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tomakint: Seriously, I was not being sarcastic, I actually thought you stay in London!

And if I do, how does that concern you? Guy, if you must know, London is fine. How is Abuja? You guys just enjoy running your mouth once you identify folks you think are against anything you support.

tomakint: Stop being a clown Gbawe

and you should stop mention a man's Armani boxer shorts if you don't want them to mock your cheap China 'wear-once' underwear. Are you not the one who asked how London is? Take it if you can give it. This is the only reason I talk to mischief-makers like you in a certain way here. You are always the first to start thing only to then be playing victim.

tomakint: I stay in Abuja, I hope you are not living under the bridge whenever you are in Lagos?

Abuja no longer has slums or bridges? Let me guess your response. You stay in a mansion in Asokoro?

tomakint: Your political permutation is laughable most times, could it be out of sentiments or some syndromes because the Gbawe I used to know always talks convincingly

You are the own with a 'syndrome'. Do you even know any politician to appreciate how vacuously shallow and self-serving many are? We shall wait to see the PDP "reconciliation" you predict. You are the one talking out of sentiments because you don't understand that GEJ, being a very crude politician, has embarrassed and dented the pride/ego of the PDP SW power-brokers. Align that with how, right or wrong, many PDP SW loyalist feel this is a President who has marginalised the region and you will see the naive "reconciliation" you predict is a figment of your biased imagination.

berem: Is this gonna be the end of PDP in the southwest?

That is why I said what I did. GEJ's ambition has led to a decimation of the PDP in the SW. 'Awon boys' , since politics and 'awoof' is all they know, will have no choice but to begin forming an orderly queue outside Tinubu's Bourdillon home because not one of them, without federal patronage and support behind them, is capable of keeping the PDP alive in the SW now that GEJ and Tukur have more or less cut them off.

tomakint: hmmnn you are here again, how is London?

London is fine even as I am not there right now. How is your Isale eko under the bridge dwelling?

By the time GEJ is done with his crude, ultra-divisive and 'throwback' ways, even GEJ will be shouting "vote APC".

berem: 100000likes! You too much joor!

My dear sister, I cannot stand the guy because he only knows how to be divisive and hateful totally out of context for what the world is today and for where inspired thinking and modern ideas should be taking Nigeria. How will the USA he lives in be what it is today if most are totally consumed with a supremacist mindset? If the white supremacists had their way in the USA, could onlylies even live there? The Yorubas, Igbos, Hausa, Fulani et al are all guilty of supremacist thinking and it is not and can never be the way forward.

It is a good thing to be proud and defensive of your origin but you have a problem when you only feel fulfilled when hating others. I have said it here a few times but the African man, only interested in living for today, cannot grasp the concept of evolution and forward thinking/planning. This is why Africa is so underdeveloped. It is why Africa , when we are the most endowed to benefit from it, cannot even minimally harness the potentials of solar power. Yet a 'cold' nation (the UK) offers grants for home owners wishing to consider solar installation.

When genetic scientist posit the world may actually move toward one colour in a century or so, it is not difficult to deduce that Nigeria will be more or less mono-cultured in around a hundred years or so. What then is all this ethnic squabble about? The myopic and unintelligent Onlylies will not even be able to prevent his great grandchildren (if any woman will even agree to have a child for him) marrying individuals from other ethnic groups he is so hateful of. It is a losing battle for people like him because ethnicity, sadly for the bigot, will not matter long after me, you and Onlylies are gone.

My own experience of life has shown me things are about how you utilise where you live to include engaging others graciously and trying to move forward in the spirit of how we are all seeking to be happy and fulfilled. I don't know why some reject this to insist others are their enemies. The only answer is that they are not fulfilled or happy. Today, whether folks agree with me or not, life is now becoming more about winners and losers - i.e no longer exclusively about race, ethnicity or even gender. You can position yourself to win if you shun prejudice and see what matters. This way, you develop skills that always gives you an advantage.

