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It is very easy to talk loudly as if one is saying something, and that is one thing these ACN goons here are doing. In a sane environment, opposition do their work from the parliament, where they package bills that project their party ideology and 'disgrace' the ruling party to have them vote against it against public clamor. Governor's forum is only as important as their collective bargaining power remains. GEJ is not against collective bargaining for governors but having his party man spearhead the fight against a policy he has canvassed and gotten support for at the party level all in the name of governors forum.

You can see childishness on the part of the so called opposition governors. I was expecting them to present a compromise candidate that might believe in Amaechi's style. At least, that is a little politics. But to present Amaechi again and back it up with this type of stuupid media warfare is just daft. NGF is divided. The power has been destroyed. What are the options available to Amaechi and his ACN supporter now? Nothing, but to spend more money on Punch and Sahara Reporters!

It is even most unbelievable that ACN has always outsourced everything to PDP guys. This time around, they want to outsource opposition to a PDP governor too. And of course, ACN e-warriors thinks it is alright...

Ask Buhari and Tinubu. They know.

With the kind of love that our SW brothers show Buhari on NL and elsewhere, i am persuaded to believe that if Buhari accept to run for the governorship of Lagos or Oyo or Osun state, he will win by a landslide margin.

I hereby move that Buhari restore that 'brand equity' by contesting and winning the governorship position of Lagos State in 2015.

fkaz: Hmmmm, this is another political promise

It is not actually a promise made, it is a promise kept. Be happy for your country for once.

I have a dream, that one day, Aregbesola and Mimiko shall take a walk together down the streets of Akure/Osogbo. I have a dream, that sometime Bode George and Tinubu shall sit by the Lagoon together and share friendly banters without screams of 'you be thief, i no be thief' I also have a dream, that in this country, one day, Asari Dokubo and Kaita, Buhari and GEJ, Sanusi and Soludo, Abati and Lai Mohammed and even our own Wily Wily and Dayokanu or even my humble self and that Gbawe man shall sit in one table and work out the best of each other's dreams for a better greater Nigeria. This is my dream, a dream that Obi and Ngige are already living..which seem to to be much of a dream anymore but a reality.

Does anyone notice the gradual radicalization of some elements in the SW? To deny this will be like hiding one's head in the sand. We have greater hoard of vocal boko haram apologists even here in NL to be handles that posit to defend SW positions. From @Desola to @onomeasike and others. Both their political leaders and followers.

I think SWners with their heads rightly screwed on should be worried. Terrorism is like a cancer. Once it finds sympathy in an environment, it is only a matter of time for it to fester and take real flesh. Today, key SW figures are supporting boko haram because they don't like GEJ. Tomorrow, there may be no GEJ but the radicalized mindsets remains. No society remains the same after her youths accept radical views. Real Yorubas should even be concerned about this APC thing. With the way things are going, and if continues unchecked, we will have a different SW by 2030. It is far from today, but only as far as today was in 1996. Let the wise ponder...

bloodless: yeah but that wheelbarrow man probably has a wife and 4-6 dependents...this is the difference people

Let me repeat the question I have always asked people who believed this $1 crap. Is there any member of your nuclear or extended family who live on less than $1 dollar per day?'

The answer I always get is 'no, but there are some Nigerians...bla bla bla...' who are those 'some Nigerians' that have no nuclear or extended family?

Even an average unemployed graduate fixes weavon (if a lady). NOBODY live on less than a dollar per day in Nigeria TODAY. If we are talking about people sending their children to better schools or using napkin for their children instead of using pampers,then I will listen.

A big thinker, an institution builder, an innovator and a leader. Microfinance system is somewhat dead. Innovation is also dead. CBN today is more interested in where ATM machines should be and bank charge rates than leading a long term policy direction aimed at making Nigeria to be Africa's financial hub or such big dream and vision.

I know that we have the right kind of leadership in the economic think tank of the country presently. They will make the right decision, and from all the appointments they have made so far in that sector, i expect someone thoroughly qualified, not just an appeasement appointment. I foresee someone like Mansur Mukhtar if he will accept the appointment.

Princeparix: Is this a suggestion thread or a campaign thread?

It is actually a thread to distract SE support for GEJ and advertise an unregistered political party via Rochas.

ayswags: where are u heading at bigot if the report on sokoto was false,how do u know that of osun is also false or do u have a link to that too

If you read the report, you will notice that the custodians of such data denied releasing any poverty index report, be it on Sokoto or Adamawa. It states that the next report will be ready in 2014/2015.
Aregbe and @Gbawe should wait till next year to appraise their efforts. And for a State government to create a figure and credit it to a body like NBS says all about the State and how it runs on propaganda.

