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Whether GEJ wins or loses, he has sure given his best to nigeria...Nice initiative by the way

Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Owerri reviewed the downward slide of the nation’s economy and called on Nigeria to rise and say bye to the government of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Buhari, who spoke as chieftains of the party and members of the APC Governors’ Forum, stormed Owerri, Imo State capital for a meeting, in their last minute campaign, said Nigeria would witness unmitigated disaster, if President Jonathan was re-elected.

While the APC Governors’ meeting was the first in the year, which they also tagged “March for a New Nigeria”, Gen. Buhari used the opportunity to plead with Nigerians to shun ethnic tribal and clannish sentiment in electing a new president for the country.

After taking a critical look at the performance of the nation’s economy in the last 16 years, Gen. Buhari said: “We should all rise and say goodbye to PDP because no amount of sentiment will justify voting for the PDP again.”

The former head of state noted that while the value of the Naira had plummeted beyond imagination, prices of oil had also dwindled, adding that insecurity, unemployment and corruption had become the order of the day.

After chronicling his record of service while in government, Buhari said that as serious crusader against corruption, he would sanitize the country, if given the opportunity to serve as president of Nigeria.

Welcoming his guests earlier, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, explained that the APC Governors’ Forum was meant to build a bridge of friendship that would traverse all nooks and crannies of the country.

While stressing that Igbo are found in all parts of the country, Okorocha also opined that this singular act helped in building bridges of unity and contributing to the economic development of the nation.



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SIX days to go from today! The presidential campaigns have been awful. That is, perhaps, how best to sum it all up.
The governorship election (April 11) is no better. Governors, owing months of workers’ salaries, are promising pay rises if re-elected. They are using their campaigns to reduce school fees and announce free education. The electorate is to absorb it all.

Already once-postponed, the presidential election rescheduled for this Saturday (March 28) is mired in, perhaps, the biggest allegation yet: that the Jonathan administration had hatched a plot to institute an Interim or Unity Government in place of the election.
Last Thursday, at a summit of some Yoruba leaders at Ibadan (Oyo State), the allegation got a notch with the leaders saying No to it. They did not endorse any of the two main candidates.

In addition to saying, let the elections be held as rescheduled, the overall import of their formal statement was: the Southwest electorate are free to vote any candidate of their choice.

However, down in the streets, some of the unanswered questions following are: “Will this election truly hold?” “Will INEC announce results?” “All the Dollars and Naira that politicians have been throwing around, are they all for nothing?” Etc.

Obasanjo and the presidential election
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo may well retire from active politicking and political punditry after this election.
Once in 2002, at a media chat during his first term, he claimed that Chief Bola Ige, the “Cicero of Esa Oke”, as the late lawyer, politician, and Attorney General and Justice Minister was popularly called, drafted the constitution and manifesto of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
It was about three months after Ige had been murdered at his Ibadan residence on December 23, 2001.

Obasanjo’s claim on NTA infuriated some of the party elders and founding fathers, so much that the late Chief Sunday Bolorunduro (S.B) Awoniyi, who was chairman of the drafting committee, promptly responded thus:

“As chairman of the PDP manifesto committee, I owe it as a duty to the members of that committee to correct the erroneous statement President Obasanjo sold to the nation in his media chat on Sunday, 3 February 2002.

“In the course of his answer to a question about the aversion of the PDP caucus to the registration of new political parties, President Obasanjo introduced the name of Chief Bola Ige. He said that Ige was responsible for writing the constitution and manifesto of the PDP and those of other political parties as well. Nothing can be farther from the truth.”

Awoniyi said although he was not out to disregard “the fecundity of Uncle Bola’s pen,” he “intended to aid transparency about which President Obasanjo is an untiring canvasser.”
That was then. Although the former president had bestrode the party at that time like a colossus and embarked on appointing the party chairmen without reverting to the party National Convention, as recognised by the party constitution, some of the elders, who were already then at the receiving end of his big sticks, could still decently caution him.

