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oyb:
this is actually on par with watergate - the use of security apparatus to harass the opposition

Dannyset:
Why is our trained Journalist not even talking about this EkitiGate issue? Are they afraid of Jonathan?
Nigeria is truly in serious trouble.

queensmith:
This reminds me of when Jonathan spent $1.2 million on PR following the chibok girls crisis. Money that should have been spent finding and rescuing hose girls. And he hired a US firm that has nothing to do with Nigeria meaning they could care less about what Nigerians think or do and are only worried about foreign relations.

Seriously these band of animals don't have Nigeria at heart, and people support them!!!

Someone ask Senator Koro where he found the money to pay this foreign lawfirm who only seem able to write letters. A letter which by my understanding has no basis since Sahara cunningly hired a third party to analyze the tape before releasing it.

All they need to do now is sit back and continue to report on the same story and the C& becomes a waste of time and the paper it's written on!

They think its Nigeria where they can treat people like goats and pat them on the back. Since they don't know any better.

Obanikoro Backs Down, Sends Warning Letter To SaharaReporters Instead

After failing for more than a week to carry out his threat of filing a lawsuit against SaharaReporters in New York, and against The Punch and Premium Times in Nigeria, Nigeria’s former Minister of State for Defense, Musiliu Obanikoro, seemed to have chickened out by having a New York-based law firm send a mere warning letter to SaharaReporters.

A former senator, Mr. Obanikoro had been threatening legal action against SaharaReporters since the website first released, on February 5th, an audio recording in which he and other PDP officials are heard plotting to illegally manipulate the 2014 Ekiti State governorship election. The ex-Defense minister and his co-conspirators, including now Governor Ayo Fayose, are heard in turns berating Brigadier General A.A. Momoh and promising him promotions and other inducements for helping the PDP in its scheme to handicap APC members during the elections.

In the recording released by SaharaReporters, Mr. Obanikoro is heard stating that he was on “special assignment” from President Goodluck Jonathan to make sure the election was carried by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

In a statement he gave to The Breaking Times, a Nigeria news site linked to Mr. Obanikoro, Mr. Obanikoro falsely claimed that his lawyers had served SaharaReporters with court papers last week, and that SaharaReporters had 42 days to prepare its defense.

Instead, a New York law firm emailed a warning letter to SaharaReporters on February 19th asking SaharaReporters to “cease and desist from making false and disparaging statements about Sen. Obanikoro on the Internet.” Under US rules of legal proceedings, such a letter does not amount to a lawsuit itself.

Since SaharaReporters first released the audio recording, a third party consultancy firm, Guardian Consulting, has authenticated Mr. Obanikoro as the voice offering a bribe to Brigadier General A.A. Momoh. In addition to the secret recording, a sworn affidavit was signed by a whistleblower present during the meeting where Mr. Obanikoro illegally bribed the army officer and plotted to rig the Ekiti State elections in 2014.

The warning letter sent to SaharaReporters also substantiates that Mr. Obanikoro was present during the meeting where plans were made to illegally manipulate the Ekiti State elections even though claims the conversations were vague and only relates to how the conspirators would ensure security .

Mr. Obanikoro’s warning letter comes just as he awaits Senate confirmation of his nomination by President Jonathan to a ministerial post. Analysts and observers, however, argue that Senator Obanikoro is trying to give a false impression of legal action against SaharaReporters in order to ease through his confirmation hearings.

The law offices of Tacopina and Seigel sent the warning letter on behalf of Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro. For days, Mr. Obanikoro and websites/social media outlets associated with him had made bones about Mr. Tacopina’s law firm as a firm that famously represented American baseball sensation Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez in a case which he lost.

oyb:
It is only gejs circle. The other power brokers can see the man is a clear and present danger to the unity of Nigerian and will turn us all into refugees if he is not booted out

ilugunboy:
The SW are very sophisticated voters generally.....they hardly take a position on emotions...but once a position is taken based on their perception...it become difficult to easily sway them with cosmetics and emergency re-commisioning of existing power stations.

doctokwus:
Your dream is quite weird,but the reality is that as soon as APC conducted a successful primaries that produced GMB, it became his election to lose,not GEJ's to win.
Just as the only driving force behind all GEJ's schemes to prevent GMB's is the fear of exposure of the monumental havoc done to the country and what becomes of him and his cronies, there is also growing dread of what another 4 years of GEJ could unleash.
That fear and nightmare of what becomes of Nigeria with a combination of these monsters: GEJ,Allison madueke, tompolo,asari and patience,is driving many to see that nightmare never comes to pass,Nigeria wud not survive it.
Just as I have maintained from day one that this is buhari's election to lose;I continue maintaining that if Nigerians allow GEJ to retain that seat,by rigging,military force or any other evil scheme of his,he wud use that same scheme to perpetuate himself in power till whenever. The man is manifestly evil and power drunk and the earlier people continue realising that,the safer this country wud be.

ilugunboy:
The signs of imminent loss that pushed them to postponed the elections are still much there...even much accentuated.

