₦airaland Forum

mikeansy: whats wrong with Jonah Jang?

grown up men acting like kids

anyone who allow themselves to be led like this is not worth being a Governor!

shame!

I now know the reason other pro-GEJ governors stepped aside for Jang...He is the only governor shameless enough to act the role of a charlatan given to him by GEJ and Akpabio.
What can one expect from a burkutu drunkard like Jang in such position?


Allowing GEJ to be president is the greatest political suicide ever made in this Universe!

henchamb: this people can lie oh. just watched the full recording of the counting of votes at the election where amaechi was declared winner. omg i feel like starting a revolutionary protest in Nigeria now.

Meet me at eagles square!

tai wo: (Very interesting read folks)
WOLE SOYINKA ON BUHARI_________ _______________
_____________ This intervention has been provoked, not so
much by the ambitions of General Muhammadu Buhari to return
to power at the head of a democratic Nigeria, as by declarations
of support from directions that leave one totally dumbfounded. It
would appear that some, myself among them, had been
overcomplacent about the magnitude of an ambition that seemed
as preposterous as the late effort of General Ibrahim Babangida
to aspire yet again to the honour of presiding over a society that
truly seeks a democratic future.
What one had dismissed was a rash of illusions, brought about
by other political improbabilities that surround us, however, is
being given an air of plausibility by individuals and groupings to
which one had earlier attributed a sense of relevance of historic
actualities. Recently, I published an article in the media,
invoking the possible recourse to psychiatric explanation for
some of the incongruities in conduct within national leadership.
Now, to tell the truth, I have begun to seriously address the issue
of which section of society requires the services of a
psychiatrist.
The contest for a seizure of rationality is now so polarized that I
am quite reconciled to the fact it could be those of us on this
side, not the opposing school of thought that ought to declare
ourselves candidates for a lunatic asylum. So be it. While that
decision hangs in the balance however, the forum is open. Let
both sides continue to address our cases to the electorate, but
also prepare to submit ourselves for psychiatric examination.
The time being so close to electoral decision, we can understand
the haste of some to resort to shortcuts. In the process however,
we should not commit the error of opening the political space to
any alternative whose curative touch to national afflictions have
proven more deadly than the disease. In order to reduce the
clutter in our options towards the forthcoming elections, we urge
a beginning from what we do know, what we have undergone,
what millions can verify, what can be sustained by evidence
accessible even to the school pupil, the street hawker or a just-
come visitor from outer space. Leaving Buhari aside for now, I
propose a commencing exercise that should guide us along the
path of elimination as we examine the existing register of would-
be president. That initial exercise can be summed up in the
following speculation: “If it were possible for Olusegun
Obasanjo, the actual incumbent, to stand again for election,
would you vote for him?”
If the answer is “yes”, then of course all discussion is at an end.
If the answer is ‘No’ however, then it follows that a choice of a
successor made by Obasanjo should be assessed as hovering
between extremely dangerous and an outright kiss of death. The
degree of acceptability of such a candidate should also be
inversely proportionate to the passion with which he or she is
promoted by the would-be ‘godfather’. We do not lack for open
evidence about Obasanjo’s passion in this respect. From Lagos
to the USA, he has taken great pains to assure the nation and the
world that the anointed NPN presidential flag bearer is
guaranteed, in his judgment, to carry out his policies. Such an
endorsement/ anointment is more than sufficient, in my view, for
public acceptance or rejection. Yar’Adua’s candidature amounts
to a terminal kiss from a moribund regime.
Nothing against the person of this – I am informed – personable
governor, but let him understand that in addition to the direct
source of his emergence, the PDP, on whose platform he stands,
represents the most harrowing of this nation’s nightmares over
and beyond even the horrors of the Abacha regime. If he wishes
to be considered on his own merit, now is time for him, as well
as others similarly enmeshed, to exercise the moral courage that
goes with his repudiation of that party, a dissociation from its
past, and a pledge to reverse its menacing future. We shall find
him an alternative platform on which to stand, and then have
him present his credentials along those of other candidates
engaged in forging a credible opposition alliance. Until then, let
us bury this particular proposition and move on to a far graver,
looming danger, personified in the history of General Buhari.
The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the
alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History
matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of
memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we
know that human beings change. What the claims of personality
change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection
of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the-scen es
assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be
answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In
Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest
prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that
this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-
ruler that the nation cannot call to order.
Buhari – need one remind anyone – was one of the generals who
treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with
unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he
refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were
tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power
and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the
Nigerian citizenry.
Prominent against these charges was an act that amounted to
nothing less than judicial murder, the execution of a citizen
under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not,
then, perhaps the names of three youths – Lawal Ojuolape (30),
Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To
put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe – was
executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the
time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime,
carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every
sector of the Nigerian and international community – religious,
civil rights, political, trade unions etc. Buhari and his sidekick
and his partner-in-crim e, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this
inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place
Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible
rule, under governance by fear.
The execution of that youthful innocent – for so he was, since
the punishment did not exist at the time of commission – was
nothing short of premeditated murder, for which the perpetrators
should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity. Are we
truly expected to forget this violation of our entitlement to
security as provided under existing laws? And even if our
sensibilities have become blunted by succeeding seasons of
cruelty and brutality, if power itself had so coarsened the
sensibilities also of rulers and corrupted their judgment, what
should one rightly expect after they have been rescued from the
snare of power” At the very least, a revaluation, leading
hopefully to remorse, and its expression to a wronged society.
At the very least, such a revaluation should engender reticence,
silence. In the case of Buhari, it was the opposite. Since leaving
office he has declared in the most categorical terms that he had
no regrets over this murder and would do so again.
Human life is inviolate. The right to life is the uniquely
fundamental right on which all other rights are based. The crime
that General Buhari committed against the entire nation went
further however, inconceivable as it might first appear. That
crime is one of the most profound negations of civic being. Not
content with hammering down the freedom of expression in
general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion
of a return to civilian, democratic rule. Let us constantly applaud
our media – those battle scarred professionals did not completely
knuckle down. They resorted to cartoons and oblique, elliptical
references to sustain the people’s campaign for a time-table to
democratic rule. Overt agitation for a democratic time table
however remained rigorously suppressed – military dictatorship,
and a specifically incorporated in Buhari and Idiagbon was here
to stay.
To deprive a people of volition in their own political direction is
to turn a nation into a colony of slaves. Buhari enslaved the
nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the
millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same
former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be
ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave
plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition.
So Tai Solarin is already forgotten? Tai who stood at street
corners, fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up the gauntlet
where the media had dropped it. Tai who was incarcerated by
that regime and denied even the medication for his asthmatic
condition? Tai did not ask to be sent for treatment overseas; all
he asked was his traditional medicine that had proved so
effective after years of struggle with asthma!
Nor must we omit the manner of Buhari coming to power and
the pattern of his ‘corrective’ rule. Shagari’s NPN had already
run out of steam and was near universally detested – except of
course by the handful that still benefited from that regime of
profligacy and rabid fascism. Responsibility for the national
condition lay squarely at the door of the ruling party, obviously,
but against whom was Buhari’s coup staged? Judging by the
conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagari’s government
but against the opposition. The head of government, on whom
primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that
individual was kept in cozy house detention in Ikoyi while his
powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-kiri
prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment
of guilt and/or responsibility.
And then the cascade of escapes of the wanted, and culpable
politicians. Manhunts across the length and breadth of the
nation, roadblocks everywhere and borders tight as steel zip
locks. Lo and behold, the chairman of the party, Chief Akinloye,
strolled out coolly across the border. Richard Akinjide, Legal
