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To think that Nigerians voted a man who unapologetically stated these things has shown me that we still have a long way in getting it right as a nation

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It seems Amechi is legendary for waste of resources as governor. To think that some communities or streets would have been forever grateful if this fund was deployed to tar their road.

We warned our Christian brothers against voting this govt.
We warned our yoruba brothers against voting Buhari.

We warned them that APC and Buhari will see to an unprecedented persecution of Christianity but they thought they were wise and not into 'religious sentiments', even when the people they chose to align with put their religious sentiment above all other consideration.

Foolishness is when you use your own money to buy a bible and then destroy it and then think you are hurting christianity. You are doing yourself. Infact, the seller would be glad to sell you more

Somebody has collected huge money from Yahaya Bello to stage this one cos I don't think any right thinking and objective citizen of Kogi would protest against a group that gave an ultimatum to a governor to pay pensions and salaries owed for over one year.

I thought this slowpoke op had a point. I just set my brain backwards by reading this thrash. I will go and read a few intellectually sound articles to erase this garbage from my system

kaydutchboy:
Why are you disappointed in Okorocha, you were were warned about his antecedents about being a conman.

In 2011,i campaigned vigorously for him against Ohakim.
In 2015,i spent my personal resources warning Ndi Imo against voting the man again. Some of us risked our lives pleading with our people against this man.

My disappointment is borne out of the unprecedented acceptance the people gave him in 2011 viz-a-viz the monster he has become today.

There are two governors am most disappointed with in this nation.
1 is Rochas Okorocha of Imo state and the other Is
2, yahaya Bello's of Kogi state. One would have thought that considering the divine manner thru which he became governor against the wish of the igala majority, he would have gone all the way to prove all nay-sayers wrong, instead he's making everybody see why he shouldn't have been governor ab-initio

Bolustic:
You don't hate northerners but you hate Buhari,

Oh I remember Buhari is from Ota in Ogun state abi?

you guys are funny?

You see how impossible it is for you to make a simple logical deductive reasoning.
Go seek help first on your stunted reasoning and thereafter come back. For eg,because I hate shekau,it means by your twarted reasoning that I must hate northerners.
How old are you?

Bolustic:
Some people will claim they hate northerners yet they are willing to die for a party that has Sen. Makarfi as its party leader.

Some people will say they want Biafra yet they want the 2019 presidential slots

What an irony of destiny and purpose.

Don't get it twisted. Igbos don't hate northerners,we just hate Buhari. And tge reasons why we have always hated him has now dawned on all of you, he is an unrepentant tribal bigot and an unapologetic Islamic fundamentalist. That which we saw from afar had to hit your nose before you could see it.

Samuel oluwafemi Adeshina, one of many beneficiaries of the newly commissioned Kaduna-Abuja lite rail, has taught it right to reasonably give credit to whom it truly belongs.

Samuel who recently on boarded the new train did not hesitate to express his gratitude on his facebook profile, appreciating the former president for the achievement.

His post read, "As I step in to the kubwa railway station yesterday on boarding to kaduna, one thing came to my mind. God bless Jonathan Goodluck."




Samuel's gratitude didn't seem to go unnoticed as the former President in turn, responded on his official Facebook page with the words" Thank you Samuel ".

The Kaduna-Abuja lite rail project was started and completed by the administration of Goodluck Jonathan, but commissioned by new government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

http://www.criticaltimesnews.com/2017/01/jonathan-replies-man-who-thanked-him-for-kaduna-abuja-lite-rail.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook&m=1

The political dynasty of Ayo Fayose will far outlive that of Buhari and his APC cohorts.
Just mark my words

They are from Mali, Senegal, Libya etc but when a pastor called on Christians to defend themselves against attack from these marauders, the foolish sultan of sokoto as well as the Muslim bodies called for his arrest.
Do you see how you lie and still expose your own lies?
I have come to the conclusion that Islam and objective reasoning don't go together

Disregard that news. It's a calculated lie from Atiku's camp.

Everybody in Imo state knows that if Rochas tells you 'Good morning', go outside and check,its definitely not morning.
If Rochas tells you to stand, better run, if he tells you to run, stand. There is no truth in him. Satan, the father of all lies is his father and well pleased in him.

In the olden days,this man would have been taken outside the community and stoned to death for bringing such suffering and untold hardship on the people

Femi Fani-Kayode, one of the leading thought leaders in Nigeria, writes on the on-going genocide in Southern Kaduna and the refusal of the government of Kaduna State to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity targeted at Christians.

