₦airaland Forum

[quote author=shachris03 post=29643545][/quote]young man stop fooling yourself. I live in aba but i am from imo state. I have being using that road for a long time now. And i know when it was in a state of dismay. I know that you are among the nigerians that have been decieved that Gej has done nothing,especially in the south east. Pls get your fact right

Chylo:
Why did GEJ sack Bart Nnaji sef? I thought that man was doing a great job. Its the likes of Diezani and Wike that he will allow to continue.

ogah he built the aba>owerri>porthacourt expressway for us. Besides no head of state or president has done anything for us even the so called Gmb, rather he stopped the train project in the west due to tribalism. We igbo are progressing even without FG. The train running runing in aba and other south east cities today which i have seen with my eyes, the hospital in my community and in so many communities across south east, the freedom from goods seizure that aba and other igbo importers are enjoying today is because of Gej

dejisky:
Typical Igboman . What is APGA what is PDP.

my guy, do you expect us to vote apc,lolz, we are voting apga because of their flag bearer is a goodman not because of his party. We formally wanted pdp because of uche ogah but he was rigged out. Besides apc did not present a good man

FastShipping:
I understand your point but Buhari and APC had to do it. He is going to be president of whole Nigeria and not SW or NW/NE alone. Buhari and APC are not in fool paradise to believe they are going to win any state in the East or South south but it a must that they step on those states first. Going to the South south and southeast is significant. It is now tough to accuse Buhari that he only campaigned in his strongholds and forgot his electoral weak areas like he was accused of last time. As you can see, he has made the campaign in Southeast a low key one. They are not that daft to waste money with an elaborate campaign stops in the Southeast. That is the smart thing to do because they know they are not going to win there. I can promise you Buhari is not coming back to campaign in Southsout and Southeast for the rest of the campaign.

Just take a chill pill and see how the campaign unfolds in Southwest and the entire Northern country.

yes i know he must fufil all righteousness but, be it as it may, he still wont win Gej.

The buhari campaign happening today at aba is what i term as absolute "foolishness" and "unnecessary wastage of money"
To me i would advise buhari to use his money to campaign in the west where he has his stronghold than wasting it here in the south east.
The crowd following the campaign today was as a result of the attendance of a man, who we igbos adore and respect,in the name of,owelle anayo rochas okorocha.
I asked one man today why are you campaigning for buhari? Are you going to vote him? He said "i am only flying his posters because i was paid to do so but come febuary i will vote for jonathan".
From the look of things here, South east will never vote buhari even if he gives everybody money. We will collect the money of course,besides its our own share of the national cake. But for giving him our votes he must be day dreaming.

I also live in aba. But i must tell you that we should not vote someone because of his party,rather,on individuals personality and quality. For me and most aba citizens we are going for alex oti(apga),though initially our man was uche ogah(pdp) but oga orji rigged the primaries and installed his idol,formal asepa chairman, okezie ikpeazu

tonychristopher:
For your age ...your a true son of his father

I am impressed with your analysis


Now I can finally buy you a Bootle


Udo

thanks

mickeyenglish:
..dude! Ubr very poor and short-sighted when it comes to History. U said d Benins created d Ijebu empire? Aw am I even sure dat u actually attended a secondary school talkless of a university? U said d Oba of Benin was busy conquering Yoruba city-states and dat d Aalafin of Oyo was scared of him? Who was d Oba of Benin then? Which dynasty was that and who was d Aalafin of Oyo at dat time and wat century did dat take place?.dude u r very dim-witted. The Ijebu empire had being in existence b4 d Benin came 2 be. If u go back to ur history book, u will discover that during the time that Oduduwa was blind, he journeyed 4rm Ile-Ife down to Ijebu-Ode where he was healed by the Awujale of Ijebuland. Do u now want to tell me dat d Benin Empire dat was alleged to av being the brainchild of Oranmiyan d grandchild of Oduduwa is older than Oduduwa and Ile-ife itself? Dats simply degradation of history by a myopic south-easterner. And 4 ur information, d Benins were not busy conquering Yorubalands. They only made part of d present day Lagos state a garrison base 4 it's millitary which they later named "Eko".that was b4 d Ijebus raided and took over lagos Mainland hereby dismantling and anihilating d Benins and chasing d Aworis into Lagos island and dat is why d d entire inhabitants and rulers of Ikorodu r all Ijebus and 4 ur information, d rulers there don't pay tributes to d Oba of Benin, but dey do dat to d Awujale of Ijebuland.and if u think I'm lying, do a quick reserch on Ikorodu or rather visit d place ur self to see. U also said something about d ijebus being conquered in less dan a year. Dats y I said earlier on dat ur alleged educational background is a suspect and should be reviewed. History students knows dat d downfall of d Yoruba city-states was as a result of d numerous wars dat was happening at dat moment in time in d Yorubaland(the Owu war,the 14year war,the rebellion led by Aare ona Kakanfo Afonja and d annexation of ilorin from d Oyo empire,the Owu-ijaiye war,the Ekiti-parapo war,the Kiriji war,...etc)..that was a moment of turmoils,upheavals and disunity among the Yorubas. The war had already weakened them and d Ijebus where d last hope due to d fact dat it was d gateway to d Yoruba hinterlands and immediately dey fell to d europeans due to their superior armaments, there nothing the oda Yoruba nations could do about it and d Britons were able to penetrate them with little or no effort at all....u laid claims on d fact dat d monarchial system of government is dead! 4 ur information, d UK still uses it! But it's powers had being greatly reducedduring d uprising dat led to the signing of the MAGNA CARTA and 99% of European countries still uses only dat their powers also has being reduced immediately after d 2 world wars. Again I doubt ur educational backgrounds. I wonda if u av even being to Asia, particularly d middle east, Dubai,Qater,and d UAE, Jordan and Saudi-Arabia still practice full mornachial system of government and it's working greatly 4 them!... And 4 those clowns u call ibo rulers and their non-existencial "kingdoms" u mentioned earlier on, I doubt if dey could even command an army to attack a couple of Fulani herdsmen and their wive and children!...don't worry now! Sheybe 2015 is around d corner. All ur screams and noise making dat u own 99.9% of Lagos economy and even have d highest numbers of inhabitants in d state will really play a major role in ur massacre! Even Satan will ask u guys when u get to hell whether u were d Benins who gave d name "Eko"to Lagos or dat u were d Aworis who lived and developed d lagos islands. Or dat were u d ijebus who dwelled in part of d lagos mainland or dat u were d eguns who made fishing a commercial and triving buisness in d state in d early hours of civilisation !Bloody group of persona non gratas.

