MalcoImX:
It is an option. It is within the powers of a president to pursue policies that will bring unity, peace and progress.

I listened to Buhari`s interview with Channels TV and heard lots of `my party will decide`.

So far, Buhari has not shown any sign of opposing his party on any issue. He did not like the cost of purchase of nomination form yet could not take a stand against it as one of the pillars of the party. He even conceeded his right to choose a running mate to Tinubu, a party member of equal standing like him self. I am really at loss at what made you believe that Buhari will be different from who he is now.

egift:
PDP Agents of Corruption keep throwing madness at Nigerian in view to stall Change and perpetuate Corruption - It will not work.

Buhari all the way. Time to stop Corruption, massively develop Nigeria and secure Nigerians and her future.

But APC just told us that Buhari`s Presidency will let old corruption pass away and all thing will become new. You seem to be on a different page with you party.

He was fighting `kwarrupshon`. You dont`t know it is `kwarrupshon` that make people to execute projects? It was this same `kwarrupshon` that made GEJ to transform the Abuja-Lokoja express way, the rail sector and made a positive difference in our airports for the first time in years. This is exactly what he is coming to fight.

Have you ever heard Buhari talk about building infrastructure? For the 20 months he was there, none was initiated and none was completed under his watch. He hated `kwarrupshon` so much that he has remained unproductive as a human beign tor the past 20 years. No fresh ideas, no local or international engagement, no business interest, no extra education, no peace keeping advisory, no NGO, heck! He could not even pretend like Dino Melaye.

The only `productive` thing Buhari has done over the last 20 years was getting his wife pregnant!!

APC well oiled propaganda machine at work. Meanwhile:

Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa on Thursday affirmed that he would do everything possible to support the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 polls.
Mr. Lamido stated this in Dutse during a meeting to unveil campaign programmes for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidates seeking elective position in the state.
“I had a frank discussion with the president today in Abuja and I am convinced that he will redeem his pledges; therefore, I will support him.
“Like I have always said, I don’t do politics based on religion or ethnicity; a PDP man in Enugu state is closer to me than an All Progressives Congress (APC) man in Bamaina my village,” he said.
He said that his support for the president was based on his (Jonathan) commitment to fulfilling all campaign promises made to the state in 2011.
The governor disclosed that Jonathan had assured him that the Federal Government would refund the money spent by the state government to construct Dutse International Airport.
He added that the president also promised to rehabilitate and complete the Hadejia Irrigation Scheme and the Gaya-Jahun-Miga road project, respectively, recalling that they were part of his campaign promises. (NAN)

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/173537-ill-everything-possible-jonathan-win-2015-lamido.html

So which do we believe? This report is not saying that Lamido made any statements indicating that he will not support GEJ re-election, Vanguard is saying that because the President's posters were not aired during the rally, therefore Lamido does not support the President. You see exactly the reason why hot tempered men like BUHARI jail journalists for 100 years?

Eziachi:

Did he file the fire report as well? Next person will now claim that a hungry goat ate his.
With Nigeria politicians, who needs Jon Stewart? Amazing gig stuff they come out with.

If you had read the report carefully, you would have noted that the registrar of ABU have certified that he attended the University within the period contained in his claim and also identified the incident that befell original copies of his certificates as the reason he is re-certifying his records. I don't know exactly the part you are having problems understanding. With your exposure, I expect you to know that such re-certification as was issued by the school registrar is subject to at least 2 documents: Police report to the respect of the fire incident and a court affidavit. I know because I once had cause to re-certify a lost document.

We have been around on this forum for a while and I have reasons to respect your deep sense of history. However, I think your recent postings are no more as powered by insights as they were few years ago.

omarlee:


Oputa panel? Oputa panel was just a kangaroo panel extra-judicialy set by Obj, it lacks the constitutional mandate to summon any Nigerian to stand before it. So legally Buhari is right to decline attendance of such a market gathering, set up by Obj to embarrass his percieved political enemies. After all the supreme court declared the forum null and void, on the ground of it lack of constitutional backing

Your position is not doing Buhari any favours. You are telling us that Buhari is afraid of discussing his human rights records and so should not appear before the panel under the guise of illegality? Nigerians wanted the panel to heal the wounds of military era inflicted by men like Buhari and the best your hero could do is to turn his back on the hurting Nigerians? The same people he want to be their President?

