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Or else jump into the lagoon.

If the treasury was not virtually why did the Jonathan government have to bkrrow over 400 Billion Naira to pay April salaries? http://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/182543-nigerian-govt-borrowing-billions-to-pay-salaries-okonjo-iweala.html

The military check points are useless because they don't stop terrorist from operating. They expose the military to corruption. The military men who man the check points now love N20 more than the police do. Those of us who live in the north east know what we go through as a result of the wicked and useless check points that disappear whenever the terrorist attack. This is the best thing Nigerian govt has done for a long time.
This shows that Pres Buhari knows what is needed to fight Boko Haram. Surely the end of Boko haram is near.
Good bless our President Gen Buhari.

Is this the issue based opposition you promised us? Just look at Buhari's elbow and you will know the person who worked on the picture did a poor job.

I just visited the site and registered. I pray that it is going to be a success.

This is a good development. Nyako looted Adamawa the way never seen before and his successors having learned from him broke his record looting.

Both Metuh and FFK are saying the same thing, that is the NWC was not involved in the PDP presidential campaign.

TheSonOfMark:

AMONGST THE SOUTHERN GOVERNORS, AMEACHI IS THE BIGGEST LOSER.

In one fell swoop, he lost the entire political structure of the SECOND OR THIRD RICHEST STATE IN NIGERIA, got villified as a sellout and became South-South's public enemy numero uno.

HE ISN'T EVEN ASSURED OF A SIGNIFICANT POSITION AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL JUDGING FROM THE RECENT SCHEMINGS AND SHENANIGANS BY THE NORTH.

Rotimi 'Pawn' Amaechi.

What is this compared to being persecuted by being put in prison or forced into exile? Amaechi is the biggest winner of the 2015 elections. He led the campaign that successfully overthrew his arch-enemy and is definately going to be a major player in the next government. You can also be sure that APC is going to have the election in Rivers state overturned due to electoral malpractices and if it is not overturned he can use the Fed might to make life unconfortable for his opponents just as Wike did to him.

publicenemy:
Convince you?...I don't have to.

Then why did you tell me?

publicenemy:
I passed jamb at the first attemped...so he didn't have to.

A person who used 'attemped' instead of attempt needs to do a lot to convince me that he passed JAMB at first attempt.

publicenemy:
Graduate from his fathers University....

















I am sure he failed JAMB 20 times before. His father opened the school for him.

Can your father open a university for you even if you fail JAMB a million times?

This is callous in a state where the governor has not release a single Kobo for feeding students in boarding schools since he assumed office.

bond82:
The said governor is an APC member. See impunity at its best.

Get your facts right. The governor is a PDP member and even contested the Adamawa north senatorial seat under PDP and lost.

I don't know what the fuss is about. Governments, organisations and individuals all over the world do accredit journalist and media houses to cover their activities and the essence of accredition is always to weed out some undesirable journalist and media houses from covering their activities. As long as accreditation exists then some would be left out.

makzeze:
I am a Nairalander and part of a team that visited the peoples' General today in Daura.

The General talked about the social injustice going on in country among other issues and he assured us he and his team will do their utmost best to salvage Nigeria. The Man truly has Nigeria at his heart. It was just amazing!

See the pic I took with the General below:

Mo Allah wuji furdata.

menesheh:
at this present stage of our specie, we ought to be raising consciousness to the marginalization of women in Africa cum Nigeria.

despite knowing that you are not in support or against the practice but just feel empathy to those women and imagine yourself in their shoe despite they don't complain about the inhuman act perpetrated by their male host

As I am typing this no law in this country compels them to wear what they are wearing , so please respect their choice,

Oliseh Metuh is the main reason for Jonathan's failure in the March 28 election. His constant rediculing of Islam and labeling APC as an Islamic party pushed almost all Muslims to APC leaving the PDP with only a part of the Christian votes,

clevvermind:
come make i spoil you with wine. any types of drinks you want is here. join the winning side. stop dulling yourself. we would party all night when Jonathan will be declared winner. join us.

I am waiting for you to invite me to the party celebrating GEJ's viftory.

QuotaSystem:
Inaa yan lapai, ni bafilatan kwarai ne, za mu ci uwarku iyan buro uba, ai kun shigo hannu.

Na a Pullo ba. I am Fulani and no sane Fulani supports this your nonsense. Buhari's victory is made possible by Nigerians of diverse bagrounds who willingly and freely gave their mandate to Buhari in the hope that he would rectify Nigerias problems. Your post is against the current mood. Mtwsss.

You shall condemn your elites for selfishly misleading majority of Igbos to follow a failed president like Jonathan. The type of blind support the Igbos gave Jonathan is naive and suicidal in politics.