The fact is that Ali is eternally devoted to OBJ and he wants Yoruba folks to be inflexible and blindly loyal as he is. Sorry. No can do. How can even children love a father who has only always brought malevolence, chaos and division into his own household? If the children are balanced and well-adjusted, they will overcome familial ties to see and say what what their father is. Ultimately, they will reject him. Simple as that.

It is not about a people being ungrateful as Ali myopically and simplistically posits. More about the deserved rejection, by his own people, of a man who was deliberately hell-bent on visiting malevolence on his region of origin. If we list OBJ's many crimes against the Yorubas that has lost him respect in the SW, can the sycophantic Ali defend his master meritoriously? Some Nigerian politician are so arrogant and self-centred it is no surprise Nigeria is what it is today.

Onlytruth: Nwanne you beat me to this observation/conclusion.
I have taken time to listen to his Igbo dialect. He speaks "Enu Onicha" (Onitsha dialect). There are many Ijaw who used to live on boats along the River Niger banks, fishing and supplying fish to "Ose Nku" market along Niger road in Onitsha. He may also be "a returnee" (more likely scenario). Onitsha has MANY settlers among them, including Sierra Leonians, Ghanaians, and Liberians from the abolition era. They are not too many, but they are very much there. I attended secondary school with some of them. They usually go by English surnames. The man is free to switch to any tribe of his choice in Nigeria, but he should start by properly stating his own origins, rather than dragging Igbo into his life choices.

Must you be such a disgusting creature always happy to parade delusion so nauseatingly? So this man cannot now be "purist" Ibgo because he is not willing to demonise Yorubas as a hateful creature like you is devoted to doing? You live in the USA yet show you have learnt absolutely nothing from living in the "home of democracy" and diversity. What a waste of space. Everything you post here is always laced with your hatred of others, an ethnically divisive take on issues and a deluded "purist" Igbo supremacy you allude to non-stop.

All these, and considering you live in the USA,, just confirms you are a loser failing woefully and unable to move on. Deceiving yourself with tribalism makes it easier for you to deal with your failed existence which is entirely of your own doing. I am not surprised. WHy will you not be a failure when you make it an obsession to know, stereotype and judge every man by the hamlet he comes on from instead of just 'cracking' on and winning.

Ivynwa: There's just something about Lagos that turns you into such a lagosian that you don't want to live in any other part of Nigeria but Lagos. We all love our country homes for sure and gets to live there sometimes but Lagos gives you this "citizen of Lagos" feeling that you can't help choosing it as your "work-based city" to live in after your country home/hometown of course. I had an Akwa Ibom roommate that was born and bred in Lagos, she's so so Yoruba (can't even speak her language but Yoruba)that I wasn't surprised when she married a yoruba. I mean Lagos sometimes strips some people of their locality and even language, many families from other states that live in Lagos are still struggling to teach their children their local language and these kids blow yoruba without much ado, lol. I must be the only Lagosian that can't speak Yoruba.

I lived in Lagos for only 8 years before I left it, I was in Abuja some months ago and enjoying the beautiful sceneries and the all-improved Abuja, even with all the grandeur of some parts of Abuja I felt so "I-don't-belong-here" and only felt better when I entered Lagos again. It's all mad mad chaotic in some parts of Lagos yet one can't help but just like Lagos and its orishirishi. All the same, I love being Igbo too baaaad. I just love the Igbo language and the Igbo culture.

Lovely post. My wife is not even Nigerian yet she prefers Lagos by far to Abuja. Born and bred entirely in the UK, you would think she would automatically prefer the 'order' and relative resplendence of Abuja. Yet she calls it "sterile" and "soulless" in comparison to Lagos. She likes the "energy" of Lagos and feel the people there are more cosmopolitan, varied, engaging and interesting. I have to agree. Lagos is simply on another level and I will not be able to live in Abuja.

