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DeLaRue: Truth is all the security agencies are doing the PDP bidding, and they are ready to declare war on the rest of us if that's what it will take to keep PDP in power.

This woman is certainly doing her best to destroy the standing of the DSS.

obailala: Nigeria is in real big trouble... Everyday I keep understanding the importance of having an intelligent and wise person at the helm of affairs... Nigeria and Nigerians have never had it this bad... The way in which some Nigerians think and speak lately is a typical reflection of the person at the helm of affairs... Defending some indefensible errors with the most ridiculous arguments is now the order of the day....

Now we have the mouthpiece of the SSS speaking like a crayfish seller at a waterside market. An allegation like this based on such childish premise and this is coming from the SSS??.. This is the reason why whoever is the real sponsor of BokoHaram will just laugh at our silliness as a nation and keep bombing us until we open our eyes heads and think.

The spokesperson of a body which should represent the highest level of security intelligence in the country making market woman assumptions and actually saying it publicly as the official position of the SSS... May God deliver us from every form of Jonathitis... Nigeria has really gone to the dogs.

APC accuses DSS of crass partisanship

on August 14, 2014 / in News 12:52 pm /

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Department of State Services (DSS) of crass partisanship and unprofessional conduct over its actions and comments on the recent election in Osun State.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also said the spokesperson for the agency, Ms. Marilyn Ogar, should be properly trained and given the necessary exposure so she can speak with knowledge and facts, instead of making baseless and incautious statements.

”It is sad that a spokesperson for the DSS does not know there is no offence called ‘loitering’ under Nigerian laws. For her to now go on national television to say the APC’s National Publicity Secretary was arrested for ‘loitering’ in Osogbo on the eve of the state’s governorship election is the height of ignorance and constitutes a great embarrassment to DSS.

”It is even worse that the so-called spokesperson, ever so glib, would make a joke out of such a faux pas by an agency that is supposed to be non-partisan and highly professionalized. How on earth can any human being not be disoriented when 15 hooded gunmen arrest him/her and point their weapons at his/her head as they did to me on that night in Osogbo?

”How can a spokesperson for such a sensitive government agency not understand that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria provides for freedom of movement? On what basis is Ms. Ogar questioning what the APC’s National Publicity Secretary was doing in Osun, when the same fellow has not questioned the presence of Musiliu Obanikoro, Chris Uba and the likes in the same state. or are those people from Osun State?

”Was it not publicly announced that the APC was moving its headquarters to Osun to give support for Gov. Rauf Aregbesola? Why didn’t Ms. Ogar question the presence of President Goodluck Jonathan or Vice President Namadi Sambo in Osun when they came too, if she was been fair? It is sad that Ms. Ogar has turned herself to the spokesperson of the PDP by echoing what that party has said on the Osun election. This is unprofessional and irresponsible,” it said.

APC said by spearheading the mass arrest of its leaders and members in Osun before and during the Aug. 9th governorship election in the state, and by preventing the rally planned by the NLC in support of Gov. Aregbesola from holding, the DSS has decided to pitch its tent with the PDP instead of staying neutral.

The party said the questions to ask Ms. Ogar are: ”How many PDP leaders were arrested in Osun? If the rally by the NLC had been
planned in support of the PDP candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore, would the DSS have aborted it? Why must the DSS send hooded gunmen to police an election that is a civic matter? Does Ms.Ogar bother to read and understand the Nigerian constitution to know the rights of the citizens?”

It described as a tissue of lies the allegation by Ms. Ogar that the party tried to bribe the DSS with 14 million Naira before the Osun election, wondering why the DSS did not arrest the official who offered the alleged bribe.

”Apparently, Ms. Ogar has never head of a ‘sting operation’ that is widely used by security agencies to catch a person who is committing a crime. The allegation by Ms. Ogar would have been sweet in her mouth had the DSS mounted a sting operation to catch whoever was offering the alleged bribe, and then prosecute him or her,” the party said, calling the allegation cheap blackmail by a conspiratorial organization.

APC said it is important to educate the likes of Ogar, and indeed the entire DSS, that election is not war, but a celebration of democracy, hence DSS agents should drop their hoods and hide away their menacing guns when next they are posted to police an election anywhere in the country.

jelel6: kai. This country is at the lowest of the low. See as a security chief they talk and make accusations like a " market woman" education does not make one a refined person at all. The difference between a white man and a black is suppose to be only the colour of the skin, but this woman reasons as if her brain is BLACK.

