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How PDP and INEC rigged elections for Jonathan - Buhari
Written by elombah.com



The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) yesterday began its battle to upturn President Goodluck Jonathan’s victory at the April 16 presidential election. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s party filed a petition before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, just ahead of today’s deadline for submission of petitions. The CPC is asking for the nullification of results in 20 states where it said the election was rigged.
The states where the CPC is alleging substantial non-compliance with the Electoral Act and other irregularities are: Lagos, Bayelsa, Kaduna, Sokoto, Nasarawa, Kwara, Adamawa, Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Enugu and Cross River.
Others are: Rivers, Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Delta, Imo Anambra, Benue and Plateau states as well as the FCT.
In the petition anchored on two grounds and filed by Mr. Ebun Shofunde (SAN), Abubakar Malami (SAN) and Alasa Ismail, the CPC is asking the tribunal to set aside the presidential election and organise a fresh election between the CPC and the PDP.
The CPC also urges the tribunal to hold that Jonathan and his running mate, Namadi Sambo, were not duly elected by majority of lawful votes cast at the election.
The CPC accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of frustrating its efforts to file the petition. It claimed that all entreaties to get sensitive materials to use in arguing its case proved abortive.
In an exparte application filed last Friday, the CPC asked the tribunal to compel INEC to release certain sensitive materials used during the polls to it.
CPC National Chairman Prince Tony Momoh said yesterday in a statement that the party decided to go to the tribunal to point out that lapses observed before and during the elections "were not adequately addressed, if at all".

Meanwhile, elombah.com has obtained copy of the CPC petition to INEC rejecting the result of the presidential election as announced by Jega.

CPC PETITION ON 2011 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

21ST April, 2011
The Chairman
Independent National Electoral Commission
Zambesi Crescent, Maitama District
P. M. B. 0184, Garki
Abuja, FCT.
Dear Sir,

REJECTION OF THE RESULT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

We write further to our letter of objection dated the 18th of April to your good-selves to formally reject the declared result of the presidential election in its entirety because it is as unfair and unjust as it is a subversion of the popular will of the electorate.
In substantiation of the massive irregularities and blatant fraud that marred the credibility of the election, we provide below additional and better information that make it impossible for any legitimate government to be founded on the outcome of the exercise:
1. From BBC World News, 17th April 2011:
To win at the first round, a candidate needs at least 25% of the vote in two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states. According to regional results, Mr Jonathan has passed that threshold in at least 24 states. He polled 20.3m votes to the 10.4m cast for his nearest rival, General Muhammadu Buhari. In Akwa Ibom state, he was credited with winning 95% percent and in Anambra it was 99%. In his home state, Bayelsa, he took 99.63%. "Figures of 95% and above for one party suggest that these are fabricated figures and, personally, they worry me because they pose serious questions on the credibility of the election," Jibrin Ibrahim of the Centre for Democracy and Development told AFP news agency.”
…………………, BBC World News
2. From Sahara Reporters, New York, 17th April 2011:
Several sources said Anambra had been turned into a free rigging field for the Jonathan ticket. “The police and army have cordoned off polling booths all over Anaocha local government area, and PDP members are thumb printing ballots which INEC officials then sign and drop in as votes,” said a source. He added that agents representing the other parties had been offered bribes that are several times higher than their payments – and most of them were collaborating in the rigging. “There’s no more hope for this country,” said the source.
Meanwhile, Mr. Jonathan, who authorized the widespread rigging, was hypocritically proclaiming that today’s voting was free and free, adding that he had not interfered with officials of INEC.

3. In the PM news edition of April 16th, 2011:

“Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers state, South South Nigeria, has expressed disappointment at the low turnout of voters at his polling unit, which is Ward 8, Unit 14 at Utima, Ikwerre Local Government area, shortly after casting his vote, along with his wife, Judith. The governor who cast his vote at about 12.35pm also lauded the peaceful disposition of Rivers people and the diligence of the security personnel who had little job to do today” …This message came from the Chief Executive of a State where the percentage of voter turnout according to the final result was in excess of 76%!

4. Sample of complaints from accredited agents and members of the public to CPC Election Monitoring Center:
ABUJA
We received calls and text messages that many cars were seen driving out of the house of the FCT minister in 13 Gingiri Street, Garki Area 2 with stuffed ballot boxes…, Some of the text messages were forwarded to INEC’s hotline during the election on Saturday, the 16th of April 2011 – Evidence available on the handsets.
RIVERS
‘I was the first voter to arrive at polling unit and stayed until the ballots
were counted. Based on my observation there was a poor turn-out of voters and I
will estimate total number of voters at 250 - 300 maximum out of about 600 registered voters in the polling unit. I was accredited in 10
minutes (at 9:50am) and I voted in less than 5 minutes (at 2:00pm). This is to let you know how scanty the polling unit was’…This message came from the same state where the Governor had also lamented about low turnout in 3 above and where the percentage of voter turnout according to the final result was in excess of 76% as opposed to about 45% in this polling unit.
CROSS RIVER
‘Blue ink was provided for thumb print in our polling unit. However, when it came to counting, a majority of the PDP ballot papers had black ink as thumb-print.
The entire CPC ballot papers had thumb prints with blue ink as provided. The PO could not provide any explanation’.
ENUGU
‘Our conclusion on what transpired in Enugu State (and indeed the South East Zone) is allocation of votes to the PDP with 802,144 (98.5%) to Goodluck Jonathan and 3,753 (0.5%) to Muhammadu Buhari. Allocating 3,753 votes to CPC is not only ridiculous but goes to suggest that even we members of the party and our families did not vote in that election as we have over 50,000 members and supporters’.
BAYELSA
‘Due to poor turnout of voters in the South South and the connivance of the state and federal governments there was massive rigging to boost the number of votes for PDP, there is need for a thorough investigation of multiple votes to ascertain the actual votes casted in line with one man one vote promised by President Jonathan’.
NASARAWA
‘Shortage of ballot papers -
Duly accredited voters were deprived from voting because of insufficient ballot papers in a lot of polling units such as PU 25/08/07/037 in Lafia’.
GOMBE
‘Hon Magaji Doho in Kwami LGA had been apprehended with ballot papers.
Also in Bajoga, the DPO and INEC electoral officer were caught with ballot papers’.
BAUCHI
1. ‘In Missau and Azare LGA’s, thousands of accredited voters could not vote because of shortage of ballot papers’.
2. ‘There was stuffing of ballot boxes in the house of DR MUSA BABAYO’.
3. ‘In Bogoro LGA, ‘ballot stuffing is ongoing at DR JAMES LANDI’s house’.
JIGAWA
‘In Sule Tankarkar and Gumel Areas, Security Personnel stopped voters from getting to polling stations’.
TARABA
‘In Polling Unit no 007 in Lamurde Primary School, Sarking Dawaki Ward, Jaligo LGA, an INEC Staff was adopted by PDP thugs’.
KADUNA
‘In Sabon Tasha and Narayi both in Chukun LGA, agents of CPC were chased away from polling centers and the ballot boxes snatched by PDP thugs’.
AKWA IBOM
‘Elections were marred with all sorts of rigging imaginable and voter intimidation. Government officials arrived at polling units in company of police men and took ballot papers and ballot boxes away to undisclosed locations and stuff the ballot boxes with PDP votes. If nothing is done to curb this blatant abuse of the law, the guber elections will be an outright war in this State’.
DELTA
‘There were no result forms (Form EC 8a) in the polling unit PU: 10/22/08/002 and other polling units in the entire Uvwie LGA in Delta state. Corp members reported they were told to go back to the Secretariat to write the result.
Result in PU: 10/22/08/010 in Effurun-warri and Uwvie areas was written on a plain sheet. CPC agents protested at the Secretariat but they were ignored by INEC officials’.
5. On the 13th of April 2011, we were tipped off by good Samaritans about buses conveying millions of ballot papers for the Presidential elections from a private printing press - Tulip Press owned by a known PDP stalwart and a former gubernatorial candidate on PDP platform – Mallam Bello Gwandu for distribution to certain states. We promptly alerted the police and two suspects – Messrs Habila Stephen and Akinlolu Akinto were arrested and taken to Utako Police Station for questioning. The incident can be verified from the DPO of the station. Even though INEC subsequently disclosed that the printers were formally engaged by the Commission and the suspects were therefore released, we nonetheless remain concerned as the Chairman of INEC had publicly announced on the 2nd of April 2011 that the elections were being postponed on account of late arrival of election materials from overseas printers and there was clearly no indication then that local printers were engaged in the process. Could these ballot papers and or others printed locally have been the ones used to inflate the votes in favour of PDP?

