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Thanks for reminding us what they have tried to push to the back of our minds all these years. The blood of Abel will speak soonest than they realised.
I was brought up in the core north. Have a lot of Hausa/Fulani friends. The only people the Hausas respect are the Fulanis. They see every other tribes as inferior to them.
I pity our vice president and the Amaechis of this world. PMB can never confide in you. You are just one of those to be used to advance their Hausa/Fulani agenda.
The only true muslim to them are those from their tribe. The others are not true muslims. Most decisions that concern Nigeria are taken in the mosques and inner bedrooms where a non true muslim can not go.
The most hated are Christians.

Oh you don't know? They have been forced to declare Silva the winner. So election in Bayelsa is comleted with Silva scoring the highest number of votes and winning all the 8 lgas.

From the pictures I am seeing, that guy can not be less than 46. So I think he reduced his age instead of increasing.

He is in Lagos wiping Tinubu's ass and flushing his toilet! A real slave boy. Buhari does not trust him.

Govt of d dullards for the Hausa/Fulani by the clueless

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Nnamdi Kanu/IPOB - Vs- Shekau/Boko Haram/Fulani Herdsmen
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Let me start by throwing this question.
** If U are asked to choose a place and someone to have dinner with, what will be your choice?;
1- Aba, with Nnamdi Kanu
2- Maiduguri, with Shekau
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Take note, you will go on a road trip to your destination.
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Now, personally and presently, I don't like Nnamdi Kanu.
I used to like him for his dexterity in knowing what he "wants" and going to get it, Square on.
But his hate speech against my Yoruba tribe made me to start disliking him.
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I don't care what he calls Nigeria. Everyone can call Nigeria whatever and however they perceive they are being treated.
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But importantly, this note is to compare how a guy; "Kanu" who so far has only been "making mouth" and creating awareness for "independence" of Biafra, is being treated in comparison to how a set of people, who so far in the past 1yr have killed over 6,000 people, and till date, carry out deadly bombings almost on daily basis, taking more innocent lives, including our soldiers: Boko Haram
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Of all the so-called boko haram this-and-that kingpins being rumored to have been captured, how many have been paraded, charged and treated like real criminals that they are, the way Kanu is being treated?
Watching the video of his "Kanu" appearance in court yesterday and the way he was manhandled, proved that truly, Nigeria is a ZOO, as the guy says!
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Seeing Kanu in court yesterday, all I saw was a determined, harmless regular guy who just wants more attention for his people, before even talking of liberation, and bet me, a simple round-table sincere discussion with representatives of IPOB will end it.
But Presidential Stupidity and Governmental Gullibility of the buhari govt will not let them think to that level.
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Don't get it twisted, still. - I DON'T LIKE KANU for his hate speeches; That is wrong and unwarranted
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But I feel for the Nigerian presidency, which many have come to understand and see as "Brainless, Visionless and lacking Direction" to overlook;
>The blood-shedding activities of Fulani herdsmen, (of which buhari is Patron)
>The daily bombings and killing of innocent people by boko haram (both are armed sets of people),
And preferring to run and chase after a guy, who so far has not even killed a chicken, whose only weapon is a laptop with radio waves, while planning to negotiate with bloodsuckers, is nothing short of Presidential Stupidity and Governmental Gullibility
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Femi Fani Kayode has called for the secession of Yorubas and formation Oodua republic, same as some members of Afenifere.
Why have they not been arrested and charged with treason?
Again, this is nothing but; Presidential Stupidity and Governmental Gullibility of the buhari govt.
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105 soldiers killed, secretly buried-- Presidential Stupidity and Governmental Gullibility made them lie about it and cover it up.
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Boko haram rated deadly, ahead of ISIS-- Presidential Stupidity and Governmental Gullibility will not let them act or address it.
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And it won't be wrong to maintain what we have always said.-------- buhari IS THE SPIRITUAL FATHER OF BOKO HARAM!.

Facebook post on Wednesday 25 Nov 2015

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tpiadotcom:
you usually specialize in posting whatever you consider "news" @ op.

why the change in gear?

Well my brother, we are never the same. That is why our perspective on what we consider 'news' can never be the same. For your information nothing has changed. This is also what I consider 'news'.

I would rather be a non indigene student in RSUST, Port Harcourt and pay N82,000 than an indigenous student in AAU, Ekpoma and pay N143,000!

A teacher asked his students, 1+1= ?. A student stood up and said 4. A man passing by overhead the response, he shook his head and said: " they will kill us in this country. Everything has
increased, transport fare, fuel prices, foodstuff,beer... everything. Even 1+1 that used to be 2 has now gone up to 4...