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Pointless, either way, condemning the man. I would be comfortable returning to this world (if such is even possible) a Briton, Igbo or even Ghanaian because you can choose to side with and be defined by the good in every nation/race/ethnic group. Nationalism and ethnic pride is overrated. You simply accept what you are and run with it. Other times you can live in a place so long you feel a sense of belonging and oneness with the place and people. Personally I love the UK and feel I belong there so I perfectly understand what this guy is saying. I even feel comfortable , to a good extent, in Ghana and some West African Nations. It does not mean I don't love Nigeria. Rather, I think being free-spirited is liberating. It helps you get the best out of people and places.

The statement Larry Koldsweat made about the Yoruba being receptive is akin to what I say about the UK. I.e the UK is the least racist Nation in Europe by far whether folks want to accept it or not. That is why I keep saying it here that ethnic division and tribalism does not make us Nigerians to realise that it is ok to love the place you live in and feel comfortable/accepted in. It is very good to be patriotic but you don't have to carry the myopic aspect of ethnicity and nationalism, like a heavy load, through the long journey of life. Love, respect and integrate with those you share productive landmass with.

FSU: who dash monkey banana? Demuren is from Edo State.

God. How pathetic are folks like you that you make a fool of yourselves here daily with blatant lies? It is not easier to just giving credit where due or simply shut up if you cannot do that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Demuren

babapupa: GEJ to EFCC.:- Catch and prosecute crooks, looters and criminals as much as you want, I GEJ will set them free and I not only don't care, I owe you no apology.

Not at all. In fact, our crude President does not "give a damn".

Sincere 9gerian: Lol...
I was expecting another long and thoughtless epistle from you. But I was pleasantly suprised to see those very few words. It appears you'r begining to learn to articulate your thoughts in very few words. Congratulations!

You are still jobless though.

Pataki: So our resident mumu Dr. Bulldozer the fake traditional doctor is here again? He was frustrated out of Sahara reporters forum. How this useless entity goes about everyday whinging like a demented animal astonishes me.

Like all said and done, I know 2015 marks the end of suffering under this foolish President and his bunch of sissy-men whingers on this forum.

Is that right? No surprise anyway. A total wuss and crybaby. Someone like this wants us to believe he is a Doctor when his writing leaves no one in doubt that he will probably pass out at the sight of blood. Nairaland sef. Every loser and wannabe coming here to front.

Sincere 9gerian: I'v seen your picture and how you'r building your career. You'll definitely benefit from some character rehabilitation. If you'r willing, I can help you

What a jobless individual.

AnanseK: Shame on you for describing decent law abiding Nigerians as haters, simply because they point out the lack of capacity and the cluelessness of their so called president . You are unashamed to support mediocrity and corruption because just because GEJ happens to be your kinsman. You are among the lowest of the low when it comes to morality and altruism. You have neither grace nor goodwill , you egocentric shameless animal.

Precisely. The sad thing is that this Insecure9jara is probably a pathetic creature in reality hence the reason he embraces a culture of sycophancy, deception and lies so blatantly. Why would any man, if himself an achiever who has delivered worthwhile things in real life , ever be drawn to supporting mediocrity so blindly? Is it any wonder all meritorious achievers in Nigeria are fierce critics of GEJ while sycophants, crooks, shameless turncoats and losers are those mainly in GEJ's corner?

Can we call Wole Soyinka, Balarabe Musa, Pat Utomi, Okey Ndibe and Femi Falana "haters" while we label Insecure9gerian,Okupe, Maku, Omokri et al "the supporters of transformation"? Does that make sense to anyone?

Anyone genuinely winning in life will know what Insecure9jara is i.e a pathetic example of the sycophantic losers licking azz for a living via telling mediocre accidental leaders and dictators (like GEJs, Shagaris, Abachas et al) they they are the best thing since sliced bread when the entire world sees something entirely different.

ayuse: Now I am certain that Jonathan's mission is to morally destroy Nigeria.

