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TRUTHTELA:
Why is it that majority of those that are opposing Jonathan's relection are christians from the Southern part of Nigeria. The North, just sit back and watch you guys destroy one of your own politically.

What's behind this huge opposition and uprising against Jonathan from the South and Christians ?

kITATITA:
From your tweets you were actually insulting. You turned the issue to a personal one. It shouldn't be about Dele. He tweeted his support and you stacked him, including his business. He did the right thing. Move on

Ngwakwe:
Buhari does not need and wont benefit from virulent bad-mouthers and attack dogs who will only be rekindling the labels of intolerance and extremism being levied again him by his detractors.

I knew you as megalomaniacal bigot trying to deceive gullible Nigerians.

Goodbye and continue in what you know best as ethno-religious jingoist

Boko Haram's 'deadliest massacre': 2,000 feared dead in Nigeria
Amnesty International calls the killings ‘a disturbing and bloody escalation’ and a local defence group says its fighters have given up trying to count the bodies

Saturday 10 January 2015 10.42 GMT

Fighting continued Friday around the town on Baga, near Nigeria’s border with Chad. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images
Hundreds of bodies – too many to count – remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International described as the “deadliest massacre” in the history of Boko Haram.

Fighting continued on Friday around Baga, a town on the border with Chad where insurgents seized a key military base on 3 January and attacked again on Wednesday.

“Security forces have responded rapidly, and have deployed significant military assets and conducted air strikes against militant targets,” said a government spokesman.

District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.

“The human carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists in Baga was enormous,” Muhammad Abba Gava, a spokesman for poorly armed civilians in a defence group that fights Boko Haram, told the Associated Press.

He said the civilian fighters gave up on trying to count all the bodies. “No one could attend to the corpses and even the seriously injured ones who may have died by now,” Gava said.

An Amnesty International statement said there are reports the town was razed and as many as 2,000 people killed.

If true, “this marks a disturbing and bloody escalation of Boko Haram’s ongoing onslaught,” said Daniel Eyre, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International.

The previous bloodiest day in the uprising involved soldiers gunning down unarmed detainees freed in a 14 March 2014 attack on Giwa military barracks in Maiduguri city. Amnesty said then that satellite imagery indicated more than 600 people were killed that day.

The attacks come five weeks away from presidential elections which are likely to trigger even more bloodshed. Already under a state of emergency, the three north-eastern states worst hit by Boko Haram asked the central government for more troops earlier this week. The government has said voting will take place across Borno state although the worsening insecurity means few international observers are likely to get clearance to oversee voting in an area that is traditionally opposition-supporting.

Around 1.5 million people have been displaced by the violence, many of whom will not be able to vote in the polls under Nigeria’s current electoral laws.

Boko Haram also appears to be regionalising the conflict, after threatening neighbouring Cameroon in a video earlier this week.

The government has made no official comment on the alleged massacres. President Goodluck Jonathan skimmed security issues when he relaunched his re-election bid in front of thousands of cheering supporters in the economic capital, Lagos, on Thursday.

The five-year insurgency killed more than 10,000 people last year alone, according to the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations. More than a million people are displaced inside Nigeria and hundreds of thousands have fled across its borders into Chad and Cameroon.

Emergency workers said this week they are having a hard time coping with scores of children separated from their parents in the chaos of Boko Haram’s increasingly frequent and deadly attacks.

Just seven children have been reunited with parents in Yola, capital of Adamawa state, where about 140 others have no idea if their families are alive or dead, said Sa’ad Bello, the coordinator of five refugee camps in Yola.

He said he was optimistic that more reunions will come as residents return to towns that the military has retaken from extremists in recent weeks.

Suleiman Dauda, 12, said he ran into the bushes with neighbours when extremists attacked his village, Askira Uba, near Yola last year.

“I saw them kill my father, they slaughtered him like a ram. And up until now I don’t know where my mother is,” he told the Associated Press at Daware refugee camp in Yola.

Ngwakwe:
Which BokoHaram are you referring to? The Sheikh Mohammed Yusuf's Islamic Revolution or the Islamo-Political Bokoharam supported and cheered by the "Opposition"?


Be specific, let's know your mindset and what you're trying to establish

babadee1:
Because the cup of PDP was not yet full in those years. Go and ask Americans why they voted for a black man for the first time in 2008. When the ruling party is destroying the future of a country, voters with common sense know what to do.

oluwasuski:
Interesting, APC is always on point with their planning and strategies, but like someone rightly mentioned can shehu garba match FFK. He might not be everyone's darling but you can't take away the fact that FFK sure has a lot of action and mud slinging...

aguiyi:
You can't make an argument with raining insults?

Try to be matured in your choice of words

maestroferddi:
Sorry to false hopers.


Sri Lanka is no Nigeria.

Jonathan/PDP is standing on a sure footing.

