₦airaland Forum

senier007:
This people are nothing but tout, why only disturb African leaders? They are nothing but western puppet, see that sowore hair cut from there you will know he is a motor park tout,
See that Adeola teeth , mtswee none of them study journalist as a profession, none of them, they are only good at criticism that has no value, imagine a sane journalist asking a president this kind of question! " will you step down one day? Before nko! Am totally disappointed in them. We need people that study journalism as a profession to be reporting and writing our reports not agberro with balotelli hair cut, how did they even manage to come close to the VIPS? What are they job of the SSS in screening journalist? We need to be taking things seriously or this anarchist will bring down the whole house.

And what qualification has you to write on nairaland? Since you required Harvard PHD to ask Mugabe the questions millions of Zimbabwean are dying to ask but cannot if they hope to live the next minute.

babasanti:
Mugabe my role model. Very very intelligent ruller unlike the dullard from daura.

I will get you a 1st class ticket then to Bulawayo, you are traveling first thing tomorrow.

searchcorp:
I'm on planet earth where being Kind is a better judgement than being right (pay-back).

Maybe you should go and look up again the meaning of kind. I don't see why asking a man that had been in power when Jonathan may still be in school when he is vacating the seat meant being unkind.

searchcorp:
Am i the only one who thinks they were a little bit rude. The questions were perfect but the mannerism was poor.

the guy on white agbada reminds me of a kegite i used to know back then in FUTA. He was toutish. Adeola could have started by asking him how are you? How do you feel being here today? When are we likely to come to Zimbabwe for an inauguration like this?

What planet are you living on? How can anyone be rude to Mugabe? How can any Nigerian be rude to that despot who takes pleasure rubbishing Nigeria every time.

Well done Sahara Reporters. That's how it's done. He is attending inauguration, when there could be non in his misruled country.
Nigerian outgoing president was probably still in school when that geezer took over a once beautiful country Zimbabwe he turned into a ghetto.
I saw Sesso Nguesso too in attendance. The blights on the conscience of our continent. They should have thrown flour and egg on him, Mugabe.

pazienza:
Are you by any reason saying that as long as the colonial powers deem it right, it is right to Usurp a democratically elected government using arms by a select selfish few? Whatever the colonial( Caucasian powers ) say is right is right? Is that the extent you are willing to go to defend Buhari treason?

This is a typical case of White ass licking. Nobody is caught up with Nigerian hateful tribal politics, Nigerian politics has always been hateful and tribal, ignoring it and pretending it isn't so is sheer stupidity.

Nobody assassinated Buhari character, It is true that he committed treason and was a part of the group that usurped a democratically elected president. It is true that he was an autocrat, a tyrant and military dictator. It is true that he was tribal and sectional in his allocation of projects during his stint as PTF head, cornering majority of the projects for the North while almost forgetting the SE.

It is true that he was part of the most corrupt government in Nigeria, the Abacha government, It is true that he believes Abacha was a saint and didn't steal despite myriads of evidence Proving otherwise.

He won't be exonerated simply because you believe that your Caucasian masters supported military regimes then, therefore military dictatorship was right in your narrow thoughts. Some of us still have independent thought process and our sense of what is wrong or right isn't dictated by the whims and caprices of the Caucasian super powers, this to me is what it means to be Igbo. Being capable of independent thought process.

In life it's always beneficial to be realistic. It's not about what the white man wanted. Even among Nigerians, there was a time military rule was normal.
Have you ever ask yourself who were the ministers, commissioners, local government chairmen and supervisory councillors? Civilians. Who writing the decrees for the military? Your SAN
Where was the judiciary and the judges? Without civilians support, military government has no chance of survival

