₦airaland Forum

A-ZeD:
Oga lets, discuss issues
1)Do i need Maku to tell me if there is light in my house?
2)Do i need Maku to tell me if my street road is tarred?
3)Do i need Maku to tell me the security situation in my area?
4)Do i need Maku to tell me if the hospital in my area is good?
5)Do i need Maku to tell me the state of public schools and facilities in my Area?
6)Do i need Maku to tell me how much i buy fuel?

If your answers are No then please tell me w.t.f is the purpose of the GGT? I'd rather support a leader who backs out from a bad deal than one who supports it.

You got no point so am not gonna be surprised at this daft post. Commenting further means I will be honoring you with a reply. I have got something important doing but kindly follow the NGGTour, maybe it could cure your mind of hate

Demdem: Fool what issue? I dont discuss foolishness. If u insist u want my opinion on this same issue then go to my previous posts afterall this isn't the first thread on this issue on NL.
I see no hypocrisy here, instead what I see is ur inability to properly discern what transpired. From experience, shedding light for u is a waste of time.
Again I state that the tour is a wasteful and useless venture.

I insist there is hypocrisy. Infact at the highest level with Fashola. Oshiomohle's position may be partially understood though still not justifiable but fashola's stance is quite regrettable for obvious reasons. You can chose to huge a transformer if you can bear the fact that the propaganda of your benefactors are gradually coming to the fore.

Demdem: Foolish concept from maku ministry, useless and wasteful tour. Above all, an extremely daft retardeen.

You are the most daft reterdeem I have seen on nairaland. You ought to discuss issues rather than resort to insults and aggressiveness. Are you angry that the hypocrisy of your benefactors are being exposed? Nigerians will soon know who they are just as the Nigerian Union of Journalists have just discovered that they have been holding briefs for wolves in sheep clothings.

ACN governors are bunch of hypocrites. When Oshiomohle misfired, I suspected there was a gang up by the ACN against this tour. Reason being that the tour may also highlight the positive sides of the PDP led federal government. The truth be told ACN has enjoyed undue media propaganda, a situation a known friend who works for one of the print media confidently told me that it was a deliberate plot to checkmate the overbearing influence of the PDP and entrench competitiveness in the polity by helping ACN raise the bar. The ACN govt is getting this whole thing wrong because they also stand a chance to showcase their works except they got things they are hiding.
I was shocked at the revelations that the popular Ogbowo road and Akpakpava roads as well as other achievements in Edo state which Oshiomohle had since taken credit were executed by the federal government. This is the deceit of these people coupled with the imbalance in press reportage. I see why these ACN govs will do everything to frustrate this loud able projects which seek to dwell on development rather than the issue violence and political tussle between gladiators which our media have been awashed in recent times.

ACN governors are bunch of hypocrites. When Oshiomohle misfired, I suspected there was a gang up by the ACN against this tour. Reason being that the tour may also highlight the positive sides of the PDP led federal government. The truth be told ACN has enjoyed undue media propaganda, a situation a known friend who works for one of the print media confidently told me that it was a deliberate plot to checkmate the overbearing influence of the PDP and entrench competitiveness in the polity by helping ACN raise the bar. The ACN govt is getting this whole thing wrong because they also stand a chance to showcase their works except they got things they are hiding.
I was shocked at the revelations that the popular Ogbowo road and Akpakpava roads as well as other achievements in Edo state which Oshiomohle had since taken credit were executed by the federal government. This is the deceit of these people coupled with the imbalance in press reportage. I see why these ACN govs will do everything to frustrate this loud able projects which seek to dwell on development rather than the issue violence and political tussle between gladiators which our media have been awashed in recent times.

edo.girl:
Ofcourse it is a scam.

Otherwise, why does anyone need an army of over 100 officials in order to check whether a road construction is progressing. And remember, these officials/thieves/bandits will expect to lodge in the best hotels in the various State capitals. Massive waste of resources if you ask me. I commend the Governor who said 'No! not on my watch.'