No cause for alarm!

He based his campaign on the theme: the devil you know is better than the Angel you do not know.

iv4fb:
If you read my statement, you'll know that I know that-which is why I demanded for source. If you want to judge, listen to both sides. Let him produce his source before you judge

Soyinka Blasts Jonathan For “Unambiguously” Declaring War Against The People, Likens Him To King Nebuchadnezzar
Posted by: daniel December 3, 2014

President-Goodluck-Jonathan-Professor-Wole-SoyinkaNobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has berated President Goodluck Jonathan for condoning what he called a reign of impunity in the country, the latest being police siege on the National Assembly.


Prof. Soyinka also stated that the latest action of Mr. Suleiman Abba, the Inspector General of Police, against members of the House of Representatives was an “unambiguous” declaration of war against the people.
The Nobel Laureate, who made these assertions at a press conference titled “King Nebuchadnezzar – The Reign of Impunity”, in Lagos on Tuesday, said that the battle line had been drawn and Nigerians must choose whether to submit or resist to the current democratic dispensation.
“I shall not insist that the biblical figure of Nebuchadnezzar is uniquely apt for the pivotal figure of the ‘democratic’ history in the making at this moment,” said Mr. Soyinka. “For one thing, Nebu was a nation builder and a warrior. One could argue even more convincingly for the figure of Balthazar, his successor, or indeed Emperor Nero as reference point – you all remember him – the emperor who took to fiddling while Rome was burning.
“However you should easily recall why I opted for King Nebu – the figure that currently sits on the top of our political pile himself evoked it, albeit in a context that virtuously disclaimed any similarities, even tendencies. Perhaps he meant it at the time when he claimed: ‘I am no Nebuchadnezzar’. Perhaps not. One judges leaders on acts however, not pronouncements, which are often as reliable as electoral promises”.
Soyinka said that it was left for Nigerians to decide to revert to the “Abacharian status of glorified slaves.
“The praetorian guards have been let loose – to teach the rabble their place”, he said.
“The recent choice of a new leader for the guard was clearly no accident, and this hitherto unknown enforcer, one Suleiman Abba, has wasted no time in inaugurating a season of brutish power. When a people’s elected emissaries are disenfranchised, cast out like vagrants and resort to scaling fences to engage in their designated functions, the people get the message.
“However, the choice is always there, and each choice comes at a cost. It is either we pay now, or pay later”.
He also said that Mr. Jonathan had continued to surprise Nigerians in ways “few could have conjectured” and cited the split in the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, to buttress his point.
“Peaking at his own personalised example where he set the law of arithmetic on its head – I refer to the split in the Governors’ Forum, and his ‘formal’ recognition of the minority will in a straightforward, peer election – democracy has been rendered meaningless where it should be most fervently exemplified.
“Nothing is more unworthy of leadership than to degrade a system by which one attains fulfilment, and this is what the nation has witnessed time and time again in various parts of the nation, the recent affront against the legislative chamber being only the most blatant and unconscionable…
“It is a warning. His choices for the occupancy of crucial public positions – such as the protective arm of the nation – constitutes an even more immediate and constant public alert. The signals are ominous – for and beyond 2015”.

iv4fb:
And you know that this is a lie because?

Soyinka Denounces Jonathan Support Group Over Fabricated Report

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has strongly denounced one of the groups campaigning for President Goodluck Jonathan’s reelection for attributing a fabricated report to him. The offensive report, published online by the Jonathan group, was titled, “The North Must Stop Bombing Nigeria & Blaming Jonathan – Prof. Wole Soyinka”.


The report quoted the Nobel laureate as stating, “If the United States citizens decide to be bombing the USA everyday and ready to die, there is nothing Obama can do about it. The only thing he can do is to urge citizens to report bad people. If citizens refuse to report evil people then there is nothing anyone can do. The only thing he can do is to urge citizens to report bad people. If citizens refuse to report evil people then there is nothing anyone can do.”

The fabricated report, which is full of grammatical errors, continued: “Here in the USA in Chicago to be precise more than 10 people are killed everyday and that’s the same thing. I am only worried that this is Abuja.

President Jonathan’s support group further credited the professor with stating, “There are people in power in certain parts of the country, leaders, who quite genuinely and authoritatively hate and cannot tolerate any religion outside their own. When you combine that with the ambitions of a number of people who believe they are divinely endowed to rule the country and who believe that their religion is above whatever else binds the entire nation together, and somehow the power appears to slip from their hands, then they resort to the most extreme measures. Youths who have been indoctrinated right from infancy can be used, and who have been used, again and again to create mayhem in the country. Those who have created this faceless army have lost control.”

In a reaction obtained by SaharaReporters, an obviously outraged Professor Soyinka described the attempt by the “Goodluck Support Network” to link him to the spurious report as “unscrupulous, disgusting and cowardly.”

