Welcome 2019
It shall be well with Nigeria.

Allah ya jikanka da rahamansa Alh shehu usman aliyu shagari.

So long sir

Oh not again!

Islamization theory?

Femi Ogunshola wrote:

Today is Christmas, Bukola Saraki is jumping around every available studio in Ilorin to sell his candidate (Atunwa), he is struggling and finding it difficult to pass his message across to the people in Yoruba.

Saraki has never being this rattled, the night the APC won the House of Reps seat in Kwara he was left insomnia (don't ask me how I know).

Speaking at radio station to the people is never his way, he dictates, gives order, his words are law, his foot solders do the work while he sits in his house in an expansive chair and all his political stooge rankadede him, while they sit on mats.

Today, the narrative has changed, he can't even celebrate Christmas in the comfort of his house, he is doing that in one of the radio station now, power is indeed transient.

Bukola Saraki has lost Kwara to the APC, go write today's date. It is finished!

Kwarans say Ó tó géééééééé!!!

Femi Ogunshola wrote:

Today is Christmas, Bukola Saraki is jumping around every available studio in Ilorin to sell his candidate (Atunwa), he is struggling and finding it difficult to pass his message across to the people in Yoruba.

Saraki has never being this rattled, the night the APC won the House of Reps seat in Kwara he was left insomnia (don't ask me how I know).

Speaking at radio station to the people is never his way, he dictates, gives order, his words are law, his foot solders do the work while he sits in his house in an expansive chair and all his political stooge rankadede him, while they sit on mats.

Today, the narrative has changed, he can't even celebrate Christmas in the comfort of his house, he is doing that in one of the radio station now, power is indeed transient.

Bukola Saraki has lost Kwara to the APC, go write today's date. It is finished!

Kwarans say Ó tó géééééééé!!!

PRESS RELEASE

TEXT OF PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED TODAY BY THE SUBSTANTIVE CHAIRMAN OF KWARA APC, HON BASHIR OMOLAJA BOLARINWA, ON COURT CASE BETWEEN ISHOLA BALOGUN FULANI AND APC

Gentlemen of the Press,

This press conference is called to allay the fears of members of APC, all Kwarans and indeed the World on the judgement of an Ilorin High Court delivered yesterday, Wednesday, 19th December, 2018 by Justice T.S. Umar.

It is no news that following the emergence of parallel Executive Committees of APC in Kwara State and open anti party activities of the factional group led by Senator Bukola Saraki’s moles and paid agents under its factional Chairman called Ishola Balogun Fulani, the National Working Committee of our great party, APC as allowed by its constitution dissolved the Kwara State Executive Committee of all factions on 30th July, 2018 and accordingly constituted a Care taker committee to run the affairs of the party in the interim. Within a period of three months a new set Executives Committees of the party were put in place at the Ward, Local and State Government levels.

It is also no news that while Ishola Balogun Fulani continued to lay claim to the Chairmanship of APC in several for a and Radio programs, he did not hide the fact that he and his group of moles are with and working for the disgruntled Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki.

It is also on record that Ishola Balogun Fulani, being sponsored and funded by Senator Bukola Saraki, initiated court case with suit No KWS/292/2018 seeking that the court should impose him and his cohorts of moles as the Executives of APC in the State until the year 2022.

Since the commencement of the case in July 2018, Ishola Balogun Fulani and his cohorts have always boasted to whoever cared to listen that the Kwara State Judiciary is in the pocket and full grip and control of their leader, sponsor, mentor, financier and sustainer Senator Bukola Saraki and regardless of the lack of merit of their case, they would be awarded judgement by the court more especially as long as the case is heard by Justice T.S. Umar.

As believers in the rule of law and the ability of judiciary in dispensing justice without fear of favour and in the best tradition of incorruptible judiciary, we refused to take their boisterous attitude and utterances as mere psychological ego massaging. Alas, the developments that culminated in the judgement and the conduct of Justice T.S. Umar in the course of trial have proved to us that our absolute beliefs in the impartiality and absolute integrity of every judicial officer is grossly misplaced in the instance case.

I wish to intimate you all that every conduct of Justice T.S. Umar that made the judgement no news have been documented and forwarded by our lawyers to the Chief Justice of Nigeria as the Chairman of the National Judicial Council and copied to the Chief Judge of the State.
It is therefore not surprising that since Friday, when the case was adjourned to Wednesday for Judgment, Ishola Balogun Fulani and his cohorts and their sponsors have been assuring their fellow PDPD members that by Wednesday, this week, their aim to weaken the train of change in Kwara will start to materialize as judgement in their favour is a foregone deal and conclusion. In fact in their fertile imagination and day dreaming capacity, they expected that the judgement will enable them to interfere with the list and names of APC candidates in Kwara State.

Let me state that the law is clear on party primaries set for election of candidates and no procured judgement of any High court can change the established position as stated and restated by the apex court in Nigeria. So therefore, all our 24 State Assembly, 6 House of Representatives, 3 Senatorial, Governorship and Presidential Candidates elected at the Primaries conducted by the National Working Committee in line with Article 13.4 (v) and (xiv) of the constitution of the party remains the authentic candidate that will fly the APC’s flag at the 2019 general elections.

While it is possible for a tyrannical ruler to appoint an Imam, it is beyond him to force people to pray in congregation behind such an imposed Imam.
No judgement of any court can stand in the way of judgement of God. No judgement can halt the moving train of change in Kwara as those who stand in the way of a moving train must know the likely consequences. The impending change in Kwara is God at work as “O To Ge” is a divine vehicle which no human contraption and judgement can halt how much more of truncating.

While our belief in the impartiality and integrity of our judges is not in any way diminished by the conduct of one man, and as believers in the Rule of Law we have appealed to remain calm and not be distracted by a judgment that is already dead on arrival.