“Not a single soul has been prosecuted, let alone jailed for the genocide in Southern Kaduna and you are blaming someone for preaching self defense? You are INSANE. Yes, INSANE!” – Olufemi Korode, Twitter, 24th January 2017.

Can anyone dispute the fact that Mr. Korode is right? Are those that say that Christians should not defend themselves or complain when they are being slaughtered not completely insane?

The truth is that had it not been for the fact that eight more innocent and defenceless people were butchered by Fulani militants in Samaru Kataf, Southern Kaduna on 17th January, that six young students of the College of Education, Gidan Waya, Southern Kaduna were massacred on 23rd January and that twenty innocent souls, including women and children, were slaughtered by the same pack of beastly savages in the village of Ohimini in Benue state on that same day I may not have written this piece.

Yet I am constrained to do so because the animals in human flesh and Islamist demons that are on the rampage in Kaduna state and indeed all over the country have not satisfied their lust for Christian blood and their carnage persists. As a matter of fact the cancer is spreading.

When you add the thirty four that were murdered in the last few days to the 808 innocent souls that were killed by the same creatures on Christmas eve and Christmas day you cannot come to any other conclusion than the fact that this is genocide and that it is time to resist it.

Unfortunately some do not wish to hear that. They would prefer the people of Southern Kaduna to continue to be the sacrificial lambs that they have always been. Permit me to share just one example of their mindset here.

In reaction to the suggestion that the people of Southern Kaduna ought to defend themselves from mass murder and genocide given the fact that the state government has refused to protect them, Mallam Uba Sani, a four foot dwarf and the political advisor to Kaduna state’s diminutive Midget-in-Chief, Governor Nasir El Rufai, wrote the following in ThisDay and a number of other newspapers:

”The greatest challenge to peace in Kaduna State now is the antics of political jobbers and opportunists who have gone as low as spreading hate speeches; telling communities in Kaduna State to “defend themselves.” This, of course, is an unmistakable call on the people of Kaduna State to procure arms and ammunitions and start killing themselves. This is not just very low but extremely dangerous. This call on the citizenry to take the laws into their own hands totally undermines all on-going efforts to achieve lasting peace in Kaduna State.”

These are strong words from the dwarf who appears to be expressing the frustration, angst and cold rage of his employer, the Chief Midget.

Instead of showing remorse for their woeful failures and begging for forgiveness for the oceans of innocent blood that has been shed under their watch, the government of Kaduna State is lashing out at those of us that have called them out and that are deeply concerned about the annihilation and decimation of human life and sheer carnage that is taking place in Southern Kaduna.

The dwarf pours scorn on the suggestion that a man should protect his family, loved ones and home from cold-blooded murderers who are attempting to maim and kill them.

He is suggesting that the people of Southern Kaduna should keep quiet, fold their arms and happily welcome, with a warm smile, those that have come to rape their wives, slaughter their children, burn their homes, wipe out their faith and possess their land. Is that how to make Kaduna great again?

Is that how to get back to the glorious days of Abubakar ‘Dangiwa’ Umar, Ahmed Makarfi and Patrick Yakowa when Kaduna state was presided over by men of substance and character.

Is that the way to get back to the days when Kaduna State was blessed with kind and compassionate governors who were balanced, mature, sensitive, caring, gentle, cosmopolitan, inclusive and fair to all regardless of faith, tribe or ethnic nationality?

Is that how to get back to the peaceful days of Kaduna when those of us that play polo used to look forward to going there to play a few chukkas at the annual Kaduna Polo tournament?

Is that how to get back to the days when Kaduna was one of the best places to live in or visit in the country?

I doubt it very much. The truth is that nothing could be more insensitive, irresponsible, callous and utterly absurd than the dwarf’s counsel and suggestion.

If that is the kind of advice that the midget has been getting from his aides and advisors ever since he was elected as governor one needs to look no further to know why he has failed so woefully.

Under his watch Kaduna state has become more divided than it has ever been in its entire history and the pungent smell and rotten stench of fresh human blood and fly-infested bloated corpses fills the air.

That is the shameful legacy that the midget and his dwarf are desperately trying to white-wash and defend.