In the run-up to this presidential election, there is virtually no elder now to talk decently in the PDP. Obasanjo has himself quit the party in a haze of theatre, ordering his membership card to be torn to the glare of TV cameras.
He has published another controversial personal memoirs. He has written angry and explosive letters. He has made scores of media appearances, nationally and internationally.

Voters have virtually only his word with which to look at the two leading presidential candidates on the major issue of public corruption.

INEC introduces anti-rigging measures for the first time
Despite the window offered by a six-weeks postponement during which the election umpire, Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), demonstrated the use of Card Readers in selected states and centres, the new system, along with the novel accreditation of voters by presentation of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) is viewed with a mixture of excitement and apprehension.
Some fear that it might delay voting and cause trouble in some places.

“It is one thing for INEC to demonstrate Card Readers with a hand-full of voters,” said one prospective voter at a Primary School collection centre in Ojodu Lagos. “It is another for polls officers to attend to the crowd of voters on Election Day with this thing (Card Reader); there will be problem.”

Leaders of the main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), managed to appropriate to the party, and by sheer propaganda, “chief supporters” of INEC and its innovative PVC and Card Readers.
They are not on record to large-heartedly acknowledge that this is happening for the first time; only that it is designed to check rigging by the “rigging party.”

That it happened under the Jonathan administration, which provided the INEC with the funds and the free hand to come through with them, where past administration never tolerated that kind of innovation, can never be said until maybe after the election has been conducted and the system works to everyone’s satisfaction.

However, beginning with another innovative move — introduction of 30,000 new polling units — which had to be dropped after Southern states vehemently protested their gross lopsidedness in favour of Northern states, leaders of the ruling party, who have also labelled the APC as “association of propagandists and complainers,” have been alleging that the Prof. Attahiru Jega-led electoral body has a hidden agenda.

Initially, PVCs had been distributed 80 per cent and above in some Northern states’ cities, including those of Boko Haram insurgency — torn Northeast, despite huge numbers of displaced persons, while allocation and collection in Southern states’ cities, including high-density commercial nerve-centre of Lagos, ranked mostly between 35 and 50 per cent.

Currently, while INEC officials claim to have distributed PVCs 80 per cent and above nationwide, PDP’s supporters staged protest march in Abuja and some cities to demonstrate their rejection of the use of Card Readers for the election.
Supporters of the two parties staged million-man march, multi-million-man march and so forth.

Allegations, counter-allegations, and muck, counter-muck have been used to block healthy debate of issues, policies, and strategies. Electioneering propaganda has never been this vile, especially with the entry of the social media.

And so, only days now separating the electorate from voting, the streets are still suffused with rumour that the election could again be postponed. There are all shades of talk in the streets, markets and motor parks:
“PDP will not just lose the election like that, it will do something!” “They are saying an Interim Government or something like that is coming!” “I can’t see Buhari defeating Jonathan just like that!”

“APC will not accept defeat; Amaechi said they will form a parallel government!” “Jonathan can’t defeat Buhari in this election; the whole North and the whole Southwest will vote for Buhari and Buhari has already won!”
“No; not every northerner or South-westerner will vote for Buhari or Jonathan, and this election can only lead to trouble!” And so forth.

APC/PDP: The fight to finish
THE APC cry of “change” has appeared to sound louder than the PDP “continuity” cry. Change, as a term or concept, ordinarily is not so much as political, economic or social, as it is scientific. Basically as a scientific expression, it implies paradigm shift.
Last March, the main opposition APC, kicked off by unveiling a manifesto in Abuja, promising a welfare vision for Nigeria.

Job creation strategies, fight against public corruption, poor and falling social and physical infrastructure, widespread insecurity, creation of state police, greater transparency in government were promised.

But practically all through the campaigns, there is virtually no solid defence of how, or what and what the party will do to get funds to implement or execute some of the promises.
For example, in the midst of falling oil prices, the APC plans to pay the poorest 25 million people in the country a monthly allowance of N5, 000. It also plans to pay a whole year of ex-Youth Corps members, who are unable to find jobs.

