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Whynotthetruth:Bro sorry to bust your bubbles. But I am extremely disappointed that you suggest countries like Botswana, Niger, Benin, Mali etc have the same amount of resources as Nigeria. While I agree that population is a challenge, please don't use that as excuse for our backwardness. India that you mentioned just launched their heaviest rocket into space! We got independence in the same year from the same colonial master. We have FAAARRRR more resources and income (your same 5k to two families does not apply at all) than those "smaller countries". |
dcaliph:Thank you for this wonderful post. I tried to tell PDP that they stand to loose more with their devilish religious politics but I could not put it across as perfectly as you did. They made it look like the greatest evil on earth to have a muslim-muslim ticket (which effectively robbed us of Buhari-Fashola ticket) now he wants the same muslim to vote for him from the north. Sick joker from the the fishfarm Thinking about it now, I am not surprised. PDP has been know to act before they think. Just like they threatened US last year or so but later didn't do jack to US. |
I am not GMB but if I have a chance to rule this country, this is what I will do to start the fight against corruption: 1) Lead by example - declare my asset before getting to office 2) appoint credible devote and qualified professionals to man efcc and icpc 3) do not stand in the way/shield anyone accused of corruption. Corruption cannot be stopped in one administration but someone need to start the process. What we have today is the exact opposite of the three steps above. GEJ said he doesn't give a damn for not declaring his assets even when his boss Yar'adua did in 2009. efcc/icpc are practically dead - ask yourselves how many high profile convictions have been made (I'm not talking about those that stole magi in the market). To make matters worse, past criminals have been pardoned (and can now seek electoral offices). Sanusi raised an alarm of unaccounted funds and he was sacked while the minister and co continue to fly in charterd jets fuelled with billions of naira. Again I am not GMB but I think he probably will do something similar to those steps above. |
In 1960 Nigeria gained independence from Britain. What many people don't know is India also got independence from Britain the same year (1960). Yesterday I saw on the new that India has launched her first rocket into space. Planned, designed and executed by Indians and all happened in India (not the type we outsouced to foreign country and was rumoured to be missing at one point). The amazing part of the news is that the project cost abit over $2b! The news reported that the country cannot afford to expand the scope due to cost constraints. In Nigeria (remember we got indepence in the same year) $20B went missing and all our darling clueless president can do is to sack the whistle blower. O course fg will not tell us he was sacked for blowing the whistle, they came up with a shameless argument of "FINANCIAL RECKLESSNESS" NOT EMBEZZLEMENT OR CORRUPTION. Recklessness because he gave donations to schools and bomb attack victims in Kano (but no one raised issue of recklessness when flood victims for their share of the FINANCIAL RECKLESSNESS). I read a post on Nairaland a few days ago where the anglicans in Enugu (or one of the SE states) rejects the catholic-catholic tickets. We have the gej administration and pdp to thanks for planting the seed of devilish religious politics in the mind of the populace. Suddenly, integrity, accountability, devotion counts for nothing when evaluating potential public office holders. Thank you gej but you have done your best in bringing Nigeria several decades back. Its time to head back to otueke in Feb. |
Thanks for bringing this up again. when I read this piece a few weeks ago. I renewed my determination never to forgive this administration for the campaign of cheap blackmail and pure lies against honest and devote civil servants. A government that has nothing TANgible to campaign on result to spreading religious disharmony among the people. I left Ife long ago before Aregbe came to power so I didn't know he built an arena (Open Heavens Christian Evangelical Arena) to honour the renowned Christian leaders from that state. This is the same man along with Buhari gej/pdp has slandered so many times just because of politics. For GMB someone said pdp is looking for dirt in distilled water as a result of pdp's several attempt to cook up damaging stories against him but keep making him more popular. If you want to destroy a nation. the best/cheapest way to do it is to set the people against each other. This is exactly what pdp would have done in SW with the devilish religious coloration it brought to politics. There are countless young men and women like me who never realized many south western states had been predominantly governed by Christians (because it didn't matter and was never an issue) until this useless government came with the politics of religion. Now people begin to ask what faith a candidate/aspirant belong to rather than capacity/integrity as a basis of electing public officers in SW. Yesterday, I read how anglicans in Enugu reject catholic-catholic tickets. It is just plain madness. This to me is a FAR MORE heinous crime than corruption. For this alone SW (and other regions deserving civil/modern society where credibility and qualification is not based on faith let alone denomination) should TOTALY FLUSHOUT pdp in the region. |
MyInfoo:There is no reason to pity gej. He and his PDP criminals started this religious politics nonesense. Rather than campaigning with their achievements (if there are any worthy) vis-a-vis what they promised in 2011, they chose to label apc a muslim party long before apc had its EXCO election (that brought in Oyegun as national chairman) talk less of presidential primaries. I recall saying this religious politics antics will hurt pdp more. Little did I know that the Jagabon of Lagos (Tinubu) has an ace up his sleeves. What annoys me most is the religious acrimony pdp tries to introduce into SW (which is the most religiously tolerant region in the country). pdp has made us to look at everything from the perspective of religion before choosing electoral candidates as opposed to his/her integrity/capacity/antecedents. For me, this alone is a monumental crime and SW should reject pdp for even attempting to bring the negative side on religion to our region. Its bad enough not to develop the states, but to set the people against one another is just unpardonable. For me this serves pdp right. After pretending to be a christian party, by making it look like it is the greatest evil in the world to have a muslim-muslim ticket, I wonder if pdp will now go to the muslim dominated north and try to canverse for votes ![]() |