At first i want to begin by saying that i am not a history student. I am a science student and i recently graduated from secondary school, though i recently got admission into the high institution. So, i am not parading myself as an elite in history,but that does not stop me from having basic knowledge of history.
Oya here is the link en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijebu_Kingdom The benin empire was busy excercising authority at the ijebu court and conquering yorubaland city states.
The yorubas didnt expel the benin army from lagos rather the oba ordered the withdrawal of his troops because he felt that the general commanding the army was becoming too popular and powerful because of how he easily conquered his enemies. So due to the fear of a coup the oba then withdrew the army and gave the general and his family a land to settle as a reward of his hardwork.
History has it that the yoruba army never defeated even a garrison of the benin army even for once! The oyo empire despite its population,cavalry(which was copied from the nupes that destroyed oyo empire earlier) and influence was not able to defeat the oba of benin! Rather she attacked smaller kingdoms such as the dahomey.
Will you also doubt that oyo empire was finally brought down by the fulanis?, even illorin was scrapped into the fulani empire. That is why the traditional rulers of illorin are called emir instead of oba! So my friend let me tell that yorubas was only busy fighting themselves and was not able to expand there territory outside yorubaland save for dahomey, which later revoluted and regained there freedom. Will you also doubt that akure was conquered by benin?, lolz.
But arochukwu an igbo tribe was able to conquer the ruler of the ibibios(a major ethnic group in cross river state which shares boundary with arochukwu)
To me benin is the most powerful kingdom in west africa, and not the yoruba which you claim to be a super power in africa. So my brother in conclusion, i want you to know that the yoruba empires will and can never beat the igbos in terms of warfare!
Lest i forget, ijebu empire was not popular due to its military strenght,rather, it was due to its position in the control of trade routes! (Check this at the second paragraph of this link en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijebu_Kingdom And also dnt 4get that poverty has led you yorubas to sell your ancestoral lands to igbos. Keep on selling as we continue to build up! Very soon we will lay claim to your land as part of ours and b4 u wil realise it we will be too many for u ppl to defeat! Ask the north was there fear that made them carry out the northernization of the north. Winks!

Congratulatory messages
continued to pour in for the
Vice Presidential candidate of
the All Progressives Congress
(APC), Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
The Edo Governor, Adams
Oshiomhole and former
governor of Ekiti State, Kayode
Fayemi yesterday lauded the
choice of Osinbajo as the
running mate to General Muhammadu Buhari in the
2015 general election. Oshiomhole in a statement
issued by the state
Commissioner for Information
and Orientation, Lious Odion in
Benin City , described Professor
Osinbajo as a man of deep intellect with a heart for social
justice.
He said “I have followed
Osinbajo’s remarkable legal
career, particularly his stint as
two-term Lagos Commissioner
for Justice and Attorney-
General. He impressed me even further as a member of the legal
team that argued my case at the
court after PDP stole my
mandate in the 2007
governorship elections in Edo. “I, therefore, have no doubt
that he would continue in that
illustrious tradition by working
together with General Buhari to
actualize the dream that our
great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), represents, for
the benefit of our dear country
held down by PDP’s misrule of
the last sixteen years.” Fayemi, in a statement in Lagos
signed by his Chief Press
Secretary, Yinka Oyebode,
stated that Osinbajo’s choice has
further reinforced the APC’s
determination to effect the change which Nigerians have
for long clamoured for. He described the APC vice
presidential candidate as a
renowned teacher, legal expert,
administrator and a reform-
minded technocrat, who
embodies the virtues of honesty, integrity, selflessness
and dedication to the overall
good of the society,
“Every time pundits come up
with their doomsday
predictions of APC’s imminent
collapse, APC comes out
stronger right from its founding.
The choice of Osinbajo is also leaving us much stronger for
the task ahead. I commend
General Buhari and other party
leaders for arriving at a choice
that is bound to strengthen our
ticket”, Fayemi said. Similarly, Pastors Council of
Northern Nigeria applauded the
choice of Osinbajo as running-
mate to General Muhammadu
Buhari.
Addressing journalists in
Kaduna, the convener of the
council, Pastor Bulus Yahaya
cautioned Nigerians to insist
that best leadership emerged in
2015 general elections. The cleric said he possessed all
leadership qualities as Buhari’s
second in command.
They unanimously agreed that
Osinbajo’s choice heralded
hope for a new Nigeria in view
of his experience in public and
private sectors and also being a
pastor of Redeem Christian Church of God (RCCG).