6. On the 16th of April 2011, when voting for the presidential election was being conducted, we received yet again another tip off, this time from one of our monitoring agents, about a man that approached a polling unit in Wuse Zone 3 whilst carrying a bag suspected to contain election materials. The police officers on duty were alerted and the man was taken to the nearby police station. When questioned, he claimed to be a staff of INEC on duty and telephoned his supervisor for identification as he had no ID Card on him. The supervisor arrived and identified the suspect as an ad-hoc staff and himself as Richard Awolola – the Electoral Officer for AMAC with an INEC ID Card as a staff based in Nasarawa but on temporary assignment in Abuja. The suspect was then asked to empty the contents of his bag and it was found to contain a blank booklet of Form EC8B Presidential Election Collation at Ward level result sheets and another EC8B for the 9th of April National Assembly election; a copy of which is shown below as Exhibit 1.
EXIHIBIT 1:

Some of the pertinent questions from this incident are (1) How come under ‘Votes Received by Parties’ it is only in column 16 for PDP and in rows 11 to 19 that the figures were altered to inflate the number of votes? (2) How many other altered EC8B’s have been integrated into the final result? (3) Why was an ad-hoc staff without any ID card whatsoever in possession of a whole booklet of blank EC8B Presidential election result sheets; more so that Section 45(2) of the 2010 Electoral Act (as amended) stipulates that ‘the Polling Agents shall be present at the distribution of the election materials from the office to the polling booth’? (4) How many other blank result sheets were in circulation on that day and how many have been incorporated into the final result?
7. TABLE 1: A CASE OF RES IPSA LOQUITUR
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VOTERS REGISTER AND RESULTS
S/N STATE Electoral Register, A Total Votes, B Percent Turnout, C PDP SHARE, D CPC SHARE, E OTHERS,

1 Ekiti 764,726 262,698 34.35% 135,009 2,689 125,000
2 Lagos 6,108,069 1,943,671 31.8% 1,281,688 189,983 472,000
3 Ogun 1,941,170
546,831 28.2% 309,177 17,654 220,000
4 Ondo 1,616,091
487,266 30.2% 387,376 11,890 88,000
5 Osun 1,293,967
512,406 39.6% 188,409 6,997 317,000
6 Oyo 2,572,140
863,154 33.6% 484,758 2,396 286,000
TOTAL SW 14,296,163 4,616,026 32.96% 2,786,417 321,609 1,508,000

SOUTH-EAST
7 Abia 1,524,484 1,188,727 78% 99%= 1,175,984 3,743 9,000
8 Anambra 2,011,746
1,157,392 57.5% @99@ 99%=1,145,169 4,223 8,000
9 Ebonyi 1,050,534
505,617 48.1% 96%=480,592 1,025 24,000
10 Enugu 1,303,155
813,897 62.5% 99%=802,144 3,753 8,000
11 Imo 1,687,293
1,409,948 83.6% 98%=1,381,357 7,591 21,000
TOTAL SE 7,577,212 5,075,581 65.9% 4,985,246 20,335 70,000

SOUTH-SOUTH
12 Akwa Ibom 1,616,873
1,231,977 76.2% 95%=1,165,629 5,348 61,000
13 Bayelsa 591,870
506,652 85.6% 99.6%=504,811 691 1,150
14 C/River 1,148,486
725,884 63.2% 98%=709,382 4,002 12,500
15 Delta 2,032,191
1,408,811 69.3% 99%=1,378,851 8,960 11,000
16 Edo 1,655,776
619,968 37.4% 87%=542,173 17,795 60,000
17 Rivers 2,429,231
1,854,944 76.4% 98%=1,817,762 13,182 24,000
TOTAL SS 9,474,427 6,348,236 68% 6,118,608 49,978 169,650

NORTH-WEST
18 Jigawa 2,013,974
1,138,246 56.5% 419,252 58.2%=663,994 55,000
19 Kaduna 3,905,387 2,569,423 65.8% 1,190,179 52%=1,334,244 45,000
20 Kano 5,027,297 2,642,209 52.6% 440,666 61%=1,624,543 577,000
21 Katsina 3,126,898
1,638,311 52.4% 428,392 71%=1,163,919 46,000
22 Kebbi 1,638,308
923,651 56.4 369,198 54%=501,453 53,000
23 Sokoto 2,267,509
909,826 40% 309,057 59%=540,769 60,000
24 Zamfara 1,824,316
942,495 51.7% 238,980 66%=624,515 79,000
TOTAL NW 19,803,689 10,764,161 53.6% 3,395,724 6,453,437 915,000

NORTH-EAST
25 Adamawa 1,816,094 909,840 50.01% 508,314 38%= 344,526 57,000
26 Bauchi 2,523,614
1,609,613 63.8% 258,404 82%= 1,315,209 36,000
27 Borno 2,380,957
1,177,828 49.5% 207,075 77%= 909,763 61,000
28 Gombe 1,318,377
755,245 57.3% 290,347 60%= 459,898 5,000
29 Taraba 1,336,221
731,340 54.7% 451,354 35%= 257,986 22,000
30 Yobe 1,373,796
621,665 45.3% 117,128 54%= 337,537 167,000
TOTAL NE 10,749,059 5,805,531 53.4% 1,808,805 3,648,736 348,000

NORTH-CENTRAL
31 Benue 2,390,884
1,048,000 43.9% 694,776 109,680 244,000
32 Kogi 1,316,849
561,017 42.6% 399,816 132,201 29,000
33 Kwara 1,152,361
415,800 36.1% 268,243 83,603 64,000
34 Nasarawa 1,389,308
694,400 49.98% 408,997 278,390 7,000
35 Niger 2,175,421
992,000 45.6% 321,429 625,574 45,000
36 Plateau 2,259,194
1,411,000 62.5% 1,029,865 356,551 25,000
TOTAL NC 10,684,017 5,122,217 46.78% 3,123,126 1,585,999 414,000

FCT-ABUJA
37 FCT 943,473
398,020 42.2% 253,444 131,576 13,000

TOTAL COUNTRY 73,528,040 38,129,772 51.8% 253,444 131,576 13,000

Incontrovertible facts from this Analysis:
1. The national average turnout rate is about 52% and about 46% when the substantially above average turnout rate in the South South and South East zones is excluded. Why?
2. The average turnout rate in the South South and South East zones (without Ebonyi and Edo states) at 78% is 50% above the national average of about 52%. How come?
3. Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP got over 85% share of the valid votes cast in all the 11 states in the South South and South East zones, with 10 of the said states at 95% and above including 4 of the states at 99% and 1 at near perfect share of 99.6% in his home state. Thus, all the 11 states in the 2 zones had a red flag for being above the national average turnout rate and/or were above 85% threshold. Do ‘these figures of 95% and above for one party suggest that these are fabricated figures’ as aptly stated in 1 above by the BBC World News reporter, more so that 10 states are affected rather than the 3 states he identified?
4. General Buhari of the CPC (and indeed all other opposition candidates) had no single state with a combination of average turnout rate above the national average and share of valid votes in excess of 85%. Why only Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in NOT one, two or three but nine states?
5. The inevitable reasonable conclusion from the incontrovertible facts in 1 to 4 above is that no credible elections took place in the South South and South East zones and that those returns were basically concocted through fraudulent thumb printing and stuffing of ballot papers and/or that the results were deliberately falsified in favour of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP.

8. In spite of the case of res ipsa loquitur (a thing that speaks for itself) adduced in Table 1 above, additional and specific evidence of massive rigging is to be found in Table 2 below which is a summary of a sample of ward level collation results in Rivers State. The average turnout rate in the sample is 49%; which begs the question as to how the turnout in the declared result for the state metamorphosed into well over 76%?

