₦airaland Forum

Eko Ile! Eko Ile!! Eko Ile!!!
He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones.You misfired big time with your futile attempt to make mockery of Akwa Ibom state. Akpabio remains the best governor in Nigeria today. If all Nigerian states were developing at the rate of Akwa Ibom, Nigeria will join the G20 in 10yrs time.

emk4lif: So GEJ is effectively in charge of PDP, his south south campaign coordinator chibudom nwuche is now deputy national chairman easing out amaechi loyalist Sam Sam Jaja

You noticed that too? Sam jaja was Ameachi's only eye at the national level. Now, it's been plugged off.

That election was not conclusive when argument set in. It is very possible that Mimiko did not vote.

Who even told people about Tukur's sack? The whole hoax about Turkur's sack/resignation was a creation of the opposition media. Turkur has no real threat to his job. Who will sack him? Is it Lamido, Ameachi or Aliyu? What is their current influence on PDP now?
Besides, INEC even upheld Tukur's own election. The media for a while kept bamboozling Nigerians intelligence and got away with it.

Op, add your source.

Abagworo: Relocating Imo State university to a more quiet environment with room for expansion was Okorochas first initiative and the usual people induced Owerri natives to resist it and it almost polarized the State. Rochas had to give up on Imo University. IMSU is located at the heart of a city with very small land mass and no room for expansion and yet the opposition politicized its relocation. Oguta deserves all the attention alongside Ohaji/Egbema because we are the oil producing area in Imo State. The only reason crime and militancy is minimal there is because many are well educated and widely traveled.

Must he relocate IMSU to Orlu his home town? There is expanse of land around Owerri to relocate IMSU to to avoid any ill feelings. The problem with Rochas is that he doesn't think through his proposals. He just wakes up from sleep to announce anything he likes to the world. Even this one, mark my word, may eventually not see the light of day unless he is talking about building a faculty of Marine Services for the Multi Campus IMSU.

ifedun2: That should be PDP's problem.Na dem sabi.

Abi oh. Why are ACN morons on nairaland taking panadol for another man's headache. This same INEC issue has been in the news for a while now and these dumbo are here beating about the bush. For the information of all ACN e-rats, expect more resignations from now till tomorrow. They are about 9 of them or so that will resign. The whole exercise is in line with INEC directive ok?

Gen. Specific:
you can go and visit his grave personally in katsina and thank him
Ode

He he he he he he!!! But bros, take it easy with him.

sincerenigerian: Jonthan is not politically savvy. The same thing that happened during the NGF election is taking place here. What is going on is tha; the Northern Governors have told Jonathan that they have problem with Tukur. They've asked he be removed. Tukur is playing out Jonthan's script by fighting Jonathan's perceived enemies but Jonthan is about to throw him under the bus.

The Northern Governors want their own man to lead the party and eventually use the newly appointed Chairman to their advantage in 2015. Jonthan is trying to dance to the Northern Governors' tune and it will back fire on him next year. If you read the interviews of Kwakwanso , Wamako and Lamido in the last one week, their requests have been for Jonathan to kick out Tukur and reconcille with Amaechi. The whole strategy is to guage how resolute or strong Jonathan is. Once Jonathan bows to their demands; they will be smelling blood in the water. The Northern Governors are playing well planned script. It takes a smart mind to decode what is going on.

At the end, Jonathan will be "janglized" the same way they did with Akpabio and Jang.

Ole! Keep writing out of point and beating about the bush. For your information, Metuh will be back. It was mutually agreed that the party does as INEC directed so as not to undermine INEC

You can't even create a distinct user ID for yourself. Keep copying "Sincere 9gerian".

badesco: It was agreed yesterday that 9 PDP W members will resign by today or tomorrow,so it is expected but the chairman would not resign as earlier canvassed by some section of the media.

Don't mind these ACN asss lickers who are becoming more interested in PDP affairs than PDP members themselves.

