₦airaland Forum

lwise:
My friend stop deceiving yourself.
I learnt Ambode was forced to resigned when Fasola discovered that he was giving Tinubu certain amount of money on monthly basis without his consent. I will confirm this latter .

This says a lot about you. I.e the fact you are willing to speak conclusively on gossip you "learnt" and still need to "confirm later". Dude, I have no time for sentiments because that is all majority of Nairalanders present. Ambode will win comfortably. You are the one wallowing in self-deceit.

philips70:
So after being roundly exposed and defeated in that thread you came here to perpetrate your stock in trade of deception and falsification of stories? I expected you to retract that lie after all it's not a crime to accept a crime when caught red handed. Meanwhile, quit quoting and ascribing me to political parties. Not everyone who is tired of PDP misrule belong to political parties. Most of us are just interested in the government ensuring level playing field to all who aspire to bring change and quit trying to destroy their characters to Nigerians whilst they continue in the massive sleazing of our resources.

Bro, ignore the crayon brat. He is the most asinine and annoying member of NL. I stopped taking him seriously years ago when I exposed him, and he actually apologised, for blatant lies and falsifications he engaged in here to demonize the then ACN. He is not someone worth a serious response and most people know this.

@Topic.

Agbaje is wasting his time. The Lagos electorate is one of the most sophisticated in Nigeria. Scaremongering against Ambode with the Tinubu name will not work. Lagosians will always be focused on the individual and his talent. Is this not how the same characters here, now desperate for an Agbaje 2015 win, shouted in 2011 that Fashola could not return because he no longer had the backing of Tinubu? Did they also not say that Lagosians were fed up of Tinubu and would reject Fashola soundly because of how the Lagos governor has "sold Lagos to Tinubu"? Can anyone remind us again the outcome of the Lagos 2011 guber polls?

Ambode has a CV even far more 'loaded' than that Fashola flaunted in 2007. Real Lagosians also want continuity and Ambode is the man to deliver this. Some posters, because they hate Tinubu more than they love Lagos, forget that Agbaje contested the Lagos guber elections under the DPA in 2007. Yet he lost to Fashola who was entirely unknown then with no political sagacity whatsoever. Anyway, some folks can continue to dream. Real Lagosian who truly know their State, whether they support the APC or PDP, will admit Ambode is the 2015 Governor. Ambode will not even break a sweat.

abacus:
Continue.. continue to use procold for another man's flu.

They are working you are hating. They win, you complain.

God bless you bro. We have no time for those afflicted with 'Stockholm syndrome'. APC is now fully committed to taking its message to the people. It is incumbent upon every decent and balanced Nigerian , regardless of ethnicitiy or religion, to listen to what they have to say. "The definition of madness is doing things the same way and expecting a different outcome" - Albert Einstein. We Nigerians have done things the same way for nearly 16 years now. We have done things the PDP way and it has only taken us backwards in every sector and in relation to the biggest problems of Nigeria.

As one of the saddest example,power supply has worsened despite the fact that the PDP has "spent" over $25 billion on the problem. Wanton corruption is now lord and master in Nigeria. Is it not time to embrace change or at the very least listen without bias to what the APC has to say? Anyone who automatically rules out hearing the plans and vision of the APC is a "fool" like Einstein posit and therefore not worth worrying about.

The brilliant minds in the APC putting the PDP to shame with innovative thoughts and action. Sound strategy. Buhari indeed appears to have chosen the right VP. Even the "walk the ward" name is memorable and catchy. I love everything Osinbajo is doing. Reminiscent of Obama's brilliant campaign for his first outing. Go team GMB/Osinbajo.

This was disclosed by the Vice-presidential candidate of the party, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo via his twitter page.
He said, “Good morning, Nigeria. We will be doing a “Walk The Ward” today, to meet and talk to Nigerians, about our vision.

It is beginning to look like the people of Ekiti made a terrible mistake. Well, this is democracy in action and all Nigerians have to respect the fact that Fayose is the choice of the people.

“How can we explain that oil sold for more than three years above 100 dollars per and yet we are faced with this calamity without any redemption in sight? How can we explain it?”

No sane Nigerian can deny what is written above. Unpleasant testimony of the unacceptable economic mismanagement of Nigeria by the PDP.

anonimi:
You did not see where your Buhari COMMITTED himself to ensuring there is Sharia all over Nigeria in my earlier post or you are simply PRETENDING



Are you also not aware that Shekarau & Ribadu finally stepped down in 2011 for their northern consensus, Buhari seeing that the initial plot to have Atiku as their consesus candidate via PDP failed
Keep deluding yourself.
Enjoy your ignorance (or pretence) bliss













Let those who have ears let them HEAR!