A former Minister of Petroleum,
Professor Tam David-West,
yesterday said the presidential
candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC),
General Mohammadu Buhari (retd), “is not too old to govern
Nigeria”, saying leadership is
not by age or degree but by
endowment. Delivering a public lecture on
the topic: “Corruption and
Insecurity: Model for Nigeria”, at
the 60th anniversary of the Kuti
Hall, University of Ibadan, he
said though Buhari would be 73 years in 2015, he is still not
as old as the Liberian President,
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and
Zimbabwean President, Robert
Mugabe. “They say Buhari is too old. He
will be 73 next year. He is very
young. Mugabe is 90 years this
year. Mugabe has been
president since 1987. The
President of Liberia is older than Buhari. Leadership is not by age
or degree. It depends on
endowment. “Our president (Goodluck
Jonathan) has Ph.D. Is he a
better leader than Balewa
(Tafawa Balewa, the first Prime
Minister of Nigeria)? Jimmy
Carter of America has two Ph.D degrees, a Ph.D in Nuclear
Physics and a Ph.D Chemistry.
Was he a better leader in
America? I believe in Buhari
because I worked with him. I
believe in him because I know he is honest. I know that he has
zero tolerance for corruption,”
he stated. On the allegations that Buhari is
an Islamic fundamentalist,
David-West commented: “I am
an Anglican fundamentalist. I
am a Christian fundamentalist
and I am proud to be that. A fundamentalist is different from
an extremist. A fundamentalist
believes exactly in his religion. I
believe the Bible is sacred. If
you’re an Islamic
fundamentalist, it means that Quran is sacred. It is different
from being an extremist. “I have said this and nobody
challenged me; three of Buhari’s
cooks are Christians. I have
published it many times. His
second security officer is a
Christian, his second driver is a Christian. His cook in the office is
a Christian. Idiagbon’s (Tunde
Idiagbon) wife was a born
again Christian. You can preach
better sermon with your life
than with your lips. We should show example by how we live.” David-West, who served as
Minister of Petroleum from 1984
to 1985 when Buhari was the
Military Head of State, also
recommended that any corrupt
public officer should be sentenced to life imprisonment
or be stripped naked and
paraded in public. He added
that Buhari has zero-tolerance
for corruption, describing him
as the change that Nigeria needs in the next political
dispensation. “We can stop corruption. It is
very easy. It is a moral issue. If
the leaders have the moral will
to change, if the parents have
the moral will of dos and don’ts
in the family, the children must be brought up with some
strong ethical values in the
family, which they will carry to
outside world. “Corruption is everywhere but
we can stop corruption in
Nigeria if we stand up for it. If
the leader is not corrupt, the
people around him will not be
corrupt. If the head of the fish is rotten, the body is also rotten.
There is no leader that stands
up against corruption that will
have corrupt people around
him because they know they
would not go away with it. So, they cannot shift the blame.”

mickeyenglish:
...THRASH u call it! I don't know if u r dat good in History, but I guess u r not due to ur inability to read as signified by dat previous gentleman. History has made his claims known to us dat d Yorubas were truly an advanced race b4 dis failed experimental lab work known as Naija ,and when u talk of great Kingdoms and Empires in Africa, u will discover that d Yorubas were neva found wanting. Where were the so-called Igbos when we where busy expanding our kingdoms to empires? Where were d so-called ibos when the Ijebus were creating the first African gears of war? Where were dis cannibals when the Oyo empire waded-off the the Fulani jihadist of sheku Ahmadu and Uthman dan Fodio? Where were d slimy git worms know as d ibos when d Yoruba nation decide to av a field marshal over all oda generals in Yorubaland know as d "Aare Ona Kankanfo"? Where were dis creature of d underworld when the Yoruba traditional system of Government was d envy of the Europeans? Where were dis soulsess son and daughter of raped Biafran women when the Yoruba city-states were developing into independent super-powers(ekiti,Ibadan,Ijaiye,Owu,Ilesha)? Where were they when all dis happened...oops! Lemme guess! They were still evolving 4rm Homo-erectus to Homo-sapiens....look u race or tribe is literally unknown to various African history students because u were neva part of d African super power of the 16th,17th,18th and 19th centuries. We know d like of d Bantus, the Koisans and Sans, the Hottentous and d Zulu nation all of which r 4rom d Southern part of Africa simply because they had culture,traditions,norms,values,working system and great warriors of which we can relate to(Shaka the Zulu,Zwide of Dingiswayo)...go to any History class in d world where they teach Africcan History and u would be proud of what d Yoruba nation has acheived as a whole. U bloody ibos should thank ur stupid and dim stars dat u r part of a country where d Yoruba inhabitants dwell... And less I forget! There's no such thing as d "born to rule" syndrome dat u pple clamour about and d envy shown to ur filthy people by the Hausas and Yorubas because dis set of pple have being beta,stronger,powerful and smarter than ur tribe 4rm d creation of mankind. That's just d way tnz are my lady. Ur tribe has being inferior to the Yorubas and Hausas 4rm time past, r inferior now to them,and if u don't pull out of Nigeria, will remain INFERIOR till the rest of eternity. It was not ordained by man, but by God himself. U were meant to be our stooges y we were meant to be ur lords.d Yorubas av being in buisness b4 ur pple came into existense, we av being into advanced warfare b4 u apes became "thinking" creature(d dead BIAFRAN soldiers and warlords would testify to that) we had dabbled into the murky waters of politics when u guys were busy gathering fruits,seeds and nuts(typical of chimpanzees), we av being producing sane intellectuals and game changers b4 ancestors started putting syllabes 2geda to form words( it took an intelectual Awolowo to ensure dat u pple were notoriously and universally disgraced with a Guinness world record of not borrowing a penny 4rom outside d shores of Nigeria), we av being producing great warriors and Generals b4 ur ancestors leaped down 4rm d trees and started exploring and living in caves(it took a certain Colonel Benjamin"Black Scorpion" Adekunle and the 3MCD(3rd Marine Commando Devision) to ensure dat ur tribe remains bitter in agony 4 d rest of their "industrious" lives;in other words, he gave them something to remember..lol), the Yorubas av being erecting great structures 4rm time past even b4 ur pple knew wat "shelther" was meant 4(go to Oke Eri in IJEBU ODE the alleged final resting place of the Queen Of Sheeba( d queen who visited King Solomon)and d Great Pyramid there, the Yorubas av been into International relations even b4 d indigenous apes of d presnt day Anambra knew about d existence of the leave eating chimpanzees of d present day Ebonyi, the Yoruba av being creating magnificient and nearly imposible art works and artifacts( dat d European had to wage unnecesary wars and raids just to still them and take to their countries) even b4 u Orangutans started wearing animal hides and leaves as clothings....lemme stop here b'cos if I should continue u'll be amazed to aw insignicant u pple,WHERE,ARE and WILL always be. As d saying goes"one mans bright future is alway anoda mans gloomy past......!