PDP lies. Which AEC student have 4 wives |
Must the VP be from the SW? Tthis is the same mistake ACN made in 2011. People need to realise that GMB will not be able to KILL corruption in Nigeria. That is just a big unrealistic dream. However, he can reduce corruption a GREAT DEAL if he has a good, vibrant never say die VP. This is where Oshibanjo falls short. NEVER underestimate the power and political might of these governors. I repeat, FASHOLA would have been the best candidate but we have allowed pdp to sow this seed of religious mediocrity into our hearts. So, For me Oshiomole is the best compromise APC can field to appease the SW voters because of his exploits as NLC president. I believe he also has some level of inluence in SS better than Amaehi. Oshiomole is popular, vibrant and a RELATIVE performer. Amechi can be compensated with the post of Petroleum Minister or other juicy post for his massive contribution to the party. |
ideology:Stop leaving in fools paradise. our generation capacity had been hovering around 4000MW before GEJ came to power. Read and be informed. Note that all the references (dated 2007 and earlier) confirmed our generation capacity hovers around 4000MW before the fisherman became the president in 2009. Extracted from The Wall Street Journal of October 30, 2007 http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2007/10/30/nigerias-power-problem/ . . . .Ransome Owan, chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission said Nigeria requires investments of three trillion naira (about $24.8 billion) in the energy sector to provide adequate electricity for the country. “Experts tell us today we can use up to 14,000 to 15,000 megawatts, but our capacity to generate is about 4,000 megawatts,” Owan said.December 2005 NIGERIA ENERGY STUDY REPORT Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability University of Twente http://www.utwente.nl/mb/cstm/research/urbanenergy/reports/nigeria_rep/ The energy crisis in Nigeria is further reflected in the performance of its electricity sector. NEPA’s current generation capacity is just 4000 megawatts while government’s target is 10,000 MW by 2007...... |
Where is the insincere Nigerian that was busy spreading propaganda about the increase in power supply. I have said it before gej is compounding our problems. The average power generation has been steady at 4000MW for a long time (before gej came to power). While we all know this is grossly inadequate, the fisherman at aso rock has reduced that to less than 3000MW. Of course, we know this gov has never taken responsibility for anything. So expect saTANoids to blame it on Buhari or APC. |
The general has drawn the battle line! Cross it if you have what it takes to confront him on this i.e if you are not liars and have evidence. But we all know you are liars without any shred of evidence |
coolscott:Is this really your problem with Bugari or your are just hiding your islamaphobia behind a broom stick? May I ask how come this extremists did not hold sway when GMB was the Head of Supreme Military Council? He had absolute power and there was no senate to checkmate him. He even had a tougher muslim as his deputy in person od Idiagbon. The No other head of state has had that privilege! Surely, there was nothing (and no one) that could have prevented him if he wanted to promote extremism. Fast forward to present day, we have not only the senate but also the house of rep with an even balance of both dominant faiths. Infact the senate president and his vise are both christians and the deputy speaker is also a christian. How on earth do you (and others with this false thinking) think anyone can even attempt to islamise or christianise this country. Again if he didn't even think of it in 1983 when had all the powers and all the stage was set for him, is it now that there is check and balance in the form of legislature that he will? I don't see how anyone can believe this except those who are trying to hide their phobia for islam/north OR those that prefers a corruption is not stealing / america will know clueless fisherman style government. For me unfortunately I have to vote again in 2015 on the basis of 2-point agenda as I did in 2011. I thought by 2015 we would have moved beyond the 2-point agenda and really start voting toward true development and advancement. My 2-point agenda has not changed - Stamp-out insurgency and reduce corruption. Nothing can be achieved in any nation with these two plagues. And these are the hallmark of GEJ administration. Buhari may not have the magic wand to transform our economy (this government has not transformed it anyway) but with low corruption level and peace in the country, the next administration can build from there. |
Pataki:How can it make front page. NL is the official social media for PDP propaganda and lies. Most of the threads that make it to the front page are those singing praises of the clueless gov or lies against the opposition. |
Must you guys keep ridiculing yourselves on public forum by displaying your shallow reasoning capacity? Let us assume that truly 1206 votes disappeared, now that you have found out, add the 1206 votes to the 2nd placed aspirant (Kwankwaso) who scored 974 votes. That will only bring his vote to 2180 which is still over 1000 votes less than what GMB got. So your argument falls flat on its face. Anyway, I don't expect much from a TANoid - I am not surprised. |
Donmarrius:Rubbish. is this what you can say? Isn't it ironic? You want a new Nigeria which you don't want to be part of but you want to impose your clueless man as president I expect you to dispute the picture. Again I repeat - we will never forgive the coward-in-chief who failed to provide security for the aftermath of the rigged election. Hundreds of people died as a result of gej's failure to use the security apparatus at his disposal to protect Nigerians from the mayhem that ensued following the rigged election with under-aged voters.