Another "I don't give a damn" utterance. When will Nigerians accept the crudeness of this man? You vote for corruption and mediocrity personified yet you are expected a sophisticated political reformer. Comical.

HNosegbe: Gbawe, you and I know that Nigeria's problem is systemic. It goes beyond Goodluck Jonathan. Has he performed poorly? Yes. Should he leave? That would be desirable in theory, but not under the current circumstances.

First, GEJ still enjoys overwhelming support from his region. Removing him from the presidency will likely make the likes of Tompolo, Asari, Boyloaf and co return to the creeks.

Second, Namadi Sambo doesn't strike me as a man who will rock the boat either. He is an "establishment" personality, just like his boss. So what would putting him in the saddle change? It's better for the National Assembly to focus on passing key bills like the PIB, the Health bill and others.

Let me zero in on the NASS for a minute. Do you know that the legislators are a part of the problem? Aren't you aware that these dishonourable lawmakers (including the guys in the opposition) are a part of the waste and profligacy in governance that we blame the president for? Let's take the excessive number of ministries and government agencies as an instance. Many of these agencies (through which our national wealth is being sunk in form of wasteful recurrent spending) have been set up by LAW, meaning they cannot be scrapped unless by legislative action. Why aren't we calling our lawmakers to account for their failure to pass repealing laws to scrap these agencies? What about their unjustified constituency allowances? Are we holding them to account fot that?

Don't get me wrong, I know that we have a disaster for a president. However, I posit that [b[removing him will solve nothing.[/b]

Finally, I need to highlight the flawed analogy you made with GEJ's accession after Yar'Adua's death. Yar'Adua was clearly incapacitated physically. Goodluck Jonathan is not.

My brother, the more systemic the problem the greater the urgency to find leaders who fully appreciate what needs to be done to facilitate systemic overhaul, re-orientate socio-economic belief systems and drive positive change. When a Business/company has been grounded because of amassed wrongdoing, now creating a huge headache for stakeholders, you don't resolve things by throwing up your hands and saying the situation is hopeless because of sstemic rot. You seek better alternatives starting from the position that can make the most far-reaching and transformationally desirable changes.

Nigeria's problems are far less complicated than Nigerians have been made to believe - to include even the most well-read and academically gifted Nigerians. Everything revolves around the crudest leaders doing everything to maintain this status quo whereby a few do everything to aid how they continuously hijack the wealth of a Nation. Indeed this situation will not change overnight but we will begin moving in the right direction when we have a President who is not committed to the mindset of those who plot daily and embrace machinations that helps them maintain the awful status-quo.

When you mention Yar Adua's incapacitation, you miss my point which is that a President must leave if the reasons for him leaving are valid. It may be physical incapacitation or even gross incompetence leading to the needless loss of life of the very citizens he took an oath to protect. The point is that, regarding any[b] valid[/b] reasons for a President leaving office, we should all respect democracy. The incapability to do this means, regardless of the copious paper certificate we garner, Nigerians are simply not politically sophisticated and politically evolved in the way others are.

What is Abati if not another hungry man who was only shouting because he was outside the 'chopping circle'? Now he is fat and bloated with petro-dollar, and the trappings of garish opulence, Abati is shafting himself with conduct that disgracefully betrays his past writings and purported belief.

Anyone who has intelligent and upright kids will never become an Abati because you only need to look in your children's eyes to note that they will discern Daddy does not practice what he preaches. When your most valued asset do not respect you, what is the money worth and what/who will you spend it on? Then again I may be making the mistake of assuming Abati has even a single principled person connected to him in a familial sense. I hope selling his soul to the highest bidder is worth it for Abati considering government come and go while reputation should endure.

MsDarkSkin: very insightful write up.
If the people are not happy then perhaps GEJ should go.
But if that happens, the questions are: who would replace him? And how would the people know for sure that the next option is the best option?