Are you even aware that your Buhari justified the sack of a democratic government (with all its weaknesses) during the last Channels TV interview and his reason was that the Shagari led democratic government was 'kworrupt'? And this is the man you want to benefit from the same democracy at the highest level?

The man has no democratic credentials, his ideas are rooted in the medieval era. What is the difference between the public flogging of thieves in Somalia and the flogging of Nigerians for not queueing up to buy milk or sugar in shops? That is how archaic the man's ideas are.

Funny article from Sahara Reporters. Only cowards attack their opponent's wife, more so with this kind of lies. Real men face their opponents directly. SO the proof that Patience Jonathan is involved in oil bunkering is that Oshomole said that we are not producing as much as we should? What logic!! This is exactly one of the reason Buhari imprison journalists.

If 2015 election campaign is to be run of facts, Buhari will have a difficult time. He has a terrible records in human rights, democracy, statesmanship, economy management, fresh ideas and creativity. His style is inherently brute force. He seem not to even believe in institutionalizing his efforts for long lasting effect. He has no ideas on 21st century democracy. I heard him on the last Channels TV interview justify the sack of Shagari's government. The guy is an unrepentant dictator. If this election is to be issue based, he has lost the election even before the contest. Forget the online noise, it is part of the brute force strategy. His campaign so far has been based on lies. That is why APC will make all the efforts to induce mass hysteria in the election campaign just like Buhari's followership up North.

For the enlightened southerners shouting 'Sai Buhari', you should ask your self why the kind of people that share such chants with you up North are more of Almajiris and social misfits. A deliberate insight into the man's record will wean you off such chants, that is one thing that Almajiris are incapable of doing and that is exactly why they are Buhari's supporters. That is what I call mass hysteria!!

barcanista:
Sir, are you saying that you weren't aware of the offence of irabor and guardian in 1984? No wonder you blab cluelessly!!!

You seem to be making frantic efforts to defend the right of Buhari's regime to suppress press freedom. Funny enough, your reasons are not too different from those of Buhari and the North Korean supreme leader.

You are not doing the old man any favours. You are not only telling sane Nigerians that Buhari was right to suppress Press freedom in 1984, you are also telling us that HE WILL BE RIGHT TO DO IT AGAIN in 2015. After all a disciplined man will always do what is 'right' wherever, whenever. It is getting interesting, really.

From this article, despite frantic efforts by SH to sound alarmist, it is still very clear that no new jet is being purchased, rather a trade in is being done for one of the available jets. For those who know, in such procurements, manufacturer trade in could be aimed at achieving sustained warranty support, equipment and spare parts availability and to save money in the long run. It is often more expensive to maintain an older model of a product than to trade it in for a new one with better features. That is part of why firms change even official cars after 3 years most times.

Is the size of the Nigeriam Government large, yes! Is this particular procurement a wastage, we do not have enough information to say yet. During budget defence, the leader of Presidential Airfleet will be on ground to present his reasons and APC NASS members will have their chance to engage in logic and not all this emotional outburst by farmiliar handles on NL.

Funny enough, most APC supporters seem to be strong disciples of Decree 84. There is a concensus among them that any attempt to look at the record of their party flagbearers must be rebuffed with insults. In 1984, it was jail term. In 2014, it is massive insults just because they do not have the power to jail.

What is wrong in asking questions about the records of a man who could just be a President death away from thr number one position? He should explain his role and why Rogers mentioned his name. And Buhari followers should relax and get cogent answers from their principal. That is how democracy works, an idea that Buhari hated so much that he once sacked a democratic leadership in this country. Insults doesnt cut it!a

Why is the APC insistent on dividing this country along religious lines? The hypocrisy is accusing the President of thesame thing they are vehemently doing.

It is clear that APC has no bankable agenda for Nigeria. Tell us what your Buhari will do in the face of the dwindling oil earnings. Will he still stabilize the oil market? Tell us exactly how he will address corruption in NNPC in a democratic setting. How will he do to move Nigeria forward and not backward.

Will Buhari want to jail me for saying my opinion?