Put together, this will cost at least N2 trillion or nearly half of the federal budget for 2014.
Some of these could have formed a basis for the party candidate, retired Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, to engage the incumbent and one he wants to unseat, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, in a televised debate — indeed, a presidential debate — complete with a return match (round two), as has become the international practice, to enable voters understand issues better and make up their mind who to vote for.

Yesterday, the Nigerian Election Debate Group (NEDG) staged a televised presidential debate for ten hopefuls, including President Jonathan.
It was more of a Town Hall Meeting for the ten than a close-up wrap on the two main contestants, one of who is likely to win the election.
But Buhari did not participate. He had said that the ruling PDP has failed the country for the past 16 years (which unfortunately, is largely true).

Jonathan, he also said, has messed up everything (an exaggeration, although there are obvious, clear points of the president performing below the radar).
So, there is no point to engage them in a debate and nothing to debate them for, said the APC presidential candidate.
Imagine Papa Awo shying away or shunning an opportunity to explain the “Action Plan” or “Four-Cardinal Points” of his party’s vision of change and progress for the nation in the 1950s and early 1980s!

Imagine Abiola saying there was no point debating Tofa because, being a mogul, and philanthropist, well-known nationally and internationally, and towering far higher above his opponent, there was no point debating him — in 1993!
Now, in the 2015 of the 21st Century, the PDP and the president’s campaign team, smarting from the APC and Buhari campaign team’s blistering hanging of the tag of “clueless” have both declared “total war.”

It is a measure of the degeneration of the campaign war — an anti-climax — that the spouses of the two leading candidates are the ones rounding off the campaign tours: the one telling the other that she is not ready to feed her husband in prison, and the other replying that there is no need to worry, as her husband won’t bother about that.

Battleground Southwest: The electoral showdown ahead
The Southwest is certainly the geo-political zone to watch, especially in the presidential election. Clearly, the way it votes will not only determine who, out of Jonathan and Buhari, takes the Presidency. It might as well determine the fate of the APC.
And the latter (APC’s fate), which can also be termed “battle for the soul” of the Southwest, seems the crux of the matter, as indicated by the novelty of the parallel meetings on the same day, in the two biggest historical cities of the zone by Yoruba leaders.
Whatever “political capital” Afenifere Yoruba leaders, and in effect, Jonathan, had gained from the series of meetings they had held, had to be countered or watered down.

The leaders had had three parleys previously. First, was in Ondo (Ondo State) where they formally stated their stand in support of implementation of the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference.
Most of the leaders, such as Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Senator Femi Okurounmu and Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, were at the Conference. Okurounmu chaired the Committee that produced the blueprint for the Conference.

They had also formally endorsed Jonathan’s bid for second term: they resolved that the president showed courage in convoking the 492-member talks and that he is the one suited to implement the decisions.

Other meetings — in Lagos, Ibadan (Oyo State) and back in Lagos last Thursday (the last of the series), were to sensitise primarily the zone and the rest of the country to their stand that the implementation of the Conference decisions was the change that Nigeria needed, not Jonathan’s replacement.

Then, the definitely pro-APC or Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu-powered meeting of Yoruba leaders in Ibadan (Oyo State) stepped into the fray last Thursday.

Incidentally, retired Lt. Gen Alani Akirinade, one of the many prominent faces at the 2014 National Conference, convened the meeting.
Speeches at the summit, while being strong and anger-laced (as in description of Yoruba as “hewer of wood and drawers of water” and “devastating existence”) did not necessarily distance the zone from the 2014 National Conference decisions:
The Yoruba had been at the forefront of the protracted struggle for some of the key decisions, like restructuring of the federation, fiscal federalism, devolution of powers between the centre and federating units (Yoruba had canvassed revert to regions but the Conference stuck to states), state police (the Conference recommended community policing to back-up regular policing).

