₦airaland Forum

iamodenigbo1:
if close to 2000 is sacked,how many come remain?;,oshio baba,diaris god oo

MichaelSokoto:
President Goodluck Jonathan’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, said on Tuesday that critics of the President needed to be examined by psychiatrists.
Okupe said this while reacting to the statement by a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, in which the ex-VP raised the alarm over the activities of the members of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in the North-East.
Atiku had alleged that if the activities of the insurgents were not quickly curtailed, they could overrun the entire region.
He also berated the leadership of the country, wondering what it had been doing to curtail the criminal activities of the members of the sect.
But Okupe said such statements were not expected from Atiku, who the presidential aide said had been part of the system.
He said, “Those people saying that this government is clueless need psychiatric test. From now on, anybody who says this government is clueless should be referred to a psychiatrist.
“It is obvious that people are also trying to make mileage of insurgency. On Monday, a very notable member of the Nigerian leadership institution, in particular Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, took a swipe at the Federal Government and at the President.
“You know, it’s difficult to comment publicly about people who have held very important and highly dignified position in our polity, but when people go to the extent of trying to make political gains out of national tragedy, it is difficult not to say something because this is part of the misinformation which the Nigerian public has been subjected to.
“Atiku said that we have problems with leadership, both political leadership and military leadership. For a former Vice President, I believe the comments passed by Atiku Abubakar, I don’t want to use the word ‘irresponsible’, but I will say it is a little bit out of place.
“It is not something you expect from an elder statesman, somebody who has been in the system and who understands how government works.”
Okupe, who said he was angry with the statement of Atiku, said it was wrong for someone aspiring to lead the country to speak ill of the armed forces because he would command the same military if elected.
He alleged that it was statements from people like Atiku that emboldened the insurgents to take up arms against the state.
“I remember very well that before the 2011 elections, it was the people like Atiku Abubakar who said that those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable.
“That was his statement and that was what poured out some of these young people who have been brainwashed to take up armed against their state,” he said.
He insisted that the government of Jonathan was doing everything possible to contain insurgency, adding that there was hardly any country not currently battling with insurgency.
Okupe said insurgency remained the problem facing the country and that government had been battling it and would overcome it, especially with the calibre of people serving in the government.
He also added that the present government remained the best since independence in 1960.
He said, “We have capable people who have made name running this economy; people like (Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Olusegun) Aganga; (Minster of Finance, Ngozi) Okonjo-Iweala and others and people are saying this government is clueless.
“How can these capable people be running an economy where the government is clueless. Is this possible?
“But I want to say here that Jonathan administration is the most successful since 1960.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathans-critics-need-psychiatric-test-okupe/

CharliParker:
Very very TRUE, who don't know the saTAN,they are only deceiving the Fools

loopman:
Who are the promoters of TAN?

comrChris:
Will comment when others start commenting

barcanista:
All PDP States are having the same Problem. They are failing, they will fail. Anyway, Chief John Oyegun is to be blamed for this

okpismart:
...

Source: http://.com.ng/index.php/political-news/item/1024-femi-fani-kayode-some-hard-questions-for-the-buharists

SuperMartins:
May God bless Fani..

Iceking1:
Wen i read sum comments on other threads here, mostly 4rm d Christain folks here, tears will jst started dripping 4rm my eyes.


Thurkey has 98% Christain and 2%Muslim for 1,866 years, but today Turked is 99% Muslims and 1% Christain


i wept for all Christain here, bcus u are all playing with fire, u dnt knw wat is cumin ur way