SenseiX:
Senate President Had Been Zoned To North Central By APC, Bukola Saraki is the favorite to win it although George Akume might have a shot due to his huge contribution to victory in Benue, on the whole i'm sad my party the PDP lost but congratulations to you guys, hope Buhari and the others do a great job that's democracy

I love your sportsmanship spirit.

fyneguy:
You really think everyone is a coward like you.

The cowards are those who shut down streets and lock down cities whenever they go out. You got to admit that what Amaechi did is exceptional.

dunkem21:
Walahi, this is backwardness.

Negative change.

Let me go and call all the people that mentioned me on the PDP's helicopter.

ganye1, ganye1, ganye1, orikinla, orikinla ..what's your take



..wakacome, abeg label that object for me.

So because it is APC supporters that produced this nonsense it is no longer a work of genius and creative? You should have been consistent and call this too work of genius and creative. For me the two have no any practical value apart from the posters pasted on them.

dunkem21:
Read the title of the thread again and clap for the genius that did this.

OMG! Did I hear you say genius? Stripping a Keke napep of its capabilities by adding heavy and cumbersome metals is the work of a fool not genius.

dunkem21:
Innovation at its peak.

Everybody likes jona.

How can rendering a keke napep useless be called an innovation?

DSS detains PVC
supplier, demands
encryption code-APC
Category: News Published on Thursday, 26 March 2015 11:18 Written
by Ronald Mutum & Amina Alhassan Hits: 5373
7 Comments
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has issued an alert alleging
that the Department of State Security Services (DSS) is detaining
one Alhaji Sani Musa the supplier of the Permanent Voters Card
(PVC) to be used by Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) in
the general elections.
The APC statement claims Sani Musa is being tortured by the DSS
to release the PVC’s security codes.
When contacted to confirm if Alhaji Sani Musa is in DSS custody,
the spokesperson for the DSS Marilyn Ogar said: “I will not
mention names of people. We have been mandated to do our job
and that we will do.”
She added that: “It is election period and people cannot stop us
from doing our job. We are not politicians, we will not be dragged
into political issues.”
Alhaji Sani Musa, who is the owner of ACT Technologies, the
company that manufactured and supplied the PVCs to INEC, is now
under unlawful detention in DSS dungeons, the APC said.
The alert noted “This is very alarming development for a lot of
reasons. ACT Technologies is a reputable, well established,
Nigerian company based in Abuja. Between 2013 and 2014, INEC
paid the company the sum of N2.6 billion to manufacture the
PVCs with very high security specifications.
“Among the security specifications is a robust encryption system
that could not be easily broken. Now the DSS wants the security
codes to the PVCs encryption system! The entire forthcoming
general elections are under threat if the DSS were to obtain these
security codes,” the APC added.
They called on well meaning Nigerians to register their revulsion
at this treasonable move by the DSS, by writing letters, calling,
texting, or emailing the EU Elections Monitors based in Abuja.
“Ask the EU Monitors to put pressure on the government to release
Alhaji Sani Musa immediately,” APC demanded.
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/news/50516-dss-detains-pvc-supplier-demands-encryption-code-apc

