clean leadership until President Yar’Adua called him out to explain what happened to the sixteen billion dollars of taxpayer’s money. It is clear that with him sitting on top of the heap of corruption, he is no different from the crowd he leads.

“This language of his 16-page letter, likening President Buhari to General Sani Abacha, a man he dreaded and the one who jailed him under military laws is most unfitting from a former President of Nigeria.

“The claim that President Buhari has put in place rigging machinery is both outlandish and outrageous. We are unable to get the words to describe a 90-year old liar, except to say that by the publication of this tissue of lies against the President, he Obasanjo, not the President will fall from everyone’s esteem.”

https://politicsngr.com/breaking-need-good-doctor-buhari-replies-obasanjo/
whern

dre11:
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/01/21/corruption-atiku-lists-30-accused-persons-working-for-buhari/amp/

Limitednow:
Source: https://politicstimesng.com/trader-moni-scheme-idiotic-obasanjo/

Limitednow:
Source: https://politicstimesng.com/trader-moni-scheme-idiotic-obasanjo/

iwayumeh:
NOT JUST ABOUT THE NEXT ELECTION BUT THE NEXT GENERATION.

On the 16th of February 2019, the war is all about the soul of this country Nigeria and make no mistake, your salvation is assured in the hands of Atiku Abubakar.

Last night the Presidential Debate took place which had the incumbent President Buhari missing in action and as such the candidate of the PDP and President to be come 16th Feburary 2019 also took a decision to pull out of the debate due to the absence of President Buhari.

The action of Atiku has been criticised by some and supported by some too.
For those who are student of Politics and History. You will agree with me that Atiku made a very good decision to withdraw from the debate since his major opponent was absent.

From my little experience and participation in politics I will categorically say that non of the 3 other candidates which includes Kingsley Moghalu, Fela Durotoye and Oby Ezekwesili can effectively and efficiently carry out their manifesto and deliver the promised change because they and their political party cannot execute a fraction of what they promised. They lack the muscle, structure and above all their political party isn't popular so there was no need for Atiku to waste his time after a 12 hours trip from the United States of America to debate with candidates who cannot win one complete local government out of the 774 local government in the general election. To me they are just mere distraction.

Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder. President Buhari doesn’t know his left from his right nor anything happening around him. Decisions on National issues are taken on his behalf, this is not propaganda; apart from the evident catastrophic outing of Wednesday last week during his interview section, his wife Aisha Buhari has openly told Nigerians that the cabals are in charge of the country.

February 16th isn't about the next election but the next generation .
It is about Nigeria. With all sense of decency, any vote you cast for Moghalu, Fela or Ezekwesili is a vote for Buhari. A vote you cast not for Atiku is a vote to mess up the lives of your children and generation unborn.

I know some will say I'm entitled to my opinion. But one thing is sure, a new Nigeria is possible and the best chance you and I stand is Atiku Abubakar of PDP.

Vote Atiku Abubakar to revive our Economy, Secure our land and Unite our People.

Asiwaju Prince Olatunji Olusoji Writes From Warri Delta State.

Muttee:
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has taken a swipe at former President Olusegun Obasanjo for accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of plotting to rig the coming presidential election.

Speaking at an interactive session with reporters in Abuja on Sunday, the APC National Publicity Secretary Lanre Issa-Onilu noted that the party has no reason to do so.

He explained that the allegation of plot to rig the poll was a mere imagination of the former president whom he alleged was afraid of his past.

Issa-Onilu said, “We can understand where the former president is coming from; his past is haunting him.”

“2003 and 2007 elections were nothing to write home about, those happened under former President Obasanjo. We all know how the elections went. So, for us in the APC, votes will count.”

The APC spokesman stressed that President Buhari has no reason to rig the election, having promised Nigerians that he would ensure the votes were free and fair.

He added that while the President’s work would speak for him at the poll, it was during former President Obasanjo’s administration that manipulation of the electoral process was alleged a norm.

Issa-Onilu further advised the former president to readjust himself to the reality of what he described as an imminent defeat.

“We are going to have a free, credible and fair election,” he insisted. “We have no reasons to want to rig election; our achievements speak for us.”

“Former President Obasanjo should adjust himself to the reality of imminent defeat that is staring him in the face.”

The APC spokesman made the comments hours after former President Obasanjo accused President Buhari of planning to rig the election scheduled to hold next month.

Obasanjo, who read out an open letter entitled “Point for Concern and Action” to reporters at his residence in Abeokuta, had also alleged that the nation was returning to the era of late General Sani Abacha.

He said President Buhari lacked the capacity to offer Nigeria what it really deserved at this moment.

https://all-gists..com/2019/01/Buharis-Achievements-Will-Speak-For-Him-APC-Replies-Obasanjo.html

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