Lordlexyy: aresa, you just captured the overall picture of this agency with this descriptive analysis. Never in history have we had to contend with so much unprofessional conduct, utterances and general attitude from our security forces like what is obtainable now. After all this weighty, unsusbtantial accusations or assumptions, how has that better the lots of our security force? Her body language certainly betrays her attempt to politicised the once revence DSS.

Dee60: Why politicise something this serious?

12 Signs & Symptoms Of A Failed State.

12. When a government is incapable of arresting, prosecuting, convicting and jailing perpetrator of crimes against humanity. When a government cannot investigate itself.

skyfall: Gbawe,

I kind of agree with the person you quoted above. The APC members in the NA are glaringly ineffective. They just sit down there quietly collecting money and wearing agbada up and down. Gbajabiamila seems to talk sometimes but it's not enough. Their quietness is allowing PDP and people like Ogah to get away with these atrocities.

For instance, when PDP started impeaching APC governors, I expected the APC NA members to start threatening Jonathan with impeachment immediately, because he and his appointed ministers are more guilty of the offenses these governors allegedly committed. Those guys seem to be too comfortable and obviously have a lot of work to do.

Nyako's diatribe....Also the sustained witch hunting of influential figures in the admin example Oduah,Iweala,Iheajirka etc by APC sponsored media.El rufai's almost maniacal stance and posturing.The icing on the cake will be the deportation saga,that has to be the most brazen act,with most yorobars supporting the move on social media..…

gbishman: Merilyn Ogar, Do your job and stop being a presidential spokes person. This is pure sycophancy if u have evidence that links APC to the recent bombings then go ahead to send your allegations to the appropriate authorities to clamp down the perpetrators.
The other day you lashed on Ezekwesili who was simply exercising her rights and the other one was the raid on some forest and the Army spokes person said the saw incriminating documents linking APC to boko haram, lets stop politicizing and trivializing serious issues just to score cheap dishonorable points.
The way u guys are operating is simply dragging us back to the dark days of Abacha which ought not to be.
Please be responsible and carry out your duties with out prejudice.
Thank u.

MzJackBaueress: He is an utter disgrace to his family. Woe betide the mother who gave birth to a cretin like him.
What a shame!!

clubone05: :

words on marble. ...

I don't get why anybody in their sane mind would support the trash spewed by the unintelligent security spoke person.

If someone attempted to bribe DSS ain't you suppose to do a sting operation and get prove..if you can't do this ...how will infiltrate the BH boys and get their sponsors..


the fact that she is partisan immediately means the entire DSS is bias. ..hence the constant arrest of APC officials. ..or is she telling us that no PDP member was trying to rig.

and to say that "what was lai mohammed doing outside after 12 midnight" is the height of stupidity. ..as a prominent tax payer are the DSS no suppose to escort him safely to his destination or trail him if they suspect him..

the president and his aides make dumb statements so I don't expect less from the nation's top security outfit.

If the mumu APC people have sense...they should moved to her fired..or their law makers should move to have the DSS funding stopped because it has become partisan or it has incompetent ppl at the helm of its affairs.

nagoma: You have no shame calling yourself sincere. Defending a comic Pink Panther Security Service. This Lady inspector Clouseau cannot be trusted to even secure a small village wedding. How can she and the other clowns is Aso Rock secure the country with this kind of illiterate and daft statements?

Sincere9gerian: I love the DSS spokesperson. Lai Muhammed met his match in the DSS spokesperson. Lai Muhammed started attacking the DSS for no just cause but I'm sure he has gotten more for himself and his party than he bargained for. Next time, Lair Muhammed should be able to tame his leaky mouth. He is not the only Nigerian that can speak good English or make INSINUATIONS.

The DSS spokesperson was only defending the good work the DSS has been doing for our country. Politicians should leave the DSS out of their dirty politics.

Meanwhile, after the APC lost the Anambra election, they called for the sack of Prof Jega and disbandment of INEC. That same Prof Jega and INEC has now declared APC the winner in Osun. I wonder what becomes of all the allegations APC made against INEC and Prof Jega after the Anambra election, allegations the party could not substantiate in any court of law till date?

It would appear that APC seeks to destroy every public institution in Nigeria because of insatiable selfish political ambitions of a few cabal. APC leaders are power drunk and everything about the party is disgusting.

nku5: Could you kindly tell me why those two misanthropes could not broadcast such, vile, volatile garbage when they were in PDP? Why does the PDP-APC cross-carpeting bring out the bigot?

Also clarify what you mean by "fani kayode doing the same thing against APC"? Ffk wrote hate articles against an ethnicity, abi does your party now represent a tribe?

clevadani: as in I'm very surprised when I see grown men who's able to operate a Mobile fone and navigate d web can come here and resort to insults and spewing hateful garbage online for no reason[b] instead of giving logical reasons for dia stance[/b]

nku5: I respect Uwazurike's intentions but he should leave igbos and APC matter.