Young man, permit me to say that you are practically foolish! Who told you that the igbos never had great civilizations and rulers? What happened to the obi of onitsha, king of anioma, arochukwu and Nri? I will agree with you that most parts of igboland do not have paramount rulers but you should understand that it is part of our civilization. It is that same democracy that the igbos practised that the big nations of the world such as usa,britain,france,brazil etc even Nigeria which your so called "yorubas" are in is practising today. how many countries of the world are practising the empire system of govt you are priding yourself in? We igbos hate anything called oppression or colonization by any person or authority, be it an absolute monarch or foreigners. Have you forgotten that the jews was organised like the igbos before demanding for a king from God?, but did that stop them from defending themselves when the enemy attacks?, did that stop them from being powerful? The yoruba empire was one of the african powers indeed, but was unable to stop the heavy death casualties inflicted upon them by the oba of benin. The oba of benin was busy conquering the yoruba towns with ease to an extent that the allafin of oyo was afraid of the expanding benin army. The oba of benin was so powerfu and influential to the extent that he ordered the establishment of the ijebu empire, very funny isnt it? But history has it that it was very hard for the benin empire to conquer the present day agbor whcih was a town of the aniomas, just a single town. The aro anglo-war lasted for over a year, the ekumeku movement(anglo-anioma war) which started at 1883 and ended at 1914 lasted over 31years but the anglo-ijebu war did not even last up to 1year. Even the benin empire was conquered in less than a month! This only shows you how powerful the igbos was even without powerful monarchs and empires which you are priding on. Did history ever tell you that any eastern minority with their mornarchs defeated even a single village in igboland? So young man, the fact that we igbos where not organised in empires do not undermine our military strength. It was our ability to wage war with the advanced britishs for upto 31yrs that encouraged the mau mau of kenya to start his rebellion with the british. History has it that the igbo gave the british the fiercest resistance in africa which led to the death of many british high ranking officers. So in conclusion, the reason why igbos didnt build empires was due to our love for equality,freedom and resistance to any form of colonialism and not on our inability to do so. I DID NOT RESULT TO INSULTS AS YOU DID IS BECAUSE I SEE IT AS A CHILDISH CHARACTER AND I AM NOT AN ETHNIC BIGOT LIKE YOU. And mind you, we first tasted the office of the presidency before you. and you still under the rulership of our neighbouring minority. So stop ranting!

whether war ship, patrol ship or gunboat, do not forget that biafra converted trainer jets to fighter jets, including civilian jets. Even local boats where converted to heavy gunboats.

why are Nigerians like this? If it is not reported, they government is not working. If it is reported, it should be a classified information and the government and army are clueless. If it is not a good news about the military, i believe it. If it is a good news about the military, i dont believe it or i dont believe it without pics. If the pics is posted, it is an old,false,classified or manipulated pics and should not be posted. Nawaoh, this is the handwork of those that doesnt see anything good about the govt due to religious or tribal sentiments.

DUBIOUS LOAN
Why would a bank lend Buhari that
amount for a presidential pie-in-the-
sky that failed to materialize three
times in the past? Is that not likely to
be a bad loan? How long did it take for
the loan to be processed? What did he put down as anti-corruption
collateral? How does he propose to
pay the money back? Mr. Integrity
needs to spell all this out for the sake
of his fast-disintegrating anti-
corruption credentials. I did not know loans are so easy to
secure in Nigerian banks today.
Perhaps Buhari could introduce me to
his bank manager. I would also not
mind taking this kind of soft loan. I am
sure I can always come up with some unproductive excuse or the other for
it. Is such a loan even legal today
under Nigeria’s stricter banking laws? How many honest Nigerians can
afford to give a non-refundable 27.5
million naira to a political party, on the
off-chance that they will be able to
secure the party’s presidential ticket?
If they win the nomination and even get elected president, how would they
pay back the money?
NOT A PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL
It is clear that Buhari is not only
lacking the money to pay for APC
nomination papers, he does not have
the funds to pay for advisers, to
counsel him about what to tell the
public and how to prosecute an effective presidential campaign. His
advisers might have educated him that
there is something called “fund-
raising.” Surely, the most popular
politician in the North-West can find
some of his ardent supporters to give him 27 million naira. Certainly, a
former governor of the Central Bank
can easily cough up the money. Buhari wants to fight an election that
will take place in four months time.
From what he tells us, he does not
have 27 million to prosecute that
election now. If this is true, he is not
the right man to be president of Nigeria. For a man who is running for
election for the fourth time, that is the
height of cluelessness. It shows Buhari
is lousy at marshaling resources.
Otherwise, he is fooling nobody but
himself.