Protector of the ruling party, slipped out with equal ease. The
Rice Minister, Umaru Dikko, who declared that Nigerians were
yet to eat from dustbins – escaped through the same airtight
dragnet. The clumsy attempt to crate him home was punishment
for his ingratitude, since he went berserk when, after waiting in
vain, he concluded that the coup had not been staged, after all,
for the immediate consolidation of the party of extreme right-
wing vultures, but for the military hyenas.
The case of the overbearing Secretary-Gener al of the party, Uba
Ahmed, was even more noxious. Uba Ahmed was out of the
country at the time. Despite the closure of the Nigerian airspace,
he compelled the pilot of his plane to demand special landing
permission, since his passenger load included the almighty Uba
Ahmed. Of course, he had not known of the change in his status
since he was airborne. The delighted airport commandant,
realizing that he had a much valued fish swimming willingly
into a waiting net, approved the request. Uba Ahmed
disembarked into the arms of a military guard and was promptly
clamped in detention. Incredibly, he vanished a few days after
and reappeared in safety overseas. Those whose memories have
become calcified should explore the media coverage of that
saga. Buhari was asked to explain the vanished act of this much
prized quarry and his response was one of the most arrogant
levity. Coming from one who had shot his way into power on
the slogan of ‘dis’pline’, it was nothing short of impudent.
Shall we revisit the tragicomic series of trials that landed several
politicians several lifetimes in prison? Recall, if you please, the
‘judicial’ processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief
Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried before Buhari’s
punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his
re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a
single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be
acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was
Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained
indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning an election and
refusing to knuckle under Buhari’s reign of terror.
The conduct of the Buhari regime after his coup was not merely
one of double, triple, multiple standards but a cynical travesty of
justice. Audu Ogbeh, currently chairman of the Action Congress
was one of the few figures of rectitude within the NPN. Just as
he has done in recent times with the PDP, he played the role of
an internal critic and reformer, warning, dissenting, and setting
an example of probity within his ministry. For that crime he
spent months in unjust incarceration. Guilty by association?
Well, if that was the motivating yardstick of the administration
of the Buhari justice, then it was most selectively applied. The utmost severity of the Buhari-Idiagbon justice was especially
reserved either for the opposition in general, or for those within the ruling party who had showed the sheerest sense of
responsibility and patriotism.
Shall I remind this nation of Buhari’s deliberate humiliating
treatment of the Emir of Kano and the Oni of Ife over their visit
to the state of Israel? I hold no brief for traditional rulers and
their relationship with governments, but insist on regarding them
as entitled to all the rights, privileges and responsibilitie s of any
Nigerian citizen. This royal duo went to Israel on their private
steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime
was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a
policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they
were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be
described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since
when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation
require the permission of a head of state to visit a foreign nation
that was willing to offer that tourist a visa.?
One is only too aware that some Nigerians love to point to
Buhari’s agenda of discipline as the shining jewel in his scrap-
iron crown. To inculcate discipline however, one must lead by
example, obeying laws set down as guides to public probity.
Example speaks louder than declarations, and rulers cannot
exempt themselves from the disciplinary strictures imposed on
the overall polity, especially on any issue that seeks to establish
a policy for public well-being.
The story of the thirty something suitcases – it would appear that
they were even closer to fifty – found unavoidable mention in
my recent memoirs, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DOWN,
written long before Buhari became spoken of as a credible
candidate. For the exercise of a changeover of the national
currency, the Nigerian borders – air, sea and land – had been
shut tight. Nothing was supposed to move in or out, not even
cattle egrets.
Yet a prominent camel was allowed through that needle’s eye.
Not only did Buhari dispatch his aide-de-camp, Jokolo – later to
become an emir – to facilitate the entry of those cases, he
ordered the redeployment – as I later discovered – of the
Customs Officer who stood firmly against the entry of the
contravening baggage. That officer, the former Vice-president is
now a rival candidate to Buhari, but has somehow, in the
meantime, earned a reputation that totally contradicts his
conduct at the time. Wherever the truth lies, it does not redound
to the credibility of the dictator of that time, General Buhari
whose word was law, but whose allegiances were clearly
negotiable.

