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It is not happenstance that Obasanjo has come out unscathed from tough political battles, ask the likes of Atiku Abubakar his former vice President; former governor of Ogun state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel; former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim; former Speaker of House of Representative, Umar Gha’li Na’Abbah and a host of others, the ex-President has always had his way in the end. He sure wields a lot of influence politically inspite of his resignation as the chairman of the BoT of the ruling PDP sometime ago. It has been a herculean task replacing him as I write and now it seems incumbent President Jonathan might be stretching his goodluck rather too far should he decide to contest in 2015.

Word. Nonetheless, the President too also has the sort of 'goodluck' many believe cannot be defeated because it is "ordained by god". Not so? Sir, who do you believe will blink first?

[quote author=ndu_chucks]Son of as b*tch!! I just spat gworo all over the white carpet.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/229503_ROFLMAODog_gif3fa44b12f55ba64fc785c3a5794ba92e[/quote] My guy, they drag this Funsho Williams thing all over the place and speak conclusively , as per who is guilty, as if any of them were there to witness it. Well, I was there and Lateef4me did it. No long thing.

emmatok: Lol, if a non-PDP member had killed Funsho he would have been caught and disgraced.
Ask OBJ and Obanikoro.
We all saw how Funsho's wife was denied her hubbys ticket.
So PDP killed Funsho.

Ridiculous and logic-defying conspiracy theories will always exist as long as people prefer to under-utilize their brains. Who could have gotten away with killing a prominent PDP candidate, at a time OBJ was hellbent on taking down Tinubu and weakening the ACN in the SW, if not a PDP member?

If there is any chance an ACN candidate had a hand in the murder of Williams then I pity the simple-minded cretins here who do not acknowledge what OBJ is about. If OBJ hates you and has the evidence to take you down, he will. We all know OBJ, back then, hated Tinubu as much as anyone can to the extent of even malevolently withholding federal accruals to Lagos.

OBJ, consistent with his nature, would have buried the ACN if the Party had anything to do with the murder of Williams. Excuse some Nairalanders. They have capacity for mischief but nil for critical/logical thinking. It is idiotic for anyone to think a man as eternally vengeful as OBJ had the trump card up his sleeves to bury Tinubu and the ACN, for good, yet he did not play it. Can you fans of the PDP think at all? If they are trying to trip up Tinubu for operating foreign accounts, why have they not taken him and his Party down for murder? As they say, commonsense is not so common.

eggheaders: will all dis blood sucking pdp bastard just get the mess off here.you lying bastard how can any sane individual be backing this thieves,that is taking our nation back to the woods since 1999.it will really not be a sin wasting some of u nitwit at a firing squad.u mofos need some dose of bullet from my semi automatic asap.

The heights of their madness is that they have the nerve to insinuate we should not wish the "nest of killers" misfortune after the Party has wreaked 14 year of hideous misrule upon Nigerians. Even currently, Nigerians are being killed by PDP-sponsored terrorism yet some deluded simpleton will have us believe that the murderous PDP is different to the one their messiah is head of. Some people here on this forum are just mentally sick even if they do not realise it. Well, this is Nigeria and some slaves will forever love and defend their slave-masters even when he violates them daily.

lateef4me: @Gbawe,pls ,can you answer this question with all sincerity ? Who killed Funsho William ?

Are you at all sane? Ok, you, Lateef4me, killed Funsho Williams. I was there and I saw you do it.

[quote author=Frank-C]oh!, i see the resident hypocrite is here. You so much want power for your ACN that even if it takes the death of a PDP member via assasination, then it is fair. Whose President do your party want to be? ACN president or Nigerian President? If really you are after a better Nigeria, then the internal dispute within the PDP should not be a source of sadistic pleasure for you. Why is it that people like you talk about killings and blood at the slightest excuse, killing of fellow Nigerians for that matter. You are not ashamed that you are envisaging or even advocating the assasination of men of different political stripes from you?
Grow up, you are too old for this nonsense![/quote]Rather, you should grow up dishonest twit. Who set the tone with killings and murder if not the PDP? If you are not a brainwashed tool supporting the Party blindly, it should be obvious to you that decent folks cannot wish the "nest of killers" well. Do they wish Nigeria well or are they actually wasting Nigerian souls callously?

