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skyfall: This is what we scream about everyday. As long as PDP is in power, corruption will be the pastime of Nigerian govt officials. What makes this govt very bad is that it pretends and lies that it's fighting corruption, but in the real sense it is busy nurturing its seeds. People who feared to steal before are now rest assured that you can steal and get away with it. At worst, you get fined a tiny % of what you've stolen.

Thieves now even bring the fines to court in their Babariga so they can pay the paltry amount on the spot and be done with the "nuisance" the whole charade represents to them. Do we not see how fuel subsidy scam suspects are always 'swaggering' and laughing wildly in Court as if it is Nigeria on trial and not them.

lekzwyc: GEJ must be dreaming ...ooni whose relevance in the state has bn shattered. My hand on my cheek watchn.

Reminds of the saying "a drowning man will clutch at a straw".

Billyonaire: Why Cant America mind their businesses ? They have too many wars and terrorism to fight in their country. Inventing HIV and producing ARD is one of the biggest frauds. Starting a war and allocating 100s of billions on defense budget is heavenly corruption. Can they give us a break ?

Mad fraudster, you are in a global age. Deal with that notion instead of spreading silly conspiracy theories everywhere and attacking messengers. Have they lied about events under GEJ or is it that you cannot handle the truth? Loser.

Who is surprised by this? Who, aside the clannish Nigerian defenders of GEJ, does not appreciate that this is one of the most corrupt President Nigeria has ever had? Beyond Nigeria, not many think GEJ is even an average President. He is generally regarded as woeful, very corrupt, highly mediocre, duplicitous and unfit.

[quote author=Neo-XVI]Two thumbs up bro. No mind all the cows! Everyone is busy protecting their regional looters. Tomorrow they will claim to want a better Nigeria. Everyone else is evil except those from their regions. So long as their so-called leaders are the ones looting, spendid! [/quote]You should level that claim appropriately instead of dancing around the truth. The Yorubas do not do that. We were the biggest critics of OBJ, Agagu, Oyinlola, Gbenga Daniel, Oni, Alao Akala and every other 'omo ale' from the region. Even Tinubu and Fashola have many Yoruba critics.

The Yorubas do not worship Tinubu they just pragmatically know and appreciate what Tinubu is in a Nigeria full of political demons and murderers. He is the roguish 'gateman' you appreciate the use of in so far as he is the one who is awake at night to keep you safe from all the devils outside the gate while you snore. But for Tinubu, SW would still be under OBJ's gangsters and illiterate feudalists like Adedibu.

Even on this forum, we know the specific characters who never face their business and insist on obsessing about Tinubu, Fashola et al. Say the damn truth and shame the devil for once instead of hiding behind blanket statements that are unfair to some. OP, for example, is from Enugu. He has confessed to knowing nothing about Lagos. Tell me his justification for discussing Tinubu and Fashola non-stop. What do those two have to do with him and the quality of life he enjoys in his home State? If politically sophisticated and mature, should insinsere9gerian and others not worry about their President, the Governor of their states and the lawmakers representing the interest of their communities at the centre?

Tell me how many prominent Yoruba posters do that here. I.e focus on discussing others here all day while ignoring their own affairs and leadership.

In the bad days under OBJ, how many Yorubas did you see who remained obsessed with discussing non-SW leaders while we ignored the vary terrible one's plaguing us locally like Oni, Agagu, Fayose, OGD, Alao Akala et al? No one needs to make noise about bad Yoruba leaders, if they are genuinely bad, because we do it loudest ourselves till they are gone. So, Mr.Man , put your blanket talk in perspective and speak the truth instead of delivering entirely subjective interpretation of what happens here on this forum. I may be defending Tinubu here but it is not because I hold him to be a saint. It is because I know the agenda of those not from the SW like the OP, and who Tinubus actions cannot affect, yet remain the biggest and most insincere critic of a man, on the balance of things, seen as a force for good in his region.

Really amusing that it is those not from the SW , and have nothing administratively in common with Tinubu, foaming at the mouth about him while ignoring the conglomerate of corruption GEJ is running with Anenih, Omokri, Okupe, Maku, Allison-Madueke, Otedola, David Mark, Tompolo, General Boyloaf, Seriake Dickson, OPC, Tukur, Adoke Bello et al. Thank god the world beyond Nigeria is not fooled or afflicted by the bigoted myopia of a people always seeing the speck in the eyes of others only to miss the boulder in their own like the insincere and slimy OP.

Below, the USA has delivered the latest damning indictment of the rancid corruption under his messiah GEJ, the democratically elected President of Nigeria, while him and others remains here fermenting mischief about Tinubu who left government office 6 years ago.


http://www.punchng.com/news/corruption-massive-under-jonathan-us/

lakhadimar: what did he steal from you? Just mention one or forever STFU

Thank you. Help me ask them how TInubu's 'theft' affects them to include OP who confessed to living in Enugu and knowing nothing about the SW. Tinubu, more than anyone else recently, has changed Nigerian politics for the better via empowering the most meritoriously competent, as is done elsewhere, to replace what obtained. Those in his region appreciate him for that yet it is Nairalanders from outside the SW who are always disrespectfully positioning Tinubu as enemy numero uno in a show of how some hypocrites have no respect for the leaders of others who are very decent in comparison to some found in their backyards. Let us inspect this.

Odili stole every kobo and helped create militancy that was to be a scourge which would go on to haunt Nigeria via showing every wannabe violent thug/kidnapper and killer that "might is right" in Nigeria.