One thing is for sure: Muhammadu
Buhari would like to be the next
president of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria. He has tried three times and
has failed every time. Finally realizing it
is a lost cause, he said he would not try again. But now he is persuaded to
try again. His supporters are
impressed that he won 12 million
votes against Goodluck Jonathan in
2011. However, they need to be
reminded that he lost to Jonathan by over 10 million votes.
Since the third time did not turn out to
be a charm for Buhari, what are we to
call his fourth attempt? Listening to the
declaration of his new-fangled
presidential bid in Eagles’ Square,
Abuja a few days ago, it is seems this fourth time is going to be one big
charade.
The sign was provided by none other
than Buhari himself. Since his one
credential is that he is a man of
integrity who, as president, is
expected to wrestle corruption down
to the ground, Buhari decided to burnish his anti-corruption image by
revealing that he obtained his 27.5
million naira APC nomination form
with a bank loan. However, what this
declaration did was to tell Nigerians
that Buhari is a pretentious anti- corruption crusader. His Mr. Clean
posture is nothing but a public
relations gimmick.
QUESTION MARKS
In fairness, some of us have known
this all along. Under Buhari’s watch as
Petroleum Minister in the late 1970s,
$2.8 billion (worth billions of naira
today) was missing from the NNPC
account. The matter was subject to Senate investigation under the
chairmanship of Olusola Saraki in
1983. But before the report could be
dealt with, Buhari conveniently
overthrew the Shagari government in
a military coup d’état.
Vera Ifudu, an NTA newscaster,
revealed that Saraki told her in an
interview that the missing money was
traced to Buhari’s account at Midland
Bank in London. For this disclosure,
Vera was summarily sacked by the NTA. However, she appealed against
her dismissal in court and won. She
even received a handsome financial
compensation for wrongful dismissal
from the NTA. Instead of clearing his
name as a man of integrity, Buhari refused to appear before the Oputa
Panel set up to look into the matter
(among under things) by the
Obasanjo administration.
Buhari claims to be an anti-corruption
crusader, nevertheless, he agreed to
serve under Sani Abacha, one of the
most corrupt Heads-of-State ever in
the history of Nigeria. While there has
been no proven allegation that Buhari corruptly enriched himself as
Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund
under Abacha, it is abundantly clear
that this fabled anti-corruption
crusader failed to curb the rampant
corruption that prevailed in the organization. Group Captain Usman
Jibrin, a board member of PTF,
resigned from the organization in
protest over Buhari’s irregular
appointments of consultants. In 2000, the Obasanjo administration
set up an Interim Management
Committee to look into the affairs of
the PTF, under the chairmanship of
Haroun Adamu.
The Committee
discovered that billions of naira was stolen under Buhari’s chairmanship.
POLITICAL PLATFORM
Now the same Buhari who would not
or could not curb corruption in the PTF
wants us to believe he will fight
corruption as president of Nigeria.
However, he has chosen the APC as
the political platform on which to undertake this. But the APC is an
unscrupulous political party that is
choc-full of corrupt politicians. It is the
party of Murtala Nyako who was
impeached as governor of Adamawa
State for converting state money to personal use. It is the party where
Buhari himself and others went cap-
in-hand to Otta to beg Obasanjo to be
their “navigator.” Surely Buhari knows that he cannot
fight corruption by being the
presidential candidate of the APC.
Whatever anti-corruption crusading
Buhari had in him in the past must
have ended when he decided to join the APC. Should he become president,
does he intend to probe his corrupt
party-members? Has he made them
understand he would be coming after
them once elected? If he has, does he
really expect them to help him get elected so he can retrieve their stolen
loot and send them off to jail? A 72 year-old man with Buhari’s
experience, who was overthrown in a
preemptive coup by members of his
own government, knows that in
Nigeria, nobody gets elected as
president on the platform that he is going to be an anti-corruption
crusader when he gets into office. That
is a sure signal for all the politicians in
all the parties to gang up against him
and make sure he never makes it. If you really want to be anti-
corruption, you have to keep your
mouth shut about your plans until you
get elected and then catch your
corrupt colleagues by surprise. You
must also have resolved not to seek re-election for a second-term. It is not
only the populace, but the politicians
in particular, who insist on “stomach
infrastructure.” But if you are talking
anti-corruption while still seeking the
nomination of your party, it must be because it is well known to your
corrupt colleagues that your anti-
corruption stance is merely for public
consumption.
CLEANING UP APC
It is not surprising, therefore, that
despite all the noise about anti-
corruption coming from Buhari and
his cohorts; he has failed to fight
against corruption in the APC. We did
not hear him raise a voice against the incongruity of a so-called progressive
party demanding a cynical nomination
fee of 27.5 million naira for its
presidential primaries. One would
have expected a truly anti-corruption
crusader to make the point that the nomination fee is unacceptable.
Instead, Buhari readily acquiesced to
the requirement in order to safeguard
his all-important presidential
ambitions. Since Buhari cannot, or does not, fight
against this corrupting nomination fee
in the APC, and insist on its reduction
to something far more reasonable,
how can he expect us to believe that
as president in a political system with the separation of powers; against a
legislature likely to be controlled by
the PDP; he would be able to fight
corruption? Somebody is fooling
somebody here. Or else, somebody is
living in a cloud cuckoo land. Charity, they say, begins at home. If
Buhari is truly anti-corruption, he
should begin his crusade in the APC. Is
it progressive for a political party in
Nigeria to ask its candidates to come
up with 27.5 million just for the nomination papers for an election
where only one person will emerge as
the winner? Is it not corrupt politicians
that are likely to have this type of
easy-come easy-go money? Is this not
an open invitation for the winner, if he actually manages to secure election to
the presidency, to recoup this
extortionate fee from public funds?
ANTI CORRUPTION BANK LOAN
What did anti-corruption Buhari do
about this outrageous APC
requirement? This is where the whole
matter becomes ridiculously
implausible. According to Buhari,
rather than fight against the measure, he took out a ban loan to pay for it. Buhari told us about his “loan” out of
embarrassment; in a pathetic bid to
validate his anti-corruption
credentials. But this so-called loan
indicates that Buhari does not
understand what it means to be anti- corruption. For Buhari, anti-corruption
is a posture; it is a swagger; it is a
badge; but it has no bite and, in the
usual Nigerian fashion, it will be
prosecuted with hypocrisy. Buhari wants us to believe that he
cannot afford 27.5 million naira.
Nevertheless, he rides around in a
bullet-proof Jeep and maintains a
convoy of Land Cruisers. He cannot
afford 27.5 million naira. Nevertheless, he declared his candidacy lavishly in
Eagle Square, Abuja. Did he also take
out a bank loan for that? Four months
to a make-or-break election, Buhari
would have us believe he has no
money. How does he propose to finance his presidential campaign? Is
he going to take 1 billion naira loan
from the World Bank for this?
DUBIOUS LOAN