Instead of going on their knees and begging God, the Christian community, the Shiite Muslims and the Nigerian people for forgiveness for what can, at best, be described as their irresponsible, incompetent and criminally negligent behaviour and, at worse, their willful and premeditated attempt to wipe out, exterminate and cleanse the land of the entire Christian community and every ethnic and religious minority group in Southern Kaduna and Zaria, they are throwing bricks at their perceived enemies and flying into childish tantrums.

The dwarf spoke of “political jobbers” and “opportunists”. One wonders just who they are? Again one wonders precisely what the “ongoing efforts to achieve lasting peace in Kaduna” that he mentioned are given the fact that his boss the midget does not appear to give a damn about the fact that thousands of innocent and defenceless people, including women and children, have been butchered during his watch and right under his nose.

At the end of 2015 over 1000 Shiite Muslims were slaughtered in cold blood and buried in mass graves by the Nigerian Army in Zaria, Kaduna state. Many Shiites have accused the midget of covertly playing a sordid and questionable role in the whole affair and when one hears the facts one cannot blame them.

For example is it true that it was he that fingered Sheik Ibrahim El Zakzaky, the Shiite leader, by phoning him and ascertaining his whereabouts for the military before they tracked him down, shelled, shot and murdered hundreds of his people in the sanctity of their homes and proceeded to shoot him and his gentle Yoruba wife in the eye and stomach before whisking them both away.

Since that time they have kept both husband and wife incommunicado and in detention despite court orders to release them. One wonders what efforts the midget has made to get them out?

One wonders why he, a Sunni Muslim, hates the Shiite so much? One wonders why he has been tormenting, arresting, persecuting, outlawing, proscribing and locking them up ever since their leader’s arrest even though they have never sought to harm or attack anyone?

Another example of the sheer depravity of this man was provided approximately one month ago over the Christmas holiday.

On Christmas eve and Christmas day alone, according to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), no less that 808 Christians were killed by the midget’s friends and brothers, the Fulani militia (aka herdsmen), in Southern Kaduna.

The midget and his government provided security and enforced a curfew in the Muslim areas of the state but they refused to do the same for Southern Kaduna which is Christian. Consequently the Fulani militia not only struck but they struck very hard indeed leaving nothing but death and destruction in their path.

Evidently the Chief Midget and his government are more interested in insulting, undermining, discrediting and threatening with arrest its critics and those that have expressed outrage about what the people of Southern Kaduna have been subjected to under his watch than in protecting and saving innocent Christian lives.

One wonders why he hates Christians so much to the extent that the only hospital in the relevant Christian community was shut down by his government on the days that the attacks took place in order to ensure that the wounded could not be treated and that as many Christians suffered casualties and died as possible.

Is the midget not vicariously liable and criminally culpable for those deaths even if he did not take part in the attacks himself? What is the source of and reason for his hatred for our Christian brothers and sisters? Are they not human beings as well? Are they not worthy of life? Do they not deserve to be protected?

These questions must be answered whether they like it or not. Yet instead of doing so they are spewing out more and more garbage by the day.

For example in his essay the midget’s dwarf went even further by saying that “a Yoruba ex- Minister who should know better” and who is “being sponsored” held a series of meetings in his Abuja home with various delegations from Southern Kaduna where they planned how to effect “a violent attack on others” in Kaduna state.

Though he did not have the courage to mention the name of that Yoruba ex-Minister it is obvious that the dwarf was referring to yours truly.

As a rule I do not respond to hired help and the aides of public office holders no matter how short they are because they are too small for me. This is especially so when they are stunted not just in physical growth but also in mental capacity.

When the midget himself dares to open his mouth and talk rubbish I will give him the full measure of my pen and tongue but I cannot bring myself to the very low level of joining issues with a frustrated dwarf or any of the other hired guns of an embittered and drowning midget.

What I will say to the dwarf however is this. If it was me that he was accusing of having meetings in my Abuja home with various delegations from Southern Kaduna he is absolutely right.

I have many friends in and from Southern Kaduna from both the Shiite Muslim and Christian community who deemed it necessary to pay me a visit in Abuja over the Christmas holidays and tell me about the genocide that they were being subjected to by the Fulani supporter of APC terrorists and military forces, with the full support and knowledge of the midget-in-chief.

I was proud to host them and I will continue to do so whether the little dwarf and his paymaster likes it or not.

I should also mention the fact that at no time did I discuss any violent attack on the Fulani or anyone else in Kaduna state with any of them though I told them plainly that if the government failed in its duty to protect them they must go ahead and defend themselves.