EMANY01:
Its also true that a thousand people died in 2000 in the sharia riots he helped to precipitate a role which he remains most unapologetic about and which the media have contrived to make Nigerians with neither depth in intellectual capacity nor memory complete not to mention the 800-1000 people that died in 2011 directly attributable to his statements about how the elections were stolen from him.
For Pa Eziaci , i have the utmost respect for him but he can not define the point of view of the youth of today using the fact that he suffered loss in the biafran civil war.He had a bullet in his arm, his family members were killed i will not in anyway reduce the magnitude of those losses but i will tell him that during the past four years, igbos ,south-southerners (i happen to be a mix of both) and anybody who looks like them,have been the casualties of an undeclared war on them because for the first time Nigeria had a man from that region in power.
Limbs have been lost but those were the lucky ones the unlucky we pulverized and fragmented by explosions or burnt beyond recognition making a decent burial all but impossible.
We too have suffered loss and have seen even worse the injustice of the nigerian state so much we have lost the hope that it will ever serve us. Do not assume to know more than us.

I still believe in Biafra even more than you know. Earlier in its foundation, I had given my hard cash to MASSOB but at the moment, I do not know what they stand for. Every period is different. In the 60s we needed to fight but today, you needed to fight a bit smart without having to resorting to abusing people, calling name and confrontational on NL. That's where we differ.
Go and check my posting as far back as 2008.

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
His new found conviction has made him forget what today represents.

Pa Ezeachi, we need your hilarious opinion piece in support of today's Biafran Heros Remembrance Day celebration.

Let's remember our fallen heros and again our two million women and children lost to avoidable starvation (for which they died of hunger and malnutrition) because of "Humanitarian Blockage"

May their souls rest in peace

I remember Biafra fallen heroes every single day not just on any special day. I remembered them every morning taking shower as I wash over my bullet wound mark on my upper arm.
I remembered them everyday because my big brother died at Nsukka front without us having the privilege of burying him decently. 13 members of my immediate family died on a single air raid including my two grandparents.
I remembered them every day because my childhood best friend at Bishop Shanahan college whom I joined the Biafra army the same day and fought on the same unit was killed right beside me in Ogoja.
And was the one that have to tell his peasant parents in person that he aren't coming back. He was from a town called Eziachi, that's where my Nairaland name came from.
And I was just 17.

No surprise there. The op is Ibo, most of us are Ndigbo. That's the difference.

Dorrobucci:
AMAECHI'S WIFE LOOKS LIKE A FISH SELLER... (NO OFFENCE)

How does a fish seller looks like? Maybe it takes one to know one I suppose.

I would have thought that this unlawful 1st lady charade is coming to an end?
What position was she elected to have an official portrait?
Or was it just sycophantic idiots pulling out the lady's picture and misrepresenting her as they usually do with any new kid on the block?

OrlandoOwoh:
Tafawa-Balewa was the deputy leader of the NPC. When Ahmadu Bellow, the leader of the party was unwilling to leave Kaduna, the lot fell on Tafawa-Balewa to be the PM as the NPC emerged with the highest number of seat.

Do you understand the word "handpicked" then? When you chose your deputy and then decided to play the strings from behind-the-scenes, what happened next for your deputy?

Emphany:
And the first move he made is to move our defence base to maiduguri I'm sure if Boko Haram starts attacking from the west,he'll move the base again... I guess dat is wat illitrates do.

There is nothing wrong with the move. I suggested the same policy shift few years ago here on Nairaland. I wished I could be able to pull it out.
You cannot have army hierarchy seating in Abuja while their subordinates run away from the BH. It would make a huge change that they are right there in the midst of things and overseas things instantly and first hand.
There is a saying in Igbo that: "Iru dike na aru nma nko" The face of the mighty warrior blunts the sharpness of the enemy's sword.

OrlandoOwoh:
Who says Tafawa-Balewa was not prepared?

He wasn't. The likes of Shagari sr, Inua Wada and others were well ahead of him in the pecking order in the NPC leadership.
But the grand commander Ahmadu Bello handpicked him.

pazienza:
"Another coup sacked Shagari and the
owners of the coup brought in Buhari to
earn legitimacy because of his personality
and record"

Eziachi, are you trying to say one can build legitimacy through illegitimate foundation?

How can a coup plotter that usurped a democratically elected president and killed our nascent democracy earn legitimacy? If democracy was not allowed to take root, would Buhari be president today? He is now a beneficiary of a system he destroyed and yet you seek to justify and exonerate him, I am perplexed.