PDP Politicians, as we speak, are sponsoring terrorism that is destroying Nigerian and killing her citizens like Fowls. Abeg who is talking about that daily here?

Senator Ndume is walking around freely on bail perhaps negotiating more influx of bombs and guns from Iran for Boko Haram. Who remembers him amidst the shout of "Tinubu" that rents the air here everyday?

Anenih stole all the money and Nigerians are dying daily due to abysmally bad roads. He is back as NPA boss for round 2 or is it round 6. Glad to see the hypocrites do not seem to be worried about Anenih's antics and what his latest reincarnation portends for Nigeria.

Abdusalami has done nothing but eat and eat in and out of office. A typical example of the sort of politician Nigeria produce as average i.e those totally bereft of ideas but adept at looting. Did hi not win a DISCO (distribution company) concession recently as the benefit of GEJ's largesse for 'awon boyz'?

Igbinedion any one?

What of Danjuma who boasts he made more money than he knows how to spend courtesy of oil bloc concession and other 'insider dealings'? We won't even go into the military shenanigans of the Danjumas, IBB, OBJ et al who have malevolently active against Nigeria for many decades only to now be relegated behind Tinubu because of nothing other than unbridled bigotry.

Atiku nko? His Mikano generator slavery of Nigeria aside, how much has he looted? Has he done any good anywhere to include even his own backyard?

What of Andy Ubah? Declared bankrupt in the USA and now a billionaire in Nigeria, in record time, and the same character handing out free fuel when he campaigned to be Governor under OBJ?

IBB the king of corruption Nko?

Ibori the master thief who treasonously held Nigeria to ransom with Turai while Yar Adua was comatose so they could use a forged signature of Yar Adua to loot Nigeria in those dark days?

Kalu Nko?

Allison-Madueke?

What of OBJ who is certainly one of the most corrupt and wicked leader Nigeria has had the misfortune to be cursed with? Three times he has supported those he knows will take Nigeria backward in the form of Shagari, Yar Adua and GEJ. This man has blood on his hand as Tinubu never can. He has stolen probably double what any Nigerian leader did in power. He decimated a whole region wickedly via placing misruling thugs and acrimonious looters everywhere. Yet we saw him become the 'pal' of the bigots shouting against Tinubu here in the days OB supported GEJ.

I could go on but sensible folks get my drift. In a Nation where virtually all leaders are crooks, one must wonder why certain people here ignore the thieves whose action at federal/national and State level affects them directly only to focus on Tinubu who has never led at the centre or controlled any State most of his rabid haters come from.

What we see here daily is vivid illustration of why Nigeria is not making progress i.e a people, especially their youths, who cannot think critically, ascribe blame correctly or even single out the most deleterious leaders in a society as affects them directly. Nigerians have become a people not interested in holding their own leaders accoutable in preference for satisfying the bigotry that leads them to shout against the 'rascals' of others while they ignore the demons under their noses who have made life hell for them.

Many just choose a leader to hate based on sectional/ethic bias and not according to which leader has directly impacted their lives negatively and ruined Nigeria the most. This is why personally, my main criticism are for the likes of OBJ, Yar Adua, GEJ and SW PDP Governors. Their misrule affects me directly. I have no business or inclination obsessing about Elechi, Orji, Oni, Lamido, Aliyu, Wammako et al to be shouting they are the worst while I myopically ignore the leaders whose actions affect me the most.

I would still like to know how most here, unless they are mind readers, can claim Tinubu has looted more than Ibori, Odili, Anenih, IBB, Abdulsalami, Danjuma, Kalu, Andy Ubah, GEJ et al. Let us not forget that even aside the looting, there is no way any sane person can say Tinubu has done more harm to Nigeria or even his region of origin than the names above. Put in that perspective where reality vindicates Tinubu as a far better devil than most of his peers, it is obvious what the rabid hatred of Tinubu, consistently from the same Nairalanders from specific areas of Nigeria, is about.

GEJ, for example is reinventing his region in a militant toga. Tinubu is doing same with technocrats and the meritorious best available. Will some sad people from GEJ's region show the political sophistication and clarity of vision to go and worry about GEJ's antic that affects them directly? No. They would rather be shouting "Tinubu" and reacting like animals to the basic 'coding' moving them malevolently instead of sophisticatedly taking their own direct leaders to account and ignoring others who do not administrate any aspect of their lives.

bayooooooo: Ultimately those who continue to peddle this type of rumors, lies and derogatory name calling are either ignorant, mischievous or both. How the import is lost on them that this is an open admission of failure on GEJ's part is unbelievable. would Tinubu charge himself to court? Would he prosecute himself? If GEJ and indeed the entire machinery of the PDP could not prosecute the man they love to hate, it's just plain common sense there is no shred of evidence to substantiate all these unending baseless accusations.

If you have evidence, prosecute or shut up as Tinubu declared below:

What do these sort of thread reveal if not that Nigeria is in serious trouble? Nigeria has a functional and expensively maintained Navy yet GEJ irrationally, as the only President to do so, gives maritime protection contract to former militant warlord. What is behind this insane move if not the desire to corruptly enrich a militant class he thinks will be useful to him when they have the two things Nigerians always bow before i.e might and money?

Now, leaders of a pseudo-militia SW group (OPC) are squabbling over pipeline protection contracts handed down from Aso Rock. Where is this done in the world? This woeful, divisive and callously destructive man is doing things daily that shows he does not care at all if Nigeria is destroyed to accommodate his parochial agenda.