This is no news again. Gbawe and co should stop misinforming people. Everybody is aware and expected it. INEC affirmed earlier on that the manner 9 of them emerge candidates by affirmative method is not acceptable. So they have to resign first and then come back through the acceptable procedure.

Turkur cannot resign because he was not affected by the INEC disqualification

aletheia: Really? How many pro-development bills have been passed by Tambuwal's House of Representatives? In fact, how many bills have they passed since 2011? Why has the petroleum industry bill not been passed? Why have they not voted a pay cut for themselves? You 've forgotten his relationship with the disgraced Bankole?

He's not pro-development. He's one of the fat cats gaming the system for their own personal gain and ambitions.

It is amusing to note how the "evil" men of PDP suddenly become "progressive", and "pro-development" and "good" when they become perceived as one of the incumbent president's rivals.

Bros, you took the words out of my mouth on the bolded. Just yesterday, Eko Ile his colleague in hypocrisy was posting beautiful pictures of PDP's Sule Lamido's development strides in Jigawa state. Can you imagine? Suddenly, their best performing governors now are Ameachi, Lamido's, Babangida Aliyu, and Wamakko because they perceive them to be anti - GEJ.

Horus: Is this project completed?

Yes, they are completed and are awaiting commissioning. Both Zuba stretch and the Airport roads are all good to go - both are ten lanes each. I don't have pictures here though but they are really really cool. Abuja is the only Nigerian city that competes with today's modern cities.

But some ridiculous elements in the media were telling us that the CCTV Contract had been abandoned and that the FG was also preventing Fashola from completing the Lagos owned project. Nigeria's own brand of opposition thrives on lies, lies and more lies.

We'll get there!
The Nigerian economy is moving in the right direction. Gone are those days when we used to have our textile mills, Dunlop, Michelin etc close shops and relocate to other countries.

Buhari is feeling very uncomfortable.
His Boko boys are loosing it

Yeye!!! Talk is cheap.
Let himself and Wamakko first rescue Sokoto state, his home state. The recent poverty report by NBS places his Sokoto state as the poorest in Nigeria.

Okija_juju: Next complaint::: High Electricity bills..


Na now Nigerians go understand say better soup na money kill am..

#TeamFreshAir2015..

The advantages still far outweighs:

1) It will still be far cheaper than generator

2) No noise pollution

3) No air pollution

4) minimal maintenance cost

5) Can power all home appliances

Goddex: That town hosts the NYSC orientation camp in Zamfara state. I pray for the safety of all the corps members there.

But, seriously why are only APC states on fire?

Besides, that is the home state of the IG. Let's see how he reacts.

That town hosts the NYSC orientation camp in Zamfara state. I pray for the safety of all the corps members there.

But, seriously why are only APC states on fire?

I never believed that story when I read it in the Punch. Infact, Punch these days is becoming very very unreliable. On what grounds should Turkur resign? Somebody that was duly elected Chairman and was not affected by the INEC report. So much disinformation and outright lies being peddled in the media these days.

Tinubu,
Buhari,
Achike Udenwa,
erhmm...those Boko Haram APC governors in Yobe and Borno(what are their names again?) will soon join G8

Eko Ile! Eko Ile! Eko Ile! Where is that village ACN rat that was everywhere celebrating a 10MW giant generator Fashola bought for Alausa secretariat? Have you seen? An individual is building a 141MW power plant to power the whole of Aba and I have seen pictures, it is really a beautiful piece of technology to behold.

When I saw those unknown chiefs Ameachi paraded as Kalabari traditional rulers, I laughed. The guy does not have home support and cannot buy one now.

Team fresh air!!!

dj187: Out of sheer desperation dis guy mentioned kaduna twice in his list, Numbers 3 & 9

Gombe, Gombe, Gombe!!! Forgive me abeg

sova: Nna u listed kaduna twice3 nd 9 to mk up 18 govs, INEC need to employ u as electn riggin expert

Sorry, Gombe. Number 9 is Gombe.