Eziachi, I don't want to disrespect you, because
I had utmost respect for a younger pro Biafran you I met when I joined this forum new, but these days you make it so hard not to, with your "mysterious" New way of reasoning.

Buhari as long as I know had a very good record as a minister of Petroleum and as a governor of the old Bauchi State.
Mind you , before the end of the cold war, military rule wasn't viewed in disdain as we view it now, even among the pillars of democracy. All they wanted to know was that you are allied to them against the Soviet block.

Am not begging you not to abuse me if that's what you wanted or it makes you feel better.
In my real life, I often respects those I disagree with their opinions even more. As they helped me to go back on my thoughts, to search myself and see if they got a point or whether am right after all.

My ways of reasoning has not changed really, only that many of you got caught up with the emotions of Nigerian tribal and ethnic hateful politics and were probably too young to go above it.
However, I was not in the same situation, that someone would pull a whool over my eyes based on some sentiments and deliberate character assassinations that wasn't true.

That's why I loved being an Igbo man because our culture dictates that we all should have an opinion and not to follow the whims and caprice of others. Those that doesn't know sees it as being divided, but it's the pillar of what we are as a people. Cheer up. Still one love bro.

She is still a beautiful woman irrespective, there was no need for the Photoshop in the first place.
Beauty has no single definition, it's all in the eyes of the beholder.

Demburrows:
op, trying to tell us what we've been hearing,reading the whole day in almost all the media outfit,, pls tell something new.

You needed a reminder then. It cannot harm you, can it?

warrior01:
Old man Eziachi, I think it's high time you retired as old age is clearly taking it toll on you. unfolding events even from the inaugural speech have shown that the man is not even prepared for the task ahead. This is the time for reality and not for propaganda. Good night my friend

No problem Master foetus, I will retire, anytime you begin to make more sense or write better than me. I promise.
Have a good life.

After magnanimously wearing Aba made attire. He should make sure he drives no Japanese made Toyota Prado or German made BMW and Mercedes.

For the first time in the Nigerians history, they had a non accidental president. One that really aspired and wanted to be president by his own volition and choice.

1960: Instead of a well prepared leader in Azikiwe, the British imposed on Nigeria a very simple, unassuming, quiet and unprepared former school teacher cum politician, Balewa as her Prime Minister.

Ironsi found himself there by accident through the event of the 1st 1966 coup . The same scenario event brought in Gowon following the 2nd 1966 coup.

Another coup accidentally brought Murtala Mohammed and after his assassination six months later,, saw a terrified OBJ becoming the new leader without prior warning and totally unprepared.

Civilians returned in 1979 with Shagari as the compromised leader as a result of the two that wanted to lead fighting each otherc to a finish without a winner. Am talking about Umaru Shinkafi and Adamu Ciroma fighting each other to a standstill for the coveted NPN crown in 1979.
And Abiola was an outsider for the same NPN tiicket, then well groomed leaders like Azikiwe, Awo, Aminu Kano and Waziri Ibrahim were equally all left in the cold.

Another coup sacked Shagari and the owners of the coup brought in Buhari to earn legitimacy because of his personality and past records as an honest man.

But quickly they realized their mistakes, when Buhari deprived them the keys to the national treasury, and the same gang overthrew him and brought in their main and reality leader IBB, who handed them the keys to loot the treasury.

When Nigeria got tired of their political games and they refused Abiola the seat he aspiired and won, they hastely brought in a scared Shonekan to hold the forth as they stepped aside.

Shonekan was quite happy just to leave Aso Rocks with his life when psychopathic Abacha predictably kicked him out of office and took over without any plans but power.

Abacha then died mysteriously and in came another fire brigade leader, this time Abdusalami Abubakar.
The current environment was too hot for him to stay and the pressure from the West was too great for him to hang on to power.

So the Northern military gang could not risk giving power to one of the Yoruba NADECO raskals, hence they went to the prison and brought out a tired and wasted OBJ and made him the president the second time without adequate preparation.