I hope other ACN Governors refuse to be co-opted into this PDP fraud.

You are not more Edo than i . This our comrade is being in the news for nothing, and am ashamed for him. He has been a pioneer of good governance and accountability but i think some of his actions since he became the landlord of Dennis Osadebay house suggest contrary. Adams is an opportunist by all standard, wanting to shine with every little opportunity. He is said to have performed and had enjoyed the good will of the media but he should summit himself for strutiny by the same media and civil societies who have helped him to be who he is today if he has nothing to hide.

Eko Ile: Who and who is in this 419 partnership? Obviously, the governor of EDO is not art of it. And must the governors spend their taxpayers money to feed and lodge federal clowns junketing all over the country for nothing or to showcase projects that doesn't belong to them? You only witness rubbish like this with GEJ and his co-clowns

You must be very dull to have spew this comment defiling any iota of logic. If the ACN govs betray as usual, no problem it won't be the first they will be dancing shamelessly but the initiative should continue. He NUJ president reaffirmed yesterday that this is what they ordinarily should be doing regularly to entrench good governance and accountability and was full of praise for the information minister for making it easier for them. The president has at last challenged government for an open and unbiased assessment and strutiny by all after several months of propaganda of non performance by your paymasters and fellow gluttons like you and am so ashamed that you are now developing cold feet. Hypocrisy must come to an end.

Eko Ile:
Illiterate look here...

News media don't charge for common news reporting.

Why should they negotiate any amount and is it by force to participate in this scam and foolery? If you feel like traveling around the country on a stupid and 419 errand, look elsewhere for your your own funding? Na by force?


The thing is, these useless Nigerian ministers are nothing but dullards and illiterates like their dullard and illiterate president, they don't know anything talk less their jobs descriptions and responsibilities.

Shut up your unrefined mouth. What do you even know other than come under the obscurity of soc media to vent nonsense just for a stipend ? If your apologists continue in this manner, they would be heading for self destruct and this is just the beginning of their exposition. I have never liked ACN, neither am I impressed with PDP but I would rather stick with the devil I know making continuous effort to improve as the day progress than be deceived by hypocrites. A party whose tact and slogan has been sabotage and propaganda, certainly not what we need.

Now I know that this ACN government is a charade and have been surviving on media propaganda and the poor perception of Nigerians on the PDP. Why on earth should this party utter such unintelligent and vague argument of federal govt assembled team and Maku assessing projects he didn't award the contracts.when did the PDP or federal govt take over the control of the NUJ or the different civil society organisations including PRONACO? The truth is that ACN is afraid that their cosmetism and deceit could be unveiled through this tour why the jittery. Outside Kagis and to some minute extent Edo, other ACN states are performing abysmally .

You are one of those who misquote the media and people. The tour started today and only few projects were seen in Asaba and Oghara according to my source and monitor. How could the team have pronounced a judgement of performance on the governor when they have not assessed 20% of the state? It should be noted here that the purpose of this tour isn't to rate any government but to monitor the level of progress and development across the country as well as expedite contract performance by the various contractors of government projects. The citizen's forum is significant and unique in its own way of giving the locals and others the platform to express themselves. Another significant achievement of this tour is that it has put state governors, contractors and agencies on their toes to deliver on projects . This initiative should be sustained if we need a real change in Nigeria.

People should learn to be objective and truthful. I think Oshiomohle goofed this time. I watched the brief interview granted the NUJ president, Alhaji Garba, the special adviser to the president on project monitoring, Hon. Nmonye and the information minister this evening and these trio were of the opinion that the comrade governor might have been misquoted. Oshiomohle should stop being in the news for the wrong reasons.

