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thefakestan:
Please add My humble self

Temitemi1

Barcanista

I know for sure that Barcanista has already congratulated GMB and promised to remind him of his promises

Damjoy:
Actually you have made mistakes here. The Northern gov u mentioned already took turns in congratulating him, even IBB did the same.

Really

ifihearam:
IBB has congratulated baba one chance oooooo

You mean our President-Elect is BabaOneChance?
Hmmm! It is well oh!

Please make corrections to my list below:

1. Wole Soyinka

Nigeria's only laureate and a major critic of the Jonathan administration, especially the handling of the Rivers state crisis that nearly swept off his favoured son, Amaechi and the handling of the Chibok girls saga. His opinions are highly sort in Nigeria and beyond and many believe that his disdain for the PDP helped swayed south-west( epecially the young and intellectuals) votes against President GEJ.

2. Enerst Shonekan

Former head of the Interim Government of Nigeria in 1993. He is believed to be a supporter of incumbent President GEJ and has never missed any high government function since Jonathan became President.

3. Mike Adenuga

Chairman of telecommunication outfit Globacom and one of Nigeria's richest and out-of-public private citizens. He is a friend of the GEJ government and as such was appointed as Co-Chairman by Jonathan in 2012 to head the flood committee.

4. South-south PDP Governors

They are governors Liyel Imoke( Cross River), Godswill Akpabio( Akwa Ibom), Seriake Dickson( Bayelsa state), Emmanuel Uduaghan( Delta state) and govenor-elect Nyesom Wike( Rivers state - considered to be a nightmare to incumbent governor, Rotimi Amaechi and the APC). They are major financiers and gave Jonathan a bloc-vote during the 2011 and 2015 presidential elections. Rivers state gave GEJ over 1.4million votes to emerge highest from the region.

5. South-east PDP Governors

Abia - TA Orji, Ebonyi - M Elechi, Enugu - S Chime; they tried to replicate the 2011 magic but I guess something happened along the line. Nonetheless, GEJ won convincingly in the zone but could not win nationally in 2015 as was in 2011. The highest GEJ secured from this zone was 500,000+ in Enugu state.

6. Alex Ekwueme

Former Nigerian vice president under Shehu Shagari and a prominent member of those who formed the PDP in 1998. He complained sometime ago of being maginalized in the mani-stream PDP by the Jonathan administration before GEJ visited his state for the PDP presidential campaign.

7. Shehu Shagari

With a waning strength of 80yrs+, former president shagari is an ardent supporter of the PDP from the then OBJ days to Yar'Adua. He benefited to the extent of making his son a minister and then a Deputy Governor in 2007-2015. President Jonathan is believed to have so much respect for this elderly elder statesman and recent joined former leaders to cut his birthday cake in Sokoto.

8. Ibrahim Babangida

Nicknamed the 'Nigerian Maradona.' He ousted the President-elect, GMB and took over power in 1985 and later went on to annul the 1993 presidential election won by late MKO Abiola. Many believe that Buhari still begrudges IBB for his ouster and not allowing him to bury his late mum. He once sort for the PDP ticket in 2011 with JEG along side Atiku and former NSA and current defence minister, Aliyu Gusau. He is still a PDP card-carrying member and preferred GEJ to GMB in the 2015 elections.

10. Innocent Chukwuma

Anambra born entrepreneur cum billionaire is fine protagonist of the Jonathan administration. He is a major beneficiary of the current President's auto policy on home-made vehicles and manufacturing in Nigeria. Innocent is the first indegineous vehicle manufacturing businessman in the country. He manufactures SUVs, pick-up trucks as well as patrol vans for the Nigerian police force and the federal road safety corps. His company was said to have donate about 15 SUVs to the 2015 PDP presidential campaign.

11. South-west Obas

These monarchs are seen as very powerful in the region and they were seen to be more amenable to the Jonathan candidature than Buhari's and more than one occasion openly supported GEJ for the 2015 elections. GEJ was said to have held meeting with all the power-broking monarchs in the region before the elections.

12. Northern states PDP governors

These are the governors of Kaduna, Kebbi, Jigawa, Bauchi, Niger, Adamawa, Katsina, Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Kogi and Gombe states. Of all these governors none was able to win even a LGA for the PDP save for Taraba, Plateau, Kaduna, Adamawa despite all the Billions given them during the presidential elections.

Why they have refused to congratulate the President-Elect on his victory at the 2015 polls is yet unknown but I believe that will be left for historian, researchers and scholars to unravel.