Christainity is a jst 100+ old in Nigeria

Sharia was mentioned in d Nigerian constitution 11 times


Muslim was mentioned in d Nigerian constitution same 11times

Mosque was mentioned in d Nigerian constitution 8Times

Allah and Mohammed was mentioned in d Nigerian constitution 6times each


Christain was mentioned in d Nigerian constitution 0 times


Church was mentioned in d Nigerian constitution 0 times


Jesus Christ was mentioned in d Nigerian constitution 0 times


Now tell me, u see y sum muslim elders call boko haram freedom fighters, yes i totally agreed with dem dey are freedom fighters, and dey are fighting 4 deir rights bcus sharia was mentioned in the Nigerian constitution & dey want sharia

saint047:
Dr Junaid Mohammed,a member of the House of Representatives in the Second Republic and currently coordinates the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen. He treats other zones of Nigeria with little respect, and obviously cannot hide his hatred and disregard for Ndigbo of the South East Nigeria.
In the Punch Newspaper of September 12, 2014, he described the just concluded National Confab as a waste of time, and that it achieved nothing, and argued that the agenda of the different regions of the South failed.
According to him: Those who wanted to use the result of the conference for their own political good, like Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party have failed woefully; the Igbo wanted to use the conference to achieve their demented agenda of equality or parity between the North-West and the South-East.
In his words: “If you are to use a serious map that is scientifically based, to show respective areas where you show the North-West as the palm of a hand, the South-East will only be a dot”.
Continuing, he said: The South-South request for resource control also failed; the recommendations of the Confab would not scale through the National Assembly that has Northerners in the majority; any of the presidential candidates in 2015 election who commits to maintaining the current revenue allocation formula would not win; anybody who commits himself to maintain the preponderance of the Igbo in all our financial agencies, ministries and department will also not win the next election; Goodluck Jonathan has already started boasting that he has given the Igbo more than anybody in the past, for that alone he will not win the next election. If he rigs it, there will be mayhem.
Dr. Mohammed has said it all; he should be held responsible for any bloodshed after the 2015 elections. He must be coming from a school of thought that believes Northern Nigeria must always produce the President and the heads of all Federal Government ministries and agencies in Nigeria.No wonder Northerners are swarming the NNPC through which they milk Nigeria as their inheritance as given to them by Great Britain and exposed byAliyu Gwarzo.In their wisdom, their tribe is meant to reap where they have sown nothing, while denying the actual owners of the oil any benefits with the vehemence of a suicide bomber!They cannot stand women in powerful positions as we have them now.
For the likes of Dr. Mohammed and his brother Murtala Nyako, GEJ is an Igbo man; how unfortunate!
A great beneficiary of the years of Northern rule of Nigeria, Dr Mohammed needs our sympathy and understanding because the tide in the affairs of Nigeria has continued to change as ordained by God who created the heaven and the earth. The refusal of any mortal to accept the will of this sovereign God over this nation is rebellion against God, and the consequences include destruction. God will judge that, and He does not fail.
Dr. Junaid Mohammed was reported recently as calling Igbos selfish and shameless in an interview published on the Hope for Nigeria website. I do not blame him. He is saying it as he sees the Igbo man. There are reasons to think that the Igbo man is selfish and foolish, I mean very foolish! After all, an Igbo Proverb, says that the madman knows what he does, but may not know why he does those things. Dr. Junaid may not know why he is saying the things he said, as a matter fact.
Let us face it, here is a people who were massacred in the North of Nigeria in 1966.They were killed in hundreds of thousands which culminated in a three years civil war.
What did the Igbos do right after the war? They quickly ran back to the same spots where they were killed in 1966 and re-established businesses in a bid to survive the hunger from the war.
They remained in those states,built houses, estates, hotels, and expanded the economy of their erstwhile killers! Some have children born in such places who can’t speak Igbo language!Is it wise to think that your enemy will love you because you came back to make money? No man will hate your father and turn round to love you! Igbos know this too well, but refuse to change, it is shocking!I was in the war, as a young boy, in the Biafra Organisation of Freedom Fighters,BOFF.
We were told then, that one way the Nigerian soldiers confirmed that an Igbo soldier was really dead was to shake a few coins noisily in his ears. If he did not move, then he is dead! This captured the greed or selfishness of an average Igbo man as perceived by Nigerians. This wrong notion may have accounted for the different attitude of some of us; the products of that training to money. We see money as the reason Igbos are insulted by every fool in Nigeria!
Since after that war, Igbos have succeeded most in working against themselves. First was the Onitsha sea port which the then Alhaji Shehu Shagari government wanted to build for Igbos, but ended up building that small canoe jetty in the name of seaport at Onitsha. Igbo sons were part of the deceit at that time, and it remains a scar on the conscience of those who betrayed their land by refusing to use that opportunity to give Igbo land a sea port.
When you demand for a seaport in Igbo land today, the Northern interests would get an Igbo professional to tell you that it cannot be done, forgetting that the United Arab Emirates built one of the biggest seaports in modern world today, in the desert! If these Igbo professionals that are being used are not fools, what will you call them? We know them, yet we clap when they vomit upon us!
WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON THIS?