Running around Yoruba "leaders" and Obas begging for endorsenemt of these people will not change anything as the day of decision draws nearer.

ilugunboy:
APC is winning this Presidential election....it may sound unpleasant to some people but it's a reality they will leave with by May.

omenka:
They still appear to be in pains!!! Shoooo!!!

When Buhari is eventually sworn in, what will you guys go??

amakaobiemeka:
Sentiment aside if these brains and technocrats that abound in apc do not get to fg next year, nigeria is doomed. Buhari wife sha, me as a youth can even date that woman any day, nt to talk of the amazing zahra. These are the people that can interact with the obama's, queen elizabeth etc and help our foreign policy which gej ruined

Goddex:
Good question bros.
I only watch videos on weekdays while in office with company data





All the same, No Vacancy in Aso Rock
GEJ till 2019

IbnSultaan:
I urge jnathanians to knw that their is joy in defeat. Its a do or die affair

nwachukwu7:
Blair no get clout joor. APC keeps disappointing me! I prayed for them to be a formidable opposition and root out PDP, but they keep giving low shots. First is to bringout Buhari as flagbearer.....now he wwent to see Blair that the British see as a super disgrace. Hmmmmmmmmmmnmmmmm. Buhari is bigger than Blair o!! If them no know.

kglamour:
Gen buhari meeting with Nigerians, African journalist in London today.
some people go die of hypertension soon!

solayd:
wow this looks like hospital Gov Fayose is talking about

SirShymexx:
Lol. But who isn't a sell-out to an extent? The hegemony is too big and powerfull for anyone to get against, especially a powerless country like Nigeria. So, you better take the glass half full - and leave those who want it to be half-empty alone.

The crux of the matter is that: the incumbent has to go, and anything will be better than him. If this man can revive just a few institutions, and tweak the system of government a bit, that will go a long way.

Change2015:
Let the pdp be deceiving themselves, the world is already courting Buhari and the APC as the incoming government.

#change
#GMB
#APC

briefness:
Why all the lies and desperation from the new opposition party, PDP?

halimaabi:
I dear APC TO PROVIDE BUHARI IF HE'S NOT DEAD, imagine APC playing with the sensibilities of nigerians by giving us fake pictures are we kids they better provide Buhari for all to see .

jomoh:
What I see and read clearly in the write-up is that all you said above about GMB is part of the numerous propaganda of the ruling party PDP to make GMB appear as the devil that GEJ represent. Little wonder GEJ is surrounded by witches, wizards and saTANists like you.
Propaganda we all know are bunch of lies made-up to be believed as the gospel truth. Everyone (even the west) knows its the stock in trade of the ruling party PDP and its saTANist supporters.
The west is not so dumb so they're willing to hear the Generals view objectively.

kheart:
Aside Niger Delta militants, there re also desperate PDP governors he is using. In my area yestarday dere was pandemonium (kaduna) dat involved d police and resident

Many kd residents who woke up early dis morning and routed to Murtala square for their morning exercise met heavy armed security at d entrance.

I vest like craze but I just smile and say to myself devil na liar and no amount of provocations or attempt to create chaos ll succeed by God grace. 5 weeks is just like 5 days

p3ndy79:
Only gullible no brainers, totally brainwashed and blind bigots or financially induced supporters will prefer a GEJ continuation in power.

They needed a falsify and lie induced documentary to tell us about Buhari not knowing there is nothing more surreal than being in the real thick of the drama.

The buhari documentary is like acting to an average Nigerian when he sees and is living in the real life horror movie that the jonaTAN administration has been in the last 6years.

They feel it is the social media that is promoting Buhari but in their stupidity they don't know the love for Buhari is driven by the crave for Nigerians to put an end to the nightmare the GEJ administration represents.

p3ndy79:
The house they built to last 60years is now collapsing in 16years and hence there is cause for alarm and panic. They will compound their woes soon as more revelation will come out as per their involvement in the Boko Haram insurgency which they are funding as their alibi to avoid election.
Justmatter of days more and nigerians will see the real jonaTAN, a scheming and dangerous snake pretending to be a christian and humble but a heartless soul.

p3ndy79:
I've written about thison several threads. Tambuwal defection to APC really shuttle their plan to extend the mandate of the GEJ admin by 6months. David Mark said so last year that " we are in a state of war and people are talking of election"

They have no plan for election not with the reality of rejections they've seen nationwide..