Kwarans should be rest assured and should not lose sleep over the antics and shenanigans of moles and paid agents as well as that of their sponsors and collaborators wherever they may be, APC as presently constituted in Kwara State and all our candidates led by the captain of “O To Ge”, Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrazak, will not only lead but rescue Kwara and Kwarans from the claws and jaws of impostors who see and treat Kwara and its people the way cows sees and treats grasses.

Finally, I implore our army of change to go out and continue the decimation of the membership of vicious and wicked government and party by gaining more converts as APC is experiencing in the state. While moles and paid agents and their sponsors continue to parade the corridors of courts looking for magic and the impossibilities, APC and the change train will concentrate on gaining converts.

Let me use this opportunity to once again remind our people that your PVC is your AK 47 and your finger is your bullet to “assassinate” and “bury” bad leadership and government in Kwara which has held down the State for Years. Do not give or release your PVC to PDP paid agents and or any person less they clone it and make you unable to vote at the elections. When and if they come, reject them for they are nothing but devils and evils. Do not fight but wait patiently for February and March 2019 when you will cast your vote for APC and protect same to make your vote count.

If they place any call to your phone line to ask you for what you need, tell them “O To Geeeeeee” what you need is good governance and not stolen and blood money.

I thank you all for your attention.

Long live genuine members of Kwara APC
Long live Kwara State
Long live Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Hon. Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa
Kwara APC State Chairman
20th December, 2018

when will Saraki buy Kwara? .finally :

The festive season is here and so both human and vehicular movements on the major streets of old GRA axis in Ilorin, Kwara State, would not be the same again. For old women, young men, party stalwarts, hangers-on and other appendages of power, all roads lead to ‘Ile L’oke’––the Saraki family’s political headquarters located just a few metres away from the complex of the state-owned Radio Kwara.


It’s also at this period of the year that prospective political appointees and power brokers in the party would have their fate decided by the ‘almighty’ political god in Kwara, Bukola Saraki, widely christened ‘Leader’ by his disciples and other extended sycophants. When I lived in that neighbourhood, it was always a mixture of fun and pity watching people genuflect around to get the ‘leader’s’ attention whenever he came around.

Since 2011 that he emerged the new god in Kwara politics, that has been the tradition. Saraki has literally served as an alternative government towards whom the people run for political patronage and solution to their socio-economic needs.


The structure, however, just as it has been for decades in the case of his late father, is the parasitic type: the ‘Leader’ helps the people with handouts and earns in return, huge political capital with which he controls the power structure of the state and ultimately handpicks whomever he deems fit for leadership positions.

And with the strong support of the traditional institutions in the state––in collaboration with whom not a few Kwarans believe the people’s collective patrimony is shared––especially in Kwara Central, Bukola Saraki has literally decided the fate of all political aspirants in the state in the last seven years.


From House of Assembly aspirants through to those jostling for Senate positions all the way to grassroots party mobilisers and those seeking political appointments, being in the good book of the ‘Leader’ is the biggest criterion for enjoying visibility and patronage.

Many who do not understand how deep the sycophantic structure is wonder why it is so easy for Saraki to switch camp and, at the mere snap of fingers, have millions of his supporters come along with him. A visit to ‘Ile L’oke’––otherwise known as ‘Ile Arugbo’––whenever the ‘Leader’ is in town would provide better insight.


Now, to be fair, Bukola Saraki’s journey to that position was not without its acrimony. He would edge out his late father, Olusola Saraki, in the deeply rancorous 2011 general elections and install his favourite candidate and now incumbent governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, as governor. The move was against the wish of his late father who wanted and indeed supported Bukola’s sister, Gbemisola Saraki, as governorship candidate.
That successful move, more than anything else, cemented Bukola’s position as the ultimate power broker in Kwara politics and he has remained same ever since, perhaps until the recent bye-election tsunami in Kwara South which, frankly, threatens his legitimacy in Kwara politics. But again, whether that election would affect his politics is still a matter of political permutation and conjectures. For now, it is dicey and Bukola still enjoys his ‘leader’ship position in Kwara politics.


First, to the chagrin of a few Kwarans, the state and all symbols of official sovereignty surrender their legitimacy whenever the ‘Leader’ comes to town. At a point in his first term, a tale which may after all not be entirely apocryphal had it that the governor, Mr Ahmed, always ran to the Ilorin airport whenever feelers came in that the ‘leader’ was about to arrive Ilorin. Of course, at ‘Ile Loke’, without doubt the political Mecca of Kwara politicians, many have had their ambitions truncated just as others have had theirs revived, courtesy of the magisterial verdict of the ‘leader’.

But beyond politics, the hegemony of the Saraki dynasty in Kwara politics would have been fascinating if it translated to good governance and development for the common man. It has however been a different kettle of fish: infrastructure has been in shambles; pensioners are barely paid; workers, especially in local governments, have been starving; development is on stand still.


Of course, while it may be sound an argument to absolve the senate president of all blames having handed over power to the incumbent since 2011, a rigorous analysis of the power dynamics in the state would show otherwise. And it is in that context that SATIRE SATURDAY finds worrisome, the senate president’s declaration on December 2 that he would start “off setting salary arrears owed certain category of workers in Kwara state from next week.”

Daily Trust reported on December 2 that Saraki announced this during the PDP monthly stakeholders meeting at the ‘charity house’ in Ilorin, Kwara state, adding that he would commence the payment of salary arrears with three selected local government areas; one each from the three senatorial districts of the state. https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/saraki-promises-to-offset-kwara-workers-salary-arrears.html This column looked forward to a rebuttal by the Saraki media office but no one has come out to debunk the claim, suggesting he was not misquoted and indeed made the promise.