After receiving N10,000.00 each this evening and disappointed how things turned out after the long drawn out negotiations, the long awaited counter protest has once again failed to materialize. The women leaders who received the cash and hollandis wrappers now have to convince other women to join the march tentatively now scheduled to hold on Monday. We will keep you updated. Stay tuned! .....

Because their brother is the one persecuting them.

It has just been revealed that confusion has hit the camp of Gov Adams as the women mobilised for the schedule counter protest have refused to bulge until they are properly compensated considering the huge sum appropriated for the protest. The women discovered that they were going to be short changed when the organisers said they will give them cash after the event. This dilemma arose as a result of the previous failed counter protest. As at 11am today, Wednesday 18th Nov 2015, the haggling is still on, hence protest March hasn't began...more information as we get it...

Abubakar Bala
On Sunday, November 8, 2015, some Sunday newspapers (for example, Vanguard p.7, Tribune frontpage, Nigerian Pilot frontpage) carried reports of the substance of a press conference addressed the previous day in Abuja by members of the South-South Elders Coalition For Justice. The press conference raised an alarm over a Draft Penetration Strategy Document prepared by the All Progressives Congress (APC), which outlines a series of measures that the party and its government would take in order to wrest control of a number of states, especially in the South-South zone.

The text of the Penetration Strategy document was subsequently published at pp. 9-11 of Nigerian Pilot of Monday, November 9, 2015. The document was originally available online at www.elombah.com. I have since taken notice that, considering its usually swift reactions to matters of this nature, especially one that alleges invidious plans by the party to line up institutions of state to realise an unwholesome agenda, the APC has not uttered a word of denial or rebuttal.


The leaked document is the public exposure of a growing thinking in influential circles of Nigeria’s ruling political party that the consolidation of the party’s victory in the 2015 general elections can be guaranteed only by a systematic and relentless expansionist agenda. By this thinking, the ruling party must strive to take control of some critical states that are currently governed by other political parties. The ruling party’s influential thinkers have surveyed the country’s geo-political map, and come to the realisation that the oil resource-bearing states are under the control of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the erstwhile ruling party. These states include Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom , and Abia.


How it reached the conclusion is uncertain. But the impression is gaining ground among the apparatchiks of the ruling party that their non-control of the oil-producing states enumerated above is a national security issue. My guess is that framing it as a national security issue is intended to mask the real intention, which is how to mobilise resources for, and triumph in the 2019 general elections. This is against the background of the role that Rivers State played in the formation, financing, and operation of the ruling party, whose electoral fortunes might have been impaired without a steady flow of resources for electoral contest not only at the national level, but in some states as well.


By formulating its partisan game-plan as a national security issue, there is justification in mobilizing all relevant institutions of state, as well as all arms of government, in addressing the “national security issue”. Thus, the planners in the ruling party seem to have identified the low-hanging fruits that can be quickly harvested. These low-hanging fruits can be seen in the outcome of the election petitions filed in the governorship elections in most states controlled by the PDP. In this wise, it is becoming obvious, even to the blind, how the Election Petition Tribunals are giving wildly differing judgments on petitions that have virtually similar facts.


While petitions filed by the governorship candidates of the PDP are being dismissed, those filed by candidates of the ruling party against PDP candidates are being upheld in a manner that leaves even the most broad-minded jurist flabbergasted. In this sense, we can see how, willy-nilly, the judicial arm of government has been somewhat co-opted into the ruling party’s expansionist agenda disguised as a national security concern. With the exception of Delta State, witness for instance the Tribunal judgments in the governorship election petitions in Akwa Ibom (where most of the results were annulled and a partial re-run ordered), and Rivers (where all the results were nullified and a total re-run ordered within 90 days).


An immediate reaction to the foregoing examples would be that they are decisions of courts of first instance, and that those who are dissatisfied with the outcome are entitled to appeal. The counterpoint here would be that the law is an ass. Appeal is highly technical, and at that level, a case already decided by a lower court is not reopened again with witnesses and evidence. In other words, an appeal is not a trial. Thus, an appeal can be lost on a technicality, as was the case with Emeka Ihedioha, the PDP candidate in the Imo governorship election, whose appeal to the Supreme Court was recently thrown out on a technicality, which sealed his fate.