Alxmyr: Point of correction: 18 governors attended.

But trust our media, especially our print media, they will coin a negative caption for it to suit their purpose. I watched it on TV and 18 governors or deputy governors were in attendance.

The article only listed the 6 PDP and 11 opposition governors as those that stayed away but refused to state clearly that governors/deputy governors of the following states attended:

1) Ondo

2) Cross River

3) Kaduna

4) Abia

5) Taraba

6) Kwara

7) Kogi

Anambra

9) Gombe

10) Ebonyi

11) Enugu

12) Katsina

13) Bauchi

14) Plateau

15) Benue

16) Delta

17) Bayelsa

18) Akwa Ibom

Imagine, the Buhari and El - Rufai crew even planned to import Fashola to the Southern Kaduna campaign maybe to deceive the people that the area will turn to Lagos overnight but Southern Kaduna people are wiser. They reminded Buhari that during his regime as military head of states he did not care about them. Even when he came back as PTF chairman, he neglected
the area in the distribution of Projects because because they were mainly Christians and not people of his religion.

Old age is obviously catching up on this man Who doesn't even have any rightful place back home.
Tam David West does not have an iota of
influence in River state politics. Sorry, if Buhari or APC is counting on him.

Ameachi is now scampering for supporters from all corners to feature in PH FM Radio to drum up support for him. That is good. We shall see how this show of supremacy ends.

Ameachi does not need to issue press statements announcing himself chairman. He should simply do what Jang is doing - call for meetings and let's see how many governors will heed the call. Tomorrow's meeting was called by Jang in his capacity as chairman of NGF. Ameachi can stay away if he doesn't want to recognise him as his chairman. Jang called for the meeting and had sent out invitation letters.

@Demdem
What is your point?

PDP berates Buhari, el-Rufai over comments on Sounthern Kaduna
on JUNE 16, 2013 · in NEWS
4:00 pm
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Jos – The Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Mr Isaiah Balat, has dismissed claims by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, that Southern Kaduna had gained nothing for supporting the PDP since 1999.

Balat made this known in a telephone interview in Jos on Sunday.

“That claim is simply laughable because the area has witnessed lots of infrastructural growth as well as the appointment and election of its people into key positions.

“In fact, our people have never had it so good; the dividends are glaring no matter which indices you use. The resolve to support PDP is even stronger now than ever,’’ he said.

Buhari had at meeting of the unregistered Action People’s Congress (APC) in Kagoro, near Kafanchan, dismissed the PDP as “a colony of deceivers’’, and advised the people to join the APC.

He said that the PDP had not reciprocated that massive affection, and that southern Kaduna people were still “wallowing in misery’’, with many still “poverty-stricken’’.

Former FCT minister Nasir el-Rufai, Kaduna military governor, Brig. Lawal Isa (retired) and Chief of Naval Staff, Ibrahim Iko, also criticised the PDP, and advised the people to join the APC.

Balat, a former Minister of State for Works and Housing, in a reaction, said the criticisms by Buhari and others were “figment of their imaginations’’.

“Our people know the state of their roads from Kaduna-Gimi, Saminaka-Kafanchan, Kagoro-Jos, and many others before 1999.

“They also know how large rivers separated communities, especially Bondong and Chawai, because there are no bridges. They can compare then and now.

“Aside the infrastructure, it is in the PDP governments that we have had our people rising to the pinnacle of their chosen fields.

“Our sons and daughters have risen to become Chiefs of Defence Staff, Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Naval Staff. The incumbent Group Managing Director of the NNPC is also our son.

“We have also produced vice chancellors of universities and headed key ministries like finance, works and housing, power and aviation as ministers.

“And don’t forget that we also produced an elected governor.

“The PDP-led Federal Government has also provided the multi-billion dollar Gurara Dam that has ensured thousands of hectares of land for irrigation aside electricity and drinking water for the immediate environment and the FCT.

“The average Southern Kaduna has never asked for unmerited favour.