When OBJ finished after trying but failed to get a third term mandate, he forced the presidency onto a Yar Adua who doesn't want to be president after his well documented struggles with his health being the governor of Katsina State for eight years. All he wanted was a good rest

Yar Adua, then kicked the bucket after few years in office and in come Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who was quite happy just being a deputy governor in Bayelsa he never dreamt of becoming in the first place when Alamesiegha chose him.
Many chances and series of accidents then thrusted Jonathan with power unprepared.

So , for the first time in the history of Nigeria, Buhari has come in as a president of Nigeria who actually aspired and really wanted to lead and finally got the job on the fourth attempt.
Let see what difference that would make in four years. He may well be like others irrespective of these facts of history and scenarios. Time will tell.

luvinhubby:
Thank you sir for your humble & simplistic leadership, the world stage welcomes you.

Simplistic life of 11 executive jets and millions of Naira annual budget for feeding. Simplistic indeed!!

Three questions for this op
1. Are you more aware of military command and structure than a five star military general that had commanded troops and infantries?

2. Why do the Americans set up their command/Staff centre in the "GREEN ZONE" inside Baghdad and in Kuwait for the two Gulf wars?

3. Why did the American had their command centre at the Bagram Airport Base in Kabul Afghanistan?

If this is the way you guys are planning to run this opposition business, you should have taken up Lai Mohammed earlier offer for a free lesson on opposition politics.

The usual excuses of unrepentant thief, always are:
Am not the only one.
Am not alone.
What about him?
Why only me?

Sweetguy25:
Why should he, and what are his so-called achievements? A voters register filled with under aged voters?

Some of you should stop mourning. What stops you having your own over age voters? Those you are tagging underage may already been fathers and mothers of a child or even vfamily dependent in their own rights.
In my opinion, the so called over age voting is the same with age in love. Age is only numbers, which a simple legislation can change. Mourning about over age voting is like those racist southerner American politicians mourning about their opponents winning with black vote when the law placated them from voting in those years.

Issue relating age of a voter is not rigging, what is rigging is announcing figures cooked up in a hotel, that doesn't represent human activity.
If someone is able and political aware enough to register, collect PVC, go for accreditation and stand patiently under the scorching sun and knew how to vote, age to me is irrelevant.
So stop mourning and roll out your own under age voters, that is, if they know actually aware of an election or are they more interested in the goings on the American idol voting.
Stop bleating like a loser.

In capitalist society, there is always the big debate on how to go with taxation when the economy is bad as Nigerians at the moment.
Those on the right always believe that austerity measures is the way forward and this includes cutting off all possible State subsidies and any sign of social security benefits. Then cut tax for the richest of the society in the belief that they will use that money from tax cut to create more jobs.
While those on the left will tow the line of increasing tax on the most well off and create massive infrastructural development and the idea is that , construction industry tent to create jobs more than any other sector of the economy.
There are benefits from both ideological stances but the one I had always rejected was that the richest will benevolently use their cash saved from tax cut to trickle down the chain of economic benefits by creating new jobs.
That's fantasy. If you give a rich man more money he will only be thinking on how to improve on his jets, yachts and mansions.
Buhari and his government will be inheriting a possible empty treasury and depleted economy, I believed that they needed to bring any measures possible to help them raise cash. This is one of my ideas on how they can raise a huge cash through taxation, I believed many Nigerians will support.
They should introduce what I will call a "Honorary Tax". The reference of this taxation would be that all chieftaincy titles, honorary doctorates, religious knighthoods and Alhajis and self imposed pastoral titles jshall now be subjected to taxation per title. So if how ten titles, you have ten separate invoices.
This taxation shall not be a one off. It shall be payed annually as long a the title exist and used, hence it will need a parliamentary legislation in order to give it legal backing. It shall kick in six months after its enacted to give anyone the opportunity to renounce a title they cannot afford or return its to their awardees and gazetted. Followed with a newspaper or other public media excluding social medias renouncing it. Any use of an unpaid title will bring a prosecution that will attract a heavier fine than the tax itself and not imprisonment.
Nigerians love big titles, many of them will sales their kids to keep their titles.