Oh laaawwwd !!! The annoying crayon brat is here.

@Mods. Can you guys not do something useful and develop a 'Nairaland prison' where some posters can be sent to if other Nairalanders unanimously vote for them to be e-jailed? There has to be some way to curb the nuisance of this annoying character called Anonimi.

wiseguy:
This thread has reached the 6th page yet it's not on the front page. If its all their lies against Buhari it would have hit front page just on two replies.

TANoids quit throwing stones because your masters live in glass houses.

Obiageli Nwanne m, Chineke gozie gi!!!

Bruv, they can shove their front page where the Sun does not shine. Nigerians want change and there is nothing enemies of progress can do to prevent the deliverance of this change. That much is terribly obvious. What some people fail to accept is that "you cannot kill an idea whose time has come". Enemies of progress are welcomed to try and do this with the customary lies, scaremongering and even front-page partiality but they should know that Nigerians are no longer buying what they are selling. Pointless trying to sell what Nigerians now unanimously admit is a bad product.

barcanista:
The sharia rule in states is not wrong as long as the people want such system. In asmuch as it isn't done in southern states and the FG, I dnt see how that is a headache. There is nothing like pdp north or apc south. Pdp is a divisive party, only in pdp will you hear "northern concensus" " southern christian candidate". In APC is it a united front. No christian or muslim preference.

Bruv, the whole point is that the PDP is a divisive and hypocritical Party that is always ready to use deceit in an effort to be all things to all men. The merits and demerits of Sharia is not the basis of this thread. The main point is that fans of the PDP, encouraged by the divisive message duplicitous Christians like Metuh et al churn out, rant and rave that they reject the APC because the Party wants to Islamize or "Sharianize" Nigeria.

Is it not then apt to show these religious bigots how naive they are when they open there mouth to speak as if the PDP is a Christian party? Religion should be separated from politics but we all know the Party, perhaps because it has nothing to offer leadership-wise, that glorifies in using religion to divide and frighten Nigerians. It is never a bad thing to expose such hypocrites.

PDP hypocrisy in all its glory shown below. This is why the Party has run Nigeria into the ground over 15 years. When a Party is full of two-faced hypocrites and duplicitous snakes then it will not surprise anyone that these individuals are also callous misrulers and anti-people opportunists.

http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/24/rejoinder-%E2%80%9Cdemocratic-dictator%E2%80%9D-ahmadu-muazu-unelected-pdp-chairman-and-buhari%E2%80%99s

Rejoinder: “Democratic Dictator” Ahmadu Muazu, Unelected PDP Chairman, And Buhari’s Dictatorial Tendencies By Dr M.K Hassan

BY M.K HASSAN DEC 24, 2014

Ahmadu Adamu Mu'azu, the unelected PDP Chairman, three days ago issued a shoddy press statement scaring people not to vote for Buhari. The ill thought out press statement is premised on a bogus case of Buhari having dictatorial traits, which surprisingly Muazu has shown to have in large abundance even in a democratic setting. I have to alert Nigerians that with no plan for Nigeria’s economic development going forward, except currency devaluation in the face of falling global oil prices, we would have to put up with fear mongering as a tool for the 2015 presidential campaign from the PDP.


Mr Muazu, a two-term governor of Bauchi State and a small time “Democratic Dictator” is now in the business of selling fear of the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as our next President. A Democratic Dictator is any individual that use democratic means such as elections to acquire power and hypocritically decides to adopt dictatorial methods as a form of governing in a civilian setting. Well, Muazu said Buhari has dictatorial tendencies because the military supreme council under him handed out long jail term sentences to thieves and economic saboteurs during his reign. Muazu said Nigerians don’t want to go back to the era of jailing thieves, and that Nigerians prefer those same thieves to be roaming around and ruling them. Nigerians this time are not afraid; Nigerians are not ready to buy into the fear product and I have heard a lot of them saying, those with charges of stealing Government funds be made to answer.

While it is true that Mr. Buhari, was installed as Head of State in 1983 in a military regime, Muazu who was voted by Bauchi State citizens in a democratic setting, decided to become a “Democratic Dictator”. The citizens of Bauchi decided to waste no time in 2007 in telling him in an unequivocal term: NO WAY! [b]The Democratic Dictator Muazu said at that time that Isa Yuguda, current Governor of Bauchi State, is a non-indigene even though Isa was a serving Minister occupying the slot of Bauchi State.Imagine! Because of his dictatorial tendencies, he forced Isa Yuguda to leave PDP for ANPP in order to contest for the gubernatorial elections. This is one example of work of a real dictator parading himself as a Democrat: denying one freedom of association and democratic expression. Anyone who followed Bauchi Politics of 2007 knows fully well what happened and It was the reason why he lost his bid for a senatorial seat in a humiliating defeat. I hope the politically enlightened Bauchi people will not disappoint us this time around too.