“What we want is fairness and PDP has created a platform for our people to compete as equal stakeholders in the Nigerian project,’’ he said.

He described the allegations that PDP had taken the area for granted as false and untenable, pointing out that every community had gained from the PDP government in one way or the other.

Balat said that Buhari was the “least qualified’’ to allege any neglect of the area

“It is not for nothing that we have kept faith with the PDP.  The party has also kept faith with us.

“Southern Kaduna is solidly PDP and shall remain so. Just as New York is a safe haven for Democrats in the U.S., so is Southern Kaduna for PDP.’’

The special adviser challenged APC leaders to say what they had in stock for the electorate, “judging from their past antecedents’’.

Also reacting, Rep. Simon Arabo, re-emphasised that the PDP had “visible evidences of development’’ especially in infrastructure and an improved electricity supply with the new power sub-stations in Kafanchan.

“Aside from the projects, we now have chiefdoms and equal opportunities for schools, jobs and elevations to top positions.

“There could be room for improvements, but is totally wrong to say that the PDP has not been any useful to the people,’’ Arabo said.

Arabo accused Buhari of “totally ignoring Southern Kaduna’’ in the distribution of projects when he was the chairman of the PTF.

“Buhari did not include Southern Kaduna in his agenda when he executed many projects as chairman of the PTF. We were never in his mind,’’ he said.

On some Southern Kaduna politicians in the APC, Arabo observed that they were PDP chieftains who were angry because “they are no more in power’’.

“Clearly, the gladiators in the APC from Southern Kaduna have no moral right to vilify the PDP because one was a senator and House of Representatives member on the party’s platform.

“Some are also local government chairmen, commissioners and special advisers, while some are state or federal officials of the party.

“I respect their constitutional right of association, but I must say that they are not in APC to serve, but to realise their personal ambitions.

“I have met some of them and have told them that power is a revolving door that can admit and push out anyone and at anytime.

“No one has the right to be in the corridors of power permanently.’’

According to him, allegations that the PDP is taking people for granted are just an attempt to hoodwink the people by appealing to their emotions and sentiments.

“I think it is just a desperate attempt to wrestle Southern Kaduna from the PDP and that is just like an attempt to fish where there is no water.

“If the APC wants votes, it should look elsewhere. That party can never be a threat to PDP in Southern Kaduna,’’ he said.

Also reacting, Mr Ibrahim Mukaddas, a former PDP Secretary and Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Inter-party Affairs, said that there were only two major roads before PDP came into power in 1999.

“But currently, we have roads and bridges linking all local governments and settlements. We also have a new road linking Southern Kaduna and Plateau via Manchok.

“Again, before 1999, all tertiary institutions are in Zaria and Kaduna.

“But now we have the Kafanchan Campus of the state university that is hosting all the science courses, while one of us is the vice chancellor,’’ Makadddas said. (NAN)

PDP chieftains berate Buhari, el-Rufai over comments on Sounthern Kaduna
on JUNE 16, 2013 · in NEWS
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Jos – The Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Mr Isaiah Balat, has dismissed claims by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, that Southern Kaduna had gained nothing for supporting the PDP since 1999.

Balat made this known in a telephone interview in Jos on Sunday.

“That claim is simply laughable because the area has witnessed lots of infrastructural growth as well as the appointment and election of its people into key positions.

“In fact, our people have never had it so good; the dividends are glaring no matter which indices you use. The resolve to support PDP is even stronger now than ever,’’ he said.

Buhari had at meeting of the unregistered Action People’s Congress (APC) in Kagoro, near Kafanchan, dismissed the PDP as “a colony of deceivers’’, and advised the people to join the APC.

He said that the PDP had not reciprocated that massive affection, and that southern Kaduna people were still “wallowing in misery’’, with many still “poverty-stricken’’.

Former FCT minister Nasir el-Rufai, Kaduna military governor, Brig. Lawal Isa (retired) and Chief of Naval Staff, Ibrahim Iko, also criticised the PDP, and advised the people to join the APC.