First, it wasn’t the first time such would happen to Kwara and it may not be the last. Earlier in May, the Senate President was reported to have offset the 20-month salary arrears owed some categories of traditional chiefs in Kwara central senatorial district. “Though, it’s the responsibility of local government councils to pay traditional chiefs’ salaries, the affected local government areas; Ilorin East, Ilorin South and Asa could not meet their financial obligations to the monarchs because of the drastic shortfalls in their allocation from the federation account,” Daily Trust reported. The 220 affected traditional chiefs received a total sum of N49,438,000.00, the paper added.

As tempting as it is to consider the move a positive one even for the most simple-minded of analysts, a deeper look would show something is fundamentally wrong with such situation where an individual assumes the responsibility of the state. Without doubt, it speaks to the emptiness of the sovereignty around which the state is built.

Then a more rigorous analysis shoots out the dark irony of the whole situation: that the man who now ‘rescues’ the state and takes over its statutory responsibility was alleged to have bled the state dry by receiving outrageous pensions and salary payments from the state’s meagre resources years after he vacated office as governor and was receiving huge entitlements as senator.


In fact, a witness, Michael Wetkas, claimed that Saraki received monthly salaries from June 2011, when he left office as governor of the state, to August 2015 when he served as a senator, in a clear case of outright illegality. https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/04/07/witness-saraki-was-paid-salary-by-kwara-after-leaving-office/

Saraki’s case in Kwara isn’t an isolated case; it is but a reflection of the larger rot in which we have found ourselves as a people used as pawns in the hands of dealers masquerading as leaders. A few days to the last Osun gubernatorial election, APC leader Bola Tinubu had suggested in Oshogbo that Osun does not have his kind of money; money worthy of being stolen. Of course Tinubu was right: he governed Lagos, Nigeria’s richest state, for eight years and has decided every governor who occupied that position since 2007 after he left office. In the next couple of months, a man who has openly promised to “Sanwo e!” (“Pay his money!”) will hold sway.


What’s perhaps the difference between both men in this context is that Lagos is chubby and may not necessarily feel the effect of heavy bleeding quite easily; reason it hardly owes salaries despite the bleeding. Kwara, on the other hand, is poor and has been bled to coma by the asphyxiating influence of its ‘dealers’, reason it can hardly pay salaries.

But more importantly, SATIRE SATURDAY wonders why these states are still legal entities and are still independent of these ‘leaders’. Why can’t Bukola Saraki simply purchase Kwara state in its entirety and list it on the Nigerian and London stock markets?


Pray, since an individual like the senate president can offset salaries––even when the state in all its glory and grandeur cannot do same––why is it difficult to buy out Kwara state, with its assets and liabilities, register it the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) as a business entity, run it as a business concern and promptly pay salaries? Why own the state unofficially, put in the hands of salary-defaulting mangers and allow workers suffer?

With his ground-breaking experience at Societal Generale, SATIRE SATURDAY has no doubt about Mr Saraki’s managerial wizardry. Hence, in the interest of the Kwaran public and those hungry civil servants whose salaries would be paid regularly if the state officially becomes the senate president’s business concern, may we respectfully appeal to the ‘Leader’ and ask, with tears in our heart: when is Saraki going to buy out Kwara state?


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“I saw in the debate yesterday, you could see the difference between a developmental economy and a container economy" - Jagaban

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday revealed the reason the leadership of the party preferred Senate Leader Ibrahim Lawan to other contestants in leading the Senate.

He explained that the senator is a great example of a very consistent and intellectually resourceful leader the country needs. He lamented that those he referred to as political prostitutes denied him of the opportunity to serve Nigeria in that capacity because of their selfish interest.



Tinubu who was giving a goodwill message at the Abiola Ajimobi Roundtable held in Ibadan, yesterday, lauded the Senate Leader for staying consistent in spite of what happened; stressing that it was one of the qualities that stand him out.

At the Roundtable with the theme: ‘The Imperative of Building Institutions for Lasting Legacies’ , the former Lagos State Governor said: “Senator Lawan, thank you very much. It will come from you as the institution. You are a great example of a very consistent and intellectually resourceful leader that we have in this country. We saw in him, these leadership traits and the qualities we wanted in the Senate President. We know you are qualified and competent to be, that you would have led the most important arm of our government more effectively but the political prostitutes and their robbers and their collaborators denied you of it because of selfishness and selfish aggrandisement. But instead of fleeing, you remained constant and consistent, seeing this institution as a place for truly lawmaking that we the people and you have remained consistent and constant ever since on a progressive stand. Thank you.”

While commending Governor Ajimobi for changing the fortunes of the state in the last seven years, Tinubu said his success would have been incomplete without a worthy successor. He hailed his choice of Adebayo Adelabu, who he believes would build on his exploits.



His words: “To the discussants, we have facilitated this important topic, it is all about you as a thinker and a doer and that is what Nigerians need all over – thinking and doing. The capacity to pick the right kind of people to think out the need for our society; that institution that you represent, translate it to vision and be able to do it. Unless that you have the rare combination of thinking and doing you cannot succeed as a leader and that is what you have done for Oyo State.

“The third and most critical element: yes we have seen all the roads, the infrastructural renewal, reforms and re-engineering of Oyo State coming up from you. Establishing the infrastructure is critical to development and to economic regeneration of the state. You have been doing that, we have seen you in brick and mortal form. I have commissioned projects for you but have you succeeded? No. Not yet. We have seen demolition, we have seen emotions, we have seen expressions, we have seen reforms, even of traditional institutions. Yes a leader must lead and face the pain, and critical evaluation of his steps but courage, if it’s lacking, you have failed. You don’t lack that, you have exhibited that and I salute you.

“The last one is what has just been mentioned. You can be successful as a leader if you have the capacity to construct and develop the road infrastructure and housing estates as bricks and mortals but, one critical element is that how many other leaders have you developed, particularly those who can succeed you? Otherwise, as you move, the empire crumbles. And you have critically done that. If they say I am involved in choosing your successor, it is part of human qualities as a leader to consult and find out or do due diligence about somebody’s background.