tochukwuifeduba:
By Virtue of section Section 68 (1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution as amended.
The section reads, “A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if -
(g) being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected.”

Ex speaker contravened section (68)(1)(g) by defecting when there is a subsisting court injunction to the effect that there is no division in the PDP

security details is in order. Section 68 (1)(g) made it clear that a lawmaker who defects when there is no division in his party shall vacate his seat.
“The legal advice is that the operational word there is ‘shall.’ That section of the constitution is self-
“There is a subsisting court injunction that there is no division in the PDP and that there is no merger.

“It therefore means that based on that constitutional provision, Tambuwal is no longer a member of the House. Since he is no longer a member, then he cannot be the speaker.

“The withdrawal of Ex- speaker Tambuwal security details is in order. He will even be stopped from entering his office. He is no longer a member of the House.

Comrade Ifeduba ThankGod T ( Aguiyi na Ozubulu) Anambra

tsolz300:
A friend once told me that in the USA , if a politician wishes to switch parties, he is to resign from all political posts, then stay politically inactive for 4 years.then he/ she can defect..
If this is the case in Nigeria,then I believe polithiefians here will think 6 times before defecting..
The thing just tire me!!we may wake up tomorrow and discover that our senate president is now in a Ghanaian party.

Ko kan aiye

Mogidi:
Mulikat Akande-Adeola would be running the house in two weeks time.

Nothing will stop the Yorubas from getting the speakership that was zoned to them but sold by Teefnubu.

fkaz:
Is it after PDP has denied some house of rep members ticket wishing to recontest? Tanbuwal will remain speaker, some PDP members will decamp to APC, just to realise their ambition.

Just watch how more PDP members will decamp after their primaries

CharlesPhc:
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the Presiding officer of the House of Representatives of Nigeria. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the current speaker, was elected on June 6, 2011 under the platform of the PDP. Now, the majority PDP dominated House should not allow an opposition party member preside on their platform. That in itself is alien in the history of the NASS; that a member of the opposition would preside over the ruling party dominated House. The 7th Assembly must not be an exception. It must be resisted by PDP.

My humble submission...!!!

chrismmm:
Only a bastard yoruba person wil vote him , kill him!

Omexonomy:
St.upid gworo chewing slaves master. So igbo grab all abuja land without paying kobo just as they are grabbing land in Yoruba state? Pathetic people full nigeria sha.

manck2:
tinubu does not mean any in yoruba, tinubu is a northern name. magaji is a northerner names. while ahmed is a muslim name..

for anyone to call him asiwaju yoruba , it means the person is stupiid.

iriferi:
I pray all of Buhari supporters find a place in their heart to accept the
fact that it takes only but a while before a man's deceptive nature
comes to light.
Muhammadu Buhari: Running for president with an anti-corruption
bank loan, By Femi Aribisala
One thing is for sure: Muhammadu Buhari would like to be the next
president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He has tried three times
and has failed every time. Finally realizing it is a lost cause, he said he
would not try again. But now he is persuaded to try again. His
supporters are impressed that he won 12 million votes against
Goodluck Jonathan in 2011. However, they need to be reminded that
he lost to Jonathan by over 10 million votes.

