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EWOOOOO APC, LET ME CHILL I KNOW SOME1 WILL STILL BLAME GEJ FOR THIS

APC STILL IN CAMPAIGN MOOD. 7 MONTHS AFTER ELECTION NIGERIAN ECONOMY HAS BEEN DANCING REGGAE. APC ONLY ACHIEVEMENT IS BLAMING JONATHAN. EVEN BAYELSA ELECTION BLAME JONATHAN, FUEL SCARCITY BLAME JONATHAN, INCREASE UNEMPLOYMENT BLAME JONATHAN . I JUST PRAY APC IS ABLE TO FIX NIGERIA AS THEY PROMISE, BECAUSE 2019 WILL NOT BE FUNNY.

OK WE'VE HEARD YOU, PDP USED LOOTED FUNDS FOR CAMPAIGN FOR LAST ELECTION, PLEASE WHERE THE APC GET THE FUNDS IT ALSO USED FOR CAMPAIGN?

EasternLeopard:
I am a Christian


You talk like an illiterate

The military is wrong


You don't go around killing innocent civilians


Shame on the military

well said

Photo: Shi'a Solidarity Protest in front of Nigerian Embassy, London over #Zaria killings

FLASH: Radio France International is reporting that several Houses have been burnt down to Ashes in the Gyellesu area of #Zaria

Shi'a group in bauchi protesting this morning. Heard there is another protest in yobe also

GspotAngela:
Fighting BH is a kids play comapared to trying to wipe out Zakzaky and his movement

NA WA O, LIKE SOMEONE SAID. BOKO HARAM, SHIITE, IPOB AND TOMPOLO, HOW WILL OUR MILITARY FIGHT ALL, HMM. SIDDON LOOK

GEJ WAS ATTACKED TWO TIMES THIS YEAR IN THE NORTH, NOBODY WAS SHOT. ACCORDING TO NIGERIA ARMY COAS WAS ATTACKED AND THEY KILLED 7 NIGERIANS. HUMAN LIVES DON'T MATTER IN NIGERIA ANYMORE

AM WAITING FOR WHEN THEY WILL START BLAMING JONATHAN

ANOTHER BOKO HARAM IN THE MAKING

Ibraheem Al-Zakzaky (el-Zakzaky) is the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria. His movement has been highly critical of political corruption, the Nigerian-Israeli governmental relationships and intelligence sharing, Boko Haram and the relationship it has with facets of the Nigerian army, as well as other issues. The movement itself is heavily involved in educational and social programmes across Nigeria.


Last year at the annual pro-Palestine demonstrations some 40 people were shot and killed by an army unit, including 3 sons of Zakzaky. This is not the first time the movement has experienced violent suppression and abuses.


This week activists from the movement were killed in separate attacks. Today at the funeral of some of these in the Hussainiyah Baqiyatullah (Islamic Centre) in Zaria, an army unit approached and opened fire on unarmed mourners. Eyewitnesses report some 30 were killed.


At the time of writing there are reports that soldiers are advancing on the house of Al-Zakzaky, and that supporters have been forming a human shield to proetct the household. Reports state that 20 people from the human shield have been shot and killed by the military.


Latest information

Updated at 09.31 GMTÂÂÂ

Mallam Turi, one of the most senior members of the Islamic Movement, has been killed by the Nigerian military during the invasion of el-Zakzaky's house. ÂÂÂ The invasion is ongoing andÂÂÂ eyewitnessÂÂÂ state that theÂÂÂ militaryÂÂÂ have been firing and throwing explosive devices.


Updated at 06.39 GMT, 13 December 2015 - Army attacking Dar ul-Rahma (just outside Zaria), at least one person reported killed. ÂÂÂÂ Dar ul-Rahma is a centre in construction, as well as the burial place of the martyrs of last year's al-Quds Day.

Updated 05.00 GMT, 13 December 2015 - A full scale attack on the house of el-Zakzaky has been resumed. The front of the ISlamic Centre has been destroyed and troops have gone in.