We have equally witnessed how dictatorial Muazu can be in a democratic setting by introducing Political Sharia in Bauchi State in 2002, which has neither served the interest of Muslims nor the Nigerian State. It was this kind of mischievous and failed attempt at introducing Political Sharia, that emboldened groups like Boko Haram to take it upon themselves to establish one. This is why it is more dangerous to have democratic dictators like Muazu than Buhari’s military regime that crushed the Maitatsine sect and ensured that no fake Mallams and Pastors are roaming around inciting violence. It is little wonder that the PDP itself is governed like an aristocratic mafia, for example, it cannot have election for its Chairmanship, it is always by appointment like he came in.[/b] A dictator heads the failed party and that is why everyone is complaining after the primaries. If you think I am telling lies find out what happened in their primaries across the states and how their Presidential candidate emerged. The fear product is not going to sell this time around, and its salesman needs to look himself in the mirror and see a democratic dictator in its reflection.

It is very clear to everyone now since the collapse of Soviet Union, that Democracy is the most acceptable form of government. It was not the case 30 or more years ago during the cold war and the battle of supremacy between USA and USSR, hence the many military regimes in Africa and South Americas. There were real dictators of the 80’s and definitely Buhari was not one of them. While Buhari was jailing the thieving political elites when he came to power through tribunals with long jail terms of 150 years, Jerry Rawlings in nearby Ghana was executing them by the firing squad. This is what real dictators do. Why are Nigerians now envying Ghanaians and considering the Jerry Rawling option? Real dictators do not have tribunals with lawyers like Buhari did. Nuhu Ribadu once told us he was a lawyer in those 1984 tribunals and that inspired him to join the police.

For Muazu and his likes, it is the long jail sentences that worry them in all that the 1984 decrees did and so the labeling of the regime as being autocratic. [b]He wants to scare Nigerians from the possibility of a society based on rule of law to the perpetuation of impunity as we have now. Unknown to him, that is how the laws operate even in the most advanced democracies. The investment banker, Bennie Mardoff, for defrauding Americans in 2008, was sentenced to 150 years jail term in 2011 just like Buhari was sentencing thieves in 1984. Ralph Blaigovich, the former Governor of Illinois, for attempting to sell a senate seat (not that he sold it) for $500,000 (80 million naira) in 2008, is in jail for 15 years. For example, if we are to use the former Governor of Illinois’s case for the Bauchi State white paper indicting Muazu for 20 billion naira fraud (111 million dollars), it is possible that Muazu, if he were a Governor of Illinois will be facing a jail sentence of 220 years in the USA if convicted: the kind of jail sentences Buhari Government was handing to politicians in the 80’s. Bob McDonald former Virginia Governor who left office in 2012 is going to a jail for 12 years for accepting bribe as a gift and the amount was less than 500,000 dollars: a small amount using our Nigeria’s “Your Excellency’s” stealing is not corruption standards. In China, where every policy is about development and no pretense for democracy, if one steals the kind of money our Government officials steal; one is not going to jail but face the firing squad….Period. Nigerians have decided they want a country where law and order matters. Nigerians are no fools and are not buying in to the new GEJ theory of stealing is not corruption. Nigerians are saying “Sai Buhari”.[/b]

[size=14pt]To Muazu and the PDP ruling party, freedom and rule of law is freedom to steal with impunity. Nigerians are waiting for the independent forensic audit into the missing 20 billion dollars, we are waiting for the conclusion of the subsidy scandal investigation, and we are waiting for the implementation of Nuhu Ribadu Committee report on oil theft. If it is for this regime, the wait will be forever. Nigerians have decided that they will not wait forever; we would wait until February 2015 when President Buhari will be voted in and take over.[/size] If all these missing and looted funds from the “stealing is not corruption government” were available, they could have been used to defend the current downward spiral of the naira in the currency markets. The only policy option left for them now is the nasty devaluation of Nigeria’s currency, which anyway they are happily doing.

It is up to the PDP goons in Wadata plaza to focus on explaining how continuing their failed economic policies from the Otuekean Economics School of Thought will prevent Nigeria from going in to a dangerous economic recession due to falling oil prices, or they are free to continue their negative campaign and the character assassination of Buhari. Either way, Nigerians are smarter and are seeing through their shenanigans. Nigerians will not continue to take this laying down.

