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Politics / Re: 2019 Presidential Election Results Announcement By Mahmood Yakubu, INEC (Part 2) by faaz24: 7:28pm On Feb 26, 2019
ollah2:


There is a party called ADC that precedes and sounds exactly like APC. Surely some people thump printed mistakenly for ADC instead of APC
True

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Politics / Re: 2019 Presidential Election Results Announcement By Mahmood Yakubu, INEC (Part 2) by faaz24: 6:40pm On Feb 26, 2019
Where is the katsina result
Politics / Re: Reno Omokri Attacks Dele Momodu Over His Tweet To Atiku. by faaz24: 2:32pm On Feb 26, 2019
I wish BUHARI was alive to see how JUBRIL has made him proud���

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Politics / Re: Buhari Floors Atiku In Bauchi by faaz24: 2:27pm On Feb 26, 2019
I wish BUHARI was alive to see how JUBRIL has made him proud���

Abeg....

Like for jubril
Share for Buhari
Quite for Atiku.
Politics / Re: Just In: Senate Reconvenes, Adjourns To March 12 by faaz24: 2:26pm On Feb 26, 2019
BluntBoy:


And the lagoon should be well policed.
I wish BUHARI was alive to see how JUBRIL has made him proud���
Politics / Re: Just In: Senate Reconvenes, Adjourns To March 12 by faaz24: 12:56pm On Feb 26, 2019
collinsuchendu:
Like for Buhari, Share for Atiku

Keep ur eyes on every PDP supporter around U. Do not allow them to play with ropes. I repeat do not allow them to play with ropes. Please let us be our brother's keeper

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Politics / Re: Buhari Locks In Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Niger, Kwara - Leadership by faaz24: 8:18am On Feb 25, 2019
marriseller:
Brilliant!
Absolutely brilliant!

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Politics / Re: PDP Will Accept Outcome Of Elections – Tambuwal by faaz24: 7:14am On Feb 24, 2019
The difference between Buhari and Atiku supporters..
PVC & DATA.
Politics / Re: You Must Accept Defeat. PDP To Buhari. by faaz24: 6:21am On Feb 24, 2019
koboko69:
Lol...clowns!

I tell you... Senseless clowns
Politics / Re: Kayode Alabi Reads ‘ó tó gé’ from Bible at church service by faaz24: 6:37am On Feb 18, 2019
NOC1:


We are discussing verse 26 my brother, a sermon can be conducted with only a line from a verse.
But if you keep reading downwards to end you will see that the land was conquered.
Now I prophesy to you the land will be conquered but i pray you will be among those that will step thy foot into the new Kwara, for the bible said O to ge.
A ye o.
Aiye re ma dara... Koni baje o
Politics / Re: President Buhari’s Statement On Postponement Of Elections By INEC by faaz24: 11:33am On Feb 16, 2019
MY OPINION ON THE POSTPONEMENT OF THE GENERAL ELECTIONS

Fellow compatriots, there is more to it than what meets the eye, about INEC's surprising decision to postpone the general elections, due to commence today. My guts feeling is that, the postponement has everything to do with security threats, and probably nothing to do with logistics and operations, as claimed by INEC. I refuse to buy this INEC's simplistic narrative.

In the attached photos, you see election results already prepared in favour of the PDP in Abia State. The culprits have since been arrested and are helping the authorities with their investigation. In Kano state too, a truck loaded with ballot papers thumb printed, in favour of the APC, have been apprehended by the police. Meanwhile you also see a dangerous suspect, who went to the Delta State INEC office well armed. Furthermore, in some SE states, INEC offices have been burnt down by IPOB terrorists.

But worse still, the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Friday, confirmed the massacre of 66 Fulani people in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state. Among the victims were 22 children and 12 women, while four wounded persons were rescued alive, the governor said in a press release.

Now, with all these ugly local domestic happenings, let us factor in the foreign threats for an objective analysis. First on the list, let us analyse the CIA with their bad intentions. They unashamedly came out to publicly say that they are closely watching the general elections with microscopic lenses. But we know how the CIA works. They are the most dangerous terrorist organisation the world has ever seen. They sponsor terrorism around the world. They then blame it on whoever they want to undermine.

Secondly, let us study France, the co-sponsors of Boko Haram, whose life ambition is to see the destruction of the Nigerian state. It is alleged that Atiku Abubakar has promised to sell off the NNPC to a French company in return to the French government's alleged massive financial support to his presidential campaign.

Thirdly, let us analyse Iran, who are also alleged to be playing a dirty game on us. They have been allegedly supporting Atiku, in revenge for the Zaria massacre of Shia followers, and indefinite incarceration of Mallam Ibrahim El-zakzaky.

There might be numerous other external threats that cannot even be mentioned on social media platforms. So, while I am as angry and disappointed as everybody else for the postponement of the general elections, considering the colossal amount of money given to INEC to deliver these elections in a free and fair manner, postponing the elections just hours away from commencement can only mean security threats that are too heavy to ignore have surfaced.

I therefore call on fellow Nigerians to be very objective in condemning this unwelcome development. May it be in the best interest of Nigeria and Nigerians. Amen. No matter what the internal and external threats, the general elections will definitely be held.