This is why this guy will ever remain clueless. Who told him that De Klerk's wife divorced him because he relinquish power?
The couple divorced after he was found to be having an affair with a friend of the family and that was even well after the demise of apartheid. The lady did not even want the divorce, completely against her wish.
Does Jonathan even read? Who feed him this sort of craps? Do they ever check simple facts before vomiting it in public as fact? It's very embarrassing.
Can someone please remind the Jesus of Otueke that in a democracy when you lose an election, you're supposed to call and congratulate the winner and leave office?
It's not a big deal. He hasn't achieved any extraordinary feat conceding defeat.
What does he mean by he will be persecuted or Does he meant prosecuted?
If Patience is planning to divorce him for refusing to die, he should leave De Klerk's wife out of his fantasy history church tales to his mofos audience, because his story is a total fabrication.
Am getting sick of Jonathan telling himself he is the messiah of Nigeria, just because he did the needful or get himself in the Hague.

Dear Mr Buhari, it may not have been laughable finding yourself at the leadership of Nigeria once again meeting an empty treasury. When the army overthrew NPN/Shagari’s government, Nigeria was up to their eyeballs in debt, oil price was as good as free, the economy was in comatose and Umaru Dikko expected folks to be feeding from the dustbin before he can really see to it that people were suffering.
That was after the Obasanjo government with oil boom behind them handed over to Shagari/Ekwueme, a pumper treasury full of cash.

It seems that your second coming will be the same. Obasanjo again came in 1999 to land on another luck with an oil boom, so good that they can afford to pay off Nigerian debt despite their monumental corruption and starched billions of cash in reserve for Nigeria. The Ijaw guy, just like Shagari was handed over this honey pot that the first official thing he did was to take delivery of another brand new presidential jet to add to all ready bursting fleet, voted millions for his own personal feeding, handing out contract like confetti and before they could say hail merry, the cash is all gone, reserved cash was molested beyond recognition and the worse being that Nigeria is back in the red by a couple of billions, this time not just to the gringos but to the Chinese as well. Oil price at its lowest once again.

You may likely meet an open and empty treasury against the expectation of Nigerians expecting a miracle. My advice for you is to take heart, don’t whine, and roll up your sleeve and go to work. The bad situation you may be handed over may become a blessing in disguise in the end. My father always say that the business that start with roll of cash always ends in roll of empty safe but the one started with nothing seems to thrive because you are forced to count the pennies.

Always be mindful that you are the first proper leader that Nigeria has ever had since the British left. What I meant was that you are the first Nigerian leader who did not become leader by accident.
Balewa-Ironsi-Gowon-Murtala-1st time OBJ-Shagari-Your 1st time-Babangida-Shonekan-Abacha-Abdulsalam-2nd OBJ-Yardua and GEJ all came in by accident, coincidence or just luck. None of them aspired, yearned, pushed or ever fought in order to lead. But your second coming is how it supposed to be. For 12 years you fought like Hercules, wanting to lead and you finally made it. That is why you are different from the rest. The first Nigerian leader that really aspired to lead.

Do not make the mistake Jonathan made, buying a new plane even before he could sit down, hiking the price of petrol, courting and measuring welfare of Nigerian masses based on the number of owners of private jets. Ride with the masses and forget about the SUV club, the masses put you where you will be sitting by May 29th. It is the masses that win elections, not the Abuja jet set club. Stay with the masses even if you have to fell out with your party.

Start, if possible selling off the present Aso Rock collection of jets, the proceed could even build us that ever elusive 2nd Niger Bridge with some change left over. Take bill to the National assembly demanding to cut salaries of all elective office holders and their appointees by at least 50 percent. If the need be, use the masses to blackmail them into submission. In government, time waits for no one. The earlier you set the ground running the better. You will make mistakes, no doubt, that is normal but don’t make a deliberate one because myself for one will be ready and the first to kick you backside for it.
All the best. Because you are going to need it.