Those serious events of today are the sort of things politically mature and responsible citizens should be discussing, for the sake of Nigeria's progress, yet some are here (OP) baiting those who are a disgrace in comparison to the youths being produced elsewhere.

Nairalanders, especially the non-SW faction with an Axe to grind against Yoruba folk, keep discussing Tinubu while GEJ,with his army of looters, continues to inaugurate actions that means, sooner or later, you will all directly be affected by his evil machinations. Hacks like this disgraceful OP try to draw attention away from serious failings of GEJ, using Tinubu's name as bait in a nation where they know they can rely on divided citizens reacting automatically and unthinkingly when thrown an ethnic, religious or sectional 'Banana'.

http://www.punchng.com/editorial/the-malabu-oil-scandal/



The Malabu oil scandal

JUNE 8, 2012 BY PUNCH EDITORIAL BOARD


THERE has been no let up in the harvest of corruption scandals dogging the Goodluck Jonathan Presidency. The latest, discomfortingly, leads right to the doorstep of the Presidency whose authorisation of payment in a controversial oil block deal has once more splattered the nation’s image with mud. Along with the pending oil subsidy fraud and the multi-billion naira pension scam, the $1.1billion Malabu Oil and Gas scandal should not be swept under the carpet.

Details of the deal are still murky and will require the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to swing into action immediately to unravel the opaque transaction. News of the deal was broken a few weeks ago by online news sites that revealed how two oil majors – Shell and Eni – agreed to pay $1.09 billion for a once fiercely contested oil block – OPL 245 – only for the Federal Government to promptly re-route the money to Malabu Oil and Gas, a company said to have been promoted by a former Petroleum Minister. Global Witness, an American anti-corruption non-governmental organisation, said the over $1 billion paid by the Nigerian subsidiaries of Shell and Eni to the government found its way, first, into Malabu’s vaults, with, according to Premium Times, an online site, “a huge chunk of it ending (up) in the bank accounts of cronies and associates of government officials.”

Nigerians deserve more detailed explanations on why the Federal Government allegedly authorised the release of the funds and how this served the nation’s interest. Is it true, as alleged by Global Witness, that Jonathan instructed the Minister of State for Finance, Yerima Ngama, and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Muhammed Adoke, to pay the money to Malabu?

An attempt by Adoke to explain away the scandal has left some posers unanswered. If, as he claimed in public notices in some newspapers, the government only acted as an honest broker, a “mere facilitator of an amicable settlement between two disputing parties over a long-standing dispute”, why was the entire transaction shrouded in mystery? But for the NGO and online blogs, neither the parliamentary committees charged with the oversight of the oil and gas industry nor the public would have known about it. The secrecy is suspicious. The AGF also did not explain if the Finance Minster, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was privy to the transaction and why it was the junior minister who was asked to release the funds to Malabu and not her. And was the money sent, as demanded by law, first, to the Federation Account?

Jonathan, who comes across as a President who does not receive sound advice, should have trod cautiously instead of plunging into the Malabu saga which his predecessor, Umaru Yar’Adua, adroitly side-stepped. A key promoter of Malabu was reportedly indicted on money laundering charges in France in 2007 and fined, a finding that was confirmed on appeal in 2009. He has also been named in the long-running Halliburton bribe saga as a possible beneficiary of sleaze money. OPL 245 was awarded to Malabu in 1998 but was revoked by the Federal Government in 2001 after faulting the award process before re-allocating it to Shell in 2002. Then followed a series of litigation in Nigerian, European and American courts involving Malabu, its partners and the Federal Government, some of which are still ongoing. A transaction as murky as this should have informed the President to be very circumspect before plunging into the fray.

Nigeria should not continue to be a byword for corruption, especially in the oil and gas sector, the nation’s cash cow. Already, the global community has given up on the possibility of transparency in the industry after interminable delays in passing the Petroleum Industry Bill that, in its original form, had promised to open up a sector notorious for opaqueness and graft. The watered-down version now favoured by the government only promises more of the same secrecy and graft in the industry.

Jonathan must do more to clear the Presidency of any wrongdoing in this saga. If he has, as usual, been fed the wrong advice by his officials, he has only himself to blame for the quality of his appointees. He should immediately order an investigation into the allegation that part of the fund has gone, not to genuine third party claimants, but to persons and firms close to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.

[size=14pt]The President should realise that, under his watch, corruption has reached an unprecedented height and, as such, he should drop his leisurely approach to transparency in public office. When officials siphon N2 trillion in one year for a dubious fuel subsidy scheme, civil servants steal billions in pension funds, external reserves remain low at a time of high oil export earnings and allegedly corrupt ex-officials strut in public, any government worth its salt knows it is time to rev up the anti-corruption war.[/size]

The National Assembly should get to the root of this transaction and quickly pass the PIB in its original form. It should also not relent until it unravels all the facts of Malabugate.

Sincere 9gerian: @Gbawe..,why are you so furious over this simple matter? Even your futile attempt to lean on tribal sentiments is futile is disappointing. As for the insults and curses, I thought you'v learnt those cannot help your course on this forum? What is happening to you @Gbawe? You seem to be on a free fall

Shut up you silly twerp. Why have you never thought it expedient to ask who is more corrupt between Anenih and GEJ or GEJ and Ibori? You jokers are annoying because of the latent bigotry that lurks under every thing you do. Me and you know what you are trying to achieve with this thread because you are a slime ball.