May God save Nigeria and Nigerians. Amen.

Dr. Idris Ahmed.
CUPS.
16/02/2019.

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Politics / Re: Breaking: INEC In Emergency Meeting Over Presidential Election by faaz24: 10:02pm On Feb 15, 2019
rentAcock:
My parents support Buhari, 2 out of my 5 siblings support Atiku. I also support Atiku. Tomorrow marks my parents' wedding anniversary, it will be a very awkward gathering after Atiku wins by a landslide.
Even for una house Buhari don win ,
Tomorrow also marks your parents wedding anniversary, what a sweet coincidence it will be for them, they will celebrate and JUBRILATE at the same time .

Happy wedding anniversary to them.
Politics / Re: ‘those Who Say I Don’t Have Stamina Can Say Something Else Now’ — Buhari Speaks by faaz24: 5:31pm On Feb 15, 2019
TheAngry1:
They said he'd die, he disappointed them. They said he was frail, he campaigned in 35 states, more states than his younger opponents. They claim he is nepotic, but he gave choice appointments to a region that gave him ONLY a total of 196000 votes. They claim he is divisive, yet he is completing projects in regions that openly hate him. They've said he'll lose to his opponents, he'll shame them tomorrow.

We shall start the jubrilation from 2:15 pm on Saturday
Atiku stands no chance ..

Jubril will send those kleptomaniacs into political oblivion.
Nigerians will celebrate and JUBRILATE

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Politics / Re: Walter Onnoghen, Ex-CJN Standing In The Dock (Photos) by faaz24: 2:12pm On Feb 15, 2019
Some Mai Shai, Mai Suya av gone back to d north 2 vote Buhari while PhD holders without PVC are still on internet blowing grammar

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Politics / 13th February : Let's Remember General Murtala Ramat Muhammad by faaz24: 9:41am On Feb 13, 2019
Today is the 13th of February... Let us remember General Murtala Ramat Muhammad, head of state from July 1975 to February 1976

Politics / Re: Photo Of Buhari With Emir Of Ilorin, Oloffa Of Offa Alhaji Ibrahim Gambari by faaz24: 4:21pm On Feb 11, 2019
nothingspoil70:
Amen, Amen, Amen

By the grace of almighty lord...
Amen, Amen, Amen
Politics / Re: Lagos Ibadan Railway - An Attempt To Rewrite History by faaz24: 9:23am On Feb 07, 2019
post=75490020:

So True.

Obituary is nothing but a habitual LIAR.
Sane Nigerians know that now.

We know this from day one.
President Buhari has been a Blessing to this country, only the children of hate and perdition think otherwise.


Thanks for this clear and concise information FriendNG.
God bless you real good.
PDP came up with projects worth of BILLIONs and looted all the money without setting a single block!!

All being said, THE END JUSTIFY THE MEANS.
GOD BLESS OUR PRESIDENT AND HIS VICE PRESIDENT PROF YEMI OSIBANJO.

To the NEXT LEVEL we go.

Below are part of the 69 different projects going on around the country presently (space will not permit us to list them all), with the name of the companies the projects are awarded to, date and AMOUNT, UNPRECEDENTED in the history of Nigeria!!!
God bless the day we voted PMB into power
God bless you
God bless PMB /PYO
god bless Nigeria

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Politics / Re: PDP Will Not Win A Single Seat In Kwara State- Survey by faaz24: 9:11am On Feb 07, 2019
post=75490022:
CONFIRM!!
Every honest and hardworking Kwarans have rejected the killer and thief called Saraki.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Ó tó gé !!
Politics / FOR THE RECORD : What El-rufai Actually Said by faaz24: 6:25am On Feb 07, 2019
Kaduna Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, appeared on an NTA late-night programme on Tuesday.

Responding to a question from the host, Cyril Stober, the governor spoke about foreign intervention in Nigerian affairs. Mr El-Rufai said the country was ready to confront any foreign invader who tries to militarily intervene in the country, and that any such person would be taken out in body bag.

The comment has sparked controversies, with interest groups subjecting it to various interpretations.

PREMIUM TIMES has watched the about two-hour programme and hereby transcribed the governor’s exact answer to the question that triggered the comment.

Before I get to the issue of interference and intervention, I think you raised a fundamental question that I think I would want to comment on. Why are there shouts of rigging of elections? I think my brother …. tried to throw light on that. I mean when a politician faces an election situation and he thinks he is likely to lose, it is quite likely to start crying wolf. It is okay. It is normal. It is human and it is political.

Okay, but what we are seeing in Nigeria, in this election circle, it is illogical because President Muhammadu Buhari has, under his watch, overseen the conduct of several elections. He has seen the election of Kogi, Bayelsa, Ekiti, Anambra, Osun. At least five governorship elections have taken place since President Buhari took over and there is not one instance that anyone from the ruling party or the opposition party or any party for that matter accused the federal government of interfering with INEC’s operations.