The emergence of All Progressives
Congress (APC) after the 2011
presidential elections was considered
by many Nigerians fed up with the
mediocre performance of the federal
government as a great opportunity for credible opposition to the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party, the PDP.
As is well known, APC emerged from
the amalgamation of Action Congress
of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC) and a
splinter group from All Progressives
Grand Alliance (APGA). The foundation members of the party were convinced
that they would end PDP’s
stranglehold on political power at the
federal level and majority of the states
in future elections. In addition, the noise and momentum
that heralded the entry of APC into the
stochastic ecology of Nigerian politics
reflects the negative feeling in certain
quarters that members of the PDP are
using the party’s preeminent position in the power equation to distribute the
national cake amongst themselves
leaving merely the crumbs for others
“outside the umbrella.” According to Harold Laski, a noted
political scientist, exclusion from
power is also exclusion from the
benefits of power. Thus, the core
motivation behind the formation of
APC is consonant with Laski’s largely correct dictum, because pioneer
members of the party who lost out in
the power game won by the PDP in
2011 still wanted to remain politically
relevant and share the benefits of
power at the centre if the latter loses out in subsequent elections. Like the PDP, APC is ideologically
barren. The difference between the
programmes of action formulated by
the two parties is analogous to the
difference between six and half a
dozen. Most prominent APC members, such as Aminu Bello Masari, Bisi
Akande, Bola Tinubu, Muhammadu
Buhari etc., are conservative politicians
without solid antecedents in what
might be called progressive politics –
never mind Tinubu’s ineffectual attempt to project himself as a
“progressive” because of his
membership of the defunct National
Democratic Coalition (NADECO). The only progressive thing about APC
is the occurrence of that word in its
name. There is nothing to show that
the party is positively and radically
different from the PDP, based on which
the electorate would prefer its candidates to those of the ruling party
when the time for voting comes. But many gullible politicians thought
differently: they believed that APC
constitutes the much-needed
paradigm-shift from the shambolic
performance of the ruling PDP to
something better. As a result, some prominent PDP members, including
serving and former governors,
legislators, former presidential
candidates, and so on decamped to
the APC. For a brief period, it appeared
that the party might eventually swallow up PDP. Of course, nothing lasts forever,
especially in an ever-changing terrain
as politics. Presently, the momentum
for APC has died down; in fact, there is
a reverse momentum in favour of the
PDP, the latest and most visible of which is Nuhu Ribadu, former
presidential candidate of ACN and APC
stalwart. Having sketched in the preceding
paragraphs a silhouette of APC, it is
time to focus on the main thrust of our
discussion, namely, the inconsistencies
and contradictions of Muhammadu
Buhari, who has just paid a whopping N27.5 million for the presidential
nomination form of his party. Buhari
was thrust into public consciousness
in January 1984 when he became
military head of state after the
overthrow of Shehu Shagari. Buhari and his deputy, late Tunde Idiagbon,
inaugurated a dictatorial regime
anchored on War Against Indiscipline
(WAI). Despite the egregious errors
committed by that regime, especially in
the areas of human rights abuses and
draconian laws (like Decree 4) that
severely curtailed freedom of the
press, Buhari and Idiagbon were praised all over the country for their
efforts to instill discipline in Nigerians.
For example, politicians found guilty
of corruption by anti-corruption
tribunals were sentenced to long
prison terms and hefty fines, regular environmental sanitation exercise was
introduced, and soldiers enforced the
queuing culture, etc. Hence, after Buhari was toppled in
August 27, 1985 and the government
of Ibrahim Babangida, which took
over eventually, upturned some of the
measures instituted by Buhari and
Idiagbon to stamp out corruption and indiscipline in governance, leading to
the recrudescence of corruption and
financial rascality, Nigerians started
appreciating the positive side of
Buhari’s regime. With time, the feeling grew that Buhari
is a disciplined anti-corruption
crusader who is prepared to take on
corruption even at the highest levels
of political power. People still
remember nostalgically the readiness and tenacity of purpose with which
Buhari and Idiagbon tackled corrupt
politicians, culminating in the failed
attempt to repatriate Umaru Dikko
surreptitiously so that he would face
corruption charges leveled against him. Since his exit from government, Buhari
has been trying to project an image of
himself as an honest, detribalised and
incorruptible political leader deeply
concerned about the deteriorating
condition of life in the country. Unfortunately, over the years Buhari’s
reputation has been sullied by
inconsistencies and serious errors of
judgment. To begin with, Buhari was minister of
petroleum in the military regime of
Olusegun Obasanjo. While he was still
serving, it was reported that the
Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) could not account for $2.8 billion that accrued to the
federal government from crude oil
sales. Since then, Buhari had been
trying to explain away the scandal. However, his refusal to appear before
the Oputa Panel to address the matter
conclusively made discerning
Nigerians to wonder whether the
former military head of state was
hiding a $2.8 billion-sized skeleton in his cupboard. One would have expected Buhari,
given his much talked about anti-
corruption stance, to avail himself of
the opportunity to state all he knew
(and did not know) about the missing
money, not the least because $2.8 billion is a gigantic sum that can make
a positive difference in Nigeria’s
economy. To the best of my knowledge, Buhari
has yet to give a satisfactory
explanation of what transpired. Only
die-hard Buharists like Tam David-
West think that the former petroleum
minister absolutely has no case to answer on the issue. Again, Buhari seems not to realise that,
by associating closely with prominent
people of questionable character, he is
invariably telling Nigerians that, in
terms of character, he is not so
different from them. The military dictatorship of Sani Abacha was
undoubtedly corrupt. That much is
clear from the hundreds of millions of
dollars which have been identified by
foreign countries and banks as funds
stashed away by the late dictator. An English adage says, “Birds of the
same feather flock together.” In my
view, Buhari accepted the post of
chairman, Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF)
under Abacha probably for self
rehabilitation, having been unceremoniously kicked out of office
by Babangida and his cohorts about a
decade earlier. Having worked for Abacha, is it
possible that Buhari was completely
inoculated from the virus of corruption
associated with the Abacha regime? When Buhari was chairman, more PTF
projects were executed in the north
than in the south; moreover, of the six
geopolitical zones in the country, the
south east geopolitical zone got the
least number of projects. A detribalised Nigerian would not be
so biased in distributing federal
projects to favour his own region. A
probe of the activities and accounts of
the trust fund in 2000 revealed that
billions of naira were stolen under Buhari’s watch. There is no evidence
linking Buhari directly to the missing
money. To be continued

mrmetoo1:
What does that have to do with anything??