Nigerians just don't have the sophistication to pull it off otherwise, for how far we have sunk, the Egypt option would be best. I.e a distrusted and abhorred government is forced to step down and an interim council constituted to supervise a completely new process that will dismantle what the OBJ's, IBB et al put up over time that has resulted in a situation where Nigeria's number 1 to 10 citizens are all crooks who will protect the lootocratic status quo and never 'rock the boat' in favour of Nigeria.

These folks were even actually put in place as default options to counter a situation unimaginable for some. I.e power ever ending up in the hands of overtly pro-people Politicians who may start 'giving back' to the people the wealth some assume only them and a few others must share. I admit the impeachment of GEJ may be unlikely currently , for reasons I have already stated, and I don't have a problem with that but the Senators call is totally correct. Realistically, because of the disunity and lack of political sophistication of our people, the best hope of seeing the Nigerian engine working optimally may be the sacking of the PDP in 2015.

HNosegbe: So we should impeach him and bring on who, Namadi Sambo? Will Nigeria fare any better under a Sambo presidency?

Instead of this senator to focus on passing the PIB, he's here talking nonsense.

I personally don't like Goodluck Jonathan, but Nigeria's problems go way beyond him, or even the PDP.

Let him have his four years. If we're not impressed, then we can vote him out.

With all due respect, you are the last person I expect to begin vacuously insulting this Senator for making an incisive observation. Do you know his private efforts towards passing the PIB? Can he do it alone? Pray tell, what "nonsense" is he "talking"? Rounding on him the way you do is not your style. I expect that from GEJ sychopants who operate in the 'default mode' of attacking the messenger.

Your take on Sambo taking over is also shocking. Sometimes we say we want democracy but our comments show we are perhaps not committed to it or even appreciative of what democracy entails. Sambo, good or bad, was chosen to deputize for GEJ. If GEJ is terribly unacceptable as President, then Sambo must be given the chance to do things differently, for the greater good and for the sake of 160 million folks, otherwise you justify the crude thinking of the Ibori-Turai cabal who insisted GEJ must never gain power while the likes of Bakare, Soyinka, Falana et al took to the Street to march that GEJ be sworn in even when they were under no illusions about his mediocrity. Democracy is about what is best for the majority and not the wish of one individual, his supporters and ethnic group.

We must continue enhancing and respecting what democracy entails till we have a model that works as well as that we see elsewhere. Ghana's President dies and his deputy is sworn in without fuss. No issues of muslim/chritian or "he will be worse" blah, blah, blah. Nigeria, no way. Whether President or Governor, there is always a reason not to hand over to the deputy and it seems the feudal and unsophisticated 'sit tight' actions of leaders, sadly, has bastardized the way we think and talk.

As for letting GEJ "have his four years", at what cost? There is no nation in the world where anyone can suggest leaders are obligated to finish a term of office if it is found they are way below the level of competence to run the affairs of State and protect the lives and property of citizens. Mechanism exist to remove such leaders for the very simple reason that no vested intereste should be greater than what is best for the majority. Would you be one of those saying GEJ should have his four years if you had lost your entire family in a terrorist attack knowing fully well it is 100% the fault of GEJ for his universally-condemned failure to go after the head of the terrorism snake? I.e the sponsors and source of finance of terrorism he tells the entire world he knows? Let us get real in Nigerian and stop insulting those who ask for the right thing to be done. One thing I find is that it is healthy to get out of Nigeria, mentally and physically, now and then otherwise our aberrant nation unhealthily bends the perception of even the most upright folks. It is always good to receive 'reminder' examples, now and then, of how things should be done.

This Senator speaks the truth. I don't know about other Nairalanders but I have a decent enough world view to know that GEJ would be impeached in all serious Nations of the world. It is just that the aberrant 'cash-and-carry' nature of our overall administration ( Executive, legislative and judicial arm) means few will get support to do the right and principled thing in the best interest of the nation.

