I don't even want the endorsement of these groups. It sets a very bad precedent. When you seek endorsements of various groups, you become beholden to them.

Screw them all and screw their endorsements, imo.

Becomrichn:

Why, you dont like them.

Look I pity all this ijaw people. You can see Yorubas did not benefit from the oil money much. The truth has to be said. we have to some group are enjoying the money. And so they want the nation to remain one. but what is best for Nigerian, should be on people mind.

It is just extremely rude to post lots of pictures. Would you like it if I posted 1000 pictures of questionable relevance to this thread? It is annoying as hell.

Post URLs instead, that way people have the option of viewing the pictures if they want to. Far more polite.

If Ribadu steps down, 80%+ chance that Buhari wins. Only thing keeping GEJ afloat atm is Ribadu splitting the opposition votes.

Jesus Christ, can you please remove those pictures? Or change them to links rather than embedded images?

If they are not satisfied and are unwilling to take peaceful measures, then imo there should be a very harsh response. Violence must be met with even worse violence.

Mrs.Chima:

Just like a woman can be replaced because she can't cook (rolling eyes) a man can be replaced because he is broke or can't bleep.  Do we need to get grungy really? 

Just as I'd advise most women to learn to cook, I'd advise most dudes to get money and learn to f*** (at least, well enough to make your chick happy  ).

Pataki:

Bunch of fools!

Where were these dolts to detect the October 1 2010 bombing? Even when the rumor was all out towards a bombing, whom did the SSS pre-arrest? How did they solve the case?

Suddenly, they are good at detecting poisoning threats?

Foolish people I reiterate!

Well, it is easy to detect and preempt plots you yourself are either responsible for or are making up 

So don't be surprised if 100s of such plots are detected and courageously defeated over the next 3 weeks 

smh @ these women who want to abandon traditional responsibilities/duties. As the above poster indicates. . . keep ceding various responsibilities to others and don't be surprised if you aren't one day replaced  

Then these same women will by crying about how their dude swapped 'em out for a different model. . .

naijaking1:

You just don't understand
This is the best biscuit ever!.
Would you not rather eat one of these than waste your precious time walking around and trying to catch a glimpse of former dictator Buhari?

This biscuit was formulated not only to show you how to vote on the d-day, but it will cure your high blood pressure, diabetes, male impotency, and ulcer. Take one of these and you 'll have no need for viagra again!

Don't you want to use this opportunity to give your female partner a night to remember? You and your female friend(s) will be in such a good mood after eating just one piece of GEJ biscuit that you'll forget all your daily worries such as lack of electricity, water, or security.

Most of all it will help you forget other presidential candidates on the political terraine.

Eat one, and eat more, you'll be happy, very happy

What do these biscuits have in them? Sounds like magic! Or juju  

Fair enough. Looks like I'm outnumbered here. . . carry on

Sometimes better to take the high road

^-- Naija woman also rubbishing naija man 

For shame. . .

This sort of union isn't likely to work out well, imo

^-- Dude is just looking for a green card and a better life for himself. . . i don't see what that has got to do with "mampi"

smh @ this dude comparing aids or crime in Nigeria to that of SA. . .

RSA: Abeg, let this not descend into something ugly. I can very, very easily roast SA and its leadership, if you want. . .

Up to you how we play this game.

Most likely PDP agents, like the other ones arrested.

Such a confusing mess when a party is divided against itself. . . or even worse, engaging in silly plots to gather sympathy.

Hmm, hmm. I definitely did not catch this statement by GEJ at all.

Alj Uche:

Akabueze made it worse by lighting a fuse under the incendiary statement; for as everyone knows, instigation is a double-edged sword.   

Indeed. Instigation is a double-edged sword. Sometimes statements you make can come back and bite you in the @ss.

May everyone in the SW hear GEJs words and consider them and their meaning, and respond appropriately.

Maids are cheap in Nigeria, but cost a lot here. Most people upper-middle class and below don't have em.

Mrs.Chima:

I didn't say I didn't love cooking.  I said I can't boil egg and do not know how to cook.  If you was here, you would fall in love with take ordered food and never go back to it again.  

Lol. Eating ordered food all the times will
A) Make you obese
B) cost enormous amounts of money. Unless you are eating cheap-@ss, oily junk Chinese food all the time (no offense intended against Asians. . . just that is the only place I know of you can get meals for really cheap.)

I want to live a long, healthy life without heart disease. I also enjoy having a nice physique, and am not interested in getting fat So eating take out all the time is not an option.

When I graduate, sure, I'll be able to afford one.

But. . . why should I waste my hard-earned money on a woman who doesn't want to learn to cook?

Anyway, isn't a big deal for me. I've never dated a woman before who didn't coo kand have zero interest in women who cannot do this.

BTW, I'm not saying all of them were GREAT cooks (Lord knows that a couple of them, the food they made was barely edible), but they at least put in the effort and tried.

That imo isn't too much to ask for.

Kobojunkie:

The rowdy supporters, assuming that is what they are, need to be called to order by Buhari and his team.

Err, what? So if some Nigerian in Malaysia is locked up for cocaine, I need to call him to order?

What sense does that make?

People are only responsible for their own actions, not that of others. Not even that of their supporters. If some Republican blows up a building, I should point a finger at the GOP party leader

Very odd reasoning.