Ask yourself if it sounds sensible, given the ultra corrupt nation you are from, for you to try and position Tinubu for vilification all the time. Doing such just reveals your parochial agenda. Nigeria boast some of the most corrupt leaders in the world. Any non-Nigerian reading the brainwashed submissions of you liars would think corruption begins and ends with Tinubu. You are not even ashamed leading these pack of herded Sheep to dance to your tune.

Sample the opinion of the intelligentsia out there, i.e those really intelligent, knowledgeable and neutral whether they are Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa, and they will tell you GEJ is easily one of the most corrupt leaders Nigeria has known. His own brand of corruption is destructive also because nothing gets back to the people in return. You can continue to be a 'local-champion' bamboozling those you assume have the limited intelligence predisposing them to rising up rabidly to your baiting but most informed and knowledgeable analyst are united in calling GEJ one of the most corrupt President Nigeria has seen. When have you seen a UK Prime Minister ask a Nigerian President to account for trillions received in oil revenue?

World exasperation is mounting against GEJ so remain here starting topic patronising for those you know cannot take you to task but are only capable of reacting to your baiting like guests on the Jerry Springer show. The joke, in the end , is on you. You should tell us where all the billions of dollars disappeared to, from the ECA, while GEJ was trying to buy 'acceptability' when Turai was dealing with him. You should tell us why your messiah gave fuel importation licence to those with no business operating in the sector. You should tell us what happened to the billions approved by the FEC, under GEJ, for "electrification projects" before the 2011 election. Keep fooling and amusing yourself because you know you have a 'Jerry Springer' audience. In the real world. It is crystal clear what GEJ is to those with an IQ above 60. The last chapter of the article below speaks directly to you.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/02/nigeria-jonathan-boko-haram

Nigerian president is 'squeezing the life out of our country'
Goodluck Jonathan is more interested in retaining power and accumulating wealth than truly tackling terror and corruption

Salisu Suleiman for Nigerians Talk, part of the Guardian Africa Network
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 April 2013 14.47 BST
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There is a joke about a morgue attendant who was so used to seeing dead bodies that one day, when a supposedly dead body started twitching, his response was, "this is the morgue, not the emergency room". He promptly smothered the twitching body until it was well and truly dead. "That's more like it", he said, as he sat down to guard the cabinet full of dead bodies and to wait for new arrivals.

In many ways, the way Goodluck Jonathan has handled the affairs of Nigeria since becoming president can be likened to that of the morgue attendant. And worse still, Nigeria under his administration has grown to become a vast, sprawling mortuary where deaths and dead bodies do not seem to matter at all. In the aftermath of Jonathan's visit to Maiduguri, the trouble northern city under attack by Boko Haram, in security operatives reportedly dumped about 70 bodies at the morgue, up from the daily average of 10 or 20.

Like the morgue attendant in the story, when about two years ago, the Borno state Elders Forum met the president and asked him to order the withdrawal of troops from Maiduguri to enable them take a different approach against the jihadist group, Jonathan flatly refused. In the two years since, how many more lives have been needlessly lost in the fighting? His attitude seems to be, "I'd rather preside over dead bodies than save lives".

Accepted, Jonathan took over a country that was severely distressed. But what is the job of the president? For someone who has spent the last 14 years in power at the state and federal levels, the excuse that he is still studying the situation is one of the lamest apologies in political history. Either deliberately or inadvertently, like the morgue attendant, Jonathan's actions and inactions all seem geared towards killing Nigeria off once and for all.

Why was it that when he was eventually shamed into visiting northern Borno and Yobe states by opposition governors, his response to calls for an amnesty for Boko Haram was, "We can't grant amnesty to ghosts". Within a week of his mindless retort, another 25 Nigerians had been blown to smithereens in Kano. Since he can't grant amnesty to ghosts, perhaps, he can grant amnesty to dead bodies?

Incidentally, more and more Nigerians are beginning to suspect that the deteriorating security situation may be more than the handiwork of Boko Haram. More than ever, there are growing fears that some, if not many of the attacks attributed to Boko Haram may be the work of other "ghosts" beyond the militants, whose ultimate objective may be to divide Nigerians further along ethnic and religious lines for political advantage. The very nature and timing of some of the attacks on churches and some ethnic groups lend credence to that supposition.

Is this the same Jonathan who told us on his inauguration that, "Today, our unity is firm, and our purpose is strong, our determination unshakable. Together, we will unite our nation and improve the living standards of all our peoples whether in the north or in the south; in the east or in the west. Our decade of development has begun. The march is on. The day of transformation begins today. We will not allow anyone exploit differences in creed or tongue, to set us one against another?"

Perhaps, Nigerians should not be surprised at what Jonathan has become. From the supposedly timid state governor and vice president, we now have one of the most calculating and thick-skinned leaders, totally deaf to criticism. The only thing on his mind seems to be to retain power beyond 2015 while allegedly helping friends and cronies accumulate wealth. After all, when he was asked about politicians declaring their assets in public, he said: "The issue of public asset declaration is a matter of personal principle. That is the way I see it, and I don't give a damn about it, even if you criticise me from heaven."

Which is why the condemnations of the pardon he granted to Diepreye Alamiesegha, a former state governor who stole millions of dollars and jumped bail in the UK after disguising himself in as a woman, are likely to fall on deaf ears. It is why, even with a daily income of $224 million, Nigerians are among the poorest people on earth. It's why we have 68 million people unemployed; why Nigeria is the most corrupt nation in the world and why studies show that a child would be off being born in Somalia, Mali, Chad, South Sudan and other war-ravaged countries than in Nigeria.