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So the president I think has a credible track record in non-interference, in the running of INEC, under two different heads of INEC. So, I think anyone that accuses President Muhammadu Buhari or his party of trying to rig elections is being too clever by half or totally irresponsible or reckless because there is no record of the president in interfering in elections. And the best person to ask is the governor of Anambra State. He would give that testimony where the president even intervened to change the security chiefs when the governor complained that some security chiefs were compromised. The president has been trying.

I think in the public interest of Nigerians we should stop being irresponsible and politicising everything. Lets look at the record of this president and INEC. Secondly, I was quite visible in the Osun election and I know what happened in Ekiti and I was also in Edo. And what I have seen on the part of INEC is rapid improvement in their operations. Their logistical capabilities have improved. Their capacity to conduct credible elections has been significantly improved. I was most impressed. I think we are getting to a point, in my view as a politician, where I would not need polling agents on election day. Because it would be nearly impossible to manipulate results.

I am confident based on what I have seen from Kogi to Edo down to Osun One. I mean the first round of the Osun election because I was there. I was not around for Osun two. I think INEC is in a position to conduct a very credible election. Nobody should be afraid. You can only be afraid when you are sure you are going to lose and when you are trying to create a foundation for future crises.

And this is what is worrying me. All the information and signals we are getting from the PDP indicates that, one they know they would lose this election; two they want to illegitimise this result in advance. No one in the PDP can point at the leadership of INEC and say that they are in a position that they want to manipulate election results. There is no record of that after we have elected six governors out of the circle.

So they want to illegitimise the result in advance so that when they lose they would say we told you so. Number three it appears to me and from all the intelligence available to us that they are trying to create a crisis after the result has been announced and they have lost. I think every responsible Nigerian should rise up against this.

Where does interference come in. I now come to Prof. Prof is trying to differentiate interference and intervention.

It is a basic principle of international law that no country should interfere in the internal affair of another country. We can comment on Brexit. That is not interference. But when you come into a country and make statements without facts in an attempt to complicate the internal government of that country that is interference and it is irresponsible.




What we have seen from the three countries the EU, US and UK in response to the suspension of the chief justice and trying to link the suspension of the chief justice to the electoral act law is the most irresponsible piece of diplomatic mishap I have ever seen in my 59 years of living in Nigeria. I have read about international law. I have seen how countries operate. Those statements where coordinated. They were based on no information at all and they were most irresponsible.

And I am happy that the presidency responded to it and as Nigerians, we must understand that these guys can sit pretty in their countries, say things and when the crises happen we are here. We are the victims, our wives and children are the victims. We must rise up and unite and say no to violence in this country.

We have every confidence that INEC would conduct credible elections and we challenge opposition parties to point out what part of the logistical arrangement of the electoral preparations give room for any manipulations. Otherwise they should shut up and go and get people to vote for them.

We all do polls. A poll was released today by the opposition showing that they are likely to win. We have our own polls that show something different. But do not let us use our own internal polls or procured polls to try to delegitimise the election in advance. At the end of the day it is Nigeria’s 84 million registered voters that would line up and vote on the 16 of February. Let us wait for the result and if the results are not what we expect them to be, there is a process to challenge them. We have election tribunals. President Buhari did that three times. He never resorted to violence. He never called for violence. He went to the Supreme Court three times. Let these other parties that are not used to losing elections …. We are used to losing elections. Those of us that came from the opposition, we know the pain of losing elections and the pain of things stolen from us.

But we never resorted to violence. We went through the due process even if it was unfair to us. We accepted the outcome. Let every Nigerian, let us all commit that we have a country and we have institutions and we should allow those institutions to work. If we have a situation that the security forces are biased as the governor of Anambra complained to the president, raise the flag and give the authorities the opportunities to change them. But do not try to create trouble because your children have all been taken out abroad or they are studying abroad and it is the children of the ordinary that would be up on the streets killing one another.

This is my appeal. Now, intervention is the higher form of interference where countries intervene militarily. We have done that in Sierra Leone and Liberia and we only did so because we had the international community actually appealing to Nigeria to go in and restore order. It cost us a lot of money and lives and we never got anything from it. We did it out of good neighbourliness.

Those that are calling for anyone to come and intervene in Nigeria, we are waiting for the person to come and intervene. They would go back in body bags because nobody would come to Nigeria and tell us how to run our country. We have got that independence. We are trying to run our country as decently as possible. And we know the history of those countries that are trying to teach us these things. We have read their history. We also know their own stages of development. They went through these challenges. So, let us work together. Let’s advise one another. But don’t lecture us.

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Politics / Re: Amaechi Reveals The Amount Of Money Jonathan Left In Government Coffers by faaz24: 7:21am On Feb 06, 2019
GET IT STRAIGHT AND DIRECT FROM YOUR POLITICAL MENTORS.