He also stated that the group must be truly desperate to resort to despicable tactics of fabrication.

“This is an unscrupulous, disgusting and cowardly fabrication,” said Professor Soyinka, adding, ‘“The Goodluck Support Network’ must be truly desperate to resort to such despicable tactics.”

Campaign groups close to President Jonathan have notoriously cloned websites, including SaharaReporters.com, and attributed a series of false statements to various people in a bid to whip up sentiments against the president’s political opponents or to portray the president as the victim of a vast conspiracy by northern political groups.

iv4fb:
Source? Coz TAN always accredit stuffs to people who denied it later

22 governorship aspirants dump PDP in Akwa Ibom

JANUARY 9, 2015 BY ETIM EKPIMAH 48 COMMENTS


Twenty two aggrieved governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom State, otherwise known as G22, have finally defected from PDP to All Progressives Congress.

They will meet the APC’s presidential candidate, Major-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, January 12, 2015.

It was learnt that the 22 governorship aspirants of the PDP in the controversial December 8, 2014 primary in the state decided to defect from PDP to the APC on Wednesday.

One of the aspirants, who spoke on condition of anonymity with our correspondent on Thursday, said their decision was based on the way they were treated by the PDP in the state.



The aspirant also said President Goodluck Jonathan could not find a solution to the crisis.

He said the crisis came to a head on January 6, 2015 when Jonathan, after scheduling to meet with them, later declined.

The aspirant said, “The President’s last minute decision was said to have been masterminded by a fifth columnist.

“It could be recalled that the (members of) the G22 have been in Abuja since December 9, 2014. Both the party leadership and the President are playing games with them without finding a political solution to the issues and without using the party’s mechanism to redress their complaints.

“This inhuman treatment is only meted out to G22. How could the President, who had met with individuals like Senator (Musiliu) Obanikoro and Senator Ifeanyi Araraume not meet 22 aspirants of the party? Is the President saying that they do not count? Then let us see how the party will win in Akwa Ibom State.”

The 22 aggrieved PDP aspirants had on December 8, 2014 protested against the governorship primaries, saying the exercise lacked transparency.

The aspirants had accused the party of using a fake delegates’ list.

They also alleged that the party leadership did not disclose the venue of the primaries to other aspirants before the time of the election.

sharkhead:
God bless u for this words Gbawe! Keep saying whether they like it or not! U cant keep claiming "Neutrality" n still complain n want to hold some politicians accountable when u were sitting on d fence all along! Chop knucle my brother!

biafranqueen:
Gbawe That one must feel like









a hot dirty one!

SeverusSnape:
And with everything you type, You continue to display how gullible you are for falling for the antics of these so-called agents of change. Your gullibility is legendary MR. Gbawe.
....you may not be able to understand my stand because you have been blinded by some politicians, I must say, they are doing a good job on people like you. That's why you believe them when they tell you they are going to stabilize world oil price, and pay millions of unemployed graduates.
Is APC any different from PDP?...
Friedrich nietzche said " A politician divides men into two classes;tools and enemies"....you are a Tool.

Mubarack44:
how do you guys expect people's general to succeed without haters who are spreading false alarm against him.

GMB is above your expectations keep on deceiving your self.

SeverusSnape:
So you think you're matured by this rubbish epistle you just typed.....Hehehehehehehehe
Keep on wallowing in your ignorance, A matured adult would know that it's not worth it defending politicians in PDP and APC.
Rubbish!

ilugunboy:
thought I was the only one that noticed that.....

they are taking the propaganda of blackmail to an insane level bordering on the absurd.

SeverusSnape:
YOU'RE THE ONE THAT NEEDS TO GROW UP!
I made a clear statement, They are all birds of the same feathers, APC is just an old wine in new bottle.
Do you think any Nigerian politician is honest... Even your Buhari, Is he honest?. If you show me a honest and corrupt free former military dictator, I'll show you a mother who is a virgin.

SeverusSnape:
Pot calling kettle black...

Piroo:
When your people and you as well were attacking the personality of GEJ, you did not caution them, now that they are hitting on you, you are crying, "He who lives in a glasshouse should not throw stones"

ULSHERLAN:
Such a childish party...

whizkid10:
while i appreciate the fact that APC are giving PDP a good fight, I also think it wud be very fair and wise to re-elect GEJ. He has just 4 more yrs.

barcanista:
Chief Gbawe, you are so on point. I am so shocked that the man we are assumed to be a gentleman has gone full thuggery. If Obanikoro or Fayose had made such statement, I would have taken it to be "as usual of them". But Jimi Agbaje? Anyway, like you said, they should be prepared to live to their threats because the Government of APC will be glad to put those terrorists where they belong.

juman:
Their man will be voted out.

They better shut it down now.

Nonsense.