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seanet02:
While The West shuts the door on Ibos!!

I knew you couldn't resist.

I am glad my SW brothers are not falling into Buhari's trap.

GenBuhari:
$100bn is nothing

OBJ looted $100bn by himself in my estimation.

You are definitely exaggerating. Where are you getting your numbers from? Even Sani Abacha, the most kleptocratic thief that Nigeria has ever seen did not loot that amount.

They need to shut the borders to the North permanently. Too many hungry mouths to feed and these foreigners give the North more numbers in terms of political representation.

Fhemmmy:
How did you arrive at the conclussion, Sir
Tell me what PDP and GEJ has done and would do to help business.

I am into business full time and the PDP times has been the toughest for business.
I used to exchange $$ for only 120N and i used to complain, i have seen the 12 years of PDP to send $$ to 168N and back.
During the times of PDP, now when we send stuff from yankee and Canada, it cost more and take more time, cos now we have to worry about sending manifesto even before the stuff gets to Nija
there is not light and companies would rather set up in ghana than in Nigeria and that is during the time of PDP
Now the banks cant give loan cos uncle Shanusi dey do wonder
Now one rides shipped to Nigeria, we have to pay extra money(CTN Fee) and yet ports are still using manual ways to clear machines . . and you talking of business?

Chief, let us check things before we just talk

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I always support my statements with data. If you look at it from an economic scaled. The GDP Per Capita of the average Nigeria has risen astronomically. Even though there is a lot of work that still needs to be done, there does seem to be hope for Nigeria.

Nigeria actually weathered storm of the financial crisis that hit the United States, Europe and the rest of the world. PDP is not all bad.

Some of you people fail to understand or recognize that GEJ and PDP for all ostensible purposes is good for business. Buhari will be bad for business and scare away investors. I am not expecting those who have no grasp for economics or the international global financial system.

A year is definitely not enough. People are expecting miracles out of decades of degradation. It is going to take a while, but GEJ is the right man for the job.

Buhari will not win my brother.

Sahara Reporters is not a credible news source.

10,000 cops for Ondo

By DAYO JOHNSON
AKURE-ABOUT 10,000 policemen and other security operatives have been deployed to monitor the elections in Ondo State. Also, political thugs in the State have signed undertaking with the security agencies to be of good behaviour before, during and after the elections.

Briefing newsmen in Akure after a state security council meeting, the Police Commissioner, Mr. Sanni Mogaji said that security personnel would monitor tomorrow’s election.
The security operatives include 8,000 policemen and other men of the National Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, Immigration service, Prison Service, State Security Service, SSS, and men of the armed forces.

This came as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, warned security agencies and youth corps members to be deployed for the election against being compromised during the elections.
Mogaji said the security agencies would begin the show of strength from today to warn any trouble makers against disturbing the peaceful conduct of the election.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/04/10000-cops-for-ondo/

Justcash:
Vote Ikedi Ohakim and Theodore Orji out of power!!!!! Set Imo state and Abia State free!!!!!!!!!

Agreed

Kobojunkie:
December 2009's failure to deliver on 6000MW promise made by Jonathan is Obasanjo's failure?

April 2010 failure to deliver on 6900MW promise made in power reform document is Obansajo's failure?

Will Obasanjo also be to blame for non-delivery on the 2013 promise of 13500MW as well?

He assumed office May 2010. It hasn't even been a year! And you are expecting miracles that fast? Be realistic please. . .

Dis Guy:
primary school mathematcis

Jonathan is dumber than Obasanjo /+ Yaradua =  to Jonathan cant do much better!!


Jonathan has more Corrupt godfathers = More money to be spent settling the boys with little achievement

EzeUche, Jonathan is not promoting the IGBO cause 2015 you'd be shocked

all he had to do was implement and monitor ongoing project since 1999 but no he also came with his own plan which isnt even new it was just dusted from obasanjo and yaradua's time, 'new' gas plan that was basically a revised edition

how many roads have been 'completed' since the dufus came on board?

Let me see your Ph.D. before you talk about someone else's credentials.  And I don't care if he is promoting or not promoting the IGBO cause 2015. I don't want to see Buhari get elected and I can never be swayed to that tribalistic man's side.

You asking how many roads have been 'completed,' maybe you should ask the various state governors.

This is horrible.

You people need to listen, why blame GEJ? This is OBJ's failures, not GEJ.

Goodluck hasn't even been president for that long. You expect rapid change to happen in months?

You all need to stop whining. Buhari is only going to win states in the North. Stop acting like he has widespread support in the South.

As we all know Obasanjo is a crook. Why blame Goodluck for OBJ's failures? Just because they are members of the same party, does not mean they are alike.