A decent and balanced person would at least admit Nigerians have the right to detest the PDP with every fibre of their being given what the Party is. Instead a brainwashed and indoctrinated tool like you remain here simplistically talking about the ACN. People like you have no reverse gear with your stupid paranoia, retrogressive 'programming' and reasoning. You just follow blindly.

Why would I be supporting a merger if everything is about the ACN? M0r0n. For me it is about the greatest evil. undoubtedly the PDP, being defeated so that Nigeria can make progress. I pray for more internal dispute for the PDP since you are too childish, too emotional and way too immature to appreciate that all the rancour in the PDP is linked to greed and the sort of inordinate ambition that makes very desperate men ready to do anything to get their ways. I bet you are one of the hypocrites cursing the PDP before GEJ yet singing a different tune today. Take your sympathy for the PDP and shove it but get da eff off the back of those who despise the Party and its Murderers.

[quote author=Frank-C]Is it not pure ignorance that will get failed political party agents to wish and actually believe that the present internal dispute within the PDP will destroy the party. PDP has a strong record of conflict resolution. The have resolved worse disputes before with ALL parties to the conflict going home happy. That is PDP for you. Just few weeks back, Adamawa dispute seemed capable of swallowing up the party. Tukur took tough decisions and resolved it the way he did and people within the rank like Oyinlola was sure that Tukur was on his way out because by his estimation, he was the candidate of the Governors forum. Just few days later, the Party axis of power concentration (PDP governor's forum) passed a vote of confidence on Tukur.
Just know that the PDP is really tested in this game. PDP power lies with the President and the govenor's forum and they almost always have their way. Tomorrow, your Oyinlola could be on his way to Jamaica as an Ambassador while praising PDP, Tukur and the President to high heaven.
And for political parties that hinge their sucess or popularity of the failure of the ruling party to resolve her conflicts, it says a lot about their mindset. One of them even 'prophesy' assasination. It shows that they don't care whose father or mother is killed in the process. They just want power. And i know Nigerians will always see through them.[/quote]Shut up you over-emotional, unambitious crybaby. What is the sentimental garbage you wrote up there ? Do you think I am talking about a group of scouts or the PDP all Nigerians know? Is it not what the Party is known for? Is assassination new to the PDP or are you just a dishonest individual? Are they not spilling innocent Nigerian blood callously currently? What will they do to political opponent?

Why don't you go and curse Woles Soyinka who christened the Party "a nest of killers"? Abeg go and sit down somewhere crybaby. The PDP is using terrorism to murder Nigeria daily and you have the nerve to round on those who wish the Party misfortune. You are nothing but a brainwashed and indoctrinated tool.

You can b1tch and moan because you now feel duty bound to support the PDP, and it is obvious why, but don't patronize us insinuating Nigerians do anything wrong wishing to see the substantial weakening of that evil entity. You are the one guilty of everything you accuse others of.

larride: I'm presently schooling in Osun State, Okuku to be precise and I can say confidentially that Ogbeni Rauf is indeed working, we have stable power supply, the education sector is revamping, someone above me say the health sector is poor but I dare call him a lair, well to the best of my knowledge, we all enjoy free health care around in Okuku, Inisa and Ikirun with the Government owned hospital working 24/7 everyday. The only people you will see complaining about Ogbeni Aregbe are the NURTW and those PDP members. When i left Lagos Sept last year to resume school, I was seated with two Igbo girls that were posted to Osogbo for their NYSC program, when we reached Ode-Omu, they were asking me if we are in Osogbo, I told them NO, that we are in Ode-Omu, a small town, they were so surprised with the neatness and how developed the place is, they told me that if a small town is well developed like this, then how will the state capital looks like, they weren't disappointed when we get to Osogbo. Though there are still lots that Ogbeni have to do but he has done 110 more than his precedessor. There is room for improvement though. Osun a'dara oooo

Lovely and balanced post. Aregbesola and others must not relent because Nigerians are now setting the bar high.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]I find it interesting that no news outlet has the gumption to report that the "honorable' is a card carrying member of the PDP.