In a treatise, “Nigeria: Why Change And How?” published at pp. 42-44 of the November 1, 2015 edition of Daily Trust (Sunday), Ambassador Babagana Kingibe dwelt on the foundational principles that should govern the new Administration set up by the ruling party. According to Kingibe, “The very notion of change in the context of the current national mantra implies the idea of dissatisfaction with what is, and the need to improve upon it or discard it.” He wrote further: “Irrespective of our individual constructions and expectations of the change we want to see in Nigeria, at the minimum, our starting point should surely be a commitment ‘to tame the power of the state and direct its activities towards ends regarded as legitimate by the people it serves, and to regularize the exercise of power under the rule of law’. That includes an end to impunity in official and personal conduct.”


What one can deduce from the planned expansionism by the ruling party is that its thinkers have been linear in their thinking, failing to take along other current and volatile occurrences in the country. Boko Haram has inflicted deep wounds on Nigeria, and the cost will be borne for years to come. Whether we see it as a joke, or merely the flight of fancy of a fringe group that does not have the support of the majority of the Igbo ethnic group, the Biafra idea is rising with protests swollen by larger numbers of demonstrators. It just might take one ugly incident to change the tone and colouration of the current pro-Biafra protests and then the country could be faced with a groundswell of agitation whose end result no one safely predict.


Besides, the South-South feels wounded by the turn of events following the 2015 general elections. They went out to vote, but they lost out, because the majority carries the day. Since of the advent of the new government, the trumpeting of corruption against the previous government has been perceived as persecution of their kith and kin, rather than a nation-wide cleansing.

It would reach a point, and we might begin to hear again that, after all, the resources come from their zone, and that they cannot be against their sons and daughters who served in the Federal Government. Here, the scenario reminds me of what happened in the case of the recently deceased Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha, former Governor of Bayelsa State, who was treated as an Izon hero, notwithstanding that he was impeached, tried, convicted and jailed for corruption, in addition to the seizure of some of his properties. If the people of the South-South perceive an onslaught by way of expansionism by the ruling political party, how would they react, considering that most are still now licking their wounds from the loss suffered during the presidential election of 2015?


For a number of reasons, the ruling party would need to apply the brakes, and rethink its options. Since 1999, Nigeria has never been a one-party state, and that is not about to change. Tried as they could, the PDP could never capture all 36 states. Expansionism as conceived by the new ruling party is the new synonym for capture, as the PDP used it when they were in power. It implies impunity, disdain for the rule of law, the summoning of state resources and institutions for an invidious end; it means ultimately subversion of the will of the people.

But it also sows seeds of anger and discord. If we are struggling to quench the Boko Haram fire, why start another fire in another zone? Can the ruling party in such circumstance deliver on its electoral promise of security, and jobs? Can the economy grow in conflict? Answers to these questions mean that Kingibe’s article quoted above takes on a whole new meaning, including the inherent responsibility of the ruling party to safeguard the nation by restraining abuse of power, in this case an expansionist agenda.


My final word on this matter is to leave some food for thought. In the 2003 elections, the PDP planned a sweep of the South–West states. Through a combination of guile and barefaced rigging, the PDP won the governorship election in all the states, except Lagos.

The PDP could have deployed similar tactics that saw to its success in other South-West states, but opted to apply the brakes, because on a cost-benefit analysis, the cost of trying to take control of Lagos was overwhelming. Some of those who were on either side at the time in 2003 are today in the same ruling party at the national level. Let them review the 2003 onslaught, and ask what lessons there are to learn today. If they are sincere, they would overrule the current thinkers of the ruling party, and ask them to back off from their dangerous expansionist game-plan.

Oshomhole used to talk sense before he married Lara. After the marriage, what you hear now is Lara's fart as the old man pound away. Of course, with the help of viagra!
I keep saying it: Edo is getting what they deserved. Every society gets the kind of rulers they deserve.

He is former prisoner officer. He was deceived into believing the Interior ministry was his. So he dressed the part and almost gave the president compliment.

gebest:
OP U BE BIG M-U-M-U, FOR GUDNES SAKE WERE IS D INSPR GENERAL OF POLICE FROM.

Oga mu-mu the inspector General was appointed by Jonathan. Any moment from now he will be dropped.

sandraokosun1:
dude forget ths talk, if u want to play politics you put ur all in it. Whats the essence of we in edo giving 50or 40% to pmb and more to pdp that won, edo was considered with the rest ss states. You give all like yoruba, hausa or igbo ss and stick with the consequences that doesnt mean oshomole isnt influenial, its a new government trying to form for the first time and those who gave all would be treated with priority in terms of appoinments nt development, as the years go by everybody would be carried along

To some extent, I agreed with you. If Edo gave 30% then how many did Cross River and Akwa Ibom gave that were given substantive ministers. He did not get up to 8% in these states. Oyegun and Oshomhole are been undermined. Quote me.

nickxtra:
Edo South, the Binis have to be glad having at least a Minster of state. The national Chairman of the party is also from Edo South Under PDP, ministers from Edo state were concentrated in Edo Central, no thanks to Tony Anenih.