Since the third time did not turn out to be a charm for Buhari, what
are we to call his fourth attempt? Listening to the declaration of his
new-fangled presidential bid in Eagles’ Square, Abuja a few days ago,
it is seems this fourth time is going to be one big charade.
The sign was provided by none other than Buhari himself. Since his
one credential is that he is a man of integrity who, as president, is
expected to wrestle corruption down to the ground, Buhari decided to
burnish his anti-corruption image by revealing that he obtained his
27.5 million naira APC nomination form with a bank loan. However,
what this declaration did was to tell Nigerians that Buhari is a
pretentious anti-corruption crusader. His Mr. Clean posture is nothing
but a public relations gimmick.
Question marks
In fairness, some of us have known this all along. Under Buhari’s
watch as Petroleum Minister in the late 1970s, $2.8 billion (worth
billions of naira today) was missing from the NNPC account. The
matter was subject to Senate investigation under the chairmanship of
Olusola Saraki in 1983. But before the report could be dealt with,
Buhari conveniently overthrew the Shagari government in a military
coup d’état.
Vera Ifudu, an NTA newscaster, revealed that Saraki told her in an
interview that the missing money was traced to Buhari’s account at
Midland Bank in London. For this disclosure, Vera was summarily
sacked by the NTA. However, she appealed against her dismissal in
court and won. She even received a handsome financial
compensation for wrongful dismissal from the NTA. Instead of
clearing his name as a man of integrity, Buhari refused to appear
before the Oputa Panel set up to look into the matter (among under
things) by the Obasanjo administration.
Buhari claims to be an anti-corruption crusader, nevertheless, he
agreed to serve under Sani Abacha, one of the most corrupt Heads-
of-State ever in the history of Nigeria. While there has been no proven
allegation that Buhari corruptly enriched himself as Chairman of the
Petroleum Trust Fund under Abacha, it is abundantly clear that this
fabled anti-corruption crusader failed to curb the rampant corruption
that prevailed in the organization. Group Captain Usman Jibrin, a
board member of PTF, resigned from the organization in protest over
Buhari’s irregular appointments of consultants.
In 2000, the Obasanjo administration set up an Interim Management
Committee to look into the affairs of the PTF, under the chairmanship
of Haroun Adamu. The Committee discovered that billions of naira
was stolen under Buhari’s chairmanship.
Political platform
Now the same Buhari who would not or could not curb corruption in
the PTF wants us to believe he will fight corruption as president of
Nigeria. However, he has chosen the APC as the political platform on
which to undertake this. But the APC is an unscrupulous political
party that is choc-full of corrupt politicians. It is the party of Murtala
Nyako who was impeached as governor of Adamawa State for
converting state money to personal use. It is the party where Buhari
himself and others went cap-in-hand to Otta to beg Obasanjo to be
their “navigator.”
Surely Buhari knows that he cannot fight corruption by being the
presidential candidate of the APC. Whatever anti-corruption
crusading Buhari had in him in the past must have ended when he
decided to join the APC. Should he become president, does he intend
to probe his corrupt party-members? Has he made them understand
he would be coming after them once elected? If he has, does he really
expect them to help him get elected so he can retrieve their stolen
loot and send them off to jail?
A 72 year-old man with Buhari’s experience, who was overthrown in a
preemptive coup by members of his own government, knows that in
Nigeria, nobody gets elected as president on the platform that he is
going to be an anti-corruption crusader when he gets into office. That
is a sure signal for all the politicians in all the parties to gang up
against him and make sure he never makes it.
If you really want to be anti-corruption, you have to keep your mouth
shut about your plans until you get elected and then catch your
corrupt colleagues by surprise. You must also have resolved not to
seek re-election for a second-term. It is not only the populace, but the
politicians in particular, who insist on “stomach infrastructure.” But if
you are talking anti-corruption while still seeking the nomination of
your party, it must be because it is well known to your corrupt
colleagues that your anti-corruption stance is merely for public
consumption.
Cleaning up APC
It is not surprising, therefore, that despite all the noise about anti-