Azazi (RIP) you continue to be vindicated.[/quote]Thank you. The members of the PDP cause all the major problems of Nigeria the Party is pretending to be seeking solutions for. This is why issues that would ordinarily have straightforward solutions elsewhere will be turned into a complicated drama in Nigeria.

saxywale: The people should see the development themselves and make commendations, I don't think it's right for any government to employ propaganda to pass on a message. my 2kobo.

My guy, what if so called "propaganda" is just the display of laziness by a people who do not like to read or get informed? For how long are we going to entertain the Nigerians who talk as if others should be their teachers? Why does OP not go and take pictures of "propaganda" and shame Aregbesola instead of just assuming a lack of pictures in a brochure is a "disappointment" ? Have we all not seen pictures of ongoing work in Osun that are not in the brochure OP painstakingly reproduces here? Does this not show that the Government is not into proving anything to anyone with pictures so far as genuine stakeholders, i.e Osun folks, are seeing and feeling progress?

I will give you a personal example. Edicolove, a Nairalander who hated Fashola with a passion, flooded Nairaland with the lie that "Fashola has not carried out one single drainage project in Lagos State". I did not even need to go beyond my own Street in Surulere to puncture that lie here with pictures I took myself of superb ongiong drainage work even as Lagos State was not interested in taking similar pictures to splash everywhere. Some of us don't understand what leaders concern themselves with.

So far as end users are happy, then the work of leaders are done. It is not their role to satisfy anyone who is not a stakeholder or end user. To that end, if Osun folks can see the changes then why should government obsess over pictures to convince opinion outside the State? It is for the OP to look for the information he wants and not make decisions based on absent information/pictures others are not obliged to supply him with.

We should all recognise our role enough to play our part in delivering the Nigeria we want. It is not enough for some to act like children who think others are adults who owe them something. We are all adults. I challenge the OP to go to Osun to see things for himself instead of talking simplistically and ridiculously as if a brochure has the power to sway his judgement .

lacasa: Make dem Kill themselves

It may happen and I expect assassinations may be an option because "do or die" players on all sides of the fence are extremely desperate and ready to do whatever it takes to secure advantages over others.

Standing5: and the blood of innocent Nigerians has to be the collateral damage . . .

Why do you think Wole Soyinka tagged the PDP " a nest of killers"? This is something that shocks me about Nigerians. We know, without doubt, the PDP is behind the wanton spilling of the blood of innocent Nigerians. A totally murderous Party full of stone-cold killers. Yet many come here daily to hold brief for the PDP and the deceitful President who prefers for Nigerians to keep dying in numbers than robustly and bravely take on the sponsors of Boko Haram he claims to know. The whole thing is sickening and a sad confirmation of how Nigeria is an unmatched aberration.

sbeezy8: no region is irrelevant that being said SW saw no progress AT ALL when obj had the highest position in Nigeria.

Political appointments mean nothing for your region. GEJ is president but is east west road still fixed? is Bayelsa an investment haven? no lmfao.

OBJ being president only opended SW eyes, Niger deltans are catching on aswell. soon as GEJ leaves office and no resource control their eyes will open too.

Correct. In fact GEJ is ominously empowering a militant class everywhere in the SS same as OBJ provided an arena where it was the norm for illiterates like Adedibu to cower Professors and first-class technocrats. In fact, with Nigeria currently, it could be argued that "political relevance" may be a curse the same way our nation has helped to popularise the notion that oil is a curse. Political relevance my foot. I don't know why Nigerians remain unable to shun emotion to see what matters.

[quote author=GARRI (x7)]The SSS should leave this Boko-Haram matter. [b]It's a family matter [/b]that Jonathan and his fellow PDP blood sucking demonic members can settle amicably....[/quote]It is indeed a family matter. As we all know, family matters are only resolved when members of the family bury the bad blood. No chance of that with the PDP.

Olanlere11: The SSS appear to be doing a good job. Ride on boys. We all need peace.

Yeah, doing a good job revealing the battle against terrorism can never be won under the PDP with how one arm of the Party deliberately sponsors the terrorism killing Nigerians, like Chicken, while another arm pretends to be fighting it.