Updated at 01.31 GMT, 13 December 2015 - Military storm Hussainiyyah Baqiyatullah

Updated at 01.18 MT, 13 December 2015 - Military thretaning to raid Islamic Centre; still advancing on Zakzaky home; scores killed ; demonstrations continuing across Nigeria, as well as London, UK, more scheduled for South East Asia today


Photos from London demonstration here

Suggested action
1.Call a flash protest outside the Nigerian High Commission / Embassy in your country. ÂÂÂÂÂÂ A protest has already taken place outside the Nigerian High Commission in London, UK.ÂÂÂÂÂÂ


2. Email / call the Foreign Office / Ministry of Foreign Affairs in your country demanding their immediate intervention to prevent these massacres and the attack on the house of al-Zakzaky. ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ UK campaigners can email fcocorrespondence@fco.gov.uk and call 020 7008 1500.


3. Call your major news stations (in the UK call the BBC) and ask them to send a reporter now.

You can WhatsApp the BBC on this number +447525900971


4. Please spread the word via email, social media etc.

5. Please call the Nigerian Embassy / High COmmission in your country and email them, demanding they halt this operation. ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ call them now. ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ Campaigners in the UK can call 0207 839 1244 and email via this linkÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ http://www.nigeriahc.org.uk/enquiries

6. ÂÂÂÂÂÂ Please pray.

For further information please follow the @ihrc twitter and Facebook pages, and the website. This page will be updated regularly.


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Islamic Human Rights Commission

PO Box 598

Wembley

HA9 7XH

United Kingdom


Telephone (+44) 20 8904 4222


Email: info@ihrc.org

Web: www.ihrc.org


Twitter @ihrc

http://ihrc.org.uk/activities/alerts/11586-urgent-alert-nigeria-army-advancing-on-house-of-muallim-ibraheem-al-zakzaky-

God Help us, I just hope this will not go the way of BH

banki:
Please when did fashola say that?

Are you guys not tired of all of these nonsense, construction workers have been out of jobs since January if you don't know,

Even the 2015 budget we knew funding for toad construction will be reduced drastically as some belt tightning movves

So how did buhari stop the contract...
What do you benefit from falsehood?

the information is every, u can also ask google if ure not satisfied

http://www.theheraldng.com/efcc-after-me-for-refusing-to-join-apc-tompolo/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter Na by force to be APC Member? God please we need your help

Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo has stated his own version of events citing political persecution and witch hunting as main reasons why the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recently declared him wanted. In an email sent to The Cable, an online news platform, Tompolo said his blatant and uncompromising refusal to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) and support its gubernatorial candidate, Timi Sylva, as reason he was being hounded by the EFCC. His email is reproduced below: “The real reason this All Progressive Congress (APC)-led government is after me is that I bluntly refused to join APC and to support their governorship candidate in Bayelsa state,” the statement read. “We cannot all be in APC. Our people have always believed in the Nigerian project and had always hoped to join hands with this administration to move this project forward, but the conditions being attached are not acceptable. “The threat to declare me wanted is an unnecessary attempt to heat up the polity. I will go about my daily business, usual. So if anyone tells you that Tompolo is on the run, tell him Tompolo is not going anywhere. “The impression being conveyed is that I was invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and I failed to honour the invitation or even respond by letter to the invitation. “On the contrary, nothing could be further from the truth. On the 24th of November 2015, I was informed at about 4pm that a letter of invitation had been dropped at my home in Warri, inviting me to EFCC’s office in Lagos by 10am on the 25th of November 2015. “I responded by a letter from my solicitors, Messrs Jakpa, Edoge & Co. The letter dated 25th of November 2015 was received by one Uduak Ouot, a staff of EFCC on the 3rd of December 2015, after several attempts to deliver. I have proof of delivery from the courier company. “I was therefore not a little surprised that the EFCC – an otherwise reputable institution – would stoop so low as to lie to Nigerians. “As my solicitor’s letter indicated I am already in court with the EFCC in Suit No: FHC/W/CS /152/2015. EFCC had been served with the court processes since 20th of October 2015 but they refused to attend court on several occasions, or to file any court papers, only to appear for the first time on 30th November 2015 without filing any court papers. They even asked for the matter to be adjourned to 17th December 2015, the date they are now inviting me to appear before them. “In fact, EFCC only invited me two months AFTER I sued them. In my Solicitor’s letter I informed them that as soon as the court decides one way or another, I would honour their invitation.” “As a full blooded Ijaw man and citizen of Nigeria, I have done everything in my power to follow the laws of Nigeria,” the statement read. “Since the amnesty declared in 2009 by late President Yar’ Adua I have strained myself to ensure that we all live in peace in this country. Those who think they can push us to war must rethink the necessity of such a war. “How can a law-abiding government declare a man wanted who is in the law courts with them? “They froze our business accounts since August 4th 2015, but we have not quarreled with anybody. We sued them to court; they refused to come to court. Now they are threatening to declare me wanted. “I know why they are after me. It is not the alleged multi-billion naira property transaction. Afterall, it went through due process and was approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC). And as such if there are any questions to answer, it is the people at the FEC, Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Federal Ministry of Lands and Survey, Federal Ministry of Transport, NIMASA, etc who approved the transaction that should be answering such questions. “We will continue to pursue our court case. “Finally, let me say this: if people can come from Sokoto, Katsina or Lagos to campaign in Bayelsa, why can’t I, a full blooded Ijaw man go to my Bayelsa to campaign? “I will only add this: let the will of the people of Bayelsa prevail. Nobody should attempt to force the outcome of the election. We have kept faith with our promise to Nigeria, we expect no less from this country.”