In conclusion, Nigerians will not buy in to the fear mongering tactics of PDP and its democratic dictator head; Nigerians are not ready to double down on the failed policies of this government. For Muazu and his like, the fear product is not going to sell. You are free to leave the country like Buhari said when he comes back to power. See you in Dubai then, the hiding place you came back from.

(mkhassan2015@gmail.com)

Obiagelli:
How come he is not labeled a fundamentalist or an extremist? Pdp propaganda

Chukwudi44, i saw you viewing this thread a while ago, no comments from you? Please call[b] ngwakwe and biafranqueen.[/b]

My dear, those three are typical example of hypocrites without intellectual substance who actually think they are fooling others while only succeeding in making a fool of themselves. Who does not know that they are ethnocentric and religiously prejudiced supporters of the PDP who conveniently blind themselves to what the PDP really represents which goes against the asinine claims they have made here?

They are the sort who will shout that the APC is an Islamic Party yet ignore the reality of how PDP has more Northern moslem members than the APC. Why do these myopic element think the PDP is called a "Northern Party"? They will tell you the APC want to "Sharianize" Nigeria yet hypocritically pretend to be ignorant of how the current Chairman of the PDP signed sharia into law inhis State while a Governor. They will link Boko Haram to the APC when the reality is that it is PDP politicians who have been officially linked with Boko Haram and even charged to court for abetting terrorism !!! Even GEJ has admitted that Boko Haram has infiltrated "every level" of his government. I think every child will know that it is the PDP that forms GEJ's government.

I could go on all day but sensible folks get the gist of the matter which is that ethnocentric and prejudiced enemies of progress will only see what they want to see and even lie to themselves and others while deliberately blinding themselves to the reality on the ground.

verygudbadguy:
I quite disagree wit u sir. Since he can afford a car, I don't see any reason why he shud be hoppin a bus.

But tins are diff now. He is a VP to be, he has to do wateva it takes to get across to d pple and win dia hearts. I respect him more for dis.

Thank you !!! A commonsensical issue is turned into a big deal by those who cannot separate pettiness and sentiments from their reasoning. Is the action of Osinbajo, now the VP candidate of the biggest opposition Party in Nigeria, wrong or illegal?

@TANdroids and Jonathanians.

If Osinbajo's legitimate electioneering hustle upset you guys then "go and die" or tell Sambo to drive a free taxi from now till the elections. As if the entire world does not know that the real reason you insecure enemies of progress are upset is your total dismay at how the innovative and visionary APC is upstaging your slow and dullard-like PDP at every stage. The 'amebo' behaviour of you TANdroid lackeys is a disgrace to witness. I feel sorry for you guys because your mindless anger at every legitimate, innovative and smart move the APC makes only reveal your deep fears. You are all petrified.

luvinhubby:
Craving your indulgence to keep[b] my humble personality[/b] out of your posts & address issues as raised.
Thank you.

You are not a "humble personality". You are a hypocrite and that is why I mentioned you. Osinbajo is now a politician seeking votes. Is his current acting proscribed or illegal? Why do you and other TANdroid hypocrites , when you have made it clear on a million occasions that you will only vote GEJ/Sambo, attack Osinbajo over an action he is legitimately allowed to initiate as a politician campaigning for the backing of the electorate? Your behaviour is not honourable my friend. It is hypocritical and petty.

Learn from the really outstanding posters here who are passionate about their corner but are never petty or sentimental. Unlike you, I am not about to be calling Sambo a "hypocrite" any time in relation to any legitimate campaign hustle our VP feels he needs to deploy. Let all politicians take their campaign to the masses and let the electorate choose the best man/woman for the job. That is how balanced and politically sophisticated Nigerians should see issues.

luvinhubby:
From the responses on this thread, it's very obvious that the those Nigerians living in foreign lands do not understand the word 'connect' as it relates to Nigeria societal environment.
Prof Pastor Osinbajo i know a little from his church at TOP Banana island. Moves in a police escorted convoy of 2-3 cars & has never boarded a brt bus before now.
Why is he boarding one now, 52 days to an election, trying to connect to the common man he was not connecting to before now if not false humility & hypocrisy ?

What hypocrisy? Winners rise to the challenge of their current role or situation in life while losers whine and moan. Is you clannish support for GEJ making this simple concept too difficult for you to Assimilate ? If I am a CEO, lawyer or even a pastor today then my life may be about escort convoy of 2-3 cars.