However, in rejecting Afenifere’s endorsement of Jonathan, the group did not directly endorse his main opponent, Buhari, although a spokesman for the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana (Chief Eddy Oyewole), announced support for the APC presidential candidate.
The Akirinade group can thus be said to have essentially set out to distance the Yoruba from partisan endorsement and more or less seek to look at the bigger picture by registering that the Yoruba electorate were free to vote for a candidate of their choice.
The point of departure is, while Jonathan has expressed willingness to implement the report, Buhari has not. Chances are that he will not even consider it.

Also, leaders at the Conference, who are hostile to its report and won’t support its implementation, represented the segment of the North — Buhari’s primary support base, which is passionate about Buhari and has endorsed him.
The Conference hadn’t APC’s backing as a party. Some of the party adherents in the Southwest went as nominees from their states. Pronouncements from leaders of the party are decidedly antithetical to implementation of the Conference decisions.

Who wins this election, and why?
Shrill “change” propaganda portrays Buhari as the candidate to beat — or as his party, the APC and its supporters would often put it — stands the best chance to clinch it.
Pro-APC regular and social media readily give the Presidency to Buhari. They claim that he will pocket over 80 per cent of Northwest and Northeast votes; at least 60 per cent of five Southwest states except Ekiti, where he will, however make his 25 per cent of total votes cast, and at least 60 per cent of four, out of six states of North Central, except Plateau and Benue where he may rake up to 35 per cent of total votes.

They also project that Buhari will secure at least 25 per cent of South-South states votes, especially in Rivers and Edo.
For the Southeast, their projection is at least 50 per cent to Buhari in Imo state and 25 per cent in Ebonyi.
Their conclusion: “It is straight forward: Buhari will win in at least 24 or more states.” And, as they can be readily seen telling voters: “vote PDP out!”

On the other hand, supporters of Jonathan’s bid for second term and his party, the PDP “continuity” campaign seem to “wait to use the election to teach (their opponent) a lasting lesson” or “we shall meet at the field” — the way they like to describe, with disguised confidence, how PDP will overcome APC in the presidential election.

They, too, eagerly give over 80 per cent of Southeast and South-South votes to Jonathan; at least 40 per cent votes of Southwest states (at least 50 per cent in Ekiti, Ondo and Lagos) and five, out of six North Central states’ votes to Jonathan (except Niger, the only state Jonathan lost in 2011).

Moreover, they project more than 35 per cent votes in Northeast states of Adamawa, Taraba, Gombe and at least 25 per cent votes in Northwest states of Kaduna, Kano and Sokoto.

To them, while Jonathan, this time, may not make the kind of spread he had in 2011 (one-quarter of total votes (25 per cent) cast in at two-thirds of the 36 states (that is, in 24 states), he still would achieve the required spread in at least 24 states.
Their conclusion: “Jonathan will defeat Buhari.”

In the end, a fair assessment of both sides would suggest the closest race in ages. For the electorate, it is a decisive moment: this presidential race is looking “a ground war.” It requires motivating the troops. Whoever mobilises more on ground and can protect his votes has the advantage.
Who wins it? Wait for the election!-



http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/03/2015-general-elections-most-odious-presidential-campaign-ever/

CANDIDATES of 12 political parties, yesterday, in Abuja, participated in a 2015 presidential election debate during which they unveiled their respective plans for the country.

At the event organised by the Nigerian Election Debate Group (NEDG), the candidates addressed issues of corruption, insecurity, political indiscipline and impunity.

President Goodluck Jonathan, who participated in the second session of the debate and later met with youths in Lagos, assured Nigerians that the general elections, rescheduled for March 28 and April 11, 2015, would hold.

Other candidates, in the second sessions of the debate with Jonathan‎, were Prof. Comfort Oluremi Shonaya of the KOWA Party, Martins Onovo of the National Conscience Party (NCP), Godson Okoye of the United Democratic Party (UDP), and United Progressive Party’s (UPP’s) Chekwas Okorie.