For me, this is the opportunity for us to allow the naira assume it's actual value in the market. The CBN, Finance Ministry and the National Planning office know exactly what is going on. I dont think naira is being devalued, its value has always been falsely maintained by squandering our foreign reserve. It is time to take off the protectionist glove and let the naira gain value on the merits of improved production, employment generation and real economic activity not on the back of foreign reserve, afterall Nigerians are not happy with debt. We can't eat our cake and have it.

It takes ball to do what is happening now in an election period. Dollars will be injected early next year to firm it a little but we should fold our sleeves to build on a solid foundations of agriculture, manufacturing and services that earn foreign exchange.

Only a coward takes a shot at a man's wife to get at him. Real men confront their opponents directly. Fact is that most of those that attack PEJ also attack other women doing well in their chosen areas of interest. Most of them ensure that their wives remain slaves to them and to them, women should be restricted to the kitchen. Does that sound like Soyinke and his likes on NL?

Don't worry about those people, they cannot help themselves. They feel more like a man by attacking women. Most of them cannot even look in the eyes of successful women or suffering from erectile dysfunction. Just pity them and recommend a therapy if you know one.

deleib:

Contacted, the National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said the party could not lose sleep over Osinbajo.
Metuh, who spoke with our correspondent, said: “Who is Osinbajo? He was an ordinary commissioner and we have hundreds of commissioners in the country. The APC vice- presidential candidate is an unknown individual in politics. He is not a threat to PDP.
“One thing I know is that if it comes to issues and performance we will win the 2015 presidential election but if it comes to throwing anarchy or chaos, the APC will have upper hand.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/2015-election-panic-pdp-presidency-osinbajo/

This is the truth of the matter. APC should stop conjuring non existent ideas just to make themselves feel important. Osibanjo is never a politician, never handled any public executive position, no experience in politics and political strategy, not different from any other former commissioner from Jigawa or Gombe and never a threat to a political party that has defeated the opposition many times over. Actually, PDP has just been handed another opportunity to defeat Buhari, a task they are so good at that when the victim saw the magnitude of his loss the last time, he broke down in tears.

chamboy:
Everything nw na Beg beg.... Oga Do make u go abeg...
Sai Buhari

More important than a 'sai Buhari' is how will a Buhari administration manage industrial actions like the recent JOHESU problem? Will he turn a blind eye to them, negotiate with them (and if this is an answer, I would love to know his threshold) or will he jail the labour leaders in question?

It is only when a Buhari talk about issues like this that Nigerian will start appraising how adjusted he is from him military mindset and ready for democracy. This is not 'I will fight kworruption matter'.

lincy:
Are u sure? Ameachi is now the lead pin, he will decide were the ship sails to, the End justify's the deal. I so Much love that guy. And I know he won't fail me. Tinibu has washed his hands off, he toss the coin , were the two face will favour him. Very intelligent man. We ar watching!

Here you are praising a man who uses his State resources to finance the political campaign of another man who makes anti corruption the major thrust of his campaign. People are beginning to wonder whether there are different definitions for corruption. Does diverting the resources of your State by a Governor to fund political campaign of your party not amount to corruption just because APC is involved? How about a Presidential candidate who is promising anti corruption hanging out with an Atiku and a Tinubu or an Amaechi? It seems that in APC, if you steal your State resources, carefully cover your track and funnel same funds to the Presidential campaign on a man who promises to fight corruption, then it is al right.

Nigerians are watching...with eyes wide open. We are not fools.

mrvitalis:
it not by signing and signing ..awarding contracts at the 11th hour
we are no more fools bro.....
..u have done urs for almost 6 years
feb14 we shall do our own
....enjoy the power while it last

You are highly uninformed. A bill gives a policy a legal framework to run. However, such policy MUST be executed under the control executive control, so there is need for each bill to undergo executive scrutiny by the Attorney General of the Federation to ensure that it is consistent with other existing laws and does not contradict any law. If it does, he will advise the President who will channel his concerns to the Legislature for tinkering. This process takes time but that is exactly how democracy runs.

After when ALL legal angle has been cleared, the executive have to start putting government structures in place to drive such bills and such structures include personnel, materials and logistics. Sometimes, if the government is trying to cut cost, this delays the actual signing until things are ready because a signed bill is a LAW, binding on ALL arms of government.