TABLE 2: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION – COLLATION AT WARD LEVEL IN RIVERS STATE
S/N NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS TOTAL VOTES CAST % TURNOUT
0969006284 43,843 18,008 41%
0969006284 14,002 6,170 43%
0969006284 16,068 7,001 44%
0969006267 30,440 15,583 51%
0969006267 11,757 5,829 50%
0969006267 12,301 6,619 54%
0969006220 36,969 21,800 59%
TOTAL 165,380 81,010 49%

Please see Exhibit 2 below for source of data.

EXHIBIT 2:

9. Further to the specific evidence in support of lower voter turnout rate in Rivers State as shown in 8 above, additional concrete evidence in support of manipulated figures in Form EC8B is to be found in Exhibit 3 below in respect of the result for Cross River State. The fuzzy arithmetic contained therein is mind boggling, as the total number of registered voters in the ward at 6,031 transformed into 377,517 total valid votes. This could well have been an innocent error; but yet again, the ultimate beneficiary is Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP as he was awarded about 710,000 (98%) votes out of the total valid votes of 725,884. Does this make for a credible election?
EXHIBIT 3:

10. It is a trite principle that the law does not engage in trivial matters. Such that if the effect of the fabricated figures that had been proved beyond reasonable doubt in the South East and South South would not without more materially affect the final result, it would have been ignored and the declaration of Dr. Jonathan Goodluck as the winner would receive judicial affirmation. This is what makes it imperative to embark on a sensitivity analysis as contained in Table 3 below.

Thus, when the fabricated figures are deducted from the total result, General Muhammadu Buhari has the majority of votes; thereby precluding Dr. Goodluck Jonathan from being declared as the winner of the election. This fundamental principle was founded on the authority of the case of Omoboriowo v Ajasin (1984) SCNLR 1 at pages 108, 152-153 would drive home a nail struck clarification wherein Eso JSC said:- “Finally, once the figures are false, whether the falsification was done by the 2nd appellant or not, the fact remains that 1st appellant cannot and should not be elected on figures other than the majority of the votes cast at the election”; which ratio was applied by the Court of Appeal in the recent cases of Fayemi v Oni – CA/IL/EPT/GOV/1/10 and Aregbesola v Oyinlola – Appeal No: CA/1/EPT/GOV/02/2010.

TABLE 3: SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS ON EFFECT OF RESULTS FROM SS AND SE

Dr. GOODLUCK JONATHAN GEN. MUHAMMADU BUHARI
(A) DECLARED RESULT 22,495,187 12,214,853
(B) LESS VOTES CAST IN SS AND SE ZONES 11,103,854 70,313
(C) TOTAL ADJUSTED RESULT
C = (A-B) 11,391,333 12,144,540

CONCLUSION AND PRAYERS:
In our letter of objection dated the 18th of April, we had appealed that ‘you demand the ballot papers and result sheets as collated from these zones (South East and South South) for scrutiny in the interest of peace, prosperity, free, fair and credible election’ and ‘order for the cancellation of the results handed down from the South South and South East in the event the investigation revealed the alleged breaches’. The appeal was regarded as being impractical and accordingly ignored. The Commission then swiftly proceeded to declare seriously flawed result which can now be seen in the light of this submission to be nothing but a charade. In polling units where elections were held, they were seemingly free, fair and credible. But behind the scene, there were loads of massive fraudulent thumb printing and blatant manipulation of figures at the ward and local government collation centers.
The façade at the polling units must be unmasked for this election to be seen as the sham that it truly was. The integrity of elections is crucial for the survival of our nascent democracy as no legitimate government can be founded on a stolen mandate. We consider the subversion of the popular will to be the worst form of corruption that can befall any nation. It is on the strength of the struggle to save the heart and soul of our fatherland that we submit the following prayers for your urgent attention:
1. Please as a matter of utmost urgency take custody of all the election materials and make the ballot papers in support of the votes cast in the South South and the South East zones available for a representative sample of the thumb prints to be matched with the biometric based voters register by forensic experts. The same examination can be conducted in the North West and North East zones if only for the sake of good order. A sample of the result sheets at the ward and local government collation centers should also be examined by independent third party accountants;
2. If the ballot papers and or figures were found to have been substantially manipulated, the Commission should be bold enough to reverse its position on the declared result if only in the interest of peace and greater public good; and
3. Prosecute to the full extent of the law all those found to have played any significant role in once again bringing the credibility of the Commission into disrepute.

Respectfully submitted,
Yours sincerely,

National Chairman.

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@lagosshia

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always creating problem for urself on understanding.

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Girls are attracted to the unpredictability and dominance of bad boys.
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question
Hey,

A really quick question: I met this girl and I wussed the whole thing up. In just two short months, she's back with her old "bad boy" boyfriend, who she said paid her no attention. I smothered her with attention and was nice. So why can't I get her back?
responds
you're telling the story of my life. More specifically, the story of the "old" me, before I learned everything that I know, and now teach to other guys.

You see, for most of my life, I was the nicest of the nice guys. But after continuing along the same path -- and getting the same lousy results with women -- I realized something that literally changed everything for me. I realized that it's really the "bad boys" who do, in fact, attract the hot women.

Why?

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So, back to the "old" me.

I had a dilemma: I loved the idea of being successful with women, but I hated the idea of mistreating people, being mean to them, lying and misleading, and so on.

I mean, deep down, I want to be a good guy. So I decided that there must be a way to make this work -- to attract women like a "bad boy" without being an abusive, lying jerk. And, after spending years learning from the naturals -- men whose success with women seems absolutely effortless -- the good news hit me.

There is a way to make this work, but it would require that I set aside my current ideas just long enough to entertain some new ones. When I learned to do this (as you must), I discovered I really could have the best of both worlds: I could be nice to women on my own terms, and also give them what they really want and what really attracts them.

You with me?

My realization was that women don't choose who they feel attracted to. It's something that just happens -- an emotional response to certain things men say and do.

In other words, women don't choose to feel the emotion called "attraction" for jerks any more than you choose to feel the emotion called attraction for beautiful women. Sure, some women do feel attraction for extremely handsome men, but it's been proven that they feel a much stronger attraction to specific personality traits and behaviors than they do for physical looks.

So what is it about the "bad boy" that creates this powerful, uncontrollable attraction in women?

Let me answer first by telling you what it’s not.

It's not that women are attracted to the abusive, mean, negative part of the "bad boy” personality. I think that these jerks just happen to also possess several associated, attractive qualities that are so powerful they literally make women blind to the abuse. Women rationalize away and excuse the abusive behavior because they want these other qualities so badly: unpredictability, uncontrollability, challenging dominance.

When presented correctly, they trigger the natural attraction mechanism inside of women. And "bad boys" have taken these natural qualities that are so attractive to women and made an art out of them.

But what does this mean to you, JT?

David D. explains how nice guys can pull off that bad boy charm next.


I often recommend coming at this like a substance abuse problem."

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Awesome.
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Hi,

I downloaded your e-book a little over a month ago, have read it a few times, and I must say it has definitely made me want to change my approach to meeting women.

I'm naturally funny and sarcastic except when it comes to beautiful women. Then I am a pretty shy, wussy guy. I really need to change that. Any advice to avoid having my suppressed wussiness peek through? Thanks, you are the man!


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Excellent timing, Chris. This really relates to the bad boy question above, so this is a great time to answer it.

Listen, so many guys tell themselves that, if women aren't attracted to Wussies, then why do they accept invitations to dinner, gifts, flowers, and attention from wussy guys, only to reject them later on?

Well, let's think about this:

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3- If a woman doesn't have anything going on at all, dinner with a Wussy (and a constant stream of compliments and attention) is better than nothing.

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So, Chris, what can you do to keep your inner Wuss from peeking through?

I often recommend coming at this like a substance abuse problem. The first step is admitting that you've been acting like a Wuss, accepting yourself as you are and making a commitment to yourself to improve from here on out.

You need to learn how to evict your inner Wuss and get down to the business of learning how to create attraction in a woman. It's not magic, and it's not voodoo. It doesn’t require looks or money. And I've proven time and again that almost any man can learn how to do it.

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@ dis guy, this topic was posted 1 year two months ago, that was when saraki the father and gbemi has not left pdp for ACPN, that was when Bukola saraki as not presented his own candidate.

everything stated in this thread as come to pass just as the writer predicted.


it was all a game plan. gbemi will be given another federal appointment and u still think she looses?

if you still think saraki the father looses, by successfully making his son the godson/father after him,replacing his sister as senator,giving the sister either ministerial, or ambassador appointment,succesfully fixing all the state house of assembly members.

if that means loosing, then u re on ur own.