Jonathan's well-paid and ill-mannered army of internet and media warriors may sing his praises to high heavens and work hard to distort any discourse about the woeful failures of their paymaster, but they cannot hide the fact that, under Jonathan, Nigeria has become a vast mortuary where death and tragedy are routine. And like the morgue attendant, the president seems intent on smothering all remaining signs of life.

Tinubu again with the usual haters showing their homo-er.oti. c obsession with a man who has had no public office since 2007 i.e six years ago? I know you clowns have no capacity to figth the indoctrination that has destroyed your thinking and made you fond of fraudulent revisionism but you losers should tell us why GEJ and Allison-Madueke were h handing out marketers licence to roadside butchers and mechanics who then went on to scam Nigeria of trillions in the biggest abuse of the fuel subsidy provisions under any Nigerian President to date. Shameless tribalistic idiots and bigots forever seeking the trouble pf other ethnic group. Why does the OP not ask who is more corrupt between Kalu or GEJ or between Ibb (Gulf oil 12 BILLION DOLLARS windfall) and GEJ? Why not wonder who is more corrupt between Danjuma and GEJ?

Tinubu again with the usual haters showing their homo-erotic obsession with a man who has had no public office since 2007 i.e six years ago? I know you clowns have no capacity to figth the indoctrination that has destroyed your thinking and made you fond of fraudulent revisionism but you losers should tell us why GEJ and Allison-Madueke were h handing out marketers licence to roadside butchers and mechanics who then went on to scam Nigeria of trillions in the biggest abuse of the fuel subsidy provisions under any Nigerian President to date. Shameless tribalistic idiots and bigots forever seeking the trouble pf other ethnic group. Why does the OP not ask who is more corrupt between Kalu or GEJ or between Ibb (Gulf oil 12 BILLION DOLLARS windfall) and GEJ? Why not wonder who is more corrupt between Danjuma and GEJ?

Afam4evaIsASlut: Look at the bolded....

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Rather than attend night school for basic literacy, he is here disturbing well-educated folks with his asinine comments.

Sadly, when the report of the committee is ready, Labaran Maku will stand before the President and shout "so what if Obama resolved the matter in a few days. We don't care about that in Nigeria here and we have nothing to learn from others" (Orasanye/Otti/Ribadu part 15)

ayox2003: First off, Guardian newspaper doesn't, in the smallest way, lean towards the opposition. Infact when every other newspaper had the caption of the presidential pardon given to Alams, guess what Guardian wrote, "Gowon endorses Alams pardon". So quit all the propaganda stuffs. Abati still has a large influence on the newspaper and the Ibrus (Owners) are friends of the administration.

Second, as we all know that power corrupts. GEJ, the gentle VP, who was held up by OBJ, has suddenly become the Napoleon in Animal Farm. First it was OBJ, now its Amaechi. Then it was "Just give me one term, I will spend just 4years". Immediately he stepped in, he sought to change his tenure to 7years. Power has corrupted our dear president.

Third, PDP is at its weakest link. Their circle of influence is very small. OBJ isn't concerned about how it goes down in PDP. Anenih can't even win in his own ward, Tukur is just a name on paper with no strong effect. Amaechi, the most popular PDP governor, is facing a tough challenge in the party. There's no candidate that can trump Buhari. For the interest of democracy, now is the time for the opposition to get their acts together and do what's right. Let's just break this PDP jinx and have a new lease of governance for the betterment of Nigeria.



Frawzey

Absolutely agree with all you have said especially the conclusion. What should harmonise our opinions and views more than the Boston bombing America has dealt with and , more or less, gained closure over quickly? Contrast with the aberration called Nigeria where terrorist can kill Nigerians daily with impunity fully secure in the knowledge that a compromised President can never move against those who sponsor them and keep guns and bombs flowing freely.

justsayemma: If only he can use the kind of desperation he is usin to fight percieved political opponent,to fight insecurity,corruption and improvin †ђξ lives of Nigerians,I would have bin pleased wit him.

Abi.

Gamji007: On the contrary,he is "entirely" clueless and seems to be infecting everyone around him with such cluelessness! These desperate methods employed by GEJ and his leutenants shows how bereft of ideas they are. Publicly drawing a battle line with people you claim to be your friends. They keep creating enemies for themselves and are gradually creating a faction in the party.

Well, I wish PDP goodluck as they begin to crumble.

Correct in every sense. It is always Nigeria that suffers as well when these so-called internal ruling Party squabbles play out completely. GEJ is indeed "clueless" in his desperate pursuit of power. Only blind sycophants will ascribe any intelligence whatsoever to what GEJ is doing that, with the big picture in mind, is a disgrace to Nigeria with how, in this day and age, shows us as a rare example of a Nation where leaders, with impunity, insist on being backward with the support of the citizens they regress.

When you have a nation such as ours where the Presidency , in the wrong hand, is an over-empowered and virtually unchecked destructive office then what is the "intelligence" behind a crude opportunist using his position to persecute and bully others to get his way? Where in the world, for example, is a 30 year old man praised for bullying a nine-year old kid?