Parddie: My dear friend. Why do we always miss issues here in Nigeria. Aren't these tourists federal government sponsored? Why must state governors provide further sponsorship for a programme that is totally federal in initiation and execution. Then ask yourself what do 120 people want to go to states to see or report. Ask yourself what will be the outcome of this exercise in policy formulation and implementation. The best that they need from any governor is a list of his projects and location , maybe a guide too and security, which they do not require the governor to provide anyway, because police is a federal controlled organization. A governor needs no tour to sit up, his re-election or need for control is enough motivation for performance. It is only when the visit is consequential that a governor will sit up. In this case, it is of no consequence. What gave you the impression that the information ministry did not also provide fund for this jamboree. Governance and followership in this country are too sentimental and bereft of ideas as well as direction. Tell me one single statement that has been made in any of this sessions that is a product of a deep sense of commitment to the collective good of all. Don't you know that the minister is only interested in keeping his job by appearing to be proactive and creative? I support the governor a million times over. He know his worth and what he has done. He is also aware, being a right and objective thinker and not an emotional wreck, that finds himself in an office of great opportunity and responsibility, that Maku's opinion,declaration, affirmation,recommendation, proclamation and view, cannot buy a ball of bean cake in the market behind his own house. So of what consequence is it elsewhere? If you don't know you cannot attain without opportunity, so we are all opportunist and Oshomohle has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that he is a man that can convert opportunity to reality. That is a critical requirement of a true man and success. Even judges give dissenting judgement in a judgement. The view of the majority carries the day, but it not binding on other judges with a contrary view. If the governors forum wants it, it is not binding on all governors. How many governors know what they are doing anyway?

My dear I am sorry for honoring you with a reply so late, it is because I have not been on nairaland since yesterday. Let me begin by humbly telling you that you are ignorant about the tour, the intent and composition. It is wrong and false to tag the NGGT a federal govt tourist project. For your information, this tour was approved by the National Econ,ic council and was further amended and approved by the Nigerian governor's forum, a position which the chairman of the forum re-affirmed when the team was in Rivers State. We are in a system of a participatory democracy. Irrespective of our political affiliation, we must be patroitic and play according to the rules. Even if Oshiomohle had expressed a dissenting voice to the tour but the fact that his argument was defeated and the tour was unanimously endorsed is why he should oblige. You don't go against emotion that has been won by the majority and superior argument as a parliamentarian just because you were against it , a position which Oshiomohle of all people should have known. Let me bring to your fore that Oshiomohle's argument of fed govt total sponsorship is fallacious and most dishonorable. The agreement between the governor's forum and the pioneers of the tour was a shared responsibility as requested by the team and if Edo State diesn't have the resources to accommodate and feed 120 delegates compriising of local and foreign media outfits, NGOs and civil society groups, then he should have approached and related to the minister politely instead of thes publicity stunts tended to steal the show, a trend he is famed for. But if I may ask, why has Edo state gone bankrupt because I know since after the governorship election, no new projects has been assigned and some others previously approved have been stalled. Could it be that the state treasury was used in executing the governor's re-election campaign?

These are all products of the transformation drive of the president, but haters will not oblige. The more painful of it is the fact tat some of these folks are enlightened enough to discern the truth but for the sake of pursuing a tribal agenda as well a being on a paid mission.

firmfoundation: [i][/i] H E Adams Oshimole has spoken well. that foolish man called Labaran Maku is just trying to steal govt moni. Go rest for Abuja why the visiting ?

When the daft speak, they exhume ignorance.. Smh!

Lovely piece. Deep thought

Gbawe: Nauseating but we should all realise that GEJ's press team is a reflection of his Presidency. What, for example, can be expected from Okupe who is a con man? Is it a coincidence that it is those totally lacking in conscience, like Omokri, who man the spin machinery of the GEJ government? We are simply witnessing what is expected for those who know and understand GEJ i.e a dishonest President surrounded by dishonesty.

We all know Jonathan pledged to serve one term to secure the help he needed at the time. No point belabouring that fact. These dishonest hacks should simply say nothing instead of trying to coerce other names into their fraudulent defence of conduct that exposes GEJ's lack of honour and moral uprightness.