corruption coming from Buhari and his cohorts; he has failed to fight
against corruption in the APC. We did not hear him raise a voice
against the incongruity of a so-called progressive party demanding a
cynical nomination fee of 27.5 million naira for its presidential
primaries. One would have expected a truly anti-corruption crusader
to make the point that the nomination fee is unacceptable. Instead,
Buhari readily acquiesced to the requirement in order to safeguard his
all-important presidential ambitions.
Since Buhari cannot, or does not, fight against this corrupting
nomination fee in the APC, and insist on its reduction to something
far more reasonable, how can he expect us to believe that as
president in a political system with the separation of powers; against
a legislature likely to be controlled by the PDP; he would be able to
fight corruption? Somebody is fooling somebody here. Or else,
somebody is living in a cloud cuckoo land.
Charity, they say, begins at home. If Buhari is truly anti-corruption, he
should begin his crusade in the APC. Is it progressive for a political
party in Nigeria to ask its candidates to come up with 27.5 million
just for the nomination papers for an election where only one person
will emerge as the winner? Is it not corrupt politicians that are likely
to have this type of easy-come easy-go money? Is this not an open
invitation for the winner, if he actually manages to secure election to
the presidency, to recoup this extortionate fee from public funds?
Anti-corruption bank loan
What did anti-corruption Buhari do about this outrageous APC
requirement? This is where the whole matter becomes ridiculously
implausible. According to Buhari, rather than fight against the
measure, he took out a ban loan to pay for it.
Buhari told us about his “loan” out of embarrassment; in a pathetic
bid to validate his anti-corruption credentials. But this so-called loan
indicates that Buhari does not understand what it means to be anti-
corruption. For Buhari, anti-corruption is a posture; it is a swagger; it
is a badge; but it has no bite and, in the usual Nigerian fashion, it will
be prosecuted with hypocrisy.
Buhari wants us to believe that he cannot afford 27.5 million naira.
Nevertheless, he rides around in a bullet-proof Jeep and maintains a
convoy of Land Cruisers. He cannot afford 27.5 million naira.
Nevertheless, he declared his candidacy lavishly in Eagle Square,
Abuja. Did he also take out a bank loan for that? Four months to a
make-or-break election, Buhari would have us believe he has no
money. How does he propose to finance his presidential campaign?
Is he going to take 1 billion naira loan from the World Bank for this?
Dubious loan
Why would a bank lend Buhari that amount for a presidential pie-in-
the-sky that failed to materialize three times in the past? Is that not
likely to be a bad loan? How long did it take for the loan to be
processed? What did he put down as anti-corruption collateral? How
does he propose to pay the money back? Mr. Integrity needs to spell
all this out for the sake of his fast-disintegrating anti-corruption
credentials.
I did not know loans are so easy to secure in Nigerian banks today.
Perhaps Buhari could introduce me to his bank manager. I would also
not mind taking this kind of soft loan. I am sure I can always come
up with some unproductive excuse or the other for it. Is such a loan
even legal today under Nigeria’s stricter banking laws?
How many honest Nigerians can afford to give a non-refundable 27.5
million naira to a political party, on the off-chance that they will be
able to secure the party’s presidential ticket? If they win the
nomination and even get elected president, how would they pay back
the money?
Not presidential material
It is clear that Buhari is not only lacking the money to pay for APC
nomination papers, he does not have the funds to pay for advisers, to
counsel him about what to tell the public and how to prosecute an
effective presidential campaign. His advisers might have educated
him that there is something called “fund-raising.” Surely, the most
popular politician in the North-West can find some of his ardent
supporters to give him 27 million naira. Certainly, a former governor
of the Central Bank can easily cough up the money.
Buhari wants to fight an election that will take place in four months
time. From what he tells us, he does not have 27 million to prosecute
that election now. If this is true, he is not the right man to be
president of Nigeria. For a man who is running for election for the
fourth time, that is the height of cluelessness. It shows Buhari is
lousy at marshaling resources. Otherwise, he is fooling nobody but
himself. #kufre okon