Honestly, I have more important things to read than to go through this old piece.

Royal Roy: Dont you think the monopoly is broken already ? With all these disgruntled elements all over the country?

Maybe and maybe not. You know how hypocritic our politicians can be. Once something is done to pacify them,they ll return to ststus quo.

This will be a very good news to Nigerians if true.
Anything that will break the monopoly of the killer party-PDP- is a welcome development.



Keeping an eye on SAHARA reporters, waiting for News to break!

Justosaus: But den wait o, if 2 governors were absent ( Yobe & Gombe) how come 35 governors voted for Amaechi? Thought we had only 36 governors in d country?

Gombe state governor was represented by his deputy, but the signature on the list showed that of Gombe state governor. Shine your eyes joor!

Do you think Fayemi is as clueless as GEJ and his knights?

PointB: I thought the master just called his pet to order. Won't it heeds the master warnings and ignore certain folks? Or does this pet relish pain?

All I want to hear from you is just one word.....AMEN!

PointB: Pathetic, silly and clearly over used line of reasoning.

Perhaps God should treat you the Abacha treated Nigerians or IBB treated Dele Giwa, or how Yar Adua treated Nigeria with reversals and abadonment of project and the country. Or is it the vindictive Obj regime where over 10,000 Nigerians died in one crisis or the other viz; sharia riot, jos killing, odi, zaki, pipeline explosions, bomb explosion in lagos etc that you wish upon yourself?

When you look at it that way, you'll understand the stupidity of your assertion. No Nigeria president so far has been stellar, but it is disingenous of the NEF to claim that GEJ is the worst! That is very far from the truth!

A genuine GEJ supporter should say Amen to this prayer. Abi, u no like d prayer?

Gbawe: Man mi, you should have ignored them and just waited for sensible contributors to discuss with. I have realised that those who destroy threads here, so that facts can never emerge or win, are the ethnic/religious/sectional bigots. The best approach is to ignore those who only offer sentiments and can never rise to the occasion and deal dispassionately with facts.

While the Northern leaders may exaggerate, it is liars and clannish elements, as we see here on virtually every topic, who will not accept that GEJ has done nothing in relation to the biggest problems of Nigeria. In fact, and using facts, he has worsened some of the biggest headaches of Nigeria thus making the nation worse for those not into sentiments and clannish pontifications. That is how a Politically sophisticated citizenry will judge their leaders i.e efficacy at solving established major problems impeding progress and development. There is no Government, not even Abacha's, that can be siad not to have "performed" by supporters. What we should simply look at are the major, perennial and very serious issues plaguing Nigeria and how GEJ has fared in that regard.

Anyone capable of doing so dispassionately will see that GEJ is a big failure. It is thus a waste of time responding to those you have because non of them fall in the category of posters here who use fact and logic, whatever side they are on, to prove their case and conviction. They are a waste of time and you will gain nothing engaging them other than get into the fact-destroying gutter with them as they prefer.

If objective and genuinely intelligent supporters of GEJ show up (assuming they even exist) and are willing to enunciate his achievements as per the major problems of Nigeria, i.e those thwarting our development, then I will engage such folks. Until they show, I will ignore the usual rabble-rousers and I advise you do same. We cannot continue acting like children here where a lot of emotions and sentiments are thrown around yet very little educational facts come to the fore. Such conduct only promote mass ignorance and self-induced myopia.

Noted

For all of you above: May God treat your lives the way GEJ is treating Nigerians.



AMEN!

solomon111: If you believe this nonsense,then you need to grow some brain cells.

Why is this Solomon not wise?

Rastamann: Story story! the president was having sleepless night over Governor Ameachi's re-election and he finally over slept.

GBAM!

Abeg, I still don't understand how the Amaechi camp rigged the election. Was there multiple voting, or was the result changed at the collation center . someone should please help me out and tell me.

moodswing: Bros you dull. And no come get sense Join. Stupid opinion such as your's should be banned on NL.

FYI President Goodluck Jonathan is the best president in the world.

Unbelievable! Four people liked this dumb post ?

Bigcake: Asari u have my blessings go for d animal. That's all.

Honestly,between you and Asari, I don't know who the animal is.

kimakazee: I like Amaechi, 4 his personality, bt my governor Jang! D smallest sturrborn governor, d only governor dat gives d king of saudi Arabia, n Jihad republic sleepless nights and all these naija hausa fulani headache, d man dat governs a state synanimous to Israel. But whicheva way the both are good, no need 4 comparison

You forgot to add "The burkutu addict".

eggheaders: lol at omi tan leyin eja Jonathan. hope our in-house a55 lickers are getting the prelude of 2015. otueke roll out your drums for the home coming of the failure you offered the nation.

The arss lickers are still compiling and preparing their reports to cover the SHAME that cannot be covered!