Nice one, don't mind our lazy journalist all they do these days is to listen to gossip, and also wait for Sahara reporters to feed them with lies. Mteww

APC Online thugs defended everything that is pro APC before and after election without thinking now reality has come on them, they don't even talk of reducing the price of PMS.

nusta:
APC played on the gullibility of many Nigerians and it worked. And now, they want to gag everyone with that anti-social media bill. Nigerians are in for a very long long thing!

GBAM

IdisuleOurOwn:
Illushi or Ulochi is a community situated along the River Niger. A community in Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State. The community is majorly populated by different ethnic groups such as ; Igbos, Ijaws, Ohrobos, Isokos, Hausas Nupes, Igalas /Ibajis, Esans and Ulochi.

The people (Ulochi) speaks a language that is mixed or lets say semblance with Igbo and Igala.
Some of their names are pronounced as; Ebele, Onuchi, Ojo'ka (Ojoka) Ufedo.

The place is famously known for its market which comprises of Agricultural produce such as yams (mainly), papper, potato, fish, cassava and the rest.

There is usually a conflict between the Ulochi people and the Esans to as who owns /control the community. The community, presently is on the verge of washing off due to water slidding.


Odumchi, Fulaman198, Bigfrancis21,FirstEva, Erunz, Mogidi any knowledge about this people?

I'VE HEARD OF THEM BEFORE,

Opinedecandid:
You seem not to have understood my sarcasm.

I'm on same page with u, but on this only o.

OK BRO,

themilanway:
It shall never be well with Jonathan and PDP.

LETS US ANALYZE WHO IT IS WELL WITH NOW, YOU OR JONATHAN. SINCE JONATHAN LEFT OFFICE HE HAS GAINED MORE RECOGNITION THAN MOST OF OUR PAST LEADERS. HIS IS NOW EVEN IN THE LEAGUE OR RENOWNED WORLD LEADERS LIKE NELSON MANDELA. BUT YOU AFTER VOTING SCAN CALLED CHANGE, YOU god, AJALA BUHARI HAVE BEEN JUNKETEERING. N1-$253, NO LIGHT, FUEL SCARCITY OVER A MONTH, INVESTORS DON'T HAVE TRUST IN OUR ECONOMY ANYMORE, UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASING. INFACT THIS WILL BE THE WORST CHRISTMAS SEASON, NIGERIANS WILL EVER WITNESS. NO WONDER VICTOR IKPEBA SAID, HE REGRETTED THE DAY HE VOTED THIS SCAM CALLED CHANGE

Jonathan constructed more roads than any other past president ~ Fashola
Did APC know the truth? Yes.

Did APC say the truth? No.

Do I blame them? No.

Who do I blame? Those that bought the cheap lies. They are the real enemies of progress, the 97% that must be avoided if one is to remain sane.

I know that President Goodluck Jonathan in the gas sector built more gas pipeline infrastructure than ALL PRESIDENTS OF NIGERIA FROM 1960 COMBINED! But hey, 97% wanted change and they got it.

– When Buhari incited fuel marketers to hoard fuel at the last days of Jonathan in office by claiming he doesn’t know what fuel subsidy is, I told all that cared to listen that it was a gang-up. I was called ‘sore loser’. Now fuel is everywhere, food dey nyafunyafu selling at the Utopian N45/Liter.