You are notorious for talking way behind logic. Even if Jonathan signed fifteen of such agreements, it's still not binding on him to oblige their scheme because such an agreement was ibinitio illegal and the promise was not made to the Nigerian people. Are you now subscribing to politics of cabal?

brownlord: Oga follower think of the cost of this jamboree, weather tour or no tour do u need 120 people to carry out inspection? R u high, laptop number what are u?

My friend if u have notin to say just close that computer or drop that phone or whatever gadget u r using, mr follower

Follower kor disciples ni

You have displayed how empty you. Mr man I think you should have cared to know the composition of the tour team before criticising the number. I may even think that the number may not be enough to represent all the interest that will give nigerians fair reporting. All the major media houses both local and foreign, print and electronic media organisations, civil society organisation, govt officials and security personnel maybe present
Stop resorting to insult in your argument.

jagabanban: Once again, the issue of this thread has been taken out of context by most commenters. The issue is about using state funds to finance the tour NOT on the relevance or necessity of the tour. I think its the absolute prerogative of the governor to decide what to spend money on or not. He has chosen not to! "There should be no fighting in the church, at all". Say your prayers, and I say Amen or keep mute.

My bro, let's be factual, no govt is run in isolation. Oshiomohle's action if real will be ill perceived no matter the logic he may profer.Oshiomohle is a member of the national council of state and nigeria governors forum where this tour was discussed and endorsed. Agreed he may have had a dissenting view but as earlier said, it's about a superior argument and number. Since these bodies have taken a position, I expect Oshiomohle to play along and stop being in the news for controversy. He must also understand that he doesn't know it all. Accomodating, feeding and providing logistics for 120 people can't make Edo go bankrupt.

ballabriggs: Another scam by the minister of misinformation Liebaran Maku aka fura de nunu minister.

I talk am, this man Maku is the most criminally minded minister in Zona's government. I thought they said Labaran Maku spends only N5 million in each of the states, funded by the ministry of misinformation's budget, managed by the project accountant bla bla bla. How come Maku has been extorting each state of the federation?

This man is a rogue! So you take money from the Ministry's budget and then go for egunje from the States. For what? To continue his consumption of fura de nunu.

JONA FIRE MAKU NOW!!!

Who is this attention seeking individual? Please you don't make sense!

Oshomohle should stop playing a hero and act appropriately. The national good governance tour I learnt was a product of a consensus between the federal executive council and the governor's forum and I am surprised that my Oshomohle is now dancing a different tune even when his argument against the said tour didn't sail through at the forum. Democracy is a game of both number and superior argument and he( Oshomohle) was short of these two virtues when the issue was discussed before the tour was formally endorsed.
The agreement was a partnership between the federal and state. The state provides accommodation and feeding for the visiting team which comprises Nigerian union of journalists, civil society Organisations as well as government officials.
Despite the monetary involvement, I think the concept behind this tour is commendable. This is what our media houses ought to live up to by taking their time to do a thorough investigative journalism to ascertain what government at all levels are doing in the areas of infrastructural development. The citizens fora which I have watched so far had afforded many opportunity to air tbeir views and also to make contribution by way of informing the govt or suggestion on pertinent issues. Also, this tour will make many state governors to seat up, if regularized.
My humble advise is for the governor to play along if he had nothing to hide.. His position is most uncalled for and amount to being a betrayal. He is unnecessarily putting the state in the news for the wrong reasons but most unfortunately some may not see it this way that Oshomohle, though a good and a pragmatic leader, is an opportunist.

blacksta: Newspaper achievements

Anyway reality in my area " Cement price moved up by 50N from 1900N " in a month - Folks that is real economic data.

Newspaper achievement? Serious? But this same newspaper achievement would have sounded true to your ears had it been negative! .