Balat, a former Minister of State for Works and Housing, in a reaction, said the criticisms by Buhari and others were “figment of their imaginations’’.

“Our people know the state of their roads from Kaduna-Gimi, Saminaka-Kafanchan, Kagoro-Jos, and many others before 1999.

“They also know how large rivers separated communities, especially Bondong and Chawai, because there are no bridges. They can compare then and now.

“Aside the infrastructure, it is in the PDP governments that we have had our people rising to the pinnacle of their chosen fields.

“Our sons and daughters have risen to become Chiefs of Defence Staff, Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Naval Staff. The incumbent Group Managing Director of the NNPC is also our son.

“We have also produced vice chancellors of universities and headed key ministries like finance, works and housing, power and aviation as ministers.

“And don’t forget that we also produced an elected governor.

“The PDP-led Federal Government has also provided the multi-billion dollar Gurara Dam that has ensured thousands of hectares of land for irrigation aside electricity and drinking water for the immediate environment and the FCT.

“The average Southern Kaduna has never asked for unmerited favour.

“What we want is fairness and PDP has created a platform for our people to compete as equal stakeholders in the Nigerian project,’’ he said.

He described the allegations that PDP had taken the area for granted as false and untenable, pointing out that every community had gained from the PDP government in one way or the other.

Balat said that Buhari was the “least qualified’’ to allege any neglect of the area

“It is not for nothing that we have kept faith with the PDP.  The party has also kept faith with us.

“Southern Kaduna is solidly PDP and shall remain so. Just as New York is a safe haven for Democrats in the U.S., so is Southern Kaduna for PDP.’’

The special adviser challenged APC leaders to say what they had in stock for the electorate, “judging from their past antecedents’’.

Also reacting, Rep. Simon Arabo, re-emphasised that the PDP had “visible evidences of development’’ especially in infrastructure and an improved electricity supply with the new power sub-stations in Kafanchan.

“Aside from the projects, we now have chiefdoms and equal opportunities for schools, jobs and elevations to top positions.

“There could be room for improvements, but is totally wrong to say that the PDP has not been any useful to the people,’’ Arabo said.

Arabo accused Buhari of “totally ignoring Southern Kaduna’’ in the distribution of projects when he was the chairman of the PTF.

“Buhari did not include Southern Kaduna in his agenda when he executed many projects as chairman of the PTF. We were never in his mind,’’ he said.

On some Southern Kaduna politicians in the APC, Arabo observed that they were PDP chieftains who were angry because “they are no more in power’’.

“Clearly, the gladiators in the APC from Southern Kaduna have no moral right to vilify the PDP because one was a senator and House of Representatives member on the party’s platform.

“Some are also local government chairmen, commissioners and special advisers, while some are state or federal officials of the party.

“I respect their constitutional right of association, but I must say that they are not in APC to serve, but to realise their personal ambitions.

“I have met some of them and have told them that power is a revolving door that can admit and push out anyone and at anytime.

“No one has the right to be in the corridors of power permanently.’’

According to him, allegations that the PDP is taking people for granted are just an attempt to hoodwink the people by appealing to their emotions and sentiments.

“I think it is just a desperate attempt to wrestle Southern Kaduna from the PDP and that is just like an attempt to fish where there is no water.

“If the APC wants votes, it should look elsewhere. That party can never be a threat to PDP in Southern Kaduna,’’ he said.

Also reacting, Mr Ibrahim Mukaddas, a former PDP Secretary and Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Inter-party Affairs, said that there were only two major roads before PDP came into power in 1999.

“But currently, we have roads and bridges linking all local governments and settlements. We also have a new road linking Southern Kaduna and Plateau via Manchok.

“Again, before 1999, all tertiary institutions are in Zaria and Kaduna.

“But now we have the Kafanchan Campus of the state university that is hosting all the science courses, while one of us is the vice chancellor,’’ Makadddas said. (NAN)


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