iriferi:
I pray all of Buhari supporters find a place in their heart to accept the
fact that it takes only but a while before a man's deceptive nature
comes to light.
Muhammadu Buhari: Running for president with an anti-corruption
bank loan, By Femi Aribisala
One thing is for sure: Muhammadu Buhari would like to be the next
president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He has tried three times
and has failed every time. Finally realizing it is a lost cause, he said he
would not try again. But now he is persuaded to try again. His
supporters are impressed that he won 12 million votes against
Goodluck Jonathan in 2011. However, they need to be reminded that
he lost to Jonathan by over 10 million votes.
Since the third time did not turn out to be a charm for Buhari, what
are we to call his fourth attempt? Listening to the declaration of his
new-fangled presidential bid in Eagles’ Square, Abuja a few days ago,
it is seems this fourth time is going to be one big charade.
The sign was provided by none other than Buhari himself. Since his
one credential is that he is a man of integrity who, as president, is
expected to wrestle corruption down to the ground, Buhari decided to
burnish his anti-corruption image by revealing that he obtained his
27.5 million naira APC nomination form with a bank loan. However,
what this declaration did was to tell Nigerians that Buhari is a
pretentious anti-corruption crusader. His Mr. Clean posture is nothing
but a public relations gimmick.
Question marks
In fairness, some of us have known this all along. Under Buhari’s
watch as Petroleum Minister in the late 1970s, $2.8 billion (worth
billions of naira today) was missing from the NNPC account. The
matter was subject to Senate investigation under the chairmanship of
Olusola Saraki in 1983. But before the report could be dealt with,
Buhari conveniently overthrew the Shagari government in a military
coup d’état.
Vera Ifudu, an NTA newscaster, revealed that Saraki told her in an
interview that the missing money was traced to Buhari’s account at
Midland Bank in London. For this disclosure, Vera was summarily
sacked by the NTA. However, she appealed against her dismissal in
court and won. She even received a handsome financial
compensation for wrongful dismissal from the NTA. Instead of
clearing his name as a man of integrity, Buhari refused to appear
before the Oputa Panel set up to look into the matter (among under
things) by the Obasanjo administration.
Buhari claims to be an anti-corruption crusader, nevertheless, he
agreed to serve under Sani Abacha, one of the most corrupt Heads-
of-State ever in the history of Nigeria. While there has been no proven
allegation that Buhari corruptly enriched himself as Chairman of the
Petroleum Trust Fund under Abacha, it is abundantly clear that this
fabled anti-corruption crusader failed to curb the rampant corruption
that prevailed in the organization. Group Captain Usman Jibrin, a
board member of PTF, resigned from the organization in protest over
Buhari’s irregular appointments of consultants.
In 2000, the Obasanjo administration set up an Interim Management
Committee to look into the affairs of the PTF, under the chairmanship
of Haroun Adamu. The Committee discovered that billions of naira
was stolen under Buhari’s chairmanship.
Political platform
Now the same Buhari who would not or could not curb corruption in
the PTF wants us to believe he will fight corruption as president of
Nigeria. However, he has chosen the APC as the political platform on
which to undertake this. But the APC is an unscrupulous political
party that is choc-full of corrupt politicians. It is the party of Murtala
Nyako who was impeached as governor of Adamawa State for
converting state money to personal use. It is the party where Buhari
himself and others went cap-in-hand to Otta to beg Obasanjo to be
their “navigator.”
Surely Buhari knows that he cannot fight corruption by being the
presidential candidate of the APC. Whatever anti-corruption
crusading Buhari had in him in the past must have ended when he
decided to join the APC. Should he become president, does he intend
to probe his corrupt party-members? Has he made them understand
he would be coming after them once elected? If he has, does he really
expect them to help him get elected so he can retrieve their stolen
loot and send them off to jail?
A 72 year-old man with Buhari’s experience, who was overthrown in a
preemptive coup by members of his own government, knows that in
Nigeria, nobody gets elected as president on the platform that he is
going to be an anti-corruption crusader when he gets into office. That
is a sure signal for all the politicians in all the parties to gang up
against him and make sure he never makes it.
If you really want to be anti-corruption, you have to keep your mouth
shut about your plans until you get elected and then catch your
corrupt colleagues by surprise. You must also have resolved not to
seek re-election for a second-term. It is not only the populace, but the