1. Supporting PDP in 2019 is not patriotism, it's ridiculous insanity. ~ALAFIN OF OYO

2. PDP is a bad tree that can never bear good fruit. ~OBY EZEKWESILI

3. Nigerians must not return the PDP to power, they have nothing to offer. ~BALARABE MUSA

4. People who destroy your past cannot guarantee your future. ~ OMOYOLE SOWORE

5. Don't handover Nigeria to thieves and hooligans. ~OBASANJO

6. Atiku has no good intentions for Nigeria. ~OBASANJO

7. Atiku Abubakar is a national thief. ~OBASANJO (My Watch Book, Page 49).

8. Atiku is coming back to create a paradise for thieves and we can see the people who are excited about them. ~OMOYOLE SOWORE

9. The money Atiku stole when he was my vice, enough to feed 300 millions of people for 400 years. ~OBASANJO

10. Obasanjo and Atiku are birds of the same feather, Nigerians should ignore them and stick on integrity to decimate corruption. ~PROF. WOLE SOYINKA

11. I will sell 90% of NNPC and retain 10%. ~ATIKU

12. I will privatize Ajaokuta if elected. ~ATIKU

13. I will revoke N-Power, school feeding and Tradermoni program if elected. ~ATIKU

14. In all honesty, Atiku doesn't have the integrity to defeat president Buhari anywhere in the election. ~AYO FAYOSE

15. Bank on me, Buhari will defeat Atiku in Adamawa. ~BUBA MARWA

16. Atiku can only win 2019 election, if he comes to our coven for deliverance. ~NIGERIAN ASSOCIATION OF WITCHES & WIZARDS

17. If I lose this election, I will recontest for President again in 2023. ~ATIKU ABUBAKAR

18. We all worked hard to form APC, if I decide to rejoin APC today, no one can stop me, not Buhari, Tinubu or Oshomole. ~BUKOLA SARAKI

19. Atiku's restructuring message is a deceit. ~GOV. WIKE

20. APC is not doing well, but when it comes to good governance and accountability, give it to Buhari. ~GOV. WIKE

21. Niger Delta people are very happy with president Buhari. ~GOV. WIKE

22. Governor Wike is working for Buhari's return. ~PDP

23. Nigerians will lose faith in INEC if it fails to disqualify president Buhari before the poll. ~PDP

24. Please stop encouraging Buhari to attend political rallies. ~UCHE SECONDUS

25. President Buhari is using magic broom to gather a mammoth crowds in his campaign. ~UCHE SECONDUS

26. My fellow elites must come together urgently to stop President Buhari before it is too late. ~OBJ

27. Buhari is a change, but Atiku is Bureau de change. ~REV. FR. MBAKA

28. Nigerian democracy under Buhari is one of the best in the world. ~ANGELA MERKEL

29. INEC lacks integrity to conduct free and fair 2019 election. ~ OBASANJO

30. Even Jesus Christ can not conduct free and fair elections in Nigeria. ~OBASANJO, Feb. 2007

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Politics / Re: "Don't Commission Lagos-Abeokuta Rail Before Election" - PDP: See Reactions by faaz24: 6:36am On Feb 06, 2019
Revsola:
Front page material. This is serious!

O serious mehn!

Ó tó gé for PDP (in the voice of Kwara people)

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Politics / Obasanjo And The Power Withdrawal Syndrome by faaz24: 11:48am On Jan 23, 2019
Professor Itse Sagay, in this reaction to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s remarks on the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, argues that the ex-president is suffering from what he described as power withdrawal syndrome.

The status of an ex-president is one of quiet dignity, respect, discretion, decorum, discipline and restraint. Obasanjo does not have a single one of these qualities. We have had a number of former Heads of State, namely, Gowon, Shagari, Babangida, Abubakar Salami and Jonathan. All of these former Heads of State have exercised discretion, restraint and self-discipline in relation to their successors, but not Obasanjo.

Obasanjo’s boisterous, aggressive and hectoring attitude towards succeeding Presidents, strikes me as a case of one who has never recovered from the loss of power. By his meddlesomeness, rude and uncouth attitude towards later Heads of State, it is clear that he is addicted to a substance called “power”, and is angry and resentful towards any other person exercising it.

Gowon was Obasanjo’s boss from 1966 to 1975 (nine years). Not once did Gowon utter a public criticism of Obasanjo throughout his two tenures from 1976 – 1979 and 1999 to 2007. The same thing applies to AbdulSalami Abubakar, who handed over power to Obasanjo in 1999. Not a single word of public excoriation against Obasanjo was uttered by AbdulSalami Abubakar throughout Obasanjo’s eight years in power. Abubakar demonstrated only decorum and self-respect.

Babangida had no peace when he was in power with Obasanjo ripping him open with sarcasm at close intervals. When Yar’Adua was hospitalised in Saudi Arabia, his condition did not restrain Obasnajo from launching a missile against him in his hospital bed.

Then came the epistle of St. Matthew Obasanjo to Jonathan in 2014 It was explosive, even including the allegation that Jonathan was training a squad of snippers. Now it is Buhari’s turn. The truth is that Obasanjo has never recovered from his power addiction and in his own mind, he is the President-General of Nigeria for life.

Another strange phenomenon is Obasanjo’s capacity to launch vitriolic attacks on his successors allegedly doing what he Obasanjo did repeatedly as president without a thought of his own gross misdeeds; a clear case of amnesia.



Removal of governors



First, he accuses Buhari of being a dictator like Abacha, brooking no alternative views. What of Obasanjo? Was he himself not an African Hitler?