If I become a politician tomorrow looking to lead a nation of 170 million people then my role changes immediately to the extent that only a spiteful and immature adult would not understand it is perfectly in order for me to do whatever is legitimate to win the electorate over since I am now in the business of vote-winning. It is not rocket science. Jeez !!!! You guys should give the pettiness and blanket hatred a rest because it is preventing you from thinking effectively. Any legitimate campaign tactic is par for the course in politics. Get that into your head and stop boring us with your senseless criticism even a bright child can tell is completely sentimental and not issue-based.

sleekp1:
[s][/s]
This is rubbish Mr Gbawe, you are clever man and you know osinbajo is just looking for vote
If na pdp omisore you will not say what you say.

So what if he is looking for votes? Most people who know me here will testify to the fact that I am always able to live by my principles. I am pragmatic and believe people have to do what they have to do as long as such is legitmate. Politicians seek votes same as a landlord would seek a tenant or a football club would woo fans. Show one comment from me where I knocked Omisore's corn 'hustle' to justify what you claimed in your post above.

I do okay in life because I don't attach emotions and sentiments to everything even over issues that concerns things/people I do not like. If Sambo wants to drive an Okada throughout Abuja and Lagos for a week, then that is his own concern. You will not catch me passing comment on issues like that because I understand and accept that it is what politicians do. Osinbajo's 'hustle' here is legitimate. He is doing nothing wrong so why are you and others getting bothered if you are not petty, insecure and frivolous by nature? At least Osinbajo,commendably, is showing zest, vivacity and leadership panache. Do you know anything about the man who has been your VP for 5 years yet has never had anything to say about anything?

Citadelb0t:
[s][/s]

Buhari we know, but you are just a useless paid PDP agent that post same trash everywhere on different thread. A disgrace to all reasonable fellow, Buhari is an accomplished soldier that served this country diligently. But you are just a nairaland troll, who sold his conscience for the monthly PDP stipend. The difference is clear.

Are you minding that crayon brat? What could be more insecure and indicative of fear and cowardice than concerning yourself with what others are doing 24/7? If you believe in yourself, why not face your own affairs, efforts and endeavours confidently and leave others be? The clowns shouting and rolling on the floor here are the same folks who say they will die with GEJ so what is their business with what Osinbajo does?

To be honest, it is easy, from what posters write, to note Nairalanders who live their lives confidently and winningly while it is also easy to tell the cowardly losers and gossipers forever scared and threatened by what others are doing. These sort only speak and act after real movers and shakers have made their move. They perfectly symbolize the PDP they support which is now only able to talk and act after the APC makes a move. The PPD is a pathetic Party and the its fans are even more pitiful.

I have travelled far and wide and I can say with all honesty that Nigerians are weird people. Most people criticising this laudable effort of Osinbajo to connect with the average Nigerians are the Nairalanders we know are devoted to voting for GEJ 100% like that luvinhubby character and the crayon brat called Anonimi. What then concerns them with what Osinbajo does?

In the UK , for example, you do not see those who have made it clear they will vote for the labour Party obsessively spending all their time criticising what the conservative candidate is doing to woo the electorate. It just does not happen because the electorate is evolved. This is why APC fans are millions of miles ahead of TANdroid bushmen in terms of political sophistication. Jonathanians may not know it but their fear is more palpable every time they rush in needlessly to criticise a team showing real innovation, ingenuity and charisma that is winning Nigerians over in droves. It will be a landslide victory for GMB/Osinbajo because all I see is the APC leading proactively while the PDP and its fans can only disgrace themselves with reactionary 'follow follow' and bitchy pettiness. Their pain is that APC has the charismatic Buhari as Presidential candidate and a man of substance as VP while they are stuck with the dumb and dumber charisma-bypassed duo.

waternogeteneny:
Where did the big apple desktop come from, surely not from his modest pastor or Professor jobs.


I suspect Amaechi Rivers State loot and Tinubu Lagos State loot.


It appears the Pastor is already enjoying the nations loot with this make over of his alleged office.

God !!!! Terrible to see what bias and prejudice does to the mind as Osinbajo himself stated recently. Have you ever inspected the CV of Osinbajo before you show your crass idiocy here? Aside his many previous and current prestigious engagement, do you know that Osinbajo is a senior partner in an international law firm with offices all over the world? How much do you think those sort of top-level professionals and technocract are worth for you to now insinuate Osinbajo will not be able to afford an ordinary Apple Mac desktop his children probably have dozens of littered around their house? Better to remain silent and be deemed a fool than to speak and remove all doubt you are a fool. A highly ignorant one to boot.