“So, for your choice of a successor, I will campaign and support and contribute to the success of Adelabu. He is a man who has worked in the private sector. I am from the private sector background, a man who has worked on the economic prognosis at macro and micro levels in the country as CBN Deputy Governor of Nigeria, is now trying to succeed you.

“The All Progressives Congress (APC) will support you, that is part of the leadership qualities that you have exhibited to protect that legacy and to build on it. You are just a foundation engineer who has just reconstructed Oyo State institutionally, who has reconstructed Oyo State infrastructurally.

“I say thank you and congratulations and I don’t feel bad if they say I have been associated in the process. If you do direct primaries again like you did, I will vote for your choice of successor because reform, reengineering and reinvigoration of institution can only continue beyond us and if the foundation is bad, the house will crumble.

“I saw in the debate yesterday, you could see the difference between a developmental economy and a container economy. Oyo State is going APC, Oyo State is APC, it is progressive politics. Our Moses has crossed the Red Sea, no going back to Egypt.”

In his speech, a former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, showered encomiums on Ajimobi. He said he possesses high leadership qualities having known him since the 1990s.

In his vote of thanks, Ajimobi expressed satisfaction that those celebrating him are the icons of his time, stressing that the commendations did not come after his demise.

He praised Tinubu for his vision and qualities, recalling that the top politician has been ahead of all his colleagues since they were together in the United States (US) in the 1970s.

He said the Roundtable was borne out of his deep belief that no meaningful developmental achievement is possible without intellectual base. “We believe most sincerely that knowledge and intellectualism must precede development. We are making a template of the leadership already established by Asiwaju Tinubu in Lagos State. I thank him for setting the Lagos template.” Ajimobi said.

Earlier, discussants hailed Ajimobi for having offered sound leadership in virtually all spheres of life.

Lead discussant, Prof. Tunji Olaopa, said Ajimobi is not a typical Nigerian politician. He pointed out that the vision and courage he brought to governance stood him out, stressing that he has raised the bar of governance in the state.

Other speakers including Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi 111 also commended Ajimobi for his astute management ability. They all posited that building institutions rather than individuals will change the development track of the country.

Also at the event was the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi; members of the National Assembly, Health Minister Prof. Isaac Adewole and many other traditional rulers. The US Ambassador Stuart Symington addressed the gathering on telephone.

Peter Obi....

Made in China.

He is faking 16 years-old to avoid getting the death penalty. If this man is 16 years old then OBJ is 32.

We tested the microphone in kwara yesterday and it was loud and clear.
The kleptocratic institution of Bukky Saraki must be dismantled.
Kwara must change hands. It is a MUST

Corrinthians:
Where are those fools who live hundreds of miles away from Kwara, have never been to Kwara, know nothing about Kwara, but act as though their ancestors buried their umbilical cord there?

Failure has always been the lot for whosoever they support.

Tufia!

We just tested the microphone in Kwara bye-election, the real concert is in feBuhari.
Kwara must change hands.. It's a MUST !

As e dey pain dem, e dey sweet us

Kwara, bauchi, katsina all in the bag.

APC is a goal!

Jubrin from Sudan has my vote in feBuhari

If indeed, President Buhari has no certificate or faked one, as alleged by PDP, the party should be happier to challenge it in court and retrieve the mandate Nigeria would again entrust with Buhari in 2019. No one knows why the PDP or any Nigerian prefers to make noise in the media instead of challenging the issue in court.

Since Buhari was a formidable force in the 2015 election, which eventually ousted the PDP government, the onus fell on them to expose Buhari’s certificate “scandal.” They had every weapon to their advantage. But they reneged after discreet investigations confirmed Buhari indeed, sat and wrote the said exams. They retreated quietly.

There has been much fury in the clan of PDP, Nigeria’s main opposition. Drily voices vibrated in consuming chants; there were ruckus hullaballoos or inexplicable excitement in the opposition camp everywhere. They were demanding President Muhammedu’s Buhari’s secondary school certificate. So, tongues meaninglessly wagged in haughty ambience.

Similarly in 2014, when President Buhari as the then main opposition Presidential candidate of the APC, contested against the PDP incumbent, former President Goodluck Jonathan, same queries and voices of discontent stampeded every ear. Then, as now, PDP members were piqued that Buhari failed to submit to INEC, his West African School Certificate (WASC) obtained in 1961 from Provincial Secondary School, Katsina, now Government College.

Since Buhari was a formidable force in the 2015 election, which eventually ousted the PDP government, the onus fell on them to expose Buhari’s certificate “scandal.” They had every weapon to their advantage. But they reneged after discreet investigations confirmed Buhari indeed, sat and wrote the said exams. They retreated quietly.

But glued to the penchant of mendaciousness, now oiled by pathetic scarcity of ideas for campaigns, the PDP resurrected Buhari’s certificate issue again in 2018, as the President guns for reelection. The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has laid to rest the ghost of Buhari’s certificate saga by issuing him with an “Attestation Certificate.”

But it has rather stirred fresh, more empty and funny probing by the PDP and their sympathizers. The PDP and their allies are questioning the Attestation Certificate which the Registrar of WAEC, Dr. Iyi Uwadiae led other senior staff of the council to present to President Buhari on November 2, 2018.

The greatest problem is the sanity of the fresh posers on the certificate narratives by the opposition. The Conference of United Political Parties (CUPP) in a statement in Abuja signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Ikenga Ugochinyere claimed it was a “desperate effort to mislead the court and shield the President from disqualification from participating in the election.”

CUPP demanded for master sheet of the exams, containing names of other candidates who sat for the exams with Mr. President in 1961.