Perhaps the most blatant display of naked fascism and violation of the Constitution, by Obasanjo, was his removal or attempted removal of State Governors which Prof. Ben Nwabueze describes, as coups d’ etat! The method used by Obasanjo was simple and brutal. The EFCC (under Ribadu) moves into the State of the targeted Governor in full force. It arrests all the State legislators and takes them away for detention in Lagos or Abuja. Whilst in detention they are offered incentives to sign already prepared notices of impeachment of the victim Governor. Once sufficient signatures are obtained, the Legislators are ferried under armed guard back into their State capital and taken straight to the House of Assembly, already secured by heavily armed police or military personnel. Once inside the Chambers of the House, they follow a tightly prepared script, involving a compromised Chief Judge who pursuant to a resolution of the captured legislators, appoints a pre-selected panel of partymen with the single mandate of finding the Governor guilty of misconduct. Without giving the Governor any hearing, the panel finds him guilty as charged, and the hostage legislators are rushed in again to accept the report. In 5 minutes, it’s all over, the Governor is removed and by a strange coincidence, the EFCC is there on standby to arrest the ex-Governor and take him away to detention.

This is exactly what happened in Bayelsa, and in Plateau States, except that Dariye slipped quietly away whilst the EFCC was playing its power games to remove him. In Anambra State, Obasanjo actually used an Assistant Inspector-General of Police to arrest the Governor (Dr. Ngige) and compel him under duress to sign a letter of resignation. In Oyo State, the strong man of Ibadan, Lamidi Adedibu, was the one used in the purported removal of the Governor Ladoja in a beer parlour. The removal of Governor Fayose of Ekiti State followed the same script, except that the ambitions of the Speaker, of the State House of Assembly and that of the Deputy Governor, to be the Acting Governor, clashed and resulted in a distortion involving equally compromised and shameless members of the Judiciary.

Remember Alamieyeseigha, Governor of Bayelsa? Obasanjo got him arrested in London a few days after a surgical operation. Blood was dripping down from his wound as the British Police arrested him at London Heathrow Airport at Obasanjo’s request.

Some pathetic details of what happened to Governor Alamieyeseigha needs to be exposed. When Governor Alamieyeseigha managed to escape from London back to his State Bayelsa, Obasanjo ordered the EFCC then under Mr. Ribadu to move in on members of the House of Assembly in Bayelsa and arrest all of them. Following the collective arrest, they were all relocated to a prison in Abuja where they were threatened with dire consequences if they did not sign an impeachment resolution prepared by the EFCC on Obasanjo’s instructions.

Whilst all this was going on, Obasanjo closed down radio Bayelsa and ordered the banks in which the Bayelsa government had accounts to freeze those accounts. This paralyzed the Bayelsa government, and led to starvation of public servants.

After this, the Assembly men were brought back to Yenogoa were they proceeded to complete the process of impeachment under duress.

Immediately after the brazen illegal impeachment and removal of Alamesiegha, he was arrested by soldiers who had already taken over the whole of Bayelsa for trial and imprisonment.

In Plateau State, Obasanjo using the military force of the EFCC and Ribadu got Governor Dariye of Plateau State removed by 5 members of the House of Assembly, in a house composed of about 28 Legislators.



Declaration of Illegal

States of Emergency



The declaration of States of Emergency by the Obasanjo Federal Government in Plateau and Ekiti States, were prime illustrations of Obasanjo’s gross subversion of Nigeria’s federal system. Not only did Obasanjo fail to comply with the conditions precedent for the declaration of a State of Emergency, even if the declarations were valid, the exercise of power under the declaration was grossly ultra vires the Federal Government, unconstitutional and illegal.

A state of emergency can only be declared if as stated in section 305 (3); (a) the Federation is at war, or (b) in imminent danger of invasion, or involvement in a State of War, or (c) there is actual breakdown of law and order and public safety in the Federation or any part thereof to such an extent as to require extra ordinary measures to restore peace and security, or (d) a clear and present danger of (c) above, or (e) there is a disaster or natural calamity affecting a community or part of it, or (f) threat to the existence of the Federation, or (g) request by a State Governor for such a declaration over his or her state, as a result of a situation similar to (c) and (e) above.

The infringements of the Constitution in the two declarations of emergency are legion. In the first place, the factual situation that must exist as a condition precedent did not exist. There was no breakdown of public order and public safety at any time in Plateau or Ekiti States, “to such an extent as to require extraordinary measures to restore peace and security”. Infact the whole tenor of section 11 of the Constitution, (which is the section containing all the powers exercisable during an emergency) shows that an emergency declaration is intended to be a cooperative endeavour between the Federal Government and a state Government whose organs, Governors, House of Assembly and Judiciary, are fully functioning. Section 11(2) provides that nothing in that section should preclude a House of Assembly from making laws in respect of the maintenance and securing of public safety and public order, etc, in an emergency, just like the National Assembly. Section 11(4) prohibits the National Assembly from performing the work of a State House of Assembly, as long as the House can hold a meeting and transact business. The same section prohibits the National Assembly from removing a Governor from office at any time. Nowhere is power conferred on anyone to suspend a Governor or House of Assembly.