I certainly praise this Senator because it is brave to come out and say this against a very paranoid President always on the look out for enemies he must do away with in his 'sit-tight' obsession. GEJ will not take kindly to this Senator's suggestion. Certainly something in the Water in Osun State because the politicians from there, starting from Aregbesola, appear not to 'send' anybody. Anyhoo, you are correct oga Senator but your fellow crooks simply don't have the dedication to principles, patriotism or uprightness to do what you ask for. It is vindictive season in Nigerian politics and you may just have made your own life harder needlessly.

[quote author=black_beau]Welcome to Nigeria.trust me,soon he'll be given a post as the director of one of the agencies.I'm surprised that some of you are actually surprised that this happened.[/quote]Thank you. It was long coming. Alamieyeseigha has been working unofficially for GEJ for ages. This was always on the cards but the urgency to now give official power to every "trusted" minion that can help GEJ's 'sit-tight' ambition is what has led to this crude and condemnable show.

Why people find this surprising is beyond me because only fools and dishonest sycophants will not appreciate we have a very crude and disgraceful throwback dinosaur for a President. When I say it here all the time that I envy other African Nation for the calibre of Presidents they are now parading, people don't really appreciate what I mean. It is developments like this, and the Otedola-Farouk 'James Bond' saga plus the drama accompanying the rubbishing of the Ribadu report, that show we really went many, many steps backwards with GEJ. Totally, totally crude individual with matching wife to boot.

bayooooooo: He is saying the obvious. GEJ has been promoted far above his competence.

Thanks to OBJ and other crude dictators who just will never let merit carry the day.

bayooooooo: Corruption As Grand Commander Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria. I am not surprised but puzzled. GEJ is too corrupt to the extent that stuffs like this would be just normal to him. He does not worth the effort. But I am puzzled that even if people like Abati could not persuade him to drop such a daft decision, they could have at least persuaded him to leave it till the tail end of his lackluster and worthless administration. We now have a corruption in chief ruling ruining Nigeria. Perhaps they tried but Jonathan stuck to his foolishness.

The next move would be to confer one of the numerous useless titles called national honour on him for "promoting" peace in the Niger Delta and get him chaired a committee to reform EFCC. Bravo, GEJ is working! Uncommon transformation!! Fresh air!!! Haters are talking, GEJ is working looting!

Bayo, you are one of the brightest chaps here but I think you too missed what is obvious and what led to this desperate move to 'rehabilitate' Alamieyeseigha. GEJ is a very crude leader. He lacks the finesse and developmental intelligence all leaders should have because he is merely an opportunist and not a leader. His sort are just merely bright enough to be eternally obsessed with self-interest and clinging on to power just like the many ruinous leaders Africa was cursed with in the past.

GEJ only know how to do what we are now seeing same as you would expect your house to be filthy if you bring in two touts to live with you who have always lived under a bridge and never in a house. Promoted far above his station and wanting desperately to retain power, this President wants to assemble 'Capos' he can trust everywhere (like Alamco, Tukur and Anenih) who actually have officially useful powers. A new powerbase if you like. Simply bullying his own hatchet-men into influential office and use them to ensure there is no opposition standing is the name of the game for GEJ.

The crudeness of the man means it won't be long before we see Alamco in an official government position. Mark my words. We are seeing the desperate shenanigans of a desperate man to hand important office to those he feels will help him achieve what he wants. Did you not see Akpabio become Chairman of the newly formed PDP Governor's forum when everyone knows that is a superfluous position created to thwart Amaechi, Aliyu et al? Bottom line is that this man realises 2015 is impossible for him unless he puts "his people" everywhere he feels opposition may arise to his ambition. Futile tactics but how can that be made clear to a crude opportunist promoted far above his station and determined to 'sit tight'? Anenih, Tukur are 'resurrected' and so too will be the case for Alamco.