– When Ifeanyi Uba opened his capital oil tank-farm to break the gang up, Nigerians, especially from South West and North called him unprintable names, but at least he solved the problem. I told all who cares to listen that he who plans to kill the native doctor protecting him should first ensure that the witches after him are all dead. I told them that ‘who chop today go hungry tomorrow’. They called me sore loser and the loquacious fool at Abuja calling himself a pastor (Femi Adesina) branded Nigerians drawing attention to salient issues ‪#‎WailingWailers‬. Now can we change the name of this country to ‪#‎WailersCountry‬ in light of the fact that everyone is wailing?

– Shortly after elections, the refineries were roaring back to life in account of milestone Rehabilitation/TAM efforts that were now bearing fruits. They said it’s ‘bodi langweji‘. What did Buhari immediately commence to do after swearing in? Northernisation of NNPC. Make no mistakes about it, the southerners there are stooges of Northern interests. He demoralized personnel and bastardized procedures. I laughed. Where are the refineries today? Just under eight months, he destroyed that sector.

– When the NSE was reacting predictably to the bounce of a peaceful elections, they said bodi langweji has permeated that sector. Smart investors who knew what to expect (including me) dumped their stocks. Where is the Nigerian stock market today?

– When there was a surge in electricity supply immediately after the elections, I told them it was a combination of two things; 1) PHCN in connivance with APC was sabotaging the AVAILABLE power in the system, deliberately throwing people into darkness under GEJ and immediately turning on the switches after he was rigged out 2) The rainy season usually gives the hydroelectric power dams quite a boost. They called me a sore loser and pictures of frozen bottles of Coke littered the entire Facebook and Twitter. Hello my people, what happened the the power? Ate by rats?

– A certain demonic liar called Jack Obiyan broke the news that presidential fleet was about to be sold. Today, not only did Buhari categorically Coke out to deny that, he has spent N5.8 billion Naira in six months understandably maintaining those jets for his ajala the traveler’s jamboree to rogue nations like Iran and Afghanistan. All from an empty treasury! In comparison, for a whole year, GEJ spent only N1.4 billion maintaining SAME JETS! And people can’t see the monumental looting going on. What did they do to the jets that what should be spent in maintaining the fleet for 4 years was used in main ting it for just six months? HOW MANY WERE CONVERTED TO AIR AMBULANCES? Can Femi Adesina do an ‘I have posted a picture’ on the interior of these jets as they are CURRENTLY let’s see?

– The bulk of military equipment bought under the tail-end of GEJ’s tenure have been ‘stylishly’ handed over to Boko Haram and writhing the military right now, if you ‘ginger’ too much on Boko Haram issues, you will be set up for slaughtering. Ask the 105 soldiers murdered in cold blood.

– Salaries are to be cut, but foreign trips must continue.

– Every week, tens of thousands of jobs are lost.

– All telecommunication companies have been bullied into becoming ‘office extensions’ for DSS. Please don’t argue with me. MTN finally has played ball, reason the issue of fine is dying down.

– Biafra agitation has gotten to an all-time high on account of illegal detention of Nnamdi Kanu. A deadlier agitation for Oduduwa (which I shall wholeheartedly support if and when it starts) is lurking like a dangerous lion in the shadows.

– Salaries now come by 21st of every month.

– Dollar is approaching N1 Naira to $1 dollar.

In the midst of all these, Senate is launching SUGGESTION BOX with media pump and pageantry, and after Facebook training, they are now out to ban Facebook! I knew that Facebook training won’t end just like that. Blame the new anti-social media bill on that training: those bozos must have seen the frustration on social media during that training and knew that if they don’t don something, something go do them hence the bill. Consider that bill defensive/self preservation action.

If Nigerians don’t chase Buhari out of Aso Rock within the next twelve months, he will totally destroy them!

Nigerians, stop being deceived!

- See more at: http://www.thetrentonline.com/soundoff-how-apc-deceived-nigerians-against-goodluck-jonathan-details-9/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter#sthash.cDSk6242.dpuf

SLIDEwaxie:
you guys are jes losers. what is your problem sef?

this guy being election observer, giving notes and international speeches is now something u never heard before?

ask OBJ...he couldn't count the numbers of time he has done this shiit and still counting!

mtchewwwww

BAD BELLE IS ALLOWED, ABEG IS YOUR god BACK FROM THE OWAMBE WE TRAVELED TO

drshrewd:
Rising profile or disastrous end of a bloody looter
A president that betrayed the trust of his people, diverted billions of dollars that was meant for weapons to fight the insurgency on his campaign ______ to say the least this is crime against humanity and he aught to be tried in the ICC for soiling his hands with blood money nonsense


www.nairaland.com/attachments/2922896_gejcountinghislootstashedinsteelboxes_jpeg5232f314df6e13482adafce5eafb93fb