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seanet02:
@ezeuche, who tell you south west is supporting that satanic buhari? We will never forget how he hounded our leaders in jail while keeping northern leaders in hotels under the guise of house arrest. We all know how he seized the Passport of AWOLOWO for over two years and prevented him from seeking medical attention, we know how Bola Ige, Ajasin, Ebenezer BabaTope and Jakande were jailed on trumped up charges that were never real, we know how he placed soldiers to restrict the movement of AWOLOWO in OGUN state. Mark my word buhari will not win a single councillor election in south west not to even talk of a house of assembly. Ribadu all the way in south west.

Thank you! Seems like the enemy of my enemy is my friend. We in the South-East have not forgotten what he did to Alex Ekwueme. While Buhari's fellow Fulani, Shagari was placed under "house arrest" in a comfortable mansion, Buhari imprisoned Ekwueme in a maximum security prison reserved for dangerous criminals. Don't you see the hypocrisy of this man. I am glad some people in the SW are not swayed by Buhari's supposed stance on "corruption."

I hear that foreigners make up half the population in Ivory Coast. That is unbelievable!

April Fools

Thirst4Lif:
How do you propose African Americans do this? Are you saying they should go to Africa?

Africa is such a large continent, let us be more specific. I propose they travel to Igboland, and that Igbo culture and language should be taught in schools where African Americans attend. Now that is going back to your roots. I don't understand why some schools teach Kiswahili, even though East Africa has nothing to do with the Atlantic Slave Trade.

I see you are still claiming Ijaw oil.

I know it is a long article, but it is well worth the read. Enjoy GEJ supporters and detractors.

https://419.bittenus.com/10/12/Goodluck%20Jonathan.jpg

Jonathan's Three Noble Actions

31 March 2011

So much has been said or written about the temper of President Goodluck Jonathan and how this has impacted on the leadership provided by his government.

To his most considerate critics, he probably would have been a better leader if he had emerged under a political party other than the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

His admirers however contain that even in the tension soaked political atmosphere, Jonathan has demonstrated that if given a chance, he would successfully lead Nigeria to increased political and economic advancement.

I share this later view, considering some of the things I recently discovered about his person and in particular, because of the way Jonathan conducted his presidential campaigns. Permit me to argue that he may have won the record of the most civil sitting president in Nigeria, especially during the usually volatile period of electioneering campaigns. Even if you disagree with this argument, you may not honestly deny the fact that his language and personal conduct as he campaigned for re-election are far better than that of other presidents that have traveled this route before him.

When critics attempt this kind of assessment, the tendency is to tender endless proofs to support their pre-concluded positions. While not disregarding other views that may be canvassed, either for or against him, I so sincerely appreciate some three noble actions which I think have placed Jonathan above most of the presidents before him.

The first is that he is unarguably humble and ordinary, almost to a fault.

Some critics have pointed out that these are signs of weakness. I almost thought so also, especially at the very beginning, when as Vice President, later Acting President, he seemed rather slow in the handling of the intricate political situation of the time.

Then, because of sheer impatience or unwillingness to accept sudden change of approach, many of us out-rightly dismissed him, alleging that he was not mature enough to lead Nigeria. We said he was jittery and shy to assert himself and to take decisive actions when necessary. That was why many wondered if such a president could lead a sensitive and fragile nation like Nigeria at this point of her history.

But since he became president and as a reporter, I decided to observe his moves vis-à-vis his temperament more painstakingly, it has dawned on me that everybody's style and pace must not necessarily be the same. I have also come to suspect that most of the bitterest critics of Jonathan, especially those who hinge their complaints on his alleged ordinariness, have been committing the blunder of comparing his temper with that of the long list of military heads of state and presidents before him. Without realizing the full implications of their demands, the critics seemed to be complaining that Jonathan has not been as autocratic, firm and dictatorial as the military and retired military leaders before him.

The genesis of this unfortunate perspective is understandably traced to the regrettable history of long military dictatorship, a reality that has conditioned most Nigerians to unconsciously admire the culture of brazenness and military fiat. It would only take an objective study of Jonathan's style of leadership to truly understand and appreciate what I consider his deliberate rejection of that despicable culture.

Though I may not, on the account of this point and for some other reasons I would still adduce in this piece, conclusively say Goodluck Jonathan has become perfect, I think there are some basic truths to his campaign claims that he represents fresh breath in Nigerian political landscape. He does, no matter how you look at it.

He may be criticized or even condemned in some respects, but we can not deny that he has, to a very large extent, demystified the office of Mr. President. He has, by what some critics, like you and I, have dubbed ordinariness and common mistakes, further humanized that high office in Nigeria.