That is my view and it will always be my view and I will continue to share it with whoever I deem fit.

For this counsel I have no apology. If it gives the midget governor and his little dwarf sleepless nights that the people of Southern Kaduna will no longer sit back and allow their loved ones to be slaughtered by their Fulani friends and kinsmen that is their problem. For all I care they can go and hug a transformer or jump in the lagoon. (TO BE CONTINUED).

Femi Fani-Kayode is a lawyer, a Nigerian politician, an evangelical christian, an essayist, a poet and he was the Special Assistant (Public Affairs) to President Olusegun Obasanjo from July 2003 until June 2006. He was the minister of culture and tourism of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from June 22nd to Nov 7th 2006 and as the minister of Aviation from Nov 7th 2006 to May 29th 2007. He tweets from@realFFK.

That which igbos saw from afar, the rest of the nation had to wait till it hit them in the nose before they could see it.

Let me re-emphasize this:
Igbos rejected buhari,not because we hate northerners, far from it, we have worked with a number of them in the past and still willing to work with the liberalised ones among them.

Igbos rejected Buhari, not because Jonathan did anything exceptionally for the south east. Rather, he spent more resources hoping to win other regions to his size at the expense of south east and south south(ironically those regions backstabbed him).

Igbos rejected Buhari because we know before now that he is a tribal bigot and an Islamic extremist who has nothing to offer but division and tribal sentiments.

And the division of the country along religious lines by that tribal bigot and Islamic fundamentalist continues.

I don't know when it will dawn on Nigerians that the nation's biggest problem is Buhari.

Please,who are the idiots that voted for this rubbish?

This govt is really dividing this nation.
Never in recent history has this nation been divided on tribal and religious lines.
It's best Buhari dies so that we as a nation can return to modern democracy.
Buhari is Nigeria's biggest problem right now. And to think that some educated fools voted for this mess. The likes of Soyinka that campaigned for this bigot, didn't he relocate to the Us immediately the recession set in,leaving the poorer zombies behind to suffer.
The nation is boiling on all sides everyday and Buhari and APC keep fanning the ambers of division and war

Nobody should blame the man. After one person had been in power for 22 years,by the time he steps down, we all would have forgotten what our constitution looks like, talk less of it's contents.

As long as Nigerians continue cracking jokes like "if solider slap you.... ", these soldiers will continue to think they are feared and reverenced as Demi gods, they will continue to feel that they can do anything and get away with it.
Nothing annoys me than when I hear jokes eulogising army slaps, mopol slaps, etc. It emboldens them.
Let's all stop such jokes

...surely they shall gather..... (u know the rest)

Under GEJ, Electricity generation was averaging at 5,000mw, APC said it was unacceptable, that they will get it to 10,000mw if voted. Today, they are in power,its now even a miracle to reach the 'unacceptable 5000mw'.

Under Gej, fashola was running his mouth that to provide regular uninterrupted power supply wasnt rocket science and one doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to achieve it. Today, under his watch, provision of regular power supply now look like Rocket science combined with molecular physics, Paedeatric brain surgery, advanced international economics and international jusrispudence.
.....it has just become an impossible course for him.

This was why the wife beat him daily then

Why did yorubas appoint themselves as spokesperson for the south south?

You are wasting the nation's resources to fly in expatriates to verify if it was wike's voice heard threatening to truncate an electoral process. Note: threatening.

But there is a video that doesn't need any expert where the commander of a police force was actually scattering electoral materials and beating Inec staff. Note: actual.

Yet, it is Swept under the carpet because the commander was serving APC's interest.

Let's wait for His version.
I have a friend who married a wife from hell. Yet, she's the first time run to the police. She's the first to call everybody to cry and sob.
But when everybody is gone, she will wipe her tears and tell the man, 'I will make sure I destroy you'.
If you don't know the true story, you will most certainly label the poor guy as a devil.
My friend will call me on the phone and be sobbing like a baby but the world believes he is the bad guy.
Many men today are suffering abuse silently in their marriages.

The south west, south east and south south are learners where the north is in corruption. They don't fear God or man when fleecing the nation.

It's very pitiable that someone will be the governor of an arid state that is backward and has an allocation that is barely N300 million a month and yet he has the heart to buy himself private jets and houses all over the world with millions stashed away in foreign lands. That's just pure wickedness