He is not president of Nigeria yet, AIT are not banned, not actually barred from state functions but his private functions, which he has every right and entitlement to.
The same thing Obama recently did to Boston Herald, George Bush did it to Al Jazeera. I cannot remember Jonathan ever inviting Sahara Reporters to his private functions.

AIT refused even to broadcast Buhari's paid campaign ads and then aired a documentary accusing him of killing his own wife and daughter. They are lucky it wasn't OBJ who once invaded the same station with troops when they aired lies that his government bought a tokunbo plane.

AIT has no moral right to turn up at Buhari's private residence to cover his activities on the basis of what they did and he may choose not to let them.
If they are that desperate to now cover his event, then they have to wait until he is sworn in as president, they can then cover state functions, that is, if his office grants them the accreditation to do so.

Unlimited access to media coverage is not a right by any standard in law anywhere in the world. It's not an entitlement, but courtesy a courtesy privilege. The same goes for granting any media interviews.

When Jonathan's government arrested and detained 2 Al Jazeera journalists for a month, no one called Jonathan a dictator or shouted about freedom of the press. Did they? Jonathan's government arrested and detained the owner of Sahara Reporters and confiscated his passport in 2012, nobody mentioned press freedom!
Nigerians are bloody hypocrites.

AIT are not legally entitled to cover Buhari activities at his home or his office even after being sworn in. That is not the same as banning them or withdrawing their broadcasting license or stopping them covering any of his activities outside his private settings or his office, where he reserves the right for participation.
The word freedom has never been absolute and that includes press freedom itself. Even a mere public hospital, some areas are clearly marked out of bound or staff only. Someone staying in a public building doesn't mean unlimited access to everyone. Every government must try to be open and accessible but do not translate such access as rights.

It doesn't matter if you don't like Buhari or still spiked by his victory against your preferred candidate, in this particular case, morality and law is on his side and you don't have to like it. It's called Oso Ndi Owendi in Igboland

I was privileged to witness the two elections while holidaying in Nigeria in Orlu and Port Harcourt precicely. I left Orlu on the eve before the presidential election and travelled to Port Harcourt.
Everywhere was tensed. Ideato where I stayed for few nights visiting extended relatives was locked down with military presence that you will think that there is a war coming.
It was a day after the election when picture started to emerge, why the military presence- Ideato. Ideato is the heartland and beat of APC in Imo, Mr Okorocha's home town.
In Port Harcourt on the election day, it was very quiet around my residential home in Elekahia Housing Estate.
Those around me , non of them voted. There reason being that Jonathan has won already without them voting, which was odd at first.
They were all diehard supporters of GEJ but were sharply divided with the governorship contest candidates.
We all sat together watching as the collation exercise with Jega was going on with the exceptIon of my wife who aren't interested until Orubebe decided to enter the stage.
We all had a good laugh about it and in fact Orubebe succeeded in getting my Scottish wife interested in the election.
It was after the Orubebe side show that I personally called the election for Buhari because I knew both side had already knew the outcome from their polling agents, hence, Orubebe's outburst.

But my diehard GEJ supporters relatives thought that I was mad because Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Delta has some atomic bomb vote not yet called eventhough they never bothered to go out and vote themselves.

And they were right. Rivers state vote dropped like an atomic bomb and they got excited and more excited when Akwa Ibom and Delta was dropped.

But that excitement was shortlived when Katsina was released, and with Borno and I think Sokoto yet out of the bag. It was at that point they were forced agreed with me that Jonathan is now officially an ex president.

At that point, lunch was called with many more relatives and old friends trooping in to see me for the first time after my amputation surgery.
Discussion then turned to where it all went wrong. With all sorts of reasons and blames. Most prominent was that it was a gang up. I reminded them 2011.

But the biggest blame was that of underage voters tilting it for Buhari.
They were alarmed when I said that I do not have much problem with underage voting, eventhough it is unlawful.