For a Muslim male to marry a female from the people of the book (christian) is permissible

The Quran in Sura 5:5 says:

. . . Likewise you are permitted to marry chaste believing women [Muslims] or chaste women among the people who were given the Scripture [Jews and Christians] . . . . (Maududi, vol. 1, p. 427)

This verse, as noted, says that Islam permits Muslim men to marry non-Muslim women who are Christians and Jews, but a Jewish or Christian man may not marry a Muslim woman.

It's permissible but it's deemed as makruh tahriman outside Dar al-Islam; i.e. the marriage woudl be sinful, but would still be valid.
[Hanafi Madhhab ruling]

The Holy Qur’an has placed no restriction if a Muslim man wants to marry a Christian lady. It however has commanded the believers not to marry anyone who associates other partners or deities with God (polytheists) as He is one and alone nor should the believers marry any convicted criminal of adultery. Apart from these two restrictions, the Shari‘ah (Law of God) has placed no restriction on marriage contracts of the believers.
However, this does not mean that we should not use our sense and reason to choose the person we intend to marry. Indeed, there are many things involved that must be considered before a couple decides to get married. The foremost factor is that there should be harmony between both in terms of their financial status and religious set up. Religion is not a trivial matter to be ignored while choosing your prospective husband. Marriage means that two persons are going to live together for the rest of their lives. Do you think that there would be no conflict on religious issues? What about the children that God will bless you with? What religion would they be taught? You may think that such matters are of less importance to modern minds. But I assure you that these matters will of be concern to you both once you come out of the euphoria that people experience before marriage.
As for your saying ‘Does the Qur'an say that the Christian women have to convert to Islam and gain knowledge about it to marry the Muslim men?’, I would like to tell you that the Holy Qur’an does not hold religion as a matter of petty importance. Why would Qur’an ask a lady to renounce her religion for some mortal man? Religion is something very personal in nature. It is a deep relationship — a connection more strong than the one which is established between a man and his wife. It is about God and His servants; it is about God and you. There is no man between you and Him. You accept Him on a very personal basis; you surrender before Him of your own accord. Did you know that Islam gives so much respect to Christians because of the fact that they believe in one God? The bitterest thing is however that they have devised ‘Three’ for the One that is alone and devoid of any partner whosoever. He is One and is the Creator and Master of all humans. Islam calls all the Christians to accept the fact that was also propagated by Jesus (sws) as the Lord is One. What I wish to say is that religion is something that should be chosen with a serious mind and after appreciating the value of the specific teachings that this religion promotes. Islam does not force people to convert. It is the truth that every willing person is welcome to embrace.

And Allah knows best.

@lagos shia, do not make impermissible what the prophet made permissible. u may advice people not to do it not because it i not permissible,but because it as some negative impact on the children.

For a Muslim male to marry a female from the people of the book (christian) is permissible

The Quran in Sura 5:5 says:

. . . Likewise you are permitted to marry chaste believing women [Muslims] or chaste women among the people who were given the Scripture [Jews and Christians] . . . . (Maududi, vol. 1, p. 427)

This verse, as noted, says that Islam permits Muslim men to marry non-Muslim women who are Christians and Jews, but a Jewish or Christian man may not marry a Muslim woman.

It's permissible but it's deemed as makruh tahriman outside Dar al-Islam; i.e. the marriage woudl be sinful, but would still be valid.
[Hanafi Madhhab ruling]

The Holy Qur’an has placed no restriction if a Muslim man wants to marry a Christian lady. It however has commanded the believers not to marry anyone who associates other partners or deities with God (polytheists) as He is one and alone nor should the believers marry any convicted criminal of adultery. Apart from these two restrictions, the Shari‘ah (Law of God) has placed no restriction on marriage contracts of the believers.
However, this does not mean that we should not use our sense and reason to choose the person we intend to marry. Indeed, there are many things involved that must be considered before a couple decides to get married. The foremost factor is that there should be harmony between both in terms of their financial status and religious set up. Religion is not a trivial matter to be ignored while choosing your prospective husband. Marriage means that two persons are going to live together for the rest of their lives. Do you think that there would be no conflict on religious issues? What about the children that God will bless you with? What religion would they be taught? You may think that such matters are of less importance to modern minds. But I assure you that these matters will of be concern to you both once you come out of the euphoria that people experience before marriage.
As for your saying ‘Does the Qur'an say that the Christian women have to convert to Islam and gain knowledge about it to marry the Muslim men?’, I would like to tell you that the Holy Qur’an does not hold religion as a matter of petty importance. Why would Qur’an ask a lady to renounce her religion for some mortal man? Religion is something very personal in nature. It is a deep relationship — a connection more strong than the one which is established between a man and his wife. It is about God and His servants; it is about God and you. There is no man between you and Him. You accept Him on a very personal basis; you surrender before Him of your own accord. Did you know that Islam gives so much respect to Christians because of the fact that they believe in one God? The bitterest thing is however that they have devised ‘Three’ for the One that is alone and devoid of any partner whosoever. He is One and is the Creator and Master of all humans. Islam calls all the Christians to accept the fact that was also propagated by Jesus (sws) as the Lord is One. What I wish to say is that religion is something that should be chosen with a serious mind and after appreciating the value of the specific teachings that this religion promotes. Islam does not force people to convert. It is the truth that every willing person is welcome to embrace.

And Allah knows best.

@lagos shia, do not make impermissible what the prophet made permissible. u may advice people not to do it not because it i not permissible,but because it as some negative impact on the children.

fulfilled

On February 15,2010, a nairalander with id bilms wrote in his thread: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-398434.0.html.

quoting from his thread


The secrete agenda

I sense some conspiracy here, because from my understanding of this situation, I believe The godfather Olusola saraki is willing to continue is dominance on the people of kwara state by transferring the godfather-ism to his son ( the current Governor Bukola saraki).

both of them try to create this confusion for easy transfer of power.

The people of kwara are determined to serve Olusola Saraki to death, but he wants his dominance to extend beyond him alone,but to his generation on born. So he decided to create a scenario that will enable his son to demonstrate to the people that he his equally capable of leading the state.
The scene

(Olusola saraki named his daughter Gbemi Saraki as his next Governorship candidate and his son Bukola Sarki is opposing his father publicly. This scene will result to contention between father and the son because from all indications, Governor bukola saraki will nominate his own Governorship candidate that will contest with that of his father.

Because the people dislike the candidate of the Father, they will go for the son's candidate and this will mean that Governor Bukola nominated a candidate and he won.)

Now the prophecy fulfilled.

Bukola Saraki's candidate as won as predicted by this person and the future of kwara in question.

what do u think?

good one

Is this an authentic letter?

See the original letter for youself protected by the chritians in the monastery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0SsRmC6O5k

Is this an authentic letter?

See the original letter for youself protected by the chritians in the monastery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0SsRmC6O5k

Is this an authentic letter?

See the original letter for youself protected by the chritians in the monastery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0SsRmC6O5k

If you don’t know Isolate Arafada, I wonder where you have been LOL. Years back when “Gongo Aso” album came out, Isolate dissed 9ice on a remake of “Photocopy” and caught some buzz for himself.

Born Akano Oluwadamilare Adetutu hails from Ogbomosho. Isolate signed his 1st recording deal with Mo’BB Entertainment. He recorded a hit single “Ara” under the label. This songwriter, actor, innovator and singer conveys his musical message through the use of Yoruba language. Isolate has been inspired by the likes of Epo Akara, Haruna Ishola, Baba Ara, Jimmy Cliff and Wyclef Jean. If you think 9ice is the only artiste that makes use of proverbs in his songs, Isolate is another.

He has featured in a lot tracks including the late dagrin’s hit song Gboro. He just dropped his debut album titled The Secret Arafada Vol. 1 , and I decided to give him some shine to those that haven’t heard of him before. Here are three tracks, So-bosun, the track he replied to 9ice years back to one of his tracks “photocopy” and “igo kan” and “Everyday.” I’m sure you are going to love this. (You’ll enjoy it better if you understand yoruba)

Enjoy and share your thoughts…….