politicians in particular, who insist on “stomach infrastructure.” But if
you are talking anti-corruption while still seeking the nomination of
your party, it must be because it is well known to your corrupt
colleagues that your anti-corruption stance is merely for public
consumption.
Cleaning up APC
It is not surprising, therefore, that despite all the noise about anti-
corruption coming from Buhari and his cohorts; he has failed to fight
against corruption in the APC. We did not hear him raise a voice
against the incongruity of a so-called progressive party demanding a
cynical nomination fee of 27.5 million naira for its presidential
primaries. One would have expected a truly anti-corruption crusader
to make the point that the nomination fee is unacceptable. Instead,
Buhari readily acquiesced to the requirement in order to safeguard his
all-important presidential ambitions.
Since Buhari cannot, or does not, fight against this corrupting
nomination fee in the APC, and insist on its reduction to something
far more reasonable, how can he expect us to believe that as
president in a political system with the separation of powers; against
a legislature likely to be controlled by the PDP; he would be able to
fight corruption? Somebody is fooling somebody here. Or else,
somebody is living in a cloud cuckoo land.
Charity, they say, begins at home. If Buhari is truly anti-corruption, he
should begin his crusade in the APC. Is it progressive for a political
party in Nigeria to ask its candidates to come up with 27.5 million
just for the nomination papers for an election where only one person
will emerge as the winner? Is it not corrupt politicians that are likely
to have this type of easy-come easy-go money? Is this not an open
invitation for the winner, if he actually manages to secure election to
the presidency, to recoup this extortionate fee from public funds?
Anti-corruption bank loan
What did anti-corruption Buhari do about this outrageous APC
requirement? This is where the whole matter becomes ridiculously
implausible. According to Buhari, rather than fight against the
measure, he took out a ban loan to pay for it.
Buhari told us about his “loan” out of embarrassment; in a pathetic
bid to validate his anti-corruption credentials. But this so-called loan
indicates that Buhari does not understand what it means to be anti-
corruption. For Buhari, anti-corruption is a posture; it is a swagger; it
is a badge; but it has no bite and, in the usual Nigerian fashion, it will
be prosecuted with hypocrisy.
Buhari wants us to believe that he cannot afford 27.5 million naira.
Nevertheless, he rides around in a bullet-proof Jeep and maintains a
convoy of Land Cruisers. He cannot afford 27.5 million naira.
Nevertheless, he declared his candidacy lavishly in Eagle Square,
Abuja. Did he also take out a bank loan for that? Four months to a
make-or-break election, Buhari would have us believe he has no
money. How does he propose to finance his presidential campaign?
Is he going to take 1 billion naira loan from the World Bank for this?
Dubious loan
Why would a bank lend Buhari that amount for a presidential pie-in-
the-sky that failed to materialize three times in the past? Is that not
likely to be a bad loan? How long did it take for the loan to be
processed? What did he put down as anti-corruption collateral? How
does he propose to pay the money back? Mr. Integrity needs to spell
all this out for the sake of his fast-disintegrating anti-corruption
credentials.
I did not know loans are so easy to secure in Nigerian banks today.
Perhaps Buhari could introduce me to his bank manager. I would also
not mind taking this kind of soft loan. I am sure I can always come
up with some unproductive excuse or the other for it. Is such a loan
even legal today under Nigeria’s stricter banking laws?
How many honest Nigerians can afford to give a non-refundable 27.5
million naira to a political party, on the off-chance that they will be
able to secure the party’s presidential ticket? If they win the
nomination and even get elected president, how would they pay back
the money?
Not presidential material
It is clear that Buhari is not only lacking the money to pay for APC
nomination papers, he does not have the funds to pay for advisers, to
counsel him about what to tell the public and how to prosecute an
effective presidential campaign. His advisers might have educated
him that there is something called “fund-raising.” Surely, the most
popular politician in the North-West can find some of his ardent
supporters to give him 27 million naira. Certainly, a former governor
of the Central Bank can easily cough up the money.
Buhari wants to fight an election that will take place in four months
time. From what he tells us, he does not have 27 million to prosecute
that election now. If this is true, he is not the right man to be
president of Nigeria. For a man who is running for election for the
fourth time, that is the height of cluelessness. It shows Buhari is
lousy at marshaling resources. Otherwise, he is fooling nobody but
himself. #kufre okon