2015 Presidential
election: How and why
Pdp will lose
Category: Inside politics Published on Wednesday, 25 March 2015
05:02 Written by Umar Ardo Hits: 19425
4 Comments
Let me start by saying from the
onset that I am PDP. I have
always been PDP; and no one can
deny me of being PDP.
But there are two kinds of PDP -
the positive and the negative
PDP; I am of the positive PDP
who have remained within to fight
the negative PDP. Thank God
Almighty, it is now obvious that
Nigerians are at last ready to get
rid of the negative PDP in 2015. I
believe it could well be for this
purpose that our judiciary failed to determine President Jonathan’s
ineligibility status when the latter insisted on contesting the election.
Yes, we all want the ravaging PDP out of power and out of our
national lives.
The reason is simple; the PDP has wrecked the country in the last 5
years far more than the military did in its 29 years in power.
But wanting the PDP out will not get it out unless and until concrete
and determined steps are taken. I see in the formation of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) such determined step. Perceptively,
while Nigerians are ever ready to support in achieving this noble
objective, the APC on its own has taken the appropriate measure to
win the presidential election fair and square by fielding in right
candidates with mass public support - General Mohammadu Buhari
(rtd) and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, as its presidential and vice presidential
candidates respectively. This is a sure ticket of guaranteeing electoral
victory. The political calculation is easy, and the electoral
mathematics is simple; Buhari, more than any politician in the North,
commands the support of the Northern populace in the same way as
Tinubu, more than any politician south of the Niger, commands the
support of the South-West zone. Therefore, fielding any other
candidate than Buhari could have turned off the North against the
party in the same way as how CPC’s fielding of a Southwesterner
other than Tinubu or his nominee as its vice presidential candidate in
the 2011 presidential election turned off the zone against the CPC.
Having avoided the mistake of 2011, I believe APC’s victory in 2015 is
assured.
Mathematically, the electoral forte of the two geopolitical zones of
North-West and South-West put together constitute 46.3% of the
national electoral strength, based on the 2011 voters’ register.
Deriving from the voting pattern of these zones since 1960, the
probability of the PDP winning the presidential election in 2015 does
not exist.
The South-West zone has 14,296,163 registered voters, which
represents 19.44% of the total number of voters nationwide. In terms
of national electoral strength, the zone is number 2. Taking into
account the electoral behaviour of the South-West since
independence, the zone has proven itself, without exception, of
incapable of voting anyone other than its own. In the 1st Republic, it
voted mainly Action Group in favour of Chief Obafemi Awolowo with
about 69% voters’ turnout. In the 2nd Republic, it voted 78.75% of its
total votes cast for UPN in favour of Chief Awolowo, with 70% voters’
turnout. In the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the pattern was
repeated more or less the same, except that the total percentage of
SDP’s votes in favour of Chief MKO Abiola rose up to 84.5% in the
zone. In the 1999 presidential election, mainly because the only two
candidates for the presidency were both from the South-West, the
zone’s voters’ turnout was abysmally low (48.09%) with about 68% of
the votes cast to APP in favour of Chief Olu Falaye. 2003 also
recorded poor voters’ turnout with 71% of votes cast for Obasanjo’s
PDP. In 2011, with no Southwestern candidate fielded by any of the
major parties, the South-West voted PDP when a functional alliance
with the CPC failed to field in Sen. Tinubu or his nominee. Besides,
with the vicious experience of AD in 2003 when the PDP Federal
Government uprooted its governments in five states of the zone, the
South-West cannot now afford to risk having an opposition PDP
government at the federal level again; certainly not after the hard
pains and toils of forming the APC. It is therefore existential for the
South-West to vote APC at the presidential election.
Like the South-West, the electoral pattern of the North-West too has
shown, without exception, that it does not elect anyone other than its
own. This trend includes the much celebrated June 12 presidential
election where Chief Abiola was given an average votes cast of 42.9%
by the zone. Even this score was unusually high, and should be
attributed to the personality profile of Chief Abiola, including his
faith. For the record, it should be pointed out that the North-West
zone always led the nation in terms of number of registered voters.
For the 2011 elections, the zone had 19,803,689, representing 26.93%
of the national electoral strength, the highest in the country.
With a total of 10,749,059 voters in the 2011 polls, representing
14.62% of the national voters, the North-East zone is the 4th in terms
of electoral strength in the country. Although ethnically
heterogeneous, it largely shares common history, faith and cultural
values with the North-West. These often account for common political
stand between the two zones, especially since the advent of Gen.
Buhari into the presidential race. On this score, we can confidently
assert that the zone will go not less than 70% for Gen. Buhari, as the
2003, 2007 and 2011 polls showed. Added to the fact that Buhari
was once the governor of the entire zone, there is a sentimental
political attachment to the man that somehow remains through the
years. If every vote will count, as the nation expects it to count in
2015, then APC is very much at home in the zone.
The North-Central has 11,627,490 voters representing 15.81% of the
total electoral strength of the country. It is the home of about 65% of
what is generically termed as “Northern Minorities”. But about 55% of
the populace is historically and politically affiliated to the ‘Northern
Caliphate Establishment’; and over the years this affiliation has
translated into electoral votes for the pro-establishment. In the 2011
presidential election, nearly 90% of Niger State voters elected Buhari.
With Bukola Saraki and APC government in Nassarawa, it is certain
this factor will reflect in the 2015 presidential election in favour of the
APC in Kwara and Nassarawa states.