Sobosun…,

http://www.jaguda.com/2011/04/07/bubbling-under-isolate-arafada-sobosun-everyday-igo-kan/

Tinubu is a Traitor to the Yoruba cause PDF Print E-mail
Written by Rotimi Fashakin
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The unfortunate thing is we do not do 'validity' test on the people we want to give our trust. For instance the man that is at the apogee of Nigeria's judiciary was once a classmate of GMB at a military academy in UK. He was expelled and deported back to Nigeria for cheating on an exercise. He later read law and now, at the head of the judiciary. So we see why our courts have become citadels of institutionalized corruption.
The same with BAT(bola ahmed tinubu). After the military govt of Gen Sani Abacha sacked the short-lived 3rd republic, he wanted to be the deputy gov in lagos state.
Later when that was not to be, he pruned down his ambition to being a commissioner. When that was aborted, he teamed up with NADECO! Only God knows how many trips he made to the ikoyi crescent residence of the nation's no2 in those heady days.
While abroad, those that were familiar with him, knew that he was tending his gas station business in America and not any NADECO cause.
Now the shallow, self-seeking politics is at play here again. Who is bearing the brunt, the YORUBA NATION.
A Man, whose ancestry and connection to Lagos is in doubt, has undoubtedly used lagos as the spring board for his launch to prominence. Not a problem at all, because I believe it is part of National integration for anyone to be allowed to contest for political office in any place he has chosen to live within the nation.
Nonetheles, what is abominable is using subterfuge in dealing with the people.
A few days ago, Nigerian media were awash with stories of BAT being courted by GEJ and GMB. It reminded of the 'beautiful bride' turned 'beautiful prostitute' saga of the 2nd republic!
It is commonly reported that a people deserves the kind of leadership it gets. The days are gone that people vote along party lines. What would be dominant on saturday is : who can best serve Nigeria's interest? If we trully want to be free from hegemonic powers of yore and be firmly placed on the path of true nationhood, MUHAMMADU BUHARI represents that dream!
In this contest, pedantic issues have been brought into the field to detract and distract from the core subject matter of good governance.
At the end of the day, the people are the victims. When Ibori became a victim of his own creation, he ran and found abode where he had safely starched away the vast resources of his people.
For years, on some internet fora, I was dubbed a 'Ribaduist' because of my vociferous support for his exploits at EFCC. BAT was one of the govs under his radar for sleaze.in a sudden volte face, the same BAT is now his political benefactor! He does not cut the image of a man worthy of investment of my trust and hope.
The Yoruba people can not make the same mistake of 1999, where all manner of folks were given the people's mandate because they professed Awo's philosophy. The whirlwind of 2003 could not have swept them away if they had match their grandiloquence with verifiable and dutiful service to the people. Afterall it was the former ondo state (now ekiti and ondo) that in 1983, the people ensured that their electoral hopes were not submerged in the ocean of NPN's chicanery. This time, the people could not help them because, in four years, they did not serve the people!
In 4 yrs, we have seen Fashola's salutory work. He is worthy of another term!
The YORUBA PEOPLE should not vote along the lines of party on saturday but on the man that trully represents the philosophy of the YORUBA's political patriach, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
Kayode Ogundamisi (sankara) has written quite well about how GMB wept yesterday in the middle of his speech at the international conference center, abuja. I was there. I was the master of ceremony. I stood behind him and noticed that he stopped talking for about ten seconds and more seconds, he struggled to bring out the words; but the burden about Nigeria and the destructive super-imposition of forces weighed heavily on his gangly frame. GMB wept! Not only him, I wept too and many others in that hall and could not continue my job for the day and told my friend and brother, engr suleiman adamu to finish it for me. We wept for the massive pillaging of our commonwealth and pulverized national values by the people that we gave our trust but are negotiating away our life, our future and collective dream. We wept for our children that only know 'cash and carry' politics. We wept for the Nigerian nation that kept shutting the doors against those that are genuinely interested in helping her travails. We wept and still weeping, !
General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB) is the man that is worthy of our votes in the south west. I have promised myself: wherever I am, by saturday, I must be in S' West to deliver that ONE VOTE of mine for that amiable, affable and urbane leader that represents the beacon of hope for true Nigerians desperately desirous of change- GMB.
In unison, sai BUHARI!
God bless Nigeria.

Rotimi Fashakin.
http://elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6213%3Atinubu-is-a-traitor-to-the-yoruba-cause&catid=36%3Apointblank&Itemid=83

THE AUTHENTIC LEADER FOR FREEDOM!

For three decades, Kwara state has been under political slavery which has caused mass poverty amongst the people. In 2007, our people made determined effort for freedom by voting hon. Gbenga Olawepo as governor under the umbrella of the DPP, but our political enslavers in collaboration with the then president in Abuja rigged it massively, breaking the will of our people through organized state coercion.
Hon Gbenga Olawepo did not give up; he led many of his supporters to revalidate his mandate at the tribunal up to the court of Appeal before going back to rebuild his business that has suffered for 2 years of his absence and consistent struggle on behalf of kwarans.
Among the leading candidates that contested the governorship election, he is the only one that did not return to prostrate for the kwara overlord and join his party.
Olawepo is the authentic leader, tested trusted.

THE MAN OLAWEPO
An accomplished business man with over nineteen years in business, in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria, in Europe and America, he hold a master degree in Global Affairs from the University of Buckingham United kingdom, where he was Best Student in his class, and where he broke departmental record as the first to obtain distinction in the history of Global System. For this, he was awarded the Lord Max bellof Award.
He has wide international connection which he gathered even in his student union days, being active in the International Union of Students, All Africa Students Union, and the Anti-apartheid movement (youth Solidarity for Southern Africa) where he was General Secretary. As a result of this, he has received two international awards and the Veteran award in Venezuela.
In spite of Olawepo’s international exposure, he is a grass-root man that participates actively in community activities.
He started leadership from his Secondary School in Ilorin where he was Health Prefect and elected President of the Dramatic Society. He was a parliamentarian in kwara State College of Technology, Public Relation Officer of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) at University of Lagos.
He is a philanthropist who has given out several scholarships, donated computers to University of Ilorin, and give out interest free loans to over four hundred women in Kwara State. Supported the handicaps etc.
He is also a fearless leader who had struggled for democracy in Nigeria under military rule as a result for which he was detained under the draconian decree 2 in 1989. As an activist he was founding National Administrative Secretary of the Committee for Defense of Human Right (CDHR) led then, by late Dr. Beko Ransome kuti and was also active in the National Conference Movement led in 1990 by late Alao Aka Bashorun.
At the national political level, he has solid experiences; he was National Secretary of Democratic Labour party in 1996, a party that joined hands with other progressives in G-34 to oppose late Sani Abacha and eventually formed the PDP. He was PDP first elected Deputy National Publicity Secretary in 1999. When PDP was turned to a party of thieves, and the then president started haunting the founders of the party because he planned to rule Nigeria forever, Olawepo left the party.
While he was active in the party he served as member of Convention Committee in year 2000, Secretary National Reconciliation Committee for South-South; Secretary Youth and Women Development Sub-committee of the Gen. Danjuma Led Presidential Advisory Sub-committee in 1999 and later, member PDP Constitution Review Committee. In 2003, he also served as a member of Political Advisory Committee in the office of the Political Adviser to the president. While in PDP office, Olawepo helped many Kwarans to get jobs and Federal Board appointments. He is also known to be kind and generous. At the moment he is a member of the DPP National Caucus, Board of Trustee and was Chairman of the party’s last Convention Committee.

Vision and Mission
Highlight of Olawepo’s programmes for Kwara State
1. Industrialization-Establishment of Ethanol plant, palm oil processing, Groundnut processing mill and rice processing mill, through joint venture partnership.
2. Industrialization program will create 400,000 new jobs in four years and eradicate youth and general unemployment.
3. Increase worker’s pay.
4. Renovation of schools and mass recruitment of Teachers.
5. Give farmers loans and increase the income of a target 5,000 families to Annual income of 1m per family.
6. Micro-credit for women entrepreneurs.
7. Free Medical care for all pregnant Women, Children and the Elderly.
8. New vocational training for artisans and loans for them to establish upon completion of the training.
9. Completely free primary and Secondary Education and Vocational Training. NECO and WAEC Examinations fees shall be paid for by Government.
10. Annual Bursary for all students of Tertiary Institutions, and scholarship award for the gifted students.
11. Pension Reform and payment of backlog.
12. Recruitment in the Health and Education Sector of the civil service and many more good things.
We invite you to Vote for and support Olawepo as Governor of Kwara State under the banner of Peoples Democratic Party (DPP).
OUR TESTED AND TRUSTED LEADER

cool, d state on d stage of breaking d chain

d fact is here,

Dele is another traitor who betrayed his blood brother to ssatisfy his overlord tinubu.

we reject them both.