But it could not wait for WAEC to either reject or accept and act on the request. Rather, they hastened to pass a condemnatory verdict, which preempted the exams body by concluding that it is a; “manufactured result which is not backed with any evidence to show President Buhari participated in the 1961 exams.”

PDP laughably said through its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbodiyan that, “It is a tragicomedy. We never expected Mr. President to dramatically come this low because you cannot have a certificate and be calling it an attestation. What are they attesting to? We stand by our position that Mr. President has no school certificate.”

Shame! Are Nigerians to believe PDP’s argument that attestation certificate is not issued in cases where original certificates are missing for whatever reason? The PDP and its distractive elements have built thick conjectures around the issue of Buhari’s certificate.

And the only obvious reason is how to rubbish President Buhai’s hard earned integrity. They are not really concerned with the substance of the case, or else, the opposition actors know where to verify the accuracy of the information tendered on Buhari’s WASC. PDP should be telling Nigerians of the contradicting versions of their independent findings.

When the same controversy sprouted in 2014, an online news portal Premium Times, stretched its independent investigations to the University of Cambridge which then regulated the West African School Certificate Examinations (WASCE), which issued the WASC to Buhari in 1961. It was confirmed President Buhari sat for the exams.

The medium wrote that it “obtained the computer printout from Cambridge University as well as a statement of result, signed by the current principal of Katsina College, dated January 21, 2015.”

Other interconnected details such as the examination centre number given as 8280, while candidate (Buhari) number 002 were released to the public. Additionally, the Cambridge print out also showed the result of 17 other candidates at the centre, including the Late Gen. Shehu Yar’Adua, a former Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters and Justice Umar Abdullahi, a former President of the Court of Appeal.

Assuming PDP and its apologists dread the possibility of WAEC’s connivance with Buhari to shield him. But is it not an added advantage to the inquisitors that the records of WASC in contention were also domiciled with an institution outside the shores of Nigeria, which is immune from manipulations from local interests?

In a globalized world of today, It takes no extra pain, expenses or efforts to contact the University of Cambridge using the exam details in public domain to ascertain the truth or otherwise.

Except those perpetually tethered to the sentiments expressed by the PDP and its goons, like the President himself stated without a basic school certificate, he could not have neither been allowed to attend the Defence Services Staff College, India in 1973 nor later, the prestigious, United States Army War College, where Buhari is listed as one among the few distinguished alumni.

It also sounds hollow that the Army would have allowed Buhari to rise to the rank of a Major General before retiring. Its hogwash completely. Much as PDP attempt to erode the integrity of President Buhari in the public eye, he has always come out unscathed.

Nigerians who have followed the trend of the PDP against Buhari would know that the certificate issue is not the first smear campaign against President Buhari.

First, the PDP screamed loudly that Buhari at 74 plus was too old to rule Nigeria. But when an opportunity offered itself for PDP to anoint a presidential flagbearer, they opted for a 72-year old Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the sermons on age eased out quietly.

The PDP claimed, President Buhari suffers perennial ill-health; he is not strong enough, physically unfit and may likely die on seat if reelected President. But like a divine intervention, President Buhari is no longer down with ill-health and astonished his traducers when he showed his other side of Athlete Carl Lewis. It quieted them.

The PDPists disparage President Buhari’s performance records. But when the records of his three and half years Presidency are unveiled, it surpasses PDP’s performance in the 16 years they were on the saddle. And they began to speak in hushed tones. It therefore, explains PDP’s passionate attachment to smear campaigns on President Buhari’s integrity over an imaginary perjury over WASC.

Pleasantly, PDP’s sensless push against Buhari has finally confirmed and conferred the status of saintliness on Buhari, a man of integrity.

The certificate vampires would have to craft another tale, to busy themselves. They question Buhari’s certificate but are less vocal on Atiku’s alleged under declaration of personal income and underpayment of tax.

President Buhari is consoled that sometimes, when your enemies maliciously vilify you, they wake you from slumber to achieve what ordinarily will have attracted your attention.

It has surely dawned on Mr. President’s antagonists’ that the fog is clear and they have no option than to face real campaign issues. Nigerians would want to know why the ousted PDP government could not complete and commission the numerous capital projects it initiated, but monies fully paid, but wishes to be given credit when Buhari completes and commissions’ them and so forth. These are the issues for 2019.

If indeed, President Buhari has no certificate or faked one, as alleged by PDP, the party should be happier to challenge it in court and retrieve the mandate Nigeria would again entrust with Buhari in 2019. No one knows why the PDP or any Nigerian prefers to make noise in the media instead of challenging the issue in court.

George wrote this piece from University of Southern California, USA.

lionness:
GEJ left a staggering debt all the money looted by his Ebos ministers and cabinets. The only real minister in GEJs cabinet was a Yoruba man who handled agriculture, every other minister were criminals and failures. Even Obi was part of those crooks. And I'm supposed to vote for a thief who did absolutely nothing in his state and left heaps of gbese. and Bubu has now saved over $20 billion and borrowed less. Bubu met dozens of saboteurs, from sponsored MEND who bombed oil lines for over two years to Igbos who tried to kill his government and a rogue and useless NASS controlled by the opposition among delayed bills and sickness. You know when they say someone is Godsent and willing to do something with little. Yet the same man is fixing Lagos Ibadan, Sagamu, Lagos Aboekuta road, Rail lines linking Lagos Ogun and Oyo. Rail lines linking PH and Abuja and Lagos etc. we have better light and Bokoharam reduced to protesting and newts. Baba met a dead country, and today you see jobs posting daily on nairaland, only the useless youths stay on nairaland blaming their forefathers daily...a lot is happening and Thats why the Indians and Chinese are flooding the country. Bubu is building the Niger Bridge for these useless ingrates, fixing several SE roads that their gods and sons who looted the country dry didn't do for them. Atleast you know some folks are pathetically in love with corruption and trash...
PDP has shown it's a criminal entity with adopting those big thieves and flanking itself with all the confirmed looters of NASS. My SE and their love for looters. Hian!