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gists:
I was telling my that maybe the SS just threw their chance of becoming the senate president away. APC may likely be the majority in the senate which means David Mark cannot be the senate president. It would have been an almost automatic/unchallenged opportunity for Magnus Abey (I assume he contested for senatorial seat) if he was not rigged out by GEJ backed Wike.

Now with the President coming from the north and Vice from SW and no APC senator from SS and SE, it looks like Saraki may take the seat his father once sat as the senate president.

EDO produced an APC Senator from Edo- North

Imagine! They even expect you to have a Nigerian Passport before applying.

A Public Relations and Media practitioner
based in Lagos, Nigeria, Mr Olusegun Sunday
Fayose (pictured above) has dissociated
himself from an online story first published in
the Nation Newspapers of Monday 23rd
March, 2015,( READ ORIGINAL STORY HERE: www.thenationonlineng.net/new/fayose-embarrassing-our-family-says-brother/) in which his picture was used to
illustrate a damning interview purportedly
granted the newspaper by one Olusegun
Fayose, identified in the report as the elder
brother of His Excellency, Governor Ayo
Fayose of Ekiti state.

In a statement I just received from his team,
Mr Fayose, lead consultant/MD of Hexagon
Media and former head of corporate
communication/PR manager of MultiChoice
Nigeria, clarified that he never granted any
interview to the newspaper or any other news
medium within or outside the country.

He also
averred that he is not related to the Governor
of Ekiti State, a fact which he said is not lost on
any diligent media practitioner in the country
and wondered how any responsible journalist
could publish his picture as that of the elder
Brother of the Governor especially with the
benefit of several online search engines at the
disposal of media practitioners.

Mr Fayose further explained that the
similarity in his surname and that of the
Governor is a mere coincidence and wonders
why two reporters (Bisi Oladele and Jeremiah
Oke) who claimed that they conducted the
interview in Ibadan, Oyo state with Governor
Ayo Fayose’s elder brother, preferred to shop
for the online picture of an innocent
bystander to illustrate such a sensitive story at
this critical period in the electoral process,
instead of using the actual picture of the
interviewee.


‘As a media practitioner, I find this
development rather shocking because
the journalists were in a position to take
live pictures of the interviewee at the
venue of the interview. Should they
have failed in doing this, they could
have returned to correct the oversight
or politely ask for a selfie which could
be forwarded to them. There is also the
option of using professional networking
sites to access the details or picture(s) of
their subject. So, I find it strange and
curious that they (the reporters) could
not remember the face of a subject
they purportedly interviewed in less
than 24 hours, he said.’


The statement called on leading blogs to
retract the story or risk legal actions if
corrective measures are not implemented
within the next 24 hours.
.
www.lailasblog.com/2015/03/gov-fayoses-alleged-elder-brother.html?m=1

aresa:
Is it not common sense that clossing the borders means danger to the economy? Do they even have to be told?


Bumbbling incompetent idiots. I just can not&stand these&worthless clown.

Try and be objective and do some research.

This is not the first time Nigeria will be closing its borders for election.

Or has GHANA never closed theirs for election.

DO NOT ABUSE WITHOUT PROPER RESEARCH AND COMPARING NOTES

bigtt76:
Foolish man ...no government closes her Land, Sea borders 72 hours before an election. It should be 24 hours before. Mofo!

If you say don't close SEA, I will agree with you but LAND, no, I disagree with you.

In fact left for me LAND borders should be closed five days to election owing to the fact that millions of illegal Nigeriens and Chadians entered and registered to vote in Nigeria.

So lock them out I say and let them go and follow through the sea and see whether they won't drown trying to enter Nigeria.

BTW just a minute few travel by sea so why close it

Barely 24 hours after shutting all borders for the 2015
elections, the Federal Government on Thursday reversed
the order by reopening sea borders.

The reversal was announced by the Interior Minister,
Abba Moro, at the commissioning of Koto-Karfe Prison.

The minister said that the Federal government had
received advice that closing the sea borders would
adversely affect the nation’s economy.

He however, assured that officers and men of the Nigeria
Immigration Service had been directed to effectively
monitor movements in and out of the country’s sea
borders before, during and after the election.

It will be recalled that the government had in a statement
on Wednesday directed that all Nigeria’s land and sea
borders be closed from 12.00 mid night Wednesday
25th March, 2015 to 12.00 mid night of Saturday 28th
March, 2015.
.
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/fg-makes-u-turn-reopens-sea-borders/

Nigeria has announced the closure of all land and sea
borders ahead of Saturday’s presidential elections, the
Interior Ministry announced Wednesday.