The first session of the debate had featured seven presidential candidates. The candidates are the Adebayo Ayeni of the African Peoples Alliance (APA); Chief Sam Eke, Citizen Popular Party (CPP); Ambrose Albert Owuru, Hope Democratic Party (HDP); Ganiyu Galadima, Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN); Nani Ibrahim Ahmad African, Democratic Congress (ADC); Rafiu Salau, Alliance for Democracy (AD); and Tunde Anifowoshe-Kelani of the Action Alliance (AA)

However, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), was absent at the second session where he had been scheduled to appear. The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) said unfolding events have justified its decision to stay away from the presidential campaign debates, due to the disagreement among the organisers.

All the presidential candidates responded ‎to questions posed by a team of panelists, including the Editor of The Guardian, Mr. Martins Oloja, on issues of corruption, education, petroleum and gas resource, agriculture as well as insecurity and rehabilitation of victims of insurgency.

On anti-graft campaign, Jonathan said the solution should be more of preventive than punitive. Explaining why punitive measures in curbing corruption had been ineffective, President Jonathan cited the age-long futility in using capital punishment to discourage armed robbery in Nigeria. The President also listed other measures such as giving people a fresh orientation on virtues of honesty and hard work as well as the evil of the get-rich-quick syndrome, which, he noted, had permeated all strata of the Nigerian society.

He said the introduction of the electronic payroll system now being adopted in the private sector, was one of such preventive measures that had stopped corruption in the civil service.

KOWA Party’s Oluremi said that corruption was not an act of God but a deliberate action by the corrupt to pocket monies meant for the development of the country.

She advised that public offices should be made less attractive and lamented that Nigerian public office holders earned much more than their counter parts in developed countries.

She advocated the system of reward for hard work as against favouritism and over reliance on godfatherism.

Okorie suggested that declaration of assets by public office holders be monitored on yearly basis, adding that security votes which were often abused should be cancelled.

He also said that the immunity clause in the constitution should be removed.

In Okoye’s view, the problem of corruption arose because the socio-political economy has failed to reward competence, ability and merit.

On insecurity, Jonathan lis‎ted steps taken to ensure that victims of terrorism were rehabilitated. He said that, apart from normal government interventions through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), his administration had launched the private sector approach by appointing a committee headed by Gen. Theophilus Danjuma ( rtd) to manage funds donated by private individuals to alleviate the sufferings of the victims.

Jonathan ‎said the “Presidential Initiative on North East” was another step taken to address the problem created by insurgents in that zone.

The President also stated that the Save School‎ Initiative which was introduced to take care of the educational problems created by the insurgents would be sustained if re-elected.

But Oluremi, however, stressed that her ultimate desire was for the Chibok girls to be brought back safely.

Okorie lamented the delay by government in motivating the military‎.

Okoye, however, commended government’s efforts in recapturing some local governments ceased by the terrorists.

On the oil sector and the challenges posed by gas flaring, Jonathan insisted that once the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) is passed into law, challenges relating to the management of the downstream sector would be dealt with.

Saying that his government is striving to create the enabling environment to encourage the private sector to participate in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, Jonathan disclosed that a contract had been awarded for the purchase of a technological equipment that would curb oil bunkering and theft.

For Onovo, who wondered why government would “waste” N700 billion to subsidise the importation of fuel, the privatisation of the downstream sector was needless, adding that he would ensure that the country’s refineries were made functional if elected into office. He believed that once the refineries are fixed, a litre of fuel could sell for as low as N7 in the country.

Oluremi expressed concern over the fall in the price of a barrel of crude oil in the international market, adding that there was need to involve the private sector to rejig the oil sector. Applauding the success story in the Liquidified Natural Gas (LNG), she insisted that rather than contract ex-militants to watch over oil pipelines and crude oil on the high seas, such responsibility should be left with the country’s security agencies statutory empowered to do so.

Okorie said the non-passage of the PIB bill which should have addressed the issues bedevilling the petroleum sector was a scandalous act.