Read also: Buhari, Obasanjo meet at Villa
Thus, the removal of Fayose (Ekiti) and Dariye (Plateau) by declaration of a State of Emergency was blatantly illegal and unconstitutional. President Jonathan complied with the Constitution when he declared a State of Emergency in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States in 2013. The positions of the Governors and State Houses of Assembly were not affected. But Obasanjo, the great Dictator swept away Governors and State Houses of Assembly when he declared his States of Emergency; Law or no Law, Constitution or no Constitution. Obasanjo was higher than both Law and Constitution.

The same Obasanjo who says Buhari is not entitled to his constitutional second term , enjoyed two terms after which he attempted to arm-twist the National Assembly and Nigeria in general, into permitting him to go in for an unconstitutional third term.

Can we forget how Obasanjo in the period 2004 to 2006 unconstitutionally seized the Federal Allocated Funds for Lagos State?



Reckless Abuse of Power



Obasanjo treated fellow politicians in his own party with contempt and disdain. He installed and removed PDP party Chairmen as if they were his personal cooks and stewards. Solomon Lar, Barnabas Gemade and Audu Ogbe, had bitter stories of remorseless exercise of Presidential terror to tell about their sudden and peremptory removal as PDP party Chairmen by Obasanjo, without reference to the Constitution of the party.

What about Senate Presidents, Evans Enwerem and Chuba Okadigbo who were forced out of the Senate Presidency by Obasanjo without any reference to the Members of Senate in a situation requiring two-thirds majority of their members. Saraki is a very lucky man that Buhari, not Obasanjo, was President, when he stole the Senate Presidency on June 9, 2015.



Genocidal slaughter



Nigerians will never forget how Obasanjo ordered troops to level the town of Odi In Bayelsa State in November 20, 1999. Both the human population and their homes were brought down by military force. Hundreds were slaughtered in cold blood.

The same thing happened in Zaki Bian on October 22, 2001 when out of displeasure with General Malu, who came from the town, he dispatched heavily armed troops again to level both the human population and structures in that small town. These crimes against humanity have been ignored by the local and international community, leaving Obasanjo strutting all over the place in his full pride and vanity.



Election rigging



The very idea of Obasanjo suggesting that Buhari plans to rig an election constitutes unsurpassed irony. Obasanjo rigged out Mr. Olu Falaye in the 1999 Presidential elections. He rigged out Buhari in the 2003 election. He committed the mother of all rigging in 2007 when Nigeria suffered the worst elections in its political history. The Governorship election results were nullified in Cross River, Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Ondo, Ekiti, Osun, Adamawa, Kogi and Sokoto States; eleven States. All this occurred under Obasanjo’s “Do or Die” war cry against free and fair elections. In fact, Yar’Adua, beneficiary of this rigging acknowledged it, felt repentant and set up the Uwais Committee to proffer fundamental changes in our electoral system in order to avoid Obasanjo’s do or die type of elections in 2011.

Outraged by this endless series of brutal exercise of power and inordinate love of it, the renowned Prof. Ben Nwabueze, wrote a whole book entitled How Obasanjo subverted the Democracy and the Rule of Law.

As I stated earlier, Obasanjo believes that he can break all rules and ethics but it is a crime for others to even appear to follow his footsteps in that regard.

He is a man who is not conscious of a sense of wrong doing and is probably unaware of the long list of depredations trailing his footsteps. The man is not just immoral, he is worse; he is amoral, i.e., he lacks a sense of right or wrong.

Obasanjo is now an old man. It is now imperative that he learns to exercise some discretion and restraint in his public statements. His bombastic, false, misleading and destructive outbursts, are not befitting of a so-called elder stateman. Even more less of a former president.

Obasanjo, let Nigeria be! Go to Owu and rest!
Politics / Re: Obasanjo To Embark On Foreign Tour For Atiku by faaz24: 7:36am On Jan 23, 2019
What is it with these foreign tours, are the foreigners coming to vote.

Obj should thread softly, he is on a lose-lose situation. If Atiku should win ehn, I think he will write another book from prison

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Politics / Re: If I Expose Those In Buhari Govt, They Will Go To Hell - Obasanjo by faaz24: 7:22am On Jan 23, 2019
Awolowo, ige, afolabi, and obasanjo.
By ayekooto akindele

Bola Ige, Governor of Oyo state and Afolabi his Deputy had serious quarrel. Afolabi was OBJ's senior in School, Ige was a friend of OBJ. So OBJ called the duo for settlement. This angered Adelakun, then UPN Leader and Commissioner in Oyo State, he reported to AWOLOWO. AWOLOWO summoned Ige and Afolabi to a meeting. He asked them why two brothers would be fighting and took their matter to the Family's Enemy...."This is a man who hates your father(AWO) and hates UPN but now pretending to love the sons of the man he hates.....Ige was sweating profusely, he was embarrassed, he knew Awolowo was disappointed. Ige and Afolabi begged AWOLOWO and baba relaxed.....

As Ige and Afolabi were going out, Awolowo called them back and said "Politically, I'm your leader, I love you both. If I use my mouth to cut kolanut for you, don't eat it but if I use my mouth to talk to you, hear and harken diligently. I know this life more than you, be careful. Whether I'm alive or dead, stay away from Olusegun Obasanjo. He hates people like you. And if you desist or reject my advice, OBASANJO will kill two of you just like what a wolf will do to antelopes..."...