Toktee: I hope,just hope the ex law maker is a cpc member,where are the buhari haters.

He is a former PDP member. Will anyone be surprised by that? It is only the bottom-lickers and unrepentant ethnic bigots who link Buhari and the CPC to terrorism when daily revelations and even the admission of Mr.President shows that the PDP is the "nest of killers" with many members now using Boko Haram terrorism to fight others.

koruji: Some people will come here about party democracy in PDP.
I say what party democracy?
They arrange everything beforehand and come into the open to count already decided ballot.
And God forbid anything go wrong with the choices already made, the openly "elected" party will step down.
Just read the article for yourself to see the corruption called PDP.
I am glad they are fighting though - there is no honor among thieves!!!
Party democracy is good, but shambolic party democracy is worse than no party democracy.

Correct talk my brother. This is what we keep telling the hypocrites and bigots here who agreed PDP was "the worst Party in the world" under Yar Adua yet sing a different tune today because GEJ is President. Suddenly, "the PDP is democratic" and the "only national Party in Nigeria". Yet, intelligent folks know that the democracy thing is a mirage. A sham and a sleight of hand utilised to deliver predetermined choices as you posit correctly.

The"nest of killers" will destroy itself. GEJ himself will have nowhere to hide with his current antics taking on very determined and desperate "killers" who will feel they built and own the Party. 'Goodluck' to Jonathan. He will need a lot of it.

luluosas: If the Opposition parties are able to merge successfully, it should be the beginning of the end for the cult called PDP.

It will be. Many energetic and bright young things are willing to work for free for an entity that will remove the PDP because of the core understanding of what the PDP is i.e a "nest of killers" that is at the bottom of all the Nation's problems. Believe me, the merger will get the broad support of willing youth volunteers like Obama did in 2008 because of the total hopelessless associated with the PDP after 14 frigging years in charge at the centre. Nigeria deserves a break. Nigeria deserves a change.

lacasa: Vvery good.

I applaud the ethnic multiplicity in the committee.

Good work CPC.


Every region must b carried along


**this is the best chance to ave a change from 14years of mis-guided leadership **

May God help this merger if they are sincere.

Thank you ojare. Those opposed to this merger here are the usual biased individuals devoted to one thing or another far more than to what is best for their nation . Anyone able to work with the truth and knows what obtains elsewhere ,even around us in Africa, will agree the PDP has to go. No doubt about that. All Parties may consist of crooks but the PDP is the one Party not interested in making any concession whatsoever. That will not get us anywhere because this model of leadership is redundant and has been rejected across Africa to deliver the progress we are now seeing others make. Leaders are beginning to understand and accept that they must give back to the people. The PDP , as the most evil Party in the world, will never understand that concept let alone accept it.

Nigeria must therefore get rid of this evil Party, with motto consisting entirely of a few looting the wealth of the Nation while giving nada back, to stand a chance of progress. Nothing less than this merger can defeat the PDP - a desperate Party ready to spend every last kobo of Nigeria's wealth to retain the positions it uses to continue it's mindless looting. I will personally be involved. Let them get the formalities tied up. From 2014, na battleground we dey.

ypzilanti: There is nothing here that those who follow politics in Nigeria have not heard already.

Correct.

ENEONWO: Gbawe, you are a very articulate and discerning person. People, especially many Nairalanders do not seem to appreciate the naivity of GEJ, nor do they understand that there is always a wide gulf between Idealism and Realism. We are watching. Time, indeed, is a healer!

My guy, help me tell the many here who are too emotional to make room in their thinking for pragmatism. Whether we want to accept it or not, all Nigerian political Parties, at this stage in our evolution, operate like gangs. They are first and foremost 100% dedicated to other gang members , i.e themselves, before being accountable to us the Nigerian people. They only engage us when they have chosen the candidates and need our votes to put those candidates in office.

One thing common with gangs worldwide is that no member can double-cross the gang or be allowed to get away with violating agreed creed with impunity. It is that crucial notion that will bring GEJ down even if his emotional backers don't want to accept it. GEJ has become treachery personified against his own gang that gave him everything. I think many may have now agreed his position is no longer tenable hence the reason his candidate was so easily defeated by Ali.