Galadima has said if elected as the president of the country, he would do away with the national grid by ensuring that every state was allowed to generate its own electricity.

Speaking specifically on the problems bedevilling power generation in the country which has had adverse effect on the economy, Galadima said that allowing states to generate their own power supply would be the solution to the epileptic power supply in the country and would revive the economy.

On oil theft, Ahmad said that Nigeria had lost several billions of money because most powerful men in the country were involved in the nefarious oil bunkering activity and that as the president, he would start a process that would trace every stolen oil in the country with the support of the international community.

In collaboration with the position of the ADC candidate, Owuru, also accused oil companies, the army, the navy and the police for being behind oil bunkering but vowed that vandals and oil theft would not happen under the watch of his government.

He said that he would undertake surveillance of the oil vessels to ensure that the country was no longer embarrassed as much as complaining that vandals were stealing the oil.

Eke said that security operatives would be well equipped to secure the water ways and that the oil companies would be made to live up to their corporate social responsibility in their host communities, among others.

A statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC campaign, Mallam Garba Shehu yesterday , noted that sordid details coming out of organisations of the debate would have tainted Buhari had he presented himself to the group.

A civil society group with knowledge of the working of the NEDG, Value and Integrity Group alleged at a press conference on Friday, that a First Bank account opened for the NEDG had the founder of a private television network as sole signatory, even though he is not listed as one of the directors of the NEDG.

The group also alleged that the leading private television’s network address was used for the documentation of the First Bank account instead of the NEDG’s office address.

According to leaders of the Value and Integrity Group, Sina Odugbemi and Popoola Ajayi, co-ordinator and secretary respectively, “an initial deposit of N1 million was paid into the said First Bank account, and on March 28, 2011, another N20 million belonging to the NEDG was paid into the personal account of the said founder of the leading private television network.”

“We at the APC Presidential Campaign got the eye-opening news of the press conference by the Value and Integrity Group accusing the Nigeria Election Debate Group, the crux of the allegation being that some members of the NEDG have been monetarily influenced.

“Although the group failed to mention from what source the monies came from, we had taken a position, based on intelligence made available to us that the PDP has compromised the integrity of an unnamed few in the NEDG with huge and ridiculous sums of money.

“And watching President Jonathan reading from a prepared script gleefully as he answered questions in the debate confirmed our suspicion that there will be “EXPO”.

“Without a fore-knowledge of the question to be asked, how did the president come with prepared answers?
Meanwhile, President Jonathan, shortly after the Abuja debate, moved to Lagos, where he further sold the PDP manifesto and his development plans to youths. The event was attended by the crème of Nigeria’s entertainment industry, celebrities, students and other young Nigerians.



http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/03/our-plans-for-nigeria-by-presidential-candidates/

LogicPower:
That is why we have professional journalists, who are expected to have the professional training and sense of moral responsibility to filter out propanganda and falsehoods from facts and present them as news reports, which are different from opinions and views of the journalists themselves.

So even if the two parties, PDP and APC, are engaged in propapanda and counter-propaganda against each other, a professional journalist that is worth his/her name should be guided by the long-standing ethics of the pen profession, which include accuracy, impartiality and objectivity.

We can't really trust most of our so called professionals, with the kind of "brown envelope" journalism flying around, only few of them have remained professional during this period...

ABUJA—The Social Democratic Party, SDP, yesterday, denied allegation that it had withdrawn its earlier endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan for the candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari. The party said its endorsement of President Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, remained unchanged, insisting that it was committed to the adoption of the president for Saturday’s election. Addressing newsmen in Abuja, through its National Publicity Secretary, SDP, Dr Abdul Isiaq, the party said it was not true that SDP and 12 other political parties endorsed the candidature of Buhari for the forthcoming election.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/sdp-denies-endorsing-buhari/#sthash.4dXBKBYI.dpuf

One thing is certain though, may 29th 2015 hand over ceremony will hold, will GEJ be sworn in for the second time or will he hand over to GMB


That's a question only nigerians armed with their PVC will answer this saturday...