It would be an entirely different matter if one proved that Buhari hired/otherwise encouraged his supporters to commit crimes.

Gotta do what you gotta do to get papers. Cannot blame the dude

Smh @ not being able to boil an egg.

I was able to do this at age 5 

How can a grown adult not know how to boil an egg?

More importantly. . . how can a grown adult be too lazy to learn such a simple task? When cell phones first came out, you learned how to send text messages right? So why can't you learn how to cook? 

A lot of this is laziness/misguided feminism/"I'm too good or important to learn this" etc.

Cooking ain't rocket science.

President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign team yesterday asked the Independent National Electoral Commission to disqualify his main rival Muhammadu Buhari from participating in the April 9 presidential election over alleged violence by supporters of the Congress for Progressive Change.



Buhari’s supporters were reported to have ransacked a campaign office and pulled down billboards of the ruling People’s Democratic Party in Gombe last week. Earlier on, anti-Jonathan protests were also held in other places though it was not clear if the protesters were Buhari’s supporters or CPC members.



The Goodluck/Sambo Presidential Campaign Council in a statement yesterday in Abuja called on INEC and the security agencies “to invoke the relevant sections of the law and disqualify Buhari and his violent supporters from the 2011 elections.”


Director of research and strategy of the campaign council Mike Omeri said in the statement: “The violence unleashed on People’s Democratic Party (PDP) supporters in Sokoto, Kaduna, Kano, Nasarawa, Port Harcourt and Gombe by the CPC are ploys capable of truncating the democratic project Nigerians have laboured for over the years.”


He said the way the CPC supporters have been behaving during the campaign “is not how democracy should be practiced, violence or threat is not part of democracy. I think those who have no democratic credentials should have no business in this game.


“By now, Nigerians should know those who are the real enemies of democracy and the people. This is not the era of brute force. Nigerians must have a choice and a right to decide. This resort to violence and intimidation cannot win votes for them.”


Omeri alleged that some CPC supporters have threatened to kill him. “In the last five days, I have been inundated with strange phone calls and text messages threatening me not to speak or comment on anything involving General Buhari. One of the text messages came from phone number +2348035074163 warning ‘Mike you should think twice before you either write or say something on Buhari.’”


Two weeks ago, Omeri had accused General Buhari of involvement in the blast at a PDP rally in Suleja, Niger State, but he later retracted the accusations.


But Buhari’s campaign group yesterday denied inciting anyone to violence and dismissed the calls for his disqualification.


Spokesman for the CPC presidential candidate, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, said Buhari has only been asking Nigerians to vote and ensure that their votes were counted.


“All Buhari has been harping on is for the people to guard their votes and make sure that they are not tampered with. He is also calling on the security agencies to be fair and impartial in their jobs,” Odumakin said.


Also yesterday, another group affiliated to the Goodluck-Sambo campaign team, True Democracy Advocacy Network, called for the disqualification of the CPC and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) presidential candidate Nuhu Ribadu.


In a statement by its executive secretary David Onilede, the group said, “The same violent tone has been adopted by the ACN team of NuhuRibadu and Fola Adeola ably complimented by the rampaging rhetorics of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu. All have been unrepentantly preaching violence against the PDP apparatus and people.


“We hereby call on the INEC to disqualify Buhari and every other candidate guilty of inciting people to violence immediately. The provision of the recently signed Code of Conduct for Political Parties and their candidates is in full support of such a sanction. There should be no room for enemies of democracy.”

http://dailytrust.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13950:jonathans-team-wants-buhari-disqualified&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8

ALMUSTAQIM:

If CPC wins,

I foresee morals of all Nigerians being awkened (Just like we had during the Buhari-Idiagbon regime where even in the corner of your room, you dont want to do a wrong).
I foresee the 'WAI' being relunched (WAR AGAINST INDISCIPLINE).
I foresee Obasanjo decamping to the CPC.
I foresee Ribadu being co-opted into the Government probably heading the fight against corruption & indiscipline.

All nice things. . . but just as important is making sure electricity works in Nigeria. Fighting corruption is only part of the process, not all of it. If 4 years from now there is still no electricity, then whoever was in power utterly failed, in my opinion.

I'm not sold on BB, tbh. None of the options are very appealing. Just trying to decide which I dislike the least.

Most of the offending threads here:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?action=profile;u=645641;sa=showPosts

RSA:

The connection is the tendency of Nigerians to always be right,No one can argue with a Nigerian and win the argument.They're the most biggest,educated,intelligent and every thing.

If you come up with some ting new they'll tell you that 'we've been having it'

Interesting. So is it just SA blacks who are so resentful of Nigerians? I assume white/indians/asians/etc there don't have this complex?

Sun of god:

I dont see these elections as being between parties(PDP,ACN,APGA,CPC etc) but between people, their tribes and ideologies.

Lets stop decieving ourselves.

Blunt, but probably correct.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Can you imagine, PDP bombing, stoning and plotting against PDP?

Very interesting country, this Nigeria.

Perhaps the best course of action is to sweep both factions out and seek change.

I don't generally do this, but it seems sort of appropriate:
[quote="Mark 3"]
23 So Jesus called them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?
24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
26 And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come.
[/quote]

Learn whatever lessons you think best from the above