You are truly a lioness

Tiri gbosa for you !

Yes sir!
I believe you.

APC.. All Projects Completed
PDP.. Projects destroying party.
Meanwhile...

If this picture annoys you.
Sorry.
God bless Nigeria

PDP in kwara state?

Odi aye atunwa.

The kleptocratic hegemony must stop, kwara must change hands.

Good one.
People should understand that achieving lasting peace in kaduna is a collective responsibility.
The few hoodlums in our neighborhoods are taking us for granted, unleashing terror at the slightest provocation or due to unfounded rumors.
Government needs to deal with whoever is found culpable at the end of investigations to serve as deterrent.

PDP in kwara state?

Odi aye atunwa.

The kleptocratic hegemony must stop, kwara must change hands.

femi4:
See as Azadus faaaat!!!
You is the one ti mo really feran....

Seriously...

Like a bird of same feather ooo

By Sharon Faliya Cham

Just over a month ago the United States of America categorically said it will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC) in any way or any form, and neither will it allow the court to try any American citizen nor that of any of its allies. The US national security adviser, Ambassador John Bolton specifically called the ICC an “illegitimate court” besides threatening the entire judges of the court with sanctions if they dared entertain anything or any matter the US considers a threat to their national interests!

Here in Nigeria, there was a recent so called uproar by some so called rule of law advocates after President Buhari rightly said that national interest supersedes the rule of law which some people use as a convenient cover to seek freedom or protection for persons accused of committing heinous crimes and even rising against the sovereignty of the Nigerian State like Sambo Dasuki, Nnamdi Kanu and others like them! To such people, rule of law reigns when every rogue of their liking is walking about freely without any accountability even if the person has been named as the power behind a bloody bank robbery that has claimed tens of lives!

I thought I will see or hear any such deafening outrage from these rule of law “activists” after the US pronouncement on the ICC but, alas, till now there’s dead silence from them! The US has been known as the greatest champion and advocate of democracy and the rule of law, both domestically and internationally, but to hear them rile against an internationally legitimate organ like the ICC that was created and established for the sole purpose of strengthening democracy and the rule of law globally? Well, that was a shocker!

Well, the simple message the US is passing to everyone that cares is this: the national interest of the United States of America supersedes the rule of law just as President Buhari also rightly said Nigeria’s national interest supersedes the so called rule of law!

Since 2001, or thereabout, the United States has kept some suspected terrorists in detention at Guantanamo bay without trial. That’s about 17 years now without trial!

Here in Nigeria, so called rule of law advocates are calling President Buhari a dictator for detaining somebody like Sambo Dasuki for just three years without as much as caring for the thousands of people that have been killed and millions that have been made IDPs because of “Boko Haram”, which, apparently, were deliberately allowed to grow and fester for they equally label the President a dictator for decisively crushing a terror group called IPOB with their leader, Nnamdi Kanu running away at the mere sight of a python!

With the exception of a very handful number of objective, patriotic critics who really care about the practical application of the rule of law in Nigeria and the world generally, most of those who lifted their voices in hypocritical lamentations and attacks over the President’s stance on the matter are those who (1.) just hate the President for who he is, where he came from and what he stands for, and (2.) hate him for overturning their applecart of looting and sharing bazaar of public funds. For these two groups, anything President Buhari says or does or initiates or accomplishes, must be attacked, criticised, condemned and made to look worthless even if it is the free feeding of primary school pupils, or the seizure of territory from the hands of “Boko Haram”, or the N-Power programme, or the TraderMonie policy which is now boosting the macroeconomic health of the nation, or the construction of several roads across the country, or the revival of our neglected rail lines, or the massive improvement of electricity generation and supply, or the several payments of bailouts to states to clear backlogs of salaries and enhance their local economies, or the steady boost in agriculture to diversify the economy and so on. Their rabid hatred of the President for no justifiable reason is just in tandem with an African proverb that says, even if you dance on water, your enemies will accuse you of raising dust!

To such people, Nigeria should have been on the same pedestal of growth and development like Malaysia or India or Singapore or even China. And they cheered when the President of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohammed recently placed over 3,000 former and current government officials under travel ban in order to retrieve stolen public funds from them but here in Nigeria, they lie, huff and puff and shout hoarse that democracy is under threat when it emerged that President Buhari has placed a mere 50 suspected high profile thieves under travel ban, and you’re left wondering why a travel ban on suspected criminals in Malaysia or Singapore and even in the United States is not a threat to democracy but it is in Nigeria? In whose interest should thieves be allowed to travel freely to launder their ill-gotten wealth while the very country they stole from is rooted in stagnation of development? If Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and even the United States of America allows such unfettered freedom for thieves and other top shot criminals in the name of a so called rule of law, wouldn’t they have remained backwater states like Nigeria was forced to remain from 1999 to 2015?

The world is replete with countless examples of drastic steps or actions certain nations and their leaders have had to take in the promotion and sustenance of their national interests. There is no person in any sovereign nation that is better informed than the government of the nation, and that’s because of the availability of security and Intelligence agencies who feed it with various Intelligence information on various plots by locals or foreigners against the well-being of the sovereign state. If the government acts on such credible information, and arrests the plotters, and yet some lawyers, out of mischief or out of pathetic ignorance, explore and exploit the weaknesses of our laws to have such dangerous persons released, what do you expect the government to do when the nation’s national interest of security is under such severe threat?

Be mindful of the fact and truth that if such dangerous persons are walking free, and they perpetuate their evil plots against the public or against public institutions, it is the very same people making untenable noises about the so called supremacy of the rule of law over national interests that will begin to attack the same government again for “failing to protect citizens” yet they are the ones hiding behind the rule of law to have notorious persons moving about freely! With such persons you can never win, and the best thing for any reasonable and responsible government to do is to simply listen to them but do what is right in the nation’s interest.