#votenotfight

Why open a thread like this PDP is buried how The thread should simply been titled "massive crowd at APC rally or crowd at APC rally"


Crowd at rallies does not determine whether a party is dead or not, the title of the thread is needless, what if after this PDP wins, what will you say Since you already claimed via this picture that PDP is dead...IMO

demandtruth:
We know the truth

We view the telecast on channels

Only the Satanist/Tanoids believe otherwise

Simply because they have nothing to offer
They are all about lies; no substance at all

Both APC and PDP are guilty of this

This is a season where anything you say will be twisted, some poster here dearpreye or something did justice to issues like this some days ago...

APC and PDP supporters are largely responsible for the rate at which propaganda floods everywhere....


GEJ was compromised during the last debate, reading answers from his notepad which APC didn't attend ------ APC

GMB is a certificate forger ----- PDP

GEJ gave CAN 7 billion naira ---- APC

Aisha Buhari calls edo ladies/women/girls prostitue ---- PDP

GMB will stabilise oil price ---- PDP

GEJ bribe south west obas ---- APC

GMB says he will ensure that Naira has the same value as dollar ---- PDP

Its left for the readers to do his/her own research to know which of these piece of news is true or false, because you can hardly believe any news making the rounds...

When will all this propaganda end These days i find it hard to believe our media houses, , maybe i still regard channels tv a little...

From 30 trillion to 10 billion to 7 billion now its 1.3 trillion, i can't just wait for march 28 to come, atleast we go rest...SMH

If you defect to PDP from APC, you have been bribed .... APC e - warrior

If you defect to APC from PDP, you have become a change agent and a saint ...APC e - warrior


Our e - warriors over to you, they have shared their dollars again

Plotted amaechi's sack how Is the deputy governor in contol of rivers state assembly I thought APC and amaechi is in control of the state assembly How come APC/amaechi never said anything before he defected If indeed he was plotting to sack amaechi as claimed, how come amaechi never pushed for his impeachment

This story doesn't add up....

Will that be a send forth dance for GEJ/PDP to bayelsa Or will that be a victory dance of tenancy renewal in aso rock till 2019

Voters armed with their PVC will determine that come 28th march...

BTW nice dance steps

MrIncrediible:
Where's the receipt/evidence of payment?? We need proof, not some funny looking news from "pointblank.com".

The same way there was a news of GEJ sharing dollars and people believed it anyway without tangible proof...

This is election period and propaganda will be flying around, its how far you can go to make your propaganda stick, such that some voters will believe you even without proof...

If the piece of news is not true, then APC should do the needful and debunk it with proof...

mekaboy:
PDP is a corrupt party no doubt. However of all the corrupt presidents produced by pdp so far, GEJ has performed better than all of them put together. In PDP you have greed and corruption.

So do i want things to continue like this ? No. That means i want change right? YES i do.

Why then do i stick with GEJ when i want change?

I watched the debate today especially those inline with goodluck jonathan. They all spoke very well, Martin onovo and chekwa okorie and one other guy there suprised me , with the vast level of knowledge they have concerning the issues challenging Nigeria. There solutions were also practical and simple. Then i said to the people watching the debate with me. U wish one of these guys will be given a chance to rule this country. The guy i was watching with said it was impossible. I asked why , and the following were the reasons he gave.

1, he aksed who knows them? He said until today he never knew they existed.

2, he asked how much do they have? saying that u need to share enough money to win on Nigeria.

3, he said they r from the southeast and wont get much votes. He said the north believe power must return to the north and some parts of the south have aligned with them to favour the politicians from that region.

So i decided to examine the options the majority of Nigerians opposing this administration have as an alternative.

Buhari who the APC is presenting to Nigerians as an option could not have stood on that stage of the debate with Gej without disgracing himself. We already have seen from his comments on interviews that he knows nothing about the economy or governance.