Gbenga Olawepo is our Moses who will deliver total freedom from opression

Crowd of party faithful and supporters of the Democratic People’s Party, DPP at the flag-off of the state wide campaign by its gubernatorial candidate, Hon. Gbenga Olawepo, on Monday, 14th of March, 2011

http://kwarachronicle.com/?p=255

Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has petitioned the State Security Service, SSS, alleging a bid by Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN to use members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to rig next month’s election.

The party’s publicity secretary, Isiaka Danmairomo said yesterday in Ilorin that the alleged plan could threaten free and fair elections.

The PDP’s petition entitled “Inducement of corps members by ACPN to perpetrate electoral malpractice”, were sent to the state Electoral Commissioner, Timothy Ibitoye

But the ACPN spokesman, Abdullahi Oganija, described the allegation as spurious, urging the PDP to stop “using diversionary measures to cover its expected defeat during the April polls”.

The development came as about 200 PDP members in Asa Local Council defected to the ACPN. They were received at Ballah by the ACPN’s national chairman, Dr. Olusola Saraki, during a campaign tour.

It would be recalled that Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana, had earlier written police authorities demanding the arrest of alleged PDP thugs who demolished the billboards of opposition politicians in Kwara, particularly those of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN governorship candidate, Muhammed Dele Belgore, on the eve of President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to the state.

Falana claimed in a letter to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) that the thugs demolished the billboards and unleashed violence on the community at the behest of some government officials and bigwigs of the ruling party. .

Meanwhile, the governorship candidate of Democratic Peoples’ Party, DPP in the state, Gbenga Olawepo, has told the people it was time for change, saying the PDP, which had held sway in Kwara in the past eight years, had not made any significant difference in their standard of life.

Addressing a crowd of supporters when he launched his campaign at the party’s secretariat around Sango Market, Ilorin, he said the wind of change blowing across North Africa with the recent developments in Tunisia, Egypt and the battle against dictatorship still raging in Libya, couldn’t elude Kwara State. He stressed that it was time for the people to be liberated.

Olawepo promised to create 4,000 jobs during his four years in office if elected and called on his supporters to cast their votes for the candidates who would pursue their interest and asked them to defend their votes.

Olawepo, a former students’ union activist and founding deputy national publicity secretary of PDP, questioned the credentials of some governorship candidates in the race, saying “Those now wielding brooms around should be asked about their pedigree. Where were they when we began the struggle?”

He also took a swipe at the ACPN governorship candidate in the state, Senator Ruqqayat Gbemi Saraki, asking her to wait for her turn.

thats why we are one nigeria

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/30994.html

DEMOCRATIC  Peoples Party (DPP) governorship candidate in Kwara State Mr. Gbenga Olawepo has promised to create 400,000 jobs within four years, if elected governor next month.

He said the jobs would be created through the development of agro-allied industry, investment in agriculture and industrialisation.

Olawepo spoke with reporters in Lagos.

He said: “I will establishment an ethanol plant, palm oil processing, groundnut processing mill, rice processing mills in addition to entering into a joint venture with foreign investors.

‘’We will increase workers salary because Kwara workers are the least paid in the country.”

The DPP candidate said he would give priority to  education by making primary, secondary and vocational education free.

He said schools would be renovated and teachers recruited.

In addition, he promised to pay West African Examination Council (WAEC) and National Examination Council (NECO)  fees for pupils.

Olawepo said if elected next month, students of tertiary institutions would be paid bursary while indigent and gifted students would be given scholarships.

He said through prudent use of the money from the Federation Account, he would be able to fund these programmes.

Olawepo, who insists he was elected governor in 2007 “even when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was still united and strong, before my victory was upturned,” said he would win  next month.’’

He said: “If I could defeat them in 2007 when they were united, why not now when the PDP has been factionalised into two with some of them moving to the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN).”

Olawepo described the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as “a small party in Kwara, which has been factionalised into three.”

He said  ‘’both the ACN candidate, Mr. Dele Belgore and the PDP candidate Fatah Ahmed are new in politics.

“Gbemi Saraki, the candidate of the ACPN, has never campaigned statewide. She has only won election into the Senate, which is a third of the governorship constituency.”

He said he is the most experienced candidate given his showing in 2007.

Olawepo said the state’s voter register was credible.

He hailed the Police for providing a level paying field for all candidates.

only those presently in kwara no that.

I have so far convinced over 1500 people in support of Buhari in ilorin kwara state.

@jarus, u remember i once invited you to the team 4 progress, a team whose concern is about individual candidate not the party.

this team is gradually growing as we have moved from one ward to another here in kwara state . so far, we have visited 63 out of the 192 wards in kwara state.

and we are communicating and passing the message of the good leaders to be supported to the people.

its an interesting one. its good to here the people out,but with our canvassing method, we have won the heart of many.

Buhari 4 President (CPC)
Gbenga Olawepo 4 Governor kwara state (DPP)
Bilkisu Gambari 4 senate Kwara Central (CPC)
Anu Ibiwoye 4 Senate Kwara South (ACN)

Signed
Oluwasegun Abifarin
Media and Publicity Committee
Ilorin, 13th March, 2011


PRESS RELEASE

APRIL POLL, A LIBERATION STRUGGLE IN KWARA – DPP GUBER CANDIDATE
The Democratic People’s Party, DPP candidate in Kwara State, Hon. Gbenga Olawepo has described next month’s gubernatorial election as a liberation struggle that will bring the much needed season of change in the State.
Olawepo ,who was speaking before thousands of party faithful and supporters at the flag-off of his state wide campaign in Ilorin yesterday, explained that the expected change will rebuild the state and transformed it into a modern and prosperous one.” Wind of change is blowing everywhere and Kwara State will not be an exception. The coming election is the biggest opportunity for us in Kwara to break the yoke of poverty, unemployment and ignorance. There is always a time and season for everything under the sun, and the time to say no more slavery and yes to liberation is now. The April poll is a struggle and your vote for DPP is your power of freedom,” Olawepo said amidst cheers from supporters.
He recalled that Kwara State was once a prosperous State with large and medium scale industries which employed thousands of Kwarans and non-Kwarans. He therefore promised to break the cycle of poverty in the State by creating 400,000 jobs in four years, through the establishment of agro and oil related industries.
The DPP candidate also promised that women and other vulnerable groups will be assisted to become self reliant through the provision of soft and interest-free loans, while salary of civil servants will also be increased. “If we stop stealing and reduce government bloated overheads, there is enough money in Kwara State to take care of the people. For instance, in the 2009 budget estimates, the salary for all Kwara workers was put at about N5 billion, while government overhead was N11.5 billion. Does that make any sense to anybody?” he queried.
The party’s chairman, Alhaji Abiodun Usman also presented to the teeming supporters, Alhaji Bashir Lawal, who will Olawepo’s running mate, and other candidates carrying the party’s flag in the poll.
Earlier, the Party had inaugurated the campaign committee under the Chairmanship of Alhaji Usman Olesin, while Comrade Lanre Fulani is the Director General. The duo will oversee the four-level campaign structures made up of mobilisation, monitoring, media and organisation services committees.

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/30702.html

Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) governorship candidate in Kwara State Gbenga Olawepo, who flags off his campaign in Ilorin today, has decried violence in politics.

A statement by the party yesterday said Olawepo will address his supporters at the Olawepo campaign headqurters at Atiba Iya Lamu, Kulende.

It said his running mate, Bashir Lawal, will also be present at the rally.

`’’Today’s event will precede the state-wide campaign rallies by the DPP’’, the statement said.

The party urged its supporters to maintain self-discipline and non-violence. "These attributes are unique to members of this party that will form the next government in Kwara state," the statement said. "DPP can not afford to join the emerging political culture of violence.