APC in itself is running on a motor that is antagonistic ab initio to igbos. Strangely the party's bigwigs have expressed anti-igbo sentiments and boldly too. Fani Kayode the coke head as a consummate follow-follow guy joined APC and to feel among, quickly started writing anti-igbo articles. Let's not even go into clowns like Nyako.

clevadani: name just one anti igbo sentiment they've exhibited apart from d fashola deportation saga in which all our govs a culpable of. didn't t.a orji sack all non abians from d civil service and only returned dem? name one incident for me where apc expressed dis so called anti igbo sentiments

larride: Which state are you from in the South West?

lakhadimar: Are you for real? Do you want to tell me that Chris Ngige did not hold his election campaign in Igboland? Is Rochas Okorocha not the Chairman of APC' governors forum anymore?

Overtures were made to APGA to join the merger of ACN, CPC and ANPP in forming APC but APGA blatantly refused, it was only Rochas Okorocha that joined the alliance

larride: How did the Anambra election pans out? Wasn't APC labelled an anti-igbo, islamic, awolowo party? Whether the Igbos vote for APC or PDP is their own concern, they should just stop shouting about margnilization or disintegration anymore.

larride: That some Yoruba men/women in mockery corrupt Igbo to Ibo doesn't mean you should go that route with them.

The reaching out/ branching out i meant is not just about survival or business, I mean politically, You guys need to reach out to others in the nation and bid your time, making unnecessary noises or making yourself the victims won't solve nada, The Igbo people need to come gather, reach out to others tribe, Even the South South that GEJ comes from has a large presence of APC as party there, terming a party islamic or hause-yoruba and thus won't join your lot is going to hinder you guys in the long run. Don't get me wrong, i'm not campaigning for you guys to dump PDP or GEJ for APC but its been proven that its not always good to put all your egg in one basket. I think the Igbo youth should start reorienting themselves, the time to start telling themselve the truth is now. Politics is a game of numbers and emotions doesn't win you any post. The civil war has been fought and lost, both the Yoruba, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and other tribes definitely have differences but we can overcome that differences to build a stronger nation for us. If Igbo want the Presidency, then they should work for it, the same people you guys claim to hate you will be the one to vote for you when the time comes for an Igbo presidency, the time to start building those bridge is NOW.

larride: The Igbos really need to gather themselves together and build the bridge that is widen between the rest of nation and not stay isolated and claim that they are being ignored. Nothing will be given to them on a plattar, they need to work for it. Its our son, its our time noise won't do the trick rather political strategy will do, if they expect that GEJ will hand over to them when he finishes his second term if elected means they are being dissiluisoned about themselves. The time to stay building that bridge to reach out to all other tribe is NOW.

The civil war is gone and i'm sorry for all the lives lost, the time to rebuild is NOW!!!

Planning for Oblivion

The prevailing attraction to readymade power testifies to a growing political culture of self-sabotage, individual greed and the absence of foresight among many in the Igbo community. It’s a clear path to political oblivion.

The West presents a sharp contrast to this attitude. When a Yoruba man had presidential power thrust on him in 1999, Yoruba people, rightly suspicious of the machinations that brought about that state of affairs, contemptuously delivered a crushing defeat to the PDP in the West, coalesced around the Action for Democracy as a deliberate measure in asserting their regional autonomy and projecting a unique vision of their proud place in Nigeria. When they were duped and almost crippled in 2003, they took the hard knock with exemplary courage, returned to the drawing board and rebounded in a most spectacular fashion in 2011.

Thus, Senator Tinubu, the national leader of ACN, emerged as the most significant power broker in this nation since the era of military hegemony. But in order to lead this renaissance, Lagos State paid a particularly heavy political price. The leadership of the West remained resolute, understood the task at hand, and had a winning strategy and foresight. If the West continues in this manner, it will ultimately become the dominant force in Nigerian democratic power play for a generation to come.

barcanista: iiichidodo Wrote

...Simply put,we cannot be led by the nose to join a political rat race instigated by those who continue to bear ill-will,religiously and idealogically against the SE/SS thus are willing to exploit these people for their clannish interests,We cannot continue or be part of the run of the subjugutation of the Northerners via percieved rhetorics over the Southerners as can be aptly recognized in the master to slave relationship btw the Hausa fulanis and the yorlobars


Mr Man, It's like you are yet to get the message? It is all region for itself. You Igbos can keep hating APC for all "I don't care" but leave SS out of your hate. It is on record that SS is not a political hateful region. Today APC is a Major force in SStthern states of Rivers, Edo and Delta States. Even The President's Home state Bayelsa have APC structure on ground led by Timpere Sylva. So you should restrict your hate to your region.