Rather, I am against people sitting down to write vote numbers no one casted. Under age voting is a question of a,made law barring a young person from voting because of their age, eventhough many of them are more political aware than grown men that sell their PVC for few hundred Naira.
And in theory, there is no way to prove that the under age vote benefitted a certain candidate. In theory under age vote is the same when women were barred from voting in England because of their gender or when black people was barred from voting in America because of their race.
But in time both were removed to allow both groups to vote. But never would writing of non existing vote ever be allowed In any democracy. That is my reason.

If the very young people in the north were political conscious enough to register, endevour to collect their PVC, stand for hours to be accredited and voted, good luck to them.
What about their counterparts down sourh? How much of awareness of whats going on do they have Absolutely non!
How can they? When they are more interested in what the Kardashians had for breakfast than knowing that there is a political party called KOWA in this election.

In few weeks time, Mr Mohammad Buhari along with Femi Osinabjo will we sworn in as the president and vice president of Nigeria. Record shows that most successful leaders often hit the ground running immediately after they are sworn in.

Buhari ran on the mantra of tackling corruption and I do hope and wish that he will keep to his words. However, if I am to have an audience with him, I will tell him few things, but I would like him to do two particular important things regarding his plans to fight corruption.

I will advise Buhari to declare a Financial Amnesty that,will be backed up by a legislative Statute (law). The Amnesty will mandate every public official from 1999 till date to voluntarily return, whatever they had taken illegally from the Nigerian State without their name being made public or prosecuted.
The Amnesty shall last for eight months, after which, they door of the Amnesty shall be shut.

The Amnesty shall be followed with a Statutory Legislation authorizing constitution of a Financial/Economic Crime Tribunal with SPECIAL powers to try crimes specific to economics/finance matters.
The tribunal shall be situated in each of the present 6 Geo-political zones outside the state capitals with reputable 7 judges at each center.

Tribunal center SHALL have jurisdiction to try any accused person assigned to it, irrespective of where defendant comes from.
Anyone found to be economical with the truth with Amnesty declaration shall face the tribunal. Anyone that failed to declare anything but was later found to have some skeletons, shall equally face the tribunal. This will quicken the dispensation of cases and reduce the backlog in the court and deliberate waste of time by attorneys.

Buhari shall overhaul and restructure the EFCC and backed it with a forensic science department. Those charged by the EFCC shall face the tribunal rather than the normal court.

When Fashola government deported Igbos and some others for whatever reason given. I personally kicked against it because never in my over 40 years of living in Britain have I heard any English county deporting a British national because he is Scottish, Welch or northern Irish.
I cannot either remembering any American deported from New York because he is an unemployed miscreat or a criminal from Alabama.
I was egging Jonathan on to come out in force to defend her citizens but he had 2015 in mind by playing the ostrich through the saga just like OBJ with the Sharia.

I reasoned that if they brought Ndigbo back into Nigeria after millions of blood was shed through the civil war, that every Onye-igbo should be able to live wherever they choose without being labelled a non indigenous person in their supposed country and that goes for any other person in Nigeria irrespective of their tribal lineage.

There is no doubt, that with a huge Igbo population in Lagos, that they as a group is an asset to any party or candidate in Lagos if well harnessed. I reasoned that Ndigbo in Lagos could be a bride being chased by two suitors if they manage themselves well.

When some were making noise endorsing Jonathan with chest beating, I warned against that because I believed that, they could have courted both sides and whoever win, they will still be in the driving seat.
But when you lay all you eggs into one basket, you are playing a risky and a dangerous game.
Who does not know that other southern groups voted for PDP in presidential poll , but no one is talking about them because they played it cool and silently?

Who does not know that most Yoruba traditional rulers are non party carrying members of either PDP or APC? The likes of Sijuade is PDP, Awujale leans towards APC and overall, Oba Akiolu is APC without having to disguise it.
So when Ndigbo voted Jonathan, the likes Akiolu must have been silently peeved but when some Igbo individuals started the noise again with Agbaje, when the likes of Akiolu is rooting for Ambode, I knew that it's bound to get ugly and that has resulted in his childish ranting recently.