The rest is history!!!

Now, I understand some children of yesterday and their old fool counterparts will say this is not true.....I don't have their time. This message is strictly for Sensible people, wailers are excluded!!!

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Politics / Re: Obasanjo Vs Buhari: You Lack Respect – PDP Blasts Tinubu by faaz24: 7:17am On Jan 23, 2019
Ige, Governor of Oyo state and Afolabi his Deputy had serious quarrel. Afolabi was OBJ's senior in School, Ige was a friend of OBJ. So OBJ called the duo for settlement. This angered Adelakun, then UPN Leader and Commissioner in Oyo State, he reported to AWOLOWO. AWOLOWO summoned Ige and Afolabi to a meeting. He asked them why two brothers would be fighting and took their matter to the Family's Enemy...."This is a man who hates your father(AWO) and hates UPN but now pretending to love the sons of the man he hates.....Ige was sweating profusely, he was embarrassed, he knew Awolowo was disappointed. Ige and Afolabi begged AWOLOWO and baba relaxed.....

As Ige and Afolabi were going out, Awolowo called them back and said "Politically, I'm your leader, I love you both. If I use my mouth to cut kolanut for you, don't eat it but if I use my mouth to talk to you, hear and harken diligently. I know this life more than you, be careful. Whether I'm alive or dead, stay away from Olusegun Obasanjo. He hates people like you. And if you desist or reject my advice, OBASANJO will kill two of you just like what a wolf will do to antelopes..."...

The rest is history!!!

Now, I understand some children of yesterday and their old fool counterparts will say this is not true.....I don't have their time. This message is strictly for Sensible people, wailers are excluded!!!

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Politics / Re: I Have Received Death Threats - Obasanjo by faaz24: 7:31pm On Jan 20, 2019
This is obasanjo's response to the question that Buhari asked during the campaign last week in lokoja, kogi state ...

Where is the power
Politics / Re: 2019: Buhari Presidential Campaign In Kaduna (Photos, Video) by faaz24: 4:18pm On Jan 20, 2019
slimfit1:


You see if I call them cows now it will look as if Im insulting them. Look at that overcrowding. A stadium of just 20 thousand hosting almost 60 thousand. Abeg is that not animal gathering.
You called people cows just because you don't share the same political ideology?
Politics / Re: Obasanjo: Buhari Plans To Rig The 2019 Elections (FULL STATEMENT) by faaz24: 3:46pm On Jan 20, 2019
Buhari is seeking for a second term in office and Nigerians have got the right to either accept or reject him .

OBJ that tried to go for a third term has got no right what so ever to lord it on us as to whom to vote or not, he even called himself a democrat....
I can't laff

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Politics / Re: 2019: Buhari Presidential Campaign In Kaduna (Photos, Video) by faaz24: 10:53pm On Jan 18, 2019
Kaduna was really locked down today.
I took these pictures myself.

Politics / Re: Police Escorts Dino Melaye Out Of His Residence by faaz24: 4:56pm On Jan 04, 2019
Oluwole Adesina wrote:

Unless you're not declared wanted by the Metropolitan police of London or not knowing your hidden place that they will not arrest you.

No criminal born of a woman will hole up in one house and be taunting London Police with tweet.

The moment you heard Police, Omo, gbabe, your doors are in pieces.

Those Police sent to arrest Dino Melaye are nothing but bunch of idiots.

Break his doors down and kick the motherfucker ass to the cell.

In 2012, four Members of British Parliament were jailed for 6 years.

Their offence? They made false claims of equivalent of N1. 2million for travelling expenses.

Do you guys believe that? Yes, they were jailed for mere 1.2 million Naira. It happens in a country that place Rule of law above Rule of Qur'an or Bible.

Any country that place religion above Rule of law will always end up like Nigeria.

A slowpoke like Dino Melaye is wanted for attempted murder and some idiots saying negative things about the IG OF POLICE.

No be una fault sha.

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Politics / Re: Surrender To Police, Falana Advises Senator Dino Melaye by faaz24: 8:34am On Jan 04, 2019
Oluwole Adesina wrote:

Unless you're not declared wanted by the Metropolitan police of London or not knowing your hidden place that they will not arrest you.

No criminal born of a woman will hole up in one house and be taunting London Police with tweet.

The moment you heard Police, Omo, gbabe, your doors are in pieces.

Those Police sent to arrest Dino Melaye are nothing but bunch of idiots.

Break his doors down and kick the motherfucker ass to the cell.

In 2012, four Members of British Parliament were jailed for 6 years.

Their offence? They made false claims of equivalent of N1. 2million for travelling expenses.

Do you guys believe that? Yes, they were jailed for mere 1.2 million Naira. It happens in a country that place Rule of law above Rule of Qur'an or Bible.

Any country that place religion above Rule of law will always end up like Nigeria.

A slowpoke like Dino Melaye is wanted for attempted murder and some idiots saying negative things about the IG OF POLICE.