I personally think the owners of the PDP who made him temporary custodian will deal with him because , for the PDP big boys, the alternative is impossible to contemplate. I.e a very mediocre individual placed far above his station and brought in to just keep issues 'business as usual' now attempting to hijack the Party they will feel they built with deliberate effort, blood,murder and all sacrifices necessary. I wish GEJ 'goodluck' against the 'nest of killers' he is attempting to double-cross. I really do because even a baby will see that GEJ is up against it.

naijababe: As much as I'd like to agree with you on the bolded, GEJ unfortunately will not only get the ticket but also win the election in 2015. He will empty the treasury and put the country up for sale if he has to.

My dear sister, let us wait and see. Nothing is certain but It is the ease with which OBJ and his Northern crew achieved what they did that has now got GEJ and his amateurs rattled and sick to their stomach. GEJ and co announced a line-up of Anenih, Nnamani et al like 20 years ago for this BOT position. Ali was only mention literally yesterday. OBJ stayed away in a show of assured arrogance and Ali carried the day easily to the extent the Presidency had to save face with the 'deadlock' ruse. GEJ has really united many, even former enemies, against his ambition because of the scale of his unthinking treachery. Many delivered for him because they expected him to stick to his pledge as per the notion of "honour amongst thieves'. If those former friends are now foes , who do not even want to hear of GEJ running in 2015, is it not obvious how this will end?

The only people behind GEJ currently are the brainless fools and money-hungry barracudas egging GEJ on to an inevitable defeat. like or hate the OBJ's, IBB's, Atiku, Ciroma's et al but you cannot discountenance their historical strength and influence within the PDP. It is naive for anyone to think GEJ can hijack the PDP simply because he is President. There are many 'strong men' in that Party who have forged fearsome reputations because of innate political sagacity unlike GEJ who would likely had hit the buffers as deputy to Alamco had OBJ not intervened. I keep telling folks GEJ picked up the ticket against Atiku last time because it was expedient for many to help him back then, for their own selfish reasons, rather than the notion GEJ was a sagacious political schemer. After GEJ won in 2011, it was amusing to see certain sections of the Country gloating childishly as if GEJ was superman who had defeated "aboki" with his own single-handed effort. They were too foolish and too ignorant of the reality of Nigeria to see that "aboki" helped GEJ defeat "aboki". Well let GEJ, sorry I mean superman, now defeat "aboki" himself without the help of the many 'abokis" who helped him last time. If what happened at the BOT election is anything to go by, then I would not bet on GEJ not receiving the Sylva treatment from the PDP bigwigs in a gang-up.

I am absolutely loving the chaos, intrigue and divisive politicking the ambition of GEJ is causing. OBJ, arrogantly, did not even attend the BOT election yet his candidate, Ali, whose candidacy was announced recently, carried the day easily to show the GEJ crew they are upstarts in the Party. Pathetically, they had to create a ruse about 'voting deadlocked' so they can begin actions attempting to dismantle the opposition to GEJ. I dey laugh.

I have read here, countless times, how GEJ will simply brush others aside to emerge in 2015. I will urge him to even gain the PDP ticket first because , in my opinion, Mr.President and his fans, to include those on this forum, are incredibly naive. They simply don't know what they have taken on.

Because thieves settled on GEJ as the best President to allow looting to go on does not mean GEJ owns the PDP. That will be proven to him in due course. They can carry on the sacking and 'take-downs' all they want. it will all be in vain in my opinion because the "owner" of the PDP will show GEJ who is boss just as Mr.President did with Sylva.

@Ba7man and Dayokanu.

Well said guys. Anyone who can take the concept that man and his life evolves and marry that idea with history will see the SW is on track. No one is saying things are perfect or even near ideal but there is movement in the right direction - far more so than when we were "relevant" with a President and Speaker of the lower house both from the SW. In any case, being politically relevant in the way OP wants is ephemeral and worthless in the Nigerian context considering the center and its powerful offices are tools of looting more than anything else.