Law making is a process and not an event. We should encourage our government to do things right, not just do the right things. Myopic minds see 2015 elections when an important bill like this is signed. It shows how shallow and uninformed some folks really are.

3cycle:
One of My many reasons include that in 1983 When he was Head of state, my mum and dad were still somewhere in Nigeria dancing egedege and trying hard to earn a living, they haven't met and yet to concieve this beautiful lady.
Fast forward to 31 years later thesame man wants to be president.
I mean how can I vote in my great grand father in 21st century?
So how do I achieve my dream of becoming the first lady one day if I continue to vote for an ancestor?
Please give the younger generation a chance to contribute to the society because Naija belongs to us too...

Now, that is interesting. I just love it when folks have clear priorities and yours, my friend, is as clear as crystal. You just want to be first lady when you are still young and productive and a President Buhari negates that very dream.

This is sickening!!!

This consolidates the position of some that the French Government seem to have something to do with BH. This seems like a response to the accusation of BH having the sympathy of French interests. How come they are just attacked and the French media arm went to town with emphasis on the target being French?

Part of what Buhari supporters should be trying to do is to explain what Buhari will do with most projects like the new 3050MW, $5b mabmilla power pjoject contract with the Chinese if he is voted into power. Will he sustain them or scrap them as he did the Lagos Rail Mass Transit project in 1985? What will be the fate of Eastern rail network? What of the privatized power sector? Will he support or scrap the local content drive? How will he force the owners of refinery license to build refinery in the country? Does he believe that government should be building refineries or get involved in businesses? How does he intend to stop the corruption in the NNPC, National Assembly and Judiciary? What are his political thoughts on free press? Does he still believe that Abacha is not corrupt? How will he address an erring contractor in a democracy? What will his first 5 decisions be if a bomb goes off in the nation's largest power plant? What will be his response if China and India caves in to pressure from the US to stop buying our oil? What will the official foreign policy position of his government of terrorst groups like ISIS, BH and Al Shabab? What key decision calls will he make to advance the position of Nigeria as a regional power?

These are the questions I want to hear Buhari answer, reasonable answers to questions like these is the only way to convince most undecided, not all these talks of fighting 'kwarrupshion'.

DVanguard:


Aya pele, He dines with Tinubu ( Tinubu, who have not been indicted by any court of law or any administrative enquiry for corruption, but for your hatred for Tinubu without any facts to back your corruption case. Even PDP will be willing to indicted Tinubu if they have their way) makes him not sincere but the man that dines with alamesiya, bode george, buruji, Abacha's family, etc is the sincere man. It is quite unfortunate. The last record of indicted or alleged corrupt governors are mostly of PDP extraction. EFCC and ICPC are FG (PDP-LED) apparatus to fight corruption, at least it should have been used to witch hunt also the opposition party if really they are as corrupt as your self aclaim judgement make them. Don't tell me they don't have the balls. Hatred and Envy is a disease.

This is one trait that Buhari and his supporters have in common. Why do you find it easy to accuse those who do not share your political opinion as being blinded by hatred and envy? You do not like GEJ, his supporters are civil enough to consider it your right. Why are you stuck in 1983 like your master? What most of you don't seem to understand is that in a democracy, which most of you in APC know nothing about, a PhD holder in political philosophy has the same number of vote as the unschooled market woman in remote Nembe.

Here you are making efforts to prove that Tinubu is not corrupt while at the same time accusing the FG of corruption. Can't you see the problem in your position? You have no right to label anybody for holding a contrary political opinion in a democracy. The best you can do is to persuade them and not malign them. Well, it is obvious that persuasion is very strange to most people of your political colouration.

bid26:
.Did you read the news at all before commenting?Those people u mentioned were not included in the news because they stepped down.Only the PDP Governors that contested were mentioned ok?So it is not in any way misleading

No! You are the one who did not caption your OP correctly. 'Serving PDP Governors' is different from 'Some Serving PDP Governors'. You should be schooled before schooling others.

OBJ said all this? Interesting. What is it with Buhari campaigners and lies? What about a link to back up this immagination?

Nasir is actually a man I would love to have on my project team but I would never have him head my project team. My reason: He has such a high IQ but a pathetic EQ. You need more of the later to lead in a society like ours.