ABEG WHO GET INSECTICIDE, A PEST HAVE JUST BEING SPOTTED

MrScript:
Wow... GEJ.. We are solidly behind u sir...

he is my hero

melvinjames:
UN Secretary General in the making

you can say that again

BeeBeeOoh:
I'm just hear 2 hear our "Ajala The Traveller's Ass Lickers...

lolzzz they will soon arrive

It was Socrates who said that fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. For Shirley, only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust. For Johnson, to get a name can hap­pen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be bought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. Yet, for Shakespeare, men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. Despite the propaganda, lies, black­mail and conspiracy against him in an illiberal electoral contest; despite his “defeat” by his opponent in the March 28, 2015 presidential election, former President Goodluck Jonathan remains the toast of the free world. Since he handed over power to his assailants on May 29, 2015, his fame has been rising like a wild fire in the harmattan. He broke world record when on his birth­day last November, it was reported that over 50million people across the world sent him birthday greetings on Facebook. It is incredible but true.
Come Thursday January 21, 2016, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan will be hon­oured by the Diplomatic Circle in Geneva, Switzerland. He will be hon­oured for his sparkling democratic credentials and for “upholding human rights in Africa “, the first African Pres­ident to be so honoured. The Diplo­matic Circle, an enlightened group of diplomats globally, has also requested Dr. Jonathan to address the respected body during the event where he will be beamed by the international me­dia. Earlier in the year, a public policy organization on African affairs, the Af­rica Political and Economic Strategic Centre (AFRIPOL) had nominated Jonathan for the Nobel Peace Prize. If this is actualised next year, Jonathan would join avatars such as Bishop Des­mond Tutu and Dr.Nelson Mandela, to mention just a few, in the pantheon of the gods. If Emerson’s assertion that self-trust is the essence of heroism is anything to go by, is Jonathan far from being an international hero?
All over the world, people choose their heroes for different reasons. Some designate legendary creatures from every historical epoch and every field, such as Christopher Colum­bus, Florence Nightingale, Joan of Arc, Louis Pasteur, Alfred Nobel or even Napoleon Bonaparte. Yet, there are also those who believe that some heroes are unknown to the general public, their heroic deeds unrecog­nized but far from insignificant. These heroes include school aides, foster par­ents, security and medical personnel-all kinds of people who struggle, often against daunting odds, to make life better for others. As Victor Hugo said: “Life misfortunes, isolation, abandon­ment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than illustrious heroes”. In choosing former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as the reign­ing King of African Democracy, a suc­cessor to the famous Nelson Mandela of South Africa, this writer believes that, like every other hero, he is a hu­man being, with everything that it im­plies. I also believe that recognizing a hero-warts and all-makes it possible to become a hero and to encourage oth­ers to do the same.
In 1944, as Franklin Roosevelt was running for his fourth term as Presi­dent of the United States with World War 2 still raging, Harry Truman was nominated for the position of Vice President. Just eighty-two days into the new term, Roosevelt died. Shocked to his foundation, Truman said, “I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me”. No one ever thought he was equal to the task of replacing a beloved Commander-in -Chief. But Truman weathered the storm. So it was Truman who helped establish the United Nations, he negotiated the Ger­man surrender, attended the Potsdam Conference with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. It was also Harry Truman who made the contested de­cision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thereby ending the war. He it was who fought the first battles in the Cold War; established the Truman Doctrine, which opposed the Com­munist aggression; and backed the Marshal Plan. When asked who his hero was, this great American leader posited that his hero was no less a per­sonality than the Confederate General Robert. E. Lee, who was admired by a generation of Americans for being gra­cious in defeat.
Like Truman, Jonathan became President against all odds following the untimely death of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on May 5, 2010. He thus became the first Nigerian from the minority to assume such a position in a democratic dispensation on May 6, 2010 when he was sworn in. He ran and won the 2011 presidential election widely accepted locally and interna­tionally to be free and fair, the first mi­nority to be so elected in the history of Nigeria. He is from the minority Ijaw in the oil rich Niger Delta of Nigeria. Yet he has had a cult following by the Igbo who occupy the South Eastern fringe of the River Niger, second only to their Civil War leader, Dim Chuk­wuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu who died in 2011, and to whom a state burial was given by Jonathan. And like General Robert E. Lee, Truman’s ultimate hero, Jonathan conceded vic­tory and graciously accepted defeat through a heroic call to his opponent even before the announcement of the final result of the March 28, 2015 Presidential election in Nigeria. That singular act of statesmanship saved so many lives who would have been killed by ethnic and religious jingoists who see politics as a do-or-die affair and rulership of Nigeria as their birth right. These people never gave Jona­than a chance from the very first day he stepped in as Acting President be­cause they saw him as a stranger. Some of them even openly vowed that they would make the country ungoverna­ble for him; and they did. Yet, Jonathan succeeded in recording more ground-breaking achievements than most of his predecessors.