For ACN e-warriors that may disagree with director of NBS, they should provide us with a link to NBS website where they got the report from or even the details of the original source of the data. 'osundefender' cannot be a credible source for objective reports about Osun.

Just drove through the lenght of major streets in Maitama some minutes ago and there was nothing like that.

How come someone in Maiduguri is telling us in FCT what is happening around us. And this guy is also a staunch supporter of ACN/CPC, just like Lie Mohammed.

AjanleKoko: Without a doubt, the standard of living has improved in Nigeria, when you compare with the 60s or 70s.
What I am trying to wrap my head around is, how these fellows are trying to give GEJ the credit for that

...But we can debit for power situation, forgetting that the day he was sworn sometime in 2010, the power generation was less than half of today's value? You know, you ACN/CPC people have said too many things of which most are lies that anything new you said end up contradicting the former ones.

No! You never supported GEj in 2011. You brought your consensus candidate- Atiku but he lost the PDP primaries. When that failed, you aligned yourself with Buhari and he still lost. This goes to show that YOU ARE POLITICALLY IRRELEVANT in today's Nigeria.

The political configuration of this country has changed so much over the last 14 years and you don't understand it. Learn from Mitt Romney's experience in 2012 US elections. The shift is so massive that you don't win elections based on belonging to the 'perceived' majority ethnic group or religions. You win elections in this century with how much you are able to build and consolidate consensus across the country, across ethnic groups, across religious classes. That is one thing PDP does very well.

13volts: The military has enjoyed full access and support of the governments in the affected states. The military also enjoyed the full privileges of using force – many times excessive – on any citizen they without hindrance from the state governments in the past two years.

So what exactly has hindered the military so much that they needed to compel Mr. President to give them a state of emergency to operate under? I am at loss here – completely. What has the state of emergency achieved when it was declared under this regime in some local governments including those now under Boko Haram occupation?

I need to be convinced how declaration of the state of emergency could make Boko Haram an exception.

First of all, it is an intellectual fraud to copy someone else words verbatim and not credit the original author accordingly. That is what you have just done to Dr Tilde, unless you are Dr Tilde.

Secondly, i can logically deduce from that quote that you so much subscribe to as to quote posit that the military has always been in-charge of things in the affected states, so there is nothing that SOE will achieve that is new. The question i should ask you is if you truly mean what you quoted, why are you bothered that what has been in place is officially pronounced by the name it should ordinarily have. According to you, SOE has always been in place. Mr President just called it that name. Why are you bothered.

You belong to the class that play politics with everything, including the security of your home states. In your books, GEJ must be 'proven' to be wrong, at whatever cost. The fact that many of you have failed to acknowledge is that the ONLY 'solution' to BH is when power returns to the north. As long as you people fail to do the right thing, the FG can only work hard to contain BH in the north and not allow its bases spread. That have been the successful mission of the military till date. Now, they have refocused to crush the insurgence totally.

Afam4evaIsASlut: Dude, whats the rubbish you just wrote up here?

Abeg keep quiet and stop pretending you know anything about the inner workings of Intelligence because everything you put up is rubbish and shows that u dont.

Well, this is not Ojuelegba where shekpe inspired gists make lots of sense to you. I am not here to make sense to people like you but to sane minds who still make use of their brains.

@OP
This baseless 'news' have been making rounds for some time now, but i think this kind of trash is meant for the grossly uninformed youths who feel that government business is run like their mum's kitchen. In every contract of the nature described, there is what is called 'non disclosure clause' which most times, inherently void the contract and award damages to the claimant in cases of violation. If FG signed such contract and there is disclosure, ALL the Minister of Justice will do is to determine the extent of the disclosure, appraise the damages involved and seek redress through the appropriate channels. The President, even the President of Benin Republic have too many things to do than 'getting angry' at a firm for violating non disclosure clauses.

But then, this is NL with many ignorant but impressionable youths who just want to hear and believe that government is the enemy. Do you know how many billions of dollars worth of military contract gets awarded every year? How come you get to know of only the ones disclosed to you? If FG is into this, the right procedure is to set up a military outfit somewhere at the NSA's office to coordinate the project and award the contract as a military contract. No questions asked. That is the way things are done at the Federal level. You will never hear about it unless you have the appropriate clearance. If you have done a thing or two with Nigerian military agencies even at the medium level, you will understand this.

On a side note, China has about 3000 standing cyber army. US has similar outfit. So does Isreal, Iran and other serious countries. So if Nigeria is interested in setting up a cyber army, it means we have leaders who are taking this country more serious than the youths who should really be the ones running such centers when they are formed.