What has the Binis having a national chairman translated to? Minister of state? Oyegun should learn to throw his weight around a bit. Tony Aneni as Bot chairman of PDP attracted works ministry to Edo. Aneni was the one that nominated Edo minister. Oyegun has not even nominated a single person in this government. To be national chairman of a ruling party is not a tea party. He is of no use to either the Binis or the Edos. He could not even fight for Pally Irase to be made a Speaker.

sandraokosun1:
u mean irase the 1st timer to lead a house as an experiment

Parry irase is not a first timer. He has been in the House since 2011. This is his second term.

The way some of you talk here goes to show you are children. No wonder the waillers called you masturbators. Only children and infantile adults masturbate. Amaechi is not in charge of aviation. Check the portfolio very well. Aviation is under a Katsina man. As for roads, ministry of works is in charge of roads. Transport is mainly water and railways.

Fashola is not in charge of power. That had been given to a Borno man as minister of state.

docadams:
Hmmmmmm.
A potential revenge tool to me if only Amechi is disposed to such.

Just wait for one of those days that wicked Wike boards a plane to wherever, and, then revoke the airline licence and landing right mid-air.

After all, Amechi was once grounded in Akure when the operational licence of Rivers state aircraft was revoked.

That is why the Aviation ministry was taken from him and given to Buhari brother from katsina state.

Amaechi is not in charge of Aviation. That has been given to a Katsina man as minister of state. He is only in charge of railway and water ways.

Phame:
Ehanire is indirectly the federal and state minister of health.

How, my brother? He is the deputy minister of Health. That is all Edo is worth! Despite the Oshomhole gra gra and Oyegun big air!

Its shameful that upon all the support Edo state gave to Buhari during the last election, the only portfolio the President can thank them with is minister of state, Health. In other words Edo got a minister without portfolio, according to Buhari. This is a state that produces the party national chairman, Oyegun and a self appointed government spokesman, Adams Oshomhoe.
Its shame on Oshomhole that celebratedBuhari victory with a musical concert that was transmitted live on television. Then a party national chairman, Odigie Oyegun, always smiling and happy because the power that be allowed you to be there as a figure head.
The president did not see you as important enough to be given a ministerial slot. The one Buhari picked on his own none of you could even influence a substantive ministerial portfolio for him.
Shame on you both.
Edo deserve more than a minister of state from an apc government it has supported to power.

Change2015:
Don't talk rubbish please. Nobody can trace what Igbinedion ever did in edo state apart from looting it with his father and siblings. Built industries.... I challenge you, name them here! At least those who live there will be able to verify as to the truth or lack thereof, of your statement.

My friend don't defend the indefensible. At least I know of the one in Ehor. In fact the Oshomhole govt you are defending did not deny the existence of these factories.

Jesusloveyou:
u hated him because of "Mr fix it" and i hate esan because of anene, d same anene collaborate with lucky, to dry up our lean resources for 8yrs, may God punish their family and generation

For the years of Oshomhole without Aneni what happen to the resources? At least with Aneni collaborating with Igbinedion to waste our lean resources, Igbinedion was able to build some industries. What has Oshomhole done with the fat resources we have received for more than seven years?

Osho Lara how market?