"Unleashing violence on citizens it aims to empower is never DPP’s culture. We praise our supporters for not imitating the culture of violence that is not in Kwara State’s character ", the party said.

http://kwarachronicle.com/?p=234

The growing but subdued discontent with the eight years of misrule by the Governor Bukola Saraki administration in Kwara State has snowballed into a series of violent street protests in Illorin, the State capital.

Economic and social activities were paralysed for several hours on Wednesday,16th February in Ilorin, following a violent demonstration by youths who were protesting the abandoned construction work on the Olulande-Ita Iya Alamu-Offa Garage road. Several people including one policeman were seriously injured during the protest. The violent protest started as early as 6.30am by youths in the area, who barricaded major roads and link roads to the Offa Garage-Ajasse Ipo road with bricks and blocks. The angry youth also set up several bonfire along the road from Michael Imodu Labour Studies Institute junction up to Ola-Olu-Stella Obasanjo junction. The youth in their thousands were chanting anti government slogans like: “Kwara must be free”, “No to slavery by Saraki, Bukola and Gbemi”, “Leave our state now Saraki”, among others.

It took the anti-riot policemen several hours before they could restore order and normalcy to the road as several canister of tear gas were fired to disperse the protesters. Kwara state Fire Service were also brought in by the government to put out the bonfire and tyres set ablaze by the angry mob. One of the protesters, who spoke under condition of anonymity, explained that life had become unbearable for people living along the 2.5 kilometre road. Reacting to the incident, Bode Olayemi, the state commissioner for works and transport, told journalists that the road was a federal road being constructed by the state because of its concern for the people. He pointed out that the road was still ongoing and not an abandoned project as claimed by the protesting youths. Ezekiel Dabo, the police public relations officer for the Kwara Command, in his reaction urged the people of Kwara not to take laws into their hands as government was doing everything within its reach to fix the road

Meanwhile, the National Association of Kwara State Students (NAKSS) is planning a 10,000-man march over non-payment of its 2009/2010 bursary by the state government.

NAKSS had stormed Ilorin, the state capital, last week Monday, in protest over the unpaid bursary.

Twenty seven students were arrested and arraigned at a magistrate court.

They were charged with criminal conspiracy, intimidation and assault on public servants, mischief and disturbance of public peace.

An Ilorin magistrate court freed the student leaders on Monday.

National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) spokesman Bashir Ademola said the state’s students would protest until the bursary is paid.

He said: “Our bursary must be paid without delay, this is the solution to the present crisis.

‘’Today, lecturers of the colleges of Education in Oro, Lafiagi as well as the College of Arabic and Islamic studies are on strike.

“As the teachers went on strike, students are being induced by some politicians to be their thugs but we shall not accept such offers. They play politics desperately at the expense of the educational and social development of the state.

‘’This makes them give unfounded meaning to our genuine protest, saying we are being sponsored,” Ademola said.

Also, workers under the umbrella of Committee of Unions of Tertiary Institutions (CUTI), Kwara State chapter, has embarked on an indefinite strike.

The institutions are the College of Education, Oro, College of Education, Ilorin, College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies, Ilorin and College of Education (Technical) Lafiagi.

The union had given the state 14 days ultimatum, which expired last Thursday.

In a statement, CUTI Chairman and Secretary, Mallam Lamidi Muhammed and Mallam Amuda-Kannike AbdulKareem said they were protesting the non implementation of the Consolidated Polytechnics and Colleges of Educations Academic Staff Salary Structure (CONPCASS) and Consolidated Tertiary Education Institutions Salary Structure (CONTEDISS).

to everyone in here waitin for bilms to come on with this.


he called me and said his id was block from postin and dont know when it will be allowed to post.

he try to add some copied material from the internet to his post and he was banned.

may be when i see him , i would allow him use mine.

salam

little busy

Hook
Hey, uuh
Some people be acting like they know it all
Hey, ooh
Some people be acting like they know it all
Hey, ooh, ai
Some people be acting like they know it all
Ooh

Verse 1
See, see
See this type of thing wey we dey feel
Before you know, you don the world dey start to go small
I no go lie
We feel these things for real
Some people no believe am ma epain them, man don fall
It?s reality and you will see
That it pays nobody
To be feeling that they know it all
Try to visualize what I feel
And I bet that you will see would be a picture of a garden wall
If you try to push am down
Try to enter the town
Try to see wetin dey happen around
Na so them go dey bring you down
Before you know, you go dey for six feet under the ground
Ooh ah

Chorus
Some be acting that they know it all
But everybody knows that people rise and fall
Some rise up again just to stand up tall
And wiser and stronger
No matter how long you live
You can not learn it all
You go only do your best because you no go fit do all
So if you criticize me, come smoke small
Cos you no holy pass, my brother

U no holy pass, my sister

Verse 2
Hmm, some people when they see a wrong thing
They will start complaining
Until the complaining turn into shouting
Anytime they see a wrong thing
They continue shouting
Until the shouting turn into traditional shouting
Make them try to correct a thing
They will start to thinking
Until the thinking make the pressure to start to set in
Make them feel like outcasting
The society them live in
Because they lose them sense of belonging
But they would try to push am more
Try to open every door
When negativity doesn?t make it certain
So when them try to stop the complaining and the shouting
Them no go fit because eno be spiritual something
People take advantage of the dream
Because them realizing
Say this people lost them spirit of fighting
So them start to use them head

Use am like dustbin
All the problem of the nation
Them be dumping, in them head
Slavery will start to set in like Amistad
Oya, I know say you seen the making
And them start to do almost anything for almost nothing
Cos them same people they need some fighting
But the scavengers would bring them all
They will push them to the floor
And to collect all the people them belonging
But like a goat that has pushed to the wall
We already ready start to do the bad thing
So we a go run them down
We a go chase them outta wey town
I sabi, we go gun down them
Before them go know, them go dey for six feet under the ground

Repeat Chorus
U no holy pass, my sister

http://www.elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5258%3Aopen-letter-to-buhari-ribadu-and-their-supporters&catid=25%3Apolitics&Itemid=92


It will consequently be exceedingly rare that a good man should be found to employ wicked means to become prince, even though his final object be good; or that a bad man, after having become prince, should be willing to labor for good ends, and that it should enter his mind to use for good purpose that authority which he has acquired by evil means. - Niccoló Machiavelli, The Discourses.

Dear All,
I give glory to the names of God; the most compassionate the most merciful; the creator and controllers of Christians, Muslims and Animists.

I am expecting this to draw your indignation and condemnation or admiration depending on where you stand. I am expecting this to make you want to reach for my jugular and put me to shame by responding to the key demands I will make. I am writing this with open mind and without prejudice. I am writing without bias against anyone but in my usual frankness and sincerity.

I have observed that all of us have one main goal which is driven toward a greater and united Nigeria. I have observed that all of us want a corrupt-free Nigeria where young people are increasingly given greater roles in leadership and where everyone can at least be proud to be a member of a united Nigeria. Where every tribe can feel at home and ever religion can practice freely without someone throwing stones or drawing daggers at anyone. A nation where there is mutual respect and love.

I have been a strong supporter of Buhari for long just I am a fan of Mallam Ribadu. I must confess the two will never have come to my mind if Mallam Nasir or Okonjo-Iweala is in the race because Mallam Nasir, despite his shortcomings knows Nigerian problems and is well prepared to lead this country out of the word than any of these current presidential candidates. He is practical and quite frankly, know what to do. I will have loved to throw my support behind men like Col Umar Dangiwa ahead of Muhammad Buhari because he represents finer quality than Buhari. I will have love to throw my support behind Mrs. Sarah Jubril for her courage and consistency despite the quantum stupidity from women delegates who ought have used their influence to finally release their dreams of producing female president. I will have loved to support Sule lamido for his grass-root brand of politics. I will have love to support pat Utomi if he had done the right things (funny most of his followers are now in camp of Tunde Bakare, no thanks to the man of God shred political move and his special appeal). I will have loved to support fresh faces…

Sadly, I have no input in how a president emerges or who emerges. We have been programmed to vote one of the evils they will offer us. It is for this reason that I have opted to be neutral as far as presidency is concerned.

We are not interested in your candidates’ past. I am interested in their plans. We all know the direction the incumbent is going and we need no one to tell us what his policy will be like. We are interested in how your men (Ribadu and Buhari) will make a better alternative. We are interested in having a robust debate between the two men as early as middle of February and as late as early March so that we can see who among them is “mentally sound” (as we can’t afford another mad man in office again) we want to know who among theme has the best plan and not who among them will clean-up Nigeria.