Dayokanu's example of events in Oyo is very apt as a powerful indication things are changing for the better . That Oyo is now peaceful and no longer a State where illiterate thugs lord it over Professors is appreciable. Infrastructural development is going on throughout the SW with a pace, quality and urgency greater than when we were "relevant". Abeg, OP should wake up and see what needs to be seen so he can appreciate what the people of the SW did and how their choice is now paying off for them. The SW is not paradise but things are improving as a good start. We can only hope for better based on what we have seen so far.

bilms: not an acn rep, a pdp rep from south west was proposed..The rep from Oyo..

Even then you are still not making sense. Do you want ACN to help PDP become more powerful in the SW? What would PDP use the position of Speaker for if not to position themselves malevolently and vengefully against others? Would you present a loaded gun to your enemy? Look the SW is not politically relevant in the way you mean it, i.e top federal position, because the PDP performed woefully in the last election leading to the decimation of the Party in the region.

You need to understand, once and for all, that the regions fortune has not dwindled at National level. It is the people of the region that chose to pitch their tent with the opposition. With that action, they effectively told the PDP to shove their federal positions.

bilms: why do some people resort to insult every time? can't you discuss the issue or walk away?...lol

Some people had argued that, the sw didnt occupy any meaningful position because of the acn, but i disagree.
We all remember that,A southwest rep,was proposed and allegedly chosen by PDP national headquarters as the speaker of the house,just to loose out again. some people though accused the acn of voting against the southwest candidate,instead supported Aminu Tambuwal. I though i love Tambuwal and he his very effective.

The issue is not about the party or not, it is about how true the statement is.

Remember, Bola Tinubu publicly said the acn supported PDP during the presidential election.

Is the southwest really irrelevant in national politics?

This is simply not true. You are either confused or just attempting to be mischievous. If you know the name of the ACN rep proposed to be speaker then you better tell us who it is because as I remember, the position was only ever available to the Party with the biggest number of members in the house i.e the PDP.

What the ACN resolved to do was to back Tambuwal rather than back the SW PDP candidate thereby given PDP an influential office and thus a measure of strength in the SW. Purely politics for those who can see above sentiments. political relevance, as proposed by you, given the position you mention, simply means Federal positions.

I don't think we need to belabor the fact that the PDP, with an appreciable majority in the upper and lower house, totally controls "political relevance" as far as positions you have mentioned. They are in charge as per who gets what at federal level. If you had followed events at the time you will realize that it was the dismal showing of the SW PDP that prompted PDP members from other regions to protest against the SW being given "political relevance" for delivering failure via surrendering most of the positions the Party occupied in the region. Ruling Party = "political relevance" Naija style. No ruling Party presence in a region = no "political relevance" Naija style. Simple. Stop making things up to support your agenda. Whether memory fails you or you are being mischievous, the archives are there to remind everyone why the SW is not "politically relevant" in the manner you mean.

http://www.nigerianpilot.com/why-acn-backed-tambuwal-against-akande-as-speaker-house-of-rep-mohammed/

Why ACN Backed Tambuwal Against Akande As Speaker, House Of Rep – Mohammed

National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that the party resolved to support and directed all it’s members in the House to vote enmasse for Alhaji Aminu Tambuwa as Speaker of House of Representative because we discovered that he was the only person among other candidates that had agenda that was closer to our party’s program mes.