I think in saner climes, what GEJ is doing will be interpreted as the heights of myopia, lack of vision, lack of basic intelligence and the sort of low IQ that opportunists, desperados and undeserving mediocrities come with and display shamelessly. In Nigeria where many suffer from 'Stockholm syndrome' we will see GEJ's crude "might is right" bullying interpreted as intelligence.

The Police and others take a cue from 'oga at the top'. So when those praising GEJ are ordered by soldiers or policemen to jump up and down in public, as punishment, they should praise those Soldiers and Policemen as "intelligent" also. Ours is a crazy nation where people, from their utterances, don't even appear to recognize their own 'craze'.

This Kelvin guy is obviously intelligent. He should go formal and give his gang a catchy name and an agitation or cause. Amnesty, riches, government contract and 'untouchable' status beckons in a year.

confusion247: One is facing reality and the other is thinking about second term.

Another astute observation.

eGuerrilla: ^^^
The ruling party's own axis of evil, eh?

Indeed. At least that is how Tukur, Maku, Okupe, Omokri and other professional azzlickers would put it.

dridowu: " We are on top of the situation and all hands must be on desks, and we are using this medium to condole with the family affected"

Indeed. "Let us pray for the terrorists to repent and turn a new leaf". "Boko Haram has infiltrated all levels of my government". Joke Country led by the poorest example of a leader.

reindeer: One is a president, the other should be an inmate in a hospital for the mentally challenged.
One leads a country, the other runs a country for the protection of his looter friends
One obviously gives a 'damn' the other clearly doesnt!

Excellent summation. I can only add that one leader Presides over sensible, mature and sophisticated folks always demanding action via recognition of their own power as the employer of the President. Another lords it over people who act like inmates of an asylum for the clinically insane and beg to be abused everyday by the "don't give a damn" opportunist they even worship and defend instead of sacking for serial and continuous gross failure.

I said it when the Boston bombing began that we will see the difference between a real leader who will not tolerate the brutal murder of even one of those he swore to protect and a callous "don't give a damn" opportunist happy to see his defenceless citizens slaughtered, in large numbers, like Chickens non-stop while he chases 'loot' and plays politics with many, many human lives.

We dey laff. Desperation of mediocrities and the undeserving placed far above their station. Good development for Nigeria in my opinion as this will surely finish off the PDP. I.e a myopically crude President thinking he can grossly abuse his powers and office via using important Nigerian institution to fight, bully and alienate everyone simply to retain a job he stinks at and has no natural ability to retain on merit.

Mr.President, test your popularity democratically or inevitably fall victim to what has been the fate of many power-drunk African 'sit-tight-by-all-means' leaders wh could not retain office as is most desirable i.e through diligence, performance and the support/endorsement of all stakeholders. The age in which you are doing this is totally the wrong one to get away with these sort of antics your 'throwback' mentors disgraced Nigeria with. Look around you in Africa to note you will fail and things may end horribly for you.

http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=119412:2015-presidency-pdp-may-move-against-markedgovernors-&catid=73:policy-a-politics&Itemid=607

2015: Presidency, PDP May Move Against ‘Marked’Governors

SATURDAY, 20 APRIL 2013 00:00 FROM AZIMAZI MOMOH JIMOH, ABUJA AND SAMSON EZEA, LAGOS FEATURES - POLICY & POLITICS
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AS the battle for 2015 Presidency becomes more intriguing within the forces in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Presidency and the national leadership of the party, which include the leadership of the Board of Trustees (BoT), have concluded plans to deal with the party governors opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term.

A source in the party who was privy to a meeting held in Abuja early last week, told The Guardian yesterday that it was agreed at the meeting that the best bet for the President Goodluck Jonathan to secure his second term ticket and subsequently win the 2015 presidential election is to start in time to move against such governors.

According to the source, it was agreed at the meeting that no stone should be left unturned in the plot which would involve anti-graft agencies and the judiciary.

It was disclosed that despite what looked like fence-mending in the party in the last few weeks, the security report and findings from the recent peace tours by (BoT) leadership showed that the opposing governors, mostly from the North, are already hobnobbing with the merging opposition party All Progressives Congress (APC) by proxy.

[b]“What happened in Rivers State with the recent court’s sack of the state executive of the party loyal to Governor Chibuike Amaechi and their replacement with a group loyal to the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, was hatched by the Presidency and the national leadership of party.

“It might soon be extended to other “marked” governors such as the Niger State Governor, Muazu Babangida Aliyu; his Sokoto counterpart, Aliyu Wamakko; Kebbi State Governor, Alhaji Saidu Dakingari; Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwakwanso.

“Those still on the watch list of the Presidency and the party leadership to ascertain where their loyalty lies include Liyel Imoke of Cross River State, Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, Sulivan Chime of Enugu State, Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State, Hassan Dankwambo of Gombe State.

“Those whose loyalty appeared to have been confirmed at least for now in the North are Gabriel Suswan of Benue State, Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State and his Bauchi State counterpart Isah Yuguda, both of whom are already jostling for the vice president slot in 2015. Others in the South are Theodore Orji of Abia State, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa Governor Seriake Dickson.[/b]

“ As a sign of what lies ahead for opposing governors, the man who was instrumental in the originating summon which the court relied upon to sack the party executive in Rivers state loyal to Ameachi is the Edo State chairman of the party, Mr. Dan Orbi, who is also Chief Tony Anenih’s points man. It was Orbih, who, in his affidavit, said that the results paraded by the sacked state exco chairman, Godspower Akeh, did not emanate from the congress that he had conducted in the state more than a year ago.”