On this matter and in this context, if the United States is right in elevating its national interests over international rule of law, then President Muhammadu Buhari is very right.

Just over a month ago the United States of America categorically said it will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC) in any way or any form, and neither will it allow the court to try any American citizen nor that of any of its allies. The US national security adviser, Ambassador John Bolton specifically called the ICC an “illegitimate court” besides threatening the entire judges of the court with sanctions if they dared entertain anything or any matter the US considers a threat to their national interests!

Here in Nigeria, there was a recent so called uproar by some so called rule of law advocates after President Buhari rightly said that national interest supersedes the rule of law which some people use as a convenient cover to seek freedom or protection for persons accused of committing heinous crimes and even rising against the sovereignty of the Nigerian State like Sambo Dasuki, Nnamdi Kanu and others like them! To such people, rule of law reigns when every rogue of their liking is walking about freely without any accountability even if the person has been named as the power behind a bloody bank robbery that has claimed tens of lives!

I thought I will see or hear any such deafening outrage from these rule of law “activists” after the US pronouncement on the ICC but, alas, till now there’s dead silence from them! The US has been known as the greatest champion and advocate of democracy and the rule of law, both domestically and internationally, but to hear them rile against an internationally legitimate organ like the ICC that was created and established for the sole purpose of strengthening democracy and the rule of law globally? Well, that was a shocker!

Well, the simple message the US is passing to everyone that cares is this: the national interest of the United States of America supersedes the rule of law just as President Buhari also rightly said Nigeria’s national interest supersedes the so called rule of law!

Since 2001, or thereabout, the United States has kept some suspected terrorists in detention at Guantanamo bay without trial. That’s about 17 years now without trial!

Here in Nigeria, so called rule of law advocates are calling President Buhari a dictator for detaining somebody like Sambo Dasuki for just three years without as much as caring for the thousands of people that have been killed and millions that have been made IDPs because of “Boko Haram”, which, apparently, were deliberately allowed to grow and fester for they equally label the President a dictator for decisively crushing a terror group called IPOB with their leader, Nnamdi Kanu running away at the mere sight of a python!

With the exception of a very handful number of objective, patriotic critics who really care about the practical application of the rule of law in Nigeria and the world generally, most of those who lifted their voices in hypocritical lamentations and attacks over the President’s stance on the matter are those who (1.) just hate the President for who he is, where he came from and what he stands for, and (2.) hate him for overturning their applecart of looting and sharing bazaar of public funds. For these two groups, anything President Buhari says or does or initiates or accomplishes, must be attacked, criticised, condemned and made to look worthless even if it is the free feeding of primary school pupils, or the seizure of territory from the hands of “Boko Haram”, or the N-Power programme, or the TraderMonie policy which is now boosting the macroeconomic health of the nation, or the construction of several roads across the country, or the revival of our neglected rail lines, or the massive improvement of electricity generation and supply, or the several payments of bailouts to states to clear backlogs of salaries and enhance their local economies, or the steady boost in agriculture to diversify the economy and so on. Their rabid hatred of the President for no justifiable reason is just in tandem with an African proverb that says, even if you dance on water, your enemies will accuse you of raising dust!

To such people, Nigeria should have been on the same pedestal of growth and development like Malaysia or India or Singapore or even China. And they cheered when the President of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohammed recently placed over 3,000 former and current government officials under travel ban in order to retrieve stolen public funds from them but here in Nigeria, they lie, huff and puff and shout hoarse that democracy is under threat when it emerged that President Buhari has placed a mere 50 suspected high profile thieves under travel ban, and you’re left wondering why a travel ban on suspected criminals in Malaysia or Singapore and even in the United States is not a threat to democracy but it is in Nigeria? In whose interest should thieves be allowed to travel freely to launder their ill-gotten wealth while the very country they stole from is rooted in stagnation of development? If Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and even the United States of America allows such unfettered freedom for thieves and other top shot criminals in the name of a so called rule of law, wouldn’t they have remained backwater states like Nigeria was forced to remain from 1999 to 2015?

The world is replete with countless examples of drastic steps or actions certain nations and their leaders have had to take in the promotion and sustenance of their national interests. There is no person in any sovereign nation that is better informed than the government of the nation, and that’s because of the availability of security and Intelligence agencies who feed it with various Intelligence information on various plots by locals or foreigners against the well-being of the sovereign state. If the government acts on such credible information, and arrests the plotters, and yet some lawyers, out of mischief or out of pathetic ignorance, explore and exploit the weaknesses of our laws to have such dangerous persons released, what do you expect the government to do when the nation’s national interest of security is under such severe threat?

Be mindful of the fact and truth that if such dangerous persons are walking free, and they perpetuate their evil plots against the public or against public institutions, it is the very same people making untenable noises about the so called supremacy of the rule of law over national interests that will begin to attack the same government again for “failing to protect citizens” yet they are the ones hiding behind the rule of law to have notorious persons moving about freely! With such persons you can never win, and the best thing for any reasonable and responsible government to do is to simply listen to them but do what is right in the nation’s interest.

On this matter and in this context, if the United States is right in elevating its national interests over international rule of law, then President Muhammadu Buhari is very right.

Just over a month ago the United States of America categorically said it will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC) in any way or any form, and neither will it allow the court to try any American citizen nor that of any of its allies. The US national security adviser, Ambassador John Bolton specifically called the ICC an “illegitimate court” besides threatening the entire judges of the court with sanctions if they dared entertain anything or any matter the US considers a threat to their national interests!