Also, we in ACN believe that it would be tantamount to political suicide if we allow our enemy to have access to such a big power especially in the south West that the Peoples Democratic Party PDP would continue to terrorist us in the region, and we felt it is better to quickly disallow such .You can still all remembered how former President Olusegun Obasanjo toke over the South West from the former Alliance for Democracy AD, dubiously and suffered the region for years before we took over the states one after the other.
The ACN image maker also declared that the party strongly believed in one Nigeria and did not share the sentiments of some Nigerians that certain positions must be zoned for one reason or the other.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed who made these declaration while answering questions fro journalists in Ibadan last Tuesday emphasized that “ When the issue of speaker of the National Assembly, I mean decisions about Speaker House of Representatives was to be discussed by the leadership of our party, ACN ,we looked at the manifestos of all of them carefully, we try to hold discussions with them by one way or the other ; we considered what we stand to gain; we considered the interests of the Nation; and we looked back at what the party I, mean our former party AD had suffered in the hands of the PDP and we all agreed that our honorables should enmasse for Aminu Tambua as the Speaker of House of Representative.”
He emphasized that the PDP was not sincere when they said they had decided to zone the position to the South West based on the principle of Federal Character . Mohammed declared that “ If leadership of PDP are sincere about zoning the position of Speaker of House of Representative to the West ,they supposed to throw it open to all other political parties ,they should allow other parties to bring out competent candidates and a sort of mini contest could be held and eventually better candidate would emerge. But they are discussing about zoning position to South West and in their arrogant manners they zoned it to thier members ,they thought we would ever allow that , it’s not possible.

@OP

Have those who made themselves "not relevant, by voting out the PDP in the SW, complained to you? If not why take Panadol for a headache they don't have?

Also, is it not time we start thinking outside the box in Nigeria? Have we not had many Northerners leading Nigeria as President/heads of State for decades? What has that translated into for the North?

Nigerians live in States and regions and not a town called 'political relevance'. If human, economic and environmental development are being seen, then ordinary Nigerians will not give a hoot about political relevance.

Sibrah: Will a OBJ boy takeover from him? meanwhile Aso Rock is focusing all their online dawg on Tinubu/Fashola and Buhari.

Correct but this is a silly strategy, from a bunch of clueless desperados, that always fails. Aso Rock would be better off focusing squarely on those within the PDP totally hellbent on deposing GEJ.

take dat: PDP is a party where you have over ambitious crooks trying to outwit one another in an attempt to plunder the nation's wealth. The influence of GEJ on the party is gradually dwindling and his desperation for a 2015 ticket will eventually lead the party to its ruin!

All the above is totally correct.

Choi, is it GEJ's 'enforcer' they are dealing with like this? Which famous politician is from Adamawa again ? His name eludes me. Yes that is it. I believe it is a certain Mallam Abubakar Atiku. PDP drama na die. literally. Anyhoo, "it is a PDP affair". That does not stop the rest of us enjoying the free show

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/bamanga-tukur%E2%80%99s-days-pdp-chairman-numbered-10-nwc-members-rise-against-him

Bamanga Tukur’s Days As PDP Chairman Numbered, As 10 NWC Members Rise Up Against Him
Posted: January 8, 2013 - 21:00


By SaharaReporters, New York


The days of Bamanga Tukur as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may be numbered, as 10 members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) today disowned his actions concerning the running of the party in Adamawa, his home state.



The NWC has12 members, including Tukur himself, and it was he and the Deputy National Secretary of the party, that were absent at today’s emergency meeting of the NWC where the decision was taken.



In a statement following the meeting, the NWC said it was “surprised, shocked and embarrassed” to learn of purported ward, local government and state congresses said to be on going in Adamawa State, and that they were neither authorized by the NWC nor monitored and/or supervised by the National Secretariat.



“In the history of the PDP only the National Secretariat of the PDP conducts state congresses,” they said.

“Based upon the above therefore the NWC hereby declare the purported congresses null, void and of no effect whatsoever,” the NWC added in the statement, which was read by the Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Sama Jaja, who spoke to reporters in the company of the National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola other national officers.

The actions of the 10 NWC members are said to be due to the determination of the governors to remove all the NWC members and replace them with caretaker committees.

“Let us all fasten our seat belts,” a political analyst told SaharaReporters upon learning of the latest developments, “because this signals a fresh round of turbulence within the PDP ahead of the 2015 national elections, which is just two years away.

“Recently, a wing of the party was disclaiming the party’s reviewed constitution, which was already in circulation. A few days ago, it was the PDP Youth Council that was blasting away at the president; now, it is a revolt within the NWC against the indolent and corrupt Tukur leadership, which has already been rejected by many of the governors.”

The following is the statement read by Dr. Jaja:

The emergency NWC decided to announce the following:



(1) The NWC in its 325th meeting of Wednesday 12th December 2012 had rescinded the dissolution of the PDP Adamawa State Executive.