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=200920

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2. He was appointed Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Lagos State in 1999 and re-appointed in 2003 by the then governor, Senator Bola Tinubu.
3. As the Lagos State Attorney General, he fought the then President Olusegun Obasanjo led federal government to a stand-still on the creation of 37 Local Government Development Areas in Lagos State and the withholding of the state’s federal allocation for 16 months. The battle was settled at the Supreme Court in favour of the Lagos State government.
4. Osinbajo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), also commenced the Lagos State justice reform project.
5. A prominent feature of that project was the establishment of the Directorate for Citizens’ Rights (DCR) which provides free legal services and legal representation to indigent citizens of the state.
6. From the Citizens’ Rights directorate came the birth of the Office of Public Defender (OPD) and Citizens Mediation Centre (CMC) which are now independentof the Directorate. This initiative gave a voice to many who would otherwise not have a way to access their rights.

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This needless, crass and entirely childish attack against Buhari is yet another nail in the coffin of the tired, petty and slovenly PDP. All these personal attack only serve to show Nigerians what awful and unprincipled hypocrites members of the PDP are. Nigerians can remember the PDP imploring Buhari, immediately after the General became the APC candidate, to run an issue-based campaign. Lo and behold it is the PDP that is showing it is unable to behave as it ask others to do. Is this attack on Buhari "issue-based"?

Is this not an example of PDP impotence, hypocrisy and distracting obsession with others which leaves the Party unable to lead Nigeria effectively? To learned observers this behaviour only reveals the fear and desperation of the PDP. They did not make this senseless accusation in 2011 because Nigeria had not unanimously turned against their candidate then as is the case today to their dismay,fear and frustration. Fear and frustration leads man to act 'strangely' and even senselessly. We can therefore understand the reason behind the two-faced and senseless actions of a Party about to lose its elitist control of Nigeria's wealth which keeps a few in private jets while the majority of Nigerians live in poverty.

SweetJoystick:
Very comical of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to sing such song, but truth be told, Nigeria urgently needs something new and God has to intervene because of our present predicament

True bro. The graphic and disturbing pictures of Nigerians who died in bombings in the last 48 hours bring home the horror ordinary citizens are facing with no hope at all of salvation under the GEJ government that is only interested in looting and creating billionaires. As for OBJ singing 'comically' I think we all know that this is the way of "Baba".

At his age and with a focus on not been seen to be treacherous like Atiku et al, OBJ will not be joining APC. Yet he will make it known, with everything else to include singing, that he is behind change and the removal of Jonathan. It is no different in the North where PDP politicians have embraced Buhari and are even working against their own Party candidate.

Kai. OBJ more-or-less asking Nigerians to vote for GMB. What is left for GEJ? Mr.President now has only his army of paid sycophants behind him yet has lost all good and decent Nigerians.

There is no more word. But you will assist me to sing this song, Nigeria needs something new this time around.

“The song goes thus, ‘Do something new in my life and do something new in this country’,” Obasanjo declared.

The whole hall went into jubilation as shout of “Sai Buhari” rent the air as Baba continued in his song which changed the tune of the programme.

Obiagelli:
So these clowns have begun to realize how much damage they have done to themselves, i hope Muslims are listening and watch how the pdp use their religion (in bad light) to blackmail the opposition.

Indeed. This is only coming after the revelation that the North is not at all interested in hearing the name GEJ to the extent that even PDP politicians in the North have now swung behind Buhari. For 4 years the myopic Southerners in the PDP (like Akpabio and the foolishly verbose Metuh) hijacked the PDP and turned it into a "Christian Party" while they went for open and brazen demonization of the APC as the "Islamic Janja**** Party". Come election time it is now obvious to all the damage these set of myopic dimwits have done to the candidacy of GEJ. They are now deceitfully trying to retrace their steps. Too late. Nigerians are now determined to vote for change they know the "Islamic Party" can deliver.

This needless, crass and entirely childish attack against Buhari is yet another nail in the coffin of the tired, petty and slovenly PDP. All these personal attack only serve to show Nigerians what awful and unprincipled hypocrites members of the PDP are. Nigerians can remember the PDP imploring Buhari, immediately after the General became the APC candidate, to run an issue-based campaign. Lo and behold it is the PDP that is showing it is unable to behave as it ask others to do. Is this attack on Buhari "issue-based"?