Indeed, when the time comes for historians to offer a kind of formal re­view of the Jonathan years in Nigeria, the task is likely to be morally compli­cated. Given the role the immediate past President played in the effort to extricate the country from the jaws of establishment political pythons most of whom had employed the services of a section of the media to annihilate his political career for daring to challenge them, an unbiased verdict might be difficult to come by. Yet, we fancy that beyond the diabolical antics of political opponents, there is a latent eagerness in the public mind to be done with an absolutely sadistic political witch-hunting to allow for a free reign of liberty, which may have more of it for the fulfillment of hope and restoration of dignity to our nation. For, the last six years of Jonathan in the saddle, if not greater than any other era which preceded it, certainly did secure for Ni­gerians some elements of freedom and liberty. Not only did Jonathan rebase the Nigerian economy to becoming the biggest in Africa, he rebased poli­tics in Nigeria to the fundament of a virile and an unfettered opposition, freedom of speech, of association and above all, the freedom for Nigerians to choose their leaders. What is more, no Nigerian, including his opponents who mistook his magnanimity and democratic temperament for clueless­ness can finger Jonathan in any case of political assassination which was the norm during Chief Olusegun Oba­sanjo’s misbegotten civilian dictator­ship.
In every democratic society the idi­osyncrasies and failures of presidents are as diverse as their accomplish­ments. Even in the United States of America from where we copied our Executive Presidential system of gov­ernment, where the President is as­sumed to be the most powerful man in the world, where almost all of their modern presidents have acted in what they believed to be the country’s best interests, most of them fell short of the challenges of an impossible job. There­fore, to treat the modern presidency to be a complete success story anywhere in the world, is to falsify the historical record. Even though Jonathan was blissfully unaware of the ultimate de­cline of the party system and the in­creasing importance or inevitability of the media in modern democracy, resulting in the rise of the role of the President as celebrity, he nonethe­less made remarkable strides in the annals of our political development. Consider: our mission since 1999 had been a fruitless one, for it had led to no positive growth in the political culture, to no unifying ideal for the Nigerian nation, and had generated no spark to kindle the fire of genuine progress and liberation. But Jonathan has brought all these self-inflicted negatives be­hind us by changing the course of our political engineering.
No president or head of state since our nationhood, could be more fun than Jonathan. No one more appeal­ing with impulses of irony, bravado, gentleness and vulnerability so curi­ously intermingled in his vivid but unassuming personality. As president of Nigeria, Jonathan held a promise as a symbol of the national emblem even in his disarming simplicity. Without necessarily being a strong man, Jonathan’s personal frailties or weaknesses, as the case may be, were an essential part of his strength. At crucial moments, he acted in the light of what he conceived to be the high­est interest of the nation as a whole: against party, against section, even against the will of his constituents. It is this intrinsic quality which has established his common nature and essential humanism. The unpopular traits common to rulers with mes­sianic impudence- egomaniac, un­trustworthiness, coarseness, mean of spirit, unforgiving, and I-know-it-all bravura- are very far from Jonathan. Yes, he was a neophyte or green horn in the gallery of power, but as a thor­ough bred ivory tower intellectual on the exalted throne, who had been a deputy governor, governor, Vice President, Acting President, and Presi­dent, he was not a mediocre. Rather, he learned fast on the job. His place is firmly secured in the pantheon of global political history. Such is the stuff heroism is made of.

http://authorityngr.com/2015/12/Goodluck-Jonathan-s-rising-profile/

saint047:
Bad news for APC

serious bad news

Opinedecandid:
We shall know who will laugh last.
It is obvious APC might have wished or better still sent that ruling.

you don hear scores, Akpabio don win o

drss:
why is dis news not on frontpage

i don't know. but they were quick to push that of sahara reporters to the front page