Still 30hrs black out in Kaduna, and still counting!

Why is Dankwambo who was said to be missing, in Akpabio's list?

This Akpabio is a fraudster!

Addressing the press at the end of an emergency meeting at the Akwa Ibom Government House in Abuja, Mr. Akpabio, leading Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo, Peter Obi of Anambra, and others, said the ballot papers used for the election were not serialized thus allowing for manipulation.

They said they would not recognise Mr. Amaechi’s victory and would instead recognise Mr. Amaechi’s challenger, Jonah Jang of Plateau, as the Governors Forum chairman.

I swear Akpabio,Mimiko and Obi are high on cheap drugs.


Shameless loosers!

tomakint: Seems you just got the game plan, Amaechi's victory will bring him on a head-on collision with Jonathan's ambition which may eventually affect Amaechi's influence and political relevance in SS, SE and would likely make Jonathan to be wiser, which is good! 2015 on my mind

What is this one saying?

Jona will soon loose relevance in the SS except in the state that produces the highest number of clueless people- Bayelsa.

Amaechi is the new champion of South South

The beginning of the End of Jonathan!

Maxymilliano: This is a good signal emanating from the NGF.

and to all the media house fabricating lies on how GEJ is bent on forcing Shema or Yuguda on the governors, God pass una.

And to Amaechi, pride goes before a fall'..

*hope your eyes don clear now*

On behalf of Hon.Rotimi Amaechi, I say Back to Sender

emmysenior: "First law of power and it's implications"

I think that should have been the tittle of this thread

Thanks to Oga Jona, the first law of power has been abrogated!

You Can outshine your Master if he is clueless!

Governor Jang of Plateau state? The Burkutu governor??

Omen100: Is it that there are no useful brains and head in the whole of bayelsa as a state?

None so far!

Me self tire for this Bayelsa people ooo!

Sincere 9gerian: Four days after declaration of state of emergency and commencement of military operation in three states of the north, Buhari is yet to speak on the issue.

We have heard from all the major political parties (PDP, ACN, ANPP, CPC, LP, APGA), some leaders of the opposition parties ( especially Tinubu, Ribadu), prominent lawyers (Femi Falana and co), labour leaders, public affair analysts, Nlanders,etc but one voice that is CONSPICUOUSLY missing is that of General Muhammadu Buhari.

One would have expected Buhari as an elderstates man and someone positioning himself to lead this country in future, to speak on this issue.

Unfortunately, so far, its deafening silence from Buhari. Does his silence imply rejection of SOE, support for SOE, nonchallance or CONFUSION? To avoid speculations, our dear general should speak up.

You are suffering from Buhariphobia.




Sai BUHARI 2015

rufdyamond: wot abt bomb?

Good question!

mobuch: Please. Can anyone direct me on d way to d ombatse village? Business done start.

Go to Nassarawa state police headqtrs and ask.

Logicboy03: See cult memeber

@op, thanks for admitting that your Oga GEJ has been in deep slumber for the past 3 yrs.

Sincere 9gerian: I disagree with the writer. The president did not suddenly wake up to declare SOE. Saying such will be unfair to the detailed planning, logistics, intelligence and consultations that took place before declaration of SOE. Declaration of SOE has long been on the president's table, even before the committee on amnesty was set up. All that the govt was waiting for to declare SOE was the RIGHT TIME and a TRIGGER. The trigger came with the Boko haram attack on Bama and the build up for the RIGHT TIME followed the rejection of amnesty by the leader of Boko haram, Shekau. The kind of military operation currently taking place in the north has to enjoy widespread support, otherwise it may backfire on the president, who is from the south. Therefore, the TIMING has to be RIGHT

As much as I support SOE in these states, I still question the timing and sincerity of the government. I still want to know the reason for declaring SOE in Adamawa state if not political.

Any president who is truely in control would have declared SOE long ago, but after carefully going through the process of dialogue.

But as Datti Ahmad, who rejected membership of the amnesty committee, said the govt has proven that it cannot be trusted based on the dealings they had in establishing dialogue with the sect.

Declaring SOE just weeks after setting up an amnessty committee CANNOT be said to be a right timing.