All borders will effectively be closed from midnight
March 25, to midnight Saturday, March 28, the
ministry said in a statement.

The release, signed by the permanent secretary,
Abubakar Magaji, said the borders would be closed
“to allow for the peaceful conduct of the forthcoming
national elections”.

It also said the Nigeria Immigration Service has been
directed to ensure that non-Nigerians do not
participate in any part of the election process.
.
www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/179084-breaking-nigerian-shuts-all-borders-ahead-of-election.html

There are some propaganda that do sell but definitely not this one because as soon as I saw the caption I new it was a big lie

Maccoy1:
APC LEADERS SHOULD SAY NO TO DRUGs....honestly i don't know where they get the inspiration or info to say this things

That's ehh! It is so so annoying to hear this. Not even #200Billion or so.

What kind of nonsense propaganda is this. One trillion naira?

This very very inciting from the APC and this is one propaganda taken too far.

What kind of nonsense propaganda is this. One trillion naira?

All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign
Organization, APCPCO has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of stealing N1trn from the public coffers to fund his election campaigns.

Addressing a press conference in Abuja, the organization said that as a president who has spent 6 years in office, his legacies should have been speaking for him and not going about sharing money.

APCPCO asked Nigerians to think twice before casting
their votes on Saturday.
.
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/jonathan-spends-n1trn-on-election-campaign/

In as much as I don't believe the US is working as a friend with Nigeria, I like the part of his statement:

"You’ve worked hard to improve the lives of your
families and to build the largest economy in Africa.
Now you have a historic opportunity to help write the next chapter of Nigeria’s progress..."

This is for those of us that could not watch the video but at least we can also read.
.....................................................................................
In a video posted on Youtube today by US Embassy
Nigeria, US president Barack Obama sent a message to Nigerians asking them to stand up against violence and express their views peacefully during the upcoming election.

Transcribed version of what he said in the video
below...


Hello. Today, I want to speak directly to you—the people of Nigeria. Nigeria is a great nation and you can be proud of the progress you’ve made.

Together, you won your independence, emerged from military rule, and strengthened democratic institutions. You’ve strived to overcome division and to turn Nigeria’s diversity into a source of strength.

You’ve worked hard to improve the lives of your families and to build the largest economy in Africa. Now you have a historic opportunity to help write the next chapter of Nigeria’s progress—by voting in the upcoming elections.

For elections to be credible, they must be free, fair and peaceful. All Nigerians must be able to cast their votes without intimidation or fear.

So I call on all leaders and candidates to make it clear to their supporters that violence has no place in democratic elections—and that they will not incite, support or engage in any kind of violence—before, during, or after the votes are counted.

I call on all Nigerians to peacefully express your views
and to reject the voices of those who call for violence.

And when elections are free and fair, it is the
responsibility of all citizens to help keep the peace, no
matter who wins.

Successful elections and democratic progress will help Nigeria meet the urgent challenges you
face today.

Boko Haram—a brutal terrorist group that kills innocent men, women and children—must be
stopped. Hundreds of kidnapped children deserve to be returned to their families.

Nigerians who have been forced to flee deserve to return to their homes. Boko Haram wants to destroy Nigeria and all that you have worked to build.

By casting your ballot, you can help secure your nation’s progress. I’m told that there is a saying in your country: “to keep Nigeria one is a task that
must be done.”

Today, I urge all Nigerians—from all religions, all ethnic groups, and all regions—to come together and keep Nigeria one.

And in this task of advancing the security, prosperity, and human rights of all Nigerians, you will continue to have a friend and partner in the United States of America.
.
www.lindaikeji..com/2015/03/pres-obama-sends-message-to-nigerians.html

By this time next week we should be awaiting election result declaration

This is just coming in as current APC Rivers state deputy governor, Engr. Tele Ikuru has formally dumped the APC and declared for the PDP.

The new PDP Rivers state deputy governor has also urged all his supporters and followers to vote the PDP at all levels in the state.
.
SOURCE: current AIT scroll news bar as the presidential debate of 3pm airs.

Please am just waking up and I want to if this THREAD MADE FRONT PAGE?

xreal:
Have I ever come across the name Sam p son in the bible?

....let me read through again.

Lolxxxx! Thanks and corrected already

And come to think of it, he is a boy and not a girl.

What do you think of this kid's natural hair? Does it not remind you of Samson in the Bible with such long and natural hair?

Hmmm! What is this ING and who are its promoters? Because WATCHING GEJ talking on NTA 9.00pm news now shows he is serious about arresting these people oh.