TribalEAST: ^^^ what a childish political analysis, driven by emotions. Pls, go to the romance section.

hakanai: ^^^^^ Couldn't have being said better. That said they rejected the APC in there quest to suck up to GEJ and not the other way. They labelled it an anti-Igbo party and sidelined it. While the likes of Rochas remained and continue to advocate for Igbo presidency they simply labelled it from day one as anti-Igbo.They simply want APC to hand them the party because of there noise. Doesn't work that way.instead of castigating the party and making it look an enemy,you can be part of it and drive the change you desire. Its a party not some slaughter House. That said, the igbos continue to make the mistake of making the far north an enemy and believing is only befriending the minorities or xtians or splitting northerners along fault lines they can keep the north away from power and further allow there selfish goals progress.I tell you that everyday you make an enemy by your foolishness and gross mistakes.You could have a quest to make friends from all sides as it is about numbers and small things can be a key change for you someday.
The Yorubas have set the way. They do as they want but ensure they manage good diplomacy.The Igbos are trying to drag them into out right confrontations with the north. Which they have seen as not necessary.Instead of the Igbos recognizing that Yorubas are independent minded, they resolve to unleash all sort of venom and propaganda to make them the villains too. Igbos with there spread can be key in everything if only they can harness the contacts they have in there dealings and be more open minded and stop the pre/pro - Biafra antics.

Sibrah: They will soon show up and tell you about how the construction of the second Niger bridge is progressing, but you and i know it is a gimick to secure a second term support of Gej. And i can assure that there is no changing of their stance anytime soon.

Re: Why PDP May Win Again By Osita Okechukwu

The Chop-Sand-Syndrome proponents in the South East, will tell you that APC being championed by Yorubas and Hausas means that there is nothing in the kitty for Ndigbo; whether President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, is performing or not.
BY OSITA OKECHUKWU AUG 03, 2014

Permit me to reply to an article titled - Why Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may Win again - by my brother Edozie Okeiyi, Director of Media and Strategy, Great Nigeria Movement, in the globally acclaimed Sahareporters, one of the moral forces of Nigeria's fledgling democracy.

One would like to start by saying that Edozie falls into the category of Chop-Sand-Syndrome, found mostly among my Igbo brothers, whose trajectory is without scant regard that Ndigbo like Dr Ogbonia Onu, are prominent in their own right in All Progressives Congress (APC), deliberately define the APC as Yoruba and Hausa party. This is wrong.

The Chop-Sand-Syndrome proponents in the South East, will tell you that APC being championed by Yorubas and Hausas means that there is nothing in the kitty for Ndigbo; whether President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, is performing or not.

They will wittingly or unwittingly ignore the fact the shortest route to president of Igbo extraction is APC; for if President Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR, wins 2015 presidential election, the earliest an Igbo can be president is 2027. But if APC wins the earliest for the Igbos is 2023, this is because of the moral weight of zoning convention that is South-North primed.

Their basic canvass is that it is better for Jonathan to continue, whether he is clueless, runs unclean government or cannot get things done. When you tell them that Nigeria has never been as divided as today; and hence needs urgently to be fixed, whether a Christian, Muslim, Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba, since our dear president cannot fix electricity, modern rail lines, East-West road or the monster of insurgency.

Their answer is anchored on ancient prejudice arising from the Biafran civil war. They will tell you that Ndigbo have been, 'Chopping Sand' post civil war and if Jonathan's victory can make their brother contemporaries in the Nigerian project to 'Chop Sand' that will not be a bad idea.

If you make the mistake of reminding them that the basic tenet of Christianity and by extension Islam and other faiths is forgiveness and that our youths who make up more than 60% of our population were post civil war citizens and must be spared this stereo-type.

They will remind you of federal character quota system that denied them the competitive edge they could have enjoyed in a saner clime.

When you re-echo that there is no war fought in history without unintended consequences; which requires statesmanship and craftsmanship to resolve, they quip, you are an idealist.

When you refer them to the current National Conference to go and find out why the Conference inspite of the fact that it was packaged for predetermined hidden agenda failed to give the conveners the region they some much cherished, they will blame the North. They will not want to know that Ebonyi, Enugu, Lagos and others states voted against region.