Is this not an example of PDP impotence, hypocrisy and distracting obsession with others which leaves the Party unable to lead Nigeria effectively? To learned observers this behaviour only reveals the fear and desperation of the PDP. They did not make this senseless accusation in 2011 because Nigeria had not unanimously turned against their candidate then as is the case today to their dismay,fear and frustration. Fear and frustration leads man to act 'strangely' and even senselessly. We can therefore understand the reason behind the two-faced and senseless actions of a Party about to lose its elitist control of Nigeria's wealth which keeps a few in private jets while the majority of Nigerians live in poverty.

@OP.

You have made the right choice. Just ignore any insult thrown at you by frustrated disciples of a President who has only monumental and universally-acclaimed failure to show for his 5 years leadership of Nigeria. If you notice one trend on Nairaland lately it is that supporters of the APC and GMB do not waste their time joining pro-GEJ thread to begin raining insult on those who express a desire to vote for our current President.

Inversely, look at your thread and similar which are always full of GEJ fans trying to bully and insult Nigerians against voting GMB. They will even embrace discredited lies and scaremongering to be talking about Buhari and his "Boko Haram boiz". You are not dealing with reasonable people who respect the right of everyone to vote and be voted for. You are dealing with clannish bigots who do not know their place and are not confident in the chance of their ultra-failed messiah (GEJ) to emerge victorious next year. Such folks are best ignored because time is valuable and not to be wasted on prejudiced and foul-mouthed touts.

http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/21/%E2%80%98best-democracy%E2%80%99-21-billion-naira-can-buy-gbenro-olajuyigbe

The ‘Best Democracy’ 21 Billion Naira Can Buy By Gbenro Olajuyigbe
‘The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it’ -LA Rochefoucauld

BY GBENRO OLAJUYIGBE DEC 21, 2014

Nigeria’s power and profit Merchants are lucid investors. They know where to shop and where to invest. They know that destinies are for sale in a country that cannot provide quality education, health, infrastructures among others for her citizens. They know that it is a formidably enriching enterprise to invest on incompetent rulers whose subjects are drenched in rains of indolence.

A ruler they can rule over and control! They know that government is a big business, especially where corruption geometrically grows in intensity and in space. To them, when they are dealing with ‘citizens’ it is take my money but let me take your future. To rulers, it is ‘take my money and reign, but let me rule!’ The vultures gathered again on Saturday! They called themselves players in the Oil, Road Construction, Real Estate, Power and other sectors.

The Investment Private Offer (IPO) was fully subscribed! Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of power was the Stock Exchange venue. In one night and like Night Marauders, 21 Billion Naira was on the President’s Table, the table of the one who rang the bidding bell! [b]And as usual, Nigeria is gone again. Firmly in the hands of its Share Holders. It was a Right Issue, not a Public offer! The closest thing to the act of these unified Buccaneers is the history of slave trade and the bondage of future generations, especially those from the clans of the poor. Indeed, they are players in the Oil Sector! Afterall, Nigerians recently had to pay 2.3 trillion Oil subsidy price that never was to them.

The unresolved $20 Billion that Sanusi alleged with the failure of Ngozi Okonjo Iweala to lay on the street’s table the report of the forensic audit she promised when the heat of the disappearance was hot. Players in Road Construction, ever working on sites but hardly any motor able road; Players in the Power Sector who are experts in distributing darkness; and without shame, collecting money for darkness well shared! A country that has become a joke for unrepentant looters cannot but have many players on its corruption field! Nigerian Electoral Law forbids this lawlessly donated monies; INEC that is supposed to watch and challenge this brazen break of law is impotently helpless in the face of ubiquitous impunity.[/b]

As its usual ‘medicine after death –strategy, I guess the guideline for funding campaign will be released by INEC after election; just as it released the guideline for campaign, months after TAN has ‘presidentially’ and serially violated it. Anyway, those who say that Jonathan is ‘doing it’ like Obama should ask their Mentor how much tax is prepared to pay on the 21 Billion Naira? Federal Inland Revenue Service, here is work for you. Those who have ‘religionised’ politics and politicised religion should equally monitor whether the President, ‘the good Christian’ pays his tithe on this. Remember, 2.1 Billion is his tithe. Let him not play you like players in other sectors who, by law, criminally donated these monies.

This may help some greedy pastors but neither the principal sum nor its tithe can buy God! Seriously speaking, how can we build democracy, supposedly, ‘government of the people by the people and for the people’ around gluttonous pests that we often erroneously refer to as ‘consequential’ persons and corporations and still expect it will serve the ends for the people and good governance? We have Oil, we have Oil Players, yet, we buy oil products at prices higher than countries that do not have oil and the so called players. We have limestone, gypsum and allied mineral, yet cement here is costlier than countries that do not have these. What is the comparative value of these players to their more nationalistic peers elsewhere who are not driven by cruel profits in other climes? Have you ever reasoned that any man who goes to the rich to raise money for election and at the same time go to the poor to ask for votes; promising to protect the interests of the two can never be trustworthy?