Point is a lot of you have agreed that GEJ has failed but your next move now is to either say the past administration wasn't better or to say there's no one better to replace him, I disagree and I know a lot of people who do. There's no point mentioning all the people that'll do a better job than him because I know all I'm going to get is the same ol' recycled talking points against them.

I choose to focus on the failure and the fact that I know we can do better. Nigeria deserves better

Who and whom have come to the agreement of jonathans failure?
If the past administrations is not better than him,then what have made him a failure?, is it the cheap points mentioned by barcanista whom was duely paid? Or didn't the past administration have their flaws?.
Young man, are you trying to say that some leaders are perfect and so gej must be perfect?
Why have you also choose to criticise his flaws only, without celebrating his achievements? Is it what makes you a patriotic nigerian?
Guy you are only blinded by hatred. your criticism is based on hatred and not out of concern or patriotism. Pls criticise constructively Thanks.

U collect babe number, u use chick save am, shey her mama na fowl?

*U buy suya your woman chop all the meat, u come dey smile dey chop the onions, u be vegitetian?

*U ask a girl for what she wants and she tells u money and u are angry, were u expecting her to say wisdom knowledge and understanding abi u won be God?

*U dey with ur guy and u dey receive different types of phone calls every 5mins, yet u dey claim say u no dey cheat. My sister u be mtn customer care agent?

*U dey carry girlfriend go club after marriage u want to stop her from going to club. My brother u think say miracle dey happen anyhow?

*Ur babe get F9 parralel for WAEC yet she still dey ask for Brazilian hair of #150000. Abeg were she won fix am for that coconut head?

*U have 8 tribal marks and stretch marks scattered all ur body yet u still want a tattoo... My friend u be zebra?

*U are 6feet tall, u still come wear 6inches high heeled shoe, sister u be tower of babel?

*U dey inside different type of cars dey snap picture yet u want ur man to believe u are not cheating on him...Anty u be mechanic?

*U gather different girls picture on ur phone yet u expect her to believe u are not cheating on her. Uncle u be photographer?

*U dey pay ur babe wey dey university school fees and u never write jamb ..my man u be scholarship board?

*U dey 18 years and ur sugar dady dey 70 and u still dey call am baby. My sister he should be ur ancestor.

*Ur babe is licking ice cream and u dey drink pure water. Abeg no vex u get diabetes?

*U claim say na rice and chicken with salad na him u eat but u dey vomit fufu with egusi soup. U be merlin?

*U scored 38 in jamb and u say u won read medicine, u better go do native doctor after all all nah medicine.

*U dey read this post and u no won laugh, abeg u be balotelli abi Obj

Equado:
...technically we've never met...so that makes you the most foolish person you've eva met...lol...I wonder how you live wiv yaslf...

utu ele, aji mkpi, ihe aburu onu(you are a cursed thing). Why have you decided to show case your animalistic tendencies to the world due to envy? Is it because you cannot write? In short, your parent are childless because you are already useless, they have already counted you as loss! Otule okuko(chicken ass) lmfao, looolz...

oga dice, pls make you no vex. Some people are just too foolish to see the wrong they have done.
I think we nairalanders should move to his page and thrash him. When i mean nairalanders i mean every nairaland member including the literature section members. Oga seun, this is very bad and can make writters feel discouraged on writing in nairaland,hence,brings bad busines.Oga, Dont forget sexuality and
literature, including politics are the core of nairaland.
I suggest that seun and his mods should create a thread that will notify and mobilise all nairalanders on stolen intellectual works. When this is done nairalanders can now go and cause havoc in such pages or blogs.
Oya make we invade his page and humiliate him.
please continue your tori@dice. I am a major follower though poor at commenting*winks*

Ovamboland:
Are you guys programmed to tell lies on this forum, please list the corrupt people that have been convicted in 4 years of Jonathan and the name of the EFCC chairman.

young man EFCC was used by obj to hunt his political enemies. It is not Gejs duty to prosecute corrupt officials.
Besides you dnt expect EFCC to arrest someone still under immunity be it president or ordinary LG chairman.
Have you ever asked yourself why danjuma,ibb,obj,buhari,atiku,abdusalami etc that looted this nation is still walking free? Werent they there during obj regime? Why didnt he do something to them? And you expect Gej do do something?. Corruption can not be stop by the presido alone but it will stop when we vote the right persons ranging from the LG chairman, senators etc.

Ovamboland:
Mr man why are so full of lies? GEJ inherited a Nigeria that was debt free, but now our external debt is over $10 Bn

Gej never inherited a debt free nigeria. Beside what do you expect when there is falling oil prices and insurgency?
Or is it also Gejs faults?, rather he still managed the economy well and has never failed to feed your poor state with revenue derived from the land of his people despite all these odds.

Abagworo:
Everything you wrote up there seems either out of amnesia or you are simply ignorant. I don't know where you live but I'm writing as an Igbo man living in Port Harcourt.

1) The power supply in Port Harcourt is zero despite the fact that Rivers State is generating more power than required. That I suspect is a political weapon employed against Rivers people because the Governor is in APC.

2) Youth groups and militants are being armed and protected to create crisis in Rivers State , courtesy of FG and their affiliates here like Nyesom Wike and Evans Bipi. What it means is that another Boko Haram is being created in Rivers State.