Gold2Naira:
Enugu Obodo Oyibo

I beg to disagree. Enugu is PROUDLY OBODO IGBO. 'Oyibo' should not be our standard of measuring what is good enough for us.

adisaoladayo:
That's our presidents plan. But by the special grace of God it won't work 4him. It shows how less confident GEJ is. Killing ppl cos of his own selfish interest. The eastern part vote combined cn nt match dt of the North. Dts y he has refused to to curb d insurgency. Nigerians, let's be logical abt the appenings in this country under the rule of GEJ,leave tribalism n 4gt abt relgion beliefs. how can sum1 want 2hold a country into ransom cos of selfish interest. This is so unfair,people r dieing n our president is doin nothing or beta still has achieved notin.rather he's so concerned abt 2nd term. By 2015 he's goin 2b a former president.

Some of you type carelessly without even thinking about what you are typing. If you are invited by the SSS to shed more light on the bolded statement, you will start shouting human right.

@Topic,

The National Assembly should quickly grant the executive arm of government the required approval to extend the SOE. We are in a state of war. Politics should take the back seat, maybe to continue afterwards. All hands must be on deck to ensure that elections hold in every part of this country in 41 days time.

Funny enough, against the impression being created by Lai Mohammed and his team, it seems that the FG is winning the war against corruption. Since 2010, we have steadily improved on the corruption perception index. The so called corruption all lives in their minds and hearts, not that we do not still have lots of work to do, but we are surely getting better not worse.

I think the Americans are the ones hiding their heads in the sand here. The impression they are trying to create here is that they just started military training of our boys in April. I don't think that is exactly the truth, the Americans have always trained our military boys as far back as I can remember. At least this link will give credence to that: http://www.africafocus.org/docs03ej/mil0303.php

What is actually baffling is that after decades of training our military boys, their trainers turn around to accuse those they trained of human rights abuse. It is either the trainees were taught right (how to 'abuse human rights') or the trainers were not good enough to impart how not to abuse human rights. The Nigerian government has to review her engagements with her partners and streamline where she put her resources and who her friends really are. The trainings were not free, we paid for them. We chose Americans over other countries for some reasons and those reasons do not hold up any more. They train our boys and turn around to accuse them of human right abuse, they came to help us take down BH and rescue the 'Chibok girls' but turned around to accuse our boys of being weak. And besides, Americans have no history of defeating insurgency anywhere in the world. They have not faced home grown terrorist group with deep engagement with local communities and political and religious leaders before, they have not experienced locals strapping bombs on themselves and walking into a mall to explode it, so as far as I am concerned, they have nothing to teach us on our present challenge. Actually, all their engagement with terrorists in foreign soils escalates the situation. To kill Osama, they violated another countries air space, violated their sovereignty which is an act of war in itself, swooped on the man when he was fast asleep and had the means and option to capture him alive and extract him alive to face 'justice through the law courts', they chose to kill the man extra-judicially.

I have no love for Osama but what they are accusing our military of doing, they did more. Maybe, just maybe, they are the ones teaching our boys how to 'abuse human rights' and based on that, the Nigerian government has to cancel such cancerous trainings. That could be seen as the first step in fighting 'human right abuse' in our military.

The FG policy makes sense to me. If after decades of training our officers and men, they are still being accused by those who trained them of human rights abuse, then something is not just wrong with the trainee but also the trainer.

On the side note, Obama's administration has failed on many fronts but one area it is most pronounced is in engagement with Africa and even his domestic black constituency. Under which other administration has the bilateral ties between USA and the regional powers in Africa been so strained? Under the guy, America lost considerable influence in Africa to China and even Russia. American training of Nigerian forces has been like a tradition for ages, why exactly it ended under Mr Obama is a worry to me, knowing quite well the influence package that comes with such agreements.

Just look at the background of that pix and see the 'eldorado' Fashola has made of Lagos. Some people actually equate media hype and ceremonies to commission street lights for governance. Most random pictures of Lagos does not look better than this, unless @Aresa a.k.a Eko Ile is the one posting it. A visit to Lagos will get you wondering where the development is exactly. And the clown still has the guts to point fingers at the FG for bad governance, as if Lagos is anywhere near Abuja in terms of development and city management.