The source further disclosed that the dilly-dallying of the Presidency on the crisis rocking the party in Adamawa State between groups loyal to the party national chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and Governor Murtala Nyako with Tukur gaining the upper is a clear sign that Nyako may have lost out.

On the fate of Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido and his alleged presidential ambition, the source said the Presidency is still watching him although his son has a pending case of money-laundering with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Speaking on the development, a member of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party told The Guardian yesterday that it appeared Tukur has gained upper hand against the governors in the fight with the backing of the Presidency.

On the plans to deal with the opposing governors, the NWC member said it was never discussed in their meetings, but expressed surprise with the sack of the Rivers State exco of the party loyal to Amaechi and the subsequent swearing-in of the faction loyal to Wike.

“We never envisaged it, but there is nothing we can do about it because we are ordinary members. Certain decisions on the party are taken at the Presidency and might not be communicated. It appeared the development was a warning to other opposing governors ahead of the party NEC meeting to be cautious of their opposition to the Presidency and national leadership of the party ahead 2015,” the member stressed.

A member of the BoT who was on the entourage that visited Amaechi before the sack of the state exco of the party expressed worry that the development might mar the effort already made in resolving the crisis rocking the party.

An aide to one of the “marked” governors in the North told The Guardian that they are aware of the plot to use some people from the state, including senators to level false allegations of corruption against his boss and subsequently unleash anti-graft agencies on some state government officials to distract the governor.

“We are not surprised but they will definitely fail in the plot because my boss has nothing to hide and has always been on the part of the truth and good governance,” the aide said.

Lilimax: What is the way forward

Is it not obvious? Look at the individual and support those who deserve to be supported on merit as is done everywhere in the world to good effect. Be it Ribadu, Buhari, Fashola, Ngige, Oshiomhole, Okorocha, Utomi or Fayemi. Look beyond sectional interest and bias. Even our much smaller and far less well-endowed fellow Africans are showing the sophistication and maturity to do this with relative ease and we are still here touting nebulous excuses that makes absolutely no sense allied with the reality on the ground.

What is the average age of Nigerian governors? Was Bankole not 39 or 40 when he became speaker? What do you want? A 16 year old President and 19 year old Senate President? Governors with average age of 26? If anything, so-called young leaders have shown , beyond doubt, the same appetite, if not even more voracious, for looting as the "old boys". We should stop tripping over our own shoelaces and confusing each other over what is simple lest we fall again, to the detriment of our Country, for another "shoeless leader" ruse.

[quote author=Table Leg ]You call someone an antelope then you went ahead in the same sentence to call him a mad man ....

Now i know why they call you an illiterate .....

Have you addressed your own deficiencies?
And dont tell you me dont have any... I can conclude by just reading your last ten posts, that your deficiencies are MONUMENTAL![/quote]Pay no attention to that cretin he only deserves mockery. Any man registering here and pretending to be female is the lowest and belonging to a special category of those to be pitied most. Abeg, fashi the illiterate fool. Rather than go back to school to learn how to read, write and spell properly, he is here disturbing others far more accomplished than he can ever dream to be. It is amazing the sort of frustrated losers this forum attracts. The unpleasant side-effect of cheap broadband.

Lilimax: I've never supported PDP as a party although I voted for GEJ. My view is that why must it be the same set of Old politican that will want to rule the country?. We have dwelth in the same position for too long. We need to move forward and it begins with the person that will be voted into power. If an old polician picked the ticket in this merging, I will not vote for him. My opinion though.

It is indeed your opinion and you are entitled to it. Yet, it is an opinion, inspected in the light of brutal logic and the Nigerian reality, that is flatly wrong. We all hanker after "youth in leadership" with realising that it is our innate prejudice that make us blind to the obvious i.e "youth in leadership" has happened and has been soundly discredited as one more touted panacea to our woes that has, in reality, not turned out to be valid.

Has youth not already had a chance? Bankole, Yar Adua and GEJ can all be deemed relatively young. How old are most Nigerian Governors? What other type of 'youth' are you then looking for and what level have they not reached? Has the experiment with 'youth' and a "departure from the past" , in the form of Yar Adua and GEJ, not shown Nigerians that it is time for us to stop discriminating and time for us to simply look, as is done successfully elsewhere, at the history, achievement and lifestyle of those who want to lead us?

Keneking: Is it your Jonathan and Bamanga that is new?

Please don't mind them. This is what our vacuous, empty barrel looters parading as leaders, like GEJ et al, have always relied on. I.e the notion that Nigerians are their own worst enemy to the extent it can always be taken for granted that they will keep each other distracted while they get on with the business of looting. The main problems of Nigeria that must be tackled , for the nation to make significant progress, are well-defined and have been repetitively illustrated over time by the finest brains in the world. Suffice to say no President since 1999 has shown even the minimal will and genuine commitment to tackling these fundamental problems miring Nigeria in the quicksand of stagnation and underdevelopment.

What we have seen from PDP Presidents since 1999, and will continue to see under them, is gradualism. Sadly, many here are driven irredeemably by the adrenalin of emotion, sentiments and bias so it is impossible to make them ever see what is obvious. To balanced folks, it is obvious that the greatest fundamental woes of Nigeria, the sort capable of derailing nations, remain callously ignored by the PDP. The situation today is more deplorable than ever and this is why the international community is rising up daily , ditching the unspoken commitment to diplomatic decorum, to criticise the GEJ-led Government scathingly and mercilessly.