3) The only federal road that is good in this part of the country is Onitsha/Owerri and mostly done by Obasanjo.

4) Nigeria's debt has increased despite our earning highest income from oil during Jonathan's tenures. Contrary to what you wrote earlier, Obasanjo actually cleared Nigeria's debt but it has risen back today.

5) Kidnapping, terrorism, robbery and corruption has peaked under this Jonathan regime. While kidnapping has reduced, terrorism and corruption has skyrocketed.


6) Rebasing being done under Jonathan does not translate to him being solely behind the growth. Most of the growth happened under Obasanjo when telecommunications, Music, Nollywood and banking experienced sudden growth.

i live in aba,which is close to ph,and there is power as i am typing. At least You beckoned on the fact that the shortage of power im RS was political and not that there is no improvement. Nigerias debt was forgiven by the world bank not cleared under obj first regime. Gej inherited his debt with respect to objs second regime. He managed to reduce the debt but it later increased due to loans taking from world bank to fight the terrorism which was created by the north. So how is it his fault? Pls do you have evidence that the FG is behind the youth radicalisation in rivers state? Even if so dont you know what obj did to odi that was tormenting his administration or what naija did to biafra? Political enemies must be punished such as amaechi. I think you forgot the enugu/ph express way etc. If you read my original Post you will observe that i said that most of his projects are based in the north, lest i forget Gej is not the minister of work. Also how is terrorism his fault? Terrorism emanated only because he is from SS, corruption hasnt increased if compared to the previous administration. Lest i forget, people from PH are not igbos but ikwerres. You people said it yourselves so stop claiming igbo mtchew

dexentity:
Oh, so you did not know you brought tribal sentiment into it when you insinuated that yorubas were seizing you guys' goods and auctioning it off without any proof to back up your claim. Reread your first post. And tell me who the illiterate is. Mumu

what proof do you want me to show you? Enlightened yoruba nairalanders knows that what i am saying is true. And it actually happened to one of my uncles.

ganye1:
explorer250
"I woke up
one morning only to hear from my television that jonathan
just commissioned a 100bn project at the insurgence
ravished north east. I was very amazed and suprised.
Jonathan has done a lot for the north in terms of federal
projects. I can not arguably say that over 70 to 80% of the
federal project commissioned by the president is at the north.
Jonathan is working, only at the north, i have not felt the
impact of federal projects here in the east."
My brother I live in North East and I didn't see any of those projects you are talking about and since he has done nothing for you in the South east according to you and the SW too is complaining I think we can safely conclude that he has failed the nation.

sir, i didnt say that Gej is not working. What i was saying is that there is no significant federal project here in the east. And mind you, the average igbo man do not rely on federal projects or government for survival but on good policies that doesnt hinder his business unlike the north. Which is exactly what Gej has done for us

Gbabe2:
Young man i now understand what your point of view is. Yes, you are old enough to form opinions based on hearsay and praise singers. I am not a fan of any of these politicians but i am an advocate of a good system bro. I cant compare Nigeria with any of these advanced countries in any way. Not in this generation at all. Altogether , PDP has ruled us for over 15 years consecutively without anything to show for it bro.
Do you know how many young adults that graduates every year without anything to show for the productive years spent in school? Do you know the extent of illicit funds stacked somewhere by these thieves ( we now celebrate)? I am telling you the truth in all honesty that if we have a system in place, all these thieves will be languishing in prison or run away. My brother, what can we even be proud of? No refinery despite the huge sum of money realized every year, No good road, No power despite the billions being allocated for it in every dispensation, No good health care facility any where (that's why you see all of them travelling overseas to seek medical facilities), no security (thats why you see them drive in bullet proof and bomb proof cars) etc. Do i want to remind you that no one has been prosecuted for fraud related offences in this administration. Explorer 250, i had great hopes while i was growing up. I did all i knew to stand above board in all my endeavors by Gods grace but unfortunately, our government has failed us in every ramifications. You will look for job even when you are qualified only to be asked who referred you or who is your father? Today i am grateful to God but we will not keep quiet like Nehemiah until God fixes Nigeria bro. We have the resources (name it) but unfortunately we are endowed with bad governance. I am a christian but if a pagan can deliver result and lay the foundation for us bro, i will vote and canvass for his votes as well.There is no future for us in Nigeria if all we can produce is GEJ and PEJ all because of tribal sentiments. I was not young when MKO Abiola was voted for in 1993. People voted without any sentiments ( tribal or religious) all because they believed in him. My one cent for you is that we should vote for the right person without attaching any sentiment bro.

Sir, i understand where you are going and i appreciate your maturity, understanding and above all constructive criticism. I know that the system is generally corrupt and Gej might not be good enough but what i am trying to say is that Gej is the best for now.

dexentity:
I'm not surprised by all these gibberish, back and fro defending of GEJ by the OP, if a set of people can stage #ABACHA mukaiso, then people can do worse. The OP admitted that JEG government is corrupt but to him that is no big deal since Nigeria is already known as a very corrupt Nation, and JEG seems to be just a bit more corrupt than his predecessors so we should continue to manage him for the next four years.
If Buhari become the president by 2015, there are some people that will defend his every action either good or bad, and I won't be surprise if majority of such people are from the east.
People should not be surprised by actions of people like the OP, his people are known to defend any government in power. I only take praise singers from, SS, SW, and the north serious.

Pls young man stop showcasing your illiterate tendencies. I never said that Gej is corrupt, i only said that "lets assume that he is not worthy to rule this country". Gej is not more corrupt than his predecessors. And pls leave south east out of this, dont try to bring tribal sentiments into this. I will like it if you speak more maturedly. No insult intended. THANKS

haconjy:
the receiver needs to give himself brain cause death threating will never be expose and some details will not be known, therefore this is not a money return message threat.
But still i will return the money if its me cause i have more than that in my account

are you sure? *smells something fishy*