Furthermore, the traditional dominant support bases of the PDP,
which is the South-South, South-East and the minority North cannot
give the party victory. Firstly, the South-South has a total of
9,823,219 and South-East 8,949, 438, which put together, cannot
upturn the votes of the North-West alone. For the northern minorities,
particularly in Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Adamawa and Southern
Kaduna, certain missteps of the government, the party and some
overzealous Niger Delta militants have combined to change the PDP
support equation. To all intents and purposes, I cannot see PDP
winning one of the 19 states of Northern Nigeria. How then can PDP,
especially with Namadi Sambo having no electoral value in his party,
as the 2011 general elections had shown, win the presidential
election?
On the other hand, the fielding of General Buhari as the presidential
candidate is of tremendous advantage to the APC on one fundamental
problem of the country - dishonest leadership! Judging from his past
leadership antecedents, Nigerians have also agreed, arguably, that
Buhari is the most honest among the candidates in the country. Gen.
Buhari went into public service poor and came out relatively poor.
Interestingly, Buhari held more strategic and lucrative public positions
capable of turning him, if he had so desired like others, into a
stupendously wealthy or even wealthier man than most of our wealthy
retired public servants today. He was governor of Northeastern state
for almost a year; he was Minister of Petroleum and chairman of
NNPC Board for three and a half years; he was Head of State and
Commander-in-Chief for almost two years; and he was chairman of
Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) for three years. All these are public
offices that can turn a man into a multi billionaire overnight, but Gen.
Buhari went into them and came out without amassing wealth for
himself or for members of his immediate family. This is a clear proof
that he had given honest leadership; a vital solution to the current
problem of our country. And, as the universal dictum goes, honesty is
the best policy.
Nigerians, faced with the clear problem of nation-building, will be
better off with a little bit of honesty, in accessing our potential
leaders, in electing them into public offices and in them rendering
leadership. As Nigerians want to resolve the nation’s primary
problem, electing Buhari seems to be the logical solution; it is like
placing a round peg is a round hole.
Also, very importantly, the major reasons that made PDP ‘win’ in
2011 are no longer there. In 2011, Buhari was all by himself, with no
key power bloc, no governor, no Senator, no legislator, no funding, etc
supporting his candidacy. Today, all these are present and in his
support. Conversely, in 2011, President Jonathan’s election was
supported by key power blocs like Presidents Obasanjo, Babangida,
Gen. TY Danjuma, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Sen. Bola Tinubu,
Sen. Bukola Saraki, Gov. Ameachi, etc. Today, they are all absent. In
2011, President Jonathan’s capacity, ability, honesty and competence
or lack of them was unknown. Most people wanted to give him a trial.
Today, his incapacity, inability, dishonesty and incompetence are
legendary, and so most people want to halt the drift. The northern
minorities in particular, who voted him based on sentiments, are
today embarrassed by his total incompetence as he did not prove
himself a good ambassador of the minorities. General Gowon held
sway for 9 years; he was a minority but his competence was never in
doubt. Jonathan is the opposite. Secondly, many of the so-called
born-to-rule northerners in 2011 had a sense of moral obligation to
reciprocate the traditional alliance between the North and the Niger
Delta and were therefore obliged to vote for him. The result today is
disastrous for them. The moral obligation is also no longer present.
Thirdly, Jonathan’s near 6 years of leadership has revealed him as a
divisionist rather than a unionist. Overnight he turned himself to a
Christian fundamentalist who uses the Church as a tool to politically
divide the people and ultimately create disharmony in the society,
with terrible consequences to all. With this knowledge of the man, it is
almost universally believed today in the North, both by Muslims and
Christians, that the Boko Haram menace as we know it today is a
direct offshoot of the president’s policy of divisiveness. Even if the
president did not create the insurgency, it is clear that he has been
unable to stem it. Either way no one would want to have him in office
a day longer than can help it. These factors have combined to create
serious revulsion against him across the North almost in its entirety.
Things cannot just continue like that, lest Nigerians sleepwalk into a
disastrous extinction. For these and many more reasons, it is my
conviction that PDP will lose the 28 March election. And I pray it
does, to serve as a lesson that bad leadership cannot be rewarded
with re-election; per chance we will learn to do things rightly in
future. This way, we would have gained something positive in defeat.
Dr. Ardo is a political strategist and academician.
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/politics/50349-2015-presidential-election-how-and-why-pdp-will-lose

Those of you gloating over the Dollar induced defection of these 10 people don't understand the determination of the masses to vote out PDP, especially GEJ. The people of North east can never vote for GEJ, under whose watch our lives and properties are daily being destroyed. They can collect their dollars and we vote out GEJ. Our determination to vote out GEJ is unshaken by the defection of these ten people. Mark my words GEJ cannot win Adamawa state by whatever means, whether through votes or rigging.

Now that it is confirmed that Shagari is alive and not dead as predicted by 'prophet' Suleiman and that same 'prophet' Suleiman predicted that GEJ will win the forthcoming election do we draw conclusion that since his prophesy of Shagari's dead has not come to pass that of GEJ winning the election too will not come to pass?

pekeyim:
Faka is still firing from all cylinders.

GEJ carry go!
#saynotogerontocracy

I'll rather have a gerontocrat rule Nigeria than a kleptocrat.
Sai Buhari.

pekeyim:
Faka is still firing from all cylinders.

GEJ carry go!
#saynotogerontocracy

I'll rather have a gerontocrat rule Nigeria than a kleptocrat.

#GMB