So it seems that Ndigbo don't seem to learn how to play Nigeria politics again. Why start a fight that is not necessarily important, not yours and a fight you are unlikely to win?.
By openly pitching tent with Agbaje, you don't expect the other side to be happy, knowing the nature of Nigeria personal interest politics.
What does Agbaje represent for Ndigbo in the past that we have decided, not only fight his fight but engaged their traditional institution in an open war of words? I don't get it!
Agbaje and Ambode's fight is like that fight between a husband and wife and whoever tried to meddle will get hurt and blamed after the couple's make up sex.

Ndigbo could have easily played both sides effectively and still come out tops. Does Agbaje likes Igbo more than Ambode? No!
Is his victory assured? Not in the least.
If he loses ( with a 50% chance) after openly campaigning against his opponent, then what?

Any party or candidate in Lagos who felt that Igbos are not an electoral asset in Lagos is only kidding himself. But if you are an asset, why turn it into a liability through your own actions or inaction?
In New York or Florida politics, the Jews plays this role to their benefit without openly supporting anyone in both local and national politics. Ndigbo can do the same in Lagos, Nasarawa, Rivers or Kogi.
Just like a beautiful well endowed woman, if she cannot manage effectively, her God's given assets, it may turns out to become her achilles that will turn into a liability.
Agbaje, Bode George who is still not yet in exile or Andy Ubah careless about Ndigbo more than the bias Oba Akiolu , but they will try to create enmity between ordinary Igbos and Yorubas for political expediency. Only a fool will dance to their tune.

It is no secret that I personally had never rated Goodluck Jonathan as a leader right from his days as a deputy governor in Bayelsa, and nothing to do with just his presidency. I have always maintained that he was among those a certain faith usually placed on the Nigeria accidental leadership conveyer belt that began with Tafawa Balewa.

For the first time since Jonathan stumbled upon the leadership of Nigeria he made a decisive decision without going if, can I or should I that had plagued his leadership from day one, that has often resulted in bad news that could have been avoided. It was such indecisiveness that cost him a second term as president.

That first time decisive action was his decision to thrown in the towel when it was obvious that that the evil day they conspired to postpone for six weeks is not going away and now a complete reality especially after that Orubebe show of shame, as Obama and the Americans, plus the EU were kneeling on his back and probably the words of his former godfather (OBJ) was ringing in his ears about the Gbagbo’s outcome effect.

So I commended Jonathan for saving self that agony, saving innocent kids in Niger Delta of whom leeches like Orubebe has already mapped out evil plans to sacrifice. It must have been difficult for him to call it a day, especially with the sort of pressure his power drunken Mrs could have mounted on him to fight rather than to go quietly.

Having said that, it a bit going over the top, calling Jonathan a hero, the saviour of Nigeria democracy, the highest statesman etc by some crack head politicians and their supporters who cost him the election in the first place through their actions, inactions and zombie like utterances. Jonathan did what any sensible person will do when you got no choice or any positive alternatives. Calling Jonathan a hero is like calling a starving person a hero for gulping down a cheeseburger with a bottle of ice cold cola.

I was in Orlu on the elections day and saw how the whole place was locked down with armoured personnel carriers. However, the indiscriminate arrest of those the perceived to be their opponent and intimidation was very scary. By the evening on the Election Day, the whole of Mgbee Road in Orlu town leading to Ideato towards Ogboko where Mr Okorocha hails from was like a military war zone. I witnessed this first hand, not through internet posted pictures. That is not what a hero of democracy inspires his foot soldiers to do.

Having said all that, Jonathan deserved some respect and must be commended and emulated by all leaders, especially those in Nigeria to accept defeat when it’s a real defeat and to say no when it’s a fraudulent defeat through peaceful means, like Al Gore did in 2001 or Fayemi in 2014.
In fact, most African leaders ARE already ahead in terms of accepting defeat, irrespective of the so called incumbency when they lose.

And have you seen how relax Jonathan looks this days since conceding defeat to Mr Buhari? I was telling my wife that he must have had the best sleep in 6 years that night. Suddenly he is free, from the Chibok girls to the empty treasury he will leave behind.