Otherwise, how can Edozie deny the fact that Nigeria has reached the zenith of liberal democracy, where two political parties dominate in a multi-party system? Where neither PDP nor APC can score more than 53% of total votes cast in the 2015 presidential election, nor win 2/3 of the National and State Assemblies or 2/3 of the governors of the 36 states.

We are without being immodest, in a phase, where most importantly bleeding national issues can no more be treated as PDP family issues; ask Mr President, he will tell you that if you want to pass a bill today, pick $1 billion loan you must account, explain and negotiate.

The truism is that PDP and APC are in every ward, local government area and state of the federation today, unlike in the past where PDP was the only national platform. This is the worry of the leadership of the PDP, especially for a political party that boasted to rule uninterrupted for 60 years whether they perform or not. This belies the spin that APC is not strong, despite the fact that the party is not in charge of our security agencies and Oil Signature.

We of the APC would have been glad if the leadership of PDP are inclined to Edozie's less than accurate analysis that APC is not strong and confined to only some limited sections of the country. The fireworks going on in Rivers and Katsina states for example nor the gale of impeachment would not be there.

That APC is a Muslim party, falls flat in the face, if Edozie is not suffering from Chop-Sand-Syndrome. Granted that the Interim National Executive of the APC by coincident was led by elder statesman, Bisi Akande, a Muslim as chairman, in 18 Muslim and 17 Christian ratio; coincident in the sense that shortly before the registration of APC on 31st July 2013, the ACN, ANPP, CPC, and factions of APGA and DPP, the legacy parties were allotted offices and each in the mood of the moment submitted names. How come that the election of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, a Christian, in the prism of Edozie and his Chop-Sand-Syndrome cohorts did not convert the APC to a Christian party?

For the avoidance of doubt, one will do everything to shy away from discussing persons, however permit me to briefly submit that neither Chiefs Tom Ikimi nor Femi Fani Kayode's diatribe were premised on public nor national interest . Fani Kayode unlike Ikimi was an interloper in the APC and therefore one will not discuss him, as our great party will never file a Muslim-Muslim or Christian-Christian ticket in a divided Nigeria.

For Ikimi he was the lead co-chairman of the Joint Merger Committee of the legacy parties and worked tirelessly to construct the merger. He gave all, but his discontent in my estimation arose in the last few days of the merger committee meeting. As we were wounding up with our recommendations to the legacy parties, senator Ahmed Yerima raised a motion on the floor to the effect that Chief Tom Ikimi be nominated as the chairman Interim National Executive Committee, Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau as secretary, Alhaji Garba Gadi as deputy chairman, all representing the major legacy parties, ACN, ANPP and CPC respectively.The motion was adopted and my humble self moved a counter motion, basing my motion on the doctrine of trite law which unambiguously defines the relationship between the agent and the principal.

To cut the story short, Ikimi's ambition to head the Interim National Executive failed, as each party was allowed to nominate their own slot. Methinks this is his grouse with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, not for any public interest.

hakanai: ^^^^^ Couldn't have being said better. That said they rejected the APC in there quest to suck up to GEJ and not the other way. They labelled it an anti-Igbo party and sidelined it. While the likes of Rochas remained and continue to advocate for Igbo presidency they simply labelled it from day one as anti-Igbo.They simply want APC to hand them the party because of there noise. Doesn't work that way.instead of castigating the party and making it look an enemy,you can be part of it and drive the change you desire. Its a party not some slaughter House. That said, the igbos continue to make the mistake of making the far north an enemy and believing is only befriending the minorities or xtians or splitting northerners along fault lines they can keep the north away from power and further allow there selfish goals progress.I tell you that everyday you make an enemy by your foolishness and gross mistakes.You could have a quest to make friends from all sides as it is about numbers and small things can be a key change for you someday.
The Yorubas have set the way. They do as they want but ensure they manage good diplomacy.The Igbos are trying to drag them into out right confrontations with the north. Which they have seen as not necessary.Instead of the Igbos recognizing that Yorubas are independent minded, they resolve to unleash all sort of venom and propaganda to make them the villains too. Igbos with there spread can be key in everything if only they can harness the contacts they have in there dealings and be more open minded and stop the pre/pro - Biafra antics.

skyfall: I understand your frustration. But you can see that most Nigerians actually deserve the kind of criminal "leaders" we have. I believe that more suffering would eventually reset their brains (the ones still alive).

Akpaife: Dat policeman dnt hav name let him stop complain n face his work
Dats why Govt dnt pay u becos u leave ur work n start speaking with voice of america hausa service face ur work mr man go 2 sambisa forest n face harm boys
Govt will only pay u when u bring back our gals

django1: chai..these south easterners and wahala.

Please locking sick people up in a house until they die is not medicine my friend!