Why should anybody be surprised at the level of ignorance that exhumes from this man called Aliyu Babangida? Why should Aliyu continuously vent his frustration and failure on the president and FG? If he has a personnal scores to settle, he should settle It amicably and save us of rhetorics. The last time I checked, there was no water in Suleja and environs. I would have expected Aliyu Babaginda to summit himself for legal scrutiny for failing in this important project rather than attempting to pass the bulk. The level of arrogance display by our governors(especially Amaechi and Babaginda Aliyu) are quite appalling.

A president who failed to sign a state of the Union address, who cannot provide the basic amenities for his people like electricity, water, and good roads, a President who could not provide security from kidnapping, ritual killings, and Boko Haram sponsors could not be prosecuted openly, not only that, a president that failed to understand the need to have state and City police, Mayoral system of government for the cities of Nigeria and also accused by El Rufai of drinking Ogogoro or Sapale water on duty when over 150 million people are asking for a good 21st Century leadership. should not even try to think of collecting the form for re-election because he will run away from debates since he cannot even sign state of the Union address law.

I highlighted the bolded to help promote the nuisance and distortion of facts by the OP. The problem with you bigots is that you chose to be intentionally stupid and dumb that you misrepresent facts with the aim of deceiving your likes and shallow minded Nigerians. I will ask you the following questions :
- when did state of the union address become a standard for good governance?
- What were the states of our power sector, water accessibility and roads before this administration and also be frank to list the efforts of the president so far in fixing these key sectors?
- Do you totally concur that the establishment of state police is a more fundamentally important project a sane government should embark on with this level of reasoning and tribal disenchantment among our people? How about the strengthening of our federal police while efforts are made towards promoting the unity of our people?
- How does a president who drinks ogogoro, who takes to cigarette smoking or even womanises affect performance?
You look to me as either a paid agent of ACN or CPC or APC or you are just a joke! Please may I advise you to get a life and be more useful to yourself.

emmatok: Soyinka mute?

Probably you were not in Nigeria during OBJ regime.

Lies.

You were probably living in the arctics hen OBasanjo was in power. The Yorubas including Soyinka kept mute in most part of his administration even in the face of misrule, why they were so quick to sell their birthright by backing the man from Ota for a second term in 2011. They became antagonistic after it had become clear that the man from Ota had deceived them into losing their territory to the PDP. I have stayed long enough with the Yorubas to understand their mentality but this time, we all know what each other knows

emmatok: You forget the the most critic of OBJ are the Yorubas.

Even when Festus Odimegwu was supporting him.

Stop being mischievous. I was conscious and politically enlightened enough to understand that the criticisms OBasanjo got from the south westerners were based on the control of the south western region not on performance. May I remember that wole Soyinka was mute in most part of Obasanjo's 8 years tenure?

Thank you @ OP. this is another conspiracy against the South South, before it was SouthEast and the SS were not discerning enough to understand though they now know better.
There is nothing this president will do that will appease these rabble grazers and tribal apologists who feel they are the epitome of knowledge and leadership even when it's so glaringly clear the difference their leadership and that of GEJ in just three Years has brought to governance. To set the re ord straight, GEJ 3 yrs is more rewarding in terms of civility, fairer electoral process, economic indices and infrastructural development compared to the duo of Obj and Yar Adua. Let's not e en talk about the northern military who dragged us down to almost a point of irredeemable loss but thanks for Gid's intervention.
Let's see how this surreptitious coup play out!!

This as usual will dwindle the popularity of the ruling government but one thing is that Ghanaians will be more objective in the analysis and response to the situation unlike Nigeria where the opposition will take a swipe on the situation to shine and misinform our people who are almost frustrated at several years of misrule. But I think Africans should be braze for economic revolution via reforms why we demand accountability from our leaders. No serious govt can sustain subsidizing premium motor spirit in this age of huge economic challenge and I am of the opinion that we must not always be negative about our leadership.