highchiefpee:
That's correct especially in my state osun the governor killed the lgs completely he rendered dem uselesss!!I just hope those state houses of assembly won't mess this up by collecting bribe from state governors that don't want the amendment to become operational

nduchucks:
If none of the recently adopted amendments to our constitution is ultimately adopted, I'll be satisfied with the adoption of this singular provision, which was also approved:

a citizen of Nigeria is an indigene of a particular community of a state in Nigeria if he was born in that state

Some of us fought very hard during the constitutional review committee hearings to get that provision in the final prodI congratulate all of my partners who fought in their own little way to make this possible.

It is a first step towards eradicating unnecessary discrimination, archaic custom and tradition which has kept us in the stone ages. The time will come very soon when Chukwuma will become the Governor of Lagos and a Shekaru can become the Governor of Abia.

Long Live this great country!!

SlimSkipper:
make dem kill dem sef nah wetin concern me

Atouke: haba south west why are these states drowning Nigeria in debt.

Total amount of external debt owed by 36 states in Nigeria $3,013,216,977 billion.
Total Amount owed by South west states $1,342,056,129 billion

calculation: Tota lamount owed by south west states/ Total amount owed by 36 states X 100
$1,342,056,129/$3,013,216,977 x 100
45%

Gorrbachev: the speech reminds me of the "He is working with Awolowo pepu that kiii our pepu" speech during the Anambra election". Naija politics fun.

kentus07: B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G News!! 24 Oyo Lawmakers Sign Impeachment Plot Against
Ajimobi, Speaker ***Governor dangles N500m before lawmakers ***Mace taken to unknown location ***We’ll achieve our objective by end of August-
PDP, APC, Accord lawmakers ***House on emergency recess, to resume August
28 Despite serial denials from the leadership and lily-
livered members of the Oyo State House of
Assembly, especially those who have profited from
a regime of deceit, there is palpable plot to remove
the Speaker, Alhaja Monsurat Sunmonu and Gov
Ajimobi. The twin agenda is being spearheaded by
lawmakers from the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
and Accord Party (AP). APC has the majority in the Assembly with 18
members, while the PDP and Accord Party have 9
and 5 lawmakers respectively in the 32-member
House.
But NEWSLEAK can authoritatively report that 10 of the APC lawmakers have joined their
counterparts in PDP and Accord to form a group of
“seriously aggrieved” assemblymen. As of Sunday evening, the 24 lawmakers (10 APC, 9
PDP and 5 Accord) have all signed the impeachment
plot and are holding meetings which venues they
keep changing. To avert the looming removal, the Speaker, who
made history as the first woman to hold the office in
the state, has held a series of meetings with
Governor Ajimobi on how to resolve the logjam. One of the options being considered is to dangle a
sum of N500million before the aggrieved
lawmakers to shelve the plan. But a source in
government said the N500million was the annual
statutory empowerment fund that the governor
gives to the lawmakers to ensure they remain relevant in their constituencies. The source added that “with the situation of things
now, Oga (Governor Ajimobi) may not have any
option than to release the money to the lawmakers
quickly” so as to abort the plan. He added that, contrary to insinuation that PDP and
Accord leaders might be behind the plan, it was the
governor who took the lawmakers for granted
“resting on the docility and sheepish loyalty of the
House to him.” The Speaker of the House, NEWSLEAK can reveal, on
Sunday evening left the country for London onward
Saudi Arabia for UMRAH lesser hajj. Her trip was
originally scheduled for Friday evening. The Mace, which is the symbol of legislative without
which no legislative proceeding, including the
impeachment plan, can become legal and
authoritative, has been moved to an unknown
location. But some of the lawmakers spearheading the plot
hinted that they have the end of August as deadline
for the “successful implementation” of the agenda. The House, at plenary last Thursday,
adjourned sitting to August 28 for the annual
“working recess” of the lawmakers.— Vox
Populi News

bloodyassassin: juju doesn't work on RPG

Manazz: Okay , how does this really concern any of us?