If all these loud mouthed e-critics and ACN/CPC apologists really care about anti-corruption war in Nigeria, this is enough proof that EFCC is doing her job by arresting, investigating and arraigning presumably corrupt individuals. That is where their jobs stop. It is the job of the judiciary, which is another arm of government to expedite the hearing process, and sentence or exonerate these people.

But they will turn a blind eye to that fact, after all, the President should sentence them, exactly what their Buhari would have done. A President sentencing an accused.

The question is, if these people are really interested in anti-corruption war, why is it that none of them is pushing the CJN to set up a special anti-corruption court as she promised in her senate screening, as that will eliminate unnecessary adjournments? Why is no CPC/ACN member in the senate submitting a bill to the National Assembly for this kind of court to be hard coded into law?

It is only a bigoted mind that will not see the weakest link in the chain of our collective fight against corruption- the judicial process. That process must be reformed for us to get the right results, after all, under Ribadu, Odili got a perpetual injunction from this judiciary against EFCC arresting him. We should focus on building a system that will track and arrest corruption in a timely manner and have court cases decided in less than 1 year. EFCC cannot detain people indefinitely, they cannot even retain an accused in their custody after 48 hours unless the court deny such person bail. Why are people not focusing on these obvious facts? The answer is that the 'corruption' shout is part of politics to them.

I want to restate my position to the CJN to set up the anti corruption court that she promised in her senate screening. I want to see cases like that of Ifeanyi Uba, Tinubu, Ikuforiji, Nyame, Chimaroke Nnamani, Faruk Lawan and other accused persons decided this years.

This is exactly what you get when you have people who know practically nothing about a subject matter opening their mouth on the subject. Are you aware that Lagos does not even have common fiber duct in almighty VI for people that have acquired right of way for fiber cable to lay? That is exactly why you see roads and roadsides being dug now and then to lay the fiber. Some fiber cable are even planted bare in open drainage in some areas. I can mention locations where such exists.

Now, coming to using fiber to control population, this is one of the funniest thing i have heard because i don't know how they will achieve that. From the claim of education commissioner, it is to increase access to content. Now, the question is what is the capacity of the government owned existing fiber in Lagos? The speed you get out of a single strand of fiber is as good as the transmission devices. A major Nigerian Bank just completed a 10G capacity fiber connection between their primary and secondary datacenter without making noise about it. All they needed to do was to change the transmission nodes.

What is happening in Lagos is too many half truths. Throw some half information around to justify huge contract award. Lagos should design and build a next generation datacenter that will host government content first. Then, they can talk about how to build and expand the fiber based interconnection between the state MDAs. Anyone who know about Galaxy Backbone will understand that the FG have achieved massive interconnection and still expanding with an active node in Lagos. I never hear FG talk about government ICT fiber infrastructure in the same line with population control.

ochukoccna: Stop been hiding behind your thumb finger
Nigeria is an economy where the GDP keeps improving on paper yet every human developmental indices keeps decling in reality
Isn,'t this what Fela would term 'Gofment magic'?
If not this,what will you term it?

Now you are talking. please, back up your claim with data for those human development indices in 1990, 1999, 2007, 2010 and 2012. With that, there will be no need for further argument. A lie told several times doesn't just become the truth.

@OP
What data is backing up your claim? You can't just claim that Nigerian couples have an 'average of 9 children' because your neighbor has 9 children. If you are based in Nigeria, is the 'average' economy of people in you village worse today compared to 1999? I mean are you porer today compared to 1999?

idy15: The ones installed in Abuja where are there today, what is the working conditions of them, i hope the Government of Lagos State, will exhibit a good maintenance culture, to help this work. I can Imagine that in less than one week the Bolton Marathon Bomber was capture, all in the help of Security Camera, Please don't let this costly project be a waste

What do you know about cameras installed in Abuja? You don't just type anything you feel like and press 'submit' because you have access to internet. How many are they? Where is the control center? Which office coordinates it? If you have not answer to these questions, then you should not be talking about cameras installed in Abuja. You people conjure dilapidation and nonperformance in your mind and project it as facts and even go ahead to argue further claims based on such assumptions.

Eeehm, Oga Bamidele. If Buhari is what you want us to believe, we want to see him institutionalize those ethos in states controlled by his political party. What exactly is different in the way CPC run Nassarawa? How many corrupt civil servants are being charged to court for corruption by the State government in Nassarawa State or are you telling us that Nassarawa State civil servants are saints?