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Actually, we will never forgive GEJ and pdp for the picture. Taking nigeria back with under aged voters and turn around to blame the people's general for what he knows nothing about.
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The last time I checked, Fashola was a MUSTIAN ![]() Buhari/Fashola is my preferred option, though for safety Buhari/Oshiomole is equally good and may calm some bigoted nerves. |
medamillion:This is the milestone I have been waiting for. With Atiku's mere 954 votes, and three aspirants left to share about 3000 vote, I can now start celebrating GMB victory. |
Junipero:THANKS. so just less than 800 more and the rest will be irrelevant. |
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AT THIS POINT WHAT I JUST WANT TO HEAR IS GMB's SCORE. HAS IT CROSSED THE 3000 PASS MARK? ANYONE PLS UPDATE. |
berem:Madam Obi of the #bringbackourgirls comes to mind. I have been eyeing that woman (even though OBJ want to snatch her from me ).But seriously APC needs to tantalize south-west voters and unlock the over 40% of the unused votes. While I think Obi will be a good candidate, SEners have spoilt her chance. Besides there aren't many extra votes left for APC (and even PDP) in SE - Remember they used it all up in 2011 with ridiculous over 92% of total votes for pdp. |
Mortiano:You still don't get my point. Are you concerned about getting rid of corrupt old cargos alone? What about the new age corrupt men and women? Let say for a minute we are able to get rid of Obj, aneneh, tukur, nwobodo et al. Who do you suggest we replace them with? Do we replace them with GEJ, Fayose, obanikoro, Amechi, Akpabi, kwankaso? Which of them is clean. Or is it the delegates that are now being induced financially? My point is these so called corrupt old cargos and new age thieves are not our problems because ultimately, we put them there because of our extremely low values system. For me our value system didn't erode over-night and we shouldn't expect a revolution to correct it (because we will be deceiving ourselves). We need a leader that can "knock" us back in-line for a start. But one administration cannot start and finish the "rehabilitation" so we need to sustain that by electing another good leader who will lead by example and less afraid of stepping on some big toes. That process can start today by rejecting atiku's money. |
Mortiano:Revolution? Who is clean enough to lead a revolution. After the revolution, who will emerge as the leader? For me the problem with Nigeria is not GEJ (he is just an a$$hole compounding our problems). I will not be a part of any useless revolution that will install another government that will probably be worse than what we are seeing today. I believe the problem is with our value system. Today the pro buhari camp is jittery because of Atiku's money war-chest. Should this even be an issue when a man who many see as incorruptible is also in the race for presidency? The fact that there is a possibility that Atiku (who many see as corruption personified) can emerge because of huge money inducement against a GMB says a lot of our value system. For as long as our value system remains as it is where money "answereth all things", no amount revolution will bring anything productive. It will only produce another Atiku or other corrupt money bags like him. |
Temmytea70:Don't mind the guy. He is a product of Mama Peace (I call her P-babe) high school |
jahbiz:B dies ![]()
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holatin:But then, pdp will only be playing catch-up as apc has taken the initiative. Everybody will know pdp just dey copy-copy. When you alk about people who has their "thinking cap" on their head, APC come to mind. and when you alk about people who has their "thinking cap" on their yansh, pdp come to mind |
Montaque:Like who if I may ask. pls I take amadioha beg you, don't mention the monumental failure - one gej |
najoke:Now that saTANoids are now including football trophies as part of achievements, let me chip in a spoiler here: Apart from the inglorious boycott by Abacha, Nigeria has NEVER FAILED to qualify for the Nations cup - so much so that we believed it was our birth-right to always be in Africa's biggest football show (and we always did well - there was no decade we didn't win 3 trophies). But under this clueless administration in less than 6 years, we have FAILED TO QUALIFY FOR 2 EDITIONS!! Now let me rub it in: South Africa had never won any competitive match against us and in fact NEVER SCORED A GOAL against us in any competitive match, but under this mal-administration they scored 2 goals that ensure we didn't qualify (for the second time under this administration) for AFCON. Now how about that for "dis-achievements" ![]() |
Goddex:But he has served lagos all his life and if what he said about 85% budgetary performance is true, he deserves the position. |
The gists we read a few months ago was that FG had secured a weapons deal with russia. ........But the seeming snub or nonchalant attitude towards it by its traditional allies has reportedly compelled Nigeria to turn to Russia and China for the training of its military as well as acquisition of military hardware to fight Boko Haram insurgents.Now how come weapons from the same russia that were supposedly accuired by FG is now heading toward BH. Is it that russia is profitting by selling weapons to both sides, or is it that the FG is arming BH like many of us suspects ![]() |
let me look for TANoids trouble When will this old fo0l return to his ancestors so he stop heating up the polity with his endless senseless bigotry? All the earlier gimmics have failed and now they are coming with another one: "taking power by force" Yes, APC will take power by the force of the people's vote. |
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? But in the long run which family do you think will come out better, stronger, fulfilled and formidable