Bless God for your life. If nothing has been inferred from this incident but the fact of unpredictability of life hence need to live a sacrificial and God fearing life should be imbibed. However, said, let fools be playing politics with a serious issue as this and let bigger fools be dwelling in the past of presidential denial or not. Considering the circumstance of her ailment and the African culture and belief, it was pertinent to deny the obvious especially when saboteurs have leaked out a supposed in house family affairs. The most important thing is that God has delivered her from the jaws of death and dhe's greatful and thankful to her maker.

Which agreement are we talking here? Back door lame, informal arrangement that has no constitutional bearing or what? How does this affect the constitution of the federal republic and the eligibility of a candidate contesting elections as enshrined in the constitution. This move get to buttress the evil and cunniness of the northern governors who capitalized on the precarious situation of the president in the last general election to arm twist him into an Okija Like agreement. This desperate move by Aliyu and his clique is dead before arrival because the president like any other person is eligibly bound by the federal constitution to have a re- election and whatever, informal, verbal or written agreement he had with some persons are immaterial as far as good governance is concerned.

Their dad is humble, so the progeny should take after their dad.

CyberG: Mr. man, are you not proving yourself a retardeen by your blanket generalization? I don't speak for Yourbas but was Alao Akala, Bode George, Adedibu, etc praised then or now by majority of their people who are not part of PDP or benefiting from the corruption and high handedness of those people? Oh, was OBJ even supported by majority of his folks when he ran for president? Or was it not OBJ that schemed out then AD to take over states in his region for PDP thwarting their momentum? Yes, those folks are politically sophisticated, perhaps the most in Nigeria and they will never support a thief, vagabond or unworthy character! A visit to a state to Akwa Ibom/Rivers getting several billions more from oil derivation in a state with far less population than Lagos and on top of that you have been infused propaganda by the "good governance tour" of the PDP FG, now makes you an expert whose knowledge is god-like and should be unchallenged? You gotta be kidding, abeg park well!

Who has resorted to propaganda? Certainly you for now tagging the good governance tour a PDP FG's. You certainly need wake up from your slumber and better integrate yourselve into governance because if you want to wait for your frustrated rogues by the acronym APC( abandoned political cheats) to be in power before you keep a breast with happening in govt, then you may still spend another decade leaving the life of a sadist. I have come off my shell and am fully integrating and above parochial sentiments as you and your likes. As for performance, let it behoove on you that your Fashola enjoys media propaganda and it should be impressed on you that the likes of Ajimobi, Amosun and co are nothing but jokes. Let's not even talk of Al Makura who is a standard for failure and ineptitude. Talking of allocation and population? Do you tell this forum the net worth of lagos state per month? Allocation plus IGR? Also, do you tell this house that lagos state govt is building on an already established model and an infrastruturally endowed society compared to Akwa Ibom which just came from the ruins of a country home( village)? I think you guys are being too unfair and blind about the PDP and the FG.

gbola h: I pray fashola become the president of nigeria comes 2015.his the type of leader we need in this country,people should put aside sentiment n face the reaility of life.

Pls, can you tell me just five achievements of Fashola that has made him a Nigerian model? The problem with some of you is lack of exposure, gaskia! . I just left rivers state yesterday, I took on the opportunity of this national good governance tour to make an assessment of performance and I can say Amaechi is a gladiator and a pragmatic leader, though he may have his shortfalls. I have heard similar stuffs concerning Akpabio and some other few but can't still fantom what BRF had done other than policy which the workability is still probable for all these praise singing. Let me make it emphatically clear that am a lagosians to some extent so I am not speaking from an ignorant position. I am quite aware of the successes recorded in BRT, renovation of schools, Oshodi( my former hood), expansion of markets/ sighting of new ones etc. however, good these projects are but Nigerians deserve more.
One most annoying thing is the way you Yorubas praise your tribesmen to high heavens and always in the habit of discrediting others( I maybe wrong about your identity but this is true if Yorubas). That is a nasscistic personality disorder and it sucks. Whoever, emerges as presidential candidate of APC is my 2 cents, they may nt get my vote until I am convinced about their ideology