Buhari have a serious problem in institution building. Tell me one single institution he put in place for his WAI battle? Nothing. And that is why he talk about anti-corruption war without thinking what exactly he would do differently from what GEJ is doing now in a democracy. He doesn't know that he scares people with his talk about anti-corruption war because ALL people see is a man that have always done things extra-judicially as a military man and still seem to promise one and the same thing again. He doesn't seem to understand that anti-corruption war in a democracy means plugging the leakage holes constitutionally, strengthening the agencies (ICPC, EFCC, police) with appropriate legislation to perform their duties and his job as executive head ends when these agencies take people to court. The judiciary should be an independent arm of government, not susceptible to executive influence. And how do you believe that a man that thinks that Abacha is a saint is out to do the right thing?

Buhari belongs to the last generation, not this. Probably not that Buhari does not love his Northern people, he does not just get it. He is unsellable. Lacks consensus building ability needed in democracy, seem not to believe in negotiation but having his way, not amenable to change, not the type of man that make compromise where necessary (he believes he is always the right man and others wrong) and obviously not a dynamic man. He should not be playing politics in 2013.

How exactly does one 'defect' to a political party that is unregistered? I think it is technically better to say that Okorocha has left APGA.

Gbawe: Those with no comprehension deficit will not be confused as you obviously are. Learn to deal with your own deficiency first before coming here to make a fool of yourself by exposing that you don't have the mental capacity and educational nous to properly interpret what is written.

@Gbawe, we know where you stand. You 'strongly believe' that Tinubu and Fashola are not corrupt. No? That alone give you up for who you are...

@OP Ever heard of 'No Victor, No Vanquished'? It was quickly followed by the famous 3 Rs.

I hope it lasts up to a year, that is after Berom agree to grant Fulani a Local Government in Plateau...

This is what i expected Nothern leaders and other Islamic group leaders in Nigeria to be saying. This what Tinubu, Mungono, Fashola, Aregbesola, Buhari, Tambuwal, Atiku Ciroma and other leaders who are muslims should be saying. But no, most of them gave excuses why BH exists including poverty, illiteracy and unembployment as if Borno people are poorer than Ebonyi people.
Violence tears a community down. When all external enemies are eliminated, then turn their sword home wards. This is what VP Joe Biden once called ' a self sustained cycle of violence'

This is what you get when you involve good HR consultants to help you search out your own anywhere in the world with the right skills and capability to run sensitive offices. They come in and get the job done and have something to say in the next peer review meeting with their former MBA class mates who are bright enough to hold similar offices in their own countries.

automaticcarzz: May God work on your life the same way Jonathan is working on everything on that list. Can you say Amen to that?

Stop behaving like a kid. What changes exactly if i say amen to that empty rant? And what exactly does the amen mean in real life?
For your information, God is already getting the work done in our country via GEJ. The aboki that use that train will agree with me, users of Nigerian airport agree, Onitsha to Lagos travellers agree and international investors also know about the existing fiscal stability and all round positive economic indicators.

But if saying Amen gets your myopic and childish mind at rest, then i say Amen over and over again!!!

Fhemmmy: Election is around the corner . . . "Statistics" will find its way to be coming out

Elections that will hold around February 2015 is around the corner in May 2013? Are you even aware that GEJ has not gone half way into the tenure he swore to serve?

The problem is that you people wrote him off too early, aided by a loud but empty opposition. By the 3rd quarter of 2014, most people will be so ashamed to identify themselves as ACN/CPC/APC members, most of their lies having been burst.

automaticcarzz: Airport indeed!

I can only say that if all these things mentioned exist only on paper, then i guess you also exist only on paper too...

Do you see their new drift? The same ACN/CPC red eyed e-thugs who made Ezekwesili an automatic hero because she stated (quoting wrong data) that GEJ/Yar'Adua depleted foreign reserve are the same people suggesting that there is no sense building up the foreign reserve. They are even suggesting that it should be used on infrastructure while they wait to accuse the same govt of squandering 50b USD foreign reserve if they do that. You see how easy Lie Mohammed and othe ACN e'warrior's jobs are?
The complaint of dead rail have changed to complaint of slow speed locomotive rail.
Complains of impassable Benin Ore road has changed to 'only 2 lanes?!!!'
'Why are the refineries not working' has changed to ' we have always refined at 10m capacity na'
'Prosecute subsidy thieves' changed to 'jail subsidy thieves'
'He is clueless and weak has changed' to 'he is too harsh and behaving like a dictator'
When inflation is in the mid to the high 10s, the screaming was 'this guy cannot even tame inflation', when it came down to 8:6, it changed to 'what is the gain to the masses on the streets'
If they search out a poor rating figure of the country, then GEJ is called names, but if we receive positive rating on the same data, they won't trust 'those compromised rating agencies'
When the time come, GEJ will sit down and play politics with you guys, for now, he is busy working on delivering his campaign promises.