Now the issue of funding which my friend raised. I said how come buhari has the money to become a strong opposition even when we all know he has nothing to offer? It is clear that the source of his funding is from people who have benefitted from the corruption in PDP over the years.

Then the fact that he is from the north, and power must return to the north. People will vote him evem if he is not capable.

So in summary of the change agent Nigerians are asking for is, An incapable person who knows nothing about democratic governance and economy, being powered by greedy self cetnered and bitter politicians to ensure they r in power .

Until Nigerians are ready to vote a candidate because he is competent and not because he is from a certain region or because of how much he can spend or his or her religion, then we are bot ready for change.

So since Nigerians do not want to vote these other guys because they r from a particular region, dont have much money to share and not popular. What we r asking for is a rebranded PDP in the name of APC which will be worse than the current PDP.

In PDP there is corruption + greed. In APC, there ia corruption + greed+bitterness.

Since we r not ready for true change, ill stick with GEJ.

Though I disagree with some of the points raised, you did a great job nailing it with other cogent point...especially the last part of your post...

I see some of our NL e - warriors coming for you soon, hope you are ready for the insults that will follow...

The debate was a live debate it was not pre recorded, I wonder why GMB/APC didn't show up...On a live show you can say what you want and it won't be edited

So why all the shout about NEDG been biased or bought, when they GMB/APC can use the supposed biased live platform to nail GEJ/PDP/NEDG as they claimed..


This is just a baseless excuse, and a disregard to nigerians willing to hear from GMB/APC, not every nigerian will be chanced to be at their various rally...

Fallacy of hasty generalisation...

denko:
constitutionally you must win 23 state of the federation.

Wrong its actually 24 state, plus fct

ideology:
The opposition have upped their game.
Though it is more of propaganda, they have successfully brainwashed the masses making them believe GEJ is responsible for their woes, including issues that LG should be held accountable.

Very true, that why I blame the image makers of GEJ/PDP they have failed in rebranding GEJ to be more likeable, in the mist of all the flying propaganda...

If GEJ loses this election his media and campaign team contributed to it, because they failed to do their job properly, a case study is the well known PDP e - warrior on twitter Ayedee or something, that guy works more than those on the president's media/campaign team...

Front page...

Ishilove, seun

Iamdipson:
He deserves no respect. Hesef no respect himself.. It's in Africa you'll see a president behaving this way in order to make pple vote for him.. Imagine Obama doing this to campaign

What are you saying Was he playing football Or he was merely doing a kick off which you can do with any attire, I guess its an african to do kick off at an event right...

Even at that you don't go around calling the current president clueless...

Change is when you go to your strong hold and call the ladies there international prostitutes...

Why call edo ladies prostitute Well like PEJ like Aisha, give them microphone and they will shoot their husband(s) in the foot...

So much for the so called intelligent woman, she did a better job frying akara...

Edo change agents over to you...

BTW I thought PWC cleared NNPC, or is PWC also involved in this scandal

Well in naija anything and everything is possible...

From sharing toytop laptop to sharing soap, when will all these politicians stop this crappy campaign of theirs

Well this is not the first we hear statements like this, someone once called PEJ his Jesus Christ on earth so am not surprised...

clevvermind:
what will apc say this time if they lose?

The card reader was hacked...

I would want to fault the OP on this one, you can't compare isreal with nigeria, there is alot of back stabbing going on, those GEJ surrounds himself with are not really with him...

As it stands now, GEJ winning this election is very slim and at best 50%, have said it before if GEJ wins then the goodluck attached to his name really worked for him, the back stabbing is just too much....

Well i might be wrong though, election is just 9 days away...

makzeze:
The clueless. Who told him he can play with babbanbriga.

Must you always insult the president When you've never held the position of class captain in your life, why call him clueless for kicking a football


Show some respect to the current president of nigeria, atleast till on or after may 29th...

If olubadan endorses GMB, who are the Oba's GEJ was having meetings with I guess they are unknown oba's in the siuth west...