No be una fault sha.

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Politics / Re: ISSA Revelations On Buhari Government, Boko Haram, Deaths Of Badeh, Alkali by faaz24: 1:31pm On Jan 01, 2019
The problem is that majority of the populace have been programmed on either falsehood or truth... Read this .



AFP’S SUPPORT FOR BOKO HARAM
By Karen Goulding


The Nigerian military is in a bind. It makes progress in its war on Boko Haram insurgents in the country’s northeast, only to see the progress relatively rolled back by forces that appear to have defied all efforts directed at making them relent and allow Nigeria to have peace. The effect of the sabotage by these forces is best reflected by the reported ambushes and surprise attacks on military convoys and outposts by Boko Haram terrorists, attacks that have all the markings of being plotted in territories outside the boundaries of Nigeria and organized by interests that increasingly show sophistication available only to state actors.

What makes the situation tough for the military is the mistake being collectively made by Nigerians, who have been conditioned to see everything about the insurgency from the prism of high politics. Certainly politics is involved, but not the local variant that citizens have in mind, the type being highlighted by armchair critics that are half informed about the true nature and import of what is truly happening in their country and to their people.

A more circumspect assessment of what is going on should have these critics take second looks at the scenario where Agence France-Presse (AFP) is always first with the news about the terrorists making gains against the military – and the fact that the high casualty figures it usually report on the military side are subsequently successfully disputed by authorities. AFP has also come to be the official outlet that Boko Haram uses to distribute its videos and audio recordings, which has conferred some measure of legitimacy on the group, a situation that has created the impression that Nigerian troops are fighting a rival country and not a bunch of bloodthirsty terrorists.

These AFP’s report often cite “military sources” to publish reports that can best be described as intended to terrorize the wider population. It is of note that AFP has never treated reporting of terrorism in this manner when dealing with western nations. When dealing with these countries, AFP tends to stick with positions that have been verified by persons authorized to speak on the matter – even where it used unanimous sources, it makes the efforts to get a corresponding official position and not a conflicting official position.

Knowing its French origin and nationality, it is no surprise that AFP has this belligerent approach towards Nigeria. After all, the hand of France in the Boko Haram scourge is well known and documented. The northeast of Nigeria and the swathe stretching from Northern Mali through Algeria to the Mediterranean Sea, looping back through Niger, Chad, Cameroun and Central Africa is a region for which France sees itself as being the imperial owner. Since Nigeria is not a francophone outpost, the French approach has been to support any form of insurrection in the northeast to allow the creation of a micro nation, possibly ruled by a despot, that will be a colony of France. It tried to pull such a trick with the failed bid to prop up Azawad as an independent country in Northern Mali – with disastrous consequences, of course.

Any enclave created by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and answering to France automatically gives the French access to the oil reserve in the Lake Chad Basin. While the reserve is not proven, advancement in mining technology, like fracking, makes it an attractive prospect, tempting enough for France to risk regional instability in Western Africa to secure. The possibility of mining Uranium in the region is icing on the cake at a time when alternative energy sources are an in thing. Hence the inordinate ambition of France to win a new country from Nigeria’s northeast to which AFP is pledged.

It is important not to lose sight of the reality that Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have on several occasions reported seeing aircrafts of French origin airdropping supplies to Boko Haram terrorists during wee hours. Curiously, with the resources it has devoted to reporting that part of Nigeria, AFP has never deemed it fit to report on this unusual sightings in a way that will bring closure and reassure all as to the real mission of these aircrafts.

AFP, and France as the hands inside the glove, have never thought to interrogate the terrorists’ strategy of launching attacks into Nigeria from inside the trio of Niger, Chad and Cameroun, only to flee back into these same countries once Nigerians troops are hot on their trail. It seem crimes against humanity are okay so long as they are being committed against Nigeria and by entities loyal to France and its perverted interest in Nigeria.

It is interesting that AFP is not singing from a new hymn book. It is regurgitating a tired script, one written by France and the other sick entities in its unholy alliance. In the coming weeks, the “international NGOs” components will be drafted into the fray and they will allege that troops committed war crimes when they were chasing down the Boko Haram terrorists sent to snuff the life out of them. AFP will then latch onto the reports issued by these NGOs to chorus the refrains about crimes against humanity, a crime that Boko Haram terrorists are never capable of committing in the estimate of French AFP, and all the other voices that will join the charade.

The Nigerian military has to wake up to the reality that this is the war it is fighting. Boko Haram is merely a component, a facet of a monster that has too many tentacles. Even when troops roundly defeat terrorists in a particular battle, AFP can go ahead to tell the world otherwise and its account is the one to be believed by the public. Where the military is able to prove that it decimated insurgents, it is not unusual for the body count to be declared civilian casualty, “evidence of crimes against humanity”.

What is then needed is for the Nigerian military to expand the war beyond the physical battleground and clash with these entities on its own terms. It can begin by letting Nigerians and world know the magnitude of evil it is battling, which would then let people know how these vampires have recruited foreign fighters, some from the Islamic State (ISIS), to wage war against Nigeria. These are the people that AFP is fronting for and supporting with questionable, and sometimes outright false reporting.

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