The interests of the two differ and conflictual. Even though we do not expect Angels to come down from heaven and govern our country for us, we must look for the Cads whose self-interest aligns with that of honest people. The best things in this world; peace, joy, sound sleep and even life are not what money can buy. Money from filthy rogues who take away trillions and return millions can never lay foundation for enduring democracy nor become atonement for continual corrupt practises.

We cannot afford to hand over the historic fallacy that money can buy anything, including democracy and justice to our children. It is bad enough that we are already living with the culture that one cannot aspire to be President, Governor and Senator and so on without coughing out millions for form for expression of interest. To further this, by allowing economic power pirates to fraudulently and illegally fund democratic process is to bury ethos of democracy and rob the people, its essence, the power to act on their own behalf. The patterns of practice and what they reveal about political actors mean much to me. You cannot be funded by Satan and expect the Angel Gabriels of this world to make up your government. I pity those who cannot smell the coffee from Abuja Power Café, especially the ignorant fence-sitters. I pity the short sighted ones who are afraid of taking position at junction of history even though the available roads for decisions are bad. They are the most miserable souls who will neither know defeat nor victory. They are the elements in today's Nigeria who insist that there is no difference between PDP and APC without providing alternative to both.

To help them; on the active players; there is difference between Buhari and Jonathan and there is difference between Sambo and Osinbajo. Before these Spectators in the affairs of their country return from their Disneyland; a couple of these would have become the drivers of their national destiny and the navigators of their national life. On the face of it, I would prefer a country that is safe and secure to a country where hundreds are killed, kidnapped and abused daily without any remedy. I would prefer a country of Prosperity to a country of Austerity! So, when I go out to vote in February, God willing, it will not be about the TANinted 'Teachers' who mistake Ebele for Martin Luther. It will not be about the opportunistic Monosonist (Single Seller) and his mopolist – friends who buy and sell all opportunities, including democracy, it will be about my children and their peers who deserve to know the true meaning of TRANSFORMATION and the benefits of its experience!


Gbenro Olajuyigbe is an Abuja based Human Security Expert and a Human Rights Activist. E:Mail: gbenroolajuyigbe@yahoo.com

Morkavictor:
gbawe the epistle writter,show us buhari manifesto or shut up.APC chief e-warrior.

I don't indulge illiterate losers who cannot even use google to banish ignorance. If you can come here to make a public fool of yourself like this, why should I join you in your gutter of cretinism? Why do you think others, just as 'thick' as you, are no longer asking for "manifesto"? It is all over the place mumu and has existed for a long time now. That you cannot find what exists and is accessible to every educated person is your own personal tragedy not mine.

austinvsb1:
Like i said in another thread post.. Young and old, tall and short, man and woman..everyone is aware of jonathan's failure..my kid bro is like the easiest person in the world but all the media intention to hype jonathan undeservedly gets him reaally worked up like WTF!!

Gmb2015 pleaseeeee!!

This is the harsh truth die-hard TANdroids and Jonathanians cannot accept. The fact is that GEJ has failed every corner of Nigeria shockingly over a 5 year period. The disappointment is deep for many Nigerians who really believed GEJ would deliver the desired changes only to be let down badly. Nigeria has worsened horribly under GEJ. The biggest point lost on Jonathanians is that Nigerians have had the distinct displeasure of seeing the worsening of all the major problems they thought GEJ would change for the better. Corruption is far worse than at any time in our national history. The pro-elite looting of Nigeria is also far worse with the transport of choice now being private jets under the looters of GEJ when it was Bentley Cars and G-Wagon jeeps under others before him.

We still do not refine enough of our crude to meet local consumption let alone have any surplus refined derivatives of crude to sell thereby boosting Nigeria's income. The Nigerian police force, as one example, still remains a prehistoric crime-fighting unit grossly incapable of securing the lives and property of Nigerians. I could go on all day. Our people are not fools. EVen the ones who voted for GEJ know that 5 years is more than enough for him to have made a difference to set us on the path of development and progress. Instead we are moving backwards with insecurity, corruption and high-level criminality threatening to make Nigeria failed like Somalia, Iraq or Afghanistan. Some bigots will prefer to sink with GEJ but the fact is that many Nigerians, like your brother,have simply seen the light to know that this man is horribly out of his depth and needs to be voted out.