Oshiomhole’s Diatribe: Antics of A Drowning Man
I had for some reasons chosen to ignore the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and his tirades at my person, family and administration as former governor of Edo State.
My dignified silence is borne out of respect for the office of a governor which I also had the privilege to occupy for eight years and also the need to allow him concentrate with the business of governance for which he was elected by the good people of the state.
But most importantly, I feel joining issues with Oshiomhole would amount to dignifying him and his outbursts and lending credence to his bogus allegations.
However, his actions to say the least is laughable and utterances over this period portrays him as one not deserving of a respect due to a governor.
It is on the strength of this that I came to the conclusion that governor Oshiomhole having lost touch with the people owing to his anti- people polices is now trying to save his face by weeping up sentiments and chasing shadow rather than working for the people of the state.
His latest allegation published in virtually all the national dailies on Thursday, 5th November, 2015, where he alleged through his commissioners for information Loius Odion and his Commerce and Industry counterpart, Abdul Oroh that my administration siphoned the sum of $31 million from the state coffers to say the least, is laughable.
While I view all these as the antics of a drowning man, I wish to ask governor Oshiomhole why it took his government over seven years to uncover a fraud of this magnitude. Could it be that he has been in slumber all this while and has just woken up?
Nigerians know Oshiomhole and Edo people know better including his antics of trying people on the pages of newspaper. By alleging that my administration stole $31 million from Edo State government to establish a cement factory called “Avrant Cement Company”, Oshiomhole through his commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Abdul Oroh, labored to deceive Edo People to believe that I used state fund to build a cement factory for myself.
But his lies cannot go far as facts speak for themselves. In page 13 of 5th, November, 2015, the Vanguard newspaper quotes Oshiomhole’s commissioner for commerce and Industry, Abdul Oroh as saying, “The $31 million which was stolen for the transaction was designed clearly for criminal purpose. This project was called Avrant Cement company situated at Ekpe, near Ikpeshi in Akolo- Edo Local Government Area. The company was supposed to produce cement to take advantage of the large scale deposit of limestone in that part of the state. The company was registered as Abat Cement Company Limited and this Company had three shareholders. The Abat Cement Company had 75% Shares, Edo State government had 15% shares and 10% shares were reserved for other Nigerians”. Oroh went further by saying, “Although Edo State Government was given only 15% shares, 100% of the revenue invested in the company, $31 million, was taken from the account of Edo State Government….”
In a nutshell, Oshiomhole is trying to tell Edo people that I built a cement factory for myself using Edo State funds.
Oshiomhole’s aim and that of his cohorts with this skewed information is to weep-up sentiment as usual but unfortunately, he no longer enjoys the sympathy of Edo People neither is there any iota of truth in his claim.
I am gladdened that in an attempt to cast aspersions on my person, Oshiomhole through his aides enumerated various industries I established while serving as governor of Edo State but I challenge him to point to any industry or factory his administration has established for Edo people in the past seven years he has governed the State.
He alleged that my administration built and sold below cost price the Fruit Juice factory and the Solid Mineral Processing Company at Ehor and Ikpeshi respectively. My question here is, to what level has his government developed the Cassavita Factory at Uromi that was not sold.
My effort at establishing industries while I served as governor was driven purely by the desire to provide job opportunity to our teeming unemployed youths.
On the AVA Cement Company, for that is the true name of the company they are referring to, Oshiomhole claimed that I used Edo State $31 Million to execute the project to about 90%. And for his Information commissioner, the $31 million amounted to N7 Billion.
I challenge Oshiomhole to send an evaluation team to the factory and let us see what their findings would be.
As at 2006 when the AVA Cement Company project kicked off, the exchange rate for a dollar was about one hundred Naira per dollar, hence, $31 Million then amounted to about N3 Billion. So, if Edo State government invested N3 billion for a project that gulped well over N20 Billion, the question is, where did the balance N17 Billion come from? Oshiomhole and his commissioners will certainly not answer this question for fear of revealing the facts.
The Chinese partners who have 75% shares in the company provided the funds. It beats my imagination that a former Labour Leader like Oshiomhole could believe that N3 billion could build a cement factory of that Magnitude. I am not surprised though, because he has not invested a dime in industries since coming to power in 2008 and as such wouldn’t know the cost of establishing one.
I make these few clarifications to set the records straight and to remind Oshiomhole not to take my dignified silence for cowardice.
Moreover, the courts are open to him. Nigeria has gone past his stone age of sentencing people on the pages of Newspapers.

H. E Lucky N. Igbinedion

Oshomhole is as usual high on weed. He is trying to divert the attention of Edo people who are grumbling over his latest land tax. Else how do you explain the contradiction in his allegation. I am not holding fort for Igbinedion. But from what Oshomhole is saying about how the so called $31m was spent, it is crystal clear no money was stolen. Example, the cement factory was almost 90% completed with infrastructure in place. Which money was used to build it up to the 90%? The stolen $31m? The fruit juice factory was built for about N380m but was sold for N280m. Was it the balance of N100m that was stolen or what?
If Oshomhole had told us that this huge sum of money was borrowed by Igbinedion for those purposes but nothing was done, then one can begin to applaud him for trying to recover Edo's money. Even though we know some of the money Igbinedion stole was used to finance Oshomhole's election in 2007. Are you probing him now because he had fallen out with you?
Oshomhole what have you done with the billion you borrowed?

The chairman committee on Interior is headed by a Rivers senator : Senator Sekibo