Other non-Nigerian leaders and analysts are uncomfortably watching a highly callous and ultra-incompetent man leading his Nation towards the abyss and this makes for very unpleasant viewing for them. So much so they have to comment out of sheer exasperation. When Reuters leaked a report in which the Ribadu Petroleum task force, many months ago, advised the Government to shut down an unacceptable avenue of corruption and theft against Nigeria - i.e selling our crude through traders as the only major producer to do this - other leaders must question what manner of leader GEJ is with how he not only tried to openly compromise the Ribadu task force but has actually done nothing months after receiving recommendation regarding fundamental solutions that can tackle fundamental problems. Well, my own prayer is that political sophistication comes to Nigerians quicker than is happening because if we were uniformly sophisticated then there would not be a Nigerian alive unable to discern that PDP = gradualism and gradualism = PDP.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gradualism

grad·u·al·ism (grj--lzm)
n.
1. The belief in or the policy of advancing toward a goal by gradual, often slow stages.
The principle or policy of achieving a goal, as political or economic, by gradual steps rather than by sudden and drastic innovation.

Personally, I think a cohesive and fastidiously implemented plan will defeat the PDP. Only folks who don't 'get out much' will take the pro-PDP hacks here seriously. The truth is that Nigerians are truly fed up of the PDP. Nothing has cemented the fact that the Party is a bad and worthless gamble more than the "I voted for GEJ and not the PDP" confidence Nigerians placed in Jonathan that Mr.President managed to dash spectacularly to universal chagrin. It is now obvious that no PDP President can deliver the brave fundamental changes Nigeria needs to thrive.

[quote author=Adura_ngba]They will loose as usual, go to court, loose and try again in 2019.[/quote]Learn to spell first. Silly illiterate. People like you shame our education system. Rather than address your own deficiency you are always here in hatred of those who are far better than the demons you support. Olodo.

Good speech. Personally, I think a cohesive and fastidiously implemented plan will defeat the PDP. Only folks who don't 'get out much' will take the pro-PDP hacks here seriously. The truth is that Nigerians are truly fed up of the PDP. Nothing has cemented the fact that the Party is a bad gamble more than the "I voted for GEJ and not the PDP" confidence Nigerians placed in Jonathan that Mr.President managed to dash spectacularly to universal chagrin. It is now obvious that no PDP President can deliver the brave fundamental changes Nigeria needs to thrive.

Timehin: Instead of arguing unnecessarily and calling NOI names why not ask yourselves if you are CORRUPT or HONEST & HARDWORKING
Definitely our politicians are corrupt and surely they are part of the 1%.

As for me I am honest, hardworking and not corrupt! Don't know about YOU sha.

Virtually all our vital institutions are paralysed by corruption and you are inanely talking about 0.1%. Do you know the official population of the NPF alone? Do you appreciate that our judiciary is ranked one of the most corrupt in the world? Is it politicians who man the NPF, Customs, judiciary, NNPC et al?

Get real dude. Our institutions are hideous havens of corruption to the extent the word "corrupt" would blush with shame if it were human. Stop myopically making issues about politicians and yourself alone. If you want to pretend that only politicians are corrupt then that means you never step outside your house to interact with the rest of Nigeria or that you are talking about a Nation on Mars that shares the same name with us.

mapet: First of wikipedia is not an an academically approved source of information. Wikipedia is an open source information portal, contributed by virtually anybody, subsceptible to flaws and errors and corrected in time

The Federal Bereau of Statistics is the central point of statistical data in any country, even the CBN, and Economists and institution ideally source and validate their data with the realease of the Federal Bereau of Statistics. In my last Academic program, that was the data we relied on for economic analysis.

Number crunching and analysis takes into consideration divers factors, (Save for referring you to the original documents,which will tell you the factors and basis of the data). I think you are doing yourself some academic and intellectual disservice with your blind, bland and camaradarie NL arguments that bears nothing in the scheme of things.

You're better of doing indepth research and whatever the findings, you either live with it or deal with it. If Osun State is the second least poverty state, so what? what trophy did it give you or deny you of? but check some important points, when Osun announced the creation of 40,000 jobs with OYES, that in itself is a strong statement of intent, the multiplier effect of the graduated 40,000 members in creating jobs thru businesses they start are key inputs.

Now why so much venom because it's Osun? for God's sales Niger state came tops, do you fault that as well??

Well-said ojare. Your concluding sentence, in bold, is the 'koko' of the matter as applies to some of these dissenting voices. The point is that these set of rabid 'panadol takers' ,for what should not concern let alone trouble them, can never appreciate the economic theory of things. It is thus pointless to show them that Argebesola followed established and proven templates for poverty reduction.

This is what makes this forum an especially tedious one. Too much emotion, sentiments and flawed interpretation, according to personal bias, and not enough utilisation of facts, statistics and official figures/reality. When Aregbesola was aggressively chasing job provision and increased productivity/efficacy of human resources through training and skill acquisition, these same set of fools laughed and mocked him. Now they cannot understand the simple correlation between what Aregbesola has done and what Osun is currently lauded for. They prefer the empty approach of talking negatively when this only assists them in making greater fools of themselves.

http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/revision-notes/a2-micro-government-policies-towards-poverty.html

No policies to relieve poverty are risk free. Many are highly expensive and their effects often take many years to show through properly. The consensus among the leading academic researchers is that high employment, and a commitment to raise the skills and potential earnings of people towards the bottom of the pay ladder are the most effective and sustainable policies in the long term.