Since I adopted a more patient approach in the study of Jonathan's styles, I have come to appreciate his personality better. It has, for example, dawned on me that he has a style, which if tolerated by a greater majority of Nigerians, would help to deepen our democracy. Yes! Enduring democracy can only be built on mutual respect for one another, anchored on civil resolution of issues not by jet pace fiat. Such a civil approach, needless to add, will obviously take time though opportunists may try to make spurious claims against the user.

Notwithstanding claims to the contrary, I dare say Jonathan has scored a strong point by striving to show Nigerians that even as the Executive President of Nigeria, the giant of Africa, he remains a humble citizen that can chat with school boys and girls on Facebook.

He blazed this new trail of campaign in Nigeria since the second half of 2010, when his use of the social media to broaden his interaction with youths and the international community became public knowledge.

The innovation of interacting directly with common citizens, anchored by Goodluck Jonathan Global Campaign Team (GJGCT), may be considered very ordinary and of little consequence in some quarters, but, to many citizens, who have used the social network to directly put across their views and suggestions to the Presidency, there seems to be no better way of demonstrating an admission that Mr. President remains one of the people.

All over the world, concerted efforts are currently being made by governments to reduce the frightening gulf that hitherto separated rulers from the common people. It is good that Jonathan saw the need to join this internationally approved trend.

Even in Nigeria, where some have come to believe so inflexibly that power must intoxicate, Jonathan seems to be saying that Mr. President, in a civil and modern Nigeria, can no longer continue to pretend to be anything more than human.

This humble posture makes sense to me because even the President of the United States of America and that of today's China are still mere human beings? Powerful as they are, they still answer calls of nature, I guess.

The second noble action of Jonathan that, in my view, deserves commendation is his public declaration that politics should not be a 'do or die affair. Shortly after the Port-Harcourt presidential rally tragedy, he courageously said in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State that no one person's personal ambition was worth another person's blood.

If it were a few years back, when the President was expected to talk tough always, he would be condemned for sounding so 'un-presidential.' In fact, he would have been charged for anti-party utterances.

I dare say that under Jonathan, there are some fundamental changes which many of us may not accept immediately. I, for example, believe that this simple statement contains an ideology we should build upon to change Nigerian political culture for good.

I say so because I hold the view that avoidable violence and senseless bloodletting, sponsored by desperate politicians, are two twin demons that have been nurtured by a warped philosophy which contended that survival is only possible when we 'bulldoze and kill off all our opponents.' I have so passionately held this philosophy partly responsible for our socio-political and economic stagnation. So, I accept the view that a president, like Jonathan, who openly acknowledges that his ambition to be re-elected into office is not worth the blood of a single Area-Boy in Oshodi, Lagos, is bringing the kind of vision, the kind of message and the kind of ideal we have been lacking for decades.

Jonathan also demonstrated his willingness to act in accordance with this ideal when he recently suspended his campaign director, Mr. Omeri, for employing foul language against his political opponent, General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). This, in my view, is the third noble action that will certainly endear Jonathan amongst well-thinking Nigerians.

So, before we queue for the decisive presidential and governorship elections, my advice is that other candidates should emulate Jonathan and clearly advise their thugs not to shed human blood in a bid to help their ambitions. They should also call on their aides and loquacious associates not to employ abusive languages while referring to their political opponents or to any other perceived enemy. This is the way to peace and national development.

Please, don't bother to make the argument that Mr. President may have merely made these noble utterances without concretely carrying them out himself. The truth is that the required change of attitude in the country and the resultant socio-political development must begin with this kind of noble messages from Jonathan.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201103311004.html

Nice tune!

I shall seek out one of the Kenyan ladies who enjoy talking to me in class and ask for their number in the honor of the creator of the video.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=636162.msg8028618#msg8028618 date=1301617899]pdp is going to lose a lot of states.[/quote]I hope they lose in Imo and Abia especially. They can stay in Enugu and Rivers state, because of their governors. I think people are basically voting for candidates instead of a party.

Seun:
Continuity, human rights, and privatization.  That's GEJ.  That doesn't mean I'll vote for PDP at state level.

I agree with you 100%. Especially on privatization. There are some business savvy individuals on Nairaland.


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jason123:
Agreed. But we should ask ourselves some fundamental questions. Why are we voting for GEJ? Is it because he is a Southerner or he is the best our country can produce or he fights corruption or what Why are we voting for GEJ when Zoning is still on in PDP? Are we just playing lottery with the presidential post or a certain group of elites choose for us why?

I am getting tired of repeating myself over and over. I am voting for GEJ, because I believe he is the only person capable of solving the conflict in the Niger Delta. Is that so hard to understand? I don't care why other people are voting for him, but I support the man, because I believe he can bring change.

You should already know why I do not support Buhari.