Here in Nigeria, there was a recent so called uproar by some so called rule of law advocates after President Buhari rightly said that national interest supersedes the rule of law which some people use as a convenient cover to seek freedom or protection for persons accused of committing heinous crimes and even rising against the sovereignty of the Nigerian State like Sambo Dasuki, Nnamdi Kanu and others like them! To such people, rule of law reigns when every rogue of their liking is walking about freely without any accountability even if the person has been named as the power behind a bloody bank robbery that has claimed tens of lives!

I thought I will see or hear any such deafening outrage from these rule of law “activists” after the US pronouncement on the ICC but, alas, till now there’s dead silence from them! The US has been known as the greatest champion and advocate of democracy and the rule of law, both domestically and internationally, but to hear them rile against an internationally legitimate organ like the ICC that was created and established for the sole purpose of strengthening democracy and the rule of law globally? Well, that was a shocker!

Well, the simple message the US is passing to everyone that cares is this: the national interest of the United States of America supersedes the rule of law just as President Buhari also rightly said Nigeria’s national interest supersedes the so called rule of law!

Since 2001, or thereabout, the United States has kept some suspected terrorists in detention at Guantanamo bay without trial. That’s about 17 years now without trial!

Here in Nigeria, so called rule of law advocates are calling President Buhari a dictator for detaining somebody like Sambo Dasuki for just three years without as much as caring for the thousands of people that have been killed and millions that have been made IDPs because of “Boko Haram”, which, apparently, were deliberately allowed to grow and fester for they equally label the President a dictator for decisively crushing a terror group called IPOB with their leader, Nnamdi Kanu running away at the mere sight of a python!

With the exception of a very handful number of objective, patriotic critics who really care about the practical application of the rule of law in Nigeria and the world generally, most of those who lifted their voices in hypocritical lamentations and attacks over the President’s stance on the matter are those who (1.) just hate the President for who he is, where he came from and what he stands for, and (2.) hate him for overturning their applecart of looting and sharing bazaar of public funds. For these two groups, anything President Buhari says or does or initiates or accomplishes, must be attacked, criticised, condemned and made to look worthless even if it is the free feeding of primary school pupils, or the seizure of territory from the hands of “Boko Haram”, or the N-Power programme, or the TraderMonie policy which is now boosting the macroeconomic health of the nation, or the construction of several roads across the country, or the revival of our neglected rail lines, or the massive improvement of electricity generation and supply, or the several payments of bailouts to states to clear backlogs of salaries and enhance their local economies, or the steady boost in agriculture to diversify the economy and so on. Their rabid hatred of the President for no justifiable reason is just in tandem with an African proverb that says, even if you dance on water, your enemies will accuse you of raising dust!

To such people, Nigeria should have been on the same pedestal of growth and development like Malaysia or India or Singapore or even China. And they cheered when the President of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohammed recently placed over 3,000 former and current government officials under travel ban in order to retrieve stolen public funds from them but here in Nigeria, they lie, huff and puff and shout hoarse that democracy is under threat when it emerged that President Buhari has placed a mere 50 suspected high profile thieves under travel ban, and you’re left wondering why a travel ban on suspected criminals in Malaysia or Singapore and even in the United States is not a threat to democracy but it is in Nigeria? In whose interest should thieves be allowed to travel freely to launder their ill-gotten wealth while the very country they stole from is rooted in stagnation of development? If Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and even the United States of America allows such unfettered freedom for thieves and other top shot criminals in the name of a so called rule of law, wouldn’t they have remained backwater states like Nigeria was forced to remain from 1999 to 2015?

The world is replete with countless examples of drastic steps or actions certain nations and their leaders have had to take in the promotion and sustenance of their national interests. There is no person in any sovereign nation that is better informed than the government of the nation, and that’s because of the availability of security and Intelligence agencies who feed it with various Intelligence information on various plots by locals or foreigners against the well-being of the sovereign state. If the government acts on such credible information, and arrests the plotters, and yet some lawyers, out of mischief or out of pathetic ignorance, explore and exploit the weaknesses of our laws to have such dangerous persons released, what do you expect the government to do when the nation’s national interest of security is under such severe threat?

Be mindful of the fact and truth that if such dangerous persons are walking free, and they perpetuate their evil plots against the public or against public institutions, it is the very same people making untenable noises about the so called supremacy of the rule of law over national interests that will begin to attack the same government again for “failing to protect citizens” yet they are the ones hiding behind the rule of law to have notorious persons moving about freely! With such persons you can never win, and the best thing for any reasonable and responsible government to do is to simply listen to them but do what is right in the nation’s interest.

On this matter and in this context, if the United States is right in elevating its national interests over international rule of law, then President Muhammadu Buhari is very right.

Of course she is the mother of their nation.
The nation of those that are still living in the past.

The crowd no get chill at all..

Yola, Adamawa state capital and they are still shouting sai Buhari.
The people that are trying to oust Buhari are the most unserious people you can find anywhere.
What a comedian.
The tsunami called Buhari will sweep away Atiku even in his home state of Adamawa, this is a pointer.

That place is called cooperative.
For the prevention of future occurrences that place needs to be cleared of those miscreants that always gathered there in the guise of motor boys.

I heard that the guy was rescued by the security operatives that dispersed the mob.

thunderfirebuha:
Yorubas should stop being stupid...

They have been crying since atiku chose Peter obi for VP.

Yorubas should go and rest. very jealous lots.

It's only "ATIKU - OBI"

The following is culled from the statement released by IPOB..

Those irrationally jubilating in the South East and South South over the PDP nominee must remember it was Atiku, Saraki, Obasanjo, Tambowal, Kwankwonso and others that conspired against Jonathan in 2015 to put a Fulani man in power. Now Jonathan is gone, the big Fulani guns that abandoned him to join APC to ensure the loss of his presidency, have now jumped out of APC into PDP to overrun the east. We wonder why people will forget so easily, especially South East and South South people.