(2) The NWC had earlier dissolved the Adamawa State Executive under Article 29(2)(b) wherein we acted on behalf of Article 31(2)(e) powers of the NEC. But it is instructive to note that the Ward and Local government executives of Adamawa State were never dissolved.



“In fact at its 314th meeting of 29th August 2012 the NWC had upheld the March 2012 ward and local government executives except for one LGA which was later ratified.



“(3) The NWC is therefore surprised, shocked and embarrassed to read in the Newspapers of the purported ward, local government and state congresses said to be on going in Adamawa State.



“(4) For the records, the National Working Committee, hereby dissociate the Party leadership from the purported congresses which were neither authorized by the NWC nor monitored and/or supervised by the National Secretariat.



“In the history of the PDP only the National Secretariat of the PDP conducts state congresses.

“Based upon the above therefore the NWC hereby declare the purported congresses null, void and of no effect whatsoever.



“Consequently we hereby declare that the only state executive committee constitutionally recognized by this Party is the Kaugama Executive lawfully elected in March 2012 and endorsed by the National Convention.

Dr. Sam Sam Jaja Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola

Deputy National Chairman National Secretary

The show is only beginning. Entertainment galore from the "nest of killers" from here on. Nollywood has a serious rival within Nigeria called the PDP

Mowire: @sincere9jrian &co, you guys are totally incompetent at what you've set out for. You presently lack the political tact to build a power block within PDP. If care is not taken GEJ will end up as the most irrelevant ex-president in nigeria's history ever, worse than Sonekan.
OBJ was absent at PDP BoT meeting yesterday & the meeting ended inconclusive. Note

Thank you. I can also comfortably tell you that the total incompetence you accuse Insecure9gerian of will persist for a while because him and others of his ilk suffer from emotional clannishness to the unhealthy level that blinds them from seeing what is obvious. I was shocked at the lack of Political sophistication of some on NL with how they began insulting and taunting "aboki" and "Yarobuus" as soon as GEJ was sworn in. They suggested GEJ should deliberately marginalise and "punish" the SW in a show of open ethnic malevolence. These people began talking as if GEJ became President without the North and the SW. They could not even be bothered to note the especially critical role so called moderate Northern Governors played to support GEJ despite the serious flak they received at home for dumping Atiku. Self-serving those Governors may have been but they stuck their neck out nonetheless.

Rather than for some to show adult intelligence, good grace, an appreciation of political pragmatism and simple gratitude, they decided to sate clannishness and old feelings of vendetta by ethnicising the Presidency and taunting others that they will not see power for the next 50 years as if GEJ is some superman who will simply use the Presidency to neutralise the numerical advantage others have.

What we saw on Nairaland played out on the ground with many ethnicising the Presidency and alienating others using totally myopic and needless sabre rattling against the North and SW that was always going to be self-destructive. A competent Nigerian Court finds AL Mustafa guilty and all of a sudden, that is interpreted as a Yoruba attempt to bring down GEJ. Fuel subsidy protests, over a decision that hit the pocket of every Nigerian, was suddenly A Yoruba/Hausa/Fulani plot to fight GEJ The clannishness was too much and simply unhelpful to the President encouraging it when it suited him without the vision to note that he will suffer from the image of divisiveness his Presidency was attaining.

Common sense should have made some question how that method can bear fruit. I.e failing to build bridges only to use the Presidency as an ethnic tool of vendetta against others. Look at Asari-Dokubo who shouted about "Ijaw must enjoy two terms" yesterday. What is he saying today now that push has come to shove and some are beginning to realise that childish and uninformed braggadocio amounts to nothing when the real process begins? As I said earlier, the "meek and humble" image that gave GEJ so much goodwill is gone. Let him gain the PDP ticket ojare. I am not a betting man but I would hazard that GEJ will get the treatment he dished out to Sylva from the PDP 'big boys'. Some will show him who 'owns' the Party same as he showed Sylva he is the King of Bayelsa. Ultimately, as many concluded during the zoning debacle, "it is a PDP affair". The thing no consign us. The rest of us should just enjoy the show.