All these talks about cleaning up Nigeria are rubbish. All these talk about eradicating corruption is absurd. There is corruption everywhere in the world even in USA. There is corruption in Ghana, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, China, Russia and even UK and we have not heard that all their leaders are completely exterminated before they could maintain order and sanity. We need a leader who can successfully reduce the menace at the same time use his influence convert many pillagers to new life. We have laws which are not enforced, and we have a faulty constitution which we are not interested in amending. We are afraid of allowing the people to talk and decide their own destiny while holding them together by force.

I am interested in how you will govern and not in your pasts. I want to know the solution to Niger Delta problems and South East kidnapping. I want to know how they will solve the Jos crisis once and for all. I want to know how you will create massive 50 million jobs in a year and how the educational problems will be addressed. I am not interested in your past shortcoming or heroism. After all Hitler was seen as hero before he led Germany Just Abacha was celebrated before he became the Head of State. He was thought to be a clean man who has no interest in power. The political elites praised him and expected him to nurture Nigeria into a stable Democracy and restore June 12 mandate. “Mr. Clean” was later to become the most corrupt and blood thirsty dictator in Nigerian history. I am not interested in how many people Ribadu convicted (though not a single one of those he convicted has come out to say he was wrongly convicted) or should have convicted in the past or whether he was dancing to the tune of anybody. I remember Yar’dua was seen as Obasanjo puppet only for him to go strongly against Obasanjo and his men. He failed after revising and dumping OBJ programme so that he will be seen as his own man. He failed despite being acknowledged as incorruptible honest man. He failed despite trying to please Nigerians. He failed despite declaring his assets and making a landmark decision on Niger Delta problem by granting the boys Amnesty.

Both Mr. Buhari and Mr. Ribadu must as a matter of urgency arranges to have debate between them that must be televised across the world. The debate must focus on the present and the future and not on any past integrity or mistake or name calling. People like me want to know who is real among these two contenders by listening to them discuss policies and solutions to the problems ravaging our country.

I am urging their supporters to stop the campaign of calumny and character assassination against the other candidate(s) forthwith. There is no denying the fact that both candidates are actually alike and they are the same. All attempt at packaging one better than the other is like putting water from same well into a bottle and another in a can while claiming one is better than other. Both are etched from the same root. It is only the container housing them that is difference. We are not interested in the container but the fact that they contain the same thing.

Third, General Buhari must start talking to us just as Mallam Ribadu has been doing. Let him answer his own questions and stop employing PR experts, bloggers and half-baked, ill-informed communication experts whose only goal is to discredit all other aspirants to sell theirs. I know General Buhari will not condescend so low as to exchange words with Mallam Ribadu, but his men are doing damages to his reputation through many silly comments and character assassination directed at Mallam Ribadu. It is becoming an embarrassment that must be halted.

Nigerians are tired of misinformation and empty promises. We have seen it in the past and we are seeing it again. We are tired of people whose only goal is to make history at the expense of the welfare of the masses. We want something more concrete. We are not interested in how many looters your heroes want to put behind the bar, but how many looters they will convert into “saint(s)”. The best solution to crimes is to make it unattractive to both new and old criminals and to embrace new life. Corruption will never disappear by just clamping people in jail; it will disappear when you make it unattractive while tackling the root. I long to hear both Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and General Buhari talk about the root of corruption in Nigeria and how they intends to stamp out the root and replace with something more attractive. Our jails are congested and our corrupt leaders are living like kings in prisons only to come out and enjoy their loots. This is not the solution.

To my Esteemed Mallam Ribadu and Gen Buhari (and other presidential candidates);
You have been talking so much about bringing security into Nigeria, and restoring power supply. With due respect, this is arrant nonsense! How many of you have visited Jos city lately and talk to the people while telling them how you intends to solve their problems? We all know that Jos problem cannot be solved by deploying troops to the area, so what are your plans for the disputed land and how do you intend to solve the problems of Indigene/Settler dichotomy? How many of you have gone to Niger Delta to have a firsthand experience on their problems and tell them how you intend to perform better? How many of you have visited Dunlop Nigeria and other important Companies in South West that have turned the once pride of the nation factories into warehouses to discuss what the problems is really like and listen to them directly? How many of you have gone to Borno to discuss with Boko Haram members and feel their grievances while listening to them and also proffering what you can do better than the incumbent? How many of you travel by road along our “deathtraps” called roads, from Benin-Ore to Niger Bridge and all our waterways to see the magnitude of the problems and then feel what the people are feeling? How many of you have gone to the remote villages where there is no electricity and talk to the people? How many of you have had your relatives kidnapped in the South East and you gallantly walk to the den of the kidnappers to tell them how you intend to reform them? How many of you have visited Aba and other promising commercial cities in South East to see the level of rot in that part of the country?

All you rely upon is statistics and the knowledge of “experts” who may not even know the terrain and may as well turn out to be sycophants ready to do their masters bidding instead of offering professional advices: The people who will be imposed on you by political godfathers that work toward your election. All you rely upon is to win election and then appoint Special Advisers and all those jobbers to oversee that task for you. This is not the way it should be. While, I am not saying you should know everything, you must at least be familiar with the problems and see with your own eyes before you start making promises. The President of United State, Barack Obama, John McCain both visited Iraq and Afghanistan to have firsthand experience of those countries during their campaigns just as they visited the major supermarkets and industries affected by the recession and then told the electorates what they have to offer and what they can do better than the incumbent. It is only in Nigeria that we are being fed with hope that tomorrow will be better when those who seek to effect the change are busy making Today look like their last pay day. They want to effect a change while they are afraid of risking their lives and comforts to see the real situation on ground. And once they get to power, they would surround themselves with thousands security men and erect a wall between themselves and the people they are leading.

We are tired of hearing how much poverty is in the land and how large is the youth unemployment or how bad our educational institutions are. We want to hear your action-plans and what you will do better6 than the ruling party and not promises. We are tired of eating from the promises served us from our politicians’ mouth! We want action; we want to see you demonstrate that you know your onions and are ready to start working. We want you to start looking at the wrong policies of the ruling party and speak up instead of blindfolding us with empty promises. We are tired of living on hope and good luck we want ACTION

We are tired of hearing how bad the ruling party is and how incompetent her members are. We want to know how you will transform Nigeria through your own party (which sadly lacks any concrete ideology) and how you intend to perform better than ruling party. We want to know how your parties will look into the issue of grassroots participation and how much values and respect you place on the ordinary people who will queue on Election Day. Start coming out to talk to us and the common people and stop restricting your big grammars and mellifluent speeches to the media and intelligentsia. Come closer to the people who are voting you and not the people who are pushing you to go ahead only to decamp from your party when you lose the election! Your best friends are not the men in your parties but the people on the streets. We are tired of your perennial bashing of PDP and it members; we want you to present us with credible alternative.

As you read this, I want to add that we are tired of voting based on party divide. All the parties in Nigeria except Labour Party and National Conscience Party have no ideology! They are the same and are mere assemblage of people that come together with sole interest of gaining access to power. That is why the largest party is a collection of saints and sinners all cohabiting for wrong reasons. In the coming election, we want to know you. We want to vote for who you are and what we stand for. We are not interested in your past but your present and in what you want to offer. We are not interested in your parties or who is giving you money to fund your campaign, we are interested in your transparency and openness. Even if armed robbers gave you money, we would like to know how much. We are not voting any deceptive party anymore we are voting men and women with vision and leadership qualities that can affect others positively.

While you digest this piece, I want to let you know that I have no grudge against any of the candidates even GEJ. But I believe that among the people lining up for presidency, GEJ is the least of those I will endorse. The best of the candidates stand between the two of you (Ribadu and Buhari). You both have the best chance to transform Nigeria but you are not the only one. There is Donald Duke and Dele Momodu, write them off at your own peril. They are there to win or split the votes and not to make the numbers. The earlier you all start being unselfish and reach out to others, the better for the polity. One thing I know is this, should you all fail to stop this Mutually Assured Destruction MAD, campaign, you will wake up after April Election to find out that all of you are losers. The only winner will of course be the man whose political ascendency had been built on luck and misfortunes of others.